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Event Timeline

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-Event 0 (979AEFAA)

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Date: 0’s
-Description: Greek and Roman records of UFO’s
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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-Event 1 (3A44445D)

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Date: 812
-Description: Agobard, the -archbishop of Lyon, France, writes De Grandine et Tonitruis (“On Hail -and Thunder”), in which he condemns pagan folk beliefs, such as the -notion of a “certain region called Magonia, from which ships, navigating -on clouds, set sail to transport back to this same region the fruits of -the earth ruined by hail and destroyed by the storm.” He cites an -episode in which some foolish peasants capture “three men and one woman -who they said had fallen from these ships.” Brought out in front of an -enraged mob, Agobard intervenes and prevents their lynching, persuading -the crowd that the charges are false and absurd. Some ufologists -interpret this as a visitation from an alternate reality or an abduction -case, while Jean-Louis Brodu observes that in the 9th century the -atmosphere was likened to an ocean in which aerial ships could navigate -from point to point on the earth. Miceal Ross argues that Magonia is a -corruption of Magonianus, relating to the city of Mahón, the port of the -island of Menorca, Spain. (Jean-Louis Brodu, “Magonia: A Re-Evaluation,” -Fortean Studies 2 (1995): 198–215; Miceal Ross, “Anchors -in a Three-Decker -World,” Folklore 109 (1998): 63–75; Vallée, Magonia, pp. 23–24; -Clark III 1213–1214; Vallée and Aubeck, Wonders in the Sky, Tarcher, -2009, pp. 70–73; -Pierre Chambert-Protat, “Florus -de Lyon et les Extra- terrestres,” -Florus de Lyon, November 4, 2014; Pierre Lagrange, “Agobard, -la Magonie et les ovnis,” Actualité, no. 440 (October 2017): 28–29; -Wikipedia, “Magonia -(mythology)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 0

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- Event 2 (E75448AF)

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Date: 12/15/1547
-Description: Mariners in the port of Hamburg, Germany, see a fireball -moving to the south. Its rays are so hot that passengers cannot remain -inside the ships. Thinking the vessels are about to burn, they hide and -take cover. (Simon Goulart, Thrésor d’histoires admirables et mémorables -de nostre temps, Geneva, 1600, vol. 1, -p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1

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- Event 3 (34DA9F74)

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Date: 4/4/1561
-Description: Dusk. A “frightening vision” is seen in the sky above -Nuremberg, Germany, said to be observed by many. Printer Hans -Glaser describes in his broadside many blood-red, blue, and black -balls or discs near the Sun. “They were three alongside each other, -sometimes four in a square, and several alone, and between these balls -blood- colored crosses” are seen. Two “great pipes” (cannon) are also -observed, and everything starts to “fight against each other.” The -battle lasts about one hour, then the burning balls fall to the earth -and vanish on the ground. Although cited as a possible early UFO report, -the narrative is simply about a battle in the sky by phantom armies told -as an allegory of what awaits an unrepentant humanity on Judgment Day. -(Hans Glaser, Himmelserscheinung -über -Nürnberg am 14. April 1561, Holzschnitt, 1561; Carl Jung, Flying -Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, Mentor ed., 1969, pp. 103–104, -between pp. 120–121; -Ulrich Magin, “A UFO in the Year 1561,” Fortean Times 283 (February -2012): 40–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2

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- Event 4 (C5A905E6)

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Date: 1600’s
-Description: Significant sightings
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Charles -Fort

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- Event 5 (68003FD8)

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Date: 1638
-Description: English clergyman and philosopher John -Wilkins writes The Discovery of a World in the Moone, in which he -highlights the similarities of the Earth and the Moon (seas, mountains, -atmosphere) and concludes that the Moon is likely to be inhabited by -living beings, whom the calls “Selenites.” (Maria Avxentevskaya, “How -17th Century Dreamers -Planned to Reach the Moon,” Real Clear Science, December 2, -2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3

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Event 6 -(79A8E923)

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Date: 1638
-Description: Night. John Everett and two companions are crossing the -Muddy River near Boston, Massachusetts, in a boat when a “great light” -appears above them. It darts back and forth across the river, sometimes -hovering and “flaming up,” for about 2–3 hours. After they stop watching -it, they discover that their boat has moved about one mile against the -current to the place where they had embarked. (John Winthrop, The -History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Little, Brown, 1853, vol. 1, -pp. 349–350)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4

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- Event 7 (E6AA5657)

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Date: 8/15/1663
-Description: 12:00 noon. The faithful gathered in a church in a village -near Lake Zarobozero, Vologda Oblast, Russia, hear a loud noise outside -and see a large ball of fire descend from the north and then head south -following the lake, low over its surface. The fireball seems to measure -about 140 feet across and has blue smoke issuing from its sides. Two -fiery rays extend from its front part. Less than an hour later, a -similar fireball reappears over the same lake. Moving from south to -west, the object again disappears. It reappears a third time a short -while later, this time larger than before, and stays over the lake for -an hour and a half. Peasants in a boat try to get close to it, but the -heat is too intense. The water of the lake is illuminated to a depth of -30 feet, and fish are seen swimming away from the object, which then -flies off to the west. (Akty istoricheskie, sobranye i izdanye -Arkheografischeskaia Kommissiia, Vol. 4, Saint Petersburg, 1842, pp. 331–332; -Hobana and Weverbergh 54–61; Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, Wonders in -the Sky, Tarcher, 2009, pp. 215–217; -Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 (March 2012): 31; -Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, -pp. 157–161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5

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- Event 8 (CEF49F94)

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Date: 4/8/1665
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Numerous wonders are seen in the sky over -Stralsund, Germany, including ships, large flocks of birds, fire, and -smoke, as well as a dark “round flat form like a plate and like a big -man’s hat” that hovers above St. Nicholas Church for one hour. Witnesses -include several fishermen who later complain of tremors in their hands -and feet. (Eine -abgebildete Beschreibung von dem wunderbarlichen Stralsundischen -Lufft-Kriege und Schiff-streite, Leipzig, -1665; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating -UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 23–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6

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- Event 9 (39A45127)

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Date: 1686
-Description: French philosopher Bernard -le Bovier de Fontenelle writes Conversations on the Plurality of -Worlds, in which he speculates on extraterrestrial life. He imagines -Venusians to be “little black people, scorched with the Sun, full of -fire, very amorous.” (Wikipedia, “Conversations -on the Plurality of Worlds”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7

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- Event 10 (8E3A3D71)

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Date: 1700’s
-Description: Significant sightings
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Charles -Fort

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- Event 11 (B2AE79C8)

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Date: 12/5/1737
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Physician Thomas -Short witnesses a blood-red luminous display in the sky around -Sheffield, England, which moves from west to north and then to the east. -The cause seems to be one or more clouds in which are embedded brilliant -lights as bright as the full moon that give off slow-moving streamers or -rays. The display is accompanied by unseasonable heat and lasts until -10:30 p.m. Short hears that a similar phenomenon is seen at the same -time in Venice, Italy, and Kilkenny, Ireland, where it appears as a -bursting fireball. (Thomas Short, “An -Account of Several Meteors,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal -Society 41 (1741): 625–627)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 8

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Event 12 -(157FB053)

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Date: 12/6/1737
-Description: Afternoon. A large, blood-red object is seen in the western -sky at Bucharest, Wallachia [now Romania]. It lingers for two hours -before splitting up then reuniting once again. The phenomenon is said to -have occurred at night in the Banat region. (Hobana and Weverbergh 222; -Romania 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 9

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- Event 13 (7BFDDD15)

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Date: 9/21/1741
-Description: Dawn. Parson-naturalist Gilbert -White wakes up at his vicarage in Selborne, Hampshire, England, and -finds the neighboring clover fields matted all over with a thick coat of -cobwebs, laced with dew. The dogs are blinded by it when they attempt to -hunt. At 9:00 a.m. more cobwebs fall from the sky and continue until -dusk. They are “perfect flakes or rags; some near an inch broad, and -five or six long, which fell with a degree of velocity that showed they -were considerably heavier than the atmosphere.” The fall extends to the -neighboring villages of New Alresford and Bradley. (Gilbert White, The -Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789), Letter -XXIII)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 10

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- Event 14 (1F590EE1)

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Date: 12/16/1742 (approximate)
-Description: 8:40 p.m. Physician Cromwell -Mortimer, secretary -of the Royal Society, is walking through St. James’s Park in -Westminster, London, England, when he sees a light ascend from behind -the trees and houses in the southwest. When it reaches 20° against the -sky, it takes a horizontal path with an undulating motion before -disappearing in the northeast after a full 30 seconds. The front part is -luminous with a frame-like structure behind it, and it has a faint -trail. The date is questionable since Mortimer calls this a “Thursday” -and December 16 was a Sunday. ([A -Note by Cromwell Mortimer], Philosophical Transactions of the Royal -Society 43 (1745): 524–525)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 11

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- Event 15 (F73659E0)

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Date: 7/14/1745
-Description: Astronomer George -Costard observes a meteoric stream of fire that persists for at -least one hour at Standlake Broad west of Oxford, England. (“Part of a -Letter from the Reverend Mr. Geo. Costard to Mr. John Catlin, concerning -a Fiery Meteor Seen in the Air on July 14, 1745,” Philosophical -Transactions of the Royal Society 43 (1745): 522–524)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 12

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- Event 16 (EBC466E3)

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Date: 11/4/1749
-Description: 11:50 a.m. The crew of the HMS -Montagu watches -a large blue fireball, apparently low on the water, head directly toward -them from the northeast and explode some 150 feet away from the ship, -causing some damage to the mast, before it continues on toward the -southwest. The incident takes place in the North Atlantic Ocean some 240 -miles west of Cape Finisterre, Spain. (Chalmers, “An -Account of an Extraordinary Fireball Bursting -at Sea,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 46 (1752): -366–367; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: -Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 67–75; Martin Shough -and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, -pp. 105–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 13

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- Event 17 (3A470FBD)

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Date: 3/1755
-Description: German philosopher Immanuel -Kant publishes Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens, -in which he theorizes that distance from the Sun determines the -intelligence level of a world’s inhabitants; thus, the people who live -on Mercury are the stupidest, and the Venusians are only dimly -brighter—making any Jupiterians and Saturnians much smarter than -earthlings. (Wikipedia, “Universal -Natural History and Theory of the Heavens”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 14

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- Event 18 (35FDE062)

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Date: 1756
-Description: Scottish astronomer James -Ferguson writes Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s -Principles, proclaiming the certainty of a plurality of inhabited worlds -“peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless -progression in perfection and felicity.” (James Ferguson, Astronomy -Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, 8th ed., London, 1790, p. 6; -Matthew Goodman, The Sun and the Moon, Basic Books, 2008, pp. 189–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 15

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- Event 19 (67518181)

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Date: 1758
-Description: Swedish theologian and mystic Emanuel -Swedenborg writes in The Earths in the Universe that that he has -conversed with spirits from Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, and -the Moon, as well as spirits from planets beyond the solar system. From -these encounters, he concludes that the planets are all inhabited and -that such an enormous undertaking as the universe cannot have been -created for just one race on one planet. (Emanuel Swedenborg, The -Earths in the Universe, London, 1875; Richard Smoley, “Is -There Really Life on Other Planets?” -Swedenborg Foundation, February 15, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 16

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- Event 20 (E8496622)

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Date: 4/27/1759
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Following a clap of thunder, a flat, pale object -is seen “dancing” in the sky over Longdon, Somerset, England. It is -joined by three similar objects, all of which move from west to east for -30 seconds and disappear in a cloud. (London Universal Chronicle, May 5, -1759; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating -UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 83–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 17

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- Event 21 (1D0937EA)

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Date: 8/9/1762
-Description: 12:00 noon. An amateur astronomer named de Rostan is -observing the Sun at Lausanne, Switzerland, when he notices a large, -spindle-shaped body moving across the solar disc from east to west at a -slower rate of speed than sunspots move. It is surrounded by a thin -“nebulosity.” An observer named Croste in Solothurn, Switzerland, also -observes the object, but French astronomer Charles -Messier, who is also taking solar measurements in Paris, France, -does not see it. It remains visible until September 7, when it passes -the Sun’s western limb. (“Observation Astronomique,” -Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, 1766, pp. 106–107; “An -Account of a Very Singular Phaenomenon -Seen in the Disk of the Sun,” Annual Register, 1766, pp. 120–122; -Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, -Anomalist, 2021, pp. 33–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 18

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- Event 22 (FB964EAD)

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Date: 9/9/1767
-Description: A cloud “like a house on fire” that soon takes on a -pyramidal form is seen traveling along the course of the River Isla near -Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland. It moves northeast to the confluence of -the River Ericht and follows that stream to the west toward Blairgowrie -where it disappears. It is accompanied by strong winds that destroy two -houses. (Annual Register 1767, pp. 127–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 19

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- Event 23 (CE912DE9)

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Date: 6/17/1777
-Description: 11:46 a.m. French astronomer Charles -Messier views a large number of round, dark-brown globules passing -in front of the disc of the sun for 5 minutes from west-southwest to -east-northeast. He sees them through an achromatic refractor at the -naval observatory located in the Hôtel de Cluny in Paris, France. His -estimate of their size (one-600th the size of the solar disc) puts them -near the limit of resolution for his telescope, but Messier claims the -objects are far away and in focus. (Charles Messier, “Observation -singulaire d’une prodigieuse quantité de -petits globules qui ont passé devant le disque du soleil, le 17 juin -1777,” Mémoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, 1777, -pp. 464–472; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the -Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 7–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 20

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- Event 24 (F6C7E6E5)

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Date: 1780’s
-Description: Coulomb’s law of electrostatics
-Type: scientific advanced
-Reference: Wikipedia

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- Event 25 (141629E5)

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Date: 1783
-Description: British astronomer William -Herschel has been observing the lunar surface since the mid-1770s in -Bath, England, and writes journal entries in which he details sightings -of immense trees, forests, and pastures, comparing it to the English -countryside. By 1778, he is seeing circular formations that he thinks -are towns and villages. He also notes canals, roads, and patches of -vegetation, but never writes about it publicly, since he knows that -telescopic observations can be tricky. (George Basalla, Civilized Life -in the Universe, Oxford University, 2006, pp. 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 21

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Event 26 -(269F7AF7)

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Date: 8/18/1783
-Description: 9:15–9:30 p.m. An unusually bright bolide is observed in -the British Isles on a clear, dry night. Analysis indicates that the -meteor has entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the North Sea, before -passing over the east coast of Scotland, England, and the English -Channel; it finally breaks up, after a passage within the atmosphere of -around 1,000 miles, over southwestern France or northern Italy. Perhaps -the most prominent witness is Tiberius Cavallo, an -Italian natural philosopher who happens to be among a group of people on -the terrace at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, at the time the -meteor appears. (Wikipedia, “1783 -Great Meteor”; Tiberius Cavallo, “Description -of a Meteor, Observed Aug. 18, 1783,” Philosophical Transactions of -the Royal Society 74 (1784): 108–111; Charles Blagden, “An -Account of Some Late Fiery Meteors,” Philosophical Transactions of -the Royal Society 74 (1784): 202–232; Martin Beech, “The -Great Meteor of 18th August 1783,” Journal of the British -Astronomical Association 99 (1989): 130–134; Kaushik Patowary, “The -Great Meteor of 1783,” Amusing Planet, September 8, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 22

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- Event 27 (E8576CCF)

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Date: 6/12/1790
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Several farmers in Alençon, Normandy, France, see -a large globe surrounded by flames and making a whistling sound. The -object slows, oscillates, and moves toward the top of a hill, unearthing -some plants along the slope. The heat is so intense that grass and small -trees start burning. In the evening the sphere is still warm. Witnesses -include two mayors, a doctor, and three other authorities in addition to -the dozens of peasants who are present. A kind of door opens and a -person emerges. He is dressed in a tight-fitting suit and, seeing all -the people, says some words that are not understood. He runs into the -woods. The sphere explodes silently, throwing pieces everywhere, and -these pieces burn until they are powder. The original source is -allegedly from a June 17 report by a Police Inspector Liabeuf and -forwarded to the French Academy of Sciences. However, the Academy -reported in 2006 that it has no knowledge of such a report in its -archives. Probable hoax. (Alberto Penoglio, “Antichi Visitatori -dal Cielo,” Clypeus 3, n. 3 (1966): 13–14; Vallée, Magonia, pp. 60–61; -“1790 -UFO Crash or Time Traveller?” -Cool Interesting Stuff, June 1, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 23

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- Event 28 (9FA7848D)

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Date: 9/10/1798
-Description: Before midnight. Schoolmaster Alexander Campbell and one -other person observe a “remarkable comet, or meteor” at Alnwick, -Northumberland, England. It rapidly increases in brightness, changing -from a star-like object to a shape like “two half-moons, back to back, -having a short luminous stream between the two backs” over the course of -5 minutes. (Annual Register 1798, p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 24

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- Event 29 (32481B28)

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Date: 1800’s
-Description: Significant sightings
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Charles -Fort

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- Event 30 (0E8A82F0)

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Date: 2/22/1803
-Alternate date: 3/24/1803
-Description: An attractive young woman aged 18–20 years old arrives on a -beach aboard a “hollow ship” (Utsuro-bune) that looks like a rice -cooking pot or incense burner in Hitachi province, Japan. Fishermen -bring her inland to investigate further, but the woman is unable to -communicate in Japanese. She is dressed in a foreign fashion made of -unknown fabrics and is clutching an ornate box also marked with the -unknown script. The vessel is covered in hieroglyphs that no one can -decipher. The fishermen return her and her vessel to the sea, where it -drifts away. Accounts of the tale appear in three texts: Toen shōsetsu -(1825), Hyōryū kishū (1835), and Ume-no-chiri (1844), but no official -records mention it. (Wikipedia, “Utsuro-bune”; -Kazuo Tanaka, “Did a Close Encounter of the Third Kind Occur on a -Japanese Beach in 1803?” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 4 (July/August -2000): 37–60; Masaru Mori, “The Female Alien in a Hollow Vessel,” -Fortean Times 48 (Spring 1987): 48–50; Junji Numakawa, “On -a UFO-Shaped Boat in 1803,” UFO Criticism 1, no 1 (January 2001): -2–3; Tanaka Kazuo, “‘Utsurobune’: -A UFO Legend from Nineteenth-Century Japan,” nippon.com, June 26, -2020; Shoichi Kamon [pseud. of Tanaka Kazuo], The Mystery of -Utsuro-bune: Ancient UFO Encounter in Japan? Flying Disk Press, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 25

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- Event 31 (39A5AA6A)

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Date: 5/16/1808
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Swedish lichenologist Erik -Acharius watches a stream of dark-brown spherical objects moving -slowly through the sky in a straight line over Biskopsberga, near -Skänninge, Sweden. Some hover temporarily and speed up, while others -fall to earth. The objects appear in the western sky and stream to the -east for 2 hours. Some are apparently linked together in groups of -three, six, or eight, and all of them have some kind of trail. A few of -them fall in the vicinity of K. G. Wettermark, who has also been -observing. They resemble soap bubbles and dissipate quickly, leaving a -film like cobweb. (Erik Acharius, “Besynnerligt -Meteor-Phenomén,” Konglige Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handligar, -ser. 2, vol. 29 (July/September 1808): 215–218; “Account -of an Extraordinary -Meteoric Phenomenon,” North American Review 3 (1816): 320–322; -Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, -Anomalist, 2019, pp. 18–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 26

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- Event 32 (235A4176)

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Date: 8/13/1819
-Description: 8:00–9:00 p.m. A brilliant white fireball streaks across -the sky at Amherst, Massachusetts. The next morning, Erastus Dewey finds -a strange substance 20 feet from his front door and assumes it is -residue from the meteorite. It is about 8 inches in diameter, resembles -an upside-down salad dish, and consists of buff-colored pulpy substance -with an overwhelmingly bad smell. It is covered with a nap that, when -removed, causes the interior to liquefy and form a starchy substance. A -couple days later, it largely dissipates. Geologist Edward Hitchcock thinks -it is some kind of “gelatinous fungus” common to the area in the late -summer. (Rufus Graves, “Account -of a Gelatinous Meteor,” American Journal of Science 2 (1820): -335–337; Edward Hitchcock, “On -the Meteors -of Nov. 13, 1833,” American Journal of Science 25 (1834): 354, -362–363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 27

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- Event 33 (33F854B7)

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Date: 2/12/1820
-Description: 10:45 a.m. A German astronomer and cleric named Steinheibel -watches a clearly defined dark orange-red spot traversing the disc of -the Sun in about five hours. (Joseph Johann von Littrow, “Further -Note on the Supposed -Observation of an Intra-Mercurial Planet on the 12th of February, -1820,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 22 (1862): -276)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 28

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- Event 34 (29FCA638)

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Date: 1824
-Description: Bavarian astronomer Franz -von Gruithuisen of Munich, Germany, writes Discovery of Many -Distinct Traces of Lunar Inhabitants, Especially of One of their -Colossal Buildings, in which he announces his discovery of a city on the -Moon in the rough terrain to the north of Schröter crater that he names -the Wallwerk. This region contains a series of somewhat linear ridges -that have a fishbone-like pattern, and, with the small refracting -telescope he is using, can be perceived as resembling buildings complete -with streets. His claims are readily refuted using more powerful -instruments. Gruithuisen also thinks that the mysterious “ashen light” -observed on Venus’s dark side is due to a festival of fire in honor of -the “ascension of a new emperor to the throne of the planet.” Later, he -speculates that the illumination is caused by burning jungles to create -new farmland. (“Gruithuisen’s -Lunar City,” whatsupinthesky.com; David Dunér, “Venusians: -The Planet Venus in the 18th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate,” -Journal of Astronomical Data 19, no. 1 (2013): 162; Andrew May, “The -Lost Ruins of the Moon,” Fortean Times 358 (October 2017): 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 29

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- Event 35 (C0175E43)

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Date: 1825
-Description: Ampère published his “Ampère’s law.”
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia

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- Event 36 (73B55CB7)

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Date: 4/1/1826
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Stone mason Johannes Becker hears a noise -resembling thunder at Rastpfuhl, northwest of Saarbrücken, Germany, and -sees a grayish object “like two pieces of tin” approaching the earth -with lightning speed and expanding itself like a sheet before falling to -earth, apparently not far away. After one minute there is another sound -like thunder and a strong whirlwind, as if coming from an impact. Pastor -Köllner collects testimony from other nearby witnesses and visits the -supposed landing site but finds no burn marks or meteoritic stones. -(Ernst Chladni, “Über -eine merkwürdige meteorische Erscheinung, am 1 April 1826, nicht weit -von Saarbrücken,” -Annalen der Physik und Chemie 7 (1826): 373–377; Martin Shough and Wim -van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, -pp. 31–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 30

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- Event 37 (32FACB0E)

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Date: 8/20/1829
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A man on the York Road east of Leeds, England, -sees a moon-like object split into two halves, the upper half of which -gives off an apparent shaft of light. He sees two human figures visible -to the waist, one of which has a red cloth around its head. The object -is visible for more than one hour and is seen by others, during which -time a cloud passes in front of it. (“Celestial -Phenomena,” York Herald, August 22, 1829, p. 2; Chris Aubeck and -Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, -Anomalist, 2015, pp. 111–125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 31

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- Event 38 (225017DB)

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Date: 1831
-Description: Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of -induction
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia

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- Event 39 (415D1D22)

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Date: 5/11/1835
-Description: At the Palermo Observatory in Italy, astronomer Niccolò -Cacciatore detects a starlike object in the Southern sky between the -constellations Virgo and Crater moving at a slow rate that might -indicate a planet beyond Uranus. It is nowhere to be seen during his -next observation on May 14. (“Supposed New Planet,” American Journal of -Science 31 (1837): 158–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 32

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Event 40 -(C1EF8EFA)

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Date: 8/25/1835
-End date: 8/31/1835
-Description: The New York Sun publishes a series of six articles on the -alleged discovery by English astronomer John Herschel of -plants, animals, and winged people on the lunar surface. Using a huge -and powerful telescope, Herschel supposedly sees herds of bison-like -quadrupeds, a spherical amphibious creature, and a bipedal beaver that -lives in huts. The humans are man-bats “covered, except on the face, -with short and glossy copper-colored hair, and had wings composed of a -thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their backs.” The article -is an elaborate hoax. Herschel hasn’t observed life on the moon at all, -nor is Herschel even aware of the story until much later. The -announcement causes enormous excitement throughout America and Europe. -Authorship of the article is usually attributed to Richard Adams Locke, -a reporter who is working for The Sun at the time. Locke publicly admits -to being the author in 1840, in a letter to the weekly paper New World, -although his intent is satire, not misinformation. (Wikipedia, “Great -Moon Hoax”; Richard Adams Locke, The -Moon Hoax, Gowans, 1859)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 33

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- Event 41 (2621D085)

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Date: 1838
-Description: Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates telegraph transmission -across two miles of wire in Morristown, NJ
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: link

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Event 42 -(4EC18B07)

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Date: 1838
-Description: Scottish minister and science writer Thomas -Dick publishes Celestial Scenery: The Wonders of the Planetary -System Displayed, in which he suggests that every planet in the Solar -System is inhabited. At his home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, he computes -that the Solar System contains 21.9 trillion inhabitants, 53.5 billion -of them on Venus. This is done comparing the surface area of each planet -and the population density of England. (Thomas Dick, Celestial -Scenery, Harper, -1838)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 34

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- Event 43 (6530F983)

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Date: 6/18/1845
-Description: 10:30 p.m. The British brig Victoria, captained by George -Henry Caithness, is -becalmed in the Strait of Sicily about 30 miles southwest of Licata, -Sicily, Italy, when a huge wind suddenly blows from the east for two -hours. Then the wind suddenly stops, and the crew feels an overpowering -heat and smells a sulfuric stench. At this moment three “luminous -bodies” emerge from the sea about one-half mile away and remain visible -for 10 minutes. Shortly thereafter the wind picks up again. (This could -be a magma plume from an undersea volcanic vent.) Around 7:10 p.m., at -Ainab, Lebanon, two objects five times as large as the moon, joined by -“streamers or appendages,” are observed in the west and remain visible -for one hour, moving slowly on an easterly course. The objects are so -bright they are painful to look at. A possible outgassing event from the -Madrepore subsea vent. (“Atmospherical -Phenomena,” London Morning Chronicle, August 8, 1845, p. 5; The -Athenaeum, August 19, 1848, p. 833; -James Glaisher, et al., “Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, -1860–61,” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of -Science, 1861, pp. 30–31; -Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in -History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 139–152; Martin Shough and Wim van -Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, -pp. 115–126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 35

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- Event 44 (CDDE84C3)

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Date: 3/19/1847
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A woman and her companion are in Highbury East, -London, England, when they notice what seems to be a fire balloon -ascending slowly in the west, seemingly over Hampstead. It shoots out -“several fiery coruscations” and turns into an intensely radiant cloud, -which moves on further west. Its light shines down on the houses below. -Suddenly another bright cloud appears above the first. After 2–3 -minutes, a fiery ball drops from the upper cloud to the lower one, -followed by two others. Soon after this, both clouds disappear. (“Meteoric Stones,” -Littell’s Living Age 56 (1858): 503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 36

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- Event 45 (4CAD8929)

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Date: 9/15/1850
-Description: 6:20 p.m. Senior medical officer Elisha -Kent Kane and other crew members of the USS -Advance, -participating in the First Grinnell Expedition to the Arctic to -determine the fate of the lost Franklin Northwest Passage expedition, -watch a balloon-like object over the Wellington Channel between -Cornwallis and Devon islands, Nunavut, Canada. It is floating slowly -northward and appears to be 2 feet long by 18 inches wide. After a short -time, a small object appears below it. (Elisha Kent Kane, The U.S. -Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, Harper and Brothers, -1854, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 37

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- Event 46 (488D98FC)

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Date: 3/21/1854
-Description: 9:30 p.m. People in Washington, D.C., see a brilliant light -in the sky overhead “like a coal of fire glowing,” red in color and -stationary. It is visible for 20–30 minutes before it fades away. (“Atmospherical -Phenomenon,” Gettysburg (Pa.) Adams Sentinel, March 27, 1854, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 38

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- Event 47 (8F23C6CF)

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Date: 1/22/1855
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A witness walking in the public square in New -Haven, Connecticut, sees a brilliant red fireball in the sky near the -star Gamma Draconis. At first it is stationary but after 15 seconds it -moves slowly toward the east with a slight undulatory motion. It passes -below the star Eta Ursae Majoris and disappears not far from Denebola in -the constellation Leo. The object is visible for 10 minutes. (“Meteoric -Phenomenon,” New York Times, January 25, 1855, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 39

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- Event 48 (95C2D3D9)

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Date: 6/19/1857
-Alternate date: 6/20/1857
-Description: Sunset. A large cloud moves in over Carbondale, -Pennsylvania, from the northwest, accompanied by considerable wind. It -emits a dark-looking substance that falls to the ground, where it -becomes highly luminous. It moves toward a large barn and passes through -its center, setting it on fire, and continues on in a straight course -for the woods, burning up the underbrush. It makes a path about 16 feet -wide for a distance of 3 miles, and it finally stops against an outcrop -of anthracite coal 60 feet in thickness. It leaves a sulfurous mass -behind. (“Extraordinary Meteoric -Phenomenon,” Baltimore (Md.) Sun, June 27, 1857, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 40

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- Event 49 (15A10ABD)

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Date: 7/10/1858
-End date: 1/7/1943
-Description: Nikola Test born (dies 1/7/1943)
-Type: scientist
-Reference: Wikipedia

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- Event 50 (048746F2)

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Date: 1860
-End date: 1864
-Description: Louis Pasteur’s key germ theory experiments
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 51 -(A8CD903A)

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Date: 7/20/1860
-Description: 9:40 p.m. A poem by Brooklyn, New York, poet Walt -Whitman, “Year -of Meteors (1859-60),” published in a later edition of Leaves of Grass, -describes a “strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting -over our heads.” For many years, no one could identify the event. Then -in 2000, Texas State University–San Marcos physicist Donald W. -Olson discovered a painting by Hudson River artist Frederic -Edwin Church depicting two large meteors streaming across the sky -and dated July 20, 1860. An examination of contemporary newspapers -revealed that this was probably Whitman’s meteor procession. Around 9:40 -p.m., two meteors with trails, one behind another, are seen in New York, -Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Norfolk, and other locations -in the East, proceeding slowly from northwest to southeast for nearly -one minute. They are as bright as Venus. A rare event, and little -understood until 1913, a meteor procession occurs when an earth-grazing -meteor breaks apart and the fragments travel across the sky in the same -horizontal path. Olson and his colleagues finally publish their -discovery in the July 2010 issue of Sky & Telescope. (“The -Wonders of the Heavens: The Meteor Train,” Brooklyn (N.Y.) Evening -Star, July 21, 1860, p. 2; “The -Meteor of Friday Night,” New York Herald, July 22, 1860, p. 1; -“Texas State Astronomers Solve Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery,” Office of -Media Relations, Texas State University, May 28, 2010; David Dickinson, -“Remembering -the Great Meteor Procession of 1860,” Universe Today, July 20, -2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 41

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Event 52 -(78674E1D)

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Date: 8/2/1860
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Another seeming procession of two meteors is -observed in Norfolk, Virginia, moving with an undulating motion in the -western sky in a northerly direction. One of the lights is clear red and -the other is greenish, and they both emit flashes of light, leaving a -sparkling trail. The phenomenon is also seen in Pittsburgh, -Pennsylvania. Some unnamed contemporary scientists compare it to the -July 20 meteor procession. (“Another Splendid -Meteor,” Baltimore (Md.) Sun, August 6, 1860, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 42

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- Event 53 (98656585)

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Date: 11/1862
-Description: Early morning. Magistrate Osman -Edward Middleton hears a “peculiar rushing noise” at Morpeth, New -South Wales, and looks up to see a dark object traveling rapidly toward -the southeast. It appears to be revolving on its axis. ([Letter], -Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald, November 20, 1866, p. 5; Chris Aubeck -and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, -Anomalist, 2015, pp. 167–173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 43

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- Event 54 (555D61A7)

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Date: 1865
-Description: French novelist Jules -Verne publishes From the Earth to the Moon. It tells the story of -the Baltimore Gun Club, a post–American Civil War society of weapons -enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun -and launch three people—the Gun Club’s president, his Philadelphian -armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a -lunar landing. (Wikipedia, “From -the Earth to the Moon”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 44

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Event 55 -(FE887F16)

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Date: 1865
-Description: James Clerk Maxwell publishes “A Dynamical Theory of the -Electromagnetic Field” on electromagnetism. Maxwell derives an -electromagnetic wave equation with a velocity for light in close -agreement with measurements made by experiment, and deduces that light -is an electromagnetic wave.
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 56 -(D075F80C)

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Date: 12/1865
-Description: The British Board of Trade asks Trinity House to -investigate the “false lights” of the Durham, England, coast, mysterious -revolving lights seen above a rocky headland at Whitburn by mariners -negotiating a hazardous stretch of the northeast coast. Between 1860 and -1870, more than 150 ships are wrecked on the rocks near Whitburn after -following a light or lights in the sky that they wrongly believe are -from a lighthouse at the mouth of the Tyne. A commission led by Rear -Admiral Richard -Collinson meets in Sunderland on December 28 to interview witnesses -and determine whether salvagers are responsible for the lights that are -causing shipwrecks. Although the commission decides that the false -lights are not deliberately lit, they are puzzled about the true cause. -The lights and wrecks continue until January 1871 when the Souter -Lighthouse is erected on Lizard Point. (“False -Lights on the Durham Coast,” Newcastle Weekly Courant, January 12, -1866, p. 5; David Clarke, “Britain’s -First X-File?” August 14, 2010; David Clarke, “The False Lights of -Durham,” Fortean Times 266 (October 2010): 40–42; Martin Shough and Wim -van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, -pp. 77–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 45

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- Event 57 (8B13CE96)

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Date: 6/21/1866
-Description: The US Hydrographic Office is established by Congress. It -is assigned to the Navy Bureau of Navigation and collects reports from -ships’ officers on observations of various marine phenomena, hazards, -and other activities. Among the reports collected are meteors, ball -lightning, and other celestial and meteorological phenomena. (Wikipedia, -“United -States Hydrographic Office”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 46

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- Event 58 (E7EBED6F)

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Date: 11/4/1867
-Description: 3:00–4:00 p.m. James E. Beveridge is passing the mill by -the Waterworks Reservoir in Chatham, England, when he and the miller see -numerous black discs moving in the air to the west, some in groups, -others scattered. They are visible for more than 20 minutes. In passing -in front of the sun they appear like large cannon shot. Several groups -pass over his head, disappearing suddenly, and leaving puffs of grayish -brown smoke. (“Three -Strange Stories,” Symons’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine 2 (1867): -130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 47

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- Event 59 (016AFC35)

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Date: 6/8/1868
-Description: 9:50 p.m. John Lucas Sr., an observer at Radcliffe -Observatory, Oxford University, England, notices a comet- like object -with a trail a bit west of Polaris. As he is pointing it out to some -others, it begins moving west. It moves in a straight line at first, -then moves south for a bit, then continues to the north. They watch it -for 4 minutes until it disappears below the northwestern horizon. (“Remarkable -Meteor,” English Mechanic 7 (July 10, 1868): 351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 48

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Event 60 -(6E08DB82)

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Date: 7/1868
-Description: A strange “aerial construction” bearing lights and making -engine noises flew low over this town. Local people also described it as -a giant bird covered with large scales producing a metallic noise. -Although not an actual landing, this is the first instance of close -observation of an unknown object at low altitude in the nineteenth -century.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fort 638; Anatomy 11 (Vallee)
-Location: Copiago, Chile
-ID: 1

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Event 61 -(D72C2340)

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Date: 7/25/1868
-Description: Engineer Frederick -William Birmingham of Parramatta, New South Wales, watches a bizarre -procession of the faces of two prominent Australians (Archbishop of -Sydney Frederic -Barker and New South Wales Premier James Martin) -through the air as well as a vessel he calls an “ark.” He hears a voice -suggesting that “That’s a machine to go through the air.” The voice -comes from a “spirit” whom he describes as “like a neutral tint shade -and the shape of a man in his usual frock dress.” After the ark -maneuvers for a while in the air, the spirit says, “Have you a desire or -do you wish to enter upon it?” He is then lifted up and carried through -the air into the object about 60 feet away. The spirit guides him into -the “pilot house” of the machine where he is given some papers with -formulas on them that will help him construct a flying machine. He -observes another UFO-like craft on March 9, 1873, and later attempts to -build a mechanical replica of what he has seen. (Bill Chalker, “The -Mystery of a Machine -to Go through the Air: A UFO Vision?” 1998; Clark III 60–65; “Did -Frederick William Birmingham Build -a Flying Machine Based on His Bizarre 1868 UFO ‘Vision’ in Parramatta, -NSW, Australia?” TheOzFiles, November 30, 2013; Chris Aubeck and -Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, -Anomalist, 2015, pp. 185–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 49

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- Event 62 (91647A89)

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Date: 1869
-Description: French poet and inventor Charles -Cros is convinced that pinpoints of light observed on Mars and Venus -are the lights of large cities on those planets. He spends years -petitioning the French government to build a giant mirror to communicate -with the Martians and Venusians by burning giant lines on the deserts of -those planets. (Alissa Walker, “A -French Inventor Once Proposed a Giant Mirror to Burn a Message on -Mars,” Gizmodo, October 16, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 50

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Event 63 -(0DD2E698)

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Date: 8/7/1869
-Description: About 4:45 p.m. During a total solar eclipse, four amateur -observers in St. Paul’s Junction [possibly a railroad stop between -Maynard and West Union], Iowa, both with and without instruments -independently notice a bright object below the lunar disc and just -outside the solar corona. There are no visible stars in that position in -the sky. (“Was -It the Intra-Mercurial Planet?” Astronomical Register 7 (1869): -227–228; John Russell Hind, “Stellar -Objects Seen during the Eclipse of 1869,” Nature 18 (1878): -663–664)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 52

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Event 64 -(8C8DFE2B)

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Date: 8/7/1869
-Description: 12:00 noon. Four or five witnesses watch a luminous object -land in a vacant lot about 200 yards north of the village of Adamstown, -Pennsylvania. It is originally square-shaped but shoots up into a column -about 3–4 feet high and 2 feet thick. The object glitters like a “column -of burnished silver.” It gradually fades away and disappears after 10 -minutes. No unusual traces are found on the lot. (“Singular Phenomenon,” -Lancaster (Pa.) Daily Evening Express, August 10, 1869, pp. 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 51

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- Event 65 (47FBE53C)

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Date: 3/22/1870
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Frederick William Banner, master of the -barque Lady of the Lake, is sailing in the North Atlantic 400 miles -north of the Equator and 860 miles from the coast of West Africa when he -sees a “curious- shaped” light-gray cloud in the south-southeast. It is -circular, with four rays or arms extending from the center to the edge, -and a curved tail. It is visible for about 50 minutes until it is too -dark to see. (Frederick William Banner, “Extract -from Log of Barque ‘Lady of the Lake,’” Quarterly Journal of the -Royal Meteorological Society 1 (1873): 157; Martin Shough and Wim van -Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 89– -109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 53

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Event 66 -(C41408F7)

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Date: 9/26/1870
-Description: A luminous object with a tail is seen in the constellation -Lyra by Reginald -Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath, second -secretary of the British legation to the North German Confederation, in -Berlin, Germany. Possibly a light pillar reflection caused by a bright -arc-light source at a military installation on Eiswerder island. -(Brabazon, “A -Meteor,” London Times, September 30, 1870, p. 9; Martin Shough and -Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, -pp. 111–116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 54

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- Event 67 (57F0F41E)

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Date: 1871
-Description: English astronomer Richard -A. Proctor writes Other Worlds Than Ours, in which he discusses the -question of the plurality of worlds in the light of new facts. He -suspects that Venus is likely the “abode of living creatures not unlike -the inhabitants of earth.” (Richard A. Proctor, Other -Worlds Than Ours, Appleton, 1871)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 55

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Event 68 -(E42F1972)

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Date: 8/1/1871
-Description: 10:43 p.m. Astronomer Jérôme -Eugène Coggia at Marseille Observatory, France, watches a slow, -blood-red fireball move across the sky and change course twice before -falling to the earth. He sees it for 20 minutes and 20 seconds. Possible -earth-grazing meteor or a candle balloon. (Jérome Eugène Coggia, “Observation -d’un bolide, faite -à Observatoire de Marseille le 1er août,” -Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 73 -(1871): 397–399; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the -Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 117–119)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 56

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- Event 69 (2CACBE98)

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Date: 12/7/1872
-Time: 0100 hours
-Description: At King’s Sutton an object resembling a haystack flew on an -irregular course. Sometimes high, sometimes very low it was accompanied -by fire and dense smoke. It produced the same effect as a tornado, -felling trees and walls. It suddenly vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fort 189 (Vallee)
-Location: Banbury, Great Britain
-ID: 2

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- Event 70 (DB79C03A)

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Date: 1873
-Description: Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism -as a summary of his work on electromagnetism
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 71 -(C1E6A52B)

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Date: 1873
-Description: English-American geologist and psychometrist William -Denton of Wellesley, Massachusetts, publishes volume 3 of The Soul -of Things, in which he describes his astral visit to Mars along with his -sister Anna Cridge and wife Elizabeth. He finds it harbors a thriving -civilization with a technology based on aluminum. He reports that they -soar above traffic on their individual fly-cycles and seem particularly -fond of air travel, with as many as 30 Martians occupying some of the -large flying conveyances. (William Denton, Soul of Things, Wellesley, -Mass.: Elizabeth M. F. Denton, 1873, vol. 3, pp. 171–267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 57

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Event 72 -(6F5F463D)

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Date: late 3/1873
-Description: Evening. Thomas Inman and his son are traveling home from -the village of Taylorsville [now Philo], Ohio, and are possibly in -Bristol Township when they see a bright light descending swiftly with a -roaring noise. It strikes a short distance in the road [probably -Lawrence Road] ahead of them, flickers and flares, then fades. A man -dressed in a suit of black carrying a lantern emerges from the object. -He walks a few paces and steps into a buggy, which Inman has not noticed -before. The buggy begins to move silently and quickly, even though there -is no horse attached to it, until it reaches a deep gully, into which it -plunges and disappears. Historian William Alexander -Taylor, who -supplies the story to the New York Herald, vouches for the witnesses. -(“Very -Like a Whale,” -New York Herald, April 8, 1873, p. 7; Clark III 1123–1124; Chris Aubeck -and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, -Anomalist, 2015, pp. 175–191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 58

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- Event 73 (BBC565BC)

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Date: 4/24/1874
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Chemist and astronomer Vojtěch -Šafařík of Prague [now in the Czech Republic] sees “an object of so -peculiar a character that I do not know what to make of it.” It is a -dazzling white object slowly crossing the moon. He first sees it in -front of the moon, then watches it against the “deep blue sky like -Sirius or Vega in daylight.” (Vojtěch Šafařík, “Telescopic -Meteors,” Astronomical Register 23 (1885): 205–211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 59

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Event 74 -(0C1D9D59)

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Date: 8/13/1874
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A large, “luminous electric cloud” flies over -the western edge of Pascagoula, Mississippi, from the northwest to the -southeast. It illuminates the ground and emits heat so intense that some -witnesses think their houses are about to ignite. When last seen over -the Gulf of Mexico, it renders the spars and rigging of a ship -“distinctly visible.” (“Singular -Phenomenon,” Pascagoula (Miss.) Star, August 22, 1874, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 60

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- Event 75 (B0DFFF73)

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Date: 12/21/1876
-Description: 8:30–8:45 p.m. A bright bolide that explodes and breaks up -into a group of 20–100 smaller balls is seen over a wide swath of the US -from Topeka, Kansas, to western Pennsylvania. Over Columbus, Ohio, it is -described as “a cluster or flock of meteors seemingly huddled together, -like a flock of wild geese, and moving with the same velocity and grace -of regularity. The color of their light was a yellowish red, like red -rocket-balls.” A stony chondrite falls 3 miles northwest of Rochester, -Indiana, at the same time. (James Glaisher, et al., “Report on -Observations of Luminous Meteors during the Year 1876–77,” Report of the -British Association for the Advancement of Science 47 (1877): 98, 149–152; -Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, -Anomalist, 2019, pp. 144–145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 61

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- Event 76 (002C652B)

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Date: 10/1877
-Description: Astronomer Giovanni -Schiaparelli reports seeing canali on the Martian surface from Brera -Observatory in Milan, Italy, during the Great Opposition. While the term -“canals” indicates an artificial construction, its proper translation as -“channels” implies that the observed features are natural configurations -of the planetary surface. From the incorrect translation into the term -“canals,” various assumptions are made about life on Mars; as these -assumptions are popularized, the canals become famous, giving rise to -waves of hypotheses, speculation, and fiction about the possibility of -intelligent life on Mars—the Martians. (Wikipedia, “Martian -canal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 62

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- Event 77 (00BA59D0)

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Date: 1/22/1878
-Description: John Martin is out hunting near his ranch 6 miles north of -Dallas, Texas, when he notices a dark object high in the southern sky. -It is so bright it hurts his eyes as it moves with great speed to -directly over his head. The object is “about the size of a large saucer” -and looks like a large balloon. It speeds away rapidly. (“A -Strange Phenomena,” -Dallas Daily Herald, January 23, 1878, p. 4; Patrick Gross, “The -First Publicized Flying ‘Saucer’ Report?”; -“Dallas -1878,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 63

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Event 78 -(685C7D54)

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Date: 7/29/1878
-Description: About 12:30 p.m. Astronomers James -Craig Watson, director of the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Observatory, and Lewis -Swift, an -amateur from Rochester, New York, both claim to see a planet-like object -close to the Sun during the total solar eclipse. Watson, observing from -Separation, Wyoming, places the object about 2.5° southwest of the Sun -and estimates its magnitude at 4.5. Swift, observing from a location -near Denver, Colorado, sees what he takes to be an intra-mercurial -planet about 3° southwest of the Sun. He estimates its brightness to be -the same as that of Theta Cancri, a fifth-magnitude star which is also -visible during totality, about six or seven minutes from the object. -Both Watson and Swift describe the object as red in color. Watson says -it has a definite disc, unlike stars, which appear as shimmering -pinpoints of light. (James C. Watson, “On -the Discovery of an Intra-Mercurial -Planet,” American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 16 (1878): 230–233; -Lewis Swift, “Letter -from Mr. Lewis -Swift, Relating to the Discovery of Intra-Mercurial Planets,” -American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 16 (1878): 313–315; Richard Baum -and William Sheehan, In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton’s -Clockwork Universe, Plenum, 1997, pp. 185–223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 64

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- Event 79 (74FF3FB5)

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Date: 3/14/1879
-End date: 4/18/1955
-Description: Albert Einstein born
-Type: scientist
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 80 -(F6B8D03E)

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Date: 5/15/1879
-Time: 2140
-Description: Two very large “wheels” were seen spinning in the air and -slowly coming to the surface of the sea. Estimated diameter: 40 m. -Distance between the objects: 150 m. Speed: 80 km/h/ Duration: 35 min. -Witnesses aboard the ship “Vultur”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round up 17; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
-Location: Persian Gulf
-ID: 4

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- Event 81 (640DD831)

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Date: 1880
-Description: A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous ball descending from the -sky and hovering near him. He felt somehow “drawn” to it, but succeeded -in backing away in spite of his terror.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 2O6 (Vallee)
-Location: Eastern Venezuela
-ID: 5

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Event 82 -(BF665399)

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Date: 1880
-Description: A strange being dressed in tight-fitting clothes and -shining helmet soared over the heads of two sentries, who fired without -result. The apparition stunned them with something described as “blue -fire.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 61, 3; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Aldershot, Great Britain
-ID: 3

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Event 83 -(CDA00BA8)

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Date: 3/22/1880
-Description: About 6:00 a.m. A large number of brilliantly luminous -bodies are seen to rise from the horizon and pass from east to west at -Kattenau, East Prussia [now Furmanovka, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. -They move through space “like a string of beads.” Possible meteor -procession. (“A -Remarkable Phenomenon,” Nature 22 (May 20, 1880): 64; Martin Shough -and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, -pp. 169– 170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 65

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Event 84 -(A032CA93)

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Date: 3/26/1880
-Time: evening
-Description: Four men walking near Galisteo Junction were surprised as -they heard voices coming from a “strange balloon,” which flew over them. -It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike -device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. Their language was not -understood. The object flew low over Galisteo Junction and rose rapidly -toward the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Lamy, New Mexico
-ID: 6

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Event 85 -(4EB59712)

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Date: 3/26/1880
-Description: Night. The train depot operator and a few friends are -walking at Galisteo, New Mexico, when they hear loud voices and laughter -coming from a “large balloon” shaped like a fish approaching from the -west. A flower is dropped from the car of the balloon to which is -attached a slip of silk-like paper on which Chinese characters are -written. The next morning, searchers find a cup of peculiar workmanship, -but both artifacts are purchased by a “wealthy young Chinaman” and a -“collector of curiosities” who visits town on March 28, although this -part of the tale seems facetious and racist. The yarn is typical of -sensational newspaper hoaxes that have no basis in reality. (“Galisteo’s -Apparition,” Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, March 29, 1880, p. 3; “Solved -at Last,” Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, April 5, 1880, p. 4; Clark -III 69–70, 592; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December -3, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 66

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Event 86 -(F0ECD6B4)

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Date: 6/1880 (approximate)
-Description: David Muckle and W. R. McKay of East Kent [now -Chatham-Kent], Ontario, are in a field on Muckle’s farm when they hear a -loud explosion and see a cloud of stones flying upward. They go to the -spot and find a circular area, 16 feet across, that has been swept clean -of vegetation. (“A -Curious Phenomenon,” Rock Hill (S.C.) Herald, July 7, 1880, -p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 67

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Event 87 -(497919BC)

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Date: early 7/1880
-Description: A train is running on the Chattanooga Railroad near -Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in a thunderstorm when the engineer sees a -large ball of fire rushing down the rails to the engine. As it passes -under the locomotive, he feels a shock that jars the entire train. There -is a loud explosion “opposite the ladies’ car” and a telegraph pole is -splintered from top to bottom. (“Passengers -Shocked by Lightning,” Memphis (Tenn.) Public Ledger, July 15, 1880, -p. 2; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 -(Spring 2002): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 68

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Event 88 -(84D610B6)

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Date: 7/28/1880
-Description: 6:00 p.m. C. A. Youngman and Ben Flexner are looking out a -drugstore window at 2nd and Chestnut streets in Louisville, Kentucky, -when they see something in the air coming from the direction of the Ohio -River bridge. As it approaches them, it appears to be a man surrounded -by machinery, which he is working with his hands and feet. The object is -too high to make out the details of its construction. The man moves off -to the south, pedaling constantly. Around 8:00 p.m., the Royster family -of Madisonville, Kentucky, watches a circular flying object with a ball -at each end moving above the train depot. (“More -Monkeying,” Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, July 29, 1880, p. 4; -“The -Flying Machine,” Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, August 6, 1880, -p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 69

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Event 89 -(C823CCE7)

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Date: 9/30/1880
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A brilliant object is seen crossing the sky in -Columbus, Georgia, at a very low altitude. Coming from the south, it -heads northeasterly in a horizontal line. It appears made of three -perfectly developed balls of an equal size and equidistant from each -other. The first ball emits a tail that envelops the two following and -extends behind them. The tail is luminous except at the far end, where -it is indistinct and nebulous. It is visible for a full 50 seconds and -continues on its course without falling. (“Wonders -of a Meteor,” Marion (Ohio) Star, October 5, 1880, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 70

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- Event 90 (F156E1FD)

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Date: 6/11/1881
-Time: 0400
-Description: The two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future -king of England, were cruising aboard “La Bacchante” when an object -resembling a fully lighted ship was seen (“a phantom vessel all -aglow”).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fort 637; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
-Location: Between Melbourne and Sydney at sea, Australia
-ID: 7

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Event 91 -(98DB9C80)

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Date: late 10/1881
-Description: An unusual fall of spider web occurs near the coast of Lake -Michigan at Milwaukee, Green Bay, Fort Howard, Sheboygan, and Ozaukee -County, Wisconsin. The webs seem to come from “over the lake” and fall -from a great height. The strands are from 2 feet to several yards long, -strong in texture, and very white. No spiders are seen. (“A -Rain of Spider Webs,” Scientific American 45 (1881): 337)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 71

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- Event 92 (F499ED38)

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Date: 7/6/1882
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Amateur astronomer N. S. Drayton in Jersey City -Heights, New Jersey, watches a red object without a trail move across -the sky from the constellation of Ursa Minor to Capricorn in 45 seconds. -(N. S. Drayton, “A Supposed -Meteor,” Scientific American 47 (July 22, 1882): 53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 72

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Event 93 -(B5DBC271)

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Date: 11/17/1882
-Description: 6:00 p.m. An auroral beam is observed from the Royal -Observatory, Greenwich, London, by astronomer Edward -Walter Maunder and by John -Rand Capron from his private observatory on Hog’s Back, Surrey, -England, in association with a geomagnetic storm. The beam is described -in detail in various ways, including as a “beam,” “spindle,” “definite -body” with a Zeppelin-like shape and pale green color, passing from -horizon to horizon above the moon. The phenomenon transits the sky in -approximately 75 seconds. (Wikipedia, “November -1882 geomagnetic -storm”; J. Rand Capron, “The -Auroral Beam of November 17, 1882,” Philosophical Magazine, ser. 5, -15 (1883): 318–339; Edward Walter Maunder, “A -Strange Celestial Visitor,” The Observatory 39 (May 1916): 213–215; -Paul Fuller, “The -Life and Times of John Rand Capron (1829–1888),” The Antiquarian -Astronomer 8 (March 2014): 21–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 73

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- Event 94 (6EF991A0)

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Date: 2/5/1883
-Description: 6:45 p.m. A witness at Lake Glasfjorden, near Arvika, -Sweden, spots a meteor-like object high on the horizon moving from -southeast to northwest. It makes several minor course changes, varies -its color from white to yellow, and emits some sparks. After 18 seconds, -it changes its course to the southeast and is so low to the ground that -its light is reflected in the lake. By this time, it has a distinct -tail. Total duration is 50 seconds. (“On -February 5, -at 6.45 p.m.,” Nature 27 (March 1, 1883): 423)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 74

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Event 95 -(0D47A3AF)

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Date: 8/12/1883
-End date: 8/13/1883
-Description: Astronomer José -Árbol y Bonilla, director -of the El Cerro de la Bufa Meteorological Observatory in Zacatecas, -Mexico, is observing the sun by eyepiece projection when he and an -assistant see a large number of small bodies crossing the solar disc. -Over the course of two days, they count a total of 447 dark objects. -They seem bright as they approach the sun but are dark as they pass -across its face. He takes several photographs and suspects that they are -relatively near the earth. Mexican astronomers in 2011 suggested that a -comet may have split into several pieces; these objects were estimated -to have had a size of between 150 and 3,350 feet, and to have passed -only 334 to 5,000 miles from the Earth; they thought a fragmented Comet -12P/Pons-Brooks was one possibility, in which case Earth barely avoided -multiple Tunguska events or even a mass extinction; this was reported in -the media and disputed in October 2011; but the source of these objects -could also have been comet C/1883 D1 (Brooks-Swift) or even a third, -unknown comet that year; the event also coincided with the annual -Perseid meteor shower; even migrating birds cannot be ruled out. (José -Á. y Bonilla, “Passage -sur le disque -solaire d’un essaim de corpuscles,” L’Astronomie 4 (1885): 347–350; -Hector Javier Durand Manterola, Maria de la Paz Ramos Lara, and -Guadalupe Cordero, “Interpretation -of the Observations Made in 1883 in Zacatecas -(Mexico): A Fragmented Comet That Nearly Hits the Earth,” Earth and -Planetary Astrophysics (2011); “Billion-Ton -Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred Kilometers in 1883,” -MIT Technology Review, October 17, 2011; “Did -a Massive Comet Almost Wipe Out Humans in 1883?” The Week, January -8, 2015; “OT- 1883 -Zacatecas Observation of Objects before Sun Were Not 12P/Pons-Brooks -Fragments,” October 17, 2011; Phil Plait, “Did -a Fragmenting Comet nearly Hit the Earth in 1883? Color Me Very -Skeptical,” Bad Astronomy, October 17, 2011; Martin Shough and Wim -van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, -pp. 189–207)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 75

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- Event 96 (D3F39BFC)

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Date: 6/6/1884
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Rancher John W. Ellis and some of his ranch hands -in south-central Dundy County, Nebraska, allegedly see a blazing object -fall from the sky and crash into many pieces, burning the grass and -fusing the sand. The light is so intense it blinds one of them. The -newspaper suggests it is a “vessel belonging originally to some other -planet.” The remains of the object are said to have dissolved in a -rainstorm. However, the tale is actually a fictional story written by a -correspondent in Benkelman. (“A -Celestial Visitor,” Lincoln (Neb.) Daily State Journal, June 8, -1884, p. 5; “The -Magical Meteor,” Lincoln (Neb.) Daily State Journal, June 10, 1884, -p. 4; Jerome Clark, “Spaceship and Saltshaker,” IUR 11, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1986): 12, 21; Clark III 593)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 76

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Event 97 -(BC816A77)

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Date: 7/3/1884
-Description: 8:30 p.m. L. C. Yale of Norwood, New York, watches an -object with a long tail move slowly from east to west. It has a “nucleus -like a globe, as large as the moon, surrounded by a bright ring, two -dark lines crossing the nucleus in vertical direction, the lines larger -in the middle, straight on inside, curved on outside, tapering both ways -to points.” The general appearance is of a “gigantic sword of fire, -moving handle first.” (“A -Great Meteor,” Illustrated Science Monthly 2 (1884): 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 77

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- Event 98 (9613520E)

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Date: 1885
-Description: The Benz Patent-Motorwagen by the German Carl Benz is -widely regarded as the world’s first practical modern automobile and was -the first car put into series production.
-Type: industrial advance
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 99 -(FE438335)

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Date: 2/16/1885
-Description: Night. During a severe snowstorm, a bright light suddenly -flashes in the high rocks on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River -some five miles northwest of Port Jervis, New York. The snow-covered -hill glows like red-hot iron for several feet around, gleaming through -the storm for several minutes, then growing dim and disappearing. (“Mysterious -Light,” Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, March 25, 1885, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 78

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Event 100 -(95F946B0)

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Date: 2/25/1885
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Sailing in the North Pacific some 800 miles west -of Victoria, British Columbia, Captain John Waters of the barque -Innerwick and his mate see the sky turning fiery red. Suddenly a large -fireball appears above the ship and falls hissing into the sea about 150 -feet away from them, causing a wave of water to impact the ship. -Electrical discharges run through the rigging and the masts. (“Frightful -Experience at Sea,” Sacramento (Calif.) Record-Union, March 3, 1885, -p. 1; “Notes -and News,” Science 5 (1885): 242–243; Martin Shough and Wim van -Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, -pp. 177–199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 79

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Event 101 -(42AC0051)

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Date: 11/2/1885
-Time: dawn
-Description: A luminous object circled the harbor. Altitude: 5-6 m. -Illuminated the whole town. Duration: 1 1/2 min, as a bluish-green -flame. Then plunged into the sea. Made several circles above the -ferry-boat pier.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 (Vallee)
-Location: Scutari, Turkey
-ID: 8

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- Event 102 (AF54F86D)

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Date: 1886
-Description: French novelist Jules -Verne publishes Robur the Conqueror, which describes the appearance -of mysterious objects and strange lights in the sky all over the world. -It turns out that the sightings are of a flying machine, invented by the -novel’s anti-hero Robur, who kidnaps people and takes them on board the -airship. (Wikipedia, “Robur -the Conqueror”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 80

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Event 103 -(27EB2E0A)

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Date: 10/24/1886
-Description: Night. Nine persons who are sleeping in a hut some 10 miles -from Maracaibo, Venezuela, are awakened by a loud humming noise and a -dazzling light that illuminates the interior. The people begin to pray -but they start vomiting as extensive swellings appear on the upper part -of their bodies, especially around the face and lips. They feel no heat, -although the light has a smoky appearance and a peculiar smell. The next -morning, the swellings subside but leave black blotches. By November 2, -the skin peels off and the blotches are round sores. Portions of their -hair falls off. Trees around the hut show no damage until November 2, -when they suddenly wither. The symptoms are similar to those of ionizing -radiation syndrome. (Warner Cowgill, “Curious -Phenomenon in Venezuela,” -letter, Scientific American 55 (December 18, 1886): 389; Clark III 949; -Patrick Gross, UFO -Reports from -the Past)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 81

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Event 104 -(F0FEF267)

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Date: 11/1886
-Description: Heinrich Hertz became the first person to transmit and -receive controlled radio waves.
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: link

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- Event 105 (0DF23457)

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Date: 3/19/1887
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Captain Cornelis Dirks Swart of the Dutch bark -J.P.A. sees a “meteor in the shape of two balls” during a storm in the -North Atlantic about 590 miles northeast of Bermuda. One ball is black -and the other is luminous and oblong. The luminous object descends with -a roar and lights up the ship and surrounding water. The crew feels heat -from the object even as solid lumps of ice fall on the deck and the -rigging becomes iced. The side of the ship where it falls turns -partially black and the copper plating is blistered. The wind increases -to “hurricane force.” (“Rare -Electrical Phenomenon at Sea,” American Meteorological Journal 4 -(July 1887): 98–99; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: -Investigating UFOs in History, 2015, pp. 205–217; Martin Shough and Wim -van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, -pp. 201–210)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 82

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Event 106 -(4546190F)

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Date: 11/12/1887
-Description: Midnight. Captain R. F. Moore of the English steamer SS -Siberian, sailing 10 nautical miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland, -watches an enormous fireball rising from the sea to the height of 15 -feet. It travels against the strong wind and comes close to the ship, -then turns to the southeast and disappears. The object is seen for about -2 minutes. Moore says he has seen this phenomenon before and considers -it a sign of stormy weather. (“Globular -Lightning,” Science 10 (1887): 324; Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, “On -Globular Lightning,” American Meteorological Journal 6 (February -1890): 437, 442–443; Theo Paijmans, “Fiery Objects Rising from -the Oceans,” Charles Fort Institute Blogs, July 6, 2007; Martin Shough -and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, -pp. 151–174)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 83

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Event 107 -(858517EC)

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Date: 11/12/1887
-Time: 2400
-Description: A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean -by witnesses aboard the “Siberian.” It rose to an altitude of 16 m, flew -against the wind, and came close to the ship, then “dashed oft” toward -the southeast. Duration: 5 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 (Vallee)
-Location: Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean
-ID: 9

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- Event 108 (936E3FD8)

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Date: early 9/1888
-Description: 3:15 p.m. During a severe thunderstorm, after a flash of -lightning and a peal of thunder, witnesses see a huge flame at Highland -Lake, near Winsted, Connecticut. The water is parted for yards by a huge -ball of fire at least 10 feet in diameter, and billows rise on either -side to a height of 20 feet. The light moves toward the head of the lake -with great velocity. When it is within 100 yards of the shore, another -flash of lightning strikes, and the fireball disappears. The waters of -the lake remain disturbed for hours. (“A -Ball of Fire on a Lake,” Hagerstown (Ind.) Exponent, September 12, -1888, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 84

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- Event 109 (0D26899A)

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Date: 2/7/1889
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A cylindrical luminous object passes over Oella, -Maryland, at only several hundred feet altitude. It lights up the -village “as brilliantly as if by a strong electric lamp.” It curves and -appears to descend to the ground one mile away. It follows the course of -the Patapsco River to the north for several seconds. (“A -Brilliant Meteor,” -Washington (D.C.) Evening Star, February 9, 1889, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 85

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Event 110 -(210AF5C1)

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Date: 4/20/1889
-End date: 4/30/1945
-Description: German dictator Adolf Hitler, who initiated World War 2 and -was closely involved in military operations throughout the war, and was -central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, is born in -Austria-Hungary.
-Type: historical figure
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 111 -(63E2A88D)

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Date: Winter 1889
-Description: Nikola Tesla’s experiments at his Experimental Station on -wireless electricity transmission in Colorado Springs
-Type: scientific event
-Reference: link

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- Event 112 (1D94842C)

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Date: 1890’s
-Description: The experimental proof of Maxwell’s equations was -demonstrated by Heinrich Hertz in a series of experiments. After that, -Maxwell’s equations were fully accepted by scientists.
-Type: Wikipedia
-Reference: link

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- Event 113 (6B4F7143)

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Date: 6/13/1891
-Description: Day. An unnamed witness claims to see a “meteor” explode -with a loud noise over the Wasson & Miller flour mill and cotton gin -in Dublin, Texas. The object looks like “a bale of cotton suspended in -the air after having been saturated in kerosene oil and ignited, except -that it created a much brighter light” that dazzles people standing -several hundred feet away. The object shatters into pieces before it -hits the ground, the fragments setting the grass and weeds on fire. In -addition to the fragments is a scrap of paper with writing in a strange -language. (“Dublin 1891,” -Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 86

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Event 114 -(529CA204)

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Date: 7/12/1891
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Residents of Theodore Street in Ottawa, Ontario, -see over the rifle range a cigar-shaped balloon with a bright light on -one end and a fan on the other traveling from south to north. (MacLeod -(Ont.) Gazette, July 16, 1891; Clark 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 87

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Event 115 -(E789B58B)

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Date: 9/2/1891
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Alonzo -M. Swan and L. D. Dodson (an equestrian recovering from an illness) -are camped in Coyote Canyon [now within the Sandia National Laboratory -complex], New Mexico, to benefit from the mineral springs there when -they see a brilliant light rise above a mountain to the south. As it -moves closer against the wind, they see it has a series of “electric arc -lights” around it and a “pole” or rudder that is similarly lit. The -object is in view for nearly two hours. Another lighted object appears -from the southwest and approaches the first object, but clouds prevent -any further observation. Swan sees a lighted object again on September -4, although this time it could be a star. (“Strange -Mid Air Ships,” Albuquerque (N.Mex.) Weekly Citizen, September 12, -1891, p. 3; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: -Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 219–237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 88

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- Event 116 (E9C93767)

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Date: 1/1892 (approximate)
-Description: George -W. Crusselle and S. D. Cuthereil from the USS -Thetis are wandering among the salt water lagoons on the west coast -of Baja California, Mexico, when they see a luminous object with smooth -edges about 30 feet in diameter approaching from the ocean at an -altitude of 50 feet. It changes shape from circular to an hourglass and -moves swiftly to the surface of a lagoon, covering it with a “brilliant -halo of light.” It rises moments later, changing its shape frequently, -and moving swiftly in a zigzag fashion. After 15 minutes it disappears -inland. (George W. Crusselle, “The -Coast Survey,” Atlanta Constitution, April 10, 1892, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 89

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Event 117 -(92DD55B8)

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Date: 3/23/1892
-Description: Evening–1:00 a.m. Residents of Warsaw, Poland, watch a -balloon over the city that casts rays of light from an electrical -apparatus. It remains stationary until 1:00 a.m., then it takes off to -the west. Other supposed balloons are seen March 22 or earlier over -Kaunas Fortress, Lithuania; and Modlin Fortress (in Nowy Dwór -Mazowiecki), Sosnowiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza, and Dąbrowice, Poland. As they -remain stationary for as long as 40 minutes, some assume they are -piloted by German spies. (“Spying -by Balloon,” New York Evening World, March 25, 1892, p. 1; “Balloons -As German Spies,” New York Times, March 26, 1892, p. 3; “Steering -Military Balloons,” Birmingham Daily Post, March 31, 1892, p. 8; -Clark 45; Brett Holman, “The -Phantom Balloon Scare of 1892,” Airminded, July 11, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 90

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Event 118 -(9E69332F)

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Date: 4/16/1892
-Description: Witnesses at Przemyśl Fortress, Poland, see a bright point -of light in the north that seems to be a sphere emitting searchlight -beams above and below it. The object is hovering at an altitude of 2,100 -feet and begins circling. (Poland 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 91

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Event 119 -(B6776D90)

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Date: 6/1/1892
-Description: Night. A large balloon carrying a searchlight and four -passengers passes over Newark, New Jersey, descending as low as 20 feet -from the ground. (Trenton (N.J.) Times, June 2, 1892; Clark III -70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 92

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Event 120 -(8CB56903)

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Date: 6/19/1892
-Description: Night. J. L. Shaw of Conyers, Georgia, sees a mysterious -light in the sky from which balls of fire fall to the ground near him. -(“Saw -Balls of Fire,” Atlanta Constitution, June 21, 1892, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 93

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Event 121 -(930AE281)

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Date: 8/30/1892
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Several people in Waxahachie, Texas, see a “kind -of balloon” with colored lights passing over the northern part of the -city after hearing a man shouting a greeting. (“What -Was It?” Galveston (Tex.) Daily News, September 2, 1892, p. 6; Clark -III 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 94

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Event 122 -(FA39ECD6)

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Date: 9/20/1892
-Description: Large quantities of a white, thread-like substance fall -from the sky during a rainstorm at Gainesville, Florida. Samples are -sent to arachnologist George -Marx of the US Department of Agriculture, who performs a chemical -analysis that shows it to be from migrating spiders. (“Spider -Web from the Clouds,” Scientific American 67 (1892): 325)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 95

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- Event 123 (6CE4C6F5)

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Date: 2/24/1893
-End date: 2/25/1893
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Charles -James Norcock, captain of the corvette HMS -Caroline, -is sailing about 16 miles south of Jeju Island, South Korea, in the -Korea Strait when the officer of the watch observes some round lights -resembling “Chinese lanterns festooned between the masts of a lofty -vessel.” They are moving slowly north and appear to be in the air -between the ship and the Hallasan volcano on Jeju. They are visible -until roughly 12:00 midnight, sometimes appearing as a mass, other times -strung out more in an irregular line. The ship’s crew observes them -again the next night as they are sailing east from Port Hamilton [now -the Korean islands of Geomundo]. This time they are visible until dawn. -Although there are some odd characteristics of this observation, the -likeliest explanation is that they are inferior mirages of distant -fishing boats, as atmospheric conditions are favorable on these dates. -(Charles J. Norcock, “An -Atmospheric Phenomenon in the North China Sea,” -Nature 48 (1893): 76–77; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption -of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 253–281)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 96

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Event 124 -(67A9F0C4)

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Date: 8/18/1893
-Description: Sunrise. People living near the small hamlet of Leslie in -Cumberland County, Kentucky, notice that the sun has a peculiar color. -Thousands of small discs, seemingly about the size of a wagon wheel, -appear in the sky, all of them in motion. They appear round in shape -from far away, but when closer to the ground they change to triangles, -squares, or odd forms. Their colors vary: Some are bright red, others -green or black, but when they are close to the ground they are all a -deep purple color. All are silent. The phenomenon lasts about one hour, -during which time the villagers fear it is judgment day. (“Judgment -Day,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 20, 1893, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 97

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- Event 125 (867B6B8B)

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Date: 1894
-End date: 1895
-Description: The first practical radio transmitters and receivers -invented in by Guglielmo -Marconi using radiotelegraphy
-Type: industrial advance
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 126 -(4CBB23BD)

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Date: 2/1894 (approximate)
-Description: Capt. Corning of the British schooner W. and H. Witherspoon -sees several lights rise from the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of -Florida. They ascend to a height of 25 feet, explode, and disappear. -(“Cum -Grano Salis,” -Lowell (Mass.) Daily Sun, February 8, 1894, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 98

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Event 127 -(787A31AC)

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Date: 5/1894
-Description: During the opposition of Mars, the idea that Schiaparelli’s -canali are really irrigation canals made by intelligent beings is first -hinted at, and then adopted as the only intelligible explanation, by -American astronomer Percival Lowell in -Flagstaff, Arizona, and a few others. The visible seasonal melting of -Martian polar icecaps fuels speculation that an advanced alien race -indigenous to Mars has built the canals to transport the water to drier -equatorial regions. Newspaper and magazine articles about Martian canals -and “Martians” capture the public imagination. Lowell publishes his -views in three books: Mars (1895), Mars and Its Canals (1906), and Mars -As the Abode of Life (1908). He remains a strong proponent for the rest -of his life of the idea that the canals were built for irrigation by an -intelligent civilization. (Wikipedia, “Martian -canal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 99

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Event 128 -(27075AC8)

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Date: 6/7/1894
-Description: Astronomers Percival -Lowell and William -H. Pickering at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, see two -“dazzling white specks” for a few moments on the south polar cap of -Mars. The most likely explanation is the reflection of sunlight from ice -on the surface or ice crystals in clouds. (Percival Lowell, Mars, -Houghton, Mifflin, 1897 ed., pp. 86–87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 100

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Event 129 -(CA0877EA)

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Date: 7/20/1894
-Description: Sunset. Bernard Parry and his wife are near Marriott [now -Marriott-Slaterville], Utah, when they see a “small black cloud” in the -northeast quickly approaching them. It grows bigger, then smaller, as -they watch it. When it is only 450 feet away, it stops and hovers. Its -sides seem to be folded up toward the center. Many small black-and- -white objects (birds?) are moving in its center. Suddenly the object -pivots to the east and moves away toward Ogden. (Ogden (Utah) Standard, -July 26, 1894)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 101

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Event 130 -(DB66C8B3)

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Date: late 11/1894
-Description: 11:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. Mennonite farmers Henry -W. J. Smith and Benjamin -W. Blue see a luminous ball in the northeastern sky about 30° above -the horizon some 3 miles west of Manchester, Kansas. The object, in the -shape of a “casket,” shoots toward the west 3° then returns to its -original position. As it maneuvers near them, it opens several times, -revealing various entities each time, from a crowned man to a “haughty -woman” and a military leader. The original report appears in the -Evangelical Visitor. (“Battle -in the Heavens,” Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times, October 6, 1894, -p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 102

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- Event 131 (99746113)

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Date: 1895
-Description: French parapsychologist Albert -de Rochas is asked to hypnotize a family friend, “Mireille,” who is -suffering from some ailment. In one of her sessions, Mireille describes -how she is rising in space, which she describes as luminous and peopled -with phantoms. Subsequent sessions reveal that she has visited Mars and -other planets in astral form. Mars has canals, of course, but also -Martians who are less intelligent than earthlings. (Hilary Evans, -“Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1986): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 103

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Event 132 -(08004F3D)

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Date: 8/1895
-Description: US psychical researcher James -Hyslop begins investigating a case of automatic writing by Sarah -Harper Cleaveland (“Mrs. Smead”) -in Onondaga County, New York. She keeps records of her planchette -experiments and puts them at Hyslop’s disposal. In August, she makes -several references to the planet Mars and Jupiter. She provides a crude -map of Jupiter’s surface, and the planet is said to be the “babies’ -heaven.” At the next sitting, she draws a map of Mars, the different -zones named in the Martian language; she gives several communications -about the inhabitants and the canals. Martian revelations cease for -another 5 years until September 1900, when the communications return in -a developed state. She draws men, boats, houses, and flowers, named in -Martian and written in hieroglyphic characters. Some of the sketches (a -self-winding double clock) are very ingenious, while others (a Martian -airship) are peculiar but unconvincing. (Hilary Evans, “Martians of the -1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1986): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 104

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Event 133 -(A8E99A6A)

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Date: 8/31/1895
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer James -Murray watches a “brilliant luminous body” move slowly over the -Oxford University campus in Oxford, England, toward the east. At roughly -the same time, other observers in London see a similar meteor pass over -slowly for about 5 minutes, and A. Warren Melhuish sees it at Margate, -Kent, around 10:15 p.m. (J. A. H. Murray, “Remarkable -Meteoric (?) Appearance,” London Times, September 4, 1895, p. 3; “Remarkable -Meteoric Appearance,” London Times, September 6, 1895, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 105

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Event 134 -(B87D887C)

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Date: 11/8/1895
-Description: X-Rays discovered
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia

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- Event 135 (159D5D70)

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Date: 1896
-Description: Author Aleister Crowley was walking in the mountains when -he suddenly saw two little men. He made a gesture to them, but they did -not seem to pay attention and disappeared among the rocks.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Magic Without Tears, by A. Crowley (Vallee)
-Location: Arolla, near Zermatt, Swiss Alps
-ID: 10

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Event 136 -(802E81C4)

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Date: 7/1/1896
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A mysterious balloon passes over Winnipeg, -Manitoba, to the east at an estimated 2,000 feet. It is lost to view -after 20 minutes (“A Mysterious Balloon,” Winnipeg Manitoba Morning Free -Press, July 2, 1896, p. 4; “They -Think It’s Andreé’s,” Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1896, p. 1; Clark III -70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 106

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Event 137 -(B1BA6A18)

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Date: 7/3/1896
-Description: The chief of the Kispiox people and a group of Canadian -trappers see a brightly lit balloon traveling north near Blackwater -Lake, British Columbia. The same day, a First Nations boy sees something -similar at the Skeena River, British Columbia. (“It Was No Dream,” -Winnipeg Manitoba Morning Free Press, August 13, 1896, p. 2; Brett -Holman, “Believing -Is Seeing,” Airminded, May 2, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 107

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Event 138 -(B3F117FA)

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Date: mid 7/1896
-Description: Night. Chester -N. Crotsenburg, a -postal clerk on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway, is on a -train heading north from Princeton, Missouri, when he notices a round, -dull-rose-colored light low on the western horizon. It then rises in -height to 45°, and appears to be pacing the train, keeping a half-mile -or one mile distance. After the train reaches Lineville, Iowa (13.7 -miles away), it passes out of sight behind buildings. Possibly the moon. -(“Ball Lightning,” Monthly Weather Review 26 (August 1898): 358; Martin -Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, -2019, pp. 291–304)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 108

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Event 139 -(260FEBB9)

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Date: 8/11/1896
-Description: Charles -Abbott Smith of San Francisco, California, is granted a patent for a -cylindrical airship with a cone- shaped bow, “two wings hinged at the -upper part of the vessel,” and a compartment for machinery and -passengers. (US Patent, “Air-ship,” -granted August 11, 1896)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 109

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Event 140 -(450032CE)

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Date: 10/1896
-Description: Evening. A Miss Hagstrom is riding a bicycle on Telegraph -Avenue in Oakland, California, when she notices an object with a -powerful headlight moving toward the west and gradually descending. (“Saw -the Mystic Flying Light,” -San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 110

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Event 141 -(20775C9C)

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Date: late 10/1896
-Description: Fruit rancher Constant -T. Musso and his family in Bowman, California. watch three bright -lights moving toward the east at about 100 mph. (“Mission -of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 111

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Event 142 -(B094DAC8)

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Date: early 11/1896
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Louis -Charmak and one other person in Woodland, California, notice three -bright lights in the southwestern sky moving toward the northeast. As -they reach Main Street, they rise another 100 feet in the air. They are -close together and followed by a white trail of light. (“Was -It an Airship?” Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat, November 24, 1896, -p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 113

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Event 143 -(59D36A3B)

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Date: early 11/1896 (approximate)
-Description: Evening. Some of the employees at the Sutro Heights estate -[now Sutro Heights Park in the Richmond District] of San Francisco, -California, Mayor Adolph -Sutro watch a brilliant light approaching from the sea at a height -of 500 feet. Two lights are visible, one a “misty-looking mass” and the -other a searchlight. The object disappears in the direction of the city -and turns to the north just before it passes from view. Another report -suggests that the object passe over Seal Rocks and shone its searchlight -on the seals. (“The -Apparition of the Air,” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 112

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Event 144 -(37FFC121)

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Date: 11/17/1896
-Description: Afternoon and evening. A mystery airship wave begins in -California when residents of the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento see -a high-flying object moving slowly in a circle, leaving a trail of -smoke. Around 6:30 p.m., a light resembling an electric arc lamp appears -in the night sky above Sacramento. Horse trainer David Carl notices it -close to the ground and hears a voice saying, “We are too low down here. -Send her up higher.” Hundreds watch as it passes at low altitude for 30 -minutes, avoiding buildings and hills. Some people claim to hear voices, -either arguing or singing. R. L. Lowry sees four men pushing the vessel -by its wheels. The witnesses include streetcar workers Charles Lusk and -Granville -C. Snider, who -watch the object rise and fall as it moves southwest. (Wikipedia, “Mystery -airship”; “Voices -in the Sky,” Sacramento (Calif.) Evening Bee, November 18, 1896, -p. 1; “Strange -Craft of the Sky,” San Francisco Call, November 19, 1896, p. 1; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs: -A History, -1896, The -Author, 1974; Thomas E. Bullard, The Airship File, The author, 1982; -Clark III 70–75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 114

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Event 145 -(648E5042)

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Date: 11/20/1896
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Passengers on a streetcar in Oakland, California, -notice a “peculiar-looking contrivance” high in the sky and moving in a -westerly direction toward San Francisco. It has a powerful headlight and -another light on the bottom. It is also seen over Folsom, San Francisco, -Sacramento, Modesto, Manteca, Sebastopol, and several other cities later -in the evening and is reportedly viewed by hundreds of witnesses. (“Saw -the Mystic Flying -Light,” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13; Wikipedia, “Mystery -airship”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 116

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Event 146 -(2D2A6C25)

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Date: 11/20/1896
-Description: Afternoon. D. H. Risdon is working in an orchard near -Tagus, California, when he spots an object “like an immense sheet” -moving against the wind at a “considerable elevation.” (“Saw -the Mystic Flying Light,” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, -p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 115

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Event 147 -(9785100B)

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Date: 11/22/1896
-Description: 7:05 p.m. M. H. Cohen, a conductor on the Hayes Street -line, sees an aerial light at about 300–400 feet altitude when he is at -Market and 8th streets in San Francisco, California. Other people on the -streetcar also watch the light, which is moving across the Golden Gate -and flashing periodically. When the streetcar disembarks at 1st Street -at 7:13 p.m., Cohen and the others see the light over the Twin Peaks -downtown. At the top of Pierce Street hill, Cohen sees it returning from -Twin Peaks, and at 7:51 p.m. he watches it from Ashbury Street. Airships -are seen later at Oakland, Alameda, San Leandro, San Jose, California, -and Tacoma, Washington. (“The -Apparition of -the Air,” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 119

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Event 148 -(E82A32A1)

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Date: 11/22/1896
-Description: San Francisco attorney George -D. Collins announces that he represents the airship inventor, a -“very wealthy man who has been studying the subject of flying machines -for fifteen years” and who moved to California from Maine in 1889. He -claims the airship is a 150-foot metal contraption with two canvas wings -18 feet wide and shaped like a bird’s tail. It has been built in -Oroville and is now hidden in the San Francisco, California, area as the -inventor deals with technical problems. However, people in Oroville -sense a hoax, as they know of no such inventor. On November 24, Collins -complains to the San Francisco Call that another newspaper, the San -Francisco Examiner, has been printing falsehoods about him, including an -interview with another attorney, Frederick Bradley. Suspicion falls on -an itinerant dentist from Maine, Elmer H. Benjamin, who insists his only -inventions are dental fittings. A prominent citizen of Oakland, George -H. Carleton, claims to know the inventor but has been sworn to -secrecy. Former California Attorney General William -H. H. Hart soon claims to represent the mystery inventor, who has -fired Collins for talking too much. But Hart is also blabbing -prolifically, saying that two or three airships exist (a second built in -an eastern state) and his role is to “consolidate both interests.” Hart -asserts that the airship can carry four men and 1,000 pounds of dynamite -for dropping on Havana, Cuba. (Clark III 71–73; “A -Lawyer’s Word for That Airship,” San Francisco Chronicle, November -22, 1896, p. 36; “Collins -Sticks to His Airship Story,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 23, -1896, p. 12; San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1896, p. 9; “Have -We Got ’Em Again?” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “Coy -Mr. Collins and His Airship,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, -1896, p. 9; “The -Apparition of the Air,” -San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1; “Mission -of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1; -“Hart -Stands by His Ship,” “Hart -Confirms the Story from Sacramento,” San Francisco Call, November -26, 1896, p. 1; “Three -Airships, Says Hart,” San Francisco Call, November 29, 1896, p. 1; -Michael Busby, Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery, Pelican, 2003, -pp. 249–315)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 117

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Event 149 -(9B1EA814)

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Date: 11/22/1896
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Another mystery light moving in a wavering -fashion toward the southwest is seen in Sacramento, California, by many -people. At times it disappears, then flashes out again with renewed -brilliance. Edward Carragher, owner of the Saddle Rock Restaurant, views -the light through binoculars and is able to see a large object -supporting an arc lamp. Cigar store vendor Jacob Zemansky watches the -undulating light through a telescope until it fades into nothingness. -(“Have -We Got ’Em Again?” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “A -Winged Ship in the Sky,” San Francisco Call, November 23, 1896, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 118

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Event 150 -(EF7AB184)

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Date: 11/23/1896
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A bright light is seen west of Chico, California, -traveling to the northwest. The same or similar light is seen west of -Red Bluff, California flying west at about 2,000 feet. After a few -minutes it descends to 1,000 feet. It disappears over the Coast Range. -(“Mission -of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 120

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Event 151 -(AB2DE951)

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Date: 11/24/1896
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Several passengers on a train crossing the bay -from San Francisco to Oakland, California, see an airship alternately -stop, hover, and move on. Minutes later, 6th Street in Oakland is -overflowing with onlookers as the object passes above Broadway, flashing -its light. One spectator is watching through binoculars and says the -airship’s turns causes the searchlight to shine in different directions. -Among the witnesses are Col. Thomas -F. Garrity, city -electrician George -H. Carleton, George -Hatton of the Oakland Tribune, and Melvin Holmes. (“Mission -of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 121

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Event 152 -(542E0913)

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Date: 11/25/1896
-Description: Evening. A mystery light flies in circular patterns around -Sacramento, California, at a rapid rate of speed. Observers include -Deputy Secretary of State George A. McCalvy, District Attorney Frank -D. Ryan, and E. D. McCabe, the governor’s personal secretary. It is -three times as large as Venus, also visible. The light is observed for -20 minutes then reappears later in the evening. A Professor Dodge of -Galt, California, claims he can make out the “outlines of a dark body” -just above the light. (Clark III 73; “Hart -Confirms the Story from Sacramento,” -San Francisco Call, November 26, 1896, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 122

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Event 153 -(31712337)

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Date: 11/25/1896
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Col. H. G. Shaw and Camille Spooner are riding in -a carriage near Lodi, California, when their horse stops suddenly. -Looking up, they see three slender beings about 7 feet tall. Shaw walks -up to them and asks them where they are from; they reply in an odd -warbling language. He notes that they are hairless and wear no apparent -clothing. The eyes are large and lustrous, and they each seem to be -carrying and egg-shaped light and a breathing apparatus under the left -arm. Shaw claims the beings try to lift him but they are not strong -enough. They then notice a 150-foot airship hovering 20 feet above the -water close to a bridge. The three beings float to the craft, open a -door in the side, and disappear inside. The ship flies quickly out of -sight. Shaw speculates that the beings are from Mars. (“Three -Strange Visitors,” Stockton (Calif.) Evening Mail, November 27, -1896, p. 1; Patrick Gross, UFOs -in the Daily Press)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 123

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Event 154 -(6F7855E4)

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Date: 11/26/1896
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Farmer John Bawl and his family see an airship -moving to the southwest over his residence on Monroe Street near -Franklin Street in San Jose, California. It is lunging sharply from side -to side and has a pair of flapping wings and a red light on the bottom. -Musician and President of the University of the Pacific Moses -Smith Cross also -sees the strange aerial light when he is visiting a colleague two blocks -away. (“It -Flitted over San Jose,” -San Francisco Call, November 28, 1896, p. 1; “Three -Airships, Says Hart,” San Francisco Call, November 29, 1896, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 124

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Event 155 -(C28AA06F)

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Date: 11/26/1896
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Electrician Case Gilson and three other men see -an unlighted airship in a clear sky 1,000 feet over Oakland, California. -It is flying northward against the wind and looks like a “great black -cigar with a fishlike tail.” The body is at least 100 feet long and -looks as if it is made of darkened aluminum. It is seen again at 8:30 -p.m. and disappears in the direction of San Francisco. (Clark III 73; -“Says -He Saw It,” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1; “Saw -the Airship at Close Range,” San Francisco Call, December 2, 1896, -p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 125

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Event 156 -(E1676569)

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Date: 11/27/1896
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A prominent attorney and others in Woodland, -California, see a cluster of lights attached to an apparent airship -moving at an altitude of about 500 feet at about 25 mph. It remains -visible for an hour. (“More Airship -Stories,” Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat, November 29, 1896, -p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 126

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Event 157 -(B3781DF8)

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Date: 11/28/1896
-Description: Percy Drew watches an enormous airship with a red light -over Oakland, California. (“Says -He Saw It,” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 127

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Event 158 -(E5CF7EAC)

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Date: 12/1/1896
-Description: Harry -Lytle watches an airship as it flies toward the southwest over the -Coast Ranges 3 miles north of Rumsey, California. He claims to recognize -it as an “aircycle,” kind of a winged balloon with a pedal-driven -propellor, plans for which he submitted to E. -W. Brown of Davis, California, and which they constructed in 1893. -He calls it the Nonesuch. On an alleged test flight to Los Angeles on -March 2, 1893, the device was stolen by some “hoboes.” He assumes the -airship is his stolen invention. (“The -Mystery Solved,” Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat, December 8, 1896, -p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 128

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Event 159 -(AEC39BFF)

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Date: 12/4/1896
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Travelers on a freight train between Dixon and -Elmira, California, see two large, bright lights moving parallel with -them at about 1,000 feet altitude. The lights outdistance the train and -disappear to the southwest. (Clark III 74; “The -Airship Again,” Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat, December 7, 1896, -p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 129

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Event 160 -(42AE9225)

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Date: 12/26/1896
-Description: Early morning. Dairy farmer Ezekiel Sergeant and a hired -man have just finished milking their cows near Wilmington, Delaware, -when they hear strains of music in the air. Then a bottle falls at -Sergeant’s feet and breaks into pieces. He sees an enormous, fish-shaped -airship with extended wings, a large tail, and a bright searchlight. -Amid the shattered glass he finds a slip of paper allegedly written by -Capt. James Dashiel and Thomas Murphy on the airship Icarus that is -sailing from Salt Lake City to Cuba. (“Saw -an Air-Ship,” Philadelphia (Pa.) Times, December 28, 1896, -p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 130

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- Event 161 (6B60B383)

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Date: mid 1/1897
-Description: Just after sunset. People in Acampo, California, see an -airship the size of a small house, seemingly built of canvas, and moving -to the southeast. It looks “like a cigar box with a spark of fire in -it.” (“Airship -Reported Again,” -Stockton (Calif.) Evening Mail, January 22, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 131

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Event 162 -(362661F8)

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Date: 1/31/1897
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A “large, glaring light,” apparently from an -airship, is seen for nearly 30 minutes west of Hastings, Nebraska, -hovering, ascending, descending, and moving at a “most remarkable -speed.” (“See -an Air Ship -at Hastings,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, February 2, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 132

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Event 163 -(752B9B10)

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Date: 2/1897
-End date: 7/1897
-Description: The mystery airship wave continues, from Nebraska and -Colorado to Texas and Ohio. Hoaxes and pranks pollute the information -pool in a major way during this era and the planet Venus and other -celestial objects undoubtedly play a major role, but many airship -reports emanate from manifestly sober, puzzled citizens, and they -continue long after the initial excitement subsides. To all appearances, -they are objects of some kind, but since newspapers rarely question -witnesses critically about details at this time, little can be deduced -from the mass of reports. (Loren E. Gross, The -Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949, The -author, 1971; Roger L. Welsch, “This -Mysterious Light Called an Airship: Nebraska Saucer Sightings, -1897,” Nebraska History 60 (1979): 92–113; Daniel Cohen, The Great -Airship Mystery, Dodd, Mead, 1981; Thomas E. Bullard, The Airship File, -The author, 1982; Jerome Clark, “Airships: Part I,” IUR 16, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1991): 4–23; Jerome Clark, “Airships: Part II,” IUR 16, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1991): 20–21, 24; Michael Busby, Solving the 1897 Airship -Mystery, Pelican, 2004; Jerome Clark, “UFOs or Mystery Airships?” IUR -31, no. 4 (March 2008): 8–14, 29; J. Allen Danelek, The Great Airship of -1897, Adventures Unlimited, 2009; Dennis Crenshaw and P. G. Navarro, The -Secrets of Dellschau: The Sonora Aero Club and the Airships of the -1800s, Anomalist, 2009; Clark III 75–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 133

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Event 164 -(193EAEB4)

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Date: 2/4/1897
-Description: Night. A dozen people returning home from a prayer meeting -in Inavale, Nebraska, see a bright light passing overhead. Six smaller -lights are placed at intervals around a larger dark body. After 10 -minutes it returns at a lower altitude, now visible as a conical object -30–40 feet long with two sets of wings and a large rudder. Voices can be -heard plainly. (“Air -Ship Is Seen -at Inavale,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, February 6, 1897, p. 6) -February 17 —Night. Hy Smith, Charles Braternitz, and Harry Reese see a -bright light moving to the east just west of Big Springs, Nebraska. The -light repeatedly rises up about 300 feet then descends quickly, sending -out sparks. (“Seen near -North Platte,” Kearney (Neb.) Hub, February 18, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 134

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Event 165 -(E9636CD2)

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Date: mid 2/1897
-Description: Residents of Valley Falls, Kansas, can see the outlines of -an airship behind a large light that passes over the town. (“The -Supposed Kansas Airship,” Atchison (Kan.) Daily Globe, February 27, -1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 135

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Event 166 -(433A8421)

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Date: 2/26/1897
-Description: 10:15 p.m. People at the railway depot in Falls City, -Nebraska, see an object with a large searchlight in the northern sky. -According to dispatcher Ike Chidsey, it is moving west at 60 mph and -also has a red light. Chidsey alerts other Missouri Pacific train -stations to the west. Over the next four and a half hours, the object is -seen over Stella, Beatrice, Wymore, Hastings, Kenesaw, and Hartwell. -(“The -Supposed Kansas Airship,” Atchison (Kan.) Daily Globe, February 27, -1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 136

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Event 167 -(5378D3A6)

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Date: 3/13/1897
-Description: Night. A bright fireball appears in the west over North -Loup, Nebraska, moving up and down erratically. It occasionally throws -out sparks. (“That -Strange Light Again,” Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, March 16, -1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 137

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Event 168 -(32E5DD16)

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Date: 3/14/1897
-Description: 9:30 p.m. An object with a “big engine headlight” flies -over South Omaha, Nebraska, and remains visible for 30–40 minutes. It is -moving to the west and disappears behind some buildings. One of the -witnesses is Isaac -J. Copenharve, a -compositor for the Omaha Bee. (“Visions -of an Air Ship,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, March 16, 1897, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 138

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Event 169 -(33A53DEA)

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Date: 3/23/1897
-End date: 3/26/1897
-Description: Night. Residents of Belleville, Kansas, watch a lighted -airship moving at 75 mph and “lighting up the houses and city like an -immense meteor.” It hovers for 20–30 minutes, changes direction, and is -seen on four nights in succession. At 9:20 p.m. on March 25, workers at -the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad depot and others in -Belleville watch a bright light pass above the city for 45 minutes. It -disappears to the northwest and reappears two more times. (“Say -They Saw an Air-Ship,” Kansas City (Mo.) Times, March 27, 1897, -p. 5; “It Flies -at Night,” Kansas City (Mo.) Journal, March 28, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 139

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Event 170 -(0356FA50)

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Date: 3/26/1897
-Time: night
-Description: Approximate date. Robert Hibbard was caught by an anchor -dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was -dragged over 10 m and fell as his clothes were torn.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Sioux City, Iowa
-ID: 11

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Event 171 -(66016CDE)

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Date: 3/27/1897
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A blood-red light appears in the western sky over -Topeka, Kansas, moving northward parallel with the horizon until after -20 minutes it disappears “with a flicker.” Among the witnesses is Kansas -Gov. John -W. Leedy, who -describes it as a “very strange light.” Harold -T. Chase, editor of the Topeka Capital, is on the State House steps -with Leedy and says the object is a large, oblong shape. (“Strange Light -in the Sky,” Topeka (Kan.) Daily Capital, March 28, 1897, p. 1; “Neither -Star Nor Planet,” Kansas City (Mo) Times, March 29, 1897, p. 1; “Airship -Is Seen by Gov. Leedy,” Chicago Tribune, March 29, 1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 140

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Event 172 -(61F4134C)

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Date: 3/28/1897
-Time: 2230
-Description: The majority of the population observed an object arriving -from the southeast. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward -slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to -watch it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 185 (Vallee)
-Location: Omaha, Nebraska
-ID: 12

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Event 173 -(63D9A7A5)

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Date: 4/1/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. J. E. Gunn, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, -and other residents of Everest, Kansas, watch a 30- foot-long object -that looks like a canoe suspended from a balloon. Two wings are visible -on each side. Its light appears to dim when the object is moving and -glows brightly when hovering. (“Air -Ship Headed toward Omaha,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, April 3, 1897, -p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 142

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Event 174 -(DAB13FD3)

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Date: 4/1/1897
-Description: Night. Residents of Galesburg, Michigan, see a brilliant -white light passing overhead. It is attached to a black object that -emits a crackling sound. Human voices are heard distinctly. (“The -Airship Story Spreads,” Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gazette, April -2, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 143

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Event 175 -(37B4226B)

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Date: 4/1/1897
-Time: 2100
-Description: The whole town saw an object fly under the cloud ceiling. -It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When -directly over the town it swept the ground with its powerful light. It -was seen to rise up at fantastic speed until barely discernible, then to -come down again and sweep low over the witnesses. At one point it -remained stationary for 5 min at the edge of a low cloud, which it -illuminated. All could clearly see the silhouette of the craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Everest, Kansas
-ID: 13

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Event 176 -(2D1D7383)

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Date: 4/1/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Strange lights appear in the sky south of Kansas -City, Kansas, zigzagging and crossing the horizon. (“Air -Ship Headed toward Omaha,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, April 3, 1897, -p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 141

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Event 177 -(58752D9C)

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Date: 4/2/1897
-Description: Evening. People in Wesley, Iowa, view a cone-shaped object -with windows in the side through which light is visible. It is traveling -slowly toward the northwest. (“Wesley -Saw the Air Ship,” Algona (Iowa) Republican, April 7, 1897, -p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 144

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Event 178 -(CB24CAC4)

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Date: early 4/1897
-Description: An airship allegedly lands near Elburn, Illinois, where -some farmers run across it. It is made of “some light substance like -aluminum.” Two aeronauts are repairing the vehicle and will only say -that they are flying from the Pacific to the Atlantic by following the -Chicago and North Western Railway. (“That Blooming Ship,” Rockford -(Ill.) Daily Republic, April 12, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 146

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Event 179 -(F4FB24D3)

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Date: 4/4/1897
-Description: 12:15 a.m. Dairy farmer Dick -Butler is returning to his farm in Wolf Creek Township, Iowa, after -delivering milk in Sioux City when he notices an electric-like light on -his right about 200 feet away in a cornfield. He can see a dark object -with light coming through its windows. It appears to be a “long, narrow -car, resembling a corset box in shape,” some 30–35 feet long and 6–7 -feet high. Above the car floats a cigar-shaped bag about the same length -and 8–10 feet thick. When his horses see the object, they bolt and -tumble his wagon into the ditch. By the time Butler recovers, the object -is moving briskly in a descent to the south. He watches it as it moves -out of sight. (“Air Ship Again,” Marshalltown (Iowa) Evening -Times-Republican, April 9, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 145

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Event 180 -(A341BDCC)

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Date: 4/6/1897
-Description: 2:00 a.m. James Southard gets lost on his ranch near Peru, -Nebraska, looking for strayed cattle. He notices a light on a bar in the -Missouri River, and it turns out to be on a landed airship 200 feet -long, whose crew are apparently repairing its searchlight. The aeronauts -answer all of Southard’s questions, telling him that “the craft is -loaded with several tons of dynamite and is bound for Cuba” to bomb -Spanish ships. (“Boarded -the Airship,” Auburn (Neb.) Granger, April 9, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 147

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Event 181 -(F6AD6144)

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Date: 4/8/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Many people in towns along the Burlington, Cedar -Rapids, and Northern Railroad from West Liberty to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, -see an object with a “bright glaring headlight,” a glistening steel -body, and wings on either side. It makes a hissing noise as it glides -through the air. By 10:00 p.m., it fades from view to the north of Cedar -Rapids. (“Airship Appears in Iowa,” Chicago Record, April 9, 1897, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 148

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Event 182 -(B058D9FD)

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Date: 4/9/1897
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Hundreds of people in Chicago, Evanston, Niles -Center, and Schermerville, Illinois, see an airship earing multicolored -lights and swinging a huge white searchlight from side to side. Nearly -800 witnesses on Davis Street in Evanston watch the object, estimated to -be 400 feet in length. Using binoculars, the outline of a structure can -be seen behind the powerful light. By 9:30 p.m., the airship is last -seen over South Chicago. Northwestern University astronomer George -W. Hough, director of the Dearborn Observatory, tells the newspapers -he is sure the airship is the star Alpha Orionis (Betelgeuse). (“See -Airship or -a Star,” Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1897, pp. 1–2; “California -Airship on the Wing,” Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 149

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Event 183 -(28E528AB)

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Date: 4/10/1897
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A bright white light with red and green lights -on either side of it is observed by many residents of Quincy, Illinois, -flying low above the Mississippi River on the city’s west side. At one -point it is no more than 400–500 feet above the ground. The light is -attached to a metallic cigar-shaped object. Two wings extend from the -sides and on top is some kind of superstructure. Witnesses estimate its -length to be 50–100 feet. The object ascends, moves east, then south, -then west, hovers above South Park for a few minutes, then moves north -and stops again. It reverses direction and leaves toward the south at -“tremendous speed.” (“The Airship over Quincy,” Quincy (Ill.) Morning -Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 153

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Event 184 -(E6913F7F)

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Date: 4/10/1897
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Policemen, firemen, and many other residents of -Jacksonville, Illinois, see a bright light moving swiftly from east to -west a few hundred feet in the air. The light sways from side to side -and throws out beams several hundred feet in length. When it is above -the city, the object the light is attached to can be seen as metallic -and long with possible wings. Some witnesses can hear voices. The object -reverses direction over Jacksonville, throwing its searchlight in all -directions, and disappears to the east. (“The Airship over Quincy,” -Quincy (Ill.) Morning Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 152

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Event 185 -(59CC66F5)

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Date: 4/10/1897
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A noise draws residents of Platte City, -Missouri, outside where they can see a hovering object 100 feet long and -20 feet wide. Two immense wings on either side are moving up and down. -Greenish light beams shine down on Main Street from its back and front. -Suddenly there is a hissing sound and explosions and the object moves -away to the northeast. (“Saw -the Airship,” Buffalo (N.Y.) Enquirer, April 12, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 151

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Event 186 -(97184245)

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Date: 4/10/1897
-Description: Evening. Witnesses in Marshfield, Wisconsin, see a -cone-shaped airship with a bright headlight moving south of town. (“Hides -in the Woods,” Chicago Chronicle, April 11, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 150

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Event 187 -(8127720D)

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Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 7:45 p.m. John -Lee and others in Benton Harbor, Michigan, watch an airship rapidly -moving north-northwest for 15 minutes. With the naked eye it looks like -a huge ball of fire, but through opera glasses it resembles a cluster of -soft yellow lights. (“Air Ship Seen Here,” Benton Harbor (Mich.) Evening -News, April 12, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 157

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Event 188 -(520B3456)

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Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. R. G. Adams and his parents at 3126 Fourth Avenue -South in Minneapolis, Minnesota, watch a lighted, cigar-shaped object -flying low towards the southwest. Through binoculars it appears to be -18–20 feet long. A square light that changes from white to green to red, -depending apparently on its speed, is on top. Hundreds of other people -also see the object over the next four hours, maneuvering above Lake -Minnetonka and eventually receding into the northeast. (“Does He Hail -from Mars?” St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, April 12, 1897, p. 4; “Wonder! Mysterious -Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13, -1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 158

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Event 189 -(EC6450A7)

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Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. An airship approaches Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from -the northeast over Lake Michigan and heads toward the southwest. It -stops and hovers 1,000 feet above City Hall for 15 minutes. (“Airship -Myth Yet Soars,” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 159

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Event 190 -(5EA7E29F)

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Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 12:30 a.m. John Peterson, E. K. Rowley, George -Moody, Bayard -Taylor French, and -other residents of Hawarden, Iowa, see a conical object about 60 feet -long with four sets of 15-foot wings. It is flying so low (about 600 -feet) that they can hear machinery, voices, and laughter. Two red lights -are positioned on the tail end and a large searchlight is in the front. -After three minutes it moves off to the north. (“Another Wonderful -Tale,” Des Moines (Iowa) Leader, April 13, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 154

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Event 191 -(A1922582)

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Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 11:15 p.m. A bank clerk in Decatur, Illinois, sees an -object “like two monster cigars with three bright headlights” moving to -the north. (“Saw -the Air Ship,” Decatur (Ill.) Evening Republican, April 12, 1897, -p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 161

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Event 192 -(36A7E29A)

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Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: After 10:30 p.m. Stuart Mackroth is riding a bicycle just -east of Minnetonka Mills, Minnesota, when a flying machine “shaped like -an ordinary boat” passes overhead. It has red and green lights on each -side and a powerful electric light in front. Inside he can see men, -women, and children, all moving about “as if very busy.” (“Wonder! Mysterious -Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13, -1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 160

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Event 193 -(5D9809F4)

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Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 5:30 a.m. An alleged photo of an airship is taken at 4356 -East Ravenswood Park in Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois, by an -ex-policeman named Walter -R. McCann and George A. Overrocker, who provide copies to several -newspapers. The Chicago Tribune photo editor pronounces it a fake -because it looks like it is taken by a Kodak with a small lens that -cannot achieve a panoramic view. A later report claims that McCann has -photographed a piece of canvas on which an airship is painted. (“Airship -Myth Yet Soars,” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5; “Airship -Is All a Joke,” Chicago Chronicle, April 13, 1897, p. 2; Wautauga -(N.C.) Democrat, April 27, 1897, p. 1; Clark III 78; Wikimedia Commons, -“Mystery airship 1897”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 155

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Event 194 -(63D93886)

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Date: 4/11/1897
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Gary Carlton Jr. watches a flat object looking -like a “big piece of yellow canvas” pass over Bloomington, Illinois, at -a high altitude toward the northeast. (“The -Air Ship,” Bloomington (Ill.) Daily Pantagraph, April 12, 1897, -p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 156

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Event 195 -(6EC43A2A)

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Date: 4/12/1897
-Time: 1430
-Description: On the property of Z. Thacker, 19 km north of Carlinville, -an unknown object landed. Before the three witnesses could reach it, the -craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left -majestically toward the north. Witnesses: Edward Teeples, William Street -and Franklin Metcalf.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 186; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
-Location: Nilwood, Illinois
-ID: 14

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Event 196 -(F2625D1D)

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Date: 4/12/1897
-Description: Morning. F. L. Bullard, engineer on the Fast Mail train on -the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, says he caught sight of an -airship moving parallel with the train shortly after his Engine 950 left -downtown Chicago. The train is moving at 70 mph, and by the time it -reaches Lisle, Illinois, the object is far ahead. Bullard estimates it -is moving at 100–150 mph. (“Air-Ship -Distances a Train,” St. Louis (Mo.) Globe-Democrat, April 13, 1897, -p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 162

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Event 197 -(FA7C081B)

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Date: 4/12/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. During a rainstorm in Lincoln, Illinois, more -than 50 people stand on Pulaski Street to watch a light moving to the -northeast. John Fitzgerald sees a V-shaped object with a bright -searchlight moving rapidly toward Lincoln. It changes course, the light -changes from white to green, and the object disappears behind clouds. -(“Was It the Airship?” Lincoln (Ill.) Weekly Courier, April 13, 1897, -p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 163

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Event 198 -(3FB761BB)

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Date: 4/12/1897
-Time: 1800
-Description: A large crowd of miners saw an unknown object land 3 km -north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the -Chicago-and-Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came -sufficiently close to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair -the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object itself -was elongated like a ship with a roof and a double canopy. It left -toward the north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 186,187 (Vallee)
-Location: Girard, near Green Ridge, Illinois
-ID: 15

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Event 199 -(72569516)

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Date: 4/13/1897
-Description: Night. Mayor Charles -Merritt Seely and other people in Canton, South Dakota, watch a -winged airship passing to the north over the town with a red light in -front and a green light in back. (“Airship -Is Seen by Moonlight,” -Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, April 15, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 165

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Event 200 -(F6C65669)

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Date: 4/13/1897
-Description: Before sunrise. Augustus Rodgers, a farmer living two miles -south of Louisville, Kentucky, goes outside to attend to his livestock. -He sees an oblong object, some 40 feet long by 15 feet tall, flying -about 400 feet in the air at 100 mph. His wife comes out to watch it -with him, and they both see “a form like that of a man” standing in the -front and directing its course. (“Airship Passed in the Night,” -Louisville (Ky.) Evening Post, April 13, 1897, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 164

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Event 201 -(5C11EFAD)

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Date: 4/13/1897
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Frederick Chamberlain and O. L. Jones are riding -one mile west of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, when they notice a figure in a -clearing, walking around as if he is looking for something. They turn -off the road to investigate and hear a cracking sound followed by a -rushing noise. A moment later they notice a gray-white object that looks -like the top of a covered wagon. It has two rows of four red or green -lights. The object rises quickly at a sharp angle to clear the treetops. -They can make out no machinery or wings or rudders or even an outline of -the object. In the mud, Chamberlain finds 14 footprints, each 2 feet -long, 6 inches wide, “arranged seven on each side, and in an oblong -pattern.” Adam Thielen, a nearby farmer, independently sees a dark -object with red and green lights flying overhead about the same time. -(“Adam Saw the Airship Light,” St Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, April 15, -1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 166

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Event 202 -(86A95CC6)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: 3:00 p.m. A brownish cigar-shaped object with wings passes -south of Marion, Indiana, coming from the northwest. Six passengers can -be seen on board. (“Six -Men Seen in the Airship,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 15, -1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 170

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Event 203 -(646652BE)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: 3:00 p.m. An airship looking like an “immense bird” -approaches Gas City, Indiana, from the northwest. As it draws nearer, -witnesses see that it is cigar-shaped and “propelled by broad canvas -wings.” The object lands briefly one mile from town, terrifying some -farm animals. As a crowd rushes toward it, it takes off and vanishes to -the east. (“In -Daylight,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 15, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 169

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Event 204 -(96F1F2D7)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Farmers see an airship land about 3 miles -northwest of Howard City, Michigan, and some go to investigate. Inside -the craft is a “strange man” dressed in heavy furs although he seems “to -have no use for them, as he was almost naked and seemed to be suffering -from the heat.” The man is 9.5 feet tall and speaks in a musical -language that, however, sounds like bellowing. One farmer gets too -close, and the giant kicks him severely enough to break his hip. (“Trip -of the Airship,” Saginaw (Mich.) Courier-Herald, April 17, 1897, -p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 168

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Event 205 -(D3600E25)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Early morning. Marble merchant David -W. Paul is traveling with a party of workmen from Burlington to -Frankfort, Indiana. When they are at the middle fork of Wildcat Creek, -they hear a “swishing, roaring sound” and see an object with a blinding -white searchlight and smaller green and yellow lights. The object is -cigar-shaped with wings or fins. It descends to just above the treetops, -hovers there for a moment, then rises and noisily shoots off to the -southwest. (“That Mysterious Airship,” Indianapolis Sentinel, April 15, -1897, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 167

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Event 206 -(AFCF3D48)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Just after 9:00 p.m. Farmhand John Halley and vintner Adolf -Wenke see an airship land on Jefferson Street three miles west of -Springfield, Illinois. They supposedly converse with one of its -occupants, a bearded scientist who is outside the craft. Inside, they -can see another man and a woman. The scientist says little other than -“as soon as Congress recognizes Cuban belligerency his air ship would be -heard from.” (“Mystery Solved,” Springfield (Ill.) News, April 15, 1897, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 173

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Event 207 -(65F1DECE)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Night. The Rio Grande Railroad operator at Cresson, Texas, -sees an object about 60 feet long and “resembling the top of a passenger -coach in shape” with a powerful searchlight in the front and several -smaller lights on the sides. It is moving to the southwest at a -“terrific rate of speed” and has wings “something like that of a bat.” -It turns to the southeast after passing the station and disappears in -the clouds after a few minutes. (“Sighting the Air Ship,” Dallas (Tex.) -Morning News, April 16, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 176

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Event 208 -(212A0A6B)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Night. A man in Denton, Texas, is watching the stars with -binoculars when he notices a shadow crossing the Moon. It is caused by a -large cigar-shaped object with wings moving slowly to the southeast. In -the front it has a powerful searchlight, and along the side appear a row -of lighted windows. It remains in sight for 20 minutes. A woman also -sees possibly the same object “bounding along through space like a -balloon.” (“The Air Ship Again,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, April 15, -1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 175

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Event 209 -(B156F01E)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Night. Many persons in Mount Vernon, Illinois, including -Mayor Barton -C. Wells, allegedly -see an object “resembling the body of a huge man swimming through the -air with an electric light on his back.” (“Airship’s Travels,” -Cincinnati (Ohio) Commercial Tribune, April 16, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 174

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Event 210 -(91B7183E)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. James McKensie is feeding hogs on his farm north -of Casstown, Ohio, when he hears an odd noise like a flock of geese -passing overhead. Looking up, he sees an object with wings and a rudder -flying slowly along about 150 feet in the air, and he distinctly hears -music. As it disappears, he thinks he hears a human voice, and something -large and white is thrown overboard. (“Talking -Heard by the Citizens,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 16, 1897, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 172

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Event 211 -(87CA6E5A)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Time: 1500
-Description: An object landed 2 km south of Gas City on the property of -John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to -stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some -repairs. Before the crowd could approach the object, it rose rapidly and -flew toward the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 188 (Vallee)
-Location: Gas City, Indiana
-ID: 16

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Event 212 -(D9F7CF27)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: Joseph Singler, captain of the “Sea Wing,” was fishing with -S. H. Davis, of Detroit, when they saw on the lake what they thought was -a ship, about 13 m long, with a canopy. A man, about 25 years old, -wearing a hunting jacket and a cap, was fishing from the deck of the -object. Near him were a woman and a 10-year old child. When the “Sea -Wing” came close to the craft, a large, colored balloon rose from the -object, which flew up with it to an altitude of about 150 m and circled -“like a hawk” before flying away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 189 (Vallee)
-Location: Cleveland, Ohio
-ID: 17

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Event 213 -(60BA8CAA)

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Date: 4/14/1897
-Description: 7:30 p.m. An airship 100 feet long and 20 feet high in the -center lands in a meadow three-quarters of a mile west of Birmingham, -Iowa. A large crowd of men and boys sets out to examine the object, but -when they are within several hundred feet, it rises with a loud whirring -sound and moves away to the northwest. Two men can be distinctly seen -inside, one carrying a lantern that he waves as the airship ascends. -(“Airship Positively Seen,” Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye, April 16, 1897, -p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 171

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Event 214 -(58401625)

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Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. A cigar-shaped airship with a -row of red lights along the sides passes above Emerson, South Dakota. -(“That -Ubiquitous Airship,” Sioux City (Iowa) Journal, April 17, 1897, -p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 181

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Event 215 -(9B0C4A10)

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Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a -strange craft in a field. They had a discussion with its occupants, a -woman and two men, and were told the ship-had flown from Quincy to -Springfield in 30 min and that the crew. was making electrical -repairs.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65,1 (Vallee)
-Location: Springfield, Illinois
-ID: 21

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Event 216 -(8AC93D20)

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Date: mid 4/1897
-Description: Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. A man in Eldridge, North -Dakota, sees an airship that looks like a car attached to a large, -kite-shaped structure with wings. It stops and changes course. At one -point the man is close enough to hear a humming sound. Some of the time -it displays colored lights; at other times it is completely dark. (“He -Saw the -Air Ship,” Jamestown (N. Dak.) Weekly Alert, April 22, 1897, -p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 184

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Event 217 -(0734AD7B)

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Date: mid 4/1897
-Description: Early evening. J. W. Lansing sees a cigar-shaped airship -twice in Grinnell, Iowa. It moves in various directions, sometimes -against a strong wind. (“He Saw It,” Springfield (Ill.) News, April 26, -1897, p. 1) Mid-April – Night. F. Crocker is sitting near the window of -his apartment on Barr Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he notices a -yellowish light coming from the west. It seems attached to a pear-shaped -object with the apex pointed downward. Two yellow rays of light come -from its sides as it sways to and fro in the air. He calls R. J. (or R. -T.) and J. L. Tretheway, who live in the apartment below his, and they -also glimpse the object, which is in sight for 20 minutes. (“Sighted -Here,” Fort Wayne (Ind.) Weekly Gazette, April 15, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 183

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Event 218 -(781A1931)

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Date: mid 4/1897
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Railroad conductor Capt. Jim Hooton is hunting -near Homan, Arkansas, when he hears a loud mechanical sound like an air -brake. Investigating, he discovers an airship undergoing repairs. The -aeronauts are not very communicative, so once the repairs are complete, -they reenter the airship and take off with a loud hissing sound. (“Saw -the Air Ship,” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, April 22, 1897, -p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 182

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Event 219 -(EA7F8D6F)

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Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Residents of Farmersville, Texas, notice a dim -light traveling toward the city from the south at 60– 80 mph. Thinking -it might be a meteor heading toward the Earth, more people gather -outside to watch. City Marshal Brown is in the western part of town -making his rounds, and the “ship or balloon” passes overhead about 200 -feet in the air. Brown can see two men in the object and something like -a large Newfoundland dog. He can hear them talking but cannot understand -what they are saying. (“Airship Seen in Galveston,” Galveston (Tex.) -Daily News, April 18, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 180

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Event 220 -(F384F4D8)

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Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: Night. An airship with red, green, and white lights lands -on a farm near Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Five witnesses see an odd-looking -man in a fur coat emerge and walk to a farmhouse belonging to Melvin -Bannister, whose dogs are barking fiercely. The stranger points a -lantern-like device at them and sends them running. Bannister answers -the door and converses awkwardly with the man, who is speaking an odd -language, but loans him a hammer, some nails, and a can of skim milk. -The man returns the tools, along with a strange coin. The airship takes -off with a whizzing sound. (“Brunswick -and Drammen,” Eau Claire (Wis.) Leader, April 17, 1897, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 178

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Event 221 -(0BCA16BA)

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Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Willie -Mahon, ex-Marshal -French, and other residents of Dunkirk, Ohio, watch a winged object “as -large as a wagon bed” pass over the town toward the east. It has -propellers on each end, a red light in front, and a greenish-yellow -light on the tail. Voices can be heard coming from the object. (“Seen at -Dunkirk,” Kenton (Ohio) News-Republican, April 16, 1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 179

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Event 222 -(A54748A8)

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Date: 4/15/1897
-Description: Late evening. Telegraph repairman Patrick -C. Byrnes is operating a railroad handcar about 7 miles west of -Cisco, Texas, when he sees a light a little distance from the track on -the south side. Knowing there is no farmhouse in the area, he goes to -investigate. It is a landed cigar-shaped airship about 200 feet long and -50 feet across at its widest point. Several men are repairing its -searchlight, and they tell him that the craft is loaded with several -tons of dynamite for bombing Spanish troops and ships in Cuba. (“Oft-Seen -Air-Ship,” Fort Worth (Tex.) Register, April 18, 1897, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 177

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Event 223 -(ED659204)

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Date: 4/15/1897
-Time: morning
-Description: A large object was seen to fly slowly toward the north. It -seemed ready to land and five men (F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David -Evans, Joe Croaskey, Benjamin Buland) drove toward it. About 7 km north -of Linn Grove, they found the craft on the ground, came within 700 m of -it but it “spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North.” Two -strange figures aboard the craft made efforts to conceal themselves. -Witnesses were surprised at the length of their hair. Most residents of -Linn Grove saw the craft in flight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 190 (Vallee)
-Location: Linn Grove, Iowa
-ID: 18

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Event 224 -(7693B0EA)

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Date: 4/15/1897
-Time: nightfall
-Description: A flying object coming closer and closer to the ground -followed a train, as reported by the engineer, Joe Wright
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66,4 (Vallee)
-Location: Howard-Artesian, South Dakota
-ID: 19

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Event 225 -(94CB46A6)

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Date: 4/15/1897
-Time: 2100
-Description: A passenger train on the Wabash line, going toward Quincy, -was followed by a low-flying object for 15 min between Perry Springs and -Hersman. All the passengers saw the craft, which had a red and white -light. After Hersman it flew ahead of the train and disappeared rapidly, -although the train was then running at 65 km/h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 190 (Vallee)
-Location: Perry Springs, Missouri
-ID: 20

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Event 226 -(C475642F)

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Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: Night. Judge John -Spencer Bounds is riding in a buggy in Hillsboro, Texas, when his -horse whirls around in fright. A brilliant light as if from an arc lamp -shines on him for less than a minute and then moves over to a nearby -field. The light suddenly ascends to an altitude of 1,000 feet. As he -watches, the searchlight blinks out and smaller lights surrounding a -dark object become visible. The object moves slowly to the south and -disappears. (“Seen near Hillsboro,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, April -17, 1897, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 190

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Event 227 -(B46EA7F2)

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Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: 12:03 a.m. An airship and a smaller “trailer which followed -it very closely” are seen by residents of Danvers, Illinois. The objects -are made of aluminum-like material, and its “occupants were dressed in -western style.” (“The Aerial -Mystery,” Bloomington (Ill.) Daily Pantograph, April 17, 1897, -p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 185

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Event 228 -(1FB15883)

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Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A group of people returning home from a lodge -meeting in Bay City, Michigan, notice a large conical object approaching -from the south and slowly descending to about 50 feet altitude above -Center Avenue. A red light appears at either end of a body that is -apparently 50–75 feet long. It shines with a dull red glow, as if there -are lights on its upper side. The object moves away to the northeast. -(“Air Ship a Reality,” Saginaw (Mich.) Courier-Herald, April 16, 1897, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 186

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Event 229 -(829633EC)

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Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: Morning. A large object passes slowly over Linn Grove, -Iowa, heading north. Five men—James -Evans, F. -G. Ellis, Ben -Buland, David -Evans, and -Joe -Croskey—jump into a rig and follow it 4 miles north of town where it -has landed. But when the pursuers get within 2,100 feet of the airship, -it spreads out four massive wings and ascends again. The two occupants -have extremely long beards and make desperate efforts to conceal -themselves. They toss two enormous boulders “of unknown composition” out -of the airship. (“More -Air Ship Fakes,” Indianapolis Journal, April 17, 1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 187

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Event 230 -(6912C7D7)

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Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: While wandering in the hills east of Springfield, Missouri, -W. -H. Hopkins, a traveling insurance agent, spots a landed airship in a -clearing. Next to it is a nude female with hair down to her waist. As -she picks flowers, she speaks in an unknown language with a musical -voice and fans herself as if the day is hot. In the shade cast by the -craft lies a naked man with shoulder-length hair and a long beard. After -a few minutes, Hopkins approaches the woman, who shrieks and runs toward -the man. Hopkins speaks soothingly and the two aeronauts relax. Hopkins -asks where they come from, and they point upward, pronouncing a word -that sounds like “Mars.” The two examine Hopkins’s clothing, hair, and -watch with great curiosity. They show him the interior of the ship but -take off shortly afterward, “laughing and waving their hands.” (“Golden -Haired Girl Is in It,” St. Louis (Mo.) Post- Dispatch, April 19, -1897, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 188

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Event 231 -(B4E12011)

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Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: Approximate date. While working in his field, Haney Savidge -saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke -to him for a few minutes before leaving again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 191 (Vallee)
-Location: Downs Township, Illinois
-ID: 22

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Event 232 -(5C402769)

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Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: 12:00 midnight. C. G. Williams is walking across a field -two miles south of Greenville, Texas, when he comes across a brilliant -light and a large, cigar-shaped object resting on the ground. Three -aeronauts emerge from it; two go to work on the ship, and the third -approaches Williams and asks him to mail some letters. The man tells him -that the airship runs on electricity and that his invention was -perfected in a small town in New York State. (“C. G. Williams Saw It,” -Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 191

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Event 233 -(BC687A63)

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Date: 4/16/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Howard -R. Bolander, superintendent of the Ohio Bicycle Works in Marion, -Ohio, is looking at the night sky when he sees the light from a -cigar-shaped object moving to the southwest. Its light looks like an -incandescent lamp. (“Is -Your Credulity in Condition for the Only True Airship Story?” Marion -(Ohio) Daily Star, April 17, 1897, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 189

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Event 234 -(9BC70762)

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Date: 4/17/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. George Alverson, Alex Oxford, and Charley Hunter -are walking on Manchester Street near the Cincinnati Southern Railway -trestle bridge in Lexington, Kentucky. An airship lands and settles in a -vacant lot about 600 feet away. They hurry forward but are stopped by a -man who has just emerged from the machine. He is carrying a bucket, -which he fills with water from a nearby spring. He declines to answer -any of their questions, reenters the airship, and flies away to the -southeast. (“Talked -with the Airship Man,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 19, 1897, -p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 195

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Event 235 -(89CBCC6F)

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Date: 4/17/1897
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A large white light attached to a cigar-shaped -object passes over Trenton, Tennessee, at an altitude of about 1,500 -feet. It has a red light on the left side and a green light on the -right. The object remains in sight for 5 minutes then disappears to the -east. (“Trenton -Has ’Em,” Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal, April 18, 1897, -p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 194

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Event 236 -(418BCB26)

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Date: 4/17/1897
-Description: 6:00 a.m. An airship is said to collide with the tower of -Judge James -Spencer Proctor’s windmill in Aurora, Texas, causing it to explode -and strew debris over several acres. The pilot (reportedly “not of this -world,” or a “Martian” according to an alleged Army Signal Service -officer named Thomas -Jefferson Weems from nearby Fort Worth), does not survive the crash -and is buried “with -Christian rites” at the Aurora Cemetery. Wreckage from the crash site is -either dumped into a nearby well located under the damaged windmill or -ends up with the alien in the grave. Adding to the mystery is the story -of Brawley -Oates, who purchases Judge Proctor’s property around 1935. Oates -cleans out the debris from the well in order to use it as a water -source, but later develops an extremely severe case of rheumatoid -arthritis, which he claims is the result of contaminated water from the -wreckage dumped into the well. As a result, Oates seals up the well with -a concrete slab and places an outbuilding on the spot in 1945. The -entire yarn is widely regarded as a hoax, although Proctor’s windmill -apparently did exist. (Wikipedia, “Aurora, -Texas, UFO incident”; “A Windmill Demolishes It,” Dallas Morning -News, April 19, 1897, p. 5; Donald B. Hanlon, “Texas -Odyssey of 1897,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1966): -9–10; H. Michael Simmons, “Once -upon a Time in the West,” Magonia, no. 20 (August 1985); Wallace O. -Chariton, The Great Texas Airship Mystery, Wordware, 1991; Thomas E. -Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 (March 2012): 8–10; Clark III -316–318, 592–593; “Aurora -1897,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014; -Mutual UFO Network, “Aurora, -TX Crash, 1897,” May 14, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 193

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Event 237 -(84CAF3E0)

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Date: 4/17/1897
-Description: 1:30 a.m. R. E. Draughon, a night watchman at a lumber -plant in Beaumont, Texas, sees a “globular” object with a bright light -the size of a star in one end. It is moving to the northwest at a high -altitude. (“Seen at Beaumont,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, April 18, -1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 192

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Event 238 -(6FDD447B)

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Date: 4/17/1897
-Description: Aurora, TX: An “airship” crashed into Judge Proctor’s -windmill and disgorged the mangled body of a little man.
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Aurora, TX

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Event 239 -(A9581DF5)

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Date: 4/17/1897
-Time: morning
-Description: At least a dozen farmers saw an object maneuver in the sky -for an hour before it landed. A strange man near 3 m tall, almost naked -and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. “His talk, -while musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings.” One farmer went -near him and received a blow that broke his hip.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 196 (Vallee)
-Location: Williamston, Michigan
-ID: 23

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Event 240 -(6D813B1C)

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Date: 4/18/1897
-Description: 9:30 p.m. An object with lights on both ends is seen -southeast of Lyons, Nebraska, traveling to the northwest. Some young -observers estimate it is moving at 4–6 mph. When the object is south of -Bancroft it makes 2–3 large circles and then moves to the southwest. -(“Airship’s -Lamp Is Lighted,” Omaha (Neb.) Daily Bee, April 20, 1897, -p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 197

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Event 241 -(D080B949)

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Date: 4/18/1897
-Description: 8:30 p.m. W. E. Roe, captain of the Ohio River packet T. M. -Barnsdall, as well as watchman Elmer Hardy and engineer Litus Kinnard, -sees a light high in the air above the river as the riverboat is lying -at Sistersville, West Virginia. It seems to be moving to the northwest -but at other times it retraces its course. Around 12:00 midnight it -disappears over a hill to the west. (“The Airship Seen near Marietta,” -Marietta (Ohio) Daily Register, April 19, 1897)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 196

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Event 242 -(4DC80069)

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Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A bright light moves from the northwest over -Cochransville [now a ghost town], Monroe County, Ohio, where it hovers -for 20 minutes, flashing red, white, and green lights. Through -binoculars a cone-shaped object with large fins on either side can be -discerned. It is apparently 180 feet long. (“Hovered over the Town,” -Cincinnati (Ohio) Commercial Tribune, April 20, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 201

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Event 243 -(C5025D6D)

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Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Rancher Alexander -Hamilton, his son Will, and his hired hand Gid Heslip are awakened -by a noise in the cattle pen of their ranch at Yates Center, Kansas. -They watch as a 300-foot-long, cigar-shaped airship with a carriage -underneath descends to about 30 feet above the ground. Two men, a woman, -and three children are heard talking in the carriage. They see a calf -caught in a nearby fence with a cable knotted around its neck that -connects to the airship above. They cut the cable and the airship floats -away. A few weeks later, Hamilton admits he made the story up. (Clark -III 130, 593; Jerome Clark, “The Great Airship Hoax,” Fate 30, no. 2 -(February 1977): 94–97; Jerome Clark, “The -Leroy, Kansas, Calfnapping Hoax of 1897,” Flying Saucer Review 22, -no. 6 (April 1977): 26; Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, Dodd, -Mead, 1981, pp. 92–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 202

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Event 244 -(361E8BF3)

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Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: After 11:00 p.m. John -R. Ligon, an -agent for a brewery in Houston, and his son Charley notice -lights in a pasture a few hundred yards away near Beaumont, Texas. They -walk over and discover four men moving around a large dark object, who -ask for water. They accompany Ligon to his house, each bringing two -baskets, which they fill and return. One of the men identifies himself -as “Wilson” and says they are traveling in a flying machine that has -been over the Gulf of Mexico and is now headed toward Iowa. Ligon says -the airship is 130 feet long and 20 feet wide, propelled by four large -wings and powered by electricity. Wilson gives Ligon a tour of the ship -and says it is one of five built in a small Iowa town. Rabbi Aaron -Levy of Beaumont also claims to have met aeronauts from a landed -airship near the city around the same time. (“Inspected -the Air Ship,” Houston (Tex.) Daily Post, April 21, 1897, p. 2; “The -Airship,” New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 25, 1897, p. 7; Jerome -Clark, “Mystery Aeronauts of Texas,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 5–6; -Clark III 81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 203

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Event 245 -(1D9EBE86)

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Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: 12:00 noon. George Dunlap, a man known to Davis -H. Tucker, physician -at the Harlem Prison Farm [now the Jester State Prison Farm] in Fort -Bend County, Texas, is riding in the country near Lake Charles, -Louisiana, when he sees an airship moving toward him about half a mile -distant. It makes a loud whistling noise, scaring his horses and causing -him to be thrown from the buggy. As the horses flee, the ship lands, a -rope comes down, and two men rush over to apologize. They are the owner -Mr. Wilson (formerly of Fort Worth, Texas) and his friend Scott Warren. -The man is taken into the airship and introduced to two others, a -Mr. Waters and a Hispanic man. Wilson tells him the airship is sustained -by a gas, and that several of them have been built. (“Was Aboard an -Airship,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, May 16, 1897, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 200

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Event 246 -(17936C30)

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Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: 1:30 a.m. As people are returning from a party at the -Armory Hall in Natchitoches, Louisiana, they see a bright light attached -to a massive airship in the form of a balloon with a cigar-shaped -undercar. The light dims while it is over the city and intensifies again -when it has passed beyond it. It moves in undulations and is visible for -30 minutes. (“The -Airship Seen in Louisiana,” New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 21, -1897, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 198

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Event 247 -(5D288434)

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Date: 4/19/1897
-Time: 2230
-Description: Alexander Hamilton was awakened by a noise among the cattle -and went out with his son and his tenant. They saw an elongated -cigarshaped object, about 100 m long with a transparent cabin underneath -showing narrow reddish bands, hovering 10 m above ground. They -approached within 50 m of it. It was illuminated and equipped with a -searchlight. Inside it were “six of the strangest beings” the witness -had seen, also described as “hideous.” They spoke a language no witness -could understand. A cow was dragged away by the object with the help of -a strong red cable; it was found butchered in a field the next -day.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 16; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Leroy, Kansas
-ID: 24

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Event 248 -(193D0469)

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Date: 4/19/1897
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A man in El Paso, Texas, sees a cigar-shaped -object with lighted portholes on each side. The object approaches from -the east and passes overhead at 500 feet. Voices from the craft are -heard. (“The -Air Ship Seen in El -Paso,” El Paso (Tex.) Herald, April 20, 1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 199

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Event 249 -(B0744366)

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Date: 4/20/1897
-Description: Henry -Heintz of Elkton, South Dakota, patents an airship consisting of a -cigar-shaped balloon and a structure for passengers beneath it. At some -point he allegedly brings his invention out for a test flight in front -of the Elkton blacksmith shop. The airship rises 8 feet into the air -before plopping to the ground. (US Patent, “Air -Ship,” granted April 20, 1897; Ruth Becken, A History of Elkton, -[City of Elkton,] 2000, p. 94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 204

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Event 250 -(EDF95023)

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Date: 4/20/1897
-Time: 1800
-Description: Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan -when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a -clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, -and horizontal blade over it. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark -glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants. -The witness was told this was indeed “The Airship” and that it used -compressed air for propulsion. Hooton saw the wheels spin as the craft -rose and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Homan, Arkansas
-ID: 25

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Event 251 -(460332CE)

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Date: 4/20/1897
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Sheriff Henry -W. Baylor of Uvalde, Texas, sees a bright light and hears strange -voices behind his house. He finds a landed airship and its crew of three -men, one of whom is named “Wilson” (from Goshen, New York), who inquires -after an acquaintance, C. -C. Akers of Eagle Pass, Texas. After procuring water from a hydrant -in Baylor’s yard, the men board the airship, which speeds away northward -toward San Angelo. County Clerk Henry J. Bowles sees the airship as it -passes over Getty Street in Uvalde. Akers tells a reporter in Galveston -that he knew a New Yorker named Wilson when he lived in Fort Worth in -1876–1877. Baylor’s seemingly compelling testimony disintegrates after -he confesses in late May to making the whole story up, possibly in -collusion with Akers. (“The Airship in West Texas,” Galveston (Tex.) -Daily News, April 24, 1897, p. 3; “The Airship -at Uvalde,” Weimar (Tex.) Mercury, May 1, 1897, p. 6; “Airship -Story Exploded,” Weimar (Tex.) Mercury, May 22, 1897, p. 7; Jerome -Clark, “Mystery Aeronauts of Texas,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 6–7; -Clark III 82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 205

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Event 252 -(D23C4C97)

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Date: 4/21/1897
-Description: 12:30 a.m. An employee of the Picayune newspaper in New -Orleans, Louisiana, steps outside the office and sees an airship, 50–60 -feet long and bearing a powerful searchlight. He returns to tell his -colleagues, but by the time they come out, the airship is gone. (“The -Airship,” New Orleans Picayune, April 21, 1897, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 206

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Event 253 -(1B1C735D)

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Date: 4/21/1897 (approximate)
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A man is riding his horse between Lancaster and -Baltimore, Ohio, when something scares his horse. He sees an object with -two brilliant white lights on either end landing in a nearby field. He -tethers his horse and approaches the object, which seems as large as a -house. Inside he can see two men conversing, so he walks up to ask them -questions. One of the aeronauts seems to be Japanese and the other -speaks English with a British accent. The craft is called the -Aeribarque, and they are on a test flight. The aeronaut says that they -often land in remote areas and come to nearby towns for supplies or -mechanical parts, posing either as tourists or “harmless cranks trying -to invent perpetual motion.” After giving the witness a demonstration of -the electrical lighting system, they take off into the sky. (“Aeribarque, -That’s It’s Official Name,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 25, -1897, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 207

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Event 254 -(281B7F6B)

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Date: 4/21/1897
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Confectioner John -S. Scheer, Frank -King, and Frank Mulick of Erie, Pennsylvania, watch a cigar- shaped, -winged object moving north at a relatively high rate of speed. It has a -large propeller on its tail end, but it flies silently and disappears -over Lake Erie. (“Passed over Erie,” Erie (Pa.) Daily Times, April 22, -1897, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 208

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Event 255 -(29FBBB83)

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Date: 4/22/1897
-Description: 10:10 p.m. A ball of fire is seen moving slowly and -horizontally from southwest to northeast over Kokomo, Indiana. Some -people can distinguish the faint outlines of a cigar-shaped object and -wings. The light is white with a reddish tint and no more than 300 feet -in altitude. The witnesses include Harry -M. Grimes, William -E. Sollenberger, and -banking executive Frank -McCarty. (“The Mysterious Air Ship,” Kokomo (Ind.) Daily Tribune, -April 23, 1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 210

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Event 256 -(5CE609BC)

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Date: 4/22/1897
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Prominent citizens, including the mayor, observe -a low-flying airship heading slowly southwest above Kenly, North -Carolina. Its sails “resembled mosquito netting to the naked eye.” The -outlines of two people aboard are plainly visible. (“Men -Seen in the Airship,” Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, April 25, -1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 209

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Event 257 -(6AF33972)

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Date: 4/22/1897
-Description: John M. Barclay was intrigued when his dog barked furiously -and a high-pitched noise was heard. He went out, saw a flying object -circling 5 m above ground. Elongated with protrusions and blinding -lights, it went dark when it landed. Barclay was met by a man who told -him his purpose was peaceful and requested some common hardware items to -repair the craft. He paid with a ten-dollar bill and took off “like a -bullet out of a gun.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 192; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Rockland, Texas
-ID: 26

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Event 258 -(5DB24CDD)

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Date: 4/22/1897
-Time: 2400
-Description: Frank Nichols, who lived 3 km east of Josserand and was one -of its most respected citizens, was awakened by a machine noise. Looking -outside, he saw a heavy, lighted object land in his wheat field. He -walked toward it, was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw -water from his well. He then had a discussion with a half-dozen men, the -crew of the strange machine. He was told how it worked but could not -follow the explanation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 193; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Josserand, Texas
-ID: 27

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Event 259 -(82791FEF)

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Date: 4/22/1897
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Frank Nichols, a farmer living 2 miles east -of Josserand, Texas, is awakened by a whirring noise. Outside, he sees a -huge airship in his cornfield. Before he can get close, two men with -buckets ask him if they can draw water from his well. Nichols consents -and in return they give him a tour of the vessel, whose motive power is -“highly condensed electricity.” One aeronaut tells him that five -airships have been built in an Iowa town. (“That -Airship,” Houston (Tex.) Post, April 26, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 212

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Event 260 -(84FB6419)

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Date: 4/22/1897
-Description: 11:00 p.m. John -M. Barclay wakes up when he hears a whirring noise that causes his -dogs to bark wildly outside his home near Rockland, Texas. He goes -outside and sees an oblong airship with wings and brilliant lights. When -he first sees it, the object is hovering 150 feet above the ground. It -circles a few times then lands in a nearby pasture. Barclay goes down to -investigate with his Winchester rifle, but the lights go out as he gets -closer. Some 90 feet away from the airship he is stopped by a man who -asks him to put his rifle down. He identifies himself as “Smith” and -gives Barclay $10 to purchase lubricating oil, two chisels, and -bluestone. When Barclay returns with the materials, the aeronaut will -only say he is from “anywhere,” adding that “we will be in Greece -tomorrow.” (“Supplies -for Airship,” Houston (Tex.) Post, April 25, 1897, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 211

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Event 261 -(EAA67E5D)

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Date: 4/23/1897
-Description: Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas, was -surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the -ground. “It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but -judging from their looks one would take them to be Japanese.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Farish, in Allende Letters - Award Special, 1968 (Vallee)
-Location: McKinney Bayou, Arkansas
-ID: 28

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Event 262 -(5D6986B3)

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Date: 4/23/1897
-Description: Night. Henry -A. Hooks and A. -W. Hodges of Kountze, Texas, allegedly meet two aeronauts named -Wilson and Jackson when their airship suffers a gas leak and lands. (“That -Airship,” Houston (Tex.) Post, April 25, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 213

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Event 263 -(8DC81588)

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Date: 4/24/1897
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Howard Warn is outside his home in Toledo, Ohio, -when he notices bright, multicolored lights moving rapidly toward the -southwest. The lights are attached to a cigar-shaped object at an -altitude of 500 feet. He calls his father, Milo -S. Warn, and -they watch the lights until the object disappears into heavy clouds to -the southwest. (“Say They Saw the Airship,” Cleveland (Ohio) Plain -Dealer, April 28, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 215

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Event 264 -(A590C568)

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Date: 4/24/1897
-Description: An airship in need of repairs lands near Stringers Ridge on -the other side of the river from Chattanooga, Tennessee. An unnamed -journalist talks to one of the aeronauts, who identifies himself as -Prof. Charles Davidson of Sacramento, California, the inventor of the -airship, which can travel as fast as 93 mph. (“Is -This a Reality?” Knoxville (Tenn.) Morning Tribune, April 25, 1897, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 214

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Event 265 -(CA85056B)

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Date: 4/25/1897
-Time: evening
-Description: People returning from church observed a heavy object being -dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope -got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure -to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. After -about 10 min a man came down along the rope cut the end free, and went -back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast. The man was -small and dressed in a lightblue uniform.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 194; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Merkel, Texas
-ID: 29

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Event 266 -(EFC165B3)

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Date: 4/25/1897
-Description: Night. William -F. Whittier, editor of the Sunbury (Ohio) News-Item, sets up his -camera in the printing office to take lightning photographs. He manages -to take a photo of a nearby lightning strike and develops it the -following morning. The negative shows not only the lightning but the -outline of what seems to be an airship. Whittier makes many copies of -the photo and sells them to Sunbury residents. (“Fairy Story: A Sunbury -Editor Takes a Photograph,” Dayton (Ohio) Daily Journal, April 28, -1897)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 217

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Event 267 -(993B68BB)

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Date: 4/25/1897
-Description: Evening. As some residents of Merkel, Texas, are leaving a -church service, they notice a heavy, anchor- shaped object being dragged -by a large rope that is attached to an airship in the sky not far above -them. After 10 minutes, a small figure dressed in a blue sailor suit -starts climbing down the rope. But when he sees people watching him, he -cuts the rope and returns to the airship, which moves away to the -northeast. The anchor goes on exhibit at a local blacksmith shop. (“Anchor -of the Airship,” Houston (Tex.) Post, April 28, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 216

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Event 268 -(BC28150A)

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Date: 4/26/1897
-Description: Approximate date. A lawyer was surprised to see a lighted -object fly over. His horse was scared and nearly toppled the carriage. -When the main light was turned off, a number of smaller lights became -visible on the underside of the dark object, which supported an -elongated canopy. It went down toward a hill to the south, 5 km from -Aquila. When the witness was on his way back one hour later he saw the -object rising. It reached the altitude of the cloud ceiling and flew to -the northeast at a fantastic speed with periodic flashes of light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 195 (Vallee)
-Location: Aquila-Hillsboro, Texas
-ID: 30

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Event 269 -(08DD6C00)

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Date: 4/28/1897 (approximate)
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Hiram -C. LaGrone hears a disturbance among his horses on his ranch at -Deadwood, Texas. Stepping outside, he sees a brilliant, multicolored -light approaching from the southwest. It slows, hovers, then lands in a -field. LaGrone walks up and discovers five men, two of whom take rubber -bags and procure water from his well. The other three tell him that this -is one of five airships touring the country (and the same one that -landed in Beaumont on April 19). (“The -Airship,” Houston (Tex.) Post, April 30, 1897, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 218

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Event 270 -(88189BC7)

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Date: 5/2/1897
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Edwin Shaffer is driving a rig about one-half -mile west of Cassville, Indiana, when he encounters a landed airship 40 -feet long. The object spooks his horse, which will not run past it. -Shaffer claims the airship is crewed by midgets who speak no English. -(“The Air Ship at Cassville,” Kokomo (Ind.) Daily Tribune, May 4, 1897, -p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 219

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Event 271 -(66F8AFCB)

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Date: 5/4/1897
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Louis Dumhoff, a physician living at 112 Garfield -Place in Cincinnati, Ohio, sees a red, egg-shaped light, “the rays -escaping in the center and at each end.” It passes to the southeast in -about 5 minutes, moving in a zigzag, up-and-down course. Conductor J. C. -Gaupel and attorney W. J. Klein also see the light in the same -neighborhood. (“Airship,” -Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, May 5, 1897, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 220

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Event 272 -(1D917C8E)

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Date: 5/6/1897
-Description: Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest -of Hot Springs when they saw a bright light in the sky. About 7 km -farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km -farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying lights. -The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were told that -they crossed the country with a flying craft. The silhouette of the -machine, about 2O m long, could be seen in the clearing. There was a -woman with an umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the younger of the -men was filling a large container with water. The elder man had a beard -and suggested that the policemen fly with them “to a place where it does -not rain.” The same witness went back through the same spot 40 min later -and found nothing.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas
-ID: 31

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Event 273 -(FF8A91AA)

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Date: 5/6/1897
-Description: During a rainstorm five miles west of Hot Springs, -Arkansas, Deputy Sheriff John McLemore and Constable John J. Sumpter -Jr. see a light in the sky descend behind a hill one half-mile away. -After seeing two persons carrying lights, they draw their rifles and -demand to know who is there. A man with a long, dark beard tells them -that he and two others are traveling around the country in an airship -and hope to end up in Nashville, Tennessee. He invites the officers to -take a ride and transport them to somewhere dry, but they tell him they -prefer to get wet. They return to the spot 40 minutes later and the -airship is gone. (“Swore -They Saw It,” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, May 9, 1897, p. 1; “Swear -They Saw It,” Arkadelphia (Ark.) Southern Standard, May 14, 1897, -p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 221

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Event 274 -(3EAD9498)

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Date: 5/9/1897
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Abe Parker of Norwalk, Ohio, sees an object with -10–12 bright white and red lights moving slowly over the town for about -10 minutes. Other witnesses report hearing music coming from it. An -unnamed young witness, who follows the object out of town for about one -mile after it passes over Main Street, says the shadow cast by the -object is round. (“That Airship Again,” Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer, -May 11, 1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 222

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Event 275 -(285DC5A0)

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Date: 5/11/1897
-Description: 10:00 a.m. John -E. Hopley is one of a small group of people in Sandusky, Ohio, who -watch a “fleecy white bulk” floating far away to the west. Through -binoculars the object looks like a white bird with long black wings. -Hopley guesses that it is 1–2 miles high, 20 miles away, and 60–80 feet -long. (“The -Air Ship: John E. Hopley Sees -This Modern Invention,” Bucyrus (Ohio) Evening Telegraph, May 11, -1897, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 223

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Event 276 -(3D85683D)

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Date: 7/4/1897
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Hundreds of witnesses in Lexington, Kentucky, see -a lighted object silhouetted against a storm cloud in the southwest -moving to the north at 500 feet altitude. When it nears the city, the -light goes out and it disappears after passing over the western part of -the city. (“The -Air Ship or Its Twin Brother Passes over Lexington,” -Lexington (Ky.) Morning Herald, July 5, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 224

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Event 277 -(FF17322C)

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Date: 7/29/1897
-Description: Sunset. Farmer Andrew -Henderson sees a large, unlighted, oblong object with a suspended -car and a huge sail drifting to the northeast over his farm three miles -from Whitemouth, Manitoba. He estimates it is only a half-mile away. -(“Could It Be Andree?” Winnipeg Manitoba Free Press, July 31, 1897, -p. 1; “Big Balloon Story,” Winnipeg Manitoba Free Press, August 2, 1897, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 225

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Event 278 -(9C2E03E6)

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Date: 8/26/1897
-Description: 6:45 p.m. An airship with an attached car is seen moving -steadily southwest above Asheville, North Carolina, by Dr. Willard -P. Whittington and two other men who are standing on Grove Street. -It is about one mile in altitude. (“Maybe -It Was Andree on His Return?” Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, August 27, -1897, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 226

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Event 279 -(AF5F8ED8)

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Date: 8/28/1897
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Luther -Myers hears dogs barking outside his home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. -When he looks through the window, he sees a rapidly moving airship with -a light on each end. It has a propeller and rotates as it moves forward. -(“Our -Closeby Neighbors,” -Chambersburg (Pa,) Valley Spirit, September 1, 1897, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 227

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Event 280 -(2F8A6089)

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Date: 9/7/1897
-Description: 2:00 p.m. V. H. Hollingsworth and his family in Ellsworth -(between Sherman and Denison), Texas, see an unusual object approaching -from the east. It has a fan-like wheel on front and fin-like projections -on the side. (“The -Air Ship,” Marshall (Tex.) Evening Messenger, September 9, 1897, -p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 228

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Event 281 -(0A78A3DA)

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Date: 11/2/1897
-Description: 12:45 p.m. Engineer Charles W. West sees a balloon of -unusual size passing southwest above Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It looks -like an inclined cylinder with rounded ends and has a car suspended from -it. After 20 minutes it passes out of sight. (“Saw -the Man Who Saw the Ship,” Boston Daily Globe, November 5, 1897, -p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 229

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Event 282 -(18D06783)

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Date: 11/19/1897
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A telegraph operator in Kellogg, Iowa, sees a -bright, bluish light moving rapidly to the southwest. He notifies the -operator at Colfax, Iowa, and people in the depot there also see it. -(“See -the Airship,” Chicago (Ill.) Chronicle, November 20, 1897, -p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 230

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Event 283 -(E7A8E209)

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Date: 12/5/1897
-Description: Early morning. Engineer John J. Hussey and fireman John -Henderson of the Great Northern Railroad in northern Minnesota see a -“large, white long light which seemed surrounded by some dark objects” -near Deerwood. Other employees of the Great Northern and Northern -Pacific railways also view the light (“Was -It an Air-Ship,” -Saint Paul (Minn.) Globe, December 7, 1897, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 231

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- Event 284 (2DE41573)

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Date: 1898
-Description: English author H. -G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds, one of the earliest -stories to portray a conflict between humans and an extraterrestrial -race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed -protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother in London as southern -England is invaded by Martians. (Wikipedia, “The -War of the Worlds”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 232

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Event 285 -(E6FD743F)

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Date: 1/10/1898
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Residents of Rome, Georgia, watch a blue light -“attached to some dark and indistinguishable object” as it flies from -the northwest to the east. (“Star-Gazing -in Rome,” Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, January 11, 1898, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 233

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Event 286 -(223198BD)

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Date: 2/4/1898
-Description: Mid-day. The postmaster of Greifswald, -Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany, and 11 other persons see an -object crossing the Sun’s disk. They watch the object approach the Sun -for 15 minutes, take one hour to pass, and stay visible for another hour -until clouds obscure it. (Martin Brendel, “Ueber -ein 1898 Febr. 4 in Greifswald -beobachtetes Phänomen,” Astronomische Nachrichten 145 (1898): -333–334)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 234

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Event 287 -(1B40F94A)

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Date: 5/2/1898
-Description: Dusk. Bystanders in front of the Pearson building in -downtown New Castle, Pennsylvania, notice a bright arc light moving in -from the southwest just below the clouds and remaining visible for 5 -minutes. (“A -Mysterious Light,” -New Castle (Pa.) News, May 4, 1898, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 235

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Event 288 -(C1A543F9)

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Date: 6/1/1898
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Harry -McCandliss is riding in the country near Emporia, Kansas, when he -sees a cigar-shaped object flying toward the northwest at about 300 -feet. It is suspended from a balloon and is peppered with electrical -lights. At one point the lights go out then reappear. A searchlight beam -in the front skitters in different directions. It ascends to 600 feet -and is lost to view. ([News -note], Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, June 2, 1898, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 236

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Event 289 -(EA74B8AA)

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Date: 10/4/1898
-Alternate date: 10/3/1898
-Description: Night. At Fort Washita, Oklahoma, Mrs. William Peveto -(possibly Mary -Peveto) watches a fireball (probably the same one as October 4) -descend. A few minutes later, distracted by the meteor, she is standing -in her kitchen when a “female ghost” appears and chats with her for a -few minutes, saying that if she would follow her, she will lead her to a -fortune. Peveto becomes terrified, and the entity flees through a closed -door. The entity visits her again on other nights, again talking about -treasure in the basement. They continue until February 1899 when they -occur nightly. At one point the ghost claims to have been murdered years -ago in Fort Washita and shows her strangle marks around her neck. -Poltergeist phenomena (tables moving) occur and a male ghost also talks -to her. Peveto becomes ill and apparently moves away from the place. -(“Ghosts at Old Fort Washita,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, October 20, -1898; “Old Fort Washita Ghosts: Mrs. Peveto Contributes Another Uncanny -Chapter to the Record,” Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, March 26, 1899; Theo -Paijmans, “High Strangeness in Texas,” Fortean Times 286 (May 2012): -30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 238

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Event 290 -(6CBA5550)

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Date: 10/4/1898
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A brilliant object passes over Italy, Greenville, -Garland, and Blossom, Texas. Initially moving in an easterly direction, -it seems to change course and shoot upwards then burst, throwing out -three distinct objects, one red, the other white, and the last one blue. -The red and blue lights die out, but the white one continue a few -seconds before it too bursts, emitting a shower of sparks. Blossom -merchant Dick Moore says the light is so glaring that he thinks his -“house was falling on him.” About 2.5 miles north of Sherman, -12-year-old George Campbell is riding with his father when they see the -fireball descending, apparently coming as close as 3 feet above the -ground before moving upward; they can hear a buzzing noise and think the -object is about 10 feet in diameter. (“Aerial Phenomena in Texas,” -Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, October 5, 1898; “The Meteor,” Dallas -Morning News, October 7, 1898; Theo Paijmans, “High Strangeness in -Texas,” Fortean Times 286 (May 2012): 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 237

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- Event 291 (04E2BE96)

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Date: 1899
-Description: Swiss psychologist Carl -Jung investigates his 15-year-old cousin, Hélène -Preiswerk (“S.W.”), in Basel, Switzerland, who claims to be a -spiritualist medium. Her trances frequently involve journeys to other -planets. She claims that Martians have flying machines, and they -irrigate the land with canals and artificial lakes. (Hilary Evans, -“Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1986): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 240

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Event 292 -(ED27548F)

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Date: 1899
-Description: Serbian-American inventor Nikola -Tesla is working in his laboratory near Colorado Springs, Colorado, -when he observes unusual signals from his receiver that he speculates -are communications from another planet. He mentions them in a letter to -a reporter in December 1899 and to the Red Cross Society in December -1900. Reporters treat it as a sensational story and jump to the -conclusion Tesla is hearing signals from Mars. In 1901, Tesla writes -that it has not been immediately apparent to him that he is hearing -“intelligently controlled signals” and that the signals could have come -from Mars, Venus, or other planets. It is possible that he is -intercepting Guglielmo -Marconi’s European experiments in July 1899—Marconi may have -transmitted the letter S (dot dot dot) in a naval demonstration, the -same three impulses that Tesla hinted at hearing in Colorado—or signals -from another experimenter in wireless transmission. Brian -Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast attributes Tesla’s signals to -pulsars, which are not identified until 1968. (Nikola Tesla, “Talking -with the Planets,” Colliers Weekly 26 (February 9, 1901): 4–5; -Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time, Dorset Press, 1989 ed., pp. 111–113; -Daniel Blair Stewart, Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer, Frog, 1999, p. 372; -Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty -Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 11; W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: -Inventor of the Electrical Age, Princeton University, 2013, p. 315; -Brian Dunning, “The -Black Knight Satellite,” Skeptoid podcast, no. 365, June 4, -2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 239

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Event 293 -(B1859521)

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Date: mid 1/1899
-Description: Late night. People returning from a dance near McMahan, -Texas, see a group of stars in formation, moving in one direction. A few -miles further east, hunters camping on a hilltop see the full outline of -an airship with headlights and windows. (Dallas (Tex.) News, January 25, -1899; Clark III 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 241

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Event 294 -(4DEB3A9D)

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Date: 1/26/1899
-Description: 11:00 p.m. People outside the opera house in McAlester, -Oklahoma, watch an airship “like a railway car suspended from a large -balloon-like arrangement” pass overhead. It shines a bright searchlight -along the ground. ([News -note], Garfield County (Okla.) Democrat, February 9, 1899, -p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 242

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Event 295 -(98E0CED2)

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Date: 6/1/1899
-Description: Late evening. Observers in Kamen-Rybolov, Primorsky Krai, -Russia, see a blue sphere about 28 inches in diameter flying silently -from south to north near the steamboat Kazak Ussuriyskiy moored on Lake -Khanka. It is seen for 20 minutes, then it returns later in the evening -flying north to south at greater speed, disappearing 11 minutes later. -(Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, -p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 243

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Event 296 -(B05DF106)

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Date: 7/4/1899
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A mystery balloon floats across the sky in -Spokane, Washington, from southwest to northeast. Before it disappears, -it ascends so high that “nothing but a small black ball far up in the -heavens could be discerned.” (“Who -Owns the Big Balloon?” Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle, July 5, 1899, -p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 244

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Event 297 -(F830BF33)

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Date: 10/1899
-Description: Midnight. Physician Malcom McKinnon is driving home to -Fosston, Minnesota, in his carriage when a dazzling ball of white light -crosses the road ahead about one-quarter of a mile away, lighting up the -road like daylight. It resembles an electric arc lamp and moves slowly -from north to southeast about 3 feet above the ground, throwing the -field furrows into visible relief. As it passes closer, McKinnon sees -that it is clearly “disk shaped, about the size of an umbrella.” It is -in sight for 30 minutes. (Minneapolis Minnesota Journal, October 25, -1899; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating -UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 239–251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 245

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- Event 298 (C312EB91)

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Date: 1900
-Description: Psychic medium Catherine-Elise -Müller (under the pseudonym “Hélène Smith”) of Geneva, Switzerland, -becomes famous with the publication of Des Indes à la Planete Mars (From -India to the Planet Mars) by Théodore -Flournoy, professor -of psychology at the University of Geneva. The medium and the -psychologist remain very close until 1900, when the book is first -published, documenting her various series of somnambulatory trances in -which she experiences a civilization on Mars and her former lives: the -“Martian” cycle, “Ultramartian” cycle, “Hindu,” “Oriental,” and “royal” -cycles. She writes out the Martian communications on paper and -translates them into French, popularizing automatic writing. (Society -for Psychical Research, PSI Encyclopedia, “Hélène -Smith”; Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1986): 4–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 246

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Event 299 -(B0DB89ED)

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Date: summer 1900
-Description: Dusk. A 12-year-old girl is walking back to her farm from -Cadwst, Denbighshire, Wales, when a large disc- shaped object about 14 -feet in diameter silently passes above her and over a nearby meadow. -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 13–14) Mid-summer — -3:00 a.m. Perrian -A. McGilvra, 14, is returning on horseback from a dance near -Reedsburg, Wisconsin, when his horse begins acting up. He sees a large, -dark, dirigible-shaped object passing over a grove of poplar trees. The -trees bend like they are in a strong windstorm, but he notices no wind. -The object flies over his head with a whooshing sound. The horse remains -frightened even after the object leaves. (Clark III 1161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 247

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Event 300 -(9F66AE54)

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Date: 12/1900
-Description: Percival -Lowell at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, records a shaft -of light that projects from a “well-known geographical point” on Mars -for 70 minutes. (“Science -Notes,” Scientific American 84 (1901): 179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 248

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- Event 301 (C69DAA05)

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Date: summer 1901
-Description: Day. A 10-year-old boy is walking home to Bournbrook, West -Midlands, England, through a path behind his family’s garden when he -comes upon a large box-shaped device with a small, centrally placed -turret. The only opening is a door, through which two small men (less -than 4 feet tall) in military uniforms (but no insignia), each wearing -an odd-looking cap with a wire sticking up on both sides, step out. One -stays by the door, but the other walks toward the boy and waves him -away. The beings go back in the craft, a bright flash surrounds it, and -it shoots into the air with a whooshing sound. (Clark III 261; Jenny -Randles and Philip Barnet, “Humanoids Encountered -in 1901?” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 (March 1979): 28–29; “UFO -Britannia: Part 1, The Early Years,” -Above Top Secret, December 19, 2012; Jenny Randles, “The ‘Wes’ Effect 1: -The Hut That Flew,” Fortean Times 309 (Christmas 2014): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 249

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- Event 302 (1A7938CC)

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Date: 5/13/1902
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A blue-colored fireball appears over Austin, -Texas, and ascends into the sky until it disappears. (Austin (Tex.) -Daily Tribune, May 14, 1902; Clark III 1168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 250

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Event 303 -(F0F8496D)

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Date: 10/28/1902
-Time: 0305
-Description: Three persons aboard the “Fort Salisbury,” including Second -Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing lights in the sea -ahead. It was observed sinking slowly. Estimated length: 200 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fort 641; Anatomy 20 (Vallee)
-Location: Gulf of Guinea
-ID: 32

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- Event 304 (EEDBB3D2)

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Date: 3/17/1903
-Description: Mid-evening. Madge -Brosius, 12, and her father Charles see -a “huge object like a gigantic ripe cucumber with slightly tapered ends” -over the family farm in Helmer, Indiana. Its inside is illuminated, and -it has 8 windows in two rows of four each. Her father estimates it is -100 feet long. It begins moving away from him as he moves toward it, -zigzagging like a child’s balloon losing air. (Madge Brosius Allyn, “The -Flying Cucumber of 1903,” Fate 24, no. 3 (March 1971): 45–47; Clark III -1162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 251

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Event 305 -(1F6854A4)

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Date: 9/29/1903
-End date: 10/3/1903
-Description: An implement dealer named U. -G. Griffith is on his way home in Van Meter, Iowa. As he approaches, -he notices a strange point of light like a spotlight emanating from the -top of the Mather & Gregg’s building. He approaches cautiously, but -the light sails across the street. He tells others about the experience, -and over the next few days several people report a half-human, -half-animal entity with large bat-like wings. The townsfolk chase the -creature toa local mine shaft, down which it disappears, never to be -seen again. (Clark III 1216–1218; Craig Woolheater, “The Van Meter -Visitor,” Cryptomundo, May 9, 2013; Chad Lewis, Noah Voss, and Kevin Lee -Nelson, The Van Meter Visitor, On the Road, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 252

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Event 306 -(9E408538)

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Date: 12/17/1903
-Description: Inventors Orville -and Wilbur Wright make the first controlled, sustained flight of a -powered, heavier- than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer 4 miles south -of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. (Wikipedia, “Wright -Flyer”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 253

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- Event 307 (5E6E1973)

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Date: 1904
-Description: Late afternoon. Wirt -M. Covert, 17, and Arthur -B. Eldert are returning on horseback from a grocery store in -Dixboro, Michigan, when they see a large object in the air moving west -behind the steeple of the Dixboro United Methodist Church. He compares -its shape to the Confederate ironclad Virginia and it has a thick mast -sticking up from its center and orange light shining through some -windows. Suddenly it rises at about a 60° angle over the hills, tipping -its mast back, and disappears. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 254

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Event 308 -(4ED4EC1E)

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Date: 1904
-Description: Tom Darby, with his brother and mother, saw two -whitish-blue objects about 400 m away, from a point situated 3 km north -of Rolling Prairie. The objects hovered 2 or 3 m above ground, flew -toward a barn, came closer to each other, and were hidden from view by a -hill.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Hartle 164 (Vallee)
-Location: Rolling Prairie, Indiana
-ID: 33

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Event 309 -(0D53E31C)

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Date: 2/28/1904
-Description: Mid-evening. The steamer USS -Supply is -transporting the ill Governor of Guam, William -Elbridge Sewell, from -Guam to San Francisco, California. About 300 miles west-southwest of San -Francisco, commanding Lt. Frank -Herman Schofield observes three objects “beneath the clouds, their -color a rather bright red.” As they approach the ship they appear to -soar, passing above the broken clouds. After rising above the clouds, -they appear to “be moving directly away from the earth. The largest had -an apparent area of about six suns. It was egg-shaped, the larger end -forward. The second was about twice the size of the sun, and the third, -about the size of the sun. Their near approach to the surface appeared -to be most remarkable.” The objects are in sight for over two minutes by -three people. Barry -Greenwood thinks they are meteors, but Bruce -Maccabee is not so sure. (Frank H. Schofield, “Remarkable Meteors,” -Monthly Weather Review 32 (March 1904): 115; Bruce Maccabee, “Even More -Remarkable,” IUR 9, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1984): 14–15; Bruce Maccabee, “Meteors? -Even More Remarkable,” 2005; NICAP, “Three -Red Objects Sighted from USS Supply”; Barry Greenwood, “The -USS Supply Sighting of 1904,” -UFO Historical Revue, no. 2 (September 1998): 2–6; Martin Shough and Wim -van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, -pp. 329–351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 255

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Event 310 -(27EF58E1)

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Date: 6/1904
-Description: 10:00 p.m. When Tony Darby goes outside to the well on his -farm 5 miles north of Rolling Prairie, Indiana, he notices two round, -orange-colored, silent objects hovering 5–6 feet from the ground near -the barn. He estimates they are the size of wagon wheels. One of the -objects is 2 feet behind and to the left of the other. Running back to -the house, he calls for his mother and brother, and all three walk -toward the objects, which move away slightly then stop when the -witnesses stop. Soon the objects move steadily away to the northeast, -still maintaining their relative positions, at about the speed of a man -walking. They pause briefly in a small hollow, then continue over a -small hill and out of sight. (Lore and Deneault, pp. 91–92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 256

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- Event 311 (DF144ADD)

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Date: 1905
-Description: Frederick -Spencer Oliver’s book A Dweller on Two Planets is published -posthumously. It is a narrative channeled by Oliver in Yreka, -California, through automatic writing and mental dictations by a spirit -calling itself Phylos the Tibetan, an Atlantean who reveals his story -from 1883 to 1886. The book deals with deep esoteric subjects including -karma and reincarnation and describes Phylos’s final incarnation in 19th -century America where his Atlantean karma plays itself out. In that -incarnation (as Walter Pierson, gold miner and occult student of the -Theo-Christic Adepts) he travels to Venus in an astral body while his -physical form remains at a temple inside Mount Shasta, California. -(Wikipedia, “A -Dweller on Two Planets”; Frederick Spencer Oliver, A -Dweller on -Two Planets, Baumgardt, -1905)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 257

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Event 312 -(3C614457)

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Date: 8/3/1905
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Farmer John A. Jackson is driving a herd of hogs -from Silsbee (a former settlement 6 miles southwest of El Centro) to -Imperial, California, when a bright light flashes on him from above. He -is momentarily blinded, and the hogs start running away. Jackson sees it -is a searchlight from an airship about 100 feet long and propelled by -wings that move up and down. It has smaller lights along the sides. -Jackson wakes up W. E. Wilsie, who lives nearby, and they watch it -disappear to the northeast. Another farmer, A. J. Morey, also glimpses -the airship. (“Aerial -Navigation in Imperial Valley,” Imperial (Calif.) Press, August 5, -1905, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 258

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Event 313 -(CEF29689)

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Date: 9/6/1905
-Description: Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity paper -published
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Attributes: Einstein

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- Event 314 (CBEAB034)

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Date: 1906
-Description: Herbert -Vern DeMott, 10, watches an object come down near his family’s water -well in Mitchell, South Dakota. As he approaches it, a door rolls back -and he is welcomed inside by two human-like occupants who are sitting -inside on camp stools. They converse with him fluently, but he does not -know where they come from. He sees a lever that apparently can cut off -the earth’s “magnetism,” allowing the object to rise. The occupants take -water from the farm’s horse trough to be “used in making electricity.” -(“DeMott -Rock Study Crosses Continents,” Albany (Oreg.) Democrat-Herald, -August 27, 1973, p. 11; Clark III 261; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July -22, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 259

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Event 315 -(E33BE52E)

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Date: 1/4/1906
-Description: Night. Martin Meyerson is on the beach at Paia, Maui, -Hawaii, when he sees a green object with the shape and diameter of the -full moon appear from behind the southern slopes of the Wailuku -Mountains. It is so bright it illuminates the cane fields below, then -travels like a “slow-pitched baseball” and disappears behind Mount -Haleakala to the southeast. (Clark III 1168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 260

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Event 316 -(5365C1AC)

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Date: 9/16/1906
-Description: Late afternoon. Hundreds of people in Indianapolis, -Indiana, see a “cigar-shaped object” like an airship pass over the city. -It is seen first in Irvington and then floats over the southern side of -the business district where it is distinctly seen from downtown. Some -estimate it to be 2,000 feet in the air; the watchman at the courthouse -tower looks at it through binoculars but cannot see any detail. It -disappears to the west. (“Ship -Founders in Air,” Indianapolis Star, September 17, 1906, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 261

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Event 317 -(2CDD5870)

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Date: 10/7/1906
-Description: 5:00 p.m. An airship again floats over the southeastern -portion of Indianapolis, Indiana, and is seen by many as it turns -northeast and disappears in the distance. (“Ship -Floats over City: Hundreds See It in Flight,” Indianapolis Star, -October 8, 1906, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 262

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Event 318 -(2D83CE7D)

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Date: 11/1906
-Description: Dusk. Roy Russell and four other cotton-pickers are taking -a brief respite from work 10 miles southeast of Anadarko, Oklahoma, when -they see a fiery object shaped like a stovepipe. From an initial -altitude of 60 feet, the object sinks down, comes toward them, and -passes within 16 feet at eye level. Then it seems to flatten out and -just blacks out. Another similar object follows and then several others. -Russell watches them for 20 minutes. (“Recalls Fiery -1906 U.F.O.,” Des Moines (Iowa) Tribune, May 4, 1966, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 263

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- Event 319 (00D4CBD5)

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Date: 4/20/1907
-End date: 4/26/1907
-Description: The Nashville American prints some tall tales about -encounters with occupants of a balloon who land briefly in various -places (usually near a spring) around central Tennessee. The witnesses -include a farmer named W. A. Smith, Walter Stephenson, Herman Schubert, -Asa Hickerson, and A. Mollycoddle. The aeronauts are dressed strangely, -play music, and speak a foreign language. (Nashville (Tenn.) Sunday -American, April 21–23, 28, 1907; “Here’s -a Weird Tale,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Enquirer, April 25, 1907, p. 6; -Theo Paijmans, “The Tennessee Aeronaut Flap of 1907,” Fortean Times 313 -(May 2014): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 264

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Event 320 -(D840B18D)

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Date: summer 1907
-Description: While playing along the shore of a lake near Vilppula [now -Mänttä-Vilppula], Finland, a group of boys see a light come from over -the water and settle on the beach nearby. A door opens, and human-like -beings emerge, sending the youths running. Searchers who come to the -site later find traces and footprints. (Clark III 261; Center for UFO -Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1900-1909, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 265

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Event 321 -(9A6CDEE2)

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Date: 7/2/1907
-Description: Just before 12:00 noon. Bishop John -Stephen Michaud is talking with Vermont ex-governor Urban -A. Woodbury at -the corner of Church and College streets in Burlington, Vermont, when -they hear a loud explosion and see a torpedo-shaped object about 6 feet -long and 8 inches in diameter suspended in the air about 300 feet away. -It is dark, with several tongues of flame issuing from it at various -points, as if its covering is ruptured. It slowly begins to move to the -southeast. The explosion has either knocked down or stunned a horse in -College Street. A strong downpour of rain ensues shortly afterward. -Although described as a “possible case of ball lightning,” the object -appears more likely to have been an exploded balloon that someone has -attached fireworks to in preparation for a Fourth of July celebration. -(William H. Alexander, “A -Possible Case of Ball Lightning,” Monthly Weather Review 35 (July -1907): 310–311; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the -Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 354–372, reprinted in “Revisiting -the Bishop’s Torpedo,” Fortean Times 387 (Christmas 2019): 44–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 266

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Event 322 -(88D91C87)

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Date: 7/7/1907
-Description: 6:40 p.m. W. E. Thomas is watching a vivid sunset in -Phoenix, Arizona, when he sees a “blue disk floating in the heavens -apparently close to the sun.” It passes in front of the sun, completely -covering it. Other discs appear until there are seven of them. His wife -also sees the objects, which are constantly in motion, changing -directions and sometimes moving in a straight-line formation. The disks -are visible for another hour until sunset, when they are last seen as -blue blotches. (“Phoenix -Man Sees Blue Stars,” Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen, July 11, 1907, -p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 267

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- Event 323 (B325551B)

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Date: 1908
-Description: The English ship “Mohican,” piloted by Capt. Urghart, was -going to Philadelphia when it was surrounded by a thick, luminous cloud -which “magnetized” everything on board. The compass was observed to -swing wildly. When seamen tried to move some chains on the bridge, they -found that they were glued to the metal floor. Suddenly the cloud rose -and was seen above the sea for some time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 197 (Vallee)
-Location: Coast of Delaware
-ID: 34

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Event 324 -(6B80D5CF)

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Date: 3/30/1908
-Description: 10:15 p.m. F. W. Longbottom in Queens Park, Chester, -England, is photographing the Whirlpool Galaxy (NGC 5194) in Canes -Venacti with a 12.25-inch reflector. When the plate is developed, it -shows an unknown nebulous object some 25 minutes of arc northeast of the -galaxy. He does not see the object when he examines the same spot again -on April 6. (F. W. Longbottom, “Comet -or ———?” The Observatory 31 (1908): 215–216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 268

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Event 325 -(616EE243)

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Date: 5/1908
-Description: Late evening. Helen C. Peterson sees a string of lighted -beads in the sky over Great River, Long Island, New York. The first -light stops and as the others reach it, they seem to bump into it. It -grows a little bigger, appearing like a large star. Suddenly it begins -to spin like a pinwheel, but without sparks. The motion stops and what -looks like a very bright star takes off at great speed toward the -southeast. (Clark III 1168–1169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 269

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Event 326 -(05C73C44)

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Date: summer 1908
-Description: Repeated sightings of unidentified airships, sometimes -flying against the wind, take place in Denmark. They usually have wings -and searchlights; on one occasion, an antenna is seen jutting from the -front end. Other reports are of oddly shaped clouds from which a -searchlight emanates, sweeping the ground. (Willy Wegner, “The Mystery -‘Airship’ over Denmark in 1908,” The UFO Register 8, no. 1 (November -1977): 3–8; Clark III 1163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 271

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Event 327 -(40C67862)

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Date: 6/30/1908
-Description: 7:14 a.m. A large explosion takes place near the -Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate [now Krasnoyarsk -Krai], Russia. Evenki natives and Russian settlers in the hills -northwest of Lake Baikal observe a column of bluish light, nearly as -bright as the sun, moving across the sky. About 10 minutes later, there -is a flash and a sound similar to artillery fire. Eyewitnesses closer to -the explosion report that the source of the sound moves from the east to -the north of them. The sounds are accompanied by a shock wave that -knocks people off their feet and breaks windows hundreds of kilometers -away. The explosion over the sparsely populated eastern Siberian taiga -flattens 770 square miles of forest and possibly causes up to three -human casualties. The event is generally attributed to the air burst of -a meteoroid. It is classified as an impact event, even though no impact -crater has been found. The object disintegrates at an altitude of 3–6 -miles rather than hitting the surface of the Earth. The area is so -remote that the site is not inspected until 1927 by a team led by -Russian mineralogist Leonid -Kulik, who finds a zone about 5 miles across where trees are -scorched and devoid of branches but still standing upright. More exotic -explanations for the event include a black hole impact, antimatter, a -UFO crash (as recently as 2004 by Russian ufologist Yuri Labvin), a -nuclear explosion, and an inadvertent experiment by Nikola -Tesla. (Wikipedia, “Tunguska -event”; Hobana and Weverbergh 10–30; John Baxter and Thomas Atkins, -The -Fire Came By: The Riddle -of the Great Siberian Explosion, Doubleday, -1976; Surendra Verma, The Mystery of the Tunguska Fireball, Thriplow, -2005; Vladimir Rubtsov, The Tunguska Mystery, Springer, 2009; Phil -Plait, “Aliens -Saved Tunguska!” -Bad Astronomy, May 29, 2009; Mark Peplow, “Rock -Samples Suggest Meteor Caused Tunguska Blast,” -Nature, June 10, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 270

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Event 328 -(D113F250)

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Date: 6/30/1908
-Description: Unexplained explosion in the taiga, equivalent to a -thermonuclear blast, sometimes interpreted as the crash of an -interstellar vehicle.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 18; Challenge 99 (Vallee)
-Location: Podkamennaia Toungouska, USSR
-ID: 35

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Event 329 -(2B627B3D)

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Date: 7/25/1908
-Description: About 6:00 p.m. A “large airship sailing very high” is seen -passing from north to south over the Forestville neighborhood of -Bristol, Connecticut. It seems to be an elongated gas bag under which a -framework with a propeller is suspended. After “maneuvering” a while, it -stops and circles over Lake Compounce then changes course toward the -southwest. An East Bristol man named Wilson later claims it was a -pig-shaped balloon he had sent up for his daughter’s birthday party, but -“balloon” sightings continue in Massachusetts through December. (“Large -Airship Seen Sailing over East Part of Bristol, Ct.,” Boston Herald, -July 26, 1908, p. 16; “The Lake Compounce Airship,” Willimantic (Conn.) -Daily Chronicle, July 29, 1908, p. 26; Clark III 1163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 272

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Event 330 -(7AAB1BFD)

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Date: 7/26/1908
-Description: A special agent force in the Department of Justice, -forerunner of the FBI, is created by Attorney General Charles -Bonaparte. Its first chief is Stanley -Finch. Attorney General George -W. Wickersham renames the force the Bureau of Investigation in March -1909. (Federal Bureau of Investigation, Timeline, March -31, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 273

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Event 331 -(F24EE06C)

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Date: 10/1908
-Description: Skipper J. H. Stockman of the smack Superb is fishing in -the North Sea 35 miles out of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, when he sees -a large “star” rise out of the water and approach his ship. He signals -it with a red flare, and to his surprise he is immediately answered with -a red flare above him. He then shows a white flare and receives a blue -flare in response. The object appears sausage-shaped and carries a -single light. It disappears in the direction of the Netherlands. (East -Anglian Daily Times, May 20, 1909; Norfolk News, May 22, 1909; Clark III -1163; David Clarke, “Scareships -over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 (1999); -Patrick Gross, URECAT, August -17, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 274

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Event 332 -(547F914D)

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Date: 10/1/1908
-End date: 5/26/1927
-Description: The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the -Ford Motor Company. It is generally regarded as the first affordable -automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. -The relatively low price was partly the result of Ford’s efficient -fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual -handcrafting.
-Type: industrial advance
-Reference: Wikipedia

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- Event 333 (E335F32E)

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Date: 1909
-Description: Night. Frederick -G. Hehr sees a bright white light executing a “curious dance” over a -village one mile away in East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany. A minute -later the light suddenly streaks in his direction, coming within 300 -feet as it passes by at 60 feet altitude. Three seconds later it is -gone. (“Report from the Readers,” Fate 4, no. 5 (July 1951): 95–96; -Clark III 1169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 275

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Event 334 -(E2E53F83)

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Date: 3/4/1909
-Description: 8:25 p.m. Charles Maberly, an organist at St. Michael’s -Church in Lambourne, Berkshire, England, is returning home from choir -practice when he sees a bright searchlight attached to a torpedo-shaped -dirigible heading west at 200 feet altitude. He walks for about 50 yards -watching it. As it passes out of sight, he hears three explosions at -regular intervals. (London Evening News, May 18, 1909; Carl Grove, “The -Airship Wave of 1909: A -Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1970): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 276

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Event 335 -(EE721F59)

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Date: 3/23/1909
-Description: 5:15 a.m. Police Constable James Kettle of Peterborough, -England, sees a powerful light about 1,200 feet in the air above -Cromwell Road making an engine-like buzz. The light is on a dark, -fast-moving oblong object. It is in view for about 3 minutes. -(Peterborough Advertiser, March 27, 1909; “Aerial -Mystery,” London Standard, May 17, 1909, p. 7; Carl Grove, “The -Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review -16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1970): 9; David Clarke, “Scareships -over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 -(1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 277

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Event 336 -(54FBB706)

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Date: 5/9/1909
-Description: 11:20 p.m. Miss H. M. Boville notices from her bedroom -window at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, a “large dark object looming -out of the sky” and traveling slowly from the east. After a few seconds -it remains nearly stationary for a few minutes in front of her window, -and she sees the outline of a torpedo-shaped airship about 1,300 feet in -altitude. It rises higher then travels swiftly to the west toward -London. It shows two powerful searchlights at each end very briefly. -(London Evening News, May 15, 1909; Carl Grove, “The -Airship Wave of 1909: -A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1970): 10; David Clarke, “Scareships over -Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 (1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 278

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Event 337 -(292328ED)

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Date: 5/13/1909
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Fred Harrison of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England, -sees a “long, dark object” moving swiftly overhead just above treetop -level. It carries a searchlight that illuminates the road, farm -buildings, trees, and everything it touches. (“Mystery of the Air,” -London Daily Express, May 14, 1909, p. 1; David Clarke, “Scareships -over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 -(1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 280

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Event 338 -(31106539)

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Date: 5/13/1909
-Description: Night. C. W. Allen and two other men are motoring through -Kelmarsh, Northampton, England, when they hear a loud explosion in the -air followed by the rumbling of an engine. Allen sees an oblong dark -shape, perhaps 100 feet long, with lights in front and behind moving at -an altitude of 500–600 feet. They dimly perceive some men on a platform -below it. It passes out of sight at 20 mph northeast toward -Peterborough. (East Anglian Daily Times, May 13, 1909; Carl Grove, “The -Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review -16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1970): 11; David Clarke, “Scareships -over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 -(1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 279

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Event 339 -(07495612)

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Date: 5/16/1909
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A Mrs. Wigg, who lives near Belle Vue Park on -Yarmouth Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, wakes up to an engine-like -sound. She looks out her window and sees a long, dark, bottle-shaped -object pass by at a low altitude. She thinks she can see a man in front, -steering the craft. Other people in Lowestoft hear engine sounds and -flashes of light around the same time. (East Anglian Daily Times, May -18–19, 1909; Norfolk News, May 19, 1909, p. 13; David Clarke, “Scareships -over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 -(1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 281

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Event 340 -(EA41713F)

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Date: 5/17/1909
-Description: The subject of mystery airships is brought up in a debate -in the House of Commons. Arthur -Fell, MP for Great Yarmouth, England, had asked Secretary of State -for War Richard -Haldane if he could give the number of dirigibles, either built or -in progress of being built, in Germany. Haldane replies that 7 dirigible -airships have been built and another 5 are under construction. Horatio -Myer, MP -for Lambeth North, follows up by asking Haldane: “Will the honourable -gentleman, in any report he may circulate, tell us about a certain -dirigible supposed to be hovering about our coast?” The question is -greeted with laughter and Haldane does not reply. (Neil R. Storey, -Zeppelin Blitz: The German Air Raids on Great Britain during the First -World War, History Press, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 282

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Event 341 -(C5282E44)

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Date: 5/18/1909
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Charles Lethbridge (part-time dock worker and -Punch-and-Judy showman) is traveling on a “spring cart” from Senghenydd -on his way home to Cardiff, South Wales. At the summit of Caerphilly -Mountain he sees a long, tube-shaped object sitting on the grass by the -roadside, with two men busily working on something. They are wearing -heavy fur coats and fur caps that fit tightly over the heads. Lethbridge -proceeds to about 60 feet of them when they notice him and start jumping -up and jabbering in a foreign language. They quickly pick up something -from the ground, then jump into a little carriage suspended from the -object (with wheels at the bottom), which rises into the air in a -zig-zag fashion. When it clears the telegraph wires, two electric lights -shine out and the craft heads toward the southeast. Lethbridge returns -to the site with a newspaper reporter and they find signs of trampling -in the grass for about 45 feet. They also pick up a small red French -military label, letterhead from a London stockbroker, many newspaper -clippings with references to airships or the German army, and a tin box -with paste for polishing metal. (“Airship -Mystery,” The Guardian (London), May 20, 1909, p. 7; “Mystery of the -Air,” London Daily Express, May 20, 1909, p. 1; Nick Redfern, “UFOs -over Wales: A 1909 Wave,” Mysterious Universe, May 23, 2016; Brett -Holman, “What -the Showman Saw,” Airminded, November 17, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 283

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Event 342 -(6F352AE2)

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Date: 5/18/1909
-Time: 2300
-Description: Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road near the mountains -when he saw on the grass a large tubelike machine. Aboard were two men -wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not -understand. The grass was found depressed at the site after the object -had flown off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 198; Anatomy 21 (Vallee)
-Location: Caerphilly, Wales
-ID: 36

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Event 343 -(67C7EF0E)

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Date: 5/19/1909
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A Mr. Chatten, grocer’s assistant, is -cycling home to Tharston, Norfolk, England, when he is dazzled by a -bright light with a bluish tinge overhead. It switches off for a few -seconds, and Chatten can see a long, cigar-shaped object 300–400 feet -above him, moving rapidly toward Norwich. On its underside is a -framework with a yellow light at each end. (“Airship Mystery,” London -Daily Telegraph, May 21, 1909, p. 12; Brett Holman, “Saturday, -May 22, 1909,” Airminded, May 22, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 286

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Event 344 -(8805DF0B)

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Date: 5/19/1909
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A lone motorcyclist observes a glowing light -traveling in a straight trajectory overhead near Wroxham, Norfolk, -England. As it passes, the motorcycle headlight fails. It begins working -again after the UFO passes. (East Anglian Daily Times, May 21, 1909; -Norfolk News, May 22, 1909; Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving -Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 1; Brett Holman, “Saturday, -May 22, 1909,” Airminded, May 22, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 285

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Event 345 -(54CDC6A2)

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Date: 5/19/1909
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Robert Westlake, railroad signalman at King’s -Junction in the Queen Alexandra Dock at Cardiff, Wales, sees a -cigar-shaped object flying swiftly at perhaps 2,600 feet and making a -whizzing noise. It has two lights and is moving eastward. Some dock -workers who are loading the SS Arndale also see the object for “a minute -or two.” It passes over the Bristol Channel towards Weston-super-Mare. -Aeronaut Percival -G. Spencer says that he recently sold several of his “man-lifting” -25-foot-long model airships to advertising firms in the UK, one of them -in Cardiff. (London Globe, May 19, 1909; Brett Holman, “Wednesday, -19 May 1909,” Airminded, May 19, 1909; London Standard, May 21, -1909; Brett Holman, “Friday, -21 May 1909,” Airminded, May 21, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 284

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Event 346 -(A981D916)

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Date: 6/16/1909
-Time: 0410
-Description: An elongated object following a west to east trajectory -flew over the town. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two -fishermen to plunge into the sea 6 km away from the coast, after a -steady flight of about 9 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 21 (Vallee)
-Location: Donghoi, Annam
-ID: 37

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Event 347 -(17A77EA6)

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Date: 7/1909
-End date: 8/1909
-Description: A mystery airship wave begins in New Zealand with numerous -sightings of unusual nocturnal lights and airships seen in both daytime -and nighttime. The sightings are at first most intense over the southern -end of South Island. In the following weeks the reports appear to move -northward and by August, Australia also falls under the grip of what -press accounts call “aerialitis.” (Bill Chalker, “Early -Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Tony Brunt, “The -New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020; Clark III -65–67; Brett Holman, “Scareships -over Australia—1,” Airminded, October 20, 2010; Brett Holman, “Scareships -over Australia—II,” Airminded, October 23, 2010; Brett Holman, “Scareships -over Australia—III,” Airminded, October 25, 2010; Robert E. -Bartholomew, “The -Great Zeppelin Scare of 1909,” NZ Skeptics, May 1, 1998; Hilary -Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, -pp. 479–483)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 287

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Event 348 -(AB592BBE)

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Date: 7/23/1909
-Description: 12:00 noon. Mrs. James Russell and several schoolchildren -in Kelso, New Zealand, see an airship shaped like a boat that flies -toward them from the east, circles above the school, and returns in the -same direction. It seems to have a propeller. (Bill Chalker, “Early -Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Bryan Dickeson, “The -’1909 Kelso -Airships’ of New Zealand,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 288

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Event 349 -(0EE2C115)

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Date: 7/30/1909
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Two men working on a dredge on the Mataura River -north of Gore, New Zealand, see a lighted object descend out of the -mist. It appears to be a narrow, boat-shaped craft that circles the -dredge over a period of several minutes, rising and falling like a bird, -and varying its speed. Two figures can be seen inside. It disappears -into the mist, leaving behind a yellow glare. (Bill Chalker, “Early -Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Tony Brunt, “The -New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 289

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Event 350 -(5F6D7087)

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Date: 8/3/1909
-Description: Night. A man is riding in Waipawa, New Zealand, when his -horse becomes nervous. He sees a large, gray, torpedo-shaped object -passing overhead. Three persons are visible in it, one of whom shouts to -him in an unknown language. The object rises to a great height, showing -lights fore and aft. After circling around, it disappears behind a hill. -(Clark III 261; Hawkes Bay Herald, August 6, 1909; Tony Brunt, “The -New Zealand UFO -Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 290

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Event 351 -(AD8FDB57)

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Date: 8/7/1909
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Four young men at brick kilns near the railway -station in Goulburn, New South Wales, see a bright, pale blue light -arise from behind some hills to the east. After ascending, it circles -back in the direction it came from. The object is said to be visible -every night from August 5–10. (“The -Goulburn ‘Airship,’” Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald, August 11, -1909, p. 10; Bill Chalker, “Historical -Australian UFO Reports,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3 -(Nov.–Dec. 1983): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 291

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Event 352 -(E6D8DFC9)

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Date: 8/9/1909
-Description: Night. Residents of Moss Vale, New South Wales, watch a -large lighted object like an airship float over the town. (“Is -It an Airship?” Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald, August 10, 1909, -p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 293

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Event 353 -(C3D026D0)

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Date: 8/9/1909
-Description: 7:30–8:00 p.m. A flying object with lights on its front and -back sails at a great altitude from west to east over Concord, New -Hampshire, eventually disappearing into a cloud. Capt. Lyman -Jackman at first thinks it is a balloon, but its estimated speed of -45–50 mph against the wind leads him to think otherwise. (“Air Ship or -Meteor,” Concord (N.H.) Evening Monitor, August 10, 1909, p. 3) At about -the same time, Bertha Niles of Vale Perkins, Quebec, watches a similar -lighted object moving west to east. (“Air Ship or What?” Concord (N.H.) -Evening Monitor, August 13, 1909, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 292

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Event 354 -(62C0F20C)

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Date: 8/18/1909
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Four men (Capt. Edward P. Sisson, Ernest T. -Newton, Prentice Lanphear, and Edward M. Knapp) at the Coast Guard -life-saving station on the south side of Fishers Island, New York, see a -winged airship 60 feet long and 20 feet wide. Moving swiftly against the -wind, it moves in from the northeast, its engines whirring and a -dazzling white light at its head. Two dark figures can be seen in the -center of the object. Visible for 3 minutes, the object moves off to the -west. (“Fishers Islanders See Big Aeroplane,” Providence (R.I.) Journal, -August 19, 1909, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 294

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Event 355 -(D293E9D1)

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Date: 8/22/1909
-Description: Evening. Residents of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, watch a -mystery airplane that emits a large puff of smoke. It descends and flies -off to the north. (“Airship -over Montclair,” New York Times, August 24, 1909, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 295

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Event 356 -(D8FC201A)

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Date: 9/1909
-Description: 7:30 p.m. E. B. Hanna of South Windham, Connecticut, -watches a high-flying, meandering “searchlight” along Windham Center -Road for about an hour. After heading toward him, it changes direction -and moves southward. (“What Mr. Hanna Saw May Have Been the Worcester -Airship,” Willimantic (Conn.) Chronicle, December 14, 1909, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 296

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Event 357 -(424173BF)

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Date: 9/3/1909
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Several hundred residents of Bloomingdale, -Indiana, see a “dirigible balloon” pass over the city for 15 minutes. -The car beneath the gas bag is plainly visible. (“Sights -Strange Airship,” Indianapolis Star, September 4, 1909, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 297

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Event 358 -(CC3B7A2C)

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Date: 9/20/1909
-Description: During the opposition of Mars, astronomer Eugène -Antoniadi uses the 83cm aperture telescope at Meudon Observatory in -Paris, France, to observe Mars. He sees no canals. The outstanding -photos of Mars taken at the new Baillaud dome at the Pic du Midi -Observatory in the French Pyrenees also bring formal discredit to the -Martian canal theory, and the notion of canals begins to fall out of -favor. Around this time, spectroscopic analysis also begins to show that -no water is present in the Martian atmosphere. (Wikipedia, “Martian -canal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 298

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Event 359 -(54520961)

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Date: 9/30/1909
-Description: Evening. A balloon “supposed to be from Chicago” passes -over Edinburgh, Indiana. Its anchor somehow gets entangled in -high-tension wires of the traction station for the Indianapolis, -Columbus, and Southern interurban rail. It moves south to Taylorsville a -few minutes later, and it is so low to the ground that the occupants are -able to talk to passersby. (“Tramp -Balloon Snaps Wires,” Indianapolis Star, October 1, 1909, -p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 299

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Event 360 -(6383272C)

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Date: 10/1909
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Rev. Ruth Smith and some church members are -riding in a wagon in La Porte, Indiana, when the horses rear and a -blinding light splashes across the road. A large structure resembling -two inverted bowls, separated by a row of lights, is hovering, with -several phosphorescent beams extending to the ground. It is encircled in -a corona of light and begins moving slowly. After 15 minutes, it blinks -out. (Lore and Deneault, p. 97; -Clark III 1169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 300

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Event 361 -(7EA5B54A)

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Date: 12/13/1909
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A. W. Norris of Mabelvale, Arkansas, sees a -bright, bobbling light moving through the air about 300 feet above him -from the south. (“Airship -Flies near Little Rock, Perhaps,” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, -December 15, 1909, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 301

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Event 362 -(AD8F51FF)

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Date: 12/22/1909
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Many residents of Worcester, Massachusetts, see a -“brilliant ray” emitted by a large black object 1,000 feet high in the -southwestern sky. After circling over the town, the object heads to the -west, where it is seen over Marlboro. It returns to Worcester between -7:00 and 7:30 p.m., flying at low altitude and sporting a searchlight. -One policeman thinks he sees enormous wings; others detect one or two -figures inside. The airship is attributed to a Worcester businessman -named Wallace -E. Tillinghast, who has told the Boston Herald on December 12 that -he has invented a heavier-than-air monoplane and has made more than 100 -test flights at night to Boston and New York City. But Tillinghast never -offers his aircraft for public viewing, and people gradually realize it -is a hoax. (“Tells of Flight 300 Miles in Air,” Boston Herald, December -13, 1909, p. 1; “Airship -Seen in Two -Cities,” Boston Globe, December 23, 1909, p. 1; Clark III 1165; -Stephen Whalen and Robert E. Bartholomew, “The -Great New England Airship Hoax of 1909,” New England Quarterly 75, -no. 3 (September 2002) :466–376; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, -Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 483–486)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 302

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Event 363 -(C949B58D)

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Date: 12/23/1909
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Thousands of citizens of Boston, Massachusetts, -and neighboring communities see an airship with lights flying at an -altitude of around 400 feet. Alex Randall of Revere reports wings, tail, -and propeller, but other observers only see a cylindrical shape at most. -(“Skyship of Mystery Flies above Boston,” Boston Journal, December 24, -1909, p.1; Clark III 1165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 303

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Event 364 -(4635DF31)

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Date: 12/24/1909
-Description: In Providence, Rhode Island, author H. -P. Lovecraft sees what people are claiming is Tillinghast’s airplane -bearing a powerful searchlight, but he identifies it as the planet -Venus. (“City Is Airship Mad,” Providence (R.I.) Journal, December 25, -1909, p. 2; “Providence Men See Searchlight in Sky,” Providence (R.I.) -Journal, December 25, 1909, p. 14; H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays, -Volume 3: Science, ed. S. T. Joshi, Hippocampus, 2005, p. 99; Clark III -1165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 304

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- Event 365 (116FBC29)

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Date: 1/1910
-Time: 2300
-Description: Several witnesses among them the vicar, the Mayor, and a -policeman -saw a cigar-shaped object hovering at 30 m altitude. A man -appeared at a lateral door and was heard shouting some words in an -unknown language. The opening closed, and the object accelerated and was -lost to sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Stuart 24 (Vallee)
-Location: Invercargill, New Zealand
-ID: 38

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Event 366 -(CAE5B06C)

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Date: 1/12/1910
-Description: 9:30 a.m. An unknown cigar-shaped aircraft is seen moving -over Chattanooga, Tennessee, to the northeast. It returns on January 13. -(“Airship -in the Air,” Chattanooga (Tenn.) Daily Times, January 13, 1910, -p. 7; “Another -Airship Flying,” Chattanooga (Tenn.) Daily Times, January 14, 1910, -p. 6; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February -20, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 305

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Event 367 -(47049AFC)

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Date: 1/12/1910
-Description: 4:30 p.m. An unknown airship flies high over Huntsville, -Alabama, against the wind, from southwest to northeast, disappearing -over the crest of Chapman Mountain. (“Strange -Airship,” Huntsville (Ala.) Journal, January 13, 1910, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 306

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Event 368 -(81256F25)

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Date: 1/14/1910
-Description: 6:55 p.m. Two men on Summit Hill in Knoxville, Tennessee, -see a large airship moving south. Its outlines are distinct. The men -hear a hum of machinery and see sparks from “its motors.” (“Positive -That They Saw an Airship,” -Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, January 15, 1910, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 307

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Event 369 -(1E484164)

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Date: summer 1910
-Description: Morning. Lawrence J. Crone is playing on a baseball field -in the Violetville neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a -metallic, brown, blimplike object, more than 100 feet long, hovering -above a pine tree 200 feet away. It has a row of colored, rectangular -windows. Through one he can see as many as 20 strange entities taking -turns looking at him. Their heads are pointed, and they are dressed in -light-colored garments with a fur-like texture. Each has small dots for -eyes and a slit for a mouth. Two other young men also see the object and -are badly frightened. (Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February -20, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 308

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Event 370 -(B21A1EE9)

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Date: summer 1910
-Description: Night. Carl H. Darden is riding near Vernal, Utah, when he -notices that his horse is acting strangely. He dismounts and walks the -horse into a clearing, where he sees a row of lights a few feet above -the ground. They are attached to a huge, hovering disc. After watching -it a while, he steps toward it, and it makes a buzzing sound as if in -warning. As he advances, it rises slowly into the sky until it reaches -an altitude of several hundred feet, when it suddenly streaks off to the -north. (Clark III 1169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 309

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Event 371 -(12C00D36)

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Date: 10/25/1910
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A mystery airship is seen at Minderoo Station, -Western Australia, by Mrs. A. J. Roe, wife of the station manager. She -says it “looked compact, like a dirigible balloon, but it appeared to be -squarer and more like an aeroplane. The sun shone on it, and flashes -came from it, as though reflected from something revolving, or from -metal work.” Three station hands also see the object. (“Mysterious -Airship Sighted at Onslow,” Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald, December -5, 1910, p. 9; Bill Chalker, “Early -Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Brett Holman, “Scareships -over Australia—IV,” Airminded, October 27, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 310

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Event 372 -(A55CB931)

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Date: 10/27/1910
-Description: 1:10 a.m. An airship with a powerful headlight and red and -green taillights is seen flying at 600 feet above Swift Current, -Saskatchewan. Observers at Irvine, Alberta, see it at 4:45 a.m. going -west. It is also seen at Medicine Hat, Alberta, flying southwest. (“Unknown -Aeronaut in Alberta,” Calgary (Alberta) Herald, October 27, 1910, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 311

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Event 373 -(90BF8134)

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Date: 10/29/1910
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Two objects flying at a great altitude are seen -over East Providence, Rhode Island, by newspaper workers and others up -early. They are too distant to be recognized as dirigibles or balloons, -but they resemble luminous pumpkins. One is far ahead of the other, but -both are “cutting pigeon wings, looping aerial loops, circling and -diving like birds and generally doing skylark stunts.” (“Aviators Seen -High Up in Air near City,” Providence Journal, October 30, 1910, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 312

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- Event 374 (0AA6E836)

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Date: 1/9/1911
-Description: Harvard astronomer William -H. Pickering tells the Boston Post that he believes Venus is -populated by “huge monsters and lizards such as roamed the earth ages -ago.” He adds that “If human life exists on Venus, the people do not -live as we do.” (“Olden -Monsters Inhabit Venus?” Chicago Tribune, January 9, 1911, -p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 313

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Event 375 -(61A1702B)

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Date: 5/5/1911
-Description: 5:00 p.m. William Nixon is working at his father’s sawmill -18 miles from St. George, Queensland, Australia, when he sees a flying -machine carrying two men, one of whom is dressed in dark clothing. He -estimates it is traveling from south to northwest at about 1,000 feet. -(“Mysterious -Airships,” Perth West Australian, May 15, 1911, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 314

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Event 376 -(5C6D324E)

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Date: 7/22/1911
-Description: Evening. A ball of fire the size of the full moon is seen -for several hours at Durango, Colorado. For a time it grows even larger, -then diminishes in size until it disappears entirely. (“Large -Ball of Fire Is Seen in the Sky,” Reno (Nev.) Evening Gazette, July -25, 1911, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 315

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Event 377 -(1A35E7E2)

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Date: 8/3/1911
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Adam -H. McCullough and his wife Carrie are -driving on Brinkerhoff Avenue in Mansfield, Ohio, when they notice a -light, as brilliant as an arc light, in the northern sky. It has an -apparent size of 6 inches and looks to be about 50 feet up. It remains -visible for several minutes then fizzles out. (“A Phenomenon,” -Mansfield (Ohio) News, August 4, 1911, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 316

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- Event 378 (A0C60AEF)

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Date: 4/8/1912
-Description: Sunset. Charles Tilden Smith at Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire, -England, observes the apparent fan-shaped shadow of a stationary object -45° in the sky against the altostratus cloud layer. The dark patch -remains stationary against the moving clouds and is visible for 30 -minutes. Meteorologist Charles -John Philip Cave suspects the object is a pilot balloon. (Charles -Tilden Smith, “Clouds -and Shadows,” Nature 89 (1912): 168; Charles J. P. Cave, “Clouds and -Shadows,” Nature 89 (1912): 268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 317

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Event 379 -(E431ADBD)

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Date: 4/15/1912
-Description: Sinking of the Titanic
-Type: disaster
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 380 -(B7754FFE)

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Date: fall 1912
-Description: About 2:30 p.m. C. F. Rowling, 15, and two friends see -three perfectly round, pale-green objects less than a mile away in the -northern sky over Alameda, California. They are traveling in parallel -with the horizon in a vertical formation (one atop the other) and -heading west. They are completely silent and 75–100 feet in diameter. He -watches them for 10 seconds before they pass behind some trees. (Clark -III 1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 318

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Event 381 -(785FE06C)

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Date: 10/14/1912
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Noise from an unseen aircraft startles the -residents of Sheerness, Kent, England. Nearby at Eastchurch, residents -light flares to guide the craft in case it needs to land. The incident -comes up in a debate in Parliament on November 21. MP William -Joynson-Hicks asks First Lord of the Admiralty Winston -Churchill whether the government has any zeppelins capable of -traveling at 60 mph, but Churchill answers no. However, some authorities -conclude that the incident is caused by the intrusion of the LZ -13 Hansa Zeppelin -over British airspace. (“The -Alleged Visit of a Foreign Airship,” London Times, November 22, -1912, p. 8; Brett Holman, “The Sheerness -Incident,” Airminded, October 14, 2007; Brett Holman, “Secrets -of the German Aërial Fleet—I,” Airminded, May 29, 2013; Hilary Evans -and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 486–487; -UFOFiles2, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 319

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- Event 382 (4E2019BC)

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Date: 1/4/1913
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Council worker John Hobbs hears aerial motors at -Dover, England, and sees a light speeding toward him from the sea in a -northeasterly direction. It is moving steadily despite a gale-force -wind. Two other people, tradesman Mr. Langley and Police Constable -Pierce, hear the noise but do not see the object. (“Unknown Aircraft -over Dover,” London Times, January 6, 1913, p. 6; “Mysterious -Airship,” London Daily Telegraph, January 6, 1913; Brett Holman, “Monday, -6 January 1913,” Airminded, January 6, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 320

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Event 383 -(321F9C5E)

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Date: 1/6/1913
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two lights “thought to be the lamps of an -airship” maneuver in the sky over Lavernock Battery, Vale of Glamorgan, -Wales. (“Mystery Airships,” London Daily Express, January 7, 1913, p. 5; -Brett Holman, “Friday, -10 January 1913,” Airminded, January 10, 1913)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 321

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Event 384 -(8E707BA3)

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Date: 1/17/1913
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Capt. Lionel -Lindsay, chief constable of Glamorganshire, watches a large, -fast-moving object above Cardiff, Wales, leaving in its wake a dense -volume of smoke. Other witnesses see the light moving west from Cardiff -at considerable speed. (“An -Airship over Cardiff,” London Times, January 21, 1913, p. 10; Brett -Holman, “Tuesday, -21 January 1913,” Airminded, January 21, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 322

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Event 385 -(AEA3208B)

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Date: 1/25/1913
-Description: 7:00–8:30 p.m. Several people see a mysterious aircraft -over the Clubmoor neighborhood of Liverpool, England. It is traveling -about 25 mph and carries a brilliant light. (“Aircraft -over Liverpool,” London Times, January 28, 1913, p. 13; Brett -Holman, “Tuesday, -28 January 1913,” Airminded, January 28, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 323

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Event 386 -(DD5CC0DD)

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Date: 1/25/1913
-Description: 8:25 p.m. Villagers of Chancery, Ceredigion, Wales, watch a -mystery airship with searchlights that turns south and leaves in the -direction of Carmathenshire. (“Mystery Airship,” London Daily Express, -January 30, 1913, p. 1; Brett Holman, “Thursday, -30 January 1913,” Airminded, January 30, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 324

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Event 387 -(4DB8A6A6)

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Date: 1/27/1913
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A resident of Stretford, Greater Manchester, -England, sees an aircraft “like a huge ball” passing silently overhead -in a southerly direction. He estimates its speed at 40 mph and its -altitude as 700 feet. It has a yellowish light that later turns light -red. When it is over Eccles, it turns westward in the direction of -Liverpool. (“Is It a German Airship?” London Daily Express, January 31, -1913, p. 5; Brett Holman, “Friday, -31 January 1913,” -Airminded, January 31, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 325

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Event 388 -(B9B46DA0)

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Date: 1/29/1913
-Description: 8:00 p.m. An airplane with a powerful searchlight is seen -over Iași, Romania, coming from the direction of Russia. It maneuvers -over the town for 10 minutes and then moves toward the barracks. Troops -are mustered out and signals are given for the aviator to land. Two -warning shots are fired, but the lights go out and the object -disappears. Other mystery aircraft are seen this month at military -barracks in Focşani, Brăila, and Târgovişte. (“‘Russian -Aeroplane’ Scare in Roumania,” Manchester Guardian, January 31, -1913, p. 9; Romania 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 326

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Event 389 -(6BEEB69C)

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Date: 2/1/1913
-Description: Evening. A Russian airplane equipped with a searchlight is -seen maneuvering over Lvov, Ukraine. Another mystery plane, making -signals, is spotted over Ternopil, Ukraine. (London Globe, February 4, -1913, p. 3; “Airplane Fired at,” London Daily Express, February 3, 1913, -p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 327

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Event 390 -(413FE0A0)

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Date: 2/2/1913
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Mr. Trubshaw of East Croydon, England, sees an -airship come in from the southeast and disappear rapidly to the -northwest. Rays of light stream from it on the right and the left and -downward. Others see the object, said to be moving with the wind. -(“Mysterious Fly-by-Night,” London Daily Express, February 3, 1913, -p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 329

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Event 391 -(B22BEF9F)

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Date: 2/2/1913
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Robert Lawrence Thornton sees an airship pass -over his house in Framfield, East Sussex, England. (“The Mystery -Airships,” London Daily Express, February 4, 1913, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 330

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Event 392 -(CF0FA44D)

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Date: 2/2/1913
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Police Constable Church at Aberavon, Wales, -watches an airship flying for an hour over Swansea Bay and the Mumbles. -(“Another -Mysterious Airship,” London Times, February 3, 1913, p. 6; Brett -Holman, “Monday, -3 February 1913,” Airminded, February 3, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 328

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Event 393 -(8C5FFEED)

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Date: 2/5/1913
-Description: Evening. Numerous witnesses in Newport, Cardiff, and Neath, -South Wales, watch a “dirigible” carrying a bright light pass in a -northwesterly direction. (“The -‘Mysterious Airship,’” Manchester Guardian, February 6, 1913, p. 9; -Brett Holman, “Thursday, -6 February 1913,” Airminded, February 6, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 331

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Event 394 -(A678B64C)

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Date: 2/9/1913
-Description: 9:00 p.m. An earth-grazing meteor procession is seen from -locations across Canada, the northeastern United States, and Bermuda, -and from many ships at sea, including eight off Brazil, giving a total -recorded ground track of over 7,000 miles. The meteors are particularly -unusual in that there is no apparent radiant—no point in the sky from -which the meteors appear to originate. Witnesses are surprised to see a -procession of between 40 and 60 bright, slow-moving fireballs moving -from horizon to horizon in a practically identical path. Individual -fireballs are visible for at least 30 to 40 seconds, and the entire -procession takes some 5 minutes to cross the sky. Subsequent observers -also note a large, white, tailless body bringing up the rear, but the -various bodies making up the procession continue to disintegrate and -travel at different rates throughout their course, so that by the time -observations are made in Bermuda, the leading bodies are described as -“like large arc lights in appearance, slightly violet in colour,” -followed closely by yellow and red fragments. Research carried out in -the 1950s by Alexander -D. Mebane uncovers a handful of reports from newspaper archives in -the northern United States. At Escanaba, Michigan, the Press states the -“end of the world was apprehended by many” as numerous meteors travel -across the northern horizon. In Batavia, New York, a few observers see -the meteors and many people hear a thundering noise, while other reports -are made in Nunda and Dansville, New York (where several residents again -think the world is ending) and Osceola, Pennsylvania. The observations -are analyzed in detail later in 1913 by the astronomer Clarence -Chant, leading him to conclude that as all accounts are positioned -along a great circle arc, the source is a small, short-lived natural -satellite of the Earth. One curious feature of the reports, highlighted -by Mebane, is that several appear to indicate a second meteor procession -on the same course around 5 hours later, although the Earth’s rotation -means that there is no obvious mechanism to explain this. One observer, -A. W. Brown from Thamesville, Ontario, reports seeing both the initial -meteor procession and a second one on the same course at 2:20 a.m. the -next day. Chant’s original report also refers to a series of three -groups of “dark objects” that pass on the same course as the previous -meteors from west to east over Toronto on the afternoon of February 10, -which he suggests are “something of a meteoric nature.” (Wikipedia, “1913 -Great Meteor Procession”; -Clarence A. Chant, “An -Extraordinary Meteoric Display,” Journal of the Royal Astronomical -Society of Canada 7 (1913): 145–191; Alexander D. Mebane, “Observations -of the Great Fireball Procession of 1913 -February 9, Made in the United States,” Meteoritics 1, no. 4 (1956): -406–421; Condon, pp. 570–571; -Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn -Press, 2006, pp. 31–35; “Sample -Press Coverage -of the 1913 Meteor Procession,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 -(September 2006): 7; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of -the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 383–385)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 332

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Event 395 -(5995177D)

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Date: 2/21/1913
-Description: Evening. An airship is seen at several locations around -Selby, North Yorkshire, England. It alternately flies and hovers, -flashing a searchlight and skirting the roofs of houses before vanishing -to the north at “great speed.” At one point a group of businessmen -waiting for a train at the Church Fenton railway station are treated to -the sight of a powerful searchlight running along the tracks. Other -witnesses hear the whir of motors as the vehicle passes by. (“The -Fly-by-Night,” London Daily Express, February 24, 1913, p. 7; “Night -Raids by Air,” London Daily Express, February 25, 1913, p. 1; Brett -Holman, “Monday, -24 February 1913,” Airminded, February 24, 2013; Brett Holman, “Tuesday, -25 February 1913,” Airminded, February 25, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 333

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Event 396 -(6DC6C62C)

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Date: 2/25/1913
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Coast guards at Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, see -a bright light traveling to the west and report it to the Admiralty. Roberrt -Falconer Jameson watches it through binoculars and sees that the -lights are attached to a cone-shaped craft. A little later, the object -appears over Hull, seen by crowds in the city center and Paragon -Interchange for over an hour. It alters its course frequently and hovers -occasionally. (“Airship Mystery,” London Daily Telegraph, February 26, -1913, p. 11; Brett Holman, “Wednesday, -26 February 1913,” Airminded, February 26, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 334

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Event 397 -(56FE6C97)

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Date: 3/13/1913
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Two women walking along a forest road by the -Schwielowsee between Caputh and Ferch, Brandenburg, Germany, observe an -airship catch fire and explode. The fire brigades of three villages, 40 -riflemen from a local garrison, and several police officers and medical -attendants rush to the scene. They search the woods south of Potsdam -until early morning but find nothing. Though the women are considered -trustworthy, they are accused later of hoaxing the report. Later, airman -Lt. Zwickau claims that he was firing rockets while flying from Leipzig -to Döberitz in order to see his way in the night. (“An Airship -Catastrophe near Potsdam?” Berliner Tageblatt, March 13, 1913, p. 3; -“The Tale of the Airship,” Berliner Tageblatt, March 13, 1913, p. 4; -“Phantom Airships,” London Daily Telegraph, March 14, 1913, p. 15; “Mysterious -Airship near Berlin,” Manchester Guardian, March 14, 1913, p. 8; -Brett Holman, “Friday, -14 March 1913,” Airminded, March 14, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 335

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Event 398 -(0B37ECD5)

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Date: 4/8/1913
-Description: 8:23 p.m. An airship reappears over Cardiff, Wales, once -again seen traveling at high speed to the southwest by Chief Constable -Lionel -Lindsay. (“The -Cardiff Aerial Mystery Again,” Manchester Guardian, April 9, 1913, -p. 9; Brett Holman, “Wednesday, -9 April 1913,” Airminded, April 9, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 336

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Event 399 -(E8934A30)

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Date: 5/1913
-Alternate date: 5/1914
-Description: Morning. Silbie -J. Latham, 12, is working with his brothers Sid and -Clyde on -a cotton farm 2.5 miles west of Farmersville, Texas. Their two dogs, on -the other side of a picket fence 50–75 feet away, begin barking and -howling. The boys stop work and go to investigate. They see a little -man, dark green in color and 18 inches high, who “looked like he was -sitting on something.” His arms are hanging down by his sides. He has a -Mexican-looking hat on, but no other clothes. Right after the boys get -there, the two dogs jump him and tear him to pieces. Blood and internal -organs spew out, but it doesn’t cry out. The boys go back and check the -spot the next day, but the remains are gone. (Clark III 262; Patrick -Gross, URECAT, October -19, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 337

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Event 400 -(5EB8B09B)

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Date: 6/29/1913
-Description: Sunset. An aerial object passes over Lansing, Michigan, -from southeast to northwest at a great height. It moves swiftly, taking -only 3 minutes. (“Strange -Aircraft Passes over Lansing at Great Rate of Speed Sunday,” Lansing -(Mich.) State Journal, June 30, 1913, p. 3; Clark III 1167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 338

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Event 401 -(D50E4EAE)

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Date: 10/1913
-Description: Swiss astronomer Fritjof Le Coultre at the Geneva -Observatory in Switzerland reports seeing “bluish-white flashes” on Mars -for 17 consecutive nights. Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, -also observes them. However, astronomer Guillaume -Bigourdan at the Paris Observatory thinks the flashes are merely -“auto- suggestion.” (“Is -Mars Trying to Signal Us?” Santa Cruz (Calif.) Evening News, -November 24, 1913, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 339

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- Event 402 (F65D4734)

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Date: 1914
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Hans M. Schnitzler, 7, is sitting in his front -yard in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, when he hears a musical humming sound -and sees a 30-foot domed object about 25 feet away hovering about 10 -feet above the ground across the street in front of a church. An opening -appears and eight small entities emerge and begin singing a melody over -and over again. Then they return inside. The object rises slowly and -disappears behind the church. He remembers the melody and plays it on -his harmonica years later. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 6 (Dec. 1982/Jan. 1983): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 340

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Event 403 -(8CF367D4)

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Date: 1/1/1914
-Description: The world’s first scheduled passenger airline service took -off from St. Petersburg, FL and landed at its destination in Tampa, FL, -about 17 miles (27 kilometers) away. The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat -Line was a short-lived endeavor — only four months — but it paved the -way for today’s daily transcontinental flights.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link
-Location: St. Petersburg, FL

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Event 404 -(5906BA2D)

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Date: 3/1914
-Description: Twilight. A farmer is returning to his house at Lajoumard, -Haute-Vienne, France, when he sees a round, green, luminous object -hovering just above a hilltop. Several small beings emerge, walk around -the machine, and go back inside. The object takes off. (Clark III 262; -Patrick Gross, URECAT, March -3, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 341

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Event 405 -(ACBB3B56)

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Date: 6/1914
-Time: 0400
-Description: Gustav Herwagen opened the door of his house and saw in a -field a shining cigarshaped object with illuminated windows. Near it -were four or five dwarfs 1.20 m tall, clad in light clothing. He -approached them, but they went aboard the object as soon as they -appeared to be aware of his presence. A door closed, and the craft took -off silently, climbing vertically.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten April, 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Hamburg, Germany
-ID: 39

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Event 406 -(4695AE2F)

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Date: 6/1914
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Gustav Herwagen sees a cigar-shaped object with -luminous portholes in a field next to his house in Hamburg, Germany. -Near it are 4–5 dwarfs about 4 feet tall. He walks toward them, but they -flee inside the ship, which ascends and disappears. (Clark III 262; -Patrick Gross, URECAT, November -28, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 343

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Event 407 -(23AE0FEB)

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Date: summer 1914
-Description: Mid-afternoon. For about 60 minutes at Mount Lyndhurst -Station, South Australia, an unusual substance floats by at a constant -altitude. Some pieces, 6–8 inches long, fall to earth and leave no -trace. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR -27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 342

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Event 408 -(C2C235C1)

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Date: 7/28/1914
-End date: 11/11/1918
-Description: World War 1
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 409 -(2F86EA34)

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Date: 8/1914
-Description: William J. Kiehl and seven other persons saw a spherical -craft on the surface of the water. On its deck were two small men -wearing green-purple clothes. They seemed to be busy with a hose, -plunging it into the water. On the opposite side were three men dressed -in light brown, wearing square masks down to their shoulders. Seeing the -witnesses, they reentered the craft except for one dwarf, wearing shoes -with a curved, pointed tip, who remained outside while the craft rose 3 -m above the water and shot upward, leaving a short trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 199 (Vallee)
-Location: Georgian Bay, Canada
-ID: 40

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Event 410 -(6241EB52)

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Date: 8/1914
-Description: William J. Kiehl, 18, is with seven others in a small cove -along the shore of Georgian Bay, Ontario. They see a strange machine on -the surface of the lake. Two little men wearing square masks and -purple-green coveralls are working with a hose leading from the water to -inside the UFO. Three other figures, dressed in khaki, are adjusting -some rods that are pulsating with various colors. The beings notice the -group watching them and run into the machine, which starts vibrating -with colors. It starts to ascend, but one being has not made it inside -and is hanging on. After hovering 12 feet in the air to balance itself, -it rapidly accelerates upward. A likely hoax. (“Old-Timer Tells -of Outer Spacemen in Letter to Wanaque Police Officer,” Paterson -(N.J.) News, August 15, 1966, p. 9; Clark III 262; Lorenzen, Encounters -with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 344

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Event 411 -(8DE095B3)

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Date: 8/10/1914
-End date: 8/11/1914
-Description: Night. Maj. Becke, commander of defenses at -Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, reports that two or three -cigar-shaped airships are seen above the Vickers shipyard. Soldiers fire -upon them with machine guns and the only anti-aircraft battery on the -west coast. (UFOFiles2, p. 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 345

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Event 412 -(E18F6412)

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Date: 8/11/1914
-End date: 9/9/1914
-Description: Many British residents in South Africa observe a mystery -monoplane that is assumed to be on a German reconnaissance mission. Most -of the sightings are at night and at a distance. The government issues a -statement on August 29 that there are no Union airplanes in South -Africa, so any mystery aircraft are assumed to be enemies and should be -fired upon. (“The Aeroplane,” Cape Times, August 21, 1914; “Aeroplanes -in the Union,” Cape Times, August 22, 1914, p. 7; “Mysterious Airship at -Sanday,” Pretoria News, August 24, 1914, p. 5; “Aeroplane Mystery,” -Johannesburg Star, August 26, 1914, p. 4; “The Mysterious Aeroplane,” -Cape Argus, August 27, 1914, p. 5; “Aviator Discusses Air Visitors,” -Cape Times, September 5, 1914, p. 5; Hilary Evans and Robert E. -Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 487–489)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 346

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Event 413 -(13A338FC)

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Date: 8/13/1914
-Description: 7:30 p.m. High Constable Hobson and numerous residents of -Sweaburg, Ontario, see “two large aeroplanes” pass from east to west. -Sporadic sightings of mystery airplanes continue in the region for the -next two weeks. (“Reports Aeroplanes over Oxford Village,” London Free -Press, August 13, 1914, p. 2; “Three Aeroplanes Scan Topography of the -Province, London (Ont.) Free Press, September 5, 1914, p. 8; Barry -Greenwood, “And -Yet More -in 1914!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 (September 2006): 6; Hilary -Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, -p. 491)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 347

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Event 414 -(070CAE9C)

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Date: 8/14/1914
-Description: Afternoon. A large ball of fire sweeps over the southeast -portion of Montpelier, Vermont, seen by employees of the C. P. Gill -stone cutting plant near the Winooski River. It is accompanied by a loud -noise. One man says the heat of the object has scorched his hands. The -plant motor stops as the object passes over, and insulation from some -electrical wires is found burned off. (“Great -Ball of Fire,” Rutland (Vt.) Daily Herald, August 18, 1914, p. 5) -Autumn (or 1915) — Dusk. A man is having an outdoor meal with his family -in Bujoreanca, Romania, when they see a reddish object moving to the -east 60 feet above the ground, causing trees to bend from its movement, -and making a whistling noise. It leaves a trail of glowing sparks and -reappears for 6–7 days in the same position. (Hobana and Weverbergh -224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 348

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Event 415 -(EABC160B)

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Date: 9/1914
-Description: Two schoolboys named Uden and Hopkins are wandering along -Caerphilly Mountain, South Wales, when they encounter an unexpected -mist. Two white humanoid figures with piercing eyes and unusually tall -hats are standing at the edge of it. They approach, and the boys take -off. (Clark III 262–263; Patrick Gross, URECAT, -March 5, 2013; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1910–1939, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 349

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Event 416 -(8E3CD6EB)

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Date: 9/9/1914
-Description: Mid-day. Amateur astronomer William -Herbert Steavenson points his 3-inch refracting telescope in West -Norwood, south London, England, at the planet Mercury, then about 8° -distant from the Sun, when a round, luminous object the apparent size of -the planet, but brighter, speeds across his field, passing centrally -from south to north in about 3 seconds. A few seconds later, another -appears going in the same direction. More follow, and the display -continues until at least 3:00 p.m. when the sky becomes overcast. He -watches several hundred bodies pass; about half are perfectly round and -the rest are dumbbell shaped. All the objects are well defined and -intrinsically brighter than Venus. The prevailing color is yellowish -white. Steavenson sends a telegram to the Rev. T. -E. R. Phillips at Ashstead, Surrey, but the sky is now overcast and -he cannot confirm the observation. Steavensen thinks high-altitude seeds -are the most likely explanation. (W. H. Steavenson, “Bright -Objects Observed -near the Sun,” Journal of the British Astronomical Association 25 -(1914): 36–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 350

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Event 417 -(B63D1AC0)

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Date: 10/10/1914
-Description: Afternoon. Albert Alfred Buss is observing the sun using a -spectrographic telescope at Manchester, England, when he sees an -“absolutely black spindle-shaped object” against the sun. (Albert Alfred -Buss, “Cosmic and -Terrestrial Flotsam and Jetsam,” English Mechanic 100 (October 14, -1914): 256)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 351

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Event 418 -(36A002AC)

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Date: 11/21/1914
-Description: Some 20–30 people watch an airship flying at 2,300 feet -descend to about 1,300 feet and shine a searchlight on a passing ship -near Skjaervser lighthouse on the island of Mindlandet, Nordland, -Norway. (“Airship at Tjølta,” Morgenbladet, November 25, 1914, p. 2; -Clark III 1167–1168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 352

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Event 419 -(7CCB72D9)

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Date: 12/15/1914
-Description: 4:10 p.m. The crew of a Hull trawler, the SS Ape, is -streaming toward Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, when they see a -“black object astern” which gradually approaches them. It turns and -heads for the Lincolnshire coast where it vanishes in the fog. -(UFOFiles2, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 353

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- Event 420 (77D8E820)

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Date: 2/14/1915
-Description: 9:15 p.m. The mayor and three city constables of -Brockville, Ontario, see the lights of unknown aircraft crossing the -St. Lawrence River heading for Ottawa. They can hear the sound of -motors. A second flying machine is heard as it crosses the river from -the direction of Morristown, New York. Three balls of fire drop from it -into the river. Two more objects pass from the east and west ends of -Brockville. The mayor, who has seen one of the planes flash a -searchlight beam that lights up a city block, tells the police chief to -alert the mayor and police chief in Ottawa. At 9:30 p.m., the mayor of -Gananoque, Ontario, reports that two invisible aircraft are heard flying -over his town. Prime Minister Robert -Borden hears about the reports and orders the lights on Parliament -Hill to be turned off at 11:15 p.m. The entire city follows suit 5 -minutes later. The airplanes do not reappear, but Ottawa is placed on -high alert. Later, Brockville police find two paper balloons that might -explain the sightings. (“Ottawa in Darkness Awaits Airplane Raid,” -Toronto Globe, February 15, 1915, pp. 1–2; “Scare -in Ottawa over an Air Raid,” -New York Times, February 15, 1915, p. 1; Brett Holman, “The -Air Raid That Didn’t,” Airminded, February 13, 2014; Hilary Evans -and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 492–493; Chris -Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, -2006, pp. 36–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 354

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Event 421 -(B1548221)

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Date: 2/15/1915
-Description: Early morning. Residents in a Toronto, Ontario, suburb -notify police of a “strange aeroplane” hovering above their homes. -Later, a man in Guelph sees “three moving lights passing over” the -Ontario Agricultural College. He alerts other residents in his boarding -house and they watch the silent lights until dawn. (Chris Rutkowski and -Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, -pp. 37–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 355

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Event 422 -(8814356A)

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Date: 4/26/1915
-Description: Possibly the first UFO film ever made, The Mysterious -Airship premieres in the United States. A lost two-reel French short -produced by the Ideal Film Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and -distributed by United Film Service, the film does involve a mysterious -airship built by aeronauts, but it is more of a murder mystery. (“United -Film Service,” The Moving Picture World 24 (May 1, 1915): 806; Barry -Greenwood, “UFO -Feature Film: -In 1914!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 (September 2006): 2–4; Barry -Greenwood, “The -Mysterious Airship: -An Early Silent Film, Update,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 14 (May -2015): 1–3; Internet Movie Database, “The -Mysterious Airship”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 356

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Event 423 -(E423978F)

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Date: 5/24/1915
-Description: The Allied Powers (Britain, France, and Russia) jointly -issued a statement which for the first time ever explicitly charged a -government, the Ottoman Empire, with committing a “crime against -humanity” in reference to that regime’s persecution of its Christian -minorities, including Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: -[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(World_War_I_through_World_War_II)

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Event 424 -(0F3B5E8E)

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Date: late 6/1915
-Description: Just before dawn. Cecilia Peel Yates of Ashburton, Devon, -England, is awakened by her dogs barking. She sees outside her bedroom -window a bright light in the sky bearing north. It disappears in the -direction of Haytor rocks on Dartmoor. This incident is followed by -others at Hexworthy and Dartington in July and August, so much so that -British Naval Intelligence sends two officers out to investigate. (Nick -Redfern, “UFOs -and the Military, 1915: -Pt. 1,” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; Nick Redfern, “UFOs -and the Military, 1915: Pt. 2,” Mysterious Universe, May 8, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 357

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Event 425 -(2D97A49B)

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Date: 8/21/1915
-Description: During severe fighting in the Dardanelles a peculiar cloud -engulfed a British regiment which was never seen again. This was -observed by 22 men of the First Field Company, NZ Army Corps and stated -in an affidavit.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Spaceview 45; LDLN 82; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Gallipoli, Turkey
-ID: 41

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Event 426 -(B29F04C4)

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Date: 9/4/1915
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Two British Naval Intelligence officers, Lt. Col. -William -Price Drury and Lt. C. Brownlow, on Dartmoor, Devon, England, watch -a “bright white light, considerably larger in appearance than a planet” -ascend steadily from a meadow to a height of 50–60 feet. It then swings -300 feet or so to the left and suddenly vanishes. The officers have been -investigating reports of similar lights seen in the region during the -summer. In December, GHQ Home Forces issues a 16-page confidential -report on the investigation and concludes there is “no evidence on which -to base a suspicion that this class of enemy activity ever existed” and -that 89% of the reports are explained. Some “moving lights in the air” -are attributed to marsh gas. (Nick Redfern, “UFOs -and the Military, 1915: -Pt. 1,” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; UFOFiles2, pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 358

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Event 427 -(4F71BDB4)

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Date: 11/1915
-Description: Einstein presents to the Prussian Academy of Science what -are now known as the Einstein field equations, which form the core of -Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Attributes: Einstein

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- Event 428 (108E621C)

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Date: 1916 (approximate)
-Description: Mrs. Whiteland of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, sees from an -open window a “round platform” on which nearly a dozen men wearing blue -uniforms and little round hats stand gripping a handrail. It is moving -in the air about 30 feet above the house and coming from the direction -of a nearby marsh. It moves toward a railway yard and disappears behind -some houses. (Clark III 263; “The -Aldeburgh Platform,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1969), pp. 23–24; “The -Aldeburgh Platform,” parts 1–3; David Halperin, “UFOs, -Screen Memories, and -the Aldeburgh Platform Mystery,” April 8, 2016; Chris Aubeck and -Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, -Anomalist, 2015, pp. 299–314)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 359

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Event 429 -(8478143B)

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Date: 1/31/1916
-Description: 8:25 p.m. Royal Flying Corps Lieut. Reginald -Maxwell is cruising his B.E.2c biplane at 10,000 feet near Romford, -Essex, England, patrolling for German Zeppelins. He sees an “artificial -light” to the north. He follows it northeast for 20 minutes, but it -moves higher and he loses it in the clouds. At the same time, Royal -Flying Corps pilot Sub-Lieut. J. Eric Morgan, also flying a B.E.2c at -5,000 feet near Rochford, Essex, and looking for Zeppelins, sees an -object about 100 feet away with a row of windows “like a railway -carriage with the blinds drawn.” He tries to close on it, but his engine -is malfunctioning. When he fires his pistol at it, the lights rise and -rapidly disappear. Morgan is forced to make a crash landing. -(Capt. Joseph Morris, The German Air Raids on Great Britain, 1914–1918, -Sampson, Low, Marston, 1925, pp. 81–82; -David Clarke, “Britain’s First Military UFO Encounter?” Part -1 and Part -2, The -Real UFO Project, 2004; UFOFiles2, p. 10; -Patrick Gross, “Pilots -UFO Sightings,” -August 10, 2021, and “Near -Rochford,” August 2, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 360

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Event 430 -(35E8E5AA)

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Date: 2/29/1916
-Description: 4:30 a.m. John Tullyson, head watchman at Globe Elevators, -and John Gustavson at the Carnegie Coal Dock in Superior, Wisconsin, -hear an engine noise and see a large flying object “50 feet wide and 100 -feet long,” with three lights, “one on each end and one in the middle.” -Moving swiftly at 600 feet altitude, the object carries a long rope -trailing behind it with a large object attached to it. Three “men” are -inside the craft, one of them sitting in the front of the machine. The -other two seem to be looking around. Possible Chinese lantern or -airplane. (“Mysterious Aeroplane Continues Nocturnal Trips over -Superior,” Superior (Wis.) Telegram, February 29, 1916, p. 5; Clark III -263; Patrick Gross, URECAT, March -16, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 361

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Event 431 -(CD10C2A6)

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Date: 3/12/1916
-Description: Early evening. Claude D. McGee is walking home from a trip -to a ranch outside Lowry, South Dakota, when he sees a strange glowing -light in the hills ahead of him. Suddenly the light swings in a huge arc -down into the valley but stays close to the wall of hills where it comes -to rest. It stays there a few moments then swings back to where it had -been about 2 miles away. It repeats the action twice then disappears. -(Clark III 1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 362

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Event 432 -(79E0A58E)

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Date: 5/4/1916
-Description: Evening. Astronomers Charles -Dillon Perrine and Anna -Estelle Glancy observe an object resembling a comet at the National -Observatory in Córdoba, Argentina. It is moving remarkably fast, moving -10° toward the sun within an hour and passes below the horizon. It has a -prominent tail of 8°–10° in length. (“Comet -or Meteor?” Scientific American 115 (1916): 493)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 363

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Event 433 -(F61EF8D0)

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Date: 7/19/1916
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Walter H. Eager and another witness in -Huntington, West Virginia, watch a nebulous object in the shape of a -dirigible that slowly fades from view. Possibly a light pillar created -by a nearby blast furnace. (Walter H. Eager, “An -Unusual Aurora,” Scientific American 115 (1916): 241; Martin Shough -and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, -pp. 391–397)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 364

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Event 434 -(38B914E6)

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Date: 12/17/1916
-Description: On the Western front in Europe, Canadian soldier Maurice -Philipp Tuteur and two sergeant majors watch a Zeppelin-like object -rise into the clouds in the rear of their lines. It darts ahead at an -estimated speed of 200 mph, turns around, darts backward, and shoots up -and disappears. (“I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucers, May 1959, -pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 365

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- Event 435 (E88A8AEF)

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Date: 4/1917
-Description: Night. Residents of the African American neighborhood of -Charlotte, North Carolina, report hearing strange, motor-like noises in -the air at night for several nights. Some have fleeting glimpses of the -swiftly moving dark objects that are causing the noise. (“The -Colored People Are Seeing Visions,” Charlotte (N.C.) News, April 11, -1917, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 366

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Event 436 -(74C18075)

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Date: 4/13/1917
-Description: Early morning. Two National Guardsmen from Company L of the -Sixth Massachusetts Infantry are stationed on the bridge linking -Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine, when they hear the noise -of an airplane. They see an unidentified aircraft circling near the -bridge. When it descends, apparently to make a pass at the bridge, one -of the guardsmen panics and fires his rifle at it. It moves off and -disappears in the distance. Other vague reports continue through April -30. (“Hunt for Aircraft Base,” Manchester (N.H.) Union, April 14, 1917, -pp. 1, 3; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, -2009, pp. 496–497)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 367

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Event 437 -(233774E7)

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Date: 5/13/1917
-Description: Three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, -Portugal—Lúcia -dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and -Jacinta Marto—report seeing a woman “brighter than the sun, shedding -rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the -most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun.” The -woman wears a white mantle edged with gold and holds a rosary in her -hand. She asks them to devote themselves to the Holy Trinity and to pray -“the Rosary every day.” The children had seen an “angel” at the cove -since the spring of 1916. (Wikipedia, “Our -Lady of Fátima”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 368

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Event 438 -(B25BB7FD)

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Date: 6/13/1917
-Description: The three children at Fátima, Portugal, again see the lady, -who reveals that Francisco -and Jacinta will be “taken to heaven” soon, but Lúcia will -live longer to spread the message. The lady also purportedly reveals to -the children a vision of hell and entrusts a secret to them, described -as “good for some and bad for others.” (Wikipedia, “Our -Lady of Fátima”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 369

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Event 439 -(B2E0079C)

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Date: 8/13/1917
-Description: Some 18,000 people have been flocking to Fátima and nearby -Aljustrel, Portugal, drawn by reports of visions and miracles. The -assembled multitude hears thunder and witnesses lightning in a clear -blue sky. Then the sun grows pale and a cloud hovers above the oak tree -where the apparitions usually appear. Provincial administrator Artur -de Oliveira Santos, believing that these events are politically -disruptive, takes the children into custody, jailing them before they -can reach the Cova da Iria. Santos interrogates and threatens the -children to get them to divulge the contents of the secrets.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 370

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Event 440 -(CA149128)

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Date: 8/19/1917
-Description: Instead of the promised apparition in the Cova da Iria on -August 13, the children see the Virgin Mary at nearby Valinhos, -Portugal. She asks them again to pray the rosary daily, speaks about the -miracle coming in October, and asks them “to pray a lot.” Late Summer — -12:30 p.m. John Boback is walking along railroad tracks in Youngstown, -Pennsylvania, when he hears a swishing sound and sees an elliptical -object about 100 feet away on the ground in a pasture. It has portholes -emitting ligt from the interior and a smooth surface. Moments later the -object ascends smoothly in a gradual climb and flies away to the east. -(Lore and Deneault, pp. 104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 371

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Event 441 -(0C54C0F1)

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Date: early 9/1917
-Description: Witnesses at Salida, Colorado, watch distant moving lights -flicking on and off over a period of several days. Through a telescope, -one light appears to be a revolving wheel with lights on it. (Arlene -Shovald, “Edwards’ UFO Sighting Not Salida’s First,” Salida (Colo.) -Mountain Mail, September 7, 1995; Clark III 1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 372

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Event 442 -(62FC998B)

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Date: 9/13/1917
-Description: With the three children in attendance, the crowd at the -Cova da Iria, Portugal, see a “luminous globe” sail across the sky. A -white cloud envelops the children and the oak tree. A rain of white -roses is said to have fallen out of the heavens but dissolves just -before landing. Behind the cloud, the crowd can see Lúcia talking -to the invisible lady.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 373

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Event 443 -(AF62DF74)

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Date: 10/1917
-Description: John Boback, 17, was walking along the railroad tracks -between Youngstown and Mt. Braddock when he saw a saucer-shaped object -with a platform and rows of lights, sitting in a field 30 m to his left. -He watched the object for 1-2 min until it took off with a high-pitched -sound, rising gradually like a slow plane. Its size was that of an -average car. The top of the object was a dome with elongated windows -through which figures could be seen.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Hartle 157 (Vallee)
-Location: Youngstown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 42

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Event 444 -(59FCAC9E)

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Date: 10/1917
-Description: Seven-year-old Elizabeth -Klarer and her older sister Barbara have their first alleged -encounter with a UFO on their parents’ farm Connington in the -KwaZulu-Natal midlands, South Africa. While playing outside the -farmhouse, Elizabeth claims to witness a giant orange-red wheel rolling -across the sky. The plummeting object, also described as a fiery -pockmarked meteor or planetoid, is intercepted by a silver disc bathed -in a pearly luster. Around this time Elizabeth begins receiving -occasional telepathic messages from a friendly space alien named Akon. -(Clark III 657; Elizabeth Klarer, Beyond the Light Barrier, Howard -Timmins, 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 374

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Event 445 -(32F25FDC)

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Date: 10/13/1917
-Description: After some newspapers report that the Virgin Mary has -promised a miracle for the last of her apparitions, a huge crowd, -possibly between 30,000 and 100,000, including reporters and -photographers, gathers at Cova da Iria, Portugal. What happens then -becomes known as the “Miracle of the Sun.” Various claims are made as to -what really happened. The three children report seeing a panorama of -visions during the event, including those of Jesus, Our Lady of Sorrows, -Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and Saint Joseph blessing the people. Father -John de Marchi, an Italian Catholic priest and researcher who wrote -several books on the subject, included descriptions by witnesses who -believe they observed a miracle created by Mary, the mother of Jesus. -After a period of rain, the dark clouds break and the Sun appears as an -opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It appears significantly duller than -normal and casts multicolored lights across the landscape, the people, -and the surrounding clouds. The Sun then seems to careen towards the -earth before zigzagging back to its normal position. Witnesses report -that their previously wet clothes become “suddenly and completely dry, -as well as the wet and muddy ground that had been previously soaked -because of the rain that had been falling.” Not all witnesses report -seeing the Sun “dance.” Some people only see the radiant colors, and -others, including some believers, see nothing at all. The only known -picture of the Sun taken during the event does not show anything -unusual. No unusual solar phenomena are observed by scientists. Some -theologians, scientists, and skeptics have offered alternative -explanations that include psychological suggestibility of the witnesses, -temporary retinal distortion caused by staring at the intense light of -the Sun, a sundog, and optical effects caused by natural meteorological -phenomena. The Miracle of the Sun is interpreted by others as a UFO -event. Investigator Joe -Nickell thinks that the effects are “a combination of factors, -including optical effects and meteorological phenomena, such as the sun -being seen through thin clouds, causing it to appear as a silver disc. -Other possibilities include an alteration in the density of the passing -clouds, causing the sun’s image to alternately brighten and dim and so -seem to advance and recede, and dust or moisture droplets in the -atmosphere refracting the sunlight and thus imparting a variety of -colors.” (Wikipedia, “Miracle -of the -Sun”; Clark III 484–485; “O -Milagre do Fátima,” Ilustração Portuguesa, no. 610 (October 29, -1917): 353– 355; John de Marchi, The -True Story of Fatima, St. Paul, -Minn.: Catechetical Guild Educational Society, 1956; Joe Nickell, “The -Real Secrets of Fatima,” Skeptical Inquirer 33, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 2009): 14–17; Jeffrey S. Bennett, When the Sun Danced, -University of Virginia, 2012; Auguste Meessen, “Apparitions -and Miracles of the Sun,” -in Science, Religion, and Conscience, Actas do Forum International, -Centro Transdisciplinar de Estudos da Consciência, October 23–25, 2003, -Santos, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 375

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- Event 446 (D58006C8)

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Date: 3/1/1918
-Description: Early morning. A woman at Tahunanui Beach, Nelson, New -Zealand, sees two distinct “seaplanes” flying together near the surface -of the water. They soon diverge, one going in the direction of the -eastern hills and both getting lost in the clouds. (“Seaplanes -over Tasman Bay,” Nelson Colonist, March 2, 1918, p. 4; Brett -Holman, “The -Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—1,” Airminded, August 28, -2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 377

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Event 447 -(5295758D)

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Date: summer 1918
-Description: 7:30 p.m. At an isolated ranch 60 miles from Malta, -Montana, 9-year-old Theodore -Warren sees a cigar- shaped “airship” with windows that shine with -greenish light. It flies in from the mountains in the east and hovers -above the ranch house. He watches it for a while, and then it “whooshes” -away to the northwest. (Ione Warren Conway, “A UFO(?) from the Past,” -IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 378

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Event 448 -(E3B43EB3)

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Date: 8/12/1918
-Description: After 5:00 p.m. Two women at Durie Hill, Whanganui, New -Zealand, see an airplane moving swiftly off the South Spit heading -toward the south. It disappears behind Landguard Bluff. Other witnesses -come forward to corroborate the sighting. (“Aeroplane -off Wanganui,” Wanganui Chronicle, August 13, 1918, p. 4; Brett -Holman, “The -Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,” Airminded, October 26, -2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 379

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Event 449 -(9E77A9C6)

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Date: 8/13/1918
-Description: Evening. Mr. C. Rawlinson is cycling to a dance on -Carrington Road, New Plymouth, New Zealand, when he sees a bright star -against some mountains about 6 miles away. It starts flashing red and -white and moves closer and downward, then rises to 400–500 feet and -performs other maneuvers. He rides home to tell his sisters, who also -see the light until about 8:30 p.m., when it moves off to the sea. (“Local -and General,” Wellington Dominion, August 14, 1918, p. 4; Brett -Holman, “The -Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,” Airminded, October 26, -2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 380

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Event 450 -(F2C1B9DB)

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Date: 10/1918
-Description: During operations against the Bolshevik Army in Tulgas, -Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, soldiers of the US 339th Infantry Regiment -watch a round object the color of burnished copper, with a faint light -and vapor obscuring much of its shape. (Letter to J. Allen Hynek; Jan -Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 381

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Event 451 -(DADA402F)

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Date: 11/11/1918
-Description: End of World War 1
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 452 -(6782BA21)

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Date: winter 1918 (approximate)
-Description: Edwin T. Bauhan and other soldiers at Rich Field in Waco, -Texas, see a noiseless, flame-colored, cigar-shaped object 100–150 feet -long flying overhead at an altitude of 500 feet. (Lore and Deneault, p. 105; -Clark III 1170; “1918 -Sighting,” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4 -(Winter 1954): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 376

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- Event 453 (A6479BC1)

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Date: 1919
-Description: Wireless inventor Guglielmo -Marconi claims that he has detected large-wavelength radio signals -from Mars. He claims the most frequent signal is the Morse code for “S,” -or three short dots. The signals, however, are subsequently traced to an -experiment conducted by chemist Irving -Langmuir at the General Electric Laboratories in Schenectady, New -York. (“‘Hello, -Earth! Hello!’” White Earth (Minn.) The Tomahawk, March 18, 1920, -p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 382

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Event 454 -(9BABA856)

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Date: 1/22/1919
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. A brilliant light the size of a tennis -ball appears in a garden at Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England. When the -witness approaches it, it moves away at a leisurely pace and passes -through wire netting. It follows the top of a hedge, turns right, and -ascends until it finds a break in the high branches of a tree, where it -hovers for 3 minutes before flying on. The witness then notices his -neighbor’s farm is illuminated with bright white light. Several minutes -later, the sphere returns to the garden, hovers another 3 minutes, then -approaches the witness. As it does so, it turns from white to orange. It -moves away, stops above a neighbor’s garden, travels along a hedge, -traverses a field, and circles a row of houses before soaring into the -sky and disappearing. The light is seen for 40 minutes. (Mark Ian -Birdsall, “The Luminous Pearl of 1919,” Quest International 10, no. 2 -(1991): 26–27; Clark III 1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 383

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Event 455 -(9DF9E24F)

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Date: 6/2/1919
-Description: 9:30 a.m. A tiny circular cloud appears in an otherwise -cloudless sky over Ottertail, Minnesota. Suddenly it expands to several -times its size. Seconds later, the window that the witness is watching -through starts to shake and creak. By the time it stops, the cloud has -expanded more and now has a ragged appearance, bending toward the earth. -A black object shoots out of the bottom of the cloud, leaving a vapor -trail, and begins making 6–7 barrel rolls. It then peels off in a -straight line, headed north. (Clark III 1170; “Supersonic Jet in 1919?” -IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1982): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 384

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Event 456 -(98EEC81E)

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Date: 6/28/1919
-Description: Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June -1919. One of the most important treaties of World War I, it ended the -state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 457 -(7D481AEB)

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Date: 7/1919
-Description: 11:00 a.m. A young brother and sister who live on a farm -near Webster City, Iowa, hear a strange chirping sound while out -playing. They turn and see a brown-green object under a tree near a -creek 75 feet from them. They notice a similarly colored figure standing -in a door that has been lowered down. It makes strange guttural sounds. -They see another figure running toward the stream leading to a pond. -This smaller one dips up some water into a can. The larger figure seems -to be hurrying the smaller figure back into the object. The door slams -shut with a metallic sound, and the vehicle rises up quickly with its -three legs still out and goes over a hill. The soil where the object had -been is covered with round spots that resemble cane marks. (Clark III -263; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July -23, 2009) Late summer — 10:00 p.m. Harry Anderson, 13 (or 16), is out -riding with his family and two friends when their car runs out of oil -east of Barron, Wisconsin. A passing farmer offers to give them some -oil, and Harry accompanies him 2 miles away to his farmhouse. Harry -walks back to the car alone and sees 20 little men walking in single -file towards him. Their heads are bald, and the figures are dressed in -leather “knee pants” held up by suspenders. They are mumbling but pay no -attention to him. Terrified, he continues and does not look back. -([Jerome Clark], “Encounters with Little Men,” Fate 31, no. 11 (November -1978): 83–86; Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July -24, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 385

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Event 458 -(99320582)

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Date: 12/1/1919
-Description: Boni & Liveright publishes Charles -Fort’s first book of scientific anomalies, The Book of the Damned. -Fort gathers reports of objects or “vessels” that he humorously -speculates might be visitors from a multitude of worlds that have come -to earth over the centuries. Among his wilder expressions is the -suggestion that floating land masses in the sky harbor civilizations and -oceans. Fort also speculates that someone is fishing for us and that an -alien race considers us its property, warning off all interlopers. It -receives positive reviews from Ben -Hecht and Booth -Tarkington. (Wikipedia, -“The -Book of the Damned”; Clark III 506–507; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles -Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 173–174; -Ulrich Magin, “The Book of the Damned,” Fortean Times 386 (December -2019): 38–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 386

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- Event 459 (11C6FE19)

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Date: 1920
-Description: Day. Stanley -Clason, 10, -is walking across his uncle’s pasture in northern Montana when he sees -an object traveling from northwest to southeast. It has a “long, slim, -pointed shape” and appears “silvery in color.” (“Report from the -Readers,” Fate 7, no. 4 (April 1954): 115–116; Clark III 1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 387

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Event 460 -(5704FDC2)

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Date: 1/16/1920
-Description: First meeting of the League of Nations
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-See also: 4/20/46

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Event 461 -(27E3E415)

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Date: 6/3/1920
-Description: Day. Jesse -Clark Linch is fishing on a pond near Mount Pleasant, Iowa, when he -sees a soundless, blue, disc- shaped object emerge from behind a grove -of 100-foot-high maple trees. It flies across the pond and lands 15 feet -away. Linch gets up and walks toward it, but it rises up, slowly moves -over some trees to the west, and disappears. (“Mini UFO Landed near Mt. -Pleasant in 1920,” The UFO Examiner 2, no. 2 (June 1978): 8, 19; “Man -Visited by Strange Object While Fishing in Iowa in 1920,” MUFON UFO -Journal, no. 382 (February 2000): 12; Clark III 1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 389

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Event 462 -(1BD03F85)

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Date: summer 1920
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A group of young people, including sisters -Louise and Marie Grasset, returning from a dance at Nontron, Dordogne, -France, observe small beings in the air above a wooded area. Luminous -balls surround the figures, who are giving off “musical sounds.” (Clark -III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, October -3, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 388

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Event 463 -(847D1B67)

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Date: late 10/1920
-Description: 3:00 a.m. C. B. Alves sees four flying discs 50 miles north -of Freeport, Texas, when he is out fishing with some friends. They look -like two big silver plates set edge to edge. Each appears to be about 25 -feet in diameter and 10 feet thick at the center. (“Report from the -Readers,” Fate 8, no. 2 (February 1955): 122–123; Clark III 1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 390

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Event 464 -(0A8C8E0D)

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Date: 11/2/1920
-Description: First commercial radio broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh -PA
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link

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- Event 465 (B9749BB9)

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Date: 1921
-Description: Undocumented report of an “abduction” by two beings.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Marseilles, France
-ID: 43

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Event 466 -(793B80AD)

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Date: 1921
-Description: An 8-year-old is playing in the hillocks near a canal in -Marseille, France. He is suddenly accosted by two tall, slender men -wearing apparent diving suits who drag him into a strange looking -“tank.” After a while, an opening appears in the ceiling, and in a few -moments he finds himself back on the ground. He must walk all afternoon -to get back to the place where the UFO picked him up 5 minutes earlier. -(Clark III 264; [Letter], “J’ai voyagé en soucoupe,” Paris-Match, no. -291, October 23, 1954; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September -7, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 391

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Event 467 -(C0A7959B)

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Date: late 7/1921
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Annie Baker of 39 Highland Road, Southsea, -Portsmouth, England, sees a “strange looking bladder like monster the -shape of an airship only much wider” during a thunderstorm. It is -luminous and remains stationary for several minutes but moves away and -disappears quickly. (UFOFiles2, pp. 13–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 392

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Event 468 -(FE6DEB75)

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Date: 7/29/1921
-Description: The Council on Foreign Relations is incorporated. Founded -by corporate lawyer Elihu -Root, the organization brings diplomats, high-level government -officials, and academics together with lawyers, bankers, and -industrialists to engineer foreign policy. The first issue of Foreign -Affairs is published in September 1922. (Wikipedia, “Council -on Foreign Relations”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 393

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Event 469 -(C3DAB969)

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Date: 9/1921
-Description: The British Air Ministry has asked the public to submit -reports on observations of ball lightning to its Meteorological Office. -The results are summarized by geophysicist Harold -Jeffreys, who -notes very little uniformity in the observations, with little agreement -on size, duration, color, or shape. (Harold Jeffreys, “Results of -the Ball Lightning Inquiry,” Meteorological Magazine 56 (September -1921): 208–211; UFOFiles2, pp. 13–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 394

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Event 470 -(BD21D663)

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Date: 9/1/1921
-Description: J. H. C. Macbeth of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company -announces that inventor Guglielmo Marconi is -convinced he has intercepted wireless signals from Mars while cruising -in the Mediterranean Sea on his mobile laboratory and yacht, the -Electra. The signals are regular and “produced high in the meter band.” -One of them resembles the letter “V” in the Marconi Code. (“Marconi -Sure Mars Flashes Messages,” New York Times, September 2, 1921, -p. 1; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and -Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 395

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Event 471 -(42FF250C)

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Date: 10/9/1921
-Description: Harvard University astronomer William -Henry Pickering claims that he has discovered, through two years of -observation, vegetation growing in lunar craters that contain water and -a source of heat. They seem to form strips or “canals” that vary -according to season. (“Says -2 Crops a Day Grow on the Moon,” New York Times, October 9, 1921, -p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 396

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- Event 472 (18DC045B)

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Date: 1922
-Description: Starting this year, ghost lights are seen every year until -1932 in the desert near the Oregon Canyon Ranch, McDermott, Nevada. They -look like lanterns or car headlights in the distance. More than 50 of -the sheepherders in the area have seen the lights, including Tito -Bengoa, the brother of Frank and -Christopher -Bengoa of the King’s River Ranch near Orovada. (Kenneth Arnold, -“Phantom Lights in Nevada,” Fate 1, no. 3 (Fall 1948): 96–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 397

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Event 473 -(866C237C)

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Date: 1922
-Description: County Donegal, Ireland: Irish Republic Army man, Lawrence -Bradley, wrote to the editor of “Watfordand West-Hersts Post” magazine -(4/30/64) that while he was fighting a scattered rear-guard, mostly in -the mountains of Donegal, he came upon a cave with vegetation at the -entrance that had been scorched. The only occupants in the cave were the -sick and the wounded that had been unable to walk. The six able-bodied -soldiers that were looking after them said they had been awakened early -pre-dawn by a whirring noise outside of the cave and had fired their -rifles in the direction of the noise, thinking that it was an armored -car. Suddenly the object retaliated by firing jets of flame at the cave -entrance. After near suffocation, the soldiers ran out to see the flame -throwing UFO ascending into the sky. Clearly visible, it was circular in -shape and glowing and of a shiny metal.
-Type: UFO sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: County Donegal, Ireland

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Event 474 -(AABE684B)

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Date: 2/22/1922
-Time: 0500
-Description: William C. Lamb was following strange tracks when he heard -a high-pitched sound and saw a circular object intercepting starlight. -It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterword, a -creature over 2.4 m tall was seen flying from the direction where the -object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed -without results.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 22 (Vallee)
-Location: Hubbell, Nebraska
-ID: 44

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Event 475 -(B7155BB5)

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Date: summer 1922
-Description: Many witnesses in Warsaw, Poland, see a silvery object, -shaped like two hemispheres divided by a rotating ring, that shoots a -beam of light and ascends with a loud noise. (Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs -and Ufologists in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1986): 15; Poland -8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 399

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Event 476 -(5EF41025)

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Date: summer 1922
-Description: A teenage couple, William O’Brien and Irma (later married -surname is Hinz), walking home from a movie in Detroit, Michigan, see a -large disc-shaped object hovering above a vacant lot on South Dragoon -Street. Rectangular windows surround the perimeter of the UFO’s base. -Seated at those windows are 20 or so bald- headed beings with close-set -eyes. They stare at the witnesses, who become unnerved and leave. (Clark -III 264; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1910–1939, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 398

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Event 477 -(776C72C6)

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Date: 9/9/1922
-Description: John Morris and William James saw an object fall into the -ocean so slowly that it was thought to be a plane. A boat was sent out, -but nothing was found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fort 639 (Vallee)
-Location: Barmouth, Wales
-ID: 45

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- Event 478 (D71B13C3)

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Date: 1923
-Description: A photograph shows a domed disc hovering near the church -tower in Sebeş, Romania. (Romania 10-11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 401

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Event 479 -(1CF52EDA)

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Date: 1923
-Description: Two DePauw University college students, Andrew Wallace -Crandall and Herrick -Greenleaf, watch a revolving red object pass over Greencastle, -Indiana. The object, round and glowing, moves silently from northeast to -southwest, then vanishes. (Lore and Deneault, p. 106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 400

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Event 480 -(089ED10C)

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Date: 10/1923
-Description: Boni & Liveright publishes New Lands by Charles -Fort, who writes about odd aerial and astronomical observations: “It -seems no more incredible that up in the seemingly unoccupied sky there -should be hosts of living things than that the seeming blank of the -ocean, should swarm with life.” (Wikipedia, “New -Lands”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the -Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 198–199; Clark III 507, 1098)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 402

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- Event 481 (663F08D1)

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Date: 1/1924
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Perry G. Powers and Duncan Miller are returning -to a ranch when they see a beam of light shining on the snow in the -Osage Hills, Oklahoma. It emanates from a large oval-shaped object with -white dots of light on the side and blue flame at the trailing end. It -makes a slight hissing noise and moves out of sight over the horizon in -less than 3 minutes. (UFOEv, p. 129; -“1924 -Sighting,” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4 -(Winter 1954): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 403

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Event 482 -(5AE3AC04)

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Date: 8/22/1924
-Description: Mars enters an opposition closer to Earth than at any time -in the century before. In the US, a National Radio Silence Day is -promoted during a 36-hour period in August 21–23, with all radios quiet -for 5 minutes on the hour, every hour, just in case the Martians take -the opportunity to communicate with Earth. At the US Naval Observatory -in Washington, D.C., an SE-950 radio receiver is lifted 1.9 miles above -the ground in a dirigible tuned to a wavelength between 8 and 9 -kilometers, using a “radio photo message continuous transmission -machine” recently invented by Amherst College and Charles -Francis Jenkins of Washington. The program is led by retired -astronomer David -Peck Todd with the military assistance of Chief of Naval Operations -Adm. Edward Walter -Eberle, with -William -F. Friedman (US Army chief cryptographer), assigned to translate any -potential Martian messages. The device records radio signals on -chemically treated film. One signal consists of a “fairly regular -arrangement of dots and dashes along one side” and on the other “at -almost evenly spaced intervals … curiously jumped groups each taking the -forms of a crudely drawn human face.” Todd tells a reporter, “It may not -be a message from Mars, but if it isn’t from Mars, where is it from?” -Astronomer Frederick -E. Fowle of the Smithsonian thinks they are “disturbances introduced -by solar or terrestrial causes not yet understood.” Other scientists -suggest the images are caused by static discharge from a passing trolley -car, malfunctioning radio equipment, or the natural symphonic radio -waves produced by Jupiter. (Jerome Clark, “Conversations with Martians,” -IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 20; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from -Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 11–12; -Kristen Gallerneaux, “Reaching -for Mars,” Past Forward, August 23, 2016; Jessica Leigh Hester, “Everybody -Shut Up! We’re Listening for Mars,” Atlas Obscura, August 3, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 404

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Event 483 -(DA21A0E6)

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Date: fall 1924
-Description: Dusk. A hunter in a rowboat on Okanagan Lake, British -Columbia, sees a faint blue light moving from northeast to southwest. It -temporarily disappears behind a mountain but reappears and approaches -the boat, passing it at a distance of 200 feet and a speed of 30–40 mph. -The object is pearly silver in color with faint dark blue light at the -rear. After moving a quarter mile away, it ascends and disappears at -terrific speed. (Clark III 1171–1172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 405

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- Event 484 (3C58E529)

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Date: 1925
-Description: Thomas Green is riding with another young man on a farm -near Moora, Western Australia, when they come across an object “like two -saucers placed edge on edge” resting on a paddock. Some oval-shaped -windows are visible, and it is resting on four legs splayed outwards. -The two decide to return home. Several days later they return and find -the earth “scuffed about” on the spot. (Bill Chalker, “Historical -Australian UFO Reports,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3 -(Nov./Dec. 1983): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 406

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Event 485 -(F34C9E7F)

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Date: 6/1925
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A driver stops his Ford Model T to watch a -300-foot-long, cigar-shaped object flying south toward Chicago, -Illinois. Red sparks are peeling away from its nose and it has -multicolored lights. As it passes in front, the driver feels a heat -wave. (San Diego (Calif.) Evening Tribune, August 12, 1965; Clark III -1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 407

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- Event 486 (E1B10AAD)

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Date: 1926
-Description: UFO’s seen around Altai Himalaya
-Type: UFO sighting
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Himalaya Mountains

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Event 487 -(B88ECB7E)

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Date: 1926
-Alternate date: 1927
-Description: 3:00 p.m. A 14-year-old girl is tending cows in a meadow -between Brzezie and Ujazd, Poland. Suddenly the cows become agitated and -pull on their halters. She notices three cement-colored spherical -objects some 650 feet away in a field to the north. In front of each is -a small entity dressed in greenish uniforms. (Poland 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 408

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Event 488 -(052292F5)

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Date: 1/1926
-Description: Aviator Bert -Acosta is flying somewhere between Wichita, Kansas, and Colorado -Springs, Colorado, when he notices 6 or so objects that look like -manhole covers flying off his starboard wing 600 feet away. They keep -pace with his plane for 5 minutes. Finally they turn, change course, and -fly away. (Jacques Vallée, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Ace ed., 1965, p. 49; -Patrick Gross, “Pilots -UFO Sightings,” August 6, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 409

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Event 489 -(D54595D6)

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Date: 6/1926
-Description: After midnight. Farmer Ion Bunescu is with his horses on -the Leurda plateau near Colun, Romania, when he sees a light ascend from -the village of Cârța. An illuminated globe moves toward him with a light -so strong that it brightens the River Olt some 2.5 miles away. Hobana -and Weverbergh 224–225; Romania 9–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 410

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Event 490 -(090D6FB9)

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Date: 8/1926
-Description: Dusk. Frank Tezky and his father watch 6 disc-shaped -objects in Westmont, Illinois. Five smaller discs are trailing in a -straight line behind a much larger one, moving west beneath cirrus -clouds, which reflect the light cast by the objects. (Clark III -1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 411

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Event 491 -(E2D69451)

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Date: late 9/1926
-Description: 11:00 p.m. An Air Mail pilot named Colin Murphy is -repeatedly buzzed by a huge glowing object one hour after he takes off -in his DH-4 biplane from Salt Lake City, Utah. The object is a -90-foot-long cylinder with no wings or propeller. Every time the object -approaches closer than 150 feet, his engine sputters and misfires. He is -forced to land in a sheep pasture, whereupon the object shoots away to -the south. Possible hoax. (Patrick Gross, “Pilots -UFO Sightings,” August 5, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 412

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Event 492 -(E4C4FE6D)

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Date: 10/27/1926
-Description: Attorney and “telepathist” Hugh Mansfield Robinson, who has -been in contact with a female Martian entity named Oomaruru since 1918, -convinces the central radio office in London, England, to send out a -message, “MMM opesti nipitia secomba” over the airwaves. He intends for -it to be picked up by Martian wireless. The next day, he claims that -Oomaruru telepathically told him that only the first three letters had -been received. Robinson describes the Martians as 7–8 feet tall with -large ears, a wealth of black hair, and almond eyes. Over the years he -continues receiving messages from Oomaruru while in a trance and -attempting to send signals to Mars. Psychic investigator Nandor -Fodor, who has attended some of Robinson’s séances, calls him “as -slippery as a human eel.” (Earl J. Johnson, “Imagination -Runs Wild about Visit of Martian Realm,” Pomona (Calif.) Bulletin, -October 28, 1926, p. 1; “Doctor -Files Mars Message by Radio ‘At Sender’s Risk,’” Vancouver (B.C.) -Sun, October 28, 1926, p. 18; Nandor Fodor, The Haunted Mind, Garrett, -1959, pp. 259–269; -Clark III 1018–1019; Marc Hartzman, “Earth -to Mars in the 1920s: The Strange Case of the Man Who Tried to Contact -Martians via Radio,” Weird Historian, February 22, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 413

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Event 493 -(DB4E9D7A)

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Date: 11/1926
-Description: Early evening. Playing hide-and-seek with friends in -Bolton, Lancashire, England, Henry Thomas slips into a backyard and -finds three figures dressed in odd suits made of silvery gray rubber -tubes. They are looking into a window in the back of a house. A tube -extends from their helmets into a tank on each figure’s back. They turn -to look at him and he sees their heads are pale and “shaped like -lightbulbs” and they have slits for mouths. Thomas runs away. (“1926: -Humanoid Hide and Seek,” ThinkAboutIt; Clark III 264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 414

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- Event 494 (99B6DA99)

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Date: 1927
-Description: For a few weeks, 10-year-old Cecil -“Danny” McGann, his family, and other farmers in the area of -Fernvale, New South Wales, are terrorized by dancing aerial lights -during the night, the unusual deaths of their cattle and pigs, mystery -intruders, apparitions, circular areas of scorched grass, large and -unfamiliar birds, bizarre noises, and strange men in odd suits. McGann -is still terrified of this series of events when he relates them to UFO -investigator Bill -Chalker in 1985. (Clark III 485–491; Bill Chalker, “Physical -Traces,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 415

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Event 495 -(75624642)

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Date: summer 1927
-Description: Reece -Andrew Lacey, 9, -sees a large fish-like object with “big fins extended outward near the -front, and small, short ones near the rear” in Wolfe County, Kentucky. -(“Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 2 (December 1958): 111–112; -Clark III 1171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 416

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Event 496 -(430ADA2F)

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Date: 7/1927
-Description: Agricultural engineer Gheorghe Achimescu sees a smoke-gray, -cylindrical object fly silently from west to east over the village of -Nicolae Bălcescu, Romania, at an altitude of 650–950 feet. He estimates -it is about 50 feet long with a diameter of 10 feet. (Hobana and -Weverbergh 152–153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 417

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Event 497 -(B0052F3E)

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Date: 8/5/1927
-Description: Explorer Nicholas -Roerich and others in his caravan observe a UFO near Qinghai Lake, -Tibet. “We all saw, in the direction north to south, something big and -shiny reflecting sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing -our camp this thing changed in its direction from south to southwest, -and we saw how it disappeared in the intense blue sky. We even had time -to take our field glasses and saw quite distinctly the oval form with -the shiny surface, one side of which was brilliant from the sun.” -(Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya, Frederick A. Stokes, 1929, pp. 361–362; -Brad Sparks, “Analysis: -Roerich Case, Aug. 5, 1927”) Late summer — Long delayed echoes—radio -echoes that return to the sender several seconds after a radio -transmission has occurred—are first observed by civil engineer and -amateur radio operator Jørgen Hals from his home near Oslo, Norway. The -cause of LDEs remains unknown, although A. G. Shlionsky has proposed 15 -different explanations. (Wikipedia, “Long -delayed echo”; Carl Størmer, “Short -Wave Echoes and the Aurora Borealis,” Nature 122 (1928): 681; Sverre -Holm, “The -Five Most Likely Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,” March 16, -2004; Sverre Holm, “15 -Possible Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,” November 6, -2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 418

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Event 498 -(A737E8FE)

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Date: 10/18/1927
-Description: Richard Sweed is driving west on the outskirts of -Bakersfield, California, when he sees a bluish-gray metallic disc with -portholes take off from the ground at a 45° angle. It is about 60 feet -in diameter and makes a whining sound. He examines the spot where the -object had rested and finds the sand “fused like glass crystals.” -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 419

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- Event 499 (8B619323)

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Date: 1/3/1928
-Description: Kansas journalist Charles -Benedict Driscoll begins writing about ball lighting in his -syndicated column, “The World and All,” keeping the subject alive for -many years. (Charles B. Driscoll, “The -World and All,” Lexington (Ky.) Herald, January 3, 1928, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 420

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Event 500 -(24E99149)

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Date: 5/1928
-Description: Mystic and white supremacist William -Dudley Pelley claims he has an out-of-body experience in which he -travels to other planes of existence devoid of corporeal souls. He -describes his experience in an American Magazine article titled “My -Seven Minutes in Eternity,” expanded to a book 1933 as Seven Minutes in -Eternity. In later writings, he describes the experience as -“hypo-dimensional.” During this event, he meets with God and Jesus, who -instruct him to undertake the spiritual transformation of America. He -later claims that the experience gives him the ability to levitate, see -through walls, and have out-of-body experiences at will. (William Dudley -Pelley, “Seven -Minutes in Eternity” with Their Aftermath, Robert -Collier, 1929; Clark III 1285)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 421

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Event 501 -(B2EE20F8)

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Date: 6/13/1928
-Description: 9:00–10:00 p.m. Something like a “great blurred electric -light” appears over Miami, Florida, for more than 30 minutes. One -witness, amateur astronomer R. C. Fahrion, describes it as a comet -without a tail, but it does not move, is of an “enormous size,” and -disappears very suddenly. (“Miami -Astronomers Unable to Identify Light in Sky,” -Miami Herald, June 14, 1928, p. 1; “Miamians -Watch Sky Mystery, Mistaken for Tailless Comet,” Miami News, June -14, 1928, p. 12; Clark III 1172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 423

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Event 502 -(3BA00BA3)

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Date: summer 1928
-Description: A 6-year-old girl sees a black, faceless, 5-foot-high -figure with a large head and dangling arms in a field off Anstey Lane, -Leicester, England. She thinks it is a scarecrow but notices a “large -globe on legs” near the figure. She wakes up her father (who is resting -in the open air) but when she turns around, the scarecrow and the globe -are gone. (Pauline Berger, “The -Disappearing Scarecrow,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1969): 29; Clark III 264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 422

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Event 503 -(F09F4184)

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Date: 10/1928
-Description: Richard E. Byrd’s first expedition to Antarctica. He set up -a large base on the Ross Ice Shelf, called Little America. This was the -first of the American bases on the continent and was -well-equipped.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Antarctica

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Event 504 -(E804FF7A)

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Date: early 11/1928
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Norman -H. Sabie and Thorsten -Sabie are driving cattle near Milton, North Dakota, watch a round, -metallic object, like a “soup bowl turned upside down,” speed by at a -low altitude (15–20 feet), emitting 4–5 rays of light that illuminate -the ground and startle cattle. It makes a sound like air pouring through -a tube. (UFOEv, p. 129; -Clark III 1170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 424

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Event 505 -(A52FF182)

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Date: 11/28/1928
-Description: French diplomatic scholar Henri -Pensa writes that a silvery object trailing fire is seen in Rodez, -Aveyron, France, coming from the “direction of Mars.” He says that in -the winter of 1927–1928, he has seen a bright light, usually between -8:00 and 11:00 p.m., that brightens the landscape. (Giuseppe Stilo, “Francia, -1928: Marte -Attacca?” Cielo Insolito, October 2, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 425

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- Event 506 (70D8EE58)

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Date: 1929
-Description: In Hertford, England, a 5-year-old girl and her 8-year-old -brother have such an unsettling experience that they do not talk about -it themselves until about 1960, and the woman herself does not reveal it -to outsiders until 1970. They are playing in a garden when they hear -engine sounds and see a tiny (12 or 15 inches wide) biplane coming over -the fence from the direction of an orchard. It swoops down, nearly -hitting a trash can, and lands for a few seconds before resuming its -flight. While it is stationary, the girl can see a “perfectly -proportioned tiny pilot wearing a leather flying helmet, who waved to us -as he took off.” (Gordon Creighton, “A -Weird Case from the Past,” -Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1970): 30; Clark III -1173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 426

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Event 507 -(E5CC37A2)

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Date: Spring 1929
-Description: SAUCER SIGHTED YEAR WALL STREET COLLAPSES - Larry Reynolds -of San Francisco, California saw a mysterious object in the clouds. The -day was early spring and occasional clouds hid the oval-shaped craft -from time to time. At times it was clearly visible and Reynolds judged -its size to be tremendous.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Magazine 1952 (Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 -ff5))
-Location: Bainbridge Island, WA

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Event 508 -(60FCEE65)

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Date: 6/12/1929
-Time: 2300
-Description: Levis Brosseau, 2O was returning home when he saw a dark -object with a yellow light and his horse became very nervous. Within 6 m -of the object four or five dwarfish figures were running back and forth. -He heard their pointed, childlike voices, then saw the dark object take -off with a machinelike sound and a rush of air. Estimated size of -object: 15 m diameter, 5 m high.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Fermeneuve, Canada
-ID: 46

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Event 509 -(ED2F56E5)

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Date: 6/12/1929
-Description: 11:00 p.m. As he is driving home at Ferme-Neuve, Quebec, -Levis Brosseau, 20, sees something like a black cloud with a yellow -light resting on a hillside. He gets out to investigate and discerns a -structured object 50 feet in diameter. Outside of it, 4–5 small men of -yellowish color are moving quickly about. Soon the object flies -overhead, “purring like a milk separator,” and he hears two voices -arguing. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index -1910–1939, p. 31; -Clark III 264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 427

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Event 510 -(97E01230)

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Date: 7/1929
-Description: Five persons among them Einar Rostivold, saw a huge ball of -light giving off fiery colors, 25 km from Robsart. It landed slowly, -vanished gradually after illuminating the whole countryside for 30 -min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Jan., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Robsart, Canada
-ID: 47

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Event 511 -(E7C71D62)

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Date: 9/1929
-Description: Medical student William Walton is crossing a street in Oak -Park, Illinois, when he sees a very bright yellowish-white light like -two saucers pressed together. It approaches his position, and he hears a -humming sound like the throbbing of a turbine and feels heat and -pressure. The object passes over him at about 100 feet altitude, but the -force knocks him to his knees. After it passes, he detects an odor of -sulfur. (Linda Zimmerman, More Hudson Valley UFOs, Eagle Press, -2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 428

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Event 512 -(992C1EB1)

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Date: 10/4/1929
-Description: US stock market crashes
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: New York City, New York

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Event 513 -(D89F0C07)

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Date: 11/29/1929
-Description: Richard E. Byrd and his companions would become the first -to fly over the South Pole. The flight took 19 hours to fly from Little -America to the Pole and return.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Antartica

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- Event 514 (D84F2489)

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Date: 1930
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A woman is driving the family car in an isolated -hilly area of Texas when she rounds a curve and sees a huge object about -100 feet across by the side of the road. A small door is open with steps -leading down to the ground. One side of the object is braced up by two -slender legs with round plates for feet. A man of normal size comes -walking toward her and forces her to stop. He seems to speak to her -telepathically, telling her to leave the road and make a shortcut -through a gully. Some 8–10 other figures walk forward, much smaller and -with slanted eyes. They are wearing tan coveralls and tight caps. -Despite potential damage to her car, she drives through the gully as the -larger man walks alongside. The next thing she remembers is walking up -to her porch at her home 15 miles away. It is around 12:00 midnight. In -March 1968, having read Interrupted Journey about the Betty and Barney -Hill case, she writes to the Colorado project and offers herself for -hypnosis and research. Edward -Condon files the letter under “psychological” and does not respond. -(Michael D. Swords, “Too Close for Condon: Close Encounters of the 4th -Kind,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 4–5; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August -29, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 429

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Event 515 -(95919703)

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Date: 1930
-Description: Day. Schoolboys and teachers at the Barton Hill Academy in -Bristol, England, watch a cigar-shaped metallic object speed across the -sky faster than a dirigible. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, -1969, pp. 16–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 430

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Event 516 -(0BAD44C3)

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Date: 1930
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Two men walking along a lane at Tomintoul, -Scotland, see a white light “like a meteor.” When it gets brighter, they -can see figures moving inside it. The witnesses think it is a ghost -light. (Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September -20, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 431

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Event 517 -(A958E185)

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Date: spring 1930
-Alternate date: spring 1931
-Description: 7:00 p.m. As he walks down a country road near Newberry, -Michigan, high school student Ralph Newman sees a “distinctly green -fireball” in the low eastern sky that moves from south to north. About -the size of the full moon, its light brightens the countryside, then it -vanishes. (Clark III 1175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 432

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Event 518 -(71D7611B)

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Date: 5/1930
-Description: Day. A top-shaped object 40 feet wide lands in a garden in -Greensboro, North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Rankin and their two -daughters can see the head and shoulders of a figure inside wearing a -tight-fitting outfit and helmet. Some 5–10 minutes later the object -ascends quietly and is gone. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index -1910–1939, p. 33; -Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September -15, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 433

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- Event 519 (61518C57)

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Date: 1/1/1931
-Description: 1:00 a.m. J. Stewart Childerhose and his brother, two -farmers of Cobden, Ontario, see an object with a brilliant white light -on its front illuminating treetops on the shore of Muskrat Lake. Green -and white lights twinkle on its tail end. It moves in a rectangular -path, then speeds up suddenly and climbs out of sight. (Lore and -Deneault, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 434

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Event 520 -(5A7B999D)

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Date: 1/26/1931
-Description: Author Tiffany -Thayer founds the Fortean Society during a dinner with Charles -Fort in the Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York City in order to promote -his books and ideas. (Wikipedia, “Fortean -Society”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the -Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 239–241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 435

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Event 521 -(3755F7C0)

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Date: 2/1931
-Description: Charles -Fort writes in Lo!, published this month, that “Unknown, luminous -things, or beings, have often been seen, sometimes close to this earth, -and sometimes high in the sky. It may be that some of them were living -things that occasionally come from somewhere else.” (Wikipedia, “Lo!”; -Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, -Tarcher, 2008, pp. 235–243; Clark III 507–508, 1098)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 436

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Event 522 -(D4C74DC8)

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Date: 5/1931
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Pasquale Masala is out riding his horse with a -friend a few miles southeast of Paulilatino, Sardinia, Italy. When they -reach a megalithic tomb known as Nuraghe Trudumeddu, they dismount to -enjoy the view. Suddenly, a strange object the size and shape of a -football emerges from the partially blocked entrance of the tomb. It -travels at a height of about 3 feet above the ground at a constant speed -of about 10–15 mph and enters a thick patch of undergrowth. Marsala runs -after it for about a half mile and notices that the bushes part in front -of the object and close up after it passes. His companion is frightened -and insists on returning to the village. (Mary Boyd, “An -Early Italian Cross-Country Case,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 -(December 1974): 21; 1Pinotti 13– 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 437

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Event 523 -(F0C997C4)

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Date: 6/6/1931
-Description: Aviator Francis -Chichester sees a dull gray-white “airship” as he is making the -first solo flight in a Gypsy Moth seaplane from New Zealand to Australia -over the Tasman Sea. (Francis Chichester, The Lonely Sea and the Sky, -Hodder and Stoughton, 1964, p. 165; -Keith Basterfield, “Aviator -Francis Chichester’s Classic Sighting: Is the Date -Wrong?” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena–Scientific Research, May 29, -2018; Patrick Gross, “Francis Chichester -Sighting, 1931”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 438

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Event 524 -(3B3B76C5)

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Date: summer 1931
-Description: Alice May Williams of Auckland, New Zealand, begins writing -letters over a two-year period to Edison -Pettit and Seth -Barnes Nicholson, astronomers -at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California, describing her -encounters with telepathic aliens who fly in a circular machine “like a -great big lamp.” She writes that “The Planet mars is inhabited by human -spirits like us can talk eat & drink wear clothes, but have great -power. They are something people of this earth have never seen.” Their -ships “are round like the moon with airtight shutter at the front, -glass. The machine must be built with some light material, airproof -fireproof, waterproof. The inside must be like a room, 2 beds tables -& chairs.” Much of her information seems to be derived from articles -in the Auckland Star about conditions elsewhere in the solar system. -(David Herkt, “Who -No: Letters from Alice May Williams,” -Speaker: Public Address, September 3, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 439

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- Event 525 (2B740641)

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Date: 1932
-Description: Danish pilots Lt. Col. Peter Grunnet and Lt. Tage Andersen -are flying an H.M.II (Heinkel HE 8) seaplane over eastern Greenland as -part of a photogrammetric survey. Suddenly, Andersen notices they are -being followed by a hexagonal metallic object about a mile behind them. -(Rufus Drake, “UFO Crisis over Greenland,” Saga, October 1976, -pp. 36–38, 54, 60; Patrick Gross, “Pilots -UFO Sightings,” August 8, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 440

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Event 526 -(8CE29DC1)

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Date: 4/1932
-Alternate date: 5/1932
-Description: Terry F. Lapeza sees an aluminum-like disc with yellowish -lights or “portholes” on the underside, about 100 feet in diameter over -Durham, New York. It is moving north at about 300 mph. (UFOEv, p. 129) -Early summer (or early summer 1933)— 7:30 p.m. Teenager Fred W. Van Sant -and his brother Milton see 7–8 “meteors flying in a bunch” over hills -east of Oakland, California. They maintain the same altitude from east -to west in a great arc. The objects are silent and are so bright they -seem to be emitting their own light. (NICAP case file; Clark III -1175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 441

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Event 527 -(74775E05)

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Date: 6/1932
-Description: Evening. Reuben -D. Knight is standing on the porch of his farmhouse near Wattsburg, -Pennsylvania, when he notices a bright speck of light approaching from -some woods to the south. Growing in size, it comes to within 4 feet of -him and appears as a silvery-blue ball about 14 inches in diameter. It -travels in a loop and circles back to the woods in a steady path of -35–40 mph. After it circles past him again, he calls his wife and she -sees the ball make a final loop before it disappears in the woods. -(NICAP case file; Clark III 1175; Patrick Gross, URECAT, -August 19, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 442

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- Event 528 (B7BE9A5B)

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Date: 1933
-Description: Richard E. Byrd’s 2nd expedition to Antarctica. In 1934 he -spends 5 months alone in a hut, 100’s of km’s from the nearest support, -in total darkness. He almost dies from carbon monoxide poisoning.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Antartica

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Event 529 -(27E7B8D1)

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Date: 1933
-Description: Earl J. Duncan and a Native American boy are in a truck -near Fort Washakie, Wyoming, on the Wind River Indian Reservation. As -they reach the crest of a hill, they see three perfectly round, -pulsating, orange-red balls about 900 feet away. They are moving “in -absolute alignment” about 20 feet from the ground toward the nearest -mountain range. After 5 minutes of silent movement they disappear over a -nearby mountain. (NICAp case file; Clark III 1175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 443

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Event 530 -(CD3878EC)

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Date: 1/30/1933
-Description: Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany

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Event 531 -(E2BE167A)

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Date: 3/4/1933
-End date: 4/12/1945
-Description: President Franklin D. Roosevelt in office.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 532 -(0CE2DE93)

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Date: 6/1/1933
-Description: English mountaineer Frank -Smythe, during -the British Mount Everest Expedition in the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal, -is heading for camp at 27,500 feet when he sees two dark objects -floating in the blue sky. In shape they resemble kite balloons, except -that one appears to possess short squat wings. As they hover motionless, -they seem to pulsate in and out as though they are breathing. A minute -or two later they disappear behind mountain mist. (Frank S. Smythe, Camp -Six: An Account of the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition, Hodder and -Stoughton, 1937, pp. 264–265; -Barry Greenwood, “UFOs -on Mt. Everest in 1933,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 5 (July 1999): -2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 447

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Event 533 -(1CA1EC62)

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Date: 6/13/1933
-Description: An unknown aircraft allegedly crashes at Magenta, just west -of Milan, Italy. The Italian government establishes a top-secret group, -Gabinetto Ricerche Speziale/33, to examine the craft. It is headed by -Prime Minister Benito -Mussolini, Foreign Minister Galeazzo -Ciano, and Air Marshal Italo -Balbo, with scientific support from Guglielmo -Marconi and astronomer Gino -Cecchini. Debris -is reportedly stored in the hangars of the SIAI- Marchetti aircraft -company in Vergiate, Varese. Journalists are ordered to keep silent -about the incident due to national security. (Good Need, pp. 12–15; -Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del Nazifascismo, -2001; 2Pinotti 179–197)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 448

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Event 534 -(D48E5BF4)

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Date: summer 1933
-Time: Morning
-Description: A man observed a faint violet light in a field between this -town and Morrestown. Walking to it, he found an ovoid object 3 m in -diameter and 2 m thick with a circular opening similar to a vault door. -Pushing it, he found the room full of violet light and observed many -instruments, no occupant. Smell of ammonia.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Chrysville, Pennsylvania
-ID: 48

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Event 535 -(3164328E)

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Date: summer 1933
-Description: Night. Frank Van Keuren is fishing with others along the -waterway off Beach Haven, New Jersey. Suddenly they are illuminated by a -searchlight coming from an object moving slowly and silently about 1,000 -feet in the air. It goes on to circle some radio towers about 8 miles -away, flooding them with light. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, -Signet, 1969, pp. 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 446

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Event 536 -(CF4E686C)

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Date: summer 1933
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A man who still insists on anonymity in 1964 is -driving near Cherryville, Pennsylvania, when his car gets a flat tire. -As he is jacking it up, he sees a faint violet light in the field on his -right. Curious, he walks about 200 feet toward the light and sees a -bell-shaped object about 10 feet in diameter and 6 feet high on the -grass. Light is issuing from a circular door about 1 foot in diameter. -He pushes it and it swings open. Putting his head inside, he cannot see -much because of the peculiar light coming from the ceiling. The chamber -inside is about 6 feet in diameter, 4 feet high, and full of tubing and -dials on a console. An ammonia scent pervades the room, which is notably -chilly. The man then walks around the object, touching the surface, -which is slick, metallic, and cold. After 10 minutes, he goes back to -the car, replaces the tire, and drives home. (“Flying -Saucer Spotted -in 1933,” Allentown (Pa.) Sunday Call-Chronicle, February 16, 1964, -pp. B1–B2; Clark III 1175–1176; “1933 -Sighting Reported,” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 7–8; Patrick -Gross, URECAT, July -16, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 445

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Event 537 -(F5A406E4)

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Date: summer 1933
-Description: For weeks, strange lights in the sky are reported around -Tobin Lake, Saskatchewan. Curious about the reports, two young men and a -woman drive to the lake from Napawin. On their way they see a glow near -the horizon, so they park and trek a quarter mile into the woods where -they can see a large, oval-shaped craft sitting on legs. From an open -central doorway shines a bright orange glow; a ladderlike stairway -extends downward with a dozen figures dressed in silver suits moving up -and down the steps. They appear to be repairing the craft. The witnesses -watch for 30 minutes when they decide to return to their truck and get -closer. Two nights later they return and find imprints and burn marks, -which they photograph. Two of them write an article that they submit to -magazines, which refuse to publish what they consider outlandish -fiction. (John Brent Musgrave, “Saskatchewan, -1933: UFO Stops -for ‘Repairs,’” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 (April 1977): 16–17; -Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July -15, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 444

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Event 538 -(E18995FE)

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Date: 7/4/1933
-Description: The Nazis become the only political party left in Germany, -after all other parties are banned or split up.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany

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Event 539 -(AD6287D2)

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Date: 7/5/1933
-Description: Evening. Four RAF Hawker Fury I biplanes flying over -Sussex, England, encounter a gigantic light that shines directly into -the center of their formation from a higher altitude. Two Hawkers -experience mechanical trouble and separate. Capt. Nigel Tompkins and Lt. -Bruce H. Thomas make emergency landings when both their planes’ engines -quit. On his way down, Thomas passes so close to the light that it -causes burns on his face and hands. Probable hoax. (History of the III -Fighter Squadron, RAF, London Press, 1947; Jan Aldrich, “Aircraft/UFO Encounters -Prior to 1942,” Project 1947; Patrick Gross, “Pilots -UFO Sightings,” August 3, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 449

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Event 540 -(72575308)

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Date: 7/31/1933
-Alternate date: 8/1/1933
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Somewhere between Butt Valley Reservoir and -Humbug Valley, California, high- school science teacher Paul M. Barry -Jr. is skywatching when he sees two objects shoot across the sky. They -are solid, prolate spheroids with a green luminescence. Their brightness -changes considerably as they approach the zenith and diminish as they -approach the horizon. He thinks they are 8–10 miles distant. The two -objects disappear and are followed by a third. (Clark III 1175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 450

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Event 541 -(636A1AB7)

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Date: fall 1933
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A chemist in Contra Costa County, California, -hears a humming sound outside coming from the northeast. Looking out the -window, he sees the yard bathed in a steady blue-purple light. Suddenly -the light goes out and the humming ends with a “pow” sound. (Lorenzen, -UFOs; The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 451

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Event 542 -(4EB7C1A3)

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Date: late 11/1933
-Description: After sunset. A lone observer sees what appears to be an -aircraft land on ice-covered lake Fjosoken, Sorsele, Sweden. It takes -off and circles the lake for one hour, during which time it projects a -powerful searchlight on the lake’s surface. However, local police -interview the witness and suspect that he was looking at Venus. (Swords -361)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 452

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Event 543 -(6BF3D641)

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Date: 12/24/1933
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Witnesses in Kalix, Norrbotten, Sweden, see beams -of light coming from a machine that seems to be searching the ground -below. The beams are “blinding.” The sighting is part of a wave of -“ghost flier” reports of gray monoplanes without identifying markings -that are reported over rural areas of Scandinavia from November 15, -1933, through February 11, 1934. The Swedish Military Record Office -accumulates 96 reports from Sweden, 234 from Norway, and 137 from -Finland, and the Swedish Air Force undertakes at least two -reconnaissance missions in search of the mystery planes. More than 50% -of the reports take place between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., when Venus is -low over the horizon. (Strange Company 7; Hilary Evans and Robert E. -Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 497–499; Swords 361–363; -Anders Liljegren, “Ghost -Flier Mystery -Still Unresolved,” AFU Newsletter 41 (September 2001): 1–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 453

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Event 544 -(B976D7B6)

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Date: 12/28/1933
-Description: The 4th Swedish Flying Corps begins an investigation of the -ghost flyers. (John A. Keel, “Mystery Aeroplanes -of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1970): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 454

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Event 545 -(12656B77)

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Date: 12/30/1933
-Description: Swedish customs sends a request for air support to Gen. Eric -Virgin, head -of the Swedish Air Force, to help apprehend the ghost fliers who could -be smuggling liquor into Sweden. However, he is cautious and wants more -information to evaluate. (Swords 361–362; Good Above, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 455

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- Event 546 (784C1BA8)

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Date: 1934
-Description: INDIAN RESERVATION HAS THREE SPACE VISITORS - Earl J. -Duncan of Chamblee, Ga., saw three bright round orange objects in the -sky above Shoshone Indian Reservation near Fort Washakie. They were -soundless and moved at a snail’s pace. Duncan’s sighting has many things -in common with the January 29, 1952 sighting over Korea by Army planes, -as appeared in Life Magazine, April 7 1952.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
-Location: Fort Washakie, WY

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Event 547 -(2AA5A561)

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Date: 1/1934
-Description: George -Adamski, who -has been a lecturer and counselor on spiritual topics since about 1928, -opens the Monastery of the Royal Order of Tibet at 758 Manzanita Drive, -Laguna Beach, California. The monastery serves as his home and -headquarters until 1940. (George M. Eberhart, “George Adamski—New Age -Meets the Space Age,” IUR 21, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 20; “Laguna -Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,” The Adamski Case, September -27, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 456

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Event 548 -(5BFB5708)

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Date: 1/2/1934
-Description: 3:45 a.m. Olof Hedlund is taking a walk in Sorsele, -Västerbotten, Sweden, when he hears an engine above him. There is a full -moon and visibility is good. He sees an airplane fly over the city from -the west, passing directly above the train station. It turns three times -in wide circles, then it takes off to the north, following the railroad -tracks. It is at about 1,300 feet altitude and visible for 15 minutes. -(John A. Keel, “Mystery -Aeroplanes of the -1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1970): -12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 457

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Event 549 -(0A215E11)

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Date: 1/9/1934
-Description: A mystery airplane is seen again over Västerbotten -province, Sweden. The Swedish Air Force loses two aircraft trying to -discover where the plane is based. (“Mystery -Plane Reported,” New York Times, January 10, 1934, p. 11; Strange -Company 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 458

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Event 550 -(3C183A44)

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Date: 1/10/1934
-Description: Gen. Pontus -Reuterswärd, chief -of armed forces in Upper Norrland, Sweden, recommends to officials of -Norrbotten County that they request assistance from the Air Force to -deal with the ghost fliers. Norrbotten administrator Bernard Gärde is -skeptical of the “vague and unreliable” reports at first. (Swords -361–362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 459

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Event 551 -(3B49C94E)

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Date: 1/22/1934
-Description: A mystery aircraft flies over the military fortress at -Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden, seen by 30 soldiers, and Reuterswärd alerts -the press that planes had flown over restricted military areas. (John A. -Keel, “Mystery Aeroplanes -of the 1930s, Part III—The Landings,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1971): 17; Swords 362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 460

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Event 552 -(9E6152AF)

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Date: 1/27/1934
-Description: Swedish MP Arvid -Lindman puts a question to Prime Minister Per -Albin Hansson, asking -what action the government plans to take about the ghost fliers. (Swords -362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 461

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Event 553 -(8BF5D1A1)

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Date: 2/1/1934
-Description: Night. A mystery aircraft flies in circles for two hours -over central London, England. Its engine is noisy, and its course can be -clearly seen by its lights. On February 6, Under-Secretary of State for -Air Philip -Sassoon claims that it was an RAF plane carrying out a training -exercise in coordination with ground forces. (John A. Keel, “Mystery -Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1970): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 462

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Event 554 -(8681DF84)

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Date: 2/2/1934
-Description: Night. A large unidentified airplane is seen over eastern -Finland close to the Russian frontier, apparently scouting the district. -Flights of ghost planes and mysterious lights have been seen for the -past month over Helsinki and Vyborg, Finland, as well as Sweden and -Norway. The Scandinavian mystery fliers continue to be seen into 1935. -(“Finnish -Alarm Grows over ‘Ghost’ Planes,” New York Times, February 4, 1934, -p. 9; Strange Company 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 464

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Event 555 -(9D4044A5)

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Date: 2/2/1934
-Description: Prime Minister Hansson tells -the Swedish Parliament that most ghost flier sightings are -misidentifications or fantasy, while others are unsolved. (Swords -362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 463

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Event 556 -(C33130D9)

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Date: 2/12/1934
-Description: Norrbotten, Sweden, administrator Bernard Gärde officially -requests assistance of the Air Force with the ghost fliers. But air -surveillance has actually been taking place since early January. (Swords -362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 465

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Event 557 -(13912274)

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Date: 3/4/1934
-Description: Sweden calls off its hunt for the ghost fliers, although -sightings are still being reported. Even though 24 airplanes -participated in the search, no Swedish pilot has seen a ghost flier. -Soldiers on the ground occasionally report sound from a motor or lights -in the sky. (Swords 362–363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 466

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Event 558 -(BAD24837)

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Date: 4/30/1934
-Description: Gen. Reuterswärd tells -the press that several ghost flier reports in January had been of real, -unidentified aircraft involved in a violation of Sweden’s airspace. MP -Elof -Lindberg accuses him of not being competent enough to draw such a -conclusion. (Good Above, p. 13; -Swords 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 467

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Event 559 -(E20F466F)

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Date: 6/11/1934
-Description: Night. Two mystery airplanes circle around London, England: -“The machines were low enough for their outlines, as well as their -navigation lights, to be clearly visible against the sky.” Regulations -prohibit RAF planes from flying over London at less than 5,000 feet. -(John A. Keel, “Mystery -Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1970): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 468

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Event 560 -(3083E060)

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Date: 6/19/1934
-Description: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established, -replacing the Federal Radio Commission.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 561 -(9160055E)

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Date: summer 1934
-Description: Day. 9-year-old Coral -E. Lightner and two friends watch a white object “like an open -umbrella without the ribs or spurs” glide silently through the sky from -the west-southwest to the northwest over Barron, Wisconsin. It moves -silently with a slight undulation before it disappears after 20 seconds. -(Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 15–16; -“The -Wisconsin Flying Saucer That Changed UFO Research Forever,” -Wisconsin Frights, September 20, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 469

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Event 562 -(3F2D805A)

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Date: 7/29/1934
-Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman is born -in Elizabeth, NJ.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Elizabeth, NJ

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Event 563 -(073D191B)

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Date: 8/9/1934
-Description: Around 5:00 a.m. Musician Leon -M. Thompson is boating on Keuka Lake in western New York when he -notices an odd cloud on the west side of the lake. It is in the form of -an elongated cone some 60–75 feet in length and 10–15 feet in diameter -at its largest point. Suddenly the sky lights up in a flash and the -cloud emits a fireball that arcs across the lake to the east and leaves -a fiery train. It falls on a cottage and throws up a cloud of mist or -steam that slowly dissipates. (“Ball -of Fire Brings Thrill to Fisherman,” Elmira (N.Y.) Star-Gazette, -August 4, 1934, p. 5; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: -Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 315–328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 470

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- Event 564 (1AA79DF3)

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Date: 1935
-End date: 1937
-Description: UFO activity around Second Italo-Ethiopian War
-Type: UFO activity
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Ethiopia

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Event 565 -(0EF5011A)

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Date: 1935
-Description: Astronomer Arthur -M. Harding writes that “Surely there must be some forms of life on -Venus that are not so very different from what we find on earth.” -(Arthur M. Harding, Astronomy: The Splendor of the Heavens Brought Down -to Earth, Garden City Publishing, 1935, p. 408)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 472

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Event 566 -(1EEA61C3)

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Date: 1935
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Edward Winters of the US 4th Coast Artillery -Regiment watches a dull-red, Zeppelin-shaped object flying over the -Panama Canal Zone at high speed from the Pacific to the Atlantic for -about 30 minutes. Later it returns, moving in the opposite direction -farther away. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 471

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Event 567 -(40D88DAB)

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Date: 1/10/1935
-Description: Charles Spayde, the operator of a telegraph station west of -Lima, Ohio, claims that he has been receiving a “series of strange, -unintelligible signals” that are broad in wavelength and “come in all -over the dial.” He is convinced they are not static or mechanical -disturbances and they do not originate on this planet. (Jerome Clark, -“Conversations with Martians,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 473

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Event 568 -(11EC015D)

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Date: 1/22/1935
-Alternate date: 1/23/1935
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A woman in Vienna, Virginia, sees a -lightning-like flash in the southwest that flares up several times then -dies down. It seems to come from a “great blazing light, almost a ball -of fire,” that is moving around the horizon. It is lost to view in the -southeast. (“A correspondent from Vienna, Va., writes,” Science 81 -(1935): 294)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 474

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Event 569 -(7C3DB883)

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Date: spring 1935
-Description: Night. A Mr. Aerts sees a brilliant circular object “like -aluminum” in the sky above the roofs of nearby houses in Mechelen, -Belgium. It lands and he sees two small occupants come out of the rear; -they wear square helmets with short antennas and are apparently -examining the exterior surface. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1910–1939, p. 42; -Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 475

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Event 570 -(6D3E7C28)

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Date: 4/5/1935
-Description: Dusk. A farmer named Mora sees a large, round, brilliant -object descend and hover just above the ground near his property in -Aznalcázar, Seville, Spain. Several small beings appear and stroll -around it. (Clark III 264–265; Patrick Gross, URECAT, April -9, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 476

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Event 571 -(4AD6C368)

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Date: 5/1935
-Description: Radu Popescu and his cousin are walking by the Olt River -near Drăgășani, Romania, when they come upon what seems to be a Romany -wagon. They see five figures—one next to the object, two farther away, -and another two next to a boat on the shore. Suddenly the figures run -toward the object, something black covers it, an antenna appears, and it -rises up above the river. It turns to a white color as it moves away. -(Romania 121–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 477

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Event 572 -(2225723A)

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Date: 7/1/1935
-Description: The US Division of Investigation officially becomes the -Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Federal Bureau of Investigation, Timeline, March -31, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 478

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Event 573 -(F621CAC9)

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Date: 7/8/1935
-Description: The Swedish Chief of Staff releases its final report on -ghost fliers. After concluding that 42 of the 487 reports investigated -by Sweden, Norway, and Finland are of actual aircraft violating borders, -the military admits the phenomenon is at least partially real. (Swords -363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 479

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- Event 574 (A5677909)

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Date: 1936
-Description: Atmospheric physicist William -Jackson Humphreys, after examing 280 cases, argues that ball -lightning is caused by persistence of vision, meteorites, -will-o’-the-wisp, brush discharge, and other natural phenomena. (W. J. -Humphreys, “Ball -Lightning,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 76 -(1936): 613–626)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 480

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Event 575 -(5E4449CA)

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Date: 1936
-Description: Late evening. Mrs. E. P. Higgins and another member of the -Canal Zone Astronomical Society observe a moving orange-red star passing -from north to south near Miraflores Lake, Panama. Suddenly it halts and -travels in three small circles from right to left. (Lore and Deneault, -pp. 112–113; -Clark III 1176)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 481

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Event 576 -(9D3BD189)

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Date: 1/1936
-Description: George -Adamski’s Royal Order of Tibet publishes Universal Jewels of Life as -a free monthly newsletter for those attending his meetings in Laguna -Beach, California. Besides Adamski, talks are also given by Marguerite -Weir, Alice Wells, and others. Beginning in May, the Royal Order has a -weekly 15-minute slot on local radio stations KFOX in Long Beach and -KMPC in Los Angeles. He also publishes Wisdom of the Masters of the Far -East, a summary of his “ageless wisdom” teachings. (“Laguna -Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,” The Adamski Case, September -27, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 482

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Event 577 -(B86534B4)

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Date: 6/26/1936
-Description: Heinrich Focke designed the world’s first practical, stable -transverse twin rotor helicopter
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: link
-Location: Germany

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Event 578 -(2E3B5B67)

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Date: 8/17/1936
-Description: A metallic disc with a diameter of 33–40 feet is seen -flying soundlessly near Venice, Italy. It has windows and alternating -white and red lights. Two fighters from a nearby air base attempt to -intercept it but cannot reach it. After maneuvering for an hour and -passing above Mestre, Veneto, it appears more like a torpedo-shaped -object. Two other smaller, domed discs are also seen following it. A -report on the incident is sent to Foreign Minister Galeazzo -Ciano. (Good -Need, p. 12; -Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del Nazifascismo, -2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 483

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Event 579 -(A078CF21)

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Date: fall 1936
-Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Louie -R. Lindblad and five companions from Texarkana, Arkansas, are fox -hunting in Bowie County, Texas [around the current site of the Red River -Army Depot] when they observe numerous star- like objects in a circular -formation. Occasionally a light would fly across the circle and take up -another position until they all seem to relocate. They watch the display -for about 30–40 minutes. (MUFON UFO Journal, no. 150, August 1980, -p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 484

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Event 580 -(834AE55A)

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Date: 10/1936
-Description: Night. Holger Berg and another worker at the Civilian -Conservation Corps in Eklutna, Alaska, are walking south toward -Anchorage when the see a light approaching them from the south. It is -attached to a cigar-shaped object embedded in a blue-green haze and -making a strange buzzing noise. As the object passes directly overhead, -they notice it actually has a triangular shape and multicolored lights -on its tail end. Frightened, they dive into a nearby snowbank then run -back to Eklutna. (Marler 64–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 485

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Event 581 -(8EE26CD6)

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Date: 10/10/1936
-Description: 4:15 a.m. Capt. Mario Rossi, flight instructor at the -airfield at Orbetello, Grosseto, Italy, is flying a Savoia- Marchetti -SM.62 at 12,465 feet over Talamone, Italy, when he sees an unusual light -ahead of his plane. He follows the light, which is at a slightly higher -altitude and moving at nearly 440 mph. Rossi loses it after flying into -a cloud for 12 minutes and finding himself over Elba. (Ernesto Thayaht, -“Three -Sightings in Italy,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 3 (July/Aug. 1955): -6; 1Pinotti 15–16; “Pilots -UFO Sightings,” August 7, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 486

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Event 582 -(DA58EB68)

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Date: winter 1936
-Description: Robert Damion, an astronomer of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, -France, who has a private observatory in the Alps, claims that for -several nights a “certain portion of the sky in the vicinity of Mars” -has been lit up with a deep bluish tint for 40 seconds each time. He is -convinced that Mars is trying to signal Earth. (“Strange -Light from Mars -Called Signal to Earth,” Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, March 11, -1936, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 487

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- Event 583 (81CDD1BE)

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Date: 1/1937
-Description: A man who later becomes an administrator in a Missouri -state agency chases a disc-shaped object in his private aircraft over -Van Buren, Missouri. (Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification: The -First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall, 1981, p. 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 488

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Event 584 -(653FC344)

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Date: 1/1/1937
-Description: Noon. Pilot Howard S. Behr is flying a Curtiss-Wright CW-15 -Sedan at 3,000 feet over Virginia on his way to Raleigh, North Carolina. -Suddenly he sees an object beginning to cross his flight path about -1,000 feet below him. It looks like a gondola, gun-metal gray in color, -with both of its ends turned up. He estimates it is about 35– 40 feet -long and traveling at 150 mph. It moves off to his left and disappears. -(Jerome Clark, Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs, Citadel, 2003, -p. 6; Patrick Gross, “Pilots -UFO Sightings,” August 7, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 489

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Event 585 -(86324C2B)

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Date: 1/4/1937
-Description: New ghost flier sightings around the fortress at Boden, -Norrbotten, Sweden, have prompted Gen. Pontus Reuterswärd to -alert Minister of Defence Janne -Nilsson about the possibility of foreign spies. (Swords 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 490

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Event 586 -(F9C599F9)

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Date: late 1/1937
-Description: Ghost fliers return to Västerbotten, Sweden. A light is -seen wandering near the horizon east of Umeå. A light brighter than a -headlight is reported from a community near Dorotea. A light similar to -position lights on an aircraft flies over a village outside Stensele. -(Swords 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 491

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Event 587 -(E832E954)

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Date: 2/11/1937
-Description: 9:00 p.m. The crew of the fishing vessel Fram is departing -Kvalsvik, Norway, when they notice a “large aeroplane” with red and -green glowing lights resting on top of the water. The captain turns the -boat around to offer assistance, but the object’s lights go out and it -is cloaked in a “cloud of smoke” and vanishes. (Strange Company -11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 492

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Event 588 -(D7E567F6)

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Date: 2/15/1937
-Description: MP Elof -Lindberg demands in the Swedish Parliament that a commission with -civil experts, not military, should investigate the ghost flier -intrusions. He suspects the military has embellished the reports to -direct more resources to the northern region and to the Air Force in -general. (Swords 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 493

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Event 589 -(7BD23366)

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Date: 5/19/1937
-Description: Lindberg’s -request for a civilian ghost flier investigation is rejected by Swedish -Minister of Defence Janne Nilsson, who -explains that no new facts have surfaced and few new observations have -been reported. (Swords 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 494

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Event 590 -(47787E74)

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Date: 5/30/1937
-Description: Amateur astronomer Latimer -J. Wilson of Nashville, Tennessee, is observing Mars through a -12-inch reflector when he sees a series of intermittent bright flashes -across the south polar cap. A line of tiny white spots seems to extend -across the cap, some coalescing to swell in a brilliant white spot that -quickly becomes yellow, then red- yellow, the “phenomenon passing from -left to right across the polar cap.” (Latimer J. Wilson, “Apparent -Flashes Seen -on Mars,” Popular Astronomy 45 (1937): 430; Walter H. Haas, “Flashes -on Mars Observed in 1937 and Some -Random Remarks,” The Strolling Astronomer 45, no. 1 (Winter 2003): -43–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 495

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Event 591 -(564AE5BC)

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Date: summer 1937
-Description: An object allegedly falls from the sky in Langenau [now -Czernica, Poland] into a field belonging to Eva Braun’s -family and is retrieved by German soldiers. It supposedly winds up in Wernher -von Braun’s laboratory, but the story is probably mythical. (Poland -116–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 496

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Event 592 -(75ABF509)

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Date: 9/1937
-Description: Tiffany -Thayer publishes the first issue of the Fortean Society Magazine -(retitled Doubt in 1944) in New York City. (Fortean Society Magazine 1, -no. 1 (September 1937); Clark III 516)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 497

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Event 593 -(FE1E5543)

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Date: 9/10/1937
-End date: 9/12/1937
-Description: George -Adamski’s Royal Order of Tibet organizes a festival in Laguna Beach, -California, dramatizing the “teachings of the universal masters” and a -round-table discussion focusing on the “present day needs in unifying -all mankind.” (“Laguna -Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,” The Adamski Case, September -27, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 498

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- Event 594 (DF54D29A)

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Date: 1938
-Description: Harvey L. Sperry, 13, sees a white, vapor-like object -moving at 5–10 mph at less than 100 feet altitude from north to south in -Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its rim seems to be “composed of two interwoven -parts revolving and moving in opposite directions.” (Lore and Deneault, -p. 136; -Clark III 1176)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 500

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Event 595 -(66807A40)

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Date: 1938
-Description: The Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation begin -contributing large amounts of money to the Council on Foreign Relations. -They create various Committees on Foreign Relations throughout the -country, which later become governed by the American Committees on -Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., funded by a grant from the -Carnegie Corporation. Influential men are chosen in several cities and -are brought together for discussions in their own communities as well as -participating in an annual conference in New York. These local -committees serve to influence local leaders and shape public opinion to -build support for the council’s policies, while also acting as “useful -listening posts” through which the Council and US government can “sense -the mood of the country.” (Wikipedia, “Council -on Foreign Relations”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 499

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Event 596 -(4DF1E0B1)

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Date: 2/1938
-Description: Raymond -A. Palmer is hired as editor of Amazing Stories magazine, owned by -Ziff-Davis in Chicago, Illinois. He immediately sets out to enliven the -periodical, which is close to folding. Concentrating on “space opera” -stories, he expands its size to more than 200 pages and encourages -readers to contribute content. (Wikipedia, “Raymond -A. Palmer”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 501

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Event 597 -(41F0B7DB)

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Date: summer 1938
-Description: Midnight. Artist Malcolm B. Perry sees what looks like a -Navy blimp moving east to west over Somerville, Massachusetts. It has -apparent portholes in the sides, and he can see the silhouette of -someone looking at him. Other figures are taking turns looking through -portholes. It disappears below some low clouds. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The -Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 20–21; “1938: Perry’s Alien,” UFO Roundup -5, no. 37 (September 4, 2000); Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 502

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Event 598 -(838561E7)

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Date: 7/25/1938
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A lieutenant and his aide see a strong light -coming from a hovering lens-shaped object near Guadalajara, Spain. It is -over 35 feet in diameter and 15 feet high. A platform with two moving -figures is lowered from underneath. A blue beam from the object shines -on the witnesses, who feel a sudden chill. The platform rises back up, -and the object glows with an intense white light and flies away. -(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue -of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS, 1976, p. 2; -Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 503

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Event 599 -(8DAEA1C4)

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Date: fall 1938
-Description: (Or following year.) Two persons saw a strange “frog-man” 1 -m tall with a round head, no neck, and a hump in front of the body. The -mouth was a large, straight slit, the eyes were like smaller slits. The -skin was brown-green, compared to pegamoid, hands normal. The creature -walked in a peculiar “but elegant” fashion, the head waving up and down -while the legs moved “carefully.” When pursued, the creature accelerated -very fast, with feet “fluttering.” About 100 m away it vanished -completely’.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Juminda, Estonian coast
-ID: 49

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Event 600 -(3CE6866C)

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Date: 10/1938
-Description: Dusk. A man is in a cornfield with his father near Alger, -Ohio, when an object moves up and hovers about 500 feet above the field. -The tractor motor stops running. The object is about 100 feet in -diameter and has a ring of pulsating, multicolored lights around it. -Soon it makes a right-angle turn and vanishes in the sky, after which -they get the tractor working again. (Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman -Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 504

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Event 601 -(F22D58BD)

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Date: 10/22/1938
-Description: Italian Lt. Col. Mario -Pezzi reaches a record altitude of 56,850 feet in a Caproni Ca.161. -It is still the highest a manned, propeller-driven biplane has gone. -(Wikipedia, “Mario -Pezzi (aviator)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 505

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Event 602 -(2F7D6EBF)

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Date: 10/30/1938
-Description: 8:00 p.m. “The War of the Worlds” episode of the American -radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, directed -and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson -Welles, is an adaptation of H. -G. Wells’s -novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It is performed and broadcast live -in New York City as a Halloween episode over the Columbia Broadcasting -System radio network. The episode becomes famous for allegedly causing -panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is -disputed as the program has relatively few listeners. In the days after -the adaptation, widespread outrage is expressed in the media. The -program’s news-bulletin format is described as deceptive by some -newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the -broadcasters and calls for regulation by the FCC, which declines. Some -government agencies in the US, Germany, and Russia take note of how -segments of the population are easily manipulated into thinking fiction -is fact. According to Annie -Jacobsen, the confusion allegedly inspires Joseph -Stalin to create a similar scenario with a fake alien crash in the -US. (Wikipedia, “The -War of the Worlds (1938 -radio drama)”; John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds: A History -of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original -Script, McFarland, 2009; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 22, -211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 506

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Event 603 -(EDEA34C0)

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Date: 10/30/1938
-Description: Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast performed -and broadcast live over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for -inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience -that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is -disputed.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: New York City, New York

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Event 604 -(2601D176)

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Date: 12/17/1938
-Description: The process of nuclear fission is discovered by chemist Otto -Hahn and his assistant Fritz -Strassmann at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Chemie in Berlin, -Germany, producing barium by bombarding uranium with neutrons. (Atomic -Heritage Foundation, “Atomic -Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 507

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- Event 605 (B97E81EC)

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Date: 1939 (approximate)
-Description: Sisters Lucile and -Allene -Holt, daughters -of Rev. Turner -Hamilton Holt, claim they are separately told by their father, a -cousin of Secretary of State Cordell -Hull, that -Hull personally showed Holt a wrecked circular craft of some kind and -glass jars holding unknown creatures. These are stored in a sub-basement -of the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Both sisters are told the -story when Holt is a minister at the Shenandoah Christian Church in -Greenwich, Ohio, before 1947, but researchers can find no confirmation -in any of Hull’s papers or memoirs. (William E. Jones and Eloise G. -Watson, “Pre–World War II ‘Creature’ Retrieval?” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter -2001–2002): 6–9, 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 508

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Event 606 -(1B44B986)

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Date: 1939
-End date: 1941
-Description: Richard E. Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition. President -Roosevelt asked Byrd to command the U.S. Antarctic programme. This time -they again used the Little America base but also set up on Stonington -Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula. This expedition would complete -extensive studies of Antarctic geology, biology, meteorology and -continue exploring new areas. Due to the impending involvement of -America in the Second World War, Byrd was recalled to active duty in -1940 and assigned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. The -expedition continued without him.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Antartica

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Event 607 -(424010B1)

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Date: 1/13/1939
-Description: The process of nuclear fission is explained theoretically -in Stockholm, Sweden, by Lise -Meitner and her nephew Otto -Robert Frisch, who compares it to the biological fission of living -cells. (Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic -Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 509

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Event 608 -(FF5BF311)

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Date: 1/25/1939
-Description: A Columbia University team conducts the first nuclear -fission experiment in the US in the basement of Pupin Hall on the south -side of 120th Street in New York City. The experiment involves placing -uranium oxide inside an ionization chamber and irradiating it with -neutrons, then measuring the energy released. The results confirm that -fission is occurring and hints strongly that it is the isotope -uranium-235 that is undergoing fission. (Richard Rhodes, The Making of -the Atomic Bomb, Simon & Schuster, 1986, pp. 267–270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 510

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Event 609 -(4F18379E)

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Date: 1/26/1939
-Description: The Carnegie Institution of Washington holds a press -conference at the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics in -D.C. to announce the discovery of nuclear fission. (Atomic Heritage -Foundation, “Atomic Timeline”) -Late summer — A girl sleeping in the back yard of her home in Fort -Worth, Texas, is awakened by a whirring noise. She sees a small object -approaching from the east at an altitude of 20–30 feet. When it gets -close, it descends to the level of her bed and hovers briefly at the -foot, so close that she can touch it. It has the shape of an “old-time -Mississippi steamboat with a deck around the bottom.” Strata or veins -run through it, and a soft, blue-green glow surrounds it. It is 3 feet -around and 1 foot high. It rises suddenly and disappears. (“Woman -Says Strange Object Flew -by Her Bed in Yard,” Fort Worth (Tex.) Star-Telegram, March 24, -1950, p. 23; Clark III 1176)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 511

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Event 610 -(654FD1F1)

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Date: 8/1939
-Description: The turbojet powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet -aircraft, made its first flight
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany

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Event 611 -(9416033D)

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Date: 8/2/1939
-Description: Hungarian-American physicist Leo -Szilárd writes a confidential letter to President -Roosevelt, in consultation with fellow Hungarian physicists Edward -Teller and Eugene -Wigner. He has persuaded Albert -Einstein to sign it as well. The letter warns that Germany might -develop atomic bombs and suggests that the United States should start -its own nuclear program. It results in the establishment of research -into nuclear fission by the US government, and ultimately to the -creation of the Manhattan Project. Delayed by the outbreak of war in -Europe, the letter is eventually hand-delivered to Roosevelt by -economist Alexander -Sachs on October 11. Roosevelt gives the letter to his aide, Brig. -Gen. Edwin -“Pa” Watson with the instruction: “Pa, this requires action!” -(Wikipedia, “Einstein–Szilard -letter”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic -Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 513

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Event 612 -(2DB6179C)

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Date: early 8/1939
-Description: George Pârvu and four other schoolchildren are playing in -an open field in Armășești, Romania, when they see a bright light in the -sky moving in a zigzag fashion. It circles a few times then descends in -their direction, getting bigger and brighter. The egg-shaped object -hovers silently at an altitude of 230–260 feet. Suddenly it becomes a -dull coppery color and lands about 140 feet away. Two of the children -flee but Pârvu and two others remain. The bottom of the object has a -ring of small turbine blades that look like paddles in a water mill. It -seems to be 16 feet high. A hatch opens and two little men about 4 feet -tall come out, dressed in gray diving suits. They walk toward the -children, one of them holding a rectangular box pointing at the ground. -The children approach them, holding hands, but when they are about 23 -feet away the other man points a thick stick-like device at them and -they are no longer able to move forward. The little men bow in their -direction, waist deep, then turn around and reenter the object, which -takes off. The children find a circular area of yellowed grass where the -object had been. Pârvu feels energized, but one of the other boys is -temporarily sick. Pârvu encounters what he perceives to be the same -object in August 1944, August 1949, and the summer of 1954 (in the -center of Bucharest). (George Pârvu, La voia destinului, CNI Coresi, -2011; Romania 124–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 512

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Event 613 -(C946F841)

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Date: 8/2/1939
-Description: Einstein’s atomic bomb warning letter to President -Roosevelt stating “it may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction -in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large -quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it -appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate -future… This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of -bombs”
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 614 -(1DCDFD06)

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Date: 9/1/1939
-End date: 9/2/1945
-Description: World War 2
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 615 -(E0C5B914)

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Date: 10/1939
-Description: An egg-shaped object with 8 spots like portholes is -observed through an astronomical reflector telescope at Wisconsin -Rapids, Wisconsin. (Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold, UFO -Research Coalition, 2007, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 514

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Event 616 -(5DAD2C61)

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Date: 10/21/1939
-Description: After reading Szilárd’s -letter, Roosevelt creates -an Advisory Committee on Uranium, which meets for the first time at the -National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. The committee consists -of NBS Director Lyman -James Briggs, Army Lt. Col. Keith -F. Adamson, and Navy Cmdr. Gilbert -C. Hoover. It is attended by physicists Fred -L. Mohler from the National Bureau of Standards and Richard -Brooke Roberts from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and -Szilárd, Wigner, -and Teller. -Einstein is -invited but declines to attend. Adamson is skeptical about the prospect -of building an atomic bomb, but is willing to authorize $6,000 -(equivalent to $107,000 in 2018 dollars) for the purchase of uranium and -graphite for Szilárd and Enrico -Fermi’s experiments into producing a nuclear chain reaction at -Columbia University. (Wikipedia, “S-1 -Executive Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 515

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Event 617 -(4CFB925F)

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Date: 11/13/1939
-Description: 7:00 a.m. A building foreman is driving past a deserted -farm near Brockworth, Gloucester, England, when he hears a high-pitched -humming sound. He watches a gray, bell-shaped object hovering about 20 -feet above a field 100 feet away. He estimates it is about 25 feet -across. Dark window-like patches are visible on the side. A “curtain” of -blue-green light emanates from the underside. After about two minutes, -the green light retracts into the base of the object. The object then -tilts to an angle of about 80° and moves away without a sound. (Jenny -Randles and Peter Warrington, Science and the UFOs, Basil Blackwell, -1985, p. 3; -Jenny Randles, “Beam Me Up,” Fortean Times 381 (July 2019): 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 516

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- Event 618 (408F68FB)

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Date: 1940
-Description: Astronomer Royal Harold -Spencer Jones publishes Life on Other Worlds, an essay on the -cosmos, the possibility of life arising, science’s tools, the -development of the Earth, solar system bodies without atmospheres, the -giant gas planets, Venus, Mars, the origin of solar systems, and -possibilities for life beyond the solar system. (H. Spencer Jones, Life -on Other Worlds, Macmillan, -1940; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994): -141–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 517

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Event 619 -(A0CB71AF)

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Date: 3/1940
-Description: George -Adamski moves from Laguna Beach to a property along the Star Route -in Valley Center, California, about 9 miles from where Palomar -Observatory is under construction to set up a spiritual retreat. He -acquires a 15-inch telescope to create an interest in astronomy. (“Palomar -Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,” -The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 518

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Event 620 -(7AEACB5C)

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Date: 3/1940
-Description: US physicist John -R. Dunning and colleagues at Columbia University verify the -hypothesis of Danish physicist Niels -Bohr that fission is more readily produced in the rare uranium-235 -isotope than the abundant uranium-238 isotope. Dunning begins -investigating gaseous diffusion as a process for enriching uranium. -(Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic -Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 519

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Event 621 -(406381ED)

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Date: 3/1940
-Description: Otto -Robert Frisch and Rudolf -Peierls, two researchers at the University of Birmingham in -England—who ironically have been assigned to investigate nuclear weapons -by Australian physicist Mark -Oliphant because, as enemy aliens in Britain, they are ineligible to -participate in secret war work—issue the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. It -contradicts the common thinking of the time that many tons of uranium -would be needed to make a bomb, requiring delivery by ship. The -calculation in the memorandum shows that a bomb might be possible using -as little as 1–10 kilograms of pure uranium-235, which would be quite -practical for aircraft to carry. (Wikipedia, “Frisch–Peierls -memorandum”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic -Timeline)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 520

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Event 622 -(5DAAD3BE)

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Date: spring 1940
-Description: Afternoon. Walking down a street in Hinsdale, Illinois, -William T. Powers sees five disc-shaped objects in the northern sky. -They are traveling together at 100–200 mph and disappear into a cloud. -(Clark III 1177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 522

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Event 623 -(74C04525)

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Date: 3/22/1940
-Description: Franklin -D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8381, creating the three security -levels for the most important documents: Restricted, Confidential, and -Secret. (US President, Executive Order No. 8381, “Defining -Certain Vital -Military and Naval Installations and Equipment,” March 22, -1940)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 521

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Event 624 -(A7DA7D4C)

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Date: 4/10/1940
-Description: The first meeting of the MAUD Committee in England, -established in response to the Frisch-Peierls memorandum to determine if -an atomic bomb is feasible, meets in the Royal Society committee room in -Burlington House, London. The original members are physicists George -Paget Thomson, James -Chadwick, John Cockcroft, Mark -Oliphant, and Philip -Burton Moon; physicists Patrick -Blackett, Charles -Drummond Ellis, and -chemist Norman -Haworth are subsequently added, along with a representative of the -Director of Scientific Research at the Ministry of Aircraft Production -(MAP). (Wikipedia, “MAUD -Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 523

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Event 625 -(2669D420)

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Date: mid 5/1940
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Lavern -P. Zewiske and his father Paul are -checking some recently planted corn on their farm near Fairbank, Iowa. A -gray object with multiple hooked “hairs or tentacles” moving around on -the bottom passes overhead at 500–1,000 feet. (“Out -of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 524

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Event 626 -(E60701B1)

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Date: 5/21/1940
-Description: President Franklin -D. Roosevelt authorizes the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance -and wiretapping on US spies, saboteurs, or suspicious individuals. (“Warrantless -FBI Electronic Surveillance,” US Senate, Select Committee to Study -Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Final -Report, April 23, 1976, pp. 271–351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 525

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Event 627 -(D76E97DE)

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Date: 5/26/1940
-End date: 6/4/1940
-Description: Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Dunkirk

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Event 628 -(7928736E)

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Date: summer 1940
-Alternate date: summer 1941
-Description: Near St. Clair, Pennsylvania, as he is walking along a -country road, young Frank Sever hears a loud noise in the nearby woods. -He sees something like an “aluminum building” partly concealed in the -trees. A short distance from it he sees “six small men milling about or -looking for something on the ground.” Thinking they are ghosts, he runs. -Later he comes back and confirms there is no building on the spot. -(Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 526

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Event 629 -(16365877)

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Date: 7/10/1940
-End date: 10/31/1940
-Description: Battle of Britain
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Britain

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Event 630 -(8CE0D2C1)

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Date: 7/10/1940
-Description: Einstein security clearance approved by the Office of Naval -Intelligence, 16 days before the US Army G-2 turned him down.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 631 -(E4ADAFD5)

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Date: 8/11/1940
-Description: The RAF Bomber Command issues a report on “Phenomena -Connected with Enemy Night Tactics” concerning unidentifiable aircraft -observed by bombing crews over the coast of Holland and the Ruhr Valley -of Germany. The report suggests the sightings are either due to observer -strain or German “experimental apparatus.” (Strange Company 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 527

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- Event 632 (3F0193A7)

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Date: 1941
-Description: Charles Fort’s four famous books
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 633 -(5C99DAA0)

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Date: 1941
-Description: Physicist and his wife north of Bakersfield, California -watch a long slender UFO traveling at 50mph, 200–300 feet altitude
-Type: UFO sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Bakersfield, CA

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Event 634 -(D9D9EC3A)

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Date: 1941
-Description: A physicist and his wife are traveling notrh on US Highway -99 north of Bakersfield, California, and pull off to the side to watch a -long, slender object of a blazing red, green, and yellow color moving -about 8 miles east of them. It is traveling at about 50 mph at an -altitude of 200–300 feet and is clearly outlined against the foothills. -It seems to be several times longer than a bomber. (“Recent -Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, January 1957, p. 5) Early spring — -9:00–9:30 p.m. Rev. William -Guy Huffman of the Red Star Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau, -Missouri, is summoned to an apparent airplane crash one Saturday. When -he arrives at the scene, about 15 miles from town, he finds a -weird-looking craft “broken and scattered all around,” but smooth and -rounded without edges or seams. A cockpit with a chair facing an -instrument panel remains intact. Police officers, military men, and -plain-clothes individuals are sifting through the wreckage. He also sees -three non-human bodies about 4 feet tall with long arms, oversized -heads, and large eyes. He says a prayer for them, and afterward sees -someone take a photo of an alien propped up by the arms between two -plainclothesmen. The following evening, he is given a copy of the photo -by a member of his congregation (thought to be Garland -D. Fronabarger), but he loans it later to someone who never returns -it. Huffman’s wife Floy reveals -the story to her granddaughter, Charlette Mann, on her deathbed in 1984, -who relates the story to ufologist Leonard -Stringfield. (Clark III 343–344; Paul Blake Smith, MO41: The -Bombshell before Roswell, W&B Publishers, 2015; Billy Booth, “1941 -Cape Girardeau, Missouri Crash,” liveabout.com, February 5, 2019; Kevin -Randle, “Cape -Girardeau UFO Crash, 1941,” A Different Perspective, December 5, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 528

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Event 635 -(670DFA9A)

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Date: 3/1941
-Description: The Chain Home radars placed around the English coastline -detect a formation of blips moving across the English Channel. RAF -fighters are sent to intercept, but their crews see nothing and the -blips fade. The radar returns are characterized as radar “angels,” -invisible targets in the clear atmosphere. (David Clarke, “The Radar -Angels,” Fortean Times 195 (May 2005): 36–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 529

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Event 636 -(87149704)

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Date: 3/17/1941
-Description: US Army establishes the Western Defense Command for -coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast
-Type: military
-Reference: link
-Location: West Coast

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Event 637 -(3FFDA8C5)

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Date: 3/17/1941
-Description: The Western Defense Command is established as the command -formation of the US Army responsible for coordinating the defense of the -Pacific Coast and training soldiers prior to their deployment overseas. -(Wikipedia, “Western -Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 530

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Event 638 -(F6DB432A)

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Date: Late 4/1941
-Description: Cape Girardeau, MO Crash Retrieval (MO41)
-Type: UFO crash retrieval
-Reference: link
-Location: Cape Girardeau, MO

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Event 639 -(CC498972)

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Date: 5/1941
-Description: With the help of the American Legion, volunteers are -recruited into the Aircraft Warning Service, the civilian arm of the -Army’s Ground Observer Corps. On the east coast, the AWS is under the -auspices of the Army Air Force’s 1st Interceptor Command based at -Mitchel Field near Uniondale, New York. On the west coast, the AWS is -under the auspices of the 4th Interceptor Command based in Riverside, -California. On both coasts, observation posts, information centers, and -filter centers are established. (Wikipedia, “Aircraft -Warning Service”; Project 1947, “Aircraft -Warning Service (AWS): Freeman Observation Post #52”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 531

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Event 640 -(CB597A3A)

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Date: late 6/1941
-Description: About 5:30 p.m. Helen Michailoff and her mother are in -Odessa, Ukraine, when they see a raspberry-red object slowly moving east -and emitting smoke. Thinking it is a bomb, they rush to the basement, -but there is no explosion. (“Out -of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1983): -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 535

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Event 641 -(52E9150F)

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Date: 6/20/1941
-Description: The Army Air Corps becomes the US Army Air Forces to -provide the air arm greater autonomy. (Wikipedia, “United -States Army Air Forces”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 532

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Event 642 -(84213D3C)

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Date: 6/26/1941
-Description: The first draft of the final report of the MAUD Committee -is written by George -Paget Thomson and circulates among committee members. It concludes -that an atomic bomb is feasible. Vannevar -Bush receives a copy. Without the help of the MAUD Committee the -Manhattan Project would have started months behind. Instead, they are -able to begin thinking about how to create a bomb, not whether it is -possible. (Wikipedia, “MAUD Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 533

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Event 643 -(928CCAC6)

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Date: 6/28/1941
-Description: Roosevelt establishes -the Office of Scientific Research and Development; Vannevar -Bush is appointed director. It subsumes the National Defense -Research Committee, whose Uranium Committee becomes the Uranium Section -of the OSRD, soon renamed the S-1 for security reasons. To the S-1 -Section, Vannevar Bush adds American physicist Samuel -King Allison, Russian-American -physicist Gregory -Breit, American physicist Edward -Condon, physicist -Lloyd -P. Smith, and Henry -DeWolf Smyth. American physicist Ross -Gunn is dropped in line with an NDRC policy not to have Army or Navy -personnel in the sections. Lyman -James Briggs remains the chairman, with American physicist George -B. Pegram as the vice chairman. (Wikipedia, “Office -of Scientific Research -and Development”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 534

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Event 644 -(815399F5)

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Date: 7/3/1941
-Description: The Northrop N-1M, an experimental “flying wing” aircraft -with a 38-foot wingspan, is first flown at Baker Dry Lake in the Mojave -Desert, California, by test pilot Vance -Breese for several hundred yards. He reports that the aircraft can -fly no higher than 5 feet. After this is corrected, the N-1M takes -another 28 flights through November. (Wikipedia, “Northrop -N-1M”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 536

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Event 645 -(A3DD826D)

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Date: 7/11/1941
-Description: Roosevelt establishes -the Office of the Coordinator of Information, a forerunner of the Office -for Strategic Services, headed by lawyer William -J. Donovan. It is tasked with collecting and analyzing national -security information. (Wikipedia, “Office -of the Coordinator of Information”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 537

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Event 646 -(02680CC4)

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Date: 9/1941
-Description: Night. Seaman Mar Doroba, Anthony Kornilak, and others on -the British troopship SS -Pulaski in the Mozambique Channel see a “strange globe glowing with -greenish light, about half the size of the full moon.” They watch it for -more than an hour before it disappears. (Strange Company 17; Lore and -Deneault, pp. 130–131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 538

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Event 647 -(6DE352A4)

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Date: early 10/1941
-Description: A possible UFO crash/retrieval takes place during -preparations for the US Army’s Carolina maneuvers in south central North -Carolina (possibly in or around the Uwharrie National Forest). The -sketchy story is based on the participation of Pvt. Guy -B. Simeone, who relates a few details about a crash and dead “little -people” to his family in a letter and phone call. Walter -N. Webb reports on his investigation of the incident in 1996. -(Walter N. Webb, “An Anecdotal Report of a UFO Crash/Retrieval in 1941: -Part 1,” IUR 21, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 20–28; Walter N. Webb, “An -Anecdotal Report of a UFO Crash/Retrieval in 1941: Part 2,” IUR 22, no. -1 (Spring 1997): 28–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 540

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Event 648 -(3523961F)

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Date: 10/2/1941
-Description: German test pilot Heini -Dittmar attains an unofficial airspeed record of 623 mph in a -rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163A at Peenemünde, Germany. (Wikipedia, -“Heini -Dittmar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 539

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Event 649 -(51B65B55)

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Date: 10/9/1941
-Description: Roosevelt approves -an atomic weapons program after meeting with Office of Scientific -Research and Development Director Vannevar -Bush and Vice President Henry -A. Wallace. On Bush’s advice, Roosevelt chooses the US Army to run -the project rather than the Navy, although the Navy has shown far more -interest in the field, and is already conducting research into atomic -energy for powering ships. Bush’s negative experiences with the Navy has -convinced him that it would not listen to his advice and cannot handle -large-scale construction projects. (Cameron Reed, “Manhattan Project -Mystery,” Forum on the History of Physics, Spring 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 541

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Event 650 -(0DC99F67)

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Date: early 12/1941
-Description: Army Lt. Walter Hanson and his wife are stranded in the -Georgia countryside when they run out of gas. They see a star-like -object that swiftly moves in circles counterclockwise. Suddenly it stops -and takes off obliquely. (Strange Company 17–18; Lore and Deneault, p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 542

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Event 651 -(CE7EFBBE)

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Date: 12/8/1941
-Description: Around noon. Red Cross volunteer Yoshio -Taketa is resting on the lawn of the Kuhio School in Honolulu, -Hawaii, with 9 others. The smoke is still rising from the Pearl Harbor -attack to the west. One of them notices a round white object at about -20,000 feet overhead. It floats away slowly. (Clark III 501)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 543

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Event 652 -(9A9B1024)

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Date: 12/18/1941
-Description: With the US at war, funding for an atomic bomb is now -available in amounts undreamed of the year before. At the S-1 Section -meeting, American physicist Ernest -Lawrence asks for $400,000 for electromagnetic separation, and the -section immediately recommends granting it. MIT physicist Karl -Taylor Compton is allocated $340,000 for nuclear reactor research at -Columbia and Princeton, and $278,000 at the University of Chicago. -Another $500,000 is earmarked for raw materials. His proposed schedule -is no less breathtaking: to produce a nuclear chain reaction by July -1942, and an atomic bomb by January 1945. In January 1942, he creates -the Metallurgical Laboratory, centralizing the work at the University of -Chicago. (Wikipedia, “S-1 -Executive Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 544

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Event 653 -(9B6CE8BE)

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Date: 12/22/1941
-Description: Electrical engineer George Bogner stops his car at the -corner of St. Agnes Avenue and Pleasant Street in Utica, New York, to -watch a round, metallic object speed silently across the sky. He -estimates it at 100 feet in diameter and moving at 300 mph. (Strange -Company 18; Lore and Deneault, pp. 140–141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 545

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- Event 654 (D1A2D863)

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Date: 1942
-Description: Naval Intelligence Officer Bernard M. Baruch Jr. develops a -submarine reporting network, Communication Instruction for Reporting -Enemy Sightings on which CIRVIS is modeled in 1948. (US Naval War -College, Master -Script for “Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy -Sightings,” undated; NICAP, “Capt. Bernard Baruch -Jr.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 546

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Event 655 -(ED3EFB18)

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Date: 1942
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A woman returning home in Prouvy, Nord, France, -finds herself face-to-face with three small entities with large round -heads and short beards. They have large, luminous yellow eyes and wear -tight, one-piece suits with a metallic sheen that leave only their faces -exposed. The beings stare at her without moving, so she goes inside to -get her husband, but by the time they return the entities have gone. -(Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index -1940–1949, p. 3; -Clark III 265; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September -26, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 547

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Event 656 -(98CFAD3B)

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Date: 2/24/1942
-End date: 2/25/1942
-Description: Battle of LA
-Type: military
-Reference: link
-Location: Los Angeles, CA

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Event 657 -(895E352F)

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Date: 2/24/1942
-End date: 2/25/1942
-Description: The Battle of Los Angeles takes place, a rumored enemy -attack and subsequent anti-aircraft barrage over Los Angeles, -California. Air raid sirens sound throughout Los Angeles County on the -night of February 24. A total blackout is ordered, and thousands of air -raid wardens are summoned to their positions. At 3:16 a.m., the 37th -Coast Artillery Brigade begins firing .50 caliber machine guns and -12.8-pound anti-aircraft shells into the air at reported aircraft; more -than 1,400 shells are eventually fired. Pilots of the 4th Interceptor -Command are alerted, but their aircraft remain grounded. The artillery -fire continues sporadically until 4:14 a.m. The “all clear” is sounded -and the blackout order lifted at 7:21 a.m. Several buildings and -vehicles are damaged by shell fragments, and five civilians die as an -indirect result of the anti-aircraft fire. Three are killed in car -accidents in the ensuing chaos and two die of heart attacks attributed -to the stress of the hour-long action. The incident is front-page news -along the Pacific coast and earns some mass media coverage. Within hours -of the end of the air raid, Secretary of the Navy Frank -Knox holds a press conference, saying the entire incident was a -false alarm due to anxiety and “war nerves.” Knox’s comments are -followed by statements from the Army on February 26 that reflect General -George -C. Marshall’s belief that the incident was caused by commercial -airplanes used as a psychological warfare campaign to generate panic. -Some contemporary press outlets suspect a cover-up. Rep. Leland -M. Ford (R-Calif.) calls for a congressional investigation, saying, -“none of the explanations so far offered removed the episode from the -category of ‘complete mystification’ … this was either a practice raid, -or a raid to throw a scare into 2,000,000 people, or a mistaken identity -raid, or a raid to lay a political foundation to take away Southern -California’s war industries.” The Japanese government, after the war -ended, declares that they had flown no airplanes over Los Angeles during -the war. In 1983, the US Office of Air Force History attributes the -event to a case of “war nerves” triggered by a lost weather balloon and -exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries. A -number of fake documents about this incident have been circulated by Timothy -S. Cooper. (Wikipedia, “Battle -of Los -Angeles”; Clark III 1176–1177; NICAP, “Battle -of Los Angeles”; Lore and Deneault, pp. 74–87; -Good Above, pp. 15–17; -Good Need, pp. 17, 31; -“No Bombs Dropped, No Planes Shot Down,” Los Angeles Herald Express, -February 25, 1942, p. 1; “Japanese -Carry War to California Coast,” Life, March 9, 1942, pp. 19–23; -Brett Holman, “New -Light on the Battle of Los Angeles,” Airminded, April 20, 2011; -David Marler, “The -Battle of LA UFO -Incident,” OpenMindsTV YouTube channel, October 9, 2018; Strange -Company 19–22; Robert Wood, “‘Leaked’ -Documents Shed New Light on Outcome of ‘Battle of Los Angeles,’” -MUFON UFO Journal, June 2010, pp. 3–7; US Office of the Chief of -Military History, “History of the Western Defense Command, 17 March -1941–30 September 1945,” five ms. vols., Appendix no. 5, “Chronology of -Enemy Operations on Pacific Coast of Continental United States,” -pp. 25–27; History, Fourth Anti-Aircraft Command, January 9, 1942, to -July 1, 1945, pp. 112–124; Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, The -Army Air Forces in World War II: Vol. 1, Plans and Early Operations, -Office of Air Force History, 1948, pp. 283–286; -Lorraine Boissoneault, “The -Great Los Angeles -Air Raid Terrified Citizens—Even Though No Bombs Were Dropped,” -Smithsonian Magazine, January 19, 2018; Patrick Gross, “Los -Angeles, February 25, 1942”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 548

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Event 658 -(F0D5BA80)

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Date: 2/26/1942
-Description: Army Chief of Staff George -C. Marshall writes Roosevelt that -as many as 15 unknown commercial aircraft, flying at various speeds up -to 200 mph and at elevations from 9,000 to 18,000 feet, were responsible -for the Battle of Los Angeles. (presidentialufo.com, “General George -Marshall Secret Memo to President Roosevelt about the Unidentified -Objects over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942”; Good Above, pp. 17, -446)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 549

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Event 659 -(29A0E357)

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Date: 2/26/1942
-Description: Secret Memo to the President from Chief of Staff, C.G. -Marshall stating: UFO’s appeared over Los Angeles, CA, yesterday -morning. The 37th Brigade (AA) expended 1430 rounds of ammunition -against them. No bombs dropped, no casualties among our troops, no -planes (UFOs) shot down, no AA or Navy planes were inaction. (AA -Document, OCS 21347–86.)
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p15,446)
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 660 -(72F31B11)

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Date: 2/26/1942
-Description: Royal Netherlands Navy cruiser HNLMS -Tromp, returning to Australia after the Battle of Badung Strait (off -Bali in Indonesia), reports a large, aluminum disc speeding above it in -the Timor Sea and maneuvering for nearly 4 hours. It departs at an -estimated 3,500 mph. (“Australasia,” -Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1957): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 550

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Event 661 -(F741A368)

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Date: 3/5/1942
-Description: Benjamin Smith, formerly of the Army Air Corps, sees -several blinking lights moving slowly over the Middle River adjacent to -Essex, Maryland. They circle the river two or three times then -disappear. Smith reports the incident to local police, who then inform -Naval Intelligence. (Towson (Md.) Union News, March 6, 1942; Jan -Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 551

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Event 662 -(B2935318)

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Date: 3/9/1942
-Description: The Air Service Command becomes a major Army Air Forces -unit to support logistical functions. (Wikipedia, “Air -Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 552

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Event 663 -(38972B4B)

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Date: spring 1942
-Description: Rev. Robert H. Moore and six other persons attending the -Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, watch a -small, light-gray, rectangular object over the northern part of town for -10 minutes. (Lore and Deneault, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 553

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Event 664 -(6BB6CF2F)

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Date: 4/1/1942
-Description: The Materiel Division of the Air Service Command assumes -responsibility for R&D and procurement and is redesignated as the -Air Corps Materiel Command. (Wikipedia, “Air -Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 554

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Event 665 -(55C1E394)

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Date: 4/27/1942
-Description: Nazi Amerikabomber long range bomber project study -completed
-Type: project study
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany

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Event 666 -(406456AC)

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Date: 5/1942
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Abdon Gonzales Tello, 13, and other boys see a -silvery, cigar-shaped object in the sky to the west of Miraflores, Peru. -Its ends are cut off at sharp angles, and it takes 20 seconds to proceed -to the south and out of sight. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, -1969, p. 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 555

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Event 667 -(5D134B14)

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Date: 6/1942
-Description: Col. James -C. Marshall is selected to head the Manhattan Project. (Wikipedia, -“Manhattan -Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 556

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Event 668 -(239A59D4)

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Date: 6/13/1942
-Description: Roosevelt establishes -the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime intelligence agency, with -Gen. William -J. Donovan at -its head. (Wikipedia, “Office -of Strategic Services”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 557

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Event 669 -(CB989B89)

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Date: 6/13/1942
-Description: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the -CIA, begins operations
-Type: historical
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 670 -(92EB2ED3)

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Date: 6/19/1942
-Description: Roosevelt abolishes -the S-1 Section and replaces it with the S-1 Executive Committee, tasked -with the technical and contractual aspects of producing an atomic bomb, -while the Army handles engineering, construction, and site selection. -American chemist James -B. Conant is appointed as its chairman, and Lyman James -Briggs, Karl -Taylor Compton, Ernest -Lawrence, and -American chemists Eger -V. Murphree and Harold -C. Urey as -its other members. Roosevelt approves the committee’s recommendation to -move to the pilot plant stage and build piles to produce plutonium and -electromagnetic, centrifuge, and gaseous diffusion plants to produce -uranium-235. (Wikipedia, “S-1 -Executive Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 558

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Event 671 -(10ADE801)

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Date: summer 1942
-Description: 5:50 p.m. An RAAF pilot is on flying patrol off the Tasman -Peninsula, Tasmania, following reports by fishermen of strange lights on -the waters of Bass Strait. A “singular airfoil of glistening bronze -color” appears out of a cloudbank. It’s about 150 feet long, 50 feet in -diameter, and has a dome on top. It accompanies his plane for a few -minutes before departing at “a hell of a pace.” It turns again and dives -into the ocean, throwing up a “whirlpool of waves.” (Bill Chalker, “Australian -A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 (October 1982): -6–7) Late summer — Pvt. Albert Lancashire, 27, is standing guard at -Cresswell radar station near Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland, -England, when he sees a cloud-enshrouded light approaching from the -North Sea. As it descends, he is drawn up into it by a beam. Small men -grab him and carry him into the craft, where he sees other human figures -of normal height, including an apparent captain with dark hair and -goggles. He is made to lie down on a couch or table. He has only vague -memories of what happens next, but he thinks a medical exam is -performed. He wakes up back at his sentry post. (Center for UFO Studies, -HUMCAT -Index 1940–1949, p. 4; -“New Time Lapse Case from England Uncovered,” MUFON UFO Journal 107 -(October 1976): 1–18; Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 561

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Event 672 -(DB321DD2)

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Date: 6/25/1942
-Alternate date: 3/25/1942
-Description: Midnight. Flight Lt. Roman (Ray) Sabiński of the 301 Polish -Bomber Squadron is flying an RAF Wellington bomber after returning from -a run on the Ruhr Valley, Germany; he sees a bright copper-colored light -the “size of the moon” following the aircraft over the Zuiderzee in -Holland. When it gets within 200 yards, the rear gunner shoots at it -with all four machine guns. After two minutes, it moves at terrific -speed to the port side, and the front gunner starts firing at it. -Sabiński takes evasive action, but the object keeps pacing him. Finally, -it moves in front of the bomber, stays there a while, then takes off at -fantastic speed. (Strange Company 23–25; Gordon W. Creighton. “Foo -Fighters,” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 2 (March/April 1962): 15; -Patrick Gross, “Pilot -Reports”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 559

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Event 673 -(899D1C4B)

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Date: 8/1942
-Description: Evelyn M. Howell and two other adults see a huge -cigar-shaped object hovering near them between Lafayette Township and -Newton, New Jersey. It has “two rows of windows” that give off blue, -green, white, and red fluorescent lights. They watch it for 10 minutes, -after which it silently and slowly takes off. Howell and her husband see -a similar object on the drive home to Ogdensburg, New Jersey. (Clark III -1178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 562

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Event 674 -(CCAA60C1)

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Date: 8/5/1942
-Description: Early morning. The Navy destroyer USS -Helm is on its way to the Solomon Islands in preparation for the -Guadalcanal landings. A radio blackout is in effect. An aircraft -approaches, a full alert is sounded, and three cruisers (Vincennes, Quincy, Astoria) -and seven other ships open fire on it. The object is not hit and -proceeds to circle around the fleet. An anonymous sailor on security -detail on the Helm watches it through binoculars and sees it as 90 feet -in diameter, oval, with a round dome on top. The ships continue to fire -on the UFO, which attains extremely high speeds. Commanding Officer Chester -Edward Carroll later hears that the aircraft is neither German nor -Japanese. (Strange Company 27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 563

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Event 675 -(20EE0BD4)

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Date: 8/12/1942
-Description: Day. Sgt. Stephen J. Brickner of the 1st Marine Division on -Tulagi in the Solomon Islands is cleaning his rifle when an air-raid -warning is sounded. He dives into his foxhole looking to the sky. He -hears a roaring sound unlike that of an aircraft. Soon he sees a -formation of more than 150 silvery objects, in straight lines of 10 or -12. The objects seem to wobble slightly. They are flying faster than -Japanese planes and are soon out of sight. (Good Above, p. 18; -Strange Company 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 564

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Event 676 -(5F15EACF)

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Date: 8/13/1942
-Description: The Manhattan Engineering District, with Brig. Gen. James -C. Marshall as district engineer, is established by Chief of the US -Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. Eugene -Reybold. (Wikipedia, -“Manhattan -Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 565

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Event 677 -(0BD48C3A)

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Date: 8/29/1942
-Description: Army Air Corps control tower operator Pvt. Michael Solomon -sees two small reddish objects descend near the AAC Advanced Flying -School at Columbus, Mississippi, then speed away. He later contacts -government officials and officers from the school in attempting to -confirm his sighting. (Clark III 1177; Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 566

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Event 678 -(8A88FBB5)

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Date: 9/23/1942
-Description: Col. Leslie -Groves is promoted to brigadier general and becomes director of the -Manhattan Project. The Military Policy Committee, consisting of Vannevar -Bush (with James -B. Conant as his alternative), Maj. Gen. Wilhelm -D. Styer, and -Rear Adm. William -R. Purnell, is created to oversee the project. (Wikipedia, “Manhattan Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 567

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Event 679 -(FC269607)

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Date: 9/25/1942
-Description: RAF Bomber Command’s Operational Research Section releases -a report titled “A Note on Pyrotechnic Activity over Germany.” An -unnamed Flak Liaison Officer has coordinated the reports from No. 3 and -No. 5 Groups and determines there are two types of phenomena: a ball of -fire that is shot from the ground and drips multicolored fragments, and -multi-part flares. Another type involves “small coloured balls” that -climb to 7,000 feet. (Strange Company 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 568

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Event 680 -(FF0292CB)

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Date: 9/29/1942
-Description: US Under Secretary of War Robert -P. Patterson authorizes the Corps of Engineers to acquire 56,000 -acres in Tennessee for Site X, which will become the Oak Ridge, -Tennessee, laboratory and production site. (Wikipedia, “Oak -Ridge, Tennessee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 569

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Event 681 -(622C3B97)

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Date: 10/3/1942
-Description: First German V-2 rocket test to get very close to space, -85–90km
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link
-Location: Germany

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Event 682 -(D4010265)

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Date: 10/7/1942
-Description: Land at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is acquired by eminent domain -for Clinton Engineer Works. (Wikipedia, “Clinton -Engineer Works”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 570

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Event 683 -(99176465)

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Date: late 1942 (approximate)
-Description: According to records released in August 2010, Prime -Minister Winston -Churchill supposedly classifies for 50 years an alleged UFO incident -because of fears it could create mass panic. The incident allegedly -involves an RAF reconnaissance plane returning from a mission in Europe. -The aircraft is over or near the English coastline when it is allegedly -intercepted by a strange metallic object that matches the aircraft’s -course and speed for a time before shooting away. The plane’s crew -photograph the object, which “hovered noiselessly” near the aircraft -before moving off. According to the documents, details of the cover-up -emerge when a man writes to the government in 1999 seeking to find out -more about the incident. He describes how his grandfather, who served -with the RAF, was present when Churchill and Gen. Dwight -Eisenhower discussed how to deal with the encounter. However, the -evidence is hearsay and somewhat questionable. (UFOFiles2, pp. 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 560

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Event 684 -(5506FF55)

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Date: 10/19/1942
-Description: Leslie -Groves approves J. -Robert Oppenheimer to coordinate the scientific research of the -Manhattan Project at the Site Y laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. -(Wikipedia, “Manhattan -Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 571

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Event 685 -(9B5C0606)

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Date: 11/15/1942
-Description: Teams under physicists Herbert -L. Anderson and Walter -Zinn have constructed 16 experimental nuclear reactors under the -Stagg Field stands at the University of Chicago. (Wikipedia, “Metallurgical -Laboratory”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 572

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Event 686 -(B6BAE13F)

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Date: 11/25/1942
-Description: The Los Alamos site in New Mexico is acquired for Project -Y. (Wikipedia, “Project -Y”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 573

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Event 687 -(C58C765B)

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Date: 11/28/1942
-Description: 10:40–10:45 p.m. Capt. Lever and the No. 61 Squadron crew -of an RAF Lancaster are returning from a bombing raid on Turin, Italy, -when about 10–15 miles southwest of the city they see an object 200–300 -feet long traveling southeast at a speed of 500 mph. It has four pairs -of red lights spaced along its body and is flying on a level course. -Five minutes later, as the Lancaster approaches the Alps at 14,000 feet, -the crew sees the object again traveling southwest up a valley. It -disappears when the red lights go out. (UFOFiles2, pp. 25–26; -Strange Company 34–35; Good Need, pp. 18–19, 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 574

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Event 688 -(FFF30023)

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Date: 12/1942
-Alternate date: 1/1943
-Description: THEY FOLLOW THE LEADER - Mrs. A.M. Strickler, while out -walking between 9 and 10pm, sighted in the sky over the Susquehanna -Bridge, on Route 30, a string of highly illuminated objects which, she -says she can best describe as being similar to a train of passenger -coaches, seeming to weave in and out in a highly specialized -follow-the-leader pattern. Illumination seemed to emanate from an -endless string of portholes which were arranged on a straight line or -plane and were yellowish like an incandescent bulb. The objects were -cigar-shaped, but could have been one side of a flat, saucer-shaped -form. Each “coach” was identical in size and shape except the first, -which was larger, brighter and seemed to have a proboscis-shaped -appendage in front like a figure head. The objects traveled extremely -fast, emitting no noise, jet exhaust, or flame.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
-Location: Columbia, PA

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Event 689 -(E5C27AAD)

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Date: 12/1942
-Description: 8:00 p.m. RAAF Lt. Bruce -Clyde Lumsden is flying a Hawker Hurricane heading for the French -coast. About 7,000 feet over the mouth of the River Somme, France, he -observes two orange lights climbing, one slightly above the other. He -completes a full turn, putting the lights behind him on the port side. -They now appear brighter and larger. When they reach his altitude, they -stop climbing and stay at his altitude. He makes another full turn, but -the objects stay with him. Lumsden dives to 4,000 feet, but the lights -match his maneuvers. He increases his speed to 260 mph and gradually -leaves them behind. His squadron mates do not believe him, but the next -night another squadron member has a similar encounter with a green -light. (Strange Company 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 576

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Event 690 -(9AF06808)

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Date: 12/1942
-Description: A Technical Data Laboratory is established at Wright Field -near Dayton, Ohio, as part of the Army Materiel Command. Its operations -include the evaluation of foreign aircraft and related equipment. (US -Air Force, “National Air and Space Intelligence Center Heritage,” July -31, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 575

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Event 691 -(8F234C8C)

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Date: 12/2/1942
-Description: Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), the first human-made self-sustaining -nuclear chain reaction (criticality) was initiated during an experiment -led by Enrico Fermi
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany

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Event 692 -(D51FAC3C)

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Date: 12/2/1942
-Description: Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor, goes critical at -the University of Chicago under the leadership and design of Enrico -Fermi, achieving -a self-sustaining reaction just one month after construction was -started. (Wikipedia, “Chicago -Pile-1”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 577

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Event 693 -(CFB38105)

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Date: 12/27/1942
-Description: The Northrop N-9M, a prototype flying wing bomber with a -wingspan of 60 feet, makes its first test flight at Jack Northrop Field -[now Hawthorne (Calif.) Municipal Airport] with pilot John -Wescott Myers. Through May, 44 more flights are made, nearly all -terminated by mechanical failures. (Wikipedia, “Northrop -N- 9M”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 578

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- Event 694 (B91C1B33)

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Date: 1943
-Description: SAUCERS GIVE NAVAL GUNS THE BRUSHOFF - In conversing with a -former Navy man who is presently a radio technician for the Santa Fe -railroad, he related that sometime in 1943 while he was stationed at San -Diego and assigned to a gun crew on a naval destroyer they were alerted -to their stations. Shortly five saucers (such as those pictured by -George Adamski) appeared over the ship and hovered. Orders were given to -fire upon them. He asserted that they could see the tracers and shells -heading directly toward the saucers. The shells either exploded or -disintegrated before reaching the objects. This attack continued for 10 -minutes but nothing affected them. At the approach of naval planes the -saucers disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff 5)
-Location: San Diego, CA

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Event 695 -(0D47893C)

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Date: 1/7/1943
-Description: Nikola Test dies
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: United States

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Event 696 -(BEDBCEE6)

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Date: 1/15/1943
-Description: During a US bombing raid over Cherbourg, Manche, France, -several crews see “large numbers of projectiles resembling ‘schools of -flying fish,’ about a foot long and similar to incendiary bombs, coming -up from a direction of the town.” (Strange Company 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 579

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Event 697 -(3D8331EB)

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Date: 1/16/1943
-Description: Approval for the Hanford Site for plutonium -production
-Type: nuclear weapons
-Reference: link
-Location: Hanford, WA

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Event 698 -(9BE2CC19)

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Date: 1/16/1943
-Description: Leslie -Groves approves development of the Hanford site in Washington State -for plutonium production. (Wikipedia, “Hanford -Site”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 580

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Event 699 -(E3CC0893)

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Date: 2/9/1943
-Description: Land for a plutonium production complex is acquired at -Hanford, Washington. (Wikipedia, “Hanford -Site”) February 18 — Construction begins for Y-12, a massive -electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge, -Tennessee. (Wikipedia, “Y-12 -National Security Complex”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 581

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Event 700 -(9948054E)

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Date: 2/18/1943
-Description: Construction begins for Y-12 electromagnetic separation -plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge
-Type: nuclear weapons
-Reference: link
-Location: Oak Ridge, TN

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Event 701 -(64FD2157)

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Date: Spring 1943
-Description: Air Craft warning observer spots a very bright repeatedly -flashing light SW of Laguna, P-38 dispatched, flashing stopped
-Type: UFO spotted, P-38 dispatched, UFO got away
-Reference: link
-Location: Laguna Beach, California

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Event 702 -(8772F403)

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Date: 4/1/1943
-Description: Los Alamos Laboratory begins operations in New Mexico
-Type: nuclear weapons
-Reference: link
-Location: Los Alamos, NM

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Event 703 -(6D56FBB3)

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Date: 4/1/1943
-Description: Los Alamos Laboratory is established in New Mexico and -begins operations. (Wikipedia, “Project -Y”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 582

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Event 704 -(24F4D9CC)

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Date: 4/5/1943
-Description: 9:50 a.m. Flight instructor Gerry A. Casey and a student -pilot in a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 watch a radiant- orange, elliptical -disc dive at their aircraft near Long Beach, California. There is no -propellor and it has a rounded hump above and below. It hovers alongside -with a slight wobble, then accelerates, turns from orange to white, and -climbs out of sight in 2 seconds. (Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1943”; Gerry A. Casey, “UFO: The Time for the Telling Has -Come,” Tacoma (Wash.) Western Flyer, July 7, 1989, via UFO -Newsclipping Service 241 (August 1989), p. 3; Patrick Gross, “Observation -at Long Beach, 1943”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 583

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Event 705 -(F6CB7927)

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Date: 4/9/1943
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Kazimierz Bzowski and other resistance fighters -are monitoring a fire in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland. They notice a -flying object approaching them at about 60 mph. Through binoculars it -appears to be a sphere colored with tangled strips of both raspberry and -blue-green colors. Bzowski estimates it is at an elevation of 200 feet -and is about 25 feet in diameter. They observe German and Lithuanian -snipers on Bonifraterska street shooting at it, although the bullets -seem to pass through it. The object alters course and heads toward Old -Town, then stops dead and shoots away at great speed. (Poland 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 584

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Event 706 -(317E9D61)

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Date: 5/1943
-Description: Einstein hired by USN to work on sub warfare/high -explosives. Dr. Vannever Bush asks Einstein to consult for the OSRD, but -apparently Einstein turned him down.
-Type: nuclear weapons
-Reference: link
-Location: Princeton, NJ
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 707 -(FB5AEE68)

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Date: 5/1943
-Description: Capt. Gordon W. Cammell is flying an RAF Lancaster bomber -back over the English Channel when he and his entire crew see a “huge -orange ball on or near the sea” 7,000–8,000 feet below them. Over the -next 10 minutes, they watch it project a bright and constant light. -(Strange Company 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 585

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Event 708 -(8AC7CA06)

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Date: 5/19/1943
-Description: The Northrop N-9M flying wing bomber prototype crashes 12 -miles west of Muroc Army Air Base [now Edwards AFB], California, killing -its pilot Max -Constant. (Wikipedia, -“Northrop -N-9M”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 586

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Event 709 -(6D281524)

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Date: 5/26/1943
-Description: Late night. Capt. Ray Smith and copilot Sgt. Gordon N. -Cockcroft are flying at 18,000 feet in a Halifax bomber on a run near -Essen, Germany, when they see a silvery-gold cylindrical object, larger -than their aircraft, on the port side. It has several evenly spaced -portholes. It is hovering at a 45° angle. After 20–30 seconds it climbs -away at high speed. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 4–6; Strange -Company 40; Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1943”; John Hanson and Dawn Holloway, Haunted Skies: The -Encyclopaedia of British UFOs: Volume 1, 1940–1959, Fortean Words, -2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 587

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Event 710 -(AAA56F37)

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Date: 6/1943
-Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command asks -Lockheed to develop a jet fighter
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link

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Event 711 -(94B7F598)

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Date: 6/1943
-Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command meets -with Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California, to ask them -to develop a jet fighter. (Wikipedia, “Skunk -Works”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 588

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Event 712 -(DE663F56)

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Date: 6/2/1943
-Description: Construction begins on K-25, the gaseous diffusion plant at -Oak Ridge, Tennessee. (Wikipedia, “K-25”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 589

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Event 713 -(BD4738EF)

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Date: 6/15/1943
-Description: Einstein’s USN work announced in JTA Daily News -Bulletin
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 714 -(70C0086C)

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Date: 7/1943
-Description: Skunk Works begins in Burbank CA. Lockheed Engineer Kelly -Johnson deliver proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link
-Location: Burbank, CA

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Event 715 -(84DA9990)

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Date: 7/1943
-Description: Lockheed Engineer Kelly -Johnson and other associate engineers hand-deliver a proposal for -the XP-80 jet fighter to the Air Tactical Service Command. Two days -later, the go-ahead is given to Lockheed to start development, and the -Skunk Works is born in Burbank, California, with Johnson at the helm. -The name supposedly comes from the L’il Abner comic strip, which has a -place called “Skonk Works” where a strong beverage is brewed from -skunks, old shoes, and other ingredients. (Wikipedia, “Skunk -Works”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 590

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Event 716 -(A82D9D68)

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Date: 7/1/1943
-End date: 3/31/1944
-Description: Date range of Einstein’s USN pay stubs at National -Archives.
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 717 -(D05124A3)

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Date: 7/18/1943
-End date: 10/15/1944
-Description: Einstein reports on his “explosives” work to USN
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 718 -(29554192)

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Date: 7/18/1943
-Description: A French prisoner in a German labor camp near Gdynia, -Poland, is walking to work along the Baltic Sea when he sees a flat, -metallic object embedded in the sand. A human figure is standing next to -it, apparently trying to dig it up. When he passes by, the figure, -apparently an Asian woman with long blonde hair and dressed in a tight- -fitting overall, turns in his direction. The witness assumes she is the -famous German aviator Hanna -Reitsch and helps her dig the experimental aircraft out of the sand. -The object is 20 feet in diameter and looks like two metallic saucers -put together. The woman touches the witness’s chest with her hand and -points to the sky. She touches her belt and a door in the object opens. -She crawls inside, the door closes, and the object ascends and departs -at a tremendous speed. (Jean Sider, Ultra Top-Secret: Ces OVNIs qui font -peur, Axis Mundi, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 591

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Event 719 -(41394F1B)

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Date: 9/1943
-Description: During an air battle between the Germans and Russians, a -member of the Spanish Blue Division fighting with the Germans near -Pushkin outside Leningrad [now Saint Petersburg], Russia, notices a -disc-shaped object above the planes. It appears to be observing the -battle, then disappears at a fantastic speed. (Antonio -Ribera, Platillos Volantes en Iberoamerica y España, Santiago -Pomaire, 1968, pp. 411–412)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 592

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Event 720 -(DB0AE369)

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Date: 9/1943
-Description: Ray -Palmer, editor of Amazing Stories magazine, receives a letter from a -reader named Richard -S. Shaver, who claims to have discovered “Mantong,” a proto-language -that is the source of all earthly languages. In Mantong, each sound has -a hidden meaning, and by applying this formula to any word in any -language, one can decode the secret meaning. Palmer applies the formula -to several words and realizes Shaver might be onto something. -(Wikipedia, “Richard -Sharpe Shaver”; Clark III 609; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean -Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 593

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Event 721 -(88576D01)

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Date: 9/1943
-Time: 0400
-Description: Navarro Ocampo, driving between Rosario and Cordoba, saw a -large, saucer-shaped object on the ground 500 m to the left of the road. -It glowed with a bluish-green light, made a whistling sound, rose to 100 -m altitude, then left at fantastic speed. A strange metal block is said -to have been found at the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Oncativo, Argentina
-ID: 50

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Event 722 -(26CAAA71)

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Date: 9/6/1943
-Description: 9:50 a.m. During an aerial fight over Stuttgart, Germany, -the crews of two aircraft of the 384th Bomb Group, commanded by -Capt. Raymond P. Ketelson, observe two round objects “resembling silvery -discs” floating downward through the aircraft formation. One hits the -wing of a B-17 bomber, setting it on fire. The bomber does not return -from the mission. (Strange Company 43) Autumn — A Polish bomber unit -based in England claims that silver-blue balls of fire appeared near -their wing on six missions when they raided the Nazi V-1 weapons plant -in Peenemünde, Germany. RAF intelligence officer Michael -Bentine debriefs them later and asks, “But what did it do to you?” -They reply, “Nothing.” Bentine points out, “Well it was not a very -effective weapon, was it?” (UFOFiles2, p. 20; -David Clarke and Andy Roberts, “The Foo -Fighters: The RAF Experience,” The Real UFO Project, January -2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 594

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Event 723 -(EE0C262B)

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Date: 10/1943
-Alternate date: 11/1943
-Description: 11:00 p.m. 2Lt Thomas -J. Duzynski is stationed at Camp Ibis on the west side of the Dead -Mountains Wilderness northwest of Needles, California. Taking a stroll -outside his tent, he notices an elliptical- shaped object traveling to -the south at high speed parallel to the ground between himself and the -mountains. It banks sharply, almost on edge, and gains altitude, -disappearing in seconds. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -pp. 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 598

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Event 724 -(28DE30B7)

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Date: 10/1943
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Wilberta -Finley, an air spotter for the Civil Air Patrol, notices a “huge -dark aerial object approaching” her home in Santa Barbara, California, -facing the Goleta Valley. Moving low and soundlessly, it barely skims -over a nearby hill. From its front a beam of light shoots down, and at -intervals it swings from side to side as if scanning the hills and homes -below. (“Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 11 (November 1958): -116–118; Clark III 1178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 595

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Event 725 -(1E15F441)

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Date: 10/10/1943
-Description: Construction begins for the first reactor at the Hanford -site in Washington. (US Department of Energy, Office of History and -Heritage Resources, “Hanford -Becomes Operational,” August 7, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 596

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Event 726 -(CC5F9663)

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Date: 10/14/1943
-Description: Night. A group of B-17s from the 384th Bombardment Group -are returning from a mission over Germany when they see a cluster of -silver-colored discs in the path of their formation and closing with the -bombers. The crews talk back and forth, discussing and confirming the -sight before them. They describe the objects as “about one inch thick -and three inches in diameter…gliding down slowly in a very uniform -cluster.” One of the bombers goes directly through the cluster “with -absolutely no effect on engines or plane surface,” even though one is -heard to strike the tail assembly. A mass of black debris about 3-4 feet -long is also observed. (Clark III 502; Martin Caidin, Black Thursday, -Dell, 1962, pp. 188–190; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers—Here and Now! -Lyle Stuart, 1967, pp. 77–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 597

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Event 727 -(8A0179A7)

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Date: 11/1943
-Description: Ray -Palmer publishes an article, “An Ancient Language?” on the language -of Mantong in the January 1944 issue of Amazing Stories and enters into -correspondence with Richard -S. Shaver, who responds with a 10,000- word document titled “A -Warning to Future Man.” Shaver writes of advanced prehistoric races who -built underground cities before abandoning Earth for another planet -because of damaging radiation from the Sun. Those ancients also -abandoned some of their own offspring here, a minority of whom remained -noble and human “Teros,” while most degenerate over time into a -population of mentally impaired sadists known as “Deros”— short for -“detrimental robots.” Shaver’s robots are not mechanical constructs, but -robot-like due to their savage behavior. These Deros still live in the -cave cities, according to Shaver, kidnapping surface-dwelling people by -the thousands for meat or torture. Deros can be blamed for nearly all -misfortunes, from minor “accidental” injuries or illnesses to airplane -crashes and catastrophic natural disasters. Though generally confined to -their caves, the Deros sometimes travel in spaceships or rockets, and -have dealings with equally evil extraterrestrials. Shaver claims to -possess first-hand knowledge of the Deros and their caves, insisting he -had been their prisoner for several years. The article stirs -considerable reader interest, and the pages of Amazing Stories are soon -filled with stories and articles about the “Shaver mystery.” (Wikipedia, -“Richard -Sharpe Shaver”; [Richard] S. Shaver, [Letter], “An -Ancient Language?” Amazing Stories 18, no. 1 (January 1944): -206–207; [Ray Palmer,] “Mantong: The -Language of Lemuria,” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 (March 1945): 71, -206; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp. 136–137; -Clark III 872; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray -Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, McFarland, -2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 599

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Event 728 -(8023E726)

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Date: 11/4/1943
-Description: The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, goes -critical. The Y-12 plant is separating uranium- 235 from natural -uranium, which is 99.3% uranium-238, by using calutrons to perform -electromagnetic isotope separation. (Wikipedia, “X-10 -Graphite Reactor”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 600

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Event 729 -(8975468F)

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Date: 12/1943 (approximate)
-Description: Matt P. Dillingham is on evening duty adjacent to Mullinix -Field [now Bonriki International Airport] on Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific -Ocean. He begins receiving radar plots showing a north-south track to -the west moving at 750 mph. It disappears, but two other targets on the -same trajectory appear, moving at the same speed. The same targets are -repeated for several nights following. (“Out -of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 -(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 601

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Event 730 -(927C06ED)

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Date: 12/2/1943
-Description: Night. Some 105 German Junkers Ju 888 bombers attack the -port of Bari, Italy, a key supply center for Allied forces. 28 Allied -ships are sunk, including the US Liberty ship SS -John Harvey, which -is carrying mustard gas intended for retaliation in case German forces -use chemical warfare. Liquid sulfur mustard from the bombs spills into -waters already contaminated by oil from the other damaged vessels. The -many sailors who abandoned their ships into the water become covered -with the oily mixture. The wounded are pulled from the water and sent to -medical facilities whose personnel are unaware of the mustard gas. -Medical staff focus on personnel with blast or fire injuries. Within a -day, the first symptoms of mustard poisoning appear in 628 patients and -medical staff, including blindness and chemical burns. That puzzling -development is further complicated by the arrival of hundreds of Italian -civilians also seeking treatment, who have been poisoned by a cloud of -sulfur mustard vapor that blows over the city when some of John Harvey’s -cargo exploded. As the medical crisis worsens, little information is -available about what is causing the symptoms, because US military -command want to keep the presence of chemical munitions secret from the -Germans. By the end of the month, 83 of the 628 hospitalized military -victims have died. The number of civilian casualties, thought to have -been even greater, cannot be accurately gauged since most have left the -city to seek shelter with relatives. (Wikipedia, “Air -raid on Bari”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 602

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Event 731 -(E0332188)

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Date: 12/11/1943
-Description: US bombers conduct a daylight raid on Emden, Germany, and -observe an unknown object about the size of a Thunderbolt aircraft over -the target area. It passes below the bombers in a straight line and at -terrific speed, leaving a vapor trail that persists. (Strange Company -51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 603

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Event 732 -(79160E1C)

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Date: 12/14/1943
-Description: Night. British 255 Night Fighter Squadron leader Patrick -Hardy Vesey Wells is flying his Bristol Beaufighter on a patrol -mission around Naples, Italy, when he and his navigator notice a small -bright light behind them. It stays on their tail, moving from side to -side. After 1–2 minutes it goes off in another direction. (Strange -Company 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 604

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Event 733 -(A73C9DCA)

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Date: winter 1943
-Description: Day. While on a bombing mission over central Germany, -Sgt. Louis -Kiss, a tail gunner on the Phyllis Marie, a B-17 of the 390th -Bombardment Group, sees an odd-looking sphere approach the plane from -behind and below. It seems to be the size of a basketball and shimmery -gold. The object hovers just above one wing, then passes over the top to -the other wing where it hovers again. Soon it moves to the rear and gets -caught in the B-17’s backwash and disappears. (“First -Official Foo-Fighter Records Discovered,” Just Cause, no. 32 (June -1992): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 605

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Event 734 -(32CC3719)

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Date: winter 1943
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Harry G. Barnes, a member of the Washington, -D.C., Metropolitan Police Department stationed at No. 1 Precinct, sees -three oval-shaped objects in V-formation speeding eastward across the -northeast sky. The objects have pulsating, greenish-red exhausts that -occasionally flare and curl around them. (UFOEv, p. 64; -Clark III 1177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 606

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- Event 735 (BB2910D3)

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Date: 1944
-Description: Richard Shaver’s stories re. UFO
-Type: paranormal phenomenon
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 736 -(C628641A)

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Date: 1944
-Description: During WW2, E.L. (initials), serving as Carpenter Mate, 1st -Class, Hqt. Co. 112th Construction Battalion, came across a landed -saucer near a wooded ridge, near the beach of Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. -Description: 50 ft. diam.; metallic; looked like an igloo; topped with a -clear glass dome about a foot high with agold colored weather vane-like -device spinning inside.
-Type: scientist
-Reference: Pea -Research (A5, B3-C)

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Event 737 -(1251E409)

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Date: 1944
-Description: George -Adamski and his followers move closer to Palomar Mountain, -California, along the Road to the Stars where his long-time associate -Alice K. Wells sets up a roadside café, Palomar Gardens. According to -coworker Charlotte Blodget, “Each member of the group shared in the -manual labor that went into this effort, and since heavy restrictions -were still in effect regarding materials [in the war’s aftermath], -anything available had to serve.” Adamski builds a “small observatory” -to house his 15-inch telescope to study the skies. (“Palomar Mountain, -1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski Case, -September 22, 2019; George M. Eberhart, “Palomar Gardens Café,” IUR 30, -no. 3 (May 2006): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 608

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Event 738 -(FEF9C169)

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Date: 1944
-Description: During a mission to bomb oil fields in Romania, a Russian -Tupolev Tu-2 piloted by Maj. Bajenov and Boris Surikov are flying over -southwest Ukraine at an altitude of 3 miles when a large, elliptical -object approaches them. The bomber starts shaking, the oil pressure -rises, and Surikov feels a strong electrostatic charge. Even after the -object passes, the bomber’s wings are covered with glowing discharges. -(Good Need, pp. 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 607

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Event 739 -(473D058E)

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Date: 1/15/1944
-Description: The Materiel Command becomes the AAF Materiel Command. -(Wikipedia, “Air -Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 609

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Event 740 -(C08FD016)

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Date: 2/1944
-Description: 2:30 a.m. An Australian Beaufort bomber is flying at 4,500 -feet over Bass Strait, Australia, when it is joined by an object like a -“dark shadow” with a flickering flame coming out of its rear. It appears -only 100–150 feet away and stays with the bomber for 18–20 minutes, -during which time its radio and direction-finding instruments fail. It -shoots away at 700 mph. (Bill Chalker, “Australian -A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 (October 1982): -7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 610

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Event 741 -(78FD5AE8)

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Date: 2/9/1944
-Description: RAF No. 5 Group issues a report of its investigation on -“Rocket Phenomena,” concluding that the air crews are seeing either -rockets fired from aircraft, parachute rockets, or high-explosive -projectiles at maximum altitudes of 18,000 feet. Reports of objects -changing their course are either defects causing erratic flight or light -flak tracers reaching their highest point and descending. (Strange -Company 57–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 611

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Event 742 -(D331EE6A)

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Date: 2/20/1944
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Two guards of the 3rd Marine Division on -Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands see what they first assume are the -headlight beams of a truck coming from a swamp about three-quarters of a -mile from their position. It moves laterally about 50 feet and they see -it is a circular light about 50–60 feet long and 20 feet high. It then -rises into the air about 25 feet and heads in the direction of the -guards at about 45 mph. It makes a 45° turn and passes about 100 feet -above the trees of a coconut grove. Several days later, a 200-foot cut -in the reeds is discovered in the approximate spot where the light -originated. (Alvin G. McNish, “Letter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 612

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Event 743 -(38A9BDA1)

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Date: 2/23/1944
-Description: Brig. Gen. George -C. McDonald is appointed assistant chief of staff for intelligence -for the newly created US Strategic Air Forces in Europe. “Many months -preceding the collapse of Germany, McDonald recognized the imperative -need for the creation of a new type of intelligence activity to -investigate and exploit air intelligence objectives in Germany and -liberated countries. This unique system was established and consisted of -a great number of highly qualified technical and scientific personnel to -exploit all the worldwide aeronautical research developments of Germany. -This resulted in the collection of priority intelligence information of -value in the prosecution of the war against Japan; technical and -non-technical information of immediate operational significance and -value; as well as a substantial portion of important documents and -personnel of the German Air Ministry that enabled the US Army Air Forces -to undertake long-range research with respect to many valuable- phases -of air doctrine, research, employment, organization, procedure, and -plans of the German air force.” Among the personalities involved in the -operation are some who will become involved in UFO investigations in the -future: Col. John -A. O’Mara, Col. Howard -H. McCoy, Col. -Harold -E. Watson, and Col. Malcolm -D. Seashore. (Wikipedia, “United -States Strategic Air Forces in Europe”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 613

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Event 744 -(FB147046)

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Date: 2/24/1944
-Description: Night. Southwest of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France, three -silver objects are seen by an RAF bomber returning from a mission over -Schweinfurt, Germany. They resemble Zeppelins but move independently of -the wind. (Strange Company 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 614

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Event 745 -(55112556)

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Date: 3/1944
-Description: An Army Air Force pilot flying a B-17 sees a fast-moving, -glowing green object light up the cockpit and speed out of sight over -the horizon at Carlsbad, New Mexico. (UFOEv, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 615

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Event 746 -(C198EB26)

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Date: 3/1/1944
-Description: The first prototype H.IX V1, an unpowered glider with fixed -tricycle landing gear, is tested in Germany, but there is an accident -when the pilot attempts to land without first retracting an -instrument-carrying pole extending from the aircraft. The design is -taken from the Horten -brothers and given to Gothaer Waggonfabrik. (Wikipedia, “Horten -Ho 229”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 616

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Event 747 -(C092EC0F)

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Date: spring 1944
-Alternate date: 1945
-Description: Two grammar school teachers are driving in the mountains -near Auberry, California, when their car stalls and they see a -cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes along the side hovering in a -nearby ravine. They watch it for several minutes until it begins moving -slowly out of the ravine, ascends, and shoots away to the west at a -tremendous speed. The car engine remains stalled for a while, then -starts by itself. (“Past -Sightings Come to Light,” -APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1968, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 617

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Event 748 -(19029B1A)

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Date: 4/1944
-Description: Late afternoon. Near the Eastern front in western Slovakia, -a man is standing on a hill near his home when he sees a dark round -object moving at high speed to his right for less than one minute. It -moves at a steady speed and is followed by another object about 20 -seconds later. As many as 6 others appear, and five are visible at one -time, each beginning as a pinpoint of light, growing bigger, then -decreasing back to a pinpoint. The display lasts for about 5 minutes. -(“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 618

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Event 749 -(D60FEAEE)

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Date: 4/1944
-Description: The first operation jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, -is introduced
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 750 -(27ECC662)

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Date: 4/5/1944
-Description: The Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge has sent 200 grams of enriched -uranium to Los Alamos. Italian-American physicist Emilio -Segrè receives the first sample and within 10 days discovers that -the spontaneous fission rate is too high for use in a gun-type fission -weapon (because of pu-240 isotope present as an impurity in the pu-239). -(Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic -Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 619

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Event 751 -(7559F0D0)

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Date: 4/26/1944
-Description: Night. RAF pilot Arthur Horton of the 622 Squadron is -returning from a bombing mission to Essen, Germany, when he is followed -by four orange balls of light with “short stubby wings” and emitting -sparks, two on each side of the aircraft. He takes evasive action with -his Lancaster, but the objects follow all his maneuvers for 10 minutes. -When they reach the coast of Holland, they seem to “burn themselves -out.” (Strange Company 64–65; UFOFiles2, pp. 16, -18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 620

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Event 752 -(291776BB)

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Date: 5/29/1944
-Description: The Aircraft Warning Service is deactivated. (Wikipedia, -“Aircraft -Warning Service”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 621

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Event 753 -(E589001A)

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Date: 6/1944
-Description: Edward W. Ludwig is commanding a small, Coast Guard–manned -cargo vessel near Palmyra Atoll. While looking for a lost Navy patrol -plane, he observes a bright aerial sphere that alternately moves and -stops for 30 minutes. (“True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 3, no. 8 -(December 1950): 82–87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 623

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Event 754 -(65ACBB53)

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Date: 6/1944
-Description: 12:30 p.m. David -A. K. Morris, a fitter with Service Unit 10 of the Royal New Zealand -Air Force, takes a swim with a friend at Torokina Beach, Bougainville -Island, Papua New Guinea. They see “a huge, dark-gray, seemingly -metallic, bulbous mass hanging out of a large cumulus cloud.” It moves -silently, its outline fading into the cloud and out of sight. It -resembles a Zeppelin or the R101 airship, -only bigger. (D. Morris, “RNZAF -Camp UFO Sighting -of 1944,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 622

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Event 755 -(FDB857CB)

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Date: 6/10/1944 (approximate)
-Description: The Liberty ship SS -George E. Badger is off Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, when gunner -Edward Breckel sees -a “dark ellipsoidal object” on the horizon about 5 miles away. “Blunted -on each end like a sausage,” the silent craft remains in view for 3 -minutes, moving slowly at about 15 feet above the surface of the water. -(Strange Company 67; “The -Case for the ‘Sea-Saucer,’” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 10 (January 7, 1955): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 624

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Event 756 -(CE5EE355)

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Date: summer 1944
-Description: Day. Asa -Howard Jr. is outside the barracks at RAF Molesworth in -Cambridgeshire, England, when he and other airmen see a pencil-shaped, -metallic object moving faster than a jet about a mile away. While -watching it for about 2 minutes, they see it pass behind a small cloud -before it disappears. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 634

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Event 757 -(44E2F46F)

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Date: summer 1944
-Description: Mid-day. Franceen Andron is at Camp McCain, southeast of -Grenada, Mississippi, when she sees a large, fat, cigar-shaped object -that changes from dull black to gray to “fog blue.” It is joined by -three smaller discs that appear below it after emerging from a cloud. -The large object disappears first, followed by the discs, which race -away in different directions. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 633

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Event 758 -(87FA0045)

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Date: summer 1944
-Description: Fred Wieland and some friends are riding their bicycles on -a footpath adjacent to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, New York -City. As they climb a hill, they look up and see a cigar-shaped object -“broadside” to them. It is of smooth metallic construction with no -windows or openings. They race to the top of the hill for a better look, -but by then the object has completely disappeared. (Clark III -1178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 632

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Event 759 -(7E13BF7E)

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Date: summer 1944
-Description: 5:00 p.m. François Panes watches a cigar-shaped object at -an altitude of about 5,000 feet above the Kamensko Forest north of -Blovice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic], glittering brightly with -no wings, no rudder, and no propeller. It is about 150 feet in diameter -and 300–400 feet long. The object is lit up from underneath. It slowly -descends, after which it rises up again and vanishes into the blue sky -after 10–15 minutes. (Hobana and Weverbergh 215–216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 631

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Event 760 -(94B88772)

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Date: early 7/1944
-Description: 10:30 a.m. During Allied operations in the area around -Loreto, Castelfidardo, and Osimo, in Ancona province, Italy, Antoni -Szachnowsky, of the 2nd Polish Artillery Regiment, notices an -egg-shaped, glistening, metallic, motionless object. The Polish Army -anti-aircraft gun fires on it, then the German batteries join in. -Eventually both sides stop, and the object remains motionless for a -minute. Then it tilts at a 45° angle, moves rapidly upward, and -disappears. (“1944: An Italian Foo-Fighter?” UFO Sightings Italia, no. -2, March 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 625

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Event 761 -(290115AA)

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Date: 7/4/1944
-Description: Oppenheimer reveals -Segrè’s -final measurements to the Los Alamos staff, and the development of the -gun-type plutonium weapon “Thin Man” is abandoned. Designing a workable -implosion design (Fat Man) becomes the top priority of the laboratory, -and design of the uranium gun-type weapon (Little Boy) continues. -(Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic -Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 626

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Event 762 -(142E3E80)

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Date: 7/6/1944
-Description: German test pilot Heini -Dittmar attains an unofficial airspeed record of 702 mph in a -rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163B at Lagerlechfeld, Bavaria, Germany. -(Wikipedia, “Heini -Dittmar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 627

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Event 763 -(37D40E4C)

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Date: 7/9/1944
-Description: Afternoon. After a successful air strike by the US 449th -Bombardment Group against the Concordia-Vega refinery at Ploești, -Romania, witness Grigore Zmeuranu sees a round, yellowish object flying -from the north at a speed about 3-4 times that of an aircraft. It leaves -a short vapor trail, moves over the bombed area, and returns silently in -the same direction. (Hobana and Weverbergh 226–227; Strange Company -71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 628

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Event 764 -(FC5E2FC8)

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Date: 7/17/1944
-Description: The Air Service Command and the AAF Materiel Command are -placed under AAF Materiel and Services. (Wikipedia, “Air -Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 629

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Event 765 -(B91C4FFE)

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Date: late 7/1944
-Description: Evening. Jaakku Kivistö is serving in the Finnish Army as a -noncommissioned medical officer stationed on a farm near Impilahti, -Karelia [now Russia], by Lake Ladoga. He notices a large object next to -the corn-drying building on a steep hillside that he at first takes for -a military truck. As he walks closer, he sees it is reddish in color, -moving slowly about 150–230 feet in the air, 100 feet long, and has a -row of black windows. It moves off quickly in the direction of the lake -and vanishes. (“A -Close Encounter from the Year 1944,” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1985, -no. 1, pp. 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 630

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Event 766 -(90D1589B)

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Date: 8/1944
-Description: Twelve dismantled V-2 rockets were shipped to Japan. These -left Bordeaux in August 1944 on the transport U-boats U-219 and U-195, -which reached Jakarta in December 1944. A civilian V-2 expert was a -passenger on U-234, bound for Japan in May 1945 when the war ended in -Europe. The fate of these V-2 rockets is unknown.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 767 -(19611CE1)

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Date: 8/1944
-Description: Night. Officer George Todt of the 38th Regiment, Second -Infantry Division, is between Saint-Lô and Vire, Normandy, France, when -he sees a cherry-red light one-fifth the size of the moon moving -silently west at 120 mph towards Omaha Beach. It stops over the American -lines and hovers for 14 minutes. It expands and contracts regularly -every few seconds. Col. Francis -Henry Boos and another officer also observe it. (Strange Company 78– -79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 635

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Event 768 -(8BD7DC2C)

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Date: 8/11/1944
-Description: Shortly after midnight. Capt. Alvah -M. Reida is piloting a B-29 bomber based at Kharagpur, India, on a -bombing mission over Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia, when his right -gunner and copilot notice a sphere “probably five or six feet in -diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color” that -constantly throbs, at about 12,500 feet, pacing them about 1,500 feet -off the starboard wing. It keeps up with the B-29, then flying at 210 -mph. Reida tries to shake it off his plane, but it stays in the same -relative position until, after 8 minutes, it makes an abrupt 90° turn -and accelerates rapidly, disappearing in the overcast. (UFOEv, p. 23; -Strange Company 71–75; Good Above, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 636

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Event 769 -(86BADCEA)

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Date: 8/11/1944
-Description: Night. RAF Warrant Officer Ronald R. Claridge is over -France aboard a No. 7 Squadron Lancaster bomber returning from a bombing -run on La Pallice, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France, when his -radar screen goes blank. Another crewman shouts to look at a vast -disc-shaped object with a long row of lights on their starboard side. -They watch it for 3 minutes, then it shoots away in a flash of light. -Later he draws a watercolor painting to show how the UFO dwarfed the -bomber. (UFOFiles2, pp. 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 637

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Event 770 -(D53ABC86)

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Date: mid 8/1944
-Description: 11:00 a.m. During the Warsaw Uprising in Poland, Zenon -Sergisz notices a German bomber passing by, as well as three bright -points of light that descend as the bomber moves away. The lights are -flattened spheres that move low behind some buildings then rise up at an -angle and disappear. (Poland 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 638

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Event 771 -(D76A5C3A)

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Date: 8/17/1944
-Description: The Allied command creates the Combined Intelligence -Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS), charged in part with investigating the -strange balls of fire. (Strange Company 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 639

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Event 772 -(7E4FD83A)

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Date: late 8/1944
-Description: 4:20 p.m. A nurse, Mrs. E. M. Church, on her way to a tram -station in Christchurch, New Zealand, sees an object like an “upturned -saucer” resting on the ground near the road. It seems to be 20 feet -across and 9 feet high. Two beings, not quite 4 feet tall, are inside, -visible through a rectangular window. A third stands motionless, just -outside an open door. All three seem to be looking toward the lights of -a nearby fairground. The nurse cannot decide if their skin color is -green or they are dressed in green, but all are encased in a transparent -oblong box. The head takes up half of their bodies and there are no -apparent legs or arms. She inadvertently makes a noise, and the outside -figure notices her. Its helmet flips over automatically, and it drifts -inside the object, which rises up and disappears in the clouds. (Center -for UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1940–1949, p. 12; Clark III 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 641

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Event 773 -(17CDC776)

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Date: late 8/1944
-Description: Sgt. Ness and another man of the mine-laying platoon of the -175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, see a large rectangular -object “like a railroad boxcar” with no apparent source of propulsion -move steadily at about 90 mph over the front lines near Brest, Brittany, -France, and out to sea. At one point the object passes in front of the -moon, briefly obscuring it from view. (Lore and Deneault, pp. 120–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 640

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Event 774 -(BFC4487A)

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Date: end of 8/1944
-Description: A mysterious man appeared at windows, as if in search of -someone. He stunned witnesses by pointing at them a device that “made -consciousness dissolve” and left a strange cloying smell behind
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 61, 3; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Mattoon, Illinois
-ID: 51

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Event 775 -(E84B0871)

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Date: 8/31/1944
-Description: The Army Air Forces Air Technical Service Command is formed -as the result of the merging of the Materiel and Air Service Commands. -(Wikipedia, “Air -Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 642

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Event 776 -(7D21B4E0)

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Date: 9/1944
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Canadian Army Lance Cpl. Carson Yorke is just -outside Antwerp, Belgium, during a German bombardment. He steps out of -his vehicle and sees a glowing globe traveling at about 30 mph and 40 -feet altitude from the front lines toward the city (in the same course -that the German V-2s are following). It seems to be 3–4 feet in diameter -and looks “as though it was cloudy glass with a light inside.” It -disappears from view, then is followed by another, then five others in -succession. (Jerome Clark and Lucius Farish, “The -Mysterious ’Foo Fighters’ -of WW II,” Saga UFO Report, Spring 1975)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 644

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Event 777 -(567000A9)

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Date: 9/1944
-Description: Dusk. Three Oak Ridge workers (a man named Nelson, A. C. -Butler, and Albert Profitt) are driving 2 miles southeast of Oliver -Springs, Tennessee, when a strange object appears about 50 feet ahead of -them at the level of their windshield. It is glossy white in color and -about 30 feet long and 4 feet wide. Nelson eases the car up to the -object, but it withdraws; when he stops, it also stops. Soon the light -rises high in the air and disappears over Black Oak Ridge. (Lorenzen, -UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp, 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 643

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Event 778 -(842364F5)

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Date: 9/2/1944
-Description: Two chemists are killed, and Arnold -Kramish almost killed, after being sprayed with highly corrosive -hydrofluoric acid while attempting to unclog a uranium enrichment device -that is part of the pilot thermal diffusion plant at the Philadelphia -Navy Yard. (Wikipedia, “Arnold -Kramish”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 645

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Event 779 -(49C91458)

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Date: 9/6/1944
-Description: The Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee holds its -first meeting in London, England. Present are Air Commodore K. C. Buss -(Air Ministry), Gen. George -C. McDonald (AAF Director of Intelligence), Lt. Col. Lewis -F. Powell Jr., Col. Howard -McCoy (chief of the Air Technical Section), Howard -P. Robertson (CalTech physicist), and Cmdr. Ian -Fleming (Admiralty). (Strange Company 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 646

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Event 780 -(6F7C3DA0)

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Date: 9/7/1944
-Description: First V-2 rocket attacks begin. Two launched at Paris. -V-2’s speed and trajectory made it practically invulnerable to -anti-aircraft guns and fighters, as it dropped from an altitude of -100–110 km (62–68 mi) at up to three times the speed of sound at sea -level (approximately 3550 km/h). The British government, concerned about -spreading panic or giving away vital intelligence to German forces, -initially attempted to conceal the cause of the explosions by making no -official announcement, and euphemistically blaming them on defective gas -mains. The public did not believe this explanation and therefore began -referring to the V-2s as “flying gas mains”.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany

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Event 781 -(4829CF18)

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Date: 10/1944
-Description: Late night. Members of a family who live in an isolated -area on the outskirts of Rochester, Pennsylvania, are awakened by a loud -noise and flash of light. The father goes to the door, where he sees a -4.5-foot-tall figure dressed in a brown robe. Fifteen feet to its left -are five other figures dressed in luminous brown metallic suits. Their -heads seem large, with only a slit for a mouth. The arms are long, with -long thin fingers. Three of them enter the house and the father -accompanies them to a landed craft nearby. He remembers nothing else -when he wakes up in the morning. A round, burned circle 20 feet from the -house and 25 feet in diameter is found the next day. (Clark III -265–266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 647

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Event 782 -(217F3DF0)

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Date: 10/1944
-Description: Nellie Carlin and another woman are about to drive to work -in St. Paul, Minnesota, when they see what seems to be an airplane about -to crash. It abruptly stops 20 feet above their heads, revealing itself -to be a brown, bullet- shaped object with a flat end “like frosted glass -with a bright light behind it.” It makes a crackling noise, turns right, -and ascends at great speed. (Clark III 1178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 648

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Event 783 -(B5387986)

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Date: late 10/1944
-Description: 9:30 p.m. 1Lt. J. B. Douglas Jr. and other soldiers of the -489th Armored Field Artillery near Weert, Netherlands, watch a bright -silvery object through field glasses moving silently from northwest to -southwest through an arc of 90° in about 30–45 minutes. (UFOEv, pp. 30, -129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 649

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Event 784 -(AA66537E)

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Date: 10/28/1944
-Description: Physicist David -T. Griggs, a -civilian adviser on radar to the War Department, is asked by Gen. Henry -H. “Hap” -Arnold to look into incidents of unusual aerial phenomena in Europe -and interview pilots. He later moves his investigation to the Pacific -Theater. His report to Arnold at the end of the war has never been -located. He was interviewed by James -E. McDonald on April 10, 1969. (Michael D. Swords, “David Griggs and -the Foo Fighters,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 17–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 650

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Event 785 -(5A1093DC)

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Date: 10/30/1944
-Description: Late night. RAF Flight Engineer Maurice Juberley of the 640 -Squadron is returning from a bombing mission over Köln, Germany. His -Halifax III is flying at 19,000 feet above the clouds when the rear -gunner reports a ball of orange fire closing in on them. He orders an -evasive maneuver and loses the light. (Strange Company 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 651

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Event 786 -(DE820D42)

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Date: early 11/1944
-Description: Night. Lieut. Col. Oris -B. Johnson’s 422d Night Fighter Squadron, equipped with P-61 Black -Widow fighters, reports seeing 15–20 mystery objects every night over -Germany, either alone or in formations of four. Johnson says he could -accept that the reports are rocket planes or night fighter jets. -(Strange Company 87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 652

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Event 787 -(B702AE19)

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Date: 11/3/1944
-Description: The Japanese Army launches the first of some 9,300 Fu-Go -bomb-bearing fire balloons intended to land in North America to instill -fear and terror. About 300 are found or seen in America. It is likely -that more of them land in unpopulated areas. On November 4, a US Navy -patrol craft discovers one of the first Fu-Go balloons floating off San -Pedro, Los Angeles, California. National and state agencies are placed -on heightened alert status when balloons are found in Wyoming and -Montana before the end of the month. (Wikipedia, “Fu-Go -balloon bomb”; -Franklin Matthias, “Japanese -Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10, -2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 653

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Event 788 -(C9FB9FB9)

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Date: 11/4/1944
-Description: Night. RAF Lancaster bombers over Solingen, Germany, report -what they call “scarecrow” dummy airplanes that explode with a sheet of -flame and dense black smoke. (“German -Dummy Planes Explode Amid Our Own,” -New York Times, November 6, 1944, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 654

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Event 789 -(A8D14C5B)

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Date: 11/8/1944
-Description: Nazis officially announce the V-2 rocket on 11/8/1944
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany

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Event 790 -(5B5BB219)

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Date: 11/12/1944
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A radio station in Santiago, Chile, broadcasts a -version of The War of the Worlds in Spanish in which Martians land in -Puente Alto, causing a panic and the death by heart attack of at least -one person in Valparaíso. (John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds: A -History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the -Original Script, McFarland, 2009, pp. 99–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 655

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Event 791 -(63E21184)

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Date: 11/16/1944
-Description: 11:55 p.m. Lt. J. L. Besmond, officer of the day on the USS -Gilliam, enroute from Oro Bay, Papua New Guinea, to Leyte Gulf, -Philippines, observes an unusual object at a distance of 21 miles. Fire -Control Officer P. Kendall Bruce describes it as a bright green globe -that rises from behind the ship and moves in a “perfect parabola at -great speed, finally disappearing behind the horizon to the north.” -(NICAP, “UFO -Observed from USS Gilliam”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 656

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Event 792 -(967B1EA8)

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Date: 11/24/1944
-Description: Capt. William -D. Leet’s B-17 crew (part of the 2nd Bombardment Group, 5th Wing of -the Fifteenth Air Force) is returning from bombing a target at -Klagenfurt, Austria. While flying over northeastern Italy near Trieste, -Leet notices a blinding light and feels an intense heat. It goes away -quickly, but seconds later he sees a “round amber light” sitting off the -left wingtip of the B-17. It is bright and perfectly circular. Leet -orders the gunners not to shoot at it. Sgt. Harris, the upper gunner, -thinks it is 10 feet in diameter and 150–300 feet away. The object stays -with them over the Adriatic Sea for 50 minutes, until it “just turned -off” like a light bulb. (Strange Company 90–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 657

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Event 793 -(898460E6)

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Date: 11/29/1944
-Description: Night. A Bristol Beaufighter crew (pilot Lieut. Edward A. -Schlueter and radar observer Lieut. Donald J. Meiers of the 415th Night -Fighter Squadron, and intelligence officer Capt. Fred -B. Ringwald as observer) is on a bombing mission and flying above -the Rhine River north of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. They see “eight -to 10 bright orange lights off the left wing…flying through the air at -high speed.” Neither the airborne radar nor ground control registers -anything nearby. Schlueter and Meiers also see red lights on November 26 -above Mannheim, Germany. (Zoe Crasney, “What -Were the Mysterious ‘Foo Fighters’ Sighted by WWII Night Flyers?” -Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, August 2016; Strange Company -93–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 659

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Event 794 -(7DE8A917)

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Date: 11/29/1944
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Reginald -Herbert Mortimer and his daughter Frances are on the Bruce Peninsula -between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, Ontario, when they hear a hissing -sound behind them and see 9 disc-shaped objects pass overhead at -approximately 2,000 feet. Moving three abreast in a square -configuration, they are lost to sight over the lake. (Clark III -1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 658

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Event 795 -(B14E7D1C)

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Date: 11/30/1944 (approximate)
-Description: As the USS -Gilliam is transporting troops from Leyte Gulf to Lingayen Gulf, -Luzon, Philippines, Lieut. JG Kendall Bruce, fire control officer on the -ship, observes a bright green, globe-shaped object rising out of the -nearby headlands and disappears to the north, It is too slow for a -missile. [Same event as November 16?] (NICAP, “UFO -Observed from USS Gilliam”; Strange Company 95–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 660

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Event 796 -(CD62A049)

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Date: 12/13/1944
-Description: SHAEF in Paris, France, issues a press release identifying -the fireballs as a “new German weapon” and that the Ninth Air Force has -reported seeing “many silver balls floating in the air above enemy -territory.” An Army Air Force spokesman says on December 20 that the -silver balls have “no detectable effects” on Allied planes. He does not -know whether or not they are metallic. (Strange Company 96, 101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 661

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Event 797 -(6DFCF307)

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Date: 12/14/1944
-End date: 12/28/1944
-Description: Numerous balls of light are reported by the Night Fighter -Squadrons during bombing raids over Germany. Pilot and operations -officer Charlie -Horne of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron suggests calling the -objects “foo fighters,” a name gleaned from the men’s favorite comic -strip, “Smokey Stover” by cartoonist Bill Holman. The -comic follows the escapades of a madcap fire fighter who calls his fire -truck the “Foomobile.” Smokey Stover often states, “where there’s foo, -there’s fire.” (“More -Foo-Fighter Records Released,” Just Cause, new ser., no. 33 -(September 1992): 2–6; Strange Company 96–111; Swords 3–5; “The -Foo Fighters of World War II, -Part One,” Saturday Night UFOria; Clas Svahn, “The Origin of the -Expression ‘Foo Fighter,’” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 18; Don Berliner, -with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Hunneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The -Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 47–49; -Barry Greenwood, “Foo -Fighter Archive Donated to UHR,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17 -(December 2015): 2–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 662

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Event 798 -(983BDCBD)

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Date: 12/23/1944
-Description: Night. Navy Lt. George -Arents III and copilot Lt. Elon Forster are flying a military DC-3 -at 9,000 feet between Blackstone and Richmond, Virginia, when they -notice a cigar-shaped object hovering below them at about 4,000 feet. It -appears to be 200 feet long and has two horizontal rows of blue-lighted -windows and a flaming exhaust coming out of its tail. (Jan Aldrich) Late -December through February 1945 — Radar operators at Naval Air Station -Pasco, Washington, report unusual blips that appear out of nowhere and -proceed from northwest to southeast. A Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter is -scrambled on at least two occasions with orders to shoot down anything -that appears to be hostile, but nothing is seen. In another incident, -Lt. JG Clarence R. Clem accompanies Lt. Commander Richard Brown and -Ensign C. T. Neal to a waiting aircraft and Brown takes off in pursuit -of a ball of fire that quickly leaves him behind as it speeds off to the -northwest and is lost to radar. On another occasion, naval officer R. W. -Hendershot, flying an SNJ aircraft, is asked by ground radar to make -contact with two high-altitude blips flying at the speed of a single- -engine Piper Cub. Though he can see nothing, he is convinced the blips -are real. (Strange Company 142; Nukes 43–44; Project 1947, “UFOs -over Hanford: Cdr. R. W. Hendershot,” June 22, 2014; Robert L. -Hastings, “Reports Confirm -UFO Activity at the Hanford Nuclear Weapons Plant during World War -II,” UFOs & Nukes, August 9, 2015; Headquarters Fourth Air -Force, “Air -Defense Measures at Hanford Engineering Company,” January 23, 1945; -Robert L. Hastings, “Former -US Navy Pilot Says Huge Fireball Maneuvered above the Hanford -Atomic Plant -during World War II,” UFOs & Nukes, October 5, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 663

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- Event 799 (7ABBB44E)

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Date: 1945
-Description: An American soldier saw a disk-shaped object come down -rapidly, oscillate, and land. The site could not be found in the dark. -The event took place 35 km northwest of the town.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Habbebishopsheim, Germany
-ID: 52

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Event 800 -(49621FA4)

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Date: 1945
-Description: (Approximate date.) Radar signals secretly bounced off the -Moon during WW2 according to a public statement by Dr. Oliver J. -Lee.
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: link
-Location: New Jersey

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Event 801 -(5BE54D44)

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Date: 1945
-Description: Green Fireballs seen in Southwestern US
-Type: anomalous phenomenon
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Los Alamos, NM

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Event 802 -(EB070EC9)

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Date: 1945
-Description: Soviet underground city Ozyorsk starts construction, using -70,000 prisoners from 12 labor camps. Later turned into the -“Chelyabinsk-40” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, -component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on -Earth.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: Ozyorsk, Russia
-See also: 1947

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Event 803 -(C839A663)

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Date: 1/1945
-Description: Ray -Palmer edits, rewrites, and publishes Richard S. Shaver’s -description of the cave-dwelling Dero for the March 1945 issue of -Amazing Stories under the title “I Remember Lemuria.” The issue sells -out and generates quite a response. Between 1945 and 1949, many letters -arrive attesting to the truth of Shaver’s claims (tens of thousands of -letters, according to Palmer). The correspondents claim that they, too, -have heard strange voices or encountered denizens of the Hollow Earth. -(Wikipedia, “Richard -Sharpe Shaver”; Richard S. Shaver, “’I Remember -Lemuria,’” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 (March 1945): 12–70; Walter -Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp. 137–144; -Clark III 872, 1069; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, -Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, -McFarland, 2013; David Halperin, “The Shaver -Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria (Part -1),” July 4, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 664

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Event 804 -(9C2FA423)

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Date: 1/2/1945
-Description: Col. Clayton -Lawrence Bissell, in the Pentagon’s Office of the Assistant Chief of -Staff for Intelligence, sends SHAEF in Paris a classified message -seeking an explanation for the red balls of fire pacing planes. No -response has been located to date. ([Clayton Lawrence] Bissell, [message], -January 2, 1945; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, -1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 667

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Event 805 -(A29C788D)

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Date: 1/2/1945
-Description: 2:30 a.m. USAAF Lieut. Jack Green and navigator Lieut. -Warren Barber, 653rd Bombardment Squadron, are conducting a -reconnaissance flight in a Mosquito over the Netherlands and northern -Germany when they encounter two balls of fire on three occasions pacing -their plane. Barber describes them as a “pair of fog lights, shooting up -to 60 or 70,000 feet.” (Strange Company 114–116, 208–209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 665

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Event 806 -(D8BA60AB)

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Date: 1/2/1945
-Description: The New York Times publishes an article stating that the -foo fighters are German weapons. Lieut. Donald J. Meiers of the 415th -Night Fighter Squadron says he has been followed by foo-fighters twice. -“A foo-fighter picked me up at 700 feet and chased me 20 miles down the -Rhine Valley [Germany]. I turned to starboard and two balls of fire -turned with me. I turned to the port side and they turned with me. We -were going 260 miles an hour and the balls were keeping right up with -us.” (“Balls -of Fire Stalk U.S. Fighters in Night Assaults over Germany,” -New York Times, January 2, 1945, pp. 1, 4; Strange Company -117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 666

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Event 807 -(2FF68D74)

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Date: 1/16/1945
-Description: Lt. Col. Leavitt -Corning Jr. of the XII Tactical Air Command sends a secret memo to -the assistant chief of air intelligence requesting further information -on the “Night Phenomenon.” (Strange Company 126–127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 668

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Event 808 -(C4D3A2AD)

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Date: 1/20/1945
-Description: First Tactical Air Force Executive Officer Maj. Samuel -V. Boykin responds to Corning asking -for more particulars about the reports. (Strange Company 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 669

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Event 809 -(5D2E541B)

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Date: 1/22/1945
-Description: British prisoners being force-marched out of the German -Heydebreck labor camp (near modern Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland) see a -four-engine bomber overhead. Behind it is a “brilliant light” that is -following it closely. (Clark III 503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 670

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Event 810 -(FBE69261)

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Date: 1/30/1945
-Description: Capt. Fred -B. Ringwald, intelligence -officer for the 415 Night Fighter Squadron, responds to Corning’s -January 16 request by offering a summary of 14 foo fighter reports from -December 14, 1944, to January 29, 1945. (Strange Company 129–132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 672

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Event 811 -(4414327E)

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Date: 1/30/1945
-Description: 12:10 a.m. A 415th Night Fighter Squadron crew observes two -amber-colored “lights in the air at 2,000 feet” between Wissembourg, -Bas-Rhin, France, and Landau, Germany. They seem to be about a foot in -diameter and 20–50 feet apart. The lights follow their Bristol -Beaufighter, closing in to about 1,000 feet before disappearing. -(Strange Company 129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 671

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Event 812 -(782C554E)

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Date: 2/1945
-Description: Borderland Sciences Research Association (BSRA) Founded by -Meade Layne. Works with expert medium Mark A. Probert. Their motto: -“Serving Higher Intelligence since 1945”.
-Type: ufological event
-Location: San Diego, CA

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Event 813 -(FEE13C58)

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Date: 2/1945
-Description: Meade -Layne founds the Borderland Sciences Research Associates in San -Diego, California, and publishes the first issue of its newsletter, The -Round Robin. Working with local medium Mark -A. Probert, who channels “etheric” entities from discarnates with -advanced knowledge of spirit and cosmos, Layne and BSRA seek to explore -the mysteries of the invisible world. (Borderland Sciences Research -Associates, [History]; -Clark III 876; Håkan Blomqvist, “Round -Robin and -Contactee History,” Håkan Blomqvist’s Blog, March 30, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 673

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Event 814 -(E6C268EF)

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Date: 2/2/1945
-Description: The first flight of the H.IX V2 is made in Oranienburg, -Germany. All subsequent test flights and development are done by Gothaer -Waggonfabrik in Gotha. By this time, the Horten -brothers are working on a turbojet-powered design for the Amerika -Bomber contract competition and do not attend the first test flight. The -test pilot is Leutnant Erwin -Ziller. Two further test flights are made in February. There are -reports that during one of these test flights, the H.IX V2 undertook a -simulated dogfight with a Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational -jet fighter, and that the H.IX V2 outperformed the Me 262. However, the -Me 262 is considered by many as unsuitable for fighter missions, being -slow in turning. (Wikipedia, “Horton -Ho 229”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 675

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Event 815 -(6460C21F)

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Date: 2/2/1945
-Description: The first Hanford plutonium arrives at Los Alamos. (Atomic -Heritage Foundation, “Atomic -Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 674

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Event 816 -(EEE702CB)

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Date: 2/7/1945
-Description: Afternoon. Several F6F fighters on patrol (one piloted by -Ensign Norman -P. Stark) from the USS -Wasp aircraft carrier anchored at Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline -Islands are told to investigate a radar target at 30,000 feet some 10 -miles west of the fleet. Before they can reach altitude, the object -moves back to the west at high speed. They catch a brief visual glimpse -of it. (LCDR Norman P. Stark, “A -WWII F6F Navy Fighter Pilot’s Experiences in -the Pacific,” Battle of Saipan, January 1, 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 676

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Event 817 -(EAE91A6F)

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Date: 2/10/1945
-Description: The Chicago Tribune and Washington Times-Herald reveal Bill -Donovan’s plans for a postwar intelligence agency and publishes a -secret memo he has sent to Roosevelt proposing -its creation. The article compares the proposed agency to the Gestapo. -Knowing that Americans want a smaller federal government after the war, -Roosevelt is not entirely sold on Donovan’s proposal, although Donovan -feels reasonably confident that he can talk the president into the idea. -J. -Edgar Hoover disapproves of Donovan’s plan, which he sees as a -direct threat to FBI authority, even though Donovan has stressed that -his agency will operate only abroad, not domestically. (Walter Trohan, -“Super-Spy -Idea Denounced As New Deal OGPU,” Chicago Tribune, February 10, -1945, p. 1; Central Intelligence Agency, “Origins -of CIA,” August 3, 2005; Mark Riebling, Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to -9/11, Simon & Schuster, 2002, pp. 59–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 677

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Event 818 -(E3156F28)

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Date: 2/11/1945
-Description: Air Commodore Colin -McKay Grierson, RAF assistant chief of staff A2, refers Ringwald’s -report to the Air Ministry. (Strange Company 133–134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 678

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Event 819 -(C9F46DFA)

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Date: mid 2/1945
-Description: As their C-47 prepares to land at Biggs Field, Fort Bliss, -El Paso, Texas, S/Sgt Ralph Bayer is alarmed to see an aircraft -approaching from the left and only 900 feet below them. The object is -about 30 feet long and a dull, flat gray in color, and it travels in a -straight course 500 feet above the ground until it disappears. (Clark -III 1178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 679

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Event 820 -(6F6859B7)

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Date: 2/18/1945
-Description: Disaster strikes during the third test flight of the H.IX -V2 in Gotha, Germany. Erwin -Ziller takes off without any problems to perform a series of flight -tests. After about 45 minutes, at an altitude of around 800 meters, one -of the Jumo 004 turbojet engines develops a problem, catches fire and -stops. Ziller is seen putting the aircraft into a dive and pulling up -several times in an attempt to restart the engine and save the precious -prototype. He undertakes a series of four complete turns at a 20° angle. -Ziller does not use his radio or eject from the aircraft. He already is -unconscious as a result of the fumes from the burning engine. The -aircraft crashes just outside the boundary of the airfield. Ziller is -thrown from the aircraft on impact and dies from his injuries two weeks -later. The prototype aircraft is completely destroyed. (Wikipedia, “Horton -Ho 229”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 680

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Event 821 -(B471EE0B)

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Date: 2/22/1945
-Description: Night. A B-24 bomber flying near Chichijima in the -Ogasawara (Bonin) Archipelago, Japan, sees an object trailing exhaust. -It is also picked up on radar and follows the plane for about 20 miles -before disappearing off the screen. (Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 681

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Event 822 -(3970CC6C)

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Date: 3/1945
-Description: A man is squirrel hunting in a wooded area near Belfast, -Maine, when he sees a huge, elongated object just above the trees. He -runs after it, thinking it is a dirigible about to crash. The object -crashes into the trees at the far edge of a clearing, splitting a huge -pine tree down the middle. He smells burned rubber. The object seems to -be as big as several B-36 bombers. As he stands there stunned, the -lowest end of the craft begins to rise and he hears a humming sound of -increasing intensity. After it rises to a horizontal position, it begins -to spin faster and faster and the hum becomes very intense. Suddenly one -end spews a shower of fine, silvery threads that glint in the sunlight. -The object begins to change to a white metallic color and it takes off -straight up at fantastic speed. (“I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying -Saucers, May 1959, pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1178–1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 683

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Event 823 -(4C892457)

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Date: 3/1945
-Description: A man out hunting observed an elongated object flying very -slowly, tilted toward the earth. It crashed into some trees at the end -of a clearing. The enormous craft seemed undamaged as it rested briefly -on the ground, then lifted again with a humming sound, started to spin, -released a shower of fine silvery threads, and rose straight up, -disappearing in seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS May., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Belfast, Maine
-ID: 53

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Event 824 -(DEAD8729)

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Date: 3/1945
-Description: Aboard the US attack transport “Delarof,” 14 sailors saw a -dark sphere rise out of the ocean, follow a curved trajectory, and fly -away after circling their ship.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 30 (Vallee)
-Location: Aleutian Islands
-ID: 54

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Event 825 -(C090A986)

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Date: 3/1945
-Description: The K-25 gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, -begins production. (Wikipedia, “K-25”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 682

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Event 826 -(5A878998)

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Date: 3/1945
-Description: Ray -Palmer travels to Barto, Pennsylvania, and spends a weekend with Richard -Shaver and his wife. He witnesses Shaver’s channeling trances and -the different voices describing the cavern world that he generates -during his sleep. (Wikipedia, “Richard -Sharpe Shaver”; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, -Loompanics, 1989, pp. 137–144; -Clark III 872, 1069; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, -Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, -McFarland, 2013; David Halperin, “The -Shaver Mystery—Richard -Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria (Part 1),” July 4, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 684

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Event 827 -(65AA4CBA)

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Date: 3/10/1945
-Description: A Japanese Fu-Go balloon strikes a high-tension wire on the -Bonneville Power Administration in Washington State. The balloon causes -sparks and a fireball that results in the power being cut. -Coincidentally, the largest consumer of energy on this power grid is the -Hanford site of the Manhattan Project, which suddenly loses power. The -officer in charge at Hanford, Col. Franklin -Matthias, says “it shut down the plant cold, and it took us about -three days to get it back up to full power again.” (Franklin Matthias, -“Japanese -Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10, -2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 685

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Event 828 -(38273E12)

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Date: 3/12/1945
-Description: Nearly a week after the US Army launches Operation -Lumberjack to cross the Rhine River, the Ho 229 is included in the -Jäger-Notprogramm (Emergency Fighter Program) for accelerated production -of inexpensive “wonder weapons.” The prototype workshop is moved to the -Gothaer Waggonfabrik (Gotha) in Friedrichroda, Germany. In the same -month, work commences on the third prototype, the Ho 229 V3. (Wikipedia, -“Horton -Ho 229”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 686

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Event 829 -(3C15164B)

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Date: 3/17/1945
-Description: Nazis fired eleven V-2 missiles at a bridge, their first -use against a tactical target and the only time they were fired on a -German target during the war
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany

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Event 830 -(8A1CF3D1)

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Date: 3/18/1945
-Description: Night. A 416th NFS crew is flying a Mosquito 25 miles -northwest of Florence, Italy. Suddenly a light is flying alongside them -at 13,000 feet. It doesn’t appear on the radar screen. The pilot turns -the plane toward the light, keeping on its tail, pursuing at 260 mph and -climbing to 16,000 feet. Suddenly the light disappears. (Strange Company -148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 688

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Event 831 -(D6FAA791)

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Date: 3/18/1945
-Description: Grierson writes -to Samuel -V. Boykin that the Air Ministry thinks the fireballs are either -Me-262’s or flak rockets. (Strange Company 147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 687

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Event 832 -(32F05284)

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Date: late 3/1945
-Description: At least two residents of Dresden, Germany, see a round, -flat, silver-colored object without propellors or wings hovering -silently in the air. It suddenly disappears like a “burst soap bubble.” -(“Weltrundschau,” -Weltraumbote, no. 32/22 (July/Aug. 1958): 14–15; Clark III 503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 689

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Event 833 -(31843B1C)

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Date: 3/22/1945
-Description: 1:00 p.m. The USS -New York is off New Guinea preparing to rejoin the Seventh Fleet. -Gunner Cpl. Donald Pratt is preparing for a Japanese attack when he sees -a shiny silver object hovering directly over the battleship. It remains -stationary over the ship for 30 minutes and is tracked on ship radar. -Two antiaircraft guns fire on the object, but it does not move or seem -affected. Capt. Kemp -C. Christian Sr. orders the guns to stop. Immediately the object -shoots up and away at a fantastic rate of speed. (Strange Company -151–152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 690

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Event 834 -(898EDDFE)

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Date: 3/25/1945
-Description: Around 10:30 p.m. Company A of the US 44th Armored Infantry -Battalion is bivouacked on a hill along the Autobahn between Mannheim -and Darmstadt, Germany, when 6–7 circular, glowing, yellow-orange -objects approach at 150 feet, roughly following the road. They are not -in strict formation and seem individually controlled. John G. Norris -recalled that after 5–6 minutes they are hidden by the trees. (Strange -Company 153– 154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 691

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Event 835 -(3116CF58)

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Date: 3/26/1945
-Description: During an air operation, Lieut. Calvin -P. Lamb (pilot), Lieut. James G. Holmes (radar observer), and -Sgt. John W. McIsaac (gunner) notice lights on an airborne object. The -lights follow them through a few turns but move away as the crew orbits -north of Iwo Jima, Japan. They give chase, obtaining a slight target on -the aircraft radar, then the object pulls out of sight. A similar -lighted object is again seen March 28 by Lieut. William -F. Sill (pilot), Flight Officer George W. Hayden (radar observer), -and PFC William Brasvell (gunner). (Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 692

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Event 836 -(A52E606F)

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Date: 3/27/1945
-Description: Final V-2 rockets used during WW2
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Germany

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Event 837 -(77CDFDCC)

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Date: 4/1945
-Description: Ray -Palmer publishes a second story by Richard -Shaver, “Thought -Records of Lemuria,” in the June issue of Amazing Stories. Here it is -revealed that Shaver’s knowledge of the cave world and Lemuria isn’t -really a “racial memory,” as the first story had asserted. Shaver, -working in a factory, heard voices speaking to him, apparently through -his welding gun. (Richard S. Shaver, “Thought -Records of Lemuria,” Amazing Stories 19, no 2 (June 1945): -16–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 694

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Event 838 -(FE84415A)

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Date: 4/1945
-Description: During operations around Okinawa, Japan, the radar crew on -the aircraft carrier USS -Independence frequently notices strange radar returns that move at -slow speeds (30–70 mph). Aircraft and destroyers sent to search for them -never find anything. These radar ghosts are usually detected 25–30 miles -away at an altitude of 1,500 feet, but occasionally 3,500 feet. The -primary diagnostic for these false returns is their speed. The Navy -nicknames them the “ghost of Nansei-shoto” after the Japanese name for -the Ryukyu Islands, of which Okinawa is one. (Strange Company -183–186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 693

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Event 839 -(50D1D762)

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Date: 4/3/1945
-End date: 4/4/1945
-Description: US B-29 bombers over Honshu, Japan, encounter numerous -balls of light tagging along with them. (Strange Company 157–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 695

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Event 840 -(E5A422D9)

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Date: 4/7/1945
-Description: Walter -and Reimar Horten, German designers associated with wingless -aircraft, are arrested by US troops near Göttingen, Germany. (Lance -Cole, Secret Wings of World War II: Nazi Technology and the Allied Arms -Race, Pen & Sword, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 696

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Event 841 -(290E2081)

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Date: 4/10/1945
-Description: As part of the Manhattan Project, 18 people in the US are -injected with plutonium in doses ranging from 95 to 5,900 nanocuries -without their knowledge or consent. The intent is to study how plutonium -is absorbed into the digestive tract. The last experiment is conducted -on July 18, 1947. (Wikipedia, “Unethical -human experimentation -in the United States”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 698

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Event 842 -(85E90A10)

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Date: 4/10/1945
-Description: 11:00 p.m. James L. Hendry sees from his porch in -Jeffersontown, Kentucky, a bright light that seems to be directly above -Fisherville, 3 miles to the east. Its brightness fluctuates and it seems -to be moving directly toward his location, casting a light beam -downward. After 10 minutes, it goes out “like a snuffed candle.” (“A -Meteor?” Louisville Times, April 14, 1945; Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 697

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Event 843 -(67845251)

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Date: 4/12/1945
-End date: 1/20/1953
-Description: President Harry S. Truman in office
-Type: historical event
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 844 -(3D5E70EB)

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Date: 4/12/1945
-Description: Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia. Harry -S. Truman is sworn in as president.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 699

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Event 845 -(85A9ACA7)

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Date: 4/17/1945
-Description: Maj. Gen. James -P. Hodges writes a memorandum to Gen. Henry -H. “Hap” Arnold, saying that infrared devices are now available to -take photographs of “balls of fire” in the Pacific. (Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 700

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Event 846 -(88F76434)

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Date: 4/22/1945
-Description: The USS -Lewis Hancock is northeast of Okinawa, Japan, when the SG radar -picks up an unidentified target at 6 miles heading their way at 70–115 -mph. Its movements are erratic. Two miles out, the ship identifies a -“tight formation of more than fifty birds.” (Strange Company 184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 701

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Event 847 -(EAE416AF)

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Date: 4/24/1945
-Description: The USS -Audubon is headed for Okinawa, Japan, with US Army passengers and -equipment. Radar operators pick up “unidentified aeroplanes” heading -their way. The screens show a blip, alternately fuzzy and strong, some 8 -miles away headed down the starboard side at 25 mph. Still, nothing can -be seen visually, and the radar operator suggests that it is a flock of -birds. (Strange Company 184–186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 702

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Event 848 -(907881E3)

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Date: 4/25/1945
-Description: 9:45 a.m. Acting Squadron Leader Kit Francis Williams of -the RAF 617 Bomber Squadron is flying a Lancaster with 25 other aircraft -to bomb Hitler’s headquarters at Berchtesgaden, Germany, in the Bavarian -Alps. Just after a turn near Kaiserslautern, Germany, at 16,500 feet, -Williams witnesses an object like a large woolly blanket that takes up -his entire windshield. He thinks it could be as much as 4–5 miles wide. -It moves vertically and is gone in an instant. Suddenly his aircraft -loses its electrical power and loses one of its bombs. He and his bomber -and engineer get severe headaches. They return to base in England after -regaining power. (Keith Basterfield, “Observation -by Pilot over Germany, 1945,” Unidentified Aerial -Phenomena—Scientific Research, November 14, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 703

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Event 849 -(90AA72AA)

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Date: 4/26/1945
-Description: Gen. Curtis -LeMay’s XXI Bomber Command’s Air Intelligence staff produces a -5-page report representing the most up-to-date information and theories -on the balls of fire but cannot find a good explanation for them. -(Strange Company 162–163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 704

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Event 850 -(E7174E27)

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Date: 5/1945
-Description: German scientist Viktor -Schauberger, who -has been using inmates from the Mauthausen concentration camp to help -him develop new aircraft and submarine engines, is captured by Allied -forces in Leonstein, Austria. Supposedly his devices and documents, -which allegedly include a prototype flying saucer, are kept under lock -and key. He is released in March 1946 and moves to Linz, Austria, but -the Americans do not confiscate his workshop and laboratory materials, -although they prohibit him from further military experimentation. -(Wikipedia, “Nazi UFOs”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 705

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Event 851 -(57E8663D)

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Date: 5/3/1945
-Description: Early morning. Nine B-24’s with the 11th Bombardment -Group’s 431st Squadron are heading out on a bombing mission against -Japanese air installations on Truk [now Chuuk] Atoll in Micronesia. One -plane over Fala Island sees two objects at their altitude of 11,000 -feet, changing from cherry red to orange then white, then dying out and -turning cherry red again. Both follow the B-24 through all sorts of -evasive actions. (“B-24 -Sights Circles -of Light,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 2 (September 1998): 8; Strange -Company 163–165; NICAP, “May 2, -Truk Atoll Sighting”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 706

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Event 852 -(E72E38AE)

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Date: 5/5/1945
-Description: A pregnant woman, Elsie Mitchell, and five children are -killed when they discover a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb that has landed -in the forest of Gearhart Mountain near Bly in southern Oregon. -(Wikipedia, “Fu-Go balloon -bomb”) May 23 and 25 — Night. In the wake of two B-29 raids on -Tokyo, Japan, both nights, businessman Iomoyo Okado looks up from his -air raid shelter and sees slow-moving “roundish objects, like hot cakes, -about 20 square yards” in diameter, and silent. They are blue or gray in -color. (“‘Flying -Hot Cakes’ over Tokyo in 1945,” St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press, July -12, 1947, p. 6; Clark III 503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 707

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Event 853 -(D4A134AD)

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Date: 6/1/1945
-Description: The Army Air Force approves a Northrop-recommended change -for installing eight jet engines in each of two modified YB-35 -piston-driven flying wings, which are redesignated YB-49s. (Wikipedia, -“Northrop -YB-49”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 711

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Event 854 -(8349ADA8)

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Date: 6/1/1945
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A shiny, tubular object, 5–6 feet long, is -observed over Morganton, North Carolina. It streaks toward the -northwest, blue flame shooting from the rear. After it vanishes in the -mountains near Lake James, witnesses hear an explosion. (Loren E. Gross, -The -Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949, The -author, 1971, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 712

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Event 855 -(08C74303)

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Date: 6/9/1945
-Description: XXI Bomber Command Air Intelligence issues an Air -Intelligence Report on the balls of fire in the Pacific Theatre. The -Truk sighting is attributed to an unknown Japanese experimental -aircraft, though not a jet. (Strange Company 177–180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 713

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Event 856 -(817C7A9F)

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Date: Summer 1945
-Description: Ensign Rolan D. Powell and 5 others, while stationed at US -Naval Air Station in Pasco WA, were scrambled in their F6F Hellcats to -intercept unknown flying craft the size of three aircraft carriers. -These craft where hovering at high altitude above the top-secret -Plutonium production facility in Hanford, WA. Pilots were ordered above -42k feet, well above their rated ceiling, but were unable to reach the -unknown craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Alien Base”, Timothy Good, page 152 (photos)
-Location: Hanford, WA

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Event 857 -(FC1C6BF8)

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Date: summer 1945
-Description: Radioman Robert S. Crawford and 13 other sailors aboard the -US Army Transport Delarof see -a large, dark sphere rise out of the ocean east of Adak in the Aleutian -Islands, Alaska. The UFO, showing darkly against the setting sun, climbs -almost straight up for a few moments, then it arcs into level flight, -and circles the ship two or three times. All the observers are convinced -it is a large object. Crawford estimates the UFO is 150–250 feet in -diameter. The gun crews hold their fire. After several minutes, it -disappears to the south. (NICAP, “Large -Object Emerges -from Sea near the Delarof”; -“The -Question of Submerging UFO’s,” UFO Investigator 4, o. 5 (March -1968): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 710

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Event 858 -(FDE40F31)

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Date: summer 1945
-Description: After 5:00 p.m. Future ufologist Ann -Druffel is on a bus returning from her summer job in Long Beach, -California, when she sees out of the left-hand window a bright, -stationary, yellowish-white light in the northeastern sky. It looks like -Venus but has a yellow color. She gets off the bus and still watches it, -walking home. Soon she sees it is moving slowly to the northwest. She -gets her mother to view it as well. Druffel thinks it is too high to be -a coastal defense balloon. Druffel watches it for 90 minutes, after -which it takes on some “activity.” Some 10–15 pieces of light begin -separating from it, fading from view after moving several diameters away -from the large object. (Ann Druffel, “UFO Sightings by UFO Researchers: -The ‘Inaccessible Cases,’” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 139 (September 1979), -pp. 14–15; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR -29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 708

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Event 859 -(33625248)

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Date: summer 1945
-Description: Future ufologist Illobrand -von Ludwiger sees an object like a black plate, whose diameter is -one-eighth that of the Moon, flying against the wind below the clouds, -in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO -Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 709

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Event 860 -(5C4CFC09)

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Date: 6/26/1945
-Description: United Nations charter signed, goes into full force on -10/24/1945
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: New York City

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Event 861 -(356ED63D)

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Date: 7/1945
-Description: When several balloon-shaped objects appear above Selfridge -Field [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base] near Mount Clemens, -Michigan, the base commander asks for a volunteer to attack them as -possible Japanese balloon bombs. Jean Kisling, serving with a Free -French Air Force detachment as an instructor on P-47 Thunderbolts, -accepts the challenge. He chases one “well beyond the service ceiling of -the P-47D” and opens fire with 8 machine guns. The object shoots away -sideways on edge, leaving a contrail. (Good Need, p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 716

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Event 862 -(3722C11A)

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Date: 7/1945
-Description: In northern Okinawa, Japan, on a bluff looking toward the -South China Sea, Artillery Capt. William -A. Mandel sees a cigar-shaped object with a lighted tail moving at -eye level at about 200 –300 mph at an elevation of no more than 400 -feet. He estimates its length at 30–40 feet and its diameter at 6–8 -feet. (Project 1947, “UFO Reports, -1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 715

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Event 863 -(D8A9AC83)

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Date: 7/1945
-Description: The 9th Bombardment Group on Tinian in the Northern -Marianas: “During our night missions in June and July a UFO phenomenon -was reported. Our air crews started sighting balls of fire, i.e., -glowing objects about the size of a full moon which flew around in the -vicinity of our flying patterns over Japan. One of our crews reported -that one of the objects followed their airplane halfway to Iwo Jima. I -saw them on two missions. I don’t remember any reports of any hostile -action by these objects and the reports of sightings stopped after a -couple of months. The object of these reports was dismissed by some -experts as the planet Venus. And, after these reports started coming in, -some crews did mistake the rising full moon as one of these balls of -fire. Some reports speculated that these balls of fire were exhausts -from a Japanese development called a Baka Bomb, but exhaust flames can -only be seen from the rear; and these objects appeared to have the same -size and intensity in whatever direction they were traveling. I have -never heard of any official assessment as to what these objects were. I -had an occasion to ask General LeMay about -them several years after the war and he had no explanation. I am sure -that what I saw was neither Venus nor the moon nor a Baka Bomb.” -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 24; Henry C. Huglin, -“Group -Commander’s Reminiscences,” in Lawrence S. Smith, et al., History of -the 9th Bombardment Group (VH), 9th Bomb Group Association, 1995, -pp. 27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 714

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Event 864 -(82B489DF)

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Date: 7/1/1945
-Description: The Air Technical Service Command is moved into T-2 -Intelligence. (Wikipedia, “Air -Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 717

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Event 865 -(04EF19EF)

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Date: mid 7/1945
-Description: Noon. Pilot Rolan D. Powell and five other F6F Hellcat -pilots at Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington, are scrambled after radar -reports a fast-moving object over the nearby Hanford facility. They see -a bright object with a saucer-like appearance at. It is the size of -three aircraft carriers, side-by side, oval shaped, very streamlined -like a stretched-out egg and, and pinkish in color. It hovers in a fixed -position at 65,000 feet and then goes straight up and disappears. -(NICAP, “Huge -Saucer over Nuclear Reactor—Radar/Visual”; Strange Company 188; -Patrick Gross, “Alleged -UFO Intercept Attempt at Hanford Nuclear Plant, July 1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 719

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Event 866 -(1BFB9BC0)

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Date: 7/16/1945
-Description: The first detonation of a nuclear weapon (an -implosion-style plutonium-based bomb) takes place at the Trinity site on -what is now the White Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico. -At this time, the bomb’s price tag, adjusted for inflation, is $28 -billion. (Wikipedia, “Trinity -(nuclear test)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 718

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Event 867 -(8C5D5995)

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Date: 7/16/1945
-Description: First atomic bomb test “Trinity”, 35 miles (56 km) -southeast of Socorro, NM (now part of the White Sands Missile -Range)
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 18.6

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Event 868 -(969F94D5)

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Date: 7/20/1945
-Description: The Joint Chiefs of Staff establish Operation Overcast, a -forerunner to Project Paperclip, a secret recruitment program to aid in -postwar military research. The Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency is -established to conduct the operation. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Paperclip”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 720

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Event 869 -(37564341)

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Date: 7/24/1945
-Description: President Truman discloses -to Soviet leader Joseph -Stalin that the United States has atomic weapons. Stalin feigns -little surprise, since he already knows this through espionage. (Gene -Dannen, “Truman -Tells Stalin, July 24, -1945”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 721

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Event 870 -(10BDB896)

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Date: 8/1945
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Ilona Johansson-Paasonen, staying in a sauna -along lake Längelmävesi, Finland, wakes up and sees a 35-foot dazzling -ball of fire streaking in her direction along the opposite shore. She -throws herself to the floor, but when nothing happens she looks outside -and sees a big dog, frozen in terror, its gaze fixed on the lake and a -dark log-like object, 6 feet long, gliding through the water with a -tall, slender man at the prow. He is dressed in a green coverall. On the -other side another man sits steering an engine enclosed within a big -glass bulb. (Ilona Johansson- Paasonen, “Humanoideja -Längelmävedellä?” Vimana 1970, no. 3/4, pp. 22–24; Ilona -Johansson-Paasonen, “Humanoids -at Längelmävesi,” FSR Case Histories 13 (February 1973): 3–4; Clark -III 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 723

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Event 871 -(9EE3A036)

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Date: 8/1945
-Description: The Army Signal Security Agency persuades ITT, RCA, and -Western Union to continue the wartime cable intercept program, both -foreign and domestic, now called Project SHAMROCK. No courts, no -warrants. It remains secret from Congress and the President. (Wikipedia, -“Project -SHAMROCK”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 722

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Event 872 -(2C28B58E)

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Date: 8/6/1945
-Description: 8:15 a.m. An atomic bomb (a fission weapon containing 64 -kilograms of Uranium-235, Little Boy) is detonated 1,900 feet above -Hiroshima, Japan, by the Enola -Gay. The weapon is considered very inefficient, with only 1.7% of -its material fissioning, but it is enough to obliterate the city. Some -78,000 people die instantly or immediately afterward in the firestorm. -By the end of the year, another 25,000 will also sicken and die from -radiation exposure. (Wikipedia, “Atomic -bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 724

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Event 873 -(E16B69BF)

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Date: 8/6/1945
-Description: First atomic bomb attack at Hiroshima, Japan. 20,000 -soldiers killed, 70,000–126,000 civilians killed.
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Hiroshima, Japan
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 16

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Event 874 -(ED1AE50C)

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Date: 8/7/1945
-Description: During a press conference with the Seattle Times, Col. Franklin -Matthias, officer in charge at the Hanford Engineer Works in -Washington, admits the plant has had problems with aerial intrusions, -but that radar has been installed and an arrangement made with the Navy -to intercept any unidentified aircraft. (Project 1947, “UFOs -over Hanford: -Commander R. W. Hendershot”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 725

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Event 875 -(70F8AA0D)

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Date: 8/9/1945
-Description: 11:01 a.m. Another atomic bomb (an implosion-type plutonium -weapon, Fat Man) is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by Bockscar. Although -the bomb is more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima, its effects -are confined by hillsides to the narrow Urakami Valley. At least -35,000–40,000 people are killed, and 60,000 others are injured. -(Wikipedia, “Atomic -bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 726

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Event 876 -(25C19C0D)

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Date: 8/9/1945
-Description: Second atomic bomb attack at Nagasaki, Japan. 39,000–80,000 -killed, At least 150 soldiers killed.
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Nagasaki, Japan
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 21

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Event 877 -(D8474017)

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Date: 8/10/1945
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Pianist Doris La Fountain is driving home along -Market Street after finishing a concert at a night club in East Paterson -[now Elmwood Park], New Jersey. She is accompanied by music store -proprietor Thomas Brino and -James Shaw of Clifton, New Jersey. For about 5 minutes they watch a -brilliant red and green rectangular object maneuver at ground level -about 70 feet away. It shoots off into the sky and disappears. (“Seeing -Saucer Sweet Music to a Pianist,” New York Daily News, September 8, -1957, Passaic-Bergen Sec., p. 22; Lore and Deneault, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 727

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Event 878 -(621CC3CC)

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Date: 8/16/1945
-Description: “Trinity” Crash Retrieval near San Antonio, NM
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: link
-Location: San Antonio, NM

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Event 879 -(8DF3974B)

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Date: 8/16/1945
-Description: A UFO allegedly crashes near San Antonio, New Mexico, and -is discovered by Jose Padilla, 9, and Remigio Baca, 7, when they are -looking for a cow. The crashed saucer has created a gouge, and they can -see entities moving around inside. They collect two shiny metal parts -from the periphery of the crash site. A recent analysis shows that the -metal is of terrestrial origin. (Paola Leopizzi Harris, “The -Reme Baca and Jose Padilla Witness Case,” -The UFO Chronicles, November 30, 2010; John Greenewald, “Analysis -of Two Metallic Parts Purportedly from -a Crashed Unidentified Aerial Object (San Antonio, New Mexico, August -16, 1945),” The Black Vault, February 1, 2017; Jacques Vallee and -Paola Leopizzi Harris, Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret, StarWorksUSA, -2021; Kevin D. Randle, “Trinity: -The Best Kept Secret—A -Critique,” A Different Perspective, June 2, 2021; Jacques Vallée, -“The -Other Lessons of Trinity,” Trinity blog, December 6, 2021; Kevin D. -Randle, “Jacques Vallée -and Ten Unexplained UFO Cases and Metallic Debris,” A Different -Perspective, December 16, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 728

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Event 880 -(D025A3DA)

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Date: 8/21/1945
-Description: Manhattan Project physicist Harry -Daghlian is conducting an after-hours experiment at the remote Omega -Site of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico when his hand slips. The -test assembly he has built—a ball of plutonium surrounded by tungsten -carbide bricks—goes critical. He sees a momentary blue flash and is -struck by a wave of gamma and neutron radiation amounting to more than -500 rem. He disassembles the experiment, walks away, and admits himself -to medical care. He falls into a coma and dies on September 15, the -first person to die accidentally from close exposure to nuclear fission. -(Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, -pp. 30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 729

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Event 881 -(44F46E41)

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Date: 8/22/1945
-Description: Stalin appoints Lavrentiy Beria to direct Soviet atomic -bomb effort
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Moscow, Russia

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Event 882 -(2AB930B6)

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Date: 8/28/1945
-Description: Twelve 5th Air Force intelligence specialists flying on a -C-46 approaching Iwo Jima (in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan) see three -white, teardrop-shaped objects paralleling the plane. Navigational -needles go wild, the engine sputters, and the plane falters until the -objects speed away. One of the passengers is future UFO investigator Leonard -Stringfield. (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, -pp. 9–10; Strange Company 191–193, 209–211; NICAP, “C-46 -Encounters Objects / Magnetic Compasses ‘West Wild’”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 730

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Event 883 -(0DC43191)

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Date: 9/1945
-Description: Policy adviser Ferdinand -Eberstadt writes for Secretary of the Navy James -Forrestal a report recommending a complete realignment of national -security organizations. (Wikipedia, “Eberstadt -Report”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 733

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Event 884 -(87AADDD4)

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Date: 9/1945
-Description: The US Army atomic bomb production unit, Z Division, named -for its director, Jerrold -R. Zacharias from Los Alamos, New Mexico, moves to Oxnard Field, New -Mexico, from Wendover Field [now Airport], Utah, to be closer to Los -Alamos. This marks the beginning of Sandia Base [now part of Kirtland -AFB]. Nearby Kirtland Field is used as a B-29 base for aircraft -compatibility and drop tests. By October, all the staff and facilities -at Wendover are transferred to Sandia. As reservist officers are -demobilized, they are replaced by about 50 hand- picked regular -officers. (Wikipedia, “Manhattan -Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 732

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Event 885 -(BFF85C1A)

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Date: 9/1945
-Description: The first group of seven German rocket scientists arrive at -Fort Strong in Boston harbor, Massachusetts, through Operation Overcast: -Wernher -von Braun, Erich -W. Neubert, Theodor A. Poppel, August Schultze, Eberhard -Rees, Wilhelm -Jungert, and Walter Schwidetzky. By the end of the year, they and two -other groups are moved to Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands, New -Mexico, as “War Department Special Employees.” (Wikipedia, “Operation -Paperclip”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 731

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Event 886 -(514F37D2)

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Date: 9/2/1945
-Description: End of WW2
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 887 -(3C63D6B1)

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Date: 9/20/1945
-Description: The OSS is dissolved by Executive Order, effective October -1, scattering personnel through the Departments of State and War. The -Research and Analysis Branch is transferred to the State Department. The -War Department takes over Secret Intelligence (SI) and Counter Espionage -(X2), which are rolled up into the Strategic Services Unit (SSU) headed -by Brig. Gen. John -Magruder, the former OSS Deputy Director of Intelligence who -oversees the OSS liquidation. Most of the other personnel are cashiered. -(Wikipedia, “Office -of Strategic -Services”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 734

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Event 888 -(4C4DAE5F)

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Date: 9/26/1945 (approximate)
-Description: Night. Machinist Mate First Class George M. Reynolds, -attached to the submarine tender USS -Beaver with Submarine Squadron 45, anchored in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, -Japan. He is on the main deck when he sees a bluish light move to the -south, turn right, go over to the west, stop, and stand still. When it -moves again, it goes back to the general area it started from. (Strange -Company 195–196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 735

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Event 889 -(609683B4)

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Date: 10/1945
-Description: The temporary successor to the OSS, the Strategic Services -Unit (SSU), begins
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Langley, VA

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Event 890 -(FB03FFA2)

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Date: 10/1945
-Description: 8:00 p.m. While driving a car between Bryan and Stryker, -Ohio, Gerald -M. Kryling and his wife Thelma approach a bright light about 50 feet -in the air and 20 feet from the road near some high-tension wires. It -appears to be a 35-foot oval object with an amber-colored opening like a -window that has shadows moving around inside. It takes off horizontally -at great speed and then moves straight up. (CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 736

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Event 891 -(539336C1)

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Date: 10/2/1945
-Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch -test
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
-Rocket type: V-2

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Event 892 -(6F602428)

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Date: 10/9/1945
-Description: Brig. Gen. George -C. McDonald, AAF director of intelligence, writes to Maj. Gen. Elwood -Richard Quesada in -answer to a request for the investigation into wartime “balls of fire.” -Exhaustive investigations of German technical personnel and US and UK -sources reveal no confirmation of German involvement with the phenomena. -(Macdonald–Quesada -correspondence, October -1945)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 737

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Event 893 -(A1F9EE1C)

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Date: 10/15/1945
-Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch -test
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
-Rocket type: V-2

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Event 894 -(3A5E95A6)

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Date: 10/24/1945
-Description: United Nations charter in full force
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: New York City, New York

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Event 895 -(F7AE85BB)

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Date: 11/1945
-Description: Operation Overcast is renamed Project Paperclip. -(Wikipedia, “Operation -Paperclip”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 738

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Event 896 -(A8DF4E3F)

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Date: 12/1945
-Description: Lt. Col. Jo Chamberlin’s article on foo fighters appears in -American Legion Magazine. Intelligence officers have ordered him not to -state his military rank or position, but he is a special aide to Gen. Henry -H. “Hap” Arnold. (Jo -Chamberlin, “The -Foo Fighter Mystery,” American Legion Magazine 39, no. 6 (December -1945): 9, 43–47; “Foo -Fighter Archive Donated to UHR,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17 -(December 2015): 2–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 739

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Event 897 -(0E187E3F)

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Date: 12/5/1945
-Description: A training flight (Flight 19) of five TBM Avenger torpedo -bombers disappears while over the Atlantic Ocean. The squadron’s flight -plan is scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, -for 141 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 140-mile -leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returns to base. A report -by Navy investigators concludes that flight leader Lt. Charles -C. Taylor mistook small islands offshore for the Florida Keys after -his compasses stopped working, resulting in the flight heading over open -sea and away from land. The report is later amended by the Navy to read -“cause unknown” to avoid blaming Taylor for the loss of five aircraft -and 14 men. One of the search-and-rescue aircraft deployed to look for -them, a PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappears. The report -attributes the loss of the PBM aircraft to an explosion in midair while -searching for the flight. According to contemporaneous sources, the -Mariner has a history of explosions due to vapor leaks when heavily -loaded with fuel, as it might have been for a potentially long -search-and-rescue operation. A tanker off the coast of Florida sees an -explosion and a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for -survivors. The weather is becoming stormy by the end of the incident. -None of the Avenger bombers have been found. (Wikipedia, “Flight -19”; Larry Kusche, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery— Solved, Harper -& Row, 1975, pp. 97–122; -Larry Kusche, The -Disappearance of Flight 19, Harper -& Row, 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 740

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- Event 898 (E49B678A)

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Date: 1946
-End date: 1951
-Description: Between 1946–1951 the Army fires 67 V-2 rockets from the -White Sands V-2 Launching Sight, Launch Complex 33
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

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Event 899 -(1ECDD46B)

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Date: 1946
-Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-44” atomic bomb project plant opened -(Uranium enrichment)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 900 -(1B774BFF)

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Date: 1946
-Description: Soviet “Arzamas-16” atomic bomb project plant opened - the -Soviet “Los Alamos” (Weapons design and research, warhead -assembly)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 901 -(EA5F9030)

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Date: 1946
-Description: Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fourth Antarctic expedition -(Operation High Jump). Involved 4,700 men, 13 ships (including the -aircraft carrier Philippine Sea), and 25 aircraft. It was the largest -Antarctic expedition ever attempted and would map and photograph almost -1,400,000 square km of the Antarctic continent, especially the -coastline. Byrd made his second flight over the South Pole and was -involved in a number of other flights. In 1948 the U.S. Navy produced a -documentary about the operation. It was called The Secret Land and won -an Academy Award for best documentary.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Antarctica

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Event 902 -(F2FF6205)

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Date: 1946
-Description: Dancers on the roof of a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, -watch the rapid passage of four square-shaped lights, reddish in color -and aligned side by side, moving from the east and disappearing in the -west in less than 60 seconds. One witness, meteorologist and RAF pilot -George Raymond Leatherbarrow, estimates their altitude at 50,000 feet -based on reflections on cirrus clouds. (G. R. Leatherbarrow, “Two -Early UFO Cases from the Middle East,” -Awareness 5, no. 3 (Autumn 1976): 4–5; Clark III 1177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 742

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Event 903 -(4644F2C5)

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Date: 1946
-Description: A farmer named Gunyon in Westerham, Kent, England, calls -the British Technical Intelligence staff asking that the Air Ministry -come and remove one of these “darned contraptions” which has fallen on -his farm. The intelligence officers ask for directions and are told to -drive from Croydon to Westerham, turning onto a lane when they reach a -pub called The White Dog. Amid great security, two staff cars are -dispatched, but fail to find the farm. They locate a pub called The -White Hart and a farmer named Bunyan, who strenuously denies having made -the call. Although the incident appears to be a hoax, few people can -reach the Technical Intelligence staff and convince them to make a field -visit. Indeed, the intelligence officers believe that former Air -Intelligence scientist Reginald -Victor Jones, who has been skeptical of foo fighters and ghost -rockets, is behind the affair. Jones writes that a signal is received -from Gen. Douglas -MacArthur’s staff in Tokyo, asking for confirmation of a report that -a Russian flying bomb had recently crashed in England. The other -Director of Intelligence on the Air Staff, Air Commodore Roland Eugene -Vintras, suggests to Jones that this might tie in with the “Westerham -Incident.” (R. V. Jones, Most Secret War, Hamish Hamilton, 1978, pp. 507–513; -“UFO -Britannia: Part 2—World War Foo and Post -War Cover Ups,” Above Top Secret forum, December 19, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 744

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Event 904 -(05090297)

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Date: 1946
-Description: American astrophysicist Charles -Greeley Abbot writes that he thinks Earth might make contact with -Venusians, coming into “fluent communication by wireless with a race -brought up completely separate, having their own systems of government, -social usages, religions, and surrounded by vegetation and animals -entirely unrelated to any here on earth.” (Charles Greeley Abbot, The -Earth and the Stars, Van Nostrand, 1946, p. 110; -Roger D. Launius, “Venus-Earth-Mars: -Comparative Climatology and the Search for Life in the Solar -System,” Life 2, no. 3 (2012): 255–273)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 743

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Event 905 -(EC52BC75)

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Date: 1946
-Description: The US nuclear stockpile consists of 9 atomic bombs. (Ryan -Crierie, “U.S. -Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 741

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Event 906 -(C9F8F9F5)

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Date: 1946
-Description: Ghost Rockets seen in Scandinavia
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Scandinavia

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Event 907 -(7F3C4264)

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Date: 1/10/1946
-Description: Public announcements of radar signals bounced off -Moon
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Medium
-Location: New Jersey

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Event 908 -(104145DB)

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Date: 1/10/1946
-Description: The Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, issues a -restricted-access document, German Flying Wings Designed by Horten -Brothers by Capt. N. LeBlanc, detailing the drawings, photos, models, -and documents relating to aircraft designed by Nazi aircraft designers -the Horten -brothers that were recovered in Germany by Allied forces. (N. -LeBlanc, German Flying Wings Designed by Horten Brothers, Air Material -Command, Technical Intelligence summary report no, F-SU-1110-ND, January -10, 1946; H. P. Dabrowski, The Horten Flying Wing in World War II: The -History and Development of the Ho 229, Schiffer, 1991; Kevin D. Randle -and Donald R. Schmitt, “Roswell and the Flying Wing,” IUR 18, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1993): 3; John Powell, “The -Horten Flying -Wings,” War Bird Forum, July 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 745

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Event 909 -(22149146)

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Date: 1/18/1946
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A US C-54 transport plane is at 7,000 feet over -the French countryside on its way to Paris, France. Suddenly the pilot -sees a brilliant “shooting star” about 35° above the horizon. It streaks -down below the eastern horizon, then reappears and moves in a hyperbola -before falling again. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: -1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 746

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Event 910 -(3EA4849C)

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Date: 1/22/1946
-Description: President Truman creates -a National Intelligence Authority (State, War, Navy, Chief of Staff, and -a presidential representative with the DCI as a non-voting member) for -policy and coordination and a Central Intelligence Group for operations -under it. Rear Adm. Sidney -Souers heads the CIG as Director of Central Intelligence. -(Wikipedia, “National -Intelligence Authority”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 747

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Event 911 -(6ADEDC6C)

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Date: 2/21/1946
-Description: 8:30 p.m. One or more meteors are seen in west Finland and -the counties of Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Kopparberg [now Dalarna], -Gävleborg, Uppsala, Östergötland, and Skaraborg [now Västra Götaland] in -Sweden. It supposedly sets a farmhouse on fire in Vaasa province, -Finland. It leaves a long trail of smoke in the sky. (Archives for the -Unexplained, “Case -XXX: The Meteor That Did Not Start a Fire”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 748

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Event 912 -(5AFB0C98)

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Date: 2/26/1946
-Description: Ghost Rocket reports in Scandinavia, Sweden/Finland
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Scandinavia

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Event 913 -(838B441F)

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Date: 3/1946
-Description: The Air Technical Service Command becomes the Air Materiel -Command. (Wikipedia, “Air -Materiel Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 749

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Event 914 -(AC8C91C6)

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Date: 3/5/1946
-Description: 6:00 p.m. João Prestes is returning on foot from a fishery -on the banks of the Tietê River to his sister’s home in Araçariguama, -São Paulo, Brazil. As he is entering the house, a light from outside -strikes and envelopes him. He becomes dizzy and confused but manages to -get up and go inside. He summons Araci Gomide, a nurse who has served in -the military with him. Gomide describes his friend as being literally -cooked, with his flesh detaching from his bones, injuries on his feet -and ankles, and his feet clenched like the claws of a bird. His arms are -burned and the flesh on his fingers is falling off. His chest, neck, and -face also seem to be burned but not charred or red. Prestes dies on the -way to a hospital in Santana di Parnaíba at 3:00 a.m. (Clark III -166–167; Brazil 17–21; Pablo Villarubia Mauso, “The -Incredible Saga of João Prestes,” UFO Casebook)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 750

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Event 915 -(4EE43232)

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Date: 3/6/1946
-Description: The Western Defense Command is deactivated. (Wikipedia, “Western -Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 751

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Event 916 -(1300D3AB)

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Date: 3/6/1946
-Description: The Western Defense Command, activated on 3/17/1941, is -deactivated
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Pacific Coast Region, US

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Event 917 -(9C465FB7)

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Date: 3/14/1946
-Description: Dusk. Paul Cummings Jr. is driving east on US Highway 136 -about 10 miles east of Havana, Illinois, with Douglas Gowdy. A bright -orange ball appears in the road about 1 mile ahead, gliding down the -highway only one foot above the pavement and possibly touching both -shoulders of the road. When it is within 2,000 feet, Cummings pulls the -car over and stops, and they rush out to lie down in a ditch, fearing an -explosion. When they look up again, the object is nowhere in sight. -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 752

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Event 918 -(E069C90B)

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Date: 3/15/1946
-Description: First static test fire of V-2 missile at White Sands Pad -33
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

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Event 919 -(430C8DDC)

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Date: 4/1946
-Alternate date: 5/1946
-Description: Around 12:00 noon. Richard R. Hill and Stanley Ogdrzyiak -are driving in an open convertible on the Country Club Road near -Lafayette, New York. Suddenly they see a gleaming, metallic, -cigar-shaped object in the sky. It remains motionless at 5,000–10,000 -feet altitude, which at that height would make it 300–400 feet long. -After 2 minutes, it disappears instantaneously. (“Case -84,” CRIFO Newsletter 2, no. 3 (June 3, 1955): 4; Clark III -1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 755

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Event 920 -(9168F839)

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Date: 4/2/1946
-Description: The Strategic Services Unit is transferred to the new -Central Intelligence Group and becomes the Office of Special Operations. -(Wikipedia, “Strategic -Services Unit”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 753

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Event 921 -(EE0E97DA)

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Date: 4/16/1946
-Description: First V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, reaching -5.5km altitude (radio cut off after launch, fin 4 failed prior to -cutoff)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 5.5km

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Event 922 -(E406C651)

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Date: 4/20/1946
-Description: League of Nations dissolved, succeeded by the United -Nations (UN)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 923 -(CB4D1E1D)

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Date: 4/25/1946
-Description: While ice fishing at Anima Nipissing Lake, Ontario, Don -Cameron and his family watch 12–14 small disc- shaped objects descend at -a 45° angle about 75 feet away. They come spinning down on the ice, rise -2 feet into the air, then come down again. Cameron walks toward them, -and they ascend and shoot away at the same angle and direction. They -find black marks on the snow and ice. (Clark III 1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 754

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Event 924 -(A640F40E)

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Date: 5/1946
-End date: 12/1946
-Description: 2,000 Ghost Rocket sightings in Sweden/Finland
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Scandinavia

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Event 925 -(63A76D93)

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Date: 5/1946
-Description: Day. Navy Lieutenant Andrew A. Titcomb is on leave and -picking oranges at his wife’s family home at La Grange, north of -Titusville, Florida, when he hears a whistling noise and sees a dark -“flying football” directly overhead at about 1,000 feet elevation moving -at 125 mph. It appears 15–20 feet in diameter and flies in an arc to the -southeast. It disappears in a cloudbank. (UFOEv, p. 6; -Clark III 1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 756

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Event 926 -(EBEFB9A4)

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Date: 5/10/1946
-Description: First nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, -112.6km altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 112.6km

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Event 927 -(BDFBC957)

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Date: 5/13/1946
-Description: Plans for a new test site for the first Soviet ballistic -missiles and atomic bombs at Kapustin Yar test site
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Astrakhan Oblast

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Event 928 -(4665897A)

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Date: 5/13/1946
-Description: A rocket is seen traveling over Helsinki, Finland, in a -southwesterly direction at 1,000 feet. It supposedly moves at supersonic -speed, emitting a magnesium-like light and a trail of smoke. (Jan L. -Aldrich, comp., The Ghost -Rocket File, Fund -for UFO Research, 2000, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 758

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Event 929 -(67E638A0)

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Date: 5/13/1946
-Description: The Soviets establish a rocket center called NII-88 [now -TsNIIMash] at Kaliningrad [now Korolyov], Russia, northeast of Moscow. -Missile designer Sergei -Korolev is appointed chief designer of Section 3 on long-range -missiles. Stalin declares Korolev’s name a secret, which it remains -until his death in 1966. Russia keeps dozens of its captured German -scientists here, working on special projects until 1955. (Wikipedia, “TsNIIMash”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 757

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Event 930 -(7851DF33)

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Date: 5/18/1946
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Gösta -Carlsson, later -to become founder and owner of Cernelle AB, is walking in the forested -area of Kronoskagen near Ängelholm, Sweden, when he sees a disc-shaped -machine more than 50 feet in diameter. On the top is a cupola with oval -windows, and beneath it are an oblong “fan,” two legs, a small ladder, -and openings. A man dressed in a white, one-piece outfit gestures to -Carlsson to stop. Two other occupants, three of them women, all wearing -suits and transparent helmets, are nearby. One of the males points a -boxlike device at the witness, who leaves the scene but returns by a -different route 30 minutes later, just in time to see the UFO depart. A -concrete model of the UFO is dedicated in 1963 as a memorial. -(Wikipedia, “UFO-Memorial -Ängelholm”; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “The -Ängelholm Landing Report,” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1972): 15– 17; Anders Liljegren, “High-Quality -Investigation of 1946 CEIII Case,” AFU Newsletter, no. 38 (March -1995): 2–3; Clark III 528–529; Clas Svahn, “Gösta -Carlssons möte,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, July 10, 2018; -Håkan Blomqvist, “UFO-Sweden -Memories: Ängelholm 1996,” Håkan Blomqvist’s Blog, July 1, 2020; -Clas Svahn and Gösta Carlsson, Mötet i gläntan: Sveriges mest kända -närkontakt med UFO, 3rd ed., Parthenon, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 759

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Event 931 -(FD6F7971)

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Date: 5/21/1946
-Description: Two motorists report an elongated craft resembling a rocket -or Zeppelin over Stora Mellösa, Sweden. One of the witnesses sees two -short wings, although the other cannot see any despite watching the -object for 5 minutes. (Swords 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 760

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Event 932 -(8965D839)

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Date: 5/24/1946
-Description: 2:20 a.m. Witnesses in Landskrona, Sweden, see a wingless, -cigar-shaped object, spurting sparks from its tail. About 300 feet above -the ground, it is moving at airplane speed toward the southwest. (Loren -E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: -1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1; Göran Jansson, -“Spökraketerna -1947,” January 2005, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 761

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Event 933 -(453D1858)

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Date: 5/28/1946
-Description: The Aftonbladet newspaper in Stockholm, Sweden, is the -first to use the term “Spökraket” (ghost rocket) in a headline. (Swords -12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 762

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Event 934 -(C394C6B0)

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Date: 5/29/1946
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.1km -altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 112.6km

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Event 935 -(08A128AE)

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Date: 5/31/1946
-Description: 11:43 a.m. A huge, metallic, wingless cigar moves rapidly -at 1,000 feet altitude over Katrineholm, Sweden. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -pp. 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 763

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Event 936 -(05A520CC)

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Date: 6/6/1946
-Description: The Joint Research and Development Board is created by the -Secretaries of War and the Navy to coordinate research efforts. (Joint -Research and Development Board, Organization -Authority Record, June 6, 1946)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 766

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Event 937 -(AAD9026A)

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Date: 6/9/1946
-Description: Night. An enormous light drops earthward over Sala, Sweden, -leaving a long, fiery trail. An explosion is heard. Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 767

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Event 938 -(F61BEC14)

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Date: 6/9/1946
-Description: 10:17 p.m. A rocket-like light passes over Helsinki, -Finland, at 10,000 feet leaving a smoke trail and making a distant -rumble. A luminous afterglow lasts 10 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 768

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Event 939 -(B078EFC7)

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Date: 6/10/1946
-Description: Lieut. Gen. Hoyt -Vandenberg replaces Souers as -director of the CIG. He expands it and wins the right to collect -intelligence in Latin America. (CIA Historical Staff, Chronology -1946–65, vol. 1, -1946–1955, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 769

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Event 940 -(40652E6B)

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Date: 6/12/1946
-Description: The Swedish Defense staff secretly orders reports of -unknown rockets to be collected by military and civilian defense units -in Sweden. (Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs -1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 770

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Event 941 -(88950FAD)

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Date: 6/13/1946
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 117.2km -altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 117.2km

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Event 942 -(77BEBB50)

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Date: 6/18/1946
-Description: A first-strike scenario, the Pincher war plan, is created -by the US military to strike Moscow and the Caucasus with 50 nuclear -weapons if the Soviets invade the Middle East. It is never officially -approved, but the Joint Chiefs agree to use it for planning purposes. -(Phillip S. Meilinger, “The -Early War Plans,” Air Force Magazine, December 1, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 771

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Event 943 -(1EA1C416)

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Date: summer 1946
-Description: Day. Eleanor Hancock is in Colorado Springs, Colorado, -looking southwest toward Cheyenne Mountain when two shining silver -objects appear, moving rapidly in tandem from east to west toward the -escarpment. Just before they reach the mountain, they turn sharply -upward, still in formation, and disappear. (Clark III 1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 765

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Event 944 -(B3F539B3)

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Date: summer 1946
-Description: Late evening. Two women on a walk in Johannesburg, South -Africa, see an aerial object hovering 5 feet above the roof of a nearby -hotel. It is shaped like a saucer with a round, golden ball in the -center, evenly split between the top and bottom sections. They hear a -clicking noise, and the ball drops through the saucer until it is level -with the roof. More clicks are heard, and the ball rises through and -above the saucer 8–9 feet. In the space between the ball and the disc -the witnesses see two figures larger than normal height (7 feet), -fair-complexioned and broad-shouldered, with short wavy hair. They are -wearing white uniforms with stiff collars and stand motionless until the -object floats away and is lost to view. (John Judge, “Near-Landing -in 1946 in Johannesburg,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 (March -1979): 14–16; Clark III 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 764

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Event 945 -(89960A39)

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Date: 6/25/1946
-Description: A four-engine Northrop XB-35 flying wing bomber makes its -first test flight from Jack Northrop Field [now Hawthorne Municipal -Airport] to Muroc Army Air Field [now Edwards AFB] in California. -(Wikipedia, “Northrop -YB-35”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 772

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Event 946 -(19DC9EFA)

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Date: 6/26/1946
-Description: The commander of the military district in Morjärv, Sweden, -issues instructions on how to report incidents with “certain kind of -light phenomena’ that might be associated with “tests made by foreign -powers with guided weapons.” (Swords 12).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 773

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Event 947 -(762E3E33)

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Date: 6/28/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 107.8km altitude -(nose separation failure)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 107.8km

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Event 948 -(2981C991)

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Date: 7/1946
-Description: Amazing Stories publishes four short articles in its -September 1945 issue by William C. Hefferlin, each describing a -wonderful new invention that has come to the author, according to editor -Ray -Palmer, “from -Tibet by mental telepathy.” One of the inventions is a “circle-winged -airplane.” In later issues, Hefferlin and his wife Gladys go on to -describe the Rainbow City, an underground Martian city beneath -Antarctica where the flying saucers originate. (“A -Description of Rainbow City from the Hefferlin Manuscript (Hollow -Earth)”; Walter Kafton- Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, -1989, pp. 160–167; -Clark III 610)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 774

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Event 949 -(3A3B0679)

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Date: 7/1946
-Description: Day. A long, silver-colored cigar appears suddenly out of -the haze over Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts, moves noiselessly -over the water, then disappears suddenly. (Lore and Deneault, p. 148; -Clark III 1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 775

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Event 950 -(AEF117AF)

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Date: 7/1946
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Hans Sorensen is cycling near Viskinge, Denmark, -when he sees three discs flying silently overhead. The underside is -uneven and dull gray, but they are like “polished mirrors” on top. -(Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: -1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 776

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Event 951 -(0E3A65C5)

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Date: 7/1/1946
-Description: Able nuclear test, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. -Radio-controlled autopilots are installed in eight B-17 bombers, -converting them into remote-controlled drones that are then loaded with -automatic cameras, radiation detectors, and air sample collectors. Their -pilots operate them from mother planes at a safe distance from the -detonation. The drones can fly into Able’s mushroom cloud, which would -have been lethal to crew members. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Crossroads”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 777

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Event 952 -(76296873)

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Date: 7/3/1946
-Description: The Joint Research and Development Board is established. -Essentially it is Vannevar -Bush’s existing cadre of brain trust from the still active Office of -Scientific Research and the postwar Joint New Weapons Committee. Added -to this are other reconstituted R&D committees and advisers like Lloyd -Berkner of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The original -founding members are physicist Alfred -Lee Loomis, biologist Caryl -Parker Haskins, physicist Luis -Walter Alvarez, physicist -William -Shockley, and George -Doriot. Two military representatives each from the Army, Navy, and -Air Force complete the board’s membership. Counting Bush, this makes a -board of 12. (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and -Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): -7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 778

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Event 953 -(C511E485)

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Date: 7/5/1946
-End date: 12/1946
-Description: Dr. Oliver J. Lee, director of Dearborn Observatory at -Northwestern University, states in a Los Angeles Examiner article that -radar signals were secretly bounced off the Moon during WW2. He also -speculates that the saucers are remotely controlled.
-Type: Newspaper Article
-Reference: link
-Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

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Event 954 -(028D6B01)

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Date: 7/6/1946
-Description: Astronomer Bertil -Lindblad, after -consulting with the Swedish Defense staff on ghost rocket reports, -remarks that the “adjective ‘cigar-shaped’ is something new.” (Anders -Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean -Tomes, 1987, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 780

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Event 955 -(0D31CC44)

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Date: 7/6/1946
-Description: A special ghost rocket investigations committee is formed -with Col. Bengt -Jacobsson from the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration -as chairman. Other members are Henry -Kjellson and Eric Malmberg from the Air Administration; Maj. Nils -Ahlgren and Capt. Gerdt -Stangenberg from the Air Defense department; chemist Gustaf -Ljunggren; physicist Martin -Fehrm; and Olof -Kempe from the Defense Radio Institute. They hold at least 12 -meetings, beginning on July 10. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 13; -Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, -Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33; Swords 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 779

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Event 956 -(1A8A7F80)

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Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: About 3:00 p.m. A housewife near Sörbo, Sweden, is washing -on the shore of Södra Barken when she sees a falling object coming from -the northeast. It changes color from blue to green and has a long tail. -It tumbles into the lake about 320 feet away. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., pp. 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 786

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Event 957 -(9C56C0C1)

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Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 3:30 p.m. A young man in Mockfjärd, Sweden, sees a -silver-colored star diving toward the ground with a whistling noise. It -comes down about 490 feet away from him, and he is blinded by the -intense light. He thinks it crashes into Mt. Landholm. A powerful -burning smell lingers for 15 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, -the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 787

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Event 958 -(267A163B)

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Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 3:35 p.m. Many people see a bright red, rocket-like object -moving swiftly over Turku, Finland, and leaving a short trail. It casts -shadows on the ground. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 788

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Event 959 -(1F1AC2B4)

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Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 2:30 p.m. A member of the US legation sees a silent ghost -rocket falling rapidly over Stockholm, Sweden, according to a July 11 -telegram from State Department official Christian -M. Ravndal to Washington, D.C. Hundreds of other observations take -place over central Sweden. Ravndal suggests that the Soviets are trying -to intimidate the Swedes. (Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna -1947,” January 2005, p.11; Clark III 524, 527; Good Above, p. 20; -Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p.p. 6, -betw. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 784

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Event 960 -(A69FE1FD)

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Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Two people on the north side of Vaxön, Sweden, -watch a glowing white object with a blue-white tail streak across the -sky in about 2 seconds, disappearing to the southeast. Around the same -time, a witness at Järna Station in Södertälje sees an object “like a -glass flask in a thermos” descending from a high altitude. (Loren E. -Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 783

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Event 961 -(089FC508)

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Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Erik -and Asa Reuterswärd take a photo of a greenish-white daylight meteor -by a lake at Guldsmedshyttan, northwest of Lindesberg, Sweden. They are -atop a forest watchtower and have a good view of the object. The image -is circulated to newspapers throughout Sweden; however, the photo -probably shows an unusual daylight meteor, not a ghost rocket. (Loren E. -Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., pp. 12–13; Clas Svahn, “The 1946 Ghost Rocket Photo,” -`IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 12–14, 23; Swords 13–14; Clas Svahn, “Spökraketerna: -Den Största Gåtan,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7, -2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 782

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Event 962 -(ACED39AA)

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Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: 2:35 p.m. Efrain Johnson sees a strange, cigar- or -sugarloaf-shaped object to the east of Ockelbo, Sweden. It shines like -silver and appears “like some glistening mass.” It falls to the ground -and is gone in a few moments. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 785

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Event 963 -(6C10E34D)

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Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: A journalist finds three dubious fist-size fragments, one -of iron and the other two slag-like, after a bright projectile is seen -over a beach at Njurunda, Sweden. (Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna -1947,” January 2005, p. 12; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 781

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Event 964 -(542F114E)

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Date: 7/9/1946
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 134.4km -altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 134.4km

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Event 965 -(A7CD5900)

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Date: 7/10/1946
-Description: A brilliantly glowing projectile trailing luminous smoke -crashes into a beach near Norrvikssand, Sweden. Airline pilot Torvald -Linden and other witnesses find a shallow crater a little more than 3 -feet in diameter. A mass of slag-like material, some of it reduced to -powder (which burns the hands when touched) is found at the site and -collected into bags. A journalist from Svenska Dagbladet on July 11 -finds a “burnt-brown object with a hollow cylinder” with a diameter of -about 1–2 inches. Military authorities take over the site. The debris is -taken to Dr. B. Backlund at a laboratory in Kubikenborg, who finds it -contains paper with microscopic black-and-white squares like a screen. -Some porous, rust-colored fragments are also present. The same day, the -beach is visited by Lt. Col. Rudberg, -Capt. C. Ljungdahl, and Capt. R. Westlin, who conclude that the material -has been in the area for a long time. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -pp. 10–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 789

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Event 966 -(44A593D1)

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Date: 7/10/1946
-Description: 2:30 p.m. A bluish flying cigar 10–12 times the diameter of -the full moon in length passes over Stockholm, Sweden. (Loren E. Gross, -UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 790

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Event 967 -(9624C961)

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Date: 7/12/1946
-Description: Swedish Intelligence agrees to cooperate in sharing ghost -rocket information with the British military attaché in Stockholm, -Sweden, Maj. de Salis. (Swords 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 791

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Event 968 -(0CBB5BFB)

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Date: 7/12/1946
-Description: Day. The railway station master at Gryon, Vaud, -Switzerland, is watching a B-24 Liberator flying overhead at 15,000 feet -when he also sees a “flying bomb” looking like a big star traveling -northeast at about 250 mph. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 792

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Event 969 -(76DAB851)

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Date: 7/12/1946
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Inga Eriksson is in her garden in Usta, Örebro, -Sweden, when she hears a sharp, sizzling sound in the air and sees three -silvery triangular objects traveling horizontally from east to west. -They are visible only for 2 seconds, but her mother notes that the -electrical power has gone out in their home. (AFU case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 793

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Event 970 -(8D4AA65C)

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Date: 7/15/1946
-Description: The Swedes provide the British attaché with analytical -reports of all observations to date. (Swords 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 794

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Event 971 -(41484D89)

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Date: 7/16/1946
-End date: 7/18/1946
-Description: US Secretary of the Navy James -Forrestal makes an unexpected visit to Stockholm, Sweden, to meet -with the Swedish Defense Minister Allan -Vougt and two members of the special committee on ghost rockets. -(Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, -Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 795

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Event 972 -(EA0F8FB8)

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Date: 7/18/1946
-Description: 12:00 noon. Sigvat Skaug and his son, who live along Lake -Mjøsa in southeastern Norway, and his sister Åse Tandberg watch two -rocket-like objects about 7 feet long pass over their heads at a very -low altitude. They fall simultaneously into the lake, throwing the water -several feet into the air. The objects look like V-1 rockets and come in -low from the west at about 150 feet, causing the trees to sway. They -fall into the lake about 1.2 miles from the western shore and 4.3 miles -from Minnesund. (NICAP, “‘Ghost -Rocket’ Crashes into Lake”; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., pp. 18–19; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna -1947,” January 2005, pp. 19–20; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “The -Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket Crash -Revisited,” AFU Newsletter 27 (Jan./Dec. 1984): 1–5; Swords 16; -Clark III 526)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 797

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Event 973 -(30E8E33D)

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Date: 7/18/1946
-Description: Three workers see a ghost rocket above Ortviken, Sweden. -Shortly afterward, Gunnar Falck watches a silvery cylinder moving over -the northern part of Sundsvall. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 798

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Event 974 -(BCF665BD)

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Date: 7/18/1946
-Description: Two British intelligence officers arrive in Stockholm to -meet with their counterparts in Sweden. One is from the Air Ministry -(Squadron Leader Barrie Heath) and the other (Maj. Malone) is from -MI10(a), a branch of the Directorate of Military Intelligence. (Swords -20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 796

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Event 975 -(5725C7C7)

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Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: Failed V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km -altitude (oxygen pump explodes)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 4.8km

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Event 976 -(8D3511B0)

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Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: 11:15 a.m. In the village of Bölebyn, Sweden, Leonard -Danielsson and his sons Kjell, Dan, and Hans see an “aeroplane” moving -against the wind to the southwest. The boys say it looks like a large, -metallic milk canister. It travels from horizon to horizon in about 20 -minutes before disappearing in the northwest. (Swords 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 799

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Event 977 -(97085CB0)

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Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Kurt Larsson, 11, is fishing at the north end of -Lake Kattisträsket, Sweden, when he hears a roaring sound. A huge column -of water rises out of the lake as if a mine has detonated. Military -officers from Boden investigate, but the lake is too muddy to send in a -diver. They conclude that whatever fell is buried in 15 feet of mud. -(Swords 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 800

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Event 978 -(50E17D0C)

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Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: 11:45 a.m. Many witnesses see a gray, winged rocket crash -into Lake Kölmjärv, Sweden, with a loud bang close to the southwest -bank. Knut Lindbäck says it generates a high plume of water when it hits -the surface, “followed by another cascade as if something had -detonated.” Water lilies and other aquatic plants are torn up and thrown -on the shore. Lieut. Karl-Gösta Bartoll from the Boden engineer corps -arrives the next day to supervise the salvage operation. Engineers -Roland Rynniger and lab technician Torsten Wilner from the Defense -Research Department also arrive with a Geiger counter. A three-week -search turns up no traces of metal, even though the evidence points to -an underwater explosion. (NICAP, “‘Ghost -Rocket’ Crashes into Lake”; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna -1947,” January 2005, pp. 20–26; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., pp. 20, 76; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “The -Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket Crash Revisited,” AFU Newsletter 27 -(Jan./Dec. 1984): 1–5; Swords 17–20, 24; Clark III 525, 526)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 801

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Event 979 -(4281C72A)

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Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Karl and Tyra Axberg are sitting on the porch of -their cabin on Lake Vassarajärvi in Norrbotten County, Sweden, when they -hear a loud noise. A projectile comes in at a very low angle and hits -the water at a 30° angle, continuing underwater for about 600 feet. A -military team led by Karl-Gösta Bartoll can find no trace of a “ghost -bomb.” (Swords 24–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 802

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Event 980 -(EB6EDCA0)

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Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: 3:40 p.m. Ingrid Hansson is sunbathing with her father on a -floating jetty at the northern end of Lake Marmen, near Sunnanå, Sweden. -She hears a violent roaring over the water and looks up to see an object -bouncing along the surface, stirring up a wake. The object has created a -water column 66 feet high upon impact. (Swords 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 803

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Event 981 -(6D66695C)

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Date: 7/19/1946
-Description: Maj. Gen. George -C. McDonald prepares a memorandum for the Commander of the Army Air -Forces Gen. Carl -Spaatz on reports of “rockets” over Scandinavian countries. (Jan L. -Aldrich, comp., The -Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 9–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 804

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Event 982 -(0F1359B5)

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Date: 7/24/1946
-Description: 1:20 p.m. Engineer Tennlund sees a small cigar-shaped -object with a pair of small wings south of Vålberg, Värmland, Sweden. It -comes from the direction of Norway (west) at great speed with no sound. -Tennlund thinks it crashes into Vänern lake. (Anders Liljegren and Clas -Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, -p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 805

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Event 983 -(D3E2DF04)

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Date: 7/25/1946
-Description: The Swedish military states that ghost rockets are not -meteors. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost -Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 806

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Event 984 -(9F3A30A1)

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Date: 7/25/1946
-Description: Baker nuclear test, Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. -(Wikipedia, “Operation -Crossroads”; Fran Ridge, “The Baker -Blast: Cause for Alarm?” May 4, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 807

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Event 985 -(B2CDF868)

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Date: 7/27/1946
-Description: British Air Attaché Capt. Henderson informs the Foreign -Office in London, England, that cooperation with Swedish Air Staff -should be kept from the Americans. (David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out -of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002; Joel Carpenter, “Guided -Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Swords -20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 808

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Event 986 -(EB2C782E)

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Date: 7/28/1946
-Description: Night. Sections of Oslo, Norway, are shaken by two violent -aerial explosions. An “intense white light” accompanies the blasts. -(London Daily Telegraph, July 29, 1946; Clark III 526)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 809

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Event 987 -(B610F610)

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Date: 7/29/1946
-Description: Norway begins censoring ghost rocket reports just as Sweden -is doing. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, -the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 810

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Event 988 -(7BA543B8)

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Date: 7/30/1946
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A customs officer on the Norway-Sweden border -watches a silvery torpedo with short wings. The object moves in from the -south but changes direction with a sharp turn and continues east with a -whining sound. (Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” -UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 813

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Event 989 -(FBA06187)

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Date: 7/30/1946
-Description: 3:12 p.m. William Jorgensen, a soldier at the fort at -Oskar-Fredriksborg, Stockholm, Sweden, sees a silent flying object with -short wings at a distance of about 6,560 feet. It is moving faster than -a jet aircraft. (Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” -UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 812

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Event 990 -(24F546FB)

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Date: 7/30/1946
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Two objects shaped like dark crosses are seen in -the sky over Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden. (Anders Liljegren and Clas -Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, -p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 811

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Event 991 -(DA805B02)

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Date: 7/30/1946
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 161.5km -altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 161.5km

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Event 992 -(D2B50114)

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Date: 8/1946
-Description: Day. Charles A. Johnson is driving on US Highway 41 along -Lake Michigan north of Chicago, Illinois, when he sees three silver -discs going from east to west in a triangular formation. (Clark III -1179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 814

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Event 993 -(CAED9B75)

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Date: 8/1946
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A young man sees a pan-shaped object near a road -in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. A small entity holding an acacia branch is -nearby. The being enters the object through an opening on the underside. -Afterward, traces of burning on the ground are detected. (Center for UFO -Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1940–1949, p. 20; Clark III 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 815

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Event 994 -(52DFE789)

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Date: 8/1/1946
-Description: 6:00 p.m. AF Capt. Jack E. Puckett is flying over Tampa, -Florida, in a C-47 transport and sees a long cylinder twice the size of -a B-29 with luminous portholes. After 3 minutes, it disappears at a -speed of 1,500 mph. (“Rocket -Craft Encounter Revealed by World War 2 Pilot,” UFO Investigator 1, -no. 2 (Aug./Sept. 1957): 15; UFOEv, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 820

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Event 995 -(337940A4)

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Date: 8/1/1946
-Description: President Truman signs -the Atomic Energy Act, transferring the control of atomic energy from -military to civilian hands, effective on January 1, 1947. It categorizes -information on atomic energy as “born classified,” even if it is not -created by any US government agency. “Restricted Data” is not a level of -classification; rather, a document can be classified as Confidential, -Secret, or Top Secret, while also containing Restricted Data. In -addition, a document containing Restricted Data can also contain -Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information. In this way, a document can -be classified as Secret (S), Secret//Restricted Data (S//RD), or -Secret//Restricted Data- Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information -(S//RD-CNWDI), depending on the type of information it contains. -(Wikipedia, “United -States Atomic Energy Commission”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 817

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Event 996 -(9117442C)

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Date: 8/1/1946
-Description: Truman approves -the establishment of the Office of Naval Research for “planning, -fostering, and encouraging scientific research” in relation to naval -power and national security. (Wikipedia, “Office -of Naval Research”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 818

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Event 997 -(84CC1EE9)

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Date: 8/1/1946
-Description: Col. Edwin -Kennedy Wright, Vandenberg’s -executive assistant at the Central Intelligence Group, sends a -memorandum to President Truman saying -the ghost rockets conform to a V-1 shape and seem to be launched from -the USSR. The report notes that the missiles can turn and fly circular -courses, seemingly indicating radio control. Most information comes from -the military attaché in Sweden and the conclusions are from the director -of intelligence for the War Department general staff. (Swords 21–23; Jan -Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): -10, 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 819

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Event 998 -(A767A255)

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Date: early 8/1946
-Description: An astronomer and meteorologist is looking at some clouds -through a telescope in Stockholm, Sweden, and sees a luminous object -that he estimates is about 90 feet long, torpedo-shaped, and metallic. -It has a “tapered tail that spewed glowing blue and green smoke and a -series of fire balls.” The object explodes with a terrific flash. (“Sweden -Plans Radar Fight on ‘Rockets,’” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1946, -p. 1; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: -1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 816

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Event 999 -(6CF26D2D)

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Date: 8/5/1946
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A fast-moving, silent, circular object glitters -in the sun over Skåne, Sweden, as it heads toward the south-southwest at -a high altitude. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 822

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Event 1000 -(0C4477EF)

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Date: 8/5/1946
-Description: 6:26 p.m. A luminous object is seen by a motorist near -Landskrona, Skåne, Sweden.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 821

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Event 1001 -(45A4A952)

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Date: 8/6/1946
-Description: The US delegation in Budapest, Hungary, reports that a -German scientist now working for the Russians has revealed that the -Soviets have developed guided rockets called V-3 and V-4 that are able -to fly a round trip of 700 miles. (Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost -Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 823

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Event 1002 -(939299F5)

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Date: 8/7/1946
-Description: Swedish Lt. Lennart Neckman of the Defense Staff’s Air -Defense Division sees a clear, yellow flame passing low and slow over -the countryside. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 825

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Event 1003 -(F20E7DC6)

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Date: 8/7/1946
-Description: A Top Secret message from the Commander-in-Chief Air -Forces, Pacific, to Gen. Lauris -Norstad, War Department Operations, requests guidance on the current -classification of the substitute code word “Majestic” for Operational -Plan Olympic (the invasion of Northern Japan). The plan has been -downgraded to Restricted (Message CM1472 IN). The answer is that both -code words had been declassified by the JCS on October 8, 1945 (Message -CM96908 OUT 8 Aug 1946). (Jan Aldrich; Murray Bott, “Military -Codenames ‘Olympic’ and ‘Majestic,’” -UFO UpDates, April 4, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 824

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Event 1004 -(1C118C12)

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Date: 8/8/1946
-Description: Chief of Swedish Air Defense Maj. Nils Ahlgren says that -some of the rockets are seen at low altitude, maneuver in half circles, -and appear to come from the south. (Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna -1947,” January 2005, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 826

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Event 1005 -(94E35F6C)

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Date: 8/11/1946
-Description: 9:00–10:00 p.m. Hundreds of people in central and southern -Sweden see “ghost bombs” that fly from south to north, giving off a -brilliant blue-white light. Sometimes two of the objects are seen flying -together. Some witnesses see smaller silver balls come out of the larger -objects, which are variously described as cylinders and torpedoes with a -“wide nose” and “fire-spurting tail.” Stockholm is said to be “near the -boiling point” with ghost rocket speculation. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 33– -39; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna -1947,” January 2005, pp. 38–40; Clark III 525; Anders Liljegren and -Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, -p. 37; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO -Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 50–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 828

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Event 1006 -(4508E333)

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Date: 8/11/1946
-Description: 8:47 p.m. Astronomer Bertil -Lindblad sees an exploding fireball in Ljugarn on Gotland, Sweden. -(Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna -1947,” January 2005, p. 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 827

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Event 1007 -(53CF252A)

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Date: 8/12/1946
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A twin-engine Saab 18 Swedish Air Force bomber -crashes and explodes near Valdshult, Jönköping, Sweden, killing three -airmen. Rumors circulate that it collided with a ghost rocket, but an -investigation indicates that the pilot lost control. (Good Need, pp. 39–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 829

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Event 1008 -(5C5150EC)

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Date: 8/12/1946
-Description: 8:15 p.m. A torpedo-shaped ghost rocket moves slowly over a -seaport town in southern Sweden, barely grazing the roofs and trailing -smoke. It continues out to sea and seems to come down on a small island. -Two men go out to investigate, but the island is too overgrown to allow -a search. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the -Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., pp. 40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 830

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Event 1009 -(7E326EFA)

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Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: The New York Times says the ghost rocket situation is -extremely dangerous and that Sweden will not tolerate such violations. -(“Swedes -Use Radar in Fight on Missiles,” New York Times. August 13, 1946, -p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 833

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Event 1010 -(D29E203C)

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Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: The US naval attaché and the Assistant US military attaché -in Stockholm interview three Swedish Air Force officers assigned to the -General Staff who say that they believe the objects are rockets. (Joel -Carpenter, “Guided Missiles -and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Swords 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 834

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Event 1011 -(2E61FE93)

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Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: Capt. Roscoe -H. Hillenkoetter, US naval attaché in Paris, forwards as top secret -a report by the French government on ghost rocket activity in -Scandinavia. It states that “a good number of these projectiles are of -the V- 1 type in the form of a torpedo with two small wings.” A map -shows them originating in the Leningrad [now St. Petersburg] area, -Russia. (Swords 21; Good Need, pp. 38–39; -Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter -1998): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 831

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Event 1012 -(FB27B05B)

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Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: Afternoon. A troop of Boy Scouts in Denmark see a -rocket-like object moving quickly at an altitude of 1,600 feet. They can -see small side wings and fins. A blue-white light streams from the -bottom, and it diverges from a straight course to a 35° curve. (Loren E. -Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 835

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Event 1013 -(FB40955E)

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Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A cigar-shaped object flies past a witness at -Karlskrona, Sweden, at a distance of only 150 feet. Only 5 feet long, it -emits a faint green light and trails smoke from the rear. (Loren E. -Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, -the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 836

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Event 1014 -(5457D21B)

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Date: 8/13/1946
-Description: The Hungarian report of August 6 causes Maj. Gen. Stephen -J. Chamberlin, Army -assistant chief of staff for intelligence, to ask Budapest for further -information. Top-secret requests are sent to military attachés in -London, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, and Copenhagen asking for listings of -all ghost rocket reports, as well as V-3 and V-4 missiles. The military -attaché in Oslo reports that a Soviet ship in the north Baltic Sea has -been transmitting code to shore stations regarding the ghost rockets. -The military attaché in Moscow asks other European officials about where -the rockets originate and gets several answers, which he forwards on to -Chamberlin: Hiiumaa island, Estonia; Latvia; or Peenemünde, Germany. -Gen. Joseph -T. McNarney of the US Forces in Europe Theater replies that -Peenemünde is a likely origin, since the site has been refurbished. The -military attaché in Stockholm suspects Hiiumaa, Peenemünde, or Parikkala -in Finland, while the naval attaché in Stockholm thinks that Łeba, -Poland, is the launch site. (Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost -Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 832

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Event 1015 -(9AAFC9C7)

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Date: 8/14/1946
-Description: The New York Times reports that Secretary of State Dean -Acheson is “very much interested” in the ghost rockets. (Loren E. -Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 46; “2 -Swedes Escape -a ‘Ghost Rocket,’” New York Times, August 14, 1946, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 837

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Event 1016 -(3BFA7BA4)

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Date: 8/14/1946
-Description: 10:02 a.m. Swedish Air Force pilot Lieut. Gunnar Irholm and -his signaler, Cpl. Möller, are flying a B-18A bomber at 650 feet 4 miles -northeast of Malingsbo in central Sweden when they see a dark -cigar-shaped object approaching on their left. It has no visible wings, -rudders, lights, flame or projections of any type. It appears to follow -the terrain at 370–430 mph, maintaining the same height, then vanishes -into a storm cloud. (“Ghost Rockets over Scandinavia,” Intelligence -Review, no. 49, January 9, 1947, US Department of Defense; Don Berliner, -Marie Galbraith, and Antonio Huneeus, Unidentified Flying Objects -Briefing Document, UFO Research Coalition, December 1995, pp. 33–35; -Swords 15–16; “Cigar -Sighted from B-19 Bomber,” AFU Newsletter, no. 44 (September 2002): -1–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 838

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Event 1017 -(2ABAFC44)

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Date: 8/15/1946
-Description: Night. Several residents of the east side of Waterloo, -Iowa, see an object buzzing rapidly around some trees. It gradually -ascends, surrounded by a cloud of white vapor, and disappears high in -the sky. One person calls it “a great white bird; another, a bomb.” Mrs. Russell -Lampman says that the object is “6 feet, 3 inches tall, like a large -man, and rather rectangular in shape.” She and her husband watch -it for an hour after it starts hovering about 20– 25 feet above a nearby -alley. (Al Starr, “Street Scene,” Waterloo (Iowa) Sunday Times, August -18, 1946, p. II-1; “Well, -We Saw It First!” Waterloo Daily Courier, July 7, 1947, p. 2; -Project 1947, “UFO -Reports: 1946”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 839

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Event 1018 -(2897858C)

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Date: 8/15/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 6.4km altitude -(Radio cut-off 16.5s after launch)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 6.4km

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Event 1019 -(3305DE6F)

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Date: 8/16/1946
-Description: Col. L. H. Johnson, US naval attaché in Stockholm, -transmits a “Top Secret Report R334-46 of 13 August 1946 Subject: SWEDEN -Guided Missiles Rocket Sightings Over Sweden.” It concludes: “No -tangible evidence to date as to nature or origin of rockets reported -over Sweden, although Swedish Defense Staff insists that they are -rockets.” (Joel Carpenter, “Guided -Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Jan L. -Aldrich, comp., The -Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 32–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 840

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Event 1020 -(CDED2352)

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Date: 8/16/1946
-Description: A missile produces an enormous explosion over Malmö, -Sweden, that shakes or breaks many windows. Some witnesses think they -can see fragments of the object falling to earth. (“Windows -Broken by Rocket Bomb,” Manchester Guardian, August 17, 1946, p. 6; -Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 841

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Event 1021 -(964CCA09)

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Date: 8/18/1946
-Description: 8:00 or 10:00 p.m. An aerial object like a 9-foot cigar is -seen moving slowly on the north side of Copenhagen, Denmark. It explodes -with extraordinary force. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. 53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 843

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Event 1022 -(4542E95E)

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Date: 8/19/1946
-Description: The US military attaché in Moscow reports on the visit of -Maj. Stig -Wennerström of the Swedish Air Force, who reveals that radar -indicates the ghost rocket launch site is at Peenemünde, Germany. The -rockets appear to be radio-controlled, carry no warheads, are -self-destructive, and are plotted over a range of 620 miles. Sometimes -they follow zigzag courses. (Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost -Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 844

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Event 1023 -(BF374D7A)

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Date: 8/19/1946
-Description: Two US experts on aerial warfare, aviation legend General -Jimmy -Doolittle and British Group Captain Douglas -Bader, and -General David -Sarnoff, president -of RCA, arrive in Stockholm, Sweden, ostensibly on private business, and -independently of each other. The official explanation is that Doolittle, -who is now vice-president of the Shell Oil Company, is inspecting Shell -branch offices in Europe, while Sarnoff, a former member of General Dwight -D. Eisenhower’s London staff, is studying the market for radio -equipment. However, the story indicates that the Chief of the Swedish -Defense Staff, Col. C. R. Kempf, makes no secret that he “was extremely -interested in asking the two generals advice and, if possible, would -place all available reports before them.” However, Doolittle denies the -correlation to Barry -Greenwood in 1984, and researchers have found no evidence to support -a collaboration. (Joel Carpenter, “Guided -Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Loren E. -Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., pp. 53–54; Clark III 527; Swords 21, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 845

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Event 1024 -(54D668F0)

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Date: late 8/1946
-Description: Margaret Sprankle, a civilian employee at Tinker AFB near -Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is returning from work when she sees, about 300 -feet away, a large, metallic, lens-shaped structure about 75 feet in -diameter. On the lower right side are 12–14 square windows; in each, -visible from the shoulders up, is a figure. Their heads are very round. -The object rotates 90° on its vertical axis and silently flies northwest -and disappears in seconds. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1940–1949, p. 22; Clark III 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 842

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Event 1025 -(36179BDA)

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Date: 8/21/1946
-Description: The General Staff in Norway issues a memorandum to the -press asking it not to mention any ghost rockets seen over the country -and to pass on all reports to the military Intelligence Department. In -Sweden, the ban is limited to any mention of where the rockets are seen -to land or explode. (London Daily Telegraph, August 22, 1946; Good -Above, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 846

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Event 1026 -(1BDF6C7A)

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Date: 8/22/1946
-Description: Director of the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) Lt. -Gen. Hoyt -Vandenberg writes a top secret memo to President -Truman via Adm. William -D. Leahy, stating -that the “weight of evidence” points to Peenemünde (which has become a -Soviet naval base), East Germany, as the origin of the ghost rockets, -and that a US military attaché in Moscow has been told by a “key Swedish -Air Officer” [Wennerström] -that radar course-plotting leads to the conclusion that Peenemünde is -the launch site. CIG speculates that the missiles are extended-range -developments of V-1s being aimed for the Gulf of Bothnia for test -purposes and “do not overfly Swedish territory specifically for -intimidation; self-destruct by small demolition charge or burning.” -(Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles -and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Barry Greenwood, “Significant -Ghost Rocket Documents -Available,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 15 (June 2015): 1–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 848

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Event 1027 -(20A6FAEE)

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Date: 8/22/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km altitude -(Control failure led to cut-off command at 6.5s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 0km

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Event 1028 -(CBB65C61)

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Date: 8/22/1946
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Photographer Gösta Skog takes a color film of a -ghost rocket at Getå, 100 miles south of Stockholm, Sweden. The -cigar-shaped object appears out of a cloud at 3,000 feet, trailing -exhaust. The film turns out to be overexposed. (Clas Svahn, “Spökraketerna: -Den Största Gåtan,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7, 2017; -Swords 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 847

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Event 1029 -(01D2C363)

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Date: 8/23/1946
-Description: The British Foreign Office states that English radar -experts, including Reginald -Victor Jones, having -returned from Sweden, had “submitted secret reports to the British -government on the origin of the rockets.” (Good Above, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 849

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Event 1030 -(49F2D5DA)

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Date: 8/24/1946
-Description: Evening. A Norwegian student and a Swedish engineer are -boating on a small river “somewhere in Sweden” when a light approaches -them from the southeast. It resembles a full moon and emits an intense -light: “As it passed immediately overhead, it grew so bright you could -see a well as on a sunny day.” The object, about 10 feet long, releases -four stars that fall silently to the ground. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost -Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., pp. 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 852

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Event 1031 -(95858F63)

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Date: 8/24/1946
-Description: Admiral Henry -Kent Hewitt, Commander of US Naval Forces in Europe, writes a letter -to the US naval attaché in Oslo, Norway, on “Rocket Bombs or Guided -Missiles over Norway and Sweden.” Two “missiles” have fallen into a lake -near Oslo, and the US Navy is “very interested.” ([Adm. Henry Kent -Hewitt], Letter to US Naval Attaché, Oslo, “Rocket -Bombs or Guided Missiles over Norway and Sweden,” August 24, -1946)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 851

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Event 1032 -(4422C421)

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Date: 8/24/1946
-Description: Stockholm Air Attaché Maj. Gen. Alfred -A. Kessler Jr. informs the War Department that the Ghost Rockets are -an “unintentional hoax which developed naturally but which exploited by -Defense staff by implication and lack of frankness possibly interest -defense budget and to alert west against east.” (Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles -and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 850

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Event 1033 -(044499E2)

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Date: 8/26/1946
-Description: The US military attaché in Stockholm reports that the -Swedes, possibly worried about a Soviet veto of their application for UN -membership, have canceled their request for British radar equipment. -(Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter -1998): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 853

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Event 1034 -(9BA5803E)

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Date: 8/29/1946
-Description: The American embassy in Stockholm tells the State -Department that the ghost rockets are probably Soviet missiles. (Loren -E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 63A; -[Memo -on telegram -of August 27, 1946]; Good Above, pp. 22, -447)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 854

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Event 1035 -(43B4976B)

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Date: 9/1946
-Description: German rocket engineer Walter Ziegler tells Army CIC that -400 men from his former rocket group at Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) -in Munich, Germany, are invited by Russian military officers to a fancy -dinner, wined and dined, then taken home. Several hours later, all 400 -are woken up by the Russians and forced to take a trip. (Ziegler is not -among them.) They are transported by train to a small town (“Kubischew”) -outside Moscow, Russia, where they remain and work on secret military -rocket projects under terrible conditions. (Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 855

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Event 1036 -(942D1E9E)

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Date: 9/1/1946
-End date: 9/2/1946
-Description: Late night and early morning. Rocket-shaped objects are -seen over northern Greece, according to Prime Minister Konstantinos -Tsaldaris. Physicist -Paul -Santorinis is placed in charge of an investigation. He rules out -Russian missiles, but the Army ends the investigation in 1947. (Clark -III 525; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, -the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., pp. 62–63; Good Above, p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 856

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Event 1037 -(8F133776)

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Date: 9/4/1946
-Description: Top Secret Memo, to Mr. Morgan, from Mr. Lyon stating: 800 -UFO reports have been reported with new ones coming in daily from -Sweden. Full details of these reports have been forwarded to Wash., D.C. -by our Military and Naval Attaches
-Type: top secret memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p22,447)
-Location: Sweden

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Event 1038 -(78D4040F)

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Date: 9/7/1946
-Description: British pilot Edward -Mortlock Donaldson attains an airspeed record of 616 mph in a -Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 at Littlehampton, England. (Wikipedia, “Edward -Donaldson (RAF officer)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 857

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Event 1039 -(6CAE488A)

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Date: 9/9/1946
-Description: The scientific advisor to MI6, English physicist Reginald -Victor Jones, considers the ghost rockets a social panic phenomenon. -An RAF Intelligence report, “Investigation of Reported Missile Activity -over Scandinavia,” identifies eight types of ghost rocket sightings: -iron cylinder, magnesium-like light, white core surrounded by -blue-green, shining ball with tail, torpedo-shape, black object with -flame, small rocket, small missile. It takes the daytime reports -seriously but concludes are probably only a few genuine reports of -actual missiles. (Joel Carpenter, “Guided -Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Swords -26–27; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -pp. 63–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 858

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Event 1040 -(732E5290)

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Date: 9/11/1946
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Justin -B. Rinaldi is standing in a friend’s backyard in Engle, New Mexico, -when he hears a loud whirring sound and sees a black object whiz by. It -is pointed at one end, has a narrow body, and what appear to be fins on -the tail. It is traveling fast at an altitude of 75 feet. Rinaldi sees -it hit a clump of trees at a ranch house and the “branches parted like a -great force had struck.” He and friends go to the site but can find -nothing. (“Flying -Disc Tales Bring 2 Reports from Engle Area,” Albuquerque Journal, -June 29, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 530)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 861

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Event 1041 -(35771107)

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Date: 9/11/1946
-Description: Jack -Northrop grounds the XB-35, which has suffered gearbox and propeller -control problems, until the Army Air Force can fix its propulsion -system. (Wikipedia, “Northrop -YB-35”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 860

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Event 1042 -(6710BABB)

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Date: 9/11/1946
-Description: The Chief of Naval Intelligence requires naval attachés to -forward information on Soviet rocket research and operations including -launches from submarines. (NARA, US Naval Intelligence files; Jan -Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 859

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Event 1043 -(1FC7C7AB)

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Date: 9/12/1946
-Description: Cmdr. Robert -A. Winston, acting naval attaché in Stockholm, Sweden, writes to the -London naval attaché in a secret air mailgram that he suspects there is -a secret British-Swedish collaboration on ghost rocket information -designed to keep the US from learning the truth. (Jan Aldrich, -“Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): -13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 862

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Event 1044 -(70260781)

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Date: mid 9/1946
-Description: Two luminous globes that shine “like an electric arc” are -seen flying in a straight line over Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. -(Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 863

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Event 1045 -(E6860294)

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Date: 9/18/1946
-Description: Two greenish globes, one following close behind the other, -zoom over Castanheira, Portugal. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 864

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Event 1046 -(0DB071AF)

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Date: 9/21/1946
-Description: Chemist Gustaf -Ljunggren of the Swedish National Defense Research Institute -summarizes for the Swedish Defense staff his analysis of 27 finds of -mysterious substances, allegedly from ghost rockets. None are -radioactive and all have mundane explanations. (Anders Liljegren and -Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, -pp. 33–34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 865

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Event 1047 -(1ACCB506)

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Date: 9/22/1946
-Description: 3:15 a.m. A rocket-shaped object is seen for 90 seconds -over Florence, Italy. It makes an abrupt turn, then speeds south toward -Rome. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., -p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 866

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Event 1048 -(2BB2C2DD)

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Date: fall 1946
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Gladys McCage and her 4-year-old son see a -yellowish-orange light coming from the northwest at a “terrific speed” -toward their farm 8 miles north of O’Neill, Nebraska. Its color changes -to red as it approaches, and soon it is hovering above the witnesses. -They run toward the house and the cigar-shaped object swings up to the -northeast. McCage says it is as big as a football field, has windows, -and is making a loud noise. A yellowish- blue-green flame is shooting -out near the back, and it is traveling too fast for any plane at the -time. (Clark III 530)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 868

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Event 1049 -(16A262B2)

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Date: 9/30/1946
-Description: David -Sarnoff, in a speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, -says that the “ghost bombs are no myth but real missiles.” (Joel -Carpenter, “Guided -Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; -“Sarnoff -Predicts Weather Control and Delivery of the Mail by Radio,” New -York Times, October 1, 1946, p. 1, 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 867

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Event 1050 -(1D240D93)

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Date: 10/1946
-Description: Ray -Palmer publishes a letter from Maurice -Doreal (pseudonym of Claude D. Dodgin) of the Brotherhood of the -White Temple in Denver, Colorado, regarding the “Shaver mystery.” Doreal -claims intimate knowledge of the subterranean realms, which he claims -are inhabited by the Black Brotherhood and protected by “space-warps.” -In 1949 Doreal claims to have visited caves inside Mount Shasta, -California, inhabited by Atlantean masters. He equates Shaver’s Dero -with an evil group of Lemurians. (Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean -Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp. 154–160; -Charmaine Ortega Getz, “The (Sort of) Amazing Story of Maurice Doreal -and the Brotherhood of the White Temple Revealed at Last,” Weird -Colorado, September 6, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 869

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Event 1051 -(1056A61B)

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Date: 10/1/1946
-Description: The US Military Attaché in London, England, writes a -top-secret memo to the War Department complaining that the British “may -not have given us all information on reported rockets over Scandinavia.” -(Jan L. Aldrich, comp., The -Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, p. 73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 870

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Event 1052 -(7BD34DC6)

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Date: 10/9/1946
-Description: Newspaper/radio UFO reports after meteor shower over -southern CA. BSRA received many phone calls. BSRA mediums established -contact and reported it would return
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: rg
-Location: San Diego, CA

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Event 1053 -(857EC88F)

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Date: 10/9/1946
-Description: Evening. George -Adamski and some associates are watching a meteor shower associated -with Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner when they see a “gigantic spacecraft” -hovering above the mountain ridge south of Mount Palomar, California. He -claims to meet a military officer a few weeks later who assures him that -the object was indeed from another world. Others in San Diego see an -object with a long, tube-shaped fuselage, giant wings, and two red -lights. The medium Mark -Probert later tells the press that he has established psychic -communication with the occupants and the object is called the Kareeta. -(“Sparks -Fly As Comet Passes Earth,” Los Angeles Daily News, October 10, -1946, p. 3; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001, -pp. 28–29; Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, Citadel, -1954, pp. 41–48; -Curt Collins, “1946, -Before Saucers, Kareeta: UFO Contact in California,” -The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 8, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 871

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Event 1054 -(DF1619F3)

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Date: 10/10/1946
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 173.8km -altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 173.8km

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Event 1055 -(60CE9639)

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Date: 10/10/1946
-Description: First picture of Earth from space. V-2 missile test at -White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (subnormal propulsion -performance)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 104.6km

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Event 1056 -(AD030AF2)

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Date: 10/10/1946
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Waltraut Anlauf, a telephone operator in -Friedland Refugee Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany, sees small, elongated -flashes at a great height in the sky. They look like cigars and are -luminescent white in front and bluish-white in back. She sees about 10 -objects pass per minute. Sometimes there is an interruption of about 10 -minutes, and then new groups appear. The sighting lasts one hour. -Possibly these are part of the Taurid meteor shower. (Clark III -529)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 872

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Event 1057 -(38AD4605)

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Date: 10/10/1946
-Description: The defense staff in Sweden admits it cannot explain the -ghost rockets because reports are too vague. About 80% appear to be -meteors (“celestial phenomena”), although radar has tracked a few -unusual targets. The report concludes that they are not V-type bombs. -(“Swedish -Inquiry Fails to Solve Rocket Case,” New York Times, October 11, -1946, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., pp. 71–72; Good Above, p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 873

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Event 1058 -(0275A709)

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Date: 10/21/1946
-Description: Two persons on the shore of a lake in southern Sweden hear -a whistling sound in the air, like a “flock of birds.” They see an -object moving over the trees at a low altitude. It is dart-shaped and -has short wings and a “ball-shaped tip.” It falls into the lake and -possibly explodes on impact. (Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the -Ghost Rockets, The -Author, 1988 ed., p. p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 874

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Event 1059 -(9662E59B)

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Date: 11/1946
-Description: The War Department issues a press release on how German -scientists are helping out at Wright Field, Ohio. (Dolan, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 875

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Event 1060 -(3D549FA4)

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Date: 11/7/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, .32km altitude -(Guidance failure preceded emergency cut-off at 31s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: .32km

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Event 1061 -(EF2607D0)

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Date: 11/21/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 101.4km altitude -(Sub-normal propulsion performance, beyond Kármán line)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 102.4km

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Event 1062 -(C6FFE635)

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Date: 11/29/1946
-Description: A top secret Air Intelligence report, “Significant -Developments of Scientific Warfare in Russia,” designates the ghost -rockets as “V-5” weapons produced by the Siebel Works in Halle, Germany. -(Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter -1998): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 876

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Event 1063 -(D742ABC3)

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Date: 12/3/1946
-Description: The Swedish military reports that about 100 impacts were -investigated by the Defense Research Institution and not found to be -rockets. (Joel Carpenter, “Guided -Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part -Three”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 877

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Event 1064 -(129E24D4)

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Date: 12/5/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 152.9km altitude -(Control system failed at altitude)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 152.9km

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Event 1065 -(1CE17828)

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Date: 12/10/1946
-Description: Gen. Curtis -LeMay answers an inquiry from Assistant Secretary of War for Air Stuart -Symington about establishing interim projects at the Air Materiel -Center (AMC). LeMay’s answer: The Commander of AMC on his own volition -may establish an interim project; however, to continue the project it -must be approved for the next budget cycle. (Air Force Historical -Research Agency, Maxwell AFB; Jan Aldrich, “Secret -Twining Letter: ‘The -Reported Phenomena Are Real,’” October 11, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 878

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Event 1066 -(9030A1C9)

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Date: 12/17/1946
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 184.4km altitude -(Rocket exploded at 440s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 184.4km

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Event 1067 -(FAF9C6BE)

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Date: 12/23/1946
-Description: Jacobsson’s -ghost rocket committee issues its final report on 987 ghost rocket -cases, stating that 225 reports had been made in full daylight. More -than 100 reports describe spool-shaped objects with or without wings. It -concludes: “Despite the extensive effort, which has been carried out -with the means available, and seven months after the first observations, -no actual proof that a test of rocket projectiles has taken place over -Sweden has been found.” (Swords 26; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, -a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 75–76; -Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, -Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 879

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- Event 1068 (5CF173F9)

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Date: 1947
-Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-45” (Plant 418) atomic bomb project -plant opened (Uranium enrichment, warhead assembly)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: N 58 39 E 59 47

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Event 1069 -(6D735D78)

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Date: 1947
-Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-40 and later 65” atomic bomb project -plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of -the most contaminated places on Earth.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: Ozyorsk, Russia

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Event 1070 -(480F205F)

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Date: 1947
-Description: Cmdr. Bernard Baruch Jr. makes 44 trips at his own expense -to lobby for the implementation of the peacetime Communication -Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings (CIRES) message system. He -meets with DCI Gen. Hoyt -Vandenberg, Rear -Adm. Roscoe -Hillenkoetter, Secretary of the Air Force Stuart -Symington, Rear -Adm. Earl -E. -Stone, Vice Adm. Arthur -W. Radford, Rear Adm. John -E. Gingrich, Adm. DeWitt -Clinton Ramsey, Maj. Gen. Robert -W. Harper, Lieut. -Gen Idwal -H. Edwards, Vice Adm. Ralph -Riggs, Capt. Richard Burke (USCG), and about 20 other officials. -(NICAP, “Capt. Bernard -Baruch, Jr.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 880

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Event 1071 -(0FCB97A7)

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Date: 1947
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Air Force pilot Edwin -T. Yeoman is returning home with his wife Eva after -going to a movie in Sacramento, California. As they drive northeast, -they see a stationary light hovering at an altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet -above Roseville. After watching it for 5 minutes, the light gets -brighter, rises vertically for several thousand feet, makes an abrupt -90° turn, and shoots across the horizon from east to west. (CUFOS case -file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 881

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Event 1072 -(0C97700F)

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Date: 1947
-Description: Einstein sees “Greys” for the first time
-Type: rumor
-Reference: anonymous (channeled) information (R.G.)
-Location: Roswell, NM
-Attributes: Einstein
-Attributes: channeled

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Event 1073 -(D8A7D736)

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Date: 1/1947
-Description: W.H. (initials) of Yucca Valley, Calif., while still -serving in the U.S. Navy, was on leave with C.C. (initials) who was just -out of the U.S. army. While they were looking for desert property to buy -they came upon the Papagos Indian Reservation, north of the rugged -Superstition Mtns. west of Globe, Arizona. While traveling on a dirt -trail, they came upon a group of military personnel guarding a crashed -saucer half buried in the sand. Description: Disc shaped with a domed -top; about 30 ft. diam.; two rings on its outer edge which seemed to -have windows between them. There was no evidence of an encampment or -heavy equipment.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
-Location: Papago Indian Reservation

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Event 1074 -(F50A2094)

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Date: 1/1/1947
-Description: The civilian US Atomic Energy Commission assumes -responsibility for nuclear energy from the wartime Manhattan Project. -The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project assumes responsibility for all -aspects of nuclear weapons remaining under military control. (Wikipedia, -“United -States Atomic Energy Commission”; Wikipedia, “Armed -Forces Special Weapons Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 882

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Event 1075 -(69746B35)

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Date: 1/7/1947
-Description: SKY OBJECT A MYSTERY ROCKET? - A laboratory analysis of the -cylindrical object which fell in Portland yesterday from a clear sky -established presence of aluminum, titanium, magnesium, calcium, chrome, -and zircon. Dr. John E. Allen, chief geologist of the Oregon department -of geology and mineral industries, said it gives reasonable basis for -the hypothesis that it could have been used in rocket construction. -Largest portion of the object has been taken over by an Army -investigator for examination. The object was found when a mysterious ice -shower occurred Saturday confined to a fifteen foot square area of Hill -Military Academy.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Los Angeles Examiner - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box -3 ff5)
-Location: Portland, OR

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Event 1076 -(547EB50E)

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Date: 1/9/1947
-Description: The US Defense Department’s Intelligence Review, no. 49, -contains a four-page summary of ghost rocket sightings and suggests some -may have been Soviet test missiles or jet airplanes. (“Ghost Rockets -over Scandinavia,” Intelligence Review, no. 49, January 9, 1947, US -Department of Defense; Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, and Antonio -Huneeus, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document, UFO Research -Coalition, December 1995, pp. 33–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 883

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Event 1077 -(39ABB183)

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Date: 1/10/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 116.2km altitude -(Degraded performance led to roll rate of 60 rpm)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 116.2km

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Event 1078 -(7C9399CD)

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Date: 1/16/1947
-Description: 11:30 p.m. An RAF Mosquito plane chases an unidentified -target detected on radar at RAF Trimley Heath Radar Station [now closed] -near Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, moving at a speed calculated to be -faster than sound at an altitude of 38,000 feet over the North Sea, 50 -miles north of the Netherlands acoast. It descends to 17,000 feet and -takes controlled, evasive action. The plane pursues it for 40 minutes, -even though the pilot cannot see it visually, until he loses it over the -Norfolk coast. (UFOFiles2, p. 29; -ClearIntent, p. 151; -Sparks, -p. 16; David Clarke, “Operation -Charlie,” 2002; Martin L. Shough, “A -New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,” -April 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 884

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Event 1079 -(A50547BB)

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Date: 1/17/1947
-Description: 11:37 p.m. After two unidentified targets similar to -yesterday’s are reported by RAF Neatishead, northeast of Norwich, -England, over the North Sea, another radar track enters the Eastern -Sector area, and an RAF Mosquito piloted by Flight Lt. William Kent is -scrambled to 18,000 feet. Kent attempts to close in, but his onboard -radar is unable to keep it on track because the target is “jerking -violently” and taking evasive action. After 20 minutes, the target -descends below 2,000 feet and is lost from ground radar. Unofficially -the radar operators give the intruder a name—Charlie—and when the Air -Ministry later begins a concerted effort to solve the mystery, its code -name is “Operation Charlie.” (Martin L. Shough, “A -New Study of the British ’Ghost Airplanes’ -of 1947,” April 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 885

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Event 1080 -(129A0166)

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Date: 1/20/1947
-Description: In London, Ben -Lockspeiser, chief -scientist for the UK Ministry of Supply, after meeting with Swedish -scientists and air force authorities, informs the American naval attaché -in London, England, Cmdr. Jenkins, that the Swedes doubt the rockets are -from Russia but prefer that the US and UK continue to think so. Natural -phenomena and popular imagination are considered the causes. (Loren E. -Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2000, pp. 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 886

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Event 1081 -(8FADAC24)

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Date: 1/23/1947
-Description: Night. Three senior RAF officers are visiting RAF -Neatishead in Norfolk, England, for an interception exercise when an -unidentified radar target makes another appearance at 28,000 feet. RAF -Mosquitos from Yorkshire are scrambled, but by the time the aircraft -reach the area, the target is gone. (Martin L. Shough, “A New -Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,” April 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 887

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Event 1082 -(D6F9F5C1)

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Date: 1/23/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 49.9km altitude -(Degraded performance led to roll rate of 80 rpm)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 49.9km

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Event 1083 -(9D5FC98E)

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Date: 1/27/1947
-Description: RAF Flying Officer Stewart of the Northern Signals Area, -after investigating the Operation Charlie radar incidents at RAF -Neatishead, England, issues a report, no longer extant, that suggests -that some of the targets are radiosonde balloons released by the USAAF’s -8th Weather Squadron in Downham Market, Norfolk. However, RAF and Air -Ministry sources continue to refer to the sightings as unexplained over -the following months. (Martin L. Shough, “A -New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,” April -2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 888

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Event 1084 -(61B8AE07)

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Date: 1/29/1947
-Description: Secretary of War Robert -P. Patterson and Secretary of the Navy James -V. Forrestal issue a memorandum that formally establishes the Armed -Forces Special Weapons Project, a new agency to take over responsibility -for the aspects of nuclear weapons that still remain under the military. -It is to be jointly staffed by the Army and Navy. Los Alamos -Laboratory’s ordnance engineering Z Division and AFSWP establish -themselves at Sandia Base, New Mexico, bringing the strict secrecy that -has prevails at Los Alamos. (Wikipedia, “Armed -Forces Special -Weapons Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 889

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Event 1085 -(BC121143)

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Date: 2/6/1947
-Description: Around 7:30 a.m., Frederick -Walter Flavel and his wife Emma are walking to their house in Lock, -South Australia, when they see five gray, oblong objects rise apparently -from the sea and move from northwest to southeast. At 9:00 a.m., Ronald -Ernest Ellis and two other railroad workers in Port Augusta, South -Australia, watch five white or light-pink egg-shaped objects moving -across the sky from north to south at about 6,000 feet. They quiver, -cast shadows on the ground, and move out of sight in a few seconds. -(NICAP, “Five -Objects Cast Shadows”; -Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in -History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 329–350)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 890

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Event 1086 -(C5750AB8)

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Date: 2/8/1947
-Description: A US Navy Privateer bomber flying over Sweden picks up -signals that might be directing rockets. (Letter from US Naval Forces -Europe, London, to Chief of Naval Operations; Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 891

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Event 1087 -(098CF434)

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Date: 2/9/1947
-Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright wins -writing essay competition
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Location: Coral Gables, FL
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 1088 -(A877258D)

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Date: 2/17/1947
-Description: Capt. J. B. Pearson Jr., US naval attaché in London, -England, sends an intelligence report to the Chief of Naval Intelligence -about his conversation with Col. Westergard, head of the Airplane Design -Section for the Swedish Air Ministry. Westergard tells him some 40% of -the 1,000 ghost rocket sightings are “reliable.” They seem to originate -in Peenemünde, Germany, and fly toward Finland. The best observation is -from an artillery officer who sees an object in his optical range finder -and follows it for about 90 seconds. It is in level flight at 4.5 miles -distance and is about 36 feet long and torpedo shaped. (Loren E. Gross, -The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2000, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 892

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Event 1089 -(E9CE41C0)

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Date: 2/20/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 109.4km altitude -(Blossom 1 — Propulsion degraded at 55.5s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 109.4km

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Event 1090 -(EEF49854)

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Date: 2/28/1947
-Description: Capt. Emmet -O’Beirne, Chief -of the Defensive Air Branch, writes a memorandum to the chief of the -USAF Office of Air Intelligence about the branch’s interview with H. W. -Flickinger, vice president for exports at Republic Aircraft Corp. after -his return from Sweden: “He stated that he had seen one of the Swedish -‘spook rockets’ in flight, which resembled the V-1 buzz bomb but was -somewhat smaller. The noise of this missile was more that of a rocket -than like a V-1.” (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 893

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Event 1091 -(F3F2A02B)

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Date: 3/7/1947
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.2km -altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 165.2km

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Event 1092 -(6AD8531A)

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Date: 3/17/1947
-Description: Newspaper article stating Einstein “has helped many young -students to find their directions”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 1093 -(5B4C14F7)

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Date: 3/21/1947
-Description: A cigar-shaped object with smoke coming from its tail is -seen flying from east to west at considerable height over southern -Sweden by several witnesses. It looks metallic and is about 60 feet -long, flying slowly. The object seems to turn around and fly back -eastward briefly. (“‘Phantom -Bomb’ Returns to Skies over Sweden,” New York Times, March 22, 1947, -p. 8; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January -1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 894

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Event 1094 -(A6D0AD9F)

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Date: 4/1947
-Description: The June 1947 issue of Amazing Stories is devoted in its -entirety to “proofs” of Richard -Shaver’s claims and includes four of his novellas. Vincent -Gaddis has written a prescient article on UFOs, titled “Visitors -from the Void.” (David Halperin, “The -Shaver Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria -(Part 2),” -July 11, 2014; Richard S. Shaver, “Formula -from the Underworld,” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 (June 1947): 10–29; -Vincent H. Gaddis, “Visitors -from the Void,” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 (June 1947): -159–161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 895

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Event 1095 -(0119822C)

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Date: 4/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. US Weather Bureau meteorologist Walter A. -Minczewski watches a silvery disc through a theodolite while tracking a -ceiling balloon in Richmond, Virginia. It is traveling east to west at -less than 15,000 feet and has a flat bottom and a dome on top. (NICAP, -“Silvery -Disc Seen through Theodolite”; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 62; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, -Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 17–21; Sparks, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 896

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Event 1096 -(C2A026C9)

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Date: 4/1/1947
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 129.2km -altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 129.2km

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Event 1097 -(C5CE9F85)

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Date: 4/8/1947
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 102.2km -altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 102.2km

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Event 1098 -(99E4014D)

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Date: 4/15/1947
-Description: The US Naval Attaché in Stockholm issues a secret -intelligence report, “Sweden: Guided Missiles, Alleged Rockets over -Sweden.” Both the naval and military attachés agree that there is -nothing to the ghost rocket episode. No foreign missiles have overflown -or landed in Sweden, according to the evidence a, vailable. “Swedish -officials prefer to dismiss it as an unexplained press sensation.” -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2000, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 897

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Event 1099 -(3917A6F6)

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Date: 4/17/1947
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 142.4km -altitude (Successful test of ram-jet payload)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 142.4km

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Event 1100 -(787882BE)

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Date: 4/17/1947
-Description: Col. Oliver -G. Haywood Jr. of the Atomic Energy Commission writes a memorndum to -Harold -A. Fidler at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, -saying: “It is desired that no document be released which refers to -experiments with humans and might have adverse effect on public opinion -or result in legal suits. Documents covering such work should be -classified ‘secret.’” (Advisory Committtee on Human Radiation -Experiments, memo, “Documents Retrieved from Oak Ridge Operations: The -Atomic Energy Commission’s Declassification Review of Reports on Human -Experiments and the Public Relations and Legal Liability Consequences,” -December 6, 1994; Wikipedia, “Unethical -human experimentation in the United States”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 898

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Event 1101 -(2625403C)

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Date: late 4/1947
-Alternate date: early 5/1947
-Description: 12:05 p.m. Mrs. William Down and Mrs. H. G. Olavick of -Tucson, Arizona, see an unusual, fleecy cloud in an otherwise cloudless -sky. Moving around it in “yo-yo fashion” are a number of small discs -with a dull-white finish. They move up and down and sideways, -occasionally disappearing into or behind the cloud. They watch the -objects for 5–7 minutes, then all the discs disappear above the cloud, -while a larger object emerges from the cloud and moves eastward. Behind -it comes a V-formation of nine of the smaller discs, which then climbs -at high speed toward the northeast and disappears in 2–3 seconds. The -witnesses assume the objects are some new type of aircraft. (Bloecher, -p. ix; -Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 -(Spring 2004): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 899

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Event 1102 -(5CEE89C9)

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Date: 5/1947
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Harry Bentrup Jr. is on his porch in Jennings, -Missouri, when a circular object surrounded by a ring of luminous green -lights swoops in quickly from the east, hovers above him for 15 seconds, -then takes off to the west. (MUFON case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 900

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Event 1103 -(4612F639)

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Date: 5/1/1947
-Description: Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter replaces Hoyt Vandenberg -as Director of Central Intelligence. Dr. Leon Davidson notes this as the -actual beginning of the CIA in 1961.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 1104 -(39DF2849)

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Date: 5/1/1947
-Description: Rear Adm. Roscoe -H. Hillenkoetter replaces Hoyt -Vandenberg as Director of Central Intelligence.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 902

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Event 1105 -(A0C22E35)

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Date: 5/1/1947 (approximate)
-Description: Mrs. W. C. Clark of Memphis, Tennessee, watches two objects -“like tennis balls” fly over her yard. (“Three Memphians Say They Saw -Objects,” Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal, July 7, 1947, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 901

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Event 1106 -(8BB4253C)

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Date: 5/5/1947
-Description: Hillenkoetter writes -to Baruch, saying that his CIRES plan is “on the verge of being put into -effect.” (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 903

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Event 1107 -(51173264)

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Date: 5/10/1947
-Description: Rose Slawuta of Newark, New Jersey, sees a shining, -elliptical object with a gold band around it approaching fron the west. -(Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, July 7, 1947; Bloecher, p. I-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 904

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Event 1108 -(097B8766)

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Date: 5/14/1947
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A spherical object 3-4 feet in diameter is seen -over Budapest, Hungary, passing southeast to northwest at about 3,000 -feet altitude in a flat trajectory. (Allied Control Commission for -Hungary; George Mitrovic, The -Gateways to the Gods, Kindle, -2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 905

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Event 1109 -(5EF0ED07)

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Date: 5/15/1947
-Description: 4:11 p.m. A Hermes test missile (V-2) at White Sands -Proving Ground, New Mexico, goes off course and lands 6 miles east of -Alamogordo five and a half minutes after launch. Commanding Officer Lt. -Col. Harold R. Turner blames “peculiar phenomena” for the accident. The -official explanation is that the V-2 had a defective fin. Trade -consultant and former state representative Jon -Andrew Kissner finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object -was seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have -been responsible for the failed test. (“V-2 -Goes Astray, Lands in Six Miles of Alamogordo,” Las Cruces (N.Mex.) -Sun-News, May 16, 1947, p. 1; Good Need, pp. 55–57; -Wikipedia, “Hermes -program”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 906

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Event 1110 -(9C8C794B)

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Date: 5/15/1947
-Description: A V-2 test missile at White Sands goes off course. Reaches -135.2km, internal explosion at 64.3s. Commanding Officer blames -“peculiar phenomena” for the accident. Former state representative Jon -Andrew Kissner finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object was -seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have been -responsible for the failure.
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 135.2km

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Event 1111 -(FF85B4C5)

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Date: 5/15/1947
-Description: UFO sighting in Oklahoma City: round, disc-like, ten times -longer than thick, high speed, Project Grudge case #82. (Possibly -5/21/47)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Oklahoma City, OK

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Event 1112 -(02F1193D)

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Date: 5/17/1947
-Alternate date: 5/19/1947
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Byron B. Savage, an RCA field engineer, sees a -frosty-white or silvery elliptical object about the size of a B-29 -heading northwest at 10,000 feet over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at three -times the speed of a jet (about 1,800 mph). As it noiselessly passes -overhead, it appears to be circular. (NICAP, “Round -and Flat Object -Observed by Field Engineer”; Oklahoma City Times, June 26, 1947; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of -the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, -Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 27–28; Sparks, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 907

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Event 1113 -(46E86DC8)

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Date: 5/19/1947
-Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction -of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge chase #92
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Manitou Springs, CO

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Event 1114 -(63A64878)

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Date: 5/19/1947
-Description: Around 12:30 p.m. Navy veteran Dean -A. Hauser and six other Pike’s Peak Railway workers (including Ted -Weigand, Marion Hisshouse, T. J. Smith, L. D. Jamison) at Manitou -Springs, Colorado, are taking a lunch break when they watch a silver -object come in from the northwest, hover overhead, and gyrate at 1,000 -feet. The UFO is moving “erratically in wide circles” and reflects light -like it is made of metal. After 20 minutes it disappears in a straight -line to the west-northwest. (“Manitou Vets Relate Story: Another ‘Disk’ -Seen,” Denver Post, June 28, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, p. I-1; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January -1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, -pp. 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 908

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Event 1115 -(4F646F83)

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Date: 5/19/1947
-Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction -of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge case #92
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Manitou Springs, CO

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Event 1116 -(711D9C9C)

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Date: late 5/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Colden -R. Battey, a physician from Augusta, Georgia, is fishing 10 miles -off St. Helena Sound, near Beaufort, South Carolina. He notices a -formation of four disc-like objects flying overhead in a southeasterly -direction at a terrific rate of speed. The discs appear to be spinning -on their axes and are at an estimated altitude of 20,000 feet. They are -silvery and appear highly polished, and on their undersides Battey can -see a circular rim or projection, about one-quarter of the way from the -edges. No sound is heard as they fly overhead. The formation speeds out -of view in less than 20 seconds. (NICAP, “Four -Discs Flying Overhead”; Bloecher, p. I-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 909

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Event 1117 -(8CD81B09)

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Date: 5/29/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 79.3km altitude -(Hermes II prototype with dummy Organ ramjet test. Lost control after 4s -and crashed outside range near Juarez, Mexico.
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 79.3km

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Event 1118 -(5AF20998)

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Date: 5/29/1947
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A Hermes II test missile (a modified V-2) is -launched from White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico to test the -“Organ,” a series of ramjet air intakes designed to take pressure -measurements. The missile travels south instead of north and lands in -the Tepeyac Cemetery, 3 miles south of Juárez, Mexico, creating an -international incident. It leaves a crater 50 feet wide and 24 feet -deep. German scientists Wernher -Von Braun and Ernst -Steinhoff are conducting the test. (Wikipedia, “Hermes -program&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1674889728048267&usg=AOvVaw21w5H7PR0bJxyaVhiz6Kw9)”; -J. Terry White, “The -Hermes II Incident,” White Eagle Aerospace, May 2, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 910

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Event 1119 -(70DD9E20)

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Date: 5/31/1947
-Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright class -photo in newspaper
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Location: Coral Gables, FL
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 1120 -(2E680C0A)

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Date: 6/1947
-Description: AMC civilian engineer W. R. Presley takes a muddy photo of -a UFO at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It is most likely a photographic flaw. -(Hynek UFO Report, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 911

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Event 1121 -(E9F5E61F)

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Date: 6/1947
-Description: Oppenheimer-Einstein Majestic Document on US Space Law, -“Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies”
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Majestic -Document
-Attributes: Einstein
-Attributes: majestic

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Event 1122 -(E8AB8677)

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Date: 6/2/1947
-Description: Private pilot Forrest -Wenyon is flying over Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and sees a silvery, -jar-shaped object cross in front of his plane. It has a silver-white, -fiery exhaust. (NICAP, “Jar-Shaped -Object Crosses in Front of Aircraft”; -Bloecher, p. III-9; -Sparks, -p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 912

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Event 1123 -(F5851595)

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Date: 6/4/1947
-Description: Project Mogul flight number 4 is allegedly launched from -Alamogordo Army Air Field. (Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights -and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1994): 6–7, 23; Robert J. Durant, -“Project -Mogul Still -a Flight of Fancy,” IUR 26, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 17–27; David -Rudiak, “The -Phony Mogul Balloon Trajectory,” -2002; Kevin D. Randle, “Mogul -and Roswell,” A Different Perspective,” July 11, 2013; Kevin D. -Randle, “A -Few Facts about Project Mogul,” A Different Perspective, August 12, -2013; Kevin D. Randle, “Truth about -Mogul,” A Different Perspective, April 4, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 913

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Event 1124 -(7DC4674B)

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Date: 6/9/1947
-Description: A still-unlocated air intelligence summary is released, -alleging that the Soviets in eastern Siberia are producing (or may be -able to produce) 1,400 (or 1,800) aircraft based on the Horten -brothers’ VIII-type, low-aspect, disc- shaped design by 1952. A -Russian aviation historian thinks that the factories in question are at -the time producing copies of the German Messerschmidt Me 262 jet -fighter. A correct, more detailed summary of the intelligence report is -published in December 1948 in Air Intelligence Report Number 100-203-79, -“Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.” (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 914

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Event 1125 -(D99F6AA1)

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Date: 6/10/1947
-Time: 2300
-Description: Coral Lorenzen saw a light rise from the ground in Mexican -territory. It took a definite spherical shape and vanished in less than -ten seconds among the stars.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Douglas, Arizona
-ID: 55

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Event 1126 -(4F24FCD7)

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Date: 6/10/1947
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Gyorik Ferenc and others on Arena Street [modern -Dózsa György út] in Budapest, Hungary, watch four yellow-red discs -moving toward the northwest in a straight-line formation for about 30 -seconds. They are about 165 feet apart. The objects make a small arc -around a corner of a park before disappearing. (Project -Blue Book -record; Joe Brill, “UFOs behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 76, -March 1974, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 915

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Event 1127 -(9D5860F0)

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Date: 6/11/1947
-Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright’s last day -of high school (estimate)
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 1128 -(6D66CB95)

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Date: 6/12/1947
-Description: 6:15 p.m. Lovena -Erickson sees two high-speed, round objects at a high altitude over -Weiser, Idaho. They move up and down twice and leave a vapor trail that -persists for more than an hour. (NICAP, “June -12, 1947, Weiser, -Idaho”; Bloecher, p. II-8; Sparks, -p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 916

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Event 1129 -(05430AD5)

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Date: 6/17/1947
-Time: 1030
-Description: John A. Petsche, electrical worker and another witness -independently saw a disk-shaped object, which seemed to land near -Tintown.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Bisbee, Arizona
-ID: 58

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Event 1130 -(92EEF370)

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Date: 6/18/1947
-Description: Day. E. H. Sprinkle is one of a half-dozen Eugene, Oregon, -residents who spot a formation of round objects “racing overhead” on a -course to the northeast. Watching from Skinner’s Butte outside town. -Sprinkle takes a snapshot of the objects with an inexpensive camera as -they race over. Enlargements of the photograph show “seven dots” in a -formation “shaped like an X or a Y, lined up across the sky.” Newspaper -photographers say the dots “might be a fault in the developing process” -that sometimes appears on a negative that has not been agitated properly -in the developer. (“Local -Man Asserts Flights Seen Here,” Eugene (Oreg.) Guard, June 26, 1947, -p. 1; Bloecher, p. IV-3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 917

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Event 1131 -(A5DB65A9)

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Date: 6/19/1947
-Description: Maj. Gen. Stephen -Chamberlin, head -of War Department Intelligence, authorizes three electronic signals -intelligence flights between July 1 and August 1 to look for radio -signals over the Baltic Sea. The Swedish military is told that they are -training flights. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 919

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Event 1132 -(16865D60)

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Date: 6/19/1947
-Description: USAAF Col. Albert -Boyd reaches a world airspeed record of 624 mph in a Lockheed P-80R -Shooting Star at Muroc AFB [later Edwards AFB], California. (Wikipedia, -“Albert -Boyd”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 918

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Event 1133 -(8957AA9F)

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Date: 6/21/1947
-Description: Maury Island Incident
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Medium
-Reference: link
-Attributes: metals

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Event 1134 -(32980CB3)

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Date: 6/21/1947
-Description: 11:55 a.m. Guy -R. Overman watches several silvery objects moving below a plane at -Spokane, Washington. (NICAP, “Eight -Disc-Shaped Objects As Big As a House”; Bloecher, p. II-18; -Sparks, -p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 920

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Event 1135 -(16BCF475)

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Date: 6/21/1947
-Description: Harold A. Dahl and others allegedly saw six tire-shaped -objects, 30 m in diameter, metallic with dark openings, over Puget -Sound. One of the objects exploded, showering the witnesses with metal. -Officially regarded as hoax.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ruppelt (Vallee)
-Location: Maury Island, near Tacoma, Washington
-ID: 56

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Event 1136 -(AF76579E)

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Date: 6/21/1947
-Time: 1150
-Description: Eight disk-shaped objects the size of a house, were seen -flying at 1000 km/h. A civilian woman stated that the objects fell with -a deadleaf motion and landed before ten witnesses on the shore of the -Saint Joe River, in Idaho.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Spokane, Washington
-ID: 57

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Event 1137 -(20FEDE0A)

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Date: summer 1947
-Description: Naval Cmdr. L. -H. Witherspoon sees a disc-shaped UFO flash over the airport at -Pittsburg, Kansas. (UFOEv, p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 949

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Event 1138 -(3C82EB2D)

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Date: 6/21/1947
-Description: Harold Dahl sees 6 discs near Tacoma Harbor, WA. Drops -metal residue.
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Maury Island, WA
-Attributes: metals

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Event 1139 -(97C2ECCA)

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Date: 6/21/1947
-Description: Log salvager Harold -A. Dahl is patrolling east of Maury Island, Washington, with his -15-year-old son Charles and two crewmen when he allegedly sees six -doughnut-shaped objects. Five of them are circling the sixth, which -seems distressed. When it is directly above the boat at 500 feet, it -supposedly spews some hot slag-like material that breaks Charles’s arm -and kills his dog. Dahl claims he filmed the objects. (Clark III 721; -John A. Keel, “The Maury Island Caper,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, -1987, pp. 40–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 921

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Event 1140 -(F3813B3E)

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Date: 6/22/1947
-Description: Dahl claims -he is visited by a mysterious dark-suited man who knows all about the -sighting. He tells his associate Fred -L. Crisman, and -they allegedly go to the beach to pick up fragments. Dahl mails Ray -Palmer in Chicago, Illinois, some fragments. (Clark III 721; Kenn -Thomas, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, IllumiNet, 1999; -Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson, “The -Maury Island UFO Incident,” February 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 922

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Event 1141 -(1A0E4F1F)

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Date: 6/22/1947
-Description: Evening. Yale University astrophysicist Lyman -Spitzer is speaking on WTIC radio in Hartford, Connecticut, and -speculates that if life on Mars developed a bit earlier than on earth, -it is possible that Martians have been civilized for millions of years. -“Unless they had spent some time in a large city or had landed -sufficiently recently to be photographed, we would have no record of -their being here,” he says, and that “any few men who had seen them -would probably not be believed by anyone else.” (“Mars -May Be Peopled, Says Yale Speaker,” Hartford (Conn.) Courant, June -23, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 455)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 925

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Event 1142 -(9EE3BADC)

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Date: 6/22/1947
-Description: Edward -Louis DeRose in Greenfield, Massachusetts, sees a small, -round-shaped, silvery-white object moving in a northwesterly direction -faster than a speeding plane at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet. The -object stays in view for 8–10 seconds until obscured by a cloud bank. It -reflects the sunlight strongly as if is made of polished aluminum or -silver. (Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying -Discs,” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell, -Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,” A Different Perspective, October -6, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 923

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Event 1143 -(89FB77DF)

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Date: 6/22/1947
-Description: 3:30 p.m. G. -Oliver Dickson sees a shiny disc “a little like a blimp” flying -north to south about 3,000 feet above Mount Franklin just north of El -Paso, Texas. He estimates it is about 40 feet across and 5 feet thick. -(“More El -Pasoans Report Seeing ‘Flying -Discs’ in Southwest,” El Paso (Tex.) Times, June 29, 1947, -pp. 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 924

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Event 1144 -(647D9E0C)

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Date: 6/23/1947
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Richard -L. Bitters and his wife Martha are -returning from a movie in Wapakoneta, Ohio, when they see a saucer-like -object flying an uneven course in the sky. (“Saucer -Just Didn’t Fit Editor’s Idea of a ‘Scoop,’” Madison Wisconsin State -Journal, July 7, 1947, p. 2; Bloecher, p. III-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 927

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Event 1145 -(F7F2B469)

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Date: 6/23/1947
-Description: Afternoon. Disabled stunt pilot Richard Rankin views 10 -flat, circular objects flying in a V-formation over his house in -Bakersfield, California. About two hours later, 7 of the objects are -seen flying in the opposite direction. (Bloecher, p. II-3; -Sparks, p. 17; -Kevin D. Randle, “More -Pre-Arnold UFO Sightings,” A Different Perspective, June 30, -2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 926

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Event 1146 -(70E93434)

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Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: A civilian pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reports seeing 9 flying -saucers flying in formation at an altitude of 9200 feet and at almost -1700 mph. He estimated them to be 20 to 25 miles away from him and -between 45 to 50feet long
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research

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Event 1147 -(C875282D)

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Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: Afternoon. Fred M. Johnson, a prospector in the Mount -Adams, Oregon, area, sees 5-6 oval objects with tails about 30 feet in -diameter. He watches one through a telescope. They are not flying in any -sort of formation and as they bank in a turn, the sunlight flashes off -them. As they approach, Johnson notices that his compass begins to spin -wildly. When the objects finally vanish in the distance, the compass -returns to normal. Johnson’s report is the very first “unidentified” -case in the Project Sign files. (NICAP, “Prospector -Compass Incident”; Bloecher, p. IV- 3; -Clark III 170–171; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part Three,” -IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June 1995): 6–7; Martin Shough, “The -Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,” June 2010, pp. 106, -109–110; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 932

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Event 1148 -(ACFA738E)

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Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Idaho Lieutenant Governor Donald -S. Whitehead and Justice of the Peace Jacob -M. Lampert see an object with a brilliant head and a smoky tail from -an office window in downtown Boise, Idaho. It dips from view after about -20 minutes. (“Whitehead, -Lampert, Join ‘Disc List,’” Boise Idaho Statesman, July 3, 1947, -p. 9; Bloecher, pp. III-18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 931

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Event 1149 -(230B30E0)

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Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Boise, Idaho, businessman Kenneth -Arnold, flying his CallAir Model A-2 from Chehalis to Yakima, -Washington, sees a string of nine objects flying in an echelon formation -past Mount Rainier, Washington. At first he assumes they are jets, but -he can see no trails. They cover the 50-mile distance between Rainier -and another peak in 1 minute 42 seconds. He estimates their speed to be -at least 1,200 mph. The objects swerve in and out of the smaller peaks, -flipping from side to side in unison, dipping, and presenting their -lateral surfaces, which reflect the bright sunlight and cause the -flashes he saw earlier. They are in view for about two and a half -minutes and are last seen heading south over the last high peak of Mount -Adams. Arnold tells the airport staff about it in Yakima at 4:00 p.m. -and they call ahead to Pendleton, Oregon, to alert them of Arnold’s -arrival at an air show and his story. A large crowd awaits him, and a -discussion follows. The consensus is that Arnold has seen guided -missiles. But no such technology exists at the time that can match the -objects’ description and performance, and the late 1990s explanation -that Arnold observed a flight of white pelicans is equally improbable. -Researcher Martin Shough concludes -in 2010: “Examination of the sighting report in detail improves its -evident internal consistency, rather than degrading it, and study of the -principal contending explanations reveals that they are each very much -less attractive when tried out in quantitative detail against the best -information than they may appear at first sight.” (Wikipedia, “Kenneth -Arnold UFO Sighting”; [Project -Blue Book file]; NICAP, “Kenneth -Arnold Sighting”; -Center for UFO Studies, [clippings -and reports]; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the -Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 9–13; Bloecher, p. I-2–3; -Patrick Gross, “The -Kenneth Arnold Sighting, June 24, 1947”; -Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, -pp. 48–53; John A. Keel, “Kenneth -Arnold and the F.B.I.,” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 (August -1987): 2–12; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: -Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, pp. 5–9; Bruce Maccabee, -“The Arnold Phenomenon: Part One,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): -14–17; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part Two,” IUR 20, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1995): 10–13, 24; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, -Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, -1998, pp. 14–22; -Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing -Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 54–59; -Martin Shough, “The Singular -Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,” June 2010; Bruce Maccabee, Three -Minutes in June: The UFO Sighting That Changed the World, The Author, -2017; Nigel Watson, “Was It a Bird? Was It a Plane?” Fortean Times 355 -(July 2017): 46–49; Clark III 169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 930

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Event 1150 -(F8700CF6)

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Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: 1:50 p.m. Railroad engineer Charles Kastl sees 9 or 10 -spinning discs in the air about 12 miles east of Joliet, Illinois. They -are a string of flat circular objects “going faster than anything I’ve -ever seen.” Kastl can see no connecting link between them, but they act -as though the leading disc has a motor in it to power the others, -because when it flips, the others do as well. When it rights itself, the -others also right themselves. (“Flying -Discs Seen -by Railroad Man,” Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, June 28, 1947, p. 2; -Schopick, pp. 1–2; -NICAP, “Engineer Reports -10 Shiny Flat Discs”; Kevin D. Randle, “The -June 23, 1947 UFO Sighting,” A Different Perspective, March 20, -2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 929

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Event 1151 -(947D86C2)

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Date: 6/24/1947
-Alternate date: 6/30/1947
-Description: Afternoon. Bill -Schuening, a -farmer, is driving his pickup truck down a remote rural road 25 miles -north of Pendleton, Oregon, when he hears a loud humming sound. Coming -over a rise, he sees in a nearby field a large disc-shaped object -hovering 5–6 feet off the ground. He can also see two short (3 feet -tall) figures wearing green suits and white helmets standing underneath -the object. The figures suddenly vanish, and the craft then shoots -towards the Columbia River, makes a big circle, and flies towards the -mountains. (NICAP, “Man -Sees Figures -Standing near Disc”; Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November -7, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 928

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Event 1152 -(6637E2B4)

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Date: 6/24/1947
-Description: Kenneth Arnold sights 9 discs near Mt. Rainer, -Washington
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Mt. Rainer, WA

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Event 1153 -(BB5358EC)

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Date: 6/25/1947
-Description: Shortly after 12:00 noon. W. I. Davenport is working on the -roof of a house at 82nd Street and Holmes Road in Kansas City, Missouri, -when he hears the sound of a motor. Looking up, he sees 9 objects -approaching from the east. They are aluminum-colored and leave vapor -trails. (“Puzzle -in Sky Whiz,” Kansas City (Mo.) Star, June 26, 1947, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 934

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Event 1154 -(37C50FFA)

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Date: 6/25/1947
-Description: Kenneth -Arnold goes to the East Oregonian office in Pendleton, Oregon, and -speaks with reporters Nolan Skiff and William -C. Bequette. Arnold -says the “saucer-like” objects were racing over the Cascade Mountains -with a peculiar weaving motion “like the tail of a Chinese kite.” Bill -Bequette writes the first saucer news story for the newspaper. He does -not use the term “flying saucer,” but headline writers in other papers -use it (such as the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 26), and reporters -start picking it up. (“Impossible! Maybe, But Seein’ Is Believin’, Says -Flier,” Pendleton East Oregonian, June 25, 1947, p. 1; “Flying -Saucers Puzzle Pilot,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 1947, p. 1; -Clark III 170; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, -1952, Palmer, pp. 13–15; Pierre Lagrange, “A Moment in History: An -Interview with Bill Bequette,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 15, 20; “Saturday -Night Uforia: ’It Seems Impossible—But There It Is,’” Daily Kos, -April 18, 2009; Phil Wright, “The -Sighting,” Portland East Oregonian, June 16, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 933

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Event 1155 -(7AFEDE35)

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Date: 6/26/1947
-Description: Northrop delivers a second four-engine XB-35 flying wing -aircraft to Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB], California. (Wikipedia, “Northrop -YB-35”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 937

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Event 1156 -(1B0E27E5)

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Date: 6/26/1947
-Description: Kenneth -Arnold is interviewed live on KWRC radio in Pendleton, Oregon, by -broadcaster Theodore -A. “Ted” Smith. (Patrick -Gross, “About -the June 25, 1947, Interview on WKPG Radio by Bill Bequette”; “Kenneth -Arnold Interviewed -by Bill Bequette [actually Ted Smith],” Nutsandbolts UFO YouTube -channel, December 12, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 936

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Event 1157 -(1668A278)

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Date: 6/26/1947
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Mrs. J. M. Harrison watches a large fireball pass -toward the northwest from her residence at 4639 South Oakenwald, -Chicago, Illinois. It breaks up into two dozen small discs that whirl -around rapidly. (“Dr. Urey Scoffs -at ‘Atom Angle’ to Flying Disks,” Chicago Tribune, July 6, 1947, -p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 935

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Event 1158 -(10EE1027)

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Date: 6/27/1947
-Description: Afternoon. Clyde Homan sees two groups of loosely bunched -objects, rocking back and forth as they fly noiselessly above Woodland, -Washington. The objects are bright, flat, and moving at an estimated 600 -mph. (Bloecher, pp. II-1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 942

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Event 1159 -(3981BBDF)

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Date: 6/27/1947
-Description: Day. Capt. Robert -D. Dwan, a -pilot out of Alamogordo Army Air Field [now Holloman AFB], New Mexico, -is flying a private plane near Engle, New Mexico, at 3,000 feet, when he -looks down and sees a “ball of fire, with a fiery blue tail behind it.” -The object is about 2,000 feet below him, and he is “certain it is a -meteorite.” The object disintegrates as he watches it. (Bloecher, pp. III-9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 941

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Event 1160 -(1C33FE6A)

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Date: 6/27/1947
-Description: In a United Press dispatch from Pendleton, Oregon, Kenneth -Arnold expresses frustration over the furor that his saucer sighting -has caused. A preacher has called him from Texas to say that the flying -discs are “harbinger of doomsday.” A woman recognizes Arnold in a -Pendleton café and runs out shrieking that he is “the man who saw the -men from Mars.” He says the whole thing has gotten out of hand: “Half -the people I see look at me as a combination Einstein, Flash Gordon, and -screwball. I wonder what my wife back in Idaho thinks.” (“Report -of ‘Flying -Saucers’ Causes Furor; Texas Preacher Calls Flock for World’s End,” -Medford (Oreg.) Mail Tribune, June 27, 1947, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 940

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Event 1161 -(2783477E)

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Date: 6/27/1947
-Description: Pentagon Army AF Public Relations Officer Capt. Tom Brown -says the army has no idea what the discs are. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 939

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Event 1162 -(333C3680)

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Date: 6/27/1947
-Description: 9:50 a.m. Mrs. W. B. Cummings is driving about 5 miles -southeast of San Antonio, New Mexico, when she sees a bright silver -object descending quickly in the east. It leaves a short white trail. -White Sands officials say there has been no missile testing since June -12. (“More -El Pasoans Report Seeing ‘Flying Discs’ in Southwest,” El Paso -(Tex.) Times, June 29, 1947, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 938

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Event 1163 -(F321D422)

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Date: 6/28/1947
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Two pilots and two intelligence officers -(Capt. Wilson -H. Kayko, Capt. John H. Cantrell, 1st Lt. Theodore Dewey, and -Capt. Redman) at Maxwell Field [now Maxwell AFB] in Montgomery, Alabama, -see a bright light zigzagging across the sky for 25 minutes. When it is -directly overhead, the UFO makes a sharp 90° turn and disappears to the -south. (NICAP, “Object -Zig-Zags with Bursts of Speed”; Bloecher, p. III-3; -Sparks, -p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 944

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Event 1164 -(A586A6D5)

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Date: 6/28/1947
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Lieut. Eric -B. Armstrong, flying an F-51 at 6,000 feet 30 miles north of Lake -Mead, Nevada, sees a formation of 5–6 objects streak by his plane. They -are in close formation at an estimated speed of 285 mph. (NICAP, “Formation -of 5–6 Objects Head toward P-51”; Bloecher, p. III-10; -Sparks, -p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 943

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Event 1165 -(BBC51898)

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Date: 6/29/1947
-Description: Days before the Roswell Incident on June 29, 1947, Dr. C. -J. Zohn (working for a Washington naval research lab) and 3 others see -UFO’s 20 miles from the V-2 rocket testing grounds at White Sands (which -would probably be Pad 33).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: White Sands, NM

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Event 1166 -(7A4A4AEB)

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Date: 6/29/1947
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Carl -J. Zohn, a -guided missile expert with the Naval Research Laboratory, is 20 miles -east-northeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico, to observe a V-2 rocket launch -scheduled for July 3. Between 1:00 and 1:30 p.m., he is riding out to -the testing grounds with John R. Kauke and NRL scientist Curtis -C. Rockwood (and his wife Nancy) when they see a silvery disc flying -at 8,000–10,000 feet. It has no appendages, wings, tail, or propellers. -After about 60 seconds it disappears. (NICAP, “Naval -Research Lab Rocket Scientists See Silver Discs”; Bloecher, p. III-18; -Sparks, p. 18; -Evelyne Tsezana, “Grandpa -Zohn Saw UFOs in New Mexico,” Geni, April 6, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 945

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Event 1167 -(6D8C70A3)

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Date: 6/30/1947
-Time: 0910
-Description: A Navy lieutenant was flying at 9000 m toward the south -when he saw two circular objects diving at “unconceivable” speed. They -were gray, about 3 m in diameter, and appeared to land 40 km south of -the Grand Canyon.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Grand Canyon, near Williams Field, Arizona
-ID: 59

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Event 1168 -(671E78AF)

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Date: 6/30/1947
-Description: 9:10 a.m. Naval Lt. William G. McGinty is flying a P-80 -from Williams AFB [now Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport], Arizona, near the -Grand Canyon when he observes two circular objects diving at -inconceivable speed and landing 25 miles south of the canyon. (NICAP, -“P-80 -Pilot Sees Circular Objects Dive and Land”; Bloecher, p. II-12; Sparks, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 946

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Event 1169 -(E98C48BE)

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Date: 6/30/1947
-Description: Around this time the Air Force Research and Development -office of the Air Materiel Command organizes an informal project at -Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, to collect UFO reports in the interests of -national security. The project officer at Wright Field is Lt. Col. Edward -G. Nabell Jr. (Sparks, -p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 948

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Event 1170 -(C5DAF831)

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Date: 6/30/1947
-Description: Eighth Air Force Brig. Gen. Roger -M. Ramey and intelligence officer Col. Alfred -Kalberer hold a press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, on the flying -discs. Ramey thinks people are “seeing heat waves.” Kalberer labels the -sightings as “Buck Rogers stuff.” (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2000, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 947

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Event 1171 -(785F5C8F)

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Date: 7/1947
-Description: Conclusion to an FBI/ARMY Intelligence Report: Based on a -detailed study of the Kenneth Arnold case (6/24/47) and 15 other UFO -encounters during the first month of the “flying saucer” mystery the -conclusion is “this flying saucer situation is not all imaginary or -seeing too much in some natural phenomenon. Something is really flying -around.” (This report was declassified FOIA, 1976.)
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea -Research
-See also: 6/24/47
-See also: 9/23/47

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Event 1172 -(88178279)

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Date: 7/1947
-Description: Alternate date for the organization of the MAJESTIC-12 -group by General George C. Marshall. Established in order to study the -crash debris from the Roswell-Magdalena area.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: “Matrix 1”, Valerian
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 9/24/1947

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Event 1173 -(757622BE)

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Date: 7/1947
-Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright visits -Princeton and studies under Einstein
-Type: scientist
-Reference: Bragalia
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 1174 -(FFB704C4)

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Date: 7/1/1947
-End date: 7/3/1947
-Description: US Signal Corps radar sites in southern New Mexico and one -at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque allegedly track an object -“flitting around” the sky, frequently returning but finally disappearing -on the night of July 4. Much of this story originates with -now-discredited Roswell witness Frank -Kaufmann, who claims he was ordered to bring a group of radar -experts to Alamogordo to evaluate unexplained radar targets at White -Sands Missile Range. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth -about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 159; -Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, p. 8; -Jim Wilson, “Roswell -Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 (July 1997): 48–53; Kevin D. Randle, -“Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 8, 17–19; -Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): -9–11, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 958

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Event 1175 -(095E25C6)

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Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: Military installations at White Sands, Alamogordo, and -Roswell, New Mexico track high-speed objects on radar, all flying at -speeds well above what current jet fighters were capable of doing. With -the radar blips penetrating highly secure air space at will, all three -facilities go on full alert.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands, NM
-Location: Alamogordo, NM
-Location: Roswell, NM

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Event 1176 -(258ADE85)

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Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: Day. Animal ecologist Charles -K. Gunn, his -wife, and two passengers are driving near North Bedeque, Prince Edward -Island, when they see a bright, shapeless object speeding along in the -sky for 30 seconds. (Bloecher, p. III-18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 951

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Event 1177 -(AF4391D9)

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Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: A target is picked up on radar at Chitose Air Base, -Hokkaido, Japan, moving 16 miles north at speeds in excess of 500 mph. -The blip instantly reverses course four times, breaks into two objects, -then merges into one again. (Col. James F. Olive Jr., “Radar -Pick-Ups of High-Speed Targets in the Far East,” Memorandum for -Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, -1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 952

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Event 1178 -(3F633DB0)

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Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Meteorologist Ellwood E. Unger and his wife -watch a round, orange, luminous object going about 100 mph after they -leave a movie theater in Louisville, Kentucky. (Bloecher, p. III-2; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, -Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 955

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Event 1179 -(420ABF07)

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Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: Col. Alfred -Kalberer holds another press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, and -brings astronomer Oscar -Monnig along to comment that the discs are “an interesting study in -human psychology.” (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, -Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 953

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Event 1180 -(CB36ADAC)

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Date: 7/1/1947
-Description: Night. Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chamber of Commerce -official Max -Hood sees a bluish disc zigzagging for about 30 seconds. (Bloecher, -p. III-17; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 -June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2000, pp. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 954

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Event 1181 -(7F23F5FF)

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Date: 7/1/1947 (approximate)
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Mrs. A. M. King is with another passenger on the -deck of the Union-Castle Mail SS -Llandovery Castle as -it is steaming through the Mozambique Channel. They notice a star-like -object traveling fast toward the ship. It shines a strong beam of light -on the water within 150 feet of the ship, then descends, the beam -shortening and becoming brighter as it nears the water. Soon the light -switches off and they can see a metallic object that looks like a cigar -with the end cut off. It remains about 20 feet above the sea, moving -parallel with the ship. King estimates it is about four times the length -of the ship and four times as tall. After a few seconds, a large flame -erupts from the rear of the object. It vanishes soundlessly in the -darkness. (Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 956

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Event 1182 -(D8F1E3BB)

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Date: 7/1/1947
-End date: 7/3/1947 (approximate)
-Description: According to Annie -Jacobsen’s informant, EG&G engineer Alfred -O’Donnell, the upcoming Roswell, New Mexico, crashes are the result -of a psychological warfare operation by Soviet leader Joseph -Stalin to fly into US airspace two disc- or wing-shaped aircraft -based on a Horton -brothers design obtained at the end of World War II. One craft -allegedly contains living dwarves or children (human guinea pigs) who -had been surgically altered using similar methods to those used in -Auschwitz concentration camp by Nazi doctor Josef -Mengele. This aircraft is remotely controlled by the crew of the -second craft. The idea is to land the first aircraft in a visible -location in the US, perhaps in Washington, D.C. The children would exit -the craft and present themselves to the highest echelons of the -government. However, the two aircraft crash in the New Mexico desert -and, he claims, the Atomic Energy Commission is put in charge of the -remains. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 367–374; -Kremlin 30–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 957

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Event 1183 -(D30480EA)

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Date: 7/2/1947
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Spectators at a baseball game at the Cincinnati -(Ohio) Milling Machine Company watch two slow- moving discs hovering -above the field for 10 minutes. (“100 -at Ball Game Tell of Seeing Two Mystery Saucers,” Cincinnati (Ohio) -Post, July 7, 1947, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 959

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Event 1184 -(3987F506)

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Date: 7/2/1947
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Dan -Wilmot see an oval object like two inverted saucers pass over their -house moving northwest in Roswell, New Mexico. (Sparks, -p. 19; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO -Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 159; -Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “When and Where Did the Roswell -Object Crash?” IUR 19, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1994): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 960

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Event 1185 -(5FF6B02C)

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Date: 7/2/1947
-Description: Roswell area crash
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: “Matrix 1”, Valerian
-Location: Roswell, NM

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Event 1186 -(5FF6B02C)

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Date: 7/2/1947
-Description: Roswell area crash
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: Valerian, Matrix 1

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Event 1187 -(6C03E0A8)

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Date: 7/2/1947
-Description: Magdalena, N.M.: Mr. Barnett sighted a shiny object out in -the desert and, upon investigation, came upon a crashed disc-shaped -object, 9 meters (30 ft.) across. Later a military truck arrived to -supervise the investigation of the crash site. Barnett saw dead bodies -strewn about the crash site. They weren’t wearing military uniforms, and -in fact didn’t even look human. Seen from a distance, the bodies had on -silvery suits and appeared to be about 3 ft. tall.
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Magdalena, N.M.

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Event 1188 -(433C5742)

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Date: early 7/1947
-Description: A cyclist near Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, Seine-Maritime, -France, encounters an oval object, 10 feet long and 5 feet high, resting -on the road 100 feet in front of her. Two small beings dressed in -outfits and headgear are busy around it. When she honks her horn, the -entities scurry into the object, entering it through a 20-inch opening. -The UFO rises, oscillates, and streaks away. (Clark III 267; Patrick -Gross, URECAT, August -81, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 950

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Event 1189 -(418E0FF1)

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Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: 8:55 a.m. William F. LeFevre watches a shiny, mirror-like -disc zoom over River Drive near West 8th Street in Denver, Colorado, at -several thousand feet and make a 45° turn before vanishing toward the -southwest. (Denver Post, July 5, 1947; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann -Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose -Press, 1998, p. 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 961

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Event 1190 -(373B21EF)

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Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: Morning. Project Mogul Flight number 8, a cluster of -plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. (Kevin D. -Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1994): 6–7, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 962

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Event 1191 -(4C88D5F4)

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Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Amateur astronomer John F. Cole watches a group -of 10 objects moving northwest near Harborside, Maine, at 600–1,200 mph. -Each is 50–150 feet wide. The objects are milling about in loose -formation like a “swarm of bees” for 10–15 seconds. (NICAP, “Astronomer -Observes Ten Large Objects”; Bloecher, p. III-18; -Sparks, p. 19; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 963

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Event 1192 -(86332A37)

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Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Air Research -Center at Wright Field, Ohio, and the army intelligence service are -looking into the flying discs. An INS dispatch states that Commander of -the Army Air Force Gen. Carl -Spaatz has asked Wright Field to look into such reports. Air -Materiel Command’s Lt. Gen. Nathan -F. Twining tells Idaho Evening Statesman reporter David -N. Johnson that officials are indeed looking into the discs and that -Wright Field has no comparable technology. Lieut. William -C. Anderson, Wright Field public relations officer, says there is no -confirmation that the discs exist. Maj. Paul -Gaynor says the Army Air Force needs more concrete information. -German scientists working at Wright Field are asked about the discs, but -they say they have heard nothing about any such experiments in Europe. -(“Army -Gets Around to Checking ’Flying Discs’ -and Is Mystified,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 3, 1947, p. 1; Dave -Johnson, “AAF -Investigates Reports of Mysterious -Air Objects,” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 3, 1947, pp. 1, 9; -“Military -Says ‘No Results’ in Disc Probe,” -Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 4, 1947, p. 2; “Weird -‘Flying Saucers’ Seen over 10 States,” New York Daily News, July 4, -1947, Final ed., p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 964

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Event 1193 -(EF717183)

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Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Farmer Ewen McNeill in Village Green, east of -Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, sees a black, rocket-shaped -projectile trailing a blindingly white flame and a smoke trail pass -overhead as he is working his fields. It seems to be flying at 10,000 -feet and is visible for 15 seconds. Around the same time, a resident of -Augustine Cove watches an “object the size of an apple” traveling south -at high speed. (Bloecher, p. II-17; -Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 965

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Event 1194 -(240DB97E)

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Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Walter Johnson and her family see 8–9 discs -flying out of the southern sky 6 miles west of Saint Maries, Idaho, over -the St. Joe River. The objects came in “very fast, slow down jerkily, -then flutter to the ground like leaves.” Mrs. Johnson thinks the objects -are about the size of a “five-room house.” When they reach a clearing in -the timber, they appear to “settle Down” a few at a time. Mrs. Johnson -reports the sighting to intelligence officers at the Spokane Army Air -Base [now Fairchild AFB], and an intensive air search is carried out by -two missions of the National Guard’s 116th Fighter Group. Local -sheriff’s deputies also make a ground search, but no traces of alanding -can be found. (“‘Saucer’ -Reports Increase As -Sky Is Searched in Vain,” Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review, July 7, -1947, pp. 1, 6; “Dishman -Residents Saw ‘Flying Saucers’ Land,” Spokane (Wash.) -Spokesman-Review, July 7, 1947, p. 6; Bloecher, p. II-12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 966

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Event 1195 -(02C001A9)

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Date: 7/3/1947
-Time: 2:30 PM EDT
-Description: Witness: astronomer John Cole of South Brooksville, Me. -Watched 10-15 seconds while ten very light objects, with two dark forms -to their left, moved like a swarm of bees to the northwest. A loud roar -was heard.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Harborside, Maine
-ID: 0

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Event 1196 -(18666192)

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Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: Magdalena, NM area crash
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: “Matrix 1”, Valerian
-Location: Magdalena, NM

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Event 1197 -(CCB949F1)

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Date: 7/3/1947
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Project Mogul Flight number 9, a cluster of -plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. (Kevin D. -Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1994): 6–7, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 967

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Event 1198 -(186D175F)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 9:12 p.m. United Air Lines Flight 105 pilots Capt. Emil J. -Smith and First Officer Ralph Stevens are flying from Boise, Idaho, to -Seattle, Washington, when they see a formation of five discs over -Emmett, Idaho, silhouetted against the sunset. Stewardess Marty Morrow -sees them as well. The objects appear to merge and speed away to the -northwest. Another group appears and arranges itself in a straight line. -The nine objects are seen at least 12 minutes over a distance of 45 -miles. (“View of ‘Flying Saucers’ over Ontario Dumbfounds Veteran Pilot, -Other Crew Member of Airliner,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; -Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1947”; NICAP, “5 Discs -Sighted by United Flight”; Bloecher, pp. III-10–11; -Sparks, -p. 20; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, -Palmer, pp. 18–19; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” -in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House -Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, -1968, pp. 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 983

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Event 1199 -(F7552951)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: During a thunderstorm near Corona, New Mexico, W. -W. “Mack” Brazel hears a tremendous thunderclap that sounds like an -explosion but is somehow different from the rest of the thunder. Others -in the area report the same phenomenon. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. -Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 985

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Event 1200 -(18057D90)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 11:27 p.m. Army Signal Corps radar sites in southern New -Mexico supposedly continue to track a mysterious object. Kirtland AFB’s -commander scrambles a fighter jet piloted by Kenny Chandler to locate -the object, but he cannot find it. Before midnight, Frank -Kaufmann allegedly sees a brilliant glow on the radar display, -pulsates a number of times, then explode in a starburst. The belief is -that the object has now crashed. Jim -Ragsdale and “Trudy Truelove” supposedly see a bright flash of light -and hear a roaring sound that passes overhead. Ragsdale knows that -something has struck the ground close to their campsite. (Kevin D. -Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, -Evans, 1994, p. 160; -Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 36; -Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “When and Where Did the Roswell -Object Crash?” IUR 19, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1994): 14; Kevin D. Randle, “The -Truth about the Jim Ragsdale Story,” IUR 21, no. 3 (Fall 1996): 13–16, -29–30; Jim Wilson, “Roswell -Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 (July 1997): 48–53; The Roswell -Files, “Jim -Ragsdale,” April 11, 1998; Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell -Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank -Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 9–11, 26; Kevin D. Randle, -“Jim -Ragsdale’s Roswell -Tale,” A Different Perspective, April 22, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 986

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Event 1201 -(65B9A850)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 1:05–5:30 p.m. Many people in Portland, Oregon—including -KOIN newsman Frank Cooley, deputy Clark County Sheriff Fred -Krives, Portland -police officer Kenneth -A. McDowell, and Oregon highway patrol Sgt. Claude Cross—view five -large discs moving at high speed to the east, two flying south and three -to the east, with an oscillating or wobbling motion, sudden 90° turns or -zigzagging. Radio reports alert other officers (including Walter -Lissy, Robert -Ellis, and -Earl -Patterson, all -WWII veterans) who see the metallic objects that look like a disc or -hubcap or pie-pan or half-moon flashing in the sun. No vapor trail or -noise (except possible humming) is reported. (NICAP, “Seven -Discs Observed by Many Witnesses”; Bloecher, pp. II-9, III-15; -Sparks, -p. 20; “Air Liner Crew Confirms Flying Discs over State; Many Seen -during Day over City,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, -“UFO -Reports, 1947”; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 58; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann -Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” -IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 974

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Event 1202 -(EBCB5573)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. C. J. Bogne and other witnesses in a car near -Redmond, Oregon, see four discs flying past Mt. Jefferson on a straight -course at high speed. (Ruppelt, p. 20; -Bloecher, p. II-9; -Sparks, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 972

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Event 1203 -(C0CE42CD)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Lenora Woodruff wakes up in her home at 184 S. -Arlington Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey, when several airplanes fly -overhead. She looks out and sees a “strange goldenish platter” moving -swiftly across the sky. It disappears in a second. (“South -Plainfield Woman Reports Seeing ‘Flying Saucer’ Formation,” -Bridgewater (N.J.) Courier-News, July 5, 1947, p.1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 968

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Event 1204 -(48A41BC2)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Harry Hale, production manager of the Portland -Oregonian, sees one shiny disc moving swiftly just west of Beaverton, -Oregon. (“Air Liner Crew Confirms Flying Disks over State; Many Seen -during Day over City,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, -“UFO -Reports, 1947”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 973

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Event 1205 -(C745DEFE)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: After 4:00 a.m. Mrs. Martin Kole is awakened in her home in -Alexandria, Virginia, by something shining through her bedroom window. -She sees a large, roiund object hovering in the southwestern sky. She -watches it for a few minutes, then goes back to bed. (Bloecher, p. II-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 969

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Event 1206 -(C4CF87EB)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: UFO crashes in Horse Mountain Canyon: 2 dead grays, one -heavily injured, one surviving
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: anonymous (channeled) information (R.G.)
-Location: Magdalena, NM

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Event 1207 -(079E32D9)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: Capt. E. J. Smith co-pilot & stewardess see UFO’s in -PNW
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Pacific Northwest

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Event 1208 -(C6AC503D)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: The United Press service rounds up theories about the -flying discs. It quotes Army Air Force “experts” saying that the -sightings might be caused by weather conditions, or meteorites, or -foreign aircraft that it is “our responsibility to know about it and -take proper action.” Occultist Ole J. Sneide from San Francisco, -California, thinks they are “oblate spheroid space ships from other -planets” with hidden bases on the dark side of the moon. This is -apparently the first public mention of an extraterrestrial origin for -flying saucers in the media. (“U.S. -Stops ‘Laughing -Off’ Stories of Flying Disks,” Hollywood (Calif.) Citizen-News, July -3, 1947, p. 1; “Flying -Disks Said ‘Space -Ships’ from Other Solar Systems,” Bryan (Tex.) Eagle, July 3, 1947, -p. 8; “Buck -Rogers Special,” Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat, July 4, 1947, -p. 2; Curt Collins, “A -1947 Pioneer of the UFO Extraterrestrial Hypothesis,” -The Saucers That Time Forgot, December 16, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 970

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Event 1209 -(EBB328AC)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: Sunset. M. K. Leisy, a junior intern at the Institute of -the Pennsylvania Hospital at 44th and Market streets in Philadelphia, is -reading on the porch of the hospital when he hears a loud roar. A large -transport plane passes overhead, but he also sees a dark sphere with a -luminous halo around it moving below the clouds at a moderate speed. It -disappears into the clouds. (“Flying -Discs Seen -over City,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3; Bloecher, -pp. II-14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 982

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Event 1210 -(23A3B9A7)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Time: 8:17 PM PDT
-Description: Witnesses: United Air Lines Capt. E.J. Smith, First Officer -Ralph Stevens, Stewardess Marty Morrow. Watched for 12-15 minutes while -four objects with flat bottoms and rough tops moved at varying speeds, -with one high and to the right of the others.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: over Emmet, Idaho
-ID: 1

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Event 1211 -(7363227A)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: Sunset. Henry -Seay, a -farmer living 2 miles north of Fayetteville, Arkansas, watches three -yellow discs flying overhead to the southwest, dropping sparks, and -frightening his cattle and horses. The following night it happens again -and the cows go into a panic, running off to the other side of the -pasture. Some kind of dust falls on Seay, although it does not burn. -After several seconds, the object rises up vertically 30–40 feet and -shoots off horizontally at 50 mph. (Bloecher, p. IV-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 981

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Event 1212 -(1C987AA5)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: Portland area mass sightings, hundreds of witnesses, Blue -Book Report includes state and local police witnesses
-Type: mass ufo sighting
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Portland, OR

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Event 1213 -(8BF8C79B)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 7:00 p.m. George Aster and others at Hauser Lake, Idaho, -watch a flying disc for 30 minutes as it hovers with a lateral -oscillation about 30° above the horizon at an estimated 20,000 feet. It -shoots straight up and vanishes when a small aircraft approaches it. -(“Disks -Seen Here Today, Is Report,” Spokane (Wash,) Spokesman- Review, July -7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, pp. II-6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 980

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Event 1214 -(6ED4B7D0)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 10:30 a.m. CAA official Irving C. Allen is flying a small -aircraft near Moscow, Idaho, when he sees a white disc moving north for -5 minutes as it crosses his path several miles in front of him. -(Bloecher, p. III-10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 971

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Event 1215 -(E2E79429)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 6:30 p.m. United Press correspondent John C. Corlett, along -with artist V. H. Selby and their wives, see a white disc speeding over -Boise, Idaho, at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. It takes about 3 -seconds to disappear. (“View of ‘Flying Saucers’ over Ontario Dumbfounds -Veteran Pilot, Other Crew Member of Airliner,” Portland Oregonian, July -5, 1947; Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1947”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 979

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Event 1216 -(394B4A00)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Coast Guard Yeoman Frank -Ryman photographs a round disc over his home at 12321 22nd Street -NE, Lake City, Seattle, Washington. The object is in sight for 4–5 -minutes and is seen by at least 20 others, traveling 500 mph. The photo -shows a small, blurred white oval against a background of sky, but when -enlarged the object is quite distinct. The Air Force explains it as a -weather balloon. (“Observers -Report Discs over -Entire Western Area,” -Salt Lake City Deseret News, July 5, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, pp. IV-3–4; -London UFO Research Unit, “Seattle, -Washington, America, North America”; Michael D. Swords, “Can -You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, -Part Two,” The Big Study, July 5, 2012; Kenneth Lloyd Larson, “A -Summer 1947 Sighting,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 978

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Event 1217 -(5F9FD4EF)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: After 5:00 p.m. Private pilot Dan Whelan and passenger -Duncan Underhill are flying at 5,000 feet west of Long Beach, -California, when they see a disc about 2,000 feet above them, traveling -at 400–500 mph. They estimate it is 40–50 feet in diameter and flying -north-northwest. (“‘Air -Disc’ Mystery Grows, Baffles -U.S.,” Hollywood (Calif.) Citizen-News, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3; -Bloecher, p. III-10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 977

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Event 1218 -(893016E1)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Nova Hart and his wife Marveline are picnicing -off Old Saint Charles Road west of Pattonville, Missouri. They see a -saucer-shaped object, ribbed like a “parachute canopy,” gliding slowly -(50–60 mph) and silently from south to north about 300 feet off the -ground. It seems to have a propellor attached to a red conical structure -on its underside and is about 20–25 feet in diameter. (Bloecher, p. II-14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 976

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Event 1219 -(C976C5A5)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: 2:50 p.m. Seven people at Twin Falls Park, seven miles east -of Twin Falls, Idaho, watch a group of discs in a rough V-formation -flying at great speed. A second flight of 9–10 objects circle overhead -in a loose formation. They gain altitude rapidly and move to the west. -(“Flying -Saucer Mystery Grows,” Tucson (Ariz.) Daily Citizen, July 5, 1947, -p. 4; Bloecher, p. II-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 975

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Event 1220 -(591867E4)

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Date: 7/4/1947
-Description: The first of the special flights from Washington, D.C., -arrives at Roswell Army Air Field [now closed], New Mexico (presumably -to investigate the radar reports claimed by Frank -Kaufmann). On the plane is Warrant Officer Robert Thomas. Thomas and -his companions are in uniform upon arrival, but quickly change to -civilian clothes. Thomas wants an on-site briefing as soon as it can be -arranged. These men remain at RAAF throughout the later retrieval. -(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at -Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 160–161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 984

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Event 1221 -(9733C2BB)

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Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 5:01 a.m. Project Mogul Flight number 10, a cluster of -plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico. (Kevin D. -Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1994): 6–7, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 989

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Event 1222 -(473C66D7)

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Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: Plains of San Agustin area: Gerald Anderson and -family/friends witness a crashed UFO with 4 ET’s, later passes a -polygraph test, interviewed by ufologist Stanton Friedman.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: link
-Location: Plains of San Agustin, NM

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Event 1223 -(9C4EF994)

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Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: Frank Cooley, a former Marine Corps observer now with radio -station KOIN in Portland, confirmed numerous reports of witnesses in the -Portland are Friday afternoon. Cooley estimated the disks were flying at -20,000 feet. He saw twelve of them and flatly declared them to be manned -and maneuverable.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Los Angeles Examiner, Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 -ff5)
-Location: Portland, OR

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Event 1224 -(09771A44)

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Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: Following the rain the night before, Brazel inspects -the pastures surrounding the J. B. Foster ranch house southeast of -Corona, New Mexico. Riding with him is the young son of the Proctors, William -D. Proctor. During the inspection, Brazel discovers a large debris -field. Scattered on the slopes and into the sinkhole and depressions are -plastic-like beams, pieces of lightweight balsawood-like material only -stronger, light metallic foil (which doesn’t stay bent or folded, -resumes its original shape, and won’t tear), and heavy-gauge -monofilament. The debris is thick enough that the sheep refuse to cross -the field and are driven around it to water more than a mile away. -Brazel, taking a few scraps of the material, heads to the home of his -closest neighbors, Floyd and -Loretta Proctor. He -shows them “a little sliver” of material that he can neither burn nor -cut. Some of the beams have symbols on them that reminds Brazel of -Chinese ideograms. The Proctors suggest he take it into town to show the -sheriff. (Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Did a Balloon Crash at -Roswell?” IUR 15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 4–5; Kevin D. Randle and -Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, -1994, pp. 27– 32, 161; -Michael D. Swords, “Roswell: -Clashing Visions of the Possible,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 11–13, -33– 35; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris Field: Size Doesn’t -Matter,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 14–19, 30; Donald R. -Burleson, “Roswell -Trajectory Feasibility,” Center for UFO Studies; Michael D. Swords, -GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO -Research, 2005, pp. 125–127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 992

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Event 1225 -(1654ED93)

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Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 5:30 a.m. According to discredited Roswell witness Frank -Kaufmann, a small contingent of men from Roswell Army Air Field in -New Mexico drive north on what is now US Highway 285. Near mile marker -132, they turn off the road and began driving across the desert, -stopping from time to time to cut the barbed-wire fencing. They discover -a heel-shaped craft measuring about 25 feet long and 12 feet wide -embedded in a cliff. The soldiers find civilians on the site already. -Besides the archaeologists, a local man named Larry Campbell (later -called Jack Armstrong or Cactus Jack) also claims to have been there. -They escort them off while others secure the area. Five bodies are -allegedly found on the site. The impact site is cleaned and secured by -11:30 a.m. Annie -Jacobsen has interviewed Alfred -O’Donnell, later an engineer at EG&G, who tells her that one of -the objects crashed and was recovered by the Joint Chiefs, including the -airframe, propulsion equipment, and the power plant. It has no wings or -tail. The fuselage is round and there is a dome on top. Inside there are -Cyrillic letters stamped or embossed in a ring running around the -inside. Army intelligence officers suspect that the craft is the -brainchild of German airplane engineers, Walter -and Reimar Horten, working for the Russian military. A frantic -search to find what happened to the brothers allegedly takes place; -informants like Austrian physicist Adolf -Smekal of Frankfurt, Germany, provide leads, with confusing results -for several months. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth -about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 161; -Thomas J. Carey, “The Strange Saga of ‘Cactus Jack,’” IUR 22, no. 1 -(Spring 1997): 3–11; Jim Wilson, “Roswell -Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 (July 1997): 48–53; Jacobsen, Area -51, pp. 36–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 990

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Event 1226 -(F0EFF670)

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Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: Later that evening, Brazel removes -the large, circular piece of the debris from the range. Brazel either -loads it into the back of his truck or drags it along behind. He stores -it in a livestock shed about three miles north of the crash site. (Kevin -D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at -Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 994

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Event 1227 -(5945BE45)

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Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Archaeologists, including William -Curry Holden, working the sites around Roswell, New Mexico, stumble -across an impact site where an object has crashed. One of them heads to -the closest phone to tell Sheriff George -A. Wilcox of the discovery of the remains of a crashed aircraft of -some kind. Wilcox calls the local fire department to alert them about -the crash. One truck, with Dan -Dwyer on it, responds to the call. The site is about 35–40 miles -north of Roswell. The Roswell Fire Department, escorted by members of -the Roswell Police Department, makes a run along Pine Lodge Road -northwest of Roswell. They are among the first civilians to stumble -across the impact site. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The -Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 33–36; -Thomas J. Carey, “The Search for the Roswell Archaeologists: Casting the -Net,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 3–8, 23–24; Thomas J. Carey, “The -Continuing Search for the Roswell Archaeologists: Closing the Circle,” -IUR 19, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1994): 4–12; Kevin D. Randle and Anthony -Bragalia, “Two Roswell Witnesses, Reconsidered,” IUR 32, no. 3 (July -2009): 6–8, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 988

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Event 1228 -(A11084DD)

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Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 10:00 a.m. W/O Robert Thomas and his crew proceed to the -impact site. The bodies, originally covered by sheets, are now in -lead-lined body bags. Only those with the highest clearance are allowed -close to the center of the impact. Guards are posted, facing out, to -keep the curious away. According to researcher Kathy Kasten, the dead -bodies are taken to Roswell Army Air Field, but one is still alive and -taken to Fort Stanton [now closed] in Lincoln, New Mexico, whose Marine -Hospital was used to confine troublesome German and Japanese detainees -during World War II. Allegedly, aerospace physician William -Randolph Lovelace II travels there from Albuquerque to examine the -survivor, who reportedly dies one week later and is buried in the Fort -Stanton cemetery. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth -about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 161; -Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, -pp. 204–221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 991

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Event 1229 -(43C5EDD5)

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Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Acting on what he claims are orders from Brig. -Gen. Martin -F. Scanlon of the Army’s Air Defense Command, discredited Roswell -witness Frank -Kaufmann returns to Roswell Army Air Field from Alamogordo to alert -Colonel William -H. Blanchard, Roswell AAF commanding officer, about a potential -crash. (Jim Wilson, “Roswell -Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 (July 1997): 48–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 987

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Event 1230 -(D8DF7FF5)

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Date: 7/5/1947
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Automobile dealer Kjell -Qvale and dozens of others see a triangular formation of silvery -discs flying south near Auburn, California. They appear directly -overhead and are in view for 3–4 minutes, disappearing one at a time, -but not over the hdorizon. (“Skeptical -Experts Call Disc -Reports ‘Mass Illusion,’” San Francisco Examiner, July 8, 1947, -p. 1; Bloecher, p. II-5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 993

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Event 1231 -(345206F6)

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Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Because of the distance to the ranch over roads -that are less than adequate, Brazel, -Marcel, -and Cavitt do -not arrive until after dark. They stay at the “Hines” house (an old -ranch house close to the debris field), eat cold beans, and wait for -daylight. Marcel runs a Geiger counter over the large piece of wreckage -Brazel has stored in the cattle shed. He detects no sign of radiation. -(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at -Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1002

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Event 1232 -(12EAD5AD)

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Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Army Staff Sgt. Ira -L. Livingston watches a procession of glowing round objects moving -at 500 mph over Birmingham, Alabama. A new one appears every 5 seconds. -Many others report UFOs in the area between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Robert -Crossland, a copy reader for the Birmingham Age-Herald, takes a photo -that shows two round white spots close together. (Bloecher, pp. III-3–4, -IV-4; -Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great -Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1001

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Event 1233 -(A4ED10A1)

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Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: Colonel William -H. Blanchard, Roswell AAF commanding officer, entrusted with -oversight of the first and only atomic-bomb strike force in the world, -the 509th Bomb Group, orders Jesse -A. Marcel, the air intelligence officer, to investigate the debris -report. Marcel immediately drives to the sheriff’s office. Marcel -interviews Brazel, examines -the pieces of the material that Brazel brought in, and decides he had -better visit the ranch to examine the field for himself. Marcel, taking -some of the debris with him, returns to the base and reports to -Blanchard on what he has seen. Blanchard, convinced that he is in -possession of something highly unusual, perhaps Soviet, alerts the next -higher headquarters. Marcel and Blanchard all know this is from not any -type of balloon. Marcel returns to the sheriff’s office with the senior -counterintelligence agent assigned to the base, CIC Captain Sheridan -W. Cavitt. They -escort Brazel back to his ranch and examine the debris field. Acting on -orders from Major General Clements -McMullen, deputy -commander of the Strategic Air Command, Blanchard obtains more of the -debris from the sheriff’s office. It is sealed in a courier pouch and -loaded on an airplane to be flown on to the Fort Worth Army Air Field, -where it is given to Colonel Thomas -J. DuBose for transport on to Washington, D.C. After Marcel and -Cavitt leave with Brazel, the two deputies return to say they did not -find the debris field but observed a burned area in one of the pastures. -There the sand has been turned to glass and blackened. It looks as if -something circular has touched down. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. -Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 37–40, 164; -Good Need, p. 89; -Nukes 482–483)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1000

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Event 1234 -(8439B4CA)

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Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: Afternoon. Francis Howell and his wife are in their yard at -317 Ash Street in Tempe, Arizona, when they see an object floating down -to the ground with a kite-like motion. It appears to be about 2 feet -across and made of aluminum. It disappears behind some trees. The -Howells and some neighbors walk toward the place where it apparently has -landed, and they see the disc ascend at a 45° angle and move at high -speed toward the northwest. (“Tempeans -See ‘Disc,’” Phoenix Arizona Republic, July 7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, -p. II-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 999

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Event 1235 -(B027D7F1)

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Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: 2:45 p.m. David -A. Kenney, an aircraft instruments engineer, and two others watch an -oval-shaped UFO flying at a high altitude for nearly 2 minutes near -Encampment, Wyoming. (Bloecher, p. III-17); -David Kenney, “Right Place, Right Time,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006): -28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 998

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Event 1236 -(F126FAC5)

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Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: Day. Army Air Corps Capt. James -H. Burniston and his wife watch a round, flat object that oscillates -on its lateral axis of travel three quarters of the way across the sky -in a few seconds at Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field [now Travis AFB] -near Fairfield, California. (NICAP, “Round -Flat Object Size of C-54”; Bloecher, p. III-3; -Sparks, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 997

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Event 1237 -(9E9B1177)

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Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: 1:45 p.m. Maj. A. B. Browning and the crew of a B-25 flying -over Clay Center, Kansas, see a silvery disc about 30–50 feet in -diameter slightly lower than their plane. It paces them for a while then -shoots off. (NICAP, “30–50ʹ Circular -Object Paces B-25, Accelerates”; Bloecher, p. III-11; -Sparks, -p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 996

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Event 1238 -(590301A4)

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Date: 7/6/1947
-Description: Brazel gets -up early, completes his chores, and then drives into Roswell, New -Mexico, about 75 miles away. He stops at the office of Sheriff George -A. Wilcox. Contrary -to published reports, Wilcox is excited about the find and suggests the -military at the Roswell Army Air Field [now closed] be notified. While -waiting for the military officers to arrive, Wilcox dispatches two of -his deputies to the ranch. They have only the directions given by -Brazel, but both men are familiar with the territory; and Wilcox -believes they will be able to find the debris field. KGFL reporter Frank -Joyce calls Wilcox, who tells him Brazel is in his office with an -interesting story. Brazel allegedly gets on the phone with Joyce and -mentions debris and a stench from dead bodies. (Kevin D. Randle and -Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, -1994, pp. 163–164)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 995

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Event 1239 -(CA649AD9)

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Date: 7/6/1947
-Time: Daytime
-Description: Witnesses: Army Air Forces Capt. and Mrs. James Burniston. -Watched for 1 minute while one object having no wings or tail rolled -from side-to-side three times and then flew away very fast to the -southeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fairfield-Suisan Air Base, California
-ID: 2

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Event 1240 -(BBCAE80E)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: CAMERA CATCHES TWO IN FLIGHT - Photographer Al Hixenbaugh -took a photo of a flying saucer at 10:15. There were three objects in -the sky, but he had time to snap only two. They made no sound. Neither -did Hixenbaugh. He had no comment as to what they might be. They look -like either two very bright saucer trails, or two saucers seen flat edge -on against a dark sky.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Louisville Times - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 -ff5 )
-Location: Louisville, Kentucky

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Event 1241 -(CEC378B3)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: Gen. Hoyt -Vandenberg’s activity log: 1:10 p.m., answers a Toronto Star -reporter’s question about possible secret military aircraft. Vandenberg -says no AAF planes are looking for discs, but National Guard planes are -looking into the discs on their own. 1:50 p.m., Stephen Leo, public -relations officer for AF Secretary Stuart Symington, calls -concerning the Shreveport, Louisiana, incident. 1:55 p.m. Leo and -Gen. Curtis -LeMay discuss the discs. Col. Warren, at Ellington Field [now -Ellington Airport] in Houston, Texas, calls concerning the Shreveport -disc. 4:20 p.m., Col. Warren calls back and says the incident is a hoax. -(David Rudiak, “Lt. -Gen. Hoyt S. -Vandenberg and Roswell,” Roswell Proof, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1009

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Event 1242 -(4826B052)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Five students on a practice baseball field at -Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, see three metallic oval objects -flying swiftly and silently in a triangular formation overhead. They -seem to be about 10 feet in diameter and are flying east over the -Olentangy River. They are out of sight within 10 seconds. (Bloecher, p. II- 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1014

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Event 1243 -(202F22C4)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: A hoax in Shreveport, Louisiana. A 16-inch aluminum disc -with smoke coming out of it is found. Army investigators find “Made in -USA” on the disc. It is one of many homemade gadgets, weather balloon -radar targets, circular saws, and other disc-like debris that people -find or make in order to have some fun in the press or with gullible -saucer-seekers. (Sparks, p. 21; -“Speaking -of Pictures: A Rash of Flying Disks Breaks Out over the U.S.,” -Life, July 21, 1947, p. 14; ClearIntent, p. 149; -Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Secret Projects and Open Eyes: A -Response,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): 15–17; Kevin D. Randle, “The -Hoover Memo Again,” -A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015; Maurizio Verga, “Here -They Are! Early Crashes of Flying Saucers, -a Visual History,” Cielo Insolito, no. 6 (March 2018): 8–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1006

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Event 1244 -(D3F8CF68)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Orrin -Williams and his wife Albertine, along -with Mr, and Mrs. Cecil Grant, are fishing on Great Pond near Rome, -Maine, when they see a “spinning rocket” come out of the southern sky -and stop abruptly overhead, where it hovers as a ball of fire. A similar -object comes from the east, passing close by the first one. A third -object approaches from the east and stops by the first object before -moving on. The first object then retraces its path to the south at high -speed. The display lasts several minutes. (Bloecher, p. II-10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1015

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Event 1245 -(B3F6988E)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 9:00 p.m. William -A. Rhodes, an -independent scientist and inventor in Phoenix, Arizona, takes two photos -of a dark, heel-shaped disc at his home at 4333 N. 14th Street. The -photos are reproduced in the July 9 issue of the Arizona Republic. A few -weeks later, an Army Air Corps Intelligence officer from Hamilton Army -Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California, visits Rhodes and takes the -prints and negatives, but Rhodes is unable to get them back. However, Kenneth -Arnold obtains them on a later visit to Hamilton, and they wind up -with James -E. McDonald. Rhodes -actually has an informal top-secret clearance because of his invention -of a degaussing device for ships. He dies in 2007 at the age of 90. -(NICAP, “The -Rhodes Photo Case”; Bloecher, p. IV-4; -Michael D. Swords, “Can -You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,” The Big Study, July -5, 2012; Swords 53, 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1016

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Event 1246 -(2FE2FECE)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Charles Crockett, 15, is walking along Western -Avenue in Manchester, Maine, when he sees a cluster of luminous objects -to the west, just above the treetops on the north end of Cobboseecontee -Lake. They are still visible when he arrives home and alerts his mother -and grandmother. Possible searchlight beams. (“’Flying Saucers’ -Still Seen Flitting in -N.E. Sky,” Bangor (Maine) Daily News, July 8, 1947, pp. 1–2; -Bloecher, p. II-20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1017

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Event 1247 -(BAA1810D)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Louisville Times photographer Al -Hixenbaugh is at Preston Street and Bickels Lane in Louisville, -Kentucky, when he notices three “fiery balls” in the sky. He takes a -5-second exposure, capturing two of the objects that show as slightly -curved streaks. He estimates they are 1–2 miles away, moving at 200 mph, -and at an altitude of 1,000–2,000 feet. Robert Delara of 2745 West -Market Street also sees the three objects shooting northward. -(Louisville (Ky.) Times, July 8, 1947; “‘Flying -Liver Pills’ over Kentucky,” Cincinnati Enquirer, July 9, 1947, -p. 1; Bloecher, pp. IV-4–5; -“La -Fotografía (y la Pélicula) Al Hixenbaugh 1,” Marcianitos Verdes, -February 5, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1018

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Event 1248 -(4E0ADD9C)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Capt. Robert -J. Southey and Clem -Hackworthy are flying a private aircraft near East Troy, Wisconsin, -when they see a fast-moving silver object flying southeast from Eagle to -Muskego, covering 17 miles in 20 seconds (approximately 3,060 mph). They -try to photograph it, but it quickly disappears, then suddenly reappears -about 10 miles away. (Bloecher, pp. III-11–12; -Sparks, -p. 22; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2001, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1010

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Event 1249 -(995B6393)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: A meeting is held in the office of Brig. Gen. George -F. Schulgen, chief -of the Requirements Intelligence branch of Army Air Force Intelligence. -It is decided to investigate five flying disc incidents with “qualified” -observers and obtain detailed statements: two in Seattle, Washington; -one in Boise, Idaho; one in Palm Springs, California; and one in -Washington State. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July -7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1011

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Event 1250 -(4EBAC0B4)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: John -Philip Bessor of Zelienople, Pennsylvania, writes to the US Air -Force to offer his own theory that UFOs are “a form of space animal, or -creature, of a highly attenuated (ectoplasmic?) substance, capable of -materialization and dematerialization, whose propellant is a form of -telekinetic energy.” (“Report from the Readers,” Fate 4, no. 4 (May/June -1951): 88; John P. Bessor, “Are the Saucers Space Animals?” Fate 8, no. -12 (December 1955): 6–12; Curt Collins, “The -1947 ET Hypothesis of John P. Bessor,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, -February 15, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1012

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Event 1251 -(643ADD2B)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 5:20 p.m. Radar technician David W. Chase watches a -disc-shaped object passing overhead at Medford, Oregon. It appears to be -flying at 600–700 mph on edge at right angles to the surface of the -earth, though following its contours at 500–1,000 feet. The object gives -off a bright light. (Bloecher, p. III-18; -Ray Palmer, “New Report on the Flying Saucers,” Fate 4, no. 1 (January -1951): 63–81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1013

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Event 1252 -(557BCF90)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: AMC commander Lieut. Gen Nathan -Twining unexpectedly flies to Alamogordo AAF and Kirtland AAF in New -Mexico, remaining there until July 11. Army Air Forces Commander Gen. Carl -Spaatz is supposedly “vacationing” in Washington State. He tells -reporters he knows nothing about the flying discs. (Kevin D. Randle and -Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, -1994, p. 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1005

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Event 1253 -(FC3CEB93)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: Brazel takes -Marcel and -Cavitt out -to the debris field. It is three-quarters of a mile long and 200–300 -feet wide. A gouge starting at the northern end of it extends for -400–500 feet toward the other end. It looks as if something has touched -down and skipped along. The largest piece of debris is recovered at the -southern edge of the gouge. The debris is as thin as newsprint, but -incredibly strong. There is foil that, when crumpled, unfolds itself -without a sign of a wrinkle, I-beams that flex slightly and have some -symbols on them, and material resembling Bakelite. Marcel and Cavitt -walk the perimeter of the field and then range out looking for more -details or another crash site but find nothing else. Finally, they -return and spend the remainder of the day collecting debris. They load -the rear of Marcel’s car and then the jeep carryall driven by Cavitt. -About dusk they begin the trip back to Roswell. (Don Schmitt and Kevin -D. Randle, “The Roswell Material,” IUR 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1991): -10–11; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO -Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 27–29, -165; -Kevin D. Randle, “Don’t Bother Me with the Facts…,” IUR 18, no. 3 -(Jan./Feb. 1993): 16–17, 24; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris: A -Quantitative Evaluation of the Project Mogul Hypothesis,” IUR 20, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1995): 3–6, 23–24; Charles B. Moore, Robert G. Todd, Mark -Rodeghier, and Kevin D. Randle, “Project Mogul and the Roswell Crash: An -Exchange,” IUR 20, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1995): 7–9, 19–22; Kevin D. Randle, -“Bessie Brazel’s Story,” IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June 1995): 3–5, 24; Robert -A. Galganski, “Roswell: Connecting the Debris Field and the Impact -Site,” IUR 21, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 11–17; Robert A. Galganski, “The -Glue Explanation Just Won’t Stick,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter 1997–1998): -3–7; Robert A. Galganski, “An Engineer Looks at the Project Mogul -Hypothesis,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 3–6, 32; Thomas J. Carey, -“Will the Real Sheridan Cavitt Please Stand Up?” IUR 23, no. 3 (Fall -1998): 14–21; Kent Jeffrey, “Roswell: -Anatomy of a Myth,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 -(1998): 79–101; Michael D. Swords, “A -Different View of ’Roswell: Anatomy of -a Myth,’” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 (1998): -103–125; Robert M. Wood, “Critique -of ‘Roswell: -Anatomy of a Myth,’” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 -(1998): 127–140; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Mack Brazel -Reconsidered,” IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 13–19; Robert A. Galganski, -The Roswell Debris Field: An Engineer’s Perspective, Fund for UFO -Research, 2002; Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel -Schreiber and the Roswell Crash,” A Different Perspective, September -19, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1004

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Event 1254 -(FA169CCB)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 9:55 a.m. Newspaper editor John Brackett and his wife Wilma -see an object streak across the sky in Reno, Nevada, leaving a trail of -bluish-white vapor. It is high in the sky and traveling at about 1,000 -mph. (“Tiny -Speck Whizzes -across Sky Here at Unbelievable Rate of Speed; Many Reno Persons See -Small Object,” Reno Nevada State Journal, July 8, 1947, p. 14; -Bloecher, pp. III-7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1007

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Event 1255 -(2C0A9436)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Flight instructor Kenneth Jones out of Elkhart, -Wisconsin, is practicing take-offs and landings with a student near -Koshkonong. They watch a disc descending vertically on edge through the -alto-cumulus clouds at 6,000 feet, stop at 4,000 feet, assume a -horizontal orientation, and fly horizontally for 15 seconds, covering 23 -miles at 5,500 mph. At one point it heads straight towards them on a -course of about 120°, then stops again (apparently overhead) and -disappears. (Bloecher, p. III-11; -Sparks, p. 22; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the -Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental -Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1008

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Event 1256 -(5E60952D)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A special flight (the first) leaves Roswell AAF -for Andrews AAF in Washington, D.C. Some of the debris and the bodies -are on that flight. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth -about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1003

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Event 1257 -(30A454FD)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: Secret operation to recover a crashed saucer in NM 75 miles -northwest of Roswell Army Air Base (RAAF)
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research (crash)
-Location: Roswell, NM

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Event 1258 -(BCCD5C47)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: Newspaper article: A P-38 tangles with a flying disc at 32k -ft near LA, gets caught in prop wash and appears to disintegrate and -crash, pilots forced to recant their story in contradictory manner
-Type: anomalous incident
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Los Angeles, CA

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Event 1259 -(25C69D2E)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: Newspaper article: “Army can’t locate crashed saucers” in -Spokane area
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Spokane, CA

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Event 1260 -(467364C0)

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Date: 7/7/1947
-Description: OREGON HAS MORE SAUCERS - David W. chase of Phoenix, -Oregon, radar technician saw an object five miles south of Medford, -flying eastward, going 6-700 miles an hour at approximately 10,000 feet. -It was in view about 60 or 70 seconds before disappearing over the -horizon. The total view of the course was about 150 degrees. The saucer -flew on edge at right angles to the plane of the earth and gave off a -bright blue-white light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 )
-Location: Medford, OR

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Event 1261 -(AF2ADB11)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 6:29 p.m. An Associated Press story goes out that a Fort -Worth Army Air Field officer (Newton) -has identified the Roswell debris as a weather balloon. (Kevin D. Randle -and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, -1994, pp. 46–52, 168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1036

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Event 1262 -(BACDD33F)

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Date: 7/8/1947 (approximate)
-Description: British radio and TV entertainer Hughie -Green is driving across the US. About 250 miles west of -Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he hears an announcement that a flying -saucer “had crashed in New Mexico and that the Army were moving in to -investigate. Later the program was interrupted again and quite a few -details were given.” When he arrives at Philadelphia, there is nothing -in the newspapers or on the radio. (“Star -Puzzled,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no 1 (Spring 1955): 3; Clark III -319; “Hughie -Green: ‘Peripheral Witness to Roswell?’” Above Top Secret forum, -October 20, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1027

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Event 1263 -(954452DF)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: Rep. Lyndon -B. Johnson (D-Tex.) requests information on the flying discs from -the War Department. Someone from Gen. Carl -Spaatz’s office writes back on July 21 to tell him the Army Air -Forces are looking into it, but there is “no indication” that the discs -are “new or unusual missiles or aircraft.” (Swords 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1026

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Event 1264 -(EF406D62)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: The Army Air Force issues a press release saying that, -based on a “preliminary study,” the flying discs are not secret -bacteriological weapons designed by a foreign power, experimental army -aircraft, or spaceships. However, Army and Navy officials are not -certain what they are. (“‘Saucer’ -Dept.—All Designs,” Racine (Wis.) Journal Times, July 8, 1947, -p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1025

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Event 1265 -(F18642AC)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Col. William -Blanchard dictates a press release about the Roswell recovery to -Public Information Officer Lt. Walter -Haut, who -delivers the release to radio stations around noon (the first apparently -to Frank Joyce at KGFL) and the newspapers in Roswell, New Mexico. -(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at -Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1024

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Event 1266 -(35075480)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 9:30 a.m.–9:20 p.m. Five separate UFO sightings take place -at Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB] in southern California, the Air Force’s -aircraft testing and development center. Ruppelt says -these are the first sightings “that really made the Air Force take a -deep interest in UFOs.” At 9:30 a.m., 1st Lt. Joseph -C. McHenry and three others see three discs heading in a westerly -direction. At 10:10 a.m., XP-84 test pilot Maj. Jowell -C. Wise sees a yellowish-white object at 10,000 feet traveling about -200 mph. At 11:50 a.m., Maj. Richard -R. Shoop, Col. S. A. Gilkey, and Capt. John -P. Stapp are sitting in an observation truck at Rogers Dry Lake and -see a round, white aluminum-like object descending from 20,000 feet for -about 90 seconds; it has two knobs or thick fins on the top. Around 4:00 -p.m., a pilot flying an F-51 some 40 miles south of Muroc sees a “flat -object of a light-reflecting nature”; it is flying too high for him to -climb up to it. At 9:20 p.m., spherical objects are again seen in the -area, this time at 8,000 feet and moving against the wind at 300 mph. -(NICAP, “Observers -Sight Saucer over Base”; NICAP, “Object -Observed by Four Witnesses in Observation”; NICAP, “Object -Descends to Ground Level, Rises”; -NICAP, “Flat -Object with Fin Observed by F-51 Pilot”; Bloecher, pp. III-4, -12; Clark III 783–784; Sparks, pp. 22–23; Patrick Gross, “The -Muroc Army Air Field Incidents”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1023

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Event 1267 -(FCAE912A)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Cavitt and -Lewis -S. Rickett, who -has returned from an assignment in Carlsbad, New Mexico, drive a staff -car to the impact site north of Roswell, followed by MPs. They are -stopped by the guards who are still posted. When they arrive, they see -that a small containment of debris remains that Rickett is allowed to -examine. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO -Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1022

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Event 1268 -(CAEFE9C7)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 7:30 a.m. The regular 9:00 a.m. Roswell Army Air Field -staff meeting is moved up 90 minutes. The main topic for discussion is -Marcel and -Cavitt reporting -an extensive debris field near Corona in Lincoln County, New Mexico, -approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell. A preliminary briefing is -provided by Blanchard about -the separate impact site approximately 40 miles north of Roswell. -Samples of wreckage are passed around the table. Pieces that resemble -metal foil, paper-thin yet extremely strong, and pieces with unusual -markings along their length are handed from man to man, each voicing -their opinion. No one is able to identify the crash debris. (Kevin D. -Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, -Evans, 1994, p. 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1021

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Event 1269 -(E21A7400)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Marcel and -Cavitt visit -with Blanchard in -his quarters and tell him what they have seen. Blanchard calls base -Provost Marshal Maj. Edwin -D. Easley and orders him to post guards on the roads around the -debris field. Armed guards encircle the primary areas, denying access to -anyone without official business. Easley is directed to locate Brazel and -have him escort the MPs to the debris field. Blanchard calls Eighth Air -Force headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, and advises them of the new -find. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO -Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1020

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Event 1270 -(7009837B)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Time: 9:30 AM PDT
-Description: Witnesses: lst Lt. Joseph McHenry, T/Sgt Ruvolo, S/Sgt -Nauman, Miss Janette Scotte. Watched for an unstated length of time -while two disc-shaped or spherical objects–silver and apparently -metallic–flew a wide circular pattern, and then one of them later flew a -tighter circle.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Muroc Air Base, California
-ID: 3

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Event 1271 -(ECCA463B)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Time: 1200
-Description: An Air Force major observed a metallic object, reflecting -sunlight oscillate, go down to ground level, and rise again. -Simultaneously it was observed by a captain in Rodgers Dry Lake.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Muroc Air Field, California
-ID: 60

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Event 1272 -(8F976BB3)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: Intel. Officer Maj. Marcel reports Roswell Army Air Force -captures a downed flying saucer near Roswell NM
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-B, J2, RECOVERY)
-Location: Roswell, NM

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Event 1273 -(E8BFE3DA)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: Roswell radio announcement, debris being flown by special -plane to Wright Field
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: Roswell, NM

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Event 1274 -(E0B2FEA5)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: FBI Dallas teletype to Director: flying saucer crashed and -was recovered near Roswell NM
-Type: teletype
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A, RECOVERY)
-Location: Dallas, TX

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Event 1275 -(B9C28A4E)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: Urgent FBI Memo from Gen. Roger Ramey concerning “flying -disc information”: “Maj. Curtan, HQ 8th AF, telephonically advised this -office that an object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near -Roswell, N.M., this date…Information provided this office because of -national interest in case and fact that (certain media sources) -attempting to break the story of location of disc today…(the recovered -disc was) being transported to Wright Field by special plane for -examination…Maj. Curtan advised would request Wright Field to advise -(FBI) results of examination.”
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea -Research
-See also: 7/2/47
-See also: 7/7/47

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Event 1276 -(24C516EE)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: United Press reports on a phone call to Einstein: -“absolutely no comment”, claimed no knowledge
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com

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Event 1277 -(D39C1633)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: BSRA (Borderlands) Memorandum found in official FBI UFO -files, addressed to “important aeronautical and military authorities, to -a number of public officials” that “a serious situation may develop at -any time with regard to the flying saucers”. “If one of these should be -attacked, the attacking plane will be almost surely destroyed.” “Part of -the discs carry crews, others are under remote control.” “Heat resistant -metal or alloy not yet known.”
-Type: FOIA release
-Reference: Medium

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Event 1278 -(0FDCA859)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: Newspaper article in England: Maury Island incident -fragments sent for analysis to metallurgists at Chicago University
-Type: Newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Reference: Newspapers.com

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Event 1279 -(1BAC90F1)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Blanchard decides -it is time to “go on leave.” Too many phone callers into the base are -asking to speak with him. He, along with a few members of his staff, -drive out to the Corona, New Mexico, debris field. Those left at the -base are told to inform the reporters that the colonel is now on leave. -(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at -Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 167; -Kevin D. Randle, “When a Leave Is Not a Leave: Col. Blanchard and the -Roswell Timeline,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 18–20; Karl T. -Pflock, “Taking Liberties with a Leave,” IUR 20, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1995): -18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1030

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Event 1280 -(13A51BD2)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 5:17 p.m. Special Agent Percy -Wyly II in the Dallas, Texas, FBI office sends a teletype headed -“Flying Disc, Information Concerning” to J. -Edgar Hoover and Strategic Air Command in Cincinnati, Ohio, -expressing some doubt about the balloon explanation: “telephonic -conversation between [Eighth Air Force] and Wright Field had not borne -out this belief. Disc and balloon being transported to Wright Field by -special plane for examination.” Wyly receives this information from Maj. -Edwin M. Kirton at Fort Worth. Roswell mortician Glenn -Dennis, intrigued by inquiries from the base about small caskets, -visits the base hospital but is turned away forcibly; a nurse friend -(possibly 1st Lt. Adeline -“Eileen” M. Fanton) warns him to leave before he gets into trouble -and supposedly tells him that three alien bodies had been found. Other -witnesses to recovered bodies include T/Sgt Ernest -R. Robbins, Maj. -Edwin -D. Easley, Ruben and Pete Anaya, New Mexico Lieutenant Governor Joseph Montoya, Sgt. Melvin -E. Brown (who says the bodies looked Asian), Capt. Oliver -“Pappy” W. Henderson, -Staff Sgt. Robert -A. Slusher, and Charles -H. Forgus. ([Wyly’s -teletype message]; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth -about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 168–169; Good Need, pp. 91–93; -Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “Who’s the Dummy Now? The Latest Air -Force Report,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 10; Nick Redfern, The Roswell -UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 97–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1035

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Event 1281 -(AA84A156)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 4:30 p.m. The Roswell Daily Record carries the “RAAF -Captures Flying Saucer” story. In Fort Worth, Texas, Ramey issues -a statement saying the Roswell officers were fooled and that the -material is a Rawin target device suspended by a Neoprene rubber -balloon. (“Rawin” is a method of determining wind speed and direction by -using radar or radio waves to track a balloon carrying either a -radar-sensitive target or radio transponder.). The debris is switched -for the newspaper photographer, James -Bond Johnson, at a press conference held by Ramey and Col. Thomas -J. DuBose in late afternoon. Johnson takes six photos of the debris -and leaves after 20 minutes. One of the photos shows Ramey holding a -piece of paper (the “Ramey memo”) with words written on it; -unfortunately, the resolution is inadequate to decisively “deblur” the -text using modern technological methods. A weather officer, Maj. Irving -Newton, is -called in to identify the debris as from a balloon. A photo of Newton -with the debris is taken by another photographer. (Kevin D. Randle and -Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, -1994, pp. 41–43, 168; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Fort -Worth, July 8, 1947: The Cover-Up Begins,” IUR 15, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1990): 21–23; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “The -Fort Worth Press Conference: The J. Bond Johnson Connection,” IUR 15, -no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1990): 5–16; Robert A. Galganski, “Probing the Roswell -Thin-Strut Debris,” IUR 24, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 8–12, 30; Donald R. -Burleson, “Deciphering the Ramey Memo,” IUR 25, no. 2 (Summer 2000): -3–6, 32; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris Field: Size Doesn’t -Matter,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 14–19, 30; James Houran and -Kevin D. Randle, “Interpreting the Ramey Memo,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer -2002): 10–14, 26–27; Donald R. Burleson, “On Blobs and Chiaroscuro,” IUR -27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 24; James Houran and Kevin D. Randle, “’A Message -in a Bottle’: Confounds in Deciphering the Ramey Memo from the Roswell -UFO Case,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 16, no. 1 (2002): -45–66; Barry Greenwood, “An -Observation on the Ramey Memo,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 11 (March -2004): 1–8; James Houran, A -Search for Meaning in the Ramey Document: From the -Roswell UFO Case, Fund -for UFO Research, 2006; Dennis Balthaser, “Interview: -James Bond Johnson (Roswell -Wreckage Photographer),” The UFO Chronicles, March 27, 2006; Barry -Greenwood, “Ramey -Memo Redux: -Line 5,” UFO Historical Revue, no 13 (September 2009): 5–19; Kevin -D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century, The Author, 2016; Nick Redfern, -The Roswell UFO Conpsiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 232–238)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1034

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Event 1282 -(C242BEF5)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 4:26 p.m. Thomas Dale is flying a small plane at 2,800 feet -over Alton, New Hampshire, with passenger Jere Stetson. They see a -metallic object some 2 miles away to the east and some 1,500 feet below -their aircraft. It approaches them at great speed before veering to the -north. They estimate it is 20 feet long and “not exactly round.” -(Bloecher, p. III-12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1033

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Event 1283 -(C68A220F)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 3:50 p.m. An Army National Guard pilot flying near Mount -Baldy, California, observes a flat object, reflecting light, about the -size of a fighter. He gives chase, attempting to keep it in sight, but -is unable to do so. (Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying -Discs,” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell, -Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,” -A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1032

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Event 1284 -(B66D1841)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 2:41 p.m. The press release is put on the United Press -wire.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1031

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Event 1285 -(84F9E60D)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Marcel stops -at home in Roswell to show his wife Viaud and -son Jesse -Jr. some of the Corona, New Mexico, crash debris. Over the next hour -they examine it on the kitchen floor. Marcel Sr. says it is a flying -saucer. Marcel is not breaking regulations since nothing has yet been -classified. With the help of his son, Marcel loads it into the car to be -taken to Roswell AAF. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth -about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 166; -Robert J. Durant, “C. B. Moore’s Mogul Tape,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer -1998): 7–9, 32; Robert A. Galganski, “Probing the Roswell Thin-Strut -Debris,” IUR 24, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 8–12, 30; Karl T. Pflock, et al., -“Debris Details,” IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1019

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Event 1286 -(DC3F4EB6)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 2:26 p.m. Haut’s -press release about the recovered disc reaches the Associated Press -wire. The story announces: “The army air forces here today announced a -flying disc had been found” the previous week. It says that the disc is -recovered by intelligence officers of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell -Army Air Field [now closed], New Mexico, with the help of local ranchers -and the Chavez County Sheriff’s Office. It adds that the disc is being -loaned by Maj. Marcel “to -higher headquarters.” (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth -about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1029

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Event 1287 -(7366745A)

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Date: 7/8/1947
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Marcel goes -on a B-29 special flight (the second) to Fort Worth Army Air Field, -Texas, with the wreckage to report to Gen. Roger -M. Ramey. The pilot is Lt. Col. Payne -Jennings Jr. with Lt. Col. Robert Barrowclough riding -in the bombardier’s seat. Only a few packages are loaded onto the plane. -One, a triangular package about two feet long, is wrapped in brown -paper. The other three are about the size of shoe boxes. They are so -light that it feels as if there is nothing in them. When it lands in -Fort Worth, the enlisted soldiers on the plane are ordered to remain -aboard until a guard is posted and Marcel gets off taking one of the -packages that he has been carrying on his lap. According to Flight -Engineer M/Sgt. Robert -Porter, the soldiers go to the mess hall once the guard is posted. -The remaining debris is transferred to a B-25 that is flying to Wright -Field in Dayton, Ohio. Marcel goes to Ramey’s office and puts the -package on his desk. They both go to a map room, where Marcel shows him -where the debris was found. When they return to Ramey’s office, Marcel -sees that the package he brought has been substituted by a torn-up -weather balloon. Ramey proposes a plan that possibly originates from his -bosses at the Pentagon. Attention needs to be diverted from the more -important impact site north of Roswell by acknowledging the Corona -location. Too many civilians are involved, and the press is already -alerted. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO -Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 167–168; -Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Flight to Fort Worth: From -Complicity to Cover-Up,” IUR 25, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 7–13, 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1028

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Event 1288 -(BAA06C21)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: Brig. Gen. George -F. Schulgen, chief of the Requirements Intelligence branch of Army -Air Force Intelligence, requests FBI help with the problem of the flying -discs from Special Agent S. -Wesley Reynolds. Army intelligence claims they are not Army or Navy -craft. He says that Air Corps Intelligence is utilizing all its -scientists to study the cases to see whether they are natural or -artificial or inspired by “individuals of Communist sympathies with the -view to causing hysteria and fear of a secret Russian weapon.” (E. G. -Fitch, [FBI -memo], July 10, 1947; ClearIntent, p. 148; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July -7th–July 10th, -Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1051

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Event 1289 -(4ED9F447)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 12:50 p.m. Vandenberg and -Symington meet -with the Joint Chiefs.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1046

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Event 1290 -(DA5C78B0)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 10:50 a.m. Doolittle, -Vandenberg, and -Symington meet -in the office of Army Chief of Staff Dwight -D. Eisenhower. Maj. -Gen. Lauris -Norstad, director of the Plans and Operations Department, is also -present. (Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, -2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1044

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Event 1291 -(78E27C08)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Constable Eric Kearsey sees four yellowish discs -flying in close formation above Grand Falls, Newfoundland. He calls -other people to watch them as well. They are moving at high speed to the -east with a dipping motion. At 11:40 p.m., an egg-shaped object “the -size of a barrel head” passes overhead in the same direction. -(St. John’s (Newf.) Evening Telegram, July 9, 1947; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2001, pp. 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1053

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Event 1292 -(73DA7A2E)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Electrician Raymond Edward Lane and -his wife are picking huckleberries near Midland, Michigan, when they -hear a kind of “puff” noise nearby. Looking up, they see a ball of -white, sparkling fire, like a Fourth of July sparkler, about the size of -a bushel basket, no more than 100 feet away. It is hovering several feet -above a stretch of sand. After about 10 or 15 seconds, the light goes -out and the object vanishes. The only thing that remains is a peculiar -dark substance on the sand and some metallic fragments. Lane collects -fragments of the material in a tin can and brings them the next morning -to Robert S. Spencer, a senior researcher at the Dow Chemical Company -materials research laboratory in Midland. Spencer goes to the site with -Lane and Dow’s internal security chief Edward Fales. Spencer has the Dow -spectroscopy laboratory analyze the fragments and reports that the shiny -pellets are largely silver mixed with a bit of silicon. They conclude -that it consists of fused sand. By the end of September, the lab has -analyzed ashlike powder found at the site. It turns out to be thorite -that is slightly radioactive, mixed with magnesium hydroxide and other -trace minerals. The conclusion is that the sighting is the result of -some kind of home-made fireworks experiment, although Dow chemist John -Josef Grebe suspects it might have been a small missile. (NICAP, “Object -Hovers over Sand”; Bloecher, pp. IV-2–3; -Joel Carpenter, “The -Midland Fireball: Dow Chemical, UFOs, and Evidence,” IUR 23, no. 3 -(Fall 1998): 28–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1052

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Event 1293 -(7AC82EF3)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: RAAF officers locate Mack -Brazel and take him to the base for questioning, then to the Roswell -Daily Record and radio station KGPL for a revised, sanitized version of -his story, this time saying he found the debris on June 14. Copies of Haut’s -original press release are recovered. Three fully loaded C-54’s carry -debris to Los Alamos, New Mexico, via Kirtland AFB, according to Robert -E. Smith, First Air Transport Unit. A crate allegedly carrying alien -bodies is flown from Roswell to Fort Worth in a B-29, according to Staff -Sgt. Robert -A. Slusher, who says he was on board. (Don Schmitt and Kevin D. -Randle, “Roswell, July 9, 1947,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 4–6, -23; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash -at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 53–58, 169–171; -Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel’s Story,” IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June 1995): -3–5, 24; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Mack Brazel -Reconsidered,” IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 13–19; Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie -Brazel Schreiber and the Roswell Crash,” A Different Perspective, -September 19, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1038

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Event 1294 -(E520AA3F)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: Late afternoon. 1Lt Chester -P. Barton, stationed at Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico, is -sent by Maj. Edwin -D. Easley to go to the crash site and report back to him about what -is going on. He gets no closer than about 50 feet from the wreckage, -which appears to have burned. He is convinced it is the remains of a -B-29 bomber. He remains at the site for about 90 minutes then reports -back to Easley. (Joseph Stefula, “The Roswell Testimony of Chester P. -Barton,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 21–23, 29–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1050

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Event 1295 -(D1425080)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 4:17 p.m. Vandenberg meets -with Maj. Gen. Emmett -O’Donnell Jr., director of information for the Army Air Force. -(Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1049

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Event 1296 -(084A44CF)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Vandenberg and -Symington meet -again.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1048

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Event 1297 -(ACCF0474)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 12:17 p.m. Idaho Statesman aviation editor and former B-29 -pilot David -N. Johnson, flying -in an Idaho Air National Guard AT-6 Texan, sees a black object standing -out against the clouds as he prepares to land at Gowen Field [now Boise -Airport], Boise, Idaho. Johnson takes 10 seconds of 8mm motion-picture -film (but it shows no trace of the object). It makes a slow roll, then -makes a stair-step climb, then disappears into the clouds. (NICAP, “AT-6 -Encounters Black Disc”; Bloecher, pp. III-12–13; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, -2001, pp. 39–43, 55; Sparks, -p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1047

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Event 1298 -(330E5EB3)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Time: 12:17 PM PDT
-Description: Witness: Idaho statesman aviation editor and former (AAF) -B-29 pilot Dave Johnson. Watched for more than 10 seconds from an Idaho -Air National Guard AT-6 while a black disc, which stood out against the -clouds, made a half-roll and then a stair-step climb.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Meridian, Idaho
-ID: 4

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Event 1299 -(691C4ED5)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 10:30 a.m. President Truman meets -with Sen. Carl -Hatch (D-N.Mex.).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1042

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Event 1300 -(AF2897F3)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: The FBI interviews Capt. Emil J. Smith and copilot Ralph -Stevens at Boise (Idaho) Municipal Airport about their July 4 sighting. -(ClearIntent, p. 151; -Good Above, pp. 253–254)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1039

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Event 1301 -(54A0D4D7)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 1:00 a.m. William Valetta sees 5–6 domed discs streaking -eastward as he stands outside his house at 4328 South Emerald Avenue in -Chicago, Illinois. They make a swishing noise and he sees a blue flame -underneath each of them. Smoke seems to be coming from the tops. -(Bloecher, pp. II-13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1037

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Event 1302 -(7903BF31)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: US Sen. Glen -H. Taylor (D-Idaho) says he hopes the saucers will turn out to be -space ships from another planet, whose hostility might end all our -“petty arguments on earth.” (“‘Can’t -Laugh Off Saucers,’ Says Senator,” Boston Globe, July 9, 1947, -p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1040

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Event 1303 -(17E8B810)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: The US Army Air Force issues classified orders requiring -reports of any “saucer-like” objects to be investigated and passed on to -T-2 Technical Intelligence at Wright Field, Ohio, with summaries sent to -the Pentagon. However, most of the early cases still go directly to the -Air Force Office of Intelligence at the Pentagon. (Michael David Hall -and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind -Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1041

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Event 1304 -(DE5F4291)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 10:35 a.m. Assistant Secretary of War for Air Stuart -Symington meets with Lt. Gen. James -Doolittle and Gen. Hoyt -Vandenberg. The -conversation is presumably about the flying discs. (Donald R. Schmitt, -UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1043

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Event 1305 -(514BA485)

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Date: 7/9/1947
-Description: 11:58 a.m. Vandenberg calls -President Truman.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1045

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Event 1306 -(0E6FB370)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: FBI Memo: Gen. George F. Schulgen (Chief of the Air -Intelligence Requirements Division) organizes top scientists to -determine if the flying discs are indeed fact and whether or not they -are a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled. He desired the -assistance of the FBI in locating and questioning the individuals who -first sighted the discs. Col. L. R. Forney of MID indicated that it has -been established that the flying discs are not the result of any Army or -Navy experiments and should be of interest to the FBI
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A p148)
-Reference: link

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Event 1307 -(EDF9861C)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 16.25km altitude -(Early yaw led to termination at 32s.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 16.25km

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Event 1308 -(17A4AFA3)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Time: Between 3 and 5 PM local time
-Description: Witnesses: three ground crewmen, including Mr. Leidy, for -Pan American Airways. Watched briefly while one translucent disc- or -wheel-shaped object flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail and then -ascended and cut a path through the clouds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Harmon Field, Newfoundland, Canada
-ID: 5

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Event 1309 -(EA7984B7)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: Estimated date student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. -Wright accompanies Einstein to Roswell area. She was 17 years, 10 -months, 21 days old.
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 1310 -(3CDB6DE8)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: Roswell debris and bodies have been flown from Fort Worth -to Wright Field, according to future Brig. Gen. Arthur -Exon, then -stationed at Wright Field, Ohio, who says that a special unit is created -to study them. The story is slightly corroborated by Jack -G. Tiffany Jr., whose father Jack -G. Tiffany Sr. is one of the crew members that flies debris from -Fort Worth to Dayton. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth -about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 61–66; -Thomas J. Carey and Donald J. Schmitt, Inside the Real Area 51, New -Page, 2013, pp. 165–175; Nukes 483–486)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1055

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Event 1311 -(88C6F472)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: FBI agent E. G. Fitch forwards Schulgen’s -request to Assistant Director of the Domestic Intelligence Division D. -Milton “Mickey” -Ladd at FBI headquarters in a memo titled “Flying Disks.” Ladd adds -a note saying that the “Bureau does not believe it should go into these -investigations” because many cases are “pranks.” Associate FBI Director -Clyde -Tolson adds, “I think we should do this,” while J. -Edgar Hoover writes, “I would do it but before agreeing to it we -must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the La. -Case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory -examination.” (E. G. Fitch, [FBI -memo], July 10, 1947; RosRept, pp. 25– 26; -Good Above, p. 541; -Kevin D. Randle, “The -Hoover Memo Again,” A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1054

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Event 1312 -(87D94A70)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 10:00 a.m. John -H. Janssen, aviation editor of the Morristown Daily Record, takes a -photo of four luminous objects as he is flying his Piper J-3 Cub at -10,000 feet over Morristown, New Jersey. Three of the objects are -silvery white, while the fourth is a dull metallic color. (“‘Flying -Saucers’ Invade Morristown; 4 Discs Photographed -near Airport,” Paterson (N.J.) Evening News, July 11, 1947, p. 10; -NICAP, “07-10-1947 -USA, New -Jersey, Morristown”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1056

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Event 1313 -(886755A5)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Lt. Gen. Curtis -LeMay, deputy chief of Air Staff for Research and Development at the -Pentagon, meets with Vandenberg, Maj. -Gen. Leslie -Groves, and Lt. Gen. Robert -Miller Montague.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1057

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Event 1314 -(8FFFF249)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Three civilian airline mechanics (John N. Mehrman -Jr., Robert Leidy, and John E. Woodruff) at Ernest Harmon AFB [now -Stephenville International Airport] are returning from a fishing trip -and driving up a mountain road near Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland. -They see a bluish-black exhaust trail that has cut through some clouds -leaving a “hole.” Woodruff sees a disc-shaped object the apparent size -of a C-54 transport plane coming out of the clouds and traveling at a -terrific rate of speed. The hole remains in the cloud for more than an -hour. Leidy takes two Kodachrome photos of the exhaust trail. The -sighting later impresses Project Sign personnel to the extent that they -ask questions about UFO effects on clouds. (NICAP, “Harmon -Field Photo”; Sparks, p. 24; -Michael D. Swords, “Can -You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,” The Big Study, July -5, 2012; Swords 38–39; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, pp. 44– 45; -Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, -no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 8–9; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian -UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 49–50; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s -UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 167, 264–267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1062

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Event 1315 -(473B0BF9)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: Mac Brazel is still being held at a guest house on the -Roswell, New Mexico, base. The officers try to convince him not to say -anything about what he has seen. They also try to prevent him talking to -reporters. He is given a physical by doctors at the base hospital. -(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at -Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1063

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Event 1316 -(D99CDBAC)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 4:47 p.m. University of New Mexico astronomer Lincoln -LaPaz, his -wife Leota, and two daughters, Jean and Mary, are driving west on -Highway 60 near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, when they see a sharply -outlined, white ellipsoidal object wobbling in the sky to the west about -25 miles away. They watch it for about 30 seconds, then it disappears -behind a cloud, but reappears 5 seconds later further to the right. He -estimates its size as 245 feet long and 100 feet thick at the maximum, -with a horizontal speed of 120–180 mph and a vertical speed of 600–900 -mph. It moves silently with no vapor trail. It resembles no known -aircraft. (NICAP, “200ʹ -Ellipsoidal Object Sighted -by La Paz Family”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have -We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 84; Bloecher, p. III-19; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July -7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 58; Sparks, -p. 24; James E. McDonald, “Statement on -Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1061

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Event 1317 -(48754923)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 4:25 p.m. A V-2 launch is aborted at White Sands Proving -Ground, New Mexico, after 32 seconds due to an early yaw. Gen. Gen. Nathan -Twining stops at White Sands before returning to Wright Field, -Ohio.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1060

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Event 1318 -(3C08DF68)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 2:40 p.m. Secretary of War Robert -P. Patterson meets with Groves and -Montague.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1059

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Event 1319 -(D93DCAFD)

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Date: 7/10/1947
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Doolittle and -Vandenberg meet -with Truman.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1058

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Event 1320 -(AD40232E)

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Date: 7/11/1947
-Description: 11:00 a.m. USAAF Col. Bruce -H. Perry and Maj. William -E. Geyser, 59th AACS Group, see a round 2–3 foot or 10-foot aluminum -or silver-metallic sphere traveling at great speed to the south of -Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska. -Estimated altitude is 3,000–4,000 feet. (NICAP, “Round -3ʹ Aluminum -Object at Great Speed”; Sparks, -p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1065

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Event 1321 -(5A35B8DE)

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Date: 7/11/1947
-Description: Debriefings of all military participants in the debris -recovery operation take place. They are taken into a room in small -groups and told that the recovery is highly classified and not to talk -about it. Military personnel warn civilians around Roswell, New Mexico, -that they are not to talk about what happened. (Kevin D. Randle and -Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, -1994, pp. 72–76, -172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1064

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Event 1322 -(528BEF68)

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Date: 7/11/1947
-Description: A Washington beltway newspaper column reporters that a -visitor found Einstein “sick”, but Einstein stated not to worry, that -the world is sick and the “military mass-minded approach” he saw in -Germany was coming here.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com

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Event 1323 -(410DCDDE)

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Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: Kenneth -Arnold is interviewed at the Hotel Owyhee in Boise, Idaho, by Lt. Frank -M. Brown and Capt. William -L. -Davidson, who -have flown in from Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, -California. He also submits a written statement to Army Air Force -intelligence, referring to the objects as “saucer-like.” At the end of -the report he draws a picture of what the objects appeared to look like -at their closest approach to Mt. Rainier, Washington. He writes, “They -seemed longer than wide, their thickness was about 1/20th their width.” -As to motion, Arnold writes, “They flew like many times I have observed -geese to fly in a rather diagonal chain-like line as if they were linked -together.” (James Easton suggests in 2007 that Arnold may have seen -pelicans, based on their movements, but this seems unlikely.) While they -are at Arnold’s house, Brown and Davidson hear that pilot Emil J. Smith -is in Boise on a layover, and all three go to the airport to talk to -him. (Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, -1952, pp. 21–23; Kenneth Arnold, “Confidential,” -Project 1947; Frank M. Brown, “Memorandum -for the Officer in Charge,” July 16, 1947; James Easton, “Kenneth -Arnold and the -Pelicans,” UFO Conjectures, April 4, 2007; Martin Shough, “The -Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,” -June 2010; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: -New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter -1998): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1066

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Event 1324 -(DF74284A)

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Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: The FBI conducts a shorter follow-up interview with -Capt. Emil J. Smith. (ClearIntent, p. 153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1067

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Event 1325 -(5441ED52)

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Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: 6:35 p.m. Seamen John C. Kennedy and Ben Bobberly are on -duty at Naval Air Station Seattle at Sand Point [now closed and -redeveloped as Magnuson Park], Seattle, Washington. They notice a -silvery disc-shaped object flying overhead to the east at 12,000 feet. -At about the same time, Arnold -Bergh and James Calahan watch three silvery discs flying quickly -north from their location near North 82nd Street and 11th Avenue in -Seattle. (Bloecher, p. III-6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1069

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Event 1326 -(8DF7EA91)

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Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: In a declassified statement, Kenneth Arnold points out why -the unidentified discs he saw couldn’t have been mirages: “I observed -these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned my -airplane sideways where I could open my window and observe them with a -completely unobstructed view (without sunglasses).”
-Type: declassified statement
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-G, p16)

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Event 1327 -(2FEED82A)

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Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: Announcement of Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast -on “The Immediate Need for World Law” next Thursday (so either July -17th, or the 24th)
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com

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Event 1328 -(59C22692)

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Date: 7/12/1947
-Description: 6:30 p.m. USAAF Maj. Edward Graham and others at Elmendorf -AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska, see a -balloon-like grayish object, 10 feet long, flying northwest at 100 mph -at an altitude of 1,500 feet and following the contour of mountains 5 -miles away. It is paralleling the course of a landing C-47. (Sparks, p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1068

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Event 1329 -(6BA813E1)

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Date: 7/13/1947
-Description: 5:48 p.m. Warren -Baker Eames is driving with his wife Alice on -State Highway 2 near Gardner, Massachusetts, when they see a large, -silvery, disc-shaped object in the sky ahead, moving west. As they -watch, its nearest edge dips down toward them and it accelerates in a -sudden burst of speed to the west-northwest. (Bloecher, p. III-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1070

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Event 1330 -(113D4BB1)

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Date: Mid 7/1947
-Description: In a paper by U.S. Navy Physicist, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, he -stated: “…the Air Force knew by the middle of July, 1947 that saucers -were real and not manmade…the technology represented by the (recovered) -disc…was so far beyond our own that it could not be understood -immediately…Therefore it would be necessary to treat the disc as a -military secret. This would mean containing all information about it -within some small group.”
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea -Research
-See also: 1/31/49

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Event 1331 -(D0623119)

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Date: 7/15/1947
-Description: Memo to Mr. Ladd with a handwritten note from J. Edgar -Hoover, Director of the FBI stating, ”…before agreeing (to the -investigation of crashed saucers)…we must insist upon full access to -discs recovered. For instance in the Soc. (Socorro, N.M.) case the Army -grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E, p541, RECOVERY)

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Event 1332 -(1D0F8506)

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Date: 7/15/1947
-Description: Mack -Brazel is returned home after an extensive interrogation at Roswell -AAF, New Mexico. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about -the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1071

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Event 1333 -(04174BAF)

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Date: 7/15/1947
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Col. Frank -A. Flynn is flying a Vultee BT-13 Valiant over Concord, California, -when a group of 12–15 objects approaches and passes him. At first he -takes them for birds, but he can see no necks or wings and they are -moving in excess of 200 mph. They are moving in a see-saw fashion at -three different altitudes about 200 feet apart, and they appear to be -about 15 feet across, white on the top and gray and black on the bottom. -At their closest point, they are about one mile away. Flynn turns his -plane around to pursue them, but they outdistance him quickly. -(Bloecher, p. III-13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1072

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Event 1334 -(46CCA9E1)

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Date: 7/16/1947
-Description: An initial report on the Ernest Harmon AFB case in -Newfoundland is written up by a base intelligence officer. (Michael -David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the -Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1073

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Event 1335 -(ABFCD21B)

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Date: 7/19/1947
-Description: The antiaircraft command base of the Chinese Nationalist -Government Air Force spots a UFO over Lanzhou City, Gansu, China. It is -50 feet long and has an apparent rudder and two jet pipes in the back. -About 8:00 p.m., witnesses in Gansu province watch a red object cross -the sky in 2 seconds. (Paul Dong, The Four Major Mysteries of Mainland -China, Prentice-Hall, 1984, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1074

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Event 1336 -(0E0566D2)

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Date: 7/21/1947
-Description: Life magazine publishes a pictorial news story on the -flying discs. (“Speaking -of Pictures: A Rash of Flying Disks -Breaks Out over the U.S.,” Life, July 21, 1947, pp. 14–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1076

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Event 1337 -(CEA56108)

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Date: 7/21/1947
-Description: A more detailed report on the Ernest Harmon AFB incident is -sent to the Pentagon. (Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred -Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 -(Winter 1998): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1075

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Event 1338 -(AA522731)

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Date: 7/22/1947
-Description: Ray -Palmer writes to Kenneth -Arnold and tells him about the Maury Island, Washington, case, -asking him to look into it. (Jason Colavito, ed., “Inquiry -into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of -Investigation, 1947”; -Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, -p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1077

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Event 1339 -(F7965C98)

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Date: 7/23/1947
-Description: José C. Higgens and some assistants are surveying a field -in Campina do Amoral in the Colônia Goio-Bang, located between Luiziana -and Mamboré, Paraná, Brazil. On hearing a sharp sound, they see a -grayish-white disc- shaped object about 100 feet in diameter, which soon -lands and rests on curved metal feet. His assistants flee, but Higgens -goes up to examine it. He sees a small, glass window, then two -odd-looking beings observing him curiously. A door opens in the craft, -and three other hairless beings dressed in transparent overalls. They -have large, round eyes with eyebrows and pronounced eyelashes. Their -legs are disproportionately long and they are about 7 feet tall. One -points a small tube at Higgens. They are speaking in an unknown, -sonorous language. He walks toward the door and can see only a small -cubicle, bordered by another door, and several portholes. Higgens by -gestures asks where they are from and the leader draws a map in the -dirt, indicating a seventh planet, presumably Uranus. He eludes them by -pretending to look for his wife and goes into a hidden spot in the -woods. After 30 minutes the beings climb into the object and take off. -(Wikipedia, “Caso -José Higgens”; Clark III 576– 577; Brazil 21–23; Mark Cashman, -“Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 -(Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1079

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Event 1340 -(BAEB74D6)

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Date: 7/23/1947
-Description: Day. John -H. Janssen, aviation editor of the Morristown Daily Record, is -flying his Piper J-3 Cub at 6,000 feet near the Morristown Airport in -New Jersey. He sees a flash of light, the engine gives out, and the -plane seems to be motionless. Then he sees two UFOs (this time with -portholes) and manages to get the propeller going again. This is one of -the first cases of “vehicle interference” UFO cases involving an -airplane. (NICAP, “07-10-1947 USA, -New Jersey, Morristown”; John H. Janssen, “My Encounter with Flying -Disks,” Fate 2, no. 3 (September 1949): 12–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1078

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Event 1341 -(22D8584A)

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Date: 7/23/1947
-Description: A group of survey workers ran away as they heard a hissing -noise and saw a disk land 50 m away. Jose C. Higgins saw two figures -through, a window. Later three beings in shiny clothes and translucent -suits, with oversized bald heads, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or -eyebrows, and a metal box on their back, emerged from the craft. They -were over 2 m. tall. They drew the solar system and pointed to Uranus as -if to suggest that was their point of origin.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 163; FSR 61, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Bauru, near Pitanga, Brazil
-ID: 61

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Event 1342 -(F0B97F66)

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Date: 7/24/1947
-Description: Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The -Immediate Need for World Law”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com

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Event 1343 -(FF59DF4B)

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Date: 7/25/1947
-Description: Day. Leonard Robertson is riding his motorcycle northeast -of Dumas, Texas, when he sees a flash of light to his left. An oval -object like a bubble is floating over a field about one mile away. -Suddenly the object explodes, so Robertson takes a side road to the -field where he retrieves a piece of metal “lighter than aluminum foil” -about 30 inches long and 24 inches wide. There are two small holes in it -and the center seems to be burned. (“Perryton Man -Displays Proof of Saucer Story,” Amarillo (Tex.) Daily News, August -6, 1947, p. 1; “Salvage -from Mystery Blast,” -Amarillo (Tex.) Daily News, August 9, 1947, p. 5; Curt Collins, “The -Texas UFO Crash Debris Photo from July -1947,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 21, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1082

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Event 1344 -(2CB2A0E5)

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Date: 7/25/1947
-Description: A memorandum over the signature of Maj. Lester -M. Garrigues states that by order of Col. Blanchard, -the nine men who had been assigned duties in the recovery of the -Roswell, New Mexico, crash are relieved from duty on that project. -However, it is now largely considered a forgery by Frank -Kaufmann. Garrigues has assumed duties in China prior to this and is -no longer in Roswell. (Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell -Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank -Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 9–11, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1081

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Event 1345 -(7A87BFDD)

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Date: 7/25/1947
-Description: Intelligence agents from the Fourth Air Force, Lt. Frank -M. Brown and Capt. William -L. Davidson, visit -Kenneth -Arnold in Boise, Idaho, and tell him to contact them if he runs -across any interesting UFO evidence.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1080

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Event 1346 -(3C35EF11)

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Date: 7/26/1947
-Description: President Truman signs -the National Security Act, a major restructuring of the military and -intelligence agencies. It creates a unified National Military -Establishment (Army and Navy) and a Department of the Air Force, both -under the new Secretary of Defense. The Joint Research and Development -Board becomes the R&D brain center. Each of the three service -secretaries maintains quasi-cabinet status. It establishes the National -Security Council to advise the president and the Central Intelligence -Agency, the first peacetime intelligence agency in the US. The CIA is -prohibited from conducting domestic surveillance, but Allen -Dulles ensures it can handle “other functions” affecting “national -security” without scrutiny from Congress or (sometimes) the president. -Much of the CIA’s funding initially comes from wealthy Americans. The -act creates the first black military and intelligence budget. -(Wikipedia, “National -Security Act of 1947”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1083

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Event 1347 -(6B9AAE22)

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Date: 7/27/1947
-Description: Capt. Davidson and -Lt. Brown interview -Richard Rankin. The FBI finds that the CIC agents have also interviewed -Kenneth -Arnold, Capt. Emil -J. Smith, Flight Officer Ralph Stevens, and Boise Stateman Editor David -N. -Johnson about their UFO sightings. Leverett -G. Richards, aviation -editor of the Portland Oregonian, informs the FBI of this information. -He also calls Lieut. Gen. Nathan -Twining, who leaves “the impression that the AAF instituted this -investigation to wash out the disc reports since they are definitely not -of AAF origin.” (Memo for FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd, August 14, -1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1085

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Event 1348 -(E4794EA1)

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Date: 7/27/1947
-Description: Ray -Palmer wires Kenneth -Arnold $200 to investigate the Maury Island, Washington, case. -(Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer, -pp. 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1084

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Event 1349 -(FD38D934)

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Date: 7/28/1947
-Description: 8:34 p.m. Capt. Charles F. Gibian and First Officer Jack -Harvey are piloting United Air Lines Flight 105 and descending above -Mountain Home, Idaho, in preparation for landing in Boise. Harvey sees -an object that seems to be another aircraft ahead of them and to the -south, but it rapidly moves to the northwest in a weaving fashion, -diminishing in size and vanishing from view. (“United -Air Lines Crew Reports Sighting Flying -Saucer between Mountain -Home and Boise,” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 29, 1947, -pp. 1–2; Bloecher, pp. III-13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1087

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Event 1350 -(945AD27E)

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Date: 7/28/1947
-Description: After assessing the Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, -report, Gen. Schulgen orders -Col. Howard -M. McCoy, deputy -commander of T-2 intelligence at Wright Field, Ohio, to send a top-level -assessment team (possibly Alfred -Loedding or Col. William -R. Clingerman Jr.) to Stephenville “immediately” and report directly -to the Pentagon afterwards. McCoy suspects German or Russian technology. -(Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” -JUFOS 7 (2000): 33–34; Swords 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1086

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Event 1351 -(3FA5D284)

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Date: 7/29/1947
-Description: 6:55 a.m. Kenneth -Arnold is flying to Tacoma, Washington, to investigate the Maury -Island mystery. As he is over Union, Oregon, preparing to land at La -Grande to refuel, he sees a cluster of 25 small (24–30 inches) brass- -colored discs with a spot in the middle moving at a terrific speed. They -come within 1,200 feet of his aircraft before veering away. At La -Grande, he phones aviation editor David -N. Johnson about his sighting, then reaches Tacoma at dusk. He gets -a room (502) at the Winthrop Hotel, where a room and a bath have already -been mysteriously reserved for him. Harold -A. Dahl visits Arnold that night, then takes him to Fred -Crisman’s place to see some Maury Island fragments. Arnold thinks it -looks like lava. (Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the -Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 25–38; Bloecher, pp. I-15–16, III-14; -Clark III 720–721)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1089

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Event 1352 -(B22115F9)

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Date: 7/29/1947
-Description: A memo from FBI agent E. G. Fitch says that Special Agent -Reynolds has -met with Gen. Schulgen again, -who assures him that “all discs recovered would be made available for -the examination by the FBI agents.” (ClearIntent, pp. 149–150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1088

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Event 1353 -(A9CD38B4)

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Date: 7/29/1947
-Description: 2:50 p.m. Assistant Base Operations Officer Capt. William -H. Ryherd and ex-AAF B-29 pilot 1Lt Ward Stewart see two round, -shiny, white objects near Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, -California. The objects are 15–25 feet in diameter and are flying at -about 750 mph at an altitude of 6,000–10,000 feet heading south. One -object flies straight and level; the other weaves from side-to-side like -an escort fighter. (Bloecher, p. III-5; Sparks, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1090

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Event 1354 -(D91CAB58)

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Date: 7/29/1947
-Description: Kenneth Arnold interviews Dahl in Tacoma WA, near Maury -Island. Retrieved metals sent to Ray Palmer and sent to a lab for -analysis. Metals confiscated by the military from Ray Palmer. Dahl -leaves in terror and is tracked down in public archives to the southern -Oregon area.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Medium

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Event 1355 -(BAF6F59E)

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Date: 7/29/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 160.7km altitude -(Near vertical trajectory.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 160.7km

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Event 1356 -(80D07259)

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Date: 7/29/1947
-Time: 2:50 PM PDT
-Description: Witnesses: Assistant Base Operations Officer Capt. William -Rhyerd, ex-AAF B-29 pilot Ward Stewart. Watched for unknown length of -time while two round, shiny, white objects with estimated 15-25 foot -diameters, flew 3-4 times the apparent speed of a P-80, also in sight. -One object flew straight and level; the other weaved from side-to-side -like an escort fighter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hamilton Air Base, California
-ID: 6

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Event 1357 -(17AB3B46)

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Date: 7/30/1947
-Description: Arnold calls -United Airlines pilot Capt. Emil J. Smith and asks him to come listen to -the Maury Island, Washington, story. Smith arrives in Tacoma in the -afternoon and cross-examines Dahl and -Crisman. -Smith stays with Arnold at the Winthrop Hotel. Journalist Ted -Morello of United Press calls Arnold and says that a crackpot has -been calling him, explaining everything that is going on in the hotel -room, including conversations with Smith when they are alone. They try -but fail to locate a listening device in the room. (Kenneth Arnold and -Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 38–46; Clark -III 721)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1091

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Event 1358 -(A0AC94FD)

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Date: 7/30/1947
-Description: The FBI issues a policy statement on “Flying Discs,” saying -that sightings should be investigated to see whether an “individual -might be desirous of seeking personal publicity, causing hysteria, or -playing a prank.” (“Flying Disks,” Section B, Bureau Bulletin no. 42, -Series 1947, in Black Vault FBI documents compilation, p. 48; -ClearIntent, p. 150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1092

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Event 1359 -(A57A88B7)

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Date: 7/30/1947
-Description: A memo with the subject line, “Recovery ‘Flying Discs,’” -purportedly written by Maj. Edwin -D. Easley, acknowledges that the Roswell, New Mexico, crash could -“represent an interplanetary craft of some kind.” However, it is now -largely considered a forgery by Frank -Kaufmann. (Kevin -D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): -8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall -2002): 9–11, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1093

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Event 1360 -(D5F188F1)

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Date: 7/30/1947
-Description: The Garrett Estimate, an Air Force Base Intelligence Report -on “Flying Discs”—an informal estimate of the situation based on 16 -reports selected by Collections Officer Lt. Col. George -D. Garrett—says that the “flying saucer situation is not all -imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is -really flying around.” Also, “Lack of topside inquiries . . . give more -than ordinary weight to the possibility that this is a domestic project, -about which the President, etc., know.” The study is passed up the line -to Gen. George -Schulgen and Hoover at -the FBI for comment, subtly indicating that investigating a domestic -project is a waste of time. (Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying -Discs,” July 30, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the -Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 32–33, 57–61; Swords 39, -474–475; Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell, Nathan -Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,” A Different Perspective, October 6, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1094

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Event 1361 -(60D6A470)

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Date: 7/31/1947
-Description: Crisman and -Dahl bring -heavy fragments and white metal from the Maury Island case to the -Winthrop Hotel room in Tacoma, Washington. They cannot locate the -photos. Arnold calls -Brown and -Davidson at -Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato, California. They quickly depart for -Tacoma. Morello calls -Arnold and says his informant knows that Brown and Davidson are on their -way in a B-25. They arrive in the late afternoon. The five men talk -until 11:00 p.m., when Crisman offers to go home and get more Maury -Island fragments. He returns with slightly different, more slag-like -rock stuffed in a large cereal box, which is loaded into Brown’s army -vehicle. Brown and Davidson leave to go back to Hamilton for Air Force -Day the next day. Morello calls again and says his informant told him -everything about what has just taken place. (Kenneth Arnold and Ray -Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 46–57; [FBI -teletype, August 6, 1947], pp. 87–88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1095

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Event 1362 -(7C5A48A3)

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Date: 7/31/1947
-Description: Capt. Edward -Ruppelt: “By the end of July 1947, the UFO security lid was down -tight. The few members of the press who did inquire about what the Air -Force was doing got the same treatment that you would get today if you -inquired about the number of thermonuclear weapons stock-piled in the -U.S.’s atomic arsenal. . . [At T-2 there was] confusion almost to the -point of panic.” (Ruppelt, p. 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1096

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Event 1363 -(34B71499)

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Date: 8/1947
-Description: T-2 Intelligence and Army Air Force Intelligence hold -meetings over the next two months and prepare documents requesting an -authorized project to investigate UFOs, per General LeMay’s -1946 instructions.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1098

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Event 1364 -(82115352)

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Date: 8/1947
-Description: USAF fighter pilot W. Boyce sees a hovering disc above -Media, Pennsylvania. (UFOEv, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1097

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Event 1365 -(E2D12E7E)

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Date: 8/1947
-Description: The Air Materiel Command headquarters replaces T-2 -Intelligence with the Technical Intelligence Department, tasked with -producing reports and estimates on foreign air weapons. It begins to -develop a photoanalysis capability.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1099

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Event 1366 -(C6439E89)

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Date: 8/1947
-Description: The Denver Post runs a story that claims the military is -building a secret base consisting of huge caverns for atomic weapons -defense purposes. The article says the new base is in the Manzano -Mountains southeast of Sandia Base, New Mexico. The military responds by -issuing a statement that operations and construction near Sandia Base -are top secret. In fact, however, the Armed Forces Special Weapons -Project is building one of several bases around the country that will be -used for nuclear weapons storage. The AFSWP code-names the base “Site -Able.” (Wikipedia, “Sandia -Base”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1100

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Event 1367 -(BFB13F4F)

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Date: 8/1/1947
-Description: A B-25 plane containing materials retrieved from Harold -Dahl near Maury Island WA crashes near Kelso, WA
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Wikipedia -link

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Event 1368 -(10AFF4F1)

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Date: 8/1/1947
-Description: Brown and -Davidson make -a stop at McChord Field near Tacoma, Washington, to speak with -intelligence officer Maj. George -Sander, then -board the B-25 for Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, -California. It explodes and crashes near Kelso, Washington, at 1:30 -a.m., 20 minutes after taking off, when the left engine catches fire. An -army hitchhiker and engineer parachute to safety. Brown and Davidson -fail to signal distress or bail out. After hearing the news, Arnold calls -Palmer and -offers to return his money. Palmer says to just mail him some fragments. -Arnold and Smith visit Morello and -Dahl and -Crisman. -They talk to Tacoma Times reporter Paul Lantz in -the hotel lobby, who writes the article “Sabotage Hinted in Crash of -Army Bomber at Kelso.” Debris from the crash is not discovered until -2007. (“Air Force Day Marred As B-26 Crashes Here,” Longview (Wash.) -Daily News, August 1, 1947, p. 1; “‘Flying -Saucers’ Figure in Two -Air Crash Deaths,” Galveston (Tex.) Daily News, August 3, 1947, -pp. 1, 5; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, -Palmer, 1952, pp. 57–72; Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson, “The -Maury Island UFO Incident,” February 2014; Leslie Slape, “Marker -Placed near Kelso to Honor Pilots in ’47 Crash,” Longview (Wash.) -Daily News, August 3, 2007, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1101

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Event 1369 -(F20A7EEE)

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Date: 8/3/1947
-Description: Newspaper article: “Crashed Bomber Reported Carrying -‘Flying Disc’”. Maury Island incident metallic fragments were reported -to be extremely heavy and subjected to extreme heat.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Medium

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Event 1370 -(3201CA14)

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Date: 8/3/1947
-Description: Smith contacts Maj. Sander, who -relieves Arnold and -Smith of all their fragments. He shows them a smelting lot where he -finds similar pieces of slag. Smith and Arnold check out of the Winthrop -Hotel in Tacoma, Washington. (Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming -of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 73–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1102

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Event 1371 -(FAE49472)

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Date: 8/4/1947
-Description: Pilots Capt. Jack Peck and -Vince Daly see a smooth UFO northwest of Bethel, Alaska, dead ahead as -they are flying a DC-3 for Al Jones Flying Service. Peck hauls back on -his controls to bring his plane up to safer altitude. Now 1,000 feet -higher, the pilots glance downward and spot the UFO closer but on a -changed course. Still dark against the sky, it looks to be as large as a -C-54. Intrigued, Peck dives on the object as it pulls away, doing his -best to get a better view, but it speeds up to an estimated 500 mph and -is lost to view in four minutes. (NICAP, “Smooth -Black Object Crosses Path of DC-3”; Harold D. Johnston, “Matters -of National Interest,” August 5, 1947; Sparks, -p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1103

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Event 1372 -(2015D7E3)

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Date: 8/6/1947
-Description: An FBI memo from E. G. Fitch to D. -Milton Ladd identifies either Brown or -Davidson as -a CIC agent on a top secret mission. (Jason Colavito, ed., “Inquiry -into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of Investigation, -1947”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1104

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Event 1373 -(9976FD32)

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Date: 8/7/1947
-Description: The Seattle, Washington, FBI office interrogates Crisman and -Dahl and -announces the Maury Island incident is a hoax. The FBI file notes that -Dahl stated that “if questioned by the authorities he was going to say -it was a hoax because he did not want any further trouble over the -matter.” Dahl’s daughter Louise admits in 2007 that the whole story was -made up, as did her brother Charles in the late 1960s, who called -Crisman a “smooth-talking con artist.” The affair had started as a joke -and blossomed into something worse. Associated Press reporter Elmer -Vogel says that Dahl’s wife had compelled him to tell Vogel the truth. -Morello also -speaks to Crisman, who admits the story is baseless. (Clark III 721; -Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, -pp. 105–111; Jason Colavito, ed., “Inquiry -into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of Investigation, -1947”; Kenn Thomas, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, -IllumiNet, 1999; Anthony Bragalia, “Maury -Island No Longer a Mystery: A UFO Hoax Exposed!” UFO Digest, July 8, -2010; Brian J. Robb, “Conspiracy Central: The Life and Lies of Fred Lee -Crisman,” Fortean Times 355 (July 2017): 32–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1105

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Event 1374 -(AAEC82FB)

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Date: 8/8/1947
-Description: Lt. Col. Donald -L. Springer, -assistant chief of staff for army intelligence at the Fourth Air Force, -who has just returned to Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, -California, from Tacoma, Washington, says “there is not sufficient -evidence or testimony available to this headquarters to conclude whether -or not the reports of so- called flying disks in the Tacoma area or any -other area have any basis of fact.” He adds that the Maury Island crash -“did not occur.” (“Fourth -Air Force Drops Disc Inquiry; Search Held Futile,” San Francisco -Examiner, August 9, 1947, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1106

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Event 1375 -(9C04AF15)

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Date: 8/9/1947
-Description: John -Derry, serving -as acting general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, proposes a -set of guidelines that restate the proposition that secrecy can be based -on reasons other than national security. The definition of Confidential -that he proposes goes beyond the Army and Manhattan Project rules: -“CONFIDENTIAL: Documents, information or material, the unauthorized -disclosure of which, while not endangering the National security, would -be prejudicial to the interests or prestige of the Nation or any -Governmental activity, or individual, or would cause administrative -embarrassment, or be of advantage to a foreign nation shall be -classified CONFIDENTIAL.” The Derry memo calls for review by a -classification board assembled from the AEC’s regional sites. In -September, this board assembles in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The available -documentation does not show that Derry’s proposed rules go into effect, -but it does show that the Classification Board blesses the illustrations -of matter that “should be graded” Secret or Confidential. The former -category includes “certain selected human administration experiments -performed under MED [Manhattan Engineer District].” (US Advisory -Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, “Final Report,” October 1995, -chapter -13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1107

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Event 1376 -(105B3B33)

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Date: 8/13/1947
-Time: 1300
-Description: Two boys and their father saw a sky-blue object 100 m away -and 25 m above ground. Treetops under it were spinning wildly, although -the object itself did not spin. It made a swishing sound. Shape: -inverted plate, 7 m diameter and 3.5 m thick. There was a red flame on -one side of the top.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Twin Falls, Smoke River Canyon, Idaho
-ID: 62

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Event 1377 -(73F4FE15)

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Date: 8/13/1947
-Description: The San Francisco Examiner’s Washington Bureau hears a -rumor from a US intelligence source that Soviet agents have been ordered -to solve the mystery of flying saucers. It reports that the Kremlin -believes that the discs are connected with Army experiments in -anti-radar weaponry. (San Francisco (Calif.) Examiner, August 14, 1947, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1109

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Event 1378 -(E6DA1375)

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Date: 8/13/1947
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Albert -Clarence Urie and his two sons Billy and -Kenneth see a straw hat–shaped, sky-blue object about 10 wide, 10 feet -high, and 20 feet long. It has “pods” on the side emitting flames and is -flying along the Snake River Canyon six miles west of Blue Lakes Ranch -near Twin Falls, Idaho. The UFO is moving up and down towards them at -1,000 mph and an altitude of 75 feet about 1/2 mile away. Urie is about -300 feet from the object, which is about level with him and silhouetted -against the canyon wall. It disappears behind a hill about one mile -away. Hynek, for -Project Blue Book, later identifies it as an “atmospheric eddy.” (“Flying -Saucer Reported Flashing -Down Canyon at 1,000 Miles Per Hour; Two -Others Seen,” Twin Falls (Idaho) Times-News, August 15, 1947, pp. 1, -8; NICAP, “Snake -River Case”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 34; -Sparks, -p. 26; Story, pp. 337–338); -Patrick Gross, “Snake -River, August 13, 1947”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1108

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Event 1379 -(47FA2496)

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Date: 8/14/1947
-Time: 0900
-Description: R. L. Johannis saw a disk on the ground and two dwarfs less -than 1 m tall, wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars and belts. -They had oversized heads, greenish faces, huge, salient dark eyes -without eyelashes or eyebrows, but surrounded by a ringlike muscle. They -wore something similar to crash helmets. The center of their belts -projected a “vapor,” and the witness suffocated, feeling a strong -electrical discharge. The creature had greenish hands with eight -talonlike fingers.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 2; Magonia; FRS 67, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Raveo, Italy
-ID: 63

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Event 1380 -(E6B0DEBA)

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Date: 8/14/1947
-Description: The first Gallup poll on UFOs shows that 90% of Americans -have heard of flying saucers; 33% don’t know what they are, 39% consider -them hoaxes or misidentifications, 16% consider them US or Russian -secret weapons. The ETH is not mentioned. (Project 1947, “August -1947 Gallup Poll”; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on -UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1110

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Event 1381 -(450CD5E3)

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Date: 8/14/1947
-Description: The FBI concludes that the plane carrying Davidson and -Brown was -not sabotaged, nor was it carrying actual flying disc parts. (Memo for -FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd, August 14, 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1113

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Event 1382 -(70653F29)

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Date: 8/14/1947
-Description: 10:40 a.m. Three men of the 147th Airways and Air -Communications Service Squadron at Harmon Field, Guam, see two small -crescent-shaped objects zigzagging at 1,200 feet. They disappear in the -clouds and another object emerges and proceeds west. (Lt. Col. Donald L. -Springer, “Flying -Disc,” August 27, 1947; Sparks, -p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1112

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Event 1383 -(7CD03581)

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Date: 8/14/1947
-Description: Shortly after 9:00 a.m. Italian artist and author Luigi -Rapuzzi (who uses the pseudonym L. R. Johannis) is hiking along the -left bank of the Torrente Chiarzò near Raveo, Udine, Italy, when he sees -a vivid red, metallic, domed disc on the riverbank about 165 feet ahead. -It is about 33 feet wide and embedded in a cleft in the rock about 20 -feet above thqwe stream. Looking around, he sees two “boys” on the edge -of a grove of trees. He shouts at them and points to the object, walking -toward them, but notices they are actually odd-looking dwarfs who are -approaching him stiffly. They are about 3 feet tall and wearing dark -blue coveralls with red collars, cuffs, and belts. Their greenish heads -are covered in tight-fitting, brownish caps. He looks at them in -astonishment for 2–3 minutes, then waves his geologist’s pick at them -and asks where they come from. One of the entities raises its right hand -to its belt, which emits a puff of smoke that knocks Rapuzzi to the -ground as if from an electric shock. As he is lying there, one of them -grabs his pick and he notices its green hand has 8 claws. They climb up -the rock and into the disc, which soon shoots straight out and into the -air, hovering briefly at an angle, then vanishes. Rapuzzi feels a blast -of wind that blows him across the ground. His pick is missing. (NICAP, -“Professor Encounters -‘Lens’ and Creatures”; “The -Villa Santina Case,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special -issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 2; 1Pinotti 19–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1111

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Event 1384 -(D8AF6618)

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Date: 8/15/1947 (approximate)
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Maj. Elmer -H. Hammer of the 28th Bombardment Wing at Rapid City Army Air Base -[now Ellsworth AFB] near Box Elder, South Dakota, sees 12 objects flying -at 6,000–10,000 feet in a tight diamond formation at 300–400 mph. The -objects level off at approximately 5,000 feet and make a gentle -large-radius turn of about 110° to the right about 4 miles away. They -start climbing at an angle of 30–40° and appear to accelerate rapidly in -the climb. The objects are approximately 100 feet long and have a -brilliant yellow-white luminous glow. (NICAP, “12 -B-29-Sized Elliptical Objects Seen”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 40; -Sparks, -p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1115

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Event 1385 -(D754F06C)

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Date: 8/15/1947
-Description: In response to the August 13 San Francisco Examiner report, -FBI Director J. -Edgar Hoover asks the agency to look into whether Soviet spies are -looking into whether the flying discs are a secret US technology. -Assistant Director of the Domestic Intelligence Division D. -Milton “Mickey” -Ladd at FBI headquarters assures FBI Deputy Director Edward -Allen Tamm that he is unaware of any such effort. (Memo to -Assistant FBI Director E. A. Tamm from Agent D. M. Ladd, August 15, -1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1114

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Event 1386 -(AA5C47E7)

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Date: 8/17/1947
-Description: A forest ranger at a fire lookout tower on Mt. Josephine, -Skagit County, Washington, observes an object shaped like a huge clam -that appears to fall tipped at an angle northeast of the fire tower. It -slows to a stop, levels off, and floats “leisurely as if suspended by a -cord” for a few minutes and finally moves off to the southeast with ever -increasing speed. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1116

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Event 1387 -(06D27A7C)

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Date: 8/19/1947
-Description: 9:30 p.m. H. H. Hedstrom (executive director of the Twin -Falls Housing Authority) and three policemen (Richard A. Frazier, H. E. -Roundtree, and Richard Scott) in Twin Falls, Idaho, see a formation of -12 objects flying in diamond formation at terrific speed. (NICAP, “August -19, 1947, Twin Falls, Idaho”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 39; -Sparks, -p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1118

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Event 1388 -(669BDBC8)

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Date: 8/19/1947
-Description: FBI memo to D. -M. Ladd from E. G. Fitch on “Flying Discs” mentions SAC Reynolds’s -conversation with Lt. Col. George -Garrett, who -strongly suspects the Army or Navy is testing some new technology, -condluding that “there were objects seen which somebody in the -Government knows all about.” However Gen. Stephen Chamberlin and -the War Department claim to have no involvement. (Memorandum from E. G. -Fitch, “Flying Discs,” -August 19, 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1117

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Event 1389 -(E1A8BEC6)

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Date: 8/20/1947
-Description: An Anglo-American intelligence team releases a report on -secret German weapons. Foo fighters are said to be caused by a -rocket-propelled plane launched straight up from the ground, -intercepting Allied bomber formations by firing a spray of rocket shells -from the nose. The pilot then parachutes back to the ground, a chute -opens on the rocket, and it is recovered for re-use. (New London (Conn.) -Day, August 20, 1947; Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1119

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Event 1390 -(A11764CE)

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Date: late 8/1947
-Description: Brig. Gen. George -F. Schulgen passes the updated Garrett Estimate on to Air Materiel -Command head Gen. Nathan -Twining with a request for a statement on the discs so an authorized -UFO project can be requested. Col. Howard -McCoy asks for a meeting between Alfred -Loedding (aeronautics engineer at T-3), Lt. Col. George Garrett (Collections), -and Charles Carroll (a math and missiles expert who has been correlating -UFO sightings with approaches of planetary bodies) “in order to set up a -system for evaluating the information being received.” These four will -later form the core of the ETH-friendly faction at Project Sign. -(RosRept, p. 13; -Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” -JUFOS 7 (2000): 33–35; Letter to T-2 from Executive Air Intelligence -Requirement Division, September 3, 1947; Sparks, p. 13; -Swords 42, 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1125

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Event 1391 -(F287CA38)

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Date: 8/22/1947
-Description: Col. Robert -Taylor III, Collection -Branch of Army Air Force Intelligence, summarizes the findings of Lt. -Col. Garrett’s -investigations of UFOs in a letter to Gen. Curtis -LeMay, Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development. -Taylor requests any information on AAF projects that might give rise to -such UFO reports. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August -1st–December 31st, Supplemental -Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 27; Swords 39–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1120

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Event 1392 -(5F9D08FF)

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Date: 8/24/1947
-Description: The name Joint Research and Development Board is changed to -simply Research and Development Board. (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, -“The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. -2 (Summer 2001): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1121

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Event 1393 -(340BFD24)

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Date: 8/25/1947
-Description: USMC Maj. Marion -Eugene Carl attains a world airspeed record of 651 mph in a Douglas -Skystreak at Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB], California. (Wikipedia, “Marion -Eugene Carl”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1122

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Event 1394 -(731F80B5)

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Date: 8/28/1947
-Description: Microwave Early Warning radar on Shika Island off Fukuoka, -Japan, picks up a target moving 450–478 mph at an altitude of 1,500 -feet. It changes course, climbs, and is tracked to a distance of 62 -miles. (NICAP, “Target -Tracked in a Climb”; Sparks, -p. 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1123

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Event 1395 -(DCE5E224)

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Date: 8/29/1947
-Description: Gen. LeMay answers -Col. Taylor’s -August 22 request stating that there is no such project as described. -(Swords 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1124

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Event 1396 -(25336D4E)

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Date: 9/1947
-Description: Astronomer Lincoln -LaPaz arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, and rediscovers the area of -blackened ground earlier found by two of Wilcox’s -deputies. He speaks to some witnesses and determines there might have -been more than one object.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1126

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Event 1397 -(914FFE4E)

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Date: 9/3/1947
-Time: 12:15 PM PDT
-Description: Witness: housewife Mrs. Raymond Dupui. Watched for unknown -length of time as 12-15 round, silver objects flew an unstated -pattern.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oswego, Oregon
-ID: 7

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Event 1398 -(5D822255)

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Date: 9/3/1947
-Description: Dale Edwards and three friends are camping out in the -Desolation Wilderness area west of Lake Tahoe, California, when one of -them spots a huge gray UFO accompanied by a rush of warm air. The next -day they encounter a circle, 40 feet in diameter, of recently burned -grass and skunk cabbage. (“True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 3 -(September 1949): 74–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1128

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Event 1399 -(FEF9959E)

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Date: 9/3/1947
-Description: A memo from Col. R. H. Smith at Air Defense Command -headquarters at Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York, states that the -intent of USAF cooperation with the FBI was to “relieve the numbered Air -Forces of the task of tracking down all the many instances which turned -out to be ash-can covers, toilet seats, and whatnot.” (ClearIntent, p. 156; -Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1127

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Event 1400 -(689963E8)

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Date: 9/5/1947
-Description: In response to the Garrett Estimate, Gen. Curtis -LeMay states in a memo, copied to the FBI, that “a complete survey -of research activities discloses that the Army Air Force has no project -with the characteristics similar to those which have been associated -with the Flying Discs.” (Michael D. Hall and Wendy A. Connors, Alfred -Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1129

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Event 1401 -(F7FA3F32)

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Date: 9/5/1947
-Description: In Washington, D.C., Alfred -Loedding (as Wright Field T-2’s liaison with the Pentagon) meets -with Garrett and -Carroll. Flying disk reports at the Pentagon are transferred to Wright -Field, Ohio, shortly afterwards. (Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and -the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1130

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Event 1402 -(93C2FADD)

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Date: 9/6/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test from USS Midway reaches 1.5km (Operation -Sandy. Aircraft carrier launch successful. Exploded at 1524m)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 1.5km

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Event 1403 -(9A483907)

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Date: mid 9/1947
-Description: Twining passes -the Garrett Estimate on to Col. Howard -McCoy, Maj. -Gen. Alden -Crawford (chief of T-3), Gen. Franklin -O. Carroll (director of research and development), Col. C. K. Moore -(aircraft laboratory chief), Col. Russell Minty (power-plant laboratory -chief), and Brig. Gen. Edgar -P. Sorenson (Air Institute of Technology commander). They each study -Garrett’s -report and hold a conference on the discs. (Michael D. Swords, “Project -Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1131

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Event 1404 -(7CE158AB)

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Date: 9/16/1947
-Description: An incoming radar target is picked up at Itazuke Air Base -[now Fukuoka Airport], Fukuoka, Japan, moving 840–900 mph, then fading -out. (Col. James F. Olive Jr., “Radar -Pick-Ups of High-Speed Targets in the Far -East,” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, -D.C., September 26, 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1132

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Event 1405 -(463F8976)

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Date: 9/17/1947
-Description: The US Senate confirms James -Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1133

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Event 1406 -(4E8E8AAD)

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Date: 9/18/1947
-Description: CIA officially begins, directed by Rear Adm. Roscoe H. -Hillenkoetter, USN
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Langley, Virginia

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Event 1407 -(DB1A69CC)

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Date: 9/18/1947
-Description: The reorganization of military and intelligence agencies -under the National Security Act takes effect. The US Army Air Forces is -disbanded and becomes the US Air Force.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1134

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Event 1408 -(52244689)

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Date: 9/19/1947
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A geophysicist employed by the Humble Oil and -Refining Company is testing a weather radar at Grand Isle, Louisiana, -when the radar detects an object moving in a southwesterly direction at -about 1,000 mph. It persists for about one minute, so he records it in -his notebook and discusses the sighting with other scientists. No visual -sighting is made. (Houston Press, March 24, 1950; Jan L. Aldrich, “Project -1947: A Progress Report,” -March/April 1996)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1137

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Event 1409 -(E13D1F88)

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Date: 9/19/47
-Description: Dr. Bronk’s team determines the recovered saucer from NM is -a short range reconnaissance craft (from a mother ship)
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A)
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 11/30/47

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Event 1410 -(C90A7E54)

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Date: 9/19/1947
-Description: FBI Special Agent Harry -M. Kimball in San Francisco passes Col. R. H. Smith’s memo up the -chain to Hoover. (ClearIntent, -p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1135

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Event 1411 -(947D8FD3)

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Date: 9/19/1947
-Description: A dubious document, allegedly written on this date by DCI -Adm. Roscoe -Hillenkoetter and titled “Examination of Unidentified Disc-Like -Aircraft near Military Installations in the State of New Mexico: A -Preliminary Report,” has been circulated by Timothy -S. Cooper. It purports to verify the “recovery of unidentified -planform aircraft” in two locations on July 6. (Good Need, p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1136

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Event 1412 -(AA81C89B)

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Date: 9/21/1947
-Description: Arrangements are made to transfer UFO files from Garrett’s -office in the Pentagon to Alfred -Loedding at AMC. (Swords 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1138

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Event 1413 -(542BF702)

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Date: 9/23/1947
-Description: USAF project “SIGN” started
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1414 -(D6E406ED)

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Date: 9/23/1947
-Description: Confirmation sighting of Arnold’s discs by Fred -Johnson
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1415 -(E4013636)

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Date: 9/23/1947
-Description: Head of Air Materiel Command Gen. Nathan -Twining responds to Schulgen’s -request for UFO information with a classified letter composed by Col. McCoy with -the assistance of Alfred -Loedding, “AMC Opinion Concerning ‘Flying Disks.’” Twining notes the -discs are “real and not visionary or fictitious.” Reports (based on the -cases in the Garrett Estimate) include “extreme rates of climb, -maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be -considered evasive.” Twining gives three reasons to study the discs: -They might represent a deep-black domestic project; to pick up physical -evidence; and to find out if they are nuclear- propulsion devices from -Russia or elsewhere. The letter lists common descriptions of the objects -and recommends that USAF “issue a directive assigning a priority, -security classification, and code name for a detailed study of the -matter.” This will ultimately result in Project Sign. Henceforth all -disc reports are to be sent to the Army and Navy Research and -Development Board, the USAF Scientific Advisory Group, the Atomic Energy -Commission, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Project -RAND, and the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft project at -Oak Ridge. Twining promises a detailed “Essential Elements of -Information” (EEI) to be formulated immediately so that all agencies -will have guidance. (Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, “AMC -Opinion Concerning -‘Flying Disks,’” September 23, 1947; RosRept, p. 14; -Swords 42, 476–478; Good Above, pp. 260– -262, 476–478)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1139

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Event 1416 -(3242D4FD)

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Date: fall 1947
-Description: Claude -Degler, under -the pseudonym John Chrisman, publishes a single issue of the first -flying saucer fanzine, Weird Unsolved Mysteries. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August -1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, pp. 56–69; -Curt Collins, “Claude -Degler, One of -the Ufologists That Time Forgot,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, July -15, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1148

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Event 1417 -(D8A52958)

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Date: 9/23/47
-Description: Secret Briefing Document to Brig. General George Schulgen, -AC/AS-2, from Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4), Commanding Officer, -AMC, stating: Flying Saucers are REAL! Concerning “Flying Discs” the -phenomenon reported is something real, not fictitious. These objects -approximate the shape of a disc and appear to be as large as man-made -aircraft. They have operating characteristics such as extreme rate -ofclimb and maneuverability. Under a Security Code Name copies of this -information will be sent to Army, Navy, AEC, JRDB, SAG, NACA, RAND and -NEPA Projects. (AAF Record, U-39552)
-Type: secret briefing
-Reference: Pea -Research
-See also: 7/47
-See also: 9/15/50
-See also: 8/54

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Event 1418 -(34544162)

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Date: 9/24/1947
-Description: Col. Miles -E. Goll, in -a memo signed for Col. McCoy, -asks about a radar case in Japan that Charles Carroll had mentioned to -Alfred -Loedding in their meeting of September 5. (Dr. Carroll’s UFO files; -Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1143

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Event 1419 -(FCEBDB15)

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Date: 9/24/47
-Description: A covert operation, MAJESTIC-12, is established and -classified Top Secret by President H.Truman. It consists of 12 persons -selected to control all branches of government, both military and -non-military. This ultimately led to silencing of UFO witnesses, -confiscating of UFO photos, harassing and debunking of witnesses (and -rumors of worse). (ref. “Black Budget”; JMP letter)
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 2/15/87
-See also: 9/4/87
-See also: 7/47

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Event 1420 -(8C6D81AC)

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Date: 9/24/1947
-Description: President -Truman meets with Vannevar -Bush, chairman of the Research and Development Board, at the White -House. Secretary of Defense James -Forrestal is also present. (Stanton T. Friedman, Top Secret / MAJIC, -Marlowe, 1996, pp. 68–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1141

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Event 1421 -(DE445E6D)

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Date: 9/24/1947
-Description: DCI Hillenkoetter, in -a letter to AMC, designates T-2 and the Air Intelligence branch of the -US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics as National Assets. He indicates that he -does not plan to duplicate air technical intelligence assets within the -CIA. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1140

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Event 1422 -(D5F41313)

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Date: 9/24/1947
-Description: A fake memo from President Truman to -Secretary of Defense James -Forrestal allegedly establishes a top-secret control group, -Operation Majestic Twelve (MJ-12), to deal with the UFO problem. (Clark -III 360; Joe Nickell and John R. Fischer, “The Crashed-Saucer -Forgeries,” IUR 15, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1990): 4–20; Ted R. Spickler, “The -Truman MJ-12 Letter,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June 1991): 12–13; Good Above, -p. 551)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1142

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Event 1423 -(E0E0E7D3)

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Date: 9/25/1947
-Description: A memorandum from Maj. Robert J. Thomas lists the names of -nine military personnel in charge of events in the aftermath of the -Roswell, New Mexico, recovery. However, it is now largely considered a -forgery by Frank -Kaufmann. (Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR -27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann -Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 9–11, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1144

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Event 1424 -(E6135990)

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Date: 9/26/1947
-Description: A memorandum from Col. James F. Olive Jr., Chief of Air -Intelligence Division, to the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, A-2, -summarizes three radar trackings of high-speed targets in Japan (Chitose -Air Base, July 1; and MEW Radar Station, Fukuoka, August 28 and -September 16). It concludes that there is insufficient information to -state that they involved aircraft or missiles but supports the -conclusion that they were not natural phenomena. The report is forwarded -to T-2 on September 29. (Col. James F. Olive Jr., “Radar -Pick-Ups of High- Speed -Targets in the Far East,” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air -Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1145

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Event 1425 -(3C5745DB)

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Date: 9/27/1947
-Description: Hoover notifies -USAF Maj. Gen. George -C. McDonald, assistant chief of air staff, that he is advising all -FBI agents to discontinue all flying disc investigations. (Letter, J. -Edgar Hoover to Gen. George C. McDonald, September 27, 1947; -ClearIntent, p. 158; -Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1146

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Event 1426 -(652DA331)

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Date: 9/28/47
-Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright: Newspaper -college freshman photo
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 1427 -(BE61E17F)

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Date: 9/30/1947
-Description: Vannevar -Bush is appointed head of the new Research and Development Board in -the National Military Establishment. (Research -and Development Board: History and Functions, US -National Military Establishment, June 1, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1147

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Event 1428 -(E16CFB9D)

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Date: 10/47
-Description: Article on student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright -receiving Barry Scholarship
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Einstein

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Event 1429 -(813026B9)

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Date: 10/1947
-Time: 11 PM CDT
-Description: Witness: one unnamed civilian man. Watched for 1 hour while -an undescribed object flew counterclockwise circles.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dodgeville, Wisconsin
-ID: 8

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Event 1430 -(18BA6DDD)

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Date: 10/1/1947
-Description: A letter from Truman to -Vannevar -Bush appears to bear the original Truman signature used in the MJ-12 -fake memo.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1151

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Event 1431 -(B0DB17C9)

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Date: 10/1/47
-Description: First flight of the prototype jet fighter XP-86 flies from -Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards AFB), CA — led to the F-86 Sabre
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 1432 -(79D54AB0)

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Date: 10/1/1947
-Description: Bureau Bulletin 59 ends all FBI cooperation with the Air -Force on UFO investigation, although the FBI continues its own -inquiries. (ClearIntent, p. 159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1150

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Event 1433 -(1E43949F)

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Date: early 10/1947
-Description: Private pilot Selman E. Graves claims to have witnessed -part of the recovery of a crashed UFO in Paradise Valley, Arizona, on -property owned by his friend, Walt Salyer. (Good Above, pp. 394–397)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1149

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Event 1434 -(D173FB9D)

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Date: 10/7/1947
-Description: Capt. R. V. A. Therien of the Royal Swedish Navy states at -USAF headquarters that some ghost rockets have been observed making 180° -turns, and about 33 of the incidents are considered factual. (Loren E. -Gross, The Fifth -Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August 1st–December -31st, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2001, p. 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1152

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Event 1435 -(9884A40C)

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Date: 10/9/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 156.1km altitude -(Internal explosion at 83.5s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 156.1km

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Event 1436 -(E35533AC)

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Date: 10/14/1947
-Description: Bernt -Balchen, Norwegian -Airline director and former USAF Colonel, gives USAF headquarters -information about two radar locations and a rocket firing incident -observed in the Petsamo region (Pechengsky District) of Finland, -recently ceded to Russia. Gen. Alfred -A. Kessler Jr., former US military attaché in Sweden, disputes -Therien’s information. He says only two ghost rocket sightings are -possibly factual, but there is no evidence to authenticate them. (Loren -E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August -1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, -p. 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1153

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Event 1437 -(5F5E637A)

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Date: 10/14/1947
-Time: Noon MDT
-Description: Witnesses: ex-AAF fighter pilot J.L. Clark, civilian pilot -Anderson, third man. Watched 45-60 seconds while one 3-foot “flying -wing”-shaped object, which looked black against the white clouds and red -against the blue sky, flew straight at an estimated 380 m.p.h., at -8-10,000 feet, from NW to SE.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 11 mi. NNE of Cave Creek, Arizona
-ID: 9

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Event 1438 -(166439E0)

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Date: 10/14/1947
-Description: Test pilot Chuck -Yeager unofficially breaks the sound barrier (670 mph) for the first -time in an experimental rocket-powered Bell X-1 at Muroc [now Edwards] -AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “Chuck -Yeager”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1154

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Event 1439 -(AC40DBCE)

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Date: 10/18/1947
-Description: First Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 207km -(Vehicle disintegrated at atmospheric reentry)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 207km

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Event 1440 -(0510C9F5)

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Date: 10/20/1947
-Description: A farmer named Britton sees two cigar-shaped UFOs traveling -a straight course at high speed about one mile in height in trail -formation near Dayton, Ohio. They leave a slight vapor trail then -disappear suddenly. (NICAP, “Farmers -Observes Two Cigars”; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 89; Sparks, -p. 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1155

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Event 1441 -(5F70F7DB)

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Date: 10/20/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 231km (Deviated -181 kilometres from intended flight path)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 231km

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Event 1442 -(F335C915)

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Date: 10/21/1947
-Description: The jet-propelled Northrop YB-49 makes its first test -flight from Jack Northrop Field in Hawthorne, California, reaching Muroc -AFB in 32 minutes. (Wikipedia, “Northrop -YB-49”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1157

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Event 1443 -(4F76C265)

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Date: 10/21/1947
-Description: A preliminary EEI document, indicating that the radar -detection of UFOs near Fukuoka, Japan, on September 16 has played a role -in concerns about disc maneuverability, is circulated to the European -Command by Lieut. Col. Malcolm -D. Seashore, former -acting chief of the Analysis Section at AMC under McCoy. -It expresses concern about German/Russian technology and adds disc -characteristics of hovering, disappearance, quick grouping, and sudden -appearance. (“‘Flying -Disc’ Information Request to European Command, October 1947”; -Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” -JUFOS 7 (2000): 35; Swords 43, 479–484)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1156

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Event 1444 -(C136C26C)

-

Date: 10/23/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Observation -of vehicle was hampered by low cloud cover. Vehicle disintegrated, -possibly due to the warhead failure.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 29km

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Event 1445 -(8CB93887)

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Date: 10/28/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km -(Success)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 29km

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Event 1446 -(35A1CC79)

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Date: 10/28/1947
-Description: Brig. Gen. George -F. Schulgen, Chief -of USAF Intelligence Requirements Division, writes a five-page report -based on the characteristics listed in the September 23 Twining letter -(though in greater detail) and the preliminary EEI of October 21. Titled -“Intelligence Requirements on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: Draft of -Collection Memorandum,” it lists things investigators should try to -determine about UFO propulsion, control, construction, arrangement, -landing gear, and power plant. It considers the objects “to be a manned -aircraft, of Russian origin, and based on the perspective thinking and -actual accomplishments of the Germans” (page 5, paragraph 4). [However, -a fake version of this document has the phrase “it is the considered -opinion of some elements that the object may in fact represent an -interplanetary craft of some kind…. The presence of an unconventional or -unusual type of propulsion system cannot be ruled out and should be -considered of great interest.” Other deletions and additions are present -in the fake document.] (George F. Schulgen, “Intelligence Requirements -on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: Draft of Collection Memorandum,” -October 30, 1947 [PDF of -real memo, pp. 1–6, PDF of -fake memo, pp. 7–12]; RosRept, p. 35; -Good Above, p. 262; -Robert G. Todd, “Fake -Air Force -Memo Exposed,” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd, “Fake -Air Force Memo Exposed, Part 2,” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd, -“Fake -Air Force Memo Exposed, Part 3,” The Roswell Files; Michael D. -Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 -(2000): 35–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1158

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Event 1447 -(1AB1261A)

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Date: 10/31/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 2km (Started -rolling after lift-off and crashed)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 2km

-

Event 1448 -(86578C77)

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Date: 11/1947
-Description: Former Messerschmidt test pilot Fritz -Wendel tells US Army CIC that the Horten -brothers were working on an advanced aircraft in Heiligenbeil, East -Prussia [now Mamonovo, Russia] right after the war. The airplane is 33 -feet long, shaped like a half-moon, and has no tail. It can fly to -12,000 feet. Wendel’s story is corroborated by a German informant named -Prof. George, who describes a later Horten craft as able to fly at 1,200 -mph because it is propelled by rockets. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1159

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Event 1449 -(80649490)

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Date: 11/2/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 260km -(Success)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 260km

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Event 1450 -(5702F537)

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Date: 11/2/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar (2nd that day), -260km (Lost fins after launch)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 260km

-

Event 1451 -(890458FB)

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Date: 11/4/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 268km -(Success)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 268km

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Event 1452 -(9ECE968A)

-

Date: 11/6/1947
-Description: Chuck -Yeager again makes an unofficial airspeed record of 891 mph in a -Bell X-1 at Muroc AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “Chuck -Yeager”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1160

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Event 1453 -(6ADE4E5E)

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Date: 11/10/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 24km (Control -failure)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 24km

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Event 1454 -(3AB45346)

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Date: 11/10/1947
-Description: Lt. Col. Walker sends a memo to his field commands in -Germany in response to the September 23 Twining letter. -It calls for a discreet canvass into finding German engineers who might -know of similar technology. (“The -Walker Memo,” The Roswell Files)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1161

-

Event 1455 -(67090BBD)

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Date: 11/12/1947
-Description: Early morning. US Navy Second Officer Williamson on the USS -Ticonderoga 40 miles north or south of Cape Blanco, Oregon, sees two -fireballs with fiery tails heading northwest at 700–900 mps. Possible -meteors. (Sparks, p. 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1162

-

Event 1456 -(1046857B)

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Date: 11/13/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Broke up -upon re-entry. Landed within 180m of target.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 270km

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Event 1457 -(BFEE4154)

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Date: 11/13/1947
-Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Launched 5 -hours after previous rocket and landed within 700 m of target)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket range: 270km

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Event 1458 -(880BA76B)

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Date: 11/18/1947
-Description: Boise Idaho Statesman Aviation Editor David -N. Johnson, having heard of the USS Ticonderoga sighting, writes to -Gen. George -E. Stratemeyer at Mitchel Field, New York, for information and -asking eight questions about the Army’s investigation. Stratemeyer -passes the query on to Garrett and -Taylor. -(Swords 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1163

-

Event 1459 -(128557B4)

-

Date: 11/20/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 26.7km altitude (GE -technology proving flight)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 26.7km

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Event 1460 -(4D73B899)

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Date: 11/30/47
-Description: In a Top Secret Document, Dr. Bronk’s scientific team -classifies extraterrestrials as EBE’s (Extra Biological Entities).
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A)
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Majestic

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Event 1461 -(02B16D26)

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Date: 12/1947
-Description: By now, ATIC has received 156 UFO reports. Aerodynamicists -at ATIC and AMC agree that no German design can match UFO performance. -The USAF Aeromedical Laboratory says that even if such a craft can be -built, the human body cannot withstand the maneuvers, and USAF materials -specialists say that no known material can withstand them either, as -well as the heat of high speeds. Ruppelt later -writes, “Why couldn’t these people, whoever they might be, stand these -horrible maneuver forces? Why judge them by earthly standards? I found a -memo to this effect was in the old Project Sign files.” (Ruppelt, p. 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1172

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Event 1462 -(FAC14E59)

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Date: 12/8/1947
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude -(Stable flight but less than planned altitude)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 104.6km

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Event 1463 -(92552B82)

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Date: 12/8/1947
-Description: Pilots observe a reddish light moving at moderate speed -over Las Vegas, Nevada. It emits a flash of green light and shoots -upwards at a “tremendous speed.” (UFOEv, p. 149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1164

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Event 1464 -(66A40C6E)

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Date: 12/11/1947
-Description: Garrett and -Taylor write -a memorandum to the USAF Public Relations Office outlining the proper -answers to questions such as Johnson has -asked. (Swords 44) Decembre 14 — 12:20 a.m. Six staff sergeants at Fort -Bragg, North Carolina, watch a domed disc with a glowing green corona -surrounding it moving slowly at a slightly tilted angle. It skims the -treeline (causing the tops of the trees to wave slightly) and takes off -to the northwest. They estimate it is 50–75 feet in diameter and flying -at 200 feet altitude. (Project -1947 case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1165

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Event 1465 -(6627FBF5)

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Date: 12/16/1947
-Description: Army Lt. Col. Harry -H. Pretty in Berlin writes a memo to the Deputy Director of -Intelligence in Berlin stating that the Horten -brothers (Reimer and Walter) have been located in Göttingen, -Germany. He says they are eccentric and quarrelsome. Though they were -responsible for the Horten Ho 299 (a prototype fighter/bomber flying -wing design), his investigation concludes that no saucer design “ever -existed nor was projected by any of the German air research -institutions.” (Lt. Col. Harry H. Pretty, “Horten -Brothers (Flying Saucers),” December 16, 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1166

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Event 1466 -(7A000971)

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Date: 12/17/1947
-Description: US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Carl -Spaatz tells the Idaho Statesman he does not rule out the -possibility of the flying disks being “foreign experimentation.” He adds -that the Air Force is still investigating and he still wants people to -report their sightings. (“Spaatz -Leaves Door open on Chance ‘Flying Discs’ Are of Foreign -Origin,” Boise Idaho Statesman, December 17, 1947, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1167

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Event 1467 -(CE6601C1)

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Date: 12/18/1947
-Description: Pentagon Col. James F. Olive Jr. (chief of AFOAI) and -Lieut. Col. J. E. Thomas of the Offensive Air section (AFOAI-OA) respond -to a request by deputy chief of Air Staff for Research and Development -Gen. Curtis LeMay on -the status of flying disc analysis. They complete their reanalysis of -the earlier documents from the Pentagon and Wright-Patterson, rewrite a -new EEI indicating a potentially serious but puzzling phenomenon, and -turn this over to Chief of Air Force Intelligence McDonald for -his signature. (“Analysis -of ‘Flying Disc’ Reports,” December 18, 1947; Michael D. Swords, -“Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 36; -Swords 43, 485–491)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1168

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Event 1468 -(7D5B4F13)

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Date: 12/19/1947
-Description: The Research and Development Board has its first -meeting.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1169

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Event 1469 -(A2F3A24E)

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Date: 12/22/1947
-Description: The final EEI, called “Analysis of Flying Disc Reports,” is -issued by Chief of USAF Intelligence George -C. -McDonald, who -concurs with AMC’s recommendation of September 23 and forwards it to -director of USAF Research and Development Gen. Laurence -Cardee Craigie for a reply. Gen. Charles -Cabell, the new chief of AFOIR, signs off on this. (“Analysis -of ‘Flying Disc’ Reports,” December 18, 1947; Michael D. Swords, -“Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): -36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1170

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Event 1470 -(26A89251)

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Date: 12/23/1947
-Description: First transistor was successfully demonstrated at Bell -Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Bell Labs was the research arm of -American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T).
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Muray Hill, NJ

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Event 1471 -(D72D6F1B)

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Date: 12/26/1947
-Description: At the American Association for the Advancement of Science -meeting in Chicago, Illinois, University of Iowa astronomer Charles -C. Wylie proposes a coast-to-coast sky patrol to report on rockets, -meteors, or flying saucers. He says that “mass hysteria” about saucers -could have been prevented with a sky patrol in place. (“Sky -Patrol -Recommended by Scientist,” Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch, December -27, 1947, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1171

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Event 1472 -(4655B8C1)

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Date: 12/30/1947
-Description: USAF project “Saucer” started
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1473 -(4F8066D5)

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Date: 12/30/1947
-Description: Project SIGN formed to obtain information about saucer -performance characteristics and their purpose on earth (with “2A” -Security Classification at Wright-Patterson)
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Wikipedia -link
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A, B1-G p23)
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 1474 -(6267D344)

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Date: 12/30/1947
-Description: Gen. Laurence -C. Craigie, director of USAF R&D and successor to Gen. Curtis -LeMay (who has returned to Europe), advises the AMC commanding -general that USAF policy is not to ignore UFO reports, but to collect, -evaluate, and act on the information. He establishes Project Sign -(Project HT-304 under USAF Technical Instruction no. TI-2185) in a memo -titled “Flying Discs.” Alfred -Loedding, who is convinced that the flying discs are -extraterrestrial, may have come up with the “Sign” designation. It -carries a 2A restricted classification. (Gen. Laurence C. Craigie, -“Flying Discs,” Memorandum to Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, -December 30, 1947; Sparks, p. 11; -Condon, p. 896; -“Report -by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence Committee -on Unidentified Aerial Objects,” April 28, 1949, p. 2; Michael David -Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man -behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 24). Craigie, after -his retirement from the Air Force in 1955, indicates that he believes -UFOs are a waste of time and only approved Project Sign because of -internal USAF politics. (Joel Carpenter)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1173

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- Event 1475 (0F905C5A)

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Date: 1948
-Description: More Ghost Rockets seen in Europe
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Europe

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Event 1476 -(CDF23F6E)

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Date: 1948
-Description: Mr. Galbraith twice saw an object land. The first time, it -was a disk-shaped craft with a humanoid figure-the second time, cigar -shape with three figures.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Swastika, Canada
-ID: 64

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Event 1477 -(BB50AC7E)

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Date: 1948
-Description: British author and ex-MI5 operative Bernard -Newman publishes a novel titled The Flying Saucer, the first book to -use that phrase in its title. The story revolves around a group of -scientists who create a fake Martian threat in order to bring the world -together. Plot elements include a trio of staged saucer crashes (in New -Mexico, Russia, and the UK), propaganda, and even an alien autopsy. -(Bernard Newman, The Flying Saucer, Gollancz, 1948; Andrew May, “The -Flying Saucer,” Retro-Forteana, June 30, 2013; Kremlin 43–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1176

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Event 1478 -(2A4433F4)

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Date: 1948
-Description: An airman stationed in Arizona is called out with a -scientific team to examine a flying saucer that has crashed near Taos, -New Mexico. When he arrives, the area is roped off and under military -guard. The object is metallic with a flat circular airfoil. The cabin at -the top center is too small for a normal-sized human. He is told by -workers on the scene that bodies of “little men” have been removed from -the craft. They discover that the ship is constructed of interlocking -sections pinned together, but they cannot locate a power plant, except -possibly some electromagnets below the cabin. (L. J[ames] Lorenzen, “Aimé -Michel’s Orthotenic Lines,” APRO Bulletin, July 1958, pp. 6–7; Clark -III 325)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1175

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Event 1479 -(0FFFE288)

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Date: 1948
-Description: Capt. Virgil Armstrong Postlethwaite Captain of G-2 Air, -received a Top Secret incoming TWX from 3rd Army Headquarters, Atlanta, -directed to the Commanding General (with a copy sent to G-2), White -Sands Proving Grounds. Message: Crash of a 100 ft. diam. saucer, 30 ft. -ht.; one portal window blown; 5 Aliens suffocated; each Alien approx. 4 -ft. in ht., oversized heads; hull of craft paper-thin but impenetrable -by conventional tools. Private property purchased to facilitate movement -of recovered disc. (Armstrong’s book confusingly indicated the craft -landed inside the secure area of White Sands.)
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-See also: 3/25/48
-See also: 2/13/1948

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Event 1480 -(CD0DC73B)

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Date: 1948
-Description: David T. Keating, an employee of the USAF Nuclear Energy -for the Propulsion of Aircraft group, is flying with the 166th Fighter -Squadron of the Ohio National Guard out of Lockbourne AFB [now -Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio. While -executing a flip of his P-51 at 18,000 feet, he sees a silvery disc zoom -above his plane. He goes in pursuit of it at 325 mph and closes to -within 240 feet of it. It seems to be 40 feet in diameter and 6 feet -thick, with a vertical stabilizer rudder on the end. He keeps flying -after it even when he loses sight of it. “About 10 miles south of the -Ohio River,” he claims, “I spotted litter on a hillside and a path that -had obviously been ripped up by a crashing plane.” Short on fuel, he -returns to Lockbourne. He persuades his major to fly over the crash -scene, and they send a truck to retrieve the remains. (Helen Knox, -“Ridge Newcomer Tells of Game of Tag with ‘Saucer,’” The Oak Ridger, -September 18, 1950; Clark III 325)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1174

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Event 1481 -(CAD6E0DB)

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Date: 1948
-Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt stated: “With the Soviets -practically eliminated as a UFO source the idea of interplanetary -spaceships was becoming more popular.”
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Wikipedia -link
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 1482 -(C14BB947)

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Date: 1948 (approximate)
-Description: Sylvia Hall, 11, wakes up at her home on the corner of -Riggs Road and Lateral 1 Road south of Yakima, Washington, when her -bedroom fills with bluish-white light pouring in through the closed west -window. Some 100 feet above the ground is a huge bright cloud. Gliding -down from it in groups of four on something like a ramp are tall people -with bluish-silvery robes. She watches them for 10 minutes, then she has -an overpowering desire to go back to bed. She tells no one about the -experience until she is an adult. (Greg Long, “Strangeness at Yakima,” -IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1177

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Event 1483 -(425B09C7)

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Date: 1/1948
-Description: Fate Magazine 1948 Volume 1 #1 page 26 reports on the Maury -Island incident metallic fragments, described as a “lava oxide -metal”
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Medium
-Reference: link

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Event 1484 -(28E3CEA3)

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Date: 1/6/1948
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Bernice -Zaikowski, 61, of Chehalis, Washington, hears a “sizzling and -whizzing” sound and looks up to see a “birdman” hovering 200 feet above -her barn. She watches “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened -over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly -away. “He flew in an upright position and appeared to be manipulating -controls strapped to his chest.” The wings do not flap; instead they -retract close to his body during ascent, and are extended to hover or -proceed in horizontal flight. Zaikowski says five other adult witnesses -and a number of children also see the birdman. (“‘Flying -Man’ Is Chehalis Report,” Coos Bay (Oreg.) World, January 21, 1948, -p. 2; Lyle Zapato, “The -Birdmen of Cascadia,” ZPi blog, March 24, 2007; Clark III 270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1178

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Event 1485 -(A050ABFE)

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Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: Capt. Mantell of USAF is killed while pursuing UFO
-Type: UFO encounter
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Godman Air Base, Kentucky

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Event 1486 -(34A2CFCE)

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Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec. k.) Capt. Thomas -Mantell, a Nat. Guard pilot, was killed trying to chase an UFO up to -30,000 ft. His last message to the tower was, “it appears to be metallic -object….oftremendous size.directly ahead and slightly above….I am trying -to close for a better look.” The F-51 exploded in mid-air and -disintegrated before it struck the ground. The aircraft’s metal was hit -with fragments before it collided with the ground. State Police -estimated the saucer to be 250 ft. diam.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Maysville, KN

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Event 1487 -(1F95DD14)

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Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 7:35 p.m. Base personnel at Clinton County AFB [now -Wilmington Air Park] near Wilmington, Ohio, where Skyhooks are launched -a couple years later, watch a quickly maneuvering object. It dances up -and down and changes from red to green before speeding to the southwest. -Sgt. LeRoy Ziegler thinks he can detect a faint exhaust trail. Project -Sign calls it Venus, because it disappears about the time Venus does. -(NICAP, “Object Circles -Base at High Speed / Touches Down”; NICAP, “Part -2-11: ’…Was Not the Planet Venus,” June 4, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1184

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Event 1488 -(D2A0F793)

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Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: Maysville, KN: The local Highway Patrol are notified that -an UFO has been sighted high up in the sky and they notify Godman AFB of -the sighting…At 1:45 pm T. Sgt. Quinton Blackwell visually scanned the -skiessouth of Godman AFB and picked out a dim light in the hazy sky. By -the time base commander Col. Guy Hixarrived at 2:20 pm the UFO looked -like “an ice cream cone” through binoculars. About 20 minutes later 4 -National Guard aircraft flew into the vicinity with Capt. Thomas Mantell -in one of the F-51s.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Maysville, KN

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Event 1489 -(AC6BED9E)

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Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Kentucky State Police telephone Commanding -Officer Col. Guy F. Hix’s office at Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, -Kentucky, reporting an unidentified object near Elizabethtown, Kentucky. -Another call to Hix comes from state police at about 1:10 p.m. of an -observation by a civilian in Madisonville, Kentucky, through a Finch -telescope of a cone-shaped object about 100 feet tall by 43 feet wide, -at an altitude of 4 miles and moving at 10 mph. This is apparently -General Mills Skyhook balloon Flight B, which passes about 40 miles to -the southwest of Madisonville. Other reports come in from Lexington and -Mannsville, Kentucky. (Sparks, -p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1179

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Event 1490 -(0EC97DCC)

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Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 1:20–2:10 p.m. Army Flight Service reports to Godman Army -Airfield control tower that the object is over Irvington then Owensboro, -Kentucky. Godman Tower Operator Tech/Sgt Quinton -A. Blackwell, Capt. James F. Duesler Jr., Base Air Inspector Lt. -Col. E. Garrison Wood, and other USAF personnel see a round or -ice-cream- cone-shaped white or silver object with a revolving red -streamer toward the south beginning at 1:50 p.m. Many others see it as -well after 2:07 p.m., such as Operations Officer Capt. Cary W. Carter -and Col. Guy F. Hix. (Sparks, p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1180

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Event 1491 -(A4CD7B9F)

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Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 2:50 p.m. Capt. Thomas -F. Mantell Jr., a -25-year-old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, and three others are -flying F-51D fighters to Louisville, Kentucky. After Mantell reports his -position to Standiford Field in Louisville, Tech/Sgt. Quinton -A. Blackwell at Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox breaks in over the -radio to request Mantell to intercept and identify the object. The -object maintains a constant angular position as seen from Godman as it -apparently moves away at about 240–300 mph at an altitude of -50,000–60,000 feet during most of Mantell’s pursuit. Flying at 300 mph -and gradually climbing to about 22,000–23,000 feet, Mantell gradually -overtakes the UFO from below, past Bowling Green, Kentucky, at about -3:10 p.m. In one of his last radio reports, Mantell says the UFO -“appears to be a metallic object or possibly reflection of sun from a -metallic object, and it is of tremendous size.” At 3:15 p.m., at 22,500 -feet with oxygen running low, two other F-51Ds quit the chase. Mantell -continues to 25,000, blacks out, and crashes at 3:18 p.m. about 4 miles -south-southwest of Franklin, Kentucky. The UFO disappears from view -behind a cloud at Godman at 3:50 p.m. The Project Sign staff, still not -yet formally organized, are under pressure to come up with some kind of -answer, so they quickly float Venus (offhandedly suggested by Ohio State -University astronomer J. -Allen Hynek) as an explanation. This implausible explanation is not -even believed by the Air Force, but it remains unchallenged for several -years. In 1952, Ruppelt reopens -the case and identifies the object as a secret Skyhook balloon, although -he cannot confirm a launch that day. Army veteran Clifford -Stone finds later that there had been no Skyhook launches since late -December. However, Barry -J. Greenwood and Robert -Todd tentatively identify the balloon as one launched from Camp -Ripley near Little Falls, Minnesota, on January 6. (Wikipedia, “Mantell -UFO incident”; NICAP, “The -Mantell Case”; -Clark III 706–710; Ruppelt, p. 31; -Good Above, pp. 262–263; -Good Need, pp. 104–105; -Sparks, -pp. 30– 31; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the -Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 37; “The -Mantell UFO: -A Smoking Gun, Maybe!” Just Cause, no. 39 (March 1994): 9–10; “The -Mantell UFO: A Smoking Gun, Maybe! -Part Two” Just Cause, no. 40 (June 1994): 8–12; Christopher D. -Allan, “The Mantell Case—50 Years Later,” IUR 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): -7–9, 31–32; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the -Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 137–138; Kevin D. -Randle, “The -Mantell Analyses,” A Different Perspective, September 21, 2017; -Center for UFO Studies, [clippings and -documents on -Mantell case]; Swords 51–52; Francis Ridge, The -Mantell Incident: An Anatomy of a Re-Investigation, The Author, -2010; Flight Handbook, -USAF Series F-51D Aircraft, January -20, 1954)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1181

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Event 1492 -(DE4E98B0)

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Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Air Traffic Controller and pilot Alex -A. Boudreaux and VHF Direction-Finding (DF) Operator and amateur -astronomer Frank -M. Eisele, 103rd -AACS Squadron, at Lockbourne AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard -Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio, spot a bright object to the southwest of the -airfield that appears and disappears intermittently. Fighter pilot USAF -Capt. Charles -E. McGee sees the object on runway 23 landing approach when he is at -about 1,800 feet. The light seems to be at about 3,000 feet to the -southwest about 4–5 miles away, then later on the ground to the west -about 6–7 miles away. USAF VHF DF Operator and pilot Albert R. -Pickering, Detachment 733, 103rd AACS Squadron, is awakened by the -sudden emergence of a lighted amber- colored round or oval object about -the size of a C-47 or larger [60+ feet] dropping out of the overcast -bank 10,000 feet overhead. Lockbourne Control Tower at the same time -radios a report of the object, which then maneuvers over to Commercial -Point about 3–5 miles away to the west-southwest, then makes three full -360° circles over one spot in 30-40 seconds per turn over the runway, at -a speed of more than 500 mph, leaving a luminous, amber- colored trail -or exhaust about 5 times its length. Then the UFO goes to another -location and does more 360° turns. At one point, it disappears into the -overcast for one minute, then reappears. Just before departing, it -hovers or “appeared to touch down” on the grass extension past the end -of the Lockbourne AFB runway for 10 seconds then leaves at 120° (ESE) -heading into the overcast. It is also sighted by the pilot of a C-45 at -5,000 feet off the right wing at 7:53 p.m. (NICAP, “Object -Circles Base at High Speed / Touches Down”; Sparks, p. 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1183

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Event 1493 -(5DB2C1C3)

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Date: 1/7/1948
-Description: 4:45–7:06 p.m. USAF 1Lt. Paul -I. Orner tracks an unidentified white light with red coloration in a -weather theodolite at Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky, for -more than 2 hours. (Sparks, p. 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1182

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Event 1494 -(C15F9C48)

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Date: 1/9/1948
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Eastern Airlines pilot Hugh -DuBose, flying a DC-3 aircraft at 3,000 feet altitude near -Cartersville, Georgia, observes a circular object with a flat top cross -his flight path at the same altitude and then turn earthward. The object -is light sky-blue in color and is traveling at an estimated speed of 400 -mph. (NICAP, “Object -Passes DC-3, Turns”; Sparks, p. 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1185

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Event 1495 -(37CB00E5)

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Date: 1/15/1948
-Description: USAF officially a separate service
-Type: history
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 1496 -(F8936074)

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Date: 1/21/1948
-Description: Col. Riley -F. Ennis, -chief of the Army Intelligence Division, in a memo reiterates the Schulgen Draft -of Collection Memorandum and stresses the need to investigate Soviet -development of a jet-propelled flying wing aircraft. (Department of the -Army, “Unconventional -Aircraft,” Intelligence Collection Memorandum number 7, January 21, -1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1186

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Event 1497 -(43701D95)

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Date: 1/22/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 159.3km altitude -(Payload separation failure)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 159.3km

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Event 1498 -(9416A58A)

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Date: 1/22/1948
-Description: Project Sign officially launches at Wright Field. The -primary investigators are Capt. Robert -R. Sneider (project chief), Alfred -Loedding (T-3 engineer), Lawrence -Truettner (T-2 engineer), and Col. Albert -Deyarmond (analyst in Intelligence Analysis Division). Also involved -are Maj. Raymond -Llewellyn (chief of special projects branch), Lt. Howard W. Smith, -George -W. Towles, and others as assigned. How much interest Col. Howard McCoy takes -in the project is unknown. Its task is to collect, collate, evaluate, -and distribute information on sightings in the atmosphere “which can be -considered of concern to national security.” Ruppelt later -says that to be considered an “unknown,” it has to come from a competent -observer and contain a reasonable amount of data. (Michael D. Swords, -“Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 36–37; -Sparks, p. 11; -Ruppelt, p. 10; -NICAP, “Project -Sign Begins, 22 Jan 1948”; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, -“Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, -no. 4 (Winter 1998): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1187

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Event 1499 -(AE39FBAC)

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Date: 1/23/1948
-Description: Col. William -E. Clingerman, writing -for Col. Howard -McCoy at Wright Field, asks Lt. Col. George -Garrett of Air Force Intelligence for all files on “Swedish -incidents” in 1946 and 1947. He receives at least 44 documents, none of -which have been released. (Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost -Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 13; Swords 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1188

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Event 1500 -(8C606F27)

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Date: 1/26/1948
-Description: Project Sign becomes formally operational as Project -HT-304. Lt. Col. James C. Beam becomes its first project director. (Sparks, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1189

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Event 1501 -(1DB7B693)

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Date: 1/31/1948
-Description: The Research and Development Board dismisses flying saucers -as “a mirage induced by mass self- hypnosis” in stories that appear in -newspapers of this day. (“‘Flying Discs’ Book Declared Closed,” -Pendleton East Oregonian, January 31, 1948; Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1948”; Swords 52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1190

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Event 1502 -(518B238C)

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Date: 2/1948
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Glancing out his window while getting a drink of -water, farmer C. Bruce Stevenson notices a bight orange-amber glow near -his farm buildings a few miles from Circleville, Ohio. He expects to -find the buildings on fire, but instead there is a large, domed flying -saucer gliding silently over the roof of his pig house about 100 feet -away. The UFO, about 60 feet in diameter, maintains a slow speed and low -altitude until it disappears from sight. (“Bruce -Stevenson Reveals Close-Up -View of Saucer,” Circleville (Ohio) Herald, August 2, 1952, pp. 1–2; -“Bruce -Stevenson Certain Saucer Wasn’t Reflection,” Circleville (Ohio) -Herald, August 7, 1952, p. 1; Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1948”; Pete Hartinger, “America’s First Classic Close -Encounter,” Pickaway Quarterly, Fall 1996, pp. 11–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1191

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Event 1503 -(B19700BC)

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Date: 2/4/1948
-Description: Capt. Richard -W. Geuss, acting assistant adjutant general, writes a memo on behalf -of Lieut. Gen. George -E. -Stratemeyer, to -ADC and USAF commanding generals on “Investigation and Reporting of -‘Flying Disc’ Incidents.” It specifies that Air Force commanders are -charged with evaluating military UFO incidents, in cooperation with CIC -personnel and local FBI offices. Even hoaxes are to be passed on to the -FBI. (Capt. Richard W. Geuss, “Investigation -and Reporting of ‘Flying Disc’ Incidents,” February 4, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1192

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Event 1504 -(A63F12B9)

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Date: 2/6/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 111km altitude -(Successfully maneuvered by ground control for first 40s of -flight)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 111km

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Event 1505 -(31D6ABE3)

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Date: 2/12/1948
-Description: Brig. Gen. Charles -P. Cabell, chief -of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division, sends a secret memo to -Maj. Gen. Samuel -E. Anderson. director of Plans and Operations, stating that the -Commanding General of AMC feels that the responsibility for collecting -information on “flying disks” should be complemented by a requirement -that all USAF installations “provide a minimum of one each aircraft, -with necessary crews, on a continuous alert basis. These aircraft should -be equipped with gun camera, and such armament as deemed advisable, in -order to secure photographs necessary to the obtainment of all possible -data on any reported and sighted unusual phenomena, of the ‘flying disk’ -type, in the atmosphere.” (Good Above, p. 263)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1193

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Event 1506 -(BC5BF77C)

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Date: 2/13/1948
-Description: Alternate date for Crash/Recovery at Aztec, N.M. 16 little -human-like beings were found dead aboard a crashed saucer in NM.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research, ALIENS
-Location: Aztec, NM
-See also: 3/25,1948

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Event 1507 -(E02F63FA)

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Date: 2/18/1948
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A smoke trail begins over Nebraska and runs -south. A bolide explodes over Norcatur, Kansas, and the concussion from -the blast breaks windows and rocks buildings over a wide area of Kansas, -Nebraska, and Oklahoma. A huge shower of meteoritic stones fall over a -large area of Norton County, Kansas, and Furnas County, Nebraska. Two -Army B-29 bombers circle the area until nightfall. A farmer near -Stockton, Kansas, sees a hovering object that leaves a bare spot in the -ground. Kenneth -Arnold is persuaded that reports of the Norton County meteorite fall -might actually have been UFO-related. Astronomer Lincoln -LaPaz directs the recovery of the massive achondritic meteorite in -1948. More than 100 stones are recovered, including one weighing about -one ton. (Wikipedia, “Norton -County (meteorite)”; “Norton -County,” Meteorite Recon, October 8, 2015; Luna Meteorite Hunters, -“Norton -County, KS Fall 18FEB1948 More Than 60 Years Ago,” February 26, -2009; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1948, The -Author, 1988, pp. 15–16; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the -Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 37–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1194

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Event 1508 -(8742FF61)

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Date: 2/20/1948
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Six surveyors, including Idaho Power Company -surveyor E. -G. Hall, see a small flat, heart- shaped UFO flying in the sky at -Emmett, Idaho. Through his theodolite it looks fuzzy across its back -edge as if “dipped in cream.” He says it was about the size of a Piper -Cub airplane and flying point first below the cloud level at between -2,000 and 4,000 feet. (Emmett (Idaho) Messenger, February 26, 1948; -Kenneth Arnold, “Are Space Visitors Here?” Fate 1, no. 2 (Summer 1948): -13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1196

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Event 1509 -(BBA08F18)

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Date: 2/20/1948
-Description: 2:00 a.m. In Palm Beach, Florida, lawyer and writer Charles -Francis Coe and his son Alan see a globe of light shooting across -the sky to the northeast at terrific speed. Coe calls it a “ray or blob -of light” and insists it is not a meteor. (“Mystery -‘Globe’ Seen by Editor,” Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, February 21, 1948, -p. 1; “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 1, no. 3 (Fall 1948): 105–113; -Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, -p. 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1195

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Event 1510 -(23C6F255)

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Date: 3/3/1948
-Description: Maj. Gen. Samuel -E. Anderson, USAF Director of Plans and Operations at the Pentagon, -rejects a proposal by Col. Howard -McCoy and Brig. Gen. Charles -P. Cabell for stationing fighter aircraft at all bases on continuous -alert for UFOs. It costs too much and proper interceptions are unlikely. -He orders all bases to send UFO information to Wright-Patterson AFB in -Ohio. (Maj. Gen. S. E. Anderson, “Flying -Discs,” March 3, 1948; Good Above, pp. 263–264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1197

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Event 1511 -(4D922E85)

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Date: 3/12/1948
-Description: Maj. Earl -S. Browning Jr., in a memo to the European command of the 970th CIC, -writes that the Horten brothers have -been located and interrogated by US officials. Walter Horten has -remained in Germany as an officer in the German Air Force. He thinks -that sufficient types of flying wing prototypes existed when the -Russians invaded Germany and may have served as models for flying discs. -Reimar Horten had emigrated to Argentina when the war ended. (Jacobsen, -Area 51, p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1198

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Event 1512 -(6861F658)

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Date: 3/17/1948
-Description: Memo on “Flying Discs” from Maj. Gen. George -C. McDonald, director -of USAF intelligence, to the AMC commander, considers Col. McCoy’s -proposal to maintain fighters on alert for UFOs “unfeasible.” (Maj. -Gen. George C. McDonald, “Flying -Discs,” March 17, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1199

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Event 1513 -(ECBC68AE)

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Date: 3/17/1948
-End date: 3/18/1948
-Description: The USAF Scientific Advisory Board meets in Room 3E-869 of -the Pentagon, with physicist Theodore von -Kármán presiding. Col. McCoy is -present and speaks briefly about Project Sign, saying it has over 300 -reports, many of them from experienced observers: “I can’t even tell you -how much we would give to have one of those crash in an area so that we -could recover whatever they are.” (Howard McCoy, “Scientific -Advisory Board Conference -Held 17–18 March 1948, Room 3E-869, the Pentagon, Washington, -D.C.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1200

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Event 1514 -(C8326E0F)

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Date: 3/19/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.5km altitude (Low -altitude flight prevented any data recovery)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 5.5km

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Event 1515 -(57B38F81)

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Date: spring 1948
-Description: Ray -Palmer and Flying magazine editor Curtis -Fuller publish the first issue of Fate magazine at Clark Publishing -Company in Chicago, Illinois. It features a first-hand story and a -30-page UFO roundup by Kenneth Arnold, as -well as a history of unconventional aircraft by Curtis Fuller. Palmer -and Fuller use the shared pseudonym “Robert N. Webster.” The issue sells -a healthy 50,000 copies. It is still being published in 2022. (Kenneth -Arnold, “I -Did -See -the Flying Disks!” Fate 1, no. 1 (Spring 1948): 4–10; Kenneth -Arnold, “The Mystery -of the Flying Disks,” Fate 1, no. 1 (Spring 1948): 18–48; Robert N. -Webster [Curtis Fuller], “What -Were the -‘Doughnuts’?” Fate 1, no. 1 (Spring 1948): 12–17; Clark III -872)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1203

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Event 1516 -(BD83D905)

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Date: spring 1948
-Description: Kenneth -Arnold visits the Landing Aids Experiment Station in Arcata, -California, and interviews Kenneth -W. Ehlers, a -radar technician (and later physicist) working on airport operational -systems, including radar. He has been accumulating information on -unidentified radar targets (he calls them “gizmos”) that cannot be seen -with the naked eye and sending reports on their flight paths to Navy -meteorologist Florence -Van Straten and Luis -Walter Alvarez, the -inventor of Ground Control Approach System radar. In many cases, the -target indicates a small solid target flying around 30 mph. The targets -always fly in the same path from northwest to southeast, along the -coast. Sometimes they come to a complete halt; at other times they split -into two objects, merging later. Ehlers notes that the targets have been -attributed to insects, but he is skeptical. Later, he suspects they -might be plasmas occurring at the inversion layer, but that does not -explain their behavior. (Wesley Price, “The -Sky Is Haunted,” Saturday Evening Post 220, no. 36 (March 6, 1948): -13; Ray Palmer, “New Report on the Flying Saucers,” Fate 4, no. 1 -(January 1951): 63–81; “Landing -Aids Experiment Station,” Transocean Air Lines; Greg Long, “In -Search of Gizmos: A 1947 Radar Case,” IUR 19, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1994): -15–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1204

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Event 1517 -(766CB73C)

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Date: spring 1948 (approximate)
-Description: President Truman asks -Col. Robert -B. Landry, his -USAF aide, to provide him with quarterly verbal reports on the state of -UFO information and research. He does so to the end of 1952, with -possibly 18 briefings in all. (James R. Fuchs, “Oral -History Interview with Robert B. Landry,” Harry S. Truman Library -and Museum, February 28, 1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1205

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Event 1518 -(D11CFF00)

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Date: 3/23/1948
-Description: RAF pilot John -Cunningham reaches an altitude of 59,430 feet in a de Havilland -Vampire turbojet. (Wikipedia, “John -Cunningham (RAF officer)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1201

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Event 1519 -(80BEEDD0)

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Date: 3/25/1948
-Description: IPU Scout Team sights the object 12 miles NE of Aztec NM, -radios back to HQ in Camp Hale, which relayed the message to General -Marshall. Marshall orders head of IPU to conduct a recovery operation, -Marshall contacts Dr. Vannevar Bush (director of the Research and -Development Board) who organizes an impromptu scientific team. Team -meets at Durango Airfield in Durano CO.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Reference: link
-Location: Aztec, NM

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Event 1520 -(CB00DA4C)

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Date: 3/25/1948
-Description: Aztec area NM landing and retrieval incident near Hart -Canyon. UFO detected by 3 strategically located radars in the southwest, -including a powerful experimental radar in the Four Corners region. The -Army OSI and the IPU put on Red Alert and the ADC activated the local -military units when a UFO crashed in the vicinity of Aztec, NM. When the -saucer got into range of a Special High-Powered radar at the Four -Corners Range (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) it began to flutter -and wobble from side-to-side and took a trajectory towards the ground. -It seems that the beam from this special radar had an ill-effect on the -control system of the saucer. The 100 ft. saucer crash-landed on -Mr. H.D.’s (initials) property. H.D. and family were sworn to secrecy. -Note: This may have been the White Sands 1948 incident mentioned by -Virgil Armstrong.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
-Reference: book -link
-Reference: book -link
-Reference: book -link
-Reference: Robert -Spencer Carr
-Reference: Robert -Spencer Carr
-Location: Aztec, NM
-See also: 2/13/1948

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Event 1521 -(96F82557)

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Date: 3/25/1948
-Description: 5:00 a.m. According to writer Frank -Scully, who hears the tale from a scientist he refers to as -“Dr. Gee” and a Texas oilman, a UFO crashes on a rocky plateau off Hart -Canyon Road east of Aztec, New Mexico. When Air Force investigators and -government scientists arrive on the scene, they crawl through a broken -porthole and find the bodies of 16 small humanlike beings (3–3.5 feet -tall) dressed in the “style of 1890.” Their skin is charred a chocolate -color, apparently as a result of the rush of terrestrial air through the -shattered window. After a thorough study, the scientists conclude that -the “vehicle probably flew on magnetic lines of force.” Segments of the -craft, as well as the bodies, are supposedly transported to Wright Field -in Ohio. Dr. Gee, who claims to have been on the scene, said the UFO is -likely from Venus, as Martians “would probably be three or four times as -large as human beings.” Soon afterward, a crash occurs in Arizona and 16 -bodies are taken from the wreckage. A third spaceship goes down near -Phoenix with 2 dead occupants. The story turns out to be a hoax dreamed -up by two con men named Silas -Newton and Leo -GeBauer (“Dr. Gee,” although Scully claims this was a composite -character incorporating 8 informants, one of whom is said to be -geophysicist Carl -A. Heiland). The hoax is loosely based on a 1949 science fiction -film titled The Flying Saucer. GeBauer and especially Newton are in -later years involved in various swindles and fraudulent mining claims. -In 1987, William -S. Steinman and Wendelle -C. Stevens release UFO Crash at Aztec, which draws on speculation, -rumor, unnamed informants, and paranoia to defend and embellish the -original story. The latest to champion the Aztec crash is a North -Carolina man named Scott Ramsey, who -with his wife Suzanne has spent thousands of dollars looking for and -interviewing witnesses and trying to prove it involves a real UFO crash -and coverup in his 2015 book The Aztec UFO Incident. Ramsey thinks the -object was tracked on radar by Air Force Station P-8 near El Vado Dam. -(Wikipedia, “Aztec, -New Mexico -UFO hoax”; Frank Scully, Behind -the Flying Saucers, Holt, -1950; J. P. Cahn, “Flying -Saucers and the Mysterious -Little Men,” True, September 1952, pp. 17–19, 102–112; J. P. Cahn, -“Flying -Saucer Swindlers,” True, August 1956, pp. 36–37, 69–72; William S. -Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo -Archives, 1987; Clark III 1044–1047; William E. Jones and Rebecca D. -Minshall, “Aztec, New Mexico—A Crash Story Reexamined,” IUR 16, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1991): 11–15, 23; Good Above, pp. 388–394; -Good Need, pp. 117–123; -Jerome Clark, review -of The -Aztec Incident, in -Journal of Scientific Exploration 26, no. 3 (2012): 709–716; Scott -Ramsey, Suzanne Ramsey, and Frank Thayer, The Aztec UFO Incident, New -Page, 2015; Curt Collins, “Flying -Saucer Swindlers: Silas Newton and the UFO Crash,” The Saucers That -Time Forgot, April 5, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1202

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Event 1522 -(7264DEF0)

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Date: 4/1948
-Description: Morning. US Weather Bureau meteorologist Walter A. -Minozewski at the Richmond, Virginia, weather station and his staff -catch sight of a bright metallic, elliptical disc while they are -tracking a small ceiling balloon at 15,000 feet. He checks his -observation through a theodolite telescope. The disc flies just below -the balloon and remains in sight for 15 seconds, appearing much bigger -than the balloon. It has a flat, level bottom and a dome on top. It -remains on a westward heading at high speed, then vanishes off into the -distance. (Ruppelt, p. 41; -Bloecher, p. I-1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1206

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Event 1523 -(BC25EBC2)

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Date: 4/1948 (estimated)
-Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography -expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/49 he flew from Hollywood with -Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and boards a bus with blacked-out -windows. He sees and photographs a huge disc-shaped object sitting on -the ground with military brass, intelligence guards and officers, and -scientific personnel all around it, also photographs small bodies.
-Type: witness statement
-Reference: link
-Location: Los Alamos, NM

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Event 1524 -(79790BFD)

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Date: 4/1/1948
-Description: 9:55 a.m. USAF 1stLt. Robert W. Meyers is leading a flight -of four P-47s from the 67th Fighter Group about 9 miles southeast of -Sorsogon City, Luzon, Philippines. At 1,500 feet, he notices an unusual -silvery object about 3 miles to the east. Shaped like a flying wing or -half-moon with a “turtle back,” it resembles no military craft in use at -the time. The object flies below the squadron at 200 mph and an altitude -of about 1,000 feet. Meyers estimates it is about 30 feet wide and 20 -feet long. When he attempts to contact the other three P-47s, he -realizes his radio is dead. As he makes a 270° left turn to get a closer -look, the object makes a 90° left turn and moves away at tremendous -speed. It is only visible for about 5 seconds. (NICAP, “P-47 -Flight Encounters Half-Moon Object”; Sparks, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1207

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Event 1525 -(6D68364C)

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Date: 4/2/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 144km altitude -(Three previous launch attempts failed in year prior. Excellent -performance)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 144km

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Event 1526 -(CD9511CD)

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Date: 4/5/1948
-Description: Afternoon. At Holloman AFB, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, -three highly trained balloon observers (Joseph Olson, Johnson, and -Chance) are working on a secret project for the Air Force’s Watson -Laboratories. They see two objects. One observer follows one object, and -the others follow the second as they diverge. All are certain that the -objects aren’t balloons. They are large, whitish, roundish, very high, -faster than any aircraft, and perform rapid, erratic motions. One object -is lost at a low altitude. The other goes up quickly and seems to just -disappear. The observation lasts about 30 seconds. The case is deemed -important enough to send Alfred -Loedding and one of Clingerman’s -assistants, Lt. Col. James C. Beam (the head of Project Sign), to New -Mexico to interview Project Mogul scientist James W. Peoples and the -other witnesses. Unfortunately, they are gone when Sign arrives. (They -are later interviewed at the USAF Watson Laboratory complex in Red Bank, -New Jersey.) The witnesses are very sure of themselves and the case is -classed as “Unidentified.” While at Holloman, Loedding and Beam talk -with Lt. Herbert G. Markley, who has worked with the Watson team. -Markley remembers one of them speaking of unusual radar returns from -their equipment, but later the Watson personnel say that these were -probably just “angels” (spurious echoes due to atmospheric -microstructures, insects, equipment malfunction, or other stimuli). -Markley does report that UFOs are seen around Holloman often. He himself -has seen a disc in late August 1947 and flat, round aeroforms on at -least two further occasions. (NICAP, “Team -Watches 35-Meter Disc”; Ruppelt, p. 71; -Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” -JUFOS 7 (2000): 40–41; Sparks, p. 33; -Project 1947, “Holloman -AFB UFO Sightings”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1208

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Event 1527 -(0A0214DF)

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Date: 4/5/1948
-Time: Afternoon
-Description: Witnesses: Geophysics Lab balloon observers Alsen, Johnson, -Chance. Two irregular, round, white or golden objects. One made three -loops then rose and disappeared rapidly; the other flew in a fast arc to -the west during the 3O^second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
-ID: 10

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Event 1528 -(067DF342)

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Date: 4/5/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. L.): 3 trained -balloon observers from the Geophysics Lab, NJ spot UFO moving quickly -undergoing “violent” maneuvers at high speed near Holloman AFB
-Type: top secret report
-Reference: NICAP — Air -Intelligence Report — ONI
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Holloman AFB

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Event 1529 -(A9FD1FED)

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Date: 4/9/1948
-Description: Viola Johnson of Longview, Washington, and another witness -see three “flying men” circling the town. She says they are “dressed in -khaki-colored flying suits with helmets over their faces.” (Clark III -777)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1209

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Event 1530 -(48B6989F)

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Date: 4/15/1948
-Description: 6:17 a.m. The X-Ray nuclear device is detonated near -Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. B-17 pilotless drone aircraft -are flown through the cloud, and a drone light tank is used to recover -soil samples from the crater. Unfortunately, it becomes bogged and must -be towed out 10 days later. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Sandstone”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1210

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Event 1531 -(769AD464)

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Date: 4/19/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 56km altitude -(Faulty steering led to high roll rate and then flight -termination)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 56km

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Event 1532 -(1D1FAA53)

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Date: 4/23/1948
-Description: A preliminary 25-page report, written by Project Sign’s -Col. Howard -McCoy and Lt. Col. James C. Beam, summarizes UFO reports received -through February 1, with attached memos and documents. It is addressed -to Chief of Staff Hoyt -Vandenberg and Director of Intelligence Charles -P. Cabell. The Rhodes photos and 99 other cases are listed. A -comment by chemist Irving -Langmuir is appended, noting his doubts about the reality of flying -discs. (Col. Howard M. McCoy, “Project -Sign,” April 23, 1948; Swords 54–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1211

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Event 1533 -(5032626E)

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Date: 4/27/1948
-End date: 4/28/1948
-Description: Physicist Joseph -Kaplan, a member of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, visits the -Kirtland AFB Office of Special Investigations, AEC’s Sandia Base, and -Los Alamos in New Mexico, under orders from Theodore -Von Kármán, chairman -of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, to review UFO reports and -investigations from the area. Kaplan and Lincoln -LaPaz meet with security personnel at Los Alamos. Kaplan reports -that “these occurrences relate to the National Defense of the United -States” and should be investigated scientifically.” (Good Above, p. 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1212

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Event 1534 -(88EE5900)

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Date: 4/30/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. M.): Lt. Comdr. -Marcus L. Lowe while on a flight observed a yellow or light colored -sphere 25 to 40 ft. diam. moving at a speed of approx. 100 mph against -wind
-Type: top secret report
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p481)

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Event 1535 -(E6B6D09F)

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Date: 5/1948
-Description: An article on secret Skyhook balloons (without mentioning -the project name) by Devon -Francis is published in Popular Science. (Devon Francis, “New -Balloons Explore Roof of the Airways,” Popular Science, May 1948, -pp. 98–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1213

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Event 1536 -(5185783F)

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Date: 5/5/1948
-Description: An Efficiency Rating report is written up for Alfred -Loedding from Miles -E. Goll, which mentions his work as a monitor for Project Sign. -(Miles E. Goll, “Efficiency -Rating of Mr. Alfred C. Loedding,” May 5, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1214

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Event 1537 -(C55CD899)

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Date: 5/7/1948
-Description: Afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Fordyce -J. Kaiser and their housekeeper Jean Bray, at 251 W. Waldorf Avenue, -Memphis, Tennessee, see 50–60 unusual objects, apparently moving very -high and fast, traveling in straight lines with slight zigzagging. They -are shiny like bright aluminum with silvery trails. Lt. Col. James C. -Beam of Project Sign goes to investigate. On the way back, he consults -with astronomer Paul -Herget of the Cincinnati Observatory in Ohio, who thinks the objects -are meteors and recommends Ohio State University astronomer J. -Allen Hynek in Columbus as a project consultant. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1948, The Author, 1988, pp. 28–29; Sparks, -p. 34; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the -Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 41; Swords 55–56) May 12 — European Command -HQ sends the director of intelligence at the US Forces in Austria a memo -alleging that Walter -Horten has admitted he has been in contact with the Russians. -(Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1215

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Event 1538 -(A7BA6174)

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Date: 5/13/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 127.3km altitude -(Bumper 1 Premature cut-off of WAC 2nd stage)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 127.3m

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Event 1539 -(905D7705)

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Date: 5/14/1948
-Description: Douglas Aircraft Company creates the RAND Corporation, a -global think tank to offer research and analysis to the US military. It -is financed by the US government, endowments, corporations, -universities, and private individuals. (Wikipedia, “RAND -Corporation”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1216

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Event 1540 -(1F6D40F0)

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Date: 5/15/1948
-Description: A piston-driven YB-35 flying wing bomber makes its first -and only flight at Edwards AFB in California. (Wikipedia, “Northrop -YB-35”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1218

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Event 1541 -(EF48B1F5)

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Date: 5/15/1948
-Description: During the Zebra nuclear detonation at Enewetak Atoll in -the Marshall Islands, a manned aircraft accidentally flies through the -mushroom cloud. Because the pilot and crew “suffered no ill effects,” -the Air Force decides that piloted aircraft could collect samples. The -Los Alamos, New Mexico, personnel assigned to remove the filters from -the B-17 drones have apparently carried out the same procedure on X-Ray -and Yoke without problems, but this time three of them suffer radiation -burns on their hands serious enough to be hospitalized and need skin -grafting. One of the men who carries out the procedure for Yoke is then -also found to have burns on his hands and is also hospitalized but is -discharged on May 28. Once again, the drone tank gives trouble and bogs -in the crater, but the soil samples are retrieved by the backup drone -tank. Both tanks are subsequently dumped in the ocean. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Sandstone”; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1217

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Event 1542 -(33AB25B1)

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Date: 5/17/1948
-Description: Day. William A. Bonneville sees a bright white ball, three -times as bright as a locomotive headlight, sail over the hills to the -northwest between Plevna and Miles City, Montana. It moves south, then -west, repeating these maneuvers for 20 minutes until it flies into a -dark cloud. It is silent, and a long, bright light shoots out from -beneath. (Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the -Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 41–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1219

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Event 1543 -(A5BAA703)

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Date: late 5/1948
-Description: 11:40 a.m. Sgt. T. G. Jones and three other officers and -two crew are aboard a York transport aircraft, accompanied by a -formation of six Meteor jets, cruising at 10,000 feet above the -Oxford/Bicester area in England, bound for RAF Acklington. Visiting US -Maj. Robin -Olds is in one of the jets. They encounter a 100-foot oval object -with three bumps or protrusions on the bottom, as Jones describes it -through binoculars. Ground radar tracks the object, which is stationary -and above 25,000 feet. Two jets go up to try to get a better look and -get within a few thousand feet. The object departs vertically at a speed -of 1,500 mph. (Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, pp. 92–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1220

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Event 1544 -(E553857B)

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Date: 5/27/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude -(Steady flight with low roll rate)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 139.7

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Event 1545 -(E553857B)

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Date: 5/27/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude -(Steady flight with low roll rate)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 139.7

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Event 1546 -(08B40179)

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Date: 5/28/1948
-Description: 3:00 p.m. USAF Reserve 1st Lt. Alexander Kokolonis is -flying a C-47 at 6,000 feet six miles east of Monroe, Michigan, when he -sees out of the navigator’s window three discs 2 miles to the left. He -estimates they are 300– 400 feet in diameter, silvery-gold, and -traveling well over 500 mph. They are seen for only 10–15 seconds. -Shortly afterwards, Kokolonis sees two similar objects and he alerts -M/Sgt Ernest Davis Jr., who also sees them. (NICAP, “Air -Force Transport Buzzed by 3 UFOs”; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign -and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1221

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Event 1547 -(B3A33309)

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Date: 5/31/1948
-Description: 1:20 p.m. A cigar-shaped object moves through the sky from -the northwest at terrific speed over Wilmington, North Carolina. Mrs. H. -D. Alspach, Mrs. Charles Colvin, and Mrs. Isabell -Hufham see the object emit smoke. It appears about 3 feet long. It -slows down over the Cape Fear River, veers off to the east, and then -speeds away at a high altitude. (NICAP, “Cigar -Slows Down Then Speeds Up”; Sparks, -p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1222

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Event 1548 -(3C42852A)

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Date: 6/1948 (approximate)
-Description: “Cornet” or “Coronet” Magazine article on a saucer landing -and retrieval with dead occupants. Issue was near-instantly -censored/banned and almost all copies recalled, several copies still in -private hands. This would have been the first article revealing the -crash retrieval program.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Amazon
-Location: US

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Event 1549 -(4CAB12AA)

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Date: 6/5/1948
-Description: A jet-propelled Northrop YB-49 crashes north of Muroc [now -Edwards] AFB in California after completing a number of maximum forward -center-of-gravity tests, killing its pilot, Maj. Daniel -Forbes (for whom Forbes AFB in Topeka, Kansas, is named), copilot -Capt. Glen -Edwards (for whom Edwards AFB is named), and three other crew -members. The aircraft suffers structural failure, with both outer wing -sections becoming detached from the center section. (Wikipedia, “Northrop -YB-49”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1225

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Event 1550 -(DFB754A4)

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Date: 6/11/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 62.3km altitude -(Blossom 2 — Cut-off at 57.7s; payload separation at 96s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 62.3

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Event 1551 -(1AC7FD18)

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Date: 6/15/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-2): Mr. Booneville -observed a reddish glow with a jet exhaust in the vicinity of Miles -City, Montana. Made no sound, traveled at twice the speed of -conventional aircraft
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E, p481)
-Location: Miles City, MT

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Event 1552 -(BB00D6EE)

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Date: 6/16/1948
-Description: Soviet test pilot Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin is flying at an -altitude of 6.5 miles above a solid layer of clouds south of the -Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. He sees an unconventional -aircraft in the shape of a cucumber with cones of light radiating from -it descending across his path. The base tells him it has tracked the -object on radar and given it instructions to land, but it does not -respond. Apraksin is ordered to intercept it and open fire if it refuses -to land. When he closes to within 6 miles, the light beams open up like -a fan and shine into his aircraft, blinding him. The plane’s electrical -systems malfunction. He glides the plane to a safe landing after the UFO -disappears. Apraksin is interrogated heavily. (Good Above, p. 221; -Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 87, February -1975, pp. 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1226

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Event 1553 -(3E56421B)

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Date: 6/18/1948
-Description: The National Security Council issues Directive 10/2, -calling for covert action against the USSR, and granting the authority -to carry out covert operations against “hostile foreign states or -groups” that could, if needed, be denied by the US government. To this -end, the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) is created inside the new -CIA. Frank -Wisner, the -head of the OPC, answers not to the CIA director, but to the secretaries -of defense, state, and the NSC, and the OPC’s actions are a secret even -from the head of the CIA. Most CIA stations have two station chiefs, one -working for the OSO, and one working for the OPC. (“Note -on U.S. Covert Actions,” from Foreign Relations of the United -States, 1964–1968, Volume XII, Western Europe, Office of the Historian, -Foreign Service Institute, US Department of State)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1227

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Event 1554 -(268FF329)

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Date: 6/19/1948
-Description: A silver cigarette-like object appeared above the Soviet -Kapustin Yar secret atomic/missile test site. Several military planes -were sent to intercept the object. One of them likened the “flying -cigarette” to a rocket, but the UFO managed to emit a bright beam that -blinded the pilot. It is said that both the plane and the UFO crashed -and the wreckages were taken to the underground hangars before they -could attract attention.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Yar

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Event 1555 -(311D0A3E)

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Date: summer 1948
-Description: USAF Maj. Edwin -A. Jerome reports that a high-speed radar target appears during an -inspection visit at Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador. It is -calculated at going 9,000 mph at an altitude of 60,000 feet. The -commanders assume that the US equipment is faulty, but the Canadians -have tracked the same target. The following day, an object hovers over -the base at 45,000 feet and moving only 10 mph. (NICAP, “Edwin Jerome -Radar Case”; UFOEv, pp. 83–84; -Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, pp. 151–152; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO -Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 51–52; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 264) Summer [possibly 1958] — Early -afternoon. Aircraft instrumentation engineer Victor -G. Didelot watches an elliptical UFO moving rapidly west to east -roughly parallel to the shoreline of Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. It -suddenly and silently ascends vertically at three times its horizontal -speed and disappears. (UFOEv, pp. 55–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1223

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Event 1556 -(A871712F)

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Date: summer 1948
-Description: Physicist Carl -A. Mitchell sees three luminescent greenish discs, one second apart, -passing across the sky above Easton, Pennsylvania, from north to south. -(UFOEv, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1224

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Event 1557 -(911AD11C)

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Date: 6/29/1948
-Description: ATIC’s chief of operations, C. A. Griffith, writes to a -military representative in Norway to send all UFO reports to -Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1948, The -Author, 1988, pp. 32–33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1228

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Event 1558 -(E5C1E2F0)

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Date: 6/30/1948
-Description: A couple are driving near Hecla, South Dakota, when they -see an unusual star. They stop the car and get out, but it is not -moving. They drive on and stop again. A few pieces break off the -original star and arrange themselves in a triangle formation. They all -now look like polished aluminum; they rise to a great height and vanish. -(Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” -JUFOS 7 (2000): 45–46; Sparks, -p. 35; Swords 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1229

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Event 1559 -(74832B68)

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Date: 7/1948
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Former Air Force pilot Don Newman and three -friends watch a disc-shaped, domed UFO, about 100 feet in diameter, -maneuvering over Pasco, Washington. “The exterior finish appears to be -spun or burnished aluminum.” The object slows, then accelerates rapidly, -dives, and climbs over the area. (UFOEv, p. 38; -NICAP, “Summary -of letter from Witness to Major Keyhoe, dated March 10, 1958”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1230

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Event 1560 -(6E6952F3)

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Date: 7/1948
-Time: Shortly after sunset
-Description: Or August, 1948. Witness: Max Abbott, flying a Bellanca -Cruisair four-passenger private airplane. A single bright white light -accelerated and turned up a valley.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: vicinity of Marion, Virginia
-ID: 13

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Event 1561 -(1A1D0EDA)

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Date: 7/1/1948
-Description: A Maj. Hammer is flying above Rapid City AFB [now Ellsworth -AFB], South Dakota, when he sees 21 brilliant, yellow-white, oval-shaped -objects. They are about 100 feet in diameter and flying in a tight -diamond formation. They make a high-speed dive, level, make a perfect -turn in formation, angle upwards at 30°–40°, and accelerate out of -sight. He estimates their cruising speed at 500 mph. (Swords 57–58; Sparks, -p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1231

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Event 1562 -(794BC9E9)

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Date: 7/1/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. N.): Maj. Hammer, -Rapid City Air Base, reported seeing 12 discs over the base. These disks -were oval-shaped and about 100 ft. diam., speed in excess of 500 mph. -Made 30 and 40 degree climbing turn, accelerating very rapidly out of -sight
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Ellsworth Air Force Base

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Event 1563 -(A7E13E2F)

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Date: 7/4/1948
-Description: Day. Edward E. Thompson watches a brilliant spherical UFO -for five minutes while sitting in Johnson Park in Camden, New Jersey, -across from the Cooper Free Public Library. (“Report -from the Readers,” Fate 1, no. 4 (Winter 1949): 93–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1232

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Event 1564 -(914EB77C)

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Date: 7/7/1948
-Description: A silver, disc-shaped object allegedly crashes some 30 -miles south-southwest of Laredo, Texas. US servicemen are reportedly -dispatched from a nearby military base to cordon off the UFO crash site -until a special US retrieval team arrives to examine the wreckage and -carry it away to a military base in San Antonio, Texas. Supposedly the -badly burned body of a nonhuman entity is recovered from the crash site. -Ufologist Leonard -Stringfield hears rumors of the crash in 1977, but few further -details emerge. Early in 1978, Stringfield describes the humanoid found -at the crash site as “about 4 feet, 6 inches tall, completely hairless, -with hands that had no thumbs.” That description seems to fit the body -shown in two photographs that are mailed to Willard F. McIntyre in -December 1978. The body depicted in the photos sent to McIntyre has come -to be known as the “Tomato Man” due to its large, roundish head. Many -UFO researchers, including Ron -Schaffner and Kevin -Randle, believe the body is that of a human pilot who is badly -disfigured by intense heat following a plane crash. They argue that one -of the photos shows a pair of eyeglasses, such as a human pilot would -wear, near the body. (William S. Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO -Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo Archives, 1986, pp. 402–422; Kevin D. Randle, -A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, p. 188; -Good Above, pp. 397–398; -“Laredo -1948,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, March 8, 2009; Noe -Torres and Ruben Uriarte, The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas– -Mexico Border, Roswell Books, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1233

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Event 1565 -(7393FD4F)

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Date: 7/9/1948
-Description: Caramia and Carpenter, two officers of the USAF 72nd -Reconnaissance Group, are fishing at Fielding Lake, Alaska, when they -hear a loud roar and notice about 20 gray discs or spheres moving at 500 -mph in loose formation from west-northwest to east-southeast at about -5,000 feet. (Barry Greenwood, “The -Estimate of the Situation: -Well, Not Exactly!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 16 (July 2015): -5–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1234

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Event 1566 -(A5EAD2B5)

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Date: 7/9/1948
-Description: 9:47 p.m. While on the ground in Osborn, Ohio, the USAF -Project Sign officer who had flown to investigate the Hecla case, sees a -self-luminous, yellow-white object flying at 500–600 mph. It seems to -pulse its lights at 3- second intervals as it moves away. (Swords 58; Sparks, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1235

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Event 1567 -(9B3C11EF)

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Date: 7/14/1948
-Description: Day. Charles -W. Shangle Jr. watches two groups of about 16 UFOs maneuvering at -300–600 mph over Boise, Idaho. Two of the objects exhibit a “falling -leaf” motion. (“True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 1 (May 1949): -75–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1236

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Event 1568 -(1BD4EB70)

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Date: 7/17/1948
-Description: 4:50 p.m. Two Kirtland AFB sergeants on a fishing trip with -their families five miles south of San Acacia Diversion Dam, New Mexico, -see a group of 7 aluminum-like, spherical objects approach from the -south at 20,000 feet pass overhead at 1,500 mph. They first appear like -snub-nosed jet fighters of an unknown type, shifting from V -ormation to -L-formation to circular formation to no regular formation. A regular -pulsating flashing light appears in the group at 30° from zenith to the -north, and at this oblique angle the objects do not appear circular. -There is no noise or trail. (NICAP, “Two -Military Families Report Seven Objects”; Swords 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1237

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Event 1569 -(AD6DF743)

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Date: 7/17/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. O): Kirtland AFB -reported 7 UFOs flying a “J” formation in the vicinity of San Acacia, -N.M., at altitude of 20,000 ft. Formation varied from “J” to “L” to “O” -after passing zenith. Est. speed 1500 mph
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Kirtland Air Force Base

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Event 1570 -(7F1C2B6C)

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Date: 7/20/1948
-Description: The Netherlands government reports that a wingless, -cigar-shaped object with two decks of windows is seen flying rapidly on -four separate occasions by two Dutch citizens over The Hague (and/or -Arnhem). (NICAP, “High V-2-Like -Craft Observed”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1948, The Author, 1988, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1238

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Event 1571 -(67CE637C)

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Date: 7/20/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.Q): A.D. Otter and -his daughter Arnham, in the Netherlands, sight UFO similar to the UFO -sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Netherlands
-See also: 7/25/48

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Event 1572 -(F6E4ED91)

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Date: 7/21/1948
-Description: The USAF Research and Development division sends a formal -letter to the RAND Corporation authorizing them to select scientists to -evaluate the possibility that the flying discs might be human-built -spaceships. RAND’s reply is not known. (Swords 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1239

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Event 1573 -(3DDDA219)

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Date: 7/24/1948
-Description: 1:45 a.m. A bright object is seen at Robins AFB in Houston -County, Georgia, by ground maintenance crewman Walter Massey, who sees a -“stream of fire” in the north. As it moves overhead, it seems more -cylindrical. It moves off to the west. (NICAP, “July -24, 1948, 0250E, Warner Robins AFB, Georgia”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1240

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Event 1574 -(8C44B19C)

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Date: 7/24/1948
-Description: Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter: At roughly 2:45 AM on July -24, 1948, two commercial pilots, Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted, -claimed to have observed a “glowing object” pass by their plane before -it appeared to pull up into a cloud and travel out of sight. The object -closed on their DC-3 in a matter of seconds, and both men later said -they saw the object fly past the right side of their plane at high speed -before it pulled “up with a tremendous burst of flame out of its rear -and zoomed up into the clouds.” They observed the object for a total of -ten to fifteen seconds. Chiles and Whitted stated that the object -“looked like a wingless aircraft…it seemed to have two rows of windows -through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium -flare.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Montgomery, Alabama

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Event 1575 -(F8B04398)

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Date: 7/24/1948
-Description: 2:45 a.m. Capt. Clarence -S. Chiles and copilot John -B. Whitted are flying an Eastern Airlines DC-3 at 5,000 feet, 20 -miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, when they see an object about -100 feet long moving rapidly toward them on their right. Torpedo-shaped -and wingless, the object has flames jetting 50 feet from its rear. There -are two rows of square windows through which a bright light is glowing. -They only see it for 5–10 seconds. It is half a mile away and moving at -about 700 mph. After it passes the plane it swoops into a cloud bank at -6,000 feet. One passenger, Clarence -L. McKelvie of -Columbus, Ohio, also sees it. (Wikipedia, “Chiles-Whitted -UFO Encounter”; -NICAP, “Chiles-Whitted -Case”; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, -Palmer, 1952, pp. 90–91; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 42–43; Clark III 234–236; UFOEv, p. 48; -Sparks, -p. 36; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the -Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 46–47; Swords 58–60; Good Above, pp. 264, 479; -Joel Carpenter, “Watershed: -The Chiles-Whitted ‘Rocketship’ Sighting,” 2002; Martin Shough, “Analysis -of the Chiles-Whitted -Sightings, July 24, 1948,” February 2011; Kevin D. Randle, “Chiles/Whitted -and Skepticism,” A Different Perspective, January 21, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1241

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Event 1576 -(5A3290BA)

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Date: 7/24/1948
-Description: Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted see UFO
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Montgomery, Alabama

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Event 1577 -(B4652449)

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Date: 7/25/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec.Q): Two Eastern -Airlines pilots reported seeing an object like a huge V-2 Rocket pass -their jet. Sighted 4 times through scattered clouds and unlimited -visibility, travelling at high speed and high altitude. Description: -Appeared wingless, had two decks, and made a sound similar to that of a -V-2.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: US
-See also: 7/20/48
-See also: 8/3/48
-See also: 1/31/50

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Event 1578 -(93264190)

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Date: 7/25/1948
-Description: Chief of Air Force Intelligence Gen. Charles -Cabell phones McCoy’s -office at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Sign is ordered to get into the -field immediately and investigate the Chiles-Whitted case. By that -afternoon, Loedding, Deyarmond, and -Llewellyn (now -apparently director of Project Sign) are flown by Capt. Clarence -Groseclose to Atlanta, Georgia. (Sparks, p. 13; -Swords 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1242

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Event 1579 -(09B88521)

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Date: 7/26/1948
-Description: Aeronautical engineer Molt -Taylor speculates to the Associated Press that “If we can build such -craft, what is to prevent others from doing so, assuming that a similar -order of intelligence exists on other planets? You and I may see the day -when we will be united with Russia defending this planet against attack -from space.” (“It -May Be Men -from Mars, Expert Says of ‘Saucers,’” San Francisco Examiner, July -28, 1948, p. 32; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth -Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1948, Supplemental -Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1244

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Event 1580 -(68A720A6)

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Date: 7/26/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 86.9km altitude -(Turbine overspeed led to premature propellant cut-off at 61s. 2rpm roll -began at 70s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 86.9

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Event 1581 -(B8A50FA9)

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Date: 7/26/1948
-Description:  Loedding, Deyarmond, and -Llewellyn interview -Chiles and -Whitted in -the Henry Grady Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. They are impressed with their -account. Mulling the case through September, Project Sign is disturbed -even more than the Mantell incident, -according to Ruppelt. Capt. Sneider considers -the shape aerodynamically feasible; consultant J. -Allen Hynek says it might be a fireball but considers that -“far-fetched.” (Swords 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1243

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Event 1582 -(BB2661BF)

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Date: 7/27/1948
-Description: Air Intelligence Memorandum on “Pattern of Flying Saucers” -requires that a study be made by the Air Intelligence Division to -examine the pattern of tactics of reported UFOs and develop conclusions -as to their probability. This leads to the EEI “Analysis of Flying -Object Incidents in the United States” (100-203-79) of December 10. The -JIC report gives the incorrect date as August 6. (Col. Brooke E. Allen, -“Analysis -of Flying Object -Incidents in the U.S.,” October 11, 1948; “Report -by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence -Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,” April 28, 1949, p. 2; Jan -L. Aldrich, “New -Top Secret Document -Revealed,” Project 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1245

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Event 1583 -(F5E9A257)

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Date: 7/29/1948
-Description: 9:18 a.m. James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of -an Indianapolis, Indiana, rug cleaning firm, are in a truck headed west -when they see a shiny, propeller-shaped, aluminum object with 10–12 -small cups protruding from either blade. It is 6–8 feet long and flying -silently above the trees at 30 feet altitude some 300 feet away heading -south. It approaches to about 100 feet at its closest. The object glides -across the road at 25–30 mph in a slight descent then makes a 20° bank -to the east and goes down in a wooded area. Toney and Huggins stop the -truck and get out to look, but the object has disappeared behind trees. -A later search finds no traces. (NICAP, “Close -Encounter with ‘Propeller-Shaped’ Object”; Sparks, -p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1246

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Event 1584 -(C2AAA4E5)

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Date: 7/29/1948
-Time: 9:55 AM
-Description: Witnesses: James Toney, Robert Huggins, both employees of a -rug cleaning firm. One shiny aluminum object, shaped something like an -airplane’s propeller, with 10-12 small cups protruding from either -blade. Estimated size 6-8’ long, 1.5-2’ wide. The object glided across -the road a few hundred feet in front of their vehicle and apparently -went down in a wooded area. Sighting lasted a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
-ID: 11

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Event 1585 -(3C853B1E)

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Date: 7/29/1948
-Description: An object swept over a road at 10 m altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
-ID: 65

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Event 1586 -(18A9CCA2)

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Date: 7/31/1948
-Description: 8:25 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon -Swigert of south-central Indianapolis, Indiana, see a cymbal-shaped -or domed- disc object to the west of their home. It is about 20 feet -across, 6–8 feet thick, white without any shine but shadowing on upper -right. It flies straight and level from horizon to horizon, west to east -heading 90°. They estimate its altitude as 2,000 feet covering a -distance of 5 miles in 10 seconds. It shimmers in the sun as if -spinning, is silent, and has no trail. (NICAP, “Cymbal-Shaped -Object Observed by Couple”; Sparks, -p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1247

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Event 1587 -(32D5F1D0)

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Date: 7/31/1948
-Time: 8:25 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert; he was an -electrician. Object was shaped like a cymbal, or domed disc; about 20’ -across and 6-8’ thick, and was white without any shine. It flew straight -and level from horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds, shimmering in the -sun as if spinning.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
-ID: 12

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Event 1588 -(9F7EC2C9)

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Date: 8/3/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.R): UFO sighted over -Moscow that is similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two -Eastern Airlines pilots.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Moscow
-See also: 7/25/48

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Event 1589 -(982A6601)

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Date: 8/5/1948
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.7km -altitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 165.7km

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Event 1590 -(E35F9D24)

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Date: 8/5/1948
-Description: This date given by Edward -Ruppelt for the lost “Estimate of the Situation,” in which Project -Sign concludes that UFOs are interplanetary, is probably too early. See -September 30.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1248

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Event 1591 -(10264240)

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Date: 8/11/1948
-Time: 1200
-Description: Two boys were playing outside when a round dull gray object -70 cm in diameter, 30 cm thick, landed near them like a balloon with a -metallic noise. It spun, went up, hovered, maneuvered to avoid Phone -lines and trees, and flew away to the northeast. An FBI man from -St. Paul found an area 70 cm in diameter where the ground showed signs -of extreme pressure.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Hamel, Minnesota
-ID: 66

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Event 1592 -(295C6D89)

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Date: 8/15/1948
-Description: Morning. Future ufologist Walter -H. Andrus Jr., his wife Genevieve, and son Donald see four UFOs -flying in formation east to west over downtown, Phoenix, Arizona. They -simply vanish in sequence, then the first three reappear one at a time -in the northwest where they pass out of sight to the west. (Story, pp. 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1249

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Event 1593 -(03A89EC3)

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Date: 8/19/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 13.4km altitude -(Bumper 2 First stage failed due to propellant flow interruption)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 13.4km

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Event 1594 -(0800B136)

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Date: 8/21/1948
-Description: A possible Russian rocket trail is seen over Katrineholm, -Sweden, that remains visible for three hours “resembling a brilliant -star surrounded by streamers of fire like the tentacles of an octopus.” -However, there is no known record of a launch on this date of a V-2 or -R-1 missile from the Russian base at Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, -Russia. It may be the same object viewed by Swedish Armed Forces Supreme -Commander Helge -Jung of an “aerial explosion considered to be some form of guided -missile originating from Estonian islands, possibly Dagö or Osel.” (“‘Sky -Octopus’ Seen above Swedish Town,” Richmond (Ind.) Palladium-Item, -August 23, 1948, p. 2; “Sky Octopus over Sweden,” Fate 2, no. 1 (May -1949): 35; Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 -(Winter 1998): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1250

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Event 1595 -(8308F3DF)

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Date: 8/29/1948
-Time: 0503
-Description: A farmer observed a silvery sphere of large dimension rise -from a wooded area and hover above his farm, dropping a silvery -substance that disintegrated before touching the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Maplewood, Ohio
-ID: 67

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Event 1596 -(82CF351B)

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Date: 9/1948
-Description: About this time Capt. Robert -R. Sneider becomes a co-chief of Project Sign with Lt. Howard W. -Smith. (Sparks, pp. 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1251

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Event 1597 -(EF732C7D)

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Date: 9/1/1948
-Description: The CIA Office of Policy Coordination is formally -established with the responsibility to engage in “propaganda, economic -warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, -demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, -including assistance to underground resistance groups, guerrillas and -refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist -elements in threatened countries of the free world.” (Wikipedia, “Office -of Policy Coordination”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1252

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Event 1598 -(74C96A70)

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Date: 9/2/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.6km altitude -(Vehicle broke up at 370s at 84 km altitude.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 150.6km

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Event 1599 -(09957601)

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Date: 9/12/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-1) Pilot and -Co-pilot of a Pan Am aircraft en route from Midway to Honolulu, saw a -blue-white light approaching, changing to twin reddish glows upon -withdrawal. Est. speed: 1000 knots
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p481)
-Location: Midway

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Event 1600 -(8A6ABBEB)

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Date: 9/15/1948
-Description: USAF Maj. Dick -Johnson reaches an official airspeed record of 671 mph (slightly -more than Yeager’s -first record) in a North American F-86A-3 Sabre at Muroc [now Edwards] -AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “North American -F-86 Sabre”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1253

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Event 1601 -(22D44178)

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Date: 9/16/1948
-Description: Before dawn. Fred Scott, 63, is walking around Grassy -Mountain, Malheur County, Oregon, when he looks up and sees two “flying -persons” to the south. They are 150–250 feet up, one following the other -at a distance of 8–10 feet. Their wings are narrow and rounded at the -tip and do not flap. Their legs are unusually short. They remain visible -while Scott walks for at least another mile. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1940–1949, p. 43; -Clark III 270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1254

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Event 1602 -(987C7342)

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Date: 9/23/1948
-Description: 9:40 a.m. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, a -group of people are waiting for an airplane at the landing strip when -one of them notices something glint in the sun. It is a flat, circular -object, high in the northern sky. The appearance and relative size is -the same as a dime held edgewise and slightly tipped, about 50 feet -away. (NICAP, “Flat -Dime On-Edge Observed by Lab Personnel”; Sparks, -p. 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1255

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Event 1603 -(49B9D2AB)

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Date: 9/23/1948
-Time: 12 noon
-Description: Witnesses: Sylvester Bentham and retired U.S. Army Col. -Horace Eakins. Two objects: one, a buff or grey rectangle with vertical -lines; the other a translucent “amoeba” with a dark spot near the -center. The arms of the “amoeba” undulated. Both objects travelled very -fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Pablo, California
-ID: 14

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Event 1604 -(1FFB2C06)

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Date: 9/26/1948
-Description: 2:00 p.m. P. L. Lewis sees a white object moving rapidly -across the sky at Port Hope, Ontario, then disappear when it is nearly -overhead. Other white objects follow at about 50 mph in a northeasterly -direction, accompanied by strands of spider web. Lewis speculates that -the objects are balls of spiders’ threads, held together by thistledown. -(P. R. Bishop, “Cobwebs or Flying Saucers?” Weather 4 (1949): 121–122; -Philip J. Imbrogno, Files from the Edge: A Paranormal Investigator’s -Explorations into High Strangeness, Llewellyn, 2010, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1256

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Event 1605 -(C1E0BE5F)

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Date: 9/30/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.3km altitude -(Bumper 3 WAC stage failed)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 150.3km

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Event 1606 -(42ACF2A3)

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Date: 9/30/1948 (approximate)
-Description: Project Sign officer Capt. Robert -R. Sneider has decided that the time has come to climax Project -Sign’s task and write the required “Estimate of the Situation.” Every -intelligence operation’s task is ultimately to present such a best-guess -summary, strongly backed with as much fact as possible. Using the -Chiles-Whitted case as the core and collecting around it many cases from -the summer of 1947 to September 1948, Sneider composes the document. The -most recent case known to have been listed in the document is the -September 23 Los Alamos National Laboratory sighting in New Mexico. Two -prominent USAF intelligence officers (Ruppelt and -Dewey -J. Fournet Jr.) -see the document in 1952. “It was a rather thick document with a black -cover and it was printed on legal-sized paper. Stamped across the front -were the words TOP SECRET.” Ruppelt says the Estimate concludes that the -best evidence indicated an extraterrestrial origin for UFOs. Sneider is -probably the primary author. Deyarmond, -Loedding, and -Truettner almost -certainly are part of the writing. Llewellyn certainly -looks in. All these people, as well as higher-ups in Clingerman’s -and McCoy’s -offices, must approve it, at least in some sense. And an Estimate of -UFOs as extraterrestrial is no small thing to assent to. The Estimate is -probably addressed to Chief of Staff Gen. Hoyt -Vandenberg, but it really is meant for Director of Intelligence -Gen. Charles -Cabell. It -is probably sent near the end of September, just before the George -Gorman “UFO dogfight” in Fargo, North Dakota, on October 1. It -probably lands in Garrett’s -Collections office and is hand-carried to Cabell. Cabell may or may not -be shocked. With a pro-ETH Wright-Patterson intelligence group on one -side, an anti-ETH Pentagon Intelligence Requirements Office on the -other, and open-minded collections officers and the powerful Research -and Development chief (Gen. Donald -L. Putt) in between, Cabell doesn’t want to decide this on his own. -He hands the Estimate further upstairs to Vandenberg himself, who -rejects it and bats it back to Cabell with a strong sense of -disapproval. Ruppelt adds that some months later the Estimate is -completely declassified and “all but a few copies” are destroyed. -(Ruppelt, p. 45; -Clark III 436–437; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of -the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 48–51; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 13–14; -Michael D. Swords, “The Lost Words of Edward Ruppelt,” IUR 20, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1995): 14–15; Swords 62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1257

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Event 1607 -(826C9089)

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Date: 10/1948
-Description: Vannevar -Bush resigns as chairman of the Research and Development Board, -passing the job on to Karl Taylor -Compton. (Michael -Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered -Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1258

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Event 1608 -(A1E59844)

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Date: 10/1/1948
-Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.S) 2nd Lt. George F. -Gorman (North Dakota Air Nat. Guard), sighted a UFO 3000 ft. below him -while he was flying his F-51 at 4500 ft. The pilot pursued the UFO which -took evasive tactics. The UFO out-turned, out-speeded and out-climbed -the F-51 in every attempt at intercept. The pilot lost contact with the -UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p481, B1-F p234, B1-G p28)
-Location: North Dakota

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Event 1609 -(B97CB983)

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Date: 10/1/1948
-Description: 8:30 p.m. 2d Lieut. George -F. Gorman of the North Dakota National Guard, flying an F-51 near -Fargo, North Dakota, spots an object traveling east to west. He -describes it as a light 6–8 inches in diameter displaying incredible -movements. He repeatedly gives chase beginning at 9:07 p.m., but each -time is outmaneuvered by the light, which moves up to 600 mph. On his -first pass he gets as close as 500 feet from the light at about 5,000 -feet altitude. Gorman climbs to 14,000 feet but stalled out, unable to -intercept the light, which is at about 16,000 feet. The light makes -evasive and aggressive maneuvers, such as seeming to try to ram the -F-51. When it drops to 11,000 feet, Gorman attempts to dive at it, but -the light pulls up, rises vertically, and disappears at high speed. The -light is also seen by airport control tower operators Lloyd -D. Jensen and Manuel E. Johnson, as well as others on the ground and -pilot Arthur -E. Cannon flying a Piper Cub at 1,600 feet. Jensen watches the -dogfight through 6x30 binoculars, the UFO appearing perfectly round with -sharp edges and no fuzzy outline. Project Sign personnel arrive within -hours and interview the witnesses. Eventually they conclude the object -was a balloon, with evasive maneuvers the product of Gorman’s -imagination, since ground observers do not see anything comparable. Some -ufologists, among them Aimé -Michel and James -E. McDonald, have rejected the balloon explanation. (Wikipedia, “Gorman -dogfight”; NICAP, “Gorman -(Fargo) Case”; Ruppelt, pp. 41–43; -Sparks, -p. 39; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the -Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 138; Clark III -536–537)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1260

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Event 1610 -(CAC04417)

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Date: 10/1/1948
-Description: The first Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication (JANAP) -146, based on Bernard Baruch Jr.’s CIRES system, is issued. It consists -of instructions for military and civilian personnel on how to report -sightings of enemy aircraft, missiles, submarines, and surface vessels. -This version does not include UFOs. It is tabled shortly afterward by -Maj. Gen. Cabell. (Antonio -F. Rullán, “Blue -Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships: Analysis of the Blue -Book Ship Database,” December 10, 2002, pp. 8–9; Swords 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1259

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Event 1611 -(564E0B80)

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Date: 10/1/1948
-Description: Lt. G. Gorman air duels with UFO for 25 minutes
-Type: UFO sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Fargo, North Dakota

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Event 1612 -(5F4C4B5B)

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Date: 10/7/1948
-Description: A set of letters, composed not by Sneider but -actually by Samuel -Z. Hunnicutt, a member of T-2 and the Sign team, and approved by MCI -heavyweights McCoy, Clingerman, and -Leland -Money, goes out to the CIA, US Army Intelligence, and the Office of -Naval Intelligence. The query: What domestic technological developments -do you know of that might explain UFOs and help us differentiate them -from inimical (Soviet) foreign developments? (Michael D. Swords, -“Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): -50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1262

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Event 1613 -(A36A5EDE)

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Date: 10/7/1948
-Description: A document from Project Sign to Garrett and -Cabell is -an upbeat Sneider report -on the initial investigation of the Gorman dogfight, -making the object sound extremely unusual and intelligent in behavior. -This is almost like a supplement to the Estimate. (Michael D. Swords, -“Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): -50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1261

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Event 1614 -(239E4B5A)

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Date: 10/12/1948
-Alternate date: 10/22/1948
-Description: Project Sign’s Col. William -R. Clingerman writes a letter to USAF Chiefs of Staff requesting a -study of UFOs by the RAND Corporation, similar to the one made by USAF -R&D in July, especially the possibility that “some of the -unidentified aerial objects that have been reported both in the United -States and in foreign lands may have been experimental -spaceships.        it is believed more likely that they represent the -effort of a foreign nation, rather than a product from beyond the -Earth.” (Col. W. R. Clingerman, “Request -for Study by Rand -Project,” October 12(?), 1948; Swords 58, 492–493)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1263

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Event 1615 -(C581501E)

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Date: 10/15/1948
-Description: An F-61 “Black Widow” fighter tracked UFO on radar and -tried to intercept it 6 times without success. It would speed up from -200 mph to 1200 mph, leaving the interceptor behind. Description: shaped -like a rifle bullet and apparently 20 to 30 feet long
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-F p235)
-Location: Japan

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Event 1616 -(974A27F0)

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Date: 10/15/1948
-Time: 11:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill of a -P-61 “Black Widow” night fighter. Up to six objects tracked on radar, -only one seen visually. Dull or dark object shaped like a dirigible with -a flat bottom and clipped tail end. Six seen on radar separately Pilot -attempted to close on visual object, but it dove away fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fusuoka, Japan
-ID: 15

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Event 1617 -(D13991E5)

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Date: 10/15/1948
-Description: 11:05 p.m. On night patrol, 1st Lt. Oliver -“Bud” Hemphill Jr. of the 68th Fighter Squadron is flying a Northrup -F-61 Black Widow some 50 miles northwest of Fukuoka, Japan, when the -crew picks up an object on radar going 200 mph. As he closes to -intercept, the object speeds up to 1,200 mph then slows down again. The -plane tries closing in six times, but each time the object speeds away. -On one pass the crew sees the object’s silhouette, which looks like a -“rifle bullet” 20–30 feet long. The object “seems cognizant of the -whereabouts of the F-61 at all times.” Radar operator Barton Halter -thinks it is a “new type of aircraft.” (NICAP, “F-61 -’Black Widow’ -Radar Case”; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 69–70; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 134–137; -Sparks, -p. 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1264

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Event 1618 -(7D6512FF)

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Date: late 1948
-Description: The search for a suitable US location for nuclear testing, -codenamed “Project Nutmeg,” commences under the direction of expert -meteorologist and Navy Captain Howard B. Hutchinson. The government is -looking for a place where nuclear tests would have little impact on the -American people or the American economy. Five primary sites are -considered: Dugway Proving Ground, Utah; Alamogordo–White Sands Guided -Missile Range, New Mexico; an area in Nevada between Fallon and Eureka; -the Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range (the site finally chosen -in 1950, now part of Nellis Air Force Base); and the Pamlico Sound area -off the coast of North Carolina. (“Project -Nutmeg: The Birth of the Nevada Test Site,” National Nuclear -Security Administration, June 2004; Philip Howard, “Project -Nutmeg,” Village Craftsmen, April 21, 2012; Diane Tennant, “How -Outer Banks Almost Became a Nuclear Test Site,” Norfolk -Virginian-Pilot, January 27, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1267

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Event 1619 -(E0761FA3)

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Date: 10/20/1948
-Description: The US Air Force Security Service is activated at Arlington -Hall in Washington, D.C., with the mission of cryptology and -communications security. (Wikipedia, “United -States Air Force Security Service”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1265

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Event 1620 -(D69E11D8)

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Date: 10/29/1948
-Description: Five US Air Force pilots observe a silvery object over -Neubiberg Air Base [now closed] near Munich, Germany. The object -disappears at a terrific speed after having remained over the air base -more than 30 minutes. A similar object is seen days before by another -group of American pilots. (Jan Aldrich, “Early -Top Secret UFO Document -Discovered,” 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1266

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Event 1621 -(56B47A79)

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Date: 11/1948
-Description: Green fireballs prominent in New Mexico
-Type: anomalous phenomenon
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Los Alamos, NM

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Event 1622 -(583DB18B)

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Date: 11/1/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude -(Bumper 4 Explosion in tail of V-2)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 4.8km

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Event 1623 -(4E83FCCA)

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Date: 11/1/1948
-Description: Radar operator M/Sgt Francis H. Mills at Goose Bay AFB [now -CFB Goose Bay], Labrador, tracks an object too large for a bird, too -small for a plane, flying at 60 mph. Not confirmed visually. (NICAP, “600 -MPH Track -at Goose Bay”; NICAP, “October -29, October 30, and November 1, 1948, Incident Nos. 188, 195, and -196: Goose -Bay, Labrador,” June 28, 2009; Sparks, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1268

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Event 1624 -(95CB1731)

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Date: 11/3/1948
-Description: Against most predictions, Harry -S. Truman wins the US presidential election against Republican Thomas -E. -Dewey. Secretary -of Defense James -Forrestal, like everyone else, expects to have a new boss in -January. His relationship with Air Force Secretary Stuart -Symington has deteriorated, and he has not obtained a budget -consensus from the Joint Chiefs. His mental health, physical condition, -and authority are deteriorating. He is convinced that “foreign-looking -men” are following him and that Symington is spying on him. Secret -Service Chief Urbanus -E. Baughman begins to think Forrestal is suffering from a “total -psychotic breakdown.”
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1269

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Event 1625 -(F2F78F13)

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Date: 11/3/1948
-Description: Gen. Charles -Cabell writes a firm letter to Wright Field in Ohio, asking Project -Sign for another Estimate. It is possibly composed by Maj. Aaron -“Jere” Boggs or Col. Edward -H. Porter at the USAF Defensive Air Branch. While admitting that the -objects seem real, it also cautions that they are not identified. (Read: -You may not identify them as extraterrestrial craft.) (Maj. Gen. C. P. -Cabell, “Flying -Object Incidents in the United States,” November 3, 1948; Michael D. -Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 -(2000): 50– 51, 62; Swords 62, 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1270

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Event 1626 -(D1E087F2)

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Date: 11/4/1948
-Description: A USAF Europe document transmits some information on the -Swedish ghost rockets. “They have been reported by so many sources and -from such a variety of places that we are convinced that they cannot be -disregarded and must be explained on some basis which is perhaps -slightly beyond the scope of our present intelligence thinking.” One of -the objects was observed crashing into a lake by Swedish Gen. Helge -Jung and his party. A salvage operation was unsuccessful. USAF -officers visit Swedish Air Intelligence officials who have reached the -conclusion that “these phenomena are obviously the result of a high -technical skill which cannot be credited to any presently known culture -on earth.” The document is distributed to the CIA (which in response to -a FOIA request claims no record), Armament Intelligence Branch, and AMC. -(“USAFE -14, TT 1524, Top Secret,” November 4, 1948; Jan Aldrich, “Early -Top Secret UFO Document Discovered,” 2000; Swords 62–63; Good Need, -p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1271

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Event 1627 -(93298F39)

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Date: 11/6/1948
-Description: Two UFOs, maneuvering like planes in a dogfight, are -tracked on USAF radar over Wakkanai, Japan. (NICAP, “Target -Circles Radar Site”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 34; -Sparks, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1272

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Event 1628 -(5EB8FE7B)

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Date: 11/8/1948
-Description: A letter is sent with Col. McCoy’s -signature to Gen. Cabell. Written -by Sign operative Albert -Deyarmond, it -is overtly submissive but covertly rebellious. It contains several -comments agreeing with Cabell that the UFO phenomenon is not -identifiable and that no concrete physical proof exists to identify it. -At the same time it drops all sorts of hints, doubtless the same -arguments used in the original Estimate, that the objects really are -extra- terrestrial whether the Pentagon thinks so or not: It mentions -the ETH; it mentions plotting waves against planetary approaches and -finding a correlation; it mentions the books of Charles -Fort as indicating that this has been going on for at least a -century; it mentions that odd shapes (like the Chiles-Whitted case) can -fly but require more advanced power plants than we have. (Col. H. M. -McCoy, “Flying -Object Incidents in the United States,” November 8, 1948; Michael D. -Swords, “The McCoy Letter,” IUR 22, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 12–17, 27; -Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” -JUFOS 7 (2000): 51, 63–64; Swords 62, 65, 494– 496)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1273

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Event 1629 -(03696D17)

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Date: 11/12/1948
-Description: Project Sign personnel travel to the National Bureau of -Standards in Washington, D.C., to attempt to convince Cabell and -Vandenberg on -the ETH. It includes Sneider, -and perhaps Deyarmond, -Loedding, -Truettner, -and McCoy. On -the Pentagon side, Boggs and -Cabell are -there and perhaps Vandenberg, and they are having none of the ETH. Back -at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, Deyarmond and Truettner begin writing a -sanitized Project Sign report. More scientific oversight is requested -for Sign personnel. The Scientific Advisory Board and George Valley of -MIT are to be made aware of all cases. So too are Boggs’s office, ONI, -and maybe even the NBS. Hynek is -to be formally commissioned for an assessment, as well as Irving -Langmuir and Project Rand. (Col. H. M. McCoy, “Transmittal -of Project ‘SIGN’ Incident Summaries,” November 12, 1948; Swords 65; -Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” -JUFOS 7 (2000): 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1274

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Event 1630 -(A766C2A4)

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Date: mid 11/1948
-Description: Late afternoon. Clifford -DeWitt Fife hears a whirring in the air near Nevada, Missouri. He -looks up and sees a hovering, disc-like object. Two bright objects drop -down out of the disc about 200–300 feet, then speed off to the -southwest. The large object moves off to the northeast. (Nevada (Mo.) -Daily Mail, November 30, 1948; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A -Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1275

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Event 1631 -(B97E58A5)

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Date: 11/18/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 145.3km altitude -(First Hermes B ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload -section. Nominal performance.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 145.3km

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Event 1632 -(F35FB254)

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Date: 11/18/1948
-Description: Report from Project SIGN, incident ?207 in Blue Book files: -at approx. 2200 hours, Lt. Henry G. Combs (AFRes) spotted an oval shaped -UFO while flying in a T-6 plane. The UFO accelerated rapidly from 80mph -to 500 or 600 mph. It remained under observation for some 10 minutes. -The UFO displayed “evasive controlled tactics and an ability to perform -tight circles, quick variation of air speed, vertical ascents and -evasive movements.”
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-G p28, B1-F p236)
-Location: Andrews AFB

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Event 1633 -(53522149)

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Date: 11/18/1948
-Description: 10:00 p.m. USAF Reserve pilot Lt. Henry -G. Combs is flying a T-6 Texas combat trainer when he sees an object -flying west to east over Andrews AFB, Maryland. It has one continuously -glowing white light. He makes a pass to check on it, but it takes -evasive action and he duels with it for 10 minutes. The object performs -very tight curves and quick accelerations to 600 mph. (NICAP, “The -Lt. Combs / T-6 Encounter”; Sparks, -p. 42; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, -pp. 236–237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1276

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Event 1634 -(4BB284DF)

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Date: 11/23/1948
-Description: Wire Report from Germany to Project SIGN: Capt. (blank) is -an experienced pilot and completely reliable. While flying an F-80 over -a US Air Base in the Fursten-Feldbruck area of Germany, he had radar and -visual contact with a circling red-lighted UFO at 2200 hours at 27,000 -ft. Ground radar determined that it was going 900 mph and climbed -quickly to 50,000 ft. in a matter of minutes and disappeared
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-F p237)
-Location: Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany

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Event 1635 -(B01D5F3D)

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Date: 11/23/1948
-Description: 10:00 p.m. US Army Col. William P. Hayes sees a bright -white, round light “larger than a basketball” descend slowly as he is -driving 10 miles east of Vaughan, New Mexico. It explodes without a -sound some 400– 500 feet above the ground. (NICAP, “Another -Object in Vertical Descent Explodes near Colonel”; Sparks, -p. 43; Clark III 539)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1277

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Event 1636 -(DADD39E9)

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Date: 11/23/1948
-Description: 10:20 p.m. The first [although see October 15] documented -radar-visual UFO case takes place at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in -Bavaria, Germany. A UFO is seen circling at 27,000 feet. An F-80 pilot -sent to intercept it describes it as bright red. It climbs abruptly to -50,000 feet at 900 mph. A second F-80 pilot verifies the report. (NICAP, -“Grnd -Visual / Grnd Radar Track Object at 27,000ʹ”; Ruppelt, p. 46; -Sparks, -p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1278

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Event 1637 -(FAAF44DC)

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Date: 11/24/1948
-Description: Writer Sidney Shalett has asked for USAF cooperation in -writing an article on UFOs for the Saturday Evening Post. In a -“Memorandum for the Record,” the USAF Directorate of Intelligence -indicates that “publicity of this nature is undesirable but, if such -articles are written, they will be less harmful to the national interest -if a degree of guidance in their preparation is exercised.” Signed -November 24 by Cabell, Director -of Intelligence. ([Maj. Gen. Charles P. Cabell], “Memorandum -for Record,” November 24, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1279

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Event 1638 -(BF782316)

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Date: 11/30/1948
-Description: Maj. Gen. Charles -P. Cabell, in -an Air Staff Summary Sheet, admits that he has tried to dissuade the -press from publishing articles like Shalett’s. Cabell has asked -Secretary Forrestal for -permission to feed Shalett some statistics, but the memo is apparently -never sent. (Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “Publicity -on Flying Saucer Incidents,” -Air Staff Summary Sheet, November 30, 1948; “Memorandum -for Mr. Forrestal” [unsent])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1280

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Event 1639 -(EB81CCFA)

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Date: 11/30/1948
-Description: Letter from Howard -McCoy at AMC Dayton to Commanding General, Air Defense Command, -Mitchel AFB [now closed], Long Island, New York. “It is requested that -all reports of unusual sightings by radar stations of your command be -made directly to this Headquarters by the most expeditious means.” -(NICAP, “1948 -UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1281

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Event 1640 -(76A688AB)

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Date: 11/30/1948
-Description: An interim report by Project Sign, one that apparently -takes seriously the possibility that UFOs represent interplanetary -probes, is accidentally destroyed. USAF Intelligence later requests a -replacement copy from TID at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. A recent FOIA -to the National Archives answers that such a document would be in -Project Blue Book files, but it is not. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1282

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Event 1641 -(DCAF1C9C)

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Date: 12/1948
-Description: A first-strike war plan (Sizzle) is developed to use 133 -nuclear aerial bombs against 70 cities of the USSR. (“Nuclear -‘Pincher’: The START II Treaty, the American ‘Escalation of Superiority’ -Strategy, and Russia’s Strategic -Nuclear Forces,” from Sovetskaya Rossiya, April 8, 1995)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1283

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Event 1642 -(F601C173)

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Date: 12/1948
-Description: Project SIGN evolves into Project GRUDGE and is conducted -under the code name BLUE BOOK. The liaison between Project GRUDGE and -MJ-12 is the Air Force officer in head of BLUE BOOK. -(Capt. Ruppelt?)
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A)
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 3/52

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Event 1643 -(C2E1528A)

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Date: 12/3/1948
-Time: 8:15 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Sgt., control tower operator. One round, -white light flew for 25 seconds with varying speed, bouncing motion, and -finally a rapid erratic climb.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fairfield-Suisan AFB, California
-ID: 16

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Event 1644 -(9AD876D1)

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Date: 12/3/1948
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Sgt. Bruce -Earlin McFarland, control -tower operator at Fairfield-Suisun AFB [now Travis AFB] at Fairfield, -California, watches for 25 seconds a round, white light fly with -variable speed (200–400 mph) and a bouncing motion, finally disappearing -after a rapid, erratic climb to 20,000 feet. (NICAP, “Fairfield-Suisun -AFB, Dec. 3, -1948, UFO Report”; Sparks, -p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1284

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Event 1645 -(8D64DB5B)

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Date: 12/5/1948
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Pilot Capt. William -R. Goade is flying a USAF C-47 from Denver to Phoenix. Just west of -Las Vegas, New Mexico, he and his copilot Maj. Roger Carter spot a -bright green flash. Some 22 minutes later, an identical flash rises from -the east slope of Sandia Peak and follows a parabolic curve as the C-47 -passes 20 miles northeast of Albuquerque. Capt. Ernest Van Lloyd and the -crew of Pioneer Airlines Flight 63 also see the second object, described -as first orange, then green. (NICAP, “AFOSI -Case 8: AF C-47 Pilot Observes UFO Similar to Green -Flare”; Clark III 539; Sparks, -p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1285

-

Event 1646 -(83EA0408)

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Date: 12/6/1948
-Description: 10:55 p.m. Atomic Energy Security Service Officer Joseph -Toulouse sees a greenish flare one-third the apparent size of the -moon at Sandia Base outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is visible for 3 -seconds before it arcs downward and vanishes. (NICAP, “AFOSI -Case 10: AESS Observed Green Flare Directly over Sandia Base”; -Clark III 539; Sparks, p. 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1288

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Event 1647 -(01B242BA)

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Date: 12/6/1948
-Description: Project Sign is ordered to send copies of all its future -cases and analyses to Maj. Boggs of -the Office of Defensive Air, the ONI, and the USAF Scientific Advisory -Board. (Swords 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1287

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Event 1648 -(FE9063DB)

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Date: 12/6/1948
-Description: Lt. Col. Doyle -Rees, commander -of the Seventeenth District AFOSI at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, orders an -investigation into the previous night’s green fireball. (Clark III -539)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1286

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Event 1649 -(865ED33D)

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Date: 12/8/1948
-Description: Two AFOSI officers, Capts. Melvin -E. Neef and John J. Stahl Jr., interview every agency that might -know something about green-flare operations but come up short. That -evening, they are flying a T-7 out of Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New -Mexico, at 5,000 feet when they see a brilliant green light, larger and -more brilliant than a meteor or flare, traveling a flat trajectory 2,000 -feet above them. They see it for 2 seconds before it burns out. (NICAP, -“AFOSI -Case 11: Agents in T-7 Observe Intense Green Fireball at 13,000ʹ”; -Clark III 539; Sparks, p. 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1289

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Event 1650 -(E1FA555A)

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Date: 12/9/1948
-Description: Capt. Neef informs -Lincoln -LaPaz, director -of meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, about the green fireball -sightings. He says they do not sound like any meteors he is familiar -with. (Clark III 539)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1290

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Event 1651 -(8C65F746)

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Date: 12/9/1948
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 108.4km altitude -(Vane failure at 22s caused erratic flight)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 108.4km

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Event 1652 -(A73E725E)

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Date: 12/10/1948
-Description: Top Secret Air Intelligence Report 100–203–79 issued
-Type: top secret report
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 1/7/1948
-See also: 11/1/1948

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Event 1653 -(8B108C48)

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Date: 12/10/1948
-Description: The revised Project Sign report is issued, Air Intelligence -Report Number 100-203-79, “Analysis of Fly- ing Object Incidents in the -U.S.” (AIR 203) [Some copies are confusingly dated April 28, 1949.] This -is the cul- mination of Sign’s work since early August, augmented by ONI -collaboration over the past two months. UFOs are not extraterrestrial -(the idea is hardly noticed). UFOs are probably real, but if so, there -is a small chance that they are Soviet and therefore dangerous. All in -all, the word “Soviet” dominates the commentary. (US Air Force, -Directorate of Intelligence, Analysis -of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions, Air -Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; copy, dated -April 28, 1949; Bruce Maccabee, “Hiding the Hardware,” IUR 16, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1991): 7–8; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the -Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 52; Swords 65–66; Good -Above, pp. 265, 480–481)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1291

-

Event 1654 -(AEA09562)

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Date: 12/12/1948
-Description: 9:02 p.m. Lincoln -LaPaz and two USAF officers (Sandia Base Intelligence Officer Lt. -Allan B. Clark and Sandia’s AF-Civil Air Patrol Liaison Officer Maj. -Charles L. Phillips) see a green fireball near Bernal, New Mexico. He -calculates that it is flying directly over Los Alamos National -Laboratory, and it maintains its horizontal flight at the low altitude -(for a meteor) of 8–10 miles. LaPaz arranges with the Atomic Energy -Security Service to set up a patrol with Speed Graphic cameras to try to -photograph the fireballs. (NICAP, “AFOSI -Case 13: -LaPaz, Captain, CAP Intel Officer Observed Green Fireball”; Clark -III 539–540; Good Above, p. 266; -Joel Carpenter, “Green -Fireball Chronology,” October 6, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1292

-

Event 1655 -(DF49FE5C)

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Date: 12/13/1948
-Description: Project Sign files are sent to the Navy by Col. William -R. Clingerman. (NICAP, “Project -‘SIGN’ Files Sent -Directly to the Navy,” December 13, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1293

-

Event 1656 -(28493873)

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Date: 12/13/1948
-Description: Aeronautical engineer James -E. Lipp writes an 8-page memo to Brig. Gen. Donald -Putt on “Special Design and Performance Characteristics That Are -Believed to Distinguish Spaceships.” Rejecting out of hand any links -between UFO sightings and space travelers, it later appears as an -appendix in the Project Grudge report. (James E. Lipp, “Special -Design and Performance Characteristics That Are Believed to Distinguish -Spaceships,” December 13, 1948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1294

-

Event 1657 -(9EFC68B5)

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Date: 12/16/1948
-Description: Astronomer J. -Allen Hynek is officially tasked by Project Sign with studying UFO -cases for astronomical explanations. (AMC contract W33-038-1118).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1295

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Event 1658 -(215C3EB2)

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Date: 12/16/1948
-Description: Brig. Gen. Donald -Putt, Director -of USAF Research and Development, orders that the code word Sign be -changed to Grudge (since the Air Force bears a grudge against UFO -reports, according to Ruppelt), -effective in February. Morale plummets. (“Report -by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence -Committee on -Unidentified Aerial Objects,” -April 28, 1949; Sparks, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1296

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Event 1659 -(4F62FDEA)

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Date: 12/20/1948
-Description: 8:54 p.m. Shortly after they have packed up their Speed -Graphic cameras provided by LaPaz to -try to photograph the green fireballs, personnel (William D. Wilson, Buford -G. Truett, Clifford -E. Strang, and George S. Skipper) at an Atomic Energy Security -Service post west of Los Alamos, New Mexico, spot a blue-white fireball -moving in a nearly flat trajectory. Two objects separate from the main -body and trail behind it. Thanks to an independent observation at -another site, LaPaz is able to triangulate its flight path as 7–8 miles, -west to east toward Los Alamos. (NICAP, “AFOSI -Case 14: AESS OP Sighted Green Fireball with Triangulation”; Sparks, p. 46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1299

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Event 1660 -(F8B09CF6)

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Date: 12/20/1948
-Description: Sneider sends -his summary of the Chiles-Whitted case, Air Intelligence Report number -102-122-79, to Cabell. It -is later called “The Ghost of the Estimate” by some researchers. -(Capt. Robert R. Sneider, [untitled memorandum], -December 20, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of -the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1297

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Event 1661 -(16C1A2AD)

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Date: 12/20/1948
-Description: In a confidential memo to Lt. Col. Doyle -Rees, LaPaz argues -that the green fireball he saw on December 12 was no meteor he has ever -studied. He writes that the object moved far too slowly to have been a -meteor and left no “trail of sparks or dust cloud” as would be typical -of meteors flying at low altitudes. Other anomalous characteristics were -the intense lime-green color, low altitude of only 8–10 miles yet -exhibiting no sound, flat rather than arced trajectory, and turning on -and off like a light switch. The interest in green fireballs inspires -the creation of an informal group, the Los Alamos Astrophysical -Association, whose members, all scientists and engineers with security -clearances, are permitted to examine some classified Project Sign -reports. This is essentially the beginning of Project Twinkle. (Clark -III 540; World History Project, “Project -Twinkle Established to -Monitor Green Fireball Sightings”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1298

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Event 1662 -(0B9ACA9F)

-

Date: 12/29/1948
-Description: The Fourth Army sums up the UFO situation in the southwest -in a statement. In December 5–28, there were 23 reports of “flares or -moving lights.” All but two are in New Mexico and are an intense white -or greenish- white light. (Clark III 540)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1300

-

- Event 1663 (5B05C20E)

-

Date: 1949
-End date: 1990
-Description: Soviet Union tests 969 nuclear devices — the more nuclear -testing than any nation in the planet. 214 nuclear devices were tested -in the open atmosphere between 1949–1962.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union

-

Event 1664 -(0871BD25)

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Date: 1949
-Description: Day. A student pilot is flying a two-seat Taylorcraft over -Los Angeles, California. Just as he turns to a westerly flight heading, -he sees an object speeding across the sky from north to south. Suddenly -it stops abruptly, and the pilot heads toward the object climbing to -within a few hundred feet. An intense flash of white comes from its tail -and in less than a minute it is completely out of sight. (“Recently -Reported,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 (October 1981): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1303

-

Event 1665 -(427A4989)

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Date: 1949
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A group of soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division -stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, are tasked with standing guard over a -plateau in a remote, fenced-off part of the base. After a few weeks, -they see bright lights in the sky. They approach the plateau and descend -slowly and silently. Suddenly, part of the plateau opens up and they can -see light coming from inside. The lights descend into the opening, which -closes over them. (Michael D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too Far into -the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4 (Winter 2002–2003): 9; Michael D. -Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for -UFO Research, 2005, p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1302

-

Event 1666 -(6697B08E)

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Date: 1949
-Description: Soviet “Tomsk-7” atomic weapons project plant opens -(Uranium enrichment, component manufacturing)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: link
-Location: Siberia

-

Event 1667 -(627A80D1)

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Date: 1949
-Description: United States Air Force’s Strategic Air Command had F-86 -Sabres in service from 1949 through 1950. The F-86 was the primary U.S. -air combat fighter during the Korean War, with significant numbers of -the first three production models seeing combat.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Dayton, OH

-

Event 1668 -(3ECB517E)

-

Date: 1949
-Description: Claude E. Steene Sr., Fullerton CA: While practicing in -Bishop CA in 1949, was called on by a member of a special military unit -to examine a living being reportedly taken from a crashed saucer. Kept -alive in a controlled environment, appeared reptilian.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: link
-Location: Bishop, CA

-

Event 1669 -(592A8377)

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Date: 1949 (approximate)
-Description: Evening. USAF Brig. Gen. William -M. Garland is stationed at Mather AFB [now Sacramento Mather -Airport] in Sacramento, California. He and a few other people, including -some command pilots, are sitting in their yard when they see a “bright, -silvery, round object” going too fast for an airplane. (Jan L. Aldrich, -“Brigadier -General William -Madison Garland, USAF”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1301

-

Event 1670 -(D112E17F)

-

Date: Early 1949
-Description: USAF General Orders the AF to stop investigating saucers -and Project GRUDGE is ordered to close at the end of 1949.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Leon -Davidson
-Location: Dayton, OH

-

Event 1671 -(9ECDB518)

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Date: 1/1949
-Description: Early morning. Sarah -Elizabeth Lampe watches an odd, disc-like electrical discharge, -about 3 feet in diameter, that persists for “fully two minutes” during -the Big Snow, 8 miles from Beatty, Nevada. (“True Mystic Experiences,” -Fate 4, no. 2 (March 1951): 84–89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1305

-

Event 1672 -(669CA85E)

-

Date: 1/1949
-Description: Project Sign personnel begin to be reassigned. Loedding disappears -from project records. Deyarmond’s -attention goes elsewhere. Truettner makes -one last serious attempt at interviewing about nuclear propulsion (at -Oak Ridge, Tennessee) and is given a negative opinion on UFOs by Col. Ralph -L. Wassell. He, too, disappears from the project. The civilian -members are relieved of their duties and reassigned to other -intelligence tasks within T-2. For Loedding in particular, his role and -prestige are never the same. After a few further years of intelligence -work, both he and Truettner leave AMC. For the higher military ranks (Llewelyn and -Sneider), -all we know is that they are soon no longer involved, perhaps not even -assigned to the same base. Even Clingerman and -McCoy become -less involved, perhaps because they have also heard that their tenures -will soon be up and they will be sent to school and then transferred. -The only persons left active on the project are two of the lower ranks: -Lieut. Howard W. Smith and civilian George -W. Towles. Their -job is reduced basically to collection and filing. In this condition, or -worse, the Air Force commitment to a UFO investigation project will -remain until the summer of 1951. (Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and -the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 (2000): 52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1304

-

Event 1673 -(13C9819D)

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Date: 1/1/1949
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Pilot Thomas -A. Rush and his wife are in a private plane flying east of Jackson, -Mississippi. They see a cigar-shaped object, 60 feet long and 10 feet -wide, cross their path at an altitude of 1,500–1,600 feet. It is only -about 500 feet distant. The speed is approximately 200 mph, and it -accelerates to 400–500 mph. The object makes a 50° turn and is visible -for 10–12 seconds. (NICAP, “Cigar-Shaped -Object Encountered by Bush Pilot”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1949, January–June, The -Author, 1988, pp. 1–2; Sparks, -p. 46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1307

-

Event 1674 -(0A4B82E0)

-

Date: 1/1/1949
-Description: The CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence is established. -Willard -Machle becomes assistant director for scientific intelligence. -Problems almost immediately involve recruitment and filling positions -with competent professionals. (Rear Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter, “Scientific -Intelligence,” January 4, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1306

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Event 1675 -(78941C5F)

-

Date: 1/4/1949
-Time: 2 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. Paul Stoney, on ground. one flat -white, elliptical object with a matte top circled while oscillating to -the right and left, and then sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hickam Field, Hawaii
-ID: 17

-

Event 1676 -(89B2CFC6)

-

Date: 1/4/1949
-Description: 2:00 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. Paul -R. Stoney, on -the ground at Hickam Field [now part of Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam] -near Honolulu, Hawaii, sees a flat, white, elliptical object about the -size of a T-6 aircraft, circle at about 3,000 feet while oscillating to -the right and left. It is apparently several miles off the base and -slowly circling. It is bright white on the underside and darker on top -and possesses no other structures. It proceeds for 15 minutes to make -“rhythmical undulation” maneuvers in a cyclical manner. The “object -seemed to maneuver under control at all times completing 360° turns and -90° turns.” The object then “departed climbing (into the northeast) at -accelerated speed out of sight.” (NICAP, “Disc -Circles, Maneuvers, Climbs into the NE”; Sparks, p. 47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1308

-

Event 1677 -(FA3A5621)

-

Date: 1/5/1949
-Description: The USAF Technical Information Division at Wright-Patterson -AFB near Dayton, Ohio, transmits Project Sign’s list of UFO incidents to -the Air Weather Service for analysis and recommendations. (Jan -Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1309

-

Event 1678 -(0C39FA92)

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Date: 1/6/1949
-Description: Rocket shaped UFO sighted near Los Alamos, NM
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Los Alamos, NM
-See also: 1/31/49
-See also: 7/25/48

-

Event 1679 -(CDAD1E92)

-

Date: 1/6/1949
-Description: 5:30 p.m. PFC Everitt sees a bright-white, diamond-shaped -light in horizontal flight from southeast to northwest above the -Ordnance section at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is about -1,500–2,000 feet altitude and flying faster than a jet. Possible meteor. -(NICAP, “Diamond-Shaped -Light”; Sparks, -p. 47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1310

-

Event 1680 -(8B57FE9E)

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Date: 1/7/1949
-Description: The Research and Development Board writes a memo to USAF -Intelligence on the green fireballs. It is signed by David Z. Beckley, -chief of the R&DB Technical Intelligence Branch. (Michael Hall and -Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered -Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1311

-

Event 1681 -(60EB0EDA)

-

Date: 1/10/1949
-Description: FBI special agent Charlton -C. McSwain sends a memo to J. -Edgar Hoover enumerating the views of an AMC resident engineer -(identified only as “Mr. E”) with the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion -of Aircraft project at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee that -the flying discs are human-made nuclear missiles originating in Russia. -(Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 6–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1312

-

Event 1682 -(8FEBFD84)

-

Date: 1/11/1949
-Description: Angered over his opposition to defense economization -policies and meeting secretly with Thomas -Dewey’s Republicans, Truman tells -Forrestal that -Louis -A. Johnson will soon replace him as Secretary of Defense.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1313

-

Event 1683 -(5D027EBC)

-

Date: 1/13/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (1st Hermes II -test)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2

-

Event 1684 -(EFCE06A0)

-

Date: 1/13/1949
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL 4th Army MESSAGE: Col. Eustis L. Poland -stated: “Unconventional Aircraft” have been sighted (see Report, Control -No. A-1917). Possible Radiological warfare tests are being made over -sensitive Bases in NM area. A foreign power may be making “sensing -shots” with some super-stratosphere devise designed to be -self-disintegrating.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p482)
-Location: NM

-

Event 1685 -(E9874753)

-

Date: 1/13/1949
-Description: Col. Eustis -L. Poland of US Army Intelligence (G-2) sends a memo on behalf of -the Commander of Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, -to the Director of Army Intelligence concerning the green fireballs. It -recommends a scientific study because “these incidents are of such great -importance, especially as they are occurring in the vicinity of -sensitive installations.” (Col. Eustis L. Poland, “Unconventional -Aircraft,” January 13, 1949; Good Above, pp. 265, 482)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1314

-

Event 1686 -(A95D355E)

-

Date: 1/24/1949
-Description: An FBI memo from D. -M. Ladd to Hoover documents -speculation on a Soviet nuclear-powered disc by USAF Col. Clyde -D. Gasser of the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft -(NEPA) project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Gasser reports rumors coming -from Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio that nuclear-powered disc-shaped -planes might be making incursions into US airspace and returning to the -USSR over the North Pole. (D. M. Ladd, “Flying -Discs,” -January 24, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1315

-

Event 1687 -(206EA0F3)

-

Date: 1/27/1949
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Capt. Sames, acting chief of the Aircraft -Branch, Eglin AFB, and Mrs. Sames. They watched for 25 minutes while a -cigar-shaped object as long as two Pullman cars and having seven lighted -square windows and throwing sparks, descended and then climbed with a -bouncing motion at an estimated 400 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cortez-Bradenton, Florida
-ID: 18

-

Event 1688 -(5A8C184B)

-

Date: 1/27/1949
-Description: 10:20–11:20 p.m. Capt. Eckerman -Sannes, acting chief of the Aircraft Branch at Eglin AFB near -Valparaiso, Florida, and his wife are driving slowly on Cortez Road -between Bradenton and Cortez, Florida, when they observe a -“cucumber-shaped” object. The object, seen through binoculars, seems as -long as two Pullman cars, with 7 lighted, square windows. It is throwing -sparks and approximately 8–10 miles away. In the first sighting at 10:20 -p.m., the object approaches from the south going north, moving from an -altitude of 8,000 feet in a gradual descent until lost behind trees. In -the second sighting at 11:20 p.m., the object is seen in the north, -heading south and making a gradual turn to the west. It descends then -climbs with a bouncing motion (up 4,000 feet, down 2,000 feet) at about -400–500 mph, resulting in an overall climb and loss to view at an -altitude of around 40,000 feet. The bouncing appears to start after the -final 270° course change to the west. (NICAP, “Two Sightings -of Object with Lighted Windows”; Sparks, -p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1316

-

Event 1689 -(666C600B)

-

Date: 1/28/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 59.9km -attitude (Defective performance)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 59.9km

-

Event 1690 -(E9BD4E17)

-

Date: 1/30/1949
-Description: 5:54 p.m. Hundreds of people see a green meteor come out of -the northwest and vanish southwest of Roswell, New Mexico. It is -completely silent. (NICAP, “AFOSI -Case 18: Green Fireball Event Witnessed in New Mexico”; -Commanding Officer, Kirtland AFB, “Nr. -OSI-1-90,” January 31, 1949; Clark III 540; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 15–16; Sparks, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1317

-

Event 1691 -(D3CA573A)

-

Date: 1/31/1949
-Description: MEMO, Director of FBI: Flying Saucers have been discussed -by the OSI, FBI and the Fourth Army and is “considered TOP SECRET by -Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.” It was -thought that the first UFOs over Sweden were of Russian origin. Memo -also makes reference to the Eastern Airlines sighting of July 25, 1948. -Also, on 10 different days, between 12/05/48 and 01/06/49, sightings of -UFOs were concentrated over the A.E.C. plant at Los Alamos, N.M. -(Circulation of this Memo to: El Paso, Little Rock, Dallas, Oklahoma -City)
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p483, B1-G p30)
-Location: NM
-See also: 7/25/48
-See also: 7/47
-See also: 8/4/50

-

Event 1692 -(ADCCD58D)

-

Date: 1/31/1949
-Description: Confidential Army Staff Message: Approx. 30 people sighted -UFO’s on Jan. 30, 1949. Estimate at least 100 total sightings. Sightings -reported from El Paso, Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell, Socorro, and -other locations. All sightings appear to be of the same object viewed -from different angles. Will attempt to locate the impact point, if any. -(Possible search teams in UFOs.)
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A p53, CRASH)
-Location: NM

-

Event 1693 -(6E6FA508)

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Date: 1/31/1949
-Description: Kirtland AFB in New Mexico notifies the Pentagon that it -will launch an immediate investigation of the green fireballs, noting -that “local commanders [are] perturbed by implications of phenomena.” LaPaz speaks -to dozens of witnesses of the January 30 fireball and manages a rough -triangulation of the fireball’s 143-mile path from Amarillo to Lamesa, -Texas. He estimates its speed at 25,000–50,000 mph, with a beginning -altitude of 60,000 feet and a final altitude around 40,000 feet. LaPaz -accompanies search teams to bring back any fragments. They end up in the -area of Lamesa but give up after a few days of fruitless search. He -later tells AFOSI agent Paul Ryan that the fireballs are artificial, -perhaps radio-controlled missiles directed by enemy agents in the -Southwest. (Commanding Officer, Kirtland AFB, “Nr. -OSI-1-90,” January 31, 1949; Clark III 540)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1318

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Event 1694 -(A2AA7CA0)

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Date: 1/31/1949
-Description: The FBI field office in San Antonio, Texas, issues a memo -on UFOs, “Protection of Vital Installations.” It is sent to Hoover, G-2, -ONI, OSI, and mentions a meeting among these groups on UFOs, “considered -top secret by intelligence officers of both the army and the air -forces.” (SAC, San Antonio, “Protection -of Vital Installations, Bureau -File #65-58300,” January 31, 1949; ClearIntent, p. 149; -Good Above, pp. 267, 483)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1319

-

Event 1695 -(48A7E39D)

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Date: 2/1949
-Time: 1630
-Description: C. A. V. an oil company employee, 30, was driving to Lima -when he saw a shiny disk at ground level. He walked toward it for 10 -min. Three figures came out as he was 20 m away. They looked like -mummies, had joined legs and one large foot. They “slid” along the -ground. They were covered with a strange “towely” skin, asked the -witness where they were, had a lengthy discussion with him, and took him -for a trip in their craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 122 (Vallee)
-Location: Pucusana, Peru
-ID: 68

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Event 1696 -(DFA6B892)

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Date: 2/1949
-Alternate date: 3/1949
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A representative of the International Petroleum -Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, is driving noth -along the Pan-American Highway about 6 miles south of Lima, Peru, when -he sees a metallic disc hovering low above the desert on his right. He -walks over to it, and three mummy-like creatures about 5 feet tall -emerge. They speak to him in both English and Spanish, explaining to him -that they come from another star system, are concerned about our use of -atomic energy, use solar power, no longer have sex, and reproduce by -subdividing. They invite him inside the disc, which from the inside has -transparent walls. He sees no instruments, only a padded ledge. -(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 122–148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1335

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Event 1697 -(F8822AD8)

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Date: 2/1949
-Description: Part of the Final Report of Project SIGN, written by -Prof. George Valley, of MIT stating: “If there is an extraterrestrial -civilization which can make objects as are reported, then it is most -probable that its development is far in advance of ours. Such a -civilization might observe that on earth we now have atomic bombs and -are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, -they would be alarmed. We should, therefore, expect at this time above -all to behold such visitations.”
-Type: final report
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Dayton, OH

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Event 1698 -(850387C4)

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Date: 2/1949
-Description: Chemist H. -Marshall Chadwell, from the New York office of the Atomic Energy -Commission, is appointed assistant director of scientific intelligence -at the CIA. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1320

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Event 1699 -(5DD91E95)

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Date: 2/1/1949
-Description: Col. Hanna (?), assistant chief of the Power Plant -Laboratory (at Wright-Patterson?) and project engineer for Project Sign, -meets with other Project Sign personnel and concludes that -nuclear-powered UFOs are improbable. (Project Status Report on Project -Sign, February 4, 1949; Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1322

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Event 1700 -(D5CBBC5F)

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Date: early 2/1949
-Description: Writer Sidney Shalett is given a guided tour of AMC at -Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, a glimpse of low-interest UFO cases, and a -few conservative opinions by Air Force personnel. (Swords 73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1321

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Event 1701 -(21F16B2A)

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Date: 2/4/1949
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL Army Staff MESSAGE dated Jan. 31, 1949 read by -OSI: “all out investigation of possible crashed saucer, OK’d.”
-Type: confidential message
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A p53, RECOVERY)

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Event 1702 -(B3D7C2D2)

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Date: 2/8/1949
-Description: UCLA geophysicist Joseph -Kaplan meets with LaPaz at -the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He finds LaPaz’s -understanding of the green fireball reports unsettling. He discusses the -matter with Capt. Melvin Neef and -Maj. William -Godsoe (Fourth Army Intelligence liaison officer at Sandia Base). He -promises to alert Scientific Advisory Board chairman Von -Kármán and urge an investigation. (Clark III 540)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1323

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Event 1703 -(FE111204)

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Date: 2/11/1949
-Description: USAF Project “GRUDGE” started
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH

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Event 1704 -(BCAFB094)

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Date: 2/11/1949
-Description: Project Sign releases a final sanitized report, -“Unidentified Aerial Objects: Project ‘Sign,’” Technical Report -F-TR-2274-1A, authored by Lawrence -Truettner and Albert -B. Deyarmond and approved by Col. Clingerman (chief -of USAF Technical Intelligence Division) and Col. Howard -McCoy (chief of the Intelligence Department). 72 pages are visible -in the NICAP copy and 1,537 pages (some illegible) are available on the -Blue Book microfilm. Its conclusions are based on 273 reports (243 US -and 30 foreign) and it summarizes the characteristics of four types of -UFOs: flying discs, cigar-shaped objects, spherical objects, and balls -of light. It acknowledges the possibility that “these aerial objects are -visitors from another planet” and refers to commentary in Appendix D by -James -Lipp of the RAND project. “No definite and conclusive evidence is -yet available that would prove or disprove the existence of these -unidentified objects as real aircraft of unknown and unconventional -configuration. It is unlikely that positive proof of their existence -will be obtained without examination of the remains of crashed -objects.        Evaluation of reports of unidentified objects is a -necessary activity of military intelligence agencies. Such sightings are -inevitable, and under wartime conditions rapid and convincing solutions -of such occurrences are necessary to maintain morale of military and -civilian personnel. In this respect, it is considered that the -establishment of procedures and training of personnel is in itself worth -the effort expended on this project.” Truettner and Deyarmond, in a -between-the-lines rebuke of Cabell’s -order not to consider the ETH, recommend that if enough cases are -examined and proven to have no security risks, then the project should -be terminated. The report is distributed to AMC, USAF Intelligence -Directorate, ONR, Cambridge Labs, Air Weather Services, Hynek at -Ohio State University, the RAND Project, and the USAF Scientific -Advisory Board. (L. H. Truettner and A. B. Deyarmond, Unidentified -Aerial Objects: Project “Sign,” Air Materiel Command Technical -Report no. F-TR-2274-IA, February 1949; Sparks, -p. 12; Swords 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1325

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Event 1705 -(A3A130C3)

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Date: 2/11/1949
-Description: Kaplan meets -in Washington, D.C., with Von -Kármán, who -is impressed enough to write Gen. Charles -P. Cabell that -the green fireballs look like a serious issue that needs to be -addressed, perhaps by LaPaz. (Swords -79, 497)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1324

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Event 1706 -(75B1999D)

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Date: 2/12/1949
-Description: Another realistic Spanish-language radio version of The War -of the Worlds is broadcast in Quito, Ecuador, causing panic, a riot, and -a major fire. (John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, McFarland, -2009, pp. 102– 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1327

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Event 1707 -(D7AB25D1)

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Date: 2/12/1949
-Description: Project Sign officially becomes Project Grudge. (Sparks, -p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1326

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Event 1708 -(03BED338)

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Date: 2/15/1949
-Description: Maj. Gen. Cabell sets -out a revised list of Air Intelligence reporting requirements for -“unconventional aircraft.” (Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “Unconventional -Aircraft,” Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum no. 5, February -15, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1328

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Event 1709 -(938E0CFD)

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Date: 2/16/1949
-Description: A Conference on Aerial Phenomena is held at Los Alamos -Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico with military representatives Lincoln -LaPaz, Norris -E. Bradbury, Marshall -Holloway, Frederick -Reines, and Edward Teller in -attendance. Representatives from Project Grudge are noticeably absent. -LaPaz tells the attendees that while most meteors are blue-green, the -green fireballs are described as pale green or yellow-green. Normal -meteors rarely move in long, horizontal paths with nearly constant -velocities. He says there are 10 incidents that strongly fit the pattern -and 20 others that might. The scientists agree to set up a series of -instrument stations to photograph and analyze the fireballs. Teller -thinks the fireballs might be electrical-optical phenomena. Navy -Commander Richard -S. Mandelkorn, who -is in attendance, writes in his report that “there is cause for concern -of the continued occurrences of unexplainable phenomena of this nature -in the vicinity of sensitive installations.” (Cmdr. Richard S. -Mandelkorn, Report -of a Trip to Los Alamos, New Mexico, 16 February 1949, February 18, -1949; Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, [Minutes -of February 16 Conference on Aerial Phenomena, Los Alamos], March -29, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1949, January–June, The -Author, 1988, pp. 23–53; Swords 79–80; Good Above, pp. 265–266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1329

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Event 1710 -(CE20DE5A)

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Date: 2/17/1949
-Time: night
-Description: Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm -with a green lightning flash. It became dark. As he approached the -craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short legs, apparently -without heads. Frightened, he fired at them three times. A moment later -the object took off vertically.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I (Vallee)
-Location: France, exact location unknown
-ID: 69

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Event 1711 -(3A03B687)

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Date: 2/17/1949
-Description: 5:57 p.m. University of New Mexico Professor of Civil -Engineering Marvin May sees a brilliant white object in the west at 6° -elevation for less than 6 minutes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The object -is first round then shifts to an ellipse as it approaches, then it -appears to be elongated like a bent pipe with corners, one full moon in -length. It makes a slight climbing turn to the north, shifts to peach -color as it makes a rapid sharp turning climb to the south, disappearing -in cloudless sky by diminishing in size and brightness. At the same -time, 100 guards at Sandia Base, New Mexico, including the officer of -the guard, see a yellow-orange cigar-shaped object for seven minutes. -(NICAP, “AFOSI -Case 24: Vertical Climb, Then Leveled Off”; Sparks, -p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1330

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Event 1712 -(F7EFDC30)

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Date: 2/17/1949
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches -100.6km attitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 100.6km

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Event 1713 -(E8C5879A)

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Date: 2/18/1949
-Description: Cabell writes -Von -Kármán and says he has a transcript of the Los Alamos meeting and -that Hynek is -studying the green fireballs topic. He adds: “It seems unlikely that -domestic incidents can be attributed to the activity of a foreign power -or a science unknown to our specialists.” (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1949, January–June, The -Author, 1988, pp. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1331

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Event 1714 -(CECF4AEF)

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Date: 2/18/1949
-Description: A Fourth Air Force letter quotes Project Sign’s -requirements for radar reporting, as stated by the Continental Air -Command (NORAD’s predecessor) on February 4. The USAF Air Defense -Command is subordinate to ConAC at this time. The requirements admit -that a “large number of targets appearing on radar screens remain -unidentified.” It refers to McCoy’s -November 30, 1948, letter on Sign’s preference for radar tracks of -aerial objects that show extremely fast or slow speeds, vertical or near -vertical ascent or descent, extraordinary maneuverability, and extreme -altitudes. (Clark III 810)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1332

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Event 1715 -(FCA94BAA)

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Date: 2/23/1949
-Description: McCoy sends -Capt. Roger Groseclose and Lt. Howard Smith to Kirtland AFB’s Office of -Special Investigations to discuss the green fireballs with LaPaz and -Neef and -to mollify them for not showing up at the February 16 conference. (Clark -III 541)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1333

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Event 1716 -(EA0417FD)

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Date: 2/24/1949
-Description: Groseclose and Smith have an unpleasant exchange with Neef, LaPaz, Agent -Jack Boling, and Army Maj. Godsoe, who -says it’s not worth AFOSI’s time to conduct investigations for AMC. The -AMC officers retort that the fireballs are not an Army concern. -Groseclose and Smith say they are concerned with all anomalous aerial -phenomena. Disgusted, Godsoe leaves the room. Groseclose and Smith then -turn on LaPaz, criticizing him for only sending AMC raw data and not -finished analyses. LaPaz says he is on leave as a volunteer and must go -back to the University of New Mexico, unless he sees a contract. -However, AMC agrees to set up a network of observation posts with -cameras, transits, and trained personnel. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1949, January–June, The -Author, 1988, pp. 11, 14–15; Clark III 541)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1334

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Event 1717 -(7C104D74)

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Date: 2/24/1949
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches -129km attitude (Successful flight. Separation of stages at 32.2 -km)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 129km

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Event 1718 -(C4AFBAC4)

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Date: 3/1949
-Description: An analysis of the Maury Island incident metal fragments -appears in the BSRA’s “Round Robin” publication
-Type: publication
-Reference: link
-Location: San Diego, CA

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Event 1719 -(84A8D3E4)

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Date: 3/1949
-Description: Strategic Air Command head Gen. Curtis -LeMay delivers the first SAC Emergency War Plan, which calls for -dropping 133 atomic bombs on 70 cities in the USSR within 30 days. LeMay -predicts that World War III will last no longer than 30 days. -(Wikipedia, “Curtis -LeMay”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1336

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Event 1720 -(A89453B2)

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Date: 3/2/1949
-Description: Sidney Shalett provides the USAF Directorate of -Intelligence a draft of his upcoming article for review. The Air Force -is not pleased, objecting to Shalett stating an “official” USAF -position, his claim that the Air Force is his sole source of information -(although it is), a quote by Irving -Langmuir criticizing Project Sign, and any inference that the Air -Force and Navy are not cooperating. (Swords 73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1337

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Event 1721 -(7E4A06AB)

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Date: 3/6/1949
-End date: 3/7/1949
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Army Pvts. Martin Fensterman and Frank Luisi, on -security patrol near Killeen Base [now West Fort Hood], Texas, a nuclear -weapons storage site, see a flash of pale blue light in the sky to the -northeast. At 8:55 p.m., a quarter mile away, Pvt. Harold Moore sees a -white light with an orange trail flash across the western horizon. At -9:00 p.m., from inside the base boundary, Sgt. Hubert Vickery and Pfc. -John Ransom notice a pale blue-white light streaking across the western -sky low over the horizon. Between 1:15 and 2:00 a.m., four more security -patrols report burst of lights like a flash bulb. (SAC, San Antonio, “Protection -of Vital Installations, Bureau -File 65-58300,” March 22, 1949; Clark III 541–542; -Sparks, pp. 50–51; “Fort -Hood Sightings, 1949,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, -February 5, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1338

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Event 1722 -(AE8EC1C5)

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Date: 3/8/1949
-Description: 1:03 a.m. Two infantrymen half a mile apart at Killeen -Base, Texas, see apparently separate streaking bright lights (one white, -the other yellowish red). The latter one covers 60° of sky, appearing -and disappearing at about the same angle above the horizon. Cpl. Luke -Sims is able to run 10 paces to a field telephone before it vanishes. -All observers insist these are not meteors and are more like flares. -(NICAP, “Killeen -Base, Camp Hood, Texas, OSI -Case 39”; SAC, San Antonio, “Protection -of Vital Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,” March 22, 1949; Clark -III 542; Sparks, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1339

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Event 1723 -(5FEF212E)

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Date: 3/13/1949
-Description: 9:53 p.m. Two MPs guarding the Technical Area at Sandia -Base, New Mexico, see a silent, spherical object, bluish- or -greenish-white, with a flaming blue tail twice as long as the body, -which is apparently half the size of the full moon. (NICAP, “March -13, 1949, Sandia Base, NM, OSI Case 40”; Sparks, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1340

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Event 1724 -(638F8199)

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Date: 3/15/1949
-Description: A memo on UFOs to Willard -Machle by a Dr. Stone from the CIA Office of Scientific -Investigation dismisses the idea of UFOs as foreign aircraft and -suggests they are misidentifications of other phenomena. (ClearIntent, -p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1341

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Event 1725 -(02FCA20D)

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Date: 3/17/1949
-Time: 7:52 PM
-Description: Witnesses: guards of the 2nd Armored Division. While -awaiting the start of a flare firing, they watched, for an hour, while -eight large, green, red and white flare-like objects flew in generally -straight lines.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Camp Hood, Texas
-ID: 19

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Event 1726 -(5F6EC80D)

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Date: 3/17/1949
-Description: Seven sightings of large, green, red, and white flares take -place at Killeen Base, Texas, including the previously skeptical -Capt. Horace -McCulloch, assistant G-2 of the Second Armored Division at Camp -Hood, who is driving between Camp Hood and Killeen Base to prepare a -test firing of some flares to prove that recent sightings are not -anomalous. McCulloch puts the entire base on alert. (Clark III 542; Sparks, -p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1342

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Event 1727 -(CB2EDD74)

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Date: 3/21/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km -attitude (Blossom 3 — Parachute not ejected)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 133.5km

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Event 1728 -(938BABA2)

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Date: 3/22/1949
-Description: SAC San Antonio, Texas, sends a memo to FBI headquarters -regarding the January 31 communication on Protection of Vital -Installations, emphasizing that USAF and the Army consider the matter -“secret.” Fourth Army Intelligence is now calling UFOs “unconventional -aircraft” and ATIC’s office is now Project Grudge. It also discusses -green fireball cases. (SAC, San Antonio, “Protection -of Vital Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,” March 22, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1343

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Event 1729 -(E0376035)

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Date: 3/25/1949
-Description: J. -Edgar Hoover sends a memo to a large number of FBI offices -indicating that “flying discs are believed to be man-made missiles -rather than natural phenomenon,” probably made in Russia. (John Edgar -Hoover, “Flying Discs,” -March 25, 1949; ClearIntent, p. 161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1344

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Event 1730 -(2F3A0092)

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Date: 3/28/1949
-Description: James -Forrestal leaves office in a formal ceremony. He rides back to the -Pentagon with his opponent Stuart Symington, who -talks to him about something troubling. Forrestal appears traumatized. -Forrestal sits in his office, dazed and incoherent, repeating, “You are -a loyal fellow.”
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1345

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Event 1731 -(7714F590)

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Date: 3/31/1949
-Description: Forrestal is -flown to Hobe Beach, Florida, to stay with his friend Under Secretary of -State Robert -A. Lovett, where his wife is vacationing. He meets with psychiatrist -William -C. Menninger (who diagnoses “severe depression” of the type “seen in -operational fatigue during the war”) and psychologist Capt. George N. -Raines from the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Maryland. Forrestal has -several hysterical episodes when they are there, ranting about -Communists following him, and perhaps one suicide attempt.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1346

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Event 1732 -(F45B2B5F)

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Date: 3/31/1949
-Description: CIA’s H. L. Bowers writes a memo to Dr. Machle, “Notes -and Comments on Unidentified Aerial Objects– Project Sign,” stating that -Deyarmond thinks -UFOs will turn out to be another “sea serpent.” Nonetheless, they must -be investigated. (Document released to Brad -Sparks but not in subsequent CIA FOIA releases; Good Above, p. 330)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1347

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Event 1733 -(DD13FDDE)

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Date: 3/31/1949
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Lieut. Frederick Davis, on patrol east of -Killeen Base, Texas, sees a reddish-white ball of fire passing -horizontally above the base airstrip. After 10–15 seconds it disappears -without descending. He notes interference on the telephone line when he -calls the report in. (NICAP, “Field -Telephone Affected by BOL”; Clark III 542; Sparks, p. 53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1348

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Event 1734 -(607FBCF6)

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Date: 4/1949
-Description: 2 UFO’s tracked by theodolite at White Sands, New -Mexico.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico

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Event 1735 -(265E60BB)

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Date: 4/2/1949
-Description: Menninger and -Raines fly Forrestal to -the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he can be -treated quietly. On the drive to the hospital from the airport, -Forrestal attempts to jump out of the car but is restrained. Forrestal -declares he does not expect to leave the hospital alive. He is admitted -under the care of Raines, who diagnoses him with involutional -melancholia and places him in a VIP suite on the 16th floor. Forrestal’s -personal diaries are removed from his old office and taken to the White -House, where they remain for a year.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1349

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Event 1736 -(56EF902A)

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Date: 4/3/1949
-Time: 11:55 AM
-Description: Witnesses: construction company owner Gosta Miller and -three other unnamed persons. One object shaped like two plates attached -face-to-face; matte bottom, bright aluminum top; 20’ diameter, 4-5’ -thickness. It rocked or rotated in six cycles, descended, rocked, flew, -rocked; all this was very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dillon, Montana
-ID: 20

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Event 1737 -(63A8BBE6)

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Date: 4/3/1949
-Description: Broadcaster Walter -Winchell announces on his radio program that the “flying saucers, -never explained by anyone in authority are now definitely known to have -been guided missiles shot all the way from Russia.” (“Anatomy -of a Hoax, Part Two,” Saturday Night Uforia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1350

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Event 1738 -(9DE2F515)

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Date: 4/4/1949
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witness: William Parrott, former Air Force pilot and major. -One generally round object with a curved bottom and dull coloring. The -object gave off a clicking sound until overhead. Parrott’s dog reacted. -35 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Merced, California
-ID: 21

-

Event 1739 -(C3482296)

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Date: 4/5/1949
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A huge green fireball with a red afterglow is -seen streaking approximately 300 feet above the southern slope of -Fejarito Mountain, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. It disappears behind the -mountain. Another fireball is seen at 11:00 p.m., and the next two -nights. (NICAP, “1949 -UFO Chronology”; Sparks, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1351

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Event 1740 -(0C342D9A)

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Date: 4/8/1949
-Description: In response to Winchell’s -claim, the Air Force admits it is impossible to “deny categorically” -that the flying saucers originate in Russia. A spokesman says that some -unknown incidents are placed in a classified category, denied to -everyone except authorized military personnel. (“Air -Force Isn’t Committing Self on Flying Disks,” Cedar Rapids (Iowa) -Gazette, April 8, 1949, p. 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1352

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Event 1741 -(64A17728)

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Date: 4/9/1949
-Description: Forrestal has -been treated for one week at the National Naval Medical Center in -Bethesda, Maryland,with narcosis through sodium amytal. For the next 30 -days, he undergoes a regimen of insulin sub-shock combined with -psycho-therapeutic interviews. Raines says the treatment occasionally -throws Forrestal into a confused state with a great deal of agitation -and confusion.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1353

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Event 1742 -(EC07AF2D)

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Date: 4/11/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 87.2km -attitude (Degraded performance from 43s)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 87.2km

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Event 1743 -(F28F95E7)

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Date: 4/14/1949
-Description: Col. Reid -Lumsden, commander -of the AFOSI district office at Kelly AFB [now Kelly Field Annex] in San -Antonio, Texas, hands the Army reports of flares at Killeen Base to Col. -William Carpenter, deputy director of special investigations at the -Pentagon. Carpenter promises to investigate. (Clark III 542) April 16 -and 18 — Mysterious flares are again observed at Killeen Base, Texas. -(Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” -IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 10; Clark III 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1354

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Event 1744 -(89985CFA)

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Date: 4/18/1949
-Description: The US Air Force Security Service moves its headquarters -from Arlington Hall in Washington, D.C., to Brooks Air Force Base in San -Antonio, Texas. (Wikipedia, “Air -Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance -Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1355

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Event 1745 -(4FD4782A)

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Date: 4/19/1949
-Description: AFOSI at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, sends to USAF -headquarters a list of all green fireball reports it has investigated -(39 in all) from December 5 to April 12. The common characteristics of -most of the incidents are: “a. Green color, sometimes described as -greenish-white, bright green, yellow-green, or blue green. b. Horizontal -path, sometimes with minor variations. c. Speed less than that of a -meteor, but more than any known type of aircraft. d. No sound associated -with observation. e. No persistent trail or dust cloud. f. Period of -visibility from one to five seconds.” (“The -Scientific Advisory Board to the Chief of Staff, United States Air -Force, Conference,” November 3, 1949; Clark III 541; Swords -133–135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1356

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Event 1746 -(F2DD07E6)

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Date: 4/21/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 49.9km -attitude (Premature V-2 cut-off; WAC stage failed to fire)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 49.9km

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Event 1747 -(DAE0837F)

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Date: 4/22/1949
-Description: 9:05 a.m. A round, flat, thin, metallic disc is seen -traveling west to east, dropping slowly, over Cliff, New Mexico. (Sparks, p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1357

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Event 1748 -(051CCA88)

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Date: 4/24/1949
-Description: Arrey, NM: Aerologist Charles B. Moore, Jr., while tracking -a weather balloon for General Mills Co. with a theodolite, suddenly -noticed a UFO rapidly crossing the sky. He and 4 other technicians -turned the 25 power theodolite to track the UFO. It was a featureless -ellipse, its length about 2–1/2 times its width. After about 60 seconds -the object disappeared in a sharp climb. Based on measurements with the -mountain range behind it, it was calculated to be going between 18,000 -mph and 25,000 mph (in the atmosphere!).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Arrey, NM

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Event 1749 -(73E86282)

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Date: 4/24/1949
-Time: l0:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: General Mills meteorologist and balloon expert -C.B. Moore and others on a balloon launch crew. One white, round -ellipsoid, about 2.5 times as long as wide.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Arrey, New Mexico
-ID: 22

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Event 1750 -(A545A16D)

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Date: 4/24/1949
-Description: 10:30 a.m. General Mills meteorologist Charles -B. Moore and four Navy Skyhook balloon launch crewmen (Navy Chief -Fire Controlman William Akers, Davidson, Fitzsimmons, Moorman) see a -white, round object, shadowed yellowish on one side, cross the sky from -the south to the east, three miles north of Arrey, New Mexico. Joseph -Gordon Vaeth is present as the Navy representative in charge of -ground handling. Moore tracks it for 60 seconds on a theodolite. The -distance is unknown, but assuming the object is 57 miles away, it would -have a velocity of 18,000 mph, a width of 40 feet, and a length of 100 -feet; but this is speculative. (NICAP, “White Sands -Incident / C. B. Moore Case”; R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter -to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949; J. Gordon Vaeth, 200 Miles Up: The -Conquest of the Upper Air, Ronald Press, 1951; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified -Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, -Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., -2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 63–64; ClearIntent, pp. 114–115; -UFOEv, pp. 2–3; -Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 72–73; -Sparks, pp. 56–57; -Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR -10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 8–9; Kevin D. Randle, “Charles Moore, New -Mexico UFOs, and the Air Force,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 3–4; -Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter -2003–2004): 10; Michael D. Swords, “Balloons, Missiles, and UFOs,” IUR -29, no. 1 (Spring 2004):16–17; Swords 84–85; Clark III 541)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1358

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Event 1751 -(A5EB296B)

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Date: 4/25/1949
-Description: 6:30 a.m. A man named Abreu and a friend are fishing at -Springer Lake, northwest of Springer, New Mexico, when they hear a -high-pitched whistle and see a number of silvery-white balls passing -overhead quickly. They reappear repeatedly over the next hour. (NICAP, -“Various -Formations Observed”; Clark III 541; Sparks, p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1359

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Event 1752 -(4A1E2A44)

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Date: 4/25/1949
-Description: Lt. Col. Doyle -Rees wires AFOSI headquarters to ask if he can send two of his men -to AMC to find out if Project Grudge plans to do anything about the -green fireballs. Before Rees has a response, Joseph -Kaplan arrives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, having been directed -there by AF Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. Charles -Cabell and Scientific Advisory Board Chairman Theodore -Von Kármán, who wants Kaplan to set up a field investigation. They -emphasize that Grudge is not to be informed. (Clark III 542; Loren E. -Gross, UFOs, -a History: -1949, January–June, The -Author, 1988, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1360

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Event 1753 -(29557873)

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Date: 4/27/1949
-Description: USAF press release admits that saucers may exist
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1754 -(85C0FC29)

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Date: 4/27/1949
-Description: Rees, Kaplan, and -LaPaz brief -Armed Forces Special Weapons Project personnel at Sandia Base, New -Mexico. LaPaz outlines plans for a network of visual, photographic, -spectrographic, and radar observations covering Los Alamos, Sandia, and -White Sands. Scientist William -D. Crozier of the New Mexico School of Mines offers to handle air -sampling. Rees urges that the Killeen Base in Texas be included. Kaplan, -who says the project is “of extreme importance” because “these -occurrences relate to the National Defense of the United States,” -recommends LaPaz to handle the project. (Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, “Unknown -(Aerial Phenomena),” May 12, 1949; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1949 -January–June, Supplemental -Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 60–62; Clark III 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1361

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Event 1755 -(0AB2E7A8)

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Date: 4/27/1949
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Two Army patrolmen southeast of Killeen Base, -Texas, see a blinking violet light no more than 1.5 inches in diameter -and only 10–12 feet from them, 6–7 feet above the ground. During the -60-second observation, the light passes through the branches of a tree. -At 9:25 p.m., 2 miles away, four Army soldiers see a 4-inch light with a -2–4-inch metallic cone attached to the back. It silently approaches them -in a level flight at 60–70 mph. It disappears to the southwest at a -distance of 150 feet. At about 9:37 p.m., a 2-inch-wide white light -appears 100 feet away to the northwest, flying in a zig-zag fashion in a -level path 6 feet above the ground. It vanishes abruptly. A third light -shows up at 9:39 p.m. in the west-southwest. (NICAP, “Close -Encounters with Drones/Probes at Weapons -Storage Site”; Sparks, pp. 57–58; -Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR -10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 10; Clark III 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1364

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Event 1756 -(5FD8545B)

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Date: 4/27/1949
-Description: USAF Directorate of Intelligence briefs the USAF Deputy -Chief of Staff for Operations on UFOs. “Investigations continue in an -effort to find definite explanations for the many unidentified aerial -objects which have been reported during the past two years.” (“Unidentified -Aerial Objects,” Air Brief, Special Study Part Two, April 27, -1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1362

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Event 1757 -(63C40AD3)

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Date: 4/27/1949
-Description: A 22-page memorandum for the press (629-49) on “Project -Saucer” is released by the Pentagon Office of Public Information, -scheduled deliberately to coincide with part one of Shalett’s article in -the Saturday Evening Post. The writer is unknown, but it is more pro-ETH -than the current Project Grudge mentality, listing several solid and -dramatic cases. It concludes: “The ‘saucers’ are not a joke. Neither are -they a cause for alarm to the population.” The discrepancy between -Shalett’s mostly dismissive tone and the positivity of the Project -Saucer statement causes Maj. Donald -E. Keyhoe to wonder if there is a major disagreement about UFOs -within the Air Force. (National Military Establishment, Office of Public -Information, “Project -‘Saucer,’” April 27, 1949; Swords 74–75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1363

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Event 1758 -(3081B3B9)

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Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: USAF Director of Intelligence Charles -Cabell sends a report on “Unidentified Aerial Objects” to the Joint -Intelligence Committee. It summarizes the history of Project Sign up to -its redesignation as Grudge and adds an appendix on “Unidentified Aerial -Objects: Fact and Discussion,” which is basically a short version of the -sanitized February 11 Sign report, with some green fireball information -added. It recommends sending reports of unidentified “light phenomena” -to the scientific community and reports of “atomic powered craft of -unusual design” to the AEC. It concludes that “There are numerous -reports from reliable and competent observers for which a conclusive -explanation has not been made” and that some “involve configurations and -described performance which might conceivably represent an advanced -aerodynamical development. A few unexplained incidents surpass these -limits of credulity. It is unlikely that a foreign power would expose a -superior aerial weapon by a prolonged ineffectual penetration of the -United States.” This essentially resurrects the ETH as a possibility, -without clearly stating it. (“Report -by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence Committee -on Unidentified Aerial Objects,” April 28, 1949; Jan Aldrich, “Top-Secret -1949 Document,” IUR 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 3–6, 31; Swords -76–77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1365

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Event 1759 -(01632D3D)

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Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: Some printed copies of Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, -“Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States,” bear this -date, although it was originally released December 10, 1948. (US Air -Force, Directorate of Intelligence, Analysis -of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions, Air -Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; copy, -dated April 28, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1366

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Event 1760 -(5B8A2F86)

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Date: 4/28/1949
-Time: 5:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Howard Hann, Mr. Hubert, Tex Keahey. One bright, -sausage-shaped object was observed for 40 minutes while it rolled and -flew fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 23

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Event 1761 -(16CA18CC)

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Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: Kaplan, LaPaz, Rees, and -Neef meet -with security officers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico -to discuss green fireball observations at that facility. (Loren E. -Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1949 January–June, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2000, pp. 62–63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1367

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Event 1762 -(84739C7E)

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Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: 8:00 a.m. Businessman and private pilot Leon A. Faber is -flying at 3,000 feet near the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, -Indiana, when he sees a metallic disc moving east about 10,000 feet -away. He is chatting with some ham radio operators on the ground during -the 5 minutes the object is in sight before it disappears. (NICAP, “Flying -Saucer Observed from Aircraft”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1368

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Event 1763 -(65DEC6E3)

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Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Howard Hann [Hamm?], a Mr. Hubert [Huber?], and -Tex Keahey see a very large, bright, sausage- shaped object travel from -northeast to southwest over the rim of the Catalina Mountains near -Tucson, Arizona, over a period of 12 minutes. The object is shiny -metallic and reflects the sun, apparently revolving as it moves like the -“slow roll of an airplane.” There is no noise, nor is there exhaust or a -vapor trail. There are no wings or engines or “protuberances of any -sort.” It appears to be traveling at 300–600 mph. (NICAP, “Cigar-Shaped -Object Observed -in Daylight”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1369

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Event 1764 -(A75ECCF6)

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Date: 4/28/1949
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Several security patrols at Killeen Base, Texas, -report nine separate sightings of lights southeast of the base. Most -change color from white to red to green. On one occasion, four lights -appear together; on another, 8–10 show up in each other’s company. No -debris or evidence of flares are found. (Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, -“The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): -10; Clark III 543; Sparks, -p. 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1370

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Event 1765 -(040CEB73)

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Date: 4/29/1949
-Description: The April 30 issue of the Saturday Evening Post with part -one of Sidney Shalett’s “What You Can Believe about Flying Saucers” hits -the newsstands. The USAF Public Relations Office has cooperated fully -with Shalett, who sets out a fairly even-handed introduction to the -phenomenon. (Sidney Shalett, “What -You Can Believe about -Flying Saucers, Part One,” Saturday Evening Post, April 30, 1949, -pp. 20–21, 136–139; Swords 73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1371

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Event 1766 -(F4265986)

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Date: 4/30/1949
-Description: Hynek turns -in his astronomical analysis of Sign’s 237 cases. His contract with Sign -is over. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 199–200; -Hynek UFO Report, p. 17; -O’Connell 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1372

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Event 1767 -(4FFF0D90)

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Date: 5/4/1949
-Description: The US Fourth Army creates an operational plan for a green -fireball observation and tracking network at Killeen Base in Camp Hood, -Texas. Although it lacks cameras, it has four six-man observation posts -equipped with instruments to obtain directional bearings. One of the -posts serves as the plotting center to coordinate and triangulate UFO -sightings. Each day, a roving patrol gets new orders. (Brad Sparks and -Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1985): 10–12; Clark III 543; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings -of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical -Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1373

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Event 1768 -(4D7F1D0F)

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Date: 5/5/1949
-Time: 11:40 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Army officers Maj. Day, Maj. Olhausen, -Capt. Vaughn. Two oblong white discs, flying at an estimated 200-250 -m.p.h., made a shallow turn during the 30-50 second observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Bliss, Texas
-ID: 24

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Event 1769 -(FA2A539B)

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Date: 5/5/1949
-Description: 11:40 a.m. Army officers Maj. Charles D. May Jr., Maj. -James N. Olhausen, and Capt. Molloy -C. Vaughn on the Waco no. 4 firing range at Fort Bliss, Texas, watch -for 30–50 seconds two oblong white discs pass through a field of fire. -They are flying at about 200–250 mph at an altitude of 1,000 feet. The -objects make a shallow turn. (NICAP, “May -5, 1949, 1140 MST, Fort Bliss, Texas”; Sparks, -p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1375

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Event 1770 -(9ADC8F93)

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Date: 5/5/1949
-Description: 10:00 a.m. The Fourth US Army has approached AFOSI in San -Antonio to offer assistance in investigating green fireballs and the -Killeen lights. They arrange a meeting with AFOSI, ONI, CIC, the FBI, -and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project at Camp Hood, Killeen, -Texas, the first of several weekly meetings. Army and Navy officials -agree that the fireballs remain unexplained. AFSWP personnel believe -they are natural phenomena; AFOSI and FBI give no opinion. The Fourth -Army urges AFOSI to create an observation system, even though it had -just secretly created one of its own on May 4. (Brad Sparks and Jerome -Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1985): 10–11; Clark III 543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1374

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Event 1771 -(3436A4C2)

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Date: 5/5/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8.85km -attitude (Second Hermes II ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of -payload section)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 8.85km

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Event 1772 -(817C2619)

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Date: 5/6/1949
-Description: Part two of Shalett’s article on UFOs appears in the May 7 -issue of the Saturday Evening Post, which takes a more skeptical tone -than the first part, with the Gorman case receiving a particularly harsh -thrashing. However, he treats Chiles-Whitted favorably and ends with -some hints on how to make good observations. Within a few days, the -frequency of UFO reports hits an all-time high. USAF issues another long -press release completely debunking UFOs, but it has no effect. (Sidney -Shalett, “What -You Can Believe about Flying Saucers, Part Two,” Saturday Evening -Post, May 7, 1949, pp. 36, 184–186; Swords 74; Ruppelt, p. 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1378

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Event 1773 -(2FCD6391)

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Date: 5/6/1949
-Description: Soviet test pilot Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin takes a new -airplane for a flight at the Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, -Russia. At its maximum ceiling of 9.3 miles, he encounters a -cucumber-shaped object, similar to the one he encountered on June 16, -1948, that directs cones of light at his aircraft from a distance of 6–7 -miles. The lights cause his communications equipment to fail and damage -part of his plexiglass cockpit canopy that results in a loss of air -pressure. He manages to land on the banks of the Volga River 30 miles -from Saratov. He wakes up in a hospital in Saratov. He again undergoes -intense interrogation, psychotherapy, and medical procedures. (Good -Above, pp. 221–223; -Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 87, February -1975, p. 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1376

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Event 1774 -(1F20BD02)

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Date: 5/6/1949
-Description: Col. Lumsden of -the San Antonio, Texas, AFOSI office informs headquarters that the -“matter has reached a fairly serious stage and some positive action is -necessary.” He does not send this message to Project Grudge. -Headquarters responds quickly and orders him to investigate all -sightings but reminds him to inform AMC. (Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, -“The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): -11; Clark III 543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1377

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Event 1775 -(D83C9251)

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Date: 5/6/1949
-Time: 9:35 AM
-Description: Witness: C. G. Green. Two shiny, disc-like objects rotated -around each other and banked. Then one shot upwards with a grey trail -and rejoined the other. The sighting lasted 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Livermore, California
-ID: 25

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Event 1776 -(37887B09)

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Date: 5/9/1949
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witness: M/Sgt. Troy Putnam. Two round, flat silvery -objects, estimated to be 25’ in diameter, flew 750-1,000 m.p.h. in a -banked but steady manner.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 26

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Event 1777 -(7973D5CA)

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Date: 5/9/1949
-Description: Naval Unit Commander Robert -B. McLaughlin, with several other officers, witnesses a white object -overhead during the launch of a WAC Corporal B rocket at White Sands -Proving Ground, New Mexico. It disappears “in a blinding burst of speed -to the west.” (R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter -to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949; Sparks, -p. 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1381

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Event 1778 -(E918ADC0)

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Date: 5/9/1949
-Description: Editor Ken -Purdy asks Maj. Donald -E. Keyhoe to investigate the flying saucer mystery for True -magazine, warning him to watch out for “fake tips” from the Pentagon. -Keyhoe is initially skeptical, but after talking to his old friends Adm. -Delmer -S. Fahrney and Adm. Calvin -M. Bolster, his -opinion changes. (Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, -pp. 18–22, -44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1380

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Event 1779 -(80B1E57A)

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Date: 5/9/1949
-Description: An article in Time magazine reports on the Air Force press -release, remarking that “Spinners of yarns about flying saucers, -including a score or so of Air Force pilots, stuck stoutly to their -stories.” (“Things -That Go Whiz,” Time, May 9, 1949; “Anatomy -of a Hoax, Part Six,” Saturday Night Uforia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1379

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Event 1780 -(FD8B6413)

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Date: 5/11/1949
-Description: Israel admitted to the UN
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: New York City

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Event 1781 -(6B9214AD)

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Date: 5/12/1949
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Astronomer Donald -H. Menzel leaves Holloman AFB on Highway 70 for Alamogordo, New -Mexico. Shortly after noticing the star Antares, he sees another fuzzy -object in the sky nearer to the horizon. A second object appears three -degrees to the south. Determining that the objects are not Castor and -Pollux or reflections, Menzel watches them another 4 minutes. Both -objects vanish abruptly. (Donald H. Menzel, Flying Saucers, Harvard -University, 1953, pp. 3–4, 99–100; -Sparks, p. 62; -J. Allen Hynek, “Vignettes of UFO History: Dr. Menzel Reports a UFO!” -IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 11; Clark III 741–742)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1383

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Event 1782 -(316D37DA)

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Date: 5/12/1949
-Description: Commander McLaughlin writes -to his friend, atmospheric physicist James -Van Allen, describing the Moore theodolite -case and his own sighting a few days earlier. He thinks they must -involve technology because they have been seen accelerating and -maneuvering. (R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter -to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1382

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Event 1783 -(0298F023)

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Date: 5/13/1949
-Description: Newspaper coverage of BSRA’s “second memorandum of -importance” on flying discs.
-Type: publication
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Event 1784 -(7FB15CD9)

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Date: 5/18/1949
-Description: Reply letter concerning BSRA’s “second memorandum of -importance”, concerning a solution to the flying saucer mystery, from -Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson AFB Col. Clingerman, Chief -Analysis Division, Intelligence Department. Memorandum was forwarded to -analysts for review and study. Found in the private BSRA archives now at -the AFU in Sweden.
-Type: memorandum
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton OH

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Event 1785 -(DB85CCA8)

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Date: 5/18/1949
-Description: George N. Raines leaves Washington, D.C., for four days to -attend a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. He says Forrestal seems -“somewhat better,” having regained 12 pounds.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1384

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Event 1786 -(B070CC43)

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Date: 5/18/1949
-Description: Walter -Winchell, in -his “On Broadway” syndicated column, writes: “The N.Y. World-Telegram on -Saturday [May 14] confirmed this reporter’s exclusive report of several -weeks before—which newspapermen have denied—about the Flying Saucers . . -. Said the front-page piece in the W-T: ‘Air Force people are convinced -the flying disc is real. The clincher came when the air force got a -picture recently of three discs flying formation over Stephenville, -Newfoundland. [The July 10, 1947, hole-in-the-cloud case?] They -outdistanced our fastest ships. Some air force men believe the discs are -a new type flying machine utilizing gyroscopic principles’ . . . At the -time we added that the reality of the flying discs or saucers could not -be denied truthfully.” (“Anatomy -of a Hoax, Part -Two,” Saturday Night Uforia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1385

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Event 1787 -(F66C879E)

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Date: 5/19/1949
-Description: Wright-Patterson Air Material Intelligence Commander Col. -Howard -McCoy forwards a copy of the Project Sign final report to the -Research and Development Board, along with some appendices that later -find their way into the Project Grudge final report. (Michael Hall and -Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered -Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1386

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Event 1788 -(A4CA0DF2)

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Date: 5/19/1949
-Description: The Fourth Army’s observation system near Killeen Base, -Texas (without cameras, but with four 6-man observation posts equipped -with instruments), is revealed to the intelligence community at one of -its weekly meetings. Two trucks serve as a roving Artillery Patrol -observation post linked to the Killeen plotting center by radio. AFOSI -Lt. Col. Doyle -Rees has meanwhile set up a 24-hour visual observation post in the -Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is equipped with a -wide-angle-lens camera fitted with a spectrographic grating. (Brad -Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 12; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings -of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical -Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44; Clark III 543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1387

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Event 1789 -(D2650F1A)

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Date: 5/21/1949
-Description: 1:30 p.m. An F-82 is dispatched from Moses Lake AFB [now -Grant County International Airport] in Washington State to intercept a -UFO that is hovering in restricted air space over the Hanford Atomic -Works at an altitude of 17,000–20,000 feet. The silvery disc is seen -from the ground at Hanford and on radar. Before the F-82 can take off, -the disc speeds away faster than a jet fighter. It disappears from -ground radar and the F-82 cannot locate it. (NICAP, “Hanford -AEC Plant / F-82/RV Case”; Sparks, p. 63; -Hynek UFO Report, p. 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1388

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Event 1790 -(478357FD)

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Date: 5/22/1949
-Description: 1:45 a.m. At the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, -Maryland, Forrestal is -awake and refuses a sedative. Five minutes later, the Navy corpsman -guarding him finds the room empty. Forrestal’s body is found on a -third-floor roof below the 16th-floor kitchen, No suicide note is found -other than part of a translation of Sophocles’s -tragedy Ajax that he is copying. (Wikipedia, “James -Forrestal”; J. C. Hawkins, Betrayal at Bethesda: The Intertwined -Fates of James Forrestal, Joseph McCarthy, and John F. Kennedy, The -Author, 2017; David Martin, The Assassination of James Forrestal, -McCabe, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1389

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Event 1791 -(E684054D)

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Date: 5/22/1949
-Description: Secretary Forrestal (MJ-3) found dead after falling 16 -floors from an insane asylum window, supposedly shouting, “we’re being -invaded!” before he fell to his death. Some suspect he was murdered to -silence him.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A)
-Location: Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland

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Event 1792 -(9CDF3CA4)

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Date: 5/24/1949
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Five witnesses (NACA Ames Research Lab employees -Don Heaphy, Gilbert Rivera and his wife, Mrs. Roy L. McBeth, and -Mrs. William McBeth) on a fishing boat on the Rogue River, Oregon, near -Elephant Rock, see a round, silvery object the size of a transport -aircraft. It comes from the east, then turns southwest and leaves no -exhaust trail. The disc appears flattened and has a wrinkled surface -with a vertical stabilizer fin. The time of observation is less than 3 -minutes. (NICAP, “The -Rogue River Incident”; Sparks, -p. 64; Swords 83–84; Bruce Maccabee, “An -Assessment of the UFO Sighting at Rogue River, Oregon (May 24, -1949),” December 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1390

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Event 1793 -(E9202CC3)

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Date: 5/27/1949
-Description: 2:25 p.m. Pilot and businessman Joseph -Shell, ferrying an SNJ trainer for North American Aviation from Red -Bluff, California, to Burns, Oregon, sees 5–8 oval objects, twice as -long as wide and one-fifth as thick, around Hart Mountain, Oregon. They -fly in trail formation, with an interval equal to 3–4 times their -length, except that the second and third are closer together. (NICAP, -“Pilot -Encounters 5–8 Egg-Shaped Metallic Objects”; Sparks, -p. 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1391

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Event 1794 -(9B2A1BAA)

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Date: 5/27/1949
-Time: 2:25 PM
-Description: Witness: Joseph Shell, ferrying SNJ trainer for North -American Aviation, from Red Bluff, California, to Burns, Oregon. Five to -eight oval objects, twice as long as wide, and 1/5 as thick. They flew -in trail formation, with an interval equal to 3-4 times their length, -except that the second and third were closer together.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: South-central Oregon
-ID: 27

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Event 1795 -(ED4E9589)

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Date: 5/31/1949
-Description: The Navy review board, convened by Adm. Morton -D. Willcutts, completes hearings on James -Forrestal’s death. The cause of death is remarkably inconclusive, -and the investigation leaves many questions unanswered.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1393

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Event 1796 -(0DCB751C)

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Date: 5/31/1949
-Description: The Air Force Office of Special Investigations sends -Project Grudge a copy of Rees’s -report on Kaplan’s -visit on April 28, the trip that USAF Intelligence had arranged to -explore the possibility of a clandestine investigation separate from -Grudge. Thus AMC learns of the conspiracy to keep it in the dark, but -Rees fails to mention the involvement of USAF Intelligence. (Brad Sparks -and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1985): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1392

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Event 1797 -(425B407A)

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Date: 6/6/1949
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Two observation posts at Killeen Base, Fort Hood, -Texas, spot a hovering orange light. Lts. Virgil Williams and Marvin L. -Jones are at one site and Lts. Bernard G. Raferty and Alfred -H. Jones are at the other. When they triangulate its location, they -find it is 3 miles south of one observation post and 4.5 miles south of -the plotting center, hovering 5,280 feet in the air. It is 30–70 feet in -diameter. Suddenly it starts moving in level flight, then bursts into -small particles. The duration is less than 3 minutes. This observation -involves the first real- time triangulation of a UFO sighting. (Brad -Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 12; Clark III 543; Sparks, p. 66; -Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings -of the Sign Historical -Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical Group, November 2001, -p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1396

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Event 1798 -(268090D3)

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Date: 6/10/1949
-Description: White Sands, NM: Scientists tracking a test missile at 2k -ft/second suddenly picked up two small circular UFOs that paced the -missile. One of the UFO’s passed thru the missiles exhaust and rejoined -the other UFO, and together they quickly accelerated upwards leaving the -missile behind. Cmdr. McLaughlin received reports from 5 observation -posts: ALL had witnessed the performance of the 2 circular UFOs.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-F p238)
-Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

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Event 1799 -(F47F7F03)

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Date: 6/14/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km -attitude (Blossom 4 — Nominal performance.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 133.5km

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Event 1800 -(193E8229)

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Date: 6/14/1949
-Description: 3:35 p.m. A crew of Navy engineers under Capt. Robert -Bright McLaughlin is testing an Air Force V-2 rocket at White Sands -Missile Range, New Mexico. When the V-2 attains a speed of 2,000 feet -per second in its upward flight, it is joined by two smaller circular -objects that pace it, one on each side. One then passes through the -rocket’s exhaust, joins the other, and together accelerate upwards -leaving the V-2 behind. Five other missile observation crews also see -the objects. (NICAP, “Two -UFOs Pace V-2 Rocket”; Robert McLaughlin, “How Scientists -Tracked a Flying Saucer,” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, 96–99; Sparks, p. 66; -Swords 92–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1397

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Event 1801 -(C2A9E785)

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Date: summer 1949
-Description: The gouge is said to be still visible in the debris field -near Corona, New Mexico. Mack -Brazel, having found various scraps and bits for the past two years, -mentions to someone in a bar in Corona that he has some material. The -next day, a Capt. Armstrong and three others from Roswell Army Air Field -supposedly confiscate the pieces.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1394

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Event 1802 -(1C484FAF)

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Date: Summer 1949
-Description: USAF Project “Twinkle” started
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1803 -(4072099D)

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Date: summer 1949
-Description: 4:00 p.m. The French Navy patrol boat La -Rusé (formerly the USS PC-472) encounters a cigar-shaped bluish -object about one mile away off Casablanca, Morocco. The crew watches it -for 1 minute until it shoots toward the horizon and out of sight. -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p, 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1395

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Event 1804 -(14C1547F)

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Date: 6/22/1949
-Description: Three women (one a schoolteacher, another a biologist -working at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and a third who is the wife of a member -of the Security Division, AEC, Oak Ridge) observe an odd trio of “flying -saucers” for about 15 minutes: “It was described as consisting of two -identical rectangular-shaped objects which appeared to be coordinated in -movement and which moved in wave-like motion. The third object was -circular in shape and appeared to be in level flight between and above -the two rectangular objects. The rectangular objects appeared to be -bright metal on top but dark underneath, while the color of the circular -object was the same as that of frosted glass. The ‘flying saucer,’ when -last sighted, was in level flight and was flying in a northwesterly -direction. The weather was clear with high cumulus clouds. The ‘flying -saucer’ flew at speed of from 10 to 15 mph over an area just about the -center of Oak Ridge.” (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 83–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1398

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Event 1805 -(CCF3B8B5)

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Date: 6/29/1949
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A former US Air Force tech sergeant observes -three separate flights of three V-shaped or triangular objects from his -front porch in Baltimore, Maryland. The objects veer sharply into a -cloud at 2,500 feet altitude and then fly around it repeatedly. They -have the ability to reverse their course 180° instantaneously. Through -binoculars, they look like black, open boomerangs. More objects join -them until there are 15–20, and he watches them for two hours. The -formation moves from southeast to northeast and disappears. Fifteen -other witness also see the display. (Marler 126–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1399

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Event 1806 -(83CB0D96)

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Date: 7/3/1949
-Description: 10:40 a.m. Aeronautical engineer Molt -Taylor, airport manager at Longview, Washington, is preparing for an -air show when someone points out an object in the sky to the northwest. -He announces it over the PA system to the crowd of 150–200 observers, -including pilots, who watch a metallic disc cross to the southeast with -a falling-leaf motion. Estimated altitude is 30,000 feet at 300 mph, -with the approximate size of 100 feet. A second object is seen at 10:49 -a.m. for 2 minutes. A third sighting takes place at 11:25 a.m. An object -approaches from the west at about the same altitude, oscillating at 48 -per minute, and disappears into the sun. (NICAP, “Metallic -Discus Object -Observed by 150–200 Observers”; Sparks, p. 67; -Swords 82–83; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified -Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, -Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., -2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1400

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Event 1807 -(049DD505)

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Date: 7/13/1949
-Description: Kaplan responds -to a July 1 letter from Gen. Charles -P. Cabell inquiring about his April visit to Los Alamos, New Mexico. -He explains that he has deliberately waited two months to report because -he wanted to have a cooling off period from the deep impression the New -Mexico witnesses had on him. Moreover, he wants to see if the green -fireballs are still reported (they are) before he recommends a -full-scale instrumented program. He says that Norris -Bradbury, the -Los Alamos lab director, has urged that a classified scientific -conference be held to discuss the phenomena. Kaplan suspects that the -fireballs are an auroral phenomenon, but concedes that their horizontal -motion and southern appearance are “difficult to explain.” He recommends -a photographic and spectrographic patrol that would stay on to look out -for the fireballs. (Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern -Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1401

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Event 1808 -(610118A9)

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Date: 7/24/1949
-Description: 12:03 p.m. Henry Clark, manager of a flying service, is -flying a Piper PA-16 Clipper at 19,000 feet 10 miles northwest of -Mountain Home, Idaho, when he sees a tight formation of 7 delta-shaped -objects, 35–55 feet in diameter near his plane. They make a perfect and -unbanked right turn 1,500 feet ahead of his plane, then they turn right -again, passing the aircraft at about 450–500 mph. Clark’s engine runs -rough during the sighting, which lasts 10 minutes. After he lands, he -finds all his spark plugs burned out. When Blue Book investigates the -case, they confiscate the spark plugs. (NICAP, “Piper -Clipper Encounters Seven Delta-Shaped Objects”; Sparks, -p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1402

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Event 1809 -(D848B37B)

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Date: 7/24/1949
-Description: 8:30 p.m. An Air Force major and captain watch seven -bluish-white lights pass over Fort Worth, Texas, in a V formation, -moving rapidly from south to north. The distance between the lights does -not vary during the 4–5 seconds they are visible. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1949 July–December, The Author, 1988, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1403

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Event 1810 -(A21C4D7A)

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Date: 7/24/1949
-Description: A green fireball is seen falling close to Socorro, New -Mexico. The next day, scientist William -D. Crozier collects dust samples from the School of Mines campus at -Socorro. The samples contain copper particles of unusually large size. -(Clark III 543–544; Sparks, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1404

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Event 1811 -(0AC34ED3)

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Date: 7/24/1949
-Time: 12 noon
-Description: Witness: Henry Clark, manager of a flying service, flying a -Piper Clipper. Seven delta-shaped objects, 35-55’ in span, 20-30’ long, -2-5’ thick; light colored except for a 12’ diameter dark circle at the -rear of each. They flew in a tight formation of twos with one behind, -and made a perfect, but unbanked, turn. During the 10 minute sighting, -they displayed decreasing smooth oscillations. Clark’s engine ran rough -during the sighting, and upon landing was found to have all its spark -plugs burned out.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mountain Home, Idaho
-ID: 28

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Event 1812 -(BFB04210)

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Date: 7/30/1949
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Northwest Airlines Capt. Thrush, two Portland -control tower operators, and one flying instructor. One object with one -white light and two red lights, maneuvered and hovered.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Hood, Oregon
-ID: 29

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Event 1813 -(9054B7B4)

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Date: 8/1949
-Description: Actor, producer, and director Mikel -Conrad, in promoting his soon-to-be-released film The Flying Saucer, -claims that the movie contains actual footage of a spaceship recovered -in Alaska by government agents. He produces a bogus FBI agent to -“confirm” the story. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations -interviews Conrad, who admits to perpetrating a publicity hoax. (Jerome -Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1993): 16; Internet Movie Database, “The -Flying Saucer”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1406

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Event 1814 -(766ED6B5)

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Date: 8/1949
-Description: George -Adamski publishes Pioneers of Space, detailing his out-of-body -visits to the Moon, Mars, and Venus. In private correspondence he later -explains “how one may venture from one place to another, while his -physical is in one place and he is in another. That is the way I have -written this book. I actually have gone to the places I speak of.” -(George Adamski [ghost-written by Lucy McGinnis], Pioneers of Space, -Leonard-Freefield, 1949; “Palomar -Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski -Case, September 22, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1405

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Event 1815 -(9CC3C8AE)

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Date: 8/8/1949
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Six airmen and tower operators at Medford -Municipal Airport [now the Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport] -in Oregon see 1–7 shiny objects traveling at variable speeds at an -estimated altitude of 30,000 feet. They fly in formation for a while, -then break off and return to formation again. Control tower operators -using binoculars seem to distinguish wings on the objects. They remain -visible until around 12:30 a.m. (NICAP, “Winged -Objects Cavort over Airport”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1407

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Event 1816 -(C75BA8A5)

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Date: 8/10/1949
-Description: The National Military Establishment is renamed the -Department of Defense to unify the Army, Navy, and Air Force under the -Secretary of Defense. It establishes the Joint Chiefs of Staff. -(Wikipedia, “United -States Department -of Defense”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1409

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Event 1817 -(87DE7AA0)

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Date: 8/10/1949
-Description: USAF’s AMC issues a final 600-page report, “Unidentified -Flying Objects—Project Grudge,” Technical Report 102-AC-49/15-100, or -“The Grudge Report,” authored by Lt. Howard W. Smith and George -W. Towles. Hynek’s -April analysis is included as an appendix. Based on 237 cases, Hynek -finds that 32% can be explained astronomically. Others say 12% are -balloons, 33% are other misidentifications, hoaxes, or insufficient -information. That leaves 23% (55) classed as unknowns. Despite this, -witnesses are mostly deluded, hysterical, lying, or crazy, and “further -study along present lines would only confirm the findings presented -herein.” The report concludes there is little evidence to prove UFOs are -real and do not represent a security threat. It recommends that press -releases be created to “aid in dispelling public apprehension.” On the -other hand, it suggests that military and government agencies interested -in “psychological warfare” be informed of the findings. Appendix D is -written by USAF Scientific Advisory Board member George -E. Valley, who writes that extraterrestrial civilizations “might -observe that on Earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing -rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they should be alarmed. -We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such -visitations.” Project Grudge enters a period of dormancy until July -1950. The report is classified Secret until August 1, 1952. (Lt. Howard -W. Smith and George W. Towles, “Unidentified -Flying Objects—Project -Grudge,” Air Materiel Command Technical Report 102-AC-49/15-100; -Hynek UFO Report, p. 18; -Sparks, -p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1408

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Event 1818 -(379F78AE)

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Date: 8/16/1949
-Description: A young girl in Wola Drzewiecka, Poland, sees a dark green -object nearby like two bowls put together and about 5 feet in diameter. -She walks right up to it and touches its metallic surface with her index -finger, getting a mild electric vibration and making her fingertip turn -red. The object begins rotating, then rises up and disappears to the -south at an altitude of 50 feet. In the distance she sees another object -that she says remained in the same spot for several days. (Poland -18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1411

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Event 1819 -(7A996226)

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Date: 8/17/1949
-Description: Lincoln -LaPaz submits the fifth of a series of reports on “anomalous -luminous phenomena.” He notes that “Many of the green fireballs now -appearing descend in nearly vertical paths, whereas, in earlier months -almost all of the green fireballs observed moved almost horizontally. -There appears to be a concentration of New Mexico incidents near -weekends, especially on Sunday and near the hour of 8:00.” (Loren E. -Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1949 -July–December, The -Author, 1988, pp. 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1410

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Event 1820 -(ECA2B207)

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Date: 8/18/1949
-Description: LaPaz and -USAF scientists meet with William -D. Crozier to find out about his July 25 dust collection in Socorro, -New Mexico. Crozier says he thinks the copper particles may have come -from a campus building, although samples from the open country contain -the same particles. LaPaz notes that copper is extremely rare in -meteorites, although it might explain the yellow-green color of the -fireballs. He suggests that further air and ground samples be taken in -areas where the fireballs are seen. (Clark III 543–544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1412

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Event 1821 -(2DD2B5C2)

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Date: 8/19/1949
-Description: 8:15–11:00 p.m. Rev. Gregory -Miller, pastor -of the St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio, has purchased from -Army surplus an 8-million-candlepower searchlight for his church -carnival. Sgt. Donald R. Berger of ROTC of the University of Cincinnati -is to operate it. During the festivities, Berger’s sweeping searchlight -suddenly flashes across a stationary circular object in the sky. Miller -and others join in and observe. When Berger moves the searchlight away, -the disc continues to glow. Hundreds of calls are received by Cincinnati -Post and Cincinnati Enquirer offices regarding fireballs and comet-like -objects all across the Cincinnati area this first night. The searchlight -picks up the same or similar objects on nine further occasions, the last -being on March 10, 1950. (“More -Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 (August 6, 1954): -1–2; NICAP, “The -Ohio Searchlight Incident”; Patrick Gross, “The -Norwood Searchlight Incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1414

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Event 1822 -(1BCB066A)

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Date: 8/19/1949
-Description: Fitzgerald and Gamey see little men in desert.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1823 -(EF3A44F1)

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Date: 8/19/1949
-Description: Two prospectors are said to have observed a disk-shaped -object land. Two dwarfs emerged but were lost in the sand dunes when -pursued. The object disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Death Valley, California
-ID: 70

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Event 1824 -(6464793A)

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Date: 8/19/1949
-Description: Two prospectors, Buck Fitzgerald and Mase Garney, report -that a flying saucer crashed near them in Death Valley, California. Two -little men jump out and start running. The prospectors chase them over a -sand dune, but lose them. (“‘Little -Men’ in Flying Disc,” San Francisco Examiner, August 20, 1949, p. 2; -Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August -22, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1413

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Event 1825 -(28C5B139)

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Date: 8/20/1949
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Astronomer Clyde -Tombaugh, his wife, -and mother-in-law see -a formation of rectangular bluish- green lights at Las Cruces, New -Mexico, for about 3 seconds. (NICAP, “Tombaugh -Observes UFO Formation”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have -We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89; “Dr. Clyde Tombaugh -Provides Details on His Own Famous Sighting,” CSI News Letter, no. -10 (December 15, 1957): 27; UFOEv, p. 53; -Sparks, p. 70; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 59–60; Clark III 1129–1130; Swords -81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1415

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Event 1826 -(A12565E0)

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Date: 8/29/1949
-Description: First Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-1 “First Lightning” at -Semipalatinsk in Semipalatinsk Test Site, NE Kazakhstan (Joe 1)
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 22

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Event 1827 -(8900EE92)

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Date: 8/29/1949
-Description: 7:00 a.m. The Soviet Union secretly conducts its first -successful nuclear weapon test (First Lightning) at the Semipalatinsk -Test Site in Kazakhstan. The design is very similar to the first US “Fat -Man” plutonium bomb. The project is led by physicist Igor -Kurchatov. (Wikipedia, “RDS-1”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1416

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Event 1828 -(459F4A3A)

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Date: 9/1949
-Alternate date: 10/1949
-Description: A Swiss Air Force officer sees a silvery disc 20 feet in -diameter with jagged edges above Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland. He observes -it flying at about 700 mph for 12 seconds. (Center for UFO Studies, [Payerne -case file])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1422

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Event 1829 -(6AFFE4AA)

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Date: 9/1/1949
-Description: Col. John W. Schweizer of AFOIN writes to the director of -USAF Intelligence: “reports that fall in the ‘fireball’ category will no -longer be included in HQ Air Materiel Command and Directorate of -Intelligence, HQ USAF, investigative activity on unidentified aerial -incidents.” AMC hands green fireball reports over to the USAF Cambridge -Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts. AFOIN -rejects an Army request for further facilities to study the green -fireballs from field locations. (Clark III 543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1417

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Event 1830 -(6085BB0C)

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Date: 9/3/1949
-Description: USAF WB-29 lands at Eielson Air Force Base AL with filter -paper samples indicating a Soviet nuclear weapons test
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Eielson Air Force Base, AL

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Event 1831 -(E4161752)

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Date: 9/9/1949
-Description: DCI Admiral Hillenkoetter hands Truman a carefully worded -report of “an abnormal radio-active contamination” indicating “An atomic -explosion on the continent of Asia.”
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 1832 -(4141C921)

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Date: 9/14/1949
-Description: 9:30–10:00 p.m. Two residents of Lubbock, Texas, see 9 -clusters of objects “similar to ducks flying in formation,” bright -silver and roughly round in shape. There are as many as 50 objects in -all the formations except one. They seem to be traveling at 5,000 feet -altitude, going north to south. Each light is visible for about 10 -seconds, but it takes 30 minutes for all the objects to pass overhead. -One witness is convinced the objects are ducks. (Clark III -692–693)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1419

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Event 1833 -(2DF1E757)

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Date: 9/14/1949
-Description: The Geophysical Sciences Branch of the Air Force Research -and Development orders the new AMC commander Lt. Gen. Benjamin -Chidlaw to have the Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts -evaluate the New Mexico and Texas green fireball cases and consider the -creation of an instrumented network. AMC is directed to send -representatives from Boston to a meeting in New Mexico. (Lt. Col. John -McK. Tucker, “Light Phenomena,” -September 14, 1949; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern -Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 16; Clark III -544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1418

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Event 1834 -(9A88CC03)

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Date: 9/16/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 4.2km -attitude (Blossom 5 — payload. Explosions led to early -termination)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 4.2km

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Event 1835 -(E8B3A703)

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Date: fall 1949
-Description: A radar-tracking UFO case takes place at a key atomic base -(probably Los Alamos, New Mexico). The base radar scope covers 200 miles -of sky up to 100,000 feet. A legitimate radar contact tracks five -apparently metallic objects at a great height moving south and crossing -the radar scope in less than 4 minutes (an average of about 4,500 mph). -(H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have -We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1423

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Event 1836 -(FA583666)

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Date: fall 1949
-Description: Night. Donald Bushwell and his wife are traveling along a -straight highway in New Mexico. Suddenly a disc about 50–60 feet across -comes straight down the road toward them about 4 feet off the ground. It -raises up a little before reaching the car and passes overhead. As it -does so, his radio turns to static. (Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune, December 10, -1957; Schopick, p. 77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1424

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Event 1837 -(06C0DB8C)

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Date: 9/23/1949
-Description: Truman made headlines with an announcement that the Soviet -Union had tested a nuclear device several weeks earlier
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 1838 -(CEDD8D2E)

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Date: fall 1949
-Description: Don Bushnell, plant superintendent with Southwestern -Porcelain Steel Corp., saw an object fall in front of his car as his -radio was blocked. He applied the brakes; object vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: KeyhoeS (Vallee)
-Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
-ID: 71

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Event 1839 -(946FBC3B)

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Date: 9/26/1949
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Lester -Wolfe and five others 5 miles southeast of Lexington, Nebraska, are -threshing wheat when they see three objects coming from the general -direction of the sun (southwest). As the objects move, they give off a -dazzling brilliance. They maintain a level flight with two of the -objects changing positions as they fly. The power of the illumination -remains constant throughout the incident (no pulses or flashes). Once -the objects reach a direction northwest of the observers, they make a -smooth 90° turn straight upwards and climb rapidly out of sight. Dean -Wolfe is a recent graduate of a two-year course in aeronautical design -and thinks the objects look like domed discs when viewed face forward, -but are more like stubby, wingless, tailless fuselages when seen from -the side. About 5 miles away, Don, Minnie, Elmer and -Irene -Ballheim see two fast-moving objects flying in the distance at level -flight before abruptly turning straight up and flying upward. This group -of people does not know their distant neighbors. (NICAP, “90-Degree -Turn Straight Up”; Swords 83–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1420

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Event 1840 -(974BF181)

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Date: 9/27/1949
-Description: 1:30 and 3:00 a.m. At least five observers at Sandia Base, -New Mexico, see fireballs of various colors traveling either in an arc -or in tangent to the Earth. (Francis Ridge, “The -Nuclear Connection Project: The New Mexico -Sightings,” September 3, 2005; Sparks, -p. 71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1421

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Event 1841 -(8DAE6134)

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Date: 9/29/1949
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches -150.8km attitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 150.8km

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Event 1842 -(C7F01CB6)

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Date: 10/6/1949
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (2nd Hermes II -test)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2

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Event 1843 -(04D81685)

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Date: 10/10/1949
-Description: 1:07 a.m. A bluish-green fireball is seen moving to the -northeast at 45° above the horizon at Sandia Base, New Mexico. Duration -is from 4 to 15 seconds. (Francis Ridge, “The -Nuclear Connection Project: The New Mexico -Sightings,” September 3, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1425

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Event 1844 -(525C8C79)

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Date: 10/11/1949
-Description: The Navy releases only a brief summary of its findings in -the death of James -Forrestal. The complete transcript is not released until 2004. (Ayn -Rand Institute Watch, “The -Willcutts Report on the Death of James Forrestal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1426

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Event 1845 -(40467C04)

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Date: 10/12/1949
-Description: Frank Scully’s Variety article “One Flying Saucer Lands In -New Mexico”
-Type: publication
-Reference: link
-Location: Hollywood, CA

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Event 1846 -(D4DF6FC1)

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Date: 10/12/1949
-Description: Columnist Frank -Scully writes an article in Variety alleging that the US government -has retrieved crashed spaceships in the southwestern desert. (Frank -Scully, “Scully’s -Scrapbook,” Variety, October 12, 1949; Clark III 595, 1044)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1427

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Event 1847 -(AA19D441)

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Date: 10/14/1949
-Description: At another conference in Los Alamos, New Mexico, attended -by 16 representatives of AFOSI, AMC (Joseph -Kaplan and Maj. Frederic -C. E. Oder), Fourth Army, the FBI, AFSWP, and Los Alamos scientists -(Edward -Teller, George -Gamow, and -Stanislaw -Ulam), the green fireballs are identified as probably atmospheric in -origin, but more observational data is needed. LaPaz and -Neef speak -at length. Oder’s Cambridge Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in -Bedford, Massachusetts, is selected for a field project, under LaPaz’s -supervision. (Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, -Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 16; Clark III 544; Swords -81; Good Above, pp. 266–267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1428

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Event 1848 -(40F6A0F5)

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Date: 10/14/1949
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Harley -C. Marshall, manager -of public relations at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, -California, is driving away from the observatory when he sees a perfect -“V of V’s” formation of about 16–18 silver objects without tails or -wings overhead traveling at high speed to the northwest and emitting a -sound like jets. He stops and watches them disappear behind the cloud -cover. Returning to the observatory, he phones electrician Benjamin -B. Traxler, who -at 1:20 p.m. sees one dark UFO traveling to the southwest. Marshall -checks the Navy Electronics Laboratory Geiger counter on site and sees -that the needle has jumped off the scale for several seconds. For the -next 10 days, another 21 incidents of off-scale cosmic-ray detector -incidents occur at scattered times, fitting a periodic 1.5-hour time -schedule, a phenomenon not seen before or after, and unexplainable by -equipment failure or radio interference from aircraft. Two -representatives of the Office of Naval Research and two from the Naval -Electronics Laboratory in Point Loma, California (Joseph -P. Maxfield and G. L. Bloom), visit the observatory to investigate -the readings, but not before they stop in at Alice Wells’s Palomar -Gardens Café on the way in. After George -Adamski claims he has seen increased UFO activity in the area -(including a sighting about the same time as another observation by -Traxler on October 21), they ask him if he would send them any photos he -might take with one of his telescopes. He gives them a copy of a -telescopic photo he took in February 1949 with his 15-inch reflector. -The Naval Electronics Lab later attributes the photo to “electric -discharge which frequently occurs in cameras during film pulling in dry -or cold climates.” Several Navy aircraft of differing prop and jet types -are flown near the observatory using radio, altimeter, and radars on -October 21 and November 2 in an unsuccessful effort to trigger the -Geiger counter. (NICAP, “Geiger -Counters Detect UFO -Presence”; Clark III 38, 949–950; Sparks, pp. 74–75; -Swords 86–87; Maurice Weekley and George Adamski, “Flying Saucers As -Astronomers See Them,” Fate 3, no. 6 (September 1950): 56–59; Colin -Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001, pp. 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1429

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Event 1849 -(E6824A50)

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Date: 10/23/1949
-Description: 7:15–10:45 p.m. Rev. Gregory -Miller has set up his searchlight once again at St. Peter and Paul -Church in Norwood, Ohio. Sgt. Berger turns on the light and picks up a -large object in the beam. At about 10:00 p.m., the searchlight picks up -two distinct groups of five triangular objects that seem to emerge from -the main disc. They descend on the beam then turn out of it. The same -performance is repeated 30 minutes later. About 50 persons, including -newspaper reporters observe the objects. Miller takes several -photographs and asks Sgt. Leo Davidson of the Norwood police department -to film the display. He uses three rolls, 25 feet each, and a Hugo-Meyer -F-19- 3” camera with telephoto lens. Davidson also takes 10 still -photographs of the large disc-shaped object that flies in and out of the -searchlight beam, using a Speed-Graphic camera with a 14-inch Wallensach -telephoto lens. Two of these are exceptional shots, showing both the -parent object and the smaller group. These two pictures are last seen by -Time-Life correspondent Harry Mayo, who has prepared a feature story for -Time, which was to include them. But Mayo’s story and Miller’s photos -were not used in Time or Life and, in spite of requests by Miller, these -two photos are never returned. (Harry Mayo, “What -Glows on Here? Norwood Muses,” Cincinnati Post, April 6, 1950, p. 1; -“More -Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 (August 6, 1954): -1–2; NICAP, “The -Ohio Searchlight -Incident”; Patrick Gross, “The -Norwood Searchlight Incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1430

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Event 1850 -(77B2B68B)

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Date: 11/1949
-Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography -expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/49 he flew from Hollywood with -Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and sees and makes detailed -photographs of a large disc-like object.
-Type: witness statement
-Reference: book -“The UFO Crash at Aztec” by Steinman and Stevens
-See also: 3/25/48
-See also: 4/48

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Event 1851 -(206B60EB)

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Date: 11/3/1949
-Description: Karl -Taylor Compton resigns as chairman of the Research and Development -Board around the same time that Lawrence -R. Hafstad succeeds Lloyd -Berkner as executive secretary. (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, -“The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. -2 (Summer 2001): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1432

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Event 1852 -(646665F2)

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Date: 11/3/1949
-Description: Joseph -Kaplan brings the green fireball plan to the USAF Scientific -Advisory Board at the Pentagon. By this time, he is convinced the -fireballs are a rare type of meteor. But others are puzzled by the -brightness, trajectories, and soundlessness, Kaplan says, “This high -selectivity of direction seems to indicate that some group was trying to -pinpoint Los Alamos with a new sort of weapon.” (Clark III 544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1431

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Event 1853 -(71BE5563)

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Date: 11/3/1949
-Description: 11:00 a.m. USAF Capt. William H. Donnelly is driving south -about 2 miles north of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, with a friend -when he sees four objects to the east at a high altitude. All are oval -and a metallic white color. They are constantly changing formation, -moving up and down, back and forth. The objects continue to fly south -rapidly and move in a horizontal line and disappear from sight in 20–40 -seconds. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1433

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Event 1854 -(C9F146A8)

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Date: 11/11/1949
-Description: 6:30 p.m. USNR Commander J. -R. Bodler is in charge of a merchant vessel (possibly the USS Hemminger) -in the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. -He observes a huge, pulsating submarine light wheel, some 1,000–1,500 -feet in diameter, one mile from his ship. It is revolving around an -ill-defined center with streaks of light like searchlight beams moving -counterclockwise “like the spokes of a gigantic wheel.” He thinks it is -caused by natural phosphorescence, stimulated by some marine life. (J. -R. Bodler, “An -Unexplained Phenomenon of the Sea,” US Naval Institute Proceedings -72 (January 1952): 66–67; Carl Feindt, waterufo.net)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1434

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Event 1855 -(364FB846)

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Date: 11/18/1949
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches -123.9km attitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 123.9km

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Event 1856 -(A677888E)

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Date: 11/23/1949
-Description: Frank Scully Variety article “Flying Saucers Dismantled, -Secrets May Be Lost”
-Type: publication
-Reference: link
-Location: Hollywood, CA

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Event 1857 -(844AC791)

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Date: 11/27/1949
-Description: 5:49 p.m. Civil Aeronautics Administration Chief Controller -W. W. Jones watches a blue-white fireball moving 5°–7° per second over -Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Francis Ridge, “The -Nuclear Connection -Project: The New Mexico Sightings,” September 3, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1435

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Event 1858 -(BFFE6287)

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Date: 11/27/1949
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Kirtland AFB Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. -Charles E. Lancaster Jr. is driving near McIntosh, New Mexico, when he -sees a green fireball descend near Albuquerque. (Sparks, p. 77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1436

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Event 1859 -(16B24909)

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Date: 12/1949
-Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes “The Flying Saucers are Real” in -True Magazine
-Type: publication
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: WA

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Event 1860 -(6095E01D)

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Date: 12/1949
-Description: Capt. Bernard Baruch Jr. suggests to Gen. Hoyt -Vandenberg that UFOs be added to JANAP 146 as required reporting -subjects and that civilian pilots report UFO sightings according to -military chains of command. (Swords 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1437

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Event 1861 -(DA136481)

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Date: 12/2/1949
-End date: 12/3/1949
-Description: The US government releases radioactive fission products at -the Hanford Site plutonium production facility in eastern Washington in -an operation called Green Run. The radioisotopes are supposed to be -detected by US Air Force reconnaissance. Sources cite 5,500–12,000 -curies of iodine-131 are released and an even greater amount of -xenon-133. The radiation is distributed over 500,000 acres encompassing -three small towns and causes the cessation of intentional radioactive -releases at Hanford until 1962, when more experiments commence. There -are some indications that many other tests are conducted in the 1940s -prior to Green Run, although this is a particularly large test. Evidence -suggests that filters to remove the iodine are disabled during the test. -(Wikipedia, “Green -Run”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1438

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Event 1862 -(F5CCC2C0)

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Date: 12/4/1949
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Mario Restier is returning home from his father’s -place in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he notices a disc -land about 32–50 feet from the road. He hears a voice telling him not to -be afraid and asking if he wants to know what it’s all about. Two beings -about 5 feet 5 inches emerge from the UFO wearing togas and helmets. -Restier asks them if they believe in God, and they answer, “God is one.” -Encouraged, he enters the craft where he is offered a trip, put in a tub -filled with liquid, and taken on a trip to a city on another world. He -is shown a screen that depicts human nature, ambitions, and violence. -After about 6 hours, he is returned to the spot where he was abducted. -Returning to his father’s house, he finds it is April 14, 1950, and has -lost nearly four months of earth time. (Brazil 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1439

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Event 1863 -(94C300AC)

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Date: 12/8/1949
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches -130.3km attitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 130.3km

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Event 1864 -(FC745A12)

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Date: 12/20/1949
-Description: Following consideration by the Defense Department’s -Research and Development Board, Joseph Kaplan’s -green fireball project is approved by AMC. (Col. B. G. Holzman, “Light -Phenomena,” December 20, 1949; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The -Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 16; -Clark III 544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1440

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Event 1865 -(F2929B3B)

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Date: 12/24/1949
-Description: The January 1950 issue of True magazine is published, with -Donald -Keyhoe’s article, “The Flying Saucers Are Real.” Keyhoe argues that -the Air Force knows UFOs are real, alien, and covering up information -from the public in order to avoid panic: “For the past 175 years, the -planet Earth has been under systematic close- range examination by -living, intelligent observers from another planet.” The Air Force finds -itself buried in letters, telegrams, and phone calls demanding -information about flying saucers. (Donald E. Keyhoe, “The -Flying Saucers -Are Real,” True, January 1950, pp. 11–13, 83–87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1441

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Event 1866 -(4ACB595D)

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Date: 12/27/1949
-Description: USAF announces that Project Grudge is terminated. Its files -are put into storage. The Grudge report is released again, reiterating -that UFOs are the “result of (1) misinterpretations of various -conventional objects; (2) a mild form of mass hysteria; or (3) hoaxes.” -(Clark III 932–933)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1442

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Event 1867 -(25726E88)

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Date: 12/27/1949
-Description: USAF Project “Saucer” closed
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1868 -(1D9D278A)

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Date: 12/28/1949
-Description: Richmond VA area: Radio play about a crashed saucer with 12 -dead midget crewmen
-Type: radio show
-Reference: link
-Location: Richmond, VA

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Event 1869 -(003D9522)

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Date: 12/31/1949
-Description: Newspaper articles on a crash saucer “almost 3 years ago”, -research program, exotic metals defying analysis, small occupants, very -high technology, acclimation program references. There are 2 years, 5 -months, 23 days between 7/8/47 and 12/31/49.
-Type: newspaper articles
-Reference: link
-Reference: link

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- Event 1870 (85EC9337)

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Date: 1950
-Description: Aviator Kenneth Arnold publishes the pamphlet “The Flying -Saucer as I Saw It”
-Type: publication
-Reference: Archive.org
-Location: WA

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Event 1871 -(89A44C8A)

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Date: 1950’s
-Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout -maps.
-Type: book reference
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
-Location: Area 51

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Event 1872 -(B0DD2638)

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Date: 1950
-Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-26” atomic weapons project plant opens -(Plutonium production)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 1873 -(AD5E156B)

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Date: 1950’s
-Description: At least 11 nuclear explosions were carried out at the -Soviet Kapustin Yar test site, in addition to all other launches
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Kapustin Yar

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Event 1874 -(F6603A28)

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Date: 1950
-Description: N. -Meade Layne publishes The Ether-Ship Mystery and Its Solution, which -identifies UFOs as emanating from the etheric world, which coexists with -and interpenetrates ours. The etherians must lower their “vibrational” -rate in order to enter our realm. UFOs are “thought-constructs” that can -take many forms and densities. He considers the etherians benign. (Meade -Layne, The -Ether-Ship Mystery and Its Solution, Borderland -Sciences Research Associates, 1950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1443

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Event 1875 -(09B29558)

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Date: 1950
-Description: William Ortiz, a deaf-mute, claims to have the first of -three close encounters (the others in 1969 and 1975) with large-eyed -aliens in UFOs in Colombia. After the first two events, he finds his -hearing temporarily restored. The entities communicate to him using hand -signals. (“First -Reported CEIII Alien Communicating with Deaf-Mute,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1444

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Event 1876 -(CC68ECBF)

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Date: Early 1950
-Description: Author and military historian Fletcher Pratt initiated -rumor waves in the press by announcing that he had obtained through -confidential channels information that a flying saucer had crashed to -earth and that bodies of a vaguely human appearance and about 35 inches -tall had been found dead in the wreckage.
-Type: rumors
-Reference: Medium

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Event 1877 -(B5822C76)

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Date: 1/1950
-Description: TRUE magazine publishes first article on Flying -Saucers
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1878 -(161C0310)

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Date: 1/1950
-Description: The Ground Observer Corps, an organization of civilians who -watch the skies for enemy airplanes, is created by the US Air Defense -Command. (Wikipedia, “Ground -Observer Corps”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1445

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Event 1879 -(8763ECF0)

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Date: 1/1950
-Description: Keyhoe meets -with Gen. Sory -Smith, director of public relations for the Air Force; Maj. Jesse -E. Stay and Jack T. Shea, press officers; and Maj. Jere -Boggs, Pentagon -liaison to Project Grudge. Most of the interview involves questions for -Boggs. Keyhoe is given two looseleaf notebooks with summaries of -“Project Saucer” cases. His request to visit Wright-Patterson AFB in -Ohio to look at the actual case files is turned down weeks later. -(Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, pp. 147–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1447

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Event 1880 -(5ECAAB36)

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Date: 1/1950
-Description: On the Seattle, Washington, to Anchorage, Alaska, route, an -air freighter is paced for five minutes by a UFO. When the pilots try to -close in, the craft zooms away at terrific speed. Later, the airline -head reports that intelligence officers quizzed the pilots for hours. -“From their questions,” he said, “I could tell they had a good idea of -what the saucers are. One officer admitted they did, but he wouldn’t say -any more.” (Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, -1950, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1446

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Event 1881 -(73C8DE55)

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Date: 1/1/1950
-Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes a condensed version of “The Flying -Saucers are Real” in Newspapers
-Type: publication
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 1882 -(4B777AC2)

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Date: 1/6/1950
-Description: Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper: “Coulter” (George T. -Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, saucer near a radar installation, -exotic metals, acclimation program, etc.
-Type: rumors
-Reference: Amazon
-Reference: Newspapers.com

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Event 1883 -(A710C892)

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Date: 1/7/1950
-Description: 10:15 p.m. The assistant maintenance officer at Holloman -AFB is driving south of Corona, New Mexico, when he sees a green -fireball. It descends at a 60° angle, then levels out and travels 10° -east before dropping out of sight behind a mountain. When first seen, it -is yellowish-white, changes to orange as it descends, then turns bright -blue-green as it levels out and disappears. (NICAP, “January -7, 1950, Corona, NM, OSI Case 161”: Clark III 544; Sparks, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1448

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Event 1884 -(CD455E9B)

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Date: 1/9/1950
-Description: Time magazine reports on rumors of crashed saucers and -small humanoids in New Mexico. (“Visitors -from Venus,” -Time, January 9, 1950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1449

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Event 1885 -(66484175)

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Date: 1/12/1950
-Description: 11:25 p.m. A B-29 aircraft is flying over the Gulf of -Mexico (southwest of Florida) on a course of 260° when three objects are -noted on the radar scope orbiting the B-29 from all quadrants. The -objects are noticed by the radar operator, aircraft commander, -navigator, and bombardier. One object is first sighted on a bearing of -330° traveling south. The objects travel across the scope in -approximately 15–20 seconds on the 100-mile range setting. In a few -minutes this object is joined by two others, which disappear in a few -minutes. At short ranges the object is large and well-defined on the -radar scope. The object goes off for about 100 miles, turns and comes in -as if for an attack, passes through the center of the scope, and emerges -on the other side. The estimated speed of the object is 2,500–3,000 mph. -The one object remains on the radar scope for approximately 30 minutes, -following the B-29 all the time. The radar operator switches ranges on -the scope and picks up the object on the 20- and 50- mile settings. -Twice the object comes to within 20 miles of the aircraft and then -apparently has the ability to hover, because the movement on the radar -scope ceases for 5–15 seconds. After altering course the object no -longer appears, but the radar is jammed for approximately 10 minutes. -The crew makes no visual sighting. (NICAP, “B-29 -Radar Tracks Objects”; Clark III 58; Sparks, p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1451

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Event 1886 -(045CAE43)

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Date: 1/12/1950
-Description: The AF Directorate of Intelligence quietly cancels the -special intelligence collection directives to various government -agencies for reporting UFO incidents, though routine intelligence -channels still require UFO reporting, per AFCIR-CC7, “Reporting of -Information on Unconventional Aircraft.” Cancellation is a follow-up to -the widely announced closure of “Project Saucer.” AFOIN Director Gen. Charles -P. Cabell believes that in fact AMC is taking its UFO project -underground by announcing the closure. Months later Cabell discovers -that AMC Intelligence under Col. Harold -E. Watson is not running a secret UFO investigation, and Cabell is -forced to make up for AMC’s negligence by conducting his own UFO -investigations via his AF Intelligence staff. (Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, -“Reporting -of Information on Unconventional Aircraft,” January 12, 1950; Swords -498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1450

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Event 1887 -(3E76C234)

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Date: 1/16/1950
-Description: CLASSIFIED USAF Staff Message: At a radar station near New -Mexico a person reported seeing 2 saucers. One was badly damaged the -other almost perfectly intact. Description: Each consisted of 2 parts, a -cockpit or cabin about 6 ft. diam.; a ring approx. 18 ft. across and 2 -ft. thick surrounding cabin, resembling aluminum, but actual metal has -defied analysis by the Dearborn Plant. Two crew members in the damaged -ship were charred but in the undamaged ship the two crew members were -perfectly preserved.
-Type: classified staff message
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
-See also: 1/6/50
-See also: 1/30/50

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Event 1888 -(823DC418)

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Date: 1/16/1950
-Description: Tsuneo -Saheki of the Osaka Planetarium in Japan sees an explosion on Mars, -60 miles high and 900 miles in diameter. Thomas Dobbins and William -Sheehan investigate and find that this and other Martian flashes are -likely caused by solar reflections on patches of ice crystals on the -surface of Mars. (“‘Terrific -Explosion’ on Mars Reported -by Japanese Observers,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 27, 1950, -p. 13; John J. O’Neill, “Mars -Blast Puzzles -Science,” Ottawa (Ont.) Citizen, July 16, 1952, p. 30; “Some -Curious Objects: Meteoritic Perhaps,” The Strolling Astronomer 4, -no. 5 (May 1, 1950): 8–9; Thomas Dobbins and William Sheehan, “Solving -the Martian Flares -Mystery,” 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1453

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Event 1889 -(FDE17E66)

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Date: 1/16/1950
-Description: The AFOSI office at Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska, sends a -message that recounts stories from Denver, Colorado, about crashed -saucers in the southwest. The metal allegedly “defied analysis.” Bodies -are said to be 3 feet tall. (Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, -1988, p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1452

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Event 1890 -(7BA899ED)

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Date: late 1/1950
-Description: Gen. Charles -Cabell, possibly inspired by the Kodiak, Alaska, case, sends a -letter to ATIC asking why Project Grudge has ended, because he never -disbanded it. ATIC responds that Grudge is no longer a special project -and that UFO reports will be processed through normal intelligence -channels. (Ruppelt, pp. 69–70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1456

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Event 1891 -(FECB1707)

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Date: 1/22/1950
-Description: 2:40 a.m. Navy patrol pilot Lieut. Smith makes a routine -security flight out of Naval Air Station Kodiak [now Coast Guard Base -Kodiak], Alaska. He obtains a radar reading on an object 20 miles north. -It quickly vanishes. At 2:48, he tracks a similar object 10 miles -southeast. Kodiak radar reports no known aircraft in the vicinity, but -they are seeing the same track. At 3:00 a.m., the tug USS -Tillamook is south of Kodiak when one of the men on deck sees a -“very fast-moving red glow light, which appeared to be of exhaust -nature.” The object comes from the southeast, moves clockwise around -Kodiak, and returns to the southeast. Another officer sees it for 30 -seconds and describes it as a “large ball of orange fire.” At 4:40 a.m., -Lieut. Smith picks up another blip moving so fast that it leaves a trail -on his screen. His crew sees the UFO close a five-mile gap in 10 -seconds, an apparent speed of 1,800 mph. Witnesses report two orange -lights that rotate around a common center. The object makes a sharp turn -and heads directly towards Smith’s plane. Smith considers this a -threatening situation and turns off his lights; the UFO flies by and -disappears. At least 35 copies of Smith’s report are sent to FBI, CIA, -AFOSI, and the State Department. None are ever officially released or -published. (NICAP, “USN -P2V3 Patrol Plane -and USS Tillamook -Encounter”; -ClearIntent, pp. 165–166; -Clark III 58; Sparks, -p. 80; Swords 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1454

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Event 1892 -(11F62A76)

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Date: 1/22/1950
-Description: U.S. Navy patrol plane pilot, Lt. Smith, was on routine -security flight when he picked up a radar track on an UFO, two times. -Smith then radioed Kodiak radar station and was advised that no known -traffic was in his radar area. Moored south of Kodiak was the USS -Tillamook with Master Morgan standing on watch. Suddenly, at 3 a.m., “a -very fast moving red glow appeared to be of exhaust nature, seemed to -come from the south-east, moved clockwise in a large circle in the -direction of, and around Kodiak and returned out in a generally -south-east direction. The UFO was moving so fast that it was actually -leaving a streak on Smith’s radarscreen. It was estimated to be moving -at a speed of 1800 mph. Described as “two orange lights rotating about a -common center like two jet aircraft making slow rolls in tight -formation.” The UFO then made an abrupt turn and headed directly towards -Smiths’ aircraft in a threatening gesture so Smith quickly turned off -all of his lights turn make his plane less conspicuous in the inky -colored sky. The UFO flew by him and disappeared in the south-east in a -matter of minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Kodiak, Alaska

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Event 1893 -(BE28DB17)

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Date: 1/24/1950
-Description: 4:50 p.m. USAF Capt. G. B. Edwards and copilot Theron C. -Fehrevach are flying a C-45 transport plane from Pope AFB [now Pope -Field], Fayetteville, North Carolina, to Bolling AFB [now Joint Base -Anacostia- Bolling], Washington, D.C. While at 5,000 feet near -Blacksburg, Virginia, Fehrevach notices a dark, 200–250 foot in -diameter, hemispherical parachute-shaped object above them about 5–10 -miles away. A large black smoky region is below it, possibly obscuring -the lower portion of a sphere. The UFO is darker than the 50% cloud -cover and “easy to distinguish as not being cloud.” The object moves -smoothly without any noticeable turn radius. Edwards puts the C-45 into -a climb to 7,000 feet so they are at the same altitude as the UFO and -turns to head directly toward it. Army Courier Service passenger 1st Lt. -John -H. Van Santen is alerted by Fehrevach and also sees the object move -right then left again, then they all see the object recede at high speed -and disappear. About 90 seconds later the object reappears about 30°–45° -to the right of their heading, then oscillates right to left. It moves -horizontally to dead ahead again and disappears by receding in the -distance at high speed. (NICAP, “C-25 Transport -Crew Encounters Object”; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “Blackstone, -Virginia, USA: January 24, -1950,” September 30, 2015; Swords 91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1455

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Event 1894 -(22B3802A)

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Date: 1/26/1950
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Lt. Col. Lester -F. Mathison, commanding -officer of the 625th Aircraft and Warning Squadron at Elmendorf AFB [now -Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska, notices three -reddish objects above the cirrus cloud layer at 25,000–30,000 feet. They -are moving to the north in a sightly curled trail fashion and disappear -into some clouds. (“Extract: -History of the 57th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, January 1–March 31, -1950 (Elmendorf -AFB, Alaska),” UFO Historical Revue, no. 8 (February 2001): -7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1457

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Event 1895 -(17E2E342)

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Date: 1/29/1950
-Description: Mr. Quintana of Denver saw a silvery-green ovoid object -hovering about 15 m above a slope and landing slowly in a small ravine. -Then it shot upward at very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 m, and -it had a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and -the witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: South Table Mountain, Colorado
-ID: 72

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Event 1896 -(8BAD8B6C)

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Date: 1/30/1950
-Description: The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee, prints article -referring to the Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper article on -“Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, acclimation -program.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Kodiak, Alaska
-See also: 1/6/50

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Event 1897 -(DCC6EED3)

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Date: 1/31/1950
-Description: Office MEMO, Director FBI, SAC, San Antonio: A UFO -resembling a rocket ship without wings appeared out of a thunderhead of -clouds narrowly missing an Eastern Airlines flight and disappeared into -another cloud. It was traveling approx. 2700 mph and no sound or air -disturbance was noted with it. During the past two months the UFO -sightings appeared to be concentrated near Los Alamos, N.M. This UFO was -also sighted near Los Alamos on Jan. 6, 1949.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Los Alamos, NM
-See also: 1/6/50

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Event 1898 -(724480EA)

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Date: 2/1/1950
-Description: A meteor-like object spewing smoke is seen by many people -over Tucson, Arizona. The radio operator at Davis-Monthan AFB asks 1st -Lieut. Roy -L. Jones Jr. to investigate it in his B-29, but he cannot catch up -with it. Edwin -Francis Carpenter, head -of the University of Arizona astronomy department, says he is certain -the object is not a meteor. (Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are -Real, Gold Medal, 1950, pp. 10–12; -Sparks, -p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1459

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Event 1899 -(DA27EBC4)

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Date: 2/1/1950
-Description: Harry -S. Truman issues Executive Order 10104 and creates the “Top Secret -classification” designation. (US Office of the Federal Register, “Executive -Order 10104”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1458

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Event 1900 -(157D6DA0)

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Date: 2/2/1950
-Description: Lincoln -LaPaz, citing -the press of academic duties, withdraws from Project Twinkle. (Clark III -544) February 5 — 5:10 p.m. Four people at Falmouth Airport [now part of -Frances Crane Wildlife Management Area north of Hatchville, -Massachusetts] see two illuminated cylindrical objects in the western -sky. The witnesses include Marvin -R. Odom, owner -of the airport, and Lt. Philip -Foushee Jr. of Otis AFB [now Otis Air National Guard Base] near -Mashpee. As the objects are maneuvering, a fireball drops from one. Five -minutes later they both climb at high speed and disappear from view. -(NICAP, “Feb. 5, -1950; Teaticket, Mass.”; Hyannis (Mass.) Cape Cod Standard Times, -February 6, 1950; Sparks, -p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1460

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Event 1901 -(D070DFED)

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Date: 2/5/1950
-Time: 5:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Marvin Odom, former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, -USAF Lt. Philip Foushee, pilot from Otis AFB, and two others. Two thin, -illuminated cylinders, one of which dropped a fireball, maneuvered -together and then disappeared high and fast after 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Teaticket, Massachusetts
-ID: 30

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Event 1902 -(ED7E8379)

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Date: 2/8/1950
-Description: AFOSI Letter #85 is issued, directing Air Force personnel -to relay UFO sightings to the Pentagon or AMC only if they are of -“priority Counterintelligence interest.” (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 5, January– March -1950, The Author, 1983, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1461

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Event 1903 -(353C2D1E)

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Date: 2/17/1950
-Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches -148.7km attitude
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 148.7km

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Event 1904 -(8CE17371)

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Date: 2/20/1950
-Description: LaPaz writes -to Peter -H. Wyckoff of the USAF Cambridge Research Laboratories in -Massachusetts that a “fireball project” ought not be pursued because any -objects that are not meteors are probably US test missiles. But he -concedes he might be wrong and says in that case, “intensive, systematic -investigation of these objects should not be delayed.” (Clark III -544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1462

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Event 1905 -(5F8D5527)

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Date: 2/21/1950
-Description: Project Twinkle, with the assistance of Land-Air, Inc., has -set up its first operations post, manned by two observers who scan the -sky over Holloman AFB, New Mexico, with theodolite, telescope, and -camera. (Clark III 544; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings -of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical -Group, November 2001, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1463

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Event 1906 -(98F553B3)

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Date: 2/22/1950
-Description: Navy pilots and others see two glowing UFOs, confirmed by -radar, above the Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida. A plane is sent -to investigate but it is “hopelessly outdistanced.” After hovering -momentarily at a high altitude (50 miles?), they speed away. (Donald E. -Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, p. 12; -Sparks, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1464

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Event 1907 -(55F294D7)

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Date: 2/22/1950
-Description: USAF denies existance of flying saucers
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1908 -(A8B9D222)

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Date: 2/24/1950
-Description: 7:30 p.m. USAF Cpl. Lertis -E. Stanfield and other Holloman AFB Photographic Branch project -staff at an observation post at Datil, New Mexico, take five photos -(using a Cineflex camera with 3-inch focal length lens) of a circular, -luminous white object that changes to red and green. Its angular -velocity is greater than 0.5°/min in azimuth calculated by Lincoln -LaPaz. The -object moves in a smooth straight-line motion from about 8:00–9:30 p.m. -to the west, blinking red and green. It disappears at high altitude. -(NICAP, “AFOSI -Case 175; Datil Observation -Post Photographs Object”; Sparks, p. 82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1465

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Event 1909 -(617D49B0)

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Date: 2/24/1950
-Time: 1:55 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Municipal Airport Weather Observers Luther -McDonald, Harrison Manson. One white, slightly elongated oval was -watched for 1.5 minutes through a theodolite while it flew straight and -level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 31

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Event 1910 -(E258DCFF)

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Date: 2/25/1950
-Time: 3:55 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Twelve Atomic Energy Commission security -inspectors. One cylinder with tapered ends, silver and flashing, flew -slow and hen fast, fluttered and oscillated, and changed course. -observations by individuals varied from 3 seconds to 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
-ID: 32

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Event 1911 -(20421E0F)

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Date: 2/26/1950
-Description: 2:45 p.m. Three witnesses observe a bronze-colored object -that looks like two cigarette ashtrays placed face to face over -Vancouver, British Columbia. It slows down as it passes overhead and -wobbles as it moves along. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1466

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Event 1912 -(308F47F8)

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Date: 3/1950
-Description: Naval Commander Robert -Bright McLaughlin, in charge of a team of Navy scientists at White -Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, writes about the Charles -B. Moore sighting of April 24, 1949, in a True magazine article and -speculates on saucer propulsion systems. McLaughlin writes that the -saucers are indeed “spaceships from another planet, operated by animate, -intelligent beings.” The Navy, having gotten a preview of the article, -removes him from White Sands and gives him an assignment at sea aboard -the destroyer USS -Bristol. (Robert B. McLaughlin, “How -Scientists Tracked a Flying Saucer,” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, -96–99; Ruppelt, pp. 70– 72; -Swords 94–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1468

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Event 1913 -(95261ECE)

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Date: 3/1950
-Description: James J. Rodgers is named a chief of Project Grudge. (Sparks, -p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1467

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Event 1914 -(0620C165)

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Date: 3/1950
-Description: According to Karl -T. Pflock, two -CIA agents clandestinely visit Aztec, New Mexico, UFO crash storyteller -Silas -Newton and tell him that, although they know he is lying, they want -him to continue spreading the tale as disinformation. The two agents -later wind up involved in the Psychological Strategy Board created in -1951. (Kremlin 37–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1469

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Event 1915 -(7225EA3F)

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Date: 3/3/1950
-Description: At Selfridge AFB [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base] -near Mount Clemens, Michigan, a lone UFO causes multiple radar trackings -and is logged at speeds up to 1,500 mph. (NICAP, “Object -Descends Vertically, Levels -Out”; Patrick Gross, “Selfridge -AFB, Michigan, March 3, 1950”; Sparks, -p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1470

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Event 1916 -(EBEDF77C)

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Date: 3/3/1950
-Time: 11:05 PM
-Description: Witness: 1st Lt Frank Mattson. One intense, dull yellowish -light descended vertically, then flew straight and level very fast for 4 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan
-ID: 33

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Event 1917 -(8311B9D6)

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Date: 3/8/1950
-Description: Mid-morning. TWA pilot Capt. W. H. Kerr reports to the CAA -that he and two other TWA pilots (D. W. Miller and Malvern -H. Rabeneck) are watching a UFO hovering at high altitude near -Dayton, Ohio. The CAA has already received about 20 other reports about -it from Vandalia, Ohio. ATIC control tower operators at Wright- -Patterson AFB pick it up visually and on radar (“a good, solid target”). -Four F-51 interceptors are sent up. They see it as a huge, round, -metallic object, but clouds move in. The object climbs vertically out of -sight at high speed. ATIC calls it the planet Venus, with radar returns -from ice-laden clouds. (NICAP, “Three -Aircraft Spot UFO / Radar -Track at ATIC”; UFOEv, p. 84; -Ruppelt, pp. 72–75; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 5, January– March -1950, The Author, 1983, pp. 32–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1471

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Event 1918 -(CC7AB146)

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Date: 3/8/1950
-Description: Tape recorded University of Denver lecture on three crash -retrievals. Tape recently found at the AHC in Frank Scully’s papers in -Laramie WY. Was going to be given by a scientist involved in the -retrieval that knew or worked with Dr. Vannever Bush during WW2, but was -instead given by Silas Newton at the last minute.
-Type: lecture
-Reference: YouTube - Part -1
-Reference: YouTube - Part -2
-Location: University of Denver

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Event 1919 -(FFD2E180)

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Date: 3/8/1950
-Description: Mysterious “Silas Newton” speaks at University of -Denver
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1920 -(B797691B)

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Date: 3/9/1950
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A crew of three radar controllers at Selfridge -Air Force Base [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base] near Mount -Clemens, Michigan, is busy monitoring the night flying units of the 56th -Fighter-Interceptor Group. 1st Lt. Francis -E. Parker, 1st -Lt. Frank -K. Mattson, Sgt. McCarthy, -and Cpl. Melton observe an intermittent target on the height range -indicator (HRI) scope of the CPS-4 radar at 47,000 feet altitude and -higher. Further indications of what Parker describes as a well-defined, -clear target like an aircraft are picked up with increasing regularity -over the next 45–60 minutes. During this time, the target seems to stay -in the area where the F-80s are flying, but 20,000 feet above them. The -radar operators are monitoring two different systems—a CPS-5 radar -operating on long-wave frequencies at 40,000 feet, and a CPS-4 radar -operating on short-wave frequencies—and the target appears on both -scopes simultaneously without fade. The speed varies from a hover in -low-density air to nearly 1,500 mph, well in excess of the fastest -operational jet at the time, and a climb rate of up to 7,000 feet per -minute. (NICAP, “The -Selfridge AFB Incident”; Sparks, -p. 84; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 123– 125, 295–297; -Clark III 1047–1049; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs -1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 215–217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1472

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Event 1921 -(C4B81F94)

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Date: 3/10/1950
-Description: A publisher and others see a bright disc hover over -Orangeburg, South Carolina, for 15 minutes. It speeds away, leaving a -trail. (UFOEv, p. 149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1473

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Event 1922 -(F94791D6)

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Date: 3/13/1950
-Description: Early morning. Army Signal Corps (Reserve) Maj. Taylor in -Clarksburg, California, is sleeping when an odd droning noise wakes him -up. Going outside, he notices the noise is coming from a brilliant light -in the sky, one- half the size of the full moon. It sways for about 15 -minutes, then moves away. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume -5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1474

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Event 1923 -(8D70234D)

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Date: 3/13/1950
-Description: Day. At the Central Airport in Mexico City, Mexico, -Santiago Smith (weather observer for Mexicana de Aviación), J. de la -Vega of the airport commander’s office, and others see a total of four -UFOs passing overhead. Smith observes one of them through a theodolite, -describing it as the shape of a “half-moon.” (UFOEv, p. 44; -“‘Saucers’ -No Illusion: Hundreds See Shy Visitors,” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, -March 14, 1950, p. 9; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983, -pp. 50–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1475

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Event 1924 -(DD346D97)

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Date: 3/15/1950
-Description: An Air Force Captain Hall, flying in Guatemala, hears from -other pilots at La Aurora Airport in Guatemala City that large, fast, -and highly maneuverable objects have flown directly over the runway. The -stories also appear in the local press. When Hall returns to Brookley -Air Force Base [now Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley] in Mobile, Alabama, he -is interrogated by a USAF intelligence officer and told: “Listen, there -is no such thing as a flying saucer. You won’t discuss them.” (Swords -96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1476

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Event 1925 -(07AE8DB1)

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Date: 3/16/1950
-End date: 3/18/1950
-Description: 11 a.m.–noon. Former Army Engineer Capt. and Farmington -Times business manager Clayton -J. Boddy Jr. and -dozens of others watch 12–15 shiny “saucer-like discs” cavorting around -the sky over Farmington, New Mexico. They hover, then move in great -bursts of speed. The objects appear three days in a row. (NICAP, “The Farmington -Invasion”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983, -pp. 56–64; Sparks, p. 84; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 47–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1479

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Event 1926 -(CDFEBAF8)

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Date: 3/16/1950
-End date: 3/18/1950
-Description: Farmington Armada mass UFO sighting: 100’s of UFO’s spotted -over town, and from nearby Aztec. Some UFO’s appeared red colored. Seen -by thousands of witnesses over a period of several days. Local -newspapers reportedly censored.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Farmington, NM
-Location: Aztec, NM

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Event 1927 -(9E69CBB4)

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Date: 3/16/1950
-Description: The efforts of Kaplan and -Maj. Oder to -start a fireball research project come to fruition when the AF -Geophysical Research Directorate headed by Oder issues a letter -directive authorizing Project Twinkle. A $20,000 half-year contract is -signed with Land-Air, Inc. which operates the phototheodolites at White -Sands, New Mexico. Land-Air is to set up a 24-hour watch at a location -in New Mexico to be specified by the Air Force, and the phototheodolite -operators at White Sands are to film any unusual objects that happen to -fly past. The official contract gives April 1 as the starting -date.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1477

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Event 1928 -(F3772AA8)

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Date: 3/16/1950
-Description: Just before 12:00 noon. Chief Petty Officer Charles Lewis -sees a flying disc streak across the sky at Naval Air Station Dallas -[later Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex] near Dallas, Texas. -It buzzes a high- flying B-36. It hovers under the bomber for a moment, -then flies off and disappears. NAS Commander Capt. Milton -Adolphus Nation vouches for Lewis and says that the base tower -operators had seen a UFO 10 days before. (NICAP, “Disc -Buzzes B-36”; “‘Flying Saucers’ Sighted by Two,” Dallas Morning -News, March 18, 1950; Ruppelt, p. 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1478

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Event 1929 -(E554BE61)

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Date: 3/16/1950
-Description: Swiss engineer Julian Gardiol reported he spotted a UFO -stop in the air stop for 5 minutes (Denver Post Special)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Reference: “Behind -the Flying Saucers” by Frank Scully
-Location: Lima, Peru

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Event 1930 -(60ED639B)

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Date: 3/18/1950
-Description: The USAF publicly denies that UFOs are secret missiles or -space-exploration devices. (Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are -Real, Gold Medal, 1950, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1481

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Event 1931 -(5CFF79F8)

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Date: 3/18/1950
-Description: 8:40 a.m. Private pilot Robert Fisher, flying a Beechcraft -Bonanza over Bradford, Illinois, encounters an oval object with a -metallic sheen. He can still see the object when it flies behind some -thin clouds. It moves away at an estimated speed of 600–1,000 mph. -(UFOEv, p. 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1480

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Event 1932 -(A589905E)

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Date: 3/18/1950
-Time: 1830
-Description: A rancher, Wilfredo H. Arevalo, saw two objects, one of -which landed. He walked within 150 m of the aluminum-looking craft which -gave off a greenish-blue vapor and “an intense smell of burning -benzine.” A large, flat section on top was revolving above a glass cabin -in which could be seen four tall men, dressed in something like -cellophane, working at various instruments. They saw him and shone a -light in his direction while a blue light illuminated the craft; the -vapor increased and flames (alternately reddish and greenish) shot out -of the base while the object rose with a faint hum. Both craft flew away -toward Chile, leaving bluish trails.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 32 (Vallee)
-Location: Lago Argentino, Argentina
-ID: 73

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Event 1933 -(96BAA4CE)

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Date: 3/20/1950
-Time: 9:26 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Chicago & Southern Airlines Capt. Jack -Adams, First Officer G. W. Anderson, Jr. One 100’ circular disc with -9-12 portholes along the lower side emitting a soft purple light, and a -light at the top which flashed 3 times in 9 seconds, flew at not less -than 1,000 m.p.h. It was seen for 25-35 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Stuggart, Arkansas
-ID: 34

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Event 1934 -(4B73B948)

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Date: 3/20/1950
-Description: 9:26 p.m. Chicago and Southern Airlines Capt. Jack -Adams and First Officer G. W. Anderson Jr., flying a DC-3 at 2,000 -feet and heading west from Memphis, Tennessee, to Little Rock, Arkansas, -see a circular disc 100 feet in diameter approximately over Hazen, -Arkansas. In the top center of the object is an extremely bright light -blinking at an estimated 3 flashes per second. The bottom of the object -appears to have 9–12 symmetrical oval or circular portholes in a circle -approximately 75% of the distance from the center to the outer edge. The -object passes directly in front of the airliner at a distance of not -more than 2,640 feet and approximately 1,000 feet higher than the -airliner. They watch the object for 25–35 seconds. Adams estimates its -speed is greater than 1,000 mph. (NICAP, “DC-3 -Encounters 100ʹ Disc”; Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, July 24, 1955; -Sparks, -p. 85; Swords 95–96; Tom Howell YouTube channel, “UFO -from the 1950s,” October 3, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1482

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Event 1935 -(A0122093)

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Date: spring 1950
-Description: Commander Augusto Vars Ortega of the Chilean Navy takes -about 1,200 feet of color film of UFOs—one above the other, turning at -tremendous speeds—in Antarctica. When NICAP asks the Chilean Embassy -about the film in 1956, it tells Keyhoe that -the film is classified and not available. (Dan Lloyd, “Things -Are Hotting Up in the -Antarctic,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1965): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1495

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Event 1936 -(17EC3B73)

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Date: 3/21/1950
-Description: 1:00–1:30 p.m. Sergeant Woods at Sandia Base, New Mexico, -reports four round, silvery objects to the northeast. The objects appear -to be more maneuverable than any known aircraft. The maneuvers are -similar to those in dogfights involving two aircraft, but there seems to -be no similarity to a conventional plane. They make right-angle turns -and reverse direction instantaneously. The duration is about 30 minutes. -Other witnesses at Sandia and Kirtland AFB report similar observations. -(NICAP, “Base -Personnel Sight Strange Objects”; Sparks, -p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1483

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Event 1937 -(D4A5886A)

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Date: 3/22/1950
-Description: FBI agent Guy -L. Hottel writes to FBI headquarters about a rumor that three UFOs -have crashed and are recovered in New Mexico. They are 50 feet in -diameter and “each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but -only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each -body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by -speed flyers and test pilots.” It goes on, “According to Mr. [redacted], -informant, the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the -Government had a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is -believed the radar interferes with the controlling [sic] mechanism of -the saucers.” The informant is probably Silas -M. Newton or Leo -GeBauer. On March 25, 2013, the FBI issues a release saying that the -Hottel memo was simply a second- or third-hand claim “that we never -investigated. Some people believe the memo repeats a hoax that was -circulating at that time, but the Bureau’s files have no information to -verify that theory.” (Guy Hottel, “Flying -Saucers, Information Concerning,” March 22, 1950; Richard H. Hall, -Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 326–327; Good Above, p. 527; -Federal Bureau of Investigation, “UFOs -and the Guy Hottel -Memo,” March 25, 2013; Robert L. Hastings, “The -March 22, 1950 FBI Memo on Crashed Flying Saucers,” -UFOs & Nukes, April 18, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1485

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Event 1938 -(60F10F93)

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Date: 3/22/1950
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Eleven sergeants in the 4925th Test Group watch -a UFO northwest of Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. The shape is “similar to a -flying wing air craft and tan in color, turning to brown around the -edges.” It first travels northwesterly at 25,000–30,000 feet, then turns -north and disappears with a tremendous burst of speed. (NICAP, “Atomic -Test Group Witnesses UFO in Broad Daylight”; Sparks, -p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1484

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Event 1939 -(D0D7D3E7)

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Date: 3/22/1950
-Description: FBI “Guy Hottel” Memo: 3 saucers recovered in NM -(corroborating Frank Scully’s later book on 8/50). Description: Circular -with raised centers, approx. 50 ft. diam. Each one occupied by 3 bodies, -only 3 ft. tall, dressed in metallic suite, taped like high-speed -flyers. It is believed that a very high powered Radar Station interfered -with their control mechanisms, causing them to crash.
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A p116, B1-F p326, B1-E p527, RECOVERY)
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 3/25/48

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Event 1940 -(50F2FFE6)

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Date: 3/22/1950
-Description: Dept. Transportation, Ottawa Canada, announces plans to -build and test free energy geomagnetic engine. Also state that -“Dr. Vannevar Bush heads highest secret saucer research group in the -USA
-Type: announcement
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A, B1-E p464)
-Location: Ottawa, CA

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Event 1941 -(366F0B04)

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Date: 3/26/1950
-Description: Vice-Admiral Louis -Mountbatten, in -a letter to his friend Charles -Eade, editor -of the London Sunday Dispatch, rejects the idea that flying saucers are -secret weapons, admitting that “they do not come from our Earth…. Maybe -it is the Shackletons or Scotts of Venus or Mars who are making their -first exploration of our Earth.” (UFOFiles2, p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1486

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Event 1942 -(763EFB66)

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Date: 3/26/1950
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Former First Lady Eleanor -Roosevelt interviews airline pilots Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson -about their March 20 UFO sighting on her NBC television program, Today -with Mrs. Roosevelt. (“Anatomy -of a Hoax, -Part Five,” Saturday Night Uforia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1488

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Event 1943 -(C0CF652F)

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Date: 3/26/1950
-Description: Day. Bertram -A. Totten, a -clerk at the Library of Congress, is flying his plane at 5,000 feet over -Fairfax County, Virginia, when he spots an aluminum-colored disc about -40 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick flying 1,000 feet below him. He -dives toward it, but it speeds up into the overcast. It glints when the -sun hits it, and he notices a vapor trail. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983, -pp. 79–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1487

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Event 1944 -(4A71A3B1)

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Date: 3/26/1950
-Description: 8:50 p.m. CAA Tower operator Marie H. Matthews and United -Airlines employees Robert Higbee and Fred Hinkle see a brilliant light -northeast of Hubbard Field [now Reno–Tahoe International Airport] -outside Reno, Nevada. It hangs motionless for 5–6 minutes, then moves -slowly across the sky with a green light on either side of it. It -suddenly zooms upward into a cloud bank. (UFOEv, pp. 44–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1489

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Event 1945 -(F4DE0ED8)

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Date: 3/27/1950
-Time: 10:30 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF radar operator Cpl. Bolfango. Tracked on -radar for 2 minutes while it was stationary and then moved at 500 -m.p.h.. Visual observation not detailed, only mentioned in -summary.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Motobo, Okinawa
-ID: 35

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Event 1946 -(78B50BE6)

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Date: 3/27/1950
-Description: 10:30 a.m. USAF antiaircraft radar operator Cpl. Bolfango -tracks a stationary target on radar over the Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa, -Japan, at 18 miles range for 10 minutes at 13,000 feet. The object then -moves on a 220° heading for 16.9 miles in 2 minutes (about 500 mph) to a -point over a mountain, where it is lost. (NICAP, “Tracked -Stationary Target at 18 Miles”; Sparks, p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1490

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Event 1947 -(3D1AC091)

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Date: 3/27/1950
-Description: Radio broadcaster Henry -J. Taylor, on -his syndicated radio program Your Land and Mine, announces the -“wonderful news” that saucers are in fact US secret weapons, which will -reassure the nation when the US Air Force confirms it. Within days, the -story is twisted to specifically credit the Navy’s alleged “top secret” -project the Flying Flapjack Vought XF5U. The story is apparently -disinformation planted by ex-Hollywood writers in the CIA Office of -Policy Coordination’s Political and Psychological Warfare staff headed -by Joseph -Bryan III, a -future president and board chairman of NICAP. (“Radio -Man Certain U.S. Is Owner of ‘Flying Saucer’ Missile Secret,” -Miami (Fla.) News, March 29, 1950, p. 9; NICAP, “1950 -UFO Chronology”; Swords 97; Curt Collins, “1950 -Disclosure: UFOs Are Made in the USA,” November 9, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1491

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Event 1948 -(321E7ADA)

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Date: 3/28/1950
-Description: Samuel -Eaton Thompson is on his way home to Centralia, Washington, from -Markham. He drives through a wooded area between Morton and Mineral and -decides to stop to take a break. On foot, he comes upon a large, -globe-shaped craft hovering above a clearing. Naked children with dark -tans and blond hair are playing on steps that lead from an open door to -the side of the UFO. Several naked adults—humanoid, attractive, and also -deeply tanned—then appear at the ship’s door. After realizing that -Thompson means them no harm, they beckon him closer. The crew consists -of 20 adults and 25 children, the latter from about 5–15 years of age. -Thompson claims to have spent the next 40 hours with the humanoids. They -are from Venus, he learns, and have stopped at Earth despite the fact -that other Venusian saucers have been shot at by Earth-based military -forces. The Venusians further claims that they are vegetarian and that -they never grow ill. Thompson also claims the Venusians are naïve and -childlike; they do not know who has built their flying saucers and seem -to possess little to no curiosity. He goes back to get a camera and -tries to take photos, but the object is too bright to appear on film. -Thompson returns home on March 30. (“Centralian Tells Strange Tale of -Visiting Venus Space Ship in Eastern Lewis County,” Centralia (Wash.) -Daily Chronicle, April 1, 1950; Clark III 1127–1129; Jerome Clark, “The -Coming of the Venusians,” Fate 34, no. 1 (January 1981): 49–55; Patrick -Gross, URECAT, November -16, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1493

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Event 1949 -(3A07442F)

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Date: 3/28/1950
-Description: In response to a request from J. -Edgar Hoover to his aide D. -Milton (“Mickey”) Ladd on “just what are the facts re ‘flying -saucers,’ agent S. -Wesley Reynolds interviews Maj. Boggs and -Lieut. Col. John -V. Hearn Jr. of Air Force Intelligence, who tell him that most UFOs -are misidentifications and weather balloons. (Swords 95; Loren E. Gross, -UFOs, -a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983, -pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1492

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Event 1950 -(2044FC82)

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Date: 3/28/1950
-Time: 3:15 PM
-Description: Witness: M/Sgt. Patterson, of the office of the U.S. Air -Attache. One white object observed for 5-10 seconds through binoculars -while it flew high and fast, crossing 30 degree of sky.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Santiago, Chile
-ID: 36

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Event 1951 -(C7D07C82)

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Date: 3/29/1950
-Time: 7 AM
-Description: Witnesses: real estate salesmen Whiteside and Williams. -Six-twelve dark objects shaped like 300-lb. bombs, estimated 5 feet -long. Flew 500 m.p.h. and descended, making a noise like wind blowing -through the trees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marrowbore Lake, Tennessee
-ID: 37

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Event 1952 -(1A475015)

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Date: 3/31/1950
-Description: Syndicated columnist Drew -Pearson publishes “Worried about Flying Saucers?” in which he -sympathizes with the Air Force, which has to reply to groundless public -excitement. His USAF contact has told him, “there ain’t no such animal.” -Pentagon Public Relations Officer Maj. DeWitt -Searles tells the press that all UFO cases are the result of -misinterpretations, mass hysteria, and hoaxes: “As far as the Air Force -goes, there’s no such thing as a flying saucer.” (Drew Pearson, “Worried -about Flying Saucers?” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, March 31, 1950, p. 5; -“Major -Debunker of Flying Saucers, Keeps Saying, ’No, No, 1,000 Times No,’” -Rock Island (Ill.) Argus, March 31, 1950, p. 18; Swords 96–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1494

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Event 1953 -(5B16779F)

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Date: 3/31/1950
-Description: Secret tape of an AFOSI interrogation of radio time -salesmen George Koehler (“Coulter” in newspaper articles), recorded at -station KMYR in Denver. The 2 federal agents were looking for “parts” -and “gadgets” from crashed flying saucers. Digitized from the Frank -Scully archive at the American Heritage Center (Box #34 Item #17).
-Type: tape recording
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: Denver, CO

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Event 1954 -(0E7F0A0D)

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Date: 3/31/1950
-Description: Memo to Director, FBI pertaining to flying saucers. Memo -names a person in Denver, Colorado that claims to possess a UFO radio -transmitter.
-Type: memo
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 1955 -(47D46E92)

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Date: 4/1950
-Description: Daytime. While working on her lawn in Canby, Oregon, Ellen -Jonerson glances over at her neighbor’s yard and sees a 12-inch-tall man -with his back turned to her. When he turns around, she sees that he has -a heavily tanned face, is of stocky build, and wears overalls and a -plaid shirt. There is a skullcap on his head. She dashes inside to call -a friend, then runs outside again in time to see the figure “waddling” -away. He walks under a parked car and disappears. Kenneth -Arnold, who -interviews her, is convinced of her sincerity. (Center for UFO Studies, -HUMCAT -Index, 1950–1951, p. 2; Clark III 270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1496

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Event 1956 -(BD2C1D2B)

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Date: 4/1950
-Description: Mikel Konrad made a movie of eight disks he saw landing and -taking off 60 km north of Jun.au.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Juneau, Alaska
-ID: 74

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Event 1957 -(5E71EEA8)

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Date: 4/1/1950
-Description: Project Twinkle officially begins.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1497

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Event 1958 -(D8A45FFB)

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Date: 4/4/1950
-Description: Presidential press secretary Charlie -Ross states that Truman has -conferred with his two top military advisers, Rear Adm. Robert -Dennison and Brig. Gen. Robert -B. Landry, and that they claim the US has no such technology. -Furthermore, the Air Force study has concluded there are no such things -as flying saucers. Caltech aeronautics professor Clark -Blanchard Millikan agrees, saying: “If anyone should know about such -a project, I should know—and I know of no development in the aircraft or -guided missile field.” (Swords 97–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1498

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Event 1959 -(C0D46D6A)

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Date: 4/5/1950
-Description: Sen. Richard -Russell Jr. (D-Ga.) states to the press that he is “completely -baffled” by flying saucer reports that are made by many pilots who would -not be fooled by hallucinations or clouds. Sen. Millard -Tydings (D-Md.), chair of the Armed Services Committee, says he -thinks saucers might be experimental US aircraft “in embryo stage.” -Rep. Albert -J. Engel (R-Mich.) thinks the same. Sen. Kenneth -S. Wherry (R-Neb.) says the saucers are “like our foreign policy. It -is in a state of confusion and no one seems to know what it is all -about.” (“Congress Split about -Saucers,” Miami (Fla.) News, April 5, 1950, pp. 1, 6; Loren E. -Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 6, April–July -1950, The -Author, 1990, pp. 9–10; Swords 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1499

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Event 1960 -(8FB4330A)

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Date: 4/6/1950
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Lt. John -J. Sevila, a -pilot with the 131st Fighter Squadron, hears a sound like a flight of -jet airplanes and rushes out of his house in Springfield, Massachusetts, -to see them. Instead, he sees a perfectly circular object moving slowly -westward at an altitude of 25,000 feet. He watches it for 5 minutes as -it moves at a speed of 50– 100 mph. When the sun hits it directly, it -shines like a mirror. (The Thunderbolt 1, no. 12 (April 1950): 5; Jan -Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1500

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Event 1961 -(6533ED4D)

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Date: 4/7/1950
-Description: Newsman Edward -R. Murrow produces the first extended TV commentary on UFOs, “The -Case of the Flying Saucer” on CBS. He begins with the Kenneth -Arnold case, mentions Muroc AFB cases and Mantell, -and quotes both True magazine and Donald -Menzel. Also -on the show are Henry -J. Taylor, engineer -Charles -H. Zimmerman, and Charlie -Ross, as -well as people on the street. (“Transcript -of Ed Murrow–Kenneth Arnold Telephone Conversation,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March 1984): 3; Edward R. -Murrow, “The -Case of the Flying -Saucer [audio only],” Bryce Zabel YouTube channel, February 24, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1502

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Event 1962 -(4B02B6D5)

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Date: 4/7/1950
-Description: US News and World Report comes out with a story on saucers -that hints they are top-secret, jet-propelled Navy aircraft “that can -outfly other planes.” (“Flying -Saucers—the Real Story: U.S. Built First One in 1942,” US News and -World Report 28, no. 14 (April 7, 1950): 13–15; Michael D. Swords, -“Balloons, Missiles, and UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1503

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Event 1963 -(08913F7F)

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Date: 4/7/1950
-Description: The National Security Council presents President Truman with -Report 68 (NSC-68), a 56-page top secret policy paper that provides the -“blueprint for the militarization of the Cold War.” It advocates a large -expansion in the military budget, the development of a hydrogen bomb, -and increased military aid to US allies for the containment of Communist -expansion. It essentially warns Truman that the US is losing the Cold -War. Truman does not approve it until 1951. (Wikipedia, “NSC-68”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1504

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Event 1964 -(60109245)

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Date: 4/7/1950
-Description: Letter sent from BSRA to President
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter -Link
-Location: San Diego, CA
-See also: 5/16/1950

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Event 1965 -(A122C8C7)

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Date: 4/7/1950
-Description: A CAA control tower operator at Logan Airport in Boston, -Massachusetts, watches a blue light split into two lights that revolve -around each other for 10 minutes. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 65–68; -Sparks, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1501

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Event 1966 -(485343E4)

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Date: 4/8/1950
-Time: 0200
-Description: A metal worker was awakened by his dog and observed an -object 60 m away at low altitude. It was a gray metal disk, 5 m in -diameter, shaped like a top with a kind of turret. It was oscillating, -spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a blue-white -light. It hovered for about 2 min, left toward the north, very -fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Kokomo, Indiana
-ID: 75

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Event 1967 -(51C7F197)

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Date: 4/8/1950
-Time: 2 AM
-Description: Witness: Earl Baker. One grey metallic disc, 50’ in -diameter, 15’ thick; top-shaped with a “conning tower” at the top and -three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It hovered for 2 -minutes, then flew away. Baker aroused from sleep by his dog.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kokomo, Indiana
-ID: 38

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Event 1968 -(589BC807)

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Date: 4/8/1950
-Description: Paul -Limerick, commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Shelby, North -Carolina, watches a round, aluminum-colored object with four other -people for 2 minutes. It follows a horizontal course toward the -southwest without making a sound, then shoots straight up and -disappears. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 6, April–July -1950, The -Author, 1990, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1505

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Event 1969 -(0EFACF97)

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Date: 4/8/1950
-Time: afternoon
-Description: David, 12, and Charles, 9, Lightfoot saw a disk land behind -a hill and touched it. It was the size of a car tire, about 30 cm high, -with a rounded top that rotated and a pivot between the base and the -top. It took off very fast. The faces and arms of the boys later became -red.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 200 (Vallee)
-Location: River Road near Amarillo, Texas
-ID: 76

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Event 1970 -(7F73213D)

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Date: 4/10/1950
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Several University of California, Berkeley, -graduate students, including Garniss -H. Curtis, Robert Scott -Creely, and Louis -I. Briggs, watch -a bright light moving against the wind at about 10–15 mph at 1,500 feet -altitude about 3–4 miles away from Berkeley, California, for two hours. -It turns slowly to the south then turns around and heads slowly back. -Four high school students in Monterey, California, see a gleaming object -over San Francisco in the early afternoon. (NICAP case file; “Saucer -Visits San Francisco, Schoolboys Say,” Los Angeles Times, April 12, -1950, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1506

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Event 1971 -(E96895A7)

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Date: 4/14/1950
-Description: RAND Corporation writer Jean M. Hungerford writes a 32-page -research memorandum for the US Air Force titled “The Exploitation of -Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological Warfare.” She uses recent -examples of religious miracles that were used in Western propaganda, as -well as horoscopes, chain letters, and folklore. (Jean M. Hungerford, -“The -Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological -Warfare,” USAF Project Rand Research Memorandum, RM-35, April 14, -1950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1507

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Event 1972 -(A11C2AC2)

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Date: 4/14/1950
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Army M/Sgt. James. Four rectangular, amber -objects, about 3’ by 4’. changed speed and direction rapidly; the group -of objects rose and fell during the 3-4 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey
-ID: 39

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Event 1973 -(FB8BA372)

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Date: 4/17/1950
-Description: More than 15 people report seeing a UFO for 20 minutes at -2,000 feet on the eastern horizon at Los Alamos, New Mexico. One -scientist watches the object through a telescope and says it looks flat, -circular, metallic, and roughly 9 feet in diameter. It moves faster than -any conventional aircraft. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume -6, April–July 1950, The -Author, 1990, p. 26; Sparks, -p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1509

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Event 1974 -(B61B36F6)

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Date: 4/17/1950
-Description: Newsweek publishes an article, “Flying Saucers Again,” on -crashed saucers. (“Flying Saucers Again,” Newsweek, April 17, 1950, -p. 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1508

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Event 1975 -(AADFDB20)

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Date: 4/17/1950
-Description: Variety author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying -Sauces” announced coming soon.
-Type: announcement
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Glens Falls, NY

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Event 1976 -(FFA4B1AD)

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Date: 4/20/1950
-Time: night
-Description: Jack Robertson was driviug about 13 km west of town when he -saw a round object about 3 m in diameter hovering about 7 m above him -with a dull red glow. It took off with a “swooshing roar” as sparks flew -from a slot under it. Minutes later the witness feIt a burning sensation -on his face.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Lufkin, Texas
-ID: 77

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Event 1977 -(00F6C13B)

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Date: 4/24/1950
-Time: 2200
-Description: Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark, -hovering object, near which a man dressed in tight-fitting clothes and -wearing a helmet seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were seen -near the craft. When the work was finished, a trap through which light -had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The witness had the -time to note many details of the machine and its occupants.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 2; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Abbiate Guazzone, Italy
-ID: 78

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Event 1978 -(44269FA5)

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Date: 4/24/1950
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Bruno Facchini steps outside his house on the -outskirts of Abbiate Guazzone, Varese, Italy, and notices something -flashing near a power line. He goes to investigate and encounters a -landed disc with an open door and steps leading down. Three or four men -in diving suits and helmets are inside. One seems to be welding a pipe. -Facchini speaks to them, but they respond with growling sounds. One -points a small “camera” at him that emits a beam that knocks him over. -Facchini lies still while the repairs are completed, and the UFO takes -off. (Pino Carminati Ghidelli, “Un -Diaco è Atterrato,” Notiziario UFO, no. 37 (Jan./Feb. 1971): 19–22; -Antonio Giudici, “The -Case of Bruno Facchini,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 6 (April -1975): 30–32; Ezio Barnardini, “Facchini: -Un CE3 Rivisitato,” Notiziario UFO, no. 104 (March 1985/Jan. 1986): -4–7; Clark III 267; Marcus Lowth, “Bruno -Facchini’s Extraterrestrial Encounter in Varese, Italy,” UFO -Insight, September 5, 2020; 1Pinotti 30–40; Patrick Gross, “Abbiate -Guazzone, Italy, April 24, 1950”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1510

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Event 1979 -(0A287A00)

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Date: 4/25/1950
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Enrique Hausmann Muller takes a film of a bright, -circular UFO with rays of flame spinning off its edge in a pinwheel -fashion in Montuïri, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Probable hoax. -(UFOEv, p. 88; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The Author, 1990, p. 32; -Matías Morey Ripoll, “El -Caso Hausmann: -Una Aproximación desde Ibiza,” UFO Fotocat Blog, September 20, 2019; -Centro Ufologico Nazionale, [Hausmann -photo])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1512

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Event 1980 -(30733C6D)

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Date: 4/25/1950
-Description: Early morning. Military security patrols at the deactivated -Dugway Proving Ground in western Utah view a series of unusual lights -and objects moving above an ammunition storage area. One object is -“surrounded by an aura of spears of light jutting diagonally from the -main body.” (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History, Volume 6: April–July -1950, The -Author, 1990, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1511

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Event 1981 -(FE948766)

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Date: 4/27/1950
-Description: While preparing for an MX-776A Shrike air-to-ground missile -test at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, Charles Riggs, a member -of the Project Twinkle cinetheodolite camera crew supplied by Land-Air -Inc., sees, tracks, and manages to film four high-flying objects -streaking across the sky. Another station also tracks the objects. The -photos show only a smudgy dark object, but the triangulation results in -a calculation by mathematician Wilbur L. Mitchell and Capt. Perry Bryant -of the objects’ size as 30 feet in diameter and 150,000 feet in -altitude. (NICAP, “Cinetheodolite -Film Taken by Tracking Station”; Ruppelt, p. 88; -Clark III 544–545; Sparks, p. 88; -Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings -of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical -Group, November 2001, p. 44; Good Above, pp. 354–355; -Bruce Maccabee, “The White Sands Films,” IUR 21, no. 1 (Spring 1996): -22–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1513

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Event 1982 -(C7C2FC1D)

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Date: 4/27/1950
-Description: TWA flight 117 sights UFO
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1983 -(7BD9F914)

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Date: 4/27/1950
-Description: 8:25 p.m. TWA Flight 117 pilot Capt. Robert -Adickes and Flight Officer Robert F. Manning are flying near Goshen, -Indiana, when they see a bright-red disc-shaped UFO behind their DC-3. -It overtakes the plane in about 2 minutes. Stewardess Gloria Henshaw and -11 passengers (including Boeing engineers C. H. Jenkins and Dean -C. Bourland and -executives E. J. Fitzgerald and S. N. Miller) also see the object. It -veers off at 400 mph, drops down to 1,500 feet, and disappears. (NICAP, -“Adickes -TWA DC-3 Case”; Sparks, -p. 89; Donald E. Keyhoe, “Flight 117 -and the Flying Saucer,” True, August 1950, pp. 24–25, 75–79; James -E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified -Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, -Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., -2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 46–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1514

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Event 1984 -(6882A1D2)

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Date: 5/5/1950
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Capt. Marcellus D. O’Sullivan, 1Lt. William -J. Reisinger, and three enlisted men of the 625th Aircraft and -Warning Squadron at Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson], -Anchorage, Alaska, see a reddish-orange object hovering in the sky for 5 -minuites. It puts on a burst of speed and disappears over the horizon. -(“From -History: 57th Fighter Interceptor Wing (Alaska), January–June 1950,” -UFO Historical Revue, no. 5 (July 1999): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1515

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Event 1985 -(45743C19)

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Date: 5/7/1950
-Time: 1845
-Description: A couple and their grandson were returning from a picnic -when, about 14 km south of Ely, they saw a silvery-white object at -treetop level. It hovered for 10 min, then oscillated “as if attempting -to rise” and suddenly flew out of sight at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Ely, Nevada
-ID: 79

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Event 1986 -(FFD85269)

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Date: 5/7/1950
-Time: 6:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and their grandson. -One silvery white object hovered at 100’ altitude, moved back and forth -for 10 minutes and then flew up and away. Note in case file: “No -investigation.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nine miles sough of Ely, Nevada
-ID: 40

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Event 1987 -(D9D52B9D)

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Date: 5/11/1950
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Evelyn -Trent, who -lives on a farm nine miles from McMinnville, Oregon [near Sheridan, -Oregon], is walking back to her farmhouse after feeding rabbits. Before -reaching the house, she sees a slow-moving, metallic disk-shaped object -heading in her direction from the northeast. She yells for her husband -Paul, -who is inside the house; he comes out and also sees the object. After a -short time, he goes back inside to get a camera and manages to take two -photos of the object before it speeds away to the west. Paul Trent’s -father briefly sees the object before it flies away. The Trents assume -they have seen some exotic military aircraft. They do not develop the -film in the camera until they use it up and show the photos only to a -few friends. Eventually it reaches the cover of Life magazine, but the -Trents show no desire to make any money from the photos. Although the -Colorado project initially thinks the photos seem genuine, three -Interface Pilote pour l’Analyse de Clichés d’OVNIs researchers in -2013–2015 claim to find evidence of a model suspended from a string. -Researcher Brad -Sparks finds major mathematical and scientific errors in IPACO’s -work, which actually supports a UFO conclusion. (Wikipedia, “McMinnville -UFO Photographs”; “Farmer -Trent’s Flying Saucer,” Life, June 26, 1950, p. 29; NICAP, “Trent -/ McMinnville -Photos”; Story, pp. 223–226; -Sparks, p. 90; -Hynek UFO Report, pp. 244–245; -Condon, pp. 396– 407; -Bruce S. Maccabee, “On -the Possibility that the McMinnville Photos Show a Distant Unidentified -Object (UO),” -Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center for UFO Studies, 1976, -pp. 152–163; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The -McMinnville Photos,” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, -pp. 13–57; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The -Trent Farm Photos,” April 2000; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The -Trent Farm Photos Appendix,” April 2000; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The -McMinnville Photos,” May 2000; Michael D. Swords, “Can -We Learn Anything from -UFO Photos? Part Five,” The Big Study, July 15, 2012; Antoine -Cousyn, François Louange, and Geoff Quick, “The -McMinnville Pictures,” Interface Pilote pour l’Analyse de Clichés -d’OVNIs, May 2014; Clark III 702–704)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1516

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Event 1988 -(104A8FB7)

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Date: 5/11/1950
-Description: McMinnville UFO photographs, also known as the Trent UFO -photos, were taken by a farming couple, Paul and Evelyn Trent near -McMinnville, Oregon.
-Type: ufo photo
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: McMinnville, OR

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Event 1989 -(6F3E7435)

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Date: 5/15/1950
-Description: Afternoon. Architect Enrique Carotenuto Bossa is driving in -an isolated region in Bahía Blanca Partido (possibly between Macachín -and Estación Hidalgo Ferrocarril Sarmiento), La Pampa, Argentina, when -he sees a metallic disc resting on the ground to the left of the -highway. He stops the car to investigate, approaches it, and sees an -open door in its side. He goes inside and sees a “curved divan with -three seats, two of which were occupied by small beings covered from -head to foot (except for an opening for the face (in a kind of -tight-fitting overall of a brown color.” The bodies are about 4 feet -tall, and their faces seem charred or burnt. In front of them is a -screen with “rays playing on it,” and on top of the screen is a rotating -globe. The engineer runs out and drives back to his hotel. He returns -the next day with two companions and finds only an ash heap. But they -look up and see three UFOs—one a cigar-shaped object and two discs, -hovering above them at 1,800 feet. The discs merge with the cigar and -speed away. (El Universal (Caracas, Venezuela), May 7, 1955; “Man -Enters Grounded Disc,” APRO Bulletin, August 1955, pp. 1–3; Clark -III 327–328; Willy Smith, “The Curious Case of the Argentine Crashed -Saucer,” IUR 11, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1986): 18–19; Roberto E. Banchs and -Richard W. Heiden, “Crash Landing in the Pampas,” IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer -1999): 4–10, 30; Roberto Banchs, “General -Acha (LP): Un Accidentado -Aterrizaje (Priemra Parte),” Marcianitos Verdes, July 4, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1517

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Event 1990 -(61A87067)

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Date: 5/16/1950
-Description: Reply letter from White House to BSRA
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter -Link
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 4/7/1950

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Event 1991 -(E0A0EF57)

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Date: 5/20/1950
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Meteorologist Seymour -L. Hess is strolling the grounds of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, -Arizona, when he notices a round, gray-colored object approaching from -the southeast at about 12,000 feet altitude. He follows it with a 4x -spyglass as it passes in front of a small cumulus cloud. Hess estimates -it is about 4 feet in diameter and moving about 100 mph. (UFOEv, p. 3; -Condon, pp. 245–248; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 61–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1518

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Event 1992 -(129E3C87)

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Date: 5/21/1950
-Description: 3:50 p.m. T/Sgt Edward Eles, Earl -DuQuoin, and -four other airmen of the 187th Fighter Squadron of the Wyoming National -Guard are on the airfield at the Municipal Airport in Cheyenne, Wyoming, -when they see a V- shaped formation of four round, pure-white discs -flying in a northerly direction. In a matter of seconds, the objects -change formation and make a sharp right-angle turn, flying single file, -and speed out of sight. (Cheyenne Wyoming State Tribune, May 22, 1950, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1520

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Event 1993 -(DC827BBA)

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Date: 5/21/1950
-Description: A second Gallup poll on UFOs is released, showing that 5% -of respondents think “these flying saucers” are “comets, shooting stars, -something from another planet.” (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The -Author, 1990, pp. 48-49; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion -on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1519

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Event 1994 -(EE25750E)

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Date: 5/24/1950
-Description: During an MX-674 Tarzon controllable vertical bomb test at -Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Floyd Fannon and other USAF crew members see -eight unidentified objects. They separately track and film two of the -objects down the North American Aviation missile firing range. Project -Twinkle cinetheodolite station P-8 films one object to the northeast for -6 frames (1.0 sec) moving uniformly to the south. Cinetheodolite station -P-10, located 5.7 miles down range to the north from P-8 and 7 feet -higher, films another object, hence no triangulation is possible. -(NICAP, “Cinetheodolite -Film Taken by Tracking Station”; Sparks, -p. 91; Good Above, pp. 354–355; -Bruce Maccabee, “The White Sands Films,” IUR 21, no. 1 (Spring 1996): -22–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1521

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Event 1995 -(402A756A)

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Date: 5/25/1950
-Description: Lt. Col. Doyle -Rees of the USAF Office of Special Investigations writes a -confidential memo to Brig. Gen. Joseph -F. Carroll, Director -of Special Investigations. In part, it states: “In a liaison meeting -with other military and government intelligence and investigative -agencies in December 1948, it was determined that the frequency of -unexplained aerial phenomena in the New Mexico area was such that an -organized plan of reporting these observations should be undertaken. The -organization and physical location of units of this District were most -suitable for collecting these data, therefore, since December 1948, this -District has assumed the responsibility for collecting and reporting -basic information with respect to aerial phenomena in this general -area.” (NICAP, “Summary -of Observations of Aerial Phenomena, New Mexico Area, Dec 1949 to May -1950”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1522

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Event 1996 -(BE63EFC5)

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Date: 5/29/1950
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Capt. Willis -T. Sperry, copilot -Bill Gates, flight engineer Robert -Arnholt, a stewardess, and several passengers on an American -Airlines DC-6 airliner headed southwest out of Washington, D.C., en -route to Nashville, Tennessee, are flying at 7,500 feet at 250 mph. -About 7 miles west of Mount Vernon, Virginia, Gates alerts Sperry to a -bright blue or bluish light ahead of them and increasing in size. Sperry -makes an evasive 45° turn to the right and the object passes from 11 -o’clock to 7 o’clock position to the left at a slightly higher altitude. -The light very briefly passes between the aircraft and the upper part of -the moon, revealing an object with a long silhouette (somewhat -reminiscent of a submarine) without visible wings or empennage. The blue -light is on the front of the object. Sperry turns left back onto his -original course to get the object back in view, but it apparently stays -stationary for about 30 seconds. Gates then notices the object circling -around to the right side. Sperry banks right again, while the object -paces the airliner about 20–30 seconds before it climbs to the east at a -30° angle at “fantastic” speed and disappears. (Wikipedia, “Sperry -UFO Case”; NICAP, “Capt. Willis -Sperry Sighting”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The -Author, 1990, pp. 52–53; Project 1947, “UFO Reports -1950”; Sparks, p. 91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1523

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Event 1997 -(5FC7086B)

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Date: 5/29/1950
-Description: A shiny, bright object streaking across the sky is spotted -by two cine-theodolite stations at White Sands Missile Range, New -Mexico, just before firing a test missile. The object is tracked and -photographed by both stations. After the films are developed, it turns -out that the stations had photographed different objects. Analysts -estimate that the objects were higher than 40,000 feet, traveling more -than 2,000 mph, and over 300 feet in diameter. (Ruppelt, p. 89; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The Author, 1990, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1524

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Event 1998 -(A18BBEEA)

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Date: 6/1950
-Description: Many sightings
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 1999 -(B2CA08C7)

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Date: 6/1/1950
-Description: A pilot on patrol from RAF Tangmere in West Sussex, -England, sights a “bright circular metallic object” that speeds past his -Gloster Meteor jet fighter at 20,000 feet. As he undergoes a debriefing -by squadron intelligence, he finds out that four RAF controllers at the -radar station at RAF Wartling near Eastbourne have, at the same time, -tracked an “unusual response” that vanishes from their screens, moving -at terrific speed. (David Clarke, “Flying -Saucer Working Party,” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, -January 3, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1527

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Event 2000 -(36CF04BD)

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Date: 6/8/1950
-Description: Gen. Earle -E. Partridge of the Fifth Air Force, responsible for the Korean -Theatre, writes to Commanding Gen. George -E. Stratemeyer, asking -for an analysis of certain UFO cases. (Swords 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1528

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Event 2001 -(C8C6AD9D)

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Date: 6/12/1950
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Working in a quarry somewhere in California, -geologist John Zimmerman and civil engineer Charles Fisher are watching -a jet aircraft speeding through the sky and leaving a vapor trail. -Suddenly Zimmerman notices that the vapor trail has been cut. Looking -more closely, he notices a metallic disc making vertical loops around -the jet. Two other discs come into view and perform the same aerobatics. -(Wells Alan Webb, Mars, the New Frontier, Fearon, 1956, p. 124; UFOEv, -p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1530

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Event 2002 -(3F24FB3A)

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Date: 6/12/1950
-Description: Eastern Airlines executive Eddie -Rickenbacker tells the press that if flying saucers “do exist, you -can rest assured that they are ours.” (Swords 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1529

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Event 2003 -(45EE9D7D)

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Date: 6/17/1950
-Description: Oskar Linke and his 11-year-old daughter Gabriele are -walking toward Haselbach, Thuringia, East Germany, in the twilight when -she notices something about 420 feet away. It appears to be two men -dressed in shiny metallic clothing who are stooped over and looking at -something on the ground. Linke approaches to 30 feet away, looks over a -small fence, and sees a large object about 40 feet in diameter that -looks like a huge frying pan. It has two rows of holes in its periphery -and a black conical tower about 9 feet high. The two men suddenly jump -inside. The inside lights up, the object starts humming and rises slowly -from the ground, rotating like a top. It rises from the ground with the -aid of a central cylinder and is surrounded by flames, then takes off in -the direction of Stockheim. Later he finds a circular depression in the -ground at the spot. Linke resettles in West Berlin in 1951. He tells his -story to a notary there on July 1, 1952, which is how it turns up in the -Western press and explains a confusion in the date of the sighting. -(NICAP, “CE -III by Two Witnesses / Oskar Linke Case”; Central Intelligence -Agency, “’Flying -Saucers’ in East Germany,” July 9, 1952; Andreas Müller, “Das -Haselbach-UFO von -1950: Die Augenzeugin spricht,” grenzWissenschaft-aktuell.de, -January 26, 2016; Sparks, p. 92; -Good Above, pp. 513–514)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1531

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Event 2004 -(37291D53)

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Date: summer 1950
-Description: Physicist Enrico -Fermi first formulates the “Fermi Paradox” during a casual -conversation (in Los Alamos, New Mexico?) with fellow physicists Edward -Teller, Herbert -York, and -Emil -Konopinski. While -walking to lunch, the men discuss recent UFO reports and the possibility -of faster-than-light travel. The conversation moves on to other topics, -until during lunch Fermi allegedly says suddenly, “But where is -everybody?” (although the exact quote is uncertain). (Wikipedia, “Enrico -Fermi”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1525

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Event 2005 -(752BDA71)

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Date: summer 1950
-Description: Evening. An 8- or 10-foot-disc lands in a field behind -Mrs. Mason Vaughan’s house in Beaverdam, Virginia. From an open cockpit -a “man with unusual goggles or headpiece” looks out. Surprised, the disc -takes off abruptly, breaking off a limb from an oak tree on the way up. -(Clark III 267; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1950–1951, p. 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1526

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Event 2006 -(46E307DF)

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Date: 6/21/1950
-Description: 1:35 a.m. Control tower operators Cpl. Roger G. Pryor and -S/Sgt. Ellis -R. Lorimer and airways communications staffer S/Sgt. Virgil Cappuro -watch a flying disc speeding at 1,000–1,500 mph over Hamilton AFB [now -closed] in Novato, California. The object shoots blue flame and makes a -roar like thunder as it makes five passes over the base. They observe it -through binoculars for 25 minutes. (NICAP, “Disc -Makes Five Passes at -Control Tower”; Sparks, p. 92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1532

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Event 2007 -(565D44F2)

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Date: 6/24/1950
-Description: A cigar-shaped UFO paces a United Airlines plane (Capt. E. -L. Remlin, First Officer David Stewart, and observer Capt. Samuel -B. Wiper) for 20 minutes near Daggett, California. The object is -also seen by the crew of another airliner and a navy transport plane. -The Navy pilot sees for 3 minutes a dark gray object with heat radiation -at the tail end. He estimates altitude as 50,000–100,000 feet and a -speed of 1,000–1,500 mph. The crews discuss the matter with two CAA -ground stations. (NICAP, “Three -Aircraft Crews Observe UFO”; UFOEv, p. 31; -Sparks, p. 93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1533

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Event 2008 -(294477AD)

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Date: 6/25/1950
-Description: Korean War
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Korea

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Event 2009 -(66AA2531)

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Date: 6/25/1950
-Description: North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War. -(Wikipedia, “Korean -War”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1534

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Event 2010 -(4EAB25C4)

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Date: 6/27/1950
-Time: 7:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Terrell and Yates, employees of Red River -Arsenal. One object, bright, shaped like two dishpans face-to-face, flew -straight and level, fast for 4-5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Texarkana, Texas
-ID: 41

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Event 2011 -(711D14EB)

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Date: 6/27/1950
-Description: President Truman orders -US air and sea forces to help South Korea. (Wikipedia, “Korean -War”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1535

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Event 2012 -(6A428D64)

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Date: 6/27/1950
-Description: 4:15 p.m. Al Hixenbaugh, a photographer for the Louisville -Times, is at the corner of Longest and Everett avenues in Louisville, -Kentucky, when he hears the sound of a DC-3 airplane overhead. He looks -up and sees the plane as well as a large disc with a slight corona -around it. He shoots 50 feet of film with his 16mm movie camera as the -object remains motionless for 10 seconds before it starts getting -smaller and disappears to the west. (Louisville (Ky.) Times, June 28, -1950, p. 1; “How -to Film UFO’s,” Saucers 6, no. 3 (August 1958): 3; Sparks, p. 93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1536

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Event 2013 -(ABF1093C)

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Date: 6/30/1950
-Description: Midnight. Rev. Ross Vermillion, a former bomber pilot, and -his wife are driving 9 miles west of Kingman, Kansas, when they see a -bright red light hovering over US Hwy 54 near Cunningham, Kansas. They -estimate it to be about 250 feet in diameter with a small canopy on top. -The family of druggist Dwayne Mulnix of Meade, Kansas, also sees the -object and they stop and watch it for about 20 minutes along the -highway. They begin to drive closer, but it speeds away. As seen in the -bright moonlight, the object looks made of bright metal and has an -elliptical body “as big as the cross-section of a B-29” with a rotor -turning counterclockwise around its body. (NICAP, “WWII -Pilot Tells of Seeing Flying Saucer”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The -Author, 1990, pp. 66–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1537

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Event 2014 -(2619BE50)

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Date: 6/30/1950
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Two navy men (Petty Officer Carter and Able -Seaman Connelly) at Royal Canadian Naval Air Station Shearwater, -Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, are pulling duty on radar watch from dusk until -dawn. They report four separate radar contacts bearing 160° at 5 miles -over 90 minutes. Visual confirmation of two glowing objects is made by a -chief petty officer in North Dartmouth. (NICAP, “Navy -Men Report Radar Contact”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1538

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Event 2015 -(5EEDB75B)

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Date: 7/1950
-Description: Flying Magazine: “THE FLYING SAUCERS-FACT OR -FICTION?”
-Type: publication
-Reference: link

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Event 2016 -(A73EE8CB)

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Date: 7/1950
-Description: USAF Director of Intelligence Maj. Gen. Charles -P. Cabell orders secret UFO field investigations to be conducted by -his staff Technical Capabilities Branch in the Evaluation Division under -Maj. Milton -D. Willis. These begin this month and last until October 1951 when -Cabell is replaced by Gen. John -A. Samford. (Clark III 936)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1539

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Event 2017 -(D87570FD)

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Date: 7/1950
-Description: Editor Curtis -Fuller’s article, “The Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction?” appears in -Flying magazine. (Curtis Fuller, “The -Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction?” Flying 47 (July 1950): 16–17, -59–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1540

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Event 2018 -(DB3263C9)

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Date: 7/1950
-Description: Armed Forces Special Weapons Project concludes a top secret -study, named Project Nutmeg, to search for an atomic weapons site in the -continental US. AFSWP concludes that a site on the Air Force’s Las Vegas -Bombing and Gunnery Range in Nevada is the right place. President Truman approves -the location, known as Frenchman Flat. (Wikipedia, “Sandia -Base”; “Project -Nutmeg: The Birth of the Nevada Test Site,” National Nuclear -Security Administration, June 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1541

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Event 2019 -(EE9BEA24)

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Date: 7/1950
-Description: Mid-day. Electronics engineer Cliff Booth is having lunch -in his office at a private contractor’s building at Holloman AFB, New -Mexico, when he gets a call that a UFO has been reported by one of the -range stations. Booth and an Askania cinetheodolite operator are asked -to drive to another range station with a manually operated Askania and -look for the object. Through the finders on the theodolite the object -presents a side view to the observers and appears to be cigar-shaped and -metallic, with a straw-colored iridescent radiance or luster. It also -has fins one-third of the way back from the front of the fuselage and a -row of at least three oblong ports extending to the rear of the object -and located above the center line of the fuselage. The ports are a dark -smoky gray but not luminescent. The object hovers in an almost -horizontal position, elevation 20°–25°, azimuth northeast. Shortly after -the men focus the instrument on the object to take a film, it begins -maneuvering. Turning toward the camera, the object moves in, and the men -can see the front—a round shape with the fins extending out from the -sides. It then drops abruptly, as though beginning to fall, but stops. -It moves toward the camera, turns sideways, then drops as before, but -this time it exposes the side view again. The operator leaves to report -the coordinates to headquarters, and when he returns the object is gone. -The men turn over their exposed film to the Data Reduction Division for -development and analysis. A week or so later they are called in and -questioned by a young first lieutenant unknown to them who asks them -over and over again if they have taken pictures and to describe the -object they had seen. Then they are asked if they can identify the film -of the object they photographed. One of the men becomes angry about the -questioning, telling the officer he had seen what he reported, had -photographed the object, and is convinced it is some sort of a vehicle -from outer space. He is shown a film of 14 frames on a Recordak -projector. The black-and-white presentation shows a blurred ellipsoid -with a dark center, but no details. (Puzzled about the film, he later -talks to a mathematician-analyst employed by Land-Air, Inc.; she -conjectured the object had been oscillating in the air, preventing a -stable image.) The men are then told by their superiors to forget the -whole thing. (Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 27–29; -Project 1947, “APRO -Files: Coral E. Lorenzen, -Holloman Air Force Base UFO Sighting, July, 1950”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1542

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Event 2020 -(B5063781)

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Date: 7/1950
-Description: 1:45 p.m. A Civil Aviation Authority flight engineer -observes a “wingless, fuselage-shaped” object maneuvering over -Cincinnati, Ohio. The object climbs at a steep angle to 16,000–18,000 -feet, hesitates, dives, and speeds away to the west. (UFOEv, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1543

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Event 2021 -(7FB59177)

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Date: 7/2/1950
-Description: Dusk. While picnicking on the shore of Sawbill Bay on -Marmion Lake, western Ontario, an anonymous employee of the Steep Rock -Iron Mine claims to have seen a UFO resting on the water’s surface. A -hatch opens and 10 figures, 3–4 feet tall, emerge, wearing shiny, -metallic clothing. They seem to be drawing in lake water with a hose. -The object soon rises and hovers, then swiftly takes off. The story -appears in the mine’s house newsletter, then gets picked up by some -Canadian newspapers and Fate magazine in its February/March 1952 issue. -However, Robert Badgley, a Scarborough, Ontario, member of APRO, finds -in 1974 that Steep Rock employee Gordon Edwards had written the -fictitious tale to entertain readers of the newsletter and to satirize -saucer stories. (“Steep -Rock Flying Saucer,” Fate 5, no. 2 (February–March 1952): 68–72; “1950 -Steep Rock Lake, -Ontario Case Possible Hoax,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 5 (November -1977): 5; John Robert Columbo, UFOs over Canada, Hounslow, 1991, -pp. 32–41; Patrick Gross, URECAT, -January 31, 2007; Hammerson Peters, “The Little Green Men of Steep Rock -Lake,” Mysteries of Canada, September 7, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1544

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Event 2022 -(16D26F44)

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Date: 7/2/1950
-Description: In a story strangely similar to that of Mr. Kiehl (Aug., -1914) (Case 40) a man and his wife saw a double saucer with portholes -and a rotating antenna come to rest on the surface of the lake. Ten -figures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in shiny clothing, emerged and walked on -deck like robots “changing direction without turning their bodies.” -Their faces could not be seen. One of them wore a red cap, had darker -arms and legs and “seemed to be their chief.” They immersed a hose in -the lake, then took off. Fishermen later reported a green moss forming -on the lake.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U (Vallee)
-Location: Steep Rock Lake, Canada
-ID: 80

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Event 2023 -(339E9DE1)

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Date: 7/4/1950
-Description: Daniel Fry makes UFO contact and is taken to NYC and back -in 30 minutes
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

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Event 2024 -(39492EA3)

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Date: 7/4/1950
-Description: Evening. Aerojet engineer Daniel -Fry is alone during the holiday at White Sands Proving Ground, New -Mexico, when a flying saucer appears and hovers just above the ground. -Fry approaches and strokes its surface when a voice booms, “Better not -touch the hull, pal, it’s still hot.” After some conversation with the -disembodied extraterrestrial named Alan, he is invited on board the -craft, which flies him to New York and back in 30 minutes. Fry has -further encounters and becomes a celebrity on the contactee circuit. He -finally meets Alan in person in 1961. (Daniel Fry, The White Sands -Incident, New Age, 1954; Clark III 518–520)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1545

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Event 2025 -(6B0B7678)

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Date: 7/6/1950
-Description: A memo by Lt. Col. F. D. McGarrachy, USAF chief of General -Investigations Division, expresses strong interest to acquire motion -pictures of UFOs taken by civilians, perhaps in cooperation with the -FBI, but not in a way to arouse public suspicion of USAF interest. -(Hynek UFO Report, pp. 54–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1546

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Event 2026 -(C506A136)

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Date: 7/7/1950
-Description: Gen. Cabell, through -his aide Col. Barber, sends a notice to AMC Intelligence Chief Col. Harold -E. Watson, that despite the official closing of Project Grudge, the -Air Force still desires to receive UFO reports and take them seriously. -Project Grudge begins to be reactivated as Project 10073. (Sparks, -p. 12; Swords 101–102, 498–499)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1547

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Event 2027 -(06A6F1C8)

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Date: 7/11/1950
-Description: Two Navy aircraft crews from NAS Millington [now Naval -Support Activity Mid-South] in Tennessee, across the Mississippi River -from Osceola, Arkansas, see a domed disc pass in front of them. Airborne -radar confirms it. The object first appears as a round ball; after it -crosses their flight path, it appears like an upside-down shallow bowl. -(“Millington -Men Report Seeing ‘Flying Saucer’ and Tracing It,” Memphis (Tenn.) -Commercial Appeal, July 12, 1950, p. 1; NICAP, “Air, -Radar/Visual over Arkansas”; Sparks, p. 93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1548

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Event 2028 -(8AE6B555)

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Date: 7/13/1950
-Time: 5 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two skilled Arsenal employees including -Mr. Washburn. one object, shaped like a bowtie, and like polished -aluminum. Flew straight and level, then one triangle rotated 1/4 turn in -the opposite direction and returned to its original position. The object -then made a right-angle turn and accelerated away after at least 30 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
-ID: 42

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Event 2029 -(CD84BA88)

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Date: 7/18/1950
-Description: Bruce -Bliven summarizes flying saucer news in a Look magazine article. -(Bruce Bliven, “Flying -Saucers: Myth or -Menace?” Look, July 18, 1950, pp. 12–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1549

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Event 2030 -(CCF87A22)

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Date: 7/19/1950
-Description: A memo by Col. Bruno -W. Feiling, chief -of the USAF Technical Analysis Division, on “Investigation of Flying -Saucer Reports” says that UFO investigation takes up too much time. -(Hynek UFO Report, p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1550

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Event 2031 -(52D9F314)

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Date: 7/20/1950
-Description: Mr. Campello and several others in a car saw two large, -silvery objects by the side of the road, one on a hillock, the other on -flat ground, about 50 m away from each other. They came within 600 m of -the objects, which went away at “an incredible speed,” causing a rush of -air that rocked the car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: SBEDV 30 (Vallee)
-Location: Porto Novo, Brazil
-ID: 81

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Event 2032 -(CC549C77)

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Date: 7/24/1950
-Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km -attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 16.1km
-Rocket range: 320km

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Event 2033 -(FB8A6C45)

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Date: 7/29/1950
-Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km -attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 16.1km
-Rocket range: 320km

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Event 2034 -(E55D5726)

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Date: 8/1950
-Description: Author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Saucers” -published
-Type: publication
-Reference: Amazon
-Location: US

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Event 2035 -(A1A070D9)

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Date: 8/1950
-Description: Keyhoe’s -article on the Adickes case -of April 27, “Flight 117 and the Flying Saucer,” appears in True -magazine. (Donald E. Keyhoe, “Flight -117 and the Flying Saucer,” True, August 1950, pp. 24–25, 75–79) -August — 2:00 p.m. Hugh O’Neill views a cigar-shaped object hovering -silently about 2–5 miles off the Big Sur coast at Anderson Creek, -California, at an elevation of 500–1,000 feet. It moves swiftly away to -the south, then returns less than 2 minutes later and slowly circles -above the ocean twice for 90 seconds, disappearing again to the south. -(Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, New -Directions, 1957, p. 75; -Loren E. Gross, The Fifth -Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs a History: 1950 August–December, -Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1553

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Event 2036 -(18BFC7E0)

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Date: 8/1950
-Description: A CIA memo sent to FBI headquarters, “Summary of Aerial -Phenomena in New Mexico,” discusses the green fireballs and notes that -OSI is concerned with the phenomena seen over sensitive installations. -It reiterates that Lincoln -LaPaz does not think they are meteors. (ClearIntent, pp. 167–168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1552

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Event 2037 -(B7BBD736)

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Date: 8/1950
-Description: Engineer Eric -A. Walker becomes executive secretary of the Research and -Development Board. He later refers to a real group called MJ-12 and -admits attending meetings at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio concerning -“recovered UFOs.” (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and -Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): -11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1551

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Event 2038 -(465719B1)

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Date: 8/1/1950
-Description: Gen. Walter B. Smith fills the vacant MJ-3 position.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A)
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 2039 -(80598E08)

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Date: 8/4/1950
-Description: The crew (Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn) of -the M/V Marcala in the North Atlantic between Nova Scotia and the US -Eastern seaboard watch an aluminum-colored cylinder-shaped UFO, -apparently 10 feet in diameter, 50–100 feet above the surface. It -initially moves 25 mph, makes no noise, wobbles slightly, disappears -over the horizon, then reappears. The ship’s captain watches the object -through binoculars for 90 seconds. One of the other witnesses describes -the sighting as “one of the most frightening experiences I have ever -had.” (NICAP, “Object -100ʹ above Sea Observed by Ship MV Marcala”; -ClearIntent, pp. 115–116; -Good Above, pp. 340–341)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1555

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Event 2040 -(4EA75D18)

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Date: 8/4/1950
-Description: A memo from Army Maj. Ulysses -Grant Carlan states that UFOs since July 30 have been seen at the -Hanford Site in Washington State. They are above 15,000 feet. Jets -attempting interception fail. The AEC says that the investigation is -continuing. (Maj. U. G. Carlan, “Flying -Discs,” August 4, 1950; Good Above, pp. 267, -485; -Nukes 46; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The Author, 1990, p. 71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1554

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Event 2041 -(FEAC2BD8)

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Date: 8/4/1950
-Time: 10 AM EDT
-Description: Witnesses: Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn, -Third Mate, of M/V Marcala. One 10’ cylindrical object at 50-100’ -altitude, flying with a churning or rotary motion, accelerated at end of -15 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: approx. 100 mi. SE of New York City (39’ 35’ N, 72’ 24.5’ -W)
-ID: 43

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Event 2042 -(B299E945)

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Date: 8/4/1950
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL MEMO: From Lt. Colonel Mildren (G-3) to Maj. -U.G. Carlan (GSC Survey Section): Since July 30, 1950, UFO’s have been -sighted over the Hanford AEC Plant. Air Force jets fails to intercept -them. FBI, anti-aircraft battalion, radar units and fighter squadrons -alerted for further observation. Atomic Energy Commission still -investigating.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p485)
-Location: Hanford, WA

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Event 2043 -(9D9D20CB)

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Date: 8/12/1950
-Description: 1:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Oliver are at the state forestry -lookout tower on Round Top Mountain north of Medford, Oregon, when they -see two UFOs, one disc-shaped, the other oblong. They are about 100 feet -apart, and the oblong one is tumbling in the air end over end. (“Lookouts -Report Seeing ‘Saucers’ North of Medford,” Medford (Oreg.) -Mail-Tribune, August 17, 1950, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1556

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Event 2044 -(B505C4BA)

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Date: 8/14/1950
-Description: 11:27 a.m. Flight Lt. Stan -J. Hubbard and two other officers at Farnborough Airfield, -Hampshire, England, hear a humming noise. Hubbard looks up and sees a -flat gray disc, about 100 feet in diameter, at an altitude of 700–1,000 -feet. He watches it for 30 seconds as it flies at a speed of 800–1,000 -mph and makes a series of S- turns, oscillating as it moves. The other -two officers see nothing. (David Clarke, “Flying -Saucer Working Party,” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, -January 3, 2015; Good Need, pp. 149–151; -David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, -pp. 87–93; UFOFiles2, pp. 40–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1557

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Event 2045 -(56E77813)

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Date: 8/15/1950
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Nicholas -Mariana and his secretary Virginia Raunig are inspecting the Great -Falls, Montana, baseball stadium in preparation for a game. He walks up -to the grandstand and notices two fast-moving bright lights “like two -new dimes in the sky.” He rushes to his car, parked 60 feet away, and -gets his 16mm movie camera from the glove compartment. He films the -objects passing behind a water tower, which provides a frame of -reference for measuring distance, size, altitude, azimuth, and speed. In -October he takes it to an Air Force officer for analysis. USAF notes -that two jet interceptors were in the area and might be the objects on -the film, but Mariana and Raunig had seen those too. Controversy soon -arises when Mariana claims that the first 35 frames of his film—which he -says most clearly show the UFOs as rotating disks—are missing. People in -the Great Falls area who view Mariana’s film support him. They claim -that the missing frames clearly show the UFOs as spinning, metallic -disks with a “notch or band” along their outer edges. USAF personnel -deny this accusation and insist that they have removed only a single -frame of film that was damaged in the analysis. In 1952, Blue Book -reviews the film; so does Robert -M. L. Baker Jr. in 1954, and the Colorado project in 1967. All -studies of the film agree that it was not faked and that the objects -appear to be disc-shaped. (Wikipedia, “Mariana -UFO incident”; NICAP, “Nick -Mariana / Montana UFO Color Film”; “Nick -Mariana UFO Footage 1950 Great Falls Montana,” parkerdonaldmusic -YouTube channel, September 29, 2012; “Air -Force Takes over Films of Flying Disks,” Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle, -October 5, 1950, p. 8; “Colored -Films on Saucers to Be Shown,” Twin Falls (Idaho) Times-News, -October 19, 1950, p. 17; Clark III 767–769; UFOs Yes, 81–108; Condon, pp. 407–415; -Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, pp. 127–128); -Barry Greenwood, “On -the Question of Tampering with -the 1950 Great Falls UFO Film,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 7 -(September 2000): 1–8; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports -from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 138–139; -Michael D. Swords, “Can -You Learn Anything from UFO Photos? Part Three,” The Big Study, July -7, 2012; Patrick Gross, “The -Great Falls, Montana, UFO Color Film, August 15, 1950”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1558

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Event 2046 -(67C5344F)

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Date: 8/15/1950
-Description: A top secret meeting on UFOs takes place at the Metropole -Building on Northumberland Avenue in London, England. It is chaired by -Hugh Young, deputy director of intelligence, and attended by -representatives of the Secret Intelligence Service and Wing Commander Myles -Formby of the Air Ministry’s technical intelligence branch. Young -explains that Henry -Tizard, chief scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defence, feels -that reports of flying saucers should not be dismissed without -investigation and has asked that a working party be set up to look into -significant reports. RAF Fighter Command is advised that all future -reports of aerial phenomena should go to the Flying Saucer Working -Party. (David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, -2002, pp. 77– 78; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January 1, -1947–December 31, 1959, -Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2003, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1559

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Event 2047 -(454BBD04)

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Date: 8/20/1950
-Time: 1:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF MATS liaison officer Lt. William Ghormley, -Col. W. V. Brown, Lt. col. L.w. Brauer. One small, round, bright object -flew fast, straight and level for 15-20 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
-ID: 44

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Event 2048 -(45FA8EC5)

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Date: 8/20/1950
-Description: An FBI informant meets with George -Adamski at Alice Wells’s restaurant, the Palomar Gardens Café, south -of Mount Palomar, California. In addition to the standard flying saucer -tales, Adamski mentions that the Federal Communications Commission has -established contact with people from other planets who apparently have a -communist economic system. He also predicts that Russia will dominate -the world for the next 1,000 years. (Kremlin 63–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1560

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Event 2049 -(9C275E3C)

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Date: 8/23/1950
-Description: FBI memo from Alan -H. Belmont to D. -Milton Ladd on green fireballs. (A. H. Belmont, “Summary -of Aerial -Phenomena in New Mexico, Miscellaneous—Information Concerning,” -August 23, 1950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1561

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Event 2050 -(20648198)

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Date: 8/25/1950
-Time: 8 PM
-Description: Witness: B-29 radarman S/Sgt. William Shaffer. Radar -observation, plus possible blue streak 3 minutes later. B-29 followed -unidentified target, then passed it at l/4-mile distance, target -followed for 5 minutes, then passed B-29 and sped away. Total time of -tracking: 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: approx. 250 mi. SW of Bermuda (29’ 40’ N, 67’ 28’ W)
-ID: 45

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Event 2051 -(A4822E93)

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Date: 8/30/1950
-Description: 10:45 a.m. During a Bell Aircraft MX-776 Shrike missile -test (for the later Rascal air-to-ground strategic missile) a USAF M/Sgt -and eight Bell Aircraft employees at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, see two -glaringly bright circular or elliptical objects maintaining relative -position to each other following the B-50 Superfortress launch aircraft -from above on both the dry run and hot run prior to missile release. The -objects give a “strong glare at all times” (not reflected sunlight), -maneuver at high estimated speeds up to 10 times the B-50 (roughly 2,500 -mph) for short distances, leave no vapor trails, hover, accelerate -rapidly, and make abrupt “square” turns with apparent size changing to -indicate ascent and descent. (NICAP, “Two -Objects Filmed during Shrike Missile Test”; -Sparks, p. 98; -Maj. R. G. Illing, “Aerial -Phenomena,” September 13, 1950; Swords 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1562

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Event 2052 -(6CECFF95)

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Date: 8/30/1950
-Time: 1:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three local employees, including Kaeel and -Alexander, of the Air Force Base. A dark, barrel-shaped object with a -pole down from it into the water, flew at 3-5 m.p.h. and 15-20’ altitude -for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada
-ID: 46

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Event 2053 -(8654FE4F)

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Date: 8/31/1950
-Description: 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. After V-2 missile launch no. 51 at -Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Project Twinkle cinetheodolite crews track and -film multiple objects sporadically several times from different -directions at very high speeds over the course of 3 hours. -Cinetheodolite station P-5 films an object using a one-frame-per-second -60 cm focal length camera with 35 mm color film. Frames 593 and 595 (2 -seconds of nearly 10 minutes of film) show its elevation angle changing. -An attempted interception by four F-86 jets from Kirtland AFB for one -hour fails to locate the objects, which apparently return after the jets -leave. Cinetheodolite observers note an object with definite shape and -3D depth but indistinct edges and no smoke or trail. The object seems to -“rock or oscillate.” It is lost when the observer looks away to get an -angle reading. (NICAP, “Objects -Filmed after V-2 Launch”; -Sparks, p. 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1563

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Event 2054 -(3FC5AC9A)

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Date: 8/31/1950
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 136.4km -attitude (Blossom 7- Nominal performance)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 136.4km

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Event 2055 -(0CA83B7C)

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Date: 9/1950
-Description: George -Adamski first receives national exposure as coauthor of an article -in Fate on his fake UFO photographs. A follow-up article in July 1951 -features even more dramatic photos. (Clark III 39; Maurice Weekley and -George Adamski, “Flying Saucers As Astronomers See Them,” Fate 3, no. 6 -(September 1950): 56– 59; George Adamski, “I Photographed Space Ships,” -Fate 4, no. 5 (July 1951): 64–74; George Noory, “Fate Flashback: -‘Flying Saucers’ in the 1950’s,” Coast to Coast AM, August 18, -2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1566

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Event 2056 -(B9344D27)

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Date: 9/1950
-Description: The first US Army large-scale aerosol vulnerability test -occurs in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, using two types of -bacteria (Bacillus globigii and Serratia marcescens) and fluorescent -particles. Six simulated attacks are conducted, with the conclusion that -it is feasible to attack a seaport city with biological aerosol agents -from a ship offshore. The first open-air tests with biological simulants -are conducted in 1950 in various locales, one of which is off the coast -of Norfolk, Virginia. (Wikipedia, “United -States biological weapons program”; David R. Franz, Cheryl D. -Parrott, and Ernest T. Takafuji, “The U.S. Biological Warfare and -Biological Defense Programs,” in Medical Aspects of Chemical and -Biological Warfare, Office of the US Surgeon General, 1997, -chap. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1565

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Event 2057 -(5E246273)

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Date: 9/1950
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Three US Navy planes on a combat mission 100 -miles south of the Yalu River in Korea are approached from below by two -huge discs, at least 600–700 feet in diameter, traveling at 1,000–1,200 -mph. The radar shows them as 1.5 miles away. Suddenly the objects halt, -back up, and begin a jittering motion, keeping pace with them, circling -above and below. When one pilot readies his guns, the aircraft radar -goes haywire, apparently jammed. His radio transmitter is blocked by a -buzzing noise. The discs are silvery and shaped like a “coolie’s hat, -with oblong ports from which emanated a copper-green colored light which -gradually shifted to pale pastel-colored lights.” A shimmering red ring -circles the top portion of the disc. The objects soon speed away in the -direction from which they had come. (Haines, Korea, pp. 28–30; -Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 30–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1564

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Event 2058 -(5CF10E98)

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Date: 9/3/1950
-Time: 2 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Maj R.J. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner and neighbor -(former saw three objects, others saw one). Metallic bronze discs, -20-30’ long, 2-6’ thick. Moved independently and erratically for 5 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Spokane, Washington
-ID: 47

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Event 2059 -(467A2DEF)

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Date: 9/5/1950
-Description: 4:09 p.m. Flight Lt. Stan -J. Hubbard is standing on the watchtower at Farnborough Airfield, -Hampshire, England, with five other officers, one of whom is Wing -Commander Frank Jolliffe. They all see, at a range of 10– 15 miles, a -light gray disc following a rectangular flight path, consisting of a -“falling leaf, horizontal flight, an upward “falling leaf,” then another -horizontal stretch. The Working Party concludes they have imperfectly -viewed some conventional aircraft. (David Clarke, “Flying -Saucer Working Party,” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, -January 3, 2015; Good Need, pp. 150–151; -David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, -pp. 87–93; UFOFiles2, p. 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1567

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Event 2060 -(1C9DC555)

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Date: 9/8/1950
-Description: Henry Holt publishes Frank -Scully’s Behind the Flying Saucers, the first book on UFOs. It -sensationally claims that the US government has retrieved a crashed -flying saucer and several dead pilots. Rep. Edward -H. Jenison (R-Ill.) -condemns the book as contributing to mass hysteria during a time of war -in Korea. USAF Public Information Officer Clare Welch estimates that 3–4 -million people have heard about saucers, thanks to the book. (Frank -Scully, Behind -the Flying Saucers, Holt, -1950; John L. Cotton, et al., “Flying -Saucers and Frank Scully,” in KNW 2333: The Scientific Method, -Critical and Creative Thinking (Debunking Pseudoscience), Southern -Methodist University; Swords 103; Curt Collins, “Operation -Hush-Hush: The UFO Crash and ET Bodies Cover- Up,” -The Saucers That Time Forgot, February 9, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1568

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Event 2061 -(8F98BF3F)

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Date: 9/8/1950
-Description: Air Force Intelligence Collection Division’s Collection -Control Branch (AFOIN-CC-1) at the Pentagon issues a new intelligence -reporting directive requiring special handling and reporting of UFO -incidents, “Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft,” thus -reversing the cancellation directive of January 12, 1950. The action -reflects the increasing interest by AFOIN Director Gen. Cabell and -his dissatisfaction with AMC inaction on UFO study at Wright-Patterson -AFB. (NICAP, “1950 -UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1569

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Event 2062 -(5BF2F22C)

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Date: 9/13/1950
-Description: The Air Force responds to producer Howard -Hawks’s request for the use of military locations, personnel, and -equipment for his upcoming film The Thing from Another World by refusing -to participate and objecting to any display of USAF personnel or -equipment on the grounds that “it is our policy not to participate in -any proposal that will perpetuate this hoax.” (Swords 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1570

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Event 2063 -(2365A9D1)

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Date: 9/15/1950
-Description: In a conference between Canadian Wilbert Smith and -Dr. Sarbacher (a consultant to the US Research and Development Board), -scientist reveals Frank Scully’s 1950 “Behind the Flying Saucers” book -is true and substantially correct, Flying Saucers exist, we haven’t been -able to duplicate their performance, it’s pretty certain they didn’t -originate on the earth, the subject is classified more highly than the -H-bomb.
-Type: conference
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p519)
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 9/23/47
-See also: 1/26/53

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Event 2064 -(CC452250)

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Date: 9/15/1950
-Description: Canadian engineer Wilbert -B. Smith attends a classified briefing with physicist Robert -I. Sarbacher of the US Defense Dept.’s Research and Development -Board. Smith asks if there is any truth to the Scully crash- -and-retrieval story and Sarbacher replies, -“The facts reported in the book are substantially correct.” He says that -UFOs are “classified two points higher even than the H-bomb.” In 1983, -Sarbacher confirms the comment to Stanton -T. Friedman, although -he clarifies that he was speaking about crashed UFOs in general. He -tells UFO researcher William -Steinman in November 1983 that he “was invited to participate in -several discussions associated with the reported recoveries” of UFOs, -but is unable to attend the meetings. He claims Vannevar -Bush, Eric -A. Walker, and -John -von Neumann are “definitely involved” in the program and probably J. -Robert Oppenheimer as -well. (Clark III 1029–1031; Good Above, pp. 519–521; -Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “Dr. Robert -Sarbacher,” March 1, 2010; Wilbert B. Smith, [Sarbacher -interview notes], September 15, 1950; Dolan II 320; Robert I. -Sarbacher, [Letter -to William Steinman], November 29, 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1571

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Event 2065 -(63CECE43)

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Date: 9/20/1950
-Time: 10:49 AM
-Description: Witness identified only as a “reliable source”. Two large, -round, glowing objects and three smaller, internally lit objects. Two -hovered for 1 minute, moved, and three smaller ones came from behind or -within the two larger objects, and all sped upward and away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kit Carson, Colorado
-ID: 48

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Event 2066 -(06F9241A)

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Date: 9/21/1950
-Description: MIT research associate and Air National Guard Maj. Myron -Herbert Ligda and Joseph -V. Connelly are testing radar near Provincetown, Massachusetts, -under contract to the US Signal Corps, when they track an unknown object -on a converging course with two F-86s. The clear target passes the -planes at a speed of at least 1,200 mph, makes a right turn, then passes -directly over or under the F-86s. (NICAP, “SCR-615B -Tracks UFO”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 139–141; -Sparks, p. 100; -Swords 104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1572

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Event 2067 -(1761038A)

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Date: 9/21/1950
-Time: 9:52 AM
-Description: Witness: M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard -Maj. M.H. Ligda. Radar tracking of one object during M.I.T tracking of -USAF flight of F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. Object speed was 22 -miles/minute (l,200 m.p.h.), made turn of 11-12 gs acceleration during 1 -minute observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Provincetown, Massachusetts
-ID: 49

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Event 2068 -(2EDD923E)

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Date: 9/25/1950
-Description: JANAP 146(A) is issued: “Communications Instructions for -Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft,” the start of -CIRVIS reporting for commercial and military pilots. This adds UFOs to -the list of sighting categories. All UFO reports are to be sent to the -Air Defense Command at the Pentagon and to the Secretary of Defense. AMC -at Wright-Patterson is not mentioned. (Swords 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1573

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Event 2069 -(FDE9E18C)

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Date: 9/25/1950
-Description: The Air Force Intelligence office, apparently at the -request of Gen. Hoyt -Vandenberg, orders all copies of the December 10, 1948, revised -Project Sign report destroyed. (Good Need, p. 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1574

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Event 2070 -(31C7EBC2)

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Date: 9/26/1950
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Policemen John Collins and Joseph Keenan are -patrolling on Vare Avenue near 26th Street in South Philadelphia, -Pennsylvania, when they see something like a parachute drifting down -ahead of them at treetop level. It is about 6 feet in diameter and -settles in an open field. After summoning Sgt. Joseph Cook and Patrolman -James Casper, they go into the field to investigate. When they turn -their flashlights on it, it gives off a purplish glow, “almost a mist, -that looked as though it contained crystals.” Collins touches it and it -dissolves in his hand, leaving an odorless, sticky residue. It -completely evaporates in 25 minutes. This event inspires producer Jack -H. Harris to ask his friend Irvine H. Millgate to come up with a -story for what eventually becomes the 1958 horror film The Blob. (Clark -III 1102; “Flying ‘Saucer’ Just Dissolves,” Philadelphia Inquirer, -September 27, 1950, pp. 1–2; Rebekah McKendry, “The Supposedly True -Story behind the Classic Film The Blob!” 13th Floor, October 21, -2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1575

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Event 2071 -(53E6DEF4)

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Date: 10/1950
-Description: Donald -Keyhoe’s True article is expanded into a paperback book, The Flying -Saucers Are Real, which sells 500,000 copies. It brings many interested -civilians and military people to accept UFO reality, government -withholding of information, and the extraterrestrial hypothesis. (Donald -E. Keyhoe, The -Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950; Wikipedia, “The -Flying Saucers Are Real”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1576

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Event 2072 -(13F65096)

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Date: 10/1950
-Description: J[ack?] -L. Rohn is named a chief of Project Grudge. (Sparks, -p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1577

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Event 2073 -(32EB05AE)

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Date: 10/1950
-Description: The Flying Saucer Working Party is created in the UK by -Ministry of Defence Chief Science Adviser Henry Tizard, assisted -by Louis -Mountbatten and Air Chief Marshal Hugh -Dowding, both who have quietly concluded that flying saucers are -real. It has five members, representing UK intelligence branches. Its -charge is to study UFO reports. (Wikipedia, “Flying -Saucer Working Party”; Mark Rodeghier, “Britain’s Secret UFO Study,” -IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 21–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1578

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Event 2074 -(EC2301E6)

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Date: 10/3/1950
-Description: Geochemist J. D. Laudermilk watches a disc moving with a -wobbling motion at 750 mph behind a mountain peak near Pomona, -California. (UFOEv, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1579

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Event 2075 -(3A71B3D9)

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Date: 10/5/1950
-Description: A California Central Airlines plane, piloted by Capt. Cecil -Hardin and Flight Officer Jack Conroy, is buzzed by a wing-like UFO with -8 bright lights between San Fernando and Van Nuys, California. Bands of -blue light are visible across its width. (“Now -Add This to Saucer Mysteries,” Los Angeles Daily News, October 6, -1950, p. 2; NICAP, “Mysterious -Object Buzzes Airliner”; UFOEv, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1580

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Event 2076 -(E9884CB2)

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Date: 10/6/1950
-Description: Confidential Memo: Headquarters, 5th Army Division: John de -Reneaux photographed the saucer which crashed near Aztec, N.M. He said -that “army officials” had attempted to take the photographs away from -him but that he had given them another roll of film. In a further -interview with the 5th Headquarters, de Reneaux denied any knowledge of -the Aztec crash.
-Type: confidental memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A p117, RECOVERY)
-Location: Fort Sam Houston, TX
-See also: 3/25/1948

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Event 2077 -(14881580)

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Date: 10/7/1950
-Description: Walter -Bedell Smith takes over as director of central intelligence.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1581

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Event 2078 -(93883767)

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Date: 10/12/1950
-End date: 11/5/1950
-Description: Some 15 radar and visual sightings of UFOs take place over -restricted airspace at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the observation on -October 23, an unexplained increase in alpha-beta background radiation -is detected; after the November 29 sighting, an alpha and gamma ray -increase is correlated with unidentified radar targets in the area. -(ClearIntent, pp. 171–173; -Memo from Strategic Air Command Knoxville to Director of FBI, “‘Flying -Saucers’ Observed over Oak Ridge Area,” October 25, 1950; J. Edgar -Hoover, [teletype -in response], December 5, 1950; Bruce S. Maccabee, “NCP-14: -Saucers over Oak Ridge,” from UFO–FBI Connection, Llewellyn, 2000, -pp. 163–181; Francis Ridge, “The -Oak Ridge Sightings including All the Tennessee Blue Book Unknowns,” -September 22, 2005; Sparks, pp. 100–102; -Clark III 950; Swords 106–107; Hynek UFO Report, pp. -142–143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1583

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Event 2079 -(61E0F8CC)

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Date: 10/12/1950
-Description: The Oak Ridger columnist Robert -Sharon Allen reports that the Atomic Energy Commission Security -Service has issued a questionnaire to be used when UFOs are reported at -its installations. (Robert S. Allen, “AEC Wants Info on Flying Saucers -Seen near A-Plants,” The Oak Ridger, October 12, 1950; Project 1947, “Robert -S. Allen -Introduction”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1582

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Event 2080 -(445DE2E7)

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Date: 10/13/1950
-Description: J. -Edgar Hoover sends a teletype message to the Special Agent in Charge -in Los Angeles, California, asking him to determine whether Frank -Scully is the same man who has been active in communist activities -since the 1930s. (Anthony Bragalia, “J. -Edgar Hoover’s Saucer Crash Secrets,” UFO Explorations, April -2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1584

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Event 2081 -(68C0933C)

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Date: 10/15/1950
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witness: Woodward. Same as previous observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pope AFB, North Carolina
-ID: 52

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Event 2082 -(B5189F53)

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Date: 10/15/1950
-Description: 4:20 p.m. After taking off from Raleigh, North Carolina, -Miami Airlines DC-4 pilot Capt. George A. Woodward and copilot William -Bardsley see four round, metallic objects descending slowly near Pope -AFB [now Pope Field] at Fort Bragg. They look like two saucers fitted -together and are about 100 feet in diameter, flying in a line about 25 -feet apart. The pilots pursue the objects for about 3 minutes, but the -objects recede then shoot away at tremendous speed. Around the same -time, a similar object crosses the path of an Air Force jet near Pope -AFB. (NICAP, “Pilots -Report 100-Ft Round Objects”; NICAP, “Aluminum-Like -Object Crosses Path of Jet”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1585

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Event 2083 -(63A75C1C)

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Date: 10/15/1950
-Time: 3:20 PM
-Description: Atomic Energy Commission Trooper Rymer, J. Moneymaker, -Capt. Zarzecki. Two shiny silver objects shaped like bullet or bladder. -They dove with a smoke trail and one vanished. The other hovered at 5-6, -altitude, 50’ away, left and returned several times somewhat further -away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
-ID: 50

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Event 2084 -(466F6458)

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Date: 10/15/1950
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witness: Daniel. Listed as “unidentified” in folder index, -but no supporting data could be found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pope AFB, North Carolina
-ID: 51

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Event 2085 -(CC6B5B15)

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Date: 10/18/1950
-Description: USAF Brig. Gen. Ernest -Moore writes a memo to Col. Harold -E. Watson at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, advising him of the -standing policy of releasing no details about UFO case investigations. A -form letter is to be used: “We have investigated and evaluated -        incident and have found nothing of value and nothing which would -change our previous estimates on this subject.” (Swords 102–103, -500)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1586

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Event 2086 -(948F44F7)

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Date: 10/23/1950
-Time: 12:42 PM
-Description: Witness: ex-USAF pilot Frank Risher. One aluminum object -shaped like a dirigible or Convair C-99 cargo plane, with 3 portholes, -arrived from southeast, hovered 3-5 seconds and flew away to the -south-south-east at end of 40 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bonlee, North Carolina
-ID: 53

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Event 2087 -(D9ED5F3C)

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Date: 10/26/1950
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8km -attitude (Explosion at 50s at Mach 3 terminated flight)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 8km

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Event 2088 -(3D41BB02)

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Date: 11/5/1950
-Description: Four Pan American Airways employees (Fred Wilkinson, -Patrick Joseph Maloney, Fred Perrior, and E. Newman) see a bright object -fly east to west over Heathrow Airport, London, at 1,000 mph. (London -Sunday Dispatch, November 12, 1950; “Saucers over England,” Fate 4, no. -2 (March 1951): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1587

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Event 2089 -(E6A060B6)

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Date: 11/5/1950
-Time: 11:55 AM
-Description: Witness: Fairchild Aircraft illustrator Don Patrick. One -translucent object, light grey with dark core, shaped like a pear or -bean. Flew for 5-10 minutes with rapid, darting movements.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
-ID: 54

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Event 2090 -(3A6CADDB)

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Date: 11/7/1950
-Description: A military pilot flying a Douglas AD-4Q Skyraider near -Lakehurst, New Jersey, engages in a dogfight with a steady white light -that he at first mistakes for an aircraft. He gets on its tail, then the -light reverses suddenly and passes 100–200 feet above his plane at -incredible speed. He again tails it and the same thing happens. The -light continues to “turn about me in wide, climbing turns, making about -two orbits to my one.” He abandons chase at 11,500 feet. (NICAP, “Light -Makes 5–6 Head On Passes at Navy Plane”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 68–70; -Sparks, p. 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1588

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Event 2091 -(7AA9335D)

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Date: 11/10/1950
-Description: Private letter from BSRA Director Meade Layne to Frank -Scully. Mentions increased volume of correspondence since the fall of -1946.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter -Link
-Location: San Diego, CA

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Event 2092 -(941B6415)

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Date: 11/11/1950
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (3rd and Final -Hermes II test)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2

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Event 2093 -(02A9C77E)

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Date: 11/16/1950
-Description: Col. Harold -E. Watson at AMC brings in news columnist Bob -Considine for an in-depth interview on flying saucers. Watson says: -“I’ve seen lots of flying saucers…and every single saucer turned out to -be the sun shining off the wing or body of a distant DC-4, or jet, or a -weather balloon, or it was a reflection off a water-tank or something -else that is readily explainable.” He characterizes witnesses as -crackpots, religious fanatics, publicity hounds, or practical jokers. -Considine asks him about airline pilot witnesses. Watson accuses them of -being fooled by optical tricks and the power of suggestion. (Swords -107–108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1589

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Event 2094 -(6AD1267E)

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Date: 11/17/1950
-Description: Telenews Productions releases a 9½-minute short film, The -Flying Saucer Mystery, apparently the first UFO documentary. The film’s -main focus is on the best new evidence of 1950, the alleged first -authentic photographs and motion picture film of flying saucers, the two -snapshots by farmer Paul -Trent, and -the film shot by Louisville (Ky.) Times photographer Al Hixenbaugh on -June 27, 1950. It also features UFO witness Arthur Weisberger of -Tucson, Arizona, describing his sighting, apparently the only record of -the event, as well as Donald -E. -Keyhoe and Admiral Calvin -M. Bolster. The -film is apparently only shown for a few months and rotates among the -Telenews Theaters across the nation. It is lost for decades until it -resurfaces in the 1990s. (“Flying Saucer -Mystery,” historycomestolife YouTube channel, July 3, 2010; Curt -Collins, “The -First UFO Documentary: The -Flying Saucer Mystery,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 9, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1590

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Event 2095 -(1278F2B9)

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Date: 11/21/1950
-Description: Mr. Smith writes a “Top Secret” Memo on Canadian government -research into UFO’s and propulsion technology.
-Type: top secret memo
-Reference: link
-Location: Canada

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Event 2096 -(CA046FED)

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Date: 11/21/1950
-Description: Wilbert -Smith writes a top secret memo to the Canadian Controller of -Telecommunications claiming that he has talked to Canadian embassy staff -in Washington, D.C., who tell him that the UFOs are the “most highly -classified subject in the US government” (what Sarbacher told -him) and that a “concerted effort is being made by a small group headed -by Dr. Vannevar -Bush.” Sarbacher later verifies the information, saying the small -group existed within the Research and Development Board. (W. B. Smith, -“Memorandum -to the Controller of Telecommunications,” -November 21, 1950; NICAP, “The -Smith Memo, November 21, 1950”; Good Above, pp. 183, 464–466; -Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: -Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1591

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Event 2097 -(407105E5)

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Date: 11/26/1950
-End date: 11/27/1950
-Description: 11:50 p.m. A “mysterious lighted object” flashing red, -white, and green lights is seen above Huron (South Dakota) Regional -Airport. Weather Bureau observer Gene Fowler, Winfield -Henry of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, and Gordon Moore and -Chet Fuqua, ground personnel at Western Airlines, go up to the roof of -the airport administration building for a better look. Fowler is able to -watch it through a theodolite used for weather balloons for 8 minutes. -He says, “The azimuth reading changed from 147 degrees to 161 degrees -during that period and went up seven degrees vertically.” The Rapid City -weather bureau and Aberdeen CAA in South Dakota estimate the object is -40–50 miles northwest of Bismarck, North Dakota. The object reappears at -1:30 a.m. and is visible, sometimes hovering, until 3:00 a.m. when it -disappears to the northwest. In Aberdeen, CAA aircraft communicator -William B. Hiller sees a star-like object at 2:00 a.m. and watches it -for 90 minutes. It changes colors, glowing white, green, and red -alternately. (“Mysterious -Sight May Be ‘Saucer,’” Rapid City (S.Dak.) Journal, November 27, -1950, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 7, August–December 1950, The Author, 1982, -pp. 59–60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1592

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Event 2098 -(D7F2EB1D)

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Date: 11/27/1950
-Description: Bill -Blair, a -commercial pilot and flight instructor, watches six elliptical objects -in loose echelon formation over Evansville, Wisconsin. They are making -noises like a helicopter and are flying at 500 mph at 10,000 feet. -(UFOEv, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1593

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Event 2099 -(83EDB1FF)

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Date: 12/1950
-Description: Project “Magnet” authorized in Canada
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Canada

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Event 2100 -(695C636F)

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Date: 12/1950
-Description: The US seaplane tender USS -Gardiners -Bay is steaming up the channel from Incheon, South Korea, when the -crew sees two mysterious, smoke-trailing objects that strike the water -at tremendous speed. Two columns of water rise to 100 feet in height. No -aircraft are sighted overhead. (Sanderson, InvRes, p. 43; -“Sighting -Flying Discs -Again?” Naval Aviation News 32, no. 2 (February 1951): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1594

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Event 2101 -(4E641024)

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Date: 12/1950
-Description: Science writer Gerald -Heard publishes The Riddle of the Flying Saucers in the UK, in which -he speculates that with conditions on Mars being severe, the only -intelligent beings that can exist there would be advanced insects. A US -edition is published in April 1951 as Is Another World Watching? The -Riddle of the Flying Saucers. (Gerald Heard, The Riddle of the Flying -Saucers, Carroll and Nicholson, 1950; Lyle Zapato, “Of -Bees and Men: The -Riddle of the Flying Saucers,” ZPi blog, January 27, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1595

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Event 2102 -(ABDFB732)

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Date: 12/2/1950
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. L. Scott. One pearly, iridescent object with a -flattened top, spun while hovering and made a sound like bees buzzing. -Only data in files was from East African “Standard” newspaper.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nanyika, Kenya
-ID: 55

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Event 2103 -(7274C1A3)

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Date: 12/2/1950
-Description: Cmdr. Charles -Peter Edwards, Canadian Deputy Minister of Transport for Air -Services, approves Wilbert -B. -Smith’s proposed plan to use the Department of Transport lab and -field facilities during off-hours to gather quality UFO data. It is -called Project Magnet. (“What -Was the Truth about Project Magnet?” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1964): 29; Clark III 1078; Good Above, pp. 183–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1596

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Event 2104 -(1F571DE9)

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Date: 12/3/1950
-Description: Stanton Friedman used the Freedom of Information Act to -procure a previously classified communique from a field agent named -Auerbach (first name not given) in Richmond, Virginia, to FBI director -J. Edgar Hoover. According to Auerbach, of the Counter Intelligence -Corps, his office had been asked to stay attuned to “any data on flying -saucers.” Any information, the memo added, would be telephoned, -immediately, to Air Force Intelligence.
-Type: classified communique
-Reference: link
-Location: Richmond, Virginia

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Event 2105 -(04D506C1)

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Date: 12/5/1950
-Description: Engineer Lt. Col. John R. Hood disperses radiation counters -around the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, National Laboratory’s restricted area. -The intent is to map the presence of any unusual radiation, in the wake -of numerous UFO reports over the facility. He also sets up a source of -radioactive material to see if its presence has an effect on the air -above it. If the air is unusually ionized, it might be the source of the -anomalous radar targets. He also mentions using a magnetometer array, -but there is no documentation of the result of this effort. (Loren E. -Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 7, August–December 1950, The -Author, 1982, pp. 64–65; Swords 107)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1597

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Event 2106 -(CEC4F2F9)

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Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: A second flying saucer crashes in El Indio-Guerrero area. -The saucer is recovered and taken to the AEC facility at Sandia, -NM.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Reference: link
-Location: Guerrero, Mexico

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Event 2107 -(5A2AFCAE)

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Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: Dubious MJ-12 documents refer to a UFO crash on the Mexico -side of the US border in the area between El Indio, Texas, and Guerrero, -Coahuila, Mexico. (“El -Indio 1950,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1601

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Event 2108 -(B7E33E4C)

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Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: The ConAC Air Defense Controller notified the Headquarters -USAF Command Post that at 1030 hours a number of unidentified aircraft -were approaching the northeast area of the United States and that there -was no reason to believe the aircraft were friendly. By 1040 hours, 40 -aircraft at an altitude of 32,000 feet were confirmed by radar in the -vicinity of Limestone, Maine. President Truman had been notified and -interceptors scrambled. Truman even mentioned the incident in his -memoirs, not published until 1979. At the time, he noted in his diary, -“It looks like World War III is here. I hope not–but we must meet -whatever comes–and we will.”
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Limestone, Maine

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Event 2109 -(39596549)

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Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: While F-94s are being tested at Dyess AFB near Abilene, -Texas, radar catches a UFO on a high-speed intercept course with the -planes. Some personnel see the object shortly afterward. Col. Robert -B. Willingham claims it is not a missile. It makes 90° turns at high -speed. NORAD tracks it and the object is said to crash near the Mexican -border near Del Rio, Texas. Willingham and a copilot take a light -aircraft to the site but are escorted away. They do see part of the -crash field and pick up a small piece of metal from the ground. -Willingham takes it to a Marine Corps metallurgy lab in Hagerstown, -Maryland, for analysis but never sees it again. (Kevin D. Randle, A -History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, pp. 192–193; -Clark III 338; “Del -Rio 1955,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, March 22, 2010; -Kevin D. Randle, “Del -Rio UFO Crash and MJ-12,” A Different Perspective, July 21, 2010; -Kevin D. Randle, “MJ-12’s Fatal Flaw and Robert Willingham,” IUR 33, no. -4 (May 2011): 4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1599

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Event 2110 -(AE270457)

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Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: 10:30–11:04 a.m. The ConAC Air Defense Controller notifies -the HQ USAF that a number of unidentified aircraft are approaching the -northeast area of the United States and that there is no reason to -believe they are friendly. By radar contact it is determined that -approximately 40 aircraft are in the flight at 32,000 feet on a course -of 200° northeast of Limestone, Maine. The White House is notified at -10:31 a.m., and President Truman discusses -the reports in a meeting with UK Prime Minister Clement -Attlee. (NICAP, “Radar-Inspired -National Alert”; -Bruce Maccabee, “Immediate -Saucer Alert! The Mystery of December 6, 1950,” July 1999; Clark III -824; Sparks, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1598

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Event 2111 -(28B29F49)

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Date: 12/6/1950
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Former aircraft purchasing agent Harry -Lamp and four boys spot a 75-foot silver object hovering at 3,000 -feet above the northern part of Fort Myers, Florida. Through 10x -binoculars Lamp sees it is 3–4 feet thick at the edges and 14 feet thick -in the center, which revolves as it hovers. The object has a red rim -with two white and two orange jets along it. It flies away at high -speed. (NICAP, “Large -Object with Bubble on Top”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1600

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Event 2112 -(AB94252B)

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Date: 12/6/1950
-Time: 5 PM
-Description: Witnesses: former aircraft purchasing agent Harry Lamp and -four boys, using lO-power binoculars. One 75’ object, 3-4’ thick, bubble -on top, silver with a red rim having two white and two orange jets along -it. The center revolved when the object hovered; then it flew away very -fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Myers, Florida
-ID: 56

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Event 2113 -(DD6B11DB)

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Date: 12/8/1950
-Description: The FBI office in Richmond, Virginia, sends a telegram to -FBI headquarters saying that local Army Intelligence has been put “on -immediate high alert for any data whatsoever concerning flying saucers.” -It adds, “CIC advises data strictly confidential and should not be -disseminated.” (Auerbach, [teletype -memo], December 8, 1950; ClearIntent, p. 175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1602

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Event 2114 -(653DD0C4)

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Date: 12/10/1950
-Description: 7:30 p.m. RAF Group-Captain B. S. Cartmel and two friends -are at the Wilderness Golf Course near Sevenoaks, Kent, England, when -they see a bright light moving east to west in complete silence. It -maintains a steady height of 3,000 feet moving at 130–150 mph and is -visible for 5 minutes. (Good Above, pp. 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1603

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Event 2115 -(E91FEE46)

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Date: 12/11/1950
-Time: 10:13 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of Northwest Air Lines flight 802. Two -white flashes, followed by a dark cloud which rose and split in -two.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: l0 mi. NW of Gulcana, Alaska
-ID: 57

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Event 2116 -(CEE689E6)

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Date: 12/12/1950
-Description: The AFSWP’s Project Nutmeg officially selects the -Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range, Nevada, for domestic -nuclear testing. (Wikipedia, “Nevada -Test and Training Range”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1604

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Event 2117 -(9ABAE53D)

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Date: 12/13/1950
-Description: 4:55 p.m. J. G. F. Moult and his mother are sitting at -their home in Kimberley, South Africa, when they observe a bright object -“like a huge mirror in the sky,” hovering, and moving laterally and up -and down for about 3 minutes. It goes behind a cloud but can still be -seen, appearing like a “piece of magnesium wire burning with a bright, -purplish-white light.” It dives through the clouds, turns sharply, and -shoots out of sight. (David Marais, “The -Outspan Magazine, January 1, 1954”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1605

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Event 2118 -(3C26241F)

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Date: late 12/1950
-Description: USAF Capt. J. -E. Broyles sees an aluminum-like oval object with a conical tail -moving slowly in the sky near Cheyenne, Wyoming. (UFOEv, p. 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1606

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Event 2119 -(10B7EB8B)

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Date: 12/26/1950
-Description: Harvard University historian William -L. Langer, special -assistant for intelligence analysis to US Secretary of State James -F. Byrnes, organizes -the CIA Office of National Estimates, a forerunner of the National -Intelligence Council. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Staff -Conference: Minutes of Meeting Held in Director’s Conference -Room, Administration Building, Tuesday, 26 December 1950, at 1100 -Hours”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1607

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Event 2120 -(C0A2CA74)

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Date: 12/27/1950
-Description: Sunset. A TWA flight, piloted by Capt. Art Shutts, is -enroute from Chicago to Kansas City. Near Bradford, Illinois, Shutts -notices a bright white light ahead of the plane, also flashing red and -green occasionally. It begins to “wobble and swerve unsteadily,” then -streaks back and forth in a north-south line through an arc of 10–30°, -changing direction abruptly. He notices that the horizon near the UFO -appears to vibrate as if light is distorted, especially after the object -puts on a burst of speed. It dims to a pinpoint and begins to slowly -move south. Suddenly it lurches, accelerates rapidly, zooms upward at a -45° angle, makes a nearly square turn, plunges downward, and disappears -below the horizon to the north. It is visible for 25 minutes. (UFOEv, p. 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1608

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- Event 2121 (C24282BC)

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Date: 1951
-Description: Meade Layne, BSRA director, founds the “Borderland Sciences -Research Foundation” as a CA non-profit (C0254263) research and -educational organization for the purpose of studying parapsychology, -UFO’s and extended consciousness. Previously, the BSRA was a -loose/unofficial association.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link

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- Event 2122 (77FFDA69)

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Date: Early 1950’s
-Description: Carson’s Field (speculated location), New Zealand: A New -Zealand investigator receives a letter from a respected US researcher -who spoke with a young American pilot. The pilot mentions he had just -been sent on a mission to Australia, where he landed at a vast airport. -A gigantic spacecraft was already there, where he meets a group of -friendly, intelligent and good-looking men. He was told they were -scientists from other planets, and he was to fly them to Scotland for a -meeting. He flew them to Scotland and remained with his plane during the -conference. He said that scientists from many of the world’s nations -were also present.
-Type: book reference
-Reference: “Alien Gene”, McGhee, page 69
-Location: Carson’s Field, New Zealand

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- Event 2123 (1939C789)

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Date: 1951
-Description: Marc -Thirouin founds the first UFO group in France, the Commission -Internationale d’Enquêtes sur les Soucoupes Volantes, in Paris. It -begins publishing Ouranos in June 1952 and issues 32 numbers through -1966, reviving in 1972 after Thirouin’s death with a new series that -lasts until 1980. (Ouranos, no. -1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1612

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Event 2124 -(A42B9C86)

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Date: 1951
-Description: The Atomic Energy Commission uses its parallel system of -secret-keeping to conduct controversial research, development, and -engineering on aircraft and pilot-related projects, entirely without -oversight.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1611

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Event 2125 -(D10DCAD4)

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Date: 1951
-Description: Project Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper, -describes seeing 100’s of UFO’s flying in formation at very high -altitudes over Europe.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Europe

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Event 2126 -(C03F70C0)

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Date: 1951
-Description: While flying an F-86 Sabrejet over West Germany, USAF pilot -Gordon -Cooper sees several metallic discs flying at a high altitude. He -claims to “have two days of observation of many flights of them, of -different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to -west over Europe.” (Gordon Cooper and Bruce Henderson, Leap of Faith: An -Astronaut’s Journey into the Unknown, HarperCollins, 2000, pp. 80–81; -“UFO -Sightings by Astronauts,” -Syti.net, January 30, 2001; “Astronaut -Gordon Cooper Talks about UFOs,” Elhardt YouTube channel, December -27, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1609

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Event 2127 -(BE359BDA)

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Date: 1951
-Description: The intelligence unit of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing puts -out periodic intelligence reports through 1953 that cover ground and air -operations, unusual incidents, and UFO reports in Korea. The UFO reports -are in a different category from unidentified aircraft. Some of these -reports do not appear in Project Blue Book. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1610

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Event 2128 -(F793405A)

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Date: 1/1951
-Description: Author and journalist Bob -Considine’s article appears in Cosmopolitan, debunking all UFO -stories as delusions and hoaxes, and quoting a weary Air Force Col. Harold -E. Watson, who has replaced McCoy in -Project Grudge. It offends people so badly that many pilots afterward -refuse to report UFO sightings to the Air Force. USAF Public Information -Officer Clare Welch, who has set this interview up, believes the Air -Force has better things to do and is out of step with Cabell’s renewed -interest. (Bob Considine, “The -Disgraceful Flying Saucer Hoax!” -Cosmopolitan, January 1951, pp. 32–33, 100–102, republished by -Project 1947; Swords 113–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1613

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Event 2129 -(D101EB71)

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Date: 1/1/1951
-Description: The Air Defense Command, inactivated since July 1, 1950, is -reinstated as a major command at Mitchel AFB [now closed] in Long -Island, New York. The HQ is moved to Ent AFB [now the US Olympic -Training Center] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a week later. -(Wikipedia, “Aerospace -Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1615

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Event 2130 -(336A961C)

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Date: 1/1/1951
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Katie Sowell watches an object about 30–50 feet -in diameter, like two “upside down saucers” revolving counterclockwise -and darting low over her farmhouse near Oak Grove, Louisiana. It has -rectangular, opaque windows. It is seen for 15–20 minutes at close -range. It banks and disappears, going straight up. (Huntsville (Ala.) -Times, February 5, 1974; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -1951, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2000, pp. 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1614

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Event 2131 -(371A7C94)

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Date: 1/8/1951
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Boggus, plus unidentified -drivers and passengers in other cars stopped to watch. Two groups of red -and green lights in triangular formations were stationary and then -moved.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: South of Ft. Worth, Texas
-ID: 58

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Event 2132 -(71E1D851)

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Date: 1/12/1951
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Army 2nd Lt. A.C. Hale. One light with a -fan-shaped wake remained motionless like a star about 20 minutes and -then sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Benning, Georgia
-ID: 59

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Event 2133 -(DBA5808D)

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Date: 1/14/1951
-Description: Einstein student and Roswell witness Shirley J. Wright -picked for “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and -Universities”
-Type: scientist
-Reference: link

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Event 2134 -(89CF588F)

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Date: 1/16/1951
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witnesses: Two members of a balloon project from the -General Mills Aeronautical Research Laboratory, the manager of the -Artesia Airport, and three pilots. The balloon crew was observing their -110’ balloon at an altitude of 112,000’ when a dull white, round object -was spotted. It appeared larger than the balloon, but made no movement. -Later, the balloon crew and the others saw two objects from the airport; -flying side-by-side, they circled the balloon and flew away to the -northeast. The second observation lasted about 40 seconds. Note: there -is confusion over the date of this case, with some USAF records showing -it as 1952; however, 1951 appears to be correct.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Artesia, New Mexico
-ID: 60

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Event 2135 -(F5763EFD)

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Date: 1/16/1951
-Description: Raymond Dugan and Raymond E. Stiles, members of the General -Mills Aeronautical Research Laboratory balloon project, observe a round -disc near their Skyhook balloon over Artesia, New Mexico. The balloon is -at a height of 112,000 feet. A short time later, Dugan, Stiles, and four -civilian pilots at Artesia Airport see two similar objects circling the -same balloon that then fly off to the northeast. (NICAP, “Two -Discs Approach Skyhook”; Project Blue Book, [Artesia -documents]; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., -1974, pp. 69–70; -Sparks, p. 104; Swords 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1616

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Event 2136 -(97E9DCFE)

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Date: 1/18/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 1.6km (Stalled on -pad for 13s then rose slowly for 38s before exploding)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 1.6km

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Event 2137 -(69BD8040)

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Date: 1/20/1951
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Sioux City, Iowa, CAA Control Tower operator John -M. Williams sees an odd light in the west. Capt. Lawrence -W. Vinther and copilot James -F. Bachmeier of Mid-Continent Airlines Flight 9 takes off and -Vinther is asked by the tower to look for the light. While still in a -climbing turn at about 1,000 feet, the pilots spot the object to the -north-northwest at about 8,000 feet and 4 miles away. It looks like a -B-29 fuselage with wings but no engines and blinks some lights like -running lights. The object comes towards the DC-3, flies across the nose -within 200 feet, then suddenly reappears on the other side, paralleling -them for 2–3 seconds. The object then flies under them and disappears to -the northwest. This is one of the first reports to make it into the -CIRVIS system specified by JANAP 146. (NICAP, “UFO -Buzzes DC-3”; Lawrence W. Vinther, “Another -Saucer Mystery,” Flying 48 (June 1951): 23, 56, reprinted by -Project 1947; Ruppelt, p. 84; -Jan Aldrich; Sparks, -p. 104; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 43–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1617

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Event 2138 -(2C218A27)

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Date: 1/21/1951
-Description: 4:20 p.m. A UFO that appears to be over the restricted area -at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, is sighted on the -radarscope of an F-82 fighter. The GCI gives the go-ahead to intercept -the target. The radar set on the F-82 is locked on and the run begins. -The interception is unsuccessful, and the fighter returns to base. In -all, three passes are made at targets, all with radar indications, but -they cannot be completed since the target is over the restricted area -that includes the X-10 plant. (NICAP, “F-82 -Attempts Intercept of UFO over AEC Plant / Radar”; -Sparks, p. 104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1618

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Event 2139 -(8BE6A6C1)

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Date: 1/22/1951
-Description: 11:00 a.m. USAF pilots Capt. Ernest -W. Spradley Jr. of Aerial Photo Lab and Capt. James E. Cocker of -All-Weather Flying Division (both based at Wright-Patterson AFB in -Ohio), a General Mills Aeronautical lab project engineer named McAleese, -and another airman are flying in a C-47 heading east about 50 miles -southeast of Holloman AFB, New Mexico, at about 10,000–12,000 feet, -tracking a Project Gopher plastic balloon at about 50,000–70,000 feet, -when they see a bright star-like object adjacent to the pear-shaped -balloon. As they approach and fly under the balloon, they notice the -object descend to the balloon’s level and grow larger in apparent size -until about one-quarter to one-half the size of the 70-foot balloon. It -appears to be round and flat like a dime, milky white or silvery in -color, with a clear outline. Cocker and McAleese leave the cockpit and -go to the astrodome to observe the object. After 3 minutes they see the -object separate from the balloon and head west at high speed. After -about 1 minute it emits a series of 3 bright photoflashes at one-second -intervals and disappears from sight. (NICAP, “C-47 -Crew Encounter Object near ‘Gopher’”; NICAP, “White -Object Paces Balloon”; Sparks, p. 105; -Swords 114–115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1619

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Event 2140 -(DA21F819)

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Date: 1/27/1951
-Description: An Air Force B-50D bomber drops the first atomic bomb, the -Able blast, for testing in the US onto a dry lake bed known as Frenchman -Flat, inside the Nevada Test Site. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Ranger”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1620

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Event 2141 -(7AE32732)

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Date: 1/29/1951
-Description: USAF Lt. Col. Milton -D. Willis replies to Robert -B. Sibley, president of the Aero Club of New England, who has -written Secretary of the Air Force Thomas -K. Finletter asking that the UFO project be reinstated because -pilots are indeed seeing something that could be extraterrestrial. -Willis writes that, although the UFO project is disbanded, the Air Force -still investigates incidents and sends them to AMC if necessary, and an -officer (Willis himself, who has replaced Boggs) -monitors all UFO reports. As an aside to his superiors, Willis in a memo -notes that “there have been several incidents, during the last six -months, which cannot be explained and further investigation may be -necessary.” (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1951, -Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2000, pp. 7 –8; Swords 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1621

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Event 2142 -(0030BE4A)

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Date: 2/1/1951
-Time: 5:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of F-82 night fighter. -One amber light made three or four 360 degree turns to the right, -reversed toward the F-82 and then climbed out of sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Johnson Air Base, Japan
-ID: 61

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Event 2143 -(9DE9E60E)

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Date: 2/9/1951
-Description: 9:55 p.m. The crew (including Lt. Fred -W. Kingdon Jr. and US Naval Reserve Lt. Graham -E. Bethune) and passengers of a US Navy R5D transport flying west -from Keflavík, Iceland, at 10,000 feet about 212 miles northeast of -Gander, Newfoundland, observe a large orange-rimmed UFO with a dark -center. It is about 400 feet in diameter and first seen moving above the -surface of the ocean. As the plane approaches, the object changes -colors, executes a sudden 180° turn and disappears over the horizon. -Over time, several attempts to disguise the participants have resulted -in confusion over the date. (NICAP, “The -Bethune Encounter”; NICAP, “Huge -Object Rushes -up from Ocean Surface”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 9–26; “Casebook: -February 8, 1951,” UFO Investigator, no. 54 (September 1970): 3; “Casebook: -February 8, 1951,” UFO Investigator, no. 55 (October 1970): 3; -Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 78–79; -“Unidentified Flying Object: A Provocative Tale,” Naval Aviation News, -June 1973, pp. 18–19, reprinted by -Project 1947; Good Above, pp. 268, 486; -Good Need, pp. -137–139; -Graham E. Bethune, “Lights -on the Surface,” 1999; Kevin H. Knuth, Robert M. Powell, and Peter -A. Reali, “Estimating -Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles,” -Entropy, September 25, 2019; Patrick Gross, “The -Bethune Flight 124 Airmiss in 1951”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1622

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Event 2144 -(F65DF032)

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Date: 2/10/1951
-Description: Confidential Memo to Air Transport Squadron One: Lt. Graham -E. Bethune, U.S. Naval Reserve reported seeing a circular, -reddish-orange UFO flying at a speed in excess of 1000 mph, approx. 300 -ft. diam. approaching and reversing direction within 5 miles of his -plane (Flight 125 from Keflavik, Iceland.)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E, p486)
-Location: Keflavik, Iceland

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Event 2145 -(FA1A0FAC)

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Date: 2/13/1951
-Description: William -Webster, chair of the Defense Department’s Research and Development -Board, convenes a press briefing at the Pentagon and announces that -“Careful studies have been made [referring to the upcoming article in -Look]. I don’t believe anyone who has the opportunity to be informed and -to look into this thing believes there is a flying saucer as such. As -far as I know there is nothing to the flying saucers.” (Loren E. Gross, -UFOs, -a History: -Volume 8, 1951, The -Author, 1983, pp. 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1623

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Event 2146 -(3D150056)

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Date: 2/19/1951
-Description: Aviation Week praises the upcoming article in Look -identifying UFOs as balloons. (Robert H. Wood, “Saucers, Secrecy, and -Security,” Aviation Week 54 (February 19, 1951): 50, reprinted by -Project 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1625

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Event 2147 -(A9FB26CC)

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Date: 2/19/1951
-Description: 7:20 a.m. Capt. Jack Bicknell and Radio Officer D. W. -Merrifield are flying a Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar aircraft out of -Nairobi, Kenya, when they see a bright object hanging motionless about -10,000 above Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanganyika [now Tanzania]. They watch -it for 3 minutes, then tell the passengers about it. Bicknell observes -it through binoculars and sees a “metallic, bullet-shaped object which -must have been over 200 feet long.” It has a vertical fin at one end, -and at regular intervals along the fuselage are vertical dark bands. It -remains completely stationary for 17 minutes. Two passengers take photos -of it. Then it begins rising and moving eastward, disappearing at 40,000 -feet. It leaves no vapor trail. (NICAP, “Lodestar -Crew Sees Stationary Silver Elongated -Object”; “The -Flying Saucer: Captain Bicknell’s Own Story,” Nairobi (Kenya) Sunday -Post, February 25, 1951, p. 15; Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents]; UFOEv, p. 124; -Sparks, p. 105; -Patrick Gross. “February -19, 1951, Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa”; Barry Greenwood, “Mt. -Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, February 19, 1951: -Photo Located,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 16 (July 2015): 1–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1624

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Event 2148 -(D8CF2DC4)

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Date: 2/20/1951
-Description: The Air Intelligence Training Bulletin publishes a -facetious news item on how to recognize flying saucers, but implies they -are all reflections. (“Recognition -of Flying Saucers,” Air Intelligence Training Bulletin, February 20, -1951)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1626

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Event 2149 -(33148181)

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Date: 2/21/1951
-Time: 4:55 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three men in a truck, several other persons, -none named. A dark red, torpedo-shaped object with darker center, flew -straight and level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Durban, South Africa
-ID: 62

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Event 2150 -(1527E36C)

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Date: 2/25/1951
-Description: BSRA’s “Gerald Light” associate reports that he was -attacked suffering injuries by a saucer, and his neighbor and his -neighbor’s dog were also affected.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: link
-Location: Los Angeles, CA

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Event 2151 -(CF24D820)

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Date: 2/25/1951
-Description: Project Twinkle head and chemist Anthony O. Mirarchi at the -USAF Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts tells the Associated -Press that he thinks UFOs are not “just balloons” (in response to Liddel’s -upcoming article) and urges a full investigation of what could be -experiments by a “potential enemy of the United States.” He says that -UFO reports show “maneuvered motion” that are not characteristic of a -natural phenomenon. He says the “Navy report is erroneous. It lulls -people into a false sense of security.” He reminds the nation of the -critical installations in New Mexico, including Los Alamos, and argues -that they are a target of reconnaissance: “If they were launched by a -foreign power, then they could lead to a worse Pearl Harbor than we have -ever experienced.” He blasts the US government for a policy of “suicide -by secrecy.” The FBI and Air Force mull prosecuting Mirarchi for -violating AFR 205-1. (“A.F. -Scientist Warns Saucers Major Threat,” Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, -February 26, 1951, p. 1; “Scientist -Fears Flying Saucers Portend a Worse ‘Pearl Harbor,’” Oklahoma Daily -Oklahoman, February 26, 1951, p 1; Swords 119–120; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 8, 1951, The -Author, 1983, pp. 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1627

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Event 2152 -(614F63AA)

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Date: 2/26/1951
-Time: 7:10 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF Sgt. J.B. Sells. One dull grey, metallic -object, estimated to be 120’ long and 10-12’ thick, hovered, puffed -smoke and sped away after 1-1.5 minutes. Note: may have been -Feb. 25.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ladd AFB, Alaska
-ID: 63

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Event 2153 -(80D3D3EE)

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Date: 2/27/1951
-Description: Physicist Urner -Liddel, Office -of Naval Research, says in a Look magazine article that there is not a -single reliable UFO report that is not attributable to the cosmic -[Skyhook] balloons. The article is based on Liddel’s study in ONR’s -Research Reviews in March. He claims to have studied “hundreds” of -sightings in detail (probably from Project Grudge). As for UFOs sighted -by Skyhook scientists themselves, he discounts them because these -technicians are not aware of mirages and internal reflections in optical -devices. (Richard Wilson, “A Nuclear Physicist Exposes Flying Saucers,” -Look, February 27, 1951, pp. 60–64; Swords 117–118; Urner Liddel, “Bogies -at Angels 100,” Research Reviews, March 1951, pp. 1–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1628

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Event 2154 -(401E47F4)

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Date: 3/1951
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Operations Officer Robert Wood is aboard the USS -Dyess approximately 125 miles southeast of Cape May, New Jersey, -when he picks up a radar target coming in from due east at a speed of -98–104 mph and an altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet. It stops and hovers -about 30 miles away. Wood notifies the bridge, and the captain orders -the ship to change course toward the object. About 30 minutes later, the -UFO suddenly takes off toward the north at 3,000 mph, getting to within -35–40 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, before it zooms -straight up. Altitude-determining radar tracks the object to 100 miles -altitude. (“March, -1951: Approximately 125 Miles -SE of Cape May, N.J.,” Project 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1630

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Event 2155 -(CDBFFFB6)

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Date: 3/1951
-Description: A ghost light is seen in Suffolk County, Virginia, and -investigated by Nansemond County Deputy Sheriff Hurley -Jones, who -sees the light three times. It looks like a car headlight 5 feet off the -ground, three times. Jeston Reid said his father had seen the light in -the 1870s. The location is apparently either Turlington Road or Jackson -Road [they intersect] south of Suffolk, since locals say the old -railroad along the Jackson and Whaleyville logging road used to run down -that way, and the light has also been compared to a locomotive -headlight. Some 200 people have been gathering along the road, hoping to -catch a glimpse. (“Mystery -Light Is a Puzzle in Nansemond,” Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, -March 6, 1951, p. 2; “Nansemond’s -Mystery Light Is Nothing New to Old- Timers,” -Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, March 7, 1951, p. 2; “Mysterious -Suffolk Light Has Deputy Believing in -Ghosts,” Statesville (N.C.) Daily Record, March 8, 1951, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1629

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Event 2156 -(F26A8EE8)

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Date: 3/8/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 3.1km (Blossom 8 — -Three explosions at 15.5; 18.5 and 19.5s destroying tail section)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 3.1km

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Event 2157 -(135C0ACD)

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Date: 3/10/1951
-Time: 9:51 AM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-29 bomber, including scanners and -tail gunner. A large red-yellow glow burst and became blue-white. No -further information in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chinnampo, Korea
-ID: 64

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Event 2158 -(73F4B48D)

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Date: 3/13/1951
-Time: 3:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF lst Lt. B.J. Hastie, Mrs. Rafferty. A -cylinder with twin tails, 200’ long and 90’ wide, turned north and flew -at incredible speed. Two minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: McClellan AFB, California
-ID: 65

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Event 2159 -(88DA44CB)

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Date: 3/14/1951
-Description: A group of nine Bell Aircraft engineers are flying at -15,000 feet in a B-50 Superfortress near Holloman AFB, New Mexico, -during a test of a secret Bell aircraft. They spot a group of unknown -objects flying in a confusing “swirl” that breaks into a V-formation and -back to a “swirl,” then a V again. The objects are slightly higher than -the aircraft and seem to be moving at high velocity. The engineers -insist the objects are not geese, which actually can fly this high. -(This may be the same incident as the August 30, 1950, case at -Holloman.) (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 8, 1951, The -Author, 1983, pp. 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1631

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Event 2160 -(748A6EB6)

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Date: 3/15/1951
-Time: 10:20 AM
-Description: Witnesses: 25 members of a flying club, including the chief -aerial engineer and his two assistants. One metallic cigar-shaped object -with white exhaust which turned black when it accelerated to an -estimated 1,000 m.p.h. and made a large loop. Seven minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: New Delhi, India
-ID: 66

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Event 2161 -(5243075C)

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Date: 3/15/1951
-Description: 10:20 a.m. George F. Floate, chief engineer of the Delhi -Flying Club, and two assistants observe a swirly white cloud moving from -north to south at about 4,000 feet altitude near the club’s hanger in -New Delhi, India. The cloud is about 700 feet in length. At the end of -it a bullet-shaped object appears, approximately 100 feet long and as -big around as a C-47 fuselage. The witnesses shout out, and 17–20 people -rush out of the hanger and see the object. It heads south for about 3 -minutes where it makes an apparent loop, coming back over the field. At -the top of the loop it is out of sight, but it is seen again in its -dive. After recovering straight and level flight, the UFO proceeds to -the southwest until it is lost to sight. Its speed is estimated at three -times greater than the cruising speed of a British Vampire jet. The -total duration is about 7 minutes. (NICAP, “20+ -Top Shelf Witnesses / Metallic -Cigar”; Sparks, -p. 106) Early spring — Dusk. US Army Pfc. Francis -P. Wall is on maneuvers with the 27th Infantry Regiment near -Cheorwon, South Korea, when he sees an orange light like a -jack-o-lantern coming down a mountain. Artillery airbursts do not seem -to harm it. As it approaches, it turns into a brilliant blue-green disc -pulsating with light. Wall asks permission to shoot and fires a round -from his M-1 rifle at it. The object starts moving erratically from side -to side, flashes on and off, and makes an engine-like noise. It sweeps -the soldiers with a beam of light, and they feel a burning and tingling -sensation. They retreat to their bunkers and continue to watch the -object, which is still lighting up the area, and then it shoots away at -a 45° angle. (Haines, Korea, pp. 18–27; -Richard F. Haines, “GI Fires on UFO in Korea,” IUR 15, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1990): 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1632

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Event 2162 -(4E30EEA0)

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Date: 4/4/1951
-Description: The Truman administration forms the Psychological Strategy -Board to coordinate and plan for psychological operations. The board is -composed of the Under Secretary of State, the Deputy Secretary of -Defense, and the Director of Central Intelligence, or their designated -representatives. The board’s first director is Gordon -Gray, later -National Security Advisor during the Eisenhower administration. The -board is created in response to the growth of Office of Policy -Coordination covert activities during the Korean War. The PSB is tasked -with creating propaganda that will subconsciously turn people away from -communism and toward democracy. It is abolished in 1953. (Wikipedia, “Psychological -Strategy Board”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1633

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Event 2163 -(E5FED939)

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Date: 4/7/1951
-Description: Howard -Hawks’s film The Thing from Another World opens, starring Margaret -Sheridan, Kenneth -Tobey, and James -Arness, about -a crashed flying saucer found in the Arctic. It ends with the haunting -lines by Douglas Spencer: -“Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Watch the skies!” (Internet -Movie Database, “The -Thing from -Another World”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1634

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Event 2164 -(9BB0128E)

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Date: 4/11/1951
-Description: Air Defense Command issues a memo on “Unconventional -Aircraft” to all USAF facilities, encouraging them to report sightings -in a timely manner. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 8, 1951, The Author, 1983, pp. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1635

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Event 2165 -(FE7E325F)

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Date: 4/17/1951
-Description: Project Grudge’s Col. Harold -E. Watson notes that JANAP 146 has no provision for UFO reports to -be sent to Wright-Patterson AFB under the CIRVIS system. (Jan -Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1636

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Event 2166 -(FBF49BDA)

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Date: 4/21/1951
-Description: Drones are again used in the series of thermonuclear tests -designated Operation Greenhouse at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall -Islands. During the Easy detonation, two T-33 drones are lost. One -receives heavy damage from the shock wave, loses control, and crashes; -the other refuses to respond to control signals and crashes on -uninhabited Bogullua Island. The Air Force concludes that unmanned -samplers are unreliable. (M/Sgt Leland B. Taylor, History -of Air Force Atomic Cloud Sampling, US -Special Weapons Center, January 1963, pp. 34–37; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1637

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Event 2167 -(887EF709)

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Date: 4/23/1951
-Description: Col. Harold -E. Watson writes a memo to the USAF Director of Intelligence, -explaining his view that “little if any results” have been obtained from -Project Grudge other than the objects are not from a foreign power. But -since there is still dome doubt, all reports should be forwarded to AMC -at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio . (Swords 121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1638

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Event 2168 -(B7B218FE)

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Date: 4/27/1951
-Description: Science fiction movie “The Thing from Another World” is -released
-Type: movie
-Reference: link
-Location: US

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Event 2169 -(87820C3B)

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Date: 5/21/1951
-Description: Wright-Patterson’s Technical Intelligence Department (T-2) -becomes the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) and is assigned to -the Directorate of Intelligence in the Pentagon. Project Grudge goes -along with it. (Sparks, p. 12; -Clark III 936)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1639

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Event 2170 -(C4B48A84)

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Date: 5/22/1951
-Description: 3:20 a.m. American Airlines pilot Capt. W. R. Hunt observes -a blue-white, star-like object gyrating around the airplane at 21,000 -feet for 20 minutes about 100 miles southwest of Dodge City, Kansas. It -moves backward and forward, then up and down, then dives below the plane -and speeds away. (“Mysterious -Bright Light ‘Plays Tag’ with -Airliner over Kansas,” Iola (Kan.) Register, May 22, 1951, p. 1; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 8, -1951, The -Author, 1983, p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1640

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Event 2171 -(0A1C0D60)

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Date: 6/1951
-Description: The UK Flying Saucer Working Party produces its six-page -final report for the Ministry of Defence’s Directorate of Scientific -Intelligence, DSI/JTIC Report number 7, Unidentified Flying Objects, -classified Secret. The CIA’s chief scientist, H. -Marshall Chadwell, attends the meeting when the report is delivered. -The report admits that no systematic investigation has been undertaken, -but from the evidence examined, including reports by RAF pilots, -explanations can probably be found for most reports. Copies are also -submitted to Canada as well as US and UK officials. (Joe McGonagle, “Flying -Saucer Working Party: Commentary,” part 2, The Real UFO Project; -Good Need, pp. 149–152; -David Clarke, “Flying -Saucer Working Party,” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism, -January 3, 2015; UFOFiles2, pp. 38–40; -Mark Rodeghier, “Britain’s Secret UFO Study,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter -2001–2002): 21–23; Ian Ridpath, “Report -of the UK Government’s Flying Saucer Working Party (1951 June),” Ian -Ridpath’s UFO Skeptic Pages, January 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1642

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Event 2172 -(FDBFF16E)

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Date: 6/1951
-Description: Project Grudge only has one person on staff to investigate -UFO reports, Lt. Jerry -W. Cummings, who reorganizes the system and uses a more open-minded -approach. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 56–57; -Sparks, p. 14; -Swords 121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1641

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Event 2173 -(C2FBB774)

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Date: 6/1/1951
-Time: 4:20 AM
-Description: Witnesses: M/Sgt H.E. Sweeney, 2 enlisted men. One glowing -yellow-orange, saucer-shaped object with arc-shaped wings, flew straight -up. Seen for 30-40 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Niagara Falls, New York
-ID: 67

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Event 2174 -(7172DAA8)

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Date: 6/1/1951
-Description: 10:00 p.m. An ATIC official at Wright-Patterson AFB is -driving west near Dayton, Ohio, when he sees a large, bluish-white light -moving parallel to the car. It looks like a “stubby cigar.” After 15–20 -seconds, it makes a right- angle turn, becomes circular, and rapidly -disappears. Its speed is “faster than an airplane, slower than a -meteor.” (UFOEv, p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1643

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Event 2175 -(E41502D4)

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Date: 6/14/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km (Exploded on -pad at start of main-stage thrust after rising 6-inches)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 0km

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Event 2176 -(F779452F)

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Date: 6/19/1951
-Description: Day. Mechanic Joseph Matiszewski hears a whistling sound as -he is walking in Sønderborg, Denmark, and sees an object land in a -nearby meadow. Approaching to within 150 feet of it, he finds himself -paralyzed and notices that birds have stopped singing and cows seem -frozen in place. Four men with brown skin and wearing black shiny suits -and translucent helmets emerge from the object and send Matiszewski some -telepathic messages. Eight smaller objects are ejected from the large -one and float above it. Other figures inside the craft and on its deck -appear to be making repairs. The objects ascend to about 300 feet and -climb rapidly after that. The paralysis subsides. (Patrick Gross, URECAT, July -1, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1644

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Event 2177 -(5B7C6D98)

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Date: 6/19/1951
-Time: 1200
-Description: Joseph Matiszewski, a mechanic, heard a whistling sound and -saw an object land in a meadow. Approaching within 50 m, he found -himself paralyzed and observed that birds had stopped singing and cows -seemed to be similarly unable to move. From the object emerged four -handsome men who had brown skin and wore black shiny suits and -translucent helmets. Eight objects also emerged from the craft and -hovered above it. Other men inside the craft and on its deck appeared to -be making repairs, then the objects flew to about 100 m altitude and -climbed rapidly out of sight. Only then did the paralysis subside.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten May., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Sonderborg, Denmark
-ID: 82

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Event 2178 -(5EDC893A)

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Date: summer 1951
-Description: A dubious story surfaces in 1956 that three UFOs had -appeared above Mexico City International Airport at the same time as a -visit by US Secretary of Defense George -C. Marshall. (However, -there is no record of a visit by Marshall at this time; apparently his -first visit to Mexico was a vacation in Cuernavaca in February 1952.) -According to the story, Marshall tells a “highly placed American” and -“prominent medical scientist” that UFOs are interplanetary and friendly, -but they have crashed accidentally on three occasions. In 1965, the -American informant is revealed to be Rolf -Alexander, who is in fact Allan Alexander Stirling, a New Zealand -seaman who had jumped ship in 1920 and entered the US illegally. To -support himself he promoted various dubious health cures while -concocting a fictitious personal history. His activities were -interrupted by prison sentences for mail fraud and embezzlement, and in -1954–1960 he claimed the ability to break up clouds with his -psychokinetic abilities. (“Let’s -Talk Space: ‘Flying Saucers’ Are Real,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. -1 (Jan./Feb. 1956): 2–4; “Rolf -Alexander, M.D.,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1965): -9; RosRept, p. 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1647

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Event 2179 -(1F735DE7)

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Date: Summer 1951
-Description: USAF project “Bluebook” is started
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: US

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Event 2180 -(9695757D)

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Date: 6/22/1951
-Description: Life magazine reporter Robert -Emmett Ginna Jr. visits Air Technical Intelligence Center at -Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio for the first time to gather information on -“Project Saucer” for an article. The visit is coordinated by Jack T. -Shea, special assistant to the director of public relations. (Jan -Aldrich; Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 -(Winter 2003–2004): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1645

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Event 2181 -(D5F28170)

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Date: 6/25/1951
-Description: The UK Flying Saucer Working Party is disbanded. (Good -Need, p. 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1646

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Event 2182 -(3A6DF3FB)

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Date: 6/28/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.8km (Blossom 9 — -Tail explosion at 8s and then cut-off signal given at 22s.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 5.8km

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Event 2183 -(99EC2BA0)

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Date: 7/1951
-Description: The radiation-counter network set up at Oak Ridge National -Laboratory, Tennessee, in December 1950 by Lt. Col. John R. Hood hits -paydirt when a UFO appears, sighted both visually and on radar over the -facility. He finds that the radiation counters have detected a -significant rise in some kind of emission. Hood wants to expand the -equipment, adding a debris-catching pursuit plane. However, information -is lacking on this case and any follow- up. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 8, 1951, The -Author, 1983, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1648

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Event 2184 -(44272BB8)

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Date: 7/1/1951
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Four night pilots of the 1st Marine Aircraft -Wing in different areas around Seoul, Korea, simultaneously report a -large green ball, very bright and trailing streaks of red then blue, -passing overhead at 10,000–15,000 feet. (Haines, Korea, p. 31; -Sparks, -p. 106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1649

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Event 2185 -(EC2B9BC5)

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Date: 7/4/1951 (approximate)
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Future ufologist Irena -Scott and her sister Sue are sleeping at their home in Galena, Ohio, -when they wake to see a small glowing light circling their bedroom in a -meandering movement, but never bumping into anything. It circles the -room three times, maintaining the same shape, brightness, and size (less -than one inch). After a few minutes, it moves in tight circles around -the chandelier, then spirals downward, makes a noise, and emits tiny -lights. Terrified, they rush out of the room and tell their father, who -inspects the room but finds nothing. (Irena Scott, “Bedroom Light,” IUR -13, no. 2 (March/April 1988): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1650

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Event 2186 -(3EABF765)

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Date: 7/9/1951
-Description: Day. USAF Lt. George -H. Kinmon II, stationed -at Lawson AFB [now Lawson Army Airfield] with the 117th Tactical -Reconnaissance Wing, is flying an F-51 over Dearing, Georgia, when he -sees a white disc “completely round and spinning in a clockwise -direction.” It makes a headlong pass at his aircraft. It travels at -“tremendous speed” and leaves no vapor trail. (NICAP, “Aerial -Encounter with Disc”; “Saucer Attacked Me, Pilot Declares,” -Cleveland Press, July 30, 1952, p. 1, reprinted in -Saucer Attack, April 1998; Sparks, -p. 107; UFOEv, p. 23; -Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 328–330)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1651

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Event 2187 -(CDFC4194)

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Date: 7/9/1951
-Description: Pilot Lt. Kinmon sees and reports an UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Columbus, GA
-See also: 7/10/1951

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Event 2188 -(DAC86CD8)

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Date: 7/10/1951
-Description: Classified OSI Message from Robins AFB, Macon: UFO sighted -by Lt. George H. Kinmon Jr. on July 9, 1951. Description: Flat on top -and bottom and appeared from front view to have rounded edges, slightly -beveled. Color was white. When it dived from its position it appeared -circular with a clockwise spinning motion. Appeared to have a fractured -surface. No exhaust fumes or visible means of propulsion. At an approx. -distance from his plane the UFO appeared to be 10 to 15 feet in diam. -UFO caused air disturbance as it barrel-rolled under his plane. His nose -camera malfunctioned.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Macon, GA

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Event 2189 -(0EED9B7E)

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Date: 7/14/1951
-Description: Morning. During a guided missile launch, two radar -operators at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, catch a fast-moving -object on their scope. At the same time, a tracker watching a B-29 with -binoculars sees a large UFO near the bomber. Another observer sights the -UFO and, with a 35mm camera, shoots 200 feet of film. The UFO shows on -the film as a round, bright spot. The film has never been released. -(NICAP, “White Sands -Radar/Visual”; Sparks, p. 107; -Project 1947, “Radar -and Visual UFO Sighting, White Sands Missile Range, -New Mexico—July 14, 1951”; Good Above, pp. 354–355)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1652

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Event 2190 -(13DCF65F)

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Date: 7/22/1951
-Description: The Soviet R-1V carrier rocket brought the dogs of Dezik -and Tsygan to the upper atmosphere and returned them to earth alive. It -was the first successful flight of animals into space, but for 40 years -the story was classified due to the numerous unsuccessful flights before -that.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: link
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 2191 -(DD6FC2EA)

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Date: 7/24/1951
-Time: 7:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Hanscom AFB Operations Officer Capt. Cobb, Cpl. -Fein. One 100-200’ tubular object, 5 times long as it was wide, with -fins at one end, and colored greyish with many black spots. Flew -800-1,000 m.p.h. at 1-2,000’ altitude, leaving a faint swath. 20 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
-ID: 68

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Event 2192 -(ACE948CB)

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Date: 7/25/1951
-Description: Personnel at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, write a report -compiling the results of an organized skywatch of UFOs at the base. -Several photos are taken. The report does not conclude what the objects -are, but it does establish that some kind of objects have been seen. -(“Status -of Project Blue Book,” T52-6888, [1952], p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1653

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Event 2193 -(0E1396A8)

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Date: 8/1951
-Description: In an article in Popular Science, the editors ask UFO -witnesses what they think the objects are. About 70% believe they are -intelligently controlled devices, either man-made or extraterrestrial. -(“What -Were the Flying Saucers? -Eyewitnesses Believe They Saw Secret Aircraft,” Popular Science 159 -(August 1951): 74–75, 228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1654

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Event 2194 -(1A12D6BF)

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Date: 8/3/1951
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Walter -N. Webb, nature counselor at Camp Big Silver on the shore of Silver -Lake in southern Michigan, 3 miles south of Pinckney, is showing two boy -campers some celestial objects through a reflecting telescope. He sees a -glowing, yellowish light moving westward at a low elevation in an -undulating path over hills to the south. It disappears behind the hills -before he can train his telescope on it. (UFOEv, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1655

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Event 2195 -(57B6B437)

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Date: 8/11/1951
-Description: Former USAF pilot Robert -O. Dodge watches three disc-like UFOs in formation over Portland, -Oregon. (UFOEv, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1656

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Event 2196 -(B1D78934)

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Date: 8/15/1951
-Description: US test pilot Bill -Bridgeman attains an unofficial altitude of 79,494 feet in a Douglas -D-558-2 Skyrocket, an air-launched rocket plane powered by the XLR-11 -liquid fuel rocket engine. (Wikipedia, “Bill -Bridgeman”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1657

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Event 2197 -(98A7120B)

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Date: mid 8/1951
-Description: Midnight. A witness is on his porch in Waco, Texas, looking -at the sky when he sees a V-shaped formation of 10–20 round, luminous -objects silently pass over from west to east in a matter of seconds. -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1659

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Event 2198 -(160A9673)

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Date: mid 8/1951
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Mining engineer Alfred Roos hears a swishing -sound at his ranch 10 miles east of Silver City, New Mexico. He looks up -and sees two lens-shaped UFOs swooping at tremendous speed then -hovering. They go back and forth between his location and Fort Bayard, -two miles to the northwest, where they finally disappear into a cloud. -(UFOEv, p. 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1658

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Event 2199 -(C3ACA1F6)

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Date: 8/17/1951
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Otto -Bock, a -German scientist with a specialty in optics who came to the US as part -of Operation Paperclip, observes a high-altitude, metallic object -through his 20x telescope for about 4 hours. He says the sighting is -confirmed by four other persons. (Project 1947, “Letter -to Donald Keyhoe: Otto Bock, August 22, 1951”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1660

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Event 2200 -(B62880C0)

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Date: 8/20/1951
-Description: The CIA, approved by DCI Roscoe -Hillenkoetter, starts -Project ARTICHOKE to study hypnosis, morphine addiction, and LSD to -produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in subjects, as a way of -exploring interrogation methods. (Wikipedia, “Project -ARTICHOKE”; [Central Intelligence Agency], “Project -Artichoke,” declassified(?), January 31, 1975)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1661

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Event 2201 -(3A6CDD46)

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Date: 8/22/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 213.4km (Army -training test — last 5 launches by “Broomstick Scientists”)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 213.4km

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Event 2202 -(25713B69)

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Date: 8/23/1951
-Description: Frank -Wisner succeeds Allen -Dulles as CIA Deputy Director of Plans in the Office of Policy -Coordination, with Richard -Helms as chief of operations. In this position, Wisner is -instrumental in supporting pro-American forces that toppled Mohammed -Mossadegh in Iran in -1953 and Jacobo -Árbenz in Guatemala in -1954. Sometime this year he visits Richard -M. Bissell Jr. and asks him to finance OPC operations by diverting -some Marshall Plan funds, presumably for covert black ops. (Jacobsen, -Area 51, pp. 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1662

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Event 2203 -(8EA3F200)

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Date: 8/25/1951
-Description: Evening. Joseph Bryant and his wife, at 407 West Powell -Street, Brownfield, Texas, see a loose group of glowing lights heading -north to south. They are a “little bigger than a star.” A few minutes -later a second group flies over, and then a third, which circles around -the house. This time Bryant can hear them, and he identifies them as -plovers. When he hears about the Lubbock lights, he is sure the -professors are seeing plovers. (Clark III 691–692)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1663

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Event 2204 -(EC3CD7DF)

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Date: 8/25/1951
-Description: 9:10 p.m. Three Texas Technical College professors -(geologist Wilbur -Irvin Robinson, chemist Aaron Gustav -“Gus” Oberg, and petroleum engineer William -Lyon Ducker Jr.) are sitting in a backyard at Lubbock, Texas, when -they see a fast-moving, semicircular formation of 20–30 lights, as -intense as bright stars but larger. Blue-green and silent, they move -across the sky in seconds. A second group appears and repeats the -performance. Others, including Carl Hemminger at Texas Tech, report -seeing the same objects the same night. J. -Russell Heitman, -head of the Texas Tech journalism department, says he had seen an -identical group of lights several days earlier. The professors watch -10–12 such flights through November 1 (including on September 1 and 5), -sometimes accompanied by colleagues Ellis -Richard Heineman, E. -F. George, Grayson -Mead, and John Brand. Some researchers, including Ruppelt and -Hynek, -think the witnesses are seeing migrating plovers attracted to Lubbock’s -new vapor street lights, although Ruppelt changes his mind later. -(Wikipedia, “Lubbock -Lights”; NICAP, “The -Lubbock Lights / Carl Hart Photos”; Clark III 688–690; Loren E. -Gross, UFOs, -a History: Volume 8, -1951, The -Author, 1983, pp. 45–55; Swords 130–132; “Lubbock -1951,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, November 15, -1999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1664

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Event 2205 -(F541C9D2)

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Date: 8/25/1951
-Description: Around 9:58 p.m. Hugh Young, a security guard at Sandia -Base, and his wife Emily are in their trailer home in east Albuquerque, -New Mexico, and watch a large object like a flying wing, but 1.5 times -as large as a B-36, flying at 80 feet at about 300 mph. It has glowing -white lights on the trailing edge of the wing and is completely silent. -(NICAP, “Flying -Wing over Sandia Base”; Clark III 691; Sparks, -p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1665

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Event 2206 -(2276F957)

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Date: 8/25/1951
-Time: 9:58 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Sandia Base Security Guard Hugh Young and wife. -A flying wing-shaped craft passed over their heads at an estimated -800-1,000’ altitude with no sound. Size estimated at 1.5 times wingspan -of B-36 bomber,or 350’. Dark, chordwise stripes on underside, and 6-8 -pairs of soft, glowing lights on trailing edge of “wing”. Speed -estimated at 300-400 m.p.h., object seen for about 30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 69

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Event 2207 -(511CE0B8)

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Date: 8/26/1951
-Description: 8:28 p.m. A radar station at Larson AFB [now Grant County -International Airport], near Moses Lake, Washington, tracks a UFO at -13,000 feet going 950 mph on two different sets, AN/CPS-1 and AN/CPS-4, -for about 6 minutes. An F-86 is scrambled, but radar contact is lost -before the plane gets off the ground. An electronic signal is received -from this object that appears to be a mode-one IFF response from an -AN/APX-6 transponder. This response is received twice at approx.115 -miles and 80 miles from the radar station. (NICAP, “Two -Radars Track -900 MPH Target; Clark III 692; Ruppelt, pp. 96–98, -108–109; -Sparks, -p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1666

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Event 2208 -(9B199D26)

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Date: 8/27/1951
-Description: At a conference at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, on the green -fireballs, Project Twinkle’s Maj. Edward -A. Doty expresses -skepticism about the project. Meteorologist Bernard -“Duke” Gildenberg tells those assembled that he has never seen -anything out of the ordinary, nor has astronomer Clyde -Tombaugh. The commanding officer at Holloman wants to cease -allocating funds for the project. (Clark III 545)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1667

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Event 2209 -(84F5D9B4)

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Date: 8/28/1951
-Description: Project Twinkle personnel talk to LaPaz about -the green fireballs and he insists they are not meteors. (Clark III -545)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1668

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Event 2210 -(E64757EA)

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Date: 8/30/1951
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A Texas Tech freshman named Carl Hart Jr. sees -the same formation of 18–20 lights over Lubbock, Texas, and takes five -photos. He gets the roll of film developed the next day and takes it to -the Lubbock Morning Avalanche, which puts them out on the Associated -Press wire. ATIC examines the photos and notes that the “two rows of -spots behaved differently. One row only shows slight variation from a -precise V formation throughout, whereas the other now appears to pass -from above the first row, through it to a position below.” Biologist James -Cecil Cross looks -at the Lubbock photos under a microscope and rules out the bird -explanation. See also Life, Apr. 7, 1952. While investigating the -Lubbock Lights, Ruppelt also -learns that several people in and around Lubbock claim to have seen a -“flying wing” moving over the city. Among the witnesses is the wife of -Dr. Ducker, who -reports that in August 1951 she observed a “huge, soundless flying wing” -pass over her house. Ruppelt knows that USAF does possess a “flying -wing” jet bomber, and he feels that at least some of the sightings are -caused by the bomber, although he cannot explain why, according to the -witnesses, the wing makes no sound as it flies overhead. Ruppelt says -that in addition to Project Grudge investigators, another group of -people who, “because of their association with the government, had -complete access to our files” (scientists convinced of the ETH) were -also looking into the Lubbock cases. In March 1955, Ducker sends Ruppelt -a telegram indicating that he has figured out that the lights are a -“natural phenomenon” and requests no further publicity in his book. -However, Texas Tech mathematics professor Ralph -Sylvester Underwood has also observed three flights and estimates -the objects are at 2,000 feet altitude and flying at 700 mph—much too -fast for birds. (NICAP, “The Lubbock -Lights / Carl Hart Photos”; “‘Flying Whatsits’ Stir Dispute in -Area,” Lubbock (Tex.) Morning Avalanche, September 6, 1951; Clark III -690–693; Ruppelt, pp. 96–110; -Kevin D. Randle, “Carl Hart and the Lubbock Lights,” IUR 18, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1993): 17–19; Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the -APRO Files,” IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 22; “Lubbock -1951,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, November 15, 1999; -Donald R. Burleson, “New Findings on the Lubbock Lights,” IUR 26, no. 2 -(Summer 2001): 3–5; “Lubbock -Lights and Roswell,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, December -7, 2005; Michael D. Swords, “Can -We Learn Anything from UFO Photos? Part Five,” The Big Study, July -15, 2012; Swords 131– 132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1669

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Event 2211 -(3238481D)

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Date: 8/31/1951
-Time: 12:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. Tom Tilson, one or two other women, all -apparently of excellent reputations. One pear-shaped object with a -length of a B-29 fuselage (100’), aluminum or silver with a port or some -type of aperture on the side. It moved with smaller end forward, -drifting slowly at about 150’ altitude, then headed up in a circular -fashion and out of sight after a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Matador, Texas
-ID: 70

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Event 2212 -(FC36EFC3)

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Date: 8/31/1951
-Description: 12:45 p.m. Mrs. Tom Tilson and one or two other women are -driving north on Hwy 70 near Matador, Texas, when they see to the west a -pear-shaped object the length of a B-29 fuselage (100 feet). It is -aluminum or silver-yellow with a port or some type of aperture on the -side, and it moves with its smaller end forward, drifting slowly at -about 150 feet altitude. It then shoots up in a circular fashion and out -of sight after a few seconds. (Clark III 692; Sparks, p. 109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1670

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Event 2213 -(35D75CF1)

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Date: 9/1951
-Description: A group of Unmatjera aborigines observed a shiny circular -object land near a similar craft, about 12 m in diameter. Several min -later, a dwarf dressed in a shiny suit and having “a round, shiny head” -came out of one craft and entered the other; both took off with a -buzzing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Edwards 93 (Vallee)
-Location: Central Australia
-ID: 83

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Event 2214 -(576DD021)

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Date: 9/1951
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Louise McDougall is sitting on the lawn outside -her trailer park in Bloomington, California, when she has the feeling -someone is watching her. She looks up and sees a flying saucer hovering -some 20 feet up. It is lenticular, perhaps 100 feet in diameter, and -dull silver metallic in appearance. There are tall, rectangular windows -in its lower half, in which can be seen against an amber glow four men, -in one-piece “jump suits,” with shoulder- length hair. She turns a -spotlight on the saucer, whereupon it shoots off silently at incredible -speed. About 15 minutes later it returns, hovering in the same spot, the -figures still visible at the windows. After 6 or 7 minutes, it takes off -again to the southeast. McDougall’s husband and three other people also -see it. (Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September -15, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1671

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Event 2215 -(DC74EC48)

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Date: 9/6/1951
-Time: 7:20 PM (not really clear)
-Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt W.T. Smith, M/Sgt L.L. Duel (?). Six -orange lights in an irregular formation, flew straight and level into a -coastal fog bank after 3-4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Claremont, California
-ID: 71

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Event 2216 -(6C8804E9)

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Date: 9/6/1951
-Description: The Air Force issues JANAP 146(B), “Communications -Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft.” -All UFO reports are to go to the Air Defense Command in the Pentagon -(which presumably will send them to AMC at Wright-Patterson AFB in -Ohio), the Secretary of Defense, and to the nearest US military command. -(Swords 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1672

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Event 2217 -(73343669)

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Date: 9/10/1951
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL Air Intel REPORT: Maj. Ballard and Lt. Rogers -while flying at 20,000 ft. in a T-33 spotted a disc-shaped UFO the size -of an F-86 flying below them at 8000 ft. It was travelling much faster -than they were (900+ mph). It was steady in flight, with no visible -means of propulsion and shiny silver in color. The radar station at Ft. -Monmouth plotted the same UFO on radar at 1110 EDT flying above 700 mph. -(p127 of Ruppelt’s book)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p487)
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Asbury, NJ

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Event 2218 -(7A9E9B33)

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Date: 9/10/1951
-Description: 11:10 a.m. At the Army Signal Corps radar center at Fort -Monmouth [now closed], New Jersey, a student operator demonstrating -radar functions to a group of visiting officers picks up a target that -is moving too fast to be tracked automatically. The object seems to be -following the coastline. He follows it off and on for 3 minutes, after -which it disappears to the northeast, flying at 700 mph. About 25 -minutes later, a T-33 jet trainer piloted by Lt. Wilbert -S. Rogers, with -Maj. Edward Ballard as passenger, spots a “silver-colored object about -the size of a fighter plane” flying at 900 mph at 5,000–8,000 feet over -Sandy Hook. It makes a 90° banking turn and disappears out to sea. At -3:15 p.m., a second radar tracking occurs, but this slower object turns -out to be a balloon. (NICAP, “The -Fort Monmouth Radar Incident”; NICAP, “The -Sandy Hook / T-33 Incident”; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 66; Clark III 513– 515; Sparks, p. 110; -Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings -of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical -Group, November 2001, pp. 45–46; Swords 124–127; Good Above, pp. 269, -487)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1673

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Event 2219 -(4EBD61E7)

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Date: 9/11/1951
-Description: 10:50 a.m. Two radars at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, pick up -another object moving at 1,000 mph. At 1:30 p.m., another radar target -appears, apparently hovering. Overcast conditions prevent a visual -sighting. The radar then shows it ascending at a rapid rate then -streaking to the south at 700+ mph. (Clark III 514)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1674

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Event 2220 -(8D6F1C34)

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Date: 9/12/1951
-Description: Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, officials send ATIC and USAF -headquarters a three-foot-long teletype describing the sightings. ATIC’s -new chief, Col. Frank -Dunn, gets a wire from Gen. Charles -Cabell, who wants somebody from ATIC to find out what’s going on. -Dunn sends Lt. Jerry -Cummings (head of Project Grudge) and Lt. Col. Nathan -R. Rosengarten (chief of the ATIC Aircraft Performance Section). -(Clark III 514–515; Ruppelt, pp. 93–94; -Swords 126; Good Need, pp. 164–165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1675

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Event 2221 -(9497F284)

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Date: 9/13/1951
-Description: 9:30 p.m. T/Sgt Warner B. Maupin and Cpl. John W. Green -track two objects on radar at Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], -Labrador, on a collision course. One of them tries to warn the supposed -aircraft of an imminent collision and is surprised to watch one avoid -danger by moving to the right. A third unidentified target joins the -other two. The incident lasts more than 15 minutes. (Chris Rutkowski and -Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 53; Sparks, p. 110; -Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -p. 261)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1676

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Event 2222 -(A7E1F66A)

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Date: 9/14/1951
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt W.B. Maupin, Cpl. J.W. Green. Three -objects tracked on radar. Two were on a collision course, then one -evaded to the right upon the request, by radio, of one of the radar -operators! No aircraft were known to be in the area. A third -unidentified track then joined the first two. More than 15 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 72

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Event 2223 -(C314B839)

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Date: 9/18/1951
-Description: The Day the Earth Stood Still, directed by Robert -Wise and starring Michael -Rennie and Patricia -Neal, premieres in New York City. The ultimate flying saucer -science-fiction movie, the plot revolves around an alien who lands in a -UFO in Washington, D.C., and demands that atomic testing cease. Lock -Martin, who -is more than 7 feet tall, plays the robot Gort. (Internet Movie -Database, “The -Day the Earth Stood Still”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1677

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Event 2224 -(167FB437)

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Date: 9/18/1951
-Description: Science fiction movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is -released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US

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Event 2225 -(D1F10272)

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Date: 9/18/1951
-Description: 10:20 p.m. USAF B-36 radar operator Maj. Paul E. Gerhart -and navigator Maj. Charles J. Cheever are flying northwest at 239 mph -over the Hudson Strait in northern Canada when they pick up radar -interference coming from an unidentified aircraft moving away from them -to the east about 32 miles away. The anti-jamming device on their radar -is turned on at 11:20 p.m. but does not affect the jamming on the radar -scope. At 11:35 p.m., a UFO is seen visually on the right side of the -B-36, which is flying at 18,000 feet over southwest Baffin Island, -Nunavut. The object has all-white “unconventional running lights” and -two white flashing tail lights, travels about 35 mph faster than the -B-36, crosses the front from right to left heading toward the -north-northwest, and is in view about 20 minutes. While the object is -still visible at 11:50 p.m., the B-36 autopilot and APQ-24 radar set -malfunction, the latter coming back a few minutes later when the object -disappears. ECM operators S/Sgt. Donald E. Jenkins and S/Sgt. Doty T. -Larimore on two B-36 flights over Labrador on September 19 detect -carrier wave signals at several frequencies and some radar-like pulses -at other frequencies, all below 1,000 MHz. (NICAP, “B- 36 -Radar Picks up Object Seen Visually”; Sparks, p. 111)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1678

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Event 2226 -(4CCACF06)

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Date: 9/23/1951
-Description: At March AFB [now March Air Reserve Base] near Long Beach, -California, two F-86 jets try to intercept an object in controlled orbit -at around 55,000 feet, but they run low on fuel and have to land. Two -more F-86s are scrambled, with the same results. Three of the pilots -report seeing a “silver airplane with highly swept- back wings,” -although one of them says the UFO looks round and silver. (NICAP, “Swept -Wing Aircraft at above 50,000ʹ -/ Tracked by GCI”; Ruppelt, pp. 94–95, -111, 113–114; -Sparks, -p. 112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1679

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Event 2227 -(B700173F)

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Date: fall 1951
-Description: Navy pilot Lt. Cmdr. Marvin -C. Davies is flying a plane off a CVE class aircraft carrier near -Korea when the crew tracks a radar target 3 miles astern. The object has -apparently been circling the fleet at an altitude of 5,000 feet and -speeds of “slow” to 1,000 mph. The UFO has been tracked on 14 ship -radars for 7 hours. It stops circling and takes up a position behind the -plane’s wingman, remaining there 5 minutes, then departing at high -speed. (Project 1937, “UFO -Reports, Korea”; UFOEv, p. 84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1680

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Event 2228 -(AC3FB505)

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Date: 9/24/1951
-Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-2 (Joe 2), 38.3kt
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 38.3

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Event 2229 -(4EA4B5A4)

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Date: 10/1951
-Description: Per -Sundh is appointed head of a unit at the Swedish Defence Staff -responsible for investigating UFO reports. He remains in charge until -October 1954. During that time the department handles 6,000 reports, of -which 400 are investigated and 40 remain unexplained. Their astronomical -consultant is Bertil -Lindblad, an -astronomer at Stockholm University, Sweden. Sundh says that his -personnel always took even the weirdest observations seriously. (Swords -364–365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1681

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Event 2230 -(9C134B2C)

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Date: 10/1951
-Description: Project Grudge is on hold, Intelligence Officer -Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt has been assigned to reshape the study and field -mounting concern for the Pentagon.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 12/48
-See also: 3/52

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Event 2231 -(B6E5B174)

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Date: 10/1/1951
-Description: 10:00 a.m. At the Pentagon, Cummings and -Rosengarten brief -Cabell, -his staff, and a representative from Republic Aircraft Corporation who -“supposedly represented a group of top US industrialists and -scientists.” The meeting is recorded with a wire recorder. Edward -Ruppelt, later -head of Project Blue Book, hears the recording before it is ordered -destroyed and keeps detailed notes about the meeting. Cabell supposedly -learns that Grudge is effectively dead and demands to know “who in hell -has been giving me these reports that every decent flying saucer report -is being investigated?” Cabell says there is a great deal of doubt in -his mind as to what the saucers are and that the Grudge report is the -“most poorly written, inconclusive piece of unscientific tripe” he had -ever read. He orders Grudge to reactivate itself, and Cummings and -Rosengarten go back to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to do just that. -(Clark III 514–515; Ruppelt, pp. 93–94; -Swords 127–128, 501–502; Michael Hall, “When UFOs Were Serious Business: -Then and Today,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1682

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Event 2232 -(08BC9612)

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Date: 10/2/1951
-Time: 6 PM
-Description: Witness: Battelle Memorial Institute graduate physicist -Howard Cross. One bright oval with a clipped tail flew straight and -level, fading into the distance after 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Columbus, Ohio
-ID: 73

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Event 2233 -(E4E99A91)

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Date: 10/3/1951
-Time: 10:27 PM
-Description: Witnesses: radar operators Sgt. M.W. Watson and Pvt. -Gonzales and one other Sergeant. One large, sausage-shaped blip tracked -at an estimated 4,800 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kadena, Okinawa
-ID: 74

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Event 2234 -(C66D7149)

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Date: 10/4/1951
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two French aviation officers are camped out -several miles northwest of the village of Tessalit, Mali. A luminous -dark-yellow disc approaches slowly from the east, loses altitude, makes -a 90° turn, accelerates, and ascends at high speed. (Patrick Gross, “Tessalit, -Mali, October 4, 1951”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1683

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Event 2235 -(DEC2B9D3)

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Date: 10/9/1951
-Description: 1:42 p.m. A fast-moving, silvery UFO shaped like a -“flattened tennis ball” is sighted by a Civil Aviation Administration -Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport -[now Terre Haute Regional Airport], five miles east of Terre Haute, -Indiana. At 1:45 p.m., private pilot Charles Warren, flying at 5,000 -feet east of Paris, Illinois, sees a silvery “flattened orange” object -that appears stationary to his left rear. It picks up speed and heads to -the northeast. Project Blue Book plots the sighting and concludes that -both cases involve the same object. (NICAP, “October -9, 1951, Hulman CAA / Pilot Case”; NICAP, “Pilot -Radios Terre Haute: -Observes ‘Flattened Orange’”; Sparks, -p. 114; Swords 129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1684

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Event 2236 -(F94A1AFD)

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Date: 10/9/1951
-Time: 1:42 PM
-Description: Witness: CAA Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at -Hulman Municipal Airport. One round silver object flew directly -overhead, reaching the horizon in 15 seconds. Note: a very similar -incident happened 3 minutes later near Paris, Illinois (15 miles NW) and -was also listed as “unidentified” for several years, but was eventually -reclassified.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Terre Haute, Indiana
-ID: 75

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Event 2237 -(AEE9C2CD)

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Date: 10/10/1951
-Description: 10:10 a.m. Engineer and pilot Joseph -J. Kaliszewski, flying with copilot Jack Donaghue on a Skyhook -balloon tracking mission for General Mills 10 miles east of St. Croix -Falls, Wisconsin, notices a strange object crossing the sky from west to -east, much higher and behind the balloon, which is at 20,000 feet. The -UFO has a peculiar glow. It comes into sight at a slight dive, then -levels off and slows down, makes a sharp left turn, climbs at an angle -of 50–60° into the southeast with terrific acceleration, and disappears. -It is seen for about 2 minutes. (NICAP, “The -Kaliszewski Sightings”; UFOEv, p. 56; -Sparks, p. 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1685

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Event 2238 -(D412F7F3)

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Date: 10/11/1951
-Description: 6:30 a.m. Joseph -J. Kaliszewski and Dick Reilly are flying at 10,000 feet north of -Minneapolis, Minnesota, observing a balloon when they see a brightly -glowing object to the southeast of the University of Minnesota airport -moving at high speed from west to east. It has a halo around it with a -dark under surface. It crosses rapidly, slows down, and starts to climb -slowly in lazy circles. Observers Doug Smith and Dick Dorion at the -General Mills tracking station at the University of Minnesota watch the -object through a theodolite. They watch another object 2 hours later. -(NICAP, “The -Kaliszewski Sightings”; UFOEv, p. 56; -Sparks, p. 114; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 44–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1686

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Event 2239 -(6FD3E7FF)

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Date: 10/11/1951
-Time: 6:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: General Mills balloon researchers, including -aeronautical engineer J.J. Kaliszewski, aerologist C.B. Moore, pilot -Dick Reilly in the air, and Doug Smith on the ground. The flight crew -saw the first object, a brightly glowing one with a dark underside and a -halo around it. The object arrived high and fast, then slowed and made -slow climbing circles for about two minutes, and finally sped away to -the east. Soon they saw another one, confirmed by ground observers using -a theodolite, which sped across the sky. Total time first object was -seen was 5 minutes, second was a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
-ID: 76

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Event 2240 -(FFFC5C95)

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Date: 10/16/1951
-Description: 11:01 a.m. Air Force pilots flying three F-94 fighters out -of McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis- McChord] and naval ground -personnel see a round, gray object flying soundlessly at high speed and -high altitude west of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Oak Harbor, -Washington. Photos taken from the F-94s show the object. After 50 -minutes, the aircraft abandon the chase. The Air Force attributes the -sighting to Venus. (NICAP, “3 -F-94’s Encounter Round Grey Object / Photos Taken”; Clark III -391–392; Sparks, -p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1687

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Event 2241 -(52DB656B)

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Date: 10/18/1951
-Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-3 (Joe 3), 41.2kt, first air -dropped, released at 10km detonated at 400m
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 41.2

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Event 2242 -(450B107B)

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Date: 10/20/1951
-Description: Frank -B. Jewett Jr., director -of the Aeronautical Research Laboratory at General Mills Corporation, -writes to Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Eugene -M. Zuckert about UFOs seen by his personnel. ((Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1951, Supplemental -Notes, The -Author, 2000, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1688

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Event 2243 -(F993181C)

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Date: 10/21/1951
-Description: Air Intelligence Report: Mr. (name withheld), a civilian -pilot of 14 years experience sighted a disk-like, highly polished UFO -which closed head on with his Navy aircraft at an extremely high rate of -speed near Battle Creek, MI.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Battle Creek, MI

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Event 2244 -(5410FC65)

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Date: 10/22/1951
-Description: Capt. Edward -J. Ruppelt officially takes over a revitalized Project Grudge, -relieving Lt. Jerry -W. Cummings and -2d Lt. Henry Metscher. He learns from some scientists and engineers who -visit ATIC frequently that “UFOs were being freely and seriously -discussed in scientific circles.” (Ruppelt, p. 114; -Sparks, -p. 14; Clark III 933)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1689

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Event 2245 -(DEED313F)

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Date: 10/22/1951
-Description: The Directorate of Intelligence provides answers to the -problem that Col. Harold -Watson identified with the CIRVIS reporting system. (Michael Hall -and Wendy Connors, “Flying Saucers: Behind the Cold War Veil of Military -Intelligence (Part II),” European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies -3, no. 1 (March 2002): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1690

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Event 2246 -(08282041)

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Date: 10/26/1951
-Time: 0400
-Description: The driver of a transcontinental train on the east-west -line saw an object that illuminated the countryside like the full moon. -It flew very fast, came close to the train, appeared ready to land in -the desert, then took off and disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins A 249 (Vallee)
-Location: Australia
-ID: 84

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Event 2247 -(20A89445)

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Date: 10/29/1951
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 140.9km (Army -training test. Payload released but damaged on impact.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 140.9km

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Event 2248 -(A1ECBEDF)

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Date: 10/30/1951
-Description: 6:40 a.m. A group of servicemen are preparing to observe -the Buster Charlie atomic test at Area 7 of the Nevada Test Site. Just -before the blast, they see at an altitude of a few thousand feet a -formation of 18 silvery, rotating, disc-shaped objects, each with a -dome, arranged in six groups of three stretched out in a horizontal row. -They fly low over the test site, hover for 30–60 seconds, and depart at -an angle, disappearing in seconds. (Nukes 68–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1691

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Event 2249 -(F1D282B7)

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Date: 11/1951
-Description: Maj. Gen. Cabell is -promoted to staff director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is replaced -as director of Air Force Intelligence by Maj. Gen. John -A. Samford. (Clark -III 936)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1692

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Event 2250 -(20261F2B)

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Date: 11/1/1951
-Description: The Air Force issues a Ground Observer’s Guide for use by -members of the Ground Observer Corps, a WWII Civil Defense program -reinstated during the Korean War to protect against enemy attack. (US -Department of the Air Force, Ground -Observer’s Guide, AF Manual 50-12, November 1, 1951)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1693

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Event 2251 -(130DB6ED)

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Date: 11/2/1951
-Time: 2300
-Description: Two forest observers were in a canyon 50 km north of the -Mojave when they saw a disk-shaped flying object in the southwest; 10 m -estimated diameter, 3 m thick, blue-green, well-defined, surrounded with -a glow of same color. Stopping their jeep, they signaled to the object, -which approached within a few meters, flew away, seemed to play with -them. Eventually it vanished “like a magician’s trick.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Mojave, California
-ID: 85

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Event 2252 -(65D12A17)

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Date: 11/2/1951
-Description: 7:15 a.m. The crew of an American Airlines DC-4 is flying -east of Abilene, Texas, at 4,500 feet. They see a bright-green, -projectile-shaped object, about the same size as their airliner, streak -past at about same altitude and same easterly heading. The object leaves -a trail then explodes, shooting red balls of fire in all directions. -(Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 92–93; -Nukes 74–75; Sparks, p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1694

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Event 2253 -(89F5B5A8)

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Date: 11/3/1951
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A green fireball is sighted in Arizona, New -Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Capitol Airways pilot H. R. DeHoney is -flying at 11,000 feet about 20 miles south of Flagstaff, Arizona, -watches the object speed by as a bright blue-green ball that leaves a -streak of brilliant red fire. (Nukes 75–76; “Mystery -Meteor Startles NM, -Arizona,” Santa Fe New Mexican, November 4, 1951, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1695

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Event 2254 -(F5069490)

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Date: 11/6/1951
-Description: Ruppelt flies -to Reese AFB [now Reese Technology Center] in Lubbock, Texas, to begin -his investigation of the Lubbock lights, accompanied by OSI agent Howard -Bossert. (Clark III 691)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1696

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Event 2255 -(89DFAE1F)

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Date: 11/7/1951
-Description: Evening. A steamship captain and crew watch an elongated -orange object with six glowing “portholes” speed toward Ontario over -Lake Superior. (UFOEv, p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1697

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Event 2256 -(0B5691F4)

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Date: 11/8/1951
-Description: Ruppelt and -an officer from Reese AFB visit Brownfield, Texas, to investigate UFO -sightings there. (Clark III 691)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1698

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Event 2257 -(F41E418A)

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Date: 11/9/1951
-Description: Since October 30, seven green fireballs of exceptional size -have been seen over a seven-state area in the American Southwest. Lincoln -LaPaz, director -of the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics, says that -frequency is exceptional: “In fact, there has never been a rate of -meteorite fall in history that has been one fifth as high as the present -fall. If that rate should continue, I would suspect the phenomenon is -not natural.” The fireballs travel in straight lines and are completely -silent. (“Southwest’s -7 Fireballs in 11 Days Called ’Without Parallel in History,’” -New York Times, November 10, 1951, pp. 1, 14; Nukes 76–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1699

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Event 2258 -(D381E2A4)

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Date: 11/11/1951
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Thomas Bartis and his older brother Francis are -driving through New Haven, Connecticut, when they see a huge yellow -fireball with a greenish-blue tail streak through the sky. Probable -bolide. (“Second Fireball Is -Sighted,” Meriden (Conn.) Record-Journal, November 12, 1951, pp. 1, -10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1700

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Event 2259 -(72BA1B4A)

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Date: 11/18/1951
-Time: 3:20 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Crew of Capital Airlines DC-4 Fliqht 610, -Andrews AFB Senior air traffic controller Tom Selby. One object with -several lights, followed the DC-4 for about 20 minutes and then turned -back.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 77

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Event 2260 -(90842C88)

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Date: 11/20/1951
-Description: 6:42 p.m. A vivid green fireball is reported from Dodge -City, Kansas, and Lubbock and Big Springs, Texas. Two Air Force pilots -landing at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a Trans World -Airlines pilot also see the fireball. (Nukes 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1701

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Event 2261 -(0CFF94D8)

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Date: 11/24/1951
-Description: 6:24 p.m. A Capital Airlines Flight 94 pilot and several -control tower and other ground observers in four different locations in -Michigan (Grand Rapids, Coopersville, Battle Creek, and Selfridge AFB -near Mount Clemens) see a large round object flying west at 500–1,000 -feet at about 1,000 mph. (Sparks, -p. 116; Swords 130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1703

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Event 2262 -(0FFBFB17)

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Date: 11/24/1951
-Time: 33:53 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF or ANG pilots W.H. Fairbrother and D.E. -Stewart in P-51 Mustangs. One milky white object shaped like Northrop -flying wing (broad, slightly swept-back wing with no fuselage or tail). -Estimated 8’ span. Flew straight and level for 5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mankato, Minnesota
-ID: 78

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Event 2263 -(7A3582EE)

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Date: 11/24/1951
-Description: 3:53 p.m. Air Force Capt. William Fairbrother is flying a -P-51 over Mankato, Minnesota, at 25,000 feet when he sees a white object -shaped like a flying wing. It hovers at first, then it passes 100 feet -above and to the left of his aircraft. He immediately turns to follow -but loses sight of it. (Sparks, -p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1702

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Event 2264 -(F24D4F21)

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Date: 11/27/1951
-Description: Geophysicist Louis Elterman releases the final report on -Project Twinkle. Basically, it admits that the low frequency of -occurrence of the fireballs does not justify the $50,000 a year required -for a useful monitoring facility. It speculates that “the earth may be -passing through a region in space of high meteoric population. Also, the -sun-spot maxima in 1948 perhaps in some way may be a contributing -factor.” (Louis Elterman, Project Twinkle -Final Report, Atmospheric -Physics Laboratory, November 27, 1951; Clark III 544–545)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1704

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Event 2265 -(F05090CA)

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Date: 11/30/1951
-Description: Project Grudge issues its first Status Report, classified -“confidential.” (US Air Force, Projects -Grudge and -Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 1–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1705

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Event 2266 -(CF9B9805)

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Date: 12/1951
-Time: 0300
-Description: A man from Lincoln was driving to Indiana when he saw a -blue light in the northwest sky. It vanished to the southeast. The -witness missed a turn, had to go back toward Auburn, and had reached a -point northwest of Peru when he saw an orange glow in the sky. Coming -near, he observed the glow came from a cauldron-shaped object on the -ground, about 12 m from the road. He stopped to examine the object, -which measured about 10 m diameter and seemed to be made of cast iron. -Thirty cm from the top was a row of windows, 25 cm in diameter, from -which the orange light was coming. On the other side was a blue -flamelike glow. There was no noise, no sign of life or activity, and no -antenna or protrusion. The witness drove away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Peru, Nebraska
-ID: 86

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Event 2267 -(B85B65EE)

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Date: 12/1951
-Description: Ed -J. Sullivan, a -technical writer for North American Aviation, holds a meeting of -engineers, scientists, and journalists in Los Angeles, California, who -have been following the UFO phenomenon. They form Civilian Saucer -Investigation to collect reports and forward them on to ATIC. Its most -prominent member is Walther Riedel, German -rocket scientist retrieved by Project Paperclip. (Michael D. Swords, -GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO -Research, 2005, pp. 139–140; Clark III 241–242)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1706

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Event 2268 -(1395D796)

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Date: 12/1951
-Description: Sam Coley and his two children saw an object with a -human-looking occupant.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Red Springs, North Carolina
-ID: 87

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Event 2269 -(007DBA78)

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Date: 12/5/1951
-Description: Early morning. Swedish Prince -Carl Bernadotte and a friend, Berl -Gutenberg, are driving near Stockholm, Sweden, when they see a -bright flash of light illuminate the sky. Bernadotte stops the car and -opens the door to listen for sounds. They go immediately to the -Stockholm Criminal Investigation Department, who reports the incident to -the Security Police and the military UFO desk. The report is instantly -classified, even though the object is probably a meteor. (Swords -366)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1707

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Event 2270 -(D6AB3319)

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Date: 12/7/1951
-Time: 4:30 PM
-Description: Witness: amateur astronomer Carl Loar. One silvery sphere -seen through telescope. Two specks sighted at sides, object seemed to -explode and was replaced by a dark cloud and many specks. 30 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sunbury, Ohio
-ID: 79

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Event 2271 -(ABC21611)

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Date: 12/7/1951
-Time: 8:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Atomic Energy Commission guard J.H. Collins. One -20’ square object, white-grey but not shiny flew above ridge to clouds -and back again twice, taking 30-40 seconds each time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
-ID: 80

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Event 2272 -(5135F5FF)

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Date: 12/11/1951
-Description: Project Twinkle closes down. (Clark III 545)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1708

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Event 2273 -(D75C0B35)

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Date: 12/12/1951
-Description: 3:50 p.m. USAF Capt. Donald -“Deke” Slayton, flying a P-51 fighter at 10,000 feet, sees a whitish -or gray object off his left wing about one mile away and 1,000 feet -below his flight level about five miles southeast of Hastings, -Minnesota. It looks like a kite at first, then like a weather balloon, -then two rapidly revolving discs that overlap with centers about 1 foot -apart. He attempts an intercept, but the UFO increases speed and -disappears. (NICAP, “‘Deke’ -Slayton / P-51 Encounter”; Sparks, p. 117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1709

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Event 2274 -(516CDAC1)

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Date: 12/19/1951
-Description: Ruppelt travels -to the Pentagon with ATIC Chief Col. Frank -Dunn. They -visit with Maj. Gen. John -A. Samford, -who has replaced Cabell as -USAF director of intelligence and who seems “familiar with the general -aspects of the problem.” Samford’s aide, Gen. William -M. Garland, -tells them that ATIC has the sole authorization to carry out UFO -investigations for the entire US military (not exactly true), and they -discuss security problems posed by UFOs at sensitive installations. -Ruppelt reveals that his preliminary analysis of UFO sighting patterns -has uncovered a disturbing correlation of unexplained sightings around -nuclear weapons facilities and highly classified nuclear stockpile sites -and some SAC strategic air bases. Gen. Samford orders ATIC to conduct an -exhaustive statistical study to verify Ruppelt’s findings, using the -newly established ATIC Project WHITE STORK contract with the research -think tank Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio (which -eventually spends $100,000 on the study, Subproject PPS-100, confirming -Ruppelt’s pattern). (Ruppelt, pp. 115–116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1710

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Event 2275 -(58201473)

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Date: 12/26/1951
-End date: 12/27/1951
-Description: Ruppelt and -Col. Sanford -H. Kirkland Jr. of ATIC meet with members of the Battelle Memorial -Institute in Columbus, Ohio, and ask them to help out with the USAF -evaluation of UFO reports: first, a study of witness perception and -recall, then a statistical study of UFO reports. (“Seven -Status Reports for Project Stork,” CUFON; Clark III 929)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1711

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Event 2276 -(982E4ED8)

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Date: 12/28/1951
-Description: Project Grudge issues Status Report #2 and a Special Report -three days later. (US Air Force, Projects Grudge -and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 21–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1712

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- Event 2277 (6506A670)

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Date: 1952
-Description: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is established -in Livermore, California, as an offshoot of the UC Radiation Laboratory -at Berkeley. It is intended to spur innovation and provide competition -to the nuclear weapon design laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Edward -Teller and Ernest -Lawrence, director -of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, are regarded as its cofounders. -Los Alamos and Livermore soon establish a rivalry, fighting for weapons -contracts and feasibility-study awards. (Wikipedia, “Lawrence -Livermore National Laboratory”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1713

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Event 2278 -(DB11E369)

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Date: 1952 (approximate)
-Description: An anonymous occupation soldier in Austria meets a diving -suit–clad being who paralyzes him, pulls him inside a UFO, and flies him -to an otherworldly place he takes to be Mars. He sees other humans who -do not acknowledge him. Then he is returned to his base. (Prince George -(B.C.) Citizen, December 11, 1957; Clark 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1717

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Event 2279 -(D10256C8)

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Date: 1952
-Description: Night. USAF Pvt. Sinclair Taylor is on guard duty at Camp -Okubo in Uji, on the southern outskirts of Kyoto, Japan, when he hears -flapping sounds and sees what seems to be an enormous bird. As it gets -closer to him, Taylor sees that it is a winged man well over 7 feet tall -with a wingspread of 7 feet. Taylor fires at it repeatedly with his -rifle and thinks he hit it, but he can’t find the body. (Clark III -778)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1719

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Event 2280 -(0355E487)

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Date: 1952
-Description: Soviet “Zlatoust-36” nuclear weapons program plant opens -(Warhead assembly)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 2281 -(E1E56A72)

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Date: 1952
-Description: 6:30 a.m. A carpool of people on their way to work at -United Airlines in San Mateo, California, observe five smaller objects -merging with a much larger, diamond-shaped object. The big one is about -150–200 feet long, charcoal or gunmetal in color, and is hovering 50–75 -feet above some salt flats. The UFOs are directly in front of them to -the east, about 1,500–1,800 feet away. One of the witnesses, airplane -mechanic Leonard -L. Musel, said the smaller objects entered the large object through -a “transparent tail or sleeve.” After they were aboard, the bigger UFO -turned edgewise and zoomed off at a fantastic speed. (Herbert S. Taylor, -“Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): -7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1718

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Event 2282 -(D616CB67)

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Date: 1952
-Description: World War II air intelligence records are transferred from -the Pentagon to Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama. This shift is -probably why Blue Book’s Capt. Edward -J. Ruppelt later cannot find anything about foo- fighters during his -trips to USAF intelligence to locate reports not forwarded to ATIC. (Jan -Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1715

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Event 2283 -(D2074BDF)

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Date: 1952?
-Description: SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION: CIA, (not dated): Walter B. -Smith, (MJ-3 replacement), Director of CIA notifies the Psychological -Strategy Board that “Flying Saucers” have implications for psychological -warfare as well as for intelligence and operations. Suggests discussion -on the possible offensive or defensive utilization of these phenomena -for psychological warfare purposes.
-Type: secret information
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p511)
-Location: Langley, Virginia
-See also: 10/2/52

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Event 2284 -(C72665C4)

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Date: 1952
-Description: José -Manuel Rodríguez Delgado, a -Spanish physiologist at Yale University, coauthors what he claims is the -first peer-reviewed paper describing deep-brain stimulation of humans. -Over the next two decades, he implants electrodes in some 25 subjects. -Most are schizophrenics and epileptics at the now-defunct State Hospital -for Mental Diseases in Howard, Rhode Island, where Delgado’s occasional -collaborator Hannibal -Hamlin is a staff psychiatrist. Delgado is reticent discussing his -experiments on humans. He is more enthusiastic recalling research on -monkeys, chimpanzees, and gibbons, which he kept both at Yale and in -open-air compounds in the Bahamas and New Mexico. He explores the -effects of stimulation not only on individuals but also on groups. In -one demonstration, he implants a stimoceiver (a tiny electrode able to -receive and transmit signals over FM radio waves) in a macaque who -terrorizes his cage-mates. Delgado installs a lever in the cage that, -when pressed, activates the stimoceiver in the bully and pacify him. A -female in the cage soon figures out the lever’s significance and yanks -it often and with gusto. (John Horgan, “Tribute -to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly Scary -Pioneer of Mind Control,” Cross-Check, Scientific American blog, -September 25, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1714

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Event 2285 -(5A181DE5)

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Date: 1952
-Description: The Argentine Navy establishes a temporary inquiry -commission dedicated to the UFO phenomenon at its Puerto Belgrano Naval -Base in Punta Alta, Argentina. (Milton Hourcade, “Argentina: -UFO Declassification,” U.A.P.S.G.–G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1716

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Event 2286 -(2EC1C1D5)

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Date: early 1952
-Time: 2242
-Description: A fiery, spherical object made a right-angle turn during an -observation by a C-54 crew flying from Westover to Goose Bay. It was -also seen from the ground by the control tower and by two men who -plunged to the earth when the object made a low pass at them. It went -away at 2247.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Goose Bay, Labrador
-ID: 89

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Event 2287 -(FBCD0C05)

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Date: 1/1952
-Description: Jim -and Coral Lorenzen found the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization -in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Soon, a man claiming to have an intelligence -background becomes an active supporter and tries to lead the Lorenzens -into “metaphysical areas of research.” Coral Lorenzen rebuffs these -attempts. She discovers what seem to be the impressions of an -intelligence report about her on one of his letters. In the summer, two -suspicious men posing as building contractors seem to be lurking around -her home as well as the homes of the APRO treasurer and secretary the -same day. (Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, -1976, pp. 1–2, 248– 251; Clark III 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1720

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Event 2288 -(689638CD)

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Date: 1/1952
-Description: Some 74% of the CIA’s money goes toward covert operations. -It has already infiltrated many US labor, business, church, university, -student, and cultural groups, usually channeling the money through -foundations. This year it begins HTLINGUAL, a secret project to -intercept mail destined for the USSR and China. It also targets domestic -peace and civil rights activists. It lasts until 1973, photographing 2 -million envelopes and opening 215,000 letters. (Frank J. Donner, The -Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America’s Political Intelligence -System, Knopf, -1980; Jim Keith, Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mond -Control, Adventures Unlimited, 1997; David Wise, The -American Police State: The Government Against the People, Random -House, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1721

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Event 2289 -(F4500A6B)

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Date: 1/1952
-Time: 2230
-Description: A 38-year-old rancher saw a “shooting star” that suddenly -stopped in mid-air between him and a mountain. It was seen spinning in a -clockwise direction. It had one red window periodially facing the -observer. It went down toward the Little Powder River and came up again. -The witness turned his car to send light signals, to which the object -seemed to respond by stopping its red window facing the witness’s -location. Spinning resumed, the object rose and came down. A similar -craft arrived and both went into the deep valley, out of sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Weston, Wyoming
-ID: 88

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Event 2290 -(89E2D89D)

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Date: 1/1/1952
-Description: 10:54 p.m. Warrant Officer W. J. Yeo (a master telecomm -specialist) and Sgt. D. -V. Crandell watch a silent, reddish-orange object circle and -maneuver for nearly 9 minutes at RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario. It -appears to be very large and travels at supersonic speed. (“‘Saucers’ -Seen Here: 2 -Sighted at RCAF Station,” North Bay (Ont.) Nugget, April 15, 1952, -pp. 1–2; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, -Methuen, 1979, p. 92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1722

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Event 2291 -(D17A84A6)

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Date: 1/3/1952
-Description: Brig. Gen. William -M. Garland, Assistant for the Production of Intelligence, writes a -secret memorandum for General John -A. Samford that lays down the investigative shortcomings of Project -Grudge and suggests policies and agendas for the immediate future. -Garland mentions that the aircraft inventions and models by the Horten -brothers had fallen into the hands of the Soviets at the end of -World War II. (Brig. Gen. William M. Garland, “(Secret) -Contemplated Action to Determine the Nature and Origin of the Phenomena -Connected with the -Reports of Unusual Flying Objects,” January 3, 1952; Swords 141–143; -Kremlin 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1723

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Event 2292 -(2D530B0F)

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Date: 1/6/1952
-Description: Contactee George -Van Tassel, living at Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert near Landers, -California, receives the first of many psychic messages from -extraterrestrial starship commanders. This one is from “Lutbunn, senior -in command of first wave, planet patrol, realms of Schare. We have your -contact aboard 80,000 feet above this place.” Other messages soon come -from Elcar, Clota, Totalmon, Latamarx, Noma, Leektow, Luu, Oblow, -Kerrull, Locktopar, Molca, Clatu, Hulda, Lata, Singba, and others. One -of his contacts, Ashtar, will become a metaphysical superstar, and in -the years ahead many contactees will channel communications from him. -These aliens seek to raise humanity’s “vibrationary attunement” so that -earthlings will not threaten the wise and peace- loving space people. -Van Tassel reprints many of these messages in a misleadingly titled -book, I Rode a Flying Saucer! (George W. Van Tassel, I -Rode a Flying Saucer! The Mysteries of the Flying Saucers Revealed, -New Age, 1952; Clark III 1218–1219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1724

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Event 2293 -(FCA0D3F8)

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Date: 1/8/1952
-Description: Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, agrees to -help out the Air Force with analyzing UFO reports. (Clark III 929)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1725

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Event 2294 -(34343AD6)

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Date: 1/20/1952
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Two master sergeants, both intelligence -specialists, are walking down a street at Fairchild AFB near Spokane, -Washington, when they notice a large, bluish-white, spherical object -approaching from the east. It passes north of their position, traveling -horizontally and silently, and disappears in the west. They notice it -has a long blue tail. It travels underneath low cloud cover at 4,700 -feet at 1,400 mph. (NICAP, “Large -Sphere with Blue Tail -at 500ʹ,”; Ruppelt, p. 12; -Sparks, -p. 118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1726

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Event 2295 -(9C276B81)

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Date: 1/21/1952
-Description: 9:50 a.m. A Navy pilot lieutenant commander in a TBM -Avenger chases a white, dome-shaped object over Mitchel AFB [now closed] -on Long Island, New York. It accelerates rapidly, makes a 180° turn, and -heads out to sea. He estimates it is traveling at least at 300 mph. It -looks like a parachute canopy and has a dark undersurface. Although -there is a balloon in the area, but its flight path is completely -different. NICAP, “TBM -Chases Climbing and -Accelerating Object”; Ruppelt, pp. 121–123; -Sparks, p. 118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1727

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Event 2296 -(6FD470E7)

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Date: 1/22/1952
-Description: 12:20 a.m. At a northern Alaska outpost, Murphy Dome Air -Force Station, radar captures a UFO traveling 1,500 mph at 23,000 feet. -When an F-94 is sent to intercept, the target stops, slows down, -reverses course, and heads directly for the radar station. It comes -within 30 miles, then disappears from the screen. The F-94 heads back to -refuel, and a second fighter is scrambled. This pilot gets a strong -radar return. At first, the object is almost stationary, but then it -dives suddenly, at which point ground radar picks it up again. A third -F-94 is sent up, also tracks the object on radar, and closes to within -900 feet. At this point, the pilot pulls away to avoid a collision, as -the UFO is nearly immobile. Since none of the pilots obtained a visual -sighting, the Air Force concludes that the radar returns are -weather-related, although the pilots strongly dispute this. (NICAP, “Alaskan -Radar Case”; Ruppelt, pp. 123–127; -Sparks, pp. 119–120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1728

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Event 2297 -(F7684F27)

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Date: 1/29/1952
-Description: Evening. Violet M. Winstead and her husband are at an -open-air movie theater on Guam when they and others at the theater see -an orange light passing silently overhead. (Violet M. Winstead, Letter, -IUR 9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1984): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1731

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Event 2298 -(B851F86B)

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Date: 1/29/1952
-Description: Brig. Gen. William -M. Garland, USAF Assistant for Production of Intelligence, and his -staff are briefed at the Pentagon on the status of Project Grudge by Edward -Ruppelt, who -with his colleagues at ATIC has prepared sighting maps that show a -concentration of cases at White Sands and Los Alamos, New Mexico; -Killeen Base, Texas; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Dayton, Ohio (where -Wright-Patterson AFB is situated). At this meeting, Garland introduces a -new intelligence policy that emphasizes the use of instrumentation for -intelligence collection, including the detection and tracking of UFOs -(the basis for terminating Project Blue Book as an intelligence -function). As an interim last-chance measure to prove whether anecdotal -sightings have any value, Garland approves Ruppelt’s publicity plan to -draw in UFO reports from the public so that triangulations might be -obtained. This leads to Garland secretly backing the Life magazine -article. Apparently on the same day, Garland gives the welcoming address -to the secret MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Ruppelt calls it the Beacon Hill -group) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he tells the assembled -scientists to study ways USAF intelligence methodology can be -revolutionized through the use of technology. (Later Garland sends -Ruppelt, Col. Sanford -H. Kirkland Jr. of ATIC, and Lt. Col. William A. Adams of AFOIN, to -brief the Lincoln Lab scientists on UFOs on March 26 and in April 1952, -respectively) (“Status -of Project Blue Book,” T52-6888, [1952]; NICAP, “The -1952 Sighting Wave”; -Swords 144; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, January–May, The Author, 1993, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1730

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Event 2299 -(81580D9C)

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Date: 1/29/1952
-Description: On his trip to the Pentagon to brief Gen. William -M. Garland, Ruppelt visits -the AFOIN offices and discovers they have more complete files than ATIC -in Dayton, Ohio, does. He arranges to have copies made of the missing -files for him at Project Grudge (though multiple visits are required to -obtain the copies and Ruppelt probably does not succeed in getting -everything). The offices with UFO files include the Technical -Capabilities Branch (TCB) of the Evaluation Division and the Collection -Control Branch of the Collection Division. (NICAP, “The -1952 Sighting Wave”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1729

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Event 2300 -(F49AC9C3)

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Date: 1/29/1952
-Description: Night. A bright orange, disc-shaped object, also described -as a “huge ball of fire,” paces two B-29s on the same night, 80 miles -from each other over the towns of Wonsan and Sunchon, North Korea. -(NICAP, “Rotating -Light -Seen by B-29 Crew”; NICAP, “B-29 -Crew Followed by UFO”; Haines, Korea, pp. 33–37; -Sparks, -p. 121; Patrick Gross, “UFO -US Military Reports, Korea, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1732

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Event 2301 -(3BA2F0F5)

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Date: 1/31/1952
-Description: Ruppelt releases -Project Grudge Status Report #3, in which he reviews the geographic -distribution of UFO reports, states the project’s obstacle, and includes -a list of 15 cases reported to ATIC in January. (Swords 144; US Air -Force, Projects -Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 55–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1733

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Event 2302 -(6E90AE60)

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Date: 2/2/1952
-Description: 7:35 p.m. Radar operators aboard the aircraft carrier USS -Philippine Sea pick up an unidentified target off the east coast of -Korea. It is first detected at a distance of 25 miles; when it closes to -20 miles, it makes a wide turn to the east directly away from the -carrier, accelerating from 600 to 1,800 mph at 52,000 feet altitude. It -splits into two targets 5–12 miles apart on a slightly zigzag course to -the north. They disappear about 110 miles away. Observers on the carrier -see three exhaust flames. (NICAP, “USS -Philippine -Sea Tracks -Approaching Target”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 126–127; -Sparks, p. 121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1734

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Event 2303 -(35DC96B5)

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Date: 2/8/1952
-Description: Dewey -Fournet, on -the Pentagon’s UFO desk, writes to Ruppelt at -ATIC for help in interpreting the Korean sightings. Ruppelt has brought -in an expert from Wright-Patterson AFB’s Engineering Division, Peter -A. Stranges of the Propulsion Branch Power Plant Group, to help with -the analysis, which he passes on to Fournet and Garland. Stranges -compares the Wonsan sighting to the foo fighters of World War II. -(Swords 144–145).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1735

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Event 2304 -(9BAD60E4)

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Date: 2/11/1952
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Capt. G.P. Arns and Maj. R.J. Gedson flying a -Beech AT-ll trainer. One yellow-orange comet-shaped object pulsed flame -for 1-2 seconds of a 1 minute straight and level flight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
-ID: 81

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Event 2305 -(6F38B9AE)

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Date: 2/20/1952
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Rev. Albert -Baller is sitting in a train at the station in Greenfield, -Massachusetts, when he sees a “sharp flash of light about 35° or more -above the horizon.” Looking upward, he sees three perfectly circular, -silver objects approaching in a V-formation. They are moving at about -the “speed of a second hand on a watch.” They stop and hover for 10 -seconds. The lead object reverses and pulls into a line with the other -two between them. Then they depart in a direction at right angles to -their approach. (UFOEv, p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1736

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Event 2306 -(946B528C)

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Date: 2/20/1952
-Description: Joseph and -Stewart -Alsop examine the January 29 Korean incidents in their syndicated -column, “Problems of Scientific Development.” They suspect a Russian -origin. (Swords 145–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1737

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Event 2307 -(D78967E8)

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Date: 2/21/1952
-Description: Far East Air Forces Commander Lieut. Gen. Otto -P. Weyland tells reporters that “no conclusive evaluation had been -made at the present time” on the Wonsan/Sunchon, Korea, sightings of -January 29–30. (“Nothing Conclusive on Globes: Weyland,” Stars and -Stripes, Pacific edition, February 22, 1952; Project 1947, “UFO -Documents, 1952, Korea”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1739

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Event 2308 -(78F8704E)

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Date: 2/21/1952
-Description: Sen. Richard -Russell Jr. (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services -Committee, requests further information on the January 29 Korean UFO -incidents in a letter to Secretary of the Air Force Thomas -K. Finletter. (Project -1947, “UFO -Documents, 1952, Korea”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1738

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Event 2309 -(13189F4D)

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Date: 2/22/1952
-Description: The now-completed Site Able is renamed Manzano Base, New -Mexico, and turned over to the operational control of the Air Force. -What appear to be secure bunkers are visible to people (mostly military -personnel) who go to a recreational camping area nearby known as Coyote -Canyon. The military, however, never officially confirms the nature of -the activities at Manzano Base [now part of Kirtland Air Force Base]. At -one point, a military spokesman says that Manzano Base has nothing to do -with Sandia Base. Manzano has since been identified as the first of six -original National Stockpile Sites for nuclear weapons. The other -original NSS installations similar to Manzano are: Site Baker at Killeen -Base, adjacent to Gray AFB [now Robert Gray Army Airfield] at Fort Hood, -Texas; Site Charlie at Campbell AFB [now Campbell Army Airfield] near -Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and adjacent to Fort Campbell; Site Dog at -Bossier Base, adjacent to Barksdale AFB near Bossier City, Louisiana; -Lake Mead Base, adjacent to Nellis AFB, Nevada; and Medina Base, -adjacent to Lackland AFB [now Joint Base San Antonio], Texas. -(Wikipedia, “Sandia -Base”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1740

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Event 2310 -(13F14A38)

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Date: 2/23/1952
-Time: 11:15 PM
-Description: Witness: Captain/B-29 navigator. One bluish cylinder, three -times long as wide, with a tail and rapid pulsations, came in high and -fast, made several turns and levelled out under B-29 which was evading -mild antiaircraft fire. 45 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: over North Korea
-ID: 82

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Event 2311 -(22454AC2)

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Date: 2/23/1952
-Alternate date: 2/24/1952
-Description: 11:15 p.m. The navigator on a B-29 bomber sees a pulsating -bluish cylinder while the aircraft is evading antiaircraft fire near -Sinuiju, North Korea. It arrives high and fast, makes several turns, and -levels out underneath the aircraft. (Sparks, -p. 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1741

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Event 2312 -(C6D175D3)

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Date: 2/25/1952
-End date: 2/27/1952
-Description: Life magazine reporter Robert -Emmett Ginna Jr. visits USAF headquarters at the Pentagon to gather -information for his UFO article. He talks with Brig. Gen. Joseph -F. Carroll, Director of Special Investigations. Brig. Gen. William -M. Garland tells him that he has considered firing a guided missile -at a UFO to bring it down and requests that Ginna delay publishing an -article until the Air Force has come to a more definite conclusion. -Ginna also talks to Lt. Col. Doyle -Rees of OSI. (Jan L. Aldrich, “Have -We Visitors from Space?” Project 1947) February 29 — Project Grudge -issues a secret Status Report #4, classified “secret.” (US Air Force, Projects -Grudge and Blue -Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 65–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1742

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Event 2313 -(AFFBE468)

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Date: 3/1952
-Alternate date: 4/1952
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Two women cryptographers in the US Naval Reserve -stationed at the US Naval Training Center at Port Deposit, Maryland, are -out taking a walk outside the base on a dirt road. They notice a red -light off to one side above the trees. It starts moving toward them and -stops about 100 feet above the road in front of them, about 300 feet -away. The object is a 250-foot black disc with two large red lights at -each side, an illuminated dome, and smaller lights along the rim. A hole -opens in the bottom and phosphorescent white sparks drop toward the -ground and disintegrate when they hit the road. The two reservists -sprint the quarter-mile back to the base. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1743

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Event 2314 -(1E7CFACA)

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Date: 3/1952
-Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt recommends a new name for Project -Grudge, “Project Blue Book”.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 12/48
-See also: 10/51

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Event 2315 -(ABEEA723)

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Date: 3/1/1952
-Description: The 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron is activated -under ADC to collect air combat intelligence. (CUFON, “4602d -AISS Unit History Sampler”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1744

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Event 2316 -(F57C27D5)

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Date: 3/3/1952
-Description: Robert -Emmett Ginna Jr. of Life visits ATIC at Wright-Patterson AFB in -Dayton, Ohio, to obtain material for his UFO article. Walther -Riedel, former German rocket scientist at Peenemünde, Germany, tells -Ginna he has kept notes on UFO sightings from all over the world: “I am -completely convinced that they have an out-of-world basis.” He also -meets with visits Air Force UFO spokesman Albert -M. Chop. AMC -claims it is investigating every serious UFO report, but it can’t find -the files he requests. Ginna becomes suspicious. (“Status -of Project Blue -Book,” T52-6888, [1952]; Jan L. Aldrich, “Have -We Visitors from Space?” Project 1947; Michael D. Swords, “1952: -Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 9; Swords -120–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1745

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Event 2317 -(F294C1A0)

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Date: 3/5/1952
-Description: The Air Force sends a letter, signed by Lieut. Gen. Nathan -Twining, to Secretary Finletter in -response to Sen. Russell’s -February 21 inquiry. It offers two possible explanations: aircraft -exhaust from a Soviet Lavochkin La-9 or La-11 fighter aircraft, or -spotlights carried on enemy aircraft that have intercepted US bombers. -(Project 1947, “UFO -Documents, 1952, Korea”; Swords 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1746

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Event 2318 -(B75A66EA)

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Date: 3/7/1952
-Description: Physicist Joseph -Kaplan visits ATIC to discuss methods of obtaining more information -on green fireballs using a special diffraction grid to be placed on -patrol cameras that can be used as a field spectrometer. (“Status -of Project -Blue Book,” T52-6888, [1952])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1747

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Event 2319 -(8D73C447)

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Date: 3/10/1952
-Description: 6:45 a.m. Clarence -K. Greenwood, inspector -of engineering metals, sees two dark objects come from behind him at an -altitude of 5,000–7,500 feet while he is waiting for a bus in Oakland, -California. They pick up speed, one of them moving in a pendulum-like -motion. He thinks they are about 45 feet long. (UFOEv, pp. 56–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1748

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Event 2320 -(4931B195)

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Date: 3/14/1952
-Description: Evening. US Secretary of the Navy Dan -A. Kimball is flying to Hawaii when he sees two discs moving at -1,500 mph. The UFOs circle his plane twice, then move on 50 miles east -to another Navy plane carrying Adm. Arthur -W. Radford. The -UFOs circle Radford’s plane then zoom up out of sight. Kimball sends a -report to the Air Force, but hears nothing back, despite USAF demanding -reports from all Navy witnesses. Kimball threatens to initiate Naval -reports on UFOs through ONR to be kept separate from Blue Book. Keyhoe hears -about this from both Kimball and Chief of ONR Adm. Calvin -M. Bolster. The report is never made public. (NICAP, “Admiral Radford -& Navy Sec. Kimball Planes Buzzed”; NICAP, “Navy -Secy Dan Kimball’s Pilot’s Sighting, March 14, 1952”; -Swords 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1749

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Event 2321 -(14412E86)

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Date: 3/19/1952
-Description: Ruppelt and -other representatives of ATIC meet with the commander of the Air Defense -Command, Gen. Benjamin -W. Chidlaw, and -Gen. Grandison -Gardner and his staff in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on getting -radar scope camera films as UFOs are being tracked. “They agreed with it -in principle and suggested that I work out the details with the Director -of Intelligence for the ADC, Brigadier Gen. Woodbury -M. Burgess.” Chidlaw promises to issue a directive to all units -explaining procedures in UFO situations, including the scrambling of -interceptors. This is issued, apparently in April. Burgess assigns Maj. -Vernon -L. Sadowski of his staff to be liaison to Project Grudge., and the -Ground Observer Corps is brought into the UFO reporting net. (Ruppelt, -pp. 128–129; -“Status -of Project -Blue Book,” T52-6888, [1952])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1750

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Event 2322 -(9850C302)

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Date: 3/20/1952
-Time: 10:42 PM
-Description: Witnesses: WWl/WW2 veteran A.D. Hutchinson and son. One -dull orange-yellow saucer-shaped light flew straight and level very fast -for 30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Centreville, Maryland
-ID: 83

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Event 2323 -(A894F92A)

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Date: late 3/1952 (approximate)
-Description: Ruppelt meets -with two RCAF officers and briefs them on the new procedures. (Ruppelt, -p. 130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1755

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Event 2324 -(6720F0A7)

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Date: spring 1952
-Description: Occultist George -Hunt Williamson and his wife Betty move to Prescott, Arizona, and -immerse themselves in UFO literature. (Michael D. Swords, “Strange -Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1763

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Event 2325 -(ED137600)

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Date: 3/23/1952
-Time: 6:56 and 7 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of F-94 jet -interceptor. On either occasion, a red fireball increased in brightness -and then faded over 45 second span. Stationary both times. Note: (May -31, 1952) says target was also tracked by ground radar at 78 knots (90 -m.p.h.) at 22,500’ and 25,000’ altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yakima, Washington
-ID: 84

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Event 2326 -(B297BB87)

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Date: 3/24/1952
-Time: 8:45 AM
-Description: Witnesses: B-29 navigator and radar operator. One target -tracked for 20-30 seconds at estimated 3,000 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 60 miles west of Pt. Concepcion, California
-ID: 85

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Event 2327 -(7882CDA2)

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Date: 3/25/1952
-Description: Project Grudge becomes a separate organization under the -title Aerial Phenomena Group and is renamed Project Blue Book, -apparently by Lt. Col. Charles Cooke, which he thinks has “no -overtones.” Ruppelt says it is based on the books provided for taking -college tests at Iowa State University. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, -January–May, The -Author, 1993, pp. 20–21; Sparks, -p. 12; Ruppelt, p. 131; -Clark III 916)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1751

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Event 2328 -(2EFC9745)

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Date: 3/26/1952
-Description: Five trials are conducted through April 21 by the US Army -Chemical Corps under Operation Dew. The tests release zinc cadmium -sulfide along a 100-to-150-nautical-mile line approximately 5–10 -nautical miles off the coast of Georgia, North Carolina, and South -Carolina. Two of the trials disperse clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide over -large areas of all three states. The tests affect over 60,000 square -miles of populated coastal region. The Dew I releases are from a Navy -minesweeper, the USS -Tercel. The -conclusion is that long-range aerosol clouds can obtain hundreds of -miles of travel and large-area coverage when disseminated from ground -level under certain meteorological conditions. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Dew”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1754

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Event 2329 -(11AAFB09)

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Date: 3/26/1952
-Description: Day. Henry C. Davis is looking out at the ocean through his -second-floor window in Long Beach, California, and listening to the -radio. He spots two yellow discs in the sky about one mile high and 2 -miles away. He thinks they are 1,000 feet apart and moving southeast to -northwest at 100 mph. As they pass, his radio goes to static twice. (Schopick, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1752

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Event 2330 -(A02D2D2A)

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Date: 3/26/1952
-Description: Ruppelt meets -with the MIT scientists he calls the Beacon Hill Group, which recommends -that Blue Book use “sound detection apparatus” in areas of UFO activity. -(Clark III 916)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1753

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Event 2331 -(4D3E9EA1)

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Date: 3/29/1952
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Donald F. Stewart and George Tyler III are -driving northbound on the Governor Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie, -Maryland. A 50-foot silvery domed disc with two portholes and an -apparent hatch appears from the northeast and hovers above their car, -causing the engine to fail, magnetizing the wiring, and cracking the -paint. Stewart takes a sub-machine gun from the back of the car and -debates whether to fire it at the object, which remains in view for 3 -minutes before turning n its edge and speeding away to the southwest. -Tyler changes his story later, denying he was involved. Possible hoax. -(NICAP, “E-M -Effects on Car from Domed Disc”; -Sparks, p. 124; -Hynek UFO Report, pp. 196–198); -Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 61–64, 229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1759

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Event 2332 -(430DAF71)

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Date: 3/29/1952
-Description: 6:40 p.m. Carl -J. Henry, chairman -of the Industrial Commission of Missouri, along with several others, -watches a cylinder-shaped, silver UFO for 2 minutes almost directly -overhead in Butler, Missouri. It is moving silently in a northwesterly -direction leaving no trail or exhaust. He estimates its length at 100 -feet. (UFOEv, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1758

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Event 2333 -(4B5C97C0)

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Date: 3/29/1952
-Description: Two fiery discs are sighted over the uranium mines in the -southern part of the Belgian Congo near Elisabethville [modern -Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo]. With a diameter of -approximately 36– 45 feet, they travel in a precise and light manner, -both vertically and horizontally. They emit hissing and buzzing sounds. -Changes in elevation from 2,400 to 3,000 feet are accomplished in a few -seconds. The discs often move down to within 60 feet of the treetops. A -Commander Pierre of the Belgian Air Force sets out in pursuit in a -fighter plane from the city airport. On his first approach he comes to -within about 260 feet of one of the discs. Suddenly they hover in one -spot then takes off in a unique zigzag flight to the northeast at an -estimated speed of 930 mph. Pierre gives up his pursuit after about 15 -minutes. (NICAP, “Two -Discs over Uranium Mines / Jet in Pursuit”; -Sparks, p. 123; -Good Above, p. 512)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1757

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Event 2334 -(5F69B7B9)

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Date: 3/29/1952
-Description: 11:20 a.m. Near Misawa, Japan, USAF Lt. David -Conant Brigham is flying a T-6 target plane on a practice intercept -mission for two F-84s. The first F-84 overtakes him at 6,000 feet when -the T-6 pilot notices a small disc gaining on the interceptor. The UFO -curves toward the F-84, decelerates rapidly, then flips on edge in a 90° -bank. It flies between the two aircraft, pulls away, flips again, passes -the F-84, crosses in front, and accelerates out of sight in a near -vertical climb. Both pilots notice the object, which comes within 30–50 -feet of the T-6. The pilot estimates it is only 8 inches in diameter. -There is a ripple around the edge. (NICAP, “Brigham/T6 -Case: UFO Makes -Pass at F-84”; UFOEv, p. 5; -Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 192; -Sparks, p. 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1756

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Event 2335 -(636115AB)

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Date: 3/29/1952
-Description: Small, shiny disc made pass at Air Force plane
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Misawa, Japan
-ID: 0

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Event 2336 -(47C92D76)

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Date: 3/29/1952
-Time: 11:20 AM
-Description: Witness: Brigham, pilot of AT-6 trainer. One small, very -thin, shiny metallic disc flew alongside the AT-6, then made a pass at -an F-84 jet fighter, flipped on edge, fluttered 20’ from the F-84’s -fuselage and flipped in the slipstream…all in 10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 20 miles north of Misawa AFB, Japan
-ID: 86

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Event 2337 -(DB0EBF0B)

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Date: 3/31/1952
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #5. (US Air -Force, Projects -Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 81–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1762

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Event 2338 -(A972B5FC)

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Date: 3/31/1952
-Description: ATIC Chief Frank -Dunn writes to Gen. Garland requesting -that Project Blue Book be entirely declassified in order to make it -easier to encourage civilian pilots to send in reports. That is a bit -too much openness for Garland, who compromises by reclassifying certain -case investigations as “Restricted,” a relatively low level. (Swords -146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1761

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Event 2339 -(FCD44FB2)

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Date: 3/31/1952
-Description: Battelle begins its UFO study (referred to as P-47S and -nicknamed Little Stork) under the supervision of William T. Reid, -folding it into Project Stork, an initiative to examine the Soviet -Union’s technological warfare capabilities. Almost all of the UFO -analysis involves compiling IBM punch cards based on data forwarded by -Project Blue Book files. (Clark III 929; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember -Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 7–8; Jennie Zeidman and Mark -Rodeghier, “The Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18, -no. 3 (May/June 1993): 4–12, 19–21; Michael Hall, “Was There a Second -Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1760

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Event 2340 -(301F7E9D)

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Date: 4/1952
-Description: Albert -K. Bender, a -factory worker in Bridgeport, Connecticut, announces the formation of -the International Flying Saucer Bureau. (Clark III 189, 623)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1767

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Event 2341 -(23E48CB6)

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Date: 4/1952
-Description: Ruppelt again -meets with MIT Lincoln Laboratory scientists (the Beacon Hill group) in -Cambridge, Massachusetts, to brief them on Blue Book’s progress. -Afterward, he asks them about the flashes seen on Mars in 1951, and a -general discussion of life on other planets ensues. Michael -D. Swords suspects that some of those present are physicist George -Valley Jr., engineer -Julius -Adams Stratton, physicist -Albert -G. Hill, and chemical engineer Walter -G. Whitman. (Edward -J. Ruppelt, “Are There Men on Mars? Or Other Worlds?” IUR 23, no. 1 -(Spring 1998): 10–12, 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1766

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Event 2342 -(865390E8)

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Date: 4/1952
-Description: Life Magazine article: “Have We Visitors from Space?”
-Type: article
-Reference: Medium
-See also: 12/48
-See also: 10/51

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Event 2343 -(53072257)

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Date: 4/1952
-Description: Secretary of the Navy Dan -Kimball, upset -with the way the Air Force has treated his UFO sighting, sets up an -independent Navy probe of UFOs under Lt. Commander Fred Lowell Thomas of -the Office of Naval Research. The project lasts through 1952, but -probably not much longer. (NICAP, “Navy -Secy Dan Kimball’s Pilot’s Sighting, -March 14, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1765

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Event 2344 -(33537E90)

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Date: 4/1952 (approximate)
-Description: Amateur astronomer W. -Gordon Graham sees a UFO “like a smoke ring, elliptical in shape, -and having two bright pinpoints of light along its main axis” at London, -Ontario. It sails overhead from west to east. (London (Ont.) Free Press, -May 1, 1952; UFOEv, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1764

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Event 2345 -(3180FB66)

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Date: 4/2/1952
-Description: On the eve of the release of the bombshell Life magazine -article, Ruppelt and -his boss, ATIC Technical Analysis Division Chief Col. Sanford -H. Kirkland Jr., give -an extraordinary briefing, technically unclassified but in fact -quasi-classified, to a group of aerospace engineers and saucer buffs -organized as Civilian Saucer Investigation of Los Angeles. These include -aeronautical consultant Felix -W. A. Knoll, technical writer Ed -J. Sullivan, -and North American Aviation project engineer Walther -A. Riedel. The briefing takes place at the Mayfair Hotel in Los -Angeles, California, along with national media reporters and the Life -magazine reporters who give them advance copies of the Darrach/Ginna -article in exchange. (“Minutes -of Meeting of Civilian Saucer Investigations -Held Wednesday, April 2, 1952, 8:00 PM in the Mayfair Hotel, Los -Angeles, California,” April 2, 1952, transcribed by Sign Historical -Group; Willard D. Nelson, “When Blue Book Met the Ufologists,” IUR 12, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 21–24; Ruppelt, p. 175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1768

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Event 2346 -(FB92358D)

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Date: 4/2/1952
-Description: 9:00 a.m. While on a fishing trip to Lake Mead, Nevada, -with his wife and M/Sgt Lester Gossett, M/Sgt Sheldon Smith observes a -large silver UFO at a high altitude. It looks like a B-36 without wings. -Smith observes it right after a flight of F-86s overfly the area at -about 15,000 feet. After watching the hovering object for about an hour -at a much higher altitude than the vapor trails from the F-86s, it -suddenly disappears. (NICAP, “B-36 without -Wings”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1769

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Event 2347 -(D5BDE9CE)

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Date: 4/3/1952
-Description: The Air Force publicly announces that it has not stopped -investigating and evaluating UFO reports.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1770

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Event 2348 -(D02334FF)

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Date: 4/4/1952
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two radar operators of the 147th AC&W -Squadron. One object was tracked for one minute by radar at an estimated -2,160 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Duncanville, Texas
-ID: 87

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Event 2349 -(F591E388)

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Date: 4/5/1952
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: L.E. VanDercar and 9 year old son. Four dark -circular objects with mostly fuzzy edges, crossed face of Moon; each was -half the apparent diameter of Moon. 2:59 PM Witness: H.L. Russell.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miami, Florida
-ID: 89

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Event 2350 -(08D7418B)

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Date: 4/5/1952
-Time: l0:40 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Ryan, R.L. Stokes, D. Schook. -One large, dull grey circular object, followed by two more, flew -straight and level at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Phoenix, Arizona
-ID: 88

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Event 2351 -(1BE78432)

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Date: 4/6/1952
-Time: 2:59 PM
-Description: Witness: H.L. Russell. 50-75 grey-white discs changed -position within formation continually, tilted in unison every 12-15 -seconds during 3.8 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Temple, Texas
-ID: 90

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Event 2352 -(B7D98D84)

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Date: 4/7/1952
-Description: Henry -B. Darrach Jr. and Robert -Ginna’s article, “Have We Visitors from Space?” appears in Life and -reports on the revitalized USAF project. It comes close to advocating -the ETH, and its primary sources are high-ranking Air Force officers. -(H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have -We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, pp. 80–96; NICAP, “Scholarly -Commentary on LIFE Article of April 7, 1952”; Michael D. Swords, -“1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1771

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Event 2353 -(8CAF10B1)

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Date: 4/7/1952
-Description: During war games taking place in the vicinity of Lampasas, -Texas, nicknamed Operation Longhorn, the Air Force announces that a new -“aerial light” attached to a B-26 aircraft is in use that makes an -“attacking bomber look like a ball of fire in the sky.” It is -essentially a bright magnesium searchlight (dubbed a “Hell Roarer” -flare) that can illuminate a battlefield for nighttime photography. USAF -Public Information Officer Capt. Irving Rappaport implies it could be -mistaken for a flying saucer. (“Light -Makes Bomber Resemble Ball of Fire,” Chambersburg (Pa.) Public -Opinion, April 7, 1952, p. 3; “It’s -No Saucer! Strange Objects in the Sky Are Nothing New -in Dayton,” Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, November 9, 1952, magazine -supplement, p. 7; Curt Collins, “UFOs: -Confusing the Public,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 27, -2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1772

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Event 2354 -(CFF852F9)

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Date: 4/12/1952
-Description: 8:30 p.m. W/O E. H. Rossell and Flight Sgt. Reginald McRae -are driving on RCAF Station North Bay, Ontario, when they see a bright -amber disc arrive from the southwest, move across the airfield, stop, -and then take off in the opposite direction at an angle of 30° at -terrific speed. (NICAP, “Amber -Disc Stops, Reverses Direction”; -Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, pp. 92–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1773

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Event 2355 -(342225D2)

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Date: 4/12/1952
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Royal Canadian Air Force Warrant Officer E.H. -Rossell, Flight Sgt. R. McRae. One round amber object flew fast, -stopped, reversed direction, climbed away at 30’ angle during a 2 minute -observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: North Bay, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 91

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Event 2356 -(26C3A00B)

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Date: 4/14/1952
-Time: 12:35 PM
-Description: Witness: unidentified CAL airline pilot. Several light -colored objects flew in V-formation. No further details in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: LaCrosse, Wisconsin
-ID: 92

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Event 2357 -(E56E8F87)

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Date: 4/14/1952
-Time: 6:34 PM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Navy pilots Lt. jg. Blacky, Lt. jg. O’Neil. -One inverted bowl, 3’ long and 1’ high, with vertical slots, flew fast, -straight and level, 100 yards from observers’ aircraft for 45-60 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Memphis, Tennessee
-ID: 93

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Event 2358 -(05CD27E8)

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Date: 4/15/1952
-Time: 7:40 PM
-Description: Witness: Mr. Hayes, brother of Master Sergeant. Two faint -objects observed flying fast along the horizon for 6-8 seconds, using -20x spotting telescope.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Santa Cruz, California
-ID: 94

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Event 2359 -(C858C153)

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Date: 4/16/1952
-Description: ADC becomes frantic about a possible Soviet attack. Air -Force Intelligence warns Brig. Gen. Woodbury Burgess, at -ADC Headquarters, Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in -Colorado Springs, Colorado, that a classified source (possibly an -electronic intercept) has provided an “indication” of ominous Soviet -military activity. With the simultaneous appearance of two waves of -unidentified targets, there is no alternative. At 3:10 a.m., ADC -Commander Gen. Frederic -H. Smith Jr. orders America’s first nationwide Air Defense Readiness -alert. (NICAP, “UFOs -and Alert Scare, April 1952”; “Radar -Scare,” Miami (Fla.) Herald, April 19, 1952, p. 23; “3 Plane -Vapors Cause Alert at Alaska Stations,” Long Beach (Calif.) -Independent, April 18, 1952, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1774

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Event 2360 -(29A07B19)

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Date: 4/17/1952
-Time: 3:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: group of Army weather observation students, -including several graduate engineers. One flat-white, circular object -flew with an irregular trajectory and a brief trail, for about 7 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yuma, Arizona
-ID: 96

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Event 2361 -(2DEEDEA3)

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Date: 4/17/1952
-Description: 12:58 a.m. Four high-altitude contrails heading -east-southeast toward Alaska are seen by NORAD defense observers at -Nunivak Island, Alaska. (NICAP, “Another -Radar-Inspired National Alert”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1775

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Event 2362 -(E30C1197)

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Date: 4/17/1952
-Description: 5:10 a.m. Radar at Caswell Air Force Station [now closed] -in Limestone, Maine, tracks five unknown targets headed southwest into -the US. Three are later identified as off-course civilian airliners, -while two remain unidentified. A nationwide Air Defense Readiness Alert -is declared at 5:11 a.m. SAC is notified to prepare launch of nuclear -missiles. The alert is canceled at 7:40 a.m. (NICAP, “Another -Radar-Inspired National Alert”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1776

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Event 2363 -(3DAFAC80)

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Date: 4/17/1952
-Description: 12:05 p.m. Air Force T/S Orville Lawson, Rudy -Toncer (sheet metal shop foreman), and sheet metal shop workers R. -K. Van Houtin, Edward Gregory, and Charles -Ruliffson at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, see 18 circular -objects flying an easterly course that carry them over or very close to -the Nevada Test Site. They watch the objects for about 30 seconds. (“Work -Crew Spots Flying Saucers over A-Test Site,” Salt Lake Tribune, -April 18, 1952, p. 1; NICAP, “April -17, 1952: Nellis AFB, Nevada Large Group of Circular UFOs”; Nukes -83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1777

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Event 2364 -(346D0478)

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Date: 4/17/1952
-Description: Dewey -Fournet Jr. responds to a reporter from the Baltimore Sun who has -asked about details of the Blue Book investigation with a -two-and-a-half-page memo, vagued up a bit, but essentially saying that -“nothing detrimental to our national security has materialized from -these incidents.” (Swords 147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1778

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Event 2365 -(CBE85C70)

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Date: 4/17/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: S.B. Brooks, chemical engineer J.A. Eaton. One -round, deep orange object flew fast and erratic, occasionally emitting a -shaft of light to the rear during a 40 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Longmeadow, Massachusetts
-ID: 95

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Event 2366 -(420D4580)

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Date: 4/18/1952
-Time: l0:l0 PM
-Description: Witness: reporter Chic Shave. One round, yellow-gold object -flew south and returned during 1.5 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada
-ID: 99

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Event 2367 -(C810EF32)

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Date: 4/18/1952
-Time: 4 AM
-Description: Witness: janitor C. Hamilton. One yellow-gold object made a -sharp turn and left a short, dark trail during l minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada
-ID: 101

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Event 2368 -(519E50A0)

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Date: 4/18/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witness: one radar operator. Tracked unidentified target -for 1 minute at 2,700 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 50 miles northwest of Kyushu, Japan (129’ 51’ E, 34’ 19’ -N)
-ID: 100

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Event 2369 -(6F1A3C97)

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Date: 4/18/1952
-Description: 12:07 p.m. Detachment 21 of the 618th Aircraft and Warning -Squadron, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, picks up a radar target over the -Korea Strait north of Kyushu Island, Japan, moving at 2,700 mph. (NICAP, -“Object Tracked -at 2,700 MPH”; Sparks, p. 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1779

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Event 2370 -(C80B517B)

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Date: 4/18/1952
-Time: l1:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: R. Poerstal and three other men. Seven to nine -circular, orange-yellow lights in a V-formation flew overhead silently -for 4-8 seconds, from south to north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bethesda, Maryland
-ID: 98

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Event 2371 -(FC357E1B)

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Date: 4/18/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witnesses: two Army weather observation students. One -flat-white circular object flew for 5-10 seconds in a very erratic -manner.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yuma, Arizona
-ID: 97

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Event 2372 -(EEE91023)

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Date: 4/19/1952
-Description: 9:20 p.m. USAF Brig. Gen. Edwin -M. Day is reclining on a patio in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, when he -sees an object traveling parallel to the ground at a constant altitude -(between 10,000 and 20,000 feet) and moving in his direction. Its speed -is greater than a jet’s. It breaks into two parts at one point but -maintains its constant course. He follows it visually for 5–6 seconds -until it disappears to the north-northeast. (“When UFOs Were Serious -Business: Then and Today,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1780

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Event 2373 -(1B904980)

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Date: 4/20/1952
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Naval aviation student Edmund Kogut and his wife -Shirley are at a drive-in movie theater in Flint, Michigan, when they -see several groups of UFOs fly over. There are 2–9 objects in a group -and about 20 groups, all flying in a straight line except for some -changes in direction accomplished unlike any known aircraft. They are -shaped like conventional aircraft but have an odd reddish glow -surrounding them. (NICAP, [Flint, -Michigan, case documents]; -Sparks, -p. 128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1781

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Event 2374 -(7F5D16E3)

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Date: 4/22/1952
-Description: The Canadian Defence Research Board establishes a UFO study -group that meets for the first time today. Project Second Storey, formed -by Omond -M. Solandt, DRB -chairman, meets at least five times. It is chaired by astrophysicist Peter -M. Millman and includes Wilbert -B. Smith and representatives from Naval Intelligence, Military -Operations and Planning, and the Defence Research Board. At its April 24 -meeting, it decides to meet with the US government on UFO matters. (“Project -Second Storey Minutes, 1952.04.24”; Clark III 1078; Good Above, p. 186; -Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn -Press, 2006, p. 225– 226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1782

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Event 2375 -(13BB6063)

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Date: 4/22/1952
-Time: 99 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of B-29 bomber, on ground. One elliptical -object, followed by two and then another two, each with a white light -that blinked every 1-2 seconds as they performed erratic maneuvers for -10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Naha AFB, Okinawa
-ID: 102

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Event 2376 -(5C4DF68E)

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Date: 4/23/1952
-Description: 9:30 a.m. R. C. Munroe, engineering standards section head -for Raytheon Manufacturing Company, notices an object near an AT-6 Texan -trainer aircraft above Lexington, Massachusetts. He estimates its -altitude at 40,000 feet. It decelerates abruptly and goes into a flat -turn. He writes, “It is inconceivable to me that any human being could -have withstood the deceleration or acceleration displayed by this -aircraft.” (UFOEv, p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1783

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Event 2377 -(5D8921B8)

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Date: 4/23/1952
-Description: 10:45 a.m. Engineers Carl -Hawk and Marvin -Harvey are at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they look -up to watch a jet fighter as it shoots to the north above the Sandia -Mountains. They also notice a soundless, flat, rectangular, wing-like -object streaking through the sky from east to west above Tijeras Canyon. -The object is completely black except for a distinct, bright yellow “V” -on its bottom. Two slight points extend from its rear corners. Hawk -estimates that it is passing overhead at 2,000 feet altitude at 200–400 -mph and is roughly 60 feet wide by 20 feet long. They watch it for 10 -seconds until it disappears in a cloud above downtown Albuquerque. (“What -Soared Against Duke City Sky That Day in April, 1952?”Albuquerque -(N.Mex.) Tribune, November 21, 1957, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1784

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Event 2378 -(EDB5917E)

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Date: 4/24/1952
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three Cambridge Research Center electronics -engineers, one named Buruish. Two flat, red squares flew wobbly in level -flight, climbed, levelled out during 1.5 minute observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Milton, Massachusetts
-ID: 104

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Event 2379 -(DA81C543)

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Date: 4/24/1952
-Time: 5 AM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF C-124 transport plane. Three -circular, bluish objects in loose “fingertip” formation twice flew -parallel to airplane during 3-4 minute period.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bellevue Hill, Vermont
-ID: 103

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Event 2380 -(B9F445FE)

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Date: 4/24/1952
-Description: An Air Force Intelligence memorandum to Col. Frank -Dunn, chief of ATIC, transmits nine reports (not released) of -unidentified submarine objects reported to the Office of Naval -Intelligence. (Good Need, pp. 141, -145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1785

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Event 2381 -(880B6DE3)

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Date: 4/24/1952
-Time: 8:10 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF light Surgeon Maj. E.L. Ellis. Many -orange-amber lights, sometimes separate, sometimes fused, behaved -erratically. Speed varied from motionless to very fast during 5 minute -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Clovis, New Mexico
-ID: 105

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Event 2382 -(39996FEC)

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Date: 4/25/1952
-Description: Battelle releases its first status report on Project Stork, -noting that it has selected a panel of consultants, initiated a news -clipping service, and devised a coding scheme for UFO reports. (“Seven -Status Reports for Project -Stork,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1787

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Event 2383 -(B030FC60)

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Date: 4/25/1952
-Description: 11:00 a.m. A biochemist and a bacteriologist are driving to -their office in San Jose, California, when they see a metallic-looking -disc rotating around a vertical axis and wobbling. It is moving slowly -over the office and is about 4–5 feet in diameter. It flies in a slow -arc. Then they see a black object hovering at a high altitude under an -overcast. This one is about 100 feet in diameter. Two identical objects -come into view out of the clouds. The three objects “jittered about like -boats in a stream.” Then the small disc stops spinning, hovers, then -shoots upwards, followed by one of the black objects. The remaining two -objects linger another minute or so, then take off separately. The -episode lasts 15 minutes. The biochemist calls Moffett Field in Santa -Clara County, but hangs up before reporting the sighting, which they -describe as a “most disturbing experience.” The object “utilized some -propulsion method not in the physics books.” (NICAP, “Scientist -Sighting / Extraordinary Propulsion Implied”; Richard H. Hall, -Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 241–242)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1786

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Event 2384 -(0F12D629)

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Date: 4/25/1952
-Description: UFO sighted flying over San Jose, CA, near Mt. Hamilton by -two scientists, Dr. W (biochemist; name withheld) and Dr. Y -(bacteriologist, name also withheld). Description of hovering disk: at -about 50 ft. it appeared to be 4 to 5 ft. in diam. The wobble of the -disk allowed them to estimate it’s thickness to be approx. 1.5ft. No -sound or means of propulsion observed. Later they observed a higher -flying silvery disc approx. 100 ft. in diam. Next to it more UFOs -appeared and bobbed around like boats in a stream. The objects -disappeared around 11:15 a.m. The two scientists decided not to report -the incident to Moffett Field for fear of ridicule.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-F p241)
-Location: San Jose, CA

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Event 2385 -(AC35DC92)

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Date: 4/27/1952
-Time: 4:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: H.A. Freytag and three male relatives, including -a minister. One silver oval rolled, descended and stopped. Two silver -cigar-shaped objects appeared, one departing to the east and one to the -west. A third silver cigar-shaped object flew by at high speed. -Sightings lasted 45 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Roseville, Michigan
-ID: 106

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Event 2386 -(4F9161BF)

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Date: 4/27/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: M/Sgt. and Mrs. G.S. Porter (he was off-duty -control tower operator). Bright red or flame-colored discs, appearing as -large as fighter planes. Seven sightings of one disc, one of two in -formation during 2 hours. All seen below 11,000’ overcast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yuma, Arizona
-ID: 107

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Event 2387 -(F596B7EA)

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Date: 4/29/1952
-Time: 100 PM
-Description: Witness: B-29 bombardier Lt. R.H. Bauer. One white -fan-shaped light pulsed 3-4 times per second for 2 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goodland, Kansas
-ID: 109

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Event 2388 -(0CA3B014)

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Date: 4/29/1952
-Description: An Air Force memorandum written to justify a trip by Lt. -Col. E. Sterling and Stefan -Possony to Europe mentions that their work for USAF Intelligence’s -“Special Study Group” is to evaluate Soviet advanced aerial delivery -systems, as well as to shed “some much needed light” on the “vexing -‘flying saucer’ problem.” It adds that the “Air Force cannot assume that -flying saucers are of non-terrestrial origin, and hence, they could be -Soviet.” (Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 -(Winter 2003–2004): 10; Swords 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1789

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Event 2389 -(885EA658)

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Date: 4/29/1952
-Description: Secretary of the Air Force Thomas -K. Finletter issues Air Force Letter 200-5, which directs -intelligence officers at every base to report UFOs immediately to ATIC -and all major USAF commands. It enables Project Blue Book staff to -communicate directly with any Air Force base without going through the -normal chain of command, and provides for wire transmission of reports -to ATIC, followed with details via air mail. AFL 200-5 is modified by -AFR 200-2 in 1953. (Department of the Air Force, “Unidentified -Flying Objects Reporting,” Air Force Letter 200-5, April 29, 1952; -Ruppelt, pp. 132–133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1788

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Event 2390 -(47C6288A)

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Date: 4/29/1952
-Time: 3:30 PM
-Description: Witness: private pilot R.R. Weidman. One round, white -object which flew straight, with a side-to-side oscillation for 1.5 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marshall, Texas
-ID: 108

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Event 2391 -(F55EE828)

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Date: 4/30/1952
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #6. (US Air -Force, Projects -Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 95–112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1790

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Event 2392 -(005066FB)

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Date: 4/30/1952
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Six members of the 3rd Platoon, Heavy Mortar -Company, 180th Infantry Regiment at the front lines around Panmunjeom, -Korea, see two silvery wingless objects, one behind the other, flying in -a valley in a southeasterly direction. Pfc H. B. Webb thinks they are -flying at 900–1,000 mph. Some slower northbound F-86 Sabre jets pass -above them. They make a rumbling sound. (Haines, Korea, p. 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1791

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Event 2393 -(86C6329F)

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Date: 5/1952
-Description: Army radar specialist Jay Nogle is stationed near -Washington, D.C., when he picks up an unknown target on his M33 scope at -an altitude of 18,000 feet about 130 miles from the capital (which would -put it over eastern Pennsylvania). Two other Army units also detect the -object, which remains stationary for 30 minutes before moving. By the -time the object reaches the edge of the radar scope, it is traveling at -1,000 mph. The report goes all the way to the Pentagon, where orders are -given to fire on it if it returns. Nogle says that radar targets are -frequently seen in May or June, and units have their antiaircraft guns -loaded after the first incident. When fighters are scrambled from -McGuire AFB [now part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst] in Burlington -County, New Jersey, the targets move speedily out of range. (Swords -153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1792

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Event 2394 -(5B74A54B)

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Date: 5/1/1952
-Time: 5:32 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Two Atomic Energy Commission employees, Eggan -and Shipley. One silver object without wings flew straight and level for -1.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Moses Lake, Washington
-ID: 110

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Event 2395 -(C88EC7AC)

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Date: 5/1/1952
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three men on the arms range, plus one Lt. -Colonel 4 miles away. Five flat-white discs about the diameter of a -C-47’s wingspan (95’) flew fast, made a 90^ turn in a formation of three -in front and two behind, and darted around, for 15-30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: George AFB, California
-ID: 111

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Event 2396 -(9BDB9C3D)

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Date: 5/1/1952
-Description: 9:10 a.m. Air intelligence officer Maj. Rudolph -Pestalozzi and an airman standing outside the Davis-Monthan AFB base -hospital, Tucson, Arizona, watch two shiny, round objects overtake a -B-36 flying above. The objects slow down to match the plane’s speed and -remain in formation with them for 20 seconds. Then they make a sharp, -no-radius turn away from the B-36, moving away a bit. Then one of the -objects stops and hovers. Both are silent, and the crew estimates they -have a diameter of 20–25 feet and a thickness of 10–12 feet. (NICAP, “The Case -of the Missing Report”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 109–112, 292–294; -Sparks, p. 131; -Good Need, pp. 166– 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1795

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Event 2397 -(2E684F64)

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Date: 5/1/1952
-Description: 10:50 a.m. At George AFB [now Southern California Logistics -Airport] near Victorville, California, five independent witnesses in the -base control tower see a group of five white discs moving in formation -for about 30 seconds. The objects appear very maneuverable, seem to -almost collide, then break away in a right-angle turn. They are -traveling an estimated 900–1,200 mph and are 1,000–1,200 feet in -diameter. Four miles away at Apple Valley, California, the base’s wing -director of personnel, playing on a golf course, sees one of the UFOs at -the same time. (NICAP, “George -AFB / Apple Valley, CA Radar Case”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 107–109; -Sparks, p. 131; -Swords 147–148; Good Need, p. 166; -Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): -10, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1796

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Event 2398 -(A60A160D)

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Date: 5/1/1952
-Description: 1:45 p.m. Albuquerque Journal composing room employee -Eugene Cline sees four silvery objects seemingly playing tag with a -formation of 12 Air Force bombers—either B-29s or B-50s—flying west over -Albuquerque, New Mexico. The round objects are keeping up with the -planes at the same altitude, moving in a “tumbling or pitching manner.” -One object shoots straight up and takes off in a southerly direction. -About the same time, workmen (one of them Howard Burgess) erecting an -antenna at nearby Sandia Base watch three UFOs pass directly overhead. -One comes from the west and moves south; another comes from the north -and moves south; and a third, tan-colored rather than silver like the -others, passes low overhead and looks like a “cylinder tumbling end over -end.” Burgess and the others are debriefed and sworn to secrecy about -what they have witnessed. (“Flying -Saucers Play Tag with Bombers over City,” Albuquerque (N.Mex.) -Journal, May 2, 1952, p. 2; Nukes 56–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1797

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Event 2399 -(68CFC182)

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Date: 5/1/1952
-Description: Two disc-shaped UFOs approached close to B-36 bomber, also -seen from ground
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ
-ID: 1

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Event 2400 -(40E07851)

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Date: early 5/1952
-Description: A meeting is held in the Pentagon office of Stefan -Possony, acting chief of the Directorate of Intelligence Study Group -under Maj. Gen. John -A. Samford to hear Harvard University astronomer Donald -Menzel express his views. Present are Possony, Capt. Edward -J. Ruppelt, ATIC chief Col. Frank -Dunn, Brig. -Gen. William -M. Garland, Possony’s -assistant Leslie -Rosenzweig, and -one other officer. Menzel announces that he has solved all UFO reports -and claims to have helped out in the development of the cameras in -Project Twinkle. His attitude irks everyone in the meeting. When he asks -the Air Force to support his views in upcoming publications in Time and -Look, Gen. Garland gets angry. Col. Dunn says that Blue Book would have -put some money into more formal versions of his experiments, but he can -only offer a statement that Menzel has told them of his theory. Now -Menzel gets agitated, saying it is no theory. He refuses to leave them a -copy of his book to pass on to Joseph Kaplan and -J. -Allen Hynek. In -the evening, Possony speaks with astronomer Francis J. Heyden at -Georgetown University, who tells him that Menzel’s work is based on no -more than a “couple of meaningless high school physics experiments.” -(Clark III 743; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2 -(December 2008): 9; Swords 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1794

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Event 2401 -(B5C9AC2D)

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Date: early 5/1952
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A senior CIA official is having a lawn party at -his home near Alexandria, Virginia, for some VIPs. He and two others -notice a light approaching silently from the west. It stops then climbs -almost vertically, stops again, then levels out. Then it goes into a -nearly vertical dive, levels out, and streaks off to the east. (Ruppelt, -pp. 135–136; -Swords 148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1793

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Event 2402 -(8B1E8902)

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Date: 5/5/1952
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. M.M. Judson. Six or seven translucent, -cream-yellow objects. One moved in an ellipse, while the others moved in -and out.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tenafly, New Jersey
-ID: 112

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Event 2403 -(D051C4B1)

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Date: 5/7/1952
-Time: 12:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Capt. Morris, a Master Sergeant, a Staff -Sergeant, and an Airman First Class. Ten times, an aluminum or silver -cylindrical object was seen to dart in and out of the clouds during a -5-10 minute period.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Keesler AFB, Mississippi
-ID: 113

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Event 2404 -(F61502C9)

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Date: 5/7/1952
-Description: 12:22 a.m. Mrs. Hanley Marks sees a light-green, -ball-shaped object fall from the sky into the Sandia Mountains, New -Mexico, from her home in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Albuquerque. (“Fireball -Falls near Sandias -Early Today,” Albuquerque Journal, May 7, 1952, p. 1; “Green -Fireball Falls in Southwest, Three Here Report,” -Albuquerque Journal, May 7, 1952, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1798

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Event 2405 -(078F8517)

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Date: 5/7/1952
-Description: 12:15 p.m. A Captain Morris and three enlisted men at -Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Mississippi, see one or two aluminum or silver -cylindrical objects darting in and out of the clouds 10 times. ([Blue -Book case report]”; Sparks, p. 131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1799

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Event 2406 -(2D509C79)

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Date: 5/7/1952
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Magazine writer Ed Keffel, in the company of João -Martins, takes five photographs of a UFO over Barra da Tijuca, Rio de -Janeiro, Brazil. In the first, the UFO resembles an airplane coming -directly toward them over a large group of trees. The second shows the -object as disc-shaped. The third photo is taken as the object tilts -slightly, showing both the top with a slight dome and the now obvious -disc shape. More trees, including a very tall palm, can be seen in the -photograph. The fourth picture, taken as the object tilts the other way, -shows a raised ring on the bottom. The final picture is taken as the -object is nearly vertical, seen over part of the ocean and some distant -hills. The UFO disappears shortly afterward. NICAP does not see any -negatives and is skeptical. The Colorado project finds a “glaring -internal inconsistency” in the illumination and dismisses the photos as -hoaxes. Today, the best evidence seems to suggest the case is a hoax, -perpetrated by two magazine writers who wanted an interesting story. -(NICAP, “Barra -da Tijuca Photos”; Olavo T. Fontes, “The -Barra da Tijuca Disc,” APRO Special Report no. 1 (October 1961): -1–6; Condon, pp. 83, 415–418; -Swords 460–461; Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga, “Os 90 Anos do O Cruzeiro, a -Revista que Inaugurou a Era Moderna dos Discos Voadores no Brasil,” -October 11, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1800

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Event 2407 -(A3FA42D7)

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Date: 5/8/1952
-Description: Air Force Secretary Thomas -Finletter and his staff (including his special assistant, covert CIA -agent Joseph Bryan -III) receive a secret one-hour briefing on UFOs from Ruppelt and -Lt. Col. R. J. Taylor that covers USAF investigations over the previous -five years. Finletter asks questions about some specific sightings. -(Ruppelt, p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1802

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Event 2408 -(9B5C298F)

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Date: 5/8/1952
-Description: 2:27 a.m. Pan American Airways pilot Clayton C. Gallagher -and his copilot, flying a Lockheed Constellation aircraft at 8,000 feet -en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to New York, see a light, 10 times -the size of an airplane landing light, approach them over the Atlantic -Ocean east of South Carolina. It streaks past their left wing about a -quarter mile away, followed by two smaller orange balls of fire. -Probable meteor. (NICAP, “Three UAO -Sighted by Constellation Crew”; Sparks, p. 131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1801

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Event 2409 -(58A542C2)

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Date: 5/9/1952
-Time: 5:20 PM
-Description: Witness: A/lc G.C. Grindeland. One dull white, -arrowhead-shaped object flew straight and level for 10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: George AFB, California
-ID: 114

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Event 2410 -(A7280F05)

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Date: 5/10/1952
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A British scientist and others at Paphos, Cyprus, -see a luminous circular object rise from the sea and waver back and -forth before fading from sight directly overhead. (Sparks, -p. 132; Good Above, p. 540)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1804

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Event 2411 -(E5ADED52)

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Date: 5/10/1952
-Description: 3:00 p.m. USAF Lt. Col. Maurice G. Bechtel and his wife are -in the yard of their home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they see two -silvery disc-shaped objects flying straight and level, one after the -other, moving southwest to northeast at above 20,000 feet. The first -object seems to waver on its axis, the second object follows a similar -path but at a higher altitude. The first object is the size of a B-36 at -high altitude. Bechtel alerts the radar station but it is unable to -track the objects. (NICAP, “Two -Discs Observed by Lt. Colonel and Wife”; Sparks, -p. 132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1803

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Event 2412 -(DCADF4DD)

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Date: 5/10/1952
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: 4 duPont employees at the Savannah River nuclear -plant. Up to four yellow, disc-shaped objects were seen on five -occasions between 10:45 and shortly after 11:15.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ellenton, South Carolina
-ID: 115

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Event 2413 -(6277B395)

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Date: 5/10/1952
-Description: RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report signed by Col. William -L. Travis, Chief USAF Intelligence Division. stating: at 2030 hours, in -the city of Paphos, S.W. Cypress, a group of persons including a noted -British Scientist sighted an UFO which appeared to rise sharply from the -level of the sea and disappeared into the sky. It was of a circular -shape and emitted a luminous light. It appeared to waver back and forth -before fading out of sight directly overhead.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p540)
-Location: Paphos, Cypress

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Event 2414 -(1B414F96)

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Date: 5/10/1952
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Four employees of DuPont Corporation at the -AEC’s Savannah River Laboratory near Jackson, South Carolina, see four -disc-shaped objects approach, then two other discs pass high overhead -from different directions. They are a luminous yellow-gold color and -move at a high rate of speed. One of the discs approaches at such a low -altitude that it must ascend to pass over some tall tanks at the -facility. One witness says that the objects are weaving from left to -right while continuing on a steady course. The case is investigated by -the FBI and passed on to the Pentagon and the Atomic Energy Commission. -(NICAP, “Objects -Sighted near Vital Installation”; -Sparks, p. 132; -Nukes 84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1805

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Event 2415 -(098E00EF)

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Date: 5/12/1952
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A UFO is seen by Walker AFB T/Sgt. Raymond Bare -in a car in downtown Roswell, New Mexico. The object is blue-green in -color, and its estimated altitude above the terrain is 20,000–30,000 -feet. It appears to be about 40–50 miles distant over some low mountains -east of Ruidosa. The object travels three times over approximately the -same south-to-north / east-to-west, swaying, triangular course. Rate of -speed cannot be precisely estimated but is faster than that of jet -aircraft. Intensity of color brightness varies with the object’s -altitude. The Air Force explains it as the planet Venus, but Venus is on -the other side of the earth at the time. (NICAP, “High-Speed -Object Maneuvers over Mountains”; Clark III 390–391; Sparks, p. 132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1806

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Event 2416 -(72706D1F)

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Date: 5/12/1952
-Description: “Blue Flash” phenomenon reported over Seattle on front page -of NY Times, reported as possible meteor but meteorologists were not -convinced as it did not follow the usual patterns
-Type: anomalous phenomenon
-Reference: Dr. Leon -Davidson
-Reference: NY -Times
-Location: Seattle, WA

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Event 2417 -(72F45AEE)

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Date: 5/13/1952
-Description: 10:33 p.m. James Richardson and three other amateur -astronomers (among them Cyril -Thomas Wyche and Harry -B. Mooney), set up telescopes at Furman University in Greenville, -South Carolina, when they see a diamond formation of 4 oval, -reddish-yellow or reddish-brown luminous objects nearly overhead. They -disappear after 3 seconds moving through a 12° arc. The apparent size is -a half dollar at arms length. They wobble in flight. (NICAP, “Diamond -Formation of 4 Objects Observed by Astronomers”; Willy Smith, “Blue -Book Pearls: Greenville, S.C.,” IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June 1995): 8–9, 24; -Sparks, p. 133; -Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): -10, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1808

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Event 2418 -(124A6C58)

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Date: 5/13/1952
-Description: 8:55 p.m. Aeronautical engineer Donald R. Carr sees a -meteor-like object descend over National City, California, flying a -curving path to the northwest. At 9:25 p.m., Carr watches a similar -object, seemingly returning from the north. (UFOEv, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1807

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Event 2419 -(D09AA696)

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Date: 5/14/1952
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Attorney and ex-USAF pilot Mr. Stipes, -Sr. Garcia-Mendez. Two shining orange spheres: one was stationary, while -the other darted away and back for 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mayaquez, Puerto Rico
-ID: 116

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Event 2420 -(A3149A91)

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Date: 5/15/1952
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Two F-86E pilots of the 61st Fighter-Interceptor -Wing are on a mission in North Korea when they see a silvery disc larger -than a MiG aircraft 20 miles away and below them at 8,000–10,000 feet. -Seen for only 3– 5 seconds, the object is traveling at 1,200–1,500 mph -in a rolling maneuver. (Haines, Korea, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1811

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Event 2421 -(8520D191)

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Date: 5/15/1952
-Description: 6:35 p.m. The pilot of an F-51 assigned to the 18th Fighter -Bomber Group flying at 9,000 feet over North Korea encounters a silver -object estimated to be 50 feet in diameter. It appears ahead of him to -the right and begins climbing at 1,000 mph to the east, pauses, then -descends into some haze. (Haines, Korea, pp. 39–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1810

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Event 2422 -(322DBB04)

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Date: 5/15/1952
-Description: USAF Intelligence Special Study Group Chief Lieut. Col. E. -Sterling and Stefan -Possony begin a five-week temporary duty trip to Europe to study -Soviet missiles and aircraft. As a side project they study “flying -saucers” that might be of Soviet origin. No documents have yet been -found on this trip’s results. (Swords 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1809

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Event 2423 -(091E0B3A)

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Date: 5/20/1952
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 103.5km (Army -training test. Also designated TF-2)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 103.5km

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Event 2424 -(6FAB5575)

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Date: late 5/1952
-Description: 1:00–3:00 a.m. Royal Canadian Navy Commander George R. -McFarlane is officer of the watch on the Canadian warship HMCS -Iroquois in -the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Guam en route to Korea. He sees -many different lights, some single, others in formations of 3, 5, or 6, -appearing and disappearing instantly. Suddenly one of the objects -appears off the port bow at close range and low elevation. McFarlane and -the signalman on watch see that the light is attached to a disc-shaped -object with two dozen black windows running along its side. It hovers -nearby for at least 15 minutes. (Good Need, pp. 142–143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1812

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Event 2425 -(2EBED0FF)

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Date: 5/20/1952
-Time: l0:l0 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilots Capt. J. Spurgin and Capt. BB. -Stephan. One bright or white oval object moved from side-to-side while -making a gradual turn for 90 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Houston, Texas
-ID: 117

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Event 2426 -(4951B3B7)

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Date: 5/23/1952
-Description: After 11:00 p.m. Lockheed worker Orfeo -Angelucci is driving home on Victory Boulevard from his job in -Burbank, California, when he senses a force and sees a red, glowing UFO. -After a while he begins to follow it, and after he crosses the Los -Angeles River and turns onto Forest Lawn Drive, he gets to within 30 -feet of it when it hovers. Just before it streaks away, two smaller -green globes, 3 feet in diameter, shoot out of it and approach him. He -hears a voice saying, “Don’t be afraid, Orfeo, we are friends.” This -begins his contact with benevolent beings from other planets. (Orfeo -Angelucci, The Secret of the Saucers, Amherst Press, 1955, pp. 1–15; -Bryant and Helen Reeve, Flying Saucer Pilgrimage, Amherst Press, 1957, -pp. 222–232; -Clark III 127–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1813

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Event 2427 -(BACB42F4)

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Date: 5/25/1952
-Description: 9:27 a.m. An Air Force captain in charge of the navigation -section of Combat Crew Training School at Randolph AFB near San Antonio, -Texas, his wife, and another pilot see a group of about 12 orange-white, -tear- drop shaped lights in 3 groups of 4 moving from west to east at -2,000 mph and 10,000 feet altitude. They hear deep, soft intermittent -noise. (Ruppelt, p. 140; -Sparks, -p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1814

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Event 2428 -(8041727E)

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Date: 5/25/1952
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: seven persons, including John Hoffman, his -family and friends. One large white circular object having dark sections -on its rim, flew straight and level for 30 minutes, appearing red when -behind a cloud.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Walnut Lake, Michigan
-ID: 118

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Event 2429 -(82DEED2D)

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Date: 5/26/1952
-Description: 3:20 a.m. Ground radar alerts the crew of an F-94 Starfire -interceptor jet over North Korea that an unidentified target is on its -tail. The jet turns, locks onto the object with onboard radar at 21,000 -feet and begins to close. Both the pilot and radar operator see a -brilliant white light straight ahead. The UFO performs a steady climbing -turn and accelerates away at a tremendous speed. The jet loses the -object at a distance of 7,800 feet after 15 seconds of contact. (Haines, -Korea, pp. 40–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1815

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Event 2430 -(3A52F878)

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Date: 5/28/1952
-Description: 8:30–8:40 p.m. A green fireball about one-third the size of -the full moon is seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from eight ground -points and five aircraft. Lincoln -LaPaz pinpoints the fall near Santa Fe. Around the same time, the -crew of a Flying Tiger Line C-46 near Otto, New Mexico, sees a green -fireball rise up and drop steeply down. (“2 -Green Fireballs Seen by Many, LaPaz Reports,” Albuquerque Journal, -May 29, 1952, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1817

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Event 2431 -(B22B314A)

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Date: 5/28/1952
-Description: 1:45 p.m. Albuquerque, New Mexico, fire department -employees Martin Romero and Don Atteberry see two circular objects, one -shiny silver and the other orange or light brown, performing fast -maneuvers on three different occasions over the course of an hour above -the northeast part of the city. (NICAP, [Blue -Book case documents]; -Sparks, -p. 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1816

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Event 2432 -(D9BFA676)

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Date: 5/28/1952
-Time: 1:45-2:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two city fire department employees. Two circular -objects–one shiny silver and the other orange or light brown–were seen -three times performing fast maneuvers.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 120

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Event 2433 -(E980C686)

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Date: 5/28/1952
-Time: 10:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: many in crowd watching a ceremony. One -white-silver disc-shaped object flew straight and fast for 2 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Saigon, French Indo China
-ID: 119

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Event 2434 -(A3906308)

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Date: 5/28/1952
-End date: 5/29/1952
-Description: During a night refueling mission at 8:10 p.m., the crews of -five USAF B-29 bombers see green spherical objects. The primary sighting -takes place near Albuquerque, New Mexico, and involves three B-29s -flying at 15,000 feet. Another sighting takes place around 11:30 p.m. -about 10 miles southwest of Tulsa, Oklahoma. That crew is flying at -25,000 feet. Three hours later the final sighting takes place near Enid, -Oklahoma, also with a B- 29 at 25,000 feet. The aircrews making these -reports do not think the objects are meteorites. (NICAP, “Five -B-29 Bomber -Crews Observe Green Objects”; Sparks, -p. 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1818

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Event 2435 -(24CBDCCB)

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Date: 5/29/1952
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot Maj. D.W. Feuerstein, on ground. One -bright tubular object tilted from horizontal to vertical for 8 minutes, -then slowly returned to horizontal, again tilted vertical, accelerated, -appeared to lengthen and turned red. The entire sighting lasted 14 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 121

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Event 2436 -(A52B0563)

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Date: 5/30/1952
-Description: USAF Maj. William -D. Leet, copilot -on a C-54 transport mission at 8,500 feet near Oshima, Japan, sees a -dark object hovering in clouds for 7 minutes. It disappears, speeding -away in seconds. (NICAP, “C-54 -Crew Encounters -Round Black Object”; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 January–May, -Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 82–83; Sparks, p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1819

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Event 2437 -(7C6F8D40)

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Date: 5/31/1952
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Mr. R. Baits is on the beach at Derna, Libya, -with three companions when he notices a soft orange- yellow light -traveling soundlessly toward them from inland at great speed and in a -straight line. Suddenly, as it reaches a point overhead, it swerves to -the east over the town, gaining height. After a few seconds it moves to -the south and begins zigzagging until it fades away into the background -of stars. (Newcastle (UK) Evening Standard, June 13, 1952; Jan -Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1822

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Event 2438 -(3B42C978)

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Date: 5/31/1952
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #7. (US Air -Force, Projects -Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 113–130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1821

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Event 2439 -(3F153428)

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Date: 5/31/1952
-Description: About 4:00 a.m. Over Cheorwon, South Korea, several US -soldiers see a bright UFO that looks like a falling star, except that it -stops falling and begins to climb again. It then moves northeast at 150 -mph, reverses course twice, then climbs at a 45° angle and fades from -sight. One guard hears a pulsating sound. An F-94 attempts to intercept -the brilliant white object, which takes clearly evasive maneuvers and -pulls away at 30,000 feet. (NICAP, “Jerky -Object Observed and Tracked on Radar”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 87–90 ; -Haines, Korea, pp. 63–64; -Sparks, p. 136; -Patrick Gross, “UFO -US Military Reports, Korea, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1820

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Event 2440 -(6D9D9B29)

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Date: 6/1952
-Description: Sunset. In Tombstone, Arizona, Navy Lieut. Cmdr. John C. -Williams, his wife Josephine, and a guest see a “huge circular object” -flying toward them from the direction of Tucson. Suddenly it stops in -mid-flight, hovers, then reverses direction and retraces its course. A -few seconds later it returns, stops gain, and appears to oscillate and -tilt from one side to the other. Again it reverses its course, repeating -everything 2–3 more times. (UFOEv, p. 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1826

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Event 2441 -(51824A1F)

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Date: 6/1952
-Description: Reports of UFO’s in Korean War
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: US

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Event 2442 -(8E35CFCF)

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Date: 6/1952
-Description: Big month for sightings
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: US

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Event 2443 -(42D0B133)

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Date: 6/1952
-Description: Truman Bethurum meets Aura Rhanes and visits saucer many -times
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 2444 -(CF1F2F9E)

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Date: 6/1952
-Description: Ruppelt has -four officers, two airmen, and two civilians on his permanent Blue Book -staff (including Lt. Anderson -G. Flues, Robert -M. Olsson, and Kerry Rothstien), as well as a number of scientific -consultants, including Hynek. -In the Pentagon, Maj. Dewey Fournet -Jr. is a full-time Blue Book liaison. (Ruppelt, p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1823

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Event 2445 -(39CA1247)

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Date: 6/1952
-Description: In the wake of mass public and governmental interest in -UFOs kindled by the provocative Life magazine article, CIA intelligence -experts Sidney -N. Graybeal (Chief, Guided Missiles Branch, Weapons and Equipment -Division, Office of Scientific Intelligence) and Irl -D’Arcy Brent (Chief, Ground Branch, W&E Division, OSI) prepare a -summary of the UFO subject for the CIA/OSI hierarchy based on the past -several years of OSI intelligence (and OSI predecessor documents going -back to ghost rockets of 1946) and mentioning sightings going back to -the Bible. The possibility of swamp gas in Michigan as an explanation -for UFOs is suggested by Brent (foreshadowing the Hynek swamp-gas -fiasco in Michigan in 1966). This report has never been acknowledged or -released by the CIA despite FOIA litigation. Its existence and contents -are revealed in Brad -Sparks’s interviews with Brent and Graybeal and other OSI officials -in 1975–1976. (NICAP, “The -1952 Sighting Wave”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1824

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Event 2446 -(296651AB)

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Date: 6/1952
-Description: Jet pilots allegedly discover the wreck of a flying disc on -Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. It is taken to Narvik, -where it is identified as either a Russian or extraterrestrial device. -Other variants of the legend claim it is a Nazi device or that it is -actually discovered on Heligoland, Germany, in the North Sea. Nick -Redfern suspects the story is planted by either Soviet or US -intelligence. (“Auf Spitzbergen landete Fliegende Untertasse,” -Saarbrücker Zeitung, June 28, 1952; Hessische Nachrichten, July 26, -1954; E. W. Grenfell, “First -Report on the Captured -Flying Saucer,” Sir! September 1954, pp. 16–17, 56–57; Le Lorrain, -October 15, 1954; Verdens Gang, December 19, 1954; Condon, pp. 90–91; -William Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo -Archives, 1987, pp. 353–366; Ole Jonny Brænne, “Legend of the -Spitsbergen Saucer,” IUR 17, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1992): 14–20; Kremlin -45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1825

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Event 2447 -(5988B479)

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Date: 6/1/1952
-Time: 6 PM
-Description: Witnesses: A/lc Beatty and two civilians. At least five -long silver objects flew in a neat box formation with a leader for 15-20 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rapid City, South Dakota
-ID: 122

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Event 2448 -(3FA428DC)

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Date: 6/1/1952
-Time: 1 PM
-Description: Witness: ex-military pilot Reserve Maj. W.C. Vollendorf. -One oval object with a “definite airfoil” performed a fast climb for 7 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Walla, Washington
-ID: 123

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Event 2449 -(73930302)

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Date: 6/1/1952
-Time: 3+ PM
-Description: Witness: Ray Lottman. Three glimmering objects flew -straight and level for 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Soap Lake, Washington
-ID: 124

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Event 2450 -(5D50C1B1)

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Date: 6/1/1952
-Description: Morning. The chief of a radar test section for Hughes -Aircraft Company tracks an unidentified target coming across the San -Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles, California. It is moving at 180 -mph toward Santa Monica at an altitude of 11,000 feet. The object -suddenly triples its speed to 550 mph, turns, and climbs over Los -Angeles at 35,000 feet per minute. The target then levels out for a few -seconds, goes into a high-speed dive, and levels out again at 55,000 -feet. They lose the blip somewhere near Riverside. (NICAP, “Radar -Tracks Object Which Suddenly -Climbs to 55,000 Feet”; Ruppelt, pp. 141–143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1829

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Event 2451 -(B0BE666E)

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Date: 6/1/1952
-Description: 2:40 a.m. A cargo ship anchored at the wharf in -Port-Gentil, Gabon, observes a mysterious object fly from behind the -city, make a double loop, pass over the roadstead, and then dive toward -the sea. (ClearIntent, p. 119)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1828

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Event 2452 -(FEC44691)

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Date: 6/2/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witness: lst Lt. John Hendry, photo-navigator on an RB-26C -reconnaissance bomber. One porcelain-white object flew very fast for an -unknown length of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fulda, West Germany
-ID: 126

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Event 2453 -(AA87128E)

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Date: 6/2/1952
-Time: 5:02 PM
-Description: Witness: Larry McWade. One purple object seen for unknown -length of time. No further information in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bayview, Washington
-ID: 125

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Event 2454 -(DF93785C)

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Date: early 6/1952
-Description: 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. Violet M. Winstead and her husband are -driving in a narrow valley somewhere between Charleston and White -Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, when they see a number of lights on a -bridge crossing the valley. They begin blinking off, one by one. When -they get to the bridge, they see no street lights. (Violet M. Winstead, -Letter, IUR 9, no.1 (Jan./Feb. 1984): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1827

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Event 2455 -(9AA3462B)

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Date: 6/4/1952
-Description: Air Force Secretary Finletter issues -a press release about his May UFO briefing, saying, “No concrete -evidence has yet reached us either to prove or disprove the existence of -the so-called flying saucers. There remain, however, a number of -sightings that the Air Force investigators have been unable to explain. -As long as this is true, the Air Force will continue to study flying -saucer reports.” (Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1830

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Event 2456 -(139AD219)

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Date: 6/4/1952
-Description: RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report.
-Type: intelligence report
-Reference: Pea -Research
-See also: 5/10/1952

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Event 2457 -(5229CFA0)

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Date: 6/5/1952
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Dan Benson, Mr. Bacon. A total of eight yellow -circular objects, like large stars, were seen during 45 minutes. The -first two were in a trail formation, the others were seen singly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lubbock, Texas
-ID: 127

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Event 2458 -(77B6DABA)

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Date: 6/5/1952
-Time: 6:45 PM
-Description: Witness: S/Sgt T.H. Shorey. One shiny round object flew 5-6 -times as fast as an F-86 jet fighter for 6 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 128

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Event 2459 -(9BC57497)

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Date: 6/5/1952
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witnesses: 2nd Lt. W.R. Soper, a Strategic Air Command top -secret control officer and former OSI agent; and two other persons. One -bright red object remained stationary for 4.5 minutes before speeding -away with a short tail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska
-ID: 129

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Event 2460 -(9B2C6340)

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Date: 6/6/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kimpo AFB, Korea
-ID: 130

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Event 2461 -(0FD8F0A2)

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Date: 6/6/1952
-Description: Battelle issues its second status report on Project Stork -to ATIC. It describes a “tentative” data sheet for observers to fill -out, a more detailed coding scheme, an example of an IBM punch card that -will be used, and plans for statistical studies. (“Seven -Status Reports for Project Stork,” CUFON; “Seven -Status Reports for Project Stork, -Part 2,” CUFON; Clark III 929)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1832

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Event 2462 -(64950F1A)

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Date: 6/6/1952
-Description: 8:42 a.m. Flight Sgt. Kenneth -Dudley Smith from the 77th RAAF Squadron at Kimpo Air Base [now -Gimpo International Airport] in Seoul, Korea, observes a dull silver -object in the shape of a coin performing spinning and tumbling maneuvers -for 4 minutes at 345 mph. Flight Sgt. Kenneth Fawner also sees the UFO -for 30 seconds. ([Blue -Book case documents]; Sparks, p. 137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1831

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Event 2463 -(4C4561D8)

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Date: 6/7/1952
-Time: 11:18 AM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of B-25 bomber #8840 at 11,500’. One -rectangular aluminum object, about 6’x4’, flew 250-300’ below the -B-25.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 131

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Event 2464 -(81D1DBD5)

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Date: 6/8/1952
-Description: 10:50 a.m. Four flat, round, shiny objects in a diamond -formation are seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from the ground by -Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Markland. The objects are approximately 15,000 feet -in altitude and traveling 300 mph. There is no audible sound. They are -first seen at about 60° above the horizon to the north and are traveling -to the southwest at approximately 240°. (NICAP, “Diamond -Formation of Flat Objects Observed”; Sparks, p. 138; -Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): -10, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1833

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Event 2465 -(247CB6A7)

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Date: 6/8/1952
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Markland. Four shiny objects -flew straight and level in a diamond formation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 132

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Event 2466 -(6A4BB6A5)

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Date: 6/8/1952
-Description: During a launch of a pibal balloon at Calgary, Alberta, a -silvery ellipse with a sharp outline reflecting sunlight and an aspect -ratio of 8:1 crosses the field of vision of the observer’s theodolite. -(Jan Aldrich; Project Magnet Case V)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1834

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Event 2467 -(C34F7316)

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Date: 6/9/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
-ID: 133

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Event 2468 -(EFD2B767)

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Date: 6/9/1952
-Description: Astronomer Donald -H. Menzel writes in Time magazine that most UFOs are light -reflections caused by ice crystals, refractions, or temperature -inversions. (“An -Astronomer’s Explanation: Those Flying Saucers,” Time, June 9, 1952; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1835

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Event 2469 -(61EACD82)

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Date: 6/11/1952
-Description: 6:44 p.m. Two round objects, dark blue with gray centers, -are seen moving southwest to northwest for 40 seconds at 500 mph and -6,000 feet altitude several miles east of O’Hare Airport in Chicago, -Illinois. One passes the other before disappearing. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1836

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Event 2470 -(5DB3A85A)

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Date: 6/12/1952
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Army Major and Lt. Colonel, using -binoculars. One orange ball with a tail flew with a low angular -velocity.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Smith, Arkansas
-ID: 134

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Event 2471 -(75C84435)

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Date: 6/12/1952
-Time: 11:26 AM
-Description: Witness: T/Sgt. H.D. Adams, operating an SCR-584 radar set. -One unidentified blip tracked at 650 kts. (750 m.p.h.) at greater than -60,000’ altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marakesch, Morocco
-ID: 135

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Event 2472 -(59DACC8E)

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Date: 6/13/1952
-Time: 8:45 PM
-Description: Witness: R.S. Thomas, Olmstead AFB employee and former -control tower operator. One round, orange object travelled south, -stopped for 1 second, turned east, stopped 1 second, and went -down.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Middletown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 136

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Event 2473 -(5EA5AA4B)

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Date: 6/13/1952
-Description: 1:00 a.m. M. Veillot and M. Damiens, air traffic control -operators at Paris–Le Bourget Airport, France, watch a prominent -orange-red light hover in the sky for about one hour. Eventually it -begins moving and crosses the sky southwest of the airport, accelerating -rapidly. The light is also seen by M. Navarri, the pilot of an -approaching Air France plane. (Michel, Truth About FS, 165–166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1837

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Event 2474 -(8062144B)

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Date: 6/15/1952
-Description: Men at work in the forest saw large, circular objects -similar to parachutes coming down. Half a dozen witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: France-Soir Jun. 18, 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Magneville, France
-ID: 92

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Event 2475 -(F5C0326E)

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Date: 6/15/1952
-Description: 8:32 a.m. A meteorological assistant on reserve army -maneuvers sees a large silver disc in the sky southeast of Halifax, Nova -Scotia. It moves southwest for 30 seconds at an altitude of 5,000–8,000 -feet and then rises and merges in 2–5 seconds with altocumulus clouds at -11,000–12,000 feet. Its diameter is about 100 feet and speed at least -800 mph. (Good Above, p. 184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1838

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Event 2476 -(D84E20A9)

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Date: mid 6/1952
-Description: Ruppelt briefs -Maj. Gen. John -A. Samford and his staff, two Navy captains from ONI, and “some -people I can’t name.” The meeting is contentious. One USAF colonel -argues that Blue Book’s investigation is biased against the ETH, which -launches an emotional debate. Ruppelt is directed to “take further steps -to obtain positive identification” of UFO reports. (Ruppelt, pp. 147–149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1845

-

Event 2477 -(189202A7)

-

Date: 6/15/1952
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Edward Duke, a former Navy radar technician, -sees an unidentified cigar-shaped object in the vicinity of Standiford -Field [now Louisville International Airport], Louisville, Kentucky. It -has a light on either side of the fuselage and a reddish hue on the -trailing end. The object appears to be moving at about 400–500 mph and -maneuvers around in several directions for 15 minutes, then descends and -flies away to the northeast. ([Blue Book -document]; Sparks, p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1840

-

Event 2478 -(8117DF62)

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Date: 6/15/1952
-Description: 4:20 p.m. A round shiny object is seen over Gordonsville, -Virginia. At 4:25 p.m., the crew of a commercial airliner reports a -silver sphere over Richmond, Virginia. At 4:33 p.m., a Marine fighter -jet is scrambled from Marine Corps Base Quantico in Prince William -County, Virginia, and attempts to intercept a target south of -Gordonsville but fails and returns to base. At 5:43 p.m., an Air Force -fighter attempts to intercept the same shiny sphere but after reaching -35,000 feet turns back. At 7:35 p.m., a UFO emitting a golden glow is -seen over Blackstone, Virginia. Fighter jets from Langley AFB in -Hampton, Virginia, are scrambled, but the object is gone by the time -they get there at 8:05 p.m. (Ruppelt, pp. 194–195)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1839

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Event 2479 -(C4FCD15D)

-

Date: 6/15/1952
-Description: An intercept operation took place in Richmond, VA. An Air -Force T-33 jet tried to intercept a “shiny sphere” south of -Gordonsville. It was a “round, shiny object with a golden glow” above -35000 feet altitude. At 20:05 the jet lost sight of the UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Gordonsville, VA

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Event 2480 -(5B6CEB96)

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Date: 6/15/1952
-Time: 11:50 PM
-Description: Witness: Edward Duke, ex-U.S. Navy radar technician. One -large, cigar-shaped object with a blunt front, lit sides and a red -stern, maneuvered in a leisurely fashion for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Louisville, Kentucky
-ID: 137

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Event 2481 -(CF2BD812)

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Date: 6/16/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF maintenance specialist S/Sgt. Sparks. Five or -six greyish discs, in a half-moon formation, flew at 500-600 m.p.h. for -l minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Walker AFB, New Mexico
-ID: 138

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Event 2482 -(880AAAAA)

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Date: 6/17/1952
-Description: Astronomer Donald -Menzel writes in an article in Look magazine about how he creates -temperature-inversion UFOs in his laboratory. (Donald H. Menzel, “The -Truth about Flying Saucers,” Look 16, no. 13 (June 17, 1952): 35–39; -NICAP, “The -Truth about Flying Saucers, Look -Magazine”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1842

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Event 2483 -(ABF876DC)

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Date: 6/17/1952
-Time: Between 7:30 and 10:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: many and varied. From one to five large -silver-yellow objects flew erratically, stopped and started for about 15 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: McChord AFB, Washington
-ID: 139

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Event 2484 -(124485DE)

-

Date: 6/17/1952
-Time: 1:28 AM
-Description: Witness: pilot of USAF F-94 jet interceptor. A light like a -bright star crossed the nose of the airplane while being observed for 15 -seconds. No further information in the files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
-ID: 140

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Event 2485 -(F860F6C2)

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Date: 6/17/1952
-Description: 7:30–10:20 p.m. Many witnesses at McChord AFB [now Joint -Base Lewis-McChord] south of Tacoma, Washington, see 5–6 yellowish -discs, tracked by radar and theodolite. Several F-94s are scrambled. -(NICAP, “1– 5 -Silver Yellow Objects Stop and Start”; Sparks, -p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1843

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Event 2486 -(6D01D893)

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Date: 6/17/1952
-Description: 8:45 p.m.. Orville Foster, a US Weather Bureau observer at -the Pueblo (Colorado) Memorial Airport, watches a UFO through the -bureau’s theodolite. It circles leisurely for 10 minutes, then -disappears toward the northeast. (“‘Flying Saucer’ Sighted at Pueblo,” -Leadville (Colo.) Herald-Democrat, June 18, 1952; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, -1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1844

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Event 2487 -(BA4AA1F9)

-

Date: 6/17/1952
-Description: 1:28 a.m. A USAF F-94 pilot sees a light like a bright star -cross the nose of his jet at blinding speed over Cape Cod, -Massachusetts, for 15 seconds. (Sparks, p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1841

-

Event 2488 -(5D4E6F59)

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Date: 6/18/1952
-Description: EBE1 dies of unknown causes according to the Carter -Aquarius document
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: link
-Attributes: Majestic

-

Event 2489 -(2BDFB3CD)

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Date: 6/18/1952
-Time: 9 AM
-Description: Witness: R.A. Finger. One crescent-shaped object hovered -for several seconds and then sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Columbus, Wisconsin
-ID: 141

-

Event 2490 -(E53E9D61)

-

Date: 6/18/1952
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Marron Hoffman and four relatives, using 4x -binoculars. One orange light was observed zigzagging and then hovering -for an unspecified length of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Walnut Lake, Michigan
-ID: 142

-

Event 2491 -(2541FCC0)

-

Date: 6/18/1952
-Description: According to Sgt. Richard -Doty’s 1980s disinformation, the living alien retrieved in 1949 -(EBE-1) and kept at Los Alamos, New Mexico, dies of unknown causes. -(Clark III 364)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1847

-

Event 2492 -(BF535840)

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Date: 6/18/1952
-Description: 5:00 p.m. USAF Capt. Erie P. Ashton and 2nd Lt. Clifton -Ashley, while flying a B-25 about 100 miles east of March AFB [now March -Air Reserve Base] in southern California, sight a silver object at -approximately 11,000 feet in altitude off their left wing. The object is -longer than it is wide and is in sight for about 39 minutes. (NICAP, “UFO -Paces B-25”; Sparks, -p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1846

-

Event 2493 -(8E51B15B)

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Date: 6/19/1952
-Description: 9:50 p.m. A former Army Air Force ground crew member sees a -UFO flying in a swirling motion over the backyard of his home in -Trenton, New Jersey. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1851

-

Event 2494 -(50A7CB7D)

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Date: 6/19/1952
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Army Capt. Harold Hermann and his wife see a -round, silver UFO speeding across the sky at Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. -(“‘Flying -Saucers’ Sighted,” New York Times, June 24, 1952, p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1850

-

Event 2495 -(E2AFFE98)

-

Date: 6/19/1952
-Description: 1:30 p.m. Four silvery UFOs are seen by many witnesses in -Tacoma, Washington, flying silently at a high altitude. Unofficial -sources report that the objects are tracked on radar at McChord AFB [now -Joint Base Lewis- McChord] in Tacoma and jets are scrambled. (Tacoma -(Wash.) Reporter, June 20, 1952; Shoot 9; Michael D. Swords, -“Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): 11, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1849

-

Event 2496 -(0B013C81)

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Date: 6/19/1952
-Description: 2:37 a.m. At Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador, -radar men pick up a UFO track. 2nd Lt. A’Gostino and others outside see -a strange, red-lighted object come in over the field. The radar blip -suddenly enlarges, as if the device has banked, exposing a larger -surface to the radar beam. The watching airmen see the red light wobble -or flutter. After a moment the light turns white and quickly disappears. -Apparently, the unknown craft has gone into a steep climb. Keyhoe assumes -the radar and visual sightings are simultaneous, but Blue Book records -indicate they are separate. (NICAP, “Target -Suddenly Enlarges”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 52; -Sparks, -p. 139; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, -Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 55–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1848

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Event 2497 -(1D32796A)

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Date: 6/19/1952
-Time: 2:37 AM
-Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. A’Gostino and unidentified radar operator. -One red light turned white while wobbling. Radar tracked a stationary -target during the 1 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 143

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Event 2498 -(2B5C2B28)

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Date: 6/19/1952
-Time: 2 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot John Lane. One round, white object flew -straight and level for 10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yuma, Arizona
-ID: 144

-

Event 2499 -(9EEAD269)

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Date: 6/20/1952
-Description: 3:03 p.m. A flight of four US Marine Corps captains and -pilots (Bobbie -Foster, Richard -Francisco, Teddy -L. Pittman, and -Ronnie -A. McDonald) of F4U-4B Corsair fighters with the 7302nd Squadron -over central Korea see a silvery-white object passing below them, -banking into a left turn. As the object circles around, Foster dives -toward the object, which appears to be 10–20 feet in diameter. It flies -away at an estimated speed of 1,000 mph and disappears toward friendly -lines. (NICAP, “F4U-4B -Corsairs Encounter Circling UFO”; Sparks, -p. 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1852

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Event 2500 -(5BC60125)

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Date: 6/20/1952
-Time: 3:03 PM
-Description: Witnesses: four Marine Corps Captains and pilots of F4U-4B -Corsair fighter planes. One 10-20’ white or silver oval object made a -left-hand orbit at terrific speed for 60 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Central Korea
-ID: 145

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Event 2501 -(268605E2)

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Date: summer 1952
-Description: Mrs. Rogers saw an object descend slowly and pass across a -pasture at 7 m altitude. She stopped her car and observed it was -“wobbling” in mid-air, was shaped like a turtle, and showed three -oarlike protrusions that moved slowly. Estimated dimensions: 5 by 4 m, 1 -m thick. It was greenish-gray in color, emitted a blue flame, but showed -no other light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Barker 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Martin County, Texas
-ID: 91

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Event 2502 -(2D16D563)

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Date: summer 1952
-Description: Denis Plunkett forms a British branch of Albert -K. Bender’s International Flying Saucer Bureau in Bristol, England. -When Bender closes down IFSB in late September 1953, the branch becomes -the British Flying Saucer Bureau, with his son E. L. Plunkett as -president. It publishes Flying Saucer News from Spring 1953 to Spring -1956 and Flying Saucer News Bulletin from February 1955 through 1957. -(Flying -Saucer News, no. 1 (Spring 1953); Flying -Saucer News Bulletin, no. 1 (February 1955))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1868

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Event 2503 -(3D7561F6)

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Date: summer 1952
-Description: Night. Radar at MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida, picks up a -target at 40,000 feet flying at 460 mph. A nearby B-29 volunteers to -investigate, searching until midnight. The pilot, a USAF colonel, -finally reports a visual sighting of the UFO, flying at 40,000 feet and -250 mph and appearing as a glowing white light shaped like a football. -The object changes course and disappears at high speed. (UFOEv, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1869

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Event 2504 -(7C7796B3)

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Date: 6/21/1952
-Description: 10:58 p.m. A Ground Observer Corps spotter at Oak Ridge, -Tennessee, sees a small (6–8 inches in diameter), slow-moving UFO near -the AEC plant. GCI radar obtains the target, but it fades from the -scope. An F-97 on combat air patrol engages in a “dogfight” with the -object, which makes “ramming attacks” at the aircraft. It blinks until -it speeds away. (NICAP, “Radar -Visual near AEC Plant”; Ruppelt, p. 43; -Sparks, p. 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1854

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Event 2505 -(DEB8728F)

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Date: Summer 1952
-Description: While Operation INTERCEPT was in effect, two North American -F-86 Operation INTERCEPT Sabre fighters were vectored onto a target UFO. -The pilots had a broad daylight view of the UFO and fired tracer bullets -at it before it accelerated out of range. The officer who fired the -bullets was debriefed by his Colonel (name withheld) and the base -commander told Capt. Ruppelt to destroy the report (according to Ruppelt -himself).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-See also: 7/52

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Event 2506 -(078A4B2C)

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Date: summer 1952
-Time: 0300
-Description: A woman was awakened by a thunderclap and a strong bluish -light. As she got out, she saw a large number of hovering disk-shaped -machines resembling “inverted soup plates” 200 m away at an altitude of -about 1 m. She observed them for 30 min, saw two figures standing on one -of the craft and looking at the sky. They went back inside, and shortly -thereafter the “fleet” took off, one object at a time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68,1 (Vallee)
-Location: Itenhaem, Brazil
-ID: 90

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Event 2507 -(F65822C8)

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Date: 6/21/1952
-Time: 12:30 PM
-Description: Witness: T/Sgt. Howard Davis, flight engineer of B-29 -bomber at 8,000’ altitude. One flat object with a sharply pointed front -and rounded rear; white with a dark blue center and red rim, trailed -sparks as it dove past the B-29 at a distance of 500’, in l -second.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kelly AFB, Texas
-ID: 146

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Event 2508 -(520B6D91)

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Date: 6/21/1952
-Description: 12:30 p.m. T/Sgt. Howard Davis, flight engineer of a B-29 -bomber flying at 8,000 feet altitude near Kelly AFB [now Kelly Field] in -San Antonio, Texas, sees a small, flat object with a sharply pointed -front and rounded rear. It is white with a dark blue center and red rim -and trails sparks as it dives past the B-29 at a distance of 500 feet in -one second. (NICAP, “B-29 -Encounters Flat Object with Pointed Front”; Sparks, -p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1853

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Event 2509 -(546E5F8A)

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Date: 6/22/1952
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Two US Marine sergeants see a 4-foot diameter -orange object dive at a runway from the north, dropping from 800 to 100 -feet altitude over the west end of the runway at Pyeongtaek military -base, South Korea, shooting 2–5-foot red flames. It then heads west at -about 300–450 mph for 2–3 seconds, hovers briefly over a hill, turns -180° in 45–60 seconds, flashes, heads east a half mile, flashes again, -and blinks out. No sound. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 82–83; -Sparks, p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1855

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Event 2510 -(B002C131)

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Date: 6/22/1952
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Two Marine Corps Sergeants. One 4 ft. diameter -object dove at a runway shooting red flames, hovered briefly over a -hill, turned 180, flashed twice and was gone.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pyungthek, Korea
-ID: 147

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Event 2511 -(6B3AB483)

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Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: 6:08 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot of the l8th Fighter-Bomber Group. One -black coin-shaped object, 15-20’ in diameter, made an irregular -descent.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Location unknown, but information came via Japan Hq. “CV -4359”
-ID: 153

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Event 2512 -(EC6ACE55)

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Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: 4:05 PM
-Description: Witness: Airport weather observer Rex Thompson. One round -disc with a metallic shine flashed, and fluttered like a flipped coin -for 5-7 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Spokane, Washington
-ID: 148

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Event 2513 -(5AA2AD12)

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Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. K. Thompson. One very large light flew -straight and level for 10 minutes. No further information.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: McChord AFB, Washington
-ID: 149

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Event 2514 -(269F43F3)

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Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: 10:00 AM
-Description: Witness: National Guard Lt. Col. O. L. Depp. Two objects -looking like “giant soap bubbles”, reflecting yellow and lavender -colors, flew in trail for 5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Owensboro, Kentucky
-ID: 152

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Event 2515 -(738953BA)

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Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kirksville, Missouri
-ID: 150

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Event 2516 -(2DAB61A3)

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Date: 6/23/1952
-Description: 1:30 a.m. USAF ADC radar operators Lt. A. N. Robinson -Jr. and Airman Ray H. Foote, plus 5 other controllers, officers, and -maintenance technicians at Kirksville Air Force Station in Missouri, -track a hard target with a clear sharp return about the size of a B-29. -It suddenly appears 85 miles north-northwest of the station, moving at a -constant speed of about 3,600+ mph on a straight path for about 125 -miles for 2 minutes. Then it vanishes. A second target appears at 1:35 -a.m. (NICAP, “Seven -ADC Men Track 3,600 MPH Target”; Michael D. Swords, “Case Missing,” -IUR 19, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1994): 20; Sparks, -p. 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1856

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Event 2517 -(F28A7B48)

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Date: 6/23/1952
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Secretary Martha Milligan sees a bullet-shaped -object emitting a burnt-orange exhaust fly straight and level over Oak -Ridge, Tennessee. (NICAP, “June -23, 1952: Oak Ridge, Tenn.”; Sparks, -p. 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1857

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Event 2518 -(D4FA7DE9)

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Date: 6/23/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. National Guard Lt. Col. Oren -Laramore Depp [Johnny -Depp’s grandfather] sees two objects looking like giant soap bubbles -reflecting yellow and lavender colors flying in line over Owensboro, -Kentucky. (Sparks, p. 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1858

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Event 2519 -(88E34D20)

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Date: 6/23/1952
-Description: 4:05 pm. Airport weather observer Rex Thompson sees a round -disc with a metallic shine flash and flutter like a flipped coin for 5–7 -minutes over Geiger Field [now Spokane International Airport], Spokane, -Washington. (NICAP, “June -23, 1952: Spokane, Wash.”; Sparks, p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1859

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Event 2520 -(5265B36D)

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Date: 6/23/1952
-Description: 9:00 p.m. 2d Lt. K. Thompson sees a very large light flying -straight and level for 10 minutes at McChord AFB [now Joint Base -Lews-McChord] near Tacoma, Washington. (Sparks, -p. 140; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March -2010): 11, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1860

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Event 2521 -(6F2B1791)

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Date: 6/23/1952
-Time: 3:30 AM
-Description: Witness: secretary Martha Milligan. One bullet-shaped -object with burnt-orange exhaust flew straight and level for 30-60 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
-ID: 151

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Event 2522 -(39BD908F)

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Date: 6/24/1952
-Description: The first issue of Ouranos is published by the Commission -Internationale d’Enquêtes sur les Soucoupes Volantes, in Paris. (Ouranos, no. -1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1861

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Event 2523 -(7F7071E0)

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Date: 6/25/1952
-Description: Wilbert -B. Smith writes an “Interim Report on Project Magnet,” in which he -states: “If, as appears evident, the flying saucers are emissaries from -some other civilization, and actually do operate no magnetic principles, -we have before us the fact that we have missed something in magnetic -theory but have a good indication of the direction in which to look for -the missing quantities.” (Good Above, p. 185)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1862

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Event 2524 -(0F5339E7)

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Date: 6/25/1952
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Daniel Norbury and Lawrence Matheis see a -bright yellow-white, egg-shaped object, sometimes with a red tail, make -seven circles over Chicago, Illinois. (NICAP, “June -25, 1952: Chicago, Illinois”; Sparks, p. 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1863

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Event 2525 -(68C9842A)

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Date: 6/25/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. Norbury, Mr. Matheis. One bright -yellow-white, egg-shaped object which sometimes had a red tail, made -seven circles in 1 1/2 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 154

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Event 2526 -(93562489)

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Date: 6/25/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Japan-Korea area
-ID: 155

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Event 2527 -(90E16020)

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Date: 6/26/1952
-Time: 2:45 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF 2nd Lt. C. W. Povelites. Undescribed object -flew at 600 m.p.h. and then stopped. No further information in -files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Terre Haute, Indiana
-ID: 156

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Event 2528 -(B3038B6C)

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Date: 6/26/1952
-Time: 11:50 PM
-Description: Witness: assistant manager of airport. Three sightings of -flashing lights: two lights separated by 2 miles, with the leader -flashing steadily and the other irregularly; two similarly flashing -lights, but with l mile separation; finally a single light. Speed -estimated at 150-250 m.p.h.. Total of 1/2 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pottstown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 157

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Event 2529 -(13B2B986)

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Date: 6/27/1952
-End date: 6/30/1952
-Description: Ruppelt visits -McChord AFB in Tacoma, Washington, to look into recent sightings there. -Capt. Harnnagy of the 4704 Air Defense Wing Intelligence tells him that -the objects are always seen in the northern sky around 8:00 p.m. (Loren -E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, pp. 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1864

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Event 2530 -(ACF9418B)

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Date: 6/27/1952
-Time: 6:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot 2nd Lt. K. P. Kelly and wife. One -pulsating red object which changed shape from a circular to a vertical -oval as it pulsed. Was stationary for about 5 minutes, then went -out.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Topeka, Kansas
-ID: 158

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Event 2531 -(067C9860)

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Date: 6/28/1952
-Description: 1:20 p.m. Two observers at the Cargo Air Service hangar at -Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, see two silvery discs high in -the sky and moving to the south. They noiselessly climb nearly -vertically at high speed, one going south-southeast, the other heading -almost due east. The observation lasts 30 seconds. (J. Allen Hynek, THE -UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 68–69; -Sparks, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1865

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Event 2532 -(BA05E449)

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Date: 6/28/1952
-Time: 6 PM
-Description: Witness: G. Metcalfe. One silver-white sphere became an -ellipse as it turned and climbed away very fast. 10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake Kishkanoug, Wisconsin
-ID: 159

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Event 2533 -(71A3C1A4)

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Date: 6/28/1952
-Time: 4:10 PM
-Description: Witness: Capt. T. W. Barger, USAF electronics -countermeasures officer. One dark blue elliptical-shaped object with a -pulsing border flew straight and level at 700-800 m.p.h..
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nagoya, Japan
-ID: 160

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Event 2534 -(0A113656)

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Date: 6/29/1952
-Time: 5:45 PM
-Description: witnesses: three USAF air policemen. One bright silver, -flat oval object surrounded by a blue haze, hovered, then moved very -fast to the right and to the left, and up and down for 45 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: O’Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 161

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Event 2535 -(8D534037)

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Date: 6/29/1952
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Three Air Force police officers of the 83rd Air -Base Squadron at O’Hare Airport in Chicago spot a flat, oval object as -it hovers between two radio towers about 7 miles away. It is bright -silver in color, encircled by white haze, and appears about 30 feet in -diameter. During the next 45 minutes the object moves to the southwest -and then back north. It accelerates instantaneously to a speed faster -than a jet fighter. ([Blue -Book documents]; Sparks, p. 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1866

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Event 2536 -(12732E23)

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Date: 6/30/1952
-Description: Ruppelt says -that by this time there is a split in opinion in the military about what -to do about UFOs. One group assumes that UFOs are interplanetary, and -information must be withheld at a top-secret level. “The enthusiasm of -this group took a firm hold in the Pentagon, at Air Defense Command -headquarters, on the Research and Development Board, and many other -agencies.” (Ruppelt, pp. 152–153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1867

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Event 2537 -(CCF4CC9B)

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Date: 7/1952
-Description: Pilots Nash and Fortenberry see 6 discs.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 2538 -(FA32A0E8)

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Date: 7/1952
-Description: Edgar -Jarrold begins the Australian Flying Saucer Bureau in Sydney, New -South Wales, Australia’s first civilian UFO organization, following his -personal observation of two fast-moving yellow lights in the sky over -Fairfield, New South Wales. (“Saucers -on His Mind,” Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Gazette, February 2, 1954, -p. 7; Clark III 632)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1870

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Event 2539 -(64B8CE28)

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Date: 7/1952
-Description: Ohio Northern University sets up Project “A” to investigate -the UFO’s.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Ohio Northern University

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Event 2540 -(45EE74E5)

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Date: 7/1952
-Description: Afternoon. A man driving a car near Schenectady, New York, -sees an oblong object hovering nearby. A gondola lowers from the object -and a bunch of “Navy officers in white hats” rush to the windows. All -are wearing huge dark glasses. The gondola goes back up, and three -smaller UFOs appear and go inside the bigger one. (Center for UFO -Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1952–1953, p. 10; Clark III 267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1871

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Event 2541 -(1EBA5EFC)

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Date: 7/1952
-Description: The administration and faculty of Ohio Northern University, -in Ada, Ohio, announce the formation of Project A: Investigation of -Phenomena, saying that members of the engineering, pharmacy, law, and -liberal arts colleges will examine the evidence for UFOs under the -direction of Dean Warren -L. Hickman. Project A personnel seek reports from the public and -collect newspaper clippings. The project receives a disappointing 54 -completed questionnaires, far lower than the 200 they would like for a -scientific sampling. However, they do estimate that about 20% involve -“unnatural phenomena.” After unsuccessful attempts to obtain reports -from Civilian Saucer Investigation in Los Angeles and other groups, the -university closes the project down in mid-1954. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 3; Clark III 916; Curt -Collins, “Project -A: The Short Life -of a UFO Study,” September 21, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1872

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Event 2542 -(63843A29)

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Date: 7/1/1952
-Description: 8:40–9:15 a.m. Two silvery objects move south along the -East Coast and hover near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, for about 5 minutes -at 50,000 feet. As radar at Fort Monmouth detects the objects, they put -on a burst of speed and head southwest toward Washington, D.C., -confirmed visually. At about 12:00 noon, a physics professor at George -Washington University in D.C. sees a grayish UFO hovering and arcing -back and forth across the sky for about 8 minutes. He guesses about 500 -people are watching the object. (NICAP, “Objects -Tracked at 50,000ʹ, G/V”; -Ruppelt, pp. 151–152; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, pp. 36– 37; Sparks, -p. 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1875

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Event 2543 -(180600A9)

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Date: 7/1/1952
-Description: 7:25 a.m. A Ground Observer Corps spotter sees a UFO headed -southwest across Boston, Massachusetts. Two F-94s are scrambled. Erwin -W. Nelson and his wife at Lynn, Massachusetts, notice two vapor trails -from the climbing jets, look around, and see in the west a bright silver -“cigar shaped object about six times as long as it was wide” heading -over Boston at a very high altitude. An identical UFO is following the -first some distance back. No vapor trails are visible. The witnesses -watch the F-94s search back and forth far below the UFOs. At 7:30, USAF -Capt. Robert -E. Metcalf, petroleum officer for the 6520th Test Support Wing, and -USAF air policemen M/Sgt James -Stiner and M/Sgt Joseph R. Bosh, 6520th Air Police Squadron, at -Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts, see the two jets, look for what -they are intercepting, and see to the east a 100-foot-long silvery -ellipse “fatter than a cigar” traveling southwest. At two points, the -object seems to hover, then continues at about 40,000 feet. The object’s -path intersects contrails of the two jets heading southeast. Metcalf -loses sight of the object on his way to the tower after a few minutes, -then sees it again at about 7:40 a.m., noting it has increased distance -“considerably,” but finally loses sight of it at the tower. ([Blue -Book document]; UFOEv, p. 160; -Ruppelt, pp. 150–151; -Sparks, p. 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1874

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Event 2544 -(0CE4D069)

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Date: 7/1/1952
-Description: J. -Robert Moskin’s article appears in Look magazine. It features -Gen. Hoyt -Vandenberg’s declaration that “we cannot afford to be complacent” -about UFOs. Keyhoe says -that the article has upset the “silence group” in the Pentagon. (J. -Robert Moskin, “Hunt -for the Flying Saucer,” Look. July 1, 1952, pp. 37–41; Keyhoe, FS -from OS, pp. 52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1873

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Event 2545 -(338CB5E7)

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Date: 7/2/1952
-Description: 11:10 a.m. As he is driving on a highway seven miles north -of Tremonton, Utah, US Navy Chief Petty Officer Delbert C. Newhouse and -his wife see a strange object in the sky. Newhouse pulls the car to the -side of the road, gets out, and watches 12–14 UFOs at about 10,000 feet. -Looking like “two pie pans, one inverted on top of the other,” they are -clustered in a loose formation, “milling around.” He takes about 75 -seconds worth of film through the telephoto lens of his 16mm movie -camera, though the objects have receded a bit to shiny points of light. -At one point a single object leaves the pack, heading east, and Newhouse -holds the camera still so the UFO crosses the field of view. He repeats -the procedure 3-4 times. Blue Book obtains the film and sends it to the -USAF Photo- Reconnaissance Laboratory and the Navy’s Photo -Interpretation Laboratory. Both analyses eliminate the possibility of -aircraft or birds. (NICAP, “The -Tremonton, Utah / Newhouse Color Film”; “Delbert -Newhouse UFO -Footage, 1952, Tremonton, Utah,” parkerdonaldmusic YouTube channel, -September 29, 2012; Ruppelt, pp. 220–222; -UFOEv, pp. 88, 112; -Hynek UFO Report, pp. 235–239; -Condon, pp. 418–426; -“Turner on Tremonton,” IUR 3, no. 5 (May 1978): 6; Swords 149; Clark III -1203–1204; Kevin D. Randle, “Newhouse’s -Tremonton, Utah Movie -Revisited,” A Different Perspective, December 12, 2013; Patrick -Gross, “Tremonton, -Utah, UFO Color Film -of July 2, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1876

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Event 2546 -(3DAACEFC)

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Date: 7/3/1952
-Description: 4:15 a.m. A witness on the Manitou Beach Highway near Rome -Center, Michigan, watches two circular lights about 20 feet in diameter -flying horizontally at tremendous speed at only a few hundred feet -altitude. (NICAP, “July -3, 1952: Selfridge AFB, Mich.”; Sparks, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1877

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Event 2547 -(A94CCF10)

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Date: 7/3/1952
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Mrs. J. D. Arbuckle sees two bright pastel-green -discs fly straight and level very fast for 6 seconds over Chicago, -Illinois. The next day the Air Force public information office at O’Hare -Airport says it has received 16 reports of UFOs over Chicago in the past -week. An Air Force spokesman says that jet patrols are on alert 24 hours -a day. (Sparks, p. 145; -“Deny -Reports of ‘Saucers’ Alerts,” Waterloo (Iowa) Courier, July 4, 1952, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1878

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Event 2548 -(9D2EE059)

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Date: 7/3/1952
-Time: 4:15 AM
-Description: Witnesses not identified. Two big lights, estimated at 20’ -diameter, flew straight and level at tremendous speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan
-ID: 162

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Event 2549 -(BF0DBDC6)

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Date: 7/3/1952
-Time: 11:50 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. J. D. Arbuckle. Two bright pastel green discs -flew straight and level very fast for 6 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 163

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Event 2550 -(233F3FF8)

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Date: 7/5/1952
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Four commercial pilots flying at 9,000 feet above -the Hanford atomic site in Washington State observe a disc just below a -deck of wispy clouds directly above their C-46. The witnesses are -Capt. John Baldwin, Capt. George Robertson, H. D. Shenkel, and Steven -Summers. Baldwin says that the disc stands still at first and then seems -to back away and change shape, becoming flat, gaining speed, and then -disappearing. Robertson says “we couldn’t pick it up on our radar. We -reversed our course and went back, but we couldn’t spot it again.” -(NICAP, “C-46 -Crew Observe Disc over AEC Plant”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 53; -Sparks, p. 145; -Swords 149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1879

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Event 2551 -(D6A59D2A)

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Date: 7/5/1952
-Description: 7:58 p.m. Oklahoma State Patrolman Arthur Myers Hamilton is -flying five miles south-southeast of Norman, Oklahoma, in a State Patrol -airplane when he sees three dark discs 4–8 miles away at 6,000 feet -hover for 15 seconds then fly away, silhouetted against a dark cloud. -(NICAP, “Three -Dark Discs Sighted from State Patrol Airplane”; -Sparks, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1880

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Event 2552 -(D336D87A)

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Date: 7/5/1952
-Time: 7:58 PM
-Description: Witness: Oklahoma State Patrolman Hamilton in State Patrol -airplane. Three dark discs hovered and then flew away, silhouetted -against a dark cloud. 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Norman, Oklahoma
-ID: 164

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Event 2553 -(D48382C1)

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Date: 7/6/1952
-Time: 11:00 PM
-Description: July 6-12, 1952. Witness: Charles Muhr. Four pictures taken -of some indistinct light which was admittedly not seen visually, but -which appeared on the negatives.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Elizabeth, New Jersey
-ID: 165

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Event 2554 -(D53D95BF)

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Date: 7/7/1952
-Description: Battelle issues its third status report on Project Stork to -ATIC. It mentions that Hynek has been consulted on the observer’s data -sheet, suggested some changes, and is in the process of interviewing -astronomers about any potential sightings made by them. The group has -studied and coded UFO reports from 1948. (“Seven -Status Reports -for Project Stork,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1881

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Event 2555 -(A33F5882)

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Date: 7/8/1952
-Description: A commissionaire on duty at an army depot in Ottawa, -Ontario, sees a bright orange light about a quarter size of the full -moon travel from south to north, turn, and travel south again. (Jan -Aldrich; Project Magnet Case X)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1882

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Event 2556 -(10F66D67)

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Date: 7/9/1952
-Time: 3:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt. D.P. Foster and three other persons. -Three times, a single white, disc-shaped object sped by, straight and -level, in 5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rapid City AFB, South Dakota
-ID: 168

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Event 2557 -(BA594833)

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Date: 7/9/1952
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Farmer John Mittl watches an aluminum, -oval-shaped object silently change direction and attitude above his farm -2 miles east of Kutztown, Pennsylvania, finally tipping on end and -departing. He manages to take three photos. (Claude Falkstrom and Curt -Collins, “John -Mittl: From Unsolved UFOs to Astral Encounters,” The Saucers That -Time Forgot,” July 13, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1884

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Event 2558 -(580F014D)

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Date: 7/9/1952
-Description: 12:45 p.m. USAF Maj. Claude -K. Griffin is driving one mile north of Colorado Springs, Colorado, -when he sees a luminous white object shaped like an airfoil moving -slowly and erratically like a corkscrew. He estimates its size at 100 -feet, distance at 15–20 miles, and altitude at 30,000 feet, heading -northwest. Griffin stops the car to watch for 12 minutes. USAF Maj. E. -R. Hayden and his wife come out of their house and look at the object in -a 4x rifle scope. He describes it as rectangular, silver on one side, -and black on the other. It flutters as it moves slowly north-northwest -above 20,000 feet 20 miles away. It gains altitude and gradually -diminishes to a black dot, then accelerates to a high speed and -disappears. ([Blue -Book documents]; Sparks, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1883

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Event 2559 -(17E62D61)

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Date: 7/9/1952
-Time: 6:30 PM
-Description: Witness: farmer John Mittl. One aluminum, oval-shaped -object changed direction and attitude, finally tipping on end and -departing after 20 seconds. Case file includes three vague -photographs.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kutztown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 167

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Event 2560 -(BD94C1B7)

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Date: 7/9/1952
-Time: 12:45 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot Maj. C. K. Griffin. One object shaped -like an airfoil less its trailing edge, luminous white, moved slowly and -erratically for 12 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
-ID: 166

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Event 2561 -(E386D25A)

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Date: 7/10/1952
-Description: Night. Forty crew members of the Canadian destroyer HMCS -Crusader off -Korea see two shiny discs and track them on radar. The radar fix places -them at 10,560 feet altitude and 7 miles distant. (NICAP, “Naval Destroyer -Observes Two Discs / Tracks on Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1887

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Event 2562 -(CF2B4E5B)

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Date: 7/10/1952
-Description: Night. A Marine pilot on night maneuvers near Marine Corps -Base Quantico, Virginia, spots two green objects shoot straight across -the sky at terrific speed at a high altitude. (“Radar -Sees ‘Saucers,’ AF -Investigating,” July 22, 1952, pp. 1A, 6A)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1886

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Event 2563 -(E3CF5DA6)

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Date: 7/10/1952
-Description: 8:18 p.m. Capt. James E. Lundy and First Officer Leon -Blanks are flying a National Airlines C-60 airplane 15 miles south of -Quantico, Virginia, when they see an object resembling an aircraft -landing light. The object becomes brighter as it approaches from the -north. It then performs a climbing turn away from the aircraft and its -appearance changes, resembling a light emitted by a red flare. Visible -for 10 minutes, it is flying too fast for any known aircraft. (NICAP, -“Light -Maneuvers near C-60 Airliner”; Sparks, -p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1885

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Event 2564 -(727EBAB7)

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Date: 7/11/1952
-Description: Oscar Linke, former Wehrmacht major, and his daughter -Gabrielle, 11, had to leave their motorcycle when they had a flat tire. -Inside the woods the girl noticed two men in silvery suits examining the -ground in a clearing near a pink disk-shaped object, 8 m in diameter, -showing a double row of openings around the rim and a black turret on -top. One of the men had a flashing box. Both men went inside, and the -disk vibrated, rose along the turretlike cylinder, then spun faster and -rose out of sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Guieu 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Hasselbach, Germany
-ID: 93

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Event 2565 -(7CAA4C43)

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Date: 7/11/1952
-Description: The Air Technical Liaison Office, Directorate of -Intelligence for the Far East Air Force, prepares Intelligence Report -#29-52, detailing Air Force, Navy, and Marine radar UFO reports for -1950–1952 in Korea and Japan. (Capt. Charles J. Malven, “FLYOBRPT: -Japan/Korea Area,” IR-29-52, July 11, 1952)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1888

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Event 2566 -(56831AC1)

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Date: 7/12/1952
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: many radar controllers who were military -officers. Several big blips tracked on radar at 1,500 kts. (1,700 -m.p.h.). There was no visual sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kirksville, Missouri
-ID: 170

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Event 2567 -(E9A60FEE)

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Date: 7/12/1952
-Time: 3:30 PM
-Description: Witness: insurance company president William Washburn. Four -large, elliptical-shaped objects were seen to fly very fast, stop, turn -90 degrees and fly away in 7-8 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Annapolis, Maryland
-ID: 169

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Event 2568 -(371783BF)

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Date: 7/12/1952
-Description: 9:04 p.m. Two USAF F-86 Sabre jets with the 62nd Flight -Squadron are flying at 22,000 feet on a routine training mission (or on -a scramble mission) over Arlington Heights, Illinois. Capt. Robert W. -Casey Jr., after coming out of a right turn, sees an oblong yellowish -lighted object with an exhaust moving in a straight course about 15 -miles away south of Elgin, Illinois, at 22,000 feet traveling at 800 -mph. The F-86 pursues at maximum speed, but the object pulls away. Both -pilots hear a strange radio transmission on their restricted -communications channel during the pursuit saying the name of the pursuit -pilot, Casey, in an ethereal “ghost-like” monotone. Apparently, this is -a prank by Casey’s fighter pilot buddies at the 62nd who are monitoring -his channel, though this is later officially denied by the 62nd. (NICAP, -“F-86 -on Scramble Mission / Strange Radio Transmission”; Sparks, p. 147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1890

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Event 2569 -(70CB5AE5)

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Date: 7/12/1952
-Description: 8:42 p.m. O’Hare AFB weather observer Capt. W. J. Shea and -a civilian, Jane Morrison, watch three lights, one main red light with -smaller white lights on each side, traveling 500 mph at 40,000–50,000 -feet over Montrose Beach, Chicago, Illinois, from the west-northwest. -They accelerate to the south and make a 180° turn heading -north-northwest, then disappear. The UFO is seen by 400+ people, with 14 -others making reports to the 4706th Defense Wing located at O’Hare -Airport. (Ruppelt, p. 153; -Sparks, -pp. 146–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1889

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Event 2570 -(7A052284)

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Date: 7/13/1952
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Capt. William Bruen, piloting National Airline -Flight 611 heading north from Jacksonville, Florida, sees a round ball -of bluish-white light about 60 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., -hovering to the west then ascending to the airliner’s altitude of 11,000 -feet, then parallel course off left wing at about 2 miles distance. It -takes off upwards at 1,000 mph when Bruen turns on all aircraft lights. -(NICAP, “Light -Ascends, Paces Aircraft, Takes -Off Vertically”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 90–91; -Sparks, p. 148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1891

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Event 2571 -(A8BDC222)

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Date: 7/14/1952
-Time: 8:12 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Pan American Airways First Officer William Nash, -Second Officer William Fortenberry. Eight large, round, glowing red -objects maneuvered below their airliner, in formation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Norfolk, Virginia
-ID: 171

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Event 2572 -(2BDCAA4B)

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Date: 7/14/1952
-Description: Pan American pilots see formation of UFO’s.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 2573 -(B46648C3)

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Date: 7/14/1952
-Description: The Ground Observer Corps expands into Operation Skywatch, -consisting of 750,000 volunteers aged 7 to 86 years old working around -the clock in shifts at more than 16,000 posts and 73 filter centers to -detect a sneak attack against the United States. The expansion follows -an Army announcement from a few weeks earlier that antiaircraft guns and -personnel are on continuous duty in key areas. (Radomes.org, “Ground -Observer Corps,” January 31, 2001; Shoot 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1892

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Event 2574 -(C82DC5B4)

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Date: 7/14/1952
-Description: 9:12 p.m. Some 8,000 feet above the Chesapeake Bay in -Maryland/Virginia, Capt. William -B. Nash and -copilot First Officer William -H. Fortenberry, flying -a Pan American Airways DC-4, see six crimson dots at 30°. The dots are -streaking in their direction like tracer bullets. As they get closer, -they resolve into reddish-orange circles, about 100 feet in diameter and -15 feet thick, with sharply defined edges. Nash says they are holding a -“narrow echelon formation.” When they are nearly underneath the -aircraft, “they flipped on edge, the sides to the left of us going up -and the glowing surfaces facing right. While all were in the edgewise -position, the last five slid over and past the leader so that the -echelon was now tail foremost.” Then they all flip over again into a -flat attitude. Two new, brighter UFOs join the formation, and the lights -of all eight objects blink out then come on again. They all speed -westward (Nash estimates 6,000–12,000 mph) and climb in a graceful 45° -arc. The entire sighting lasts only 15 seconds. Possible corroboration -comes from a sighting in Camden, New Jersey, although the date is -uncertain. (Wikipedia, “Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting”; “Miami -Pilots Spot 8 Saucers Flying -in Formation,” -Miami (Fla.) Herald, July 16, 1952, pp. 1A, 8A; NICAP, “Nash -/ Fortenberry Case”; Sparks, -p. 150; William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry, “We -Flew Above Flying Saucers,” True, October 1952, pp. 65, 110–112; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 47; Clark III 791; Good Above, pp. 269–270; -“The -Pilot’s Tale,” Saturday Night Uforia; Swords 149–150; Shoot 22–24; -Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the APRO Files,” IUR 24, no. 2 -(Summer 1999): 21–22; Thomas Tulien, “The 1952 Nash/Fortenberry Sighting -Revisited,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 20–23, 27–28, reprinted in -Project 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 -(March 2010): 11, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1893

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Event 2575 -(25DA4849)

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Date: 7/15/1952
-Time: 10:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: J. Antoneff and two other persons. One -discus-shaped object, greyish, except when hovering, when it appeared -muddy. Hovered over Palm Beach International Airport, then followed an -SA-l6 twin-engined amphibian and flew away after 40-60 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
-ID: 172

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Event 2576 -(47E29E9A)

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Date: mid 7/1952
-Description: Ruppelt says -that rumors persist that the Air Force is braced for an expected -invasion by UFOs. “Had these rumormongers been at ATIC in mid-July they -would have thought that the invasion was in full swing.” He talks to a -scientist “from an agency that I can’t name” about the build-up of UFO -reports. From his study of reports, the scientist predicts that “within -the next few days they’re going to blow up and you’re going to have the -granddaddy of all UFO sightings. The sighting will occur in Washington -or New York, probably Washington.” Brad -Sparks identifies the scientist as Stefan -T. Possony, acting -chief of the AFOIN Special Study Group and adviser to Gen. John -A. Samford. (Ruppelt, -pp. 154–155, 157; -NICAP, “The -1952 Sighting Wave”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1895

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Event 2577 -(9E827A38)

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Date: 7/15/1952
-Description: The Lorenzens publish -the first issue of the APRO Bulletin. (APRO -Bulletin 1, no. 1 (July 1952))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1894

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Event 2578 -(E9A4AF82)

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Date: 7/16/1952
-Time: 9:35 AM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Coast Guard photographer Shell Alpert. Four -roughly elliptical blobs of light in formation photographed through -window of photo lab.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Beverly, Massachusetts
-ID: 173

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Event 2579 -(84BCB7FF)

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Date: 7/16/1952
-Description: 9:35 a.m. US Coast Guard photographer Seaman Shell -R. Alpert sees several bright lights through a window screen (no -glass) from his position inside the photo lab at Coast Guard Air Station -Salem [now Winter Island Marine Park], Massachusetts, while cleaning a -camera. He watches them for 5–6 seconds, calls out to Hospitalman 1st -Class Thomas -E. Flaherty from sick bay to see them. The objects dim then brighten -suddenly. Alpert grabs a camera and films 4 roughly elliptical irregular -blobs of light in formation through the screen, on Super XX cut film -4-by-5-inch format. The lights disappear suddenly in a flash. The photo -is explained as showing reflections of light sources from inside the -building, but this ignores the fact that the window is open, and the -camera is not pointed through glass. (UFOEv, p. 88; -Sparks, -p. 151; Joe Nyman and Barry Greenwood, “The July 1952 Coast Guard Photo -Revisited,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 3–5, 25–30; Michael D. -Lampen, “Mystery Alpert Objects,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 27; “The -Photographer’s Tale,” Saturday Night Uforia, December 3, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1896

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Event 2580 -(80C1173C)

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Date: 7/16/1952
-Description: German mayor states two human-like figures wearing shimmer -metallic clothing about 4 feet high come out of a landed 40ft diameter -saucer
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Germany

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Event 2581 -(376BB456)

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Date: 7/16/1952
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Paul -R. Hill, an aeronautical research engineer, is watching the sky with -his future wife, Frances Hoback, on Chesapeake Avenue (near LaSalle -Avenue) in Hampton, Virginia, when he notices two amber- colored lights -coming in over Hampton Roads from the south at 500 mph. They slow down -and make a U turn, moving side by side until they revolve around each -other at a high rate of speed in a tight circle 200–300 feet in -diameter. A third UFO comes racing up from the direction of Virginia -Beach and falls in several hundred feet below the other two, making a V -formation. A fourth UFO comes in from up the James River and joins the -group, which heads south at 500 mph. “Their ability to make tight -circling turns was amazing.” Around 9:03 p.m., the four UFOs have moved -out of sight to the south. (NICAP, “Two -Pairs of Objects Maneuver Overhead”; [Blue Book -documents]; UFOEv, p. 57; -Sparks, p. 150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1897

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Event 2582 -(726B83D7)

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Date: 7/17/1952
-Time: 11 AM
-Description: Witness: Air National Guard employees. One light like a big -star was seen for 3 hours, but disappeared when an aircraft approached. -Also seen the night of July 20, 22 and 23.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lockbourne, Ohio
-ID: 175

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Event 2583 -(6130E373)

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Date: 7/17/1952
-Time: 3:10 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. Florence Daley. Two round objects, -bluish-white with brighter rims, flew in formation, making a sound like -bombers, only softer. Note: Later, the witness stated she heard many -feminine voices coming from the objects.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: White Plains, New York
-ID: 174

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Event 2584 -(A3400186)

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Date: 7/17/1952
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A woman leaving Yarmouth Harbour, Nova Scotia, on -the SS Yarmouth watches seven silvery objects in an inverted triangular -formation for 2 minutes. They hover momentarily, descend slowly, and -disappear. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, -2022, pp. 268–269)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1898

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Event 2585 -(92518E47)

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Date: 7/17/1952
-Alternate date: 7/18/1952
-Description: 10:10 p.m. T/Sgt. Thurman C. Mahone and A/3c Gene -A. Jennings at Lockbourne AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard -Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio, see an amber-colored, elliptical-shaped -object with a small flame at the rear, periodically increasing in -brightness. It moves swiftly, giving off a resonant beating sound. -(NICAP, “July -18, 1952: Lockbourne, Ohio”; Sparks, p. 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1899

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Event 2586 -(27EBC3C8)

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Date: 7/18/1952
-Time: 11 AM
-Description: Witnesses: E. R. Raymer and daughter. One opaque, silvery -bubble flew very fast at a right-angle to the wind direction for 10 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miami, Florida
-ID: 177

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Event 2587 -(9CF3062F)

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Date: 7/18/1952
-Time: 9:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three USAF officers and four enlisted men. Over -an hour period, a series of hovering and maneuvering red-orange lights -were observed moving in a variety of directions.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Patrick AFB, Florida
-ID: 178

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Event 2588 -(4866DAB2)

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Date: 7/18/1952
-Time: 9:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Mahone, A/3c Jennings. One amber-colored, -elliptical-shaped object with a small flame at the rear, periodically -increased in brightness. It moved very fast for l 1/2 minutes, giving -off a resonant beat sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lockbourne, Ohio
-ID: 176

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Event 2589 -(009A4B07)

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Date: 7/18/1952
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Three Air Force officers and four enlisted men at -Patrick AFB, near Cocoa Beach, Florida, see a series of hovering and -maneuvering red-orange lights moving in a variety of directions. (NICAP, -“Hovering -and Maneuvering -Lights”; Sparks, p. 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1903

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Event 2590 -(BE78EF59)

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Date: 7/18/1952
-Description: 6:10 p.m. André Frégnale is hiking near Lac Chauvet, -Puy-de-Dôme, France, when he sees a disc flying west to east in a -straight line at constant speed. He immediately takes two photos when -the object is at its largest apparent size, then two others when it is -moving away to his left. It is in view for 50 seconds. (“Une -soucoupe volante,” -Le Méridional, July 25, 1952, pp. 1, 8; Pierre Guérin, “A -Scientific Analysis of Four Photographs of a Flying -Disk near Lac Chauvet (France),” Journal of Scientific Exploration -8, no. 4 (1994): 447–469; Alain Delmon, “Les -Cas Solides: Lac Chauvet, France, 1952,” Les OVNIs: Intelligences -non-humaines ou mythe moderne?, December 26, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1902

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Event 2591 -(E536A7AF)

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Date: 7/18/1952
-Description: Early morning. American Airlines pilot Capt. Paul L. -Carpenter, First Officer George Fell, and Flight Engineer Quilici watch -several dull-red objects with a “yellowish tinge” speeding around in the -air at an altitude of 25,000– 30,000 feet near Denver, Colorado, during -a non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Chicago. A maximum of three -objects are seen at one time over a 2-minute period. Carpenter says they -seem to be about 100 miles away. The first object is moving south by -southeast. One minute after it disappears, two more come into view going -westward and another one eastward. “The two traveling westward -disappeared about two seconds then reappeared traveling eastward.” -(Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The -Author, 1986, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1900

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Event 2592 -(C874CF26)

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Date: 7/18/1952
-Description: Capt. Edward -Ruppelt tells the press in Dayton, Ohio, that ground radar has -tracked UFOs at speeds of 1,500– 2,000 mph, that jet fighters scrambled -to intercept them have failed, and that “persons making these reports -actually see something in the sky,” but the Air Force does not know what -they are. (“‘Saucer’ -Sightings Spur AF’s -Drive to -End Mystery,” Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald, July 18, 1952, pp. 1, -10; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: -1952, June–July 20th, The -Author, 1986, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1901

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Event 2593 -(826A8D5F)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Engineer John A. Anderson and other technicians -at the Savannah River Atomic Site near Aiken, South Carolina, watch a -greenish glowing object dart back and forth silently and erratically at -high speed above the plant. It is in view for 2 minutes, moving -constantly and changing direction at sharp angles. The object disappears -over the horizon at “tremendous velocity.” (NICAP, “Multiple -Witnesses Observe Strange Maneuvering -Object”; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 51; Nukes 47–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1906

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Event 2594 -(D469D20C)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: Lincoln -LaPaz tells newspapermen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that UFOs “can -reverse directions and cruise back and forth; they travel at high speeds -in wide sweeping circles…. They travel at high altitudes and can be -followed as long as 3½ minutes.” (“Luminous -Objects Flooding Southwest Skies Not Shooting Stars or Meteorites, -Says LaPaz,” July 20, 1952, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1905

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Event 2595 -(C2159886)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 2:55 a.m. An experienced civilian pilot watches an -elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe over Williston, North -Dakota, for 5 minutes. It descends fast and makes a 360° then a 180° -turn. (Sparks, -p. 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1904

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Event 2596 -(801B7093)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: Washington, D.C.: Long range “overfly” RADAR picked up a -formation of seven blips that were 15 miles south and not far from -Andrews AFB. Radar operator, Ed Nugent, thought that they were military -traffic until two of the targets suddenly accelerated at fantastic -speeds and disappeared off the radar scope. These strange UFOs were -monitored by Harry Barnes, Senior Controller, and controllers Howard -Cocklin and Joe Zacko. Also, Andrews AFB had also been tracking the UFOs -as they intruded over the White House which was Washington Air Space -restricted air space. The UFOs were traveling at speeds of up to 7000 -mph before stopping abruptly and then cruising about in unconventional -patterns.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 7/26/52

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Event 2597 -(87B09566)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-Time: 11:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot Capt. C.J. Powley and wife. Two -star-like lights maneuvered, hovered and sped for 5-7 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
-ID: 180

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Event 2598 -(E9F3EE48)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 11:35 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. Charles -John Powley and his wife Janet see -two star-like lights maneuver, hover, and speed up for 5–7 minutes over -Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. (NICAP, “Three -Groups of Witnesses See Strange Lights”; -Sparks, p. 151; -Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): -12, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1909

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Event 2599 -(98C6A2CD)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-Time: 2:55 AM
-Description: Witness: one experienced civilian pilot. One -elliptical-shaped object with a light fringe, travelled down fast, made -a 360 degree and then a 180 degree turn in 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Williston, North Dakota
-ID: 179

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Event 2600 -(9EF9649F)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A part-time farmer named Constantine and a -hired hand named Davis are curing tobacco when they see two cigar-shaped -objects—one hovering, the other moving to the east—for 3–4 minutes near -Centerville, Virginia. Both objects are translucent, lit from within, -and emit an exhaust from one end. They both ascend until they disappear. -(Sparks, p. 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1911

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Event 2601 -(4958DB81)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-End date: 7/26/1952
-Description: UFO’s detected by radar over Washington., D.C.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Washington DC
-Attributes: radar

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Event 2602 -(E710C6C7)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-End date: 7/20/1952
-Description: 11:40 p.m. Air traffic controller Edward Nugent at -Washington National [now Ronald Reagan National] Airport’s Air Route -Traffic Control (ARTC) in D.C. picks up a formation of seven objects on -his long-range radar. They are southeast of Andrews AFB [now Joint Base -Andrews] in Prince George’s County, Maryland, moving along at 100–130 -mph. Two of the targets suddenly accelerate and vanish off the scope -within seconds. One apparently reaches a speed of 7,000 mph. A second, -shorter-range radar in the airport control tower (operated by Howard -Cocklin and Joseph -Zacko Jr.) and another at Andrews AFB has also tracked the objects. -For 6 hours, between 8 and 10 UFOs are tracked on radar. Senior Air -Traffic Controller Harry G. Barnes says that “They followed no set -course, were not in any formation, and we only seemed to be able to -track them for about three miles at a time…. I can safely deduce that -they performed gyrations which no known aircraft could perform.” Several -Capitol Airlines pilots (one of them Capt. S. C. “Casey” Pierman) see -the objects visually as white or orange lights in restricted air space -over the White House and Capitol. Ground observers at Andrews -(Capt. Harold C. May, Staff/Sgt Charles Davenport) watch red or orange -lights. Radar and visual sightings are also taking place at Bolling AFB -[now Joint Base Anaconda-Bolling] in Washington, D.C. By 3:00 a.m., the -UFOs are all gone, just as two F-94 interceptors arrive belatedly from -New Castle AFB [now New Castle Air National Guard Base] in Delaware. The -jets depart, and the UFOs return, observed by Capt. Howard Dermott, a -Capitol Airlines pilot, and Sgt. Davenport at Andrews. Radar trackings -continue, the last at 5:30 a.m. Civilian radio engineer E. W. Chambers -sees five huge discs circling in a loose formation; they tilt upward and -leave in a steep ascent. Blips appear on radar for at least another day, -until the evening of July 20. (Wikipedia, “1952 -Washington, D.C. -UFO incident”; NICAP, “The -Washington National Sightings”; NICAP, “Andrews -Tower Radar Confirms Washington -Target”; “Washington’s Blips: ‘Somethings’ over the Capital Are -Traced on Radar,” Life, August 4, 1952, pp. 39–40; Ruppelt, pp. 158–161; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 71–72; Clark III 1250–1252; Swords -154–155; Sparks, -p. 151; Condon, pp. 153–157, 862–867; -Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, -HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 32– 58; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case -Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 139; -Shoot 28–34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1910

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Event 2603 -(8CF0E7C1)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Six luminous round objects are seen by a -Chicago, Illinois, woman moving horizontally and vertically as they -cavort around in the sky. The same night, a UFO is seen by three -witnesses at the Ground Observer Corps post at the city hall in Elgin, -Illinois. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, June–July 20th, The Author, 1986, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1908

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Event 2604 -(0F780B98)

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Date: 7/19/1952
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Agricultural engineer Pedro Bardi and others on a -farm in the Madre de Dios region of Peru see a UFO flying at 325 feet -shortly after their short-wave radio goes dead. Bardi says it is a bit -smaller than a DC-3 and is making a buzzing sound. It shows up 4 minutes -later at Puerto Maldonado, 75 miles away, and Customs Administrator -Domingo Troncosco photographs it. The photo shows an elongated object -trailing smoke, passing over the top of a tree and in front of a cumulus -cloud. (Curt Collins, “The -Case of the Smoking Saucer,” In Honor of Jim Moseley, November 3, -2014; Curt Collins, “Jim -Moseley: The Case of the Smoking Saucer,” The Saucers That Time -Forgot, August 18, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1907

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Event 2605 -(B268C936)

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Date: 7/20/1952
-Time: 0030
-Description: Approximate date. R. Petijean saw a luminous object, 20 m -diameter, on the ground. It gave off bluish flashes as it took off, -leaving a smell of burning sulphur.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Dai-el-Aouagri, Morocco
-ID: 94

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Event 2606 -(D6E711F8)

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Date: 7/20/1952
-Description: Classified Spot Intelligence Report (dated 7/23/52): 3 UFO -spotted by 5 base personnel at Andrews AFB at 0030 hours EST. UFOs -reddish orange in color, moving erratically at an undetermined altitude. -Approach Control picked up another UFO at 0415 EST which was on the -radar scope for 30 seconds before fading. Lt. Hyatt, Operations Officer -during this period, said that he had been receiving “flying saucer” -reports that evening and the objects had been picked up by radar.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Andrews AFB

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Event 2607 -(D18EECEB)

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Date: 7/20/1952
-Time: 12:20 AM
-Description: Witness: Seton Hall Univ. chemistry professor Dr. A.B. -Spooner. Two large orange-yellow lights with some dull red coloring flew -in trail, turned and circled for 5-6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lavalette, New Jersey
-ID: 181

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Event 2608 -(BD162912)

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Date: 7/21/1952
-Description: 6:30 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. Edward -E. Dougher and WAF Lt. Josephine -J. Stong, separated by one mile on the ground in Wiesbaden, Germany, -see 4 bright yellowish lights. Dougher watches them separate, with two -climbing and two flying away level in the opposite direction. His wife -Barbara joins -him as they fly away. Stong sees two reddish lights fly in opposite -directions for 10–15 minutes. (NICAP, “Separated -Witnesses Observe Maneuvering Lights”; -Sparks, p. 152; -Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): -12, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1914

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Event 2609 -(AF5858E0)

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Date: 7/21/1952
-Time: 8:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: one military officer, two enlisted men. One -aluminum, delta-shaped object with a vertical fin, flew straight and -level, and then hovered during a 3 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rockville, Indiana
-ID: 185

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Event 2610 -(6A1DF4F1)

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Date: 7/21/1952
-Time: 4:30 PM
-Description: Witness: wife of USAF Capt. J. B. Neal. One elongated, -fuselage-shaped object flew straight and level, made a right-angle turn -and went out of sight at more than 300 m.p.h., all in 3-5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Converse, Texas
-ID: 184

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Event 2611 -(08C1C35E)

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Date: 7/21/1952
-Time: 10:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: one Lieutenant, two Staff Sergeants, three -airmen. One blue circle with a blue trail was seen to hover and then -accelerate to near-sonic speed (700+ m.p.h.) after 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Marcos AFB, Texas
-ID: 183

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Event 2612 -(9B4AAEE5)

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Date: 7/21/1952
-Time: 6:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot Capt. E.E. Dougher, WAF Lt. J.J. -Stong, situated miles apart. Four bright yellowish lights were seen by -Dougher to separate, with two climbing and two flying away level in the -opposite direction. Stong watched two reddish lights fly in opposite -directions. Sightings lasted about 10-15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Weisbaden, West Germany
-ID: 182

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Event 2613 -(E9D0E7E8)

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Date: 7/21/1952
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Radar used to measure wind velocity in the upper -atmosphere at Dobbins Air Force Base, Marietta, Georgia, detects an -unusual object flying at 50,000 feet. Observing the blip are four radar -technicians who state that “it could have been an electromagnetic -phenomenon but they did not believe it was.” A second blip appears on -the radar moving toward the wind-finding weather balloon and passing -through it three separate times. USAF officials report “in private -conversations” that the object moves at 1,200 mph, slows considerably -for 3–5 minutes, then disappears. The Civilian Defense director in -Atlanta, George -M. “Pup” Phillips, receives a report of the object but has “no -details.” Col. Murray -C. Woodbury, commander -of the 35th Air Division at Dobbins, checks with “defense officials in -Washington” before telling the press that such reports are sent to the -Air Technical Intelligence Center (Project Blue Book) in Dayton, Ohio, -for evaluation. Surprisingly, he admits, “We try to intercept such -objects and identify them, but so far we have been unsuccessful.” -(NICAP, “Blip -Makes Passes -on Wind-Finding Target”; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 July -21st–31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 3; Sparks, -p. 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1913

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Event 2614 -(25D0D362)

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Date: 7/21/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Ruppelt first -hears about the National Airport sightings in D.C. when he buys a -newspaper in the Washington National Airport terminal. He has been to -Andrews AFB in Maryland the day before with his boss Col. Donald -L. Bower, and -no one had said anything. At 1:00 p.m., Maj. Dewey -Fournet calls Ruppelt to come to a briefing with Capt. Berkow, a -USAF intelligence officer from Bolling AFB in D.C. Ruppelt hears that -President Truman is -personally interested and wants a full investigation, but Bower orders -Ruppelt to return to Wright- Patterson AFB in Ohio. (Ruppelt, pp. 158–159; -Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings -of the Sign Historical Group UFO -History Workshop, Sign -Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 46–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1912

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Event 2615 -(3573A35C)

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Date: 7/22/1952
-Time: 10:50 PM to 12:45 AM, July 23
-Description: Witnesses: crews of several USAF F-94 jet interceptors from -Dover AFB, Del. Thirteen visual sightings and one radar tracking of -blue-white lights during two hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Trenton, New Jersey
-ID: 190

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Event 2616 -(86B3A56C)

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Date: 7/22/1952
-Time: 10:47 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet -interceptor. One round blue light passed F-94, spinning.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: between Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts
-ID: 189

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Event 2617 -(D0435B73)

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Date: 7/22/1952
-Time: 2:46 PM
-Description: Witness: Don Epperly, Trans Texas Airlines station manager -and weather observer. One large, round, silver object flew at more than -1,000 m.p.h. for 45 seconds, while gyrating.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Uvalde, Texas
-ID: 188

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Event 2618 -(D9CEB189)

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Date: 7/22/1952
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: control tower operator Don Weins, and two pilots -for Carco. Eight large, round, bright aluminum objects flew straight and -level, then darted around erratically during 25 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
-ID: 187

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Event 2619 -(91185864)

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Date: 7/22/1952
-Time: After midnight
-Description: Witness: Mrs. A. Burgess. One round, yellow, flashing light -went downward. No further information in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts
-ID: 186

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Event 2620 -(6DF608FD)

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Date: 7/22/1952
-Description: At Wright-Patterson AFB, Ruppelt meets -with ATIC electronics specialist Capt. Roy -L. James (who harbors a “personal dislike for UFOs”). He tells -Ruppelt that weather conditions caused the Washington radar -returns.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1915

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Event 2621 -(7271B426)

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Date: 7/22/1952
-End date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Crews of several USAF F-94 jet interceptors from -Dover AFB, Delaware, make 13 visual sightings and one radar tracking of -blue-white lights around Trenton, New Jersey, continuing until 12:45 -a.m. White, green, and blue lights are seen by ground observers and F-94 -pilots moving in arcs and blinking out suddenly. One F-94 crew gets a -radar lock-on from 30,000 feet away of an object the size of an F-94. At -9,000 feet distance, the object makes a sharp right turn, suddenly drops -in height, and disappears. (Sparks, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1920

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Event 2622 -(AADF91BF)

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Date: 7/22/1952
-End date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An air traffic control tower operator at MacDill -AFB in Tampa, Florida, watches for 30 minutes a red-greenish-blue object -to the west-southwest at about 45° elevation with 2 other objects to the -north of it, smaller and lower in elevation. He sights another object to -the south-southeast about 30° elevation at 11:30 p.m. MacDill radar -tracks an object at 12:03 a.m. 37 miles away at 41,200 feet altitude -heading almost directly toward the base at 532 mph. It also tracks an -object to the south-southeast at an altitude of 41,000 feet (reportedly -Navy and CAA radars also track the object). At 12:08 a.m., the pilot and -copilot of a B-29 bomber on landing approach are vectored by MacDill -tower operator to investigate the UFO. They see a high-speed object at -40,000 feet heading towards MacDill and traveling faster than the B-29. -The B-29 fire control radar locks onto the object and prepares to fire -just as the UFO changes course and disappears at 4,600 mph. Four airmen -at the MacDill radar site see an object as it passes nearly overhead. -MacDill radar loses the object at about 12:15 a.m. Civilians in Tampa -also see two yellowish-orange discs maneuvering around the air base. (Sparks, p. 156; -Tampa (Fla.) Daily Times, July 23, 1952, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1919

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Event 2623 -(C99143E1)

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Date: 7/22/1952
-Description: 10:20 p.m. A bluish-green UFO is seen over Boston, -Massachusetts, and a few minutes later it is picked up by GCI radar. -When Ground Control vectors an F-94 toward the UFO, the pilot sees the -UFO near Braintree and locks on to it with his own radar. But the object -easily leaves the jet behind. (NICAP, “F-94B -Chases Object / With -Airborne Radar Tracking”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 67; -Sparks, -pp. 154–155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1918

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Event 2624 -(FEE8827D)

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Date: 7/22/1952
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Eubert T. White and his wife see three silvery -objects whizzing across the sky above Worcester, Massachusetts, “like -planes in attack formation.” One of the objects has a bluish glow in the -front and a reddish tint behind it. (“Strange Objects in Worcester Sky,” -Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle, July 23, 1952; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth -Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 July 21st–31st, -Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 14; Shoot 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1917

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Event 2625 -(28812556)

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Date: 7/22/1952
-Description: Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company President Joseph H. Rohrer -gives a lecture (one of a series) on flying saucers at a chamber of -commerce meeting in Pueblo, Colorado. He mixes a few genuine cases with -some crashed saucer fiction, claiming that 7 discs have been retrieved -by the US government, three of them forced down in Montana. One occupant -has survived, he says, a little man 3 feet tall who is later kept alive -in a secret site in California. Rohrer claims he has been inside a -100-foot-diameter disc in 1942, but he has made up these stories for -entertainment purposes. (“Flying Saucer Talk Startles Chamber Membership -Meeting,” Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain, July 23, 1952, p. 3; Keyhoe, FS from -OS, pp. 111–113; -James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! -Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 90–92; -Patrick Gross, URECAT, August -6, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1916

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Event 2626 -(0D06632D)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Time: 8:40 AM
-Description: Witnesses: the two-man crews of three USAF F-94 jet -interceptors. One large silver object, shaped like a long pear with two -or three squares beneath it, flew at 150-180 kts. (170-210 m.p.h.), -while a smaller object, delta-shaped or swept back, flew around it at -1,000-1,500 kts. (1,150-1,700 m.p.h.). Seen by crews for 1-4 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pottstown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 191

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Event 2627 -(AE918658)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Time: 12:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two-man crews of two USAF F-94 jet interceptors -at 35-46,000’ altitude. Three cylindrical objects in a vertical stack -formation flew at an altitude of 50-80,000’. Seen for 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Altoona, Pennsylvania
-ID: 192

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Event 2628 -(05826AB3)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: Orfeo Angelucci takes ride in saucer
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 2629 -(1EBCCC1F)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: Night. Contactee Orfeo -Angelucci feels compelled to walk over the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge -in Glendale, California. He feels an odd sensation and suddenly sees in -front of him a soap-bubble-like object that turns into a metallic craft. -He gets aboard and is taken on his first trip into outer space. (Orfeo -Angelucci, The Secret of the Saucers, Amherst Press, 1955, pp. 18–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1927

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Event 2630 -(36820AFA)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: In an Air Mail reply from Dr. Einstein to Mr. Louis A. -Gardner in LA, he said in regards to UFO’s “Those people have seen -something. What they saw I do not know, and I am not curious to -know”.
-Type: letter
-Reference: link
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A p128)
-Location: Los Angeles, CA

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Event 2631 -(FC9C9707)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 8:40 a.m. The crews of three USAF F-94 jet interceptors see -a large silver object, shaped like a long pear with 2–3 squares beneath -it, flying at 170–210 mph over Pottstown, Pennsylvania. A smaller -object, delta-shaped or swept-back, flies around it at 1,150-1,720 mph. -([Blue -Book document]; Sparks, p. 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1923

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Event 2632 -(29C383BA)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 2:15 a.m. Seaman Henry -J. Arnpriester is on watch at Nahant (Massachusetts) Coast Guard -Station [now closed] when he sees two bluish lights approximately 5 feet -in diameter. They appear as flat, disc-shaped objects having no -aerodynamic features and move without sound or exhaust trail at a speed -faster than a four-engine airliner at an altitude of 1,100 to 2,000 -feet. When they are approximately 1.5 miles from the point of -observation, they execute an extremely sharp turn similar to the path of -a ball bouncing off a wall. (Lt. Col. Robert S. Jones, “Spot -Intelligence Report,” July 29, 1952; Sparks, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1921

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Event 2633 -(FAC7195A)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 7:36 a.m. US Navy radar at Jamestown, Rhode Island, tracks -a high-speed target heading north at 42,000 feet. It is confirmed by ADC -radar at Camp Hero [now closed] at Montauk Point, New York. F-94s and -F-86s are scrambled unsuccessfully from Westover AFB [now Westover Air -National Guard Base] in Chicopee, Massachusetts. (NICAP, “Jets -Scrambled / High Speed Object at 45,000ʹ Feet”; Sparks, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1922

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Event 2634 -(21EEE2C7)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 12:50 p.m. Crews of two USAF F-94 jet interceptors flying -at 35,000–46,000 feet altitude near Altoona, Pennsylvania, see three -cylindrical objects in a vertical-stack formation fly at an altitude of -50,000–80,000 feet for 20 minutes. (NICAP, “July -23, 1952: Altoona, Penna.”; Sparks, -p. 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1924

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Event 2635 -(13A5C7C0)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 7:00–8:00 p.m. Owner Edwin C. Johnston and more than 20 -employees of Aircraft Hydroforming at Culver City, California, see a -bright silvery elliptical object that moves northwest over the Northrup -aircraft plant in nearby Hawthorne, then stops and hovers. Two small -discs emerge and circle around the area before rejoining the mother -ship. The object then climbs straight up out of sight at tremendous -speed. (“Aircraft -Co. Owner Sees ‘Discs’ -Four Nights in Row,” Redlands (Calif.) Daily Facts, July 24, 1952, -p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1925

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Event 2636 -(72892573)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Time: 11:35 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. H. W. Kloth. Two bright -blue-white objects flew together, then the rear one veered off after -about 9 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: South Bend, Indiana
-ID: 193

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Event 2637 -(E9E0C44E)

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Date: 7/23/1952
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Many witnesses at Lockbourne AFB [now -Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio, including -visiting Capt. Eugene E. McManus from Turner AFB [now Naval Air Station -Albany] in Albany, Georgia, observe four round, fluorescent white -objects hovering near the base at 75,000 feet. An Air force pilot named -Capt. Swartz in Flight Service at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, -radios in the report that the objects are balloons. Two F-84 jets are -scrambled at 8:15 p.m. and identify them as a balloon cluster. The -objects, seen over many other areas of central Ohio (Capt. Edward -J. Ruppelt says he was called out to see it over Wright- Patterson), -are probably USAF reconnaissance balloons sent up from Clinton County -Airport in Wilmington, Ohio. (NICAP, “July -23, 1952, Lockbourne, Ohio, UFO Report”; Clark III 395–398)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1926

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Event 2638 -(D6641345)

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Date: 7/24/1952
-Time: 3:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two USAF Lt. Colonels McGinn and Barton in a -B-25 bomber. Three silver, delta-shaped objects, each with a ridge along -the top, crossed in front of and above the B-25 at high speed, in 3-4 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Carson Sink, Nevada
-ID: 194

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Event 2639 -(915D2091)

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Date: 7/24/1952
-Time: night
-Description: A man who was fishing in the Serchio River saw a disk -hovering for 10 min. From it hung a hose that plunged into the water. -The object was 20 m in diameter, with five propellers in the rear and a -dome with something like blades on top. An orange glow could be seen -through slits along the deck. A man wearing a diving helmet looked at -the witness through a window, and he received a kind of electric shock -as a “green ray” hit him. He looked up with difficulty, in time to see -the object fly away toward the east. Six days later a stranger with a -foreign accent contacted the witness and intimidated him.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 69,1 (Vallee)
-Location: Vico, Italy
-ID: 95

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Event 2640 -(B27D6D22)

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Date: 7/24/1952
-Description: 3:40 p.m. Two USAF pilots, Lt. Col. John L. McGinn and Lt. -Col. John -R. Barton, are flying a B-25 out of Hamilton AFB [now closed] in -Novato, California, for Colorado Springs. They are over Carson Sink, -Nevada, at 11,000 feet when they see three unknown objects make a left -bank and fly to within 400–600 yards of the plane. They are three bright -silver, delta-wing craft with no tails and no canopies. The pilots see a -clean upper triangular wing with a definite ridge that runs from the -nose to the tail. They estimate the speed as at least three times that -of any conventional jet. (Wikipedia, “Carson -Sink UFO incident”; NICAP, “B-26 Crew Encounters 3 Triangular UFOs”; -NICAP, “The -Carson Sink Case”; Sparks, p. 157; Ruppelt, pp. 10–12; -Michael Hall, “When UFOs Were Serious Business: Then and Today,” IUR 28, -no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 5; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” -IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): 12, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1928

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Event 2641 -(47360E03)

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Date: 7/24/1952
-Description: BSRA sends a warning letter to the President, a large swath -the US military, US government, representatives, and press concerning -the recently announced USAF “Shoot Down” order. Warning found in -official FBI UFO files.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: San Diego, CA

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Event 2642 -(44302C88)

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Date: 7/25/1952
-Alternate date: 4/25/1952
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Carlo Rossi is on his way to a fishing spot on -the Serchio river near San Pietro a Vico, Lucca, Italy. He notices an -odd light above the river and finds that it belongs to an enormous -disc-shaped object with a transparent dome. It is about 82 feet in -diameter and apparently taking up water through a long tube. The object -is standing in the river on three legs and has a ladder reaching down -next to the tube. Rossi thinks it is hovering by means of propellors. -Suddenly a porthole opens, and a human figure looks out and notices him. -Rossi begins to leave, but a green ray passes above his head and he -feels an electric shock. The object takes off and disappears to the -west. (“Le -Nostre Analisi: Precisazioni sul Caso di S. Pietro e Vico (1952),” -Notiziario UFO, no. 67 (July/Sept. 1975): 4–9; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September -12, 2006; 1Pinotti 42–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1929

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Event 2643 -(CBDA3BE4)

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Date: 7/25/1952
-Description: Capt. J. W. Titus of the 140th Wing Medical Group sees two -oval-shaped objects flying in formation at 400– 600 mph in Portales, New -Mexico. They are silent and leave no vapor trail. At one point, they -make an abrupt 80° turn and fly off to the north. (Nukes 85–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1930

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Event 2644 -(213F8BD9)

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Date: 7/26/1952
-Time: 12:15 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Capt. H. A. Stone, men in control towers at -Fairfax Field and Municipal Airport. One greenish light with red-orange -flashes was seen for 1 hour as it descended in the northwest from 40 -degree elevation to 10 degree elevation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kansas City, Missouri
-ID: 196

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Event 2645 -(B215D7B2)

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Date: 7/26/1952
-Time: 8 PM
-Description: Event occurred until after midnight. Witnesses: radar -operators at several airports, airline pilots. Many unidentified blips -tracked by radar all over Washington area, at varying speeds. Pilots -spotted unidentified lights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 195

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Event 2646 -(0AB04AB0)

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Date: 7/26/1952
-Description: Washington, DC: Long range “overfly” RADAR picks more -blips, just one week after the previous invasion of restricted air space -over Washington, D.C. Capt. Ruppelt told Maj. Dewey Fournet to get over -to the airport in Washington. Fournet was a radar specialist with -Project HOLCOMBE and arrived at the airport with Al Chop, AF Press -Officer, just in time to see the UFO blips on the radar sets and to hear -ground-to-air conversations of the pilots of two F-94s vectored towards -the UFOs.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 2647 -(7043812F)

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Date: 7/26/1952
-Description: 5:15 p.m. Air Defense Command radar detects a UFO over -Williams, California. An F-94 jet interceptor is scrambled and locks -onto the object with its radar. The crew sees a yellow-orange light. As -confirmed by ground and airborne radar, the UFO plays tag with the F-94, -alternately accelerating away when it gets close, then slowing down -until it catches up again. (NICAP, “F-94 -Intercept with ADC Detection”; Sparks, -p. 158)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1932

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Event 2648 -(6AB9D9AD)

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Date: 7/26/1952
-End date: 7/27/1952
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Flying saucers return to the nation’s capital, -only one week after a massive number of radar- visual UFO sightings -above restricted air space in Washington, D.C. At 8:15 p.m., pilot -Capt. Berkow and a stewardess of a National Airlines flight near -Washington National Airport [now Ronald Reagan National] see several -objects resembling the glow of a cigarette high above them. The lights -move at around 100 mph. Soon, the airport and Andrews AFB in Maryland -are tracking a dozen UFOs throughout much of the sky, all traveling 90– -100 mph. By midnight, two F-94s are scrambled from New Castle AFB in -Delaware to intercept them. National Airport staff hustle newspaper -reporters away from the air traffic control tower, saying that -interceptions are classified (but Project Blue Book chief Capt. Edward -J. Ruppelt suspects that the Air Force does not want the press -around when they finally get a good look at a saucer). The UFOs are seen -on radar for 2 hours, but when the jets approach, the blips disappear. -When the pilots return to base, they show up again. Reports are reaching -Langley AFB about rotating objects that give off alternating colors over -Newport News, Virginia. Another F-94 is scrambled, the pilot gets a -radar lock, and the target speeds away. At National Airport, the objects -reappear shortly before dawn, and two more F-94s are scrambled. The -pilots obtain radar locks; again, the objects speed away. USAF press -spokesman Albert -M. Chop is in the airport radar tower and notes that everyone there -believes the targets are “very probably caused by solid metallic -objects.” One F-94 pilot, Lieut. William Patterson, says, “I saw several -bright lights. I was at my maximum speed, but even then I had no closing -speed.” A USAF air intelligence report later states that the radar crew -is emphatic that the returns are solid and not temperature inversions. -In 1969, however, Colorado project physicist Gordon -David Thayer concludes that the radar events involved temperature -inversions. He believes the visual sightings were caused by meteors and -scintillating stars. University of Arizona atmospheric physicist James -McDonald disagreed, arguing that Thayer’s own data did not support -his conclusion. Colorado project psychologist Michael -Wertheimer interviews many of the radar operators; nearly all -disagree with the inversion explanation and maintain that all -experienced radar operators have no trouble identifying such phenomena. -(NICAP, “The -Washington National Sightings”; Richard Hall, “The Washington -Invasion, July 26/27, 1952”; Clark III 1252–1255; Ruppelt, pp. 163–167; -Condon, pp. 157–158, 862– 867; -Swords 156–159; Good Above, pp. 270–272; -Patrick Gross, “The -Washington D.C. UFO Flap of 1952”; Sparks, p. 158; -Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, -HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 68– 76,127–148, 253–260; Shoot 42–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1931

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Event 2649 -(07EA03A0)

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Date: 7/26/1952
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Three women in Oran, Algeria, notice a large, -orange-red, luminous patch in the sky. It travels from east to west, -halts, then vanishes. It is one of many UFOs seen in the province of -Oran over several weeks. (ClearIntent, pp. 120–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1933

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Event 2650 -(4D498BF9)

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Date: 7/26/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Williams, California
-ID: 199

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Event 2651 -(25669349)

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Date: 7/26/1952
-Time: 12:05 AM
-Description: Witness: Airman lst Class J.M. Donaldson. Eight to ten -orange balls in a triangular or V-formation flew very fast for 3-4 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
-ID: 198

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Event 2652 -(A0AE2A95)

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Date: 7/26/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: This was a continuation of the extensive sightings and -radar tracking reports reported throughout the Washington, DC. area, all -night long.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Andrews AFB, Maryland
-ID: 197

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Event 2653 -(A4106DED)

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Date: 7/27/1952
-Description: Truman Bethurum visits spaceship and meets crew. Many other -visits.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 2654 -(9950A22D)

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Date: 7/27/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Ellis. Two disc-shaped -objects, illuminated by a phosphorus light, flew at an estimated l,000 -m.p.h. for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wichita Falls, Texas
-ID: 201

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Event 2655 -(93C358B0)

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Date: 7/27/1952
-Description: 6:35 p.m. A group of eight pilots and engineers see a -large, silvery object moving rapidly at a high altitude over Manhattan -Beach, California. After it makes a turn, the UFO separates into 7 discs -that form into groups, circle, and speed out of sight. Former Navy pilot -and aircraft engineer J. E. Kempf says the formation looks like a “stack -of coins.” (NICAP, “Large -Object Separates into 7 Discs”; Sparks, -p. 159; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March -2010): 13, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1935

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Event 2656 -(B7998726)

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Date: 7/27/1952
-Description: 10:40 a.m. Bowling Green State University biologist Charles -H. Otis sees a “flotilla” of UFOs “seemingly floating along, making -no sound” at 3724 Dexter Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He grabs a pair of -5x binoculars and studies them until they disappear. He counts 15 of -them in a loose formation, moving slowly. One object leaves the -formation and disappears in a burst of speed. The body of each seems to -be elongated but split at the rear. A bright glow is visible in the -front, and they have a bifurcated tail streaming out horizontally, never -changing in length (UFOEv, pp. 50–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1934

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Event 2657 -(5EE8D9A0)

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Date: 7/27/1952
-Time: 10:05 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three B-29 bomber crewmen on ground. Many round, -white objects flew straight and level, very fast. Two at 10:05, one at -10:10, one at 10:15, one at 10:20. Each was seen for about 30 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan
-ID: 200

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Event 2658 -(F64C1F58)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: Personal Minute from Prime Minister W.S. Churchill to -Secretary of xxxxxxx Air Ministry stating: What does all this stuff -about Flying Saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let -me have a report at your convenience.
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p505, Churchhill)
-Location: Britain
-See also: 8/9/52

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Event 2659 -(7BD8A964)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Time: 2:15 AM
-Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Walstead, S/Sgt. Calkins of the 635th -AC&W Squadron. One dull, glowing, blue-green ball,.the size of a -dime at arms’ length, flew very fast, straight and level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: McChord AFB, Washington
-ID: 204

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Event 2660 -(649CD71C)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: USAF on 24 hour alert. Shoot Down order newspaper -articles
-Type: letter
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 2661 -(9DA17EC2)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Time: 6 AM
-Description: Witness: Ground Control Approach radar operator M/Sgt. W.F. -Dees, and persons in the base control tower. Radar tracked a large -cluster of very distinct blips. Visual observation was of oblong objects -having neither wings nor tail, which made a very fast turn and at one -time were in echelon formation. Entire episode lasted 55 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: McGuire AFB, New Jersey
-ID: 203

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Event 2662 -(3B3FB564)

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Date: End of 7/1952
-Description: SECRET MEMO to Director, CIA, from H. Marshall Chadwell, -Office of Scientific Intelligence stating: ATIC has set up a worldwide -reporting network for Flying Saucers and major Air Force bases have been -ordered to make INTERCEPTIONS of UFO’s. Battello Memorial Institute is -to handle machine indexing of all official reported sightings. From 1947 -to date, there have been 1500 official sightings with 250 of them in -1952 alone. Of the 1500, 28% remain UNEXPLAINED. UFO’s are of such -importance that the matter should be brought before the National -Security Council.
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p31,506, war escalation)
-Location: Dayton OH
-See also: 9/19/76
-See also: 5/10/80
-See also: 5/19/86
-See also: 9/4/87

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Event 2663 -(22C768DE)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: President Truman, resting -in Kansas City, Missouri, after the Democratic Convention, calls CIA -Director Walter -Bedell Smith and asks him to investigate the Air Force’s mishandling -of the Washington National sightings. Smith later directs, through -Deputy Director for Intelligence Loftus -E. Becker, that a CIA/OSI group be put together to review the USAF -UFO intelligence program at ATIC. Truman’s involvement is meant to be -kept Top Secret and is not revealed until 1992. (Clark III 1012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1941

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Event 2664 -(D6642A1D)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: In charge of jet interceptions over Washington, D.C., -during the big UFO flap, USAF Director of Operations Gen. Roger -M. Ramey issues an ambiguous public denial that the interceptors -have been ordered to shoot down any saucers. However, newspaper articles -and other documents say there was such an order. (David Rudiak, “Background -on Gen. Roger M. Ramey,” June 4, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1940

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Event 2665 -(7DF3F4E6)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: According to the United Press, the Air Defense Command has -alerted jet interceptor pilots to take off instantly in pursuit of any -flying saucers. The International News Service amplifies this by quoting -the Air Force that orders have been issued to shoot them down if they -refuse to land. The Air Force refuses to confirm this, but USAF Deputy -Press Officer Lt. Col. Moncel -A. Monts states that “jet pilots are, and have been, under orders to -investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can’t -talk them down.” (“Air -Force Alerted for ‘Discs’: -Sightings -over Washington Put Jets at Ready,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, July 28, -1952, p. 1; “Jets -on 24- Hour -Alert to Shoot Down ‘Saucers,’” San Francisco Examiner, July 29, -1952, p. 2; Shoot 49–50; David Rudiak, “1952 -Flying Saucer ‘Shoot Down’ Stories,” Roswell Proof)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1939

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Event 2666 -(7567D3FC)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: Late afternoon. Ruppelt and -Maj. Ed Gregory arrive in Washington, D.C., dodging newspaper reporters -at the Roger Smith Hotel. Blue Book receives an astonishing total of 50 -UFO reports in a single day. UFO inquiries are jamming the Pentagon -telephones. Air Force and CIA officials concede that the Soviet Union -might take advantage of the confusion. (Ruppelt, pp. 166–167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1938

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Event 2667 -(5BA19D89)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: USAF Maj. Gen. John -A. Samford secretly orders a deemphasis on or elimination of human -anecdotal UFO reports. Instead, they would be “going on instruments,” as -worded in his briefing, so that he can close down Blue Book. -Technological hurdles and budget limits greatly delay the plan, but Blue -Book does transition into a propaganda debunking mission over the next 6 -months. (Clark III 813)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1937

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Event 2668 -(D8E91037)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: Early morning. While napping between shifts as a -heavy-equipment operator in the Nevada desert, Truman Bethurum is -awakened by 8 small men who “seem to be of Latin extraction.” They take -him to a nearby flying saucer where he meets the captain, a “gorgeous -woman, shorter than any of the men, neatly attired, and also having a -Latin appearance: coal black hair and olive complexion. She appeared to -be about 42 years old,” although Bethurum learns that she is hundreds of -years old. Her name is Aura Rhanes. Her ship is called a “scow,” and her -crew is from the planet Clarion, a world that is always on the other -side of the moon. He later tells this story and his later adventures in -his 1954 book Aboard a Flying Saucer, ghostwritten by Mary Kay Tennison. -(Truman Bethurum, Aboard a Flying Saucer, DeVorss, 1954; Clark III -192–194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1936

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Event 2669 -(75A08099)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Sgt. B.C. Grassmoen, WAC Pfc. A.P. Turner. One -saucer-shaped object having an appearance of light metal and giving off -shafts of white light, flew slow, made a 90^ turn and climbed away fast -after 4-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Heidelberg, West Germany
-ID: 202

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Event 2670 -(2D5D74E5)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: Canadian researcher Wilbert -B. Smith allegedly shows Rear Admiral Herbert -B. Knowles a metallic piece from a saucer that was shot down near -Washington, D.C. It is twice the size of a man’s thumb and has been -loaned to him by the Air Force, but he must return it to the CIA (or -another secret agency). (David Rudiak, “Wilbert -B. Smith,” -Roswell Proof; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 48–49; -Good Above, p. 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1942

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Event 2671 -(B14D90A7)

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Date: 7/28/1952
-Description: UK Prime Minister Winston -Churchill writes to William -Sidney, Secretary of State for Air, and scientific adviser and -friend Lord -Cherwell, saying, “What does all this stuff about flying saucers -amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at -your convenience.” The response, dated August 9, begins: “The various -reports about unidentified flying objects, described by the Press as -‘flying saucers,’ were the subject of a full Intelligence study in 1951” -[presumably the report by the Flying Saucer Working Party]. (“Records -Show Winston -Churchill’s Interest in UFOs,” The Cosmic Report, December 12, 2020; -Good Above, pp. 30, -448–449; -UFOFiles2, pp. 43–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1943

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Event 2672 -(C170580E)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Alternate date: 7/28/1952
-Description: 9:40 p.m. An Aircraft and Warning Station in Port Huron, -Michigan, tracks an unidentified return on radar for 20 minutes. GCI -asks Capt. Edward J. Slowinski flying an F-94B on a practice run to -investigate. The pilot sees a bright, flashing, colored light in the -location of the blip 29 miles west of Port Huron and follows it for 20 -minutes. Slowinski is unable to close on the object. (NICAP, “Key -Radar Case (CCL #17)”; Sparks, p. 160; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 72–73; Center for UFO Studies, [documents -and case files])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1956

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Event 2673 -(85022A89)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: SECRET, EYES ONLY MEMO to Deputy Director/Intelligence from -Ralph L. Clark, Acting Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence -stating: In the past several weeks numerous UFOs have been sighted -visually and on RADAR. This office (CIA) has maintained a continuing -review of reputed sightings for the past three years and a special group -has been formed to review the sightings to date. O/CI and O/SI will -participate in this study and prepare a report on UFOs by August 15, -1952.
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p505)
-Location: Britain

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Event 2674 -(F00D4AB0)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: Sidney Eubank went to the Enid police station and told -Sergeant Vern Bennell that an enormous disk had buzzed his car as he -drove between Bison and Waukonis on Highway 81. The rush of air made the -car leave the road while the object flew west very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 134 (Vallee)
-Location: Enid, Oklahoma
-ID: 96

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Event 2675 -(7704062B)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 1:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: radar operators on ground, pilot of F-5l Mustang -in flight. Several clusters of up to 10 small radar targets and one -large target. Small targets moved from southwest to east at 50-60 kts. -(60-70 m.p.h.), following each other. The large one moved at 600 kts. -(700 m.p.h.). One hour total time. Pilot confirmed one target.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Osceola, Wisconsin
-ID: 205

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Event 2676 -(B0B8A629)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Capt D.G. Moore, of military air traffic -control system. One undescribed object flew at an estimated 2,600 -m.p.h., below 5,000’ altitude, toward the air base for about 2 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Langley AFB, Virginia
-ID: 206

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Event 2677 -(ABB715DD)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: USAF Gen. Samford holds UFO press conference
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 2678 -(715398F7)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 3:44 or 4:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Herbert Mitchell and one employee. One dark, -discus-shaped object, trailed by a silvery light 2 lengths behind, -tipped on its side, dove, hesitated and then circled very fast during -the 2 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Merced, California
-ID: 208

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Event 2679 -(944E75FE)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 12:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF shop employees Douglas and Hess at -Municipal Airport. One bright white circular object with a flat bottom -flew very fast, and then hovered 10-15 seconds over the Cessna Aircraft -Co. plant, during the 5 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wichita, Kansas
-ID: 209

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Event 2680 -(A20181FB)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: USAF pilot pursues UFO over Michigan
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Michigan

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Event 2681 -(52FB345B)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: An orange, oblong stationary object is observed at the -airport in Macdonald, Manitoba, in the south- southwestern sky for 2 -minutes. It seems to change into a group of small round lights. They all -disappear together. (Jan Aldrich; Project Second Storey)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1952

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Event 2682 -(90701423)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 2:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. Moore, Gilfillan electronics representative -W. Yhope. One radar target tracked moving away, stopped for 2 minutes, -again moved very, very fast. Four minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Langley AFB, Virginia
-ID: 207

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Event 2683 -(24BAE1A1)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. Robert -G. LeCompte sees a flight of at least 10 luminous objects pass over -Albuquerque, New Mexico. At first they appear overhead in no pattern, -heading north, then shift to a V formation. They then shift into two -rows. (NICAP, “AF -Reserve Colonel Observes Rapid Ellipse”; Sparks, -p. 163; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March -2010): 13, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1954

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Event 2684 -(44565843)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Marine Pfc Ralph C. Mayher, using 16 mm film -exposed at 24 frames per second, obtains footage of a high-speed UFO -over Miami Beach, Florida. Retaining a few frames for personal study, -Mayher submits the main portion of the film to the Air Force for -analysis. The film is never returned, and no analysis report is ever -released. Enlargements of a few frames show a fiery looking, roughly -circular object, symmetrical, with two small peaks or projection on -opposite sides of the disc. The CIA examines the film in 1957 and -returns it with no comment or analysis. The Mayher case features -prominently in the subsequent lawsuit by Ground Saucer Watch against the -CIA and is important because it is a confirmed case of direct -interaction of the CIA with a witness, clearly indicating that there was -CIA interest in the subject. (NICAP, “Ralph -Mayer / Miami Film”; Ralph Mayer, “I -Proved Flying Saucers Are Real,” Pic, June 1954; Good Above, pp. 355–356)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1955

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Event 2685 -(93E77B65)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 1:30 a.m. An Air Defense Command radar outside of Osceola, -Wisconsin, picks up some unidentified targets. Four F-51s from St. Paul, -Minnesota, are scrambled, but the targets are moving around so quickly -that it is impossible to vector in on a single target. The F-51 pilots -see many lights; one pilot at 25,000 feet sees an object blaze across -the nose of his airplane. Two other pilots vainly try to climb up to a -hovering light that is in the same position as the radar targets. ATIC’s -Robert M. Olsson and Wendell Swanson explain the radar incident as a -temperature inversion and the visual sighting as a meteor. (NICAP, -“Clusters of Small Targets and One Large Target”; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 July -21st–31st, Supplemental -Notes, The Author, 2001, pp. 80–85; Sparks, p. 161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1944

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Event 2686 -(05CA9BC8)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: Early morning. CAA radar tracks 8–12 UFOs at a time -traveling 100–120 mph in a 10-mile arc around Washington, D.C. When an -Eastern Airlines pilot tries to check on the radar targets at the -request of the CAA at 3:00 a.m., he sees nothing. The targets disappear -from CAA radar when the airliner approaches then come back in behind him -after he passes through the area. (“Air -Force Debunks ‘Saucers’ As Just ‘Natural Phenomena,’” New York -Times, July 30, 1952, pp. 1, 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1945

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Event 2687 -(1666F1F6)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. President Truman tells -his air force liaison, Robert -B. Landry, to -find out what is going on with UFOs. Landry calls ATIC and eventually -reaches Ruppelt, -who tells him that weather may have caused the radar targets, but there -is no proof. He later learns that Truman is listening in. There is some -evidence that Truman or Landry soon contact the National Security -Council directly to find out how to proceed with the UFO problem. -(Ruppelt, p. 167; -Swords 170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1946

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Event 2688 -(EE36F029)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Several employees of Los Alamos Scientific Labs, -New Mexico (including Robert B. Leachman, W. Schafer, E. T. Jurney), see -a white object moving east to west with a gyrating motion. Two jet -interceptors from Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque arrive 5 minutes later. -The object disappears but reappears in front of the jets, makes a 360° -turn, comes around in back, follows for 2 minutes, then disappears. -(NICAP, “Jets -Scrambled from Kirtland”; -Hynek UFO Report, pp. 61–64; -Sparks, p. 161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1947

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Event 2689 -(3B3BE464)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: Four weather observers at Walker AFB [now closed] in -Roswell, New Mexico, watch several high-speed discs through a -theodolite. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 114–115; -Sparks, -p. 161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1948

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Event 2690 -(EB4565B1)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: An FBI memo from Victor P. Keay on “Flying Saucers” -discusses a classified briefing about UFOs by Cmdr. Randall -Boyd Jr. of the Air Intelligence Estimates Division to Norman -W. Philcox, an -FBI liaison to the Air Force. The Air Force has “failed to arrive at any -satisfactory conclusion” on UFOs. Reports are being received from all -parts of the US and distant parts of the world. Boyd explains that USAF -has made no progress in ascertaining the nature of UFOs, but it is -filing them into three classifications: reports by civilians on the -ground, reports by commercial or military pilots, and reports by pilots -that are confirmed by radar or ground observations. He concludes by -writing that it is “not entirely impossible that the objects sighted may -possibly be ships from another planet such as Mars,” but he adds that -“air intelligence is fairly certain that these objects are not ships or -missiles from another nation in this world.” (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -1952 July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, -pp. 55–56; ClearIntent, pp. 175–177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1949

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Event 2691 -(87261A1C)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: Ralph -L. Clark, acting -assistant director of the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence, sends a -memo to OSI Deputy Director Robert -Amory Jr., indicating -that the agency will be looking into UFO matters a bit more thoroughly, -even though it has been collecting cases for the past three years (since -1949): “a special study group has been formed to review the subject to -date. D/CI [Walter -Bedell Smith] will participate in this study with D/SI [H. -Marshall Chadwell], and a report should be ready about 15 August.” -It alludes to his meeting with CIA rocket consultant Frederick -C. Durant and others the previous day. (Ralph L. Clark, “Recent -Sightings of Unexplained Objects,” -July 29, 1952, reprinted in -“The CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler”; Good Above, pp. 330, 505)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1950

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Event 2692 -(5E066CDC)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: Robert L. Farnsworth, president of the American Rocket -Society, urges President Truman and -defense officials to restrain the US armed forces from shooting at UFOs. -He says that hostile action might alienate us from “beings of far -superior powers.” (Robert L. Farnsworth, [Telegram -to President Truman], July 28, 1952; “A -Pro-Saucer Voice -Heard,” New York Daily News, July 29, 1952, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1951

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Event 2693 -(2404D2ED)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Time: 12:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF persons, alerted that UFOs were coming from -the direction of Seattle, Wash. Two to five flat disc-shaped objects: -one hovered 3-4 minutes, while the others circled it. Sighting length of -30 minutes not explained further.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ennis, Montana
-ID: 210

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Event 2694 -(9691F318)

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Date: 7/29/1952
-Description: 4:00 p.m. The Air Force holds its largest and longest press -conference since the end of World War II. Maj. Gen. John -A. Samford, director -of USAF intelligence, leads it. He is accompanied by Eighth Air Force -Maj. Gen. Roger -M. Ramey, director -of operations and commander of the Eighth Air Force; USAF Col. Donald -L. Bower, Technical Analysis Division, Air Technical Intelligence -Center (ATIC), Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio; Project Blue Book -head Capt. Edward -J. Ruppelt; USAF Capt. Roy -L. James, ATIC radar specialist; and Burgoyne -L. Griffing, electronics branch, ATIC. Samford says that the Air -Force has been monitoring US air space since 1947. Approximately 20% of -UFO reports come from “credible observers of relatively incredible -things,” which keeps the Air Force concerned. He explains that the -Washington, D.C., sightings earlier in July were caused by “weather -phenomena” that caused radar beams to bend and pick up objects on the -ground. James offers more technical explanations about temperature -inversions that cause radar echoes. Pro-UFO Maj. Dewey -J. Fournet -Jr., USAF -public relations officer Al -Chop, and -Navy radar specialist Lieut. John Holcomb are conspicuous by their -absence. (NICAP, “General -Samford’s Press Conference,” July 29, 1952; Ruppelt, pp. 168– 169; -“General -Samford’s UFO Press Conference, Pentagon, July 29, 1952,” -knightskross YouTube channel, August 3, 2010; “The -Air Force Makes a Pass at the Saucer Stories,” Life 33, no. 6 -(August 11, 1952): 35; Swords 159–163; Don Berliner, with Marie -Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available -Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 60–63; -Kevin D. Randle, Invasion Washington: UFOs over the Capitol, -HarperTorch, 2001, pp. 77–126; Shoot 53–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1953

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Event 2695 -(9024A118)

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Date: 7/30/1952
-Description: Gen. Hoyt -Vandenberg tells the press that, although he does not believe there -are flying saucers, he dislikes the “mass hysteria” about them. He says -the Air Force has had experts investigating them since the end of World -War II and never found anything substantial. (“‘Double -Vision,’ Vandenberg,” Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press-Democrat, July 31, -1952, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1958

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Event 2696 -(36EC0E4C)

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Date: 7/30/1952
-Description: Flight Sgt. Roland Hughes of No. 20 Squadron RAF is on a -training flight in a de Havilland Vampire FB-9 jet fighter and returning -to base at RAF Oldenburg, Germany, when he sees a “gleaming silver, -metallic disc” drop down from above and fly alongside his aircraft for -several seconds before speeding off. The object is about 100 feet long. -Its surface is shiny “like tinfoil,” highly reflective, and “without a -single crease or crinkle in it.” On August 5, Hughes is ordered to fly -to RAF Faßberg for further questioning. He arrives and finds a number of -officers, including his commander and the UK Minister of Supply, Duncan -Sandys (Winston -Churchill’s son-in- law), who asks Hughes how many beers he had -before his saucer sighting. The Air Commanding Officer then reveals that -the object had also been tracked on radar going faster than any known -aircraft. This convinces Sandys that the case is a serious one, a view -that he communicates to Lord -Cherwell, the government’s chief scientific adviser, in a letter, -saying there is “ample evidence of some unfamiliar and unexplained -phenomenon.” (UFOFiles2, pp. 44–46; -“The -UFO Sighting That Convinced a Government Minister,” The Telegraph, -May 27, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1957

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Event 2697 -(0DC76FCA)

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Date: 7/30/1952
-Time: 11:02 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. George Funk. One orange light -remained stationary for 10 minutes. No further details in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 211

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Event 2698 -(C45DB581)

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Date: 7/30/1952
-Time: 10 AM
-Description: Witnesses: E.E. Nye and one other person. One round, white -object flew slow and then sped away after 20-30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 212

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Event 2699 -(AD5FD991)

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Date: 7/30/1952
-Description: 1:10 p.m. Willie -Vaught of Alexandria, Indiana, sees a strange looking cloud and -calls her two teenage daughters (Laura and -Patsy) -and Laura -Oliver to see it. While looking at it, they see six flat, -aluminum-like objects streak across the cloud, merge, and disappear -within a minute. (“Alexandria -Family Reports Seeing ‘Flying -Saucers,’” Alexandria (Ind.) Times-Tribune, July 31, 1952, p. 1; -Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. -4 (July 2005): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1959

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Event 2700 -(79788A8D)

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Date: 7/31/1952
-Description: Brig. Gen. Alfred -R. Maxwell of the Research and Development Board prepares a -memorandum that generally supports the official position that UFO -reports contain no information of value, he writes: “The Air Force has -made very little progress in learning what the phenomena or objects -are.” (Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona, Marlowe, -1994, pp. 30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1960

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Event 2701 -(8CF838E1)

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Date: 8/1952
-Description: Hollywood producer Clarence -Greene and a friend see a “sphere of light” in the sky over Los -Angeles, California. Visible for 5 minutes, the object alternately -hovers and turns before speeding off over the horizon. The next morning, -Greene tells his business partner Russell -Rouse about the sighting. As he reflects on the experience, he grows -ever more irritated by the stigma attached to UFO sightings. (Clark III -1188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1961

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Event 2702 -(6B8C1F8E)

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Date: 8/1/1952
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Scripps-Howard reporter Howard -Doyle Kline sees a cluster of glowing white objects overhead in -Albuquerque, New Mexico. The objects shift around into various patterns, -including a perfect V at one point. Their shifts in position are -incredibly swift and fantastically violent, he says. “They made” a -flying saucer believer out of me.” He reports the incident to Lincoln -LaPaz, University of New Mexico meteoriticist, and Col. William -A. Matheny, commander -of the 34th Air Defense Division. The report, which is one probably used -in Maj. Dewey -Fournet’s Motion Study, is missing from the Project Blue Book files. -(New York World-Telegram, August 2, 1952; UFOEv, pp. 69–70; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 -July 21st–31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1965

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Event 2703 -(AB3EB73F)

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Date: 8/1/1952
-Time: 1:14 AM
-Description: Witnesses: sheriff’s deputies and other persons, one named -Mallette. Two brilliant red lights hovered and maneuvered for 5 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lancaster, California
-ID: 213

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Event 2704 -(838182CC)

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Date: 8/1/1952
-Description: 10:51 a.m. An Air Defense Command radar site on Campbell -Hill at Bellefontaine, Ohio, tracks a target 20 miles NNW of -Wright-Patterson AFB, traveling 500 mph against the wind. It vectors two -F-86s piloted by Maj. James B. Smith and Lt. Donald -J. Hemmer. They make visual contact but climb to 48,000 feet twice -without reaching it. Smith gets a weak return on his radar gun sight and -shoots a gun camera film of a white or silvery sphere estimated at -60,000 feet. They break off the intercept at 11:13 a.m. about 100 miles -west-southwest of Dayton. The film reportedly shows a UFO in the upper -right of the frames with noticeable motion to the lower left. Although -Blue Book Capt. Edward -J. Ruppelt’s assistants Lt. Anderson -G. Flues and Lt. Robert Olsson initially declare the case an -“unknown,” Ruppelt changes that evaluation a few weeks later after ATIC -Technical Analysis Division Chief Col. Donald -L. Bower transfers out, explaining it as two separate but -coincidental IFOs—a weather balloon and a jet. Ruppelt goes to great -lengths to debunk the case in his ADC briefings to the Robertson Panel. -(NICAP, “Gun -Camera R/V Case”; Condon, pp. 161–163; -Clark III 392–395; Hynek UFO Report, p. 21; -Sparks, -p. 165; Patrick Gross, “The -Bellefontaine, Ohio, Radar/Visual/Photographic Case, 1952”; Shoot -71–73; Center for UFO Studies, [Blue -Book documents and files])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1962

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Event 2705 -(61F64E29)

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Date: End of 8/1/1952
-Description: CIA Memo from acting Chief of Weapons and Equipment -Division: “It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA -interest or concern reach the press or public.”
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Langley, Virginia

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Event 2706 -(8187BD80)

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Date: 8/1/1952
-Description: Edward -Tauss, acting -chief of the Weapons and Equipment Division of the CIA’s Office of -Scientific Intelligence, writes a letter to OSI Deputy Assistant -Director Ralph -L. Clark, saying -that less than 100 credible reports remain unexplainable. -“interplanetary aspects and alien origin not being thoroughly excluded -from consideration.” He recommends the CIA continue to cooperate with -ATIC, but “no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or -public.” (ClearIntent, p. 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1963

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Event 2707 -(CA6C7A52)

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Date: 8/1/1952
-Description: 8:30–9:00 p.m. We, the People, a 30-minute TV news show -produced by Life magazine, devotes its airtime to the recent UFO -sightings over Washington, D.C. WNBW-TV, which originates the program, -rents a DC-3 airliner, fills it with 20 newsmen, and has the plane -circle over Washington, just in case the saucers return. On the ground -in the radar room of Washington National Airport there are more newsmen -and TV cameras. The show features editors and journalists Frank -Blair, David -Brinkley, Clay -Blair, and -various UFO witnesses. (Curt Collins, “UFOs -on TV: The 1952 Washington, DC Saucer Flap,” The Saucers That Time -Forgot, July 5, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1964

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Event 2708 -(FBC12EEB)

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Date: 8/2/1952
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF lst Lt. W.A. Theil, one enlisted man. One -red ball with a blue flame tail flew straight and level for 3-4 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
-ID: 214

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Event 2709 -(E868A6CC)

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Date: 8/2/1952
-Description: 3:00 a.m. USAF 1st Lt. W. A. Theil and enlisted man Edwards -see a red ball with a trail of blue flame fly straight and level over -Lake Charles, Louisiana. (Sparks, p. 165) -August 2 [or July 30] — George -Hunt Williamson and his wife Betty are visited in Prescott, Arizona, -by two other metaphysics enthusiasts, Alfred C. Bailey and his wife -Betty of Winslow, Arizona. This evening, in the course of an -automatic-writing experiment using a sort of Ouija board, they receive a -message from an extraterrestrial in a spacecraft. In the days and weeks -that follow, “Nah-9 of Solar X Group” and many other planetary and star -people communicate with them. The space people call earth “Saras.” Nah-9 -says that the good men of Saras must unite with good space people to -avert a calamity. More Ouija sessions take place through August 17. A -message comes through that they will be contacted via radio with an -International Morse Code message on August 22. Bailey approaches a -coworker on the Santa Fe Railroad, a ham radio operator named Lyman -Streeter, and -asks for his help in picking up the space signals. (Clark III 1283; -George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, -1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): -21–22; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt -Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 178–181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1966

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Event 2710 -(07F2E854)

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Date: 8/3/1952
-Description: 3:00 p.m. An Air Force master sergeant on the ship Santa -Luisa observes three round, flat, metallic objects hovering at -30,000–40,000 feet some 10 miles away from his position at the mouth of -the Rio Guayas near Isla Puná, Ecuador. After 5 seconds, one object -dives to the west then turns back northwest. They all disappear after -another 5 seconds. (Project 1947, [case -documents]; Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1967

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Event 2711 -(DC85EBF2)

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Date: 8/3/1952
-Description: 4:15 p.m. Two huge silvery discs are observed visually and -tracked on radar for 1 hour and 15 minutes over Hamilton AFB [now -closed] near Novato, California. The ground observers are pilots -Capt. Leslie -R. Hadley, Capt. Wayne -T. Perske, and -2d Lt. Duane -A. Swimley. They -dive at each other and maneuver as if in a dogfight. After F-86s are -dispatched to intercept, 6 more objects appear, take up a diamond -formation, and accelerate out of sight. (NICAP, “Eight -Huge Objects Observed by 8 Witnesses and Radar”; Sparks, -p. 165; Project 1947, “Hamilton -Air Force Base, Hamilton, California, August 3, 1952”; Project 1947, -[Blue -Book documents and files]; -Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): -14, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1968

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Event 2712 -(69673A27)

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Date: 8/3/1952
-Description: 10:20 p.m. Civilian engineer Paul L. Anderson sees 3 -light-green cylindrical objects at Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. -They are hovering at 45° elevation in an inverted-V formation, switching -to echelon when one object moves with a rolling motion along its long -axis. It disappears by rapidly rising vertically. The observation lasts -9 minutes. (NICAP, “Three -Cylindrical Objects Observed by Engineers”; Sparks, -p. 165; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March -2010): 14, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1969

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Event 2713 -(002BB806)

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Date: 8/4/1952
-Time: 11:37 AM
-Description: Witnesses: one woman, two children. One object, shaped like -a lifesaver or donut, emitted black smoke from its top and made a 15’ -arc in 1.5 minutes. Observed for 2 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Vernon, New York
-ID: 216

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Event 2714 -(8CE029C2)

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Date: 8/4/1952
-Time: 2:20 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF A/3c W.F. Vain. One yellow ball which -lengthened and narrowed to plate shape, flew straight and level for 5 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Phoenix, Arizona
-ID: 215

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Event 2715 -(B0C276F5)

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Date: 8/5/1952
-Description: Day. During a daylight observation of Venus, astronomer James -C. Bartlett Jr. watches two discs fly overhead in a southerly -direction at Baltimore, Maryland. They move away to the east, then two -more objects with dome-like protrusions in the center fly past. (“Two -Huge UFOs Sighted by Baltimore Astronomer,” UFO Investigator 1, no. -5 (Aug./Sept. 1958): 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1971

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Event 2716 -(629E5ADA)

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Date: 8/5/1952
-Time: 11:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF F-94 jet interceptor pilots lst Lt. W.R. -Holder and lst Lt. A.M. Jones, and Haneda control tower operators. -Airborne radar tracked a target for 90 seconds. Control tower operators -watched 50-60 minutes while a dark shape with a light flew as fast as -330 kts. (380 m.p.h.), hovered, flew curves and performed a variety of -maneuvers.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Haneda AFB, Japan
-ID: 217

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Event 2717 -(99A90919)

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Date: 8/5/1952
-Description: 12:25 a.m. A trio of brilliant white dots of indefinite -shape, at an altitude of an estimated 5,000 feet, passes over Westover -AFB [now Westover Reserve Air Base] in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The -second object is half the size of the first, and the third is half the -size of the second one. The first one resembles an automobile headlight. -The appearance of other two is not given. The three are in a triangular -formation. No jet activity is recorded over the airbase at the time and -witnesses say the objects are moving “faster than jets.” (Loren E. -Gross, UFOs, -a History: -1952, August, The -Author, 1986, p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1970

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Event 2718 -(2155A038)

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Date: 8/5/1952
-Description: 9:46–12:00 midnight. A visual sighting is made at 9:46 p.m. -by an observer on the ground at Manassas, Virginia, who spots a -brilliant oval flying south. About 10:50 p.m., Andrews AFB in Maryland -picks up two unidentified blips moving slowly and steadily away from -Washington, D.C., on a course toward Mount Vernon, Virginia. Minutes -later the fluorescent screens at Andrews show two more UFOs to the east -of the field moving for a short distance, stopping, and then moving -again. The speed of the targets is a slow 60 mph. The height of the -targets is unknown. Planes from both Andrews AFB and Bolling AFB are -sent up to investigate but rainy weather forces them to turn back after -they reach 15,000 feet altitude. Around 12:00 midnight yet another -target appears on radar, and jets from New Castle AFB in Delaware are -scrambled. The jets see no UFOs when they arrived over Washington; -however, a spokesman for Andrews radar tells the press that “no radar -sightings were made while the planes were overhead.” (“Flock -of ‘Saucer’ Objects Again Puzzles Wash. DC,” Visalia (Calif.) -Times-Delta, August 6, 1952, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, August, The -Author, 1986, pp. 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1972

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Event 2719 -(287E0242)

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Date: 8/5/1952
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Eight residents of Camden, New Jersey, report a -bright, round, orange object hovering or moving slowly in the western -sky. (“8 -City Residents Report ‘Saucers’ on Nocturnal Sweep through Sky,” -Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post, August 6, 1952, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1973

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Event 2720 -(101154A4)

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Date: 8/5/1952
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A complex radar-visual sighting takes place at -Haneda AFB [later Tokyo International Airport], Japan. Control tower -operators watch a disc as it passes over Tokyo Bay at about 1,500 feet. -It is a dark round shape surrounded by a bright light with a curved -outer edge and smaller lights around it. While being tracked on radar, a -scramble alert is issued at 11:55 p.m., and an F-94 Starfire jet from -nearby Johnson Air Base [now Iruma Air Base] in Sayama, Saitama -Prefecture, goes after the object. The interceptor, piloted by 1Lt. Wesley -R. Holder and Radar Observer 1Lt. Aaron M. Jones Jr., chases the -object, which speeds away while being tracked by onboard radar. During -the next 30 minutes, the UFO disappears and reappears throughout the -sky, vanishes when the jet closes in, performs intricate maneuvers, and -at one point splits into three radar targets. The jet searches over -Tokyo Bay until 12:33 a.m. when it is recalled. (NICAP, “F-94 -Pilots Tracked Object for 90 Seconds”; Ruppelt, pp. 187–189; -Condon, pp. 123–126; -Sparks, -p. 166; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean -Tomes, 1987, pp. 217–219; Patrick Gross, “The -Haneda AFB Case, Japan, August 5, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1974

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Event 2721 -(A9D0A819)

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Date: 8/6/1952
-Description: Hynek sends -Project Blue Book a report on his interviews with 45 astronomers about -their opinions on UFOs at a June meeting of the American Astronomical -Society and finds that five (11%) have seen a UFO, seven are indifferent -to the subject, more express at least some interest, and a few are very -interested but wary of publicity. (J. Allen Hynek, “Special -Report on Conferences with Astronomers on Unidentified Aerial -Objects,” August 6, 1952; “Seven -Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 2,” CUFON; “Seven -Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,” CUFON; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, pp. 83–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1975

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Event 2722 -(7D7134C4)

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Date: 8/6/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: This is a continuation of the Haneda AFB sightings.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tokyo, Japan
-ID: 218

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Event 2723 -(8EA67172)

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Date: 8/6/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Port Austin, Michigan
-ID: 219

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Event 2724 -(CDBF6FC8)

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Date: 8/6/1952
-Description: 9:00 p.m. James J. Allen sees a UFO 6 feet high, 8 feet -long, and lighted inside strike the chimney of his home in West -Lumberton, North Carolina. It crashes into his backyard. When he -approaches it, the lights go off and he sees a man about 30 inches tall -standing next to it. He asks if he is hurt, then the figure reenters the -vehicle and it zooms away. (“West -Lumberton Event Added to -Growing ‘Saucer’ Reports,” Lumberton (N.C.) Robesonian, August 7, -1952, pp. 1, 4; Clark III 326; Curt Collins, “James -J. Allen’s Alien Encounter Embarrassment: -Aug. 6, 1952,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 19. 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1976

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Event 2725 -(1EA8A2F3)

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Date: 8/7/1952
-Description: 9:08 a.m. Mrs. Susan Pzuhl (or Pfuhl) observes over San -Antonio, Texas, four round UFOs that give off a color similar to -white-hot metal. The objects appear to be approximately 18 inches in -diameter and are observed one at a time at intervals of approximately 20 -minutes. With the exception of one object that moves slowly, the speed -must have been 3 times as fast as a propeller-driven aircraft. No sound -can be heard. Their maneuvers consist of radical directional change by -the first object, straight and level flight by the second object, a -slight directional change by the third object, and a large circular -maneuver by the fourth object. An aircraft passes under the fourth -object with no apparent reaction by the plane or the object. It vanishes -suddenly like an extinguished light. Duration is 70 minutes. (NICAP, -“Four 18ʺ UFOs Observed”; Sparks, p. 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1978

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Event 2726 -(1B26C149)

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Date: 8/7/1952
-Description: 12:02 a.m. At Kerkrade, Netherlands, marine engineer Will -Jansen watches a domed object swoop down to a low altitude, hover, -zigzag, then speed away. He sees a similar object hovering further away. -It finally tilts up vertically and shoots out of sight. (UFOEv, p. 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1977

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Event 2727 -(B12E2402)

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Date: 8/7/1952
-Time: 9:08 AM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. Susan Pfuhl. Four glowing white discs: one -made a 180 degree turn, one flew straight and level, one veered off, and -one circled during the 70 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 220

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Event 2728 -(7ABD16A3)

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Date: 8/7/1952
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Two Ground Observer Corps skywatchers in -Silverton, Oregon, Ida -Pfeifer and Dorothy Sthamann, see an aluminum-colored object 3 miles -away that appears at first triangular, then more saucer shaped. Army and -air observers in Portland confirm that jet interceptors are at that -moment in pursuit of the object. Replacement skywatchers Sadie -Barkhurst and Mrs. Olaf Teglund also see the object at 5:00 p.m. All -agree that the UFO is headed east at a moderate speed, but darts -“fiercely” toward the interceptor when it approaches. (“Flying -Saucer at -Silverton,” Salem (Oreg.) Capital Journal, August 9, 1952, -p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1979

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Event 2729 -(B3967160)

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Date: 8/8/1952
-Description: A special CIA/Office of Scientific Intelligence team -consisting of Philip -Grandin Strong, Ransom -L. Eng, and Frederick -C. Durant visits Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio for a comprehensive -briefing about UFOs from Blue Book staff. This classified visit is in -response to secret orders from President Truman to -the CIA to investigate the Air Force’s mishandling of UFOs during the -Washington National Airport cases. (CUFON, “The CUFON -1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, -1996; Clark III 397; Swords 172–173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1980

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Event 2730 -(CBE870CD)

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Date: 8/9/1952
-Description: Reply from Air Ministry, Whitehall, S.W. to W.S. Churchill -stating: All UFO sightings are either astronomical phenomena, mistaken -sightings of balloons, birds, etc., optical illusions or hoaxes. The -Americans have reached a similar conclusion.
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p449)
-Location: Britain
-See also: 7/28/52

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Event 2731 -(C0347542)

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Date: 8/9/1952
-Description: 1:45 a.m. A/3C Joseph -F. Raley is walking to work at Lake Charles Air Force Station [now -closed] in Lake Charles, Louisiana, when he observes a disc-like object -from a distance away of 3,000–5,000 feet. The object is at an estimated -altitude of 5,000 feet. It moves several hundred mph faster than any -known jet aircraft. No sound is heard. The object is first seen moving -north to south until it crosses the air station, where it stops and -hovers for approximately 2 seconds, then takes off to the west. (NICAP, -“Faster-Than-Jet -Disc Stops, Hovers Two Seconds, Accelerates”; -Sparks, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1981

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Event 2732 -(C8C4F407)

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Date: 8/9/1952
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF A/3c J.P. Raley. One disc-shaped object flew -very fast and then hovered for 2 seconds during a 5-6 minute -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
-ID: 221

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Event 2733 -(947C7C90)

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Date: 8/10/1952
-Description: 5:38 p.m. Roy E. Munson is resting in his hammock at 1231 -Widergren Drive, Rockford, Illinois, when he sees a disc-shaped object -moving west to east and streaking across the sky in 6 seconds. Within -minutes, another appears on the same flight path. Some family members -and neighbors join him to watch the objects, which keep appearing for -the next 90 minutes by which time a total of 54 have gone by. Munson -alerts the CAA operator at the Rockford airport, who calls O’Hare -Airport in Chicago, which sends two USAF jet interceptors to the area. -They appear just as the last of the discs, which seem surrounded by a -haze, disappears. Of the 54 objects, 36 appear larger that the others -and move faster. Fifty follow the straight west-to-east path out of -sight. Three deviate from the path to the north, and one deviates to the -south. (NICAP, “Rockford, -Illinois, Monday, August 11, 1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1982

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Event 2734 -(782BEC93)

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Date: 8/11/1952
-Description: A CIA memo refers to a meeting of the newly created study -group on UFOs attended by eight operatives. (Central Intelligence -Agency, “Minutes -of Branch Chief’s Meeting of 11 August 1952”; CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 -CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; -Swords 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1983

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Event 2735 -(7DDD2C44)

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Date: 8/12/1952
-Description: 1:43 a.m. An Air Force F-94B jet fighter from Dover AFB in -Delaware is flying at 20,000 feet when both the pilot and his radar -crewman sight a glowing object 45° to their left and at a lower -altitude, with the waters of the Delaware Bay as a dark backdrop. -Curious, the jet pilot adjusts his course and heads directly at the -object, which is stationary. In an apparent reaction, the object loses -some of its brilliance and diminishes in size, apparently moving away. -The pilot determines that the object had halted above Cape May, New -Jersey, where it again hovers. Without success, the pilot tries to raise -the local CCI station on the radio on F channel to request a radar scan -of the Cape May area. Low on fuel, the pilot cannot pursue the UFO any -further, so he breaks off the chase and heads for home. The UFO follows -the jet, increasing in apparent size as it draws near and overtakes it. -Eventually, the UFO loses interest and flies away to the south. (Loren -E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1984

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Event 2736 -(304C8C0B)

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Date: 8/13/1952
-Description: 11:10 p.m. USAF Reserve Capt. Stanley W. Thompson sees a -formation of lighted objects flying rapidly over Tucson, Arizona. (Loren -E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1989

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Event 2737 -(BFAAB030)

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Date: 8/13/1952
-Description: 9:10 p.m. A witness in Oakland, California, calls Hamilton -AFB [now closed] in Novato to notify them he is watching “two balls of -fire” making a 10-mile circle and leaving in the direction of Hamilton. -When the report is made to Capt. Kenneth -Broden, Hamilton -AFB Airdrome Officer, he orders an F-94 jet scrambled to search the bay -between Oakland and the air base. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1987

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Event 2738 -(2A7C223D)

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Date: 8/13/1952
-Description: Night. Pioneer Airlines pilot Capt. Max M. Jacoby sees a -mystery light while on a routine test flight out of Dallas Love Field, -Texas. He tries to intercept it, but the light evades him and -disappears. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a -History: 1952, August, The -Author, 1986, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1986

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Event 2739 -(C4C2D73C)

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Date: 8/13/1952
-Description: Around 7:00 p.m. Two civilians in the Tampa, Florida, area -watch three UFOs. One object changes its course abruptly to the west, -moving in excess of 600 mph. The same object hovers for about 5 minutes -then moves at an excessive rate back to the east and resumes its course -to the north and disappears. The two other objects do not alter course -but disappear to the north. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, August, The -Author, 1986, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1985

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Event 2740 -(66885BEF)

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Date: 8/13/1952
-Time: 9:45 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Marine Corps pilot Maj. D. McGough. One -orange light flew a left orbit at 8,000’ and 230 m.p.h., spiralled down -to no more than 1,500’, remained stationary for 2-3 minutes and went -out. An attempted interception was unsuccessful.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tokyo, Japan
-ID: 222

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Event 2741 -(7ADD67DE)

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Date: 8/13/1952
-Description: 9:45 p.m. In Tokyo, Japan, US Marine Corps pilot Maj. James -D. McGough sees an orange light fly a left orbit at 8,000 feet and -230 mph, then spiral down to no more than 1,500 feet, remain stationary -for 2–3 minutes, and go out. An attempted interception is unsuccessful. -(NICAP, “Orange -Light Maneuvers Then Stops in Mid- Air”; -Sparks, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1988

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Event 2742 -(1C531622)

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Date: 8/14/1952
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A yellow ball of light undulates up and down and -from side to side over the Mathieson chemical plant in Lake Charles, -Louisiana. It is also seen to shoot ahead abruptly and come to a halt in -the same manner. Witnesses estimate that the ball passes over at 5,000 -feet, growing fainter and fainter as it moves away. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1993

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Event 2743 -(FB6F55C3)

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Date: 8/14/1952
-Description: The CIA’s special UFO study group meets for the first time -and is given a summary (probably written by A. Ray -Gordon, project -officer of the CIA’s Physics and Electronics Branch) of UFO history, an -analysis of Project Blue Book, and a discussion of explained sightings -and theories about unexplained sightings. (Central Intelligence Agency, -“Flying -Saucers,” August 14, 1952; Good Above, pp. 331–333)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1991

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Event 2744 -(D17E303C)

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Date: 8/14/1952
-Description: Australian Minister for Air William -McMahon states facetiously in Parliament that flying saucer reports -are “probably based on flights of imagination,” but indicates he will -“cause a thorough investigation to be made.” (Swords 376)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1990

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Event 2745 -(FDCDA282)

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Date: 8/14/1952
-Description: 7:20 p.m. People on the docks of Phillippeville [modern -Skikda], Algeria, see an enormous red disc leaving behind a greenish -trail. At 9:15 p.m., two people in Constantine, Algeria, watch a -luminous object flying at high speed. It emits a bright light. -(ClearIntent, p. 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1992

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Event 2746 -(C7AAC0AC)

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Date: mid 8/1952
-Description: 10:30 p.m. John -D. Moorman, deputy sheriff of Starke County, is fishing in a boat -with Surphin -Casper on the Tippecanoe River about 3 miles northwest of Monterey, -Indiana. Moorman looks up and sees 7–8 objects hovering. They watch for -a few seconds until the objects move away to the west. About half of -them return east momentarily, and all of them disappear by blinking out. -(NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1994

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Event 2747 -(015AD3B7)

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Date: 8/15/1952
-Description: 4:20 a.m. Ground Observer Corps observers in Davis, -California, see a rainbow-colored, round object hovering in the air. -Soon they notice eight more objects of a strange appearance. At 5:30 -a.m., two more UFOs are seen, one moving west while the other moves -east. The Air Force scrambles a F-94 jet interceptor to search the area -at altitudes of 10,000–20,000 feet. The military claims the pilot can -see nothing unusual, although the GOC spotters say that the UFOs and the -jet are both visible in the sky at the same time and possibly at the -same altitude. At 5:00 a.m., in Napa, California, GOC post observer -Diane Robinson sights a “cigar-shaped silver thing” traveling at -tremendous speed at 10,000 feet toward the southwest. (Loren E. Gross, -UFOs, -a History: 1952, -August, The -Author, 1986, p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1995

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Event 2748 -(79548FA4)

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Date: 8/15/1952
-Description: CIA operative Frederick -C. Durant [and/or Ransom L. En] writes a top-secret draft memo for -DCI Walter Bedell -Smith on the OSI teams visit to Wright-Patterson AFB and a summary -of its findings. It offers an analytical description of UFOs going back -to the 1946 Scandinavian ghost rockets. It rules out the possibility of -Russian secret weapons and mentions the sightings at Los Alamos and Oak -Ridge at a time when the “background radiation count had risen -inexplicably. Here we run out of even ‘blue yonder’ explanations that -might be tenable, and, we still are left with numbers of incredible -reports from credible observers.” Yet “even though we might admit that -intelligent life may exist elsewhere and that space travel is possible, -there is no shred of evidence to support this theory at present.” -(Central Intelligence Agency, “Flying -Saucers,” August 15, 1952; CUFON, “The CUFON -1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, -1996; Clark III 397; Swords 172–173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1996

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Event 2749 -(66D4E094)

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Date: 8/15/1952
-Description: RAAF Flight Lt. William H. Scott, chief test pilot of the -Government Aircraft Factories, is flying a de Havilland Vampire jet -between 35,000 and 36,000 feet near Rockhampton, Queensland. Looking -east toward the coast, he sees a large, circular light at a lower -elevation. It is the color of an ordinary incandescent light bulb. After -about 60 seconds, 6–10 smaller lights break off from the main light, -surrounding it for 2 minutes before disappearing. After another 2 -minutes, the big light also disappears. (Swords 376)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1997

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Event 2750 -(34F14A25)

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Date: 8/16/1952
-Description: CIA analysis report of a Vienna news article of a UFO -report from the Belgian Congo: Commander Pierre of Elisabethville -Airfield was sent out to intercept two Flying Saucers. They had a diam. -of 12 to 15 meters with a stationary central hub with visible portholes -and an extremely fast rotating outer disk that glowed as if on fire. -Color similar to aluminum. They emitted a loud whistling sound which -could be heard over his own engines. He estimated their speed at over -1500 kilometers/hour.
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p512)
-Location: Langley, Virginia

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Event 2751 -(239724EA)

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Date: 8/18/1952
-Time: 12:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three policemen. One object changed color like a -diamond, and changed directions during the 30 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fairfield, California
-ID: 223

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Event 2752 -(0CB26366)

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Date: 8/19/1952
-Description: About 10:00 p.m. Scoutmaster D[unham] S[anborn] “Sonny” -DesVergers is driving with three scouts on the edge of the Everglades -south of West Palm Beach, Florida, when he sees a light in a wild -palmetto grove. The boys do not see it, so he drives on. Another boy -admits he has seen a light in that direction too, so DesVergers returns -to the spot and goes into the grove, telling the boys to stay in the car -unless he is delayed. Soon all three boys see red lights flashing in the -grove. This alarms them, and they go to a nearby house for help. They -return to see DesVergers staggering out of the grove, incoherently -saying he has been zapped into semiconsciousness by some kind of red -flare coming from a hatch in a red ball of light (and burns his cap as -well). An area of flattened and burned grass is found after the event. -DesVergers has a reputation as a prankster and hopes to monetize his -story somehow, but the scouts do corroborate his story and there are -physical traces. Grass samples from the site sent to the Air Force show -root damage extending 4 inches or more into the soil, suggesting -overheating, possibly by microwave radiation. Karl -Pflock thinks it is a hoax, but Jerry -Clark isn’t 100% sure. (NICAP, “Florida Scoutmaster -Case”; “Attack -by Flying Saucer Described -by Scoutmaster,” Miami (Fla.) Daily News, August 24, 1952, pp. 1A, -4A; “‘Line -Forms at Left’ for -That Saucer Yarn,” Miami (Fla.) Daily News, August 25, 1952, p. 1A; -“Boy -Scout Wants New Saucer Hunt,” Miami (Fla.) Daily News, August 26, -1952, p. 2A; “‘Saucer’ Witnesses Talking,” -Miami (Fla.) Daily News, August 27, 1952, pp. 1A, 8A; Clark III 496–498; -Ruppelt, p. 176; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1952 August, -Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, pp. 115–119; Story, pp. 128–131; -Jenny Randles, UFO Reality, p. 143; Karl T. Pflock, “The -Best Hoax -in UFO History?” 1997; “The -Scoutmaster’s Tale,” Saturday Night Uforia, March 27, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2001

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Event 2753 -(1455E411)

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Date: 8/19/1952
-Description: 2:38 p.m. Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop -sees two objects shaped like fat bullets flying straight, level, and -fast over Red Bluff, California. (Sparks, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1999

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Event 2754 -(0D3CFEFB)

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Date: 8/19/1952
-Time: 2:38 PM
-Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observer Albert Lathrop. Two -objects, shaped like fat bullets, flew straight and level, very fast for -25 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Red Bluff, California
-ID: 224

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Event 2755 -(A238CEE1)

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Date: 8/19/1952
-Description: 8:00 p.m. An oval disc is seen above Boron Air Force -Station [now closed] in Boron, California. Two jet fighters are guided -into the area by Capt. Ralph -J. Borgerson at the base, but the object speeds away to the east as -they close in. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, August, The Author, 1986, p. 49; Sparks, -p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2000

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Event 2756 -(9D530A05)

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Date: 8/19/1952
-Description: J. D. Desvergers (scoutmaster) has contact with saucer. Is -burned.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Attributes: injury

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Event 2757 -(5A0BF6F4)

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Date: 8/19/1952
-Time: evening
-Description: Ronny Desvergers saw a large, round, dark object above him -in a clearing. It had a turret on top. Red balls of light were emitted -by the object and burned him. He also observed a “hideous” creature -aboard the craft. Grass roots were scorched at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ruppelt 222; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
-ID: 97

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Event 2758 -(CDAB8D16)

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Date: 8/19/1952
-Description: The CIA/OSI study group prepares an internal 6-page -document of its findings. It has made a study of the Soviet press that -shows “not one report or comment” about UFOs, which indicates official -censorship. It perceives a danger that the Russians might try to -infiltrate civilian UFO groups (such as Civilian Saucer Investigation of -Los Angeles) or add UFO disinformation during a nuclear attack: “We give -Russia the capability of delivering an air attack against us, yet at any -given moment now, there may be a dozen official unidentified sightings -plus many unofficial.” It briefs CIA Director Walter -Bedell Smith on August 20. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Flying -Saucers,” August 19, 1952; CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part -1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Clark III 1013; Swords 174)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 1998

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Event 2759 -(5639E0A8)

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Date: 8/20/1952
-Description: The CIA/OSI UFO study group briefs CIA Director Walter -Bedell Smith, who -then orders the preparation of a National Security Council Intelligence -Directive for submission to the NSC stating the need for a UFO -investigation. (H. Marshall Chadwell, “Unidentified -Flying Objects,” December 2, 1952)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2002

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Event 2760 -(A3DD17BE)

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Date: 8/20/1952
-Description: Memorandom for Director CIA: the DCI, after a briefing by -OSI on the subject of UFOs, directed the preparation of an NSCID for -submission to the Council stating the need for investigation and -directing agencies concerned to cooperate in such investigations. It was -decided that Dr. Whitman, chairman of P&DB, would investigate -undertaking R&D studies through Air Force agencies. Signed: H. -Marshall Chadwell. (See continuation of this briefing.)
-Type: memorandom
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Langley, Virginia
-See also: 11/25/52

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Event 2761 -(9B3604D1)

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Date: 8/20/1952
-Description: Air Defense Command radar at Congaree AFB [now McEntire -Joint National Guard Base], southeast of Columbia, South Carolina, -tracks a target traveling more than 4,000 mph some 60 miles from the -base. (NICAP, “ADC -Tracks Object at 4,000 MPH”; UFOEv, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2003

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Event 2762 -(E2629308)

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Date: 8/20/1952
-Time: 3:10 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Bill Ford and two others. An undescribed object -flew at 500’ altitude for several minutes. No further data in -files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Neffesville, Pennsylvania
-ID: 225

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Event 2763 -(5C247DBD)

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Date: late 8/1952
-Description: Albert and Betty Bailey go to the Palomar Gardens Café in -California to visit George -Adamski and tell him about their contacts and their friendship with -George -Hunt Williamson. (Michael -D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 22) Late summer — -As a Signal Corps employee working the night shift, Vivian Walton -handles decoded teletype messages inside a high-security building at the -Defense Supply Center near Columbus, Ohio. She walks into the photo lab, -where colleague Joe Sheehy is developing photos, one of which he says is -a UFO that had landed in the “hill country” somewhere near Columbus. He -says the object is 30 feet in diameter and unoccupied, with minimal -damage. A few days later, an alert is sounded, allegedly because of -danger of attack by UFOs. Walton claims the downed UFO has gone through -the depot on the way to Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton. (James W. -Moseley, “The -Wright Field Story, or Who’s Lying?” Nexus 3, no. 1 (September -1954): 11–15; James W. Moseley, The Wright Field Story, Saucerian, 1971; -Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1993): 18; Irena Scott and William E. Jones, “Crash Claims,” -IUR 18, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1993): 21; Good Need, p. 159; -Clark III 329)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2019

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Event 2764 -(7A22217A)

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Date: 8/21/1952
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Ground Observer Corps Supervisor D. C. Scott -spots a yellowish-white light flying in the sky at 2,000 feet northeast -of Elgin, Illinois. Several times it rises to 5,000 feet in three -minutes, hovers, then descends again. Scott alerts Capt. Everett A. -Turner at the Chicago Filter Center, who tells him to call again when -the light settles down. After one hour and 23 minutes the light begins -to hover, Scott calls Turner again, and Turner has at least one F-86 -Sabre jet scrambled from O’Hare Airport in Chicago. The pilot makes four -passes between 10,000 and 2,000 feet. On the fourth pass, it heads -directly toward the light, which blinks out. (“Jets -Pursue Mystery Light,” -Carbondale Southern Illinoisan, August 23, 1952, p. 1; UFOEv, p. 66; -Shoot 102–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2004

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Event 2765 -(CAF4B58C)

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Date: 8/21/1952
-Time: 11:54 PM
-Description: Witness: Jack Rossen, ex-artillery observer. Three -blue-white lights hovered then descended; 1.5 minutes later, one of them -descended more.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dallas, Texas
-ID: 226

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Event 2766 -(E9897C56)

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Date: 8/22/1952
-End date: 8/23/1952
-Description: Evening. Lyman -Streeter sees unusual lights near Winslow, Arizona, and hears -strange signals on his ham radio. Not long afterward, Lyman, his wife, -and Alfred C. Bailey hear a mysterious code coming through the air -itself. Eventually, at 2:00 a.m., a Morse Code-like message comes -through the radio from Regga of Mars and Zo and Nah-9 from Neptune. Zo -refers to Affa from Uranus, who thinks earth is too evil. He also warns -them that the evil Orion Solar System is coming to earth in a “square -star body.” Williamson arrives -from Prescott on August 23. (George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. -Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange -Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 22; Clark III 1283–1284)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2007

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Event 2767 -(10FD4B53)

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Date: 8/22/1952
-Description: George G. Carey, CIA assistant director for operations, -writes a memo to Chadwell on -“USSR and Satellite Mentions of Flying Saucers” that reviews mentions of -UFOs in the Soviet press during the past two years. (“USSR -and Satellite Mentions of Flying Saucers,” August 22, 1952; CUFON, -“The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO- Related -Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2005

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Event 2768 -(F8582242)

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Date: 8/22/1952
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 78km (Army training -test. Thrust decreased after 53s. Tail separation at 217s.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 78km

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Event 2769 -(DDDDBB53)

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Date: 8/22/1952
-Description: A. -Ray Gordon, project -officer of the CIA’s Physics and Electronics Branch, provides a briefing -document explaining the “Air Force Stand on ‘Flying Saucers’” to CIA -Director Walter -Bedell Smith, who then briefs President Truman on -the CIA UFO study group’s reports at his regular Friday intelligence -briefing. (“The Air Force Stand on ‘Flying Saucers’,” August 22, 1952; -CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, -Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Clark III 1013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2006

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Event 2770 -(C149746A)

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Date: 8/23/1952
-Description: CIA analysis report of an Athens news article of an UFO -landing in Communist Berlin, Germany: Former Mayor of Gleimershausen, -Oscar Linke and his 11 year old daughter, Gabriella, spotted a landed -Flying Saucer near the town of Hasselbach. The huge “frying pan” was -approx. 13 to 15 meters in diameter and had two rows of holes on its -periphery, about 30 centimeters in circumference. The space between the -two rows was about 0.45 meters. On top was a black conical object about -3 meters high. Two men dressed in shiny metallic clothing were standing -outside the craft. Upon hearing my daughters voice the two men retreated -into the UFO which then began to rotate. As the UFO began to spin the -conical tower slid down into the UFO and the UFO began to rise and -rotate like a top. It seemed to be supported by the conical tower that -was now underneath it. (More details were included in report, see -02/23/55, See also the movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers”)
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p513)
-Location: Langley, Virginia
-See also: 2/23/1955

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Event 2771 -(786ADDD7)

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Date: 8/23/1952
-Description: Telenews Productions re-releases its 1950 UFO documentary -short, The Flying Saucer Mystery, edited and expanded to 12½ minutes -with new material. It features footage from the July 29, 1952, press -conference given by Air Force Maj. Gen. John -A. Samford, the UFO photo taken by Shell -Alpert, a photo taken by August -C. Roberts, German UFO occupant witnesses Oskar and Gabriele Linke, -Frank -Scully, and U.S. Army Engineers physicist Noel W. Scott. (“The -Flying Saucer Mystery (Full) (1952),” TheUFOVideoChannel YouTube -channel, September 1, 2010; Internet Movie Database, “The -Flying Saucer Mystery”; Curt Collins, “The -Flying Saucer Mystery -and -the 1952 UFO Flap,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 9, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2008

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Event 2772 -(2ABF717E)

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Date: 8/23/1952
-Time: 4:10 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF 2nd Lt. H.K. Funseth, a ground radar -observer, and two U.S. Navy men. One pulsing amber light was seen to fly -straight and level for 7 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Akron, Ohio
-ID: 227

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Event 2773 -(434B789C)

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Date: 8/24/1952
-Description: 10:15 a.m. USAF Col. Gerald -W. Johnson is flying an F-84G when he sees two silver balls in the -vicinity of Hermanas (a ghost town), New Mexico. They seem to be 6 feet -in diameter and 2 miles away. One seems to change into a long, gray -object as it is turning to the right. After 3 minutes they disappear, -then reappear 7 minutes later, by which time the F-84 is over El Paso, -Texas. One after the other, the objects climb straight up 2,000–3,000 -feet. (NICAP, “F-84 -Encounters Two Silver Balls”; Sparks, -p. 168; Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March -2010): 14, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2009

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Event 2774 -(9531BAA7)

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Date: 8/24/1952
-Description: Williamson, Streeter, -and Bailey receive coded radio messages indicating the saucer -intelligences intend to land, inviting them to help. (George Hunt -Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954 -Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2010

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Event 2775 -(9D98DE4A)

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Date: 8/24/1952
-Time: 10:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Georgia Air National Guard F-84G jet fighter pilot -Col. G.W. Johnson. Two 6’ silver balls in abreast formation, one turned -grey rapidly, the other slowly. One changed to long grey shape during a -turn. Sighting lasted about 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hermanas, Mexico
-ID: 228

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Event 2776 -(93C31331)

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Date: 8/24/1952
-Time: 5:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. George White. One large round, -metallic, white light with a vague lower surface, flew slowly, then fast -With a dancing, wavering motion, for about 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 229

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Event 2777 -(75E4990D)

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Date: 8/24/1952
-Time: 9:30 PM, 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sharp. One object, shaped -like a spinning top, changing color from red to yellow to blue, and with -a fiery tail, hovered for 20 minutes, whistling, then flew away. It, or -another like it, returned an hour later.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Levelland, Texas
-ID: 230

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Event 2778 -(FBB54C56)

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Date: 8/24/1952
-Time: 0600
-Description: A man driving through a wood encountred a strange object -and stopped to observe it. It looked like two turtle shells glued -together, about 25 m long, with a humanoid creature in what appeared to -be a control cabin in front. Windows lighted by an intense blue light -and a throbbing sound were also reported. The object was oscillating and -suddenly flew straight up with a strong humming noise. The middle -section supported what looked like propellers. The object hovered 3 m -above ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Frontenac, Kansas
-ID: 98

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Event 2779 -(7AA8E848)

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Date: 8/25/1952
-Description: 5:50 a.m. William -Squyres, a -radio station musician at KOAM [now KKOW-AM] is driving from his home -northeast of Frontenac, Kansas, to the station at Pittsburg. He is in -his 1952 Jeep station wagon on a rough gravel road about a quarter of a -mile from US Highway 160 when he sees a large, disc-shaped object -hovering 10 feet in the air on the right side of the road 750 feet away. -The UFO looks like two bowls placed together end to end, 75 feet long, -40 feet wide, and 15 feet high in the midsection. Through a window he -can see the head and shoulders of a motionless human figure. Along its -outer edge are a series of propellers 6–8 inches in diameter, spaced -closely together and mounted on a bracket so they revolve “in a -horizontal plane” along the edge of the object. He stops and gets out to -watch it. As he is walking toward the object, it rises into the air and -flies away at great speed. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 200–203; -Patrick Gross, “Project -Blue Book Unexplained Cases”; Sparks, p. 168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2012

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Event 2780 -(0EAA9A89)

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Date: 8/25/1952
-Description: 3:40 p.m. At Holloman AFB, New Mexico, plant supervisor -Fred Lee and foreman Lawrence -A. Aguilar watch a round silver object for 5 minutes. It flies -south, turns and flies north, makes a 360° turn, then flies away -vertically. (NICAP, “Silver -Sphere Maneuvers over Base”; Sparks, p. 168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2011

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Event 2781 -(B99A05D1)

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Date: 8/25/1952
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Affa of Uranus contacts the Baileys, the -Streeters, and the Williamsons (as well as two students named Ronald -Tucker and Betty Bowen) by radio, using 405 or 450 kilocycles. Zo and Um -of Neptune, Regga of Mars, and other aliens continue sending messages by -both radio and telepathy. Streeter sees -a dark spot in the sky that he claims is Affa. Williamson sees -a blue light that he thinks is Zo. Everyone signs an affidavit that the -events have truly taken place. (George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. -Bailey, The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange -Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006): 22, 24; Clark III 1284)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2013

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Event 2782 -(FA2CDD15)

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Date: 8/25/1952
-Time: 3:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: civilian supervisor Fred Lee, foreman L.A. -Aquilar. One round silver object flew south, turned and flew north, made -a 360 turn and flew away vertically after 3-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
-ID: 232

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Event 2783 -(5519994F)

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Date: 8/25/1952
-Time: 5:35 AM
-Description: Witness: radio station musician William Squyres. One dull -aluminum object, shaped like two meat platters, face to face, estimated -at 75’ long, 45’ wide, and 15’ thick. Through a window in the front -section shone a blue light; the head and shoulders of a man could be -seen. The mid section had numerous windows through which could be seen -some kind of regular movement. A series of small propellers were spaced -close together along the outer edge of the object, revolving at high -speed. The object was hovering about 10’ above the ground, 100 yards off -the road, with a slight rocking motion. It then ascended vertically with -a sound like a large covey of quail starting to fly at the same time. -Vegetation showed signs of having been disturbed under the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pittsburg, Kansas
-ID: 231

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Event 2784 -(6297E7E3)

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Date: 8/26/1952
-Time: 12:10 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF Capt. D.A. Woods. One large, round, very -bright object with a V-shaped contrail having a dark cone in the center, -flew very fast, hovered, made an instantaneous 90 turn, followed by a -gentle climb and finally sudden acceleration.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lathrop Wells, Nevada
-ID: 233

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Event 2785 -(29FF58B1)

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Date: 8/27/1952
-Description: 4:45 a.m. Two meteorological officers at Macdonald Airport -in Manitoba see a disc-shaped object with shadows on it. It makes two -turns around the airfield. When the rotating airport beacon light -strikes it, the object glints like shiny aluminum, speeds away to the -northeast, and vanishes. (Good Above, pp. 184–185)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2014

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Event 2786 -(A9AC1BC9)

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Date: 8/27/1952
-Description: A saucer-shaped craft, 3 by 2 m, landed on the witness’s -property after hitting a chimney. A little man, about 70 cm tall, -emerged and was asked whether he was hurt, but he did not answer. The -craft took off with a whistling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins A 268 (Vallee)
-Location: Lamberton, North Carolina
-ID: 99

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Event 2787 -(3006E73C)

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Date: 8/28/1952
-Description: A family on the ground in Le Roy, New York, sees a disc -making tight vertical circles around an airliner. (UFOEv, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2015

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Event 2788 -(F7892DEB)

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Date: 8/28/1952
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF control tower operators, officer from USAF -Office of Special Investigations, and others. Six objects, varying from -fiery red to sparkling diamond appearance, hovered, flew erratically up -and down for 1 hour and l5minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chickasaw and Brookley AFB, Alabama
-ID: 234

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Event 2789 -(4E1B5540)

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Date: 8/28/1952
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Three civilians in Chickasaw, Alabama, report to -Brookley AFB [now Mobile Downtown Airport] in Mobile, Alabama, their -observation of multiple red stationary and maneuvering objects to the -south, and another one moving from south to west, all in the direction -of Brookley. AFOSI agent Charles A. Robinson arrives in Chickasaw at -9:50 p.m. to investigate and sees the same four objects to the south and -southwest at an estimated 8–12 miles distance. One fiery red object is -stationary for 15 minutes then drifts 15°–20° to the right after which -it is stationary again. Radar operator A/2C Irl -A. Whitaker visually spots a red-green object over Chickasaw to the -north. USAF duty officer Capt. William A. Edwards and control tower -operators see one object to the southwest to the right and lower than -the moon, and another object to the west at 10°–20° elevation. The -latter is confirmed by radar as a stationary target at four miles range -and 4,000 feet altitude. Robinson and others see one object explode, and -another does a figure 8 maneuver. There are 4–6 objects larger than a -star or planet varying from fiery red, red-blue, red-green, and -sparkling diamond appearance. A civilian Air Force employee sees a flat -oval shape. (NICAP, “GCA -Paints Stationary Target”; Sparks, -p. 169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2016

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Event 2790 -(CA666911)

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Date: 8/29/1952
-Description: 10:50 a.m. Pilot LtJG William A. O’Flaherty and navigator -LtJG R. S. Moore are flying a P4Y-2 patrol plane west of Thule Air Base, -near Qaanaaq, Greenland. They are following an 85-foot-diameter Skyhook -balloon launched from an icebreaker, US Coast Guard Cutter Eastwind, when, -upon release of the parachute instrument package from the balloon, they -see 3 white discs or globes, about ½ to almost the full apparent size of -the balloon, in triangle formation clustered to the right of the Skyhook -instrument package at 74,000 feet for some 2–3 minutes. (NICAP, “Three -Objects Shake Up Air Crew”; Sparks, -p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2017

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Event 2791 -(E5CED751)

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Date: 8/29/1952
-Description: 8:35 p.m. Civil Air Patrol pilot Carlton -A. Magruder sees three aluminum-colored objects with a red-yellow -exhaust over Colorado Springs, Colorado. They are 50 feet in diameter -and 10 feet high, flying in line at about 1,500 mph. (NICAP, “Pilot -Reports Three Objects 50ʹ in Diameter”; Sparks, p. 169; Loren E. -Gross, UFOs, -a History: -1952, August, The -Author, 1986, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2018

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Event 2792 -(2C909741)

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Date: 8/29/1952
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: two U.S. Navy pilots flying a P4Y-2 patrol -plane. Three white disc-shaped or spherical objects hovered, then flew -very fast in a triangular formation, in 2-3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: west of Thule, Greenland (77’ N, 75’ 15’ W)
-ID: 236

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Event 2793 -(94A69A4B)

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Date: 8/29/1952
-Time: 8:35 PM
-Description: Witness: pilot C.A. Magruder. Three objects, 50’ in -diameter, 10’ high, aluminum with red-yellow exhaust, flew in trail at -estimated 1,500 m.p.h. for 4-5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
-ID: 235

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Event 2794 -(8D53BE50)

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Date: 8/31/1952
-Description: Herbert Long saw an object land 15 m away from the road. He -made a drawing of it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins A 257 (Vallee)
-Location: Pennsylvania, exact location unknown
-ID: 100

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Event 2795 -(7FF58A31)

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Date: 9/1952
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A radar scope near Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, -New Mexico, picks up an unknown target approaching at 700 mph then slows -down to 100 mph northeast of the airfield. Two F-86 Sabre jets are -scrambled but at first cannot locate the target. The second pilot -suddenly spots what seems to be a balloon but as he gets closer it looks -more like a “doughnut without a hole.” He gets as close as 1,500 feet -before the object accelerates. When it is again at a range of 3,000 -feet, the pilot begins firing at the object, but it pulls up in a climb -and disappears in seconds. Capt. Ruppelt is -given this report by an intelligence officer (probably Lt. Glen Parrish) -at the base, who is about to forward the incident report to ATIC but the -commanding officer (Brig. Gen. William -A. Matheny) -orders it destroyed. Parrish shows the last copy of the report to Ruppelt during -a visit to Kirtland. (Ruppelt, pp. 1–5; -NICAP, “F-86 -Shooting Incident / 700 MPH Target”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2020

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Event 2796 -(81FE0F30)

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Date: 9/1952
-Description: UFO witness turned researcher Kenneth -Arnold releases The Coming of the Saucers, coauthored by his friend -and publisher, Raymond -A. Palmer. As -publicity, the story “Flying Saucer-y” is prepared by King Features -Syndicate and carried in many newspapers as a full-page story. (Kenneth -Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952; Curt -Collins, “Kenneth -Arnold’s 1952 UFO Book Promotion,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, -September 28, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2021

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Event 2797 -(208D471A)

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Date: 9/1952
-Description: Civilian Saucer Investigation in Los Angeles publishes the -first of only four issues of its CSI Quarterly Bulletin. The final issue -appears in early 1954. (CSI -Quarterly, no. -1 (Fall 1952))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2022

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Event 2798 -(1556EB9F)

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Date: 9/1952
-Description: John -P. Cahn publishes an exposé of Frank -Scully’s Behind the Flying Saucers in True magazine. Scully’s -sources are an oil prospector named Silas -M. Newton and a mysterious “Dr. Gee,” later identified as Leo GeBauer, a -con man with a long arrest record. The tale is a ploy to gain the -attention of potential investors in a bogus oil detection scheme -allegedly linked to alien technology. Jerome -Clark writes that Scully was himself a victim, not a perpetrator. -(J. P. Cahn, “Flying -Saucers and the Mysterious Little Men,” True, September 1952, -pp. 17–19, 102–112; Clark III 1044–1045)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2023

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Event 2799 -(A0718C89)

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Date: 9/1/1952
-Time: 9:43 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. William Davis and nine other persons. One -light, similar to the evening star, moved up and down for a long period -of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Atlanta, Georgia
-ID: 239

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Event 2800 -(5FA0AF27)

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Date: 9/1/1952
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. Bowman (ex-artillery officer) and 24 others. -A red, white, and blue-green object which spun and shot off sparks for -15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marietta, Georgia
-ID: 240

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Event 2801 -(A6D560A5)

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Date: 9/1/1952
-Time: 4:45 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Visual sighting by two USAF enlisted men, radar -tracking seen by three men using AN/FPS-3 radar set. Two small, -varicolored lights became black silhouettes at dawn; flew erratically. -One hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yaak, Montana
-ID: 241

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Event 2802 -(0FA6BEC7)

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Date: 9/1/1952
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An ex-artillery officer named Bowman and 24 -others at Marietta, Georgia, see a red, white, and blue-green object -that spins and shoots off sparks. An unidentified witness using -binoculars sees two large objects shaped like spinning tops with red, -blue, and green colors, flying side by side and leaving a sparkling -trail for 30 minutes. At 10:50 p.m., a former Army Air Force B-25 gunner -sees two large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails fly in -trail formation, merge, and fly away quickly. (NICAP, “Two -Discs in Trail Formation”; -Sparks, p. 170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2025

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Event 2803 -(96CA0274)

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Date: 9/1/1952
-Description: 8:23 p.m. Air Defense Command radar at Yaak Air Force -Station in Montana picks up UFOs exhibiting changes of direction as many -as five times a minute. Some course changes are 90° and speeds are -measured at 1,400–1,600 mph. Six blips at one time appear on the FPS-3 -radar scopes and the strange targets come within 10 miles of the GCI -site. So close is the indicated range the radar personnel leave their -windowless operations room to check the sky. Six objects can be seen an -estimated 10 miles away. When first spotted, the UFOs are in an in- -trail formation, and shortly thereafter that changes to an in-line -abreast grouping. Finally, the UFOs switch to a vertical stack. -S/Sgt. William Kelly remembers tracking the UFOs on the radar executing -vertical climbs that exceed the limit of the site’s height-finding -equipment. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual -at Air Force Radar Site”; Sparks, p. 170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2024

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Event 2804 -(9F3CB9B1)

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Date: 9/1/1952
-Time: 10:50 PM
-Description: Witness: ex-AAF B-25 gunner. Two large white disc-shaped -objects with green vapor trails flew in trail formation, merged, flew -away very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marietta, Georgia
-ID: 237

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Event 2805 -(1BF7A042)

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Date: 9/1/1952
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witness: one unidentified person using binoculars. Two -large objects shaped like spinning tops and displaying red, blue and -green colors, flew side by side, leaving a sparkling trail for 30 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marietta, Georgia
-ID: 238

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Event 2806 -(82B63908)

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Date: 9/2/1952
-Description: 12:01 a.m. CAA radar controllers Robert -L. Terneuzen (GCA), Ralph L. Frick, Dale E. Warner, Warren J. Weber, -and Radar Maintenance Technician Gordon R. Copeland track as many as 30 -targets simultaneously at Midway Airport in Chicago, flying in various -directions with an average speed of 175 mph at about 2,000 feet. The -755th Aircraft Control and Weapons radar station in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, -claims that the Midway Airport Tower supervisor has called them at 2:50 -a.m., saying there are 40 targets plotted by airport radar flying from -3,000 to 6,000 feet at a speed of 120–150 mph. The targets are the size -of blips from light planes or larger (the best target quality is in the -6–10-mile range) and move in no particular pattern—sometimes erratically -and sometimes in straight lines up to 15 miles long. In at least one -instance, the targets fly in formation with an aircraft. At 5:14 a.m., -the Air Defense Command is alerted and authorizes the scramble of two -jets from the 4706th Interceptor Wing at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. At -5:55 a.m., a pair of F-86 Sabre jets piloted by Capt. William -W. Maitland and Lt. Beverly L. Dunhill, lift off and are vectored -right through the targets as shown on radar, making passes at 800 and at -4,000 feet without making contact. The F-86s are evidently without -airborne radar because they only mention visual descriptions. Maitland -and Dunhill later tell the media: “We didn’t hit anything. We didn’t see -anything. We went through the target showing on the scope and there was -nothing there, not even a cloud.” The jets break off their aerial search -at 6:19 a.m. and return to base. By 7:00 a.m. all of the mysterious -targets disappear off the scopes toward the south. The Midway radar -crews are convinced the targets are returns from tangible bodies, but -CAA chief Bob Zeigler overrules them and blames “peculiar atmospheric -conditions.” (“Sabre -Jets Fly through ‘Object,’” Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review, -September 3, 1952, p. 1; NICAP, “40 -Targets at Midway Airport”; Sparks, -p. 171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2026

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Event 2807 -(8089E102)

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Date: 9/2/1952
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witness: radar tracker Turason (ground controlled approach) -at Midway Airport. 40 targets flew in miscellaneous directions, up to -175 m.p.h. Two seemed to fly in formation with DC-6 airliner. Total of 8 -hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 242

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Event 2808 -(299D7439)

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Date: 9/3/1952
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Truman meets -in the Cabinet Room with Gen. William -M. Garland, Col. -John -Gordon Fowler, and three other USAF officers; Lawrence -J. Henderson Jr. and Walter -W. Niles from the RAND Corporation; and Robert -B. Landry and four others from the National Security Resources -Board. The topic is the Washington UFO incident. (Frank Stalter, “The -Real Majestic 12: Harry Truman’s 1952 DC UFO Meeting,” The UFO -Partisan, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2028

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Event 2809 -(A573C79D)

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Date: 9/3/1952
-Time: 99 AM
-Description: Witnesses: civilian pilots McCraven and Thomas. One shiny, -dark ellipse made three broad, curving sweeps in 1.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 243

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Event 2810 -(227B3F61)

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Date: 9/3/1952
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Instructor pilot Donald -L. McCraven and N. D. Thomas observe a dark elliptical object -reflecting sunlight 6 miles north of Tucson, Arizona. The object makes -three well-coordinated turns with no perceptible sound. It moves at -tremendous speed during a slight climb and is observed for approximately -90 seconds. (NICAP, “Dark -Ellipse Makes Three Coordinated Turns”; Sparks, -p. 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2027

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Event 2811 -(57B57AA8)

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Date: 9/6/1952
-Description: 10:10 a.m. Walter Borys and George McCracken, two guards at -the Osborn Prison Farm [now Osborn Correctional Institute] in Somers, -Connecticut, are with 13 inmates in the yard when they hear an odd motor -noise and see a silvery object in the northern sky. It appears to be -descending in a zigzag motion but stops and shoots upward at a right -angle at terrific speed after releasing a puff of smoke. Other witnesses -in the area think it is a jet aircraft. (Hartford (Conn.) Courant, -September 7, 1952, p. 1; Audrey H. Hennis, “The -‘Flying Saucer’ Was from a -Jet After-Burner,” Hartford (Conn.) Courant, September 19, 1952, -p. 18; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, -September–October, The -Author, 1986, pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2029

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Event 2812 -(2116F4B2)

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Date: 9/6/1952
-Time: 4:55 PM
-Description: Witnesses: ex-Congresswoman Mrs. Isabella King and Bill -McClain. One orange teardrop-shaped object whirled on its vertical axis, -descended very fast, stopped, retraced its path upwards, while whirling -in the opposite direction. 1.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 245

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Event 2813 -(74480009)

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Date: 9/6/1952
-Time: l:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. J.E. Wilson and two enlisted men. One -bright star-like light moved about the sky for 2 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake Charles AFB, Louisiana
-ID: 244

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Event 2814 -(50DCC339)

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Date: 9/7/1952
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: chemist J.W. Gibson and others. One orange -object or light (the color of 2,000’ F.) exploded into view. Seen for -from 3-20 seconds by various observers.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 246

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Event 2815 -(D956BA05)

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Date: 9/8/1952
-Description: Wilbert -B. Smith and Department of Transport associates launch a large -weather balloon with a magnesium flare over Ottawa, Ontario, but it does -not inspire any UFO reports. (Clark III 1078; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, September–October, The Author, 1986, -pp. 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2030

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Event 2816 -(F07E1154)

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Date: 9/9/1952
-Description: 9:00 p.m. US Air Force civilian illustrator E. J. Colisimo -sees a disc with lights along part of its circumference over Rabat, -Morocco. It is flying twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer in a slightly -curved path. (NICAP, “Disc -Twice As Fast As T-33”; Sparks, p. 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2031

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Event 2817 -(AC59ED74)

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Date: 9/9/1952
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: E.J. colisimo, a civilian illustrator with USAF -Intelligence. One disc with lights along part of its circumference, flew -twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer, in a slightly curved path for 5 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rabat, French Morocco
-ID: 247

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Event 2818 -(1EA37639)

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Date: 9/10/1952
-Description: Battelle issues its fifth status report on Project Stork to -ATIC. It says that 800 copies of its revised report questionnaire have -been sent to the Air Force, many of which were passed on to military -witnesses as a trial test. The group has now examined UFO reports from -1947–1949 and 1951. It decided to discontinue the news clipping service. -(“Seven -Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2032

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Event 2819 -(826F55F2)

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Date: 9/10/1952
-Description: 2:30 p.m. The wife of a civilian employee at Andrews AFB -[now Joint Base Andrews] in Prince George’s County, Maryland, sees a -shiny, metallic, elliptical, silent object moving back and forth near -the base. It is visible for 2–3 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, September–October, The -Author, 1986, p. 25) September 11 [or 7 or 17] — CIA Office of -Scientific Intelligence Director H. -Marshall Chadwell writes a memorandum to Director of Central -Intelligence Walter -Bedell Smith that sets out two national security implications of -UFOs for the government of the United States: the potential for -psychological panic by citizens, and demonstrating the nation’s -vulnerability by air. It recommends that “A national policy should be -established as to what should be told the public regarding the -phenomena, in order to minimize risk of panic.” (H. Marshall Chadwell, -“Flying Saucers,” -September 11, 1952; CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” -May 17, 1996; Swords 175–181, 503–507; Good Above, p. 224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2033

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Event 2820 -(65B4DFAA)

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Date: 9/11/1952
-Description: Williamson, Streeter, and -Bailey receive a radio message saying, “I hope we might have a landing -soon,” and later, “We must make landing contact soon… If you believe us, -you will act accordingly.” (George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, -The Saucers Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR -30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2034

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Event 2821 -(95F91DDF)

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Date: 9/12/1952
-Time: sunset
-Description: A group of young people saw a “meteor” land on top of a -hill and went to the site with Kathleen Hill and three men. They -observed a globe as large as a house making a throbbing or hissing sound -and a huge figure with glowing orange eyes nearby. About 4 m tall, the -figure had a red face and “floated” toward the witnesses, who fled in -terror. A lingering smell and skid marks were found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Flatwoods, West Virginia
-ID: 101

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Event 2822 -(7A486F65)

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Date: 9/12/1952
-Description: Space “monster” appears from saucer near Sutton, West -VA
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Sutton, West Virgina

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Event 2823 -(345F5A54)

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Date: 9/12/1952
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb, of the Ground Observer -Corps, using binoculars. One white light with a red trim and streamers -flew northeast for 35 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Allen, Maryland
-ID: 248

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Event 2824 -(108B1EE1)

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Date: 9/12/1952
-Description: Around 7:15 p.m., in Flatwoods, West Virginia, two -brothers, Edward and Fred May, and their friend Tommy Hyer (ages 13, 12, -and 10 respectively) witness a bright object cross the sky, coming to -rest on land belonging to local farmer G. -Bailey Fisher. The -boys go to the home of the May brothers’ mother, Kathleen -May, where -they tell the story of having seen a UFO crash land. From there, -Mrs. May, accompanied by the three boys, local children Neil Nunley, 14, -and Ronnie Shaver, 10, and West Virginia National Guardsman Eugene -Lemon, 17, walk to the Fisher farm. At the top of a hill, they -reportedly see a large pulsating “ball of fire” about 50 feet to their -right. They also detect a pungent mist that makes their eyes and noses -burn. Lemon then notices two small lights over to the left of the -object, underneath a nearby oak tree and directs his flashlight towards -them, revealing a creature, which May reports as bounding towards them. -Other sources describe it as emitting a shrill hissing noise before -gliding towards them, changing direction and then heading off towards -the red light. The group flees in panic. Sheriff Robert -L. Carr and his deputy Burnell -J. Long search the area separately, but find no trace of the -encounter other than the smell. Early the next morning, A. -Lee Stewart, co-owner -of the Braxton Democrat, visits the site of the encounter for a second -time and discovers two elongated tracks in the mud, as well as traces of -a thick black liquid. It is later revealed that the tracks are likely -those of a 1942 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by local Max -Lockard, who -had gone to the site to look for the creature some hours prior to -Stewert’s discovery. Ivan -T. -Sanderson interviews the witnesses several days later and concludes -that a flight of “intelligently controlled objects flew over West -Virginia.” The Air Force concludes that people have seen a meteor and -that the monster was only the glowing eyes of a barn owl. Joe -Nickell also concludes in 2000 that the bright light in the sky -reported by the witnesses on September 12 was most likely a meteor, that -the pulsating red light is likely an aircraft navigation/hazard beacon, -and that the creature described by witnesses closely resembles a barn -owl. Nickell claims that the experience was distorted by the heightened -state of anxiety felt by the witnesses after having observed the -original meteor. However, Frank -C. Feschino has done extensive research to support his hypothesis -that the Flatwoods incident was only one small part of a major UFO -display involving multiple objects (many of them reported as “meteors” -or “balls of fire” or “flaming planes”) passing in westerly and other -directions across the eastern and southern United States between 6:50 -and 7:25 p.m. The trajectory of one of these objects (moving first -northwest then northeast then south) alone takes it over Baltimore, -Catonsville, Frederick, Hagerstown, Cumberland, and Garrett County, -Maryland; Preston County, Morgantown, Fairmont, Wheeling, Charleston, -Parkersburg, Nitro, Ward, and Chelyan, West Virginia; Selma, Columbus, -Zanesville, St. Clairsville, Ohio; it is last seen moving south around -Bluefield, West Virginia. Another object is seen over Washington, D.C., -heading due west towards West Virginia, apparently landing in Flatwoods. -A third object travels southwest over Roanoke and Pulaski, Virginia, -possibly landing near Arcadia, Tennessee. Feschino thinks that these -three objects had been damaged by fire directed at them by Air Force -interceptors. Five other objects are observed in North Carolina in that -time period, and these Feschino suspects may have been attempting to -look for and assist the damaged objects. He also speculates that the -disappearance of an F-94 jet fighter out of Tyndall AFB in Panama City, -Florida, piloted by 2Lt John -A. Jones and radar operator 2Lt John -S. DelCurto, might -have involved a tragic UFO interception that began three hours earlier; -the last known contact with the fighter is at 5:43 p.m. over the Gulf of -Mexico 70 miles northwest of Tampa, the accident takes place under -unusual circumstances, and the wreckage has never been found. Feschino -thinks that a UFO damaged in dogfights with many interceptors over the -Gulf might have triggered the second battle over the Atlantic seaboard -around 7:00 p.m. Then a second wave of multiple objects is observed -8:00–8:10 p.m. in the Washington, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, and West -Virginia region that, according to Feschino, involves a search for a -second downed UFO. Although Feschino jumps to many conclusions and his -documentation for specific incidents and conditions is somewhat -confusing, he may well have grasped more truth than the meteor-and-owl -explanation of the skeptics. (Wikipedia, “Flatwoods Monster”; -Gray Barker, “The Monster and the Saucer,” Fate 6, no. 1 (January 1953): -12–17; Gray Barker, They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, University -Books, 1956, pp. 11–35; -Keyhoe, FS from OS, pp. 116–120; -Clark III 494–495; Ivan T. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors, Cowles, 1967, -pp. 39–51; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “The -Braxton Democrat”; Shoot 112–313, 320–327; Joe Nickell, “The -Flatwoods UFO Monster,” -Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 2000): 15–19; Michael D. Swords, -“Peeking -at Ivan’s SITU Files: -The Flatwoods Monster,” The Big Study, April 11, 2011; Frank C. -Feschino, The Braxton County Monster: The Cover-Up of the Flatwoods -Monster Revealed, Quarrier Press, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2036

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Event 2825 -(CADBE85E)

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Date: 9/12/1952
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Two oil well drillers, William Darling and Donald -Davis, see a lighted object with windows on one side circling 150 feet -above the ground silently for nearly 30 minutes at Bladensburg, Ohio. -Suddenly it makes a noise like steam blowing and shoots out of sight. -(“Report from the Readers,” Fate 6, no. 2 (February 1953): 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2035

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Event 2826 -(5696ADA4)

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Date: 9/13/1952
-Time: 7:40 PM
-Description: Witness: private pilot W.A. Hobler, flying a Beech Bonanza. -One object, shaped like a fat football, flaming orange-red color, -descended and then pulled up in front of the witness’ airplane. Seen for -2 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 249

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Event 2827 -(BDF57FAA)

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Date: 9/13/1952
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. George Snitowski and their little girl -suddenly found their car stalled, and an unpleasant smell (ether mixed -with sulphurous smoke) filled the air. Mr. Snitowski thought a chemical -plant might be burning in the area and walked toward a strong light -visible in the woods, in spite of the nauseous smell. Coming near it, he -felt pricklings throughout his body, had to stop, lost his balance -several times as he returned to the carwhere he found his wife -terrified, pointing to a giant creature (3 m tall), human-shaped, 10 m -away. They locked the car as “it” inspected the vehicle, glided away and -went into the woods. Soon afterward, the sphere of light was observed to -rise gradually, to swing like a pendulum, and to leave a luminous -trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Paul Lieb (Vallee)
-Location: Frametown, West Virginia
-ID: 102

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Event 2828 -(3B0473E1)

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Date: 9/14/1952
-Description: Exercise Mainbrace begins in the North Sea. It is the first -large-scale naval exercise undertaken by NATO and jointly commanded by -Admiral Lynde -D. McCormick and Gen. Matthew -B. Ridgway. It involves the US Navy and the navies of Great Britain, -France, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Netherlands, and Belgium. Its -objective is to convince Denmark and Norway that they can be defended -against an attack from the USSR, and involves 80,000 men, 200 ships, and -1,000 aircraft. The operation lasts through September 25. (Wikipedia, -“Exercise -Mainbrace”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2038

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Event 2829 -(EECD107E)

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Date: 9/14/1952
-Description: 10:13 p.m. The Danish destroyer Willemoes, -during the Exercise Mainbrace maneuvers, is north of Bornholm island, -Denmark, in the Baltic Sea. Lt.Cmdr. G. Schmidt-Jensen and several -members of the crew see an unidentified object, triangular in shape, -that moves at high speed toward the southeast. It emits a greenish glow -and jets three rays of fire from its rear. Jensen estimates the speed at -930 mph. (NICAP, “Operation -Mainbrace Sightings”; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, September–October, The Author, 1986, p. 28; Marler -128– 129, 265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2039

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Event 2830 -(7F018AF3)

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Date: 9/14/1952
-Description: Iceland, North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland. -Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard ships in the -NATO “Operation Mainbrace” exercise. Among the sightings: one blue-green -triangle was observed flying 1,500 mph; three objects in a triangular -formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500 mph
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: North Atlantic

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Event 2831 -(E0EA89CA)

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Date: 9/14/1952
-Time: Time not known
-Description: Witness: pilot of Flying Tiger Airlines airplane N67977. -One blue light flew very fast on a collision course with the airliner. -Note: the summary card attached to the file showed completely different -information.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Olmstead AFB, Pennsylvania
-ID: 254

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Event 2832 -(98848DC8)

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Date: 9/14/1952
-Time: 11:30 PM
-Description: Event occurred to 1:20 AM, Sept. 15. Witnesses: consulting -engineer R. J. Portis and three others. Six groups of 12-15 luminous -spheres or discs, which flew in formations varying from arcs to -inverted-Y’s, very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ciudad Jaurez, Mexico
-ID: 253

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Event 2833 -(6142A466)

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Date: 9/14/1952
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observer L.W. Barnes, using -binoculars. One red, cigar-shaped object, with three puffs behind it, -flew west, then south, and then was gone. Seen 30-40 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: White Lake, South Dakota
-ID: 252

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Event 2834 -(132A0904)

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Date: 9/14/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard -ships in the NATO “Operation Mainbrace” exercise. Among the sightings: -one blue-green triangle was observed flying 1,500 m.p.h; three objects -in a triangular formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500 -m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland
-ID: 251

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Event 2835 -(8EB9AE6A)

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Date: 9/14/1952
-Time: 8:40 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF C-54 transport pilot Tarbutton. One -blue-white light travelled straight and level, then went up. Seen for 30 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Santa Barbara, California
-ID: 250

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Event 2836 -(ED0E3022)

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Date: 9/14/1952
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Fred J. Brown is preparing to milk the cows at -the Everglades Experiment Station [now the Everglades Research and -Education Center] in Belle Glade, Florida, when he spots a circular -object about 35 feet in diameter hovering about 100 feet above the -ground. It has a row of red and amber lights spaced around the outside -rim and the underside. As it descends to about 40 feet, the 13 cows bolt -as the object disappears to the west. As Brown is rounding up the cows, -the object appears again, moving from south to north at a speed of 30 -mph, making a high-voltage buzzing noise, and emitting an odor “like -acid or ammonia” that makes Brown’s eyes smart. The cows stampede once -again. The object’s glow illuminates the ground as it passes, and it -gains altitude and disappears again. (“Cattle -Stampeded Twice by Mysterious ‘Object,’” Palm Beach (Fla.) Times, -September 16, 1952, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2037

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Event 2837 -(05FA18E1)

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Date: 9/16/1952
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three USAF officers, two civilians. Two white -lights flew abreast, at 100 m.p.h., for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Warner-Robbins AFB, Georgia
-ID: 256

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Event 2838 -(086A1626)

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Date: 9/16/1952
-Time: 6:22 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane, -visually and via radar. A group of five lights was seen at the same time -a long, thin blip was being tracked on radar. Note: consideration was -given to this being USAF KC-97 airplanes involved in a refueling -operation. The sighting involved 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Portland, Maine
-ID: 255

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Event 2839 -(1C02A5BE)

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Date: 9/17/1952
-Time: 11:40 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hollingsworth. Two groups of -three large, flat, shiny objects flew in tight formations: the first -group slow, the second faster. Seen for 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 257

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Event 2840 -(3A02055C)

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Date: 9/19/1952
-Description: 10:53 a.m. During Exercise Mainbrace maneuvers, a silvery, -spherical UFO appears near RAF Topcliffe in North Yorkshire, England, -following an RAF Meteor jet (possibly piloted by Flight Lt. John W. -Kilburn and Flight Lt. Marian Cybulski) about to land. It has been -following about 5 miles behind the jet at15,000 feet, swinging like a -“falling sycamore leaf” and descending. As the jet turns toward -Dishforth, the object follows but begins rotating on its axis then -suddenly accelerates and disappears. Several ground crew members of RAF -269 Squadron (Master Signaller Albert Thomson, Sgt. Flight Engineer -Thomas Deweys, Flight Lt. R. Paris, and Leading Aircraftman George -Grime) and civilians also see it. Prince -Philip suggests to RAF Air Marshal Peter Horsley, who -is serving as equerry to the duke, that he investigate credible reports -of UFOs, especially those by fighter pilots who have seen them. He -arranges for RAF Fighter Command to send copies of any reports for -examination at Buckingham Palace and begins an informal study that lasts -until 1955. (NICAP, “Swaying -Silver Object -Follows Jet”; Richard Hall, “Operation Mainbrace Sightings”; Good -Above, pp. 31–32, -450; -Nick Redfern, “UFOs -and NATO: The Mainbrace Affair,” Mysterious Universe, April 22, -2014; David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 -(June 2021): 18–19; Sparks, -p. 173; Ruppelt, pp. 195–196; -UFOFiles2, p. 47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2040

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Event 2841 -(59259EDA)

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Date: 9/19/1952
-Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 27km (Army training -test. Tail explosion at 27s terminating thrust.)
-Type: rocket launch
-Reference: link
-Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
-Rocket type: V-2
-Rocket altitude: 27km

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Event 2842 -(0481D30D)

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Date: 9/20/1952
-Description: An UFO similar to the Topcliffe one (see 9/19/52) is -sighted over a U.S. Carrier ship out with the fleet between England and -Scandinavia. An American photographer doing a story of the fleet -exercise took pictures of the UFO which was ascertained not to have been -a balloon. The Navy never released the photos of the UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Between England and Scandinavia
-See also: 9/19/52

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Event 2843 -(C6FDD3D6)

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Date: 9/20/1952
-Description: Air Ministry, London: A number of airmen and officers of -the R.A.F., Topcliffe, observed an UFO. As it descended it was swinging -in a pendular motion like a falling leaf. Pendulous motion ceased and -object began rotary motion about its own axis. Suddenly accelerated at -an incredible speed. (9/19/52, cont’d) It was not identifiable with any -known aircraft and acceleration was in excess of that of a shooting -star! Craft was silver in color and circular. (Operation -Mainbrace)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p31,450, B1-G p43)
-Location: North Yorkshire, England
-See also: 9/20/1952

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Event 2844 -(D2A06334)

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Date: 9/20/1952
-Description: Naval personnel on the US aircraft carrier USS -Franklin -D. Roosevelt in the North Sea observe a silvery sphere moving across -the sky behind the fleet. Photographer Wallace Litwin takes three color -photos that are developed and examined by naval intelligence officers. -Ruppelt says -they “turned out to be excellent … judging by the size of the object in -each successive photo, one could see that it was moving rapidly.” No -balloon has been launched. (NICAP, “Object -Photographed during Operation Mainbrace”; Ruppelt, pp. 195–196; -UFOEv, p. 162; -“In -the News 1952,” Saturday Night Uforia, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2042

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Event 2845 -(A65BE269)

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Date: 9/20/1952 (approximate)
-Description: Sometime during Exercise Mainbrace, at the underground RAF -Ash, near Woodnesborough, Kent, England, Senior Aircraftman William -Maguire tracks on radar a huge UFO high above the English Channel for 18 -minutes. Eventually it splits into three and speeds away, one object to -the north, another toward France, and the third toward Eastern Europe. -(Good Need, p. 152; -Nick Redfern, “UFOs, -NATO, and Military Encounters,” Interesting and Curiosities, October -28, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2041

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Event 2846 -(949BDA0F)

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Date: 9/20/1952
-Description: 7:30 p.m. At Air Base Karup in Jutland, Denmark, three -Danish Air Force officers see a shiny, metallic UFO pass overhead and -disappear in clouds to the east. (Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS, -133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2043

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Event 2847 -(88C5154E)

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Date: late 9/1952
-Description: Ruppelt visits -the headquarters of the Air Defense Command at Ent AFB [now the US -Olympic Training Center] in Colorado to brief Gen. Benjamin -W. Chidlaw and his staff on the past few months of UFO activity at a -lunch at the officer’s club. One of the attendees is Maj. Vernon -L. Sadowski, the ADC Intelligence liaison to Blue Book, who says -that “no one can understand why Intelligence is so hesitant to accept -the fact that something we just don’t know about is flying around in our -skies, unless you are trying to cover up something big.” (Ruppelt, pp. 194–197)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2047

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Event 2848 -(C456C923)

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Date: 9/21/1952
-Description: Six RAF Meteor jets flying above the North Sea observe a -shiny sphere approaching from the direction of the Mainbrace fleet. It -eludes their pursuit and disappears. As they are returning, it reappears -following one of the jets, but when he turns to chase it, it speeds -away. Ruppelt says -the Mainbrace sightings forced the RAF to “officially recognize the -UFO.” (NICAP, “Six -RAF Jets Approached by Shiny Sphere”; Ruppelt, p. 196; -Sparks, -p. 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2044

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Event 2849 -(C0545151)

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Date: 9/21/1952
-Description: Six RAF jets on maneuvers over the North Sea saw a “sphere” -heading towards them, coming from the direction of the English fleet. It -was tracked on radar then disappeared and reappeared behind them. One -Meteor pilot attempted an intercept but was completely outrun by the -UFO. Capt. Ruppelt was later told by RAF Intelligence that the incidents -of the past three days caused the RAF to officially recognize the UFO -situation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: North Sea
-See also: 7/52
-See also: 6/24/53

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Event 2850 -(23CD3389)

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Date: 9/22/1952
-Description: Night. A UFO hovers over the Army’s Camp Drum [now Fort -Drum] near Watertown, New York, for 30 minutes. Eight soldiers say the -object is 200 feet across, trailing red-orange sparks. (“Mysterious, -Gyratuing Object -Looks Down on Camp Drum,” Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, -September 27, 1952, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2045

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Event 2851 -(BE8479B4)

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Date: fall 1952
-Description: Evening. Paul -Solem has his first contact with a flying saucer around the Lost -River Sinks a few miles from his ranch in Howe, Idaho. After watching a -metallic object land, Solem sees a man with long blond hair and dressed -in a white uniform standing next to it. He tells Solem to call him “Paul -2.” He says he is from Venus and tells Solem to work with Indians in -North America in preparing for a postapocalyptic social order. This will -be the first of many contacts for Solem. Over the next 17 years he -wanders through the western states, speaking with Indians and -contactees, gathers a small group of followers, and generally avoids the -limelight. (Clark III 1094)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2055

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Event 2852 -(F55B5E28)

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Date: 9/23/1952
-Time: No time shown
-Description: Witnesses: Pepperell AFB operations officer and seven other -campers. One bright white light, which reflected on the lake, flew -straight and level at 100 m.p.h. for 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gander Lake, Newfoundland, Canada
-ID: 258

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Event 2853 -(4219997B)

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Date: 9/24/1952
-Time: 3:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-29 bomber. A lot of bright, -metallic particles or flashes, up to 3’ in length, streamed past the -B-29 for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Charleston, West Virginia
-ID: 259

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Event 2854 -(A3D44D58)

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Date: 9/24/1952
-Description: CIA Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence H. -Marshall Chadwell writes a 4-page memo to CIA Director Walter -Bedell Smith, summarizing his earlier memo and stating that since -1947 unexplained sightings were running at 20% and in 1952 they rose to -28%. “I consider this problem to be of such importance that it should be -brought to the attention of the National Security Council in order that -a community-wide coordinated effort toward its solution may be -initiated.” His CIA scientific consultants (Julius -Stratton, and -perhaps Lloyd Berkner and -Howard -P. Robertson) think the answer will be found “on the margins of just -beyond the frontiers of our present knowledge in the fields of -atmospheric, ionospheric, and extraterrestrial phenomena, with the added -possibility that the present dispersal of nuclear waste products might -also be a factor.” (H. Marshall Chadwell, “Flying -Saucers,” September 24, 1952; CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 -of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Good Above, pp. 328–329, 506–507)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2046

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Event 2855 -(EC098F1D)

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Date: 9/26/1952
-Description: 11:16 p.m. The pilot and crew of a USAF C-124 see two -distinct green lights to the right and slightly above the plane, about -400 miles north-northwest of the Azores Islands. At one point, they -appear to turn toward the plane. They remain visible until the plane -sights the islands. (NICAP, “Air -Crews Observe Green Lights”; Sparks, p. 174)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2049

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Event 2856 -(DB02A7CF)

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Date: 9/26/1952
-Description: Syndicated aviation columnist Robert -S. Allen writes in his column that the “Air Force has a breathtaking -report” ready on UFOs. The study expresses the belief that some reports -are genuine and originate from “sources outside of this planet.” The -supposed document also says that some sightings involve secret US -military devices. The study is allegedly based on more than 1,800 -sightings in the past 5 years. (Robert S. Allen, “Report -on Flying Saucers,” Los Angeles Mirror News, September 26, 1952, -p. 43; Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR -27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2048

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Event 2857 -(0EE33003)

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Date: 9/26/1952
-Time: 11:16 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot, copilot, engineer and aircraft commander -of USAF C-124 transport plane. Two distinct green lights were seen to -the right and slightly above the C-124, and at one time seemed to turn -toward it. The lights alternated leading each other during more than 1 -hour of observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 400 miles NNW of Azores Islands
-ID: 260

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Event 2858 -(8100DC63)

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Date: 9/27/1952
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two couples, using a 5x telescope. One large, -round object, which went through the color spectrum every 2 seconds, was -seen to fly straight and level for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Inyokern, California
-ID: 261

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Event 2859 -(DADA61F7)

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Date: 9/27/1952
-End date: 9/28/1952
-Description: Throughout West Germany, Denmark, and southern Sweden, -there are widespread UFO reports. A luminous object with a comet-like -tail is seen moving irregularly near Hamburg and Kiel, Germany. Once, -three satellite objects are reported moving around a larger object. A -cigar-shaped UFO moving silently eastward is also seen. (UFOEv, p. 163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2050

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Event 2860 -(5B75D77B)

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Date: 9/28/1952
-Description: 8:35 p.m.–10:09 p.m. USAF radar operator A/3c Carlton L. -Hall, stationed on the southwest coast of Tsushima Island, Japan, -notices unusual targets on six separate occasions, each time for a -duration of 2–4 sweeps. On two separate outbound tracks from Itazuke Air -Base [now Fukuoka Airport], a series of targets appear directly behind -aircraft when entering an azimuth of 50°–70° from nearby Tsutsusaki -Lighthouse. The objects appear as normal aircraft but are rounder in -shape, trailing about 2–3 miles to the rear of the aircraft. A/2c Warren -D. Grovenstein also observes four of these anomalies with Hall. ([Blue -Book report])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2052

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Event 2861 -(6BAFE214)

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Date: 9/28/1952
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Williamson, -Streeter, -and Bailey attempt to meet the saucer intelligences for a landing -somewhere in the Arizona desert, but apparently get lost. They return to -Streeter’s home, where the radio sends sinister-sounding messages about -the radio being dangerous, a man coming, and Streeter having a deep -secret (perhaps that Streeter has attempted psychic contact once before -in 1950). (George Hunt Williamson and Alfred C. Bailey, The Saucers -Speak! New Age, 1954; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 -(Aug. 2006): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2051

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Event 2862 -(9F91E697)

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Date: 9/29/1952
-Time: 3:15 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF T/Sgt. B.R. Hughes. Five or six circular -objects, bright white but not shiny, circled in trail formation for 5-6 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Aurora, Colorado
-ID: 264

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Event 2863 -(C944ADFB)

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Date: 9/29/1952
-Time: 3:55 PM
-Description: Witnesses unknown, but report came via the Rochester Police -Dept. Two flat objects hovered for 3 minutes, and then sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rochester, England
-ID: 262

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Event 2864 -(C31D5927)

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Date: 9/29/1952
-Time: 8:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Army Res. lst Lt. C.H. Stevens and two -others. One green ellipse with a long tail orbited for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Southern Pines, North Carolina
-ID: 263

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Event 2865 -(DF8B1D43)

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Date: 9/29/1952
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Dursemaine, commanding officer of the -Gendarmerie Maritime en Allemagne, watches a luminous, egg-shaped object -with a black spot in its center flying at an altitude of 3.7 miles above -his home 1.2 miles south of Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It -emits a low-pitched hum and white exhaust. (Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2053

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Event 2866 -(631E3900)

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Date: 9/30/1952
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A North American Aviation Company film crew, -headed by Dick Beemer, is at Edwards AFB in southern California to film -some tests. They are at Rogers Dry Lake when a B-29 passes overhead. -Cameraman Carlos Garcia sees an unusual object moving near the plane. A -second object appears. Soon the whole crew is looking up. Beemer says -the objects are silent, leave no vapor trail, take turns maneuvering -around each other, and look like “flattened spheres.” They have a color -motion picture camera with them, but the UFOs are too near the sun. -(UFOEv, pp. 57–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2054

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Event 2867 -(E487541C)

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Date: 10/1952
-Description: Andrija -Puharich, a -medical doctor interested in parapsychology, discovers that a person’s -ESP abilities are enhanced when they are placed inside a Faraday cage. -His experimental subject is none other than gifted psychic Eileen -J. Garrett, whom -he has tasked with clairvoyantly perceiving cosmic ray bursts of -sufficient magnitude to trigger a signal in a detector. (Michael D. -Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2 (December 2008): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2058

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Event 2868 -(A17FBA70)

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Date: 10/1952
-Description: Evening. Aeronautical engineer and former Project Sign -liaison Alfred -Loedding and his wife Marion see an odd object while driving near -Plainsboro, New Jersey. At first, they think it is an aircraft crashing, -but the object levels off and flashes away at high speed, emitting a -bluish-green light. He estimates it is 100 feet in diameter and 500–600 -feet high, and it gives off a “weird light like looking at a firefly” -while changing shape. Loedding says Rep. L. -Gary Clemente (D-N.Y.) is also a witness. (“Flying -Saucer Design Practical, WADC Aid Says; U.S. Interested,” -Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald, August 9, 1957, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2060

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Event 2869 -(A0785800)

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Date: 10/1952
-Description: The first number of Albert -K. Bender’s Space Review is published. (Space -Review 1, no. 1 (October 1952); Clark III 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2056

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Event 2870 -(D0C3D6EE)

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Date: 10/1952
-Description: Opal Church is driving with her nephew in a car between -Salem and Corvallis, Oregon, when they see an 8- foot, heavily built -figure walking with “fluid movements” along the road. It is wearing an -Arab-style headdress and a uniform, with gloves and boots, of fine -metallic mesh. A ribbed belt surrounds the waist. Its face is pale and -the huge round eyes, nearly 3 inches in diameter, glow. Inside them are -reticulations “resembling the filament in old electric light bulbs.” -Church turns around immediately, but the figure is gone, even though the -terrain is flat. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1952–1953, p. 28; Clark III 267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2057

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Event 2871 -(E5708BDC)

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Date: 10/1952
-Description: Stanley Glickman, an American artist living in Paris, -France, joins a group of fellow Americans at a café, one of whom is CIA -mind-control and poison specialist Sidney -Gottlieb. A -heated political debate ensues, and when Glickman decides to leave, he -is offered a drink to soothe ill feelings. Gottlieb surreptitiously -slips LSD into Glickman’s drink and it derails his life. Glickman -suffers a complete mental breakdown from which he never recovers. In -1977, he learns about Gottlieb and CIA’s LSD experiments on unwitting -involuntary subjects from the Kennedy congressional -hearings. Glickman sues in 1981, but the trial is delayed 17 years on -technical grounds, by which time Glickman has died in 1992. His sister, -Gloria Kronisch, pursues the case in the US Court of Appeals, Second -Circuit, as his executrix in 1998, but it is thrown out on July 9 -because the statute of limitations has passed. (H. P. Albarelli Jr., A -Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold War -Experiments, Trine -Day, 2009; Kronisch -v. United States, US Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit, July 9, -1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2059

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Event 2872 -(C00E08CB)

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Date: 10/1/1952
-Time: 7:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. C.C. McLean and one other person. -One round, milky-white object, shaped like a powder puff, hovered for -5-10 minutes then flew away very fast in an arc. A loud blast was heard -at the start of the 22 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pascagoula, Mississippi
-ID: 266

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Event 2873 -(49C9319D)

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Date: 10/1/1952
-Time: 6:57 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. T.J. Pointek, pilot of RF-8O -reconnaissance jet. One bright white light flew straight, then vertical, -then hovered, and then made an abrupt turn during a 23 minute attempted -intercept.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Shaw AFB, South Carolina
-ID: 265

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Event 2874 -(572B7F0D)

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Date: 10/2/1952 (approximate)
-Description: Shortly before 7:00 a.m. One Thursday this month, Johannes -Nordlien is waiting for coworkers when he hears a howling sound. A -white, saucer-shaped object, 13 feet in diameter, comes in from the west -at high speed and passes him only 325 feet away. It falls with a violent -splash into the river Lågen [Gudbrandsdalslågen?] in Norway. When his -colleagues show up, the water is still roiling. (Ole Jonny Brænne, -“Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. -1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2061

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Event 2875 -(254B8B4A)

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Date: 10/2/1952
-Description: CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Director H. -Marshall Chadwell writes a memorandum to Director of Central -Intelligence Walter -Bedell Smith recommending he advise the National Security Council -that more research is needed on UFOs to investigate their national -security threat. (H. Marshall Chadwell, “Flying -Saucers,” October 2, 1952; CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May -17, 1996; Good Above, pp. 509–510)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2062

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Event 2876 -(CE873FFA)

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Date: 10/2/1952
-Description: SECRET MEMO to Director CIA from H. Marshall Chadwell, -Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence: ATIC is the only group -devoting appreciable effort to the study of UFOs. Flying Saucers pose -two elements of danger to the United States. The first involves mass -psychological considerations and the second concerns vulnerability of -the U.S. to air attack. Recommend that the DCI discuss this subject with -the Psychological Strategy Board.
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p509)
-Location: Langley, VA
-See also: 11/25/1952

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Event 2877 -(0AF14296)

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Date: 10/7/1952
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Lt. Bagnell. One pale blue oval, with its -long axis vertical, flew straight and level for 4-5 seconds, covering 30 -in that time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Alamagordo, New Mexico
-ID: 267

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Event 2878 -(6328230E)

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Date: 10/9/1952
-End date: 10/11/1952
-Description: At the Optical Society of America meeting in Boston, -Massachusetts, J. -Allen Hynek presents a paper on “Unusual Aerial Phenomena,” in which -he expresses skepticism for most reports, except for nocturnal lights -that do “not appear to be readily explainable on an astronomical basis, -or by mirages, balloons, or by conventional aircraft.” Astronomer Donald -Menzel presents a dismissive paper on radar angels and mirages, -while Urner Liddel presents -“Phantasmagoria or Unusual Observations in the Atmosphere,” dismissing -UFO reports as mass hysteria, fear psychosis, and sensation-seeking. (J. -A. Hynek, “Unusual -Aerial Phenomena,” Journal of the Optical Society of America 43 -(1953): 311–314; Urner Liddel, “Phantasmagoria -or Unusual Observations in the Atmosphere,” -Journal of the Optical Society of America 43 (1953): 314–317)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2063

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Event 2879 -(170A84B0)

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Date: 10/10/1952
-Description: Battelle issues its sixth status report on Project Stork. -UFO reports through 1951 have been coded and put on IBM punch cards. -About 60% of the reports have been evaluated. The panel has looked at -two films and soil and vegetation samples from cases in Florida and -Pittsburg, Kansas. The witness questionnaire is further refined and will -become the basis for Project Blue Book’s form. (“Seven -Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 3,” CUFON; “Seven -Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2064

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Event 2880 -(57868E3E)

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Date: 10/10/1952
-Time: 6:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF S/Sgt., two other enlisted men. One -blinking white light moved like a pendulum for 20 minutes, and then shot -straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Otis AFB, Massachusetts
-ID: 268

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Event 2881 -(119A4843)

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Date: 10/11/1952
-Description: A Ground Observer Corps spotter sees a disc hovering in one -spot for 20 minutes over Newport News, Virginia. When two interceptors -arrive from Langley Air Force Base, the object tilts up, accelerates, -and shoots away. (UFOEv, p. 150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2065

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Event 2882 -(E9C933C6)

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Date: 10/12/1952
-Description: Harold H. Fulton founds Civilian Saucer Investigation (New -Zealand) in Auckland. It begins publishing a quarterly newsletter, -Flying Saucers, in May 1953, which continues until September 1959 with a -name change in 1958 to Space Probe. (Flying -Saucers 1, no. 1 (May 1953); Space -Probe, Christmas -1958)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2066

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Event 2883 -(248EEA7F)

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Date: 10/13/1952
-Description: James -Q. Reber, assistant -director of CIA intelligence coordination, writes a memo to the CIA -deputy director of intelligence, arguing that fundamental research into -the question of positive identification is the responsibility of the -Defense Department and that while investigating Soviet knowledge of UFO -phenomena is a “primary concern” for the CIA, it “is far too early in -view of the present state of our knowledge regarding Flying Saucers for -psychological warfare planners to start planning how the United States -might use U.S. Flying Saucers against the enemy.” Reber goes on to -recommend that when “intelligence has submitted the National Estimate on -Flying Saucers there will be the time and basis for a public policy to -reduce or restrain mass hysteria.” (James Q. Reber, “Flying -Saucers,” October 13, 1952; CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part -1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2067

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Event 2884 -(10947E19)

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Date: 10/13/1952
-Description: 7:08 p.m. USAF pilot Maj. William -D. Leet and his engineer, flying a C-54 troop carrier, watch an -elliptical UFO hovering in clouds near Oshima, Japan. It speeds away -after 7 minutes. (UFOEv, p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2068

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Event 2885 -(AE98A69E)

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Date: 10/14/1952
-Description: OSI Deputy Assistant Director Ralph -L. Clark writes a memorandum for the record suggesting a meeting on -October 20 or 21 to work out a research and intelligence program on -UFOs. (Ralph J. Clark, “Flying -Saucers Problem,” -October 14, 1952)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2069

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Event 2886 -(711C772F)

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Date: 10/15/1952
-Time: 1910
-Description: Approximate date. Figures with helmets and masks were seen -through lighted windows inside a bright yellow, cigar-shaped object on -the ground. Length 30 m, diameter 6 m. Forward section was rounded, and -a sort of fog was noted at both ends of object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; Anatomy 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Le Vigan, France
-ID: 103

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Event 2887 -(8D2C69DA)

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Date: 10/16/1952
-Description: George -Hunt Williamson is in a state of panic from the messages he and the -Baileys have received from space people. He writes an associate doing -missionary work in Guatemala that disaster will strike the earth before -December 1. He says radio contacts have stopped and that he has been -told there will be a direct contact with a spaceman: “Professor George -Adamski is in on this too.” The Baileys have already met with -Adamski (in August) and now the messages are urging another meeting with -him. (Y. N. ibn Aharon [Yonah Fortner], “Diagnosis: A Case of Chronic -Fright,” Saucer News 4, no. 5 (Aug./Sept. 1957): 3–6; Clark III -1284)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2070

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Event 2888 -(047AA443)

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Date: 10/17/1952
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Four USAF officers One round, bright blue light -moved from north to northeast at an elevation of 45 degree for 2-3 -seconds and then burned out.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Taos, New Mexico
-ID: 269

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Event 2889 -(D0C264CD)

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Date: 10/17/1952
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witness: one military person (no detail). One white -streamer moved at an estimated 3,000 m.p.h. in an arc for 20 seconds. No -further details in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico
-ID: 271

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Event 2890 -(B31C1E5F)

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Date: 10/17/1952
-Time: 10:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Ministers Greenwalt and Kluck. Ten lights, or a -rectangle of lights, moved more or less straight and level for 5 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Killeen, Texas
-ID: 270

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Event 2891 -(E1041AF9)

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Date: 10/17/1952
-Description: Early afternoon. Residents of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, -Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, see a large cigar-shaped structure in the -blue sky, inclined at a 45° angle. The witnesses include the family of -Yves Prigent, general superintendent of the local high school. A plume -of white smoke is escaping from its upper end. At some distance in front -of the cylinder, about 30 round, puffy objects with a central red spot -are following the same trajectory. The smaller objects move in pairs -following a broken, zig-zag path. They leave an abundant trail of a -white substance (angel’s hair) behind them, which slowly falls to the -ground as it disperses. For several hours, clumps of it hang on the -trees, on the telephone wires, and on the roofs of houses. (“Les -Soucoupes Volantes vues à Oloron -le 17 Octobre,” France-Dimanche, October 26, 1952, in The Spectrum -of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, p. 114; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come -from Another World, Hutchinson, 1956, pp. 87–92; Jacques Vallee and -Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery, 1966, pp. 120–121; -Clark III 123; Patrick Gross, “Documents: -Found in the Attic”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, September–October, The Author, 1986, pp. 73–74; -Lotharson, “Unidentified -Flying Spiders in Southern France?” Shards of Magonia, March 12, -2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2071

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Event 2892 -(A6459049)

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Date: 10/18/1952
-Description: 9:44 p.m. Journalist Keith Hooper is returning home from an -assignment for the Adelaide Advrtiser when he sees a greenish-white, -cigar-shaped object about the size of a Boeing 707 some 10 miles away -over the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, moving southeast to northwest. -The object makes a sharp, right-angle turn upward, recedes, then -vanishes at tremendous speed. The duration is 5–7 seconds. (Keith -Hooper, “My -Flying Saucer,” -Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald, March 13, 1965, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2072

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Event 2893 -(ECC35399)

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Date: 10/19/1952
-Time: 6:58 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF C-50 transport plane. One round -yellow light, with a red glowing edge, estimated at 100’ in diameter, -flew at 300-400 kts. (350-450 m.p.h.) for 20 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 500 miles south of Hawaii
-ID: 273

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Event 2894 -(532A9FFA)

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Date: 10/19/1952
-Time: 1:30 PM
-Description: Witness: one ex-USAF aircrewman Woolsey. Three circular -aluminum objects, one of which was olive-drab colored on the side, flew -in a rough V-formation. One object flipped slowly, another object -stopped, during the 3-4 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 272

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Event 2895 -(CAC1D753)

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Date: late 10/1952
-Description: 3:45 a.m. Seaman Abelardo Marquez, posted on the USS -Fletcher near -Eniwetak Atoll for the upcoming Ivy Mike thermonuclear test, is going on -duty to the bridge when he notices that the ship is uncharacteristically -moving at full speed. Other crew members tell him it is because of a -round white light that has been moving above the ship. Marquez sees it -descending, then it stops and hovers about 40°–45° above the horizon and -perhaps one-half mile from the ship. Capt. Grover -L. Rawlings is talking with other officers on the bridge, saying -they do not know what the light is, and that is not tracked on radar. -After about 4–5 minutes, the light takes off straight up at the same -speed it had descended. (Nukes 101–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2077

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Event 2896 -(53BD6708)

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Date: late 10/1952
-Description: Night. Radioman Tom Kramer is serving aboard the USS -Curtiss, -the AEC flagship for Ivy Mike, the first detonation of a hydrogen bomb -at Elugelab Atoll in the Marshall Islands. After an onboard movie, -Kramer and other crewmen see a round, silent, bright white light that is -motionless at first, then starts zigzagging for less than 10 seconds and -takes off at high speed. (Nukes 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2076

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Event 2897 -(AA82DBC2)

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Date: 10/21/1952
-Time: No time given
-Description: Witnesses: persons at airport weather station. Six white -lights flew in a loose formation for 1-2 minutes, and made a shallow -dive at a weather balloon.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
-ID: 274

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Event 2898 -(06029536)

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Date: 10/21/1952
-Description: Afternoon. Flight Lt. Michael Swiney and a student pilot, -Royal Navy Lt. David Crofts, are flying a Meteor T.7 trainer out of RAF -Little Rissington, Gloucester, England, for a high-altitude navigation -exercise at 35,000 feet. Not long after breaking out of a cloud during a -climb at 13,000–14,000 feet, they see three circular, white objects in -front of them. As the aircraft get closer and turns to avoid them, the -objects become visible as discs. They disappear quickly when the pilot -looks away briefly. Two Meteor F.8 fighters are scrambled from RAF -Tangmere [now closed] in West Sussex to chase three unknown radar -targets moving at 3,000 mph but fail to intercept them. (Wikipedia, “Little -Rissington UFO incident”; David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the -Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, pp. 98–102; UFOFiles2, pp. 47–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2073

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Event 2899 -(9EBFFD14)

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Date: 10/23/1952
-Description: Ruppelt holds -a briefing on UFOs at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico. -Afterward Assistant Director for Scientific Personnel William H. Crew -arranges a special meeting for Ruppelt and Col. Bower with -seven people from the laboratory. Several of them have evidence that -there is a possible correlation between sightings of UFOs and unusual -radiation detection. (Edward J. Ruppelt, [Message -referring to a December 1 telephone -call], December 2, 1952)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2074

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Event 2900 -(4086F024)

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Date: 10/24/1952
-Time: 8:26 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Lt. Rau, Capt. Marcinko, flying a Beech -T-ll trainer. One object, shaped like a plate, with a brilliant front -and vague trail, flew with its concave surface forward for 5 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Elberton, Alabama
-ID: 275

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Event 2901 -(EF8847FF)

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Date: 10/24/1952
-Description: President Truman signs -National Security Council Directive 6, a 7-page document that eliminates -the Armed Forces Security Agency formed in 1949 to unite all military -signal intelligence operations and creates the National Security Agency. -Since the memo is a classified document, the existence of the NSA is not -known to the public. Due to its ultra-secrecy the US intelligence -community refers to the NSA as “No Such Agency.” The NSA is responsible -for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and -data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. NSA -inherits Project Shamrock from the AFSA. It also inherits collection of -UFO data, at least by 1958, but probably in 1953. (ClearIntent, p. 189; -Thomas L. Burns, The Origins of the National Security Agency, 1940–1952, -National Security Agency, 1990, pp. 97–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2075

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Event 2902 -(9CF1F77D)

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Date: 10/27/1952
-Description: Air Intelligence Memo: “Some military officials are -seriously considering the possibility of (UFOs being) interplanetary -ships.”
-Type: secret memo
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Dayton, OH

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Event 2903 -(18805A36)

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Date: 10/27/1952
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Residents of Gaillac, Tarn, France, see a -formation of 16 disc-shaped UFOs ranged in twos. An elongated cylinder -is in the center of the objects, all of which are discharging angel’s -hair like glass wool. (Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS, p. 148; Loren E. -Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, September–October, The Author, 1986, pp. 84–85; -Lotharson, “Unidentified -Flying Spiders in Southern France?” Shards of Magonia, March 12, -2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2080

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Event 2904 -(0FE3C6BA)

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Date: 10/27/1952
-Description: 2:03 a.m. Customs officer Gabriel Gachignard observes a -cigar-shaped object land briefly on a runway of the airport at -Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, 100 meters away, producing a dull -sound. The object is dark with four lighted windows. It takes off with a -“swish” and a shower of sparks when he runs toward it. (Clark III -243–244; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, -Hutchinson, 1956, p. 53; Michel, The Truth about FS, pp. 152–156; -Jacques Vallee and Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, -Regnery, 1966, pp. 6–11; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, September–October, The -Author, 1986, pp. 82–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2078

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Event 2905 -(0A865F7C)

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Date: 10/27/1952
-Time: 0203
-Description: Customs officer Gabriel Gachignard observed a cigar-shaped -object land briefly on the airfield 100 m away, producing a dull sound. -The object was dark with four lighted windows. It took off with a -“swish” and a shower of sparks when the witness ran toward it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Marignane Airport, France
-ID: 104

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Event 2906 -(0AAF44B4)

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Date: 10/27/1952
-Description: An FBI memorandum to Alan -H. Belmont from Victor P. Keay reports that “Air Intelligence still -feels that the so-called flying saucers are either optical illusions or -atmospheric phenomena. He pointed out, however, that some Military -officials are seriously considering the possibility of interplanetary -ships.” (V. P. Keay, “Flying Saucers,” -October 27, 1952)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2079

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Event 2907 -(FD127A77)

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Date: 10/29/1952
-Time: 7:50 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF S/Sgt. Anderson, A/2c Max Handy. One round -object, silhouetted against a cloud, flew straight and level and smooth -at 400 m.p.h. for 20 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Erding Air Depot, West Germany
-ID: 276

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Event 2908 -(EEDB8763)

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Date: 10/29/1952
-Description: 5:10 a.m. Two USAF F-94 crews see a white luminous object -maneuvering at high speed for 20 minutes above Hempstead, Long Island, -New York. Lt. William F. Hamilton and Lt. Norman W. Booth write: “Based -on my experience in fighter tactics, it is my opinion that the object -was controlled by something having visual contact with us. The power and -acceleration were beyond the capability of any known aircraft.” (NICAP, -“Two -F- 94’s -Encounter Controlled Object”; Sparks, p. 177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2081

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Event 2909 -(C1B3FA0D)

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Date: 10/31/1952
-Time: 7:40 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Lt. James Allen. One orange, blimp-shaped -object, 80’ long and 20’ high, flew at treetop level, crossed over -Allen’s car (at which time his radio stopped playing), then climbed out -at 45’ and tremendous speed at the end of a 1 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fayetteville, Georgia
-ID: 277

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Event 2910 -(B8350BAA)

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Date: 11/1952
-Description: A child was burned when a strange disk, 25 cm in diameter, -landed near Dublin.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Dublin, Ireland
-ID: 105

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Event 2911 -(44516491)

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Date: 11/1952
-Description: Aladino -Félix and a friend are climbing a hill near Angatuba, São Paulo, -Brazil. When they get to the top, Félix claims they see numerous UFOs -flying around. Félix comes back another day by himself; eventually a -saucer lands and he is invited inside to meet its crew and examine the -technology. Several months later, he is visited at his home in São Paulo -by the saucer captain, who claims to come from one or two of the -satellites of Jupiter. Félix, under the pseudonym of Dino Kraspedon, -writes about his various conversations with the spaceman in Meu Contato -com os discos voadores in 1957. He writes other mystical and religious -tracts under the names Dunatos Menorá and Sábado Dinotos. In 1967–1968, -Félix is operating a right-wing terrorism group that sets off bombs, -steals arms and explosives, and robs a bank. He serves three years in -prison. (Clark III 661–662; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life -of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 164–165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2082

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Event 2912 -(F2EB1C59)

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Date: 11/1/1952
-Description: Nuclear test Ivy Mike is the first successful full-scale -test of a multi-megaton thermonuclear weapon (“hydrogen bomb”) using the -Teller-Ulam design the size of an airplane hangar. Unlike later -thermonuclear weapons, Mike uses deuterium as its fusion fuel, -maintained as a liquid by an expensive and cumbersome cryogenic system. -It is detonated on Elugelab in the Marshall Islands yielding 10.4 -megatons, almost 500 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. -The fireball is 3 miles wide and completely destroys the atoll. USAF -Capt. Jimmy -Priestly Robinson of the 561st Fighter-Day Squadron, is lost near -the end of his mission to successfully pilot his F-84G through the -mushroom cloud’s stem to collect radiochemical air samples. After re- -emerging from the cloud, both he and his wingman, pilot Captain Bob -Hagan, encounter -difficulties picking up navigational beacons due to “electromagnetic -after effects” of the detonation. By the time they are successful in -finding the signal four hours later, they are dangerously low on fuel, -and before reaching the runway, both have depleted their reserves. While -Hagan is able to glide to the runway and achieve a hard landing, -Robinson is too far out to follow the same path and therefore attempts -to land on water. Neither his plane nor his body has ever been found; -his family only learned the truth in 2008 after repeated FOIA requests. -(Wikipedia, “Ivy -Mike”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2083

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Event 2913 -(2009EDFB)

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Date: 11/3/1952
-Time: 66:29 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two control tower operators, including Lemaster. -One long, elliptical, white-grey light flew very fast, paused, and then -increased speed during a 3-4 second observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Laredo AFB, Texas
-ID: 278

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Event 2914 -(C21CE8B2)

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Date: 11/4/1952
-End date: 11/6/1952
-Description: The Baileys and Williamsons come up together for a visit to -the Palomar Gardens Café. Adamski tells -them he has been making special trips into the desert in hopes of -meeting a saucer. Soon Adamski begins channeling space messages in the -presence of the Williamsons and the Baileys. At one of these sessions, a -space being declares that a face-to-face meeting will take place soon. -Williamson and -Bailey ask Adamski to call them before he attempts his next contact. -(Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 23; -Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, -Verdechiari, 2016, p. 357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2086

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Event 2915 -(0CC13432)

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Date: 11/4/1952
-Time: 5:40 PM
-Description: Witness: housewife Mrs. Sprague. Two groups of 2-3 whirling -discs of light flew toward the southeast over a period of 30 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Vineland, New Jersey
-ID: 279

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Event 2916 -(BB0FF84D)

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Date: 11/4/1952
-Description: NSA is established
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Fort Meade, Maryland

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Event 2917 -(6929F9DB)

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Date: 11/4/1952
-Description: Capt. Edward -J. Ruppelt and Lt. Robert M. Olsson visit Col. John -R. Hood Jr., AMC chief of the Nuclear Powered Aircraft Branch of -Wright Air Development Center. Hood had contacted ATIC in December 1950 -in regard to certain sightings of UFOs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, -Tennessee, in which he and a naval officer attempted to obtain -correlation between sightings and peaks in radiation backgrounds. Now -there are indications that there may be some correlation present between -unknown radar pickups and rises in radiation, and he suggests that ATIC -begin an instrumented radiation program. (“Visit -to WADC,” November 4, 1952; Patrick W. Hayes, “Unconventional -Aircraft,” Spot Intelligence Report, Dec. 1950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2084

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Event 2918 -(C7039D23)

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Date: 11/4/1952
-Description: The National Security Agency is established in Fort Meade, -Maryland, in a memo by Secretary of Defense Robert -A. Lovett, making -the new agency responsible for all communications intelligence. The -existence of the NSA is not known to the public at this time. -(Wikipedia, “National -Security Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2085

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Event 2919 -(C4EAD964)

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Date: 11/5/1952
-Description: Dwight -D. Eisenhower is elected president.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2087

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Event 2920 -(C2FA2A61)

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Date: 11/10/1952
-Description: Battelle’s Project Stork notes in its seventh status report -that current UFO reports “are now in more detail and often consist of -sightings of one object by more than one individual.” 500 copies of a -final version of the sighting questionnaire were delivered to ATIC at -Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. It expects to have all UFO reports dated -before June 15, 1952, processed and evaluated by December 10, ready for -IBM analysis later. (Clark III 929; “Seven -Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2088

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Event 2921 -(E51FC012)

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Date: 11/12/1952
-Time: 10:23 PM
-Description: Witness: security inspector. Four red-white-green lights -flew slowly over a prohibited area for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
-ID: 280

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Event 2922 -(542CBCC6)

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Date: 11/13/1952
-Time: 2:43 AM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Weather Bureau observer Earl Oksendahl. Five -oval-shaped objects, with lights all around them, flew in a V-formation -for about 20 seconds. Each object seemed to be changing position -vertically by climbing or diving as if to hold formation. Formation came -from the northwest, made a 90 degree overhead, and flew away to the -southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Glasgow, Montana
-ID: 282

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Event 2923 -(2FE18353)

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Date: 11/13/1952
-Time: 2:20 AM
-Description: Witness: radar tracking by USAF 779th AC&W station. An -unexplained track was followed for 1 hour, 28 minutes, at 158,000’ -altitude (30 miles) and a speed of 240 m.p.h. Radar was FPS/3 -(PPI).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Opheim, Montana
-ID: 281

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Event 2924 -(E341A2BE)

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Date: 11/15/1952
-Time: 7:02 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. R.L. Wallander, Capt. Belleman, A/3c -Phipps. One orange object (a blue streak?) varied in shape, as it made -jerky upward sweeps with 10-15 second pauses during a 3-5 minute -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wichita, Kansas
-ID: 283

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Event 2925 -(A996B98E)

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Date: 11/16/1952
-Description: Around 5:00 p.m. An air traffic controller at Florence -Airport, South Carolina, watches a huge, gleaming disc through -binoculars and sees it tilt up sharply before climbing out of sight. -About 6 minutes later, people see a group of round, glowing objects -north of Landrum, South Carolina. David -S. Bunch takes 40 minutes of film with an 8mm camera and telephoto -lens before the UFOs disappear to the west. Keyhoe reviews -the film along with some Air Force officers. It shows five glowing, -oval-shaped objects. (Keyhoe, FS from OS, pp. 4–5; -UFOEv, p. -89; -Sparks, -p. 180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2089

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Event 2926 -(337E29E4)

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Date: 11/18/1952
-Description: Nello Ferrari, 41, a farmer, found himself flooded with a -reddish light and saw a large plate 10 m above him, between gold and -copper in color. At the center of the bottom surface, 20 m in diameter, -was a cylinder of 5 m diameter made of rapidly rotating parts, producing -a noise similar to that of an electric motor. On the upper surface was a -turret inside which three occupants were visible, looking directly at -the witness. They looked perfectly human, wore rubber coveralls and -transparent face masks. They spoke a few words, which were not -understood; a loud metallic noise was heard; and the top part of the -object lowered itself toward the lower plate. The sound gained -intensity, and the craft flew vertically at very high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 102 (Vallee)
-Location: Castelfranco, Italy
-ID: 106

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Event 2927 -(5D7FA313)

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Date: 11/18/1952
-Description: Date of the fake four-page “Briefing Document: Operation -Majestic 12. Prepared for President-Elect Dwight -D. Eisenhower: Eyes Only.” It states that UFOs are the product of an -extraterrestrial civilization, that several had crashed and came into -the possession of the US government, and that the US had custody of an -alien for some time before it died. It says that Truman established -the MJ-12 group in 1947. Called Majestic-12, the group supposedly -consists of CIA Director Roscoe -Hillenkoetter, Vannevar -Bush, Secretary -of Defense James Forrestal (replaced -by Gen. Walter -Bedell Smith in 1950), Gen. Nathan -Twining, Gen. Hoyt -Vandenberg, Detlev -Bronk, Jerome -Clarke Hunsaker, Sidney -Souers, Gordon -Gray, Donald -Menzel, Gen. Robert -Miller Montague, and Lloyd -Berkner. (“Briefing -Document: Operation Majestic-12, Prepared for President-Elect Dwight -D. Eisenhower -(Eyes Only),” November 18, 1952; Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ 12: The -Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 13–17; Joe Nickell -and John R. Fischer, “The Crashed-Saucer Forgeries,” IUR 15, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1990): 4–20; Good Above, pp. 257–260, 544–550)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2090

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Event 2928 -(B37D88D1)

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Date: 11/18/1952
-Description: President-Elect Eisenhower receives -a 43-minute national security briefing on matters that are still -classified. Gen. Nathan -Twining, Gen. Omar -Bradley, Adm. -William -Fechteler, Gen. J. -Lawton Collins, Gen. Lemuel -C. Shepherd Jr., and -Secretary of Defense Robert -A. Lovett are present. (Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ 12: The Evidence So -Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2091

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Event 2929 -(AA528299)

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Date: 11/18/1952
-Description: George -Adamski telephones George -Hunt Williamson and tells him that the space people have informed -him a physical encounter will take place on November 20. (Clark III -1284; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 23; -Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, -Verdechiari, 2016, p. 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2092

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Event 2930 -(74B7B4B3)

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Date: 11/18/1952
-Description: MAJESTIC “Preliminary Briefing” document to President -(elect) Eisenhower from Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (MJ-1)
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A)
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC
-Attributes: Majestic

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Event 2931 -(873C9154)

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Date: 11/19/1952
-Description: Pilot J. Slade Nash reaches 698.5 mph in a North American -F-86D Sabre over the Salton Sea, California. (Bryan R. Swopes, “19 -November 1952,” This Day in Aviation, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2093

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Event 2932 -(CA971DF2)

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Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: George Adamski contacts man from Venus.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: CA

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Event 2933 -(5036EB2C)

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Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: 9:00 p.m. The Williamsons and the Baileys, with Adamski’s -permission, drive to Phoenix, Arizona, and tell the story of their -contact to reporters at the Phoenix Gazette. (Zirger and Martinelli, The -Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, -pp. 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2098

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Event 2934 -(AEBEAEFA)

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Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: 2:15 p.m. As he is packing up his telescope, Adamski sees -a man waving to him from about a quarter- mile away. He walks over to -him and meets an entity named Orthon as his 6 companions watch from a -distance. Five-and-a-half feet tall, Orthon [could Adamski have thought -of this name from Kodak Ortho film?] is a beautiful being with long -blond hair and an extremely high forehead. Through gestures, sign -language, a few words, and telepathy, Adamski learns that he is from -Venus and the Venusians are visiting earth out of concern for nuclear -weapons. The conversation lasts about 45 minutes. Orthon declines to be -photographed but asks Adamski to borrow one of his unexposed photos. -After Orthon leaves in his Scout ship around 3:04 p.m., Adamski finds -tracks in the desert floor. His companions rejoin him at the site. -Around 3:45 p.m., Williamson takes -casts with plaster of paris, which he just happens to carry with him in -case he runs into a stray bone. Each track contains within it a distinct -set of symbols. After several hours of assessing the situation and -waiting for the plaster to dry, the group returns to Desert Center, -California. (Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have -Landed, British Book Centre, 1953, pp. 185–215; -Adamski Foundation, “The -Landing”; James W. Moseley, “Special -Adamski Exposé Issue,” Saucer News, no. 27 (October 1957); Curt -Collins, “Saucer -News Presents: -The George Adamski Exposé,” In Honor of James Moseley, May 30, 2014; -Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, -Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 41–89, 360–362; Clark III 39–40, 1284; Michael D. -Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006): 23; Michael D. -Swords, “Adamski in the Desert,” IUR 31, no. 3 (October 2007): 22; Rene -Erik Olsen, [George -Adamski photo analysis], Adamski Foundation; Marc Hallet, A -Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the Space -Brothers, The -Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2097

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Event 2935 -(8127E8EE)

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Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: 1:57 p.m. Adamski stays -behind to set up his equipment as McGinnis and Bailey return to the rest -of the group. At 2:04 p.m., another UFO, this time a “Scout ship,” -appears near Adamski, who takes seven photos through his telescope. The -cigar-shaped UFO is still visible through binoculars. At 2:12 pm., -Adamski takes three more photos of the Scout ship with a Kodak Brownie -before it disappears behind a hill. Air Force jets circle the area at -least twice. (Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt -Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 359–360)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2096

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Event 2936 -(A4875986)

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Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Adamski’s -group picnics along the roadside. At 1:30 p.m., they see a cigar-shaped -UFO that appears shortly after a US Air Force B-29 passes overhead going -in the direction of Parker, Arizona. Adamski asks Lucy McGinnis, -accompanied by Alfred Bailey, to drive him a bit more than half a mile -away to a flatter area near the foot of Coxcomb Mountain where he can -set up his telescope. The cigar-shaped UFO is allegedly following them. -(Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, -Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 54–56, 358–359)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2095

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Event 2937 -(960E617A)

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Date: 11/20/1952
-Description: Morning. George -Adamski and two associates, Lucy McGinnis and Alice Wells, drive out -from the Palomar Gardens Café. They meet the Williamsons and the Baileys -at Blythe, California, at 8:00 a.m., and they drive to Desert Center, -California, taking Desert Center Rice Road 117 toward Coxcomb Mountain. -(Clark III 1284; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George -Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, p. 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2094

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Event 2938 -(4E3172DE)

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Date: 11/21/1952
-Description: At a place alled “La Butte” a luminous sphere, which seemed -to spin, its color changing from orange to white, was seen at low -altitude. It oscillated left and right, then took off toward the -southwest, according to the witness, Mr. Gauci.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 56 (Vallee)
-Location: Belle-Ile, France
-ID: 107

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Event 2939 -(55F0F9D2)

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Date: 11/21/1952
-End date: 11/23/1952
-Description: An Air Force review panel meets at ATIC for three days and -recommends that a “higher court” be formed to review UFOs. It schedules -this tentatively for late December or early January. (Ruppelt, pp. 200–201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2099

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Event 2940 -(47BBB101)

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Date: 11/22/1952
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Fr. Carlos Maria, a Capuchin missionary, and -five others are driving along the road to Bocaranga, Ubangi-Shari [now -Central African Republic] when they notice a large disc speeding -overhead. Later, they see four others, motionless. They watch the UFOs -for 20 minutes, changing shape and color. (Aimé Michel, The Truth about -FS; Jimmy Guieu [pseudonym of Henri René Guieu], Les soucoupes volantes -viennent d’un autre monde, Fleuve Noir, 1954; ClearIntent, pp. 128–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2100

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Event 2941 -(3AA90C92)

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Date: 11/24/1952
-Time: 6:30 PM
-Description: Witness: L.L’ Brettner. One round, glowing object flew very -fast, made right angle turns and reversed course during a 1 hour -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Annandale, Virginia
-ID: 284

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Event 2942 -(ACF6EEF5)

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Date: 11/24/1952
-Description: The first printed account of the encounter with Orthon -appears in the Phoenix Gazette. The newspaper publishes one of Adamski’s -photos as well as a photo of the Williamsons and the Baileys. Adamski -becomes instantly famous, and Williamson moves -to Palomar Gardens for several days. When he tells Adamski he is -planning to write a book about his channelings and contacts, Adamski -warns him not to mention the contacts have been largely psychic. Adamski -discourages him and they have a falling out. Alfred C. Bailey later says -he has seen neither spaceship nor spaceman and doubts that anyone else -has either. (Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt -Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 45–52, 99, 358–363; “Palomar -Mountain, 1940–1960: From -Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski Case, September 22, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2102

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Event 2943 -(D86827F6)

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Date: 11/24/1952
-Description: Andrija -Puharich, invited -by an Army colonel friend who is chief of the Research Section of the -Office of the Chief of Psychological Warfare, delivers a lecture on ESP -to high-ranking Pentagon officers in the Army’s Psychological Warfare -Research Section and the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations. -Col. Howard McCoy is -probably present. (Nick Redfern, The Pyramids and the Pentagon, New -Page, 2012; Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days, Part 2,” IUR 32, no. 2 -(December 2008): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2101

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Event 2944 -(76079819)

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Date: 11/25/1952
-Description: ATIC Col. Donald -L. Bower and Maj. Dewey -Fournet brief CIA consultants Frederick -C. Durant and Edward -Tauss on Blue Book’s top three cases: the Tremonton UFO film of July -2; a dubious sighting of an object seen at Presque Isle and Limestone -AFB [now Loring International Airport], Maine, on the night of October -10– 11 (which Hynek has -already explained as a theodolite miscalibration causing Jupiter and its -4 prominent moons to be visible); and the problematic Florida -scoutmaster case of August 19. USAF wants the CIA to think these are -good cases until they unravel at the proposed Robertson Panel meeting. -(CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO- Related -Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Clark III -1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2103

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Event 2945 -(71977E9F)

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Date: 11/25/1952
-End date: 11/26/1952
-Description: Two UFOs are tracked by defense radar in the Panama Canal -Zone. (NICAP, “Two -Objects Tracked by -A/A Gun Radar”; Condon, pp. 168–170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2104

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Event 2946 -(21A9DF36)

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Date: 11/25/1952
-Description: (cont’d briefing from 8/20/52): Memorandum for Director -CIA: Another meeting by A-2 and ATIC personnel was held on this date. -UFOs must have immediate attention. UFOs have been sighted at great -altitudes and at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense -installations and can NOT be attributed to natural phenomena or KNOWN -types of aerial vehicles. OSI is proceeding to establish an immediate -PRIORITY research and development on UFOs under the aegis of CANIS. -Signed: H. Marshall Chadwell.
-Type: memorandum
-Reference: link
-Location: Langley, VA
-See also: 8/10/52
-See also: 10/2/52
-See also: 11/25/52

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Event 2947 -(ABBEE327)

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Date: 11/26/1952
-Description: 5:56 p.m. An F-94B from the USAF 59th Fighter-Interceptor -Squadron at Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador, for 15 minutes -chases a maneuverable object that changes color from white to red, -heading south or southwest. The fighter gets a brief radar lock-on. -(Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1952, November– December, -The Author, 1986, p. 44; Sparks, -p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2105

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Event 2948 -(42D067D2)

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Date: 11/27/1952
-Time: 12:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and crew chief of UAAF B-26 bomber. A -series of black smoke bursts (4-3-3-4-3), similar to antiaircraft fire, -was seen over a 20 minute period.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
-ID: 285

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Event 2949 -(256291DA)

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Date: 11/30/1952
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Numerous slow-moving 90–100 mph radar targets -appear on the MEW VG-2 radar at Washington National Airport in -Washington, D.C. Suggestive of anomalous propagation, but they are -unlike the July 1952 cases since there is no visual confirmation, no -other radars confirming, and no fighters scrambled. A pilot at 6,000 -feet sees nothing. CAA Senior Airways Specialist Austin M. Stapf claims -the same thing was observed at same time on November 29, and that the -Andrews AFB watch supervisor could not visually confirm targets over -Andrews displayed on the ARTCC radar scope. (Sparks, -p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2106

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Event 2950 -(4C6FAD8D)

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Date: 11/30/1952
-Time: 12:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: radar operators at Washington National Airport. -Radar trackings similar to those of July 26, 1952.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 286

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Event 2951 -(A5C76E4B)

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Date: 12/1952
-Description: Maj. Dewey -Fournet completes a study of UFOs to assess whether their motions -are random or ordered. He concludes that their reported movements show -that UFOs are under intelligent control. (Ruppelt, pp. 189–190; -Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent -Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): 8–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2107

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Event 2952 -(322D5434)

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Date: 12/2/1952
-Description: CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence Director H. -Marshall Chadwell writes another secret memo to Director Walter -Bedell Smith on UFOs: “At this time, the reports of incidents -convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate -attention. The details of some of these incidents have been discussed by -AD/SI with DDCI. Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and -traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense -installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to -natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles.” Physicist Julius -Adams Stratton and economist Max -Millikan tell Chadwell that scientists at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory -would like to be a part of any scientific study of the UFO phenomenon, -perhaps through Millikan’s MIT Center for International Studies. -Stratton indicates that Lab Director Albert -G. Hill should -organize the study. Attached is a draft of an intelligence directive by -Chadwell on behalf of Smith to the National Security Council -recommending that the CIA “formulate and carry out a program of -intelligence and research activities required to solve the problem of -instant positive identification of unidentified flying objects.” But -Smith refuses to approve or sign the directive because he is briefing -the president directly. (H. Marshall Chadwell, “Unidentified -Flying Objects,” December 2, 1952; CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document -Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Swords 175; Clark III -1013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2108

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Event 2953 -(C33F5975)

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Date: 12/2/1952
-Description: Statement by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of -Scientific Intelligence, CIA: “The reports of (UFO) incidents convince -us that there is something going on that must have immediate -attention.”
-Type: statement
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Langley, VA
-See also: 10/2/52
-See also: 11/25/52

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Event 2954 -(E2172B98)

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Date: 12/3/1952
-Description: In another “Flying Saucer” memo, Chadwell admits -the Air Force would be suspicious of any MIT Lincoln Lab involvement, -and that Princeton or Cal Tech would do, and that “it will be necessary -to secure the full backing of the DCI in order that a scientific review -of the problem may be laid on.” However, he recommends that this -“External Research Project Concerned with Unidentified Flying Objects” -be administered by Max Millikan at the MIT Center for International -Studies. (P. G. Strong, “Flying -Saucers,” December 3, 1952; CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May -17, 1996; Swords 185–186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2109

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Event 2955 -(1682AAB4)

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Date: 12/4/1952
-Description: The CIA Intelligence Advisory Committee recommends that -“the Director of Central Intelligence will ‘enlist the services of -selected scientists to review and appraise the available evidence in the -light of pertinent scientific theories.’” The meeting, chaired by Chadwell, is -attended by Robert -Amory Jr., Gen. John -Samford, Rear Admiral Carl -F. Espe, Gen. John -M. Willems, William -Park Armstrong, Walter -F. Colby, Col. -Edward -R. Porter, and -Col. Jere -Boggs. This -is to be done “immediately” through a National Security Council -Intelligence Directive and is essentially the go-ahead for what will be -the Robertson Panel. (Robert Amory Jr., “Intelligence Advisory -Committee: Minutes of Meeting Held in Director’s Conference Room, -Administration Building, Central Intelligence -Agency, on 4 December 1952,” December 4, 1952; CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document -Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Swords 184, 186–187; -Hynek UFO Report, p. 20; -Clark III 1013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2110

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Event 2956 -(C20796EC)

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Date: 12/4/1952
-Description: 8:46 p.m. USAF pilot Lt. Robert O. Arnold, 3640th Pilot -Training Wing, Laredo AFB [now Laredo International Airport], Texas, is -flying a T-28 trainer at 6,000 feet when he sees a bright bluish-white -glowing object below him at about 1,500–2,000 feet and rapidly climbing -to his level. It shows no navigation lights. He tightens his left turn -to keep the object in view, but it suddenly climbs to 9,000 feet in -several seconds and drops down to his altitude again, then stops and -hovers. Arnold pursues but after 2 seconds the object suddenly heads -towards him on a collision course at high speed at 8:53 p.m., wavering -slightly at about 300 feet. He sees the object as a blurred -reddish-bluish haze smaller than his T-28. It rapidly ascends to 15,000 -feet then circles left as if positioning for another pass. In fear -Arnold turns off his running lights, spirals down to 1,500 feet while -keeping the object in sight as it continues to head towards him in a -dive, then pulls up and climbs out of sight. A lighted weather balloon -is launched at 8:53 p.m. from Laredo AFB but it is not observed near any -aircraft. (NICAP, “The -Laredo / ‘Earl Fogle’ Case”; Sparks, -p. 182)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2111

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Event 2957 -(930180F7)

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Date: 12/6/1952
-Description: 5:24 a.m. The 3-man crew of a USAF B-29 (1st Lt. Norman -Karas and 1st Lt. William W. Naumann) over the Gulf of Mexico 100 -miles south of Louisiana track five unidentified blips on the bomber’s -radar. They maneuver around the plane at a speed of 5,240 mph. The crew -sees some flashes of light, but the targets are 20 miles or more away. -The five UFOs merge with a huge blip that accelerates and vanishes at a -speed of 9,000 mph. Additional crewmen involved are 1st Lt. William W. -Naumann, Jr., Staff Sgt B. R. Purcell, Staff Sgt. William J. De Rause, -2nd Lt. Robert J. Eckert, and Staff Sgt. Harry D. Shogren. (NICAP, “B-29 -Encounters High Speed Objects -over Gulf”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, pp. 161–166; -Sparks, -p. 183; Condon, pp. 148–150; -Patrick Gross, “B- 29 -Radar and Visual Multiple Witnesses Observations, Dec. 6, -1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2112

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Event 2958 -(ED9E1950)

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Date: 12/6/1952
-Description: Air Force bomber tracked “mother ship,” smaller high-speed -objects, on radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Gulf of Mexico
-ID: 2

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Event 2959 -(13BC6A8C)

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Date: 12/8/1952
-Time: 8:16 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot lst Lt. D. Dickman and radar operator lst -Lt. T. Davies in USAF F-94 jet interceptor (s/n 49-2522). One white, -oval light which changed to red at higher altitude, flew straight and -level for 2 minutes, then climbed at phenomenal speed on an erratic -flight path. Sighting lasted 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ladd AFB, Alaska
-ID: 287

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Event 2960 -(44F9A3C7)

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Date: 12/9/1952
-Time: 5:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Capt. Bridges and lst Lt. Johneon in USAF T-33 -jet trainer. Four bright lights, in diamond formation, flew at 400 -m.p.h. and were passed by the T-33 at 450 m.p.h. during the 10 minute -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Madison, Wisconsin
-ID: 288

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Event 2961 -(DC699BAE)

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Date: 12/9/1952
-Description: Col. Donald -L. Bower forbids Ruppelt from -visiting the CIA to give its Office of Scientific Intelligence certain -UFO cases in preparation for the Robertson Panel in January. CIA -consultant Frederick C. Durant learns about this the same day in a phone -call to Ruppelt. (Frederick C. Durant, “Unidentified -Flying Objects,” December 9, 1952; CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO-Related Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May -17, 1996; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings -of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical -Group, November 2001, p. 47; Clark III 1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2113

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Event 2962 -(A7730B5C)

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Date: 12/10/1952
-Description: H. -Marshall Chadwell writes to Walter -Bedell Smith that OSI has been working with mathematician Howard -P. Robertson of Cal Tech to establish a panel of scientists -(including astronomer Thornton -Leigh Page) and engineers to review the status of UFOs in January. -Somewhere along the line, MIT’s Lincoln Labs and CIS have been -eliminated. (Thornton Page, [Letter], -December 12, 1952; CUFON, “The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO- Related -Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; Swords -187–188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2114

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Event 2963 -(CA7E86AF)

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Date: 12/10/1952
-Description: 7:15 p.m. The pilot and radar observer of an F-94 -patrolling from Moses Lake AFB [now the Grant County International -Airport] spots a light over the Hanford nuclear plant near Richland, -Washington, while flying at 26,000 feet. They contact the ground control -station, which reports that they know of no planes in the area and that -their ground radar shows nothing. They close in on the object, which is -large, white, and round and features a dim reddish light coming from two -windows. They lose visual contact then get a lock-on from their ARC-33 -airborne radar. As they attempt to close in, the object reverses -direction and dives away. They attempt several more times to approach -the light and have to alter course to avoid a collision that seems -imminent. (NICAP, “F-94 -R/V with Round Object”; Ruppelt, pp. 61–62; -Sparks, p. 185; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified -Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, -Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., -2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 66; Center for UFO Studies, [case -file]; Patrick Gross, “Radar -Visual Aircraft UFO Encounter near Hanford Nuclear Plant, December 10, -1952”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2115

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Event 2964 -(10B43FA8)

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Date: 12/12/1952
-Description: The CIA, having learned that ATIC is withholding -significant case reports for the upcoming Robertson Panel, sends a -three-man team to Wright-Patterson AFB in order to obtain relevant -documents. The team includes Robertson himself, -CIA Assistant Director H. -Marshall Chadwell, and -CIA rocket consultant Frederick -C. Durant, a -personal friend of Ruppelt who -urges him to comply. At ATIC they meet with personnel from Battelle -Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, which has been studying the UFO -data in great secrecy. Battelle requests the CIA to postpone the panel -until March so they can finish the study. Robertson agrees to postpone -the panel, but is later overruled by CIA Director Gen. Walter -Bedell Smith. (CUFON, -“The -CUFON 1952 CIA UFO- Related -Document Sampler, Part 1 of 2 Parts,” May 17, 1996; NICAP, “The -1952 Sighting Wave”; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings -of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical -Group, November 2001, p. 47; Clark III 1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2116

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Event 2965 -(4659C074)

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Date: 12/13/1952
-Description: Morning. George -Adamski’s scout ship makes a second appearance, this time at the -Palomar Gardens Café in California, ostensibly so that Orthon can return -the photo he borrowed. The film holder is pushed out of a porthole to -the ground. One of the three Venusian photos taken by Adamski, though -credited to Jerrold -E. Baker, is -taken secretly the day before by Adamski, probably of a model. Bill -Moore claims in 1985 that the photos resemble the prototype space -vehicle described in Mason -Rose’s A Simplified Explanation of the Application of the -Biefeld-Brown Effect to the Solution of the Problems of Space -Navigation, published in February 1952 (Clark III 40; Desmond Leslie and -George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, British Book Centre, 1953, -pp. 217– 221; -Paul E. Potter, “The Flying Saucer”; “Some -New Facts about Flying -Saucers Have Landed,” Nexus 2, no. 1 (January 1955): 13–17; James W. -Moseley, “Special -Adamski Exposé Issue,” Saucer News, no. 27 (October 1957); Curt -Collins, “Saucer -News Presents: The George Adamski Exposé,” In Honor of James -Moseley, May 30, 2014; George M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” -IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 21; Rene Erik Olsen, “The -13th December 1952 Photos of George Adamski Analysis,” April 23, -2019; Rene Erik Olsen, [George Adamski -photo analysis], Adamski Foundation; Marc Hallet, A -Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who -Spoke to the Space Brothers, The -Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2117

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Event 2966 -(EA27E237)

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Date: 12/15/1952
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Two Air Force pilots get a momentary lock on a -strange object above Goose Bay, Labrador. A T-33 and an F-94B (piloted -by Capt. E. T. Johnson and Radar Observer Lt. H. S. Norris) see a bright -red and white light. (NICAP, “Momentary -Lock On”; Condon, pp. 126–127; -Sparks, -p. 186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2118

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Event 2967 -(60FD01A6)

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Date: 12/16/1952
-Description: Chadwell tells -CIA Acting Deputy Director for Intelligence Robert -Amory Jr. that he is unimpressed with the three Blue Book cases, -especially since Presque Isle was identified as the planet Jupiter. -(Clark III 1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2119

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Event 2968 -(1182931B)

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Date: 12/21/1952
-Description: Lyman -Streeter and five other witnesses observe a large, cigar-shaped -object over Winslow, Arizona. (Michael D. Swords, “Strange Days,” IUR -30, no. 4 (Aug. 2006): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2120

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Event 2969 -(7CFA7AA8)

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Date: 12/21/1952
-Description: Evening. J. E. Hawkey, civil commissioner of Fort Victoria -[now Masvingo], Zimbabwe, is driving near Mvuma when he sees a bright -red light crossing the road about 30 feet in the air, then hovering. -Suddenly it shoots straight up and disappears. After a short while it -descends some distance away and travels straight down the road. Hawkey -follows it at about 80 mph, after which it speeds up and disappears at -three or more times the speed. He has the object in sight for about 20 -minutes. (Southern Rhodesia Newsletter; Jan Aldrich)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2121

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Event 2970 -(F8A541C1)

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Date: 12/22/1952
-Description: 7:30 p.m. An instrument technician driving toward Larson -AFB [now Grant County International Airport] near Moses Lake, -Washington, stops his car to watch a hat-shaped glowing object rising -vertically in odd spurts right and left, then level off at high speed. -The object glows white with a red side when it is rotated. Halfway -through a roll the light disappears, then it holds stationary in the sky -with jumpy movements. Duration is about 15 minutes. (NICAP, “Hat-Shaped -Object Observed by Technician”; Sparks, -p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2123

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Event 2971 -(FFCB2661)

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Date: 12/22/1952
-Description: Ruppelt finds -out that the CIA Robertson Panel is back on again after being postponed -on December 12. Apparently under pressure from the Air Force, which is -setting a trap to embarrass the CIA with sensational IFO cases dressed -up as “best” unknown UFO cases, CIA Director Gen. Walter -Bedell Smith reverses the decision to postpone the panel meeting -till March 1953 or later. Smith orders the Robertson Panel to be carried -out immediately. A rush-to-judgment panel will have no time to reflect -on the USAF trickery involved in the IFOs-as- UFOs deception and will -just react in dismissive skepticism that there is no scientific evidence -for UFO reality, and hence no reason for the CIA to intrude into USAF -jurisdiction over air intelligence matters such as unidentified aerial -threats (UFOs). Ruppelt calls ADC to say that he will not be able to -conduct the ADC UFO briefing tour as previously scheduled due to the CIA -meeting now tentatively set in early January 1953 (he confirms the call -by teletype December 23). (Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings -of the Sign Historical Group UFO History -Workshop, Sign -Historical Group, November 2001, p. 48; Clark III 1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2122

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Event 2972 -(3548C873)

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Date: 12/28/1952
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marysville, California
-ID: 289

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Event 2973 -(6D2A6BDA)

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Date: 12/29/1952
-Description: 7:48 p.m. Col. Donald -J. M. Blakeslee, 27th Fighter Escort Wing, while flying near Misawa, -northern Honshu, Japan, in an F-84G at 27,000 feet in altitude, observes -an object like a rotating cluster of lights colored white, green, and -red. Blakeslee climbs to 35,000 feet, at which point he is level with -the unknown object. He attempts a pursuit, but the UFO disappears in 30 -seconds. (NICAP, “Col. -Blakeslee / F-84 Incident”; Sparks, -p. 187; Swords 212–213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2124

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Event 2974 -(9F9006A2)

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Date: 12/29/1952
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Capt. William -T. Bowley and Capt. Herbert -T. Lange, both of Perrin AFB [now North Texas Regional Airport] near -Denison, Texas, are piloting a B-26 on a training flight headed west at -6,000 feet altitude and 300 mph when they see a large, intense, -bluish-white light near Vega, Texas. It is about 350 feet long at their -11 o’clock position, paralleling their course at the same altitude and -closing slightly. After 5 minutes, the object suddenly climbs vertically -7,000 feet in 5 seconds (about 2,000 mph) to disappear in thin clouds at -13,000 feet and causing the clouds to glow as if lit by a searchlight. -Bowley radios the CAA controller in Tucumcari, New Mexico. Shortly -after, the object reappears under the clouds and the CAA controller is -told to look for it but he can’t see it (possibly because he is told to -look in the wring direction). After 2 minutes, it climbs to the west and -disappears. (NICAP, “Object -Closing on B-36 Suddenly Climbs”; Sparks, -p. 187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2125

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Event 2975 -(1FC4C2F7)

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Date: 12/31/1952
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #8, classified -“confidential.” (US Air Force, Projects -Grudge and -Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 131–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2126

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- Event 2976 (017FCF2A)

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Date: 1953
-Description: Director of Project Blue Book, Capt. Ruppelt stated: “Two -RAF Intelligence Officers who were in the US on a classified mission -brought six single-spaced typed pages of questions they and their -friends wanted answered regarding UFOs.”
-Type: classified mission
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 9/21/52

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Event 2977 -(A682C026)

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Date: 1953?
-Description: Pilot (name withheld) stated, “a saucer crashed in a desert -area”. He was sure that it was just inside the Arizona border. He also -saw the bodies first-hand at Wright-Patterson AFB. The crates arrived at -night by DC-7. Description of bodies: approx. 4 ft. high. Resting -un-shrouded on a special blanket on dry ice. Heads were hairless, -narrow, disproportionately large for their bodies. Skin had brown tint. -Open eyes, small mouth, indistinct nose, hands and feet. Wore tight -fitting, dark colored suites. One Alien appeared to be female. One Alien -had been alive at the crash site but attempts to save its’ life with -oxygen failed.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research (B3-B Case A-1 p2,3, RECOVERY, BODIES)
-Location: Arizona
-Location: Wright-Patterson AFB

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Event 2978 -(BA00A2BE)

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Date: 1953
-Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) established by President -Eisenhower and renamed Project AQUARIUS (1960, 1968)
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea -Research (AQUARIUS, B1-A)
-Attributes: Majestic

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Event 2979 -(BD6386FC)

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Date: 1953
-Description: During off-shore combat maneuvers, a squadron of -carrier-based Navy AD-3 attack planes is approached by a rocket-shaped -UFO that swoops down on the flight from above. The object levels off -about 1,000 feet overhead, slows, and paces the aircraft. When the -Squadron Commander leads his flight in pursuit of the UFO, it turns -sharply so that its tail is pointed away and shoots upward out of sight -in seconds. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 266–267).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2127

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Event 2980 -(81891151)

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Date: 1953
-Description: Evening. An Air Force pilot and a student are flying an -F-84 Thunderjet on the home leg of a training flight over North Texas -when the student notes an out-of-place light. At first the pilot thinks -it’s Venus, but they realize it is moving. The student steers the plane -toward the light, but it zooms past them at high speed. The pilot takes -the stick and turns the aircraft to follow it. The light, which now -looks like a metallic domed disc with windows, passes them again. The -pilot accelerates to more than 500 mph and pursues it; the disc roars -past them again. The chase goes on for 10–15 minutes until a final pass -when the object shines a bright light into the cockpit. The pilot takes -an evasive measure and flies back to base. (CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2129

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Event 2981 -(0E9C68FF)

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Date: 1953
-Description: Midday. A member of the crew of a Shell tanker in Hong Kong -harbor, China, watches, along with many others on shore and aboard the -ship, a silver-white disc hovering at 6,000–7,000 feet. Within a second -or so, it moves a full 45° arc to an area where there are some white -clouds at about 5,000 fee. It shines through the cloud cover like the -moon through a mist. (J. Allen Hynek, “A Daylight Disc in Hong Kong -Harbor,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2128

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Event 2982 -(6703A33E)

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Date: 1953
-Description: Fred P. Stone founds the Australian Flying Saucer Club in -Adelaide, South Australia. It later becomes the Australian Flying Saucer -Research Society and publishes the Australian Saucer Record from 1955 to -1963. From 1962 to 1971, it publishes Panorama. (Australian -Saucer Record 1, no. 2 (2nd Quarter, 1955); Panorama 1, -no. 1 (1962))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2130

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Event 2983 -(A55FFC0C)

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Date: 1/1953
-Description: Beams of microwaves, varying between 2.5 and 4 gigahertz, -from Soviet sources aimed at the US embassy in Moscow are first -detected, increasing in intensity by 1975. Detected by routine -background radiation testing, the beams come from a source in a Soviet -apartment building about 325 feet west of the embassy, affecting the -west façade of the central building, with highest intensities between -the third and eighth floors. The microwave transmissions are only five -microwatts per -square centimeter, well below the power level of microwave ovens and -well below what would be needed to heat anything. -Shielding is put in place by 1964, but the discovery is kept secret. -(Wikipedia, “Moscow -Signal”; J. Mark Elwood, “Microwaves -in the Cold War: The Moscow Embassy Study -and Its Interpretation,” Environmental Health 11 (2012))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2131

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Event 2984 -(3866E5FE)

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Date: 1/1/1953
-Time: 8:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Warner Anderson and two women. A silver, -saucer-shaped object with a red glowing bottom, flew low over a river -and then climbed fast in a horizontal attitude. Ten second -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Craig, Montana
-ID: 290

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Event 2985 -(1A14CD2B)

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Date: 1/1/1953
-Description: 8:45 p.m. While driving on Hwy 91 between Craig and Wolf -Creek, Montana, Warner -E. Anderson, manager -of a photo shop with wartime air spotter experience; Mrs. Greta C. -Wills, manager of women’s apparel store; and teenager Marlene Wills see -a saucer-shaped object above horizon about 5 miles away to the -southwest. The object is an estimated 25–40 feet long and 6–8 or 18–25 -feet thick and looks like two soup bowls joined at the rims. It has a -red glowing bottom and portholes. The object dives low over the Missouri -River to within 150–300 feet away then climbs fast horizontally at an -estimated 3,600 mph to the northeast. (NICAP, “The -1953 UFO Chronology”; Sparks, p. 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2132

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Event 2986 -(1828BA32)

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Date: 1/3/1953
-Description: The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron (AISS) is -created at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in Colorado -Springs, Colorado, by Air Defense Command Regulation AFR 24-4. One of -its missions is to collect physical UFO evidence. (Brian Skow and Terry -Endres, “The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron and UFOs,” IUR 20, -no. 5 (Winter 1995): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2133

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Event 2987 -(D86DEBFE)

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Date: 1/6/1953
-Description: 1:05 a.m. The 147th AC&W Squadron at Duncanville, -Texas, is notified by the CAA at Meacham Field [now Fort Worth Meacham -International Airport] about a UFO northeast of Dallas. Tinker AFB in -Oklahoma City reports a radar target 20 miles southwest of Paris, Texas. -An arrowhead-shaped UFO with green and white lights is seen by some -witnesses in the Dallas area. (NICAP, “Arrow-Shaped -Object Tracked at 600 Knots”; “‘Flying -Arrowhead’ Seen over Dallas: ‘Not a Star or Plane,’” St. Louis -Post-Dispatch, January 6, 1953, p. 1; Sparks, p. 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2134

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Event 2988 -(E903FB8C)

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Date: 1/8/1953
-Description: 7:15–7:30 a.m. USAF ADC 82nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron -personnel at Larson AFB [now Grant County International Airport], Moses -Lake, Washington, all on the ground, see a green, disc-shaped object -about the size of large weather balloon flying to the southwest. It has -a vertical bobbing motion and makes sideways movements at about 8,000 -feet below scattered clouds. It moves away against the wind until it -disappears in the distance. The object is also observed by base -personnel at Ephrata, Washington. An F-94 is scrambled at 7:43 a.m. and -searches for 30 minutes, but the UFO is gone. (NICAP, “The -1953 UFO Chronology”; Sparks, p. 188; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 50–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2135

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Event 2989 -(4884A0DB)

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Date: 1/8/1953
-Description: 10:20 p.m. A triangular object with a brilliant reddish -glow is seen for 10 minutes at Mosgiel, New Zealand. It fades, then -reappears with a rising and falling motion, accompanied by a small white -light. (“The -New Zealand Sightings,” -Flying Saucer News, no. 1 (Spring 1953): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2136

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Event 2990 -(3AD00A60)

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Date: 1/8/1953
-Time: 7:15 AM
-Description: Witnesses: men from the 82nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, -including the squadron commander; all were on the ground. One green, -disc-shaped or round object flew southwest for 15 minutes, with a -vertically bobbing motion and sideways movements, below clouds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Larson AFB, Washington
-ID: 291

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Event 2991 -(03847C9B)

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Date: 1/9/1953
-Description: Howard C. Cross, a senior staff member at Battelle, writes -a letter to Col. Miles -E. Goll of ATIC, arguing that “agreement between Project Stork -[Battelle’s study] and ATIC should be reached as to what can and what -cannot be discussed at the meeting in Washington on January 14–16.” He -suggests a “controlled experiment” be undertaken by USAF to obtain -physical data. This would consist of “observation posts with complete -visual skywatch, with radar and photographic coverage, plus all other -instruments necessary or helpful in obtaining positive and reliable data -on everything in the air over the area.” The suggestion is that “Many -different types of aerial activity should be secretly and purposefully -scheduled within the area,” meaning that the Air Force would release -balloons to generate spurious UFO phenomena. The memo is a desperate -effort to buy time for Battelle to finish its statistical analysis. Jacques -Vallée speculates that this letter by Cross (to whom Vallée assigns -the pseudonym “Pentacle”) could have led to the military setting up -artificial UFO waves and simulated cases in selected areas; however, -this is clearly not the case, as Jennie -Zeidman and Mark -Rodeghier elaborately demonstrate in IUR. (H. -C. Cross letter to Miles E. Goll, January -9, 1952; NICAP, “The -‘Pentacle Memorandum,’ Including -Text of Correspondence with Dr. Jacques Vallee,” August 17, 1993; -Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 191; -The Hynek UFO Report, p. 21; -Jacobs, The UFO Controversy, Signet ed., 1976, p. -79; -Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic, 1992, p. 428; -Clark III 1214–1215; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings -of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical -Group, November 2001, p. 48; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR -16, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 7–12, 23; Jennie Zeidman and Mark Rodeghier, -“The Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18, no. 3 -(May/June 1993): 4–12, 19–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2137

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Event 2992 -(FF08002D)

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Date: 1/9/1953
-Description: The CIA/OSI attempts to get Walter -Bedell Smith’s approval for “two series” of scientific panels in -January and February, which would buy some time, but the suggestion is -rejected. (Clark III 1014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2138

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Event 2993 -(BC5511B3)

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Date: 1/9/1953
-Description: Radio station KVET in Kerrville, Texas, blames a 75-second -interruption in its operation on a red-orange oval object seen by four -junior high school students over the city at the same time. Ivan Young, -13, and Edgar Rasmussen, 14, see the object fly in from the west, -circle, and disappear to the north. They see two fins on its end -shooting out red and green flames. It is making a buzzing noise. KVET -engineer Britt Lamb says the radio interference is the weirdest he has -ever seen—heavy static “with a roar that traveled up and down the -scale.” (“Fiery -Object Jams Radio at Kerrville,” Fort Worth (Tex.) Star-Telegram, -January 10, 1953, p. 2; Schopick, -pp. 78–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2139

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Event 2994 -(85087113)

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Date: 1/9/1953
-Description: 6:50 p.m. An F-94 makes radar contact with a UFO at a range -of about 13.5 miles over Misawa Air Base, Honshu, Japan. The radar locks -on at 15,000 feet and contact is broken at a range of 600 feet. The -radar observer reports unusual interference on the set throughout the -mission, but the set appears to be operative both before and after. The -radar contact lasts approximately 2 minutes. (NICAP, “F-94 -Radar/Visual of Rotating UFO”; Sparks, p. 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2140

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Event 2995 -(050F22B9)

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Date: 1/9/1953
-Description: 7:27 p.m. B-29 copilot 1st Lt. Charles C. Loveless sees a -V-formation of bluish-white lights approaching his aircraft over Santa -Ana, California. Pilot 1st Lt. Lowell D. Brandt turns to avoid them. -(NICAP, “B-29 Bomber Crew Watch V-Formation”; UFOEv, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2141

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Event 2996 -(3A1B674F)

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Date: 1/10/1953
-Time: 3:45 PM or 4 PM
-Description: Witnesses: retired Col. Robert McNab, and Mr. Hunter of the -Federal Security Agency. One flat object, like a pinhead, made three 360 -degree right turns in 9 seconds, made abrupt 90 degree turns to the -right and left, stopped, accelerated to original speed and finally flew -out of sight vertically after 60-75 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sonoma, California
-ID: 292

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Event 2997 -(C0239FE1)

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Date: 1/10/1953
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Retired Air Force Col. Robert McNab and a -Mr. Hunter of the Federal Security Agency see a flat object to the -northwest of their location 8 miles west of Sonoma, California. It is -traveling about 2,400 mph and makes three 360° right turns in 2–3 -seconds each in about 1/8 the radius required for jets (about 1/4 mile) -and two abrupt 90° turns to the right and left, each turn 5 seconds -apart. It almost stops, accelerates to its original high speed, almost -stops again, speeds up again, and finally flies out of sight vertically. -(NICAP, “Flat -Object at 2,400 MPH”; -Sparks, p. 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2142

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Event 2998 -(7BC3AE40)

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Date: 1/12/1953
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Maurício Ramos is driving on grassy terrain near -Santana dos Montes, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when he sees a luminous, -metallic disc smaller than a Volkswagen hovering 6 feet from the ground. -He approaches to within 6 feet of it, and a door opens. Two entitles -shorter than 5 feet tall, wearing lead-colored clothing with shiny balls -fitted to the shoes, jump out. Ramos thinks they invite him aboard, but -he does not answer because he is getting an increasingly severe headache -as he watches. When the headache goes away, the disc and creatures have -disappeared. (“Pesquisas -sobre Tripulantes de DV,” Boletim SBEDV, no. 55/59 (1967): 1– 2, -8–9; Brazil 25–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2143

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Event 2999 -(3EA71426)

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Date: 1/14/1953
-Description: 9:30 a.m. The opening meeting of the Robertson Panel -convenes in the OSI conference room at CIA Building “M” in Washington, -D.C. Present are scientists Howard -P. Robertson, Samuel -A. Goudsmit, Luis -Walter Alvarez, and -Thornton -Leigh Page. CIA -members Philip -Grandin Strong, Lt. -Col. Frederick -C. E. Oder, David B. Stevenson, and Frederick -C. Durant are also present. All are skeptical, if not openly hostile -to UFO reports. Page later says that “H. P. Robertson told us in the -first private (no outsiders) session that our job was to reduce public -concern and show that UFO reports could be explained by conventional -reasoning.” The panel first reviews the CIA OSI study from August, the -ATIC November 21 meeting, the December 4 IAC decision, the visit to ATIC -by Chadwell and -Robertson, and CIA concern over potential national security dangers. -They watch the Montana and Utah films. Lt. Robert -S. Neasham and Harry Woo of the Navy Photo Interpretation Laboratory -report on their analyses of both films, which conclude that the objects -are unidentified. Ruppelt speaks -for 40 minutes on the Blue Book method of UFO investigation. It is -possibly here that he first suggests using 4602nd AISS field units to -conduct Blue Book field investigations. The meeting adjourns at 5:15 -p.m. (Frederick C. Durant, “Report -of Meetings -of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, January -14–18, 1953,” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific -Intelligence, February 16, 1953; Clark III 1014–1015; Michael D. Swords, -“Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1995): 16–20; Good Above, pp. 335–339; -Swords 188–192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2144

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Event 3000 -(3111C858)

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Date: 1/15/1953
-Description: The second day of the Robertson Panel. Ruppelt completes -his presentation, then Hynek discusses -Battelle’s Project Stork. The CIA shows a film of seagulls in flight. -Lt. Col. Oder gives -a 40-minute presentation on Project Twinkle. In the afternoon, Gen. William -M. Garland states his desire to increase the use of thoroughly -briefed USAF intelligence officers to investigate UFO reports, -declassify as many reports as possible, and enlarge Blue Book. Other -USAF representatives discuss the difficulties of setting up instrument -watches to monitor sightings. (Frederick C. Durant, “Report -of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying -Objects, January -14–18, 1953,” memorandum for Assistant Director for Scientific -Intelligence, February 16, 1953; O’Connell 87–89; Clark III 1015; -Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your -Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 16–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2145

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Event 3001 -(A349D2CD)

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Date: 1/16/1953
-Description: The third day of the Robertson Panel. Hynek speaks -again, followed by Maj. Dewey -Fournet, who -talks about his motion studies of UFOs that indicate controlled flight. -Physicist Lloyd -Berkner joins the panel in the afternoon. In the afternoon, panel -members talk about conclusions they have reached, and Robertson agrees -to draft a report for review (although it has already been written by Durant prior -to the meetings, which Fournet has suspected). (Frederick C. Durant, “Report -of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, -January 14–18, 1953,” memorandum for Assistant Director for -Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; O’Connell 87–89; Clark III -1015; Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your -Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 16–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2146

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Event 3002 -(969CDBF5)

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Date: 1/17/1953
-Description: The final day of the Robertson Panel. The panel reviews Robertson’s -draft report (Berkner has -already seen it) and puts it into final form. (By 11:00 a.m., both CIA -Director Walter -Bedell Smith and Gen. John -A. Samford have seen and approved the draft.) The scientists agree -that since most sightings can be explained, the rest can be accounted -for with further investigation, which is a “great waste of effort.” They -reject Fournet’s -UFO reports as “raw” and “unevaluated.” The Montana film is said to -depict aircraft. They reject the Navy analysis of the Utah film, calling -the objects “high reflectivity of seagulls in bright sunlight.” Because -the “mass receipt of low-grade reports [tends] to overload channels of -communication with material quite irrelevant to hostile objects that -might some day appear” (a phony issue invented by Thornton -Page), the Air Force should embark on a debunking campaign that -would “result in reduction of public interest in flying saucers” with -the help of scientific pronouncements (suggested by Hynek) -and media, including Walt -Disney Inc. animated cartoons. Blue Book should be expanded to 18 -staff members (it has 5) so that it can educate and debunk effectively, -but this never happens. Civilian UFO groups such as CSI and APRO should -be watched “because of their potentially great influence on mass -thinking if widespread sightings should occur. The apparent -irresponsibility and the possible use of such groups for subversive -purposes should be kept in mind.” The panel and report are kept -classified until a brief summary is declassified in 1958, and the CIA’s -involvement is kept secret until 1966. (Frederick C. Durant, “Report -of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, -January 14–18, 1953,” memorandum for Assistant Director for -Scientific Intelligence, February 16, 1953; Clark III 1014–1016 ; -Michael D. Swords, “Dr. Robertson Requests the Honor of Your -Attendance,” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 16–20; Swords -192–200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2147

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Event 3003 -(95DE6AAF)

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Date: 1/17/1953
-Description: 3:55 p.m. Geologist/salesman John Townsend Sackett is -riding in a bus with about a dozen passengers near Guatemala City, -Guatemala, when he observes a brilliant greenish-gold object, shaped -like the Goodyear blimp. It is later described as being about twice the -size of a DC-3. The object is traveling at about 400 mph straight and -level in a northwesterly direction at about 6,500 feet. It almost stops -in mid-flight then rises vertically about 1,500 feet, hovers for about 2 -seconds, then immediately resumes flight at a new altitude. The object -is lost to view because of intervening terrain. (NICAP, “Blimp-Like -Object Sighted by Geologist”; Sparks, -p. 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2148

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Event 3004 -(5440F613)

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Date: 1/17/1953
-Time: 3:55 PM
-Description: Witness: geologist/salesman J.J. Sackett. One brilliant -green-gold object, shaped like the Goodyear blimp with its length twice -its height, flew 400 m.p.h. straight and level, stopped, then went -straight up with one stop. Sighting lasted 22 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: near Guatemala City, Guatemala
-ID: 293

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Event 3005 -(3BAD1D19)

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Date: 1/18/1953
-Description: Upon Hynek’s -return to Ohio State University from the Robertson Panel, he and his new -research assistant Jennie -Zeidman come up with the name “Project Henry” to describe his -consultancy with the Air Force. It is based on the Flit bug-spray -advertisement that has a woman saying, “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” About -once a week, a courier from Battelle arrives at Hynek’s office with a -manila envelope stuffed with teletype UFO reports for him to examine. -Hynek travels to the Blue Book facility in Building 263 at -Wright-Patterson about 2–3 times a month, with Zeidman sometimes -accompanying him, (Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1991): 7–12, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2149

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Event 3006 -(8C45827B)

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Date: 1/20/1953
-End date: 1/20/1961
-Description: President Eisenhower in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 3007 -(F97F6E61)

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Date: 1/20/1953
-Description: Robertson writes -a letter to Chadwell, saying -“perhaps that’ll take care of the Forteans for a while” and mentions an -upcoming meeting with the “NSA group” on February 5. (Swords 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2150

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Event 3008 -(5533A563)

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Date: 1/20/1953
-Description: Dwight -D. Eisenhower is sworn in as president.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2151

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Event 3009 -(763077D4)

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Date: 1/24/1953
-Description: Ruppelt travels -to Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in Colorado Springs, -Colorado, to brief the 4602nd AISS on how they might help Blue Book -investigate UFOs. He also puts in for a transfer to Air Defense Command -here.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2152

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Event 3010 -(869EFCE7)

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Date: 1/26/1953
-Description: The Dept. of Defense, Washington, D.C. states in a letter -to the Henry Holt & Co. that Maj. Donald Keyhoes’ book on “flying -saucers” is accurate and that if the reported controlled maneuvers of -the saucers are accurate then the saucers may be from another planet. -Signed, Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research (A10, B1-E p542)
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 9/15/50

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Event 3011 -(4FFB8EEF)

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Date: 1/26/1953
-Description: The ROBERTSON PANEL convenes, headed by Prof. H.P. -Robertson. He was chosen because of being renowned as a nuclear -physicist. Some of the persons involved with this panel were -Capt. Ruppelt, Dr. Allen Hynek, Prof. S. GOUDSMIT, L. ALVAREZ, Sam -Goudsmit, Prof. Luis Alvarez, Dr. Lloyd Berkner and Prof. Thornton -Page.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea -Research

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Event 3012 -(0C4F6DE6)

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Date: 1/26/1953
-Description: Air Force Press Officer Albert -M. Chop writes a letter to Keyhoe’s -publisher Henry Holt & Co., declaring that all the sighting reports -he is using for his upcoming Flying Saucers from Outer Space were -cleared and made available to him from Air Technical Intelligence -records. (Albert E. Chop, Letter -to Henry Holt & Company, January 26, 1953; Good Above, p. 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2153

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Event 3013 -(32C2CA27)

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Date: 1/28/1953
-Time: 6:05 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF T/Sgt. George Beyer. Five 25’ green spheres -flew in V-formation, then changed to trail formation at which time the -end objects turned red. Sighting lasted 12 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corona, California
-ID: 295

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Event 3014 -(404E63BC)

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Date: 1/28/1953
-Time: 1 PM
-Description: Witness: R.W. Love, owner of Love Diving Co., engaged in -retrieving radio-controlled drones. An 18-20’ white, flat disc flew -straight and level, overhead, for 6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pt. Mugu, California
-ID: 294

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Event 3015 -(42E167F6)

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Date: 1/28/1953
-Time: No time given
-Description: Witnesses: radar maintenance personnel. Radar tracked one -stationary target for 20 minutes. A visual sighting about the same time -was explained. No further information in the files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Albany, Georgia
-ID: 296

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Event 3016 -(87F07FC4)

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Date: 1/28/1953
-Description: 1:06 p.m. R. W. Love and a Mr. Ferrenti, while engaged in -retrieving radio-controlled drones on a boat 1,100 yards offshore and -south of Naval Air Station Point Mugu [now Naval Base Ventura County] -near Oxnard, California, see a white, flat disc with fuzzy or shimmering -edges rapidly approach from the northwest flying straight and level, -overtake a jet aircraft, pass overhead, and disappear in the haze to the -east. (NICAP, “Flat -Disc Observed Overtaking Jet”; -Sparks, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2154

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Event 3017 -(77D9AB46)

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Date: 1/28/1953
-Description: 2:20 p.m. Northrop Aircraft test pilot Rex Hardy Jr. is -flying over Malibu, California, when he and two other crew members see a -formation of four UFOs the size of a B-36. They are circular in shape, -aluminum- colored, and flying at 1,200 mph. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole -Story, Signet, 1969, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2155

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Event 3018 -(CC0103F7)

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Date: 1/28/1953
-Description: A Maj. Geyer at Mitchel AFB [now closed] near Uniondale, -New York, investigates reports of a UFO seen by both civilian and -military witnesses. The UFO is an oval object glowing with different -colors and having a tail or projection. He quickly concludes that it is -a meteor and submits a report to Blue Book. However, one of the -witnesses, author Marie Armstrong Essipoff (Ben -Hecht’s first wife), later writes to Keyhoe saying -that she had told Geyer that the object wobbled and it had a turret on -top. She draws a picture and Geyer says it looks like one of their -flight simulators. But it’s “still a meteor,” he says. (Swords -199–200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2156

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Event 3019 -(B220FCA0)

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Date: 1/28/1953
-Description: 9:00 p.m. The control tower at Marine Corps Air Station El -Toro [now closed], California, spots a large, luminous, red object and -asks Maj. Harvey N. Patton to give chase. He pursues it from Newport -Beach to Long Beach and has it in sight for 3–4 minutes but is unable to -gain on it. (NICAP, “Marine -Fighter Asked to Check on Amber -Object”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2157

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Event 3020 -(A6DB1DEC)

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Date: 1/28/1953
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Maj. Hal W. Lamb, USAF senior pilot at Moody AFB -in Valdosta, Georgia, apparently sees the setting planet Venus (although -this is disputed) changing color and shape while flying a T-33 (or an -F-86). It is also seen by Turner AFB [now Naval Air Station Albany] -tower operators in Albany [not Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta], -Georgia (with time errors of about 10 minutes). About the same time, two -GCA radar maintenance men at Turner AFB radar track three moving targets -and a stationary target. At 10:10 p.m., the GCA reports two stationary -targets at 17 and 27 miles, both 300° azimuth. No visual confirmation, -though binoculars are used. (NICAP, “Several -Radar Contacts”; Sparks, -p. 191; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1953, January– March, The -Author, 1988, p. 66; Marler 129–130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2158

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Event 3021 -(6F197EB0)

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Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: Ruppelt still -thinks that the Robertson Panel has accepted Garland’s -recommendation to expand Blue Book (it hasn’t) and that its education -and debunking recommendation means that UFO information should be -released to the public (it didn’t). Fournet, Chop, -and Col. Teabert (Kenneth -E. Thiebaud?) of AFOIN-2 think the same. In Washington, Ruppelt -hears that the press has heard rumors about the Utah film, and he -decides to release it, focusing on the seagull explanation. (The Hynek -UFO Report, p. 236)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2159

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Event 3022 -(5F455136)

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Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: A briefing of the Office of Naval Estimates Board by the -CIA on UFOs includes the showing of the Utah and Montana films. -(Frederick C. Durant, “Briefing -of ONE Board on Unidentified Flying Objects,” January 30, -1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2160

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Event 3023 -(6CE134AA)

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Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: 9:55 a.m. A small gray oval-shaped object is seen between -Houlton and Chatham, Maine, by 2nd Lt. Fred T. Goetting Jr., pilot of an -F-94B. Goetting points out the object to his radar observer, Lt. Howard -C. Kelley. The object appears to be 10° above the F-94B, which is at -23,000 feet. Goetting attempts to intercept the object at a speed of 0.8 -Mach. This chase continues for 8 minutes without the F-94 gaining, and -the chase is broken off because of low fuel. The object is seen by at -least two fighter aircraft from other squadrons. (NICAP, “Gray -Oval Sighted -by 3 Fighter Aircraft”; Sparks, -p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2161

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Event 3024 -(6D22DC20)

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Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A farmer named Lloyd -C. Booth just north of Conway, South Carolina, hears a commotion of -animals, grabs his .22 revolver, and sees an oblong-shaped, lighted -object 10 feet above the trees moving slowly or hovering, with a low -humming sound. He shoots at the object twice. The first bullet bounces -off with a metallic sound; at the second shot the object tilts slightly -and ascends at a 65° angle to the west at 600–700 mph and disappears. -One of his cows had died the previous evening. (NICAP, “Man -Fires 0.22 at Hovering Object”; Sparks, p. 191; -“Conway -S.C. Man Shoots Saucer,” APRO Bulletin 1, no. 5 (March 15, 1953): 1, -4–5; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 64–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2162

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Event 3025 -(082F0579)

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Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: 2:20 p.m. Northrup test pilot Rex -Hardy Jr., test pilot Chester Mathews, and Northrup photographer Jim -Wilkinson see four metallic, disc-shaped object the size of a B-36 -flying in squadron formation over Malibu Beach, California. They -estimate their height as 20,000 feet and speed as 1,200 mph. They watch -for about 5 minutes. (NICAP, “Four -B-36-Sized Discs Observed by 3-Man Crew”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2163

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Event 3026 -(153FE883)

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Date: 1/29/1953
-Description: Hearing a commotion in his barn, a farmer observed an -object about 7 m long and 4 m wide at treetop level. It was light gray -in color and lit up inside. It resembled a half egg. The witness fired -his gun at the object. Numerous livestock died “mysteriously” in the -area after the sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Conway, South Carolina
-ID: 108

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Event 3027 -(565D87E4)

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Date: 1/31/1953
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #9. (US Air -Force, Projects -Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1– 12, NICAP, -1968, pp. 155–174)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2164

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Event 3028 -(C0E991F0)

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Date: 2/1953
-Description: Two strange men from another planet hired in San Francisco -- mysterious, then disappear.
-Type: anomalous event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: San Francisco, CA

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Event 3029 -(7E356FB1)

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Date: 2/1953
-Description: Albert -K. Bender appoints Gray -Barker as IFSB’s chief investigator. (“IFSB -Forms Dept. of Investigation,” Space Review 2, no. 2 (April 1953): -1; Clark III 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2165

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Event 3030 -(05A2EF0C)

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Date: 2/1/1953
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A T-33 flying 10 miles west of Terre Haute, -Indiana, sights a close group of moving lights changing color from red -to blue, to green to yellow. The pilot estimates their altitude to range -between 15,000 feet to 30,000 feet flying in a manner similar to -conventional aircraft. Searchlights from the St. Louis, Missouri, area -seem to be following the unidentified lights. (NICAP, “T-33 -Pilot Observes Unidentified Lights”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2166

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Event 3031 -(257F1747)

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Date: 2/3/1953
-Description: 8:00 p.m. George -Hunt Williamson and his wife Betty Jane watch two UFOs near the -ground from their home on Brookside Boulevard in Prescott, Arizona. -Another UFO passes over the house at 10:00 p.m. (Zirger and Martinelli, -The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, -pp. 363–364)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2167

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Event 3032 -(76877BF7)

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Date: 2/3/1953
-Time: 5:25 PM
-Description: Witnesses: radar operators. Four unidentified targets were -tracked for 24 minutes. No further data.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Keflavik, Iceland
-ID: 297

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Event 3033 -(4D781ECD)

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Date: 2/4/1953
-Description: 1:50 p.m. US Weather Bureau observer Stanley H. Brown in -Yuma, Arizona, tracks with a theodolite a white, oblong object. It is -surrounded by a thin white mist and flies straight up and levels off. -After 20 seconds, the object is joined by a second one that flies away -twice and returns. Both are lost to sight behind clouds to the -south-southwest. The sighting lasts 5 minutes. (NICAP, “Theodolite -Tracking of Two Elliptical Objects”; Sparks, p. 191; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 62–63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2168

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Event 3034 -(C5D5C84B)

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Date: 2/4/1953
-Time: 1:50 PM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Weather Bureau observer Stanley Brown, using -a theodolite. One white, oblong object was tracked flying straight up, -leveling off and being joined by a second, similar, object. The second -twice flew away and returned to the first. After 5 minutes, both were -lost to sight behind clouds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yuma, Arizona
-ID: 298

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Event 3035 -(0C7608B8)

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Date: 2/6/1953
-Description: 1:34 a.m. A B-36 aircraft piloted by Maj. Leo -J. Moffatt is over Rosalia, Washington, when he sees one round white -omnidirectional light at an altitude of approximately 7,000 feet on a -southeast course, circling and rising as it proceeds. It is visually -observed for a period of 3–5 minutes. The B-36 makes a 180° descending -turn toward the light, which is estimated to be moving at a speed of -170–230 mph. Blue Book explains it as a weather balloon launched from -Geiger Field [now Spokane International Airport]. (NICAP, “B-36 -Encounters Light at 7,000ʹ”; -Sparks, p. 192; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2169

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Event 3036 -(FA0C7F68)

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Date: 2/7/1953
-Description: 9:22 p.m. A USAF F-94 crew and other witnesses near Nemuro, -Hokkaido, Japan, see a bright orange object change color to red and -green at intervals and disappear behind a cloud. It is also tracked by -ground radar. (NICAP, “F-94 -Crew in Air and Ground Radar Tracking”; Condon, p. 122; -Sparks, p. 192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2170

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Event 3037 -(E9A6080B)

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Date: 2/9/1953
-Description: CIA agent Hayden Channing writes a memo to the Domestic -Contact Division describing a recent [late January?] public meeting of -the Civilian Saucer Investigation group in Los Angeles, California. -North American Aviation project engineer Walther -A. Riedel is a member of the organization, and he describes the -analyses of the UFO reports it receives. Only about 25 sightings are -unidentified, and these they forward to Project Blue Book. Channing -writes: “Apparently, an eye and interest are also directed to the USSR -for reactions to sightings as reported in the PRAVDA.” (Hayden Channing, -“California -Committee for Saucer Investigation,” February 9, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2172

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Event 3038 -(86FE94E9)

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Date: 2/9/1953
-Description: Al -Chop has written a press release on the Utah film with the approval -of Capt. Harry B. Smith of AFOIN. They decide to also release the USAF -(possible aircraft) and Navy (self-luminous or light sources) analyses, -otherwise the press might suspect a cover-up. The release would state -that, although no positive identification has been made, further -analysis will result in an identification. Gen. Garland approves -the release, which then goes on to the Pentagon, which “screamed ‘No!’” -Ruppelt is -ordered into silence. Chop says the CIA “killed the whole program. We’ve -been ordered to work up a national debunking campaign, planting articles -in magazines and arranging broadcasts to make UFO reports seem like -poppycock.” Ruppelt tells Keyhoe that -Blue Book must even discredit USAF pilots who report UFOs. “It’s a raw -deal, but we can’t buck the CIA.” (Ruppelt, p. 228; -Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 70–71; -The Hynek UFO Report, pp. 236–237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2171

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Event 3039 -(7F41742A)

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Date: 2/11/1953
-Alternate date: 2/19/1953
-Description: 10:00 p.m. At the Naval Auxiliary Air Station [now -Northeastern Regional Airport] in Edenton, North Carolina, Marine 1st -Lt. Edward Balocco is on intercept stand-by duty when the alert whistle -goes off. Minutes later he is in his F9F Panther jet heading north to -Virginia Beach, Virginia, while being vectored to an unknown target by -the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in -Havelock, North Carolina. By the time he gets close to the target, it -has disappeared from radar at Norfolk, Virginia. After searching the -area for 15 minutes, he heads back for fuel. Flying south at 20,000 -feet, he notices a light below him on the port side on or near the -ocean. After turning his navigation lights back on, he notices that the -light has risen to his altitude and is only 2,000 feet away. Closing in -on it, he sees it is a disc with blinking red lights. At 350 feet away, -his cockpit is bathed in blue-white light and everything seems -motionless and silent. He looks at his gloved hand and he can see the -bones in his hand like an X-ray. Suddenly there is a flash, and the UFO -breaks away as sound and motion return. Balocco tries to pursue it again -unsuccessfully. Captain Thomas Riggs, whose F9F Panther has also been -scrambled, reports the UFO is moving south along the North Carolina -coast. He is debriefed and told not to mention the incident. (“Cherry -Point, N.C.,” APRO Bulletin 1, no. 5 (March 15, 1953): 9–10; Good -Need, pp. 183–184; -Shoot 60–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2173

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Event 3040 -(51CAD269)

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Date: mid 2/1953
-Description: Weapons engineer Chester -W. Lytle Sr., deputy -director of operations for SAC’s Eighth Air Force Headquarters, is -visiting Eielson AFB near Moose Creek, Alaska, with Gen. William -H. Blanchard when he finds out his wife is about to give birth in -Chicago, Illinois. Blanchard offers to personally fly him in a bomber to -an air force base in Illinois so he can get home quickly. During the -long flight, their conversation turns to UFOs. Blanchard unexpectedly -mentions the 1947 Roswell incident and that a crashed alien spacecraft -had indeed been recovered. He tells Lytle that four dead humanoid beings -had been aboard. (Nukes 478–481)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2174

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Event 3041 -(D949270C)

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Date: 2/17/1953
-Time: 10:04 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two officers and three airmen of USAF AC&W -squadron, visually and by radar. Visual object appeared to larger and -brighter than a star and changed color; it was seen to move slowly for 5 -minutes until 10:09 PM Radar picked up a target at 10:08 PM moving in a -similar direction for 17 minutes, at similar speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Port Austin. Michigan
-ID: 299

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Event 3042 -(84CC4205)

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Date: 2/20/1953
-Time: #1 time unknown; #2, 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF B-25 bomber pilots. #1 was a bright yellow -light seen for 8 minutes. #2 was a bright light which flew on a -collision course, dimmed and climbed away fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pittsburg-Stockton, California
-ID: 300

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Event 3043 -(09FD7ABD)

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Date: late 2/1953
-Description: ADC commander Benjamin -Chidlaw at Ent AFB [now US Olympic Training Center] near Colorado -Springs, Colorado, tells future UFO researcher Robert C. Gardner that he -has “stacks of reports about flying saucers. We take them seriously when -you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” -(Stringfield, 3-0 -Blue, p. 91; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, -pp. 137–138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2178

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Event 3044 -(25AB3562)

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Date: 2/23/1953
-Description: Project Stork’s William T. Reid writes to Miles -E. Goll at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, saying that UFO reports -have been processed through October 15, 1952, and evaluations completed -for reports through July 31, 1952. (“Seven -Status Reports for Project Stork, Part 4 of 4 Parts,” CUFON)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2175

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Event 3045 -(0D778C73)

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Date: 2/24/1953
-Time: 7:43 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Warrant Officer and Mrs. Alden. Two bright red, -round objects with big halos flew in small circles, climbed and faded -during a 3-7 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sherman, Texas
-ID: 301

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Event 3046 -(892134DC)

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Date: 2/25/1953
-Description: Project Second Storey meets for the last known time, -chaired by astrophysicist Peter -M. Millman of the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa, Ontario, and -consisting of military and intelligence officers, as well as Wilbert Smith. It -concludes that, because details of most sightings cannot be adequately -confirmed, UFO reports do not lend themselves to a “scientific method of -investigation.” It determines that UFOs do not require a Canadian armed -forces investigation, but reports should still be sent to the -Directorate of Scientific Intelligence. (“Wilbert -B. -Smith,” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Chris Rutkowski and -Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, p. 229; -Good Above, p. 182; -Story, p. 276)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2177

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Event 3047 -(EA788405)

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Date: 2/25/1953
-Description: Pentagon press officer Albert -M. Chop writes to Maj. Donald -E. Keyhoe and verifies that the files on 41 cases investigated by -the Air Force for his upcoming book Flying Saucers from Outer Space were -indeed cleared for release by ATIC. (Albert M. Chop, Letter -to Donald E. Keyhoe, February 25, 1953; NICAP, “The -Chop Clearance -List”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2176

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Event 3048 -(B3EF192F)

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Date: 2/27/1953
-Time: 11:58 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF airman/private pilot. Five yellow discs made -circular turns, fluttered, three of them vanished, the other two flew -erratic square turns for a total of 4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
-ID: 302

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Event 3049 -(6EFC1EB4)

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Date: 2/27/1953
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #10, classified -“secret.” (US Air Force, Projects -Grudge and Blue -Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 175–198)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2179

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Event 3050 -(392EAE0D)

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Date: 2/28/1953
-Description: Capt. Edward -J. Ruppelt transfers out of Blue Book for a seven-month assignment -in Denver, Colorado. He is replaced by Lt. Robert M. Olsson, who has one -staff member. (Ruppelt, p. 228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2180

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Event 3051 -(5050C1AF)

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Date: 3/1953
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Pilot Howard -C. Strand is flying a routine patrol mission in a F-94B out of -Selfridge AFB [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base] near Mount -Clemens, Michigan, when he is asked to check out a radar target over -downtown Detroit. He and his radar operator see tiny specks that seem to -be a ragged formation of aircraft. As he approaches, he cannot see any -wings or tails. Ground radar has the UFOs as “good, strong targets.” -Strand looks at his instruments briefly and when he looks up the objects -are gone, though ground radar tracks them another 4 minutes. Gordon -Thayer calls it an inferior mirage. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1953 March–July, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2002, pp. 24–26; Condon, pp. 151–153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2181

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Event 3052 -(93301C66)

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Date: 3/1953
-Description: Harvard University astronomer Donald -H. Menzel publishes Flying Saucers, in which he explains all UFO -sightings as known phenomena such as mirages and temperature inversions. -It is the first book-length argument against UFOs, one of the few -published by an academic institution, and the first UFO book by a -scientist. ATIC personnel are displeased that Menzel has used a few -classified reports supplied to him for an examination of patterns, which -he has never produced. However, he has an imaginative vision of what -Venus looks like, with “warm seas” in which life teems. (Donald H. -Menzel, Flying -Saucers, Harvard -University, 1953; Getty Images, “Dr. Donald -H. Menzel, Harvard Professor and Native Denverite, Refers to His -Book,” March 13, 1953; Clark III 742)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2182

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Event 3053 -(AD137657)

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Date: 3/1953
-Description: Gen. John -A. Samford is interviewed in See magazine and provides -straightforward, factual answers about Project Blue Book, UFOs, and the -inadequacy of Menzel’s -theories. He claims the view of the Air Force is that “many credible -people have seen incredible things.” (Swords 210–211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2183

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Event 3054 -(44B7681A)

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Date: 3/3/1953
-Description: 1:25 p.m. USAF Capt. Roderick -D. Thompson, 3600th -Fighter Training Group out of Luke AFB near Glendale, Arizona, is an -instructor pilot flying an F-84 at 25,000 feet over Blythe, California. -He spots am object 300–500 feet wide leaving a contrail crossing his -path from left to right at about 35,000–45,000 feet at about 400 mph. It -is visible only by condensation vapor emitted from its manta-ray shaped -flat surface. Student pilots flying two F-84s, Lt. Jack E. Brasher and -Lt. Thomas W. Hale, also see the object but do not follow in pursuit. -When Thompson turns to pursue it, the object makes a slight dipping turn -to the northwest and begins climbing at about 20°. It appears to be very -thin and immediately begins to form a heavy condensation trail behind it -for roughly 1,000 feet and splits in two. Thompson reaches 30,000 feet -and closes to within roughly 5–10 miles to a point over the Colorado -River north of Parker Dam on the Arizona border. He takes 151 frames of -gun camera film of object with a 16 mm N-9 camera, apparently at 16 fps -1/40 second exposure setting. (NICAP, “Three -F-94 Pilots Encounter Manta-Ray, Gun Camera Shots”; -Sparks, p. 194; -Swords 213–214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2184

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Event 3055 -(76B5EDB4)

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Date: 3/5/1953
-Description: Brig. Gen. Woodbury -M. Burgess, commander -at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in Colorado Springs, -Colorado, sends a memo to Air Defense Command and the director of -intelligence at Ent suggesting that field teams of 4602nd personnel -interview UFO witnesses. (Maj. Robert C. Brown, “Utilisation -of 4602nd -AISS Personnel in Project Blue Book Field Investigations,” March 5, -1953; Kevin D. Randle, “UFO Coverup: -The Early Days,” A Different Perspective, June 20, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2185

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Event 3056 -(A969DF46)

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Date: 3/8/1953
-Description: Journalist Peter -H. Wyden’s interview with Ruppelt appears -in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ruppelt tells him that Project Blue Book -“has no evidence of any of these objects being anything other than -misinterpretation of known objects…. We can’t say positively because our -data isn’t good enough. But we’re not worried.” The lengthy article -provides a good overview of Blue Book’s investigations and staff of -seven, including Ruppelt’s assistants Lt. Anderson -G. Flues and Max Futch. (Peter Wyden, “They’re Still Chasing Flying -Saucers,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 8, 1953, p. 1G)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2186

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Event 3057 -(03B018A9)

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Date: 3/8/1953
-Description: 9:02 p.m. Physics teacher Leigh -Van Etten, two other teachers, and 10 students at Kents Hill School, -Maine, watch a big red ball of fire moving west-northwest for 12 minutes -before it disappears beyond the horizon. He estimates it is about 40–60 -miles away. (Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1991): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2187

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Event 3058 -(A8D66A1B)

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Date: 3/11/1953
-Time: 4 AM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. Nina Cook, an experienced private pilot and -wife of a Pan Am flight engineer. A large light, blinking at 10-15 times -per minute, moved up and down along a mountain range.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hackettstown, New Jersey
-ID: 303

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Event 3059 -(55E1D5D6)

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Date: 3/14/1953
-Time: 11:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: radar and visual observation by 10 crew members -of U.S. Navy P2V-5 patrol plane. Groups of 5-10 colored lights, -totalling 90-100, slowly moved aft off the left side of the airplane, as -detected visually and by airborne radar for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: north of Hiroshima, Japan
-ID: 304

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Event 3060 -(2F116B15)

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Date: 3/14/1953
-Description: 11:43 p.m. Lt. Robert J. Wooten is flying a Navy P2V-5 -antisubmarine plane over the Sea of Japan northwest of Nishinoshima, -Japan, when he encounters an “electrifying display” of groups of 5–10 -colored lights, totaling 90–100, slowly moving to the left side of the -aircraft at a range of 3–7 miles and maintaining an extremely precise -formation. Some of the objects are also tracked on radar. A 1955 RAND -report falsely attributes this to an armada of 100 MiG-15 fighter -aircraft (actually only 11) that menaced four US Navy Panther jets from -the carrier USS -Oriskany, but -this earlier incident took place on November 18, 1952, resulting in -damage to one of the MiGs. (NICAP, “Groups -of Lights / IFF Signals”; Clark III 53–59; Sparks, -p. 195; Swords 214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2188

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Event 3061 -(55BF0A69)

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Date: 3/15/1953
-Description: The International Flying Saucer Bureau declares today World -Contact Day and calls upon the UFO occupants to make a public appearance -on earth. (Albert K. Bender, FS and the Three Men, Saucerian, -1962)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2189

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Event 3062 -(BBB00DAD)

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Date: 3/17/1953
-Description: An FBI agent and two AFOSI officers interview George -Adamski and ask him to draft a statement saying that neither the FBI -nor Air Force has approved material used in his speeches. (Loren E. -Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1953, -March–July, The -Author, 1989, pp. 4–5; Clark III 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2190

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Event 3063 -(A8EE3EC5)

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Date: 3/18/1953
-Description: Ohio Northern University’s Project A reports that UFOs are -usually disc-shaped, silent, and fast-moving. “Our major conclusion to -date is that no one explanation fits all sightings, and about 20% of all -the sightings definitely fit the category of unnatural phenomena.” -(Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1953, March–July, The -Author, 1989, pp. 15, 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2191

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Event 3064 -(67C3FF7B)

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Date: 3/19/1953
-Description: Jack Clerk (Jack Charles Pryal Clerk, 1919–1996, US Marine -Corps Reserves), an Electrical Engineer attached to Army Ordinance as a -consultant, was giving public presentations at the Glendale CA Lions -Club area about three Crash Retrievals (“grounded saucers”) that -occurred in the southwest. His talks were “cleared by Security”, and it -says parts of his talk had to be “dummied up” at the request of the -government.
-Type: public presentation
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Glendale, CA

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Event 3065 -(E4EF7123)

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Date: spring 1953
-Description: After 12:00 noon. RAF Flight Lt. Cyril George -Townsend-Withers is asked to test some new ECM radar equipment using an -experimental English Electric Canberra aircraft. The jet has been -stripped of all removable parts to make it as light as possible. With -this modification, he is able to leave RAF Boscombe Down [now MoD -Boscombe Down] in Wiltshire, England, and soar to 55,000 feet, then a -record for the aircraft. Cruising over Salisbury Plain, Townsend-Withers -picks up a blip on his screen. It shows an object traveling 5 miles -behind him and maintaining a steady course. His immediate reaction is to -curse the “anomalous propagation” effects that they have gone to so much -trouble to avoid. However, he soon becomes aware that this was an image -of something flying right behind them. The science officer goes up to -the turret to take a look and sees, glinting in the sun or pouring out a -fantastic amount of its own light, a round shape trailing in their wake. -Townsend-Withers calls his pilot on the microphone and tells him that he -can see an unknown and suggests trying to outpace it. They reach 260 mph -but the thing cannot be shaken off, so the pilot executes a sweeping -radius turn. As the Canberra comes around from its turn, the object -comes into view dead ahead. For half a minute they are on a collision -course, swiftly trying to calculate what to do next. The object is round -like a thin disc, but with two small tailfins at the rear. It seems to -be metallic and enormous, and it is simply sitting there waiting for -them to fly right into it. Suddenly, it flips vertically into the air -and climbs upwards at an astonishing rate. Leaving no vapor trail, wake, -or detectable sound, the object vanishes within just a couple of -seconds. (NICAP, “Canberra -Crew Encounters UFO / Radar/Visual”; -Jenny Randles, “Collision Course,” IUR 27, no. 4 (Winter 2002–2003): -16–18; Jenny Randles, “Scramble, UFO! Part Three, The Team,” Fortean -Times 388 (January 2020): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2195

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Event 3066 -(246FBC0C)

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Date: 3/21/1953
-Time: 3:05 PM
-Description: Witness: Ground Observer Corps observation post. Six discs -in a group flew high and fast for a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Elmira, New York
-ID: 305

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Event 3067 -(502A3006)

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Date: 3/22/1953
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley, who share an isolated -one-bedroom cabin in the forest around Tujunga Canyon north of Burbank, -California, wake up when an odd light shines through the window. An -eerie silence falls over the cabin and neighboring forest. They get out -of bed but feel paralyzed. Then suddenly and inexplicably, it is 4:20 -a.m. Shaw, who was originally kneeling on the bed, is now sitting on it -with her feet on the floor. The two women flee the cabin. As they run, -they pass an apparition or “vaporous something” with the “head and -shoulders of a long-haired” person. When they return to the cabin two -days later, they feel a sense of dread. Shaw can remember nothing more -and the two women move apart. In 1975 Shaw watches a UFO documentary -that evokes some memories, and she contacts ufologist Ann -Druffel. During three hypnotic regression sessions—December 5, 1975; -February 26, 1976; and October 22, 1978—Shaw recalls her abduction by -black-garbed aliens. She undergoes a physical examination and the aliens -show her a cure for cancer. (Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo, The Tujunga -Canyon Contacts, Prentice-Hall, 1980, updated in New American Library, -1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2192

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Event 3068 -(BDFED9EE)

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Date: 3/23/1953
-Description: Gen. Burgess’s -4602nd AISS plan is approved. It is seen as aiding ATIC and giving AISS -personnel valuable experience in field interrogations and cooperating -with other agencies (Kevin D. Randle, The Government UFO Files, Visible -Ink, 2014, p. 249)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2193

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Event 3069 -(BB9E5707)

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Date: 3/24/1953
-Description: The Upshot-Knothole Nancy nuclear test at Nevada Test Site -Area 4 sends radioactive fallout on livestock across the region, -including those grazing at Papoose Lake, Nevada. Sixteen horses and -numerous cows belonging to local farmers, the Stewart brothers, die from -acute radiation poisoning. The Army compensates them for the horses, but -claim the cows died from Vitamin A deficiency. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Upshot–Knothole”; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2194

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Event 3070 -(1FC51B77)

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Date: 3/25/1953
-Time: 3:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Capt. and Mrs. D.E. Cox. Several lights, -some of which moved straight, others which made 360 degree turns for 1.5 -hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 306

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Event 3071 -(56D27A46)

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Date: 3/27/1953
-Time: 7:25 PM
-Description: Witness: pilot of USAF F-86 jet fighter at 600 kts. (700 -m.p.h.). One bright orange circle flew at 800 kts. (900 m.p.h.), and -executed three fast rolls. Pilot chased object for 4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Taylor, New Mexico
-ID: 307

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Event 3072 -(32178DE6)

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Date: 3/29/1953
-Time: 3:45 PM
-Description: Witness: L.C. Gillette. One aluminum, circular object flew -high and fast, twice reversing its course. Note: Mr. Gillette saw a -similar object in 1938. Fifteen second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Spooner, Wisconsin
-ID: 308

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Event 3073 -(C0B6E84A)

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Date: 4/1953
-End date: 6/1953
-Description: The US Army Chemical Corps’ Dew II project involves the -secret release of fluorescent particles (zinc cadmium sulfide) and plant -spores (Lycopodium) from an aircraft over St. Louis, Missouri. -(Minneapolis, Minnesota, was a previous target.) It only targets black -ghetto sections of St. Louis and arranges for local police surveillance -“to minimize the possibility of loss of equipment.” The Army reports -“much less curiosity and interference” than Minneapolis. Dew II is -described in a 1953 Army report that remains classified at the time of a -1997 report by the US National Research Council concerning the zinc -cadmium sulfide dispersion program. (Leonard A. Cole, Clouds of Secrecy: -The Army’s Germ Warfare Tests over Populated Areas, Rowman & -Littlefield, 1988, pp. 63–65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2197

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Event 3074 -(419BB65C)

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Date: 4/1953
-Description: Wilbert -B. Smith is drafting a report on Project Magnet for the Canadian -Department of Transport. He writes Keyhoe that -their conclusion will probably be that UFOs are alien vehicles. (Clark -III 1078)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2196

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Event 3075 -(12AA679F)

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Date: 4/8/1953
-Time: 7:55 PM
-Description: Witness: lst Lt. D.J. Pichon, pilot of USAF F-94B jet -interceptor. One bright blue light descended, accelerated, flew parallel -to the F-94, increased its speed and blinked out after 45 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Fukuoka, Japan
-ID: 309

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Event 3076 -(54896874)

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Date: 4/12/1953
-Description: 4:10 p.m. Ten round, flat, metallic objects changing -formation are observed traveling at a high rate of speed at an estimated -altitude of 7,500 feet over Sweetwater, Nevada. No trail, sound, or -exhaust are noted. The objects pass under the right nacelle of the -observers’ C-47 aircraft, which is en route to Stead AFB [now Reno Stead -Airport]. The copilot takes control of the aircraft and turns to the -right in a tight 300° turn for a better view. The objects are then -picked up unassisted by two more members of the crew. The objects are -seen in a right turn of a greater radius than that of the C-47 and at a -lower altitude. They are observed for approximately 120° of their turn -and disappear on a heading of 300°. Observers are unable to estimate the -speed of the objects because of the distance and the large turn radius. -(NICAP, “Ten -Round Flat Objects Changing Formation”; Sparks, -p. 197)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2198

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Event 3077 -(08013584)

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Date: 4/13/1953
-Description: The MKUltra project is launched on the order of CIA -Director Allen -Dulles and under the direction of Sidney Gottlieb. Its -aim is to develop mind-controlling drugs for use against the Soviet -bloc, largely in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean -use of mind-control techniques on US prisoners of war in Korea. The -project attempts to produce a perfect truth drug for use in -interrogating suspected Soviet spies, and generally to explore any other -possibilities of mind control. Another MKUltra effort, Subproject 54, is -the Navy’s top secret “Perfect Concussion” program, which uses subaural -frequency blasts to erase memory. However, the program is never carried -out. Because most MKUltra records are deliberately destroyed in 1973 by -order of then–CIA director Richard -Helms, it -is difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a complete -understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research -subprojects sponsored by MKUltra and related CIA programs. A cache of -some 20,000 documents survive Helms’s purge, as they are incorrectly -stored in a financial-records building and discovered following a FOIA -request in 1977. These documents are fully investigated during the -Senate Hearings of 1977. (Wikipedia, “Project -MKUltnra”; US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, -Project MKUltra, the CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral -Modification, 95th Congress, 1st Session, August 3, 1977; John D. Marks, -The -Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control, -Times Books, 1978; Jon Ronson, The -Men Who Stare at Goats, Simon -& Schuster, 2004; “Project -MK-Ultra: The CIA’s Experiments -with Mind Control,” ZazenLife.com, December 2011; Stephen Kinzer, -Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, -Henry Holt, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2199

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Event 3078 -(9A2E7118)

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Date: 4/14/1953
-Description: 9:23–11:50 p.m. A Navy P2V Neptune spy plane on an -electronic intelligence (ELINT/ferret) mission over the Sea of Japan -(about 200 miles southeast of Vladivostok, Russia) is paced and attacked -by 10 agile and highly maneuverable UFOs. The encounter takes place with -only 400 feet of distance between the aircraft and the sea. The objects -make more than “70 aggressive non-firing passes” in “high-speed runs,” -many just a few hundred feet directly underneath the Navy aircraft for -just over an hour. The UFOs transmit Morse Code light signals (the -letter “D”), an unprecedented occurrence in UFO history. The objects are -tracked on radar and by the Navy’s ELINT systems (which pick up and -analyze radar beams emitted from the objects) for almost two and a half -hours. (NICAP, “Two -Lights Flashing Morse Code Letter ‘D’”; Sparks, -p. 198; Clark III 53–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2200

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Event 3079 -(9E4A97F4)

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Date: 4/15/1953
-Time: 5:45 PM
-Description: Witness: S/Sgt. V.A. Locey. Three orange lights were seen -for: 3 minutes, 30 seconds, and a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 310

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Event 3080 -(E073DA33)

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Date: 4/16/1953
-Description: 3:45 p.m. The crew of a commercial Maritime Central -airliner flying at 9,000 feet above Chatham, New Brunswick, watches a -metallic disc approach their plane and pass underneath. (Chris -Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -pp. 64–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2201

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Event 3081 -(2EE17FCF)

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Date: 4/19/1953
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Four US Army reconnaissance observers (including -pilot Lt. Julius T. Morgan, Lt. James -O. Rymus, and -Lt. Jack E. Myers) in two aircraft see a white, rounded, delta-shaped -object 5–7 feet in diameter flying at 60–80 mph with a “vibrating” -motion over Communist territory in Korea. An official G-2 Intelligence -Report says the object is in the Old Baldy (Hill 266) and Pork Chop Hill -areas. Radar supposedly tracks them also moving faster than sound -(>767 mph). (NICAP, [news -clippings]; Sparks, -p. 199; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1991): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2202

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Event 3082 -(036870CD)

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Date: 4/23/1953
-Description: Gen. Charles -P. Cabell becomes deputy director of the CIA.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2203

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Event 3083 -(97A84C9D)

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Date: 4/23/1953
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Two witnesses in Iberville [now -Saint-Jean-de-Richelieu], Quebec, see a disc the size of a car approach -their house while they are eating dinner. It stops 250 feet above the -Richelieu River a bit more than a half-mile away. The man runs outside -for a better look and sees that it as a dome and is spinning as it -hovers. After 15 seconds it flies to the southwest and disappears. -(Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -pp. 65, 68–69, 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2204

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Event 3084 -(19D8A4AF)

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Date: 5/1953
-Description: A flawed CAA report states the July 1952 Washington -National Airport radar returns were weather targets. (Civil Aviation -Authority, A -Preliminary Study of Unidentified Targets Observed on Air Traffic -Control, Technical Development Report 180, May 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2205

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Event 3085 -(C4732620)

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Date: 5/1953
-Description: The Air Force publishes, under the signatures of Chief of -Staff Gen. Hoyt -S. Vandenberg and Air Adjutant General Col. Kenneth -E. Thiebaud, Air Force Manual 200-3, titled Handbook for Air -Intelligence Officers. It is classified Restricted. Intended as a -general guide for air intelligence officers conducting any type of -investigation, the 6-page manual’s only illustration is of an Air Force -plane accompanied by three flying saucers; the caption is “The Air -Technical Intelligence center is responsible for the prevention of -technological surprises.” It is discovered by Keyhoe in -1961 because someone forgot to reclassify the manual as Confidential in -November 1953 when the Restricted classification is retired. (Department -of the Air Force, Handbook for Air Intelligence Officers, Air Force -Manual 200-3, May 1953, chapter 9, pp. 9-1–9-6; -Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2207

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Event 3086 -(6BC33469)

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Date: 5/1953
-Description: CIA Assistant Director H. -Marshall Chadwell transfers chief responsibility for keeping abreast -of UFOs to OSI’s Physics and Electronic Division. Todos -M. Odarenko, chief -of the division, does not want to take on the problem, saying it -requires too much analytic and clerical time. Given the Robertson Panel -findings, he proposes to call the project “inactive” and devote only one -part-time analyst and a file clerk to maintain a reference file of -activities of USAF and other agencies on UFOs. (Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s -Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” Studies in Intelligence, 1997, -p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2206

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Event 3087 -(B88F29AF)

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Date: 5/1/1953
-Description: 11:35 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. R. L. Emberry and radar -operator 1Lt J. R. Morin are flying an F-94 interceptor at 24,000 feet -about 10 miles south of Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador. -Both men and a control tower operator see a white light with a visible -afterburner at 10,000 feet. The F-94 pursues it, both climbing to 40,000 -feet, but the object climbs out of sight after 30 minutes. (NICAP, “Unidentified -Evades Interception by F- 94”; -Sparks, p. 199; -Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -p. 262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2208

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Event 3088 -(B10A52E3)

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Date: 5/1/1953
-Time: 11:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet -interceptor, and control tower operator. One white light evaded -interception attempt by F-94 during 30 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 311

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Event 3089 -(437FAE2A)

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Date: 5/2/1953
-Description: BOAC Flight 783, a de Havilland Comet 1, crashes in a -severe thundersquall six minutes after taking off from Calcutta-Dum Dum -[now Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport], India, killing -all 43 on board. Witnesses observe the wingless Comet on fire plunging -into the village of Jagalgori. A British aviation investigator, J. H. -Lett, announces that the plane “collided with a fairly heavy body” and -UFO rumors persist for about a year. However, leading investigators -suspect structural failure. (Wikipedia, “de -Havilland Comet”; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, -p, 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2209

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Event 3090 -(A3FA41C9)

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Date: 5/4/1953
-Description: 1:50 a.m. A witness sees a football-shaped, metallic object -caught in the glare of a rotating beacon near Goose Bay AFB [now CFB -Goose Bay], Labrador. It is traveling south at high speed and a low -altitude, and disappears into low-hanging stratus clouds. She hears a -sound “like tins striking together.” (Sparks, p. 199; -Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -p. 262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2210

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Event 3091 -(3E3A3AD8)

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Date: 5/5/1953
-Description: 9:45 a.m. Chemist Wells Alan Webb is standing in a field -near the Vacuum Cooling Company plant, not far from Spain Flying Field -and about a mile north of Yuma AFB [now Marine Corps Air Station Yuma] -near Yuma, Arizona, when he sees a fuzzy-white oblong object at an angle -of 45° in the north. He observes it both with the naked eye and with -Polaroid glasses with a greenish tint that he uses for cloud -observations. It is about one-half the diameter of the full moon. After -5 minutes, the object moves to a position 30° eastward and suddenly -becomes circular in appearance, becoming gradually smaller. Three -concentric dark rings appear around the object, the largest about six -times its diameter when viewed with Polaroid glasses. Webb thinks that -the rings are the result of the rotation of polarized light scattered -from the atmosphere (Faraday effect). (NICAP, “Polaroid -Glasses Expose Concentric -Circles around Disc”; Wells Alan Webb, Mars, the New Frontier: -Lowell’s Hypothesis, Fearon, 1956, pp, 126–127; UFOEv, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2211

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Event 3092 -(5E755E13)

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Date: 5/10/1953
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Capt. Bob Jackson is piloting an Australian -National Airways DC-3 near Woronora Dam, New South Wales, when he sees -an object with an orange-colored light at the tail flash past toward the -east near Wollongong. The radar tower at Mascot shows no traffic in the -area. About 2 minutes later, the object reappears, makes a complete -circle around the airliner, and speeds away toward the coast. (Swords -378)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2213

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Event 3093 -(41B0A010)

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Date: 5/10/1953
-Description: 6:08 p.m. Capt. B. L. Jones is flying an Australian -National Airways DC-3 just south of Mackay, Queensland. He radios the -local control tower that a “strange object like a lighted glass dome” is -maneuvering around his plane. He and his copilot watch the object for -about 5 minutes during which time it climbs and dives at a speed of -200–700 mph. Finally, it crosses the path of the aircraft and disappears -swiftly to the west. A Mr. W. Overell, the officer in charge at Mackay -tower, sees the light climbing from about 4,000–5,000 feet in the west -at great speed, although the radar shows no other aircraft in the -vicinity. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 52; Swords -377–378)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2212

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Event 3094 -(3BA424C9)

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Date: 5/11/1953
-Description: A declassified MKUltra document indicates hypnosis is a -major focus. Experimental goals include: the creation of “hypnotically -induced anxieties,” “hypnotically increasing ability to learn and recall -complex written matter,” studying hypnosis and polygraph examinations, -“hypnotically increasing ability to observe and recall complex -arrangements of physical objects,” and studying “relationship of -personality to susceptibility to hypnosis.” Experiments are conducted -with drug-induced hypnosis and with anterograde and retrograde amnesia -while under the influence of such drugs. (Wikipedia, “Project -MKUltra”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2214

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Event 3095 -(664C04F5)

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Date: 5/12/1953
-Description: 3:20 a.m. USAF F-94 pilot Lt. D. C. Rogers and radar -operator Lt. J. A. Lane track a radar target about 39 miles northwest of -Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador. Rogers attempts to -intercept but cannot make visual contact. (Sparks, p. 199; -Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -p. 262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2215

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Event 3096 -(66B157F0)

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Date: 5/16/1953
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Photographer Herman Charmanne is near Bouffioulx, -Belgium, when he hears a strange metallic vibration. Looking up, he sees -a long white trail in the wake of an object that shoots off at a great -speed. The object, a luminous sphere, stops and hovers, allowing him to -take two photos that depict a fried-egg-looking shape with a long tail. -Recent analyses indicate that the photos are likely the result of a -chemical reaction during the developing process, perhaps a flammable -fluid deliberately poured on the image carrier that is then ignited. -(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, Belgium -in UFO Photographs, Volume 1 (1950–1988), FOTOCAT -Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 12–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2216

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Event 3097 -(5EC8B227)

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Date: 5/18/1953
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witness: C.S. Chapman, 15. One white, fuzzy, flashing light -hovered and darted around for 4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: New Plymouth, New Zealand
-ID: 484

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Event 3098 -(1E841C73)

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Date: 5/18/1953
-Description: 6:55 p.m. A bright, luminous object is seen over Abadan, -Iran. It travels very fast and is visible for 20 minutes. It is also -seen over oil fields in Khuzestan Province. (ClearIntent, pp. 129–130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2217

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Event 3099 -(C364BDB7)

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Date: 5/20/1953
-Description: At the junction of Jordan and Marble Creeks in Plumas -National Forest, northern California, titanium prospector John Q. Black -sees a silvery object, 8 feet in diameter, land on a nearby sand bar. On -June 20 the saucer returns, along with a barrel-chested “midget pilot” -wearing a “forest-green outfit” and a “peak-billed cap with a cord” -around it. The UFO is about 40 feet away, resting on a rock, and has -tripod-like landing gear. The pilot fills a rubber-like pail with creek -water and goes back inside the craft (which has one small window) after -hearing Black step on a stick. The craft takes off at a 45° angle with a -hissing sound. Black had seen the same object on March 20, for a total -of seven times. Black is alone for each sighting, so his partner John -Van Allen cannot corroborate the story. The UFO’s expected return on -July 20 does not occur, perhaps because scores of sightseers descend on -the Brush Creek area (snack bars are set up so that no one goes hungry -during the vigil). (Wallace Kunkel, “The Little Man Who Wasn’t There,” -Fate 7, no. 5 (May 1954): 48–52; Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December -15, 2006; Curt Collins, “Flying -Saucer Ambush: Brush Creek, CA, 1953,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, -November 17, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2218

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Event 3100 -(2F7DE58A)

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Date: 5/20/1953
-Description: Dr. Ed Doll orders Fritz Werner to report for special duty -the next day. (Indian Springs AFB.)
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Kingman, AZ
-See also: 5/21/53

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Event 3101 -(7777EF2A)

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Date: 5/20/1953
-Time: 1830
-Description: Two miners, John Q. Black, 48, and John Van Allen, reported -that an object, silvery, 2.5 m in diameter, 2 m thick, with a tripod -landing gear, landed on a sand bar 50 m away from them. An occupant -described as a broadshouldered dwarf wearing clothing that covered the -head and the trunk was also seen. His arms and legs were covered with -tweedlike cloth fastened at the wrists and ankle. He filled a shiny pail -with water and handed it to someone inside the craft. He then appeared -to notice Black and jumped into the craft, which made a hissing sound -and departed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Brush Creek, California
-ID: 109

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Event 3102 -(12610FA4)

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Date: 5/21/1953
-Description: Fritz Werner (pseudonym), engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB, -assisted in the investigation of a crashed UFO. It was constructed of an -unfamiliar metal, similar to aluminum [magnesium?]. It had impacted 20 -inches into the sand without any signs of structural damage. It was oval -and 30 ft. in diam. An opened hatchway was 3 1/2 ft. long and 1 1/2 ft. -wide. Inside the craft were 2 swivel seats, oval cabin and lots of -instrumentation and displays. A tent pitched nearby contained the corpse -of the pilot. It was approx. 4 ft. tall and had a brown complexion, two -eyes, a small round mouth, two nostrils [no nose?], and two ears. It -wore a silvery metallic-like suite and a skull cap of the same -material.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Kingman, AZ
-See also: 5/20/53

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Event 3103 -(F318693A)

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Date: 5/21/1953
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Eight disc-like objects are observed maneuvering -in the sky for an hour or so above Prescott, Arizona, by sportsmen’s -club president Bill Beers, post office employee Ray Temple, and O. Ed -Olson. Two of the discs are stationary, while the other six discs -participate in maneuvers similar to a dogfight. The six swoop around in -formation, peel off, and shoot directly up and down in a maneuver that -cannot be duplicated by a plane. When they move, they vary from very -slow to speeds faster than a jet plane. (Prescott (Ariz.) Evening -Courier, May 22, 1953; Nukes 87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2219

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Event 3104 -(72F61138)

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Date: 5/21/1953
-Description: Date of alleged UFO crash and retrieval near Kingman, -Arizona. “Fritz Werner” [pseudonym of Arthur -G. Stansel -Jr.] claims to have worked on the retrieval. An informant in 1977 -tells Leonard -Stringield that he had seen three alien bodies in a crate at -Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio after a UFO crash in Arizona. (Leonard H. -Stringfield, “Retrievals -of the Third Kind: Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1979): 6–7; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, -pp. 171–185; Clark III 335–338; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO -Crashes, Avon, 1995, pp. 57–68; -Good Above, pp. 398–400)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2220

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Event 3105 -(47B2AD54)

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Date: 5/23/1953
-Description: Radar tracks a target over Cape Province, South Africa, -that makes six passes at more than 1,250 mph at 5,000–15,000 feet -altitude. (Aimé Michel, The Truth about FS, p. 123; James E. McDonald, -“Statement -on Unidentified -Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, -Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., -2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 70–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2221

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Event 3106 -(ADF1409D)

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Date: 5/26/1953
-Description: 5:10 a.m. D. Beyers, driving 80 miles south of Brandvlei in -Northern Cape Province, South Africa, sees a bright yellowish-green -light in the clouds, then emerges. The light has the appearance of -“burning hydrogen” and emits three streaks that maintain a fixed -position with regard to the main light. He watches it for 50 minutes. -(ClearIntent, p. 130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2222

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Event 3107 -(615B1D1F)

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Date: 5/27/1953
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: many unidentified civilians, including Jacobson. -Nine separate meandering lights were seen during 15 minute -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 312

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Event 3108 -(63A43DAA)

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Date: 5/30/1953
-Description: After a small, bright-blue object with a strange irregular -motion passes overhead at Palmerston North, New Zealand, numerous -filaments of a “substance resembling spider webs, white in color and -ashy in texture” float to earth. (“Palmerston -North, New Zealand,” APRO Bulletin 2, no. 2 (September 15, 1953): 8; -Clark III 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2223

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Event 3109 -(16C17C6B)

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Date: 5/31/1953
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #11. (US Air -Force, Projects -Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, 1968, pp. 199–214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2224

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Event 3110 -(8FEFB21E)

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Date: 6/1953
-Description: Max -B. Miller publishes the first issue of Saucers, a digest-sized -quarterly of Flying Saucers International in Los Angeles, California. It -continues until the Fall 1959 issue. (Saucers 1, -no. 1 (1953); Clark III 1033)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2230

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Event 3111 -(A9719D11)

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Date: 6/1953
-Description: Night. An F-94C Starfire with classified electronic gear -takes off from Otis AFB [now Otis Air National Guard Base] in western -Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Piloted by Capt. Suggs and radar operator Lt. -Robert Markhoff, the jet takes off in a westerly direction. Shortly -after attaining 1,500 feet over the Base Rifle Range, the engine quits -functioning and the electrical system fails. The jet’s nose drops and -Suggs signals Barkhoff to bail out. Suggs bails out and he and his -parachute wind up in a homeowner’s backyard. The jet should have crashed -nearby, but neither Markhoff or the airplane can be located, despite -months of searching. Although this account comes from M/Sgt Clarence -O. Dargie, and -investigator Raymond -Fowler obtains the accident report from Norton AFB [now San -Bernardino International Airport], California, there appears to be no -open record of this incident. The F-94C models, especially at first, -have fire-control problems and electrical short circuiting. (Raymond -Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Prentice-Hall, 1974, pp. 287–291; -Good Need, pp. 189–191; -Bob Pratt, “Conversations with -Major Donald Keyhoe,” Mutual UFO Network; Barry Greenwood, “Questions -on a 1953 Cape Cod Mystery,” -UFO Historical Revue, no. 8 (February 2001): 1–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2227

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Event 3112 -(AEAB5986)

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Date: 6/1953
-Description: Secretary of Defense Charles -Erwin Wilson abolishes the Research and Development Board for the -politically motivated reason that suspected communist sympathizer Robert -Oppenheimer is a sitting member. (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, -“The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. -2 (Summer 2001): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2228

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Event 3113 -(22F24F1B)

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Date: 6/1953
-Description: Lt. Robert M. Olsson and J. -Allen Hynek visit Coral -Lorenzen in Wisconsin and try to convince her that it is in the -national interest for her to reduce excitement about UFOs by publishing -cases. (Swords 197; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2229

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Event 3114 -(A0DEF988)

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Date: 6/9/1953
-Description: Sidney -Gottlieb approves Project MKUltra’s “Subproject 8” on LSD. -Experiments include administering LSD to mental patients, prisoners, -drug addicts, and prostitutes—“people who could not fight back,” as one -agency officer puts it.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2231

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Event 3115 -(BF4507DC)

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Date: 6/17/1953
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Several witnesses in Galveston, Texas, see a -large, cigar-shaped object silently flying in from the Gulf of Mexico. -One estimates it to be about 300 feet long and no greater than 150 feet -in the air. The object makes a cloud and disappears. (Herbert S. Taylor, -“Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): -19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2232

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Event 3116 -(A7542261)

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Date: 6/18/1953
-Time: 0230
-Description: Howard Phillips, Hilda Walker and Judy Meyers saw in a -garden at 118 East Third Street a strange “shadow” on the lawn which -resembled a “flying man,” and they watched it take off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins A 261 (Vallee)
-Location: Houston, Texas
-ID: 110

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Event 3117 -(6BED55CF)

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Date: 6/20/1953
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA -spot UFO’s
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: California Coast

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Event 3118 -(21ABCE1C)

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Date: 6/20/1953
-Time: 1830
-Description: John Q. Black, witness of the May. 20 incident, observed an -exact repetition of the scene, including the “little man.” Van Allen saw -only the landing marks, about 30 cm wide and re sembling elephant -tracks.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Brush Creek, California
-ID: 111

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Event 3119 -(9D9DBBCB)

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Date: summer 1953
-Description: Two F-94 jets are scrambled at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base -[now Stephenville International Airport], near Stephenville, -Newfoundland, after base radar picks up an unknown target. One of the -pilots gets radar and visual confirmation, then radios that he is going -into a steep climb to give chase. The jet crashes into a mountain. The -base is supposedly placed on red alert. (Stringfield, Situation Red, -Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2225

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Event 3120 -(AF8457C7)

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Date: summer 1953
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A family is returning home on Scenic Avenue in -Central Point, Oregon, when they see three entities along the side of -the road only 6 feet away. They stop the car, and the beings glide -across the road and disappear into the woods. They are 4 feet high, -white, with satiny fur, and resemble very large geese, but with no beaks -or wings. (“No -UFO Seen: Just Creatures,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 2 -(April/May 1984): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2226

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Event 3121 -(E4FF216E)

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Date: 6/21/1953
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Nine Japanese and Okinawan weather observers. -One unidentified light moved slowly for 20 minutes. No further data in -files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Naha, Okinawa
-ID: 313

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Event 3122 -(78EAE78C)

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Date: Summer 1953
-Description: Saucer crash lands near Camp Polk, Louisiana. US Army Pvt. -H.J. (initials) under Sgt. R.S. (initials) in Company B ordered to stay -by the saucer until the ambulance and superior officers arrive. Three -Aliens walked away from the crash. One Alien was carried on a stretcher. -All aliens eventually died, taken to storage facility near Washington -D.C. Alien description: Large helmeted heads, tight fitting suits, legs -stiff when they walked, 3.5 to 4.0 feet tall, used Alien language.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research (B3-C, RECOVERY, ALIENS)
-Location: Camp Polk, Louisiana

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Event 3123 -(8E66E8F1)

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Date: 6/22/1953
-Time: 2:10 AM
-Description: Witnesses: pilot and radar operator of USAF F-94 jet -interceptor. One red light, flying at an estimated 1,000 kts. (1,100 -m.p.h.) eluded the chasing F-94 after 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 314

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Event 3124 -(E104B8F5)

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Date: 6/24/1953
-Description: USAF EMERGENCY Intelligence Report: Two jets out of Quonset -Point have had mid-air collision at 2130E with UFO. American and Eastern -Airlines pilots reported UFO. Jets fell in flames 15 miles West of -Quonset Point.
-Type: ufo collision
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p488)
-Location: Quonset Point, Rhode Island
-See also: 6/26/1953

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Event 3125 -(43EE9113)

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Date: 6/24/1953
-Description: 11:30 a.m. A weather observer stationed at remote Simiutaq -island, western Greenland, is tracking a weather balloon with a -theodolite. He notices a rotating red object flying from southeast to -northwest and approaching the balloon, which is at 18,000 feet. The -object collides with the balloon, disintegrating it. Afterward, it -hovers in a circular motion for 15 seconds and departs into the wind. He -watches it another 5 minutes until it is lost to view. (Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 69–70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2233

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Event 3126 -(BE32C178)

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Date: 6/24/1953
-Time: 11:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF KB-29 aerial tanker plane. Radar -tracked an unidentified target which twice approached to within .5 miles -of the airplane, and once to within 6 miles, during a 2 minute -observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands
-ID: 315

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Event 3127 -(FF9E5AB4)

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Date: 6/24/1953
-Description: Night. A flight of US Navy F2H Banshee jets out of NAS -Quonset Point [now Quonset Point Air National Guard Station] are on a -night training mission over southern Rhode Island when two aircraft in -the formation collide in mid-air. The crash occurs at 19,000 feet near -or over the Exeter/West Greenwich town lines, and debris is scattered -for several miles in all directions. The pilot of one Banshee, Lt. Jg. -Jack -Oliver Snipes, is killed. An emergency cable sent to the Director of -Air Force Intelligence in the Pentagon indicates that “flying objects” -are seen by the pilots prior to the accident. Its distribution list -includes the fledgling National Security Agency. (“Exeter/West -Greenwich, Rhode Island: June 24, 1953,” New England Aviation -History, October 2017; Good Above, pp. 272–273, 488)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2234

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Event 3128 -(1437E3B9)

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Date: 6/24/1953
-Time: 11:30 AM
-Description: Witness: weather observer A/2c R.A. Hill. One red triangle -hovered and rotated for 15 seconds, then climbed for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Simiutak, Greenland
-ID: 316

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Event 3129 -(CBC0932C)

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Date: 6/24/1953
-Time: 0018
-Description: A civilian woman saw something like “a large aircraft” -flying very slowly and low. It had a lighted red band around the middle -and was coming straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She -still thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near -her, 25 m above ground. Then it flew backward over the water and -hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top section -supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four portholes through -which a control panel was visible. No occupant was seen. The cabin rose -above the object, rotated, then glided back. The object tilted toward -the west and rose toward the southeast, disappearing within 3 sec at an -80 degree angle of climb after the 3-min sighting. Diameter: 30 m. Two -days later a yellowish moss was observed at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Hampton Bay, Long Island
-ID: 112

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Event 3130 -(DF78CC2A)

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Date: 6/26/1953
-Description: USAF Intelligence Report, EMERGENCY JEDUP JEDEN JEDFF JEPHQ -JEPRS 555. Distribution: OOP, OOP-CP, OAC, ARMY, NAVY, JCS, CIA, NSA, -Tech Intelligence Center Wright Patterson AFB. (see 06/24/53 for details -of report)
-Type: ufo collision
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p488)
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 6/24/53

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Event 3131 -(200E38DE)

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Date: 6/30/1953
-Description: 11:45 p.m. An orange-colored, oval object is seen for a -period of 20 minutes in the northern sky moving to the southeast by at -least 10 personnel of the US 912th Air Control and Warning Squadron -stationed at Ramore Air Station radar site [now CFS Ramore], 3 miles -west of Ramore, Ontario. The first person to see it is A/2c Dean -McDonald who comes out of the maintenance room to inspect a power unit -that has caused a minor breakdown of the search radar set. He calls two -other airmen to witness it. One of the two thinks the object is the -moon. The first airman gets hysterical and calls the Charge of Quarters -at the Domestic Area three miles to the southwest. At least seven -witnesses in that area see the object, and two of them report that the -moon is visible and the UFO is distinct and separate. The object soon -fades away slowly to the north. ([Project -Blue Book file])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2235

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Event 3132 -(7F5C4306)

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Date: 7/1953
-Description: The 4602nd AISS has taken over nearly all of Blue Book’s -field investigations. (Ruppelt, p. 232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2236

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Event 3133 -(03DF8304)

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Date: 7/1953
-Description: Lt. Robert M. Olsson of Project Blue Book sends five -supposedly unsolved UFO cases of 1953 to Cal Tech physicist Howard -P. Robertson in an effort to see if any change in the Robertson -Panel’s conclusions is warranted. One of them is the Sea of Japan ELINT -case of April 14. Apparently, Robertson’s mind is not changed. He is now -heading up the Robertson Committee of the newly formed National Security -Agency, tasked with developing better use of intercepted communications -and radars in order to provide strategic warning of a military attack by -the Soviet Union. (Clark III 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2237

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Event 3134 -(AD00402D)

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Date: 7/1/1953
-Description: 1:00 p.m. A cowherd, Maximo Munoz Olivares [or Hernáiz], -14, sees a “big balloon” on the ground behind him in Villares del Saz, -Cuenca, Spain, after a faint whistling attracts his attention. Shaped -like a water jug, the object is metallic. Through an opening come three -dwarfs 2 feet tall, with yellow faces, narrow eyes, and oriental -features. They speak in a language he cannot understand. They are -dressed in blue and have a sort of flat hat with a visor in front and a -metal sheet on their arms. One of them smacks the boy’s face, then they -reenter the machine, which glows very brightly, makes a soft whistling -sound, and goes off “like a rocket.” Footprints and four holes 2 inches -deep, forming a perfect square 13 inches in size, are found by police. -Possible hoax. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: -1953, March–July, The -Author, 1989, pp. 92–93; Antonio Ribera, “The -Landing at Villares del Saz,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, -special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, pp. 28–30; Clark III 270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2238

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Event 3135 -(94FE392E)

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Date: 7/2/1953
-Time: 1300
-Description: Approximate date. An illiterate boy cowherd, Maximo Munos -Olivares, 14, saw a “big balloon” on the ground behind him when a faint -whistling attracted his attention. Shaped like a water jug, it was -metallic. Through an opening came three dwarfs 60 cm tall, with yellow -faces, narrow eyes, and oriental features. They spoke in a language he -could not understand. They were dressed in blue, had a sort of flat hat -with a visor in front and a metal sheet on their arms. One of them -smacked the boy’s face, then they reentered the machine, which glowed -very brightly, made a soft whistling sound and went off “like a rocket.” -Footprints and four holes 5 cm deep forming a perfect square 36 cm in -side were found by police.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 29 (Vallee)
-Location: Villares des Saz, Spain
-ID: 113

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Event 3136 -(19978A3F)

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Date: 7/7/1953
-Description: Evening. An Atlanta, Georgia, barber named Edward Watters -buys a monkey from a pet shop, shaves and kills it, cuts off its tail, -then takes it with two friends, Tom Wilson and Arnold Payne, to US -Highway 78 near Leland, Georgia, and waits for the first car to stop. -They tell the driver, who turns out to be Cobb County policeman Sherley -Brown, that -they had seen a flying saucer and accidentally killed one of its -occupants. They bring the dead animal to the Atlanta Constitution -office, where reporter Thomas McRae notifies the FBI, which alerts the -Air Force at Dobbins AFB [now Dobbins Air Reserve Base] in Marietta. The -animal is taken to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, where Anatomy -Professor Marion Hines identifies it properly as a shaved Capuchin -monkey. Watters admits the hoax and is fined $40 by a judge. (Wikipedia, -“Martian -Monkey”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: -1953, March–July, The -Author, 1989, pp. 96–102; Clark III 593)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2239

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Event 3137 -(A071CEE1)

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Date: 7/16/1953
-Description: Lt. Col. William F. Barns attains an official world -airspeed record of 716 mph in a North American F-86D Sabre over the -Salton Sea, California. (Wikipedia, “North -American F-86D Sabre”; “16 -July 1953,” This Day in Aviation History, July 16, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2240

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Event 3138 -(046A2D01)

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Date: 7/19/1953
-Description: Confidential Message to the Adjutant General, Wash. 25 -D.C.: An F-86 aircraft was observed in flight over the Oak Ridge -residential area by a writer and his wife. While observing the F-86 -through 6 power field glasses an UFO, black in color, moved out of a -high white cloud directly over the area where the F-86 had been -circling. The UFO began circling at a tremendous speed for at least 5 -minutes. It appeared at times to be cigar shaped and at other times to -be round in shape. No sound or visible means of propulsion was observed -from the UFO. It flew away at tremendous speed for 3 miles where it was -joined by 2 other UFOs into a ‘V’ formation and sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Oak Ridge, TN
-See also: 7/27/53

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Event 3139 -(4092B284)

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Date: 7/19/1953
-Description: 3:00 p.m. After an F-86 has been circling over a particular -spot in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a black object emerges from a high white -cloud and takes up its position after the plane has left toward -Knoxville. “This object was extremely black in color, having an -appearance of a deep black metal exterior with a fine gloss. It did not -leave a vapor trail or were there any lights of shine noticed. No sound -was heard. The object flew east at a tremendous speed for what appeared -to be approximately three miles where it stopped. The object was then -joined by two more of these same objects. A formation similar to a -spread V was formed and the objects, at a tremendous speed flew in an -eastward direction.” The report is made by the Atomic Energy Commission -and addressed to Army Adjutant General William -Edward Bergin in Washington, D.C. (NICAP, “Black -Objects Maneuver -over Area nr F-86”; “Air -Space Violation at Oak Ridge, Tennessee,” July 27, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2241

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Event 3140 -(A7475551)

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Date: 7/20/1953
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA -spot UFO’s
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: California Coast

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Event 3141 -(55CDEA72)

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Date: 7/20/1953
-Description: Ed -Ruppelt returns to Project Blue Book as either acting chief or -consultant until August 31. (Sparks, p. 14; -Clark III 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2242

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Event 3142 -(9D76D45F)

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Date: 7/25/1953
-Description: ATIC guide, How to Make FLYOBRPTS, a 68-page manual for -officials required to make UFO reports, is published. (Air Technical -Intelligence Center, How -to Make FLYOBRPTS, July 26, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2243

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Event 3143 -(DD056323)

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Date: 7/26/1953
-Description: Emergency Message to Air Defence Command: CIRVIS 3346N -9632W sighted 7 UFOs hovering at altitude of 5 to 8 thousand feet near -Perrin Tower, TX. Visually observed by citizens of Denison and Sherman, -TX. The UFOs were grouped in a Z (Zebra) formation, then circled to -higher altitudes and faded from sight. Each UFO had one bright red light -on it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-F p359)
-Location: Perrin Tower, TX

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Event 3144 -(C4DC5176)

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Date: 7/26/1953
-Description: 9:39 p.m. At Perrin AFB [now North Texas Regional Airport] -in Sherman, Texas, ground observers see 7 UFOs, each carrying a bright -red light, hovering at 5,000–8,000 feet. They are in a formation of two -groups of three, and one trailing, then come together to form the letter -“Z.” Then they circle, gain altitude, and fade from sight. Citizens in -Sherman and Denison also see the objects. Total duration is 16 minutes. -This is classified as a “Vital Intelligence Sighting” and sent to the -Air Defense Command, the Secretary of Defense, and the CIA. (CIRVIS -Report, July -26, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2244

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Event 3145 -(183191B2)

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Date: 7/27/1953
-Description: Security Information, Confidential Message to Adjutant -General, Wash. 25 D.C.
-Type: Confidential Message
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 7/19/53

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Event 3146 -(DFB9C152)

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Date: 7/30/1953
-Description: Science journalist John -Joseph O’Neill observes through a telescope a feature on the western -edge of the lunar Mare Crisium that he interprets as a giant natural -bridge. The observation is prematurely confirmed by amateur Welsh -astronomer Hugh -Percy Wilkins. Although -it turns out to be an illusion, the location is still known as O’Neill’s -bridge. When viewing conditions are poor or the telescope’s aperture is -small, the feature resembles a bridge joining the tips of the capes -Promontorium Lavinium and Promontorium Olivium. If viewing conditions -are good and the instrument is large enough, the feature is seen as two -small, eroded crater pits. (The Moon Wiki, “O’Neill’s -Bridge”; Andrew May, “The Lost Ruins of the Moon,” Fortean Times 358 -(October 2017): 56–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2245

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Event 3147 -(C6F65C7D)

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Date: 7/30/1953
-End date: 8/1/1953
-Description: A large UFO is seen for three nights over Sequoia and Kings -Canyon National Parks in California. Park Superintendent Elvind -T. Scoyen and his staff observe it once at close range. On August 1, -a squadron of Air Force fighters sees the object streaking downward just -before midnight. It stops abruptly then shoots upward. (Keyhoe, Aliens -from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2246

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Event 3148 -(1C263EAE)

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Date: 7/31/1953
-Time: 1900
-Description: A metallic object 30 m in diameter was observed by five -Polish and two German workers as it landed in a field close to a -railway. It was shaped like a sphere with a flat disk around it, showing -numerous openings at the periphery.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Intelligence Digest Nov., 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Wolin, Poland
-ID: 114

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Event 3149 -(30AB1713)

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Date: 7/31/1953
-Description: Lt. Robert Olsson leaves Project Blue Book. He later tells -Ruppelt his -5-month tenure “was like being president of Antarctica on a -nonexpedition year.” He is replaced by Airman 1C Max G. Futch. (Ruppelt, -p. 228; -Clark III 55; Sparks, -p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2247

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Event 3150 -(B4F8E35F)

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Date: 7/31/1953
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Five Poles and two Germans see a disc-shaped -object about 16 feet in diameter land in a field near a railroad track -on Wolin Island, Poland. After several minutes it rises up and flies -away at great speed. (Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in -Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1986): 15; Vallée, Magonia, p. 203)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2248

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Event 3151 -(55009B6F)

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Date: 8/1953
-Description: Wilbert -B. Smith completes his classified report on Project Magnet for the -Canadian Department of Transport, writing that it can be deduced that -UFOs are 100 or more feet in diameter, they can travel at speeds of -several thousand miles per hour, and can reach high altitudes. “It is -difficult to reconcile this performance with the capabilities of our -technology [and] we are forced to the conclusion that the vehicles are -probably extraterrestrial, in spite of our prejudices to the contrary.” -The DOT agrees to his proposal to set up an electronic station for a -“24-hour watch for flying saucers” in a hut at Shirley’s Bay, off Lake -Manitou, Ontario. Equipment includes am ionospheric reactor, electronic -sound measurement devices, gamma-ray detector, gravimeter, magnetometer, -and radio set. (Clark III 1078–1079)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2249

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Event 3152 -(2D5B4941)

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Date: 8/1/1953
-Description: The US Air Force Security Service moves its headquarters -from Brooks Air Force Base [now closed] to Kelly Air Force Base [now -Kelly Field Annex], both in San Antonio, Texas. (Wikipedia, “Air -Force Intelligence, Surveillance, -and Reconnaissance Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2250

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Event 3153 -(6F501269)

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Date: 8/3/1953
-Time: 12:04 PM
-Description: Witness: Airport control tower chief C.S. Brown. One round -and reflective or translucent object flew straight, stopped for 7 -seconds, sped along, stopped again, was joined by a similar object and -they flew off in different directions, after a total of 56 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Amarillo, Texas
-ID: 317

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Event 3154 -(DF657992)

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Date: 8/5/1953
-End date: 8/6/1953
-Description: Around 8:00 p.m. Ground Observer Corps observer Phyllis -Killian spots a UFO in Black Hawk, South Dakota. Soon after, radar at -Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City tracks a “well-defined, solid, and bright” -object. The base scrambles an F-84 and the pilot sees the UFO. Many -witnesses see the object accelerate and climb. The F-84 pursues but can -reach no closer than 3 miles. Now low on fuel, the F-84 returns, -followed by the UFO. Immediately, another F-84 is sent up. Before long, -the pilot receives strong radar returns of a target right in front of -him. Fear prevails and he breaks off the chase. The UFO goes off the -scope, traveling northeast. Reports soon come from Brunswick of a -fast-moving, bright blue object, similar to the Rapid City object. It -hovers near an air filter center, performing more maneuvers and -disappearing after midnight. Before it leaves, three more UFOs are seen -at 10,000 feet for three hours. Ruppelt personally -investigates and calls it “the best” in the USAF files, Hynek writes -that the “entire incident…has too much of an Alice-in-Wonderland flavor -for comfort.” Menzel blames -the star Capella. The official file is several hundred pages long. -(NICAP, “The -Rapid City / Ellsworth AFB -Incident (RV)”; Condon, pp. 132–136; -Ruppelt, pp. 232–235; -Sparks, p. 203; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: -1953, August–December, The Author, 1990, pp. 2–3; Swords 215; Jan -Aldrich; Patrick Gross, “The Ellsworth -AFB Radar Multiple Visual Case, 1953”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2251

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Event 3155 -(EA988033)

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Date: 8/6/1953
-Description: 5:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight. An estimated 75 objects with -lights are seen by many witnesses on the ground around Naval Air Station -Barbers Point [now Kalaeloa Airport], Hawaii, from the airport control -tower and from the air. Many are also detected by radar. At 9:00 p.m., -the crew of a Navy patrol aircraft reports three head-on passes. These -close calls alarm the pilot so much he lands immediately. Jet fighters -are scrambled and the same night an interceptor pilot sees a “glowing -blob” rising rapidly toward him. It comes to a sudden stop just behind -his aircraft then accelerates briefly until it is beside him for four -more seconds before accelerating away out of sight at several times his -own top speed. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, p. 63; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1953, August–December, The -Author, 1990, p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2252

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Event 3156 -(048B7FBE)

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Date: 8/9/1953
-Description: 9:34 p.m. Supervisor Larry E. Towner and other Ground -Observer Corps personnel report a glowing disc about 200 feet in -diameter over Moscow, Idaho. At 10:10 p.m., the first of two F-86s is -scrambled. The object lingers, with other lights seen, until around 5:00 -a.m. (NICAP, “Three -F-86’s Chase Disc Spotted by GOC”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1953, August–December, The -Author, 1990, pp. 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2253

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Event 3157 -(4EA557E6)

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Date: 8/10/1953
-Description: Wilbert -B. Smith issues another report on Project Magnet, in which he -concludes there is a “substantial probability of the real existence of -extraterrestrial vehicles” that use a “technology considerably in -advance of what we have.” The report is eventually sent to Prime -Minister Louis -St. Laurent. (Good Above, pp. 185, 187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2254

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Event 3158 -(4AB7A973)

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Date: 8/12/1953
-Description: The USSR tests its first thermonuclear device, RDS-6s or -Joe 4, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. A tenfold increase -in explosive power is achieved by a combination of fusion energy and -neutron- initiated fission. Scholars dispute the authenticity of RDS-6 -as a true thermonuclear device, as it does not manage to produce a yield -consistent with a true hydrogen bomb. (Wikipedia, “Joe -4”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2255

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Event 3159 -(33EBA6E2)

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Date: 8/12/1953
-Description: First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (Joe 4), 400kt, -Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 400

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Event 3160 -(D80019B0)

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Date: 8/13/1953
-Description: Paramount Pictures’ The War of the Worlds premieres in New -York City. It is a modern retelling of H. -G. Wells’s -story of an invasion from Mars and features a Northrop YB-49 flying wing -dropping an atomic bomb on the invading Martians. The color footage -comes from a test flight. The film is produced by George -Pal, directed by Byron -Haskin, and -stars Gene -Barry and Ann -Robinson. (Wikipedia, -“The -War of the Worlds (1953 -film)”; Internet Movie Database, “The -War of the Worlds”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2256

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Event 3161 -(8179E59A)

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Date: 8/13/1953
-Description: Science fiction movie “The War of the Worlds” -released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US

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Event 3162 -(01F3DD9E)

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Date: 8/16/1953
-Description: Flying Saucers International holds the first UFO conference -at the Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, California, featuring contactee -speakers. However, George -Van Tassel’s first Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention -launches the same day near Landers, California, for three days with -speakers Frank -Scully, George Van Tassel, Orfeo -Angelucci, George -Adamski, and the Amazing -Criswell. (Story, p. 91 ; -Orfeo Angelucci, “A -Release: On Flying Saucers First Convention,” Interplanetary News -Digest 1, no. 2 (October 1953): 1; “Blast -from the Past: UFO Conventions from Giant Rock in Landers,” Palm -Springs (Calif.) Desert Sun, July 25, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2257

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Event 3163 -(EF7824E0)

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Date: 8/16/1953
-Time: 2030
-Description: Claude Pasquier saw two disks flying very low, quite -slowly, along a straight course, with a “hard” sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 65, 141 (Vallee)
-Location: Tours, France
-ID: 115

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Event 3164 -(72D0892D)

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Date: 8/17/1953 (approximate)
-Description: Lina Ivanova Kravets is in her garden in Shtanivka, -Ukraine, when she sees a trio of intruders cutting branches off her -apple, plum, and cherry trees. Approaching closer, she sees they are -11-foot-tall entities wearing dark overalls, helmets, and gloves. They -claim to be extraterrestrials, converse with her about God and their -peaceful home world that is prone to natural disasters and somehow -affected by the earth’s wars, and insist they are on a mission to rescue -a missing scout team. They then point out a silvery sphere hovering just -above the ground with similar tall being standing next to it. Before the -lengthy encounter ends, the beings offer Kravets a piece of bread the -size of a small coin. Breaking it open, she sees something dark and -odorless inside, so she refuses it. The beings then walk to the sphere -in a peculiar waddling manner, wave as they enter, and take off in the -craft at terrific speed. (Peter Rogerson, “INTCAT -1953”; Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 -(November 2015): 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2258

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Event 3165 -(0BA61314)

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Date: 8/17/1953
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the -Southern Cross Astronomical Society in the Miami area
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL

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Event 3166 -(B7D56F3F)

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Date: 8/18/1953
-Time: evening
-Description: Approximate date. Cab driver Salvador Villanueva, 40, -observed two creatures 1.2 m tall wearing coveralls with wide, shiny, -perforated belts, metal collars, and small, black, shiny boxes on their -backs. They had helmets under their arms. The witness thought they were -pilots of Indian race. One of them spoke to him in Spanish, “stringing -the words together” in a strange accent. Trivial matters were discussed -until dawn, when they returned to their craft, 13 m in diameter, through -a staircase under the lower disk. The witness ran away when invited to -follow them. The object rose with a pendulum motion and shot up -vertically.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 32; FSR 56, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Ciudad Valleys, Mexico
-ID: 116

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Event 3167 -(6B72CF5B)

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Date: 8/19/1953
-Description: A small, fast-moving, ricocheting fireball rips a foot-wide -hole through a metal billboard at Middlestone Avenue and Front Street in -East New Haven, Connecticut. IFSB investigator August -C. Roberts and Joseph Barbieri steal a piece of the sign during an -investigation by Naval Ordnance personnel. IFSB sends the sample to Col. -Robert -B. Emerson, an -Army physicist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, who -contacts friends at Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee to have it -analyzed, but nothing else is heard of this sample. APRO arranges for a -separate analysis of the deposits on the sign performed by Anderson -Laboratories in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Chicago Spectrographic -Service Laboratory. They determine that the fragments consist of copper -and copper oxide and are not meteoritic. Michael -D. Swords suggests that Roberts’s retrieval of the metal fragments -would have attracted the attention of federal officials. (NICAP, “New -Haven Signboard Case”; Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker -Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1992): 5–7; Clark III 728–729)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2259

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Event 3168 -(5D2C64AB)

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Date: 8/20/1953
-Time: 9:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of TB-29 bomber/trainer plane. One greyish -oval object made four passes at the airplane (three times at 10-20 miles -distance), then dived vertically as if two objects.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: near Castle AFB, California
-ID: 318

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Event 3169 -(952B2B75)

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Date: 8/20/1953
-Description: 9:05 p.m. The crew of a TB-29 sees a grayish oval object -near Castle AFB [now Castle Airport Aviation and Development Center], -northeast of Atwater, California. The UFO makes four passes at the -plane, then dives vertically as if it consists of two objects. (NICAP, -“TB-29 -Crew Files CIRVIS Report”; Sparks, p. 203)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2260

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Event 3170 -(4E2F8CAC)

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Date: 8/21/1953
-Description: Test pilot Lt. Col. Marion -Eugene Carl reaches an unofficial altitude of 83,235 feet in a -Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket. (Wikipedia, “Marion -Eugene Carl”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2261

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Event 3171 -(315CEA63)

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Date: 8/23/1953
-Description: 12:00 noon. Tom P. Drury, deputy director of the Civilian -Aviation Department at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, takes 24 frames -of 8mm color film of a silvery object that emerges from a cloud and -climbs quickly, leaving a vapor trail. The Royal Australian Air Force -and USAF intelligence are said to have studied the film, which has since -disappeared, with only a few third-generation stills of poor quality -remaining. Later researchers suspect a daytime meteor. (NICAP, “Drury -Film / Saucer-Like Object Climbing”; Norman Cruttwell, “The -New Guinea -Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, July 1961, p. 6; Clark III 416–417; Sparks, -p. 204; Good Above, pp. 162–163; -Bill Chalker, “The -Drury UFO Film Affair: A Study of a Celebrated Australian Case, Part -1,” 2001; Bill Chalker, “The -Drury UFO Film Affair: A Study of a Celebrated Australian Case, Part -2,” 2001; Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO -Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 17–18; Keith Basterfield and -Paul Dean, “Cold -Case Review of the 23 August 1953, Port Moresby Visual Sighting and -Colour Movie Film,” April 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2262

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Event 3172 -(B92D87B5)

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Date: 8/23/1953
-Description: Soviet tactical atomic bomb test RDS-4, 28kt
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 28

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Event 3173 -(EDDE67AD)

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Date: 8/24/1953
-Description: Contactee George -Van Tassel gets to step, for the first time, inside a flying saucer, -when an extraterrestrial named Solganda wakes him up and leads him to a -waiting ship, giving him a tour of the interior and a technique for -rejuvenating the human body before dropping him off and shooting back -into space. (Jody Rosen, “Welcome to -the Integratron,” New York Times Magazine, August 20, 2014; Lesla -Miller Schnur, “G. -W. Van Tassel’s Integraton,” -The Haunted Librarian, August 27, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2263

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Event 3174 -(0CD22864)

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Date: 8/26/1953
-Description: USAF issues Air Force Regulation 200-2, which tightens UFO -reporting and investigating procedures, further restricting the release -of UFO information and superseding Air Force Letter 200-5. It directs -that all confirmed UFO reports be sent electronically to air force -intelligence. Tangible evidence must go to ATIC in Dayton. It also -confines UFO investigations to three groups: USAF intelligence at the -Pentagon, the 4602nd AISS, and ATIC (although ATIC only gets reports -after they go to the 4602nd). Sightings are only to be discussed with -“authorized personnel.” Reports by USAF personnel no longer go to -Project Blue Book, which is now only a PR front. Some good cases still -go there, but far fewer unidentifieds. Only solved cases are to be -discussed publicly; those still unidentified are to remain classified at -the Restricted level. (“Unidentified -Flying Objects Reporting,” -Air Force Regulation 200-2, August 26, 1953; Clark III 918; Swords -198–199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2264

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Event 3175 -(756BD597)

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Date: 8/26/1953
-Description: Regulation AFR 200–2 issued to Air Force personnel for -reporting UFOs.
-Type: regulation
-Reference: Pea -Research
-See also: 8/12/54

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Event 3176 -(1896C129)

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Date: 8/27/1953
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A USAF pilot, M/Sgt, and others, all on the -ground, see a meandering light for 50 minutes at Greenville AFB [now -Mid-Delta Regional Airport], Mississippi. (Sparks, -p. 204)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2265

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Event 3177 -(2267CDA0)

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Date: 8/27/1953
-Time: 9:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilot, M/Sgt., others, all on the ground. -One meandering light was observed for 50 minutes. No further details in -file.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Greenville, Mississippi
-ID: 319

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Event 3178 -(898839DE)

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Date: 8/28/1953
-Description: A Ground Observer Corps volunteer watches 14 cigar-shaped -UFOs silently moving over San Rafael, California. One appears to be -leading the formation at about 200 mph. They are first seen heading west -through breaks in the clouds, then turn north and disappear behind -clouds. (Good Above, p. 278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2266

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Event 3179 -(820BDC47)

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Date: 8/31/1953
-Description: Edward -J. Ruppelt leaves Project Blue Book permanently, leaving Max Futch -in charge as acting chief through December. (Sparks, p. 14; -Clark III 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2267

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Event 3180 -(49EC4C34)

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Date: 9/1953
-Description: Genevieve A. Johnston begins publishing the contactee -newsletter Interplanetary News Digest in Joshua Tree, California. It -continues through spring 1955. (Interplanetary -News Digest 1, no. 1 (September 1953))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2270

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Event 3181 -(8D2F39E9)

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Date: 9/1953
-Description: Airline stewardess Gloria -Lee of Westchester, California, begins to hear a voice in her head -that identifies itself as “J.W.,” a resident of Jupiter. Lee insists on -a physical visit. Not long afterward, as she is hanging wash in her -backyard, she hears the voice say, “Well, you’ve been wanting to see -me.” She looks up and sees “a saucer, big as life, flying toward Santa -Monica.” She has other experiences and founds the Cosmon Research -Organization to publish and study J.W.’s teachings, much of which -resemble philosophy in the 1882 book Oahspe, produced by automatic -writing by John -Ballou Newbrough. She -goes on the contactee lecture circuit. (Clark III 682–683)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2269

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Event 3182 -(0FD712E9)

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Date: 9/1953
-Description: George -Adamski’s account (ghostwritten by Clara -John) of his meeting in the desert with the Venusian named Orthon is -appended to an already completed manuscript on modern and historical UFO -reports by Irish occultist Desmond -Leslie and published as Flying Saucers Have Landed. Leslie asserts -that the first spaceman (a Venusian) arrived on earth in 18,617,841 B.C. -[in the early Miocene Epoch] and claims that early UFOs were called -vimanas in Sanskrit epics like the Ramayana. He also argues that the -Great Pyramid and megalithic structures were built with levitation -techniques derived from space people. (Desmond Leslie and George -Adamski, Flying -Saucers Have Landed, British -Book Centre, 1953; Clark III 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2268

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Event 3183 -(A61075C9)

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Date: 9/1953
-Description: The book “Flying Saucers Have Landed” by Desmond Leslie and -George Adamski published.
-Type: book
-Reference: Amazon
-Location: California

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Event 3184 -(686523AC)

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Date: 9/1953
-Description: Gray -Barker starts publishing The Saucerian Bulletin in Clarksburg, West -Virginia, which covers UFO reports, monster yarns, contactee tales, and -the latest rumors about Albert -K. Bender. It continues through October 1962. (Saucerian -Bulletin 1, no. 1 (September 1953); Clark III 178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2271

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Event 3185 -(1FABD6DB)

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Date: 9/2/1953
-Time: 9:14 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. William Moore and lst Lt. J.H. McInnis, -flying a USAF C-47 transport plane. One very bright light was on a -collision course with the C-47, levelled out, made 180 degree turn -during 3 minute observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sidi Slimane AFB, French Morocco
-ID: 320

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Event 3186 -(CF7139B0)

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Date: 9/3/1953
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Two bright silver ovals moved very fast. Case missing from -files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Portland, Oregon
-ID: 321

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Event 3187 -(EA220C0C)

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Date: 9/4/1953
-Time: 2130
-Description: A woman saw two objects on the ground and three 1.5-m-tall -men running toward the craft. They had oversized heads and wore helmets -and boots. One entered the elongated object, 5 m long, 1.5 m wide, which -spread “wings” that made it look like a butterfly. It then took a -vertical position, resting on a tripod, and took off with the spherical -object into which the other two creatures had gone. Traces were found at -the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA 68, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Tonnerre, France
-ID: 117

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Event 3188 -(D4E3D9EB)

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Date: 9/7/1953
-Description: British pilot Neville -Duke reaches 728 mph in a Hawker Hunter Mk.3 at Littlehampton, -England. (Wikipedia, “Neville -Duke”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2272

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Event 3189 -(7BB1AC65)

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Date: 9/7/1953
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Don P. Hollister, a technical writer for Goodyear -Aircraft, notices a grayish-blue object heading north directly over his -backyard in Cleveland, Ohio, at less than 3,000 feet altitude. It is -shaped like an equilateral triangle, but rounded somewhat on the sides -and angles. It is rotating on a central axis. The object disappears -after 5 seconds. (UFOEv, p. 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2273

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Event 3190 -(1C2039A8)

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Date: 9/12/1953
-Description: Brovst was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by -two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold -like a fish.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Guieu (Vallee)
-Location: Brovst, Denmark
-ID: 118

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Event 3191 -(C9342EF0)

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Date: 9/15/1953
-End date: 9/19/1953
-Description: Operation Top Hat, a “local field exercise,” takes place at -the Army Chemical School [now the US Army CBRN School] at Fort McClellan -[now closed], Alabama. The experiments use Chemical Corps personnel to -test decontamination methods for biological and chemical weapons, -including sulfur mustard and nerve agents. The personnel are -deliberately exposed to these contaminants, are not volunteers, and are -not informed of the tests. In a 1975 Pentagon Inspector General’s -report, the military maintain that Operation Top Hat is not subject to -the guidelines requiring approval because it is a line-of-duty exercise -in the Chemical Corps. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Top Hat”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2274

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Event 3192 -(89B20CE3)

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Date: 9/16/1953
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the -USAF Air Reserve 9882nd Volunteer Air Reserve Squadron in the North -Miami area
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL

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Event 3193 -(3E0DBA67)

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Date: late 9/1953
-Description: Night. Baltimore, Maryland, astronomer James -C. Bartlett Jr. is observing a transit of the star Fomalhaut when he -notices four large lights moving slowly in the sky. He looks at them -through binoculars and sees that they are on the noses of two enormous -cigar-shaped objects at about 3,000 feet altitude. He can also see an -apparent cabin and portholes and he hears a sound like a piston engine. -(“Two -Huge UFOs Sighted by Baltimore -Astronomer,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 (Aug./Sept. 1958): 1, -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2278

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Event 3194 -(5D6BF4AC)

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Date: 9/22/1953
-Time: 11:45 AM
-Description: Witness: civilian, Mr. Bray, using a small telescope. One -thin, yellow triangle moved slowly, made a rapid acceleration and a -vertical climb during the 5-8 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hayward, California
-ID: 322

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Event 3195 -(1C03FFC0)

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Date: 9/26/1953
-Description: British pilot Mike -Lithgow attains an official world airspeed record of 736 mph in a -Supermarine Swift F 4 at Castel Idris, Tripoli, Libya. (Wikipedia, “Mike -Lithgow”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2275

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Event 3196 -(F684FEA3)

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Date: 9/28/1953
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witness: radar observer of USAF F-94C jet interceptor. -Visual observation one orange ball travelling 500-600 kts. (600-700 -m.p.h.) for 6 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Newhall, California
-ID: 324

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Event 3197 -(7ACD473D)

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Date: 9/28/1953
-Description: Albert -K. Bender confides to Gray -Barker and a few others that three menacing men dressed in black -suits have called on him, told him the answer to the UFO mystery, and -insisted that he will go to jail if he repeats it. The experience -allegedly terrifies him, and he decides to close the International -Flying Saucer Bureau. Barker immortalizes the episode in a 1956 book, -They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, and Bender breaks his long -silence in 1962 with Flying Saucers and the Three Men, in which he -claims that the visitors are not government agents but monsters from the -distant planet Kazik. Even Barker concedes privately that he cannot -swallow Bender’s fantastic tale of abduction to the South Pole by -monstrous space beings. Bender does little to promote the book and soon -moves to Los Angeles and secures an unlisted telephone number. However, -the book does reveal Bender’s long-time obsession with science fiction, -horror movies, and the occult. (Gray Barker, They -Knew Too -Much about Flying Saucers, University -Books, 1956; Albert K. Bender, Flying Saucers and the Three Men, -Saucerian, 1962; Clark III 189–192, 623; Story, pp. 50–51; -Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1992): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2276

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Event 3198 -(1479205F)

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Date: 9/28/1953
-Description: 7:10 p.m. In Palmdale, California, a UFO appears on an -F-94C radarscope for a period of 15 seconds. The object is traveling on -a 60° course at an estimated speed of 2,300 mph. It is 4 miles away when -first seen and compares with a C-47 in size on the radarscope. The F-94 -was moving at 345 mph at 21,000 feet. The same or another object is -observed visually from another F-94C for six seconds at 7:00 p.m. The -object is described as round, orange in color, and traveling on the same -course as the first object. (NICAP, “F-94C -Tracks UFO at 200 Knots”; Sparks, p. 204)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2277

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Event 3199 -(7C710BDA)

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Date: 9/28/1953
-Time: 7 PM
-Description: Witness: radar observer of USAF F-94C jet interceptor. One -object tracked at 2,000 kts. (2,300 m.p.h.) for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Palmdale, California
-ID: 323

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Event 3200 -(51624A59)

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Date: 9/30/1953
-Description: Project Blue Book issues its Status Report #12. (US Air -Force, Projects -Grudge and Blue Book Reports 1–12, NICAP, -1968, pp. 215–235) Autumn — Dusk. Cecil Tenney is driving near Dutton, -Montana, when he sees a cigar-shaped object about 200 feet away. -Apparently in trouble, it belches fire and smoke, and after a few -minutes he hears an explosion. Balls of fire rain down from the sky. He -tells the story to a highway patrol officer at a nearby bar before -driving on to Conrad, Montana. That evening a colonel from Great Falls -AFB [now Malmstrom AFB] calls and tells him to show up at the base in -the morning. He is interrogated there for 30 minutes, and on the way out -sees soldiers carrying bags that he thinks might contain body parts. -(Leonard H. Stringfield, “Retrievals of the Third Kind: A Case Study of -Alleged UFOs and Occupants in Military Custody,” MUFON 1978 UFO -Symposium Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1978, pp. 77–105; Clark III -342)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2279

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Event 3201 -(70975BA1)

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Date: 10/1953
-Description: The final issue of Space Review edited by Albert -K. Bender states that UFOs are “no longer a mystery. The source is -already known, but any information about this is being withheld by -orders from a higher source.” (“Statement -of Importance,” Space Review 2, no. 4 (October 1953): 1; Clark III -189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2280

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Event 3202 -(1CBFA7C7)

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Date: 10/1/1953
-Description: Donald -E. Keyhoe’s Flying Saucers from Outer Space is published by Henry -Holt. Excerpts appear in the October 20 issue of Look. His message is -that aliens are here, the military knows it, and they are covering it up -from the public to avoid panic. He has gotten clearance from Ruppelt and -Chop to -include 51 classified UFO reports from the Air Technical Intelligence -Center, which runs Project Blue Book. The Air Force states that Keyhoe -is misrepresenting their analyses, so he sends a telegram to USAF -Secretary Harold -E. Talbott and Gen. Sory -Smith, saying -that if he really misrepresented anything, as a Marine Corps officer he -should be disciplined. The Air Force offers no comment. In the book, he -takes note of a curious document (never published and now lost) prepared -by USAF Col. William -C. Odell titled “Planet Earth: Host to Extraterrestrial Life,” in -which he speculates on aliens crossing space in search of new planets to -live on once their own fails. (Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying -Saucers from Outer Space, Holt, -1953; Wikipedia, “Flying -Saucers from Outer Space”; Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, p. 55; -Michael D. Swords, “Colonel Odell and the Invasion of Earth,” IUR 30, -no. 3 (May 2006): 3– 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2281

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Event 3203 -(FE3D9016)

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Date: 10/2/1953
-Description: Industrial engineer Jack W. Grant gives a presentation -titled “Flying Saucers Have Landed” to the Federation of Women’s Clubs -at a hotel. He had travelled the country for the past 6 years and was -convinced the topic was of immense significance. He said the government -would eventually tell the public and his presentation would help soften -the blow.
-Type: lecture
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Lancaster, Ohio

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Event 3204 -(62C3A16F)

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Date: 10/3/1953
-Description: USN pilot James -B. Verdin reaches 753 mph in a Douglas F4D Skyray over the Salton -Sea, California. (Wikipedia, “Douglas -F4D Skyray”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2282

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Event 3205 -(7903A6D6)

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Date: 10/9/1953
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers -at the Aerodex Management club
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL

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Event 3206 -(25F4D199)

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Date: 10/9/1953
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Three unidentified objects are tracked on radar -at RAF Bawdsey [now Bawdsey Manor], Suffolk, England, at an altitude of -36,000 feet above the Netherlands. Soon they are tracked flying east to -west over the Harwich area. Some jets at RAF Waterbeach [now Waterbeach -Barracks], Cambridgeshire, are scrambled but can locate nothing. Airmen -at Bawdsey can see nothing but four contrails heading north. The objects -then reverse and move back across the English Channel at 32,000–34,000 -feet. The apparent speed on the approach is 430 mph, increasing to 483 -mph on the short leg over the UK and 564 mph on the return. (NICAP, “Three -UFOs Flew over Area, -Tracked on Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2284

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Event 3207 -(E752BDBC)

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Date: 10/9/1953
-Description: 3:50 p.m. A UFO is seen at Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, -discharging a white trail described as “strange shiney filaments” that -cover wires and trees. A sample turns out to be a “nylon-like amorphous -mass with traces of magnesuim, calcium, boron, and silicon.” It shrinks -from 3 inches to one-half inch in an air-tight container. (“Wispy -Threads from Sky,” Australian Flying Saucer Review (UFOIC), no. 9 -(November 1966): 12; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A -Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 101; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An -Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2283

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Event 3208 -(44BCB451)

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Date: 10/15/1953
-Description: 10:10 a.m. During the tracking of a Project Grab Bag -balloon launch, a 40-foot object leaving a brief vapor trail is seen by -three General Mills Aeronautical Lab research engineers (James -A. Winker, Fletcher -L. Bartholomew, and -Richard -J. Reilly) near Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is traveling south in -horizontal flight at 1,100 mph, moving 10° in nine seconds at about -40,000 ft altitude and 25° elevation. The object goes into a vertical -dive for about 10-15 seconds, then glows or flashes in the sun two or -three times for 1 second each. It is seen in the theodolite as a gray -mass. It levels off and the vapor trail stops. (NICAP, “Project -GRAB BAG Sighting”; Sparks, p. 205; -Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine eds., 1974, pp. 71–72; -Hynek UFO Report, pp. -113–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2285

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Event 3209 -(A7FDA1C9)

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Date: 10/15/1953
-Time: 10:10 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three General Mills research engineers including -Bartholomew. One glowing grey mass with a vapor trail dived for 10-15 -seconds, levelled out and the trail stopped, leaving the grey mass -visible. Total of 40 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
-ID: 325

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Event 3210 -(9EA6BA50)

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Date: 10/16/1953
-Description: Harvard astronomer Donald -Menzel writes to USAF Director of Intelligence Gen. John -A. Samford that he would like to meet with ATIC officers in -Washington, D.C. (Good Above, p. 278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2286

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Event 3211 -(D2865EF8)

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Date: 10/16/1953
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Capt. H.W. Watson, Maj. G. Watson. Two white -or blue lights in trail formation, travelled very fast straight and -level, then made a turn. Ten second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
-ID: 326

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Event 3212 -(BC0757FA)

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Date: 10/16/1953
-Description: 4:00–4:30 p.m. Emerson “Slim” F. Morris watches a large, -cigar-shaped object as it approaches Brigantine, New Jersey, from over -the Atlantic. It releases several smaller objects from both ends. The -smaller discs are white, rotating counterclockwise, and rapidly speed -away. Before the large object disappears, it emits a blinding ray of -light toward the ground that hurts Morris’s eyes. (Herbert S. Taylor, -“Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): -7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2287

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Event 3213 -(8873652B)

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Date: 10/19/1953
-Time: 9:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: T/Sgt. Rommanis, T/Sgt. Osiecki, two others. One -white white sphere with a white or red tail, ascended at 20 degree -angle, performed a loop and returned. Fifty second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 327

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Event 3214 -(7D07862F)

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Date: 10/19/1953
-Description: 12:10 a.m. Capt. J. L. Kidd is flying an American Airlines -DC-6 between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., when over the Conowingo -Dam, Maryland, his copilot sees something gleaming in the moonlight dead -ahead and closing rapidly. Kidd blinks on his landing lights and the UFO -beams back a blinding light back at the DC-6. Kidd puts the plane into a -steep dive. Caught unaware, the passengers are tossed about the cabin, -many suffering injuries. Kidd radios Washington National Airport [now -Ronald Reagan International Airport] to report a near collision and -complain about air traffic. Air traffic control reports no known -aircraft in his vicinity. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 60–61; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1953, August–December, The Author, 1990, pp. 34, 38; Good -Above, p. 282)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2288

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Event 3215 -(F4FE9B79)

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Date: 10/20/1953
-Description: The NSA Robertson Committee report is completed and -classified top secret. It recommends better and faster use of electronic -intelligence in radar activity that might indicate an imminent attack, -noting that the Air Force is not cooperating with the Army or Navy on -these matters. (Clark III 55–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2289

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Event 3216 -(61A7A000)

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Date: 10/22/1953
-Description: Menzel meets -with USAF headquarters personnel (including Col. George -E. Perry) and ATIC at the Pentagon. (Good Above, p. 279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2290

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Event 3217 -(610E9F3C)

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Date: 10/25/1953
-Time: 2130
-Description: Jim Milligan, 16, was driving through a park when he saw -something fall in front of his car and stopped as the object landed in -some bushes. He walked toward it, found a craft that looked like two -ship hulls, about 3 m long, 2 m wide glued together. When he tried to -touch it, the object flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins A 223 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
-ID: 119

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Event 3218 -(DD294640)

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Date: 10/25/1953
-Description: 8:15–8:30 p.m. Air Force weather observers at Lubbock, -Texas, notice a V formation of 5–7 dull white lights sweep north to -south. In three seconds, the formation goes from a point overhead to 3° -above the horizon where they disappear. Other groups of two or more -lights follow at about 5-minute intervals. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1953, August–December, The -Author, 1990, pp. 35–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2291

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Event 3219 -(148712A1)

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Date: 10/29/1953
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two high school students, including Morrison. -One blue object with a flaming trail, and two dark green glowing objects -with white and blue-green fringe, flew from south to north with some -erratic motions for l hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mapleton, Maine
-ID: 328

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Event 3220 -(526D8F73)

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Date: 10/29/1953
-Description: USAF pilot Frank -Kendall Everest Jr. reaches 755 mph in a North American F-100 Super -Sabre over the Salton Sea, California. (Wikipedia, “Frank -Kendall Everest Jr.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2292

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Event 3221 -(5123EDA1)

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Date: 11/1953
-Description: Mr. Trygve, Mrs. Bufflot and a neighbor saw an object rise -from behind a hill, oscillate over a lake, follow their car, and stop -ahead of them just above the ground. They stopped, felt “pricklings” -until the craft took off vertically. A watch stopped working, and -numerous people vouch for the fact that the paint on the car changed -from dark beige to bright green.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Mar., 62; FSR 56, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Gjasjoen Bridge, Norway
-ID: 120

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Event 3222 -(3F505E01)

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Date: 11/1953
-Description: Capt. Charles -A. Hardin takes charge of Project Blue Book. (Sparks, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2293

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Event 3223 -(D98C2701)

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Date: 11/1953
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Trygve Jansen and two other witnesses are driving -north on the Gamle Mossevei road at the Gjersjøen bridge, Norway, when -they see an object rise from behind a hill, swing out over the lake, and -move back to the road, circling and following their car. Suddenly it -stops and hovers above the road 30 feet in front of them, emitting a -green light. Jansen stops, and all three witnesses experience mild -electrical shocks until the object rises and disappears. When he returns -home, Jansen’s wife points out that the car’s beige paint has turned a -bright green. (Carl Olsen, “Chased -by a Flying Saucer!” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1956): 16; K. Gösta Rehn, “Saucer -Blocked Road in Norway,” APRO Bulletin, March 1962, pp. 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2294

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Event 3224 -(44D5C047)

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Date: 11/2/1953
-Description: Changes updated for UFO reporting. New Regulation AFR -200–2A.
-Type: regulation
-Reference: Pea -Research

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Event 3225 -(B618A45F)

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Date: 11/3/1953
-Description: 10:00 a.m. An RAF NF.10 Vampire pilot (Flight Lt. Terry S. -Johnson) and navigator (Flying Officer Geoffrey Smythe) flying at 30,000 -feet near RAF West Malling [now closed], Kent, England, see a star-like -light far above them. Suddenly it moves toward them at tremendous speed. -They see it as circular and emitting a bright light around its -periphery. The duration is 30 seconds. Air Minister George -Ward calls it a “balloon”; when author Desmond -Leslie calls him up to suggest this is incorrect, Ward tells him: “I -know it wasn’t a balloon. You know it wasn’t a balloon. But until I’ve -got a saucer on the ground in Hyde Park and can charge the public -sixpence a go to enter, it must be balloons, otherwise the government -would fall and I’d lose my job.” It is possible that this object was a -Skyhook balloon launched from Holloman AFB in New Mexico on October 27 -that failed to drop into the Atlantic after a 12-hour flight. (Desmond -Leslie, “Politicians -and the UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 9, no. 3 (May/June 1963): 8–9; -Good Above, pp. 35, -53; -Good Need, p. 154; -UFOFiles2, pp. 57, 62–63; -David Clarke, “The Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 (June -2021): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2295

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Event 3226 -(4943BCBA)

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Date: 11/3/1953
-Description: 2:45 p.m. In Lee, southeast London, a solid target is -tracked on radar by the 256th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment moving slowly -at a distance of 17 miles. Through a telescope it appears to be a -circular white object. The target is tracked for 25 minutes by four -aircraft technicians, including Sgt. H. Waller, who says it is about -350–450 feet in diameter and definitely not a balloon. The War Office -claims the object is a radiosonde balloon. (NICAP, “Heavy -Anti-Aircraft Regiment Tracks UFO”; Good Above, pp. 35–36; -Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2296

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Event 3227 -(CDC29FAE)

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Date: 11/5/1953
-Description: President Eisenhower issues -Executive Order 10501, abolishing the classification of “Restricted.” -UFO sightings are unaffected, as meaningful sightings are classified at -higher levels. There are now explicit guidelines for the remaining three -classification levels to prevent a systematic flood of classified -documents coming from the Pentagon and other agencies. The Pentagon -responds by creating its own “special access” labels to further insulate -classified information from outside influence. (“Executive -Order 10501”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2297

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Event 3228 -(F4DEF38F)

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Date: 11/10/1953
-Description: A. K. Bender UFO researcher silenced.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 3229 -(BF882590)

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Date: 11/13/1953
-Description: Miami Herald: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on -flying saucers
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL

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Event 3230 -(E7273044)

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Date: mid 11/1953
-Description: Rumors a saucer and its occupant were in custody at Edwards -AFB, originally heard up by ex-Naval aviator and intelligence officer -George Williams. Recorded by author Frank Scully in his private notes -now at the AHC.
-Type: private notes
-Reference: Medium
-Location: CA

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Event 3231 -(969D8D92)

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Date: 11/16/1953
-Description: A fluffy material streams out of a UFO over the San -Fernando Valley, California, and falls to the ground. A reporter who -examines it describes it as “dead-white, almost ephemeral in its -delicacy and apparently electrically charged.” A similar fall occurs in -the same area on February 1, 1954. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 227–228; Clark III 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2298

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Event 3232 -(C731A0A4)

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Date: 11/18/1953
-Time: 12:45 PM
-Description: Witness: R.J. Bassett, a pilot for 31 years. One silver -sphere or disc hovered several times during 45 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Manitowoc, Wisconsin
-ID: 329

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Event 3233 -(3603C270)

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Date: 11/19/1953
-Description: Bacteriologist Frank -Olson is a leading scientist at the army’s Chemical Corps, Special -Operations Division at Fort Detrick, Maryland. SOD supplies the CIA with -an array of deadly microbes and chemicals that cannot be detected in an -autopsy. It also supplies delivery methods for anthrax. The CIA pays SOD -$200,000 a year for these services until 1969. Olson is duped into a -meeting with MKUltra Director Sidney -Gottlieb at a secluded cabin. Olson has a very bad trip and still -hasn’t recovered after several days. (H. P. Albarelli Jr., A Terrible -Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold War -Experiments, Trine Day, 2009; Stephen Kinzer, “The -Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control -Experiments,” Politico Magazine, September 15, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2299

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Event 3234 -(0559A45D)

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Date: 11/20/1953
-Description: Australian Minister for Air William -McMahon tells Parliament that all UFO reports “are still being -investigated closely and recorded as an aid to further research,” but -the RAAF’s approach is a bit more ad hoc. (Swords 377)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2300

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Event 3235 -(BED2E1E7)

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Date: 11/22/1953
-Description: Navy Capt. Walter -Karig, author -of the 1947 novel Zotz!, writes “Operation UFO: The Official Truth about -Flying Saucers” for The American Weekly newspaper insert. He covers -Secretary of the Navy Kimball’s -1952 UFO sighting and the ONR saucer probe. He emphasizes the Air -Force’s 20% unexplained rate and does not rule out the extraterrestrial -hypothesis. (Walter Karig, “Operation -UFO: The -Official Truth about Flying Saucers,” American Weekly insert, San -Francisco Examiner, November 22, 1953, pp. 4–5; Swords 217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2301

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Event 3236 -(42D07A00)

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Date: 11/22/1953
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A man who works in the supply transport office -of the RAAF Woomera Rocket Range near Woomera, South Australia, sees a -green object like a saucer fly to the north between Woocalla and -Birthday Siding. It is emitting blue exhaust. Another man driving the -same route around 2:00 a.m. about 50 miles from Woomera sees a -bluish-green circular object moving north. It is seen again by another -man in the same area around 2:30 a.m. A fourth party sees two orange -flares dropping from the sky near Pimba at 3:15 a.m. All of the objects -are at an altitude of more than 5,000 feet. (Keith Basterfield, “Listing -of Reports from Woomera, South Australia,” -2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2302

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Event 3237 -(1DF6161E)

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Date: 11/23/1953
-Description: Evening. ADC radar detects an unknown object moving at 500 -mph over Lake Superior. An F-89C Scorpion interceptor, piloted by Lt. Felix -Moncla Jr., with radar observer Lt. Robert -L. Wilson in the rear cockpit, is dispatched from Kinross AFB [now -Chippewa County International Airport], south of Sault Ste. Marie, -Michigan. The jet heads toward the target under radar guidance. At 8,000 -feet, 160 miles northwest of the Soo Locks, the blips of the F-89 and -the UFO merge then fade from the screen. Nothing more is heard from the -plane and no trace of it is found. A Pentagon spokesman claims the UFO -was an RCAF C-47 that was never closer than 3-4 miles to the F-89, which -has crashed for unknown reasons. In 2006, a group of divers claimed to -have discovered the F-89 and taken photos on side-scan sonar, but the -claim is a hoax. (NICAP, “UFO -Intercept / Missing -F-89 Case”; Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 13–23; -UFOEv, pp. 114–115; -Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, pp. 106–109; Good Above, p. 273; -Andrew Griffin, “Missing! -Avoyelles Parish Man’s Disappearance Still -a Mystery after 50 Years,” Alexandria (La.) Town Talk, July 20, -2003, pp. E1, E3; Clark III 654–656)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2303

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Event 3238 -(0E820DE6)

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Date: 11/24/1953
-Description: The British Parliament discusses the November 3 Lee case -and others. Nigel -Birch, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, explains -the sightings as experimental weather balloons. MP George -Isaacs asks, “Will the Minister agree that this story of flying -saucers is all ballooney?” (Good Above, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2304

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Event 3239 -(DB6796E8)

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Date: 11/28/1953
-Description: Frank -Olson is depressed, incoherent, and uncommunicative after his LSD -dose nine days earlier. His CIA contacts take him to a “doctor” in New -York City, who prescribes him alcohol. He then plunges to his death from -the 10th floor window of the Hotel Statler in New York City. The US -government calls it a suicide, the Olson family alleges murder because, -especially in the aftermath of his LSD experience, he has become a -security risk who might divulge state secrets associated with highly -classified CIA programs of which he has direct personal knowledge. A few -days before his death, Olson quits his position as acting chief of the -Special Operations Division at Camp Detrick [later Fort Detrick] in -Frederick, Maryland, because of a severe moral crisis concerning the -nature of his biological weapons research. Among Olson’s concerns are -the development of assassination materials used by the CIA. The CIA’s -use of biological warfare materials in covert operations, -experimentation with biological weapons in populated areas, -collaboration with former Nazi scientists under Operation Paperclip, LSD -mind-control research, and the use of psychoactive drugs during -“terminal” interrogations under a program code-named Project ARTICHOKE. -Later forensic evidence conflicts with the official version of events; -when Olson’s body is exhumed in 1994, cranial injuries indicate that -Olson was knocked unconscious before he exited the window. The medical -examiner terms Olson’s death a “homicide.” (Michael Ignatieff, “What -Did the C.I.A. Do to His Father?” New York Times Magazine, April 1, -2001, pp. 56– 61; H. P. Albarelli Jr., A -Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Cold War -Experiments, Trine Day, 2009; Stephen Kinzer, “The -Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments,” -Politico Magazine, September 15, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2305

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Event 3240 -(F3C8B1C0)

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Date: 12/1953
-Description: Noall -Bryce Cornwell (who uses the pseudonyms Mel Noel and Guy Kirkwood) -claims to have been stationed at Lowry AFB [now Wings Over the Rockies -Air and Space Museum] in Denver, Colorado, and engaged in several -dogfight-type maneuvers with UFOs involving gun-camera film. His stories -are bogus, and later he runs phony investment scams and becomes a -contactee who describes meeting pink-haired, platinum- skinned, -fish-eating Martians said to be running a Mars-Earth transportation -system. (Mel Noel, The Mel Noel Story, Saucerian, 1960; Good Above, pp. 273–277; -Kevin D. Randle, “Mel -Noel / Guy Kirkwood in the 1960s,” A Different Perspective, December -20, 2010; Adam Gorightly, “Mel -Noel’s Phony Flying Saucer Trip to the Stars,” -Chasing UFOs, April 17, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2307

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Event 3241 -(D9F828FE)

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Date: 12/1953
-Description: Wilbert -B. Smith sets up his Department of Transport observatory at -Shirley’s Bay, Ontario. His equipment includes an ionospheric reactor, -electronic sound measurement devices, gamma-ray detector, gravimeter, -magnetometer, and radio set. (Wikipedia, “Project -Magnet (UFO)”; Good Above, pp. 185–186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2306

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Event 3242 -(D3A135A4)

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Date: 12/1953
-Description: Mrs. Orfei heard a knock at the door in the middle of the -night and obtained no answer when she asked who it was. When more -furious knocks were heard, her Alsatian dog jumped toward the door, but -suddenly retreated, trembling as if terrified and retired to a corner. -Mrs. Orfei went to an upper door and saw two “indescribable” shadows go -away from the house. A while later a big, round object took off 100 m -away with a blue-green lightning. The police found broken bushes as -evidence of an enormous weight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I (Vallee)
-Location: Sherbrook, Canada
-ID: 121

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Event 3243 -(8241B914)

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Date: 12/1953
-Description: Meeting of a private “industrial group” discussing matters -that “confront the country” concerning custody of several beings off a -saucer. Meeting was to be held at “Muroc Dry Lake” (Edwards AFB), but it -was held somewhere else.
-Type: private notes
-Reference: Medium
-Location: CA

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Event 3244 -(93B965AC)

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Date: 12/1953
-Description: Australian UFO researcher Edgar -Jarrold is visited four times by a mysterious man who swears him to -secrecy. What the visitor tells him amazes him “beyond belief,” but he -never publicly reveals who the man is. However, it turns out that the -man is Gordon Deller, a minor figure in Australian ufology who has some -quaint and original theories about the saucers. He believes that UFOs -are piloted by etherians from another dimension. He tells Jarrold this, -along with some insights into a geological cataclysm and telepathic -communication. Harold Fulton, a -ufologist from New Zealand, suspects Deller is a nut. However, Jarrold’s -obsession with UFOs leads to the breakup of his family and the -disintegration of his personal life by 1955. (Clark III 632–633)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2308

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Event 3245 -(F2E8DDC3)

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Date: 12/7/1953
-Description: Radio Moscow proclaims that saucers are “figments of the -imagination of western warmongers.” (Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, -Bantam ed., 1966, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2310

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Event 3246 -(E12B616B)

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Date: 12/7/1953
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Pfc Alfred V. De Bonise and Sgt1C James Conley of -the 89th Anti-Aircraft Battalion at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, spot -a white object, “shining like a star.” It makes a noise like an -artillery shell in flight. It moves erratically and eventually falls out -of sight. (Good Above, p. 280; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: -1953, August–December, The Author, 1990, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2309

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Event 3247 -(DA778403)

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Date: 12/8/1953
-Description: CIA Evaluation of the UFO situation: It was pleased to note -that the number of sightings had decreased dramatically, due, it -believed, to the success of its’ implemented policies. Some sightings -still would have “possible scientific intelligence value”. The CIA -concluded that the panel’s (name?) recommendations might have been -interpreted by saucer believers as “debunking”.
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Langley, VA

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Event 3248 -(3724735C)

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Date: 12/8/1953
-Description: The CIA reports that UFO sightings have fallen dramatically -in 1953, though there are some of “possible scientific intelligence -value.” (Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2311

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Event 3249 -(C5EDE5D0)

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Date: 12/9/1953
-Description: 3:45 p.m. Charles Huaut sees a luminous, golden, round -object poised motionless at a high altitude over Saint-Émilion, Gironde, -France. After 10 minutes it noiselessly changes position and assumes the -form of several horseshoes enveloped in smoke trails. Then it -disappears. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Sightings -of Unidentified -Flying Objects,” April 20, 1954, p. 2; ClearIntent, p. 130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2312

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Event 3250 -(88F8452F)

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Date: 12/15/1953
-Description: 2:37 p.m. While flying a Transair Sweden DC-3 in the -vicinity of Hässleholm, Skåne, Sweden, pilot Ulf Christiernsson and -flight mechanic Olle Johansson encounter an “unorthodox, metallic, -symmetric, round object” closing in on their aircraft for about 10 -seconds. It passes about 1,970 feet under the DC-3 at an altitude of -7,055 feet. Air Force Gen. Bengt -Nordenskiöld calls in reports from all relevant Swedish radar -stations to identify the object, and the Defence Research Institute -spends many hours reconstructing the event. However, the owner of a -local perfume company confessed in late December to releasing 300 -hydrogen-filled balloons south of Hässleholm as an advertising promotion -around 12:30 p.m. that day. (Swords 365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2313

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Event 3251 -(C44F5699)

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Date: 12/16/1953
-Description: 4:58 p.m. Lockheed Skunk Works chief Clarence -L. “Kelly” Johnson and his wife Althea (near Agoura, California) and -a Lockheed crew (Rudy Thoren, Roy -Wimmer, and 3 others) flying the WV-2 Warning Star aircraft near -Long Beach, California, independently of each other observe a black -flying-wing (or ellipse or crescent-shaped) object about 170–230 feet -wide flying at about 15,000 ±2,000 feet altitude to the west, hovering -about 30–60 miles away. At 5:04 p.m., after four minutes (to the -Johnsons) and six minutes (to WV-2 crew) the UFO suddenly takes off in a -shallow climb accelerating to approximately earth escape velocity -(25,000 mph) to the west over the Pacific. It disappears in 10–13 -seconds (to WV-2 crew) or in 90 seconds (to Johnson using 8x binoculars) -after reaching 90+ miles altitude. (NICAP, “The -Lockheed UFO Case”; Joel Carpenter, “The Lockheed UFO Case, 1953,” -IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 6–9, 33; Joel Carpenter, “The -Lockheed UFO Case,” 2001; Sparks, -p. 206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2315

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Event 3252 -(AE220654)

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Date: 12/16/1953
-Description: The British Air Ministry sends orders to all RAF stations -saying that UFO reports are to be classified “Restricted” and personnel -must not communicate any sighting information to unauthorized persons. -Reports must be sent to the air intelligence branch DDI (Tech) that is -now responsible for UFO investigations. (UFOFiles2, pp. 57–60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2314

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Event 3253 -(A4DBC7BD)

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Date: 12/17/1953
-Description: A memo from Todos -M. Odarenko, chief -of the CIA/OSI physics and electronics division, condescendingly reviews -the status of various government UFO efforts. (Todos M. Odarenko, “Current -Status of Unidentified -Flying Objects (UFOB) Project,” December 17, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2317

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Event 3254 -(82C0BC06)

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Date: 12/17/1953
-Description: After the crew of a Swedish airliner reports a wingless -circular UFO over Hässleholm, Sweden, the Swedish Armed Forces orders a -full-scale investigation. Capt. Ulf -Christiernsson says the object is an “entirely unorthodox, metallic, -symmetrical, and circular object.” Later reports claim it is a -radiosonde balloon. (UFOEv, p. 121; -Sparks, p. 206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2316

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Event 3255 -(EF03C858)

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Date: 12/17/1953
-Time: 2:37 PM
-Description: Witness: Capt. Ulf Christiernsson, chief pilot for -Transair, flying a DC-3. One shiny metal spherical ellipse, 2,000’ below -DC-3, flew at approximately 700 m.p.h. for 6-7 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hasslehom, Sweden
-ID: 330

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Event 3256 -(6168A717)

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Date: Winter 1953
-Description: Salisbury Plain, England: Flight Lt. C.G. Townsend- Withers -was flying an experimental Canberra aircraft at 55,000 ft. when he -picked up on the new experimental radar an UFO following his plane. The -science officer went up to the turret for a visual and spotted a -circular craft five miles behind them. They tried to outpace the UFO by -accelerating to 225 knots but it kept up with their plane. -Townsend-Withers initiated a wide sweeping turn and lost radar contact -with the UFO but came into direct visual on a collision course with the -UFO. Then the UFO flipped vertically in the air and climbed from 50 to -70 thousand feet, as quickly as you could say it. Description: Round, -thin disc with two tail fins at the rear, appearing metallic and -enormous. Leaving no vapor trail, wake or detectable sound, it vanished -within a couple of seconds up into the blue sky.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Salisbury Plain, England

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Event 3257 -(ABC4CFDE)

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Date: 12/23/1953
-Description: USAF Intelligence Col. George -E. Perry writes to Gen. Woodbury -M. Burgess, ADC -Deputy for Intelligence at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] -in Colorado Springs, Colorado, recommending that when the 4602nd -investigates a UFO sighting and it is not a conventional object, -personnel should state “The information on this sighting will be -analyzed by the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Dayton, Ohio,” and -leave it at that. (Col. George E. Perry, Letter -to Brig. Gen. W. M. Burgess, December -23, 1953)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2318

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Event 3258 -(5D47B6E6)

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Date: 12/24/1953
-Time: 8:04 AM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Navy Lts. J.B. Howard and L.D. Linhard, -flying F9F-2 jet fighters. Ten silver, oval objects flew at more than -400 kts. (450 m.p.h.), straight and level, for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: El Cajon, California
-ID: 331

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Event 3259 -(B74BB2C1)

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Date: 12/24/1953
-Description: 8:04 a.m. US Navy Lts. J. B. Howard and L. D. Linhard, -flying F9F-2 jet fighters, see 10 silver oval objects flying in -formation at 450+ mph, straight and level, over El Cajon, California. -(NICAP, “Navy -Lts. Encounter -10 Oval Objects”; Sparks, p. 206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2319

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Event 3260 -(4784475C)

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Date: 12/26/1953
-Description: The first of a series of articles in the Washington (D.C.) -Times-Herald by Richard Reilly questions the Air Force’s openness about -UFOs. (Dolan, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2320

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Event 3261 -(EAD05A9B)

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Date: 12/28/1953
-Time: 11:55 AM
-Description: Witness: Yuba County Airport Manager Dick Brandt. One -saucer, with a brilliant blue light, reflecting on a nearby building, -hovered briefly during the 1.5 minute observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marysville, California
-ID: 332

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Event 3262 -(5FC21E25)

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Date: 12/29/1953
-Description: Keyhoe has -a confrontation with Delos -Smith, the science editor of the United Press wire service, and a UP -executive editor. Smith is preparing a three-part series debunking -Keyhoe’s claims because a “certain Air Force general swears your book is -a complete fraud.” Forewarned by Frank -Edwards, Keyhoe counters his arguments with documentation. (Keyhoe, -FS -Conspiracy, pp. 85–88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2321

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Event 3263 -(B0873A5A)

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Date: 12/30/1953
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Pfc Norman Viet, on guard duty at the tank park -in Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, watches a blinking red light -about 18 inches in diameter moving slowly over a tree line about 200 -feet away. It soon drops down out of sight. Fifteen minutes later it is -seen again, rising up and floating toward the tank shed. Viet says it is -completely soundless. At 10:15 p.m. it returns, also witnessed by -Sgt. Francis R. Salinder, who alerts the base and a combat team searches -the area. At midnight, a red light appears above the search area, -spooking a guard. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, p. 202; -Washington (D.C.) Daily News, January 5, 1954; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1953, August–December, The -Author, 1990, p. 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2322

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Event 3264 -(24897B21)

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Date: 12/31/1953
-Description: Marines observed the landing of an unknown round object -which throbbed and pulsated, emitting red lights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 210 (Vallee)
-Location: Quantico Marine Base, Virginia
-ID: 122

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- Event 3265 (D4518EEB)

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Date: 1954
-Description: The powerful Type 80 centimetric radars introduced in the -UK this year are plagued by radar “angels” that become a hazard for air -traffic controllers. A Fighter Command investigation concludes that most -of them are caused by migrating seabirds, and others are the result of -“anomalous propagation.” Later computers filter out smaller echoes and -increase the strength of those created by aircraft. (David Clarke, -“Gremlins and Black Projects,” Fortean Times 291 (August 2012): -26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2327

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Event 3266 -(6D141C4A)

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Date: 1954
-Description: Jim -and Coral Lorenzen move from Wisconsin to Alamogordo, New Mexico, to -work as civilian employees at Holloman AFB. (Clark III 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2323

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Event 3267 -(D5601F23)

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Date: 1954
-Description: Contactee George -Van Tassel begins building the Integratron at Giant Rock, -California, based on the rejuvenation techniques imparted to him by -space aliens from Venus. (Wikipedia, “Integratron”; -Jody Rosen, “Welcome -to the Integratron,” New York Times Magazine, August 20, 2014; Lesla -Miller Schnur, “G. -W. Van Tassel’s -Integratron,” The Haunted Librarian, August 27, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2324

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Event 3268 -(E225E935)

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Date: 1954
-Description: An official in the UK Deputy Directorate of Intelligence -(Technical) mentions to investigator Ronald N. Russell that the DDI has -15,000 reports on file since 1947 stored in nine drawers in three wooden -filing cabinets with Yale locks, doubly secured by a hinged plate locked -with a large padlock. (John Pitt, “’Tell -Us Please, Mr. Birch,’” -Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1956): 10–13; Good Above, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2325

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Event 3269 -(40882980)

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Date: 1954
-Description: A promotional photo of a Martin B-57 Canberra bomber taken -near Edwards Air Force Base in California shows a saucer-like object in -the upper right portion of the frame. No one actually reports seeing the -object, which seems to be trailing the B-57 in flight. NICAP -photoanalyst Ralph Rankow points out that the object has dimension, does -not appear to be a scratch or rub on the film, and has a pattern of -light and shadow consistent with the rest of the photo. (Story, pp. 36–37; -Robert A. Schmidt, “The -Strange Case of the B-57 Photographs,” Flying Saucer Review Case -Histories, no. 6 (August 1971): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2326

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Event 3270 -(7BD1EEAC)

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Date: 1954
-Description: After RCAF pilots fail to intercept several UFOs in -Canadian air space, the Defence Research Board sets up a restricted -landing field near the Suffield Experimental Station [now CFB Suffield], -Alberta. All RCAF planes and commercial aircraft are restricted from the -area. However, the effort is abandoned after the government determines -that UFOs are not a national security risk. The project is kept secret -until July 1967 when it is revealed by Defence Minister Paul -Hellyer. (“UFO -Landing Site was 13-Year Secret,” Ottawa (Ont.) Journal, July 20, -1967, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2328

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Event 3271 -(0BC1FE75)

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Date: 1954
-Description: Project SIGMA established as part of Project xxxx (name -CENSURED). Top Secret project that looked into how to communicate with -aliens. That projects existence was revealed in the PROJECT AQUARIUS -Briefing Document and is said to have succeeded in 1964 when a USAF -intelligence officer met two other aliens at a prearranged location in a -desert in New Mexico. Became a separate project in 1976.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A, SIGMA)
-Location: US
-Attributes: Majestic

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Event 3272 -(52D1BCF3)

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Date: 1954
-Description: US Satellite Program: “The U.S. Earth satellite program -began in 1954 as a joint U.S. Army and U.S. Navy proposal, called -Project Orbiter, to put a scientific satellite into orbit during the -International Geophysical Year. The proposal, using a military Redstone -missile, was rejected in 1955 by the Eisenhower administration in favor -of the Navy’s Project Vanguard, using a booster advertised as more -civilian in nature. Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik -1 on 4 October 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as -the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.”
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US

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Event 3273 -(BDCB401D)

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Date: 1/1954
-Description: Radio commentator Frank Edwards states that the US -government has an “object” under examination in California.
-Type: radio
-Reference: Medium
-Location: California

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Event 3274 -(98439A63)

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Date: 1/1954
-Description: Ed -J. Sullivan’s Civilian Saucer Investigation Los Angeles disbands. -(“CSI -Conclusions,” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, -no. 4 (Winter 1954): 7–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2329

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Event 3275 -(9DB74EF5)

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Date: 1/1954
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A strange object streaks across the sky over -Harts Range, Northern Territory, Australia, seen and heard by four -Native Australians. On the same day, an anonymous photographer is taking -photos of Mount Gillen, Northern Territory, when suddenly an enormous -(150 feet) round object appears from behind it. It moves high, then -drops low. He takes a photo, then it shoots off at high speed to the -west. The photo, reproduced in the newspaper, shows a dubious-looking -round object on edge with six spokes. (Alice Springs Centralian -Advocate, January 15, 1954; Alice Springs Centralian Advocate, February -5, 1954; Keith Basterfield, “Cold -Case: The Mount -Gillen Photograph, Alice Springs, 1954,” Unidentified Aerial -Phenomena–Scientific Research, January 12, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2330

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Event 3276 -(D4DCE3CC)

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Date: 1/1954
-Description: Giant UFO Over Baltimore and Washington.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 3277 -(5427DDB4)

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Date: 1/1/1954
-Description: 10:15 a.m. Capt. Douglas Barker, a pilot with Australian -National Airways, is at his home in Doncaster East, Melbourne, Victoria. -He sees a “metallic, mushroom-shaped object” flying over the Yarra River -valley toward the Templestowe brickworks in the northwest. He estimates -it is traveling at 700 mph at a height of 2,000 feet. Its apparent size -is four times that of a DC-4 aircraft. It is oscillating rapidly in and -out of thick cloud. It is elliptical with a “long shaft about the same -length as its body hanging below it.” Total duration of the sighting is -12 seconds. (NICAP, “Mushroom -Flying over Yarra Valley”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2331

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Event 3278 -(E3C6399C)

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Date: 1/1/1954
-End date: 1/2/1954
-Description: 10:35 p.m.–12:05 a.m. Navy pilot Lt. JG George G. Morgan of -Naval Air Station Lakehurst [now Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst], Toms -River, New Jersey, police chief Richard -Clement, police officer Oliver -G. Osborne, -and other witnesses see 3–12 round white objects with fuzzy edges -slightly smaller than the full moon hovering in the south for 90 minutes -as 2 objects circled around another one. They then switch places. Some -witnesses attempt to drive toward the objects to investigate. The -objects suddenly depart to the southwest at extremely high speed, -growing smaller until they disappear in 1–2 seconds. Multiple -independent witnesses across a baseline of at least 12 miles allow for -triangulation that locates the objects near Beach Haven, New Jersey, -from distances of 15–40 miles. At least five witnesses use binoculars. -Hynek calculates -a departure speed of 90,000 mph, a hovering altitude of 4 miles, and a -diameter of 1,500 feet. (NICAP, “Multiple-Witness -Sightings Triangulate -Location”; Sparks, -p. 207; Swords 223–224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2332

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Event 3279 -(E14EB7C0)

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Date: 1/4/1954
-Description: Shortly after 9:00 p.m. A round luminous machine, coming -from the south, lands at the Marignane Airfield [now Marseille Provence -Airport], Bouches-du-Rhône, France. There is only one witness present, a -fireman at the airport named Chesneau. The machine disappears while he -is telephoning the control tower. Careful scrutiny of the runway the -next morning turns up a few pieces of metallic debris. The story is -confirmed by a Marseille resident who is driving from Arles to Marseille -and sees a large, round, reddish fireball, but places the time at 10:45 -p.m. (Jimmy Guieu, Les soucoupes volantes viennent d’un autre monde, -Fleuve Noir, 1954; ClearIntent, p. 132; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 15, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2333

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Event 3280 -(DF7BE0C9)

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Date: 1/4/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mr. Chesneau, fireman, saw a round luminous object slowly -coming down and called the control tower to report it. When he came out -again, the object had disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Guieu (Vallee)
-Location: Marignane Airport, France
-ID: 123

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Event 3281 -(8A7A03A7)

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Date: 1/6/1954
-Description: The Cleveland Press runs the headline “Brass Curtain Hides -Flying Saucers” and reveals that ATIC will no longer allow reporters -seeking UFO information into Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Its reporter -is given the runaround on the Utah film. (“Air -Force Closes Brass Curtain,” Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel, -January 14, 1954, p. 3; UFOEv, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2334

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Event 3282 -(FF87D686)

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Date: 1/7/1954
-Description: 4:27 a.m. A fiery disk, followed by a luminous trail, is -seen in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. The disc remains motionless in the -sky for an instant, after which it flies away and disappears over the -horizon. (ClearIntent, p. 133; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” December 4, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2335

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Event 3283 -(9DD5BB90)

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Date: 1/9/1954
-Description: Three residents of Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, -see a round object flying from north to south. The object flies more -slowly than a jet plane and leaves a luminous yellow trail. It flies -noiselessly, although it appears to be at a low altitude. Several -students of the College de Lunéville also see the object. (ClearIntent, -p. 132; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” December 28, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2336

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Event 3284 -(A5004F9A)

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Date: 1/10/1954
-Description: 5:25–5:40 p.m. James -E. McDonald, two other University of Chicago meteorologists, and -another passenger are driving on Hwy 83 north of Sonoita, Arizona, when -McDonald spots a brilliant white stationary object in the southwest -above the Santa Rita Mountains about 10 miles away. They lose sight of -it as the car moves on. McDonald searches carefully for alternate -explanations, but can find none, so he reports the sighting to the Air -Force in a 4-page letter. (Clark III 695; Sparks, p. 207)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2337

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Event 3285 -(16FDE677)

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Date: 1/13/1954
-End date: 1/16/1954
-Description: Gen. Woodbury -M. Burgess chairs a conference at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic -Training Center] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with 4602nd officers -Capt. Joseph A. Cybulski and Capt. Bellovin and emphasizes that it is -now the agency responsible to ATIC for investigating UFOs. Cybulski says -that “We here in Headquarters will keep a complete file on all the -sightings. That’s why we want the information copied. We will file them -under separate headings, such as the type of personnel involved, -military or civilian, or air-lines. We will record it under the type of -object it was eventually determined to be.” Capt. Cybulski leaves for -Dayton, Ohio, the next day to coordinate activities more closely. He -reports that Hynek is -“ready to quit” because he is “ridiculed by members of my profession for -chasing these imaginary objects.” But Burgess persuades him to stay. -(CUFON, “4602d -AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 3 of 7 Parts”; Brian Skow and Terry -Endres, “The 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron and UFOs,” IUR 20, -no. 5 (Winter 1995): 9–10; Capt. Joseph A. Cybulski, “How the Air Force -Investigated UFOs,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 11, 30–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2339

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Event 3286 -(4F4E5559)

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Date: 1/13/1954
-Description: Mutual Radio broadcaster Frank -Edwards alleges on his show that the wreckage of a flying saucer is -being held in a “West Coast military field.” (Clark III 330–331)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2338

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Event 3287 -(5F8396E4)

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Date: 1/18/1954
-Description: Cosette Weiss of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is visiting the -Kilbourne Hole, a maar volcanic crater in the Potrillo Volcanic Field of -southern New Mexico, to collect gemstones with a companion, -Mrs. Sanders. They discover 25–30 disc-shaped tracks in the sand. The -largest are about 2 feet in diameter, perfectly round, and consist of -four concentric rings. They find more fresh tracks on January 22. -Sanders reports this to White Sands Proving Grounds. Two Army security -agents, Capt. Ross -Orcutt and CID agent Henry Herman, spend the night of February 6 at -the location and report that the tracks are “nothing more than a -combination of wind, sand, and roots.” The mystery lights seen in the -area by Weiss are labeled “vehicular traffic.” (“Report from the -Readers,” Fate 7, no. 6 (June 1954): 109–129; Michael D. Swords, “Fun -and Games in the Desert near Las Cruces,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): -21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2340

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Event 3288 -(CAF8885D)

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Date: 1/18/1954
-Description: 1:30 p.m. Many people in Saint-Arnaud [now El Eulma], -Algeria, observe an object that leaves a double trail of white smoke, -making an immense circle over the town. Several officers at Bordj de la -Remonte fort (southwest of Magra) hear the object make a strange sound. -It seems to arrive from the north. A meteorological station near Oued -Hmimim (southeast of Constantine) observes a double trail of smoke at -2:00 p.m., but it concludes that the smoke comes from a plane flying at -great altitude. At 2:30 p.m., inhabitants of Sétif see an object arrive -from the east, emitting bluish smoke trails and moving relatively -slowly. After circling above the town for several seconds, it suddenly -heads back in the direction of Saint-Arnaud at great speed. Witnesses -describe it as it being cigar-shaped and flying at high altitude. -Finally, at 4:45 p.m., a large, luminous, rectangular- shaped object is -seen over Ouled Djellal (125 miles southwest of Sétif) for over 30 -minutes following a rectilinear course. The object comes from the east -and disappears toward the west. (ClearIntent, p. 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2341

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Event 3289 -(C0B9104B)

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Date: 1/24/1954
-Description: Author Frank Scully records in his private notes 11/53 -rumors of a saucer and its occupant in custody at Edwards AFB. He also -records that an “industrial group” discussing matters that “confront the -country” will be meeting at Muroc Dry Lake concerning the custody of -several beings off a saucer.
-Type: private notes
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Edwards AFB
-See also: 11/53
-See also: 12/53

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Event 3290 -(B498FCFA)

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Date: 1/25/1954
-Description: The British Air Ministry and the British War Office order -airmen and soldiers to tell the public nothing about UFOs. (Harold T. -Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, Citadel, 1954, p. 318)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2342

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Event 3291 -(0CDD5BE7)

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Date: 1/25/1954
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A civilian employee and astronomer, Robert -D. Schaldach in the Technical Service Unit at White Sands Proving -Grounds, New Mexico, is setting up his ballistic camera to monitor a -missile test. As he looks at the stars to calibrate his instrument, he -notices a yellow-white light moving from northeast to southeast in a -shallow arc. It pulses in brightness at regular intervals. At the same -time, another observer 17 miles to the southeast also sees the object. -They perform some triangulation measurements and determine that the -object is about 12 miles distant and moving at 12,000 mph. Schaldach -says it is not a meteor. Blue Book, no doubt Hynek, labels -it as a meteor. (Michael D. Swords, “Fun and Games in the Desert near -Las Cruces,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2343

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Event 3292 -(1FBA8001)

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Date: 1/27/1954
-Description: The US successfully launches a Redstone surface-to-surface -missile that flies 55 miles from Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Wikipedia, -“PGM-11 -Redstone”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2344

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Event 3293 -(F52A5732)

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Date: 1/28/1954
-Description: Australian Minister for External Affairs Richard -Casey suggests there is a correlation between UFO sightings and -“periods of intense meteorite activity.” (Swords 374)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2345

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Event 3294 -(E0DE1AF0)

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Date: 1/28/1954
-Time: 110-10:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Wilhelm Reich. Two bright lights moved into -valley, and were seen against the mountain background, for 15 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rangeley, Maine
-ID: 333

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Event 3295 -(28E3C48C)

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Date: 1/29/1954
-Description: Afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Whitaker are driving 6 miles -south of Santa Ana, California, when they see a round object emitting a -blurry light-blue light moving off a hilly field. It passes over their -car at an altitude of 25 feet. The radio goes blank and the motor coughs -and continues to act roughly after the UFO had gone. Whitaker estimates -it is 60 feet in diameter and traveling at 600 mph. It makes a vertical -ascent and disappears. (Schopick, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2346

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Event 3296 -(0AA050C7)

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Date: 2/1954
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Forster stated they saw a craft on the ground, -with a woman close by. She was wearing luminous clothing, a sort of -hood, and thick glasses and held a tube in one hand and a box in the -other. Mrs. Forster had to be taken to the hospital in a state of -shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Barker (Vallee)
-Location: Peakskill, New York
-ID: 125

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Event 3297 -(A4966A10)

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Date: 2/1954
-Description: A native was riding a horse over a low ridge when a -spherial object about 13 m in diameter “nearly skittled me off my -horse.” It went up suddenly with a heavy wind, rumbling and emitting -four columns of smoke.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 211 (Vallee)
-Location: Todd River Downs, Australia
-ID: 124

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Event 3298 -(604CB342)

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Date: 2/1954
-Description: Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York is founded by Ted -Bloecher, Isabel -Davis, and Alexander -Mebane. The group holds regular meetings, sponsors lecturers, and -begins publishing a CSI Newsletter in February 1955. It disbands in -1959. (Wikipedia, “Civilian -Saucer Intelligence”; CSI -Publication, no. -0 (April 23, 1954); Clark III 241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2347

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Event 3299 -(864A81A5)

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Date: 2/1954
-Description: Clara -John begins publishing The Little Listening Post newsletter in -Washington, D.C. It continues through August 1965. (Little -Listening Post, February -9, 1954)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2348

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Event 3300 -(8760E8CA)

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Date: 2/1954
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Forster of Peekskill, New York, see a UFO on -the ground with a woman close by. She holds a tube in one hand and a box -in the other, wears luminous clothing and a hood over part of her head. -Mrs. Forster has to be taken to the hospital in a state of shock. -(Dominick C. Lucchesi, “They -Saw a Saucer Woman,” The Saucerian 2, no. 2 (September 1954): 12–17; -Vallée, Magonia, p. 205; -Clark III 267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2349

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Event 3301 -(CCFE137D)

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Date: 2/1954
-Description: Newlyweds Ernest -L. Norman and Ruth -E. Norman found a contactee group, the Unarius Academy of Science, -in Los Angeles, California. Ernest, a spiritualist medium, wants the -group to promote the interdimensional science of life expounded in the -books he has written, all of them channeled psychically from -extraterrestrial intelligences. Both claim impressive credentials from -past lives. Ruth styles herself the Archangel Uriel and after the death -of Ernest in 1971, she becomes the public face of Unarius. Before her -death in 1993, she predicts a mass landing of flying saucers in 2001 on -a piece of scrubland near the Unarius headquarters in El Cajon, -California. (Wikipedia, “Unarius -Academy of Science”; Clark III 1186–1187; Douglas Curran, In Advance -of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, pp. 27–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2350

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Event 3302 -(D5BD1C17)

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Date: 2/1/1954
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Mrs. W. J. Daily of La Puente, California, sees -a silvery, bright, round object through binoculars. It tilts, revealing -a fiery-red bottom. The UFO spins and drifts away with an odd-looking -vapor trail. A large amount of cobwebby substance falls on her property. -She takes three samples to the Mount Wilson Observatory. (San Fernando -(Calif.) Valley Times, February 15, 1954; James C. McNamara, “Angel’s -Hair,” Pageant 10 (November 1954): 52–56; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1954, January–May, The Author, 1990, pp. 24–25; Story, p. 19; -Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1 -(August 2008): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2351

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Event 3303 -(029C381F)

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Date: 2/4/1954
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A target is detected by the Carswell AFB [now -Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth] Ground Control Approach -radar, near Fort Worth, Texas, at a distance of 13–15 miles to the -southwest. A “mystery aircraft” passes over Carswell tower at just over -3,000 feet. Seen through binoculars, the UFO has a long fuselage, -elliptical wings, some kind of stabilizer, a bright light on its nose -and tail, two yellowish lights on the bottom, and possible lights on -each wing tip. It is silent. The report is sent directly to the Joint -Chiefs of Staff, CIA, and NSA. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual -with Two Radars”; Good Above, pp. 281–282, 495–496; -Sparks, -p. 208)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2352

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Event 3304 -(BCC16D3C)

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Date: 2/6/1954
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL Air Force Staff Message: (DTG 061800Z) From -Commander 19, A-Division, Carswell AFB, TX: UFO sighted over base. Had -long fuselage, elliptical wings, stabilizer and no visible means of -propulsion. It was larger than a B-36, had no tail, left no trail of -exhaust and emitted no sound. Passed directly over tower at an Alt. of -3000 to 4000 ft. and was visible to all persons on duty. The UFO, when -viewed on 10 mile scope gave a return of 1 inch. Copy of this report -sent to: CSAF, WASH DC; COMDR ADC, ENT AFB, COLO; COMDR ATINTEL, CRT -WPAFB, OHIO; COMDR 8TH AF, CARSWELL AFB, TEX.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p495)
-Location: Carswell AFB, TX

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Event 3305 -(E3740156)

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Date: 2/13/1954
-Description: Jim -G. Lucas of Scripps-Howard papers reports that representatives of -major US airlines will meet in Los Angeles with Military Air Transport -Service intelligence officers to discuss speeding up UFO reporting -procedures. “Airline pilots are asked not to discuss their sightings -publicly or give them to newspapers.” (“Airline Pilots -Sighting 5–10 -‘Saucers’ Nightly,” Pittsburgh (Pa.) Press, February 13, 1954, -pp. 1, 3; UFOEv, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2353

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Event 3306 -(3A361FEE)

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Date: 2/13/1954
-Description: Astronomer Clyde -Tombaugh gives a talk to the Astronomical Society of Las Cruces, New -Mexico. He predicts an increase in UFO sightings and tells the audience -to keep its eyes open and be ready to report sightings. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, p. 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2354

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Event 3307 -(9A9BE3A2)

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Date: 2/15/1954
-Description: American syndicated columnist Dorothy -Kilgallen writes: “Flying saucers are regarded as of such vital -importance that they will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting -of world military heads next summer.” (Dorothy Kilgallen, “Voice -of Broadway” column, Dover (Ohio) Daily Reporter, February 15, 1954, -p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2355

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Event 3308 -(A9910EB1)

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Date: 2/15/1954
-Description: Two small boys see and take pic of UFO near Coniston, -England.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Coniston, England
-Attributes: ufo photo

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Event 3309 -(746FEA31)

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Date: 2/15/1954
-Description: Morning. Stephen -Darbishire, 13, and his cousin Adrian Meyer, 8, set off for an -expedition to the Old Man of Coniston, a fell in the Lake District, -England, armed with a Kodak box camera. Meyer notices an object above -Dow Crag with a silvery, glassy appearance, shining like aluminum. It -glides toward them and approaches within 400 yards, travelling at -tremendous speed, and then stops suddenly and hovers noiselessly, in the -sky. Darbishire takes two photos, which resemble those of scoutships -taken by George -Adamski in the US. A probable hoax, although Darbishire still -refuses to say anything explicit about the photos, which no longer -exist. (Clark III 42; Leonard G. Cramp, Space, Gravity, and the Flying -Saucer, British Book Centre, 1955; Good Above, p. 377; -David Clarke and Andy Roberts, “UFO -Hoaxing and the Story of Stephen Darbishire,” Magonia, no. 75 (July -2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2357

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Event 3310 -(A8252F3B)

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Date: 2/15/1954
-Description: Aviation Week publishes an article describing new Soviet -jet bombers capable of carrying a nuclear bomb to the US. The aircraft -is the Myasishchev M-4 Bison. The rumors are soon debated publicly in -the press and Congress. The Air Force begins promoting its unfounded -myth of a bomber gap, in which the Soviet Union has 500 bombers capable -of delivering nuclear weapons. (Wikipedia, “Myasishchev -M-4”; David A. Anderton, “Pictures -Reveal Reds’ New ‘Sunday Punch,’” Aviation Week, February 15, 1954, -pp. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2356

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Event 3311 -(522B3DBD)

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Date: 2/17/1954
-Description: Commercial airline representatives meet with Military Air -Transport Service officers at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, -California, and are told that pilots are subject to JANAP 146 (CIRVIS) -and must radio reports to the nearest airport and make no public -statements or face a prison term of 10 years and/or a fine of $10,000. -(Good Above, pp. 146, 283)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2358

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Event 3312 -(A3C79E4D)

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Date: 2/18/1954
-Description: Cedric Allingham meets and takes a picture of a man from -Mars and saucer.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 3313 -(98B7A8B2)

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Date: 2/19/1954
-Description: CIA agent Morris -“Morse” Allen simulates the ultimate experiment in hypnosis: the -creation of a “Manchurian Candidate,” or programmed assassin. Allen’s -victim is a secretary whom he puts into a deep trance and tells to keep -sleeping until he orders otherwise. He then hypnotizes a second -secretary and tells her that if she cannot wake up her friend, “her rage -would be so great that she would not hesitate to ‘kill.’” Allen leaves a -pistol nearby, which the secretary has no way of knowing is unloaded. -Even though she has earlier expressed a fear of firearms of any kind, -she picks up the gun and pulls the trigger on her sleeping friend. After -Allen brings the “killer” out of her trance, she has apparent amnesia -for the event, denying she could ever shoot anyone. (John D. Marks, The -Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control, Times -Books, 1978, pp. 182– 186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2359

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Event 3314 -(7C498DA6)

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Date: 2/20/1954
-Description: Rumors of President Eisenhower disappearing from reporters -at Palm Springs for a secret meeting at Edwards AFB to captured saucers -and perhaps have a meeting. One reporter issues and then immediately -retracts a wire story that the President was dead. Dentist visit a cover -story.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: book -link
-Location: Edwards AFB, CA
-See also: 4/2/54

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Event 3315 -(C01DD2F0)

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Date: 2/20/1954
-End date: 2/21/1954
-Description: President Eisenhower is -on a golf vacation at Smoke Tree Ranch in Palm Springs, California, when -he breaks the porcelain cap of his “upper left central incisor” and has -it repaired by Dr. Francis -A. Purcell. However, the incident is not reported in the press, and -rumors start buzzing that he made a secret trip to Edwards Air Force -Base to view the remains of aliens who had crashed at Roswell, New -Mexico, in 1947. Later stories claim he actually visited with live -aliens and conducted a treaty with them. The lack of any dental record -from Purcell’s office has fueled the rumors, but Ike’s dental history is -thoroughly covered in the November 1995 issue of the Bulletin of the -History of Dentistry. (“‘Object’ -Studied at Edwards Air Base as ‘Brass Curtain’ Falls around Saucer -Data,” Flying Saucer News-Service Research Bulletin 1, no. 9 (August -20, 1955): 3; Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 45–48; -Riley Crabb, Flying Saucers and the Coming Space Probes, The Author, -1959; Michael D. Swords, “Tales from the Barker Zone,” IUR 17, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1992): 4–10; Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” -IUR 18, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1993): 18, 24; James M. Mixson, “A -History of Dwight -D. Eisenhower’s Oral Health,” Journal of the History of Dentistry -43, no. 3 (November 1995): 93–103; Good Need, pp. 208–209; -Juan A. Lorenzo Rivas, “President -Eisenhower’s ‘E.T.’ Encounter: What Really Happened -at Muroc Base?” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 (Autumn 1999): 2–6; -Gordon Creighton, “More -on the -‘Muroc’ Story,” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 (Autumn 1999): 6–10; -Michael E. Salla, “Eisenhower’s 1954 Meeting with Extraterrestrials: The -Fiftieth Anniversary of First Contact?” Research Study No. 8, -Exopolitics, February 12, 2004; Peter Carlson, “Ike -and the Alien Ambassadors,” Washington Post, February 19, 2004; John -Joyce, “Ike’s -Space Alien Encounter,” The Ike Blog, November 10, 2011; Clark III -330–331)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2360

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Event 3316 -(5B958654)

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Date: 2/23/1954
-Description: Scripps-Howard papers report that the “nation’s 8,500 -commercial airline pilots have been seeing a lot of unusual objects -while flying at night, here and overseas.” They confirm that plans for a -detailed reporting system were agreed upon at the February 17 meeting in -Los Angeles, California, so that the Air Force can investigate quickly. -Each airline is to have an “internal security specialist” as a liaison -with the military. (“Flying -Saucers Reports -System to Be Organized,” Albuquerque (N.Mex.) Tribune, February 23, -1954, p. 10; UFOEv, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2361

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Event 3317 -(7DE8273E)

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Date: 2/24/1954
-Description: Lecturer and engineer Norman S. Bean states that saucers -are already in “captivity”, one saucer was or still is in Dayton OH, -military is investigating the saucer, saucer people look like humans, -after the British atomic bomb tests in Australia saucer reports took off -there, claimed Air Force permission to talk.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Miami, FL

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Event 3318 -(5B1B7144)

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Date: 2/26/1954
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: architect R.M. Pierce, marine engineer George -Avery and one other person. One silver disc, with a white trail, made a -loud roar for 30-60 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Newburyport, Massachusetts
-ID: 334

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Event 3319 -(A2098146)

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Date: 3/1954
-Description: Sec. of Air Force Talbott’s aircraft paced by UFO over -Fresno, CA
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Fresno, CA

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Event 3320 -(AC5B05B8)

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Date: 3/1954 (approximate)
-Description: Two Native Australians, employees of Arthur Pope, see a UFO -at close range 100 miles south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory. One -named Sonny is riding up over a ridge when a spherical object flies -directly toward him then veers away. Sonny feels a heavy wind when the -UFO passes. Others see the object, which has a glassy appearance, with -four trails of smoke coming from each side. (Alice Springs Centralian -Advocate, April 2, 1954; Keith Basterfield, “Alice -Springs: 1954 Encounter,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific -Research, February 7, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2362

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Event 3321 -(9F106470)

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Date: 3/1954
-Description: Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Thomas B. Eickhoff informs Keyhoe that -Flying Saucers from Outer Space was “not submitted to the air force for -authentication prior to publication,” although it contains official UFO -reports. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2363

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Event 3322 -(096E5348)

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Date: 3/1954
-Time: 1700
-Description: Rubem Hellwig was driving when he saw a football-shaped -machine, the size of a Volkswagen, on the ground. He walked toward it -and met two men of slim build, normal height, their faces brownish, -wearing no helmets. One was inside the object while the other collected -grass samples. They spoke to Hellwig in a strange language, and yet he -said he understood they were asking for ammonia. He directed them to a -nearby town. The craft vanished silently and instantly with blue and -yellow flames.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 1; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
-ID: 126

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Event 3323 -(B0A00203)

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Date: 3/1954
-Time: early
-Description: Rubem Hellwig again saw a strange machine the next day. He -observed a tall, faircomplexioned man and two women, who had light brown -skin, long black hair, dark, slanted eyes. All three wore one-piece -garments of a fabric resembling suede, with zippers. They told Hellwig -that they were scientists, spoke of the natural riches of Brazil, and -expressed surprise that he did not run away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 1; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
-ID: 127

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Event 3324 -(9D86A4D0)

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Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: 6:45 a.m. Castle Bravo is the most powerful nuclear device -detonated by the US and its first lithium deuteride–fueled thermonuclear -weapon. The test’s yield is 15 megatons of TNT, 2.5 times the predicted -6.0 megatons (due to unforeseen additional reactions involving -lithium-7), which leads to the unexpected radioactive contamination of -areas to the east of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. At the time, -it is the most powerful artificial explosion in history. Fallout, the -heaviest of which in the form of pulverized surface coral from the -detonation, falls on residents of Rongelap and Utirik atolls, while the -more particulate and gaseous fallout spreads around the world. The -inhabitants of the islands are not evacuated until three days later and -suffer radiation sickness. Twenty-three crew members of the Japanese -fishing vessel Daigo -Fukuryū Maru are also contaminated by the heavy fallout, -experiencing acute radiation syndrome. The blast incites international -reaction over atmospheric thermonuclear testing. (Wikipedia, “Castle -Bravo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2364

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Event 3325 -(3953D656)

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Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: Morning. Airborne Radar Operator W/O Olin -H. Hasty is aboard an RB-36 controller aircraft monitoring the -Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll. Shortly after the detonation, the -RB-36 is flying at 40,000 feet and Hasty picks up two or three -unidentified targets operating above 60,000 feet. From the cockpit the -pilot and copilot can see the objects, which are flying in holding -patterns above the area of the blast. Task force headquarters advises -them that the objects are Canberra aircraft flown by the Royal -Australian Air Force on air-sampling missions. However, there is only -one British Canberra in the area at the time. (Nukes 110–113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2365

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Event 3326 -(E4B5D885)

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Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: “Castle Bravo” hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll, -Marshall Islands, the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the -United States at 15mt.
-Type: atomic
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic MT: 15

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Event 3327 -(C9A5BF03)

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Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: Numerous bathers at the beaches near Montevideo, Uruguay, -observe a metallic disc emitting yellowish reflections. It remains -stationary for 2 minutes at an altitude of several thousand feet. -(ClearIntent, p. 133; -Lorenzen, The Whole Story, Signet, 1969; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1954, January–May, The Author, 1990, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2367

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Event 3328 -(0278AD15)

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Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Employees at Carrasco International Airport in -Montevideo, Uruguay, watch a strange oval object above the northeast -horizon. It changes shape and ejects a smaller body that moves below and -behind. An operator named de Rizzardo in the control tower sees an oval -object with protuberances, accompanied by a pair of smaller bodies. -Chief Controller Pedro V. Ocamp is still fumbling with binoculars as the -objects speed away. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1954, January–May, The -Author, 1990, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2368

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Event 3329 -(F7E97867)

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Date: 3/1/1954
-Description: An article in American Aviation planted by the Air Force -attributes the latest wave of sightings to Keyhoe’s -1953 book Flying Saucers from Outer Space. (“The Saucers Again,” -American Aviation 17 (March 1, 1954): 3; Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, p. 104; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1954, January–May, The -Author, 1990, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2366

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Event 3330 -(709D61B0)

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Date: 3/2/1954
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witness: research engineer R.C. Swengel. Three objects, -each with two lights, flew straight and level at medium speed for an -unknown length of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: vicinity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
-ID: 335

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Event 3331 -(07B8CCB7)

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Date: 3/5/1954
-Description: A photo supposedly taken near Rouen, France, by a fighter -pilot is actually a retouched photo showing the 1950 McMinnville, -Oregon, UFO photo taken by Paul -Trent. (NICAP, “RAF -Flying Review Photo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2370

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Event 3332 -(CAD21C69)

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Date: 3/5/1954
-Description: Evening. At Nouasseur Air Base [now closed] near -Casablanca, Morocco, crews of USAF KC-97 aerial tanker planes and a C-54 -transport see one or two white or amber objects or lights make passes at -the aircraft on collision courses as they practice ground-controlled -approach landings. At 7:15 p.m., KC-97 pilots Capt. G. E. Brown, 1st Lt. -L. B. Gordon, and 1st Lt. J. P. Glover, 301st Air Refueling Squadron, -301st Bomb Wing, while flying a KC-97 to a practice landing at 1,500 -feet about 5-8 miles southwest of the base, see two white lights to the -right on an apparent collision course. The KC-97 takes evasive action. -Later [at 8:20 p.m.? 9:20 p.m.?], after landing and takeoff, they see -the same or similar two white lights on the same course from the south -on a collision course and they made an evasive 360° turn. At 7:38 p.m., -pilots Capt. Robert R. Zadnick, Lt. Paul R. Fisher, and Lt. George A. -Kerr flying another KC-97 at 1,500 feet about 5 miles southwest of -Nouasseur base see a light at about the same altitude and to the left, -apparently headed west on a collision course. As it crosses, they see 2 -lights like jets but with no aircraft running lights. One light passes -over and one under the KC-97. At 9:55 p.m., senior pilot Capt. William -M. Pond, copilot -Lt. I. W. Gilchrist, and navigator Capt. James F. Pullen, while flying a -C-54 at 2,000 feet at Nouasseur base see a white or amber light like an -aircraft landing light at about the same altitude approaching on a -collision course heading west 2–3 miles away. It then turns onto a -direct head-on course, passing within 2 miles, then suddenly disappears -like turning off a light. It then reappears 10–15 seconds later, hovers, -descends to the ground, then rises and disappears behind the C-54 after -completing its turn onto final landing approach. No radar or other -visual contact is made. (NICAP, “Aircraft -(2) Encounter Lights on Collision Course”; -Sparks, p. 210)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2369

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Event 3333 -(27A3CF20)

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Date: 3/5/1954
-Time: 8 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crews of USAF KC-97 aerial tanker planes. One -object or light made passes at KC-97s, the other flew straight and -level. Sighting duration unknown.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco
-ID: 336

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Event 3334 -(201D023E)

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Date: 3/8/1954
-Description: 11:07 p.m. A red disc-shaped UFO flies over Laredo AFB [now -Laredo International Airport], Texas. It tilts to a vertical orientation -and then shoots straight up into the sky. It is reported by a pilot. Ten -to twenty nocturnal lights in a crescent formation—possibly a single -crescent-shaped object—fly over San Antonio, Texas. They make no sound. -(Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, p. 110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2371

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Event 3335 -(389DBDB1)

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Date: 3/10/1954
-Description: JANAP 146 (C), “Communications Instructions for Reporting -Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft and Waterborne Sources.” This -directive allows waterborne sources for CIRVIS and adds MERINT reports. -Civilian pilots must also report UFOs to the Air Force and refrain from -talking about it. (Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint -Communications–Electronics Committee, “JANAP -146(C) Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence -Sightings from Airborne and Waterborne Sources,” March 10, 1954; -Good Above, p. 283; -Antonio F. Rullán, “Blue -Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships,” December 10, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2372

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Event 3336 -(71CBC890)

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Date: 3/10/1954
-Description: Leonard -H. Stringfield founds Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying -Objects (CRIFO) in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Clark III 1114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2373

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Event 3337 -(0BE06CE6)

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Date: 3/11/1954
-Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on -flying saucers.
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL

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Event 3338 -(657599D2)

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Date: 3/12/1954
-Description: 9:35 a.m. USAF 1st Lt. Robert Johnson, flying an F-86 over -Nouasseur Air Base [now closed] near Casablanca, Morocco, chases an -object at more than 530 mph for 30 seconds, but is unable to catch it. -The object appears to be the size of a fighter plane but has neither -tanks nor vapor trails. (NICAP, “F-86 -Chases Object at 500 -MPH”; Sparks, p. 210)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2374

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Event 3339 -(46BD8D27)

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Date: 3/12/1954
-Time: 9:35 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. Robert Johnson, flying an F-86 jet -fighter. He chased an object at more than 530 m.p.h. for 30 seconds, but -was unable to catch it. It appeared to be the size of a fighter plane -but had neither tanks nor trails.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco
-ID: 337

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Event 3340 -(BFAC5DC6)

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Date: mid 3/1954
-Description: Prince -Philip, Duke -of Edinburgh, invites probable UFO photo hoaxer Stephen -Darbishire to Buckingham Palace in London, England, to relate his -story to an aide. A full report of the interview is sent to the duke, -who is in Australia. (Good Above, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2376

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Event 3341 -(281D44B1)

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Date: 3/15/1954
-Description: A memo about a recent Project Second Storey meeting show -that experiments at Wilbert -B. Smith’s Shirley’s Bay detecting station is running experiments -correlating UFO reports with magnetic disturbances and gamma radiation. -It recommends looking into as yet undiscovered gravity waves. (Good -Above, pp. 187–188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2375

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Event 3342 -(DBBE8206)

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Date: 3/18/1954
-Description: 4:25 p.m. Two conservation officers stationed on Hecla -Island in Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, are driving their snowmobile across -the frozen lake when they see a slim silver object 100 feet long and -only 8 feet thick. They watch the object as it changes orientation from -vertical to horizontal and back again. They estimate it is 15,000 feet -high and 10 miles away. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, -August Night, 2022, p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2377

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Event 3343 -(2C785A4A)

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Date: 3/23/1954
-Description: Capt. William -B. Nash gives -a talk at a Greater Miami (Florida) Aviation Association luncheon at the -Seven Seas Restaurant and offers his assessment of the Air Force’s -handling of UFO investigations. He suspects that the Air Force has -concluded that UFOs are a real phenomenon, but they fear creating a -state of panic by admitting as much. (Michael Hall, “Was There a Second -Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2378

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Event 3344 -(0AA2317C)

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Date: 3/24/1954
-Description: Night. Civil Defense Deputy Coordinator Adolph Wagner sees -13 sharply defined triangular objects moving west to east over -Baltimore, Maryland, in a V formation. They are glowing a fluorescent -blue. From the north, a larger object approaches and stations itself in -front of the V. When a commercial airliner appears, the objects split -formation. Six execute a sharp turn, the color shifts to purplish, and -they head toward the airplane in single file. The other 8 objects -continue flying east. (“Multiple -Object Sightings by Creditable Observers Continue,” CRIFO Orbit, -July 2, 1954, p. 3; UFOEv, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2379

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Event 3345 -(025AF3BA)

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Date: 3/25/1954
-Description: 3:20 p.m. USMC Capt. Dan -C. Holland is flying one of three jets with the 3rd Marine Air Wing -on an easterly heading at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at about 26,000 feet -and 400+ mph. He sees a gleaming white, ball- shaped object with a gold -ring around the lower third, about 2 times size of his jet, descending -vertically on a collision course. He takes evasive action and radios the -other jet pilots to look. The object suddenly stops 3,000– 4,000 feet -above his jet. He banks toward it and activates the gun camera, but the -UFO accelerates and disappears to the east at tremendous speed in about -15 seconds. The other two pilots flying ahead of him do not see the -object. (NICAP, “Ball -with Golden Rings Stops near F-9F”; Sparks, p. 211; Loren E. Gross, -UFOs, -a History: 1954, -January–May, The -Author, 1990, pp. 61–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2380

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Event 3346 -(BA0C39C0)

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Date: 3/28/1954
-Description: 1:25 a.m. Capt. Willis -T. Sperry and his copilot on United Air Lines Flight 600, flying -east at 19,000 feet 12 miles east of Cherokee (near Creston), Wyoming, -spot a bright green glowing object at 12°–15° above the horizon coming -downward at an angle of 30° to the left of vertical and disappearing -behind a cloud bank. It is also seen by the pilot of a DC-3 west of -Sinclair, Wyoming, at 13,000 feet. (Good Above, pp. 283–284; -Sparks, -p. 211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2381

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Event 3347 -(7038861D)

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Date: 3/28/1954
-Description: Following the success of Flying Saucers Have Landed, George -Adamski gives a talk to the Detroit Flying Saucer Club at the -Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, which draws 4,700 people. (“Palomar -Mountain, 1940– 1960: -From Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019) -Late spring — Noon. A family living in a cottage on the outskirts of -Norco, California, is sitting down for lunch when they hear a metallic -droning sound. The mother and daughter go outside and see an object like -a rowboat with a transparent dome, 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, pass -slowly overhead, then stop and hover over a nearby tree. Inside the dome -are five helmeted men staring at the witnesses. Their “rather long -faces” are olive-colored, and their eyes and hair are dark. After a -minute the droning sound resumes, and the object takes off slowly. -(Donald B. Hanlon, “Occupants -Observed at Norco,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 3 (May/June 1968): -15–16; Clark III 267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2382

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Event 3348 -(07BA84B6)

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Date: 4/1954
-Description: The Royal Australian Air Force issues its first statement -of policy on UFOs, admitting that it does attempt to evaluate reports: -“There is no doubt that reliable observers have reported sightings which -today are inexplicable within the resources available to the RAAF.” -(Project 1947, “The -Former Air Board / Department of Air / Current RAAF”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2384

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Event 3349 -(01C648D9)

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Date: 4/1954
-Description: Oak Park, Illinois, contactee Dorothy -Martin has been channeling entities through automatic writing. One -introduces himself as Sananda, who lives on the utopian planet Clarion. -She begins typing up the messages in newsletters and distributing them -to readers, including Charles and Lilian Loughead from Detroit, -Michigan, whom she met in March. (Clark III 717)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2385

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Event 3350 -(81A4E1ED)

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Date: 4/1954
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Two male witnesses watch through binoculars a -vividly white object hovering high in the sky for 10 minutes above -Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. A cone-shaped mist appears on -its leeward side, then the object shoots straight up and disappears. -(Jessup, The UFO Annual, Citadel, 1956; Nukes 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2383

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Event 3351 -(8F56D98B)

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Date: 4/1954
-Description: SOM1–01 “MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual” -document
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
-See also: 12/1994

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Event 3352 -(23F1BABA)

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Date: 4/4/1954
-Description: Keyhoe meets -with Ruppelt at -the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Anegels, California, and shares -recent UFO reports. Ruppelt agrees to write a letter supporting the -claim that Keyhoe has used genuine ATIC reports for his book. (Keyhoe, -FS -Conspiracy, pp. 116–120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2386

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Event 3353 -(C2C8414F)

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Date: 4/4/1954
-End date: 4/5/1954
-Description: Contactee George -Van Tassel holds the first Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft -Convention at Giant Rock, a huge boulder in the Mojave Desert near -Landers, California. Speakers include Orfeo -Angelucci, Truman Bethurum, -Daniel -Fry, and -George -Hunt Williamson. It draws a crowd variously estimated at -2,500–6,000. (“Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention Draws 6,000,” San -Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun, April 5, 1954, p. 9; Clark III 531, -717)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2387

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Event 3354 -(5C30AC97)

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Date: 4/5/1954
-Description: Keyhoe appears -on The -Betty White Show and asserts that, contrary to what the Air Force -claims, some UFO reports are kept secret. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2388

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Event 3355 -(D6C24F04)

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Date: 4/7/1954
-Description: 11:05 p.m. US Navy sailors and Marines, as well as nuclear -scientists from Los Alamos and Sandia Laboratories in New Mexico, are -aboard the AEC flagship USS -Curtiss cruising -between Bikini and Enewetak atolls in the Marshall Islands just hours -after the Castle Koon thermonuclear test on Bikini. An unidentified -oval- shaped luminous object, yellowish-orange in color, passes silently -over the ship from bow to stern, traveling at a high rate of speed and -low altitude. Once it is clear of the ship, the object performs some -zigzag maneuvers before racing away at high speed. (Nukes 107–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2390

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Event 3356 -(C5EA9947)

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Date: 4/7/1954
-Description: Leonard -H. Stringfield publishes the first issue of CRIFO Newsletter. (CRIFO -Newsletter 1, no. 1 (April 7, 1954; Clark III 1114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2389

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Event 3357 -(CB7FA1F9)

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Date: 4/8/1954
-Time: 4:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Lelah Stoker. One white round-topped disc, with a -humanoid suspended beneath it, skimmed over the water, landed, and an -occupant in a green suit walked around. It then took off very, very -fast. Sighting lasted 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 338

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Event 3358 -(8967F504)

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Date: 4/8/1954
-Description: 4:30–5:00 p.m. Lelah H. Stoker of 3121 N. Sheridan Road, -Chicago, Illinois, sees a brilliant white round- topped disc, -parachute-shaped, with a humanoid suspended beneath it, skim back and -forth over the water of Lake Michigan. Stoker calls the Coast Guard. A -cutter appears after 10 minutes, then the UFO approaches the shore. -Stoker sees a short human-like occupant in a green, tight, one-piece -suit suspended below the object. It gets out in undergrowth along the -shore then walks around. When the cutter gives up searching, the -occupant returns to the object which moves back over the lake then takes -off at high speed to the east. (NICAP, “Lady -Observes Saucer / Small -Entity Gets Out”; Clark III 270; Sparks, -p. 211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2391

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Event 3359 -(5E63FAE1)

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Date: 4/11/1954
-Description: Ruppelt’s -letter to Keyhoe states -that the request to clear classified UFO reports came from both AF -Intelligence and the Office of Public Information, after which his -superiors cleared them; Keyhoe has correctly quoted the ATIC material; -the Utah film analysis is classified; a 1953 letter from Al -Chop to Henry Holt & Co. attacking the “silence group” is quoted -accurately; and except in a very few cases, ATIC rejects Donald -Menzel’s explanations of halos, sundogs, and mirages for UFOs. -(Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 119–120, -307–308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2392

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Event 3360 -(8A0D5849)

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Date: 4/12/1954
-Description: Between 6:30 and 7:15 PM a saucer crashed in the desert, -NM. K.A. (initials) and Rescue Team 4 were sent from Roswell AFB to -investigate the crashed disc. The saucer was 40–50 ft. in diameter. -There were 4 dead Aliens scattered about the desert by the saucer. Alien -description (seen from helicopter at 30 ft. alt.): Height was between -4.0 to 4.5 ft. Large proportioned heads, no helmets. Tight fitting dark -blue suite. Faces, under ’copter spotlight, were light green with a -luminous tint. The saucer was stored in Hanger-18, Top Security. -Hanger-18 was later expanded to 9 stories high and 11 stories deep with -heavy refrigeration equipment, radar equip., and sophisticated computer -equip.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research (B3-C, A5, RECOVERY, desert - NM)
-Location: NM
-See also: 2/10/54
-See also: 4/24/54
-See also: 3/7/55

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Event 3361 -(25F3C836)

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Date: 4/13/1954
-Description: Approximate date of Eisenhower meeting with others at -Edwards AFB. Event witnessed by occultist, medium and author “Gerald -Light” (possibly R.G. McFarland, his “publisher”) and a detailed account -along with 3 other witness names is immediately published by the BSRA. -Einstein, Paperclip scientists, and government officials were present -according to witnesses.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Edwards AFB
-See also: 4/15/1954

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Event 3362 -(D10DDB6D)

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Date: 4/14/1954
-Description: Night. Capt. John M. Schidel of United Air Lines Flight 193 -is forced to make a sharp climbing turn in order to avoid colliding with -an unknown object over Long Beach, California. One passenger (Coles -Barber) is thrown to the floor and suffers a knee fracture, and -stewardess Naomi -J. Penaat breaks an ankle. The object is only in sight for 2 -seconds. (“Two -Injured As Airliner Banks in Sudden Turn,” Los Angeles Times, April -16, 1954, p. II- 3; Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 130–132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2393

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Event 3363 -(6990DA0A)

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Date: 4/15/1954
-Description: Date of Gerald Light’s detailed bulletin of meeting with -others at Edwards AFB.
-Type: public bulletin
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Edwards AFB
-See also: 4/13/1954

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Event 3364 -(964F3ED1)

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Date: 4/18/1954
-Description: Colin McCarthy and two other men are driving an Austin -sedan in the Australian outback near the border of Western Australia and -South Australia when a UFO begins pacing them. They snap some 200 photos -and take some ciné film of the object. Shortly after they report the -incident, a helicopter suddenly appears and lands in front of their car. -An RAAF officer gets out, walks over to their car, and confiscates the -photos and film. They are never returned. (Stan Seers and William -Lasich, “North -Queensland UFO Saga, 1966,” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 1 (October -1983): 20–21; Good Above, p. 163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2394

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Event 3365 -(A75ACDBE)

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Date: 4/18/1954
-Description: Airline pilot William -B. Nash writes -to his friend Capt. William -Joseph Hull about the emphatic denials of UFO reality issued by the -Air Force shortly after his March 23 speech. He reveals that in August -1952 he was participating in a TV panel in New York City when someone in -the WJZ-TV studio said he had just gotten back from Washington, D.C., -where he has been given the “whole story” about the National Airport -sightings. He claims the Air Force had operated a radio found in a -retrieved saucer and that had caused the flurry of sightings. Nash also -admits hearing rumors, especially one from syndicated aviation columnist -Robert -S. Allen, about a pro- UFO report that USAF was going to release in -the fall of 1952 but never did. (Michael Hall, “Was There a Second -Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2395

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Event 3366 -(E1E8BBCF)

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Date: late 4/1954
-Description: Afternoon. Roger Mougeolle and Gilbert Doridant are logging -in a clearing in a forest area near Bois-de- Champ, Vosges, France, when -they hear a noise above them “like the sound of a train passing over a -metal bridge.” They then see three metallic, cigar-shaped objects -silently approaching them from over a nearby hill. Two pass over them, -but the third slowly descends above their clearing and stops only a few -feet from the ground. It is over 600 feet long. Doridant flees, but -Mougeolle walks toward it and touches it. The object is smooth, cold, -and hard like steel. He touches it with his woodsman’s axe, and he is -instantly thrown about 18 feet away toward the base of a large rock. He -feels paralyzed for a few minutes, but the object ascends and -disappears, and he can move again. (Joël Mesnard, “The -‘Steel Airship’ at Bois-de-Champ (April 1954),” Flying Saucer Review -32, no. 5 (August 1987): 16–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2398

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Event 3367 -(7AAE6648)

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Date: 4/22/1954
-Description: 2:00 p.m. USN Seaman Apprentice James B. Stephens Jr. and -Seaman Bernard G. Klein Jr., are driving a vehicle on the Naval Outlying -Field San Nicolas Island, California, when they see a 4–6-foot long, -gray, cigar- shaped object with a pointed nose traveling just above the -ground on a near-parallel course. The object suddenly hits the ground, -sends up a cloud of dirt, and disappears from sight. They stop and -search for 20+ minutes but find nothing. (NICAP, “April 22, 1954: San -Nicholas Island, Calif.”; Sparks, p. 212)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2396

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Event 3368 -(AEC58B59)

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Date: 4/22/1954
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Six workers from the Reynolds Metals plant in -Jones Mills, Arkansas, are waiting on a carpool near Pearcy, Arkansas, -to go to work when they see a gleaming white ball about 10 feet in -diameter float 50 feet above a house. It appears alternately as a sphere -and an oblong, and sometimes circles and sometimes hovers above the -house for a total of 20 minutes. One man claims it approaches him to -within a few feet, causing him to duck behind a car. One of the vehicles -has a spotlight that they try to point at the object, but it always -avoids the beam. (Hot Springs (Ark.) Sentinel-Rhview, April 23, 1954, -pp. 1, 3; “Fire -Ball Sighted in Arkansas Skies,” Montgomery Alabama Journal, April -23, 1954, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2397

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Event 3369 -(E45EC8F8)

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Date: 4/22/1954
-Time: 1400
-Description: American military personnel saw a cigar-shaped object of a -gray color coming to the ground. Smoke was seen to rise where it landed, -but a search yielded no results.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: San Nicholas Island, California
-ID: 128

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Event 3370 -(FC7E88A6)

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Date: 4/23/1954
-Time: 9:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Robinson. One silver -dollar-shaped object with a dome and a flashing light made a sound like -a swarm of bees. It hovered and tilted, flew horizontally, then rose -vertically without tilting. Stones underneath it moved. Four minute -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pittsfield, Maine
-ID: 339

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Event 3371 -(FDD180AD)

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Date: 4/24/1954
-Description: A saucer crashed at Bandelier, NM, as reported by K.A. -(initials) of the Roswell, N.M. Rescue Team 4.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research (RECOVERY)
-Location: Edwards AFB
-See also: 4/12/54

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Event 3372 -(D15AE8BC)

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Date: 4/24/1954
-Description: Buck Nelson takes a trip to Venus, Moon, Mars in -saucer.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Mt. View, MO

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Event 3373 -(3832A0DF)

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Date: 4/24/1954
-Time: 6:10 PM
-Description: Witness: D. Robinson. One large, silver, oblong object with -a dome and a flashing light flew straight and level and then straight -up. Total of 15 minutes under observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Hartland, Maine
-ID: 340

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Event 3374 -(15C15D60)

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Date: 4/26/1954
-Time: 7:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: C. Cartey, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hopkins and their -daughter. Fifteen to twenty yellow objects in a V-formation, flew from -south to north for 10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Athens, Georgia
-ID: 341

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Event 3375 -(1E979062)

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Date: 4/29/1954
-Description: 10:11 p.m. An unidentified illuminated object is seen above -the Second Army Radio Station, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, by the -supervisor radio operator and two coworkers, Cpl. Flath and Pfc. Hough. -Described as round, the color of the sun, and 3–4 times the size of a -star, the UFO appears in the southwest, blinking on and off. As it -reaches the station, it stops blinking and disappears by going straight -up. The sighting lasts 7 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1954, January–May, The -Author, 1990, p. 86; Good Above, p. 281)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2399

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Event 3376 -(5680BADE)

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Date: 5/1954
-Description: Ruppelt’s -article appears in True magazine. (Edward J. Ruppelt, “What -Our Air Force Found Out about Flying Saucers,” -True, May 1954, pp. 18–30, 124–134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2400

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Event 3377 -(80672A48)

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Date: 5/1/1954
-Description: 11:55 p.m. A large explosion is heard, felt, and seen over -an 8-mile area near Logan, Utah. The blast nearly upsets cars, throws -open heavy doors, and sends an earthquake-like shock through the area. -Some people report seeing a glowing ball before the explosion; other -witnesses report a flash of light at ground level. Lincoln -LaPaz investigates, along with J. -Stewart Williams and Clyde T. Hardy at Utah State Agricultural -College [now Utah State University]. LaPaz says it is either a falling -object of an explosive nature or buried high explosives set off by -pranksters. A crater 16 feet in diameter and at least 6 feet deep is -found, but no debris, even though LaPaz digs down 25 feet for five days. -Nearly 50 years later, Theron Blazzard admits to the Logan -Herald-Journal that as a geology student at Utah State he had detonated -some dynamite at the spot because he had to dispose of it in order to -move out of state. (“Meteor -Sought in Crater after -Logan Explosion,” Salt Lake Tribune, May 3, 1954, p. 21; Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 138–139; -Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 223–224; -“Friday -Finishers: When -Meteor Mania Struck Cache Valley,” Logan (Utah) Herald-Journal, -November 30, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2401

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Event 3378 -(2C58DD49)

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Date: 5/5/1954
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Sydney Baker is at a radar post in the RAAF -Woomera Range Complex in South Australia when he notices a gray, -circular object at 60,000 feet maneuvering around an English Electric -Canberra aircraft he is monitoring from about 35 miles away. It appears -to be traveling three times as fast as the Canberra. He watches it for -about 5 minutes before it shoots out of sight to the south at about -3,600 mph. The same object is apparently tracked on Woomera radar at -approximately the same time. (NICAP, [case -documents]; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files: The Australian UFO Story, -Duffy and Snellgrove, 1996, p. 85; Swords 381–383)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2402

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Event 3379 -(44842682)

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Date: 5/7/1954
-Description: Naval radar around Washington, D.C., tracks a huge object -maneuvering at 90,000 feet and moving down to 15 miles altitude. -(Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 144–145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2403

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Event 3380 -(6DD16404)

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Date: 5/8/1954
-Description: George -King is washing dishes in his flat in Maida Vale, London, England, -when he receives a psychic message telling him that he has been chosen -to be the voice of the Interplanetary Parliament. Several days later, -while he is in a meditative trance, an Indian yoga master enters his -flat and tells him he has been selected to act as the Primary -Terrestrial Channel for messages from cosmic intelligences who are -visiting Earth. (Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk -Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, p. 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2404

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Event 3381 -(C2AB49F9)

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Date: 5/10/1954
-Time: 12:40 PM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Marine Corps Squadron Leader D.R. Higgin, -flying an F3D-2 jet fighter. One dark gunmetal delta-shaped object, 22’ -long and 10’ wide, with a fin on the top, descended at a 25-30’ angle -under the lead airplane of a formation, and over the airplane of Higgin. -Sighting lasted a few seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Elsinore, California
-ID: 342

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Event 3382 -(6C37298F)

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Date: 5/11/1954
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three USAF. air policemen at Washington National -Airport. Two bright lights were seen on three occasions to fly straight -and level, make 90 degree turns and fade. Each sighting lasted about 45 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 343

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Event 3383 -(827AA96F)

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Date: 5/12/1954
-Description: Multiple witnesses spot a disc hovering for 15 minutes over -Dayton, OH, close to Wright-Patterson AFB, jets intercept
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Leonard Stringfield’s CFIRO Newsletter 6/4/1954
-Location: Dayton, OH

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Event 3384 -(E58FEE78)

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Date: 5/12/1954
-Description: 4:45 a.m. Three USAF Air Policemen (A/1C Mason -W. Augst, A/1C -George F. Wright, and A/1C Elmer A. Cruver) are standing guard next to a -hangar at National Airport in Washington, D.C. They see a formation of -two UFOs fly over the Capitol building, and again at 5:15 a.m. and 6:10 -a.m. The objects are glowing white. They appear just above the horizon -to the northeast in a straight line, make a 90° turn, then move away to -the south. Each pass takes 45 seconds. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1954, January–May, The -Author, 1990, p. 94; Sparks, p. 212; -Edwards, FS—Here and Now!, Lyle Stuart, 1967, pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2405

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Event 3385 -(11674B69)

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Date: 5/12/1954
-Description: 4:00 p.m. White, silky filaments fall in strands averaging -30 feet in length over Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. A witness -gathers some and, although they become wrinkled, they do not -disintegrate. An analysis indicates in is a “pure white, silky, -odorless, warm on touch like cotton, and different from cobwebs.” The -threads are not sticky and stretch easily. It resembles raw silk or -nylon, is not water soluble, and burns rapidly. (Keith Basterfield, -“Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): -6–7; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 -(2006): 101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2406

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Event 3386 -(B09DECA2)

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Date: 5/14/1954
-Description: Around 12 noon. A flight of Marine Reserve jets led by Maj. -Charles Scarborough is headed north near Dallas, Texas. At a point 6 -miles west of the city, Scarborough sights 16 unidentified objects in -groups of four, dead ahead but at higher altitude, 15° above. He radios -Capt. Roy L. Jorgensen, whose jet he has in sight by its contrail. -Jorgensen, at a higher altitude, sees the UFOs below his left wing. Just -as the two pilots try to box in the UFOs, Scarborough sees them fade -from glowing white to orange and disappear, apparently speeding away due -north. Triangulation shows that the UFOs were at about 32,000 feet. (“4 -Jet Fighters Report Race with ‘Saucers’ over Dallas,” -Dallas (Tex.) Times Herald, May 18, 1954; NICAP, “Four -Navy Fighters Encounter 16 UFOs”; UFOEv, p. 32; -Sparks, p. 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2407

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Event 3387 -(99839B63)

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Date: 5/15/1954
-Description: Air Force Chief Nathan Twining tells audience in Amarillo -that best brains of Air Force are trying to solve the riddle of the -flying saucers: “If they come from Mars, there is nothing to be alarmed -about!”
-Type: statement
-Reference: “My -First 10,000,000 Sponsors” by Frank Edwards, page 123
-Location: Amarillo, TX

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Event 3388 -(84D3A4E1)

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Date: 5/15/1954
-Description: Gen. Nathan -F. Twining, USAF -Chief of Staff, speaking at an Armed Forces Day dinner at Amarillo AFB -[now Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport], Texas, says that the -Air Force has the best brains in the country working on the “flying -saucer problem.” He adds that about 90% of the reports are pure -imagination, with the rest unexplained. (“Air -Force Looks into ‘Saucers,’” Miami (Fla.) Herald, May 17, 1954, -p. 38; Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, pp. 145–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2408

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Event 3389 -(7462AC88)

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Date: 5/18/1954
-Time: 1900
-Description: Two persons witnessed the landing of a lens-shaped object -the size of a house. It came to the ground near the railroad tracks, -kicking up a small sand storm in the desert. One witness first decided -to approach it, then ran away in fear.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder (Vallee)
-Location: Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico
-ID: 129

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Event 3390 -(9664A04D)

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Date: 5/18/1954
-Description: Frank -Edwards mentions CRIFO on his radio program, and within a week Stringfield gets -6,000 letters. (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, -pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2409

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Event 3391 -(61D06FCE)

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Date: 5/20/1954
-Description: Private Frank Scully note at AHC: CIC officers told 3 weeks -ago by Maj. May that 30 diamond drill bits were destroyed attempting to -drill into a saucer with no effect (actual event could have been a long -time before).
-Type: private notes
-Reference: Medium
-Location: California

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Event 3392 -(001F2EEF)

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Date: 5/20/1954
-Description: FBI officials recommend that Attorney General Herbert -Brownell Jr. authorize FBI break-ins to install bugs during national -security investigations. The FBI would seek the Attorney General’s prior -approval, as with wiretaps. Brownell concurs, but concludes that he -“would be in a much better position to defend the Bureau in the event -there should be a technical trespass if he had not heretofore approved -it.” His directive empowers the FBI to break into homes and offices and -install surveillance microphones without having to notify him or obtain -advance approval in each case. The FBI has carte blanche on this until -1965. (Bernie Horowitz, “Wiretapping -and J. Edgar Hoover,” -Unredacted, December 20, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2410

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Event 3393 -(B0041208)

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Date: 5/20/1954
-Time: 0200
-Description: Nigel Frapple was cycling home from a dance in Wincanton. -At Redlynch crossroads, he saw an orange glow in a field and observed it -from a hedge. It came from a huge object 35 m away, less than 7 m above -the ground, which made a throbbing sound. After 1 min, it moved toward -the northwest, accelerating and climbing.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 2; Humanoids 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Bruton, Great Britain
-ID: 130

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Event 3394 -(54B6C703)

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Date: 5/22/1954
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: highway engineer R.W. Dring, engineer Geert -Tibma. One bright light made a shallow climb for 45 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: LaPorte, Indiana
-ID: 344

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Event 3395 -(DEA53BBF)

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Date: 5/24/1954
-Description: 12:25 p.m. While flying on a photographic mapping mission -10 miles west-northwest of Richmond, Indiana, in a B-17, USAF Maj. Leo -N. Brubaker observes and photographs a bright object below the plane -for 45 seconds. The aircraft is flying at an altitude of 18,500 feet at -253 mph. The speed of the object is estimated at 506 mph. The object -travels six miles at that speed. The photos are taken with a USAF T-11 -mapping camera. Brubaker denies the object is a sundog. (NICAP, “B-17 -Photographic Mission Case”; Sparks, p. 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2411

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Event 3396 -(51B4DAE2)

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Date: 5/28/1954
-Description: Test pilot Arthur -W. Murray reaches an unofficial record altitude of 90,440 feet in a -Bell X-1A. (Wikipedia, “Arthur -W. Murray”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2412

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Event 3397 -(2B5C3E7F)

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Date: 5/29/1954
-End date: 5/31/1954
-Description: The first conference of European and North American -political, business, finance, academic, and media leaders later to -become known as the Bilderberg group, meets at the Hotel de Bilderberg -in Oosterbeek, Netherlands. Its agenda, originally to prevent another -world war, is now defined as bolstering a consensus around free market -Western capitalism and its interests around the globe. The first meeting -is initiated by several people, including Polish politician-in-exile Józef -Retinger who, concerned about the growth of anti-Americanism in -Western Europe, proposes an international conference at which leaders -from European countries and the United States would be brought together -with the aim of promoting Atlanticism. Retinger approaches Prince -Bernhard of the Netherlands who agrees to promote the idea, together -with former Belgian prime minister Paul -van Zeeland and the then-head of Unilever, Paul -Rykens. (Wikipedia, -“Bilderberg -meeting”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2413

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Event 3398 -(7EEE4C0F)

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Date: 5/30/1954
-Description: 12:25 a.m. David Reese, Christopher -Muir, and four others are at the doorstep of a house in East -Malvern, Victoria, Australia, when they see an orange, oval-shaped UFO -appear in the sky at close range. The UFO maneuvers in a downward curve -and then pulls up. A cloud of yellow smoke and flame is seen at the -rear. Three of the witnesses see shapes that look like human-shaped -shadows inside the craft. (Bill Chalker, The Oz Files: The Australian -UFO Story, Duffy and Snellgrove, 1996; UFO Evidence, “Human Figures Seen -in Saucer”; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 January–May, -Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2002, pp. 46–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2414

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Event 3399 -(A35812B1)

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Date: 5/31/1954
-Time: 10:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. L.K. Stevens. One very white, elongated -object flew very, very fast, and then blinked out after 8-10 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Concord, New Hampshire
-ID: 345

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Event 3400 -(A3748C68)

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Date: 6/1/1954
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of USAF B-47 jet bomber at 34,000’ -altitude. One object with running lights flew at 24-44,000’ altitude for -1 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: from 400 miles south to Minneapolis, Minnesota
-ID: 346

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Event 3401 -(1012D166)

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Date: 6/1/1954
-Description: 9:30–9:40 a.m. TWA pilot Capt. Charles -J. Kratovil, copilot -W. R. Davis, and flight engineer Harold Raney, on a Paris to New York -TWA Constellation heading southwest, spot near Boston, Massachusetts, “a -large, white- colored disc-like object” overhead, occasionally losing it -behind overlying clouds. Flying into west-southwest headwinds at 300 -mph, they conclude it cannot be a balloon, and radio Boston airport -control tower, which tells them jets are scrambled. They then see the -object at about 10,000 feet higher than their 10,000 feet altitude but -cannot close with the object. (NICAP, “TWA -Crew Spot White Disc / Kratovil Case”; Sparks, -p. 214; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 68–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2417

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Event 3402 -(173B7928)

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Date: 6/1/1954
-Description: The Air Force announces that it only received 87 UFO -sightings in January–April. (“Most -‘Saucers’ Explainable,” -Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle, June 1, 1954, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2418

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Event 3403 -(BF655B78)

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Date: 6/4/1954
-Description: From Leonard Stringfield’s CRIFO newsletter: “Mantle of -Mystery Shrouds Muroc”. A source in CA writes in a letter that the US -government has “captured discs”. “In the strictness secrecy these -objects are being examined by the top ‘brains’ in the -country…Information regarding the discs propulsion, metal and structure -would be sugar in the hands of the Russians.”
-Type: letter
-Reference: Medium
-Location: Edwards AFB

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Event 3404 -(23AEC419)

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Date: 6/5/1954
-Description: 6:23 p.m. Janette Brown, 16, is standing on Princes Highway -(M1) at Dandenong, Victoria, Australia, when she hears a loud drumming -noise. A large, dark cylinder, about 30 feet long and 15 feet high with -a canopy and window on top and a window at each end, appears above a -nearby factory. She shines a flashlight on it, and it whirrs toward her. -It hovers about 60 feet away. Her friend, Jeanette Johnston, 13, arrives -and watches it before it disappears behind trees. Janette’s wristwatch -stops, although it starts running again when it is demagnetized. The -case is investigated for the RAAF by University of Melbourne physicist -O. H. “Harry” Turner. (UFO Evidence, “Teenage -Girls See Saucer”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2419

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Event 3405 -(B883680F)

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Date: 6/7/1954
-End date: 6/8/1954
-Description: PIO Capt. Robert White at the Pentagon repeats the 87 -reports statistic from June 1 and counters that reports are at a -three-year-low because of less publicity. Stringfield’s -colleague, Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Tom Eickhoff, storms into the -office of ATIC Deputy Commander of Intelligence Col. John -O’Mara and demands that ATIC press legal action against contactees -Truman -Bethurum, George -Adamski, and -George -Hunt Williamson. O’Mara -replies that these people are obvious hoaxers and need no special -action. But he lets slip that USAF fighters regularly carry movie -cameras to take photos of UFOs. Eickhoff says that is a big waste of -money if there is nothing to UFOs. O’Mara then states to Stringfield the -next day that the Air Force actually receives 700 UFO reports a week, -the 87 figure only applies to cases under “special analysis,” over 1,000 -leading scientists are working on government UFO projects, the material -used by Keyhoe in -his book was not cleared through official channels, and the Utah film -exists but only shows conventional objects. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 157–160; “700 -‘Saucer’ Sightings Weekly Reported to Air Force,” CRIFO Newsletter -1, no. 4 (July 2, 1954): 1; “Proof -of Air -Force Cover-Up,” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 4 (July 2, 1954): 1–2; -Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 85, 167–168; Frank -Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 137–138; -Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers—Here and Now! Lyle Stuart, 1967, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2420

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Event 3406 -(AFC3728A)

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Date: 6/8/1954
-Description: Contactee Frances Swan of Eliot, Maine, has been in -telepathic contact with Affa, a spaceman from Uranus, since 1954. She -manages to impress her next-door neighbor, retired Adm. Herbert -B. Knowles, -sufficiently for him to write Rear Adm. Carl -F. Espe, head of the Office of Naval Intelligence. He encloses some -of Affa’s transcribed messages and suggests that ONI try to communicate -with Affa through Band CMM-306, repeating the signal M4M4 AFFA. Two ONI -officers, Captains John Bromley and Harry -Baltazzi, visit Swan and through her interview Affa, who agrees to -communicate with them by radio on June 10. When that does not happen, -Espe writes to Knowles saying that ONI will pursue the matter no -further. He turns the letters over to the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics. -(Clark III 1118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2421

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Event 3407 -(A589C8A6)

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Date: 6/8/1954
-Time: 1 AM or 2:30 AM
-Description: (file not clear). Witness: L.T. Prewitt, employee of Red -River Arsenal. One golden yellow light flew over his house, making a -“shhh” or buzzing sound for 2 minutes. 9:09 PM Witness: USAF pilot ht. -One white light descended at
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Texarkana, Texas
-ID: 347

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Event 3408 -(1CBEAF11)

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Date: 6/9/1954
-Description: Col. Frank -Milani, director -of Civil Defense in Baltimore, Maryland, demands that the Air Force ease -its restrictions on UFO information and blasts its policy on Lou -Corbin’s radio show. (“A Lot of People Are Upset,” Washington (D.C.) -Daily News, June 10, 1954; Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1954”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2422

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Event 3409 -(BBBC61CD)

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Date: 6/9/1954
-Time: 1820
-Description: Janet Brown, 16, and a 13-year-old friend heard a loud -noise and saw a large, dark object that “burst into light” hovering 20 m -away at the height of a factory gate. It was cylindrical, 10 m long, 5 m -high, with a canopy on top. It flew away and was lost to sight behind -some trees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 216 (Vallee)
-Location: East Dandenong, Australia
-ID: 131

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Event 3410 -(13D931C3)

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Date: 6/10/1954
-Time: 9:09 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. Bill McDonald, in flight. One -white light descended at 45 degrees from great altitude, passed under -his aircraft, made two 360’ turns and went out after 30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Estacado, Texas
-ID: 348

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Event 3411 -(2BF5D4CB)

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Date: 6/12/1954 (approximate)
-Description: Keyhoe and -Edwards find -out about the O’Mara interview, -and Edwards puts it on his radio broadcast, generating more press calls -to ATIC. Capt. Charles -A. Hardin, head -of Blue Book, states that “Colonel O’Mara’s words were misinterpreted. -What he meant to say was that if all the sightings were reported to the -Air Force, they would total about 700 a week.” (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 157–160; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1954, June–August, The -Author, 1990, pp. 11–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2423

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Event 3412 -(C615D76E)

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Date: 6/12/1954
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Walter -L. Tatspaugh of Hyattsville, Maryland, observes a large bluish-green -oval or round object circling and hovering in the sky for at least 45 -minutes. The Baltimore GOC Filter Center allegedly tracks an object on -radar over Wilmington, Delaware, for an hour. Two F-86D fighters are -scrambled but cannot reach it. (NICAP, “Object -Tracked / Jets Scrambled”; Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 161–162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2424

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Event 3413 -(C3392ED7)

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Date: 6/14/1954
-Description: A UFO is again tracked over Wilmington, Delaware, flying in -a rectangular course at 75,000 feet for more than 2 hours. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 161–162; UFOEv, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2425

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Event 3414 -(4074104B)

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Date: 6/18/1954
-Description: 7:35 p.m. Monsignor Émile -Élie Verhille, Apostolic Vicar of Fort-Rousset [modern Owando, -Republic of the Congo], reports in the Brazzaville newspaper La Semaine -de L’akf that he and others had seen a UFO over Laketi Mission in the -Mossaka District. A luminous globe arrives from the north and heads -towards Laketi. It suddenly stops, rises and falls, stops again, -gyrates, and seems to shake. A noise like that of an airplane engine is -heard until the moment when it also stops. Seen through binoculars, the -object has a dark mass in the center with light rays of unequal length -coming out of it alternately. It goes through its maneuvers for 15 -minutes then shoots back over the northern horizon. (ClearIntent, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2426

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Event 3415 -(B3D74E15)

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Date: late 6/1954
-Description: Some 300 people in West Berlin, Germany, see three silvery -UFOs on several occasions. Moving in a zigzag motion and accelerating at -high speed. Rudolf Hermes, a director at Tempelhof Airport [now closed], -says the witnesses describe the objects as “shiny.” (“Triangle -Saucers Reported Seen near Berlin,” Lancaster (Pa.) Sunday News, -July 4, 1954, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2430

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Event 3416 -(DF5B4DD1)

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Date: summer 1954
-Description: George -Hunt Williamson spends a few months in Noblesville, Indiana, working -at Soulcraft Publications, run by mystic and fascist William -Dudley Pelley. Mostly -he contributes UFO news for the magazine, but some of Pelley’s -anti-Semitic attitudes creep into Williamson’s later writings. (Clark -III 1285; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt -Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 100–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2415

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Event 3417 -(C638FF9B)

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Date: summer 1954
-Description: Late night. A young girl in Arbutus, Maryland, wakes up -when a bright light shines into her bedroom window. Looking outside, she -sees a triangle of brilliant white lights parallel to the ground, -illuminating everything, hanging in the air, and pointing directly at -her. All of a sudden they are gone. Fort the next two days, she has a -fever that forces her to stay home from school. (Michael D. Swords, -“Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2416

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Event 3418 -(E9991D49)

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Date: 6/21/1954
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Near Ridgeway, Ontario, Guy and -Valeria -Baker see a hovering, domed disc about 40 feet in diameter with -several rotating, flashing lights around the rim. They drive to get a -closer look. The object crosses the road in front of them and lands in a -field. The car stalls, and they watch as the lights move around the -area. They find a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the -disc has been resting. (Schopick, -pp. 6–7; Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, -1981, p. 2; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 June–August, Supplemental -Notes, The Author, 2002, pp. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2427

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Event 3419 -(79B55A53)

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Date: 6/21/1954
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Guy Baker saw a disk, about 14 m in diameter, -with a dome and several rotating lights. They had to push their car, -which could not be started until the object left the ground. They found -a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the disk had been -resting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 104 (Vallee)
-Location: Ridgeway, Canada
-ID: 132

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Event 3420 -(D820EFFA)

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Date: summer 1954
-Alternate date: summer 1955
-Description: Evening. Dianne Vezza and two other teen girls are sitting -in a backyard in Marietta, Ohio, when they see a star-like light moving -at great speed. Suddenly it comes to a dead stop and two other stars -speed in and come to an abrupt stop. The three objects form a perfect -triangle. An oval object then becomes visible as the starlike objects -disappear. Two other oval objects take up the same triangular position -with the first. They then begin a light display with wildly colored -lights that continues for a few seconds. The lights go out, and each of -the objects beams a bright white light to the center of the triangle. -The beams meet in the center for a few seconds and then go out. The oval -objects disappear and the starlike lights return, but they soon speed -off in different directions faster than a jet. The display is completely -soundless. (Michael D. Swords, “Another Type of UFO Display,” IUR 30, -no. 2 (January 2006): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2437

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Event 3421 -(948F4F1E)

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Date: 6/21/1954
-Description: 8:14 p.m. An unidentified radar blip located over central -Vancouver Island, British Columbia, responds to coded IFF Mode 1 signals -from the Naselle Air Force Station radar site [now Fort Stevens Historic -Site] in southwestern Washington State, and instantly transmits back the -correct coded responses. The blip is tracked on 3 ground radars at both -Naselle and McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis-McChord] in Tacoma. The -UFO splits into two (or consists of two objects in close formation), -separates, and outmaneuvers one of two F-86D jet interceptors, both of -which also radar-tracked the UFOs. Possible visual sightings of the -radar target are called in to sheriff’s offices and news media. The case -is forwarded to Project Blue Book, but it does not appear in its files. -(NICAP, “Coded -IFF Signal from UFO”; Sparks, p. 215)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2428

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Event 3422 -(7A1929D9)

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Date: 6/22/1954
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Marine Corps Maj. E. Buchser and Maj. J.V. -Wilkins. One meteor-like object descended, stopped, and became extremely -bright. Sighting lasted 7 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miami Beach, Florida
-ID: 349

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Event 3423 -(2548AD69)

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Date: 6/23/1954
-Description: 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. Pilot Capt. Harry -Roe Jr., flying -an Ohio Air National Guard F-51 Mustang fighter at 240 mph from Dayton -to Columbus, Ohio, sees a round white object with no exhaust trailing -him in the same position a little above and behind at close range, -possibly detected on airborne radar. Roe maneuvers to try to lose it or -collide with it, but the UFO remains in relatively the same position -until it departs to the southeast. S/Sgt Maynard Harris at -Wright-Patterson AFB picks up the plane and the UFO on radar. He -scrambles two F-86s in the Columbus area to check it out, but they see -nothing. At 10:00 p.m., Maj. Frank J. Gshwandtner and 2nd Lt. Robert P. -Lommori, flying in the Columbus area in an RB-47E aircraft, observe a -white object the size of a baseball at 25,000 feet. The object is -extremely fast and makes a gradual turn to begin a slight climb. It then -flies out of sight. The duration is 30 seconds. (NICAP, “F-51 -Trailed by Object / Lt. Roe Sighting”; NICAP, “Something -Follows C-47 and Observed by RB-47 Crew”; Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 167–168; Sparks, -p. 216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2429

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Event 3424 -(A582468D)

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Date: 6/24/1954
-Time: 12:45 PM
-Description: Witness: R.B. Tomer, director of commercial engineering for -CBS-Hytron. One white, elliptical-shaped object covered 45^ of sky in 30 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Danvers, Massachusetts
-ID: 350

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Event 3425 -(BB60E08F)

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Date: 6/25/1954
-Time: 5:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: experienced private pilot John Mark, flying -Navion lightplane; radar at Dayton, Ohio airport, tracked very fast -target at same location. One silver or aluminum round object with a flat -bottom, raised front edge, inverted cone on top, and a diameter of about -60’. Flew horizontally, hovered, made a high-G pull up and then a steep -climb into an overcast. Sighting lasted 3-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Indian Lake, Ohio
-ID: 351

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Event 3426 -(857E7B9F)

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Date: 6/26/1954
-Description: 12:40 a.m. The Atomic Energy Commission’s National Reactor -Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho, is suddenly lit up by a -blinding glow that explodes in the night sky. Kelly Brooks and A. L. -Taylor say the source of the light remains motionless for a few seconds, -then shoots upwards at a tremendous speed. (Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, p. 168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2431

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Event 3427 -(55CA730F)

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Date: 6/26/1954
-Description: Around 7:30 a.m. A metallic blob is seen high in the sky -near Columbus, Ohio. According to a newspaper article, a crew of an -airliner is asked to investigate; the crew circles under the object -while the 60 passengers take a look. Zanesville Radio says at 5:55 a.m. -a round, silvery object is detected on an azimuth of 80°. At 5:35 a.m., -an Air Force charter flight, No. 46 AF 23-24 to Wilmington, Delaware, -flying at 3,000 feet observes an object in the Zanesville, Ohio, area at -approximately 18,000 to 20,000 feet. (NICAP, “Airliner -Investigates Strange Object”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2432

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Event 3428 -(4345C498)

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Date: 6/27/1954
-Description: The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, at the Institute of -Physics and Power Engineering in Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russia, becomes -the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in the world. The plan -achieves criticality on May 6 and now is set up to provide electrical -power to Moscow. (Wikipedia, “Obninsk -Nuclear Power Plant”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2433

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Event 3429 -(5A059827)

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Date: 6/29/1954
-Description: A BOAC Strato Cruiser (British Airways) on a trans Atlantic -flight with Capt. James Howard in command was traveling at 260 knots at -19,000 ft. when the crew saw a large CIGAR shaped UFO with six smaller -UFOs flying close to it. Among the others to witness these events were -First Officer Lee Boyd and Navigator Capt. H. McDonnell. After 15 -minutes of observing the UFOs, Capt. Howard radioed Goose Bay, Canada, -for backup escort, upon which the smaller UFOs entered the bigger Cigar -shaped one which then shot away. Upon landing, Howard and Boyd were -debriefed by intelligence officers and their flight logs were -confiscated by USAF personnel.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Atlantic Ocean

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Event 3430 -(ACAB8BE5)

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Date: 6/29/1954
-Description: 5:03 p.m. A BOAC Stratocruiser leaves New York City bound -for London, England. 30 minutes later, Capt. James R. Howard receives -directions from Boston Air Traffic Center to hold his position over the -Rhode Island coast. Howard circles for 10–12 minutes, after which Boston -tells him to detour over Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Around 11:30 p.m. -while crossing at 19,000 feet near Sept-Îles, Quebec, Howard, his -copilot Lee Boyd, and navigator H. McDonnell see a large cigar-shaped -object and six smaller black ovals moving the same speed as his -airliner, 265 mph, on a parallel course. The small objects are strung -out in a line, changing relative positions but always at the same level. -The large object slowly and continually changes shape, “in a way that a -swarm of bees might alter its appearance.” They appear opaque, -hard-edged, gray in color, with no lights or flames visible. Goose Bay -AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador, orders an F-94 to vector toward the -location. Just as Howard is giving the pilot his position, the small -objects disappear. McDonnell says they enter the large object. As the F- -94 approaches, the large object dwindles in size and disappears. Howard -lands at Goose Bay and is questioned by RCAF and USAF officials -(McConnell says they take the flight logs); when he lands in London, the -Air Ministry does the same, telling the pilots they viewed a solar -eclipse (which took place at 7:00 a.m. on June 30). Howard later hears -that there are UFO sightings in Massachusetts while he is in a holding -pattern, and he contests in the December 11 issue of Everybody’s -Magazine that what he saw was solid, not a mirage. Gordon -Thayer of the Colorado project identifies the objects as superior -mirages, reflections of the “dark terrain below seen against the bright, -‘silvery’ sky to the left of the setting sun,” a “phenomenon so rare -that it apparently has never been reported before or since.” James -McDonald disagrees. In 2010, ufologist Martin -Shough reexamines the case and concludes that the object might well -have been an unusual mirage. (NICAP, “BOAC -Stratocruiser Case”; Sparks, -p. 216; Clark III 195; Condon, pp. 139–140; -James Howard, “We Were Shadowed from Outer Space,” Everybody’s Weekly, -December 11, 1954; John Carnell, “BOAC’s -Flying Jellyfish,” Fate 7, no. 11 (November 1954): 16–23; Leonard -Cramp, “Mystery -over Labrador,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 1 (Spring 1955): 6–8; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 46; “Captain -James Howard Reflects on His Sighting of 1954 (BOAC),” nutsandbolts -ufo YouTube channel, March 7, 2009; Good Above, pp. 189–191; -Phillip Robertson, “Some -Considerations on the Seven Isles, Quebec, Canada, -Case of June 29, 1954,” May 31, 1991; Martin Shough, “Study -of an Unusual Phenomenon Observed by BOAC -Aircrew over Labrador, Newfoundland, June 29, 1954,” September 2009; -Martin Shough, “The -BOAC Labrador -Sighting of June 29, 1954,” Caelestia, October 31, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2434

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Event 3431 -(B3C7B290)

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Date: 6/30/1954
-Description: 2:17 p.m. Johnny Björnulf and Raun Conradi are aboard one -of three Scandinavian Airlines planes flying above the Lifjell plateau, -Telemark, Norway, to observe a total solar eclipse. Conradi takes some -footage through a window on the north (port) side of one airplane. When -developed it shows two small light sources that are fairly obvious -window reflections, but media coverage causes much confusion about the -circumstances under which the film is shot. (E. Graham, “Scandinavian -Eclipse Expedition Films U.F.O.s,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1956): 6–7; UFOEv, p. 5; -Clas Svahn, “The -Björnulf Solar Eclipse Film,” Clas Svahns Blogg, October 6, -2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2435

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Event 3432 -(84CA9754)

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Date: 6/30/1954
-Description: 6:50 p.m. Four civilians and several military personnel at -Brookley AFB [now Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley] in Mobile, Alabama, see a -brilliant silver or white object with short stubby wings approach from -the south, circle over Mobile, then depart to the northeast. A radar -contact at 6:30 p.m. with a stationary object is evidently unrelated -anomalous propagation. (NICAP, “Object -with Short Stubby Wings Tracked on Radar”; Sparks, -p. 216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2436

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Event 3433 -(BD5B9899)

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Date: 7/1954
-Description: A saucer-buff zine titled Nexus is first published by James -W. Moseley in New Jersey. (Nexus 1, -no. 1 (July 1954); Clark III 1032)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2438

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Event 3434 -(79362323)

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Date: 7/2/1954
-Description: 11:05 a.m. An F-94C Starfire takes off from Griffiss AFB -[now Griffiss Business and Technology Park] in Rome, New York, on an -operational training mission. It is only a few miles out when the -Griffiss control tower orders the plane diverted to intercept an -unidentified aircraft. When Pilot Lt. William E. Atkins cannot find the -aircraft, the controller tells him about a second unidentified aircraft, -which Atkins identifies as an Air Force C-47. The control tower vectors -him back to the first target. Atkins cannot see any aircraft above the -cloud cover, so he descends below the clouds. During the descent, a -furnace-like heat fills the cockpit and the engine plenum chamber fire -warning light goes on. Atkins shuts the engine off, but the light -remains on. Atkins and his radar man, Henry F. Coudon [or Condon], -eject, landing without injury. At 11:27 a.m., the plane crashes into the -town of Walesville, west of Utica, striking a building and an auto, -killing 4 people, and injuring 5 others. Atkins tells reporters about -the heat but clams up under Air Force pressure. The official -investigation confirms the fire was caused by a malfunction of the fire -detector circuit. There is no evidence of an in-flight fire. Kevin -Randle suspects a balloon is responsible for one of the radar -targets, because an apparent balloon is sighted later, from 6:00 to -10:00 p.m., in a 25-square-mile area from Rome to Frankfort, New York. -(“Abandoned -Jet Kills 3 in Car, 1 -in House,” New York Times, July 3, 1954, pp. 1, 6; “Jet -Plane Crashes in Flames, Kills -3 in Auto, One in House,” -Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard, July 3, 1954, pp. 1, 3; NICAP, “The -Walesville Incident / F-94 Crash”; Kevin D. Randle, “Walesville -Revisited,” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 3–5; Frank J. Reid, “Keyhoe’s -Context,” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 6–7, 28–29; Kevin D. Randle, “Walesville -UFO Jet Chase,” A Different Perspective, March 28, 2009; Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 174–177; -Condon, p. 161; -Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 22–23; -“‘Balloon’ -Excites Utica,” New York Times, July 3, 1954, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2439

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Event 3435 -(5349A336)

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Date: 7/3/1954
-Description: Nine green spheres hover, speed away at 2,600 mph, and are -tracked on radar at 24,000 feet 20 miles north of Albuquerque, New -Mexico. (UFOEv, p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2440

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Event 3436 -(BE1838B5)

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Date: 7/3/1954
-Description: 8:15 a.m. The captain, officers, and 463 passengers of a -Dutch ocean liner watch a “greenish-colored, saucer- shaped object about -half the size of a full moon” speed across the sky and disappear in -clouds. (Ruppelt, p. 237) -[same as July 29 entry?]
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2441

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Event 3437 -(5DE073CB)

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Date: 7/7/1954
-Description: A miner saw a landed object and a giant man with strange, -burning eyes. He fainted. When he regained consciousness, object and -entity had vanished. Investigated by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keyhoe C 184 (Vallee)
-Location: Garson, Canada
-ID: 133

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Event 3438 -(3638032F)

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Date: 7/8/1954
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Amateur astronomer Harold -Hill is at his observatory in Orrell, Greater Manchester, England, -when he sees a bright star in the southern sky that he at first thinks -is a supernova. Soon it resolves itself into a bright, metallic globe -with a cluster of 15–20 smaller, dimmer objects moving around. Clouds -intervene and when they clear, he sees two bright objects, gyrating and -flashing and moving slowly around each other. The objects are at a great -altitude, because even through binoculars they have “shown no sensible -size.” (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January 1, 1947–December 31, -1959, The -Author, 2003, pp. 80– 81; “An Unusual Sky Phenomenon,” Strolling -Astronomer 9 (1955): 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2442

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Event 3439 -(F7FA0370)

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Date: 7/9/1954
-Description: Die Weltwoche in Zürich, Switzerland, publishes two letters -by psychologist Carl -Jung, who says he has been interested in UFOs since 1946, but he has -difficulty comprehending what they might be, since they seem to have -both subjective and objective properties. (Clark III 636–637)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2443

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Event 3440 -(DCC52B50)

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Date: 7/11/1954
-Description: UK Air Chief Marshal Hugh -Dowding states in an article in the London Sunday Telegraph that “I -am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not -manufactured by any nation on earth. I can therefore see no alternative -to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial -source.” (UFOEv, p. 122; -Good Above, pp. 47–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2444

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Event 3441 -(224BBC1E)

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Date: 7/14/1954
-Description: MJ-12 SSP briefing letter, briefing scheduled for July 16, -1954. MEMO to General Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4) requesting his presence -at an MAJESTIC-12 meeting with President Eisenhower on July 16. Note by -Stanton Friedman: Letter was discovered in the National Archives by Wm. -Moore and Jamie Shandera on 1985 in the 126th box of USAF files. Carbon -of the original form.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: link
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A p84, majic)
-Location: Washington DC
-Attributes: Majestic

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Event 3442 -(41F2AF62)

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Date: 7/14/1954
-Description: A fake memo, supposedly written by or for Robert -Cutler, special -assistant to President Eisenhower, to -Gen. Nathan -Twining, indicates -that an MJ-12 briefing should take place at the White House July 16. -Cutler is in Europe at the time of the memo, although the memo could -have been prepared by NSC Executive Secretary James -S. -Lay Jr. or his associate, J. Patrick Coyne. (Robert Cutler, “Memorandum -for General Twining: NSC/MJ-12 Special -Studies Project,” July 14, 1954; Northern Ontario UFO Research and -Study, “Majestic-12”; -Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ-12: The Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1987): 14–18; Stanton T. Friedman, Top Secret / MAJIC, -Marlowe, 1996, pp. 86–102; -“Majestic-12 -or ‘MJ-12’ Reference Report,” US National Archives, September 29, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2445

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Event 3443 -(ADCE6B8A)

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Date: 7/16/1954
-Description: Secret Meeting between Gen. Nathan Twining (MJ-4) and -President Eisenhower.
-Type: secret meeting
-Reference: Pea -Research (MJ-4)
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 3444 -(B3D5B841)

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Date: 7/18/1954
-Time: 8:40 PM
-Description: Witness: A.T. Chamblin. One greenish-white disc was seen -for 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Normandy, Missouri
-ID: 352

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Event 3445 -(F1CC352B)

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Date: 7/20/1954
-Description: Two men are chased in their car by a UFO near Oslo, Norway, -and stop to observe it. Afterward, one of the witnesses’ watches stops -working and the car’s paint changes color. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 207)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2446

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Event 3446 -(665A899C)

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Date: 7/20/1954
-End date: 7/21/1954
-Description: Ruppelt visits -the Project Blue Book office at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to gather -information for his upcoming book. He is told that all UFO publicity is -handled by a lieutenant colonel in Air Force intelligence. He writes in -an August 3 letter to Keyhoe: -“They claim to have gotten the unknowns down to about 10% but from what -I saw this was just due to a more skeptical attitude. The reports are -just as good as the ones we got and their analysis procedures are a hell -of a lot worse.” (Donald E. Keyhoe, “The -Captain Ruppelt Letters,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 2 (October 1961): -6; Clark III 1023)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2447

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Event 3447 -(656B91EB)

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Date: 7/20/1954
-Description: Near this city, two men were chased by an object and -stopped their car to observe it. After the sighting, a watch stopped -working and the paint on the car allegedly changed color.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 129; 3; cf. Case 120 (Vallee)
-Location: Oslo, Norway
-ID: 134

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Event 3448 -(BE2F0F33)

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Date: 7/23/1954
-Description: The US Navy issues a new directive that orders the -immediate reporting of UFO sightings (FLYOBRPTs) to the director of -AFOSI, ATIC, commanding officer of Eastern ADC, director of Naval -Intelligence, commanding officer of the Eastern Sea Frontier, and the -commandant of the Potomac River Naval Command. The directive cites JANAP -146, AFR 200-2, OPNAV 3820, and Directive 3820.2 and is intended to plug -leaks coming from navy and marine personnel. It is unpublicized but -unclassified, so it threatens disclosure of AFR 200-2, which is still -classified. USAF begins work on a new version of AFR 200-2 without the -“restricted” label. (Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, pp. 188–189, -309–311)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2448

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Event 3449 -(2EA2CEBB)

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Date: 7/24/1954
-End date: 7/25/1954
-Description: A security officer at the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics -develops a personal interest in the Frances Swan contact case and -accepts Adm. Knowles’s -invitation to Eliot, Maine, to visit with Swan. On his return, he gives -the FBI a report on his visit. On July 29 an FBI agent interviews him, -and on August 9 J. -Edgar Hoover sends an account of the interview to Rear Adm. Carl -F. Espe and to the Army’s Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2. Hoover -writes, “No further action is being taken in this matter by this -Bureau.” (Clark III 1118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2449

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Event 3450 -(0768BEFE)

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Date: 7/25/1954
-Time: 7:12 PM
-Description: Witness: attorney L.B. Tussing. One black cylinder, 12 -times long as wide, moved fast along the surface of the lake.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Middle Sister Island, on U.S.-Canadian border in western Lake -Erie
-ID: 353

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Event 3451 -(10B3C377)

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Date: 7/25/1954
-Description: Policeman J. H. Flanagan and friends see 6 UFOs over -Enkeldoorn [now Chivhu], Zimbabwe. Nearly stationary, they are visible -for about 20 minutes and disappear when night falls. (ClearIntent, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2450

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Event 3452 -(D47B8DCC)

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Date: 7/28/1954
-Description: Wilbert -Smith, at -the invitation of retired Navy Adm. Herbert -B. Knowles, visits -contactee Frances Swan in Eliot, Maine, his neighbor. Her two space -friends, Affa and Alomar, direct Swan’s hand to draw a series of circles -demonstrating the use of magnetic fields in spacecraft propulsion. Smith -asks the aliens to communicate by radio at an appointed time a few days -later, but the message does not come through. Nevertheless, Smith -attempts to decipher the alien charts in hopes of learning how to build -a saucer for Canada. (Clark III 1079–1080, 1118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2451

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Event 3453 -(735A3E4D)

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Date: 7/29/1954
-Description: Capt. Jan P. Bos and five officers of the Dutch ocean liner -Groote -Beer see a moon-like object rising out of the Atlantic Ocean 90 -miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. They watch it through a sextant, -allowing them to estimate its rate of ascent at a half degree in 2 -minutes. (Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1954, June–August, The Author, 1990, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2452

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Event 3454 -(B78564EF)

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Date: 7/30/1954
-Time: 10:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Hughes Aircraft test pilots Englert and Peterson, -flying a B-25 bomber. One metallic, pencil-shaped object flew slowly or -hovered for an unstated length of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Los Angeles, California
-ID: 354

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Event 3455 -(D0F80B52)

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Date: 8/1954
-Description: Statement by Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, head of the -RAF during WWII: “Of course the flying saucers are real! And, they are -inter planetary!”
-Type: public statement
-Reference: Pea -Research
-See also: 9/23/47
-See also: 10/9/55

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Event 3456 -(4FB3E1E8)

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Date: 8/1954
-Description: Frank Edwards, pro-saucer newscaster fired.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 3457 -(C300F056)

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Date: 8/1954
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An astronomer sees a bright white disc, 20 times -the apparent size of the moon, moving from west to northeast at a high -rate of speed over Park Hills, Kentucky. The seemingly solid object is -about 100 feet in diameter and flying at an altitude of 500 feet. It -disappears abruptly after 3–4 seconds. (“Astronomers and UFO’s: A -Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2453

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Event 3458 -(1621ABAA)

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Date: 8/1/1954
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Desmond O’Reilly and others at Templeogue Tennis -Club in Dublin, Ireland, watch an object fly over the Dublin Mountains -in the direction of Howth. Initially he thinks he is looking at a meteor -because he can only see it when it passes by gaps in the clouds. He -watches it split into two pieces. (Irish Times, August 5, 1954; Shane -Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 (September -2014): 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2454

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Event 3459 -(58038B67)

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Date: 8/1/1954
-Description: 11:30 p.m. P. D. McCormack sees a bluish-white object -flying at 1,000 mph at an altitude of 5,000 feet above the Dublin -Mountains, Ireland, to the south. The trails seem to “fall away from the -object at each side.” Two men fishing in the River Dargle near -Powerscourt, County Wicklow, see a rocket-shaped object dropping balls -of fire. At 11:35 p.m., on the North Beach in Rush, County Dublin, -Mrs. W. Gray and others watch an object “like a bright electric bulb” -fly overhead from the mountains and out to sea. Possible meteor. (Irish -Times, August 3, 5, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying -Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 (September 2014): 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2455

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Event 3460 -(18A326DC)

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Date: 8/2/1954
-Time: 5:17 PM
-Description: Witness: ex-AAF B-17 gunner (19 missions) N.E. Schroeder. -One thin, bright ellipse, like polished metal, hovered for 5-8 seconds, -dropped down 3,000’ in 3 seconds, hovered again and faded out after a -total of 20 seconds in view.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Westlake, Ohio
-ID: 355

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Event 3461 -(F71FF8C3)

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Date: 8/2/1954
-Description: The US Joint Chiefs of Staff direct the establishment of a -Continental Air Defense Command. Secretary of Defense Charles -Erwin Wilson announces the command’s formation publicly later in the -month to integrate “the air defense capabilities of the three military -departments into an air defense system responsible to the control of one -military commander.” (Wikipedia, “Continental -Air Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2456

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Event 3462 -(630795E0)

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Date: 8/4/1954
-Description: 11:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight. Ten firemen and their chief -observe two flying saucers over The Hague, Netherlands. The objects are -seen in the clear night air at a high altitude. They move at incredible -speed, at times remaining motionless for as long as 30 seconds. They are -described as flat ovals with whitish-gray light. All agree that the -objects are neither aircraft or balloons. (ClearIntent, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2457

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Event 3463 -(E838DC02)

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Date: 8/6/1954
-Time: 6 PM
-Description: Witness: mechanical engineer L.H. Hormer. One intensely -white elliptical light changed to yellow, then orange, then pink, four -or five times while flying straight and level for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Antonio, Texas
-ID: 356

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Event 3464 -(D5D57A18)

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Date: 8/6/1954
-Description: A bright white ball shoots across the sky over Santa Fe, -New Mexico, leaving a luminous trail that persists for 15 minutes. -Meteorite expert Lincoln -LaPaz says it is not a meteor. It apparently disrupts TV signals and -aircraft transmissions, but not ham radio. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored, -Citadel, 1955, p. 226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2458

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Event 3465 -(813F379C)

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Date: 8/7/1954
-End date: 8/8/1954
-Description: One of the first UFO meetings in California is held on the -slopes of Palomar Mountain, with lectures by George -Adamski, Daniel -Fry, Truman -Bethurum, and -Desmond -Leslie. (“Palomar -Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity -to World Fame,” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2459

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Event 3466 -(4A3D4669)

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Date: 8/8/1954
-Description: 3:01 p.m. Project Magnet’s only UFO incident of note occurs -when the Shirley’s Bay, Ontario, gravimeter indicates a greater -deflection in the gravitational field than a conventional object would -cause. Heavy clouds obstruct Wilbert -Smith’s view of the sky. (Clark III 1079; “Wilbert -B. Smith,” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Good Above, p. 186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2460

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Event 3467 -(77CBC204)

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Date: 8/10/1954
-Time: 2130
-Description: The Coupal childrm said that a brightly lighted object -followed them to the farm. Mr. Coupal and his oldest son went to the -field where the children had been playing and saw an orange object rise -and speed off to the west. Grass was flattened over 15 m, with two -tracks about 5 m long.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 237 (Vallee)
-Location: Hemmingford, Canada
-ID: 135

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Event 3468 -(6C923645)

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Date: 8/10/1954
-Description: The Canadian Department of Transport officially folds -Project Magnet but permits Wilbert -Smith to continue using its facility on his own time at no expense -to the government. Smith continues his work privately until his death in -December 1962. (Story, p. 276)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2461

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Event 3469 -(2A694C60)

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Date: 8/11/1954
-Time: 8:55 PM
-Description: Witness: P.L. Percharde, electrical engineer and assistant -manager of Moeller Shipwrecker Co., of Okinawa. A line of blue lights, -underneath. a blue circle with a black center. Flew over ship and -climbed, illuminating and agitating the clouds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yoron Jima, near Okinawa
-ID: 357

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Event 3470 -(F2A66AA8)

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Date: 8/11/1954
-Description: 8:55 p.m. P. L. Percharde, electrical engineer and -assistant manager of the Moeller Shipwrecker Company, of Okinawa, sees a -line of blue lights underneath a blue circle with a black center fly -over the SS Docteur Angier off Yoron-Jima, Japan, and climb, -illuminating and agitating the clouds. (Patrick Gross, “Disk -Seen from SS Docteur -Angier, August 11, 1954”; Sparks, p. 219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2464

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Event 3471 -(A0A1009A)

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Date: 8/11/1954
-Description: 8:54 p.m. A1C Chase E. Lewis, tower operator at Lawson AFB -[now Lawson Army Airfield] in Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, sees a -strange stationary object in the west. It varies in brightness, changing -color from white to red to orange to white again, with seemingly -high-speed motions. An Army helicopter piloted by WO R. T. Wade is sent -to investigate; he locates the object 20 miles west of Lawson at 2,000 -feet. Wade abandons the chase due to low fuel after 2 minutes. At 9:05 -p.m., two additional tower operators (including A1C William N. Watson) -view the object. A second Army helicopter, piloted by U. S. Tarma, is -diverted to the object at 9:27 p.m. He sees it, but it disappears at -9:29 p.m. (NICAP, “Two -Helicopters Encounter Venus (CIRVIS)”; Good Above, pp. 284–285; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1954, June–August, The Author, 1990, pp. 77–80; Sparks, p. 219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2463

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Event 3472 -(EFB02561)

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Date: 8/11/1954
-Description: Frank -Edwards is fired by his sponsor at the Mutual Broadcasting Network, -the American Federation of Labor. He had offered to resign on August 7, -citing a conflict over the type of material he has been required to -report on, including AFL interests and George -Meany’s personal outlook. His UFO reportage may or may not be an -issue. (Clark III 435; Frank Edwards, “The -Plot to Silence Me,” Fate 10, no. 6 (June 1957): 17–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2462

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Event 3473 -(EDEE24D0)

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Date: 8/12/1954
-Description: 2:29 a.m. Four military men on US Army helicopters at -Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, see a glowing red disc soar around -the base tower. There are both ground and air witnesses, as well as -radar-visual confirmation. (Good Above, pp. 284–285, 493–494)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2465

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Event 3474 -(A7505B73)

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Date: 8/12/1954
-Description: EMERGENCY CIA MESSAGE: Sighted Saucer hovering at 2000 ft. -above Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Dispatched local helicopter NBR ARMY267 to -investigate. Definitely NOT a star. Helicopters fuel low, returned to -base. In coming helicopter ARMY294 proceeded toward UFO which then -completely disappeared. Pilot of ARMY294 lost sight of it, would be glad -to be called upon to verify saucer light. Pilots of Army helicopters -were: R.T. Wade, 506th helicopter Co., U.S. Tarma, also of the 506th, -Ft. Genning, GA.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p493)
-Location: Maxwell AFB

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Event 3475 -(7F00EB39)

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Date: 8/12/1954
-Description: New updated reporting of UFOs. Regulation AFR 200–2, (see -Aug. 26, 1953), by order of N.F. Twining (MJ-4), Chief of Staff, -USAF.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p489)
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 8/26/1953

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Event 3476 -(16CD5584)

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Date: 8/12/1954
-Description: An updated version of AFR 200-2 is issued by the Department -of the Air Force and declassified by Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan -Twining. The -public can now know that the 4602nd Air Intelligence Service Squadron -was brought in to assist ATIC (Blue Book) with preliminary and field UFO -investigations, and that USAF considers UFOs to be “any airborne object -which by performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or unusual features, -does not conform to any presently known aircraft or missile type, or -which cannot be positively identified as a familiar object.” It lists -the objectives of UFO reporting as: “First as a possible threat to the -security of the United States and its forces, and secondly, to determine -technical aspects involved.” (Department of the Air Force, “Unidentified -Flying Objects Reporting,” Air Force Regulation 200-2, August 12, -1954; Good Above, pp. 489–492)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2466

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Event 3477 -(554B6FB7)

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Date: 8/15/1954
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. W.J. Davis, Capt. R.D. Sauers, flying -a C-47 transport plane. One dark blue oblong object paced the C-47, -veered away, then crossed in front of it. Five minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: San Marcos, Texas
-ID: 358

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Event 3478 -(495DDAAD)

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Date: 8/16/1954
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A green ball is seen in the sky over Tananarive -[now Antananarivo], Madagascar, and disappears behind a hill. It -reappears a minute later and flies over the higher part of Tananarive. -When the object flies in front of them, some witnesses see a -lentil-shaped device with a silvery metallic aspect enveloped in -electric luminous gas. According to Jean-Luc Bruneau, inspector general -at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Gen. Charles de -Gaulle is concerned about this sighting and quietly approves having -a French study group involved with investigating UFO cases. (“1954, -Tananarive, Madagascar: Multiple Witnesses to UFOs,” UFO Casebook, -July 30, 2008; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO -Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 11; Patrick Gross, -“Tananarive, -Madagascar, August 1954”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2467

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Event 3479 -(A5740B9C)

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Date: 8/20/1954
-Description: Morning. Edith Jacobsen, 2, and Åsta Solvang, 32, are on a -blueberry-picking trip to Øyfjellet, near Mosjøen, Norway, with their -uncle, Halvdan Jacobsen. The two sisters wander off to a fen when -suddenly they see a man in the distance. They approach him and he smiles -and stretches out his hand, but he only brushes Edith’s palm with it. He -has long hair with a natural wave, a dark complexion, and a -tight-fitting suit with a wide belt. He begins to talk but they can’t -understand him. It does not sound like Norwegian, English, German, -Spanish, French, or Russian. He takes out a “little mirror” from a -pocket and with something like a pencil draws circles, apparently -representing planets. He finally indicates he wants the women to -accompany him and he takes them to a landed disc in a clearing. It is -gray-blue and looks like two giant pot lids put together. He makes a -sign to not come too close, then he opens a hatch on the top, crawls in, -and shuts the door. The sisters hear a faint humming and the UFO rises -while rotating on its own axis. (Gordon Creighton, “Mosjøen: -An Early Norwegian CE-III -Case,” Flying Saucer Review 34, no. 2 (June 1989): 1–7; Clark III -267–268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2469

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Event 3480 -(5897B744)

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Date: 8/20/1954
-Description: Contactee Dorothy -Martin of Oak Park, Illinois, and Charles and Lilian Laughead of -Detroit, Michigan, send out a 7-page press release announcing that a -geological disaster will cause great environmental changes in North -America and Europe. It warns that December 20 will be the last available -date for evacuation, as a great flood will strike on December 21. Martin -and her followers hope to board a landed flying saucer before doom -falls. (Clark III 718)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2468

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Event 3481 -(97301DE1)

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Date: 8/21/1954
-Description: Cecil Sutton and family have run in with spacemen.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky

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Event 3482 -(CD09AC8D)

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Date: 8/23/1954
-Description: Approximate date. A strange object hovered low over the -house of Mr. Lucas and left straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Varennes, near Diges, France
-ID: 136

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Event 3483 -(CC6719AD)

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Date: 8/23/1954
-Description: Elise Blanc approached an object looking like an aluminum -trailer with two small beings in silvery dress, grunting like pigs, -standing close by. The craft took on a fiery color and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 129 (Vallee)
-Location: Lugrin, near Thonon, France
-ID: 137

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Event 3484 -(6958D385)

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Date: 8/23/1954
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Businessman Bernard -Miserey has just parked his car in a garage at Vernon, Eure, France, -when he notices a sudden illumination. He sees an object like an -enormous (300 feet long) cigar standing on end, hovering above the north -bank of the Seine River about 1,000 feet away. Suddenly from the bottom -of the object comes a horizontal disc that drops, slows, and suddenly -dives horizontally across the river at him. It vanishes at a high rate -of speed toward the southwest. Three other discs follow in sequence. A -fifth disc drops much lower than the earlier ones and remains still for -an instant, swaying slightly. During this time the cigar has faded and -sinks into darkness. The spectacle has lasted 45 minutes. Two police -officers and an Army engineer also see the display. (Clark III 293; -Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1954, June–August, The -Author, 1990, pp. 77–80; Sparks, pp. 85–86; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” February 2, 2007; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite -Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2470

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Event 3485 -(7CFFC88D)

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Date: 8/24/1954
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witness: one unnamed farmer. A cylinder, 2-2.5’ long, 4-5’ -in diameter, made a loud whizzing sound, flew straight and level fast, -then slow, then fell into sandbar.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Egilstadir, Iceland
-ID: 359

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Event 3486 -(CE6C8211)

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Date: 8/25/1954
-Description: Two girls in Norway meet spaceman.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Norway

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Event 3487 -(60E487B4)

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Date: 8/26/1954
-Time: 6:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Rev. W.L. Shelton. Two domed ellipses, 20’ long, -8’ thick, 10’ at ends; glowing silver or orange. Hovered, then climbed -side-by-side while getting brighter. Observed for 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Danville, Virginia
-ID: 360

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Event 3488 -(D940113B)

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Date: 8/26/1954
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Crowds of people in Bray, County Wicklow, -Ireland. see an object traveling at great speed over Bray Head. It is a -brilliant blue light, traveling at “2,000 miles an hour” toward the sea -before changing direction and moving toward Wicklow. (Irish Times, -August 27, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” -Fortean Times 317 (September 2014): 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2471

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Event 3489 -(F5B32D26)

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Date: 8/27/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: A wingless flying object was seen by Bill Supa, an employee -of the Caswell Construction Co. It landed about 2 km way from the -witness, who approached within 300 m before it took off and flew away. -Grass was flattened where it had landed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 227 (Vallee)
-Location: Boston Creek, Canada
-ID: 138

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Event 3490 -(FC7BCB93)

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Date: 8/27/1954
-Time: 1 PM
-Description: Witness: E.A. Srazdes. Seven large, white, teardrop-shaped -objects turned blue. Flew in line formation and increased speed during -the 2 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dorchester, Massachusetts
-ID: 361

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Event 3491 -(F82CC974)

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Date: 8/28/1954
-Description: Two boys saw a craft land and two or three men come out. No -details given.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Constance 277 (Vallee)
-Location: Quebec, Canada
-ID: 139

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Event 3492 -(EB6EDE29)

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Date: 8/28/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Several USAF fighter pilots pursue a triangular -formation of 15 objects near Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, tracked by -ground radar. As the jets approach, the formation breaks, changes to a -semicircle, and the objects speed up and vanish to the west. (NICAP, -“USAF Fighters Report Formation Tracked by Radar”; Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 25–26; -Sparks, -p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2472

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Event 3493 -(F0023DD2)

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Date: 8/28/1954
-Description: Two boys in Quebec, Canada see spaceship land. Two or three -men get out.
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Quebec, Canada

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Event 3494 -(8174B8EB)

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Date: 8/29/1954
-Description: A witness in Mérida, Venezuela, sees a large, intensely -yellow, glowing object moving at great speed from west to east. When it -reaches the Sierra Nevada de Mérida, it suddenly stops and two -disc-shaped blue objects emerge from it. All three continue to the east -and disappear behind buildings. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, -Signet, 1969, p. 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2473

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Event 3495 -(037A5978)

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Date: 8/29/1954
-Time: 11:05 AM
-Description: Witnesses: lst Officer H.G. Gardner, engineer J.V.D. -Whitisy, flying Royal Dutch Airlines DC-4 (PH-DBZ). Three or four dark, -lens-shaped objects veered north and changed position in formation -during the 10 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Prince Christian, Greenland
-ID: 362

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Event 3496 -(F5D2B33B)

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Date: 8/29/1954
-Description: 11:05 p.m. First Officer H. G. Gardner and Engineer J. V. -D. Whitisy, flying on a Royal Dutch Airlines DC- 4, see 3–4 dark, -lens-shaped objects over Prins Christianssund radio and weather station, -Greenland. They veer north and change position in formation. (NICAP, “Lens-Shaped -Objects Veer North”; Sparks, -p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2474

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Event 3497 -(CBB05611)

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Date: 8/30/1954
-Time: 0525
-Description: Sgt. Durdle saw a brilliant, circular object flying across -Lake Nipissing toward the Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong -canister was hanging down from a central section, which supported a long -cone with a spinning globe on top. When it tilted, the witness was able -to observe regulatorlike devices inside the machine through a vertical -lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages, which looked like necklaces, -were hanging from the craft. Durdle woke up four Air Force men, who -observed the object spiraling away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 227 (Vallee)
-Location: North Bay, Canada
-ID: 140

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Event 3498 -(2D1627E8)

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Date: 8/31/1954
-Description: 7:10 p.m. RAN Lieutenant J. A. “Shamus” O’Farrell is -returning to HMAS Albatross Naval Air Station near Nowra, New South -Wales, after a night cross-country in a Hawker Sea Fury aircraft. After -contacting Nowra, O’Farrell sees a very bright light closing fast at one -o’clock. It crosses in front of his aircraft, taking up position on his -port beam, where it appears to orbit. A second and similar light is -observed at nine o’clock. It passes about a mile in front of the Sea -Fury and then turns in the position where the first light was observed. -According to O’Farrell, the apparent crossing speeds of the lights are -the fastest he has ever encountered. He has been flying at 250 mph. -O’Farrell contacts Albatross, which in turn confirms that it has two -radar “paints” in company with him. Radar operator Petty Officer Keith -Jessop confirms the presence of 2 objects near the Sea Fury on the GCI -remote display. The two lights reform at nine o’clock and then disappear -on a northeasterly heading. O’Farrell can only make out “a vague shape -with the white light situated centrally on top.” The Directorate of -Naval Intelligence at the time writes that O’Farrell is “an entirely -credible witness” and that he “was visibly shaken by his experience but -remains adamant that he saw these objects.” News of the incident leaks -out in December, but the official RAN file remains classified until -1982. (NICAP, “‘Sea -Fury’ Encounter”; Swords 379–380; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 70; Good Above, p. 162; -An Adelaide UFO Researcher, “The -‘Sea Fury’ Radar Incident Revisited,” 2017; “The -Sea Fury Incident,” Australian Disclosure Project, April 30, 2006; -Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall -1997): 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2475

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Event 3499 -(8057B20A)

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Date: 8/31/1954
-Description: Deputy Department of Transport Minister John -Baldwin closes the Shirley’s Bay, Ontario, UFO station to save -money, although he says Smith can -work on his own time. (“Saucer -Station Closes,” The Saucerian, no. 6 (Spring 1955): 12; Clark III -1079)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2476

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Event 3500 -(DB2AF614)

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Date: 9/1/1954
-Description: The Continental Air Defense Command is established, -primarily to defend the continental United States against air attack. It -is also tasked to support US commanders in the Pacific, Atlantic, -Caribbean, Alaska, Northeast, and of Strategic Air Command in their -missions to the maximum extent consistent with its primary mission. -ADC’s commander, Gen. Benjamin -W. Chidlaw, becomes -the first CINCONAD, and USAF is designated as the executive agency. -(Wikipedia, “Continental -Air Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2477

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Event 3501 -(86229634)

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Date: 9/2/1954
-Description: Dusk. John Jacob Swaim, 12, is working on a tractor at his -family’s farm in Coldwater, Kansas, when he sees a small man about 3 -feet tall with long, pointed ears and a pointed nose standing in a -crouched position about 20 feet away. It is dressed in a shiny garment -and has two cylinders strapped on its back. The being floats to a nearby -UFO hovering 5 feet from the ground. The next day his father and Sheriff -Floyd Hadley find pear-shaped footprints, wide at the toes and tapering -to a narrow heel. (“Little -Man in Kansas Wheat Field,” The Saucerian, no. 6 (Spring 1955): -12–13; Clark III 270–271; Curt Collins, “A -Flying Cucumber Comes to Kansas, Sept. 1954,” The Saucers That Time -Forgot, February 23, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2478

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Event 3502 -(53677203)

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Date: 9/3/1954
-Description: Many workers in the fields 12 km south of the town saw an -object apparently made of transparent plastic fly over the houses, stop -on edge, and swing like a pendulum a few meters above the ground. It -made several erratic jumps, then resumed its horizontal position and -flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Souk-el-Khemis, Tunisia
-ID: 141

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Event 3503 -(BD79CFEA)

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Date: 9/3/1954
-Description: 4:30 p.m. USAF Maj. Robert -J. Waste and the 9-man crew of his B-47 bomber are flying at 25,000 -feet in the vicinity of Dallas, Texas, on their way to Barksdale AFB in -Bossier City, Louisiana. Carswell AFB [now Naval Air Station Joint -Reserve Base Fort Worth] in Texas directs them to be on the lookout for -unusual objects. The crew discovers they are being paced by a -missile-shaped object only 100 feet overhead that is slightly larger and -longer than their own fuselage. It has two rows of oval-shaped portholes -along the sides and an orange exhaust. The bottom of the object seems to -be glowing. After pacing the B-47 a short time, it shoots ahead and -zooms upward at incredible speed. Carswell tells them to pursue, but -they can’t keep up. The UFO then descends to within 300 feet of the -bomber and begins circling it. The UFO stays with the plane, pacing it -above and below, and performing figure-eights and other maneuvers for -over an hour. Two other B-47s in the squadron are behind the lead bomber -and also view the object. The UFO finally shoots upward and disappears -again. Waste takes 32 frames of 35mm color film of the UFO with his -personal camera, but his film and that of his copilot is confiscated -during a 3-day debriefing at Barksdale. (Paul Cerny, “Close Encounter at -25,000 Feet: Government Coverup,”: IUR 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1983): -6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2479

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Event 3504 -(F768838A)

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Date: 9/4/1954
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witness: J. Faltemeier, CAA communications specialist. -Twenty-thirty lights, as if on a string, flew straight and level for 1.5 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Butler, Missouri
-ID: 363

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Event 3505 -(42EA8D19)

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Date: 9/5/1954
-Time: 12:23 AM
-Description: Witness: J. Faltemeier, CAA communications specialist. One -silver or white object with a slightly swept-back leading edge and a -following exhaust, flew straight and level, then veered southwest to -south after 30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Butler, Missouri
-ID: 364

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Event 3506 -(BB1B20EC)

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Date: 9/7/1954
-Description: 7:15 a.m. Two bricklayers, Emile Renard, 27, and Yves -DeGillerboz, 23, see a bluish-gray object floating in midair over a -field as they are bicycling between Harponville and Contay, Somme, -France. It looks like an unfinished haystack “with a plate turned upside -down on top of it.” When they try to approach, it takes off. It has a -diameter of 33 feet, and they notice it has a kind of door. The -observation lasts more than 3 minutes, at which point the object -releases some smoke as it departs straight up. (Aimé Michel, Straight -Line, p. 35; Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 20, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2481

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Event 3507 -(C26E792C)

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Date: 9/7/1954
-Time: 0715
-Description: Between Harponville and Contay, two bricklayers, Emile -Renard, 27, and Yves Degillerboz, 23 saw an object floating in mid-air -over a field: “It looked like an unfinished haystack, with a plate -turned upside down on top of it.” When they approached, it took off. -Diameter 10 m, height 3 m. A kind of door was noticed. The observation -lasted over 3 min. The object released smoke when it departed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 6; M 35 (Vallee)
-Location: Harponville, France
-ID: 142

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Event 3508 -(DCA5BA1C)

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Date: 9/7/1954
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Robert Chovel and two others are driving home -from the theater in Hirson, Aisne, France, when they see a luminous -red-orange disc flying above the railroad tracks. It stops suddenly -across the road, 900– 1,200 feet from the ground. When the car reaches -the bridge at Buire, the object shoots away at great speed. -(ClearIntent, p. 134; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” May 12, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2480

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Event 3509 -(BF1D17D5)

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Date: 9/8/1954
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Thomas Farquhar sees a “large oval-shaped disc,” -crackling and hissing, fly over Derryhubbert, County Tyrone, Northern -Ireland. He thinks it is about 3 feet wide and flying at a height of -2,000 feet. Daniel McWilliam and James Bingham, in Carrickfergus, County -Antrim, see a rocket soar into the sky and explode silently. Mr. L. -Hauser is on a boat leaving Belfast when he sees a rocket come up out of -the sea and explode when it reaches about 15,000 feet. (Belfast -Telegraph, September 9–11, 1954; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying -Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 (September 2014): 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2482

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Event 3510 -(C61057A3)

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Date: 9/9/1954
-Description: 2:20 a.m. Mr. K. M. Gibbons of Nelson, New Zealand, gets -out of bed and sees through the window three discs hovering above a -mudflat 3 miles away in a V-formation. They radiate a blue-white light -from their edges. He grabs a camera with a telephoto lens and takes a -photo. After 5 minutes, the discs begin to wobble, tip on edge, then -shoot vertically out of sight. Other reports come from the area that -morning. The photo shows a blurry oval with a small dark area on top. -(UFOEv, pp. 89, 92; -Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, opp. -p. 96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2483

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Event 3511 -(0078DF46)

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Date: 9/10/1954
-Description: Around 10:30 p.m. 34-year-old metal worker Marius Dewilde -comes out of his house at Quarouble, Nord, France, to see why his dog is -barking. He hears hurried footsteps on his right and with his flashlight -sees two creatures just beyond his fence walking in single file toward a -dark object sitting on the railroad tracks. The creatures are about 3.5 -feet tall with wide shoulders, short legs, and helmets covering large -heads. No faces or arms are visible. When he tries to cut them off and -gets within 6 feet, he finds himself paralyzed as a powerful orange beam -of light is projected at him from a square opening in the dark object. -The creatures continue toward the railroad tracks, a door closes, the -dark object rises to 100 feet, hovers, and speeds away. Five imprints on -three wooden railroad ties are found, made by an object that an engineer -estimates must have weighed 30 tons. French police and the French Air -Force investigate the case. (Wikipedia, “Marius -Dewilde”; Aimé Michel, Straight Line, 44–46; Marc Thirouin, “Marius -Dewilde n’a pas menti,” Ouranos, no. 25 (1960): 20–25; Vallée, -Magonia, pp. -17–18, 209; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” July 22, 2004; Jean F. Gilles, “The -Bankruptcy of the French UFO -Research Body, GEPAN,” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 5 (June 1983): -15–16; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO -Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2485

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Event 3512 -(98C7D3E9)

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Date: 9/10/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, 34, came out of his house -as a dog was barking and saw a dark object on the railroad tracks, then -observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he -found himself paralyzed as a strong orange light was projected at -him.The creatures were under 1 m tall, bulky, and wore dark diving -suits. No face or arms were visible. Traces made by an object of -estimated weight 30 tons were noted by French Air Force and police on -the ballast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 8; M 44; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Quarouble, France
-ID: 144

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Event 3513 -(E25FF34B)

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Date: 9/10/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: A farmer, Mr. Mazaud was walking home when he was suddenly -confronted with a helmeted being of average height who made friendly -gestures, then went back into the brush, entered a cigar-shaped object -about 4 m long, which took off toward Limoges. A few minutes later -witnesses in Limoges reported a disk-shaped, red object leaving a bluish -trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 7; M 40 (Vallee)
-Location: Mourieras, France
-ID: 143

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Event 3514 -(01D3718D)

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Date: 9/10/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Antoine Mazaud is walking home from his fields at -Mourieras, north of Bugeat, Corrèze, France, when he is confronted by a -helmeted being of average height who makes friendly gestures. It shakes -hands with him and embraces him while uttering unintelligible words. -Then it goes back into the brush, enters a cigar-shaped object about 13 -feet long, which takes off to the northwest. A few minutes later, -witnesses in Limoges report a disc-shaped, red object leaving a bluish -trail. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” June 21, 2005; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral -Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): -18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2484

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Event 3515 -(0AE9EEB5)

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Date: 9/12/1954
-Alternate date: 9/13/1954
-Description: Late afternoon. A witness is driving a van in the vicinity -of Quarouble, Nord, France, when he sees a domed disc descending -vertically into a small thicket about 160 feet off the road and land. He -can see a kind of gallery around the dome where human-like beings are -standing. He stops the car, gets out, and walks toward the object, but -when he gets closer the object shines a green ray at him. The disc -immediately ascends vertically, then moves gently away. His paralysis -ceases. A rush of air shakes him at the time it takes off. (Marc -Thirouin, “Marius -Dewilde n’a pas menti,” Ouranos, no. 25 (1960): 25; Patrick Gross, -“The -1954 French Flap,” March 23, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2486

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Event 3516 -(2422A3FE)

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Date: 9/14/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: John J. Swain, 12, was driving a tractor back from the -fields when he saw a small man no bigger than a 5-year-old child a few -meters away from him. He had a long nose and long ears and seemed to -“fly” when he moved toward a saucershaped craft hovering less than 2 m -above ground. It “opened up” and the creature “popped inside.” The craft -became luminous and went out of sight. Strange traces were found by -police. The creature was dressed in shiny clothes, and his shoes seemed -to have “fins.” He carried two cylinders on his back and had long, -pointed ears.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 9; Humanoids 53; Wilkins U 239 (Vallee)
-Location: Coldwater, Kansas
-ID: 145

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Event 3517 -(A8A020DF)

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Date: 9/14/1954
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Farm worker Georges Fortin, 34, and more than 200 -other witnesses in Saint-Prouant, Vendée, France, watch a cigar or -carrot-shaped UFO as it emerges from a cloud, tilts toward the ground, -hovers, and then elevates its front end quickly into a vertical -position. It emits vapor from its lower end. Next, a metallic disc- -shaped object flies out, spins around the cigar, and then reenters the -vertical object. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French -Flap,” July 2, 2004; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud -Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 5; Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud -Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 10–12; Clark III 293; -Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “‘Cloud -Cigar’ over Saint-Prouant, France,” June 13, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2487

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Event 3518 -(1C476203)

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Date: 9/14/1954
-Description: Night. Several people see a circular UFO over Helsinki, -Finland. Flying at 2,600 feet, it gives off an intense light and leaves -a trail of reddish smoke about 3 times its diameter. It is visible 7 -seconds. (ClearIntent, p. 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2488

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Event 3519 -(D329904A)

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Date: 9/15/1954
-Description: Ijapada Chatterjee, the manager of the Kadori mica mine, -and hundreds of others watch a disc descend to an altitude of 500 feet -over three adjoining villages (Kadori, Barshi, and Mangalda) in the -Manbhum district, West Bengal, India. It hovers, then soars upwards at -terrific speed, creating a tremendous gust of wind. The UFO is over a -mine that supplies beryllium for the US Atomic Energy Commission. (“800 -Biharis See Flying Saucer,” Times of India (Bombay), October 3, 1954; -UFOEv, p. 124; -Project 1947, “UFO -Reports, 1954”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2489

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Event 3520 -(9BCE5EED)

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Date: 9/15/1954
-Time: 2320
-Description: A white light suddenly swept the road in front of Roland -M., 19, who observed that it came from a large, dark object 10 m above -ground. It flew away with the noise of a wet firework, throwing -magnesiumlike sparks.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 10; M 49 (Vallee)
-Location: Feyzin, France
-ID: 146

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Event 3521 -(143884F4)

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Date: 9/16/1954
-Description: 6:00 a.m. The radio transmitter for WMEV in Marion, -Virginia, fails as a round, shiny object, 10–15 feet in diameter, flies -over the tower toward the east. (“Flying -Saucers Are Sighted in Virginia,” Lancaster (Pa.) -Intelligencer-Journal, September 17, 1954, p. 44; Schopick, -p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2490

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Event 3522 -(6CA42528)

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Date: 9/17/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: Between Cenon and Vouneuil, Yves David, 28, met a being in -a diving suit who made friendly gestures. He was very small and had a -voice “inhuman and incomprehensible.” The witness could not move -throughout the encounter. He saw the creature enter an object on the -road, about 3 m by 1 m in size; it took off “like lightning,” throwing a -greenish light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 11; M 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Cenon, France
-ID: 147

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Event 3523 -(B9CA4A2A)

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Date: 9/17/1954
-Description: Around 4:45 p.m. Hundreds of people see a UFO over Rome, -Italy, making staccato thunder sounds as it hovers. It makes a brief -dive, returns to position, then zooms straight up, leaving a stream of -white smoke behind. Around 5:45 p.m., Lt. Bruno Giustiniani and other -personnel at a military unit at Ciampino Airport in Rome see it as a -“half cigar” moving at 179 mph at 3,500 feet. Blue Book receives a -teletype about the object, saying it is in the shape of a jellyfish when -stationary but in the shape of a cigar when in motion. At 6:49 p.m., -radar at Pratica di Mare Air Base south of Rome picks up a target for -20–45 minutes, plotting a slow course along the coast. (Loren E. Gross, -UFOs, -a History: 1954 September, The Author, 1994, pp. 24–27; 1Pinotti -54–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2491

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Event 3524 -(3063636C)

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Date: 9/17/1954
-Description: 7:15 p.m. A widow named Mellé sees a luminous, -orange-yellow, cigar-shaped object near her villa in Gelles, -Puy-de-Dôme, France. Her neighbors also see it and watch for 5 minutes. -Possible contrail. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 11, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2492

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Event 3525 -(CE1ED283)

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Date: 9/18/1954
-Time: 2015
-Description: A small gray disk flew over a car at very high speed, -followed by cold air currents. This was reported by Mr. Guitta of -Casablana.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos (Vallee)
-Location: Casablanca, Morocco
-ID: 148

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Event 3526 -(797A55C1)

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Date: 9/18/1954
-Time: 5:55 AM
-Description: Witnesses: two control tower operators, a weather -forecaster and a weather observer. One round object, like polished -aluminum, flew straight and level for 11-13 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kimpo Air Base, Japan
-ID: 365

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Event 3527 -(4FBF7B36)

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Date: 9/18/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A round glowing UFO is seen approaching then -hovering above Danané, Ivory Coast, by many people: a Catholic priest -named Fr. Myard, the local chief of police, a Dr. Mariani, a businessman -named Sory Diallo, and a group of women. The object moves again at 9:05 -p.m., changes from a circle to an ellipse, then flies away. (Aimé -Michel, Straight Line, 61; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, -a History: 1954 September, The Author, 1994, pp. 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2493

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Event 3528 -(AE22E3D8)

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Date: 9/18/1954
-Description: 8:40 p.m. A huge green fireball streaks across Colorado and -New Mexico. It zooms above Santa Fe, New Mexico, giving off a blinding -glare and takes 30 seconds to cross the sky, disturbing TV and radio -signals. Lincoln -LaPaz remarks that it does not seem to be an ordinary meteor. -(Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 198–199; Ruppelt, p. 47; -Sparks, p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2494

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Event 3529 -(773ABD3D)

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Date: 9/19/1954
-Time: 2115
-Description: A bright light was seen in the east, came to the ground, -lost its brightness, remained on the spot about 40 sec. It was the size -of a small bus, and there was a figure in front of it. It rose and took -on the appearance of a red ball.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 12; M 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Oberdorff, France
-ID: 149

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Event 3530 -(83A48593)

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Date: 9/19/1954
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Yves David, 28, is riding his moped on the D-1 -road south of Cenon-sur-Vienne, France, when his headlight begins -malfunctioning and he feels a prickling sensation like electricity. He -sees a 9-foot-long UFO in the road ahead and a small man in a diving -suit coming toward him. It touches David on the shoulder, mutters -something incomprehensible, and returns to the object. The object emits -a green light that temporarily stuns David before it takes off. (Clark -III 269; Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 20, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2495

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Event 3531 -(9A5A6237)

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Date: 9/20/1954
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Elie Cisterne, a farm worker in the hamlet of La -Chassagne, Ussac, Corrèze, France, is returning home on his tractor when -he sees a luminous object coming toward him. He jumps off the tractor -and lies down, fearful, as the object stops a short distance above the -road and hovers silently for several minutes. Cisterne runs away when -the UFO starts moving again, flying over his tractor and into the -distance. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” December 29, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2496

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Event 3532 -(14298C3A)

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Date: 9/20/1954
-Time: 2300
-Description: A guard saw a craft, 3.5 m in diameter and 1.5 m thick, -land on the airfield. The witness, Vitorino Lourenco Monteiro, said a -figure emerged from the craft and said something he could not -understand, before taking off again. There were antennalike protrusions -on top of the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Maria Airport, Azores
-ID: 150

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Event 3533 -(9D5C0EFB)

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Date: 9/21/1954
-Description: Leonard -Stringfield has a private talk for 26 minutes with Lt. Col. John -O’Mara, USAF Deputy Commander for Intelligence, who tells him that -flying saucers do exist—three types, actually: a craft from outer space, -a secret US aircraft, and unexplained natural phenomena. (Leonard -Stringfield, “Private -Talk with Lt. Colonel -John O’Mara, Deputy Commander, Intelligence, Confirms the Existence of -‘Flying Saucers,’” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 7 (October 1, 1954): -1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2498

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Event 3534 -(0DFDA700)

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Date: 9/21/1954
-Time: 9:45 PM
-Description: Witness: airport guard. One 10’x5’ light metallic blue, -pecan-shaped object with a clear glass or plastic nose having a door, -and with poles or aerials on the nose. Humming or whining, it hovered, -landed vertically, 50’ away. A blond man, 5’ 10” tall appeared, spoke in -a strange language, patted the guard on the shoulder, got in the object, -hooked up his harness, pushed a button, took off with the object’s nose -pointed up, then levelled off and climbed vertically. Sighting lasted -2-3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Santa Maria, Azores Islands
-ID: 367

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Event 3535 -(E7320C14)

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Date: 9/21/1954
-Time: 1 AM
-Description: Witnesses: two local policemen, four U.S. Marine Corps -police, one highway patrolman. One red-orange ball giving off sparks, -and a smaller light, made a zigzag descent and then hovered. Total of 20 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Barstow, California
-ID: 366

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Event 3536 -(27CE683A)

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Date: 9/21/1954
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A guard at the Santa Maria Airport in Vila so -Porto, Azores, sees a 10 x 5-foot, light metallic blue, pecan-shaped -object with a clear glass or plastic nose and door, poles or aerials on -its nose. It hums or whines as it hovers, then lands vertically 50 feet -away. A blond man, 5 feet 10 inches tall, appears, speaks in a strange -language, pats the guard on the shoulder, gets in the object, hooks up -his harness, pushes a button, takes off with the object’s nose pointed -up, then levels off and climbs vertically. (NICAP, “Blond -Humanoid Reported by -Airport Guard”; Sparks, p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2497

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Event 3537 -(51763798)

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Date: 9/22/1954
-Time: 9 AM
-Description: Witnesses: private pilot J.N. Williams, E.J. Ash. A thin, -translucent tan asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object revolved, then -tumbled down behind some trees. Marks were found in the dirt. Sighting -lasted 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Marshfield, Missouri
-ID: 368

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Event 3538 -(EEF40FDD)

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Date: 9/22/1954
-Description: Shortly after 8:00 p.m. Mme. Gamundi is driving on the N7 -north of Fontainebleau, France, when she notices a light in the sky. She -stops and gets out and sees a huge luminous ball hanging motionless. It -is reddish and surrounded by a luminous, moving smoke. Suddenly, another -bright ball emerges from the bottom, falls, slows, turns, and disappears -at high speed. At least 4 other objects emerge. When an aircraft from -Orly Airport approaches, the ball rises at high speed and disappears. -(Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 9, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2499

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Event 3539 -(06457457)

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Date: 9/22/1954
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Jean Besse, a draftsman for a power company in -Tulle, Corrèze, France, watches a UFO through binoculars. It changes -color three times in a few seconds. Probably astronomical. (Patrick -Gross, “The 1954 -French Flap,” March 23, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2500

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Event 3540 -(37ED2C63)

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Date: 9/23/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: The Patient family witnessed the landing of a bright object -giving off a magnesiumlike light, a red glow, and a narrow beam of -light. It took off again a moment later and followed their car until -they reached Fontland. Policemen in Plombieres and several independent -witnesses observed the object as it flew erratically over the area for -60 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 13; M 69 (Vallee)
-Location: Le Jou, France
-ID: 151

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Event 3541 -(34369A24)

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Date: 9/23/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mrs. Vignolles saw a luminous object come down rapidly, -without noise, and land in a field near the church. It took off very -fast a few seconds later.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 15; M 77 (Vallee)
-Location: Lencouacq, France
-ID: 152

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Event 3542 -(8B07F662)

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Date: 9/23/1954
-Description: Afternoon. Several residents of Bayonne, -Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, see three mysterious objects high in the -sky. One witness, policeman M. Corrions, says they are arranged in the -shape of a triangle. Possible helicopters. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 20, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2501

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Event 3543 -(83E6A9E8)

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Date: 9/23/1954
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Irene Vrignolles sees a “flying cigar” that lands -slowly in a meadow behind a rectory in Lencouacq, Landes, France. -(Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” December 16, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2502

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Event 3544 -(897F0BA6)

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Date: 9/23/1954
-Time: 9:45 AM
-Description: Witness: Dave Owenby. Two bright silver, wheel-shaped -objects flew from north to south in trail for 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gatlinburg, Tennessee
-ID: 369

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Event 3545 -(9EEFE2A4)

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Date: 9/24/1954
-Time: 1000
-Description: Cesar Cardoso and three others saw two individuals, 2.5 m -tall, dressed in shiny clothes, emerge from a landed craft and gather -flowers, shrubs, and twigs in a shiny box, then take off. They seemed to -be inviting the witnesses aboard, but their language was not -understood.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 55, 245; 24 (Vallee)
-Location: Almaseda, near Castelibranco, Portugal
-ID: 154

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Event 3546 -(9C3FADA9)

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Date: 9/24/1954
-Time: 0900
-Description: Two women (Widow Geoffroy and Miss Gisele Fin) made -independent reports of a dark gray disk, 6 m in diameter, 1 m high, seen -in a clearing. A man of normal height was standing close to it. He wore -dark clothes and a kind of cap. Miss Fin came within 30 m of the craft -and stated the man was repairing it. Traces were found on the -grass.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 14; Carrouges 98 (Vallee)
-Location: Becar, near Diges and “Les Michauts” or “Les Jolivets”, -France
-ID: 153

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Event 3547 -(3C004BCE)

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Date: 9/24/1954
-Time: 2300
-Description: Mr. Cisterne, who was coming back with his tractor, saw a -luminous object fly very low over him. Two other witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 16;M 76 (Vallee)
-Location: Farm Lachassagne, near Ussel, France
-ID: 155

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Event 3548 -(656F5E80)

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Date: 9/24/1954
-Description: Hoaxed story of an alleged sighting by Cesar Cardoso at -Castelo Branco, Portugal, who sees two entities in shining metal suits -emerge from a landed UFO and pick up flowers, shrubs, and twigs. -(Patrick Gross, URECAT, December -8, 2006; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO -Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2503

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Event 3549 -(35D1A803)

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Date: 9/26/1954
-Description: 2:30 p.m. At Chabeuil, Drôme, France, Lucette Leboeuf is -walking her dog when she sees a short being wearing a translucent helmet -and diving suit. She can see large eyes looking at her through the -helmet. The creature approaches her, hopping. The dog barks at it and -she runs away and hides in a bush. About 15 feet away, she sees an -object about 16 feet in diameter resembling a top with a flat top. It -rises above the cornfield and takes off at tremendous speed. Other -people notice a circular area about 10 feet in diameter where the ground -and grass are tightly packed. Tree branches are broken from above. -Shocked, she stays in bed for two days. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2504

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Event 3550 -(F3B5294D)

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Date: 9/26/1954
-Time: 1430
-Description: Mrs. Leboeuf was suddenly confronted with a creature -resembling “a child in a plastic bag, with eyes larger than human eyes.” -This creature entered a flat, circular machine, which took off toward -the northeast with a soft whistling. Traces. Witnesses in state of -shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 17; Carrouges 116; Anatomy 70; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Chabeuil, France
-ID: 156

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Event 3551 -(22C1A30F)

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Date: 9/27/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: Four children came out of their home as dog barked -furiously. They found a large object on the ground and a small being -they thought was a “ghost” in the yard. Raymond Romand, 12, threw stones -at the intruder.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 20; Challenge 170 (Vallee)
-Location: Premanon, France
-ID: 160

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Event 3552 -(E7BF177F)

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Date: 9/27/1954
-Time: 0230
-Description: At “Revety,” people in a bus saw a reddish light coming -down. Later Mr. and Mrs. Roche noticed an object on the ground, softly -glowing, a short distance from their home, but were afraid to approach -it. It remained there for several hours. It was described as “a sort of -glowing tomato, with antennae on top.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 18; M 84; Anatomy 71 (Vallee)
-Location: Foussignargues, France
-ID: 157

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Event 3553 -(A7479CBB)

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Date: 9/27/1954
-Time: 0840
-Description: Children saw “a box” and “an unknown man” standing nearby. -The object took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Figeac, France
-ID: 158

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Event 3554 -(373E663C)

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Date: 9/27/1954
-Time: afternoon
-Description: A college student saw a circular object on the ground. Two -beings came out of it, then reentered the craft and left. Witness in a -state of shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 19;M 88 (Vallee)
-Location: Perpignan, France
-ID: 159

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Event 3555 -(09D673DC)

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Date: 9/27/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. 12-year-old Raymond Romand and two other children -on an isolated farm near Prémanon, Jura, France, see a brilliant -rectangular object. He sees two occupants and throws stones at them, but -he is thrown to the ground by an “ice-cold invisible force.” Raymond -confesses 6 weeks later that he made up the whole story, including -making some physical trace marks. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 7, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2505

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Event 3556 -(800663D4)

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Date: 9/28/1954
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Two witnesses at Rixheim, Haut-Rhin, -France, watch an elongated luminous object through binoculars. Ten or -more smaller luminous points are circling it in all directions. (Patrick -Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 1, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2506

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Event 3557 -(838744E2)

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Date: 9/28/1954
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Vintner M. Mercier of Saint-Armand-Montrond, -Cher, France, notices that someone has stolen grapes from his vineyard -and decides to stay up late and catch the thief. He sees a luminous -object descend and three figures emerge. He is then paralyzed and loses -consciousness. There is no sign of anything when he wakes up. Probable -hoax. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 5, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2507

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Event 3558 -(136C1AFC)

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Date: 9/28/1954
-Time: 2130
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Lartillot and Georgette Mongot observed -a large, bright object oscillate, then land. It changed color and was -lost to sight behind some trees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 21; M 94 (Vallee)
-Location: Froncles, France
-ID: 161

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Event 3559 -(05E0133C)

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Date: 9/28/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: At “Le Grand Tertre” Mr. Mercier observed that someone had -stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late and catch the -“robbers.” He was amazed when he saw a luminous mass fall from the sky -about 50 m away, and found himself “paralyzed” as three figures emerged -from the light and moved about. He lost consciousness. When he came to -his senses, everything had vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 22; M 97 (Vallee)
-Location: Bouzais, France
-ID: 162

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Event 3560 -(917E6799)

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Date: 9/28/1954
-Time: 2310
-Description: At “La Butte Rouge” two railroad engineers, Bernard and -Potraux, who were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray, saw a dark -object take off with a purple glow and follow them for 15 sec before -veering off. Potraux had to see a doctor.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 23; M 95; Anatomy 70 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint Nicolas de Redon, France
-ID: 163

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Event 3561 -(B935846C)

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Date: 9/30/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: As he was returning home near La Flotte-en-Re, Celeste -Simonutti saw a bright light and, fearing a fire, rushed to the scene. -There he observed a luminous sphere 12 m in diameter hovering at 1 m -altitude, turning red, blue, and taking off. Two other witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 28 (Vallee)
-Location: Isle of Re, France
-ID: 168

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Event 3562 -(EE219536)

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Date: 9/30/1954
-Description: Gen. Jimmy -Doolittle submits a 69-page classified report on clandestine -operations directly to President Eisenhower. It -negates the Second Hoover Commission’s recommendation on intelligence -oversight. It says: “We must develop effective espionage and -counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage, and -destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more -effective methods than those used against us.” (Richard A. Best Jr. and -Herbert Andrew Boerstling, “Proposals -for Intelligence Reorganization, 1949–1996,” Report to the US House -Select Committee on Intelligence, Congressional Research Service, -February 28, 1996, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2508

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Event 3563 -(594BC811)

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Date: 9/30/1954
-Description: Aviation pioneer Eugène -Farnier watches an unknown object for 20 minutes above his property -at Jouy- sue-Morin, Seine-et-Marne, France. It is swinging back and -forth over an area of about 984 feet. Farnier thinks it looks similar to -the cigar-shaped object seen at Marignane in October 1952. (Patrick -Gross, “UFOs -in the Daily Press”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2509

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Event 3564 -(6CB70793)

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Date: 9/30/1954
-Time: 0445
-Description: While driving to work, Lawrence Cardenas, 41, a laundry -employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green uniforms to his right. -They had cylinders on their shoulders, tight-fitting skull caps with -pointed peaks in front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height, -and a taller man seemed to be giving them instructions. About 80 m away -was a craft 4 m high with colored lights flickering on and off. The -witness did not wait.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 230 (Vallee)
-Location: Dearborn, Michigan
-ID: 164

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Event 3565 -(37982AAC)

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Date: 9/30/1954
-Description: Around 4:30 p.m. Georges Gatay and his team of construction -workers at Marcilly-sur-Vienne, Indre-et- Loire, France, see a -disc-shaped object on the ground with a small, helmeted being standing -nearby. In his hand he holds an elongated object: “It could have been a -pistol, or it could have been a metal rod.” On his chest is a light -projector. Gatay tries to run, but he finds himself helplessly nailed to -the spot. He is thus “paralyzed” during the whole observation until the -object leaves. So are his seven coworkers, in a unique case of -collective physiological reaction. Almost certainly a hoax. (Patrick -Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” November 8, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2510

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Event 3566 -(872C550D)

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Date: 9/30/1954
-Time: 1630
-Description: Georges Gatay and seven construction workers saw a disk at -ground level, with a humanoid standing close by. Both vanished in a very -strange manner. Physiological effects in all witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 25; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Marcilly-sur-Vienne, France
-ID: 165

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Event 3567 -(1B35C48F)

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Date: 9/30/1954
-Time: dusk
-Description: At sea between Brest and Roven, the crew of the tanker -“Port Lyautey” observed an object touch the surface of the sea, then -take off vertically and give off a red flame before being lost to -view.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 26 (Vallee)
-Location: Brest, France
-ID: 166

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Event 3568 -(34DA1364)

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Date: 9/30/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: Jean Andrieux, ferry operator, saw a large white sphere, -with a smaller green sphere below, hang motionless above the Seine for -20 min. Two witnesses. It eventually flew away to the southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 27 (Vallee)
-Location: Grand-Couronne, France
-ID: 167

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Event 3569 -(8E049524)

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Date: 10/1954
-Description: Project “Magnet” discontinued
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Canada

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Event 3570 -(21EBECD1)

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Date: 10/1954
-Description: London publishing house Frederick Muller publishes a -contactee book, Flying Saucer from Mars, allegedly written by one Cedric -Allingham, who claims that while vacationing in Scotland in February -1954 he saw a saucer land and talked to its occupant, a human-looking -Martian. In 1969, science writer Robert Chapman concludes that no such -person as Allingham existed. Christopher Allan and Steuart -Campbell allege in 1986 that the book was written by arch-skeptical -astronomer Patrick -Moore using a pseudonym. His motive was to spoof Adamski and -embarrass ufologists, but Moore never admits to the hoax. The photo of -“Cedric Allingham” is really Peter Davies, who posed for the photograph -with Moore’s reflecting telescope. Davies also edited the book to -conceal Moore’s distinctive style of writing. (Cedric Allingham, Flying -Saucer from Mars, Frederick Muller, 1954; Clark III 98; Robert Chapman, -Unidentified Flying Objects, Barker, 1969; Christopher Allen and Steuart -Campbell, “Flying -Saucer from Moore’s?” Magonia 23 (July 1986): 15–18; Curt Collins, -“Contact! -A Close Encounter -of the Third Kind from 1954,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, October -13, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2511

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Event 3571 -(92132971)

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Date: 10/1954
-Description: Day. RAF pilot Michael Forrest, stationed at RAF Sek Kong -[now Shek Kong Airfield] near Hong Kong is scrambled in a de Haviland -Vampire ground attack fighter to intercept a target detected by ground -radar approaching from China. The target appears to be the size of an -aircraft and traveling at high speed with a continuous track. Ground -control tells him that at times it is stationary, but it has the ability -to change direction and height at fantastic speeds. Forrest and another -pilot are vectored into the blip at 30,000 feet, but they can see -nothing. Ground radar insists the blip is right there with them. After -15 minutes the aircraft break off and head home. On the base, he is told -that the blip was caused by “anomalous propagation.” (“‘Scrambled for -Bogies’: An Incident at RAF Sek Kong,” Fortean Times 403 (March 2021): -45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2512

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Event 3572 -(167A698B)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 1815
-Description: Approximate date. A farmer saw a white craft in a field. -Flattened grass was later found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Ressons-sur-Matz, France
-ID: 172

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Event 3573 -(1FDFFB53)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: 9:20 a.m. An RCAF test pilot is flying at 30,000 feet over -Montreal, Quebec, in an F-86 Sabre Mk 5 jet fighter when he notices a -contrail high over the north end of Lake Champlain. He climbs to 51,000 -feet at 540 mph but is unable to close on the object, which appears to -him as a black dot. He turns to a different heading and sees that the -contrail makes a similar turn abiut 10,000 feet above him. As he returns -to Montreal, the contrail climbs at a 45° angle and disppears to the -east. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2002, -pp. 91–92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2515

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Event 3574 -(8CB88B6F)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: Around 10:00 p.m. Jean Defiz, a factory worker in Bergerac, -Dordogne, France, is returning home on his bicycle when he sees a large -shooting star. Later, he sees an intense light in his yard and rushes -out to see a disc rise with a whistling sound. It becomes luminous and -flies off. A neighbor also sees it and estimates it is 10 feet wide. -(Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2519

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Event 3575 -(FE48D936)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Mechanic Ernest Delattre, 19, is riding to his -home in Croix d’Épine, Oise, France, on his motor scooter when a bright -egg-shaped object lands on the left side of the road 45 feet away. He -sees short, dark shapes “like potato bags” moving around the object. He -speeds up and the UFO changes its color and takes off. (Patrick Gross, -“The -1954 French Flap,” March 27, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2518

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Event 3576 -(8204C75E)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: Coming home at night, Gilbert Prudent saw a lighted object -on the side of the road. It had a flat section and a sort of “mushroom” -on top. As he approached it, the object became dark and took off -vertically with a soft whistling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Branges, near Louhans, France
-ID: 175

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Event 3577 -(07B3278A)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 1600
-Description: A man and his dog were “paralyzed” as a luminous white -object dived toward them and climbed again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Bry, France
-ID: 171

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Event 3578 -(6EE43E47)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 1300
-Description: Two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a -cigar-shaped object 3 m long, 80 cm wide, which took off from the ground -with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow, -the rest brown. From the fore part, two appendages extended to the -ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 30 (Vallee)
-Location: Blanzy, France
-ID: 170

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Event 3579 -(FD110BCE)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: A woman reported to police she had seen a luminous disk -leaving a long trail. It landed in a field, then took off again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 29; Challenge 132 (Vallee)
-Location: Dhubri, India
-ID: 169

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Event 3580 -(B3A0B4EB)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: The Swedish Defense Ministry allegedly requests a secret -investigation into UFOs. (Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, p. 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2514

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Event 3581 -(8BABC052)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: 4:00 p.m. An anonymous man and his dog are paralyzed as a -luminous white object dives toward them and climbs away again at -Bry-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 25, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2516

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Event 3582 -(723099CE)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Bernard Devoisin and René Condette are bicycling -west of Ligescourt in the direction of Vron, Somme, France. They see a -glowing orange object shaped like a beehive in the middle of the road. A -small entity, about 3 feet tall and dressed in a “diving suit,” is -standing close to it. When they get to within 200 feet of it, the object -takes off at great speed. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” May 8, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2517

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Event 3583 -(BBCED89A)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: Returning home, fireman Jean Dufix, 26, saw an oval light -in the sky and thought it was a shooting star. Later he was alarmed when -his yard seemed to be ablaze. Rushing out again, he saw a disk rise from -the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became luminous again, -and took off at fantastic speed. A neighbor, Jean Labonne, 61, saw the -disk, 3 m in diameter, resting on three legs in the yard.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 31 (Vallee)
-Location: Bergerac, France
-ID: 176

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Event 3584 -(C28E2669)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 2000
-Description: Near Saint Jan d’Angely, two businessmen, Messrs. Estier -and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan, saw a little man cross -ing the road in front of their car. Having stopped, they saw the figure -disappear into the woods.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 28 (Vallee)
-Location: La Roulerie, France
-ID: 174

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Event 3585 -(22523CDF)

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Date: 10/1/1954
-Time: 1900
-Description: Two young men saw a luminous white disk moving in the sky. -It dived to the ground and two men, described as being very tall and -dressed in white, emerged from it and made gestures. The witnesses ran -away in fear.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Jussey, France
-ID: 173

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Event 3586 -(9DD00AB9)

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Date: 10/2/1954
-Time: 0230
-Description: In the immediate vicinity of case 175, Mr. Nicolas saw a -craft with a dome on top, on the ground between the road and the -railroad tracks. Through some openings a strong yellow light -shone.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 33;M 109 (Vallee)
-Location: Louhans, France
-ID: 179

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Event 3587 -(A9207910)

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Date: 10/2/1954
-Description: Two creatures were seen on the ground, and two hours later -a luminous red object was observed at the same spot, at very low -altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Jonches, France
-ID: 178

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Event 3588 -(AB4E15C6)

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Date: early 10/1954
-Description: Maxime Pignatelli, 65, is hunting with his dog on the banks -of the Durance River near Corbières, Alpes- de-Hautes-Provence, France. -He sees a gray object about 12 feet long and 3 feet high on the ground -about 130 feet away. Two helmeted figures emerge from a dome. The man -flees. His dog also retreats a bit later, walking awkwardly as if partly -paralyzed. (Jacques Vallée, “Un -siècle d’atterrissages,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 103 (December -1969): 7; Francis Schaefer and Pierre Delval, “Un -recit d’atterrissage inedit à Corbières,” Phénomènes Inconnus 1, no. -14 (1971): 10–13; Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” May 20, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2513

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Event 3589 -(195796F0)

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Date: 10/2/1954
-Description: At the Bourg du Cerisier, two women (Janiki and Lacotte) -independently reported to police that a luminous disk about 3 m in -diameter had flown very low over the village.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 32 (Vallee)
-Location: Levroux, France
-ID: 177

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Event 3590 -(F749D860)

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Date: 10/2/1954
-Time: 2000
-Description: A mechanic, Ernest Delattre, 19, was riding home on his -motor scooter when an egg-shaped object, brilliantly illuminated, landed -on the left side of the road 15 m away. He saw short, dark shapes “like -potato bags” moving about the object. He sped up, saw the object, the -size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed from orange to -blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted while telling his -story. Two persons in neighboring villages independently reported -observing the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Croix d’Epine, France
-ID: 180

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Event 3591 -(0E4C6552)

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Date: 10/2/1954
-Time: 2345
-Description: A disk emitting a weak green glow landed in a field. -Witnesses: Messrs. Domant and Gilcher.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 105 (Vallee)
-Location: Guebling, France
-ID: 181

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Event 3592 -(47F0DBC3)

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Date: 10/2/1954
-Description: 3:45 p.m. A teacher, Mlle. Jaillet, along with 23 -schoolchildren, see an elongated object in the sky to the southeast at -Les Rousses, Jura, France. It approaches rapidly and they see it is a -“cloud cigar.” It switches from horizontal to vertical and hovers. At -one point, a gleaming yellow disc emerges from it and moves away. The -long object switches to horizontal again and moves away to the -northwest. The incident lasts 4–5 minutes. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 25, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2521

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Event 3593 -(0D8F266E)

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Date: 10/2/1954
-Description: The French Air Ministry allegedly launches a UFO -investigation after 267 citizens come forward to report UFOs. (Wilkins, -FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 60–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2520

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Event 3594 -(D2CCDE12)

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Date: 10/3/1954
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Young farmer Jean Allary sees a circular object -near Ronsenac, Charente, France, that seems to be gliding on or near the -ground, has luminous spots, and lights up as it takes off. He finds -flattened and scorched grass over an area 25 feet across. (Patrick -Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” January 31, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2524

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Event 3595 -(E6BBC850)

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Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: dawn
-Description: Angelo Girardo, 55, a stockyard employee, was going to work -when he saw a circular craft 3 m diameter and a small figure wearing a -diving suit, standing close by. The object took off at a fantastic -speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 32; M 130 (Vallee)
-Location: Bressuire, France
-ID: 182

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Event 3596 -(447CF69D)

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Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: 1845
-Description: Between Rue and Quend on Road D27, Rene Coudette and B. -Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an -orange object, shaped like a honeycomb, on the road ahead of them. A -strange “man” wearing a diving suit was standing close to it. When they -got within 70 m of it, the object took off very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 3Z; M 118 (Vallee)
-Location: Vron, France
-ID: 183

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Event 3597 -(1DADBDF7)

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Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: 1920
-Description: The crowd at a fair saw a luminous object arrive very fast -in the sky, stop in flight, emit sparks, and come down to ground level. -As witnesses rushed to the spot, it took off again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 113 (Vallee)
-Location: Chereng, France
-ID: 184

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Event 3598 -(4CF7F657)

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Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: 2110
-Description: Less than 3 hrs after case 183, an orange object chased a -car for 8 km, then flew away toward the sea. Witness: Georges Galant, a -butcher.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 35; M 116 (Vallee)
-Location: Quend, France
-ID: 185

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Event 3599 -(6DD23A74)

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Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: 1245
-Description: A circular craft was seen by Jean Allary between Montmoreau -and Villebois-Lavalette. It seemed to be gliding on the ground. It -showed luminous spots and became completely illuminated when it took -off. It was about 1.20 m high. Grass was found flattened and scorched -over an area 7 m across.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 36; M 130 (Vallee)
-Location: Ronsenac, France
-ID: 186

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Event 3600 -(7124D7E0)

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Date: 10/3/1954
-Time: 1300
-Description: Near La Rochelle. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw an object, -2.5 m high, 5 m diameter, hover for several minutes 1 m above ground, -then rise vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 34; M 131 (Vallee)
-Location: Benet, France
-ID: 187

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Event 3601 -(37546EDE)

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Date: 10/3/1954
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Villagers of Chereng, Nord, France, are having -their Ducasse festival meal when they see a fast, luminous object in the -sky suddenly stop, give off sparks, and descend to ground level. As -people run to the spot, it takes off again. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” January 9, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2523

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Event 3602 -(2EDA9113)

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Date: 10/3/1954
-Description: Dawn. Stockyard employee Angelo Girardo is going to his job -in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, France, when he sees a small being wearing a -diving suit standing near a circular craft about 10 feet in diameter. It -swiftly takes off. Hoax. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” August 3, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2522

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Event 3603 -(0A645857)

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Date: 10/4/1954
-Description: A farmer, Mr. Garreau, saw an object the size of a carriage -land in his field. Two men of normal height emerged through a sliding -door. They wore khaki overalls and were of European type. They shook -hands with the witness and said something like: “Paris? Nord?” -(According to another version they spoke indistinct words.) They gave a -pat on the back to Mr. Garreau’s dog and took off at an amazing -speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 37; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Chaleix, France
-ID: 190

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Event 3604 -(BB908B0F)

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Date: 10/4/1954
-Description: Andre Garcia and Andre Darzais were driving a truck betwem -Lagrasse and Villemagne when they saw a luminous object coming slowly to -the ground. It measured about 10 m diameter and took off with a burst of -light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 35 (Vallee)
-Location: Lezignan, France
-ID: 189

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Event 3605 -(97A7E7C2)

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Date: 10/4/1954
-Description: An object was said to have landed in the yard of -Mr. Montagne, a railroad employee.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 35 (Vallee)
-Location: Limoges, France
-ID: 188

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Event 3606 -(89C4B843)

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Date: 10/4/1954
-Description: 8:00 p.m. In Poncey-sur-l’Ignon, Côte-d’Or, France, Mme. -Yvette (or Thérèse) Fourneret sees a luminous orange object about 10 -feet wide land in a meadow on her farm. She runs to tell some men, who -arrive at the spot with rifles but find nothing. Instead, they discover -a strange quadrilateral hole from which soil appears to be sucked up. -The roots of plants are not damaged. The French Air Force and local -police investigate and learn there are other witnesses. (Patrick Gross, -“The -1954 French Flap,” March 10, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2525

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Event 3607 -(53F3F6A2)

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Date: 10/4/1954
-Time: 2000
-Description: Mrs. Fourneret, a housewife, ran away as an orange, -circular object 3 m in diameter swung in mid-air and landed near her -farm. When Messrs. Girardot and Vincent arrived with rifles, they found -that the earth had been “sucked up” over a quadrilateral area. Francois -Bouiller confirmed he had seen a luminous object in flight. Extensive -investigation by French Air Force and police.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 37; M 134; Anatomy 71 (Vallee)
-Location: Poncey-sur-Lignon, France
-ID: 194

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Event 3608 -(C8F65C0B)

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Date: 10/4/1954
-Time: 1840
-Description: Ten-year-old Bertiaux saw an object “like a tent” and an -unknown man near it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Villers-le-Tilleul, France
-ID: 193

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Event 3609 -(D50D7CE7)

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Date: 10/4/1954
-Time: 1830
-Description: At Les Chavannes, about 20 people, among them Remy -Gaudicourt of Sanvignes, saw a circular, luminous object rise from the -vicinity of the railroad tracks. It took off vertically.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 138 (Vallee)
-Location: Montceau-les-Mines, France
-ID: 192

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Event 3610 -(FE9FCEAB)

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Date: 10/4/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop. -They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seems to be the same -object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm. -It was described as metallic, flat, emitting light
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 38;M 139 (Vallee)
-Location: Tregon, France
-ID: 191

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Event 3611 -(C49959D5)

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Date: 10/5/1954
-Description: A fisherman met with a red-clad being who spoke an unknown -language. No details.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Roverbello, Italy
-ID: 195

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Event 3612 -(2ABFDAF4)

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Date: 10/5/1954
-Time: 0400
-Description: A baker, P. Lucas, was draining water from a well when he -noticed an object some distance away. It was circular, about 3 m -diameter. From it emerged a dwarf with an oval face covered with hair -and eyes “as large as raven eggs” who touched him on the shoulder and -spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf went away, and the object -took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 34 (Vallee)
-Location: Loctudy, France
-ID: 196

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Event 3613 -(60BFBC95)

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Date: 10/5/1954
-Time: 0630
-Description: East of Le Mans on Route N23, Renault employees were going -to work when they saw near the road a luminous object on the ground and -felt “pricklings and a sort of paralysis.” The object emitted a burst of -green light and flew away very low over the fields.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 42; Vuillequez; M 143 (Vallee)
-Location: Le Mans, France
-ID: 197

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Event 3614 -(362C95EB)

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Date: 10/5/1954
-Time: 0715
-Description: A roadmender, Mr. Narcy, saw an object near the road -between Voillecomte and La Neuville. In a report to police, he stated he -saw a hairy dwarf wearing an orange tight-fitting jacket climb aboard -the craft, which consisted of a cigarshaped section under a flat disk. -Between the two sections was a kind of porthole through which the entity -entered the object. Traces were found at the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 38, 39 (Vallee)
-Location: Mertrud, France
-ID: 198

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Event 3615 -(7BE95827)

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Date: 10/5/1954
-Time: 1545
-Description: Ten km from here, several persons saw an object coming -toward them and getting brighter. When it was about 150 m away, they -felt “a strange sensation” and found themselves unable to move. The -object left a smell compared to that of nitrobenzine.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 34; Challenge 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Beaumont, France
-ID: 199

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Event 3616 -(67CDA263)

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Date: 10/5/1954
-Description: A spindle-shaped UFO is seen for 20 minutes by hundreds of -people over El Mahalla El Kubra, Egypt. At Bahnay, aerial cylinders emit -dark smoke. One explodes, knocking a farmer to the ground, and kills two -cows, whose hides show burn marks. Lt. Tewrik takes a photo of a -rotating UFO that emits smoke above El-Qantara el- Sharqîya on the -western side of the Suez Canal. He sends it to the Egyptian Army and to -Khedivial Astronomical Observatory in Helwan. Adm. Youssef Hammad, -director of the Egyptian Ports and Lights Administration, alerts pilots -and astronomers to keep watch for UFOs over Cairo. (Wilkins, FS -Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 231–232; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The -Author, 1991, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2526

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Event 3617 -(C767E906)

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Date: 10/5/1954
-Description: 4:00 a.m. M. P. Lucas, a baker in Loctudy, Finistère, -France, is getting water from his well when he sees a UFO hovering -nearby. A small being comes out of the object; it has an oval head -covered with hair and large eyes. The creature touches Lucas’s shoulder -and speaks to him in an unknown language. He calls for his boss, and the -creature runs into the object and takes off. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” October 3, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2527

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Event 3618 -(C4A96EA0)

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Date: 10/5/1954
-Description: 7:15 a.m. A road worker named Narcy sees an object near a -road in Mertrud, Haute Marne, France. He also sees a hairy dwarf wearing -an orange, tight-fitting jacket climb through a porthole on the UFO, -which consists of a cigar-shaped section under a flat disc. Tracks are -found. Probable hoax. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 25, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2528

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Event 3619 -(C62EA134)

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Date: 10/5/1954
-Description: 3:45 p.m. In Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France, witnesses Brun, -Marfaron, Douti, and Marplat see a luminous ball moving west to east -1,500 feet away from them. It approaches to within 450 feet, and they -feel paralyzed with faintness as a nitrobenzene odor spreads around -them. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 24, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2529

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Event 3620 -(56829055)

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Date: 10/6/1954
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Laroche, from Paris, saw a fiery sphere -landing near Chantonnay.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 40 (Vallee)
-Location: Monchamps, France
-ID: 200

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Event 3621 -(55D7E51E)

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Date: 10/6/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: Two women (Mrs. Salabrino and her daughter) saw a whitish -light in the western sky. It seemed slowly to come toward the ground, -and was later seen between the railroad station and the bridge 100 m -away from their house. When it moved, a very bright light was visible -under its dark mass. It gave off a flow of sparks and rose, hovered for -a moment and flew away rapidly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 138 (Vallee)
-Location: Villers-le-Lac, France
-ID: 202

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Event 3622 -(07B515B6)

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Date: 10/6/1954
-Time: 2130
-Description: Near the military barracks, soldiers saw a strange object -on the ground 300 m away. As one of them approached the torpedo-shaped -object, which was about 80 cm high, he found himself paralyzed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: La Fere, France
-ID: 201

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Event 3623 -(50DBA103)

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Date: 10/6/1954
-Description: Around 6:00 a.m. Mechanic Joseph Roy is riding to work on -his bicycle at Isles-sur-Suippe, Marne, France, and sees a dazzling -light at low altitude. It blinks out. When he gets to the spot where it -disappeared, he sees a large object like an artillery shell 9 feet long. -A small, dark form is standing in front of it. Roy becomes frightened -and races to the nearest gendarmerie. Probable confusion, helicopter, -and military personnel. (Patrick Gross, “The 1954 -French Flap,” January 16, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2530

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Event 3624 -(99F2F30E)

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Date: 10/6/1954
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Two soldiers at the military barracks in La Fère, -Aisne, France, watch a luminous craft in the shape of an artillery shell -landed on the ground less than a quarter-mile away. As one soldier -approaches it, he becomes paralyzed. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 9, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2531

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Event 3625 -(2F1021F8)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: Etienne-sous-Barbuise (France). Marcel Guyot was coming -from work near this village, and his son Jacques followed the same road -10 min later. Both saw, at a railroad crossing, three objects on the -ground that gave a bright white light. One was circular, the others -cigar-shaped.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 42; M 146 (Vallee)
-Location: St
-ID: 209

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Event 3626 -(49E835CA)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: 1430
-Description: R. Margaillan saw an object that had landed in a field. It -was hemispherical, about 2.5 m in diameter. The witness gasped for air -and felt “paralyzed.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 145; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Monteux, France
-ID: 208

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Event 3627 -(B662682A)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: dawn
-Description: A railroad employee, Rene Ott, saw a mushroom-shaped object -3 m in diameter, in a field 3 m away from Route N16 and 1 m above -ground. A luminous rectangle, like a door, was seen on the side. It took -off and flew about 5 m above the witness, following him to the next -village.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 41; M 143 (Vallee)
-Location: Jettingen, France
-ID: 206

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Event 3628 -(FDA7DC1F)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: 0400
-Description: A farmer, Mr. Thebault, saw a luminous object, 2 or 3 m in -diameter, emitting a beam of light which swept the countryside.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 41; M 142 (Vallee)
-Location: Beruges, France
-ID: 205

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Event 3629 -(44FAC87B)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: early
-Description: The crew of several fishing boats saw a luminous, -orange-colored object over the coast, apparently surrounded by dense -smoke. Villagers saw the same object and stated independently that it -came within 10 m of the ground, then flew away to the southeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 41; M 140 (Vallee)
-Location: Plozevet, France
-ID: 204

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Event 3630 -(33F4CC0A)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: On Route N138, a truckdriver, Mr. Tremblay, saw an intense, -blue light coming toward him. The object producing it was cigarshaped, -red and blue. Engine and headlights died.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 41;M 143 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Jean-d’Asse, France
-ID: 207

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Event 3631 -(D27C23AE)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: The two Lanssellin children witnessed the landing of a -luminous, red object shaped like a half-egg, and saw two occupants who -looked like normal men.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 145 (Vallee)
-Location: Hennezis, France
-ID: 203

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Event 3632 -(A3001E9D)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Time: 2400
-Description: Mr. Sebelli saw an object land in the village. He called -his neighbors, and they observed the departure of the craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 43; M 146 (Vallee)
-Location: Bompas, France
-ID: 210

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Event 3633 -(BB8AB0F2)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: 6:20 a.m. A group of workers at the Renault manufacturing -plant at Le Mans, Sarthe, France, are bicycling to work when they feel -an unpleasant tickling at the same moment an intense greenish light is -emitted from a luminous object hovering above the Route N23 road. They -are almost paralyzed, then the UFO leaves, flying low over the fields. -(Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 143; Schopick, pp. 8–9; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” October 22, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2532

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Event 3634 -(276E27AF)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: The Italian Air Ministry allegedly sets up UFO detection -posts for 24/7 vigilance. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, p. 232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2533

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Event 3635 -(F0140E77)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Farmer René Margaillon goes to work and notices a -mysterious object about 300 feet away in a field between Monteux and -Althen-des-Paluds, Vauclude, France. He approaches the object, which is -about 8 feet tall and phosphorescent. Suddenly it disappears and he -feels suffocated. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 5, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2534

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Event 3636 -(6B31AA5F)

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Date: 10/7/1954
-Description: Night. Witnesses at Corbigny, Nièvre, France, see a -luminous cylinder that appears orange when vertical and motionless, and -white when moving forward horizontally. At one point, two small discs -emerge from its lower part. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” September 12, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2535

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Event 3637 -(CD592E65)

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Date: 10/8/1954
-Time: 0230
-Description: Ghaseme Fili, of Amireah Street, was on the second floor of -his house when he saw a luminous, white flying object stop in mid-air 2O -m away. lights were shining from the rear and the sides of the craft, -inside which could be seen a small man dressed in black, wearing a mask -with a trunk like an elephant. “I was standing with both hands on the -bar of my balcony, looking with astonishment at this strange object, -when I suddenly felt as though I were being drawn up toward the object -by a magnet.” Mr. Fili cried out in terror and woke up his neighbors. -The object shot straight up, emitting sparks, and it was lost to sight -almost immediately.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 52, 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Teheran, Iran
-ID: 211

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Event 3638 -(6564E1CB)

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Date: 10/8/1954
-Time: 2115
-Description: On the road to Boulogne a bluish object, clearly seen with -a dome on top, dived toward the ground, became white and went -away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 44, 45;M 154 (Vallee)
-Location: Calais,, France
-ID: 212

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Event 3639 -(5A99761B)

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Date: 10/8/1954
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Four children—Gilbert Calda, 12, Daniel Hirsch, -9, J. P. Hirsch, 5, and Robert Maguin, 16—are roller skating at -Pournoy-la-Chétive, Moselle, France, when they see a luminous object -near the cemetery. It is round, about 8 feet in diameter, and standing -on three legs. A dwarf, about 4 feet tall, dressed in black, with a face -covered in hair and large eyes, emerges and shines a blinding light at -them. It says something in an unknown language. The children run away -but look back in time to see the object flying away high in the sky. -(Clark III 269; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, 154; Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 7, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2536

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Event 3640 -(9423DB56)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: Willi Hoge, a projectionist, saw four occupants of an -object that had come to ground level 70 m from the road. He was -returning home when he observed a blue light and thought an airplane had -made an emergency landing. The object was cigar-shaped, and four men -wearing rubber coveralls were working under it. They were about 1.2 m -tall and had very large chests and oversized heads; their legs were -short and thin.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 47 (Vallee)
-Location: Rinkerode, Germany
-ID: 217

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Event 3641 -(C4D8637A)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: 2215
-Description: The local representative of a German firm, Max Favell, saw -an object give off a white light and land. It took off vertically, with -a spinning motion, and was lost to sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 51 (Vallee)
-Location: Beirut, Lebanon
-ID: 223

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Event 3642 -(D6FEA417)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: Evening. As he is driving home from his job as a movie -projectionist in Rinkerode [now part of Drensteinfurt], North -Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, Willi Hoge sees a blue light to one side -of the road. He looks closer and sees four small figures with big heads -and chests and small, thin legs, apparently doing repair work on a -spindle-shaped machine. All are dressed in one-piece elastic body suits. -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The Author, 1991, -p. 24; Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, p. 233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2543

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Event 3643 -(1C3D96D5)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: On Route N631 at “La Caiffe,” a technician, J. P. Mitto, -was coming back from Toulouse with two other persons when they saw two -small figures, the height of 11-year-old children, cross the road about -5 m in front of the car and jump into a pasture. Stopping immediately, -the witnesess saw a large convex disk take off vertically. It was about -6 m in diameter, orange in color and was literally “sucked up” into the -sky. Brown oily spots were found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 43, 50 (Vallee)
-Location: Briatexte, France
-ID: 222

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Event 3644 -(470DA603)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: 1900
-Description: Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle when he suddenly saw a -figure in a diving suit aiming a double beam of light at him. The -individual had boots without heels and very bright eyes, walked on the -road for one minute and went into the forest. The witness was -“paralyzed” throughout the incident. The entity had a hairy chest and -two lights, one above the other, in front of him.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 45, 48; M 153; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Lavoux, France
-ID: 221

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Event 3645 -(A0586DE0)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: 1830
-Description: Four children-Gilbert Calda, 12; Daniel Hirsch, 9; J. P. -Hirsch, 5; and Robed Maguin 16-were roller-skating when they saw a -luminous object near the cemetery. It was round, about 2.5 m in -diameter, standing on three legs. A dwarf, about 1.2 m tall, dressed in -black, having a face covered with hair and large eyes, came out and -shone a blinding light at them, and said something in an unknown -language. The children ran away, but looked back in time to see the -object flying away high in the sky.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 49; M 154; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Pournoy-la-Chetive, France
-ID: 220

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Event 3646 -(E3DDF5F9)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: 1600
-Description: As he was driving near Carcassonne, Jean Bertrand saw a -bright, metallic sphere on the road ahead. The top half seemed to be -made of transparent plastic, and two humanlike figures were standing -inside. It took off rapidly, flying east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 48; M 145 (Vallee)
-Location: Carcassonne, France
-ID: 219

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Event 3647 -(1869A886)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: Near the Landeforet pool, Christain Carette saw for 10 sec -a fiery sphere flying at treetop level. Diameter: 4 m. Protuberance on -top.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 48;M 152 (Vallee)
-Location: Beauvain, France
-ID: 218

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Event 3648 -(ED091A77)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: Several local people saw a luminous, spherical object land -in a pasture.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 46; M 154 (Vallee)
-Location: Soubran, France
-ID: 216

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Event 3649 -(E11C22EF)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: People out hunting saw a luminous sphere take off and fly -toward the southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 153 (Vallee)
-Location: Dreux, France
-ID: 215

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Event 3650 -(6F8F2571)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: Between Montaren and Serviers, 1 km from “Le Mas Blanc,” -Dr. Fabre, Mr. Court, and six others saw an orange oval object -oscillating in mid-air. It was very bright and “fiery,” and it came very -low.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Montaren, France
-ID: 214

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Event 3651 -(3A6A4A27)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: A mailman saw a cigar-shaped object land. Twn silhouettes -“approximately human” were seen aboard.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 45; M 154 (Vallee)
-Location: Huy, Belgium
-ID: 213

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Event 3652 -(B204223D)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Jean Bertrand is driving near Carcassonne, Aude, -France, when he comes upon a metallic sphere in the road ahead. The top -half seems to be transparent, and he sees two human-shaped figures -inside. As he approaches, the object takes off at high speed. Probable -helicopter. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 26, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2538

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Event 3653 -(DAECF302)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: The US Air Force releases a press statement saying that -after studying 3,500 reports, it has found “no authentic physical -evidence” that UFOs are spaceships or weapons. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The -Author, 1991, p. 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2537

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Event 3654 -(C9998D88)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: Around 7:00 p.m. Roger Barrault, a worker in Lavoux, -Vienne, France, is riding a bicycle when he is stopped on the road by a -double beam of light coming from a 4-foot-tall figure that looks like a -diver. It wears boots without heels and has brilliant eyes and a large -moustache. Hoax. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 26, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2539

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Event 3655 -(1C96F5B8)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Jean-Pierre Mitto and his two cousins are driving -on Road 631 from Toulouse to Briatexte, Tarn, France, at a crossroads -known as “La Caiffe” when they see two small figures about the size of -11-year-old children cross the road. They enter a pasture where a convex -disc rises vertically and shoots upwards rapidly. It is about 20 feet in -diameter and orange. Brown, oily residue is found at the site. (Patrick -Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” -March 26, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2540

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Event 3656 -(A8A4631B)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Mechanics André Bartoli and Jean-Jacques Lalevée -see the sky light up with a yellow-orange glow in Cuisy, Seine-et-Marne, -France. Bartoli’s car motor and headlights fail, and they both see a -yellow-orange cigar-shaped object moving to the southwest. (Aimé Michel, -Straight-Line, pp. 150–152; Schopick, -pp. 9–11; Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” August 26, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2541

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Event 3657 -(4A846353)

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Date: 10/9/1954
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Max Favell, a representative of a German firm in -Beirut, Lebanon, sees a white flying object land. It takes off -vertically, spinning, and is lost to sight. (Vallée, Magonia, pp. 222–223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2542

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Event 3658 -(28C1579D)

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Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: Approximate date. Many farmers observed the landing of a -“marvelous luminous object,” hemispherical in shape, emitting -multicolored beams. The central part appeared to be metallic. The object -shot straight up suddenly and vanished while the crowd watched.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Creighton; 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Mahallat, Persia
-ID: 224

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Event 3659 -(062FA0B2)

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Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: Second landing here, seen by Marius Dewilde (cf. Case 144) -and his 4-year-old son. A disk, 6 m diameter, about 1 m high, landed -again on the tracks. Seven little men emerged and spoke in an unknown -language. The craft then vanished without noise or smoke. Traces larger -than the first, and symmetrical, were observed. Dewilde refused to -report the case.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Quarouble, France
-ID: 226

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Event 3660 -(70672341)

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Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Marius Dewilde, along with his 14-year-old son, -allegedly has a second encounter with a UFO occupant at Quarouble, Nord, -France. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 3, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2546

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Event 3661 -(A20EEB61)

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Date: 10/10/1954
-Time: 0630
-Description: Roger Thiriet, jailer in Ecouvres detention center, was -riding his motorcycle when he suddenly saw an aluminum colored object -shaped like a plate, with a dome and two portholes. It was about 2 m in -diameter and 1 m high. It took off immediately.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 54 (Vallee)
-Location: Charmes-la-Cote, France
-ID: 227

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Event 3662 -(049D207A)

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Date: 10/10/1954
-Time: 1400
-Description: A math professor, Mr. Bon, observed a silvery disk about 7 -m in diameter rise silently from a point about 250 m to the side of the -road. Spinning, it dived to the ground from an altitude of about 800 m, -then flew off horizontally at a dizzying speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 55, 57 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Germain-de-Livet, France
-ID: 228

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Event 3663 -(61DBEBEC)

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Date: 10/10/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: Roger Gayout and family saw a very bright object come very -close to the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 56; M 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Saillat-sur-Vienne, France
-ID: 229

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Event 3664 -(C60166A8)

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Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: In a newspaper interview, Alfred -Loedding alludes to the 1948 Estimate of the Situation without -calling it that. Loedding shows a study of some 100+ UFO reports to one -of the “country’s leading scientists,” who glances at it briefly, then -declares that “flying saucers are a figment of the imagination.” Shortly -afterwards, the skeptics in Project Sign win out, and Loedding’s efforts -are ignored. (Trenton (N.J.) Sunday Times-Advertiser, October 10, 1954; -Michael Hall, “Was There a Second Estimate of the Situation?” IUR 27, -no. 1 (Spring 2002): 13, 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2547

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Event 3665 -(6DB5996D)

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Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: Between Epoisses and Toutry, Daniel Grapin and Francois -Bolatre, topographers saw a luminous sphere 3.5 m diameter on the ground -near Route N454.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Epoisses, France
-ID: 225

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Event 3666 -(25968390)

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Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: The Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle announces it will -act as a clearinghouse for UFO reports. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored, -Citadel, 1955, p. 233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2544

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Event 3667 -(3DD5038E)

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Date: 10/10/1954
-Description: A cylindrical UFO with red and green lights is seen over -Alexandria, Egypt. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 232–233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2545

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Event 3668 -(1AB8F7FF)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Two merchants, Henri Gallois and Louis Vigneron, -are traveling to a fair in a van near Clamercy, Nièvre, France, when -they both feel electrical shocks. The van motor dies, and the headlights -go out. They become paralyzed and see on the ground, 150 feet away, a -round object with three small figures around it. The figures go inside -the object, which then leaves rapidly. The headlights come back on, the -paralysis ends, and the engine can be restarted. Hoax. (Aimé Michel, -Straight-Line, p. 158; Schopick, pp. 12–13; -Patrick Gross, “The 1954 -French Flap,” April 7, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2549

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Event 3669 -(E223CB5C)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Description: 4:15 a.m. Baptiste Jourdy is delivering milk near Fonfrède, -Loire, France, when the truck engine dies and the headlights fail. He -gets out to investigate and sees a glowing, multicolored object, moving -at great speed, cross the road and disappear in the distance. The -headlights return and he starts the truck again. (Aimé Michel, -Straight-Line, p. 157; Schopick, -pp. 11–12; Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 6, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2548

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Event 3670 -(7B630F63)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 2200
-Description: A round craft, 4 m diameter, landed in a pasture. It gave -off a powerful red light, took off with a formidable acceleration when -witnesses (garage owner Mr. Carriere and son; Mr. Gardelle, farmer; -Mr. Ginestre, shoemaker; and two others) came close to it. Mr. Gardelle -felt “an electric shock.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 60, 61; M 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Montbazens, France
-ID: 240

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Event 3671 -(11E8CE63)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 2150
-Description: Four persons, among them Julia Juste, Maria Barbeau, and -Marion Le Tanneur, of Jarnac, saw two luminous spheres flying in the -same direction. Having stopped and maneuvered in midair, the larger one -took on a deep red color, turned to an intense white light with a red -aura, and both landed. Witnesses did not wait.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 160 (Vallee)
-Location: Birac, France
-ID: 239

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Event 3672 -(F07ECFB7)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: Three men driving near Taupignac got out of their car to -observe an intense red sphere in the sky. Then they discovered a round -machine with a dome, 6 m diameter, giving off a yellowred light, 200 m -away at 10 m altitude. It was motionless and silent. It suddenly moved -horizontally for a short distance and landed behind a woods. Two -witnesses went closer and saw four dwarfs, 1 m tall, who seemed busy -with the machine. The creatures rushed inside when the witnesses arrived -within 15 m. The witnesses wae blinded by a sudden burst of light, blue, -then orange, then red, and the object took off vertically at fantastic -speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Taupignac, France
-ID: 238

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Event 3673 -(25C752DF)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0500
-Description: A large disk flying very low over a road scared two truck -drivers, Messrs. Gaston Breau and Amoura, who stopped their gasoline -truck and ran away into the fields while the object flew on toward Medea -in silence.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Lavarande, Algeria
-ID: 237

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Event 3674 -(C23395EF)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: dawn
-Description: A large red object was seen flying very fast at treetop -level while cattle panicked. Three witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Bauquay, France
-ID: 236

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Event 3675 -(BDCBC2DD)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: dawn
-Description: Anny Pracht, her sister Roselyne, and two other persons saw -a luminous object on the ground. It became fiery red in color and flew -away when they came near.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 56; M 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Heimersdorf, France
-ID: 235

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Event 3676 -(6EDCE1D7)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0430
-Description: Messrs. Gallois and Vigneron who were driving from Clamecy -to Corbigny felt an “electric shock” as the car headlights died. They -then saw a craft in a pasture 50 m away. It was cylindrical, fairly -thick, and three dwarfs were standing close by. No light was seen, -except a small, reddish point. Both witnesses were “paralyzed” until the -craft left. A third witness, Mr. Chaumeau, had seen a lighted object fly -over the woods at La Carie.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 57; M 158 (Vallee)
-Location: Sassier, near La Carie, France
-ID: 234

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Event 3677 -(88771AE1)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0420
-Description: Mr. Labonde was driving at the intersection of D14 and D104 -when he was followed by a sort of luminous globe surrounded with a -reddish glow, about 2 m in size. It stayed within 25 m of the car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 58; M 158 (Vallee)
-Location: Lacanche, France
-ID: 233

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Event 3678 -(A6964725)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0415
-Description: Baptiste Jourdy, who was making the daily collection of -milk, was suddenly stopped as the engine and headlights of his truck -died. He got out and saw a light above him. After it crossed the road, -the headlights came on again and he was able to restart his truck.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 57 (Vallee)
-Location: Fonfrede, near Chambon Feugerolles, France
-ID: 232

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Event 3679 -(9D13B577)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0300
-Description: Two men riding motorcycles saw a bell-shaped craft about -2.5 m high, hovered 1 m above the Evreux-Louviers railroad line. The -lower part was ringlike, and the object gave off reddish and greenish -sparks. A burst of orange light was seen as it jumped about 10 m high, -then it remained motionless for about 1 hr, during which time a third -witness joined the first two. It ultimately turned brighter and flew -away toward the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 55; M 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Acquigny, France
-ID: 231

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Event 3680 -(C4C5A8B2)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Time: 0130
-Description: Farmers awakened by a whistling sound saw a flat object -land near the woods. It soon rose very fast, vertically, and flew away. -The ground was found calcined. Samples were taken by police officials -for analysis.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 56 (Vallee)
-Location: Doncourt-Village, France
-ID: 230

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Event 3681 -(27AF4CB8)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Baptiste Potin of Méral, Mayenne, France, is -riding a bicycle to his workplace when he spots a huge orange ball in -the sky that seems to be above Saint-Poix. It apparently descends to the -ground as he approaches, barring the road. After watching it 8–10 -minutes, it rises slowly and disappears in the northwest. He finds when -he arrives at a farm that he is covered in white fluff embedded in his -clothes. Probably an observation of the moon, accompanied by plant -seeds. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 14, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2550

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Event 3682 -(1FFCE758)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Julia Juste, Maria Barbereau, and Marion Tanneur -are driving along D14 about 1 mile from Chateauneuf-sur-Charente, -Charente, France. Two luminous globes, one smaller than the other, -appear in the sky ahead of them at low altitude, and their car stalls -and the headlights go out. The larger one becomes brilliant white with a -reddish halo. After 5 minutes, they move out of sight in the Charente -valley. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 160; Schopick, p. 13; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 6, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2552

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Event 3683 -(2441B776)

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Date: 10/11/1954
-Description: The Romanian magazine Contemporanul claims that UFOs are US -propaganda designed to “stir up against Moscow a flying-saucer -psychosis.” (“Saucers -Are Not!” Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 12, 1954, p. 4; Ruppelt, p. -238)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2551

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Event 3684 -(93F61D7D)

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Date: 10/12/1954
-Description: Afternoon. A French engineer driving to Kenitra, Morocco, -sees a small figure in a metallic suit climbing abroad a UFO that -quickly lifts off and flies away. The location is said to be Mamora -Forest, which could be modern Mehdya, on the coast. (Lorenzen, -Occupants, Signet, 1967, p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2554

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Event 3685 -(5C00E675)

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Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: 2330
-Description: Roger Ramond, a nightwatchman saw a great light and noticed -an oval object which landed 300 m away. It looked like a fieryorange -ball, illuminated the vinyard for nearly 3 hrs, then assumed a vertical -position, rose slowly, hovered 30 m above ground for a few seconds, and -took off at fantastic speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 64; M 168 (Vallee)
-Location: Vielmur, France
-ID: 247

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Event 3686 -(83A8DCA3)

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Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: afternoon
-Description: A French engineer driving to Port Lyautey saw a dwarf about -1.2 m in height enter an object which soon took off. The little man was -wearing silver coveralls.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Mamora Forest, Morocco
-ID: 241

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Event 3687 -(BA091C24)

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Date: 10/12/1954
-Description: Around 2:00 p.m. A math professor at Lisieux named Bon is -in Saint-Germain-de-Livet, Calvados, France, when he sees a silvery disc -with a diameter of 21–24 feet hovering over a wooden area off the road. -It dives toward the ground, then rises suddenly and silently into the -sky at tremendous speed. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French -Flap,” October 24, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2555

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Event 3688 -(18709663)

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Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: A farmer, Mr. Beuc, saw a small pilot enter an object. It -glided over the road for 30 m, then rose rapidly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 167; Carrouges 98 (Vallee)
-Location: Orchamps, France
-ID: 242

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Event 3689 -(FDDEF0A7)

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Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: A railroad employee, Mr. Laugere, saw a torpedo-shaped, -metallic craft on the ground near a gas-oil tank. An individual covered -with hair was standing nearby, emitting sounds that were not understood. -The witness went to get his friends, but the thing disappeared in the -meantime.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 63; M 167 (Vallee)
-Location: Montlucon, France
-ID: 243

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Event 3690 -(45FB30E1)

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Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: Jan Marty, 42, mechanic, was in his shop when he saw a -luminous disk about 6.5 m diameter and 2.5 m thick, land. He tried to -approach it, but the craft rose vertically and silently at an amazing -speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62, 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Leguevin, France
-ID: 244

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Event 3691 -(3F4F4271)

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Date: 10/12/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: Gilbert Lelay, 13, saw a phosphorescent cigar in a pasture -and a man near it, wearing a gray suit, boots, and a gray hat. He held a -flashing sphere and told Gilbert in French not to touch it. He went back -inside the craft, which flew in loops and vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Carrouges 103; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Sainte-Marie d’Herblay, France
-ID: 245

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Event 3692 -(9EBD38E8)

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Date: 10/12/1954
-Description: A businessman, Mr. Vielle, was on Route N471 between -Frasnes and Pontarlier when he saw a circular flying craft, which gave -off a yellowish and a purple light. Losing altitude, the craft came very -close to the ground, changed its course to southwest, and rose again in -the sky.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 167 (Vallee)
-Location: Dompierre-les-Tilleuls, France
-ID: 246

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Event 3693 -(1A50182F)

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Date: 10/12/1954
-Description: Morning. A UFO supposedly lands in a populous district on -the south side of Tehran, Iran. It is said to have tried to kidnap a -terrified man, Ghasim Faili, who says that on waking up he sees the UFO -within 60 feet of him. It emits a magnetic force to capture him, but he -shouts and neighbors gather, forcing the apparatus to take off. Later -sources add some dubious details. (Patrick Gross, URECAT, July -20, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2553

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Event 3694 -(163311A1)

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Date: 10/13/1954
-Time: 1935
-Description: Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third man saw a reddish -disk about 4 m diameter with a small being close by, about 1.2 rn tall, -wearing a diving suit: “His head was large with respect to the rest of -the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was bright and shiny -like glass.” The craft was surrounded by a sort of misty glow. One of -the men came within 2O m of it and found himself paralyzed. The craft -took off, throwing him to the ground, and rose very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62, 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Bourrasole, France
-ID: 249

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Event 3695 -(4EA4EF72)

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Date: 10/13/1954
-Description: 7:35 p.m. Three witnesses (Olivier, Perano, and a third -man) see a reddish disc about 12 feet in diameter near Bourrasol, a -suburb of Toulouse, France. A small being about 4 feet tall is standing -nearby wearing a diver’s suit. Its head is large, and it has enormous -eyes. One witness approaches to within 60–70 feet and is paralyzed. The -UFO soon takes off. Definite hoax. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 24, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2556

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Event 3696 -(3FEB645B)

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Date: 10/13/1954
-Time: 10:05 AM
-Description: Witness: weather observer, following a balloon with his -theodolite. One round, flat, silver object flew straight and level for -30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nouasseur, French Morocco
-ID: 370

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Event 3697 -(56BB8888)

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Date: 10/13/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: At Donjon de Montlaur, five persons, among them J. Dubois, -saw a round craft maneuver, give off a blinding light. It had some -openings or portholes, and seemed to land far from them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Crocq, France
-ID: 248

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Event 3698 -(05E21353)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: Several witnesses saw seven small beings flee into a -phosphorescent object when they were approached. It took off -immediately. It is claimed that “unknown seeds” were found at the -site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Ambroix, France
-ID: 250

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Event 3699 -(8496D6D9)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: 0630
-Description: A man coming out of his house saw a luminous object -resembling a bright star. Coming near, he observed it was an object 5 m -long, near which a “short young man” was standing on a circular piece of -metal, laughing at the witness’s terrified expression. The witness was -20 m away when the craft took off at unbelievable speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Shamsabad, Iran
-ID: 251

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Event 3700 -(C8D649FE)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: A farmer observed an orange sphere land and went near it. -He found it was shaped like a flattened dome, 5.5 m in diameter, and -gave off a blinding light, which illuminated the countryside for about -200 m. It was transparent, and a dark figure could be seen inside. After -remaining at ground level for 10 min it flew north, while a bright cloud -slowly fell to the ground at the site. When the witness arrived home he -found his clothes covered with a white film of adhesive substance, not -unlike paraffin wax.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62; M 174 (Vallee)
-Location: Meral, France
-ID: 255

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Event 3701 -(2F03FDED)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: 1815
-Description: A municipal employee, Jose Casella, was riding home when he -suddenly found in front of him on the road an oval-shaped aluminum -object about 5.5 m in diameter, 1 m high. As he applied the brakes, the -object took off at very high speed. Several persons confirmed the -sighting. The disk was gray, supported a dome, and emitted a soft -whistle. It took off when Casella was only 6 m away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Biot, France
-ID: 253

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Event 3702 -(78A573B4)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: 2010
-Description: On the road between Thieulloy-la-Ville and Beauvais, -Mr. Covemacker saw an object fly over his car as the headlights died. It -went on toward the north, seemingly following a train.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Thieulloy-la-Ville, France
-ID: 260

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Event 3703 -(52853305)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: Mr. Lonjarret observed a luminous orange object on the -ground near a corn field.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 175 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Germain-du-Bois, France
-ID: 256

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Event 3704 -(539369E1)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: Twilight. A witness is riding a moped on the road between -Saint-Romain-sous-Gourdon and Les Brosses Tillots, Saône-et-Loire, -France. Suddenly his motor fails and, as he gets off the cycle, a bright -circular object bursts ahead of him. He walks back with his moped and is -able to start it again. (Aimé Michel, Straight- Line, p. 175; Schopick, p. 14; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” September 25, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2564

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Event 3705 -(8176A993)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: 6:30 a.m. A resident of Shamsabad [which one?], Iran, sees -a star-like object about 300 feet away from his house. Approaching to 60 -feet, he sees a “short young man” who is standing on a circular piece of -metal in the middle of the object and glancing around him. The man seems -to be “laughing” at the witness. The UFO shoots up into the air and -vanishes. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The -Author, 1991, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2557

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Event 3706 -(82A50CB5)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: Keyhoe hears -from an informant that the 4602nd AISS has a “crashed object” program. -His contact Lou Corbin thinks -the Air Force already has some recovered material. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 214–215)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2558

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Event 3707 -(FA386F8B)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: A farmer and his wife see a light green object traveling at -tremendous speed, possibly 3,000 mph, in Kenya. (Wilkins, FS Uncensored, -Citadel, 1955, p. 234)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2559

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Event 3708 -(2002C7D5)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: Mr. B. saw a circular craft shaped like an upside-down -plate. At the same time, the engine on his motorcycle stalled. In the -same area an engineer saw a luminous object coming down rapidly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Romain, France
-ID: 259

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Event 3709 -(11F569F7)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: Andre Cognard, coming from Gueugnon, was blinded by a light -as a diskshaped object flew low over his car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
-Location: Chazey Wood, France
-ID: 258

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Event 3710 -(6C351DD0)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: South of Gueugnon, Messrs. Jeannet and Garnier saw a -reddish fireball fly low over their car as their engine and headlights -died.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 175) Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
-Location: Chazey Wood, France
-ID: 257

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Event 3711 -(759D01DF)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: Flight Lt. Jimmy Salandin took off in his Meteor jet at -4:15pm and climbed up to 16,000 ft. When he was over Southend, England, -two circular UFOs shot past him at 9o’clock high. One UFO was silvery -and the other gold in color. A third UFO appeared ahead of him on a -collision course. It had a bun-shaped top, a flange like two saucers in -the center and a bun shaped dome underneath and was silvery in color. It -flew close enough to his jet to overlap his windshield.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: North Weald Airfield, Essex, England

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Event 3712 -(C44EA396)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: 1530
-Description: In Erchin Wood, Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange -being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body -was covered with fur.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 143; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Lewarde, France
-ID: 252

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Event 3713 -(415A7761)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: 12:00 noon. Farmer Antonio Crepaldi is leading his cows to -a pond near Ca’ Pisani, Rovigo, Italy, when an egg-shaped object -emitting intense heat swoop over his house at an altitude of 50 feet. -The cows panic and run away, apparently suffering burns. Some haystacks -catch fire. The sighting lats 2 minutes. (1Pinotti 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2560

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Event 3714 -(2AA1F908)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: A farmer saw a bright object, which came almost to the -ground. When he tried to approach it the object produced an intense -“screen of light” and vanished without a noise. Several persons in -Angles observed the scene.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Angles, France
-ID: 254

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Event 3715 -(A4CF2976)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Casimir Starovski, a miner, meets a strange -figure in Erchin Forest, near Lewarde, Nord, France. It has large, -slanted, protruding eyes and a squat, furry body. Its nose is flat, it -has thick lips, and it wears a skullcap on its oversized head. (Clark -III 269; Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” December 21, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2561

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Event 3716 -(58116A13)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: 4:15 p.m. Flight Lt. James R. Salandin of the 604th Fighter -Squadron is flying a Gloster Meteor Mk.8 out of North Weald Airfield, -Essex, England, at 16,000 feet. He sees three objects heading towards -him. Two of them (one gold, one silver) veer off to his port side, while -the third closes to within a few hundred yards before veering to his -port side. It is saucer-shaped with “buns” on top and underneath, -silvery and metallic, with no portholes or flames. The report is sent to -the Air Ministry where it disappears. (NICAP, “Gloster -‘Meteor’ Encounters Disc / Salandin -Case”; “Week-end -Pilot in Near Collision with Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucer Review 1, -no. 1 (Spring 1955): 2; “The -Famous Salandin Sighting,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2 (December -1984): 13–15; Good Above, pp. 36–38; -Good Need, pp. 154–155; -Patrick Gross, “October -14, 1954, North Weald, Essex, UFO Encounters -RAF Meteor Jet”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2562

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Event 3717 -(6D6CB110)

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Date: 10/14/1954
-Description: 6:20 p.m. André Cognard is driving on the D60 road to the -east of Gueugnon, Saône-et-Loire, France, when a brilliant reddish -fireball passes near his car to the west at low altitude. It is so -bright that he stops his car. Probable meteor. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 20, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2563

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Event 3718 -(47A2CBC3)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: In Boaria Pisani, Padua, Italy, a farmer is leading his -cows to a pond when he sees an object fly over his house. The cows panic -and run away, knocking a girl to the ground, while the object emits a -burst of light. The farmer runs to the house and then faints. Three -other persons see the craft depart. It is dark in color but surrounded -by short blue and yellow flames. The object is egg-shaped, flies at 50 -feet above the ground, and emits intense heat. The little pond is found -desiccated, and haystacks catch fire as it flies over while the cattle -suffers burns. (Vallée, Magonia, pp. 229–230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2566

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Event 3719 -(602679AE)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: Afternoon. Farmers near the Po della Donzella river -channel, Veneto, Italy, see a disc-shaped object land then take off -vertically. At the site is a deep crater about 18 feet in diameter. -Poplar trees are partially burned. (Aimé Michel, Straight Line, -p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2567

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Event 3720 -(62B04E36)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: Evening. Veterinarian Henri Robert of Londinières in -Normandy, France, is driving on route RN 314, near Baillolet, -Seine-Maritime, France. He sees four orange objects flying one above the -other at 1,000 feet. One floats down like a leaf, landing about 350 feet -in front of his car. Robert feels an electric shock and his engine dies -for 20 seconds and the object disappears. Robert continues driving. As -he is going through the village of Bailleul- Neuville, he sees in his -headlights a four-foot-tall bluish-gray figure with arms and legs -spread. His headlights go off then on again. He then sees on his left a -27-foot-long cigar-shaped object at the edge of a slope. It takes off -vertically and quickly moves toward the north. Possible hoax. (Aimé -Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 184–185; Schopick, pp. 15–16; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 7, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2568

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Event 3721 -(BAEB1670)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-End date: 10/25/1954
-Description: Thousands of witnesses in the former Yugoslavia report -low-flying UFOs and high-flying cigar-shaped objects, especially around -Ljubljana, Slovenia; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Belgrade, Serbia. Yugoslavia -announces on October 27 that it intends to launch an official -investigation. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 61; -Hobana and Weverbergh 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2569

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Event 3722 -(F2EF86EE)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: night
-Description: Truck driver Rene Le Viol saw a flat craft, shaped like an -inverted plate, fly very low toward the sea. A second disk followed -shortly afterward. Both emitted a red glow.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 69; M 182 (Vallee)
-Location: Fouesnant, France
-ID: 269

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Event 3723 -(95D8356A)

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Date: mid 10/1954
-Description: A merchant and his deliveryman are driving a van northeast -of the village of Erquières, Pas-de-Calais, France, when they see a -blinding light in front of them. As it passes over the van, the engine -stalls and the headlights fail. Both men feel an electric shock. (Aimé -Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 204–205; Schopick, -p. 19; Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 12, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2582

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Event 3724 -(C1E032CD)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: Near the swimming pool in Saint-Assiscle, Damien Figueres, -56, was walking with his dogs when a reddish, luminous sphere landed 30 -m away and an individual in a diving suit walked around it. The dogs -barked at him. He boarded the machine, and it flew away in -silence.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 65; Carrouges 120 (Vallee)
-Location: Perpignan, France
-ID: 261

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Event 3725 -(E922C332)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: A farmer leading cows to a pond suddenly saw an object fly -over his house. The cows panicked and ran away, throwing a girl to the -ground, while the object emitted a burst of light. The witness ran to -the house and fainted; three other persons saw the craft depart. Dark, -surrounded by short blue and yellow flames, the object was egg-shaped, -flew 15 m above the ground, and emitted intense heat. The little pond -was found desiccated, and haystacks caught fire as it flew over, while -the cattle suffered burns.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 67; Plantier 104 (Vallee)
-Location: Boaria, Italy
-ID: 262

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Event 3726 -(5AB3D762)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Description: Early in the morning. A large, luminous, red object streaks -across the sky above Hungary. A teacher from Györ-Moson-Sopron county -takes two photos of what is an apparent meteor. (Hobana and Weverbergh -199–201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2565

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Event 3727 -(367FE12E)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: night
-Description: A steelworker observed a luminous sphere land in the -countryside; it then emitted lights of various colors.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 54, 68; M 181 (Vallee)
-Location: Isbergues, France
-ID: 268

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Event 3728 -(DF3DACAD)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: night
-Description: Pat Hennessey ran away when she saw an object land on the -road near Chalkwell Park. It had vanished silently when she looked -back.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 182; Humanoids 4; FSR 62, 12 (Vallee)
-Location: Southend, Great Britain
-ID: 267

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Event 3729 -(DD8D6DC5)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: 1950
-Description: A yellow, cigarshaped object with brilliant portholes, 30 m -long, 6 m diameter, was seen on the ground. Figures with helmets -covering the head could be seen inside. A sort of haze was observed at -both ends of the craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Nimes-Courbessac Airfield, France
-ID: 266

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Event 3730 -(BD4831A2)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: afternoon
-Description: Farmers saw a disk-shaped object land, then take off -vertically. At the site was found a deep crater about 6 m in diameter. -Poplar trees were partially burned. Official investigation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 65; M 181 (Vallee)
-Location: Po-di-Gnocca, Italy
-ID: 265

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Event 3731 -(15122A0E)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: 1300
-Description: An ovoid object made a pass over a range of trees; two -caught fire.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 83 (Vallee)
-Location: Luino, Italy
-ID: 264

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Event 3732 -(603D8C63)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: 0340
-Description: A baker saw a brilliant yellow craft descend rapidly and -land on the railroad tracks. It was shaped like a mushroom, about 4 m -diameter, 2 m high.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 62; M 180 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Pierre-Halte, France
-ID: 263

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Event 3733 -(1F7BC8E5)

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Date: 10/15/1954
-Time: 8:45 PM
-Description: Oct. 15, 16 and 17, 1954. Fifty objects with illuminated -bottoms were seen flying in a V-formation, very fast, on successive -nights. Only data is on summary card.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kingfisher, Oklahoma
-ID: 371

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Event 3734 -(7FB6CB05)

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Date: 10/16/1954
-Description: Two objects were seen, one of which made a pass at treetop -level. It top-shaped, and a small, gesticulating human figure was seen -under it. The witness was a bus driver, Mr. De Rossi.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Quasso, Italy
-ID: 270

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Event 3735 -(A6ABE8C7)

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Date: 10/16/1954
-Time: 2400
-Description: Several people saw a landed object in a meadow. It appeared -phosphorescent and of large size. It took off very suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 83 (Vallee)
-Location: Siena, Italy
-ID: 276

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Event 3736 -(424E8BC7)

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Date: 10/16/1954
-Time: 2145
-Description: Messrs. Deschamp and Laclotre saw a craft, about 20 m -diameter, 2 m high, come within 4 m of the ground for 3 or 4 min. It -gave off a yellowish light and a glow extended for 4 m around.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Dompierre, France
-ID: 275

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Event 3737 -(D95CBC39)

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Date: 10/16/1954
-Time: nightfall
-Description: Dr. Robert, while driving through this village, saw four -objects, at about 300 m altitude, flying slowly in echelon formation. -Suddenly one of them dropped to the ground with a dead-leaf motion, 100 -m away. The witness felt an electric shock as engine and headlights -died, and the car stopped when the object touched the ground. Incapable -of moving, Dr. Robert saw a figure about 1.2 m tall moving in the light -of the object, then all went dark. Some time later the headlights -resumed operation by themselves, and Dr. Robert saw the craft take off -toward the north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 71; M 185 (Vallee)
-Location: Baillolet, France
-ID: 274

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Event 3738 -(574ED305)

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Date: 10/16/1954
-Time: 1730
-Description: Mr. Bachelard was driving a light truck on road D52-E -between Chanat and Couhay when suddenly the engine seemed to slow down -and he felt “paralyzed.” He then saw in a field near the road a brown -object about 10 m long, 2.5 m high. Silent, it gave off no light and -showed no opening.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 70;M 198 (Vallee)
-Location: Mazaye, France
-ID: 273

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Event 3739 -(34B90B85)

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Date: 10/16/1954
-Description: Guy Puyfourcat, 22, who was coming back from the fields, -leading a mare by the bridle, was surprised when the animal became -restless. Rising from the side of the road, a gray object about 1.5 m in -diameter flew over them. The mare rose about 3 m in the air, and the -witness had to release the bridle. Then the animal fell like a mass and -for 10 min was unable to move. At last, it rose and attempted to walk, -but it was still trembling and stumbling with fear. The object had long -since flown away at high speed. The witness himself had felt absolutely -nothing.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Cier-de-Riviere, France
-ID: 272

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Event 3740 -(72B2AAA7)

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Date: 10/16/1954
-Description: Approximate date. An object landed about 30 m away from a -woman, who fainted. The witness suffered from a skin disease following -the incident.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Thin le Moutiers, France
-ID: 271

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Event 3741 -(628CB337)

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Date: 10/17/1954
-Time: night
-Description: On Capri, an artist Raffael Castelle, saw a disk 5 m in -diameter land on the property of Curzio Malaparte. Upon approaching it, -he discovered it was not a helicopter and saw four dwarfs wearing -coveralIs emerge from it. After 30 min the craft made a soft whirring -sound and rose vertically, leaving blue sparks.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 72 (Vallee)
-Location: Cape Massulo, Italy
-ID: 281

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Event 3742 -(014C026C)

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Date: 10/17/1954
-Description: Around 9:30 a.m. Guy Puyfourcat is returning from the -fields near Cier-de-Rivière, Haute-Garonne, France, with his mare on a -halter. The horse suddenly becomes restless and jumpy. A gray object -about 4 feet in diameter rises from one side of the road and passes over -them. The mare rises about 9 feet into the air and Puyfourcat releases -her, and the animal falls to the ground and is unable to move for 10 -minutes. The UFO moves away at high speed. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” October 16, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2570

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Event 3743 -(7EEB9E9F)

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Date: 10/17/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: Several witnesses, among them Mr. Beuclair a policeman, saw -a bright red domeshaped object descend to ground level 20 m away. The -underside showed red and white lights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 188 (Vallee)
-Location: Varigney, France
-ID: 280

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Event 3744 -(4D48EBA5)

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Date: 10/17/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: A 65-year-old man was hunting with his dog, near the -junction of the Brillance Canal and the Durance River, when he saw a -gray object, about 4 m long and 1 m high on the ground and 40 m away. It -showed a dome from which two helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled, -but his dog started toward the object. The dog soon retreated, walking -awkwardly as if partialIy paralyzed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Cabasson, France
-ID: 279

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Event 3745 -(4A1BC605)

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Date: 10/17/1954
-Description: A hunter, Manuel Madeira, saw an object, which flew away as -he approached it, rose in the sky, and was lost to sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: O Alvito, Portugal
-ID: 278

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Event 3746 -(8048F61D)

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Date: 10/17/1954
-Description: Leon B., a city council member, saw a circular, orange -craft take off from the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, France
-ID: 277

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Event 3747 -(C733C1CE)

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Date: 10/18/1954
-Description: Mr. Meunier, a construction supervisor, was terrified by a -strange craft, which rose vertically from the ground. He said he had -never been so afraid, even during the war.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 73; M 196 (Vallee)
-Location: Pont l’Abbe d’Arnoult, France
-ID: 283

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Event 3748 -(B8B62B1E)

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Date: 10/18/1954
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Two farmers near Saint-Cirgues, Haute-Loire, -France, watch two bright balls connected by a rod for 15 minutes. They -disappear at a fast pace. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” December 21, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2572

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Event 3749 -(DF9FFB93)

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Date: 10/18/1954
-Description: J. Augard and J. Chanzotte saw an oval object with a dome, -emitting a bright white light, resting in a field. When they approached -it, the object rose vertically, leaving a reddish trail, and flew to the -northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 70; M 198 (Vallee)
-Location: Cisternes-la-Foret, France
-ID: 282

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Event 3750 -(E4D36D41)

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Date: 10/18/1954
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A M. Bachelard is driving a light truck southeast -of Gelles, Puy-de-Dôme, France. As he goes around a bend, he feels -paralyzed and his truck slows down to less than 20 mph. In a nearby -field he sees an elongated object about 5 feet high. A few minutes later -he reaches the village of Coheix, which is off his normal route, and -starts telling people about the event. Later ufologists suspect there -may be some missing time involved. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 198; -Schopick, pp. 16–17; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” March 20, 2003; “The -Landing at Gelles,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 5 (June -1971): iii)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2571

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Event 3751 -(5A9917F8)

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Date: 10/18/1954
-Description: 9:00 p.m. M. and Mme. Labussière are driving on the N150 -southwest of Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France, when they see a -balance-shaped object in the sky. One side is red and the other orange, -while the rod connecting them is a luminous green. The object pauses -above a field near their car, which they pull over to watch more -closely. The green rod soon dissipates, and the two balls settle in the -field. In the dim light emitted by the objects, the Labussières see a -small creature emerge from each, walk toward each other, pass without -stopping, and enter the other object. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” December 29, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2573

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Event 3752 -(B8D5DAA0)

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Date: 10/18/1954
-Time: 2245
-Description: Miss Bourriot saw a bright red light on Route N437 near the -old factory. Near it were three beings: two, dwarfs, crossed the road -ahead of her; the third was a man of medium size. The craft took off, -flying over the lake at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 197; LDLN 97; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Point Lake, France
-ID: 286

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Event 3753 -(6627C2F3)

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Date: 10/18/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Labassiere and other witnesses saw two disks -in the sky, one orange and the other red, with a sort of luminous -“bridge” between them. They landed, and one dwarf came out of each craft -and went into the other without any sign. After this exchange of pilots -both objects flew away with a tremendous flash.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 74 (Vallee)
-Location: Royan, France
-ID: 285

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Event 3754 -(F172C380)

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Date: 10/18/1954
-Time: 2040
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Lherminier saw a cigar-shaped red object dive -toward them with a reddish trail and land near the road. Upon reaching -the top of the hill, they were confronted with a bulky human figure, -about 1 m tall. The creature wore a helmet and his eyes were glowing -with an orange light. One witness fainted on the spot. Four others saw -the object in flight from separate locations. The countryside was -illuminated over 2 or 3 km.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Fontenay-Torcy, France
-ID: 284

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Event 3755 -(E00CD49B)

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Date: 10/19/1954
-Time: 2230
-Description: Two men saw a disk-shaped object, 6 m diameter, hovering -and emitting small violet flashes. On top of it was a very high antenna. -Two small robotlike beings, 1.2 m tall, descended from it on a long -ladder. Their eyes were “sharp” and dark red. They said something that -sounded like “Dbano da skigyay o dbano,” went back aboard their craft, -and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 87 (Vallee)
-Location: Fabriano, Italy
-ID: 289

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Event 3756 -(5ED7EA4C)

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Date: 10/19/1954
-Time: 1920
-Description: Filippo Corridoni saw a half-empty balloon at ground level -near the Isonzo River. Near it, a disk 10 m in diameter was resting on a -strange frame. The upper part was white with a black domelike turret, -around which was a series of portholes, some illuminated with a very -bright, bluish-white light, which suddenly went out as the object took -off spinning and rising vertically, pulling the balloon with it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 86 (Vallee)
-Location: Gorizia, Italy
-ID: 288

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Event 3757 -(96FC4361)

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Date: 10/19/1954
-Description: Bruno Senesi saw two shining objects emitting smoke land in -a field. Out of them came small, red, monstrous beings who chased him. -In a state of great excitement Senesi was brought to a hospital, where -he tried to hide under a bed, screaming and trembling in terror.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 85 (Vallee)
-Location: Livorno, Italy
-ID: 287

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Event 3758 -(B50B05DA)

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Date: 10/19/1954
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A M. Fillonneau is driving in -Criteuil-la-Madeleine, Charente, France, when he sees a bright fireball. -His headlights go out and the engine stops, and he finds that his -battery is completely dead and the headlight bulbs burned out. (Patrick -Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” February 5, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2574

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Event 3759 -(A48A7AEC)

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Date: 10/19/1954
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Renzo Pugina has just put his car in -his garage at Parravicino, Como, Italy, when he sees a humanoid about 4 -feet 3 inches tall in a scaly, luminous suit standing near a tree. The -lower part of its body is like a cone. It aims a light beam at Pugina -that paralyzes him briefly. He only manages to move some fingers, but -with some concentration makes a clenching motion with his fist on the -garage keys that he holds in his hand. Freed from the temporary -paralysis, he runs to attack the intruder, who flees with a soft -whirring sound. A police investigation finds a spot of oil at the -location. (Vallée, Magonia, pp. 235–236; -Loren E. Gross, The Fifth -Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The -Author, 1991, p. 74; 1Pinotti 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2575

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Event 3760 -(42A5EF8B)

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Date: 10/20/1954
-Time: 0230
-Description: Forty-year-old Lazlo Ujvari was suddenly confronted by a -man wearing a jacket, boots, and cloth headgear (like a pilot’s) who -pointed a gun at him and said something he could not understand. When -Ujvari spoke to him in Russian, the man answered in the same language, -asked whether he was in Spain or Italy, and how far he was from Germany. -When he asked the time, Ujvari said: “2:30.” The man took his watch and -said “You lie; it’s 4:00.” Then he wanted to know how far and in what -direction Marseilles was. He made Ujvari walk on the road with him, and -they came close to a gray craft with an antenna on top. When he was -about 200 m away, he heard a soft whistling sound and saw it fly -straight up, then take an oblique trajectory.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Carrouges 99; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Raon-l’Etage, France
-ID: 291

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Event 3761 -(4E773563)

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Date: 10/20/1954
-Description: Roger Reveille saw an oval object, 6 m long, at treetop -level, and felt intense heat from it. It took off vertically at great -speed. Inside the woods, the heat had become intolerable and a cloud of -dense smoke was forming under the rain. After 15 min the witness was -able to approach the site, and he found the trees, grass, and ground -perfectly dry.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; M 204 (Vallee)
-Location: Lusigny Forest, France
-ID: 292

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Event 3762 -(A8DC3EA2)

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Date: 10/20/1954
-Description: Several unknown objects maneuvered for 2 hrs near this -village. One of them was very brilliant and landed in a pasture. Two -others were seen near the cliff in Mers, and seemed to be in -communication by means of light signals with objects in another -group.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 75 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Valery, France
-ID: 293

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Event 3763 -(3F25FF13)

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Date: 10/20/1954
-Time: night
-Description: Renzo Pugina, 37, bad just put his car in the garage when -he saw a strange being covered with a “scaly” luminous suit, about 1.3 m -tall, standing near a tree. The creature aimed the beam from a sort of -flashlight at him, and he felt paralyzed, until a motion he made when -clenching his fist on the garage keys seemed to free him. He attacked -the intruder, who rose and fled with a soft whirring sound. An oily spot -was found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 77;Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Panavicino d’Erba, Italy
-ID: 295

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Event 3764 -(C63537F0)

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Date: late 10/1954
-End date: early 11/1954
-Description: The UK War Office receives six reports of 40–50 -unidentified radar targets that appear from nowhere, usually at midday, -flying at a height of 12,000 feet. The targets first appear in a -U-formation, then converge into two parallel lines and take up a -Z-formation before disappearing. The location of the radar trackings is -not revealed. (Good Above, pp. 38–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2598

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Event 3765 -(43CE88B3)

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Date: 10/20/1954
-Time: 1830
-Description: Mr. Schoubrenner, 25, a truck driver, saw a bright light in -the distance and soon found his road blocked by a strange object. The -engine died, and he felt paralyzed: “My hands were as though glued to -the wheel.” The craft looked like an inverted cone, the lower part -phosphorescent, the middle dull, the top luminous with a yellow or -orange point.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 76; M 204 (Vallee)
-Location: Turquenstein, France
-ID: 294

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Event 3766 -(29232F54)

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Date: 10/20/1954
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Jean Schonbrenner is driving a truck southbound -near Turquestein-Blancrupt, Moselle, France, when he sees a bright glow -ahead on route N393. He continues to drive but feels paralyzed, his -hands glued to the wheel. At about 30 feet away, his engine stops and -the yellow-orange glow rises slowly and heads northwest. He feels a -sensation of warmth and sees that the glow contains a cone-shaped -object. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 203; Schopick, pp. 17–18; -Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 21, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2576

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Event 3767 -(5575C538)

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Date: 10/20/1954
-Description: Lucien Fisch saw an object land near Route N83. It was -luminous.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy; 75 (Vallee)
-Location: Issenheim, France
-ID: 290

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Event 3768 -(150C01B4)

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Date: 10/20/1954
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Jean Lalle (or Jean Lasse) is riding a motorcycle -between Biozat, Alliers, and Effiat, Puy-de- Dome, France, when his -engine dies suddenly. He sees an egg-shaped object with a bright trail -climbing in the sky. The motorcycle restarts once the object has left. -(Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” December 21, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2577

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Event 3769 -(BADF17DC)

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Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: Evening. A motorist is driving on the D220 road with his -4-year-old son between Paillé and Pouzou, Charente-Maritime, France. He -feels a tingling like electric shocks all over his body. The child -cries, the engine stops, and the headlights go out as a luminous red -body with a tail flashes briefly in front of them. (Aimé Michel, -Straight-Line, p. 204; Schopick, -pp. 18–19; Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 21, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2580

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Event 3770 -(3A9449B7)

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Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Jessie Roestenburg and her two children observe a -disc-shaped, aluminum object hovering above their house in Ranton, -Stafford, England. Through two transparent panels they see two men with -white skin, having shoulder-length hair and high foreheads. They wear -transparent helmets and turquoise-blue clothing resembling ski suits. -The object hovers at a tilted angle while the two occupants look at the -scene “sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, -compassionately.” (Clark III 268; Charles Bowen, “Few -and Far Between,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special -issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 4; Gordon Creighton, “The Roestenburg -Story (1954),” Flying Saucer Review 38, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 6–9; -Curt Collins, “Jessie Roestenburg’s -1954 UFO Encounter and Beyond,” Blue Blurry Lines, October 19, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2579

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Event 3771 -(B0F513ED)

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Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: A young man hears a rustling sound and sees a landed UFO -outside Melito di Napoli, Italy. It gives off a powerful bronze-green -light. He then sees an occupant dressed in a diving suit emerge. A dog -begins barking and the entity retreats inside and takes off. (Loren E. -Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 -October, The -Author, 1991, p. 74; 1Pinotti 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2578

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Event 3772 -(3F6C7AA8)

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Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: A young man walking in a field heard a rustling noise and -saw a strange craft land nearby. Getting closer to investigate, he saw a -pilot with a diving suit coming out of the craft, which emitted -bronze-green rays of light, flooding the whole countryside. The witness -was paralyzed. A dog barking about 100 m away caused the rapid escape of -the pilot into the craft, which took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 88 (Vallee)
-Location: Melito, Italy
-ID: 297

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Event 3773 -(BE198652)

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Date: 10/21/1954
-Time: 1645
-Description: Near Shrewsbury, Jennie Roestenberg and her two children -observed a diskshaped, aluminum object hovering above the house. Through -two transparent panels they saw two men with white skin, long hair to -their shoulders, and very high foreheads. They wore transparent helmets -and turquoise-blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at -a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene “sternly, not -in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Ranton, Great Britain
-ID: 298

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Event 3774 -(66F5B576)

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Date: 10/21/1954
-Time: 2000
-Description: The car driven by a bricklayer, Mr. Fillonnau, stoped as a -large ball of fire flew near it. A violent air displacement was felt. -“The battery was dead and the headlights were burned out.” Thorough -police investigation failed to identify the cause of the -phenomenon.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 79 (Vallee)
-Location: Criteuil-la-Madeleine, France
-ID: 299

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Event 3775 -(2824D662)

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Date: 10/21/1954
-Time: 2130
-Description: Between Serifere and Paille, a man from Cherbonnieres -suddenly felt painful pricklings similar to electric shocks and his -4-year-old child started crying. They felt increasing pain as the car -went on, and suddenly the engine died and the lights went off. They were -blinded by a strong red light, which turned orange. It came from an -object hovering above the road, and everything returned to normal when -it went away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 80; M 341 (Vallee)
-Location: Pouzou, France
-ID: 300

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Event 3776 -(C19559E8)

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Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: An egg-shaped object, about 5.5 m diameter, hovered and -landed near the road. Two dwarfs, about 1.25 m tall, emerged from it, -and went back inside almost immediately. The craft took off vertically -leaving a red trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Pons, France
-ID: 296

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Event 3777 -(B4588104)

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Date: 10/21/1954
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Three observers at the Woomera Test Range in -South Australia see an erratic, dancing light adjacent to rocket -Launcher Apron 1, Range B, approximately 500 feet away. The light -alternates from deep orange to yellow and is egg-shaped. Its apparent -size is three times the magnitude of Venus. (NICAP, “Dancing Light -Adjacent to Rocket Launcher”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2581

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Event 3778 -(AA3501DA)

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Date: 10/22/1954
-Description: Afternoon. Roger Reveillé is walking in the Fôret de -Lusigny, Aube, France, when he hears a rustling noise. He looks up and -sees an oval-shaped object about 20 feet long at treetop level. At the -same time he feels an intense heat that also seems to be creating a -thick fog. After a few minutes the object disappears upward, but the -heat continues. Although it is raining, the ground underneath where the -object had been is dry. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 204; Schopick, -p. 18; Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” September 28, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2583

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Event 3779 -(247F10ED)

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Date: 10/22/1954
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Principal Rodney -Warrick and teacher Mrs. George Dittmar of Jerome, Ohio, Special -School watch a large, silvery, cigar-shaped object hanging motionless in -the sky. Soon it takes off, and in its wake it leaves a trail of -whitish, web-like substance that floats down and begins to hang from -wires along the road. It descends in both strands and balls for 45 -minutes. Both adults get greenish stains on their hands from it. All of -it dissipates, but the substance placed in closed jars dissipates more -slowly. (“Strange -‘Flying Cigar’ Puzzles -Union Countians,” -Marion (Ohio) Star, November 2, 1954, pp. 1, 10; “Web-Spinning -Saucer Visits Marysville, Ohio,” CRIFO Newsletter, December 3, 1954, -p. 5; Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, -no. 1 (August 2008): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2584

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Event 3780 -(3B76E22F)

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Date: 10/23/1954
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman in Cincinnati, Ohio, has fallen asleep -listening to the radio. Suddenly it makes a harsh shrieking noise and -the volume increases. Dogs begin barking in the neighborhood, so she -looks outside and sees a large reddish-orange disc with a halo around it -moving in a circle overhead. After a minute it moves off to the south. -(“The -Fort Wayne and Cincinnati Tie-In,” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 9 -(December 3, 1954): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2585

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Event 3781 -(E85F10D2)

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Date: 10/23/1954
-Description: Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse when she saw a -luminous disk in the sky and alled her family. When everyone saw the -object come closer, they locked all doors and spent a sleepless night. -They did not observe the object’s departure.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 81 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Hilaire-des-Loges, France
-ID: 301

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Event 3782 -(53273B21)

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Date: 10/23/1954
-Time: 0100
-Description: Two persons in a car saw an object resting by fhe side of -the road. They stopped and walked toward the craft, 2 m diameter, which -suddenly changed its clear light into a red glow and took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 89 (Vallee)
-Location: San Giovanni Vesuviano, Italy
-ID: 302

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Event 3783 -(94FEBD52)

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Date: 10/23/1954
-Time: 0300
-Description: A farmer saw a flying craft descend to ground level about -50 m away, with a sound like that of a compressor. It was an egg-shaped -machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half was -transparent, flooded with bright white light. Aboard were six men in -yellowish coveralls, having human faces and masks. When he touched part -of the craft, the witness felt a strong electric shock. One of the -occupants motioned for him to stay away. For the next 2O min, the -witness was able to observe the six men, apparently busy with -instruments. Reliable investigations were made.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Tripoli, Libya
-ID: 303

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Event 3784 -(B4DDB56C)

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Date: 10/23/1954
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A farmer named Carmelo Papotto near Tripoli, -Verona, Italy, watches a UFO land 150 feet away with a sound like a -compressor. It seems to be an oval machine with six wheels and complex -machinery. The top half is transparent and flooded with bright light. -Aboard are six men in yellowish overalls with human faces. When he -touches part of the object, he gets an electric shock. One occupant -warns him to stay away. For the next 20 minutes he watches them fiddle -with instruments. The object then rises to 150 feet and takes off at a -dizzying speed. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 237; -1Pinotti 61–62; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO -Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2586

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Event 3785 -(264AFAC5)

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Date: 10/24/1954
-Description: 1:00–6:00 p.m. Officers and men at the Canoas Air Force -Base near Porto Alegre, Brazil, watch a number of “circular -silver-colored” objects moving at high speed. They are also seen by -personnel of Varig airlines and some civilians. There are more than 100 -witnesses. The chief military witness, jet pilot Lt. H. Ferraz de -Almeida, sees a dull silver object moving apparently slowly above the -base in a zigzag fashion. He estimates its altitude as 40,000–45,000 -feet and suggests that its real speed must be tremendous. Maj. J. -Magalhaes Mota is watching the same object as another one rapidly -approaches the first and stops next to it. The second object then moves -rapidly, abruptly changes course, and flies off in an arc. When the -object is in motion, it is surrounded by a misty halo, and when it stops -the halo disappears. Their movements appear mechanical and intermittent. -The report is forwarded to the Air Ministry in Rio de Janeiro with a -request to investigate. Brazilian Air Force Chief of Intelligence Col. -João Adil de Oliviera heads the investigation, which concludes on -December 2 that the “saucers appear to be some kind of revolutionary -aircraft” that are not “conventional phenomena or illusions.” (UFOEv, p. 119; -Swords 461–462)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2589

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Event 3786 -(5E395267)

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Date: 10/24/1954
-Description: A small man with strange glowing eyes is seen near Aïn El -Turk, Algeria, along the coast. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2588

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Event 3787 -(8318A519)

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Date: 10/24/1954
-Description: Rocket expert Hermann -Oberth writes in the American Weekly: “It is my thesis that flying -saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar -system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers -who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for -centuries.” He thinks UFOs might fly by “distorting the gravitational -field.” (Hermann Oberth, “Flying -Saucers Come from -a Distant World,” American Weekly, October 24, 1954, in Cincinnati -Enquirer; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The -Author, 1991, p. 83; Hermann Oberth, “Lecture -Notes for Lecture -about Flying Saucers, 1954,” Australian UFO Bulletin, September -1991, pp. 4–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2587

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Event 3788 -(D62ECD34)

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Date: 10/24/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: Between Biozat and Effiat, on the road from Clermont to -Vichy, the engine of a motor scooter died as an egg-shaped object took -off from the side of the road and rose without noise, leaving a bright -trail behind.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Biozat, France
-ID: 306

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Event 3789 -(AB6E5D86)

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Date: 10/24/1954
-Time: 1730
-Description: Near Sainte Catherine, a child saw a man emerge from a -strange craft. He was “dressed in red, his clothes looked like iron. He -walked with his legs stiff, had long hair and a hairy face. His eyes -were large, like those of the cows.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Les Egots, France
-ID: 305

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Event 3790 -(7632BE08)

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Date: 10/24/1954
-Description: A small man with strange glowing eyes was seen on the -Mediterranean shore.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Ain-el-Turck, Algeria
-ID: 304

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Event 3791 -(96AEA2F7)

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Date: 10/25/1954
-Description: Approximate date. A. Treussard and a friend were almost -blinded by a luminous disk, which landed in a pasture.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Plemet, France
-ID: 307

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Event 3792 -(07678F55)

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Date: 10/25/1954
-Time: 0600
-Description: Ulderico Cardinali saw a disk-shaped craft among the reeds -of a swamp. It was 2 m in diameter, and near it was a small being, 1.40 -m tall, clad in yellowish-brown coveralls. This creature went inside the -machine, which took off at very high speed, touching the tops of the -reeds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 90 (Vallee)
-Location: Northern Italy, exact place unknown
-ID: 308

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Event 3793 -(4BAF7016)

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Date: 10/25/1954
-Time: 1830
-Description: G. Mahou, municipal muncilor, 30, saw a phosphorescent -craft shaped like a brooder, about 2 m in diameter, 1 m high, rise -vertically from the road, leaving a luminous trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 91 (Vallee)
-Location: Arraye-et-Han, France
-ID: 309

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Event 3794 -(03148EF4)

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Date: 10/25/1954
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Farmer Gilbert Hée is gathering pears on his farm -at Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet [now Mesnil-en- Ouche], Eure, France, when he -sees an elongated object about 7 feet long with a green and a red light -at both ends resting in the pasture. Some cows have gathered around it. -The object is moving slowly and stops at a barbed wire fence. Hée goes -inside. At 11:00 p.m., his son-in-law René Marais and a friend, Jean -Chéradame, arrive on a motorcycle. Chéradame agrees to ride into the -field and take a look, but he only goes 300 feet along the road before -the engine fails. He falls from the bike and sees two short creatures -walking stiffly and wearing bright clothes. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 11, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2592

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Event 3795 -(70B33754)

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Date: 10/25/1954
-Description: 6:15 a.m. Several UFOs, some described as spear-shaped and -others as egg-shaped, speed over Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now Serbia], -trailing bluish tails for about an hour. Witnesses include aeronautical -engineer Vladimir Ajvas, AF Capt. Stjepan Djitkol, and staff at the -nearby Zemun Polje Airport. The event is a culmination of UFO sightings -over Yugoslavia since October 15, few of which make the newspapers. -(UFOEv, p. 123; -Hobana and Weverbergh 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2590

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Event 3796 -(714E618C)

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Date: 10/25/1954
-Description: Lucien Jeune, mayor of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Vaucluse, -France, following numerous UFO sightings, issues a police order -prohibiting “The overflight, landing, and take-off of aircraft, -so-called flying saucers or flying cigars, on the communal territory.” -The announcement, which also threatens the confiscation of any craft and -the arrest of occupants, is done as a publicity stunt. Claude Avril, the -city mayor in 2016, refuses to rescind it. (Louis de Gouyon Matignon, -“The -French Anti-UFO Municipal Law of 1954,” Space Legal Issues, May 29, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2591

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Event 3797 -(28B19BBA)

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Date: 10/26/1954
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Aimé Bousard is returning on his bicycle from -the town hall at Alleyrat, Creuse, France, to his residence at La -Vaureille when he sees a figure crouching on the roadway. When he stops, -the figure stands up and points two powerful light-blue lights at him. -The entity is 5 feet 3 inches tall and dressed in a diver’s suit. It has -two green lights on either side of its head. Bousard is paralyzed for 10 -minutes while the lights are aimed at him. Then the entity crosses the -road and disappears and Bousard can move again. Gendarmes investigate -and note that his right hand is swollen and he has difficulty writing. -They find a 27-inch circle of disturbed earth at the site. (Patrick -Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” September 6, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2593

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Event 3798 -(732C609F)

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Date: 10/26/1954
-Description: Vincent Casamajou and his wife saw a large cauldron-shaped -craft, the size of a truck (about 7 m) at 50 m distance, near the road, -18 km from this town, going toward Paris. It took off without noise, -leaving a white trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 9Z (Vallee)
-Location: Angouleme, France
-ID: 310

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Event 3799 -(680BB6E1)

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Date: 10/26/1954
-Time: 2130
-Description: Mrs. Spinner and another witness saw a flying object come -from the west and land 1 km away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Heiteren, France
-ID: 313

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Event 3800 -(AAA78BBB)

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Date: 10/26/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: Approximate date. At this place situated near Saint Quirin, -Mrs. Louis and her sons Marc and Yvon observed an orange craft, 6 m -diameter and 3 m high, fly over them as their tractor engine died. The -lights also went out, and the battery was found dead after the -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Les Metairies, France
-ID: 312

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Event 3801 -(1A3DF603)

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Date: 10/26/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: Aime Boussard, 47, a farmer, was suddenly confronted with -an individual of normal height (1.60 m) wearing a sort of diving suit -with a pale-green light on either side of the helmet. The individual -aimed at the witness the beam of two blue lights, and he was thrown -backward. No craft was observed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 92 (Vallee)
-Location: La Madiere, France
-ID: 311

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Event 3802 -(411CCCEE)

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Date: 10/27/1954
-Description: A shop owner and his employee felt an electric shock as a -very bright object flying very low stopped the engine and turned off the -lights on their car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 92; M 204 (Vallee)
-Location: Linzeux, France
-ID: 314

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Event 3803 -(0D55E955)

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Date: 10/27/1954
-Time: 2030
-Description: An object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his -school director. Triangular traces were reported.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Moussey, France
-ID: 318

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Event 3804 -(C0BC3CF6)

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Date: 10/27/1954
-Description: 1:30 p.m. More than 10,000 soccer fans witness two luminous -discs during a game at Florence, Italy. A large amount of “white -filaments” falls that clings to everything. Engineering student Alfredo -Jacopozzi collects samples in a jar and takes it to Prof. Cozzi at the -Institute of Chemistry at the University of Florence. The lab finds the -samples have a “fibrous structure, with mechanical resistance to -contraction and torsion, burns rapidly, leaving a transparent residue.” -It contains calcium, silicon, aluminum, magnesium, iron, and boron. (“Italy, -Too!” Flying Saucer News, no. 7 (Winter 1954–1955): 6; Brian -Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 101; -Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1 -(August 2008): 5–6; 1Pinotti 63–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2594

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Event 3805 -(6FB871C2)

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Date: 10/27/1954
-Time: 2330
-Description: Near Grosseto, Ermellina Lanzillo, who was looking for her -cat, saw from her window a strange entity standing in the garden. The -being appeared fat and had narrow shoulders, apelike eyes, and a head -like a diving helmet. Paralyzed with terror, she regained self-control -when called by her niece and withdrew from the window.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 94 (Vallee)
-Location: Grosseto, Italy
-ID: 320

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Event 3806 -(15C68FEA)

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Date: 10/27/1954
-Time: 2315
-Description: On Route N40, the Mayor’s secretary saw for 15 min a -bright, cigar-shaped object, flying very low and following the turns of -the road at 20 m altitude. Suddenly it tumed at a right angle from the -road and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Oye-Plage, France
-ID: 319

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Event 3807 -(5440B33E)

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Date: 10/27/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: A farmer, Gilbert Hee, was gathering pears when he suddenly -saw an elongated object with a light at both ends resting in the -pasture. He dared not investigate, but he saw cows gathering around the -object. A minute later, the lights went out, and the witness lost -interest and went home. Two hours later, an 18-year-old man named -Cheradame fell from his motorcycle as it suddenly failed at the same -spot, and alerted neighbors saw the object again. It had moved only -slightly and two occupants were seen. They were about 1 m tall, walked -in stiff fashion, and had clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished -suddenly, and the craft took off without noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France
-ID: 317

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Event 3808 -(5435C76E)

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Date: 10/27/1954
-Time: 1400
-Description: A young man named Fabrizio Bruni heard a strange hissing -sound and saw an object in a field. It was stationary, 1 m above the -ground, seemed transparent and emitted a blinding glare. The witness -fell on the ground “because of his strong emotions” at the sight. The -object took off vertically and suddenly, leaving a trail. Very white, -glistening threads were found on the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 93 (Vallee)
-Location: Ciolica Alta, Italy
-ID: 316

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Event 3809 -(A37296C3)

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Date: 10/27/1954
-Description: Policemen saw a craft, which took off from the ground. No -details were given.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Mezieres, France
-ID: 315

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Event 3810 -(C5BC646A)

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Date: 10/28/1954
-Time: 5:32 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF pilots Lt. Col. O.C. Cook and Lt. J.W. -Brown, on ground using 7x50 binoculars. One brilliant white, round-oval -object climbed in front of clouds, brightened, turned 90 to the north. -Seen for 45 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miho Air Base, Japan
-ID: 372

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Event 3811 -(DFB56440)

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Date: 10/28/1954
-Description: Three luminous UFOs soar over Rome, Italy, seen by -Associated Press reporter Maurizio Andreolo and US Ambassador Clare -Booth Luce. Some witnesses report “fine cotton or wool particles” -falling from them. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 212–213; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 October, The -Author, 1991, p. 91; 1Pinotti 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2596

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Event 3812 -(1AD2048A)

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Date: 10/28/1954
-Description: Hoaxed report of a landed UFO and occupants at Tradate, -Italy, near Milan. (Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., -1966, pp. 108–109; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -1954 October, The -Author, 1991, p. 89; 1Pinotti 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2595

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Event 3813 -(F829367E)

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Date: 10/29/1954
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: four Portuguese nationals. One object, shaped -like a stovepipe with a center bulge and short wings (10’ long, 3’ in -diameter, 3’ wings) having concave wingtips, and grey colored. Made a -gargling sound when hovering, then disappeared in the glare of airplane -landing lights. Sighting lasted 4-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Terciera Islands, Azores
-ID: 373

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Event 3814 -(91CABB27)

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Date: 10/29/1954
-Time: 0745
-Description: A 14-year-old child sought asylum in the farmhouse owned by -Mrs. Gentil, crying that he had been chased by a saucer. A disk three -times as large as the sun, red and purple, spinning rapidly, was seen -descending swiftly toward the ground and then it vanished. Investigation -by local police.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Mesples, France
-ID: 321

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Event 3815 -(EBA8A8CC)

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Date: 10/30/1954
-Time: 0930
-Description: Two objects were seen by hunters. One touched the ground 50 -m away. It was rhomboidic, and from the bottom a cylinder was hanging. A -peculiar sound could be heard. The object shifted its position and the -cylinder hit trees, bouncing three times. Then the craft gained altitude -and flew away, leaving a bluish trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 82 (Vallee)
-Location: Muro Lucano, Italy
-ID: 322

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Event 3816 -(BE6DC409)

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Date: 10/30/1954
-Description: 1:00 p.m. UFO researcher Alberto -Perego is driving past the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, -Italy, when he notices a crowd of about 100 people gazing up at the sky. -He sees two “white dots” moving toward the south then vanish in opposite -directions. Later, two other objects appear and move to the north at an -altitude of about 6,500 feet. (Alberto Perego, “The -Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,” Flying Saucer Review Case -Histories, no. 15 (June 1973): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2597

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Event 3817 -(4F0CC56E)

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Date: 10/31/1954
-Description: Near Long, P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with a -shop owner, Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground. When it took -off, the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 m, emitted -a bright light similar to a welder’s torch. It came back, turned, and -flew to the southwest. It made the same noise as a swarm of bees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Corrompu, France
-ID: 323

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Event 3818 -(53B31A30)

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Date: 11/1954
-Description: The Hungarian government gets an “expert” to state that -UFOs do not exist because all reports “originate in bourgeois countries, -where they are invented by the capitalist warmongers.” (Ruppelt, p. 238)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2600

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Event 3819 -(935FBEA4)

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Date: 11/1954
-Description: Gen. John -A. Samford summons Col. John -O’Mara from Dayton and directs him to clear up any confusion about -Keyhoe’s -use of USAF data. O’Mara writes Eickhoff and says he had misunderstood -and that Keyhoe’s book does contain officially released Air Force UFO -reports. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, p. 231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2599

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Event 3820 -(51FA62A6)

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Date: 11/1/1954
-Time: 0730
-Description: A 40-year-old lady going to a cemetery suddenly observed an -object, shaped like two cones with a common base, resting on a grassy -space. Two small seats were visible inside the lower cone. From behind -the object appared two dwarfs, 1 m tall, wearing gray coveralls and -reddish helmets. Speaking words she could not understand, and with -smiles that showed fine white teeth, they took a pot of flowers from the -witness and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Poggio d’Ambra, Italy
-ID: 324

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Event 3821 -(2DFE229E)

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Date: 11/1/1954
-Description: 6:30 a.m. Rosa Lotti Dainelli sets out for the church at -the castle of Cennina, Arezzo, Italy. As she passes through a wooded -area, she sees a spindle-shaped object standing upright next to a -cypress tree. It has two portholes and a little door, through which she -can see two chairs. Two little men come out from behind the object; they -are dressed in gray suits, cloaks that come down to their waists, and -red helmets. They speak in an unintelligible language and snatch flowers -from her hands and throw them inside the UFO. Dainelli flees, glancing -back only once. (Clark III 228–229; 1Pinotti 65–74; Northern Ontario UFO -Research and Study, “The 1954 -Cennina Landing and Encounter with Humanoids”; Società Cooperativa -Dramatica Filarmonica di Ambra, “Incontro -con umanoidi di Rosa Dainelli nei Lotti”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2602

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Event 3822 -(587EDECB)

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Date: 11/1/1954
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Jack Holloway sees a large, round object that -leaves a vapor trail that sprays sparks and moves at high speed for a -few seconds to the south of Salem, Oregon. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2601

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Event 3823 -(4F8D1EFB)

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Date: 11/1/1954
-Description: 10:40 p.m. Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos is driving at a spot -called Curva del Obispo 42 kilometers from A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, -when his engine stalls and the lights go out. He sees a large glowing -red object near the road. After a while it moves upwards with a “soft -explosion.” At the same time, the radio-telegraph station in A Coruña is -affected by severe interference and static. Probable meteor. (Antonio -Ribera, “A -UFO Survey of Spain: More -Evidence,” Flying Saucer Review 9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1963): 16; -Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part -Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 18; Juan Carlos Victorio, “El -‘platillo volante’ de Órdenes -(A Coruña),” Misterios del Aire, April 17, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2603

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Event 3824 -(AD6827E2)

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Date: 11/2/1954
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Taxi driver Maurilio Braga Godoi leaves the -streetcar trailer at Santo Amaro, a suburb of São Paulo, Brazil, and -starts to walk home. When he arrives at the corner of Rua Andaguara, he -is startled to find a glowing, circular object landed in an empty lot. -It is about 90–120 feet in diameter and surrounded in a violet glow. He -approaches it hesitantly from 60 feet away, feeling like running but he -is rooted to the spot and is unable to call for help. The anxiety -dissipates, and he walks toward it again, noticing a sliding door on the -object. He goes inside, entering a circular room illuminated by a soft -light. On a table he sees some maps, including one of South America with -mushroom-shaped marks on it. He looks up and sees three humanoids less -than 5 feet tall with dark brown skin and dressed in a light gray -coverall and a belt that holds what might be a weapon. They appear to be -conversing in an unknown language. He tries talking to them, but they -don’t understand. He backs out of the object, dragging his feet. He -jumps out of the door and runs away. Looking back at the object from 30 -feet away, he sees it is hovering 30 feet above the ground then takes -off swiftly and silently. Godoi is examined by psychiatrists, who find -him neither neurotic nor psychotic. (Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, -pp. 198–199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2604

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Event 3825 -(06AD3E80)

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Date: 11/2/1954
-Time: 1800
-Description: Two students, Pietro Alberini and Pericle Sacchi, who were -hunting, saw a dwarf 1 m tall with a “rubber” head and a flexible tube -connecting his face to a cylindrial container on his back. When they -came close to it, the being wrapped itself in a bluish cloud. The -witnesses ran away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 90 (Vallee)
-Location: Cremona, Italy
-ID: 325

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Event 3826 -(CA950CDB)

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Date: 11/3/1954
-Time: 0700
-Description: Maroc-Presse reported that one of its employees, Mr. E., -driver of a delivery truck, “a man of sane judgment and excellent -eyesight,” observed an object flying over the Beth River. “I am positive -it was not an aircraft or any known machine but a circular, flat craft -which had the appearance of copper. It flew normally for some time, then -it suddenly flipped over. Therefore, I was able to see the whole disk -and was amazed when it came down into a field where it landed on edge, -very gently. Almost immediately it rose into the sky at great speed, -resumed its horizontal position and was soon lost to sight.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 95 (Vallee)
-Location: Oued Beth, Morocco
-ID: 326

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Event 3827 -(47F684D3)

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Date: 11/4/1954
-Time: night
-Description: Jose Alves was fishing in the Pardo River when he suddenly -saw a craft approach with a wobbling motion and landing near him. Shaped -like two washbowls placed together, it was about 4.5 m in diameter. Too -terrified to move, the witness saw three little men, dressed in white, -wearing tight-fitting skull caps, with dark skin, come out of the craft, -gather vegetables and water and fly away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 33; Lor. I 44 (Vallee)
-Location: Pontal, Brazil
-ID: 327

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Event 3828 -(EDCBA83E)

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Date: 11/4/1954
-Alternate date: 11/7/1954
-Description: 3:15 p.m. A motorcyclist, Gianni Cambosu, sees a silvery, -disc-shaped object about 50 feet in diameter land near the road at Monte -Ortobene, Sardinia, Italy. He swerves sharply to avoid it and falls off -his cycle. A taxi driver, Francesco Tanca, stops to observe the object, -which is making a soft whirring sound before it takes off. (Wilkins, FS -Uncensored, Citadel, 1955, pp. 237–238; -1Pinotti 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2606

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Event 3829 -(8447179C)

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Date: 11/4/1954
-Description: A laborer named Jose Alves of Pontal, São Paulo, Brazil, is -night fishing in the Rio Pardo in a deserted spot. He sees a silvery, -glowing UFO like two washbowls placed on top of each other, closing in -from a westerly direction and wobbling. It lands near him and three -little men emerge from a window, 3 feet tall with dark brown skin. They -are dressed in white clothes with tightly fitting skullcaps, and collect -samples of grass, herbs, and leaves, as well as water, which they put -into a metal tube. They jump back into the object, which takes off -vertically. (Patrick Gross, URECAT, November -22, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2605

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Event 3830 -(313A9AE4)

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Date: 11/5/1954
-Description: Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos, whose car had broken down, saw a -large, shining disk rise 150 m away with a slight noise like an -explosion and fly away at fantastic speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 96 (Vallee)
-Location: La Coruna, Spain
-ID: 328

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Event 3831 -(8E98F8B9)

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Date: 11/5/1954
-Description: 10:09 a.m. A witness in La Roche-en-Brénil, Côte d’Or, -France, sees an orange object making a noise like a generator land in a -nearby pasture. He notices three men standing near it. One is holding a -box that emits a beam of light and the other two hold objects that look -like weapons. Physical traces are found at the landing site: a white -substance and a circle 10 feet in diameter. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 16, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2607

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Event 3832 -(3A27FAC3)

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Date: 11/5/1954
-Time: 1010
-Description: Raymond R. saw a craft, which made a noise like a large -transformer and gave off an orange light, land in a pasture. Three men -in dark coveralls were standing nearby. One was holding a sort of box, -“which emitted a beam of light three meters long.” The other two were -holding objects that looked like weapons. Another witness fled and felt -pricklings on his face as he ran. Four photographs of the scene were -taken. Traces: a whitish substance and a circle 3 m in diameter where -the ground had an ashlike appearance.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: La Roche-en-Brenil, France
-ID: 329

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Event 3833 -(30B56ACF)

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Date: 11/6/1954
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Alberto -Perego is in the Tuscolana district in Rome, Italy, when he sees -dozens of small, white objects in the sky at a height of 4–5 miles. They -are moving at variable speeds, as high as 750–850 mph. At first he -calculates that there are about 50 of them, but later realizes there are -100. Sometimes they are single, other times in pairs, threes, fours, -sevens, or twelves. Frequently they are in diamond formations of four or -V- formations of seven. At 12:00 noon, a formation of 20 objects appears -from the east, followed by another 20 moving from the west. The two -V-formations converge until their vertices form a St. Andrews cross, -with 10 objects to each bar. The convergence takes place over the -Trastevere–Monte Mario district above Vatican City. The cross then -performs a three-quarter turn on its axis, turning into an X-formation, -then breaks off into two separate curves that take off in opposite -directions. Another concentration of about 100 objects appears 10 -minutes later and Perego notices shining filaments falling from the sky. -He grabs a handful of the glassy substance, which evaporates in a few -hours. (Alberto Perego, “The -Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,” Flying Saucer Review Case -Histories, no. 15 (June 1973): 4–5; 1Pinotti 76–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2608

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Event 3834 -(5855D2AD)

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Date: 11/6/1954
-Description: Ray Stanford contacts spacecraft with many witnesses
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Padre Island, TX

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Event 3835 -(3DF169B8)

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Date: 11/7/1954
-Time: 1515
-Description: A motorcyclist saw a disk-shaped machine land near the -road. He tried to turn too sharply and fell 50 m away. A taxi driver -stopped to observe the object, which gave off a soft whirring sound and -soon took off. Farmers on the other side of the mountain saw it fly -away. The disk, about 15 m in diameter, was made of a silvery, rough -metal. It supported a dome and showed several portholes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 97; Wilkins U 237 (Vallee)
-Location: Monte Ortobene, Sardinia
-ID: 330

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Event 3836 -(629E9C7C)

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Date: 11/7/1954
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Alberto -Perego is returning from the Tuscolana district of Rome, Italy, when -he sees more formations of about 50 white objects that remain for about -two-and-a-half hours. They arrive from different directions and always -in formation. More filamentous material falls from the sky. (Alberto -Perego, “The -Great ‘Cross’ -above the Vatican,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 15 -(June 1973): 5; 1Pinotti 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2609

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Event 3837 -(AE4F868C)

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Date: 11/8/1954
-Time: 1030
-Description: A crowd of about 150 people, destroying barriers to come -closer, gathered to observe a luminous craft landed in a stadium. The -object rested on three legs and had a dome emitting a blinding white -light and supporting an antenna. Two small figures dressed in white and -gray, wearing transparent helmets, were seen. They spoke with guttural -sounds. One of them had a black face with sort of trunk. When a man -sicced a boxer dog onto the dwarfs, the animal turned around and bit -him. The object rose with a shrill sound and vanished rapidly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 238 (Vallee)
-Location: Monza, Italy
-ID: 331

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Event 3838 -(F402DE71)

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Date: 11/8/1954
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Blacksmith André Chaillou is riding a moped one -mile north of Loublande, Deux-Sèvres, France, when he notices a small -blue light in front of him. His engine fails and he nearly falls off the -bike. The blue dot is projecting a strong light and hovering about 6 -feet in the air. He finds himself temporarily paralyzed with a tingling -in his hands. The blue light goes out and he is able to move again and -restart his moped, but the light reappears about 450 feet away, -seemingly 18 feet long and cone-shaped. It takes off vertically with a -whistling sound. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” October 22, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2611

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Event 3839 -(D6BA5159)

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Date: 11/8/1954
-Time: dusk
-Description: Andre Chaillou felt pricklings in his hands, “in spite of -his gloves,” when a blue disk came close to his motorcycle and his -electrical system failed. He was unable to move or articulate a word for -several minutes. As soon as the blue light was turned off, he started -again and went near the light when it reappeared 200 m away. He saw the -object, a cone 5.5 m in size, rise vertically with a soft whistling, -then fly horizonally to the north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 98 (Vallee)
-Location: La Tessoualle, France
-ID: 333

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Event 3840 -(78D4FA92)

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Date: 11/8/1954
-Time: 1800
-Description: In the Vacheresse Forest, reliable persons reported seeing -a luminous sphere land at the edge of the forest and become dark. The -next morning, investigation disclosed that an area 4 or 5 m in diameter -had no leaves, while the ground elsewhere was covered with them. The -earth seemed to have been dug up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Voussac, France
-ID: 332

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Event 3841 -(8F1CD5E4)

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Date: 11/8/1954
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Witnesses near Voussac, Allier, France, in the -Vacheresse Forest watch a luminous sphere land and then dim, fading to -black. Investigators find an area 12–15 feet in diameter where there are -no leaves and the ground seems excavated. (Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” April 18, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2610

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Event 3842 -(79AC8303)

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Date: 11/9/1954
-Description: Two villagers reported the landing of a 2-m-high “flying -egg” in a pasture. Screams seemed to emanate from it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Wilkins U 251 (Vallee)
-Location: Bois de Villers, Belgium
-ID: 334

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Event 3843 -(58FCE88B)

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Date: 11/10/1954
-Description: An agronomist and his family encounter a landed UFO along a -road in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Two men with long hair -and one-piece suits emerge and approach them with raised arms. The -witnesses speed away. (Clark III 268; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2612

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Event 3844 -(6139F3AE)

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Date: 11/10/1954
-Description: An agronomist and his family in their car saw a landed disk -from which two men, normal in height, with long hair and coverall-like -clothes, emerged and came toward the car with arms raised. As the -frightened witnesses sped away, they saw the men reenter the disk, which -rose and flew off at very great speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 42 (Vallee)
-Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
-ID: 335

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Event 3845 -(E4662814)

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Date: 11/12/1954
-Description: 3:00–6:00 p.m. A white, motionless object appears over -Louisville, Kentucky. A radar unit 30 miles southwest of Louisville -tracks the object but loses sight about 12 miles northwest of Godman -Army Airfield at Fort Knox. It is later sighted at Bedford, Indiana. -Kentucky National Guard pilot Lt. Col. Lee -J. Merkel notifies Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, which -sends an F-86 to investigate. The pilot sees nothing and returns to the -base. Merkel and another National Guard pilot give chase in F-51 -Mustangs, but they are also unsuccessful. Merkel says the object is -moving into the wind, which is not likely for a balloon. Henry -P. Julliard, deputy director of Standiford Field [now Louisville -International Airport] follows the object for 45 minutes on the weather -bureau’s theodolite; he says the object has no more motion than a star -and that after sundown the object turns amber. (“That -‘Thing’ in the Sky Still -‘Unidentified Object,’” Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, November -13, 1954, pp. 1, 12; “Louisville -Stops Work to Watch Saucer,” CRIFO Newsletter 1, no. 9 (December 3, -1954): 3–4; NICAP, “Sphere -Startles Thousands”; UFOEv, p. 134; -Hynek UFO Report, pp. 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2614

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Event 3846 -(E0B51DD3)

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Date: 11/12/1954
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Alberto -Perego watches even more formations of white objects over Rome. He -has contacted the Italian air defense office, which tells him that the -objects would be out of radar range. This time the objects are also -observed by Fr. Zilwes, a Brazilian priest at the Vatican Observatory in -Castel Gandolfo, Italy. (Alberto Perego, “The -Great ‘Cross’ above the Vatican,” Flying Saucer Review Case -Histories, no. 15 (June 1973): 5–6; 1Pinotti 81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2613

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Event 3847 -(A56D96A9)

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Date: 11/13/1954
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A witness is driving in Buchy, Seine-Maritime, -France, and sees a luminous object take off as he feels a mild electric -shock and is paralyzed. His car engine slows but does not stall. The -object leaves, the paralysis goes away, and the car returns to normal. -(Patrick Gross, “The -1954 French Flap,” October 22, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2615

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Event 3848 -(A6E40A2F)

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Date: 11/13/1954
-Time: 0330
-Description: A lens-shaped object was seen on the railroad tracks. Near -it, three dwarfs wearing tight-fitting suits were looking at the tracks -with a light. When the witness approached, the machine took off very -fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 99; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
-Location: Curitiba, Brazil
-ID: 338

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Event 3849 -(FA5DFDCE)

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Date: 11/13/1954
-Description: At intersection of Routes N28 and N319, Mr. R. L., of -Rouen, saw a luminous craft take off while he feIt pricklings and was -paralyzed. The engine of the car slowed down but did not stall.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Buchy, France
-ID: 337

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Event 3850 -(FA4DA9A1)

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Date: 11/13/1954
-Time: 0330
-Description: Near the local airport, Mr. Davril saw a craft like a round -hut 300 m away. It took off without noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Berck, France
-ID: 336

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Event 3851 -(D736083E)

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Date: 11/14/1954
-Alternate date: 11/11/1954
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Near Isola, Spezia, Italy, Amerigo (or Americo) -Lorenzini sees a cigar-shaped UFO land and a trio of small creatures -wearing diving suits emerge. They walk over to Lorenzini’s rabbit cages -and stare at the animals, talking in a strange language. He runs inside -to grab his gun and tries to pull the trigger as they are taking some -rabbits to the UFO, but he becomes paralyzed. The UFO takes off, leaving -a bright trail. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 -November–December, The Author, 1991, pp. 20–21; 1Pinotti 88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2618

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Event 3852 -(B8651A18)

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Date: 11/14/1954
-Description: Two or three tractor drivers in Forli, Italy, watch a -bright-red, luminous UFO approach them in a farm field. As it -approaches, the engine that works by internal combustion fail, but the -diesel engine still runs. The men run away; when they return, the UFO -has departed. The engine that failed still causes some trouble after the -sighting. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 62–63, -145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2617

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Event 3853 -(6C0AC1C6)

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Date: 11/14/1954
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Railroad worker Jose Rodrigues comes across three -figures in tight-fitting suits inspecting the ground with the help of -luminous objects near railroad tracks near Urai, Paraná, Brazil. They -see him and run back into the UFO. (NICAP, “Railroad -Men See ‘Men’ Inspecting Tracks”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2616

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Event 3854 -(EE96869C)

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Date: 11/14/1954
-Time: night
-Description: A shange beam of red light, apparently from some flying -source, was reported sweeping the countryside. As it illuminated two -tractors, one of them stalled, but the other, a diesel, continued. The -beam was seen for about one hour by a large number of persons.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 211 (Vallee)
-Location: Forli, Italy
-ID: 341

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Event 3855 -(2AE5B839)

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Date: 11/14/1954
-Time: night
-Description: Approximate date. Marcel Pipers a gardener saw a craft -resting near the road give off a very bright light. His clothing was -partially burned when he went close to it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Wasmes, Belgium
-ID: 340

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Event 3856 -(C3BF8B37)

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Date: 11/14/1954
-Time: afternoon
-Description: Amerigo Lorenzini, a farmer, saw a bright, cigar-shaped -craft land near him and took cover. Out of it came three dwarfs dressed -in metallic diving suits. They centered their attention on rabbits in a -cage while speaking among themselves in an unknown language. Thinking -they were going to steal the animals, the farmer aimed a rifle at the -intruders, but it failed to fire and the witness suddenly felt so weak -that he had to drop the gun. The dwarfs took the rabbits, and their -craft departed, leaving a bright trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 100 (Vallee)
-Location: Isola, Italy
-ID: 339

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Event 3857 -(4E5334F8)

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Date: 11/15/1954
-Time: 44 PM
-Description: Witness: N. Gallant, manager of radio station WFAV. Ten -gold, circular objects flew in vertical V-formation, straight and level -for 3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Augusta, Maine
-ID: 374

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Event 3858 -(E92CCA03)

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Date: 11/17/1954
-End date: 11/18/1954
-Description: Blue Book head Capt. Charles -Hardin and Allen -Hynek meet with Col. John M. White Jr., commander of the 4602nd AISS -at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in order to help out -with a guide for investigating and processing UFO reports. (Col. John M. -White Jr., “Report -of Visit of ATIC Representatives,” -November 23, 1954, in History of 4602d Air Intelligence Service -Squadron, vol. 1, January 1– June 30, 1955, pp. 55–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2620

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Event 3859 -(A14CBF49)

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Date: 11/17/1954
-Description: 4:10 p.m. Iden -K. Zimmerman is standing just under the roof of a shed by the -railing of gate number six of the Willamette Falls Locks in Oregon City, -Oregon. His gloved hands are resting on the railing. He feels something -like “icy rain” on his hands. The rain seems to penetrate his clothing -and gloves as if his arms are bare. He feels the same thing on his legs, -from the knees down. Looking up, he sees a bright orange object as large -as the full moon flying in a straight line from west to east. It -disappears over the Crown Zellerbach Paper Mill roof across the river. -He can find no trace of rain on the wooden deck or cement walks, and the -moisture disappears from his clothing. A few minutes later he begins to -feel dizzy and has trouble maintaining his balance. The effect wears off -in about one hour. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2619

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Event 3860 -(98690AD6)

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Date: 11/19/1954
-Time: 4:15 PM
-Description: Witness: P.J. Gunn, assistant professor of art at Oregon -State University and ex-U.S. Navy aviation cadet. One bright white light -hovered 8.5-9 minutes, then crossed 20 of sky in 3-3.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corvallis, Oregon
-ID: 375

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Event 3861 -(77682C8A)

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Date: 11/21/1954
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Copilot Cmdr. Armando Braulino, pilot Cmdr. -Pedro Luiz Teixeira, steward, radio operator, and passengers of National -Airlines Douglas PP-ANM airliner at 9,000 feet over Paraíbo do Sul, Rio -de Janeiro, Brazil, see a UFO formation, described as disc-shaped with -cupola or dome on top, like aluminum with a polished surface. The -formation is coming from the northeast at 7,200 feet and passes below -the airliner at high speed. The duration is 40–50 seconds. (NICAP, “Shiny -Objects Encountered by Airliner”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2621

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Event 3862 -(EC3B5C7F)

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Date: 11/22/1954
-Description: 9:45 p.m. At Santa Maria Air Force Base, Rio Grande do Sul, -Brazil, radio operator Arquimedes Fernandez sees a strange cloud above -the trees, like an upside-down washbowl. It is a solid body 160 feet -across, oscillating with a small light on top. Fernandez radios a report -to weather headquarters at Porto Alegre. The object remains in view -until his duty shift ends at 1:15 a.m. (Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 51–52; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December, The -Author, 1991, pp. 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2624

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Event 3863 -(1FBD4C46)

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Date: 11/22/1954
-Description: Charles Laughead is forced to resign his position at -Michigan State College [now Michigan State University] in East Lansing, -Michigan, because of his flying saucer activities. (Clark III 718)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2622

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Event 3864 -(FFC35E93)

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Date: 11/22/1954
-Time: 2145
-Description: A radio operator at the local air base saw a huge, dark -object about 30 m in diameter hovering at treetop height. With four -other persons he saw it for several hours, sometimes softly glowing, -sometimes coming down almost to the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 4511 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
-ID: 342

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Event 3865 -(098D48FB)

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Date: 11/22/1954
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk on flying saucers in -Northwest Miami
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Northwest Miami, FL

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Event 3866 -(D5A22ECF)

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Date: 11/22/1954
-Description: Anor Ferreira da Silva, a bored telegraph operator in -Caratinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil, transmits a Morse code message to his -friend Geraldo Bastos in Belo Horizonte, claiming that a flying saucer -has crashed in a nearby quarry. His messages continue for an hour, -repeatedly asking the authorities to defend the city from Martian -invaders. Bastos takes the messages seriously, and a friend looking over -his shoulder runs out to the nearest newspaper office to relay the news. -The telephone system of Caratinga shuts down from all the press -inquiries, and soon the Brazilian military investigates, finding nothing -amiss in the city. (John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, -McFarland, 2009, pp. 114–119)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2623

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Event 3867 -(3363CCCF)

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Date: 11/23/1954
-Description: Afternoon. A UFO follows three 10-year-old girls (Anne -Storedal, Tora Storedal, and Tora Moy Haugo) returning home from school -in Torpo, Viken County, Norway. It descends and hovers only 3 or 4 feet -away from them. It is round, about 10 feet in diameter, and the bottom -is black, trimmed with yellow spots which could have been lights, with a -number of small “red jags.” The upper part is a transparent dome; a man -who is operating controls is visible inside. He wears black trousers, a -black jacket, and immense red goggles over his eyes. He stares at one of -the girls. When the craft ascends it collides with a high-tension power -line making a shower of sparks, and the girls run away. They notice a -smell “like fried sausages.” A “streak” is found in the snow, apparently -left by the craft having brushed the surface of the ground. (Clark III -268; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1954, p. 160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2625

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Event 3868 -(CD993540)

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Date: 11/25/1954
-Time: 1700
-Description: Two 12-year-old boys, G. Marziano and P. Santucci, suddenly -saw three figures who, as soon as they were discovered, entered a small -spherical craft concealed 10 m away behind some bushes. The beings were -small, about 35 cm tall, had very large heads and lead-gray skin. The -craft had two sharppointed propellers in front, which started spinning. -The craft took off suddenly with a hissing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 90 (Vallee)
-Location: Calcerosa, Italy
-ID: 343

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Event 3869 -(F98C384B)

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Date: 11/28/1954
-Time: 0200
-Description: G. Gonzales and Jose Ponce, truck drivers, found their road -blocked by a luminous sphere over 3 m diameter, hovering 2 m above -ground. A small creature with claws and glowing eyes came toward them. -Gonzales grabbed it, found it strangely light (less than 2O kg), and -observed its body was very hard and covered with fur. But the creature -pushed him back, while two other dwarfs emerged from the bushes and -leaped into the sphere, carrying stones and other samples. Gonzales was -blinded by a light from the craft and the strange beings flew -away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor I 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 344

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Event 3870 -(5C5D0615)

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Date: 11/28/1954
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Meat merchants José Ponce and Gustavo Gonzáles -are driving a panel truck along Calle Bella Vista in Petare, Caracas, -Venezuela. They find their way blocked by a 10-foot-wide, glowing ball -hovering 6 feet above the street. When they get out to investigate, they -are confronted by a dwarfish creature covered with stiff, bristly hair. -Gonzáles grabs it, but it tosses him to one side. Two more dwarfs, -gathering dirt and rocks nearby, approach. Ponce sees them and runs to -find a police station. Gonzáles recovers in time to see two of the -entities climb through an opening in the UFO. The third comes toward -him, claws extended, and Gonzáles tries to stab it in the shoulder with -his knife, but the blade glances off. One of the dwarfs inside the UFO -points a tube at Gonzáles that emits a brilliant beam of energy. He is -paralyzed and temporarily blinded but manages to stagger to the police -station. A doctor at the emergency room at Esquina de Sálas hospital -treats an abrasion on Gonzáles’s left side. Other witnesses to a UFO in -the area come forward. (Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 57–58; -Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, -pp. 144–145; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the -Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December, The Author, -1991, pp. 32–33; Michael D. Swords, “Classic Cases from the APRO Files,” -IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 31; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November -4, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2626

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Event 3871 -(82BC7E4C)

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Date: 11/28/1954
-Description: A group of peasants at Palmarito, Mérida, Venezuela, see a -strange craft land. Three small-statured beings emerge from it. (Patrick -Gross, URECAT, November -5, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2627

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Event 3872 -(04AA4823)

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Date: 11/28/1954
-Time: 10:50 AM
-Description: Witness: one anonymous medical doctor. One flat-bottomed, -domed object (65-70’ across, 18-20’ high), bright orange with yellow -discs attached and an exhaust trail. Flew north, stopped, reversed its -course during 4 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Manilla, Phillipine Islands
-ID: 376

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Event 3873 -(B088F32A)

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Date: 11/30/1954
-Description: Meteorite or something hurls thru roof of Mrs. H. Hodges in -Alabama.
-Type: anomalous event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Alabama

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Event 3874 -(7758240D)

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Date: 12/1954
-Description: Charles Laughead and his wife Lillian meet George -Hunt Williamson at a lecture he is giving in Detroit, Michigan. -(Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, -Verdechiari, 2016, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2631

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Event 3875 -(76CD7C83)

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Date: 12/1954
-Description: Contactee Orfeo -Angelucci, now working in Twentynine Palms, California, is at Tiny’s -Café when he meets someone named Adam, who claims to have read his book -and gives him some kind of mind-altering pill. After taking the pill, -Angelucci finds himself in an “exalted state” and talks freely with Adam -about outer space and politics. Prior to this time, Angelucci has caught -the attention of the FBI because he has been approached several times by -a group of seeming left-wing agents. (Orfeo Angelucci, The -Son of the Sun, DeVorss, -1959; Kremlin 100–107)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2630

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Event 3876 -(3F5DC331)

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Date: 12/1954
-Description: Early in December, the director of Barquisimeto College was -chased by a luminous disk as he was driving near Guanare. He fired at -the object with his revolver, without effect. He stopped another car in -which a lawyer and two policemen were traveling. All four saw the -machine fly away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 43 (Vallee)
-Location: Guanare, Venezuela
-ID: 345

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Event 3877 -(975F5591)

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Date: 12/1954
-Description: The US Air Force acknowledges that it is contemplating a -“New type of jet aircraft, powered by a turbine larger than any now in -use, [that] is expected to take off, land vertically, and be able to -hover. It may cruise at 1,500 knots and have a range of 15,000 nautical -miles.” It speculates: “If the Soviets now have such an aircraft in -operational use, would the United States air defense system be able to -detect, identify, intercept and destroy a bomber or reconnaissance -aircraft moving at a 1,500 knot clip at an altitude of 65,000 feet?” -(“The -Flying Disc,” Air Intelligence Digest 7, no 12 (December 1954): -6+)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2629

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Event 3878 -(2B7AC511)

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Date: 12/1954
-Description: Aviation inventor Bill -Lear sees a flying disc giving off greenish light near Palm Springs, -California. It hovers for 2 seconds then swiftly moves out of sight. -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: 1955 January–June, The Author, 1992, p, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2628

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Event 3879 -(89A57724)

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Date: 12/1/1954
-Time: 0430
-Description: A 39-year-old civilian saw an oval light, very bright, -illuminating the countryside. After some maneuvers and oscillations in -mid-air, it landed for a couple of minutes less than 3 km away, then -flew off to the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Bassoues, France
-ID: 346

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Event 3880 -(FA1AA094)

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Date: 12/1/1954
-Description: President Eisenhower approves -the development of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane as a CIA -project under the direction of Allen -Dulles. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -U-2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2632

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Event 3881 -(147807F9)

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Date: 12/3/1954
-Description: Morning. Victoriano Maeso, Luis Brugeda, and Francisco -Huertos are at Las Gastanas farm about 3 miles from Granja de -Torrehermosa, Badajoz, Spain, when they hear an unusual noise and notice -an object in the branches of an oak tree about 165 feet away. It is -pyramid-shaped and about 8 feet high and 2 feet in diameter, with four -fins and a box suspended from it by apparent ropes. They approach it, -but the object rises and disappears toward the west. This observation is -the first of about a dozen others reported over the next two weeks in -Badajoz, Zaragoza, Teruel, Guipúzcoa, and Huelva provinces that seem to -involve wayward balloons released in Germany by Radio Free Europe that -carry leaflets intended to be dropped in the Soviet bloc. (Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos and Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “Los -ovnis de diciembre de 1954,” Academia.edu)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2633

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Event 3882 -(6F09E434)

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Date: 12/3/1954
-Time: 12:12 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Mellen. One translucent grey, -round, flat object rotated on its vertical axis at high r.PM for 30 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gulfport, Mississippi
-ID: 377

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Event 3883 -(E9E72D2A)

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Date: 12/4/1954
-Time: night
-Description: For several minutes a waiter saw a circular object -stationary in a pasture 50 m away. It was blue with symmetrical -openings, from which a bright red light was emitted. The witness got a -rifle and fired twice at the very tall figure who came out of the turret -on the craft. Immediately a very strong wind was felt, and the craft -took off amidst a reddish glow.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 101 (Vallee)
-Location: Caselle di Nogara, Italy
-ID: 348

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Event 3884 -(6C29817A)

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Date: 12/4/1954
-Description: Twelve workers saw what they described as a square machine, -with a side of 10 m, land and take off at great speed, flying toward the -south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Zuaga, Spain
-ID: 347

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Event 3885 -(2A3ADCBA)

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Date: 12/5/1954
-Description: 8:15 a.m. Miguel Sevil is hunting in the Montes de Zuera -north of Zaragoza, Spain, when he hears a prolonged whistle and sees a -luminous, transparent object landed about 165 feet away. It has several -rods protruding from it, each apparently with a propeller. Two men about -6 feet tall with blond hair and speaking an unintelligible language -enter the UFO through a door on the side. It rises vertically at -tremendous speed and disappears. Probable hoax. (Vicente-Juan Ballester -Olmos and Juan Carlos Victorio Uranga, “Los -ovnis de diciembre -de 1954,” Academia.edu)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2634

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Event 3886 -(40F56FE0)

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Date: 12/7/1954
-Time: 1:15 PM
-Description: Witness: weather officer, using a theodolite. One white, -semi-circular, flat object with a dome flew from west to east, then -turned north. Sighting lasted 7 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cape Province, South Africa
-ID: 378

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Event 3887 -(93374DDF)

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Date: 12/7/1954
-Description: A Project Blue Book memo acknowledges the many “Foreign -Sightings” in Europe, but attributes the cause to an increase in -“meteorite activity” and overseas translations of Keyhoe’s -book Flying Saucers from Outer Space. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November– December, -The Author, 1991, pp. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2635

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Event 3888 -(CC4C7C8E)

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Date: 12/7/1954
-Description: 1:15 p.m. R. H. Kleyweg, officer-in-charge of the -meteorological station at Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa, is -looking for a red balloon he has just released. He sees an object just -east of the sun, moving slowly west, but when he begins tracking it with -a theodolite, he realizes it is white, not red. It looks like a half -circle with sunlight gleaming from its sloped top. He follows it for 3 -minutes, but then it accelerates and he cannot keep it in sight. (James -E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2636

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Event 3889 -(12FE507A)

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Date: 12/9/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: A farmer, O. da Costa e Rosa, observed a stranger standing -near a machine shaped like “a tropical helmet,” cream-colored, -surrounded with haze, making the same noise as a sewing machine. Another -man was looking at a fence, and the head and arms of a third one were -visible inside the craft. As the witness dropped his hoe, the man -smiled, picked it up, and gave it back to him, after which they motioned -him to stay away and took off. They were of average height, had broad -shoulders, long hair, very white skin, and slanted eyes. They wore brown -coveralls ending with shoes without heels.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 46; Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Linha Bela Vista, Brazil
-ID: 349

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Event 3890 -(CFED20B4)

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Date: 12/9/1954
-Description: Night. Lorenzo Flores and Jésus Gómez are hunting rabbits -near an unfindable town called Carera along the Transandean Highway in -Venezuela. They run across a huge red UFO like two washbowls put -together hovering above the road with flames spurting out. Four small -hairy figures, 3 feet tall, scramble out and grab Gómez and try to drag -him toward the craft. Flores strikes one with his gun butt, but it has -no effect and feels like striking rock. The wooden rifle butt cracks -from the impact. Gómez faints from fright, and both men are scratched -and bruised. A passing motorist takes them to a police station, their -clothes torn and skin abraded. When they tell their story to the police, -it is obvious that their shirts have been shredded into ribbons. (“Hunters -Clawed and Beaten,” -APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 (January 15, 1955): 2; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 56–57; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 November–December, The -Author, 1991, pp. 51–52; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System -for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2639

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Event 3891 -(D72FD854)

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Date: 12/9/1954
-Description: Evening. Farmer Olmiro de Costa e Rosa is feeding his -animals at Linha Bela Vista, said to be 2.5 miles from Venâncio Aires, -Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, when he hears a sound like a sewing machine -that causes some of his cows to run. An object shaped like an “enormous -polished brass kettle” with a rectangular structure on top is hovering -in the air with an oscillating motion. Two small humanoids “enveloped in -a kind of yellow sack from head to toe” are standing in a nearby field. -As he approaches, one runs toward him and the other raises its arm. The -first one kneels down and plucks a tobacco plant from the field, then -both jump into the craft, which vanishes within a few seconds. (Patrick -Gross, URECAT, December -27, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2638

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Event 3892 -(CAB4FD53)

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Date: 12/9/1954
-Time: 1930
-Description: Ernst Jung and his wife saw an intense red, luminous object -descending toward them at great speed. It hovered 5 m above ground when -they stopped their motorcycle. It was cigarshaped, 5 m long, 2 m wide. -They saw it turn off its lights and fly toward the forest. Other people -in a bus saw the same thing.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 56 (Vallee)
-Location: Dorf-Gull, Germany
-ID: 350

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Event 3893 -(41F4F633)

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Date: 12/9/1954
-Description: Giovanni Aquilante, a farmer of Gricignano d’Aversa, -Caserta, Italy, disappears after leaving home to work in the fields. His -family and police fail to find him. On December 10, near 12:00 midnight, -two of Aquilante’s sons and a friend see two mysterious entities with -luminous eyes in a field. They quickly vanish. Aquilante returns home on -the morning of December 11, silent and shocked, and explains that he met -two “dwarfs” in the field wearing multicolored suits. They float him in -the air and take him to “unknown places.” They release him, but promise -to come back for him later. Aquilante is terrified of being abducted -again. (1Pinotti 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2637

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Event 3894 -(B682D0DE)

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Date: 12/10/1954
-Description: An American petroleum engineer takes a photo of a formation -of UFOs over El Tigre, Venezuela. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 -November–December, The -Author, 1991, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2640

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Event 3895 -(5B285B3D)

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Date: 12/10/1954
-Time: evening
-Description: Having seen a bright object land near the Trans-Andean -Highway, two young men approached it, found it was shaped like two bowls -g]ued together, about 3 m diameter. The underside was a source of fiery -light. Four small beings emerged and attacked them, in an apparent -kidnapping attempt. The dwarfs were extremely strong, their bodies -covered with hair. They fled into the machine, and it took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 51 (Vallee)
-Location: Chico, Venezuela
-ID: 352

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Event 3896 -(F6F688AD)

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Date: 12/10/1954
-Time: 1830
-Description: A doctor from Caracas who was driving with his father near -this town stopped his car as two little men were running into the -bushes. Soon thereafter, a luminous disk rose from the side of the road -with a sizzling sound and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 43 (Vallee)
-Location: Floresta, Venezuela
-ID: 351

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Event 3897 -(7B899F59)

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Date: 12/10/1954
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A doctor is driving near Generalissimo Francisco -de Miranda Air Base in Caracas, Venezuela, when he and his father see -two little men running near the road and ducking into shrubbery. Moments -later a UFO rises up from the same spot and zooms away. (Loren E. Gross, -The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -1954 November–December, The -Author, 1991, p. 52; “Doctor -Sees Little Men, Disc,” APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 (January 15, 1955): -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2641

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Event 3898 -(576D1193)

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Date: 12/11/1954
-Time: 1700
-Description: Near the site of Case 349, Pedro Morais saw two human -beings dressed in “yellow bags” take a tobacco plant and a chicken, then -go away. Their craft “had a bottom like an enormous polished brass -kettle,” hovered with an oscillating motion, and made a noise like a -sewing machine. Its upper part resembled a jeep hood.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 46; Humanoids 34 (Vallee)
-Location: Linha Bela Vista, Brazil
-ID: 353

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Event 3899 -(D0ADD520)

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Date: 12/14/1954
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Three bright lights appear in the sky above -Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Around 12:00 noon, they descend to a lower -altitude, and witnesses see they are metallic discs. The Brazilian Air -Force scrambles some jets, but they fail to intercept any of the -objects. By 1:00 p.m., several groups of witnesses around the city are -watching when two of the objects take off to the south, while the third -comes closer and approaches some buildings in the city center. Chief of -Police Col. Carlos Assunção sees a “reddish and slightly bluish object” -moving at incredible speed. Maxim Cicaida, a professional photographer -for Foto Heisler, snaps a photo of the disc above a building. He sends -the negatives to the Brazilian Naval School in Rio de Janeiro, but they -are never returned, and no analysis is released. (Brazil 29–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2642

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Event 3900 -(63264348)

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Date: 12/15/1954
-Description: A man is fishing in a river near Campo Grande, Mato Grosso -do Sul, Brazil, when he sees an unusual object landing a few hundred -feet away. His dog gets nervous and begins to howl. He uses his -telescopic gunsight to get a closer look. He sees two spheres of -different sizes, the smaller one revolving around the larger one, which -is about 6 feet above the ground and has three balls attached to its -underside. Soon he sees small beings come down from the large object, -moving rapidly. One is holding a phosphorescent bucket, and another has -a metallic tube that is cone-shaped at one end. They use these tools to -collect calcareous soil from the riverbank. They take two buckets’ worth -inside the craft, which then takes off. The witness later finds -square-shaped holes in the riverbank. Col. Adil de Oliveira of the -Brazilian Air Force has the soil analyzed and it yields a composition of -61% silica, 19% aluminum oxide, 11% magnesium and iron, with other trace -elements. (Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet, 1967, pp. 195–196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2643

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Event 3901 -(50B79671)

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Date: 12/15/1954
-Description: Asked about UFOs at a press conference, Eisenhower says -that it is “completely inaccurate to believe that they came from any -outside planet or other place.” Immediately after the press conference, -Eisenhower asks for a full briefing on UFOs. (“President -Discounts ‘Saucer’ from Space,” New York Times, December 16, 1954, -pp. 1, 26; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 -November–December, The Author, 1991, p. 62; Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, p. 238)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2644

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Event 3902 -(382EEAB3)

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Date: 12/16/1954
-Description: Three young men saw a dwarf, who attacked one of them, -Jesus Paz, before fleeing into a disk-shaped machine, which flew off -immediately. It was flat and shiny and had been hovering 1 m above -ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 50; Humanoids 35 (Vallee)
-Location: San Carlos, Venezuela
-ID: 354

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Event 3903 -(EA3C5E05)

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Date: 12/16/1954
-Description: Jésus Paz, Luis Mejia, and another young man are driving -home after dinner at a restaurant in San Carlos, Venezuela, when Paz -stops to relieve himself in a park. He claims he is jumped by a hairy -dwarf from a flying disc (both of which his friends see when he -screams). His friends rush the unconscious Paz to a hospital. (Loren E. -Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1954 -November–December, The Author, 1991, p. 60; Mark Cashman, -“Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 -(Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2645

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Event 3904 -(7C8CF67D)

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Date: 12/17/1954
-Time: 1700
-Description: A woodsman from Poligny saw a very bright light on the -road, first thought it was an American car with its headlights on, but -soon observed it came from a dark craft about 80 m away. The light -turned brighter; the witness felt an intense heat wave and thought he -was going to die. Finally, the light went away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Bersaillin, France
-ID: 355

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Event 3905 -(491D56F4)

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Date: 12/19/1954
-Time: 2300
-Description: Jose Parra, an 18-year-old jockey, saw six small creatures -loading stones into a disk-shaped machine hovering about 3 m above -ground. He tried to run away but was paralyzed by a violet beam aimed at -him by one of the creatures. All the creatures entered the craft, and it -took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Valencia, Venezuela
-ID: 356

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Event 3906 -(FAB50DAE)

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Date: 12/19/1954
-Description: 11:00 p.m. José Parra, an 18-year-old jockey, watches a -disc-shaped UFO land in Valencia, Venezuela. Six 3-foot-tall humanoids -disembark and set about collecting vegetation samples and loading stones -into the disc. When he tries to approach them, he is paralyzed by a -violet beam aimed at him by one of the creatures. All the short beings -enter the craft and it takes off. The UFO leaves behind ground traces. -(Clark III 270; “‘Little -Men’ Fail -in Kidnap Attempt!!” APRO Bulletin 3, no. 4 (January 15, 1955): 3; -Patrick Gross, URECAT, -November 24, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2646

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Event 3907 -(6F4BC67C)

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Date: 12/20/1954
-Time: 0000
-Description: An employee of the Barbula sanatorium saw an object on the -ground but did not report it. Three hours later, another employee saw -the craft. It was luminous and took off soon afterward.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 52 (Vallee)
-Location: Valencia, Venezuela
-ID: 357

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Event 3908 -(0C5DD624)

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Date: 12/20/1954
-End date: 12/21/1954
-Description: A group of Dorothy -Martin’s followers has gathered at her Oak Park, Illinois, home to -await the midnight arrival of a flying saucer that is to rescue them -from planetary disaster. They have left jobs, college, and spouses, and -given away money and possessions to prepare for their departure. When no -spaceman arrives, the group sits in stunned silence. Martin begins to -cry, and at 4:45 a.m. she receives a message by automatic writing saying -that the God of Earth has decided to spare the planet from destruction. -The cataclysm has been called off: “The little group, sitting all night -long, had spread so much light that God had saved the world from -destruction.” The group begins an urgent campaign to spread its message -to a broader audience. (Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley -Schachter, When Prophecy Fails, Harper Torchbooks, 1956; Wikipedia, “When -Prophecy Fails”; -Clark III 718–719)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2647

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Event 3909 -(BF24DACF)

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Date: 12/22/1954
-Description: World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy -Martin.
-Type: channelling
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 3910 -(BF24DACF)

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Date: 12/22/1954
-Description: World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy -Martin.
-Type: channelling
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 3911 -(ABB7FC8E)

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Date: 12/26/1954
-Description: Australian physicist O. H. “Harry” Turner has been tasked -with reviewing UFO reports in the RAAF files and writing an assessment -for the Australian Directorate of Air Force Intelligence. Now in -England, he sends the report to the Secretary, Department of Air, in -Melbourne, Victoria. He writes: “If one assumes these Intelligence -reports are authentic, then the evidence presented is such that it is -difficult to assume any interpretation other than that unidentified -flying objects are being observed…. Indeed, the superiority is such that -it is highly improbable that such objects have a terrestrial origin… the -evidence presented by the reports held by the RAAF tend to support the -above conclusion—namely that certain strange aircraft have been observed -to behave in a manner suggestive of an extra-terrestrial origin.” Turner -goes on to recommend appointing at least one full-time investigator; -publicity to encourage more people to report sightings; a liaison with -the USAF to exchange information and verify Keyhoe’s -claims; liaison with the RAF and the possibility of forming a panel to -assist in analyzing reports. The Director of RAAF Intelligence checks -with USAF on the reliability of Keyhoe’s work, and they ultimately -reject it as impractical and unjustified. (Project 1947, “The -Former Air Board / Department -of Air / Current RAAF”; Bill Chalker, “UFOs -Sub Rosa, Down Under: The Australian Military and Government -Role in the UFO Controversy,” 1996; “The -Project Interviews Harry Turner,” Disclosure Australia Newsletter, -no. 16, September 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2648

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Event 3912 -(B12ABE22)

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Date: 12/26/1954
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Willis St.-Jean, a hoistman at the Agaunico Mine -on the shore of Lake Timiskaming northeast of Cobalt, Ontario, sees a -bright white light maneuvering in the sky. He calls John Hunt, a -reporter at the North Bay Nugget office in Cobalt, to drive 3 miles to -the mine to view it. The light is emanating from a large, rotating, -slightly wedge-shaped disc. They watch the object for an hour after he -arrives there. It circles, moves away, dances in the sky, disappears -(apparently when it banks), and returns repeatedly, and at one point it -flies over the lake, illuminating the surface. It disappears for good -shortly after 10:15 p.m. (John Hunt, “Reporter -Sees ‘Saucer’ over -Cobalt Mine,” North Bay (Ont.) Nugget, December 27, 1954, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2649

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Event 3913 -(AB6B5A28)

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Date: 12/27/1954
-Description: Elizabeth -Klarer, having -been alerted by her sister May that the local Zulu people are reporting -appearances of a mythical lightning bird in the sky, travels from -Johannesburg, South Africa, with her children to a hill southwest of -Rosetta, KwaZulu Natal, that she later calls Flying Saucer Hill. There -she claims to see a star ship descend and hover 8 feet above the ground, -emitting a soft hum. Its hull is spinning, though its central dome -remains stationary. The friendly extraterrestrial Akon, with whom she -has been in telepathic contact, is clearly visible through one of three -portholes, but a blast of heat emanating from the ship prevents her from -approaching. The UFO leaves by shooting high into the sky. (Clark III -657; Elizabeth Klarer, Beyond -the Light Barrier, Howard Timmins, 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2650

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Event 3914 -(C7A29B38)

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Date: 12/28/1954
-Description: The NSC 5412/2 Special Group, often referred simply as the -Special Group, is an initially secret, but later public, subcommittee of -the US National Security Council responsible for coordinating government -covert operations. Presidential Directive NSC 5412/2 assigns -responsibility for coordination of covert actions to representatives of -the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the President -respectively. All proposals pass through the Special Group on the way to -Richard -Helms at the CIA, who is responsible for covert operations. It -changes names several times to avoid public exposure. In 1964, it is -known as the 303 Committee, and in 1970 it is renamed the 40 Committee. -Within this organization—which includes such familiar names as Nelson Rockefeller, Robert -McNamara, McGeorge -Bundy, Gordon -Gray, and -Allen -Dulles—is a subcommittee dealing with science and technology. It is -here that the connection between the corporate and financial world and -government-held technological secrets can be found. (Wikipedia, “Oversight -of United States covert operations”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2651

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Event 3915 -(46D1B07F)

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Date: 12/29/1954
-Time: 2100
-Description: Near Gardonne, Mr. Gamba saw an oval red object 50 m away. -When he tried to approach it, he found he was unable to move. As soon as -this “paralysis” subsided, he ran to get his brothers and came back to -the craft, which turned white, then red. It rose and flew away toward -the east. It had been on the ground for at least 15 min. Strange traces -were found, as if the ground had been dug up. Small trees near the river -were found damaged, as if they had been cut with a knife.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 103 (Vallee)
-Location: Bru, France
-ID: 358

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Event 3916 -(9051541D)

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Date: 12/30/1954
-Description: Fifty residents of Lima, Peru, watch a flight of 5 -iridescent silver UFOs for at least 5 minutes. (La Nación, December 31, -1954)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2652

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- Event 3917 (04E15441)

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Date: 1955
-Description: After selling his share of Fate magazine to Curtis and -Mary -Margaret Stiehm Fuller, Ray -Palmer founds a would- be competitor, Mystic (later Search) and -several short-lived SF titles. Other Worlds evolves in 1957 into Flying -Saucers, a more or less nonfiction magazine that features articles of -widely varying credibility and a column of saucer fan-club news. (Clark -III 873)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2657

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Event 3918 -(0DB91A90)

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Date: 1955
-Description: According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, USSR’s Ministry of -Defence formed a UFO Research Committee. Stroganov claimed that Russian -intel chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to -discuss the problem in 1956. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the -issue top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, -the media and UFO research grounds.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: “The -Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 3919 -(71070380)

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Date: 1955
-Description: Soviet “Penza-19” nuclear weapons program plant opens -(Warhead assembly)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 3920 -(1F0D8593)

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Date: 1955
-Description: Project Rover, a US project to develop a nuclear-thermal -rocket, is initiated at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New -Mexico, and runs until January 1973. It begins as an Air Force project -to develop a nuclear- powered upper stage for an intercontinental -ballistic missile. The project is transferred to NASA in 1958 after the -Sputnik crisis. It is managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office, a -joint agency of the Atomic Energy Commission and NASA. Project Rover -becomes part of NASA’s Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application -(NERVA) project and henceforth deals with the research into nuclear -rocket reactor design, while NERVA involves the overall development and -deployment of nuclear rocket engines and the planning for space -missions. (Wikipedia, “Project -Rover”; Wikipedia, “NERVA”; -Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 303–312)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2654

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Event 3921 -(DA118927)

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Date: 1955
-Description: Otis -T. Carr founds OTC Enterprises in Baltimore, Maryland, to advance -and supply technology originating from ideas of Nikola -Tesla. Carr -claims he met Tesla while working as a night clerk in New York City’s -Hotel Pennsylvania, where Tesla was living in the late 1920s. Tesla -befriended Carr and revealed to him secrets he was not ready to make -public yet. Carr attracts the funding of local businessman Wilfred -C. Gosnell. Soon he hires a promotions man named Norman Evans Colton -and sends out regular information bulletins to investors. (Clark III -860)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2656

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Event 3922 -(830F12E5)

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Date: 1955
-Description: The US nuclear stockpile totals 2,422 bombs. (Ryan Crierie, -“U.S. -Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2655

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Event 3923 -(C775645A)

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Date: 1955
-Description: George -Adamski’s Inside the Space Ships, ghostwritten by Adamski follower -Charlotte Blodget, is published by Abelard Schuman in the United States -and Foster and Scott in Canada. Adamski claims that Orthon arranged for -him to be taken on a trip to see the Solar System, including the planet -Venus, the -location where Orthon said the late Mary Adamski had been reincarnated. -He claims that in another voyage he met the 1,000-year-old “elder -philosopher of the space people,” who is called “the Master.” Adamski -says he and the Master discussed philosophy, religion, and the “Earth’s -place in the universe.” Adamski learns that he has been selected by -Nordic aliens to bring their message of peace to Earth people and that -other humans throughout history have also served as their messengers, -including Jesus Christ. Adamski further claims that aliens are -peacefully living on Earth, and that he has met with them in bars and -restaurants in Southern California. (George Adamski, Inside -the Space Ships, -Abelard-Schuman, 1955; Clark III 40; Lou Zinsstag and Timothy Good, -George Adamski: The Untold Story, Ceti, 1983; David Stupple, “The Man -Who Talked with Venusians,” Fate 32, no. 1 (January 1979): 30–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2658

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Event 3924 -(2AB51943)

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Date: early 1955
-Description: A secure test site is needed for the CIA Project Aquatone -(the Lockheed U-2 spy plane). Lockheed test pilot Kelly -Johnson sends project pilot Tony -LeVier and Skunk Works chief foreman Dorsey Kammerer on a two- week -survey mission to scout locations for a new base in an unmarked -Beechcraft V-35 Bonanza. CIA official Richard -M. Bissell Jr reviews 50 potential sites with USAF liaison Col. Osmond -J. Ritland. None seem to meet the stringent requirements of the -program. They reject Johnson’s proposed Site I (Mud Lake?) because it is -too close to populated areas. Ritland recalls a “little X-shaped field” -just off the eastern side of Groom Lake, Nevada, just outside the AEC -nuclear proving ground at Yucca Flat. (Peter W. Merlin, “Groom -Lake Timeline: The First Fifty -Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2653

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Event 3925 -(39A36795)

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Date: 1/1955
-Description: George -King gives the first public demonstration of his contacts with the -Cosmic Masters in Caxton Hall, London, England. After mounting the -platform, he enters a trance, and Aetherius (the Cosmic Master from -Venus) reveals a plan for human peace and enlightenment. (Douglas -Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, -Abbeville, 1985, p. 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2659

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Event 3926 -(5F129D37)

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Date: 1/1/1955
-Time: 6:44 AM
-Description: Witnesses: instructor and student pilot in USAF B-25 -bomber/trainer. A metallic disc, shaped like two pie pans face-to-face, -and 120-130’ in diameter, paced the B-25, showing both its edge and its -face, for 5-7 minutes. Only item in case file was summary form.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cochise, New Mexico
-ID: 379

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Event 3927 -(06BFA58E)

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Date: early 1/1955
-Description: Dorothy -Martin leaves the Chicago area for Prescott, Arizona, home of the -like-minded George -Hunt Williamson, after -being threatened with arrest and involuntary commitment. She later -founds the Association of Sananda and Sanat Kumara. Under the name -Sister Thedra, she continues to practice channeling and participate in -contactee groups until her death in 1992. (Clark III 719)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2660

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Event 3928 -(92524B14)

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Date: 1/3/1955
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Félix Galarraga and Gerardo Izuesta see a red -balloon-like object about 7–10 feet in diameter land near Oiartzun, -Spain. Galarraga rushes towards it, but the UFO rises and speeds away. -From a separate location, brothers Miguel and Martín Arraspio also see -the object descend. Possibly another Radio Free Europe balloon with -leaflets. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 -January–June, The -Author, 1992, p. 4; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Juan Carlos -Vistorio Uranga, “Los -ovnis de diciembre de 1954,” -Academia.edu)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2661

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Event 3929 -(3EAF0378)

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Date: 1/3/1955
-Time: 0725
-Description: Two persons in a car saw a flying object come within 70 m -of them after their vehicle was stopped.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Melbourne, Australia
-ID: 359

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Event 3930 -(0080274F)

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Date: 1/5/1955
-Description: A red circular object 3 m in diameter was observed to land -and take off again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: San Sebastian, Spain
-ID: 360

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Event 3931 -(98A8C3CE)

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Date: 1/7/1955
-Description: The Air Force Information Services Letter warns that -service members are talking too much about UFOs. (Ruppelt, p. 228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2662

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Event 3932 -(8D9D8C32)

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Date: 1/14/1955
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A luminous UFO drops from the sky near Idyllwild, -California. Immediately afterwards, a B-47 pilot reports to March AFB -[now March Air Reserve Base] near Riverside, California, that an -“unknown object just hit our wing.” The pilot guides the plane to a -landing. No trace of a crashed object can be found. (Keyhoe, FS Conspiracy, pp. 247–248)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2663

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Event 3933 -(AB3CCCBF)

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Date: 1/26/1955
-Time: 6:15 PM
-Description: Witness: J.M. Holland. A black smoke trail made a circle. -There was an explosion and some objects fell. No further information in -file.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lakeland, Florida
-ID: 380

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Event 3934 -(3FFDEBD2)

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Date: 1/31/1955
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Peruvian Air Force Commander Guillermo Serpa and -Col. Juan Rodriguez Cavero are returning to El Pata Air Force Base near -Talara, Peru, by car through the Sechura Desert on the Pan-American -Highway 1N when they see a bright light in the sky ahead. The object, a -deep red domed disc, draws nearer and Serpa stops the car to observe it. -It tilts slightly toward them, making occasional clicking sounds. -Several minutes later it accelerates quickly in their direction, -changing to a bright orange color then to a bright white as it shoots -past them at terrific speed. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs a History: 1955, January– June, -Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2002, pp. 14–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2664

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Event 3935 -(54C0DCD3)

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Date: 2/1/1955
-Description: 7:55 p.m. Instructor Capt. Delwyn -F. Ritzdorf and aviation cadet Frederick W. Miller are flying a -TB-25 bomber-trainer about 20 miles east of Cochise, Arizona, at 13,000 -feet and 238 mph when they see a bright round object with red and white -hues. It approaches them then hovers off the left wing for 5 minutes -about 5° above the horizontal. Radio interference prevents Ritzdorf from -reporting the sighting. The object climbs rapidly on a parallel flight -track for 3 minutes before pulling away at 500–600 mph and disappearing. -(NICAP, “Huge Metallic -Disc Paces B-25”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2665

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Event 3936 -(D870A29E)

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Date: 2/1/1955
-Time: 7:55 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Instructor Capt. D.F. Ritzdorf, aviation cadet -F.W. Miller in TB-25 bomber/trainer. One red and white ball hovered off -the left wing of the TB-25 for 5 minutes, then made a very fast climb. -Total time of sighting was 8 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 20 miles east of Cochise, New Mexico
-ID: 381

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Event 3937 -(9D2CBBD2)

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Date: 2/2/1955
-Description: 11:15 a.m. A Venezuelan Aeropostal airliner piloted by -Captain Dario Celis is flying between Barquisimeto and Valera, -Venezuela, at 7,500 feet. Celis and his copilot B. J. Cortes spot a -strange, round “apparatus” flying swiftly toward the plane. Rotating -counterclockwise, the object shines with a greenish light. Around its -center is a red ring or band that emits flashes of brilliant light. -Above and below this band are lighted portholes. Hurriedly the pilot -cuts in his mike to call the Barquisimeto radio station. After reporting -the UFO, he waits for an answer, but the receiver is dead. Later the -radio operators state that just as the pilot began his report, -communication is cut off. The copilot banks toward the rotating UFO. -Instantly the object whirls downward, then levels off, and races away at -tremendous speed. (NICAP, “Plane -Encounters Saucer and Radio Goes Dead”; Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 249–250)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2667

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Event 3938 -(A70783D6)

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Date: 2/2/1955
-Time: 11:50 AM
-Description: Witness: USN Cmdr. J.L. Ingersoll. One highly polished -sphere, with reddish-brown coloring, fell, then instantly accelerated to -1,000-1,500 m.p.h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miramar Naval Air Station, California
-ID: 382

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Event 3939 -(35203D43)

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Date: 2/2/1955
-Description: Aviation inventor Bill -Lear, during a press conference in Bogotá, Colombia, states his -belief that “flying saucers came from outer space and are piloted by -beings of superior intelligence.” He suspects that they might use -gravitational fields as propulsion. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 -January–June, The -Author, 1992, p. 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2666

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Event 3940 -(9593E5E6)

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Date: 2/6/1955
-Description: Several witnesses in Greymouth, New Zealand, see a -dazzling, silvery, cigar-shaped object moving inland at a high speed. -Two observers see it consisting of two parts, with the leading part -larger than the other. A loud explosion like a thunderclap is heard, -causing the earth to tremble slightly. (“World -Roundup,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 2 (May/June 1955): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2668

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Event 3941 -(460AA8BF)

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Date: 2/10/1955
-Time: 10:03 PM
-Description: Witness: E.J. Stein, model maker at U.S. Navy ship design -facility. One object, shaped like a small portion of the bottom of the -Moon, with a radiant yellow color, hovered for 30 seconds. Its bottom -changed to a funnel shape. Total sighting lasted 1.5-2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bethesda, Maryland
-ID: 383

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Event 3942 -(F4BEAE41)

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Date: 2/10/1955
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Many residents of Caracas, Venezuela, see a -strange object crossing the sky silently from northeast to southwest. -José Agustín Díaz in Altamira clocks its time as 6–8 minutes. It looks -like a disc with two bright, pulsating, bluish lights on the underside. -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2669

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Event 3943 -(E15918A9)

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Date: 2/13/1955
-Description: Midnight. A green fireball shoots across east Texas like a -“huge electric arc,” passing from Tyler towards Lufkin. (Loren E. Gross, -The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 -January–June, The Author, 1992, p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2670

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Event 3944 -(D3D753E2)

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Date: 2/15/1955
-Description: ATIC sends a memo to Maj. Joseph A. Cybulski, commander of -the 4602nd AISS at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center] in -Colorado Springs, Colorado, complaining about the high number of -unknowns. It suggests that AISS and ATIC “strive to reach as many case -solutions as possible, thereby reducing the percentage of the unknowns -to a bare minimum.” As long as there is sufficient information, most -cases “will fit to some extent one of the hypotheses.” The probable and -possible cases are merged into the “identified” category. (Maj. T. G. -Connair Jr., “Evaluation of Unidentified Flying Objects,” February 15, -1955, in CUFON, “4602d AISS -Unit History Sampler, Part 7 of 7 Parts”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2671

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Event 3945 -(65DA8755)

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Date: 2/18/1955
-Description: The nuclear Teapot Wasp test takes place at the Nevada Test -Site. Ground forces take part in Exercise Desert Rock VI, which includes -an armored task force Razor moving to within 3,000 feet of ground zero, -under the still-forming mushroom cloud. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Teapot”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2672

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Event 3946 -(1941ADD6)

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Date: 2/21/1955
-Description: Early morning. “Cobwebby gray fibers” fall in Horseheads, -New York, covering one-half square mile. Some “ragged sheets” are many -feet in length. Chemist Charles -B. Rutenber of Elmira College in Elmira, New York, describes it as -“badly damaged, slightly radioactive cotton fiber” that might have come -from a Nevada atomic test. He concludes it is a “short-staple cotton, -possibly lint from waste cotton used in industrial plants.” John -B. Diffenderfer, a -chemist at a local Westinghouse laboratory, finds it is 30% carbon, with -calcium, silica, aluminum, iron, and 10 other trace elements. He thinks -it comes from powdered milk residue, perhaps from the Dairylea milk -processing plant in Elmira. But milk plant chemists Louis R. Hermani and -Robert L. Mix say the material is composed of “cotton and wool fibers -with pieces of fine copper wire mixed in” and looks like it comes from a -carpet sweeper bag. (“Further -Tests Made of Fibers Collected in Horseheads Area,” Elmira (N.Y.) -Star- Gazette, February 23, 1955, p. 13; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair -Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2673

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Event 3947 -(6E1D351A)

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Date: 2/23/1955
-Description: 8:30 a.m. Frederick S. Briggs, a bricklayer and former army -sergeant employed at Broadlands, Romsey, Hampshire, England, the manor -then owned by Lord -Mountbatten, Prince -Philip’s uncle, sees a large disc-shaped UFO over a nearby meadow as -he is bicycling to work. The object is shaped like a spinning top, -metallic, and about 20–30 feet in diameter with portholes around the -center. Watching from less than 100 yards away, Briggs estimates that -the object is 80 feet above the ground. He sees a humanoid figure -dressed in what look like overalls and a helmet descend from the craft -on some sort of column with a platform at the bottom. He is then dazzled -by a bright blue light from the craft and falls over, unable to move, as -if held by a strange force. The UFO then flies off at high speed. -Mountbatten takes a personal interest in this incident, interviews -Briggs, and searches the area of the meadow over which the UFO is seen. -He subsequently has a statement prepared, detailing Briggs’s claims. -This story is written up by Desmond -Leslie in Flying Saucer Review in 1981. Mountbatten’s signed -statement on the incident is held with many of his other private papers -at the Broadlands Archive. (Desmond Leslie, “Did Flying -Saucers Land at Broadlands?” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 (January -1981): 2–4; Good Above, pp. 40– 42, 451–454)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2674

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Event 3948 -(C2769AE3)

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Date: 2/23/1955
-Description: Broadlands Archives Record: Sworn statement by Lord -Mountbatten and Frederick Briggs describing a Saucer that landed on Lord -Mountbattens property. It was shaped like a child’s humming top, between -10 to 30 ft. diameter. Looked like kitchen saucepan. Had cylindrical -column about the size of a man descending from the center. Had portholes -all around the middle, like a steamer boat. I noticed a man standing on -the end of the central column. He was dressed in a dark suit of -overalls, and wearing a close fitting hat or helmet. As the Saucer -powered up a bright blue light came from one of the portholes (like a -mercury-vapor lamp). A force knocked me over. The Flying Saucer -proceeded to rise and retract the central column. (See movie ”Earth -vs. the F.S.”)
-Type: ce2 event
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p451-453, ALIEN)
-Location: Britain
-See also: 8/23/52

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Event 3949 -(E882F42E)

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Date: 3/1955
-Description: The CIA obtains quantities of Hemophilus pertussis, -whooping cough bacteria, from Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. The -agency field tests it covertly along Florida’s Gulf Coast. The incidence -of whooping cough triples this year, but the CIA’s role remains unknown -until 1979. (Bill Richards, “Report -Suggests CIA Involvement in Fla. -Illnesses,” Washington Post, December 17, 1979)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2677

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Event 3950 -(825A2E33)

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Date: 3/1955
-Description: James -S. Rigberg, owner -of the Flying Saucer Bookstore in New York City, begins publishing -Flying Saucer News as the official publication of the Flying Saucer News -Club of America, founded in 1953. It is published twice a year until at -least May 1982. (Flying -Saucer News 1, no. 1 (March 1955))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2676

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Event 3951 -(1E27CD52)

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Date: 3/1955
-Description: Technician and businessman Morris -K. Jessup publishes -The Case for the UFO, the first book to use the relatively new US Air -Force term “UFO” instead of flying saucer. He engages in speculation -about Fortean phenomena, ancient astronauts, levitating forces to -explain megalithic structures, and experiments in ancient times with -flight and even space flight. He identifies 1877–1887 as an “Incredible -Decade,” in which astronomers observe strange space objects, and -meteorologists note strange falls from the sky. He speculates that -mysterious disappearances of ship crews might constitute a curiosity -among “our space friends” on “what has happened to us since they put us -down here.” (Morris K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO, Citadel, 1955; -Clark III 634; Story, p. -51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2675

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Event 3952 -(CDEB667B)

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Date: 3/1955
-Time: 0400
-Description: Robert Hunnicutt, a businessman, saw three men kneeling on -the side of the road. They were about 1 m tall, had gray skin, and wore -tight-fitting gray clothes. They had froglike face, long slender arms, -normal eyes, but no eyebrows. One of them held a dark object (emitting -blue flashes) between his raised arms. Hunnicutt tried to go near but -“must have lost consciousness,” because he found himself driving to the -police station without remembering what took place in the -meantime.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Stringfield; FS May., 61; Sanderson 147 (Vallee)
-Location: Branch Hill, Ohio
-ID: 361

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Event 3953 -(8474911E)

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Date: 3/1/1955
-Description: The Douglas Aircraft Company is conducting a study of -“Unconventional Propulsion Schemes/Systems” for the USAF Air Technical -Information Center from 1954 to 1955, headed by Wolfgang -Klemperer, who -writes a memo to E. P. Wheaton that says: “Our studies of the possible -merit or significance of occasionally appearing publications concerning -Unconventional Propulsion Systems have been carefully continuing since -the first memo (MTM-622) about the progress to mid-December 1954.” -Apparently the project examined some UFO reports (including Willis -Sperry’s) and UFO books. (Douglas Aircraft Company, “Unconventional -Propulsion Schemes,” MTM-622, March 1, 1955; Keith Basterfield, “Documents -Located from that 1955 ‘Secret’ UAP Study by Douglas -Aircraft Company,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific -Research, January 11, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2678

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Event 3954 -(71AB4E9F)

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Date: 3/2/1955
-Time: 1700
-Description: A car was followed for 10 min by three elongated -“balloons,” each showing eight red lights and about 7 m long.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Huntley, Illinois
-ID: 362

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Event 3955 -(6D1C09A4)

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Date: 3/7/1955
-Description: K.A. (initials) from Rescue Team 4, Roswell AFB, N.M. given -a general discharge from the USAF because he told his Sergeant about the -Top Secret recovery of a UFO on April 12, 1954.
-Type: personnel discharged
-Reference: Pea -Research (A5, B3-C)
-Location: Roswell, NM
-See also: 4/12/54

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Event 3956 -(3E4EFCC7)

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Date: 3/11/1955
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Lawrence Grab and his son see a brilliant flash -of light from their home at 714 West Lakeside Street in Madison, -Wisconsin, then watch a phosphorescent object speed over the city from -southwest to northeast. (“Season’s -First Saucer Flies in at High Speed,” Madison Wisconsin State -Journal, March 12, 1955, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2679

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Event 3957 -(D757A968)

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Date: 3/12/1955
-End date: 3/13/1955
-Description: George -Van Tassel’s second Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention -in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, attracts a smaller crowd -than the first. This time George -Adamski is in attendance, along with Charles Laughead, Dorothy -Martin, George -Hunt Williamson, Dana -Howard, Daniel -Fry, Truman -Bethurum, and Dick Miller. Retired USAF Project Blue Book head Edward -J. Ruppelt is in the audience and writes up a report. (Edward J. -Ruppelt, “Among the Contactees,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 3–6, -23–24; Clark III 531; “Six Claim -Rides on Interplanetary Ships,” -Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1955, pp. 3, 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2680

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Event 3958 -(83ACE7C0)

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Date: 3/15/1955
-Description: The 4602nd AISS guide to investigating UFOs is complete and -gets distributed to appropriate personnel. (4602d AISS, “UFOB -Guide,” in History of 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron, -vol. 1, January 1–June 30, 1955, reprinted in CUFON, “4602d -AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 6 of 7 Parts”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2681

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Event 3959 -(EC9956C5)

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Date: spring 1955
-Description: Flying Saucer Review is launched in London, England, as a -small-circulation quarterly, with aviation journalist and former RAF -pilot Derek -Dempster as its first editor. (Denis Montgomery, “How -It All Began: Founding the Flying -Saucer Review,” May 5, 2004; Flying -Saucer Review 1, no. 1 (Spring 1955); Clark III 498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2684

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Event 3960 -(0543983D)

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Date: 3/24/1955
-Description: 2:30 p.m. The pilot of a private Beechcraft plane is flying -at 1,500 feet with a student in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. They see a -domed disc with three windows about 900 feet on their left that appears -to change color from white to orange and back again. Over the next few -minutes, the object flies over, in front of, and under the airplane. -When the pilot puts the plane into a dive, the craft stays with it. The -plane’s instruments stop working. The pilot makes a steep right turn but -the object still paces the plane. When the Beechcraft’s engine begins to -stall, the pilot calls Naha Airport on Okinawa, which alerts the US -Kadena Air Base. Two jets are scrambled, but by the time they arrive the -object is long gone. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -pp. 65–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2682

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Event 3961 -(0A42CC12)

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Date: 3/29/1955 (approximate)
-Description: Early morning. A bus driving past Wright-Patterson AFB near -Dayton, Ohio, sees a silver, triangular object hovering above the base -for 15 minutes. (“Sightings,” -APRO Bulletin, August 1955, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2683

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Event 3962 -(9005B375)

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Date: 4/1955
-Description: U-2 project director Richard -M. Bissell Jr. secures a presidential action adding the Groom Lake -area in Nevada to the AEC proving grounds for CIA use. Kelly -Johnson meets with CIA officials in Washington, D.C., and discusses -progress on Project Aquatone, proposing to use the name “Paradise Ranch” -for the new base. (Peter W. Merlin, “Groom -Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2686

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Event 3963 -(4C4BC8B4)

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Date: early 4/1955
-Description: Pentagon press officer Capt. Robert White writes to Claude -H. Marck Jr., an -interested citizen in Colorado, that Dewey Fournet’s motion studies -project was a personal endeavor, that the probability of UFOs being -spacecraft is “extremely remote,” and that the Air Force does not try to -influence public opinion on the matter. (Swords 209–210)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2685

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Event 3964 -(379AA651)

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Date: 4/5/1955
-Description: Producer Ivan -Tors debuts Science Fiction Theatre, a science fiction anthology TV -series that presents scientifically plausible stories in an -unsensational manner. Many episodes deal with UFO or alien themes, -including the season opener, “Beyond,” in which a test pilot bails out -and loses his plane because he thinks he’s going to crash into a UFO. -The program runs 78 episodes through 1957 and is hosted by veteran -announcer Truman -Bradley. Each -episode opens with Bradley on a laboratory set, sometimes quoting from a -recent Scientific American article, and he discusses and demonstrates a -scientific principle that plays a role in the story he is introducing. -(Internet Movie Database, “Science -Fiction Theatre”; Curt Collins, “The -UFO Message of Science Fiction -Theatre,” -The Saucers That Time Forgot, January 18, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2688

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Event 3965 -(D9DE63D3)

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Date: 4/5/1955
-Description: 9:55–10:15 a.m. Three or four fireballs fall in various -places in southern New Mexico. Air Force Sgt. Camilla Saenz is stationed -on Sacramento Peak near Cloudcroft when she sees a yellow fireball with -a red tail traveling fast from east to west on the south side of the -peak. An airplane from Biggs Air Force Base [now Biggs Army Airfield] in -El Paso, Texas, sees an apparent meteor strike near Weed, New Mexico, -but USAF planes comb the area for 2 hours afterward without finding -anything. Bill Watson sees a dark object smash into the earth near Oil -Center, New Mexico, but he can find no fragments. Lincoln -LaPaz reports that heavy shortwave and TV interference accompany the -appearance of the fireballs. (“Fireballs -Shower on State,” Alamogordo (N.Mex.) Daily News, April 6, 1955, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2687

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Event 3966 -(148D6D93)

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Date: 4/6/1955
-Description: Night. Three unusual green fireballs pass over New Mexico. -Radio and TV interference are reported over a wide area. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, pp. 264–265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2689

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Event 3967 -(1D0F19D0)

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Date: 4/8/1955
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Three residents of Albuquerque, New Mexico, watch -a blue-green fireball streak west over the city. It appears to have a -rose-orange tail. (“Fire -Balls Again Seen over City,” Albuquerque Journal, April 9, 1955, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2690

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Event 3968 -(A241E6FE)

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Date: 4/18/1955
-Description: Albert Einstein dies
-Type: scientist
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Princeton, NJ

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Event 3969 -(6E806281)

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Date: 4/21/1955
-Description: Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, 5 adult and 7 child -witnesses, UFO spotted, “twelve to fifteen” short, dark figures who -repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows.
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: link
-Location: Hopkinsville, KY

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Event 3970 -(CED38C0E)

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Date: 4/25/1955
-Description: 1:00–1:30 a.m. Residents and motorists see a brilliant -fireball streak across the sky above Council Bluffs, Iowa. State Highway -Patrolman John Ebert says the light was as bright as an arc welder. One -resident sees the light burst into flame and drop to earth. Witnesses in -Nebraska think the fireball descends abut 3 miles southeast of Waverly, -Nebraska. (Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil, April 25, 1955; Nukes -93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2691

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Event 3971 -(777DB88B)

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Date: 4/30/1955
-Description: A member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences tells a radio -audience that UFOs do not exist. (Ruppelt, pp. -238–239)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2692

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Event 3972 -(00DC023D)

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Date: 4/30/1955
-Time: 7:30 AM
-Description: Witness USAF Wing Intelligence Officer Maj. L..J. -Pagozalski. Four black objects in a cluster made a whooshing sound like -a zephyr. Sighting lasted 2-3 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Travis County, Texas
-ID: 384

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Event 3973 -(74A7E746)

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Date: 5/1955
-Description: The UK Air Ministry announces that the report in March on a -five-year investigation into UFOs by the RAF has been submitted to -high-ranking officers, but the results cannot be released publicly for -security reasons. MP Maj. Patrick -Wall asks the Under-Secretary of State for Air George -Ward to confirm whether or not he would publish a report. Ward -replies that only 10% of UFO reports are unidentified and that is -because of lack of data. (Derek Dempster, [Editorial], -Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 2 (May/June 1955): 1; Good Above, p. 43; -UFOFiles2, p. 60– -61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2693

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Event 3974 -(094E1A23)

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Date: 5/1955
-Description: 15-year-old Jacques Vallée and his mother see a “gray, -metallic disc with a clear bubble on top” hovering above a church in -Pontoise, France. (Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic, -1992, pp. 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2694

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Event 3975 -(600CD721)

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Date: 5/4/1955
-Time: 12:38 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. E.J. Stealy, lst Lt. J.W. Burt. About -10 round, white objects, one of which left a brief smoke trail, flew in -an irregular formation, some of them making erratic movements during the -5-8 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Keflavik, Iceland
-ID: 385

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Event 3976 -(EDFFD853)

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Date: 5/4/1955
-Description: A survey team arrives at Groom Lake, Nevada, and lays out a -5,000-foot north to south runway on the southwest corner of the lakebed -and designates a site for a base support facility. The “Ranch” initially -consists of little more than a few shelters, workshops, and trailer -homes in which to house its small team. In a little over three months, -the base consists of a single paved runway, three hangars, a control -tower, and rudimentary accommodations for test personnel. The few -amenities include a movie theater and volleyball court. There is also a -mess hall, several wells, and fuel storage tanks. (Wikipedia, “Area -51”; Peter W. Merlin, “Groom -Lake Timeline: -The First Fifty Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2695

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Event 3977 -(34733A0B)

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Date: 5/4/1955
-Description: Afternoon. Lt. Col. Edward -J. Stealy, commander -of the 57th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Keflavík Airfield, Iceland, -and 1stLt. Joseph Burt see 10–15 flying objects, 60–70 feet in diameter, -at about 25,000 feet. They fly in loose formation for about 4–5 seconds -and are traveling at a tremendous rate of speed (perhaps 1,150 mph). -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 -January–June, The Author, 1992, pp. 5–58; Sparks, p. 226; -Clark III 376)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2696

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Event 3978 -(A1509C4F)

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Date: 5/5/1955
-Description: ATIC declassifies Battelle Memorial Institute’s 1951–1954 -study of UFOs, completed in March 1954, as Project Blue Book Special -Report No. 14 but does not release it until October 25. (Special -Report No. 14: Analysis of Reports -of Unidentified Aerial Objects, US Air Force, 1955; Clark III -929–932)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2697

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Event 3979 -(1E2CBF67)

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Date: 5/18/1955
-Description: News release from AEC announcing “preliminary work” had -begun “on a small satellite installation” within the Las Vegas Bombing -and Gunnery Range. Contractor was adding “Limited additional facilities -and modifications” to a small installation near Groom Lake (now known as -Area 51).
-Type: news release
-Reference: “Dreamland” -by Bob Lazar
-Location: Groom Lake

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Event 3980 -(86CDF9C5)

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Date: 5/22/1955
-Description: Journalist Dorothy -Kilgallen writes in the Los Angeles Examiner that “British -scientists and airmen” have examined the wreckage of a crashed flying -saucer. Her informant is a “British official of Cabinet rank,” who tells -her that the “saucers were staffed by small men—probably under four feet -tall.” Flying Saucer Review editor Gordon -Creighton later researches this story in detail and thinks -Kilgallen’s source is First Sea Lord Louis Mountbatten. Some -suggest that Kilgallen picked the story up at a cocktail party hosted by -Mountbatten. Her story is widely dismissed as a hoax, but other events -put her claims in a new light. (“U.F.O. -Crash in Britain?” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 3 (July/Aug. 1955): -6; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: 1955 January–June, The Author, 1992, p. 69; Good Above, -pp. 43–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2698

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Event 3981 -(7D053BBA)

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Date: 5/23/1955
-Time: Midnight
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Airman/Basic I.J. Shapiro and E.C. Ingber. -During a 5 minute period, two slender, vertical rectangles were seen low -on the horizon, and two ovals with tops (dark, with dark blue -illumination) flew higher.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming
-ID: 386

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Event 3982 -(98FD987F)

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Date: 5/23/1955
-End date: 5/26/1955
-Description: At the Fifth AISS Commander’s Conference at Ent AFB [now -the US Olympic Training Center], Colorado Springs, Colorado, an analysis -of UFOs and science fiction is presented that notes: “General public not -qualified to evaluate material propounded in science fiction. Absurd and -fantastic theories given credence solely on the basis of ignorance.” -Also, “Abnormal predisposition to attach belief to the more fanciful -aspects of UFOBs, e.g. ‘Flying Saucers’ would tend to negate the -source’s reliability as a factual observer.” (“Report of Fifth -Commander’s Conference, 23 May to 26 May 1955,” in History of 4602d Air -Intelligence Service Squadron, vol. 2, January 1–June 30, 1955, -reprinted in CUFON, “4602d -AISS Unit History Sampler, Part 7 of 7 Parts”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2699

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Event 3983 -(38C64115)

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Date: 5/24/1955
-Description: 7:48 p.m. GOC spotter Charlotte -Whitecotton and another woman at Loveland, Ohio, watch four UFOs in -formation pass low over their enclosure, then zoom to the north. They -report the incident to the Columbus Filter Center. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 -January–June, The Author, 1992, p. 71; Isabel Davis and Ted -Bloecher, Close -Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS, 1978, -pp. 145–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2700

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Event 3984 -(FE5B5217)

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Date: 5/25/1955
-Description: Around 3:30 a.m. Robert Hunnicut is driving along the -Loveland-Madeira Road in the Branch Hill area of Loveland, Ohio. At the -Hopewell Road intersection, his headlights illuminate three short -figures kneeling next to the road. They are grayish humanoids with a -wide slit for a mouth, an indistinct nose, and normal eyes without -eyebrows. The heads are hairless with prominent wrinkles on the -forehead. They are wearing one-piece grayish garments. One arm seems -longer than the other and the upper torso is lopsided. One of the -figures is holding a rod emitting blue-white sparks. Hunnicut gets out -of the car and walks towards them. They look towards him and there is a -3-minute standoff. Hunnicut goes to the police station and returns with -Police Chief John K. Fritz. No trace of anything is found. (Stringfield, -3-0 -Blue, CRIFO, -1957, pp. 66–68; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, -pp. 115–116; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close -Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS, 1978, pp. 138–148; -Clark III 270; Rob Ryder, “On the Trail of the Loveland Frogman,” -Fortean Times 361 (Christmas 2017): 38–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2701

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Event 3985 -(1CE73B8E)

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Date: 5/29/1955
-Time: 1920
-Description: Approximate date. Three farmers, among them Thomas -Robinson, saw a light growing in size for 2 min and flying between them -and Mt. Williams. Looking like a “light airplane on fire,” it changed -course, losing altitude and trailing flames. It touched the ground, -lighting up the whole area, rose again, and began to “feel its way along -the crooked edge of the cane field and the swamp toward our house.” It -returned to earth four times. The dogs ran out barking as it landed -within 100 m of the witnesses before taking off again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Smithfield, near Cairns, Australia
-ID: 363

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Event 3986 -(F6575877)

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Date: 5/31/1955
-Time: 1110
-Description: A farmer, 74-year-old J. B. Collange, was watching his cows -on a clear, calm morning when he suddenly observed, in an easterly -direction, a vertical circular object about 3 m away, the bottom edge -about 30 cm from the ground. It measured about 1.10 m in diameter, was -very luminous, white, but not blinding. Many filaments of various colors -were radiating from the disk. Their length varied between 0.5 and 2 m. -The object rose over a hedge and was lost to sight behind some -woods.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos 14, 15, 22 (Vallee)
-Location: Puy-Saint-Gulmier, France
-ID: 364

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Event 3987 -(433BFF06)

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Date: 6/1955
-Description: James -W. Moseley renames Nexus as Saucer News and it becomes a popular -bimonthly UFO magazine. (Clark III 1032)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2703

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Event 3988 -(6A066342)

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Date: 6/1955
-Description: Cincinnati, Ohio, businessman Thomas Eickhoff buys a copy -of George -Adamski’s Inside the Space Ships. Upset with Adamski’s statement -that his space contacts can be corroborated, he takes steps to take him -to federal court to make him prove his story or face fraud for using the -US mail system to sell his book. Eickhoff’s lawyer brings in a -government adviser who advises them to drop the lawsuit. Eickhoff’s -efforts eventually bring a reply from a lawyer for CIA Director Allen -Dulles, who -says the problem is that Adamski could “prevent anyone from testifying -in court concerning this book because maximum security exists concerning -the subject of UFOs.” The lawyer says he would be subject to a -countersuit. (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, -pp. 169–170; Good Above, pp. 341–342)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2704

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Event 3989 -(C0ECB8B3)

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Date: 6/4/1955
-Description: A Boeing RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft of the Air Force -Special Security Service (air arm of NSA?) tracks an unknown object -visually and by radar for 9 minutes near Melville Sound, Nunavut, -Canada. The crew chief describes it as “glistening silver metallic.” The -crew obtains gun camera film, but of poor quality. The object speeds off -to the north. (Good Above, p. 285; -Sparks, p. 226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2705

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Event 3990 -(889E998D)

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Date: 6/5/1955
-Description: 7:30 p.m. François-Gilbert Muyldermans is cycling on a -deserted road near Saint-Marc, near Namur, Belgium, when he sees a -bright disc moving at a high speed at an altitude of around 4,900 feet. -He takes out his camera and snaps a photo. The object descends, then -rises again emitting a cloud of white smoke. He takes two more photos. -Anomalies in the blurred grain, inconsistencies in orientation, and the -circumstances by which the story entered UFO lore suggest a deliberate -hoax, perhaps with the help of a journalist. (“A -‘Classic’ from Belgium,” BUFORA Journal 4, no. 12 (March/April -1976): 12–13; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, Belgium -in UFO -Photographs, Volume 1 (1950–1988), FOTOCAT -Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 38–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2706

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Event 3991 -(1C991C82)

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Date: 6/7/1955
-Description: An RB-47 en route to Eielson AFB, Fairbanks, Alaska, -registers an electronic contact southeast of Banks Island, Northwest -Territories, Canada, at 10,500 feet range. The radar return is small and -rectangular. (Good Above, p. -286; -Sparks, p. 227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2707

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Event 3992 -(95176275)

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Date: 6/10/1955
-Description: Science fiction movie “This Island Earth” is released. A -group of scientists receive special materials that are technologically -more sophisticated than anything available at the time from a secret -research group.
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US

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Event 3993 -(8426E51C)

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Date: 6/13/1955
-Description: Frank -Edwards travels with a TV film producer to the Navy Department at -the Pentagon and asks for some unclassified photos of rockets. When the -Navy learns that Edwards wants to show them on TV during a panel -discussion on UFOs, the office refuses to cooperate. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, p. 269)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2708

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Event 3994 -(26E3221E)

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Date: late 6/1955
-Alternate date: early 7/1955
-Description: Early evening. A 19-year-old Civil Defense worker named -Carlos Flannigan is driving a truck across a bridge over the Little -Miami River near Loveland, Ohio, when he notices 4 small figures about 3 -feet high on the riverbank. A terrible smell hangs over the area. He -only watches them for about 10 seconds then immediately drives to police -headquarters to report the incident. (Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close -Encounter at -Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS, -1978, pp. 129–132; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February -14, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2715

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Event 3995 -(F5C452FB)

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Date: summer 1955
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Dumitru Coca watches a strange object emitting a -ring of white sparks at an altitude of 3,000 feet above Hârşeni, -Romania. It is blue with white stripes and flying noiselessly at high -speed. He watches it for 3 minutes. (Hobana and Weverberh 229–230; -Romania 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2702

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Event 3996 -(8B24330A)

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Date: 6/23/1955
-Description: 12:15 p.m. A Mohawk Airlines DC-3 is cruising at 3,000 feet -in good daylight visibility about 15 miles east of Utica, New York, on a -heading to Albany. Both pilot and copilot see an object come over the -top of the aircraft from behind, an estimated 500 feet above their -altitude. They estimate the length of the object at about 150 feet. It -is described as “light gray, almost round, with a center -line        Beneath the line there were several (at least four) windows -which emitted a bright blue-green light. It was not rotating but went -straight. [The lights] seemed to change color slightly from greenish to -bluish or vice versa [as the object receded]. A few minutes after it -went out of sight, two other aircraft (one, a Colonial DC-3, the other I -did not catch the number) reported that they saw it and wondered if -anyone else had seen it. The Albany control tower also reported that -they had seen an object go by on Victor-2 [airway]. As we approached -Albany, we overheard that Boston radar had also tracked an object along -Victor-2, passing Boston.” (NICAP, “150ʹ -Object Passes over DC-3 Crew from Behind”; Condon, p. 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2709

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Event 3997 -(D39DD4BF)

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Date: 6/25/1955
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Two civilian and two military witnesses see a -yellow, shining sphere with a trail 4–5 times its length over Hillcrest -Heights, Maryland. It appears to oscillate in the air, stops, oscillates -again, then finally moves away at high speed. It travels nearly overhead -and then is lost in the sky at a 45° elevation. It is visible for 7 -minutes. (Michael D. Swords, “Air Force UFO Investigations in the -Mid-1950s,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 8– 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2710

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Event 3998 -(598C19CD)

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Date: 6/26/1955
-Description: 10:45 p.m. A brilliant round object with a trail 4–5 times -its own length approaches National Airport in Washington, D.C., stops, -oscillates, and moves off at high speed. Ceiling lights at the airport -go out when the object approaches and return to operation when the UFO -leaves. Searchlights are trained on the object, but when they catch it -in their beams, the searchlights go out. A check with the Silver Hill -Observatory in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, determined that a small -weather balloon carrying a magnesium flare was released aboiut the same -time as the visual sighting. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, p. 236; Schopick, -p. 21; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of -the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955, January–June, The -Author, 1992, pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2712

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Event 3999 -(C0F4BB9D)

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Date: 6/26/1955
-Description: Several civilian and military witnesses in Holt, Florida, -see a disc with blinking lights. (Sparks, -p. 227; Michael D. Swords, “Air Force UFO Investigations in the -Mid-1950s,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 10; Hynek UFO Report, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2711

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Event 4000 -(E3FE5453)

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Date: 6/29/1955
-Description: The Second Hoover Commission presents its final report to -Congress on streamlining procedures in the executive branch. Gen. Mark -W. Clark, heading the commission’s task force on intelligence, notes -the CIA’s lack of accountability and recommends establishing an -intelligence oversight committee. (Wikipedia, “Hoover Commission”; -Richard A. Best Jr. and Herbert Andrew Boerstling, “Proposals -for Intelligence Reorganization, 1949–1996,” -Report to the US House Select Committee on Intelligence, Congressional -Research Service, February 28, 1996, pp. 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2713

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Event 4001 -(6EF4413D)

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Date: 6/30/1955
-Description: The 4602nd AISS reports that of its 194 preliminary UFO -reports for 1955, it has made 23 field investigations and has 25 -unsolved reports, or an unknown rate of 13%. Going back to August 12, -1954, and removing cases of insufficient evidence, the percentage of -unknowns is lower: 23 unknowns from 306 reports, or about 7.5%. In -reality, however, none of these numbers mean much; they reflect the -creativity and audacity of the explainers at ADC and ATIC.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2714

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Event 4002 -(052F0048)

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Date: 7/1955
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Col. William -T. Coleman is flying a B-25 out of Miami, Florida, with a copilot, -flight engineer, a Lockheed test engineer, and a General Motors jet -engine technician. As he is moving northward into southern Alabama, he -spots at 2 o’clock high what he calls a “craze” in the windshield. He -calls the others’ attention to it. He gives chase to it at low altitude -over farmland and sees its shadow on the ground, as well as two vortices -coming out of the shiny metallic disc that kicks up dust on the ground. -When he tries to cut it off at a maximum speed of 345 mph, the object is -gone, leaving behind the vortices on the ground. Duration of the -sighting is 10–11 minutes. (NICAP, “Col. -Coleman Case / Chases UFO at Low Altitude”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2717

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Event 4003 -(41A6E3D2)

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Date: 7/1955
-Description: Construction of the Groom Lake base in Nevada is completed -and the CIA begins utilizing it, along with the US Air Force, for -Project Aquatone, the development of the Lockheed U-2 strategic -reconnaissance aircraft, the nation’s first aerial espionage program. It -consists of one paved runway, three hangars, a control tower, a -makeshift mess hall, and rudimentary accommodations. A movie theater and -volleyball court are added. CIA officer Richard Newton is assigned as -base commander. Other key organizations are briefed on Area 51’s -existence—the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the US Navy, -the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. A -small group of four Lockheed test pilots, two dozen Lockheed mechanics -and engineers, a handful of CIA officers who double as security guards, -and some of Col. Ritland’s -staff take up residence. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 5, 51–53; -Peter W. Merlin, “Groom -Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10, -2021; “Pilots -of the U-2,” Secret Heroes, November 10, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2716

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Event 4004 -(07DFC6BF)

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Date: 7/1/1955
-Description: CRIFO Newsletter becomes CRIFO Orbit. This issue reviews -several airplane crashes and disappearances that Stringfield thinks -might be related to UFO activity. (“World’s -Air Forces, in Joint Operations, Challenge Incursion -of UFO’s,” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 4 (July 1, 1955): 1– 2; Clark III 460, -1114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2718

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Event 4005 -(943D92A6)

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Date: 7/3/1955
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Margaret -Symmonds is driving on US 129 seven miles south of Stockton, -Georgia, when four small humanoid figures with caps and huge eyes are -caught in the headlights. They seem to be digging a hole in the road -with some sticks. She yells and swerves the car, driving past them. The -figures seem oblivious. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September -15th, The Author, 1992, pp. 2–3; Stringfield, 3-0 -Blue, CRIFO, -1957, pp. 63–64; Clark III 270; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close Encounter -at Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS, -1978, pp. 149–160; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February -16, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2719

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Event 4006 -(B48781CD)

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Date: 7/3/1955
-Description: Mrs. Wesley Symmonds was driving near this town when she -saw four “bug-eyed” creatures near the road. They were small beings with -thin arms, large eyes, and pointed chins. Two were turned away from the -witness; one was bending over with something like a stick in its hand; -and the fourth one was facing her with its right arm raised. It had -bulging eyes, a sort of cap, no visible mouth, a long pointed nose, a -chin which came to a sharp point, and long thin arms with claws.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Stringfield; Humanoids 54 (Vallee)
-Location: Stockton, Georgia
-ID: 365

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Event 4007 -(ABB73ED3)

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Date: 7/5/1955
-Description: 3:00 a.m. USAF pilot Lt. Homer -H. Speer Jr and copilot Lt. Paul -Daily, call sign Archie 29, and pilot Lt. Robert W. Schneck and -copilot Lt. David Cueldner, call sign Archie 91, are flying Boeing KC-97 -Stratofreighters at 20,000 feet on a refueling mission off the coast of -Newfoundland. They see two bright objects at 20,000 feet, apparently -stationary. Ground radar picks up several objects, some in a distant -cluster flying erratically. Speer is able to maintain visual contact, -calling direction change of the object to the radar site by radio. The -objects are tracked on radar for 49 minutes. (NICAP, “Archie -29 KC-97 Radar Case”; Sparks, p. 228; -Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn -Press, 2006, pp. 296–297; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, -August Night, 2022, pp. 263–264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2720

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Event 4008 -(F388D9D0)

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Date: 7/12/1955
-Description: Unusual UFOB report from Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland. UFO -sighted by a tanker aircraft (KC97) pilot and ground radar. “Unusual” in -that the pilot of the Archie 29 called direction changes of the UFO to -ground radar which correlated exactly with those painted by the radar -scope. This observation went on for 49 minutes. Signed: Todos M. -Odarenko.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland

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Event 4009 -(335942D6)

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Date: 7/18/1955
-Time: 0300
-Description: Mr. Maupin and five other witnesses on the airfield were -blinded by a light from a disk-shaped object 150 m away. It left orange -glows in its trail. Silent, flying slowly, it hovered near the Metro -station, close to the ground, but did not actually land. It left toward -the northwest. A woodsman from Mareul-Caubert, Mr. Rolle, saw the object -half-an-hour earlier. It came from the direction of Amiens.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Plessiel Airfield, near Abbeville, France
-ID: 366

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Event 4010 -(BB2301B9)

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Date: late 7/1955
-Description: A man, a female companion, and two children are picnicking -on a Lake Ontario beach in St. Catharines, Ontario, when a silvery disc -approaches them rapidly across the water, then hovers above them before -heading to another family nearby. It swings back to the original group, -“moving like a clock pendulum.” The man flees to his car but finds it -will not start. Through the windows of the UFO, just a few feet above -the ground, the witnesses see the faces of four pale-faced men with -black hoods covering their ears and heads, sitting straight and rigid. -The object shoots over the lake, ascends rapidly, and disappears. (Clark -III 268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2721

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Event 4011 -(A90AFECF)

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Date: 7/24/1955
-Description: The Groom Lake “Ranch” in Nebada receives it first delivery -of U-2s from Burbank, California, in a C-124 Globemaster II cargo plane, -accompanied by Lockheed technicians on a Douglas DC-3. Regular Military -Air Transport Service flights are set up between Area 51 and Lockheed’s -offices in Burbank. To preserve secrecy, personnel fly to Nevada on -Monday mornings and return to California on Friday evenings. (Wikipedia, -“Area 51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2722

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Event 4012 -(6EE26EEE)

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Date: 7/26/1955
-Description: A brilliant round object with a trail 4–5 times its own -length approaches National Airport [now Ronald Reagan Washington -National Airport] in Washington, D.C., stops, oscillates, and moves off -at high speed. Ceiling lights at the airport go out when the object -approaches and returns to operation when the UFO departs. (UFOEv, p. 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2723

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Event 4013 -(814F0642)

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Date: 7/29/1955
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witness: Morrice Raymond. Four orange flashing lights and -one whIte flashing light moved up and down like yo-yos for 5-6 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Columbus, Nebraska
-ID: 387

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Event 4014 -(96B70F19)

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Date: 7/29/1955
-Description: President Eisenhower announces -a program to launch a scientific satellite during the International -Geophysical Year. The program will be run by the National Science -Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences, with advice coming from -the Department of Defense. (Amy Shira Teitel, “How -the Stage Was Set for the Satellite Race,” -Popular Science, January 3, 2016; Amy Shira Teitel, Breaking -the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight -before NASA, Bloomsbury -Sigma, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2724

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Event 4015 -(29474539)

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Date: 7/29/1955
-Description: 8:30–9:30 p.m. An aircraft engineer and four others notice -a “2nd magnitude star” in the vicinity of Saturn at Lake Ronkonkoma on -Long Island, New York. The star moves in a perfect circle around Saturn, -heads east until it gets to the Moon, where it executes a half-circle -pass and disappears. The object then appears 120° away and moves -horizontally until it takes an abrupt turn vertically. It disappears -again at about 70° above the horizon. Then it reappears in a straight -dive-like descent until it reacquires its original 30° elevation. It -proceeds horizontally again, makes an abrupt angular shift again -downwards, and is lost in the trees. Through binoculars the object looks -spherical and yellowish. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” -IUR 30, no. 2 (January 2006): 8–9; Swords 227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2725

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Event 4016 -(4D29C838)

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Date: 8/1955
-Description: Hundreds of people gather each night at the Black Arch, on -the Antrim Coast Road near Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, to -watch a mysterious display of lights at sea. The light flashes three or -four times in quick succession, then flashes again about 6 minutes -later. The Larne police suspect that the lights are flares dropped from -aircraft. (Larne Times, August 18, 1955; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland -vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 (September 2014): -54–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2726

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Event 4017 -(BAF5D9BF)

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Date: 8/1955
-Description: Police from Luzern, Switzerland, investigate a sighting of -a shiny metallic disc seen at Waldibrücke and Eschenbach. (“Forscher -findet verschollene UFO-Akten der Schweiz,” -Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell, July 8, 2013; “The Swiss X-Files,” Fortean -Times 312 (April 2014): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2727

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Event 4018 -(CBA780BB)

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Date: 8/1/1955
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mr. Sheneman, who was coming from Willoughby, came out of -his car and saw a circular object with a red light on it that came down -fast, hovered, and emitted two beams of light. The witness fled toward -his house, and the object appeared to chase him at less than 70 m -altitude. It measured about 30 m in diameter and supported a dome. -Mr. Sheneman, his wife, and their two children saw it fly away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 114 (Vallee)
-Location: Chardon Road, Ohio
-ID: 368

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Event 4019 -(5DB08997)

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Date: 8/1/1955
-Time: night
-Description: Two persons in a car saw a lighted object dive toward them -and hover about 30 m above the road. A disk, 12 m in diameter, it flew -around the car and went away without noise. The witnesses were tourists, -who went straight to the Arles police.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 105 (Vallee)
-Location: Salon, near Arles, France
-ID: 367

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Event 4020 -(7B2D3620)

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Date: 8/1/1955
-Description: The first test flight of the Lockheed U-2 takes place at -Groom Lake, Nevada. During a high-speed-taxi test in the first U-2, -Lockheed’s chief test pilot, Tony -LeVier, inadvertently -becomes airborne after accelerating the U-2 to 70 knots. He is unable to -land the U-2 on his first attempt, and it bounces back into the air, but -he manages to successfully bring it down on a second try. Damage to the -prototype U-2 is very minor. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -U-2”; -“Area -51 and the Accidental Test Flight,” Central Intelligence Agency, -August 6, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2728

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Event 4021 -(10861BA5)

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Date: 8/1/1955
-Description: 8:45 p.m. William M. Sheneman, the owner of a radio/TV -store in Willoughby, Ohio, pulls into his driveway and walks across the -street to check his mailbox. He sees a red light about 1,000 feet away -coming at him at a right angle. He thinks it is a plane about to crash. -Then the ground is illuminated with two brilliant lights aimed directly -from the object. He runs back into the house as the UFO moves over his -garage about 50–100 feet in the air. He sees a big red light at the -front and a green light at the rear. Then all the lights turn off and -the object moves away over the woods. He and his wife can now see the -outline of a dome lit up with tiny lights inside. It hovers there for 5 -minutes then moves away. (UFOEv, p. 114; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th, The -Author, 1992, pp. 31–32; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close -Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS, -1978, p. 180; Clark III 244–245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2729

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Event 4022 -(92E2ED1A)

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Date: 8/2/1955
-Description: Frederick -C. Durant informs the Sixth Congress of the International -Astronautical Federation in Copenhagen, Denmark, that President Eisenhower has -decided to back the launch of a US scientific satellite during the -upcoming International Geophysical Year. Not to be outdone, Soviet -delegate Leonid -I. Sedov calls a press conference and announces that Russia can -launch an artificial satellite within the next 2 years that will be more -sophisticated than the Americans’ efforts. (Amy Shira Teitel, “How -the Stage Was Set for the Satellite Race,” Popular Science, January -3, 2016; Amy Shira Teitel, Breaking -the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before -NASA, Bloomsbury -Sigma, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2730

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Event 4023 -(53485A7D)

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Date: 8/5/1955
-Time: 1430
-Description: Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disk-shaped -machines coming down and up again at great speed. One of them flew under -the others, then two disks appeared to land 300 m away near the German -cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous -speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Buzancy, Ardennes, France
-ID: 369

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Event 4024 -(73E2E069)

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Date: 8/8/1955
-Description: The CIA’s Todos -Odarenko writes an office memorandum recommending that the CIA -should maintain a file of UFO sightings but deny that all investigations -are inactive, and separate explainable UFOs from unidentifiable reports. -(Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 75–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2731

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Event 4025 -(2A57FD5E)

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Date: 8/11/1955
-Time: 11:45 AM
-Description: Witness: 2nd Lt. E.J. Marlow. Twelve grey objects, from -cigar to egg-shaped, varied their formation from elliptical to wavy line -to scattered to straight line to trail formation. Speed varied from -hover to 1,000 m.p.h. Sighting lasted 3-4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Iceland
-ID: 388

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Event 4026 -(6681FD05)

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Date: 8/11/1955
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A witness in Cairo, Illinois, sees a -triangular-shaped UFO low on the horizon above the trees, heading -silently north and slightly west. Its front end is dark, its middle -section bluish green, and its end very bright. (“Sightings,” -APRO Bulletin, August 1955, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2732

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Event 4027 -(5624B7F0)

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Date: 8/16/1955
-Time: 0400
-Description: Mr. Ernest Suddard, 35, and his 13-year-old son were in a -lorry on Roundhill Street when they saw what seemed to be a human being -about 1.20 m tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes. It held its arms -close to its sides, its feet close together, and walked by a series of -jumps. On its chest was a silver disk perforated with holes. It turned -off suddenly into a passageway and was lost to sight. The witnesses were -too amazed to follow it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Constance 222 (Vallee)
-Location: Bradford, England
-ID: 370

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Event 4028 -(A8C8BE6D)

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Date: 8/16/1955
-Description: Early morning. Truck driver Ernest Suddard and his -13-year-old son are returning home to Bradford, West Yorks, England, -when their headlights light up a small figure in the street. It is 4 -feet tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes, and is hopping forward -in a series of jerky movements. A circular, silvery object, perforated -with holes, appears on the figure’s chest just below its throat. It -approaches the truck then turns away abruptly into a passage. Suddard -alerts the police, but they find nothing. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: 1955 July–September 15th, The -Author, 1992, p. 50; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February -19, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2733

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Event 4029 -(9A4029C1)

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Date: 8/16/1955
-Description: 3:55 p.m. Mechanic Hugh Saunders sees a silver object above -a white cloudbank above Cave Hill in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is -flat and moves swiftly. (Belfast Telegraph, August 17, 1955; Shane -Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” Fortean Times 317 (September -2014): 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2734

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Event 4030 -(A97A81A9)

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Date: 8/19/1955
-Time: 2330
-Description: About 700 m away from Roundhill street, Mr. Wood, a -warehouseman, saw a bright, bullet-shaped, silvery object behind a -hillock. It measured about 4 m in height, 1.5 m in diameter, had a -surface similar to chromium and made a highpitched buzzing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Constance 222 (Vallee)
-Location: Bradford, England
-ID: 371

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Event 4031 -(DCB199E1)

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Date: 8/19/1955
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A “shining, glittering ball” zigzags across the -sky over Lisburn, Northern Ireland. It is seen by many people for about -10 minutes. Jeffrey Moore, 17, says it looks like a steel ball at first, -then as it gets closer it appears “cross-shaped.” It moves in a variety -of directions before disappearing into the clouds. (Belfast Telegraph, -August 20, 1955; Shane Cochrane, “Ireland vs. the Flying Saucers,” -Fortean Times 317 (September 2014): 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2735

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Event 4032 -(B58E9AA9)

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Date: 8/20/1955
-Description: 10:45 p.m. The president of a small Canadian air service -and his nightwatchman are checking their seaplanes in their dock at -Kenora, Ontario, when they see an object “shaped like two saucers with -their open tops touching, one above the other” streaking toward them -from the west. It is silvery-white in color and sending out rays from -its surface or sparkling “as if some electric force or very hot air was -flowing from all the surfaces.” It tilts on its side about 600 feet from -them, then straightens out with the flat side parallel with the ground -and hovers about 225 feet from them and 40 feet above the surface of the -lake. It is completely silent and looks to be only 4–5 feet across. (J. -Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 111–112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2737

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Event 4033 -(E437F6B6)

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Date: 8/20/1955
-Description: Pilot Horace -A. Hanes attains an airspeed record of 822 mph in a North American -F-100C Super Sabre at Palmdale, California. (Wikipedia, “North -American F-100 Super Sabre”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2736

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Event 4034 -(77644B27)

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Date: 8/21/1955
-End date: 8/22/1955
-Description: About 7:00 p.m. Billy Ray Taylor goes into the backyard of -the Elmer “Lucky” Sutton farmhouse 7 miles north of Hopkinsville, -Kentucky, and sees a bright object come from the south-southwest, pass -over, and descend into a gully about 500 feet north and about 35-40 feet -lower elevation. Glennie -Lankford and 6 other adults (Elmer Sutton, Vera Sutton, John Charley -Sutton, Alene Sutton, June Taylor, O. P. Baker) plus 3 children -(Charlton, Lonnie, and Mary Lankford), see several gremlin-like -creatures float down from trees and approach the house from the dark. -They are about 3 feet high with roundish heads, elephantine ears, -slit-like mouths extending ear to ear, huge and wide-set eyes, no -visible necks, and long arms ending in clawed hands. They wear glowing -silver clothing. When they run, they drop on all fours. When one of them -approaches the house, Sutton and Taylor fire shotguns through the window -screen, scoring a direct hit. The creature is knocked over, but gets up -and scuttles off. Taylor walks out the door and one of the creatures -grabs at his head. This activity continues the greater part of the night -and includes heavy gunfire at times. Sutton fires point blank at it, -knocking it from the roof, but it just “floats down.” At about 11:00 -p.m. they run out of ammunition, and the entire group flees in terror in -two cars and drives at high speed into Hopkinsville to report the -incident to the police. A state patrolman leaves the Shady Oaks -restaurant 3 miles north of Hopkinsville in a car to respond to the call -and sees several meteor- like objects streaking over him sounding like -artillery fire. He sees two in a series looking like meteors coming from -the southwest, headed towards Kelly from the direction of Fort Campbell, -a US Army installation. City, county, state, and military police and -reporters drive out to the Sutton farm to investigate from 11:30 p.m. to -2:00 a.m. The UFO entities return at about 2:30 a.m. Glennie Lankford is -trying to get to sleep when she sees one outside her window stretching -its claw-like hands up to the screen. Elmer Sutton again shoots at them -without effect. The last one is seen at about 5:15 a.m. Clark writes -that investigations by “police, Air Force officers from nearby Fort -Campbell, and civilian ufologists found no evidence of a hoax”; however, -Brian -Dunning reports that “the claim that Air Force investigators showed -up the next day at Mrs. Lankford’s house has been published a number of -times by later authors, but I could find no corroborating evidence of -this.” Dunning also observes that “the four military police who -accompanied the police officers on the night of the event were from an -Army base, not an Air Force base.” Skeptic Joe -Nickell notes that the family could have misidentified great horned -owls, which are nocturnal, fly silently, have yellow eyes, and -aggressively defend their nests. He thinks Taylor and Sutton were -drinking heavily. Meteor sightings also occurred at the time that could -explain Billy Ray Taylor’s claim that he saw “a bright light streak -across the sky and disappear beyond a tree line some distance from the -house.” (Wikipedia, “Kelly–Hopkinsville -encounter”; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: 1955 July–September 15th, The -Author, 1992, pp. 54–75; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of -the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 July–September 15th, Supplemental -Notes, The -Author, 2002, pp. 18– 36; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine -ed., 1974, pp. 172–178; -Story, pp. 190–192; -Clark III 642– 643; Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close Encounter at -Kelly and Others of 1955, CUFOS, 1978; Sparks, p. 230; -“The Close Encounter of the Third Kind at Kelly Re-examined,” IUR 3, no. -5 (May 1978): 4–6; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean -Tomes, 1987, pp. 53–56; Joe Nickell, “Siege -of ‘Little Green Men’: The -1955 Kelly, Kentucky, Incident,” Skeptical Inquirer 30, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 2006); Brian Dunning, “The -Kelly- Hopkinsville -Encounter,” Skeptoid podcast no. 331, October 9, 2012; Patrick -Gross, “The -Kelly-Hopkinsville Case, -1955”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2738

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Event 4035 -(E4E0D2A3)

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Date: 8/21/1955
-Time: 2030
-Description: The Sutton family saw a light landing near their farmhouse, -then several nightmarish entities about 1 m tall, with glowing silver -clothing, an oversized round head, huge eyes and ears, and a slit-like -mouth harassed them for several hours, in spite of heavy gunfire. At one -point, one of the entities was knocked down from the roof by a bullet: -it “floated down.” Running out of ammunition, the Suttons got the -police, who observed a lighted object in the sky, flying very -fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic, Anatomy 173; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky
-ID: 372

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Event 4036 -(1DA266F3)

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Date: 8/22/1955
-Time: 1400
-Description: A group of children was playing in the garden of Mr. and -Mrs. Douglas when they observed a hovering object which disappared and -reappeared as a spinning disk with curved lines radiating from it. Other -objects, silvery and semi-transparent, soon appeared and were seen by -all children. They made musical sounds as they vanished and reappeared. -One of them landed, and a creature the size of a 4-year-old child, -transparent, wearing a belt with a bright disk, was seen nearby. Another -creature appeared and spoke to one of the boys. All the children -experienced visions of the object and the creatures, as well as “arms” -which appeared to beckon to them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: TSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Casa Blanca, near Riverside, California
-ID: 373

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Event 4037 -(E830BDBA)

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Date: 8/23/1955
-Time: 10:45 AM
-Description: Witness: G.M. Park, using a 400x telescope. Several orange -lights moved singly or in groups, circling and stopping during 30 minute -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Arlington, Virginia
-ID: 389

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Event 4038 -(89CE8C5F)

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Date: 8/23/1955
-End date: 8/24/1955
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Personnel at the Ground Observer Corps tower in -Hamilton County, Ohio, notice three white spheres between Columbus and -Cincinnati. Tracking the UFOs on radar, they notify SAC at Lockbourne -AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base], which scrambles jets to -investigate. The UFO approaches the tower and hovers in pendulum-like -motions directly above it. The interceptors give chase, but the UFO -disappears at an incredible speed. The Greater Cincinnati Airport also -tracks unidentified blips on radar. To his surprise, Stringfield obtains -clearance to write about these sightings in CRIFO Orbit. But when he -tries to interest the Cincinnati newspapers, they are not interested. A -Wright-Patterson AFB spokesperson denies the incident to the press and -claims to know nothing about Stringfield’s relationship with ADC. -(Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 12–14; Sparks, p. 230; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 -July–September 15th, The Author, 1992, p. 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2739

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Event 4039 -(DBC3059B)

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Date: 8/25/1955
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Lloyd Wright and Mrs. Lester Parsons of -Bedford, Indiana, see a huge white object with a black streak down the -center. The object seems to expand and contract regularly as it hovers -over Mrs. Parsons’s home. The houselights appear to dim and pulsate in -rhythm with the object. (Schopick, -p. 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2740

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Event 4040 -(BAA419AD)

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Date: 8/25/1955
-Description: Four adolescents in a car saw a creature with a luminous -body, standing near a fireplug.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Stringfield 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Greenhills, Ohio
-ID: 374

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Event 4041 -(C0F08AE0)

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Date: 8/29/1955
-Description: RAF pilot Walter -Gibb reaches an official record altitude of 65,876 feet in an -English Electric Canberra B.2 turbojet. (Wikipedia, “Walter -Gibb”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2741

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Event 4042 -(89921C9E)

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Date: 8/30/1955
-Description: 9:30 a.m. Pedro Navarro, 25, takes a photograph of some -swirling storm clouds over Dudignac, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. -When he develops them, he notes that the disturbance looks more like a -giant disc. The newspapers reproduce enhanced versions of the photo, but -it is never critically analyzed until several decades later. The best -guess is that the photo shows a round cloud. (Vicente-Juan -Ballester-Olmos, “Exigesis -of the Dudignac -Saucer of 1955,” UFO FOTOCAT Blog, December 26, 2021; Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos, “Exegesis of -the Dudignac Saucer of 1955,” January 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2742

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Event 4043 -(3365913B)

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Date: 9/1955
-Description: Austrian Countess Zoe -Wassilko von Serecki writes an article for American Astrology in -which she conceives of UFOs as living animals that inhabit the -ionosphere and are attracted to electrical sources. (Zoë -Wassilko-Serecki, “Startling Theory on Flying Saucers,” American -Astrology 23 (September 1955): 2–5; Clark III 1099–1100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2743

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Event 4044 -(0D1AEE7B)

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Date: 9/1955
-Description: Day. Several witnesses see four silver discs flying in -formation over Lima, Ohio. (Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” -IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2744

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Event 4045 -(C9870304)

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Date: 9/2/1955
-End date: 9/4/1955
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Eddy -Geddes notices a fireball as he is driving to Kalispell, Montana, -from Whitefish. He stops at a Ground Observer post and notifies the -women stationed there. Jets are scrambled from Malmstrom AFB in Great -Falls and arrive shortly after midnight, long after the object is gone, -but another fireball is apparently seen later. The same scenario occurs -on September 4 when five F-94C Starfire jets (as well as other aircraft -from Great Falls and Spokane, Washington, are sent to the Kalispell -area. (“Air -Force Jets Called in Search for ‘Fireball’ -over Kalispell,” The Missoulian, September 5, 1955, p. 7; “Recent -Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, September 15, 1956, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2745

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Event 4046 -(E8ADB2B2)

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Date: 9/3/1955
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Witness: Observer Saunders for Ground Observer Corps. One -white pinhead moved slowly across 30 degrees of sky in 15 minutes. No -further information.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bellingham, Washington
-ID: 390

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Event 4047 -(AC3E2B7D)

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Date: 9/7/1955
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Witnesses: Two photographers, one plate maker for the Army -Map Service (one named Smith). One glowing round object flew an arc for -1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 391

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Event 4048 -(DAF1CA35)

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Date: 9/8/1955
-Description: Test pilot Ray -J. Goudey reaches an altitude of 65,000 feet in a Lockheed U-2 at -Groom Lake, Nevada, a feat not revealed until declassification in 1998. -“From where I was up above Nevada I could see the Pacific Ocean, which -was 300 miles away.” (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -U-2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2746

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Event 4049 -(F2501B12)

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Date: 9/9/1955
-Description: Capt. Hugh McKenzie of the Air Defense Command in Columbus, -Ohio, contacts UFO researcher Leonard -Stringfield in Cincinnati and asks for CRIFO’s cooperation in -providing them with new UFO reports. He also says that Ground Observer -Corps in southwestern Ohio is to report UFO activity to CRIFO for -screening. Screened reports are then to be forwarded to the ADC filter -center using the code “Fox Trot Kilo 3-0 Blue.” All expenses will be -reimbursed by the Air Force. (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, -1977, p. 11; Clark III 1114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2747

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Event 4050 -(38B7CA3D)

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Date: 9/9/1955
-Time: 12 noon
-Description: Witness: M.N. Dawkins, using binoculars. One brown, almost -square object flew with a circular motion for 10-15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: near Alcoa, Tennessee
-ID: 392

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Event 4051 -(CC75C411)

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Date: 9/16/1955
-Time: 1800
-Description: A young shepherd heard a whistling sound as a dark mass -appeared to fall from the sky and a rush of air swept him from his feet. -The object looked like a machine with an opening where a stairway became -visible. Two occupants were seen. One was observed to have a reddish -face, a bald head and very fine teeth. The craft was round, about 3.5 m -diameter, 2 m high, lighted with neon-like light. The occupants gathered -some plants and flew away to the northwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Boisseuges, France
-ID: 375

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Event 4052 -(0387FF89)

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Date: 9/17/1955
-Time: night
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Bordes, of New York City, were fishing when -they heard a loud splash and a “gurgling sound,” saw a pink, iridescent, -mushroom-shaped object rise about 70 cm above the water, and sink into -the reservoir. Later, they saw the object again, about 5 m long and -surrounded with turbulence. It reversed direction several times without -turning around and finally flew away very fast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Constance 226; FSR 55,5 (Vallee)
-Location: Bush Pine, New York
-ID: 376

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Event 4053 -(EEBDABB3)

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Date: 9/20/1955
-Description: In response to a September 13 letter from Rep. Gordon -H. Scherer (R-Ohio) about the contactee claims of George -Adamski, CIA -Director Allen -Dulles replies that the “CIA shall have no police, subpoena, law- -enforcement powers, or internal-security functions” over mail fraud -related to UFOs. (Allen W. Dulles, Letter -to Gordon -H. Scherer, September 20, 1955)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2748

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Event 4054 -(FE069AF0)

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Date: 9/21/1955
-Description: Soviet underwater atomic bomb test, 3.5kt
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: 3.5

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Event 4055 -(BE5971C1)

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Date: 10/1955
-Description: President Eisenhower gives -the CIA control over the U-2 spy plane program and Area 51. (Jacobsen, -Area 51, p. 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2749

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Event 4056 -(B1407754)

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Date: 10/1955
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A student at St. Joseph’s Minor Seminary in -Peterborough, New Hampshire, sees four glowing, bluish-white objects to -the southwest. One appears to be on the ground with 3–4 figures beside -it. He goes into the recreation room to find more witnesses. When they -go outside, the objects are slowly moving above the school building -toward the northeast. (“New -Hampshire,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 (April/May 1985): -4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2750

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Event 4057 -(B5E5168E)

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Date: 10/3/1955
-Description: A B-47 from Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona, crashes -northwest of Lovington, New Mexico. The lone survivor, 2nd Lt. William -Daniel Borggen, says the plane is flying at 15,000 feet when three -instruments go out after it breaks away from a refueling plane in a -pre-dawn flight. The crew drops 5,000 feet, then the bomber hits -something and crashes. (“B-47 -Crash Is Probed,” Clovis (N.Mex.) News-Journal, October 3, 1955, -pp. 1-2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2751

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Event 4058 -(4A023FDB)

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Date: 10/4/1955
-Description: 7:10 p.m. Senator Richard -B. Russell Jr. (D-Ga.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, on -a trip to the USSR, is on a Soviet train near Baku, Azerbaijan, when he -spots a disc-shaped craft taking off near the tracks. Russell sees the -“first flying disc ascend and pass over the train” and goes “rushing in -to get Mr. Efron [Reuben Efron, his interpreter] and Col. Hathaway [Col. -E. U. Hathaway, his aide] to see it,” the report says. “Col. Hathaway -stated that he got to the window with the Senator in time to see the -first [UFO], while Mr. Efron said that he got only a short glimpse of -the first. However, all three saw the second disc and all agreed that -they saw the same round, disc-shaped craft…as the first.” A fourth -witness is unidentified. “One disc ascended almost vertically, at a -relatively slow speed, with its outer surface revolving slowly to the -right, to an altitude of about 6,000 feet, where its speed then -increased sharply as it headed north,” the report states. “The second -flying disc was seen performing the same actions about one minute later. -The take-off area was about 1–2 miles south of the rail line.” The Air -Force report is written by Lieut. Col. Thomas Ryan, who interviews -Russell’s companions in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic], on -October 13, after they arrive there from Russia shortly after the -sighting. The report remains Top Secret until April 30, 1959, and Secret -until March 1985 when Stanton Friedman manages -to get it declassified following a FOIA request. (NICAP, “Senator -Russell Observes UFO from -Train”; Clark III 1049–1050; Sparks, p. 231; -Joel Carpenter, “The -Senator, the Saucer, and Special -Report 14,” -IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 3–7; Swords 227–228; Good Above, pp. 224–226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2752

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Event 4059 -(172FE5B3)

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Date: 10/5/1955
-Description: Letter from US Navy Rear Admiral J. L. Herlihy at Pearl -Harbor to the future director of the BSRA, Riley Crabb. They gave him an -award of $200 in recognition of his superior performance in his -duties.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Pearl Harbor

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Event 4060 -(B735302E)

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Date: 10/7/1955
-Description: Retired Gen. Douglas -MacArthur tells Achille -Lauro, the mayor of Naples, that he does not think there will be a -war with the Soviet bloc, but that “because of the developments of -science all countries on earth will have to survive and to make a common -front against attack by people from other planets.” The meeting takes -place in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. (“M’Arthur -Greets Mayor of Naples,” New York Times, October 8, 1955, p. 7; “Space -War Possible Is MacArthur Hint,” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 8 (November 4, -1955): 1; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September -15th–December 31st, The -Author, 1993, pp. 15–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2753

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Event 4061 -(C43825A0)

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Date: 10/8/1955
-Time: 4:38 PM
-Description: Witnesses: R.D. Prather, H. Ahern. One round, silver or -white object flew straight and level at more than 1,000 m.p.h. for an -unstated length of time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Loogootee, Indiana
-ID: 393

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Event 4062 -(7A97BB9E)

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Date: 10/10/1955
-Description: The Air Force releases a statement from Fort Worth, Texas, -saying that anyone reporting flashing lights for the next two months -across the US is seeing wind-driven experimental plastic balloons that -might travel as fast as 110 mph. (Keyhoe, FS -Conspiracy, p. 206; -Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2754

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Event 4063 -(173BDBDA)

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Date: 10/11/1955
-Time: 4 PM
-Description: Witnesses: B. Hale, A. Ostrom. One round object which -looked white in the daylight and turned red with sparks toward the end -of the 2.5 hour sighting, made a deep roar, unlike an aircraft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pt. Lookout, Maryland
-ID: 394

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Event 4064 -(5DED50EF)

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Date: 10/18/1955
-Description: CIA Director Allen -Dulles informs the joint Intelligence Advisory Committee about -Senator Russell’s -sighting. (Joel Carpenter, “The -Senator, the Saucer, and Special -Report 14,” -IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2755

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Event 4065 -(525ADB49)

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Date: 10/19/1955
-Description: Wilton -E. Lexow, head -of the CIA Applied Science Division, notes the similarity of the objects -seen by Sen. Russell to -the Avro Canada Project Y-2 (Silver Bug), a proposed vertical take-off -gyroplane now under development by the US Air Force. (Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada”; Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”; Joel Carpenter, “The -Senator, the Saucer, and Special -Report 14,” -IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2756

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Event 4066 -(D4356EAF)

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Date: 10/25/1955
-Description: Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 is released, months -after it is completed by analysts at Battelle Memorial Institute in -Columbus, Ohio, using cases supplied by the Air Force and tabulated on -IBM punch cards. The original report by Battelle is about 300 pages, but -the Air Force distills this down to 100. It is accompanied by a press -release in which Secretary of the Air Force Donald -A. Quarles states: “On the basis of this study we believe that no -objects such as those popularly described as flying saucers have -overflown the United States.” (At the same time, Quarles states that the -Air Force is working on radical new aircraft that “are sure to be -mistaken for flying saucers.”) Only 100 copies are printed initially, -but scientist Leon -Davidson prints and sells copies of it beginning in 1956, along with -his analysis and commentary. The report includes 3,201 reported UFO -sightings. Battelle employs four scientific analysts, who divide cases -into knowns, unknowns, and a third category of insufficient information. -They also break down knowns and unknowns into four categories of -quality, from excellent to poor. For a case to be called identified, two -analysts must independently agree on a solution; for a case to be called -unidentified, all four analysts must agree. A report classified as -unidentified is defined as: “Those reports of sightings wherein the -description of the object and its maneuvers could not be fitted to the -pattern of any known object or phenomenon.” Out of 3,201 cases, 69% are -judged to be identified, 22% are unidentified, and 9% have insufficient -information to make a determination. The report further breaks these -results down based on whether the identification is considered certain -or merely doubtful. For example, in both the astronomical and aircraft -IFO categories, 12% are considered certain and 9% are doubtful. Overall, -of the 69% listed as IFOs, 42% are thought to be solved with certainty, -while 27% are still considered doubtful. In addition, if a case is -lacking in adequate data, it is placed in the insufficient information -category, separate from both IFOs and UFOs. A key feature is to -statistically compare IFOs and UFOs by six characteristics: color, -number of objects, shape, duration, speed, and brightness. If there are -no significant differences, the two classes are probably the same, the -UFOs then representing merely a failure to properly identify prosaic -phenomena that can already account for IFOs. On the other hand, if the -differences are statistically significant, this suggests IFOs and UFOs -are indeed distinctly different phenomena. In the initial results, all -characteristics except brightness test significant at less or much less -than 1% (brightness is greater than 5%). By removing astronomical -sightings from the knowns and redoing the test, just two categories, -number and speed, are significant at less than 1%, the remainder having -results between 3% and 5%. This indicates that there is a statistically -significant difference between the characteristics ascribed to UFOs and -IFOs, but perhaps not as significant as the initial results suggested. -For two characteristics, brightness and speed, the significance actually -increases with the revised test. Hynek later -calls the Battelle report a “shamefully biased interpretation of -statistics to support a preconceived notion.” Keyhoe asks -Ruppelt what -he thinks. Ruppelt says the report “was a shock to me. I was the one -that had the IBM system tried out. It didn’t prove a thing, and I had -written it off as worthless before I left the project… also this report -was drawn up in 1953, yet the Air Force released it as the latest hot -dope in October, 1955.” The Air Force releases a second edition, with a -new preface and an addendum that brings the subject up to date, in July -1957. In the 1990s, after interviewing three men (Art Westerman, Perry -Rieppel, and -William T. Reid) who had participated in the Battelle project, Mark -Rodeghier and Jennie -Zeidman of the Center for UFO Studies conclude that the engineering -mindset at Battelle had caused a disconnect between its data and its -conclusions. Because the project cannot reverse engineer a UFO from the -reports (because of faulty witness testimony, multicausal UFOs, etc.), -the engineers conclude that a structured craft does not exist. -(Wikipedia, “Identification -studies of UFOs”; Wikipedia, “Project -Blue Book”; US Air Force Air Technical Intelligence Center, Special -Report No. 14; Analysis of Reports of -Unidentified Flying Objects, May 5, 1955; Leon Davidson, Flying -Saucers: An Analysis of Project Blue Book Special -Report No. 14, [1956], 3d ed., Ramsey-Wallace, 1966; “Plan -Radical New Aircraft,” Franklin (Pa.) News-Herald, October 26, 1955, -p. 1; Clark III 929–932; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., -1976, pp. 123–126; -Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 770; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, -no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 7–8; Jennie Zeidman and Mark Rodeghier, “The -Pentacle Letter and the Battelle UFO Project,” IUR 18, no. 3 (May/June -1993): 4–12, 19–21; Joel Carpenter, “The -Senator, the Saucer, and Special -Report 14,” -IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 3, 9; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September 15th–December -31st, The -Author, 1993, pp. 30–63; Swords 220–224, 239–241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2757

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Event 4067 -(F24122B8)

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Date: 10/25/1955
-Description: A mysterious object passes over Serbia and is seen -throughout the country. Milorad -B. Protić and other astronomers at Belgrade Observatory track the -object and determine that it is not a meteor. After the launch of -Sputnik in November 1957, Protić decides that the object must have been -an experimental Soviet satellite. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, -Signet, 1969, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2758

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Event 4068 -(3BADD556)

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Date: 10/27/1955
-Description: Afternoon. Hosea -D. Lambeth, principal of Whitsett Elementary School, North Carolina, -and about 100 students watch 10 objects like “steel balls” dart through -the sky for 25 minutes. Light-colored wispy material in 2–3-inch strips -falls from the sky at the same time. Nearby Burlington Industries tests -a sample and declares it not a synthetic material. No spiders are found -in the strands. (Clark III 124; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the -Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 September 15th–December 31st, The -Author, 1993,pp. 72–75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2759

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Event 4069 -(7740A3C4)

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Date: 10/28/1955
-Description: A disk with a row of blue lights on the periphery slowly -maneuvered above a car on a deserted road.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 135, 146 (Vallee)
-Location: Galloway, England
-ID: 377

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Event 4070 -(6BBB925C)

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Date: 11/1955
-End date: 4/1956
-Description: Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fifth Antarctic expedition -(Operation Deep Freeze). By 1955 Byrd was in charge of the United -States’ Antarctic program and supervised the U.S. Navy’s Operation Deep -Freeze, which was sent to support the International Geophysical Year -(1957–58). This was Byrd’s final visit to Antarctica and although he was -only there for a week, he also took his last flight over the South Pole -on January 8, 1956. This expedition also established permanent Antarctic -bases at McMurdo Sound (McMurdo Station) and the South Pole -(Amundsen-Scott Base).
-Type: lecture
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: McMurdo Station

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Event 4071 -(C4A9D2CB)

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Date: 11/1955
-Description: J. Heinrich Ragaz begins publishing Weltraumbote in Zürich, -Switzerland. It continues through June 1961. (Weltraumbote, no. -1 (November 1955))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2760

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Event 4072 -(BC62C9EE)

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Date: 11/1/1955
-Description: 8:06 p.m. A flying light paces New Zealand National Airways -DC-3 Flight 108 west of Waitara, New Zealand, at 8,000 feet for about 5 -minutes. Capt. William -T. Rainbow and Copilot Stanley -G. Trounce spot the object behind them flying along the coast on a -parallel course. Changing color from white to yellow to gold to red, it -overtakes the aircraft and flies alongside it for 15 miles, then picks -up speed and disappears into the distance ahead. Rainbow estimates it is -traveling at 850 mph. (UFOEv, p. 125; -“1955: -‘Flying Light’ Seen by NAC -Captain and Crew,” Ufocus.nz, June 15, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2761

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Event 4073 -(67F186EC)

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Date: 11/2/1955
-Description: Deputy-sheriff A. H. Perkins, C. F. Bell, and a dozen other -witnesses saw six bellshaped objects moving by successive leaps. One -came close to a patrol car; the men inside felt that their arms and legs -“went dead” and that their clothes were burning them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Williston, Florida
-ID: 378

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Event 4074 -(77ADA869)

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Date: 11/17/1955
-Time: 6:10 AM
-Description: Witness: J.A. Mapes. Twelve round, flat objects, silver on -top and dark on the bottom, flew in 4-deep formation, tipping in pitch -and roll, for 45 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: St. Louis, Missouri
-ID: 395

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Event 4075 -(DEABEA18)

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Date: 11/20/1955
-Description: 5:20 p.m. Operations Officer Capt. Edward -G. Denkler Jr. and 5 men of the USAF 663rd AC&W Squadron see two -oblong, bright orange, semi-transparent objects fly erratically at -terrific speed toward and away from each other, over Lake City [now -Rocky Top], Tennessee. (NICAP, “Seven -Witnesses Observe Maneuvering Objects -near Oak Ridge Plant”; Sparks, p. 232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2762

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Event 4076 -(708D54E2)

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Date: 11/20/1955
-Time: 5:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Operations Officer Capt. B.G. Denkler and five -men of the USAF 663rd AC&W Sqdn. Two oblong, bright orange, -semi-transparent objects flew at terrific speed and erratically, toward -and away from each other. Observed by various persons form 4 to 15 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake City, Tennessee
-ID: 396

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Event 4077 -(127C8E47)

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Date: 11/22/1955
-Description: The first Soviet test of a true thermonuclear bomb takes -place at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. (Wikipedia, “RDS-37”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2763

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Event 4078 -(7E8F9353)

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Date: 11/22/1955
-Description: First megaton-class Soviet hydrogen bomb test RDS-37 at the -Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic MT: 1.6

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Event 4079 -(60FF0833)

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Date: 11/25/1955
-Time: 10:30 AM
-Description: Witness: State Senator S.T. Taylor. One dirigible-shaped -object (fat front, tapered toward the tail) object, which was luminous -green-blue and jellylike, appeared overhead diving at a 45’ angle, then -reduced angle to 30’. Object seen for 5 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: La Veta, Colorado
-ID: 397

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Event 4080 -(9BEABDE3)

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Date: 11/30/1955
-End date: 12/2/1955
-Description: The New York Herald Tribune and Miami Herald publish two -articles by aviation journalist Ansel -Talbert in which he lists the names of aerospace firms conducting -gravity-control propulsion research, including Glenn L. Martin Company, -Convair, Bell Aircraft, Lear Inc., Clarke Electronics, and Sperry -Gyroscope Division. The Gravity Research Group indicates these companies -have constructed “rigs” to improve the performance of Thomas -Townsend Brown’s gravitators through attempts to develop materials -with high dielectric constants. Articles about the gravity propulsion -research by the aerospace firms cease after 1974. Follow-up studies on -Brown’s work and other claims are conducted by R. -L. Talley in 1990 and 2013 US Air Force studies, NASA scientist Jonathan -W. Campbell in a 2003 experiment, and Martin -Tajmar in a 2004 paper. They find that no thrust can be observed in -a vacuum and that Brown’s and other ion-lifter devices -produce thrust along their axis regardless of the direction of -gravity—consistent with electrohydrodynamic effects. (Wikipedia, “United States -gravity control propulsion research”; Wikipedia, “Anti-gravity”; -Ansel E. Talbert, “Scientists -Taking First Steps in -Assault on Gravity Barrier,” Miami Herald, November 30, 1955, -pp. 1–2; Ansel E. Talbert, “Future Planes -May Defy Gravity and Air Lift in Space Travels,” Miami Herald, -December 2, 1955, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2764

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Event 4081 -(38A68101)

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Date: 12/11/1955
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Near Jacksonville, Florida, two airline pilots -and ground observers see a fast-maneuvering, orange-red, round object, -with ground radar tracking. Two USN jets on a practice night-flying -mission are vectored to the object by a Naval Air Station Jacksonville -controller. On approach the object suddenly rises up to 30,000 feet then -dives back down in a circle, buzzing the jets. (Sparks, -p. 232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2765

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Event 4082 -(FDCC4ED0)

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Date: 12/21/1955
-Time: 111 PM
-Description: Witness: Roberta V. Jacobs. One round, very bright gold, -domed disc made a short climb, rotated, hovered and then accelerated -during the 6-8 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Caribou, Maine
-ID: 398

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- Event 4083 (5E867EB8)

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Date: 1956
-Description: Morris -K. Jessup publishes The UFO Annual, an anthology of newspaper and -magazine articles about UFOs, and UFO and the Bible, the first -book-length attempt to connect biblical miracles with space visitors. -Jessup is the first writer to use the term “ufology” in his introduction -(dated December 31, 1955). (Morris K. Jessup, The UFO Annual, Citadel, -1956; Clark III 106, 634–635)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2768

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Event 4084 -(15B14B9D)

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Date: 1956
-Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-45” nuclear weapons program plant opens -(Uranium enrichment)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 4085 -(54519CB0)

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Date: 1956
-Description: Gray -Barker publishes They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, a -bestselling book about the supposed Albert -K. -Bender mystery and his encounter with three men in black. (Gray -Barker, They -Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers, University -Books, 1956; Clark III 178, 190; David Halperin, “‘They -Knew Too Much’: The Book That (Almost) -Scared Me under My Bed,” Ms.Horror.com, March 16, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2767

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Event 4086 -(7C0682F4)

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Date: 1956
-Description: French ufologist Aimé -Michel publishes The Truth about Flying Saucers, one of the best -early books on UFOs, originally published in French in 1954. (Aimé -Michel, The Truth about Flying Saucers, Criterion, 1956; “First Read: -Aimé Michel’s ‘The Truth about Flying Saucers,’” Magonia, February -25, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2766

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Event 4087 -(B1421DCB)

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Date: 1956
-Description: Much UFO activity in South America
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: South America

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Event 4088 -(29FDCA4B)

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Date: 1956
-Description: According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, Russian intel -chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to -discuss the UFO problem. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the issue -top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, the -media and UFO research groups.
-Type: secret meeting
-Reference: “The -Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69
-See also: 1955

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Event 4089 -(67751A47)

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Date: 1956
-Description: Soviet polar aviator Valentin -Akkuratov is flying a Tupolev Tu-4 aircraft near Cape Morris Jesup, -Greenland, performing strategic ice reconnaissance. Dropping down below -the clouds, he sees an unknown object moving on the port side parallel -to his course. It looks like a “large pearl-colored lens with wavy, -pulsating edges.” Thinking it is a US aircraft, Akkuratov heads back -into the clouds. After flying for 40 minutes to the southeast, the cloud -cover ends and Akkuratov encounters it again. He decides to approach the -object, which changes course and paces the airplane at the same speed. -After 15–18 minutes, the UFO sharply alters course, speeds ahead, and -rises quickly until it disappears. (Felix Ziegel, “Unidentified -Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 27– 29; Good -Above, pp. 226–227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2769

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Event 4090 -(713F991C)

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Date: 1956
-Description: E. R. Rayburn, Twin Falls, Idaho see saucer capture 400lbs -steer from farm
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Twin Falls, Idaho
-Attributes: cattle mutilation

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Event 4091 -(A5E6DD51)

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Date: 1956
-Description: Much UFO activity and interest in Mexico.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Mexico

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Event 4092 -(FAD44B5A)

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Date: 1956
-Description: Fishermen at lake Ozero Blagodati, Primorsky Krai, Russia, -allegedly see an enormous silvery object with an apparent diameter of -4,900 feet rapidly flying above them at 1,960 feet. It resembles a hat -with red portholes around its rim and is accompanied by loud grinding -sounds and black smoke. The object emits numerous thin metal threads -resembling horse hairs that the fishermen pick up the next day. The -object crashes into the Sea of Japan. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s -USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 113–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2770

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Event 4093 -(C142BA93)

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Date: 1956
-Alternate date: 1957
-Description: 7:45 p.m. W. J. Kyncy is aboard the destroyer USS -Maddox in -the North Pacific between Midway Island and Japan. He and some 30 other -sailors on the stern see a steady orange light coming toward them at -about 50 mph. It stops for 2 minutes about 1,300 feet away at about 400 -feet altitude. It begins moving again at 35 mph then blinks out after -5–10 seconds. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2771

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Event 4094 -(540868B6)

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Date: 1/1956
-Description: The US Army Chemical Corps begins classified human -experiments at its Edgewood Arsenal facility at the Aberdeen Proving -Ground, Maryland. The Medical Research Volunteer Program (1956–1975) is -driven by intelligence requirements and the need for new and more -effective interrogation techniques. Overall, about 7,000 soldiers take -part in these experiments that involve exposure to more than 250 -different chemicals. Some of the volunteers exhibit symptoms at the time -of exposure to these agents but long-term follow-up is not planned as -part of the Department of Defense studies. The experiments are abruptly -terminated by the Army in late 1975 amid an atmosphere of scandal and -recrimination as lawmakers accuse researchers of questionable ethics. -Many official government reports and civilian lawsuits follow in the -wake of the controversy. The chemical agents include VX, sarin, mustard -gas, atropine, scopolamine, 2-PAM chloride, LSD, PCP, cannabinoids, riot -control agents, alcohol, and caffeine. (Wikipedia, “Edgewood -Arsenal human experiments”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2772

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Event 4095 -(0DD96B23)

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Date: 1/1956
-Description: Edward -J. Ruppelt’s Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is published. His -candid opinions about UFOs contradict many of the positions taken on -UFOs by the Air Force. He has personally seen the Estimate of the -Situation, he confirms the existence of Fournet’s -motion study, and he first describes the basic contours of the Robertson -Panel. (Edward J. Ruppelt, The -Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Doubleday, -1956; Michael D. Swords, [Review], JUFOS 3 (1991): 179–183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2773

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Event 4096 -(D2E37C0E)

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Date: 1/9/1956
-Description: The CIA’s Applied Science Division takes on the job of -holding UFO reports. (ClearIntent, p. 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2774

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Event 4097 -(DD604526)

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Date: 1/13/1956
-Description: UFO researcher Morris -K. Jessup receives a letter from someone in New Kensington, -Pennsylvania, who calls himself Carlos -Miguel Allende [a pseudonym of Carl Allen], who alludes to a US Navy -experiment to make a destroyer invisible in October 1943 [the bogus -Philadelphia Experiment]. He writes another letter postmarked May 25 -that suggests hypnosis or truth serum might bring out more details. -(Wikipedia, “Philadelphia Experiment”; -Clark III 95; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “The -Carl Allen Letters,” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, January -31, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2775

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Event 4098 -(0A7B4B4F)

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Date: 1/15/1956
-Description: An object the apparent size of a washtub is seen falling -into the sea 150 feet offshore Busan, South Korea, by large numbers of -townspeople. The glow continues for an hour and a half before the object -sinks. Korean and American military authorities are alerted. Military -Police Cpl. Ben Elliot observes the glow, which resembles burning -alcohol or benzene. (Samuel Norman, “Recent UFOs over Japan,” Fate 9, -no. 6 (June 1956): 22–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2776

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Event 4099 -(5116C74F)

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Date: 1/22/1956
-Description: Jonathan -N. Leonard reviews Harold -T. Wilkins’s Flying Saucers Uncensored, Keyhoe’s -Flying Saucer Conspiracy, and Ruppelt’s -Report on UFOs in the New York Times. He calls Wilkins a mystic, Keyhoe -“repetitious and unconvincing,” and Ruppelt (most unfairly) “the longest -and dullest of the current crop of saucer books.” (Jonathan N. Leonard, -“Visitors -from Space,” New York Times Book Review, January 22, 1956, -p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2777

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Event 4100 -(BF6C69A6)

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Date: 1/31/1956
-Description: 3:24 p.m. Kentucky National Guard pilot Lt. Col. Lee -J. Merkel is flying an F-51 Mustang out of Standiford Field [now -Louisville International Airport] in Louisville, Kentucky, on a -maintenance test flight. His aircraft crashes 10 miles north of Bedford, -Indiana, following some confusing information from various sources about -an unknown radar target or visual observation in the vicinity. -(ClearIntent, pp. 62–63; -Good Need, pp. 215– 216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2778

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Event 4101 -(1926541E)

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Date: 2/5/1956
-Description: Soviet atomic bomb test R-5M. The RDS-4 comprised the -warhead of the R-5M, the first medium-range ballistic missile in the -world, which was tested with a live warhead for the first and only time -on February 5, 1956.
-Type: atomic
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Kapustin Yar
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic KT: .3

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Event 4102 -(BF65D82D)

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Date: 2/7/1956
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture to a discussion -group in Coral Gables, FL
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Coral Gables, FL

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Event 4103 -(66F3E7F5)

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Date: 2/8/1956
-Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on -flying saucers
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL

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Event 4104 -(BADCBF3C)

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Date: 2/9/1956
-Description: In a memo, “Responsibility for Unidentified Flying -Objects,” the CIA’s Applied Science Division retains files for incoming -raw reports that might provide information on foreign weapons R&D. -Other (more significant?) reports are forwarded to the Fundamental -Sciences Area for review of information on foreign science developments. -Still others are to be destroyed. (ClearIntent, pp. 135–136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2780

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Event 4105 -(34AE19BE)

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Date: 2/9/1956
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Patrolmen Marvin Poer and John Freeland see a -ball of fire plunge behind the breakwater at Redondo Beach, California. -It bobs on the water’s surface before sinking into 15 feet of water some -300 feet off the shore. Five county lifeguards row out to look for it -and retrieve a US Army Signal Corps battery light that was dropped from -an airplane. (“Sea -Cools Mystery of Hot Disk,” Los Angeles (Calif.) Mirror-News, -February 9, 1956, p. 8; “Sea-Saucer -or Searchlight?” CRIFO Orbit 2, no. 12 (March 2, 1956): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2779

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Event 4106 -(671AE527)

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Date: 2/12/1956
-Description: 10:55 p.m. Two F-89D fighters flying at 20,000 feet, one -crewed by pilot Bowen and radar observer Crawford, suddenly see a green -and red object 40 miles southeast of Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], -Labrador. It rapidly circles thir jet, and the other fighter tracks it -on radar but cannot see it visually. About 15 minutes later, operators -at Goose Bay paint a stationary target about 40 miles southwest of the -base. The two pilots vectot toward the object and obtain radar contact, -but it vanishes when they get within 8 miles. (Sparks, -p. 233; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, -2022, p. 262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2781

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Event 4107 -(1C9EE1BD)

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Date: 2/12/1956
-Time: 11:25 PM
-Description: Witnesses: F-89 pilot Bowen, radar observer Crawford. One -green and red object rapidly circled the aircraft while being tracked on -radar during 1 minute sighting. No further details.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 399

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Event 4108 -(C0BF9C85)

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Date: 2/17/1956
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Orly Airport, Paris, -France, see a target appear on their radar screens that is twice the -size of a conventional aircraft. It cruises around, hovers, and -accelerates at fantastic speeds, and is tracked for a total of 4 hours. -When it first appears on radar it is directly above Gometz-le-Châtel, -Seine et Oise, and 30 seconds later it is 19 miles away, having moved at -nearly 2,500 mph. A second, smaller target appears, identified as an Air -France DC-3 airliner flying over the Les Mureaux military base, -Yvelines, at 4,500 feet (800 feet lower than the UFO). Orly radios the -pilot to alert him to the unidentified target. Radio Officer Beaupertuis -sees the object through a window on the starboard side of the -plane—enormous in size, indistinct in outline, and lit in some areas -with a red glow. Capt. Michel Desavoye confirms the sighting, saying he -and the crew watch the object for 30 seconds and are certain it is no -civil airliner. The sighting duration is nearly 3 hours. (NICAP, “Large -UFO Tracked on Ground Radar”; “A -Saucer Shows Up over Paris and Creates a Stir in a Radar Room and a -Cockpit,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 2 (March/April 1956): 3; -Patrick Gross, “Orly -Airport, France, February 1956”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2782

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Event 4109 -(A7319DDB)

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Date: 2/18/1956
-Description: Stringfield receives -a letter from Lord -Hugh Dowding that says he doesn’t think there is an official -“British attitude to UFOs.” (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, -1977, p. 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2783

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Event 4110 -(1E97FC80)

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Date: 2/19/1956
-Time: 6:07 AM
-Description: Witnesses: crew of Eastern Airlines Super Constellation. -One intense white light, moving 4-5 times the speed of the airplane, was -evaded by the pilot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Houston, Texas
-ID: 400

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Event 4111 -(D068E715)

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Date: 3/1956
-Description: Mechanix Illustrated publishes a story on the Avro Canada -MX-1794 (Y-2, or Silver Bug) vertical take-off gyroplane under -development by the US Air Force. The cover proclaims, “U.S. Air Force -Reveals Our Flying Saucer.” Through 1958, Avro spends $2.5 million and -the USAF $5.4 million funding the project. Numerous models are built, -and wind-tunnel testing is undertaken at MIT and Wright-Patterson AFB. -The design includes eight Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet engines, a -very large center rotor/impeller with Lundstrom compressor turbines, -with the cockpit mounted in the top center. Control is achieved through -eight small exhausts at the outer edge, directed either through the top -or bottom, in addition to the main turbine exhaust through the bottom -center of the craft. A multiengine test rig is built and tested in 1956, -resulting in powerful thrust, a great deal of noise, and vibrations. In -1957, the USAF provides additional funding to extend the project, by -then highly classified and designated as Weapon System 606A. The concept -developed is for a circular-winged, supersonic aircraft. Over 1,000 -hours of wind-tunnel testing are performed. Drawings developed by Avro -show an aircraft that appears to be a merging of a flying saucer with -more conventional fuselage shapes—a tailless aircraft with circular -wings. (Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada”; Willy Ley, “How -the Flying Saucer Works,” Mechanix Illustrated 52 (March 1956): -78–81; Good Need, p. 215; -Charles Mandel, “A -Saucer from Mars? Nope, Canada,” Wired, July 5, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2784

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Event 4112 -(444DD66C)

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Date: 3/3/1956
-Description: Science fiction movie “Forbidden Planet” is released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US

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Event 4113 -(FDAD4E3A)

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Date: 3/10/1956
-Description: British pilot Peter -Twiss reaches an official airspeed of 1,132 mph in a Fairey Delta 2 -over Chichester, England. (Wikipedia, “Peter -Twiss”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2785

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Event 4114 -(68BC258E)

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Date: 3/16/1956
-Description: Stringfield receives -a letter from Gen. John -A. Samford that ends his affiliation with ADC. (Stringfield, -Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2786

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Event 4115 -(8316A04F)

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Date: spring 1956
-Description: The Flying Saucer Discussion Group begins meeting on a -more-or-less monthly basis at the YWCA in Washington, D.C. It is begun -by Mrs. Walton -C. “Clara” John, the -publisher of a mimeographed zine called The Little Listening Post, which -often covers UFOs. (“‘Toward -a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP -Began,” UFO Investigator, October 1971, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2787

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Event 4116 -(AB0BF73D)

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Date: 4/1956
-Description: An annotated copy of the paperback edition of Morris -K. Jessup’s The Case for the UFO (1955) is sent in a manila envelope -from Seminole, Texas, to Adm. Frederick -R. Furth, chief of the Office of Naval Research. The annotations are -written in three different colors of ink, apparently by three persons, -A, B, and Jemi, who claim to know a great deal about the UFO -intelligences. They mention space people, underwater cities, force -fields, and much more. The book falls into the possession of Maj. Darrell -L. Ritter, USMC -aeronautical project officer at ONR, who brings it to the attention of -ONR Capt. Sidney Sherby and ONR Projects Officer Cmdr. George -W. Hoover, who -become interested and get permission (as long as it does not involve -official naval personnel) to send the copy to the Varo Manufacturing -Company, in Garland, Texas, which has contracts with the military. Varo -publishes 25 spiral-bound copies of the book in black and red ink, which -shows the annotations. Meanwhile, Jessup has been receiving at least two -strange letters (January 13 and May 25, 1956) from someone calling -himself Carlos -Miguel Allende, which -claim that as a result of a strange experiment at sea utilizing -principles of Einstein’s Field Theory, a destroyer (identified by some -as the USS -Eldridge and others by the USS -Engstrom, which were not in the Philadelphia Navy Yard at the time) -and all its crew became invisible in October 1943, but the sailors -showed side effects. Allende says he has witnessed all of this. Sherby -talks to Jessup about the Varo edition; Jessup isn’t much interested but -tells him about the Allende letters, which talk about the same things as -the annotations and are obviously written by the same person. Gray -Barker’s Saucerian Press publishes the Varo edition in July 1972. -Sometime in the 1970s, Carlos Allende appears at APRO headquarters and -confesses that the whole annotations thing was a hoax, but he surfaces a -few years later saying that the CIA coerced him into saying it was a -hoax. In the late 1970s, Robert -A. Goerman identifies Allende as Carl Allen, who lives near him in -Pennsylvania. In the October 1980 issue of Fate, Goerman explains the -entire mess, saying that Allen had written all three of the annotation -types. Bill -Moore and Charles -Berlitz take the whole thing seriously enough to write The -Philadelphia Experiment in 1979, which links the force fields back to T. -Townsend Brown, later the founder of NICAP. (Morris K. Jessup, The -Case for the UFO, annotated -Varo ed., Saucerian, 1972; Wikipedia, “Philadelphia -Experiment”; Ivan T. Sanderson, “Jessup -and the Allende Case,” Pursuit 1, no. 4 (September 30, 1968): 8–10; -William L. Moore, with Charles Berlitz, The -Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility, Grosset and Dunlap, -1979; Robert A. Goerman, “Alias Carlos Allende,” Fate 33, no. 10 -(October 1980): 69–75; Clark III 95–97; Kevin D. Randle, “The -Allende Letters,” A Different Perspective, July 5, 2009; Kevin D. -Randle, “Chasing -Sources: The Philadelphia Experiment,” A Different Perspective, -August 9, 2016; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “Carlos -Miguel Allende or Carl Meredith Allen or…,” The Philadelphia -Experiment from A–Z, August 13, 2016; Andrew H. Hochheimer, “The -Varo Edition,” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, December 13, -2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2789

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Event 4117 -(1F7A3637)

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Date: 4/1956
-Description: USAF Capt. George -T. Gregory succeeds Capt. Charles -Hardin as director of Project Blue Book. (Sparks, -p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2788

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Event 4118 -(09A23232)

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Date: 4/3/1956
-Description: Keyhoe writes -a lengthy letter to Sen. Harry -F. Byrd (D-Va.), criticizing Air Force secrecy, deconstructing Blue -Book Special Report no. 14, and requesting a congressional hearing. -Keyhoe asks Byrd to forward his letter to the Air Force for a response, -but he forwards it himself anyway, as does Byrd. The Air Force’s Gen. Joe -W. Kelly responds, -dismissing both Keyhoe and UFOs. (Swords 222–223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2791

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Event 4119 -(11BB9848)

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Date: 4/3/1956
-Description: CIA agent Joseph -Bryan III writes to Ruppelt, -saying that while he served as special assistant to Air Force Secretary -Thomas -Finletter, he -tried to “have him prepare a statement for release when communication -was established with a saucer.” Finletter declines to do so. (Michael -David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: Summer of -the Saucers, Rose Press International, 2000, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2790

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Event 4120 -(058438B0)

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Date: 4/4/1956
-Time: 3:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Capt. Roy Hall, U.S. Army, ret.; Charles -Anderson and others; some observed through a 6” telescope, others -through a 55-200x telescope. One fat, oblong object with two lines -around its middle, remained stationary for 6 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: McKinney, Texas
-ID: 401

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Event 4121 -(D2756109)

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Date: 4/5/1956
-End date: 5/10/1956
-Description: Some 156 overflight missions into Soviet territory by RB-47 -reconnaissance aircraft from Thule Air Base in Greenland begin in -Operation Home Run. They fly over the North Pole and into Siberia, -probing for electronic intelligence. (Wikipedia, “Project -HOMERUN”; R. Cargill Hall and Clayton D. Laurie, eds., Early Cold -War Overflights, 1950–1956: Symposium Proceedings Held at the Tighe -Auditorium, Defense Intelligence Agency, 22–23 February 2001, Volume 1, -US National Reconnaissance Office, 2003, pp. 259–313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2792

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Event 4122 -(F2961140)

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Date: 4/6/1956
-Description: Two men saw a silvery, balloonshaped craft about 2 m in -diameter land in a field 100 m away from them, about 8 km east of -McKinney. They stopped their car to investigate, but the object took off -at fantastic speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: McKinney, Texas
-ID: 379

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Event 4123 -(2B9D3BB0)

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Date: 4/7/1956
-Description: Elizabeth -Klarer returns to Flying Saucer Hill southwest of Rosetta, -KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, drawn by a strange compulsion. The -spaceship is waiting for her, and Akon takes her in his hands and says, -“Not afraid this time?” He leads her on board the craft, which she -learns also carries a second alien, who looks much like Akon except he -is darker and more muscular. As the ship first rises into space, Akon -says he has been watching her for some time. He lets her look at the -earth below through a viewing lens that also has x-ray capability. The -saucer goes to a “mother ship” filled with friendly space people. At one -point a huge video image projected on the wall allows her to view scenes -from their home planet, Meton, in the Alpha Centauri system. They serve -her a vegetarian meal. Klarer and Akon begin a lifelong romantic -attachment that includes sexual activity. (“Landing -in South -Africa,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1956): 2–5; -Elizabeth Klarer, Beyond -the Light Barrier, Howard Timmins, 1980; Clark III 657; Paul -Seaburn, “Woman -from Earth Claimed to Have Already Been to Proxima -b,” Mysterious Universe, August 31, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2793

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Event 4124 -(470C96F7)

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Date: 4/7/1956
-Description: Elizabeth Klarer, South Africa takes ride in saucer, talks -to Venusians.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: South Africa

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Event 4125 -(1CFBC055)

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Date: 4/8/1956
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Capt. Raymond -E. Ryan, First -Officer William Neff, flight attendant Phyllis Reynolds, and many -passengers take off on American Airlines Flight 715 from Albany, New -York, heading north then nearly due west at 260 mph and 6,000 feet north -of Schenectady, when a brilliant white light about 2–3 miles away is -spotted about 90° to the left appearing like an airliner heading in to -land at Albany. The white light moves about 90° to dead ahead position -about 8–10 miles away at high speed, estimated at about 800–1,000 mph, -where it changes color to orange and seems to block the airliner’s path -or risk collision. It disappears briefly and reappears as an orange -light again but standing still ahead of the airliner to the west. The -Convair airliner contacts Griffiss AFB [now Griffiss International -Airport], Rome, New York, where controllers ask Ryan to turn his lights -off and on to help identify aircraft. He is told the airliner is seen -and the orange UFO are to the south. The airliner is ordered to maintain -course to follow the UFO to the west, skipping its scheduled landing at -Syracuse after nearly 30 minutes of following the object. The promised -fighter jet interception is never seen. The object disappears at high -speed to the northwest towards Oswego, New York. (NICAP, “Air -Force Requests Plane Loaded with Passengers to Chase UFO”; Sparks, -p. 236; “Cover-Up -Suspected in Reported Air–UFO Chase,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 3 -(January 1958): 10–12; UFOEv, p. 117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2794

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Event 4126 -(32BB255D)

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Date: 4/8/1956
-Time: 2345
-Description: Near Exauroux, two brothers, 18 and 20, saw a red ball to -their left coming down and hovering at tree height. It then left at -fantastic speed. Three additional witnesses reported it independently. -The object was a disk about 7.5 m in diameter, with a red dome, and -rotating fins under it. It emitted a yellow-orange glow.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Elboeuf, France
-ID: 380

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Event 4127 -(E58AFB11)

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Date: 4/16/1956
-Description: An interview with Ryan and -Neff is taped on the TV show Meet the Millers. They claim that Griffiss -AFB “asked us our next point of landing and to identify the aircraft. I -told them Syracuse and identified the flight number. Then they told us: -‘Abandon that next landiat-postcardat-postcardng temporarily. Maintain -your course and altitude. We’re sending two jets to intercept the -object.’” About the UFO, Ryan says, “This was absolutely real. I’m -convinced there was something fantastic up there.” Keyhoe obtains -a copy of the tape. (NICAP, [transcript -of Meet -the Millers program, April -16, 1956])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2795

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Event 4128 -(117DD392)

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Date: 4/16/1956
-Time: 0500
-Description: On Route 1, just before dawn, two government employees saw -for a few seconds a large, top-shaped object passing over their car. It -was as large as the road and made no sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Henderson, North Carolina
-ID: 381

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Event 4129 -(80CB7B2D)

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Date: 4/28/1956
-Description: At the third Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft -Convention near Landers, California, contactee Dick Miller plays tape -recordings allegedly made by Mon-Ka, a Martian, in which he asks Los -Angeles radio stations to shut down for two minutes at 10:30 p.m. on -November 7, 1956, so that Mon-Ka can speak from his spacecraft. As a -publicity gimmick, two radio stations (KATY [now KYNS] of San Luis -Obispo and KBIA of Los Angeles) go off the air at that time, and KTTV in -Los Angeles sends up an airplane to watch for the approaching -spacecraft. Nothing happens. (Clark III 531, 766–767)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2796

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Event 4130 -(E2BA0804)

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Date: 5/1/1956
-Description: USAF Gen. Joe -W. Kelly writes to Sen. Harry -F. Byrd (D-Va.) that there is a “total lack of evidence that [UFOs] -are interplanetary vehicles.” (“How -about Those Three Secret Reports, General Kelly?” CSI News Letter, -no. 5 (September 21, 1956): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2797

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Event 4131 -(1A31406A)

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Date: 5/1/1956
-Description: Air Force Manual section 190-4 goes into effect. It affects -all USAF official press releases, statements to Congress and the public, -and publications about UFOs. It requires the Secretary of the Air Force -Office of Information to “delete all evidence of UFO reality and -intelligent control, which would, of course, contradict the Air Force -stand that UFOs do not exist.” NICAP is made aware of the regulation in -1962 when former USAF information spokesman Maj. William -T. Coleman admits to a NICAP member that Maj. Lawrence -J. Tacker’s book Flying Saucers and the US Air Force was reviewed -under AFM 190-4. (“Air -Force Reveals Censorship Controls,” -UFO Investigator 2, no. 4 (July 1962): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2798

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Event 4132 -(E4A86C3B)

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Date: 5/1/1956
-Description: 7:55 p.m. Koto Ward, a factory worker, along with many -others, see a large bright object flying low over the rooftops in Tokyo, -Japan. Turuko Kurihara, in a different location, sees a greenish object -at 7:59 p.m. The object makes no noise but causes severe distortion on -the TV sets in the area. (Schopick, -p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2799

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Event 4133 -(B06E6F75)

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Date: 5/3/1956
-Description: Hollywood producer Clarence -Greene releases a semi-documentary about the UFO phenomenon in the -US, U.F.O. Edward -J. Ruppelt, Dewey -Fournet, and Albert -M. Chop assist in the production. The principal character is Chop, -played by Los Angeles Examiner journalist Tom -Towers, and examines his career going from skeptical USAF public -information officer to Pentagon UFO press spokesman. The film uses only -one professional actor, Harry -Morgan, in -a voiceover part. UFO witnesses Delbert Newhouse, Nicholas -Mariana, and -Willis -Sperry play themselves, and Los Angeles policemen stand in for -Ruppelt, Fournet, and Gen William -Garland. The Air Force carefully monitors its reception and readies -itself to counter the film’s impact. The documentary analyzes two famous -pieces of UFO footage: the Montana film of 1950 and the 1952 UFO Utah -film (both shown for the first time in public). It concludes with the -famous 1952 Washington, D.C., UFO incident, in which Chop played a -central role, and recreates his experiences. At the end of the -documentary, Chop states his belief that UFOs are a real, physical -phenomenon of unknown origin. (Wikipedia, “UFO -(1956 -film)”; Internet Movie Database, “Unidentified -Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers”; Robert Barrow, -“Unidentified Flying Objects, Accidental Epic,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January -2006): 3–6; Robert Barrow, “Tom Towers: The Other Al Chop,” IUR 30, no. -4 (August 2006): 17–19; Clark III 1188–1189; Swords 222; Curt Collins, -“Project -Blue Book: UFO, -the Motion -Picture,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 24, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2800

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Event 4134 -(37F2DB9A)

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Date: 5/4/1956
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Rev. Charles Burmeister, an amateur astronomer, -sees five “orange blobs” flying in a U-shape formation east to west at -high speed over Marinette, Wisconsin. His son joins him to watch. One -more object passes in the same flight path, then a group of six, then -one more, followed by another. Blue Book classes the sighting as meteors -without even consulting Hynek, who -later says that meteors do not fly in formation. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1955 May–July, -The Author, 1993, pp. 2–7; Swords 229–230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2801

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Event 4135 -(AA2C11C3)

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Date: 5/9/1956
-Time: 2300
-Description: Two girls, Joan Frost and Gertie Wynn, while waiting for a -bus, saw two pulsating lights flying horizontally and disappearing. 15 -min later the lights were seen again, stopping at the zenith, merging, -and diving to 50 m altitude. As the bus arrived, it seemed that the -objects had separated and were about to abduct the witnesses, and they -ran to the vehicle in terror.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Mar., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Jacksonville, Florida
-ID: 382

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Event 4136 -(EEDA78B2)

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Date: 5/22/1956
-Description: 11:05 p.m. USAF 1st Lt. Earl D. Holwadel and 1st Lt. Curtis -Carley are piloting a T-33 jet at 18,000 feet 58 miles northwest of -Monroe, Louisiana, when they see a bright light due east. They see it -again in the east at 11:15 p.m. Holwadel banks right to the southeast -somewhat behind the object, which is now a great distance away. The -object suddenly comes straight at them at high speed, passing in front -of the T-33 at about 225 feet away. It flashes an intensely bright white -light from a “greenhouse-shaped dome” or cockpit window at its front end -that lights up the canopy of the T-33. The object is about 30-40 feet -long, elliptical in shape, shorter than a C-47 but wider, a small steady -red running light in the center, with no wings, only stubby protrusions -extending 3-4 feet and 25 feet long on each side. The bottom surface is -like steel with ribs extending down 2–4 feet with a wave-like -appearance. It moves away then returns at high speed on a westerly -course with “fantastic” maneuverability. It never changes flight -attitude at any time. (NICAP, “Elliptical -Object Comes Straight at T-33”; Walter N. Webb, “Inside Building -263: A Visit to Blue Book, 1956,” IUR 17, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1992): -cover, 5; Sparks, p. 237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2802

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Event 4137 -(6155E315)

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Date: 6/1956
-Alternate date: 6/1957
-Description: RNZAF Airman Derek Mansell is a passenger in a Bristol 170 -Freighter Mk 31M near Wellington, New Zealand, when the aircraft -encounters severe turbulence and its compass and other instruments spin -wildly. All communications fail and the engine spurts intermittently for -25 minutes before everything returns to normal. When the Freighter lands -at RNZAF Base Ohakea near Bulls, the pilot of a Douglas C-47 Dakota -lands and asks them whether they had seen a huge metallic disc about 250 -feet in diameter with a blue light on top and a red light on the bottom, -which he had observed just above the Freighter pacing it. The Dakota -crew apparently took photos, but these have not turned up. After a -two-hour debriefing, both crews are told never to discuss the matter. -(Good Above, pp. 432–433)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2805

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Event 4138 -(A698D464)

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Date: 6/1956
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two women are driving north toward New -Hampshire, Ohio, when a bright light approaches them from a small wooded -area. They stop their car to look at it. The light is attached to a -large rectangular object resembling a railroad box car that settles near -the ground at the edge of the highway opposite to them about 30 feet -away. Suddenly the side of the object facing them lights up from inside -with a pale green light and they can see three small entities. One is -standing next to a console “operating some kind of controls,” and the -two others are also active. For 5 minutes, they appear to be observing -the women. The entities have dark hair on their heads and arms and are -wearing short-sleeved smocks. The object moves up and away toward the -southwest and disappears. (“Unreported -1956 CEIII Discovered in Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 3 -(June/July 1982): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2806

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Event 4139 -(8E173F15)

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Date: 6/6/1956
-Time: 0430
-Description: An object hovered about 30 m above and 100 m away from the -witness’s car. Showing something like a dome on top, it crossed the road -slowly, turned, and crossed the road again behind the car, then vanished -suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Banning, California
-ID: 383

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Event 4140 -(4B378C76)

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Date: 6/6/1956
-Time: 5:30 AM
-Description: Witness: Mr. Bierman. One thin disc with a small dome, -shimmering silver, hovered about 100 yards away for 8-10 seconds, then -zoomed up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Banning, California
-ID: 402

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Event 4141 -(65FCC536)

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Date: 6/13/1956
-Description: Science fiction movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” is -released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US

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Event 4142 -(86C94E57)

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Date: 6/13/1956
-Description: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, an American black-and-white -science fiction film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Charles -H. Schneer, directed -by Fred -F. Sears, starring Hugh -Marlowe and Joan -Taylor, and with special effects by Ray -Harryhausen, is -released in Los Angeles. The film’s storyline is suggested by Donald -E. Keyhoe’s -nonfiction Flying Saucers from Outer Space (1953), but bears little -resemblance to the content. Keyhoe has sold the rights to Clover -Productions in Hollywood. (Wikipedia, “Earth -vs. the Flying Saucers”; Internet Movie Database, “Earth -vs. the Flying Saucers”; Clark III 434)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2807

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Event 4143 -(AA77CEC9)

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Date: 6/14/1956
-Description: Walter -N. Webb visits and interviews Project Blue Book head Capt. George -T. Gregory at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohiob . (Walter N. Webb, -“Inside Building 263: A Visit to Blue Book, 1956,” IUR 17, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1992): 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2808

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Event 4144 -(5B9341BB)

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Date: summer 1956
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A cigar-shaped UFO with lighted portholes is -seen by two witnesses in the southwest part of Springfield, Illinois. -The car driven by one of the witnesses quits, and the UFO seems to -affect the traffic lights as well. The object looks slightly smaller -than a blimp. After about 30 seconds it moves straight up and -disappears. (Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 -(Winter 2001–2002): 14, 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2804

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Event 4145 -(69D92877)

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Date: summer 1956 (approximate)
-Description: Morris -K. Jessup is invited to the Office of Naval Research to examine the -mysteriously annotated version of his The Case for the UFO. He becomes -convinced that his correspondent Carl -Allen has written all or most of it. Capt. Sidney Sherby and Cmdr. -Hoover ask -for the Allen letters and these are included in a special printing of -the annotated book by the Varo Publishing Company of Garland, Texas. In -1969, Allen confesses to APRO that he had written the annotations, but -he retracts the confession later. (Clark III 95–97; Andrew H. -Hochheimer, “The Varo -Edition,” The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z, December 13, -2016).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2803

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Event 4146 -(2F340D95)

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Date: 6/25/1956
-Description: ATIC’s Col. John -Eriksen, writing for Secretary of the Air Force Donald -A. Quarles, replies to a query from Rep. John -E. Moss (D-Calif.), explaining why USAF is not handing out multiple -copies of Blue Book Special Report no. 14 and that it does not intend to -withhold UFO information from the public. (Swords 223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2809

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Event 4147 -(094EC01C)

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Date: 7/1956
-Description: US parapsychologist Andrija -Puharich and Dutch psychic Peter -Hurkos accidentally meet Charles Laughead and his wife Lillian in -Acámbaro, Guanajuato, Mexico, both groups in town to view the famous -figurines of Waldemar -Julsrud, during -the time that Hurkos is being studied by Puharich at his medical -facility in Glen Cove, Maine. The Laugheads are convinced that Puharich -and Hurkos are space people come to assist them, based on the -channelings of their associate George -Hunt Williamson (although they do not name him). (Andrija Puharich, -Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller, Bantam, 1975, pp. xviii–xxiv; -Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, -Verdechiari, 2016, p. 104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2811

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Event 4148 -(3A62D568)

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Date: 7/1956
-Description: Brinsley -Le Poer Trench, 8th -Earl of Clancarty, takes over as editor of Flying Saucer Review from Derek Dempster. (Flying -Saucer Review 2, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1956); Clark III 498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2810

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Event 4149 -(7BAA89FF)

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Date: 7/4/1956
-Description: Pilot Hervey -Stockman makes the first of eight U-2 flights over Soviet Russia, -Mission 2013. He flies from Wiesbaden over East Germany and Poland -before crossing the Soviet border near Grodno, Belarus, then over bomber -bases at Minsk, Belarus; Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], Russia; and the -Baltic states. The mission is tracked by Soviet radar; a number of MiG -fighters unsuccessfully try to intercept the U-2. (Spyflight, -“Lockheed U-2”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 86–88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2812

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Event 4150 -(2A88DF31)

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Date: 7/9/1956
-Description: One early U-2 mission, Mission 2020, flown by Martin -Knutson, flies over Engels-2 airfield, near Saratov, Russia, and -photographs 20 M-4 Bison bombers on the ramp. Multiplying by the number -of Soviet bomber bases, the intelligence suggests the Soviets are -already well on their way to deploying hundreds of aircraft. Ironically, -the U-2 has actually photographed the entire Bison fleet; there is no -bomber at any of the other bases. Similar missions over the next year -finally prove that. At least in official circles, the bomber gap is -disproven. (Spyflight, “Lockheed U-2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2813

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Event 4151 -(9D902C70)

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Date: 7/10/1956
-Description: The Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, coastline and suburbs -are draped with “angel hair” that hangs from utility lines and trees. It -vanishes within hours, but a sample is recovered for analysis by the -Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation. It cannot be -identified, although six scientists rule out wool, cotton, feathers, -cellulose, and synthetic fibers. (Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical -Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 102; Keith Basterfield, “Angel -Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2814

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Event 4152 -(9431159D)

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Date: 7/16/1956
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Lawyer (or law professor) João de Freitas -Guimarães is taking a walk on the beach at Caraguatatuba, São Paulo, -Brazil, when he observes a hat-shaped, luminous object leave the sea -between São Sebastião and Ilhabela and land only a few yards away from -him. A door opens, a metallic stairway emerges, and two tall, -human-looking men with long, fair hair emerge wearing green jumpsuits. -Through gestures, they encourage him to enter the craft. Inside, the -saucer takes off and the crew communicate with him telepathically, -telling him about a radiation protection system that exists around the -ship and that they have left the atmosphere. They are supposedly from -Venus. His alleged trip lasts an hour. When he returns, his watch no -longer works. (Luiz do Rosário Real, “Caso -Dr. Freitas Guimarães,” April 1976; Clark III 548–549; Vallée, -Magonia, pp. 257–258; -Equipe UFO, “João -de Freitas Guimarães, o advogado que passeou em um UFO,” Portal UFO, -October 1, 2013; Brazil 32–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2815

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Event 4153 -(EB2A6D41)

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Date: 7/17/1956
-Description: Elizabeth -Klarer takes several photos of a silvery disc as it is hovering -around Flying Saucer Hill, southwest of Rosetta, KwaZulu-Natal, South -Africa. (Clark III 657–658)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2816

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Event 4154 -(1388D1AA)

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Date: 7/19/1956
-Description: Michael Savage, Cal. takes pic of saucer.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: California
-Attributes: ufo photo

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Event 4155 -(B29EAA03)

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Date: 7/19/1956
-Description: President Eisenhower temporarily -halts U-2 overflights above eastern Europe. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -U-2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2817

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Event 4156 -(A321F1DD)

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Date: 7/19/1956
-Description: Naval Air Station Hutchinson [now Hutchinson Air Force -Station], Kansas, reports tracking “a moving unidentified object” on -radar, observed visually by state police as a “teardrop shaped” light -source. Witnesses report “noticeable maneuvers of UFO vertically and -horizontally over a wide area of the sky.” (NICAP, “NAS -Tracks UFO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2818

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Event 4157 -(55499F45)

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Date: 7/20/1956
-Description: Three witnesses independently claimed that they observed a -huge, ballshaped object from which emerged three beings. They were -nearly 2 m tall, had long, blond hair, and wore tight, green -suits.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Hanlon; Humanoids 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Panorama City, California
-ID: 384

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Event 4158 -(AC94A88C)

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Date: 7/20/1956
-Description: In a lecture delivered at a meeting of Clara -John’s Flying Saucer Discussion Group, author Morris -K. Jessup declares that it is time for a new UFO organization. A -consensus is reached that a Washington, D.C.–based agency should -investigate UFOs, and T. -Townsend Brown offers to draft a preliminary proposal. (Clark III -792; “‘Toward -a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP Began,” UFO -Investigator, October 1971, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2819

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Event 4159 -(41A00191)

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Date: 7/20/1956
-Description: Three witnesses in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los -Angeles, California, independently observe a huge, ball-shaped object -from which emerge three beings. They are nearly 6 feet tall and have -long, blond hair, and wear tight, green suits. (Donald B. Hanlon, “Questions -on the Occupants,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special -issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2820

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Event 4160 -(AA4C89E8)

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Date: late 7/1956
-Description: A group of US Navy pilots based at Naval Air Station Los -Alamitos [now Joint Forces Training Base–Los Alamitos], California, tell -news reporters from Orange County News Service that they have orders to -shoot down any UFOs that seem hostile. The pilots say this is a standard -command issued to pilots on the US to Hawaii run. (“Unanswered -Questions: No. 4, Have UFOs Been Fired Upon?” Flying Saucer Review -3, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1957): 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2823

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Event 4161 -(D8739253)

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Date: 7/22/1956
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Mrs. Ray Brown sees an egg-shaped object giving -off a green-colored light from its rear end over Highway City, -California. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2821

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Event 4162 -(D5B80466)

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Date: 7/22/1956
-Description: 11:00 a.m. USAF Maj. Merwin -Stenvers is flying at 16,000 feet over Pixley, California, in a -Convair C-131D and is suddenly staggered and knocked to the right by a -terrific blow. He makes an emergency landing at Kern County Airport [now -closed] in Lost Hills. An examination shows that more than half of the -left elevator control surface is gone or smashed, leading to speculation -that the airplane had been hit by something. However, an accident -investigation team finds that a series of rivets had popped, jamming a -rod that controls the elevator servotab and causing the elevator to get -stuck. (“Plane’s -Dive Is Laid to Control Device Failure,” Fresno (Calif.) Bee, July -25, 1956, p. 4-B; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -pp. 71–73; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 39–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2822

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Event 4163 -(382975A5)

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Date: 7/26/1956
-Description: Two disc-shaped objects are suspended in mid-air, one above -the other, over the aircraft carrier USS -Franklin -D. -Roosevelt as it is berthed in the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. -They are 75–100 feet in diameter and have two rows of counter-rotating -lights. The upper one releases a ball of fire that drops into the top of -the lower one. Within seconds they vanish with tremendous speed. One of -the witnesses is Petty Officer 3rd Class (OI) Leon Treadwell, who -signs papers agreeing he will tell no one for 20 years. Chief Warrant -Officer John C. Hau reports that the ship’s radar tracked a cigar-shaped -object the day before or after. (Good Need, p. 231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2824

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Event 4164 -(49CA1E62)

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Date: 7/26/1956
-Description: 8:20 p.m. Physician J. L. Bennet and his wife watch two -spinning, powder-blue lights for 10 minutes outside his home in Kilburn -Estate, in District 21 near King Albert Park, Singapore. They dart about -the sky “like fish in a tank,” come together, hover, and separate at -great speed, disappearing from sight. He manages to take several photos, -one of which shows two objects, one a nearly perfect oval, the other -blurred. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2825

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Event 4165 -(7C3C0B31)

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Date: 7/28/1956
-Description: 9:55 p.m. Seven witnesses in Brentwood, California, see a -sparkling green light flash through the sky and seemingly land in an -orchard. Television reception is briefly interrupted. Sheriff’s deputies -and reserve officers search a square-mile area for 3 hours but find -nothing. (“Mystery -Light Falls in Contra Costa Co.,” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, July 29, -1956, p. 1; “Saucer -Sightings Mount As Mars Swings Close,” CRIFO Orbit 3, no. 6 -(September 7, 1956): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2826

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Event 4166 -(79FBBD24)

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Date: 8/1956
-Description: George -King forms the Aetherius Society in London, England, as the result -of what King claims are contacts with extraterrestrial intelligences, -whom he refers to as “Cosmic Masters.” The main goal of the believer is -to cooperate with these Cosmic Masters to help humanity solve its -current earthly problems and advance into the New Age. Life on other -planets is described as free from war, hatred, disease, want, and -ignorance. According to King, the civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria -both vanished during an atomic war. (Wikipedia, “Aetherius Society”; -Clark III 52–53; Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk -Concepts of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, pp. 62–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2829

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Event 4167 -(B2CC5E61)

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Date: 8/1956
-Description: John -P. Cahn publishes a second article in True on the Scully hoax. -(J. P. Cahn, “Flying -Saucer Swindlers,” True, August 1956, pp. 36–37, 69–72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2828

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Event 4168 -(E7EA7188)

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Date: 8/1956
-Description: FBI Director J. -Edgar Hoover launches COINTELPRO (counter-intelligence programs). -These are employed against American dissidents and their organizations; -the first one targets the American Communist Party. Typical methods are -anonymous or fictitious letters, false defamatory or threatening -information, forged signatures, and other disinformation. The FBI -blackmails insiders to spread false rumors or promote factionalism. It -creates bogus organizations to attack or disrupt a bona fide group, and -instigates hostile actions through third parties, such as employers, -elected officials, and the media. It enables the FBI to investigate any -political organization on the pretext of checking for Communists, -including the NAACP, women’s rights groups, and gay rights groups. These -programs prompt nearly 330,000 FBI investigations and create a Security -Index of over 200,000 dangerous Americans to be detained in the event of -war. Documents relating to these programs are marked “Do not file,” -offering no clues that they exist. (Wikipedia, “COINTELPRO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2827

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Event 4169 -(F82BC0A2)

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Date: 8/1956
-Description: Late night. Two young men are camping near Newark, Ohio, -when they see five bright lights in a rigid V- formation. They fly in -erratic, sharp-turning patterns for about 5 minutes, including sharp 30° -turns. One man takes a photo. They report the sighting to the newspapers -and the Air Force, but a USAF officer confiscate both the print and the -negatives; the newspaper’s copies are also taken. (Michael D. Swords, -“Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2830

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Event 4170 -(9E49FCC1)

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Date: 8/3/1956
-Description: A press leak from the Air Force Association reveals that -proposals for two types of UFO-detecting satellites are under -development. A television subsystem is cancelled as impractical, but an -infrared subsystem requires much lower data transmission rates. Lockheed -has signed an Air Force contract. The CIA’s Richard -M. Bissell later reveals that the CIA Office of Scientific -Intelligence Deputy Director Gen. Philip -G. Strong has been pushing the Air Force to develop an infrared -tracking satellite. The infrared system actually begins as planned in -1968, with initial operational status in 1970. (Clark III 813, -1032)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2831

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Event 4171 -(88B4EB60)

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Date: 8/8/1956
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witnesses: attorneys W.B. Buttermore and J.W. Smith. One -blue-white pulsating light flew fast, straight and level, for 5-7 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 20 miles south of Quartsite, Arizona
-ID: 403

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Event 4172 -(24A9BDCC)

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Date: 8/13/1956
-End date: 8/14/1956
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A radar-visual UFO sighting begins at RAF -Bentwaters [now Bentwaters Parks], Suffolk, England. A blip traveling -approximately 4,000–8,000 mph on an east-west course is picked up on -radar. It moves in a straight line to a position about 15 miles -northwest of Bentwaters. Within a few minutes, about a dozen normal -targets are spotted 8 miles southwest, moving northeast at about 100 -mph. In front of the targets are three objects in a triangular -formation, about 1,000 feet apart. All the targets then appear to -converge into one extremely large target (several times the size of a -B-36), which continues moving to the northeast, then stops for a few -minutes, then resumes, and is lost to radar. The entire sighting up to -this point takes 25 minutes. Five minutes later, another solid target -appears, flying east to west at 4,000 mph or more, then vanishes when it -moves out of range. A T-33 trainer from the 512th Fighter Interceptor -Squadron crewed by 1st Lts. Charles Metz and Andrew Rowe is sent to -investigate the radar contacts, but sees nothing. No visual sightings of -the objects are made from Bentwaters in this period, with the exception -of a single amber star-like object which was subsequently identified as -probably being Mars. At 10:55 p.m., another target is picked up 30 miles -to the east, traveling west at 2,000–4,000 mph. It passes directly -overhead and is seen as a white light by both air (a C-47 at 4,000 feet -reports it passed underneath him) and ground observers. Bentwaters -notifies RAF Lakenheath, also in Suffolk, about what is going on, and -Lakenheath personnel see a luminous object stop, then zoom off to the -east. Also, two white lights are seen joining from different directions, -which are tracked on two screens at Lakenheath. According to -T/Sgt. Forrest Perkins, watch supervisor at the Lakenheath radar center, -at midnight Lakenheath notifies RAF Neatishead, Norfolk, that a strange -object is buzzing the base. A de Havilland Venom night fighter is -scrambled, directed by Neatishead radar controller Flight Lt. Freddie H. -C. Wimbledon. Perkins and Wimbledon claim the jets are sent up around -midnight, but the crews think it is at 2:00 a.m. The Venom, crewed by -Flight Officers David Chambers and John Brady from 23 Squadron at RAF -Waterbeach [now closed] in Cambridgeshire, finds the object on radar -north of Cambridge and sees it as a bright white light, which then -disappears. The navigator says it is the “clearest target I have ever -seen on radar.” The object, however, is behind the plane and stays there -for some time, despite climbs, dives, and circling. Ground radar -operators say that the object is glued right behind the fighter. After -10 minutes, the fighter heads back. The UFO follows briefly, then stops -and hovers. Another Venom, crewed by Flight Officers Ian Fraser-Ker and -Ivan Logan, is scrambled at 2:40 a.m. but experiences engine problems -and aborts. Ministry of Defence officer Ralph Noyes says that one of the -Venom pilots has taken a gun-camera film, which was later shown at a -briefing in Whitehall. The object is tracked on two radars, leaving the -area at 600 mph. The encounter is classified until 1969, when it is -analyzed by the Colorado project. Gordon -Thayer suggests that the “apparently rational, intelligent behavior -of the UFO suggests a mechanical device of unknown origin as the most -probable explanation of this sighting.” A later investigation is -conducted by David -Clarke, Andy -Roberts, and -Jenny -Randles. In -contrast to the reports given in the original classified teleprinter -message (from 3910th Air Base Group to ADC at Ent AFB, now the US -Olympic Training Center) three days after the event and in the accounts -of both Wimbledon and Perkins, the air crews now state that the radar -contacts were unimpressive and that no “tail-chase” or action on the -part of the target occurred. They also assert no visual contacts were -made. Chambers and Brady comment that “my feeling is that there was -nothing there, it was some sort of mistake,” while Ivan Logan, the -second Venom’s navigator, states that “all we saw was a blip which -rather indicated a stationary target.” At the time 23 Squadron decides -that the radar contact had, if anything, been with a weather balloon. Martin -Shough concludes that there are actually several incidents at -different times and places and that the relationship between each is -unclear. (Wikipedia, “Lakenheath-Bentwaters -incident”; NICAP, “Several -Incidents of R/V at Bentwaters”; Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents 1, case -documents 2, case -documents 3]; Condon, pp. 163–164, 248–256; -James E. McDonald, “UFOs -over Lakenheath in 1956,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1970): 9–17, 29; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, -Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 91; -RAF Fighter Controller (Rtd.), “UFOs -over Lakenheath,” -Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 1 (June 1978): 31; Ian Ridpath, “New Light -on Lakenheath,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 6–7; Martin L. Shough, “Background -& History”; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs -1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 219–226; Clark III 665–670; Good -Above, pp. 44–46; -Sparks, p. 238; -Ivan Logan, [Letter -to Dave Clarke], October 23, 2000; Don Berliner, with Marie -Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available -Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 64–66; -UFOFiles2, pp. 66–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2832

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Event 4173 -(F04B3FAE)

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Date: 8/15/1956
-Description: The RAND Corporation releases a top-secret 1955 summary -detailing more than 143 aircraft incidents in the Far East. (Alexander -L. George, “Case -Studies of Actual and Alleged Overflights, 1930–1953,” Rand -Corporation, RM-1349, August 15, 1956; Clark III 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2833

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Event 4174 -(674B73EE)

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Date: mid 8/1956
-Description: 10:15 p.m. North American Aviation research technician Edison -F. Carpenter observes a formation of five flat, circular, pinkish -UFOs over Boulder City, Nevada. (Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents]; UFOEv, p. -58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2834

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Event 4175 -(020E422F)

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Date: 8/16/1956
-Description: The CIA’s Richard -M. Bissell assembles a group of advisers to begin work on solving -the problem of Soviets tracking the U-2 flights. Among the group are Edwin -H. Land, Edward -Mills Purcell, and -Kelly -Johnson. They -look into radar-absorbing paint. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2835

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Event 4176 -(59589569)

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Date: 8/22/1956
-Description: 8:50–11:59 p.m. Radars on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, -first report 2–3 objects on an easterly heading at 800 mph. -Approximately 2 hours later, four objects appear and orbit over the -location. About 90 minutes later, the tracks fade. (NICAP, “Objects -Orbiting Location and Tracked on Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2837

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Event 4177 -(2A6149FA)

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Date: 8/22/1956
-Description: 3:40 p.m. A man named Sheetz and another civilian in a car -chases a 50-foot, black, bell-shaped object bearing two bright, white -lights at the top several miles east of Naval Air Station Cecil Field, -near Jacksonville, Florida. Their engine stalls when the object hovers -10 feet away. The underside resembles a disc with fins. When a jet takes -off from the airfield, the object shoots out of sight almost instantly. -The car battery is completely dead. Noise from the object compares to a -helicopter, but there is no helicopter in the area. (NICAP, “Car -Chases Bell- Shaped -Object, Engine Stalls”; Sparks, -p. 246)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2836

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Event 4178 -(D5377BBE)

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Date: 8/27/1956
-Time: 9:55 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. R.S. Pope. One bright disc with a clear dome -flew vertically, then north. A very cold breeze seemed to have been -originated by the object during the 3 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Juniata, Pennsylvania
-ID: 404

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Event 4179 -(D4FADE04)

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Date: 8/27/1956
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Robert -James “Chick” Childerhose is flying nearly due west over the -Canadian Rockies near Fort Macleod, Alberta. He is flying at 36,000 feet -in the second position (far left side) of a formation of four F-86 Sabre -jet aircraft. While approaching a large thunderhead (cumulonimbus) at a -ground speed of about 460 mph, he sees at a much lower altitude a -“bright light which was sharply defined and disc- shaped” or “like a -shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” He takes a color photo. An -analysis suggests that it would have been radiating in excess of a -gigawatt of power within the spectral range of the film. (NICAP, “RCAF -Pilot Photographs -Object Radiating Power”; Jacques Vallée, “Estimates -of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of Unexplained -Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,” Journal of -Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 346–348; Richard F. Haines, -“Analysis of Photograph of a High-Speed Ball of Light,” JUFOS 8 (2003): -27–48; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, -Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 68–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2838

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Event 4180 -(01562919)

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Date: 8/28/1956
-Description: 11:30 p.m. León Febres, Miguel Talavera, Jesús Prada, and -Tomás Hernández are returning home in Calabozo, Venezuela, when the -ground around them is lit up by a bright white light. Looking up, they -see a large disc hovering silently. Several smaller objects emerge from -the large disc, leaving behind a wake of phosphorescent smoke that -dissipates quickly. The whole group flies off to the west in a V -formation with the large object in the lead. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole -Story, Signet, 1969, p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2839

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Event 4181 -(124162FB)

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Date: 8/29/1956
-Description: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena -organized in Washington DC
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 4182 -(E1A95CC3)

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Date: 8/29/1956
-Description: T. -Townsend Brown files incorporation papers for a new UFO group, the -National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena in Washington, -D.C. (“‘Toward -a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP -Began,” UFO Investigator, October 1971, pp. 2–3; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1956 August, The -Author, 1994, pp. 46–56, 82, 85; Clark III 792)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2840

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Event 4183 -(0188B4AA)

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Date: 8/30/1956
-Description: Day. Two RAF Gloster Javelin interceptors, one piloted by -E. H. “Wilbur” Wright, are flying west over the English Channel south of -the Isle of Wight, England, when one of the navigators obtains a radar -return at 19 miles distance (later calculations indicate it has a -diameter of 600 feet). The pilots get permission to abandon their test -exercise and investigate the object. Wright turns north toward the -object on his right wing, but it has apparently slowed down and is -maintaining its position. The second Javelin pilot has caught up from -behind and confirms radar and visual sightings. The two aircraft bank -steeply so the object is at 15 miles dead ahead on the radar screen They -close the distance to 10 miles and see that the object has a metallic -gray appearance. At 8 miles distance, the object suddenly climbs -vertically too fast for radar to track (estimated at 18,000 mph) and -vanishes. After landing at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, the crews are told -that ground radar at RAF Sopley [now closed] has tracked the object. -They are ordered not to speak about the event. (Jenny Randles, -“Scramble, UFO!” Fortean Times 386 (December 2019): 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2841

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Event 4184 -(6E0CB1C5)

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Date: 9/1956
-Time: 2030
-Description: O. Guarichi was walking on the beach with his dogs when he -saw an object come from the sea and land. Two men, 1.80 m tall, wearing -metallic-looking uniforms, emerged. One of them picked up objects from -the beach. There was an exchange of gestures with the witness. One of -the dogs turned away when the witness approached the craft, which was 20 -m wide 3 m high and showed flashing lights as it left.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Mar., 61 (Vallee)
-Location: Cabo Frio, Brazil
-ID: 385

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Event 4185 -(21AAFDD7)

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Date: 9/1956
-Description: Just before 8:00 a.m. A domed, disc-shaped craft allegedly -lands within White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, just 150 feet away -from US Highway 70. Radios and ignition systems of passing cars go dead, -as witnesses—including two USAF colonels, two sergeants, and dozens of -base personnel—observe the object as it takes off with a whirring sound. -All personnel at Holloman AFB are assembled in a hangar, debriefed, and -sworn to secrecy. (Ralph and Judy Blum, Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with -UFOs, Bantam, 1974; Good Need, pp. -219–220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2843

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Event 4186 -(D1FB1938)

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Date: 9/1956
-Description: The General Physics Laboratory of the Aeronautical Research -Laboratories (ARL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, -launches an intense program to coordinate research into gravitational -and unified field theories with the hiring of Joshua -N. Goldberg. The precise rationale for creating the program and -justifying its budgets and personnel may never be determined. Neither -Goldberg nor USAF Deputy for Scientific and Technical Information Walter -Blados can locate the founding documents. Roy -Kerr, a -former ARL scientist, says the antigravity propulsion purpose of ARL was -“rubbish” and that “The only real use that the USAF made of us was when -some crackpot sent them a proposal for antigravity or for converting -rotary motion inside a spaceship to a translational driving system.” -(Wikipedia, “United -States gravity control propulsion research”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2842

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Event 4187 -(4812F63F)

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Date: 9/4/1956
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: U.S. Marine Corps T/Sgt. R.D. Rogers and family. -One large star, changing to red color, remained stationary for 20 -minutes, then went west at 200 kts. (230 m.p.h.). Sighting lasted 23 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dallas, Texas
-ID: 405

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Event 4188 -(F9DBA3A8)

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Date: 9/4/1956
-Description: Several fireball-like objects fly over Copenhagen, Denmark, -tracked by radar at about 1,800 mph. (UFOEv, p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2844

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Event 4189 -(CB82ABC2)

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Date: 9/7/1956
-Description: Hutchinson of Moneymore, Ireland wrestles with UFO. Disc -escapes.
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Moneymore, Ireland

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Event 4190 -(2213EEC3)

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Date: 9/7/1956
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Thomas J. and Maud Hutchinson watch an object -drop out of low clouds and land in the middle of a bog at The Loup (near -Moneymore), County Derry, Northern Ireland. They wade 600 feet into the -bog until they come upon the small (3 feet high, 18 inches in diameter), -red, rubbery, motionless object. There are 3 white stripes around the -middle and it is pointed at both ends. Hutchinson kicks the object, -which rolls over then resumes its upright position. He picks it up and -is surprised at its lightness (estimated 2 pounds); the top is spinning -while the bottom (a small, saucer-shaped base) remains stationary. It -appears to be made of canvas-like material. They try to take it back -with them, but Thomas has to put it down to negotiate a hedge, and the -object takes off and disappears. (“Irishman -Caught a ‘Saucer,’” The Guardian (UK), September 8, 1956, p. 10; -Desmond Leslie, “The -Strangest UFO Case of All,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1956): 2–4; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -pp. 74–76; Clark III 328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2845

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Event 4191 -(89F42BF3)

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Date: 9/7/1956
-Description: Test pilot Iven -Carl Kincheloe Jr. reaches an altitude of 126,283 feet in the Bell -X-2. (Wikipedia, “Iven Carl -Kincheloe Jr.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2846

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Event 4192 -(AF4ABC00)

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Date: 9/8/1956
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Frank C. Clark is observing Mars with a 12.5-inch -reflector in Las Cruces, New Mexico, when he sees a faint starlike -object passing in a direction opposite to the apparent drift of Mars. It -is visible for 10 seconds before passing out of the field. Clark moves -the telescope and is able to see it again for another 10 seconds. It is -a yellowish color. (Frank C. Clark, “An -Observation of an Unidentified Celestial Object,” The Strolling -Astronomer 10 (May/June 1956): 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2847

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Event 4193 -(963D66EE)

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Date: 9/11/1956
-Description: The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory officially -launches Operation Moonwatch, an effort to enlist amateur astronomers in -tracking an artificial satellite that the US intends to launch during -the International Geophysical Year. The announcement is made at a news -conference by Armand -Spitz, coordinator of visual satellite observations. The program is -largely the brainchild of Harvard University’s Fred -Whipple, who recruits J. Allen -Hynek as assistant director to help with the central operation. -Until professionally manned optical tracking stations (using Baker-Nunn -camera-telescopes) come online in 1958, this network of amateur -scientists and other interested citizens plays a critical role in -providing crucial information on the world’s first satellites. The team -records some 36 UFO reports from 1957 to 1966. The program is -discontinued in 1975. (Wikipedia, “Operation Moonwatch”; -Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1993): 4–5; Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, -no. 4 (October 2009): 9–16, 24; Center for UFO Studies, “Moonwatch Mystery -Satellites, 1958–1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2848

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Event 4194 -(677E56F4)

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Date: 9/14/1956
-Time: 1 AM
-Description: Witness: Scaly, N. Car. policeman O.S. Gryman. Fourteen -yellow-to-red round objects with tremendous exhaust, flew in a Vague -formation from southwest to east to northeast and back again, while -swoooping up and down. Sighting lasted 1.5 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Highland, North Carolina
-ID: 406

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Event 4195 -(C70BE926)

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Date: 9/15/1956
-Description: About 6:30 a.m. A married couple is driving in Salem, -Indiana, when they notice a saucer hovering about 100 feet away in a -field by the road. They stop the car and get out for a better look. The -object is gunmetal gray in color and looks like two shallow bowls with a -dark gap between them. Wisps of smoke are coming from the gap. The -object looks as large as the town’s courthouse. It begins undulating as -it hovers. After 5 minutes, it tips over on its edge and vanishes. -(NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2849

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Event 4196 -(EEA59287)

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Date: 9/22/1956
-Description: 7:50 p.m. An amateur astronomer in Williston, North Dakota, -sees a dull-metallic, elliptical object the size of a small plane, -oscillating side to side as it moves at 150 mph above the Missouri -River. (Williston (N.Dak.) Plains Register, September 22, 1956; Richard -F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “A -1956 Military Aircraft–UFO Close -Encounter,” IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2850

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Event 4197 -(568B5192)

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Date: fall 1956
-Alternate date: winter 1956
-Description: Shortly after 12:00 noon. An Air Force Convair RB-36H of -the 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing based at Ellsworth AFB, Rapid -City, South Dakota, captained by Lt. C. Lenny Marquis, is flying in -northern South Dakota at 423 mph when one of the crew sees a metallic -disc 100 feet in diameter fly toward the airplane from the left and take -up a fixed position on the left wing less than 300 feet away. Other crew -members rush to the portholes to take photos. The object has a low dome -at the top with three round openings or light sources. The bottom is -nearly flat. Its narrow vertical sides are populated by many separate -light sources, each a different color. The rest of the disc is a “light -golden” hue. After 5–8 minutes, the object suddenly accelerates in -parallel with the B-36 and then rises about 30° above the horizontal. -The peripheral lights become brighter and turn greenish as it speeds out -of sight in several seconds. Both inflight and ground radars detect the -object. Substitute navigator Lt. Jimmie Lloyd says the crew turned in -all photos, logs, and equipment to an intelligence unit after landing. -(Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “A -1956 Military Aircraft–UFO Close Encounter,” IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring -2000): 22–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2854

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Event 4198 -(563E3285)

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Date: fall 1956
-Description: More than 30 pilots, navigators, and flight engineers are -on their way home from special duty in Europe on a US Navy Super -Constellation transport. When they are about 50 miles northeast of -Gander, Newfoundland, the pilot notices a cluster of lights beneath the -aircraft. Suddenly, the lights dim and spread out, the largest light -ascending on an apparent collision course with the transport. As it -reaches the plane’s altitude, it tilts, shoots to one side, and paces -them at a distance of 300 feet. It is a huge metallic disc, 30 feet -thick at the center and 350–400 feet wide, with a blurry glow around the -rim. Gradually it pulls ahead, tilts upward, accelerates, and zooms away -in 5–8 seconds. Gander Airport confirms that it had a radar target near -them. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 16–19; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., -1974, pp. 78–84; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and -Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 104–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2852

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Event 4199 -(445C649A)

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Date: fall 1956
-Description: A man in Falls City, Nebraska, sees a winged human with a -demonic face that approaches him from three blocks away. It is about 8–9 -feet tall and approaches him closely, hovering in the air about 25 feet -away. As it passes over him, the man feels numb and paralyzed. The -episode haunts him for the next 23 years when he talks to an -investigator. (Clark III 778)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2853

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Event 4200 -(9854B4AD)

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Date: 9/25/1956
-Description: Leonard -Stringfield’s wife Adelia observes -several white tufts of angel’s hair floating down in the front yard of -their home in Cincinnati, Ohio. She places it in an airtight jar. After -the Stringfields contact the Air Force, M/Sgt Oliver D. Hill retrieves -the sample on October 12. Analysis was done by C. G. Cocks and L. -Leatherland, who find that the fibers are “multifilament bundles” that -are characteristic of “regenerated cellulose fibers, either viscose or -cuprammonium rayon,” perhaps from a defective filter. (Brian Boldman, -“Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 102–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2851

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Event 4201 -(95F9E158)

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Date: 10/1956
-Description: Karl L. Veit founds the Deutsche -UFO/IFO-Studiengemeinschaft in Wiesbaden, Germany, which publishes the -newspaper-format UFO-Nachrichten. (“60 -Jahre UFO-Nachrichten,” -2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2855

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Event 4202 -(542E075A)

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Date: 10/2/1956
-Description: 3:45 a.m. Harry J. Sturdevant is on duty as a night -watchman at Herbert Elkin and Company, a construction firm in Trenton, -New Jersey. He sees a cigar-shaped object some 60–100 feet long and 15 -feet in diameter swiftly descending toward him. Emitting a red glow, the -object is making a hissing noise like steam and generating a foul odor. -It swoops past him and vanishes. He loses his sense of taste and smell, -possibly permanently. His face is burned to the point where he cannot -shave for two weeks. He begins to lose hearing in his right ear. When he -returns to work the next day, he finds leaves on the ground that have -burned up like tissue paper. Sturdevant applies for workmen’s -compensation from the state for his medical expenses. An adjudicator -awards him the money based on the fact that he may have only thought he -saw something, but was injured when he went to investigate it, which his -job required. (Emil Sloboda, “He Collected on a Flying Saucer,” Fate 10, -no. 6 (June 1957): 66–69; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2856

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Event 4203 -(26090BF4)

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Date: 10/2/1956
-Description: Harry Sturdevant, a night watchman of some 20 years, said, -“a red light in the sky shot at him. This UFO had no wings, fins or -propulsion sounds, except for the sound of “escaping steam”. It was -about 60 to 100 ft. in diam. and cigar shaped. The UFO gave him “the -greatest shock of my life”. There was a nauseating smell like sulfur and -brimstone. He lost the sense of taste and smell and couldn’t swallow -properly. He collapsed on the ground and was unable to move for half an -hour, after which he managed to drive to his home and call for aid. Six -weeks later, a New Jersey workmen’s compensation referee decided that -Sturdevant should be paid for medical expenses incurred for the injury -done by the UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting with injury
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Trenton, NJ

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Event 4204 -(1EBC481D)

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Date: 10/7/1956
-Description: 10:45 p.m. UFO reports by police and civilians around -Merced, California, reach Castle AFB [now Castle Airport Aviation and -Development Center] and a lighted elliptical object about 100–120 feet -in diameter is seen by the tower. Two interceptors are scrambled. The -object ducks under and above a narrow cloud bank. The pilots can see it -from various angles and as close as a few hundred yards. It appears to -be a flattened circular shape. The pilots decide to fly one above and -one below the overcast. Ground radar picks up the planes but not the -UFO. One pilot breaks off to return but sees that the UFO is now chasing -his buddy’s plane. Several officers arrive from another base to debrief -the pilots and they appear very knowledgeable about UFOs. They seek -“confirmation, not information” and tell the pilots not to discuss the -sighting at all. Citizen witnesses are told the pilots were chasing -ducks or geese. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 November– December, -The Author, 1994, pp. 52, 59; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, -1988, pp. 242–244; Sparks, -p. 239)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2857

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Event 4205 -(E805C4FF)

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Date: Late 1956
-Description: Castle AFB, California: A.A. and J.R. (names withheld) were -flying F-86’s near Modesto, CA, on alert duty due to civilian UFO -reports in a nearby town. Base instructed them to return because their -was an UFO near the control tower. With afterburners on they closed -rapidly on a luminous elliptical UFO that moved above and below cloud -cover at 10 to 12 thousand feet as if to elude them. The two pilots -played cat-and-mouse with the UFO until they ran low of fuel and -returned to base. Local citizens that witnessed these events were told -by the Air Force that the pilots had been chasing ducks or geese.
-Type: movie
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Castle AFB, CA

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Event 4206 -(52CDD57D)

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Date: 10/19/1956
-Description: NICAP’s initial board of governors includes T. -Townsend Brown (founder), Frank -Edwards, Leon C. LeVan, Albert -H. Baller, Charles -A. Maney, Talbot -T. Speer, Abraham -M. Sonnabend, Col. -Robert -B. Emerson, Rear -Adm. Delmer -S. Fahrney, Gen. William -E. Kepner, and -Brig. Gen. Thomas -B. Catron. Gladys Rose Hackett and Margaret Naylor are hired to do -secretarial work, and Martin -H. Heflin is hired as public relations specialist. The headquarters -are at 1536 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Incorporation is -granted on October 24. (“‘Toward -a Broader Understanding…’: The Story of How NICAP Began,” UFO -Investigator, October 1971, p. 3; Clark III 792; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 -September– October, The -Author, 1994, pp. 77–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2858

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Event 4207 -(AEDEFFDD)

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Date: 10/24/1956
-Description: NICAP established. One of its board of directors was -Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, former CIA director and rumored MJ-12 -member. From this position Hillenkoetter and others could steeer NICAP -from the inside in any direction they wanted.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 4208 -(370CFBD5)

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Date: 10/29/1956
-Description: Howard -Menger, a sign painter from High Bridge, New Jersey, goes public on -the Long -John Nebel show on WOR-AM in New York City with a story of his -contacts with “Aryan-type” Venusians in spaceships. Menger reports that -his contacts started in childhood, when he experienced flashbacks of -life on another world and sightings of flying discs. In 1932 he met a -beautiful blonde woman who could read his mind, and in 1946 he again -sees her stepping out of a flying saucer. She is supposedly 500 years -old, although she looks 25. Many contacts follow. (Clark III 738)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2859

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Event 4209 -(44295279)

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Date: 11/1/1956
-Time: 5:30 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Capt. W..M. Lyons, Intelligence Division -Chief (Aerial Weather Reconnaissance Officer), flying a T-33 jet -trainer. One orange light with a blue tinge, flew across the sky for 2 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 60 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri, in Illinois
-ID: 407

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Event 4210 -(31F9785B)

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Date: 11/4/1956
-Description: NICAP issues its first news release. T. -Townsend Brown emphasizes the group’s “growing membership of -responsible citizens from every walk of life and profession” and -stresses that “there does exist more than enough evidence of certain and -obvious aerial phenomena to justify independent evaluation.” (NICAP, “Project Skylight,” -November 4, 1956)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2860

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Event 4211 -(958C1A26)

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Date: 11/11/1956
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Stig Ekberg and Harry Sjöberg are building a -house on the island of Väddö, about 56 miles northwest of Stockholm, -Sweden. Ekberg is driving his Ford V8 pickup when they see a bright -flying object with the shape of a flattened sphere 24 feet wide and 9 -feet high approaching from the east. It moves about a half mile in front -of them at an altitude of 300 feet. As it makes a sharp turn toward -them, the truck engine sputters and dies and the headlights go out. The -object starts “slowly gliding down,” rocks back and forth, and comes to -a stop in the middle of the road, about 300 feet in front of them, 3 -feet above the ground. The object illuminates the surrounding landscape -with such a tremendous amount of light that a nearby barn is clearly -visible. The air smells of ozone and smoldering insulation. After about -10 minutes the object gets brighter, lifts off the ground, moves to the -left and up, makes a sudden turn, and speeds away in the direction it -had come. Ekberg restarts the truck and the headlights come back on. -Seeing that the grass at the landing site is flattened, they investigate -further and find a shiny rock that is hot to the touch. It is a heavy, -three-sided piece of metal about the size of a matchbox. After several -unsuccessful attempts to have the sample studied, it is taken to the -Saab aircraft company where Sven Schalin conducts a thorough analysis. -Other tests are later run in laboratories in Sweden, Denmark, and -Germany. The general conclusion is that the rock is composed of tungsten -carbide and cobalt, consistent with manufactured products. (Jacques -Vallée, “Physical -Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples,” -Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 365–366)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2861

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Event 4212 -(544E45C4)

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Date: 11/14/1956
-Description: Luminous object descended, hovered in front of airliner, -then sped away at upward angle
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mobile, AL
-ID: 3

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Event 4213 -(CA46CFB5)

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Date: 11/14/1956
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Captain William -Joseph Hull and his copilot Peter H. Macintosh are flying Capital -Airlines Flight 77 from New York City to Mobile, Alabama. While -approximately above Jackson, Alabama, they see something like a -brilliant meteor flash by the aircraft. The object stops, hovers, and -engages in a range of acrobatics (crazy gyrations, lazy 8’s, square -chandeliers) for several minutes before shooting out over the Gulf of -Mexico at “fantastic speed.” (Sign Historical Group, “Captain -Joe Hull’s UFO Sighting”; Condon, pp. 127–129; -Sparks, p. 240; -Swords 230–231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2862

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Event 4214 -(963D615B)

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Date: 11/16/1956
-Description: Morning. Telephones and an automatic railroad block -mechanism in Lemmon, South Dakota, fail to operate as a glowing red -object about 3 feet in diameter flies over the railroad yards. (Mobridge -(S.Dak.) Tribune, November 22, 1956; Schopick, pp. 21–22; -Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “A -1956 Military Aircraft– UFO -Close Encounter,” IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2863

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Event 4215 -(45BC099E)

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Date: 11/21/1956
-Description: 8:23 p.m. A customs officer named Ueda and a maritime -safety officer named Kume are walking along Number 1 Pier, Kobe, Japan, -when they hear an explosion. They see something resembling fireworks on -the bay and watch as two whirling balls of fire submerge. (Sanderson, InvRes, -p. 46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2864

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Event 4216 -(72A0A9E0)

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Date: 11/25/1956
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Police radio at Hot Springs, South Dakota, picks -up transmissions made by a jet interceptor from the 54th Fighter -Interceptor Squadron at Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City that makes three -passes at a brilliantly lit UFO bobbing up and down in the sky. On the -third pass, the pilot reports that the object registers on his radar. It -is rumored that a blip is picked up on ground radar by the 740th -Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron. A sheriff and deputy at Rapid -City watch a green stationary UFO with a flashing red light for 30 -minutes; an upward-shining white light appears at intervals. (NICAP, “Gnd/Air/Visual, -Jets Scrambled”; “‘Saucers’ -Stir Speculation,” -Rapid City (S.Dak.) Daily Journal, November 26, 1956, p. 1; “Hills -Residents Tell -of Shining Objects,” -Rapid City (S.Dak.) Daily Journal, November 26, 1956, pp. 1, 7; Pierre -(S.Dak.) Capitol Journal, November 26, 1956; UFOEv, pp. 22, 79; -Richard F. Haines and Franklin Carter, “A -1956 Military Aircraft–UFO Close -Encounter,” IUR 25, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2865

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Event 4217 -(A72E6A29)

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Date: 11/30/1956
-Time: 12:48 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF aerial navigator Maj. D.D. Grimes. One -unspecified object flew at an estimated 100’ altitude over water for 10 -minutes. No further details.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Charleston AFB, South Carolina
-ID: 408

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Event 4218 -(EC4DEBBA)

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Date: 12/1956
-Description: Chemical engineer Leon -Davidson begins to distribute privately printed copies of Project -Blue Book Special Report No. 14, together with his analysis and -commentary. He has become convinced that UFOs are secret devices -developed by the US government and that Special Report No. 14 is a -clever attempt to hide the fact. Mostly, however, he focuses on -discrepancies in the Air Force’s public announcements and the actual -data in the report. Davidson publishes further editions in October 1957, -July 1966, January 1971, and 1976. (Leon Davidson, Flying -Saucers: An Analysis of Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, -[1956], 3d ed., Ramsey-Wallace, 1966; Clark III 930)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2866

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Event 4219 -(D2A6D514)

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Date: 12/1/1956
-Description: 12:20 a.m. A round object, red to orange in color, is -observed moving at approximately 1,000 foot above Valley City, North -Dakota. It moves rapidly up, down, sideways, and hovers. A police car -approaches it, but the car loses radio contact with the station. Valley -City also loses contact with Jamestown, South Dakota. All radio contact -returns after the object leaves the area. (NICAP, [Blue -Book file])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2867

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Event 4220 -(BDB59129)

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Date: 12/2/1956
-Description: Dorothy -Martin sets off from Prescott, Arizona, with the Laugheads, -ufologist brothers Ray and -Rex -G. Stanford, -and George -Hunt Williamson, his wife Betty, and toddler son Mark. They are -acting in response to a series of Williamson channelings that had begun -April 18 when Lord Aramu-Muru announced that “those we have -commissioned” are to establish a priory of the Brotherhood of the Seven -Rays “in a remote area of another country to the south.” After spending -some time in Mexico, they head for Moyobamba, Peru, under the direction -of their spirit masters. The Laugheads (who apparently were in Mexico in -July) and Stanfords leave around this time. After a while, those -remaining move to the Valley of Pariahuanca east of Lima, Peru, and set -up the Outer Retreat of the Monastery of the Seven Rays, which has some -cult-like attributes. There they attract new members, including -Williamson’s later coauthor John McCoy. Williamson devotes himself for -several years to paranormally guided archaeological expeditions. (Clark -III 719–720, 1286; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George -Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 105–115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2868

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Event 4221 -(3B315D8F)

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Date: 12/10/1956
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A US Air Force pilot sees a silver object with a -“straight wing, having engine rods or large wing pods [or] intakes” -flying at 56,000–62,000 feet for 15 minutes at Victoria, Texas. The -pilot’s description is a dead ringer for a secret U-2 aircraft, which is -what Blue Book suspects. (Mark Rodeghier, “The U-2 Spy Plane and Blue -Book: Another Look,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2869

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Event 4222 -(FB499467)

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Date: 12/13/1956
-Description: Capt. Karl Hars Dersson and the crew of the Danish ship Dorthe -Maersk view an intensely bright fireball giving off weird flashes of -light for 2–3 minutes north of Isla La Orchila, Venezuela. It explodes -on hitting the water. Afterwards, the surface of the sea shimmers with -various colors and is disturbed for 5 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1956 -November–December, Supplemental Notes, The -Author, 2003, pp. 39–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2870

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Event 4223 -(0E09E927)

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Date: 12/15/1956
-Description: 11:00 a.m. While out gathering Christmas greens near Derry, -New Hampshire, A. G. Horne looks up and sees a 2-foot tall green dwarf -with a high-domed head, floppy ears, a face like a bloodhound, and -lidless eyes like a snake. His skin hangs in folds like an elephant’s. -After a few minutes, the being “started for me with a kind of screeching -sound,” and Horne flees. (Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1956, p. 23; -Clark III 271)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2871

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Event 4224 -(0B64C328)

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Date: 12/17/1956
-Description: Night. Marie Carow goes outside her home in Conashaugh, -Pennsylvania, with a flashlight and discovers two little men, 3.5 and 3 -feet tall, standing motionless in her back lawn. Both wear helmets and -snug-fitting suits of silvery material. Carow shines the light on them -for 3 minutes, then runs back to tell her husband. 15 minutes later, -they are gone. (Berthold Eric Schwarz, “UFO -Occupants: Fact or Fantasy?” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct, 1969): 16–18; Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, URECAT, October -18, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2873

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Event 4225 -(47ECF89D)

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Date: 12/17/1956
-Description: 4:20 p.m. Near Itazuke Air Base [now Fukuoka Airport] in -Fukuoka, Japan, a USAF pilot flying an F- 86D interceptor picks up a -large blip on airborne radar. The pilot sees a tan object, round on top, -at 9.2 miles and closes to within 5.7 miles. The object starts to pull -away from the fighter and at 13.8 miles all radar disappears. The pilot -estimates its speed as 1,700–2,000 mph. Both the pilot and his wingman -report interference resembling ECM (radar jamming). (NICAP, “Radar/Visual -from F-86”; Sparks, -p. 240; “Jet Planes Chased Big Flying Object,” Auckland (N.Z.) Star, -October 4, 1957; “Jet -Chase of Large Circular Object Investigated by Far East Air Force,” -UFO Investigator 1, no. 2 (Aug./Sept. 1957): 1–2; Richard Hall, -“Radar/Visual UFOs and Air Force Debunking,” IUR 18, no. 3 (May/June -1993): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2872

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Event 4226 -(25CF2B8D)

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Date: 12/31/1956
-Time: 2:10 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF lst Lt. Ted Brunson, flying an F-86D jet -interceptor. One round, white object flew under the F-86D, which was -unable to turn as sharply as the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Guam
-ID: 409

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- Event 4227 (6C3CA3C5)

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Date: 1957
-Description: Metaphysical author George -Hunt Williamson writes Other Tongues—Other Flesh (although it bears -a copyright date of 1953), the first of three books that set forth an -alternative occult history shaped by Atlantis, Lemuria, reincarnation, -and space people—both benign and malevolent. He writes that space people -first arrived 1 billion years ago [prior to the earliest known -multicellular life on land], were 12 feet tall, and built an underground -city beneath Lake Titicaca, Peru. Migrants from the “Sirius system” -arrive during the Miocene Epoch [23–5 million years ago] looking for -terrestrial bodies to inhabit—they select the evolving apes. The next -visitation took place in Arizona in 10,000 B.C. [the beginning of the -Neolithic Revolution] when Venusians land and interact with the -Lemurians. Records documenting earth’s unknown history are hidden in -various inaccessible places (“secret places of the lion”) around the -globe. Williamson’s book Secret Places of the Lion follows in 1958 and -Road in the Sky in 1959. These are among the first ancient astronaut -books. In the latter book, Williamson claims that the Hopi’s ancestors -are Martians, while their neighbors the Navajo are from Maldek, the -planet whose destruction formed the asteroid belt. (George Hunt -Williamson, Other -Tongues—Other Flesh, Amherst, [1957]; George Hunt Williamson, Secret -Places of the Lion, Destiny -Books ed., 1996; Clark III 104–106, 1286; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have -Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): -23–26; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt -Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 113–120, 235–243)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2875

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Event 4228 -(B6385221)

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Date: 1957
-Description: Morris -K. Jessup publishes The Expanding Case for the UFO, which argues -that human “little people” (like the pygmy peoples of the Congo basin) -were “planted” from UFOs thousands of years ago. Citing reports of -anomalous lights on the moon, Jessup speculates that the pygmy races -either colonized the moon or came to the Earth from there. They are the -remnants of an advanced civilization that developed levitation, -teleportation, and space flight, but had to leave Earth when Atlantis -and Mu were sinking into the oceans. (Morris K. Jessup, The Expanding -Case for the UFO, Citadel, -1957; Clark III 106–107, 635; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: -Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2874

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Event 4229 -(1EA8BC1D)

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Date: 1957
-Description: New Jersey contactee Howard -Menger releases an album of “Authentic Music from Another Planet,” -featuring a narrative by Menger and bland piano music written by his -wife Connie (under -her nom de plume Marla Baxter, sister of the blonde spacewoman he had -met in 1946). (Discogs, “Authentic -Music from Another Planet”; “Authentic -Music from Another Planet by Howard Menger,” Libertad450 YouTube -channel, February 22, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2876

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Event 4230 -(A3D378A0)

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Date: 1957
-Description: Otis -T. Carr announces his invention of a fourth-dimensional space -vehicle, a Circular-Foil Spacecraft powered by an Utron Electric -Accumulator that makes use of the “free energy of the universe.” (Clark -III 860)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2877

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Event 4231 -(0181BFC2)

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Date: 1957
-Description: Ground Saucer Watch is established in Phoenix, Arizona, by -Ted Starrett. William H. Spaulding is the Western Division Director, -with James A. Spaulding as the Eastern Division Director in Cleveland, -Ohio. It publishes Ground Saucer Watch Bulletin from 1976 to 1982. By -1979, GSW has analyzed nearly 700 UFO photographs and films, of which -they verify 38 as bona fide. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, -Putnam, 1980, p, -132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2878

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Event 4232 -(C424CE2C)

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Date: 1957
-Description: George -Fawcett founds the New England UFO Study Group in Marlborough, -Massachusetts. It publishes the New England UFO Newsletter from 1976 to -1982.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2879

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Event 4233 -(E6087DEA)

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Date: 1957
-Description: Hayden -C. Hewes founds the International UFO Bureau in Edmond, Oklahoma. It -publishes the Interplanetary Intelligence Report from 1965 to -1966.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2880

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Event 4234 -(6767536D)

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Date: 1957
-Description: Engineer Pantelimon Mizof and others see an object in the -Bucegi Mountains, Romania, pass over them silently and land. Some of -them approach to get a better look, but when they are 150 feet away, it -takes off suddenly. (Hobana and Weverbergh 158–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2881

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Event 4235 -(BE894944)

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Date: 1957
-Description: A radioactive waste containment sector near Ozyorsk failed -and exploded with a force between 70-100 tons of TNT. Radiation was -immediately spread throughout the region, affecting over 250,000 people. -The radioactivity released into the atmosphere was estimated to only be -one-fourth that of the later Chernobyl disaster. By 1959 every tree -within a 12-mile radius of the Chelyabinsk-40 complex was dead.
-Type: radiological event
-Reference: link
-Location: Ozyorsk, Russia

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Event 4236 -(51EBBD3E)

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Date: 1957
-Description: Cynthia Appleton, Birmingham, England is visited by -spacemen
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Birmingham, England

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Event 4237 -(2554450B)

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Date: 1957
-Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-70” nuclear weapons program plant opens -(Weapons design and research)
-Type: atomic plant
-Reference: link

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Event 4238 -(405844C6)

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Date: 1957
-Description: The Victorian branch of the Australian Flying Saucer -Research Society becomes a separate organization, the Victorian UFO -Research Society. It publishes the Australian UFO Bulletin from 1957 to -September 2007, edited by Les Bristol. (Keith Basterfield, Vladimir -Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): -24; Australian -UFO Bulletin 1, no. 3 (December 1957))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2882

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Event 4239 -(1A08F7CC)

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Date: 1957
-Description: The Centro de Estudios Interplanetarios is founded in -Barcelona, Spain. From 1970 to 1981 it publishes a quarterly magazine -titled Stendek, and since then it has published occasional groups of -papers on UFOs. (Stendek 1, -no. 1 (June 1970); Papers -d’OVNIs, no. -1 (1994); Nous -Papers d’OVNIs, no. 1 (December 2014))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2883

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Event 4240 -(D0702F97)

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Date: 1/1957
-Description: Norbert -F. Gariety begins publishing S.P.A.C.E. (Saucer Phenomena and -Celestial Enigma), a monthly newsletter, in Coral Gables, Florida. It -continues until January 1963. (S.P.A.C.E., -no. 1 (January 1957)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2885

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Event 4241 -(4AC87938)

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Date: 1/1957
-Description: Contactee Gabriel -Green establishes the Los Angeles Interplanetary Study Groups, which -in 1959 evolves into Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America in Los -Angeles, California. It assumes that UFOs are piloted by friendly -extraterrestrials. Around the same time, Green announces his meeting -with flying saucer crewmen from the hitherto unknown planet Korendor, -orbiting the triple star Alpha Centauri. At its peak, AFSCA has more -than 5,000 members. (Wikipedia, “Gabriel -Green”; Clark III 99; Thy -Kingdom Come, no. 4 (April/May 1957))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2884

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Event 4242 -(12A064BC)

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Date: 1/1/1957
-Description: Shortly before 12:00 midnight. Herbert Naderson and his -wife and sons are driving northeast to their home in Ashby, Minnesota, -when they see a triangular object traveling slowly at a high altitude. -They watch it for 45 minutes. (Fergus Falls (Minn.) Daily Journal, -January 3, 1957; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March 22nd, The -Author, 1995, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2886

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Event 4243 -(A28C431A)

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Date: 1/14/1957
-End date: 1/16/1957
-Description: T. -Townsend Brown has proven so financially inept that the NICAP board -asks him to step down. Delmer -S. Fahrney replaces him as board chairman, Keyhoe steps -in as director, and Fahrney convenes a press conference in which he -announces that UFOs are under intelligent control, but that they are not -American or Soviet aircraft. Stringfield is -made public relations adviser. (T. Townsend Brown, Letter -to NICAP Board of Governors, January -16, 1957; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March -22nd, The -Author, 1995, pp. 14–20; “High -Speed Objects Reported in the Sky,” New York Times, January 17, -1957, p. 31; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, p. 15; -Clark III 792)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2887

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Event 4244 -(27A09CF6)

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Date: 1/15/1957
-Time: early
-Description: William West and Wallace Liddell saw an object similar to a -shooting star coming close to them appearing then as an oval, -fluorescent craft, about 40 m in diameter, which almost touched the -grass. They rushed to catch it, but it jumped away, turning into a -bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. Each time they tried to -reach it, the craft jumped farther away. It cleared a high fence and -slowly vanished. The Invercargill Weather Bureau had no -explanation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 107 (Vallee)
-Location: Balfour, New Zealand
-ID: 386

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Event 4245 -(E207F888)

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Date: 1/16/1957
-Description: 8:00 p.m. The crews of two Air Force B-25s are flying about -90 miles north of Sweetwater, Texas, when they see a round white object -make rapid maneuvers. Pilot Lt. Col. Howard -T. Wright notes that his radio compass starts pointing directly -toward the object, following its movements. The entire object begins -blinking on and off. When the aircraft gets within range of Lubbock, -Texas, the object flies off on a straight-line course in about 12 -seconds. One of the B-25s refuels and is sent on a 4-hour search of the -vicinity with no results. (NICAP, “Object -Maneuvers near B-25’s / EME”; Sparks, -p. 241; Swords 244–245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2888

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Event 4246 -(54817E5E)

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Date: 1/21/1957
-Description: 10:45 a.m. Near Kagnew Station [now closed], Asmara, -Eritrea, five enlisted men of the US Army’s 4th Detachment of the Second -Signal Service Battalion (M/Sgt Billy J. Woodruff, Sgt. Frank Haverly, -SP2 Robert O. Clewell, SP2 George R. Dean, and SP3 Gerald L. Fennell) -watch a large, shiny, metal sphere hovering at about 2,000 feet. It -suddenly disappears but reappears later for a few minutes, then -disappears again. Later in the day, Woodruff and Capt. Jesse M. Strong -see two brownish, disc-shaped objects maneuvering in formation at a high -altitude. One breaks away from the other, moving at high speed. (UFOEv, -p. 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2889

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Event 4247 -(98A8BCF2)

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Date: 1/27/1957
-Description: Former CIA director Rear Adm. Roscoe -H. Hillenkoetter joins NICAP’s board of directors. (Loren E. Gross, -The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March -22nd, The Author, 1995, p. 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2890

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Event 4248 -(7EB4A152)

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Date: 1/31/1957
-Description: US Army Order number 30-13, “Sightings of Unconventional -Aircraft,” stipulates that personnel involved in sightings must “not -discuss or disseminate such information to persons or agencies other -than their superior officer(s) and other personnel authorized by the -Acting Chief of Staff, G-2, this headquarters,” by order of Col. Charles -L. Olin. (“Air -Force Sees Plenty: Tells Nothing,” CSI News Letter, no. 8 (July 25, -1957): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2891

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Event 4249 -(A9E4D321)

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Date: 2/1957
-Description: Project MKUltra chief Sidney -Gottlieb organizes field trials of psilocybin for injection into 9 -black inmates at the Addiction Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Allen -Dulles approves psychiatrist Donald -Ewen Cameron’s application for mind-control experiments to be -administered at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University in -Montreal, funded through the Society for the Investigation of Human -Ecology, a CIA cutout organization. Cameron does not know that the money -originates from the CIA. In addition to LSD, Cameron experiments with -various paralytic drugs, electroconvulsive therapy at 30–40 times the -normal power, and sensory deprivation in a “sleep room.” This is a dimly -lit dormitory of about 20 beds, which the nurses call “The Zombie Room.” -His “psychic driving” experiments consist of putting subjects into -drug-induced comas for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) -while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His -experiments are typically carried out on patients who have entered the -institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum -depression, many of whom suffer permanently from his actions. His -treatments result in victims’ incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to -talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators are -their parents. The Canadian government is apparently unaware of these -activities. Naomi -Klein argues that Cameron’s research and his contribution to the -MKUltra project is actually not about mind control and brainwashing, but -about designing “a scientifically based system for extracting -information from ‘resistant sources.’ In other words, torture.” (Gordon -Thomas, Journey -into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and -Medical Abuse, Bantam, -1989; Anne Collins, In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing -Experiments in Canada, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988; John D. Marks, -The -Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and -Mind Control, Times -Books, 1978; Naomi Klein, The -Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Picador, -2008; Jim Keith, Mind -Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2892

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Event 4250 -(8F28C6A3)

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Date: 2/9/1957
-Time: 2200
-Description: Approximate date. Ina Salter was driving on Route 53 in a -desolate area when she encountered a cigar-shaped objert about 5 m long, -showing several portholes, which was hovering close to the ground to the -left of the road. The portholes, about 50 cm in diameter, were -illuminated with a yellowish light, and there were shadows moving -behind. As she passed the object, it took off straight up, hovered for a -few seconds, then rose out of sight
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Mar., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Georgetown, Connecticut
-ID: 387

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Event 4251 -(E912899A)

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Date: 2/13/1957
-Description: 2:30 a.m. The USAF operations director and three tower -controllers at two radar sites within Lincoln AFB [now Lincoln Airport, -Nebraska], the GCA and NCOIC, track several targets flying behind an -airliner at a distance of 5–6 miles and traveling twice as fast. There -is no IFF response. The objects hover and move at high speed. One splits -into two objects, another executes an 180° turn. The radar blips are the -size of a B-47. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual -at Lincoln AFB”; Sparks, -p. 241; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 96–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2893

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Event 4252 -(B37C6E3A)

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Date: 2/13/1957
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Amateur astronomer Steve Papina is walking south -in Placerville, California, when he notices off to his left the ionized -track of what he takes to be a meteor. It is about 20° above the eastern -horizon, rising at a 70° angle. The trail begins widening at about 35° -above the horizon and veers in a westerly direction. Suddenly a black -disc appears directly in front of the trail, whose diameter is -approximately the width of the trail and the size of a nickel held at a -distance of 5 feet. Its surface is not smooth but crisscrossed with -grooves. It continues to move from east to west and acquires a white, -dusty appearance before speeding directly away from Papina at high -speed. (“ALPO -Refers Sighting to APRO,” APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2894

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Event 4253 -(F0CB52ED)

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Date: 2/15/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A large, circular object is seen by independent -witnesses in Wardle, Lancashire, England. Shortly afterward, a -commercial aircraft is seen following the same course as the UFO and -displaying unusually powerful lights. Later, at a point along the flight -path, a small radio transmitter like those attached to balloons is -found, then another piece of meteorological equipment in another spot. -In the House of Commons, MP Tony Leavey asks -the Secretary of State for Air for an explanation. On March 20, -Under-Secretary of State for Air Ian Orr-Ewing responds, -saying that the objects were toy balloons illuminated by a flashlight -bulb released by Neil Robinson, a laundry mechanic from Rochdale. But on -April 17, the Air Ministry sends an investigator to interview the -witnesses and tells them not to talk about the sighting. Robinson says -he has no idea how to launch a balloon, but there is some evidence that -he has considerable technical know-how and a penchant for pranks. -(Clifford Thornton, “The -Wardle Mystery,” Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 3 (May/June 1957): 4; -Geoffrey Norris, “Something -in the Sky,” Royal Air Force Flying Review, July 1957, pp. 14–16, -46; Good Above, pp. 46–47; -David Clarke, “The Wardle ‘Thing,’” Fortean Times 196 (June 2005): -40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2895

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Event 4254 -(872D02AF)

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Date: 2/19/1957
-Description: In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, -National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics officials Hugh -Latimer Dryden and Jimmy -Doolittle are asked about UFOs. They “flatly denied the existence of -such space vehicles.” When asked why they don’t speak out more often, -they remark that they “cannot compete with the science-fiction people.” -(US House Appropriations Committee, Hearings, Independent Offices -Appropriations for 1958, National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, -February 19, 1957, pp. 1417–1419)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2896

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Event 4255 -(56A500E3)

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Date: 2/26/1957
-Description: UK Air Chief Marshal Hugh -Dowding writes to retired Italian diplomat Alberto -Perego that he is most interested in “accounts of intelligible -contacts between human beings and the occupants of interplanetary -ships.” (Good Above, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2897

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Event 4256 -(D23743B6)

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Date: 3/1/1957
-Description: Leonard -H. Stringfield publishes the final issue of CRIFO Orbit. (CRIFO -Orbit 3, no. 12 (March 1, 1957); Clark III 1114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2898

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Event 4257 -(05C6BA2C)

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Date: 3/6/1957
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Hearing the family dogs barking in the backyard, -a Mrs. Martin who lives on Hope Road near Great Meadows, New Jersey, -looks outside and sees the dogs looking at a white hovering object that -looks like a “huge derby hat” about 50 feet in diameter. It is rocking -slightly in the air and makes a low, rumbling sound. Beneath it are -“streamers or lines” that “twinkle like the fragile strands” of -Christmas tinsel. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 150– 154; -Sparks, p. 241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2899

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Event 4258 -(B644EDEE)

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Date: 3/8/1957
-Time: night
-Description: A pilot saw a circular object flying against the wind. It -was luminous, about 5.5 m in diameter, and flew so low that it appeared -to suck up the snow.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keyhoe S (Vallee)
-Location: Baudette, Minnesota
-ID: 388

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Event 4259 -(B99C7300)

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Date: 3/8/1957
-Description: A pilot watches a UFO from the ground at Baudette, -Minnesota. It is circular, 15–18 feet in diameter, and its odd glow -shines on the snow-covered ground. It is flying so low that it seems to -suck the loose snow up under it as it passes. (Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 56; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 -January–March 22nd, The -Author, 1995, p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2900

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Event 4260 -(4A84E0C8)

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Date: 3/8/1957
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Victor Hancock and Guy Miller are flying a DC-3 -owned by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company above Pasadena, Texas, -when they see a UFO bearing three brilliant white lights. After the UFO -speeds by the aircraft, it slows down. When the DC-3 catches up, it -speeds ahead. This cat-and-mouse chase continues for some 10 minutes. -(NICAP, “UFO -Maneuvers near DC-3”; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1957 January–March 22nd, The -Author, 1995, pp. 68–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2901

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Event 4261 -(0EE3DECA)

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Date: 3/9/1957
-Description: 4:33 a.m. Capt. Matthew -A. Van Winkle, piloting -a Pan American World Airways DC-6A airliner at a point over the Atlantic -Ocean approximately 350 miles northeast of Jacksonville, Florida, -observes a “burning greenish white round object” to the right of the -aircraft that appears to be on a collision course. Van Winkle pulls the -plane upward in a climb to avoid the object. This sudden maneuver causes -four of the passengers to be thrown out of their seats, resulting in -injuries. Copilot Dion W. Taylor and Flight Engineer John Washuta also -observe the object. Washuta says the UFO is a high-intensity light that -appears to stand still for approximately four seconds until it is lost -to sight during the evasive action. Ed -Perry, piloting -Pan Am Flight 269 about 175 miles behind him, also sees it. Miami Air -Traffic Control sends a flash message to the Civil Aeronautics Board -describing the incident: “Pilot took evasive action, object appeared to -have a brilliant greenish-white center with an outer ring which -reflected the glow from the center. … Above description fits with what -seven other flights saw…. Miami reports no missile activity…. Original -reports of jet activity discounted.” The Air Force quickly explains the -sighting as a meteor, but the CAB declares it unexplained after a -thorough investigation. (NICAP, “DC6-A -Crew Take -Evasive Action”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 54–56; Swords 245–246; Frank -Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 38–39; -Good Above, pp. 282–283)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2902

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Event 4262 -(9DF0F565)

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Date: 3/10/1957
-Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to -San Juan, P.R. run)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: New York
-Attributes: aerospace

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Event 4263 -(9DF0F565)

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Date: 3/10/1957
-Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to -San Juan, P.R. run)
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: New York
-Attributes: aerospace

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Event 4264 -(42B47904)

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Date: 3/22/1957
-End date: 3/23/1957
-Description: Mrs. Robert Beaudoin, the wife of an Air -Force officer, along with her 17-year-old daughter Carol Litten, -sees a series of unusual lights at 11:15 p.m. northeast of Camarillo, -California. First they see a large, soundless, and pulsing light, with -something like a pole on top, making fast and erratic motions. She calls -a military friend and then 1st Lt. Leonard -E. Ott at nearby Oxnard AFB [now Camarillo Airport]. At 12:30 a.m., -they see a green object accompanied by two smaller red lights below the -horizon of the Los Palos Hills. The green object seems to be hovering -over the North American Rocketdyne plant in the Simi Hills. At this time -both the green object and the red objects seem to jump around, and the -two red objects are zooming past the green object at tremendous -velocities. Ott inquires about radar and a Lt. Martin tells him that -radar is detecting a stationary object in the same area. The sheriff’s -office is contacted, and they send a patrol car. Deputy Sheriffs Segura -and Rausch confirm Beaudoin’s report, with the exception that by that -time there are five red objects flying well below the green one. All are -in motion and constantly changing altitude. Radar calls Ott back and -says they have a scramble underway and they will have the aircraft check -the area upon their return. Upon the arrival of the interceptors from -Oxnard the red objects join the green object and speed away up and to -the east. The aircraft are unsuccessful and return to base. At this time -two Navy aircraft are sent to the area. Somehow, between the time of -this report to Oxnard and the later Air Force investigation by the -4602nd, these red objects are changed, on the report, to stars and the -moon above. This happens despite the witness stating that the red lights -were below the hills on the horizon. To deal with that, the Air Force -adds the theory that a temperature inversion caused light to bend the -images of the stars, or, alternatively, the witness saw lights on a -barn. Beaudoin herself is judged hysterical due to her pregnancy. The -Air Force’s explanation is completed without anyone bothering to -interview the teenage daughter or taking anything associated with the -airbase into account (for example, the radar returns). (NICAP, “Objects -Seen, Radar Tracked, Jets Scrambled”; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 58–61; Hynek -UFO Report, pp. 53–54; -Sparks, p. 242; -Swords 246–247)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2903

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Event 4265 -(EBBB71C4)

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Date: 3/23/1957
-Description: Agriculturist Luis Petriera, along with several others, -watches a glowing object plunge into Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. No -planes are missing. Officials drag the lake but find nothing. (“Report -from Venezuela,” APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2904

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Event 4266 -(01AF95F6)

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Date: 3/28/1957
-Description: AEC physician and Navy Capt. Charles -Wesley Shilling releases a press statement saying that “excessively -hot baths can be as damaging to the human sex glands as radioactive -fallout in the amount received in the last five years from the testing -of atomic weapons.” It is intended to counter the antinuclear activism -of biochemist Linus Pauling. (“Says -Hot Baths As Bad for Sex Glands As Fallout,” Newport (R.I.) Daily -News, March 29, 1957, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2905

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Event 4267 -(AFA51E87)

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Date: 4/1957
-Description: 7:30 a.m. An anonymous resident of Córdoba, Argentina, is -motorcycling to Rio Ceballos when his engine stops. He sees a large UFO -hovering nearby, from which a human-like occupant emerges. He entices -the man to enter the UFO with him. Inside, he sees 5–6 screens and -intricate equipment, at each of which a similar occupant is seated. -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March 23rd–May -25th, The -Author, 1995, pp. 63–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2907

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Event 4268 -(DE2CDDE8)

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Date: early 4/1957
-Description: USAF Brig. Gen. Arno H. Leuhman, director of Air Force -information, tells the press that “There’s no valid evidence that there -are flying saucers.” (“AF -Intelligence Chief Visits Here,” Miami (Fla.) News, April 14, 1957, -p. 12A)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2906

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Event 4269 -(E866E365)

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Date: 4/4/1957
-Description: Five unusual radar contacts are detected simultaneously on -three tracking radars of the Bombing Trials Unit based at RAF West -Freugh [now MOD West Freugh], southeast of Stranraer, Scotland, and -followed for 36 minutes. The three radars are located at two different -sites near Luce Bay, Wigtownshire, Scotland. The object flashes across -the sky at 60,000 feet, dives to 14,000 feet, circles, and speeds away. -Wing Commander Walter Whitworth, in command at West Freugh, is ordered -to say nothing about the object. (NICAP, “Three -Radars Track -Maneuvering UFO”; Good Above, pp. 48–49; -UFOFiles2, pp. 51–53; -Martin Shough, “Study -of Unusual Radar -Observations near RAF West Freugh, Wigtownshire, SW Scotland, April 4, -1957,” March 2010; Patrick Gross, “The -West Freugh Incident, 1957”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2909

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Event 4270 -(5E026CB1)

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Date: 4/4/1957
-Description: Pilot Robert -L. Sieker takes a U-2 covered in radar-deflecting paint for a test -run out of Area 51 and flies almost 90 miles without incident when -suddenly the paint causes the aircraft to overheat, spin out of control, -and crash near Pioche, Nevada. Sieker ejects but is killed when a piece -of metal hits him in the head. (Aviation Safety Network, “Wikibase -Occurrence #155905”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2908

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Event 4271 -(CBD673B2)

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Date: 4/8/1957
-Description: USAF Maj. Gen. Joe -W. Kelly answers a question from Rep. Lee -Metcalf (D-Mont.) and denies that the Air Force has muzzled pilots. -“Answers are provided on any unidentified flying objects which have -attracted national attention.” He admits that interceptors are still -sent up “as a matter of security.” (Keyhoe, FSTS)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2910

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Event 4272 -(C5D9ADB3)

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Date: 4/10/1957
-Description: Delmer -S. Fahrney leaves NICAP’s board of directors for urgent and personal -reasons, partially because his wife is -seriously ill, but also because of the ridicule generated by his peers -in the military. (Clark III 792–793)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2911

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Event 4273 -(D6503B83)

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Date: 4/14/1957
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Marie Garcin and Julia Rami are walking along -road D24 a half-mile east of Vins-sur-Caramy, Var, France, when they -hear a deafening noise and see a 5-foot-tall, 3-foot-wide, metallic, -top-shaped object covered with vibrating sharp spines that is landing -near a road sign. The sign starts to vibrate loudly, then the object -hops over the road at a height of about 15–30 feet. Another witness, -Jules Boglio, is about 1,000 feet away and sees the object land a second -time in the adjoining road, then jump over another road sign which then -vibrates loudly. Two other witnesses see the object at a much greater -distance. (NICAP, “Top-Shaped -Object Hovers at 300”; Jimmy Guieu, “Vins-sur-Caramy -(Var), 14 avril 1957,” Ouranos, no. 21 (1957): 50–52; Lorenzen, -UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 145–146; J. Allen Hynek, The -UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 154–156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2912

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Event 4274 -(EF4BB3E9)

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Date: 4/14/1957
-Time: 1500
-Description: At an intersection, two women, Mrs. Garcin and Mrs. Rami, -suddenly heard a noise and saw behind them a top-shaped object, 1 m high -and 1 m wide, nearly touching the ground. It made a sudden jump and -landed again: There were a number of antennalike projections on top of -it. The noise did not come from the object, but from a metallic road -sign vibrating in its vicinity.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 207; Challenge 14 (Vallee)
-Location: Vins-sur-Caramy, France
-ID: 389

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Event 4275 -(B92CE842)

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Date: 4/19/1957
-Description: 11:52 a.m. Two metallic discs are seen entering the Pacific -Ocean about 300 miles southeast of Tokyo, Japan, by Japanese fisherman -aboard the Kitsukawa Maru. A violent turbulence disturbs the ocean after -they submerge. The objects are 30 feet long and wingless. (NICAP, “Two -Discs Enter Pacific”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2913

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Event 4276 -(FB4643B3)

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Date: 4/19/1957
-Time: 1152
-Description: Japanese fishermen aboard the “Kitsukawara Maru” saw two -metal disks come into the sky. This was followed by violent -turbulence.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 147 (Vallee)
-Location: Pacific Ocean, near Japan
-ID: 390

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Event 4277 -(CBC6194F)

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Date: 4/22/1957
-Time: 1300
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Firmin Bason heard an unusual noise and saw a -whirlwind of flames 10 or 15 m above ground, coming down toward the -vineyard. It was red and blue, spinning wildly, flying slowly. It -hovered for 5 min over plants which moved violently, then it flew south -with a deafening roar, hovered again and departed to the southwest. -Diameter at the top: about 5 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos 21 (Vallee)
-Location: Palalda, France
-ID: 391

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Event 4278 -(39B09E2A)

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Date: 4/24/1957
-Description: 6:27 a.m. Project 57 is an open-air nuclear “dirty-bomb” -test conducted in Area 13 at the Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada. The -high explosives of a nuclear weapon are detonated asymmetrically to -simulate an accidental detonation of an XW-25 warhead in an airplane -crash. The purpose of the test is to verify that no yield would result, -as well as study the extent of plutonium contamination. Some 4,000 -galvanized steel pans sprayed with tacky resin are set up around a -10-by-16-square-mile block of land to capture plutonium samples. Some 68 -air- sampler stations equipped with micropore paper are spread over 70 -square miles. Mock-ups of sidewalks, curbs, and asphalt are set up in -the desert; cars and trucks are added; giant air-sampling balloons are -tethered in place; 9 burros, 109 beagles, 10 sheep, and 31 white rats -are put in cages. Afterward, the contaminated area is fenced off and the -contaminated equipment buried in place. Data from the test confirms that -plutonium has a 24,000-year half-life; many of the test animals are -killed, but security guard Richard -Mingus manages not to inhale any particles. A radiological survey -team detects alpha radiation, but no serious beta or gamma radiation. In -1981, the US Department of Energy decontaminates and decommissions the -site. Hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of soil and debris are -removed from Area 13 and disposed of in a waste facility at the Nevada -Test Site. (Wikipedia, “Project -57”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 100–116) -Late spring — Between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. Airman 2nd Class Wallace Fowler -is sitting on the front steps of his barracks at Ellsworth AFB near -Rapid City, South Dakota, when a silver domed disc with portholes -appears directly above him. Shadows are moving behind the portholes. The -UFO is motionless and the size of a house. After about 2–3 minutes it -takes off straight up at high speed. Many others on the base have seen -the object as well, and jets are scrambled. The UFO maneuvers around the -jets as if toying with them. One of the pursuing jets allegedly goes -missing and the wreckage is never found. (Good Need, pp. 218–219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2914

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Event 4279 -(04969A1B)

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Date: 4/25/1957
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Military witness Robertson. Case missing from official -files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ringgold, Louisiana
-ID: 410

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Event 4280 -(AFCCDA3B)

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Date: 5/1957 (approximate)
-Description: 3:45 p.m. Two men in Orlando, Florida, see an oval object -emerge from a larger cigar-shaped UFO about 75– 100 feet long. (Herbert -S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer -2004): 7, 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2918

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Event 4281 -(10133442)

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Date: 5/1957
-Description: Pilot Milton Torres flew a F-86 D Sabre from the Royal Air -Force base at Manston, Kent and ordered to shoot down a large “aircraft -carrier” sized UFO flying at more than 7600mph. Object disappeared, -ordered to stay silent and threatened with a national security breach if -he talked.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Reuters -Link
-Location: Manston, Kent

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Event 4282 -(D269976A)

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Date: 5/1957
-Description: Frances Stichler, who lived on a farm, was working in her -barn when she heard a whirring sound and saw a bowl-shaped object, 7 m -in diameter, with a rim over 1 m wide about 5 m above ground. It stopped -with one side tilted toward her. A man dressed in a loose, shiny, gray -suit, wearing a tight-fitting helmet, was facing her from inside the -object. He seemed of average height had deep-set eyes, tanned skin, and -a long face with a “quizzical” expression. Almost immediately the object -left toward the southeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 108; Humanoids 57 (Vallee)
-Location: Milford, Pennsylvania
-ID: 392

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Event 4283 -(AE4B67DD)

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Date: 5/1957
-Description: NICAP is fed a phony UFO crash story in the Everglades, -Florida, by an Associated Press employee who is a “former Signal Corps -engineer” with possible ties to the NSA. He admits faking the story but -refuses to give any motive. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 64–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2915

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Event 4284 -(AF234CC3)

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Date: 5/1957
-Description: 4:50 a.m. A truck driver pulls over at the edge of the -disused RAF Winkleigh Airfield [now the site of the West of England -Transport Collection], Devon, England, to drink some coffee. He notices -an object like a metallic, fluorescent-blue submarine with tail fins -sitting at the end of the runway. It is about the size of an airliner. -He watches it a while, then gets out of the truck and approaches it. He -has the object in sight a total of 10–15 minutes and realizes it is -hovering just above the ground. When he is 600 feet away, he encounters -a type of force field that prevents him from approaching. The object -then rises straight up into the sky to about 1,200 feet and shoots off -to the north. The force field disappears. (Ron Toth, “UFO -Landing at War-time Aerodrome,” Pegasus 2, no. 3 (May-June 1970): -2–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2916

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Event 4285 -(1EBE1B24)

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Date: 5/1957
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Frances Stichler is working in her barn in -Milford, Pennsylvania, when she hears a whirring sound and sees a -bowl-shaped object approaching at a height of 15 feet. It is 15 feet in -diameter with a rim about 3 feet wide. It hovers with one side tilted -toward her 50 feet away. Its lone occupant, a helmeted figure with a -long, olive- colored face and a shiny, light gray suit, gazes at her -with a quizzical expression on his tanned face. It is sitting on the far -rim with feet and legs hidden by the lower part of the object. Inside -the open vehicle, she can see levers. After a minute, the object takes -off to the southwest making a spinning sound. Her chickens do not seem -disturbed by any of this. (Berthold Eric Schwarz, “UFO -Occupants: Fact or Fantasy?” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1969): 14–15; Clark III 268; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -1957 May 24th–July 31st, The Author, 1996, p. 10; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December -17, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2917

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Event 4286 -(64C23427)

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Date: 5/1/1957
-Description: 7:00 a.m. A man driving a motorcycle about 9 miles from -Pajas Blancas International Airport in Córdoba, Argentina, sees a UFO -shortly after his engine fails. It is 65 feet in diameter and 16 feet -thick, hovering about 50 feet above the ground. He hides in a ditch and -sees the craft come down, making a sound similar to air escaping from a -valve. A lift descends from its base almost to the ground. In it is a -man of average height who makes friendly gestures. He is dressed in a -plastic diving suit. The witness enters the machine and sees several -people inside seated in front of instrument panels, lit by an -extraordinary light. He is then escorted out, and the disc rises to the -northwest. During the next hour, there are 6 other sightings made by -independent witnesses. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March 23rd–May -25th, The -Author, 1995, pp. 61–64; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System -for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2919

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Event 4287 -(6F859A44)

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Date: 5/1/1957
-Time: 0700
-Description: When his motorcycle suddenly failed, the driver observed a -disk, 2O m in diameter and 5 m thick, hovering about 15 m above ground. -He hid in a ditch and saw the craft come down, making a sound similar to -air escaping from a valve. A sort of lift descended from its base almost -to the ground. In it was a man of average height, who made friendly -gestures to the witness. He was dressed in a plastic diving suit. The -witness entered the machine and saw inside several people seated before -instrument panels, lighted by an extraordinary light. He was then -escorted out, and the disk rose to the northwest. During the next hour, -six sightings were made along the same course by independent -witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 35; FSR 65, 1; FSR 65, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Pajasblancas Airport, Argentina
-ID: 393

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Event 4288 -(9EE9C592)

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Date: 5/2/1957
-Description: 6:55–7:20 a.m. Frank E. Baker, supervisor of civilian -camera operators at Edwards AFB, California, sends the standard two-man -crews out to their Askania tracking telescopes for their daily shifts. -Veterans James D. Bittick and John -R. Gettys Jr. are in their pickup expecting a normal day. As they -approach their station in the Mojave Desert, they see a bright object in -the sky. It is initially at about a 45° elevation and seems to be -hovering. They need to get permission from Baker to photograph anything, -so they call it in, begin readying the scope, load the film, and wait -for the okay. Gettys says the base of the object has a circular -appearance when high in the sky. Baker gives them his approval and they -begin filming, each viewing the object through spotting scopes while the -film rolls. They shoot about 100 feet then stop. During filming, the -object moves from 1 mile away to 5 miles. What they see is a disc-shaped -object with a low dome on top. They contact the base, which scrambles -two jets, but they are too late. After they turn the film in, three -officers show up and interrogate them. Future astronaut Gordon -Cooper claims he was there that day, involved with the tracking. -(NICAP, “Edwards -AFB Case”; -“Unidentified -Flying Object Filmed, Studied,” Miami (Fla.) News, May 12, 1957, -p. 2; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 75–76; Michael D. Swords, “As Great -an Enigma As the UFOs Themselves,” IUR 30, no. 1 (October 2005): 10–12; -Sparks, -p. 243; “Astronaut -Gordon Cooper Talks about UFOs,” Elhardt YouTube channel, December -27, 2007; Swords 247–248; Gordon Cooper and Bruce Henderson, Leap of -Faith: An Astronaut’s Journey into the Unknown, HarperTorch, 2000, -pp. 83–86; Good Need, pp. 220–222)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2920

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Event 4289 -(BA9C4C1A)

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Date: 5/3/1957
-Description: Astronaut Gordon Cooper -spots a UFO landing at Edwards AFB.
-Type: ce2 event
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: Edwards AFB

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Event 4290 -(5B7D0D93)

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Date: 5/10/1957
-Time: 2250
-Description: A Hungarian refugee, Michel Fekete, was riding his bicycle -when he saw an object hovering 30 cm above ground and four little men -nearby. The police found lavalike fragments at the site. Six other -witnesses vouch for the sighting including Messrs. Iklef and Lepot and -their wives. The craft was luminous, pulsating between red and white -(remaining red longer). When white, it was more blinding than a powerful -searchlight. It was 50 m away from the group of witnesses. Occupants -were about 1.30 m tall with a beige-gray body, an abnormally large black -head, and a waddling gait. The object flew away when a car came into -view.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 109; M 211 (Vallee)
-Location: Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France
-ID: 394

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Event 4291 -(0447DC71)

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Date: 5/10/1957
-Description: After 10:45 p.m. At Beaucourt-sur-l’Ancre, Somme, France, a -29-year-old Hungarian refugee named Fekete is cycling when he is -“dazzled by a strange projectile.” He sees four men 4–5 feet tall -approaching him in a threatening manner. One of them carries a bright -light which prevents him from seeing much detail. He flees on his cycle -to a nearby home, where others look out and see the occupants 300 feet -away. The UFO is emitting red and white (or yellow) rays of light -alternatively. They watch for about 20 minutes until 11:15 p.m. when the -UFO takes off at a 45° angle. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 March 23rd–May -25th, The -Author, 1995, pp. 69–72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2921

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Event 4292 -(84A84C24)

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Date: 5/11/1957
-Description: While attending the Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft -Convention in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, Wayne -Sulo Aho goes for a walk and sees a “majestic egg-shaped light.” He -directs a telepathic message to it, and the UFO lands 2 miles away. He -begins receiving subtle psychic messages on his earthly mission. That -night, Aho undergoes a “cosmic initiation.” (Clark III 59; Wayne S. Aho, -Mojave Desert Experience, May 11, 1957, New Age, 1972)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2922

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Event 4293 -(13562D6C)

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Date: 5/20/1957
-Description: OPERATION INTERCEPT: Two USAF fighters intercept a UFO. The -F-86D’s fired Mighty Mouse missiles at the UFO and missed it. The UFO -left their 30 mile range area and fell off the radar scope.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Manston, Kent

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Event 4294 -(D9A140B1)

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Date: 5/20/1957 (approximate)
-Alternate date: 1956 (approximate)
-Description: Near 12:00 midnight. USAF Lt. Milton Torres is flying F-86D -Sabre fighters with the 406th Bomber Wing based at RAF Manston [now -closed], Kent, England. He receives an order from an RAF controller, who -is tracking an unidentified target from Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear -Bunker [now closed] in Essex, to go up with a wingman to 32,000 feet -over East Anglia in pursuit. Over the radio he receives an order to fire -a salvo of rockets at the target; the order is so unusual that Torres -seeks authentication before firing. Torres locates the large target on -his aircraft radar, but when he closes in on it, it shoots away at -tremendous speed, disappearing from the radar screens. The target might -be explained by a secret CIA-MoD experiment, codenamed Palladium, to -simulate an aircraft blip on Soviet radar screens. On his return to -base, Torres is debriefed by a secret service agent and told his mission -is top secret. (NICAP, “Milton -Torres / Intercept Mission”; UFOFiles2, pp. 69–72; -David Clarke, “Intercept and Destroy,” Fortean Times 242 (December -2008): 34–35; Paul Crickmore, “Project Palladium: -Testing Soviet Radars,” Tails Through Time, January 3, 2011; Curt -Collins, “Area -51, the CIA, and Cold -War UFOS: T. D. Barnes,” Blue Blurry Lines, January 9, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2923

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Event 4295 -(75265873)

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Date: 5/26/1957
-Description: An article in the UK Empire News on “Flying Saucer Clubs -Probe: Peace Messages ‘from Outer Space’” reveals that George -King’s Aetherius Society has been publishing channeled messages in -its Cosmic Voice newsletter that are antiwar and anti-nuclear. It -attracts the attention of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch, thanks to an -informant on the newspaper. King writes to explain that his group is -religious and not political. A Special Branch officer visits King in his -home in London, England, on May 31, and the group’s writings and -activities are watched for at least the next two years. (Kremlin -121–126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2924

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Event 4296 -(844D75D8)

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Date: 5/28/1957
-Description: Boltzmann, the first of 29 nuclear tests in Operation -Plumbbob, takes place at the Nevada Test Site. At 12 kilotons, it is -about the same size as the Hiroshima bomb and causes Area 51 personnel -11 miles away to be temporarily evacuated. Another test blast buckles -aircraft hangar doors in Area 51, shatters windows in the mess hall, and -breaks a dormitory ventilator panel. The Plumbbob tests continue until -October 7, 1957. While most tests contribute to the development of -warheads for intercontinental and intermediate range missiles, they also -test air defense and anti-submarine warheads with small yields. -(Wikipedia, “Operation -Plumbbob”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2925

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Event 4297 -(28EB381D)

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Date: 5/31/1957
-Description: 7:17 a.m. A British airliner is flying over Kent, two miles -south of Rochester, England, when both the captain and first officer see -a brilliant light approaching them. All radio communications cut out. -The UFO blinks out and the radio equipment goes back into operation. (Schopick, pp. 122–123; -Good Above, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2926

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Event 4298 -(B8182700)

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Date: 6/2/1957
-Description: Letter to BSRA about a recent nuclear test that was -postponed for 2 weeks because the winds would blow fallout in occupied -areas. The eventually conducted test blew the fallout over occupied -areas anyway.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Nevada

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Event 4299 -(2F9B1539)

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Date: 6/3/1957
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Shortly after takeoff from Shreveport (Louisiana) -Airport, Capt. Lynn Kern and Flight Officer Abbey Zimmerman, flying -Trans-Texas Airlines Flight 103, are told by the control tower that a -small light is visible nearby. They see the star-like, blue-green object -at about 400 feet altitude. It then climbs rapidly to 1,000 feet and -parallels the airliner at a higher altitude and about a half-mile away. -Kern flashes his landing lights, and the object responds with a beam of -light. A second blue-green, pulsating object joins the first on the -opposite side of the airliner (then at 9,000 feet). A crew from the air -tower confirms that it has both objects on radar and visually through -binoculars. The objects head south, climbing to about 10,000 feet, and -follow the airliner to Converse, Louisiana, where the pilot queries ADC -radar site, England AFB [now Alexandria International Airport], which -confirms the two targets in the airliner’s vicinity. The objects -disappear from sight in a cloud deck to the southwest. (NICAP, “Flight -103 & 2 UFOs Tracked on Radar”; Sparks, p. 244; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 94–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2927

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Event 4300 -(70D1691B)

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Date: 6/5/1957
-Description: Undocumented report of a landing and of “bellicose -dwarfs.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Uriman, Venezuela
-ID: 395

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Event 4301 -(0836BC04)

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Date: 6/5/1957
-Description: AEC Commissioner Willard -Libby tells Congress that nuclear weapons testing is a “small risk” -that must be measured against the “risk of annihilation.” (“Bomb -Testing Is Viewed As Risk to Be Compared with Annihilation,” -Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle, June 5, 1957, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2928

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Event 4302 -(A5F15C0A)

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Date: 6/11/1957
-Description: CIA operative Wallace -R. Lampshire sends a memo to CIA operative Richard -M. Bissell Jr., explaining that the agency’s involvement with UFOs -is passive, handing off reports to its geophysics or former weapons -units. Lampshire has talked with Gen. Philip -J. Strong, who -knows of no Soviet technology that might be responsible for UFOs. -(Swords 264–265)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2929

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Event 4303 -(5E0A573D)

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Date: 6/12/1957
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witness: G.U. Donadio, translator for export-import firm. -One object “big as a hen’s egg” flew very fast, zigzagged, hovered and -revolved, then shot up after 17 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Milan, Italy
-ID: 411

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Event 4304 -(D555FFB0)

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Date: 6/15/1957
-Description: 5:06 p.m. George Marsden watches a Saturn-shaped UFO with -portholes through a telescope at Mawdesley, Lancashire, England. (UFOEv, -p. 146; -Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2931

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Event 4305 -(62A53180)

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Date: 6/15/1957
-Description: A report in the UK weekly newspaper Reynold’s News claims -that the Air Ministry conducts top secret UFO research in Room 801 of -one of its offices on Northumberland Avenue, London, England. A ministry -spokesman is quoted as saying the room has “something like 10,000 -sightings” on file and a large map of the British Isles with thousands -of colored pins representing sightings. Flying Saucer Review editor Gordon -Creighton says the office belongs to the Deputy Directorate of -Intelligence (Technical), which employs UFO researchers full-time. (Good -Above, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2930

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Event 4306 -(66FC51BF)

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Date: 6/18/1957
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Captain C. G. Wertz and the crew of the Matson -freighter Hawaiian Fisherman see two brightly lit objects off the port -beam as they are steaming 150 miles off San Francisco, California. A -third object joins them at 8:15. They appear as small moons, giving off -a cold, white, unchanging light. The three move off in a V formation and -pace the ship for a short time. The lights continue their controlled -flight as dusk turns to night. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, -1969, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2932

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Event 4307 -(234E8260)

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Date: 6/20/1957
-Description: Mysterious radar echoes begin turning up on Bluff Hill, -near Invercargill, New Zealand, for several months. The targets are -visible from several minutes up to an hour and are located somewhere in -the ionosphere. Michael Gadsden of -the Imperial College in London is in New Zealand for the International -Geophysical Year and he says the targets’ movements are unusual and -suspects that ionized particles are the cause. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The -Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2933

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Event 4308 -(4F6F3A1D)

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Date: summer 1957
-Description: Allan Haney and some friends “on a number of occasions” -climb onto someone’s roof in Levelland, Texas, to watch 3–4 objects -hovering over Reese AFB [now Reese Technology Center] in Lubbock, 26 -miles to the east. (Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case -Reopened,” IUR 28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2936

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Event 4309 -(C5D5BDCA)

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Date: summer 1957
-Description: Early morning. Contactee Trevor -Constable and an associate named James Woods take many infrared -photos of the desert sky over southern California. When developed, the -film reveals a variety of shapes from vague blobs and amoeba-like forms -to clearly defined discs. Constable calls them “critters” and thinks -they are some kind of life form invisible to the naked eye. (Clark III -1102; Trevor James [Constable], They Live in the Sky, New Age, -1958)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2935

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Event 4310 -(651699EC)

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Date: summer 1957
-Description: P. -Craig Phillips, curator -of the Miami Seaquarium, and two other scientists witness a fall of -angel hair for two hours as they are sailing northward toward the -Florida Keys. Assuming them to be cobwebs from migrating airborne -spiders, Phillips takes some samples and puts them in a mason jar. But -when he uncaps the jar later in his office, no trace of the material is -found, which is uncharacteristic of spider web. (UFOEv, pp. 99–100; -Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 -(Fall 2001): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2934

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Event 4311 -(4687C2BC)

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Date: 7/1957
-Description: NICAP publishes the first issue of The UFO Investigator. -(UFO -Investigator 1, no. 1 (July 1957); Clark III 793)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2938

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Event 4312 -(179186A4)

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Date: 7/1957
-Description: NICAP learns that the US Senate Subcommittee on -Investigations is considering hearings on UFOs and wants its assistance. -Hillenkoetter suggests -withholding the best cases, at least initially. Keyhoe asks -Ruppelt, -who is now an engineer with Northrup Aircraft, to join the NICAP board -at a rehearsal for the I’ve Got a Secret Show on which he is appearing. -Ruppelt considers it an honor. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 70–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2939

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Event 4313 -(0D2B3FA4)

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Date: 7/1957
-Description: The Air Defense Command disbands the 4602nd AISS and -reassigns UFO investigative duties to the 1127th Field Activities Group -of the 1006th AISS at Norton AFB [San Bernardino International Airport], -California. Soon afterwards, the Air Force reduces funds for the unit, -impairing its investigative ability. (Clark III 919)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2937

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Event 4314 -(60735CCC)

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Date: 7/1/1957
-Description: International Geophysical Year (IGY). It marked the end of -a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between -East and West had been seriously interrupted. Sixty-seven countries -participated in IGY projects. The IGY encompassed eleven Earth sciences: -aurora and airglow, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, gravity, ionospheric -physics, longitude and latitude determinations (precision mapping), -meteorology, oceanography, seismology, and solar activity. The timing of -the IGY was particularly suited for studying some of these phenomena, -since it covered the peak of solar cycle 19. Both the Soviet Union and -the U.S. launched artificial satellites for this event; the Soviet -Union’s Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957, was the first -successful artificial satellite.[3] Other significant achievements of -the IGY included the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts by -Explorer 1 and the defining of mid-ocean submarine ridges, an important -confirmation of plate-tectonic theory.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 4315 -(84F8A59D)

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Date: 7/5/1957
-Description: During the 74-kiloton Plumbbob Hood nuclear test at the -Nevada Test Site, the Marine Corps conducts a tactical maneuver -involving the use of a helicopter airlift, tactical air support, and an -amphibian tractor called the LVTP5. Despite the AEC’s assurance that no -thermonuclear devices are being tested, Hood is thermonuclear and is the -largest atmospheric test in the continental US. All Area 51 personnel -are evacuated prior to the blast, but the military neglects to secure -the sensitive information in the buildings with security guards. Seventy -anesthetized Chester White pigs in military uniforms (as test fabrics) -are placed in cages a short distance from ground zero. Several types of -wood houses are constructed to see how each handles the blast. The -Mosler Safe Company sponsors the construction of a steel vault to -withstand the blast. Some 100 soldiers, lying in trenches, are stationed -to gauge the psychological impact of the bomb. The flash is visible from -Canada to Mexico and 800 miles out in the Pacific. The blast wave -reaches Los Angeles 25 minutes later. Afterwards, security guard Richard -Mingus has to drive through a highly radioactive ground zero to -reach the buildings at Area 51 ten miles away. Area 51 remains an -evacuated ghost town until the summer of 1959. (Wikipedia, “Desert -Rock exercises”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 119–123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2940

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Event 4316 -(52E7D1A8)

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Date: 7/10/1957
-Description: George -Hunt Williamson, exploring in Peru from his base at the Monastery of -the Seven Rays and spurred by his own channelings, rediscovers a wall of -petroglyphs [now known as the Petroglyphs of Pusharo, in the Manú -National Park] in an area northeast of Cuzco called Cadena del -Pantiacolla. (George Hunt Williamson, “Project Scroll,” -Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1957): 18–19; George Hunt -Williamson, Road in the Sky, Neville Spearman, 1959; Brother Philip -[Williamson], Secret of the Andes, Neville Spearman, 1961; Zirger and -Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, -2016, pp. 97–98, 109–115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2941

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Event 4317 -(F5635543)

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Date: mid 7/1957
-Description: Keyhoe meets -with US Rep. James -C. Healey (D-N.Y.) regarding USAF secrecy about UFOs. He shows -Healey the 1949 Grudge report and apparently convinces him that the Air -Force’s explanations for the 24 cases are “sheer speculation” or -“deliberately fitted.” He also presents him Gen. Joe -W. Kelly’s April 8 letter to Lee Metcalf, indicating -serious interest in UFOs. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 81–82, 91, 96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2942

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Event 4318 -(75D07B73)

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Date: 7/16/1957
-Description: 1:56 p.m. 1st Lt. Clifford E. Pocock, scope operator A2C -Walter Lyons, and control technician A1C Armand Therrien at Las Vegas -Air Force Station [now closed] at Angel Peak, Nevada, are using the -FPS-3A L-band search radar and track an inbound target at about 6,200 -mph when it “stopped abruptly” and “remained stationary” for 12 seconds -to the east-northeast 85 miles away to the north of Grand Canyon in -Arizona. Then it heads outbound at about 7,000 mph before disappearing -at the radar’s maximum range at 224 miles (near Marble Canyon, Arizona). -The target responds to encrypted military IFF transponder signals and -transmits encrypted responses. (NICAP, “6200 -MPH Target Hovers near Grand Canyon”; Sparks, p. 244)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2943

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Event 4319 -(89AFA4E9)

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Date: 7/17/1957
-Description: Flight 655 en route from Dallas to Los Angeles, piloted by -Capt. Ed Bachner, has a near collision with an object “at least the size -of a B-47” over the salt flats some 100 miles east of El Paso, Texas. -Bachner puts the plane into a dive and the object passes only 50 feet -above them. Two passengers suffer slight injuries and are taken to the -hospital on landing. No known aircraft are in the vicinity. (Lorenzen, -UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 79; Good Above, p. 283)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2945

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Event 4320 -(5EA13055)

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Date: 7/17/1957
-Description: Before dawn. The crew of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance -aircraft is flying out of Forbes Field [now Topeka Regional Airport], -Kansas, on an electronic warfare training flight over Mississippi, -Louisiana, and Texas. The RB-47 is carrying a 6-man crew, of whom three -are electronic warfare officers manning ECM gear in the aft portion of -the aircraft. Their names are Lewis Dormon Chase, pilot; James -H. McCoid, copilot; Thomas H. Hanley, navigator; John J. Provenzano, -No. 1 monitor; Frank B. McClure, No. 2 monitor; and Walter -A. Tuchscherer, No. 3 -monitor. The crew detects on its Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) -equipment an airborne radar source that mimics some but not all of the -signal characteristics of a common air defense ground radar. Aircraft -normally do not carry such high-powered radars. As the key ELINT officer -on the RB-47 puts it, “an antenna bigger than the airplane” would be -required to emit as strong a signal as he detected from the UFO. Because -the UFO signal appears to have comparable or greater received signal -strength than the one-megawatt ground radar beam and the UFOs distance -is about 5 times closer than the ground radar, a crude estimate of the -UFO radar power output using the inverse-square law would be about 40 -kilowatts. The maneuvering radar signal coincides in location with a -bright UFO. At times the signal moves ahead of the RB-47, then circles -around as if airborne, highly maneuverable, and flying faster than the -RB-47. The 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing Intelligence report states -that the Wing’s director of intelligence “has no doubt the electronic -D/F’s coincided exactly with visual observations by a/c numerous times -thus indicating positively the object being the signal source.” An air -defense radar station near Dallas, Texas, reportedly confirms tracking a -UFO at the same location reported by the RB-47 crew but later tries to -deny it in an unclassified message to ATIC. The UFO is reportedly -tracked by the RB-47’s airborne navigation radar as well, though the -crew has differing recollections on this point. Twice the UFO blinks out -visually when pursued by the RB-47. At the same time the strange signal -disappears, either that, or the ground radar site and the RB-47 onboard -radar loses the object from their scopes. At least once, the UFO -suddenly reappears visually at about the same time the ground radar -regains tracking of the object. The main part of the incident occupies -30 minutes over the Fort Worth, Texas, area from 5:30–6:00 a.m. Some -earlier ELINT and visual incidents are noted as early as about 4:30 -a.m., but they catch the crew off guard, and consequently reports at the -time and later recollections have had to be carefully reconstructed. The -UFO may have trailed the RB-47 up to 6:40 a.m. following the main -events, for a total duration of possibly more than 126 minutes. The RB --47 incident is the first conclusive instrumented proof for the -existence of UFOs. Calibrations of the RB-47’s electronic measurements -provide an irrefutable case. When the Colorado Project scientists asked -the Air Force for the Blue Book file on the RB-47 case, the file could -not be found. Ultimately, the case was put together by better file -searching at Blue Book, James -E. McDonald’s success at locating several crew members and -interviewing them, and FOIA searches that located more of the lost -documents. Particularly in the George -T. Gregory years at ATIC, this sort of rejection of the need to -clarify almost any significant aspect of a UFO case was constant. If we -did not know, from our earlier information, what Captain Gregory -understood to be his duty as chief of Blue Book, we would label this as -reckless and incompetent. Colorado project investigator Gordon -Thayer declares the case unexplained, and later describes the -official USAF explanation (airliner) as “literally ridiculous.” Brad Sparks sums -it up in 1998 (and in 2018): “This case certainly now ranks as among the -best documented unexplained UFO incidents in history, and it has the -potential for further revealing disclosures if records of an extremely -highly classified investigation can be found and released. All of the -UFO observations by multiple visual observers, multiple ELINT receivers, -and multiple radar sets, as well as the serendipitous calibrations of -the UFO signals against the separately identifiable Duncanville radar -signals, provide a unique, tight, interlocking web of intricately fitted -evidence.” (NICAP, “RB-47 -Incident”; Sparks, p. 244; -Condon, pp. 56, 136–139, 260– 266; -James E. McDonald, “The -1957 Gulf Coast RB-47 Incident,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 3 -(May/June 1970): 2–6; Gert Herb, “A Rebuttal to Philip J. Klass’s -Analysis of the RB-47 Incident of July 17, 1957,” CUFOS Bulletin, Summer -1977, pp. 3–10; Philip J. Klass, [response to Gert Herb], CUFOS -Bulletin, Fall 1977, pp. 7–10; Gert Herb, “Gert Herb Replies,” CUFOS -Bulletin, Fall 1977, pp. 9–10; Swords 248–249; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth -Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 May 24th–July -31st, The -Author, 1996, pp. 64–71; Center for UFO Studies, [case -interviews]; Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents]; Center for UFO Studies, [more case documents]; UFOs Yes, -126–127; Clark III 953–999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2944

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Event 4321 -(6E65AB57)

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Date: 7/18/1957
-Description: 10:46 p.m. Capt. Claiborne F. Bickham and a radar crew at -Mount Lemmon Air Force Station [now closed] northeast of Tucson, -Arizona, using both MPS-7 L-band search and MPS-14 S-band height-finder -radars, track a stationary target at 42,000 feet to the northwest about -82 miles away south of Chandler. The target responds to encrypted -military IFF Mode 3 transponder signals and transmits encrypted -responses that result in “normal Mode 3 paint” on radar scopes. A very -slight strobe comes from the object that appears like ECM jamming. -(NICAP, “Ground -Radar Track Responds to IFF Mode 3”; Sparks, p. 245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2946

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Event 4322 -(24C21EBD)

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Date: 7/19/1957
-Description: The Plumbbob John nuclear test at Yucca Flats, Nevada, is -the only test of the Air Force’s AIR-2 Genie missile with a nuclear -warhead. On the ground, the Air Force carries out a public relations -event by having five Air Force officers and a videographer stand under -ground zero of the blast, which takes place at between 18,500 and 20,000 -feet altitude, with the idea of demonstrating the possibility of the use -of the weapon over civilian populations without ill effects. (Wikipedia, -“Operation -Plumbbob”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2947

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Event 4323 -(1C330E95)

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Date: 7/22/1957
-Description: Night. Capt. G. M. Schemel, the pilot of a TWA -Constellation aircraft, is flying at 18,000 feet near Amarillo, Texas, -when a big red and green light bears down on his plane in a collision -course. He puts the aircraft into a dive and the object passes above -him. Schemel has to make an unscheduled landing at Amarillo to -hospitalize one passenger who is injured during the maneuver. (“Kenosha -Pilot Tells of Mysterious Object,” Kenosha (Wis.) News, July 24, -1957, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2948

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Event 4324 -(6D446B64)

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Date: 7/24/1957
-Description: Russian antiaircraft batteries on the Kuril Islands, -Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, in the Pacific Ocean open fire on luminous, -fast-moving UFOs. No hits are made. The US claims it has no aircraft in -the area. However, at 10:00 a.m., two USAF pilots flying F-86s are -scrambled to intercept a disc-shaped object over the Nemuro Strait, -north of Hokkaido, Japan, that is tracked by ground radar and seen by -ground witnesses. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 42; -Sparks, -p. 245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2949

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Event 4325 -(103E6D9D)

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Date: 7/24/1957
-Description: White Sands Missile Flight Safety Director Nathan -Wagner is driving with his wife Alma south -of Las Cruces, New Mexico, when they see a large, fast object at high -altitude moving east toward the Organ Mountains. They watch it for 30 -seconds until it disappears. (“Space -Vehicles Sighted?” El Paso (Tex.) Times, July 30, 1957, p. 1; NICAP, -“Missile -Safety Chief Says Object Unknown”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2950

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Event 4326 -(EF6FB7BF)

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Date: 7/25/1957
-Time: 1910
-Description: Mr. Joao Guimaraes, who is a professor at the Catholic -Faculty of Law in Santos, was sitting near the shore when he saw a -hat-shaped, luminous craft approach from the sea and land near him. From -it came a metallic stairway. Two normal men with long, fair hair hanging -to their shoulders, a youthful appearance and wearing one-piece suits, -came down, gave no verbal answers to his questions, but invited him -“telepathically” to come aboard the craft. Inside the illuminated -compartment, he sat on a circular seat with the crew. The machine rose -for a short flight. On his return, Guimaraes found that his watch no -longer worked. (Humanoids 36; FSR 57, 6
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: (Vallee)
-Location: Sao Sebastiao, Brazil
-ID: 396

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Event 4327 -(C57E9874)

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Date: 7/25/1957
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Several workers are taking a break at the Daye -Steel Plant in Huangshi, Hubei, China, when they hear a humming sound. -They notice a bright spot in the clear sky that is increasing in -apparent size. As it comes closer, it is seen as a circular plate giving -off a dazzling white light and leaving a white trail. It flies above the -observers at an altitude of 3,300 feet and produces a whistling sound -that is louder than a jet. As the object approaches the witnesses, the -low pitch changes to a high pitch. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs -over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2951

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Event 4328 -(73E4DE87)

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Date: 7/27/1957
-Time: Early morning
-Description: Or July 29, 1957. Witness: J.L. Siverly. One thick disc, -ice blue, with a top like honeycomb (interconnected hexagons), hovered -and rocked below the hill tops for 10 minutes. Middle band was -scalloped, bottom had four kidney-shaped forms.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Longmont, Colorado
-ID: 412

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Event 4329 -(A3D34A11)

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Date: 7/28/1957
-Description: A Douglas Aircraft Company employee named Edward K. Current -Jr. makes an emergency landing on the former U-2 airstrip at Groom Lake, -Nevada. He claims he has been on a cross-country training flight when he -became lost and ran low on fuel. The area is still evacuated for nuclear -testing. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 125–126; -T. D. Barnes, “False -Emergency Landings at Groom Lake,” Roadrunners Internationale, -November 22, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2952

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Event 4330 -(DE5D2736)

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Date: 7/29/1957
-Time: 10:31 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Capital Airlines Capt. R.L. Stimley, First -Officer F.J. Downing. One large, round, yellow-white object dimmed once, -crossed the bow of the airliner, which then gave chase but was unable to -catch it. Sighting last 8 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cleveland, Ohio
-ID: 413

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Event 4331 -(2C774BC7)

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Date: 7/29/1957
-Time: 11:45 AM
-Description: Witness: E.E. Henkins. One pale yellow fireball glided into -the water and exploded. Viewed for 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oldsmar, Florida
-ID: 414

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Event 4332 -(47623E82)

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Date: 7/30/1957
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Jack Stephenson is walking his dog four miles -south of Galt, Ontario, when he sees an aluminum- colored object with a -dome. It circles, stops, and hovers, then lands in a gulley surrounded -by woods. He watches it for 45 minutes as it hovers about 2 feet off the -ground. It finally takes off at a 45° angle to avoid a power line, then -shoots away. Local residents examine the area and find burned patches on -the ground and small tree limbs that are broken. There are four burned -or charred areas, each about 1 foot 3 inches in diameter, forming a -four- sided figure with these measurements: 20 feet x 20 feet x 6.5 feet -x 11.5 feet. Two large three-toed prints are also found, but the -relationship of the prints to the object is unknown. (“Boy -Reports ‘Saucer,’” Brantford (Ont.) Expositor, August 3, 1957, p. 1; -“Says -He Saw Flying Saucer for 45 Minutes,” Milk River (Alberta) Review, -August 25, 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 51–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2953

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Event 4333 -(82645B2A)

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Date: 7/30/1957
-Description: Jack Stephens, Galt, Ontario sees spaceship on ground for -45 minutes
-Type: ce2 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Galt, Ontario

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Event 4334 -(920B8DC9)

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Date: 7/30/1957
-Description: Jack Stephenson was walking about 7 km from Galt when he -saw a flash in the sky. A circular object making a whirring sound came -down and landed with a throw of flames. It took off again 30 min -later,leaving the ground blackened and branches broken. The craft had a -stationary dome, but the periphery was spinning.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 188 (Vallee)
-Location: Galt, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 397

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Event 4335 -(3FE883E7)

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Date: 8/1957
-Description: Radar technician Edward -Lovick Jr. begins work at Lockheed’s secret Advanced Development -Projects facility (the Skunk Works) in Burbank, California. His first -assignment is to investigate radar-deflecting technology for the U-2 -aircraft. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 126–127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2954

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Event 4336 -(9883BBBB)

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Date: 8/1957
-Description: Night. A young woman is driving home after work in Peru, -Indiana, and notices people standing along the road looking at the sky. -She stops, and they point to a large black object hovering above some -nearby trees at about 100 feet. It is about 1,000 feet long and has a -“soft delta” shape with rounded corners and window-like lighted areas -underneath. There seems to be movement within the lighted areas. In the -middle of the bottom is a round area that looks like it might be the -outline of an entryway. It moves slowly away, making a noise like a -quiet vacuum cleaner. (Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR -29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2955

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Event 4337 -(7F7FDC76)

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Date: 8/1/1957
-Description: The North American Air Defense Command is announced by the -US Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Wikipedia, “North -American Aerospace Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2956

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Event 4338 -(4B9757C8)

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Date: 8/3/1957
-Description: 7:45 p.m. 1st Lt. Robert J. Springer Jr., T/Sgt. Herman -L. Giles, and 16 other air crewmen, while on routine Airborne -Operations Center radar early warning patrol over the Pacific Ocean -about 175 miles southwest of San Francisco, California, aboard an -RC-121D aircraft, detect a radar target on IFF Mode 2 transponder only. -At 7:56 p.m., the IFF target becomes a direct radar “skinpaint.” At 8:02 -p.m., the IFF equipment APX-6/APX-7 is turned off, but the target is -still tracked on airborne radar. At 8:15 p.m., the target is at a 2 -o’clock position 10 miles away when the aircraft starts a right turn to -reverse course, putting the target dead ahead. It suddenly takes off to -the northwest at very high speed, disappearing 58 miles away. Radar -contact is regained at 8:18 p.m. as the target is tracked moving right -to left, crossing in front of the aircraft again, and closing distance -to 8 miles at 11 o’clock. At 8:20 p.m., the target turns to head on a -parallel path. The crew loses contact at 8:24 p.m., 15 miles behind the -plane. No visual confirmation. (NICAP, “RC-121D -Has IFF Radar Targets”; Sparks, p. 246)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2957

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Event 4339 -(B5336470)

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Date: 8/4/1957
-Description: An Italian Air Force noncommissioned officer on duty in the -control tower at Naples International Airport, Italy, and about 30 other -witnesses see a number of luminous, disc-shaped objects passing above -them. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2958

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Event 4340 -(25C1DC0E)

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Date: 8/5/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Policeman Ernst W. Akerberg and his wife Karin -are at their summer cottage on the island of Gotland, Sweden, in the -Baltic Sea when they see a disc-shaped object heading toward them from -the sea. When it reaches the shore about 600 feet away, the object -changes course and executes a sharp turn at less than 90° of arc and -turns on its edge, swaying briefly. The disc moves toward the southeast -and makes another sharp turn just over a half-mile away, again turning -on its edge and fluttering before passing out of view. A second, smaller -object approaches and goes through the same maneuvers. Air currents from -both objects make the water surface ripple and the treetops swing. -Estimated to be about 80 feet in diameter, the objects seem to be made -of shining metal, and the upper part rotates slowly over the lower part. -Both objects have a kind of tube with two red lights. They are silent -except for a hollow clicking sound. (Story, pp. 152–153; -Clas Svahn, “1957 -Diskusarna svängde framför -polismannen,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2959

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Event 4341 -(D987F354)

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Date: 8/14/1957
-Description: 8:55 p.m. Varig Airlines pilot Capt. Jorgé Campos Araujo -and First Officer Edgar Onofre Soares observe a domed disc pacing their -C-47 cargo plane at 6,300 feet over Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. -The UFO speeds up and crosses just in front of them, hovers briefly, -then dives into the undercast at 5,700 feet. When the object hovers, it -affects the engines, which cough and wheeze, and dims the cabin lights. -(UFOEv, p. 120; -Olavo T. Fontes, “Top -Secret Report Unveiled,” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 1, 5; Schopick, -pp. 123–127; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 -August–September, Supplemental Notes, -The Author, 2003, pp. 11–13; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 153–155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2960

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Event 4342 -(8968276E)

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Date: 8/20/1957
-Alternate date: 8/22/1957
-Description: A member of the Argentine Air Force guarding a downed -aircraft is in a tent near Quilinos, Córdoba, Argentina, when he hears a -high-pitched hum. Dashing out, he sees a disc slowly descending, making -the grass and plants flutter wildly. Reaching for his revolver, he feels -that something is preventing him from drawing his weapon, which seems -glued in his holster. A voice from the disc tells him in Spanish that -spacecraft have a base in the Salta region and that they are here to -warn about nuclear energy. The craft rises vertically and speeds off to -the north. Probable hoax. (“UFO -Bases in South America?” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1965): 30– 31; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December -8, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2962

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Event 4343 -(D8338890)

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Date: 8/20/1957
-Description: 11:28 a.m. Shinichi Takeda takes a photo of a silvery disc -near Enoshima Beach, Kanagawa, Japan. The object is also seen by his -sister, who calls his attention to it. It gives off a brilliant glow at -an estimated altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet, traveling north to south. The -object makes a 90° left turn, speeds up, and disappears in the clouds. -The photo shows capsule-shaped image near bank of cumulus clouds. A few -minutes later, 15 people on the beach report a similar object that -passes over at high speed. (NICAP, “Capsule-Shaped -Object in Clouds / Takeda -Photo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2961

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Event 4344 -(E196DBB4)

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Date: 8/20/1957
-Description: An Air Force man inside a tent heard a loud, shrill sound -and saw a disk that came down as grass and plants fluttered wildly under -it. He found himself unable to draw his gun, which “seemed to be glued -in its holster.” A voice came from the craft, telling him in Spanish -that UFO’s had a base in the Salta area and would soon show themselves -to warn all people about the dangers of a nuclear catastrophe.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
-Location: Quilino, Argentina
-ID: 398

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Event 4345 -(13685AFB)

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Date: 8/22/1957
-Time: 1540
-Description: A black, bellshaped object bearing two bright, white lights -at the top and maeasuring 15 m in diameter was chased by a civilian in a -car until the engine stalled. The object was then hovering 3 m away. The -underside of the machine resembled a disk with fins. When a jet aircraft -took off from the airfield, the object went out of sight almost -instantaneously. The car battery was found completely dead. There was no -helicopter in the area, although the two witnesses compared the noise -made by the object to that of a helicopter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Cecil Naval Air Station, Florida
-ID: 399

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Event 4346 -(882CAD53)

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Date: 8/22/1957
-Description: 3:40 p.m. A couple named Sheetz in a car at Naval Air -Station Cecil [now Cecil Airport] in Jacksonville, Florida, chase a -50-foot, black, rotating, bell-shaped object bearing two bright white -lights at the top. Their engine stalls when object hovers 10 feet away. -Its underside resembles a disc with fins. When a jet takes off from the -airfield, the object goes out of sight almost instantly. The car battery -is completely dead. Noise from the object is compared to a helicopter, -although there are no helicopters in the area. (NICAP, “Car -Chases Bell-Shaped Object, Engine -Stalls”; Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, -1981, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2963

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Event 4347 -(94B9509B)

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Date: 8/27/1957
-Description: Russia makes the first successful long flight of an ICBM, -the R-7 Semyorka, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The dummy -warhead lands in the Pacific Ocean. (Wikipedia, “R-7 -Semyorka”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2964

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Event 4348 -(A18EE8AC)

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Date: 8/30/1957
-Description: Night. A Capital Airlines pilot is flying a Viscount at -12,000 feet approaching Norfolk, Virginia, with a Northeast Airlines -DC-6 directly above on the same heading at 20,000 feet. The Viscount -pilot sees a brilliant object that “flew fast and then abruptly halted -20 miles in front of us at 60,000 feet altitude.” The Northeast pilot -tries to acquire the object on radar. With the antenna at 0° elevation, -nothing is detected, but with the antenna elevated to 15° he acquires -“an excellent blip right where I told him to look for the object.” -According to the Viscount pilot, the object “dissolved right in front of -my eyes, and the crew above lost it from the scope at the same time. -They said it just faded away.” The entire incident lasts several -minutes. (NICAP, “Two -Aircraft Observe -Object / Excellent Blip on Radar”; Condon, pp. 128–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2965

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Event 4349 -(E3649F29)

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Date: 8/31/1957
-Description: Sen. Barry -Goldwater (R-Ariz.) sends a letter to a constituent about UFOs, -saying, “I, frankly, feel that there is a great deal to this.” (UFOEv, -p. 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2967

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Event 4350 -(901BCFFB)

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Date: 8/31/1957
-Description: After nuclear test Plumbbob Smokey, Army troops conduct an -airlift assault. (Wikipedia, “Desert -Rock exercises”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2966

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Event 4351 -(61AA7D29)

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Date: 8/31/1957
-Description: In a letter about UFOs to a constituent, Senator Barry -Goldwater said, “I, frankly, feel there is a great deal to this.”
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research

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Event 4352 -(36162AC4)

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Date: 9/1957
-Description: A man suddenly fell, as if paralyzed, and his two -companions then observed an object shaped like a disk with a dome on top -and another dome under it, 50 m away. A door opened and three men, 1.70 -m tall, wearing close-fitting, iridescent clothing, and who walked as if -on skis, appeared to make a check of the craft and the surroundings. -They gathered samples in a large box. The witnesses saw small portholes -and a tripod landing gear. The craft took off after 20 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Jul., 60 (Vallee)
-Location: Campinas, Brazil
-ID: 400

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Event 4353 -(D103A4DD)

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Date: 9/1957
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Hélio Penteado and his foreman Zaca Sabiá are -repairing a fence on Penteado’s farm in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, -when Sabiá’s dog begins growling at something in the mint field. They -hear a loud, irritating sound and see a disc about 50 feet wide landing -in the field and supported by three legs with spheres on the end that -pierce the ground. Penteado goes closer to investigate and sees two -beings about 4 feet tall leave the UFO wearing green coveralls. They -seem to float along the ground and take a vessel from under the craft. -One of them is carrying something like a gun or flamethrower. They pass -through a fence on the way to a river. After 10 minutes the beings -return with the vessel apparently full of river water. The entity with -the flamethrower shoots it at a jacaranda tree and a eucalyptus tree, -damaging their trunks. They reenter the object via the dome, which takes -off toward the city. Back at his barn, Penteado notices that all his -metallic tools are stacked in a cone, the birds are dead, his monkey is -agitated, and his watch has stopped working. The same day, people -observe a UFO over a hospital on the Avenida Julio Mesqita, where the -object dumps two drops of liquid metal that falls in the street. The UFO -goes so low that it hits the corner of a parked truck. An analysis of -the metal by an unnamed organization (possibly the Brazilian Air Force) -shows that the metal is high in magnesium. Penteado later goes to the -landing site and takes plaster casts of the footprints, which he sends -to the Agronomy Institute of Campinas. (“Caso -do disco proximo de Campinas,” Boletim SBEDV, no. 14 (March 1, -1960): 1–3; Brazil 35–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2970

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Event 4354 -(9F61F137)

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Date: 9/1957
-Description: Soviet defector Nikolai -Khokhlov suffers a sudden and severe illness while attending an -anti-Communist meeting in Frankfurt, Germany. He is treated for thallium -poisoning and survives. This case is often claimed to be the first -radiological attack by the KGB, especially when compared to the -poisoning of Alexander -Litvinenko in 2006, although it remains unclear what isotope was -used, if any. Former KGB officer Stanislav Lekarev claims, however, that -Khokhlov is poisoned by radioactive polonium (not thallium), exactly as -Litvinenko is later. Litvinenko’s poisoning is also initially mistaken -for thallium. A unique mechanism for administering poison is described -by a knowledgeable source at the time as a pneumatically operated poison -ice “atomizer” that leaves no wound or other evidence of the cause of -death. (Wikipedia, “Nikolai -Khokhlov”; Andy Wright, “The -Russian Spy Who -Convinced America to Take ESP Seriously,” Atlas Obscura, January 13, -2017; Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The -Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of -the KGB, Basic -Books, 1999; David Kurlander, “Ending -in a Fall: America’s Response to the Poisoning of Soviet Defector Nikolai -Khokhlov,” Café, September 3, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2968

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Event 4355 -(2CBE5F8C)

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Date: 9/2/1957
-Description: After the Plumbbob Galileo nuclear shot at the Nevada Test -Site, Army troops are tested to determine their psychological reactions -to witnessing the nuclear detonation. (Wikipedia, “Desert -Rock exercises”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2971

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Event 4356 -(DB18C62E)

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Date: early 9/1957
-Description: Several people fishing near Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, -watch a disc dive down from the sky and explode, showering the area with -flaming fragments. One of the witnesses writes an anonymous letter and -sends three pieces to O Globo, but no witnesses to the event have ever -come forward. APRO representative Olavo -T. Fontes examines -the fragments, which are dull gray, irregular, and strongly oxidized. -One sample is shot through with microscopic cracks and shows a fissure -running through two-thirds of its length. All three have whitish smears -of a powdery substance like cinders. Fontes takes one sample to the -Mineral Production Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture for -analysis, which shows it to be “magnesium of a high degree of purity.” -Chemist Luisa Maria A. Barbosa, who conducts a spectrographic analysis, -says that not even trace elements are apparent. Fontes also has it -analyzed by chemist Elson Teixeira and the Brazilian Army. The -Laboratory of Crystallography conducts some X-ray diffraction work. All -conclude that the material is pure magnesium, while one gives it a -density of 1.866 (normal magnesium is 1.741). APRO sends a second -fragment to the US Air Force, which accidentally destroys it. The third -sample is sent to the Colorado Project in February 1968. Roy -Craig runs tests on it at the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of -the IRS in Washington and Dow Chemical’s Metallurgical Laboratory. Both -determine that the level of purity is not as high as was determined in -1957 (although this is now seen as a major misrepresentation of the -actual results). APRO does two further tests with University of Arizona -metallurgical engineer Walter A. Walker and Robert W. Johnson of the -Materials Research Corporation at Orangeburg, New Jersey. Walker and -Johnson both find that the sample “had undergone a directional crystal -growth type of manufacture.” Walker concludes that the material was -likely exposed to the earth’s atmosphere at elevated temperatures. -Researchers Brad -Sparks and Michael -Swords examine Roy Craig’s archived -original notes from -the Colorado Project and find that the team had covered up the fact that -an abnormal concentration of magnesium isotope Mg-26 had indeed been -found and knowingly misrepresented the sample to APRO as “essentially -the same as terrestrial magnesium,” blaming them for cherry-picking the -Brazilian lab results. Peter -A. -Sturrock acquires the remnant of the samples from APRO and performs -further analysis on two of them in 1997. In 2018, Michael Swords and Robert -Powell borrow one Ubatuba sample from Sturrock and arrange for -further tests at an accredited lab, finding variations well outside the -normal range for magnesium, strontium, copper, and barium. (NICAP, “The -Ubatuba Incident”; “Physical -Evidence,” APRO Bulletin, March 1960, pp. 1, 3; Olavo T. Fontes, “A -Report on the Investigation of Magnesium Samples from a UFO Explosion -over the Sea in the -Ubatuba Region of Brazil,” 1962; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 104–145; -Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 212–216; Condon, pp. 94–97, -257–260; -Michael D. Swords, “Analysis of Alleged Fragments from an Exploding UFO -near Ubatuba, Brazil: An Introduction,” JUFOS 4 (1992): 1–5; Walter W. -Walker and Robert W. Johnson, “Further Studies on the Ubatuba UFO -Magnesium Samples,” JUFOS 4 (1992): 6–25; Walter W. Walker, “Scientific -Studies of the Ubatuba Magnesium Fragments: A 1992 Perspective,” JUFOS 4 -(1992): 26–37; Peter A. Sturrock, “Letter: Ubatuba,” IUR 18, no. 2 -(March/April 1993): 19; Paul R. Hill, Unconventional Flying Objects: A -Scientific Analysis, Hampton Roads, 1995, pp. 226–234; Peter A. -Sturrock, “Composition -Analysis -of the Brazil Magnesium,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 15, no. -1 (2001): 69–95; Pierre Kaufmann and Peter A. Sturrock, “On -Events Possibly Related to the ‘Brazil Magnesium,’” Journal of -Scientific Exploration 18, no. 2 (2004): 283–291; Clark III 1143–1155; -Brazil 510–517; Robert M. Powell, Michael D. Swords, Mark Rodeghier, and -Phyllis Budinger, “Isotope -Ratios and Chemical Analysis of the 1957 Brazilian Ubatuba Fragment,” -Journal of Scientific Exploration 36, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 39–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2969

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Event 4357 -(8D4391A7)

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Date: 9/4/1957
-Description: Four Portuguese jet fighter-bombers under the command of -Capt. José -Lemos Ferreira are flying at night at 24,600 feet between Ota, -Portugal, and Granada, Spain. Near Granada they turn to head to -Portalegre, Portugal. At this point, Ferreira notices a UFO like a -bright star with a scintillating, colored nucleus that changes from deep -green to blue. The object suddenly grows to 5 or 6 times its original -size, then shrinks to a barely visible yellow point. These changes -repeat several times, possibly due to changes in position. The UFO -maintains its position 90° to the left of the squadron. Suddenly a small -circle of yellow light emerges from the object and three smaller yellow -objects appear, maneuver, then disappear. (NICAP, “Portuguese -Air Force Jets Have 40-Min. Encounter / E-M”; -Marciano Alves, “Air -Force Pilots Spend 40 Minutes with Saucers,” Flying Saucer Review 4, -no. 3 (May/June 1958): 2–3; Good Above, pp. 147–148; -Kean, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2972

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Event 4358 -(D777007A)

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Date: 9/10/1957
-Description: Approximate date. Anonymous witnesses saw a disk dive down -and explode, showering the area with flaming fragments. Some samples -were gathered, sent to a Brazilian newsman, analyzed by friends of -Dr. Fontes, of Rio, and were found to consist of surprisingly pure -magnesium.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor.l 90; 110 (Vallee)
-Location: Ubatuba, Brazil
-ID: 401

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Event 4359 -(B7B68C81)

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Date: 9/12/1957
-Description: NORAD’s command headquarters is established at Ent Air -Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Canada and the United States -agree that the NORAD commander will always be a US officer, with a -Canadian vice commander, and Canada “agreed the command’s primary -purpose would be…early warning and defense for SAC’s retaliatory -forces.” Every continental US military radar UFO case in the Blue Book -files from now on is a NORAD case because the subordinate USAF Air -Defense Command belongs to NORAD. (Clark III 801; Wikipedia, “North -American Aerospace Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2973

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Event 4360 -(6D6B3940)

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Date: 9/16/1957
-Time: 930
-Description: Les McDonald, 17, and Gladys Smith, 14, saw a red light -changing to green, spreading around them like a mist and covering an -area about 100 m diameter. They became nearly paralyzed and “felt a warm -glow.” They had no fear, but were “merely cognizant of things as they -were without being able to react.” This sensation lasted two min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: UFO Bulletin Dec., 57 (Vallee)
-Location: Smithfield, Australia
-ID: 402

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Event 4361 -(E242CB2F)

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Date: 9/16/1957
-Description: ATIC briefs Howard -P. Robertson, now -chairman of the Defense Science Board, on Project Blue Book, presumably -because he wants to find out how the Air Force is implementing the -recommendations of the 1953 Robertson Panel. The briefing book -(including Special Report no. 14 as well as reports on Keyhoe and -the UFO movie) is delivered by the Pentagon’s Maj. James F. Byrne. -(Swords 265–266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2974

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Event 4362 -(55993069)

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Date: 9/19/1957
-Time: 1840
-Description: A boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house was reported -to have landed. Grass flattened.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Point Pleasant, New Jersey
-ID: 403

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Event 4363 -(0C5A4B91)

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Date: 9/19/1957
-Description: The Plumbbob Rainier nuclear shot at the Nevada Test Site -is the first fully contained underground nuclear test, meaning that no -fission products are vented into the atmosphere. This test of 1.7 -kilotons can be detected around the world by seismologists using -ordinary seismic instruments. (Wikipedia, “Operation Plumbbob”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2975

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Event 4364 -(9A8635D5)

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Date: 9/20/1957
-Description: 3:05 p.m. A national defense alert is called when the first -of two or three supersonic objects, varying in speed for the next 30 -minutes from 800 to 12,000 mph and varying in altitude from 50,000 to -135,000 feet, is picked up over the Atlantic by NORAD radar at Montauk, -New York. A second (or same) UFO heads straight toward SAC headquarters -in Omaha, Nebraska, in what is perceived as a threat trajectory -potentially aiming for a nuclear knockout kill of the entire US nuclear -force. At 3:10 p.m., interception is attempted by two F-102 jets from -Kinross AFB [now Chippewa County International Airport] south of Sault -Ste. Marie, Michigan, and later from Truax AFB [now Truax Field Air -National Guard Base] northeast of Madison, Wisconsin. At 3:24 p.m., -another UFO joins the first on a similar trajectory 150 miles behind. It -passes over Ontario, Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa. The UFO sends radio -replies to IFF interrogation signals, on different frequencies, -confirming its location on the radar plots and making it impossible to -explain as a malfunction or interference. Interception is impossible at -these speeds and altitudes. SAC goes on high alert and apparently -launches nuclear bombers toward Russia, but the alert is called off when -the UFOs disappear. NORAD triggers a White House alert. High-level -meetings of CIA and USAF intelligence, and the Intelligence Advisory -Committee meet in executive session. The CIA Director of the Office of -Scientific Intelligence, Herbert -Scoville Jr., suggests -that the object might be a maneuverable Soviet cruise missile, but that -is not yet in the Soviet inventory. President Eisenhower is -briefed multiple times. One year later, NORAD still cannot identify any -malfunction that could possibly make the radar targets agree with the -IFF signals. (NICAP, “Multiple -Radars Track 4,500 MPH Target”; Clark III 802–804, 814– 824; Sparks, pp. 249–250; -Swords 266–267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2976

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Event 4365 -(73DB1D1E)

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Date: 9/20/1957
-Time: 8 PM
-Description: Witnesses: S/Sgt. H.T. O’Connor, S/Sgt. H.D. Bridgeman. One -object, shaped like a coke bottle without the neck, translucent and -fluorescent. Made four 5-10 second passes from north to south, with 4-5 -minutes between passes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kadena AFB, Okinawa
-ID: 415

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Event 4366 -(705E9523)

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Date: 9/26/1957
-Time: sunset
-Description: Three hundred people were said to have seen three elongated -objects with a series of portholes, maneuvering at ground level in an -area with many empty oil wells. One of these objects, said to be 150 m -long and 20 m high, pearl-colored, glistening under the setting sun and -showing a series of circles painted on its surface, landed for 20 min. -An occupant emerged, observed the abandoned derricks and took off again. -Observed through binoculars, he appeared as a “monster,” 1 m tall, -moving with strange jumps. He picked up something from the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Perego (Vallee)
-Location: Yellow Falls, Texas
-ID: 404

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Event 4367 -(166E0965)

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Date: 9/29/1957
-Time: 0500
-Description: Undocumented report of a landing observed by missile -men.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keyhoe S (Vallee)
-Location: Deerwood Nike Base, Maryland
-ID: 405

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Event 4368 -(573A4146)

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Date: 9/29/1957
-Description: 4:20 p.m. A nuclear waste storage tank explodes -spontaneously at the Mayak plutonium production site (Chelyabinsk-40) -for nuclear weapons and fuel reprocessing at Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk -Oblast, Russia. It launches a kilometer-tall pillar of dust and smoke -into the sky. Gray radioactive ash and debris settles over the -industrial zone. There are no immediate fatalities, though up to 200+ -additional cancer deaths perhaps ensue from the radioactive -contamination of some 20,000 square miles; 270,000 people are exposed to -dangerous radiation levels. Over 30 small communities are removed from -Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991. (Wikipedia, “Kyshtym -disaster”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2977

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Event 4369 -(12321400)

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Date: 10/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mrs. James Masterson and her sister Bernice -Childers while driving see a reddish-orange disc, 30 feet in diameter, -just above the treetops in Allen Park, Michigan. They chase it for a -block or two before it streaks off. One of the women sees two figures -wearing white Navy uniforms in a window on the lower section. (Center -for UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1957, p. 17; -Clark III 268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2979

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Event 4370 -(AFA9C48B)

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Date: 10/1957
-Description: At the Gabiroba farm, owners A. Santinoni and S. de -Oliveira were blinded by beam from a round object at ground level. The -light was green and yellow. When they came near, all went dark and the -object vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 205 (Vallee)
-Location: Niquelandia, Brazil
-ID: 406

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Event 4371 -(D0777669)

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Date: 10/1957
-Description: Leonard -H. Stringfield privately publishes Inside Saucer Post…3-0 Blue that -summarizes his early years as a UFO investigator and as director of -Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects. (Leonard H. -Stringfield, Inside -Saucer Post…3-0 Blue, The -Author, 1957)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2978

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Event 4372 -(E5783954)

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Date: 10/4/1957
-Description: Sputnik 1 launched, transmits for 3 weeks, deorbits on -1/4/58
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-See also: 11/12/57

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Event 4373 -(3141DC0C)

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Date: 10/4/1957
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A tadpole-like UFO is seen at Ichinoseki, Iwate -Prefecture, Japan. Afterwards, material like spider web falls in great -profusion around Saguramachi Middle School for about 2 hours. Chemical -analysis reveals that it is organic, dissolvable in hydrochloric acid, -and burns. The crystal structure is different from spider web. (“Angel -Hair,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1958): 21; Robert N. -Webster, “Things That Fall from UFO’s,” Fate 11, no. 10 (October 1958): -26; George M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2 -(Summer 2004): 21; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A -Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 103; Clark III 124–125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2981

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Event 4374 -(EBAF0BB1)

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Date: 10/4/1957
-Description: The USSR launches the first artificial earth satellite, Sputnik -1, which transmits radio pulses for 21 days. Some 4% of Americans -claim to have seen Sputnik in orbit. However, what most are actually -seeing is the 100- foot-long R-7 rocket core stage, outfitted with -reflective panels that make it a first magnitude object, trailing 600 -miles behind the 22-inch satellite until October 26 when the batteries -run out. The satellite is barely visible at sixth magnitude. (Wikipedia, -“Sputnik -1”; Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1993): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2980

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Event 4375 -(15DDCE70)

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Date: 10/5/1957
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Antonio -Villas-Boas gets up from bed on his family’s farm near São Francisco -de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil, to open a window and notices a silvery -reflection over the corral. After a short time, it moves towards the -window. He and his brother watch as an object approaches and lights up -the room. It disappears. (Clark III 1226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2982

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Event 4376 -(EBAFDF36)

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Date: 10/5/1957
-Time: 2300
-Description: Antonio Villas-Boas who could not sleep because of the -heat, opened the shutters of his house and saw a silvery glow in the -yard, but no flying object. The light moved and was seen going over the -house.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
-ID: 407

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Event 4377 -(B5BDB62E)

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Date: 10/6/1957
-Description: 4:15 p.m. Amateur astronomer Earl -Sydow spots a bright object with the magnitude of the planet Venus -through his telescope over Tucson, Arizona. Six other observers also -watch the object, which measures approximately 3 minutes in diameter -along its major axis and 1 minute along its minor axis. Smaller -flat-white or silver-white objects, as many as 6–10, seem to emerge from -the primary object as observations continue. The smaller objects are -apparently short traces of light at some times and semi-wedge-shaped at -other times. The smaller objects disappear from the field of the -telescope until only the original object is visible, and it disappears -as if moving directly away. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, -1969, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2983

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Event 4378 -(79C09BD8)

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Date: 10/8/1957
-Time: 9:17 AM
-Description: Witnesses: two U.S. Army sergeants. Two flat, round, white -objects flew in trail formation along an irregular path, frequently -banking during 25-30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Seattle, Washington
-ID: 416

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Event 4379 -(4C3D451D)

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Date: 10/8/1957
-Description: Day. Four Fijians in a punt with an outboard motor off -Nabouwalu, Viti Levu, Fiji, see a white, circular object, which is -hovering about 20 feet above the ocean. They approach it. It appears to -be revolving, and they can see the figure of a man standing on the -outside. The figure shines a blinding light at their boat, which makes -them feel dazed and weak. As they draw closer, the figure disappears and -the object rises rapidly upward, disappearing straight up. R. O. -Aveling, an official of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, sees a similar -object at the same time but at a different location. It is hovering at -about 5,000 feet and swinging in a balloon-like fashion. Its color -varies from bright white to deep, flashing red. (“Fiji -Reports Sighting Object Like Texas Saucer,” Honolulu (Hawaii) -Advertiser, November 5, 1957, p. 1; “Strange -Object Seen in South Pacific Skies,” Long Beach (Calif.) Press- -Telegram, November 5, 1957, p. 3; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, -Signet, 1969, p. 81; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth -Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History, 1957, October 1st–November -2nd, The Author, 1997, p. 19; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February -16, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2984

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Event 4380 -(9DB5DF65)

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Date: 10/8/1957
-Time: 1500
-Description: Two couples going from Nabouwalu to Nawaca in a motor boat -saw a white object come down from the sky, thought it was a plane in -trouble and went closer. They found the object hovering 7 m above the -water, and a figure on board the craft aimed at them a beam so bright -they “felt weak.” The figure disappeared suddenly, and the object took -off vertically at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 202; Challenge 18 (Vallee)
-Location: Nabouwalu, Fiji Islands
-ID: 408

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Event 4381 -(467DFD0F)

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Date: 10/9/1957
-Description: 7:24 p.m. The tower operator at Naval Air Station South -Weymouth [now the Shea Field Naval Aviation Historical Museum], -Massachusetts, sights a constant, conical, greenish-blue object with a -phosphorescent glow through binoculars. In sight approximately 90 -seconds, the observer sees no navigation lights. It is traveling faster -than a jet plane on a track from northeast to south-southwest. The -object comes out of the horizon and toward the end of its path makes -three “crazy” gyrations then vanishes, possibly behind cloud cover. The -object has no trail like a meteor. (Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I -Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1993): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2987

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Event 4382 -(CB70221A)

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Date: 10/9/1957
-Description: Night. Radio station CKOV in Kelowna, British Columbia, -after reports on Sputnik, rebroadcasts Orson Welles’s -1938 War of the Worlds radio drama. Some 60 phone calls come in from -listeners who think that Russians have landed in North America. (“Welles, -‘Moon,’ Terrify Town,” Windsor (Ont.) Star, October 10, 1957, -p. 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2986

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Event 4383 -(9FCC9536)

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Date: 10/9/1957
-Description: Evening. Fire ignites Windscale Pile Number One, an -air-cooled, graphite-moderated, uranium-fueled reactor used for -plutonium and isotope production at the Windscale facility [now -Sellafield] in Cumbria, England. It burns for three days, and there is a -release of radioactive iodine that spreads across the UK, contaminating -surrounding dairy farms, as well as the rest of Europe. (Wikipedia, “Windscale -fire”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2985

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Event 4384 -(B48A23E8)

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Date: 10/10/1957
-Description: Mrs. Edward Yeager who lived in a trailer on the -Duanesburg-Church Road near Mariaville, saw a circular object go down -behind the hill. Two min later it flew up again, very bright. The next -day she was feeding animals that ran away as the same or a similar -object came within 2 m of the ground. Two dark, little men came out of -the craft and went into the woods. The object remained there two min, -then left. A search for the occupants proved futile. A bus driver was -said to have seen two craft land in a nearby field at the same -hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Schenectady, New York
-ID: 409

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Event 4385 -(D66BF2F9)

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Date: 10/10/1957
-Time: night
-Description: Naval officer Miguel Espanhol and another man, traveling to -Ceres, saw a bright object that illuminated the countryside and came -down to ground level as the truck stalled. It was oval or saucer-shaped, -over 150 m in diameter and 40 m deep, with a dome supporting a long -“aerial” with a red light on top. The bright light went off and the -witnesses saw seven childlike beings, with long hair and luminous suits, -who looked down at them for about 3 min. The craft flew south and -released a smaller disk, which flew north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
-Location: Quebracoco, Brazil
-ID: 410

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Event 4386 -(4DD4C987)

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Date: 10/10/1957
-Description: The coffee truck driven by Miguel Espanhol Navarrete and -his driver stalls northwest of Ceres near Quebra Coco, Goiás, Brazil, as -a UFO lands nearby. They see an intense light as they begin a steep -ascent, and then realize that the flying object appears to be more than -600 feet long. It lights up the entire area, even though it is gliding -at a great height. The driver panics and tries to speed away, but the -truck’s engine stalls as the object approaches and flies over the -vehicle about 130 feet away. The object is about 3 feet in diameter by -40 inches high and is unevenly oval, with the upper section greater than -the lower section. It looks like two superimposed plates separated by a -strip 65 feet thick. When it is at an altitude of 20 feet, the UFO stops -in the air and its light goes out. It lands, a door opens, and seven -apparently human people come out dressed in luminous suits. Then the -crew reenters the UFO and takes off, stopping at about 1,650 feet -altitude. At that moment a smaller object detaches itself from the -larger one and flies north. The larger object follows in a southeasterly -direction. Navarrete is interviewed by Judge Gabriel Barbosa de Andrade, -then-Secretary of the Interior and justice of the State of Goiás; -Joaquim Neves Pereira; and Antenor Gomes, then-Secretary of Public -Security for Goiás. (Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, pp. 192–193; -Clark III 230; “Caso -Ceres,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Patrick Gross, URECAT, October -17, 2006; Brazil 40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2989

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Event 4387 -(F061E493)

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Date: 10/10/1957
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A huge fireball plunges from the sky near Myton, -Utah, just missing a US Navy DC-6 transport plane out of NAS Alameda -[now closed], California, with 36 persons aboard. Pilot Lt. Cmdr. W. F. -Norris reports the incident to Salt Lake City Airport. (“Big -Fireball Perils Plane,” Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, October 10, 1957, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2988

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Event 4388 -(C0442F67)

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Date: 10/11/1957
-Time: 2000
-Description: Two witnesses in a car saw something they described as “a -dark, transparent ball” about 50 cm in diameter rising from the side of -the road. It had appendages trailing behind.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 111 (Vallee)
-Location: Roulon, France
-ID: 411

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Event 4389 -(60A5B545)

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Date: 10/12/1957
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Many witnesses see a luminous oval object pass -over Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, at great speed. The same or a similar -object is seen at Coro at 9:25 p.m. and at Trujillo at 12:00 midnight. -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2990

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Event 4390 -(D24CF8FA)

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Date: 10/14/1957
-Time: 2145
-Description: Second observation by A. Villas-Boas. He was plowing a -field with his brother when they saw a red light at the edge of the -field. He went toward it, but it shifted its position every time he went -close. It vanished on the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
-ID: 412

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Event 4391 -(452438D4)

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Date: 10/14/1957
-Description: 7:00 p.m. The Naval Air Station North Island tower in San -Diego, California, directs a Navy S2F-1Tracker anti-submarine aircraft -toward a bright light over Point Loma. The aircraft, piloted by Lt. Allen -L. Ries, tracks the UFO on airborne radar at some points suddenly -moving at 1,700 mph average speed (3,500 mph at peak) and 1,100 mph -average relative to the aircraft’s (peak 2,200 mph). Radar indicates the -object is about 12 miles ahead. After 3 minutes the aircraft loses the -object visually and on radar. Blue Book explains this as the star -Arcturus, which is in the wrong direction in the sky, then changes the -explanation to a balloon. (NICAP, [Blue -Book documents]; -Clark III 389–390)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2991

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Event 4392 -(7EE4F3BC)

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Date: 10/14/1957
-Description: Around 9:30 p.m. Antonio -Villas-Boas and another brother are plowing and see a bright object -hovering 300 feet in the air. He approaches it, but it evades him and -disappears. (Clark III 1226–1227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2992

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Event 4393 -(4EEB2A10)

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Date: 10/15/1957
-Time: daylight
-Description: Mr. Moudy, a farmer, observed a silvery disk which hovered -above his tractor; the engine failed when the object rose.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Covington, Indiana
-ID: 413

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Event 4394 -(C453B930)

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Date: 10/15/1957
-Description: Villas Boas abduction. Has intercourse with an -human-looking female.
-Type: abduction
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Brazil

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Event 4395 -(B45FA527)

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Date: 10/15/1957
-Description: Afternoon. Robert Moudy sees a glowing object hovering -above his combine in Franklin County, Indiana, at about 1,500 feet. It -appears to be silver and platter-shaped, perhaps 12 feet in diameter, -with a pink flame coming from its base. It makes a loud whirring noise -as it hovers. When it starts ascending at a 22° angle, its color changes -from pink to light blue and the combine stops working. He notices two -stalled cars on a nearby road. (“Indiana -Farmer Says ‘Whatsit’ Was Overhead,” Indianapolis News, November 5, -1957, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2993

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Event 4396 -(7A15AFDD)

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Date: 10/15/1957
-Description: Villas Boas abduction, sexual encounter case
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Minas Gerais State, Brazil
-ID: 4

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Event 4397 -(1620BC85)

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Date: 10/16/1957
-Time: 0100
-Description: Third observation by A. Villas-Boas. Alone in the fields on -a clear night, he saw a big, red star which took the appearance of a -luminous, egg-shaped object and stopped 50 m above his tractor. Its -light was brighter than that of the headlights as it landed 15 m away. -The top part was spinning. It became green as it slowed down, was then -seen as a flattened dome. Three legs emerged from the machine as it -settled down. The tractor engine stalled, and the witness was seized by -unknown individuals and carried aboard the craft, where he was medically -examined, then left with a woman of short stature with whom he had -sexual intercourse. Villas-Boas reported that crew members wore tight, -white clothes with a light on the belt, heelless white shoes, big -gloves, and opaque helmets with a slit at the level of the eyes. Their -language was shrill, and he could establish no verbal communication with -them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 et seq. (Vallee)
-Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
-ID: 414

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Event 4398 -(EAF5A84D)

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Date: 10/16/1957
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Antonio -Villas-Boas is plowing alone near São Francisco de Sales, Minas -Gerais, Brazil, when a red, egg-shaped object appears above him. His -tractor motor and lights fail. It lands nearby and something grabs him -as he tries to run away. Three small figures bring him into the object, -where he is subjected to tests and made to have sex twice with an -odd-looking woman. Afterwards, she points to her belly then points to -the sky. Then he is given a tour of the craft and taken outside again -around 5:30 a.m. (“The -A.V.B. Contact Case,” Boletim SBEDV, no. 26/27 (Apr./July 1962): -7–9; Gordon Creighton, “The -Most Amazing Case of All, Part 1: A Brazilian Farmer’s -Story,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1965): 13–17; -Gordon Creighton, “The -Most Amazing -Case of All, Part 2: Analysis of the Brazilian Farmer’s Story,” -Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1965): 5–8; Gordon Creighton, -“Postscript -to the Most Amazing Case of All,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1965): 24–26; Gordon Creighton, “Even -More Amazing…: Further Light on the A.V.B. Case,” -Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1966): 23–27; Gordon -Creighton, “Even -More Amazing…Part 2: -The A.V.B. Case Continued,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1966): 22–25; Gordon Creighton, “Even -More Amazing…Part III,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1966): 14–16; Gordon Creighton, “Even -More Amazing…Part IV,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1967): 25–27; Olavo T. Fontes, “Even -More Amazing…Part V,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 3 (May/June -1967): 22–25; Gordon Creighton, “Even -More Amazing…Part VI: The Medical Report,” Flying Saucer Review 14, -no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1968): 18–20; Lorenzen, Occupants, Signet, 1967, pp. 42–72; -“Brazil: New Light on a Sexual Abduction,” IUR/Probe, Sept. 1980, p. 79; -Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, -pp. 56–59; Brazil 41–47; Clark III 1227–1229; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral -Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): -19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2994

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Event 4399 -(B71412A9)

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Date: 10/16/1957
-Description: Day. Nurse Ella Louise Fortune is driving north of -Tularosa, New Mexico, when she sees a brilliant-white, elliptical object -hovering in a deep-blue sky. It seems to have a faint exhaust trail at -one edge. She stops her car and snaps a 35mm Kodachrome photo. Analysts -generally agree this is a bright lenticular cloud with a trail of ice -crystals. (Walter N. Webb, “The Fortune Photo Revisited,” IUR 18, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1993): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2995

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Event 4400 -(7F84FF23)

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Date: 10/16/1957
-Description: Evening. Former Australian Air Marshal George -Jones and his wife see a round object like a “flying balloon” moving -silently at the speed of a jet over their home in Mentone, Victoria, -Australia. It moves from south to north at an altitude of 1,000–1,500 -feet. (George Jones, “Former -Air Chief Sees Saucers,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 3 (May/June -1958): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2996

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Event 4401 -(5CB11787)

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Date: late 10/1957
-Description: Late one afternoon, a British RAF team is planning to -return home from the Maralinga, South Australia, nuclear test site where -the Operation Antler series of blasts have occurred (September 14, 25, -October 9). They go outside and see a silvery-blue, metallic UFO with a -flat base and a dome on top. Several squarish portholes are visible -around the center. The object tilts at 45° and hovers. After 15 minutes, -the UFO shoots up out of sight without a sound. One of the witnesses is -Derek Murray, later a Home Office photographer. (Bill Chalker, “The UFO -Connection: Startling Implications for Australia’s North West Cape, and -for Australia’s Security,” Flying Saucer Review 31, no. 5 (July -1986): 18–19; Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, pp. 94–95; -Good Above, p. 163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3004

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Event 4402 -(C9108D52)

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Date: 10/21/1957
-Description: 9:18 p.m. Flying Officer D. W. Sweeney is flying a Meteor -jet at 28,000 feet on a training exercise from RAF North Luffenham [now -St. George’s Barracks] when he nearly collides with an unidentified -object over RAF Gaydon [now closed], North Warwickshire, England. After -taking evasive action, Sweeney tries to approach the object, whereupon -its six lights go out and it disappears. The UFO is tracked on radar at -RAF Langtoft [now closed] in South Kesteven. (“UFO -over British A-Bomber Base: Air Ministry Baffled,” Flying Saucer -Review 4, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1958): 6; Good Above, pp. 50–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2997

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Event 4403 -(7BA7E916)

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Date: 10/22/1957
-Description: The US Continental Army Command sends a memo to the Army -Chief of Research and Development indicating its interest in the flying -saucer concept and requesting initiation of a feasibility study of a -“manned flying saucer.” (Richard P. Weinert, History of Army Aviation, -1950–1962, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, November 1976, pp. 220–221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2998

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Event 4404 -(9E5D9688)

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Date: 10/25/1957
-Description: A girl suffering from cancer appeared about to die when the -house was suddenly illuminated by a strong light, as if a searchlight -had been aimed at the room. It came from an object whose top part was -reddish yellow. Two figures emerged from it and entered the house. They -were about 1.20 m tall, had long yellow-red hair, small green, slanted -eyes, and wore white gloves and glowing white clothes. Before the -astounded witnesses (the author of the report and the family of the -girl), they used a device producing a bluish-white light and another -instument, in what appeared to be radiation treatment of the patient. -After 30 min they went away, leaving her completely cured. The report -was anonymous.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Petropolis, Brazil
-ID: 415

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Event 4405 -(9A8FCEBE)

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Date: 10/25/1957
-Description: On a farm near Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a -housekeeper (pseudonym = Anazia Maria) is taking care of a family member -who is dying of stomach cancer. She claims that two diminutive, -long-haired beings emerge from a landed UFO, come inside the house, -examine the girl for an hour with a device that looks like a flashlight, -communicate telepathically to the family, cure the girl, and leave -behind some medication to give her. (Olavo T. Fontes, “Dying -Girl Saved by Humanoid Surgeons,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1967): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 2999

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Event 4406 -(87117644)

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Date: 10/30/1957
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Hugh Pulju and Shirley Moyer are driving 10 miles -north of Casper, Wyoming, when a round, shiny object appears in the road -about 250 feet ahead. Pulju tries to turn around, but the engine keeps -stalling. It works well once he reaches a main highway. (“‘Mystery -Object’ Is Reported Here,” Casper (Wyo.) Tribune- Herald, November -5, 1957, p. 1; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 237–238; Schopick, -p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3000

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Event 4407 -(FDF85B99)

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Date: 10/31/1957
-Time: 0000
-Description: A businessman and his wife saw a large, lighted object with -openings, which hovered, came to ground level, and took off with a great -increase in brightness at very high speed, but without noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Longchaumois, France
-ID: 416

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Event 4408 -(3CC6AF16)

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Date: 10/31/1957
-Description: A businessman and his wife at Longchaumois, Jura, France, -see a large lighted object with openings. It hovers close to the ground -and takes off with a great increase in brightness, silently, at high -speed. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, October -1st–November 2nd, The Author, 1997, p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3002

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Event 4409 -(7FE5A2BC)

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Date: 10/31/1957
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Barbara Jean Stokes, her husband Paul, and -another couple are driving in Lumberton, North Carolina, when they spot -an object about 200 feet long in the sky. Suddenly the object rises -straight up and flames. As this happens, the car stalls until the object -disappears a few seconds later. (“Woman -Says She Saw Ball -of Fire on Road,” Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, November 5, 1957, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3003

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Event 4410 -(8833C215)

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Date: 10/31/1957
-Description: Keyhoe meets -with Rep. James -C. Healey again, who tells him the Air Force has “made a strong -attempt to disprove your claims.” (Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3001

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Event 4411 -(487D2116)

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Date: 11/1957
-Time: 2300
-Description: Haskell Raper, Jr., was driving home on a rainy night when -he saw a large, lighted object on the road ahead, which he thought was a -truck. Suddenly the object flashed a beam of light directly at the car, -apparently exerting a strong pressure and slowing it to a stop 5 m away. -The object was then described as oval, 5 m long, 3 m high, army green in -color. It bore lettering beginning with the letters UN, followed by some -numbers. A sort of heat wave filled the car, and the witness ran out in -panic as the vehicle caught fire. The object rose with the sound of a -diesel engine. Raper ran to the town, less than 2 km away; and reported -the incident. The car, a 1956 Ford, was completely destroyed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Oct., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Provencal, Louisiana
-ID: 417

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Event 4412 -(9C06FBAD)

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Date: 11/1957
-Description: Lt. Gen. John -A. Samford succeeds Maj. Gen. Ralph -Canine as director of the National Security Agency.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3005

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Event 4413 -(2888946B)

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Date: 11/1957
-Description: Gene -Duplantier launches the quarterly magazine Saucers, Space, and -Science in Willowdale, Ontario. It continues through 1972. (Saucers, -Space & Science, no. 1 (November 1957))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3006

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Event 4414 -(C92D9BCC)

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Date: 11/1/1957
-Description: 9:15 a.m. More than 50 workers at the Luipaardsvlei mine -near Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa, watch two UFOs hanging -motionless in the air at a great height until the afternoon. A Sabre jet -from the South African Air Force is sent up to investigate. It climbs to -45,000 feet, but the objects are still above it. One of the witnesses is -Maj. G. Ogilvie-Watson, from an ACF squadron at Pretoria. They move off -at great speed. (“Jet Unable -to Reach UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1958): 2; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of -the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, October 1st–November 2nd, The -Author, 1997, p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3007

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Event 4415 -(33A38E16)

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Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: Multiple landings on roadways, E-M (electro-magnetic) -effects, etc. Sheriff Weir Clem was sent out to search the roads as a -result of earlier UFO reports and saw a reddish oval crossing the road -and illuminating the pavement. Ronald Martin saw an UFO land in front of -his truck and turn from red to bluish-green at which time the truck’s -electrical system failed. It then turned reddish again and took off. -Within the next few hours an Army Jeep Patrol at White Sands, N.M., -reported an egg-shaped UFO that descended to about 50 yards above a -bunker used during the first A-bomb explosion. This wave of sightings -continued for 2–3 weeks. After retirement in 1975, Sheriff W. Clem gave -a more graphic description of the UFO he saw: “The object was shaped -like a huge football and had bright white lights. No living human could -believe how fast it traveled. The thing was as bright as day. It lit up -the whole area.” In an interview in 1977, Sheriff Clem said, “After the -publicity of UFOs over the next few days, the number of witnesses to -them rose to about a hundred people.”
-Type: ce2 event
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Loveland, TX
-See also: 11/5/57

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Event 4416 -(6767C724)

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Date: 11/2/1957
-Time: 0330
-Description: 5 km west of this town, military and civilian witnesses -reported a submarine-shaped object, red and white, two or three times as -long as a car and about 3 m high, at ground level. A figure was seen -near this object, also something compared to a white flag. When a car -stopped in the vicinity, a flash of light from the object coincided with -the sudden failure of the headlights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Canadian, Texas
-ID: 418

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Event 4417 -(021A0837)

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Date: 11/2/1957
-Time: 2250
-Description: A large number of reports from the Levelland area described -a low-flying object, over 60 m long, equipped with a bright light, and -which interfered with car ignition.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Anatomy 136; map (Vallee)
-Location: Levelland, Texas
-ID: 419

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Event 4418 -(8516D9CB)

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Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: About midnight. Jim Wheeler sees a 200-foot-long, -egg-shaped, brightly lit object on Route 114 four miles east of -Levelland, Texas. As he gets close to it, his engine and lights cease -functioning. He gets out of his car as the light ascends; its lights -blink out, and his engine and lights resume functioning. (UFOEv, p. 168; -Schopick, p. 27; -Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. -1 (Spring 2003): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3013

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Event 4419 -(EE73A8B7)

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Date: 11/2/1957
-End date: 11/3/1957
-Description: Levelland, TX: many sightings, with numerous cars -stalled
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Levelland, TX

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Event 4420 -(A28A7A86)

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Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: About midnight. José Alvarez is driving along Route 51 in -Whitharral, Texas, when he comes across a 200-foot-long object sitting -in the road. His car engine stops as he approaches, and the headlights -go out. At that point, the object rises quickly into the air. (UFOEv, p. 168; -Schopick, -pp. 27–28; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” -IUR 28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3012

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Event 4421 -(6E447ED7)

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Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: 11:55 p.m. Two married couples driving near Shallowater, -Texas, see a flash of orange light in the southwestern sky. The -headlights and radio of their car fail for three seconds as they see the -light. The car motor is not affected. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 9; Randle, -Levelland, 2021, pp. 16, 220–221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3011

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Event 4422 -(DFD0E329)

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Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A witness is driving between Seminole and -Seagraves, Texas, on US Highway 62 when he sees lights on the road -ahead. As he approaches them, his headlights go out and his engine dies. -A few seconds later, the lights rise into the air and disappear. (Hobbs -(N.Mex.) News-Sun, November 5, 1957; Schopick, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3009

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Event 4423 -(590BA65A)

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Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Three miles west of Canadian, Texas, S/Sgt. Alfred -A. Calvin and a civilian witness see a submarine-shaped object, red -and white, about 40–60 feet long and about 10 feet high, at ground -level. A figure is near the object holding a white flag. When he stops -the car, a flash of light from the object coincides with the sudden -failure of the headlights. (NICAP, “Submarine-Shaped -UFO, Entity, E-M Case”; Sparks, -p. 253; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3008

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Event 4424 -(DDE7FF70)

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Date: 11/2/1957
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Farmhand and veteran Pedro -Saucedo and Joe Salaz are driving four miles west of Levelland, -Texas, on Route 116 [now 114] south of Pettit (near its intersection -with Five Mile Road). They see a flash of light to the right of the -road. Then a 200-foot-long, 6-foot-wide blue rocket-shaped object, with -yellow flame and white smoke coming from the rear, rises up out of the -field, heads straight toward their truck, passes directly overhead at -about 200 feet with a loud thundering roar, a rush of wind, and great -heat. Their truck engine dies and the headlights to go out. The UFO -disappears in the east towards Levelland. The lights come back on -spontaneously and the engine restarts. A frightened Saucedo calls the -occurrence in to Patrolman A. J. Fowler of the Levelland sheriff’s -office. At Pettit, Texas, the same night, two grain combines, each with -two engines, fail as a UFO passes overhead. The Air Force calls the -Levelland sightings ball lightning or St. Elmo’s fire, even though there -are no electrical storms in the area. Donald -Menzel calls it a mirage. (Wikipedia, “Levelland -UFO case”; NICAP, “The -Levelland Sightings / Saucedo”; “Whatnik -Sidelines Sputnik, Woofnik,” -Fort Worth (Tex.) Star- Telegram, November 4, 1957, pp. 1–2; “The -Levelland Case,” APRO Bulletin, November 1957, p. 1; “Did -the Air Force -Deceive the Public about the November Sightings?” UFO Investigator -1, no. 3 (January 1958): 1, 3; Schopick, pp. 26–27, -32; Clark III 683–684; UFOEv, p. 168; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 141–142, 146–147; -Sparks, p. 253; -Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1993): 8; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio -Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, -pp. 67–70; -“Levelland -1957,” Texas UFO Museum & Research Library, March 15, 2002; -Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. -1 (Spring 2003): 4; Antonio F. Rullán, “The Southwestern UFO Wave of -1957,” IUR 31, no. 3 (October 2007): 8–15, 22; Randle, Levelland, 2021, -pp. 12–16, 43–55, 128–136, 150–152, 215–217, 234)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3010

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Event 4425 -(D4AF1572)

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Date: 11/3/1957
-Time: 0300
-Description: At Stallion Site, an army patrol in a jeep saw an orange, -“apparently controlled,” luminous object on the ground near the site of -the first A-bomb explosion. It was first seen as a sunlike source 50 m -above ground, descending to ground level after 3 min, and landing -several km away at the northern end of the testing grounds. Two -witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 238 (Vallee)
-Location: White Sands, New Mexico
-ID: 420

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Event 4426 -(641887B7)

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Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 12:15 a.m. Frank Williams, a farmer, is near Whitharral, -Texas, when he encounters an object described as an egg sitting on the -crossroads. The UFO pulsates steadily; each time it glows bright, the -car’s power goes on and off. The object leaves with a thunderous sound. -(UFOEv, p. 168; -Schopick, -pp. 29–30; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 143–144; -Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. -1 (Spring 2003): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3015

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Event 4427 -(D20AA978)

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Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Levelland (Texas) Fire Marshall Ray Jones, -while out driving around and looking for some explanation of the many -UFO reports, sees a “streak of light” north of the Oklahoma Flat. His -headlights dim and engine sputters as he sees the light. (UFOEv, p. 168; -Schopick, -p. 32; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 145–146); -Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3017

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Event 4428 -(053A13E5)

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Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 1:15 a.m. James Long is 5 miles northwest of Levelland, -Texas, on a farm-to-market road. He reports a bright object that is egg -or oval-shaped, about 200 feet long, 200 feet away, sitting in the road. -He hears a “thunderclap.” The car’s lights and motor quit. The object -rises quickly and speeds away. (UFOEv, p. 168; -Schopick, p. 31; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 144–145; -Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3018

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Event 4429 -(8E244174)

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Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 12:05 a.m. Texas Tech college student Newell H. Wright is -driving west one mile west of Smyer, Texas, when the ammeter gauge on -his car dashboard starts fluctuating widely. The car motor gradually -goes out then the headlights and radio die. He gets out to check and -sees a white or aluminum-colored, oval-shaped object flat on the bottom -like a loaf of bread, with a bluish-green tint, about 75–125 feet long. -After a few minutes, the object suddenly rises up from the road ahead -and ascends almost vertically at great speed slightly to the north, -disappearing in seconds. Afterward the car can start again. (NICAP, “Oval-Shaped -Object & EME on Ammeter”; UFOEv, p. 168; -Schopick, pp. 28–29; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 143; -Sparks, -p. 254; Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR -28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 4; Swords 253–256; Randle, Levelland, 2021, -pp. 16–17, 212–214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3014

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Event 4430 -(3C5F536D)

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Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Army Specialist 3rd Class Henry -R. Barlow and Specialist 3rd Class Forest R. Oakes, Army Garrison -Detachment 5, are in a jeep patrol driving west near the site of the -first A-bomb explosion, Trinity Site, in White Sands Proving Ground, New -Mexico. They see a pulsating red light thar turns to white, possibly -200– 300 feet in size and 4–5 miles away. It brightens and dims then -sometimes goes out, rising in the sky from the ground or from about 50 -feet over the bunker up to about 45° elevation until it looks like a -star or point source. They watch it for 25 minutes before it disappears. -Possibly Venus in the southwest, which sets at about 8:30 p.m. (Sparks, p. 254; -Schopick, -p. 38; Randle, Levelland, 2021,pp. 27–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3022

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Event 4431 -(895BF9CF)

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Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Ronald Martin is on Highway 116 near Smyer, -Texas, when he sees a glowing red UFO land ahead of his truck, then turn -to bluish-green. The truck’s electrical system fails. When the UFO takes -off, it turns reddish again. (UFOEv, p. 168; -Schopick, pp. 30–31; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 144; -Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. -1 (Spring 2003): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3016

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Event 4432 -(E9CAD381)

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Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Near the same spot as James Long, Hockley County -(Texas) Sheriff Weir -Clem and Pat McCullough see a flash of light “like a brilliant red -sunset” 300–400 yards to the south of them, lighting up the pavement. -(UFOEv, p. 168; -Schopick, pp. 31–32; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 145–146; -Donald R. Burleson, “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case Reopened,” IUR 28, no. -1 (Spring 2003): 4; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 19–21, 170–181, -218–219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3019

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Event 4433 -(A99CBFF2)

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Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: About 3:00 a.m. Two MPs at White Sands Missile Test Range, -New Mexico, Cpl. Glenn H. Toy and Pfc. James E. Wilbanks are making -rounds in their jeep when they notice a bright object high in the sky. -It drops down to about 150 feet and the light goes out. A few minutes -later the light goes on again and it drops to the ground in a bunker -area 3 miles away and goes out. The UFO is egg-shaped and about 225–300 -feet in diameter. (NICAP, “Three -MPs Report Object over White Sands Base”; Schopick, -pp. 37–38; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the -Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th, The Author, -1997, p. 6; UFOEv, p. 169; -Sparks, -p. 254; Swords 259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 23–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3020

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Event 4434 -(3C5B00EC)

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Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Edna Ireland is driving with two friends near -Sibbald, Alberta, when a blinking light appears in the sky and passes -nearly above the car toward the northwest. Their engine coughs and the -headlights flicker. (Winnipeg (Man.) Tribune, November 7, 1957; Aimé -Michel, Straight-Line, p. 239; Schopick, -pp. 42–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3021

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Event 4435 -(3A3D0920)

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Date: 11/3/1957
-Description: The USSR launches Sputnik -2 carrying Laika the dog. (Wikipedia, “Sputnik -2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3023

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Event 4436 -(83878A93)

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Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Chief Pilot Captain Jean Vincent de Beyssac and -his copilot are flying a Varig Airlines C-46 cargo plane from Porto -Alegre to São Paulo, Brazil. They are near Araranguá, Santa Catarina, -when de Beyssac notices a red light on his left. It seems to be getting -bigger, so he banks towards it out of curiosity. The light gets much -bigger then begins to glow more brilliantly. The pilot and copilot smell -smoke and, as they are looking for the source, the light disappears. De -Beyssac returns to Porto Alegre. It turns out that the right engine’s -magneto (or generator), automatic direction finder, and the radio (both -receiver and transmitter) have burnt out, allegedly simultaneously. -(NICAP, “Aircraft -Encounters UFO / ADF, etc. Affected”; Olavo T. Fontes, “Top -Secret Report Unveiled,” -APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 5–6; Lorenzen, FS Hoax, p. 155; -Schopick, -pp. 126–127; Patrick Gross, “UFO -/ Aircraft Close Encounter in Brazil, 1957”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3026

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Event 4437 -(0622AD09)

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Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: After 12:00 midnight. A young couple are returning to -Amarillo, Texas, from Palo Duro Canyon when they see a glowing object in -the middle of the road, surrounded by fog. As they drive closer and -enter the fog, the car engine and battery die. Another car has to push -them into town to get the battery recharged. (Amarillo (Tex.) Daily -News, November 4, 1957; Schopick, pp. 43–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3025

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Event 4438 -(C05DF504)

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Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: Portuguese Air Force Capt. Lenos Ferreira is conducting a -training mission at the head of three jet fighters over Grenada, Spain, -when he observes a luminous object changing color from an intense green -to bright red. The object maintains a constant altitude while -oscillating. Ferreira orders a change of course toward Córdoba, but the -object follows his group for 40 minutes, dropping four smaller objects -that also accompany the jets. Suddenly the objects go into a dive and -disappear. (Patrick Gross, “UFO -Chasing Jet Fighter Squadron, Lisbon, 1957”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3024

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Event 4439 -(41549879)

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Date: 11/4/1957
-Time: 0315
-Description: Two policemen, Joseph Lukasek and Clifford Schau, and a -third man named Daniel De Giovanni, while looking for the cause of a -headlight failure, observed a fluorescent object 50 to 100 m away from -them, coming down. The car hadlights functioned properly again and they -drove toward the object but had to stop at a cemetery wall. They turned -off all lights and watched the object for two min. It played “hide and -seek” with them as they tried to reach its location.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 240; 113 (Vallee)
-Location: Elmwood Park, Illinois
-ID: 421

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Event 4440 -(6413C426)

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Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 10:45 p.m. CAA air traffic controllers R. M. Kaser and E. -G. Brink see a highly maneuverable 15–20-foot egg-shaped object with a -white light at its base circle over one end of Kirtland AFB in -Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 150–200 mph. It comes down in a steep 30° -dive as if landing on Runway 26 to the north of the tower at about 1,500 -feet. Radar tracks part of this maneuver. The object then crosses the -flight line, runways, and taxiways heading towards the tower at about 50 -mph and 20–30 feet above ground, observed through 7x binoculars until it -reaches about 3,000 feet near the northeast corner of the flood-lit -restricted Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Area and a B-58 bomber -service site. It hovers for 20–60 seconds, then heads east again at -about 200–300 feet altitude. Suddenly it shoots up in a steep climb. -Controllers contact Radar Approach Control, which tracks the object on -CPN-18 radar traveling east, then turning south, circling the -Albuquerque Low Frequency Range Station. It then heads north, -disappearing at 10 miles and reappearing 20 minutes later to follow 1/2 -mile behind a USAF C-46 that has just taken off to the south. It -continues for 14 miles until both go off the scope. A hovering radar -target then appears to the north over an outer marker for 90 seconds -before fading. (Wikipedia, “Kirtland -AFB UFO sighting”; NICAP, “Kirtland -UFO Incident / Radar Case”; Sparks, -p. 256; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 87–90; -Condon, pp. 141–143; -James E. McDonald, “The -Kirtland Airfield UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1970): 6–8; Swords 259–260)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3032

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Event 4441 -(5395C28D)

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Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Jan Boucher, a policeman in Kodiak, Alaska, sees -a red ball of fire with a greenish-yellow trail as he is patrolling on -Mission Road. It apparently moves 50 feet above a nearby school. He -tries to radio in a report but his radio gets interference for 2 minutes -after the sighting. (Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, November 7, 1957; Schopick, -pp. 89–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3031

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Event 4442 -(BB4DC79D)

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Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A Texas state border inspector is driving 3 miles -southeast of El Paso Airport in Texas when his car engine stalls and the -headlights go dim then out. He gets out and notices an object -approaching that is making a whirring sound like an artillery shell. It -passes above his car at about 150 feet, heading west and changing -altitude occasionally. When it gets to the Franklin Mountains, it lifts -into the air vertically. (NICAP, “Egg-Shaped Object -Stalls Car”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3030

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Event 4443 -(E94CE214)

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Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 1:10 p.m. James W. Stokes, electronics technician at -Holloman AFB, New Mexico, is driving on US 54 about 8 miles south of -Orogrande, New Mexico. The car radio fades, and the car slows as if the -battery is failing. Stokes notices 6–12 cars ahead of him have also -stopped and drivers are out looking at the sky (looking behind him to -the northeast), including a Mr. Duncan and Allan D. Baker. Stokes stops -and gets out, sees a pearl-white oval or egg-shaped object about 500 -feet wide with a slight purplish tinge heading south at an estimated -speed of 1,500–2,000 mph. It is below the elevation angle of the -Sacramento Mountains ridgeline, descending from about 5,000 feet above -ground level in a shallow dive to about 1,500–2,500 feet altitude as it -swerves to pass to the south of Stokes and the other stopped cars. At -its closest it is about 2–5 miles away. It then circles around headed -west and disappears. The same or another object appears in the northeast -(as if the object has completely circled) and performs the same rounded -course but passing farther to the south of the parked cars and -disappears in the west. Duncan takes a 35mm film of the object. Stokes -notices a wave of heat from the object at closest approach. Later that -evening he is sunburned, but it clears up the next day. The Air Force -calls it a hoax based on the Levelland sightings. (NICAP, “Stokes -Incident”; “The -New Mexico Story,” APRO Bulletin, November 1957, pp. 1–2; L. J. -Lorenzen, “The -Stokes Case,” APRO Bulletin, January 1958, pp. 2, 6; UFOEv, p. 169; -Schopick, -pp. 39–42; Sparks, p. 255; -Swords 256–259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 32–42, 228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3029

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Event 4444 -(B3A82FBC)

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Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 3:12 a.m. At Elmwood Park, Illinois, three policemen -(Clifford Shaw, Joseph -Lukasek, and Dan Diglovanni) see a bright cigar-shaped object in the -sky. The headlights and spotlight on the squad car dim. The car chases -the UFO for a mile and a half, which dips and rises before speeding off. -Fireman Bob Volz also sees a reddish-orange UFO about the same time. -(NICAP, “Bright -Cylinder Chased by Police, E-M Effects”; Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, -p. 239; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 117; Schopick, -pp. 90–91; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of -the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th, The -Author, 1997, pp. 22–27; Sparks, -p. 255)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3028

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Event 4445 -(2C322E2D)

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Date: 11/4/1957
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two sentries at the Fortaleza de Itaipu in Praia -Grande, São Paulo, Brazil, watch an orange object approaching the fort. -It holds its course until it is directly above them. Its diameter is at -least as large as the wingspan of a DC-3 and scarcely 300 feet away. -Suddenly there is a strange buzzing noise and the men feel a wave of -glowing heat. One of them collapses on the spot, but the other succeeds -in reaching safety in the shadow of the gun emplacements. His shouts of -alarm rouse his comrades inside the fort, where the lights suddenly go -out. In the meantime, the emergency power is switched on but immediately -gives out. Only a few minutes after the alarm, two other men are out of -the fort and at their sides. They too see the UFO, which is now heading -out to sea. It leaves a luminous trail as it shoots away across the -Atlantic. The two sentries are taken to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro. -They suffer second and third-degree burns on large areas of their body, -chiefly in areas covered by clothing. Afterwards, Brazilian Army and -USAF personnel, along with investigators of the Brazilian Air Force, fly -to the fort to interview them. There is some reason to think that Olavo -T. Fontes made this case up, as no first- hand witnesses to the -event have come forward. (NICAP, “Fort -Itaipu Incident”; Wikipedia, “Caso -do Forte de Itaipu”; -Olavo T. Fontes, “Top -Secret Report Unveiled,” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, pp. 6–7; -Jules Lemaître, “A -Strange Story from Brazil,” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1960): 9–11; Schopick, -pp. 135–140; Kevin D. Randle, “Fort -Itaipu and Footnotes,” A Different Perspective, October 12, 2014; -Kevin D. Randle, “Fort -Itaipu and Olavo Fontes Revisited,” A Different Perspective, June -15, 2016; Clark 537)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3027

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Event 4446 -(9A60EA49)

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Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: An object looking like “a big meat platter” was seen at -close range by Mrs. Jasper Barlow and her two children, who were inside -their car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no -ignition interference noted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 245 (Vallee)
-Location: New Castle, Indiana
-ID: 422

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Event 4447 -(6A1729AB)

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Date: 11/5/1957
-Time: 0430
-Description: In Van Cortland Park, Frank C. was talking with a bus -driver when they saw in the park, about 400 m away, a metallic object -shaped like a disk, spinning with a soft whirring. On top was a fixed -dome with portholes. The object was hovering at tree-height. A yellow -light from the craft suddenly illuminated the area, and it flew off -“like a shooting star.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 241 (Vallee)
-Location: New York City, New York
-ID: 423

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Event 4448 -(68AFB411)

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Date: 11/5/1957
-Time: 1730
-Description: A man heard a noise similar to that of a helicopter and -perceived a “burning” odor. He saw a balloon-like, elongated object that -came to ground level, did not touch the ground, but rose again and -disappeared. The witness was “paralyzed” during the observation. The -object appeared to have generated thick smoke.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Scotia, Nebraska
-ID: 424

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Event 4449 -(E58FB6D0)

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Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: 5:10 a.m. The US Coast Guard Cutter Sebago (WHEC-42), -Commander Clarence -H. Waring Jr., cruising in the Gulf of Mexico about 200 miles south -of Mobile, Alabama, tracks a radar target at a range of 22 miles moving -at 650 mph. It disappears at 55 miles range. Three other unusual radar -contacts are made in the next 10 minutes. A visual object like a -brilliant planet is seen at 5:21 a.m. speeding north to south for five -seconds by Ensign Wayne Schotley, Lt. Donald E. Shaffer, 1stClass -Quartermaster Kenneth Smith, and radio operator Thomas Kirk. The Air -Force ascribes it to confused radar operators who mistake ordinary plane -blips for a UFO. (NICAP, “The -Coast Guard Cutter Sebago -Case”; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a -History: 1957 November 3rd–5th, The -Author, 1997, pp. 50–51; Condon, pp. 165–167; -Sparks, p. 256; -Swords 260–262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3033

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Event 4450 -(42F2A907)

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Date: 11/5/57
-Description: A single investigator from Project Blue Book headquarters -arrived at Loveland, TX. He interviewed only two persons who had stalled -cars and reported that all the UFO activity in Texas between Nov. 2–4 -was the result of a “rather heavy electrical storm…All witnesses saw the -same streak of lightning…which stimulated the populace into a high level -of excitement….and resulted in an inflation of stories by some -witnesses.”
-Type: investigation
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Loveland, TX

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Event 4451 -(84685049)

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Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: Reinhold Schmidt, Kearney, Nebr., goes aboard saucer, talks -to spacepeople
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Kearney, NE

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Event 4452 -(C22CE6B9)

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Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: Late afternoon. Grain buyer Reinhold -O. Schmidt is driving through the countryside near Kearney, -Nebraska, when he notices a large, cigar-shaped object resting in a -field. He is soon escorted inside the spaceship, which turns out to be -crewed by completely human-looking space aliens, four males and two -females, who apparently speak perfect German and claim to be from the -planet Saturn. They also claim to be interested in the recently launched -Russian sputniks and the satellite-launching plans of the US. Later -Schmidt brings local police to view the landing site, where they find -deep imprints and some “mysterious green residue.” Schmidt also claims -subsequent visits to the spaceship and many friendly conversations with -its learned crew. Schmidt notices they drink MJB brand coffee, and also -carry in their cigar-shaped craft an ordinary terrestrial MG sports car, -which they use for running errands and buying groceries. (A schematic -drawing of the ship’s interior in Schmidt’s later booklet depicts a -Volkswagen Beetle.) Unlike most spaceships, the Saturnian ship has large -propellers at both ends. Eventually Schmidt gets a ride up to earth -orbit and a tour of the mother ship. On October 26, 1961, Schmidt is -convicted in Oakland, California, for grand theft after bilking a widow -out of $5,000 for a worthless mining venture in Tulare County, where he -claims to have seen huge quartz crystals from a spaceship. Judge Donald -K. Quayle sentences him to 1–10 years in prison. (Clark III -1038–1039; Swords 262; Curt Collins, “The Trial -of a UFO Gold Digger,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 27, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3034

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Event 4453 -(7333A10D)

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Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: The Department of Defense Office of Public Affairs issues a -new UFO fact sheet, emphasizing the high percentage of explained cases -and the lack of a threat to national security. (UFOEv, p. 107; -Swords 262)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3035

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Event 4454 -(D266D067)

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Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Larry and Marilynn Beaman are driving near -Antioch, Illinois, when they notice a ball of fire fluctuating from -white to yellow pacing their car on the right side, about 1,000 feet up. -It goes out for a time then switches back on. At its largest, it seems -30 feet in diameter. It follows them all the way to Ringwood and then -lands in some trees behind a school building two blocks from where they -live. It glitters like a welder’s arc and makes a sound like water -swishing. Beaman rounds up some other witnesses and goes back to the -landing site, but the object takes off, changes to purple, and moves -away to the southwest. TV sets in town dim, finally losing both picture -and sound during the same time period. (Schopick, pp. 104–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3036

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Event 4455 -(C378A7EC)

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Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: 8:43 p.m. A witness in Woodstock, Illinois, sees a large, -red, triangular object with a green light in the front and a yellow -light in the rear. It makes a low droning sound and moves west to east. -Woodstock police officers and another individual in Genoa City see the -same object. At 10:15 p.m., an amber or orange UFO 200 feet long is seen -for 5 minutes at Delavan, Wisconsin. Project Blue Book claims it is an -aurora or jet aircraft. (Marler 131–132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3037

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Event 4456 -(F9B7AA1F)

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Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Civil service employee Lon Yarborough is driving -along US Highway 81 about 1.5 miles southwest of San Antonio, Texas, -when he sees an extremely bright object settle down in a ravine about -600 feet from him. The egg-shaped object is approximately 60 foot long -and causes the lights and engine of his car to fail. The object rests a -few minutes and finally takes off to the northeast. (San Antonio (Tex.) -Light, November 6, 1957; NICAP, “60ʹ -Egg-Shaped Object Disables Auto”; Schopick, pp. 44–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3038

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Event 4457 -(0AB5779F)

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Date: 11/5/1957
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two young men see a red light north of US -Highway 62 at a point 38 miles west of Hobbs, New Mexico. They watch for -9–10 minutes, thinking it is an oil flare, but the light suddenly rises -straight up. After pacing their car for a few minutes, the light turns -toward the car, passes over it, and hovers over the Permian Basin -Pipeline plant. As it passes overhead, the car engine sputters, then -dies, and the lights go out. After the men coast the car down the road, -the motor restarts and they drive away. The battery is found to be dead -the following morning and the dashboard clock is stopped. (Schopick, pp. 45–47; -Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle -Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3039

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Event 4458 -(CFCB38EE)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 0010
-Description: J. Martinez and A. Gallegos saw an egg-shaped object coming -toward them at low altitude. It moved slowly, illuminating their car and -producing a humming sound. The car engine, the clock and a wristwatch -stopped. The object shot away toward the southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 246 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
-ID: 425

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Event 4459 -(976283C4)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: morning
-Description: North of Seoul a barrel-shaped object, bluish-white and -luminous, was seen close to the ground, reflected in a pool of water. It -rose and vanished “like a light switched off.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Seoul, Korea
-ID: 426

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Event 4460 -(E80D4E6A)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 0540
-Description: Richard Kehoe was driving near the beach when his engine -stopped, and so did three other cars. The man got out and observed an -egg-shaped object wrapped in “a blue haze” on the beach. Two men, below -average height got out of the craft and asked them questions about their -identity, what time it was, etc. They looked normal wore black leather -pants, white belts, light-colored jerseys, and seemed to have -yellowish-green skin. They went back inside the craft, which left -rapidly, and the cars could then be started.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 57 (Vallee)
-Location: Playa del Rey, California
-ID: 427

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Event 4461 -(8969B7D1)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 0630
-Description: A civilian source reported an object so bright that his -eyes could not sustain it. It appeared to land on a ridge, then took off -again. It was round and much larger than a plane, had an “odd color,” -left no trail and made no noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lake County, Ohio
-ID: 428

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Event 4462 -(DFEB2220)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 0630
-Description: 12-year-old Everett Clark saw a strange object on the -ground and four occupants, two men and two women who spoke a language he -thought was similar to German. They went back to the craft in a manner -the witness could not understand, for he saw no door.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 271;114; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
-ID: 429

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Event 4463 -(8D328B2C)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: evening
-Description: John Trasco saw a brilliant, egg-shaped object hovering in -front of a barn and was confronted with a being 1 m tall with a -putty-colored face and frog-like eyes. He thought the dwarf said in -broken English: “We are peaceful people; we only want your dog.” The -little man, who was dressed in a green suit with shiny buttons, a green -tam-o-shanter-like cap, and gloves with a shiny object at the tip of -each finger, fled when the witness denied his request.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 56; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Everittstown, New Jersey
-ID: 430

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Event 4464 -(DCD9D33F)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 1800
-Description: A civilian source reported an oval object, about 5 m long, -bright orange, similar to glowing coals, hovering 4 m above ground. The -witness went to call his family; the object had vanished when he -returned. Unidentified.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Boerne, Texas
-ID: 431

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Event 4465 -(F87045DB)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 2100
-Description: 180 km north of Ottawa Jacques Jacobson and three of his -friends saw a bright, yellowish-white sphere hovering over a hilltop -about 4 km away. From top and bottom issued light cones that illuminated -the countryside and the clouds. Radio reception was blocked throughout -the observation, except for a very powerful signal at one wavelength, -modulated, but not in Morse code. The object rose slowly toward the -south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 249 (Vallee)
-Location: Baskatong Lake, Canada
-ID: 432

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Event 4466 -(D47E7F6B)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 2330
-Description: Olden Moore, 28, a plasterer was driving home when he -suddenly saw an object looking like a bright meteor split into two -pieces, one of which went straight up. The other got larger while its -color changed from bright white to blue-green. It hovered 60 m above a -field and came to the ground with a soft whirring sound, 150 m away. -After observing it for 15 min, Moore then walked to the object, which he -found to be shaped like “a covered dish” 15 m in diameter, 5 m high, -with a cone on top about 3 m high, surrounded by haze or fog, pulsating -slowly. Holes, footprints and radioactivity were found at the site by -Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 252 (Vallee)
-Location: Montville, Ohio
-ID: 433

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Event 4467 -(DAB4C330)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 9:43 p.m. Kenneth -J. Delano, who is participating in aurora and meteor watches for the -International Geophysical Year, is observing the sky at St. Mary’s -Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a brilliant white light in -the northwest. He watches it approach until it is nearly overhead. Then -a faint, silvery-gray, elliptical disc is visible for a few seconds -above the light. It is silent, except for a faint whirring sound. He -watches it for a total of 4 minutes until it passes behind some -buildings. (Kenneth J. Delano, “UFO over Baltimore,” IUR 32, no. 4 -(October 2009): 17–18, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3050

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Event 4468 -(FE795CE6)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: Just after 12:00 midnight. A taxicab company owner, Joe -Martinez, and one of his drivers, Alberto Gallegos, sees a UFO approach -them in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They hear a humming sound as it comes -close. The object is egg-shaped and multicolored. As it passes over -their car, the engine stalls and the dashboard clock stops. The UFO then -pulls up and moves rapidly into the southeast. One witness later -discovers that his wristwatch has also stopped at the time of sighting. -(Aimé Michel, Straight Line, pp. 246–247; Schopick, -pp. 47– 48; Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3040

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Event 4469 -(2D425A07)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Olden J. Moore is driving home in Montville, -Ohio, when he sees an object like a bright meteor split into two pieces, -one of which heads straight up. The other becomes larger while its color -changes from bright white to blue green. It hovers about 200 feet above -a field and lands with a soft whirring sound, perhaps 500 feet away. -Moore watches cautiously for 15 minutes, then approaches it. The UFO is -shaped like a “covered dish,” and is about 50 feet in diameter, 15 feet -high, with a cone on top about 10 feet high. It is pulsating slowly, and -a haze surrounds it. Moore goes home to get another witness (his wife) -but when they return the UFO is gone. Mrs. Moore reports the sighting to -County Sheriff Louis -Robusky the next morning, and a civil defense director, Kenneth -Locke, visits the site. Locke finds high levels of radioactivity (a -maximum of 150 microroentgens/hour, suggestive of an approximately -one-hour radionuclide half-life or less) two perfectly formed holes six -inches in diameter, and unusual footprints that come from nowhere and go -nowhere. (NICAP, “Olden Moore -Case / Close Encounter”; UFOEv, pp. 169–170; -Center for UFO Studies, [case -files]; Clark III 772–773, 950; Sparks, p. 257)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3051

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Event 4470 -(9254FA43)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Jacques Jacobsen and three others are in a -hunting lodge on the Baskatong Reservoir, Quebec, listening to a -battery-powered radio. Outside, they see a glowing, yellow-white sphere -2–3 miles away to the southwest. It remains in place for 15 minutes. -During this time the radio goes off, and one of the men’s shortwave -radios is working on only one frequency that emits a strong, rapidly -modulated tone that sounds like, but is not, Morse code. The UFO rises -into the clouds and the radios function normally again. (Aimé Michel, -Straight-Line, pp. 248–249; Schopick, pp. 79–80; -Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3049

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Event 4471 -(122BFA8B)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: Night. Two state policemen in Danville, Illinois, observe a -brilliant white light that changes color successively to amber and -orange. They chase it for 15 miles because the light appears to be low -in the sky. During the chase, their communications radio does not -function. The light eventually flies out of sight. (“2 -State Troopers -See ‘Object,’” Hammond (Ind.) Times, November 7, 1957, p. 12; Schopick, pp. 91–92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3048

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Event 4472 -(796D6093)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 8:02 p.m. Six people in Toronto, Ontario, watch a -yellow-white light travel silently from south to north across the -eastern sky. One experiences static on his TV set as the object passes, -slower than a meteor. (Aimé Michel, Straight-Line, pp. 248–249; Schopick, pp. 80–81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3047

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Event 4473 -(F011030A)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: Early evening. Varine -“Rene” Gilham sees a brilliant object radiating a strong red light -as he is using an outhouse on his farm near Merom, Indiana. The whole -farm and surrounding area are bathed in the light for 10 minutes. A -small object joins the larger one and the light grows more intense. The -two objects fly away. The next day, Gilham has “sunburn” in many places. -Two days later he is admitted to a hospital for treatment. (NICAP, “Merom/Gilham -Incident”; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November -6th, The -Author, 1997, pp. 67, 72–73. Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a -History: 1957 November 6th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2003, -pp. 6–7; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. -4 (March 2008): 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3046

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Event 4474 -(F0DF7EA2)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Two Malay fisherman are in a waterway near -Bagansiapiapi, Sumatra, Indonesia, when they see a black and red object -swiftly approaching their boat and trailing black and greenish smoke. -The top and bottom of the object are curved like discs. When it is 60 -feet away it stops in mid-air about 35 feet above the water, and the -bottom part continues to rotate as the water foams below it. The object -is a triangular shape and white smoke is coming out from each point. The -object speeds up and disappears, leaving behind black and greenish smoke -lines. (Marler 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3045

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Event 4475 -(5DCBA34D)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 6:30 a.m. Everett -Orain Clark, 12 , of Dante, Knoxville, Tennessee, lets his dog -Frisky outside and sees an object like an elongated egg in a field 300 -feet away from his house. 20 minutes later, he calls to bring the dog -back and sees Frisky with other dogs on the other side of the road close -to the object. Clark walks toward the UFO and sees two men and women, -apparently dressed in a normal manner. One of the men tries to catch -Frisky who grunts and moves away. They are speaking in a foreign -language that sounds like German to him. The four people go into the -craft by seemingly walking right through the wall. Journalist Carson -Brewer goes back to the site with Clark and finds an “oblong ring of -pressed grass” 24 feet by 4.5 feet. In the afternoon, two men from the -Oak Ridge National Laboratory (engineer Wallace -Russell Gambill and physicist N. D. Greene) collect soil samples and -check for radiation (they find none). (“Scientists -Check ‘Space -Ship’ Field,” Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel, November 7, 1957, -pp. 1, 12; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November -6th, The -Author, 1997, pp. 17–19; Clark III 672–673; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August -17, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3043

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Event 4476 -(9800A603)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: Richard Kehoe & others see landed saucer, stalled cars, -talk to spacepeople
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 4477 -(43D9A37F)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 5:40 a.m. Richard Kehoe is driving along Vista Del Mar in -Playa Del Rey, California, when his engine fails. Two other cars on the -highway are also affected, and the drivers (Ronald Burke and Joe Thomas) -all get out. They see an egg-shaped object that seems to be wrapped in a -blue haze. It is tan or cream-colored and has two metallic rings around -it. Two smallish men, about 5 feet 5 inches tall and wearing black -leather pants, a white belt, and a light-colored jersey, exit the -object. They ask Kehoe and the others where they are and what time it is -in something approaching English. They walk back to the object, which -takes off. After it leaves, Kehoe’s car starts with no problem. -(Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet, 1967, pp. 126–127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3042

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Event 4478 -(BA609A7D)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: 4:30 a.m. William Rush II is driving on Long Point Road in -Houston, Texas. A brilliant red, egg-shaped UFO kills his car engine and -causes static on his radio. (Houston (Tex.) Chronicle, November 6, 1957; -Schopick, -p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3041

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Event 4479 -(76ABF318)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Time: 10:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: one Las Cruces policeman, one Dona Ana County -Deputy Sheriff. One round object–changing from red to green to blue to -white–rose vertically from a mountain top. Sighting lasted 10 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Radium Springs, New Mexico
-ID: 417

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Event 4480 -(9DD67E40)

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Date: 11/6/1957
-Description: US scientists are “pretty shook up” about the recent UFO -sightings, according to astronomer Charles -F. “Chick” -Capen in the November 7 El Paso Times. However, Capen talks more -about missile launches and lunar photography than UFO sightings. (“Sighting -‘Shakes’ Scientists,” El Paso (Tex.) Times, November 7, 1957, p. 21; -“El -Pasoans Take Look at -Sputnik,” El Paso (Tex.) Times, November 7, 1957, pp. 1, 3; Swords -264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3044

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Event 4481 -(69F4D426)

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Date: 11/7/1957
-Time: 0725
-Description: Truck driver Malvin Stevens, 48, was driving to Memphis -when, about 23 km northwest of Meridian, he saw an object which appeared -to have two propellers at either end and a third one on top. Getting out -of his truck, he saw three little men about 1.30 m tall, in gray -clothes, with “pasty white faces” that seemed friendly and willing to -talk, but he was unable to understand their “chattering.” “I stood there -for what seemed like an eternity.” They got back into the machine and it -took off straight up. There was no ignition interference. An 8-year-old -girl from Honse independently reported a round object crossing the sky -toward the south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 273; 115 (Vallee)
-Location: Meridian, Mississippi
-ID: 434

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Event 4482 -(05E7C370)

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Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: Night. Paul Rutledge, a packinghouse worker at Waterloo, -Iowa, sees an object hovering above his garage. He can see two figures -walking around inside. The object is about 30 feet long and has a shiny -bottom and a glass top. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -p. 84; Patrick Gross, URECAT, January -24, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3057

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Event 4483 -(3FF93F42)

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Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: 7:46 p.m. Bright, flashing objects hover for 30 minutes -over the Atomic Energy Commission’s Pantex Plant 15 miles east of -Amarillo, Texas. The UFOs are reported to the State Highway Patrol -office by plant guards, and a patrolman dispatched to the plant arrives -at 8:15 p.m. and sees a strange light. Guards at the plant are “all -shook up” from watching three objects floating 50 feet above the ground. -One of the objects apparently lands on Farin Road 2373, three miles -north of Highway 60. Guards tell the patrolman they tried to approach -the objects by turning off their lights, “but the things would just slip -away from them when they got near.” They are unable to estimate the size -of the objects but seem positive “they saw more than just lights.” -(NICAP, “Lights -Shake Up Guards -at Nuclear Plant”; Sparks, p. 258)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3056

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Event 4484 -(F92A9BFD)

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Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: 9:38 a.m. Mysterious radio signals on the 108 megacycle -radio band are recorded by RCA Communications at Riverhead, Long Island, -New York. The signal is a continuous, tone-modulated hum at a low pitch -of 200 cycles per second. The FCC admits it is baffled, but suspects -that it comes from a radio amateur or equipment testing in the New York -City area. Another report claims that Vanguard and Federal -Communications Commission watchers at 18 monitoring stations throughout -the Western Hemisphere are picking up signals at 14.286 megacycles, -possibly connected with Sputnik 2. The signal is a long note of low -pitch followed after a few seconds by two short notes. (“Mystery -Signals Are Unconnected -with Satellites,” Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press, November 8, 1957, -pp. 1–2; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3055

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Event 4485 -(480663BB)

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Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: 7:25 a.m. Truck driver Melvin Stevens stops one mile east -of House, Mississippi, because a silvery “blimp” about 5 feet high and 2 -feet long is blocking the road. He walks toward it, a sliding door -opens, and three small, pasty-faced men about 4.5 feet tall emerge. -Stevens feels paralyzed. After a short time, the beings make a military -about-face and reenter the UFO, which takes off vertically. (Center for -UFO Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1957, p. 32; -Clark III 269)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3053

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Event 4486 -(B7D23506)

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Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: 1:45–1:55 a.m. Seven airmen at Holloman Air Force Base near -Alamogordo, New Mexico—Bradford Rickets, James Cole, Dennis Murphy, -Wayne Hurlburt, and Harry Uhlrich—see a UFO while on duty at a salvage -yard on the north side of the base. The object makes a whistling noise -and turns from white to orange to red. (Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3052

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Event 4487 -(4389A46F)

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Date: 11/7/1957
-Description: 9:20 a.m. Trent Lindsey and his wife and son Byron are -driving on US Highway 54 near Orogrande, New Mexico, when Byron notices -that the speedometer is jumping wildly back and forth from the top to -the bottom of its range. It then stops just as suddenly. The three -witnesses later see a metallic-appearing UFO high in the sky to the -southwest. It continues moving away for three minutes until it was lost -from view over the Organ Mountains. The speedometer functions normally -after the UFO is gone. (“Family -Reports Seeing Large Object over NM,” Albuquerque Tribune, November -8, 1957, p. 1; Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 99–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3054

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Event 4488 -(9133A941)

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Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: Fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty Home, reported to -police that a diskshaped object followed their truck, dived toward it, -came within 20 m of them, then left toward the sea, leaving a double -vapor trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Round-up 217; 116 (Vallee)
-Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
-ID: 435

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Event 4489 -(F80CC440)

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Date: 11/8/1957
-Time: 0200
-Description: A cigar-shaped object 70 m long was observed less than 7 m -above ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 264; 117 (Vallee)
-Location: Sloanville, New York
-ID: 436

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Event 4490 -(417BB0B4)

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Date: 11/8/1957
-Time: 1430
-Description: Hank Mollohan and eight other persons saw an elongated -object, 12 m long, with several portholes from which fire and smoke -appeared to be coming. It swung at low altitude and dropped to the -ground. People seemed to be moving around it, but the witnesses were -driven away by a hard rain.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 265 (Vallee)
-Location: Holly, West Virginia
-ID: 437

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Event 4491 -(758FA46C)

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Date: 11/8/1957
-Time: night
-Description: Paul Rutledge saw an object 16 m long flying over his -garage. The top part was bright, and there were two figures visible -inside.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 266 (Vallee)
-Location: Waterloo, Iowa
-ID: 438

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Event 4492 -(966A773B)

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Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: 6:22 a.m. Connie Foster watches a lighted triangular object -flying from southeast to northwest over Camarillo, California. It is -moving with the base facing forward and has bright lights on the tips of -the triangle. She watches it for nearly 30 minutes before it disappears. -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1957, November 7th–12th, The -Author, 1998, p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3059

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Event 4493 -(B3C343AB)

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Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: Night. 12 female and 4 male farmworkers are in a truck on -the Newhailes Road returning to Edinburgh from picking Brussels sprouts -in a nursey at Musselburgh, Scotland. One of them spots a gray, round -object seemingly following the truck at a distance of 60 feet. Mary -Horne says it is domed on the top and bottom. It follows them for 5–10 -minutes then moves off towards Portobello leaving a double vapor trail. -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November -7th–12th, The -Author, 1998, pp. 54– 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3062

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Event 4494 -(7D8E6083)

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Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Pan Am Flight 7, a Boeing Stratocruiser flying -across the Pacific mysteriously crashes midway between San Francisco and -Honolulu. One of the crew is UFO witness Capt. William -H. Fortenberry. The cause of the crash is never determined. -Fortenberry’s journalist son, Ken -H. Fortenberry, suspects that the bereaved and mentally unstable -purser Oliver Eugene Crosthwaite, has deliberately caused the crash, -killing himself and murdering 43 innocent people in the process. -(Wikipedia, “Pan -Am Flight 7”; Ken H. Fortenberry, Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search -for My Father’s Killer, Fayetteville Mafia, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3061

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Event 4495 -(5141C896)

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Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: Spencer Whedon, chief of Air Intelligence at -Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, tells the press that of 5,700 -UFO reports received by his office since 1940, 97% have been identified -satisfactorily and the other 8% remain unidentified due to insufficient -information. (“Seeing -Things? No, Sky Really Red,” Cincinnati (Ohio) Post, November 7, -1957, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3060

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Event 4496 -(369FCBF9)

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Date: 11/8/1957
-Time: l0:10 AM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. L. Dinner. One bar-shaped object, 3.5’ long, -giving off blue flashes, made a swishing sound. No further data.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Merrick, Long Island, New York
-ID: 418

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Event 4497 -(F205145D)

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Date: 11/8/1957
-Description: 3:03 a.m. Polish-Australian astronomer Antoni -Przybylski and Dutch-American astronomer Bart -Bok see a vivid pink object moving slowly across the sky at Mount -Stromlo Observatory near Canberra, Australia. It is visible to the naked -eye for two minutes. Przybylski has just finished observing Sputnik 1 -and 2, so it wasn’t a satellite or a meteor. Assistant Director Arthur -Robert Hogg thinks it might be circling the earth like a satellite. -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November -7th–12th, The Author, 1998, p. 36; Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the -Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 10–11; Center for UFO Studies, “Moonwatch -Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3058

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Event 4498 -(E865D1C1)

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Date: 11/9/1957
-Time: 0100
-Description: A civilian driving his car home from work observed a -hovering object 16 m long. His car engine died as he neared the object’s -position, and it started again only after the object’s departure.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lake City, Missouri
-ID: 439

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Event 4499 -(5ED2BD80)

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Date: 11/9/1957
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Several witnesses are driving 12 miles northeast -of Carrizozo, New Mexico, on US Highway 54 in the vicinity of White Oaks -when a large, rapidly moving light approaches their car from the south -and apparently causes the vehicle’s lighting system to fail. The light -changes course and speeds off to the southwest. Jim -and Coral Lorenzen are driving east on US Highway 380 about 10 miles -east of Carrizozo when they spot an anomalous light that might be the -same object. (Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp, -101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3065

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Event 4500 -(DC9BB793)

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Date: 11/9/1957
-Description: 9:15 a.m. Eastern Airline pilot Capt. Truman -Gile Jr. is preparing to take off from Lafayette (Louisiana) Airport -when he sees a big silvery object about 20,000 feet in the air. Gile -watches it for 3 minutes and it doesn’t move. He alerts copilot James E. -Hall, the stewardess, and the ground agents, and they all watch it -another 5 minutes before it fades away. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November -7th–12th, The Author, 1998, pp. 61–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3064

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Event 4501 -(577EC553)

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Date: 11/9/1957
-Description: 12:15 a.m. A man is driving in Sacramento, California, when -his car engine and headlights fail. He looks up and sees an elongated -egg-shaped object with delta-shaped wings, 150–200 feet long and 40–50 -feet wide. The wings come back to about 30 feet from the rear of the -fuselage. It has a bright bluish hue and leaves a bluish fluorescent -trail. The sighting lasts 2–3 minutes. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on -Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): -19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3063

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Event 4502 -(C3833729)

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Date: 11/10/1957
-Time: 0125
-Description: Mrs. Leita Kuhn observed a very large, lighted object 20 m -above ground. It was so brilliant that she had to close her eyes. It was -over 10 m wide, 3 to 4 m thick, with a dome on top. The witness had to -consult a physician several days later because of serious eye and skin -irritation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: M 267; 118 (Vallee)
-Location: Madison, Ohio
-ID: 440

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Event 4503 -(F7731D88)

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Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: 1:25 a.m. Leita -Mae Kuhn is checking the stove in her Doberman dog kennel at -Madison, Ohio, when she notices a glowing, domed disc hovering 60 feet -above the rear of the kennel. It is about 40 feet in diameter and -emitting puffy clouds of smoke. Her eyes begin to burn after watching it -for 20–30 minutes, and she runs back into the house and locks the door. -She has rashes and her eyes hurt so badly she visits a doctor. (Donald -E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 11–12; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth -Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November -7th–12th, The Author, 1998, pp. 69–71; Michael D. Swords, “Messing -Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 30–31; Michael D. -Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 -(May 2011): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3066

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Event 4504 -(0300A3A8)

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Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: Residents of Skaryszew, Poland, watch a huge, radiant, -cigar-shaped object slowly moving west. (Poland 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3067

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Event 4505 -(C4F252CD)

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Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: Night. French astronomer Jacques Chapuis at Toulouse -Observatory in France observes a maneuvering, yellow, star-like object -for 5 minutes. It ascends straight up out of sight. (UFOEv, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3071

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Event 4506 -(F5EC8F73)

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Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Many people see a UFO at Hammond, Indiana. Two -policemen (Sgt. Charles -J. Mauder, Office Steve Betuslak) see a red and white light hovering -500–1,000 feet overhead. They hear a beeping sound and there is -interference on the police radio while the object is in view. Another -witness sees a green light on a basket-shaped object; his car radio -fails. The lights fly away when anyone tries to approach. (Aimé Michel, -Straight-Line, p. 268; Schopick, -pp. 92–95; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -1957, November 7th–12th, The -Author, 1998, pp. 73, 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3070

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Event 4507 -(3687FC4D)

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Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: 5:55 p.m. Wilfred -S. Hardy, an assistant safety engineer at the Tokyo, Japan, Engineer -Supply Center, sees (along with his wife and a Japanese boat boy) a huge -cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes above Lake Imba-numa 10 miles -away. He estimates it is about 200–500 feet long. The object lights up -the entire lake, then disappears to the south 10 seconds later. -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3069

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Event 4508 -(51D2F657)

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Date: 11/10/1957
-Description: Evening. UFO witness Olden Moore of Montville, Ohio, is -visited by Sheriff Robusky, -a deputy, and a USAF officer who asks him to go with them to Youngstown -to be interviewed by military officers. They drive him to the field -where the encounter took place and put him aboard a military helicopter. -He is interviewed in Youngstown, then he is returned to the field at -11:00 p.m. (Clark III 773)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3068

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Event 4509 -(601BFA99)

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Date: 11/11/1957
-Description: A silvery elliptical UFO is seen flying below Western -Airlines Flight 61 over the desert east of Los Angeles, California. -Robert D. Hahn, a jewelry designer, is a passenger and describes it as a -large, elliptical, metallic object with dark patches zigzagging about -200 feet above the ground. (UFOEv, p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3072

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Event 4510 -(34310350)

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Date: 11/12/57
-Description: FBI STATUS REPORT: “Ever since the Russians release -‘Sputnik’ there has been a great increase in the number of flying -saucers and other UFOs reportedly seen by people all over the U.S.” -[Angle: Artificial satellite spurs Alien interest in mankind. Other -Angle: Artificial satellite causes populace to go sky crazy.]
-Type: status report
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Washington, DC

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Event 4511 -(D721B33D)

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Date: 11/13/1957
-Description: An object explodes over the State Hospital at Crownsville, -Maryland, and two or three burned pieces of metal fall on the hospital -grounds. It is recovered by employees William A. Zick and J. Caswell. -The pieces are checked for radiation and confiscated by army -intelligence officers at Fort George G. Meade. They are apparently sent -to the Air Research and Development Center in Baltimore. An ARD colonel -tells NICAP member and WFBR news director Lou -Corbin that he has no idea what the metal is. Some of the material -is perhaps sent to ATIC. (“Metal -Object from Skies Rushed to ATIC for Analysis,” UFO Investigator 1, -no. 3 (January 1958): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3073

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Event 4512 -(B77DE993)

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Date: 11/14/1957
-Description: Afternoon. Evalyn -Riead hears a sputtering noise like someone is pulling into her -driveway in Tamaroa, Illinois. She looks outside and sees a bright, -moon-shaped object with a tail moving above the trees bordering US -Highway 51. It disappears after 5–6 booms and 3 flashes of light. As -soon as this happens, the lights in her home go out. Electrical power in -a 4-mile area between Tamaroa and Du Bois is interrupted for 10 minutes. -Power is restored when the company closes an open circuit breaker, but -they could find no cause. (“Current -Cut Off As Flying -‘Thing’ Appears in Illinois,” Lima (Ohio) Citizen, November 15, -1957, p. 10; Schopick, pp. 140–141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3074

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Event 4513 -(3E17C7A0)

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Date: mid 11/1957
-Description: The US Senate Committee on Government Operations, chaired -by Sen. John -L. McClellan (D-Ark.), begins an inquiry into UFOs. Ruppelt is -called to give testimony. (Ruppelt, 1960 ed., p. 253)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3075

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Event 4514 -(D5EB2071)

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Date: 11/16/1957
-Time: 2230
-Description: A blinding object, red and yellow, twice landed-first near -the Jockey Club, then near the Rural Exhibition.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Bage City, Brazil
-ID: 441

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Event 4515 -(AE685428)

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Date: 11/16/1957
-Description: Afternoon. Cynthia -Appleton blacks out unexpectedly at her home in 87 Fentham Road in -Aston, a suburb of Birmingham, England. On November 19, she feels faint -again as the light outside dims, and a man with blond hair and wearing -coveralls materializes in the center of the room. She hears him speaking -to her telepathically. He tells her not to be afraid and that he is from -a world he calls Gharnasvarn (which we know as Venus) and he shows her -what seems to be a holographic image of two spaceships. She has other -visitations by entities on January 7 and February 7, 1958. In September -1958, the spaceman informs her that she is pregnant, which is apparently -true, as she gives birth on June 2, 1958, to a boy with blond hair that -she and her husband Ron name Matthew. Appleton says the Venusians -visited her a few more times, but the trail grows cold in July 1960. -(“Birmingham -Woman Meets Spacemen,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 2 (March/April -1958): 5–6; Jenny Randles, “A Visitor from Gharnasvarn,” IUR 13, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1988): 4–8; Birmingham Sunday Mercury, January 26, 2003; Andy -Roberts, “The Space Baby,” Fortean Times 191 (December 2004): 32–38; -Bill Chalker, “Flying -Saucery, Cosmic Bethlehem, and Midwich Cuckoos: The Cynthia Appleton -Contacts (1957–1959),” Australian UFO Researcher Bill Chalker, -2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3076

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Event 4516 -(333D8DA1)

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Date: 11/17/1957
-Description: An Air Force car with two officers comes to UFO witness -Olden Moore’s house in Montville, Ohio. He is told they are taking him -to Washington, D.C., for extended questioning. They drive him to a -waiting airplane, which stops briefly at Wright-Patterson AFB to pick up -one officer and drop another off. In Washington, Moore is housed in a -building said to be a federal courthouse [US Court of Appeals for the -Armed Forces?]. He is kept there and interrogated for several days. -Officers watch him constantly, even when he is sleeping. Toward the end -of his stay, Moore is shown slides of UFO photos and a UFO film taken -from inside a military plane. Moore is asked to sign a document that -swears him to secrecy. (UFOEv, p. 114; -Clark III 773)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3077

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Event 4517 -(A42E898C)

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Date: 11/18/1957
-Time: 1500
-Description: Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, 27, mother of two, saw the figure of -a man appear near her fireplace while a whistling sound was audible. He -was tall and fair, wore a tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to -communicate with her through telepathy, indicating he was looking for -titanium and was coming from a world of peace and harmony. Suddenly he -disappeared. Mrs. Appleton had subsequent contacts with similar -entities.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Aston, Great Britain
-ID: 443

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Event 4518 -(AAFA667F)

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Date: 11/18/1957
-Time: 1030
-Description: Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange humming -sound, then saw two aluminum-colored disks 200 m away. Near them were -six mm of average height, slim build, dressed in “dark gray suits glued -to their bodies.” The disks were about 3.5 m wide, hovering 1 m above -ground. They rose with a sharp whistling sound, while coconut trees -below them bent double. Three more disks rose from behind the trees, and -all five flew toward the Atlantic.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
-Location: Maracaja, Brazil
-ID: 442

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Event 4519 -(2D883C72)

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Date: 11/21/1957
-Description: Merchant Hans -Haugaard Hansen is driving out of Gesten, Denmark, on the road to -Egholt when he sees a triangular UFO moving low over a field some -300–600 feet away. It is emitting a red or orange light and makes no -sound. The bottom of the object is solid, but the upper part is -transparent, and he can see two figures inside. He stops the car to -watch as it moves about 40 mph. Similar objects are seen at Jordrup and -Vorbasse. (“Flying Saucer -Reports Pour in from Denmark,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1958): 2; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth -Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957, November -13th–30th, The -Author, 1998, p. 56; Willy Wegner, “UFO -bogen, Kapitel 19: Rumfolkene viser sig,” Skeptica, September 1, -2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3079

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Event 4520 -(63D1C633)

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Date: 11/21/1957
-Description: The Army Chief of Research and Development responds to -CONARC’s October 22 request on the feasibility of building a manned -“flying saucer,” stating that he had reviewed the Avrocar disc concept -and that it looked promising. (Richard P. Weinert, History of Army -Aviation, 1950–1962, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, November -1976, pp. 220–221; -Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3078

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Event 4521 -(183D6A1A)

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Date: 11/21/1957
-Description: Night. Frank Dickenson and two friends are driving up -Reasty Hill near the village of Silpho, North Yorkshire, England, when -their car stalls and they see a glowing object in the sky that appears -to fall to the ground on a ridge above Broxa Forest. Dickenson leaves -the car with a flashlight, climbs up a bank, and finds in a patch of -bracken a metallic saucer shaped like a “large flattish spinning top,” -18 inches in diameter and weighing 33 pounds. As he returns to tell his -friends, he passes a young couple walking toward the scene. When the -tree men return to search for it, the disc is gone. Dickenson places an -advertisement in a Scarborough newspaper about the disc, and he is able -to recover it for £10 from a man who claims he was the mystery man on -the moor. Photos taken by UFO researcher John Dale show that the copper -base of the object is inscribed with a mystery script. The top of the -disc is made from layers of laminated metal that has been painted with a -white substance. The two halves are stuck together with a grayish -substance resembling cellulose, and a pencil-thick iron rod runs through -a “white metal bearing” in the top. When the bearing is drilled out, -they find a heap of ash inside the cavity, as well as pieces of fused -glass and a tightly rolled cylinder of copper. Also inside is a tiny -booklet of 17 sheets of thin copper foil fastened at one edge. The -booklet is engraved with script similar to that found on the outside. -The coded script is translated by a café proprietor from Scarborough -named Philip Longbottom, who claims the 2,000- word inscription is from -an alien named Ulo, with later text added by an apparently female -companion named Tarngee. A metallurgist at the University of Manchester -analyzes the disc and finds the outer casing is made primarily from -lead, and the copper foil is triple laminated an unusually free from -impurities. In 2017, David Clarke discovers -that five specimens from the Silpho disc have been preserved in a tin -cigarette box housed in London’s Science Museum. The specimens were sent -to aviation historian Charles -Harvard Gibbs-Smith in 1963 by Essex ufologist C. C. Stevens for -analysis. Gibbs-Smith judged the items to be of terrestrial origin, and -they were donated to the Science Museum with his papers after his death -in 1981. Veteran Scarborough Evening News editor Mick Jefferson said in -2003 the newspaper had long ago exposed the object as a hoax made from a -“domestic hot-water cylinder.” However, the hoaxers have never surfaced. -(“The -Silpho Moor Mystery,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 2 (March/April -1958): 4; “Silpho -Moor Controversy,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1958): -19; Philip Longbottom, “The -Silpho Moor Mystery,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1958): 15–17; Jenny Randles, UFO Retrievals, Blandford, 1995, -pp. 77–82; -David Clarke, “The Return of the Silpho Moor Saucer,” Fortean Times 364 -(March 2018): 42–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3080

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Event 4522 -(F0D391EF)

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Date: 11/22/1957
-Description: A shop owner saw a pyramidshaped, luminous, transparent -object fly fast across the road. As it was above 250 m away, he clearly -saw two figures who looked like human beings, sitting one behind the -other aboard the craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Gesten, Denmark
-ID: 444

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Event 4523 -(9DF4AE34)

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Date: 11/23/1957
-Time: 0630
-Description: Four disk-shaped objects on the ground were observed for 20 -min from a distance of 15 m. When the witness tried to come closer, they -took off with an unbearable humming sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Tonopah, Nevada
-ID: 445

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Event 4524 -(203C6991)

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Date: 11/23/1957
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Six truck drivers watch a strange object with -three lights in a triangular pattern hovering above a field off State -Highway 8 just north of the Butler Valley Turnpike exit in Richland -Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It has a green light at the -bottom, a red light at the right corner, and a yellow light at the left -corner. They get out of their car and approach the object, but when they -are 75 feet away, it moves to the east, then south. They go back to the -car and shine their lights on the object, which is about 20 feet above -some trees. The lights go out and the object disappears. (“3-Lighted -‘Whatsit’ Floats over Field,” Pittsburgh (Pa.) Sun- Telegraph, -November 27, 1957, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3082

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Event 4525 -(5E104BEF)

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Date: 11/23/1957
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Fighter pilot 1st Lt. Joseph F. Long’s car engine -stalls 30 miles west of Tonopah, Nevada. He hears a high-pitched whining -noise and sees four 50-foot, domed, saucer-shaped UFOs landed on the -right side of the road about 900–1,200 feet away. They are glowing -brightly and equipped with three landing gears. Long estimates they are -about 10–15 feet tall. When he approaches to within 50 feet of the -closest object, the hum increases in intensity and Long’s ears begin to -hurt. The objects take off abruptly, retracting the landing gears. The -rise about 50 feet into the air and proceed across the highway to the -north at about 10 mph. The total time of the sighting is 20 minutes. -Shallow, bowl-shaped ground impressions in the shape of a triangle are -found at the landing site. (NICAP, “Four -Huge Saucers Land near Car, Engine Stalls”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 182–186; -Good Need, pp. 222–223, 228; -Sparks, -p. 259; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 101–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3081

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Event 4526 -(EA848CC5)

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Date: 11/23/1957
-Description: Air Force officer’s car failed, he saw disc-shaped objects -on ground
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Tonopah, NV
-ID: 5

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Event 4527 -(A19CB4CE)

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Date: 11/25/1957
-Time: 1430
-Description: Two engineers were driving about 200 m from the railroad -crossing in Faverges when they saw a nearly spherical object at ground -level, performing zig-zags on the road. They stopped and were amazed as -the object simply vanished, leaving no trace.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Ugines, France
-ID: 446

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Event 4528 -(F82CEF3F)

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Date: 11/25/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. All the lights in the town of Mogi Mirim, São -Paulo, Brazil, suddenly dim and fail. Numerous people see a circular -light traveling directly overhead. Two similar lights follow a short -time later. The blackout only lasts 5 minutes, but the power station has -no explanation. (Schopick, pp. 141–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3083

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Event 4529 -(75A75E0F)

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Date: 11/26/1957
-Time: 10:07 AM
-Description: Witnesses: three control tower operators, one weather -observer and four others. One silver, cigar-shaped object suddenly -vanished after 8 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Robins AFB, Georgia
-ID: 419

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Event 4530 -(65AB2F14)

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Date: 11/27/1957
-Description: The director of an engineering firm and four of his staff -members see five black, disc-shaped objects hovering in the French Alps -for 8 minutes. The group performs a series of maneuvers, after which a -parachute- shaped object emerges from one of them. Suddenly they all -shoot away at supersonic speed toward the Swiss border. (Lorenzen, UFOs: -The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3084

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Event 4531 -(74E4194A)

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Date: 11/28/1957
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Regino Lacuesta is driving on the Hawaii Belt -Road near Ninole, Hawaii, when his car engine begins missing. Suddenly -he sees a bright flash of light 20 feet above the highway in front of -him. The engine dies, the headlights go out, and the car rolls to a stop -at the point where the light had been. Lacuesta feels numb and cannot -move. Soon the headlights come on and the car starts up again, although -it is in high gear and he has not touched the starter. He drives -straight home. (Schopick, -pp. 49–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3085

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Event 4532 -(736F1DF7)

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Date: 11/29/1957
-Description: Two German expatriates, G. R. Miczaika and Eberhart W. -Wahl, form Project Space Track in Building 1535 of the Geophysics -Research Directorate at the Air Force Cambridge Research Center at -Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts. Its mission is to track and -compute orbits for all artificial earth satellites and space probes, -including US and Soviet payloads, booster rockets, and debris. -(Wikipedia, “Project -Space Track”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3087

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Event 4533 -(9B5E56E6)

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Date: 11/29/1957
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Capt. Fred Sutton, skipper of the fishing trawler -Ella Hewett, is 4 miles off Port Jack, Douglas, Isle of Man, when an -orange ball of fire crosses the sky. As it passes over the hull of the -small boat, the vessel grows luminous, with firefly-like sparks of -luminescence everywhere. The fireball bursts like fireworks, seen by -others on the island as well as Scotland. The crew notices that the -white paint on the metal railings at the edge of the boat has -disappeared, leaving only the red undercoating. At daybreak, however, -the paintwork is perfectly normal again. (Jenny Randles, “Mysterious -Island: The UFO Legacy of the Isle of Man,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): -13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3086

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Event 4534 -(5D89ED2E)

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Date: 11/30/1957
-Time: 2:11 PM
-Description: Witnesses: three U.S. Coast Guardsmen. One round object -turned white, then gold, then separated into three parts and turned red. -Sighting lasted 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
-ID: 420

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Event 4535 -(235C0E84)

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Date: 12/1957
-Time: night
-Description: Edmund Rucker was awakened by a roaring noise and saw a -strange object land near his house. “Its windows were lighted, and I saw -strange-looking heads there.” An opening became visible and four -creatures emerged. They had large heads, dome-like foreheads, and -bulging eyeballs. They delivered a message to the witness in English, -stating that they had philanthropic and scientific purposes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: El Cajon, California
-ID: 447

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Event 4536 -(21404DE5)

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Date: 12/1957
-Description: Keyhoe is -invited to appear on the CBS Armstrong Circle Theater anthology drama TV -program hosted by Douglas -Edwards to talk about UFOs with Kenneth -Arnold and Clarence -S. Chiles. Others -invited are Edward -J. Ruppelt, Donald -Menzel, and -an Air Force representative. But Keyhoe finds out that it will not be a -panel discussion but a scripted conversation, and he will only have 7 -minutes. He is promised he will have final say over his part of the -script, and he agrees. However, writer Irve -Tunick cuts out critical portions of Keyhoe’s material (including -references to the Estimate of the Situation and the Robertson Panel), -saying it is too long. Ruppelt, Chiles, and Arnold soon withdraw from -the program, expanding Keyhoe’s segment to 11 minutes. (Clark III -167–168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3093

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Event 4537 -(3FC33041)

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Date: 12/1957
-Description: Night. Edmund Rucker is awakened by a roaring noise in El -Cajon, California, and watches a strange object land near his house. Its -windows are lighted and he can see some strange-looking heads inside. An -opening becomes visible, and four creatures emerge. They have large -heads, dome-like foreheads, and bulging eyeballs. They deliver a message -to Rucker in English, saying they have philanthropic and scientific -purposes. (Patrick Gross, URECAT, July -28, 2007; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO -Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3092

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Event 4538 -(391978A4)

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Date: 12/1957
-Description: Walter K. Buhler launches the Sociedade Brasiliera de -Estudos sobre Discos Voadores in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It publishes -the Boletim SBEDV through 1988. (Boletim -SBEDV, no. 1 (December 1957))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3091

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Event 4539 -(719E01FA)

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Date: 12/1957
-Description: Several UFO sightings take place along the Finland-Russia -border. A cigar-shaped object is seen by two Finnish farmers moving -horizontally at a high altitude from west to east. (Good Above, pp. 307–308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3090

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Event 4540 -(E1294364)

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Date: 12/1957
-Description: A classified Canadian Department of National Defence -memorandum states that the “RCAF has no official policy concerning the -subject” of UFOs and “there has never been a serious investigation of -any report on file” at RCAF headquarters. (Gregory M. Kanon, “UFOs -and the Canadian Government, Part One,” no. 22 (1975): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3089

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Event 4541 -(49509D84)

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Date: 12/1957
-Description: National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) 11-10-57 predicts that -the Soviets will “probably have a first operational capability with up -to 10 prototype ICBMs” at “sometime during the period from mid-1958 to -mid- 1959.” The numbers of the missile gap start to inflate. (Wikipedia, -“Missile -gap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3088

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Event 4542 -(78093C42)

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Date: 12/1/1957
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Swissair pilot Walter -Borner is flying a DC-6B at 18,000 feet over Ras El-Kanayis, Egypt, -when he sees a “giant, red, burning cylinder falling down vertically, -leaving a yellowish trail.” It is possible that this is the reentry of -the final stage of the rocket that launched Sputnik I. (Luis Schoenherr, -“Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1994): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3094

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Event 4543 -(D2F8765C)

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Date: 12/3/1957
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Many residents of the Menastash Ridge area of -Ellensburg, Washington, watch a “strange ball of fire” for 20 minutes. A -truck driver sees the light hovering above his truck, causing the motor -to cough and sputter. His engine does not stop completely, however, so -he drives away. The night is misty, but the object is so bright that it -lights up the sky as if it were daytime. (Schopick, pp. 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3096

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Event 4544 -(37310C17)

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Date: 12/3/1957
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Z. -Thad Fogl, radio officer of the SS Ramsey, claims to have taken a -photo of a saucer off the coast of San Pedro, California. The photo -appears in Flying Saucer Review in 1959 and Life in 1966. However, in -1967 Fogl admits that he had faked the photo using parts of plastic -airplane models. (NICAP, “Disc -with Landing Gear -Photo / Fogl Case”; “Radio -Officer’s Amazing Story: UFO Snapped from Ship,” Flying Saucer -Review 5, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1959): 6–7; “A -Hoax Exposed,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1966): -7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3095

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Event 4545 -(2F4E6CB9)

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Date: 12/4/1957
-Description: Blue Book Capt. George -T. Gregory complains that as a result of pressure from the press and -public, “Assistant Secretary of Defense requested that ATIC immediately -submit a preliminary analysis to the press” of the Levelland, Texas, -cases, even though he has “limited data.” (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO -Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3097

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Event 4546 -(48ED05F7)

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Date: 12/5/57
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk titled “Satellites and -Saucers”
-Type: status report
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Washington, DC

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Event 4547 -(1B019078)

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Date: 12/5/1957
-Description: Morning. An unidentified beeping sound is picked up for -three minutes on KBR Rural Public Power Radio in Ainsworth, Nebraska, -operating at 72.3 AM. (“Unidentified -Beeping Heard on KBR Power Radio on Thursday,” -Ainsworth (Neb.) Star-Journal, December 12, 1957, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3103

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Event 4548 -(FD396F27)

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Date: 12/6/1957
-Description: A letter written to contactee George -Adamski on State Department stationery from R. E. Straith, Cultural -Exchange Committee, is a hoax concocted by ufologists Gray -Barker and James -W. Moseley. The letter informs Adamski that the State Department -knows his claims are true and they encourage his activities. (James D. -Villard, “The -‘R. E. Straith’ Case,” Saucers 6, no. 4 (Winter 1958/1959): 2–6; -Clark III 44–45; Saucer Smear, January 10, 1985; Lou Zinsstag and -Timothy Good, George Adamski: The Untold Story, Ceti, 1983, pp. 148–153; -James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! -Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 124–127, -381–402; Marc Hallet, A -Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke -to the Space Brothers, The -Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3098

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Event 4549 -(88F3BF01)

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Date: 12/7/1957
-Description: 10:00 p.m. In western Victoria and eastern South Australia, -witnesses see a moon-like object explode with a vivid flash. Unexpected -blackouts are reported in the area. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, -Signet, 1969, p. 87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3099

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Event 4550 -(505FC797)

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Date: 12/8/1957
-Time: 1750
-Description: Between Woodward and Seiling, 12 km from the latter, an -unknown flying object allegedly took complete control of a car with -three passengers. The driver, an employee of an aircraft company, had -turned the heater, windshield wiper, and radio on. He was nearing a hill -in this wooded area when a bright light appeared ahead. It reminded the -witness of the light from a mercury lamp. As a crash seemed imminent, -the car slowed down by itself and stopped, as if the entire electrical -circuit had failed. Over the vehicle was a disk 16 m in diameter with -portholes around the periphery, emitting a current of hot air and a -high-pitched sound. It had a dome on top and bottom. It rose as the car -started by itself. The car was a 1954 Dodge Coronet without automatic -transmission. The witness spent four hours with two Kirtland AFB -officers who told him of similar observations. The case was never -reported to Blue Book.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Woodward, Oklahoma
-ID: 448

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Event 4551 -(EB357467)

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Date: 12/8/1957
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A disc-shaped UFO with a dome and three pads on -the underside suddenly comes toward a car with three passengers at -Woodward, Oklahoma. The car heater, wipers, and radio fail and finally -the car stalls out as the UFO hovers overhead at 200 feet. It emits a -high-pitched whining sound. It is over 50 feet in diameter and has -portholes. The whine increases in pitch after about two minutes, and the -UFO rises vertically out of sight. The headlights come on and the engine -of the car starts by itself. The driver spends 4 hours with two officers -from Kirtland AFB in New Mexico who tell him of similar observations. -(Vallée, Magonia, pp. 267–268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3100

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Event 4552 -(DE9E38E0)

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Date: 12/8/1957
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Eight people traveling together in two cars on -Highway 17 between Coulee City and Soap Lake, Washington, see a huge, -fiery object pass overhead from north to south. Both cars stall out and -their headlights also fail as the UFO passes overhead. In addition, the -inside dome lights come on, even though they aren’t turned on. The cars -remain stalled until the object passes out of sight. Police say the -object stalled as many as six cars along that sparsely traveled road. -(Schopick, -pp. 52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3101

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Event 4553 -(6AD19797)

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Date: 12/11/1957
-Description: Mary Louise Tobin, a schoolteacher, was driving on State -Highway 1 when she saw an object that she compared to the rising sun, in -the vicinity of a smoking car. The driver, an elderly lady, came out -with a child who seemed to have suffered burns. The unknown object went -away: The disabled car did not catch on fire.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Chestnut, Louisiana
-ID: 449

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Event 4554 -(48828FCC)

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Date: 12/11/1957
-Time: 1600
-Description: Many cars stopped to observe a silent, reddish, glowing -disk, about 15 m in diameter, which flew 6 m above the ground at about -80 km/h. A small, windowless cabin was visible on the underside of the -object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Ellsworth, Wisconsin
-ID: 450

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Event 4555 -(6DB8AD7C)

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Date: 12/11/1957
-Description: Night. Mexican pilot Gilberto Castillo del Valle is flying -at 10,000 feet near Mexico City when a brilliant light illuminates his -cockpit. He turns off the aircraft lights and sees a large luminous -object darting from left to right and back again ahead of him. -Passengers and crew also see the light, as do personnel at the Mexico -City control tower. (Lorenzen, UFOs; The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -p. 88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3102

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Event 4556 -(8589F8DD)

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Date: 12/12/1957
-Description: 5:45 p.m. At least 13 witnesses see a bright light over the -Sea of Japan. The object is tracked on radar and seen through -binoculars. At 7:22 p.m., a scramble is ordered and two F-86D’s take off -from Misawa Air Base, Japan. Multiple radar and visual sightings take -place over the next three days. (NICAP, “Jets -Scrambled after -Radar/Visual UFO”; Sparks, p. 261)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3105

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Event 4557 -(5C60F878)

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Date: 12/12/1957
-Description: A USAF pilot attains 1,208 mph in a McDonnell F-101A Voodoo -at Edwards AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “McDonnell -F-101 Voodoo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3104

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Event 4558 -(8CDD4809)

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Date: 12/13/1957
-Time: 9:35 AM
-Description: Witness: R.C. Cano. Fourteen-fifteen circular, tapered -discs, very bright, flew in a formation like a stack of coins, then -changed to an inverted-V formation. Sighting lasted 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Col Anahuac, Mexico
-ID: 421

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Event 4559 -(7B3F1A21)

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Date: 12/14/1957
-Description: Night. Ed Waslashi sees a lighted green object fall into a -haystack on his farm at Langdon, North Dakota. He picks out a strange -metallic substance from the ashes of the burned hay. The material finds -its way to geologist Nicholas -N. Kohanowski at the University of North Dakota, who finds that it -is light, porous, and mostly magnesium dioxide. (“What -Is It?” Winona (Minn.) Daily News, December 17, 1957, p 1; Lorenzen, -UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3106

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Event 4560 -(4CD2BD09)

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Date: 12/15/1957
-Description: 1:00–2:00 a.m. Three young men see a huge light in the sky -at Almind, Denmark. It is oval-shaped, emits red or orange rays, and -appears to be descending. They watch it for 18–19 minutes as it hovers -at a 10° angle and quivers. Suddenly it becomes still and from its -center emerge two small objects that drift away in a northerly direction -and soon disappear. The large object lies on its side and quivers some -more. Later it ascends and a fan-shaped tail of light spreads after it. -The UFO is seen later along the coast and photographed. (“Flying Saucer -Reports Pour in from Denmark,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1958): 2; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further -Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3107

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Event 4561 -(1D6F28CF)

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Date: 12/16/1957
-Description: Between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. Mary M. Starr, a resident of Old -Saybrook, Connecticut, and a former teacher with a master’s degree from -Yale, is awakened by a bright light in her room. A cigar-shaped object, -brightly lit and with square portholes, hovers just above her -clothesline. She can see men inside. The object is approximately 20–30 -feet long and dark gray or black in color, hovering motionless about 5 -feet above the ground. Through its lighted windows Starr sees two -figures that pass each other, walking in opposite directions. (Donald E. -Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore, eds, UFOs: A New Look, NICAP, 1969, pp. 27–28; -Clark III 269)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3108

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Event 4562 -(63D9C958)

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Date: 12/17/1957
-Description: Skandinavisk UFO Information is founded in Denmark by Hans-Christian -Petersen under the name Sydjysk UFO Information. It publishes the -journal UFO-Nyt from 1958 to 2010. (Wikipedia, “Skandinavisk -UFO Information”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3109

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Event 4563 -(1FE42617)

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Date: 12/17/1957
-Description: The US conducts its first successful launch of an SM-65A -Atlas missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Wikipedia, “SM-65A -Atlas”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3110

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Event 4564 -(8B075ED6)

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Date: 12/17/1957
-Time: 7:20 PM
-Description: Witness: F.G. Hickman, 17. One round object changed from -yellow to white to green to red; red tail was twice as long as the body. -It stopped, started, backed up for 45 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: near Grand Junction, Colorado
-ID: 422

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Event 4565 -(CC683FDA)

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Date: 12/18/1957
-Time: night
-Description: Mary Stan was awakened by a brilliant light and saw through -her east window the fuselage of a craft that hovered in midair. Aboard -were two men, each with his right hand raised, wearing yellowish -jackets. A third man joined the first two, then all lights went off -inside the craft while it glowed like brass. A spinning antennalike -device was noted. A few minutes later it flew off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 60,3 (Vallee)
-Location: Old Saybrook, Connecticut
-ID: 451

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Event 4566 -(0FD2DCD5)

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Date: 12/18/1957
-Description: Luis E. Corrales of Caracas, Venezuela, finds an odd -luminous streak on a photographic plate recording the passage of Sputnik -2. It -is a luminous trail running parallel to the satellite’s trail, then -veering away. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 December, The -Author, 1998, p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3111

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Event 4567 -(906C8285)

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Date: 12/21/1957
-Time: 1830
-Description: Mrs. Mendonca and five other persons saw a light in the -south, which later appeared as two spherical objects coming closer to -the witnesses on an oscillating course. One of them hovered close to the -car while the other circled. They were shaped like a sphere surrounded -by a flat ring, and chased the car for two hours over the deserted road. -Estimated diameter: 5 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Mar., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Ponte Poran, Brazil
-ID: 452

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Event 4568 -(AC5720FE)

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Date: 12/21/1957
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Yvonne Torres de Mendonça, her three small -children, and a servant are traveling in a jeep driven by her mechanic, -Marcio Gonçalves, towards Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, along -the Paraguayan border. They see a large ball of light about the size of -the full moon that starts moving toward them, and they realize that it -is two lights flying silently side by side. The lights straddle the -road, oscillating from one side to the other in a strange wobbling -motion and spinning on their axes. One of them stops in mid-air and -dives toward the ground in a falling-leaf motion 60 feet ahead of them, -while the other maneuvers in circles around the jeep. The lights are -spherical and encircled by a Saturn-like ring at the center. The upper -hemisphere and rim are fiery red, while the lower hemisphere is silvery -white. The two objects follow the jeep for 2 hours, all the way to town, -maneuvering intelligently around them, especially when the jeep stops -twice to evaluate the objects. (Olavo T. Fontes, “Shadow -of the Unknown, Part II: UAOs Chase Cars,” APRO Bulletin, March -1959, pp. 3–6; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -pp. 148–150; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1957 December, The Author, 1998, pp. 60–63; Clark -III 245–246)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3112

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Event 4569 -(24717201)

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Date: 12/28/57
-Description: Japanese science fiction movie “The Mysterians” is -released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Japan

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Event 4570 -(6487E52B)

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Date: 12/30/1957
-Time: night
-Description: George Chowanski, an auto mechanic was alerted by the -barking of his dog and heard a whirring sound similar to that of an -electric shaver. A lighted object was observed by Chowanski and his wife -as it came within 60 cm of the ground. Two figures came out of the -bottom of the object, walked around a clearing, and one picked up -something before returning to the craft, which then took off. Total -duration: 2 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Oct., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Drakestown, New Jersey
-ID: 453

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Event 4571 -(B71320CC)

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Date: 12/30/1957
-Description: Night. George Chowanski is cutting wood at his home in -Schooley’s Mountain, New Jersey, when his two dogs begin to bark and -howl. He hears a whirring noise like an electric shaver that persists -for one minute. Then he sees a saucer-shaped object, 5 feet high and 15 -feet wide, hovering about 2 feet above the ground in a grove of trees -100 feet from the back porch. Three individuals come out of the craft -and walk about in the clearing. One of them bends over to pick something -up and carries something heavy back to the object. After 2–3 minutes, it -slowly rises, spiraling through the tall trees, and flies off. -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 88–89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3113

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- Event 4572 (52F29426)

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Date: 1958
-Description: Night. A sergeant in charge of a fire truck crash crew at -an air base in South Korea is positioned near the runway awaiting an -emergency landing by an American jet fighter low on fuel. The men see a -bright light approaching from across the Yellow Sea. It grows bigger -and, within several hundred yards of the shore, stops and hovers. The -control tower operators, watching the object through binoculars, do not -know what it is. Suddenly the object shines a beam of light straight -down on the water. It soon goes out, but the water remains luminescent -for a while before fading out. The object again shines a light on the -water and turns it off a minute or so later. By this time, the jet that -is low on fuel is landing. A second jet is asked to check out the -object, which instantly shoots back toward China and disappears in -seconds. (Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil—Where -Next?, Horus House, 1996, online ed., p. 164; -Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 -(December 2010): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3118

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- Event 4573 (652553AB)

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Date: Late 1950’s
-Description: The Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) was disestablished -and all records were transferred to the Air Force.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A p55)
-See also: 5/16/84

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- Event 4574 (CE08ABA7)

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Date: 1958
-Description: The Atomic Energy Commission puts a barbed wire fence -around Area 13 at the Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada, where the Project -57 “dirty bomb” had been detonated in April 1957, with signs indicating -“do not enter / nuclear material.” (Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 297)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3114

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Event 4575 -(BC569F1A)

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Date: 1958
-Description: Project Orion, an effort to build a nuclear-powered -spacecraft, begins at a maximum-security facility in Area 25 of the -Nevada Test Site. Led by Ted -Taylor of General Atomics and physicist Freeman -Dyson, its initial focus is to send astronauts to Mars and back. The -spaceship would be 16 stories tall and piloted by 150 men. Soon ARPA and -the Air Force take over the project and redesign it for a space-based -battleship that could launch nuclear missiles from space. But no one -builds Orion and it is effectively disbanded by the 1963 nuclear test -ban. (Wikipedia, “Project -Orion (nuclear propulsion)”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 304–305)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3115

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Event 4576 -(54C352EE)

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Date: 1958
-Description: French ufologist Aimé -Michel publishes Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, an -examination of the UFO wave of September–October 1954 in France. The -book’s preface is written by Gen. Lionel-Max -Chassin, in -which he expresses his opinion that UFOs are genuinely mysterious (“That -strange things have been seen is now beyond question, and the -‘psychological’ explanations seem to have misfired”). Michel contends -that each day’s sightings, when plotted on a map, occur along -straight-line paths, even though different objects seem to figure in -each sighting. The alignments, which he calls “orthotenic lines,” do not -necessarily correspond to a trajectory. However, Jacques -Vallée later concludes that the alignments can be explained by -chance alone. (Aimé Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line -Mystery, Criterion, 1958; “An -Evaluation of Aimé Michel’s Study of the Straight -Line Mystery,” in C. A. Maney and Richard Hall, The Challenge of -Unidentified Flying Objects, NICAP, 1961, pp. 90–98; Jacques Vallee and -Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery, 1966, pp. 57–82; -Don Johnson, “New Lines in UFO Research: Orthoteny Revisited,” IUR 25, -no. 1 (Spring 2000): 18–19, 32; Claude Maugé, “Orthoteny: Lost Cause, or -a Redeemed One?” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 24–28; Clark III 747, -858–860)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3116

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Event 4577 -(A59A9E10)

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Date: 1958
-Description: DoD kills “Project Horizon”, a military colony on the moon -program
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso’s Manuscript
-Location: Washington, DC

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Event 4578 -(8E8C7F8E)

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Date: 1958
-Description: Trevor -James Constable writes They Live in the Sky, which explains UFOs as -etheric (good) and astral (bad) entities that are engaged in a battle -for control of earthly minds. He bases this on his analysis of occult -texts and channeled communications from cosmic informant Ashtar. The -astral entities are based inside the earth, but they can leave it -through an opening in the South Pole and fly 125,000 miles into space. -Only the atomic bomb can penetrate the astral realm, which is why -astrals disguised as benevolent Space Brothers argue fervently for -nuclear disarmament. The men in black are reincarnated versions of Richard -Shaver’s deros. (Trevor James [Constable]. They Live in the Sky, New -Age, 1958; Trevor James [Constable], “Scientists, -Contactees, and Equilibrium,” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1960): 19–21; Clark III 1102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3117

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Event 4579 -(50F6513A)

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Date: 1/1958
-Time: 0130
-Description: A lady who was driving on the New York State Thruway during -a snow storm saw a large shape with a tall, luminous pole on the side of -the road. Her car stalled, and the lights went off. Two figures, looking -like animals or huge insects were observed near the pole. They soon -disappared, and the object took off spinning. The witness was then able -to start her car. She noted that the snow at the site had been melted -and the grass was warm.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Depew, New York
-ID: 454

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Event 4580 -(A16355D8)

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Date: 1/1958
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman is driving along the New York State -Thruway near Niagara Falls, New York, when she sees an illuminated -50-foot pole in the center parkway ahead. It seems to be retracting and -getting shorter. As she closes in on it, her engine stops and the -headlights go out. The pole is attached to a saucer-shaped object, and -she sees shadowy figures floating around it. The UFO rises and moves -away, and she starts the car again. An area of snow a foot in diameter -has melted dry where the pole has been. (Michael D. Swords, “Messing -Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (Mar. 2008): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3121

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Event 4581 -(8418CDAE)

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Date: 1/1958
-Description: Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, asks for Keyhoe’s -permission to use The Flying Saucer Conspiracy to develop a script for -closed-circuit broadcast at the base. Keyhoe agrees. (Keyhoe, FSTS, -p. 218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3120

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Event 4582 -(7E3B3CE3)

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Date: 1/1958
-Description: The US Senate Committee on Government Operations asks to -meet with representatives from the Secretary of the Air Force Office of -Legislative Action to discuss the possibility of holding open hearings -on the Air Force UFO program. USAF fears “uncontrolled publicity,” but -agrees to go along with it. Soon, however, Richard -E. Horner, -USAF assistant secretary for research and development, persuades the -committee’s chief counsel, Donald O’Donnell, that hearings are “not in -the best interest of the air force,” nor necessary for national -security. Horner says Project Blue Book has things well in hand, and he -tells Sen. Barry -Goldwater (R-Ariz.) that allegations about the Air Force withholding -information are “entirely in error.” People who report UFOs simply want -confidentiality, and the Air Force respects that. (Jacobs, UFO -Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 140– 141, 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3119

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Event 4583 -(C20C931E)

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Date: 1/3/1958
-Description: Cliff DeLacey, a 23-year-old college student from Vallejo, -California, shoots 90 seconds of film of UFOs at Diamond Head, Hawaii. -DeLacey sees nine UFOs flashing across the sky and immediately grabs his -camera. He is careful enough to shoot the tops of nearby trees, allowing -a reference to the height and relative speed of the unknown objects. The -objects appear to be about 3–4 miles away from the camera, flying at an -altitude of 7,000– 8,000 feet, and moving at a speed slightly greater -than that of a jet. The silvery globules appear to be no more than 20 -feet in diameter. They are spherical, and no tail fins or protrusions of -any kind are visible. The film, in color, is said to be clear and to -show at least two of the nine UFOs in considerable detail. (NICAP, “’Genuine -Flying Saucer…Caught -on Movie Film’”; Max B. Miller and Norman S. Kossuth, “How -to Film Unidentified Flying Objects,” -Saucers 6, no. 3 (Autumn 1958): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3122

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Event 4584 -(0F45910A)

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Date: 1/4/1958
-Description: A woodcutter reported that he saw an object land, and a -very tall man with a tanned face, wearing a helmet, stepped from the -machine. He went back in after a few minutes; the craft took off “with a -noise like a flock of birds.” Air Force officers and policemen searched -the snowcovered hill for traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 58, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Stavanger, Norway
-ID: 455

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Event 4585 -(558B06C0)

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Date: 1/4/1958
-Description: Sputnik deorbits
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington, DC

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Event 4586 -(1AF0CF58)

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Date: 1/7/1958
-Description: Two figures again appeared to Mrs. Appleton and spoke to -her in English (see Case 443).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Aston, Great Britain
-ID: 456

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Event 4587 -(DD22E36C)

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Date: 1/10/1958
-Description: Day. Capt. Chrysólogo Rocha is sitting with his wife on the -porch of a house in Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil, overlooking the South -Atlantic. He is trying to focus with his binoculars on what appears to -be a small island. When he does get focused, he realizes the island is -getting bigger and is in two parts, both a clear, gray color. One part -is in the sea, while the other seems suspended above it. Without -warning, both parts suddenly sink out of sight. Shortly afterwards, a -steamer comes into view, on a course that will take it very close to the -object. About 15 minutes later, when the ship is out of sight, the -object again rises slowly out of the sea. He now sees clearly that the -two parts are joined by several narrow upright shafts or tubes that are -bright and visible to the naked eye. These shafts, “like beads on a -necklace” pass in a “disorderly and simultaneous movement.” Shortly -afterwards the two parts of the object close up again, and it disappears -below the waves. Probably an inferior mirage of an island in combination -with a towering effect. (Charles Bowen, “A -South American Trio,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1965): 20–21; Wim van Utrecht, “A -UFO Dives in and Out of the Ocean,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3123

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Event 4588 -(B241AAA0)

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Date: 1/13/1958
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Brian Crittenden sees a dome-shaped light with a -long narrow light underneath coming directly towards him as he is -leaving a friend’s house southwest of Casino, New South Wales, -Australia. He jumps into his car and heads home. The UFO chases his car -along Benns Road, practically touching the telephone poles. His car -radio develops interference when the UFO approaches him. It follows him -all the way to town, 7 miles away. (Schopick, -p. 81; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January– February, The -Author, 1998, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3124

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Event 4589 -(FC80812A)

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Date: 1/13/1958
-Time: 2345
-Description: Brian Crittendon, 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object -that emitted a narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened -that he drove home on a half-flat tire, followed for 5 km by the object, -which was about 50 m away and 10 m above ground. It overtook his car at -a speed exceeding 100 km/h. Radio interference was noted, but no -noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Farm Hill, Australia
-ID: 457

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Event 4590 -(07125310)

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Date: 1/16/1958
-Description: Around 12:00 noon. As the International Geophysical Year -research ship Almirante -Saldanha is anchored on the south side of Ilha da Trindade, Brazil, -730 miles off the coast in the Atlantic Ocean, the commander and many -crew members, including photographer Almiro Baraúna, see a Saturn-shaped -object maneuvering over the island. It reportedly comes toward the -island from the east, flies towards the Pico Desejado, makes a steep -turn, and goes away very quickly to the northwest. Baraúna takes four -photos with a Rolleiflex 2.8 model E. Commander Paulo -Moreira da Silva of the Brazilian Navy Hydrography and Navigation -Department (who technically outranks the ship’s captain, José -Santos de Saldanha da Gama), is apparently an eyewitness and states, -“the object was encircled by a greenish glow, our [meteorological] -balloon was of a red color.” Baraúna is officially there to take photos -of the island, underwater photos, photos of the IGY activities, and the -ship’s operations. The radar detection of an unexplained supersonic -target reportedly occurs the day before, at about 12:05 p.m. There is a -power failure on the ship when the object is seen; the power returns -upon the object’s departure. Instruments like radio transmitters and -apparatus with magnetic needles cease operating while the flying object -remains in the island’s proximity. Willy -Smith’s April 20, 1983, interview of Baraúna takes on more -significance: “I asked if the object had been detected by ship’s radar. -He [Baraúna] replied that it hadn’t because all the electrical power -aboard ship was out at the time. He was sure of the reality of the power -outage because just before the object appeared a launch was being hauled -up from the water by electric pulley, and it stopped midway just as the -UFO appeared!” The ship’s log is provably incomplete since it does not -even mention the UFO photo incident. A 1999 analysis by Martin -J. Powell seems to indicate that the object photographed is an -airplane, distorted by Baraúna through a double-exposure process. In -August 2010, a major TV show in Brazil airs information stating that the -original photographer had made hoax photographs in the past. (Wikipedia, -“Trindade -Island UFO hoax”; Wikipedia, “Caso -da Ilha da Trindade”; NICAP, “Trindade -Island Photo (E-M, Radar, -AR) Case”; Olavo T. Fontes, “The -UAO Sightings at the Island of Trindade, Part 1,” APRO Bulletin, -January 1960, pp. 5–9; Olavo T. Fontes, “UAO -Sightings over Trindade, Part II,” APRO Bulletin, March 1960, -pp. 5–8; Olavo T. Fontes, “UAO -Sightings at the Island of Trindade, Part III,” APRO Bulletin, May -1960, pp. 4– 9; John T. Hopf, “Exclusive -IGY Photo Analysis,” APRO Bulletin, May 1960, pp. 1, 4; “New -Evidence on IGY Photos,” -APRO Bulletin, January 1965, pp. 1, 3–8; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole -Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 205– 210; Willy Smith, “Trindade -Revisited,” IUR 8, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1983): 3–5, 14; Willy Smith, -“UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, -pp. 109–111; Martin J. Powell, “The -Trindade Island UFO: A -Detailed Study of Photos 1 and 2,” Aenigmatis, Summer 1999; Don -Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing -Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 71–77; -Martin Shough, “The -Trindade Island Photographs, 16 Jan 1958,” Aerial Phenomena Studies -Index, 2004; Equipe UFO, “Documento -raro sobre o caso Trindade ressurge no exterior,” Portal UFO, August -31, 2010; Sparks, -p. 262; Story, pp. 366–369; -Swords 463–465; Brazil 49–57; Clark III 1132–1136; Patrick Gross, “The -Trindade Island Photographic -Case of 1958”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3125

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Event 4591 -(BD100BDA)

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Date: 1/22/1958
-Description: Major D. Keyhoe cut off TV show dealing with UFO -discussion
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 4592 -(9447D0C2)

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Date: 1/22/1958
-Description: The “UFO: The Enigma of the Skies” segment of Armstrong -Circle Theater airs on CBS. USAF Reserve Lt. Col. Spencer Whedon from -ATIC says all UFOs are explainable. Keyhoe comes -on and starts reading his script for a few minutes, then shocks everyone -by deviating from it, saying “And now, Mr. Edwards, -I would like to make a disclosure, something which has never been -revealed to the public. For the last six months our committee has been -working with a Senate committee which is investigating official secrecy -on UFOs. If the hearings are held, open hearings, I feel it would prove -beyond doubt that flying saucers are real—”. Then his microphone is cut -off, although the filming continues. Menzel then -appears, then USAF spokesman Richard -E. Horner comes -on afterward and says that the Air Force is not hiding anything about -UFOs. Keyhoe later claims this is not censorship by the show, although -he thinks it is the Air Force silence group at work. In April, CBS -director of editing Herbert A. Carlborg tells NICAP that Keyhoe’s -deviation “might lead to statements that neither this network nor the -individuals on the program were authorized to release. As a consequence, -public interest was served.” (Clark III 167–168; Keyhoe, FSTS, -pp. 22–23, 155–165; “UFO -Archives: Project Blue Book—Col. Spenser -Whedon, Dr. Donald Menzel, Major Donald Keyhoe” [audio only], UFO -Archives YouTube channel, May 22, 2014; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January– February, The -Author, 1998, pp. 23, 28–30, 35–39; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: 1958 March–April, The -Author, 1998, pp. 10–17; Swords 272; Good Above, pp. 286–287)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3126

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Event 4593 -(15B62AB5)

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Date: 1/23/1958
-Description: Capt. G. H. Oldenburgh, public information officer at -Langley AFB, Virginia, writes to a NICAP member who has been denied a -request to place an ad in the base newspaper asking for UFO reports: “I -felt it would encourage Air Force personnel to violate present Air Force -policy and specifically AF Regulation 200-2.” (Frank Edwards, FS Serious -Business, Bantam ed., 1966, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3127

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Event 4594 -(D512336A)

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Date: 1/26/1958
-Time: 1600
-Description: A very bright object landed before numerous chemical -workers; they reported beings falling from the sky without parachutes. -They wore strange suits and spoke an unknown language.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Shimada City, Japan
-ID: 458

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Event 4595 -(0C3713F0)

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Date: 1/26/1958
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Some chemical workers at Shimada, Japan, see a -bright object land and claim that beings fell from the sky without -parachutes. They wear strange suits and speak an unknown language. (“They -Are Landing in Japan, -Too,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 3 (May/June 1958): 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3128

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Event 4596 -(AF37C159)

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Date: 1/28/1958
-Description: Hillenkoetter announces -that “two committees on Capitol Hill” are investigating the UFO -controversy. Rep. William -Hanes Ayres (R-Ohio) writes a letter to constituent Melvin V. Knapp, -saying that “Congressional investigations have been held and are still -being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects (UFO’s). Since -most of the material presented to the committees is classified, the -hearings are never printed. When conclusions are reached, they will be -released if possible.” (“Flying -Saucer Proof Clouded by Air Force, Private Probers Say,” Rochester -(N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, August 3, 1958, p. 8; UFOEv, p. 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3129

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Event 4597 -(1398C9A2)

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Date: 1/30/1958
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Attorney José Valencia Dongo, his wife, and -their nephew feel an electric shock as they are driving between Arequipa -and Lima, Peru, at a point (roughly around the Yauca District) along the -Pan American Highway 220 miles northwest of Arequipa. Several seconds -later the headlights and engine of their car fails. They then see an -inverted mushroom-shaped object, about 15 feet in diameter, descending -from the sky. It hovers for about 8 minutes at a 150-foot altitude, -glowing red. A truck and bus are also affected. (Civilian Saucer -Intelligence, “Shapes -in the Sky,” Fantastic Universe, 10, no. 4 (October 1958): 111; -Charles A. Maney and Richard Hall, The Challenge of Unidentified Flying -Objects, NICAP, 1961, p. 82; -Schopick, -pp. 58–59; Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, -1981, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3130

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Event 4598 -(5376AC0D)

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Date: 1/31/1958
-Description: 10:48 p.m. The US launches its first satellite, Explorer 1, -from Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Florida. It is the first spacecraft -to detect the Van Allen radiation belt. (Wikipedia, “Explorer -1”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3132

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Event 4599 -(979D45EA)

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Date: 1/31/1958
-Description: A meeting is held in the office of Assistant Secretary of -the Air Force Richard -E. Horner under the auspices of the Subcommittee on Investigations -of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, even though Sen. John -L. McClellan (D-Ark.) and other senators are absent. The Air Force -is represented by Maj. James F. Byrne, Maj. Joseph -E. Boland, and Maj. Lawrence -J. Tacker who meet with the subcommittee’s FBI liaisons. Tacker -declares that USAF does not want a congressional investigation, and the -McClellan effort dies immediately. (Swords 275)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3131

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Event 4600 -(CF458618)

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Date: 2/1958
-Description: Keyhoe meets -again with Rep. James -C. Healey and tells him that the Armstrong Circle Theater incident -was Air Force censorship. A few days later, Healey tells Keyhoe that the -Air Force is claiming that the program proves “there are no such things -as flying saucers.” Keyhoe gives Healey the facts about the 1956 Ryan case -pointing to USAF ordering a commercial flight to pursue UFOs, citing the -Meet the Millers tape from April 16, 1956, which he has obtained. He -offers to get the committee a transcript. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 166–167, -182–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3133

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Event 4601 -(0337CDCF)

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Date: 2/1958
-Description: Ufologist Raymond Veillith launches the UFO journal -Lumières dans la Nuit in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, Haute-Loire, France. It -continues on under various editors until at least 2018. (Lumières -dans la Nuit, no. -1 (February 1958); Wikipedia, “Lumières -dans la Nuit”; Story, p. 218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3134

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Event 4602 -(AA885D2D)

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Date: 2/1958
-Description: Brazilian Navy releases authentic picture of UFO
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster

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Event 4603 -(FF21E450)

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Date: 2/1/1958
-Description: First US Satellite Explorer 1 launched into a geocentric -medium earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26

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Event 4604 -(836BEA76)

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Date: 2/2/1958
-Description: An elliptical UFO with two porthole-like markings is seen -somewhere in New South Wales, Australia. (UFOEv, p. 137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3135

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Event 4605 -(CAFE5B58)

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Date: 2/2/1958
-Time: 1530
-Description: Farmer Yasukichi Nakaguchi and his son, and Kametaro -Takuma, saw an egg-shaped object that landed silently.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Hokkaido, Japan
-ID: 459

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Event 4606 -(60F8E2D8)

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Date: 2/3/1958
-Description: OTC Enterprises runs a two-page ad in a Baltimore, -Maryland, newspaper and distributes a well-printed brochure announcing -that Otis -T. Carr has approached the US government and offered to build it a -working spacecraft called the OTC-X1—circular, 45 feet in diameter and -15 feet high—for $20 million. He sets a date of December 7, 1959, to -take a three-man crew on the spacecraft on a round trip to the Moon. -Some press accounts treat Carr as if he is a real scientist. (Clark III -860)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3136

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Event 4607 -(2059C6E0)

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Date: 2/5/1958
-Description: The Air Force revises AFR 200-2 and recreates the system of -air base commanders conducting initial investigations of sightings in -their areas. It also continues ATIC’s responsibility to “reduce the -percentage of unidentifieds to the minimum.” (Department of the Air -Force, “Intelligence: -Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO),” Air Force Regulation 200-2, -February 5, 1958; Department of the Air Force, “Intelligence: -Unidentified Flying Objects -(UFO),” Air Force Regulation 200-2A, July 3, 1958)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3137

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Event 4608 -(A3E522B0)

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Date: 2/5/1958
-Description: Reinhold Schmidt’s 2nd contact with saucers & -spacepeople, takes ride.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Kearney, NE

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Event 4609 -(7C5EC869)

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Date: 2/7/1958
-Description: In response to the launching of Sputnik, President Eisenhower creates -the Advanced Research Projects Agency and houses it in the Pentagon. -(Wikipedia, “DARPA”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3138

-

Event 4610 -(BD330DEF)

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Date: 2/17/1958
-Description: Evening. Flora -Evans and Bernice McIntosh twice encounter an intensely brilliant -orange light about 15 feet in diameter that sends out peculiar grid-like -or diamond-shaped patterns and lights up a canyon northeast of Alcalde, -New Mexico, along State Highway 68. The two women are temporarily -blinded. Their trip home to Albuquerque inexplicably takes 4 hours -instead of the normal 2 hours. Both witnesses are exhausted and have -burned or reddened areas on their skin, some on their kneecaps and the -back of their lower legs, even though they have not left the car. Evans -has a reddened area shaped like a triangle on her back. An acquaintance, -Paul Boyett, has a Geiger counter, with which he gets a high radiation -count from both women on February 19. The next day Evans, who is working -in some capacity in civil defense, goes to her doctor at the Lovelace -Clinic in Albuquerque, to see about possible radiation burns and -exposure. She overhears a comment about “178 roentgens” exposure, but -the doctor says there is nothing to worry about. McIntosh’s symptoms -(nausea, vomiting, rash) are initially more irritating but subside -substantially, although both women have swellings in their lower legs, -and both gain serious weight (some 50 pounds) over the next few months. -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 January–February, The -Author, 1998, pp. 60–64 ; Michael D, Swords, “Can UFOs Cause -Physiological Effects? Part 2” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 4–5; Swords -280–281; Clark III 1–2, 950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3139

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Event 4611 -(454411D8)

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Date: 2/19/1958
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Cicero Claudino da Silva, Mustafa Esgaib, -Alegario Campos, and João Manuel Vasquez are investigating the Ponta -Porã case from December. They are at Porteiro Ortiz, Mato Grosso do Sul, -Brazil, along Highway 463 and shining their lights in the direction of -the Paraguayan frontier when a reddish light appears and becomes larger, -as if approaching them. The ground around their car is illuminated for a -few seconds, and they realize that another red light is nearing them on -the other side of the car. They head for Ponta Porã at breakneck speed. -(Olavo T. Fontes, “The -Shadow of the Unknown,” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3140

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Event 4612 -(C58FB04D)

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Date: 2/24/1958
-Description: 3:05 a.m. Attorney Carlos José de Costa Pereira, Manoel -Mendes, and Antônio de Araujo are driving near Santo Antônio de Jesus, -Bahia, Brazil. The car engine sputters and fails. All attempts to detect -the trouble fail. The next inhabited place is far away, so the travelers -decide that the best thing to do is to sleep at that spot, beside the -road. Next morning they will try to do something about their situation, -getting help from some nearby village or farm. It was then that they -notice a large luminous Saturn-shaped object silently approaching to -about 240 feet from them and only 90 feet from the ground. It then -descends in a falling-leaf pattern to about 12 feet. They can see it is -about 60–75 feet in diameter with a rotating center section. Suddenly it -climbs vertically to 600 feet, makes a tight circle, then tilts to 45° -and makes a number of high-speed maneuvers, then descends again in a -falling-leaf motion before shooting up vertically at tremendous speed. -After this, the car starts easily and they proceed to Salvador. (Olavo -T. Fontes, “The -Shadow of the Unknown,” APRO Bulletin, May 1959, p. 7; Schopick, pp. 59–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3141

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Event 4613 -(550119F5)

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Date: 2/24/1958
-Time: 0305
-Description: Three witnesses, among them Dr. C. da Costa, decided to -sleep in their car when the engine stalled and could not be started -again. Then a very large, blue silvery object appeared and came to -ground level with a swinging motion. was shaped like a sphere surrounded -by a flat ring. When they tried to approach it, the object maneuvered in -a strange “aerial dance.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. I 143 (Vallee)
-Location: Conceicao Almeida, Brazil
-ID: 460

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Event 4614 -(89299989)

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Date: 2/28/1958
-Description: Police detective Faustin -Gallegos and his wife Dorothy see something like a “large medicine -ball” descend and land in their back yard in Miami, Florida. Outside, he -sees a football-shaped object 20 inches long and 8 inches high, lined -with “thousands of minute cells resembling those of a honeycomb. It is -clear and pulsating. He touches it and his fingers leave marks. They put -it in a jar, but it evaporates on the way to the police station. -(Faustin Gallegos, “The Pulsing Honeycomb from Space,” Fate 11, no. 9 -(September 1958): 40–43; Clark III 1102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3144

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Event 4615 -(51971001)

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Date: 2/28/1958
-Description: Brig. Gen. João -Adil Oliveira, chief -of the Brazilian Air Force’s General Staff information service, tells O -Globo that the UFO phenomenon is a “fact confirmed by material evidence. -There are thousands of documents, photos, and sighting evidence -demonstrating its existence.” (Good Need, p. 233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3143

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Event 4616 -(21473DB1)

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Date: 2/28/1958
-Description: USAF Director of Information Gen. Arno -H. Luehman naively inquires of the McClellan Senate subcommittee -whether, based on its “preliminary informal investigation,” it would -state that the Air Force is investigating UFOs and not withholding -information. (Swords 275)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3142

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Event 4617 -(CEB0625A)

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Date: 3/1958
-Description: A French Foreign Legionnaire on sentry duty at Bouamama, -near Sidi Chami, Algeria, hears a whistling noise and sees an enormous, -elliptical-shaped object descend and hover 115–131 feet above the ground -165 feet away. The object is surrounded by pale green light, and a -relaxing emerald-green beam of light is coming from its base to the -ground. Seemingly paralyzed, he stares at the object for 45–50 minutes. -The noise returns, the object rises gently, and flies off at tremendous -speed. (Joël Mesnard, “Tranquillizing -Visitation at Bouahmama: An Algerian Report -of 1958,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 3 (May/June 1973): -17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3146

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Event 4618 -(0345DEA7)

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Date: 3/1958
-Description: Big “flap” in Arizona. Much activity.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: Arizona

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Event 4619 -(0E85D3B2)

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Date: 3/1958
-Description: The Air Force releases parts of the 1953 Robertson Panel -report, a mere three paragraphs recommending that “the national security -agencies take immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects -of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they -have unfortunately acquired.” (“CIA -Evades, Then Denies Charge -of Attempted UFO Censorship,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 4 (June 1958): -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3145

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Event 4620 -(B561C3E6)

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Date: 3/2/1958
-Time: 1945
-Description: A civilian source was said to have observed a -balloon-shaped object land on the airfield then take off slowly and -hover at 250 m altitude before disappearing. It showed a bright light -source.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Tampa, Florida
-ID: 461

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Event 4621 -(010E1903)

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Date: 3/2/1958
-Description: The Brazilian Navy, after an analysis of the January 16 -Ilha da Trindade sighting and photos, offers an ambiguous conclusion: -“the existence of personal testimonies and of a photographer, of some -value given the circumstances involved permit the admission that there -are indications of the existence of the UFO.” (Brazil Department of the -Navy, “Clarification -of the Observation of Unidentified Flying Objects Sighted on the Island -of Trinidad, -in the Period of 12/5/57 to 1/16/58,” March 2, 1958)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3147

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Event 4622 -(C7A5F69D)

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Date: 3/3/1958
-Description: Gen. Joe -W. Kelly responds to Luehman, -falsely stating that the Air Force has done “considerable work” with the -McClellan subcommittee. (Swords 275–276)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3148

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Event 4623 -(94314979)

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Date: 3/8/1958
-Description: Keyhoe appears -on ABC’s The Mike Wallace Interview and mentions the Estimate of the -Situation, Fournet’s -motion study, and the CIA Robertson Panel. Wallace surprises -him by saying Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Richard -E. Horner told his producers that the Senate Committee “show no -interest in any hearings.” This is news to Keyhoe. Wallace also quotes -from the Robertson Panel summary that was just released. A few days -later, Keyhoe receives two letters from the Senate Committee confirming -that it “does not intend to investigate the United States Air Force.” -(“Major -Donald Keyhoe Interviewed by Mike Wallace (1958),” pfreal1 YouTube -channel, August 25, 2012; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April, The -Author, 1998, p. 9; Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 189–190; Swords 272–273; “Mike -Wallace Interview of -Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe: A Sequel to the Arnstrong Circle Theater,” -Journal of UFO History 2, no. 1 (March/April 2005): 8–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3150

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Event 4624 -(E943F885)

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Date: 3/8/1958
-Description: A USAF radar site in Korea tracks a UFO slowly descending -from 77,000 to 25,000 feet. (UFOEv, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3149

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Event 4625 -(D38A9AB0)

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Date: 3/14/1958
-Time: 0845
-Description: Two persons, in their backyard, saw a round object 1 m in -diameter come from the west and land 15 m away. It took off toward the -east, turned south, and was lost to sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Healdsburg, California
-ID: 462

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Event 4626 -(618634B3)

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Date: 3/14/1958
-Time: 8:45 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Cummings and one other. A 3’ -round, black object touched the ground and then took off. Watched for 2 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Healdsburg, California
-ID: 423

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Event 4627 -(50860BA8)

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Date: 3/19/1958
-Description: Near Moscow, a large, disk-shaped object was seen on the -ground. It rose in a spiral motion, then took off and was lost to -sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Moscow, USSR
-ID: 463

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Event 4628 -(96D69C39)

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Date: late 3/1958
-Description: NICAP begins a new campaign to open another government UFO -investigation. This time it approaches the Department of Justice, the -National Security Council, the CIA, and the US Army. It receives rebuffs -and denials. (Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3151

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Event 4629 -(BE8EE8DE)

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Date: 4/1958
-Time: 0600
-Description: Near Paripueira, jeweler Wilson Lustosa and numerous -fishermen saw an object hovering 15 m above the sea, 40 m away. It was -lens-shaped, about 12 m thick, and showed portholes with a glowing red -light. Below the object the water seemed to be “boiling” or attracted -upward, while a soft, whirring sound was heard. For one hour the object -kept going up and down.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: SBEDV (Vallee)
-Location: Maceio, Brazil
-ID: 464

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Event 4630 -(273CD2EF)

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Date: 4/1958
-Description: 6:00 a.m. At some place along the Brazilian coast between -Maceió and Paripueira, Alagoas, Brazil, Wilson Lustosa stops to ask some -fishermen what they are looking at. He hears a humming sound and sees a -disc-shaped object hovering about 50 feet above the ocean and 120 feet -away. It has a small lighted dome on top and a band of square portholes -around its midsection through which a red light is shining. Under the -UFO the water seems disturbed. The object is visible for an hour. -(Gordon W. Creighton, “A -Brazilian Sighting,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1964): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3153

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Event 4631 -(07939D91)

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Date: 4/1958
-Description: Edgar Sievers begins publishing a pro-Adamski newsletter -titled Approach in Pretoria, South Africa. It folds in March 1960. (Approach 1, -no. 1 (April 1958))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3152

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Event 4632 -(9607C7A2)

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Date: 4/1958
-Description: All UN members queried as to status of UFO activity in -respective countries
-Type: ufological event
-Reference: Keziah -Poster
-Location: New York City, New York

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Event 4633 -(F2841B6C)

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Date: early 4/1958
-Description: Night. A 2-foot red blinking light frightens children over -the Walnut housing area in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Police officers -Joseph Scala and Emanuel Mavero investigate and watch the bright disc -for 10 minutes. Their police radio malfunctions. They try to get closer, -but it disappears when they get to the top of a hill. (C. W. Fitch, “Monitoring -and Scanning Discs,” APRO Bulletin, September 1964, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3154

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Event 4634 -(8F94505A)

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Date: 4/9/1958
-Description: A family in Cleveland, Ohio, sees a flight of nine UFOs -that suddenly separates into two groups of four and five objects. -(UFOEv, p. 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3155

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Event 4635 -(9F952DDA)

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Date: 4/9/1958
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. B. Mills are driving on St. Vincent -Street in Nelson, New Zealand, when they see a bright-red triangular -object with white lights around its perimeter. It is descending from the -northeast at a 45° angle and moving across Tasman Bay. They see the -object again, somewhat dimmer, around 8:00 p.m. from a friend’s house on -Matipo Terrace. (“Triangular -Object over New Zealand,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1958): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3156

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Event 4636 -(96134672)

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Date: 4/10/1958
-Description: A Danish fighter pilot reports seeing a formation of UFOs. -They are also tracked on radar at Skrydstrup Airport in Vojens, Denmark. -The pilot attempts to overtake them, but they accelerate and disappear. -The commander of Fighter Wing Skrydstrup appeals to the public to report -any UFOs. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April, The Author, -1998, p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3157

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Event 4637 -(9F2D06EF)

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Date: 4/13/1958
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Lester Billheimer and Carl Kern watch an object -shaped like a “solid right angle” glowing like a white neon light over -Allentown, Pennsylvania. It travels northwest at first, then turns west -and disappears after three seconds. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3158

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Event 4638 -(79E2BE7D)

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Date: 4/14/1958
-Time: 1 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Maj. D.G. Tilley, flying C-47 transport. One -grey-black rectangular object rotated very slowly on its horizontal axis -for 4 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lynchburg, Virginia
-ID: 424

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Event 4639 -(E621BD16)

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Date: 4/15/1958
-Description: Approximate date. In the mountains, about 14 km from Abra -Pampa, a luminous object 30 m in diameter came to ground level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Tabladitas, Argentina
-ID: 465

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Event 4640 -(971C457D)

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Date: 4/15/1958
-Description: Day. A witness in Broager, Denmark, sees a large, black, -low-flying, triangular object. As it flies over town, a number of -horseshoe-shaped objects emerge, emitting a strong light. Twenty other -witnesses see a triangular “spaceship” at the same time. (Loren E. -Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April, The -Author, 1998, p. 77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3159

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Event 4641 -(70FEF7DE)

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Date: 4/17/1958
-Time: 1925
-Description: All night long, three hovering disks were seen by several -witnesses in this area. A railroad employee, Mr. Cavalheiro, and the -station chief, J. Machado, wired the Tupancireta police, and all saw the -objects coming to ground level about 1 km away. At times they appeared -to exchange signals. One of the disks flew over the station itself, -leaving a luminous trail and considerable heat.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN (Vallee)
-Location: Abaatu, Brazil
-ID: 466

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Event 4642 -(C7F5A6FF)

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Date: 4/25/1958
-Description: The officer for UFO investigation in Denmark, Lt. Col. Hans-Christian -Petersen, tells the magazine B-T that multiple-witness sightings are -commonplace and that the current Danish wave is comparable to that of -the US 1952 wave. “Nothing is gained by rejecting all the accounts as -fantasy,” he tells reporters. Petersen has founded the Skandinavisk UFO -Information group in December with five other Danish military jet -pilots. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 March–April, -The Author, 1998, pp. 97–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3160

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Event 4643 -(9F1D0524)

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Date: 5/1958
-Description: Maelstrom AFB, Montana: Just after midnight an UFO -approached the alert hanger where one guard was standing on duty. At -about 1000 ft. altitude. The UFO appeared as a round metallic looking -object (called a “Flying Saucer” by the guard). The base radar and FAA -radar picked up the UFO as it was apparently hovering over the alert -hanger and the atomic bomb storage nearby. The saucer then moved slowly -down the length of runway and then proceeded across town to the Muni -Airport at Great Falls and hovered over the National Guard parking ramp -for the F-89’s and then flew off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Maelstrom AFB, Montana

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Event 4644 -(84682E33)

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Date: 5/2/1958
-Description: Eight people working in a wood saw a green creature with -scaly skin and very long arms. The pointed nails of its long fingers -nearly touched the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Dischi Volanti, by L. Bulgarini (Vallee)
-Location: Bogota, Colombia
-ID: 467

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Event 4645 -(30642D84)

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Date: 5/4/1958
-Description: Dewey -Fournet confirms, in a statement to NICAP, the existence of the -Estimate of the Situation and his own motion study from 1952. (UFOEv, p. 110; -Swords 509)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3161

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Event 4646 -(276103BA)

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Date: 5/5/1958
-Description: 3:40 p.m. Experienced pilot Carlos -Alejo Rodriguez is flying his Piper Cub in the vicinity of Capitán -de Corbeta Naval Air Base [now part of Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A. -Curbelo International Airport] near San Carlos, Uruguay, when a -brilliant top-like object (symmetrical above and below) suddenly -approaches his plane head-on. The UFO is about 45–60 feet in diameter, -stops about 6,500 feet away and “rocked twice, in a balancing motion.” -Rodriguez feels strong heat, so he removes his jacket and opens the -aircraft windows. The UFO takes off abruptly toward the sea “at a -fantastic speed,” leaving a thin vapor trail. (NICAP, “Top-Like -Object Heats Up Piper Cub”; UFOEv, p. 120; -Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3162

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Event 4647 -(07809880)

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Date: 5/6/1958
-Description: In a letter to NICAP member George Stocking of -St. Petersburg, Florida, Ruppelt says -he is “now convinced that the reports of UFO’s are nothing more than -reports of balloons, aircraft, astronomical phenomena, etc. I don’t -believe they are anything from outer space.” (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -1958 May–July, The -Author, 1999, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3163

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Event 4648 -(4FF49798)

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Date: 5/7/1958
-Description: Keyhoe’s -friend Lou -Corbin has received from a military friend of Gen. Nathan -Twining news that Twining is still concerned about UFOs. Keyhoe -writes to him and receives a note from Twining’s executive officer, Col. -James -C. Sherrill: “No effective means have been developed for the -establishment of communication by radio or otherwise with unknown aerial -objects. The technical obstacles involved in such an endeavor, I am -sure, are quite obvious to you.” (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 198–199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3164

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Event 4649 -(694504CC)

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Date: 5/8/1958
-Description: US Rep. John -E. Henderson (R-Ohio) writes to Secretary of Defense Neil -H. McElroy asking about the status of UFO reports and the USAF -investigation. ATIC decides to give Henderson a formal briefing. (Loren -E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 May–July, The -Author, 1999, pp. 5–8, 42; Swords 276)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3165

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Event 4650 -(F725542B)

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Date: 5/9/1958
-Time: 11:05 AM
-Description: Witness: Phillipine Airlines pilot. One object with a -shiny, metallic surface was falling and spinning for 1.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bohol Island, Phillipine Islands
-ID: 425

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Event 4651 -(84846F03)

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Date: 5/13/1958
-Description: 12:15 p.m. A Royal Canadian Air Force Dakota DC-3 is flying -to RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta, from Victoria, British Columbia. -When it changes its heading about 25 miles southwest of Calgary, -Alberta, a large, thick, black cloud suddenly appears directly across -their flight path at the same altitude. Their VHF communications with -Cold Lake and Calgary suddenly cease working. The cloud has indistinct, -hazy edges, and it increases in size as they approach at about 155 mph. -The pilot unsuccessfully tries to radio Calgary to request a flight path -change to avoid the cloud, which is now about 10 miles away. Suddenly he -sees a brilliant white pinpoint of light materialize in the dark mass. -It grows in size, forming a brilliant ball that quickly approaches the -aircraft on a collision course. He braces himself, but the light -disappears, and the black cloud vanishes. (Don Ledger, “Two Spherical -UAP Cases Witnessed by Pilots in Canadian Airspace,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July -2010): 7–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3166

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Event 4652 -(E7667E2A)

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Date: 5/15/1958
-Description: Lackland AFB’s chief of education planning for the officer -candidate school, Maj. Warren Akin, suggests, at a meeting of the Junior -Chamber of Commerce in San Antonio, Texas, that UFOs are spacecraft. -(“Visitors -from Outer -Space Already May Have Visited Us, Major Says,” San Antonio (Tex.) -Express, May 16, 1958, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3168

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Event 4653 -(2AAD2CC8)

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Date: 5/15/1958
-Description: The Soviets launch Sputnik 3 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in -Kazakhstan. (Wikipedia, “Sputnik -3”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3167

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Event 4654 -(0C670A76)

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Date: 5/16/1958
-Description: USAF Capt. Walter -W. Irwin reaches 1,404 mph in a Lockheed YF-104A Starfighter at -Edwards AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -F-104 Starfighter”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3169

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Event 4655 -(8FB55D18)

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Date: 5/23/1958
-Description: Explorer 1 loses contact
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: medium earth orbit

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Event 4656 -(BA0FC1B3)

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Date: 5/27/1958
-Time: late
-Description: Remo dell’Armellina was driving a truck toward Santa Fe -when he saw a figure, 3 m tall, blocking the road. He went toward it -with an iron bar but could not approach because of the stench and the -blinding phosphorescent light emanating from it. It had very long arms, -a scaly body, and wore a flight coverall. The witness fainted; nothing -was left to be seen when he regained consciousness.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Perego; Bulgarini (Vallee)
-Location: Boa del Tigre, Argentina
-ID: 468

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Event 4657 -(B5665046)

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Date: 5/31/1958
-End date: 6/1/1958
-Description: The fifth Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention takes place -at Giant Rock, near Landers, California. Dana -Howard, Truman -Bethurum, John -McCoy, Wayne -Aho, Daniel -Fry, and Reinhold -O. Schmidt join host George -Van Tassel for two days of contactee conviviality. (Dana Howard, “Dana -Howard Reporting the Giant Rock -Convention, 1958,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1958): -20–21, 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3170

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Event 4658 -(43C69F44)

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Date: 6/1958
-Description: 9:00 p.m. B. Muratov and his father are returning home to -Chimbay, Uzbekistan, after a fishing expedition to the Aral Sea. They -notice a disc-shaped object approaching them directly at low altitude -from the northeast. It flies over them and see that its diameter is -about 82 feet and it is traveling at 150–180 mph. Its hull is shiny and -one side shines with a red color. A pipe is attached to one side, and it -gives off a steady “zing zing zing” sound. (Stonehill and Mantle, -Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3177

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Event 4659 -(94E89D43)

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Date: 6/1958
-Description: A USAF officer secretly meets with Keyhoe and -gives him three UFO reports and warns him that the Air Force will ask -him for “certain UFO information. Think it over carefully before you -decide.” NICAP could be in trouble, he says. Two days later, NICAP -receives a request from the Air Force requesting any cases that indicate -intelligent maneuvers by UFOs. Keyhoe refuses the request, sensing a -setup. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 199, 232–233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3173

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Event 4660 -(FEEE6268)

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Date: 6/1958
-Description: Richard -H. Hall joins NICAP as executive secretary and associate editor. -(Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 30, 208)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3174

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Event 4661 -(EADFFC0F)

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Date: 6/1958
-Description: Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, has prepared a 17-page -TV script based on a straightforward interpretation of Keyhoe’s -The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, even including the 1953 Moncla case. -The script states that “the most logical explanation is that the saucers -are interplanetary.” It also says that USAF has “concealed information -which was thought to be of danger because of the impending possibility -of hysteria and panic.” Keyhoe approves the script, but Lackland -withdraws it from consideration by December. (Keyhoe, FSTS, -pp. 219–227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3175

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Event 4662 -(AECAC478)

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Date: 6/1958
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A woman doctor at a resort at Sinaia, Romania, -sees a silvery domed disc traveling slowly and silently toward the -southeast at 1,500 feet. On its underside it has a bluish triangular -section with rounded points. It passes within 900 feet of her hotel. -(Hobana and Weverbergh 159–160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3176

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Event 4663 -(4CA18BFE)

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Date: 6/1/1958
-Description: 11:15 a.m. Bjørn Taraldsen, Nils M. Turi, Kate Julsen, and -Rasmus Hykkerud watch a silent “unknown aircraft” like a twin-engine, -delta-wing jet with no identifying marks plunge into the Altafjord, -Troms og Finnmark, Norway. A column of water rises up, and dead fish -float to the surface. The frigate KNM -Arendal and the submarine KNM Sarpen, along with divers, search -fruitlessly for more than a week, although the Arendal does get a sonar -reading of a mobile object. (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of -Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1995): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3178

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Event 4664 -(37E6562C)

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Date: 6/3/1958
-Description: Physicist Freeman -Dyson in Princeton, New Jersey, writes a speculative paper on “The -Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation” in which he -discusses how an advanced civilization might be visible from Earth. He -suggests that the logical endpoint of the drive to capture as much -energy from a sun would be for engineers to completely enclose it in a -hollow sphere. Once the builders have completed it, the only light -visible from their star would be the muted infrared glow of radiation -heat. Such a structure, which becomes known as a “Dyson sphere,” would -be a sure sign of an advanced race. (Freeman J. Dyson, “Search -for Artificial Stellar Sources -of Infrared Radiation,” Science 131 (1960): 1667–1668; Wikipedia, -“Dyson -sphere”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3179

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Event 4665 -(EACBEDA9)

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Date: 6/6/1958
-Description: Keyhoe writes -to NICAP member George Stocking saying that Ruppelt has -a job at an aircraft company that contracts with the Air Force and thus -might be playing it safe about UFOs. (Clark III 1023)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3180

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Event 4666 -(CCCA2CB0)

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Date: 6/10/1958
-Description: MP George -Chetwynd in the UK House of Commons asks the Air Ministry how many -instances of UFOs were reported in the past 12 months and what steps -were taken to look into them. Under-Secretary of State for Air Ian Orr-Ewing replies -that 54 reports were received and that most were meteors, balloons, -aircraft, and satellites. (“Unsatisfactory -Answer to M.P.’s Question on UFOs by Undersecretary for Air,” Flying -Saucer Review 4, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1958): 5; Good Above, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3181

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Event 4667 -(6991037C)

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Date: 6/14/1958
-Time: 10:46 AM
-Description: Witness: airport weather observer O.R. Foster, using a -theodolite. An object shaped like Saturn, less the bottom part; silver -with no metallic luster, flew overhead for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pueblo, Colorado
-ID: 426

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Event 4668 -(F862F56C)

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Date: 6/20/1958
-Description: USAF Maj. Joseph -E. Boland and Maj. Lawrence -J. Tacker brief Rep. John -E. Henderson (R-Ohio) for one hour on the status of Air Force UFO -investigations in the Capitol building in Columbus, Ohio. Also in -attendance are Rep. William -C. Cramer (R-Fla.), and Rep. Donald -H. Magnuson (D-Wash.). Afterward, the legislators express confidence -in the investigation and agree that publicity is unwise, “particularly -in an open or closed formal congressional hearing.” (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 May–July, The -Author, 1999, pp. 48–50; Swords 276–277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3182

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Event 4669 -(7FCF5AE2)

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Date: 6/20/1958
-Time: 11:05 PM
-Description: Witness: Battalion Communication Chief SFC A. Parsley. One -silver, circular object, its lower portion seen through a green haze, -hovered, then oscillated slightly, then moved at great speed. Watched -for 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ft. Bragg, North Carolina
-ID: 427

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Event 4670 -(215DEA01)

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Date: summer 1958
-Description: At an unidentified Air Force base in the Southwest US, two -jets are vectored in on two UFOs flying together as seen on radar. As -the jets close in, one UFO disappears from the radarscope and quickly -reappears behind the first jet. The first pilot reverses his course and -again tries to close in. The UFO climbs out of range. The second pilot -has the same difficulty with the other UFO. (“UFO -Chase by AF Jets Revealed to NICAP,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 8 (June -1959): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3171

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Event 4671 -(ECCD2B52)

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Date: summer 1958
-Description: Evening. A mechanic at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, allegedly -sees a disc-like craft hovering silently above the tarmac. As the object -retracts its landing gear, he manages to alert another mechanic in time -for them both to see it take off at high speed. The Air Force officers -who interrogate them tell them the object was also seen by control tower -operators. (Good Need, p. 223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3172

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Event 4672 -(631C6D87)

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Date: 6/25/1958
-Description: 8:05 p.m. Rádio Renascença in Lisbon, Portugal, broadcasts -a Portuguese-language version of The War of the Worlds with only the -names of characters and places changed. The Martians are supposedly -landing in Caracavelos, Portugal. A certain amount of confusion results. -(John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, McFarland, 2009, -pp. 120–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3183

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Event 4673 -(1AD9FDDF)

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Date: 6/26/1958
-Description: The New York sector becomes the first operational component -of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, a system of large computers -that coordinates data from many radar sites and processes it to produce -a single unified image of airspace over a wide area. SAGE directs and -controls the NORAD response to a Soviet air attack, operating in this -role from the late 1950s into the 1980s. Its enormous computers and huge -displays remain a part of Cold War lore. (Wikipedia, “Semi-Automatic -Ground Environment”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3184

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Event 4674 -(DC787C39)

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Date: 6/28/1958
-Description: Otis -T. Carr and Norman Evans Colton appear on the Long -John Nebel show on WOR-AM in New York City. After Carr praises his -mentor, Nikola -Tesla, another guest asks Carr to enumerate one or two of his -discoveries. Carr feigns a memory lapse, then later is unable to recite -even one of Newton’s -three laws of motion. (Clark III 860)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3185

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Event 4675 -(29CA1B58)

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Date: 6/28/1958
-End date: 6/29/1958
-Description: Lee -Childers Jr., a baker from Detroit, Michigan, speaks at a flying -saucer convention near Mountain View, Missouri, in the Ozarks hosted by -contactee Buck -Nelson. He -claims that since April 1955 he has made 21 trips to other planets (and -even to “Wolf Star 359 in the Titanian system” that has 2 planets -revolving around it) on a saucer piloted by a spaceman named Commander -Marcosan. He also went to a space station 2,000 miles in diameter called -Trijanon. Other people tell their personal fantastic stories, among them -Wayne -Aho and Buck Nelson himself. (“Out-of-This-World -Ozark Convention,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 6, 1958, p. 71; -Clark III 915)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3186

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Event 4676 -(A87A3E6B)

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Date: 6/29/1958
-Description: Day. Former RAF Flight Engineer Peter Spencer is flying in -an Auster aircraft piloted by Dennis Jackson at 800 feet near the docks -at Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. A large black dumbbell appears below -them, flying against the wind. Suddenly it rises up to their height and -flies along with them for a while at their speed. Then it accelerates in -a terrific burst of speed to a position above them. They try to follow -it, but it speeds out over the docks at 1,000 feet and 800 mph. Spencer -manages to take three photos of it, but the images show a speed blur. -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958, May–July, -The Author, 1999, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3187

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Event 4677 -(5FA618DE)

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Date: 7/1958
-Description: Night. A 509th Refueling Mission is returning to an Air -Force Base in New Hampshire [Pease AFB in Portsmouth?] from Goose Bay -[now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador. The crew is flying a KC-97 at about -17,000– 18,000 feet. A light like a “moving star” appears. It approaches -below the cloud cover and seems to be spherical and as bright as Venus. -It soon becomes the apparent size of the Moon, lighting up the clouds -above it. The light is a brilliant blue-white with two dark spots, -possibly indicating a structure. The object angles upwards and speeds -out of sight in 5 seconds. (Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case -Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, -pp. 24–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3190

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Event 4678 -(BA374A49)

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Date: 7/1958
-Description: President Dwight -Eisenhower requests permission from Pakistan to establish a secret -US intelligence facility at Badaber (Peshawar Air Station) to fly U-2 -reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union. (Wikipedia, “1960 -U-2 incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3188

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Event 4679 -(A972029A)

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Date: 7/1958
-Description: Dusk. Michael -D. Swords and his brother Tom are at home in St. Albans, West -Virginia, and listening to WCHS- AM radio where someone is calling in a -UFO report. They rush to a window and see a domed disc with a revolving -top cruise quietly across the landscape. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know -Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January 2006): 12; Michael D. -Swords)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3189

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Event 4680 -(03403CE3)

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Date: 7/1958
-End date: 9/1958
-Description: A civilian in Washington, D.C., manages to repeatedly -photograph “geometrically shaped flying objects as they passed between -his telescope and the moon.” The photos are “remarkably clear and -certainly indicated a phenomenon for which he had no ready explanation.” -The writer of an October 1 memo, a CIA employee, requests advice on “how -we might get our hands on these materials to examine them firsthand and -to make a more complete analysis of them.” (ClearIntent, pp. 136–137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3191

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Event 4681 -(8024E968)

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Date: 7/17/1958
-Description: Keyhoe writes -to Ruppelt to -say he is puzzled about his current stance on UFOs, but understands that -he might be under pressure from the Air Force. (Michael Hall and Wendy -Connors, “The -Forgotten Correspondence of Edward -J. Ruppelt: The Story behind Report -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” pp. 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3192

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Event 4682 -(BD98CE07)

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Date: 7/18/1958
-Description: 8:30 p.m. High-school student Chris Kauffman is gazing at -the night sky in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he sees an object shaped -like an equilateral triangle pass directly overhead in a north to south -direction at 70–100 mph and 1,000 feet altitude for 10 seconds. It is -flying with one point of the triangle as a forward edge and has 12 small -orange lights along its edges. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958, -May–July, The Author, 1999, pp. 76–77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3193

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Event 4683 -(D496CFC1)

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Date: 7/29/1958
-Description: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration succeeds -the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. The new agency is to -have a distinctly civilian orientation, encouraging peaceful -applications in space science. (Wikipedia, “NASA”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3194

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Event 4684 -(698F8A6E)

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Date: 7/29/1958
-Description: An Associated Press writer in Alamogordo, New Mexico, sees -an abridged version of Carl -Jung’s 1954 letters on UFOs in the APRO Bulletin and jumps to the -conclusion that the psychologist believes them to be extraterrestrial in -origin. (Carl Jung, “On -Unconventional Aerial Objects,” APRO Bulletin, July 1958, pp. 1, 5; -“Dr. Jung -Says ‘Saucers’ Exist: Bars Psychological Explanations,” New York -Times, July 30, 1958, p. 13; Clark III 637)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3195

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Event 4685 -(4415AE69)

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Date: 7/30/1958
-Description: Ruppelt writes -Keyhoe back, -saying he has “always been convinced that UFO’s were nothing more than -reports of airplanes, balloons, astronomical phenomena, etc.” He says he -is not being intimidated, he is just not interested in UFOs anymore and -too busy. (Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The -Forgotten Correspondence of Edward -J. Ruppelt: The Story behind Report -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3196

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Event 4686 -(3B4CD1D0)

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Date: 7/30/1958
-Description: MP George -Chetwynd presses further questions in the UK House of Commons by -asking the Secretary of State for Air George -Ward what action is taken to identify unexplained UFOs. Ward replies -that the unidentified reports are “not sufficiently precise.” (“More -Questions in House of Commons,” Flying Saucer Review 4, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1958): iv; Good Above, pp. 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3197

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Event 4687 -(88BC79DE)

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Date: 8/1958
-Description: Polish Air Force pilot Apoloniusz Czernów of the 3rd -Fighter Regiment in Warsaw, is returning from an attempted balloon -interception in the area around Świdnica, Poland. Flying at 26,000 feet, -he sees another possible balloon 9 miles away at a height of 3,200 feet -and turns his MiG-17 toward it. But when he approaches it, he sees it is -a cigar-shaped object tilted at a 45° angle, silvery-orange in color, -and pulsating with a weird light. He gets closer and the object ascends -at high speed, heads north, changes to orange-red, and disappears. Base -radar has detected nothing. (Poland 63–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3198

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Event 4688 -(D0B99D08)

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Date: 8/1/1958
-Description: The Teak thermonuclear test, part of Operation Hardtack I, -is launched from Johnston Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean and carries a -payload of 3.8 megatons. The warhead is carried on a Redstone missile, -which has a “program failure,” causing it to go straight up and detonate -directly above the island. In a sanitized film record of the event, men -in flip-flops and shorts can be seen ducking for cover as a phenomenal -fireball consumes the sky overhead. During the Teak test, all crew on -and around Johnston Atoll are given protective eyewear to prevent flash -blindness from the explosion. Besides the hazard of blindness, thermal -radiation is another concern—even at an altitude of 50 miles. A crew -member on Johnston at the time is said to have received a slight sunburn -from the amount of thermal radiation that had reached the island. While -only slight to the crew member, it creates issues for the local fauna. -Many birds are seen in distress. Unsure if this is caused by blindness -or thermal radiation, the project members decide to take precautions to -protect local wildlife during the next test. The explosion can be seen -from Hawaii 806 miles away and is said to be visible for almost half an -hour. After the explosion, high- frequency, long-distance communication -is interrupted across the Pacific. Due to this failure, Johnston Atoll -personnel are unable to contact their superiors to advise of the test -results until about 8 hours after the detonation. The detonation -disturbs Wernher -Von Braun so greatly that he leaves the island shortly after comms -are restored. The explosion causes the blue sky to turn red, white, and -gray, and it creates an aurora 2,100 miles long along the geomagnetic -meridian. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Hardtack I”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 170–171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3199

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Event 4689 -(2A18E76C)

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Date: 8/3/1958
-Description: 2:25 a.m. A sudden violet-orange brightness illuminates the -sky over Rome, Italy, for about 3 seconds. Lights in the city dim, -failing completely in some areas. Physician Angelo Corsi witnesses it 37 -miles southeast of Rome in Sgurgola. After his car radio fails, and the -house and streetlights go out, he sees a long whitish trail like a fan -in the sky. At 2:22 a.m., in Rieti a sergeant and some guards see a -yellow-green cigar-shaped object moving rapidly toward the southeast. It -leaves a luminous trail that lights up roads, mountains, and houses for -several seconds. A similar sight is seen in Naples. (Schopick, -pp. 142–143; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: 1958 August–September, The Author, 1999, pp. 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3200

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Event 4690 -(13218CAD)

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Date: 8/8/1958
-Description: An informal two-hour hearing on UFOs is held by the House -Subcommittee on Atmospheric Phenomena, chaired by Rep. William -Natcher (D-Ky.), which is part of the Select Committee on -Astronautics and Space Exploration, chaired by Rep. John -W. McCormack (D-Mass.). Although McCormack wants an extended hearing -in closed secret session, unrecorded, ATIC Capt. George -T. Gregory persuades him to allow the Air Force to give a briefing, -while allowing people like Menzel, -Ruppelt, -and Keyhoe to -offer their opinions later. NICAP as a whole should be excluded, he -emphasizes. The main witnesses turn out to be Gregory and Maj. Tacker. -The subcommittee, which also includes Kenneth -Keating (R-N.Y.) and Lee -Metcalf (D-Mont.), commends Gregory for his presentation on Project -Blue Book’s “improved” methods. The hearings were to have been extended -to the following week, but they decide to call no more witnesses at the -suggestion of scientific consultant Dr. Charles -S. Sheldon -II, who -thus maneuvers Keyhoe out of appearing. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September, The -Author, 1999, pp. 5–27; Swords 277–279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3201

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Event 4691 -(F9CBCD87)

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Date: 8/9/1958
-Description: Carl -Jung issues a denial to the Associated Press about his -“extraterrestrial” statement, saying that witnesses are “in need of -fantasy.” He thinks “something is being seen,” but his interest is more -in what they think they are seeing. (“Dr. Jung -Says Flying Saucers Are a New ‘Savior Myth,’” St. Louis -Post-Dispatch, August 9, 1958, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3202

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Event 4692 -(E78D3C1F)

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Date: 8/11/1958
-Description: The Orange thermonuclear test is launched by Redstone -missile from Johnston Atoll with a yield of 3.8 megatons. Although -Orange is visible from Hawaii, it is not the great spectacle Teak had -been. The light from the 28-mile-high blast is visible for about 5 -minutes, but does not cause a large communication interruption; however, -some commercial flights to Hawaii are said to have lost contact with air -traffic controllers for a short period of time. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Hardtack I”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3203

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Event 4693 -(B4CC7621)

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Date: 8/11/1958
-Description: Betty Jane Williamson dies in Lima, Peru, when her husband -George -Hunt Williamson is on a lecture tour in Europe. Her death is caused -by malnutrition generated by an alternative diet regimen. James -W. Moseley later circulates an outrageously false accusation that -Williamson killed Betty by pushing her off a cliff, but the charge is a -complete fabrication. (Clark III 1286; James W. Moseley and Karl T. -Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing -Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 137–138; Jerome Clark, “The -Trivialist,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 15–19, 29–30; Zirger and -Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, -2016, pp. 117, 123–124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3204

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Event 4694 -(EDBD0EDC)

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Date: 8/16/1958
-Time: 1700
-Description: A dozen people out on the lake in perfect weather saw a -bright light coming down. They stopped their boat as it came to hover -about 15 m above them. It was saucer-shaped, 10 m in diameter, with a -cabin showing several windows on top. The outer disk below the cabin was -spinning. As it came down toward the water, a noticeable current was -created. No noise or occupants were noticed. After several leaps in -mid-air, the craft flew off at “unbelievable” speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Leman Lake, Switzerland
-ID: 469

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Event 4695 -(F9B1C76D)

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Date: 8/16/1958
-Description: Around 5:00 p.m. Several persons on Lake Geneva, -Switzerland, watch a bright light descending. It comes to hover about 45 -feet above their boat. It is saucer-shaped, about 39 feet in diameter, -and has a cabin on top with several windows. It causes a noticeable -current in the water. After several leaps in the air, it flies off at -high speed. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 272)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3205

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Event 4696 -(AA721BFE)

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Date: 8/17/1958
-Time: 7:05 PM
-Description: Witness: A.D. Chisholm. One extremely bright object shaped -first like a bell, then like a saucer, hovered for 5 minutes, flipped -over and sped away to the west-south-west. Sighting lasted 6-10 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Warren, Michigan
-ID: 428

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Event 4697 -(451ED685)

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Date: 8/18/1958
-Description: 7:05 or 7:10 p.m. Typewriter repairman Alex Donald Chisholm -is at home at 21950 Cunningham Avenue in Warren, Michigan, with Walter -Moilanion and his wife and possibly a young daughter, when he sees a -light much brighter than Venus in the vicinity of a flight of four -military aircraft. He watches the object through 8x30 mm Japanese -artillery-observer field glasses. It looks to be a Saturn-shaped grayish -object like a “fried egg in pan.” Later it flips over, and another more -elongated ring can be seen surrounding it. The object is about 60 feet -long and is stationary for 5-8 minutes. However, the object is probably -a Skyhook balloon launched from the University of Minnesota on August -17. (Clark III 392; NICAP, [case -file])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3206

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Event 4698 -(65BA5DBA)

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Date: 8/27/1958
-End date: 9/6/1958
-Description: In Operation Argus, three nuclear warheads are launched -from X-17 rockets from the deck of the USS -Norton Sound in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South -Africa. They explode approximately 300 miles into space. The tests are -proposed by Nicholas -Christofilos in an unpublished paper of the Livermore branch [now -the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory] of the Lawrence Radiation -Laboratory in Berkeley, California, as a means to verify the -Christofilos effect, which argues that high-altitude nuclear detonations -will create a radiation belt in the extreme upper regions of the Earth’s -atmosphere (they do create artificial electron belts that persist -several weeks), or an electronic pulse that could hypothetically damage -the arming devices on Soviet ICBM warheads (they do not). (Wikipedia, -“Operation -Argus”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3207

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Event 4699 -(195EBEEC)

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Date: 9/1958
-Description: Around 9:00 p.m. The USS -Franklin -D. Roosevelt is on a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea out of -Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, when at least 25 of the 3,000 crew -members notice a light following the aircraft carrier. Fireman’s -apprentice Chester -C. Grusinski watches it as it comes close and sees a cigar-shaped -object with portholes and figures inside looking out. Grusinki can feel -heat coming from the object, and some of the ship’s power apparently -goes out. After a few minutes, the object turns red-orange and takes -off. (Chester C. Grusinski, “UFOs -Seen by Crew of an American Aircraft Carrier (1952–1958),” Flying -Saucer Review 40, no. 3 (Autumn 1995): 1–4; Gordon Creighton, “Confirmation -of an Important U.S. Naval Sighting,” Flying Saucer Review 46, no. 2 -(Summer 2001): 17–20; Good Need, pp. 234–236)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3209

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Event 4700 -(07E8AC12)

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Date: 9/1958
-Description: NICAP fires its office manager, treasurer, and typist Rose -Hackett Campbell after she gives membership cards to George -Adamski and other contactees. Richard -H. Hall begins work at NICAP as associate editor. (“Resignations,” -UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 (Aug./Sept. 1958): 2; “Richard -Hall Becomes Assoc. Editor,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 5 -(Aug./Sept. 1958): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3208

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Event 4701 -(3F9537D6)

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Date: 9/1/1958
-Time: 2130
-Description: About 11 km before Laval, a businessman coming from Paris -suddenly saw a motionless object, 10 m above ground, to the left of the -road, 150 m away. It was shaped like two cones with a common base and -showed two rows of about ten openings in the middle section. It seemed -about 20 m wide, metallic, with a light similar to that of a red traffic -light shining through the windows. The witness had time to stop and -maneuvered to get the object in his headlight beams. Throughout the -observation a whistling sound such as that of a jet aircraft was heard. -The object rose very slowly, flew off faster climbing out of -sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 119 (Vallee)
-Location: Laval, France
-ID: 470

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Event 4702 -(DC8C980D)

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Date: 9/1/1958
-Time: 12:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Philco technical representative A.M. Slaton. One -round, blue-white object flew at varying speeds. First sighting lasted 2 -minutes, second lasted 1.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wheelus AFB, Libya
-ID: 429

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Event 4703 -(47B8C465)

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Date: 9/8/1958
-Description: 6:40 p.m. At Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska, SAC Operations -Officer Maj. Paul -A. Duich, plus -several officers from USAF Ballistic Missiles Division, Los Angeles AFB -in El Segundo, California; many other air base officers and airmen; and -Offutt air traffic control tower personnel see a brilliant-white, -elongated, cylindrical object hovering in the west just after sunset. -The object is oriented vertically with the blunter end highest. After -several minutes, the object turns dull orange-red and becomes sharper in -outline. A swarm of about 10 “black specks” appears to “cavort” around -the lower end of the object for about one minute before disappearing. -Then the cylindrical object begins to rotate counterclockwise and starts -drifting slowly to the south from due west and drops in elevation angle -over about 5 minutes. During the final 5-minute observation, the object -continues angular descent and gradually decreases in angular size, but -it begins rotating clockwise until it disappears by fading into the -slight atmospheric haze. A USAF colonel takes several color photos with -a 35mm camera on a tripod but later claims nothing came out. (Loren E. -Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September, The -Author, 1999, pp. 59–63; UFOEv, pp. 25, -27; -Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 -(Spring 2004): 5–6; Sparks, -p. 265; Swords 280)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3210

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Event 4704 -(B9C9497F)

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Date: 9/12/1958
-Description: The Operation Hardtack II series of 37 nuclear tests takes -place at the Nevada Test Site through October 30, all within 18 miles of -Area 51. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Hardtack II”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3211

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Event 4705 -(4A26ACBC)

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Date: 9/21/1958
-Time: 0300
-Description: A circular, flat object, 7 m in diameter, 2 m thick, -hovering 1.5 m above ground, and making a jetlike sound was seen from a -house by a civilian woman. Its color was that of aluminum; it had a -wobbling motion and emitted gray smoke before rising again and taking -off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Sheffield Lake, Ohio
-ID: 471

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Event 4706 -(C9FBA80A)

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Date: 9/21/1958
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Mrs. William H. Fitzgerald of Sheffield Lake, -Ohio, sees through her east-facing bedroom window a metallic domed disc, -12–22 feet in diameter and 6 feet thick. It sweeps in over the front -lawn heading north and descending in a falling-leaf oscillating motion -to about 6 feet altitude, then crosses over her driveway, and stops for -several seconds about 40 feet away. It then reverses course heading -south and hovers 5 feet above the lawn about 25 feet away, making a -jetlike sound. The object wobbles and emits gray smoke, makes two tight -clockwise turns, then rises and takes off straight up over the house -towards the east. Her 10-year-old son also observes the event from -another room. (NICAP, “12ʹ -Diameter 6ʹ Thick Disc within 40ʹ”; UFO Ev, p. 113; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 -August–September, The -Author, 1999, pp. 68–72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3212

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Event 4707 -(5E401FB9)

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Date: 9/25/1958
-Description: The Project Moonwatch team in Portland, Oregon, is looking -at the Moon when they see objects crossing the lunar disc. Occasionally -they recognize the transit as a bird, but there are “tiny dark objects” -that behave differently. All the object pass in the same direction and -in the same location for about one second. Supervisor Alex Geddes, who -was not present, sends a supportive letter to the observers, thanking -them for the data. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, -no. 4 (October 2009): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3213

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Event 4708 -(27F8B8FB)

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Date: 9/29/1958
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Pvt. Jerome A. Scanlon, stationed at Nike missile -base W-93 in Derwood, Maryland, is walking from his sentry post to the -barracks to sound reveille when he hears a humming sound above him. He -looks up and sees a teardrop-shaped object 300 feet up and coming in for -a landing at 30 mph. It moves over trees, breaking branches, and lands -about 1.5 miles away. Exhaust flames issue from its rear, and its -luminous green skin illuminates the terrain. It rises again and -disappears. Scanlon runs to inform Riney Farris, the sergeant of the -guard, who has also seen the object. They go to the landing site and -find broken branches and a scorched strip of earth and vegetation about -half a mile long. After the story appears in newspapers, the Air Force -explains it as repair trucks doing welding jobs. (“Brass to Hear GI’s -Account of Fiery ‘Saucer,’” New York Journal- American, October 7, 1958; -“‘Saucer’ Landed, Say Two Soldiers,” Goldsboro (N.C.) Record, October 9, -1958; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 90–91; Loren E. -Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1958 August–September, The -Author, 1999, p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3214

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Event 4709 -(D2ED304D)

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Date: 10/1958
-Description: Maj. Robert -J. Friend takes over as head of Project Blue Book, relieving -Capt. George -T. Gregory. About -this time, a new USAF fact sheet states that investigative improvements -have reduced unsolved sightings to 1.8%. The “refinement” comes from -lumping “probable” and “possible” identifications into “identified.” At -the same time, a secret staff study by USAF intelligence officers -addresses the public relations problems caused by Keyhoe, -who is characterized as a “political adventurer” allied with Ruppelt, both -of whom are in the UFO “business” strictly for the money. Yet together -“they represent a formidable team from which plenty of trouble can be -expected.” The study recommends that 18–20 personnel be assigned to -temporary UFO investigation duty. They would solve reports that have not -been sent directly to Blue Book. Though ATIC urges implementation of the -plan, Air Force Headquarters kills it. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in -America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 146–151; -Clark III 920; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 25–27; -Sparks, -p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3215

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Event 4710 -(E1F47BCC)

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Date: 10/1/1958
-Description: NASA begins operations. It includes three major labs: -Langley Aeronautical Laboratory [now Langley Research Center] in -Hampton, Virginia; Ames Aeronautical Laboratory [now Ames Research -Center] in Mountain View, California; and Lewis Flight Propulsion -Laboratory [now Glenn Research Center] in Brook Park, Ohio. It -incorporates elements of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and the US -Naval Research Laboratory. (Wikipedia, “NASA”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3216

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Event 4711 -(22D5A5AD)

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Date: 10/2/1958
-Time: 2:30 PM
-Description: Witness: naturalist Ivan Sanderson. One dull-grey object, -shaped like a pickle with a flat bottom, flew erratically and made loops -for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
-ID: 430

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Event 4712 -(CA4941DF)

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Date: 10/2/1958
-Description: Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Naturalist Ivan -T. Sanderson sees a dull-gray object, shaped like a pickle with a -flat bottom, fly erratically in loops over the Delaware Water Gap near -Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. (NICAP, “Nickel- Shaped -Object Flies Loops (Sanderson Case)”; UFOEv, p. 52; -Sparks, p. 266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3217

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Event 4713 -(C1811AB9)

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Date: 10/3/1958
-Description: 3:10 a.m. A Monon Railroad freight train is traveling -between Owasco and Kirklin, Indiana, when a formation of four odd white -lights crosses ahead of the train. The entire crew watch the UFOs turn -and traverse the full length of the train, front to back (about a half -mile). After passing the rear of the train, the objects swing east, turn -back, and follow the train. The bright glow conceals their exact shape, -but they appear flattened and sometimes fly on edge. The objects follow -the train until the conductor shines a bright light on them. Immediately -the objects speed away, but return quickly and continue to pace the -train. Total time of observation is about 1 hour 10 minutes. Finally the -UFOs move away to the northeast and disappear. (NICAP, “The -Monon RR UFO Incident”; -“They’re -Back Again—in Indiana,” APRO Bulletin, November 1958, 1, 3; Frank -Edwards, “UFO Buzzes Train,” Fate 12, no. 2 (February 1959): -25–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3218

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Event 4714 -(E47696EC)

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Date: 10/7/1958
-Description: 2:55 p.m. Joseph Gwooz, master of the SS -Nantucket, sees a gray, oval object in the sky at an altitude of -8,000–10,000 feet at the entrance to the Nantucket Channel, -Massachusetts. It remains stationary for more than one minute, then -shoots up and away to the northeast. (UFOEv, p. 71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3219

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Event 4715 -(460E712A)

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Date: 10/7/1958
-Description: 6:02 p.m. Chemist John R. Townsend, special assistant for -research and engineering to the Assistant Secretary of Defense, sees a -large, stationary, sharply outlined Saturn-shaped silvery object (with a -“gossamer” surface appearance and a rim or girdle around its equator) in -a clear sky in Alexandria, Virginia. It rapidly rises at an estimated -speed of 1,000 mph and disappears to the south after 40 seconds. At one -point a passing Capitol Airlines Flight 407 flies directly between his -line of sight and the UFO at 2 miles distance, allowing him to estimate -the UFO’s size as about 500 feet. Townsend reenacts the timing by -walking the half block down Lee Street to get a better feeling for its -distance and size. (NICAP, “Saturn-Shaped -Object Observed, Object Confirmed -by Pilot”; Swords 282; Sparks, -p. 267)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3220

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Event 4716 -(3A5AEDA4)

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Date: 10/26/1958
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Alvin Cohen and Phillip Small are rounding a -curve on Maryland Route 146 some 600–900 feet south of the bridge at -Loch Raven Reservoir, Maryland. They see a large (100 feet long) -egg-shaped object hanging 100–150 feet above the bridge. When they drive -to within 75 feet of it their car stalls and the dash lights turn off. -They get out of the car and watch the UFO from behind it for 30–45 -seconds. The UFO flashes a beam of white light and they feel heat on -their faces. They also hear a dull explosion. The UFO rises vertically -and disappears in 5–10 seconds. They are able to start the car and drive -into Towson, Maryland, to make a phone call to the Ground Observer Corps -and the police. Police Cpl. Kenneth Hartmann and Patrolman Richard Fink -drive up and they tell them the story, then they go to St. Joseph’s -Hospital in Baltimore and are given a cursory examination for burns. -Other people in the neighborhood either see an object at the time or -hear the boom. (“Baltimore’s -Flying Saucer,” Baltimore (Md.) Evening Sun, December 15, 1958, -p. 21; NICAP, “Egg-Shaped Object -& E-M Effects over Bridge”; Schopick, -pp. 62–63; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1958 October, The -Author, 1999, pp, 73–86; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine -ed., 1974, pp. 132, 139–140; -Sparks, -p. 268; Clark III 686)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3221

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Event 4717 -(D94E8F69)

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Date: 10/27/1958
-Description: An object resembling a large gray cigar with an assembly -tail flew at treetop height, making a strong “swishing” sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Union Dale, Pennsylvania
-ID: 472

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Event 4718 -(88CFCAD5)

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Date: 10/27/1958
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Phillip Small, Alvin Cohen. One large, flat -egg-shaped object affected a car’s electrical system and caused a -burning sensation on one of its occupants. Sighting lasted 1 -minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lock Raven Dam, Maryland
-ID: 431

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Event 4719 -(5EC80ABB)

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Date: 10/31/1958
-Time: 1550
-Description: A civilian reported an eliptical, aluminum-colored object -at 2 km altitude, coming down to 4 m, flying up and down by sudden -jumps, stopping at ground level less than 200 m away for five min. A red -light appeared at one end of the object, which gradually took a fiery -color, then exploded. The witness ran away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Caledon East, Canada
-ID: 473

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Event 4720 -(6CDFF27A)

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Date: 11/1958
-Time: 0500
-Description: Two soldiers of the Territorial Army on an exercise near -Ballater heard a “gurgling noise” and saw two figures, over 2 m tall, -dressed in peculiar suits. As they fled, they heard a “swishing” noise -and saw a large disk flying at ground level, which then swooped over -their heads and away, pulsating and leaving a sparkling trail. Witnesses -were in a state of shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Braemar, Scotland
-ID: 474

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Event 4721 -(4329EAB5)

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Date: 11/1958
-Description: Skandinavisk UFO Information in Denmark begins publishing -UFO-Nyt. (UFO-Nyt, November -1958) November 3 — 2:01 p.m. At Minot, North Dakota, M/Sgt. William R. -Butler, a medic, sees one bright-green object, shaped like a 10-cent -piece, and one smaller, silver round object. The first object explodes, -then the second object moves toward the location of the first at high -speed. Sighting lasts 1 minute. (Sparks, -p. 268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3222

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Event 4722 -(B328E895)

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Date: 11/3/1958
-Time: 2:01 PM
-Description: Witness: M/Sgt. William R. Butler, medic. One bright green -object, shaped like a 10 cent piece, and one smaller, silver round -object. First object exploded, then second object moved toward the -location of the first at high speed. Sighting lasted 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Minot, North Dakota
-ID: 432

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Event 4723 -(873ED1E9)

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Date: 11/4/1958
-Description: 9:03 p.m. The pilot of a KB-50 USAF tanker is in the -downwind leg of the traffic pattern during a ground- controlled approach -to Pope AFB [now Pope Field] in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when he -notices an object on a collision course. He and his flight crew also -notice that “strange lights were observed in his cockpit while he was on -the final approach…” He executes a go-around maneuver and climbs in -altitude to await the disappearance of the object. Air Force tower -personnel also see the UFO hovering above the airport, watching it -through their binoculars for 20 minutes. They are convinced it is not an -atmospheric phenomenon. They say that “the UFO presented a hazard to -aircraft operating in the area.” (NICAP, “Object -on Collision Course with KB-50 Tanker, Circles”; -Richard F. Haines, “Aviation -Safety in America: A Previously Neglected Factor,” NARCAP, October -15, 2000, pp. 53–54; Sparks, p. 268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3223

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Event 4724 -(1C293533)

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Date: 11/5/1958
-Description: MP Roy -Mason asks the Air Minister in the UK House of Commons to what -extent official records are kept of UFO sightings and what departments -are involved. Air Minister George -Ward replies in writing that reports involving national security are -investigated but “nothing suggests that they are other than mundane.” -(“Come -Off It, Mr. Ward! ‘Nothing Suggests That They Are Other Than -Mundane,’” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1959): 2; Good -Above, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3224

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Event 4725 -(DA0782F7)

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Date: 11/9/1958
-Description: Residents of Trinidad, Rio Dell, and other towns in -northern California report showers of cobweblike material, some in -strands 5–6 feet long. Two fishermen at sea, George -Korkan and Jack Curry, say the substance settles on their boat in -such quantity that it makes the boat appear “a million years old.” A -sample obtained at McKinleyville is examined by biologist Erwin Bielfuss -at Humboldt State College. He rules out mold or an animal product and -suggests it is plant material or plastic. (“Cobweb -Like Substance in Area Mystifies Zoologist,” -Eureka (Calif.) Humboldt Standard, November 10, 1958, p. 5; UFOEv, p. 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3225

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Event 4726 -(C2B31D17)

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Date: 11/9/1958
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two carpenters, Stig Ekberg and Harry Sjöberg, -are returning from Stockholm, Sweden, to their cabin on Väddö island, -about 20 miles to the northeast. About 6 miles north of Älmstä their car -engine begins to sputter and fail, and the headlights go out. They see a -huge, shining object descending toward them and making a turn above -Väddö Bay to the left of the road. It lands in the middle of the road -about 300 feet in front of their car, its neon glow illuminating the -landscape. They estimate it is 53 feet long and 20 feet high, with a -bright glow underneath the object and a dazzling mist surrounding it. -They watch the object for about 10 minutes, then it rises from the road -and shoots into the sky to their right. Afterward, the air is stifling -and hot, but the engine starts up right away. A few minutes later they -return to the landing site and find flattened grass and a still-hot, -smooth, triangular piece of metal the size of a matchbox, which they -retrieve. They submit the metal to several labs over the next few years, -apparently without ambiguous results, but in the process it is split -into three pieces. Finally, an engineer in Linköping named Schalin finds -the metal has the hardness of sapphire and a specific weight of 15.2. It -can take several thousand degrees C. heat without getting red hot. One -of the pieces is submitted to the US Air Force and not returned. In the -early 1970s, another piece is examined by James -Harder at the University of California, Berkeley, who establishes it -is composed of tungsten carbide, cobalt, and traces of titanium, and -that it has been manufactured. (Christer Nordin, “The -Väddö Case,” Nordic UFO Newsletter, no. 1 (1981): 2–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3226

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Event 4727 -(2BAD304C)

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Date: 11/11/1958
-Description: 1:35 a.m. A Mrs. Kinney, who is a Lt. Col. in the Civil Air -Patrol in Topeka, Kansas, wakes up when her bedroom floods with an -amber-colored light and her three dogs begin barking. The source is a -25-foot diameter sphere that is sitting on the walkway in the yard about -30 feet away. Kinney opens a door to go out on a porch, but the light -zooms straight up and out of sight. She goes back to bed and the phone -rings; it is a neighbor who has seen the light going toward her house. -At 7:30 a.m., the phone rings again; this time it is the controllers at -the Philip Billard Municipal Airport, who know her well and tell her -about the light they saw. In the evening, she finds there is an -electrical failure on the east side of the house. Lights, radios, and -refrigerators are not working. Kinney replaces some fuses, but not -everything turns on again. An electrician comes and replaces some wiring -on November 12, but Kinney’s eyes develop subconjunctival hemorrhages -and sensitivity to bright light. She begins to wear sunglasses -regularly. Both of her male dogs develop cataracts. (Swords -287–288)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3227

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Event 4728 -(4CB5E16B)

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Date: 11/17/1958
-Description: 10:03 p.m. Somewhere in Russia a luminous object hovers and -lands. It is seen for 2 minutes. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 273)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3228

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Event 4729 -(457B0287)

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Date: 11/17/1958
-Time: 2203
-Description: A luminous object, with an apparent diameter greater than -that of the full moon, was seen coming down from a high altitude, -hovering at tree height, then landing. It was observed for two -min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Soviet Union, exact location not revealed
-ID: 475

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Event 4730 -(FA3D44B3)

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Date: 11/23/1958
-Time: 2335
-Description: An engineer, Julio M. Ladaleto, stopped when his car hit a -can rolling on the road, then observed an object about 35 m away. It was -shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a -bluish, pulsating light, 12 m diameter, 7 m high, resting on three -half-spheres. An occupant 2.5 m tall was photographed by the witness as -he crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. He wore a blue -coverall and luminescent heelless boots, and had a bald head. The -observation lasted 10 min, after which the object took off with a -whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had -revaled anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange -“newsmen” who appeared to know all the details of it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Settimana Incom. Sep. 16, 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Cojutepeque, San Salvador
-ID: 476

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Event 4731 -(6DDBA5B8)

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Date: 11/30/1958
-Description: Tom Gerber of the Boston Herald features interviews with -unnamed Air Force officers who proclaim an “undeclared war on phony -organizations that capitalize on the ‘mystery’ of flying saucers.” -Supposedly, the Air Force has evidence that “perhaps as many as 100,000 -persons belong to these UFO organizations” and are “making a wad of -money.” As many as 16% of the UFO sightings investigated by USAF are -“hoaxes originated by members or officials of these organizations”—an -obvious swipe at NICAP. (Swords 282–283)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3229

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Event 4732 -(EC5BA04E)

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Date: 12/1958
-Description: Some 450 airline pilots have signed a petition protesting -the official policy of debunking UFO sightings. One pilot describes the -policy as a “lesson in lying, intrigue, and the ‘Big Brother’ attitude -carried to the ultimate extreme.” Of the signatories, more than 50 -personally have reported UFO sightings but are told by the Air Force -that they are mistaken. USAF warns them that they face up to 10 years in -prison under JANAP 146 if they reveal details of their sighting to the -media. Because of situations like this, Maj. Friend unsuccessfully -requests that Blue Book be transferred from ATIC to Air Research and -Development Command on the grounds that UFOs are a scientific, not a -military problem. His staff complains that the work is time-consuming -and unproductive, and ARDC could speak to the public with authority and -persuasiveness. ARDC briefly considers, then declines, the offer. (Good -Above, p. 284; -Clark III 922)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3231

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Event 4733 -(A68312A5)

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Date: 12/1958
-Description: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is -transferred to NASA from the Army, becoming the agency’s primary -planetary spacecraft center. (Wikipedia, “Jet -Propulsion Laboratory”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3230

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Event 4734 -(2421A751)

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Date: early 12/1958
-Description: Contactee Lee -Childers visits a New York City group called the Bureau of UFO -Research and Analysis to present a lecture. By now he is calling himself -Prince Neosom of Tythan, which is 8.5 light years from Earth. He also -answers to the name Dana. (Clark III 915)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3232

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Event 4735 -(D90402D9)

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Date: 12/6/1958
-Description: Between 6:38 and 6:40 p.m. Along the border of Russia and -India, an observer sees a bright UFO cross his field of vision through -his telescope from north to south as he is observing Mars. He thinks it -might be Sputnik 3, but the location and direction of the object do not -bear that out. (ClearIntent, pp. 137–138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3233

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Event 4736 -(5C5F16C4)

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Date: 12/6/1958
-Description: 5:44 a.m. The first launch of a Juno II, carrying Pioneer -3, at LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, suffers a premature first-stage -cutoff, preventing the upper stages from achieving sufficient velocity. -Pioneer 3 cannot escape Earth orbit but transmits data for some 40 hours -before reentering the atmosphere. A malfunction in a propellant -depletion circuit is found to be the cause of the failure, although the -exact nature of it cannot be determined. The circuit is redesigned -afterwards. (Wikipedia, “Juno -II”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3234

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Event 4737 -(2ED16313)

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Date: 12/19/1958
-Description: John Lester, a writer for the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, -has polled 1,000 US government radar operators over the past month and -found that 80% have observed UFOs traveling at fantastic speeds, -executing perfect 90° turns, steep vertical climbs, and hovering stops. -They fly in formation and manage to stay just ahead of USAF jets -scrambled to intercept them. Tacker responds -immediately that the UFOs are natural phenomena (“lightning, meteors, -and meteorites”). (Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, December 19, 21, -1958)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3235

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Event 4738 -(46B09D9A)

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Date: 12/20/1958
-Time: 1600
-Description: Approximate date. A disk of 20 m diameter was observed and -caused damage on the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
-Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France
-ID: 478

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Event 4739 -(099BC57E)

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Date: 12/20/1958
-Description: Patrolmen Le Roy A. Arboreen and B. Talada while on patrol -suddenly spotted a glowing red object which came directly toward them at -a phenomenal rate of speed from the West, Increasing rapidly in size, -then coming to an abrupt stop, it was ellipsoid in shape and solid -bright red while giving off a pulsating glow. After hovering a few -seconds it went straight up like a shot and faded beyond the stars. -Visibility: unlimited.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Dunellen, NJ

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Event 4740 -(E5203721)

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Date: 12/20/1958
-Time: 0255
-Description: Near Domsten, Hans Gustavsson, 35, and Stig Rydberg, 30, -saw something in the woods and stopped their car to observe it. They -found a disk about 5 m wide set on a tripod. All of a sudden they were -attacked by four gray-colored creatures described as “fluid,” but one -witness reached the car and blew the horn for help. The beings fled and -the craft took off, emitting “paralyzing vibrations.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. II 56 (Vallee)
-Location: Hoganas, Sweden
-ID: 477

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Event 4741 -(DF3C25E7)

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Date: 12/20/1958
-Description: 2:55 a.m. Hans Gustafsson, a 24-year-old truck driver, and -Stig Rydberg, a 30-year-old student, claim that while driving home to -Helsingborg, Sweden, from a dance they see a strange light in a glade on -their right near Domsten. They leave the car and walk up to the object, -which turns out to be a disc-shaped vehicle 16 feet in diameter resting -on 3 legs. The two are suddenly attacked by four gray creatures about 4 -feet tall who try to drag them to the UFO. In January 1959, a medical -doctor, Lars-Erik Essén, hypnotizes the men in what is perhaps the first -use of hypnosis of a UFO witness, but the two manage to fool Essén. In -the late 1980s, Gustafsson’s brother Artur reveals to ufologist Clas -Svahn that before he died his brother had told him the story was a -hoax. (Clark III 413–414; Rob Morphy, “Terrible -Flying Jelly Bags aka Domsten Blobs (Sweden),” Cryptopia, May 6, -2018; Swords 366–367; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, Domstensfallet: -En svensk närkontakt 1958, AFU, 1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3236

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Event 4742 -(206DC5C8)

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Date: 12/21/1958
-Description: A group of more than 50 commercial airline pilots, all of -whom have had at least one UFO sighting, tell reporter John Lester with -the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger that the Air Force policy of censorship -and denial regarding reports is the “Big Brother attitude carried to the -ultimate extreme.” Most express disgust with the USAF methods of -interrogating civilian pilots and complain about the gag order about -publicly talking about their sightings under penalty of 10 years in -prison or $10,000 in fines (JANAP 146). “Nuts to that. Who needs it?” -(Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, December 22, 1958; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a -History: 1958 November–December, The -Author, 1999, p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3237

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Event 4743 -(0FC701CF)

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Date: 12/22/1958
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Stanislaw Kowalczewski, a physician, takes a -photograph of a dark, disc-shaped object over Muszyna, Poland. (Hobana -and Weverbergh 67–68; Wiki Meteoritica, “Muszyna -1958”; Poland 21–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3238

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Event 4744 -(02C837A5)

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Date: 12/28/1958
-Time: afternoon
-Description: A black flying object, 2 m wide, cut a tree in two, 3 m -above ground, and did not stop. The tree in question is 70 cm wide and -13 m tall. This event was observed by a farmer named Bennett.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Portglenone, Ireland
-ID: 479

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Event 4745 -(45979B54)

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Date: 12/30/1958
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Joseph Bennett, a farmer in Portglenone, County -Antrim, Northern Ireland, is out walking and hears a noise like a rush -of wind. A black object 7 feet across comes hurtling through the air -about 20 feet above the ground. Moving from south to northwest, it -crashes into an oak tree, splitting it in two at a height of 10 feet, -then ascends and disappears in seconds. The tree has no burn or scorch -marks. (“UAOs -Collide with Tree, Roof,” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 2; “We’re -Not Roswell, We’re Portglenone,” Fortean Ireland, March 17, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3239

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- Event 4746 (22D30E4D)

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Date: 1959
-Description: George -Van Tassel claims the space people have taught him a method of -rejuvenating the human body. Using his new-found knowledge and funds -provided by Howard -Hughes, he -completes the outer structure of the Integraton at Giant Rock, -California, a four-story domed structure, 55 feet in diameter, built -mostly of wood without nails, screws, iron, or steel. Van Tassel claims -it will harness the EMF energy required for recharging the cells in our -bodies. In the course of its construction, Van Tassel discovers that the -Integraton functions as a time machine. (Wikipedia, “Integraton”; -Clark III 1219; Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts -of Outer Space, Abbeville, 1985, pp. 79–81; -David Clarke and Tom Clark, “Going ‘Out There’ in SoCal,” Fortean Times -388 (January 2020): 75–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3247

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Event 4747 -(BBD6F706)

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Date: 1959 (approximate)
-Description: According to weapons specialist David Middleton, sometime -in the late 1950s a few hours prior to a nuclear weapons test at the -Nevada Test Site, he and several other technicians watch two silver -discs race across then swoop down and maneuver near the detonation tower -where the atomic weapon is mounted. The two objects fly a tight circle -around the tower before zooming off at high velocity. The test is -immediately postponed by senior AEC personnel. Middleton is debriefed -and sworn to secrecy. (Nukes 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3240

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Event 4748 -(34BC7DCC)

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Date: 1959
-Description: The original US Navy Space Surveillance System goes into -operation. From 1960 until the early 1990s the system is used in -conjunction with a network of Baker-Nunn cameras that can see an object -the size of a basketball at 25,000 miles. The system is operated by the -US Navy for NORAD from 1961 to October 2004. Initially independent, it -is run by Naval Space Command from 1993 to 2002, and then by Naval -Network and Space Operations Command from 2002 to 2004, when it is taken -over by the Air Force. (Wikipedia, “Air -Force Space -Surveillance System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3241

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Event 4749 -(FBCDEC9C)

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Date: 1959
-Description: The US Army and CIA at Edgewood Arsenal at Aberdeen Proving -Ground, Maryland, show significant interest in deploying a new drug, -3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (BZ), as a chemical warfare agent. The drug’s -effects last for three days, perhaps as long as six. Between 1959 and -1975, some 2,800 soldiers are given BZ at Edgewood. (Reid Kirby, “Paradise -Lost: The Psycho Agents,” The CBW Conventions Bulletin, no. 71 (May -2006): 1–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3242

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Event 4750 -(8C301AD0)

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Date: 1959
-Description: Psychologist Carl -Jung publishes Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the -Skies in the UK, a translation of Ein moderner Mythus von Dingen, die am -Himmel gesehen werden, published in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1958, in -which he compares the discs to archetypes, dreams, visions, paintings, -and the metaphysical symbol of a mandala: “the rounded wholeness of the -mandala becomes a space ship controlled by an intelligent being.” -However, he remains puzzled by the physical evidence. (Carl Jung, Flying -Saucers: A Modern Myth -of Things Seen in the Skies, Routledge -& Kegan Paul, 1959; Clark III 637–638)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3243

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Event 4751 -(CBD6EAF4)

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Date: 1959
-Description: Author Hugo -Correa founds UFO Chile in Santiago, Chile. Its newsletter appears -from August 1967 to May 1969. (Hugo Correa, “¿Que -es ‘UFO Chile’?” UFO Chile, no. 1 (August 1967): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3244

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Event 4752 -(4FF35182)

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Date: 1959
-Description: The Soviet KGB has created its own disinformation -Department D (Dezinformatsiya) in the First Chief Directorate, which -under Yuri -Andropov is later renamed Department A (for “active measures”). It -specializes in the fabrication and dissemination of forged documents, -tapes, letters, manuscripts, photos, rumors, and false intelligence. -(Wikipedia, “Active -measures”; John Barron, KGB: -The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents, Bantam, 1974; Richard H. -Shultz and Roy Godson, Dezinformatsia: -Active Measures in Soviet Strategy, Pergamon-Brassey’s, -1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3245

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Event 4753 -(AB6CFA37)

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Date: 1959
-Description: Project SIGMA meets with success and establishes contact -with Aliens.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 4/15/64

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Event 4754 -(792780FD)

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Date: 1959
-Description: Contactee Howard -Menger publishes From Outer Space to You, an account of his meetings -with space people. (Howard Menger, From -Outer Space to You, Saucerian, -1959; Clark III 739)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3246

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Event 4755 -(CD0E138B)

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Date: 1/1959
-Description: Leonard Hewins sees a fiery, round object come down near -Stratford-on-Avon, England, from the east and land 300 feet away. A blue -haze forms and three figures emerge and sit down with clumsy movements. -Hewins is unable to move until the UFO takes off. (John D. Llewellyn, -“Stratford-on-Avon -Landing with Occupants: January -1959,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1967): 15; Patrick -Gross, URECAT, -March 9, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3248

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Event 4756 -(DD5C5498)

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Date: 1/1959
-Time: 1715
-Description: Leonard Hewins, of Tredington, saw a fiery, round object -come down from the east and land 100 m away. While a blue haze formed, -three figures emerged from the object and seemed to sit down with clumsy -movements. The witness was unable to move until the craft and its -occupants took off swiftly, leaving a trail of stars.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Stratford-on-Avon, Great Britain
-ID: 480

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Event 4757 -(1A777EE9)

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Date: 1/1/1959
-Description: Rocket scientist Wernher -von Braun, on -holiday in Germany, makes a cryptic statement about the failed launch of -Pioneer -3 by a Juno II rocket on December 6, 1958: “We find ourselves faced -by powers which are far stronger than we had hitherto assumed, and whose -base is at present unknown to us. More I cannot say at present. We are -now engaged in entering into closer contact with those powers, and in -six or nine months’ time it may be possible to speak with more precision -on the matter.” (Good Above, p. 370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3249

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Event 4758 -(D97AAA24)

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Date: 1/1/1959
-Description: 4:55 p.m. Deputy Fred Gunzelman of the Harbor Department in -Corona del Mar, California, spots a bright object outside department -headquarters. He summons Deputy Elmer Sandling and Sgt. Bruce Young and -the three watch the object through binoculars, where it appears to be a -disc-shaped object with a rotating tail. They notify the lifeguard -headquarters at Newport Beach, where Lt. Mike Henry, Guard Jack Bell, -and Lt. Jim Richards also see the UFO. The planet Venus is clearly -visible in the same section of sky. During the 15 minutes it is visible, -it starts moving to the southeast and then splits into four parts. Two -rise vertically at high speed, another heads southeast, and the last -remains stationary. (UFOEv, p. 137; -Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3250

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Event 4759 -(A4702835)

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Date: 1/11/1959
-Description: Wilbert -Smith speaks on UFOs at the Illuminating Engineering Society’s -Canadian Regional Conference in Ottawa, Ontario. He claims that “Various -items of ‘hardware’ are known to exist, but are usually clapped into -security and are not available to the general public.” (Frank Edwards, -FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3251

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Event 4760 -(5D8D5705)

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Date: 1/13/1959
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Robert Collins is driving a pickup truck south on -Hartstown Road across Pymatuning Lake, Pennsylvania, when he sees a -bright light approaching from the east and illuminating the ground. It -stops above his truck, hovering 200 feet above it for several minutes. -The truck’s electrical system fails, the engine dies, and the headlights -and radio go out. The object’s light illuminates an area about 300 feet -in front of him. It takes off and disappears in seconds, and the truck -begins working again. (“Area -Man’s Encounter with Unidentified Flying Object Called -Weirdest Experience,” Greenville (Pa.) Record-Argus, January 31, -1959, pp. 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3252

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Event 4761 -(896015E7)

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Date: 1/17/1959
-Description: George -Adamski arrives in Auckland, New Zealand, on the first stop on his -world lecture tour where he is received by North Island Adamski -Correspondence Group leaders Henk and -Brenda Hinfelaar for a 6-week engagement starting with a talk in Kaikohe -on January 20. (“World -Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; Marc Hallet, A -Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the Space -Brothers, The Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3253

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Event 4762 -(5868C78A)

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Date: 1/18/1959 (approximate)
-Description: Eight people see a UFO over Stigsjö, Sweden. The round -object, 18–24 feet in diameter, approaches slowly from the south over -Lake Länsjön at a height of 900 feet. It is surrounded by a luminous -ring 6 feet wide. It is visible for 3 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March, -The Author, 1999, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3254

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Event 4763 -(DFD65193)

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Date: 1/21/1959
-Description: 6:00 a.m. A flying object is seen crashing into the waters -of the harbor at Gdynia, Poland. Rumors later claim that a rust-free -fragment is retrieved by divers and, after being examined by the Polish -navy, sent to Gdynia Polytechnic University [possibly the Polish Naval -Academy]. A few days later, an injured occupant of the craft is -allegedly found wandering in the area. He speaks no known language, -wears an odd uniform, and apparently has burns on the face. He is taken -to a hospital, but he dies when doctors attempt to remove an armband. -His remains are said to have been shipped to the Soviet Union. (Hobana -and Weverbergh 1–2; Poland 25–28, 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3255

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Event 4764 -(5DB7A8BE)

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Date: 1/21/1959
-Description: MP Roy -Mason asks the Air Minister another question in the UK House of -Commons: What instructions have been sent to RAF stations about -collecting military UFO reports, and what collaboration is there with -Canada and the US? Air Minister George -Ward replies that RAF units have standing instructions for handling -reports, and there is no special collaboration with those countries. -(“Roy -Mason Asks Another,” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 2 (March/April -1959): 2; Good Above, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3256

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Event 4765 -(0B9C353A)

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Date: 1/26/1959
-Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar is born in Coral -Gables, FL.
-Type: whistleblower
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Coral Gables, FL

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Event 4766 -(3E62D877)

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Date: 1/28/1959
-Description: At a Symposium on Aerospace Technology by the Institute of -the Aeronautical Sciences at the Astor Hotel in New York City, USAF Maj. -Gen. Donald -J. Keirn, assistant deputy chief of staff on development for nuclear -systems, talks about nuclear aircraft propulsion. He mentions that if -intelligent extraterrestrials do exist, “it is entirely possible that -some of them may have passed through our stage of evolution, and may -have already achieved a higher level of social and technological culture -than our own.” He suggests using electromagnetic emissions to detect -them, as they may be doing with us. (US Congress, Joint Committee on -Atomic Energy, Hearings, Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program, July 23, -1959, p. 153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3257

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Event 4767 -(BB30DC11)

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Date: 1/31/1959
-Description: The US Ground Observer Corps is deactivated with the advent -of automated Army (Missile Master) and Air Force (SAGE) radar systems. -(Wikipedia, “Ground -Observer Corps”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3258

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Event 4768 -(DC19B7A6)

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Date: 2/1959
-Description: 350 km east of Umiat, trappers saw a red, disk-shaped -object less than 4 km away, going up and down, sometimes nearly touching -the ground. It circled and went away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Umiat, Alaska
-ID: 481

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Event 4769 -(7B3241E5)

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Date: 2/1959
-Description: 9:30 p.m. The people of Digeliotika, Greece, hear a humming -noise coming from the direction of the sea. Running out of their homes, -many people see a luminous disc circling the village for about 10 -minutes. Radios fail to operate and the electrical current in one house -fails completely. When the disc flies low over the house of the priest, -Papa Costas, there is a loud noise and the whole house shakes. The -object moves off to the west. Inspection of the house the next day -reveals that many of the roof tiles have been displaced, and others are -on the ground. (“UAOs -Collide with Tree, Roof,” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3259

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Event 4770 -(62B2C036)

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Date: 2/1/1959
-Description: JANAP 146(D) integrates Canada into the CIRVIS reporting -instructions. The Canadian Department of National Defence launches a -series of Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence -Sightings in line with the JANAP procedures. (Gregory M. Kanon, “UFOs -and the Canadian Government,” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 7 (Spring -1976): 17–18; Antonio F. Rullán, “Blue -Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships,” December 10, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3260

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Event 4771 -(EA21CAC5)

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Date: 2/17/1959
-Description: Hynek wants -to start bringing together ATIC and Blue Book personnel for monthly -meetings where scientific and PR problems are reviewed. To get it going, -he meets with Air Force Intelligence, Secretary of the Air Force -officials, and Blue Book staffers in the Pentagon. This meeting -includes, besides Hynek, Maj. Robert -J. Friend, Col. -Leonard T. Glaser, Alex -Francis Arcier, Maj. -James F. Byrne, Maj. Joseph -E. Boland, Maj. Lawrence -J. -Tacker, and -Burgoyne -Lee Griffing. The -group agrees that eventually the term “UFOs” should be jettisoned and -older unsolved cases reexamined in the light of “greater scientific -knowledge” that will move them from unknowns to knowns. (Jacobs, UFO -Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 148–149; -Clark III 919; Swords 286; “Saucer -Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3261

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Event 4772 -(40505B6E)

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Date: 2/20/1959
-Description: Pfc. Bernard G. “Gerry” Irwin, on leave from Fort Bliss in -El Paso, Texas, is driving near Cedar City, Utah, when he stops to -investigate what seems to be a crashing plane. He is later found -unconscious in the snow and treated at the Cedar City hospital. He -suffers from amnesia, continues to have fainting spells, and returns -more than once to the site in some kind of fugue. He soon deserts and -perhaps disappears, but not forever, as he is living in Idaho in 2013, -where David -Booher interviews him about his PTSD-like symptoms. (Coral Lorenzen, -“Soldier -Sees Flash; Unconscious 24 Hours,” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, pp. 1, -10; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 97–99; Lorenzen, -Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 347+; Loren -E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1961 -July–December, The -Author, 2003, pp. 56–60; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1962 July– December, -The Author, 2005, pp. 68–70; Kevin D. Randle, The UFO Dossier, Visible -Ink, 2015, pp. 134–141; -David Booher, No Return: The Gerry Irwin Story, UFO Abduction or Covert -Operation?, Anomalist, 2017; Clark III 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3262

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Event 4773 -(557FC2CD)

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Date: 2/20/1959
-Description: Just as the first working models of the Army’s VZ-9 Avrocar -are being manufactured, the Canadian government cancels the Avro CF-105 -Arrow program. Almost all Avro Canada employees are laid off, including -those with the Special Projects Group. However, three days later, many -of the Special Projects employees are rehired, but it isn’t quite -business as usual. The USAF Project Office devoted to the Avro projects -recommends that the WS-606A and all related work (including the Avrocar) -be cancelled. However, in May the USAF authorizes Avro to continue its -“flying saucer” programs. (Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3263

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Event 4774 -(819CBD5F)

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Date: late 2/1959
-End date: 4/15/1959
-Description: George -Adamski continues his world lecture tour in Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, -Melbourne, and Brisbane, Australia. (“World -Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3266

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Event 4775 -(03B7DDB6)

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Date: 2/24/1959
-Description: 8:20 p.m. Capt. Peter -W. Killian is flying an American Airlines flight from Newark to -Detroit when he encounters three bright lights flying in a precise line. -The initial detection takes place when the aircraft is flying at 8,500 -feet and 50 mph about 13 miles west of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. At -first Killian thinks he is seeing Orion’s sword, but he can see those -stars elsewhere. One of the objects abruptly leaves formation and -approaches the plane, slows down before Killian takes evasive action, -then rejoins the other two. Killian alerts copilot James John Dee and -then announces on the intercom for the passengers to take a look. He -also puts out a call to nearby aircraft, and five other commercial -airline pilots indicate that they can see the objects. The lights remain -at about the 9 o’clock position for 40 minutes, providing an opportunity -for many of the 35 passengers to observe them. They are also seen by the -crews of two other planes flying much farther to the south, as well as -by the tower operators in Pittsburgh. The Air Force quickly identifies -the objects as the three Orion stars, changes that to an aerial -refueling operation, then accuses Killian of being drunk. But an -independent sighting of the UFOs by an Air Force transport plane 150 -miles further south confirms Killian’s observation, and no refueling -routes exist in central Pennsylvania. Brad -Sparks uncovers new evidence in 2016 that supports the witnesses’ -story. (NICAP, “The -Killian Case”; UFOEv, pp. 116–117; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -1959 January–March, The -Author, 1999, pp. 58–60; Clark III 385–387; Sparks, -p. 270; Willy Smith, “Over Pennsylvania,” IUR 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): -13–14, 29–30; Swords 285; Patrick Gross, “The -Killian– Orion -Belt Sightings, 1958”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3264

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Event 4776 -(A99F7831)

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Date: 2/24/1959
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A 17-year-old male is home babysitting the -family pets and his younger brother in Victorville, California, when he -sees a bright light shining in his bedroom window. The dogs begin to -howl and run around. He goes outside and sees a luminous object like an -“elongated egg,” dull red with purple waves inside it, flying in a -descending path toward his house. It passes over the front yard at a -height of only 8–10 feet. As the object returns, he goes inside to get a -gun, but as he goes outside the object is making a third pass and he -goes back inside. When the parents return home, they find the dogs in a -terrified state. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 167–170; -Swords 286–287)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3265

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Event 4777 -(331CC0C4)

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Date: 2/25/1959
-Description: 8:30 a.m. Jim Dobbs Jr. is driving south on State Highway -18 south of Hobbs, New Mexico, when he sees an egg-shaped object glowing -like radium on a watch dial. He estimates it is 10° above the southern -horizon and traveling fast. His radio fades out and produces only a -steady succession of two dots and a dash. The object disappears in the -east after 30 seconds. (“Hobbs -Man Sees Glowing UFO, Hears Signals,” APRO Bulletin, March 1959, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3267

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Event 4778 -(2E18DF57)

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Date: 2/25/1959
-Description: Lt. Col. Lee -B. James, chief of the Liaison Branch of the Army Ballistic Agency -in Huntsville, Alabama, gives a talk at the Detroit Chapter of the -Michigan Society of Professional Engineers on space flight. Because of -the recent Killian incident, he is asked about UFOs. Referring to the -witness on that aircraft, he says: “If they (35 passengers and several -crew members) saw what they really saw, it would have to come from outer -space—a civilization decades before ours.” (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 -January–March, The -Author, 1999, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3268

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Event 4779 -(7E528515)

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Date: 2/25/1959
-Description: 7:25 p.m. A pale-yellow light is seen by officials above -one of the runways at London Airport [now Heathrow], England. Airport -and air defense radars do not pick up any target. RAF Fighter Command -Headquarters says the light fluctuates in intensity and is about 200 -feet from the ground. It stays in one position for 20 minutes then -climbs away at high speed. (Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, “Venus -and the Nose-Cone Light: A Study -in the Lunacy of Explainistics,” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 3 -(May/June 1959): 10–11, 31; Good Above, p. 52; -UFOEv, p. 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3269

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Event 4780 -(5201E53D)

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Date: 2/28/1959
-Description: Private Gerry Irwin stopped his car to investigate what he -thought was a crashing plane. He was later found unconscious. Sequels of -the incident (fainting, amnesia and his return to the site in a -trancelike state) are sometimes quoted as evidence of psychologial -experience correlated with the observation of the luminous object. Irwin -deserted, and his subsequent whereabouts are unknown.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 121; Lorenzen; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Cedar City, Iowa
-ID: 482

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Event 4781 -(05CE619E)

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Date: 2/28/1959
-Description: The US Air Force launches Discoverer 1, the first of a -series of satellites that are part of the Corona spy program. The -mission is a failure due to problems with the Agena upper stage. -(Wikipedia, “Discoverer -1”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3270

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Event 4782 -(44DEC346)

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Date: 3/1959
-Description: On the Baltic Sea coast near Kołobrzeg, Poland, soldiers -watch the sea become turbulent as a triangular object, 12 feet in -diameter, emerges, circles the barracks, and flies away at high speed. -(Vallée, Magonia, p. 275)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3271

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Event 4783 -(148B1E5D)

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Date: 3/1959
-Description: On the Polish coast, not far from Kolobreg, soldiers saw -the sea become turbulent as a triangular object, 4 m in size, emerged, -circled the barracks, and flew away at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 122 (Vallee)
-Location: Kolobreg, Poland
-ID: 483

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Event 4784 -(D7040854)

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Date: 3/11/1959
-Description: Rear Admiral George -J. Dufek, on -his way back from commanding Operation Deepfreeze in Antarctica, tells -reporters in Wellington, New Zealand, that he does not think the -existence of UFOs can be discounted: “I think it is very stupid for -human beings to think no one else in the universe is as intelligent as -we are.” Asked years later why he said this, he explains that it was -because of sightings related to him by people who worked with him at the -South Pole. (Swords 290)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3272

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Event 4785 -(294F228F)

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Date: 3/12/1959
-Description: Several witnesses at Bergen, Norway, see a bright object -passing north to south, taking two minutes to move from horizon to -horizon. Several minutes later another appears, following the same -course. This is soon followed by three more in succession. (ClearIntent, -p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3273

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Event 4786 -(D5105314)

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Date: 3/13/1959
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Percy Briggs is driving from Purnong to Mannum, -South Australia, with a load of vegetables and Claypans Postmaster C. -Towill as passenger. They have just climbed Cournamont Hill near the -Purnong Ferry over the Murray River. They see to the left of the road a -huge dome-shaped object with 8–9 red and blue lights about 20 feet -apart. The UFO soon rises from the ground at a 15° angle and moves away -to the southwest. The separate lights merge into one big light. They -watch it recede for about 10 minutes. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March, The Author, -1999, pp. 79–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3274

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Event 4787 -(861F0257)

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Date: 3/13/1959
-Time: 1410
-Description: Near Claypans, 150 km northeast of Adelaide, Carl Towill, -postmaster, and Percy Briggs, mail carrier, saw a dome-shaped object -take off from a field 400 m away. It resembled a huge, brilliant circus -tent, studded with lights that kept changing from red to blue. They -approached within 200 m, then saw it rise, hover, and shoot off at -immense speed toward the south. They had observed it for 10 min. -Mr. Briggs was questioned by investigators from Woomera Rocket -range.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59,5 (Vallee)
-Location: Pumong, Australia
-ID: 484

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Event 4788 -(64799B54)

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Date: 3/18/1959
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Jesse Wilson of Denville, New Jersey, is taking -photos of the Moon through a telescope and captures an image of two -groups of multiple objects. (Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3275

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Event 4789 -(50230C80)

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Date: 3/19/1959
-Description: USAF spokesman Maj. Lawrence -J. Tacker retracts the dubious Orion explanation for the Killian case -and says instead that the pilots saw B-47 bombers refueling in flight -from a KC-97 tanker. Killian tells the papers, “I don’t care what the -air force says,” he knows what refueling looks like and the UFOs were -“at least three times the size of any tanker or bomber we have. They -could travel at 2,000 mph. And they were not conventional aircraft.” -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 -January–March, The Author, 1999, pp. 82–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3276

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Event 4790 -(165C2256)

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Date: spring 1959
-Description: Keyhoe meets -with Hillenkoetter at -the New York Yacht Club to discuss NICAP strategy. USAF Public -Information Officer Lawrence -J. Tacker has sent the organization a letter asking it to stop -writing to Air Force personnel about UFOs. Keyhoe tells Hillenkoetter -that three scientists have contacted a certain congressman to report UFO -sightings. Hillenkoetter advises, “we’ll have to do something to speed -things up.” (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 15, 247–248)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3281

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Event 4791 -(53E9C5AA)

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Date: spring 1959
-Description: Soviet radar and Air Defense personnel observe UFOs -circling and hovering for more than 24 hours above the headquarters of -the Tactical Missile Command at Sverdlovsk, Russia. Fighter aircraft -sent to intercept them report that the UFOs easily outmaneuver them and -zigzag to avoid machine gun fire. (Flying Saucers, no. 47, May 1966, -pp. 6–10; Good Above, p. 227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3282

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Event 4792 -(2F1F05C0)

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Date: spring 1959
-Description: Early evening. A weather officer with the US Fifth Air -Force in Tokyo, Japan, is in the operations center when the staff tracks -a UFO near Misawa Air Base on the north end of Honshu. One of the -officers says this happens frequently, that the objects travel at 2,000 -mph, and they often stop in one position and hover for 30 minutes to -several hours before taking off westward along the Tsugaru Strait and -disappearing in a burst of speed. The center commander orders the pilots -of two specially equipped F-106s based at Misawa to intercept the -target. One of the planes is having instrumentation problems, but the -other goes up. After 10 minutes he is being guided toward the target -through Misawa. The pilot says the object is circular and metallic with -a cockpit on top. The commander calls the Pentagon for authorization for -the pilot to fire on the UFO, and he gets permission for the pilot to -make a firing pass. The pilot fires two missiles, but they detonate just -at the edge of the object, as if it is protected. The UFO then turns -toward the terrified pilot, and the command center watches as the two -blips merge into one. The blip disappears. Crews search for wreckage for -4 days but find none. (Bruce Maccabee, “Hiding the Hardware,” IUR 16, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1991): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3283

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Event 4793 -(8AF53DD8)

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Date: 3/20/1959
-Alternate date: 6/8/1959
-Description: A group at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) -produced for the Army a classified study report titled Project Horizon, -A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Military Outpost by -1965.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Redstone Arsenal

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Event 4794 -(88264856)

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Date: 3/20/1959
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Witold Sambrowski, an electronics engineer, sees -two noiseless cigar-shaped, reddish-pink objects flying over Ostroleka, -Poland. They are traveling horizontally at a speed greater than a jet. -When the two vanish, a third appears and follows the path the others -have taken. (Hobana and Weverbergh 211–212)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3277

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Event 4795 -(61A45F5D)

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Date: 3/22/1959
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Bond are driving near Ann -Arbor, Michigan, when they see an intensely lighted object hovering -about 2 miles to the southeast. It is about 200 feet in the air and just -south of a main road. Intense shafts of light are shining from two oval -ports at the bottom. As they drive closer, they can hear no sound and -find it is about 50–75 feet from the road. The UFO parallels their car -at first, then the light shafts go out, and a circle of 8–10 red lights -appear on the bottom. Then it rises rapidly and disappears in seconds. A -local radio astronomer, Allen Barrot, claims the couple saw the lights -of his telescope. But the Air Force finds that the couple were never -looking in the direction of Barrot’s observatory. (Swords 288–289; Loren -E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1959 January–March, The -Author, 1999, pp. 87–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3278

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Event 4796 -(5FBA8ED4)

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Date: 3/26/1959
-Time: 12:45 PM
-Description: Or March 27, 1959. Witness: T.E. Clark. One dark red, -barrel-shaped object, 20’ long, 6-7’ high, descended below some trees -during the 3 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corsica, Pennsylvania
-ID: 433

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Event 4797 -(ABEF16E1)

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Date: 3/27/1959
-Description: Lou -Corbin has told Keyhoe that -Rep. Samuel -Friedel (D-Md.) is “all set to hop on this Killian business” -and begins to plan for Killian to meet with him. But Killian’s wife now -tells Keyhoe that he is under strict orders from the Air Force not to -talk to anyone about the sighting or risk losing his job. Soon -afterwards, the Air Force releases a statement from Killian that says, -“Having never seen night refueling of jets by a tanker, I suppose that -could be what we saw.” (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 27–36; UFOEv, pp. 116–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3279

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Event 4798 -(62CCBC61)

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Date: 3/31/1959
-Time: 1330
-Description: Barry Neale was driving home to Goolwa when he saw on the -ground a glowing, reddish-orange object with a row of portholes. It -illuminated the trees, was about 5 m wide. He got within 300 m of it, -and drove around the wooded area in time to see it take off. No -radioactivity was found at the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59,5 (Vallee)
-Location: Port Elliot, Australia
-ID: 485

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Event 4799 -(E77B0E24)

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Date: 3/31/1959
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Barry Neale, operator of the Port Elliot movie -theater, is driving home to Goolwa, South Australia, and sees a -dome-shaped, reddish-orange object with a row of evenly spaced portholes -around it. He estimates it to be about 15 feet wide, and it is on the -ground about 900 feet from the road. He sees it disappear to the east. -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 -January–March, The Author, 1999, pp. 99–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3280

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Event 4800 -(E65CAEC9)

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Date: 4/1/1959
-Description: An Air Force C-118 transport plane with four passengers -suddenly radioed in ”MAYDAY, we’ve been hit!” Col. R.E. Booth told -reporters that a mid-air collision had taken place at 8:19 p.m. APRG -(Aerial Phenomena Research Group) investigators determined that from -7:00 p.m. on through the early evening several mysterious aerial -explosions had shaken the Seattle, WA, area. Several residents had -reported seeing mysterious UFOs from 20 miles north of the crash scene -to about 8 miles southeast of it. These sightings were confirmed by the -Orting Chief of Police and by Public Information Officer at Mc Chord -AFB. Several persons told APRG investigator, R. Gribble, that as the -C-118 passed over their area it was followed by 2 parachute-shaped -objects and that the C-118 was missing its tail assembly. Mr. and -Mrs. Bill Jones reported 3 or 4 parachute-shaped UFOs following the -C-118 as it passed over their home. Chief of Police, Fred Emard, told R. -Gribble that he would be glad to furnish information on the UFOs to -APRG, but changed his mind the next day after an interview with an Air -Force Colonel. “The Chief and other officials of Orting had been -silenced,” Gribble reported.
-Type: ufo midair collision
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Orting, WA
-See also: 9/29/59
-See also: 5/61

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Event 4801 -(ACA6BE06)

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Date: 4/1/1959
-Description: An Air Force C-118 plane with four on board crashes between -Sumner and Orting, Washington, about an hour after taking off from -McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis-McChord] in Tacoma. Their last radio -message indicates that they hit something or that something hit them. Bob -Gribble and other UFO investigators find witnesses who claim to have -seen two orange or yellow objects closing in on the plane. Best guess is -that the plane hit a tree and the UFO observations are unrelated. (Loren -E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: 1959 April–June, The Author, 1999, pp. 2–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3284

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Event 4802 -(2F995731)

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Date: 4/7/1959
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Control tower operators at CFB St. Hubert [now -Montreal/Saint-Hubert Airport], Quebec, spot a red, glowing light -hanging in the sky for a few minutes at 3,000–7,000 feet altitude. It -suddenly darts to the north at supersonic speed. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The -Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3285

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Event 4803 -(87C51570)

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Date: 4/11/1959
-Description: Two businessmen at Woodlands, New Zealand, watch a glowing -40-foot-long object with a balloon-like attachment on the underside -hovering just above the trees. As they approach it in their car, it -speeds off to the north. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -p. 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3286

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Event 4804 -(BE39A0CB)

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Date: 4/12/1959
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Control tower personnel and airport officials at -St. Hubert Air Defence Command Base [now CFB St. Hubert], Quebec, as -well as local residents watch a red ball of light hovering above the -airfield at 3,000–7,000 feet. Descriptions vary from a black ball with a -red light to a long red cigar. Radar does not pick it up. Suddenly it -takes off toward Montreal to the north. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO -Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 94–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3287

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Event 4805 -(E161B38B)

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Date: 4/15/1959
-Time: evening
-Description: Between Svendborg and Nyborg, Ove Christensen, coming home -after work on his bicycle, was stopped on the road by a disk-shaped -object spinning at ground level. After five minutes it began chasing -him, flying 6 m above him for 5 m. The object was luminous and seemed -made of glass.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Svendborg, Denmark
-ID: 486

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Event 4806 -(F896DCC9)

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Date: 4/17/1959
-Description: George -Adamski meets with Sisir -Kumar Maitra, head -of the Department of Philosophy and dean of the Faculty of Arts of -Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi during a stopover in Kolkata, -India. (“World -Lecture Tour,” -The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3288

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Event 4807 -(31600873)

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Date: 4/18/1959
-End date: 5/14/1959
-Description: Adamski arrives -in London, England, and appears on the TV show In Town Tonight on April -18 and on the BBC program Panorama on April 20 where he debates with -astronomer Patrick -Moore, a show that is seen by 9 million viewers. Both Gen. Frederick -Browning and RAF Commander Peter -Horsley meet with Adamski and Desmond -Leslie during their visit to a private address in London. Adamski -gives further lectures in Tunbridge Wells, Weston-super-Mare, -Bournemouth, at Caxton Hall in London (on April 28), Birmingham -University (April 29), Manchester (May 1), and several more around the -British Isles. (“World -Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; David Clarke, “The -Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3289

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Event 4808 -(FBA695DF)

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Date: 4/19/1959
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Otis -T. Carr and Norman Colton, who have been in Oklahoma since February, -pretend to attempt the launch of their OTC-X1 spacecraft in a gravel pit -6 miles east of the Frontier City amusement park northeast of Oklahoma -City. Frontier City obligingly erects a model of the spacecraft as a -ride. However, Carr comes down with a mysterious throat ailment and goes -to Mercy Hospital on April 17. He invites Long -John Nebel to have a brief glimpse of the model, but Nebel thinks it -looks like a jumble of unconnected parts. As it turns out, the OTC- X1 -develops a “mercury leak” and the launch is delayed then canceled. Those -who have come for the April 19 launch hear contactee Dana -Howard talk about her trip to Venus, and Margaret -Storm (Carr’s “publications editor” in Baltimore) declares that Carr -is inspired by the “Divine Master St. Germain.” (“Difficulties -Put Off Flying -Saucer Test,” -Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, April 20, 1959, pp. 1–2, 13; Clark III -860–861)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3290

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Event 4809 -(DC1275E7)

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Date: 4/20/1959
-Description: Ufologist Morris -K. Jessup commits suicide in a Dade County park, Florida, from -carbon monoxide poisoning. Some theorists connect his involvement with -the Allende letters and the Philadelphia -experiment to his death, but friends say Jessup has been discussing -suicide with them for several months. (Clark III 635; “Jessup and -the Allende Case,” Pursuit 1, no. 4 (September 30, 1968): -8–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3291

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Event 4810 -(D752090B)

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Date: 4/29/1959
-Time: 2230
-Description: Alex Gillis and Jerry Monkman saw from a hilltop an -egg-shaped object in the middle of the road. It was about 5 m long, the -top part emitting a bright light. The object went away silently. Fearing -ridicule, the witnesses reported the incident one month later.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Grassy Plains, Canada
-ID: 487

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Event 4811 -(8BEC25D4)

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Date: 5/1959
-Description: The first Avrocar, #58-7055, rolls out of the Avro Malton -factory in Mississauga, Ontario. From June 9 to October 7 it is tested -in a static hover rig. A second Avrocar is completed in August. -(Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada VZ-9 -Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3292

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Event 4812 -(8087AD9E)

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Date: 5/4/1959
-Description: Otis -T. Carr and his attorney are summoned to the county courthouse in -Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to answer questions about stock sales by OTC -Enterprises, including a block of 21,000 shares to Frontier City -promoter Jimmy -Burge, oilman -Frank -Buttram, and -publisher Edward -K. Gaylord. Carr -pleads the Fifth Amendment. (Clark III 861)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3293

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Event 4813 -(10D901BF)

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Date: 5/5/1959
-Description: Hynek’s -newly formed UFO Advisory Panel holds its first meeting at -Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. The panel consists of Hynek, Lt. -Col. Richard -M. Graham (chaplain), Lt. Col. Theodore J. Hieatt (PR), Maj. Leroy -D. Pigg (psychologist), V. J. Handmacher (physicist), and L. V. Robinson -(astronomer). (“Saucer -Reading Fest,” -Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in -America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 148– 149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3294

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Event 4814 -(3FC1C728)

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Date: 5/18/1959
-Description: George -Adamski has an audience with Queen Juliana and -Prince Bernhard of -the Netherlands at Soestdijk Palace in Baarn on his world lecture tour, -amid fiercely critical media coverage. The royal audience, scheduled to -last 45 minutes, goes on for two hours, making Adamski 20 minutes late -for his lecture in The Hague. The royal couple claim that the British -royal family, especially Prince -Philip, are also keen to meet Adamski. After the audience, Dutch -Aeronautical Association president Cornelis -Kolff says “The Queen showed an extraordinary interest in the whole -subject.” Royal Netherlands Air Force Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Haye -Schaper says, “The man’s a pathological case.” (“World -Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; David Clarke, “The -Prince and the Saucers,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3295

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Event 4815 -(7A9AD37A)

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Date: 5/20/1959
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Antonio Sanchez and Ernesto Fogliani are hunting -rabbits about 7 miles from Pehuelches station, Buenos Aires, Argentina. -They see a saucer-shaped, silvery machine resting on the ground about -980 feet away. They approach to about 490 feet when the object rises -into the sky and disappears. At the spot where it was, they find the -grass flattened in the shape of a large oval. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: 1959 April–June, The Author, 1999, p. 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3296

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Event 4816 -(AE377AB5)

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Date: late 5/1959
-Description: Ruppelt tells -Keyhoe he -is revising his book to bring it more up to date and requests NICAP’s -most recent information. He says the Air Force is giving its full -cooperation and he is “middle of the road” on the UFO question. (Keyhoe, -FSTS, pp. 258–260) May 26, 29 — Adamski gives -two lectures in Zürich, Switzerland. At the second talk, he meets with -organized resistance by a group of 300 students (in an audience of 700) -who have been led to believe he will discredit Swiss astronomer Fritz -Zwicky. When -a reporter afterwards asks if he will accept an apology, Adamski replies -that it should not be given to him, but to the Swiss public. Due to -recurring heart problems, Adamski cancels his remaining lectures in -Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Denmark. (“World -Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3298

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Event 4817 -(948EAC06)

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Date: 5/20/1959
-Time: 1730
-Description: Two hunters saw a diskshaped object resting on the ground -150 m away. It looked like an aluminum craft about 2.5 m high, with a -dome on top. Grass flattened.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Tres Lomas, Argentina
-ID: 488

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Event 4818 -(A43E9F76)

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Date: 5/22/1959
-Description: The UFO Advisory Panel meets to “determine the type of -information which should be used for correlation in bringing Special -Report #14 up to date.” (“Saucer -Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3297

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Event 4819 -(15D00586)

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Date: 5/28/1959
-Description: Otis -T. Carr and two OTC Enterprises employees (Lari Kendrick and Charles -O. Rhoades) are barred by a federal court order from selling any further -stock in the company. The SEC contends that they have been selling -unregistered securities fraudulently since November 18, 1955, using the -US mail to do so. Contactee associate Wayne -Aho escapes arraignment, while Norman Colton has fled the state and -cannot be located. (Clark III 861)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3299

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Event 4820 -(50E6A315)

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Date: 5/28/1959
-Description: Night. Two observers on a Project Moonwatch team in San -Antonio, Texas, see two silvery objects through their telescopes that -shoot across the sky in less than one second, one curving away in a -parabolic path, the other executing a more gradual hyperbolic curve. -(Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): -13–14; Center for UFO Studies, “Moonwatch -Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3300

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Event 4821 -(963FC689)

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Date: 6/1959
-Description: The Argentine Navy bottles up a fast, submarine-like object -in the Buenos Aires harbor, Argentina. It is shaped like a huge fish, is -silver in color, and sports a tail like the stabilizer on a B-17. -(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3301

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Event 4822 -(BF9A6717)

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Date: 6/1959
-Description: The radiation effects reactor at Lockheed’s Georgia Nuclear -Aircraft Laboratory [now closed] in the Dawson Forest outside -Dawsonville, Georgia, is brought up to full power and unsheathed for the -first time. It is a water- cooled 10-megawatt nuclear reactor in a -shielded underground shaft with the purpose of irradiating military -aircraft as well as the forest itself to determine the effects of -nuclear war on wildlife. The experiment exposes everything within a -1,000-foot radius to a lethal dose of radiation. Bugs fall from the air, -and small animals and the bacteria living in and on them are -exterminated, in a phenomenon the technicians call “instant taxidermy.” -Oak trees turn brown, yet crabgrass is seemingly unaffected. Pine trees -are the hardest hit of all. Clear Coca-Cola bottles turn brown, -hydraulic fluid coagulates into chewing gum, transistorized equipment -stops working, and rubber tires become rock hard. Documents about the -reactor remain highly classified, and the entrance to the underground -portion of the facility has been buried. The area is closed in 1971, and -only objects left above ground were the concrete foundations on which -the buildings and reactors were placed. (Wikipedia, “Georgia -Nuclear Aircraft -Laboratory”; Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & -Schuster, 2019, p. 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3302

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Event 4823 -(218BBCA9)

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Date: 6/12/1959
-Description: Keyhoe writes -an open letter to Ruppelt that -lists his past statements on UFOs and urges him not to let the Air Force -intimidate him into retracting. (Donald E. Keyhoe, “Capt. Ruppelt -Revising His UFO Book: Air Force Rumored -to Be Pressuring Former Project Chief,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 8 -(June 1959): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3303

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Event 4824 -(D5DBBE4B)

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Date: 6/13/1959
-Description: Charles -S. Sheldon II, technical -director of the House Science and Astronautics Committee, writes to Richard -H. -Hall at NICAP to say that while he thinks UFOs are “extremely -interesting,” they do not pose a national security threat.” (Swords -290)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3304

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Event 4825 -(18904FC6)

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Date: 6/13/1959
-Description: Adamski, along -with follower Lou Zinsstag, meets with diplomat Alberto -Perego and Mario Maioli at Ristorante La Cisterna in the Trastevere -area of Rome, Italy, then go on an all-night taxi ride around the city. -He returns to the United States via Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 17. -(“World -Lecture Tour,” The Adamski Case, October 5, 2019; 1Pinotti -106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3305

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Event 4826 -(EEC72D9A)

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Date: 6/18/1959
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: A. Cavelli and R. Blessin, using 7x binoculars. -One brown, cigar-shaped object came from below the horizon (close to the -witnesses) ascending to 40-50^ above the horizon in 4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
-ID: 434

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Event 4827 -(9EC1393F)

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Date: 6/21/1959
-Time: 2000
-Description: A civilian woman observed a saucer-shaped object hovering 5 -m above ground. It was bathed in an orange glow, similar to that of a -dying fire. It flew away horizontally and was lost to sight behind a -hill.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 59, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: The Willows, South Africa
-ID: 489

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Event 4828 -(81B69D12)

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Date: 6/22/1959
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A large, luminous UFO passes over Salta, -Argentina, and blacks out all electrical power for several minutes. -(Bernardo Passíon, “Report -from Argentina,” APRO Bulletin, November 1959, p. 9; Loren E. Gross, -The Fifth -Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June, The -Author, 1999, p. 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3306

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Event 4829 -(34CEEA70)

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Date: 6/26/1959
-Time: 1845
-Description: Many witnesses, among them Fr. W. B. Gill, head of a local -mission, saw an orange object that hovered in mid-air. Four engines were -visible on its “deck” and a beam of blue light was emitted upward from -it. The object did not come to ground level, but its position above the -ocean was almost on a level with the observers standing on the -hill.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 123; Anatomy 145 (Vallee)
-Location: Boianai, New Guinea
-ID: 490

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Event 4830 -(D92FF288)

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Date: 6/26/1959
-End date: 6/28/1959
-Description: 6:45 p.m. At Boianai Mission, Papua New Guinea, Rev. William -Booth Gill and 38 others watch a platform-shaped object with legs -that appears in the sky above Venus. It has an electric blue spotlight -and is hovering about 500 feet away at a height of 300–400 feet. On top -of the object, four humanlike figures, their bodies surrounded by -illumination, are busy with some unknown task. The men and spotlight -disappear at 7:20 p.m. and the object vanishes into the clouds. It -reappears at 8:28 without the men or spotlight but now joined by second, -third and fourth objects at 8:29, 8:35, and 8:35–8:50 p.m., coming and -going through the clouds. The main UFO, “large, clear, stationary,” -gives off a red light and disappears overhead into clouds at 9:10 p.m., -reappears at 9:20, moves across the sea to Giwa appearing -white-red-blue, then disappears at 9:30. An overhead object reappears at -9:46, hovering, disappears behind a cloud at 10:10, reappears in a gap -between clouds at 10:30, then is gone at 10:50. The next day, the object -returns at 6:00–6:30 p.m. with two others, one to the west and one -overhead. “Two of the figures seemed to be doing something near the -center of the deck. They were occasionally bending over and raising -their arms as though adjusting or setting up something (not visible). -One figure seemed to be standing, looking down at us.” Father Gill and -another teacher wave their arms, and two of the figures on the main -object wave back. Gill waves a flashlight and the object moves back and -forth laterally. Gill goes in for dinner and a church service; when he -returns at 7:45 p.m., the UFO is gone. The next evening at 6:45 p.m., -some eight objects align themselves across a section of the sky. No -occupants are visible. Martin -Kottmeyer suggests that Gill was watching a lighted squid-fishing -boat close to shore, but Gill has confirmed the object was over his -head. (“Saucer -Men Seen in Flight: Amazing Sighting from Papua,” Flying Saucer -Review 5, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1959): 7–8; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “Flying -Saucers over Papua: A Report on Papuan Unidentified Flying Objects,” -March 1960; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “What -Happened in Papua in 1959?” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1960): 3–7; “Father -Gill and the Rev. Lionel Browning,” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1961): 23–25; Norman E. G. Cruttwell, “Flying -Saucers over Papua,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFOs in Two Worlds, -special issue of FSR, August 1971, pp. 3–38; Gordon Creighton, “The -New Guinea Sightings; A Note on Some Anthropological -Aspects,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFOs in Two Worlds, special issue -of FSR, August 1971, p. 39; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, -Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 167– -172, 271–273; -Hynek UFO Report, pp. 216–223; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 April–June, -The Author, 1999, pp. 59–68, 69–71; “Papua/Father Gill Revisited,” IUR -2, no. 11 (November 1977): 4–7; “Papua/Father Gill Revisited, Part Two,” -IUR 2, no. 12 (December 1977): 4–8; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs -1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 59–62; Martin Kottmeyer, “Gill -Again: The Father Gill Case Reconsidered,” Magonia, no. 54 (November -1995): 11–14; Bill Chalker, “The -Boianai Visitants of 1959,” The Black Vault, May 16, 2016; Thomas E. -Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 (Mar. 2012): 31–32; Swords -383–385; Clark III 533–536)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3307

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Event 4831 -(937D8AAA)

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Date: 6/30/1959
-Time: 8:23 PM
-Description: Witness: USN Cdr. D. Connolly. One gold, oblate-shaped -object, nine times as wide as it was thick, metallic and with sharp -edges, flew straight and level for 20-30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Patuxent River NAS, Maryland
-ID: 435

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Event 4832 -(FA88CAAC)

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Date: 7/1959
-Description: The Air Force reassigns UFO investigative duties to the -1127th Field Activities Group stationed at Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, -Virginia, replacing the 1006th AISS. The unit will also be responsible -for Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy -in America, Signet ed., 1976, p. 134; -Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Secret Projects and Open Eyes: A -Response,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3308

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Event 4833 -(76AA7D7D)

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Date: 7/1959
-Description: Contactee Gabriel -Green rebrands his group as the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of -America and publishes the AFSCA World Report from 1959 to 1961, UFO -International from 1962 to 1965, and Flying Saucers International from -1966 to 1969. (AFSCA -Information Sheet, no. -1 (1959); AFSCA -UFO International, no. 17 (Sept./Oct. 1962); Flying -Saucers International, no. -24 (July 1966); Clark III 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3309

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Event 4834 -(BC9B96FA)

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Date: 7/5/1959
-End date: 7/6/1959
-Description: US Navy Cmdr. Julius Larsen, an ONI liaison officer to the -CIA’s Photographic Intelligence Center in Washington, D.C., rediscovers -the Swan-Knowles-Affa correspondence from 1954 in a file and decides to -follow up on it. He goes to Eliot, Maine, to visit Adm. Knowles and -interview Frances Swan. Larsen tries his hand at automatic writing and -channels a message from Affa. Back in Washington on July 6, Larsen goes -to director of the Photographic Intelligence Office, Arthur -C. Lundahl, and tells the story to him and his assistant Lt. Robert -S. Neasham. They -urge Larsen to try to contact the extraterrestrials. Larsen goes into a -trance, asks Affa questions, and writes the answers down. When Neasham -challenges Affa to appear in person or let them see his spaceship, -Larsen stops writing and tells Neasham to go to the window. Lundahl sees -nothing unusual, but Neasham insists a spaceship is hiding behind some -fluffy clouds. He also insists that he later contacted Washington -National Airport and heard from the radar tower that the sector where -the UFO appeared had been “blocked out.” Neasham urges Project Blue -Book’s Maj. Robert -Friend to come over for a briefing. He shows up on July 9 and hears -Neasham’s version of the story, and Larsen even channels some messages. -Friend goes back to Dayton, Ohio, and prepares a memo for his boss. -(Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 153–154; -Clark III 1118–1119; Robert Emenegger, UFOs: Past, Present, and Future, -Ballantine, 1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3310

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Event 4835 -(0B0B406C)

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Date: 7/8/1959
-Description: Night. Mrs. Napau Abednego and other indigenous people on -Prince of Wales Island in the Torres Strait off Queensland, Australia, -see a huge, glowing red object land on top of a hill at Port Lihou. The -same night, residents of nearby Thursday Island see a green UFO flying -low, and a strange object is also reported at Mapoon Mission on the west -coast of Cape York. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -1959 July–September, The -Author, 2000, p. 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3311

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Event 4836 -(75732EA2)

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Date: 7/11/1959
-Description: 6:02 a.m. A Pan American Boeing Stratocruiser piloted by -Capt. George Wilson flying over the Pacific Ocean about 1,035 miles -northeast of Honolulu, Hawaii, encounters a large bright light with 3–4 -satellite lights in a line below, behind, and to the left of the main -object. It makes a sharp right turn and disappears to the south. Copilot -Richard Lorenzen and Flight Engineer Bob Scott also see the UFOs. -Another Pan Am flight sees essentially the same phenomenon, as well as -an Air Force bomber crew, a Slick Airways plane, and a Canadian Pacific -airliner. (UFOEv, p. 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3312

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Event 4837 -(CF577C0B)

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Date: 7/13/1959
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Eileen Moreland, a farmwoman in Blenheim, New -Zealand, goes to the barn to milk her cows and sees a huge object, about -20–30 feet in diameter, with two intense green lights on its underside -descend towards her and hover at rooftop height. It bathes her in green -light. Two rows of jets around the middle shoot out orange flames. She -can see two men inside, dressed in close-fitting suits of shiny material -and opaque helmets. The jets turn on again, the object tilts, and it -shoots up vertically at great speed, making a high-pitched sound. (Loren -E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 -July–September, The Author, 2000, pp. 25–28; Richard H. Hall, “Dyad -‘Scout Craft,’” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 23; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November -2, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3313

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Event 4838 -(4CFFE0F2)

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Date: 7/13/1959
-Description: Disc with dome illuminated area in green light, two beings -visible in dome
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Blenheim, New Zealand
-ID: 6

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Event 4839 -(B6415136)

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Date: 7/13/1959
-Time: 0530
-Description: Mrs. Moreland saw a diskshaped object as she was milking -cows. It was about 10 m diameter, had two intense, green lights and two -rows of jets around the rim, emitting orange flames. Inside a glass dome -on top were two men dressed in aluminumlike suits. The craft did not -land, but took off at great speed with a high-pitched sound. Heat -sensation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 124; Challenge 24 (Vallee)
-Location: Blenheim, New Zealand
-ID: 491

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Event 4840 -(B0056540)

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Date: 7/14/1959
-Description: 8:22 p.m. TV sets in Salisbury, North Carolina, -mysteriously go dead as residents see a flash of light and hear a loud -vibrato noise. (Schopick, pp. 111–113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3314

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Event 4841 -(F3DD510C)

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Date: 7/14/1959
-Description: Hunters reported the landing of a red object on the island. -Other hunters saw a similar object near Karumba Lodge.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 123 (Vallee)
-Location: Prince of Wales Island, Australia
-ID: 492

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Event 4842 -(29D9FEEB)

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Date: 7/20/1959
-Description: A shuttlecock-shaped UFO is seen over the RAAF Woomera -Range Complex in South Australia. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, -Signet, 1969, p. 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3315

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Event 4843 -(BCDD3590)

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Date: 7/25/1959
-Time: 1 PM
-Description: Witness: technical illustrator W.D. Neva. One thin, -crescent moon-shaped object with a small white dome in the center, flew -at tremendous speed for 5-10 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Irondequoit, New York
-ID: 436

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Event 4844 -(46644F73)

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Date: 7/27/1959
-Description: The UFO Advisory Panel meets at Wright-Patterson AFB in -Ohio to discuss trends and statistics and recent sightings. (“Saucer -Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3316

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Event 4845 -(1C32032E)

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Date: 7/28/1959
-Description: 2:10 p.m. Ray -Stanford and a friend simultaneously take 8mm and 16mm film footage -of three cigar-shaped objects maneuvering in the sky above his parents’ -home at 2629 Lynch Street, Corpus Christi, Texas. A fourth UFO appears -about 5 minutes later. At one point a jet aircraft appears to alter its -course to fly closer to one of the objects. (Ray Stanford, “The -July 28 Movies,” Saucers 7, no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter 1959/1960): 20–23; -“Out -of the Past,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1984): 5–7; “Out -of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984): -7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3317

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Event 4846 -(123CEF4C)

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Date: 8/1959
-Description: Kathleen O’Rourke is asleep with her two children in her -bedroom in New Matamoras, Ohio, when her son yells her awake. There are -a dozen globes of yellow light circling about a foot above his bed. They -are about 3 inches in diameter. Then a second group enters the room, -passing through the screen. They split, half joining the first and half -sailing over Kathleen. They all then move to her bed and circle above -her. Not one of the lights goes to her daughter’s bed. She presses the -light switch, and the lights turn into straight-edged streaks of light -and disappear. There are no holes in the screens. (Michael D. Swords, “A -Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3320

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Event 4847 -(63627880)

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Date: 8/1959
-Description: Stan Seers, president of the Queensland Flying Saucer -Research Bureau [now UFO Research Queensland], is contacted by a man who -requests a meeting with him in a Brisbane car park and offers him -important information on UFOs. At the meeting he finds out that the man -is an agent of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, who -indicates he knows quite a bit about the group and its officers. By -suggesting that ASIO could offer them significant information, the agent -subsequently infiltrates the group and causes dissension and confusion. -Some QFSRB members are pacifists, apparently, and are seeking to contact -Russian scientists about the UFO phenomenon through the Soviet cultural -organization VOKS. (Good Above, pp. 164–166; -Kremlin 137– 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3318

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Event 4848 -(459FA9FE)

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Date: 8/1959
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A son and his father are driving near Skiatook, -Oklahoma. Upon nearing a bridge, the car engine dies. Another car is -stopped on the other side of the bridge with its hood up. They see a -metallic, domed disc with a flexible hose hovering less than a foot -above the water of a creek. They watch it for 5 minutes, then the hose -draws in and the disk rises to 10 feet, disturbing the water’s surface -into a foot-deep trench. It flies upward and the cars start again. -(Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 -July–September, The Author, 2000, pp. 59–61; Michael D. Swords, -“Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): -16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3319

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Event 4849 -(B7812B11)

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Date: 8/9/1959
-Time: 1954
-Description: Mr. Uribe, a petroleum engineer, and two other witnesses -had to stop when they ran out of fuel; they observed a light swinging -like a pendulum, coming close to the ground. It appared as a large, -vertical, egg-shaped object which made a “whooshing” sound. Closest -approach was 120 m. Estimated height: 2 m; width, 1.5 m. When Uribe -aimed a rifle at the object, it went out of sight within seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. IlI 14 (Vallee)
-Location: Sombrero, Tierra del Fuego
-ID: 493

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Event 4850 -(584500C6)

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Date: 8/9/1959
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Petroleum engineer Armando Uribe is returning -home from Cerro Sombrero, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, with his wife and an -11-year-old housemaid when their pickup runs out of fuel. As they are -waiting for another vehicle, the girl spots a bright blue light around -7:54 p.m. that is swinging in the air with a pendulum-like motion. As it -approaches, they see it is an object like a metallic egg standing on end -with two shafts of white light projecting from the bottom. A -rose-colored, rotating device is on top. The object makes a quick -movement when Uribe gets out of the truck, but then moves closer. Uribe -points a rifle at it, and it quickly recedes and disappears. (Lorenzen, -UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 14–16; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September, The -Author, 2000, pp. 53–54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3321

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Event 4851 -(78FCA5A4)

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Date: 8/10/1959
-Time: 1:28 AM
-Description: Witness: Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Flt. Lt. M.S. -Mowat, on ground. One large star-like light crossed 53 degree of sky in -25 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goose AFB, Labrador, Canada
-ID: 437

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Event 4852 -(BA2CDD5C)

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Date: 8/12/1959
-Description: A 60-year-old farmer saw an eggshaped object come down at -high speed and land in a pasture near a river. Then it took off -vertically and flew away toward Santiago. Traces. Engine noise, not -similar to helicopter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Brion, Spain
-ID: 494

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Event 4853 -(BA7BEABD)

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Date: 8/13/1959
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Pilot Jack H. Goldsberry, flying a Cessna 170 -from Hobbs to Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 8,000 feet, notices halfway -between Roswell and Corona, that his Magnesyn electric compass has -suddenly moved around a slow 360° rotation in about 4–5 seconds. His -other standard magnetic compass is spinning wildly. About this time, he -sees three small, gray, and slightly fuzzy elliptical objects in close -echelon formation passing in front from left to right and around his -plane at a distance about 450–600 feet at a speed of about 200 mph. The -Magnesyn compass follows the objects’ position as they circle the plane, -and after one full circle they disappear to the rear. Then both -compasses settle back to normal. The controller at Albuquerque cancels -his flight plan and orders him to land at Kirtland AFB, where he is -interrogated by a USAF major, who tells him that he might become ill -from the experience. (NICAP, “Former -Navy PBY Pilot Encounter / EME”; Clark III 950; Sparks, p. 278; -Swords 287; “AF -Secretly Warns Pilot of Danger,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 -(March/April 1965): 5; Schopick, pp. 127–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3322

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Event 4854 -(3E615208)

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Date: 8/13/1959
-Description: Around 9:45 p.m. Orville Shanks is driving with three -passengers on Highway 332 north of Freeport, Texas, when they see a -bright object with two satellite lights approach at low altitude. The -car motor stalls and the headlights go out. The two lights appear to -land, the main object follows them, continually changing colors and -varying the intensity of its light. The motor and lights come back on -when the UFOs cross the road, and Shanks drives on. About midnight they -return, and the object is still there. Shanks gets out and approaches, -but the UFO starts glowing brightly and making a noise, and they drive -off again. (“Object -Lands in Texas, U.S.,” APRO Bulletin, September 1959, p. 3; Loren E. -Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September, The -Author, 2000, pp. 55–60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3323

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Event 4855 -(B27DD122)

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Date: 8/13/1959
-Time: 2130
-Description: A bright, flying object passed low over a car, whose engine -stalled, and landed in a wooded area. Six witnesses in two separate -groups observed the object, and the police were called. The dense -underbrush prevented investigation of the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Freeport, Texas
-ID: 495

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Event 4856 -(5BD399EA)

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Date: 8/17/1959
-Description: The automatic keys at the power station in Uberlândia, -Minas Gerais, Brazil, suddenly disconnect power to all four trunk lines. -A technician at a substation 45 miles away reports that all the keys -disconnected as a UFO passes overhead, traveling toward the main station -along the power lines. The chief engineer resets all the keys but they -turn off again. Outside he sees a bright object approaching at high -speed. As soon as it passes, the entire system returns to normal. -(Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 179–180; -Schopick, pp. 143–145; -Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 152–153; McCampbell, -Ufology, 1976, pp. 66–67; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of -the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September, The Author, -2000, pp. 66–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3324

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Event 4857 -(C97D586A)

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Date: 8/25/1959
-Time: 1100
-Description: Near Hagen, Lutz Holtmann went toward a bright object in a -forest, and fainted when he got close to it. When he regained -consciousness, he saw it take off silently and vertically. It was round, -had a tripod landing gear, two rows of bright openings, and was about 30 -m in diameter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Werdehl-Eveking, Germany
-ID: 496

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Event 4858 -(CBDE7282)

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Date: 8/25/1959
-Description: 11:00 a.m. At Eveking, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, -Lutz Holtman walks towards a bright object in a forest and faints after -he gets close to it. When he regains consciousness, he sees the UFO take -off silently and vertically. The object is circular, has a tripod -landing gear and two rows of bright openings, and is about 90 feet in -diameter. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3325

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Event 4859 -(FD8EA973)

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Date: 9/1959
-Description: Harvard University psychologist Henry -Murray begins what are widely considered unethical experiments, in -which he uses 22 Harvard undergraduates as research subjects in -Cambridge, Massachusetts. Among other purposes, experiments focus on -measuring people’s reactions under extreme stress. The unwitting -undergraduates are submitted to what Murray calls “vehement, sweeping, -and personally abusive” attacks. Specific, tailored assaults on their -egos, cherished ideas, and beliefs are used to cause high levels of -stress and distress. The subjects then repeatedly view recorded footage -of their reactions to this verbal abuse. Among them is 17-year-old Ted Kaczynski, a -mathematician who goes on to become the Unabomber, a domestic terrorist -targeting academics and technologists for 18 years. Alston -Chase’s book Harvard and the Unabomber connects Kaczynski’s abusive -experiences under Murray to his later criminal career. His participation -in these experiments and his service in the OSS have led many to believe -that Murray was a part of the MK Ultra program. His experiments are not -so much for observing stress reactions, but for a study of brainwashing -and enhanced interrogation techniques. (Wikipedia, “Henry -Murray”; Alston Chase, Harvard -and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist, Norton, -2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3328

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Event 4860 -(6FE9E9B9)

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Date: 9/1959
-Description: Employees of Lockheed’s Skunk Works are the first to return -to Area 51 in Nevada to develop an aircraft that will replace the U-2. -The Archangel-12 (A-12) spy plane will be designed to reduce its radar -cross section by 50%. Following tests with wooden models at Burbank, -California, proof-of-concept tests are to be carried out at Area 51 with -full-scale mockups elevated onto 50-foot pylons. The CIA program to -develop the follow-on aircraft to the U-2 is code-named Project Oxcart. -EG&G agrees to move its radar test facility here. (Jacobsen, Area -51, p. 131; -Peter W. Merlin, “Groom -Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3326

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Event 4861 -(3EB4BD54)

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Date: 9/1959
-Description: Waveney -Girvan takes over the editorship of Flying Saucer Review from Brinsley -Le Poer Trench. (“Trench -Resigns,” Flying Saucer Review 5, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1959): 2; Clark -III 498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3327

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Event 4862 -(C415D58A)

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Date: 9/7/1959
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Rural mail carrier Walter -E. Ogden sees a glowing, pumpkin-shaped object about 40 feet above -the trees in his pasture at Wallingford, Kentucky. After a minute, a -bluish blaze of fire comes from the bottom and it rises about 500 feet, -leaving a circular smoke ring. It then zooms away horizontally. Six days -later, a 12-foot depressed ring of scorched earth is discovered on the -spot, along with a kerosene smell. Air Force investigators show up and -declare it a hoax. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 July–September, The -Author, 2000, pp. 74–75, 77–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3329

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Event 4863 -(E32FF107)

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Date: 9/7/1959
-Description: A bluish, disk-shaped object was observed at ground level -by a mail carrier. It suddenly went away horizonally, leaving a stained -ring on the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Nov., 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Wallingford, Kentucky
-ID: 497

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Event 4864 -(ADF49296)

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Date: 9/9/1959
-Description: The first Atlas-D ICBM is successfully launched at -Vandenberg AFB [now Vandenberg Space Force Base] near Lompoc, -California, and Gen. Thomas -S. Power, CINCSAC, -declares the first ICBM to be operational. Shortly afterward, the first -operational Atlas-D ICBM squadron goes on alert at Francis E. Warren -AFB, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is equipped with six SM-65D Atlas -missiles based in above-ground launchers. (Wikipedia, “Vandenberg -Space Force Base”; Wikipedia, “SM-65 -Atlas”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3330

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Event 4865 -(4316E83C)

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Date: 9/13/1959
-Description: 9:58 p.m. A radar target is tracked at Kirtland AFB in -Albuquerque, New Mexico, moving at 2,300 mph at an altitude of 60,000 -feet and heading northwest. A total of four radar stations track the -object. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3331

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Event 4866 -(BCEA0CEB)

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Date: 9/13/1959
-Time: 4 PM
-Description: Witnesses: at least two control tower operators and the -pilot of a Mooney private airplane. One pear-shaped object, colored -white, cream, and metallic, with a trail under it. Object showed little -movement during 3 hours. Attempted intercept by USAF T-33 jet trainer -failed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana
-ID: 439

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Event 4867 -(ACB33750)

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Date: 9/13/1959
-Time: 1:05 AM
-Description: Witness: R.H. Daubner. One round yellow light, with eight -blue lights within it, and then five larger red lights, flew very fast -vertically while making a pulsating jet noise. Sighting lasted 10 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gills Rock, Wisconsin
-ID: 438

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Event 4868 -(19FA377D)

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Date: 9/14/1959
-Description: The CIA emphasizes antiradar study, aerodynamic structural -tests, and engineering designs, selecting the Lockheed A-12 over rival -Convair’s Kingfish. Edward -Lovick’s suggestion for adding cesium to the A-12’s fuel in order to -ionize the exhaust and mask it from radar is also persuasive. Lockheed -has also added twin canted fins instead of a single right-angle one. -Project Oxcart is officially established. The A-12 design, a combination -of their A-7 and A-11 submissions, emphasizes low radar cross section, -extremely high altitude, and high-speed performance. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3333

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Event 4869 -(844C1C76)

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Date: 9/14/1959
-Description: Air Force Regulation 200-2 is revised, with additional -emphasis on reducing the number of unknowns. This version devotes five -full paragraphs to public release of information, which is now -restricted to the Secretary of the Air Force’s Office of Information -Services at the Pentagon. Local base commanders can release information -only if an object is positively identified. Air Force personnel are not -to contact private individuals on UFO cases or discuss their operations -unless ordered to. (“USAF -UFO Program,” September 28, 1959; Clark III 920–921)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3332

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Event 4870 -(6500744F)

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Date: 9/17/1959
-Description: The first powered X-15 flight is piloted by Albert -Scott Crossfield out of the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards -AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “North -American X-15”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3334

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Event 4871 -(42630898)

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Date: 9/21/1959
-Description: The Air Technical Intelligence Center is renamed the -Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center. (NASIC, “National -Air and Space Intelligence Center Heritage”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3335

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Event 4872 -(E934A7D3)

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Date: 9/24/1959
-Description: About 4:55 a.m. In Redmond, Oregon, police officer Robert -Dickerson sees a bright white light rapidly descending north of the -airport. It stops abruptly and hovers about 200 feet above ground for -several minutes, lighting up the juniper trees below. Dickerson drives -toward it on the Prineville Highway, then turns toward the airport. The -object turns reddish-orange and moves rapidly to about 10 miles -northeast of the airport to hover again. Dickerson arrives at the -airport to report his sighting in person to the FAA Air Traffic -Communication Station. Flight Service Specialist Laverne -Wertz, Dickerson, -and others view the object through binoculars as flat and round with -occasional flames extending from its edge. The FAA reports the UFO to -Seattle Air Route Control Center in Washington at 5:10 a.m., which in -turn reports it to Hamilton AFB [now closed], Novato, California, which -scrambles six F-102 jets from Portland to intercept the object. FAA -station observers see the object hover and emit long tongues of red, -yellow, and green light that extend and retract at irregular intervals. -As the jets approach the object from the southeast, it turns into a -mushroom shape, emits red and yellow flames from the lower side, and -ascends rapidly, disappearing above scattered clouds at about 14,000 -feet. The object’s departure forces one F-102 to swerve to avoid -collision. Another nearly loses control from the UFO’s turbulent wake. -The UFO is tracked on one F-102 gunsight radar, but the jets cannot -intercept. The UFO reappears about 20 miles south of Redmond at about -25,000 feet. The Seattle Center reports at 6:20 a.m. radar contact with -the object about 25 miles south. The USAF Air Defense Center radar site -at Klamath Falls, Oregon, tracks a large target abruptly changing course -and vectors B-47 and F-89 aircraft to identify it. Redmond FAA -controllers lose sight of the object. Seattle FAA reports at 7:11 a.m. -that Klamath Falls radar still is tracking it at 25 miles south of -Redmond but varies in altitude from 6,000 to 52,000 feet. The Air Force -claims the UFOs are caused by false radar returns, with excitable -witnesses imagining the glow. But locals notice the FAA is checking for -abnormal radioactivity, so the Air Force changes its explanation to -weather balloon. And NICAP obtains FAA logs showing all the details. The -Air Force again changes its explanation to Venus. (NICAP, “Huge -Disc Sparks Scramble”; UFOEv, pp. 44, 48, -113–114, 138; -Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 33–36; -WFAA, Dallas, Texas, “Archive -1959: Fighter Jets Sent to Intercept Redmond UFO,” May 12, 2016; -Patrick Gross, “The -Redmond UFO Incident, -USA, September 24, 1959”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3336

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Event 4873 -(2339281A)

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Date: 9/28/1959
-Description: ATIC issues a staff study by Col. Richard -R. Shoop reassessing its UFO investigating role. It recommends that -the UFO program be transferred to the Air Research and Development -Command, which has better scientific capabilities, and then implement an -effective public relations campaign with the goal of “the eventual -elimination of the program as a special project.” (“USAF -UFO Program,” September 28, 1959; “Saucer Reading -Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019; Jacobs, UFO -Controversy in America, Signet ed., p. -151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3337

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Event 4874 -(A39DE046)

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Date: 9/29/1959
-Description: Maj. R.O. Braswell, while flying an C-47 at 6500 ft. alt., -spotted an UFO. “It was colored like a large red fire and looked like an -atomic cloud”, he stated. At about 5 degrees above my plane it appeared -massive and was at about 13000 ft. alt. The UFO appeared to be about -1000 ft. thick (top to bottom). Billie Guyton of Centerville, TX, also -observed the UFO and said that he observed a smaller UFO emerge from it. -Another ground observer, Jackie J. Cox, schoolteacher, saw a “bright -light in the sky that spread to cover the entire sky.” W.S. Webb of -Buffalo, N.Y., glanced out his bedroom window and saw a ball of fire -shooting through the sky, after which he heard a noise, as if something -was falling from the sky. The next day Braniff Airways Flight 542, -carrying 28 passengers and 6 crew members, was found shredded in a -thousand pieces. Subsequent inquiry found that there had been no fire or -explosion aboard the jet before or after the crash and that scorch marks -found on the exterior windows, fuselage and parted tail section showed -signs of having been exposed to tremendous exterior heat. Also the force -causing the plane to come down did not come from within the plane. Radar -Operator, E.H. Tindale, later told investigators that he had plotted an -UFO twice on the night Flight 542 crashed. Both plots of the UFO were in -the area where the wreckage of the airliner was found. The UFO was -stationary both times it was tracked.
-Type: ufo midair collision
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Buffalo, Texas
-See also: 4/1/59
-See also: 5/61

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Event 4875 -(AB72957E)

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Date: 9/29/1959
-Description: The first attempt to hover a tethered Avrocar is made. -After the vehicle becomes airborne, an uncontrollable roll and -pitch-coupled oscillation starts that forces each of the three wheels -into the ground in turn. The pilot, W. D. “Spud” Potocki, immediately -shuts down all engines. Changes are made to the stability system to -provide more control authority, while new tethers are investigated to -improve the ability to control the problem. (Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3339

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Event 4876 -(3098DBB5)

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Date: 9/29/1959
-Description: Maj. R. O. Braswell, flying an Air Force C-47 at 6,500 feet -over Texas, sees a “large red fire” that looks like a mushroom cloud. It -is 5° above his plane, with its base at 12,000–15,000 feet and its top -at 16,000 feet. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 160–161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3338

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Event 4877 -(DF6BA550)

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Date: 9/30/1959
-Description: Night. During a training flight with a student over Poznań, -Poland, a pilot named Leszczyński sees two large circles of light with -another pair some 12 miles away. He makes a close approach, but one of -the objects shoots off while the other grows dimmer. After a short -while, the dark object moves away. (Poland 63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3340

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Event 4878 -(45A680D6)

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Date: 10/1959
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Fr. Raimundo Nascimento Teixeira, a professor at -Don Bosco College, is walking in the Núcleo Bandeirante region in -Brasília, Federal District, Brazil, when he sees a crowd watching a -strange object moving and stopping in the blue sky. He sees a student of -his with a box camera, and he takes six photos of what he calls a flying -saucer. A few days later, Teixeira meets with another witness, Israel -Pinheiro, president of the New Building Company, who takes the negatives -of his three best photos to forward to the Brazilian Navy for analysis. -A few months later, the Navy returns different photos and offers no -technical report. (Clark III 197; Roberto Affonso Beck, “Um -Fenômeno Desafiador,” September 2005, pp. 35–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3342

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Event 4879 -(B015C037)

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Date: 10/1959
-Description: NICAP continues collecting statements in preparation for -potential congressional hearings. It gets statements from USAF pilot and -UFO witness Lt. Col. Richard -T. Headrick, Sgt. James -H. Sawyer, and Sgt. Oliver Dean. (Keyhoe, FSTS, pp. 252–254; UFOEv, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3341

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Event 4880 -(76C2232A)

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Date: 10/1/1959
-Description: 9:20 a.m. A radar target moving at 719 mph on a northwest -course is tracked at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At 10:29 -a.m., another radar target is detected moving at 1,000 mph to the -northwest. Its altitude is 41,000 feet. Two F-89J Scorpion fighters are -scrambled to intercept it but they can see nothing. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The -Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3343

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Event 4881 -(8663E5A7)

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Date: 10/2/1959
-Description: Approximate date. Miss G. Wilson, 14, was out riding a -horse when a luminous object dived toward her, and she rushed home in -fear. Her father came out and saw the object, which he described as -orange and making a “painful” sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 125 (Vallee)
-Location: Glenora, Canada
-ID: 498

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Event 4882 -(754E5479)

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Date: 10/2/1959
-Description: 12:20 a.m. For three hours, a Hercules radar site (#13) at -McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis-McChord] near Tacoma, Washington, -tracks a total of five objects that usually appear in pairs. The radar -returns are said to be “weak.” Visually, at least one soundless, round. -“quarter sized,” blue-white light is seen in the sky. ARTC reports no -air traffic in the area of the radar site during the time of contact. -The first object on radar is seen at 10° elevation. The last object seen -on radar was at 20° elevation. The visual object is at 10° degrees -elevation. When last observed, the visual object is 20° elevation. -Flight patterns are erratic. Range changes from 12,000 feet to 24,000 -feet, and azimuth from 190° to 170°. Objects seem to fade from the scope -and visual contact when finally lost. Visual contact is disrupted by -intermittent fog. (NICAP, “Hercules -Site Tracks Objects for Three Hours”; Condon, pp. 145–148; -Swords 287)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3344

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Event 4883 -(E6967E64)

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Date: 10/4/1959
-Time: 9:25 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USN Lt. C.H. Pogson, CPO K.J. Moore. One large -round or oval object, changing from red to red-orange, flew straight and -level for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Quezon, Phillipine Islands
-ID: 441

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Event 4884 -(ACCCA8FD)

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Date: 10/6/1959
-Time: 8:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. L. Liggett (Selective Service) and -wife. One round, white-yellow light made several abrupt turns and flew -very fast for 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
-ID: 442

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Event 4885 -(6CCEA085)

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Date: 10/8/1959
-Description: Night. Two amateur astronomers in Mobile, Alabama, observe -an unknown object traverse the Moon’s disk from west to east directly -over the crater Copernicus. They watch the fast-moving shape “every -night the weather permitted for a period of 33 days.” They write to -Project Moonwatch about the observations, but they reply that no other -lunar observers have seen the phenomenon, so it must be closer to the -Mobile observers. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. -4 (October 2009): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3345

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Event 4886 -(287D081A)

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Date: 10/12/1959
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Multiple witnesses at Washington, Sharon, and -Crawfordville, Georgia, watch “brown or black footballs” traveling -southeast to west, followed by angel hair covering a vast area. The -substance consists of “threads from 10ʹ to 50ʹ long connected at ¾ʺ -intervals by minute particles resembling snowflakes.” The material falls -for about 2 hours. Five samples are collected and sent to the Chemicals -and Materials Laboratory at Robins AFB, Georgia. No unusual elements are -discovered except for high amounts of silver in one and some silver in -three others. The conjecture is that “cloud seeding with a silver salt -could have caused the phenomenon.” (Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical -Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3346

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Event 4887 -(4A3CD733)

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Date: 10/13/1959
-Description: In his syndicated column, Joseph -Alsop goes so far as to describe “classified intelligence” as -placing the Soviet missile count as high as 1,500 by 1963, and the US -will have only 130 at that time. (Joseph Alsop, “True Missile -Gap Picture Belies Pentagon Response,” Eugene (Oreg.) -Register-Guard, October 13, 1959, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3347

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Event 4888 -(E5CECDE2)

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Date: 10/19/1959
-Time: 9:25 PM
-Description: Witness: Capt. F.A. Henney, engineering instructor at USAF -Academy, flying a T-33 jet trainer. One bright yellowish light came -head-on at the T-33, the pilot avoided it and the light dimmed. Sighting -lasted 30 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Plainville Kansas
-ID: 443

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Event 4889 -(D3D548A1)

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Date: 10/19/1959
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witness: department store manager C.A. Cissman. One bright -light approached, hovered about 30 minutes, and then was up and gone in -2 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 3rd or 4th week. Telephone Ridge, Oregon
-ID: 440

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Event 4890 -(09268B70)

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Date: late 10/1959
-Description: 6:55 p.m. Electrician Gideon Johansson is at home in -Mariannelund, Småland, Sweden, when there is a power failure. He goes -outside to look at the power lines when he bumps into his son Rolf, who -points out a brilliant white object hovering above a three-story -building. The object descends slowly and appears to be heading toward -Johansson’s garden. The machine oscillates three times and smashes into -the top of a maple tree, descends through the branches and hovers about -18 inches above the ground. Only about 10 feet away, Johansson can see -the object has a large window, through which two entities are visible. -Their heads have high crown and they have big, friendly eyes. They have -mall mouths and pointed chins and are wearing white uniforms with broad -black belts. One seems to be working at an instrument panel. They are -only the size of a 14-year-old. Soon the object moves up and shoots away -in a flash. Glassy deposits are found on some power lines in addition to -the damaged tree, and Johansson gets prickly pains in his lower body. -(Anders Liljegren, “Mariannelund -UFO and Occupants,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1970): -14–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3349

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Event 4891 -(A4EC2C49)

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Date: 10/22/1959
-Description: Night. Three witnesses are driving through Cumberland, -Maryland, when they see a metallic disc emitting a bluish-green light -around its edge. The driver abruptly stops, but leaves the car running. -Suddenly the object drops down to 50 feet altitude and hovers 100 feet -away in front of the car, making a humming vibration. As two of the -witnesses open the door to get out, the car engine, lights, and radio -fail. Shortly afterward, the disc shoots straight up, then forward, -makes a 90° angle, then disappears in clouds. The car begins functioning -normally again. (Newark (Md.) Evening News, November 5, 1959; Schopick, -pp. 67–68; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -pp. 104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3348

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Event 4892 -(7A529D4D)

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Date: 10/25/1959
-Description: On the Trans-Canada Highway west of this town, four hunters -(Douglas Robinson, Ray Disguiseppe, Victor Arnone and John Defilippo, of -Port-Arthur) saw an oval, luminous object follow their car about 13 m -above them. The object was spinning, stopped when they did, was white in -color and remained with them for nearly 50 km.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 60, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Fort William, Canada
-ID: 499

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Event 4893 -(30475E56)

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Date: 10/31/1959
-Description: Soviet Col. Georgy -Mosolov reaches an airspeed record of 1,484 mph in a -Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 over the Soviet Union. (Wikipedia, “Georgy -Mosolov”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3350

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Event 4894 -(2A3F312F)

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Date: 11/1959
-Description: A full-scale mockup of the A-12 is shipped to Area 51 in -Nevada for radar signature testing by EG&G. (Peter W. Merlin, “Groom -Lake Timeline: The First Fifty Years,” Secret Heroes, November 10, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3351

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Event 4895 -(860AAF1C)

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Date: 11/2/1959
-Description: 12:00 noon. A substance described as angel hair falls from -two UFOs seen in Evora, Portugal, and is collected and analyzed under a -microscope by a school director, Dr. Amaral, and later by armed forces -technicians and scientists at the University of Lisbon. The scientists -conclude that the substance is produced by a small insect or some -strange kind of single-celled organism about 4 millimeters in length. -(Hayley Price, “Evora -Angel Hair,” UFO Weekly News; Nicole Guardiola, “An -Extraterrestrial Living Being, Captured and Studied Eighteen -Years Ago,” -translated from El País, October 13, 1978)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3352

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Event 4896 -(CF2DFB72)

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Date: 11/8/1959
-Description: A large, luminous object is seen moving at great speed over -Kandahar, Afghanistan, to the northwest. Shortly afterward it explodes -with a loud roar in nearby mountains, causing some slight earth tremors. -Possible Russian missile test. (Good Above, p. 308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3353

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Event 4897 -(2C146438)

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Date: 11/10/1959
-Description: Requests to transfer responsibility for UFO investigations -from ATIC to ARDC are sent to Maj. Gen. Charles -B. Dougher (ATIC commander), Col. Philip G. Evans (ATIC Deputy for -Sciences and Components), and Maj. Gen. James -H. Walsh (AF Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence). (“Saucer -Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3354

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Event 4898 -(94A03679)

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Date: 11/12/1959
-Description: The first completely free flight of an Avrocar takes place. -This test proves the nozzle control system unacceptable. (Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3355

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Event 4899 -(304293C5)

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Date: 11/16/1959
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Czech Air Force officer Commander Duchoň is -driving with another officer named Bezák to a Czechoslovakian airfield -[now in the Czech Republic] to supervise night-flying exercises. At -about 6 miles from the airfield, the car engine begins to stall. -Suddenly they see a light sapphire-colored band moving at high speed at -an altitude of 1,600–2,600 feet. It is completely silent. Some minutes -later they are able to start the car again. Personnel at the airfield -tell them they had seen a flaming ball that rotated, made a 90° turn, -and passed over the airfield again. The tower tracks the object on radar -at an altitude of 3,000 feet during its second pass. The object is about -500 feet in diameter with a glowing ring around it. (“Saucers -and the Iron Curtain: A Report from Czechoslovakia,” -Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1960): 31–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3356

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Event 4900 -(BC2AC585)

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Date: 11/18/1959
-Time: 6:25 PM
-Description: Witness: J.M. Porter. A row of red lights flew slow, then -speeded up immensely. Sighting lasted 5-6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Crystal Springs, Mississippi
-ID: 444

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Event 4901 -(2EEA56CD)

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Date: 11/19/1959
-Description: Otis -T. Carr is convicted in federal court of selling unregistered -securities to Gurney -G. Warnberg, a -pilot and railroad man in Yukon, Oklahoma, and fined $5,000. Unable to -pay, Carr works off his fine in jail at a dollar a day. (Clark III -861)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3357

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Event 4902 -(B4074984)

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Date: 12/1959
-Description: Project Space Track moves to a new building in Cambridge, -Massachusetts, the National Space Surveillance Control Center (NSSCC), -which is formally dedicated on February 9, 1960. The NSSCC is part of -the Air Force Command and Control Development Division, Air Research and -Development Command. Harold O. Curtis of Lincoln Laboratory is the -director of the NSSCC. (Wikipedia, “Project -Space Track”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3360

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Event 4903 -(833982DA)

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Date: 12/1959
-Description: The new edition of Ruppelt’s -The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is published with three new -UFO debunking chapters, the last of which is completely different in -tone from the rest of the book. He claims there is no Air Force secrecy -on UFOs and NICAP is just a bunch of grandstanding nuts. (Clark III -1024; Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Forgotten Letters of Edward -J. Ruppelt,” IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 20–26, 30, 32; Swords -301)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3358

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Event 4904 -(85413AB4)

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Date: 12/1959
-Description: The London UFO Research Organisation is founded by Paul -Teugells, Nigel Stephenson, Susanne Stebbing, and Roy Stemman, and -begins publishing a monthly magazine, LUFORO Bulletin. (LUFORO -Newsletter, no. -1 (December 1959))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3359

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Event 4905 -(CAACDDCC)

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Date: 12/1959
-Description: 5:45 a.m. Larry Jensen is driving to work on US Highway 99 -near Proberta, California, when his radio begins making “snapping” -noises, and his lights dim. He pulls over to the side of the road and -gets out to check his headlights, which he finds are shining feebly. He -notices a huge, bright, bluish-green, crescent-shaped object hovering -about 60 feet above the road a quarter of a mile behind him. It appears -to be 80–90 feet across and 15– 20 feet thick. Suddenly and -inexplicably, he finds his clothes are soaked and he feels an alarming -feeling as if he is getting crushed inside. He also feels as if he is -being sucked up into the object. He grabs for a car door, then collides -with a side mirror and staggers backward, but manages to get inside. -Looking out the right-door window, he sees the UFO a few miles away, -heading northeast and climbing at a shallow angle over the Sierra -foothills. It vanishes within 10 seconds. Jensen’s car lights come back -on. He resumes driving, but 600 feet away is forced to stop because he -smells burning rubber. The battery caps are blown out, and the battery -is swollen out of shape, the generator is not working, and the armature -and field wires have melted together. Later, he finds it odd that he has -not encountered another single car during or after the episode. (Clark -III 866; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 October–December, The -Author, 2000, pp. 56–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3361

-

Event 4906 -(F243A3BD)

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Date: 12/1/1959
-Description: At a NASA news conference in Washington, D.C., Cal Tech -geochemist Harrison -Brown suggests that boneless animals similar to jellyfish abound in -oceans on Venus. The speculation comes in the wake of the discovery that -the planet’s atmosphere contains water vapor. (“Scientist -Says Jellyfish May Live on Venus,” Wilmington (Del.) News Journal, -December 2, 1959, p. 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3362

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Event 4907 -(6D4D9521)

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Date: 12/2/1959
-Description: A bright, circular object is seen in the sky heading -southwest over Ghazni, Afghanistan. It disappears after 2 minutes. (Good -Above, p. 308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3363

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Event 4908 -(5F608FF8)

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Date: 12/5/1959
-Description: After five flights, testing of the Avrocar is temporarily -halted, by which time it has logged 18.5 hours of test time in total. -(Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3364

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Event 4909 -(73CB609C)

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Date: 12/7/1959
-Description: Maj. Gen. James -H. Walsh writes to Lt. Gen. Bernard -A. Schriever, commander -of ARDC, regarding transfer of UFO duties. (“Saucer -Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3365

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Event 4910 -(111E5C4E)

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Date: 12/11/1959
-Description: A memo reaches CIA head Allen -Dulles’s desk recommending the removal of Fidel -Castro. He sets the wheels in motion.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3366

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Event 4911 -(4FF834E7)

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Date: 12/13/1959
-Description: Karl Lars Dersson is walking on the deck of the Danish -tanker Dorthe Mærsk just north of La Orchila Island, Venezuela. He sees -a brilliant cone-shaped object descending from the sky and alerts the -crew. It gets brighter as it nears the surface of the Caribbean, and the -crew hear a loud concussion as it enters the water. The surface becomes -turbulent and brilliant with many colors. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the -Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 50–51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3367

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Event 4912 -(CD4684A3)

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Date: 12/13/1959
-Description: Early evening. A rocket project officer at Fort Bliss in El -Paso, Texas, is out looking at the Moon with binoculars when a lighted -object approaches the Moon very slowly in the six o’clock position. Once -nearly in line with the lunar edge, it begins a precision journey, -skirting the edge until it reaches three o’clock. It then leaves on a -straight track directly away. During the observation, the man calls his -wife and two neighbors to watch the performance. (Michael D. Swords, -“Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3368

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Event 4913 -(FAAD8D09)

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Date: 12/15/1959
-Description: USAF Maj. Joseph -Rogers attains an airspeed of 1,526 mph in a Convair F-106 Delta -Dart at Edwards AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “Convair -F-106 Delta Dart”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3369

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Event 4914 -(6415AE83)

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Date: late 12/1959
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Lorentz Johnsen sees a dark, silent object with -a row of windows fly slowly by at an altitude of 500 feet, headed in the -direction of Namsenfjorden, Trøndelag, Norway. It descends to about 160 -feet, grows fiery red, then explodes with a crash and falls into the -water. He says that it looks like a cover is torn off in one piece like -a “curved sheet of metal.” (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of -Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3370

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Event 4915 -(E1AEE4B6)

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Date: 12/22/1959
-Time: 2350
-Description: Kenneth Lindsley and several other witnesses saw a bright, -orange object at ground level. It was bowl-shaped, as wide as the road, -and shadows that appeared to be moving could be seen.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 60, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Oakdale, California
-ID: 500

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Event 4916 -(FBD95402)

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Date: 12/24/1959
-Description: Maj. Gen. Richard -E. O’Keefe, acting -inspector general of the Air Force, issues instructions pertaining to -“UFO business” to every air base commander in the US. The document is -not intended for public distribution, but NICAP obtains a copy. Across -the top are the words “UFOs Serious Business.” It says that UFOs “must -be rapidly and accurately identified as serious USAF business in the ZI -[Zone of Interior]” and specifies that UFO investigators “should be -equipped with binoculars, camera, Geiger counter, magnifying glass and -have a source for containers in which to store samples.” O’Keefe asks -that UFO explanations be “reasonable and knowledgeable.” (Loren E. -Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1959 October– December, -The Author, 2000, pp. 61, 65–66; Swords 286; Good Need, pp. 226, -229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3371

-

- Event 4917 (148633B4)

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Date: 1960
-Description: The first planar monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip -was demonstrated
-Type: scientific advance
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 4918 -(DA961AA2)

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Date: 1960’s
-End date: mid 1980’s
-Description: ex-Navy worker Riley Hansard Crabb (April 2, 1912 — January -20, 1994) takes over as director of the BSRF. One of the first major -things he does is discredit “Gerald Light”
-Type: research group
-Reference: link

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Event 4919 -(913A020E)

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Date: 1960’s
-Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout -maps
-Type: secret location
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar

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Event 4920 -(4B22631C)

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Date: 1960
-Description: Contactee George -Hunt Williamson legally changes his name to Michel d’Obrenovic, said -to reflect an ancestral connection to the throne of Serbia. However, -John Griffin says the real reason is that Williamson’s sensational -claims have rendered his anthropological work (such as it is) completely -unacceptable. (Clark III 1287; Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible -Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 119–124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3375

-

Event 4921 -(514D608B)

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Date: 1960
-Description: Night. During a pause in army maneuvers near Brno [now in -the Czech Republic], soldiers see a peculiarly colored light above the -city. After hovering a while, it vanishes but reappears in another part -of the sky. Their commanding officer tells them to look at it with -binoculars and check the radar. Headquarters sends up interceptors to -chase the object, but every time one of them gets near, the light -disappears from the radar screen, only to turn up elsewhere. The -incident goes on for an hour before the light disappears for good. -(Hobana and Weverbergh 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3376

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Event 4922 -(413C4C5E)

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Date: 1960
-Description: The invention of transponders that transmit an electronic -identification signal from aircraft to ground control helps to further -reduce clutter on air traffic control radars. This means that “aerial -phenomena” appear on radar only if they intrude on flight paths and -create a near miss of the type investigated by the Civil Aviation -Authority. (David Clarke, “Gremlins and Black Projects,” Fortean Times -291 (August 2012): 26–27; National Air Traffic Controllers Association, -A -History of Air Traffic Control, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3377

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Event 4923 -(2E42169B)

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Date: 1960
-Description: Jim -Lorenzen is hired as senior technical associate with the Kitt Peak -National Observatory, so he and Coral move -to Tucson, Arizona, from Alamogordo, New Mexico. On their third day in -Tucson, an “exterminator” visits them, offering to inspect their rented -premises for free. He fails to mention the name of his company, nor does -he seem interested in his occupation. He talks with Coral about their -reason for moving, where Jim is employed, and UFOs. (Clark III 50; -Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 3, -251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3373

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Event 4924 -(AD6A6693)

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Date: 1960
-Description: Brinsley -Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, publishes The Sky People, in -which he claims that Adam -and Eve, Noah, and -many other characters in the Bible originally lived on Mars. Trench -believes that Adam and Eve were experimental creations of -extraterrestrials. The biblical description of the Garden of Eden is -inconsistent with what Earth is like, and because Mars contains canals, -the Garden of Eden must have been located on Mars. He further claims -that the north polar ice cap melted on Mars, causing the descendants of -Adam and Eve to move to Earth. The Book of Genesis is a symbolic version -of what actually happened to groups of people on Mars, he writes, with -the Great Deluge referring to the flooding of Atlantis and Lemuria, -which were populated with Adamic migrants. (Brinsley Le Poer Trench, The -Sky People, Spearman, -1960; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in -Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3374

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Event 4925 -(17E0E5C5)

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Date: early 1960
-Description: Night. Vice Chief of Air Staff Gen. Curtis -LeMay is conducting an exercise to test his bombers’ capability to -penetrate US air space. An F-89J Scorpion jet instructor pilot and his -radar observer, 1Lt. Joe Meyer, have just successfully intercepted a -B-47 and are descending to land at James Connally AFB [now TSTC Waco -Airport] near Waco, Texas. They notice a pinpoint of light at their -level 12 miles away over Waco and decide to approach and attack it as if -they are armed. As they approach on a collision course, they see the -object has four bright blue- white lights on it and it is stationary. -They estimate it is 25–30 feet in diameter. But the object shoots -straight up at incredible speed before they reach it. They look up and -see the object is bright blue white on its underside. It disappears at -about 90,000 feet altitude. (“Pilot -Finally Reveals UFO Encounter,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 375 (July -1999): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3372

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Event 4926 -(710A8D43)

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Date: 1/1960
-Description: The first issue of the Australian Flying Saucer Review is -published jointly by the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society and -UFOIC, edited by Peter E. Norris and Andrew -P. Tomas. It -will continue until December 1972, various issues confusingly sponsored -by each group, plus the Queensland Flying Saucer Research Bureau and the -renamed Victorian UFO Research Society. (Australian -Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 1 (January 1960))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3378

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Event 4927 -(277B442A)

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Date: 1/1960
-Description: Tests continue with a slightly modified Avrocar. -(Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3379

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Event 4928 -(AAC6C859)

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Date: 1/18/1960
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Leo Haley and Bert C. Baker are driving on US -Highway 2, some 9 miles west of Lakota, North Dakota, when the -headlights dim just as a brilliant green flash lights up the sky. In a -field to the north about 1 mile away they can see a 5–6 foot -crescent-shaped object with a 9-foot exhaust tail. (Schopick, -p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3380

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Event 4929 -(0CCEC8E6)

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Date: 1/26/1960
-Description: Richard -Bissell notifies Kelly -Johnson that the CIA is authorizing the delivery of 12 A-12 aircraft -that will be five times faster than the U-2 and fly three miles higher. -Skunk Works will move into production at Area 51 in Nevada to work on -Project Oxcart. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -A-12”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 134–135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3381

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Event 4930 -(74567AB9)

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Date: 1/31/1960
-Description: Telegram from Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson -to President Eisenhower over “inspection of secret aircraft” rumors of a -Feb. 1954 meeting at Edwards AFB.
-Type: telegram
-Reference: link

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Event 4931 -(AECB8CDD)

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Date: 2/1960
-Description: The US Navy reportedly detects a “dark satellite” thought -to be a Soviet spy satellite in orbit. However, a follow-up article -alleges that the object was “the remains of an Air Force Discoverer VIII -satellite that had gone astray.” (“Trackers -Spot Mystery Object Orbiting Earth,” Washington (D.C.) Evening Star, -February 11, 1960; Wikipedia, “Corona -(satellite)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3382

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Event 4932 -(2D69F211)

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Date: 2/5/1960
-Description: The office of the AF Chief of Intelligence is informed of -ARDC’s rejection (by Maj. Gen. James -Ferguson) of the ATIC proposal. (“Saucer -Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3383

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Event 4933 -(359E58F2)

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Date: 2/5/1960
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Many people see a distinctly round UFO hover and -maneuver slowly over or near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and La -Brea Avenue in Hollywood, California. Cars are stopped bumper-to- -bumper, according to employees of several businesses around the -intersection, with people gaping at the object overhead. Persons on -hotel and apartment rooftops go out to see a bright “cherry-red, -circular light.” Two service- station attendants at the intersection, -Jerry Darr and Charles Walker, say that “hundreds of people saw it— -everybody was looking” as the light hovers for at least 5 minutes over a -busy drive-in. Pen Meyer, another service station attendant a third of a -mile to the north, watches it hovering for about 10 minutes. Harold -Sherman, his wife, and two others watch it as it resumes motion very -slowly eastward. After proceeding east for a distance of a block or two, -it veers southeastward and passes out of sight. No sound is heard over -street-noise background. (Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee case files; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 54–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3384

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Event 4934 -(94D077E3)

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Date: 2/6/1960
-Description: 11:15 p.m. The red object reappears over Hollywood, -California, this time about one block further east, above Sunset -Boulevard and Sycamore Avenue. A number of witnesses observe it hovering -for about 10 minutes at an altitude of 500–600 feet. Then with a loud -explosion it emits a brilliant bluish-white flash that extends downward -and to the west, lighting up the ground all around La Brea Avenue. A -mushroom-shaped cloud appears and dissipates. As the red light is -extinguished, an object described by most witnesses as long, tubular, -and about 70 feet long shoots upwards. A few seconds later, the red -light appears about 1,000 feet above Sunset and La Brea for about 8 -minutes. It then begins drifting slowly eastward, turns sharply toward -the north-northeast, accelerates and climbs steeply, not stopping again -until it is at a very high altitude well to the north. (Los Angeles -NICAP Subcommittee case file; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 54–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3385

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Event 4935 -(C2EBBD71)

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Date: 2/17/1960
-Description: Hynek writes -to Brig. Gen. Benjamin -G. Holzman at ARDC in the hopes of interesting him in assessing UFO -reports. (“Saucer -Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3386

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Event 4936 -(3EE6FE74)

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Date: 2/27/1960
-Time: 6:27 PM
-Description: Witnesses: control tower officer Capt. J. Huey and four -other tower operators. One light trailing a white fan shape, made a mild -descent for 3-4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rome AFB, New York
-ID: 445

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Event 4937 -(FE2F2CC8)

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Date: 2/27/1960
-Description: NICAP sends photocopies of O’Keefe’s -1959 “UFOs Serious Business” memo to the media and to committees in the -House and Senate, calling for congressional hearings. NICAP Board member -Rear Adm. Roscoe -Hillenkoetter adds a statement: “Behind the scenes, high-ranking AF -officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official -secrecy [AFR 200-2] and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the -unknown flying objects are nonsense.” NICAP board member Albert -Baller writes: “If the UFOs are believed a threat, it would seem -incumbent on the armed forces to waste no time in alerting the people. -Any sudden, hostile act against a nation left in relative ignorance -could have serious consequences.” (“UFO -Warning Issued: Flying Objects -‘Now Serious Business,’” Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star, February 27, -1960, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960, The Author, -2003, p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3387

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Event 4938 -(810A6869)

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Date: 3/1960
-Description: “Flying Saucer Review” article by Manhattan Project -scientist Dr. Leon Davidson
-Type: article
-Reference: link

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Event 4939 -(C3E71299)

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Date: 3/1960
-Description: The Ottawa Flying Saucer Club begins publishing Topside, -edited by Wilbert -B. Smith until 1962. It continues until winter 1971. (Topside, no. -1 (March 1960))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3388

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Event 4940 -(7F6EFD55)

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Date: 3/4/1960
-Time: 5:55 PM
-Description: Witness: Charles Morris. Three elliptical-shaped objects -made a slight climb for 4 minutes. Film exposed during sighting showed -no images of the objects.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dubuque, Iowa
-ID: 446

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Event 4941 -(1B5D5480)

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Date: 3/6/1960
-Description: 5:15–5:27 a.m. Photographer Esse Jansson of Norrtälje, -Sweden, goes out early in the morning to try to take a photo of an -unidentified satellite, termed 1960 Alpha [however, the designation of -1960 Alpha 1 is reserved for the Pioneer 5 space probe, which isn’t -launched until March 11], “which was expected to pass the Stockholm -latitude in a southerly direction about 0525 hours.” He sees two objects -that come from the north and move in a southeasterly direction. They are -similar to phenomena he has seen before, but these objects reverse -direction completely. One of his plates shows a third object. The CIA -takes note of this and another mystery satellite viewed by a Swedish -airplane and reported in Dagens Nyheter, March 8. (Central Intelligence -Agency, “UFO’s Sighted, -Photographed in Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen,” FDD Note 1107, -March 17, 1960)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3389

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Event 4942 -(0F8D93EC)

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Date: 3/8/1960
-Description: Holzman forwards -Hynek’s -letter up the chain of command. (“Saucer -Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3390

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Event 4943 -(48704DEC)

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Date: 3/17/1960
-Description: President Eisenhower signs -off on a CIA paper titled “A Program of Covert Action against the Castro -Regime.” The order gives the agency authorization to create an -organization of exiled Cubans to manage opposition programs, begin a -propaganda offensive to draw support for the movement, create an -intelligence gathering network inside Cuba, and develop a paramilitary -force to be introduced into Cuba to organize, train, and lead resistance -groups against the Castro regime. Its budget is $4.4 million. Under the -Cuban Project and under the direction of CIA Directorate for Plans Richard -M. Bissell, MKUltra’s Sidney -Gottlieb proposes spraying Fidel Castro’s -television studio with LSD and saturating his shoes with thallium to -make his beard fall out. Gottlieb also hatches schemes to assassinate -Castro, including the use of a poisoned cigar, a poisoned wetsuit, an -exploding conch shell, and a poisonous fountain pen. (Wikipedia, “Sidney -Gottlieb”; Kris Hollington, Wolves, -Jackals, and Foxes: -The Assassins Who Changed History, St. Martin’s, -2008; Wikipedia, “Operation -Mongoose”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3391

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Event 4944 -(D77241C0)

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Date: spring 1960
-Time: night
-Description: An electronics engineer was fishing when he heard a shrill, -whirring sound and saw a round object, with a rotating light on top, -land on the shore. The sound gradually stopped, an opening became -visible, and two dwarfs with oversized heads came out with a hose and -pumped water from the river. Later they appeared to play like children. -Their bodies glowed with lights of changing colors.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder (Vallee)
-Location: Syracuse, New York
-ID: 501

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Event 4945 -(1EEF2F0F)

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Date: 3/23/1960
-Time: 3:35 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. E.I. Larsen. A series of balls, -arranged like an “X” with one diagonal line, seen for 3/4 of a minute. -Note: little data on the case in the files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
-ID: 447

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Event 4946 -(5D503A77)

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Date: 3/24/1960
-Description: Two policemen are in the vicinity of Lambert–St. Louis -International Airport in Missouri, one on the north side, the other on -the south side. A bright light illuminates the entire area. Three -objects in a V-formation whisk overhead. They are round, white, and 9 -feet in diameter. (Swords 293)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3392

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Event 4947 -(BB6085F6)

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Date: 4/5/1960
-Description: An orange disk landed with a hissing sound, then exploded, -while four dwarfish figures ran away into the brush.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 60, 5; 126 (Vallee)
-Location: Beira, Mozambique
-ID: 502

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Event 4948 -(B22DD1A3)

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Date: 4/8/1960
-Description: Project Ozma, set up only a few days earlier by Frank -Drake at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, -West Virginia, seems to hit paydirt. As he slews his antenna off Tau -Ceti and onto Epsilon Eridani, Drake is greeted with a strong, periodic, -pulsed signal on 1420 MHz, the hyperfine transition emission line of -interstellar hydrogen atoms proposed for SETI by Giuseppe -Cocconi and Philip -Morrison, and still favored as a promising hailing frequency for -interstellar communications. Drake is ready with a second, low-gain -antenna. The pulses are there as well, sadly disproving their -extraterrestrial origin. But they are not exactly terrestrial -interference, either. The rate at which the phantom signal traverses the -sky suggests that it is emanating from an aircraft cruising at -unprecedented altitude—perhaps 80,000 feet. At the time, no known -aircraft can reach the stratosphere. Such an aircraft, as it happens, -doesn’t “come into existence” until the following month, when Francis -Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union. (Drake wisely -decides to withhold publication of this positive result, so he never -does receive proper credit for “discovering” the U-2.) The project only -lasts through July. (Wikipedia, “Project -Ozma”; H. Paul Shuch, “Project -Ozma: The Birth of Observational SETI,” in Searching for -Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Springer, 2011, pp. 13–18; Seth Shostak, -“Project -Ozma,” SETI Institute, July 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3393

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Event 4949 -(8F0E3BD3)

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Date: 4/9/1960
-Description: The U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis -Gary Powers crosses into the Soviet Union from Pakistan and flies -over the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan; the Dolon Air Base in -Semey, Kazakhstan; a SAM test site near Saryshagan, Kazakhstan; and the -Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. The plane is detected by -Soviet Air Defense Forces but avoids intercepts by a MiG-19 and a Su-9. -Powers lands at an Iranian airstrip at Zahedan. A 1994 CIA monograph by -Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” claims -that “According to later estimates from CIA officials who worked on the -U-2 project and the Oxcart (SR-71, or Blackbird) project, over half of -all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for -by manned reconnaissance flights (namely the U-2) over the United -States.” (Wikipedia, “1960 -U-2 incident”; Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s -Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” Studies in Intelligence 40, no. -5 (1997): 67–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3394

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Event 4950 -(7730C771)

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Date: 4/12/1960
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: Monroe Arnold. One fiery-red disc exploded four or -five times. Analysis of paint samples from explosion proved -inconclusive. Sighting lasted 2-3 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: LaCamp, Louisiana
-ID: 448

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Event 4951 -(05C44FDA)

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Date: 4/13/1960
-Description: State Police encounter with highly maneuverable elliptical -object, red light beams swept ground
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Red Bluff, CA
-ID: 7

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Event 4952 -(54E75750)

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Date: 4/17/1960
-Time: 8:29 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. J.G. Ford and Link representative A. -Chapdelaine, using a 48x telescope. One reddish glow made an odd orbit -for 2.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Richards-Gebauer AFB, Missouri
-ID: 449

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Event 4953 -(A89E1F5F)

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Date: 4/18/1960
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mr. Arnold saw a round object, fiery red in color, arriving -at high speed from the south. It touched the ground about 300 m away -with a loud explosion heard by many people, and a flame. It bounced in -an easterly direction for about 300 m, then rose again, turned west and -disappeared. The ground was scarred in nine places, and a substance -resembling metallic paint was found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Science & Mechanics Dec., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Lacamp, Louisiana
-ID: 503

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Event 4954 -(6C1CDDC0)

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Date: 4/25/1960
-Time: 7-10 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. M. Clark. Five circular objects flew in trail -formation, hovered and accelerated and made sharp turns. Case file -includes other reports from Mrs. Clark for previous 3 years.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Shelby, Montana
-ID: 450

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Event 4955 -(86D6D66F)

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Date: 4/30/1960
-Description: George -Adamski appears on Long -John Nebel’s late-night TV show on WOR. (“Long -John Nebel, The Flying Saucer -Story (George Adamski interview),” ThriftStoreVinyl YouTube channel, -September 4, 2018; “Final Years,” -The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3395

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Event 4956 -(CDEE355F)

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Date: 5/1960
-Description: The CIA begins to recruit anti-Castro Cuban exiles in the -Miami, Florida, area. Infantry training is carried out at a CIA-run base -that is code-named JM Trax near Retalhuleu in the Sierra Madre mountains -of Guatemala. (Wikipedia, “Brigade -2506”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3396

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Event 4957 -(0C100C4F)

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Date: 5/1/1960
-Description: 6:26 a.m. A US U-2 spy plane, flown by CIA pilot Francis -Gary Powers, takes -off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and performs photographic aerial -reconnaissance over Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and Chelyabinsk, Russia. -Powers has orders to continue across Siberia to get a look at the new -Plesetsk Cosmodrome, but at 8:53 a.m. local time he is hit by an S-75 -Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missile fired by a defense -battalion near Kyshtym, Russia. The U-2 crashes near Sverdlovsk [now -Yekaterinburg]. The Soviet Air Defense Forces have anticipated the -flight and give orders to “attack the violator.” Powers parachutes -safely and is captured. This is the first time in five years of -overflights that the US is caught. (Wikipedia, “1960 -U-2 incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3397

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Event 4958 -(BCDFCA0C)

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Date: 5/4/1960
-Time: 0915
-Description: A yellow, elliptical object with four evenly spaced -windowlike openings was observed at ground level by an architect.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP May., 60 (Vallee)
-Location: Sarasota, Florida
-ID: 504

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Event 4959 -(895C39BF)

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Date: 5/5/1960
-Description: NASA issues a press release saying a weather research -aircraft has “gone missing” north of Turkey and speculates that the -pilot has fallen unconscious and the plane has crashed. Under the -impression that the pilot has died and that the plane has been -destroyed, a U-2 plane is quickly painted in NASA colors and a photo is -shown to the media at NASA Flight Research Center [now the Armstrong -Flight Research Center] at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Premier -Nikita -Khrushchev announces the shoot-down to the Soviet parliament but -does not reveal yet that the pilot has survived. (NASA, “U-2,” -September 4, 1997)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3398

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Event 4960 -(0F54FE4C)

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Date: 5/7/1960
-Description: Khrushchev now -reveals to the Soviet parliament that Powers is -alive and much of the U-2 technologies have survived the crash.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3399

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Event 4961 -(EE6A0677)

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Date: 5/9/1960
-Description: Director of Central Intelligence Allen -Dulles tells Congress that all U-2 flights are used for aerial -espionage and are flown pursuant to “presidential directives.”
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3400

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Event 4962 -(9176F7B4)

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Date: 5/10/1960
-Description: House Appropriations Chair Clarence -Cannon (D-Mo.) reveals to the press that the U-2 is a CIA plane -engaged in aerial espionage over the Soviet Union “under the aegis” of -the president. The press begins to suggest that Eisenhower has -lost control of the intelligence agencies. (Wikipedia, “1960 -U-2 incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3401

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Event 4963 -(276334AD)

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Date: 5/13/1960
-Description: 7:00 p.m. More than 100 people at Paracuru, Ceará, Brazil, -watch a disc-shaped UFO. Flying about 600 feet in the air at low speed, -the silent object maneuvers over the downtown area or a long time. About -60 feet in diameter, it hovers at an angle by a church. A strong bluish -light is on top of it. The same day, 20 cities and towns in Céara state, -four in Rio Grande do Norte, three in Pernambuco, two in Paraíba, two in -Bahia, and one each in the states of Piauí and Maranhão report UFO -sightings. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 220–221; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June -1960, The Author, 2003, pp. 92–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3402

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Event 4964 -(F3532597)

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Date: 5/14/1960
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Fisherman Raimundo Ursulino dos Santos sees two -metallic discs landed on a sandy hill by the beach at Paracuru, Ceará, -Brazil. As he approaches, he sees two humanlike beings outside, talking -to each other. They are small and pallid. One is dressed in a blue suit -with a helmet. Dos Santos turns and runs away. Marks in the sand are -found later. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960, The -Author, 2003, p. 93; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September -29, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3403

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Event 4965 -(C0CE99E7)

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Date: 5/14/1960
-Time: 0400
-Description: Raimondo dos Santos saw two craft land on hill near a farm -called Capin Acu. He went near them and saw several small beings, -palelooking, making friendly gestures. He ran away. The creatures wore -blue uniforms and white helmets. The previous day at 1900, over 100 -witnesses had observed a dark-gray, circular craft, 20 m in diameter -with a powerful light, maneuvering and hovering.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 37; LDLN 58 (Vallee)
-Location: Paracuru, Brazil
-ID: 505

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Event 4966 -(11B17403)

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Date: 5/19/1960
-Description: A silver-colored round object, 20–25 feet wide with hanging -appendages, hovers 50–100 feet away from Indigenous observers in the -village of Ekuk, Alaska, south of Dillingham. It barely clears electric -wires 12 feet above the ground. It sucks up two empty five-gallon -trashcans and drags them swirling along the ground. It flies between two -houses and crosses to the other side of a ridge for 100 yards, drops the -trashcans and sucks up some swirling grass, makes a loud sucking sound, -then ascends rapidly. Thomas -M. Conrow, chief -of intelligence at a nearby Air Force Base, interviews the witnesses and -concludes that “there still appears to be no logical explanation of the -sighting.” At Wright Patterson AFB, Blue Book analysts classify it as a -“weather balloon with a radar reflector,” even though it is traveling -against the wind. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 146–149; -Sparks, -p. 284; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June -1960, The Author, 2003, pp. 99–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3404

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Event 4967 -(651CE660)

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Date: 5/19/1960
-Time: night
-Description: Salvatore Cianci, jeweler, and his wife, were driving near -this Sicilian town when a creature about 1 m tall appeared in the -headlights. It wore a shining coverall and a diving helmet and had two -short wings. Mrs. Cianci suffered from shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Siracusa, Italy
-ID: 506

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Event 4968 -(E87A3AB3)

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Date: 5/22/1960
-Description: 9:33 a.m. An observatory on Majorca, Balearic Islands, -Spain, sees a white, triangular object one-quarter the size of the moon -spinning on its own axis and maintaining a steady course. It cables a -report to NASA in Washington, D.C. (UFOEv, p. 123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3405

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Event 4969 -(807996FE)

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Date: 5/25/1960
-Description: Vera Bowden, 35, saw a gray, elliptical object hovering at -tree height over Broadwater Lake for 18 min. Then it left toward the -west.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 60, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Chinthurst Hill, Great Britain
-ID: 507

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Event 4970 -(1476E3B3)

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Date: 5/28/1960
-Description: Engineer Ronald -N. Bracewell, suggests -that extraterrestrials may already be in our neighborhood through an -autonomous interstellar space probe (now called a “Bracewell probe”) -sent for the express purpose of communicating with alien civilizations. -(Ronald N. Bracewell, “Communications -from Superior Galactic Communities,” -Nature 186 (1960): 670–671)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3406

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Event 4971 -(35267EE9)

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Date: 6/1/1960
-Description: Bulkley -Griffin, chief -of the Worcester (Mass.) Evening Gazette’s Washington, D.C., Bureau, -writes a well- reasoned story about the Air Force’s unilateral control -of UFO information and its national security implications. He quotes -Adm. Hillenkoetter’s -opinion that UFOs are intelligently controlled and are neither US nor -USSR devices, which is why he is pushing for a Congressional -investigation. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the -Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960, The Author, 2003, -pp. 111–112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3408

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Event 4972 -(0CDAEBC4)

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Date: 6/12/1960
-Description: 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. Following a sonic boom above Quebec, a -fiery object falls from the sky from an altitude of 1,000–2,000 feet and -splits into two pieces that fall into the St. Lawrence River near Les -Écureuils, about 20 miles upriver from Quebec City, Quebec. A -beachcomber runs across the pieces, one closer to the shore and visible -at low tide, the other one further out and mostly submerged. He -retrieves a smaller piece (800 pounds) and sells it to a scrap-metal -dealer, who fails to recognize it as ferrous and possibly ships it to -Japan. The other piece is picked up by the Canadian Armament Research -and Development Establishment [now DRDC Valcartier] near Quebec City. Wilbert -Smith’s Ottawa Flying Saucer Club [later the Ottawa New Sciences -Club] tells its members that the material is high-strength metal that is -6 feet in diameter and 2 feet thick at the center with an embedded tube, -an “electronic potting can,” and a transistor. CARDE’s analysis is said -to have revealed an alloy with a high manganese content, although it was -identified as the “normal product of a foundry, consisting of slag with -semi- molten scrap embedded in it,” likely coming from Sorel Iron -Foundries in Sorel, Quebec. Smith rejects those findings and and -conducts his own tests (although he is an electrical engineer and not a -metallurgist) on a chunk the club retrieves from the river around July -1, supposedly engaging in a “tremendous amount of detective work on this -metal.” In November 1961, Smith tells Ohio UFO researchers C. W. Fitch -and George Popovitch: “We are speculating that what we have is a portion -of a very large device which came into this solar system…we don’t know -when…but it had been in space a long time before it came to Earth; we -can tell by the micrometeorites embedded in the surface. But we don’t -know whether it was a few years ago—or a few hundred years ago.” In June -1968, the Colorado project’s Roy -Craig is in Ottawa and offers to examine the club’s chunk of metal -because they had offered it to Condon a year earlier. Craig obligingly -takes a piece with him but does not analyze it since there is no -connection to a UFO and it looks like foundry slag anyway. Later, the -Montreal UFO Society’s Ronald Anstee has a piece of it analyzed by an -independent metallurgist, who finds that the composition “does not -correspond to any known commercial manganese steel.” In September 1967, -Eric Smith of the Canada Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources -visits the Ottawa club and examines their large artifact, but fails to -report back. In 1969, the National Research Council’s Peter -Millman takes a look and is convinced that it is ordinary manganese -steel from the Sorel plant. (“The -Mysterious Chunk of Hardware at Ottawa,” Topside, no. 20 (Spring -1966): 4–6; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 48–49; -“The -Mystery of UFO Hardware,” -Topside, no. 24/25 (Spring/Summer 1967): 10–11; “Unidentified -Hardware Mystery Deepens,” Topside, no. 27 (Winter 1968): 4–9; “Latest -Report on the Mystery Metal,” Topside, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 11– 12; -Condon, pp. 133–135; -“Canada’s -Mysterious Chunk of Metal,” Spacelink 6, no. 2 (January 1970): 6–9; -“More Mystery -Added to Ottawa’s Mysterious Chunk of Hardware,” Topside, no. 33 -(Winter/Spring 1970): 13–17; “Latest -Report on Ottawa’s Mystery Metal,” Topside, no. 34 (Summer/Fall -1970): 22–23; “New -Deveopments on Ottawa’s -Mystery Metal,” Topside, no. 35 (Winter 1971): 29–33; Story, pp. 208–209; -John Robert Colombo, UFOs over Canada, Hounslow, 1991, pp. 53–56; Roy -Craig, UFOs: An Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence, -University of North Texas, 1995, pp. 121–132; Good Above, pp. 188–189; -Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -pp. 166, 229–249)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3409

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Event 4973 -(A6FF4CA0)

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Date: 6/21/1960
-Description: NICAP sends a confidential report to the US Congress on -“Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) and Digest of -Documented Evidence” urging legislators to go on the record about the -reality of UFOs. (Donald E. Keyhoe, “Confidential -NICAP Report to Congress: Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs (Unidentified -Flying Objects) -and Digest of Documented Evidence,” June 21, 1960)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3410

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Event 4974 -(1EB3CA0C)

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Date: summer 1960
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two brothers are alerted by their journalist -brother about an elusive UFO that local police in Walkerton, Ontario, -have been pursuing for about an hour. They drive out along country roads -until they get within 300 feet of the object, which is hovering around a -large tree. The object is circular and apparently about 3 feet in -diameter. It is very bright and changes color repeated. It then circles -the tree purposefully for several minutes. The brothers climb a fence -and approach it, but the UFO suddenly accelerates and disappears to the -south. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 54–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3407

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Event 4975 -(55A07336)

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Date: 6/22/1960
-Description: 6:20 p.m. John Person is setting up camp at Clan Lake, -Northwest Territories, on a prospecting expedition and is waiting for -his partner. He hears a noise like an aircraft approaching and something -bounces and hits the surface of the lake about 1,700 feet behind him. -Person sees an object 4–6 feet wide with arms or spokes is rotating -rapidly in the water, but gradually slows down and stops spinning. When -his partner arrives, they get into a canoe and travel to the impact -area. They find an area of burned grass and another area where grass it -cut up in small pieces. They use a pole to probe the lake bottom and -find a channel that is one foot deeper at one end and three feet deeper -at the other, RCMP Cpl. Matheson flies to the lake in a seaplane on July -19 and August 15 and finds the impact area as Person has described but -no submerged object. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police, “Report -of Strange -Object Striking Clan Lake, Clan Lake Dist., N.W.T.,” July 19, July -25, and August 25, 1960; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, -August Night, 2022, pp. 98–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3411

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Event 4976 -(094A4D79)

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Date: 7/1960
-Description: Members of the US Senate Preparedness Committee and the -House Science and Astronautics Committee, as well as the CIA, ask for -hearings on USAF’s handling of UFOs. (Clark III 922)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3412

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Event 4977 -(1C0780B1)

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Date: 7/1/1960
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Four witnesses at the Leefe Mine in Lincoln -County, Wyoming, see a shiny disc move in from the south and hover above -a slag heap. It has a diameter of at least 185 feet and is 14 feet -thick. Five transparent bubbles are visible on the bottom as it rocks -gently before moving off to the south at high speed. (Lorenzen, UFOs: -The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3413

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Event 4978 -(3DD1056B)

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Date: 7/2/1960
-Description: Early morning. A couple driving in the vicinity of -Kankakee, Illinois, see the landscape light up with a bright blue light -as a ball of fire approaches out of the south. It passes above their car -dragging a trail of bluish light behind it. The inside of the car heats -up uncomfortably, waking up their daughter and her husband who are -asleep in the back. The light gradually fades and disappears in the -north. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -pp. 221–223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3414

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Event 4979 -(5CB7671F)

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Date: 7/3/1960
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Argentine Air Force Capt. Hugo F. Niotti is -driving north near Villa General Belgrano, Córdoba, Argentina, when he -notices a dark object hovering to the right of the road. He stops his -car, grabs his camera, and takes a photo of the object, which is moving -slowly over a field. As he is winding the film to take another shot, the -object accelerates and disappears into the clouds. The photo shows a -conical object low above the ground, as well as a horse whose attention -is attracted to the object. Analysis shows that the object is about 23 -feet high, 20 feet in diameter, and 56 feet above the ground. (Guillermo -C. Roncoroni and Gustavo J. Alvarez, “Foto -de OVNI Avalada -por la Fuerza Aerea Argentina,” UFO Press 1, no. 3 (April 1977): -32–38; “Cone-Shaped -UFO Photographed -in Argentina,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 (December 1980): -1; Johannes Koch, “Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 (February 1981): 2; Willy Smith, “The -Yacanto, Cordoba, -Argentina, Photograph, 07-03-1960,” UFO Casebook; Willy Smith, “UFOs -in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, -pp. 104–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3415

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Event 4980 -(9DCFFB80)

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Date: 7/6/1960
-Description: Responding to NICAP’s “Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs” report, -Sen. Lyndon -B. Johnson (D-Tex.) states that he has ordered the staff of the -Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee to keep a close watch on -UFO developments. (“NICAP -UFO Report: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Leonard G. Wolf of Iowa in the -House of Representatives, -Wednesday, August 31, 1960,” Congressional Record, Proceedings and -Debates of the 86th Congress, Second Session, vol. 106, Part 14, -pp. 18955–18956)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3416

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Event 4981 -(C68CCC03)

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Date: 7/13/1960
-Description: The Air Force gives a preliminary briefing to associate -counsel Stuart French, staff member of the Senate Preparedness -Committee, who wants to know about USAF explanations for the Washington -National Airport and Levelland cases. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in -America, Signet ed., 1976, p. 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3417

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Event 4982 -(DCC75BA2)

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Date: 7/15/1960
-Description: The Air Force gives a major briefing on UFOs for -congressional staffers: Chief Counsel Robert Smart (House Committee on -Armed Services); Spencer -Beresford, Richard Hines, and Frank Hammill (House Science and -Astronautics Committee). Charles -S. Sheldon II, technical -director of the House Science and Astronautics Committee, is also -present. The USAF reps are Robert -Friend, Lawrence -J. Tacker, Hynek, and -Maj. Gen. Arno -H. -Luehman. CIA -officers Richard Payne and John S. Warner are possibly there as well. -The staffers are skeptical; Smart accuses the Air Force of withholding -information and wants to be kept informed of sightings and -investigations. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, -pp. 156–159; -Marcia S. Smith, The -UFO Enigma, Congressional -Research Service Report No. 83-205, June 20, 1983, pp. 65–66; Swords -291–292; “Saucer -Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3418

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Event 4983 -(0DC17966)

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Date: 7/19/1960
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witness: T.L. Ochs. One round, bright red light flew -overhead, stopped and hovered, and then backed up. Sighting lasted 20 -minutes. Note: Ochs reported similar sightings on three following -nights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: St. Louis, Missouri
-ID: 451

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Event 4984 -(15AC90E7)

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Date: 7/26/1960
-Description: Lt. Col. Lawrence -J. Tacker writes to Stringfield that -“There is absolutely no truth in the charge that the Air Force or any -other governmental agency is withholding information on the subject of -UFOs from the general public.” (Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett -Crest, 1977, p. 167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3419

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Event 4985 -(BD44CDAA)

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Date: 8/1960
-Description: The US severs diplomatic relations with the Dominican -Republic. The CIA’s Special Group decides to arm Dominicans in hopes of -an assassination of generalissimo Rafael -Trujillo. The CIA disperses three rifles and three .38 revolvers, -but things pause in 1961 as John -F. Kennedy assumes office.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3420

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Event 4986 -(5DF85F86)

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Date: 8/1960
-Time: 0920
-Description: Mrs. K. St. Bereits was in her garden when she saw an -object coming down at great speed. Arriving at ground level, it came -toward her, appearing as a disk standing on edge, 7 m in diameter with a -pulsating halo of yellow light. Three beams of light came from a central -opening. A sort of haze and “gas stream” was also described.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Jan., 61; FSR 61, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Hamburg, Germany
-ID: 508

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Event 4987 -(2BC3CCA6)

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Date: 8/9/1960
-Description: Contactee Gabriel -Green announces his candidacy for the presidency of the United -States at a press conference at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel. He -publishes his Space Age Platform at the second meeting of his -Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America convention in the Shrine -Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on August 13–14, but soon drops -out and lends his support to John -F. Kennedy. (Wikipedia, “Gabriel -Green”; “Space -Age Platform of Gabriel Green: Candidate for the Office of President of -the United States,” AFSCA World Report, no. 16 (July/Aug. 1960): -4–7; Clark III 99; S. D. Tucker, False Economies: The Strangest, Least -Successful, and Most Audacious Financial Follies, Plans, and Crazes of -All Times, Amberly, 2018, chapter 3, excerpted in “Taxing Credulity,” -Fortean Times 367 (June 2018): 52–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3421

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Event 4988 -(A8D68EA5)

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Date: 8/10/1960
-Description: The Discoverer 13 Corona KH-1 photoreconnaissance satellite -is launched from Vandenberg AFB [now Vandenberg Space Force Base], -California. The primary goal of this series of satellites is to replace -the U-2 spy plane in surveilling the Sino-Soviet Bloc, determining the -disposition and speed of production of Soviet missiles and long-range -bombers assess. The Corona program is also used to produce maps and -charts for the Department of Defense and other US government mapping -programs. On August 11, after 17 orbits, the satellite splashes down in -the North Pacific and its payload is recovered. It represents the -first-ever successful recovery of an object from orbit. (Wikipedia, “Discoverer -13”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3422

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Event 4989 -(5D8CB960)

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Date: 8/11/1960
-Description: 3:10 p.m. Ray Hawks is operating a farm tractor at Left -Hand Canyon near Altona, Colorado, when he hears a muffled explosion. -Looking up, he watches a disc dropping vertically out of the cloud -cover. It stops in midair about 650 feet away from him and 200 feet -above the ground, wobbling a bit. When it stabilizes, he sees it looks -like two concave discs joined together at the rim and dull aluminum in -color. Bluish smoke is issuing from an apparent gap in its surface. An -electric hum seems to come from inside the object. The section where the -smoke is issuing is withdrawn inside, and a new section appears to -replace it, settling in with a click. The hum increases in intensity, -and the object appears to be surrounded by a heat haze. It then shoots -up into the clouds and vanishes. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, -Signet, 1969, pp. 223–225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3423

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Event 4990 -(117B8C58)

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Date: 8/12/1960
-Description: NASA’s Echo 1 balloon satellite is launched by a Thor-Delta -rocket and becomes the first passive communications satellite. Microwave -signals are bounced off the satellite from one point on earth to -another. (Wikipedia, “Project -Echo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3424

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Event 4991 -(92866FF4)

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Date: 8/13/1960
-End date: 8/14/1960
-Description: 11:50 p.m.–2:05 a.m. Highway Patrol officers Charles A. -Carson and Stanley -E. Scott, plus three others at Red Bluff, California, are on patrol -when see what they think at first is an airliner about to crash. It -turns out to be a maneuvering, silent red light with five white lights, -descending to 100–200 feet altitude. It suddenly reverses course, climbs -to 500 feet, hovers, sweeps the ground with a red beam, performs aerial -gymnastics, then heads east, chased by the police car. It is joined by a -similar object from the south, then it disappears in the east. A local -radar operator confirms the UFO at the time but denies it the next day. -Tehama County sheriff’s officers also see the UFO and another similar -one the same night. (NICAP, “Red -Bluff Incident”; “False -AF Answer in Red Bluff Case,” -NICAP Special Bulletin, October 1960, pp. 1, 4; Schopick, pp. 96–100; -Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 180–182; -Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 153–156, 225; Hynek -UFO Report, pp. 92–94; -Clark III 1002–1006; Sparks, p. 284; -UFOEv, pp. 61–62, -112; -Swords 295–297; “Red -Bluff: 1960,” Saturday Night Uforia, February 16, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3425

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Event 4992 -(A9F63B11)

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Date: 8/13/1960
-Description: Red Bluff, CA: CHP Officers Charles A. Carson and Stanley -Scott were on patrol when they sighted what they thought was an airliner -about to crash. When the UFO had descended to about 100 or 200 feet -altitude it suddenly reversed direction and climbed to 500 ft. -Description: round or oblong surrounded by a glow (color not mentioned) -and having definite red lights at each end. They continued to watch the -UFO as it performed ”unbelievable” aerial feats. The local RADAR -operator confirmed the UFO at this time but denied it the next day. -Other Tehema County Sheriffs’ officers also saw this UFO and another -similar one that same night. (NICAP, 1964)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Red Bluff, CA

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Event 4993 -(43D3D628)

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Date: 8/15/1960
-Description: Air Force Information Policy Letter for Commanders, -vol. 14, no. 12, is issued by Office of the Secretary of Air Force. In -“AF Keeping Watchful Eye on Aerospace,” it states, “There is a -relationship between the Air Force’s interest in space surveillance and -its continuous surveillance of the atmosphere near Earth for -unidentified flying objects—’UFOs.’” (UFOEv, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3426

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Event 4994 -(C13F394A)

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Date: 8/16/1960
-Description: Night. A woman in Charleston, South Carolina, takes a photo -of a mystery satellite that is in the same part of the sky as Echo I, -which is also in the photo. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” -IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3427

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Event 4995 -(435DC9B5)

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Date: 8/17/1960
-Description: The trial for downed U-2 pilot Francis -Gary Powers begins in Moscow.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3428

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Event 4996 -(79A06984)

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Date: 8/18/1960
-Description: The Discoverer 14 Corona KH-1 spy satellite is launched. It -is the first completely successful mission and returns images of the Mys -Schmidta airfield in Siberia. (Wikipedia, “Discoverer -14”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3429

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Event 4997 -(9A1AA313)

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Date: late 8/1960
-Description: Two men in a car near Butte Falls, Oregon, see a pale-white -light hovering 300 feet ahead of them. They watch it for 15 minutes, -then decide to drive closer. The light then rises to 100 feet and -recedes, then changes to orange. No sound is heard. The light performs -geometrical maneuvers, creating rectangle paths and other zig- zags. It -then accelerates, changes back to white, and zooms off. (Swords -294)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3434

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Event 4998 -(C13A351E)

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Date: late 8/1960
-Alternate date: early 9/1960
-Description: Evening. Rhodes -McCarroll and his grandfather, sitting on the upstairs back porch of -their home in Memphis, Tennessee, notice a glowing basketball-sized -globe in the soil by the hedge. They watch it for 5 minutes, then see a -figure standing behind the ball. It is a glowing nude, generally -humanlike figure, about 6 feet tall, holding a light at chest level. The -figure is square-shouldered and has disproportionately long legs that -are narrow and pointed between the knees and ankles. The witnesses watch -another 5 minutes, at which point the globe and the entity begin to fade -and are gone from sight in another 5 minutes. (Clark III 279–280)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3435

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Event 4999 -(36071F06)

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Date: 8/23/1960
-Time: 3::24 AM
-Description: Witness: Boeing aeronautical engineer C.A. Komiske. One -round object with yellow lights coming from what looked like three -triangular windows at bottom. Object was dull orange. Flew in an arc for -2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wichita, Kansas
-ID: 452

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Event 5000 -(4D3F7C26)

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Date: 8/25/1960
-Description: The National Security Council recommends to President Eisenhower the -establishment of a top secret National Reconnaissance Office to -coordinate USAF and CIA reconnaissance satellite activities because of -management problems with the USAF satellite program. (Wikipedia, “National -Reconnaissance Office”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3431

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Event 5001 -(4807EBF9)

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Date: 8/25/1960
-Description: The “dark satellite” is seen and photographed five times by -Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation at Bethpage, Long Island, New -York. It is supposed to be three times faster than the Echo 1 satellite -and travels east to west in a retrograde orbit, rather than west to -east. Its inclination to the equator is about 135°. The color of the -object varies from “carrot to straw.” The Grumman observers estimate -that the object is in an eccentric orbit with an apogee of as much as -4,200 miles and a perigee of about 300 miles. They immediately produce a -proposal to the US Air Force to share data in the hopes of plotting a -firm orbit for the mystery satellite. (NICAP, “Grumman Mystery -Satellite”; Gordon W. Creighton, “Unidentified -Satellites,” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1961): 3–6; -“The -Unidentified Satellite: Grumman Aircraft Writes to One of Our -Readers,” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 2 (March/April 1961): 29; Blue -Book files, “Grumman -Proposal for Optical Surveillance of the Retrograde Satellite,” -1961; UFOEv, p. 138; -Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): -13; Center for UFO Studies, “Moonwatch -Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3430

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Event 5002 -(EA5BE429)

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Date: 8/26/1960
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Director Robert I. Johnson and other staff at the -Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois, observe a faint reddish object -in the sky moving from east to west, apparently the same mystery -satellite seen and photographed by the Grumman observers. (Michael D. -Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 13; Swords -294; Center for UFO Studies, “Moonwatch -Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3432

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Event 5003 -(75DB54D6)

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Date: 8/29/1960
-Time: 4:05 PM
-Description: Witness: farmer Ed Schneeweis. One shiny, round, silver -object flew straight up very fast for 18 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Crete, Illinois
-ID: 453

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Event 5004 -(F388BD45)

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Date: 8/31/1960
-Description: Rep. Leonard -G. Wolf (D-Iowa) makes a statement in the House on NICAP’s “Dangers -of Secrecy on UFOs” report, saying that it is “imperative to end the -risk of accidental war from defense forces’ confusion over UFOs.” He -mentions NICAP board member Adm. Roscoe -Hillenkoetter’s request that “Congress inform the public as to the -facts.” Based on a there-year NICAP study, Wolf states that all defense -personnel “should be told that the UFOs are real and should be trained -to distinguish them—by their characteristic speeds and maneuvers— from -conventional planes and missiles…. The American people must be -convinced, by documented facts, that the UFOs could not be Soviet -machines.” (“NICAP -UFO Report: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Leonard G. Wolf of Iowa -in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, August 31, 1960,” -Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 86th Congress, -Second Session, vol. 106, Part 14, pp. 18955–18956; Good Need, p. 261)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3433

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Event 5005 -(305D5A09)

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Date: 9/1960
-Description: CIA officer Richard -M. Bissell Jr. and DCI Allen -W. Dulles initiate talks with two leading figures of the Mafia, Johnny -Roselli and Sam -Giancana. Later, -other crime bosses such as Carlos -Marcello, Santo -Trafficante Jr., and -Meyer Lansky become involved in the first plot against Fidel -Castro. The -strategy is managed by Sheffield -Edwards. Robert -Maheu, a -veteran of CIA counterespionage activities, is instructed to hire the -Mafia to kill Castro. The advantage of employing the Mafia for this work -is that it provides the CIA with a credible cover story. The Mafia are -known to be angry with Castro for closing their profitable brothels and -casinos in Cuba. On September 14, Maheu meets with Roselli in a New York -City hotel and offers him $150,000 for the “removal” of Castro. James -O’Connell, who -identifies himself as Maheu’s associate but is really the chief of the -CIA’s operational support division, is present during the meeting. -Declassified documents do not reveal if Roselli, Giancana, or -Trafficante accept a down payment for the job. According to CIA files, -it is Giancana who suggests poison pills to add to Castro’s food or -drinks. Such pills, manufactured by the CIA’s Technical Services -Division, are given to Giancana’s nominee named Juan -Orta. Giancana recommends him as being an official in the Cuban -government with access to Castro. Allegedly, after several unsuccessful -attempts to introduce the poison into Castro’s food, Orta abruptly -demands to be let out of the mission, handing over the job to another -unnamed participant. Later, a second attempt is mounted through Giancana -and Trafficante using Tony -Varona, the leader of the Cuban Exile Junta, who has, according to -Trafficante, become “disaffected with the apparent ineffectual progress -of the Junta.” Varona requests $10,000 in expenses and $1,000 worth of -communications equipment. However, it is unknown how far the second -attempt goes, as it is canceled due to the launching of the Bay of Pigs -Invasion. (Wikipedia, “Sam -Giancana”; Wikipedia, “Assassination -attempts on Fidel Castro”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3437

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Event 5006 -(D7406754)

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Date: 9/1960
-Description: The USAF Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence turns -down ATIC’s request for one additional staffer for Project Blue Book -(raising it to 3) and additional funding. (Clark III 922)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3439

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Event 5007 -(52F26331)

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Date: 9/1960
-Description: MKUltra chief Sidney -Gottlieb brings a vial of poison concealed in toothpaste to the -Democratic Republic of the Congo with plans to place it on Prime -Minister Patrice -Lumumba’s toothbrush. The plot is abandoned, allegedly because CIA -station chief Larry -Devlin refuses permission. (Wikipedia, “Patrice -Lumumba”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3438

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Event 5008 -(4B56B177)

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Date: 9/1960
-Description: Groom Lake in Nevada receives the name “Area 51” when A-12 -test facility construction begins, including a new 8,500-foot runway -(Runway 14/32) to replace the existing one built for the U-2. -(Wikipedia, “Area -51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3436

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Event 5009 -(7DA90933)

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Date: 9/2/1960
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Richard Ireton and his wife are driving on US -Highway 1 in Westbrook, Connecticut, when they notice what seems to be -an aircraft about to crash. It veers close to the shore and the Iretons -drive to the beach to look for it. They see a triangular-shaped object -flying silently at the speed of a Piper Cub airplane, alternately -hovering and moving horizontally and vertically. When it reaches the -public beach, it takes off at great speed toward Long Island, New York. -They see a similar object the next evening around 9:30 p.m. at Chalker -Beach in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. (“‘Flying -Triangle’ Seen -in State,” Hartford (Conn.) Courant, September 17, 1960, -pp. 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3440

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Event 5010 -(12820ED4)

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Date: 9/8/1960
-Description: Night. Witnesses in Consett, South Shields, and Newcastle -upon Tyne, England, see a triangular formation of lights with a red -light in the center. (London Evening Chronicle, September 9, 1960; -Marler 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3441

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Event 5011 -(A708A48C)

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Date: 9/10/1960
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Evans see 2 light-gray glowing -objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped, that swish when accelerating, over -Ridgecrest, California. (Swords 294; Sparks, -p. 285)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3443

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Event 5012 -(5D650537)

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Date: 9/10/1960
-Time: 9:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. M.G. Evans. Two light gray glowing -objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped, which swished when accelerating. -Seen 1-2 seconds each.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ridgecrest, California
-ID: 454

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Event 5013 -(901BED05)

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Date: 9/10/1960
-Description: A married couple in Scituate, Massachusetts, sees a trio of -brilliant discs parked in a triangle formation in the sky. About 12° to -the objects’ left is a huge cylinder. One witness watches them through -binoculars, and the brilliance hurts his eyes for two hours. Two more -discs seem to be attached to the top of the cylinder. Small domes -sprinkle their surface. The large object disappears too quickly for the -eye to follow. (Swords 294)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3442

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Event 5014 -(1F391925)

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Date: 9/14/1960
-Description: 2:50 a.m. A dispatcher in Lorain, Ohio, is taking a coffee -break when he sees a light that he thinks is the Echo 1 satellite. As he -watches it, knowing it is not the right time for Echo 1, he sees four -objects traveling in a perfectly spaced line of flight. It makes a -surprising right turn, after which the objects move on their way, -apparently at a great height. (Michael D. Swords, “I’ve Seen the -Light…But What Was It?” IUR 32, no. 3 (July 2009): 3; Swords -294–295)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3444

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Event 5015 -(6213E12E)

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Date: 9/15/1960
-Description: 7:30 a.m. A witness sees a UFO hovering 300–400 feet above -the Douglas Aircraft plant in Santa Monica, California, and calls it -into the West Los Angeles police station. Desk Officer Don Anderson goes -outside and sees a dark triangular object moving slowly to the northeast -at 3,000 feet. It disappears in the vicinity of Santa Monica Boulevard -and Beverly Glen Street. (“Officer -Reports Flying Triangle,” San Pedro (Calif.) News-Pilot, September -15, 1960, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3445

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Event 5016 -(C3ADA1E9)

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Date: 9/15/1960
-Description: Ruppelt dies -of a heart attack in Long Beach, California, at age 37. (Clark III -1024)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3446

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Event 5017 -(F420FF48)

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Date: 9/23/1960
-Time: 2135
-Description: A Canadian ship reported that a cylindrical object with -lighted portholes came down, hit the ocean, and sank off the northcoast -of Labrador.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Labrador
-ID: 509

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Event 5018 -(6CE21E47)

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Date: 9/29/1960
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Five people are out looking for the Echo 1 -satellite in New Westminster, British Columbia. After they spot it, they -remain for a few minutes talking. One of them sees three objects come up -from the southeast, pass overhead, and disappear over the rooftops in 10 -seconds. The objects are luminous, round- cornered triangles. (Michael -D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): -16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3447

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Event 5019 -(7D6D0802)

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Date: 9/30/1960
-Description: Tiffany -Thayer’s widow Tanagra -Thayer formally disbands the Fortean Society. (Clark III 516)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3448

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Event 5020 -(F57477E3)

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Date: 10/1960
-Description: New apparitions of a monstrous “cyclops.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 129 (Vallee)
-Location: Yariguarenda Jungle, Argentina
-ID: 510

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Event 5021 -(6A983851)

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Date: 10/1960
-Description: Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company begins -construction of “Project 51” at the Nellis AFB complex in Nevada with -double-shift personal schedules. They mark an Archimedean spiral on Area -51’s dry lake approximately two miles across so that an A-12 pilot -approaching the end of the overrun can abort instead of plunging into -the sagebrush. Area 51 pilots call it “The Hook.” For crosswind -landings, they mark two unpaved airstrips (runways 9/27 and 03/21) on -the dry lakebed. (Wikipedia, “Area -51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3449

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Event 5022 -(FC9D0D62)

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Date: 10/4/1960
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Rev. Lionel Browning and his wife are looking at -a rainbow outside their rectory in Cressy, Tasmania, when they see a -gray, cigar-shaped object emerge from a raincloud. It has 4 or 5 -vertical, dark bands around its circumference and an aerial array that -projects from the top. Browning estimates it to be 100 feet long and -about 4 miles distant. It moves north at about 60–70 mph at about 400 -feet altitude. After one minute, it stops and is joined by 5–6 smaller -objects that emerge from a cloud. After another minute, all the UFOs -abruptly reverse back into the rain squall at the same speed. (“Mysterious -Ships in the Sky,” Australian Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 4 -(February 1961): 1–2; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December -1960, The -Author, 2003, pp. 104–107; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: January–June 1961, The -Author, 2003, pp. 35–36; Clark III 350–352; Bill Chalker, “The -Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 19–20; -Swords 385–388)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3450

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Event 5023 -(F3032C8C)

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Date: 10/5/1960
-Description: A formation of UFOs is detected by the new Ballistic -Missile Early Warning System at Thule Site J in Greenland. The objects -appear to be heading directly toward North America from the direction of -Russia. Within seconds, Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, -Nebraska, scrambles the crews of B-52 bombers armed with nuclear -warheads to prepare a retaliatory strike. But at the last moment checks -reveal that the objects are spurious radar echoes. Unusual atmospheric -conditions create phantoms on the BMEWS that cannot be seen by other -radars. (Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the -Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety, Penguin, 2013, pp. 253–254, 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3451

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Event 5024 -(C1637F70)

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Date: 10/5/1960
-Time: 7:37 PM
-Description: Witness: E.G. Crossland. One bright, star-like light moved -across 120^ of sky in 20 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Kisko, New York
-ID: 455

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Event 5025 -(5EE824A9)

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Date: 10/20/1960
-Description: Australian MP Gil -Duthie asks Frederick -Osborne, Australian Minister for Air, whether he has read the -account of the UFO seen at Cressy, Tasmania. Osborne responds that he -has, and he admits that the Department of Air receives UFO reports and -shares them with the RAF and the US Air Force. However, all of them are -“explainable on a perfectly normal basis.” (Clark III 352; Swords -387)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3452

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Event 5026 -(C0A91847)

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Date: 10/31/1960
-Description: Most guerrilla infiltrations and supply drops directed by -the CIA into Cuba have failed; these are replaced by a plan to mount an -initial amphibious assault with a minimum of 1,500 men.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3453

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Event 5027 -(3793A004)

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Date: 11/3/1960
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Two 8-year-old boys are walking over a small hill -in rural Price County, Wisconsin, when they hear an odd high-pitched, -humming noise. The air has become unusually warm. They look back and see -an aluminum-colored object on the hill behind them. They run back toward -it, but it lifts off and shoots away. They find the soil of the hill to -be warm to the touch. (“Small -Boys See Warm, Landed UAO,” APRO Bulletin, January 1961, pp. 1, -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3454

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Event 5028 -(DB2D5F87)

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Date: 11/4/1960
-Description: House Majority Leader John -W. McCormack (D-Mass.) writes to Keyhoe that -“it was pretty well established by some, in our minds, that there were -some objects flying around in space that were unexplainable.” (“Congressmen -Confirm AF Secrecy: Pressure for Investigation Increasing,” UFO -Investigator 1, no. 11 (Dec./Jan. 1960/1961): 1; UFOEv, p. 175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3455

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Event 5029 -(409B7317)

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Date: 11/11/1960
-Time: night
-Description: Four witnesses, among them three military men, saw an -object that seemed about to land, then took off again toward the north, -leaving a trail of sparks and blinding them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 130; FSR 61,1 (Vallee)
-Location: Warminster, Great Britain
-ID: 511

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Event 5030 -(88A092BE)

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Date: 11/13/1960
-Time: 0245
-Description: Remi Carbonnier, 45, was awakened by a green light -illuminating his room. He went to the window and saw a bright, round -object, 6 m in diameter, resting on three legs on the railroad tracks -300 m away. It was emitting orange flashes. A dome on top of the object -started spinning, the legs disappeared, and the object rose vertically -above the trees, without noise. Less than 20 sec later, it had cleared -the hill and was lost to sight in the southwest. The next day the -witness went to the site and found no trace, but his dog turned around -and ran away,
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 131 (Vallee)
-Location: La Londe, France
-ID: 512

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Event 5031 -(A94991CC)

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Date: 11/15/1960
-Description: 10:40 a.m. A USAF B-57 Canberra reconnaissance aircraft -operating out of RAAF Base East Sale, Victoria, Australia, encounters a -UFO 15 miles north of Launceston, Tasmania. Capt. Douglas -G. Ludlam and Capt. Joseph -W. Ivins say it looks like a balloon about 70 feet in diameter and -is flying at 35,000 feet, just below the B-57, and traveling at about -920 mph. It is in sight for 5–7 seconds before it disappears under the -left wing. (Bill Chalker, “Australian -A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 11 (December 1982):4; -Clark III 352; Sparks, p. 285)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3456

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Event 5032 -(CF6767B9)

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Date: 11/18/1960
-Description: Director of Central Intelligence Allen -Dulles and CIA Deputy Director for Plans Richard -Bissell brief President-elect John -F. Kennedy on the Cuban invasion. Dulles is confident that the CIA -can overthrow the Cuban government.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3457

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Event 5033 -(F1AEB74E)

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Date: 11/27/1960
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Hart. One orange-red point of -light made huge circles and stopped during the 20-30 minute -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chula Vista, California
-ID: 456

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Event 5034 -(14EEB9A2)

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Date: 11/29/1960
-Description: Eisenhower meets -with the chiefs of the CIA, Defense, State, and Treasury departments to -discuss the new concept of a Cuban invasion. No one expresses -objections, and Eisenhower approves the plans with the intention of -persuading John -F. Kennedy of their merit.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3458

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Event 5035 -(606EE485)

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Date: 11/29/1960
-Time: 6:38 PM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF Lt. Col. R.L. Blwlin (sp?) and Maj. F.B. -Brown, flying a T-33 jet trainer. One white light 8lowed and paralleled -the course of the T-33 for 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: south of Kyushu, Japan
-ID: 457

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Event 5036 -(91FC8B94)

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Date: 12/5/1960
-Description: Pentagon UFO spokesman Lt. Col. Lawrence -J. Tacker publishes Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force, in which -he blisteringly attacks critics of Project Blue Book, depicting them all -as charlatans and opportunists and gullible believers. (Lawrence J. -Tacker, Flying -Saucers and the U.S. Air Force, Van Nostrand, 1960; Clark III -922)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3459

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Event 5037 -(7FE1D69C)

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Date: 12/5/1960
-Description: Keyhoe debates -Lt. Col. Lawrence -J. Tacker on the Today show, hosted by Dave -Garroway. Tacker says he wrote the book Flying Saucers and the US -Air Force because “I felt the Air Force was being set upon by Maj. -Keyhoe, NICAP, and other hobby groups who believe in spaceships as an -act of pure faith.” Keyhoe repeatedly challenges Tacker, whose -statements ring hollow, and even Garroway asks Tacker pointed questions -and coolly notes Tacker’s apparent ignorance of basic physics. The show -generates numerous phone calls and letters to NBC, most of them critical -of the Air Force. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December -1960, The -Author, 2003, pp. 129–135; “New -Debunking Campaign Backfires,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 11 -(Dec.–Jan. 1960/1961): 1–2; “Dave -Garroway Show NBC-TV UFO Discussion: Tacker vs. Keyhoe, December -5, 1960,” Journal of UFO History 1, no. 4 (Sept./Oct. 2004): -3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3460

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Event 5038 -(06E5AD21)

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Date: 12/8/1960
-Description: Richard -Bissell presents an outline for the Cuban invasion to the Special -Group, while declining to commit details to written records.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3461

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Event 5039 -(2FA695DE)

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Date: 12/9/1960
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Mme. Dhelens in the Château des Mailles (31 miles -south of Carignan-de-Bordeaux), Gironde, France, sees a luminous oval -object twice the size of an automobile hovering just above the ground in -the château’s park. It has two round portholes, behind which she sees -indistinct shadows moving. It takes off, leaving a 12-foot circle of -yellowed grass, which later dies. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: July–December 1960, The -Author, 2003, p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3462

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Event 5040 -(63CAA82E)

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Date: 12/9/1960
-Time: 2030
-Description: A dog barking at a glowing object resting in a park. Three -witnesses observed it from separate locations. It appeared as an oval, -luminous craft, 4 m in diameter, inside which vague shadows were seen. -It took off toward the north. A circle of yellowed grass was found at -the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos 27 (Vallee)
-Location: Carignan, France
-ID: 513

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Event 5041 -(C805471F)

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Date: 12/14/1960
-Description: The first Single Integrated Operational Plan, titled -SIOP-62, is completed. It describes a massive strike with the entire US -arsenal of 3,200 warheads, totaling 7847 megatons, against Russia, -China, and Soviet-aligned states with urban and other targets being hit -simultaneously. Nine weapons are to be “laid down” on four targets in -Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], 23 weapons on six target complexes in -Moscow, and 18 on seven target areas in Kaliningrad. Weapons scientist -George -W. Rathjens looks through SAC’s atlas of Soviet cities, searching -for the town that most closely resembles Hiroshima in size and -industrial concentration. When he finds one that roughly matches, he -asks how many bombs the SIOP “laid down” on that city. The reply: one -4.5 megaton bomb and three more 1.1 megaton weapons in case the big bomb -is a dud. The execution of SIOP-62 is estimated to result in 285 million -dead and 40 million casualties in the Soviet Union and China. Presented -with all the facts and figures, USAF Gen. Thomas -D. White finds the plan “splendid.” Disregarding the human aspect, -SIOP-62 represents an outstanding technological achievement. (Wikipedia, -“Single -Integrated Operational Plan”; Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine, -Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 90–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3464

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Event 5042 -(4D60CCF6)

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Date: 12/14/1960
-Description: The Brookings Research Institute in Washington, D.C., -releases a 186-page report prepared for NASA titled Proposed Studies on -the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs. It is -later published as a 272-page Committee Print for the House Committee on -Science and Astronautics on March 24, 1961. The report includes a -section on “Implications of a Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life.” It is -sent to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics for approval by -Rep. Overton -Brooks (D-La.) and discusses the effects of meeting extraterrestrial -life: “It is possible that if the intelligence of these creatures were -sufficiently superior to ours, they would choose to have little if any -contact with us.” It also speculates on the possibility of finding alien -artifacts on earth and the possibility that contact might result in -social disintegration. (Wikipedia, “Brookings Report”; -Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for -Human Affairs, committee print prepared for NASA by the Brookings -Institution, Report of the US House Committee on Science and -Astronautics, 87th Congress, First Session, March 24, 1961, pp. 215–216, 225–226 (note -34))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3463

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Event 5043 -(9BA22562)

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Date: 12/27/1960
-Description: Blue Book officer Maj. Robert -Friend and his boss at ATIC, Philip G. Evans, write a memo to Air -Force Intelligence in the Pentagon. Friend complains about civilian UFO -organizations supported by people for “financial gain, religious -reasons, pure emotional outlet, ignorance, or possibly to use the -organization as a ‘cold war’ tool.” He is upset by their accusations -that the Air Force is withholding UFO information. (Swords 292)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3465

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- Event 5044 (75ABCD4D)

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Date: 1961
-Description: The first American to publish on the microwave auditory -effect is biophysicist Allan -H. Frey. In -his experiments, the subjects are able to hear appropriately pulsed -microwave radiation from a distance of 328 feet from the transmitter. -This is accompanied by side effects such as dizziness, headaches, and a -pins-and-needles sensation. (Allen H. Frey, “Human -Auditory System Response to Modulated Electromagnetic Energy,” -Journal of Applied Physiology 17 (July 1, 1962): 689–692; Wikipedia, “Microwave -auditory effect”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3466

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Event 5045 -(3D339711)

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Date: 1961
-Description: Russia: Vladimir Azhazha found an elliptical area where he -claimed that an alien craft had plummeted to Earth in 1961. A local -resident, Zoya Shubenkina, corroborated Azhazha’s story about the 1961 -crash, claiming she had witnessed it for herself. She said a big, fiery, -red sphere flew over her house and crashed in the valley by the -river.
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Russia

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Event 5046 -(F5B3FD62)

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Date: 1961
-End date: 1963
-Description: Near Nellis AFB, NE: “Mat”, a radio maintenance engineer at -Nevada’s AEC between 1961–1963 provided evidence to the MUFON Journal -that Project REDLIGHT was secretly being conducted at nearby “Area 51”, -a 50-mile-square quadrant of land east of Nellis AFB. This Project -“involved flight-testing of an UFO which had been shipped there from -Edwards AFB.” The craft flew silently, was about 20 to 30 ft. in diam., -and had no wings or tail.
-Type: ufo testing
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Area 51

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Event 5047 -(D9DD6DD7)

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Date: 1961
-Description: ex-Lt. Col Philip J. Corso said in 1961 he was given a file -cabinet from his superior General Trudeau which contained material -recovered from ET craft. He was instructed to use these items for -“utilization and exploitation,” farming the objects out to various -companies such as Bell Labs to reverse engineer and further develop. -Among the technologies he said arose from this were: night vision, fiber -optics, food irradiation, integrated circuits, and lasers.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: “The Day after Roswell”, by Philip J. Corso
-Reference: Philip J. Corso’s Manuscript
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 5048 -(1258F12D)

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Date: 1961
-Description: A UFO appears above the iron-ore mine of Catalina Huanca, -owned by the Marcona Mining Company, near Apongo, Peru. It hovers for -5–15 minutes, only about 300 feet away from a young mining engineer. It -is round and glowing, with windows on the upper part. The engineer gets -a look at it through his theodolite, but it still looks fuzzy. The -object reappears throughout the day, allowing all the mine workers -(about 70) to view it. The following day it follows a supply truck for -several hours as it exits the mine heading south over a dirt track. (S. -Parker Gay Jr., “Peru, 1961,” IUR 24, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3470

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Event 5049 -(54816008)

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Date: 1961
-Description: An Antonov AN-2P mail biplane takes off from an airfield at -or near Sverdlovsk, Russia, bound for Kurgan with seven people on board. -About 80–100 miles from Sverdlovsk, the aircraft disappears from the -radar screen. Ground control cannot regain contact, so a search is -launched with helicopters and troops. The aircraft is found in a small -clearing in a dense forest, completely intact. The authorities state -that it looks like it was placed there gently from above. All the mail -is intact, and there is no sign of anyone on board. No marks or -footprints are seen. A 100-foot wide, clearly defined circle of scorched -grass and depressed earth is found at a distance of 328 feet from the -plane. A report by the Moscow Aviation Institute claims that a UFO was -tracked on radar at the control tower and that strange radio signals -were hear at the time of the disappearance. (Good Above, pp. 228–229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3469

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Event 5050 -(874C6ABC)

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Date: 1961
-Description: George -Adamski publishes Flying Saucers Farewell, signaling his intention -to refocus his efforts on teaching about life and consciousness. (George -Adamski, Flying Saucers Farewell, Abelard-Schuman, 1961; “Final Years,” -The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3468

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Event 5051 -(E4A9770B)

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Date: 1961
-Description: Ray -Palmer begins publishing The Hidden World, a quarterly magazine in -trade-paperback format that runs through 1964. It consists of reprints -of Richard -Shaver stories and readers’ contributions. (Clark III 873)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3467

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Event 5052 -(DC8554D7)

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Date: 1/1961
-Description: Day. Government topographer Adolfo Paolini Pisani is -driving a jeep along the highway between La Victoria and El Vigía, -Mérida, Venezuela, when a truck passes him. A few minutes later, a -brilliant metallic disc like polished blue steel swoops down and passes -dangerously close above the hood of the truck. The truck rises a few -feet into the air and overturns in the direction taken by the object, -falling in a sandbank with its wheels in the air. The object ascends and -is lost to view in a few seconds. Pisani stops his jeep to assist, but -fortunately the lone driver has only a few scratches. (Horacio Gonzales, -“Disc -Upsets Truck,” APRO Bulletin, September 1961, pp. 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3471

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Event 5053 -(1739E180)

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Date: 1/1/1961
-Description: A government topographer, Adolfo P. Pisani, was passed by a -truck as he was driving on the Andean Highway. A brilliant disk with the -appearance of blue steel swooped down very close to the hood of the -truck and then flew away. The truck was pulled up nearly 1 m above the -road and overturned in a sandbank. The driver escaped with minor -injuries.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor.I 250 (Vallee)
-Location: La Victoria, Venezuela
-ID: 514

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Event 5054 -(3AA1104A)

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Date: 1/3/1961
-Description: President Eisenhower severs -diplomatic relations with Cuba.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3472

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Event 5055 -(50A26242)

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Date: 1/3/1961
-Description: 9:01 p.m. An explosion at the US Army’s SL-1 nuclear power -reactor in Idaho Falls, Idaho, causes a meltdown, killing three -operators. The direct cause is the improper withdrawal of the central -control rod, responsible for absorbing neutrons in the reactor core. The -event is the only reactor accident in the US that results in immediate -fatalities. (Wikipedia, “SL-1”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3473

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Event 5056 -(64AAF633)

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Date: 1/4/1961
-Description: The CIA Deputy Director of Plans Richard -Bissell plans for a “lodgement” by 750 men at an undisclosed site in -Cuba, supported by considerable air power.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3474

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Event 5057 -(8BBFF43E)

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Date: 1/8/1961
-Description: Pravda asserts that “some regions” (including Uzbekistan -and Tajikistan) of the USSR are reporting UFOs. It quotes physicist Lev -Artsimovich saying that “it is about time that these tales be -stopped no matter how breathtaking they may be.” (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January– June -1961, The -Author, 2003, pp. 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3475

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Event 5058 -(20814DEA)

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Date: 1/10/1961
-Description: A US Navy A-1 Polaris missile is launched from a ground pad -at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A disc, whose diameter is close to the -length of the Polaris, alters its tracking, but does not block the -missile firing, since the tracking system continues to follow the object -and later returns to again to track the Polaris downrange. The diameter -of the disc is approximately 20–25 feet and it is about 6–8 feet thick -at its center. It is visually lost to ground observers and the primary -witness (Clark -C. McClelland, with 10x50 binoculars) as it continues downrange. The -original investigation is conducted by McClelland and his Florida NICAP -subcommittee. (NICAP, “UFO -‘Alters’ Tracking of Navy Polaris Test”; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: January–June 1961, The -Author, 2003, pp. 6–7; Sparks, p. 286)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3476

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Event 5059 -(BD06932D)

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Date: 1/12/1961
-Description: In a press conference in Moscow, Russia, Minister of -Merchant Marine Viktor -Bakaev charges that US military aircraft and ships are -systematically conducting “provocative actions” against Soviet vessels -around Cuba. He is probably referring to close approaches to Cuban -airspace by Fort Bliss–based reconnaissance aircraft that are testing -the responses of Soviet electronic countermeasures. (Jacobsen, Area 51, -pp. 155–157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3477

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Event 5060 -(6D313560)

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Date: 1/17/1961
-Description: Eisenhower delivers -a farewell address in a TV broadcast. Perhaps best known for advocating -that the nation guard against the potential influence of the -military–industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the -speech also expresses concerns about planning for the future and the -dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect -of the domination of science through federal funding, and, conversely, -the domination of science-based public policy by what he calls a -“scientific-technological elite.” (Wikipedia, “Eisenhower’s -farewell address”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3479

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Event 5061 -(C89938EC)

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Date: 1/17/1961
-Description: 6:17 p.m. A former weather officer at Holloman AFB is -driving with some companions near Cimarron, New Mexico, when they see -three different groups of amber UFOs flying in V-formation about 15 -miles away at 30,000 feet. There are six lights in the first group and -eight in the second and third. They fly away to the southwest and then -return to where they first appeared. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, -Signet, 1969, pp. 226–227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3480

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Event 5062 -(F48E84BD)

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Date: 1/17/1961
-Description: DRC Prime Minister Patrice -Lumumba is executed by firing squad near Élisabethville [now -Lubumbashi], Democratic Republic of the Congo. CIA Station Chief Larry -Devlin has helped direct the search to capture Lumumba for his -transfer to his enemies in Katanga, he is involved in arranging -Lumumba’s transfer there, and he is in direct touch with the killers the -night Lumumba is killed. The Congolese leaders who kill Lumumba, -including Mobutu -Sese Seko and Joseph -Kasa-Vubu, receive money and weapons directly from the CIA. John Stockwell writes -in 1978 that a CIA agent had the body in the trunk of his car in order -to try to get rid of it. Stockwell, who knows Devlin well, feels Devlin -knows more than anyone else about the murder. However, documents -released in 2017 reveal that the US role in Lumumba’s murder was only -under consideration by the CIA and never carried out. (Wikipedia, “Patrice -Lumumba”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3478

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Event 5063 -(209DD71E)

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Date: 1/19/1961
-Description: A USAF press release proclaims that “not even a minute -fragment of a so-called ‘flying saucer’ has ever been found.” (Frank -Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3481

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Event 5064 -(C1840C49)

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Date: 1/20/1961
-End date: 11/22/1963
-Description: President John F. Kennedy in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 5065 -(197DC471)

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Date: 1/22/1961
-Time: 1830
-Description: An electronics professor at Bordeaux University and three -school teachers observed an elongated, glowing, orange object. -Interference with car ignition was noted. One witness was said to have -felt a slight indisposition and to have heard or somehow perceived the -word “ZEMU” repeated twice.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos 26 (Vallee)
-Location: Cestas-Gazinet, France
-ID: 515

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Event 5066 -(0B1A2643)

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Date: 1/22/1961
-Description: 4:45 p.m. An elliptical, metallic-looking UFO approaches -Eglin AFB near Valparaiso, Florida, from over the Gulf, makes a U-turn -and speeds back over the Gulf. Harry Caslar is filming his son on the -beach with 8mm movie film and captures the UFO. (UFOEv, p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3482

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Event 5067 -(F79BC412)

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Date: 1/28/1961
-Description: President Kennedy is -briefed, together with all the major departments, on the latest plan -(code-named Operation Pluto) that involves 1,000 men landed in a -ship-borne invasion at Trinidad, Cuba, about 170 miles southeast of -Havana at the foothills of the Escambray Mountains in Sancti Spiritus -province. Kennedy authorizes the active departments to report -progress.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3483

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Event 5068 -(E399820B)

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Date: 2/1961
-Description: Forester Vasili Brodski finds a mysterious crater 100 feet -long, 50 feet wide, and 10 feet deep on the bank of a frozen lake in -Karelia, Russia. It had not been there two days earlier. The base is -remarkably smooth, and around the edge are lumps of grass and soil but -no trace of the excavated dirt. Six investigators from Leningrad [now -St. Petersburg] arrive and find odd, crumbling black pellets on the edge -of the lake. Divers discover a 330- foot strip where the soil has been -displaced along the floor of the lake, as if something slid along the -ground and submerged, ploughing up the soil. Geologist Vsevolod Charmov -examines ice, water, and soil samples but cannot explain a green -discoloration on some of the submerged pieces of broken ice. The pellets -seem to be an inorganic substance. (Hobana and Weverbergh 61–63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3484

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Event 5069 -(5775FB38)

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Date: 2/5/1961
-End date: 2/7/1961
-Description: Many people report strange lights flashing around in the -sky over Maine. Some blink and move up and down. A Portland Press Herald -editorial, February 9, says: “Mysterious objects ‘lit up like a ball of -fire and going fast’ zoom over Portland. Unidentified shapes with green, -yellow, and red lights hover over Brunswick, then dart away with -‘unbelievable quickness.’ Strange things are happening. . . The military -had us just about convinced that no such objects existed. The only -trouble was that many people—good, reliable observers— continued to see -these things.” (UFOEv, p. 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3485

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Event 5070 -(EC27156B)

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Date: 2/27/1961
-Time: 10:15 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. LaPalm. One fiery-red, round object, preceded -by light rays, slowed and descended, while her dog howled. Sighting -lasted 10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bark River, Michigan
-ID: 458

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Event 5071 -(204B4E36)

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Date: 2/28/1961
-Description: US military advisors first accompany South Vietnamese -troops during operations in Vietnam
-Type: war
-Reference: link
-Location: Vietnam

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Event 5072 -(327E80D5)

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Date: 2/28/1961
-Description: 3:20 a.m. Clarence Blackwood and his wife hear a roaring -sound in the sky at their home in Lakewood, Massachusetts. They look out -the bedroom window and see a fiery cigar-shaped object moving at low -altitude to the northeast. It is bright yellow in the middle with a -bright red edge and surrounded by thin clouds of black smoke. The object -rolls back and forth rapidly and travels slowly to the southwest. It -passes directly above their house, illuminating the bedroom. The lights -that they have left on in the kitchen dim three times and go out for 4– -5 minutes. The object returns at 3:40 and the kitchen lights repeat -their previous actions. (Schopick, pp. 115–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3486

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Event 5073 -(04A9C96E)

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Date: 3/1961
-Description: House Majority Leader John -W. McCormack tells Keyhoe privately -that he has urged the Science and Astronautics Committee, headed by -Rep. Overton -Brooks (D-La.), to investigate Air Force UFO secrecy. (Keyhoe, -Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3488

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Event 5074 -(A1A13DFB)

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Date: 3/1961
-Description: In an article in Argosy, Maj. Lawrence -Tacker says that critics of the Air Force investigation are -“absolutely erroneous,” “a hoax,” “sensational theories,” and the work -of “amateur hobby groups.” NICAP’s evidence is “drivel,” its claims -“ridiculous,” and it is making “senseless accusations.” (Lawrence J. -Tacker, “‘Flying Saucers Are Fakes!’ ‘—U.S. Air Force,’” Argosy, March -1961, pp. 58, 125–126; UFOEv, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3487

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Event 5075 -(1EBF059A)

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Date: 3/10/1961
-Time: 2045
-Description: F. Reynolds and his son were camping near the water. They -observed an object on the ground with four windows in it. There was a -fire nearby, and four figures could be seen between it and the object. -At 2130 it had disappeared. Witnesses in Wodonga, West Albury, -Wangaratta and Tallangatta independently observed an unknown object in -flight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Austr. FSR 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Bowna, Australia
-ID: 516

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Event 5076 -(0F25A724)

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Date: 3/16/1961
-Description: 6:15 p.m. Brazilian meteorologist Rubens J. Villela, on the -deck of the USS -Glacier, watches a tear-shaped fireball over Admiralty Bay, South -Shetland Islands, Antarctica, in slow, level flight. It leaves a long -orange trail like a tracer bullet, then abruptly divides in two as if -exploding. It disappears after 10 seconds. (UFOEv, pp. 53– 54; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 64–65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3489

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Event 5077 -(C452EAFF)

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Date: 3/16/1961
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Mr. F. Reynolds and his 15-year-old son Lloyd are -camped in their trailer 900 feet from the Murray River, at Bowna, New -South Wales, when they see what appears to be a huge trailer with four -windows and a red light at the end standing by the water. A fire is -visible to the right of the object, and they can see four figures moving -quickly between the object and the fire. Reynolds watches through -binoculars and sees the entire array moving sideways in a jerking -manner. After 45 minutes, it is all gone from sight. In the morning they -can find no traces on the soft mud flat. (“UFO -Landing?” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 5 (July 1961): -1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3490

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Event 5078 -(81DE40CF)

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Date: spring 1961
-Description: Late evening. A couple parking in Millville, New Jersey, -watch a bright light silently moving northward. It hovers, reverses -direction, and maneuvers for 5 minutes. At one point it races directly -at a star, abruptly stops, draws a neat, right-angled, half-box around -it, and goes racing on. Finally it speeds out of sight in about 5 -seconds. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 44; -Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January -2006): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3491

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Event 5079 -(A1E70FFF)

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Date: Spring 1961
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kemah, Texas
-ID: 459

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Event 5080 -(74AD3917)

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Date: 4/1961
-Description: Maj. Tacker is -removed from his job as Pentagon UFO spokesman and reassigned to Europe. -He is replaced by Maj. William -T. Coleman. (“Tacker -Replaced As Spokesman,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 12 (April/May 1961): -1– 2; UFOEv, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3492

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Event 5081 -(F546B7A9)

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Date: 4/4/1961
-Description: President Kennedy approves -the Bay of Pigs plan (also known as Operation Zapata) for the invasion -of Cuba because it has an airfield that does not need extending to -handle bomber operations, it is farther away from large groups of -civilians than the Trinidad plan, and it is less noisy militarily, which -would make any future denial of direct US involvement more plausible. -(Wikipedia, “Bay -of Pigs invasion”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3493

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Event 5082 -(0196E2D0)

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Date: 4/12/1961
-Description: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri -Gagarin becomes the first human to go into outer space when his -Vostok spacecraft completes an orbit of the earth. (Wikipedia, “Yuri -Gagarin”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3494

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Event 5083 -(3BF51733)

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Date: 4/17/1961
-Description: The Bay of Pigs invasion takes place in Cuba. A -counter-revolutionary military (made up of Cuban exiles), trained and -funded by the CIA, Brigade 2506 fronts the armed wing of the Democratic -Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intends to overthrow the increasingly -communist government of Fidel -Castro. Launched from bases in Guatemala and Nicaragua, the invading -force is defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed -Forces under the direct command of Castro. (Wikipedia, “Bay -of Pigs invasion”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3495

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Event 5084 -(F5B772CA)

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Date: 4/18/1961
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Joe -Simonton hears a whining sound on his farm four miles from Eagle -River, Wisconsin, and sees a silvery object, 30 feet in diameter and 12 -feet high, with exhaust pipes around the periphery, land nearby. A door -opens and a man appears, about 5 feet tall and wearing a black, -turtle-neck pullover with a white band at the belt, and black trousers -with a vertical white band along the side. Two other figures are visible -inside. The creature is holding a metallic jug and making gestures -suggesting he wants a drink. Simonton takes the jug into his basement, -fills it with water, and returns it to the man. Simonton notices one man -frying on a flameless grill and motions for some food. Simonton receives -four ordinary pancakes or cookies, 3 inches in diameter, perforated with -small holes. The object takes off after 5 minutes. Simonton gives one of -the pancakes to Judge Frank Wellington -Carter, who -then passes it on to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial -Phenomena; another he gives to J. -Allen Hynek for Project Blue Book; and the third he keeps for -himself. A thorough analysis is performed on one of the pancakes by the -US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the food is found -to be made of terrestrial but tasteless ingredients, including -hydrogenated oil and buckwheat flour. The Air Force concludes that -Simonton is honest but has mistakenly conflated the reality of his -breakfast with a dream. (Sparks, -p. 287; Vallée, Magonia, pp. 23–25; -Clark III 421–426; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: January–June 1961, The -Author, 2003, pp. 32–34; Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek -case documents]; -Center for UFO Studies, [case photos]; -Center for UFO Studies, [Lex -Mebane case files]; Center for UFO Studies, [NICAP -case documents]; Jerome Clark, “The -Pancakes of Eagle River,” IUR 21, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 3–8, 27; -Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 (November -2015): 42–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3496

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Event 5085 -(8DF76182)

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Date: 4/18/1961
-Time: 1100
-Description: J. Simonton heard a whining sound and saw an object, 10 m -in diameter, 4 m high, with exhaust pipes around the periphery, land -near his house. A door was opened and a man appeared. About 1.50 m tall, -he wore a black, turtle-neck pullover with a white band at the belt, and -black trousers with a vertical white band along the side. Two figures -were visible inside the object. Simonton filled a jug with water, -returned it to the man, who gave him three ordinary pancakes, and the -craft took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Eagle River, Wisconsin
-ID: 517

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Event 5086 -(8B7C36EA)

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Date: 4/19/1961
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Commanding Officer C. J. Peterson of the -minesweeper HMS Maxton sees a swiftly moving object as the ship is 33 -miles off San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily, Italy. It is green and leaves an -orange trail as it moves higher and disappears to the northwest. The -ship’s crew sees a similar object on April 20 at 4:50 a.m. when it is 25 -miles south of Capo Carbonara, Sardinia, Italy. (1Pinotti 112–113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3497

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Event 5087 -(7F02F96A)

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Date: 4/24/1961
-Time: 3:34 AM
-Description: Witnesses: aircraft commander Capt. H.J. Savoy and -navigator lst Lt. M.W. Rand, on USAF RC-l2lD patrol plane. One -reddish-white, round object or light, similar to satellite. Observed for -8 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 200 miles SW of San Francisco, California (35’ 50’ N, 125’ 40 -W)
-ID: 460

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Event 5088 -(0A2A6E98)

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Date: 4/25/1961
-Description: US Air Force Intelligence Collection Guidance Letter no. 4, -originally classified Confidential, describes and provides guidance for -Project Moon Dust reporting. Several items of interest appear in the -document: classification level of Moon Dust Alerts and reports, focus of -Moon Dust on “foreign earth satellite vehicles,” and destination -agencies for Moon Dust reports among them. Project Moon Dust is a covert -project to exploit the discovery of Soviet hardware when it temporarily -lands in American hands. (Department of the Air Force, “MOON -DUST Reporting,” Intelligence Collection Guidance Letter, no. 4, -April 25, 1961; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, -pp. 157–169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3498

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Event 5089 -(DF5D027B)

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Date: 4/28/1961
-Description: Traces of a crashed UFO were found in this area.
-Type: ufo crash
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Korb Lake, Leningrad, Russia

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Event 5090 -(A633BBE9)

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Date: 4/29/1961
-Description: Around 4:00 p.m. Contractor John P. Gallagher is working at -a home adjacent to Bailey’s Beach, Newport, Rhode Island. He sees a red -spherical object bobbing on the ocean waves about 600 feet from the -shore. Suddenly the object rises into the air to 60 feet and moves out -to sea at about 100 mph. (“‘Head’ -Floats—Flies,” APRO Bulletin, July 1961, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3499

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Event 5091 -(007085AE)

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Date: 5/1961
-Description: In the May issue of “Fate” magazine, Master Sgt. O.D. Hill -admits that we are still losing Air Force planes to UFOs. The first case -was an F-86 jet fighter that was sent aloft to investigate an UFO that -had been plotted on the Radar scope of an Air Base (name and dates -classified). The Radar Operator spied the UFO heading straight for the -craft. The operator radioed for the F-86 to climb at once, but it was -too late. The two blips merged as one and the UFO was tracked moving -away. Classified as “mysterious” not a single shred of the F-86 was ever -found. (ref. Kinross AFB where an F-89 with crew of two merged with an -UFO and disappeared.-Donald Keyhoe) Second Case: A radar operator was -tracking a transport plane carrying 26 persons aboard when, suddenly, -another blip appeared on the screen closing at 2500 mph on the -transport. Before the operator could warn the transport the two blips -emerged as one. The remaining blip sped straight up at tremendous speed. -A surface search in the vicinity revealed no oil slicks on the water, -although a Generals’ briefcase was found floating around.
-Type: publication
-Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
-Location: US
-See also: 4/1/59
-See also: 9/29/59

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Event 5092 -(19CB2932)

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Date: 5/1961
-Description: Rep. Overton -Brooks (D-La.) appoints Rep. Joseph -Karth (DFL-Minn.) head of a Subcommittee on Space Problems and Life -Sciences. Karth and two other members plan for hearings in early 1962. -The plan calls for a statement by Roscoe -Hillenkoetter. NICAP -releases a joint statement by 21 American scientists that calls for an -open investigation by UFOs without secrecy. It says the Air Force should -have a more straightforward information policy that releases all facts -on major UFO sightings. (“Scientists -Urge Check on AF Investigation,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 12 -(April/May 1961): 7; “UFO -Inquiry behind Closed Doors: NICAP Asks Right to Question -Air Force,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 1 (July/Aug. 1961): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3500

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Event 5093 -(A9BB021D)

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Date: 5/3/1961
-Time: 2200
-Description: Approximate date. A hemispherical craft with portholes, -resting on a road, took off when a car came near it. Estimated diameter -was 4 m, height 2.5 m, bearing “fluorescent lights.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 139, 147 (Vallee)
-Location: Union Mills, Indiana
-ID: 518

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Event 5094 -(FF31421B)

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Date: 5/5/1961
-Description: Astronaut Alan -Shepard becomes the first American in space (for 15 minutes and 22 -seconds) when his Freedom -7 capsule is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the first -manned Project Mercury launch. (Wikipedia, “Mercury-Redstone -3”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3501

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Event 5095 -(BE2FBD61)

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Date: 5/10/1961
-Description: Late evening. Richard Vogt, driving on a rural road south -of Osakis, Minnesota, sees a “ball of fog approximately 3 feet in -diameter” swiftly descending toward him at a 45° angle from a clear sky. -Unable to take evasive action, Vogt can only stare as the object hits -the upper part of his hood and windshield. The noisy impact generates a -tremendous amount of heat; the windshield becomes extremely hot to the -touch. The object leaves pit marks burned in the windshield, circular -tracks on the glass, and burned specks in the finish of the hood. (C. W. -Fitch, “Monitoring -and Scanning UFOs,” APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 5; Clark III -716)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3502

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Event 5096 -(5FFD4886)

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Date: 5/15/1961
-Description: An order approved by President Kennedy results -in the dispersal of four machine guns to insurgents in the Dominican -Republic. President Rafael -Trujillo dies from gunshot wounds on May 30. In the aftermath, Robert Kennedy writes -that the CIA has succeeded where it has failed many times in the past, -but in the face of that success, it is caught flatfooted, having failed -to plan what to do next. (Wikipedia, “Rafael -Trujillo”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3503

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Event 5097 -(57438F5F)

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Date: 5/22/1961
-Time: 4:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. A.J. Jones and Mrs. R.F. Davis. One big -silver dollar disc hovered and revolved, then suddenly disappeared after -15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tyndall AFB, Florida
-ID: 461

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Event 5098 -(33413A79)

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Date: 6/2/1961
-Time: 10:17 PM
-Description: Witnesses: lst Lt. R.N. Monahan and Hazeltine Electric -Co. technical representative D.W. Mattison. One blue-white light flew -erratic course at varying speed, in an arc-like path for 5 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miyako Jima, Japan
-ID: 462

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Event 5099 -(D8296E3E)

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Date: 6/3/1961
-Description: 6:35 a.m. Giacomo Barra, Giuseppe Pordoi, Filippo Marin, -and Silvano Guardinfante are in a motorboat off Savona, Italy, when the -boat begins to roll badly. More than one-half mile away, they notice the -surface of the sea is “bulging like an enormous ball, with long billows -going out.” An object emerges from the sea and stops still for a few -seconds at a height of 30 feet and rocks slightly. A halo forms around -the base and it shoots away quickly across the sea and vanishes towards -the northwest. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: January–June 1961, The -Author, 2003, p. 50; 1Pinotti 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3507

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Event 5100 -(86D2127D)

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Date: 6/3/1961
-Description: A civilian weather observer sees an object through a -theodolite at Mercury, Nevada. It remains in sight for 2 hours at an -altitude of 80,000–120,000 feet. Project Blue Book evaluators correctly -identify the object as a probable U-2 aircraft flying out of Nellis AFB. -(Mark Rodeghier, “The U-2 Spy Plane and Blue Book: Another Look,” IUR -27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3508

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Event 5101 -(5F622439)

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Date: 6/3/1961
-Time: 0635
-Description: Off this town, four people in a boat were suddenly shaken -by growing waves and saw the sea swelling like an enormous bubble 1 km -away. An object emerged, hovering at 10 m altitude for a brief time, its -underside glowing, and it left obliquely at high speed toward the -northeast. Its shape was similar to a cone resting on a disk.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Settimana Incom. Jan. 6,63 (Vallee)
-Location: Savona, Italy
-ID: 519

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Event 5102 -(83C26B95)

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Date: 6/4/1961
-Description: Mrs. James W. Annis, a librarian, sees a large, narrow, -elliptical object hovering low in the sky to the north of Blue Ridge -Summit, Pennsylvania. Farther to the east, a cluster of smaller objects -is hovering. She then watches the smaller objects streak across the sky -to the larger one. All then move out of sight behind trees to the north- -northwest. (UFOEv, p. 71; -Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 -(Summer 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3509

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Event 5103 -(1ABFAC18)

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Date: 6/5/1961
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Patrolman Jaime de Miranda and Astrogildo de -Medeiros are called to the scene of a sighting on the Rodovia Anchieta -highway 30 miles northwest of Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. When they -arrive, they find about 20 cars stopped along the road and people -watching a luminous disc-shaped object maneuvering in the area. The -patrolmen try to signal the object by shining a spotlight on it, but -they get no response. When they focus a red light on it, the object -moves toward the cars at high speed. They take cover. Another responder, -Marshal José Otavia Leite, is about to shoot at the object but other -police prevent him. After 3 hours, the object gets dimmer. At 5:30 a.m., -it is still visible through binoculars when it lands on the ground some -distance from the highway. By daybreak it is no longer visible. -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 227–228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3510

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Event 5104 -(BA2F9950)

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Date: 6/9/1961
-Description: A second USAF/NASA flight evaluation of the Avrocar is -conducted on a modified second prototype at the Avro facility in -Mississisauga, Ontario. During these tests, the vehicle reaches a -maximum speed of 20 knots and shows the ability to traverse a ditch 6 -feet across and 18 inches deep. Flight above the critical altitude -proves dangerous if not nearly impossible due to inherent instability. -The flight test report further identifies a range of control problems. -(Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3511

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Event 5105 -(805E5B6A)

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Date: 6/11/1961
-Description: 11:00 p.m. José-Gregorio Darnaude y Rojas Marcos, 28, is -lying in a hammock in the front of his house on the Fuenteluega Estate -in Sevilla, Spain, when he feels a peculiar pricking sensation -throughout his whole body but particularly in his head. His dogs are -cowering, the sheep go completely crazy, and the crickets and cicadas -become silent. Suddenly, a luminous disc about 15 feet in diameter -appears from behind the house, flying from northeast to southwest. It -makes an abrupt 90° turn and moves directly toward him, hovering about -400 feet away from him and 80 feet in the air, changing colors from -white to orange to red to purple several times. Darnaude runs inside, -but the disc turns bright white and shots away at enormous speed. -(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Twelfh Night: And a UFO,” Flying Saucer -Review Case Histories, no. 18 (September 1974): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3512

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Event 5106 -(A3EE3FC2)

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Date: 6/19/1961
-Description: A flying object hovers for more than an hour above an -airport at Exeter, Devon, England. Officials say: “We do not know what -it is. It was seen on the radar screen and we have had it under -observation for some time. We think it is pretty big. It appears to be -shining brightly and is about 50,000 feet up.” (UFOEv, pp. 80, -139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3513

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Event 5107 -(8197BFA8)

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Date: summer 1961
-Description: Capt. Robert -Filler and Lt. Phil Lee, based with the 82d Fighter Interceptor -Squadron at Travis AFB in Fairfield, California, are scrambled in their -F-102 Delta Dagger jets to intercept a radar target that has been -hovering at 50,000 feet for 30 minutes. They get a radar lock-on 20 -miles out above the Sacramento Valley. The target is still stationary -until they are 5 miles away, then the target moves quickly several times -to a higher altitude. Filler estimates it is moving at 36,000 mph. (Good -Need, pp. 245–246)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3505

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Event 5108 -(52C10B17)

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Date: summer 1961
-Description: Near Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, crews are setting -up new missile batteries as part of Moscow’s defensive network. A huge -disc-shaped object allegedly appears at an estimated altitude of 12.5 -miles, surrounded by a number of smaller objects. A nervous battery -commander panics and gives unauthorized orders to fire a salvo at the -disc. All the missiles explode at an estimated distance of 1.2 miles -from the target. A third salvo is not fired, because at that point the -smaller objects stall the electrical apparatus of the entire missile -base. After the smaller disc rejoin the big UFO, the electrical systems -return. (Good Above, pp. 227–228; -Flying Saucers, no. 47, May 1966, pp. 6–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3504

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Event 5109 -(933FF9D3)

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Date: summer 1961
-Description: Day. Glenn E. Bradley watches a group of six metallic discs -pass over his farm near Beloit, Ohio, at a low altitude. They are -traveling in single file at about 30 mph and are spaced 1–2 miles apart. -The objects are each about 60 feet in diameter at the bottom with a -30-foot dome on top. Within a transparent section in the center he can -see two figures on each side. The objects begin banking to the left -about 200–300 feet away. (“Soup -Bowls over -Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 (Feb./March 1985): 4, -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3506

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Event 5110 -(40BBCD72)

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Date: 6/30/1961
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Residents of Warsaw, Poland, see a large, -luminous, roughly spherical, slowly moving object in the sky. It -supposedly remains visible for more than 8 hours. (Poland 29–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3514

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Event 5111 -(B7867A67)

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Date: 7/1961
-Alternate date: 8/1961
-Description: Dusk. Florin Gorănescu is staying at a villa in Lacul Roşu, -Romania. He and two colleagues notice on top of a nearby high cliff an -intensely red light that remains motionless until it begins moving -slowly northeast. (Romania 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3515

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Event 5112 -(E09907FE)

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Date: 7/1/1961
-Description: ATIC is removed from USAF Intelligence and added to the new -Air Force Systems Command. Its name is changed to the Foreign Technology -Division. Project Blue Book is included in the reorganization. (Sparks, -pp. 12–13; Wikipedia, “National -Air and Space Intelligence Center”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3516

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Event 5113 -(1F26BB6B)

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Date: 7/1/1961
-Description: A new squadron that will become the 1st Aerospace -Surveillance and Control Squadron becomes operational under the USAF Air -Defense Command at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training Center], -Colorado Springs, Colorado, part of NORAD’s Space Detection and Tracking -System. The first squadron commander is Col. Robert Miller. The Space -Track organization at Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts, assumes a -backup role for squadron operations. (Wikipedia, “1st -Space Operations Squadron”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3517

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Event 5114 -(412E610F)

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Date: 7/3/1961
-Time: 0015
-Description: An object resembling a hovercraft, having five windows -through which an orange light was shining, hovered about 20 m above the -trees. It left suddenly at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 61, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Ryde, Great Britain
-ID: 520

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Event 5115 -(6A83B36A)

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Date: 7/7/1961
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witness: waitress Nannette Hilley. One large ball flew -slow, split into four after 45 minutes. Four flew close formation, -descended and flew away to the west. Total sighting lasted 1 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Copemish, Michigan
-ID: 463

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Event 5116 -(84A2904C)

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Date: 7/11/1961
-Time: 7:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: ex-air navigator G. Scott, Mrs. Scott, and -neighbors. One round, bright light like shiny aluminum, passed overhead -in 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Springfield, Ohio
-ID: 464

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Event 5117 -(63563373)

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Date: 7/11/1961
-Description: 10:35 p.m. Jacques Vallée and others at the Paris -Observatory in Meudon, France, see a mystery satellite as part of -Project Moonwatch. The following day the director of the project -confiscates all their data and destroys it, apparently in fear of being -laughed at by the press, scientific colleagues, and the Americans. -(Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North Atlantic, 1992, pp. 41–42; -Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): -11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3518

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Event 5118 -(82948790)

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Date: 7/17/1961
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two people driving about one mile north of Bonnie -Springs Ranch [now the Ranch at Red Rock] in the Red Rock Canyon -National Conservation Area, Nevada, see in the rear-view mirror a -low-flying object that overtakes their car, followed by a rush of cold -air. It stops, circles the vehicle, flies off, and is lost to sight -behind the mountains, where it might have landed, but an investigation -by the military finds no trace. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 282; -Sparks, p. 288)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3519

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Event 5119 -(0C3F815D)

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Date: 7/17/1961
-Time: 0200
-Description: One mile north of Bonny Spring Ranch, on U.S. Highway 91, -two civilians in a car observed in the rear-view mirror a low-flying -object that overtook their car, followed by a rush of cold air. It -stopped, circled the vehicle, flew off and was lost to sight behind the -mountains, where it may have landed. In the course of an exceptionally -complete investigation by military authorities, however, no evidence of -a landing was discovered.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
-ID: 521

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Event 5120 -(6AB2582B)

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Date: 7/20/1961
-Time: 8 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Trans-Texas Airlines Capt. A.V. Beather, flying -DC-3, plus vague report from ground radar. Two very bright white light -or objects flew in trail formation for 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Houston, Texas
-ID: 465

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Event 5121 -(C12F67BA)

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Date: 7/21/1961
-Description: Mercury program : Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission — Gus Grissom -piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in -a suborbital mission).
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
-Location: US
-See also: 1/27/67

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Event 5122 -(F8FC58ED)

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Date: 8/1961
-Description: Construction of essential facilities is completed at Area -51 in Nevada; three surplus Navy hangars are erected on the base’s north -side. The original U-2 hangars are converted to maintenance and machine -shops. Facilities in the main cantonment area include workshops and -buildings for storage and administration, a commissary, control tower, -fire station, and housing. The Navy also contributes more than 130 -surplus Babbitt duplex housing units for long-term occupancy facilities. -Older buildings are repaired, and additional facilities are constructed -as necessary. A reservoir pond surrounded by trees serves as a -recreational area one mile north of the base. Other recreational -facilities included a gymnasium, a movie theater, and a baseball -diamond. (Wikipedia, “Area -51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3520

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Event 5123 -(14BAAB65)

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Date: 8/4/1961
-Description: Rep. Thomas -N. Downing (D-Va.) advises NICAP that the House Science and -Astronautics Committee is considering hearings on UFOs by a three-man -subcommittee headed by Rep. Joseph -Karth. Meanwhile, Rep. Overton -Brooks meets privately with Hillenkoetter and -Keyhoe, -asking them to prepare the best cases and proof of official censorship -for a meeting on August 24. (UFOEv, p. 139; -Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 77–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3521

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Event 5124 -(91779752)

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Date: 8/5/1961
-Description: 8:20 a.m. John Lee-Steere sees a “snowy white meshlike -substance” float to the ground from 12 white metallic discs traveling in -pairs over the Mount Hale shearing station, 50 miles northwest of -Meekatharra, Western Australia. Sheep-shearing contractor Edwin C. Payne -picks up the material and it fades away in his hands. (“Discs -Trail White Fibrous Stuff,” APRO Bulletin, January 1962, p. 1; Loren -E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December 1961, The Author, -2003, p. 23; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” -IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7; Clark III 324)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3522

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Event 5125 -(ECB64915)

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Date: 8/12/1961
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: college seniors J.B. Furkenhoff and Tom Phipps. -One very large oval object with a fin extending from one edge to the -center; like a sled with lighted car running boards. Hovered at 50’ -altitude for 3-5 minutes, then flew straight up and east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kansas City, Kansas
-ID: 466

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Event 5126 -(6C11C2C8)

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Date: 8/12/1961
-Time: 2100
-Description: Two Drake University students saw a large object shaped -like an oval with “running boards” bearing a series of lights. It -hovered for about 4 min at tree-height, shot straight up, climbed away -toward the east, then disappeared from view in five sec or so.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Kansas City, Kansas
-ID: 522

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Event 5127 -(6AAE82B3)

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Date: 8/12/1961
-Description: 9:00 p.m. College seniors J. B. Furkenhoff and Tom Phipps -see a large oval object with a fin extending from one edge to the -center, like a sled with lighted car running boards, near Old Mission -High School on 50th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. It hovers at 50 -feet altitude for 3–5 minutes, then flies straight up, disappearing in -about 5 seconds. (Patrick Gross, “Kansas -City 1961, a Blue Book ‘Unknown’”; Sparks, -p. 289)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3523

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Event 5128 -(6BDC1F71)

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Date: mid 8/1961
-Description: House Committee staff consultant Richard P. Hines visits -ATIC in Dayton, where Col. Robert -Friend, Hynek, and -other officials give him a tour, tell him that Project Blue Book has the -UFO problem at hand, and that Rep. McCormack has -been pressured by NICAP to hold hearings. Hines leaves ATIC “favorably -impressed.” (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 160–161; -Swords 293)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3524

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Event 5129 -(8F5FDA54)

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Date: 8/16/1961
-Description: George -Hunt Williamson, now going by the name of Michel d’Obrenovic, -arrives in Japan at the invitation of the Cosmic Brotherhood Association -and its contactee leader Yusuke -Matsumara. (Zirger -and Martinelli, The Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, -Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 129–130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3525

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Event 5130 -(D42B7BF6)

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Date: 8/22/1961
-Description: Adm. Roscoe -Hillenkoetter signs a NICAP letter to Congress urging “immediate -congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about UFOs, -including accidental war and the Russians falsely claiming UFOs are -Soviet weapons. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3526

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Event 5131 -(0053CB07)

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Date: 8/25/1961
-Description: Approximate date. Five persons observed a luminous, yellow -sphere, 8 m in diameter, flying about 10 m above the road. Horizontal -and vertical bands of darker tone gave the impression of “windows.” The -object flew up very fast when the car reached town.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN (Vallee)
-Location: Toulouse, France
-ID: 523

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Event 5132 -(882C20C8)

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Date: 8/25/1961 (approximate)
-Description: Five people at Toulouse, France, see a luminous, yellow -object, 24 feet in diameter, flying about 30 feet above a road. The -object has horizontal and vertical bands of darker tone that give the -appearance of “windows.” The UFO flies upwards very quickly when the car -reaches town. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 282)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3527

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Event 5133 -(211C8525)

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Date: 8/28/1961
-Description: Rep. Karth writes -a harsh letter to Keyhoe and -attacks him for trying to defame and ridicule the Air Force. He had -thought Keyhoe would be proving the existence of spaceships, but he -knows now he cannot do this. Therefore, he is no longer interested in -holding hearings. He tells a newspaper reporter that he will not be part -of Keyhoe’s “cheap scheme to discredit the Air Force.” (Jacobs, UFO -Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, pp. 161–162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3528

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Event 5134 -(5CD96C41)

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Date: 9/1961
-Description: A National Intelligence Estimate concludes that the USSR -has no more than 25 ICBMs and will not possess more in the near future, -effectively discrediting the missile gap myth. (Wikipedia, “Missile -gap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3529

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Event 5135 -(3B150C31)

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Date: 9/2/1961
-Description: 4:40–4:50 p.m. A man named Ziegler is reclining outside his -home in the northeast section of Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he sees a -shiny round white object moving erratically to the west. At two -different times it emits several small silvery objects about one-sixth -the size of the main object. It fades out of sight to the south. (NICAP, -“Silver Object and Smaller Ones Emitted”; Sparks, p. 289; -Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 -(Summer 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3530

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Event 5136 -(C0175460)

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Date: 9/6/1961
-Description: The National Reconnaissance Office is officially launched -with headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia. It designs, builds, launches, -and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the federal government, -and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, -particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the National Security -Agency, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the National -Geospace-Intelligence Agency, and measurement and signature intelligence -(MASINT) to the Defense Intelligence Agency. Its existence remains top -secret until September 18, 1992. The move creates a protocol that -requires the CIA deputy director and the undersecretary of the Air Force -to co-manage all space reconnaissance and aerial espionage programs. The -public face of the NRO is the Office of Space Systems. (Wikipedia, “National -Reconnaissance Office”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 168–169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3531

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Event 5137 -(CB616C72)

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Date: 9/16/1961
-Description: Rep. Overton -Brooks dies of a heart attack; the August 24 meeting about UFO -evidence has not taken place. He is replaced on the House Science and -Astronautics Committee by Rep. George -Paul Miller (D-Calif.) who indicates he will not order UFO hearings. -(Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3532

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Event 5138 -(BDCD70FB)

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Date: 9/18/1961
-Description: Fourth Officer G. Gendall of the cargo ship Queensland -Star, in the Indian Ocean, sees a white UFO through a cloud -formation. It vanishes into the clouds and then reappears, dropping -toward the sea. The water in the surrounding area grows intensely -bright. Particles of white matter continue to fall into the sea after -the object disappears, and the sky and water are illuminated for several -minutes. (Sanderson, InvRes, pp. 47–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3533

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Event 5139 -(517A66E7)

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Date: 9/19/1961
-End date: 9/20/1961
-Description: Betty and Barney Hill abduction incident in Lincoln, New -Hampshire. Three miles south of the city of Lancaster, New Hampshire: -Barney noticed what appeared to be a bright star, or planet, which -seemed to move erratically. Barney pointed this out to Betty… As the -object moved to within a hundred feet of him, he could see occupants -inside. Frightened, he ran back to his car where Betty waited. They -climbed inside and sped away. Soon, two hours of their lives would -vanish into oblivion.
-Type: abduction
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Lincoln, New Hampshire

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Event 5140 -(5313E230)

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Date: 9/19/1961
-Description: 5:22 a.m. The North Concord Air Force Station [now closed] -at East Mountain, Vermont, picks up an unidentified radar target at -62,000 feet for 18 minutes. It moves at a slow speed on an erratic -course. (NICAP, “Radar -Tracks Object before and after Hill Abduction”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3534

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Event 5141 -(619DCAEC)

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Date: 9/19/1961
-Description: Keyhoe has -smoothed things over with Rep. Karth, who -writes: “Now that we better understand each other, I would hope we could -properly proceed with a hearing early next year—providing the new -chairman [Miller] -authorizes hearings.” (“Majority -Leader Support Indicates Early Congressional Action: Chairman -Karth Backs -Open Hearings,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 2 (October 1961): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3535

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Event 5142 -(98D593F4)

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Date: 9/19/1961
-End date: 9/20/1961
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Barney -and Betty Hill are driving home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from a -vacation in Quebec, going south on US Highway 3. Near Groveton, New -Hampshire, Betty sees a bright light moving upward and erratically, -growing larger. Later, Barney stops the car at a scenic picnic area -south of Twin Mountain. Through binoculars, Betty sees a solid object -against the moon that “appeared to be flashing thin pencils of different -colored lights.” Barney thinks it’s a plane, though it might be “playing -games” with them. Barney drives slowly through Franconia Notch, watching -the object. At one point it passes near the Old Man of the Mountain. -About one mile south of Indian Head (north of Lincoln), the object -rapidly descends toward their vehicle, causing Barney to stop in the -middle of the highway. The huge, silent craft hovers approximately -80–100 feet above the Hills’ 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air and fills the entire -field of view in the windshield. It reminds Barney of a huge pancake. -Carrying his pistol in his pocket, he steps away from the vehicle and -moves closer to the object. Using the binoculars, Barney claims see -about 8–11 humanoid figures who are peering out of the craft’s windows, -seeming to look at him. In unison, all but one figure move to what -appears to be a panel on the rear wall of the hallway that encircles the -front portion of the craft. The one remaining figure continues to look -at Barney and communicates a message telling him to “stay where you are -and keep looking.” Barney has a recollection of observing the humanoid -forms wearing glossy black uniforms and black caps. Red lights on what -appears to be bat-wing fins begin to telescope out of the sides of the -craft, and a long structure descends from the bottom of the craft. The -UFO approaches to within 50–80 feet overhead and 300 feet away from him. -Barney tears the binoculars away from his eyes and runs back to his car. -In a near hysterical state, he tells Betty, “They’re going to capture -us!” He sees the object again shift its location to directly above the -vehicle. He drives away at high speed, telling Betty to look for the -object. She rolls down the window and looks up. Almost immediately, the -Hills hear a rhythmic series of beeping or buzzing sounds which seem to -bounce off the trunk of their vehicle. The car vibrates and a tingling -sensation passes through them. At this point in time they experience the -onset of an altered state of consciousness that leaves their minds -dulled. A second series of beeping sounds return them to full -consciousness. They find that they have traveled nearly 35 miles south, -but have only vague, spotty memories of this section of road. They -recall making a sudden, unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and -observing a fiery orb in the road. At 5:00 a.m., they arrive home, about -two hours later than expected. Barney feels compelled to examine his -genitals, and they both take long showers. Betty notices a pinkish -powder and a tear in her dress. There are shiny, concentric circles on -their car’s trunk that were not there the previous day. Betty and Barney -experiment with a compass, noting that when they move it close to the -spots, the needle whirls rapidly. But when they move it a few inches -away from the shiny spots, it drops down. (Wikipedia, “Betty -and Barney Hill”; NICAP, “The -Betty and Barney Hill Case”; Clark III 577–581; Sparks, -p. 289; John G. Fuller, The -Interrupted Journey, Dial, -1966; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 178–184; -Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2 -(March/April 1994): 4–6, 23–24; Robert H. Coddington, “The Hill -Experience,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): 18–19; Michael D. Swords, -GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO -Research, 2005, p. 143; Greg Sandow, “The Hill Case and the Limits of -Ufology,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 3–7, 19–28; Stanton Friedman and -Kathleen Marden, Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, -Weiser, 2007; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO -Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3536

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Event 5143 -(15D46B96)

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Date: 9/19/1961
-Description: Barney and Betty Hill vehicle encounter, abduction -case
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: White Mountains, NH
-ID: 8

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Event 5144 -(72265565)

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Date: 9/19/1961
-Time: 2200
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Hill saw a lenticular object with a double row -of portholes and half-a-dozen dark figures working at control panels -inside, when they stopped to investigate a light following their car. -They became afraid and drove away. A “beeping sound” enveloped the car, -and they felt a prickling sensation before losing consciousness. When -they came to, they were driving near Ashland. A series of nightmares and -medically controlled hypnosis brought back what apparently was the -memory of their abduction by the occupants of the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fuller; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Indian Head, New Hampshire
-ID: 524

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Event 5145 -(6466BB4F)

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Date: 9/20/1961
-Description: 2:14 a.m. Pease AFB [now Pease Air National Guard Base] in -Portsmouth, New Hampshire, picks up an unidentified radar blip 4 miles -away from the base, with no visual contact. (NICAP, “Radar -Tracks Object before and -after Hill Abduction”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3537

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Event 5146 -(77DAE39E)

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Date: 9/21/1961
-End date: 9/22/1961
-Description: Betty -Hill calls Pease AFB and reports her UFO incident (without -mentioning the figures). Maj. Paul W. Henderson of the 100th Bomb Wing -calls back with a few questions.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3538

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Event 5147 -(C7341567)

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Date: 9/26/1961
-Description: Betty -Hill writes to Donald -E. Keyhoe (mentioning the figures Barney remembers seeing) and asks -for more information. She mentions that she and Barney are considering -hypnosis. (Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR -19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 4–6, 23–24; Michael D. Swords, “Radio -Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July -2005): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3539

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Event 5148 -(0E35B0F1)

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Date: 9/27/1961
-Description: Allen -Dulles resigns as director of central intelligence; John -A. McCone replaces him.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3540

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Event 5149 -(79DEE72E)

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Date: 9/27/1961
-Description: 7:57 a.m. The radar operator on a USAF Airborne Early -Warning and Control aircraft off the California coast spots five targets -on his scope. Four of the objects are on a heading of 90°, and all of -them are moving at a high rate of speed. They soon disappear into sea -clutter. Three minutes later, two objects appear heading 70° then also -disappear into sea clutter. The speed of one of the objects is measured -at about 2,070 mph over a distance of 230 miles. While the two objects -are on the scope, a single stationary object also appears. After -remaining stationary for about two minutes, it moves on a heading of -265° at 70 mph and is lost in the sea clutter. The objects can only be -painted with the IFF on. The radar is an APS-95. (NICAP, “Uncorrelated -Targets on APS- 95”; -Sparks, p. 290)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3541

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Event 5150 -(3B8DE68A)

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Date: 9/29/1961
-End date: 10/3/1961
-Description: Betty -Hill has a series of intensely vivid dreams in which she and Barney -encounter a strange roadblock and are approached by a group of men. She -loses consciousness and awakes on board a craft where they are given a -medical examination by “intelligent, humanoid beings.” (Clark III -581–583) Autumn — Evening. Emanoil Manoliu, son of the prominent -novelist Mihail -Sadoveanu, is at the Neamț Monastery west of Târgu Neamț, Romania, -when he sees a blinding, multicolored light. After a few seconds it -rises quickly and he can see it looks like a disc with a concave base -about 20–23 feet long and 10 feet broad. It vanishes “like a tornado in -the air” and he feels the rush of wind. The next day he goes to the site -with a priest and finds an area of singed grass and a light imprint in -the soil. (Hobana and Weverbergh 167–168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3542

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Event 5151 -(05030219)

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Date: 9/30/1961
-Time: 2200
-Description: Eight km south of La Porte, 16year-old Dennis Bealor saw a -large sphere of orange light rise ahead of him on the road. He was so -frightened that he lost control of his bike and left the road.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Hartle 158 (Vallee)
-Location: La Porte, Indiana
-ID: 525

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Event 5152 -(F0819C6A)

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Date: 10/1/1961
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency, created at the request of -Defense Secretary Robert -S. McNamara to integrate all military intelligence operations, -begins work with a handful of employees in borrowed office space. Its -mission is the continuous task of collecting, processing, evaluating, -analyzing, integrating, producing, and disseminating military -intelligence for the Department of Defense and related national -stakeholders. Other objectives include more efficiently allocating -scarce intelligence resources, more effectively managing all DoD -intelligence activities, and eliminating redundancies in facilities, -organizations, and tasks. (Wikipedia, “Defense Intelligence -Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3543

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Event 5153 -(2132F2C7)

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Date: 10/2/1961
-Description: Around 12:00 noon. Waldo -J. Harris, private -pilot and real-estate broker, is getting ready to take off in a Mooney -M20A from Utah Central Airport [now closed] in Granger, Utah, when he -sees a bright spot in the sky. After he takes off, he notices that the -light is still in the same location. He flies toward the object to get a -better look, and sees that the UFO has no wings or tail and is hovering -with a slight rocking motion. He later estimates the diameter at 35–50 -feet, with a thickness of about 4 feet, and the appearance of -sand-blasted aluminum. Harris estimates he has approached within 2 miles -of the object before it rises abruptly and zooms away for 10 miles -before it resumes a rocking hover. He approaches again, but it departs -in about 2–3 seconds. Several other people, including airport controller -Jay -Galbraith, also -see the UFO from the airport. Investigators from Hill AFB near Ogden -arrive quickly. Airport attendant Russell M. Woods tells them he thinks -the object was at 2,500 feet altitude. On October 9, Douglas -M. Crouch forwards the Hill AFB official report, including -transcripts of interviews, to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, saying “No -unusual meteorological or astronomical conditions were present to -account for the sighting.” Nonetheless, Blue Book wanders from Venus to -a research balloon to a sundog (an assessment James -E. McDonald calls “nonsensical”) as explanations. (Clark III -1025–1028; UFOEv, pp. 1–2 ; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 49–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3544

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Event 5154 -(E27B1985)

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Date: 10/3/1961
-Description: Soviet “Tsar Bomba” hydrogen bomb test, the most powerful -thermonuclear weapon ever detonated, 50mt yield, Novaya Zemlya -archipelago, 10x the amount of all the explosives used in WW2 combined, -heat of explosion was estimated to potentially inflict 3rd degree burns -at 100km distance.
-Type: atomic
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya
-Atomic type: aboveground
-Atomic MT: 50

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Event 5155 -(D7E6E67C)

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Date: 10/4/1961
-End date: 10/5/1961
-Description: Two IBM engineers, C. D. Jackson and Robert -E. Hohmann, have lunch in Washington, D.C., with Donald -Keyhoe, who -shows them the letter from Betty -Hill. (Michael -D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR -29, no. 4 (July 2005): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3545

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Event 5156 -(99574F8F)

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Date: 10/8/1961
-Description: Privately circulated letter from Manhattan Project -scientist Dr. Leon Davidson to members of the UFO community over his -concerns that all UFO’s are actually CIA psychological warfare.
-Type: letter
-Reference: link
-Location: US

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Event 5157 -(37CD597D)

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Date: 10/14/1961
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Mrs. Erwin Riley, a summer resident in Two -Harbors, Minnesota, sees a large object slide into the water of Lake -Superior about one mile from shore and bob about on the surface. She -summons a neighbor, Jack Ray, and they both watch through binoculars, -but they can’t make out what it is. At dusk, the Lake County Sheriff -responds to their call, but he can’t see much due to swells on the lake -surface. He calls the Air Force and Coast Guard to make sure it’s not -part of a training exercise. Shortly afterward, Riley sees the object -rise into the air and travel southeast at about the speed of a car. A -Coast Guard search the next day turns up only a floating log. (“Flying -Log?” APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3546

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Event 5158 -(90849383)

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Date: 10/14/1961
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Mayor Michael Burson and his wife watch two pairs -of UFOs move to the east above Sunset, Utah. The first pair looks like -puffy cotton joined together by “stringy stuff,” and the second pair are -metallic discs. (“More -Discs in Utah,” APRO Bulletin, March 1962, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3547

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Event 5159 -(35952193)

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Date: 10/15/1961
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Mrs. John P. Vanicky and Norine Gribble are -driving from Marquette, Michigan, to Hurley, Wisconsin, when they see a -brown cigar-shaped object spouting fire from its rear and moving -southeast. They stop the car and watch for 20 minutes until it -disappears. (Duluth (Minn.) News-Tribune, October 19, 1961; “Flying -Log?” APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3548

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Event 5160 -(42F46D06)

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Date: 10/19/1961
-Description: NICAP secretary Richard -H. Hall writes to Walter -N. Webb at Hayden Planetarium in Boston, Massachusetts, and asks him -to talk to Betty -and Barney Hill. (Clark III 578–579)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3549

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Event 5161 -(5DB0D1BA)

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Date: 10/21/1961
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A brilliant fireball flashes in front of Richard -and Rhonda DuBois’s car on US Highway 60 as they are driving between -Datil and Pie Town, New Mexico. It then veers into the sky. Later, as -they approach a canyon they see that the light is traveling along in -front of them. It breaks into four lights that move along with the car, -even as DuBois drives at 100 mph, until they stop at a roadside motel. -The lights then zoom straight up and disappear. (“Woman Says Flying -Objects Chase Car,” Garden Grove (Calif.) News, October 23, 1961; -Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 231; Loren E. Gross, -The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -July–December 1961, The -Author, 2003, p. 97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3550

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Event 5162 -(9D5A73E9)

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Date: 10/21/1961
-Description: Webb, initially -skeptical, winds up interviewing the Hills for -6 hours. He finds that their amnesia concerning some parts of the -episode has unsettled them, and Betty tells him she had vivid nightmares -for six straight nights a couple weeks after the incident. (Clark III -581)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3551

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Event 5163 -(A70426F1)

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Date: 10/26/1961
-Description: Walter -Webb’s report to NICAP concludes that the Hills are -telling the truth. (Walter N. Webb, “A Dramatic -UFO Encounter in the White Mountains, N.H., September 19–20, 1961,” -NICAP Massachusetts Subcommittee, October 26, 1961; Clark III 581; Mark -Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2 -(March/April 1994): 4–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3552

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Event 5164 -(C22E1259)

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Date: 10/30/1961
-Description: The Soviet RDS-202 hydrogen bomb, the 50-megaton Tsar -Bomba, is supposedly the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested. It is -detonated at the Sukhoy Nos Cape of Severny Island, Novaya Zemla, -Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It flattens entire villages in surrounding -areas and breaks windows in Finland 1,000 miles away. (Wikipedia, “Tsar -Bomba”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3553

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Event 5165 -(63CFC71E)

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Date: 11/1/1961
-Description: At a small, informal conference on SETI at the National -Radio Astronomy Observatory’s facility in Green Bank, West Virginia, -astronomer Frank -Drake writes this equation on a chalkboard: N = R fp ne fl fi fc L. -The equation, the Green Bank Formula, summarizes the main concepts that -scientists must contemplate when considering the question of -extraterrestrial life capable of communicating by radio across space. It -is more properly thought of as an approximation rather than as a serious -attempt to determine a precise number. (Wikipedia, “Drake -equation”; Lee Billings, “The -Alien-Life Summit,” Slate, September 27, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3554

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Event 5166 -(9C35D867)

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Date: 11/3/1961
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Mr. E. Adkins observes a brilliant object with an -orange center flying south over Eyres Monsell, Leicester, England, at an -estimated 600 mph. It is triangular in shape and about 300 feet wide. -(“Triangular -Object over -Eyres Monsell,” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 2 (March/April 1962): -24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3555

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Event 5167 -(C82D1D06)

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Date: 11/13/1961
-Description: The AFCIN-1E-0 Draft Policy letter (Betz Memo) is prepared -by Lt. Col. Norman -M. Rosner for Col. Ward -Reid Betz. Among other things, it specifies three peacetime -functions of the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron at Ent AFB [now -the US Olympic Training Center], Colorado Springs, Colorado: UFO -investigations, Project Moon Dust (an exploitation program to locate, -recover, and deliver descended foreign space vehicles), and Operation -Blue Fly (to facilitate delivery to the Foreign Technological Division -of Moon Dust and other items of great technical intelligence interest). -These three functions involve “employment of qualified field -intelligence personnel on a quick reaction basis to recover or perform -field exploitation of unidentified flying objects, or known Soviet/Bloc -aerospace vehicles, weapons systems, and/or residual components of such -equipment.” (Paul Dean, “The -Rejuvenated ‘Betz Memo,’” UFOs: Documenting the Evidence, May 8, -2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3556

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Event 5168 -(46877835)

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Date: late 11/1961
-Description: Evening. A group of four friends are hunting on a Sunday in -the area of Harvey, North Dakota. As they are returning in the car, the -two men in the front seat notice a descending glowing object in the sky -ahead of them. Assuming they are witnessing a plane crash, they rush to -the scene of its landing, where they find at 150 yards distance, a -“silo-appearing craft which was sticking in the ground with this glow -around it.” The men shine a hand spotlight and shine it on the object, -whereupon they see four human-looking individuals standing around it. At -this point they seem to hear an explosion and “everything went out.” The -principal witness wakes up from dozing in the back seat as the car is -negotiating soggy ground looking for the craft and crew. They return to -the spot where the landing takes place, and they see the figures again, -wearing white coveralls and standing 5 feet high. They get out of the -car and one figure waves them away. Eventually, the men agree to return -to a small town, possibly Martin, North Dakota, 11 miles away, where -they find a police officer, who listens to the story and agrees to -accompany them back to the site. They see red lights moving in the field -and both cars go in pursuit of them. The lights go out, the police -officer drives away, and the four men resume driving home. Two miles -down the highway, the silo-like object reappears, landing gently 150 -yards away with two of the figures watching them. Two of the men get out -of the car again and shine the spotlight on the craft. One of the men is -carrying a rifle; he drops on the ground and shoots, apparently hitting -one of the figures in the right shoulder. The figure spins around, goes -down on his knees, gets help from the other figure, then yells, “Now -what the hell did you do that for?” Weirdly, as soon as the men return -to the car, the two who have remained inside insist the rifle had not -been removed and no shot was fired. The primary witness (who remains in -the car) has no recollection of what happened to the craft and figures. -By the time they get home, dawn is breaking, and their wives are waiting -for them. They all know it has taken longer than it should have to -return. A few hours later, around 12:00 noon, the principal witness is -at work when three well-groomed, official-looking men visit him. He -presumes they are Air Force intelligence officers who say they have a -“report” about the previous night’s event. They ask him what clothes he -was wearing and what the object looked like, but they never ask about -the shooting. Later, they show up at his house and ask to see his -hunting gear and boots. They tell him not to say anything more about the -incident. In January 1968, US Border Patrol agent [later BATF agent] -Donald E. Flickinger manages to interview the primary witness, who works -as a supervisor at Minot AFB hospital, and two of the others, one a -small-town high school superintendent and the other an active-duty Air -Force sergeant. They all are “extremely reliable and responsible,” -Flickinger says. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., -1974, pp. 164–165; -Clark III 825–827)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3557

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Event 5169 -(45790496)

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Date: late 11/1961
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Real estate agent Cavalheiro Mendes is walking -along the beach in Balneário Pinhal, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, when he -sees a huge light 900 feet away. As he walks toward it, he sees it is a -huge disc resting on the sand. He feels compelled to approach it and -sees two helmeted figures come from behind the object. They seem to be -telling him telepathically not to resist. Mendes finds he is completely -unable to move. He feels one of them scratching his forearm with an -instrument, then he blacks out. When he wakes up, he is nearly back to -his beach house and it is 11:30 p.m. After a few weeks he feels anxious -and sad for no apparent reason. He refuses to be hypnotized. (Lorenzen, -Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet, 1967, pp. 199–200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3558

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Event 5170 -(D8BE4B65)

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Date: 11/21/1961
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: C. Locklear and Helen Hatch. One round, -red-orange object flew straight up and faded after 3-4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oldtown, Florida
-ID: 467

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Event 5171 -(3BF4D013)

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Date: 11/22/1961
-Description: US Navy pilot Robert -G. Robinson reaches an airspeed of 1,606 mph in a McDonnell-Douglas -F4H-1F Phantom II over Edwards AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “Robert -G. Robinson”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3559

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Event 5172 -(A356A911)

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Date: 11/23/1961
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witness: F. Braunger. One bright red star flew straight and -level for 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sioux City, Iowa
-ID: 468

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Event 5173 -(1D369B8B)

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Date: 11/25/1961
-Description: IBM engineers C. D. Jackson and Robert -E. Hohmann interview the Hills. -One of them expresses surprise at how long the drive took. They are -mysteriously interested in whether nitrates or chemicals containing -nitrates are in their car. For the first time, Barney and Betty realize -that there are two hours they cannot account for. Also present is a -friend of the Hills, retired USAF Maj. James McDonald, a former -intelligence officer. He suggests that Betty and Barney consult a -hypnotist. (Clark III 583; Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill -Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 6, 23–24; Michael D. -Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR -29, no. 4 (July 2005): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3560

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Event 5174 -(358393C8)

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Date: 11/28/1961
-Description: President Kennedy presides -over the dedication of the new CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. -(Wikipedia, “George -Bush Center for Intelligence”; CIA History Staff, 50 -Years in Langley: Recollections of the Construction -of CIA’s Original Headquarters Building, 1961–2011, January -2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3561

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Event 5175 -(D6B26F00)

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Date: 11/30/1961
-Description: Covert operations against Fidel -Castro are officially authorized by President Kennedy after -being given the name Operation Mongoose at a White House meeting on -November 3. The operation is led by USAF Gen. Edward -Lansdale and goes into effect after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. -A document from the Department of State confirms that the project aims -to “help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime,” including Castro, and it -aims “for a revolt which can take place in Cuba by October 1962.” One of -Lansdale’s ideas is to project a huge image of the Second Coming of -Christ above the island, spread the word that Castro is the anti-Christ, -shoot starburst shells from a submarine into the air, and hope far an -uprising. US policymakers want to see “a new government with which the -United States can live in peace.” (Wikipedia, “Operation -Mongoose”; Kremlin 131– 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3562

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Event 5176 -(2657829E)

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Date: 12/1961
-Description: Funding runs out for the Avrocar and it and related WS-606A -supersonic VTOL programs are officially cancelled by the US military. -(Wikipedia, “Avro -Canada VZ-9 Avrocar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3563

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Event 5177 -(B9864926)

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Date: 12/13/1961
-Time: 5:05 PM
-Description: Witnesses: C.F. Muncy, ex-U.S. Navy pilot W.J. Myers, and -G. Weber. One dark diamond-shaped object with a bright tip flew straight -and level for 1-3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 469

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Event 5178 -(637A3E87)

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Date: 12/21/1961
-Time: 2145
-Description: Jerry Hislope, 20, was driving to Kentland when he saw a -glowing white object, 3 m in diameter, 1 m thick, dive at him, flying 3 -m above the ground. He stopped to observe it, but the object flew -away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Mar., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Lafayette, Indiana
-ID: 526

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- Event 5179 (9EBCA8BE)

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Date: 1962
-Description: The Argentine Navy creates a permanent commission for the -study of UFOs, and the Argentine Air Force establishes a division for -the same purpose. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Argentina: -UFO Declassification,” UAPSG–GEFAI, July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3568

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Event 5180 -(83EF308A)

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Date: 1962
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Actor Jamie -Farr and his wife Joy Ann are driving through the desert near Yuma, -Arizona, when they notice a light moving erratically at the top of a -mountain. It zig-zags across the sky as it approaches them, moving to -within 150 feet, then 60 feet of their vehicle. They can see two lights, -red and blue, revolving beneath the silent object. It paces them for a -short time then moves away at incredible speed. (“Jamie -and Joy Farr Report UFO -Sighting,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 (December 1980): 3, -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3567

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Event 5181 -(2FA7A075)

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Date: 1962
-Description: French composer Paul -Misraki writes Les Extraterrestres using the pseudonym Paul Thomas. -He links modern UFO sightings with biblical and mythological tales and -claims that angels are aliens, that the Bible and other ancient texts -are filled with many UFO flying saucer sightings, and that throughout -human history extraterrestrial visitors have intervened in human -affairs. Misraki is also one of the first authors to suggest that -apparitions may be UFO-related phenomena. (Paul Thomas [Paul Misraki], -Les Extraterrestres, Plon, 1962; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: -Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): -28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3570

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Event 5182 -(A91A2C24)

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Date: 1962
-Description: Day. An Air Force pilot is flying a brand new B-52 with a -full crew out of Wichita, Kansas, headed for an air base in the -southwest. He notices a bright flash of sunlight in his left side and -turns to see a metallic object “like polished chrome.” It is pacing the -aircraft near its left wingtip. The object is 4–8 feet in diameter and -has no seams or markings. His First Officer is watching an identical -object off the right wing, and the crewman in the tail reports that -there is a round shiny metal ball following close behind the B-52. The -top and bottom gunners also see spheres above and below the plane. The -pilot goes into an evasive maneuver, but after 10–15 minutes the objects -are maintaining their positions. He returns to his previous assigned -altitude and heading. After a few minutes, the five objects leave, one -at a time, first the bottom one, then the top, then the tail. The two -objects on the wings shoot away at the same time and climb out of sight -parallel to each other. After landing, the crew is told not to talk -about the sighting at all. (Richard F. Haines, “NARCAP’s Project Sphere: -Are Spherical UAP a Threat to Aviation Safety?” IUR 33, no. 2 (July -2010): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3566

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Event 5183 -(7606DB4E)

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Date: 1962
-Description: The Air Force tries once again to get rid of the UFO -program, but its attempts to get NASA or the National Science Foundation -to handle the program prove futile. It finally gives up the entire idea. -The program remains at FTD as a special project and without expanded -resources. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet ed., 1976, p. 164)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3565

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Event 5184 -(01E9E661)

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Date: 1962
-Description: According to a “former Project Blue Book Chief” (probably -Maj. Friend) -gun-camera films obtained during jet interceptor UFO chases are -routinely referred to the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation -Center (established in 1961) for analysis. Richard -H. Hall writes, “This cannot be documented at present, but I heard -him say so to a UFO researcher colleague. None of the photoanalysis data -in these cases has been released, nor has the existence of these films -ever been acknowledged.” (Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, -1988, p. 179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3564

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Event 5185 -(952D3D41)

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Date: 1962
-Description: René and -Françine -Fouéré establish the Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aériens in Paris, -France, with an initial group of 60 interested members. The following -year GEPA launches a magazine, Phénomènes Spatiaux, which is published -through 1978. In 1964, Lionel-Max -Chassin, now -retired from the army, takes over as president. (Wikipedia, “Group -d’Étude des Phénomènes Aériens”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3569

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Event 5186 -(6F987441)

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Date: 1/1962
-Description: The IBM 7950 Harvest computer, designed to be used for -cryptanalysis, is delivered to the National Security Agency. It includes -Tractor, a large automated tape cartridge library. An NSA-conducted -evaluation finds that Harvest is more powerful than the best -commercially available machine by a factor of 50–200, depending on the -task. It remains in use until 1976. One purpose of the machine is to -search text for keywords from a watchlist. From a single foreign cipher -system, Harvest is able to scan more than 7 million decrypts for any -occurrences of some 7,000 key words in under four hours. The computer is -also used for codebreaking, and this is enhanced by a system codenamed -Rye, which allows remote access to Harvest. (Wikipedia, “IBM -7950 Harvest”; “Timeline -of the -IBM Stretch/Harvest Era (1956–1961),” computerhistory.org)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3572

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Event 5187 -(659676EA)

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Date: 1/1962
-Description: The Federal Aviation Administration expands the restricted -airspace in the vicinity of Groom Lake, Nevada, and the lakebed becomes -the center of a 600-square-mile addition to restricted area R-4808N. -(Wikipedia, “Area 51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3571

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Event 5188 -(587E5A91)

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Date: 1/8/1962
-Time: night
-Description: A truck driver and two other men observed two powerful -lights lost sight of thern, but later saw a craft on the ground 150 m to -the side of the road. It took off at high speed when illuminated by the -headlights. Farther away, two objects maneuvered above the road leading -to La Bajada. As the police were driving to the scene, they saw one of -the craft on the ground near Loma Brava.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Catamarca, Argentina
-ID: 527

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Event 5189 -(C86F05E5)

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Date: 1/29/1962
-Description: A Royal Dutch Air Force pilot flying an F-86 Sabrejet -sights a UFO over eastern Netherlands. The jet’s radar also picks up the -object and control tower radar (somewhere) is also tracking it. He -attempts to give the object an urgent warning by radio, but it goes -unheeded. He arms a Sidewinder rocket and tries to close in, but the UFO -pulls away swiftly before he can fire. (“New -Sightings by Navy, FAA, and Airline Observers: Dutch Jet Pilot -Tries to Down UFO,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 5 (Aug./Sept. 1962): -1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3573

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Event 5190 -(2886FC64)

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Date: 2/1962
-Description: Richard -M. Bissell Jr. leaves the CIA and is replaced as head of the -Directorate of Plans by Richard -Helms. February — Maj. William -T. Coleman is replaced as Pentagon UFO spokesman by Maj. Carl -R. Hart.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3574

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Event 5191 -(0D58E12D)

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Date: 2/1962
-Description: Vice-Admiral Roscoe -Hillenkoetter resigns from NICAP, stating that NICAP has gone as far -as it can and should no longer criticize USAF investigations. (Keyhoe, -Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 85–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3575

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Event 5192 -(8B44B8BE)

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Date: 2/1962
-Description: The Hills begin -making numerous trips over several months to try to find their encounter -site but are unsuccessful. (Clark III 583)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3576

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Event 5193 -(6DC998CB)

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Date: 2/1962
-Description: Alec Birch, 14, snaps an out-of-focus photo of five domed -discs that he and two friends see hovering 500 feet above his backyard -in Mosborough, Sheffield, England. Alec and his father show the photo -later to the Air Ministry, which pronounces them “temperature -inversions” in October. However, in an interview on BBC-2 television on -October 6, 1972, Alec confesses that he had superimposed images painted -on glass over the backyard scenery, fooling even his father. (“Schoolboy -Snaps Saucer,” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1962): 4; -Gordon Creighton, “’No -Kidding This Time. My Flying Saucers Photo Is -Genuine!’ -(–Alec Birch),” Flying Saucer Review 45, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 9–11; -Clark III 603)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3577

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Event 5194 -(17351383)

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Date: 2/6/1962
-Description: USAF issues the last of its UFO fact sheets (no. 179-62). -In the future it will issue press releases. (UFOEv, p. 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3578

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Event 5195 -(A0CF6E01)

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Date: 2/9/1962
-Time: 0330
-Description: Mr. Wildam, of Luton, noticed that his car was gradually -losing speed as he approached a bright, oval thing hovering 10 m above -the road. The object was surrounded by a glow, and left at high speed -very suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 62, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Aston Clinton, Great Britain
-ID: 528

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Event 5196 -(DBA4AE73)

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Date: 2/10/1962
-Description: CIA pilot Francis -Gary Powers is exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolf -Abel on the Glienicke Bridge that connects Potsdam to West Berlin, -Germany.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3579

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Event 5197 -(2AE9583E)

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Date: 2/20/1962
-Description: Astronaut John -Glenn pilots the Friendship -7 Project Mercury capsule for three orbits and just short of 5 hours -flying time, becoming the first American to orbit the earth. (Wikipedia, -“Mercury-Atlas -6”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3580

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Event 5198 -(332356E7)

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Date: 2/24/1962
-Description: NORAD Requirement 64-73 states that its radar coverage -“would provide warning from all directions, not just northern -approaches.” (Clark III 811)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3581

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Event 5199 -(EDEC4DA7)

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Date: 2/25/1962
-Time: 7:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: one U.S. Army private, six anonymous civilians. -One red light, trailed 30 seconds later by a blue light. Sighting lasted -5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kotzbue, Alaska
-ID: 470

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Event 5200 -(3790DB5D)

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Date: 2/28/1962
-Description: The first A-12 test aircraft covertly arrives at Groom -Lake, Nevada, from Burbank, California. (Wikipedia, “Area -51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3582

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Event 5201 -(48258820)

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Date: 3/1962
-Description: Chemical engineer Leon -Davidson writes a two-part article in Saucer News explaining how he -has become convinced that the CIA, especially under the influence of Allen -Dulles, has engineered disinformation about UFOs and even -manufactured some seemingly legitimate radar sightings as a tool in the -Cold War. Its aim is to cause the Soviet Union to waste time and effort -in preparing defenses against fictitious aircraft and weapons that the -US might be developing. Furthermore, UFOs can be used to capture -headlines, diverting attention from unwelcome news coverage of espionage -operations. Davidson writes that Dulles has resorted to using contactees -and UFO organizations as a propaganda vehicle. Messages supposedly from -spacemen calling for a halt in nuclear testing could influence public -opinion in a test ban treaty that, in effect, would benefit the US more -than the Russians, since the Soviets were seen as overtaking the -American lead in weapons development. Davidson attributes CIA -involvement in the claims of George -Adamski and Daniel -Fry. He also points out that electronic countermeasures (ECM) -equipment is capable of creating fake radar returns and goes so far as -to say that secret working models of saucers, perhaps piloted by -“midgets,” are responsible for some sightings. (Leon Davidson, “An Open -Letter to Saucer Researchers,” Saucer News, March 1962, April 1962; Leon -Davidson, “ECM -+ CIA = UFO: -Or, How to Cause Radar Sightings,” Flying Saucer Review 6, no. 2 -(March/April 1960): 9–12; Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s -Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” Studies in Intelligence 40, no. -5 (1997): 67–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3583

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Event 5202 -(00CC0790)

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Date: 3/1962
-Description: Betty -and Barney Hill meet with Patrick J. Quirke, a psychiatrist at the -Baldpate Sanitarium in Georgetown, Massachusetts, but he is -unsympathetic and discourages them from undergoing hypnosis. (Clark III -583)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3584

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Event 5203 -(22E0720A)

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Date: 3/1/1962
-Time: 10:35 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. L. Doxsey, 66. One gold-colored box, -12-14”x3-4”, flew straight and level across the horizon for 3-4 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Salem, New York
-ID: 471

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Event 5204 -(E2888DE3)

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Date: spring 1962
-Alternate date: summer 1962
-Description: All base personnel on flying status attend a briefing in -the theater at the Clinton-Sherman AFB [now the Clinton-Sherman -Industrial Airpark] near Burns Flat, Oklahoma. The airmen are shown a -short 20–30-minute Air Force film showing, spliced together without -interpretation, five or six gun-camera clips apparently documenting -attempts by aircraft to intercept UFOs. Afterward, the commander of the -4213d Strategic Wing reads a statement (probably JANAP 146(D)) -stipulating fines and jail sentences for anyone publicly reporting a UFO -sighting and hands out UFO sighting forms in the event of an incident. -One technician recalls there is a section on reporting any electronic -signature emitted from the UFO picked up by specific ECM devices. (Nukes -123–125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3588

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Event 5205 -(B87FFE44)

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Date: 3/25/1962
-Description: The Hills meet -with a psychiatrist (Duncan Stephens of the Exeter Clinic, New -Hampshire) who rules out simultaneous hallucination. Around this time, -Barney develops a series of warts in an almost geometrically perfect -circular ring in his groin but does not associate his malaise with the -UFO incident. (Clark III 583–584)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3585

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Event 5206 -(9739BC9A)

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Date: 3/25/1962
-Description: Evening. Mrs. R. H. Chappell and her sister Janie Kidd -watch two triangular objects, one larger than the other, hovering 40–50 -feet above the water at Saanich Inlet, British Columbia. They have -flashing ruby-red lights. After two minutes, the lights change to orange -and they move off silently and gracefully. Mrs. L. Austin Wright sees a -stationary flashing yellow light around the same time. (Dan Lloyd, “Are -They Really Seeing Things over Canada?” -Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1966): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3586

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Event 5207 -(8C6442DC)

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Date: 3/26/1962
-Time: 11:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. D. Wheeler, Claudine Milligan. Six or eight -red balls, arranged in a rectangular formation, became two objects with -lights by the end of the 15 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Naperville, Illinois
-ID: 473

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Event 5208 -(F9788137)

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Date: 3/26/1962
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: many unidentified young people. One large red -ball flew or fell down, then went back up during 3-10 minute sighting. -Note: May 26?
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Westfield, Massachusette
-ID: 474

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Event 5209 -(50C870CE)

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Date: 3/26/1962
-Time: 1:35 PM
-Description: Witness: USAF Capt. J.M. Lowery, from an unspecified -aircraft. One thin, cylindrical object–l/3 snout, 2/3 tail fins–flew at -an estimated Mach 2.7 (2,000 m.p.h.) for 5-8 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ramstein Air Base, West Germany
-ID: 472

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Event 5210 -(75086B43)

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Date: 3/27/1962
-End date: 3/30/1962
-Description: George -Adamski claims to attend a Twelve Counsellors Meeting on Saturn that -addresses the threat of nuclear war on Earth. In the report that he -publishes in June, Adamski writes that the “present explosions of atomic -energy are going in the wrong direction, and if these experiments do not -stop, the only results will be a lost civilization… This is even -affecting their planets.” Ridiculed by many, some of Adamski’s -descriptions in the report about his trip clearly show this was a deeply -spiritual experience for him, which may have unbalanced him for some -time. (George Adamski, George -Adamski’s Special Report: My Trip to the Twelve Counsellors -Meeting That -Took Place on Saturn, Mrach 27–30, 1962, Science of Life, 1962; “Final -Years,” The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3587

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Event 5211 -(426F7468)

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Date: 4/1962
-Description: Flight Commander P.J. (initials), attached to TAC Fighter -Wing was deployed at Wright-Patterson AFB and mistakenly entered into an -air hanger where he thought the gym was located. Upon entering the -hanger he was approached by an air police sentry with a sub-machine gun. -Behind the sentry was a saucer approx. 12–15 ft. diam. suspended off the -ground by two engine test stands. There were no markings or insignia on -the saucer. It had no rivet markings. The saucer was roped-off and 8 -guards stood at parade rest around it. P.J. and his friend were -encouraged to leave the hanger. P.J. returned to Myrtle Beach AFB, -SC
-Type: witness statement
-Reference: Pea -Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
-Location: Wright Patterson AFB

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Event 5212 -(EF98B796)

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Date: 4/4/1962
-Time: 0150Z
-Description: Witnesses: G.R. Wells and J. Lewis, using 117x telescope. -One small object changing brightness, gave off smoke but remained -stationary like a comet for 6 minutes. Case missing from official -files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wurtland, Kentucky
-ID: 475

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Event 5213 -(6EFE0822)

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Date: 4/10/1962
-Time: evening
-Description: Mario Zuccula, 27, was walking home when he suddenly felt a -current of cold air. He was paralyzed with fear when he saw a white -object, 10 m in diameter, metallic in appearance which hovered close to -the ground. A metallic cylinder was lowered from the craft, and two -little men about 1.30 m tall, came out through a door lighted by a -source inside the cylinder. A low voice similar to the sound of an -electronic device told him they would return at the end of the fourth -moon, one hour before dawn, with a message. The beings had their heads -covered with a hood.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 62, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: San Casciano, Italy
-ID: 529

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Event 5214 -(68B7A0A9)

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Date: 4/11/1962
-Time: evening
-Description: Between Saronno and Legnano, Benazzi and three other -witnesses saw a peculiar craft fly above them and land on the road. It -was intensely luminous.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Sarouno, Italy
-ID: 530

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Event 5215 -(29E32506)

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Date: 4/18/1962
-Description: Evening. A red, glowing object is first seen at a great -height over Oneida, New York, heading west silently. There are reports -from Kansas and Colorado. NORAD radar picks up the object; ADC alerts -several bases, including Nellis AFB near Las Vegas, Nevada. Fighters are -scrambled from Luke AFB near Phoenix, Arizona, and the jets are possibly -heard over Nephi, Utah, after the object passes overhead. Capt. Herman -Gordon Shields, flying a C-119 two miles west of Levan, Utah, sees it as -a slender object. A man in Silver City, Utah, claims that the object is -a glowing ball of light about the size of a soccer ball. He says it is -white with a yellowish tint and a bright yellow jagged flame coming from -the rear: “As the object passed over Robinson [in Ogden, Utah?], it -slowed down in [the] air, and after, [a] gasping sound was heard, the -object spurted ahead again. After this procedure was repeated three or -four times, the object arched over and began descending to earth after -which the object turned bluish color and then burned out or went dark. -After the object began to slow down it began to wobble or fishtail in -its path.” Several people see the object over Eureka, Utah, apparently -crashing and interrupting electrical service from a power plant close to -the landing site. It is described as a “glowing, orange oval which -emitted a low, whirring sound.” It takes off a few minutes later, -continuing to the west. The object lights up the streets of Reno, -Nevada, and then turns to Las Vegas. It blares brightly like a -“tremendous, flaming sword” over Nellis AFB and then disappears from -their radar scopes at 10,000 feet. Witnesses say the object is traveling -almost horizontally northeast of Las Vegas until a final explosion -occurs from the direction of Mesquite, Nevada. Sheriff’s deputy Walter -Bun, who leads the search and rescue unit, moves the unit into the -Spring Mountain area in jeeps to search for wreckage. They search -through the night, and when the sun comes up they continue using -aircraft. They do not find anything of importance except some ashes that -might easily be the remains of a campfire started by a hunter some weeks -earlier. When no one reports a downed or missing aircraft, Bun and the -other deputies call off the search. The object seems to have changed -direction, because at Reno it passes west to east, in Utah it is seem -going southeast to northwest, and at Nephi it travels west. The duration -of the sighting, from New York to Nevada, is only 32 minutes, giving a -speed of 4,500 mph, below the speed of meteors. On May 8, the Air Force -sends Hynek and -Lt. Col. Robert -Friend to Utah with Douglas -M. Crouch, chief -of criminal investigation at Hill AFB, south of Ogden, Utah. They -determine it is a bolide. Blue Book lists it as two sightings: a -multiple radar sighting at Nellis on April 18 with no visual (despite -hundreds of observers in Las Vegas), and a bolide over Utah that it -claims occurs on April 19. In reality, the Utah and Nevada sightings are -only minutes apart (8:15 p.m. Mountain Time). However, there is quite a -bit of information from numerous sources concerning this major incident, -including Project Blue Book documents, and now possible confirmation by -a radar man at ATIC. The case is also not explained in a Blue Book -monthly sighting listing for April 1962. It is interesting that every -one of these states except Utah has or was in the process of obtaining -ICBM bases: New York (Plattsburg AFB); Kansas, (Forbes AFB and McConnell -AFB); Utah (Minuteman production at Air Force Plant 77 at Hill AFB); -Idaho (Mountain Home AFB); Montana (Malmstrom AFB); New Mexico (Walker -AFB); Wyoming (F. E. Warren AFB); Arizona (Davis Monthan AFB); -California (Beale AFB). (NICAP, “National Defense -Alert”; Frank Edwards, Strange World, Ace ed., 1964, pp. 38–41; -“Meteor -Lands in Utah, Lights Western -Skies,” Los Angeles Times, April 19, 1962, p. 15; “Brilliant -Fireball Flashes -in Skies,” Salt Lake City Deseret News, April 19, 1962, pp. 1, 5; -Las Vegas Sun, April 19, 1962; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO -Crashes, Avon, 1995, pp. 79–94; -Clark III 333–335; Sparks, p. 291; -Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 87–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3589

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Event 5216 -(E19EE4EF)

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Date: 4/18/1962
-Description: Object was first spotted over Oneida, New York and was -heading in a westerly direction. Object reported over Kansas, Colorado -and Eureka, Utah. The object was reported by over a thousand people. The -object appeared to land and then take off again from Eureka, CA. The -town of Eureka experienced a blackout when it landed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Oneida, NY
-Location: Kansas
-Location: Colorado
-Location: Eureka, Utah

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Event 5217 -(DD52A4FF)

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Date: late 4/1962
-Alternate date: early 5/1962
-Description: Three women and a 10-year-old boy are driving home to -Granby, Connecticut, when two bright yellow lights appear in the sky -ahead. The lights cross the road and disappear behind some shrubbery. -Driving nearer and stopping, the witnesses see the lights hovering above -a field, one above the other. The objects realign horizontally and move -toward the car. The driver starts the car up and speeds away, but the -lights are right behind her, only a few feet from the rear window and -matching the car’s speed. The yellow lights are only a few feet in -diameter and have a reddish patch that rotates. They follow the car for -four minutes then turn away. (Swords 299–300)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3595

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Event 5218 -(72F302AA)

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Date: 4/24/1962
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Alice -W. Gasslein and her mother are driving near their home in -Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, when they see a large domed -object emitting flashes of green light moving over the roofs of nearby -homes. A rotating band around the main body consists of a series of -square windows from which come shafts of bright white light. They drive -back home to alert her husband, Joseph -A. Gasslein, an aviation worker. By that time, the UFO is about a -half-mile distant, giving off colored lights. Around 8:10 p.m., the -object returns flying toward the Gassleins’ home (south of Walsh Park) -only 20 feet above ground level and passes over their backyard before -making a sharp left turn and moving away to the east. (“Out of the Past: -A Very Close CE-1,” IUR 10, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1985): 9–10, 14; Loren E. -Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January– June -1962, The -Author, 2005, pp, 56–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3590

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Event 5219 -(A44ECDA8)

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Date: 4/25/1962
-Description: The A-12 is taken on its first (unofficial and unannounced) -flight with Lockheed test pilot Louis -Schalk at the controls. Intended as only a taxi run, the A-12 -unexpectedly takes flight and Schalk lands it 2 miles past the runway. -(Wikipedia, “Lockheed -A-12”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 177–178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3591

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Event 5220 -(3DBE5B20)

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Date: 4/26/1962
-Description: Schalk makes -another unofficial low-altitude, 40-minute test flight with the A-12. -The takeoff is perfect, but after the A-12 gets to about 300 feet it -starts shedding all the “pie slice” fillets of titanium on the left side -of the aircraft and one fillet on the right. (On later aircraft, those -pieces are paired with triangular inserts made of radar- absorbing -composite material.) Technicians spend four days finding and reattaching -the pieces. Nonetheless, the flight pleases Kelly -Johnson. (Wikipedia, -“Lockheed -A-12”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 178–179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3592

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Event 5221 -(EFE5C85A)

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Date: 4/30/1962
-Time: night
-Description: Eugenio Siragusa, 43, claimed to have met two men of normal -height, clad in diving suits, with belts emitting intermittent -yellow-green blue light, who delivered to him a peace message in -Italian. The voice had a metallic tone. Also observed was a very -dazzling object, 15 m in diameter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Eba, Italy
-ID: 531

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Event 5222 -(D8636156)

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Date: 4/30/1962
-Description: Just before 10:00 a.m. During a free-flight test (Flight -52) of the X-15 to a height of 246,700 feet (46.7 miles) by NASA pilot -Joseph -A. Walker from Edwards AFB, California, to Ely, Nevada, the -instruments photograph 5–6 cylindrical objects. No visual confirmation. -On May 11, at NASA’s Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of -Space in Seattle, Washington, Walker mentions the objects photographed -(and perhaps shows the slides; it is not mentioned in the proceedings). -NICAP is unable to obtain the photos. NASA claims the objects are ice -flaking off the aircraft (“fireflies”). They are described by a NASA -spokesman as “barbell shaped, bright-orange in color, and passing in -groups up to six behind the X-15.” Opinion ranges from “definitely -something up there,” to “film spots,” to “sun rays on the lens.” Jacobsen implies -it was the A-12 test the same day. (“AF -Criticizes NASA -Release of ‘Mystery Object’ Photo,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 5 -(Aug./Sept. 1962): 8; UFOEv, p. 139; -Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, May 11, 1962; MUFON UFO Journal, November -1989, pp. 6–7; Good Above, p. 366; -Proceedings -of the Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space, -Seattle, Washington, May 8–10, 1962, NASA -Office of Scientific and Technical Information, November 1962; Curtis -Peebles, “Fireflies: -The X- 15 -‘UFO’ Sighting Controversy,” Magonia 78 (June 2002); Jacobsen, Area -51, p. 205)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3594

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Event 5223 -(8DED77A2)

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Date: 4/30/1962
-Description: Schalk takes -the A-12 up to 30,000 feet on its first official flight at Area 51 for -59 minutes. His top speed is 400 mph. (Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3593

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Event 5224 -(46655C61)

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Date: 5/1962
-Time: 0400
-Description: Approximate date. Four people whose car had run out of gas, -were waiting in a drizzling rain when a bright light, first thought to -be from a car, approached them. It turned out to be a lowflying object -that landed. It was round with a blinking light, and stayed there about -one hour before taking off at high speed
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jul., 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Jujuy, Argentina
-ID: 532

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Event 5225 -(486ECBF4)

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Date: 5/4/1962
-Description: The A-12 achieves supersonic speed of Mach 1.1 at 40,000 -feet during a test at Groom Lake, Nevada. May 11 — 7:40 p.m. Argentine -Rear Adm. Eladio -M. Vázquez and Capt. Aldo Molinari watch a UFO from the US Military -Mission at the Comandante Espora Air Naval Base in Bahía Blanca, -Argentina. (UFOEv, p. 170; -“In Argentina,” -APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3596

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Event 5226 -(3B37E081)

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Date: 5/12/1962
-Time: 0410
-Description: V. and G. Tomasini and H. Zenobi saw an object on the -ground 100 m away from the road. It looked like a railroad car and was -illuminated. As they came close to it, the object took off, crossed the -road at low altitude, rose with a flame, and separated into two sections -that flew away in different directions. It made a humming noise and was -seen on the ground for one min. Within a circle 60 m in radius, grass -was burned, insects were carbonized, and the ground was “petrified.” -Sample analysis was done by the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: SBEDV 30; 132; CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Pampa Province, Argentina
-ID: 533

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Event 5227 -(FBA2B9D5)

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Date: 5/12/1962
-Description: General Douglas McArthur states, “of ultimate conflict -between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other -planetary galaxy”
-Type: speach
-Reference: link
-Location: West Point Academy

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Event 5228 -(0F7BB8B8)

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Date: 5/12/1962
-Description: 4:10 a.m. Three truckers (Valentino Tomassini, Guro -Tomassini, and Humberto Zenobi) are driving from Bahia Blanca to Jacinto -Aráuz, La Pampa, Argentina, when they see a lantern-like light resting -in a nearby field. It brightens and dims alternately. As they slow down, -a row of 20–30 lights come on. When they approach to within 210 feet of -the object, it rises up and crosses the road at a height of 12 feet. Its -lights go out, a reddish flame comes from the bottom, and it makes a -soft humming noise. The UFO then divides into two parts that fly off in -different directions. Navy Capt. Luis Sanchez Moreno, chief of -intelligence at the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base, interviews the -witnesses. At the landing site, grass is burned over an area 180 feet in -diameter, and there are damp, gray-colored patches. These are taken for -analysis to either or both the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base and -Universidad Nacional del Sur, both in or near Bahia Blanca. It consists -of calcium carbonate and potassium carbonate. (UFOEv, pp. 170–171; -“In -Argentina,” APRO Bulletin, July 1963, pp. 2–4; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1962, The Author, -2005, pp. 60–61; Oscar A. Uriondo, “Preliminary -Catalogue of Type 1 Cases in Argentina,” Flying Saucer Review Case -Histories, no. 12 (December 1972): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3597

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Event 5229 -(A2944062)

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Date: 5/13/1962
-Time: 0400
-Description: Dozens of witnesses in Uncativo, Cordoba, Carranza, and Los -Molinos Dam observed a very luminous, elongated object with a bright -trail. Soon thereafter, fog filled a wooded section near Uncativo, and a -landed object resembling a small house was observed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 133; CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Uncativo, Argentina
-ID: 534

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Event 5230 -(9BB06EDA)

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Date: 5/13/1962
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Near Oncativo, Córdoba, Argentina, two women -driving from Rosario see a long object flying at moderate altitude and -emitting a powerful, multicolored light. They enter a fog and see -through the trees a sort of “little house” on the ground, with green, -red, and yellow lights set in an arrow-shaped arrangement. (Loren E. -Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June -1962, The -Author, 2005, p. 62; Oscar A. Uriondo, “Preliminary -Catalogue of Type 1 Cases in Argentina,” Flying Saucer Review Case -Histories, no. 12 (December 1972): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3598

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Event 5231 -(95C38708)

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Date: 5/21/1962
-Description: Miguel Thomé, a reporter for La Nueva Provincia, takes -several photos of a luminous object above Bahia Blanca, Argentina, one -of which is exactly at a point when the object changes course. (UFOEv, -p. 170; -ClearIntent, pp. 138–139; -“Un -avistaje de OVNI en Bahía Blanca aparece en los archivos de la CIA de -Estados Unidos,” -La Nueva (Bahía Blanca), February 3, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3599

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Event 5232 -(D30CFFBA)

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Date: 5/21/1962
-Description: Day. Capt. Gordon Pendleton and First Officer J. P. Murphy -are flying an Aer Lingus Vickers Viscount airliner above southern -England at 17,000 feet when they see a brown globe-shaped object -approaching head-on. It speeds 3,000 feet below the aircraft at about -700 mph. The object has a number of antenna-like projections on its -surface. (Irish Times, May 22, 1962; UFOEv, p. 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3600

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Event 5233 -(4F332CE1)

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Date: 5/22/1962
-Description: A woman was hospitalized after her observation of a strange -object that landed, and of the “ugly” giant beings who emerged from it. -Approximate date.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 135 (Vallee)
-Location: Winifreda, Argentina
-ID: 535

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Event 5234 -(FA28BD9F)

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Date: 5/22/1962
-Description: 7:10–7:45 p.m. A formation of Navy planes, led by flight -instructor Lt. Rodolfo César Galdos, near Comandante Espora Air Naval -Base in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, observes several UFOs over a 35-minute -period. Witnesses at the control tower also see an object. Student pilot -Roberto Wilkinson sees a luminous object trailing his plane. It lights -up his cockpit and his radio transmission is disrupted as it passes -underneath. (UFOEv, pp. 119, -171; -Schopick, p. 129; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1962, The -Author, 2005, pp. 65–67; Scott Corrales, “Saucers -in My Backyard: Argentina’s Trancas Case,” Inexplicata, May 8, -2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3601

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Event 5235 -(04B054C9)

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Date: 5/22/1962
-Alternate date: 5/24/1962
-Description: A woman is hospitalized after she and her husband see an -object land near Winifreda, Las Pampas, Argentina. Two large “robot-like -creatures” emerge. Argentine Air Force investigators find a circle of -scorched grass. (Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley -Medallion, 1976, p. 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3602

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Event 5236 -(D234A6E0)

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Date: 5/25/1962
-Description: USAF Pentagon spokesman Maj. Carl -R. Hart tells NICAP that Air Force investigations involve hundreds -of intelligence officers, as well as “the best scientific brains -available in the laboratories of all government agencies,” also -scientific investigators in commercial laboratories, wherever needed. He -adds that Hynek has -consulted with the “world’s leading scientists.” Around the same time, -Lt. Col. Spencer Whedon from ATIC informs NICAP that the Air Force -spends about $10,000 on each major sighting investigation. (“AF -Admits UFO Probe Still in Full Operation,” -UFO Investigator 2, no. 4 (March/July 1962): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3603

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Event 5237 -(3CAA78DD)

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Date: 6/5/1962
-Description: Contactee Gabriel -Green runs for the US Senate in California and claims to have -received 171,000 votes in the Democratic primary. (Wikipedia, “1962 -United States Senate election in California”; S. D. Tucker, False -Economies: The Strangest, Least Successful, and Most Audacious Financial -Follies, Plans, and Crazes of All Times, Amberly, 2018, chapter 3, -excerpted in “Taxing Credulity,” Fortean Times 367 (June 2018): -52–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3606

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Event 5238 -(421AAA25)

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Date: 6/6/1962
-Description: 11:20 a.m. Six silent objects are seen at intervals over -Caroda, New South Wales. A trail of shiny, web-like filaments falls and -gradually disintegrates as they drift through the air. Witnesses say -they are up to 5 feet long. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An -Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7; Keith -Basterfield, “A -Catalogue and Analysis of Australasian ‘Angel Hair’ Cases,” March -2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3607

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Event 5239 -(1481516A)

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Date: 6/7/1962
-Description: A brilliant white light, approximately 20 times brighter -than first magnitude stars, is seen at Hallett Station [now closed], -Cape Hallett, East Antarctica, at 250° (true) azimuth, and 30° -elevation. Over 5 minutes it remains stationary and is viewed both with -binoculars and the naked eye. It appears circular. It is a dazzling gold -color and observed between two mountain peaks. The sun at the time is -below the horizon. After 5 minutes it moves in a southerly direction and -is lost to view behind a peak. Project Blue Book concludes it is -Jupiter, even though that planet’s position is only at 5° elevation. -(NICAP, [Blue -Book documents]; Sparks, -p. 292; Swords 298)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3608

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Event 5240 -(590BD0C1)

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Date: 6/16/1962
-Description: Four persons from Thursday Island, among them E. Thorpe, -were climbing a hill when they observed a silvery object on a nearby -hillside, less than 2 km away. It could not be located again when they -reached the other side of the hill.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 62,5 (Vallee)
-Location: Prince of Wales Island, Australia
-ID: 536

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Event 5241 -(F32D2FBD)

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Date: summer 1962
-Description: Around 9:00 p.m. Harvey Packard and five other men are -fishing near East Peru, Maine, when three orange globes show up across -the pond and begin dancing about. The globes move toward the witnesses, -who get scared and jump in their car and speed away. The globes follow -the car, one in the rear and the others on each side. The objects appear -to be transparent, 3-foot spheres that easily pace the speeding vehicle. -Occasionally they leave their positions and form into a triangle with -squarish bridges between them, then split up and continue the car chase. -The car radio is filled with static. Finally, they veer off and fly into -the woods. (NICAP case file; Swords 300) Summer — Donald MacKenzie, a -shepherd, discovers some strange wreckage in a remote moor near Ardgay, -Sutherland, Scotland, that he thinks is related to Sputnik. In October, -a team from RAF Kinloss [now Kinloss Barracks] on the Moray Firth -arrives to investigate. They find a strange box-shaped object, large -enough to have carried a person and containing spaces for cameras and a -brass panel that explains, in pictures, what the finder should do in the -event of discovery to claim a reward. Buried nearby are a number of -bottles of colorless fluid. The team is mystified and suspects something -Russian but can’t confirm it. The debris now seems likely to have come -from a secret spy balloon, one of many launched in 1955–1956 by the US -Air Force from RAF Evanton [now closed], to take reconnaissance photos -of Russian military and nuclear facilities. Once clear of Soviet -territory, the balloons were designed to drop into the Pacific Ocean -where its VHF beacon would guide recovery efforts. (David Clarke, “The -Scottish Roswell?” Dr. David Clarke: Folklore and Journalism, July -29, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3605

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Event 5242 -(3CFB19C8)

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Date: summer 1962
-Description: Col. Joseph -J. Bryan III, special -assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force and advisor to NATO, joins -the board of NICAP. In 1959 he had contacted Keyhoe and -asked to see some of his “really hot cases.” It is later revealed that -he was also founder of the CIA’s psychological warfare staff. Bryan -never discloses his CIA background to NICAP or Keyhoe. Although Bryan, -the father of later UFO author C. -D. B. Bryan, makes strong pro-UFO statements, he is later suspected -of helping to discredit Keyhoe and undermine NICAP; his son and Richard -H. Hall deny it. (“AF -Colonel, Noted Astronomer, Join Board,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 5 -(Aug./Sept 1962): 2; “Col. -Joseph Bryan,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 (May/June 1966): 5; “NI-CIA-AP -or NICAP?” Just Cause 1, no. 7 (January 1979): 5–13; “CE4K -Author C. D. B. Bryan Dies,” Rigorous Intuition, December 18, -2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3604

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Event 5243 -(16924D0B)

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Date: 6/21/1962
-Time: 4 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Lt. Col. H. King and tail gunner M/Sgt. Roberts, -aboard a B-52 heavy jet bomber. Three bright, star-like lights: one -seen; 10 seconds later, two more were seen. Total sighting took 3 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
-ID: 476

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Event 5244 -(2E1F294E)

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Date: 6/25/1962
-End date: 6/26/1962
-Description: 9:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. John, 14, and James Westmoreland, 12, -are camping out in their backyard at 7466 East 18th Street, Tucson, -Arizona, with a friend, Ronald Black, 11. About 9:00 p.m. John notices a -bright star in the west that moves occasionally, dips, and hovers. -Around 11:45, they notice that the star is brighter and has moved -closer, taking the shape of a triangle. At 12:15, the object noiselessly -emits three green flares that take on a speedy horizontal flight path. -They notice a second, ball-shaped object that races from west to east, -flips, and stops at a higher elevation than the first. A “flare-like” -light approaches the second and seems to be absorbed by it. The first -UFO spits out more green flares, two of which disappear into the second -object a few minutes later. The second object shoots out a rocket that -disappears in the sky. A third whitish object, larger and disc-shaped, -appears above Pontano Wash with a cone-shaped superstructure. Three -stiltlike protuberances appear briefly then are drawn back in. The third -object also drops something like a rope that extends to the ground for -3–5 minutes. The boys soon get sleepy and retire after a while, telling -the mother, Pansy -Westmoreland, about it in the morning. (“Saucers, -Rockets Inhabit Night Sky,” Tucson (Ariz.) Daily Citizen, June 26, -1962, p. 17; Coral E. Lorenzen, “Saucers -Shoot Rockets over Tucson, Arizona,” APRO Bulletin, July 1962, -pp. 1, 3–4; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, -pp. 114–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3609

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Event 5245 -(516550F4)

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Date: 6/26/1962
-Time: evening
-Description: For about one hour, 20-year-old Roberto Poregozzo, his -mother, Maria, and his 25year-old sister, Luisa, observed a silvery -disk, the apparent diameter of the moon, maneuvering in the sky near -Santa Anastasia church. They finally went home. About 0300, one of them -was awakened by a feeling of intense cold and perceived a greenish light -in the room. In the window a sharply defined human shape, delineating a -semi-transparent body, was visible. The apparition had a huge bald head. -The witness screamed, awakening the two others, and they saw the -apparition shrink and vanish “like a TV image when one turns off the -set.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Verona, Italy
-ID: 537

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Event 5246 -(515B8FE1)

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Date: 6/30/1962
-Time: 9 AM
-Description: Witness: 13 year old Meadors. One red, star-like light seen -for an unspecified length of time. No further details in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Richmond, Virginia
-ID: 477

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Event 5247 -(5F3617F6)

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Date: 7/1962
-Description: APRO refers to NICAP as merely a “lobbying” effort in APRO -Bulletin, while APRO is “gradually drawing the endorsements of the -scientific community.” (“Support -NICAP?” APRO Bulletin, July 1962, pp. 1–2; Clark III 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3610

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Event 5248 -(9CAA0952)

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Date: 7/7/1962
-Description: 11:10 p.m. C. B. Taylor, chief scientist at Hallett Station -[now closed], Cape Hallett, East Antarctica, sees an intense light -followed by two smaller lights pass over the facility in a few seconds -leaving a clearly visible trail. Its passage is registered by an all-sky -camera used for the study of auroras. Probable bolide. (NICAP, [Blue -Book documents]; -NICAP, “Object -Filmed by All Camera (IFO)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3612

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Event 5249 -(A12BF233)

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Date: 7/7/1962
-Description: Soviet Col. Georgy -Mosolov reaches 1,665 mph in a Mikoyan Gurevich Ye-166 (a modified -Ye-152) over Russia. (Wikipedia, “Georgi -Mosolov”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3611

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Event 5250 -(A366ADC0)

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Date: 7/17/1962
-Description: Maj. Robert -Michael White is piloting Flight 62 of the X-15 at Edwards AFB, -California. He flies it to 314,750 feet (59 miles), qualifying him for -USAF astronaut wings. For this, he is featured on the cover of the -August 3 issue of Life. At the top of his climb he sees a small grayish -object “like a piece of paper” about 30–40 feet away. He exclaims, -“There are things out there. There absolutely is!” (“Space: -Inside the Sky,” Time, July 27, 1962; MUFON UFO Journal, November -1989, pp. 6–7; Good Above, p. 366)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3613

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Event 5251 -(FFB76A39)

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Date: 7/19/1962
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: C.T. Loftus, H. Wilbert. Four or five lights -darted about the sky for 7-10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bayhead, New Jersey
-ID: 478

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Event 5252 -(BD7F3A48)

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Date: 7/28/1962
-Description: Before dawn. The skipper of a chartered fishing boat 6 -miles southeast of Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California, sees -several stationary lights low in the water dead ahead. Through -binoculars he sees a squat, lighted structure in which several men are -working, apparently the stern of a submarine with no markings and dacks -almost awash. He and another crew member see five men, “two in all-white -garb, two in dark trousers and white shirts, and one in a sky-blue -jumpsuit.” The craft swept in their direction toward the open sea, still -on the surface, and the skipper has to turn hard to keep clear. It makes -no noise and leaves no wake. (Marvin Miles, “Report Studied -on Soviet -Sub off Catalina,” Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1962, pp. 1, -10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3614

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Event 5253 -(47A3D4FE)

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Date: 7/29/1962
-Time: 11:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Barton. One bright cherry-red, -diamond-shaped object flew slow, hovered, made fast 1/2 loops for l0 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Ocean Springs, Mississippi
-ID: 479

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Event 5254 -(8C5EF73D)

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Date: 7/30/1962
-Description: A man driving near Pasnembi stopped when his engine failed -and observed a cylindrial object, described as “a bottle with two -necks,” about 40 m long, 15 m high, which had landed on the road. Two -men (one at either end of the craft), appeared to be changing some -luminous signals. This lasted 10 min and the craft took off at high -speed. In Alta, a number of people reported a bright object moving at -high altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 136; FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Pasnembi, Brazil
-ID: 538

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Event 5255 -(9626FA8F)

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Date: 7/30/1962
-Description: Roberto Mievres, 17, was riding his motorcycle when a tall -being, with a head like a watermelon and three eyes, appeared as the -engine stalled. The apparition snatched the boy’s scarf, but he ran away -and came back with a group of people, who found the scarf on the ground, -discovered some traces and observed an unknown craft flying away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Bajeola Grande, Argentina
-ID: 539

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Event 5256 -(36DA5041)

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Date: 8/1962
-Description: Night. Marilyn Chenarides, her younger brother Roger, and -their mother Mildred Anderson are vacationing in a cabin on Movil Lake, -Minnesota. The two women see a glowing red, domed disc with large -windows hovering above the boat dock 50 feet away. Silhouetted in the -windows are three entities who seem to be looking at them. The women -shut off the cabin lights for a better look, and the UFO switches off -its own lights. Anderson runs out of the cabin toward the object, which -lifts and disappears rapidly. (“The -1962 Occupants Case,” APRO Bulletin 21, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1972): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3616

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Event 5257 -(A84277A1)

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Date: 8/1962
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Three witnesses are driving south toward San José -de Métan, Salta, Argentina, when they see a light against the mountains -to the west. It approaches, growing as large as the full moon when it is -300 feet ahead of them. It has a bulge at the top and reddish-pink, -green, and white blinking lights. It continues to approach and passes -above a Fiat truck in the road ahead of them. The truck stops, and the -witnesses stop their car as well, two of them walking into some nearby -bushes to observe. The object now seems to be the diameter of a DC-3’s -wingspan and is 150 feet in the air. The truck’s lights go out, and the -object rocks back and forth, taking off to the north at a great rate of -speed. Five minutes later, they drive up to the stopped truck, whose -driver is scooping up dirt to cool its overheated engine down. -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 157–158)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3615

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Event 5258 -(8EDB6279)

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Date: 8/2/1962
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Air traffic control operators at -Cambá Punta Airport [now Doctor Fernando Piragine Niveyro International -Airport], near Corrientes, Argentina, see an unidentified light -approaching the airport. They call the airport manager, Luís Harvey, who -arrives from home in a hurry and sees the light circling at high speed. -Harvey orders a landing strip freed up but the light, apparently a -spherical object, comes down, hovering and revolving a few feet above -the same spot on the runway for 3–4 minutes, emitting strong blue, -green, and orange flashes. Then it climbs and vanishes at staggering -speed. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: July–December 1962, The -Author, 2005, pp. 18–19; Patrick Gross, “Camba -Punta, Argentina, August -2, 1962”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3617

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Event 5259 -(73F37714)

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Date: 8/2/1962
-Description: Luis Harvey, airport manager, and his staff thought that an -unannounced aircraft was about to land, as they saw a luminous object -circling at high speed. It came down to hover about 1 m above the runway -for some four min. It was spherical, spinning, and emitted flashes of -blue, green and orange. When approached, it took off at very high -speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Camba Punat Airport, Argentina
-ID: 540

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Event 5260 -(365B8BF3)

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Date: 8/7/1962
-Description: Midnight. A contract worker at the not-yet-operational -Titan II launch complex of the 570th Strategic Missile Squadron near -Oracle, Arizona, sees a brilliant light descending over the site. He is -joined by a colleague as the light gets larger. Both men go inside and -contact Davis-Monthan AFB outside Tucson, which sends out two jet -interceptors. When the aircraft arrive, the light takes off to the north -and disappears rapidly. After the jets circle and head back, the light -returns, descends toward the silo, and takes off vertically. (Lorenzen, -UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 235–236; Nukes 220–221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3618

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Event 5261 -(855B357C)

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Date: 8/17/1962
-End date: 8/19/1962
-Description: Evening. Walking home, diamond prospector Rivalino Mafra da -Silva sees two small beings, about three feet tall, digging a hole near -Duas Pontes, 17 miles north of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil. On -August 19, Mafra da Silva and his sons are in bed when they are awakened -by sounds and see a shadowy figure, apparently floating in the room. In -the morning, he and his son Raimundo see two humming balls floating -outside. They merge into one larger ball that moves toward Rivalino, -enveloping him in yellow smoke. Raimundo says: “Then the yellow smoke -dissolved. The balls were gone. The ground below was clean as if the -dust had been removed by a big broom.” He tells his story to Lt. Wilson -Lisbõa, chief of police at Diamantina, who conducts a search for 10 -days. Only a few drops of blood are found. (“The -Brazilian Abduction: Boy’s Story Unshaken,” Flying Saucer Review 8, -no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1962): 10–12; Clark III 418–419; Brazil 123–127; -Patrick Gross, URECAT)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3619

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Event 5262 -(4610CFFC)

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Date: 8/17/1962
-Time: evening
-Description: Rivalino da Silva, a diamond prospector, told his -associates that he had seen two strange dwarfs digging a hole near his -house. They ran away as he came near them, and moments later an object -took off from behind the bushes. It was shaped like a hat and surrounded -with a red glow.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep.,62 (Vallee)
-Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
-ID: 541

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Event 5263 -(683F4B2C)

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Date: 8/18/1962
-Time: 5 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Owner M. Sheppard and chief announcer A. Seymour -of radio station. Three dull-white, egg-shaped objects wavered as they -moved for 20 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bermuda
-ID: 480

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Event 5264 -(25DFC2FB)

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Date: 8/19/1962
-Time: night
-Description: Raimundo, the son of Rivalino da Silva (see previous case), -was awakened by the sound of steps and saw “a weird shadow” in the room. -It was small and not human in shape. Voices were heard saying, “This one -looks like Rivalino,” and later that they would kill him. The family -stayed on the alert all night.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
-ID: 542

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Event 5265 -(E34B7554)

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Date: 8/20/1962
-Description: Raimundo da Silva (see previous cases) testified before the -police that while working in a field, he saw two spherical objects -hovering 2 m above ground, a few meters from the house. One was black -with an antenna-like protrusion and a small tail; the other was black -and white. Both emitted a humming sound and a flickering fire through an -opening. The boy’s father warned him to stay away as Rivalino walked -toward the objects, praying. When he was 2 m away, the two spheres -merged into one, raising dust from the ground and spreading a yellow -mist that enveloped the man. The boy ran after his father, noting that -the cloud had “an acrid smell.” As it dissolved, everything had -vanished. Police investigation, headed by Lieutenant Lisboa, failed to -reveal any clue. Many terrified people left the area.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
-ID: 543

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Event 5266 -(4AA826BF)

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Date: late 8/1962
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Three witnesses are driving in a rural area about -87 miles from Salta, Argentina, when two of them (the third sleeps -through the event) see a light against the mountains to the west that -grows larger and moves about 300 feet above the road ahead of them. It -is a domed disc with flashing reddish-pink, green, and white lights -around its perimeter. The object illuminates a truck ahead of them. The -truck stops, and the two witnesses get out of their car and hide in some -bushes to see what happens next. The object appears to be nearly 100 -feet wide and 150 feet above the truck. The truck’s lights go out and -the object takes off to the north at a high rate of speed, climbing out -of sight within seconds. They drive up to the truck, whose drivers are -throwing dirt into its smoking engine compartment and are more concerned -about an insurance claim than a UFO encounter. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the -Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3621

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Event 5267 -(D8D6027C)

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Date: late 8/1962
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Ann -Druffel and Aileen Cummings are at Long Beach, California, when they -see a small rectangular cloud over the Santa Catalina Channel. Its vapor -appears to churn and it doubles in size, then elongates to 20–30 times -its original size. (Ann Druffel, “Santa -Catalina Island Recurring ‘Cloud Cigars,’” in Proceedings of the -1976 CUFOS Conference, Chicago, 1976, pp. 63–64; Ann Druffel, “Santa -Catalina Channel Cloud Cigars,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): -12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3620

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Event 5268 -(0F8A0263)

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Date: 8/26/1962
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Walter T. Jones Jr. watches a triangular -formation of 6 white lights and one green light pass silently over -Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for 3–5 minutes. (“Another -‘Mother’ Ship?” APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3623

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Event 5269 -(142A1E02)

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Date: 8/26/1962
-Description: 12:05 a.m. Geraldo Bichara, 18, is standing guard at the -Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, -when an electrical blackout occurs in the city. Suddenly he is paralyzed -by a light beam from an unseen object, apparently for a few minutes. In -1980, Bichara undergoes hypnosis and discovers that the incident was an -abduction in which he is taken aboard a UFO by beings wearing -pumpkin-colored jumpsuits and subjected to a medical examination. He -attempts to flee at one point and grabs his rifle lying nearby, but he -is still paralyzed. After about 2 hours he is returned to the -guardhouse. (Brazil 60–66; “Caso -Giraldo Bichara,” Grupo de Amigos que Estudam Mistérios e Ufologia, -May 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3622

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Event 5270 -(7ABFDC03)

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Date: 8/29/1962
-Description: Afternoon. A U-2 spy plane flying over Cuba spots an SA-2 -surface-to-air missile site under construction at La Coloma, eight -Komar-class guided missile patrol boats, and a cruise missile site at -Banes. (Kenneth Michael Absher, Mind-Sets and Missiles, US Army War -College, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3624

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Event 5271 -(856748A1)

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Date: 8/30/1962
-Description: 7:35–7:55 p.m. While having supper at an outdoor restaurant -near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, three men, one of whom works for Techint -Engineering Company, watch a UFO that approaches and hovers for 20 -minutes. The engineer has a portable theodolite with him, and they set -it up and track the object. It is a silvery-gray disc, like two rounded -hubcaps together, and is spinning on its axis. It has an antenna on the -top and exhaust ports all around its mid-line, and it is surrounded by -gaseous emissions that run through all the colors of the spectrum. The -object flips to a vertical alignment, showing its base, and then tips -over so that its original topside is on the bottom. The object silently -accelerates and disappears in 5 seconds. Project Blue Book concludes -that the men were watching the planet Venus. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July– December -1962, The -Author, 2005, p. 33; Swords 298–299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3625

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Event 5272 -(F41DA91D)

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Date: 9/1962
-Time: 2145
-Description: A. T. Gray, a dairy rancher, thought some lights in a field -were those of a car. When coming nearer, he realized the object was -oblong with blunt edges and hovered about 7 m above the ground, making -no noise. When Gray was 50 m away, the object came toward him, rose, and -took off toward the southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jul., 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Orland, California
-ID: 544

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Event 5273 -(03FB403B)

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Date: 9/1962
-Description: California contactee Gloria -Lee takes channeled blueprints for a spaceship to Washington, D.C., -to show to government officials. She gets nowhere, but while in town she -gets messages from her space contact J.W. saying that the space people -are upset with human wars and nuclear weapons. J.W. orders her to go on -a fast for peace until he sends a “light elevator” to take her to -Jupiter. Her fast lasts from September 23 to November 28. No one pays -attention. After about 66 days without eating, Lee’s husband, aircraft -engineer William H. Byrd, summons an ambulance to take her to George -Washington University Hospital. She dies there on December 3. Lee -continues to channel post-mortem information through a medium named Nada-Yolanda (Pauline -Sharpe) in the Miami-based Mark-Age MetaCenter. (Clark III 682–683; -Tristan, “The -Airline Stewardess Who Starved Herself to -Death for Aliens,” Bizarre and Grotesque, December 18, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3626

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Event 5274 -(27C0DDCD)

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Date: 9/1962
-Description: Thomas M. Comella, writing under the pseudonym “Peter Kor,” -proposes that UFOs originate, not from space (as he apparently thought -when he favored the extraterrestrial hypothesis in the December 1955 -issue of Fate), but from a reality “so strange that it cannot be -confined to our three-dimensional world.” (Clark III 877; Thomas M. -Comella, “Why -the Real Saucer Is Interplanetary,” Fate 8, no. 12 (December 1955): -17–23; Peter Kor [Thomas M. Comella], “The Solution to the Flying Saucer -Mystery,” Flying Saucers, September 1962, pp. 68–74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3627

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Event 5275 -(C4C9C4D6)

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Date: 9/1/1962
-Description: The USSR publicly announces an agreement to supply arms and -military technicians to Cuba. Construction begins on SS-5 IRBM sites in -Guanajay. (Wikipedia, “Cuban -Missile Crisis”) September 5 — U-2 photos reveal for the first time -the presence of MiG-21 jet fighters in Cuba.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3628

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Event 5276 -(638EC915)

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Date: 9/5/1962
-Time: night
-Description: Second observation by Mr. Siragusa (Case 531), who saw two -figures over 2.10 m tall. The light from their belts prevented him from -seeing them in detail. A large, spinning object, 25 m wide, top-shaped, -hovered nearby. “From the under part, a metallic cylinder over 3 m long -reached down almost to touch the road, with a small door, a sort of -lift.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Manfre, Italy
-ID: 545

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Event 5277 -(D64E5F80)

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Date: 9/13/1962
-Time: 2320
-Description: Myra Jones was driving between Overfield and Norris Hill -when she saw a luminous, gray object, larger than a car with a dome on -top. It was flying at the altitude of the Phone poles, slowly spinning. -Dark spots were visible on the underside. It nearly touched the car, -then gave a whistling sound and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 137; FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Overfield, Great Britain
-ID: 546

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Event 5278 -(9070650F)

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Date: 9/15/1962
-Time: 1700
-Description: Two bright disks were first seen at 1700, then were seen -again at 1800, at the state line. Two witnesses saw one round object -with a fin on top and another under it at 1950, and reported that it was -going down toward the Oradell reservoir. Three young men saw and heard -the object as it touched the water. Another witness called police. The -luminous object took off a few minutes later. Official investigation -described it as bright, surrounded with a glow, the apparent size of a -small plane 1 km away. It left toward the south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Oradell, New Jersey
-ID: 547

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Event 5279 -(FEE8493B)

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Date: 9/15/1962
-Description: Construction begins on Soviet SS-4 MRBM sites at San -Cristobal, Cuba.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3629

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Event 5280 -(BE98AC4B)

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Date: 9/15/1962
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Two bright discs are seen over Oradell, New -Jersey. At 6:00 p.m., former Navy flying officer J. J. McVickers sees -two discs just across the state line near Oradell. At 7:50 p.m., Victor -Cipolla sees a glowing object descend toward Oradell. Two other -witnesses see one round object with a fin on top and another under it at -darting back and forth near Oradell Reservoir. At 7:55 p.m., three teens -see and hear a bright, oval object land in the reservoir with a loud -splash. A moment later, it lifts off and climbs silently at high speed. -(“Disc -Landing Reported -in New Jersey,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 6 (Oct./Nov. 1962): 3–4; -UFOEv, p. 140; -Loren E. Gross, The Fifth -Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December 1962, The -Author, 2005, pp. 48, 49; Sparks, -p. 292)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3630

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Event 5281 -(09D635F2)

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Date: 9/18/1962
-Description: Three men working in a rubber plantation saw a large, -disk-shaped object hover above the river. It emitted sparks, was of -silvery color, and very brilliant. It eventually rose straight up at -high speed. Disappearance of cattle was noticed in the area during that -period and blamed on the same cause.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jan., 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Barcelos, Brazil
-ID: 548

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Event 5282 -(7F52218D)

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Date: 9/20/1962
-Description: Construction begins on Soviet SAM sites at Los Angeles, -Chaparra, and Juguani, Cuba.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3631

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Event 5283 -(B72D0D32)

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Date: 9/21/1962
-Time: 7:37 PM
-Description: Witness: fishing boat captain S.A. Guthrie. Two objects, -red and black with orange streaks, one as big as the Moon, and the other -smaller. Arced across the sky for 13 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: WSW of Biloxi, Mississippi, in the Gulf of Mexico
-ID: 481

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Event 5284 -(B4D178F4)

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Date: fall 1962
-Description: Patricia Ellingson is seeing “glowing, flame-like lights” -in her bedroom in Azusa, California, every evening. She thinks they -appear only when she is mentally calm. The lights are the size of a -quarter, sometimes switch off abruptly, and other times fade out slowly. -At times they do not appear for months, and she feels sad when they are -not there. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 -(June 2007): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3634

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Event 5285 -(C64ECC1B)

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Date: fall 1962
-Description: Arlene Cook is awakened by her young, terrified son, at -their home in Anaheim, California. He says something is in his bedroom, -so they go to investigate and see a half-dollar-sized light on his bed. -The spot stays visible when she puts her hand on the bed or when she -removes the covers, but she can find no source for the light. It then -just switches off and does not return. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of -the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3633

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Event 5286 -(B7CAB331)

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Date: 9/29/1962
-Description: A CIA U-2 mission over the Isle of Pines and Bay of Pigs, -Cuba, reveals additional Soviet SA-2 and cruise missile sites. -(Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 183; -Kenneth Michael Absher, Mind-Sets and Missiles, US Army War College, -2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3632

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Event 5287 -(ED7D016C)

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Date: 10/1962
-Description: The CIA and USAF instruct Lockheed to study a high-speed, -high-altitude drone concept. Kelly -Johnson specifies speeds of Mach 3.3–3.5, an operational altitude of -87,000–95,000 feet, and a range of 3,500 miles. It would make a one-way -trip, eject its camera payload at the end of the mission for recovery, -then self-destruct. It has a double-delta wing similar to the A-12’s -wing design. The Q-12 is to be air-launched from the back of an A- 12 -and uses key technology from the A-12 project, including titanium -construction and radar cross-section reduction design features. Johnson -wants to power the Q-12 with a ramjet engine modified to operate at high -temperatures for at least 90 minutes at high altitude. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -D-21”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3635

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Event 5288 -(680790DA)

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Date: 10/2/1962
-Description: Night. A Boeing security guard at an unidentified Minuteman -missile site near Moore, Montana [likely the M-01 launch site that is -part of Malmstrom AFB complex], sees a tear-shaped object with a blue -top and a red bottom. (“Flying -Objects Reported in Separated Areas,” Helena (Mont.) -Independent-Record, October 3, 1962, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3636

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Event 5289 -(3A6CD5E3)

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Date: 10/2/1962
-Description: Night. Airmen on security patrol at Larson AFB [now Grant -County International Airport] near Moses Lake, Washington, see a white -light hovering a few hundred feet in the air near where the ICBM storage -bunkers are located. It silently shoots into the air as the guards -approach it. (“Flying -Objects Reported in Separated Areas,” Helena (Mont.) -Independent-Record, October 3, 1962, p. 7; Nukes 145–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3637

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Event 5290 -(3A901F74)

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Date: 10/7/1962
-Description: New U-2 flights show there are now 19 Soviet SA-2 missile -sites in Cuba.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3638

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Event 5291 -(D53AC019)

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Date: 10/12/1962
-Description: Dawn. An object like an orange or yellow meteor is observed -over Forbes AFB [now Topeka Regional Airport], Topeka, Kansas. Its -flight path is curved upward, with an occasional jerky motion; it moves -quickly at first but slows down as it reaches the zenith. It is visible -for 5 minutes before fading out. [Blue -Book documents]; Nukes 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3639

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Event 5292 -(6ABB001A)

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Date: 10/14/1962
-Description: A U-2 (loaned to the Air Force by the CIA because the CIA -U-2s have better surveillance capabilities) piloted by USAF Major Richard -S. Heyser out of Laughlin AFB, Del Rio, Texas, takes 928 pictures on -a path selected by DIA analysts, capturing images of what turn out to be -an SS-4 MRBM construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province -[now in Artemisa Province], in western Cuba. (Wikipedia, “Cuban -Missile Crisis”; -“U-2 -Pilot’s Cuba Photos Made History,” Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News, -October 9, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3640

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Event 5293 -(15071155)

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Date: 10/15/1962
-Description: The CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center -reviews the U-2 photographs and identifies objects that they interpret -as medium-range ballistic missiles. The CIA notifies the Department of -State. National Security Advisor McGeorge -Bundy chooses to wait until the next morning to tell the President. -Secretary of Defense Robert -McNamara is briefed at midnight. (Wikipedia, “Cuban Missile -Crisis”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3641

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Event 5294 -(8A2842DA)

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Date: 10/16/1962
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Kennedy gathers -a select group of advisors known as the ExComm (Executive Committee of -the National Security Council) to discuss a strategic response. McNamara presents -him with three basic options: a political option of approaching Castro and -Khrushchev; -a naval blockade to stop Soviet ships carrying weapons to Cuba; and -“military action directed against Cuba, starting with an air attack -against the missiles.” The ExComm’s initial discussions focus on a -massive US military assault on the nuclear installations and other bases -in Cuba, and whether the Soviets would counterattack in Berlin or -elsewhere. Kennedy rejects an attack, favoring a quarantine to buy time -to negotiate a missile withdrawal. (Wikipedia, “Cuban -Missile Crisis”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3642

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Event 5295 -(E06D2D72)

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Date: 10/17/1962
-Description: A U-2 takes the first photo of an IRBM site under -construction in Cuba. (“The -Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The -Photographs,” National Security Archive)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3643

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Event 5296 -(3623F5A1)

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Date: late 10/1962
-Description: Day. Two Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers are -returning to Loring AFB [now the Loring Commerce Centre] near Limestone, -Maine, following an Operation Chrome Dome mission. They are on final -approach to landing when a huge, metallic-gray, cigar-shaped UFO -descends over the flight line and hovers for a few minutes. It stretches -halfway across the aircraft ramp area, which would make it half a mile -wide. Jet engine mechanic Sgt. Christopher Smith is watching the -scenario from the ground and notes that the UFO is silent and has no -lights or visible openings. After the second B-52 lands, the UFO -silently zooms away toward the east and disappears. All the ground -witnesses and the flight crews do not talk about the incident afterward -and act as if nothing happened. (Nukes 132–136, 138–139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3651

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Event 5297 -(435F7C72)

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Date: 10/22/1962
-Description: 7:00 p.m. President Kennedy addresses -the American public for 18 minutes and announces his plan to implement a -naval blockade of Cuba. US military alert is set at DEFCON 3, and Castro mobilizes -all of Cuba’s military forces. US ambassador to the Soviet Union Foy -D. Kohler delivers to a letter from JFK to Khrushchev, -saying, “the one thing that has most concerned me has been the -possibility that your government would not correctly understand the will -and determination of the United States in any given situation, since I -have not assumed that you or any other sane man would, in this nuclear -age, deliberately plunge the world into war which it is crystal clear no -country could win and which could only result in catastrophic -consequences to the whole world, including the aggressor.” (Wikipedia, -“Cuban -Missile Crisis”; John F. Kennedy, Letter -to Chairman Nikita Khrushchev, October -22, 1962)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3644

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Event 5298 -(3AD1E1A8)

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Date: 10/23/1962
-Time: 3 PM
-Description: Witness: R.O. Christensen. One grey and silver ball, -trailing what looked like twine with two knots in it, swerved, and -climbed away at a 45’ angle, making a sound like a flock of ducks -(rushing air). Twenty seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Farmington, Utah
-ID: 482

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Event 5299 -(82B5C753)

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Date: 10/23/1962
-Description: Khrushchev writes -to Kennedy, rebuffing -his demand that the Soviets remove the missiles, which the Soviet leader -insists “are intended solely for defensive purposes.” Kennedy writes -back, bluntly reminding Khrushchev that he started the crisis by -secretly sending missiles to Cuba. As US ambassador Adlai -Stevenson explains the matter to the United Nations Security -Council, US ships already are moving into position in the waters around -Cuba. Soviet submarines menacingly move into the Caribbean as well, -positioned as if they might try to break a blockade. But Soviet -freighters bearing military supplies headed for Cuba stop in their -tracks. (Nikita Khrushchev, Letter -to President John F. Kennedy, October -23, 1962; John F. Kennedy, Draft -letter to Chairman -Nikita Khrushchev, October -23, 1962)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3645

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Event 5300 -(F8767ADB)

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Date: 10/24/1962
-Description: Khrushchev sends -an indignant letter to Kennedy, -accusing him of threatening the Soviet Union: “You are no longer -appealing to reason, but wish to intimidate us.” (Nikita Khrushchev, Letter -to President John F. Kennedy, October -24, 1962)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3646

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Event 5301 -(6E02D104)

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Date: 10/24/1962
-Description: Undocumented claim that a landing took place. No -traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Oct., 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Horsetooth Reservoir, Colorado
-ID: 549

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Event 5302 -(BDF7BEEA)

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Date: 10/25/1962
-Description: The US raises the readiness level of SAC forces to DEFCON -2. For the only confirmed time in US history, B-52 bombers go on -continuous airborne alert, and B-47 medium bombers are dispersed to -various military and civilian airfields and made ready to take off, -fully equipped, on 15 minutes notice. The Soviet arms freighters turn -back toward Europe, but the oil tanker Bucharest approaches the US -quarantine zone, directly headed for Cuba. Two American warships, the USS -Essex and -the USS -Gearing, -prepare to intercept it, which could have led to war. Instead, Kennedy decides -to let the Bucharest through the quarantine because it isn’t carrying -any contraband. (Wikipedia, “Cuban -Missile Crisis”; McGeorge Bundy, “Record -of Action of the Fourth Meeting -of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council,” -October 25, 1962; Wikipedia, “Cuban Missile -Crisis”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3647

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Event 5303 -(C625103E)

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Date: 10/26/1962
-Description: Castro sends -a letter to Khrushchev, urging -him to launch a nuclear first strike against the US, which the Soviet -leader disregards. Instead, Khrushchev sends a letter to Kennedy, -in which he offers to work with him to deescalate the conflict and -ensure that they do not “doom the world to the catastrophe of -thermonuclear war.” The CIA reports that the construction of Cuban -missile sites is continuing and accelerating. Robert -Kennedy meets secretly with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly -Dobrynin and agrees after a phone call to the president that the -removal of US missiles from Turkey is negotiable as part of a -comprehensive settlement. (Fidel Castro, Letter -to Chairman Nikita -Khrushchev, October -26, 1962; Nikita Khrushchev, Department -of State Telegram Transmitting Letter to President -John F. Kennedy, October -26, 1962; Wikipedia, “Cuban -Missile Crisis”; Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions -of a Nuclear War Planner, Bloomsbury, 2017, chapter 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3648

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Event 5304 -(213F4C69)

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Date: 10/26/1962
-Description: 6:15 a.m. Mrs. Alvie Frank sees several flat, glowing -objects moving slowly about 11 miles south of Monte Vista, Colorado. -(“Variety -of Objects in Colorado,” APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3649

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Event 5305 -(6F829264)

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Date: 10/26/1962
-Description: 7:16 a.m. Bessie Rogers of Fort Collins, Colorado, spots a -large, black parachute-shaped object weaving back and forth over the -mountains somewhere between the south end of Horsetooth Reservoir and -Masonville. It flies around for about 10 minutes, disappears, and then -returns. (“Variety -of Objects in Colorado,” APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3650

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Event 5306 -(7F024199)

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Date: 10/27/1962
-Description: A U-2 piloted by Maj. Rudolf -Anderson is shot down over Cuba. However, Kennedy correctly -concludes that Khrushchev has -not himself given the order to shoot down Anderson’s plane. The incident -prompts both leaders to realize the situation is spiraling dangerously -out of control. Khrushchev sends another letter to Kennedy, in which he -demands that the United States withdraw missiles from Turkey as part of -the deal. JFK responds by offering to promise not to attack Cuba after -the Russians withdraw. In the evening, Robert Kennedy tells -Soviet ambassador Dobrynin, -“You have drawn first blood.        The president had decided against -advice        not to respond militarily to that attack, but he -[Dobrynin] should know that if another plane was shot at … we would take -out all the SAMs and antiaircraft        And that would almost surely be -followed by an invasion.” However, he also says that the US already -plans to remove its missiles from Turkey but cannot say so publicly. -This is the moment when both nations step back from the brink of war. -(Wikipedia, “Cuban -Missile Crisis”; Nikita Khrushchev, Letter -to President John F. Kennedy, October -27, 1962; Anatoly Dobrynin, Cable -to the Soviet -Foreign Ministry, meeting with Robert Kennedy, October -27, 1962; John F. Kennedy, Letter -to Chairman Nikita -Khrushchev, October 27, 1962; Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: -Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Bloomsbury, 2017, chapter 12–13; -Christopher Klein, “How -the Death of a US Air Force Pilot Prevented -a Nuclear War,” History Stores, October 28, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3652

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Event 5307 -(100B648B)

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Date: 10/28/1962
-Time: 1930
-Description: Mrs. E. D. Silvester was driving with her three children -when an illuminated oval object landed near the road. She watched it for -40 min, and reported seeing a man wearing a helmet and gas mask in the -vicinity of the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Norwood, Australia
-ID: 550

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Event 5308 -(3791019B)

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Date: 10/28/1962
-Description: In a speech aired on Radio Moscow, Nikita -Khrushchev announces the dismantling of Soviet missiles in Cuba and -does not insist on his demands concerning the removal of US missiles -from Turkey. (Wikipedia, “Cuban -Missile Crisis”; Nikita Khrushchev, Letter -to President John F. Kennedy, October 28, 1962)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3653

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Event 5309 -(02C836D1)

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Date: 10/28/1962
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Ellen D. Sylvester is driving with her three -children in Norwood, South Australia, east of Adelaide, when they see an -orange glow on the ground about 2–3 miles away. It has three legs, round -windows, and the boy remarks that he can see people in it. One of the -“men” gets out and descends to the ground. He appears to be doing -something to one of the landing legs. He seems to have some trouble in -making it retract, which finally he overcomes. He is about 6 feet tall, -as his head reaches the outer fringe of the craft. He wears a helmet -like a gas mask. He returns to the UFO, which begins to move slowly -away, then very fast, and disappears in a northerly direction. Total -time of observation is 40 minutes. (Keith Basterfield, “’This -Is One of the Most Remarkable -Cases of a Flying Saucer…,’ Adelaide, 1962,” Unidentified Aerial -Phenomena—Scientific Research, September 22, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3654

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Event 5310 -(8BDFBC60)

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Date: 10/29/1962
-Description: Defense Department Assistant Secretary Arthur -Sylvester admits that withholding evidence on UFOs from the public -is necessary if the means justifies it. He cites USAF “administrative -practices” Air Force Regulation 11-30, where withholding information “in -the public interest” is allowed, and AFR 11-7, which states that -sometimes information requested by Congress may not be furnished “even -in confidence.” (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 86; -UFOEv, p. 106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3655

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Event 5311 -(065D366A)

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Date: 10/29/1962
-Description: Vera Rogers sees a round, shiny object flying low over Fort -Collins, Colorado. The object, heading south, makes a soft, whirring -sound followed by a popping noise. (“Variety -of Objects in Colorado,” APRO Bulletin, January 1963, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3656

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Event 5312 -(D221ADC1)

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Date: 11/1962
-Time: evening
-Description: A garage owner was driving through a rainstorm when he -suddenly saw a group of figures 80 m away. He slowed down as they went -away jerkily, and observed that they were bizarre, birdlike creatures. -As they rushed toward the car, he drove past them in terror and saw them -going back toward a luminous, blue object hovering in a field. They -entered it as if “sucked into it,” and a dull sound was heard before the -object flew off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Var, France
-ID: 551

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Event 5313 -(AE2F6CA1)

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Date: 11/1962
-Description: Evening. A French businessman is driving along a minor road -in Var department, southeastern France. It is raining heavily. Rounding -a bend, he sees a group of figures in the road 260 feet ahead. He slows -down to drive around them and sees that they are actually bizarre -animals with the heads of birds and covered in plumage. Terrified, he -speeds ahead and stops about 500 feet further ahead. Turing around, he -sees the entities heading toward a luminous, dark-blue object hanging in -the air over a field on the other side of the road. It resembles two -plates upside down. The entities are sucked into the bottom of the -object. He hears a “clack,” and the UFO takes off at “prodigious speed.” -(Lyonel Trigano, “Strange -Encounter in Var,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1968): -18; Clark III 280)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3657

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Event 5314 -(6ABE3640)

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Date: 11/13/1962
-Description: Two IBM engineers, C. D. Jackson and Robert -E. Hohmann, present -a paper at the American Rocket Society annual meeting in Los Angeles, -California, noting the alleged extraterrestrial signals detected by Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo -Marconi, and -David -Todd between 1899 and 1924. They speculate that the signal source -was 11 light years away, perhaps the Epsilon Eridani system. (C. D. -Jackson and Robert E. Hohmann, “An Historic Report on Life in Space: -Tesla, Marconi, Todd,” paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the -American Rocket Society, Los Angeles, November 13–18, 1962; Michael D. -Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR -29, no. 4 (July 2005): 10–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3658

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Event 5315 -(A920398B)

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Date: 11/15/1962
-Description: Stanford astronomer Carl -Sagan presents a paper at the American Rocket Society annual meeting -in Los Angeles, California, that explores models for the distribution of -technical civilizations in the galaxy. Using Frank -D. -Drake’s equation to suggest that 0.001% of stars in the sky have a -planet on them on which an advanced civilization resides, Sagan suggests -the nearest such advanced civilization is several hundred light years -away from earth. From there, he explores the feasibility of interstellar -spaceflight as a means for traversing such distances. The paper ends in -consideration of the possibility of extraterrestrial contact with Earth -in the past, including the ancient Mesopotamian myth of Oannes (Apkallu), -a mythical being who taught mankind wisdom. Berossus describes -Oannes as having the body of a fish but underneath the figure of a man. -(Carl Sagan, “Direct Contact -among Galactic Civilizations by Relativistic Interstellar -Spaceflight,” Planetary and Space Science 11 (May 1963): 485–498; -Wikipedia, “Adapa”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3659

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Event 5316 -(D7AAE11F)

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Date: 11/17/1962
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: F.L. Swindale, college graduate and ex-USMC -Capt. Three bright star-like lights approached, hovered and bounced, -then faded after 11-15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tampa, Florida
-ID: 483

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Event 5317 -(BB0CEEBB)

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Date: 11/17/1962
-Description: 9:00 p.m. F. L. Swindale, ex-Marine captain, sees three -bright, star-like lights approach, hover, and bounce at Tampa, Florida, -for about 15 minutes, then fade. (UFOEv, p. 140; -Sparks, p. 293)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3660

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Event 5318 -(074B744A)

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Date: 11/23/1962
-Description: The Hills attend -a meeting at the parsonage of their Unitarian church in Portsmouth, New -Hampshire, where the invited guest speaker is USAF Capt. Ben -H. Swett, who has recently published a book of his poetry. After he -reads selections of his poetry, the pastor asks him to discuss his -personal interest in hypnosis. After the meeting breaks up, the Hills -approach Swett privately and tell him what they can remember of their -strange encounter. He is particularly interested in the missing time of -the Hills’ account. The Hills ask Swett if he will hypnotize them to -recover their memories, but Swett says he is not qualified and cautions -them against going to an amateur hypnotist, such as himself. (Clark III -584)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3661

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Event 5319 -(447291A2)

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Date: 11/30/1962
-Description: Two teenage boys in Lethbridge, Alberta, see an elliptical -object hovering near a school building and decide to throw rocks at it. -The object is about 8 feet in diameter and glowing blue. Their stones -seem to ricochet off the UFO and forcefully returned, landing on -structures behind the teens. (CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3662

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Event 5320 -(546AC391)

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Date: 12/1962
-Description: Kennedy closes -the Cuban Project, the CIA’s Operation Mongoose. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Mongoose”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3663

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Event 5321 -(0F0251A7)

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Date: 12/1/1962
-Description: Evening. A husband and wife in East Point, Georgia, are -watching the first-quarter Moon through a 6-inch reflector. In the dark -area, well away from the terminator, the man sees a bright-red spot -light up. It gets so bright that he points it out to his wife. She -notices it starting to move across the illuminated portion of the Moon, -then continues passing in a straight line across the blue Georgia sky, -faster and faster until it is gone. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the -Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3664

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Event 5322 -(C746B61A)

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Date: 12/7/1962
-Description: A full-scale mockup of the Q-12 drone is ready at Groom -Lake, Nevada, and has already undergone preliminary tests to measure its -stealth quality. However, the CIA is not enthusiastic about the Q-12, -mostly because the agency is overextended at the time with U-2 missions, -getting the A-12 up to speed, and covert operations in Southeast Asia. -The USAF, however, is interested in the Q-12 as both a reconnaissance -platform and a cruise missile and the CIA finally decides to work with -the USAF to develop it. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -D- 21”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3665

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Event 5323 -(3D285922)

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Date: 12/9/1962
-Time: 2200
-Description: Antonio Candau saw a circular object land in Cadivilla, 9 m -away from him. It was about 5.5 m m diameter, and two men emerged from -it, approaching within 2 m, and spoke incomprehensible words. They wore -yellow coveralls and a wide belt. Noting that the witness was afraid, -one of them made a reassuring gesture with his hand, and the craft -departed with a strange sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Settimana Incom. Dec. 30, 62 (Vallee)
-Location: Bologna, Italy
-ID: 552

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Event 5324 -(F158BADE)

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Date: 12/11/1962
-Time: dawn
-Description: G. L. Colodrero and the director of the Cordoba Historial -Museum were driving from Catamarca to Cordoba when, 7 km away from -Chumbicha, they saw seven objects on the ground of a mountain slope. -They were bright and spherical, rose straight up and flew away with a -very bright trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Chumbicha, Argentina
-ID: 553

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Event 5325 -(5F0D3A81)

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Date: 12/12/1962
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Five schoolgirls in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, -Japan, see a brightly glowing UFO. All five students independently -sketch a Saturn-shaped object. (UFOEv, p. 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3666

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Event 5326 -(AAAD3183)

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Date: 12/17/1962
-Time: dawn
-Description: Francesco Rizzi, night watchman, was crossing the factory -yard when he heard a whistling sound and observed an object hovering 1 m -above ground. It was a silvery disk, about 5 m in diameter, with lighted -windows. The noise stopped, a door became visible, and a small being -appeared and made a gesture. A second figure was also seen. The craft -took off with a puff of white smoke and a whistling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 138 (Vallee)
-Location: Milan, Italy
-ID: 554

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Event 5327 -(D6C71002)

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Date: 12/18/1962
-Description: 2:20 p.m. Night watchman Francesco Rizzi is reporting for -work at a mill on Via Santa Valeria in Milan, Italy. In the center of -the mill’s courtyard he hears a swishing sound and turns to see a domed -metallic disc 12–15 feet in diameter with portholes hovering 3 feet -above the ground. A door opens at the bottom and a small man just over 3 -feet tall and wearing a luminous overall emerges. The man motions Rizzi -to come nearer, but he is frozen with fear. Another small man comes out -of the disc, but they both return, the door closes behind them, and the -object takes off in a cloud of white smoke. Rizzi reports the sighting -to a colleague, the police, and the press, and soon loses his job. -(1Pinotti 130–131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3667

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Event 5328 -(D55CA222)

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Date: 12/19/1962
-Description: Three sailors on a ship observed two gray, helmet-shaped -objects hovering 1 km away at 20 m altitude above Lake Major. Diameter: -about 15 m. After 5 min one object started moving rapidly, gaining -height with an undulating movement. It was soon joined by the second -object, and both disappered together at the horizon.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 139 (Vallee)
-Location: Verbania, Italy
-ID: 555

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Event 5329 -(16D52EC7)

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Date: 12/21/1962
-Description: Ali R. Diaz is aboard a DC-3 tourist plane on a vacation -trip to Angel Falls, Venezuela. He obtains color film of a UFO rising -from the base of a mountain. The film shows a yellowish teardrop-shaped -object rising across the face of Auyán-tepui plateau. The UFO seems to -oscillate from side to side until it is lost in clouds. The falls and -mountain provide location points throughout. (“Angel -Falls UFO Film 1962,” UFO History Group You Tube channel, August 30, -2014; UFOEv, p. 96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3668

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Event 5330 -(741766BA)

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Date: 12/21/1962
-Time: 0215
-Description: A large, fiery disk was observed on the runway by Horado -Alora and Mario Pezzuto, the two control tower operators, and by the -crews of two aircraft. It rose to 10 m altitude, hovered, and flew away -to the northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
-Location: Buenos Aires Airport, Argentina
-ID: 556

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Event 5331 -(B0F9D641)

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Date: 12/22/1962
-Description: About 3:00 a.m. At Ezeiza International Airport [now -Ministro Pistarini International Airport] at Ezeiza Partido in Greater -Buenos Aires, Argentina, tower operators Horacio Alora and Mario -Pezzutto are watching an Aereolíneas Argentinas plane that is about to -take off. It is also seen by an approaching DC-8 jet operated by -Panagra, whose captain asks what the object is at the end of the runway. -Alora sees a large, round, glowing object that has evidently descended -when he is watching the airliner. The UFO immediately rises about 30 -feet, hovers, then accelerates on a northeast course. (UFOEv, p. 119; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: July–December 1962, The -Author, 2005, pp. 75–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3669

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- Event 5332 (F37281B4)

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Date: 1963
-Description: Astronomer Donald -H. Menzel and science writer Lyle G. Boyd publish The World of -Flying Saucers, a skeptical overview of UFO sightings and a contemptuous -treatment of UFO groups. (Donald H. Menzel and Lyle G. Boyd, The World -of Flying Saucers, Doubleday, 1963)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3671

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Event 5333 -(EE11AD8D)

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Date: 1963
-Description: Russian astrophysicist Nikolai -Kardashev examines the radio source CTA-102, the first Soviet effort -in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). He comes up with -the idea that some galactic civilizations could be perhaps millions or -billions of years ahead of us, and creates the Kardashev scale to rank -such civilizations. Kardashev defines three levels of civilizations, -based on energy consumption: Type I (planetary civilization) with -“technological level close to the level presently attained on earth”; -Type II (stellar civilization), “a civilization capable of harnessing -the energy radiated by its own star”; and Type III (galactic -civilization), “a civilization in possession of energy on the scale of -its own galaxy.” Various extensions of the Kardashev scale have since -been proposed, including the use of metrics rather than pure power. The -idea that the CTA-102 emission is caused by a civilization is later -rejected when it is identified as one of the many varieties of quasar -(quasi-stellar radio source), a term coined by Hong-Yee -Chiu in May 1964 to describe these objects. (Wikipedia, “Kardashev -scale”; Wikipedia, “CTA-102”; -Nikolai Kardashev, “Transmission -of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations,” Soviet Astronomy -8 (1964): 217; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3670

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Event 5334 -(C2F50F18)

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Date: 1/1963
-Description: The A-12 fleet at Groom Lake, Nevada, is now operating with -J58 engines built by Pratt and Whitney, allowing for speeds up to Mach -3.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3672

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Event 5335 -(6309AAC4)

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Date: 1/1963
-Description: Night. Brothers Rosauro Antonio, Ricardo, and Victor -Domingo López discover a burned area of grass in a field just over a -mile from their house in Cañada de Alzogaray, near Burruyacú, Tucumán, -Argentina. The burn is in the shape of two rings (each a foot wide and -10.8 feet in diameter) where the grass is burned down to its roots to a -depth of 3–4 inches. They find a carbonized residue and whitish powder. -Some days previously, a neighbor named Juan Gerónimo Pera, his wife, and -children, had seen a luminous oval-shaped object that landed in the -field. (Oscar A. Uriondo, “Preliminary -Catalogue of Type 1 Cases in Argentina,” Flying Saucer Review Case -Histories, no. 12 (December 1972): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3673

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Event 5336 -(015D9906)

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Date: 1/4/1963
-Time: 1900
-Description: A well-known psychiatrist saw an object on the ground in a -deserted city park. Shape: a dome upon a cylinder, bearing a series of -round apertures and surrounded by a thick, roundish ring, set on a -tripod landing gear supporting the base of the cylinder 1 m above the -ground. Diameter: 5 m. Suddenly the ring started spinning rapidly, and a -gust of air was felt as the craft rose a few m above ground, then -disappeared in a split second.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 142 (Vallee)
-Location: Rome, Italy
-ID: 557

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Event 5337 -(9479D5A4)

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Date: 1/11/1963
-Description: At 11:00 p.m., at San Pietro Vernotico, Italy, farmer -Antonio de Luca is awakened by restless animals and goes out to calm -them. Fifteen minutes later he sees a domed disc some 132 feet long land -in the village square. Dark figures are moving inside the transparent -dome. He tries to approach but is paralyzed at 30 feet away. It ascends -in the direction of Brindisi to the north, emitting a vertical beam of -green light. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 290; -Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June -1963, The Author, 2005, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3674

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Event 5338 -(96510D28)

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Date: 1/11/1963
-Time: 2300
-Description: A 43-year-old farmer was awakened by restless animals and -went out to calm them. Fifteen min later he saw an object land in a -small square in the village, went toward it, was “paralyzed” when 10 m -away. Two min later the craft, 4.5 m long, 1.5 m high, with a -translucent upper dome showing two dark, moving figures, ascended in the -direction of Brindisi, emitted a vertical beam of green light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 143 (Vallee)
-Location: San Pietro, Italy
-ID: 558

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Event 5339 -(15BCA97C)

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Date: 1/17/1963
-Description: A formation of objects passes over Entre Ríos province, -Argentina, and discharges angel hair. Vitreous particles are recovered, -which consist of an “amalgam of silicon, boron, calcium, and magnesium.” -(Gordon Creighton, “Argentina, -1963–64,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1965): 15; Brian -Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): -104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3675

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Event 5340 -(A9B71C1A)

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Date: 1/28/1963
-Time: 1720
-Description: Mary Sharp and Mrs. E. L. Sharp saw an object on the -ground. It had four windows, emitted a yellow-orange light, and -eventually left toward Rugby.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Shilton, Great Britain
-ID: 559

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Event 5341 -(2DEAEDE4)

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Date: 1/28/1963
-Time: night
-Description: A former Chilean Air Force officer, who was driving a -truck, observed two disk-shaped objects that followed him for over ten -min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Mamina, Chile
-ID: 560

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Event 5342 -(F02D3AD5)

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Date: 1/31/1963
-Description: An object was reported to have landed. The Lopez brothers -found traces in the grass and evidence of intense heat. Police -investigation. A whitish powder was also found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Ganada de Algosaray, Argentina
-ID: 561

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Event 5343 -(012C7D90)

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Date: 2/5/1963
-Description: Approximate date. A student, Anastasio Lenven, saw an -object land on the school grounds. In a different observation, several -residents, including an official of the Ministry of the Interior, saw an -object flying at very high speed over Ascension.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Ascension, Paraguay
-ID: 562

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Event 5344 -(A01D33EE)

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Date: 2/11/1963
-Description: The CIA establishes a Domestic Operations Division for its -clandestine services, conducted within the US against “foreign -targets.”
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3676

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Event 5345 -(5EBD8E20)

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Date: 2/15/1963
-Time: 0710
-Description: A civilian observed an object arriving from the east. It -stopped at 15 m altitude over his farmhouse. The object made a swishing -sound, and measured about 8 m in diameter, 3 m in height. The underside -was spinning in a counterclockwise direction, had a blue color and no -light. It took off faster than a jet, after hovering about five sec. The -witness suffered from a strong headache all day.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Willow Grove, Australia
-ID: 563

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Event 5346 -(E80F47A2)

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Date: 2/15/1963
-Description: 7:10 a.m. Farmer Charles Brew and his son Trevor are in a -shed, milking a herd of cows near Moe, Victoria, Australia. Charles sees -an object descend very steeply out of the east from a low cloud, at -about a 45° angle. The UFO is about 25 feet in diameter, and about 9–10 -feet high. The lower portion, about 3 feet high, is rotating in an -anticlockwise direction and is bluish. The upper portion appears to be -stationary, battleship-gray in color, with a transparent dome on top. -Protruding out of the dome is something resembling a broom handle. A -sound, described as swishing or burbling, is heard by both Charles and -Trevor. (NICAP, “Rotating -Object and Animal -Reaction”; Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966, Part Two,” IUR -23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 15–16; Sparks, p. 293; -Swords 388–390)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3677

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Event 5347 -(072E5474)

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Date: 2/20/1963
-Time: 1730
-Description: A young man saw from a window ,a slowly spinning object, -almost stationary, 500 m away. It appeared as a disk having a central -upper dome, with a total diameter of 3 m. The object had a brilliant -yellow red halo, but its dome was much more brilliant. The witness -observed it through binoculars, reported seeing a “particle” leave the -object, after which it stopped spinning, gained altitude with a vertical -shifting, and left toward the northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 144 (Vallee)
-Location: Lecce, Italy
-ID: 564

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Event 5348 -(1F0AB70F)

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Date: 2/21/1963
-Time: 0230
-Description: A strange globe of fire hit a car driven by a civilian man. -Several people called authorities to report that they had been awakened -by a peculiar object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Belgrade, Montana
-ID: 565

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Event 5349 -(B8D33950)

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Date: 2/23/1963
-Description: 9:45 p.m. An oval object is seen in the sky above -Highcliffe, Dorset, England. Emerald-green in color and surrounded by a -glow, it hangs in the sky for 10 minutes before witnesses see two -smaller objects emerge from it. These fly away and disappear over the -English Channel. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud -Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3678

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Event 5350 -(6C45ECD6)

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Date: 3/1963
-Description: Austrian ufologist Luis -Schoenherr offers a paranormal explanation for UFOs, saying that -they either emanate from an unobservable fourth dimension or are time -machines. (Luis Schoenherr, “UFOs -and the Fourth Dimension,” -Flying Saucer Review 9, no. 2 (March/April 1963): 10–12; Luis -Schoenherr, “UFOs -and the Fourth Dimension, -Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1964): 16–20, -23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3679

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Event 5351 -(0481E6DF)

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Date: 3/3/1963
-Description: The Hills are -invited by their Unitarian church to discuss their UFO experience. They -speak about it for the first time publicly. (Clark III 584)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3680

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Event 5352 -(B622D08E)

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Date: 3/9/1963
-Description: Amos Biggs observed a silver, saucer-shaped craft, with an -oval dome, which landed on the frozen lake for 10 min. A “door” was -opened and then shut, and the craft took off with a buzzing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Crystal Lake, Montana
-ID: 566

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Event 5353 -(1E1A052B)

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Date: 3/12/1963
-Time: 0532
-Description: After an intense rainfall Pablo Michalowski and Roberto -Jorge Martinez observed and photographed a luminous object that rose -from a forest preserve about 2 km from Colonia Yerua.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1963 (Vallee)
-Location: Colonia Yerua, Argentina
-ID: 567

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Event 5354 -(254680AB)

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Date: 3/13/1963
-Time: 2230
-Description: Fred White was fishing when he heard a high-pitched whine -coming from the east and saw an object come in his direction and land 15 -m away, scattering sand. It was at least 30 m in diameter, and was -shaped like two plates glued together. Through several oval portholes he -could see light inside. A man with a fair complexion, wearing a metallic -helmet, looked at the witness. He wore a sky-blue, one-piece coverall -with no visible buttons or fasteners, and gloves made of shiny mesh. -Warm air was felt as the craft took off about six min later, and radio -interference was noted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Richards Bay, South Africa
-ID: 568

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Event 5355 -(4C372B92)

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Date: 4/1963
-Description: An article by J. -Allen Hynek appears in the Yale Scientific Magazine. (J. Allen -Hynek, “Flying Saucers I Have Known,” Yale Scientific Magazine 37 (April -1963): 6–9; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: January–June 1963, The -Author, 2005, pp. 42–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3681

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Event 5356 -(909E1009)

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Date: 4/30/1963
-Description: Adamski arrives -in Copenhagen for another scheduled lecture tour of Europe at the -invitation of Hans C. Petersen, He attends the Skandinavisk UFO -Information Congress in Frederica, Denmark. (“Final -Years,” The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3682

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Event 5357 -(54BE054B)

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Date: 5/7/1963
-Time: evening
-Description: Margaret McCutcheon and her 13-year-old son reported to the -police that, after the house lights blacked out while watching -television, they saw an object about 6 m in diameter, with two aerials -and a red light flashing, emitting a low buzz, near the house. After one -minute, it flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Kirkby, Great Britain
-ID: 569

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Event 5358 -(0DA493EA)

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Date: 5/15/1963
-Description: Sandia National Laboratories conducts the first of four -top-secret, dry-surface plutonium-dispersal tests at the Tonopah Test -Range in Nevada, as part of Operation Roller Coaster. The other tests -are on May 25, May 31, and June 9. The intent is to investigate exposure -of animals (dogs, sheep, and burros) to plutonium dispersal in a non- -nuclear scenario. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Roller Coaster”; Lt. Col. J. L. Dick, et al., “Operation -Roller Coaster: Interim -Summary Report (II),” Department of Defense, September 1963)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3683

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Event 5359 -(2B418803)

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Date: 5/15/1963
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. D., of Carignan, saw an object on the ground -to the left of the road as they were driving between Bergerac and -Bordeaux, beyond the Yvrac intersection, 2.5 km from Maille. They -stopped to observe it, and the object then followed them for part of -their trip.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 71 (Vallee)
-Location: Yvrac-Maille, France
-ID: 570

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Event 5360 -(7FD6AF18)

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Date: 5/20/1963
-Time: evening
-Description: A 17-year-old witness, who wishes anonymity for fear of -ridicule, saw what he first thought was a bulldozer by the side of the -road. He came within 20 m of it, then was blinded by a strong light as -his car suddenly stopped. The object crossed the road and flew away. The -light was as intense as that of a welder’s torch. The witness’s father -testified that his son came home white and visibly terrified.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Nov., 63 (Vallee)
-Location: Glencoe, Australia
-ID: 571

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Event 5361 -(180BD098)

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Date: 5/22/1963
-Time: 10:45 PM
-Description: Witness: Myra Jackson. Four pink wheels spun or rolled very -fast from east to west in succession, each taking about 1 second.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pequannock, New Jersey
-ID: 485

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Event 5362 -(B93836D2)

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Date: 5/24/1963
-Description: An A-12 piloted by Kenneth -S. Collins crashes near Wendover, Utah. The CIA thinks it might have -been due to pilot error and contracts with a well-known Boston, -Massachusetts, psychiatrist with a specialty in hypnosis (unnamed, but -possibly Benjamin Simon, of Betty -and Barney Hill fame later). After a lengthy investigation it is -determined that a tiny, pencil-sized part called a pilot tube, a device -that controls the airspeed indicator, froze when the A-12 entered a -cloud, causing the aircraft to stall. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -A-12”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 190–197)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3684

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Event 5363 -(9BBD1EA9)

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Date: 5/31/1963
-Description: Adamski allegedly -has a private audience with Pope John -XXIII in Rome, Italy. The pontiff is seriously ill and dies three -days later. Adamski claims that he has received a “Golden Medal of -Honor” from the pope, but skeptics note that the medal is actually a -common tourist souvenir made by a company in Milan, and that Adamski -displays it to his friends in a cheap plastic box—which is how it is -sold in tourist shops in Rome. Adamski says his meeting is at the -request of the extraterrestrials he is in contact with in order to ask -for a “final agreement” from the pope because of his decision not to -communicate directly with them anymore and to offer John XXIII a liquid -substance in order to save him from the gastric enteritis that he -suffers from. (Lou Zinsstag and Timothy Good, George Adamski: The Untold -Story, Ceti, 1983; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001; -“Vatican -Visit,” The Adamski Case, October 7, 2019; Marc Hallet, A -Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man -Who Spoke to the Space Brothers, The -Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3685

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Event 5364 -(17C4E175)

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Date: 6/4/1963
-Description: A multicolored object, the size of a light truck, was -reported to have landed in the vicinity of Lyle. Police searched an area -over 3 km wide on both sides of the Iowa-Minnesota border, with no -results.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Lyle, Minnesota
-ID: 572

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Event 5365 -(AF9120BA)

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Date: 6/15/1963
-Time: 10:39 AM
-Description: Witness: 3rd Mate R.C. Chamberlin, of S/S Thetis. One -luminous disc travelled at 1.5 times the speed of satellite for 3-4 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 200 miles north of Venezuela (14’ 27’ N, 69’ 57’ E)
-ID: 486

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Event 5366 -(C61009ED)

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Date: 6/15/1963
-Description: 8:39 p.m. In the Indian Ocean southwest of India, 3rd Mate -R. C. Chamberlin of the SS Thetis sees in the northwest a luminous disc -travel at 1.5 times the angular speed of a satellite. (Sparks, p. 294)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3687

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Event 5367 -(69FB1E71)

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Date: Summer 1963
-Time: 9:30 or 10 PM
-Description: Witness: Grace Dutcher. Eight-ten lights moved at random, -then in an oval formation, then singly, during the 1 minute -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Middletown, New York
-ID: 487

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Event 5368 -(043DD8E8)

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Date: summer 1963
-Description: Allen -H. Greenfield and Rick -Hilberg start publishing Saucer Album in Cleveland, Ohio. It becomes -UFO Magazine in mid-1964 and continues through the summer of 1970. After -a few years’ hiatus, it returns as UFO Magazine News Bulletin in early -1974 and continues at least until February 1979. (Saucer -Album 1, no. 1 (Summer 1963))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3686

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Event 5369 -(4A1D1DBC)

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Date: 6/26/1963
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Enrico A. Gilberti Jr. and his wife Janet -are awakened at their home on 344 Commercial Street, Weymouth, -Massachusetts, by a loud roar. They look out the window and see a -Saturn-shaped object moving slowly above the treetops 100 feet off the -ground and 300 feet away. Gilberti describes it as “two hamburger buns -one on top of another with a sandwiched piece of meat protruding -around.” It is about 30–40 feet across and has two brilliant lights. The -UFO follows some power lines across a field and disappears to the -northeast. “The roar was deafening.” Neighbors hear the noise but do not -see anything. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman -of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1963, The Author, -2005, pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3688

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Event 5370 -(11D3FE5B)

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Date: 6/26/1963
-Description: Four glowing greenish objects with halos are seen by a -technician and many others at Pinecrest, California. Three objects -moving westerly are approached by a similar object from the west. The -fourth object stops and hovers as the three approach, split formation, -and continue west. Then the fourth object continues east. (UFOEv, p. 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3689

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Event 5371 -(3E189969)

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Date: 6/28/1963
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A man is driving along the Lyndoch-Gawler Road -near Sandy Creek, South Australia, when he comes across a blood-red, -glowing object, 25 feet across and 12 feet high, in the road ahead. He -is within 12 feet of it when he hits the brakes. The object turns a -lighter reddish-yellow and rises up into the air several hundred feet. -It turns on its side and speeds away. This and other UFO incidents cause -Sen. Jim -Cavanagh to ask the federal government to make its UFO dossier -public, but Minister for Air David -Fairbairn refuses, saying that the vast majority of reports are -explainable. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -January–June 1963, The -Author, 2005, pp. 86–87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3690

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Event 5372 -(27A20BCD)

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Date: 6/28/1963
-Time: 2130
-Description: A fiery red object, 8 m wide 4 m high, with a concave top -and flat bottom, was seen on the road by a Willaston resident who -stopped his car 4 m away. The object rose, tipped to one side and flew -away at fantastic speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 141; FSR 64, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Sandy Creek, Australia
-ID: 573

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Event 5373 -(F2EAD65A)

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Date: 7/1963
-Description: The CIA has synthesized many of the findings from its -psychological research into what became known as the “KUBARK -Counterintelligence Interrogation” handbook, which cites the MKUltra -studies and other secret research programs as the scientific basis for -their interrogation methods. Donald -Ewen Cameron regularly travels around the US teaching military -personnel about his techniques (hooding of prisoners for sensory -deprivation, prolonged isolation, humiliation, etc.), and how they can -be used in interrogations. Latin American paramilitary groups working -for the CIA and US military personnel receive training in these -psychological techniques at places such as the School of the Americas in -Fort Benning, Georgia. (In the 21st century, many of these torture -techniques are used at US military and CIA prisons such as Guantanamo -Bay, Cuba, and Abu Ghraib, Iraq.) In the aftermath of the 1975 -congressional hearings, major news media mainly focus on sensational -stories related to LSD, mind-control, and brainwashing, and rarely use -the word “torture.” This suggests that the CIA researchers are, as one -author put it, “a bunch of bumbling sci-fi buffoons” rather than a -rational group of men who have run torture laboratories and medical -experiments in major US universities; they have arranged for torture, -rape, and psychological abuse of adults and young children, driving many -of them permanently insane. (Central Intelligence Agency, “KUBARK -Counterintelligence Interrogation,” July 1963; Wikipedia, “Unethical -human experimentation -in the United States”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3691

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Event 5374 -(44A6019A)

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Date: 7/1/1963
-Time: 8 PM
-Description: Witness: R.B. Stiles, ll, using a theodolite. One light, -the size of a match head at arm’s length, flashed and moved around the -sky for 1.5 hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Glen Ellyn, Illinois
-ID: 488

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Event 5375 -(11EA1718)

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Date: 7/2/1963
-Description: Nineteen-year-old NICAP member John -P. Speights of Raleigh, North Carolina, writes a letter questioning -the Air Force’s treatment of UFOs to Rep. Carl -Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. -Vinson forwards it to USAF along with his own request for information on -Blue Book. The Air Force treats the request gingerly because of the -implication of a congressional hearing and prepares a reply to Vinson on -July 18, but there is no evidence that it is sent. USAF Maj. Maston -M. Jacks does reply to Speights on August 5. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December -1963, The -Author, 2005, pp. 19–20; US Air Force, Foreign Technology Division, “Congressional -Correspondence on the U.S. Air Force UFO Program, -Congressman Carl Vinson”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3692

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Event 5376 -(B2C0A450)

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Date: 7/15/1963
-Description: A farmer discovered strange crater 2.5 m wide and 2.5 m -deep. Vegetation around it was burned and there were four holes in the -ground around the crater itself.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Charlton, Great Britain
-ID: 574

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Event 5377 -(438E1A84)

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Date: 7/16/1963
-Description: Farmer Roy Blanchard of Charlton, Wiltshire, England, -discovers a strange crater on the ground overlapping his potato and -barley fields. It is about 8 feet wide and 4 inches deep. A hole in the -center is 3 feet deep and less than a foot in diameter. All vegetation -inside the circle is burned, leaving only bare earth, and there are four -slots in the ground around it, each about 4 feet long and a foot wide. A -small piece of metal is found. Astronomer Patrick -Moore states that a “shrimp-sized meteorite” has caused the crater. -But a military investigation shows no burn or scratch marks or any trace -of an explosion. (Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, -a History: July–December 1963, The -Author, 2005, pp. 12–16; UFOFiles2, p. 116; -Nick Redfern, “The Curious -Caper of the Charlton Crater, Part 1,” Mysterious Universe, -September 28, 2015; Nick Redfern, “The Curious -Caper of the Charlton Crater, Part 2,” Mysterious Universe, -September 28, 2015; Matthew Richardson, “The -Charlton Crater”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3693

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Event 5378 -(24B89E96)

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Date: 7/17/1963
-Description: A passenger of a Convair-880 related to UFO investigator, -James Moseley, that the 4 engine jet airliner she had been flying in was -pursued by an UFO. The jet, traveling at 600 mph, made a sharp turn to -avoid the UFO, now rapidly closing in on the plane. Just as they were -about to collide, the UFO swerved away at fantastic speed and -disappeared in the night sky. When the (unnamed) woman confronted the -pilot about the incident, he said, “I wouldn’t dare risk telling the -airline of the incident. If I could tell you of some of the experiences -my buddies have had, you’d never fly again!”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: US

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Event 5379 -(0716DA6F)

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Date: 7/20/1963
-Description: An A-1 piloted by Louis -Schalk briefly achieves a speed of Mach 3 for the first time. -(Jacobsen, Area 51, p. -201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3694

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Event 5380 -(915DBE1D)

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Date: 7/22/1963
-Time: 2030
-Description: William Holland, 12, and two other persons saw a hovering, -silvery object with a flashing red light on top, at 20 m altitude. It -had three “legs” and a periscope underneath that pointed at the -witnesses. The object went up into a cloud of unusual color, which flew -against the wind.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Parr, Great Britain
-ID: 575

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Event 5381 -(2D5E3C07)

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Date: 8/1/1963
-Description: Evening. A former RAF pilot and flight instructor sees a -triangular UFO that lingers for a long time over Garston, Hertfordshire, -England, then climbs out of sight. Thousands of other people in the -London area, including an air traffic controller four miles away and -future UFO researcher Timothy -Good in Bcckenham, London, also see the object, which has a -tetrahedral shape and glassy appearance when seen through binoculars. A -USAF F-100 Super Sabre from RAF Bentwaters [now Bentwaters Parks] in -Woodbridge, Suffolk, and another plane from the De Havilland Aircraft -Company are sent up to investigate but cannot get anywhere near the UFO, -which is at an estimated 90,000 feet. An amateur astronomer in Bushey, -Hertfordshire, takes a clear photo. The official explanation is a -balloon. (UFOEv, p. 141; -Good Above, p. 149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3695

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Event 5382 -(F6325078)

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Date: 8/4/1963
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Ronnie Austin and Phyllis Bruce are driving east -on State Highway 15 past the Mount Vernon, Illinois, airport when they -notice a bright white round object about 20° above the southwest -horizon. It seems to be keeping pace with them for several miles. -Suddenly it moves about 600 feet in front of them and to the left. When -Austin drops Phyllis off at home in Wayne City, it is hanging in the -southeast. They continue watching it about 15 minutes, then Austin -leaves for home. As he turns east on a gravel road, it shoots ahead of -him, taking on an orange hue. At one point it comes within 100 feet of -his car, swerves upward, and passes above him as the car radio makes a -whining noise and the car engine almost fails. The object then moves -behind him from west to east. When he arrives home, it is hovering about -900 feet to the southeast. Ronnie is so shaken, he is given a sedative. -His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Austin, and brother and sister also -see the light, which finally becomes indistinguishable with a star by -1:10 a.m. (NICAP, “The -Wayne City Car Chase (EM RA Traces)”; Jeffrey Liss, “The Light That -Followed a Car,” Fate 16, no. 11 (November 1963): 26–35; Schopick, -pp. 81–88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3696

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Event 5383 -(49C6E8E6)

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Date: 8/5/1963
-Description: Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT). At this point, 499 nuclear -tests were conducted
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link

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Event 5384 -(B49CA573)

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Date: 8/5/1963
-Description: The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is signed by the USSR, -UK, and US governments in Moscow, Russia, before being opened for -signature by other countries. The treaty formally goes into effect on -October 10. The treaty prohibits all above-ground tests of nuclear -weapons. (Wikipedia, “Partial -Nuclear Test Ban Treaty”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3697

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Event 5385 -(D5DA7838)

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Date: 8/7/1963
-Time: night
-Description: Five persons observed a luminous source flying slowly over -the railroad tracks. Direction of travel: west, then north. It appeared -ready to land in a wooded area. Its luminosity was variable.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Centralia, Illinois
-ID: 576

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Event 5386 -(91B4C7FA)

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Date: 8/7/1963
-Description: The first flight of the USAF version of the A-12, the -Lockheed YF-12 interceptor, takes place at Edwards AFB in California. -(Wikipedia, “Lockheed -YF-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3698

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Event 5387 -(2329FF76)

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Date: 8/8/1963
-Time: 2210
-Description: An oval, luminous object coming from the north dived toward -Centralia Road, followed a car, flying around it. Then it went away -toward the west, disappeared like a bulb turned off, and was seen again -in the west flying very fast. It was observed by numerous people. Total -duration: 15 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois
-ID: 577

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Event 5388 -(28E44826)

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Date: 8/10/1963
-Description: 9:32 p.m. Several airmen of the 91st Bombardment Wing at -Glasgow Air Force Base [now closed] near Glasgow, Montana, are walking -in the parking lot when a bright light appears above them, bathing -everyone in an orange glow. It is coming from a disc-shaped object with -a dome that has some odd characters carved in it. The object moves up, -then to the right, then down and left. It makes a square, then an X -within the square, stopping at all points before moving again. The -underside of the object is a large panel of blue light. They watch it -for 3 minutes then it disappears. (“Out -of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 (April/May 1985): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3699

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Event 5389 -(A7E94347)

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Date: 8/11/1963
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witness: R.M. Boersma. One light moved around the sky for -20 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Warrenville, Illinois
-ID: 489

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Event 5390 -(D7B80043)

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Date: 8/13/1963
-Description: An elliptical object with lights on its entire length and -occasional flashes at both ends was seen at ground level for over one -hour by an entire family.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Evidence 141 (Vallee)
-Location: Ellsworth, Maine
-ID: 578

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Event 5391 -(EB6A5FC3)

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Date: 8/13/1963
-Time: 8:04 PM
-Description: Witness: A.F. Schelling. One fireball became a dark object -after 4 minutes, and then a bigger glow, a minute later, and finally -exploded. Note: same witness had another, undescribed, sighting on -Aug. 14
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: St. Gallen, Switzerland
-ID: 490

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Event 5392 -(176FEE43)

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Date: 8/20/1963
-Time: 2132
-Description: In a wooded area near Rome, a man in a car observed an -object resembling a plate turned upside down, with a central turret, -flying low over his vehicle.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Rome, Italy
-ID: 579

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Event 5393 -(2DED691E)

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Date: 8/20/1963
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Italian President Antonio -Segni’s personal driver encounters a UFO near the entrance of the -Castel Porziano Presidential Estate in Rome, Italy. When he sees a -metallic domed disc with portholes moving in front of him in the -driveway ahead, the driver stops the Fiat 2300 immediately. The UFO, -about 65 feet diameter, passes a few feet above the car, making a -hissing noise and causing the body to vibrate and the instruments to go -crazy, then reverses course and passes over the car again with the same -effect. It then tilts 90° and darts away to the west. It leaves behind a -smell of heated metal. (1Pinotti 148–151; “Quando -gli UFO arrivarona anche in Italia,” -Oggi Notizie, November 26, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3700

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Event 5394 -(BF26F126)

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Date: 8/22/1963
-Description: Test pilot Joseph -A. Walker reaches an altitude of 353,200 feet (66.9 miles) in an -X-15 rocket plane. (Wikipedia, “Joseph -A. Walker”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3701

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Event 5395 -(D2B77FA4)

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Date: 8/28/1963
-Time: 1915
-Description: Two brothers, F. and R. Eustagio, 11 and 9, saw a luminous -sphere at treetop level. Through an opening they observed “several rows -of people inside” and a thin, 3 m tall being, whho glided down to the -ground along two vertical beams of light. He walked with a strange, -swinging motion, then sat down. He wore a transparent helmet, had one -eye in the middle of his forehead, wore high boots that left a -triangular imprint, and carried a box emitting flashes. He made a -threatening gesture and flew up to the sphere, which left. The chlldren -somehow became convinced that the being was “good” and would -return.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 37; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Sagrada Famila, Brazil
-ID: 580

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Event 5396 -(86A53B29)

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Date: 8/28/1963
-Description: 7:00 p.m. José Marcos Gomes Vidal, 7, and his friends -Fernando, 12, and Ronaldo Gualberto, 7, are in the Gualbertos’s backyard -in Sagrada Familia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to wash a coffee strainer in -a cistern. Suddenly, Fernando notices a glow coming from the top of an -avocado tree. When he looks up, he sees a UFO hovering above the tree’s -branches. The craft, which is spherical and has a pair of antennas on -top, is completely transparent. It holds four human-like passengers -sitting inside, one of whom sits in front of a machine that appears to -be a control panel. The passengers are about 6 feet tall and dressed in -spacesuits. They all have only one eye like a cyclops. Three of them are -thin and bald, while the other looks like an overweight woman with -blonde hair. The UFO shoots out two rays of yellow light. One of the -cyclops appears between the lights, slowly floating down onto the -ground. Once his boots touched the earth, the creature begins to walk -toward José, who is completely unaware of what is happening since he is -still collecting water. Fernando panics and tackles José, who falls to -the ground, and Fernando gets back up and faces the cyclops. Now all -three boys are aware of the visitor. The cyclops moves his head and -makes hand signals. It speaks a few sounds in a strange language. The -creature then turns around and stares back at the UFO. Fernando, -spotting a brick on the ground, picks it up and aims it at the cyclops, -who turns around and shoots Fernando’s hand with a yellow light from a -triangular crest on his chest. Fernando drops the brick, and all three -of the boys become calm and frozen. For a few more minutes, the cyclops -speaks to them, then it points one of his fingers at the moon and begins -to walk back toward the UFO. José asks if he will ever come back. The -cyclops shakes his head affirmatively, plucks a plant from the ground, -and then waves his hand at the UFO, which shoots out two rays of yellow -light again. The cyclops slowly floats back up into the vehicle, and the -UFO takes off eastward and disappears out of their sight. (Brazil 66–72; -Tristan, “The Alien -Cyclops of Sagrada Familia,” Bizarre and Grotesque, March 24, -2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3703

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Event 5397 -(F9203B63)

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Date: 8/28/1963
-Description: After the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, J. -Edgar Hoover singles out Rev. Martin -Luther King -Jr. as -a major target for COINTELPRO. Soon after, the FBI is systematically -bugging King’s home and his hotel rooms, as they are now aware that King -is growing in stature daily as the leader among leaders of the Civil -Rights Movement. (Wikipedia, “COINTELPRO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3702

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Event 5398 -(10B3C33D)

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Date: 9/1963
-Description: Lt. Col. Robert -J. Friend leaves Project Blue Book and is replaced by Maj. Hector -Quintanilla. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 25–27; -Sparks, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3704

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Event 5399 -(940AB817)

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Date: 9/7/1963
-Description: Capt. Swett gives -a formal lecture on hypnosis to a meeting at the Unitarian Church in -Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After the lecture, the Hills tell -him that Barney was going to a psychiatrist, Duncan Stephens, whom he -likes and trusts. Swett suggests that Barney ask Stephens about the use -of hypnosis in his case. At his next therapy session, Barney mentions -his UFO encounter to Stephens, who recommends Dr. Benjamin Simon, a -well- known psychiatrist in Boston, Massachusetts, with much experience -in hypnosis.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3705

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Event 5400 -(11A84F30)

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Date: 9/12/1963
-Description: Patrick Loreno and 18 other men aboard Texas Tower 2, a -USAF radar station 110 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, spot an -object 3 miles from their location. They report the sighting to the -Coast Guard and request an investigation, but the object sinks before a -boat can get there. The object has a controlled light and smoke or steam -appears on its surface. The mn watch it for 20 minutes. There is no -record of a ship or a submarine in the area. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the -Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3706

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Event 5401 -(D82911FF)

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Date: 9/14/1963
-Time: 3:15 PM
-Description: Witness: E.A. Grant, veteran of 37 years training forest -fire lookouts for the U.S. Forest Service. One round object intercepted -a long object and either attached itself to the latter or disappeared. -Sighting lasted l0 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Susanville, California
-ID: 491

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Event 5402 -(60937AD0)

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Date: 9/14/1963
-Description: 3:15 p.m. US Forest Service instructor Edward -A. Grant and his son see a round object over Susanville, California, -that at first seems to be a balloon, but is moving erratically. The -movements are very fast and the direction changes very definite. They -watch it pass overhead for several minutes. Suddenly, a long cylindrical -object with fins along its sides appears from the north and passes -overhead toward the south. The round object moves very rapidly to -intercept the long object, ejecting a yellowish-brown trail, and merges -with it. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR -29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 4; Sparks, -p. 295)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3707

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Event 5403 -(1F919C8A)

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Date: 9/15/1963
-Time: 66 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. F.E. Roush. Two very bright gold objects–one -shaped like a banana and the other like an ear of corn–one remained -stationary, the other moved from west to north during 10 minutes,
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Vandalia, Ohio
-ID: 492

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Event 5404 -(765B8741)

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Date: 9/19/1963
-Time: 2000
-Description: Four children saw a bright oval object hover in a field and -drop something. Approaching the site, they were confronted with a 3 m -tall man, dressed in “a white monklike suit,” who held out his hands and -made unintelligible sounds. The children fled in panic, and one girl was -admitted to the hospital in shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Saskatoon, Canada
-ID: 581

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Event 5405 -(A1E0159E)

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Date: 9/19/1963
-Description: 6:50 p.m. More than 140 residents of Wonthaggi and South -Dudley, Victoria, Australia, observe a mystery object like an orange -beach ball maneuver in the sky for 25 minutes. At first it hovers, then -it begins moving slowly and silently, putting on sudden and intermittent -bursts of speed, before disappearing in an easterly direction into the -Bass Strait. During the 25 minutes that the object is visible, TV sets -malfunction in South Dudley, Wonthaggi, and lnverlock. TV sets variously -display white screens, gray screens, double images, or snow and lines. -Still other sets go completely blank. After the UFO leaves at 7:15, all -TV sets resume normal operation. (“UAO’s -Upset TV Reception,” APRO Bulletin, May 1964, pp. 1, 6; Schopick, -pp. 109–111)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3709

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Event 5406 -(B30FD6BB)

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Date: 9/19/1963
-Description: Adm. Roscoe -Hillenkoetter writes to astronomer Donald -H. Menzel, saying that his book The World of Flying Saucers has -“effectively put to rest all surmises about flying saucers being from -‘outer space.’” (Christopher D. Allan, “Admiral Hillenkoetter: From -Believer to Skeptic,” IUR 20, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1995): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3708

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Event 5407 -(25FB9164)

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Date: 9/19/1963
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Four children in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, see a -bright, oval object hover in a field and drop something. Approaching the -site, they are confronted by a man about 10 feet tall dressed in a white -“monk-like” suit who holds out his hands and makes unintelligible -sounds. The children flee, and one girl is admitted to the hospital in -shock. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 294; -Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR -24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3710

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Event 5408 -(BBCABE76)

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Date: 9/27/1963
-Description: Blue Book releases a statement on the Hill case, -claiming insufficient information, although they strongly suspect the -UFO is the planet Jupiter. (Clark III 581)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3711

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Event 5409 -(B4735509)

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Date: 10/1963
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Five members of a family in Millersport, Ohio, -see what seems to be an airplane on fire, but the house-sized object -approaches and hovers about 300 feet away. They see a dark disc with a -dome and antenna on top and three ball-shaped protrusions on the bottom. -Around the rim are evenly spaced openings that emit fiery beams. In the -dome, several large windows are visible in which a figure can be seen, -at least by the mother. The dome rotates as the object hovers, and it -makes a low humming noise. It finally rises slowly and makes a small -circle in the air before speeding away. (Michael Swords, “Close -Encounters of the First Kind: Do We Really Care? -Part Two,” The Big Study, February 15, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3714

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Event 5410 -(54F807D9)

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Date: 10/1963
-Description: A Lisunov Li-2 airliner on the Guangdong to Wuhan, China, -air route is chased by three luminous UFOs for 115 minutes. The pilots -provide a minute-by-minute report by radio to the Chinese Civil -Aeronautics Administration. After landing, the crew is debriefed by air -traffic control, and the passengers are told not to discuss the incident -with anyone. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, -UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 44–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3713

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Event 5411 -(2DAB2052)

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Date: 10/1963
-Description: Maj. Hector -Quintanilla is appointed director of Project Blue Book. He is -assisted by Sgt. David Moody, who is particularly hostile to UFOs and -tends to label every report as “possible” this or that. (Sparks, -p. 14; Clark III 922–923)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3712

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Event 5412 -(83417FFD)

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Date: 10/1963
-Time: 0900
-Description: A middle-aged woman, who had seen a strange craft hovering -near her house the previous Jul., observed a gray-colored object, 3.5 m -long, hovering less than 2 m above ground. Through the transparent front -part she could see three figures. Suddenly one of the occupants was -standing on the grass. He was clothed in “asbestostextured coveralls” -and neither the face, nor the hands, nor the feet was visible. When she -asked, “What do you want?” the answer, in English, was: “One of our -party knows you; we will return.” The object then decreased in size, -tilted, partially sank into the ground, grew to its previous size, and -departed to the east, producing steam, a flash, and a noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Whidbey Island, Washington
-ID: 582

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Event 5413 -(2A099704)

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Date: 10/4/1963
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Connecticut State Representative Luther -B. Martin sees a delta-shaped, silvery object leaving a flare-like -trail at Hartland, Connecticut. A row of black markings is visible along -the blunt forward edge as the object passes from south to north. He -estimates its speed at 2,000 mph. (“UFO -Sightings Centered in Western U.S.,” -UFO Investigator 2, no. 10 (Dec. 1963/Jan. 1964): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3715

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Event 5414 -(C5AEF2A6)

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Date: 10/4/1963
-Time: 3:32 PM
-Description: Witness: R.E. Carpenter, 15. One intense oblong light with -tapered ends and surrounded by an aqua haze, flashed and flickered while -stationary for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Bedford, Ohio
-ID: 493

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Event 5415 -(13D9C644)

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Date: 10/12/1963
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Driving in a blinding rainstorm on the road -between Monte Maíz and Isla Verde, Córdoba, Argentina, Eugenio Douglas -feels heat and a prickly sensation all over his body. He sees a -brilliant light in front of him. Temporarily blinded, he loses control -of his truck and ends up in the ditch. Shaken but not injured, he gets -out of the vehicle and looks up at the road, which he finds is blocked -by an oval-shaped object at least 30 feet high. A door opens on the side -and three huge “robots in human form” emerge. They wear helmets with -short antennas and are 12–15 feet tall. Douglas takes a few shots at -them with his revolver and runs away. The robots return to the UFO, -which chases him down the road and eventually flies away. The next day, -police find large footprints near the abandoned truck. (Gordon -Creighton, “Argentina, -1963–64,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1965): 16–17; -Clark III 280; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: -July–December 1963, The -Author, 2005, pp. 64–65; Roberto Banchs, “Monte Maíz, Cordoba: La -Vision Fantasmagorica de E. Douglas (11 Oct 1963),” Visión OVNI, -November 10, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3716

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Event 5416 -(58C73A38)

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Date: 10/12/1963
-Time: 0330
-Description: E. Douglas, while driving a truck through,a violent -rainstorm, had to stop when he encountered a large, blinding object, 35 -m high, from which three giants, 3 m tall, wearing luminous clothes and -strange helmets, emerged. Douglas fired at them, as a red beam burned -him. He ran away and found shelter in Monte Maiz. He suffered burns -similar to ultraviolet exposure. Footprints of large dimension were -found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1963; Austr; FSR 8; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Monte Maiz, Argentina
-ID: 583

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Event 5417 -(1D25073E)

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Date: 10/21/1963
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Yolié del Valle Moreno and her family at Trancas, -Tucumán, Argentina, observe six strange objects for 40 minutes in the -back courtyard of their house. One UFO hovers at ground level above some -railroad tracks, while another with a dome and portholes is near another -house. They can see some 40 humanlike figures (silhouettes) moving -around within two bright lights linked by a prolongation or tube. When -witnesses flash a light at the object, the house is flooded with a -strong beam. The temperature rises inside the house and the inhabitants -smell a strong sulfurous odor. All six objects are about 24 feet in -diameter, have a white and a red beam of light, and leave a cloud of -white smoke that does not disperse for 4 hours. Beneath the space where -one of the objects has been rocking back and forth, the witnesses find -innumerable white balls one-quarter-inch in diameter piled into a cone 3 -feet high and within a circle 28–30 feet in diameter. They consist -primarily of calcium carbonate. (Gordon Creighton, “Argentina -1963–64, Part II,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1966): -23–24; Oscar A. Galindez, “Trancas, -after Seven Years,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 3 (May/June 1971): -14–20, 32; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December 1963, The -Author, 2005, pp. 66–74; Carlos Iurchuk, “Los Asombrosos Fenomenos de -Trancas por el Dr. Oscar Galindez,” Visión OVNI, January 1, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3717

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Event 5418 -(E3BA8A56)

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Date: 10/21/1963
-Time: 2130
-Description: Six strange objects were observed for 40 min causing a -local panic. One was hovering at ground level above some railroad -tracks, while another, showing a dome and portholes, was nea a house. -When witneses flashed a light, the house was flooded with a strong beam. -Temperature rose and a sulphurous odor was noted. Figures were seen in -the vicinity of the first disks. All six objects had a white and a red -light beam, measured 8 m in diameter, and left a cloud of white -smoke.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 145; LDLN 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Trancas, Argentina
-ID: 584

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Event 5419 -(CF546831)

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Date: 10/23/1963
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Driving south of South River, New Jersey, on -State Route 18, a man glimpses something like a flashlight off to his -left, and three figures, 3–4 feet tall, cross the road in front of him. -They are dressed in “tight- fitting silver-gray one-piece suits” that -“seem to glow once they hit the headlights.” Their heads are found, but -the witness can see no other features. They begin quickly “fluttering” -across the road, faster than the “fastest sprinter.” (Center for UFO -Studies, [case -documents]; Clark III 278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3718

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Event 5420 -(8507DF4A)

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Date: 10/23/1963
-Time: 8:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: several unnamed students, including Gordon. One -object shaped like a circle from below and like a football from the -side, hovered low over the observers, making a deep, pulsating, loud, -extremely irritating sound, for 6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Meridian, Idaho
-ID: 494

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Event 5421 -(37A3F0A7)

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Date: 10/24/1963
-Time: No time given
-Description: Witnesses: A. McLean (12) and G. McLean (8). One light -moved for an unspecified length of time. No further details in files. -Note: Project Blue Book chief Maj. H. Quintanilla told the youngsters, -in a letter, that this was “one of the most complete” of the unexplained -cases for the year.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cupar Fife, Scotland
-ID: 495

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Event 5422 -(3216BA2D)

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Date: 10/31/1963
-Description: Eight-year-old Rute de Souza hears a strange roar and -watches a silvery object coming towards her house near Iguape, São -Paulo, Brazil. It soars above her, hits a palm tree, gyrates a bit in -the air, then falls into the Rio Peropava near the opposite shore. She -runs to get her mother and uncle, who also hear the sound. They see the -river boiling up in the spot, followed by an eruption of muddy water and -mud. Fishermen, including Tetsuo Ioshigawa, also view the event. The UFO -is estimated to be 25 feet in diameter. Divers, both equipped and -unequipped, fail to find any wreckage in the river, which is only 12 -feet deep. (“Disc -Submerged in Brazilian River,” -APRO Bulletin, January 1964, pp. 1–2; Harry E. Rieseberg, “A -Submerged UFO?” Exploring the Unknown 6, no. 2 (December 1965): -64–67; Brazil 517)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3719

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Event 5423 -(01B7CDFA)

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Date: 10/31/1963
-Time: 1400
-Description: A farmer, Issuo Oikiti, and two other witnesses saw a -luminous object, resembling a huge, aluminum ball, which hit the river, -changed direction while spinning, crossed to the other side and plunged -into the water, which appeared to boil.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Vuillequez (Vallee)
-Location: Peropava River, Brazil
-ID: 586

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Event 5424 -(BF305C56)

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Date: 10/31/1963
-Time: 0415
-Description: Jim Davidson saw an object about 3 m long, bearing orange -and red lights, which came close to his light truck, flew ahead of him, -then departed and appeared to land behind a hill. Two witnesses -independently reported a maneuvering light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Austr. FSR May., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Daylston, Australia
-ID: 585

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Event 5425 -(60F65957)

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Date: 11/1963
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A man and his daughter are driving just north of -Andover, New Jersey, when they see three strange lights in the sky. They -are perfect ovals possibly a quarter mile high. The lights take off at a -great speed in “perfect unison” toward the north. (Center for UFO -Studies, [case -documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3720

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Event 5426 -(20D902F1)

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Date: 11/1/1963
-Description: A member of the CIA-trained 35th Black Cat Squadron, -Republic of China pilot Yeh -Changti is flying an American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft to spy on -China’s nuclear program when he is shot down by an SA-2 missile over -Shangrao, Jiangxi, and held in mainland China until 1982. Yeh is -incarcerated for four years and undergoes numerous interrogations. -Although some claim he was tortured, Yeh later says he was treated -humanely. After the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, he is released -and sent to work on a farm, before being transferred to work at Hanyang -Arsenal in Wuhan. (Wikipedia, “Yeh -Changti”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 216–218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3721

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Event 5427 -(20C2E649)

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Date: 11/3/1963
-Description: The Hills give -a presentation at the Two State UFO Study Group in Quincy Center, -Massachusetts. One of the attendees tape-records the session. Another -speaker at the session is Capt. Ben -Swett of Pease AFB, himself a practicing hypnotist, who tells them -he thinks hypnotic regression is a good idea. (Clark III 584)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3722

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Event 5428 -(53603716)

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Date: 11/12/1963
-Description: The crew of the Argentine Naval auxiliary transport, ARA -Punta Médanos, sees a large UFO off its stern [in the Atlantic -Ocean?]. It is moving at high speed; when it appears, the needles of the -ship’s magnetic compass suddenly and simultaneously swing off course, -pointing towards the UFO, which is about 6,000 feet away. The compasses -return to normal after the object leaves. (“Argentine -Navy Discloses Important E-M Case,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4 -(Aug./Sept. 1965): 6; Schopick, pp. 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3723

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Event 5429 -(194BD50C)

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Date: 11/15/1963
-Description: Peter Valko and Jim Keosian ran toward a strange object -that appeared about to land, but it “vanished.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder (Vallee)
-Location: Bloomingdale, New Jersey
-ID: 587

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Event 5430 -(843E2210)

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Date: 11/16/1963
-Time: evening
-Description: Four teenagers, among them painter John Flaxton, while -walking on a country road, saw a moving star turn into a reddish glow -coming toward them, then disappearing behind some trees. Shortly -thereafter, a bright, golden light was seen 80 m away, floating 3 m -above ground, and a dark figure the size of a man, with wings like a -bat, came toward them. They fled in terror.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 2; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Saltwood, Great Britain
-ID: 588

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Event 5431 -(23827225)

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Date: 11/16/1963
-Description: Evening. Four teenagers—John Flaxton, Mervyn Hutchinson, -Jenny Holloway, and another youth—are in Sandling Park near Saltwood, -Kent, England, when they see a moving reddish-yellow “star” above the -woods. It comes down at an angle of 60°, then vanishes. Moments later, -they see a bright, golden light in a field about 240 feet away, floating -10 feet above the ground, and seemingly 15–20 feet across. It seems to -move along with the teens for a short while. It disappears behind trees, -then a dark figure shambles out of the woods. It is all black, about the -size of a human but without a head and has bat wings. The teenagers run -away. Other witnesses come forward to report strange lights and giant -footprints in the woods. (Charles A. Strickland, “Sightings -at Saltwood, near -Hythe, Kent,” LUFORO Bulletin 4, no. 5 (Nov./Dec./Jan. 1963–1964): -2–3; “The -Saltwood Mystery: Strange Happenings -in Kent,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 2(Mar./Apr. 1964): 11–12; A. -Cecil Harper, “A -Saltwood Sighting,” -BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1 (Summer 1964): 12; Nick Redfern, -“An -Update on a Sinister Winged -Monster,” Mysterious Universe, June 14, 2018; Theo Paijmans, “The -Headless Horrors of Sandling Road,” Fortean Times 374 (Christmas 2018): -30–31; Clark III 779)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3724

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Event 5432 -(8FB9B08D)

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Date: 11/17/1963
-Description: Jacques -Vallée meets J. -Allen Hynek for the first time at his residence in Evanston, -Illinois. He begins actively assisting Hynek in his UFO work and helping -him analyze Project Blue Book data. (Clark III 1213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3725

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Event 5433 -(5326240B)

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Date: 11/20/1963
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Capt. J. Murray and three members of the crew of -the Aberdeen collier Thrift see a flashing red light as they are -traveling south in the North Sea from Aberdeen to Blyth, Northumberland, -England. It passes within a mile of their port side, 15–30 feet above -sea level and suddenly disappears 3 miles astern, presumably into the -water. The collier, which puts about and makes for the object’s -vanishing point, has 2 radar contacts on its screens, but they disappear -as the ship approaches. They search for 3 hours but find no wreckage. -(“Mystery -at Sea,” -Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1964): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3726

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Event 5434 -(D6872EAE)

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Date: 11/22/1963
-Description: President John F. Kennedy Assassinated at Dealey Plaza in -Dallas, TX.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 5435 -(2ABFCD8B)

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Date: 11/22/1963
-End date: 1/20/69
-Description: President Lyndon B. Johnson in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 5436 -(2CE07C20)

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Date: 11/22/1963
-Description: President John -F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee -Harvey Oswald. (Wikipedia, “Assassination -of John F. Kennedy”; Wikipedia, “John -F. Kennedy assassination conspiracies”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3727

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Event 5437 -(1EE938B1)

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Date: 12/1963
-Description: A Japanese man reported the landing of an object, from -which emerged a being who spoke to him in a language he could not -understand, climbed aboard again, and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN67 (Vallee)
-Location: Japan, exact location unknown
-ID: 589

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Event 5438 -(0423FECA)

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Date: 12/10/1963
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A large, bright, dome-shaped UFO lands at RAF -Cosford in Shropshire, England, seen by two student cadets returning -late from leave. It bathes the area in intense green light from a height -of 10 feet, then disappears behind a hangar. Scorch marks are later -found where the object had been. (“A -Landing at Cosford? More -Confusion at the Air Ministry,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1964): 17, iv; “The -Cosford UFO: -The Mystery Deepens,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 3 (May/June -1964): 31–32; “The -Lesson of Cosford,” -Flying Saucer Review 10. No. 4 (July/Aug. 1964): 1–2; Loren E. Gross, The -Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: -UFOs, a History: July–December 1963, The -Author, 2005, pp. 85–86; Good Above, pp. 56–58; -Nick Redfern, “UFO -Landing or Much Ado about Nothing?” Mysterious Universe, October 20, -2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3729

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Event 5439 -(521FDA8A)

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Date: 12/10/1963
-Time: 2330
-Description: At the RAF camp, two airmen observed a dome-shaped object -that landed behind a hangar. It gave out a bright glow, and the -witnesses fled when an opening became visible.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Cosford, Great Britain
-ID: 590

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Event 5440 -(A000EDEC)

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Date: 12/11/1963
-Time: 7 AM
-Description: Witness: W.W. Dolan, professor of mathematics and -astronomy, and dean of the faculty of Linfield College. One bright, -star-like light hovered, slowed, dimmed and flashed in 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: McMinnville, Oregon
-ID: 496

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Event 5441 -(947DA690)

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Date: 12/14/1963
-Description: The Hills have -an initial meeting with Benjamin Simon, a well-known hypnotist in -Boston, Massachusetts, recommended to them by Dr. Stephens. It is clear -to Simon that the Hills believe they have seen a UFO, but which may have -been an experimental aircraft. This has set in motion an -anxiety-provoking psychological experience whose sources it might be -possible to uncover through hypnosis. (Clark III 584)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3730

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Event 5442 -(F8C28267)

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Date: 12/14/1963
-Time: 0100
-Description: Messrs. Muller and Immelman suddenly found the countryside -illuminated and saw an object, 15 m in diameter, with intense orange and -blue lights, emitting sparks, flying toward their car. They stopped and -jumped out as it dived five or six times, at one point hovering for two -min 15 m above them, making a humming sound, before flying away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 146; FSR 64, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Vereeniging, South Africa
-ID: 591

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Event 5443 -(510912B9)

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Date: 12/16/1963
-Time: 5:05 PM
-Description: Witness: unspecified persons aboard a military aircraft. -One white light blinked 2-3 times per second as it moved very fast -across the sky for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 800 miles north of Midway Island (40’ N, 175’ 54’ W)
-ID: 497

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Event 5444 -(BD0F3BA7)

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Date: winter 1963
-Description: A series of at least three incidents at Walker AFB [now -closed] at Roswell, New Mexico, involve unidentified aerial craft -maneuvering silently above an Atlas missile silo designated Site 9, -northeast of Sunset, New Mexico. Three former missile personnel at the -base—Jerry C. Nelson, Bob Caplan, and Gene Lamb—relay their experiences -to Florida Today reporter Billy Cox in June 2001. (Nukes 147–152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3728

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Event 5445 -(563312A1)

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Date: 12/25/1963
-Time: night
-Description: A fisherman witnessed the landing of a craft, from which a -terrifying creature emerged. It was humanoid in shape, spoke sounds he -could not understand, left footprints on the sand, and went back to the -machine and flew off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 147;LDLN 70 (Vallee)
-Location: Libreville, Gabon
-ID: 592

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Event 5446 -(2A44CAB8)

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Date: 12/27/1963
-Description: At Bank’s Stables in Epping, Essex, England, trainee riding -instructor Pauline Abbott sees a shiny white UFO on the ground. It is -about 8 feet long, 3 feet high at the center, and has what looks like a -window on one side that is brighter than the rest of the object. It -takes off, flies horizontally for 100 feet, and disappears. Grass is -found flattened over a circular area. Marks “like three large -fingerprints pushed together into mud” are found, forming a square with -8-foot sides within an 11-foot circular depression that contains a -3-foot central circle. (G. G. Doel, “The -Epping Sightings,” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1 (Summer -1964): 5–6; J. Cleary-Baker, “Evaluation -by BUFORA Evaluating Officer,” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1 -(Summer 1964): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3731

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Event 5447 -(BB9AAC90)

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Date: 12/27/1963
-Time: 1600
-Description: A shiny white object was seen on the ground at Bank’s -Stables. It was about 3.5 m long, 1 m high, and had something like a -windshield more brilliant than the rest of the craft. It took off, flew -horizontally for 30 m, and was hidden from view. Grass was flattened -over a circular area, and four traces were found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BUFORA 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Epping, Great Britain
-ID: 593

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- Event 5448 (0376CDCD)

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Date: 1964
-Description: British writer W. -Raymond Drake writes Gods or Spacemen?, the first of a series of -books espousing his view that the world’s folklore, mythology, and -religion are replete with references to space beings who came to Earth -in several waves: the Uranids hundreds of thousands of years ago; the -Saturnians centuries later; and the Jupiterians who landed near Crete. -(W. Raymond Drake, Gods or Spacemen? Amherst, 1964; Wikipedia, “W. -Raymond Drake”; -Clark III 108; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics -in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3734

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Event 5449 -(5D768058)

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Date: 1964
-Description: MKSEARCH is the name given to the continuation of the -MKUltra program. The MKSEARCH program is divided into two projects -dubbed MKOFTEN / CHICKWIT. Funding for MKSEARCH commences in 1965 and -ends in 1971. The project is a joint project between the US Army -Chemical Corps and the CIA Office of Research and Development to find -new offensive-use agents with a focus on incapacitating agents. The -purpose of the project is to develop, test, and evaluate capabilities in -the covert use of biological, chemical, and radioactive material systems -and techniques for producing predictable human behavioral and/or -physiological changes in support of highly sensitive operational -requirements. (Wikipedia, “Project -MKUltra”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3732

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Event 5450 -(27455310)

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Date: 1964
-Description: Ray -Stanford founds Project Starlight International to document the -existence of UFOs. He establishes a Laboratory for Instrumented Research -on a 400-acre site northwest of Austin, Texas, that includes two -buildings. Equipment eventually includes radar, a laser system, -magnetometers, a gravimeter, microcomputer, microphones, video -equipment, and still cameras. In the event of UFO activity, the -Operation ARGUS (Automated Ring-up on Geolocated UFO Sightings) computer -kicks in and automatically telephones all volunteers within the computed -visibility radius of the UFO. Volunteers attempt to locate and -photograph the UFO visually. On June 8, 1977, the FCC licenses its -Raytheon Model 1700 radar system with the call sign K12XBJ. (Margaret -Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, pp. 259–260; -Ray Stanford, “A Technological Approach to UFOs: A Status Report on -Project Starlight International, June 30, 1977,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August -1977): 5–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3733

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Event 5451 -(8215E7C9)

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Date: 1/1964
-Description: Lionel Beer begins publishing Spacelink, a newsletter of -the Isle of Wight UFO Investigation Society. It folds in April 1971. (Spacelink 1, -no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1964))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3735

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Event 5452 -(DA848DA5)

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Date: 1/1/1964
-Description: Many witnesses in Shanghai, China, see a huge cigar-shaped -UFO flying toward the southwest. MiG fighters are scrambled in pursuit -but fail to intercept it. The official explanation is that it is a US -missile. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO -Photo Archives, 1983, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3736

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Event 5453 -(097E8836)

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Date: 1/4/1964
-Description: Barney -Hill has his first hypnosis session with Benjamin Simon. The -sessions will continue until June 6. The Hills undergo sessions -separately, and for the most part are instructed not to remember their -experiences afterwards. Barney’s sessions are particularly intense. -However, by the end of the sessions, although they disagree with Simon -on the nature of the experience, both the Hills and Simon agree that the -therapy is successful. The stress and anxiety are gone. Simon submits a -statement to the Hills’ insurance company, which initially declines to -pay, until Simon explains that he was treating them for what will later -be called PTSD. (Clark III 584–585)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3737

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Event 5454 -(4735F6A3)

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Date: 1/23/1964
-Description: The landing craft Loellen M. is in the Gulf of Carpentaria -between Cape Grey and Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, Australia, -when a crew member notices the compass is malfunctioning (“haywire”) and -the vessel is off course, He notices an odd phosphorescence in the water -on the starboard side about 6 feet away from the ship. It is a ghostly, -pulsating white light that is rotating in a clockwise direction. It -seems to be “miles across.” As the light wheel moves to the ship’s port -side, another rotating light approaches the ship’s starboard side. This -undoubtedly involves some unusual bioluminescence, but it is significant -that it is the first “unknown” in the RAAF’s UFO files. (Swords -390)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3738

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Event 5455 -(4A263904)

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Date: 1/25/1964
-Description: The London UFO Research Organisation merges with the -British UFO Association (a consolidation of several UFO groups in the -UK) to form the British UFO Research Association. It begins publishing a -new magazine, BUFORA Journal, in the summer. (“Editorial: -The Problems Facing Us,” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 1 -(Summer 1964): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3739

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Event 5456 -(E1AF7324)

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Date: 2/3/1964
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Doris Player wakes up to see her bedroom -illuminated near Gum Creek, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Suddenly a -5-foot 3-inch being wearing blue-green coveralls, a brown balaclava, and -an open brown jacket appears. He wears elbow-length, black gloves with a -cord going from his helmet to his left shoulder. He has a red face and a -big nose and holds a black box that buzzes and clicks as he points it. -The witness goes back to sleep. (Mark Cashman, “Behavioral -Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): -19– 20; Thomas Brisson, “UBO’s -(Unidentified Box-like Objects), Part 2,” Vomanomalous, July 15, -2014; “Documentary -on UFO’s, Adelaide, Australia, Part 1,” MaS7eRjEd3ye YouTube -channel, February 5, 2009, at 6:05)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3740

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Event 5457 -(84E1021E)

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Date: 2/10/1964
-Description: “The Bellero Shield” episode of Outer Limits airs on -ABC-TV. It features an alien with wraparound eyes. UFO skeptic Martin S. -Kottmeyer alleges that this episode influenced Barney -Hill’s hypnotic recounting of events, although Betty Hill says they -had never watched it. (Clark III 589; Internet Movie Database, “The -Bellero Shield”; -Martin Kottmeyer, “Entirely -Unpredisposed: The Cultural Background of UFO Reports,” Magonia 35 -(January 1990))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3741

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Event 5458 -(BDD890D1)

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Date: 2/29/1964
-Description: President Lyndon -B. Johnson holds a press conference to announce that the US has -repeatedly broken the Soviet’s world record for air speed by a secret -aircraft called the A-11—a fictitious name for the Air Force’s YF- 12, a -twin-seat version of the Lockheed A-12 built as an interceptor. He says -the A-11 can fly more than 2,000 mph at an altitude of 70,000 feet. The -YF-12A is announced in part to continue hiding the A-12, its -still-secret ancestor; any sightings of CIA/Air Force A-12s based at -Area 51 in Nevada can be attributed to the well- publicized Air Force -YF-12As based at Edwards Air Force Base in California. (Jacobsen, Area -51, pp. 232–233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3742

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Event 5459 -(1C164BCC)

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Date: 3/1964
-Description: Allen -H. Greenfield, Rick -Hilberg, and -Dale Rettig begin publishing the American UFO Committee Review in -preparation for their first Congress of Scientific Ufologists meeting in -Cleveland, Ohio. Greenfield publishes the journal in Atlanta, Georgia, -for seven issues, until fall 1966. (American -UFO Committee Review 1, no. 1 (March 1964))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3743

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Event 5460 -(4D1DED8C)

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Date: 3/7/1964
-Description: Betty -Hill has her first hypnosis session with Benjamin Simon. Betty’s -account closely matches her dreams from 2 years earlier, and her account -is consistent with Barney’s. Many abduction elements come to light: -telepathic commands, semen extraction, a rectal probe, skin scrapings, a -pregnancy test with a needle, the Star Map. The aliens are 5 feet tall -with gray skin, oddly shaped heads, and broad foreheads. Simon discounts -the possibility of an alien abduction and prefers to think that Betty’s -dream influenced Barney’s memories. The Hills do not agree. (Wikipedia, -“Barney -and Betty Hill”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3744

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Event 5461 -(7E36237F)

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Date: 4/1/1964
-Description: The UK Air Ministry, Admiralty, and War Office are -consolidated into a new Ministry of Defence. The Air Ministry becomes -the Air Force Department, within which is a secretariat called S4 (Air) -that deals with, among other things, UFO reports from the public. -Another office, Defense Secretariat 8, is created under the authority of -the Secretary of State and also has authority over UFO reporting. -(Wikipedia, “Ministry -of Defence (United Kingdom)”; -Good Above, pp. 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3745

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Event 5462 -(CD7BF71A)

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Date: 4/3/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Four people in a car observed a rigid configuration of -intense red and white lights, apparently attached to a large object that -came to ground level, hovered, and flew off very fast as they were -driving about 2 km west of Monticello.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Challenge 31 (Vallee)
-Location: Monticello, Wisconsin
-ID: 594

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Event 5463 -(CD483FD4)

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Date: 4/3/1964
-Description: 9:00 p.m. R. Wold, a graduate student in anthropology, and -two others see four huge red lights in a rectangular formation, with a -white light above, near the ground about one mile west of Monticello, -Wisconsin. It tilts and flies away. (Sparks, p. 296)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3746

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Event 5464 -(7674073B)

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Date: 4/3/1964
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. R. Wold (he was a graduate student -in anthropology). Four huge red lights in a rectangular formation, with -a white light above, were near the ground, tilted and flew away after -3-4 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Monticello, Wisconsin
-ID: 498

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Event 5465 -(6F558C3B)

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Date: 4/11/1964
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Physiotherapist William B. Ochsner and his wife -and two children are having a picnic on a hill about 10 miles northwest -of Homer, New York. They see an unusually wide vapor trail in the sky -stretching from northeast to southwest. At the far end of the white -trail is a smoky, spiral portion about one mile long. The vapor trail -drifts off. After 10 minutes, Ochsner notices that the spiral portion is -still visible, having moved a bit to the west. With binoculars, he sees -wisps of smoke streaming out of it. It changes from a horizontal to a -vertical position with greater smoke activity. It stops and hangs there -for 2–3 minutes before sinking into the clouds. After another 3 minutes, -they see a horizontal pencil-shaped object moving from left to right on -the horizon. A flash of white light erupts from its end and shoots -forward a short distance then stops. It becomes thick in the middle, a -cloud of smoke emanates from it, and it shoots backward rapidly. Again -it hovers and changes to a saucer shape. It then divides into two parts, -one above the other. The top object slowly recedes into the distance, -while the bottom objects heads downward at a 45° angle, divides in two -again, with the top part fading away and the bottom part assuming a -vertical pencil shape, which fades away. The whole display takes 45 -minutes. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 60–61; -Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 -(Spring 2004): 7–9; Sparks, p. 297)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3747

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Event 5466 -(04541069)

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Date: 4/11/1964
-Time: 6:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: physiotherapist W.B. Ochsner and wife. Two -cloud-like objects darkened; one shot away and returned during the 30-45 -minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Homer, New York
-ID: 499

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Event 5467 -(7BB93BF8)

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Date: 4/15/1964
-Alternate date: 4/24/1964
-Description: USAF Intelligence officer meets with 2 Aliens at -prearranged location in the desert of New Mexico near Holloman AFB. -Project SIGMA operates at AFB, New Mexico.
-Type: alien meeting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A)
-Location: Holloman AFB

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Event 5468 -(4131BAC8)

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Date: 4/20/1964
-Description: Early morning, During Operation Deep Freeze VII, six -members of a US Coast Guard aircraft sight a V-formation of 9 -glowing-white objects speeding at an estimated 35,000 feet altitude. -They are flying a in a C-130 turbo-prop transport from McMurdo Station, -Antarctica, with supplies. The right-side observer first sees the -objects approaching at about 460 mph from above and to their right side. -When they come abreast of the airplane, they slow to its speed. After a -short time, they fly above the airplane and take up position above and -to its left side. The pilot attempts to radio the ground but the radio -is dead, and their radar also stops working. When the pilot tries to -switch to auxiliary power, it too is not functioning. At one point the -airplane’s engines stop (the oil begins to congeal in the cold air). -Instead of losing altitude, it maintains “a steady altitude and course.” -The airplane allegedly continues flying in complete silence, then it -enters a “strange haze” (like a white-out) with the air filled with -static electricity. There is electrical arcing from one observer’s body -to metal inside the fuselage. The haze vanishes after about 20 minutes. -The power suddenly returns, and the crew can restart the engines in -sequence. The airplane has covered a distance of 305 miles during the -45–50 minutes at indicated airspeed of 184–218 knots. (NICAP, “C-130 -Crew Encounters UFO / EME to Radio and Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3748

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Event 5469 -(0E97D5FF)

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Date: 4/22/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Marie Morrow and two other persons were driving west, about -2O km east of Lordsbury when the entire area was illuminated by a bluish -light “as bright as day,” and a round object flew about 3 m above the -car, making a whining sound, then went north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO May., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Lordsbury, New Mexico
-ID: 595

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Event 5470 -(725C522A)

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Date: 4/22/1964
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Marie Morrow, Ruth Ovelette, and Morrow’s son are -driving west about 10–15 miles east of Lordsburg, New Mexico, when a -brilliantly luminous object sweeps about 10 feet above their car from -behind, illuminating the interior and emitting a whirring, whining -sound. The UFO then rises but maintains its course along the highway -before veering toward the north and vanishes. (“Huge -Light Buzzed Car in New Mexico,” APRO Bulletin, May 1964, p. 10; -Clark III 1091–1092)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3749

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Event 5471 -(64F604B7)

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Date: 4/24/1964
-Time: 1745
-Description: Policeman Lonnie Zamora observed the landing of a white -craft, resting on four legs, in a depression 4 km outside Socorro. Near -it were standing two figures, below average height, dressed in white. -Within 30 m of the object, he saw a red insignia on its aluminumlike -surface. It rose to 4 m with a strong roar, became silent, hovered and -flew away. Traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Challenge 34; Humanoids 47; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Socorro, New Mexico
-ID: 597

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Event 5472 -(BE54D6A4)

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Date: 4/24/1964
-Time: 1000
-Description: Dairy farmer Gary T. Wilcox saw a shiny, egg-shaped object, -about 8 m long and 6 m wide, in his field. He spoke in English to two -dwarfs, 1.2 m tall, wearing seamless clothing and hoods, and carrying -trays.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 59; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Tioga City, New York
-ID: 596

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Event 5473 -(5F7E256F)

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Date: 4/24/1964
-Time: 5:45 PM
-Description: Witness: Socorro policeman Lonnie Zamora. Watched object -with flame underneath descend toward the desert. Two small humanoids -observed near vertical oval on ground. Later watched object take off -with a roar, go silent and fly away. Burning and charred brush found at -landing sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Socorro, New Mexico
-ID: 500

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Event 5474 -(48BEF8E2)

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Date: 4/24/1964
-Description: Whitish elliptical object with legs seen on ground by -police officer, left imprints and scorched foliage when it took -off
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Socorro, NM
-ID: 9

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Event 5475 -(C27CCACF)

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Date: 4/24/1964
-Description: Farmer found shiny elliptical object in field, confronted -by two small humanoids who spoke with him
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Newark Valley, NY
-ID: 10

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Event 5476 -(4A9EB84F)

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Date: 4/24/1964
-Description: Around 5:50 p.m. Socorro, New Mexico, police officer Lonnie -Zamora, while -chasing a speeder, hears a continuous roaring sound and sees a brilliant -blue “cone of flame” in the sky to the south-southwest. The bottom of -the flame is out of sight behind a hill. Thinking there has been an -explosion, he tries to pursue it, turning off to the right on a rough -gravel road, but loses sight of it while trying to get the car up a -steep hill. By the time he reaches the top, the sound stops and the -flame is no longer visible. He then notices a metallic object in a -ravine about 450 feet away. At first, he thinks it is an overturned car, -but then he sees “two figures in what resembled white coveralls, pretty -close to the object on the northwest side, as if inspecting it.” One -seems to turn in a startled way as if he hears Zamora’s car approaching. -The figures are small, and the object is oval-shaped and positioned so -its long axis is horizontal. Zamora loses sight of object as he drives -through a dip in the road. He radios headquarters that he is -investigating a possible car accident. He stops a second time and gets -out, hearing 2–3 loud thumping noises like a door shutting hard. He -walks three steps to the front of the car to possibly 50 feet away from -the object when he hears a very load roar increasing in volume and sees -a smokeless blue-orange flame coming from beneath. He notes a red -insignia or lettering on the side of the object. Zamora thinks it is -going to explode and runs away, putting the car between him and the -object and dropping to the ground. He feels some slight heat from the -flame. The roaring noise stops, and Zamora looks up to see the UFO -flying away to the southwest at a level height, just clearing an 8-foot -dynamite shack. He runs back to the patrol car and radios headquarters, -just as the object climbs slowly and goes past Box Canyon or Six Mile -Canyon Mountain (about 6 miles away). The entire incident takes place in -less than 2 minutes. Police Sgt. M. S. Chavez arrives, and they find -burning brush (including a badly damaged creosote bush) where the UFO -has been, as well as four asymmetrically placed, trapezoidal imprints -12–16 inches long, 6–8 inches wide, and 4–6 inches deep. An FBI agent, -D. -Arthur Byrnes Jr., who -has heard about it on the police radio, speaks with Zamora in the -evening. He notifies army intelligence at White Sands Missile Range, who -sends Capt. Richard T. Holder. Military police arrive and collect -samples, working by flashlight. The next morning, Holder gets a call -from a colonel at the war room of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asking for -a report. T/Sgt. David Moody from ATIC and Maj. William Conner from -Kirtland AFB check the area for radioactivity on April 26. Hynek arrives -on April 28 and interviews Zamora and Chavez. Richard -H. Hall and Ray -Stanford arrive for NICAP and obtain some metal traces on a rock in -the landing area; they take the sample to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight -Center, where metallurgist Henry -E. Frankel agrees to analyze the material. His tentative analysis -suggests a zinc-iron alloy, perhaps from a zinc pail. In 1966, Blue Book -chief Maj. Hector -Quintanilla writes in a classified article in Studies in -Intelligence that “This is the best-documented case on record, and still -we have been unable, in spite of a thorough investigation, to find the -vehicle or other stimulus that scared Zamora to the point of panic.” -Some investigators think the case might involve a test of a Lunar -Surveyor module from White Sands. (Wikipedia, “Lonnie -Zamora incident”; NICAP, “Lonnie -Zamora / Socorro Landing Case”; Sparks, -p. 297; “UAO -Landing in New Mexico,” APRO Bulletin, May 1964, pp. 1, 3–10; “Physical -Evidence: Landing Reports,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 -(July/Aug. 1964): 4–5; Coral Lorenzen, “UFO Lands in New Mexico,” Fate -17, no. 8 (August 1964): 27–38; Hector Quintanilla Jr., “The Investigation -of UFOs,” Studies in Intelligence 10, no. 4 (February 1966): 95–110; -Clark III 1083–1093; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., -1974, pp. 165–166; -Hynek UFO Report, pp. 223–229; -Good Above, pp. 343–345, 371–373; -Story, pp. 341–344; -Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, -pp. 8–11; Ray Stanford, Socorro ‘Saucer’ in a Pentagon Pantry, -Blueapple, 1976; “The Socorro, New Mexico, Landing: Additional -Witnesses?” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 15; ClearIntent, pp. 139–141; -Kenneth Eugene Firestone and Ronald L. Firestone, “Socorro, -New Mexico: Revisited,” Ground Saucer Watch, 1981; Kim Hansen, “UFO -Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 62–66; Don Berliner, -with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The -Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 78–80; -David E. Thomas, “A -Different Angle on the Socorro UFO of 1964,” New Mexicans for -Science and Reason, 2001; Paul Harden, “The -1964 Socorro UFO Incident,” El Defensor Chieftain, August 2, 2008; -Kevin D. Randle, “Socorro -UFO Landing Analysis,” A Different Perspective, November 22, 2009; -Kevin D. Randle, “The -Socorro Symbol: -Resolved?” A Different Perspective, October 15, 2016; Kevin D. -Randle, “No -Socorro Solution by Chief of -Project Blue Book,” A Different Perspective, November 7, 2017; Kevin -D. Randle, “Zamora -vs. People,” A Different Perspective, November 9, 2017; Kevin D. -Randle, Encounter in the Desert: The Case for Alien Contact at Socorro, -New Page, 2017; Justice Fodor, “Ray -Stanford and His NASA-Goddard UFO-Metal Cover-Up Claim,” -Alien Expanse, February 14, 2019; Center for UFO Studies, [correspondence]; -Center for UFO Studies, [case files: Files -1 and 4R, Files -2, Files -3, MiscR, Zamora]; -Center for UFO Studies, [Clippings1, Clippings2])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3751

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Event 5477 -(082883DF)

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Date: 4/24/1964
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Dairy farmer Gary Wilcox of Newark Valley, New -York, is driving a tractor on his property when he sees a shiny object -on the inside edge of a nearby patch of woods. He gets off the tractor -and approaches the object, which is egg-shaped, 20 feet long, 16 feet -wide, and four feet high. It is hovering two feet above the ground and -making a sound like a car idling. He touches it and feels a hard metal. -Two figures suddenly appear from under the object. They are 4 feet tall -and 2 feet wide, dressed in seamless silvery garments. Each carries a -tray filled with alfalfa, roots, soil, leaves, and brush. Wilcox hears a -voice say, “Do not be alarmed. We have talked to people before.” They -ask him what he is doing, and Wilcox says he is spreading manure. One -humanoid asks if he can have some and converses some more about space -exploration. They claim they are from Mars. After a while, the UFO takes -off in a horizontal direction. Wilcox notices some small depressions -where the figures were standing, as well as a thin, red, jellylike -substance. (Olga M. Hotchkiss, “New York UFO and Its ‘Little People,’” -Fate 17, no. 9 (September 1964): 38–42; Berthold E. Schwarz, “Gary -Wilcox and the Ufonauts,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Percipients, -special issue no. 3 of FSR, September 1969, pp. 20–27; Clark III -795–799; Marcus Lowth, “The -Gary Wilcox Occupant Encounter: The Fertilizer Case,” UFO Insight, -December 27, 2018; Story, pp. 246–249)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3750

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Event 5478 -(CD652DE2)

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Date: 4/25/1964
-Description: Evening. Two motorists driving on US Hwy 84 between Abiquiu -and Espanola, New Mexico, see a strange object that is definitely not an -airplane fly straight toward their car before shooting away. All they -can see is a blue-flamed exhaust. (Clark III 1092)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3753

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Event 5479 -(273D597F)

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Date: 4/25/1964
-Description: Morning. J. D. Hatch is driving on US Hwy 70 between -Mescalero and Tularosa, New Mexico, when a bright oval object descends -and seemingly lands on the other side of Round Mountain east of -Tularosa. (Clark III 1092)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3752

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Event 5480 -(EF1DDB3A)

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Date: 4/25/1964 (approximate)
-Description: Night. Two Spanish-speaking people 9 miles away from -Golden, New Mexico, watch a light come down from the sky and leave three -“smelted” circles some 2 feet in diameter and separated from each other -by 20 feet. They mention this story to James Scartacinni, 15, and his -grandfather visit the site the next day and find the circles, which they -estimate must have been subjected to a temperature of 2,300° F. They -return to town and call the state police, who notify the military. -Almost immediately, men in uniform cordon off the area, dig up the -burned areas to a depth of one foot, and carry the material away. -(“Hunting Old and New UFOs in New Mexico,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March -1982):12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3754

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Event 5481 -(ACD926A4)

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Date: 4/26/1964
-Time: 1230
-Description: Orlando Gallegos observed a bright, metallic, egg-shaped -object about 70 m away, on the ground, north of La Madera. Blue flames -appeared to circle the base of the machine, which was silent and about -the length of a Phone pole. Scorch marks and four imprints were found, -according to Police Capt. Martin Vigil.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: La Madera, New Mexico
-ID: 598

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Event 5482 -(BE4AA6B7)

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Date: 4/26/1964
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Orlando -Gallegos steps outside his father’s ranch at La Madera, New Mexico, -to chase away some horses in the yard. He sees a peculiar structure in -the Rio Vallecitos creek bed some 900 feet away. It looks like a butane -tank “as long as a telephone pole” about 14 feet in diameter, metallic, -and shooting blue flames out of holes in the sides. As he watches over -the next minute, the flames subside. It is still there when he goes -inside, where no one else believes him. It is gone the next morning, but -state police (including Capt. Martin E. -Vigil, David -Kingsbury, and -Albert Vega) investigate and find the ground still smoldering and -scorched with four depressions, one of them 8 by 12 inches in size. The -charred area is in the shape of two overlapping circles and about 20 -feet across. Hynek is -refused authorization to go visit the site. (“Mystery -Object Report Is Told,” Albuquerque Tribune, August 27, 1966, p. 1; -Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 222–223; -Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 54–55; “Hunting Old and New UFOs in New Mexico,” IUR 7, no. 2 -(March 1982):12–13; Clark III 1092; Sparks, p. 298)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3755

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Event 5483 -(6E439D02)

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Date: 4/28/1964
-Time: morning
-Description: Numerous witnesses, among them policeman Paul Arteche, saw -a reddish, round object hover at low level, then take off very rapidly -toward the west.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Anthony, New Mexico
-ID: 599

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Event 5484 -(F1311E0C)

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Date: 4/28/1964
-Description: Early evening. A round, whitish object hovers then darts -away over Anthony, New Mexico. State policeman Raúl -Arteche sees it moving west over the Port of Entry near El Paso, -Texas. He says it looks like the object Lonnie -Zamora saw. (“Other -Recent Sightings,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 (July/Aug. 1964): -7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3756

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Event 5485 -(9C56BB60)

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Date: 4/28/1964
-Description: Early morning. Don Adams is driving in Edgewood, New -Mexico, when his car stalls. He sees a glowing, greenish object 100 feet -overhead and fires six rounds from a .32 pistol at it with no effect. He -can hear the bullets bouncing off. It silently moves away to the north. -(“Other -Recent Sightings,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 (July/Aug. 1964): 7; -“Green -Object at Edgewood,” APRO Bulletin, September 1964, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3757

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Event 5486 -(164BC142)

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Date: 4/30/1964
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Several children living in Canyon Ferry, -Montana, see a lighted, egg-shaped object the size of an automobile land -about 150 feet away, then take off. The witnesses are Linda Davis, 11, -and children of the Harold Rust family. It leaves four 8 x 10 inch -rectangular indentations in the ground, 4–8 inches deep, about 13 feet -apart, and a burned area. (“Kids -Called Hoaxers by U.S.A.F,” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 1, 5; -Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp. 223–224; -Sparks, p. 298)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3759

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Event 5487 -(E3C25B64)

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Date: 4/30/1964
-Time: 2230
-Description: Several anonymous adults observed an elongated, glowing -object. Two children saw a lighted craft land and take off, leaving four -rectangular indentations.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Canyon Ferry, Montana
-ID: 601

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Event 5488 -(D7136F28)

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Date: 4/30/1964
-Description: Gloria Biggs, her husband, and her mother observed a brown, -dome-shaped object on a hilltop about 17 km west of Baker on U.S. -Highway 91. They lost sight of it a moment, could not see it again, and -found only a depression in the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 64, 5; Anatomy 75 (Vallee)
-Location: Baker, California
-ID: 600

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Event 5489 -(19CC9633)

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Date: 4/30/1964
-Description: Glowing oval object landed, indentations and scorch marks -found at site
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Canyon Ferry, MT
-ID: 11

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Event 5490 -(701CC9E1)

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Date: 4/30/1964
-Description: A B-57 pilot at Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico, -radios to the control tower that he is watching an egg-shaped, white UFO -with markings that match the Socorro object. He continues to watch it as -it lands at the base. Coral -and Jim Lorenzen insist they heard the story from a reliable source. -In addition, a ham radio operator claims to have heard the exchange -between the pilot and control tower. Holloman AFB denies the incident -occurred. Shortly afterward, an airman walks into a clothing store in -Alamogordo and spins an incredible story of a UFO parked in a hangar -under heavy guard at Holloman. A couple days later, he returns to the -store and denies everything. (Coral Lorenzen, “UAO -Landing at Air Force Base,” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 1, 3–4; -Coral Lorenzen, “UFO -Lands at Air Force Base,” Fate 17, no. 10 (October 1964): 45–52; -Clark III 332)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3758

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Event 5491 -(2B9A5E1A)

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Date: 5/1964
-Description: NICAP publishes its special 184-page report, The UFO -Evidence, but due to a printing delay, copies are not actually available -until late June. Copies are sent to the media and to every member of -Congress on July 1. Edited by Richard -H. Hall, it -consists of a summary of hundreds of unexplained reports studied by -NICAP investigators through 1963. Sightings are systematically broken -down by witness category and special types of evidence. Individual -chapters are devoted to sightings by military personnel, pilots and -aviation experts, and scientists and engineers. Another chapter is -devoted to evidence of intelligent control and another to physical -evidence or interactions, such as electromagnetic effects, radar -tracking, photographs, sound, physiological effects. Another section -examines observed patterns, such as descriptions of shape, color, -maneuvers, flight behavior, and concentrations of sightings. House -Majority Leader John -W. McCormack (D-Mass.) requests two copies, one for his Capitol Hill -office and another for his state home office. (Richard H. Hall, ed., The -UFO Evidence, NICAP, 1964; Wikipedia, “National -Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena”; Richard Hall, “NICAP -and Lessons from the Past,” IUR 17, no. 3 (May/June 1992): 17, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3760

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Event 5492 -(CA29F45D)

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Date: 5/5/1964
-Time: 0830
-Description: A farmer, Alfred Ernst, saw an object rise from a field and -fly rapidly into the cloud bank. It was described as oval, and it left a -depression and imprints in the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jun., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Comstock, Minnesota
-ID: 602

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Event 5493 -(8EFE04CC)

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Date: 5/5/1964
-Description: 8:30 a.m. Alfred Ernst, a farmer near Comstock, Minnesota, -sees a luminous UFO like a child’s top from about 1,500 feet away. It -rises straight up and disappears into the overcast sky after a few -seconds. Ernst and his brother find a crater-like depression, about 3 -feet in diameter and 6 inches deep at the center, at the spot where the -object was sitting. A series of smaller holes form an X around the -larger depression. The earth seems burned on the perimeter of the hole -and a whitish substance is found. (“Physical -Evidence: Landing Reports,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 -(July/Aug. 1964): 5; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 56–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3761

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Event 5494 -(837AC7E1)

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Date: 5/5/1964
-Description: Object landed in field, physical traces
-Type: landing
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Comstock, MN
-ID: 12

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Event 5495 -(93C08C63)

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Date: 5/9/1964
-Time: 1100
-Description: Three children, John Owens, Cheryl Glunt, and Bernie -Montello, saw a silvery, dome-shaped object arrive from the south and -land in a field 150 m away. Estimated diameter: 3 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jun., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Mogadore, Ohio
-ID: 603

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Event 5496 -(9FEC94BC)

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Date: 5/9/1964
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witness: J.R. Betz, U.S. District Court reporter. Three -light green crescent-shaped objects, about half the apparent size of the -Moon, flew very fast in tight formation from east to west, oscillating -in size and color for 3 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chicago, Illinois
-ID: 501

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Event 5497 -(F4A9A443)

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Date: 5/10/1964
-Description: Domed disc rose from woods, electromagnetic (E-M) effects -on van, 10-meter (30-foot) burnt circle found next day
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: La Rioja, Argentina
-ID: 13

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Event 5498 -(A38CB8A5)

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Date: 5/13/1964
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Mrs. M. -Walter McKarley and her children see a large round object that -appears in their headlights after they pull into a driveway at Rio -Vista, California. It seems to be resting on the ground about a quarter -of a mile away. Higher in the sky is a small star-like object (probably -Venus). As they drive away, the large object seems to pace their car for -a short time. It then moves swiftly to the left and disappears behind a -water tank. (“Physical -Evidence: Landing Reports,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 -(July/Aug. 1964): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3762

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Event 5499 -(B3121A3B)

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Date: 5/13/1964
-Description: A woman saw two objects, one of which landed in a field. It -was round and luminous.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Rio Vista, California
-ID: 604

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Event 5500 -(53A915FC)

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Date: 5/15/1964
-Description: Between 11:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Two targets are -simultaneously tracked on surveillance and FPS-16 radars at Stallion -Site, the most northerly range of the Army-controlled Holloman–White -Sands complex a few miles east of San Antonio, New Mexico. The targets -are north of the radar site, performing “perfect, precise flight -maneuvers” in tandem, involving separations and rejoins and “up-and-down -‘pogo’ maneuvers.” One radar operator obtains a visual sighting of two -brown-colored, football-shaped objects that are flying at very low -altitude and are lost from view behind buildings at the site. The two -targets are displayed as skin paints. However, IFF transponder codes are -also received on two different frequencies alternately. (NICAP, “UFO -Auto-Tracked, Sends -Phony IFF”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3763

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Event 5501 -(7E00975F)

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Date: 5/17/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: A fiery object, maneuvering at low altitude, was seen from -Wooster and Smithville at 2110. then from Lawrence and Burbank between -2125 and 2130. It flew erratically with a whirring sound and changes of -color, apparently interfering with police radio. lt went down toward the -northwest, seemingly ready to land. Abnormal radioactivity allegedly was -found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Akron UFO Res. Soc. (Vallee)
-Location: Massillon, Ohio
-ID: 605

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Event 5502 -(B872CFF6)

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Date: 5/18/1964
-Description: A bright, silvery object, 3 m long, 1.5 m high, with a -cone-shaped front part, resting on four legs, was seen in a wheat field -by 10-year-old Mike Bizon. It made a beeping noise, rose first to the -altitude of the Phone poles, then took off vertically. Wheat was found -flattened in all directions.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Hubbard, Oregon
-ID: 606

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Event 5503 -(F6F7C1C6)

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Date: 5/18/1964
-Time: 5:15 PM
-Description: Witness: civil engineer F. Meyers. One small, glowing white -oval split twice after moving from the right of the Moon around to the -left. Sighting lasted 17 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Vernon, Virginia
-ID: 502

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Event 5504 -(293AF641)

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Date: 5/19/1964
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Mike Bizon, 10, sees a square or spindle-shaped, -bright-silver UFO on the ground in Hubbard, Oregon, while he is leading -a cow out to pasture. The cow, normally eager to be let out, acts very -reluctant and nervous. The object is resting on four legs in an adjacent -wheat field. It rises slowly off the ground to the height of a telephone -pole, then zooms straight up emitting a soft beeping sound. Bizon smells -an odor like gas fumes. Three imprints in the shape of an equilateral -triangle are found in an area of flattened wheat about 4 feet wide. -(Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 53–54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3764

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Event 5505 -(84B0A89E)

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Date: 5/19/1964
-Description: Rectangular object with legs left flattened wheat and three -indentations on the edge of a circle
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hubbard, OR
-ID: 14

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Event 5506 -(80A260A3)

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Date: 5/21/1964
-Description: 4:30 a.m. At Altus AFB, Oklahoma, Missile Site 7, southeast -of Ranchland, Texas, a large bright light is seen directly over the -facility below 10,000 feet. The light is bright enough to light up the -silo cap. Its apparent size is as large as a basketball held at arm’s -length. The object is first noticed hovering over the south fence of -Site 7 for 8–10 minutes. (NICAP, “Light -Hovers over Missile Silo”; Nukes 159–160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3765

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Event 5507 -(1D5CC069)

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Date: 5/24/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: A man driving on Millinocket Lake Road saw a fiery, -spherical object to the side. He stopped and left his car with a friend -to observe it better. When they became afraid and walked back to the -car, the sphere followed them; the engine could not be started as long -as the sphere remained within 2 or 3 m of the car. It flew away after -five min. It was described as a ball of fire without structure, about 75 -cm in diameter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Millinocket, Maine
-ID: 607

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Event 5508 -(08A73400)

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Date: 5/24/1964
-Description: James -P. Templeton, using -a Pentacon camera with Kodacolor X stock, takes a photo of his -5-year-old daughter Elizabeth when his family is picnicking on the -marshes at Burgh by Sands, Cumbria, England. When the film is developed, -a man, encased in a white spacesuit and helmet, is clearly visible -behind Elizabeth’s head. Templeton and his family claim they had seen no -one when the photo was taken. He tells the Carlisle police, who are -puzzled. Kodak is intrigued enough to conduct an inquiry. They rule out -a double exposure. However, one possibility is that the image is an -overexposed view of the back of Templeton’s wife. After the photo -receives some local publicity, Templeton gets a call from someone -describing himself as an investigator. Templeton agrees to meet with him -and an associate and visit the marsh. Two men dressed in dark business -suits show up and drive him to the site. They refuse to give Templeton -their names, referring to themselves only as “9” and “11.” They are -mostly interested in finding out if any nearby animals had been -agitated. Then they insist that the figure was just a passerby, get -angry, and drive away, leaving Templeton stranded and having to walk -home 5 miles away. (Gordon W. Creighton, “The -Mysterious Templeton Photograph,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1964): 11– 12; Jenny Randles, “The Riddle of the Templeton -Photograph,” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 12–15; “The Templeton -photograph” [in color], Flying Saucer Review 46, no. 2 (Summer -2001): inside cover; Jenny Randles, “Casebook: The Solway Spaceman,” -Fortean Times 196 (May 2005): 29; Andy Roberts and David Clarke, -“Farewell to the Solway Spaceman?” Fortean Times 286 (April 2012): -28–29; Jenny Randles, “Moderations, Part One: Lost and Found Files,” -Fortean Times 292 (September 2012): 29; Clark III 1126–1127; Patrick -Gross, “The Solway -Firth Photograph, 1964”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3766

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Event 5509 -(C7AFB0B7)

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Date: 5/26/1964
-Time: 7:43 PM
-Description: Witness: P. Wankowicz, RAF pilot and ex-Smithsonian -satellite tracker. One thin, white ellipsoid (3.5 times as long as wide) -flew straight and level for 3-4 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
-ID: 503

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Event 5510 -(15F3722F)

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Date: 5/26/1964
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witness: Rev. H.C. Shaw. One yellow-orange light, shaped -like the bottom of a ball, was spotted in a field and chased down the -road for 2 miles.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Pleasantview, Pennsylvania
-ID: 504

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Event 5511 -(E3B5BFEE)

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Date: 5/26/1964
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Rev. H. C. Shaw sees a yellow-orange light -shaped like the bottom of a ball in a field at Pleasant View, -Pennsylvania, and chases it down the road for two miles. (Sparks, p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3769

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Event 5512 -(D7EE60A2)

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Date: 5/26/1964
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Terry -Balliet, their family, and two neighbors see two UFOs in the -northwest sky near Palmerton, Pennsylvania. One is a large, stationary, -dome-like object emitting hazy whitish light from the underside. A -smaller disc-like object is intermittently visible maneuvering around -the larger one. It finally merges with the large object, which moves -away to the east. The large object is seen twice more in the evening, -moving back and forth from east to west. (“Other -Recent Sightings,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 11 (July/Aug. 1964): -7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3768

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Event 5513 -(A7542B62)

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Date: 5/26/1964
-Description: 7:43 p.m. Paul Wańkowicz, RAF pilot and ex-Smithsonian -satellite tracker, sees a thin, white ellipsoid, estimated at 15–20 feet -in length at 1,000 feet altitude, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. It flies -straight and level from nearly overhead to the east-northeast, where it -disappears behind the roof of a Sears Roebuck store as viewed from his -car in the parking lot to the south. He briefly loses sight of it as it -passes behind cumulus cloud cover. No noise or trail. The tops of -cumulus clouds are at least 3,500 feet altitude, thus the UFO’s speed is -at least 700 mph and length 50– 70 feet. (NICAP, [Blue -Book documents]; Sparks, -p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3767

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Event 5514 -(A6C72073)

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Date: 6/1964
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A young couple is driving home from a dance at a -small place north of Santa Barbara, California, when a circular, glowing -object silently appears above their car. They stop to watch. It is about -100 feet high and 40 feet in diameter and seemingly emits some heat. It -hovers for 2 minutes then speeds off ahead of them, lighting up the -valley as it goes and apparently traveling about 1,800–2,400 mph. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3771

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Event 5515 -(35FDF5AE)

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Date: 6/1964
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Bert Gammie, his mother, and his daughter Lynn -are driving along the northern shore of Green Lake, British Columbia, -when they see a light above a mountain across the lake to the south. -Soon they notice it is moving and is now almost directly overhead. He -stops the car and gets out for a closer look. The object is circular, -dull metallic, and has a series of vents in the tail trailing white, -blue, red, and orange exhaust. They watch it for 3 minutes moving slowly -to the north at about 50 mph and making a whistling noise. It makes a -sharp right-angle turn, proceeds west, and disappears from sight. Gammie -reports the sighting to the RCAF in Vancouver, and a senior air force -officer visits him later and shows him a bulky portfolio of glossy UFO -photos, many of them showing detailed features. Gammie tells him that -the UFO he had seen did not exactly resemble any of the photos, and the -officer tells him that the RCAF would not admit to interviewing him if -the case receives any publicity. (“‘That -Awful Looking Shooting Star,’” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 5 (1975): -14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3772

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Event 5516 -(F947CAC8)

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Date: 6/1964
-Description: BUFOI magazine (Belgian UFO Information) is launched by a -George Adamski group in Anvers, Belgium, and edited by May and Patrick -Morlet. It runs until 1979. (BUFOI -Magazine, no. -1 (June 1964))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3773

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Event 5517 -(BC149943)

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Date: 6/2/1964
-Time: 1600
-Description: A “black object with flames” is blamed for burns suffered -by an 8-year-old child, who said he saw the object coming from the sky. -His grandmother, Mrs. Frank Smith, who was standing nearby, heard a -sound similar to that of a bullet, but saw nothing. The child suffered -second-degree burns on his face, and lost part of his hair.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Saucer News Mar., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Hobbs, New Mexico
-ID: 608

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Event 5518 -(B2177FB9)

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Date: 6/2/1964
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Charles Keith Davis is outside his grandmother’s -home in Hobbs, New Mexico, when a small, tan, top-shaped object with a -soot-like trail appears and hovers above the boy’s head, enveloping him -in a cloud. He starts crying and screaming, and the object shoots -straight up and disappears. His hair is singed and his face and ears are -swollen and burned, although he does not feel any pain. They take him to -the hospital, where doctors notice the soot embedded in his flesh. The -burns respond well to treatment and he stays 5 nights in the hospital. -(Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 191–192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3774

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Event 5519 -(4B033A82)

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Date: 6/2/1964
-Time: 1730
-Description: David Wilson, 14, was going to get some straw for his -rabbits when he stopped with other children to observe half-a-dozen -dwarfs, about 80 cm tall, dressed in bright green, and having hands -lighted “like electric bulbs,” who seemed to be searching for something. -Another child later reported that she had seen a silvery disk-shaped -object, the size of a car, take off from the same location.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Dec.,64 (Vallee)
-Location: Leam Lane, England
-ID: 609

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Event 5520 -(FEA43A4C)

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Date: 6/5/1964
-Description: A 42-year-old doctor and his wife were 30 km away from the -airport when an intensely bright object appeared on the road ahead. They -drove very close to it and saw three men dressed in gray, one of whom -told him in Spanish that “they had a mission on Earth.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 39 (Vallee)
-Location: Pajasblancas, Argentina
-ID: 610

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Event 5521 -(CA220FC6)

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Date: 6/8/1964
-Time: 2230
-Description: Helen Reed observed a spinning object 5 m above ground,less -than 20 m away, coming and going with right-angle turns. It had a dome -from which colored light emanated (blue turning to red) and bands of -yellow light. The object was lost to sight behind trees in the -north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Lawrenceville, Illinois
-ID: 611

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Event 5522 -(20FD1807)

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Date: 6/13/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Karen Fahle saw a bright object coming to the ground about -200 m away. While approaching its lights blinked and turned to dark red. -Five min later it went away slowly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: AMUFO Sep., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Penberville, Ohio
-ID: 612

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Event 5523 -(BC2C5546)

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Date: 6/13/1964
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witness: B.L. English, announcer for radio station WTOD. -Three glowing white spheres, glowing red on their sides, moved slow, -hovered and then moved in circles very fast, all the while making a low, -rumbling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Toledo, Ohio
-ID: 505

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Event 5524 -(26C8C43D)

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Date: 6/14/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Charles Englebrecht went outside when his TV set and all -house lights suddenly failed and saw a glowing blue-white object, about -30 nn in diameter, land about 18 m away in the field. He felt a mild -electric shock when he tried to approach it and was unable to move -forward.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Dale, Indiana
-ID: 613

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Event 5525 -(F27FC13E)

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Date: 6/14/1964
-Description: 8:35 p.m. Charles Englebrecht, 18, is watching TV at home -in Dale, Indiana, when the house lights and TV suddenly go out. He -notices that a small, bright orange-colored, basketball-sized object has -landed in his back yard. As he goes out the side door and tries to -approach it, he feels a tingling sensation and has difficulty moving. -After a few seconds the sphere takes off and goes over the nearby barn. -Several items in the backyard have been moved (lawn mower, chicken -feeder). He smells sulfur or burning rubber and find three imprints in a -triangle with the dimensions of 2 feet by 4.5 feet by 4.5 feet. (NICAP, -“The -Dale Landing Case”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3775

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Event 5526 -(E5A4624E)

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Date: 6/15/1964
-Description: A miner, R. A. Donoso, observed a strange machine land. -From it emerged two fairskinned men who asked for water in a language -which appeared to be a mixture of English and Spanish. Donoso took some -water from his car radiator for them and they left. Their craft was -about 3 m long and 1 m wide.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65; 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Aria, Chile
-ID: 614

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Event 5527 -(0474235E)

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Date: summer 1964
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A meteorologist at Westford, Massachusetts, sees -a bright lightning flash 5 miles to the south. At the same time, his car -headlights and the headlights of an approaching car go out, as well as -his radio. No thunderclap is heard. He notes that the sky is clear and -there are no thunderstorms in the entire Boston area. (“Astronomers and -UFO’s: A Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3770

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Event 5528 -(5566852D)

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Date: 6/23/1964
-Description: Author of “Behind the Flying Saucers” and journalist Frank -Scully dies in Palm Springs, CA. In 1988 his large archive of -1950’s-early 60’s material (personal notes, private correspondences, -newspaper clippings, etc.) is contributed by his wife Alice to the -American Heritage Center (University of Wyoming) in Laramie, WY.
-Type: death
-Reference: link
-Location: Palm Springs, CA

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Event 5529 -(0535F7B3)

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Date: 6/27/1964
-Description: Teenage UFO buffs Allen -H. Greenfield, Rick -Hilberg, and Dale Rettig hold the first Congress of Scientific -Ufologists in Cleveland, Ohio. It becomes an annual meeting and changes -its name to the National UFO Conference, which runs until 2005. -(Wikipedia, “National -UFO Conference”; “Ufologists -to Meet,” Lexington (Ky.) Herald, June 22, 1964, p. 20; Story, p. 91; -David Halperin, “Cleveland -2015: ’Congress of Scientific Ufologists’ -50th Reunion,” davidhalperin.net, June 25, 2015; National UFO -Conference, “Congress -of Scientific UFOlogists”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3776

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Event 5530 -(C8B29F79)

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Date: 6/29/1964
-Description: Brilliantly lit top-shaped object made head-on passes at -car, paced ahead of it, hovering and darting motions
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lavonia, GA
-ID: 15

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Event 5531 -(EDC9B46F)

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Date: 6/30/1964
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Beauford -E. Parham is driving near Lavonia, Georgia, on his way back from a -business trip when he notices a brilliant light in the sky. It is moving -towards his car at a 45° angle. In an instant it appears right in front -of his headlights, no more than 5 feet away and a foot above the ground. -Shaped like a giant top, it emits a “hissing sound like a million -snakes.” The amber-colored UFO has a sharp, steeple-like cone rising -from its top midsection. It moves above his car leaving a strong odor of -embalming fluid and a gaseous vapor that leaves an oily substance over -his car, even after repeated washings. After several passes over his -car, it starts spinning and takes off vertically. Parham now notices his -arms are beginning to burn. He immediately reports his sighting to the -mayor of Lavonia, then personnel at the Anderson Regional Airport in -South Carolina, where he meets local FAA officials who check his car for -radiation. They get readings from the oily stains, as well as both his -arms from the shoulder down. (“Man -Claims Car Buzzed by an Unknown Object,” Greenwood (S.C.) -Index-Journal, July 3, 1964, p. 5; NICAP, “Lavonia -/ Tallulah Case (Radiation)”; Schopick, pp. 71–72; -Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 5–7; Clark III 678–680)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3777

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Event 5532 -(45698E14)

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Date: 7/1964
-Description: NICAP report, The UFO Evidence, released to Congress and -news media.
-Type: report
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 16

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Event 5533 -(47D62510)

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Date: 7/7/1964
-Description: Around 9:00 p.m. Three members of the Henry -Ivester family in Turnerville, Georgia, are watching TV when sudden -interference prevents them from further viewing. They go out on the -front porch and see an object moving silently above the trees 300 feet -away. It stops to hover a few feet above a neighbor’s garden across the -highway. Its bottom side is fully visible; on the dark upper side are -three lights: red, clear, red. The red lights are blinking. As the -object ascends, the lights go out. A brilliant green light then shines -from the bottom, illuminating the trees. A foul odor “like embalming -fluid or brake fluid” hangs in the air after the object leaves. (“Unearthly -Objects Hovering -in Sky?” Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, July 17, 1964, p. 23; Schopick, pp. 72–73; -Clark III 679; “An Interesting -UFO Story from Georgia,” The Paranormal Effect, October 3, -2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3778

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Event 5534 -(94BE83F3)

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Date: 7/7/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Nine persons from three different houses, including J. -Ivester, described an object like “a flying top.” TV interference was -associated with the object’s presence. It flew silently at tree height -and hovered over the vard of Mrs. Russell Mickinan’s house. The lower -part was bright red, with three lights on the upper part. As it left, a -green light illuminated the countryside. A powerful odor similar to -“embalming fluid” was noticeable when police arrived. The next day, -witnesses felt a burning sensation on their faces and arms.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Challenge 39 (Vallee)
-Location: Tallulah Falls, Georgia
-ID: 615

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Event 5535 -(73EB3462)

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Date: 7/12/1964
-Description: Assistant Professor Vyacheslav Zaitsev is aboard a Tupolev -Tu-104 airliner above Bologoye, Tver Oblast, Russia, when he sees a huge -disc with a domed cabin suddenly appear below the aircraft, fly a -parallel course for a while, then swerve abruptly and speed away. (Felix -Ziegel, “Unidentified -Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 28; “Russian -Scientist Confirms Important Cases,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5 -(March 1968): 6; Good Above, p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3779

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Event 5536 -(19B4DB31)

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Date: 7/14/1964
-Description: After 11:00 p.m. Atlanta Constitution reporter Tom -Winfield sees a top-shaped, misty-orange object circling above the -southeast section of Gainesville, Georgia, at about 500 feet. It stops -and hovers a few moments then shoots up out of sight. He takes a photo, -but nothing registers on the film. (“Unearthly -Objects Hovering in Sky?” Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, July 17, 1964, -p. 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3780

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Event 5537 -(3A1EE138)

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Date: 7/14/1964
-Time: evening
-Description: Miss P. Upton came running home nearly hysterical. While -riding bicycles, she and a friend saw a low-flying object that terrified -them. A strong unpleasant smell also was reported.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Nov., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Tallulah Falls, Georgia
-ID: 616

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Event 5538 -(59ADBA0E)

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Date: 7/15/1964
-Description: MP Arthur -Henderson in the UK House of Commons asks the former Secretary of -State for Air Hugh -Fraser about cooperation between the RAF and USAF in UFO -investigations. Fraser says he is aware of the US Project Blue Book, and -that 10% of the cases are insufficient evidence. (Good Above, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3781

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Event 5539 -(B550A835)

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Date: 7/16/1964
-Time: 11:15 PM
-Description: Witness: Northern Air Service pilot K. Jannereth. Four -white lights in a stepped-up echelon formation, were joined by two more. -They closed in on the airplane, then rapidly slowed nd flew along with -it for a total of 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 15 miles south of Houghton Lake, Michigan
-ID: 506

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Event 5540 -(B2285EF5)

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Date: 7/16/1964
-Description: Shortly after noon. Five boys (Edmund Travis, Randy Travis, -Floyd Moore, Billy Dunlap, and Gary Dunlap) are playing around an apple -tree at Conklin, New York, when they notice a shiny, dome-shaped object -in a field along the roadside. Looking for the source of a whistling -sound, the boys spot a 3-foot-tall humanoid figure crouching in a tree -about 150 feet away. It is dressed in a shiny black uniform, -short-sleeved shirt, and black helmet. The whistling appears to emanate -from his stomach. The boys throw stones and apples at it, but the figure -is too far away. After about 15 minutes, the figure, moving stiffly, -falls backwards out of the tree and floats slowly into the bushes. They -can see it crawling through the weeds back to the UFO. A round, -flattened area is found in the field where the grass is crushed and -bushes are broken. In the middle is dried, yellow moss that apparently -has been subjected to great heat. Three depressions are where the UFO -legs apparently were. (Clark III 296–297; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July -10, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3782

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Event 5541 -(B4F88399)

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Date: 7/16/1964
-Time: 1500
-Description: Edmund Travis, 9, Randy Travis, 7 Floyd Moore, 10, and two -other boys, saw a dwarf dressed in a black suit and a helmet, with a -glass section in front of his face, which looked human. He appeared to -request some water in a strange tone, which sounded “as if it came from -a pipe.” He then walked to a shiny machine partially hidden in the -brush, as the boys ran home.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 59 (Vallee)
-Location: Conklin, New York
-ID: 617

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Event 5542 -(38A33C61)

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Date: 7/16/1964
-Description: Humanoid with dark suit and helmet, climbed on top of -craft. Physical traces found at site
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Conklin, NY
-ID: 17

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Event 5543 -(86EDE943)

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Date: 7/16/1964
-Description: Pilot observed formation of four white lights joined by two -others, paced aircraft for five minutes
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Houghton Lake, MI
-ID: 18

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Event 5544 -(1BD994A0)

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Date: 7/20/1964
-Time: 4:45 AM
-Description: Witness: J.J. Winkle. One 60’ diameter round-topped, -flat-bottomed object with a long acetylene-colored flame shooting -downward, flew straight and level, made a half loop, then rose up. -Sighting lasted l minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Littleton, Illinois
-ID: 507

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Event 5545 -(D41ACB12)

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Date: late 7/1964
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Richard H. VanPelt and his teenage son are -driving on Beeler Road south of Shawnee High School in Lima, Ohio, when -they see a Saturn-shaped metallic object hovering above Breese Road 600 -feet away. It is about 1,200–1,500 feet in the air and has a revolving -ring around its center. It suddenly starts to move to the southwest, -then tips on end and with tremendous speed goes straight up and out of -sight. (Richard H. VanPelt, “Letter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 3 (June/July 1984): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3783

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Event 5546 -(E0D3137D)

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Date: 7/27/1964
-Time: 8:20 PM
-Description: Witness: A. Borsa. One white ball of fire, the size of a -car, climbed slowly, then speeded up. Sighting lasted 2-3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Denver, Colorado
-ID: 509

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Event 5547 -(A8345555)

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Date: 7/27/1964
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Duabert, engineering supervisor. One aluminum -sphere with a luminous ring, remained stationary for 4-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Norwich, New York
-ID: 508

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Event 5548 -(3AD9BB84)

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Date: 7/27/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: An engineer stopped his car when he saw an aluminum-looking -object, stationary, about 15 m above ground. The edge of the craft -seemed fluorescent, and three beams of very bright light were emitted -before it flew off at high speed. Total duration: 6 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Sherburne, New York
-ID: 618

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Event 5549 -(6ABE2DFD)

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Date: 7/27/1964
-Description: Aluminum-colored sphere with luminous ring hovered for four -to five minutes. Air Force unidentified case
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Norwich, NY
-ID: 19

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Event 5550 -(21D2B464)

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Date: 7/28/1964
-Time: 2230
-Description: A former Navy pilot and another man, both regarded as -trustworthy, were at work in a field when they saw an intense light, -cone-shaped, emitted from the ground. A similar light was observed in -the sky when the one on ground was turned off, then the reverse took -place. A round, aluminum-looking object, about 10 m in diameter, with -one red and one white light, then appeared and descended to ground level -with a strong whistling sound similar to a small jet. Piercing and -high-pitched voices similar to those of children playing were heard. -After 40 min the craft took off. Before it did so, a jet aircraft flying -at low altitude circled its position. On Jul. 31 and August 1, the -densely wooded area was explored from a helicopter and on foot by -Sheriff Nickell and a U.S. Air Force officer, but nothing was -found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lake Chelan, Washington
-ID: 619

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Event 5551 -(AFA3B672)

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Date: 7/29/1964
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 20

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Event 5552 -(708A297E)

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Date: 7/30/1964
-Description: A whitish, elliptical object followed a car, then landed in -a field. The driver got out to observe it, but when the object started -in his direction he became afraid and drove off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Sep., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Flemington, New Jersey
-ID: 620

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Event 5553 -(63AAF612)

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Date: 8/1964
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Raimo Blomqvist is visiting with his parents at -their summer cottage at Kallavesi lake, Finland, when he suddenly -notices a strange, colorful ball of light coming from the sky. The light -approaches and turns out to be an oval glowing object. While it is -hovering above the shallow water of an island he sees something fall -from the object and hears a sound resembling hot metal touching cold -water. The object shoots straight upward. Blomqvist recovers a -2–2.5-inch piece of stone. In 1975, Blomqvist contacts UFO investigators -and gives them the stone. The fragment is x-ray analyzed at Åbo Akademi -University in Turku, which states that it appears to be volcanic. -Analysts at the University of Turku look at it with a mass spectrometer -and conclude it is mostly iron, not a piece of ore, not volcanic, not a -meteorite, and not machined, although it has been subjected to a -temperature of around 650° C. (“Fragment -Fell from UFO,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 6 (December 1977): 1, 3; -“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 3 (Mar. 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3784

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Event 5554 -(6CB3AD95)

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Date: 8/1964
-Description: Midnight. Air Policeman Arthur McEnaney and other guards -see a round UFO hovering above a four-silo Atlas complex near Francis E. -Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming. (Nukes 159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3785

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Event 5555 -(100981BC)

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Date: 8/2/1964
-Description: Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Vietnam

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Event 5556 -(EFD97852)

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Date: 8/7/1964
-Description: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is passed, airstrikes against -Vietnam begin
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Vietnam

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Event 5557 -(5D278644)

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Date: 8/9/1964
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Baltazar Flores, Franciso Perez, Ruben Lozaya, -and Elpidio Salas are camping near the Cerro Viejo, Sonora, Mexico, -where they plan to explore for minerals. Suddenly a “dark, cloud-like -object” approaches at high speed. As it passes by, the trees shake and -they hear an explosion. They return the next day and less than 2 miles -from their campsite they find a compact, gelatinous mass of -green-turquoise color about 8 inches long. When they poke it with a -stick, the stick becomes covered with a sticky substance like chewing -gun. They report the incident to the authorities, but no one is -interested. One of the witnesses returns 3 days later and finds most of -the mass gone, with some residue on the rocks and grass. (“Strange -Gelatinous Fall in Mexico,” APRO Bulletin, November 1964, p. 1; -Clark III 1102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3786

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Event 5558 -(55F625B1)

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Date: 8/10/1964
-Time: 5:16 AM
-Description: Witnesses: aircraft commander Capt. B.C. Jones and -navigator lst Lt. H.J. Cavender, in parked USAF C-124 transport plane. -One reddish, blinking light approached the runway, stopped and made -several reverses during 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wake Island
-ID: 510

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Event 5559 -(091AF39A)

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Date: 8/10/1964
-Description: Blinking red light approached air base runway, hovered, -reversed direction. Air Force unidentified case
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wake Island
-ID: 21

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Event 5560 -(4E222BC8)

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Date: 8/11/1964
-Description: 5:30 p.m. John Dodson, 15, and Frankie Jimenez, 14, are -walking near the railroad tracks south of State Highway 281 east of -Defiance, Ohio, not too far from the General Motors foundry. They see a -slowly rotating whitish disc apparently hovering above a GM water tank. -The object has a lighted flange-like base, a dome on top, and is making -a whirring or hissing noise. It begins to move horizontally at a -moderate speed, then shoots up vertically and disappears. (“Maney -Reports Boys’ Sighting,” APRO Bulletin, November 1964, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3787

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Event 5561 -(B3A36AB0)

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Date: 8/11/1964
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 22

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Event 5562 -(28CA5752)

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Date: 8/12/1964
-Time: 2200
-Description: Witnesses got out of their car to watch an object -resembling a “burning haystack,” oval or crescent-shaped, which rose -from the ground, crossed the sky, and was lost to sight in the -south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Brekkens Corner, Montana
-ID: 621

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Event 5563 -(38F2381A)

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Date: 8/15/1964
-Time: 1:20 AM
-Description: Witness: S.F. D’Alessandro. One 10’x5’ bullet-shaped object -with wavy lines on the rounded front part and six pipes along the -straight rear portion, made a “whishhh” sound. Witness’ dog growled -during sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: New York, New York
-ID: 511

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Event 5564 -(29900B22)

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Date: 8/15/1964
-Time: 8:15 AM
-Description: Witnesses: E.J. Haug, of the San Francisco Orchestra and -the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and C.R. Bubb, a high school -mathematics teacher. Three bright silver, round objects, in a stack -formation, flew very fast, changing positions within the formation. The -sound of rushing air was heard during the 3-4 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Yosemite National Park, California
-ID: 512

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Event 5565 -(234641B6)

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Date: 8/18/1964
-Description: 12:35 a.m. USAF Major D. W. Thompson and First Pilot 1st -Lt. J. F. Jonke are flying a C-124 transport with the 31st Air Transport -Squadron, 1607th Air Transport Wing, 200 miles east of Dover AFB in -Delaware at 9,000 feet over the North Atlantic. A blurred reddish-white -glare appears ahead and 500 feet below them on a collision course. -Thompson takes evasive action, and the light makes a right turn and -disappears. Air traffic control shows nothing on their radar in that -location. (NICAP, “Object -on Collision Course with C-124”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, -Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 50–51; -Sparks, -p. 300)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3788

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Event 5566 -(16230A73)

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Date: 8/18/1964
-Time: 12:35 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Maj. D.W. Thompson and First Pilot lst Lt. J.F. -Jonke, on a USAF C-124 transport plane. One round, blurred, -reddish-white object was on a collision course with the C-124 from ahead -and below. The airplane evaded the object. Sighting las ted 2 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Atlantic Ocean, 200 miles east of Dover, Delaware
-ID: 513

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Event 5567 -(65893120)

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Date: 8/22/1964
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Robert -D. Briele, an -engineer for WFBR-AM radio, and a friend watch a lighted triangular -object pass directly overhead in Baltimore, Maryland. Through binoculars -he can see a steady white light at each corner. A small green light is -also on one corner and a red light in the center. The object moves -slowly and silently from northeast to southwest, disappearing in 10 -minutes. (“UFO -Sighting Wave Persists,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 12 -(Sept./Oct. 1964): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3789

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Event 5568 -(88B3C74F)

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Date: 8/25/1964
-Time: 2230
-Description: Richard Pratt, 17, heard a whistling noise and saw a -silvery, oval object surrounded with a soft white glow, supporting a -dome, which went down to ground level. A similar object had been -observed one hour earlier at Littleton, about 50 km west, by four boys. -It was described as silvery gray, with three blinking red lights and a -white light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Sep., 64 (Vallee)
-Location: Lynn, Massachusetts
-ID: 622

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Event 5569 -(CF7DADE8)

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Date: 8/30/1964
-Description: Night. Clifford Runyon and Connie Thies are driving from -Tipton to Bennett, Iowa, when they see a cigar- shaped object with two -bright lights hovering 500 feet up in the eastern sky. The UFO climbs as -they drive toward it, and their radio goes out and the car engine -sputters. (“UFO -Sighting Wave Persists,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 12 -(Sept./Oct. 1964): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3790

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Event 5570 -(B024AB8B)

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Date: 9/4/1964
-Description: Declassified documents show that from 1962 through 1964, -the CIA has spent a total of $2.6 million to finance the campaign of Eduardo -Frei Montalva for the presidency of Chile and spent $3 million in -anti–Salvador Allende propaganda -“to scare voters away from Allende’s FRAP coalition.” Richard -Helms coordinates the action. The CIA considers its role in the -victory of Frei a great success. They argue that “the financial and -organizational assistance given to Frei, the effort to keep [Julio] -Durán in the race, the propaganda campaign to denigrate Allende—were -‘indispensable ingredients of Frei’s success,’” and they think that his -chances of winning and the good progress of his campaign would have been -doubtful without the covert support of the US. Thus, in 1964 Allende -loses once more as the FRAP candidate for president. (Wikipedia, “Salvador -Allende”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3791

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Event 5571 -(81AFE5FC)

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Date: 9/4/1964
-Description: A bow-and-arrow hunter separated from his companions was -treed by humanoid and robot-like beings after a UFO was observed -descending
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Cisco Grove, CA
-ID: 23

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Event 5572 -(4F892AC5)

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Date: 9/5/1964
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Donald Schrum and his friends are bow-and-arrow -hunting in an isolated area of Placer County, California, near the Loch -Leven Lakes in the vicinity of Cisco Grove. Schrum becomes separated -from his companions. At sunset he decides to sleep in a tree for the -night. Later he sees a white light zigzagging at low altitude and, -thinking it is a helicopter, jumps out of the tree and lights fires to -attract its attention. The light turns toward him and stops about 50–60 -yards away. The object’s strange appearance frightens Schrum, so he -climbs back up in the tree. After a while two humanoid beings and a -robot-like creature approach the tree. From then on, Schrum is in a -state of siege as the beings try to dislodge him from the tree. At one -point a white vapor emanates from the robot’s mouth and Schrum blacks -out, but wakes up again, nauseous, and begins lighting matches and -throwing them down to frighten the beings away; they back away. Finally, -he shoots an arrow at the robot; when it hits, there is an arc flash and -the robot is knocked backwards. This is repeated two more times, and the -humanoids scatter each time. A second robot appears and a vapor renders -Schrum unconscious. When he awakes, he discovers that the two humanoids -are climbing up the tree toward him, so he shakes the tree and throws -things down at them to ward them off. The same actions are repeated all -night. Near dawn, more beings approach and “large volumes of smoke” -drift up and he blacks out. He awakes hanging from his belt, and the -creatures are gone. Later, when reunited with his companions, Schrum -finds that one of the other hunters, who also have gotten lost and -separated from their camp, saw the UFO. (NICAP, “Cisco -Grove / Alien Encounter”; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore -Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 17–23; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 210–212; -Sparks, p. 301; -Clark III 236–240; Ted Bloecher and Paul Cerny, “The Cisco Grove Bow and -Arrow Case of 1964,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 16–22, 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3792

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Event 5573 -(5E5782F4)

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Date: 9/5/1964
-Time: 2200
-Description: A hunter, who had lost his way in the mountains, observed -approaching lights that seemed to land. From a vantage point in a tree, -he saw a dome-shaped object at ground level, about 500 m away. Several -creatures, one of them a robotlike figure with “eyes” about 10 cm in -diameter, came near, apparently trying to dislodge the witness from his -tree. The creatures appeared to fear the light from flaming objects -thrown at them. The witness fell asleep after an exhausting series of -attempts to keep the creatures away. At dawn there was nothing to be -seen.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Cisco Grove, California
-ID: 624

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Event 5574 -(01817704)

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Date: 9/5/1964
-Time: 2100
-Description: Chafredo Dagota observed a circular object that came to the -ground briefly. It stood on a sort of pillar and emitted a blinding -light. He caught sight of two figures moving near it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Cofico, Argentina
-ID: 623

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Event 5575 -(41435E6A)

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Date: 9/10/1964
-Time: 7:09 PM
-Description: Witness: chemist P.H. DePaolo. Four white lights, 3-4 -apart, were seen to the north, going west for 45 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cedar Grove, New Jersey
-ID: 514

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Event 5576 -(B6EAA1C5)

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Date: 9/11/1964
-Time: 0600
-Description: Karen Campbell was scared by an oval, dull copper object -that flew low over her car. It measured about 1.2 m in height, had a -dome on top, made a “rushing” noise, and seemed to “float” over the -car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 148 (Vallee)
-Location: Ulysses, Oklahoma
-ID: 625

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Event 5577 -(CC19A610)

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Date: 9/14/1964
-Description: 10:55 p.m. Astronomers Luis Ferro and Renato Matteassi at -the San Miguel Observatory, Buenos Aires, Argentina, watch an object -with the apparent size twice that of the Moon passing across the -constellation Lyra. The central portion is white and green, while the -rear looks like half-rings of blue. Its speed is estimated as three -times the speed of sound. They watch it for 3 minutes moving toward -Jupiter. (Gordon Creighton, “Argentina 1963/1964: -Part IV,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 (May/June 1966): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3793

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Event 5578 -(7072F31F)

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Date: 9/15/1964
-Description: 8:27 a.m. USAF Lt. Robert Jacobs is officer-in-charge of -photo-optical instrumentation for the 1369th Photographic Squadron at -Vandenberg AFB [now Vandenberg Space Force Base] near Lompoc, -California. His crew films an SM-65F Atlas missile launch where a UFO -allegedly causes the ICBM’s warhead to malfunction over Big Sur, -California. At the time of the filming, apparently no one knows anything -about a UFO sighting. But the next morning, Jacobs is ordered to report -to the office of Maj. Florenz -J. Mansmann, First Strategic Aerospace Division, his commanding -officer, where he is shown the film and told to forget it ever happened. -Kingston George, the project engineer for the experiments and who -probably never saw the film, “identified” the object as “nothing to do -with UFOs” in an article in the Skeptical Enquirer. Before Mansmann’s -death, and 40 years after the actual event, the major confirms the UFO -incident in writing. The controversy centers on the opinions of some -researchers who suggest that the telescope imaging system is not -adequate enough to produce the results described by Jacobs and Mannsman. -However, several other researchers have shown that, with the viewing -conditions at the height of the equipment used, and the imaging systems -operating at that shoot, the incident could have occurred as described. -(NICAP, “The -Big Sur Filming / UFO Disables Dummy Warhead?”; Robert Jacobs, “How -a UFO Destroyed an American Rocket,” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 1 -(October 1983): 23–24; Kingston A. George, “The -Big Sur ‘UFO’: An Identified -Flying -Object,” Skeptical Inquirer 17 (Winter 1993): 180–187; Robert -Hastings, “A Shot across the Bow: Another Look at the Big Sur Incident,” -IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 3–11, 20–24; Mark Rodeghier, “Image -Resolution of the Optical System at Big Sur,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January -2007): 20; Robert Hastings, “Answers on Big Sur,” IUR 31, no. 4 -(Mar. 2008): 18; Robert L. Hastings, “UFOs Are -Stalking and Intercepting Dummy Nuclear Warheads during Test -Flights,” UFOs & Nukes, August 23, 2011; Nukes 187–217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3794

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Event 5579 -(1D01695A)

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Date: 9/15/1964
-Description: James Warren was awakened by a noise, and saw an object -bearing blinking red and green lights fly over his house at treetop -level. He called the police, who also reported seeing the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Jan., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Core Lane, Louisiana
-ID: 626

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Event 5580 -(8A761114)

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Date: 9/16/1964
-Description: 6:55 p.m. Several teenagers at Little Hulton, Greater -Manchester, England, watch a noiseless, pearly white triangular object -traveling with its base forward toward the north. (“Manchester -Disbeliever’s Testimony,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1964): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3795

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Event 5581 -(C0CDBC1C)

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Date: 9/18/1964
-End date: 9/24/1964
-Description: Numerous high-speed UFOs are reported and tracked on radar -in an area between Surabaya, Malang, and Bangkalan, Java, Indonesia. -Antiaircraft batteries and Air Force pilots reportedly open fire on -them, even though officials suspect they could be British aircraft from -the HMS -Victorious protecting Malaysia. (Good Above, p. 429; -Rahadian Rundjan, “Mencari -UFO di Langit Indonesia,” Historia, June 19, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3796

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Event 5582 -(EA37E1A1)

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Date: 10/1964
-Description: An engineer and three technicians at the Wallops Flight -Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, see a triangular- shaped object -speed in from the north, make a 90° turn, and disappear in under a -minute. They all agree that it moved faster than a jet. (Harold H. -Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): -48– 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3798

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Event 5583 -(FBC5ED28)

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Date: 10/1964
-Description: Air Force and Army radar stations tracked an UFO as it -hovered over and flew along the demilitarized zone between North and -South Korea. The UFO was visible for over an hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Korea

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Event 5584 -(FC0B73A0)

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Date: 10/7/1964
-Description: 11:10 p.m. R. Shannon and his wife see a blood-red triangle -in the sky above Dulwich, London, England. They watch it for 10 minutes -before it begins revolving swiftly, almost to a blur, then explodes -silently and disappears. (R. Shannon, “Dulwich -De-Materialisation?” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1965): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3799

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Event 5585 -(C64354BD)

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Date: 10/11/1964
-Description: Engineer, others, observed dome-shaped object following jet -fighters. UFO shot straight up and out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Brockton, MA
-ID: 24

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Event 5586 -(26496E17)

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Date: late 1964
-Description: Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander 1Lt. Philip E. Moore -is on duty in Site 7 (east of Hagerman, New Mexico), one of the 579th -Strategic Missile Squadron’s underground Atlas missile launch facilities -at Walker AFB [now closed] in Roswell, New Mexico. He gets a call from -an adjacent missile silo around 10–15 miles away, saying that a UFO is -hovering and maneuvering over their site. Maj. Dan Gilbert sends three -enlisted crew members—T/Sgt. Jack Nevins, Airman1C Bob Garner, and -Airman 1C Mike Rundag—above ground to see what is going on. They see a -silent light that moves very quickly (instant stop and instant go) back -and forth between Site 6 and Site 8. Gilbert goes up and sees the same -activity. (Nukes 152–157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3797

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Event 5587 -(4BFCC995)

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Date: 10/22/1964
-Description: Flying Saucer Review editor Waveney -Girvan dies, and Charles -Bowen takes control and oversees the magazine until 1982, its most -influential period. (Charles Bowen, “Our -Friend Waveney Girvan,” Flying Saucer Review 10, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1964): 5; Clark III 498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3800

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Event 5588 -(5336784E)

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Date: 10/29/1964
-Description: 12:00 midnight–3:00 a.m. Irene Page watches a sparkling -ball of light that maneuvers around her yard, illuminating her property -in Brimfield, Massachusetts. When she first sees it, the TV set fades, -and lights in the room blink on and off several times. (“Flashing -UFO Seen Three Hours,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1965, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3801

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Event 5589 -(F9B9E8E1)

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Date: 11/1964
-Time: 2300
-Description: Mr. Lehel observed a lighted object at hilltop level, about -700 m away. At the site, a wide circle of crushed vegetation was found, -three branches were broken, and a pole was calcined.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 76 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint-Alexis de Montcalm, Canada
-ID: 627

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Event 5590 -(BB477CDE)

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Date: 11/3/1964
-Description: 8:15 p.m. A barking dog alerts the caretaker of the Butano -Creek Girl Scout Camp near Pescadero, California. He goes outside and -sees a bright light maneuvering erratically in the northeast. He flashes -an SOS signal at it with a flashlight, and the light silently moves -toward him. He flashes more SOS signals and it moves even closer, -hovering above some trees a half mile away and moving back and forth. It -lights up the sky like a full moon. The caretaker and another employee -run into a cabin to get their wives. The four watch for a while longer, -then flash another SOS. The light approaches again, then retreats, dims, -and takes off. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -p. 242)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3802

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Event 5591 -(E19B08D8)

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Date: 11/5/1964
-Description: J. -Allen Hynek writes to a citizen interested in the Socorro, New -Mexico, case and affirms his opinion that Lonnie -Zamora’s story was “told by a man who obviously was frightened badly -by what he did see.” He says he cannot dismiss it as a hoax or -hallucination. (Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from -the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010): 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3803

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Event 5592 -(B365D329)

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Date: 11/9/1964
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Trevor Foss responds to his son’s call to watch a -light in the northern sky over Kailoa Station, Gisborne, New Zealand. -Through night binoculars he sees a ball of light traveling south toward -him. It takes 5 minutes to reach the southern horizon and has rotating -light beams that project downward and to the rear, as well as 6 jet-like -blue flames. (“Farmer -Observes Sphere,” APRO Bulletin, January 1965, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3804

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Event 5593 -(65AAE2FB)

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Date: 11/14/1964
-Description: Midnight. Astronomers at the San Miguel Observatory, Buenos -Aires, Argentina, see an elongated, flat, reddish-orange object crossing -the sky from east to west and then back again at a speed 4.5 times that -of a satellite. (“Mystery -Object over Argentina,” APRO Bulletin, January 1965, p. 2; Gordon -Creighton, “Argentina 1963/1964: -Part IV,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 (May/June 1966): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3805

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Event 5594 -(A03F754E)

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Date: 11/14/1964
-Time: 9:40 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Dr. G.R. Wagner, MD; and two girls. Three dim, -reddish lights flew through a 160^ arc in 5-6 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Menominee Falls, Wisconsin
-ID: 515

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Event 5595 -(E7159DA2)

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Date: 11/19/1964
-Description: 9:00 p.m. The USS -Gyatt destroyer is stationed in the Atlantic Ocean about 220 miles -northwest of Puerto Rico when its radar detects a bogey approaching the -island from the northeast at speeds exceeding Mach 1. The ship relays a -message to Roosevelt Roads Naval Station [now José Aponte de la Torre -Airport] in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, which then contacts Lt. Cmdr. K. H. -Woodsbury, pilot of an F-8C aircraft of Utility Squadron Eight that is -already flying in the neighborhood at an altitude of 30,000 feet. The -aircraft reports a stranger closing in very fast. The pilot describes -the object as delta-shaped and about the size of a fighter. Its color is -black or gray and it has no contrail or lights except for a light source -emitting from the tail during periods of acceleration. The pilot pursues -the object but cannot intercept. The target accelerates out of sight in -a wide starboard turn climbing through 50,000 feet at about an 18°–20° -angle in excess of Mach 1. Woodsbury says: “Its speed, acceleration, -ceiling and ability to decelerate exceed any aircraft I have ever seen -or heard of. There is no reasonable explanation for this target.” During -the encounter the SPS-49 radar is jammed for a short period of time. -Other radar encounters take place in the Caribbean November 16–18 and -24. (NICAP, “U.S.S. -Gyatt Tackles Bogey”; Sparks, p. 302)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3806

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Event 5596 -(6DA01688)

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Date: 11/19/1964
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Witnesses: unidentified military persons. One bright white -flashing light was travelling from horizon to horizon in 20 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 1,400 miles east of Tokyo, Japan (34’ 55’ N, 164’ 05’ E)
-ID: 516

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Event 5597 -(550A9C8C)

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Date: 11/21/1964
-Description: The FBI sends Martin -Luther King Jr. a “suicide package” note that contains audio -recordings of his sexual indiscretions and a letter telling him, “There -is only one way out for you.” The FBI’s COINTELPRO program is also -targeting Malcolm -X. (Wikipedia, -“COINTELPRO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3807

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Event 5598 -(74BF6E80)

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Date: 11/22/1964
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Private pilot George -Henry Lissauer is driving near Georgetown, South Carolina, when he -sees two large, silvery, oval-shaped UFOs, each accompanied by 6–8 -smaller objects. The formations are moving slowly at about 3,000 feet -altitude. After 2–3 minutes, the smaller objects go into the larger -objects and disappear. Lissauer goes directly to Myrtle AFB [now Myrtle -Beach International Airport] and reports them. (“Increased Landings -Hint New UFO Phase,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 3 (June/July 1965): 2; -Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 -(Summer 2004): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3808

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Event 5599 -(EE63CD24)

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Date: 11/25/1964
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A 29-year-old woman sees two lighted objects -land on a hilltop near New Berlin, New York. Through binoculars she can -see some 9–11 humanoid beings apparently engaged in repair work on a -round object with landing struts for four hours. Some of them are -holding boxes filled with unusual gadgets. The next day, she and her -husband and father-in-law find two equilateral triangular imprints on -the site, as well as a cable with some thin aluminum strips and -insulation. Around 4:55 a.m., one UFO shoots straight up and abruptly -disappears, while the other rises straight up a minute later and follows -the other one. (Berthold E. Schwarz, “New -Berlin UFO Landing -and Repair by Crew,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3–4 (November -1975): 22–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3809

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Event 5600 -(44E53C81)

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Date: 11/25/1964
-Description: Two objects landed on hilltop, large group of humanoid -beings engaged in apparent repair operation for four hours
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New Berlin, NY
-ID: 25

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Event 5601 -(55A85AF1)

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Date: 11/26/1964
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A family of five in Adams, Wisconsin, is -returning home from Thanksgiving dinner when an extremely bright light -appears over their car, completely shutting off its headlights and -radio. The father jumps out of the car and looks straight up into the -light, shading his eyes with his hands, but he is persuaded to come -back. Suddenly the light disappears and the electrical systems return. -No one talks about the incident for 16 years, when the father says the -light was “motionless like a floodlight of gigantic proportion.” (“Recently -Reported,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 (October 1981): 5; -“Out of the Not-Too-Distant Past.” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 -(Jan./Feb. 1982): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3810

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Event 5602 -(A1FD4A1A)

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Date: 12/1964
-End date: 1/1965
-Description: sighting concentration around Washington, DC, which led to -CIA contact with NICAP to obtain information.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Washington DC
-ID: 27

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Event 5603 -(306DB684)

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Date: 12/10/1964
-Description: Recovery of Saucer by A.K. (initials).
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Fort Riley, KA
-See also: 11/65

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Event 5604 -(BC2F9891)

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Date: 12/19/1964
-Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP case #(censured): -Subject: UFOs over Patuxent Naval Air Station between 1500 and 1530 -hours. Two UFOs approached Air Base at 3800 mph. Another UFO approached -at 6000 mph. Radar operator, Chief Pinkerton had visual on Radar. US -Coast Guard had “visual” on the UFOs. Official statement to press: the -(single) blip was caused by faulty radar equipment!
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Patuxent Naval Air Station
-See also: 1/25/65

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Event 5605 -(A47FCD15)

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Date: 12/19/1964
-Description: 3:50 p.m. Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland -tracks two large targets on radar moving at 6,900 mph. (Harold H. -Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): -46–47; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 87; -Sparks, -p. 303)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3811

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Event 5606 -(0C2F4BF7)

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Date: 12/21/1964
-Description: 4:50 p.m. Kenneth Norton Jr., 14, is looking out his -bedroom window in Staunton, Virginia, when he sees a “fast-moving object -without wings or tail structure.” He describes it as cigar-shaped and -about 125 feet in diameter, in view for 5 seconds. (Richmond (Va.) -Times-Dispatch, January 15, 1965; “‘Saucer’ -Reports Are Flying,” -Staunton (Va.) Daily News Leader, January 15, 1965, p. 2; Clark III -493)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3812

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Event 5607 -(B5C91870)

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Date: 12/21/1964
-Time: 1700
-Description: Mr. Burns saw a huge object cross the road, hover at ground -level in a field for less than one min, then take off vertically. There -were other witnesses in the area.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Harrisonburg, Viginia
-ID: 628

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Event 5608 -(E14571BF)

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Date: 12/21/1964
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Driving east on US Highway 250, Horace Burns is -approaching Fishersville, Virginia, when an enormous object appears from -the north and descends slowly in a gradual slant. Just before it crosses -the highway 200 feet in front of him, the UFO narrowly misses power -lines. It is so huge that when it passes nearly in front of him, it -fills his entire windshield. The UFO comes down gently and lands in a -field to Burns’s right. Meanwhile, Burns’s car engine has shut off. The -object appears to be at least 125 feet in diameter and 80–90 feet high. -After 60–90 seconds, it rises up several hundred feet, makes a sound -like rushing air, and shoots off to the northeast, vanishing from sight. -A high level of radioactivity is detected at the site December 30 by -investigators German professor Ernest -G. Gehman and engineer Harry M. Cook. They obtain a Geiger counter -reading of 16–18 milliR/hr. Two Blue Book investigators—T/Sgt. David N. -Moody and S/Sgt. Harold T. Jones—visit the site with Gehman on January -12 and take further readings (1.5 milliR/hr on Burns’s left rear car -door). They dispute Gehman’s earlier results, but a possible 11x–12x -drop in radiation level in 13 days possibly indicates a radionuclide -with a 3–4 day half-life. (“‘Saucer’ -Reports Are -Flying,” Staunton (Va.) Daily News Leader, January 15, 1965, -pp. 1–2; NICAP, “Car -Engine Fails after Object Lands”; “Opposition -Flap 1965,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 3 (May/June 1965): 3–4; -Clark III 491–494, 950; Sparks, -p. 303)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3813

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Event 5609 -(B25ABA2C)

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Date: 12/21/1964
-Description: Cone-shaped object crossed highway, car engine failed, -object landed. Radioactive area found at landing site
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Staunton, VA
-ID: 26

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Event 5610 -(FC5EAE2A)

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Date: 12/22/1964
-Description: The first flight of an SR-71 Blackbird takes place at Air -Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, piloted by Robert J. Gilliland. -The SR-71 reaches a top speed of Mach 3.4 (~2,588 mph) during flight -testing. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -SR-71 Blackbird”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3815

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Event 5611 -(D7AD3EA0)

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Date: 12/22/1964
-Description: A D-21 drone (renamed from Q-12 in its transition to -Project Tagboard) mounted on an M-21 begins captive flight-testing at -Area 51 in Nevada. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -D-21”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3814

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Event 5612 -(FA1370CE)

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Date: 12/28/1964
-Description: Two young girls, R. Bender and J. Quinn, observed an object -flying 17 m above the ground. It was shaped like two plates glued -together, with two rows of intense lights, and a turret with a green -light on top. When an opening became visible, the witnesses thought the -thing was about to land, and they fled.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Spaceview (Vallee)
-Location: Auckland, New Zealand
-ID: 629

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- Event 5613 (2AA41E68)

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Date: 1965
-Description: While visiting the Air Force Museum in Fairborn, Ohio, R.M. -(initials), a government employee of 23 yrs., went through a double- -door marked “Off Limits” and suddenly came face to face with an Alien in -a self contained space suite. Description: About 4.5 ft. tall with a -translucent dome over its’ large head; wasn’t human; large eyes under a -heavy brow; no noticeable nose; a slit for a mouth; bluish skin. When -the creature walked it didn’t bend its’ knees. R.M. later found out from -a retired Air Force Colonel from Wight-Patterson AFB, that 2 live Aliens -were held in captivity in an artificial environment. The Colonel also -said that a 2-man sized craft crashed near Whitewater Lake, Indiana, as -a result of an electrical disturbance in the atmosphere. (The Alien -would have to lock his knees in a high-gravity environment to avoid -falling down.)
-Type: alien sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)
-Location: Fairborn, Ohio

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Event 5614 -(FF47FC18)

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Date: 1965
-Description: G. J. Kok and S. Sluis found the Werkgroep Nederlands -Onderzoek Bureau voor UFOs (later UFO-Workgroep Nederland) in -Uithuizermeeden, Netherlands. It publishes Tijdschrift voor Ufologie. -(Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 215)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3822

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Event 5615 -(4F2BCCF8)

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Date: 1965
-Description: Tomezo Hirata founds the Japan UFO Research Association in -Kobe, Japan. It publishes JUFORA from 1967 to 1991.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3823

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Event 5616 -(31D74424)

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Date: 1965
-Description: Ross Liverton reports a ring of bare earth, 8 feet wide, in -the ground on Waiheke Island, New Zealand, where a UFO is seen. It -remains visible for 4 years. The site contains some unidentified whitish -material that resolves into fibers during a soil immersion test. Vallée -says the material is “vegetal in nature.” (Vallée, Invisible College, -pp. 36–37; Ted Phillips, “Landing -Report from Delphos,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 9 -(February 1972): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3824

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Event 5617 -(CCCD5130)

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Date: 1965
-Description: A couple is driving on a country road in Buenos Aires -province, Argentina, when their car engine begins to fail, so they pull -over in front of a tree. They notice an object behind the tree that -emits a luminous ray toward them that bends at three places, vertically -and horizontally, to avoid the tree. The woman’s cheek feels as if -something is probing her. (Jean Bastide, La Mémoire des OVNI, Mercure de -France, 1978; “Beam -of Light with Three Corners,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 (Dec, 1983/Jan. 1984): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3825

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Event 5618 -(978BEC83)

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Date: 1965
-Description: A short color film of a “huge, windowed, hovering craft” -with three smaller objects attached to it “as a kind of tail” is taken -by a converted RAAF aircraft during a photo-mapping flight over central -Australia. A door on the large object opens—two vertical panels and two -horizontally aligned panels slide apart—and the three smaller objects -fly inside. A US Air Force sergeant with a top-secret clearance is shown -this clip at a CIA screening in Texas in 1967. He says the filmed image -of the UFO is extraordinarily clear, filling the entire screen. (Budd -Hopkins, Missing Time, R. Marek, 1981, p. 253)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3826

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Event 5619 -(A4CD16F8)

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Date: 1965 (approximate)
-Description: A-12 pilot Ken -Collins continues to test A-12s at Groom Lake, Nevada. One night (in -1964 or 1965 maybe), he is awakened by base commander Col. Hugh -“Slip” Slater and asked to take an A-12 up to find a Russian -reconnaissance balloon that is floating in American airspace in a -westerly direction with the prevailing winds. Collins is tasked with -finding the balloon visually and using radar. In the air, he realizes it -is a wild goose chase because, flying at 2,200 mph, even if he sees the -balloon briefly it would be behind him in a second. He identifies an -object on radar 350 miles away. He circles it as closely as he can, -which is a circle with a radius of 400 miles. He never makes visual -contact and returns to Area 51. Jacobsen says -that this Soviet violation of US airspace has “never been declassified.” -(Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 195–196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3816

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Event 5620 -(86EED3DC)

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Date: 1965
-Description: USAF Gen. Curtis -LeMay writes in his autobiography that some UFOs are not explained -very easily: “There is no question about it. These were things which we -could not tie in with any natural phenomena known to our investigators.” -He expresses his dislike of NICAP’s position that USAF is trying to -muzzle the media. “There were some cases we could not explain,” he -writes. “Never could.” (Curtis E. LeMay, Mission with LeMay, Doubleday, -1965, pp. 541–543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3817

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Event 5621 -(6A28C1B8)

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Date: 1965
-Description: Less than 20% of the public believes in UFOs, according to -polls and private Air Force and NICAP estimates. This soon rises to 33% -by July. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3818

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Event 5622 -(0A2C1C43)

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Date: 1965
-Description: John Harney begins publication of the Merseyside UFO -Research Group Bulletin in Liverpool, England. (Merseyside -UFO Research Group Bulletin, no. -2 (June 1965))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3819

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Event 5623 -(26691FF0)

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Date: 1965
-Description: Jean-Pierre D’Hondt founds Groupement Nordiste d’Études des -OVNI in Lestrem, Pas-de-Calais, France. It publishes Recherches -Ufologiques from 1977 to 1983. (Recherches -Ufologiques, no. -1 (1977))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3820

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Event 5624 -(2A93523A)

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Date: 1965
-Description: Jacques Bonabot, Jean-Gérard Dohmen, and Roger Lorthioir -found Groupement pour l’Étude des Sciences d’Avant-Garde in Bruges, -Belgium. It publishes Bulletin du GESAG. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO -Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3821

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Event 5625 -(D09A4AE2)

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Date: 1/3/1965
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 28

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Event 5626 -(BD2FDB1B)

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Date: 1/5/1965
-Description: Aerospace engineer watched round glowing object move -rapidly from horizon to nearly overhead
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wallops Island, VA
-ID: 29

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Event 5627 -(4DE0C351)

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Date: 1/5/1965
-Description: 5:56 p.m. NASA engineer Dempsey -Bruton, head of the Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, -Virginia, observes a round, bright-yellow light rising from the horizon. -The apparent size of the object is that of a nickel held at arm’s -length. As the object reaches an overhead position, it disappears. The -length of observation is approximately 8–9 seconds. The witness claims -that his wife and brother-in-law also see the object. (NICAP, “Bright -Yellow Light Flies Ahead”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3827

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Event 5628 -(6F3E4364)

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Date: 1/11/1965
-Description: 4:20 p.m. At least 12 persons, including six Army Signal -Corps communications system specialists, at the Munitions Building at -Nineteenth Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., -observe 12–15 white oval objects maneuvering erratically at -12,000–15,000 feet altitude above the US Capitol Building. Two delta- -wing jets, apparently from Andrews AFB in Maryland, are seen in pursuit, -but the objects easily outmaneuver them. Among the witnesses are Paul M. -Dickey Jr., Edward Shad, Sam Webb, Jack McBride, and Sam Marrone. The -objects are also tracked on radar. The Defense Department denies the -incident, but the witnesses publicly maintain their story. The Pentagon -forces a TV crew about to interview the witnesses to shut down that -evening. (NICAP, “Over -a Dozen Ovals Chased by AF Jets”; Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs -Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): 47–48; Frank Edwards, -FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3829

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Event 5629 -(39E68122)

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Date: 1/11/1965
-Description: Army Signal Corps communications system specialists -observed 12-15 white ovals maneuvering erratically, with jets seen in -pursuit
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Washington, DC
-ID: 30

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Event 5630 -(72F6F042)

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Date: 1/11/1965
-Description: Mrs. Paul Zimmerman Gearhart and her two sons see a -triangular UFO that flies slowly out of the southeast and then “suddenly -plunged into the sea some miles offshore” at Tillamook Head, Oregon. It -leaves behind two trails of fire. (Sanderson, InvRes, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3828

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Event 5631 -(C904222D)

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Date: 1/12/1965
-Description: 10:58 a.m. The Kiwi Transient Nuclear Test is conducted at -Area 25 of the Nevada Test Site as part of Project NERVA. The nuclear -rocket engine code-named Kiwi is allowed to overheat until it bursts, -sending fuel hurtling skyward. Deadly radioactive fuel chunks as large -as 148 pounds shoot up into the sky and last as far away as a quarter -mile. A radioactive cloud rises up to 2,600 feet, then drifts out over -Los Angeles, California, and out to sea. The AEC calls it a “safety -test,” but the USSR says it violates the test ban. (Jacobsen, Area 51, -pp. 309– 310; -Wikipedia, “NERVA”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3831

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Event 5632 -(91F2A294)

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Date: 1/12/1965
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Department of Justice Inspector Robert E. -Kerringer [or is it Donald E. Flickinger, an agent of the US Bureau of -Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms?] is driving near Lynden, Washington, -when he sees a low-flying object, 30 feet in diameter, that avoids -collision with his car at the last moment. He gets out and sees it -hovering for one minute, then it flies off at high speed with a sound of -rushing air. He learns that nearby Blaine Air Force Station [now closed] -is tracking the UFO. (NICAP, “Driver -Avoids Collision with 30ʹ Object”; Sparks, p. 303; -“New -Sightings Put AF on Spot,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 (March/April -1965): 4; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp. 54–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3830

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Event 5633 -(0427BA9E)

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Date: 1/12/1965
-Description: Border Patrol officer saw bright disc illuminating ground, -swoop down, hover near car, accelerate up into clouds with rushing air -sound
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lynden, WA
-ID: 31

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Event 5634 -(C9056A4E)

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Date: 1/12/1965
-Time: night
-Description: A member of a federal agency, who was driving toward the -base, saw a low-flying object, 10 m in diameter, which avoided collision -at the last moment. He got out of the car and observed it hovering for -one min, then it flew off. at high speed. The object was tracked on -radar. The same night, a round, glowing object with a dome on top landed -on a nearby farm, melting snow in a 10 m diameter urcle.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Blaine Air Force Base, Washington
-ID: 630

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Event 5635 -(3EE9B477)

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Date: 1/12/1965
-Description: 8:20 p.m. A Mrs. Jubert in Custer, Washington, sees through -her window what seems to be the landing lights of an airplane apparently -coming into her yard. She herds her three teenage girls outside in the -opposite direction. The four lights merge into one intense white light, -which moves in a straight line toward the house, lifts several hundred -feet and clears a clump of evergreens, then dips down on the far side -and touches the ground. A border patrol officer also sees the object -after he is alerted by radio. He is buzzed by the UFO, which is low -enough that he stops his car, gets out, and watches it move out of -sight. Where the object lands in 16 inches of snow, they find a large -circular imprint about 10–12 feet in diameter. The ground beneath the -melted snow ring shows evidence of having been scorched. Oval-shaped -tracks 8 inches long and 8 inches apart, in a single file, are found -leading from the landing site to the evergreens, where they disappear. -One month later, the circular area still shows traces. (“New -Sightings Put AF on Spot,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 (March/April -1965): 4; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 152–153; -Ted Phillips, Physical -Traces Associated with UFO -Sightings, CUFOS, 1975, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3833

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Event 5636 -(411E5FD3)

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Date: 1/12/1965
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A NASA public relations employee named Milliner -and her husband are walking toward their house when they see a bright -yellow object moving swiftly over the Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops -Island, Virginia. They watch it for 2 minutes. (Harold H. Deneault Jr., -“UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3832

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Event 5637 -(E6136E0E)

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Date: 1/14/1965
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Old Dominion college student James -Myers sees a diamond-shaped object rise from the ground to 1,500–2,000 -feet near Norfolk, Virginia. He loses sight of it behind a church and -when it reappears it looks round, bright, and silvery. (Harold H. -Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): -49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3834

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Event 5638 -(F31134D1)

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Date: 1/14/1965
-Time: 2400
-Description: James Myers saw an object rise from the ground, appearing -as a bright, circular silvery craft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Jul., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Norfolk, Virginia
-ID: 631

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Event 5639 -(75ECB4A0)

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Date: 1/15/1965
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Charles Knee Jr., a former newsman, is driving -on State Highway 4A between Wilmot and Enfield, New Hampshire, when the -radio suddenly stops, the lights on the car go out, and the engine -quits. He loses control of the car and pulls to the side of the road and -then hears a loud humming sound like a high- frequency electrical whine. -He opens the car door, steps out, and sees a bright light below the -cloud cover at around 2,000–5,000 feet altitude. It seems to hover for a -moment and then takes off to the south. As the light leaves and the -whine dies away, the headlights and radio come on and the motor starts -by itself. The whole thing lasts about 15–20 seconds. (Manchester (N.H.) -Sunday News, January 16, 1965; Schopick, -pp. 148–150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3836

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Event 5640 -(A2BC699D)

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Date: 1/15/1965
-Description: Soviet subsurface nuclear explosion “Chagan”, crater had a -diameter of 408m, 100m deep
-Type: atomic
-Reference: link
-Location: Kazakhstan
-Atomic type: subsurface
-Atomic KT: 140

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Event 5641 -(8B7CA46E)

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Date: 1/15/1965
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Mathew Rybczyk is watching TV at his home in -Manchester, New Hampshire, when the set goes blank. Going outside to see -if the antenna is damaged, he sees a flashing light moving across the -tree line to the east and making a humming noise. When the light -disappears, the TV set comes on again. (Manchester (N.H.) Sunday News, -January 17, 1965; Schopick, -p. 148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3835

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Event 5642 -(68952FE0)

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Date: 1/19/1965
-Description: Hall also -meets for 90 minutes with retired Navy Capt. John -Lawrence Counihan who is on the staff of Sen. Thomas -J. Dodd (D-Conn.). Counihan says that the Committee on Astronautics -and Space Science would be considered “nutty” if it took up hearings, -but it might be willing to consider an informal briefing by NICAP. -(Swords 306)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3838

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Event 5643 -(AAAF9E7D)

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Date: 1/19/1965
-Description: 6:15 p.m. William -Blackburn, a -draftsman at a General Electric plant, is chopping wood at an archery -range east of Staunton, Virginia, in an area known locally as Brands -Flats. He sees two saucer-like shapes in the sky at 2,000–4,000 feet -altitude. The larger one seems to be about 80 feet across. The smaller -one, 20 feet across, descends quickly and silently and lands 45–55 feet -away from Blackburn. A door opens, making a slight noise and revealing -an interior light. Three figures, each 3 feet tall and wearing -tight-fitting metallic-looking suits, emerge. They have reddish-orange -skin and piercing eyes. One has an extra-long finger on its left hand. -They speak in an unintelligible language, then return to the UFO. The -door closes so perfectly that an outline cannot be seen, and the object -takes off. The entire episode lasts only 5 minutes. Blackburn sees no -traces in the snow, but thinks the object and humanoids are hovering. -(NICAP, “Two -Humanoids Approach Witness”; Clark III 196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3839

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Event 5644 -(FDDA2CC8)

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Date: 1/19/1965
-Description: NICAP Acting Director Richard -H. Hall meets with a CIA agent and passes on some UFO case -information and other materials to OSI for preparation of a paper on -UFOs. Hall is given a direct phone number for the agent’s office. He -uses the phone line only once to “report some high-quality UFO sightings -to the CIA.” He is also given a CIA security clearance without his -consent or knowledge. A January 25 CIA memo confirming the meeting shows -an inordinate amount of interest in NICAP, given the CIA’s mandate for -acquiring foreign intelligence. (ClearIntent, pp. 231–234; -Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 11, 354–358; Good -Above, pp. 349–350)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3837

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Event 5645 -(5AC2B878)

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Date: 1/19/1965
-Description: Humanoid beings emerged from landed object at archery -range, approached witness, who froze, apparently paralyzed
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Brand’s Flats, VA
-ID: 32

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Event 5646 -(F229E087)

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Date: 1/19/1965
-Time: 1815
-Description: A workman cutting wood on the Augusta archery range saw two -saucer-shaped objects, 30 m and 6 m in diameter, hovering in the sky. -The smaller one landed, a door opened, and three pilots emerged. They -looked human, but had a reddish-orange skin and staring eyes. One of -them had “a long finger on his left hand.” Their clothes were the same -color as the craft, whose open door showed a strange light inside. The -object was so highly polished that “I would bet on a clear day you could -not see it at five thousand feet.” The occupants spoke sounds that were -not understood and reentered the object. The door outline could not be -seen when it was closed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Brands Flat, Virginia
-ID: 632

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Event 5647 -(BF03BA3D)

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Date: 1/23/1965
-Description: 8:40 a.m. Two separate cars driving in different direction -stall out near the intersection of US Hwy 60 and State Route 614 in -Lightfoot, Virginia. One of the drivers, Thomas -F. Mains, sees a lightbulb- or mushroom- shaped object 75–80 feet -tall and 10–25 feet wide, hovering over nearby field about 4 feet off -the ground. It is metallic gray, with red-orange and blue lights and is -making a vacuum cleaner noise. It suddenly accelerates horizontally to -the west against the wind and disappears. (NICAP, “UFO -Hovering over Field Stalls Cars”; Sparks, p. 304)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3840

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Event 5648 -(C90DCF7C)

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Date: 1/23/1965
-Time: 8:40 AM
-Description: Witness: Mr. T.F. Mains. One mushroom or lightbulb-shaped -object, 75-80’ high, 25’ diameter on top and l0’ bottom diameter; -metallic grey with a red-orange glow on the near side and a blue glow on -the far side. The object made a sound like a vacuum cleaner. The -witness’ car electrical system was affected as the object moved away at -an altitude of 4’. The sighting lasted 25 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
-ID: 517

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Event 5649 -(385611FC)

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Date: 1/23/1965
-Time: 0840
-Description: A 31-year-old man driving a ’64 Cadillac was at the -intersection of U.S. Highway 60 and State Route 14 when the engine -failed, and he had to stop by the side of the road. He then observed an -object about 1.2 m above ground. It was shaped like a mushroom or an -electric bulb, 25 m high, 8 m in diameter made noise similar to a vacuum -cleaner had a metallic gray coIor, a red-orange light on one side, and a -blue one on the other. It took off against the wind toward the west, at -high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
-ID: 633

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Event 5650 -(EC150D73)

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Date: 1/23/1965
-Description: Metallic-appearing, mushroom-shaped object, red-orange -glow, at low level. Sound like vacuum cleaner heard, E-M effects on -car
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Williamsburg, VA
-ID: 33

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Event 5651 -(83F30E45)

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Date: 1/25/1965
-Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP Case -#(censured).
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea -Research
-See also: 12/19/64

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Event 5652 -(393969F2)

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Date: 1/25/1965
-Description: Night. Policeman Woody Darnall, his family, and several -neighbors see a glowing object hovering on a mountainside near Marion, -Virginia. It seems to explode and take off in a shower of sparks. A -group of Marion residents and state forest officials climb to the area -and find several treetops bent over and one green tree on fire where the -UFO was seen. (Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate -18, no. 7 (July 1965): 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3841

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Event 5653 -(EF8F024E)

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Date: 1/25/1965
-Time: night
-Description: Woody Darnell, policeman, his family, and several neighbors -saw a stationary object on the ground. It took off with a shower of -sparks. Several trees were found uprooted or calcined at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Jul., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Marion, Virginia
-ID: 634

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Event 5654 -(C6140647)

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Date: 1/25/1965
-Description: Night. Nine persons near Fredericksburg, Virginia, see a -UFO that resembles a “Christmas sparkler.” One witness says it looks -like a spinning top spitting sparks out of the bottom as it moves up the -Rappahannock Valley at treetop level. (Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs -Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3842

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Event 5655 -(BF803610)

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Date: 1/26/1965
-Description: Evening. Steven Houffer, 16, and six friends are driving on -US Highway 250 near Brands Flats, Virginia, when they see a small man -walking toward the road from a field. He sits down and peers intently at -passing cars. Houffer stops the car and he and his friends get out. When -they approach, the being runs up a hill. Two other entities appear and -run in the same direction. They are all about 3.5 feet tall, wear -silvery one-piece garments, and leave no footprints. Police officers -conduct a search with local photographer Charles Weaver, but find -nothing. Some time later, Houffer and Weaver see a “glowing aluminum -barn,” which they go down to investigate. Weaver is walking around -inside when something hits him on the head. The two turn to run after -Weaver snaps a photo. In the light of the flashbulb, they see a little -man standing by the barn. The photo is allegedly confiscated by -government agents. A local man, Donald Cash, 6 feet tall, confesses to -dressing up in overalls to pose as an alien, although his story does not -completely match the details of the account. (“UFO -Posses Hit,” -Staunton (Va.) Daily News Leader, January 28, 1965, pp. 1–2; Jerome -Clark, “Two -New Contact Claims,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 3 (May/June 1965): -20–21; “Fed -Up with Play: Green Man Confesses,” Staunton (Va.) Daily News -Leader, January 31, 1965, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3844

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Event 5656 -(8484E3FB)

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Date: 1/26/1965
-Description: Evening. Rev. H. Preston Robinson and others in Marion, -Virginia, watch an object hovering 600 feet above the city. The object -makes a steady buzzing sound and has several lights on its round bottom. -Spinning clockwise, it shoots out of sight at fantastic speed. It emits -a ball of fire as it disappears. (Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return -to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3843

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Event 5657 -(2F1EE929)

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Date: 1/27/1965
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Donald -Keyhoe and NICAP board member Joseph -Bryan III appear on the Les Crane Show and are questioned -skeptically by Crane. -(Donald E. Keyhoe, “The -Crane Show Fiasco,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 (March/April 1965): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3846

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Event 5658 -(C6DFFD74)

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Date: 1/27/1965
-Description: NASA engineer saw V-shaped object with red-orange lights -zigzagging at low level. Object touched down briefly, took off, rapidly -climbed out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hampton, VA
-ID: 34

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Event 5659 -(E16BB165)

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Date: 1/27/1965
-Description: 6:00 p.m. NASA research engineer A. G. Crimmins -Jr. observes an object at Plum Tree Island Wildlife Refuge, near -Poquoson, Virginia, that is approximately 75 feet across and 10–15 feet -in height. The object has 3– 7 lights colored red and orange and appears -to rotate. It moves approximately a quarter mile west of its original -position on a zigzag course and then appears to land on the ocean shore. -It remains still for about 5 minutes, then takes off to the north and -turns right to depart to the east at a high rate of speed. Crimmins -watches it through 20x binoculars. The same object is apparently seen by -retired USAF Maj. John R. Nayadley, another NASA research engineer, who -observes a V-shaped object with blinking red-orange lights over Hampton, -Virginia. (NICAP, “Zig-Zagging -Object Lands / Takes Off”; “New -Sightings Put AF on Spot,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 (March/April -1965): 4; UFOEv II 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3845

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Event 5660 -(77779694)

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Date: 1/29/1965
-Description: In Monterey, California, Mayor George Clemens and his -family see a bright light performing acrobatics in the northern sky. It -hovers, then shoots straight up about 500 feet, fades, drops down, and -hovers again. Then it drops toward the water and disappears. The Coast -Guard finds nothing. (Sanderson, InvRes, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3847

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Event 5661 -(2B485D14)

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Date: 1/30/1965
-Description: 2:00 a.m. TV repairman Sid -Padrick is walking along Manresa Beach near his home in Watsonville, -California. He hears a jet-like noise and sees a huge UFO moving slowly -towards him. He hears a voice saying, “We are not hostile,” and inviting -him aboard. He enters the craft and sees a human in a flying suit who -calls himself “Xeno” and gives Padrick a tour of the ship and other crew -members that culminates in a deeply spiritual experience. Padrick -reports his experience to Hamilton AFB [now closed] on February 4 and -receives a 3-hour visit from Maj. Damon -B. Reeder on February 8, and perhaps other officers after that. -(Jerome Clark, “Two -New Contact -Claims,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 3 (May/June 1965): 20–21; -Clark III 869–871; Good Above, pp. 293–298; -Good Need, pp. 247–251; -Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976; “Contactee -Loses Court Case,” UFO Investigator, April 1971, p. 1; Patrick -Gross, URECAT, August -19, 2008; Marcus Lowth, “Sidney -Padrick’s California Beach Encounter with ‘Xeno,’” UFO Insight, -October 12, 2017; Curt Collins, “1965: -UFO Contact in California,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, December -30, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3848

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Event 5662 -(CE5BB7B0)

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Date: 2/1965
-Description: George -Langelaan, ex-secret -service officer and author of the short story “The Fly,” gives a lecture -at Mourenx, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, and declares that the Russian -and US secret services have collaborated on the UFO problem and -concluded that the objects are extraterrestrial. (Good Above, p. 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3849

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Event 5663 -(41FCA715)

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Date: 2/3/1965
-Time: 2045
-Description: A man saw a light on the beach near Penguin Street and got -out of his car to observe it. He then heard a modulated whistling sound -and saw an object, 7 m wide, rise from the beach to an altitude of about -20 m. He came back to the site with other persons, and a dog that became -restless at a spot where grass was found flattened. Another witness, -driving near Humphrey Ave., saw the object as it rose over South -Brighton.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 149 (Vallee)
-Location: South Brighton, New Zealand
-ID: 635

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Event 5664 -(C2C14B7E)

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Date: 2/3/1965
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A man sees a light on the beach near Penguin -Street, South New Brighton, New Zealand, and gets out of his car to -observe it. He hears a modulated whistling sound and sees an object, 22 -feet wide, rise from the beach to an altitude of 60 feet. He returns -with other witnesses and a dog that gets restless at a spot where grass -is flattened. Another witness sees the UFO as it is rising above the -suburb. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 305)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3850

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Event 5665 -(2064ABB4)

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Date: 2/4/1965
-Description: Several persons observed five luminous objects in flight. A -transparent craft landed, and five creatures, about 2 m high, with one -eye on the forehead and flashing helmets, emerged and tried to abduct a -villager. Approximate date.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 39 (Vallee)
-Location: Torrent, Argentina
-ID: 636

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Event 5666 -(734704DD)

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Date: 2/11/1965
-Description: Personal Interview report by Capt. D.M. (initials): Aerial -encounter of three UFOs with radar and visual sightings. Air Force -flight F-169 en route from Anchorage, AL, to Japan. Capt. R.W. -(initials) and Capt. W.(initial) observed 3 UFOs on radar 5 miles off -the wing. The UFOs paced the Flying Tiger freighter aircraft for 30 -minutes then climbed away at a steep angle at about 1200 knots ground -speed. Estimated size (thumb and finger method) approx. 200 to 1000 ft. -diam., glowing red and oval shaped. The pilot remarked, “we often see -UFOs on the Alaskan run!”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Pacific Ocean

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Event 5667 -(039C4194)

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Date: 2/11/1965
-Description: The Pentagon sends Blue Book chief Maj. Hector -Quintanilla to Richmond, Virginia, on a debunking tour. Stressing -delusions and hoaxes, he tells reporters that not a single UFO report is -genuine. His press conference display includes false UFO photos and fake -debris. “I am a facts man,” Quintanilla says. “I cannot explain why -people want to see UFOs.” (“AF -Misleads Senator,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 2 (May/June 1965): -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3852

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Event 5668 -(EFD6D5DF)

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Date: 2/11/1965
-Alternate date: 2/15/1965
-Description: Night. A Flying Tiger Line cargo aircraft (Flight F-169) en -route from Anchorage, Alaska, to Tachikawa Airfield, Tokyo, Japan, -encounters three gigantic, glowing, red UFOs, at least 200 feet in -diameter, about 4 hours out of Anchorage. The aircraft radar also picks -them up about 5 miles off the wing. They pace the plane for 30 minutes, -then speed away at 1,380 mph. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual -over Pacific Ocean”; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, -1988, pp. 249–250; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 128–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3851

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Event 5669 -(09D6F4A3)

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Date: 2/11/1965
-Description: Flying Tiger aircrew observed three red oval objects, -tracked on airborne radar. Paced aircraft for 30 minutes, departed -upward at high speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pacific Ocean
-ID: 35

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Event 5670 -(D7639379)

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Date: 2/16/1965
-End date: 2/18/1965
-Description: Astronauts Neil -Armstrong, Richard -F. Gordon Jr., Buzz -Aldrin, David -Scott, and Rusty -Schweikart visit Sedan Crater and Buckboard Mesa at the Nevada Test -Site to practice carrying out geological observations in preparation for -a moon landing. (Nevada National Security Site, “Apollo -Astronauts Train at the Nevada Test Site,” -July 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3853

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Event 5671 -(9CCDB89D)

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Date: 2/21/1965
-Time: 2100
-Description: About 50 Toba Indians, including policemen, saw three -little men with luminous glows emerge from an object that had made -several low passes over the village with other flying craft. A -photographer took several pictures and noted that the creatures feared -the light from his flash camera. The object increased in luminosity as -it took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI; FSR 65, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Chalac, Argentina
-ID: 637

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Event 5672 -(ED5024C2)

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Date: 2/26/1965
-Description: 3:00 p.m. George -Adamski takes his last film of a spaceship at Madeleine -Rodeffer’s house in Silver Spring, Maryland. (Clark III 41; Good -Above, pp. 374–377; -Douglas Curran, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, -Abbeville, 1985, pp. 42–48; -Rene Erik Olsen, [George -Adamski photo analysis], Adamski Foundation; Marc Hallet, A -Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the -Space Brothers, The -Author, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3854

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Event 5673 -(06EB1318)

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Date: 2/27/1965
-Description: The first conference of Australian UFO organizations takes -place in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It is arranged by W. Howard -Sloane of the Ballarat Astronomical Society to share information and -remove some of the stigma of UFO research. The conference is held at the -Ballarat Municipal Observatory in Mount Pleasant. Representatives of the -Perth UFO Research Group, the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, -the UFO Investigation Centre NSW, and the Flying Saucer Research Society -of South Australia are in attendance. Witnesses include Rev. William -Gill and Charles Brew. Former Air Marshal George -Jones attends, and the RAAF is represented by B. G. Roberts, senior -research scientist at the Operational Research Office, Department of -Air. Roberts says that the RAAF has determined that 90% of reports are -explainable, but that only those that might be a threat to national -security are worth investigating and “there are no documents, files, or -dossiers held by the Department which prove the existence of ‘flying -saucers.’” The researchers quiz him on the 1953 Drury photographic case, -but Roberts is unaware of that one. Jones insists on keeping an open -mind about reports like those by Gill and Brew. (Swords 391–392; “First -Australian Convention of UFO Groups,” Australian Flying Saucer -Review (UFOIC), no. 8 (June 1965): 13–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3855

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Event 5674 -(45206036)

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Date: 3/2/1965
-Time: 1355
-Description: John F. Reeves, 65, retired, was walking in the woods when -he observed an object 10 m in diameter, 2m thick, saucer-shaped with an -outer rim and a stairway. After watching it for 10 min, he saw a -robotlike being, about 1.30m tall, wearing a silver uniform, glass -headgear, and then returned with a The being walked walked to the craft, -then returned with a box that emitted a flash when pointed at the -witness. The object subsequently took off with a whistling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Brooksville, Florida
-ID: 638

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Event 5675 -(C77ADFEB)

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Date: 3/2/1965
-Description: 1:55 p.m. John F. Reeves, 65, retired, while walking in the -woods east of Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, sees a bluish-green and -reddish-purple object 20–30 feet in diameter, 6 feet thick, -saucer-shaped, and with an outer rim and a stairway, two 2-foot windows -on top, landed on the ground on four 4-foot legs about 2,000 feet away. -He approaches to 100 feet. After watching the object for 10 minutes, he -sees a robot-like being about 200– 300 feet away, about 5 feet tall, -wearing a gray-silver uniform, glass dome headgear, wide-spaced eyes, -and pointed chin. It walks to 15 feet away from Reeves, stares at him -for 1.5 minutes, points a box or 6–7-inch black object at Reeves that -emits a flash 3 times, then walks back to the landed vehicle and climbs -in. The object has Venetian blind–like blades on the rim that open and -close; the rim starts rotating counterclockwise, the landing gear -retract, then it takes off with a whooshing-rumbling sound and -disappears vertically in less than 10 seconds, dropping two sheets of -paper with indecipherable writing, and leaving indentations and -footprints in the ground. The case is investigated by MacDill AFB in -Tampa. Richard -Hall supervises the investigation for NICAP and concludes it is a -hoax. (NICAP, “Landed -Object and Entity Case / Hoax”; “The -Florida ‘Landing’ Incident,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1965, pp. 1, -3; Joan Whritenour, “UFO -Lands?” Interplanetary Intelligence Report 1, no. 1 (May 1965): 4; -“Project -Blue Book,” Interplanetary Intelligence Report 1, no. 2 (July 1965): -8; Clark III 209–218; Jerome Clark, “Passport to Moniheya,” IUR 20, no. -3 (May/June 1995): 10–19; Sparks, -p. 304) March 5 — Two Air Force radar technicians are repairing the -height-finder antenna at Benton Air Force Station [now Ground Equipment -Facility QRC] in Ricketts Glen State Park near Red Rock, Pennsylvania, -when they see a small, saucer-shaped object land nearby. As they -approach it, a beam of light comes out and strikes both of them. That is -the last thing they remember, and they fail to report to the command -post. Their equipment is left behind at the antenna, but air police -cannot locate the men. Pennsylvania State Police assist in a search of -the area. About 16 hours later, a state trooper locates the two men -walking along State Route 487 south of Lopez, about 10 miles away. They -seem dazed, so they are taken to a hospital in Williamsport, where they -are found to be dehydrated and confused. No alcohol or drugs are found. -They are then taken to an Air Force hospital at Stewart AFB [now Stewart -Air National Guard Base] in Orange County, New York. Trace amounts of -alpha radiation are found on their clothing and strange marks are on -their necks. AFOSI special agents interview them, but the men cannot -remember anything. After 2 weeks in the hospital, they are released back -to their unit. (“Pennsylvania Abduction from Air Force Base,” Filer’s -Files, September 9, 1999; Good Need, pp. 251–252)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3856

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Event 5676 -(0EB98537)

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Date: 3/4/1965
-Time: 9:23 PM
-Description: Witness: W.V. Harrison. Three lights rose from the ground, -several seconds apart. The next day, an oily spot was found at the -site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Corvallis, Oregon
-ID: 518

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Event 5677 -(F0CE3109)

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Date: 3/4/1965
-Time: 1830
-Description: A farmer and his employee saw from their car three -yellow-orange spheres rapidly rising. Oily spots were found in the -field.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Corvallis, Oregon
-ID: 639

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Event 5678 -(BBA07672)

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Date: 3/8/1965
-Time: 7:40 PM
-Description: Witness: J.H. Martin, instrument maker for U.S. Bureau of -Standards. Six lights flew overhead slowly for 3 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Mt. Airy, Maryland
-ID: 519

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Event 5679 -(D243A1FC)

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Date: 3/8/1965
-Description: 7:40 p.m. J. H. Martin, an instrument maker for the -National Bureau of Standards, and his two sons observe in Mount Airy, -Maryland, six lights he estimates to be 1,000 feet away and moving at a -speed of 20 mph with no sound. They appear as three pair of lights, all -with the same intensity. They are comparable to a traffic signal. The -lights pass between the barn and the house at an estimated altitude of -100–500 feet, flying in a straight line toward the hills two miles away. -They are in view for approximately 3 minutes. (NICAP, “Six -Lights Just Miss House”; Sparks, p. 304)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3857

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Event 5680 -(09748B5E)

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Date: 3/8/1965
-Time: 1940
-Description: Three persons saw a cigarshaped object with two fixed red -lights, which flew above them, avoided hitting the house at the last -moment, and was lost to sight in the northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Airy, Maryland
-ID: 640

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Event 5681 -(791A7EE9)

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Date: 3/15/1965
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. James W. Flynn is deep in the Everglades -in his swamp buggy, somewhere east of Immokalee, Florida, with his four -hunting dogs. He sees a hovering object like an upside-down cone about -200 feet above some cypress trees slightly over a mile away. It moves -back and forth from its original position. Through binoculars it looks -25 feet high and 50 feet in diameter, with square windows emitting a -yellowish glow. Around its base an orange-red glow extends downwards and -illuminates the ground some 75 feet around the rim. Some 40 minutes into -the sighting, Flynn decides to approach it in his buggy. A high-pitched -ringing sound bothers one of his dogs. He stops 600 feet away and walks, -waving his arms, toward the UFO, which is hovering 4 feet off the -ground. A blast of wind from the object nearly knocks him off his feet. -He continues, and at 75 feet from the UFO he waves his arms again. The -object beams a light like a “welder’s torch” that hits his forehead. He -blacks out twice. When he wakes up he is temporarily blinded. In the -morning he finds a symmetrical circle of burned ground. The tops of -trees are burned. Flynn makes his way to the home of Henry Osceola (or -Henry Billy) later in the day and arrives at his own home in East Fort -Myers on March 17 and spends 5 days in the hospital with damage to his -right eye, bruises, burns, deep muscle tissue damage, and loss of -hearing. His eye damage is permanent. The landing marks and burned trees -are verified by the Lee County sheriff’s office. (NICAP, “Everglades -/ James Flynn Case”; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 12–16; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole -Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 192–195; Clark III 438–440; Patrick Gross, “UFO -in the Everglades, USA 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3858

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Event 5682 -(D8E895D0)

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Date: 3/15/1965
-Time: 0100
-Description: In the Everglades, 30 km east of Big Cypress, James Flynn, -45, who was hunting, saw a huge, lighted object 1 m above the swamp -surface. He watched it for 40 min, observing that it was conical, twice -as wide as it was high, and seemed built from metal sections over one -square m each. It showed four rows of square windows, 70 cm wide. -Estimated diameter: 25 m. A yellow light shone through the windows, and -the object made a sound of a transformer and wind. Flynn got within 2 m -of it and made a gesture. A beam of light from the underside of the -object struck him between the eyes and he lost consciousness for 24 -hours. He had lost vision in the right eye, saw poorly with the left, -went to a doctor in Fort Myers, and spent five days in the -hospital.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fate Sep.,65 (Vallee)
-Location: Fort Myers, Florida
-ID: 641

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Event 5683 -(D12A090F)

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Date: 3/15/1965
-Description: Hovering cone-shaped object, animal reaction. Witness -struck on forehead by light beam, unconscious, eye damage. Damaged -foliage found at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Everglades, FL
-ID: 36

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Event 5684 -(6DDF7666)

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Date: 3/17/1965
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Walter Jacobs, steward on the freighter Iron -Duke, sees a bright orange object with a dent on top and a knot on the -bottom off Newcastle, New South Wales. He takes a photograph but it is -not published. (“UAO Photographed -Clearly in Australia,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1965, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3859

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Event 5685 -(AAA2FE86)

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Date: 3/18/1965
-Alternate date: 3/21/1965
-Description: 7:06 p.m. Capt. Yoshiharu Inaba is flying a TOA Airlines -Convair 240 from Osaka to Hiroshima, Japan, at an altitude of 6,500 -feet. Just after the aircraft passes Himeji, Hyogo, an elliptical -luminous object appears and follows the plane. Inaba makes a 60° turn to -avoid a collision, but the object makes a similar maneuver then follows -along the plane’s left wing for about 56 miles. Emitting a greenish -light, the object affects the automatic direction finder and the radio. -As copilot Tetsu Majima radios the Matsuyama control tower, he hears -frantic calls from Joji Negishi, the pilot of a Tokyo Airlines Piper -Apache, who says he is being chased by a luminous object over Matsuyama. -The object shoots away and disappears. (NICAP, “Object -Paces Japanese Airliner”; -“UFO -Encounters over Japan,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 1 (March/April -1965): 6; Timothy Green Beckley, “Saucers Chase Japanese Airliner,” Fate -18, no. 8 (August 1965): 32–35; Schopick, -pp. 150–153; Good Need, p. 253; -Patrick Gross, “Aircraft–UFO -Encounters, Japan, March 18, 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3860

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Event 5686 -(E4D05C7A)

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Date: 4/1965
-Description: Felipe Martinez, 37, reported that he was paralyzed during -the landing of a silent, large, egg-shaped object, from which emerged a -small man, about 1 m tall, wearing a helmet linked to the object by -three cables. The being spoke slowly and with difficulty in, -Spanish.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 40 (Vallee)
-Location: Monte Grande, Argentina
-ID: 642

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Event 5687 -(29FA9FF0)

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Date: 4/4/1965
-Time: 4:05 AM
-Description: Witnesses: USAF A/2c Corum, a weather observer; -confirmation by college student R. Pittman not clear from available -data. One 40’ black, oval object with four lights along the bottom, flew -in and out of the clouds for 15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Keesler AFB, Mississippi
-ID: 520

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Event 5688 -(B2ABF25B)

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Date: 4/4/1965
-Description: USAF weather observer saw black oval with body lights -flying in and out of clouds
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Keesler AFB, MS
-ID: 37

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Event 5689 -(B4332088)

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Date: 4/8/1965
-Time: 2130
-Description: A 60-year-old man saw an object 200 m away, in the -northwest at 30 m altitude. It turned east, then left toward the south. -First seen as a single, bright light, then two luminous sources were -visible through a “door” in the object, which appeared metallic. Radio -interference was noted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Kindrae, Minnesota
-ID: 643

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Event 5690 -(BE3A89FC)

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Date: 4/20/1965
-Description: John Carstairs Arnell, scientific advisor to the Canadian -Chief of Air Staff, prepares a four-page “Suggested Statement by the -Minister of National Defence,” Paul -Hellyer. It reiterates the US opinion that UFOs do not constitute a -national security threat because most sightings involve natural -phenomena seen by unreliable witnesses. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 16–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3861

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Event 5691 -(F3E6C5D6)

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Date: 4/23/1965
-Time: 0800
-Description: A woman observed an object land near her house while she -was working in her kitchen. It was shaped like a disk, showed portholes -and a cylinder about 1 m high, with a sliding door from which a small -creature, about 1 m tall, emerged and jumped to the ground. Its face was -not clearly visible but it had pointed ears, a sort of tail, and was -linked to the main object by a cable. It wore white clothing, appeared -to pick up something from the ground, and reentered the cylinder, which -then slid up into the larger white disk. The outside rim started -spinning in a counterclockwise motion with a soft whistling sound and -the object rose straight up, out of view. Estimated diameter of the -disk: 7m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Rivesville, West Virginia
-ID: 644

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Event 5692 -(F832BCD3)

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Date: 4/24/1965
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Ernest -Arthur Bryant is walking toward Scoriton Down near Scoriton (or -Scorriton), Devon, England, when he sees a saucer-like object approach -him. It stops nearby and a door opens. Three beings appear and beckon to -him. He approaches the saucer. Two of the three beings appear to be -nonhuman, but the third seems to be a youth in his teens. The youth -speaks with an accent that Bryant thinks might be Russian and calls -himself Yamski. He says that he is from Venus, and then remarks that he -wished “Des” was there, as he would understand what is happening. At the -close of their conversation, he says that in a month he will return and -bring proof of “Mantell.” Ufologists who eventually hear the story -immediately associate Yamski with George -Adamski, the -controversial contactee who died on April 23. Adamski was of Polish -background and had a noticeable accent. If this were Adamski, he has -lost any signs of aging. Adamski’s friend Desmond -Leslie was a coauthor of his first book. Captain Thomas -F. Mantell, piloting -an F-51, had been killed in 1948 when he began chasing what he thought -was a UFO. According to Bryant, the saucer returns June 7 and leaves -some items, including several pieces of metal, allegedly from an F-51. -He reports the story to the British UFO Research Association, which -launches an investigation. The various items Bryant turns over to the -two investigators (a turbine fitting, metal parts, a broken bulb and -fitting, a phial containing silver sand, and a piece of paper on which -the words “Adelphos Adelpho” are written) prove to be mundane and -irrelevant to the F-51, according to aeronautical engineer Leonard -G. -Cramp. In -spite of problems with the story, one of the investigators, Eileen -Buckle, rushes into print with a book, The Scoriton Mystery. Shortly -afterward, Bryant unexpectedly takes ill and dies from a brain tumor on -June 24, 1967. The other investigator, Norman Oliver, visits his widow. -She says that she is familiar with the story in the book, as her husband -had presented it to her first as the script for a science fiction novel. -It is only after the investigation is well along that she realizes her -husband was trying to sell the story as a real event. She indicates that -the supposed items related to Mantell were purchased at a naval surplus -store. Alice Wells, head of the Adamski Foundation, dismisses the -Scoriton story from the beginning, as does Desmond Leslie. Between their -rejection and Oliver’s uncovering of the hoax, few remain to support -Bryant except Buckle. (Clark III 1040–1044; Story, pp. 324–326; -Eileen Buckle, The Scoriton Mystery, Spearman, 1967; Norman Oliver, -Sequel to Scoriton, The Author, 1968; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August -19, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3862

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Event 5693 -(ED78F655)

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Date: 4/26/1965
-Time: 1700
-Description: Gary X., 9, saw an object which came down silently and -hovered at ground level 60 m away. A sort of periscope emerged from it, -and a strange noise (also heard by the boy’s father) was noted. After -1-2 min the “periscope” disappeared, the object rose, and then dashed up -at unbelievable speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: New London, Minnesota
-ID: 645

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Event 5694 -(7FE46B31)

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Date: 5/1965
-Description: Hayden -C. Hewes’s Interplanetary Intelligence of Unidentified Flying -Objects publishes the first issue of the Interplanetary Intelligence -Report, which lasts through September/October 1966. (Interplanetary -Intelligence Report 1, -no. 1 (May 1965))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3863

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Event 5695 -(8505AC28)

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Date: 5/1/1965
-Description: Pilots Robert -L. Stephens and fire control officer Daniel Andre reach a speed of -2,070 mph in a Lockheed YF- 12A at Edwards AFB, California. The YF-12A -also reaches an altitude record of 80,257 feet. (Wikipedia, “Robert L. -Stephens”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3864

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Event 5696 -(AB8FF717)

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Date: 5/6/1965
-Description: 9:10 a.m. The crew of a US Navy ship in the Philippine Sea -notices an aircraft approaching. At 9:14 a.m., the SPS-6C air search -radar detects four targets at ranges up to 22 miles for the next 6 -minutes at extremely high speed (3,500 mph), making various maneuvers. -As seen through binoculars, they appear as three lighted objects, one of -1st stellar magnitude the others 2nd magnitude. The objects hover -directly over the ship for 3 minutes. There is no IFF response. One -object to starboard appears larger on radar. The objects depart to the -southeast at extremely high speed. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual -by U.S. Flag Ship in the Philippines”; Sparks, -p. 305; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 93–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3865

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Event 5697 -(3205840C)

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Date: 5/7/1965
-Time: 7:30 PM
-Description: Witness: M.E. Marshall. One light, like a satellite, split -into two parts, one of which was copperish color, then two more joined -up. One object may have been tumbling. Sighting lasted 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oxford, Michigan
-ID: 521

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Event 5698 -(63A0FF18)

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Date: 5/23/1965
-Time: 2100
-Description: About 70 km from Mackay, Jim Tilse, Eric Judin, and John -Burgess saw a circular object, 10 m in diameter, flying erratically, -making a buzzing sound. It had headlights, a tripod landing gear, and -supported another disk-shaped device. Police investigation disclosed -damaged trees and other landing traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Eton Range, Australia
-ID: 646

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Event 5699 -(2E5CA4E5)

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Date: 5/24/1965
-Time: 0130
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. French observed an object in a field at 4 m -altitude. It had blinding white lights, caused radio interference, and -made a high-pitched sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Spaceview 44; LDLN 80 (Vallee)
-Location: Geradton, Australia
-ID: 647

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Event 5700 -(4051D527)

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Date: 5/24/1965
-Time: 1840
-Description: Hunters saw through binoculars an object resembling an -upside-down plate, very luminous, with a red light on top, flying in -circles and landing on a hilltop. The Lujan police sent a patrol, under -Comm. Osvaldo Pagella, which found a large, metallic object resting on -the hill, but they could not approach the object before it took off, -because of the difficult terrain.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Paso de las Carretas, Argentina
-ID: 648

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Event 5701 -(C670281F)

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Date: 5/24/1965
-Description: 12:05 a.m. John Burgess, James Tilse, and Eric Judin are -playing cards at the Epsom Retreat Hotel near Epsom, Queensland, when -their attention is drawn to something on or near the ground. It appears -to be a disc- shaped object with banks of lights underneath it to their -southeast. Tilse estimates its diameter to be 30 feet, Judin as 20 feet, -and Burgess as 6 feet. In the moonlight, its color seems to be charcoal. -At times, it seems to approach them, then recede. Finally, it rapidly -rises to about 300 feet, then it accelerates away to the northeast. -Burgess and Judin heard a buzzing sound. Total duration is 40 minutes. -Two days later, a circular depression is found nearby close to a -telephone line. Tilse says that “tops of trees appear to be burned.” -(“The -James Tilse Report,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1965): 13–14; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from -UFOs, NICAP, -1969, p. 63; “UAO -Buzzes Hotel in Australia,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1966, p. 3; -Keith Basterfield, “Cold -Case Investigation: Eton Ridge, Queensland, 24 May 1965,” -Unidentified Aerial Phenomena— Scientific Research, June 13, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3866

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Event 5702 -(321B7B64)

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Date: 5/24/1965
-Description: Circular UFO with three legs on or near the ground, trees -illuminated. Departed rapidly with buzzing sound. Circular ring -impression found at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mackay, Australia
-ID: 38

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Event 5703 -(40D5C76D)

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Date: 5/28/1965
-Description: 3:25 a.m. An Ansett-ANA DC-6b airliner piloted by -Capt. John Barker is flying over Bougainville Reef off the coast of -Queensland, Australia, when it is paced for 10–15 minutes by an oblate -UFO with exhaust gases coming from it. The copilot and a stewardess also -see the object. Barker takes photos of the UFO, but when he lands in -Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, he is not allowed to have the film -processed until he returns to Australia. When he eventually arrives in -Brisbane, he is flown directly to Canberra where both the film and the -flight recorder are confiscated. The Directorate of Air Force -Intelligence in Canberra later denies that any such incident took place. -However, an official statement by Barker to the RAAF surfaces, in which -he says: “I had always scoffed at these reports, but I saw it. We all -saw it. It was under intelligent control, and it was certainly no known -aircraft.” (Good Above, pp. 168–170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3867

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Event 5704 -(2B3A97ED)

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Date: 5/28/1965
-Description: Police statement (interview); Bougainville Reef, Australia: -An Ansett-A.N.A. DC-6B airliner (VH-INH) en route to Port Moresby, New -Guinea, was buzzed by a UFO at about 3:25 a.m. The pilot radioed the -Townsville Ground Control Tower and talked to Mr. O. (initial). -Description: slightly spherical and oblate, flattened on top and bottom; -appeared to have exhaust gasses coming from it. Photos of the UFO were -taken by the pilot but were later confiscated at Canberra as was the -taped conversation to Mr. O., the Tower operator. Mr. O. was threatened -with dismissal if he talked about the incident.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Bougainville Reef, Australia

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Event 5705 -(AB797EE5)

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Date: 5/28/1965
-Description: Elliptical object paced airliner, accelerated and sped -away, photographs taken
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Townsville, North Queensland, Australia
-ID: 39

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Event 5706 -(99394863)

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Date: 6/1965
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Mrs. J. Whitehead is in the garden at her cottage -in Flasby, North Yorkshire, England, when a large disc-shaped object -passes over, making a slight swishing noise. On the underside are three -“windows” in a triangular formation. She feels a strange calming -sensation as the UFO passes by. (Jenny Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real -Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3869

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Event 5707 -(052F6CF5)

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Date: 6/1965
-Description: Systems analyst Jacques -Vallée publishes Anatomy of a Phenomenon, which generates particular -excitement for its sober, scientific treatment of the UFO phenomenon. -Well reviewed, it plays a significant role in the renaissance of -interest in UFOs as scientists express a willingness to examine the UFO -problem. It is the first book by a working scientist to argue for the -extraterrestrial hypothesis. (Jacques Vallée, Anatomy -of a Phenomenon, -Regnery, 1965; Clark III 1213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3868

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Event 5708 -(418FE449)

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Date: 6/2/1965
-Time: 2000
-Description: Mr. D. Armstrong, a former airman, was called outside by -his sons and saw a spherical object with flashing lights that appeared -to land silently on a hillside situated on Mr. Watson’s property.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Kuranda, Australia
-ID: 649

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Event 5709 -(7AE28F8D)

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Date: 6/4/1965
-Description: During the Gemini -4 mission, astronaut James -McDivitt spots an object that he describes as a “white cylindrical -shape with a white pole sticking out of one corner of it.” He takes two -photos of it. His partner, Ed -White, is asleep at the time. McDivitt maintains that it was some -unknown but man-made piece of debris, while James Oberg, flight -controller at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, argues that it -is most likely the Titan II second stage of the craft. (“‘Object’ -Astronaut Sighted Still Unidentified,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 3 -(June/July 1965): 3; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 212–213; -“The -Gemini IV Photograph,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1965): 3; Condon, pp. 205–207; -Good Above, pp. 378–379; -“Gemini -4 Astronaut James -McDivitt UFO Sighting,” SpaceTimeForum YouTube channel, June 9, -2013; Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents]; Lee Speigel, “NASA -UFO Files Revealed on Science Channel Special,” HuffPost, March 27, -2012; Patrick Gross, “NASA -Photographs of Unidentified Objects”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3870

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Event 5710 -(96E5B519)

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Date: 6/7/1965
-End date: 6/8/1965
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Meteorological officer Jorge Stanich is -performing a routine observation at the Argentinian Deception Station on -Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, when he -notices a stationary, bright, yellow light at an altitude of 25° above -the horizon. He estimates its distance at 1.2 miles. The object is -visible for 5 seconds. Six and a half hours later, at 2:20 a.m., he -again sees a stationary light in the northwest at an altitude of 40° -above the horizon for 4 seconds. (Daniel A. Perisse, “Deception -Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium -Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 142–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3871

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Event 5711 -(4F016971)

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Date: 6/18/1965
-Alternate date: 6/20/1965
-Description: 4:20 p.m. The Commander of the Chilean Aguirre Cerda -Research Station [destroyed in 1967] on Deception Island in the South -Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Mario -Jahn Barrera, together -with Chilean Air Force pilot Lt. Benavidez, a meteorologist, and seven -other witnesses, observe a UFO that maneuvers rapidly on an oscillating -course for 25 minutes. (Good Above, p. 309; -Daniel A. Perisse, “Deception -Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium -Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3872

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Event 5712 -(6B8D8473)

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Date: 6/19/1965
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Two farm boys are stacking hay near Rocky, -Oklahoma, when a bright white, circular, wingless craft appears and -descends at a 45° angle to the height of nearby telephone wires. The -apparent size of the full moon, it moves horizontally across the -farmyard. It has numerous lights around the outside and appears to be -rotating in a counterclockwise direction. Their dogs start barking at -it. They believe it is going to crash, so they run back into the barn -after 3 minutes. It is last seen over a small silo. (J. Allen Hynek, The -UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 104–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3873

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Event 5713 -(BC2CD7A7)

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Date: 6/25/1965
-Description: Frank Stavano and 24 other witnesses hear a loud, -inexplicable explosion at his father Joseph’s farm near Carrollton, -Ohio. Two days later, Joseph Stavano is cutting hay when he discovers a -strange circular formation from which the wheat is completely missing in -the center for a diameter of 26 feet; at the edges the stubble is bent -or broken outward at an angle of 20–30° from the horizontal. No other -path leads into the circle but his own. Soil samples show no evidence of -explosives or other foreign matter. (“Photograph -of Carrollton, Ohio, Ground Mark Received -at CUFOS,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 6 (October 1980): -1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3875

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Event 5714 -(8B611EDE)

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Date: 6/25/1965
-Description: The Phoebus 1A nuclear rocket engine is tested at Area 25 -of the Nevada Test Site as part of Project Rover. It runs at full power -for 10.5 minutes. Unfortunately, the intense radiation environment -causes one of the capacitance gauges to produce erroneous readings. When -confronted by one gauge that says the hydrogen propellant tank is nearly -empty, and another that says it is a quarter full, and unsure which is -correct, the technicians in the control room choose to believe the one -that says it is a quarter full. But the tank is indeed nearly empty, and -the propellant runs dry. Without liquid hydrogen to cool it, the engine, -operating at 2,000° C., quickly overheats and explodes. About a fifth of -the fuel is ejected and most of the rest melts. The whole -decontamination effort takes 400 people two months to complete, and -costs $50,000. (Wikipedia, “Project -Rover”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3874

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Event 5715 -(FD1D4102)

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Date: 7/1965
-Description: 11:30 p.m.–midnight. Talking on the phone in her -second-floor bedroom in Lake Forest, Illinois, Pat Harvey sees a flash -and hears a commotion or “rustle” outside. When she finishes the -conversation, she looks out the window toward her neighbor’s lawn and -sees a transparent bubble of light about 100 feet away. Inside the globe -are several individuals who look like normal human beings, though -slightly shorter (5 feet tall) and with skin that looks tanned. They are -lying down in a somewhat haphazard arrangement. There are no visible -instruments or seats. The object bobs up and down slightly, and the -beings’ arms are moving in a way that reminds Harvey of “rowing -motions.” (Clark III 277; Patrick Gross, URECAT, June -21, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3877

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Event 5716 -(E73DA54B)

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Date: 7/1965
-Description: Hynek writes -a letter to the Air Force calling for a systematic study of UFOs. He -writes that “enough puzzling sightings have been reported by intelligent -and often technically competent people to warrant closer attention than -Project Blue Book can possibly encompass at the present time.” (J. Allen -Hynek, “Are -Flying Saucers Real?” Saturday Evening Post, December 17, 1966, -p. 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3876

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Event 5717 -(88F9CA78)

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Date: 7/1/1965
-Description: 5:45 a.m. Maurice Masse is farming just north of Valensole, -Alps-de-Haute-Provence, France, when he is startled by a whistling sound -and sees an elliptical object resting on four legs some 200 feet away -from him in his lavender field. Squatting on the ground near the object -are two figures about the size of 8-year-old boys, apparently looking at -a lavender plant. Masse approaches them to about 20 feet and the figures -stand up. They are dressed in gray-green overalls and have smooth, -pumpkin-like heads. Their eyes are large and slanted, their mouths have -no lips and look like little holes. He hears some grunting sounds, and -Masse hints that there is a telepathic communication. One of the figures -points a pencil-like object at Masse and he is paralyzed. They enter the -UFO through a door and the object shoots off at enormous speed with a -whistling sound. It takes Masse another 20 minutes to regain control. -Tracks left by the landing gear are found later by Masse and confirmed -by gendarmes. (Wikipedia, “Rencontre -de Valensole”; NICAP, “Humanoids -near Elliptical Object with Legs on Ground”; -Clark 1205–1207; Good Above, pp. 133–134; -G.E.P.A. Investigation, “The -Significant Report from France,” -Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1965): 5–6; Aimé Michel, “The -Valensole Affair,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1965): -7–9; Luis Schönherr, “Luis -Schönherr’s Questionnaire,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 (May/June -1966): 21; G.E.P.A. Representative, “A -Tentative Reply to Luis Schönherr’s Questionnaire,” -Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 (May/June 1966): 22–23; Aimé Michel, “Valensole—Further Details,” -Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 (May/June 1966): 24–25; Aimé Michel and -Charles Bowen, “A -Visit to Valensole,” -Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1967): 6–12; Kim Hansen, “UFO -Casebook,” UFOs 1947– 1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 66–69; Patrick -Gross, “Close -Encounters of the 3rd Kind: Valensole, France, 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3878

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Event 5718 -(01E986D2)

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Date: 7/1/1965
-Time: 0500
-Description: Farmer Maurice Masse, 41, heard a strange noise and saw an -egg-shaped object 30 m away in a lavender field. The craft was set on a -central pivot with six legs, was about 5 m long, and had a door showing -two seats back to back. Near it were two dwarfs the size of 8-year-old -children, with heads, normal human eyes, fine hands with five fingers, -and no hair. They seemed surprised when the witness came near, and -stopped their examination of a plant to aim a small device at him, -causing inhibition of movement. They spoke among themselves in shrill -sounds similar to a gargle. The craft took off and “vanished.” -Traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Valensole, France
-ID: 650

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Event 5719 -(3476B34A)

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Date: 7/1/1965
-Description: Elliptical object with legs observed on ground, two small -humanoids pointed pencil-like device at witness, paralyzing him. Strong -physical trace evidence at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Valensole, France
-ID: 40

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Event 5720 -(2D033A7D)

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Date: 7/2/1965
-End date: 7/3/1965
-Description: Meteorological observers at scientific research bases -watched zigzagging and maneuvering objects, including a lens-shaped -disc. E-M effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Antarctica
-ID: 41

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Event 5721 -(644051DA)

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Date: 7/2/1965
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Five garrison members of the British Antarctic -Station B [abandoned in 1969] on Deception Island in the South Shetland -Islands, Antarctica, have a UFO sighting while conducting routine -meteorological observations. The witnesses see a light in the north -quadrant, zigzagging, hovering, and accelerating at times, and -maintaining altitudes between 20° and 45° above the horizon. The light -is green and red, at times yellow, and is observed for perhaps 15–20 -minutes. The edges of the light resemble those of a bright star. (Schopick, -pp. 153– 155; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, p. 162; -Good Above, p. 309; -Daniel A. Perisse, “Deception -Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium -Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, p. 146; Richard H. Hall, “UFO -Sightings at Scientific Stations in Antarctica, July 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3879

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Event 5722 -(1EBDD4D7)

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Date: 7/3/1965
-Description: Newspaper reports, Antartica: Argentine, British and -Chilean military and scientific personnel observed an UFO moving at a -frightening speed doing incredible maneuvers. It was something solid, -glowing blue-green and causing E/M interference with our equipment. -Lenticular shaped “flying saucer”. Tracked by theodolite, binoculars and -magnetograph tapes. Also, 10 color photographs were taken of the -UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Antartica

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Event 5723 -(CBC32EA6)

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Date: 7/3/1965
-Description: 7:42 p.m. 17 people (including three visiting Chilean -personnel) observe a lens-shaped disc that maneuvers erratically across -the sky for about an hour at the Argentine Deception Station in the -South Orkney Islands, Antarctica. The object changes colors (red, -yellow, green, orange, blue, white) as it zigzags from a position about -30° above the horizon in the north-northwest. The object hovers, -accelerates, reverses direction, and changes its luminosity. At times it -goes behind some clouds, but it is also seen in front of some cirrus -clouds. Finally, it disappears to the northwest, decreasing in size and -gaining altitude. Cpl. Uladislao Duran Martinez takes 10 color photos -through theodolite and field glasses. (“Chile, -Argentina Confirm UFO Films,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4 -(Aug./Sept. 1965): 2; Dan Lloyd, “Things -Are Hotting Up in the Antarctic,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1965): 4–5; Schopick, -pp. 155–159; Daniel A. Perisse, “Deception -Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium -Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 147, 154; Richard H. Hall, -“UFO -Sightings at Scientific Stations in Antarctica, July 1965”; Good -Above pp. 309–310; -Condon, pp. 99–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3882

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Event 5724 -(E7330F71)

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Date: 7/3/1965
-Description: 7:20 p.m. The meteorologist and eight other witnesses at -the Chilean Aguirre Cerda Station [destroyed in 1967] on Deception -Island, Antarctica, watch for a total of 20 minutes a bright and -apparently solid object zigzagging from the east quadrant to the south -quadrant. It maintains an altitude above the horizon between 35 and 20 -degrees. It is white and star-like with some orange hues. (Daniel A. -Perisse, “Deception -Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium -Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 147, 153–154; Richard H. -Hall, “UFO -Sightings at Scientific Stations in Antarctica, July 1965”; Good -Above, p. 309)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3881

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Event 5725 -(83496F58)

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Date: 7/3/1965
-Description: 5:03 p.m. Two meteorologists at the Argentine Orcadas Base -on Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica, observe for 15 -seconds a round, bluish-white object moving east to west on a parabolic -path. Two variometers (magnetic field measuring instruments) register -sudden and strong disturbances. (Schopick, -pp. 153– 155; Daniel A. Perisse, “Deception -Island UFO Sightings,” MUFON 1987 International UFO Symposium -Proceedings, Mutual UFO Network, 1987, pp. 147, 153; Richard H. Hall, -“UFO -Sightings at Scientific Stations in Antarctica, -July 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3880

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Event 5726 -(F78D28C6)

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Date: 7/6/1965
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Mrs. E.R. Hayner. One flashing light, like a -satellite, was seen for less than 1 minute. No further data was in the -files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kiel, Wisconsin
-ID: 522

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Event 5727 -(B7F596FE)

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Date: 7/6/1965
-Time: night
-Description: The commander and crew of the Norwegian tanker “Jawesta” -observed a lighted object flying out of the sea. First Officer Toronin -Lien first saw a large, blue, intense flame behind the ship at high -speed. He called the captain and tracked the object with binoculors as -its altitude reached about 300m. Its shape was that of a cigar, with a -row of lighted portholes showing a clear yellow glow, and it left a -bluish trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 150 (Vallee)
-Location: Puerto La Cruz, Portugal
-ID: 651

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Event 5728 -(9EB7A4C2)

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Date: 7/6/1965
-Description: 6:52 p.m. Chief Mate Torgrim Lien of the Norwegian ship TT -Jawesta watches a star-like UFO through binoculars in the North Atlantic -Ocean about 900 miles southwest of the Azores. He, the captain, and -other officers see an intense blue, fiery tongue of light approaching -the ship at tremendous speed. As it gets closer, he sees it is a -cigar-shaped UFO with a row of square windows. (“‘Cigar’ -Passes a Few Hundred Feet above Norwegian -Ship,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1966): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3883

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Event 5729 -(87922AD5)

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Date: 7/8/1965
-Description: Police lieutenant and officer saw hovering white object -that undulated, darted here and there, zigzagged, and sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Sunnyvale, CA
-ID: 42

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Event 5730 -(4A07D675)

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Date: 7/9/1965
-Time: 1230
-Description: At the Cote-de-Thermont, 30year-old Mrs. Zielonka saw a -metallic object rise at high speed and fly away toward Metz. Estimated -diameter: 3 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 152 (Vallee)
-Location: Moyeuvre, France
-ID: 652

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Event 5731 -(896D4D4E)

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Date: 7/9/1965
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Connie Wolferd and other residents of Bunker -Hill, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, watch a clam- shaped object, about -10 feet in diameter, with red lights around its rim hover above some -nearby trees. Wolferd is sitting on the porch listening to the radio -when it suddenly stops functioning. The living room lights flicker -(although fluorescent lights in the kitchen and bathroom do not), and a -neighbor’s loud TV suddenly stops. She hears something making a -“bleep-bleep” sound, looks up, and sees the object. Neighbors find the -leaves of nearby trees are singed. (“Bunker -Hill Girl Tells of Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects in July,” -Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News, August 10, 1965, p. 20; Schopick, -pp. 177–178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3885

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Event 5732 -(614F7739)

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Date: 7/9/1965
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A white cylindrical object is seen flying over -Santa Maria Island in the Azores islands, Portugal. All electric clocks -at the Santa Maria Airport stop when the object passes overhead. Weather -personnel and other witnesses all agree that the UFO is at an altitude -of 24,000–30,000 feet. At no time does it make any sound. According to -witnesses, the clocks stop at the same time the UFO reaches the zenith -directly over the airport. Attempts to identify it are unsuccessful. -(NICAP, “Clocks -at Airport Stopped When UFO Passes Over”; “The Portuguese -UAOs,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, p. 7; “United Press -International Reports on Two UFOs,” Fate 18, no. 11 (November 1965): -59–61; Schopick, -pp. 160–162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3884

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Event 5733 -(E22E7F4B)

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Date: 7/12/1965
-Description: Student Humberto Aranjo da Silva nearly hit a saucer-shaped -craft, 6 m in diameter, with two V-shaped landing pads and a dome, which -had landed on the road. It made a whirring noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84; SBEDV 51, 53 (Vallee)
-Location: Bairio Paraiso dos Barbeiros, Brazil
-ID: 653

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Event 5734 -(B23720EB)

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Date: 7/12/1965
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Laura de Freitas Machado Fernandes gets up to go -to the well for some water at her home in Porto, Portugal, near the -Porto Airport. She notices a luminous red object shaped like a -cardinal’s hat coming from the west at high speed. It stops in mid-air -and hovers above some nearby woods, rocking back and forth. She rushes -back to warn her husband, Manuel Fernandes. They notice that their radio -set has started making a loud noise. They estimate the object is about a -quarter-mile away. Its top part is orange, and on its brim is a -flickering red light. They watch it for 3 minutes before it takes off to -the north at full speed. The radio goes back to normal. (“The -Portuguese UAOs,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, pp. 3, 7; “United -Press International Reports on Two UFOs,” Fate 18, no. 11 (November -1965): 59–61; Schopick, -pp. 162–167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3886

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Event 5735 -(5C396C61)

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Date: 7/15/1965
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Bosquets and their family observed a luminous -object, its color changing from blue to orange, about 12 m in diameter, -and showing several portholes. The object left traces on the -ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI 1965 (Vallee)
-Location: Loretami Valley, Argentina
-ID: 654

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Event 5736 -(F30223E5)

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Date: 7/15/1965
-Description: 11:00 a.m. An object descends near the Canberra Deep Space -Communication Complex in Tidbinbilla, Australian Capital Territory, -interfering with its tracking of Mariner 4. It is also observed by -control tower operators at Canberra Airport. (“Canberra -Incident,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1965): 18–19; -Schopick, pp. 167–169; -Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 106; -Randall C. Hecker, “Did UFO Sabotage Mariner IV?” Fate 20, no. 5 (May -1967): 32–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3887

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Event 5737 -(F0353EB1)

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Date: 7/17/1965
-Description: A blinding object, smaller than an airplane and having -metallic legs, was seen on the bank of the Rio de la Plata River by two -workers and four young men. White smoke emerged from the craft, which -remained on the sand for two min, leaving X-shaped traces. It flew up to -about 10 m altitude, then went away. The craft showed a round central -section with two oval ends and looked somewhat similar to an egg.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 153 (Vallee)
-Location: Colonia, Uruguay
-ID: 655

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Event 5738 -(27445225)

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Date: 7/19/1965
-Time: 1930
-Description: Maria Andres, teacher, Mr. Gomez, Mrs. Goicoecha, and -others saw a small object leave a larger one, land, and burn a spot on -the ground before going back to the main object. It emitted a blinding -light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Asi Jul. 30, 1965 (Vallee)
-Location: Villas Rosas, Argentina
-ID: 656

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Event 5739 -(05E035DA)

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Date: 7/19/1965
-Time: 2130
-Description: Mr. Crowe was attracted by a strong light on the beach, and -walked within 20 m of the craft producing it, which took off with a -yelloworange light. Estimated diameter: 7 m, height, 3 m, with -blue-green edges.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Spaceview 44 (Vallee)
-Location: Vancluse, Australia
-ID: 657

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Event 5740 -(D948F897)

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Date: 7/19/1965
-Time: night
-Description: Carlos Videla Zamudio saw a “strange machine” land on an -isolated beach. It was shaped like a mushroom or a top, was lighted from -inside, rested on the ground silently, flew up to 30 m, and disappeared -at fantastic speed. This was the third landing on a beach reported in -Jul..
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 155; LDLN 78; APRO Jan., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Chanaral, Chile
-ID: 658

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Event 5741 -(346B9258)

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Date: 7/19/1965
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Denis -Crowe, an -aircraft artist, is strolling along a beach at Vaucluse, New South -Wales, when he encounters a glowing disc resting on legs. It is about 20 -feet in diameter and 9 feet high. The top and bottom are silver gray and -the rim in between is glowing greenish-blue. A hollow area at the very -top seems to be a glass dome. There are no windows or antennae. Dogs in -the neighborhood all bark at it. When Crowe is 50–60 feet from the -object, it takes off with a sound like air forced from a balloon. He -watches it for about 10 seconds until it disappears into the clouds. -After the object takes off, the dogs are strangely silent. (NICAP, “Glowing -Disc on Legs -Freaks Dogs”; Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966, Part Two,” -IUR 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 16–17; Good Above, p. 531)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3888

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Event 5742 -(6A2A6C81)

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Date: 7/19/1965
-Description: Domed disc with legs on beach, dogs barked loudly. Object -took off with sound of rushing air, yellow-orange glow from -underside
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Vaucluse, N.S.W., Australia
-ID: 43

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Event 5743 -(E8DC4808)

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Date: 7/20/1965
-Description: Domed object paced car, climbed out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Chesterville, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 44

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Event 5744 -(BC5EED54)

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Date: 7/20/1965
-Time: 0800
-Description: R. Pereyra was driving near Monte de los Curas when he saw -a parachutelike object land. Going near, he observed a chromiumlooking, -egg-shaped craft standing on metal legs, with a transparent upper part. -A blond-haired pilot, wearing plastic coveralls and small boots, seemed -to study a piece of paper. Inside the craft was another man seated -before an instrument panel. Shortly thereafter the object took -off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 40 (Vallee)
-Location: Quilmes, Argentina
-ID: 659

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Event 5745 -(1DC5F259)

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Date: 7/23/1965
-Description: An object was observed to land on ranch 45 km north of this -town by a chemical engineer, his wife, and several farmers. It remained -on the ground for 45 min, leaving traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Saucer News 61 (Vallee)
-Location: Lima, Peru
-ID: 660

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Event 5746 -(1E69C87B)

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Date: 7/25/1965
-Time: 9:15 PM
-Description: Witness: amateur astronomer M.D. Harris, 16. One bright -blue star crossed 90 of sky in 10-15 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Castalia, Ohio
-ID: 523

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Event 5747 -(667EFBB2)

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Date: 7/25/1965
-Time: night
-Description: Mr. Alva was awakened by a strange sound and saw an object -on the ground emitting green light flashes. He woke up other employees, -who had time to note that the object was about 3 m in diameter, had -small windows in its upper part, and a revolving telescopic appendage. -The investigating commission found dark, triangular traces on the -ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Chosica Power Plant, Peru
-ID: 661

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Event 5748 -(13C35DF6)

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Date: 7/26/1965
-Time: 2000
-Description: A teenager, Adilon Azevedo, a others who fled, saw two -objects at ground level, about 3 m in diameter, 1.5 m high, with five -occupants, wearing luminous helmets, speaking among theselves, in -unfamiliar language. One of the beings had a bright object in his hand. -The witness experienced headaches for five days.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 41 (Vallee)
-Location: Carazinho, Brazil
-ID: 662

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Event 5749 -(45459EBD)

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Date: 7/26/1965
-Description: Night. Adilon Batista de Azevedo, 14, leaves home with two -friends to go to a movie theater on the outskirts of Carazinho, Rio -Grande do Sul, Brazil. When they pass a vacant lot on Rua David -Canaberra between the Rua 15 de Novembro and the Rua Alexandra de Motta, -they see a light beam coming from a cloud illuminating an area about 33 -feet in diameter and hear a buzzing noise. The other boys run, but -Adilon remains and sees an oval- shaped object landing in the vacant lot -and hovering about 3 feet off the ground. Another smaller object -descends and hovers next to the first. Two beings about 5 feet tall -emerge from the larger object and walk around it. They are wearing dark -clothing and light helmets. After 5 minutes, 3 others emerge from the -smaller object and converse with the others. The beings reenter the -objects, which take off several minute apart. Adilon gets a headache -that remains with him for 5 days. Possible helicopters? (“Research -in Brazil,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 45– 47 (July/Dec. 1965): 7–9; Patrick -Gross, URECAT, April -6, 2008; Brazil 73–74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3890

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Event 5750 -(2F42AA23)

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Date: 7/26/1965
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Astronomers Robert Vitolniek, Ian Melderis, and -Esmeralda Vitolniek at the Baldone Astrophysical Observatory in Latvia -are observing noctilucent clouds when they see a star-like object -drifting slowly westwards. Through binoculars the light seems to be -sharply defined, and through a telescope it looks like an array of three -greenish lights around a larger, central sphere. After 20 minutes, the -three smaller lights move away from the central one, and they disappear -into the distance at 10:00 p.m. (Felix Ziegel, “Unidentified -Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 27; Hobana -and Weverbergh 286–287; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified -Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, -Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., -2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 60–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3889

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Event 5751 -(BB2581E7)

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Date: 7/28/1965
-Description: 9:40 p.m. A USAF Reserve major and his wife observe a manta -ray–shaped object fly almost directly overhead at Carswell AFB [now -Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base], Fort Worth, Texas, -below 1,000 feet altitude. The object moves at a constant speed on the -same course. The object is approximately 40 feet long and has two -brilliant white lights pulsating off and on once every second. It is -completely silent and flies directly through the Carswell control zone -at low altitude. The sighting is verified by three other persons on -duty. The report states: “This sighting was a positive observation, -under ideal circumstances, of a definite object of an unconventional -nature—possibly of foreign origin, which could be a threat to national -security.” (NICAP, “RAPCON -Fails to Identify Low Flying Manta Ray”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3891

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Event 5752 -(3406FA1D)

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Date: 7/29/1965
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 45

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Event 5753 -(C2F81288)

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Date: 7/29/1965
-Time: 2300
-Description: Alain Bressol observed a large, disk-shaped object in a -field near Monsempron-Libos. It flew at high speed toward the south. -Official report.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 156;LDLN 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Grouzies, France
-ID: 663

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Event 5754 -(181597A3)

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Date: 7/30/1965
-Time: 0500
-Description: Two children attracted by the barking of a dog saw a -luminous object resting on a tripod landing gear, and observed it for -one hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Goonumbla, Australia
-ID: 665

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Event 5755 -(5780038A)

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Date: 7/30/1965
-Description: Hundreds of people in two separate spots observed an object -that landed for five min. It emitted a blinding purple light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 157; LDLN 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Puerto Monte, Chile
-ID: 664

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Event 5756 -(A2B3AAE3)

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Date: 7/31/1965
-Description: A woman in a car saw an object on the road. It took off, -then landed again in Belluco where it was seen by several people. The -object emitted a bright, purple light and a green beam.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Spaceview (Vallee)
-Location: Belluco, Chile
-ID: 666

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Event 5757 -(D49CC1A0)

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Date: 7/31/1965
-Description: 1:05 a.m. Wynnewood, Oklahoma, police officer Lewis Sikes, -29, reports a UFO to the northeast. A little later, simultaneous radar -fixes are obtained at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City and Carswell AFB [now -Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base], Fort Worth, Texas. -Both Tinker and Carswell track the object to a point 15 miles southwest -of Tinker when it disappears. A few minutes later, it is tracked to a -point 29 miles south of Tinker when it is lost again. (NICAP, “Gnd/Visual -and AF Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3892

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Event 5758 -(B7D93E0C)

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Date: 7/31/1965
-End date: 9/3/1965
-Description: Summer 1965 sighting wave mostly in Southwestern U.S. and -northward through the central tier of states, later in eastern U.S. (See -separate chronology, section VIII.)
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 46

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Event 5759 -(1F38EC04)

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Date: 8/1/1965
-Description: 8:08 p.m. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol starts receiving -25–30 visual sightings of UFOs, many by police and highway patrol -troopers from Purcell north to Norman to Chandler and back south through -Meeker and Shawnee, Oklahoma. The sightings continue through dawn and -vary from one to four objects that start and stop, often having a red -color and varying to a white and blue luster. (NICAP, [case -documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3894

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Event 5760 -(F76E59CE)

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Date: 8/1/1965
-Description: 9:08 p.m. Four objects, bluish-white with a red haze, are -seen from the control tower at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. -T/Sgt John -R. Lang, 34, -is the watch supervisor. All the objects appear at approximately 22,000 -feet altitude. One is moving south, and another is moving north at -speeds of 150–200 mph. Two of the objects appear stationary. The 746th -Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron reports radar contact with one -object at 10,000 feet in the vicinity of Norman, Oklahoma, 20 miles -south of Tinker AFB. The duration is 90 minutes. An Air Force weather -observer, who wishes to remain anonymous, looks at a UFO through his -40x-telescope at Oklahoma City. It is tilted about 45° then straightens -out. “It looked like Saturn with a flat top and flat bottom.” (NICAP, -“Four -Lights Observed, Radar Contact on One”; “UFOs -Leave Local Radar -Tracks,” Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, August 2, 1965, pp. 1–2; “Radar -Didn’t Detect UFOs -Spotted in Area,” Minneapolis Star, August 3, 1965, pp. 1, 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3895

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Event 5761 -(C936AE32)

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Date: 8/1/1965
-Description: Night. A TWA Boeing 707 airliner flying west of Topeka, -Kansas, picks up 12–15 targets on Air Intercept Radar flying toward them -at high speed on a 50-mile scope. They change to a 20-mile scope and -observe the objects approaching in formation. The pilot, copilot, and -engineer all witness this clearly. The aircraft passes the objects but -cannot see them visually. Two films of the scopes are taken. (NICAP, “707 -Picks Up 12–15 Targets”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3896

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Event 5762 -(151706AE)

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Date: 8/1/1965
-Description: Night. Two rookie police officers in Caldwell, Kansas, -speed toward the airport to investigate local sightings when they see an -egg-shaped machine about 300 feet long hovering above the ground. They -try to get closer, but it disappears behind a hedgerow and shuts its -lights off. They return the next day, but find no traces. (“Caldwell Officers -Are ‘Believers’ Now,” Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, August 2, 1965, p. 1; -Jerome Clark, “The -Greatest Flap Yet?” -Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1966): 27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3897

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Event 5763 -(93C26944)

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Date: 8/1/1965
-Description: 1:30–4:30 a.m. Various personnel from Francis E. Warren Air -Force Base west of Cheyenne, Wyoming, report more than 70 UFOs near the -base’s ICBM Minuteman I launch control facilities (LCFs) and launch -facilities (LFs, missile silos). A Lieut. Anspaugh logs the reports and -incoming telephone calls for three hours. The reports begin with a -“large circular object emitting several colors but no sound” seen by -civilians over Cheyenne itself at 1:30 a.m. This results in an alert at -the base for all personnel to be on the watch for anything suspicious. -Five objects are spotted over the Sioux Army Depot [now closed] in -Sydney, Nebraska, at 1:45 a.m. Two UFOs are seen over the Echo LCF -southeast of Pine Bluff at 1:48 a.m. Nine more objects are sighted at -2:50 a.m. The Echo LCF reports six UFOs stacked vertically. A Strategic -Air Command team at the H-2 LF northeast of Gurley reports a white UFO -directly overhead at 3:00 a.m. The Sioux Army Depot reports five objects -going east at 3:35 a.m. Reports of white, round- or oval-shaped objects -in various formations, continue solidly at the H- 2 LF for the next 40 -minutes. At 4:05 a.m., the Warren base commander calls to say that the -Quebec LCF southwest of Chugwater has nine UFOs in sight: four to the -NW, three to the NE, and two over Cheyenne. Sightings continue to be -reported the next two nights at missile sites assigned to Warren AFB, -for a total of 148 objects seen by 143 combat defense force airmen, -missile maintenance men, and NCOs. The sheer scope and blatant -ostentation of the UFOs’ reported aerial displays over a sensitive -atomic missile base is remarkable. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, -Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 209–211; -Robert L. Hastings, “Remarkable -Reports from -the Missile Field,” IUR 32, no. 1 (August 2008): 8–14, 23–27; Robert -L. Hastings, “Yet -Another Nuclear Missile -Launch Officer Talks about UFOs at F. E. Warren AFB,” UFOs & -Nukes, February 5, 2012; Nukes 223– 238)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3893

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Event 5764 -(26A2CF5F)

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Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Unidentified blips show up on the Weather Bureau -radar screen at the Wichita Municipal Airport [now Wichita Dwight D. -Eisenhower National Airport] in Kansas and continue intermittently until -after 6:00 a.m. Most of the sightings are in the vicinity of Wellington, -Kansas. The altitude ranges from 5,000–20,000 feet. Wichita -meteorologist John Shockley tracks several UFOs on the Weather Bureau -radar flying at altitudes of 6,000–9,000 feet. His assistant Ellis -Pike notes that they look just like airliner blips. They brighten -and dim on the screen, moving at 45 mph. At least four citizens see -colored glows in the southern sky during the early morning hours. One -says: “They were red and exploded in a shower of sparks and at other -times fluttered like a leaf in the clear sky.” (NICAP, “Weather -Radar Blips and Sky Glows”; Condon, pp. 158–160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3900

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Event 5765 -(4C53E264)

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Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: The crew of the Russian steamship Raduga in the Red Sea -watch a fiery sphere emerge from the water 2 miles away, causing an -enormous pillar of water to rise and collapse. It hovers above the -surface at an altitude of 490 feet. A motorboat with six Arab fishermen -is in the area and also sees the object, which is apparently 200 feet in -diameter. The object shoots straight up, and the boat is hit by a strong -wave that overturns it. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, -Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 59–60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3902

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Event 5766 -(108472F2)

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Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: Five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings, -close to the ground, in the 600 block on Northwest 63.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
-ID: 668

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Event 5767 -(EB5F7936)

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Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: As they patrol near Eagle Mountain Lake, two Tarrant -County, Texas, deputy sheriffs see an object as bright as burning -magnesium land. An extensive investigation by police finds no traces. -(Sparks, p. 306)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3903

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Event 5768 -(2ABB390D)

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Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: Project Blue Book puts out an official USAF press release -declaring the majority of the sightings on August 1 are “most likely” -due to the planet Jupiter and the stars Rigel, Capella, Betelgeuse, and -Aldebaran, “clearly visible in the eastern sky.” But astronomer Robert -Risser of the Kirkpatrick Planetarium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, -counters that Jupiter and the four stars are “on the opposite side of -the earth” at the time of the sightings. (“Mystery -Flying Objects ‘Seen’ -in Eight States,” Los Angeles Times, August 3, 1965, p. 1; Clark III -388)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3899

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Event 5769 -(F9A3061B)

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Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: Two deputy sheriffs of Tarrant County saw an object as -bright as burning magnesium, which landed as they were on a patrol near -Wagle Mountain Lake. Extensive investigation by the police led to -negative results.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Justin, Texas
-ID: 667

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Event 5770 -(FA7001E9)

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Date: 8/2/1965
-Description: 3:00 a.m. KXWI-TV news photographer Robert Campbell hears -on his radio a conversation between Oklahoma and Texas highway patrolmen -that a UFO has been tracked on radar and is streaking towards the Texas -border. Campbell takes his 4-by-5 Speed Graphic camera and drives into -Sherman, Texas, where he locates Chief of Police Peter McCollum. -Together they search for the object and soon see it hanging stationary -one mile east of Bells on US Highway 82. The object has a “Mercury -capsule” shape at one end, possibly rounded at the other end. Several -distinct bands circle the cylinder, with disc-shaped embossments on the -surface. He takes four camera exposures, two minutes each at -three-minute intervals. The negatives are carefully examined by USAF -scientific advisers and astronomical experts. No acceptable explanation -can be found for the object recorded on the negatives. (NICAP, “The -Sherman, Texas, Photo Case”; “Sherman -1965,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014; -Patrick Gross, “The -Sherman Case, Texas, USA, 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3901

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Event 5771 -(8FC8AE90)

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Date: 8/2/1965
-Alternate date: 8/3/1965
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Mr. A. L. Smith, accompanied by his 14-year-old -son Alan and three other witnesses, watch an unusual, multicolored UFO -over Tulsa, Oklahoma. The UFO is slowly moving toward the witnesses. -Still several hundred yards away, it pauses briefly and hovers. At that -precise moment, Alan snaps a photograph with his inexpensive camera, -using ASA 64 film. Alan decides not to try for a second shot. He takes -his camera inside the house and runs back outside just in time to see -the object rapidly flying away into the night sky. The photo is a -probable fake of a color wheel for an aluminum Christmas tree. (NICAP, -“The -Smith / Tulsa Photo Case”; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case -Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p.147; -Larry Robinson, “The -Tulsa Photo,” MidiMagic, October 25, 2016; Patrick Gross, “Project -Blue Book Case -9966”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3898

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Event 5772 -(657CBAA5)

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Date: 8/3/1965
-Description: Denver Post editorial: “Maybe it’s time for more people to -get serious about the UFO question. . . . If we still choose to be -skeptical, we nevertheless are not nearly so ready as we once were to -dismiss all reports of variously shaped but elusive flying objects as -products of midsummer night dreams.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 47

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Event 5773 -(A6804024)

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Date: 8/3/1965
-Description: Highway investigator Rex Heflin, three Polaroid photos of -domed-disc UFO (section VII). August 4, 1965. Fort Worth Star Telegram -(TX) editorial: “They can stop kidding us now about there being no such -thing as ‘flying saucers. . . .’ Too many people of obviously sound mind -saw and reported them independently. . . . Their descriptions of what -they saw were too similar to one another, and too unlike any familiar -object. . . .”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Santa Ana, CA
-ID: 48

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Event 5774 -(46F45970)

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Date: 8/3/1965
-Description: A young man saw an object rise from the lake area.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lake Hefner, Oklahoma
-ID: 669

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Event 5775 -(12B92C8B)

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Date: 8/3/1965
-Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Three young men watch a triangular -object with a light at each of its points move from north to south along -the Jura Mountains from Biel/Bienne to Vignelz, Canton Bern, -Switzerland. Suddenly it stops, changing color from yellow to dark red, -makes a 180° turn, then takes off “like lightning” toward the east where -it vanishes. (“Bright -Pointed Triangle Again,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1966): iii)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3905

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Event 5776 -(E23E5866)

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Date: 8/3/1965
-Time: 2000
-Description: Approximate date. Dr. Antonin Kukla and Mrs. Audrey -Lawrence saw an object dive toward them. They switched off the car -headlights and got out of the vehicle to observe the oval object, which -hovered at ground level, its color changing from orange to fluorescent -green, before it took off at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
-Location: Carnarvon, Australia
-ID: 670

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Event 5777 -(83CDDB78)

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Date: 8/3/1965
-Description: 12:37 p.m. Los Angeles County Highway Accident Investigator -Rex -Heflin takes four clear Polaroid photos of a hat-shaped UFO on a -lonely stretch of road near Santa Ana, California. The object is silent, -and a beam of white light is rotating beneath it. He radios his -supervisor, but the radio goes dead. One of Heflin’s coworkers offers to -send the photos to Life magazine; he does, but Life declines to use -them. Soon, someone from NORAD shows up demanding the prints and Heflin -turns them over. They are not seen again. The photos are most likely a -prank hoax by Heflin using a hubcap, complicated by flawed photographic -analyses and investigations. (NICAP, “Santa -Ana / Rex Heflin Photos”; “Calif. -Man Snaps UAO Photo,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, pp. 4, 6; “Photo -‘Hoax’ Label Questioned,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 5 -(Nov./Dec. 1965): 8; “The -Heflin Story,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1966): 7–8; Schopick, -pp. 170–174; Ralph Rankow, “The -Heflin Photographs,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1968): 21–24; UFOEv II 284–286; Condon, pp. 84–85, 437–455; -Robert J. Kirkpatrick, “The Heflin Case: Then and Now,” IUR 11, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1986): 10–13, 23; “Heflin’s 1965 -Photos Finally Validated,” RR0; Ann Druffel, Robert M. Wood, and -Eric Kelson, “Reanalysis -of the 1965 Heflin -UFO Photos,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 14, no. 4 (2000): -583–622; Ann Druffel, “Goodbye, -Rex Heflin,” -UFO, August 2006, pp. 52–63; Mary Castner, unpublished document)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3904

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Event 5778 -(145866B3)

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Date: 8/4/1965
-Description: A bright, silvery object landed on a hill for 45 min. There -were numerous witnesses, among them military men. Official -investigation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Chena, Chile
-ID: 671

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Event 5779 -(EF078D9A)

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Date: 8/4/1965
-Description: E-M effects on truck, domed disc swooped overhead, hovered -just above road, blocked highway
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Abilene, KS
-ID: 49

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Event 5780 -(C2C2C92F)

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Date: 8/4/1965
-Description: U.S. Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force radar tracked -formations of 7-10 UFOs over Lake Superior and Duluth, MN, moving at -about 9,000 mph, altitudes between 5,200 and 17,000 feet
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Michigan—Minnesota
-ID: 50

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Event 5781 -(1728361B)

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Date: 8/4/1965
-Time: 11:35 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two unnamed 14 year olds. One light moved around -the sky for 16-17 seconds. No further data in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Tinley Park, Illinois
-ID: 525

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Event 5782 -(DB8D81BF)

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Date: 8/4/1965
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Don -Tenopir, 44, is driving a truck on State Highway 15 about 25 miles -south of Abilene (near Elmo, Kansas), when all his lights go out. They -come back on intermittently. A UFO passes just above his truck with a -wind-like sound and hovers about 100 feet in front of him. Tenopir stops -his rig, and the object slowly rises and takes off to the southwest. It -seems to be 14–15 feet in diameter, 2 feet thick with a 4-foot hump in -the middle, and orange-colored. It is shooting off rays in spurts. He -stops in Abilene to report his sighting to Abilene Reflector-Chronicle -reporter Ed -Corwin. (“Beatrice -Trucker Joins UFO Viewers,” Beatrice (Neb.) Daily Sun, August 5, -1965, p. 1; Jerome Clark, “The -Greatest Flap Yet?” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1966): -29–30; Schopick, pp. 175–177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3906

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Event 5783 -(A1CA625C)

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Date: 8/4/1965
-Description: Night. Radar operators at Calumet Air Force Station [now -operated by Keweenaw County] near Phoenix, Michigan, track 7–10 objects -in V-formation traveling from southwest to north-northeast at about -9,000 mph over Lake Superior. The same night, radar targets at Duluth, -Minnesota, are chased by USAF jets. (Sparks, -p. 306; Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3907

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Event 5784 -(0423B2FA)

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Date: 8/4/1965
-Time: 2200
-Description: Joao Erondo dos Santos saw a disk 50 m in diameter land -with a distinct sound, although no traces were found afterward. The -object illuminated a wide area.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Trapua, Brazil
-ID: 674

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Event 5785 -(0D319F1A)

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Date: 8/4/1965
-Time: 0130
-Description: Truck driver Don Tenopir had reached a point 35 km from -Abilene, going toward Lincoln, when his headlights blinked and failed. -An object then dived toward the truck and stopped on the road 30 m ahead -causing a car coming in the opposite direction to leave the road in -order to avoid it. The object was orange, 5 m in diameter, 1.5 m high, -with a dome and a “black spot.” It took off toward the west, then turned -south.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 82 (Vallee)
-Location: Abilene, Kansas
-ID: 673

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Event 5786 -(69FDF28C)

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Date: 8/4/1965
-Time: 0130
-Description: A man in a car observed a red and blue light thought it -came from a police car, then was passed by a huge, orange object flying -at ground level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Dallas, Texas
-ID: 672

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Event 5787 -(9663D4F4)

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Date: 8/4/1965
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witness: J.A. Carter, 19. One light flew fast, straight and -level for 12 seconds. No further data in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Dallas, Texas
-ID: 524

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Event 5788 -(CACE82FC)

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Date: 8/5/1965
-Time: 2030
-Description: Several children saw an object shaped like two saucers -glued together come to ground level several times on the farm of William -Butcher. It was chromelike, measured about 16 m in diameter, took off -with green and yellow flames, and illuminated the clouds when it flew -into them. Capt. James Dorsey and four technicians from Niagara Falls -AFB investigated the case. They found no trace, concluding, however, -that the witnesses were not lying.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Cherry Creek, New York
-ID: 675

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Event 5789 -(DFC8FEE9)

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Date: 8/6/1965
-Description: Cascade (ID) News editorial: “An objective observer is -about forced to the conclusion that there are objects of some sort -appearing in the skies that cannot be explained by any conventional -circumstances. There is absolutely no reason to deny the UFOs’ existence -because we don’t understand them.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 51

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Event 5790 -(926DD08C)

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Date: 8/8/1965
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A luminous UFO is allegedly photographed in -Beaver, Pennsylvania, by James Lucci, 17. According to estimations by -witnesses, the diameter of the UFO is around 42 feet. Lucci is -photographing the full moon with his brother John, 23. According to -them, a shining object appears from behind a hill. James manages to take -two shots before the flying object leaves. His friends encourage him to -send the photos to the Beaver County Times, where they are analyzed and -declared authentic. However, both the Colorado project and UFO -researchers determine the photo is a hoax created by holding a plate up -next to the moon with a fist (probably John’s) and blurring it with -motion. (Condon, pp. 83–84, -455–457; -Mark Cashman, “The End of a Photographic Case,” IUR 23, no. 4 (Winter -1998): 21–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3908

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Event 5791 -(2BC490F7)

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Date: 8/9/1965
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A professional astronomer and his wife, along -with three others, are driving eastward on Long Island, New York, when -then see a silvery disc heading slowly south. Its base has a ring of -bluish-white lights that make the object appear to rotate. It has a -white light on top. After accelerating, the object becomes a white, -starlike object far to the east. It moves up and down for another 5 -minutes, then rapidly moves south and disappears over the Atlantic -Ocean. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 75–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3909

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Event 5792 -(016F560D)

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Date: 8/9/1965
-Time: 2330
-Description: Three girls driving a car observed what they first thought -was the rising moon. It was a circular, pale-yellow object, with a -silhouette moving inside the glow. There were five other witnesses one -of whom stated that as he approached the object, it appeared to “blow -up” with a bang.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Grand Forks, North Dakota
-ID: 676

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Event 5793 -(67CF8B38)

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Date: 8/10/1965
-Description: Boeing aerospace engineer saw two silvery, disc-shaped -objects that hovered for several minutes, departed upward at high speed -one after the other
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Seattle, WA
-ID: 52

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Event 5794 -(1774513B)

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Date: 8/10/1965
-Description: 9:40 P.M. Fireball meteor traveling easterly across -northeast sky.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pacific Northwest
-ID: 53

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Event 5795 -(280626DF)

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Date: 8/11/1965
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 54

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Event 5796 -(6E00FCF8)

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Date: 8/11/1965 (approximate)
-Description: 3:30 p.m. David Gibson is sitting in the front yard of his -house in Waverly, Iowa, with his father and sister. They hear a -high-pitched whine and see an object descending to the south. The -silvery UFO is about 15–20 feet in diameter and looks like two saucers -put together. It lands on a tree-lined hill out of view and the whining -sound fades away. Gibson walks about a half-mile to take a look and -briefly sees a “being,” about 3–3.5 feet tall, watching him from behind -a tree at the top of the hill. It quickly vanishes and he hears a rush -of air. He reaches the spot but sees no footprints. About 40 feet south -of the tree he finds a burned area about 15–20 feet in diameter and -three rectangular impressions in the shape of a triangle. (Jerome Clark, -“Iowa’s -Bashful Humanoid,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4 (November 1975): -52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3910

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Event 5797 -(519BB7C2)

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Date: 8/12/1965
-Description: 11:15 a.m. Maj. Jack D. Bond is sitting in a passenger seat -of a T-29 aircraft on a heading of 300° and descending from 4,000 feet -to 3,000 feet near Springfield, Ohio. He sees a UFO ascending and -descending that is slightly higher than the T-29. It appears to be 5–7 -miles away and moving in a general direction of 90°. The object’s speed -is highly erratic during the 3 ascents and descents that the object -makes. On its third descent the object appears to level off and -accelerate at a speed of 690 mph or more. Project Blue Book evaluates -this sighting as a solar mirage, even though the position and time of -day rule that out. (NICAP, “Object -Has 3 Ascents and 2 Descents”; -Clark III 388–389)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3911

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Event 5798 -(46EE45C6)

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Date: 8/13/1965
-Description: Portsmouth (NH) Herald editorial: “Perhaps we really do -have visitors from somewhere beyond our present ken.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Portsmouth, NH
-ID: 55

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Event 5799 -(02420298)

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Date: 8/13/1965
-Description: 9:30 p.m.? Leonard Chalupiak has just put his car into his -garage at Baden, Pennsylvania, when he sees a disc-shaped object about -300 feet in diameter flying in front of the moon toward the north at -about 50 mph and 2,300 feet away. It is surrounded with orange lights -that weaken as a blue light comes on, which is intense for about 3 -seconds. Then all the lights disappear and a sort of “shock wave” that -shakes the tree leaves commences. The witness goes into his house and -calls the Air Force. About 20 minutes later his vision becomes hazy, his -eyes grow painful, and he gradually loses vision in both eyes. He -notices his entire body is sunburned. A medical examination indicates -exposure to ultraviolet radiation. His vision returns gradually over -several days. The Air Force labels it a hoax, perhaps confusing it with -the Beaver, Pennsylvania, hoax photo of August 8. (NICAP, “Object -Crosses Moon / Medical Effects on Witness”; Vallée, Magonia, p. 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3912

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Event 5800 -(18FBE507)

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Date: 8/13/1965
-Description: A 37-year-old civilian had just put his car in the garage -when he saw an object about 100 m in diameter, shaped like a disk, which -flew in front of the moon in a northerly direction at about 80 km/h. It -was surrounded with orange lights that weakened as a blue source came -on, very intense for about 3 sec then all lights disappeared as the -object was about 700 m away. This was followed by a sort of “shock-wave” -effect, and tree leaves were shaken. The witness entered his house and -called the Air Force. Twenty minutes later his vision became hazy and -his eyes were painful. He gradually lost vision in both eyes, and his -entire body was “sunburned.” Medical examination compared the symptoms -to ultraviolet exposure. His vision came back gradually over a period of -several days.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Baden, Pennsylvania
-ID: 677

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Event 5801 -(8C01D078)

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Date: 8/13/1965
-Time: 0700
-Description: Ellen G. Ryerson, 16, and her sister, Laura, were going to -work in a bean field when they observed three creatures about 1.60 m -tall, with bulging eyes, expressionless faces, white craniums, large -pores, and a protrusion at the back of their heads. They wore purple -jerseys and white shirts. They had disappeared when the running girls -looked back.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Renton, Washington
-ID: 678

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Event 5802 -(E59CA06F)

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Date: 8/14/1965
-Time: 0200
-Description: Patrick Nash and his family were awaiting a ferry boat when -a brilliant, orange-red object shaped like a large soup plate appeared -50 m away, rose from the ground, flew low over the car, landed 20m away -on the other side, vanishing suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65,6 (Vallee)
-Location: Stranraer, Scotland
-ID: 679

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Event 5803 -(6281ED2C)

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Date: 8/15/1965
-Time: 0200
-Description: A guard saw a boatlike object flying at high speed, with -red flames on its sides. It circled and came low over a farm. In fear, -the man fired at it with his rifle.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Nablus, Jordan
-ID: 680

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Event 5804 -(B7BE72D6)

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Date: 8/15/1965
-Time: 2300
-Description: Five persons in a car heard a humming sound, and an object -with changing colored lights landed and blocked the road while the car -engine stalled. The object was as wide as the road, and 3 m high. Before -it took off, three human beings were seen inside.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 42 (Vallee)
-Location: Salto, Uruguay
-ID: 681

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Event 5805 -(EC9D71D7)

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Date: 8/16/1965
-Description: Christian Science Monitor editorial: “[UFOs] sighted early -this month over Texas may give scientists something to think about for a -long time. . . . They give the clearest evidence of all that something -strange actually was in the sky. . . . It makes the clearest case yet -for a thorough look at the saucer mystery.”
-Type: sighting
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 56

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Event 5806 -(F8A4B3B9)

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Date: 8/16/1965
-Description: 10:45 p.m.–12:20 a.m. A woman leaves her house on the -northwest edge of Sedalia, Missouri, to drive to a drug store. As she is -returning home, she sees an unusual figure in the ditch to her right. It -turns and waves at her, then stumbles as it climbs out of the ditch. -Something (a large bird?) flies up in the air a few feet from the car. -She steps on the gas and goes home, where her husband asks her where she -has been because it is now 12:25 a.m. In 1977, she undergoes hypnotic -regression with hypnotist Ron Owen and recalls an abduction experience -where she undergoes some type of examination. (Clark III 278–279; -Patrick Gross, URECAT, August -25, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3913

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Event 5807 -(8D92DDBB)

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Date: 8/18/1965
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Michael S. Henry and another college student are -driving 3 miles south of Noblesville, Indiana, when a large red lighted -object swoops down on their car. The radio and ignition go dead. The UFO -looks like a top, with a large, gray cone and a flat or slightly domed -top. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, -Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3914

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Event 5808 -(C63951D8)

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Date: 8/19/1965
-Description: E-M effects in barn, elliptical object landed nearby, -animals reacted, beeping sound. Object shot straight up into clouds. -Physical traces at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Cherry Creek, NY
-ID: 57

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Event 5809 -(1314128C)

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Date: 8/19/1965
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Thelma B. Schumaker and her mother, Mrs. W. H. -Blackburn, are awakened by an explosion in their backyard in Mount Airy, -North Carolina. The sound seems to rise and travel west. They see a -bright golden cigar hovering in the north. The object moves to the right -then to the left, then up and down, left again, then disappears behind -some high oak trees. The next morning, the witnesses find a 6-inch-wide -circle of depressed sod that is worn down to the soil. The circle is 12 -feet in diameter. (Ted Phillips, Physical -Traces Associated with UFO -Sightings, CUFOS, 1975, p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3915

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Event 5810 -(9BEAAA59)

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Date: 8/19/1965
-Description: 8:20–9:00 p.m. Harold Butcher, 16, is milking the cows in -his father’s barn in Cherry Creek, New York, and listening to radio -station WKBW. Just outside, a 3-year old bull is tied by its nose to a -metal pipe. Harold hears the bull make a noise “like I have never heard -come from an animal before.” Looking out the window, he sees the animal -is bending the pipe. Simultaneously, he sees a metallic-looking, -football-shaped UFO about 50 feet long and approximately 20 feet thick -hovering just above the trees an estimated 450 feet from the barn. -Slowly, the object descends behind a maple tree, emitting a red vapor -from around its edges and a “beep-beep” sound. Meanwhile, the radio is -emitting static, even though WKBW usually has a clear signal. Harold -calls the house on an intercom, then runs outside. As he approaches the -bull, the UFO rises and moves behind some clouds “as fast as a snap of -my fingers” emitting red vapor toward the ground, then bounces back to -the ship as it hovers about 10 feet in the air. The noise also increases -to a level approximating a sonic boom as it goes up. As the UFO -disappears, the clouds turn green. Inside, the boy’s mother, -Mrs. William Butcher, notes that there is “definite interference” in her -radio reception. Harold’s brother, Robert, also goes outside and the two -boys see that the UFO has reappeared, this time hovering over a pine -grove. It ascends again, emitting the red vapor and turning the clouds -green. Others in the house include William Butcher Jr. and Kathleen -Brougham, a friend. They do not see the object. It returns twice at 8:45 -and 9:00 p.m., finally disappearing to the southwest. Trooper E. J. Haas -and a fellow officer arrive on the scene shortly thereafter. As they all -walk out to inspect the area of the initial sighting, they notice a -pungent odor. Harold and the young daughter suffer from upset stomachs. -Mrs. Butcher says the cows produce only one can of milk that evening, as -opposed to their usual two and a half cans. Harold discovers a purple, -oily-smelling liquid and gives a sample of it to the state police, who -turn it over to Capt. James A. Dorsey and five others from Niagara Falls -Air Force Base [now Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station], who come to -investigate the report the following afternoon. When NICAP investigator -Jeffrey Gow arrives on the scene, he notices the foot-tall grass in the -area “seemed to be bent over in long curved sweeps.” Radar targets are -picked up between 8:00–8:30 p.m. by an AN/FPS-6 Long Range Height Finder -Radar of the 763rd Radar Squadron at Lockport Air Force Station [now -closed] near Shawnee, New York. The target is sighted near the upper -limit of the radar. (NICAP, “Close -Encounter Has Radar Evidence”; NICAP, “Cherry -Creek (Butcher) Trace Case”; Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents]; “Landing -Probed by NICAP, AF,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1965): 7; -“The -Cherry Creek Incident,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, p. 7; Schopick, -pp. 178–184; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 170–172; -Robert A. Galganski, “Incident at Cherry Creek,” IUR 21, no. 3 (Fall -1996): 3– 12, 27–29; Sparks, -p. 307; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 118–124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3916

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Event 5811 -(D4AFE7F9)

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Date: 8/19/1965
-Time: 8:20 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. William Butcher, son Harold, 17, and -children. A large elliptical object, with a reddish vapor underneath, -came close to the ground, then shot straight up into the clouds a few -seconds later. Radio drowned out by static, a tractor engine stopped. -When the object was on the ground, a steady beeping sound could be -heard. Afterwards, a strange odor was noticed, and the next day, a -purplish liquid, 2”x2” marks and patches of singed grass were found at -the site. A bull bellowed and tried to break its bonds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cherry Creek New York
-ID: 526

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Event 5812 -(C3ACA3FD)

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Date: 8/20/1965
-Time: 0300
-Description: Mrs. T. E. Schumaker was awakened by a loud humming sound -and found she could not speak or move for a while. When she finally -reached her window, she saw a vertical, cigarshaped, luminous object. It -moved right and left, then back, etc. Ultimately it disappeared behind -some trees. The next morning a circle of crushed grass, 4 m in diameter, -was found in the yard.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66,2 (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Airy, North Carolina
-ID: 682

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Event 5813 -(E546C013)

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Date: 8/20/1965
-Time: 1150
-Description: Several tourists, including Alberto Ugarte and Elwin Voter, -observed a strange craft landing near the Inca ruins that they were -visiting. Two creatures described as luminous dwarfs, who seemed to have -“vertical mouths,” were seen briefly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 43 (Vallee)
-Location: Cuzco, Peru
-ID: 683

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Event 5814 -(888C7802)

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Date: 8/20/1965
-Time: 1820
-Description: Four students working on a farm noted radio interference -and a peculiar “beeping sound,” then saw an object at low altitude on -the farm of William Butcher. It was shaped like two saucers glued -together, had a shiny chromelike surface, diameter of 15 m, height of 6 -m, and left a trail and smell of burned gasoline. It rose straight up -into the clouds, which were illuminated with green light. Five min later -it came down again over a woods, rose, and finally flew off to the -southwest. Effects were noted on animals: milk production decreased from -2 1/2 barrels to one; a dog barked, and other animals were -terrified.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Cherry Creek, New York
-ID: 684

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Event 5815 -(1C33FA3F)

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Date: 8/20/1965
-Time: 2300
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Yacobi heard a loud humming sound and saw a -glowing, oval, flashing object land 200 m away. Figures moved around it, -as if examining the craft, which took off again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 42 (Vallee)
-Location: Mar del Plata, Argentina
-ID: 685

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Event 5816 -(90E0DC06)

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Date: 8/21/1965
-Description: Science editor, Christian Science Monitor: “Flying saucers -are all but literally knocking on the laboratory door. . . . Something -definitely is going on that cannot yet be explained.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 58

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Event 5817 -(0F8EDD6D)

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Date: 8/21/1965
-Time: 1530
-Description: A man was repairing the broken chain of his motorbike when -an object shaped like a top, gray, spinning, 1.8 m high, same diameter, -suddenly appeared 5 m away, 1.5 m above the road. It shot off toward the -northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 65,6 (Vallee)
-Location: Bury’s Bridge, Eire
-ID: 686

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Event 5818 -(82FC8A11)

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Date: 8/23/1965
-Time: 0100
-Description: Casimiro Zuk was riding his bicycle near a railroad -crossing when he saw a luminous object above him that circled, then -landed near the tracks. It was round, 5 m in diameter, and 2.5 m high. A -door opened, and a man dressed like a pilot emerged, walked around, and -reentered the object, which flew off in a spiral.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 158 (Vallee)
-Location: Apostoles, Argentina
-ID: 687

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Event 5819 -(4C8B0339)

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Date: 8/25/1965
-Time: 0300
-Description: Zoilo Campos Aguilar observed an object very close to the -ground for 38 min. It was semi-oval, with a powerful yellow-orange light -and left rapidly toward the south with a double trail. Apparent diameter -was that of the full moon. The witness was a night watchman.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder (Vallee)
-Location: Terreon, Mexico
-ID: 688

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Event 5820 -(49C4647E)

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Date: 8/25/1965
-Time: 1010
-Description: A red object shaped like a plate, emittting fire and smoke -through two openings in its lower section, shook a school building as it -allegedly landed on the roof. Faculty and students at the Santa Leonor -College observed the craft, which had two antennae on top, rise spinning -and emitting red light beams It flew off to the northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Callao, Peru
-ID: 689

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Event 5821 -(CAE898C1)

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Date: 8/30/1965
-Time: 10:30 PM
-Description: Witnesses: M.A. Lilly, N. Smith, T. Nastoff. One white -ball, 5-8’ in diameter and trailed by a 2-3’ light, hit the road 100’ in -front of the witness’ car, bounced and flew away. Sighting lasted 3-4 -seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Urbana, Ohio
-ID: 527

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Event 5822 -(B99C5724)

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Date: 8/30/1965
-Description: Hynek writes -to Lt. Col. John Spaulding in the Office of the Secretary of the Air -Force to suggest that the Pentagon work with the National Academy of -Sciences to establish a panel of physical and social scientists to study -the UFO phenomenon. (Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek -correspondence], p. 1; Swords 306)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3917

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Event 5823 -(16579DDD)

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Date: 8/30/1965
-Description: A spinning, top-shaped object with openings through which -an orange light was visible was observed taking off with a “foggy” -trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jan., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: La Blanquilla, Venezuela
-ID: 690

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Event 5824 -(03AF95D7)

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Date: 9/1/1965
-Time: 0500
-Description: A worker observed the landing of an oval object on an -airfield where he had gone “drawn by a strange feeling.” Four other -persons also saw the object, from which a dwarfish creature, 85 cm tall, -emerged. The entity had a head double the size of a normal human head, -and made gestures that were not understood. He reentered the machine, -which became illuminated and took off, first vertically, then toward the -west.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Huanuco, Peru
-ID: 691

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Event 5825 -(6C742FC7)

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Date: 9/3/1965
-Description: Project Blue Book File #(?): Damon/Angleton, TX. Deputy -Sheriffs Billy E. McCoy and Robert W. Goode were investigating an UFO in -the back-woods roads when the purplish UFO shot instantly towards them -to within 150 feet and hovered at 100 feet off the ground. The bright -glow illuminated the interior of the car and the surrounding fields -(11:30 p.m.). “Every blade of grass stood out clearly” in the field. -Officer Goode, who was driving with his arm out the window, felt heat on -his arm and later reported that a cut that was on his arm healed more -rapidly than normal [U/V effects].
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Angleton, TX

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Event 5826 -(F38AFF77)

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Date: 9/3/1965
-Time: 0200
-Description: A young man and two Police officers observed five lights in -a rigid configuration moving over a field, sometimes fluttering to low -altitude with a falling-leaf motion. The lights illuminated the -countryside and flashed in sequence.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Fuller (Vallee)
-Location: Exeter, New Hampshire
-ID: 693

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Event 5827 -(DB4E1AA4)

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Date: 9/3/1965
-Time: 11 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Brazoria County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Billy -McCoy and Deputy Robert Goode. One triangular object, 150-200’ long, -40-50’ thick at middle and dark grey, with a long, bright, pulsing, -purple light on the right side and a long blue light on the left side. -Came from distance to 150’ off highway and 100’ in the air. Purple light -illuminated ground beneath object and interior of police car. Driver -felt heat on his left arm. Initial sighting lasted 5-10 minutes. Second -sighting.occurred later that night.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Damon, Texas
-ID: 529

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Event 5828 -(270797FF)

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Date: 9/3/1965
-Time: 2 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Exeter Patrolmen Eugene Bertrand, Jr. and David -Hunt, and Norman Muscarello. One large, dark, elliptical object with a -row of red lights around it, moved slowly and erratically around houses -and trees, while lights blinked in sequence. Farm animals were very -noisy. Sighting lasted about 1 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Exeter, New Hampshire
-ID: 528

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Event 5829 -(118421BB)

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Date: 9/3/1965
-Description: Citizen reports of glowing red, elliptical object at low -level, verified by police, row of bright pulsating red lights, animal -reactions
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Exeter, NH
-ID: 59

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Event 5830 -(174C8545)

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Date: 9/3/1965
-Time: evening
-Description: Two Angleton sheriffs, McCoy and Robert Goode saw from -their car a huge object 70 m long, 15 m high, with a bright, violet -light at one end and a pale-blue light at the other. They stopped to -watch it and saw the craft fly within 30 m, casting a huge shadow when -it intercepted the moonlight. They felt a heat wave and drove away in -fear, but returned to the site a second time, only to turn around when -they found the object was still there. Goode had been bitten by an -animal before the sighting, and his left index finger swelled and bled -freely. After exposure to the light from the object, the pain was gone, -and the wound cured unnaturally. Later that evening, two men found him -at a restaurant and described the object in detail, adding he should -keep future encounters to himself.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Aug.,65 (Vallee)
-Location: Damon, Texas
-ID: 694

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Event 5831 -(A5CB982A)

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Date: 9/3/1965
-Time: 0120
-Description: J. Fernandez was awakened by a humming sound and saw a -luminous, oval object rising from the roof of his house. Its color -varied from white to red, and it left marks on the roof.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 41 (Vallee)
-Location: San Justo, Argentina
-ID: 692

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Event 5832 -(9C7BB7BC)

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Date: 9/3/1965
-Description: Two sheriffs saw huge, brightly illuminated object speed -toward their patrol car, hover, illuminate them and the terrain in -purple light. Heat felt
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Damon, TX
-ID: 60

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Event 5833 -(4A836AE4)

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Date: 9/3/1965
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Exeter, New Hampshire, Police Officer Eugene -F. Bertrand Jr. comes across a woman parked on State Highway 101. -“She was real upset,” he says, “and told me that a red glowing object -had chased her.” Around 2:00 a.m., while walking home to Exeter on Route -150 (Amesbury Road) near Kensington, New Hampshire, teenager Norman -J. Muscarello is terrorized by a large object with four or five -bright red lights that approaches from nearby woods and hovers over a -field. Horses are spooked. Muscarello gets a ride to the Exeter police -station, pale and shaken, and reports the incident at 2:24 a.m. Officer -Bertrand drives him back to the field along Route 150 to investigate. -When he is called to investigate Muscarello’s report, the earlier -incident causes him to pay attention. At first Bertrand and Muscarello -see nothing, but when Bertrand flashes a light around the field around -3:00 a.m., a huge dark object with red flashing lights rises up over the -trees, moving back and forth, tilts, and comes toward them. They both -see pulsating red lights that dim from left to right then right to left -in a 5- 4-3-2-1 then 1-2-3-4-5 pattern. Each cycle takes about 2 -seconds. The object hovers for several minutes, and everything is silent -except for the dogs and horses. Then it darts, turns sharply, slows -down, and begins to move away. Another patrolman, David -R. Hunt, pulls -up and sees the pulsating lights and the UFO. Bertrand says the lights -are always in a line and at a 60° angle; when the object moves, the -lower lights are always forward of the others. In the daytime, the -police station calls Pease AFB [now Pease Air National Guard Base] in -Portsmouth to reconfirm the incident. By 1:00 p.m., 2–4 police officers -arrive to interview the three witnesses at length. Journalist John -G. Fuller investigates the case during the next month. He finds a -huge gap between media coverage and local perceptions. Raymond -Fowler finds that the local advertising plane operated by Sky-Lite -Aerial Advertising Agency of Boston was not running between August 21 -and September 10. (Wikipedia, “Exeter incident”; -“UFOs -Panic Police, Motorists,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4 -(Aug./Sept. 1965): 1, 3–4; “The -Exeter, N.H. -Case,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, pp. 7–8; John G. Fuller, “Outer-Space -Ghost Story,” Look, February 22, 1966, pp. 36–42; Clark III 440–444; -Hynek UFO Report, pp. 154–166; -John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, Putnam’s Sons, 1966; Schopick, -pp. 197–199; Sparks, -p. 307; Jean Fuller, “The -Exeter Incidents,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1967): -25–27; “Tale of an ‘Exeter Terrestrial,’” IUR 8, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1983): 12– 14, excerpted from Exeter Area High School -newspaper, Talon 5, no. 1 (1981); Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs -1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 69–72; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots -UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, -2005, pp. 143–145; Schuessler, “The -Exeter, N.H. UFO Case, September -3, 1965: Briefing Document,” October 2002; Martin Shough, “Exeunt -Exeter? Should This 1965 New Hampshire -Classic Finally Shuffle Off the Stage?” April 2012; Center for UFO -Studies, [case -documents]; Center for UFO Studies, [John G. Fuller tape-recorded -interview transcripts, part -one, part -two]; Patrick Gross, “The Exeter -Cases, 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3918

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Event 5834 -(92325B13)

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Date: 9/3/1965
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Brazoria County Sheriff’s Deputies Billy -E. McCoy and Robert Goode are patrolling Highway 36 between West -Columbia and Damon, Texas. They see a dark-gray triangular object, -150–200 feet long and 40–50 feet thick at the middle, with a long, -bright, pulsing, purple light on the right side and a long blue light on -the left side. It approaches to within 150 feet from the highway and 100 -feet in the air. Purple light illuminates the ground beneath the object -and the interior of the police car, and the object casts a shadow in the -moonlight. Goode feels heat on his left arm; an alligator bite on his -left index finger is suddenly relieved of pain, later healing rapidly -but unnaturally. They drive away in fear but return later that night to -find the object still there. (NICAP, “Dark -Grey Disc Shadows Police Car”; “UAO -Pursues Police,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1965, pp. 1, 3; Clark III -355–357; Sparks, p. 308; -Michael D. Swords, “Damon, -Texas Comments, by Request from Kandinsky,” The Big Study, March 26, -2011; “Damon -1965,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014; -Patrick Gross, “Damon, -Texas, September 1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3919

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Event 5835 -(ED79F7FF)

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Date: 9/5/1965
-Time: 0500
-Description: Governor Sebastian Macha saw two dwarfish creatures, 80 cm -tall, on the snow near Ceulacocha. They entered a craft, which left with -a thundering noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Barbara, Peru
-ID: 695

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Event 5836 -(9072C78D)

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Date: 9/6/1965
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Capt. Marcelo Cisternas is piloting a DC-6b at -8,500 feet for LAN Chile Flight 904 in northern Chile when he sees a -zigzagging object change course and approach his airliner. The UFO -follows the aircraft for 13–14 minutes at a distance of 1.8 miles. It is -emitting a light of an intense color that shifts to radiant white. -Cisternas checks with control towers in Arica and Iquque, but no other -flights are expected in the area. (Good Above, p. 311)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3920

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Event 5837 -(1D1E74E0)

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Date: 9/7/1965
-Time: 2100
-Description: More than 200 witnesses saw two objects come to ground -level, leaving crater-like depressions.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: San Joaquin, Peru
-ID: 696

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Event 5838 -(C041D602)

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Date: 9/8/1965
-Time: 2200
-Description: A child reported the observation of a luminous object from -which seven creatures, 80 cm tall, with only one eye, emerged. The same -day a newsman was said to have seen an object land in the vicinity of -Puno, and to have made an unsuccesful attempt at communication.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Puno, Peru
-ID: 698

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Event 5839 -(255BB01B)

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Date: 9/8/1965
-Time: evening
-Description: After work, latex collectors saw an object resembling a -huge wheel, intensely bright, with two flaming openings in front, about -to land near them. They went into hiding, and observed the craft as it -flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Alto Purus, Brazil
-ID: 697

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Event 5840 -(E341A54B)

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Date: 9/10/1965
-Description: Three women were said to have observed a group of beings, 3 -m tall, without noses or mouths with red, bright eyes, wearing gray -clothing and boots. No object was described. Approximate date.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 159 (Vallee)
-Location: Mexico City, Mexico
-ID: 700

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Event 5841 -(F2C9C3CB)

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Date: 9/10/1965
-Description: Four persons saw a creature with glowing catlike eyes, -dressed in black, walking in a street. The entity was holding a metallic -tube, was pursued, and vanished suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 159; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Jalapa, Mexico
-ID: 699

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Event 5842 -(D08A85ED)

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Date: 9/10/1965
-Description: 8:30 a.m. Farmer Antônio Pau Ferro is working on his farm -in São João, near Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil, when he hears a noise -and sees two metallic objects descending from the sky about 26 feet -away. They touch the ground in a uniform motion, let two humanoids about -2.5 feet tall exit, then rise up again to 16 feet and hover. The beings -approach Ferro, then move back to the two UFOs. They pick up a tomato -and examine it. The objects descend and envelop them, then take off with -a whining and then a low sound. (Clark III 523; Brazil 76; Patrick -Gross, URECAT, May -17, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3921

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Event 5843 -(CF19F26B)

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Date: 9/11/1965
-Time: 0800
-Description: Antonio Pau Ferro saw two objects land. Two dwarfish beings -emerged, 70 cm tall, dressed like humans, with “ugly” skin. They -appeared to examine some tomato plants, reentered their craft, 6 m in -diameter, and flew off. They spoke in a language which was not -understood.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Guarulhos, Brazil
-ID: 701

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Event 5844 -(E295F983)

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Date: 9/14/1965
-Description: Domed disc descended, humming sound, blue light. Motorbike -engine failed, witness paralyzed, shock, static electricity
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Langenhoe, Essex, UK
-ID: 61

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Event 5845 -(E46FC8B5)

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Date: 9/14/1965
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Engineer Paul Green is riding a motorcycle south -of Langenhoe, Essex, UK, near Langenhoe Hall Lane when he hears a -high-pitched humming to the east and notices a pinpoint of blue light -moving in his direction. The humming becomes a loud buzzing, and his -engine sputters and dies and the headlight goes out. The light resolves -into an enormous domed disc that tilts and slowly descends. The -underside of the disc has numerous round items. Green walks toward the -object, but he feels paralyzed as the flashing blue light becomes -intense, fluctuating in rhythm with his heartbeat. He feels a tingling -like an electric shock. The object seems to land in an area with -farmhouses. Green notes that another cyclist has had a similar problem, -but with some difficulty he gets his cycle started. The next day he -notices that his hair and clothes are imbued with static electricity. -(Bernard E. Finch, “The -Langenhoe Incident,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1965): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3922

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Event 5846 -(79F6BDCA)

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Date: 9/15/1965
-Time: 2400
-Description: Two policemen, John Lockem and Koos de Klerk, were on a -patrol of the Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit Road when their headlights -illuminated a disk 10 m in diameter, copper-colored, resting on the -road. Ten sec later it took off in a pool of flames, at high speed. The -tar on the road kept burning for some time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Humanoids 71 (Vallee)
-Location: Silverton, South Africa
-ID: 702

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Event 5847 -(07BE0914)

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Date: 9/16/1965
-Description: NICAP Report #(?): Pretoria, S. Africa: Constables John -Lockem and Koos de Klerk while on patrol (after midnight) suddenly had a -domed, disc shaped object come into their van headlights. It was sitting -on the road. The UFO was copper colored and about 30 ft. in diam. -Immediately the UFO lifted off, emitting tongues of flame from two tubes -or channels on the underside. The flames deflected about three feet off -the macadam road surface and were still visible after loosing sight of -the craft. Road damage: part of the road was caved-in, and in a 6 foot -area the gravel was separated from the tar. Samples of the road surface -were taken for analysis, report was never released. Lt. Col. J.B. Brits, -District Commandant of Pretoria North said the incident was “highly -secret”, and inquiry is being conducted in top circles.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Pretoria, South Africa

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Event 5848 -(E0D2CAA9)

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Date: 9/16/1965
-Description: Just after 12:00 midnight. Constables John Lockem and Koos -de Klerk are patrolling on the Pretoria- Bronkhorstspruit highway in -South Africa when their police van headlights suddenly illuminate a -domed, disc- shaped object sitting on the road. The UFO is copper -colored and about 30 feet in diameter. Within seconds, the object lifts -off the road, emitting tongues of flame from two tubes or channels on -the underside. Flames from the macadam road surface shoot up in the air -about 3 feet as the UFO departs, blazing long after it is out of sight. -Later investigation shows that part of the road is caved in as if from a -heavy weight, and the gravel is separated from the tar in a severely -burned area about 6 feet in diameter. Lt. Col. J. B. Brits, district -commandant of Pretoria North, tells the media that the incident is -considered “as being of a highly secret nature and an inquiry is being -conducted in top circles.” Samples of the road surface are taken for -analysis by a leading scientific agency; the report is never made -public. (Philipp Human, “Two -Policemen See Saucer on Main Road,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1965): 9–11; “Police -See UFO Blast Off from Highway,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 4 -(Aug./Sept. 1965): 5; Schopick, pp. 187–192; -UFOEv II 183–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3923

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Event 5849 -(EF42BC3D)

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Date: 9/16/1965
-Description: Constables in police van encountered domed disc on highway, -object lifted off emitting flame. Tar and gravel road severely -damaged
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pretoria, South Africa
-ID: 62

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Event 5850 -(EF10814D)

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Date: 9/17/1965
-Description: A UFO is seen hovering above Medina del Campo, Valladolid, -Spain, for several hours. Heliodoro Carrión takes off in his light plane -and goes to 15,000 feet. An Iberia Airlines jet passes him on the way up -at 24,000 feet. Carrión estimates the UFO is at least 4 times larger -than the jet. (“More -Sightings over Spain,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1966, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3924

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Event 5851 -(82545E18)

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Date: late 9/1965
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Two French submarines, the Junon (S648) and the -Daphné (S641), escorted by the logistic support vessel Rhône, are -anchored off Fort-de-France, Martinique, when a large luminous object -the color of a fluorescent tube arrives slowly and silently from the -west. Michel Figuet on the Junon goes into the coming tower and gets six -pairs of binoculars that he distributes to companions. There are 300 -witnesses, including four officers on the Junon, three officers on the -Daphné, a dozen French sailors, and personnel of the weather -observatory. All witnesses aboard the Junon see the object as a large -ball of light or a disc on edge arriving from the west. It moves slowly, -horizontally, at a distance estimated at 6 miles south of the ships, -from west to east. It leaves a whitish trace similar to the glow of a TV -screen. When it was directly south of the ships the object drops toward -the earth, makes two complete loops, then hovers in the midst of a faint -halo. Figuet watches the object vanish in the center of its glow “like a -bulb turned off.” The trail and the halo remain visible in the sky for a -full minute. At 9:45 p.m. the halo reappears at the same place, and the -object switches on again. It rises, makes two more loops, and flies away -to the west, where it disappears at 9:50 p.m. (Jacques Vallée, “Estimates -of Power Optical Output in Six Cases -of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity -Characteristics,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 -(1998): 348–350)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3925

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Event 5852 -(11BB898E)

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Date: 9/20/1965
-Time: 1630
-Description: A farm woman saw an object land, and six dwarfs, 80 cm -tall, emerged from it. They wore very shiny white clothes and “walked -like ducks.” She hid during the observation, and noted that they spoke -in a language she could not understand. After their departure, a liquid -resembling vinegar was found on the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Pichaca, Peru
-ID: 703

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Event 5853 -(F61FF006)

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Date: fall 1965
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A Chesapeake & Ohio train is moving 8 miles -south of Fostoria, Ohio, when the fireman and engineer see a large -cigar-shaped object in the sky a considerable distance away. It is dark -in color and positioned at a 45° angle from the horizon. It appears to -be creating its own cloud screen. Suddenly a small object falls out of -the tail and descends slowly in a fluttering fashion. Near the ground -the small object stabilizes, emits coal-black smoke from its top, and -then rises upward faster and faster. Three more objects leave the large -one, each taking 10–12 minutes. They go off in different directions. -After the last one leaves, a white cloud forms around the large object, -which remains in the sky with other normal white clouds. (Herbert S. -Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring -2004): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3929

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Event 5854 -(313C92AF)

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Date: 9/23/1965
-Description: A major blackout in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, coincides -with the appearance of a glowing, disc- shaped UFO hovering low over the -city. Witnesses include the governor of Morelos state, Emilio Riva -Palacio; Valentín -López González, the mayor of Cuernavaca; 24th military zone chief -Gen. Rafael Enrique Vega; Joaquín Díaz -González, president -of the Lion’s Club; founder of the Folkloric Ballet of Mexico, Amalia -Hernández; and future Mexican President Luis -Echeverría. The power only fails as long as the UFO is there. (Frank -Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, p. 145; -Schopick, pp. 192–196; -Antonio Huneeus, “UFO -Sighting by Mexican -President Luis Echeverría,” OpenMinds, October 6, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3926

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Event 5855 -(2345D3E4)

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Date: 9/25/1965
-Time: 9:55 AM
-Description: Witness: Bett Diamon. Five orange lights in a row flew fast -and made an abrupt turn during the 1 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Chisholm, Minnesota
-ID: 530

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Event 5856 -(CB95E0ED)

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Date: 9/25/1965
-Time: 10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Dr. George Walton, physical chemist, and wife. -Two round white objects flew side-by-side, at 30-50’ altitude, pacing -the witnesses’ car for 6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rodeo, New Mexico
-ID: 531

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Event 5857 -(E91A2FE4)

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Date: 9/26/1965
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale is founded in Milan, Italy, -as a test of cooperation among several regional UFO groups. It begins -publishing Notiziario UFO, edited by Roberto -Pinotti, in -January 1966. (Story, p. 67; -1Pinotti 143–146; Notiziario -UFO 1 (1967)))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3927

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Event 5858 -(BDB77F7D)

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Date: 9/27/1965
-Time: 0815
-Description: Addie Jones, 61, saw a silvery object, 10 m in diameter, -rise from a wooded area and hover silently before leaving toward the -west. Under the object was a boxlike device. Distance to witness: 400 m. -No light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 160 (Vallee)
-Location: Fredonia, New York
-ID: 704

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Event 5859 -(0A79C5D8)

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Date: 9/27/1965
-Description: At 5:15 P.M., scientist saw metallic-appearing, -cigar-shaped object that changed course
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Columbus, OH
-ID: 63

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Event 5860 -(83E5DCD7)

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Date: 9/27/1965
-Description: Fireball meteor sighting at 7:56 P.M. American Meteor -Society No. 2389.
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northeastern United States
-ID: 64

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Event 5861 -(7664EC37)

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Date: 9/28/1965
-Description: USAF Director of Information Gen. Eugene -B. LeBailly writes to the military director of the USAF Scientific -Advisory Board, saying that Gen. Arthur -C. Agan has found Project Blue Book to be a worthwhile program and -that the Air Force should continue to investigate UFOs “to assure that -such objects do not present a threat to our national security.” The -project will remain at the Foreign Technology Division (Wright-Patterson -AFB). He also requests that a “working scientific panel composed of both -physical and social scientists be organized to review Project Blue -Book—its resources, methods, and findings.” (Maj. Gen. E. B. LeBailly, -“Unidentified -Flying Objects (UFOs),” memorandum for military director, Scientific -Advisory Board, September 28, 1965)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3928

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Event 5862 -(47B1F02D)

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Date: 9/28/1965
-Description: Memo from Maj. Gen. E. B. LeBailly, USAF director of -information, to USAF Scientific Advisory Board requesting a scientific -panel to review the methods and findings of Project Blue Book. LeBailly -noted: “Many of the reports that cannot be explained have come from -intelligent and technically well-qualified individuals whose integrity -cannot be doubted.”
-Type: memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 65

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Event 5863 -(7BCAAC9E)

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Date: 9/29/1965
-Description: Two men in a car, Julio L. de Romana and Antonio Chavez -Bedoya, saw a strange being, 80 cm tall, by the side of the road. The -creature had only one eye, and gold and silver stripes over its entire -body. Soon afterward a craft flew over their car. Several persons living -20 km away also reported an unidentified object within min of this -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Arequipa, Peru
-ID: 705

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Event 5864 -(7815976B)

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Date: 10/1965
-Description: The Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre is formed in Hobart, -Tasmania, by Robert Burge. It publishes the TUFOIC Newsletter for many -years, but the organization folds in December 2015. (TUFOIC -Newsletter, no. 7 (1971); Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and -Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3930

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Event 5865 -(33EE5E7A)

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Date: 10/1965
-Description: Soviet N-1 super heavy rocket development is begun
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Kazakhstan

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Event 5866 -(20BC67C6)

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Date: 10/1/1965
-Description: The Swedish Defense Staff transfers the responsibility for -UFO investigation to the Swedish National Defence Research Institute -[now the Swedish Defence Research Agency] in Sweden, where it remains. -Few civilian reports are classified as secret, but sensitive reports by -the military are restricted. (Swords 367–368)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3931

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Event 5867 -(9200E9A6)

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Date: 10/1/1965
-Description: Three students, Santos Vallejos, Antonia Aparti, and Adela -Sanchez, who were walking to General San Martin School, were attacked by -small creatures with greenish skin. The children ran away, and arrived -at the school in a state of terror.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: CODOVNI (Vallee)
-Location: Aguas Blancas, Argentina
-ID: 706

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Event 5868 -(2594E0E9)

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Date: 10/2/1965
-Description: John -G. Fuller summarizes the Exeter sighting in his “Trade Winds” column -in the Saturday Review. He writes to his editors beforehand that -“reliable, but off-the-record information from the Pease AFB indicates -frequent radar blips and fighters are constantly scrambled to pursue -these objects. This information is not official, but it comes from a -reliable source.” (John G. Fuller, “Trade -Winds,” Saturday Review 48, no. 40 (October 2, 1965): 10, 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3932

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Event 5869 -(D4E42383)

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Date: 10/4/1965
-Time: evening
-Description: Betty Valine and her 12-yearold son Robbie observed a -large, plate-shaped machine with a dome on top, inside which three -creatures were clearly visible. The witnesses did not see the object -touch down.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Rio Vista, California
-ID: 708

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Event 5870 -(662FE3CD)

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Date: 10/4/1965
-Description: An object was said to have landed near Southington. No -details.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
-Location: Southington, Connecticut
-ID: 707

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Event 5871 -(3D5B07EF)

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Date: 10/4/1965
-Time: Unknown time
-Description: Witness: Tucker. Case missing from official files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Middletown, Ohio
-ID: 532

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Event 5872 -(CCCDCE76)

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Date: 10/7/1965
-Description: Radar-visual sighting of 12 UFOs, jet interceptor -pursuit
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Edwards AFB, CA
-ID: 66

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Event 5873 -(C4662A19)

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Date: 10/13/1965
-Description: Two adolescent girls, Marg Gudajtes and Judy Norlock, saw a -large, metallic, oval object with bluish lights land in a park at the -edge of town. It had left by the time they returned with help. An oval -area of crushed grass was observed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Minot, North Dakota
-ID: 709

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Event 5874 -(A99C4D7D)

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Date: mid 10/1965
-Description: 9:30 a.m. Bill -Hertzke, a -ranch hand on the Circle J Ranch near Cochrane, Alberta, is on his horse -in a pasture when he sees an object like a small airplane parked on the -ground. It is silver-gray with swept-back wings, about 16 feet long, a -wingspan of about 12 feet, and its fuselage is about 4-5 feet deep. He -rides over and examines it. The exterior is irregular, “like a waffle.” -A transparent dome covers the cockpit. Through it he can see complicated -instruments (knobs, dials, and switches), a TV screen, and two -transparent (like Plexiglas) bucket seats. There are no visible motors, -propellers, jets, insignia, or identifying marks of any kind. It has an -exterior door about 2 feet wide and 3 feet high that is open about 2 -inches. His horse is extremely skittish, so he ties it to a tree and -returns on foot. He spends 10–15 minutes examining it and can see no -landing gear (although it seems to be suspended 18–20 inches off the -ground) or seams of any kind. He realizes he can go inside the door but -is a bit too scared to even touch the object, and has to return to -chores anyway. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, -pp. 87–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3933

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Event 5875 -(0E2B81EF)

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Date: 10/18/1965
-Description: Thousands of persons saw a circular object that flew over -the beach, circling. Later two witnesses saw it land in an isolated spot -between Cuaranga and the Santos Air Base.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Ouranos 32; LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Ponte Praia, Brazil
-ID: 710

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Event 5876 -(0D6F10FC)

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Date: 10/21/1965
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Five witnesses are in a car near Saint George, -Minnesota, returning to their homes in Gibbon from a bow-hunting trip. -Arthur -A. Strauch, a Sibley County deputy sheriff, is the first to spot a -strange object that seems to be 2,000 feet above the ground and a -quarter of a mile distant in the northwest sky. After watching for about -10 minutes from the car, the group drives down the road about a half -mile and stops. Strauch observes it both with the naked eye and through -7x35 binoculars. At first they hear no sound, but as the object flies -over them, Donald Martin Grewe describes the sound as a “whistling -whine.” Strauch snaps a photograph just as the object begins to move. -The object then flies into the wind for several hundred feet, then stops -for a few seconds, at which time its lights change from bright white to -dull orange, alternating several times. It then moves toward the -southeast at a high rate of speed and disappears out of sight. (NICAP, -“The -St. George Multiple-Witness Photo -Case”; “Deputy -Snaps UAO Color Photo,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, pp. 1, 3; -Story, pp. 351–352; -Patrick Gross, “The -St. George Multiple-Witness Sighting and Photograph, USA, -1965”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3934

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Event 5877 -(DA4D88D0)

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Date: 10/22/1965
-Description: Afternoon. Geof Gray-Cobb, a Canadian technician working -with the Deep Space Instrumentation Facility [now the Hartebeesthoek -Radio Astronomy Observatory] in Gauteng, South Africa, in tracking Mariner -4, is -present when the spacecraft’s signal strength begins rising at a point -when it should not have. The team alerts the Jet Propulsion Lab. The -signal strength is now so high that the instruments are clicking as they -max out. Gray- Cobb says the “raw radio energy” is coming in -indecipherable “blips and dashes.” Nothing can be seen visually. Eight -minutes later, everything goes silent. JPL later asks them to point -their dish in the direction it was pointing when they picked up the -signal. They do, but forget to correct for the earth’s rotation. -Nonetheless, they get the signal again, which means it is a local -source. Nothing is visible in the sky, but a sound sweep reveals that -the source is a perfect circle 2° in diameter. The team directs a packet -of radio pulses at the source, but it falls silent. Two months later, -Gray-Cobb discovers that the pages for the event are gone from the log; -the tape recording of the event is also missing. The manager tells him -that two men with “authorization” had come three days after the event to -confiscate the tapes. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, -no. 4 (October 2009): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3935

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Event 5878 -(D198E387)

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Date: 10/22/1965
-Description: Evening. José Camilo Filho is walking through a field near -the city cemetery in Canhotinho, Pernambuco, Brazil, when he runs across -two little men only 3 feet high with whitish hair sitting next to a tube -4 feet tall and resting on the ground. When they see Camilo, they jump -up in a disorganized fashion, colliding with each other. One picks up -the tube and the other points a straw at Camilo, who runs ahead. He -decides to return and take a closer look, but the men and tube are gone. -(Gordon Creighton, “The -Humanoids in Latin America,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, -special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 45; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July -27, 2008; Brazil 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3936

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Event 5879 -(513B063E)

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Date: 10/22/1965
-Description: Approximate date. Jose Camilo Filho saw two creatures near -a landed object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Canhotinho, Brazil
-ID: 711

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Event 5880 -(EF3F6529)

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Date: 10/23/1965
-Description: Night. KEYL-AM radio announcer James F. Townsend, 19, is -driving on State Highway 27 four miles east of Long Prairie, Minnesota, -when he slams on his brakes to avoid hitting a rocket-like device -resting on three legs or fins. As his car skids to a stop 20 feet from -the object, the vehicle’s motor and electrical system die. The object -looks like it is made of stainless steel, stands 30–40 feet high, and is -10 feet in diameter. In a circle of light under it, Townsend sees three -things that resemble beer cans with “tripod legs and three matchstick -arms.” They have no eyes, but Townsend feels as if they are looking at -him. He gets out of the car to try to knock one over, but they come over -to him and they stand there looking at him. Eventually they turn around -and “scoot under the ship,” disappearing into the light beneath it. An -ear-splitting humming sound emanates from the UFO, which assumes a -bright illumination and shoots off. The Todd County sheriff and UFO -investigators assume that Townsend, a deeply religious man, is sincere. -(“‘Space -Things’ Stop -His Car,” Minneapolis Star, October 25, 1965, pp. 1, 4; Sparks, p. 308; -“‘Little, -Little Men’ in Minn.,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, p. 8; Clare -John Jansen, “Little Tin Men in Minnesota,” Fate 19, no. 2 (February -1966): 36–40; Clark III 280; Patrick Gross, URECAT, -January 5, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3937

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Event 5881 -(E4C4150B)

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Date: 10/23/1965
-Time: 1915
-Description: James Townsend, 19, was driving on Highway 27 when his -engine, lights, and radio stopped operating. He then observed an object -10 m tall, about 3 m in diameter, shaped somewhat like a rocket, sitting -on fins on the road. Three creatures with “tripod legs and matchstick -arms,” brownish-black in color, having no eyes or facial features, stood -in a large, lighted circle under it, facing the witness for a few -moments before disappearing in the intense light. The object rose -straight up for 400 m, with a high-pitched humming sound, stopped and -vanished. The car then resumed normal operation by itself.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Long Prairie, Minnesota
-ID: 712

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Event 5882 -(B7AE5093)

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Date: 10/25/1965
-Description: The Betty -and Barney Hill story is publicly revealed in an article by reporter -John -H. Luttrell in the Boston Traveler newspaper. He has obtained a copy -of the tape recording at the Quincy Center UFO group, as well as a tape -of an interview the Hills gave to UFO investigators after they completed -their therapy. UPI picks up the story the same day. The Hills are caught -completely by surprise. (Clark III 585)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3938

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Event 5883 -(2DFE3D50)

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Date: 10/27/1965
-Description: The Air Force issues a press release that gives two basic -explanations for the Exeter, New Hampshire, sightings: Some stem from a -high-altitude SAC exercise out of Westover AFB [now Westover Air Reserve -Base] near Chicopee, Massachusetts; others are explained by temperature -inversion that causes the appearance of stars and planets to dance and -twinkle. Around the same time, John -Fuller hears from an Air Force pilot that pilots have been ordered -to shoot down UFOs when possible, but the objects appear to be -“invulnerable” and can outmaneuver any aircraft. (John G. Fuller, -Incident at Exeter, Putnam’s Sons, 1966, pp. 201–202, 205–206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3939

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Event 5884 -(7F33EE5C)

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Date: 10/30/1965
-Time: night
-Description: Witnesses in a Volkswagen encountered a strong light on the -road. A truck and another Volkswagen arrived and went near the object, -which took off suddenly and flew over them. It was also observed by -dozens of witnesses at the Pinhal Junction.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Pinhal, Brazil
-ID: 713

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Event 5885 -(827E8D48)

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Date: 11/1965
-Time: dusk
-Description: Eric Williams saw a large object, 30 m in diameter, 15 m -high, about 75 m away. He reported seeing clearly a row of portholes -illuminated with a greenish light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Broken Hill, Zambia
-ID: 714

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Event 5886 -(62C71BCB)

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Date: 11/1965
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Aaron David Kaback is on duty at the motor pool -in the Army’s Fort Riley Military Reservation in Kansas when the duty -officer takes him to a remote area of the base where they see a landed -UFO with an Army helicopter flying above it. He contacts Leonard -Stringfield about his story. A subsequent investigation by Citizens -Against UFO Secrecy finds many discrepancies in Kaback’s account and -very little credibility. (“Ft. -Riley -Landing: Hoax or Delusion?” Just Cause 1, no. 6 (September 1978): -11–14; Clark III 603–604; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, -Avon, 1995, p. 201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3941

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Event 5887 -(7FE34222)

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Date: 11/1965
-Description: Fort Riley, KA: “AK” (Aaron Kaback) was on guard duty at 2 -a.m. when the duty officer drove up and ordered him to hop into the -jeep. He and 3 other officers were driven out to a remote area where a -large oval object was resting. An army chopper was hovering above the -object and shining a bright light on it. The object was approx. 35–48 -ft. in diam., had a fin on the end and an exhaust port or some kind of -hole below the fin. It had rows of squares around the rim and remained -completely dead for the 2 1/2 hours they guarded it. (Kaback seems to be -confused as to the actual date this incident occurred.)
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Fort Riley, KA
-See also: 12/10/64

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Event 5888 -(18C3738E)

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Date: early 11/1965
-Description: The USAF Scientific Advisory Board meets in Houston, Texas, -to discuss the UFO investigation and the possibility of an independent -study. (USAF Scientific Advisory Board, Special -Report of the USAF Scientific Advisory -Board Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project “Blue Book,” Brian O’Brien, -chairman of the Advisory Board, March 1966)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3940

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Event 5889 -(F603872F)

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Date: 11/5/1965 (approximate)
-Description: Day. Mauritz Löugren and a friend see a triangular-shaped -object moving back and forth for 20 minutes over Luleå, Sweden. It -disappears silently to the west at great speed. (“World -Round-Up,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1966): -iii)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3942

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Event 5890 -(DD320EA6)

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Date: 11/9/1965
-Description: 5:16 p.m. The Northeast power blackout, a significant -disruption in the supply of electricity, affects parts of Ontario, -Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode -Island, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. Over 30 million people and 80,000 -square miles are left without electricity for up to 13 hours. The cause -of the failure is the setting of a protective relay on one of the -transmission lines from the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Station -No. 2 in Queenston, Ontario, near Niagara Falls. Prior to and coincident -with the blackout, there are a number of reports of unusual lights in -Syracuse and Niagara Falls, New York, and Holliston, Massachusetts, and -there is speculation that the blackout is related to UFO activity in -some way. But there is no evidence of a direct connection. (Wikipedia, -“Northeast -blackout of 1965”; “New -Clues to UFO Electrical Interference,” -UFO Investigator 3, no. 5 (Nov./Dec. 1965): 3–4; “The -Question of the Power Blackouts,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1965, -pp. 4–6; John G. Fuller, Incident at Exeter, Putnam’s Sons, 1966, -pp. 230–235; Schopick, pp. 201–203; -Condon, pp. 110–115; -Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, pp. 130–137; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from -the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 145; Chris -Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, -2006, pp. 99–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3943

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Event 5891 -(B04A7C79)

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Date: 11/9/1965
-Time: dawn
-Description: During the great power blackout, actor Stuart Whitman was -startled to hear a whistling sound outside his 12th floor window and to -observe two hovering objects, one orange and the other blue giving off a -luminescent light. He then heard an English message indicating that the -blackout was a “demonstration.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: New York City, New York
-ID: 715

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Event 5892 -(09F3E186)

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Date: 11/10/1965
-Description: Massive power blackout in northeastern United States at -about 5:25 P.M. (EST). Some reports of UFOs coincided, with resulting -speculation about a possible relationship
-Type: sighting
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northeastern US
-ID: 67

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Event 5893 -(AAA81DF1)

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Date: 11/10/1965
-Description: Before dawn. Actor Stuart -Whitman is staying in a hotel in Manhattan, New York City, during -the Northeast power blackout. He hears a “sound, like a whippoorwill -whistling outside my twelfth-story window.” He steps to the window and -sees 2 luminous UFOs hovering nearby, one orange, the other blue. He -hears voices from the UFOs in his head, telling him they are fearful of -earth because humans are messing around with “unknown quantities” that -might disrupt the balance of the universe. They claim the blackout is a -small demonstration of their power and ask Whitman to do what he can to -fight malice, prejudice, and hate on earth. The objects disappear. (“El -Paso Blackout Recalls New York Experience to Actor,” El Paso (Tex.) -Herald-Post, December 24, 1965, p. 4; Jerome Clark, “The -Greatest Flap Yet? Part IV,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1966): 10; Clark III 1280–1281; Patrick Gross, URECAT, July -25, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3944

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Event 5894 -(C5CCD46D)

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Date: 11/13/1965
-Description: Dario Filho, his wife, his grandson, and a bank director -saw an object land 100 m away, flashing a beam of light toward the sky. -Two policemen on the scene also observed the incident. Near the object -were two dwarfs. One of them wore coveralls, the other had a gray shirt -and brown trousers. By what seemed an optical effect, a third being with -a flat, squarish head, wearing something like a surgeon’s apron, was -also seen near them. The object and the creatures were very -bright.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Mogi-Guassu, Brazil
-ID: 716

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Event 5895 -(D1874C2C)

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Date: 11/16/1965
-Description: T. Untiedt was driving on Highway 28 about 5 km west of -Cyprus when he saw a red flourescent, cylindrical object with a cone on -top, 4 km long and 2 m in diameter, surrounded with a white glow. The -car slowed down as the observer was 400 km away from the object, which -took off toward the northeast.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Cyrus, Minnesota
-ID: 717

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Event 5896 -(EEC357BB)

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Date: 11/26/1965
-Description: 8:00–9:00 p.m. Numerous power outages around St. Paul, -Minnesota, are accompanied by observations of white or blue lights in -the sky. (“Power -Outages Accompanied by Flashes,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1966, -pp. 3–4; Schopick, pp. 199–201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3945

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Event 5897 -(0C2ABE76)

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Date: 11/29/1965
-Time: evening
-Description: Kevin Davis, 12, and Gary Jardine, 10, saw an object with a -blinking red dome fly over the Cooper Creek area and come to ground -level. They observed portholes and a long bar with fingerlike devices -emerging from an opening. Snow was blown away and bushes were -flattened.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Jan., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Springhill, Nova Scotia
-ID: 718

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Event 5898 -(9D525139)

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Date: 11/30/1965
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Seaman Ian Kinsey is on watch at Canadian Forces -Base Cornwallis [now Cornwallis Park] in Nova Scotia. As he is passing a -window, he sees a lighted yellow oval object resting on the beach. Five -minutes later a sliding door on the object’s side opens, emitting a -white light. Then a smaller, cigarette-shaped UFO enters the larger -object through the dear. The bigger object rises, pushing rocks and logs -away from the center of the beach. It cruises slowly over a mountain and -disappears. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange Effects -from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 59–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3946

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Event 5899 -(2BE6B5CA)

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Date: 12/5/1965
-Description: During the Gemini -7 mission, the astronauts mention a “bogey.” James -Oberg, based -on his trajectory analysis of the mission, describes the astronauts’ -comments as referring to booster-associated debris and not a reference -to some sort of UFO. Astronaut Frank -Borman later confirms that what he saw was not a UFO. When he offers -to go on the television show Unsolved Mysteries to clarify, the -producers tell him, “Well, I’m not sure we want you on the program.” -(Wikipedia, “UFO -sightings in outer space”; Condon, pp. 207–208; -Good Above, p. 378)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3947

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Event 5900 -(2F54515B)

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Date: 12/9/1965
-Description: A UFO crash-landed in the Kecksburgh, PA woods. It had -appeared as a fireball flying across several U.S. states and Canada. -Dozens of witnesses described military personnel cordoning off the -landing area. The object was transported away by military truck. In -Feb. 1969, the key witness (John Murphy ) to this incident was struck -and killed by a car on a highway near Ventura. Researcher, Stan Gordon -kept the research of this incident alive. The Blue Book report changed -the name of Kecksburg to “Acme” PA. After 20 yrs. Bill Bulebush came -forward with a description of the downed UFO.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Kecksburgh, PA

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Event 5901 -(4CEE58E3)

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Date: 12/9/1965
-Description: 4:47 p.m. A large, brilliant fireball is seen by thousands -in at least six states and Ontario, Canada. It streaks over the Detroit, -Michigan–Windsor, Ontario, area, reportedly drops hot metal debris over -Michigan and northern Ohio starting some grass fires and causes sonic -booms in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area. It is -generally assumed and reported by the press to be a meteor after -authorities discount other proposed explanations such as a plane crash, -errant missile test, or reentering satellite debris. However, -eyewitnesses in the small village of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, claim -something has crashed in the woods. A boy sees the object land; his -mother Frances -Kalp sees a wisp of blue smoke rising from the woods and alerts -local radio station WHJB. Another observer reports feeling a vibration -and “a thump” about the time the object reportedly lands. Others from -Kecksburg, including local volunteer fire department members (Carl Metz -and Paul Shipco), report seeing an object in the shape of an acorn and -about as large as a Volkswagen Beetle. Writing resembling Egyptian -hieroglyphs is also said to be in a band around the base of the object. -A reporter and news director for WHJB, John -J. Murphy, arrives -on the scene of the event before authorities have arrived, in response -to several calls to the station from alarmed citizens. He takes several -photographs and conducts interviews with witnesses. His former wife -Bonnie Millslagle later reports that all but one roll of the film is -confiscated by military personnel. WHJB office manager Mabel Mazza -describes one of the pictures: “It was very dark and it was with a lot -of trees around and everything. And I don’t know how far away from the -site he was. But I did see a picture of a sort of a cone-like thing. -It’s the only time I ever saw it.” Witnesses further report that an -intense military presence, most notably the US Army, is secures the -area, orders civilians out, seals the area within 2 hours of the event, -and then removes an object on a flatbed truck. The military claims they -have searched the woods and can find “absolutely nothing.” The official -explanation of the widely seen fireball is that it is a mid-sized -meteor, as suggested, for example, by University of Michigan astronomer -William -P. Bidelman. However, -speculation as to the identity of the Kecksburg object (if there was -one—reports vary) include an alien craft; debris from Kosmos -96 (James Oberg), -a Soviet space probe intended for Venus that fails and never leaves the -Earth’s atmosphere (now seen as unlikely); a General Electric Mark 2 -Reentry Vehicle launched from Johnson Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on -December 7 by the Air Force as a spy satellite (John Ventre and -Owen -Eichler); and a secret Corona spy satellite, KH-4A -1027, launched -from Vandenberg AFB [now Vandenberg Space Force Base] on December 9 (Bob Wenzel -Gross). (Wikipedia, “Kecksburg -UFO incident”; Stan Gordon, “The -Kecksburg UFO Crash: An Interim Report,” -Flying Saucer Review 37, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 2–5; Kevin D. Randle, A -History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, pp. 95–120; -Leslie Kean, “Forty Years of Secrecy: NASA, the Military, and the 1965 -Kecksburg Crash,” IUR 30, no. 1 (October 2005): 3–9, 28–32; Robert R. -Young and Leslie Kean, “Kecksburg Controversy,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May -2006): 25–28; Peter Brookesmith, “Rockets, Reptiles, and a -Resurrection,” Fortean Times 360 (December 2017): 28; Clark III 340; -Good Need, pp. 255–258; -“Five -Decades Later, the Kecksburg UFO Is Identified -(Probably),” Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette, December 6, 2015; -Matthew Dinkel, “Acorn -from Space: The -Kecksburg Incident,” Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Fall 2010; -Center for UFO Studies, [case documents]; -“Missile, -Reentry Vehicle, Mark 2,” Smithsonian National Air and Space -Museum)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3948

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Event 5902 -(818883BA)

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Date: 12/13/1965
-Description: An amateur astronomer in Fort Worth, Texas, watches a UFO -through several different telescopes. It has a recessed ring with small -dark objects attached around its edge and a dark cross on its bottom. It -moves from directly beneath the Moon and past Arcturus, then suddenly -disappears. (Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4 -(October 2009): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3949

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Event 5903 -(99169DD8)

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Date: 12/15/1965
-Description: 8:45 p.m. C. M. W. Martyn of Worcester Park, southwest -London, England, watches a “candle-wax white” triangular object, about -130 feet wide and completely silent, pass over his home toward the -northwest at about 1,200 mph. (“Surrey -Deltavolant?” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 2 (March/April 1966): -35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3950

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Event 5904 -(22B6E09E)

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Date: 12/16/1965
-Description: A railroad worker, Cesar T. Gallardo, was surprised when -his carbide lamp and his radio stopped working. He saw strange lights -outside the sleeping coach where he was reading, and a luminous being -whose legs were clad in shiny dark cloth came in, tore up his newspaper, -poured the contents of an oil can into a small bottle and went away, -leaving the witness amazed. Other people saw “a luminous man” walking -along the tracks. Police report.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Sauce Viejo, Argentina
-ID: 719

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Event 5905 -(0EF82AB3)

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Date: 12/19/1965
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Edward A. Bruns is driving his father’s 1962 -Ford pickup truck, heading west just south of Herman, Minnesota. He sees -a bright, oval-shaped object hovering several feet above the road. It -covers the entire road and is shaped like two saucers with a dome on -top. A window-like structure surrounds the dome and emits a green light. -Suddenly the truck engine stops, the headlights go out, and the vehicle -lifts up, spins violently to the right, ending up in a ditch on the -other side of the road. Stunned, Bruns stares at the UFO, which makes a -whistling sound, emits sparks, shoots upward, and disappears. He runs -home, scared and nervous. His father goes to the site of the crash but -cannot get the truck out. A reporter later confirms seeing the truck in -the ditch with a complete “absence of skid marks in the snow to account -for how it got there.” (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3951

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Event 5906 -(81609D2C)

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Date: 12/20/1965
-Description: Domed disc, E-M effects on engine and headlights, truck -spun off road into ditch. Object ascended with whistling sound, sparks -from underside
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Herman, MN
-ID: 68

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Event 5907 -(2CB74AEE)

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Date: 12/20/1965
-Description: Edward Burnd, 15, was driving west in a farm truck when he -saw an object 2 m above the road about 30 m away. As the engine died, -the object glowed red and the witness lost consciousness. When he awoke, -the truck was facing east and rested in a ditch.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Herman, Minnesota
-ID: 720

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- Event 5908 (00A814D8)

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Date: 1966
-Description: Envelope found with hand written notes in private BSRA/BSRF -archives containing the addresses of the 3 other named witnesses to the -4/54 Edwards AFB meeting.
-Type: hand written note
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: San Diego, CA

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Event 5909 -(2AE9072A)

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Date: 1966
-Description: Jacques and -Janine -Vallée publish Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, a general -survey of the present state of the UFO problem. The first section gives -an analysis of UFO patterns by examining UFO features, the second part -deals with sighting frequencies, and the third part analyzes cases -according to type. (Jacques and Janine Vallée, Challenge -to Science: The UFO Enigma, Regnery, -1966; Clark III 1213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3952

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Event 5910 -(FF7BF055)

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Date: 1966
-Description: Cornell University astronomer Carl -Sagan coauthors a book with Russian astrophysicist Iosif -Shklovsky on Intelligent Life in the Universe (an expansion of -Shklovsky’s 1962 book) in which he speculates that Earth might have been -visited by aliens many times in the past few billion years, at least -once in “historical times.” Discussing the biological as well as -astronomical issues of the subject, its unique format—alternating -paragraphs written by Shklovsky and Sagan—allows them to express their -views without compromise. (I. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan, Intelligent -Life in the Universe, Holden-Day, -1966; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994): -142–145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3953

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Event 5911 -(2E05CA07)

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Date: 1966
-Description: Francis Schaefer founds the Cercle Français de Recherches -Ufologiques in Forbach, Moselle, France. From 1975 to 1984 it publishes -Ufologia. (Ufologia, -no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3955

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Event 5912 -(857FE7B1)

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Date: 1966
-Description: Roger A. MacGowan and Frederick -I. Ordway III publish Intelligence in the Universe, discussing -cosmology, biological origins and evolution, SETI within and outside the -solar system, and speculations on intelligence. (Roger A. MacGowan and -Frederick I. Ordway, Intelligence in the Universe, Prentice-Hall, 1966; -Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994): 145–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3954

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Event 5913 -(54091670)

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Date: 1/7/1966
-Time: 15l7
-Description: A civilian had to stop his car when an object he first -thought was a helicopter landed on the road about 5 km southwest of -Georgetown. The craft was about 8 m in diameter, supported a cone with a -flashing green light, made a loud whirring sound. It appeared to hover, -then left at high speed. The witness could then restart his engine, -which had died during the close approach. Sulphur or a “rotten egg” -smell was noted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Wilmer, Alabama
-ID: 721

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Event 5914 -(CED9FC35)

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Date: 1/7/1966
-Description: 3:27 p.m. High school student Gary Finch is driving on the -Wilmer-Georgetown Road about 3 miles southwest of Georgetown, Alabama. -He sees a large silver ball about 15–20 feet in diameter that descends -then hovers about 5 feet above the road. On top of it is a cone with a -large green light, and it is making a whining sound. As he approaches -it, his car engine cuts out and his watch stops. After 1–2 minutes, it -disappears in a gradual climb. (“Mobile -Reports Flying Objects,” Selma (Ala.) Times-Journal, January 13, -1966, p. 10; NICAP, “E-M -Effects on Car and Watch”; Schopick, pp. 75–76; -Hynek UFO Report, p. 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3957

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Event 5915 -(667ED2D2)

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Date: 1/7/1966
-Description: 4:10 a.m. Police Constable Colin Perks is checking business -property along Alderley Road in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, when he -hears a high-pitched whine. He sees a greenish-gray glow in the sky -about 300 feet away and 35 feet in the air. It comes from a glowing -elliptical object about 30 feet long and 20 feet wide that remains -stationary for 5 seconds before moving away quickly to the -east-southeast. (J. Cleary-Baker, “Police Constable -Observes a UFO,” BUFORA Journal and Bulletin 1, no. 9 (Summer 1966): -5; UFOFiles2, pp. 73–75; -Jenny Randles, “Perks of the Job,” Fortean Times 344 (October 2016): -29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3956

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Event 5916 -(B5FD4994)

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Date: 1/8/1966
-Description: Night. A luminous, disc-shaped object cruises low from -north to southwest among the buildings of Valencia, Venezuela. At 10:00 -p.m., two similar objects are seen flying at a higher altitude. (“More -S.A. Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, March/Apr. 1966, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3958

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Event 5917 -(2B61D7B0)

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Date: 1/11/1966
-Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers -at Palm Beach Towers, FL
-Type: lecture
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL

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Event 5918 -(FE374327)

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Date: 1/11/1966
-Description: 7:40 p.m. A nurse and others together in a car near -Myerstown, Pennsylvania, see a luminous disc, like one saucer inverted -on top of another, at relatively close range as it hovers above their -car. After about 5 minutes, the object suddenly accelerates and speeds -away. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. -102–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3959

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Event 5919 -(CB7B73FC)

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Date: 1/12/1966
-Description: Pilots Alvin -S. White and Carl -Cross reach a speed of 2,020 mph in a North American XB-70 Valkyrie -at Edwards AFB, California. (Wikipedia, “North -American XB-70 Valkyrie”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3960

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Event 5920 -(4A9A834E)

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Date: 1/14/1966
-Description: 5:55 p.m. After his 11-year-old son runs into the house in -Weston, Massachusetts, and says a flying saucer is outside, an associate -laboratory director at Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes -outside with the rest of the family and sees an erratically moving -bright light. They observe it through binoculars for 5–10 minutes. (J. -Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 43, -52–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3961

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Event 5921 -(8E757EAC)

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Date: 1/16/1966
-Time: 0400
-Description: On the Morlaix-Callac Road, 23year-old Eugene Coquil was -driving his Renault Dauphine when he saw headlights in a field and -observed an object come over his car and land on the other side of the -road. It was square with four vertical lights resembling lamps. The -witness drove away and did not see the object leave.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; 161 (Vallee)
-Location: Bolazec, France
-ID: 722

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Event 5922 -(F0AEF4B1)

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Date: 1/17/1966
-Description: A B-52G Strategic Air Command bomber collides with a KC-135 -tanker during mid-air refueling at 31,000 feet over the Mediterranean -Sea off the coast of Spain. The tanker is completely destroyed and the -B-52G breaks apart, killing 3 of its 7 crew members. Of the four -Mk28-type hydrogen bombs the B-52G carries, three are found on land near -the small fishing village of Palomares, Spain. The non-nuclear -explosives in two of the weapons detonate upon impact with the ground, -resulting in the contamination of a 0.77-square-mile area by plutonium. -The fourth, which falls into the Mediterranean, is recovered intact -after a 2 1⁄2-month-long search. Some 800 individuals with no hands-on -expertise improvise search and decontamination procedures. More than -1,400 tons of radioactive soil and plant life are excavated and shipped -to the Savannah River plant in South Carolina for burial. (Wikipedia, -“1966 -Palomares B-52 crash”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 297–300)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3962

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Event 5923 -(C9FDEDED)

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Date: 1/18/1966
-Description: 4:55 p.m. Two surveyors are taking readings at China Lake -Naval Ordnance Test Station [now Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake] -in the western Mojave Desert, California. The surveyor using a -theodolite hears a hum, looks up, and sees a UFO flying nearly straight -at him from an angle of 35°–40° and from almost exact north. It passes -directly overhead at less than 150 feet, then dives smoothly, turns to -the east, then comes to within 10 feet of the sloping ground. The -surveyor observes the object through the theodolite until it is lost in -front of a lava flow about 2 miles away. Both observers (the other one -is in a truck) say it is moving at 150 mph and it is a dull black color -and very quiet. They attempt to report the sighting, but the radio is -garbled. Their truck has difficulty starting, and the theodolite -exhibits an odd change in the gravity reference indicator, requiring it -to be re-leveled. (“A Professional Observation,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March -1982): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3963

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Event 5924 -(DE380EB9)

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Date: 1/19/1966
-Description: Around 9:00 a.m. A banana grower, George Pedley, is driving -a tractor about one half mile from a farmhouse at Tully, Queensland, -Australia, owned by Albert Pennisi. Pedley’s attention is drawn by a -hissing sound, clearly heard over the noise from the tractor’s engine. -He looks about for the source of the noise and sees an unusual object -about 75 feet away. It is some 30 feet in the air, rising vertically, -and is shaped like “two saucers face to face.” It is light gray in -color, dull, and non-reflective. He estimates its size as 25 feet long -by 8–9 feet deep. The hissing diminishes as the object rises to a height -of 60 feet, then departs, climbing at about an angle of 45°, extremely -fast, to the southwest. The duration of his observation is only 5–6 -seconds. The object appears to be always rotating. After its departure, -Pedley finds a clearly defined, nearly circular depression in swamp -grass, in a water-filled lagoon, at the point where he first saw it. The -marking is about 32 feet long by 25 feet wide. The grass on the surface -of the water is flattened in a clockwise direction. Royal Australian Air -Force intelligence officers find a variety of circles in the area, -ranging from 8 to 30 feet in diameter. Within each circle the plant -roots are pulled completely out of the soil, as if the ground has been -subjected to an intense rotary force. (“The -Tully ‘Nests’: How Freakish Can Whirlwinds Be?” Australian Flying -Saucer Review (Victorian Edition), no. 5 (July 1966): 3–7; “UFOs -No Strangers to Tully,” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 9 -(November 1966): 15; “1966: -Tully…After Tully,” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 9 (November -1966): 16–21; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, -“Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 26–27; Bill Chalker, “The -1966 Tully Saucer ‘Nest’: A Classic UFO Physical Trace Case,” 1997; -Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966—Part One,” IUR 22, no. 4 -(Winter 1997–1998): 14–20; Bill Chalker, “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966, -Part Two,” IUR 23, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 17, 31; Clark III -1136–1138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3964

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Event 5925 -(4CEB18FC)

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Date: 1/19/1966
-Description: 7:55 p.m. Two luminous objects pass over Acarigua, -Venezuela, one from the north, the other from the east. When the paths -of the two objects cross, the lights go out in the entire city. (“More -S.A. Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, March/Apr. 1966, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3965

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Event 5926 -(89886884)

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Date: 1/19/1966
-Time: 0900
-Description: George Pedley, 27, was driving his tractor when he heard a -high-pitched sound and saw a strange gray-blue craft, 8 m in diameter, 3 -m high, rise from the lagoon 25 m away. It was spinning like a top, rose -to 20 m, and flew to the southwest on a fast, oblique course. Flattened -reeds were found in several places.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66,2; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Horseshoe Lagoon, near Tully, Australia
-ID: 723

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Event 5927 -(CA09581F)

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Date: 1/29/1966
-Time: 0010
-Description: Two civilians returning from a sporting event observed what -they first thought was the moon. After driving for about 1 km, they saw -that it was a flat, well-defined object, which had blocked the road. The -object was the size of a truck and cast an intense yellow-orange light -on the ground. The witnesses turned around and drove back to -Rexburg.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Rexburg, Idaho
-ID: 724

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Event 5928 -(73CECEBD)

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Date: 2/2/1966
-Time: 11:15 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Wise. One silver, -diamond-shaped object with several balls constantly in very fast motion -around it, and much light. Object hovered over the trees for 3-4 -minutes, while a dog barked, and then zipped out of sight. Sighting -lasted 1 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Salisbury, North Carolina
-ID: 533

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Event 5929 -(BFEF6F6E)

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Date: 2/3/1966
-Description: USAF Scientific Advisory Board met to review Project Blue -Book. Issued report dated “March 1966” recommending contracts to -universities to study selected UFO sightings.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 69

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Event 5930 -(026DA114)

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Date: 2/3/1966
-Description: A six-member Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book, -headed by University of Rochester optical physicist Brian -O’Brien, meets -at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. All but one (astronomer Carl -Sagan) are members of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board -(psychologist Launor -F. Carter, industrial -psychologist Jesse -Orlansky, rocket -scientist Richard -W. Porter, computer engineer Willis -Ware), and none have any sympathy with the idea that UFO reports -represent anything extraordinary. Also attending is Lt. Col. Harold -A. Steiner, assistant secretary to the Scientific Advisory Board. -They receive a briefing from Quintanilla, review -the Robertson Panel report, and examine a few UFO cases. The group -recommends that Blue Book “be strengthened to provide opportunity for -scientific investigation of selected sightings in more detail and depth -than has been possible to date.” Furthermore, USAF should negotiate -contracts “with a few selected universities to provide scientific teams -to investigate promptly and in depth certain selected sightings of -UFOs…. The universities should be chosen to provide good geographical -distribution.” They also conclude that “perhaps 100 sightings a year -might be subjected to this close study, and that possibly an average of -10 man-days might be required per sighting so studied. The information -provided by such a program might bring to light new facts of scientific -value.” The group recommends that Blue Book data be given “wide -unsolicited circulation among prominent members of the Congress and -other public persons.” The Air Force ignores their recommendations. -((USAF Scientific Advisory Board, Special -Report of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board Ad Hoc Committee to -Review Project -“Blue Book,” Brian O’Brien, chairman of the Advisory Board, March -1966; Clark III 1191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3966

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Event 5931 -(2537B18D)

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Date: 2/6/1966
-Time: 2000
-Description: Vicente Ortuno and another man observed a bright orange -disk, about 11 m in diameter, with three legs, which came down, landed, -and took off again at high speed on the “El Relajal” estate.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 63, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Aluche, Spain
-ID: 725

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Event 5932 -(56EC835E)

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Date: 2/6/1966
-Time: 5:45 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. K.R. Gulley. One yellow, lighted -object at 500; altitude and a pulsating red glow on the lawn. The house -lights went out, and high frequency bothered the witnesses’ ears. -Sighting lasted 5-10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Nederland, Texas
-ID: 534

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Event 5933 -(810DA52B)

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Date: 2/6/1966
-Description: Around 8:00 p.m. Several persons in the barrio of Aluche, -Madrid, Spain, allegedly see an unusual flying object. Looking out a -window, Maria Ruiz Torres watches an object descending. She sees a -“gigantic eye” looking at her through a porthole. Another witness, Juan -Jiminez Dias, thinks he sees a door open in the craft. Other observers -include soldiers at a nearby ammunition dump. Motorist José -Luis Jordán Peña gets a close, extended view of the object, which he -characterizes as “enormous.” Jordán Peña sends Spanish ufologist Antonio Ribera a -sketch of the UFO, which has three legs and a curious symbol on its -underside—something like two reverse parentheses with a vertical bar -positioned between them. No other witness mentions anything like this. -In 1992, Jordán Peña confesses to hoaxing his sighting, including the -landing marks and physical traces, in order to prove his theory that -paranoia is much more widespread in Spain that psychiatrists are willing -to admit. (Antonio Ribera, “The -San José de Valderas Photographs,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1969): 3–10; “Background of ‘Ummo’ and the Sightings,” CUFOS -Bulletin, Spring 1977, pp. 2–3; Clark III 1183; Scott Corrales, “The -UMMO Experience: Are You Experienced?” Strange Magazine, January 31, -2001; Alain Moreau, “UMMO: -Une imposture?” Les Cles de l’Inexplique)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3968

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Event 5934 -(035CCCDF)

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Date: 2/6/1966
-Description: 6:05 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth -R. Gulley see a tadpole-shaped object about 14 feet long and 2 feet -wide with eight yellow-and-red, neon-like lights at 250–500 feet -altitude in Nederland, Texas. It casts a pulsating red glow on the lawn. -Her house and street lights go out as high-frequency sound assaults the -witnesses’ ears. The object blinks out when aircraft pass overhead, then -comes on again afterward. It departed to the west about 1.5 miles to the -vicinity of the airport, where an aircraft’s landing lights light up the -UFO. Then it disappears in a slow climb. (NICAP, “House -Lights Go Out When ‘Tadpole’ Flies Over” ; Sparks. p. 309; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3967

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Event 5935 -(17C63CA3)

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Date: 2/6/1966
-Description: Brightly lighted disc with legs seen landing and taking off -again. Imprints and scorch marks found at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Aluche, Madrid, Spain
-ID: 70

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Event 5936 -(5375E30F)

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Date: 2/11/1966
-Description: Glowing orange object with domed top hovered, maneuvered -over area, seen by police and citizens. Tracked on Air Force and Federal -Aviation Administration (FAA) radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Skowhegan, ME
-ID: 71

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Event 5937 -(7A2A1237)

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Date: 2/16/1966
-Time: 2030
-Description: A luminous object was said to have landed in the woods. It -showed flashing red, blue, and green lights. A second object was later -seen to join the first one.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine
-ID: 726

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Event 5938 -(F1ED7FDC)

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Date: 2/17/1966
-Description: NICAP contacted by United Nations Secretary General U -Thant’s office requesting information and documents on UFOs.
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 72

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Event 5939 -(53020B18)

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Date: 2/22/1966
-Description: Look Magazine reports UFO sightings near Exeter, NH. In one -sighting the witness went and got a policeman, who also witnessed the -UFO.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Exeter, NH

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Event 5940 -(01CAF190)

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Date: 2/22/1966
-Description: Miami News: Engineer, inventor and lecturer Norman S. Bean -is interviewed. States that after enough reports are gathered flight -paths can be determined, craft can fly at 5000mph, wobble after stopping -and can turn on a dime, must use some sort of gravitational propulsion -to avoid destruction from high G-forces, occupant description, -Wright-Field has had wreckage of 4 crashed discs for years, many -sightings are related to water being pumped in or out of crafts. Reports -forwarded to the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson -AFB.
-Type: interview
-Reference: NICAP
-Location: Miami, FL

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Event 5941 -(747E32CE)

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Date: 2/26/1966
-Description: A civilian witness was driving 8 km east of Farmington when -a flying oval object, the size of a car, came within 3 m of him, then -circled twice and left toward the north. It emitted a bright red glow, -supported a sort of dome with a green light on top, produced radio -interference, and made a strange “signallike noise.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Hanna City, Illinois
-ID: 727

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Event 5942 -(4D62E13E)

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Date: 2/27/1966
-Description: A nationally broadcast public affairs interview program, -The Open Mind, presents a panel discussion titled “Are Flying Saucers -Only Science Fiction?” Princeton University history professor Eric -F. Goldman is moderator. Panelists include astronomer Donald -H. Menzel, plant -physiologist Frank -B. Salisbury, journalist -John -G. Fuller, psychologist R. -Leo Sprinkle, and -astronomer J. -Allen Hynek. Menzel -calls the Exeter police officers “hysterical subjects,” although he -cannot remember their names and is unfamiliar with the case. (“Notable -Broadcasts of the Past: -The -Open Mind NBC -Public Affairs Presentation, February 27, 1966,” Journal of UFO -History 1, no. 2 (May/June 2004): 3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3969

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Event 5943 -(D0A73518)

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Date: 3/1966
-Description: Kathleen Reeves and a friend are walking on a rural road -near their homes in Toledo, Oregon, when they think they see a -neighbor’s field on fire. The fire seems oddly dome-shaped. They -continue walking and see another smaller, duller light. Kathleen thinks -it might be a prank, so she throws a rock at it. Suddenly, a group of -much larger lights come on all around the small one. Frightened, the -girls run home. Over the next few months, through October, the Reeves -home experiences such poltergeist phenomena as whirring or sawing -noises, rose-colored lights inside, small rings of light that crawl over -the bedroom walls, and light beams. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the -Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3970

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Event 5944 -(ABE34496)

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Date: 3/1966
-Description: Midwestern and northeastern U.S. sighting wave (see -separate chronology, section VIII).
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 73

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Event 5945 -(59483A0D)

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Date: 3/3/1966
-Time: 1920
-Description: Several civilians reported an object that flew slowly -toward the south, hovered, came within 15 m of them, and finally flew -off toward the southwest.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Oswego, New York
-ID: 728

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Event 5946 -(2193FB72)

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Date: 3/5/1966
-Description: The D-21 is first launched from an M-21 off the coast of -California. The drone is released but stays close to the M-21’s back for -a few seconds, which seems like “two hours” to the M-21 crew. -(Wikipedia, “Lockheed -D- 21”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3971

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Event 5947 -(A12E9B5A)

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Date: 3/6/1966
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Ivan de Almeida and other medical staff at the -Lourenço Jorge Municipal Hospital in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, -Brazil, watch an oval object with a bright red-orange light that shines -on the ocean waters below. After 2 hours it climbs up slowly, dims, and -disappears. (Olavo T. Fontes, “Report -from Brazil: The First UAO -Sightings in 1966,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1966, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3972

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Event 5948 -(0F4E7D4A)

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Date: 3/12/1966
-Description: 10:40 a.m. A security guard at the Fábrica Nacional de -Motores in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, alerts 10 employees -to a mysterious light that is approaching the factory. It descends to -1,500–1,800 feet and hovers above the plant. The object is approximately -18 feet in diameter and emits a brilliant white light that makes it -difficult to look at directly. It periodically flashes even brighter. -Plant director Col. Jorge Alberto Silveira Martins calls the Army and -Air Force. After 30 minutes, the object dims and moves away at -tremendous speed before the Army trucks arrive. (Olavo T. Fontes, “Report -from Brazil: The First UAO Sightings in 1966,” APRO Bulletin, -March/April 1966, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3973

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Event 5949 -(AAFB7976)

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Date: 3/14/1966
-End date: 3/20/1966
-Description: Sheriffs reported disc-shaped objects moving at fantastic -speeds and making sharp turns, diving and climbing, hovering. Selfridge -AFB confirmed tracking UFOs over Lake Erie
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Dexter, Milan, and Ann Arbor, MI
-ID: 74

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Event 5950 -(A2B7E431)

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Date: 3/14/1966
-Description: 3:30 –5:30 a.m. Washtenaw County sheriff’s deputies Buford -Bushroe and John Foster see highly maneuverable disc-shaped UFOs with -flashing red and green lights over Dexter, Michigan. They call in a -report that sets off a two-and-a-half hour chase that stretches over -three counties and out over Lake Erie. Police from five jurisdictions -are involved. Selfridge AFB [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base], -near Mount Clemens, reports tracking UFOs on radar over Lake Erie. -(UFOEv II 184–185; O’Connell 177; Patrick Gross, “Michigan 1966: -Sheriffs Watch High-Performance Discs, Also Tracked on Radar”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3974

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Event 5951 -(466F23FD)

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Date: 3/16/1966
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Many people see a white, oval object crash into -the Atlantic Ocean close to the Ilha Cagarras off Ipanema, Brazil. Some -see a few smaller white parachute-shaped objects fall from it. A -thorough search turns up nothing in the sea or the island itself. -(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3975

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Event 5952 -(1CD99C4F)

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Date: 3/17/1966
-Description: 4:25 a.m. Police Sgt. Neil Schneider and Deputy David -Fitzpatrick see top-shaped objects making sharp maneuvers over Milan, -Michigan. They alternatively hover, rise and fall quickly, dart around -at jet-like speed, dimming and brightening periodically. Two objects are -operating together, while a third UFO hovers at a lower altitude. (UFOEv -II 185; O’Connell 177; Sparks, -p. 310)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3976

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Event 5953 -(8D27DF36)

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Date: 3/17/1966
-Description: Mr. Ward saw an object 12 m in diameter and 7 m high, -emitting a pulsating white light, in a field. It had a revolving section -with portholes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Aug., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Harrow, Canada
-ID: 729

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Event 5954 -(7BD031D7)

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Date: 3/17/1966
-Time: 0000
-Description: A police officer observed an object in the southwest. He -thought it was a plane about to crash, although no sound was audible. He -tried to contact the police headquarters, but his radio transmitter did -not work properly. The object, which now colored lights spinning at the -periphery, and a diameter of 16 m, came within 25 m of the patrol car, -following it for 1 km, then flew off toward the northwest. The witness -had been a policeman for 10 years, and had never seen anything like that -object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Milan, Michigan
-ID: 730

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Event 5955 -(33DC2024)

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Date: 3/20/1966
-Description: La Porte, IN: Patrolman Michael Spevak was on duty when 2 -youths pulled over and pointed out an UFO that they said had been -following them from Michigan City to La Porte. According to the young -men, the object frequently burst into such a bright glare that it -blinded them, forcing them off the highway. It had been following them -at an altitude of about 60 ft. Both the young men and the patrolman -noticed a cross-shaped appendage protruding from the lower portion of -the UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-F, p257)
-Location: La Porte, IN

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Event 5956 -(3DEFDD9B)

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Date: 3/20/1966
-Description: 7:30 p.m. After his dogs start making a racket, Frank -Mannor and his 26-year-old son Ronald see strange lights over a -swampy area in Dexter Township, Michigan. They walk over to the area for -a look, taking about 30 minutes, and see a pyramid-shaped object with a -rounded top, corrugated surface, and blue, red, and white lights. -Mannor’s son-in-law Bob Wagner, back at the house, sees the object light -up and rise to 500 feet, then come down again making some noise. -Washtenaw County sheriff’s deputies David Fitzpatrick and Stanley -McFadden arrive about 9:00 p.m. drive towards the swamp on Quigley -Road. They see a brilliant light that dims and then reappears. By this -time a crowd has gathered. One man reports that when two flashlights -appear in the distance, the object seems to react by flying away at high -speed. At another point the object passes directly over the Mannors with -a whistling sound like a rifle bullet ricocheting. It remains in the -swampy area for 30 minutes. (“Swamp -Gas Answer Disproved,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 (March/April 1966): -5; UFOEv II 185–186; O’Connell 175–177, 184–185; Sparks, -p. 310; Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents]; Patrick Gross, “Hillsdale, -Michigan, 1966: The Infamous ‘Swamp Gas’ Case”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3977

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Event 5957 -(A06711AA)

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Date: 3/20/1966
-Time: 12:15 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF Res. Maj. K.C. Smith, employee of NASA at -Cape Kennedy. One pulsating light which varied from white to intense -blue made a jerky ascent and then rapidly accelerated away to the north -after 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Miami, Florida
-ID: 535

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Event 5958 -(C74CD759)

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Date: 3/20/1966
-Time: 2000
-Description: Frank Mannor and his son, Ronald, saw a luminous object -hovering over a swamp. It was described as brown, with a “scaly” -surface, coneshaped, and showing bluish lights that turned red. Then the -whole object lighted up with a yellowish glow and flew away at high -speed with a whistling sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Dexter, Michigan
-ID: 731

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Event 5959 -(B1DA9BA0)

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Date: 3/20/1966
-Description: Dexter, MI.: Frank Mannor, age 47, and Ronald Mannor, age -19, went out at night through swampy, hummocky terrain to investigate -flashing lights in the swamp. They saw a domed, elliptical object with -aquilted surface hovering about 8 ft. off the ground in a patch of -apparent mist. The object glowed “blood red” and the body lights -disappeared. They lost sight of the UFO and didn’t see it again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Dexter, MI
-See also: 3/21/66
-See also: 4/1/66

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Event 5960 -(ED1A20F2)

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Date: 3/20/1966
-End date: 3/21/1966
-Description: Egg-shaped object with flashing lights across the center -(red-white-blue-green-red) hovered over power lines, bobbed around, and -rocked in a pendulum motion
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Exeter, NH
-ID: 75

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Event 5961 -(0AECEF43)

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Date: 3/21/1966
-Description: Engineer, inventor, and lecturer Norman S. Bean is quoted -in the Miami News: “We have good reason to believe that the Air Force -has wreckage from at least four of these small vehicles and has been -conducting studies of such wreckage at Wright Field for years”. Also -mentions what is now known as the US Gravity Control Research -Program.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Medium
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Miami, FL

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Event 5962 -(8674BF40)

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Date: 3/21/1966
-Description: Law enforcement officer F.B. (initials) at Dexter, -Michigan, and officer “C” (initial) on patrol sighted a landed saucer in -a swamp. Description: Large craft, like a pot; no windows; had a dull -glow and steam was coming up from the water. Sounded like a turbine, a -low whine or hum. He notified Selfridge AFB which immediately sent out -MP’s, well armed. All law officers were ordered back and their film was -confiscated. Later his report and other reports disappeared from police -headquarters. Then, everyone in the force, including he and “C”, were -transferred to other parts of the county. The UFO wasn’t disabled. F.B. -saw it take-off and climb straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (A5, B3-C)
-Location: Dexter, MI
-See also: 3/1/67

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Event 5963 -(D25A55EA)

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Date: 3/21/1966
-Description: 10:32 p.m. Cynthia “Pinky” Poffenberger and 16 other -Hillsdale (Michigan) College students see a football- shaped object with -red, green, and white pulsating lights descend from the sky and pass -close to their dorm. It settles in a hollow in the Slayton Arboretum -about 1,500 feet away. Some 87 students collect to watch the UFO, then -they notify Civil Defense Director William Van Horn, who arrives with -police. From the dormitory, the landed lights appear yellowish-white, -dimming and intensifying. Only student Barbara -Kohn stays most of the night, watching the lights vanish, reappear, -and recede. Around 5:10 a.m., Kohn sees a lighted object move away and -disappear from sight. Radiation is later detected at the landing area of -about 330–600 microroentgens/hr, roughly 10–20 times the background -level. (O’Connell 177–180, 185–188; Clark III 950; Sparks, -p. 311; Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents]; Jack Butler, “UFO: -In 1966, Hillsdale Had Its Own Close Encounter,” The Collegian -(Hillsdale College), March 19, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3978

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Event 5964 -(06D523CF)

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Date: 3/21/1966
-Description: Officials, college students saw UFO settle in a hollow, -emitting orange, red, and white lights
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hillsdale, MI
-ID: 76

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Event 5965 -(9D83B21A)

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Date: 3/21/1966
-Description: William Van Horn, Civil Defense Director, and a group of -students observed a pattern of lights on the ground. The source of the -light appeared to manuever for about two hours.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Hillsdale, Michigan
-ID: 732

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Event 5966 -(CF2DA6DC)

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Date: 3/22/1966
-Description: Morning. Contactee George -Hunt Williamson sees three large UFOs with brilliant, flashing, -blue-white lights hover above him for one minute in Key West, Florida. -He hears a familiar buzzing in his head. (Michael D. Swords, “A Little -Walk in the Strange Life of George Hunt Williamson,” IUR 26, no. 2 -(Summer 2001): 14, 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3979

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Event 5967 -(D929A5E7)

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Date: 3/22/1966
-Time: 1:30 AM
-Description: Witness: S.J. Musachia. White flashing lights, and the air -full of smoke. Lit up witness’ apartment. Sound of “yen” heard up close -during 4 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Houston, Texas
-ID: 536

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Event 5968 -(CE6E3EB2)

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Date: 3/22/1966
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Several people standing outside the Waterfront -Playhouse in Key West, Florida, during an intermission, see three UFOs -ringed with flashing blue-white lights hovering nearby. They zoom off -over the Gulf. (“Keys -Theatre-Goers Report ‘Flying Discs,’” Miami (Fla.) Herald, March 24, -1966, p. 3-C)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3980

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Event 5969 -(65D30834)

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Date: 3/23/1966
-Time: 5:05 AM
-Description: Witness: W.E. Laxson. One large object, like a wingless -C-124 transport plane; 75’ long, 8’ high and 12’ wide; with a bubble -canopy on top. Sat on highway, a man dressed in military work clothes -entered, and it rose after about 40 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Temple, Oklahoma
-ID: 537

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Event 5970 -(0E334DD9)

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Date: 3/23/1966
-Description: Two young men were walking through a wooded area when they -saw a bright object that they thought was a balloon covered with -fluorescent paint but it became so intensely bright that they could not -look directly at it. As they walked closer, it exploded, leaving no -trace.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Fort Pierce, Florida
-ID: 733

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Event 5971 -(CDE19DDB)

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Date: 3/23/1966
-Time: 0505
-Description: An electronics instructor, who was driving to work at a -local Air Force Base, observed an object blocking the road. It was -shaped like an airplane fuselage, 25 m long, with a “bubble” on top -resembling the canopy on a B-26, rested on legs, and had very bright aft -and forward lights. There was a door and a short stairway to the side of -the object, and a man in coveralls appeared to be examining the craft -which bore the identification “TL 4768” (see case 417). When the witness -approached, the “pilot” went back inside, a sound resembling that of a -highspeed drill was heard, and the object rose. No engine was observed. -The witness was familiar with all conventional military aircraft.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Temple, Oklahoma
-ID: 734

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Event 5972 -(DD23C50E)

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Date: 3/23/1966
-Description: Huge, elongated craft blocking high-way, flashing body -lights, port, door, antenna on top, spindly legs. Human-like figure -entered, craft took off, hovered, sped away
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Temple, OK
-ID: 77

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Event 5973 -(42516413)

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Date: 3/23/1966
-End date: 3/25/1966
-Description: Hynek spends -three days in Michigan, interviewing witnesses in Dexter and Hillsdale, -finding the reports contradictory and vague, and encountering a media -frenzy. He participates in a police UFO chase that turns out to be the -star Arcturus. A photograph taken by Deputy David Fitzpatrick on March -17 is obviously a time lapse of the Moon and Venus. He interviews two -Hillsdale students, Sara Robechek and Jo Wilson. William Van Horn tells -him that he at first thought the lights were marsh gas until they rose -into the air 150 feet and he seemed to perceive a “convex-shaped” solid -mass between two lights. (O’Connell 183–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3984

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Event 5974 -(5EAE82E5)

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Date: 3/23/1966
-Description: 11:50 p.m. John T. King sees a yellowish, elliptical object -with a dome-like projection on top just off the ground near Bangor, -Maine. It has a yellow-orange light in the center, a bluish light on the -right, and a white light on the left. When the object moves toward his -car, the car lights dim and his radio stops playing. King says he can -hear the elderberry bushes scraping as it approaches and hovers 50 feet -away. Frightened, he takes his .22 magnum pistol and fires it four times -at the UFO, which glows brightly and takes off at high speed, making a -“zinging” sound like the recoil of a spring. (“Close-Range -Sightings Increase,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 (March/April 1966): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3983

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Event 5975 -(845661F2)

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Date: 3/23/1966
-Description: 5:00 p.m. At least a dozen adults and children in Trinidad, -Colorado, see two disc-shaped objects with domes flying in-line, -traveling with a bobbing motion over the terrain. (“Discs -at Trinidad, Colorado,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1966, p. 1; James -E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3982

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Event 5976 -(16BD71BC)

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Date: 3/23/1966
-Description: 5:05 a.m. As Sheppard AFB (near Wichita Falls, Texas) -civilian instructor William E. “Eddie” Laxson is driving west on US -Highway 70 eight miles south of Temple, Oklahoma, he finds the road -blocked by a wingless aircraft, shaped like a fish, in the road. It is -about 75 feet long, nearly 8 feet high, 12 feet wide, with a Plexiglas -bubble on top, and bright lights forward and aft. Laxson stops his car -about 300 feet away and walks to within 50 feet, noticing a designation -on its side like “TLA138” or “TLA738” or “TL 4768.” He sees a “man” -wearing a baseball cap or mechanic’s hat climbing up steps or a ladder -on the object. Soon after it lifts off with a hissing or high-speed -drilling sound and heads off southeast at about 700 mph. There are no -landing traces. Laxson finds another witness, truck driver C. W. -Anderson, parked a mile down the road. Laxson thinks it is some kind of -military vehicle. (NICAP, “Wingless -Craft Blocks Road / ‘Man’ Observed”; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 208–210; -Clark III 681–682; Sparks, p. 312)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3981

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Event 5977 -(BDDE7D66)

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Date: 3/24/1966
-Time: 2215
-Description: Two women saw a glowing object on the road. As they came -near it, they found that it hovered and showed two intense white lights, -as well as a green and red light. The object was bowlshaped, and they -lost sight of it when they drove away. They saw it again later, flying -low on a southnorth trajectory.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Sheboygan, Wisconsin
-ID: 735

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Event 5978 -(28F5621F)

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Date: 3/25/1966
-Description: House Minority Leader Gerald -Ford (R-Mich.) issues a press release proposing that Congress -investigate the rash of UFO reports in southern Michigan and the rest of -the country: “I think the American people would feel better if there was -a full-blown investigation of these incidents, which some persons allege -have taken place.” (Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, [Ford -UFO news releases and other documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3986

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Event 5979 -(0533A9F2)

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Date: 3/25/1966
-Description: John King, 22, working with the Bangor Police Department, -suddenly saw above him a very bright object with a dark underside. He -fired at it four times, hearing the bullets hit a metal surface as the -object flew off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Bangor, Maine
-ID: 736

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Event 5980 -(29B388D6)

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Date: 3/25/1966
-Description: Evening. Mrs. Robert Gorisek of LaSalle, Illinois, sees a -triangular object hover above her car for more than an hour as she is -driving home from work. The object keeps up with them as they drive -through several towns. It has red, orange, and white lights. (“UFO -Sightings Widespread over Country,” Great Bend (Kan.) Daily Tribune, -March 25, 1966, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3988

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Event 5981 -(4A289169)

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Date: 3/25/1966
-Description: Mrs. R. H. Chappell and her sister Janie Kidd see two -triangular UFOs hovering 40–50 feet above Saanich Inlet, British -Columbia. Ruby-red lights flash back and forth between them, as if they -are signaling. The objects remain motionless for a couple of minutes -before moving off slowly and gracefully. (Marler 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3987

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Event 5982 -(AD03D215)

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Date: 3/25/1966
-Description: Quintanilla needs -quick answers, so he schedules a press conference at Selfridge AFB [now -Selfridge Air National Guard Base] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, for Hynek to -make a statement. Hynek, disappointed with the quality of the sightings -and suspecting a mundane explanation, announces: “It would seem to me -that the association of the sightings with swamps, in these particular -cases, is more than coincidence. No group of witnesses observed any -craft coming to or going away from the swamps. The glow was localized -there…. It appears to me that all the major conditions for the -appearance of swamp lights were satisfied.” The swamp gas theory doesn’t -go over very well with the witnesses, the media, or the public. (“Termed -Marsh Gases by Air Force Expert,” -Lansing (Mich.) State Journal, March 25, 1966, p. 11; “Gas -Theory Belittled by Viewers of UFOs,” Lansing (Mich.) State Journal, -March 26, 1966, p. 1; “Swamp -Gas Answer Disproved,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 (March/April 1966): -5; O’Connell 190–198; Swords 307; Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue -Book,” IUR 16, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3985

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Event 5983 -(8407A019)

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Date: 3/26/1966
-Description: Jean Voilquin, 54, saw a strange “wheel” roll 15 m away at -a speed of about 30 km/h. It was about 80 cm in diameter, 25 cm thick; -it rolled away and vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN; GEPA 8 (Vallee)
-Location: Attigneville, France
-ID: 737

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Event 5984 -(DF8946C7)

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Date: 3/26/1966
-Time: Midnight
-Description: Witnesses: Mrs. P.N. Beer and Mrs. E. Smith. One flashing -light buzzed their car from the front then hovered. Sighting lasted l0 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Texhoma, Oklahoma
-ID: 538

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Event 5985 -(C3D85B6C)

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Date: 3/26/1966
-Time: 2400
-Description: Two civilian women were driving back from Amarillo when -they saw an object aproaching from the north. The engine died and the -headlights failed. The object flew over the car and hovered 400 m away. -After 10 min, the witnesses were able to start their car and leave. They -reported the object had a wafflelike surface and glowed with an intense -red light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Texahoma, Oklahoma
-ID: 738

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Event 5986 -(FD045859)

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Date: 3/27/1966
-Description: Control tower personnel, police. Radar-visual sighting of -maneuvering object
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Columbus, GA
-ID: 78

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Event 5987 -(F8A3832D)

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Date: 3/27/1966
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Both Federal Aviation Administration operators at -Muscogee County Airport [now Columbus Metropolitan Airport] and military -operators at Fort Benning report a radar-visual sighting of a -maneuvering, oblong, green-white object over Columbus, Georgia. The -object appears to change shape from cigar to wedge to triangle. (“Glowing -Object in Sky Is Sighted in Georgia,” Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune, -March 28, 1966, p. 14; Center for UFO Studies, [case -documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3989

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Event 5988 -(8407BAFB)

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Date: 3/28/1966
-Time: 2000
-Description: A man driving at a speed of about 100 km/h suddenly -encountered a large lighted object 1 m above the road on a hilltop. It -flew off, as the car engine and headlights died. The light bulbs had to -be replaced. The object was oval, 7 m long, dark gray, and showed about -30 lights along its periphery.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee
-ID: 739

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Event 5989 -(8603DDE7)

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Date: 3/28/1966
-Description: Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) issued call for UFO -hearings.
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 79

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Event 5990 -(3A2DCBCE)

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Date: 3/28/1966
-Description: NICAP press conference at National Press Club.
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 80

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Event 5991 -(0AA43438)

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Date: 3/28/1966
-Description: Gerald -Ford writes to George -P. Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Science and Astronautics -Committee, and L. -Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, -saying he is dissatisfied with Hynek’s -explanation of the Michigan sightings. He “strongly recommends” a House -committee investigation into the “UFO phenomena.” (Gerald R. Ford -Presidential Library, [Ford -UFO news releases and other documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3990

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Event 5992 -(D1083C43)

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Date: 3/28/1966
-Description: University of Arizona atmospheric physicist James -E. McDonald writes a 2-page letter to Thomas -F. Malone, chairman -of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Atmospheric -Sciences, urging that a panel be set up by a scientific body to study -Blue Book’s UFO files. He also writes to his legislator Rep. Morris -K. -Udall (D-Ariz.) about the idea, asking him to pass the letter on in -confidence to Gerald -Ford (R-Mich.). (Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes -from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010): 11, 13; Clark -III 696)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3991

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Event 5993 -(51E23848)

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Date: 3/28/1966
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A man driving about 60 mph in Fayetteville, -Tennessee, encounters a large, lighted object only 3 feet above the road -on a hilltop. The object is oval-shaped, 23 feet long, dark gray, and -has about 30 lights around its perimeter. As it flies off, his car -engine and headlights die. The driver has to replace the light bulbs in -his headlights after the incident. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on -Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): -19; Sparks, -p. 312)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3992

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Event 5994 -(3E0FA70F)

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Date: 3/29/1966
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Charles Cozens, 13, is strolling in a field -behind the Hamilton Mountain Police Station in Hamilton, Ontario. He -sees two luminous oval objects about 8 feet in diameter descend and -land, making a buzzing sound. The objects have a row of multicolored -lights around their rims “flickering like a computer.” He approaches for -a closer look and touches the nearest object, which feels hard and -smooth like metal, but neither hot nor cold. He then touches an -antenna-like projection at the end of one of the objects and receives a -shock. Frightened, he runs home. His parents confirm a 3-inch burn mark -on his hand and question him thoroughly before reporting the incident to -authorities. His first-degree burn is treated at a hospital and heals -normally. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 4–5; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and -Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3995

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Event 5995 -(B7DC80CC)

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Date: 3/29/1966
-Description: 4:15 p.m. A 10-year-old boy and his Dalmatian are walking -familiar paths in a wood lot behind their home near Hampton Falls, New -Hampshire. He notices something silver on a ridge and walks toward it. -He sees an “L” shaped box, long side parallel to the ground, sitting on -tripod legs. His dog runs ahead and sniffs the boxy structure, and then, -appearing uninterested, the dog goes off into the woods. The boy stops -about 24 feet away, not sure what he is seeing. The object makes -intermittent sounds and movements in the following minutes. Then a blast -of air from the object sends debris flying. A short high-pitched, then -low-pitched, sound is heard as the object lifts off the ground about one -foot, stops, swings in a clockwise motion, and settles back on the -ground. Intermittent electric-like humming sounds are heard until the -object again, with a blast of air stirring up debris and the same sounds -as earlier, ascends vertically, this time to about 10 feet, where it -pauses, moves horizontally, pauses and rotates clockwise again, then -accelerates straight up. On the final ascent, the sound increases in -pitch and loudness. The witness’s mother and sister who were at some -distance from him also hear the sound. When the object moved -horizontally, saplings directly under it swayed. Three elongated -imprints are found in the form of a triangle. Reportedly plants do not -grow in the area for the next 2 years. (NICAP, “Hampton -Area, New Hampshire: -March 29, 1966”; Raymond Fowler, “The Flying Box, and Other Cases,” -IUR 28, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 15–20, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3994

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Event 5996 -(31C7D847)

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Date: 3/29/1966
-Description: NICAP board member Charles -A. Maney writes to Gerald -Ford, imploring him to contact NICAP for proof that the Air Force is -withholding evidence about UFOs. (Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: -Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010): -12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3993

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Event 5997 -(535DCBBB)

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Date: 3/30/1966
-Description: An elongated object about 30 m long and 9 m high was -reported to have landed near a highway for 5 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Pecos, Texas
-ID: 740

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Event 5998 -(442922BB)

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Date: 3/30/1966
-Description: The Christian Science Monitor editorialized that the -Michigan sightings had “deepened the mystery” and “it is time for the -scientific community to conduct a thorough and objective study of the -‘unexplainable.’”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 81

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Event 5999 -(ECACFB32)

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Date: 3/30/1966
-Description: 8:35 p.m. A woman and her four children watch an oval -object crossing the road as they are driving south about 9 miles north -of Lewisburg, Indiana. It comes close to the car and she hears a -pulsating sound, but it seems to come through the car radio, not -directly from the object. She drives away, but the UFO pursues her for 8 -miles. It changes from reddish-orange to blue-white before it -accelerates away. (Sparks, -p. 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3996

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Event 6000 -(FD516D73)

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Date: 3/30/1966
-Time: 2200
-Description: An anonymous witness saw a round object with two lights -land near the Ohio State University campus. A door opened and a very -thin, child-sized figure was seen. The object then began to move torward -the witness’s car and rose rapidly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Gribble Jun., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Mansfield, Ohio
-ID: 742

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Event 6001 -(8F37A758)

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Date: 3/30/1966
-Time: 2035
-Description: A civilian woman and her four children observed an oval -object crossing the road as they were driving south about 15 km north of -Lexisburg. It came close to the car, and a pulsating sound was heard, -increasing in frequency as the object came nearer, but it seemed to come -through the car radio rather than directly from the object. The witness -drove away in fear, but was followed for 13 km by the object, whose -color suddenly changed from reddishorange to bluish-white before -accelerating out of sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lexisburg, Indiana
-ID: 741

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Event 6002 -(35F4A083)

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Date: 3/31/1966
-Description: JANAP 146(E), a joint Canadian–US instruction, adds that -photos should be sent to the US Director of Naval Intelligence and adds -special CIRVIS reporting instructions for unidentifiable objects. The -Canadian Air Defence Command ends its investigation of UFOs and -transfers the responsibility to the Directorate of Operations. (Joint -Chiefs of Staff, “JANAP -146(E) Canadian–United States Communications Instructions for Reporting -Vital Intelligence Sightings,” March 31, 1966; Antonio F. Rullán, -“Blue -Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships,” -December 10, 2002; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Canada, Signet, 1981, -pp. 171–172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3998

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Event 6003 -(E3CBF90F)

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Date: 3/31/1966
-Description: Editorial, Indianapolis (IN) News: “What is needed, -obviously, is more public inquiry conducted under scrupulously objective -auspices. . . . Too many people have seen too many things for the -subject to be dismissed with mere off-hand explanations.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Indianapolis, IN
-ID: 83

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Event 6004 -(DBB69CE1)

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Date: 3/31/1966
-Time: 2115
-Description: Charles Kozens, 13, saw two objects, 2.5 m long, 1.2 m -high, with flashing lights, land near Hamilton. When he tried to touch -an antenna on one of the objects, he received an electric shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Hamilton, Canada
-ID: 745

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Event 6005 -(4AF56420)

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Date: 3/31/1966
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Jeno Udvardy is driving home from a late work -shift near Vicksburg, Michigan. He sees a cluster of lights on the -highway ahead and slows down. When he is within 10 feet, he realizes the -lights are on a disc hovering a few feet above the road. It has a -brilliant white light, and red, green, and purple blinking lights. -Udvardy backs up and his car is buffeted by gusts of wind as the object -lifts up. The car motor stalls. He rolls down the window and hears a -humming sound. Moments later, the UFO speeds off at a steep angle. (“Close- Range -Sightings Increase,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 7 (March/April 1966): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3997

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Event 6006 -(49A8B04F)

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Date: 3/31/1966
-Time: 0600
-Description: Two women observed a large object with a pulsating bluish -light on top, an orange light below, windows, and antennae, resting in a -construction area. Silhouettes could be seen moving inside, one of them -gesturing as the craft took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Gribble Jun., 6 (Vallee)
-Location: San Francisco, California
-ID: 744

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Event 6007 -(9E05463F)

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Date: 3/31/1966
-Description: Luminous object hovered, blocked roadway, bobbed up and -down, moved quickly. Car buffeted, humming sound. Object rose, sped off -at steep angle
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Vicksburg, MI
-ID: 82

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Event 6008 -(BD1CD633)

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Date: 3/31/1966
-Time: 0200
-Description: A man driving home saw lights on the road and discovered a -gray,lens-shaped object hovering at 1 m altitude. It had one intense -white light and three colored flashing lights. Driving within 2 m of it, -he became afraid and backed up, but the object suddenly flew over and -behind him. A noise similar to that of a swarm of bees was audible. It -left at high speed toward the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Vicksburg, Michigan
-ID: 743

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Event 6009 -(5C08A1EF)

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Date: 4/1/1966
-Description: From LIFE magazine: In a hastily called press conference, -the USAF spokesman J. Allen Hynek suggested that the Dextor, MI, UFO and -others seen in the swamps near Hillsdale may have been marsh (or swamp) -gas that had spontaneously ignited.
-Type: magazine article
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Dextor, MI
-See also: 3/20/66
-See also: 3/21/66

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Event 6010 -(CE57092F)

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Date: 4/1/1966 (approximate)
-Description: Night. Students at Western Michigan University in -Kalamazoo, Michigan, see a star-like object that looks football-shaped -through binoculars. It moves in geometric angles around two bright stars -until it shoots straight up and disappears. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know -Where You Live,” IUR 30, no.2 (January 2006): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4000

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Event 6011 -(690E678B)

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Date: 4/1/1966
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A man driving 5 miles south of Tangier, -Oklahoma, reaches a hilltop and sees a green object wider than the road -flying north at very high speed, emitting a shrieking noise and a “heat -wave.” The car engine dies. (Sparks, p. 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 3999

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Event 6012 -(A2F9EA60)

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Date: 4/1/1966
-Time: 2240
-Description: A civilian man, 34, was driving about 10 km south of -Tangier when he reached a hilltop and saw a green object flying north at -very high speed, emitting a shrieking noise and a “heat wave.” The car -engine died. The witness noted that the object was wider than the -road.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Tangier, Oklahoma
-ID: 746

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Event 6013 -(415B229B)

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Date: 4/1/1966
-Time: 2400
-Description: Darlene Underwood and her mother saw two starlike objects -land in a field. One of them rose rapidly when a train came into view. -It went behind a hill, while the second one hovered at tree height with -its lights off. When the train had passed, both objects landed again and -two manlike shadows were seen. Voices shouting in a foreign language and -what sounded like a pig being butchered were heard. Light signals.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: IIR May., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Liberty, Missouri
-ID: 747

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Event 6014 -(6ADC681A)

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Date: 4/2/1966
-Description: 2:02 p.m. James Kibel, a Melbourne businessman who is a -member of the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, sees a shiny, -hemispherical object above his garden in Balwyn, Victoria. It looks to -be 20–25 feet in diameter and 120 feet in the air. “It seemed to float -down towards me,” he says. “It resembled a big mushroom with a stalk -pointing towards the earth.” He snaps a Polaroid photo, after which the -object takes off and disappears to the north. However, when B. -Roy Frieden, professor -of optical sciences at the University of Arizona, examines the photo, he -finds a jagged line of discontinuity running across the center of the -image suggesting there are separate photos joined together and -rephotographed. In 2017, Canadian researcher François Beaulieu -reexamines the original and notices the reflection of the house below in -the shiny object, and he finds that the discontinuity is actually caused -by the Polaroid developing chemicals spreading unevenly across the -photo. (“V.F.S.R.S. -Member Snaps a UFO,” Australian Flying Saucer Review (Victorian -Edition), no. 5 (July 1966): 2; “Report -on UFO Photographed at Balwyn,” Australian Flying Saucer Review -(Victorian Edition), no. 6 (December 1966): 11–12; Story, p. 40; -Keith Basterfield and Paul Dean, “Stage -One Report on the 2nd April 1966, -Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, UFO Observation and Photgograph by James -Johnson Kibel,” 2016; Keith Basterfield and Paul Dean, “Stage -Two Report on the 2nd April 1966, Balwyn, Melbourne, Victoria, Visual -and Photographic -UFO Sighting by James Johnson Kibel,” 2016; François Beaulieu, “A -Re-evaluation of the Balwyn UFO -Photograph,” February 23, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4001

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Event 6015 -(A6522505)

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Date: 4/4/1966
-Time: 0605
-Description: A civilian man, 40, saw an object resting on the ground as -he was going to work, less than 2 km southeast of Hague. It was an -elongated craft, 2 m long, 70 cm high. When he tried to touch it, the -craft left at great speed toward the west. It had six openings, 10 cm in -diameter, and made a “turbine” noise so loud that the witness had to put -his hands over his ears. After going away for a few meters, it vanished -suddenly. Rain was falling throughout the observation, which lasted four -min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Hague, Florida
-ID: 748

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Event 6016 -(8036CE81)

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Date: 4/4/1966
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Businessman Ron Sullivan is driving about 60 mph -near Burkes Flat, Victoria, Australia. In the distance he sees a light -near the road. Suddenly, the headlights of his vehicle bend to the right -and light up a nearby fence. He brakes his car. In the middle of an -adjacent field, he sees a column of light some 25 feet high and shaped -like an inverted ice cream cone, 3 feet wide at the bottom and 10 feet -wide at the top. It then rises to a height of 20 feet, after which the -whole light complex disappears. There is no associated noise. Sullivan -drives on to Wycheproof, where he checks his lights but finds nothing -wrong. On the night of April 7, 19-year-old Gary Taylor is killed at the -same spot when the car he is driving leaves the road and hits a tree. -Police find a circular impression about 2–5 inches deep and 5 feet in -diameter in the freshly plowed field. (NICAP, “Bent -Headlights Case”; -Bill Chalker, “The -Bent Headlight Beam Case Revisited,” UFO Research Australia -Newsletter 5, no. 3 (May/June 1984): 17–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4002

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Event 6017 -(23F0CE5A)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 1900
-Description: A landed object was observed through binoculars by four -persons. It took off, hovered for a while, and left.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Kittery, Maine
-ID: 752

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Event 6018 -(C7E6F7E3)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: Congressman, Gerald Ford announces to Congress the need to -extensively examine UFOs. Brief Hearing, C. Sagan.
-Type: announcement
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-G p64)
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 6019 -(94FF2E96)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witness: Lillian Louis. One vapor-like sphere hovered and -spun at low altitude, shooting its exhaust onto the ground below. -Sighting of 1 minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lycoming, New York
-ID: 540

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Event 6020 -(45D93F76)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: Midnight. W. Smith and another man in Alto, Tennessee, stop -to watch a 100-foot long UFO hovering 15 feet above a swamp. They try to -follow it, but it flies away, flying between a high-tension power line -and a row of trees. Cows, dogs, and horses are restless in all the areas -where the object passes over. (Sparks, -p. 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4006

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Event 6021 -(F2ACF9DC)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 11:55 PM
-Description: Witness: W. Smith. One oval object with a dark top, -appeared cone-shaped when moving. It made a high-frequency noise during -the 2.5 hour sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Alto, Tennessee
-ID: 539

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Event 6022 -(8954CB4D)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: R. Sullivan was driving toward Maryborough when his -headlight beams appeared to “bend” to the right. He then observed a -vertical, conical beam of light in a nearby field, very white at ground -level and rainbowlike up to an altitude of 7 m. Top and bottom -diameters: 3 and 1 m respectively. The object producing the light flew -away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO May., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Wycheproof, Australia
-ID: 749

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Event 6023 -(AC0743D1)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: The House Armed Services Committee conducts the first -public hearing by the US Congress on the topic of UFOs. Air Force -Secretary Harold -Brown testifies that while USAF has done an excellent job on UFOs, -perhaps there is room for “even stronger emphasis on the scientific -aspects.” Hynek recommends -that a “civilian panel of physical and social scientists … examine the -UFO problem critically for the express purpose of determining whether a -major problem exits.” Quintanilla is -the only other witness. After Committee Chairman L. -Mendel Rivers expresses -some enthusiasm for the idea, Brown suddenly realizes that maybe he has -found a way to get the Air Force out of UFO investigations. Shortly -after the hearing, Brown tells the USAF Office of Scientific Research to -accept the February 3 O’Brien recommendation -to seek a university that will accept a contract to study the 600 -officially unidentified UFO sightings. (US House Committee on Armed -Services, Hearing, Unidentified -Flying Objects, 89th -Congress, 2nd Session, April 5, 1966; Clark III 1192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4005

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Event 6024 -(7276C3A0)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 0130
-Description: A woman was awakened by a flash, thought her heater had -exploded, but found everything in order. The next day she was told that -a pulsating, luminous object had flown at very low altitude over her -trailer, circled and left. Three witnoises. Low buzzing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Binder (Vallee)
-Location: Durhamville, New York
-ID: 750

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Event 6025 -(74648893)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 0300
-Description: A civilian woman, 42, went to get a glass of water in her -kitchen and saw a spinning object, 3 m in diameter, 6 m above ground -near her house. It departed very suddenly, leaving a trail.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Lycoming, New York
-ID: 751

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Event 6026 -(9258D80D)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Lillian -Louis, in Lycoming, New York, sees a spinning object from her -kitchen window. It seems to be 10 feet in diameter and is shooting -exhaust 20 feet above the ground near her house. It departs suddenly, -leaving a trail. (Sparks, p. 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4004

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Event 6027 -(C1D3FB87)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Time: 2400
-Description: Two civilian men stopped to watch an object hovering above -a swamp, tried to follow it, but it flew awav. They observed that -animals (cows, dogs, horses) were restless in all the areas that the -object crossed. A photographic reconstitution by the U.S. Air Force -showed an oval object, 30 m long, flying at 5 m altitude, between a -high-tension line and a row of trees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Alto, Tennessee
-ID: 753

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Event 6028 -(2B930755)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman in Durhamville, New York, is awakened by -a flash. She thinks her trailer heater has exploded, but everything is -in order. The next day, three witnesses tell her a pulsating, luminous -object had flown directly above her trailer. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 327)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4003

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Event 6029 -(279FA250)

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Date: 4/5/1966
-Description: House Armed Services Committee hearing on UFOs in U.S. -Congress. Only Air Force witnesses called to testify. Hearings used as -forum to announce that new independent scientific study would be -undertaken.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 84

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Event 6030 -(E8AF9DAD)

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Date: 4/6/1966
-Description: NICAP Assistant Director Richard -Hall writes to Gerald -Ford, congratulating -him on his call for a congressional investigation, saying, “History will -record the important role you have played in helping to bring about a -rational study of UFOs and public enlightenment on the subject.” (Bill -Murphy, “The Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford -Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010): 10, 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4008

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Event 6031 -(D9EF85F7)

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Date: 4/6/1966
-Description: Around 11:00 a.m. A class of students and a teacher from -Westall High School [now Westall Secondary College] in Clayton South, -Victoria, Australia, are just completing a sport activity on the main -oval when they see an object, described as a gray saucer-shaped craft -with a slight purple hue and about twice the size of a family car. -Witness descriptions are mixed: Andrew Greenwood, a science teacher, -tells The Dandenong Journal at the time that he saw a silvery-green -disc. According to witnesses, the object is descending and then crosses -and flies over the high school’s southwest corner, going in a -southeasterly direction before disappearing from sight as it descends -behind a stand of trees and into a paddock at The Grange in front of the -Westall State School (primary students). After about 20 minutes, the -object—with witnesses now numbering over 200—then climbs at speed and -departs towards the northwest. As the object gains altitude, some -accounts describe it as being pursued from the scene by five -unidentified aircraft that circle it. Some describe one disc, others -claim to see three. The Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society arrives -on the site on April 8, speaks to students, and views the ground -marking, originally described as a large patch of yellow, flattened -grass with a swirly pattern. (“Audio -Reveals Creepy Details -of Australian UFO Mystery,” Melbourne Herald Sun, August 7, 2018; -Wikipedia, “Westall -UFO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4007

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Event 6032 -(8C0B537B)

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Date: 4/7/1966
-Time: 2130
-Description: Six teenagers reported strange lights following their car -as they left the site of a picnic in a state of extreme fear. An unknown -man, 2.20 m tall, wearing black clothes, had been seen passing in front -of the shelter entrance and walking on the roof.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Daniels Park, Colorado
-ID: 754

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Event 6033 -(57334843)

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Date: 4/8/1966
-Time: 0805
-Description: Mike Dorsey and Gary Hunt, 12 were walking to school when -they saw a circling object making the sound of humming bees. They ran -for cover, trying to stop a car. The craft resembled an upside-down -plate, very smooth, apparently metallic, with a black spot near the rim, -a red light and an antennalike projection, and red and white lights -spinning counterclockwise. Diameter2.5 m, height, 1.5 m. Minimum -altitude was 2 m, held for 5 min, with a slight rocking motion. The -object then took off at great speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 108 (Vallee)
-Location: Norwalk, Connecticut
-ID: 755

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Event 6034 -(0FF18D91)

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Date: 4/8/1966
-Description: 8:05 a.m. Mike Dorsey and Gary Hunt, both 12, are walking -along Redcoat Road in Norwalk, Connecticut, when they see sunlight -reflecting off a distant object to the west and behind them. It zooms -toward them in a flash, passes overhead from west to east, turns, makes -a second pass from east to west, turns again, and makes a third pass. It -makes a low humming sound when it passes about 15 feet above them. The -boys run to the Holy Ghost Seminary nearby and hide under a nearby -bridge abutment as the object continues to maneuver. When it hovers, it -does so edge down and makes a fluttering motion. The disc looks -metallic, 8 feet in diameter, has a black spot on top near its rim, and -a red light on top of an antenna-like protrusion. Red and white lights -appear to rotate counterclockwise. Nearly 2 hours later, the object -takes off in a burst of speed. (“Boys -Chased by UAO,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1966, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4009

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Event 6035 -(F360748B)

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Date: 4/11/1966
-Time: 0000
-Description: A civilian man, 43, saw a well-defined object 5 m above -ground, 100 m away. It showed a flashing red light, rose, was lost in -the fog, then came back at treetop level with a strong whistling sound. -Its shape was that of a cigar, 15 m long. It had no wings, tail -assembly, or wheels.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Greensburg, Pennsylvania
-ID: 756

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Event 6036 -(AB4D8670)

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Date: 4/12/1966
-Time: 1945
-Description: During a power failure many residents, including Robert -Moses and Robert McCambly, saw an oval object with a dome on top and -lights (red to white to green) around the bottom, which appeared to land -on the roof of the Oliver Wendelle Holmes grammar school after a series -of maneuvers.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Dorchester, Massachusetts
-ID: 757

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Event 6037 -(FAFAE4FA)

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Date: 4/17/1966
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Portage County Deputy Sheriff Dale -F. Spaur and Deputy Wilbur Neff are 4 miles east of Randolph, Ohio, -when they see a moving light through some trees at the top of a small -hill along the road. The light is headed in their direction. They have -heard of a UFO reported over police radio that night and figure this -must be what was seen. The object hovers 50–100 feet in the air, bathing -the two officers in a bright light. Spaur’s eyes water up. They rush to -the cruiser and radio the station; the dispatcher says to wait there -until a car with a camera arrives. The object makes some sharp -maneuvers, and Spaur drives toward it cautiously. The UFO is 18–24 feet -thick and about 35–45 feet in diameter. The object is so bright he -hardly needs his headlights to drive. It speeds up whenever Spaur -accelerates, and soon he is driving at 80 mph. As the UFO reaches -Mahoning County, the pursuit is being broadcast over police radios in -three counties. As they reach East Palestine, Ohio, Patrolman H. -Wayne Huston sees -the UFO and follows Spaur and Neff, at times reaching 100 mph. Just -before 5:30 a.m., two police officers in Salem, Ohio, see the UFO as a -“bright ball” much larger than a jet. They also see three jets following -it, apparently Air Force Reserve planes from Youngstown, Ohio. Police -officer Frank Panzarella in Conway, Pennsylvania, sees the UFO, very -bright and in the “shape of a half of a football.” He hears on his radio -that a jet interception is in progress. Now in Pennsylvania, Spaur and -Neff are given orders to abandon the chase. For most of the event, the -object has remained at 1,000 feet, but now it rises to 3,500 feet and -hovers. Then it shoots even higher and disappears. In 30 minutes, many -police and civilians have seen the UFO. Panzarella alerts the Rochester, -Pennsylvania, police operator, John Beighey, and asks him to contact the -Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. Beighey calls Panzarella and -says the Air Force wants to talk to the police witnesses. Spaur, Neff, -and Huston go to the Rochester, Pennsylvania, police station and Spaur -phones the USAF station at Pittsburgh. Spaur speaks to some colonel who -tries to convince him he has seen something conventional. NICAP’s -William B. Weitzel, a philosophy professor, begins his own -investigation, tracking down witnesses. Within a few weeks, he or his -NICAP associates have interviewed all the police officers, as well as -several others who have figured in the UFO chase, either as dispatchers -or as those who overheard the radio communications. NICAP members also -interview some civilians who claim to have seen a UFO at the same time -of the chase and/or had monitored police scanners. (NICAP, “Portage -County UFO Chase”; Sparks, -p. 314; “Saucer -Chase Sets -Probers Humming,” Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal, April 18, pp. 1–2; J. -Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 113–124; -Patrick Gross, “1966 -Portage County UFO Chase by Policemen”; William B. Weitzel, “The -P-13 UFO: Summary Report on April 17, 1966, UFO ‘Chase’ from Portage -County, Ohio, into Conway, -Pennsylvania,” June 28, 1966; William B. Weitzel, “The -Portage County Sighting,” April 8, 1967; NICAP, [case -photos and drawings]; Michael D. Swords, [case -files and clippings]; Center for UFO Studies, [Gerald -Buchert photo case file]; Center for UFO Studies, [clippings, part -one, part -two]; Clark III 906–914)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4010

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Event 6038 -(EA7B5097)

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Date: 4/17/1966
-Description: A person in a car saw an oval object the size of a car -follow his vehicle, then cross the road behind it at 5 m altitude. The -object reflected sunlight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Millersville, Texas
-ID: 758

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Event 6039 -(0FC1AC7B)

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Date: 4/17/1966
-Description: Ravenna, OH, to Conway, Penn.: Deputy Sheriffs Dale Spaur -and Wilbur Neff of Portage Countywere on patrol when an UFO stopped -above them, illuminating them and the surroundings (it was just about -dawn). As the UFO moved away from them at about 300–500 ft. above the -road, it would alternately start and stop ahead of them playing cat and -mouse. At E. Palestine, OH, officer Wayne Huston joined in the pursuit. -At speeds of 100 mph in unfamiliar territory, they were soon low on gas -and had to give up the game with the UFO. Through local police dispatch -the officers alerted the Air Force, who sent out fighter planes to -investigate the UFO. As the officers saw the AF planes approaching the -UFO shot straight up and out of sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-F p259)
-Location: Ravenna, OH
-See also: 6/24/66

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Event 6040 -(C6CAC895)

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Date: 4/17/1966
-Description: Sheriffs confronted by glowing object, light beam -illuminated road, humming sound. Chased UFO across state line, other -police witnesses en route. Object shot straight up out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ravenna, OH
-ID: 85

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Event 6041 -(1CEC4268)

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Date: 4/18/1966
-Time: 2210
-Description: An egg-shaped object, 25 m long, 5 m high, gray-colored, -was observed from a distance of 25 m by a 42-year-old witness driving a -car. The object supported a cockpit with windows and three rows of -lights, emitted red flames, and made the same noise as a heavy truck on -wet pavement. The object followed the car for some time.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
-ID: 759

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Event 6042 -(E6374554)

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Date: 4/18/1966
-Description: The Air Force begins a cursory investigation into the -Portage County, Ohio, police chase case. Initially they telephone local -news outlets, seeking information. However, local newspapers and radio -have only vague outlines of the case. Air Force investigators also -interviewed meteorologists and weather agency personnel, hoping to learn -that a weather balloon was launched in the area during the UFO chase. -They learn that there were no weather balloons launched that morning, -and also that the wind had been so mild that the police would have had -no difficulty catching up with any wind-borne object. Quintanilla calls -Spaur to -ask him about “this mirage you saw.” Spaur insists he has seen a clearly -defined metallic object maneuvering at very low altitudes. When -Quintanilla asks if they watched the object for more than a few minutes, -Spaur asserts that he and Neff chased it for over half an hour, and that -Huston saw -the object for much of that period, and that Panzanella too had seen it. -Quintanilla then, as Spaur said, “kind of lost interest.” (Clark III -910)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4011

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Event 6043 -(03920B45)

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Date: 4/18/1966
-Description: An egg-shaped object, 80 feet in diameter and 15 feet high, -is observed from a distance of 80 feet by a 42- year-old witness driving -a car near Battle Creek, Michigan. The object supports a cockpit with -windows and three rows of lights, emits red flames, and makes the same -noise as a heavy truck on wet pavement. The object follows the car for -some time. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 329; -Sparks, p. 314)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4012

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Event 6044 -(77BBC86A)

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Date: 4/19/1966
-Description: 10:45 p.m. In Peabody, Massachusetts, witnesses report an -oval object with red, green, and white body lights, oscillating up and -down when in motion. The object appears to land in a field off State -Highway 114. At 12:00 midnight, two men driving along that route see the -lighted disc rise and fly away. (Vallée, Magonia, p. 329)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4013

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Event 6045 -(E9D6B603)

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Date: 4/19/1966
-Time: 2245
-Description: A man saw what he thought was a crashing plane, then -observed it was oval, had white, red, and green lights, flew low over -him, circled, came down with pendulum motion, and appeared to land on -Route 114. At midnight, two men driving along that route saw a beam -sweep the road, stopped, and saw the object in a field. It was a disk -with a white, a green, and three red lights. The two reports were -independent.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Peabody, Massachusetts
-ID: 761

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Event 6046 -(45CCEE42)

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Date: 4/19/1966
-Time: 2200
-Description: Two women saw a cigar-shaped object, with bright, red -lights at both ends, flying erratically. It made a whistling sound when -moving, was silent when hovering. Minimum distance: 100 m, length, 20 m. -The lights began flashing and the object went down behind some trees -when five planes and a helicopter came over the area. Two of the -aircraft circled the location, then flew on. The whistling sound was -again heard, but the object was not seen after the departure of the -planes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Bellingham, Massachusetts
-ID: 760

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Event 6047 -(97B3358F)

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Date: late 4/1966
-Description: When he learns that Rep. J. -William Stanton (R-Ohio) has expressed an interest in the UFO chase, -NICAP investigator William B. Weitzel writes him a detailed letter, -outlining the inconsistencies and shortcomings of Quintanilla’s -explanations. Portage County (Ohio) Judge Robert -Eugene Cook (an acquaintance of Spaur and -Neff) also writes to Stanton, defending the police officers’ judgment -and characterizing the Air Force investigation as “grossly unfair” to -Spaur and Neff. Stanton fails to get an answer from the Air Force, so he -contacts USAF Chief of Community Relations Division Lt. Col. John -Spalding, who -promises to send an investigator. Stanton later writes to Defense -Secretary Robert -McNamara about Blue Book’s treatment of his constituents. (Clark III -911)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4021

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Event 6048 -(20634FF2)

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Date: 4/21/1966
-Description: Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) issued news release announcing -that USAF was arranging for a “study of UFOs by topflight scientists not -connected in any way with the Air Force.”
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 87

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Event 6049 -(B037A1F5)

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Date: 4/21/1966
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 86

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Event 6050 -(24A58515)

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Date: 4/21/1966
-Description: William -Dean Howe, MP -for Ottawa, Ontario, urges a serious investigation of UFOs in the -Canadian House of Commons. (“Canadian -Projects,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 10 (Feb./March 1969): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4014

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Event 6051 -(16B12110)

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Date: 4/22/1966
-Time: 1530
-Description: Several people were said to have observed an object fly at -low altitude and land outside Bagley. Four dwarfs seemed to make -repairs, then the craft flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Mar., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Bagley, Minnesota
-ID: 762

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Event 6052 -(84A3E7AA)

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Date: 4/22/1966
-Description: Quintanilla announces -in a press release that the Portage County, Ohio, UFO is an Echo -satellite, with later observations (in Pennsylvania) of Venus. -Quintanilla calls Spaur’s -superior, Portage County Sheriff Ross Dustman, to -give him this explanation, and Dustman laughs out loud. (Clark III -910)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4015

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Event 6053 -(851D2055)

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Date: 4/22/1966
-Description: Lt. Col. Robert -R. Hippler of the USAF Directorate of Science and Technology is -tasked with recruiting a university for the UFO project suggested by the -O’Brien committee in February. He assembles a panel of experts that -suggests he bring in H. -Guyford Stever, head of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. -Stever queries MIT, Harvard, the University of California, Northwestern -University, and the University of North Carolina, but all refuse to deal -with UFOs. (Swords 307–308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4016

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Event 6054 -(17E3E364)

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Date: 4/22/1966
-Description: 9:00–9:45 p.m. Witnesses in Beverly, Massachusetts, -including two police officers, see a platter-shaped object the size of a -large automobile with 3 red-green-white lights hover silently over -Beverly High School then depart to the southwest. At one point, -witnesses see the object only 20–30 feet above the head of another -witness. (Condon, pp. 266–270; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 106–108; -Roy Craig, UFOs: An Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence, -University of North Texas, 1995; Sparks, -p. 314; Patrick Gross, “The -Case in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA, on April 22, 1966”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4017

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Event 6055 -(799AD2A1)

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Date: 4/22/1966
-Time: 2100
-Description: A child saw a blinding, multicolored source of light making -a buzzing sound as it flew over the road 15 m away from the house. It -seemed to land in a field near the school. Three adults came out to calm -the child and also saw the object circling and hovering. They called the -police. Two officers arrived and saw the object appearing to “dance” -with two other craft. All witnesses then observed the arrival of one -helicopter and two aircraft, as the remaining object flew away to the -southwest. Police described the object as plate-shaped when stationary -above the school building. TV reception was blurred throughout the -observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Beverly, Massachusetts
-ID: 763

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Event 6056 -(90294707)

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Date: 4/23/1966
-Description: 10:45 p.m. On hearing a listener call in a live UFO -sighting on WMEX radio, Jeanne Kalnicki of Dorchester, Massachusetts, -goes to the window with her two daughters and sees an oval, domed UFO -with a ring of blinking red lights bobbing up and down above a building -across the street. A yellow light is on top of the dome and alternately -flashes on when the red lights blink off. It moves across the street and -appears to be moving directly toward them at eye level. Humming, the -object moves between their apartment building and the one next door, -where it hovers for a few minutes. When the yellow light goes off, -Kalnicki can see a glow within the dome. The object then moves -erratically away to the east. The family goes to bed, but at 5:00 a.m., -11-year-old Judy Kalnicki is too upset to sleep, She wakes up when she -sees a light coming in her window and realizes that the UFO is right -outside, bobbing up and down, looking about the size of their 1955 -Lincoln automobile, and flashing its lights as before. Thinking it is -going to come inside her bedroom, Judy screams. Seemingly in response, -the object speeds up its bobbing motion, and she hears a heavy thudding -sound. The windows rattle, Judy’s bed rocks, and all the lights in the -house go off. Downstairs, their German shepherd is whining and -scratching at the door. The entire family rushes to the back porch, -where they watch the object for about 12 minutes moving to the north -toward Boston. The lights come back on. NICAP’s investigation shows that -the power failure affected 2,500 homes in the area and was caused by two -cables burning out a block away from the Kalnicki apartment. One -particle on the window sill registered a strong radiation reading of -.025 millimentgens per hour from a Geiger counter. (Donald E. Keyhoe and -Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 46–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4018

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Event 6057 -(EB28D267)

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Date: 4/24/1966
-Time: 0330
-Description: Tom M. Lasseter, architect, was camping near the river when -he was awakened by a fluttering sound and observed a glowing white disk, -7 m in diameter, at treetop level 60 m away. It had a row of -lights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP May., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Pedernales River, Texas
-ID: 764

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Event 6058 -(DC497527)

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Date: 4/24/1966
-Time: 1810
-Description: Two men saw an object dive within 30 m of their car. It was -silent, had a bright blue light on top, suddenly accelerated, and was -lost to sight toward Mt. Watatic.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Ashby, Massachusetts
-ID: 765

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Event 6059 -(2281FAD6)

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Date: 4/24/1966
-Description: Night. Marvin and -Viola -Swartwood are driving in a rainstorm on State Highway 34B near -Fleming, New York, when a “brilliant, flashing ball of fire” appears -three feet above the front and slightly to the right of their car. The -fire ball lights up the surrounding area, falls onto the car with a loud -snap, and vanishes. As the ball lightning hits, Viola feels a shock in -her neck and an impulse in her right arm. They drive to the sheriff’s -office and then to a local hospital because the right side of Viola’s -body is partially paralyzed. She is in satisfactory condition 5 days -later. There is no damage to the car or any reports of normal lightning -in the area. (“‘Ball -of Fire’ Hits -Car; Woman Passenger Hurt,” Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard, April 28, -1966, p. 38; “Ball-of-Fire -Victim’s Condition -Improving,” Binghamton (N.Y.) Press and Sun-Bulletin, April 29, -1966, p. 3C; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR -27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4019

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Event 6060 -(CEE86481)

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Date: 4/25/1966
-Description: 8:52 p.m. Florida Gov. W. -Haydon Burns’s campaign airplane is paced by a UFO. Copilot Herb -Bates first notices the UFO when the Convair takes off from Orlando, -Florida, headed for Tallahassee. It appears as two bright yellow globes -side by side. In the vicinity of Ocala, at about 6,000 feet, everyone on -board is alerted and watches the object pacing the plane on the right -side. The lights fluctuate in brightness but are very distinct. Burns -orders the pilot to turn toward the UFO, and the lights quickly begin a -steep climb then disappear. (Bill Mansfield, “I -Was with Burns and Saw ‘Flying Saucer,’” Miami (Fla.) Herald, April -27, 1966, p. 1; “Florida -Governor Sights -UFO,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 (May/June 1966): 3; “Governor -Haydon Burns Sees a UFO,” Educating Humanity, April 26, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4020

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Event 6061 -(228442D4)

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Date: 4/26/1966
-Time: 2330
-Description: A young man saw a silent object shaped like two bowls glued -together, 30 m altitude, ahead of his car. Estimated diameter: 10 m. He -drove away without looking behind.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Follansbee, West Virginia
-ID: 766

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Event 6062 -(335B5AC0)

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Date: 4/30/1966
-Time: 3:15 AM
-Description: Witness: Anita Miller. One light moved around the sky for -2.5 hours. No further detail in files.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Sacramento, California
-ID: 541

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Event 6063 -(6C9310F6)

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Date: 5/4/1966
-Description: 4:30 a.m. An FAA air traffic controller tracks an -unidentified non-transponding target for about 5 miles at Charleston, -West Virginia. The crew of Braniff Airline Flight 42, headed east at -33,000 feet, sees a white-blue object giving off brilliant, flaming -light of alternating white-green-red colors. The radar shows the object -veering 8–10 miles away at the 10 o’clock position, then approaching the -Braniff airliner to a distance of 3 miles. It then makes a 180° left -turn to the northwest within a diameter of 5 miles at 1,000 mph, which -the Braniff crew confirms as the object descends from 20° above the -horizon. (NICAP, “Charleston -R/V Case”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, -pp. 83–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4022

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Event 6064 -(C8E44B2D)

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Date: 5/7/1966
-Time: 9:55 PM
-Description: Witness: A/3c W.L. Whitehead. One short, cylindrical object -with pointed ends and a yellow light at one end and blue light at the -other, flew straight and level for 35 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Goodfellow AFB, Texas
-ID: 542

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Event 6065 -(255824C8)

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Date: 5/8/1966
-Description: Gallup Poll reported 96 percent public awareness of UFOs, -and that nearly half of the adult population believed UFOs were -real.
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 88

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Event 6066 -(55D1834D)

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Date: 5/8/1966
-Description: Quintanilla calls -Spaur again -and tells him to be ready for an interview the next day.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4024

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Event 6067 -(BAA0D54D)

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Date: 5/8/1966
-Description: A Gallup Poll taken April 14–19 reveals that 46% of -Americans who have heard about UFOs think they are real, although only -7% think they are from outer space. 5% of US adults have seen a UFO. -(“Five -Million Say They’ve -Seen Saucers,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 (May/June 1966): 7; Robert -J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1993): 11–12; Lydia Saad, “Eyewitnesses -to Flying Saucers,” Gallup Vault, April 12, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4023

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Event 6068 -(2BBAE2DE)

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Date: 5/9/1966
-Description: Weitzel is at Portage County police headquarters in -Ravenna, Ohio, to record Spaur’s -interview and has brought two reporters and UFO researcher David Webb. -Dustman is -there too. Quintanilla asks -Weitzel and Webb to leave, and the reporters leave as well. The -interview becomes heated at times. (“Interview with Deputy Sheriff Dale -Spaur, 1966,” SpaceTimeForum YouTube channel, March 28, 2013; Clark III -911–912)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4025

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Event 6069 -(CEAA7AD8)

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Date: 5/10/1966
-Time: 1652
-Description: A man observed the landing of an oval object and two -beings, who ame out of the object through a system of light beams. They -used strange instruments to examine a number of objects, especially -plants. They were 2 m tall, had oversized heads, appeared bright and -“transparent.” Their eyes were slanted, their shoulders very broad. They -wore no apparent weapon, but their belts were very wide and emitted -light rays. They did not touch anything without first illuminating it -with these beams. They went back aboard their craft “as if carried by -the light.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Marisela Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 767

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Event 6070 -(80CC5A28)

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Date: 5/10/1966
-Description: CBS Reports “Flying Saucers: Friend, Foe or Fantasy?” -presented extremely negative Air Force and “scientific” views, primarily -those of Dr. Donald Menzel and Dr. Carl Sagan, both skeptics.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 89

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Event 6071 -(ADC3805B)

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Date: 5/10/1966
-Time: 2200
-Description: Approximate date. The crowd at a movie projection panicked, -thinking it was an earthquake, as an unknown object exploded. According -to police, a sulphurous odor and a trace 25 cm deep, 35 cm wide, were -noted at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Atafona Campos, Brazil
-ID: 768

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Event 6072 -(5C40049A)

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Date: 5/10/1966
-Description: The documentary “UFOs: Friend, Foe, or Fantasy?” appears on -CBS Reports, hosted by Walter -Cronkite and narrator Bill -Stout. Guests -include Carl -Sagan, Donald -Menzel, Harold -Brown, Lawrence -Tacker, Donald Keyhoe, and -J. -Allen Hynek. The -tenor of the show is to debunk UFOs, although Cronkite says the CIA has -been secretly tracking UFO sightings around the world, even as it denies -doing so. Air Force Capt. Gary Reese claims that NORAD’s -satellite-tracking radar covers altitudes from 100,000 feet to 2,000 -miles up but never finds any UFOs. He neglects to mention that UFOs are -found in the atmosphere below 100,000 feet. (Even so, NORAD has been -detecting occasional Unidentified Satellites, USATs, for years.) Reese -makes a broad statement that the Air Force has never substantiated a -“flying saucer” despite NORAD’s covering “nearly every square foot of -the US” on its radar. USAF Maj. Albert Morse of NORAD spacetrack network -supports Reese. A handwritten letter by Robertson Panel member Thornton -Page, discovered in the Smithsonian’s archives by Michael -Swords, confirms the CIA’s long-suspected role in the CBS program. -In the September 10, 1966, letter, Page relates to Frederick -C. Durant that -he “helped organize the CBS TV show around the Robertson Panel’s -conclusions.” Quintanilla has -spent 3 days editing and censoring the TV program’s script to make sure -it conforms to USAF public relations policy. (“UFOs: -Friend, Foe or Fantasy? 1966” nutsandbolts ufo YouTube channel, -February 15, 2013; “Columnists -Hit NBC Documentary,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 8 (May/June 1966): 8; -Clark III 808; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 206–207; -Terry Hanson, “Close -Encounters of the Nuclear Kind,” Online Journal, March 31, 2009; -Swords 195–196, 308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4026

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Event 6073 -(8BA9174F)

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Date: 5/16/1966
-Description: Manuel Hernandez was coming back from the fields near -Cordoba when he saw a disk-shaped object land 100 m away. Small beings -resembling “green birds” came out for a few instants, then took off -again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 162 (Vallee)
-Location: Cordoba, Spain
-ID: 769

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Event 6074 -(088B301A)

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Date: 5/17/1966
-Description: Weitzel writes to Quintanilla with -another critique of the Blue Book explanation. Even Hynek urges -FTD to change the designation to “unknown.”
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4027

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Event 6075 -(6E48D792)

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Date: 5/21/1966
-Description: Experienced pilot in light plane encountered disc with dome -that made sharp turn, passed beneath his wing
-Type: sighting
-Type: encounter
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Willow Grove, PA
-ID: 90

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Event 6076 -(743A6DDF)

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Date: 5/21/1966
-Description: 3: 15 p.m. William C. Powell is flying a light Luscombe -aircraft over Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, with one passenger, Muriel -McCrave. He spots a bright-red circular disc with a dome on top as it is -apparently following an outbound flight of Navy jets from NAS Willow -Grove [now NAS Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove] at 4,500 feet. The -object makes a sharp turn without banking and approaches his plane on a -near-collision course, passing below the starboard wing about 300 feet -away and disappearing to the rear. They both get a good look at the -object, which has no wings or visible means of propulsion. (NICAP, “Domed -Disc Observed by Pilot and Passenger -(Powell Case)”; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4028

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Event 6077 -(26E9BE01)

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Date: 5/22/1966
-Description: A witness driving between Blue River, British Columbia, and -Jasper, Alberta, sees a gray object the size of a car and shaped like a -bowl land on the road and make a whining noise. After it silently takes -off, the object leaves three impressions of landing pads about 4 feet -square. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Nihgt, -2022, p. 184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4029

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Event 6078 -(FF3097D8)

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Date: 6/1966
-Description: Broadcaster Frank -Edwards publishes Flying Saucers—Serious Business, and it becomes -one of the best-selling UFO books of all time. (Frank Edwards, Flying -Saucers—Serious Business, Bantam, 1966; Clark III 435; Nick Redfern, -“Spying -on the Saucer Writers,” Mysterious Universe, February 20, -2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4030

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Event 6079 -(ECDAD743)

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Date: 6/1966
-Description: 3:15 a.m. Edward Argerake is asleep at his home in -Chelmsford, Massachusetts, when his bedroom explodes in light. He hears -a pinging noise a light source begins pulsing with diffraction rings -outside his window shades. He begins to feel numb and weak, but the -sounds grows louder and he lapses into unconsciousness. He wakes up at -6:15 a.m. and the light and noise are gone. Because of this event he -becomes interested in UFOs and joins NICAP’s Massachusetts subcommittee. -(Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): -10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4031

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Event 6080 -(E4A2BFB0)

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Date: 6/1/1966
-Description: 10:30 p.m. On Lake Ontario, off Clarkson, Ontario, former -RCAF pilot Richard H. Plewman and Jack Grant are cruising on the lake -when they see lights on the water ahead. They can see a disc with a dome -on top casting an oval reflection on the lake surface. Around the dome -is a row of bright yellow lights; blue-green lights are visible around -the lower perimeter. After hovering briefly, the UFO takes off at high -speed and disappears. (“New Reports -by Space Experts Add to UFO Proof,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 9 -(Aug./Sept. 1966): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4032

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Event 6081 -(4260094B)

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Date: 6/2/1966
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Harold Harper is talking with neighbors in his -front yard in Massillon, Ohio, when they see a large lighted object -coming from the southwest. It is about 50–60 feet in diameter, smoky in -color, and cigar-shaped with a ball on one end. It stops and hovers at -about 1,000 feet altitude. Then three smaller objects appear to come -from it; they gain altitude, separate, and disappear at terrific speed -in different directions. The large object goes straight up at terrific -speed. (Massillon (Ohio) Evening Independent, June 3, 1966; Herbert S. -Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer -2004): 25–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4033

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Event 6082 -(4F60901D)

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Date: 6/3/1966
-Time: 2145
-Description: Two witnesses observed a stationary object 3 m above -ground. It had a diameter of 7 m, lights on top and bottom and smaller -lights at the rim. It flew away very fast to the east.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: West Point City, Pennsylvania
-ID: 770

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Event 6083 -(B57DC7C6)

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Date: 6/6/1966
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Dorothy Gray. Two domed discs with sparkling upper -surfaces and square windows in their tops, revolved above a lake, -apparently causing strange behavior of the lake water during the 25 -second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Spooner, Wisconsin
-ID: 543

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Event 6084 -(FB8BACEC)

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Date: 6/6/1966
-Description: James -McDonald has obtained a small amount of money from the Office of -Naval Research to travel to Wright- Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, and -examine the Blue Book files. On his first visit, he is steered to an -unedited copy of the Robertson Panel report. As it has not been -released, McDonald is disturbed, seeing it as evidence that the CIA is -directing a cover-up. (Clark III 1017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4034

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Event 6085 -(90143FF4)

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Date: 6/6/1966
-End date: 6/10/1966
-Description: The US Army releases Bacillus globigii into the tunnels of -the New York City Subway system during peak travel hours as part of a -field experiment on the vulnerability of subway passengers in New York -City to covert attack with biological agents. (“How -the U.S. Government Exposed Thousands of Americans to Lethal -Bacteria to -Test Biological Warfare,” Democracy Now!, July 13, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4035

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Event 6086 -(33F20A3E)

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Date: 6/8/1966
-Time: 6:45 AM
-Description: Witness: Max Baker. One bright silver, cigar-shaped object, -as long as an airliner, buzzed the witness’ car. Sighting lasted 1 -minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Kansas, Ohio
-ID: 544

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Event 6087 -(97C7B286)

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Date: 6/8/1966
-Time: 0645
-Description: A civilian man, 43, driving west between Kansas and Toledo, -saw an object appear out of nowhere. It was cigar-shaped, bright -metallic, and flew low to the northeast. Minimum distance: 30 m. The -object was completely silent, and the size of an airliner.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Sandusky Road, Ohio
-ID: 771

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Event 6088 -(3FB2354A)

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Date: 6/8/1966
-Description: McDonald visits -Hynek at -the Lindheimer Astrophysical Research Center in Evanston, Illinois, -saying heatedly that he should have spoken up about the CIA cover-up and -all the absurd explanations that he made up: “Allen, how could you have -sat on this data for 18 years and not let us know about it?” Hynek’s -then-associate Jacques Vallée has -to intervene. Hynek replies that if he did, the Air Force would just -replace him and he would lose access to all the files. McDonald says -Hynek should have spoken up in 1953 and cannot get Hynek to agree that -he is even a little bit timid. (O’Connell 201; Clark III 696)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4036

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Event 6089 -(40C6522E)

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Date: 6/8/1966
-Description: X-15 pilot Joseph -A. Walker is killed when his F-104 Starfighter chase aircraft -collides with a North American XB-70 Valkyrie. At an altitude of about -25,000 feet, Walker’s Starfighter is one of five aircraft in a tight -group formation for a General Electric publicity photo when his F-104 -drifts into contact with the XB-70’s right wingtip. The F-104 flips -over, and, rolling inverted, passes over the top of the XB-70, striking -both its vertical stabilizers and its left wing in the process, and -explodes, killing Walker. The Valkyrie enters an uncontrollable spin and -crashes into the ground north of Barstow, California, killing copilot Carl -S. Cross. Its pilot, Alvin -S. White, ejects -and is the sole survivor. (Wikipedia, “Joseph -A. Walker”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4037

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Event 6090 -(B939D50C)

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Date: 6/11/1966
-Time: 0345
-Description: A civilian who was going fishing saw an object dive toward -his car and hover at treetop level, stopped and observed it for two min. -It was shaped like two plates glued together, and had a smaller, oval -object on top. It took a 45 (degree) inclination, rose, made a -right-angle turn, and changed color (white to yellow to blue to green) -as it accelerated.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
-Location: Westport, Connecticut
-ID: 772

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Event 6091 -(BFFADABF)

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Date: 6/11/1966
-Description: Early morning. Several witnesses driving from Dabajuro to -Coro, Falcón State, Venezuela, stop to watch a triangular object that -stops and hovers in midair for short intervals. The object gives off a -beam of light in various directions. (“The -South American Scene,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1966, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4038

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Event 6092 -(66640B96)

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Date: 6/13/1966
-Description: The policeman who had observed an object over Milan on -Mar. 17 saw an unidentified machine on the ground at a street -intersection. He drove toward it with his headlights illuminating the -object, which took off like an airplane, flying away to the southeast. -Investigation by Selfridge AFB.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Milan, Michigan
-ID: 773

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Event 6093 -(95D8D14E)

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Date: mid 6/1966
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Student pilot Joseph -Gambucci is flying near Hibbing, Minnesota, when he sees a bright, -elliptical light making three 360° turns to the left at approximately -3,000 mph. The light is white, mixed with green and red. It climbs to -40° above the horizon then disappears at a height of 31,000 feet. -Gambucci checks with Duluth Air National Guard Base, which reports -having a UFO on radar at the same position as his aircraft. Other radar -units in northern Minnesota and southern Canada are said to track the -object. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4039

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Event 6094 -(B774C30A)

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Date: 6/16/1966
-Description: Dusk. Several witnesses in Uniopolis, Ohio, watch a domed -black disc with lights and a powerful light beam shining from its -bottom. One of the observers is alerted by his dog barking persistently -and looking to the south. The object flies directly over the house, -heading north, and is also seen by his wife, a neighbor, and the -neighbor’s children. The light beam shines into a nearby wood, lighting -up the trees. (Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 -(Winter 2001–2002): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4040

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Event 6095 -(E2EBE326)

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Date: 6/18/1966
-Time: 12:30 AM
-Description: Witnesses: members of a Boy Scout group, including -Sterrett. One bell-shaped object with three flashing red lights hovered -for 5 hours and was then joined by six others.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Burnsville, North Carolina
-ID: 545

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Event 6096 -(2B4B7671)

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Date: 6/18/1966
-Time: 0400
-Description: A truck driver, Mr. Dugelay, saw a disk-shaped object over -Le Rouret. It remained motionless for five min, then disappeared. Its -lights were alternately red and bluish-green.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 84; 163 (Vallee)
-Location: Le Rouret, France
-ID: 775

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Event 6097 -(BC42D0EE)

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Date: 6/18/1966
-Time: 0345
-Description: The Mayor of Bar-sur-Loup, Leon Barbier, saw a large, round -object with yellow and green lights on a hilltop.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 89 (Vallee)
-Location: Bar-sur-Loup, France
-ID: 774

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Event 6098 -(903F130A)

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Date: 6/18/1966
-Time: 2400
-Description: Four campers saw an object with three flashing red lights -land on the ground 200 m away. It remained there all night, rose at -dawn, was then observed through binoculars as a red-colored, bell-shaped -craft. Broken trees and other traces were found.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Mount Mitchell, North Carolina
-ID: 776

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Event 6099 -(29D6C07F)

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Date: 6/19/1966
-Description: Brilliantly lighted object illuminated terrain at Army -base, widespread E-M effects on vehicles and machinery. Object shot -straight up out of sight within seconds
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Nha Trang, Vietnam
-ID: 91

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Event 6100 -(1097E4DD)

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Date: 6/19/1966
-Description: 12:05 a.m. A group of Boy Scouts camping out at Mount -Mitchell State Park, North Carolina, sees three red pulsating lights in -a triangular pattern approach, then hover until about 5:00 a.m. The -lights blink at different speeds, with the center one turning white -every fifth pulsation. At sunrise, the object lifts up, appearing red -and bell-shaped through binoculars. Six smaller objects are hovering -nearby on either side of the larger object, changing formation. The -group then disappears behind a mountain. When the Scouts start to -explore in the direction of the objects, about 60 feet from their camp -they discover trees with broken branches and some crushed undergrowth, -plus three holes in the ground forming an equilateral triangle. (Fred -Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of UFOs,” IUR 28, -no. 3 (Fall 2003): 10; Sparks, -p. 315)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4041

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Event 6101 -(8A45840A)

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Date: Summer 1966
-Description: Nha Trang, Vietnam: At this active Army Base at about 9:45 -p.m., what was thought to be a flare lit up the north sky. The bright -UFO approached the base alternately moving at low to high speeds. Upon -descending toward the soldiers it hovered at an altitude of 300–500 ft. -All of a sudden the 6 generators failed along with the engines of the -idling Skyraiders, bulldozers and trucks. The entire valley and -surrounding mountains were illuminated by the hovering UFO for about 4 -min. after which it went straight up and disappeared in about 3 -sec. After the incident a plane load of officials from Washington -arrived to investigate.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Nha Trang, Vietnam
-See also: 3/4/69

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Event 6102 -(98E8C5F2)

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Date: Summer 1966
-Description: Results of an Iowa Poll, Iowa: 45% Iowans queried believe -UFOs to be real objects. Of the 45%, 21% were of the opinion that the -UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin.
-Type: poll
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Iowa

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Event 6103 -(B70DA06E)

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Date: 6/23/1966
-Time: 2130
-Description: A 61-year-old civilian woman was reading when an intense -red light illuminated the ground near her house. She went outside and -saw a lighted object 20 m away 1 m in diameter, which backed up and flew -away “like a bullet.” Three other persons saw it from the next house. -(Atic) <*>
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: (Vallee)
-Location: Hamburg, New York
-ID: 777

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Event 6104 -(C11160C3)

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Date: 6/23/1966
-Description: 3:42 a.m. NASA contract flight engineer Julian Sandoval and -two independent witnesses see a glowing elongated object with a blunt -end. It has a series of four body lights varying from brilliant green to -a bluish tinge, and is hovering at an estimated 12,000 feet near -Placitas, New Mexico. When the object moves its glow brightens, and it -appears to be a powered craft. The witnesses watch the object for an -hour and a half, after which it climbs vertically, accelerates to a high -velocity, and disappears to the northeast in about 12 seconds. In a -report to NICAP, Sandoval estimates the departure speed at “Mach 6 or -better.” (“New -Reports by Space Experts Add to UFO -Proof,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 9 (Aug./Sept. 1966): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4042

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Event 6105 -(BC32BD24)

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Date: 6/24/1966
-Description: Elliptical object with body lights, surrounded by mist or -vapor, observed by police officer, led him on cat-and-mouse chase. -Object accelerated and sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Richmond, VA
-ID: 92

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Event 6106 -(2B0808E6)

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Date: 6/24/1966
-Description: Officer William L. Stevens, Jr., observed a -dirigible-shaped UFO at 3:30 in the morning near the fairgrounds. It was -about 100 ft. long and 30 ft. thick with greenish-yellow lights on its -perimeter. Stevens attempted to chase the UFO but it maintained an even -distance from him even though he sped up and slowed down. “The object -seemed to be playing cat & mouse with me,” he later said. After -10–15 min. the UFO accelerated and sped away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Richmond, VA
-See also: 4/17/66

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Event 6107 -(FE510B28)

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Date: 6/25/1966
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Several objects violate the air space over the -Ellsworth AFB H-01 missile launch facility southwest of Union Center, -South Dakota, setting off the vibration sensors. Helicopters attempt to -chase the objects, but they fly away quickly to the north-northeast. -Other sightings take place over the next week. (National UFO Reporting -Center, [case -report]; Nukes 241–245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4043

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Event 6108 -(6C298719)

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Date: 6/27/1966
-Time: 4 AM
-Description: Witness: Radio Officer Steffen Soresen, of the S/ Mt. -Vernon Victory. One “cloud” expanded with a light inside, and then -accelerated away after several minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: 400 miles east of Wake Island (19’ N, 172’ E)
-ID: 546

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Event 6109 -(3686F6BF)

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Date: 6/30/1966
-Description: Richard -Helms becomes director of central intelligence. He is the first DCI -since Dulles to -push hard for results in the mind-control field. Operation MKSearch goes -into overdrive. Old projects are resurrected, abandoned projects -reactivated. The safe houses are told to expect a steady supply of Viet -Cong expendables to experiment on. One of the projects to be revived is -the less than successful Operation Mindbender. Renamed Operation -Spellbinder, the assignment is to create a sleeper killer, a real-life -Manchurian Candidate. A hypnotist is recruited from the American Society -of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. He becomes known to the CIA staff -as “Dr. Fingers” and is selected because his file states that he has no -qualms about conducting potentially terminal experiments. The intended -victim of the experiment is Fidel -Castro. After -attempts to program several would-be assassins, the operation is -discontinued and written off as a complete failure. (Sid Taylor, “A -History of Secret -CIA Mind Control Research,” Nexus, April/May 1992; “Project -Spellbinder,” in Brad Steiger and Sherry Steiger, Conspiracies and -Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier, 2nd ed., Visible Ink, -2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4045

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Event 6110 -(DDBF0BFD)

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Date: 6/30/1966
-Description: On James -E. McDonald’s second visit to Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, -his request for a photocopy of the Robertson Panel report is denied. -(Clark III 696)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4044

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Event 6111 -(9D71D428)

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Date: 7/1966
-Description: 11:00 a.m. An Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain is flying 25 -miles southwest of Provo, Utah, when the pilot snaps two color-slide -photos of a reddish disc-shaped object that briefly comes into view -before speeding away. The Condon commission declines to examine the -photos in detail, noting some discrepancies. (Condon, pp. 270–273; -Patrick Gross, “UFOs -Photographed”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4046

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Event 6112 -(DC06A2EE)

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Date: 7/4/1966
-Description: The Freedom of Information Act, requiring the full or -partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents -controlled by the US government, is signed into law by President Lyndon -B. Johnson. (Wikipedia, “Freedom -of Information Act (United States)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4047

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Event 6113 -(A57A0477)

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Date: 7/5/1966
-Description: Several persons reported seeing a very small creature -leaving a luminous trail, quietly walking along the streets, while -children and adults panicked.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 164 (Vallee)
-Location: Chaclacayo, Peru
-ID: 778

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Event 6114 -(7B19770C)

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Date: 7/7/1966
-Description: In a Blue Book briefing, Brig. Gen. William -C. Garland, deputy -chief of USAF Public Information at the Pentagon, again denies that -NORAD radars have picked up any “spaceships,” interplanetary -“interlopers,” or “extraterrestrial vehicles.” (Clark III 808)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4048

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Event 6115 -(6B2556FD)

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Date: 7/9/1966
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Kenneth -Arnold takes a 16mm film of a UFO over Idaho Falls, Idaho. The -object looks like a weather balloon, but it is flying at a speed of -45–75 mph into a north-northwest wind. (Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs -1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4049

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Event 6116 -(26B277CF)

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Date: 7/11/1966
-Time: 7:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Carl Wood and Charles Hawthorne. One large (100’ -wide, 20’ high) bright red object with small windows and yellow lights. -The object emitted a humming noise, seemingly from the outside, and a -qrinding noise which seemed to come from inside. Observed for 1 -hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Union, Pennsylvania
-ID: 547

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Event 6117 -(00775B6A)

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Date: 7/11/1966
-Description: Two civilian women saw a red, luminous object 30 m away in -a field. It had small openings and made a whirring sound. Length, 30 m; -height, 6 m; duration, 90 min.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Union-Kirkwood, Pennsylvania
-ID: 779

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Event 6118 -(5F891E07)

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Date: 7/13/1966
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Railway linesman Camillo Faieta is on duty at the -crossing in Fornacette, Pisa, Italy, when he is dazzled by a powerful -light coming from the Emissario Canal. The light goes out and he sees an -object hovering above a small islet in the canal. Two little men emerge, -but the bright light comes on again and the object takes off. Police -turn up other witnesses, but Italian and US air force officers from the -nearby Camp Darby military complex tell Faieta not to speak about the -incident any further. (1Pinotti 147–148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4050

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Event 6119 -(C07832CE)

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Date: 7/13/1966
-Description: Camillo Faieta, 35, a lineman, was on duty when a light -dazzled him, and he observed that it came from an object on a small -island on the Emissario Canal. Two little men were seen briefly on the -ground before the departure of the object. There are four other -witnesses.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 86; FSR 67, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Pontedera, Italy
-ID: 780

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Event 6120 -(5AD3A286)

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Date: 7/17/1966
-Time: 0345
-Description: Rene Pebre and two others were driving back from Draguignan -when they saw a gray oval, metallic object, about 5 m long, hovering at -low altitude, about 300 m from them. They noticed several window-like -openings on the craft, which emitted a light beam. All the dogs in the -vicinity were barking.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA Sep., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Rebouillon, France
-ID: 781

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Event 6121 -(D2CDBA95)

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Date: 7/18/1966
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Service station personnel in Baytown, Texas, see -a white object shaped like two saucers face-to-face with a row of square -windows in between. The object is hovering above a store about 300 feet -away, then it begins moving, rapidly accelerates, and speeds away. -(James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” -in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House -Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, -1968, pp. 57–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4051

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Event 6122 -(F48F0506)

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Date: 7/19/1966
-Description: MP John -Langford-Holt asks UK Prime Minister Harold -Wilson in the House of Commons whether, since the Defence Secretary -is responsible only for air defense implications of UFOs, he would -allocate the assessment of their wider implications to another -department. Wilson says he will not, but that reports are taken -seriously when there is adequate information. (Good Above, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4052

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Event 6123 -(238C2939)

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Date: 7/20/1966
-Description: James -E. McDonald’s third visit to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. He is -again denied a copy of the Robertson Panel report because it has been -“reclassified.” He is convinced that USAF has done a lousy job of -investigating UFOs and that UFOs are actually good evidence for the ETH. -(Clark III 696)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4053

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Event 6124 -(8C5F0EE6)

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Date: late 7/1966
-Description: Col. J. -Thomas Ratchford, an AFOSR scientist, approaches the National Center -for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, about contracting with -the Air Force for a UFO study. Its director, Walter -Orr Roberts is interested, but William -W. Kellogg, associate -director of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, is not. Roberts -suggests the University of Colorado. Ratchford talks to prominent -University of Colorado physicist Edward -U. Condon, who -hesitates but finds the $300,000 offered by the Air Force (plus $13,000 -in operating expenses) attractive. (Clark III 1192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4056

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Event 6125 -(6E47238A)

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Date: late 7/1966
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Raquel Jodorowsky is in a traffic jam in Mexico -City, Mexico, as people are getting out of their cars and looking to the -sky. A large glowing object is hanging at 45° above the horizon to the -east. The object ejects smaller bright objects that fly away. After 30 -minutes the large object dims, becomes smaller, and disappears. -(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4057

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Event 6126 -(22EA8FBB)

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Date: 7/22/1966
-Description: 9:00 p.m. W. J. Norton, curator of the Ludlow Museum, and -his family see a UFO shaped like a silver isosceles triangle to the east -of Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales. It hovers for 30–40 seconds and -emits a low hum. (“Llandrindod -Triangle,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1966): -32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4054

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Event 6127 -(31D55856)

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Date: 7/22/1966
-Description: 11:25 p.m. While driving his son home from the railway -station in Fremont, Indiana, a realtor and retired WWII Navy officer see -an illuminated, 25-foot diameter disc with portholes on its lower convex -surface. The object descends low over the car and hovers above it. They -have it in view about 5–8 minutes. When two other cars approach, the -object extinguishes its lights, then shoots straight up into the sky, -leaving a trail of bluish light. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, -Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 108–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4055

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Event 6128 -(81E31634)

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Date: 7/25/1966
-Time: 1 AM
-Description: Witness: college student James Clark. One object which -changed color from orange to red to blue to green and back to orange. -Followed witness’ car at high speed, then stopped and hovered over the -car. Rose and flew up and out of sight in less than 5 seconds. Entire -sighting involved about 1 hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Vanceboro, North Carolina
-ID: 548

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Event 6129 -(F1B9B763)

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Date: 7/25/1966
-Time: 0200
-Description: A man driving between Greenville and Vancehars saw a glow -in the woods and was followed by the light even at speeds of 170 km/hr. -He finally stopped to observe it, but became afraid when he saw that it -came from a pulsating object that flew within 100 m of the car, 15 m -above ground. The color changed in sequence, orange to red to blue to -green, and the object wobbled on its axis. It came within 30 m, then -suddenly left straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Vancehars, North Carolina
-ID: 782

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Event 6130 -(C34E30E3)

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Date: 7/26/1966
-Description: Six FAA personnel observed oval UFOs, radar-visual -sighting. One object accelerated rapidly
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Atlanta, GA
-ID: 93

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Event 6131 -(C573BA45)

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Date: 7/28/1966
-Time: evening
-Description: A photographer, Mr. Lacoste, and his wife, saw a red, -lighted object cross the sky and appear to touch the ground. It then -rose, hovered, and disappeared. The next day a wheat field was found -flattened over an area 3 m in diameter, and covered with an oily -substance.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 166; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Montsoreau, France
-ID: 783

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Event 6132 -(2652BA52)

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Date: 7/29/1966
-Description: J. -Allen Hynek writes to a citizen interested in UFOs and says that he -thinks the Portage County, Ohio, case should be labeled unidentified and -has told the Air Force as much. Its evaluation as a satellite or Venus -has not originated with him as a mere consultant. (Bill Murphy, “The -Swamp Gas Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. -2 (July 2010): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4058

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Event 6133 -(A1B77FDB)

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Date: 7/30/1966
-Description: The fourth and final launch of a D-21 drone from an M-21 -ends in disaster 150 miles off the coast of California. Unlike the three -previous launches, this one is performed straight and level, not in an -outside loop to assist in the separation of the drone from the aircraft. -The D-21 suffers engine problems and strikes the M-21’s tail after -separation, leading to the destruction of both aircraft. The two crew -members eject and land at sea. The pilot, Bill -Park, survives, -but the launch control officer, Ray Torrick, drowns. Johnson decides -to refit the D-21 to launch from a B-52 bomber in order to not endanger -any more M-21s. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -D-21”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4059

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Event 6134 -(CE57CF78)

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Date: 7/31/1966
-Time: 2025
-Description: Young witnesses reported an object flying erratically and -landing 300 m away. It had the shape of a mushroom and swept the area -with a light beam. A strange being, 1.80 m tall, was seen. Police -report.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 167; FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Erie, Preque-Ile Park, Pennsylvania
-ID: 784

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Event 6135 -(2213DE5C)

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Date: 7/31/1966
-Time: 7:25 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Douglas Tibbetts, 16; Betty Klem, 16; Anita -Haifley, 22; and Gerald Labelle, 29. Square or hexagonal object with -edges lit or reflecting light, came tumbling down from right to left. -Stopped 5-10’ above the beach and settled heavily down; circle of -spotlights at top were visible when it was on the ground. Sighting -lasted 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Presque Isle State Park, Pennsylvania
-ID: 549

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Event 6136 -(36C8C39E)

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Date: 8/1966
-Alternate date: 9/1966
-Description: Mid-afternoon. Two men are returning home from bowling in -Norwood, Massachusetts. The Moon is visible in about three-quarter phase -in the sky. Both glance up and see a group of 6–7 disc-shaped objects -moving horizontally toward the Moon. When they reach a position just -below the Moon, they loop around it in an upward, back, and onward -motion, then continue on their way. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where -You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January 2006): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4074

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Event 6137 -(458A1272)

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Date: 8/1/1966
-Description: Jacques -Vallée meets, through his friend Aimé -Michel, with -physicist Yves -Rocard and gives him a copy of outstanding Blue Book UFO reports, -but the contact goes no further. (Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, -North Atlantic, 1992, pp. 55, 198, 201–202)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4060

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Event 6138 -(66DE6D15)

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Date: 8/1/1966
-Time: 1945
-Description: Several young witnesses reported seeing an unidentified -object at low altitude.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 109 (Vallee)
-Location: Rushville, Indiana
-ID: 785

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Event 6139 -(5B553A79)

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Date: 8/1/1966
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Several children are playing outside in -Rushville, Indiana, when they see an object hovering above a tree near -them. Its altitude is about 75 feet. They describe it as round, brighter -than the moon, silver, and about 4 times larger than the full moon. It -has a fuzzy edge and rocks slightly as it hovers. One girl, Donna -Glosser, calls it to the attention of others who are about a half-block -away. When she does, the object changes to reddish- orange, seems to -revolve, and moves across a road so fast it seems to jump. It stops -abruptly over some trees on a hill about one block away. At least one -adult watches the object for 5 minutes. The same object is apparently -seen by a group of teens at the Dairy Delight Drive-In about a mile and -a half away. It becomes brighter after 45 seconds and speeds away. (“Children -Watch Object in Central Indiana,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1966, -p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4061

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Event 6140 -(3575DE9E)

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Date: 8/6/1966
-Time: 1400
-Description: A civilian man and his family observed a dark object -hovering near their isolated house. It had a square “door” emitting a -yellow light. Three children saw a dwarf through the opening. He was -dressed in shiny black coveralls. The object left slowly with a soft -humming sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Texas
-ID: 786

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Event 6141 -(C219154D)

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Date: 8/7/1966
-Description: The Washington Star runs an article on UFOs by retired USAF -Lt. Col. Charles -Cooke saying that he has analyzed first-hand UFO encounters by Air -Force pilots that show strong support for the ETH.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4062

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Event 6142 -(6637BA72)

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Date: 8/9/1966
-Description: Robert -J. Low, assistant -dean in the University of Colorado Graduate School, is also interested -in the UFO project. He consults with several scientists and reports on -what they tell him in a memo to E. James Archer, dean of the graduate -school, and Thurston -E. Manning, university vice president. The memo, which is not sent -to Condon and -is intended to show university officials that the project will not -embarrass them, says: “Our study would be conducted almost exclusively -by nonbelievers who, although they couldn’t possibly prove a negative -result, could and probably would add an impressive body of evidence that -there is no reality to the observations. The trick would be, I think, to -describe the project so that, to the public, it would appear a totally -objective study but to the scientific community, would present the image -of a group of nonbelievers trying their best to be objective but having -an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer.” He recommends stressing -the psychology and sociology of the witnesses rather than physical -evidence. The memo stays under wraps for a year and a half. (Robert J. -Low, “Some -Thoughts on the UFO Project,” memo to E. James Archer and Thurston -E. Manning, August 9, 1966; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, -Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 239; -Clark III 1192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4063

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Event 6143 -(B34BDA3C)

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Date: 8/9/1966
-Description: Robert J. Low, later coordinator of the Colorado UFO -project, sent a memo to University of Colorado officials suggesting how -they could deal with scientific disdain of UFO sightings. “The trick -would be” to make it “appear a totally objective study”
-Type: memo
-Type: official
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 94

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Event 6144 -(FAC5D922)

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Date: 8/15/1966
-Description: Office of Scientific Intelligence Deputy Director Karl H. -Weber writes to Col. Gerald E. Jorgensen, chief of the USAF Community -Relations Division, that “We are most anxious that further publicity not -be given to the information that the [Robertson] panel was sponsored by -the CIA.” Weber notes that there is already a sanitized version -available to the public. (Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s -Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” Studies in Intelligence 40, no. -5 (1997): 67–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4064

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Event 6145 -(9E444843)

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Date: mid 8/1966
-Description: Rep. J. -Edward Hutchinson (R-Mich.) introduces HR 866 for an investigation -into Project Blue Book’s methods.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4065

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Event 6146 -(E0B36C26)

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Date: 8/16/1966
-Description: The chief of the Australian Directorate of Public Relations -writes to the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence requesting -reconsideration of its decision to stop making summaries of UFO -sightings reported to the Department of Air available to the public. DPR -hopes the summaries will be useful in responding to public inquiries and -thinks that restricting them will reinforce the theory that the -government has something to hide. The summaries continue to be published -erratically through the end of the 1970s. (Swords 393–394)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4067

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Event 6147 -(6A47C6EA)

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Date: 8/16/1966
-Description: Iraqi Air Force Col. Munir -Redfa defects by flying a MiG-21 to Israel. In what is considered -one of Mossad’s most successful operations, Redfa’s entire extended -family is smuggled safely out of Iraq to Israel. The MiG-21 fighter is -evaluated by the Israeli Air Force and later loaned to the US for -testing and intelligence analysis at Area 51. Knowledge obtained from -analysis of the aircraft is instrumental to the successes achieved by -the Israeli Air Force in the Six-Day War. (Wikipedia, “Munir -Redfa”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4066

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Event 6148 -(B99F556D)

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Date: 8/18/1966
-Description: Three hunters, E. Beucomo, J. Zapata and J. Ramos, observed -a strange glow in the forest and discovered a very large, egg-shaped -object, stationary 2 m above ground. It had large, circular openings -emitting a multicolored light, and it made a whistling sound. The -hunters ran away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Barinas, Venezuela
-ID: 787

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Event 6149 -(667AD895)

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Date: 8/19/1966
-Time: 1650
-Description: A border patrolman saw a bright, shiny disk on its edge, 10 -m in diameter, 5 m high, floating down the side of a hill, wobbling from -side to side 3 m above ground. It reached the valley floor, climbed to -about 30 m, and moved across to a small reservoir where it assumed a -horizontal position. A dome then became visible on top of the disk. It -hovered for one min and seemed about to land less than 80 m away, but -tilted back on edge and flew into the clouds at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Donnybrook, North Dakota
-ID: 788

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Event 6150 -(3CA67F96)

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Date: 8/19/1966
-Time: 4:50 PM
-Description: Witness: U.S. Border Patrolman Don Flickenger. Round disc -with domed top, 30’ in diameter and 15’ high, colored white, silvery or -aluminum. Moved across a valley from the southeast, hovered over a -reservoir, appeared to land in a small field, then rose up into clouds -very rapidly. Sighting lasted 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Donnybrook, North Dakota
-ID: 550

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Event 6151 -(B9D26A2B)

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Date: 8/19/1966
-Description: 4:50 p.m. US Border Patrolman Donald E. Flickinger, in the -process of taking two prisoners back to Canada, sees a silvery domed -disc floating down the side of a hill near Donnybrook, North Dakota, -about 10 feet off the ground. It moves across a valley and climbs to 100 -feet, hovers over a reservoir, then appears to land in a field 250 feet -away. It tilts on edge and rises into the clouds at high speed. -Flickinger finds three odd indentations in the field in the form of a -triangle with sides of 10–12 feet. Some stones alo seem to have been -moved recently. (Hynek UFO Report, photo betw. -pp. 152–153; Condon, pp. 273–274; -Sparks, -p. 317)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4068

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Event 6152 -(64666E3C)

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Date: 8/20/1966
-Description: A woman called police to report a luminous object rising -and descending on top of a high hill. When policemen climbed to the site -they found the bodies of two men, electronics technicians Pereira da -Cruz and Viana. The bodies had lead masks on the upper part of the face. -An autopsy failed to disclose the cause of death. Investigation -disclosed several earlier incidents and an organization to which these -men belonged.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Niteroi, Brazil
-ID: 790

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Event 6153 -(73BA77E1)

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Date: 8/20/1966
-Time: early
-Description: Otto Becker, his son, and daughter-in-law woke up to find -the whole house bathed in bright light, and they observed a “six-story” -object at treetop level 60 m away. It gave off rainbow colors which -appeared to pour off its edges “like water” in a fantastic display. -Distinct engine noise was heard before it took off vertically. Domestic -animals had been greatly disturbed, and the witness had inflamed eyes -for several days.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Gribble Jan., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Heraldsburg, California
-ID: 789

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Event 6154 -(4FFEB15B)

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Date: 8/20/1966
-Description: Afternoon. Some boys looking for a lost kite on the Morro -do Vintém in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, discover the bodies of two -dead males and report them to the authorities. The Morro do Vintém is a -hill with difficult terrain, and the police are unable to reach the -bodies until August 21. When a small team of police and firefighters -arrive, they encounter an odd scene: the bodies are resting next to each -other, partly covered by grass. Each one is wearing a formal suit, a -lead eye mask, and a waterproof coat. There are no signs of trauma or -struggle. Next to the corpses, police find an empty water bottle and a -packet containing two wet towels. A small notebook is also identified, -on which were written the cryptic instructions, “16:30 be at the -specified location. 18:30 ingest capsules, after the effect protect -metals await signal mask.” The two men are identified as Manoel Pereira -da Cruz and Miguel José Viana, two electronic technicians from Campos -dos Goytacazes. Following an investigation, police reconstruct a -plausible narrative of the men’s last days. On August 17, Cruz and Viana -leave Campos dos Goytacazes saying that they needed to purchase some -materials for work (although they tell others they are on a secret -mission). The two men then board a bus to Niterói and arrive at 2:30 -p.m. Evidence shows that the waterproof coats were purchased at a shop -there, and one bottle of water from a local bar. Upon being interviewed, -the waitress from the bar described Miguel as “very nervous,” and -noticed he frequently checked his watch. That is the last time they are -known to have been seen alive; it is presumed they go directly from the -bar to the spot where they were discovered. One theory revolves around -the testimony of a friend of the two men, who claims that they are -members of a group of “scientific spiritualists” who are apparently -attempting to contact extraterrestrials or spirits using psychedelic -drugs. Believing that such an encounter would be accompanied by blinding -light, the men cut metal masks to shield their eyes and may have died of -drug overdoses. This account is corroborated by the esoteric diary entry -found at the scene and by mask-making materials and literature -concerning spirits found at the men’s homes. In April 1980, Jacques -Vallée locates the exact spot where the bodies were found and notes -that no vegetation is growing there. (Wikipedia, “Lead -Masks Case”; Charles Bowen, “The -Mystery of the Morro do Vintem,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1967): 11–14; Clark III 774–775; Jacques Vallée, -Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact, Ballantine, -1990, pp. 3–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4069

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Event 6155 -(E0ACA9F3)

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Date: 8/22/1966
-Description: Phil -Klass asserts in Aviation Week that the Exeter UFO was a plasma -discharge from high-voltage power lines. (Philip J. Klass, “Plasma -Theory May Explain Many UFOs,” Aviation Week and Space Technology 85 -(August 22, 1966): 48–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4070

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Event 6156 -(5BABB7A5)

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Date: 8/22/1966
-Description: “Plasma Theory May Explain Many UFOs,” by Philip J. Klass, -Aviation Week.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 95

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Event 6157 -(72C44A68)

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Date: 8/23/1966
-Time: 77 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Broomall and Gilpin. One circular, luminous -white object split into five objects and all streaked away toward the -west. Sighting lasted 15 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Columbus, Ohio
-ID: 551

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Event 6158 -(EF8944CD)

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Date: 8/24/1966
-Time: 2200
-Description: An airman observed and reported by radio a multi-colored -light high in the sky. A strike team was sent to his location and -confirmed the unknown. A second object, white, was seen to pass in front -of clouds. At the radar base, an object was detected and tracked. The -observations lasted nearly 4 hours and were confirmed by three different -missile sites. Radio interference was noted by teams sent to locations -where the object was sometimes described as hovering at ground -level.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota
-ID: 791

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Event 6159 -(8B560929)

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Date: 8/24/1966
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Airman 3d Class Michael D. Mueller reports by -base radio seeing a multicolored light high in the sky above the Minot -AFB M-6 Minuteman launch site southeast of Norma, North Dakota. A team -goes to his location and confirms the object and sees a second white -object passing in front of clouds. The base radar detects the object, -which is tracked at about 100,000 feet (20 miles). The object rises and -descends a number of times, and each time Maj. Chester A. Shaw Jr., in -charge of the M-6 missile crew, finds his radio transmission interrupted -by static, even though he is 60 feet underground. The UFO gradually -descends to ground level 10–15 miles south of the base. The Air Force -sends a strike team to check on it. When they are within 10 miles of the -site, static disrupts their radio contact. Five to eight minutes later, -the glow diminishes and the UFO takes off. Another UFO is sighted and -tracked on radar; the first object flies underneath this second one. The -two objects disappear separately. The entire episode lasts about 4 hours -and is confirmed by two other missile launch sites, M- 4 and N-7 (near -Mohall). Another report from the same time period mentions that some -missiles went off alert for 24 hours after a UFO sighting at the N-1 -missile alert facility. (NICAP, “Minuteman -Site Jammed by UFO”; Condon, pp. 274–277; -Sparks, p. 317; -Robert L. Salas and James Klotz, Faded Giant, BookSurge, 2005, p. 5–6; -Nukes 238–240, 248–251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4071

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Event 6160 -(34E008D5)

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Date: 8/26/1966
-Time: 8:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Funk and their three children. A -cluster of four small, glowing, orange-yellow lights in a triangular -formation, moved from east to west for 4.5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gaylesville, Alabama
-ID: 552

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Event 6161 -(223CF904)

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Date: 8/27/1966
-Description: Hynek releases -to the press a letter rejected by Science magazine in which he reports a -pattern to UFO sightings that “suggests that something is going on” and -disputing seven misconceptions about UFOs. (“Expert Criticizes -Scientists for Dismissing UFOs,” Miami (Fla.) Herald, August 28, -1966, p. 5-C)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4072

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Event 6162 -(807074DA)

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Date: 8/27/1966
-Description: Dr. J. A. Hynek released to the press a letter rejected by -Science magazine reporting a “pattern” to UFO sightings that “suggests -that something is going on” and disputing seven misconceptions about -UFOs. Science had a belated change of heart and published the letter on -October 21, with the headline, “UFOs Merit Scientific Study.”
-Type: report or memo
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 96

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Event 6163 -(DC0315A2)

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Date: 8/31/1966
-Description: Col. Ivan -C. Atkinson, deputy -executive director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, -formally approaches the University of Colorado with a request to conduct -a comprehensive and independent examination of the UFO problem.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4073

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Event 6164 -(C734A205)

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Date: 9/1966
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Airman 1C Patrick McDonough is working on an -astro-azimuth observation at one of the Malmstrom AFB missile launch -facilities near Conrad, Montana, when a UFO comes in from the north and -stops directly overhead at 300 feet. It is about 30–50 feet in diameter -and disc-shaped, with dim lights outlining it and a white light -emanating from the center. It remains about 20–30 seconds, then shoots -away noiselessly to the east at tremendous speed. Montana Highway Patrol -dispatchers in Pondera County receive more than 20 UFO reports that -morning. (Nukes 247–248)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4077

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Event 6165 -(83631278)

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Date: 9/1966
-End date: 12/1966
-Description: Local concentration peaking in late 1966 and 1967
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Uintah Basin, UT
-ID: 97

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Event 6166 -(6BF4CA39)

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Date: 9/1966
-Description: Early morning. A UFO is seen hovering at low altitude by -all personnel at Heathrow Airport Air Traffic Control in London, -England, at a time when no aircraft are in motion. The UFO is tracked on -radar and its speed at departure is clocked at 3,000 mph. The Ministry -of Defence is notified, and investigators arrive on the scene and tell -the witnesses that they have seen nothing, threatening to charge them -under the Official Secrets Act if they reveal the sighting publicly. -(Good Above, pp. 71–72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4076

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Event 6167 -(3DE942FC)

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Date: 9/1966
-Time: 0330
-Description: A police officer was driving at nearly 200 km/h toward the -north on Route 71 when he suddenly saw an object on the road ahead and -another one following his car. The first one looked like a flaming car -and was the size of a 3-story house. It flew away as the policeman was -about to hit it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 168 (Vallee)
-Location: El Campo, Texas
-ID: 792

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Event 6168 -(9085A7A8)

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Date: 9/1966
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Deputy Sheriff Ed Korenek is driving north of El -Campo, Texas, on State Highway 71 when he sees something like a car on -fire ahead of him. Suddenly he notices that another object is pacing -him, He hits his brakes and reaches for the radio, but it is dead. He -sees another flaming object above Wharton Regional Airport to the east. -He accelerates toward the object ahead of him, which slides off the -highway to the right, sucking its flame up behind it as it moves away. -The object above the airfield disappears, and when Korenek turns his car -around, his radio begins working again. (“The -Texas Flap,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1967, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4078

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Event 6169 -(9060EC53)

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Date: 9/1/1966
-Time: 2:45 PM
-Description: Witness: T.H. Ridman. One oval object with lights that -flashed red and white and occasionally blue, travelled west, then -disappeared downward. It returned, several minutes later, at which time -a loud noise was heard. The entire sighting lasted 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Willsboro, New York
-ID: 553

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Event 6170 -(238375F8)

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Date: early 9/1966
-Description: Night. Bank official Gerardo Bagnulo is on a pleasure -outing with members of his family when he sees two objects moving across -the sky on the coast of the Gargano promontory in southern Italy. He -manages to take one color photo before the objects disappear near the -northwest horizon. The photo shows both a round object and a cylindrical -object. (Roberto Pinotti, “The Gargano Peninsula Cigar,” IUR 9, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1984): 6; “As -is often the case,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6 -(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985): 8; Roberto Pinotti, “Evidence -for UFOs in the Italian Past,” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, -1988, pp. 115–116; 1Pinotti 154–156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4075

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Event 6171 -(6A8D6C41)

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Date: 9/3/1966
-Description: Science columnist John Lear receives a declassified -(sanitized) copy of the Robertson Panel report and publishes a version -of it in the Saturday Review. He calls for the release of the full -document. (John Lear, “The Disputed -CIA Document on UFOs,” Saturday Review, September 3, 1966, -pp. 45–50; Clark III 1017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4079

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Event 6172 -(556E79AB)

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Date: 9/3/1966
-Time: 1400
-Description: Two young witnesses went outside when the TV set became -blurred. They observed a fantastic spinning light illuminating the -house. It came from an object hovering at the same location as an -earlier sighting (see Case 786).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Texas
-ID: 793

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Event 6173 -(345A1F7D)

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Date: 9/3/1966
-Description: “The Disputed CIA Documents on UFOs,” by John Lear in -Saturday Review discusses oddities about the January 1953 Robertson -Panel report before it was declassified.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 98

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Event 6174 -(3B95D865)

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Date: 9/5/1966
-Time: evening
-Description: A civilian man observed a peculiar light phenomenon and a -small figure that appeared to enter a bedroom. The figure was not seen -again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Texas
-ID: 794

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Event 6175 -(E9B7D32D)

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Date: 9/5/1966
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Franz Trautsamwieser takes a photo of the Church -of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy, from the other side of the -canal. He does not see anything, but the developed photo shows a -UFO-shaped whitish object next to the tower. (“UFO -over Venice?” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1967, cover, -17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4080

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Event 6176 -(E5422BEE)

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Date: 9/6/1966
-Time: 6:50 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Stahl and Ladesic. One white cylinder of light -came from the east at high speed, stopped and hovered for 3 minutes, and -then turned and slowly disappeared. Sighting lasted 8 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Suffolk County AFB, New York
-ID: 554

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Event 6177 -(C94FDCCE)

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Date: 9/7/1966
-Time: 2000
-Description: About 15 km east of Durand, Mrs. E. Bruns and her two -children observed an elongated object, about 10 m long, with revolving -lights, hovering 1 m above ground and making a deafening noise. After 30 -sec, it tilted and took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Durand, Wisconsin
-ID: 795

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Event 6178 -(3E8C1228)

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Date: 9/9/1966
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: Jacobson. One solid object, larger than an army -tank, with lights all around it, made a low humming sound and -disappeared into woods at the end of the 30 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Franklin Springs, New York
-ID: 555

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Event 6179 -(17B2DB07)

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Date: 9/9/1966
-Time: 2100
-Description: A man saw an object descend from a cloud bank, slow down, -and land with a soft whirring sound. It showed three horizontal bands of -light-blue, red and green.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Franklin Springs, New York
-ID: 796

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Event 6180 -(70E9FBCB)

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Date: 9/12/1966
-Description: The Air Force turns down a proposal Hynek has -made for them to create a computer program to put Blue Book’s UFO -reports into a machine-readable format, ostensibly because it is too -preoccupied with the Vietnam War. (Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek -correspondence], p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4081

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Event 6181 -(659D3176)

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Date: 9/13/1966
-Time: 7:30 AM
-Description: Witness: Rotenberger. One silvery-grey ellipse with a clear -bubble protruding from its top, hovered about a mile away, then landed -within 300 yards and took off very fast. It made a low-pitched whine -during the 5 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Gwinner, North Dakota
-ID: 556

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Event 6182 -(3DD22044)

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Date: 9/13/1966
-Description: 7:30 a.m. 11-year-old Randy -Rotenberger, near Stirum, North Dakota, sees a silvery domed disc -hover about one mile away, approach, then land within 900 feet, making a -low-pitched whine. It takes off so fast it just vanishes.” An Air Force -investigator finds landing indentations 7 inches deep and [possibly] -radiation level of 100 microroentgens/hour. Electrical power is off in -the area for about 4 hours. (NICAP, “Domed -Object Leaves Traces”; -Sparks, p. 319; -Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 58–59; Clark III 950)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4082

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Event 6183 -(EE237306)

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Date: 9/13/1966
-Time: 0730
-Description: A child of 11 years saw a disk-shaped object land near a -farm. It had a tripod landing gear, two red lights, two white and one -green light, and a transparent dome. A businessman from Gwinner and an -Air Force Lt. Col. went to the site and discovered three traces, -apparently left by spherical objects, 18 cm deep, very compact. -Radiation measured at 0.1 milliroentgen (normal). The child reported -that the object “went away so fast that it vanished.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Stirum, North Dakota
-ID: 797

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Event 6184 -(620E2820)

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Date: 9/17/1966
-Description: 4:45 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary see a glowing -cigar-shaped object oriented vertically, tilted at times, for about an -hour near the edge of the water at Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts. -Two smaller glowing objects approach the larger object, moving around -erratically, with an up-and-down skipping motion. The two rendezvous -with the larger object, then a third smaller object is seen. The smaller -objects periodically leave the larger object and flies around the area. -One flies low over Ipswich Bay toward the witnesses’ home. At closer -range it shows an elliptical shape illuminated by a faint glow. (“‘Satellite’ -UFO Landing Case in Massachusetts,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 10 -(Oct./Nov. 1966): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4083

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Event 6185 -(258EDB77)

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Date: 9/17/1966
-Time: 0445
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary saw a golden-white, luminous -object resting on the beach, with two bright lights flying in and out of -the craft. It went away after one hour.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 88; NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Cranes Beach, Massachusetts
-ID: 798

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Event 6186 -(73C7748D)

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Date: 9/19/1966
-Description: Air Force Regulation (AFR) 80-17 promulgated to replace AFR -200-2, placing UFOs under the Research and Development command and -reflecting the University of Colorado Project study in progress.
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 99

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Event 6187 -(6FA5EDC0)

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Date: 9/19/1966
-Description: Air Force Regulation 200-2 is replaced by AFR 80-17, which -orders members of the military who investigate UFO reports to release -information if there is an explanation, but if there is none to withhold -the information, even from the Colorado project (explicitly modified -November 9). Radarscope photos are automatically classified. However, it -does require that every Air Force base have an official with scientific -background responsible for investigating UFOs. (US Department of the Air -Force, “Research -and Development: Unidentified -Flying Objects,” Air Force Regulation 80-17, September 19, -1966)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4084

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Event 6188 -(867D302D)

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Date: 9/20/1966
-Description: Private pilot encountered coneshaped object, “singing” -noise. Object descended, followed aircraft, accelerated up and -away
-Type: sighting
-Type: encounter
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Sebring, FL
-ID: 100

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Event 6189 -(E64B430B)

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Date: 9/21/1966
-Time: 0630
-Description: Eight members of the Royal Canadian Air Force saw a bright -object that flew down at high speed, stopped abruptly, remained at -ground level for 20 min, and flew away straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Summerside, Canada
-ID: 799

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Event 6190 -(FC877A5C)

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Date: 9/21/1966
-Description: At a meeting of the University of Colorado psychology -department, Stuart -W. Cook announces that the university is considering taking on the -UFO project, with Condon directing. -Cook says it will need the help of psychologists. William -A. Scott and David -R. Saunders are interested. Around this time, Condon agrees to an -informal question-and-answer session about the project. George -Gamow and Richard Sigismond are in attendance. Gamow is surprised -that Condon has never heard of the Trindade Island UFO photos. Sigismond -applies for an opening on the committee and is accepted, but he declines -the offer after a 20-minute interview with Condon, whose negative bias -on the subject is unyielding. (Richard Sigismond, “A Confrontation with -Dr. Condon: Prelude and Aftermath,” IUR 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1983): 3–5, -16; “Condon Confrontation Continues,” IUR 9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1984): 9; -Clark III 1192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4086

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Event 6191 -(3CFD3C24)

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Date: 9/21/1966
-Description: 6:30 a.m. Eight RCAF airmen are refueling an aircraft in -Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, when they see an object in the -east moving at great speed. It comes to a complete stop, descends, and -hovers for 20 minutes. It then shoots up and disappears quickly. At -about the same time, fishermen Ivan Collicut and Patrick O’Halloran are -out for an early morning catch at Burton, Prince Edward Island, when -they see a rapidly moving light. (“Near-Landing -Observed by RCAF,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 10 (Oct./Nov. 1966): -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4085

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Event 6192 -(021C39A8)

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Date: 9/22/1966
-Description: Hovering object with smaller satellite objects operating -independently, emitted light beams, finally sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Deadwood, SD
-ID: 101

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Event 6193 -(8FDF36B3)

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Date: 9/22/1966
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Police from several vantage points in Deadwood, -South Dakota, see a large white hovering object, changing color to green -to red then back to white. It hangs motionless for 15 minutes. When a -spotlight is shone on it, the object blacks out. Two smaller white -objects operating independently approach and hover nearby. The large -object bobs around and emits blue light beams toward the ground, and -finally speeds away in 3 seconds. (NICAP, “Satellite -Objects, Sept. 22, 1966, Deadwood, SD”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO -Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 49–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4087

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Event 6194 -(0210FF21)

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Date: 9/22/1966
-Description: Psychologist Michael Wertheimer tells Cook he -will participate in the Colorado project. (Clark III 1193) September 22 -— Hynek appeals -to Secretary of the Air Force Harold -Brown to create a program to put UFO reports into a machine-readable -database. He also recommends a more scientific approach to data -acquisition that will make the Air Force look better to the public and -the scientific community. (Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek correspondence], -pp. 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4088

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Event 6195 -(CAD79E6A)

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Date: 9/24/1966
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A man named Gaines is driving his girlfriend home -in Peoria, Illinois, when they see a large, luminous, blue sphere -hovering low in the sky. It shoots off, so he drops the girlfriend off. -On the way home the blue ball returns; his car begins to pick up speed, -the brakes won’t work, and the doors won’t open. He races on this way -for a few blocks, then the UFO takes off. (Michael D. Swords, “Messing -Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (Mar. 2008): 17) Autumn — Night. A -young couple parking in a rural area near Rockford, Illinois, see a -bright light that appears over some nearby trees. It is so intense that -it hurts their eyes, so they start the car up and drive down a gravel -road. The light is gone, but near where it had been they can now see two -gray figures with large slanted eyes and wearing clothing with a square -insignia on the torso. As they leave the area, they smell a pungent, -metallic odor. (“Letter,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 6, 9; “Out of -the Past,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4089

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Event 6196 -(85D70580)

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Date: 9/28/1966
-Time: 3:38 PM
-Description: Witness: Clarke. Three round, oval-shaped, aluminum-colored -objects with rotating rings around them. Two remained stationary, while -the third varied its altitude during the 90 second sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wilmington, Ohio
-ID: 557

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Event 6197 -(435DD1FC)

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Date: 10/1966
-Description: Hynek’s -lengthy letter about UFOs and Project Blue Book is published in Science -magazine. It addresses seven misconceptions about UFOs. “I cannot -dismiss the UFO phenomenon with a shrug,” he concludes. (O’Connell -201–204)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4090

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Event 6198 -(577AC467)

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Date: 10/1966
-Description: The Canadian Directorate of Operations issues Canadian -Forces Administrative Order 71-6, “Reporting of Unidentified Flying -Objects,” to make it easier to obtain UFO reports from military bases -and police forces. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Canada, Signet, 1981, -p. 173)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4091

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Event 6199 -(5BC5791B)

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Date: 10/1/1966
-Description: James -E. McDonald writes to Thomas -Ratchford of the USAF Office of Scientific Research to tell him that -he will soon speak out for radical changes in the handling of UFO -reports. (Clark III 697)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4092

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Event 6200 -(B286D155)

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Date: 10/2/1966
-Description: 8:20 p.m. Mrs. Everett Steward is talking on the telephone -at her home in Cincinnati, Ohio, when she smells a foul odor in the -room. She goes to her bedroom, but she has a feeling of being watched. -Looking out the window, she sees an oval-shaped object with portholes -and red, green, and white lights revolving around it. It is 75 feet in -diameter and hovering at 100 feet. She wakes up her husband, who also -sees it, and calls her married daughter, Mrs. Janet Emery, a mile away; -the Emerys also see it, and a neighbor with binoculars can see that it -has square windows glowing yellow. Janet goes outdoors and sees the UFO -eject a red ball, which maneuvers while the first UFO takes off -southward. The red ball flies 75–100 feet over Janet’s head; its -underside is shiny like aluminum foil. Mrs. Steward goes to bed, but the -odor is still in the house. After some time, the room is filled for an -instant with brilliant white light; then this vanishes and a globe of -light about 21 inches in diameter appears at the foot of her bed. Inside -are 5 “non-human, hairless heads” with oval, sunken eyes. Instead of -noses, there are slits, and they have no mouths. Telepathically, they -repeat several times: “We have made contact.” Mrs. Steward screams and -the globe disappears. She is so disquieted by the experience that she -goes under psychiatric care for the next 2 years. (Stringfield, -Situation Red, Doubleday, 1977, pp. 33–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4093

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Event 6201 -(806117D3)

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Date: 10/3/1966
-Description: “Many UFOs Are Identified as Plasmas,” by Philip J. Klass -in Aviation Week.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 102

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Event 6202 -(7B0782FA)

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Date: 10/3/1966
-Description: Phil -Klass has another article in Aviation Week on plasmas as an -explanation for UFOs. (Philip J. Klass, “Many UFOs Are Identified as -Plasmas,” Aviation Week and Space Technology 85 (October 3, 1966): -54–73) October 4, 18 — Excerpts of John -G. Fuller’s book about the Betty -and Barney Hill abduction case, Interrupted Journey, appear in a -two-part article of Look magazine. (Wikipedia, “Barney -and Betty Hill”; John G. Fuller, “Aboard -a Flying -Saucer, Part I,” Look 30, no. 20 (October 4, 1966): 44–48, 53–56; -John G. Fuller, “Aboard -a Flying Saucer, -Part II,” Look 30, no. 21 (October 18, 1966): 111–121; Clark III -585)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4094

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Event 6203 -(007965D8)

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Date: 10/4/1966
-End date: 10/5/1966
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Jack Jones is delivering newspapers on John -Street in Connersville, Indiana. He notices a group of lights in a field -to the west past the dead end. He thinks it might be a new light -installation and moves on. The next day, Jones is with another paper -carrier, Don Doe, and he suggests they go see the new lights. Jack sees -the lights, but they are in a different position somewhat to the north. -Both boys sit on their bicycles and watch a dark disc-shaped object with -flashing red, green, and white lights on it that is apparently on the -ground some 840 feet into the field. They estimate it is 27 feet in -diameter and 10 feet high. They hear a high-pitched whirring sound and -smell a faint odor of sulfur and tannic acid. After watching it a few -minutes, they hear a new sound as if someone is walking slowly toward -them through some thick weeds. They take off on their bicycles and don’t -look back. Some days later, investigators find three holes, 8 feet apart -in an equilateral triangle, where the object was seen. The holes measure -7 inches at the top and 1 inch at the bottom. (“UAO -Landing in Indiana,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1966, pp. 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4095

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Event 6204 -(DB0314D1)

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Date: 10/5/1966
-Description: At a University of Arizona Department of Meteorology -colloquium, James -E. McDonald gives his views on the reality of UFOs and the Air -Force’s concealment of information. His colleagues respond negatively, -and McDonald acknowledges to Gerard -Kuiper that what he is doing is professionally risky. Nevertheless, -the university’s Space Sciences Committee gives him a $1,300 grant -toward his research expenses. (“UFOs -Are ‘Real,’ -Physicist Asserts,” Arizona Daily Star, October 6, 1966, p. B-1; -Clark III 697)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4096

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Event 6205 -(78A1D287)

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Date: 10/5/1966
-Description: A boy saw a disk-shaped object with a transparent dome and -a row of lights, at ground level. It rose at high speed, emitting a -“heat wave,” and was lost in the clouds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
-Location: Potomac, Maryland
-ID: 800

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Event 6206 -(E8D7A88C)

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Date: 10/5/1966
-Time: Time unknown
-Description: Witnesses: several members of one family. One small, bright -orange, moon-shaped object remained stationary in the northeast for -about 20 minutes, then suddenly took off very fast to the WNW.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Osceola, Wisconsin
-ID: 558

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Event 6207 -(D5ED210D)

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Date: 10/6/1966
-Description: Thurston -Manning signs the University of Colorado contract with the Air -Force. The project is to run from November 15, 1966, to January 1968. -(Clark III 1193)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4097

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Event 6208 -(2FCDF687)

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Date: 10/7/1966
-Description: USAF public announcement of grant to University of Colorado -for a UFO study to be headed by Dr. E. U. Condon.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 103

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Event 6209 -(53DE2211)

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Date: 10/7/1966
-Description: The Air Force publicly announces the creation of the -University of Colorado UFO project. Low is -made project coordinator. The primary team will be Saunders, ESSA -astronomer Franklin -Roach, Wertheimer, chemist Roy -Craig, University -of Arizona electrical engineer Norman Levine, administrative assistant -Mary Lou Armstrong, University of Arizona astronomer William -K. Hartmann, physicist Frederick -Ayer, and psychologists Dan -Culberson and James Wadsworth. (Office of Assistant Secretary of -Defense (Public Affairs), “Air Force Selects University of Colorado to -Investigate Unidentified Flying Object Reports,” October 7, 1966, -release no. 847-66, in Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, -pp. 222–224; “UFO -Probe Given to Colorado U.,” San Francisco Examiner, October 7, -1966, p. 42; Clark III 697, 1193)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4098

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Event 6210 -(507F11EA)

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Date: 10/7/1966
-Description: McDonald speaks -to the media about the secret Robertson Panel report. The CIA has -ordered the Air Force to debunk UFOs, he says. (“UFO -Hush Blamed -on CIA Men,” Phoenix Arizona Republic, October 7, 1966, -pp. 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4099

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Event 6211 -(FDAC27D7)

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Date: 10/8/1966
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Loch Ness monster researcher Frederick -William “Ted” Holiday is fishing on the lifeboat slipway at Tenby -harbor, Pembrokeshire, Wales, when he and other fishermen notice a -small, bluish, luminous cloud moving in a circle about three times its -own diameter above them. After a short time, he resumes his fishing, but -10 minutes later a dark object emerges from the cloud and beams down a -brilliant ruby light on them. The cloud moves west and the object moves -southwest. By the time he retrieves binoculars from his car, both -objects are gone. (F. W. Holiday, “Was -God at Aberfan?” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1972): -3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4101

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Event 6212 -(CEB19619)

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Date: 10/8/1966
-Description: Condon is -widely quoted in the media as saying it is “highly improbable” that UFOs -exist. “The view that UFOs are hallucinatory will be a subject of our -investigation, to discover what it is that makes people imagine they see -things.” (Chesly Manly, “UFOs -Prober Keeps -Open Mind and Door,” Chicago Tribune, October 16, 1966, pp. 1, -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4100

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Event 6213 -(D3B72CDC)

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Date: 10/10/1966
-Description: Hynek discusses -UFOs in Newsweek. (“UFO’s for Real?” Newsweek, October 10, 1966, -p. 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4102

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Event 6214 -(C5CDFED0)

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Date: 10/10/1966
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Police Sgt. Benjamin Thompson of the Wanaque (New -Jersey) Reservoir Police watches a bright light performing fantastic -maneuvers over the reservoir. He notices a slight mist in the wake of -its movements. It descends to 150 feet above the water, then shoots up. -Thompson has also seen UFOs at the reservoir in January and March. Some -teenagers see a UFO in the area 2 nights later. (“UFOs -Return to Wanaque Reservoir,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 10 -(Oct./Nov. 1966): 6; Sanderson, InvRes, pp. 58–62; -Center for UFO Studies, [case -files])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4103

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Event 6215 -(1C2E0E19)

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Date: 10/11/1966
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Two boys in Elizabeth, New Jersey—Martin Munov -and James Yanchitis—are walking home on 4th Street near East Jersey -Street, adjacent to the elevated New Jersey Turnpike. Yanchitis tells -his friend that there is someone following them. They turn and see a man -standing behind a high wire fence separating them from the turnpike 30 -feet above them. The fence is 8 feet high and the embankment running up -to it is steep. John Keel interviews the two boys three days after the -incident. They tell him that the man is 7 feet tall, has a dark -complexion, and is wearing a green work suit. He has a bald head, large -eyes, and a huge grinning mouth full of white teeth. (John Keel, Strange -Creatures from Time and Space, Fawcett, 1970, p. 176)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4104

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Event 6216 -(E1BB9B26)

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Date: 10/11/1966
-Description: Project Sign (“Saucer”) report of February 1949 -declassified from its formerly SECRET status.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 104

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Event 6217 -(C81151C7)

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Date: 10/14/1966
-Time: 1845
-Description: A adolescent first saw a bright light, then a plate-shaped -object hovering near the house. It took off at high speed, causing -static on the phone as the boy was calling his mother to describe it. -When she came home, she found her son in a state of shock and the dog -hiding in a corner.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Newton, Illinois
-ID: 801

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Event 6218 -(5A466DF0)

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Date: 10/14/1966
-Time: 2230
-Description: James Roberts saw two round pinkish-red objects on a -hillside near his home. He fled when they took off with a hissing sound -emitting streams of fire.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Gribble Jan., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Fork, West Virginia
-ID: 802

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Event 6219 -(6938AE2A)

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Date: 10/15/1966
-Description: Red-orange disc-shaped object followed car, ground brightly -illuminated, engine, headlights failed. Physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Split Rock Pond, NJ
-ID: 105

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Event 6220 -(C2145106)

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Date: mid 10/1966
-Description: Keyhoe is -stressed by Condon’s -statements, so he calls both Condon and Low. Both -assure him they were misquoted and ask for NICAP’s support. He expresses -his doubts to Saunders, who -with Richard -Hall convinces him to lend his support to the project, for now. -(UFOs Yes, 117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4106

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Event 6221 -(943AF829)

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Date: 10/15/1966
-Description: 4:45 a.m. Forester Jerry H. Simons is driving home from a -camping expedition, notices a reddish glow behind him, and stops his car -near Split Rock Pond, south of Newfoundland, New Jersey, to investigate. -A flat- bottom, red-orange disc with a dome on top is hovering above and -behind his car. Near panic, he flees the area with the object following -him. When the light from the object illuminates the ground around him, -his car engine, dashlights, and headlights all fail. When the object -recedes, his lights and engine function normally. This sequence is -repeated three times, strongly demonstrating a direct correlation -between the light from the UFO and the failure of his car’s electrical -system. Shortly after the sighting, Simons begins experiencing a -recurring illness (the reason for his story appearing in a medical -journal); it is characterized by fatigue, anorexia, soreness, muscle -weakness, chills, and significant weight loss. After about 6 months he -has fully recovered. (Berthold Eric Schwarz, “UFOs: -Delusion or Dilemma,” Medical Times 96 (October 1968): 967–981; -UFOEv II 37; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference -Reports, Part 2,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4105

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Event 6222 -(AE832542)

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Date: 10/19/1966
-Description: James -E. McDonald speaks to the Washington, D.C., Chapter of the American -Meteorological Society on the inadequacy of military UFO investigations -and the need to take seriously the “possibility that these aerial -objects may be some type of extraterrestrial probes.” (James E. -McDonald, “The -Problem of the Unidentified Flying -Objects,” October 19, 1966; Clark III 697)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4107

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Event 6223 -(7B9E925C)

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Date: 10/20/1966
-Description: 11:50 p.m. A telecommunications technician in Moose Jaw, -Saskatchewan, sees a strangely behaving nocturnal light. (J. Allen -Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4109

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Event 6224 -(F92C08EF)

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Date: 10/20/1966
-Description: Hynek visits -Franklin -Roach in Boulder, Colorado, to meet Condon and -other Colorado project members. He notes that Condon has a “basically -negative attitude.” (Clark III 1193)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4108

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Event 6225 -(29DE6998)

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Date: 10/21/1966
-Description: Night. Three junior high school students are standing at -one end of their street in Amsterdam, New York, when they notice a -star-like light to the right of the Moon. The star proceeds to draw -aright-angle step around the Moon and continues northward, where it -joins two other objects. The three objects then form 90° angles, -equilateral triangles, and other geometrical figures. Two of the -students go home for binoculars, and while they are away the sky show -stops. They remain in the sky, but stationary. The objects look -spherical through binoculars with some sort of lighted, colored areas -that rotate. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 -(January 2006): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4111

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Event 6226 -(771834C4)

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Date: 10/21/1966
-Description: Hynek’s -letter on misconceptions about UFOs is belatedly published in Science. -(J. Allen Hynek, “UFO’s Merit -Scientific Study,” Science 154 (1966): 329)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4110

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Event 6227 -(9D849634)

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Date: 10/23/1966
-Time: 6 PM
-Description: Witness: Mr Acquino. One object with arms in front of it -which sparkled like an arc-light. Traveled south along some power lines, -then turned southwest. Made a slight humming sound during the 4 minute -sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Southhampton, Long Island, New York
-ID: 559

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Event 6228 -(CB829A56)

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Date: 10/26/1966
-Description: 11:50 p.m. A man is driving in a rural, wooded area near -Takoma Park, Maryland, when he sees a disc that seems about to land in a -clearing. It puts on a red-and-green light show as it hovers. A large -central beam of light shines onto the field below. The car radio bursts -with static, and he hears a whirring sound coming from the object. He -tries to accelerate the car, but it won’t move. Radio and drive -functions resume when the UFO moves away. (Michael D. Swords, “Messing -Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no, 4 (March 2008): 17, 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4112

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Event 6229 -(C17EF2B0)

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Date: 10/26/1966
-Time: No time given
-Description: Witness: civilian control tower operator Ralston. One white -object approached runway at 50’ altitude. Runway lights were then turned -on, and object accelerated and climbed away so fast that witness was -unable to use binoculars. Sighting lasted 3 seconds.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Cold Bay Air Force Station, Alaska
-ID: 560

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Event 6230 -(653A884B)

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Date: 10/28/1966
-Description: The Space Defense Center’s satellite-tracking Delta I -computer system at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, becomes operational. -(Wikipedia, “Space -Defense Center”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4113

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Event 6231 -(1F61EF31)

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Date: 10/31/1966
-Description: Night. An observer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, notices a -particularly bright star in the southwestern sky that is moving in a -wide arc. When it reaches Ursa Major, it paces along the Big Dipper, -then turns and takes an approximately parallel course to the front of -the constellation. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, -no. 2 (January 2006): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4114

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Event 6232 -(193C345B)

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Date: 11/1/1966
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Mrs. Ray Tibbetts is talking on the phone in her -home at Newfields, New Hampshire, when her son, Dale, yells that there -is a strange light outside. Her foster daughter, Anita Purrington, joins -Dale and they both get excited. Mrs. Tibbetts runs to a window when the -house lights begin blinking on and off. She goes to her son’s room and -sees a huge object with two tiers of four windows from which a strange, -yellow-green light is shining. The size of one of the windows is as big -as her living room wall. An apparent ceiling line is visible in the -bottom tier. Suddenly an intense white light shoots out from the object -at Mrs. Tibbetts, who is knocked backward and gets spots before her -eyes. When her vision clears, the UFO is gone. She has pains in her eyes -the next two days and they are extremely sensitive to light. She drives -to a clinic in Exeter, New Hampshire, which finds a spasm in the eyelid -and tearing, but it attributes this to the cobalt therapy she has been -getting. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4116

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Event 6233 -(78E9696C)

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Date: 11/1/1966
-Description: Official contract starting date of Colorado UFO -Project.
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 106

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Event 6234 -(A9163A6F)

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Date: 11/1/1966
-Description: The University of Colorado UFO project officially launches. -Michael -D. Swords writes: “It was one of the most peculiar scientific grants -of all time. Normally a governmental grant goes to a scientist who has -initiated it or is at least vitally interested and experienced in the -field, and essentially knows exactly what he is going to do. This grant -was to a scientist who was pushed into it, had little interest and -apparently no experience, and, despite his brilliance, ‘didn’t have a -clue.’ Because the reports of the UFO phenomenon are so complex and -multidimensional, this short-term ‘backwards grant’ was doomed to fail -before it was even signed.” (Swords 309– 312)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4115

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Event 6235 -(0E921FBF)

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Date: early 11/1966
-Description: Low and -Hynek make -the Colorado project’s first field trip, to Minot and Donnybrook, North -Dakota. November 2 — 7:25 p.m. Woodrow -Derenberger is driving his panel truck home to Parkersburg, West -Virginia, on Interstate 77 when a low-flying dark object about 35 feet -wide cuts in front of him and forces him to stop. It hovers a foot above -the ground, only 20 feet ahead. The object has a profile similar to a -kerosene lamp chimney flattened on the bottom side. A door opens and a -smiling man of dark complexion descends, wearing a topcoat (“blue and -quite shiny, having a glistening effect”) over shiny blue trousers. -Without opening his mouth, which bears a fixed grin, he addresses -Derenberger telepathically, asking him to open his window. For the next -10 minutes he conducts a telepathic conversation, first asking -Derenberger’s name and saying that his own is “Indrid Cold” from a -planet called Lanulos in the “Ganymede galaxy.” He tells Derenberger not -to think of him as an alien and concludes by saying, “We will see you -again.” After admitting Mr. Cold, the UFO rises vertically and -disappears. A truck driver named Walter -Vanscoy is going north on I-77 and sees, in apparent confirmation of -the encounter, a truck parked on the berm of the southbound I-77 lanes -with a man wearing a knee-length coat standing by the passenger side. -Derenberger’s space adventures are only beginning. (“The -Woodrow Derenberger Interview, -November 3, 1966,” The MothMan Wikia; “Parkersburg -Salesman Speaks -with Spaceman,” Beckley (W.Va.) Raleigh Register, November 4, 1966, -pp. 1–2; John A. Keel, The Mothman Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, pp. 50–52; -Woodrow W. Derenberger and Harold W. Hubbard, Visitors from Lanulos, -Vantage, 1971; Clark III 402–403; Jerome Clark, “The Adventures of Woody -Derenberger,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 7–8; Taunia -Derenberger-Bowman, Beyond Lanulos: Our Fifty Years with Indrid Cold, -The Author, 2016; Theo Paijmans, “The Terrible Grinning Men,” Fortean -Times 397 (October 2020): 32–34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4117

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Event 6236 -(D77407B5)

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Date: 11/2/1966
-Time: evening
-Description: Mrs. Mark deFriend, 32, saw an object at ground level in -front of her car on a rainy night. It would leave the road and fly over -the fields from time to time. The greenish-blue object flew back in -front of the car, then was lost to sight behind some trees.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 168 (Vallee)
-Location: El Campo, Texas
-ID: 803

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Event 6237 -(8BE8C17E)

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Date: 11/2/1966
-Time: 1925
-Description: W. Derenberger, salesman, saw a dark object ahead of him on -the road. It was flat on the bottom and rounded on top. As he stopped, -the object came within 20 cm of the road surface, and a man of dark -complexion, dressed with a shirt and ordinary trousers, both a shiny -blue color, came out, smiled at the witness who then thought that he -received a message, although no word was spoken. The message described a -hypothetical “other world” and suggested that the observation be -reported to authorities. The man also promised to return. Several people -who drove by the witness did report seeing a man speaking to him, as -well as a strange vehicle nearby.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 169; FSR 67, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Parkersburg, West Virginia
-ID: 804

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Event 6238 -(76D25366)

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Date: 11/4/1966
-Description: Derenberger has -another encounter when he lapses into a trance while driving a truck -with a colleague along US Highway 50 near Parkersburg, West Virginia. He -starts speaking, sometimes mumbling, other times conveying messages -about “ships.” Derenberger later says that Cold was sending him a -telepathic message that his ship was directly above the truck. A -sighting of a UFO “like two glass chimneys from a kerosene lamp welded -together at their widest or bulging ends” at 6:45 p.m. by Irma -Hudgins and her daughter Pamela -Sue near the intersection of I-77 and State Highway 47 seems to -confirm some UFO activity. Derenberger has further meetings with Indrid -Cold and his companion Carl Ardo, who often pass undetected among -earthlings, through the early 1970s and in 1984. (John A. Keel, The -Mothman Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, pp. 54–55; -Clark III 404–410; Jerome Clark, “The Adventures of Woody Derenberger,” -IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 8–11, 20–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4118

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Event 6239 -(23576C30)

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Date: 11/5/1966
-Description: Condon tells -the press that he knows “some people [McDonald] -who believe the air force is misleading us, but I don’t think so. Maybe -they are. I don’t care much.” (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., -1974, p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4119

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Event 6240 -(6FAC35ED)

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Date: 11/6/1966
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A driver on State Highway 47 near Parkersburg, -West Virginia, sees a UFO and gets out to watch it. At first it looks -like two lights near the American Viscose plant across the Little -Kanawha River. The object crosses the river and the highway then turns -off its lights at about 100–150 feet altitude. The lights come back on -and it starts moving toward the witness, stopping right over his car and -focusing a bright beam of light on him for 10 seconds. It shuts off and -the object moves leisurely away to the south. (Clark III 405)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4120

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Event 6241 -(05904944)

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Date: 11/8/1966
-Time: At night
-Description: Witness: college graduate Annis. A group of lights that -flashed and changed color hung stationary, almost touching the road, and -would abruptly vanish during the 5 minute sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Saginaw, Michigan
-ID: 561

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Event 6242 -(FBDA65BE)

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Date: 11/11/1966
-Description: Hynek and -Vallée give -an extended briefing to Condon and -his staff. Hynek urges the project to adopt a rating system, by which if -a sighting emerges as both strange and credible, it will be deemed -worthy of further investigation. Vallée recommends standardized report -forms that ask all the right questions. They both sense that Low, not -Condon, is “clearly the decision-maker.” Hynek tells Craig that -the project must recommend that scientific investigation of UFOs be -continued. (Clark III 1193; UFOs Yes, 50–61; Sparks, -p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4121

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Event 6243 -(BB7F3CC9)

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Date: 11/13/1966
-Description: Barber and amateur astronomer Ralph -Ditter Jr. of Roseville, Ohio, takes several “spectacular” photos of -a daylight disc. Later, Raytheon deals with the photographic analysis of -the photos. The report states that the object in the photos is 3–4 -inches in diameter, not 30 feet as claimed by Ditter; the object is not -at a considerable distance, but a mere 3–4 feet from the camera lens; -and the photos are not taken in rapid succession, but approximately 70 -minutes has elapsed between photos. Also, the numbers on the backs of -the photographs are out of sequence with Ditter’s story. (NICAP, “The -Ditter Photo Hoax”; Center for UFO Studies, [Ditter -photos]; Center for UFO Studies, [case documents, part -one, part -two]; E. L. Merritt, “Photogrammetric -Analysis of a Non-Synchronous -Pair of U.F.O. Exposures,” June 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4122

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Event 6244 -(ACAA2264)

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Date: 11/14/1966
-Description: Quintanilla, Lt. -William -Marley, and Col. Robert -Hippler of AFOSR brief the Colorado project staff. Quintanilla -contradicts Hynek’s -account of the swamp gas explanation. (UFOs Yes, 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4123

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Event 6245 -(990EA8CC)

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Date: 11/15/1966
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Two young couples from Point Pleasant, West -Virginia—Roger and Linda -Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette—are joyriding in an area -outside of town known as the “TNT area” [the site of a former World War -II munitions plant and now part of the McClintic Wildlife Management -Area] when they encounter a large gray creature whose eyes glow red when -the car’s headlights pick it up. Scarberry describes it as shaped like a -man but nearly 7 feet tall. They describe it as a “large flying man with -10-foot wings” that are folded against its back. Terrified, they drive -away but pass a similar creature on a hill by the road. As they pass it, -it spreads its wings, rises into the air, and pursues their car, keeping -pace at even 100 mph. The entity does not pursue them into town, but -they drive directly to the Mason County Courthouse, where they tell -their story to Deputy Millard -Halstead, who -accompanies the witnesses back to the site. He hears strange static -disturbances coming from his radio, but they find no evidence of the -encounter. On November 16, Sheriff George -E. Johnson holds a press conference to discuss the sighting, the -press begins calling the creature “Mothman” based on a comic book -character. The Scarberrys and Mallettes go back to the site in the -daylight and find odd-looking tracks like “two horseshoes put together.” -After this sighting, more people begin reporting encounters, and -hundreds of cars swarm out to the TNT area at night in search of a -Mothman sighting. In May 1976, representatives of the Ohio UFO -Investigators League reinterview several witnesses, all of whom stick to -their stories and sometimes add interesting details. (John A. Keel, The -Mothman Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, pp. 59–61; -Clark III 779–781; “Scarberry -and Mallette’s Mothman Sighting,” The MothMan Wikia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4124

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Event 6246 -(C67C2171)

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Date: 11/17/1966
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Two police officers see a round, glowing object -with a wide, flat rim around the center resting on the ground near -Gaffney, South Carolina. They estimate the diameter to be about 20 feet. -As they watch from less than 50 feet away, a door opens and a small -humanoid being descends. The observation lasts several minutes. -Footprints are found at the site. (John A. Keel, “The -Little Man of Gaffney,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 2 (March/April -1968): 17–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4125

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Event 6247 -(7CAA1FA0)

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Date: 11/17/1966
-Time: 0400
-Description: Patrolmen A. G. Huskey and C. Hutchins saw a dark, -spherical machine with a flat rim land near them. Estimated diameter: 7 -m. An opening and a short ladder became visible, and a small man, -dressed in a shiny gold suit, emerged, came within 6 m of them, and -spoke in perfect English before taking off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Gaffney, South Carolina
-ID: 805

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Event 6248 -(C1535D68)

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Date: 11/19/1966
-Time: 0750
-Description: Two local businessmen observed a dark, gray, metallic -sphere, from the top of which projected a dozen “tentacles” over 2 m -long, flying at about 40 m altitude and then coming down behind a house. -It was assumed that it plunged into the bay, but a search by patrol -boats was unsuccessful.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: Bavonne, New Jersey
-ID: 806

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Event 6249 -(10961FD7)

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Date: 11/22/1966
-Description: 4:20 p.m. At least eight employees of the American -Newspaper Publishers Association in New York City watch a UFO from their -offices on the 17th floor at 750 Third Avenue. The UFO is a rectangular, -“cushion- shaped” object whose bright, reflective surface first catches -the eye of Assistant General Manager Donald R. McVay. They go outside -onto the terrace and watch the object move southward over the East -River, then hover above the United Nations building. It flutters and -bobs “like a ship on agitated water.” It rises slowly and moves south -then west. One of the other witnesses is the manager of the Publications -Department, William H. Leick. (“Major -Sighting Wave,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 (Jan,/Feb. 1967): 4; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified -Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, -Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., -2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4129

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Event 6250 -(D5DA3A06)

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Date: 11/22/1966
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A deer hunter searching for game near Roaring -River State Park, Missouri, returns to his group’s camp and becomes -alarmed when he sees smoke rising from it. He finds their tent and other -camping equipment destroyed. The tent is still smoldering, one of the -aluminum tent poles is singed, and the aluminum cots are melted. The -tent is set up under two trees, but their leaves show no traces of -damage at all. About 15 feet away is a dead tree with its top still -burning. The witness then heasr a low humming sound and sees an object -rising from the valley about 300 feet away. He is able to take a -photograph of it as it ascends and manages a second photo a few seconds -later. It is an aluminum-colored disc, about 25 feet in diameter and 8 -feet thick, with a band around its center and some kind of projection at -its rear. The humming sound intensifies as the object picks up speed and -disappears in 20 seconds. (CUFOS case file; Ted Phillips, Physical -Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, Center -for UFO Studies, 1978, p. 44; B. J. Booth, “UFO -Encountered, Photographed, Roaring River, Missouri, -1966,” UFO Casebook)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4128

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Event 6251 -(1ECA60CE)

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Date: 11/22/1966
-Description: 9:00–10:00 a.m. A biochemist and consultant to a logging -company and his wife are traveling on State Highway 58 through the -Willamette Pass, Oregon, when he decides to stop and take photos of some -scenery. He stops at the Diamond Peak overlook, takes 2 photos, then -pauses to take a third. Suddenly, he claims, a disc- shaped object with -a domed top ascends into his field of view. After stopping for 3 -seconds, it shoots off toward the right and disappears into a cloud -bank. When he develops the roll of film, the photos show a blurred disc- -shaped object with two black bands beneath and sitting atop a seeming -column of vapor. NICAP is given the photo but is not impressed. In 1989, -physicist Irwin -Wieder performs a detailed analysis of the photo and determines that -it is a blurred photo of the “Diamond Peak” sign taken from a passing -car. (Clark III 1281–1283; Irwin Wieder, “The -Willamette Pass Oregon UFO Photo Revisited: An Explanation,” Journal -of Scientific Exploration 7, no. 2 (1993): 173–198; Irwin Wieder, “The -Willamette Pass Photo Explained,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): -18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4127

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Event 6252 -(676297F2)

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Date: 11/22/1966
-Description: McDonald informally -visits several Colorado project members. He explains radar complexities -and mirage effects and tells them that they will soon be “confronting -astonishing evidence of mishandling of the UFO problems by your -sponsoring agency.” (UFOs Yes, 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4126

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Event 6253 -(2ECDBB3D)

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Date: 11/28/1966
-Description: Two witnesses observed a dark, red object land by the side -of the road, later following their car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 168 (Vallee)
-Location: El Campo, Texas
-ID: 807

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Event 6254 -(3C59E2FF)

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Date: 11/28/1966
-Description: 12:10 a.m. Spanish contactee Enrique -Villagrasa receives by telephone his first message from inhabitants -of the planet Ummo. The caller speaks in a slow monotone and with a -foreign accent, answering questions about history and science. -Villagrasa has the impression he is talking to an “electronic brain.” -Other messages follow, and Villagrasa passes them on to Fernando -Sesma, an employee of the Spanish telegraph service and head of -Amigos de los Visitantes del Espacio. (Clark III 1184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4131

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Event 6255 -(EA48ADB5)

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Date: 11/28/1966
-Description: At Saunders’s -invitation, Hall and -Keyhoe brief -the Colorado project members. They meet with Low and -show him some strong NICAP reports like the 1959 Redmond, Oregon, case. -Low dismisses it as too old because the witnesses “wouldn’t remember the -details.” Keyhoe focuses on the cover-up, while Hall argues that the -best way to assess UFO evidence is to look at the aggregated evidence. -(Clark III 1193; UFO Yes, 62–63; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., -1974, pp. 108–110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4130

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Event 6256 -(979D82E5)

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Date: 11/28/1966
-Description: Night. Janis Bodungen, 17, is on her way home on Farm Road -1300 northwest of El Campo, Texas, when she sees teo bright lights -coming toward her. As they approach, the two lights turn into one large -golden light as tall as the trees. She turns the car around and speeds -away. (“The -Texas Flap,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1967, pp. 3, 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4132

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Event 6257 -(3BFAD88C)

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Date: 11/30/1966
-Description: 4:35 p.m. J. G. Hockenberry is flying a Cessna 150 near New -Kingstown, Pennsylvania, when he sees a saucer-shaped object, about 30 -feet in diameter, approach and hover beside the aircraft. It has a dull, -gray-white finish and one blinking red light. When the pilot flies into -a cloud layer, the object rises straight up and out of sight. (NICAP -case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4133

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Event 6258 -(0098B7EC)

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Date: 12/1966
-Description: Low visits -NICAP headquarters in Washington, D.C. He admits that Condon thinks -the early reports are worthless. Keyhoe tells -Low that before he wastes any time supplying them with reports, he wants -to know what Condon thinks of the 1965 cases they already provided. -Otherwise, NICAP might pull out. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., -1974, p. 112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4134

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Event 6259 -(401112BF)

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Date: 12/1966
-Description: Colorado project member and psychologist William -A. Scott devises a witness questionnaire. One page is devoted to the -UFO, the other 20 are about the psychological profile of the witness. -When he discovers that the witness is not the project’s main focus, he -goes home. (UFOs Yes, 67–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4135

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Event 6260 -(48D8D5A3)

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Date: 12/2/1966
-Description: Wertheimer goes to Washington, D.C., to interview witnesses -of the National Airport radar-visual sightings of 1952. Virtually every -witness disputes Gen. John -A. Samford’s explanation of temperature inversions. (UFOs Yes, -72–74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4136

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Event 6261 -(508AC796)

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Date: 12/7/1966
-Description: A TAP Air Portugal airliner piloted by Capt. Henrique Maia -is paced by two luminous objects near Luanda, Angola. (Lorenzen, UFOs -over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4137

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Event 6262 -(2FF8C21C)

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Date: 12/15/1966
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Four witnesses driving northwest toward -Woodstown, New Jersey, see a triangular object with rounded corners and -three blinking lights. It is moving slowly in the opposite direction. -When they leave Woodstown to the southeast at 6:15 p.m., it reappears -and passes over the car. (Marler 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4138

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Event 6263 -(C4B68CEF)

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Date: 12/17/1966
-Description: Hynek’s -article, in which he states that hundreds of puzzling UFO cases exit and -urges a serious inquiry, appears in the Saturday Evening Post. (J. Allen -Hynek, “Are -Flying Saucers Real?” Saturday Evening Post, December 17, 1966, -pp. 17–21, transcribed by -NICAP)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4139

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Event 6264 -(1A3A4F9A)

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Date: 12/17/1966
-Description: “Are Flying Saucers Real?” by Dr. J. A. Hynek in Saturday -Evening Post, stating that hundreds of puzzling UFO cases exist and -urging a serious inquiry
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 107

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Event 6265 -(AD4AE67B)

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Date: 12/21/1966
-Description: Lockheed test pilot William -C. Park flies an A-12 for 10,198 statute miles in only 6 hours, at -an average speed of 1,660 mph. (“William -C. Park Jr.,” Roadrunners Internationale)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4140

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Event 6266 -(E4ACBFC9)

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Date: 12/25/1966
-Time: 3 AM
-Description: Witnesses: civilians and military persons. Three round -objects, as large as cars, gave off vapor, then became three bright -reddish-orange lights. Blast at beginning of 90 minute sighting pushed -one witness against a car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Monroe, Oregon
-ID: 562

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Event 6267 -(5F54AE1F)

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Date: 12/28/1966
-Description: The Defense Department makes a recommendation to President -Johnson to -terminate the A-12 program due to budget concerns and because of the -development of the SR-71 Blackbird. It is to be phased out by June 1968. -(Wikipedia, “Lockheed -A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4141

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Event 6268 -(B2CE2EF5)

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Date: 12/30/1966
-Description: 8:15 p.m. A physics professor named Galloway [possibly Louie -A. Galloway III] is driving through a wooded area near Haynesville, -Louisiana, and sees a bright, pulsating glow, changing from orange to -white, in the woods about one mile away. He estimates its visible light -power output at about one megawatt. Coming back the next day, he locates -traces of burns and calls the USAF and University of Colorado UFO -project. (Condon, pp. -61, 277–280; -Sparks, p. 320; -Jacques Vallée, “Estimates -of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial -Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,” Journal of -Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 350– 352)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4142

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Event 6269 -(5E04DBFB)

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Date: 12/30/1966
-Time: 2015
-Description: A physics professor driving through a wooded area saw a -bright, pulsating glow, changing from orange to white, in the woods -about 1.7 km away. Coming back the next day, he located traces of burns, -and called the Air Force and the University of Colorado.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Haynesville, Louisiana
-ID: 808

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Event 6270 -(F1BE0DD3)

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Date: 12/30/1966
-Description: Two luminous objects paced Canadian Pacific Airlines plane -at 35,000 feet for seven minutes, emitted light beams up, then down, -accelerated away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Peru
-ID: 108

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- Event 6271 (9313454C)

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Date: 1967
-Description: Robert -M. Wood, physicist and aerospace manager for McDonnell Douglas -Corporation, is assigned the task of exploring breakthroughs in gravity -propulsion. The project includes laboratory evaluation of hypotheses, -field observations, and examination of UFO literature. At one point -there are 4 full-time and 3 part-time employees involved in the effort, -code-named BITBR (“Boys in the Back Room”). Wood networks with James -E. McDonald, J. -Allen Hynek, Carl -Sagan, and -the Colorado project. The initiative is terminated in 1969 at Wood’s -recommendation due to its inability to project a technological payoff. -(Robert M. Wood, “A Little Physics…A Little Friction: A Close Encounter -with the Condon Committee,” IUR 18, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1993): 6–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4145

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Event 6272 -(1518C748)

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Date: 1967
-Description: A French government UFO project, to be led by former -inspector general at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique Jean-Luc -Bruneau, is -approved. Bruneau recommends that the study first become a project of -the Centre Nationale d’Études Spatiales, and later a European -initiative. But the project is postponed because of the political crisis -in France in May 1968. (Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official -UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4144

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Event 6273 -(5C780EC9)

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Date: 1967
-Description: The US nuclear stockpile reaches its peak at 31,255 bombs. -(Ryan Crierie, “U.S. -Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009”) 1967 — Night. Miss E. R. East, of -Gibsons, British Columbia, is awakened by a banging noise and sees a -brilliant orange-red light soaring above hills behind the town. As she -watches, its color changes to glowing white and the object moves toward -the Strait of Georgia. Suddenly, a 10-foot-wide beam of light shoots -down to the water. As it strikes the surface, it bends and lies flat on -the surface, lighting up the wharf on Keats Island. As she stares at it, -her eyes begin to sting. (John Magor, Our UFO Visitors, Hancock House, -1977, pp. 37–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4143

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Event 6274 -(34670C3B)

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Date: 1967
-Description: In 1967 a drought reduced water levels in Lake Karachay -where nuclear waste was being dumped, exposing radioactive dust. The -dust was spread by gale-force winds in the area, spread over 25,000 -square kilometers and exposing another 500,000 residents to nuclear -fallout. The lake would eventually accumulate over 120 million curies of -radionuclides. To put that in perspective, the Chernobyl incident -released 1 million.
-Type: radiological event
-Reference: link
-Location: Lake Karachay, Russia

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Event 6275 -(E59C8489)

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Date: 1/1967
-End date: 5/1967
-Description: Intensive U.S. and international UFO sighting wave (see -separate chronology, section VIII).
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 109

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Event 6276 -(A432B4F3)

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Date: 1/1967
-Description: Night. French rocket scientist Jean-Pierre -Morin is driving three members of a launch team to the tower at -Interarmy Special Vehicles Test Center at Hammaguir, Algeria. When they -arrive at a row of buildings, they notice a light in the sky silently -coming toward them. Their car engine sputters and fails. It stops and -hovers at an elevation of 45° about 1,600 feet away. Morin thinks it is -attached to a black, cylindrical object 980–1,300 feet in length and 100 -feet in diameter with “flames” of different colors along its side. The -light begins moving slowly again, and a car with astrophysicists stops -and watches it for another 20–30 minutes before it ascends and -disappears. (Good Need, pp. 296–297)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4146

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Event 6277 -(57C72CD4)

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Date: early 1/1967
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Robert Blaine is driving with five other -witnesses on State Highway 55 two miles southeast of Farwell, Minnesota, -when his headlights and engine suddenly go out. He sees an orange flash -to his left at the level of his hood and tiny beads of light cross in -front of the windshield. A passenger sees an orange-and-red flash go by -on the driver’s side at window level. The car coasts to a stop, then the -engine and headlights go back on again by themselves. (“Car -Buzzing Incidents on Increase,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, -p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4147

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Event 6278 -(887DCA94)

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Date: 1/3/1967
-Description: Dome-shaped object hovered over car, roadway brightly -illuminated. Forward motion slowed, unable to accelerate, loss of -steering control
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New Richmond, IN
-ID: 110

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Event 6279 -(3CA1D47D)

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Date: 1/3/1967
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 111

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Event 6280 -(4CDF32FC)

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Date: 1/3/1967
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A dome-shaped object hovers for several miles and -10–15 minutes above a car in New Richmond, Michigan. It illuminates the -road, and the car draws to a stop with loss of steering control and the -radio failing. Examination of the car by Fred Hooven and David Moyer, -engineers at the Ford Motor Company, two months later shows no faults -unexplainable by ordinary causes. (Condon, pp. 102–106, 282–285; -Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 65–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4148

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Event 6281 -(83FEB812)

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Date: 1/5/1967
-Description: An A-12 flown by pilot Walter -Ray is lost during a training flight near Leith Canyon, Nevada. Due -to a faulty fuel gauge, the aircraft runs out of fuel 70 miles from -Groom Dry Lake. Ray glides to a lower altitude to perform a controlled -bailout but cannot separate his parachute from his ejection seat. He is -the first pilot to be killed in an A-12 accident. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4150

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Event 6282 -(85E3D9B2)

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Date: 1/5/1967
-Description: Hynek writes -to Condon, telling -him that he, Jacques -Vallée, and William T. Powers are devoting more personal time to the -UFO problem and are setting up a file area in the Lindheimer Observatory -at Northwestern University in Evansto, Illinois. He mentions that there -is enough underground interest in UFOs among his scientific colleagues -that he is thinking of creating an informal “invisible college” to -discuss the subject quietly. He mentions that he sat in on a hypnosis -session a few weeks previously with Benjamin Simon and was allowed to -question Betty -and Barney Hill. He -also suggests that the Colorado project recommend that police squad cars -carry cameras that can document ongoing UFO reports. (Center for UFO -Studies, [Hynek -correspondence], pp. 6– 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4149

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Event 6283 -(2AE25F39)

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Date: 1/5/1967
-Time: 0430
-Description: A civilian man, 32, driving to work in his 1964 Chevy -truck, had to stop and inspect the vehicle when its engine stalled. Only -then did he observe an intense light to his right, coming closer. He saw -it land on the road, and locked himself inside the cabin. The craft -settled on a tripod landing gear; it measured 25 m in diameter and was -10 m high. Something similar to an elevator came down from it, and a man -dressed in blue coveralls “with something like a glass fishbowl on his -head,” of medium height, seemed to check something and left.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Winsted, Minnesota
-ID: 812

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Event 6284 -(ADA4F54B)

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Date: 1/6/1967
-Description: Hynek speaks -to an overflow crowd at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, -Maryland. He says he has had to revise his thinking on UFOs, urges -scientists to take an active role in investigations, and confirms -reports that NORAD and SAC radar has tracked UFOs, citing a case in -which SAC radar tracked a UFO at 4,000 mph on an erratic flight path. -(Story, p. 413)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4151

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Event 6285 -(8EC6BE95)

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Date: 1/9/1967
-Description: Two teenage brothers of Mount Clemens, Michigan, Daniel A. -and Grant -P. Jaroslaw, take some Polaroid photos from the backyard of their -home of a domed object moving slowly above Lake St. Clair. After they -release the images to a wire service, the Air Force requests the -originals for analysis. They refuse to relinquish them but give an -officer at Selfridge AFB [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base] some -copies. Maj. Raymond -Nyls attempts to recreate the photos at the original site using a -block of wood hanging from a string on a children’s swing set. USAF -turns the copies and Nyls’s recreations over to the National -Photographic Interpretation Center, which takes a serious look and -suspects a hoax but cannot prove it conclusively. (“Two -Brothers Photograph Circular -Object in Michigan,” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Joey -Del Ponte, “Formerly -Secret Memo -Shows How the Air Force Investigated UFO Sightings,” Muckrock, -February 14, 2018; Curt Collins, “Dr. Hynek -and the UFO Photo Investigation of 1967,” The Saucers That Time -Forgot, October 21, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4152

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Event 6286 -(43E64631)

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Date: 1/12/1967
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A luminous object crosses the sky off Agadir, -Morocco. It leaves a white trail that turns into a rainbow and falls -into the sea with a deafening sound. The US Defense attaché in Rabat, -Naval Capt. C. G. Strum, says the sighting “could be valuable in pursuit -of Project Moon Dust.” (US Department of Defense, “UFO Sighting -over Agadir, Morocco,” January 18, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4154

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Event 6287 -(85E1934C)

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Date: 1/12/1967
-Description: The USAF advisory committee holds a special briefing in -Boulder, Colorado. Condon discusses -project plans and asks the Air Force where the project should place its -emphasis. Lt. Col. Hippler, -along with Col. Raymond -Sleeper, Blue -Book’s boss as Foreign Technology Division Commander, says the project -is not required to prove or disprove anything, but that “we don’t want -any recommendation from you unless you feel strongly about it.” He -rejects Wertheimer’s suggestion that the project should concentrate on -witnesses, not sightings. Hippler and Ratchford do -not adequately respond to Low’s -question about what USAF wants from the project. (“Air -Force Advisory Panel Briefing,” January 12, 1967; Roy Craig, UFOs: -An Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence, University of -North Texas, 1995, p. 235; Michael D. Swords, “The -USAF-Sponsored Colorado -Project for the Scientific Study of UFOs,” 1995 MUFON Symposium -Proceedings, MUFON, 1995; Clark III 1194; Swords 314–315)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4153

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Event 6288 -(4AEA4541)

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Date: 1/13/1967
-Description: Condon and -Low visit -Cheyenne Mountain, NORAD’s underground Space Defense Center complex in -Colorado, for a “classified briefing” by orbital analysts 1Lt. Henry -B. Eckert Jr. and Capt. Dick A. Cable of the 9th Aerospace Defense -Division’s 1st Aerospace Control Squadron about NORAD’s radar network, -hours after another classified briefing for Condon and staff at Boulder -concludes. The Cheyenne Mountain briefing is the first in a series of -tactical moves designed to discourage Condon’s project staff, Hynek, and -McDonald from -using NORAD as a source of UFO data or resource for future -investigations or instrumentation. (Clark III 804–805; UFOs Yes, -66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4155

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Event 6289 -(C181B2C9)

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Date: 1/13/1967
-Description: 10:00 p.m. The crew of a Lear Jet flying at 41,000 feet -over southwestern New Mexico sees a flashing red luminous object in -their 10 o’clock position. The object splits into four smaller red -objects vertically several times, each separated by about 2,000 feet and -each emitting a “red ray.” It then retracts the lowest objects into the -top object. Albuquerque radar tracks a target 39 miles ahead of the Lear -Jet moving on the same heading, with no transponder signal. At that -moment the object blinks off visually for 30 seconds then blinks back -on. The UFO floods the jet with an intense red light so bright that the -pilot has difficulty seeing his instrument panel. It maintains its -position in front for a few minutes then blinks out, comes on again, and -falls back behind the left wing. It then pulls forward again. -Albuquerque radar reports that it looks like the target had merged with -the jet. Both the UFO and the jet make left turns over Winslow, Arizona, -after which Los Angeles Center radar picks up both targets. Past -Flagstaff, the object climbs at a 30° angle and disappears to the west -in less than 10 seconds. (NICAP, “R/V”; -Sparks, p. 321; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4157

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Event 6290 -(D14913B3)

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Date: 1/13/1967
-Description: Early morning. Sgt. Norman Finley of the Joplin, Missouri, -police alerts fellow officers about an unexplained object overhead. -Pittsburg, Kansas, police dispatcher James Cunningham notifies the -Joplin police that a UFO has been seen over Pittsburg. He describes it -as an object with bright colors of “vivid blue-green with flashing -lights.” Cunningham alerts the Joplin station because the object seems -to be leaving Kansas and heading for Missouri. After receiving that -call, Joplin’s Lt. Charles -Hickman drives to Stone’s Corner near the Joplin airport. He waits -for nearly an hour before spotting a UFO in the sky, which he watches -for more than an hour. It is about 1,000 feet high and seems about as -big as two houses. It makes turns and maneuvers “as if it were being -controlled.” For the next three days, there are more sightings in the -early morning hours at Coffeyville, Kansas; Joplin, Springfield, and -Newton County, Missouri; and northeast Oklahoma. (UFOs Yes, 109–110; -Condon, pp. 286–290)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4156

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Event 6291 -(C6BE3ECF)

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Date: 1/15/1967
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Helen Godard and her two nieces see a domed disc -with white light emanating from portholes in its base in Granville, -Massachusetts. They hear a humming sound, and the sky and ground are -illuminated by white light. Red flame jets appear at one end when the -object moves. Speed is variable. At one point, all the lights go out, -and when they come back on the portholes are showing red light. The -object is seen three times within 20 minutes before it disappears over a -mountain to the east. (“Major -Sighting Wave,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 (Jan./Feb. 1967): 4; -Condon, pp. 285–286)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4158

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Event 6292 -(ABC57345)

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Date: 1/16/1967
-Description: Hippler writes -to Condon, -saying that “No one knows of a visitation. It should therefore follow -there has been no [extraterrestrial] visitation to date.” Moreover, -Condon should “consider the cost of the Air Force program on UFOs, and -determine if the taxpayer should support this for the next decade.” (Lt. -Col. Robert H. Hippler, Letter -to Edward U. Condon, January -16, 1967; Kevin D. Randle, “The -Hippler Letter,” A Different Perspective, March 21, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4159

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Event 6293 -(651E5100)

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Date: 1/16/1967
-Description: Approximately 4:30-6:30 A.M. Sodium vapor clouds from -rocket launched at Eglin AFB, FL, blue-green color, visible over wide -area.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Southeastern United States
-ID: 112

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Event 6294 -(CC9C1273)

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Date: 1/17/1967
-Time: 1845
-Description: A woman walking home saw a beam of light about 1 m in -section sweep the ground in her direction. It came from a circular, -white object that turned off its main light. She then saw reddish spots -before it vanished entirely. Another witness saw the phenomenon from a -separate location, 2 km away (LDLN).
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: (Vallee)
-Location: Romieres, France
-ID: 809

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Event 6295 -(CD70DC33)

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Date: 1/17/1967
-Time: night
-Description: F. Bedel, 23, driving on Route 135 about 8 km north of -Freetown saw a plate-shaped object with red, yellow, blue, and white -blinking lights, lost control of his car, and ran off the road. Less -than 2 km away, Phil Patton saw an identical object that came within 30 -m of his car.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 22 (Vallee)
-Location: Freetown, Indiana
-ID: 810

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Event 6296 -(D6FB218D)

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Date: 1/17/1967
-Description: Night. Francis Bedel Jr. is driving on State Highway 135 -five miles north of Freetown, Indiana, when a glowing white light darts -into his field of vision. It hovers above the road for a few seconds, -then slowly reverses its course. Bedel is so busy staring at the -spectacle that he loses control of his car, which goes off the road and -is badly damaged. Phil Patton and his wife apparently see the same -object, about 30 feet in diameter, that comes within 100 feet of their -car on the same road. It has a brilliant red light and flashing ywllow -and white lights on its perimeter. (NICAP, “The -1967 UFO Chronology”; “UFO -Caused Car Wreck?” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1967, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4160

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Event 6297 -(FE2C783D)

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Date: 1/18/1967
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A family in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, watches -through binoculars a disc with a red light on a projection at the rear -approach them at about 400–500 feet altitude. As it nears, the object -emits two pinkish-white light beams downward at about a 45° angle from -its forward edge. It then turns, rises suddenly, joins a second object, -and both speed away. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., UFOs: -A New Look, NICAP, 1969, Appendix -D)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4161

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Event 6298 -(89EC3ABD)

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Date: 1/19/1967
-Time: 0905
-Description: Two min later it flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Charleston (West Virginia) Tad Jones, 38, was driving near -Charleston when he saw a large, metal sphere, about 6 m in diameter, -having four legs equipped with wheels and a very small propeller -underneath
-ID: 811

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Event 6299 -(E1A1CA1D)

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Date: 1/19/1967
-Description: 9:05 a.m. Tad Jones is driving a truck in Dunbar, West -Virginia, when he sees a dull, aluminum sphere about 20–25 feet in -diameter hovering about 4 feet above the road some 500 feet ahead of -him. It has two antennae protruding from the top and two legs beneath -it, with a propellor between them that rotates slowly when hovering (but -faster when flying). There is a window at the top and a flange in the -middle. When he gets to about 10 feet of it, the object ascends swiftly. -(“Major -Sighting Wave,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 (Jan./Feb. 1967): -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4162

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Event 6300 -(2114D12E)

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Date: late 1/1967
-Description: McDonald is -lobbying Frederick -Seitz, president -of the National Academy of Sciences, with some mild criticisms of the -Colorado project and the establishment of a UFO research panel. Seitz is -not convinced. (Clark III 698)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4164

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Event 6301 -(87C57834)

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Date: 1/20/1967
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Three girls (Kimberly Lodge, Ellen Kenney, and -Janice Shafer), 16–17 years old, are driving near Methuen, -Massachusetts, when they see a string of 9–10 bright red lights on a -dark object that is moving over a field. The object hovers and swings -around, revealing lights of a different color and configuration. When -the girls stop to watch, their car stalls and the radio and lights go -off. It has four glowing lights in the shape of a trapezoid, with red -lights on top and white lights forming the base. The lights appear to be -reflecting off a metal surface. The object starts moving slowly and then -shoots away at high speed. A second car about 3 miles away also sees 7–8 -bright lights flying low. (NICAP, “Car -Stalls after Girls See UFO over Field”; “Major -Sighting Wave,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 11 (Jan./Feb. 1967): 3–4; -Raymond Fowler, UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, Prentice-Hall, 1974, -pp. 138–143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4163

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Event 6302 -(6EDF2932)

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Date: 1/24/1967
-Description: 5:25 p.m. A 14-year-old boy in Yorba Linda, California, -sees an object shaped like a top hat apparently hovering above houses -across the street. It seems large and cylindrical, dull metallic, and -has four legs. He grabs a camera and snaps a photo of the object, which -has started moving away. (Ann Druffel, “The -Yorba Linda Photograph,” -in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Encounters, special issue no. 5 of FSR, -November 1973, pp. 26–35; UFOEv II 286–287; Patrick Gross, “Yorba -Linda, California, January 24, 1967”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4165

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Event 6303 -(EE0108DB)

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Date: 1/25/1967
-Description: Betty Andreasson abduction
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: South Ashburnham, MA
-ID: 114

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Event 6304 -(FAC9D17B)

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Date: 1/25/1967
-Description: Dr. E. U. Condon, scientific director of the Colorado UFO -Project, spoke to the Corning, NY, section of the American Chemical -Society, stating that the government should get out of the UFO business, -since there was apparently nothing to it.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 113

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Event 6305 -(E3A08FB8)

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Date: 1/25/1967
-Description: Condon gives -a talk in Corning, New York, and says: “It is my inclination right now -to recommend that the government get out of this business. My attitude -right now is that there’s nothing to it … but I’m not supposed to reach -a conclusion for another year.” Keyhoe is -astonished by Condon’s remarks. (“Most -UFOs Explainable, Says Scientist,” -Elmira (N.Y.) Star-Gazette, January 26, 1967, p. 19; UFOs Yes, -117–119)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4166

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Event 6306 -(D6A805D3)

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Date: 1/25/1967
-Description: 6:35 p.m. Betty -Andreasson has her first abduction experience in South Ashburnham, -Massachusetts. Placed under hypnosis on several occasions in 1977, -Andreasson relates that following the appearance of the creatures every -member of the family except her enters a state of paralysis “as if time -had stopped for them.” A Christian evangelical, Andreasson thinks they -must be angels. The culminating event is when Andreasson witnesses a -giant phoenix-like bird burn up and reappear from the ashes as a giant -worm. Further hypnotic probing brings forth apparent memories of -lifelong interactions with extraterrestrials. Raymond -E. Fowler’s 1979 book about the case contains the first reference to -an implant in abduction literature, a motif that later becomes much more -common. (Clark III 114–122; Raymond E. Fowler, The Andreasson Affair, -Prentice-Hall, 1979; Raymond E. Fowler, The -Andreasson Affair: Phase Two, Prentice-Hall, -1982; Raymond E. Fowler, The Watchers, Bantam, -1990; Raymond E. Fowler, The -Watchers II, Wild Flower, 1995; Raymond E. Fowler, The Andreasson -Legacy, Marlowe, 1997; Betty Andreasson Luca and Bob Luca, A Lifting of -the Veil, The Authors, 2017; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification -System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 19; Marcus -Lowth, “The -Extraordinary Claims of Betty Andreasson,” UFO Insight, March 24, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4167

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Event 6307 -(5CFB5F45)

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Date: 1/26/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: A Methodist minister was driving on Route 185 near Coffeen -when he saw an object, flat on the bottom, rounded on top, cross the -road silently 100 m away, at low speed. Length, 20 m; height, 3 m.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Coffeen, Illinois
-ID: 813

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Event 6308 -(BD2C3433)

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Date: 1/26/1967
-Description: 8:30 p.m. The teenage daughter of a lieutenant colonel -residing on a US Army base in Heidelberg, Germany, hears a strange -pulsating sound. She tells her father, and they look out the window to -see a dirigible- shaped object about 50–60 feet long hovering about 150 -feet off the ground above a motor vehicle shed. Before long, a crowd of -50–60 people gather around their apartment building to watch the object, -which is only 100 feet away. Some observers with binoculars say it is -metallic and has lights that alternate in red, blue, and green colors. -After about 20 minutes, US Air Force jets approach in response to a call -from the base, and the UFO’s lights increase in intensity and it speeds -away. (“Around -the Globe,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4168

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Event 6309 -(A35ED605)

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Date: 1/28/1967
-Time: 1345
-Description: Children observed “a little blue man with a tall hat and a -beard” that disappeared in a puff of smoke; they later saw him again, -and heard “foreign-sounding” voices.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Studham, Great Britain
-ID: 814

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Event 6310 -(E832A67D)

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Date: 1/28/1967
-Description: 1:45 p.m. Alex Butler, 10, and five young friends are -playing on Studham Common as they are making their way to Studham Lower -School, Bedfordshire, England. Suddenly a flash of lightning strikes -nearby, and Alex sees a little blue man about 3 feet tall with a high -bowler hat and beard standing motionless on the opposite bank. It is -clothed in a one-piece garment with a broad black belt and black box in -front. A dim glow envelops him, giving him a blue color. The other boys -see it too. They begin to run toward the creature, but it disappears in -a puff of smoke. The little man appears in a different spot, and the -boys start running there, but again he disappears. As the vanishing act -repeats again, the boys hear a deep-toned sound emanating from two spots -nearby. At that point the school bell sounds, and the boys rush off to -class. Miss Newcomb, the school headmistress, interviews the boys and -collects their written reports in a scrapbook (now lost). (R. H. B. -Winder, “The -Little Blue Man on Studham Common,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1967): 3–4; Theo Paijmans, “In Search of the Little Blue -Man,” Fortean Times 339 (May 2016): 56–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4169

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Event 6311 -(FC301CD3)

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Date: 1/30/1967
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Reinhardt -N. Ausmus and his wife Ruth are -driving north on State Highway 99 in Sandusky, Ohio, when they spot a -bright light in the sky. Stopping their car, they watch it hover for -several minutes before it is suddenly extinguished. (“UFO -over NASA Station,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 12 (March/April 1967): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4171

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Event 6312 -(99A13778)

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Date: 1/30/1967
-Description: 8:04 a.m. Commercial pilot Delton -Schwanz is with his wife Della and -three children 5 miles southwest of Crosby, North Dakota, when they see -a bright-white, sharply outlined, lozenge-shaped object to the west. It -momentarily hovers, then moves in level flight to the left, with a -smooth climb in the southwest. It drops white “strips” of light that -descend vertically and disappears to the south by ascending to about -30°–45° elevation. At around the same time, George Larsen (Larson?) and -Larry Pateof (Pace?) are driving by car 20 miles west of Crosby near the -intersection of Highways 5 and 85 and see a large white light moving -rapidly from west to south dropping something and disappearing suddenly. -(Sparks, p. 321; -Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 73–74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4170

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Event 6313 -(9158A606)

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Date: 1/31/1967
-Description: Saunders stops -in at NICAP in Washington, D.C., to pick up some case material. Keyhoe and -Hall show -him a clipping about Condon’s -statements in Corning, New York. Saunders suggests that Condon is -misquoted. But several NICAP members had been in the audience and one -has already resigned to protest NICAP’s support of a sham investigation. -(Clark III 1194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4172

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Event 6314 -(2980831A)

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Date: 2/1967
-Description: Soviet cosmologist Felix -Ziegel writes an article revealing that “UFOs have been seen all -over the USSR; the craft of every possible shape, small, large, -flattened, spherical. They are able to remain stationary in the -atmosphere or shoot along at 100,000 kilometers per hour. They move -without producing the slightest sound, by creating around themselves a -pneumatic vacuum that protects them from burning up in our stratosphere. -Their craft have the mysterious capacity to vanish and reappear at will. -Besides, they are able to affect our power resources, putting to a halt -our electricity-generating plants, our radio stations, and our engines, -without, however, leaving any permanent damage. So refined a technology -can only be the fruit of an intelligence that is indeed far superior to -ours.” The article is regarded in the West as the first-ever evidence -that the Soviets are aware of UFO phenomena too. (CIA translation of -Felix Ziegel, “UFOs: -What Are They?” Smena, no. 7 (February 1967): 27– 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4175

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Event 6315 -(0BA1A9F1)

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Date: 2/1967
-Description: Although a UFO wave is in progress, practically no one at -the Colorado project has the knowledge or resources to perform a serious -investigation. Other than Low and -the junior staff, nearly everyone lacks basic equipment, questionnaires, -cameras, or tape measures. (UFOs Yes, 110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4173

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Event 6316 -(23ABA43A)

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Date: 2/1967
-Description: John -A. Keel speaks with USAF Col. George -P. Freeman, who -tells him that “Mysterious men dressed in Air Force uniforms or bearing -impressive credentials from government agencies have been silencing UFO -witnesses.” The Air Force is unable to find out anything about them -because this is a federal offense. (John A. Keel, The Mothman -Prophecies, Tor ed., 1991, p. 25; -Nick Redfern, “MIB -Are Not from the Government,” Mysterious Universe, June 23, -2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4174

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Event 6317 -(66A3DCE2)

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Date: 2/1/1967
-Description: In Boulder, Colorado, Saunders confronts -Condon, who -confirms the Corning quote and wonders why Saunders is making a fuss. -After 30 minutes, Saunders persuades him that he is having a negative -effect. Finally, Condon writes Keyhoe saying -that his words were taken out of context and that he will look at the -NICAP case files. (Clark III 1194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4176

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Event 6318 -(9161378A)

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Date: 2/1/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: Three witnesses independently saw a craft emitting light -signals land a few meters away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 93 (Vallee)
-Location: Boadilla del Monte, Spain
-ID: 815

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Event 6319 -(46E29A95)

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Date: 2/2/1967
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Oswaldo Sanvitti is flying a Faucett Perú -DC-4 airliner from Chiclayo to Lima, Peru, when the crew and passengers -notice a bright light coming toward them from the west. Sanvitti -estimates it is about 9 miles away, but it soon reaches the aircraft and -hovers above it. The cabin lights dim, the plane’s compass fluctuates, -and the radio gives off static. The UFO speeds away to the east, -increasing its luminosity by 50%, but reappears 5 minutes later with -another object. Both UFOs trail the aircraft until 5 minutes before it -lands at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Callao. (Lorenzen, UFOs -over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 24–25; Good Above, p. 533; -Patrick Gross, “Aircraft -Encounters with UFOs”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4177

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Event 6320 -(9FB0E2C8)

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Date: 2/2/1967
-Description: Airliner buzzed by maneuvering coneshaped object, took -position above tail. Lights in plane dimmed, radio interference, radio -compass oscillated
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lima, Peru
-ID: 115

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Event 6321 -(B43503F5)

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Date: 2/5/1967
-Description: Evening. A young man in Hilliard, Ohio, hears a strange -noise and a barking dog. He looks up and sees an object approaching at a -low altitude over a road shoulder. It lands on three legs in a field. -The object is egg- shaped and about 75 feet long and 45 feet high. An -“elevator-like” shaft opens and beings emerge carrying small, circular -balls that they place on the ground around the UFO. The human-like -creatures appear to be waiting for something. Then a man approaches from -across the field and talks to them, apparently by telepathy. The witness -accidentally steps on a twig, and the beings hear it. One runs toward -him and catches him by the back of the neck, leaving a burned wound. -Another being comes and both drag him toward the object. As they get -close, the beings look at each other, seemingly panic-stricken. They -drop the witness, collect the balls, and run inside the UFO, which takes -off. (“Startling -Cases Investigated,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 1 (May/June 1967): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4178

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Event 6322 -(CB713181)

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Date: 2/5/1967
-Time: evening
-Description: A young man heard a strange noise and a barking dog, and -saw an egg-shaped object land. From an elevatorlike shaft came human -figures that placed small spheres around the craft. A man walked to them -and appeared to speak with the entities. The witness was seen, the -creatures tried to abduct him, and then took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Hilliards, Ohio
-ID: 816

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Event 6323 -(1B2AFD0F)

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Date: 2/6/1967
-Description: The mission of the Space Defense Center’s -satellite-tracking radar (useless for UFOs) moves from Ent AFB [now the -US Olympic Training Center] in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to “adjacent -to the NORAD command center” (air defense UFO trackers) in Cheyenne -Mountain, Colorado. However, they are separated from each other by -partitions and use separate computers. (Wikipedia, “Space -Defense Center”; Clark III 808)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4179

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Event 6324 -(ED5CA0ED)

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Date: 2/6/1967
-Time: 8:45 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Donald and Marie Guseman. One large, -Saturn-shaped object–5O’ in diameter and 20’ high–with two bright -lights, a green light on one side and a red light on the other. Hovered -motionless over the trees, then slowly moved north and suddenly -disappeared after 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Odessa, Delaware
-ID: 563

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Event 6325 -(CB340832)

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Date: 2/8/1967
-Description: 6:43 p.m. Mary McCarthy and five of her young nieces and -nephews see a glowing object as they are eating dinner at their farm 3 -miles south of Deep River, Ontario. The television immediately stops -working properly. About a quarter of a mile away on a hill is a circular -“craft” with a large core of dazzling, pulsating yellow lights in its -center. From this core, red lights pulsate outward toward the rim, -somewhat like neon lights. They have it in view for 40 minutes. After -the object leaves, the TV starts working again. A Canadian Forces -spokesperson says the lights were airplanes shooting flares in the area. -(Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, pp. 124–126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4180

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Event 6326 -(7B7043AB)

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Date: 2/9/1967
-Description: Condon recommends -NICAP’s UFO Evidence to geophysicist Merle -Tuve. (Swords 319)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4181

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Event 6327 -(75C778C2)

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Date: 2/9/1967
-Description: 6:30 p.m. George Kawalski, a section foreman for the Great -Northern railroad, sees an object hovering above the depot in Chester, -Montana, from his home two blocks away. The object disappears straight -up after bathing the depot in light. (“Third -Report of UFOs Heard from Chester Area,” Great Falls (Mont.) -Tribune, February 11, 1967, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4182

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Event 6328 -(3C1F6B2C)

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Date: 2/10/1967
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A couple in Alton, Illinois, sees a round, -rotating, 25-foot diameter luminous object that changes color from red -to white with occasional flashes of green. The object also has white -lights in a triangle on the bottom. It flies, hovers, and passes over -the witnesses. While hovering, a humming or droning sound is heard. -(St. Louis Globe-Democrat, February 11, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4185

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Event 6329 -(0271F106)

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Date: 2/10/1967
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Two separate groups of four and three people in -Woodstock, Connecticut, see a triangular object with a white light at -each apex. It is moving with its blunt end forward from northeast to -southwest at 1,000 feet altitude. The object is silent when hovering but -makes a rumbling or roaring sound when it moves. The family TV set -reception is disrupted when it passes by. (Marler 135–136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4184

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Event 6330 -(80CFFF94)

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Date: 2/10/1967
-Description: 3:42 a.m. Erie County Constable Gary Butler is patrolling -in the area of NASA’s Plum Brook Station [now the Neil A. Armstrong Test -Facility] in Sandusky, Ohio, when he sees a bright, bluish disc moving -toward the southwest some 2 miles away. As it was disappearing behind -some trees, he tries to radio in a report, but experiences some -interference. (“UFO -over NASA Station,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 12 (March/April 1967): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4183

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Event 6331 -(CF49EFCE)

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Date: 2/11/1967
-Time: 0145
-Description: Miss Hildebrand, 19, and Michael McKee fled when they saw a -large shiny object off the road. Returning to the scene with a -policeman, the found broken branches at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jan., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Milford, Ohio
-ID: 817

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Event 6332 -(C1FBD7DC)

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Date: 2/12/1967
-Time: 3:40 AM
-Description: Witness: Mr. Lou Atkinson. Four fluorescent, -football-shaped objects, a dull, almost grey luminous color; flew -northeast in a very rigid formation for 4-10 seconds. Made a chirping -noise.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
-ID: 564

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Event 6333 -(3E8326A7)

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Date: 2/12/1967
-Description: Domed disc with revolving lights at bottom edge flew over -car just above phone lines. Later at treetop level, stopped, banked, and -took off
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wharton, TX
-ID: 116

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Event 6334 -(EF489AC5)

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Date: 2/13/1967
-Description: 5:58 p.m. Sachio Sakuma is taking photographs of the Moon -with a Petri V6 camera in Tokyo, Japan. On developing one image, he -finds a luminous, oval-shaped object with a slight trail a short -distance above the lunar crescent. (“Report -from Japan,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4186

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Event 6335 -(71FB4CEB)

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Date: 2/13/1967
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mrs. James Thompson is driving through Bigfork, -Montana, with her two children when her pickup’s engine fails and the -lights go out. Getting out, she sees overhead an intense greenish-blue -light. She feels heat coming from the object. It changes direction -abruptly, veering to the right as it changes to reddish-orange. As it -moves away, the truck starts up on its own. (Brad Steiger and Joan -Whritenour, New UFO Breakthrough, Universal, 1968, p. 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4187

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Event 6336 -(C79B0260)

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Date: 2/14/1967
-Description: 7:00 a.m. A farmer in Miller County, Missouri, notices that -his cows are all staring in one direction. He goes to investigate and -sees a landed object about 360 feet away. He sees several entities -moving around it, so he picks up some stones and approaches it. From -about 30 feet away, the object looks like a hovering parachute or a -grayish-green shell. The creatures, apparently wearing overalls, scurry -behind the craft and go inside. The farmer throws one stone, but it -stops in midair about 15 feet away and drops to the ground. He throws -the other stone to try to strike the top of the object, but it bounces -off something. When he gets to 15 feet away, he walks into an invisible -wall and can’t see the object at all. (CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4188

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Event 6337 -(26A40D0E)

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Date: 2/14/1967
-Description: Disc-shaped object in field, small beings moved around -beneath it. Beings disappeared behind shaft, object sped away
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Jefferson City, MO
-ID: 117

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Event 6338 -(36EB16F2)

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Date: 2/15/1967
-Description: Night. A Guatemalan Aviateca airliner piloted by Col. -Alfredo Castaneda and Col. Carlos Samyoa encounters an object like a -flying top as they are flying over Mexico at 10,000 feet. They put the -aircraft into a sharp turn in order to avoid a collision, just before -the object zooms out of sight. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, -Signet, 1968, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4189

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Event 6339 -(52CAD8AF)

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Date: 2/16/1967
-Description: 11:43 p.m. S/Sgt Max Recod and his wife are driving along -Route 66 south of Kingman, Arizona, when they see a formation of four -lights, three red and one green, approaching their car at low altitude. -The lights are attached to an object that emits a light beam from its -bottom center that moves around and illuminates the desert. The lights -disappear, but a few minutes later the UFO reappears from behind a hill -a mile away, followed by two white lights flying in step formation, one -of which lands or nearly lands. The remaining light merges with the -large object. (“Sighting -Evidence Grows,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 3 (Nov./Dec. 1967): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4190

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Event 6340 -(EC5CB38B)

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Date: 2/16/1967
-Time: 9:11 PM
-Description: Witness: Miss Lynn Marsh. One light with faded edges seemed -to follow observer in her car for 5-6 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Stoughton, Wisconsin
-ID: 565

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Event 6341 -(0DAA79E8)

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Date: 2/17/1967
-Alternate date: 2/18/1967
-Description: Around 10:00 p.m. Contactee Stella -V. Lansing takes motion picture footage on a borrowed Keystone 8mm -Capri camera of some yellow-orange lights on Ware Road near the -junctions of Old Warren Road and Flynt Street in Palmer, Massachusetts. -Suddenly a white light shoots upward in a zigzag motion and she is able -to film some of its maneuvers. Subsequent frames seem to show -low-contrast images of four human-like beings apparently conversing. -Lansing is later studied by New Jersey psychiatrist Berthold -E. Schwarz, who finds her repeat UFO sightings, further UFO films, -and photographs showing superimposed clock-like patterns a subject of -some interest. (Story, pp. 202–204; -Berthold Eric Schwarz, “Stella -Lansing’s UFO Motion Pictures,” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1972): 3–12, 20; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “Stella -Lansing’s Movies: Four -Entities and a Possible UFO,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Encounters, -special issue no. 5 of FSR, November 1973, pp. 3–9; Berthold Eric -Schwarz, “Stella -Lansing’s Clocklike UFO Patterns,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 4 -(January 1975): 3–9; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “Stella -Lansing’s Clocklike UFO Patterns—Part 2,” -Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 (March 1975): 20–27; Berthold Eric -Schwarz, “Stella -Lansing’s Clocklike UFO -Patterns—Part 3,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 6 (April 1975): -18–22; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “Stella Lansing’s -Clocklike UFO Patterns—Part 4,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 1 (June -1975): 14–17; Berthold Eric Schwarz, “UFO Contactee Stella Lansing: -Possible Medical Implications of Her Motion Picture Experiments,” -Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine -23, no. 2 (1976): 60–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4191

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Event 6342 -(B06EB6BC)

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Date: 2/20/1967
-Description: Condon, Saunders, Low, William -Price of AFRSTA(?), and Thomas -Ratchford, USAF senior scientist, visit the CIA’s National -Photographic Interpretation Center in Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, -Virginia, to meet with its founder Arthur -C. Lundahl and acquaint themselves with the CIA’s analysis -capabilities. NPIC personnel will be available to perform work of a -“photogrammatic nature, such as attempting to measure objects imaged on -photographs,” but it will be strictly technical and no written comments -or documentation is to be made public. After lunch, the group meets in -the Pentagon with Brig. Gen. Edward -B. Giller, director of the AF Special Weapons Center at Kirtland -AFB, New Mexico. (Wikipedia, “Arthur -C. Lundahl”; ClearIntent, pp. 141–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4192

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Event 6343 -(F3D1F954)

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Date: 2/20/1967
-Time: 3:10 AM
-Description: Witness: USAF veteran/truck driver Stanton Summer. One -orange-red object flew parallel to truck for 2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Oxford, Wisconsin
-ID: 566

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Event 6344 -(10D27A79)

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Date: 2/21/1967
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Sherry Kohler is driving east on Western Avenue -in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, when she sees a greenish spherical object -with a wispy white trail flying at airplane speed on her right side for -about 10 seconds. A second witness, Richard -R. Dern Sr., sees a similar object about 10 minutes later. (Center -for UFO Studies, [case -documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4193

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Event 6345 -(7E7D92A3)

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Date: 2/22/1967
-Description: 6:30 a.m. As Mrs. James A. Clevenger stands by her kitchen -sink in Milton, Indiana, her collie dog jumps against the window and -races around, barking and jumping. She notices an oval object with a row -of bright lights. She lets the frightened dog inside and it promptly -hides. She goes out to the end of her front walk and sees the UFO moving -slowly at 100–200 feet altitude, following the course of a creek. She -runs inside and calls her neighbor Mrs. Judd Alford, who can see a ring -of white lights at 200 feet. Her fox terrier runs inside at full speed -and hides under a chair. The object disappears behind trees a few -minutes later. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, p. 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4194

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Event 6346 -(EBA29FD1)

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Date: 2/22/1967
-Time: night
-Description: G. Grammond saw an object with flashing red and green -lights glide, circle, and land in a field. He saw it again spinning in -the northeast when he came out with two other witnesses 5 min -later.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Chippenham, Great Britain
-ID: 818

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Event 6347 -(30BB4BFA)

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Date: 2/23/1967
-Time: 1030
-Description: Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Weston were talking on the phone when -they were surprised to hear a very strong sound and saw an object flying -low over their area. A third person saw the object, and many heard it. -The snow was swirling under it. The object was mushroom-shaped, -supported a dome with a fin, was greenish, and left toward the Severn -River.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 170 (Vallee)
-Location: Linstead, Maryland
-ID: 819

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Event 6348 -(E4711690)

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Date: 2/23/1967
-Description: Lt. Col. Robert -Hippler says that Secretary of the Air Force Harold -Brown has established the policy that all USAF information on UFOs -classified up to and including Secret is to be provided to the -University of Colorado project. (NICAP, “Declassification -of UFO Reports”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4195

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Event 6349 -(4576769D)

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Date: 2/24/1967
-Description: Approximate date. An engineer from Osorno, well-known -locally, saw an object touch down and a strange being, 1.50 m tall, -emerge, wearing a transparent suit. He had a very white face and white -hands, a pronounced jawbone, and no apparent nose. Seeing the witness, -he got back inside the machine, which took off at great speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 59; Vuillequez (Vallee)
-Location: Riachuelo, Chile
-ID: 820

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Event 6350 -(D0253011)

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Date: 2/24/1967
-Description: A well-known engineer in Osorno, Chile, sees a disc-shaped -object land near him. Seconds after touching down, a strange being, -about 4.5 feet tall and wearing a transparent outfit, emerges. It has a -white face and hands, a pronounced jawbone, and no neck. When it sees -the man looking, it gets back into the object and takes off. (Lorenzen, -UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4197

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Event 6351 -(49BBE8AB)

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Date: 2/24/1967
-Description: Paul -Santorinis, civil -engineer of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, gives a -lecture to the Greek Astronautical Society, stating that a “world -blanket of secrecy” surrounds UFO reports and describes his experience -with ghost rockets over Greece in 1946. (Good Above, p. 23; -Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4196

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Event 6352 -(6B5ACDE0)

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Date: 2/25/1967
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Two teenage boys in Fargo, North Dakota, see a -round or disc-shaped brightly illuminated object only a few feet in -diameter. It moves higher, accelerates, and flies away to the northeast. -(Fargo (N.Dak.) Forum, February 25, 1967; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO -Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 56; -Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek -correspondence], pp. 27–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4198

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Event 6353 -(36139DEE)

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Date: 2/26/1967
-Description: and some other countries. 6:30-9:30 P.M. Objects with -streams of lights, erratic motions. No USAF unknowns or Colorado Project -cases for this date. Suspected extraordinary phenomenon (meteor train?) -or military maneuvers.
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Across U.S
-ID: 118

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Event 6354 -(BA878F74)

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Date: 2/27/1967
-Time: 8:19 PM
-Description: Witnesses: Sheriff Grysen, wife and others. Large white -light, with smaller red and green lights seen to the sides. Made almost -instantaneous 90^ turn to left, shot out over road and stopped, moving -too fast to follow. Sighting lasted 1 hour, 11 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Grand Haven, Michigan
-ID: 567

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Event 6355 -(DFE6789E)

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Date: 3/1967
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A luminous hemispherical object is seen over Dry -Creek Basin, San Miguel County, Colorado, moving slowly, then -accelerating. The witness’s car engine, radio, and lights experience -interference. (Condon, pp. 295–297)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4206

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Event 6356 -(0FC7A03E)

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Date: 3/1967
-Description: 11:00 a.m. A group of students at the Ramón Martín Middle -School in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, watch a triangle-shaped object above a -nearby mountain. It has a cupola on top and flies around silently before -vanishing. (Jorge Martín, “Triangular -UFOs over Puerto Rico,” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 (Autumn -1999): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4205

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Event 6357 -(38E6A701)

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Date: 3/1967
-Description: Cuban air defense radar controllers report a UFO -approaching Cuba from the northwest, moving at 660 mph at an altitude of -33,000 feet. Two MiG-21s are scrambled and are guided to within 3 miles -of the object. The flight leader radios in that the UFO is a bright -metallic sphere with no visible markings. He is unable to establish -radio contact with it and Cuban air defense orders him to shoot it down. -The flight leader reports that his radar is locked and missiles ready. -Seconds later, a wingman screams into the radio that the flight leader’s -MiG has disintegrated. The UFO then accelerates and climbs above 90,000 -feet, heading towards South America. The US 6947th Security Squadron -headquartered at Homestead AFB [now Homestead Air Reserve Base] in -Miami–Dade County, Florida, is monitoring the incident and sends a -report to the NSA at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland. NSA orders the -squadron to ship all tapes and data to them and list the airplane loss -as “equipment malfunction.” The details sound like it might be the CIA’s -Oxcart A-12, the Air Force version of which is the SR-71, which are -known to overfly Cuba. (NICAP, “The -1967 Cuban Jet Incident”; ClearIntent, pp. 195–201; -“1967: Two Cuban Jets Pursue a UFO, the UFO Destroys One Jet,” IUR 3, -no. 9 (September 1978): 11–13; Good Above, pp. 421– 422)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4204

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Event 6358 -(1A38A938)

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Date: 3/1967
-Description: Day. Augusto Arranda is taking photographs of the scenery -in the Huascarán mountains near Yungay, Peru. He takes three photos of a -disc-shaped object and one photo showing two objects. A Kodak employee -sends one to ufologist Richard Greenwell, and APRO obtains the other -three in 1969 from Eastman Kodak’s International Division. The -circumstances of the sighting remain unknown. (Patrick Gross, “The -Yungay Photographs, Peru, 1967”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4203

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Event 6359 -(ADC8FC38)

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Date: 3/1967
-Description: Michel M. Jaffe, a ham radio operator in Mountain View, -California, begins publishing Data-Net Report, a UFO newsletter for -radio enthusiasts that continues to 1973. (Data-Net -Report, no. -1 (March 1967))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4202

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Event 6360 -(FD55DC25)

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Date: 3/1967
-Description: Members of the Colorado project visit APRO headquarters; -the Lorenzens give -them some case leads that are never followed up because they are old. -(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4201

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Event 6361 -(B0576A30)

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Date: 3/1967
-Description: Low calls -Keyhoe and -reveals that none of the Blue Book cases have been spot-checked for -inaccuracies because “Condon hasn’t -found any AF explanations he considers untrue.” Low later visits NICAP -in Washington and Keyhoe asks him how many NICAP cases he has examined. -Low says, “Probably four or five.” Low says he ultimately hopes to -review 85–90 cases. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4200

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Event 6362 -(4165B615)

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Date: 3/1/1967
-Description: Lt. Gen. Hewitt T. Wheless, USAF, sends notice to all -branches of the military warning of persons imitating military officers -and harassing private citizens and confiscating UFO photos.
-Type: notice
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Dayton, OH
-See also: 3/21/66

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Event 6363 -(8EACB191)

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Date: 3/1/1967
-Description: Lt. Gen. Hewitt -T. Wheless, USAF -assistant vice chief of staff, circulates a memo on “Impersonations of -Air Force Officers,” which outlines Rex -Heflin’s accounts of the NORAD impostor and another case in which it -reports that “a person in an Air Force uniform approached local police -and other citizens who had sighted a UFO, assembled them in a school -room and told them that they did not see what they thought they saw and -that they should not talk to anyone about the sighting.” All USAF -personnel hearing about such incidents should report them to AFOSI. -(ClearIntent, p. 237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4207

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Event 6364 -(E58A8FBE)

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Date: 3/1/1967
-Description: Many residents of Valparaiso, Chile, watch four bright -domed objects, flashing blue and red lights, move south to north above -the city. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4208

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Event 6365 -(4B5A82E9)

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Date: early 3/1967
-Description: Low writes -a position paper that expects the Colorado project will fail to support -the ETH. Before sharing his paper with project members, he shares his -views in talks with the Rand Corporation, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and -Boeing. Despite his attempts to “build the record,” the project’s -failure to move quickly has forced it to prepare a proposal to extend -its contract. (UFOs Yes, 130–133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4199

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Event 6366 -(F8F3C801)

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Date: 3/2/1967
-Description: 10:25 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Two radars at White Sands Missile -Range, New Mexico, plot 20 silver objects, radar blips at an altitude of -7 miles. A news blackout is invoked by the military. Twenty-nine people -report seeing one or more objects in groups, ranging in appearance from -silvery objects flying overhead to a saucer-shaped object. Intermittent -unexplained radar targets are seen during this time. (NICAP, “Two -Radars Plot 20 Objects”; Condon, pp. 150–151, 291–295; -Sparks, -p. 322)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4209

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Event 6367 -(15D48874)

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Date: 3/2/1967
-Description: Radar-visual sightings of three to four silvery discs -traveling about 2,000 mph. News blackout invoked by military
-Type: sighting
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: White Sands Missile Range, NM
-ID: 119

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Event 6368 -(FF44EAD0)

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Date: 3/3/1967
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fellows were driving toward Sandwich when they -saw a lighted object going up and down, turning from white to greenish -blue, and following their car for 20 min until they reached Route 113. -It left to the northeast. They reported feeling an “electric discharge” -as it left, and their dog was very nervous during the observation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Red Hill, New Hampshire
-ID: 821

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Event 6369 -(69E74D0C)

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Date: 3/4/1967
-Time: 2400
-Description: The Sodestrom family obsered two plate-shaped objects, one -30 m in diameter, the other smaller and gray in color. They hovered at -20 111 altitude for 15 min. The object left with a hushed whistling -sound, illuminating the forest with intense light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 171 (Vallee)
-Location: Vilhelmina, Swedish Laponia
-ID: 822

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Event 6370 -(3D61FD5F)

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Date: 3/5/1967
-Description: Night. The Russell Carter Jr. family is traveling about 10 -miles east of Hayes, South Dakota, on US Highway 14 when a bright light -follows their car. The V-shaped object approaches from far away and is -lower than the telephone wires, bathing the road and an area around the -car in a brilliant light. They hear a humming sound and experience a -feeling of numbness at its closest approach. (“Pierre -Family Sees UFO in Hayes Area,” Rapid City (S.Dak.) Journal, March -7, 1967, p. 1; “Car -Followed by Flying Object,” APRG Reporter, no. 56 (May 1967): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4213

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Event 6371 -(523593B5)

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Date: 3/5/1967
-Description: ADC radar at Minot AFB, North Dakota, tracks an -unidentified target descending over the Minuteman ICBM missile silos of -the 91st Strategic Missile Wing. Base security teams see a metallic, -disc-shaped object ringed with bright flashing lights moving slowly, -maneuvering, then stopping and hovering about 500 feet above the ground. -The object circles directly over the launch control facility. F-106 -fighters are scrambled, but at that moment the object climbs straight up -and disappears at high speed. (NICAP, “Disc -Hovers 500ʹ over Missile Silos / ADC Radar -Confirms”; Sparks, -p. 322; Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet, 1974, -pp. 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4212

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Event 6372 -(B3667421)

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Date: 3/5/1967
-Description: 5:30 p.m. John and Miriam Coyle take a series of six photos -of a silvery UFO at Hallam, Victoria, Australia. The object circles them -slowly. (“U.F.O. -Photographed over Hallam,” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 7 -(September 1967): 15; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, -“Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 25–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4211

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Event 6373 -(457D3B16)

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Date: 3/5/1967
-Description: 1:25 a.m. Lenny and Tommy Söderström are returning home to -their farm in Lövåsen, Vilhelmina, Sweden, when they notice a -“spaceship” behind a barn. They rush inside and wake their parents and a -sibling. Looking through the kitchen window, they see a dark, -cigar-shaped object, 82–130 feet wide, silhouetted against the sky. -Wobbling slightly on its axis, it hovers 24 feet in the air. After -someone turns on the kitchen light, the UFO shoots off toward the north, -emitting a whistling sound, as a smaller object appears from behind it. -This UFO is a silvery globe about 20–40 feet in diameter; it turns and -approaches the farmhouse. When it passes above a power line, it stops -and hovers for 4 minutes. It takes off toward the northeast. (“Two -from Sweden,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, p. 9; Clas Svahn, “Skräcknatten -i Vilhelmina,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige; Clark III -246–247)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4210

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Event 6374 -(E784140B)

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Date: 3/5/1967
-Description: Radar tracked object descending over missile sites, -security teams saw disc with flashing lights hover about 500 feet off -ground. Object departed straight up
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Minot AFB, ND
-ID: 120

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Event 6375 -(208CD398)

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Date: 3/6/1967
-Time: 4:25 AM
-Description: Witness: Deputy Sheriff Frank Courson. One object shaped -like a rubber cup which is placed under furniture leg, with a dome set -in the cup. Bottom of object spun rapidly, rim pulsated red. Approached -witness and passed overhead at low altitude, making a hieeing -sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Galesburg-Moline, Illinois
-ID: 569

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Event 6376 -(3DA6A8CD)

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Date: 3/6/1967
-Time: 12:01 AM
-Description: Witnesses: Jerome Wolanin, assistant news director of radio -station and former policeman, and wife. One round saucer or oval-shaped -object with red, green and yellow lights around bottom rim which -pulsated red. Flew level, east to west, and was joined by second object -from west. First object opened top, second came over and hovered for 30 -seconds and disappeared. Sighting lasted more than 40 minutes. Objects -made hissing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Benton Harbor, Michigan
-ID: 568

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Event 6377 -(767130A6)

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Date: 3/7/1967
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Lucille Drzonek and her daughters, ages 24 and -17, are driving northwest on US Highway 20 just past Keeneyville, -Illinois. Their beagle is with them. They see a solid object, estimated -at 15 feet in diameter, outlined in bright white lights and with two big -beams in front. As it nears the ground it takes on a disc shape and -begins flashing red and green lights. The beagle is so frightened that -its hair stands up straight on its back. As they turn off the highway -toward Bartlett, Illinois, the object descends into a woods, lighting -the trees with a red glare. It projects two white light beams into the -rear window of their car. As they pull into their home, the UFO is -hovering about 10 feet above a tree in their yard. A strange, localized -gray mist appears and when it dissipates the UFO is gone. The beagle is -visibly upset for the next two days. A veterinarian suggests he might -have heard a noise inaudible to humans. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. -R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 34–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4214

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Event 6378 -(F2FD8D29)

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Date: 3/8/1967
-Description: Many people in Comas, Peru, watch 15 discs circle -noiselessly low above town for 15 minutes. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the -Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4216

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Event 6379 -(FD481A33)

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Date: 3/8/1967
-End date: 3/9/1967
-Description: Domed circular object with red body lights approached -witnesses, gave off burst of brilliant white light, hissing sound, -accelerated away
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Henderson and Galesburg, IL
-ID: 121

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Event 6380 -(2BD33530)

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Date: 3/8/1967
-Time: 0105
-Description: Two persons observed deep fog in the vicinity of a cemetery -and saw a light in the center, coming from an object hovering 100 m -above ground. Thinking it was a fire, the witnesses stopped. Paralysis -and ignition interference were then noted while the object, about 13 m -in diameter, oscillated and then departed with a whirring sound. It took -about 20 min for the witnesses to recover muscular coordination.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Leominster, Massachusetts
-ID: 823

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Event 6381 -(01E7B203)

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Date: 3/8/1967
-Description: 1:05 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. William L. Wallace are returning -home to Leominster, Massachusetts, when they pass through a dense fog -near St. Leo’s Cemetery and notice a bright light on the left. Wallace -turns the car around and heads back for a closer look. The glow is from -a light that is hovering 400–500 feet above the cemetery. Intrigued, -Wallace places the car in neutral, pulls the emergency brake, and steps -outside. As he points toward the light, something pulls his arm back and -drops it on the roof of the car, which then stalls and the electrical -system goes out. He remains immobile for more than 30 seconds even as -his wife is trying to pull him back. As the lights and radio come back -on, the UFO rocks back and forth, rises with a humming sound, and -disappears. Wallace goes back into the car, which now starts normally. -Wallace still feels “slow and sluggish” on the drive back, and he -collides with the garage door as he pulls into his driveway. They return -to the cemetery 10 minutes later, but the fog is gone. (“Driver -Shocked, Paralyzed,” UFO Investigator 3, no. 12 (March/April 1967): -7; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 7–8; Michael D. Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? -Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 10; Clark III 251; Randle, Levelland, -2021, pp. 139–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4215

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Event 6382 -(10F67489)

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Date: 3/9/1967
-Time: 9:05 PM
-Description: Witness: Jack Lindley. One bright white, saucer-shaped -object, as big as a jet airliner, flew straight and fast to the east for -2 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Onawa, Iowa
-ID: 571

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Event 6383 -(C381C96E)

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Date: 3/9/1967
-Time: 7:10 PM
-Description: Witnesses: two housewives. One object shaped like a pancake -with a rounded top; object was pulsating red, with red lights around its -rim. Approached witnesses and seemed to explode with a brilliant white -light that lasted 10 seconds and almost blinded them. Then it -accelerated to the north and disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Galesburg, Illinois
-ID: 570

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Event 6384 -(33250C91)

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Date: 3/9/1967
-Description: 9:05 p.m. Jack Lindley sees a bright white saucer-shaped -light, as big as an airliner, fly straight and fast to the east over -Onawa, Iowa. (Sparks, -p. 323)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4217

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Event 6385 -(8CD6DD97)

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Date: 3/9/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: Three witnesses observed an object as they were driving on -Route 2. It was round, hovered at rooftop level, left suddenly at high -speed. Its size was that of a car, and the underside showed several -lights.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Follansbee, Virginia
-ID: 824

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Event 6386 -(0FB7C865)

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Date: 3/11/1967
-End date: 3/13/1967
-Description: Night. Red, green, and white lights are observed in the air -by several witnesses at Tillamook, Oregon, including police and -sheriff’s deputies. Radar contact is made in the same area as the visual -sightings by the radar station at Mount Hebo Air Force Station [now -closed]. On March 11, objects are observed for one hour. On March 12, -they are again observed for one hour. On March 13, the objects are seen -for four hours and 35 minutes. The radar returns show hovering and rapid -movement of the targets. The visual sightings also show rapid movement -of the objects at times. One radar sighting shows a rapid distance -change from 39–48 miles within one minute. (NICAP, “Colored -Lights and Radar Returns”; Condon, pp. 122–123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4218

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Event 6387 -(4728E0D4)

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Date: 3/12/1967
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Larry Burke sees an object with red, green, and -white flashing lights southwest of McIntosh, South Dakota. He picks up -three friends—Dick Makens, Junior Edinger, and Charles Warren—to go -investigate. On a country road one mile west of town they see four -blinding, fluorescent-green lights low above the road ahead. As they are -driving up a hill, the car engine stops. Frightened, they let the car -coast back down the hill, and the engine starts again. The witnesses -disagree on the size, shape, and altitude of the lights. (“Car -Buzzing Incidents on -Increase,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4219

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Event 6388 -(62D3F70D)

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Date: 3/12/1967
-Description: A boy who had gone outside to buy a newspaper saw an object -resembling an inverted mushroom hovering 10 m above ground. It was not -larger than a car, took a 45 (degree) orientation, oscillated, and left -to the northwest. Three photographs were reportedly taken.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Rochester, Minnesota
-ID: 825

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Event 6389 -(7760C78C)

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Date: mid 3/1967
-Description: Night. Future UFO researcher Robert -Hastings has a part-time job as a janitor in Malmstrom AFB near -Great Falls, Montana. One night as he is cleaning out the Radar Approach -Control center, one of the FAA controllers calls him over to look at 5 -unidentified targets that two jet fighters have gone up to intercept. -Soon he is asked to leave and clean the room later. Later on, he hears -that the targets ascended vertically, leaving the jets far behind, and -that the incident takes place in the Judith Basin area many miles to the -south. (Nukes 6–7, 279, 282–286)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4220

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Event 6390 -(7C81162E)

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Date: 3/16/1967
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Beryl -Dux sees two white cloud-like objects over Belvedere, New Jersey. -She calls her sister Olive to watch, and suddenly a dull orange object -comes out of the cloud on the right. It is spinning rapidly and -descending quickly, but it goes into the white cloud on the right. The -two clouds merge and vanish gradually. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery -Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4222

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Event 6391 -(130B2C08)

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Date: 3/16/1967
-Description: Security guards saw glowing red disc hover near missile -site, weapons shut down
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT
-ID: 122

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Event 6392 -(C62CB6F7)

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Date: 3/16/1967
-Description: 8:30 a.m. At the Malmstrom AFB Echo-Flight missile launch -facility between Winfred and Hilger, Montana, 1Lt Walter Figel, deputy -crew commander of the Missile Combat Crew, sees one of his Minuteman -missiles go into “no-go” status. He calls the missile site to see if -there is scheduled maintenance and is told no. The guard tells him of a -large, round object over the site. Within seconds, the nine other -missiles shut down. Strike teams are dispatched to the two Launch -Control Centers, where maintenance and security personnel tell them -about the UFOs. The missiles are offline for the greater part of the -day. (Robert Salas and James Klotz, Faded Giant, BookSurge, 2005; Robert -L. Hastings, “The -Echo and Oscar Flight Incidents,” UFOs & Nukes, November 12, -2012; Nukes 254–258, 265–268)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4221

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Event 6393 -(CBE0D703)

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Date: 3/20/1967
-Time: 2245
-Description: A man and his daughter saw two lights that they thought -were landing lights on aircraft, but they came to ground level, flew -straight toward the car, and suddenly vanished. At the same time, five -figures appeared about 3 m away. They had narrow, pointed noses, mouths -and eyes like slits, blond hair, rough skin, and were dressed in loose -“hunterlike” clothes. Witnesses drove away as fast as they could.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Butler, Pennsylvania
-ID: 826

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Event 6394 -(140B4274)

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Date: 3/20/1967
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A man and his daughter living in Butler, -Pennsylvania, take the car out to go looking for lights his wife had -seen in the sky earlier. After stopping with the car lights off for a -while, he sees two yellowish-white globes of light at 200 feet altitude, -which start moving toward the car in a parallel course. The objects -descend a quarter mile away, then shoot toward the witnesses at 70–80 -mph. The daughter hears a “chorus of voices” in her head saying “don’t -move” repeatedly. The man switches on the headlights, the lights -disappear, and the voices stop. Moments later, 10 feet from the car, -they see five figures standing in an irregular semicircle. The man gets -into the car but the daughter continues staring at the figures, which -have slits for eyes and mouths. All have long blond hair and are wearing -something like baseball caps. They wear loose-fitting clothing. The -witnesses drive away quickly and go to their minister’s home. (Robert A. -Schmidt, “Humanoids -Seen at Butler,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1968): -5–6; Clark III 277–278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4223

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Event 6395 -(80A1F12C)

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Date: spring 1967
-Description: Night. Centenary College Instructor John O. Williams has -taken his astronomy class to an open field on the Shreveport, Louisiana, -campus to observe the sky. The see a bright orange light precisely due -west of them at an elevation of about 30° approaching at a modest -angular rate of 1° per second. It remains silent even as it passes above -them. A second light, much fainter and blue in color, is following it. -The second light turns away and moves south into the distance. The -orange light continues eastward, then performs a tight 180° turn and -returns to their zenith. It accelerates west and disappears from view. -After about 20 minutes it disappears, followed by a thread of rippling -blue light. The thread breaks into 7–8 individual blue lights, which -exit in several directions. (John O. Williams, “Louisiana Lights in -1967,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter 1997–1998): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4239

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Event 6396 -(D589A040)

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Date: spring 1967
-Description: The United Aerial Phenomena Agency begins publishing Flying -Saucer Digest, edited by Allan J. Manak in Cleveland, Ohio. Rick -Hilberg takes over as chief editor in 2003. It continues until at -least fall 2017. (Flying Saucer -Digest 1, no. 1 (Spring 1967))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4238

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Event 6397 -(75D62F38)

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Date: spring 1967
-Description: Psychologist David -R. Saunders, a -principal investigator for the Colorado project, launches UFOCAT, a -computerized database of UFO cases, after researcher Jacques -Vallée gives the project 3,000 cases from his own collection. -Saunders codes the cases with such parameters as source, date, time, -location, state and county, country, witness names, age, gender, special -features, duration, and other elements. (Center for UFO Studies, “UFOCAT-2009”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4237

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Event 6398 -(562545DC)

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Date: 3/21/1967
-Description: A Brazilian military aircraft with 14 passengers encounters -a glowing-red, oblong object over the state of Rio Grande do Sul, -Brazil, while on its way to Salgado Filho Airport near Gravataí. The -control tower operator there alerts pilots of a Cruzeiro do Sul aircraft -coming in from the southwest. Minutes later these pilots see apparently -the same object, which follows them for 25 minutes before zipping up -into the sky. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, -pp. 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4224

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Event 6399 -(B8894E92)

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Date: 3/21/1967
-Description: Night. Mary Beth Neufeld and three other teenagers are -driving on US Highway 56 one mile west of Hillsboro, Kansas, when they -see a bright object “like an upside-down cup on a saucer.” They start -driving toward it, but it approaches them and hovers above the car for a -few seconds. The car starts rocking and the engine quits. When the UFO -leaves, they are able to start it up again. (“Car -Buzzing Incidents on Increase,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, -p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4225

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Event 6400 -(D10A1938)

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Date: 3/22/1967
-Time: 10:20 PM
-Description: Witness: Douglas Eutsler, 15. Fluorescent, solid, -multicolored lights stood still, then flew away at high speed after 1 -minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Wapello, Iowa
-ID: 572

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Event 6401 -(5E8881B6)

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Date: 3/22/1967
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Ann-Lis Danielsson is driving home to Tjuvkil, -Västra Götaland, Sweden, when she notices a greenish illumination -outside her car. Slowing down, she sees a disc about 15 feet in diameter -hovering 500 feet away at an altitude of 1,500 feet. It begins to circle -the area slowly, rising and sinking and giving off a whining noise. -After pacing her for 15 minutes, it climbs vertically with an -oscillating motion. (“Girl -Reconnoitred by Disc,” -APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4226

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Event 6402 -(7E2E1F58)

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Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Truck driver Ken Williams driving northwest on US -Highway 87/89 sees a dome-shaped object emitting a bright light land in -a ravine near Belt, Montana. As he approaches, it takes off and settles -back, hidden from the highway. Numerous other reports come in from this -area. At dawn, police and a helicopter from Malmstrom AFB conduct a -search without success. (NICAP, “Dome-Shaped -Object Lands in Ravine”; Sparks, p. 323; -Robert L. Hastings, “Remarkable Reports from the Missile Field,” IUR 32, -no. 1 (August 2008): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4231

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Event 6403 -(23733C42)

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Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: Late evening. An airman with the Malmstrom AFB Oscar-Flight -Launch Control Center for the SAC USAF 341st Strategic Missile Wing -south of Roy, Montana, sees a star-like object zigzagging high above -him. Soon, a larger and closer light appears and behaves similarly. He -calls his NCO and the two men watch as the lights streak through the -sky, maneuvering in impossible ways. The NCO phones his commander, 1Lt. -Robert -Salas, who is below ground in the LCC. Salas is dubious and tells -them to let him know if they get any closer. A few minutes later the NCO -calls him again and shouts that a red, glowing UFO is hovering outside -the front gate. Salas tells him to make sure the site is secure while he -phones the command post. Meanwhile, one of the guards is injured when he -approaches the UFO and has to be evacuated by helicopter. As Salas -briefs Lt. Fred -Meiwald, an alarm rings through the small LCC and both men see a -“no-go” light turn on for one of the missiles. Within seconds, 4– 7 more -Minutemen nuclear ICBMs go offline in succession. The USAF investigation -includes full-scale tests on- site, as well as lab tests at Boeing’s -Seattle plant. No cause for the shutdown can be found. (“‘Echo -Flight’ Missile Incident”; -Sparks, pp. 4, -323; Jim Klotz and Robert Salas, “The -Malmstrom AFB UFO/Missile Incident,” November 27, 1996; Robert L. -Hastings, “Remarkable Reports from the Missile Field,” IUR 32, no. 1 -(August 2008): 9–10; Robert Salas and James Klotz, Faded Giant, -BookSurge, 2005; Nukes 259–263, 268–277; Kevin D. Randle, “Robert -Salas and Me,” A Different Perspective, May 19, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4230

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Event 6404 -(4E78AFC6)

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Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: 10:45 a.m. An astronomer at the Catalina Station -observatory on Mount Bigelow 18 miles northeast of Tucson, Arizona, sees -a white oval disc the apparent size of the moon moving silently in a -straight line from northwest to northeast. It slowly changes from an -elongated shape to a more circular one. He estimates its speed as 600 -mph, size as 230 feet, and distance as 6–12 miles. It disappears after -50 seconds. (“Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR -2, no. 4 (April 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4229

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Event 6405 -(38C325DB)

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Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: Numerous reports came from this area, including one of a -landing observation. At dawn, police and a Malmstrom AFB helicopter made -a search, with negative results.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Belt, Montana
-ID: 827

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Event 6406 -(2621D128)

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Date: 3/24/1967
-Time: 99 PM
-Description: Witness: truck driver Ken Williams. One dome-shaped object, -emitting a bright light, landed in a ravine. As the witness approached, -it took off and settled back, hidden from the highway. Sighting lasted -several minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Belt, Montana
-ID: 573

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Event 6407 -(EC87CD17)

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Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: 8:45 a.m. An airline pilot watches a small silvery-white -disc hovering for 10 minutes above Los Alamos, New Mexico. Then it moves -across the sky and disappears into clouds. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO -Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4228

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Event 6408 -(2A5FDA9E)

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Date: 3/24/1967
-Description: 5:30 a.m. USAF S/Sgt Johnny Ferguson is traveling with his -wife and three children near Loco, Texas, where they are terrified by a -mysterious bright blue-neon light that chases them at high speed along -the road. It finally splits into two, changes to a reddish color, and -disappears behind a hill. Ferguson reports the incident to Deputy -Sheriff George -Hooten, then drives into nearby Wellington. (Curt Collins, “Contact -in Texas: The Lost UFO -Photos,” Blue Blurry Lines, November 18, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4227

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Event 6409 -(7CF15469)

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Date: 3/25/1967
-Time: dawn
-Description: An intensely luminous object woke up several residents. -People in trains going toward Acapulco and people traveling by car saw -the same phenomenon. It came to ground level with a blinding light, then -took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 177 (Vallee)
-Location: Iguala, Mexico
-ID: 828

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Event 6410 -(0C685EDC)

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Date: 3/26/1967
-Time: 2045
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. John Dick and Mrs. W. Buhr were driving toward -Gretna. Near three radio towers situated 3.5 km south of Altona, they -saw a very bright object at ground level, illuminating the countryside -with a pink glow. The object itself was dark, with a luminous band -around it, was motionless and pulsated, then suddenly disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 173 (Vallee)
-Location: Altona, Canada
-ID: 829

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Event 6411 -(E6AB205B)

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Date: 3/26/1967
-Time: 4 PM
-Description: Witnesses: man, woman, three boys. One oval object, which -looked like copper or brass with the sun shining on it, flew from -southeast to northwest with tumbling motion for 30 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: New Winchester, Ohio
-ID: 574

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Event 6412 -(CA7A6C94)

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Date: 3/26/1967
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Five witnesses in New Winchester, Ohio, see an -oval object, like copper or brass with the sun shining on it, fly from -southeast to northwest with a tumbling motion. (Sparks, -p. 323; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4232

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Event 6413 -(B824D8CC)

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Date: 3/27/1967
-Description: Day. The crew of a Brazilian Air Force C-47 and the crew of -a Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul photo- mapping aircraft see a UFO in -the vicinity of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The BAF crew -describes it as a “reddish-colored full moon” that is flying in circles. -They report the sighting to the tower at Salgado Filho International -Airport, which asks the mapping aircraft to identify the object. The -Cruzeiro plane follows the UFO for 15 minutes before it disappears. -(Good Above, p. 311)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4233

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Event 6414 -(4452922D)

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Date: 3/28/1967
-Description: 2:25 a.m. Electrical worker David -Morris, 20, -is driving home to Munroe Falls, Ohio, from nearby Kent when he sees a -glowing red-orange object shaped like an inverted cone hovering just -above the ground. The object is about 12 feet wide at the base and 25 -feet high, with a ball-shaped object at its top. Looking at the road -ahead, Morris sees four or five large-headed humanoids moving rapidly -back and forth about 50 feet ahead. He slams on his brakes, but it is -too late. He feels a thump against the right front corner of his car and -sees an arm with a thumbless mitten fly up, then down. The car stops 10 -feet later; Morris thinks about providing assistance, but the -otherworldliness of the situation causes him to get away quickly. In his -rearview mirror he sees a group of the entities position themselves -around something lying on the ground. In the morning, Morris finds three -dents in the front bumper and right headlight ring of his car. (“Youth’s -Car Strikes UAO Occupant,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, pp. 1–4; -Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 28–29; Clark III 782–783)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4234

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Event 6415 -(516ECDBC)

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Date: 3/28/1967
-Description: A second briefing for Robert -Low by NORAD analysts effectively diverts researcher attention away -from NORAD’s 500 defense radars and onto its useless handful of space -defense satellite-tracking radars and cameras (referred to as -“spacetrack” and are the least likely to detect UFOs). Low tries to find -out if NORAD can help with identifying satellites that might be -misreported as UFOs and whether NORAD can’t track a UFO entering the -atmosphere from outer space (or just aren’t), but the analysts are -evasive. NORAD says its satellite-tracking radars (with non-ballistic -maneuvering and erratic flight paths) actually can “see” UFOs, but no -one will ever know because the data that does not fit satellite or -ballistic trajectories are thrown out automatically by system computers. -No mention is made of NORAD’s high priority for not ignoring -unpredictable, UFO-like maneuverable cruise missiles or hypersonic space -planes. This discussion is distributed as a briefing paper to all -Colorado project members on June 6, including Condon. (Clark -III 804–810)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4235

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Event 6416 -(9844A593)

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Date: 3/31/1967
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Farmer Carroll Wayne Watts reportedly sees a -cylindrical object about 100 feet long that is hovering just off the -ground near Loco, Texas, and emitting a motor-like sound. A voice -addresses him from within the object requesting that he undergo a -physical examination so that he can go on a flight. When Watts refuses -to do so, the craft takes off. Watts has another encounter, an apparent -abduction, on April 11. In a series of other experiences and sightings, -on June 7, 11, and 13, he manages to take Polaroid photographs. In all, -he haw 10 photographs of the cylindrical UFO in flight, and another shot -of a little man from the ship. Most of Watts’s pictures are black and -white, but at least three of them are shot in color. He later admits the -observation is a hoax. (“Another -UFO Visit Reported from Loco,” Wellington (Tex.) Leader, April 6, -1967, p. 1; Curt Collins, “UFO Contact: -April 1, 1967, from Loco, TX,” Blue Blurry Lines, March 31, 2017; -Kevin D. Randle, “Carroll -Wayne Watts -Contact/Abduction,” A Different Perspective, April 25, 2020; Curt -Collins, “Contact -in Texas: The Lost UFO -Photos,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, November 18, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4236

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Event 6417 -(2BDE413C)

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Date: 3/31/1967
-Description: Three strange objects, a bright, orange light emitting a -shower of green sparks, and two smaller sources, were seen in a field. -No details.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Hanley, Great Britain
-ID: 830

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Event 6418 -(5E1F17E1)

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Date: 3/31/1967
-Description: Carroll Watts contactee case. Cylindrical craft hovering -just above ground, voice communicated with witness
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wellington, TX
-ID: 123

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Event 6419 -(7E504898)

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Date: 4/1967
-Description: Brinsley -Le Poer Trench founds Contact (UK) in London, England, to promote -contact between ufologists internationally. It launches a newsletter -first called International Sky Scouts Newsletter, then retitled -Awareness, which continues through 2012. (International -Sky Scouts Newsletter, no. -1 (April 1967); Story, p. 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4240

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Event 6420 -(7FA3B0F9)

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Date: 4/1/1967
-Time: 2000
-Description: Two boys saw an orange disk, less than 1 m in diameter, -flying at high speed, stop and hover for three min, 20 m above ground. -Chief of Police Peter Mehan confirmed that the sighting was under -investigation.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 174 (Vallee)
-Location: New Westminster, Canada
-ID: 831

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Event 6421 -(A841E0DC)

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Date: 4/4/1967
-Description: The Federal Aviation Agency issues N 7230.29, requiring air -traffic controllers to forward UFO reports to the Colorado project. (US -Federal Aviation Agency, “Reporting -of Unidentified Flying Objects,” FAA Notice N 7230.29, April 4, -1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4241

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Event 6422 -(8B3805F1)

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Date: 4/4/1967
-Description: Carlo Cammarata watches a metallic object about 100 feet in -diameter hovering some 20 feet above the terrace of his house in San -Cataldo, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy. He also sees three humanoids -wearing silvery suits and green belts with lights on them. They seem -interested in the birds Cammarata is keeping caged on the terrace, -touching them occasionally. They ascend into the object on a luminous -beam and speed away. (1Pinotti 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4242

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Event 6423 -(3C344A09)

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Date: 4/4/1967
-Description: FAA Notice N7230.29 published, establishing procedures for -“Reporting of Unidentified Flying Objects” to the Colorado UFO -Project.
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 124

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Event 6424 -(13556B06)

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Date: 4/5/1967
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Justice of the Peace John H. Demler is driving -north on State Highway 72 just south of Lickdale, Pennsylvania, when his -car’s engine sputters and stops and the lights go out. He sees an object -approaching about 20 feet above the road. It is about 30 feet across and -looks like “it had lights in back of a painted black glass.” It flies -over the car as Demler lowers his window and he notices a smell of -sulfur and oil. It emit a sound like an electric motor, which grows -louder as it leaves the area. The UFO shoots off sparks similar to that -of “grinding on an emory wheel.” The UFO comes to a stop alongside the -car, tilts, starts off slowly, then puts on such a terrific burst of -speed that Demler and his automobile seem to be pulled to it. The car -settles down so fast that he is moved all the way across the front seat. -When he looks up again, the object has “turned to a bluish tinge” and is -far in the distance. The next day, the skin on his hands and feet begin -to peel and Demler is a nervous wreck. His coworkers confirm he is in a -state of physical or psychological shock for many hours. (“Startling -Cases Investigated,” -UFO Investigator 4, no. 1 (May/June 1967): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4243

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Event 6425 -(35A4D716)

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Date: 4/5/1967
-Description: Jonestown/Lickdale, PA. Disc passed over car, gave off -sparks, car rocked, engine failed, humming sound heard. Sulphur-like -smell. Physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 125

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Event 6426 -(FB84B30A)

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Date: 4/5/1967
-Time: 1945
-Description: Justice of the Peace John H. Demler was driving north on -Route 72 when his car stalled and the lights went out. He then saw an -object, 10 m in diameter, which gave off a smell of sulphur and -camphorated oil, hovering low over the car, which was pulled and rocked -when the object took off. Physiological effects (perspiration and -peeling skin) were reported after 12 hours. The object gave off a sound -resembling an electric motor, and emitted sparks.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Jonestown, Pennsylvania
-ID: 832

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Event 6427 -(BF9DD128)

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Date: 4/6/1967
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A Pacific Western Airlines pilot and crew see a -dull orange-red object that flies erratically as it paces the aircraft, -then speeds away. Confirmed by radar at Edmonton, Alberta, International -Airport. (Condon, pp. -130–131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4246

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Event 6428 -(6F41C559)

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Date: 4/6/1967
-Description: 12:45 p.m. Robert Apfal, a teacher at Crestview Elementary -School in Opa-locka, Florida, is in the schoolyard with six students, -facing northeast. They spot a metallic, slightly reflective, disc-shaped -object hovering about 60 feet above the ground over a telephone pole -about one mile away. The object disappears as they watch. (Lorenzen, -UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4245

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Event 6429 -(BD41235E)

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Date: 4/6/1967
-Description: The Arizona Daily Wildcat publishes an interview with James -E. McDonald, who says he has found “almost no correlation between -so-called ‘evaluations or explanations’ that are made by Blue Book and -the facts of the case.” He adds that the good cases have been “swept -under the rug in a most disturbing way by Project Blue Book -investigators and their consultants” and that “nobody there with any -strong scientific competence is looking into the problem.” (“The UFO -Phenomenon: A New Frontier Awaiting Serious Scientific Exploration,” -Arizona Daily Wildcat 58, no. 110 (April 6, 1967): 4–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4244

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Event 6430 -(BFFEC3E0)

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Date: 4/6/1967
-Time: 1245
-Description: An entire class at an elementary school observed an object -20 m above ground, 2 km away. It vanished suddenly as the children and -their teacher, 33-year-old Robert Apfel, were watching it.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 176 (Vallee)
-Location: Crestview, Florida
-ID: 833

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Event 6431 -(2D5A9E88)

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Date: 4/7/1967
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Some 200 children at morning recess at Crestview -Elementary School in Opa-locka, Florida, see an oval-shaped object -hovering above some trees to the north of the school. It seems to move -toward the school and then drop below a pine tree. Some of the kids -notice an antenna-like structure, while others think there are two -objects. The UFO is also seen by teachers Virginia Martin, Marian -Waters, and Robert Apfal, who has his students sketch what they had -seen. The drawings depict a turreted structure in the treetops. The Air -Force claims a helicopter is in the area practicing takeoffs and -landings. (“10 -Chaotic Minutes, and the Kids Screamed,” Miami Herald, April 8, -1967, p. 1-B; “AF -Says ‘It’ Was Copter; People Who Saw It Say No,” Miami Herald, April -11, 1967, p. 1-B; NICAP, “Teachers, -200 Children See UFO in Broad Daylight”; “The -North Dade Affair,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1967, p. 10; -Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4247

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Event 6432 -(C053167D)

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Date: 4/7/1967
-Time: 0945
-Description: More than two hundred children and three teachers saw an -oval object, with a light at each end, come to ground level. Several -other objects also were seen, moving up and down with a pendulum -motion.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Crestview, Florida
-ID: 834

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Event 6433 -(67744933)

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Date: 4/8/1967
-Description: Four college students on a double date in Banner Elk, North -Carolina, notice a greenish fluorescent glow on the ground 180 feet -away. Their car engine fails and the radio is flooded with static. An -object passes near the car and disappears into the distance. The -witnesses panic then push the car to a main road where they are able to -restart it. They find three round imprints, about 6 inches in diameter -and 2 inches deep, in the shape of an equilateral triangle. (Fred -Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of UFOs,” IUR 28, -no. 3 (Fall 2003): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4248

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Event 6434 -(9F61004E)

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Date: 4/10/1967
-End date: 4/11/1967
-Description: A bright white object circles one Minuteman launch site -near Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, Montana, for prolonged periods. It -eventually ascends to an altitude higher than the capabilities of Air -Force interceptors. The local radio station is told to keep quiet about -it. (Raymond Fowler, Casebook of a UFO Investigator, Prentice- Hall, -1981, p. 187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4249

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Event 6435 -(F5AFB7C2)

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Date: 4/12/1967
-Description: 8:59 p.m. In Phoenix, Arizona, a bell-shaped object -approaches a car from the left side, glowing red-orange with -yellow-orange pulsations. It hovers over a streetlight, then makes a -pass at the car. At that point, the car engine stops. The UFO banks -eastward, then westward, and flies away. The three witnesses continue -their trip and see the same object eight more times, plus another -whitish object. The car engine continues to operate normally throughout -the remaining sightings. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 34; Randle, -Levelland, 2021, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4250

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Event 6436 -(C3727C58)

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Date: mid 4/1967
-Description: Dusk. Gary Statenberg is working with a tractor on Jamie -Ediger’s farm in Dayton, Oregon, when he sees an object moving -toward him down the river basin at about 500 feet altitude. It stops, -descends to 100 feet, and hovers about 600–700 feet away. He shuts off -the tractor but can hear no sound coming from the object, which has red -flashing lights around its base. There is a small dome with portholes on -the top. Suddenly it takes off to the north, the lights changing to -green as it does so. Statenberg returns home badly shaken. (Robert Low -papers, American Philosophical Society, June 14, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4251

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Event 6437 -(195D4ADA)

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Date: 4/16/1967
-Description: Businessman Guillermo Roldan and his daughter Chichita see -a glowing, egg-shaped object fly across the sky above Boraure, -Venezuela, at great speed. It stops abruptly then descends and lands. -Roldan rushes toward the spot, but the object takes off at high speed. -(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4252

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Event 6438 -(0F0696AA)

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Date: 4/16/1967
-Description: Guillermo Roldan, his daughter, and other persons saw a -glowing, egg-shaped object fly across the sky at high speed, stop -suddenly and descend to ground level. As the witnesses rushed toward the -area, the object took off at very high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 60 (Vallee)
-Location: Boraure, Venezuela
-ID: 835

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Event 6439 -(F8C33DB9)

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Date: 4/17/1967
-Description: 9:00 p.m. School principal John L. Metz and three teachers -in separate cars are driving home in Jefferson City, Missouri, and see a -350–400 foot, bluish-white, WWI-helmet–shaped object come over the -Missouri River bluff and move directly above their cars, bathing them in -intense light. Metz observes it through 8x binoculars. The object hovers -above power lines for about 10 minutes then heads toward the airport. -Two smaller objects emerge from its base; they are disc- or -helmet-shaped and the size of a DC-3. Metz drives to the airport on -Highway 94 and finds two more witnesses. Jefferson City Memorial Airport -employees watch a flat, circular, star- like orange light flashing an -intermittent red-blue through a 30x 40mm telescope around 9:40–10:08 -p.m. The Ozark Airliner Flight 319 crew sees two large round objects -moving in various directions below their airplane during its final -landing approach. (Sparks, p. 324; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 110–111)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4254

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Event 6440 -(2A428BD7)

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Date: 4/17/1967
-Description: 2:20 a.m. SP4 Robert M. Harkinson of the US Army’s 524th -Military Intelligence Detachment is stationed in Saigon [now Ho Chi Minh -City], Vietnam, when he sees five bright-white, oval-shaped objects -traveling in close formation at high speed across the sky. They flash by -in about 5 seconds and disappear behind a cloud. He estimates their -speed to be about five times that of any jet aircraft. About 5 minutes -later, he sees several jets flying on the same course as the objects. -(John J. Stahl Jr., “Unidentified -Flying Objects,” case report, April 17, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4253

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Event 6441 -(E0127714)

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Date: 4/21/1967
-Description: 8:55 p.m. Clifton -N. Crowder, manager -of the Mobil Chemical Company warehouse in South Hill, Virginia, leaves -the warehouse and starts home. About 50–75 yards down a narrow asphalt -highway his headlights fall on an object 400 feet away on the road -ahead. It is pewter-colored, shaped like a storage tank, about 12 feet -in diameter, and 15–16 feet high. It is standing on legs about 3–3.5 -feet long. He switches to his bright lights and the object belches a -white burst of flame from the bottom and ascends rapidly. Meanwhile, the -road is on fire. After it dies out, Crowder drives to South Hill and -contacts police. They return and find a kidney-shaped black spot on the -road, about 3 feet wide at the widest point. William T. Powers, -assistant to J. -Allen Hynek of Northwestern University, arrives on the scene to -examine the spot. Using kerosene, gasoline, and a blowtorch, he attempts -to simulate the black spot, but has no luck. Where each leg of the -machine rested he finds two spike holes, similar to those made by -football cleats. They are about 6 inches apart, 7/8 inch in diameter, -and about one inch deep. The four feet are about 11.5–12 feet apart and -the diagonals are 16 feet 1 inch and 16 feet 6 inches, respectively. -Powers concludes that the center of gravity is above the firepoint and -notes that the intersections of the diagonals deviate 2 degrees from -90°. (“South -Hill, Va. Landing,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 11; Sparks, -p. 324; Fred Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some Reports of -UFOs,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 10; Gordon Lore, Flying Saucers from -beyond the Earth: A UFO Researcher’s Odyssey, BearManor, 2018, -pp. 60–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4258

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Event 6442 -(5BEC08D8)

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Date: 4/21/1967
-Description: Coup d’état in Greece. Although there are persistent rumors -about an active support of the coup by the US government, there is no -evidence to support such claims. The timing of the coup apparently -catches the CIA by surprise. (Wikipedia, “Greek -military junta of 1967”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4257

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Event 6443 -(3CE9635C)

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Date: 4/21/1967
-Description: Robert -J. Low issues a position paper that outlines, after months of -discussions and briefings, a framework for the Colorado project’s goals -and procedures. It includes acquiring data on new cases, contracted -reviews on such special topics as radar and mirages, a special section -on photo cases, and a statistical treatment of bulk data. He divides the -research question into three tiers: “Are there really sightings that are -unexplained?” “Are any of these external stimuli solid objects?” and -“Are any of these objects extraterrestrial spaceships?” He asks the -group to discuss criteria for answering those questions. (Swords -317–318)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4256

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Event 6444 -(6DBC0197)

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Date: 4/21/1967
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Two couples see an unexplained light near -Ephrata, Washington, and chase it in their car. They came upon a UFO -sitting on the road and have to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting it. -The object takes off, moves behind the car, and follows it for 5 -minutes, then disappears as traffic became heavier. The witnesses are -badly shaken by the experience. (NICAP, “The -1967 UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4255

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Event 6445 -(E485FF73)

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Date: 4/21/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: Mr. Crowder was driving home when he saw an object on the -road 70 m away. Supported by four legs, it was a vertical cylinder, 5 m -in diameter, with a half-sphere on top. It was gray and its base was 1 m -above the pavement. When the witness turned his high beams on, the craft -gave off a vertical light and vanished. The road burned for 15 min. -Mr. Martin, who lived nearby, also observed the light. Holes, traces of -burns, and calcined matches were noted at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: South Hill, Virginia
-ID: 836

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Event 6446 -(2B92ED9A)

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Date: 4/21/1967
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 126

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Event 6447 -(737EB82F)

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Date: 4/22/1967
-Description: At the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper -Editors in Washington, D.C., James -E. McDonald says -of Donald -Menzel, “when he comes to analyzing UFO reports, he seems to calmly -cast aside well-known scientific principles almost with abandon, in an -all-out effort to be sure that no UFO report survives his attack.” He -also says, “I have learned from a number of unquotable sources that the -Air Force has long wished to get rid of the burden of the troublesome -UFO problem and has twice tried to ‘peddle’ it to NASA—without success.” -(James E. McDonald, “UFOs: -Greatest Scientific Problem of Our Times?” April 22, 1967; Clark III -699; “Our -Speaker(s) Tonight: James E. McDonald, Donald H. Menzel, Hector -Quintanilla,” Saturday Night Uforia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4259

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Event 6448 -(E800398E)

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Date: 4/22/1967
-Description: American Society of Newspaper Editors sponsors panel -discussion on UFOs at its annual meeting in Washington, DC. Panelists -included Dr. James E. McDonald, Dr. Donald Menzel, and Maj. Hector -Quintanilla.
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 127

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Event 6449 -(47756B18)

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Date: 4/24/1967
-Description: After reading a March 7 column by Drew -Pearson that alleges the US attempted to assassinate Fidel -Castro, President -Johnson directs -CIA Director Richard -Helms to conduct an investigation. The result is a 133-page report -by CIA Inspector General John -S. Earman, transmitted -on April 24 to Helms, that clearly shows the CIA was in contact with and -cooperated with Maj. Rolando -Cubela Secades of the Cuban military in plans to assassinate Castro. -The operation is known as Project AMLASH. After receiving the report, -Helms orally briefs the President about its contents. According to his -testimony before the Select Committee, when asked if he has told the -President “that efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro had continued into -Johnsonʼs presidency, Helms replied, ‘I just can’t answer that, I just -don’t know. I can’t recall having done so.’” (US Department of State, -Office of the Historian, “Document 315,” in Foreign Relations of the -United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXXII, Dominican Republic; Cuba; Haiti; -Guyana)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4260

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Event 6450 -(AAD6FFBB)

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Date: 4/26/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: Brian Dorscht saw a dark object, measuring 1 m in diameter -and 1.5 m in height, with flashing green and white lights. When 1 m -above ground, six legs came out, and it landed on a lawn near the -National Grocers Company. The whirring sound the object was making -stopped, and the witness became afraid and ran away. Police found six -prints at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 177; SS&S; Summer, 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Kitchener, Canada
-ID: 837

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Event 6451 -(BFC22980)

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Date: 4/27/1967
-Time: 2200
-Description: Four boys with binoculars observed an object come lower -with oscillating motions, illuminating the woods 1 km away. It was -concshaped, with a blue underside, and a top that changed from red to -orange to white.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Atic (Vallee)
-Location: Green Lake, Wisconsin
-ID: 838

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Event 6452 -(54FA8DDD)

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Date: 4/28/1967
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Brian F. Jenkins and seven other coast guards at -Brixham, Devon, England, watch a huge, cone- shaped object through 25x -binoculars mounted on a tripod. The object is hovering at 15,000 feet -and seems to be revolving. Jenkins says the cone is pointing down, and -the object seems made of glass or highly polished metal: “Near the -bottom there was a triangular-shaped opening or door with a white rim on -the top that reflected a lot of sunlight. The bottom was crinkled, very -white, and seemed to consist of strips of metal hanging down.” It drifts -to the northwest, rising to 22,000 feet and 8 miles away. At 12:40 p.m., -a jet aircraft approaches it, flies above it, passes it, turns, and -approaches it from below before it disappears from sight. Possible -balloon. (“British Radar/Visual -Case,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 1 (May/June 1967): 8; Good Above, pp. 60–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4262

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Event 6453 -(087401F4)

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Date: 4/28/1967
-Description: Condon recommends -J. -Allen Hynek and Richard -H. Hall to Encyclopedia Britannica as excellent persons to write UFO -entries. (Swords 319)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4261

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Event 6454 -(076F7147)

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Date: 4/29/1967
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Ian McGregor and two other oil drillers drive out -to an airstrip near Mount Whaleback, Western Australia, to look for a -UFO that has been appearing in the area for several nights. Toward the -southeast a bright haze appears that turns into an inverted cone of -light that is followed by an orange disc that rises vertically, turns on -its edge, and approaches them. They flash their headlights and the -object stops moving. It then returns in the direction it came from and -lands in the same spot. Their compasses are not working accurately. They -wait iuntil 11:30 p.m., but do not see it again. (L. J. Locke, “UFOs -in Western Australia: From Mayanup to Mt, Newman,” Australian Flying -Saucer Review, no. 8 (1968): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4263

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Event 6455 -(3CBDDE1B)

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Date: 5/1967
-Description: The CIA launches the Phoenix Program in Vietnam to gather -information on the Viet Cong, whose members would then be neutralized -(captured, converted, or killed). Emphasis for the enforcement of the -operation is placed on local government militia and police forces, -rather than the military. Heavy-handed operations—such as random cordons -and searches, large-scale and lengthy detentions of innocent civilians, -excessive use of firepower, torture, and targeted killings—have a -negative effect on the civilian population. Between 1968 and 1972, -Phoenix “neutralizes” 81,740 people (26,369 are killed) suspected of -belonging to the National Liberation Front. The reported torture is -carried out by South Vietnamese forces with the CIA and special forces -playing a supervisory role. (Wikipedia, “Richard -Helms”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4264

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Event 6456 -(137C88D7)

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Date: 5/1967
-Description: Evening. A farmer near Holbæk, Denmark, is working outside -when he sees a strange lilac-colored light. Approaching, he sees a domed -object with windows. Something is moving behind it. He goes home but -returns to the spot the next day and finds an odd substance. It looks -like “cotton wool,” but is finer than cotton. He leaves it in the same -spot, but it dissipates over the next three days. There is also a -depressed area where the object had been, and some wire is pulled away -from some pylons. (“Denmark: -Flying Saucer Landed in a Field outside ‘Holbak’?????” -Saucer Scoop 2, no. 4 (July 1967): 4; Michael D. Swords, “Angel Hair: -Spindrift between Worlds,” IUR 32, no. 1 (August 2008): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4268

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Event 6457 -(7689AC09)

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Date: 5/1967
-Description: Evening. A woman in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, sees a -light shining through her basement window. Across the street she notices -a large object beaming with three colored lights and rotating. She goes -outside with another woman and watch the slight slowly spin for 20 -minutes above a neighbor’s house. When she tries to call the neighbors, -all she gets is a busy signal, and when she looks outside again, the -object is gone. The next day, the neighbor tells her that there was -nothing wrong with the phone and that all evening she had been playing -cards with friends and talking about UFOs. (Michael D. Swords, -“Timmermania: A Step Too Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4 -(Winter 2002–2003): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4267

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Event 6458 -(CE351457)

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Date: 5/1967
-Description: 12:30–3:15 p.m. During a reconnaissance exercise in -Madagascar, a detachment of 23 officers and men serving with the French -Foreign Legion watch a bright object landing in a “falling leaf” motion. -When it touches down on tripod legs, the glow dissipates. The egg-shaped -craft is 23–26 feet high and has no visible markings except for openings -at the base through which flames are visible. The witnesses seem -paralyzed or at least extremely distracted while the UFO is on the -ground. When they recover their senses, they find that 2.75 hours have -elapsed. For 2 days afterward, they all have violent headaches, a -buzzing in their ears, and a throbbing in their temples. (H. Julien, “A -1967 Landing in Madagascar,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 1 (June -1977): pp. 29–30; Good Need, pp. 297–298)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4266

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Event 6459 -(352EDAC3)

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Date: 5/1967
-Description: A man identifying himself as Maj. Richard French visits a -woman in Owatonna, Minnesota, who has had a UFO encounter the previous -November. He is 5 feet 9 inches with an olive complexion and hair too -long for an Air Force officer. He is wearing a fashionable gray suit, -white shirt, and black tie. At one point, French complains of stomach -problems, and the woman recommends Jell-O. He says he will return if the -symptoms persist, so he shows up the following morning. The woman sits -him down with a bowl of Jell-O, which he tries to drink. “I had to show -him how to eat it with a spoon,” the woman tells John -A. Keel. (John -A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, Manor Books ed., 1976, pp. 171–173; -Clark III 734)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4265

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Event 6460 -(A164FB79)

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Date: 5/1967
-Alternate date: 6/1967
-Description: A couple captures on an 8mm film camera 10 frames (2.5 -seconds) of footage of an unusual object at Alberton, South Australia. -The UFO is enveloped in a striking blue light that gives the appearance -of a searchlight moving around its circumference. The developed film -appears to show a craft with portholes and a sweeping searchlight. -(David Reneke, “The -Australian UFO Photo File,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 2, no. -4 (July/Aug. 1981): 10–15; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony -Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 26; Patrick -Gross, “The -Alberton UFO Footage, Australia, 1967”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4269

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Event 6461 -(5F8C9AC1)

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Date: 5/1/1967
-Description: Night. A man’s car engine fails while he is driving near -Peeltree, West Virginia. He sees a 40-foot-long elliptical object emerge -from behind a shed and hover 15 feet from his car. It tilts toward the -car at a 30° angle. He hears static on the radio, and the dashboard -temperature gauge goes off the dial. He feels an intense wave of heat -when he puts his head out the window, and his hands burn when he touches -the horn rim and dashboard. He also reports headaches and a partial loss -of vision. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference -Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4271

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Event 6462 -(8B6BBE6F)

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Date: 5/1/1967
-Description: The Colorado project issues a press release calling for -photos of UFOs taken by private citizens and provides recommendations to -the photographers and the information it should include. The release is -basically a rewrite of a document prepared by NPIC staff and approved by -Lundahl on -March 24. (Peter A. Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, Warner, 1999, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4270

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Event 6463 -(BBD51267)

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Date: 5/4/1967
-Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 128

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Event 6464 -(C947D3DB)

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Date: 5/5/1967
-Description: Indonesian Air Marshal Roesmin -Noerjadin admits that sometimes UFOs pose a problem for the -country’s air defense, and sometimes the military is forced to fire on -them. (Good Need, p. 254)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4273

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Event 6465 -(F354C39D)

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Date: 5/5/1967
-Description: Condon, -Low, Hartmann, Ratchford, -and Charles Reed of the National Research Council are briefed by an -unnamed specialist [probably Everitt L. Merritt of the Autometrics -Division of the Raytheon Company of Alexandria, Virginia] at the NPIC on -a photogrammetric analysis he had carried out on the November 1966 UFO -photo case from Roseville, Ohio. The analysis debunks the photo. The -committee is again impressed with the technical work performed, and -Condon remarks that for the first time a scientific analysis of a UFO -will stand up to investigation. (Wikipedia, “Arthur -Lundahl”; E. L. Merritt, “Photogrammatric -Analysis of a Non-Synchronous Pair -of U.F.O. Exposures,” June 1967; Peter A. Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, -Warner, 1999, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4272

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Event 6466 -(1FA8BDE3)

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Date: 5/6/1967
-Description: 11:00 a.m. A mechanical engineer and his daughter are -driving on the Durango–Mazatlán Highway in Mexico. They spot a -disc-shaped object landed on the ground off the highway. They stop the -car and he takes three photos as the object takes off. The first photo -shows the object at treetop level, partially hidden by a tree, with a -portion of its landing gear visible. The second object shows the object -in flight against a clear sky. The third photo shows nothing. (Lorenzen, -UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4274

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Event 6467 -(7B85BC99)

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Date: 5/6/1967
-Time: 1100
-Description: A mechanical engineer and his daughter saw a disk-shaped -object on the ground off a highway. They stopped the car and took three -photos of the object as it was taking off. The first one showed the -object at treetop level, the second showed it in flight, and the third -photo missed the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Durango, Mexico
-ID: 839

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Event 6468 -(BC9B2AAD)

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Date: 5/7/1967
-Time: 0200
-Description: Ricky Banyard, 14, saw a strange object in the sky and -followed it with a friend, Glenn Coates, through binoculars. It hovered -near a cemetery, making a hushed whistling sound and illuminating the -ground with a vertical beam of light. The object left suddenly with a -roar similar to that of a jet, and a series of “bangs.” Stones were -found calcined at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 178 (Vallee)
-Location: Edmonton, Canada
-ID: 840

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Event 6469 -(E2DB1B2A)

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Date: 5/7/1967
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Ricky Banyard, 17, and four others watch and -follow a spherical object with a spinning top and bottom and with red -and green lights for 4 hours in Edmonton, Alberta, in the Mount Pleasant -Cemetery. As it hovers at about 200 feet, a light beam comes from the -bottom of the object, illuminating the ground. They hear a muffled -whistling noise as the object hovers, then a screaming noise like a jet -engine starting up. All its lights go out, and the object takes off in a -flurry of explosive sounds. Black streaks are later found on the charred -road surface. (“A -UFO in Detail,” Edmonton (Alberta) Journal, May 8, 1967, p. 33; “Eerie -Object in Graveyard,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4275

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Event 6470 -(2ABCF346)

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Date: 5/7/1967 (approximate)
-Description: A couple are driving through the state of Tabasco, Mexico, -when they see a bright point of light in the sky. It descends to a spot -about 500 feet away and gives off an intense white-orange light from its -cone-shaped body. The couple stops and shuts off their headlights. When -the object approaches closer, the man turns the headlights on again. The -UFO stops in midair and blinks its light off and on twice. The couple -become frightened and drive to the nearest town. Several people return -with them to the spot and the object is still there. When they turn -their headlights off and on, it approaches them. Some of the men run to -the object with weapons raised, and it takes off into the sky within -seconds. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4276

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Event 6471 -(213E6A5D)

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Date: 5/9/1967
-Description: In a field which belonged to the Mayor, Mr. Maillotte, a -depression was discovered, and blue powder was found in small trenches -radiating from that area. A formidable weight seemed to have rested at -the spot. No radioactivity.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 179 (Vallee)
-Location: Marliens, France
-ID: 841

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Event 6472 -(7E2A7CC4)

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Date: 5/10/1967
-Description: Richard -Helms goes to the White House to give President Lyndon -Johnson the answers to the questions he’d been asked seven weeks -earlier. The only account of that meeting is Helms’s own. He says he -described the [inspector general’s] conclusions and that Johnson said: -“Then you were not responsible for Trujillo, ‘No.’ -Correct answer. ‘Diem?’ -‘No.’ Correct answer. ‘Castro, he’s -still alive, okay.’” At the same meeting Helms also tells Johnson about -the mail interception program “and some other things that were going -on.” Johnson’s response to that was equally laconic; he just nodded and -said something along the line of, ‘But be careful, don’t get caught.’” -(Thomas Powers, The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA, -Random House, 1979, pp. 156–157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4277

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Event 6473 -(100507DC)

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Date: 5/11/1967
-Time: 0200
-Description: Michael Campeadore, 25, a hospital employee, was driving to -Salt Lake City when he heard a noise similar to that of a truck, but saw -nothing. Then a yellow light became visible to the left, and thinking -that it was a jet plane about to crash, he got out and saw it stop 30 m -away at 30 m altitude. It was shaped like an inverted bowl with a dome -on top and looked metallic. The witness became afraid and emptied his -.25 Beretta in the direction of the craft. He heard the bullets hit -metal and the object took off at great speed. When he told his story at -a nearby service station, the attendant replied that about 20 reports -had been made in the Saint George area recently.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 180 (Vallee)
-Location: Saint George, Utah
-ID: 842

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Event 6474 -(7E609B8A)

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Date: 5/13/1967
-Description: 4:40 p.m. An object is picked up on radar at the Colorado -Springs, Colorado, airport. A Braniff flight is coming in for a landing -on runway 35. The track of the object behaves like a ghost echo, perhaps -a ground return being reflected from the Braniff aircraft. The blip -appears at about twice the range of the Braniff blip. When the Braniff -airliner touches down, however, the situation changes radically. The UFO -blip pulls to the right (east) and passes over the airport at an -estimated height of about 200 feet. The object track passes within 1.5 -miles of the control tower. The object is not visible even through -binoculars by personnel in the control tower. The Colorado project finds -this to be one of the most puzzling radar cases on record. (NICAP, “Invisible -UFO Tracked on Radar”; -Condon, pp. 170–171, 310–316)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4279

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Event 6475 -(3111542E)

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Date: 5/13/1967
-Description: 1:43 a.m. Michael Campeadore is driving in Arizona about 17 -miles southwest of St. George, Utah, when he hears a loud humming sound. -After stopping the car and getting out, he notices a huge object, 45–50 -feet in diameter, hovering 25–30 feet above him. He reaches into the car -and gets a .25 caliber pistol, loads it, and fires point blank at the -object. He hears the bullets hit and ricochet as they strike. Before he -has finished the clip, the object begins moving off and disappears in -seconds. (“Car -Buzzing Incidents on Increase,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, -p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4278

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Event 6476 -(6D26E135)

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Date: mid 5/1967
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Patricio Hanessian and Alfredo Padilla are -driving in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, and see a flat-bottomed, -domed object in the sky. The central part is bright white and the edge -is bright pink or red. It holds its position for 2–3 minutes then moves -away, reappearing about 500 feet in front of their car, where it hovers -for 2 minutes before speeding off. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, -Signet, 1968, pp. 60–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4280

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Event 6477 -(BB2B3837)

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Date: 5/16/1967
-Description: Roman and Jose Arribas observed an object land in a pine -forest north of Nieva-Segovia. They saw “people” enter the ashcolored -craft, which took off straight up, at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 89 (Vallee)
-Location: Nieva-Segovia, Spain
-ID: 843

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Event 6478 -(DFD8A780)

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Date: 5/16/1967
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Ship Master Donald W. Dee and 3rd Mate Homer -Hawthorne, seamen Earle Bradley and Eric Koster, all crew of the Pacific -Coast Transport ship SS Point Sur, see six red point-source lights that -seem to be pacing the ship over the Gulf of Mexico. One object is -confirmed by sporadic radar returns as at 12,000 feet, 11 miles away. -Through 7 x 50 binoculars, the objects appear brilliant yellow with red -lights across upper two-thirds, but to the naked eye, the colors blend -to reddish-orange point sources. They pulsate with a 4.5-second period -and an approximate 1:3 brightness ratio. The lower objects rise and fall -near the horizon. (NICAP, “SS -Point -Sur Case”; -Sparks, p. 325)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4282

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Event 6479 -(EE1478E9)

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Date: 5/16/1967
-Description: CIA Director Richard -Helms makes one last pitch for the A-12 Oxcart program to President -Johnson, -saying the aircraft are essential for finding the SAM missile launch -sites responsible for shooting down pilots in North Vietnam. They can’t -want for the Air Force’s SR-71 to become operational. Johnson authorizes -A-12’s to deploy to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, before the -monsoons start. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 265–266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4281

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Event 6480 -(1C7C825F)

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Date: 5/17/1967
-Time: 8:30 PM
-Description: Witness: Red Ledford. One round, orange-colored object, -similar in size to a small aircraft, zigzagged back and forth over a jet -that was heading northeast for 5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Rural Hall, North Carolina
-ID: 575

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Event 6481 -(606800B3)

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Date: 5/17/1967
-Description: The first official Soviet UFO Study Group is launched in a -preliminary meeting at the Moscow Aviation and Cosmonautics Center with -Maj. Gen. Porfiri Stolyarov at the helm and cosmologist Felix -Ziegel as his deputy. Also in attendance are Heinrich Ludwig, Nikolai -Zhirov, Igor -Bestuzhev-Lada, Valentin -Akkuratov, Leonid Reino, Georgi Uger, Georgi Zevalkin, Grigory -Sivkov, Yekaterina -Ryabova, and Natalia -Kravtsova. (Wikipedia, -“Felix -Ziegel”; Good Above, p. 570; -Felix Ziegel, “Unidentified -Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4283

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Event 6482 -(D773E6F4)

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Date: 5/20/1967
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Stefan -Michalak is quartz prospecting near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, when he -sees two red, glowing, cigar-shaped objects in the sky. One object -begins to hover then move away, while the other lands on a large, flat -rock 160 feet away. The landed object is more than 35 feet wide and 10 -feet thick with a 3-foot high cupola. It goes through several color -changes then appears like hot stainless steel with blinding -purple-colored lights coming through slits in the cupola. It is making a -whirring sound and warm air seems to be coming from it. Michalak sits -and sketches the object for 30 minutes, then a small door opens on the -side, revealing a lighted interior. Michalak walks to 60 feet away and -hears voices inside. Thinking it is a US aircraft, he steps forward and -shouts. “Okay, Yankee boys, having trouble? Come on out and we’ll see -what we can do about it.” He says the same thing in five other -languages. There is no response, so he puts green lenses over his -glasses and looks inside, where he sees a series of flashing lights. He -pulls his head back, noting that the wall is 18 inches thick. Almost -immediately the opening closes. When his glove accidentally touches the -surface, it burns and melts. The UFO angles upwards and he sees a 9-by-6 -inch gridlike vent with a uniform pattern of small holes. A blast of hot -gas erupts from the grid, searing his chest, sending him reeling -backwards, and burning his shirt and undershirt. He rips the flaming -clothing off just as the UFO ascends in a rush of air. It heads off to -the west, the same direction the other UFO has gone. Michalak now has a -headache and severe nausea, so he starts driving back to his motel. He -eventually gets to Misericordia Hospital in Winnipeg and receives a -sedative. His chest burn heals, but the gridlike burn lesions on his -abdomen persist. The symptoms continue well into 1968, when Michalak -visits the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, staying there 2 weeks -and undergoing outpatient treatment. He relocates the landing site on -June 30, 1967, and the RCAF visits it in July, noting a 15-foot circle -of cleared vegetation on the flat rock. Michalak obtains metal samples -of unknown provenance from the site in 1968. (Wikipedia, “Falcon -Lake Incident”; -NICAP, “Falcon -Lake / Michalak Encounter”; Stephen Michalak, My Encounter with the -UFO, Osnova, 1967; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -pp. 195–198; Condon, pp. 316–324; -Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, pp. 37–45; Chris Rutkowski, “The Falcon -Lake Incident, Part 1: Prologue 1967,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. -1 (June 1981): 14–16; Chris Rutkowski, “The -Falcon Lake Incident, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 2 -(August 1981): 15–18; Chris Rutkowski, “The -Falcon Lake Incident, Part 3,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 3 -(November 1981): 21–25; Chris Rutkowski, “Burned by a UFO? The Story of -a Bungled Investigation,” IUR 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1987): 21–24; Edward -M. Barker, “Letter,” IUR 13, no. 2 (March/April 1988): 21–22; Good -Above, pp. 195–200; -Chris Rutkowski, “The Falcon Lake Case: Too Close an Encounter,” JUFOS 5 -(1994): 1–34; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, -UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 81–86; -Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn -Press, 2006, pp. 72–93; Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts about -UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): 10, 22; Clark III -475–481; Chris Rutkowski and Stan Michalak, When They Appeared: Falcon -Lake 1967, August Night, 2019; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 107–118, 154–157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4284

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Event 6483 -(BCE1DF9B)

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Date: 5/20/1967
-Description: Witness approached landed object, violet light, rushing air -sound, voices heard. Experienced severe burns on chest, weight loss, and -vomiting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Canada
-ID: 129

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Event 6484 -(8ACE4EA3)

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Date: 5/20/1967
-Description: A bizarre announcement is published in the Spanish -newspaper Informaciones declaring that soon a spacecraft will land in -Madrid, Spain, and fly earthbound terrestrials back to their home planet -Ummo. (Clark III 1184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4285

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Event 6485 -(4C23BE00)

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Date: 5/20/1967
-Time: 1213
-Description: Polish-born Steve Michalac, 52, industrial mechanic and -prospector, saw two redglowing objects flying at high speed. One of them -blew vegetation as it landed, surrounded by a glow, and it was observed -for 30 min before a door opened, showing a purple light. A high-pitched -sound and an odor resembling a burning electrical circuit were noted. -Approaching, the witness heard voices, and upon touching the craft, he -burned his rubber-coated glove, and was “blown out” by hot air when the -subject started spinning. The witness felt dizzy, suffered minor face -burns, second and third degree burns on his chest, vomited frequently -for 4 days, and lost over 10 kg. Diameter of craft, 11 m; height, 3 m, -with a 1-m-high superstructure.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 60; Condon 316 (Vallee)
-Location: Falcon Lake, Canada
-ID: 844

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Event 6486 -(07EEF91F)

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Date: 5/22/1967
-Time: evening
-Description: A teacher, 45-year-old Mr. Tyrode, saw a glow, then an -object shaped like an inverted plate emitting a greenish-blue light. It -flew less than 20 m above his car, at 40 km/h.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 94 (Vallee)
-Location: Evillers, France
-ID: 845

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Event 6487 -(3E7CAE9A)

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Date: 5/24/1967
-Time: 2300
-Description: Remy Deneuville and his family saw a white light to the -side of the road, but it was turned off when they drove within 150 m of -its location. Minutes later, they saw a luminous spherical object fly -away for several minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA Dec., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Arbonne, France
-ID: 846

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Event 6488 -(FE758C9C)

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Date: 5/26/1967
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Three teenagers (Bobby Grant, Joseph Romero, and -Johnny Sanchez) are driving along Atrisco Drive NW, north of Central -Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A white light seems to follow them, -weaving back and forth over the road. Finally it catches up with the car -and hovers silently above it. The engine quits and the headlights fail. -The teens leap from the car and the object suddenly flies off to the -southwest. They can start the car again. (“Car -Buzzing Incidents on Increase,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, -p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4286

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Event 6489 -(61A42CA4)

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Date: 5/30/1967
-Description: A-12 spy planes begin Operation Black Shield in North -Vietnam out of Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, Japan, locating and -photographing surface-to-air missile sites that are shooting down US -pilots. The A-12s fly at 80,000 feet and at about Mach 3.1, carrying out -22 sorties in 1967. However, the Russians monitor the flights and the -Vietnamese move their SAM sites immediately after flyovers. (Wikipedia, -“Lockheed -A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4287

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Event 6490 -(4AE06F77)

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Date: 5/31/1967
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A woman at a farmhouse near Beausejour, -Manitoba, sees an intensely bright red light with a smaller blue light -on the bottom that approaches from the south and hovers about 375 feet -away. A white light on the bottom becomes brighter as the object hovers, -its glow illuminating the ground. The object lands and leaves a burning -area 90 feet by 150 feet in size with radioactive soil. The area is -still smoldering on June 15, despite several rains. (“Second -Landing in Canada,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1967, p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4289

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Event 6491 -(EE819AB3)

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Date: 5/31/1967
-Description: Fernando -Sesma, president -of the Amigos de los Visitantes del Espacio, speaks to an audience of 40 -persons gathered at a café in Madrid, Spain. He says that the Ummites -(who have been supplying him with messages since 1965 describing in -excruciating detail life on the planet Ummo, which revolves around a -star 14.6 light years away) have given him a startling printed message -predicting that a spacecraft will appear on the evening of June 1. The -space people have supplied the exact geographical coordinates: the area -of San José de Valderas, Madrid. All the Ummite messages, passed on to -Sesma by his associates Enrique -Villagrasa and Alicia -Araujo, are usually postmarked in Madrid, but as time goes by, other -postmarks indicate mailings from London, Germany, Austria, New Zealand, -Yugoslavia, and Canada. (Clark III 1184–1185; Fernando Sesma, UMMO, otro -planeta habitado, Gráficas Espejo, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4288

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Event 6492 -(41EEB50A)

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Date: 6/1967
-Description: Low says -he wants the Colorado project to compile a case book of its best UFO -reports. Richard -Hall is invited for 2 days of consulting and narrows the case list -to 100. A small team agrees to go over the list and decide which ones -deserve more intensive analysis. By August, Saunders becomes -the lone staffer selecting cases and he only has 12. (UFOs Yes, -81–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4290

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Event 6493 -(1E39D474)

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Date: 6/1967
-Description: The newly formed Surrey Investigation Group on Aerial -Phenomena publishes the SIGAP Newsletter in Camberley, Surrey, England, -until June 1969. It revitalizes the newsletter as the New SIGAP Bulletin -from 1977 to 1979. (SIGAP -Newsletter, no. -1 (June 1, 1967); SIGAP -Bulletin, no. 15 (August 1, 1968); The -New SIGAP Bulletin, no. -1 (July 1977))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4291

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Event 6494 -(C3700116)

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Date: 6/1967
-Description: Night. Giuseppe Aldini, 17, is with his family in -Montalcino, Siena, Italy, when he sees a round, luminous object from his -window. Later he notices a glowing red light on a nearby hill. The next -day he goes to the spot and finds a circular burned area 100 feet in -diameter with four imprints in its center. Inside are many black -minerals that are analyzed by the University of Florence’s Mineralogical -Institute and found to be quartz crystals. (1Pinotti 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4292

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Event 6495 -(AF8D6322)

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Date: 6/1/1967
-Time: 2330
-Description: John Norton, 7, had to be taken to a hospital after -observing a disk-shaped, buzzing object, the size of a Volkswagen, with -green and red lights, which landed in a clearing and took off “like -lightning.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Richmond, Virginia
-ID: 847

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Event 6496 -(94474D93)

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Date: 6/1/1967
-Description: The UFO seen by José -Luis Jordán Peña in Aluche, Madrid, Spain, allegedly reappears in -the neighborhood of San José de Valderas. This time, Jordán Peña plays -UFO investigator, taking statements from witnesses who describe a -low-flying disc-shaped object with the same strange symbol on the -underside. An anonymous man takes several photographs that he drops off -at a photo lab on June 2. He then calls newspaper photographer Antonio -San Antonio, telling him where to pick them up. All but one show an -edge-on view of what appears to be a large, squat disc with a rim -through its midsection. One photo shows the bottom of the UFO with the -Aluche symbol, this time with a horizontal bar crossing the verticals -and linking the two arms. In August, another photographer calling -himself Antonio Pardo produces two more photos of the edge-on disc taken -the same day, as well as some hard green-colored plastic strips bearing -the distinctive Aluche symbol supposedly found in a capsule that -leaflets by a “Henri Dagousset” predicted in June would be found. Jordán -Peña later confesses to hoaxing the plastic strips, which are made of -Tedlar (polyvinyl fluoride) produced by DuPont for the US space program. -Independent analyses by French space scientist Claude -Poher and the US group Ground Saucer Watch determine that the San -José de Valderas photo with the Ummo symbol is a small model—an 8-inch -plate suspended by a string or fishing line— held close to the camera. -The symbol apparently is drawn in ink. (Wikipedia, “Ummo”; -Antonio Ribera, “The -San José de Valderas Photographs,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1969): 3–10; Oscar Rey Brea, “Algo -sobre las fotografias del sepuesto OVNI de San José de Valderas,” -Stendek 3, no. 9 (August 1972): 5–11; Antonio Ribera and Rafael -Farriols, Un caso perfecto, Plaza y Janés, 1976; Fred Adrian, “Ground -Saucer Watch Computer Photographic Analysis (Critique), San José de -Valderas, Spain, 1967,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1977, pp. 11–13; Claude -Poher, “Remarks on Aluche, San José de Valderas, and the ‘Ummo’ Affair: -A Monstrous Hoax!” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1977, pp. 3–10; Scott -Corrales, “The -UMMO Experience: Are You Experienced?” Strange Magazine, January 31, -2001; Clark III 1183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4293

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Event 6497 -(7421E09B)

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Date: 6/3/1967
-Description: The town of St. Paul, Alberta, officially dedicates a UFO -landing pad as a public park and as a safe place for aliens to land. -Minister of National Defence Paul -Hellyer flies in by helicopter to launch the pad. It consists of a -raised platform with a map of Canada embossed on the back stop, -consisting of stones provided by each province of Canada. (Wikipedia, -“St. Paul, -Alberta”; “World’s -First UFO Landing Pad,” Atlas Obscura, April 19, 2010; George M. -Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 20; -Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn -Press, 2006, pp. 240–243)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4294

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Event 6498 -(93D0F5B5)

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Date: 6/3/1967
-Description: Two Spanish Air Force fighter pilots chased UFO, radios -failed. Cat and mouse pursuit. Object shot straight up and -disappeared
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Extremadura, Spain
-ID: 130

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Event 6499 -(04785ED1)

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Date: 6/7/1967
-Time: 0130
-Description: A vehicle stalled in the vicinity of a brilliant, -transparent, mushroom-shaped object, aboard which occupants with catlike -faces were seen. Under the object was a quadrangular protuberance.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Itajuba, Brazil
-ID: 848

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Event 6500 -(0086DA8F)

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Date: 6/7/1967
-Description: Dr. James E. McDonald, University of Arizona atmospheric -physicist, gave a presentation on UFOs to the Outer Space Affairs Group -of the United Nations. Secretary General U Thant expressed deep concern -over UFO situation.
-Type: official
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 131

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Event 6501 -(FEFDBC00)

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Date: 6/7/1967
-Description: James -E. McDonald speaks before the United Nations Office for Outer Space -Affairs meeting in New York City on the “International scientific -aspects of the problem of the unidentified flying objects.” UN -Secretary-General U Thant has -arranged for the lecture, based on conversations he has had with John -G. Fuller and J. -Allen Hynek in early 1966. McDonald urges the UN to undertake a -systematic global study of the UFO problem, but it does not act on the -recommendation. (James E. McDonald, Letter -to UN Secretary-General U Thant, June 5, 1967, p. 1; James E. -McDonald, “Statement -on International Scientific Aspects of the Problem of the Unidentified -Flying Objects,” -presented to the UN Outer Space Affairs group, June 7, 1967, pp. 2–3; -Clark III 698, 1189; Patrick Gross, “Scientists -Taking Position”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4295

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Event 6502 -(0BFB634F)

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Date: 6/9/1967
-Description: Day. Two Spanish Air Force pilots flying Lockheed T-33s at -4,000 feet encounter a UFO over the Extremadura region, Spain. Attempts -at radio contact fail, and when they fly above or below the object, -their radios cease to function and emit interference noises. The UFO -soon moves off, easily outstripping the jets, stopping and waiting for -them to approach, then moving on again, The two pilots notify the -Talavera la Real Air Base in Badajoz and Torrejón Air Base in Madrid, -from which two faster fighters are scrambled. The new fighters -experience the same radio interference and maneuvers until the object -shoots straight up at high speed. (Antonio Ribera, “Spanish -Jets Chase -UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 3 (May/June 1968): 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4296

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Event 6503 -(87186344)

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Date: 6/11/1967
-Time: 2000
-Description: Two children saw a disk-shaped object 1 m in diameter and -25 cm thick, making a metallic noise as it hovered 10 m above them. They -took a series of photos that show only a blur.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 181 (Vallee)
-Location: Price Hill, Ohio
-ID: 849

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Event 6504 -(ACE19DCD)

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Date: 6/11/1967
-Description: Silvery cylinder seen for several minutes, chased by two -F-102 interceptors
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Da Nang, Vietnam
-ID: 132

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Event 6505 -(92AB972F)

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Date: 6/12/1967
-End date: 6/13/1967
-Description: The Colorado project plays host to 34 Air Force officers -having UFO responsibility at various bases. Low and -Saunders try -to get them excited about reporting UFOs to the project, but aren’t very -successful. (NICAP, “UFO -Investigators Meeting 12 and 13 June 1967”; UFOs Yes, 125–126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4297

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Event 6506 -(BB6F19C7)

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Date: 6/13/1967
-Description: An object hovering 4 m above ground, and three dwarfs, were -observed. Traces and an oily substance were found at the site.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Caledonia, Canada
-ID: 850

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Event 6507 -(53D26D8F)

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Date: 6/13/1967
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Carmen Cuneo, a mine worker in Caledonia, -Ontario, steps out of the mine headquarters building and sees two -strange objects near a pond in the vicinity of the mine dump. One is -cigar-shaped and about 36 feet long with four windows along the side; a -boom-like aerial protrudes from one side. The other is disc-shaped and -about 15 feet across. Both are hovering 12 feet above the ground. Three -small men wearing what look like miners’ hats with four amber lights are -underneath the boom. After watching for 10 minutes, Cuneo goes back to -find another witness, but when he returns the men are gone. The two -objects, however, remain until 3:05 a.m. when they take off to the -southwest, flashing multicolored lights. (“June -Sighting of Occupants in Canada,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1967, -p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4298

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Event 6508 -(1BF5966E)

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Date: 6/18/1967
-Description: Late evening. A family is returning home by boat near -Clearwater Bay on Shoal Lake, Ontario, when they notice a bright oval -object hovering 50 feet above the treetops about a half-mile away. As -they approach, the object turns an orange tinge and suddenly sweeps -toward their boat at great speed. They beat a hasty retreat to the other -shore, while the UFO returns to its original position. The same thing -happens when they approach the object again. After about 15 minutes, the -object takes off at an incredible speed to the northwest. One resident, -who is not aware of the UFO, reports later that the static on his radio -was so bad that he had to turn it off. Wilted leaves on the top of -birch, hazel, and chokecherry trees are discovered in the sighting area. -Leaf samples are analyzed by the Canadian Department of Forestry, which -cannot find an explanation for their condition other than heat. The -University of Manitoba finds evidence of fungus on one sample but not on -others. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 150–152; -Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, pp. 31–34; Christ Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August -Night, 2022, pp. 55–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4300

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Event 6509 -(363321E9)

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Date: 6/18/1967
-Description: Several people in Mulluri, [perhaps near Viña del Mar], -Chile, see three discs flying in a V formation above the town. They -flash orange and blue lights alternately and make no sound. They -maneuver for 10 minutes before disappearing at high speed. (Lorenzen, -UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4299

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Event 6510 -(E0BB7657)

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Date: 6/20/1967
-Time: 1200
-Description: Farmer Arvi Juntunen heard a loud humming sound and saw a -round, shiny gray object 50 cm above ground, 6 m away. It had a domed -top with a fin and measured 75 cm in diameter. As he was about to seize -it, the object rose with a blast, circled and flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Suomussalmi, Finland
-ID: 851

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Event 6511 -(CE93B93F)

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Date: 6/22/1967
-End date: 6/25/1967
-Description: Condon attends, -at the invitation of James -W. Moseley and against the better judgment of the rest of the -Colorado project staff, the Congress of Scientific Ufologists at the -Hotel Commodore in New York City for the 20th anniversary of the Kenneth -Arnold sighting. Speakers include Gray -Barker, John -A. Keel, Moseley, Art Ford, Gordon Evans, actor Roy -Thinnes, and -Ivan -T Sanderson. Kenneth Arnold and Raymond -A. Palmer are originally scheduled but cancel. (Swords 316, 320; -James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! -Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 209–218; -Karl Machtanz, “Saucer -News NYC -Convention Memories,” In Honor of Jim Moseley, February 3, 2014; -Rick Hilberg, “Jim -Moseley’s Giant UFO -Show,” In Honor of Jim Moseley; Curt Collins, “The -National UFO Conference,” In Honor of Jim Moseley, March 11, 2014; -Curt Collins, “The -UFO Anniversary and the Giant New York Convention of 1967,” The -Saucers That Time Forgot, June 22, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4301

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Event 6512 -(FE93FD69)

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Date: 6/23/1967
-Description: Broadcaster Frank -Edwards dies of a heart attack. (“Death -of Frank Edwards,” UFO Investigator 4, no 2 (October 1967): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4302

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Event 6513 -(0C619E00)

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Date: 6/24/1967
-Description: 10:00 p.m. At Paso de los Libres, Corrientes, Argentina, -policemen see 8–10 bright lights that fly in formation over a military -post at an estimated 15,000 feet altitude. Other groups of UFOs are seen -the same night at Yapeyú and Santo Tomé in Corrientes; Oberá in -Misiones; and Resistencia and Barranqueras in Chaco, Argentina. All are -observed for at least 1–2 minutes. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, -Signet, 1968, pp. 61–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4303

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Event 6514 -(A5668FF1)

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Date: 6/24/1967
-Time: 3:12 AM
-Description: Witness: artist Ray Stanford. One solid, blue-white, -elliptical object flew from northwest to northeast and stopped, -seemingly in response to flashlight signal, for 1.5 minutes. The object -then proceeded along its original path at high speed and disappeared -behind clouds. Sighting lasted 9 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Austin, Texas
-ID: 576

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Event 6515 -(B9C42345)

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Date: 6/24/1967
-Description: In Asunción, Paraguay, many residents see six objects in -formation maneuvering over the city. Communications interference is -reported by the airport control tower director. (NICAP, “The -1967 UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4304

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Event 6516 -(49BD1DD5)

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Date: 6/24/1967
-End date: 6/25/1967
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale holds the first UFO -conference in Italy at Riccione, Rimini. (1Pinotti 143–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4305

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Event 6517 -(ABB4E58F)

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Date: 6/27/1967
-Description: McDonald is -in Australia, financed by a small grant from the Office of Naval -Research, to do cloud-physics research. Earlier in June, in a memo to Low, -he said he planned to do some UFO investigating and lecturing. Low -forwards the letter to Philip -Klass in December. (Clark III 700)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4306

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Event 6518 -(6D1E9612)

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Date: 6/28/1967
-Description: A NASA management instruction issued by Kurt -H. Debus, director of Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, -Florida, on “Processing Reports of Sightings of Space Vehicle Fragments” -notes that “Under no circumstances will the origin of the object be -discussed with the observer or person making the call,” including -“reports of sightings of objects not related to space vehicles.” (John -F. Kennedy Space Center, “Processing Reports -of Sightings of Space Vehicle Fragments,” NASA Management -Instruction KMI 8610.4, June 28, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4307

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Event 6519 -(146CAC0E)

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Date: 6/29/1967
-Time: 1:30 AM
-Description: Witness: truck driver Damon Brown. One oyster-shaped -object–2OO’ wide, and 25-30’ thick–with a huge red light at each end and -one on the bottom, and a row of blue lights along the bottom. Circled -m.n aircraft, hovering then moving rapidly, and then followed the -witness’ car for about 500’, veered south and departed at great speed -after 8-10 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Scotch Plains, New Jersey
-ID: 577

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Event 6520 -(A14BBAFF)

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Date: 6/30/1967
-Description: Condon, David -Saunders, Norm -Levine, Franklin -Roach, Mary Lou Armstrong, and visiting journalism grad student -Herbert Strentz hold a meeting about a “case book” of significant cases. -Condon tries to dissuade Saunders and Levine from pursuing this, but -they prevail. (Swords 320)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4308

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Event 6521 -(E10821BE)

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Date: 7/1967
-Description: Even though the Colorado project is requesting UFO reports -from NICAP, Keyhoe is -withholding them. Roy Craig discovers -the Low memorandum -while searching for unrelated information in the files. He shares it -with Norm Levine and David -Saunders, who -realize that it clearly implies that the project is a “whitewash -noninvestigation.” The memo makes the rounds of project personnel, then -gets refiled. (Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 121; -UFOs Yes, 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4309

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Event 6522 -(C3D030D2)

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Date: 7/1967
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A witness sees an intense orange light through -the window of her home in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia. She -calls her mother and they go outside to watch a cigar-shaped light -hovering, moving up and down slightly, and turning over on its side. It -has portholes around its lower edge. After 20 minutes, it moves off to -the western horizon at a high rate of speed. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, -no. 6 (June 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4310

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Event 6523 -(1699FFD1)

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Date: 7/1967
-End date: 12/1967
-Description: Intensive U.S. and international sighting wave. (See -separate chronology, Section VIII.)
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 133

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Event 6524 -(0B222BD2)

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Date: 7/1/1967
-Description: The Denver Post reveals that the Colorado project has -requested an additional $280,000 to extend it into September. Condon is -upset. USAF ultimately approves an additional $183,155, plus $29,750 for -expenses, bringing the total to $525,905. (UFOs Yes, 182)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4311

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Event 6525 -(D96206D5)

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Date: 7/3/1967
-Description: R. T. (initials), with ALPHA RED TOP SECRET CRYPTO -Clearance, rank PFC, assigned to Canine Corps at Camp Pendleton, San -Diego, CA., states that he and his dogs were air transported 2.5 hrs. to -a sight in a desert (unknown location) UFO crash-sight. Saucer: -Metallic, 30 ft. diameter, domed top, no windows. He also observed: -Large walk-in refrigerator, empty body bags, men at work with technical -instruments.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA

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Event 6526 -(15147C69)

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Date: 7/3/1967
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Warren Smith and two friends hiking in the -mountains near Highwood Ranger Station, 50 miles southwest of Calgary, -Alberta, take two color photos of a daylight disc that appears to be -about 25 feet in diameter. The disc appears from less than 2 miles away -and at an altitude of approximately 2,000 feet. It travels toward the -hikers, gradually losing altitude, then at a distance of about one-half -mile it hovers for a moment and an object appears to fall from it. It -disappears from sight at treetop level at great speed. The photos are -examined by both Canadian and American authorities; Hynek describes -them as some of the best photos on record at the time. An analysis by -Canadian National Defence finds the object is an oblate ellipsoid with a -diameter of 40–50 feet and a thickness of 11–14 feet. The witnesses sign -statutory declarations to the effect that the photos are not a hoax; if -proven false, they would be subject to prosecution under the Canada -Evidence Act. Nevertheless, the Colorado Committee thinks the object -could be a hoaxed hand-thrown model. Ground Saucer Watch declares it -genuine. (Canada, National Research Council, [case -documents], 1967, pp. 13–33; Condon, pp. 469–475; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 67–68; -Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, pp. 9–13; Wendelle C. Stevens, “Hikers -near Calgary Photograph a UFO in 1967,” OpenMinds, November 24, -2010; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -pp. 119– 125, 158–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4312

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Event 6527 -(6B6B7C90)

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Date: 7/3/1967
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Thomas -H. Nicholl, his family, and another couple, Mr. and Mrs. John Dowd, -are sitting on the Nicholls’s porch in Leawood, Kansas, when they see an -unusual orange-red light approach from the north- northeast. It is -bright metallic in color, about 50 feet in diameter, and traveling 100 -mph at an altitude of 2,000– 3,000 feet. The red-orange color emanates -from three lights on the rear side. After 5 minutes, the object blows -up, leaving in its wake a “nearly pure white” cloud that dissipates. The -witnesses see fragments falling to earth. (“Exploding -Disc,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 11 (May 1969): 7–8; Clark III -340–341)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4314

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Event 6528 -(66AAFD06)

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Date: 7/3/1967
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Joe Ferriere sees a large, cigar-shaped object -about 75–100 feet long hanging low in the sky above Woonsocket, Rhode -Island. A peculiar piston-like apparatus appears to be pumping in and -out of its left end. It is moving right to left in the manner of a -pendulum. Before it moves off to the east, it releases a glowing disc- -shaped object, about 12–15 feet in diameter. He takes a total of 6 -photos of the objects. (“Long -Rectangular UFOs: -Five Different Cases of Similarly Shaped Objects,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 2, no. 9 (September 1981): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4313

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Event 6529 -(8A6C6E38)

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Date: 7/4/1967
-Description: 5:15 a.m. At least five witnesses from two independent -locations about 5 miles west of Corning, California, see an oblong, -metallic-appearing object with a brilliant light on top and a smaller -light on the bottom near the front. Jay Munger, proprietor of an -all-night bowling alley, and two police officers, Frank Rakes and James -Overton, describe it as a dark-gray flattened sphere with a brilliant -light beam on top directed upward, and a smaller and dimmer light on the -bottom directed downward. A dark band circles the midsection. Two men -north of Corning independently see the object. The witnesses estimate a -diameter of 50–100 feet. At first the object appears to be hovering, -then it moves slowly a few hundred feet above the ground, finally -picking up speed and disappearing from view to the south after being -visible for about 10 minutes. (James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying -Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US -House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July -29, 1968, p. 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4315

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Event 6530 -(F3639084)

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Date: 7/5/1967
-Description: Night. A witness is driving five miles north-northeast of -Murray Bridge, South Australia, on the Karoonda Highway when he notices -interference on the car radio, which becomes a high-pitched whine. He -turns the radio off. Within 300–450 feet, his car engine stops by -itself. The ignition is on but the warning lights on the dash come on. -Looking up, he sees a distinct break in the fog with stars visible and a -“large dark shadow” at a height of 20 feet. The shadow seems 120 feet -thick. Above it is a grayish-blue glow. The top of the shadow appears -convex. He stops the vehicle and gets out to look, but the shadow and -light are gone. There is no sound, and the object has vanished. The -witness returns to the vehicle, tries the ignition, and the motor works. -There is no longer radio interference. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on -Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): -19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4317

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Event 6531 -(FFD8B34E)

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Date: 7/5/1967
-Description: 4:20 a.m. A motorist on State Highway 31, near the Depot -Road area of Coventry, Connecticut, sees an orange ball of light that -appears to be hanging from a tree. He drives into Coventry and reports -the matter to the police but the object is gone when they arrive on the -scene. Investigators from the University of Colorado and APRO find an -area of grass some yards from the location that appears to have been -swirled flat as if subject to a rotating force. A photograph taken of -the scene turns out black. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, -1968, p. 63; Condon, pp. 329–331)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4316

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Event 6532 -(9F16000D)

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Date: 7/5/1967
-Description: One hundred persons claimed to have seen a silvery -disk-shaped object, about 10 m long, land in the area.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Clifton, Great Britain
-ID: 852

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Event 6533 -(F2148EB6)

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Date: 7/6/1967
-Description: 6:00 p.m. An Air Canada DC-9 Vanguard has just taken off -from its stop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is heading east. Air traffic -controllers notice an unexpected radar return, also heading east, near -the aircraft. In the space of 70 seconds, they watch the target -accelerate from 800 to more than 4,000 mph before it zips off the scope -near the town of Vivian. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, -August Night, 2022, p. 126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4319

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Event 6534 -(B159BACC)

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Date: 7/6/1967
-Description: The Colorado project staff meet again to nominate the first -set of UFO reports for its “case book.” Condon refuses -to nominate a case, but Low proposes -the Red Bluff police report of August 1960, which is far outside -Condon’s concept of limiting cases to no more than a year old. (Swords -120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4318

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Event 6535 -(9306A67F)

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Date: 7/6/1967
-Description: 9:24 p.m. A radar operator in the airport at Kenora, -Ontario, notes an unidentified target heading northeast. It approaches -to about 40 miles, then turns and retreats to 50 miles away. At 9:35 -p.m. another target appears, following an Air Canada flight; it turns -northeast and disappears from the scope. At 9:53 p.m., an additional -blip follows another Air Canada airliner before veering away to the -northeast. None of the pilots see anything unusual. (Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 127–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4320

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Event 6536 -(1EC73EAA)

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Date: 7/7/1967
-Time: 2330
-Description: Antonio Brambila and another man saw a glow coming from a -disk, 6.5 m in diameter and 2.5 m high, with a dome on top and four -telescopic legs, which emitted a strange vibration.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 91 (Vallee)
-Location: Milan, Italy
-ID: 853

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Event 6537 -(2ED32E2E)

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Date: 7/7/1967
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Antonio Brambilla and another man watch a UFO -land on some grass in a deserted part of the Rondò-Torretta quarter in -Milan, Italy. A glow comes from the object, which is about 21 feet in -diameter and 8 feet high. It has a dome on top and four telescopic legs -with spheres on their tips. They feel a strange vibration that makes -them weak, but the feeling dissipates as the legs of the UFO retract and -it takes off. (1Pinotti 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4322

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Event 6538 -(8B697728)

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Date: 7/7/1967
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Winnipeg International -Airport in Manitoba, while monitoring an eastbound Air Canada flight on -radar, notice a target moving at high speed toward Kenora, Ontario. At -9:24 p.m., the same or a similar object is detected on the Kenora -Airport radar headed northeast. For three hours the object executes -various maneuvers, including 180° turns and twice follows Air Canada -flights before resuming its northeast course and disappearing off the -scope. (Gregory M. Kanon, “UFOs -and the Canadian Government,” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 6 (1975): -21; Good Above, p. 200; -Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4321

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Event 6539 -(9040F71F)

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Date: 7/10/1967
-Time: 5:50 PM
-Description: Witness: golf pro Harold Washington (Capt, USMC, ret.). One -object with a dome, the top colored gunmetal blue, the bottom the color -of old lead. Moved east, crossed the highway tilted upward, moved to the -right, accelerated and disappeared into the clouds after 3-5 seconds. -Object made a swishing sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lizelia, Mississippi
-ID: 578

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Event 6540 -(95636312)

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Date: 7/11/1967
-Time: evening
-Description: Two persons saw a cigar-shaped object on the ground, 400 m -away from the road, which took off, rising rapidly. It had windowlike -openings emitting a bright light.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 183 (Vallee)
-Location: Santa Clara del Mar, Argentina
-ID: 854

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Event 6541 -(DA444537)

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Date: 7/13/1967
-Description: 11:26 p.m. Robert Richardson and Jerry Quay are driving -near Whitehouse, Ohio. When rounding a bend, they encounter a brilliant -blue-white light blocking the road. It appears to be a triangle 8 feet -tall and 21 feet wide. Richardson brakes and close their eyes. They feel -a bump but can see nothing. The local police do not take the incident -seriously. However, the accident is investigated by the state police and -highway patrol, who find only skid marks at the scene. The next day -Richardson returns to the site and finds a piece of metal in the road. -Marks on his car hood and bumper suggest a collision with an object -taking off. On July 18 and 23, Richardson is visited by mysterious men, -those on the second occasion being foreign-looking, who make a threat -against his wife. Roy Craig of -the Colorado project conducts a test on the metal and finds it consists -of iron and chromium, with traces of nickel and manganese. Fibrous -material from the front bumper is 92% magnesium, 5% aluminum, 2% zinc, -and 1% manganese. (“UAO -Struck by Automobile in Ohio,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1967, pp. 1, -3; Condon, p. 93; -Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 -(Spring 2002): 25–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4323

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Event 6542 -(CC34074D)

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Date: 7/17/1967
-Time: 1600
-Description: Children were terrified by four dwarfish creatures dressed -in black clothing, about 1 m tall, who moved very rapidly among the -bushes. They were dark-skinned, had bulging eyes, and spoke among -themselves in a strange, musical dialect.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 182 (Vallee)
-Location: Arc-sous-Cicon, France
-ID: 855

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Event 6543 -(58DED827)

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Date: 7/17/1967
-Time: evening
-Description: E. Browne, walking in a wood, saw a disklike, dull, -blue-gray object with a rough surface, hovering about 2 m above ground. -An opening became visible in the middle section and two men dressed in -silvery clothes emerged, walked in the woods, then reentered the craft, -which rose and vanished from sight.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
-ID: 856

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Event 6544 -(06761CB9)

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Date: 7/17/1967
-Description: 11:25 p.m. Emma Funk is driving on State Highway 22 north -of Millerton, New York, when a black, shiny object the size of a -baseball flies into her headlight beams. It heads toward the windshield, -brushes against it, then veers off to the left. As it brushes, her car -lights up “like a great electric light bulb,” her engine quits, and the -headlights go out. Funk is stunned, and when she regains her senses, the -car is facing the opposite direction, toward the south. The engine -starts up normally, but there is a cracked area in the windshield the -size of a fist. She can’t account for about 15 minutes. (“Object -Hit Car in Millerton; Engine Stalled, Lights Went Out,” Poughkeepsie -(N.Y.) Journal, July 19, 1967, p. 6; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very -Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 24–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4324

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Event 6545 -(E40D2551)

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Date: 7/18/1967
-Time: 0130
-Description: A minister was awakened by a strange sound and had the -“impulse” to go downstairs and look outside. Between his house and the -next one, he saw a silhouette wearing a luminous suit. He thought -someone was playing a prank, but the apparition was well-defined and -looked real. It turned into a shapeless glow and vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Keel; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Boardman, Ohio
-ID: 857

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Event 6546 -(734E2A15)

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Date: 7/20/1967
-End date: 7/21/1967
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Barbara Fawcett is driving alone on North Key -Largo, Florida, near Jewfish Creek. She sees a large light in her -rear-view mirror apparently following the car. The burning yellow light -seems to be floating 6–8 feet off the ground, and it stays over the -road. She accelerates to 100 mph as the light overtakes her car and -seems to be about to land on top of it. As a car approaches in the -opposite direction, the object emits a bright yellow glow that lights up -the road and then disappears. She decides to return home to Pompano -Beach with her sister the same morning, and at 2:30 a.m. they are on US -Highway 1 near the same spot when she sees the light again, rising from -a swamp and moving toward them 15 feet above the ground. Her sister’s -toy poodle is terrified. The light veers away from the road and appears -to land on a sand dune. (“Landing -in Florida,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1967, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4325

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Event 6547 -(2E537304)

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Date: 7/21/1967
-Time: 0230
-Description: Barbara Fawcett, 18, and her sister saw a yellow “jagged” -object rise above a swamp and land on a hill. Air Force investigators -found a very large scorched area at the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jul., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Jewish Creek, Florida
-ID: 858

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Event 6548 -(9F630373)

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Date: 7/21/1967
-Description: Ronnie Hill, 14, of Pamlico County, North Carolina, sends a -color photo of what looks like a little man in a spacesuit standing in -front of a spherical UFO to a New York magazine editor. It winds up in -the hands of John -A. Keel. Hill -tells him the UFO landed in his backyard. Keel gathers affidavits from -Ronnie’s teachers, parents, and the local 4-H club, and submits the -photo to “several professional photographers” in New York, who cannot -find evidence of a hoax. Soon, however, Keel has doubts and the photo is -revealed to be that of a small model positioned in front of an egg. -(John A. Keel, “The -‘Little Man’ of North Carolina,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1969): 15–16; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, -1980, p. 230; -Clark III 603; Aaron Sakulich, “The -Strange Tale of Ronnie Hill,” The Iron Skeptic, January 13, -2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4326

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Event 6549 -(62A3F257)

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Date: 7/24/1967
-Time: 2200
-Description: Between Mareuil and Ste-Hermine, Daniel Bonifait and his -family saw a red disk, the size of a building, fall 300 m away behind a -hill. Dark forms were observed on the disks surface, and the forest -seemed to be ablaze as the witnesses drove away in fear.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Mareuil, France
-ID: 859

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Event 6550 -(25753AF3)

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Date: 7/25/1967
-Description: Round, blue-white object hovered near missile site, animals -reacted. Object started, stopped, moved up and down. changed color to -red when accelerating
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Garrison, ND
-ID: 134

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Event 6551 -(9F7CAB9A)

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Date: 7/26/1967
-Description: 8:38 p.m. Capt. Shindler is piloting Pacific Western -Airlines Flight 748 westbound near the Westfall River in the Rocky -Mountains of British Columbia. He notices a small pink light moving -erratically at about 16,000 feet. It zips away after 18 minutes. Radar -operators in Kamloops also observe the object. (Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4327

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Event 6552 -(D0BE717E)

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Date: 7/28/1967
-Description: Oval object approached fire lookout tower, hovered, -illuminated ground
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Gilroy, CA
-ID: 135

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Event 6553 -(D83D6482)

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Date: 7/29/1967
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 136

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Event 6554 -(F8549267)

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Date: 7/30/1967
-Description: 6:15 p.m. The Naviero, a ship of the Argentine Shipping -Lines Company, is 120 miles off the coast of Garopaba, Santa Catarina, -Brazil, when Office Jorge Montoya notices a strange object in the ocean -about 50 feet away on the starboard side. Capt. Julián Lucas Ardanza -comes to the deck and sees a cigar-shaped UFO about 110 feet long, -glowing blue and white. It paces the ship for 15 minutes, then suddenly -dives and passes underneath the ship, vanishing in the depths. Chief -Officer Carlos Lasca describes the object as a “submergible UFO with its -own illumination.” (Oscar A. Galíndez, “Crew -of Argentine Ship See Submarine UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 2 -(March/April 1968): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4328

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Event 6555 -(D03873B3)

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Date: 7/30/1967
-Description: 10:17 p.m. George and -Brownie -Petyak see a bright yellow star-like light at about 65° elevation to -the east of Kernville, California. It is later joined by a second -similar object appearing to try to “steer” the first onto a “definite -course.” Through binoculars the first object appears bright blue. A -second independent observation from Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake -in the Mojave Desert locates an object visually and/or on radar to the -west over Walker Pass (about 20 miles) and is reported to Edwards AFB. -Thus the visual sighting lines intersect from opposite directions. A -controller at Edwards uses RAPCON (Radar Approach Control) radar (or -Boron AFS FPS-35 search radar) and confirms the visual report at China -Lake but tries to dismiss the 115 mph target as merely civil aircraft -that “frequently” fly over the area. The Kernville witnesses report by -phone during their sighting to the Boron AFS ADC radar site. Blue Book -claims the date of the sighting is in question because the questionnaire -sent to the Petyaks uses the military time (Greenwich Meridian Time or -Zulu time) instead of local time. (NICAP, “Radar/Visual -and Sighting Lines Intersect”; Sparks, p. 326; -Condon, p. 122; -Clark III 392)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4329

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Event 6556 -(2650EBE0)

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Date: 7/31/1967
-Time: 2215
-Description: A guard, Sidney Zipkin, 50, was driving through a large -parking lot when he observed a cigar-shaped object, 16 m long, with -green lights under it, land on the pavement. He stopped his truck within -30 m of the object, with the headlights aimed on it, and was surprised -to see two dwarfs dressed in shiny black uniforms rush by the vehicle -and enter the craft, which took off straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 184 (Vallee)
-Location: Churchville, New York
-ID: 860

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Event 6557 -(CE054A3E)

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Date: 7/31/1967
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Sidney Zipkin is driving a truck on Main Street -in Churchville, New York, when he sees a cigar- shaped object about 50 -feet long in a parking lot. It has greenish blinking lights underneath -it, on or near the ground. He shines the truck headlights on the object -and sees two small men in shiny black uniforms board the object, which -takes off straight up. (“UFOs -in Churchville?” -Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, August 3, 1967, -pp. 1B–2B)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4330

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Event 6558 -(B9D09BD9)

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Date: 8/1967
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A man is returning to his mother’s home in -Wapakoneta, Ohio, when he sees a strangely bright star to the left of -Polaris. As he watches, it grows a bit brighter and begins to move -directly beneath Polaris and then continues to the right. It repeats -this in reverse and then goes under Polaris and stops. The star then -migrates north and south, tracing out the elements of a large cross. It -does this several times rapidly. Then it comes back below Polaris and -just sits there. After nearly 3 hours, the witness decides to stop -watching. At that, the star goes up to Polaris and shoots away to the -left. (Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 -(January 2006): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4332

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Event 6559 -(D12B41C7)

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Date: 8/1967
-Description: At the request of President Johnson, the -CIA sets up Operation CHAOS to gather intelligence about foreign -influence on American dissent. Its mission is to gather and evaluate all -information about foreign links to racial, antiwar, and other protest -activity. The operation is launched under DCI Richard -Helms and counter-intelligence chief James -Jesus Angleton, and -headed by Richard -Ober. The -program runs through 1973, amassing 10,000 files on more than 300,000 -individuals and 100 domestic groups. The operation also infiltrates -foreign intelligence targets and domestic radical organizations. The NSA -assists in the surveillance with its own Project MINARET. Operating -between 1967 and 1973, over 5,925 foreigners and 1,690 organizations and -US citizens are included on the Project MINARET watch lists. NSA -Director Lew -Allen testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975 -that the NSA has issued over 3,900 reports on the watch-listed -Americans. At some point, the NSA is tasked with monitoring the overseas -telephone calls and cable traffic of two prominent members of Congress, -Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) -and Sen. Howard -Baker (R-Tenn.). The FBI begins COINTELPRO–BLACK HATE, which focuses -on Martin -Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as -well as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Revolutionary -Action Movement, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, Congress of Racial -Equality, and the Nation of Islam. BLACK HATE establishes the Ghetto -Informant Program and instructs 23 FBI offices to “disrupt, misdirect, -discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist -hate type organizations.” (Wikipedia, “Operation -CHAOS”; Wikipedia, “Project -MINARET”; Wikipedia, “COINTELPRO”; -Matthew M. Ald and William Burr, “Secret -Cold War Documents Reveal NSA Spied -on Senators,” Foreign Policy, September 25, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4331

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Event 6560 -(620B495D)

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Date: 8/1967
-End date: 11/1967
-Description: Hundreds of sightings in wave that peaked in October. House -of Commons took interest in November.
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: UK
-ID: 142

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Event 6561 -(A42C2AAD)

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Date: 8/3/1967
-Time: 2000
-Description: J. Vieira, a lawyer, and his driver, Amauri, at km 15 on -the Miguel Peraira Highway saw two yellowish lights, then many others, -about 500 m away to the left. They blinked and faded. Similar lights -were seen again at Conrado. When the driver blinked the car’s -headlights, the objects seemed to respond. An object which illuminated -the whole area was seen resting in a woods.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 17 (Vallee)
-Location: Conrado, Brazil
-ID: 861

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Event 6562 -(5202A9CE)

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Date: 8/3/1967
-Time: 2330
-Description: Two persons saw a luminous, whitish object, 10 m in -diameter, resembling two plates glued together. The whole yard was -illuminated and a humming sound was heard. A door opened in the base of -the craft, and something similar to a light bulb lowered itself to -ground level. This, too, had an opening, from which stepped a small man -in silvery, luminous clothes, his head surrounded with vapor. He was -about 5 m away from the witnesses, and was observed to pick up stones, -examine them, look up and seem to communicate with the main object. He -then dropped the stones and stepped into the “bulb” that reentered the -craft, which took off.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 44 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 862

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Event 6563 -(3F0A5820)

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Date: 8/3/1967
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A married couple and their teenage son are -sleeping in their car outside their home in Caracas, Venezuela. They -wake up and see a white, disc-shaped object hovering 100 feet above a -nearby palm tree. Within a few minutes, an opening appears in the UFO, -and a smaller lightbulb-shaped object emerges and drifts downward, -stopping just inches from the ground near their front porch. A door -slides open and a small, glowing figure steps out, who bends over, picks -up some stones, examines them, and looks up at the larger object, -apparently communicating with someone. He looks toward their car -frequently. After a few minutes, the figure reenters the small object, -which returns to the large disc and enters it. The disc speeds away and -disappears in seconds. (“Occupants -Seen at Caracas,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4334

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Event 6564 -(0CA67A82)

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Date: 8/3/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Amauri Barbosa da Silva and Jonil Faydit Vieira -are driving on the road to Japeri from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when they -see several yellowish lights that eventually extinguish themselves, one -at a time. Later, they see similar lights positioned directly in front -of them. Da Silva blinks his headlights, and the lights respond -similarly. The lights maintain their position in front of them, moving -from one side of the road to the other. When they are approaching Miguel -Pereira on a mud road between Arcádia and La Chaumiere, they see two -bright beams of light, one yellow and one blue, about 1,000 feet away -from them on the right, apparently attached to the dome of a disc. The -object follows them for at least 40 minutes and is seen by Nelson -Gonçalves Ferreira at their destination in Miguel Pereira. (Lorenzen, -UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 16–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4333

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Event 6565 -(F7491AA9)

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Date: 8/4/1967
-Time: early
-Description: Engineer Hugo S. Yepes was on a beach 25 km north of Recife -when he saw a disk, 6 m in diameter, come out of the water. It was gray, -looked metallic, hovered for a few sec at 1 m altitude, then rose slowly -to the east and disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Recife, Venezuela
-ID: 863

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Event 6566 -(7743FCE1)

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Date: 8/4/1967
-Description: Night. A bright object appears in the sky in the area of -Morro do Policia in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for 30 minutes and is -photographed by Brazilian Air Force technician Otacilio Freitas Dias. It -flies in an erratic zigzag path, sometimes slowly, at other times at -high speed, and sometimes hovering. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, -Signet, 1968, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4336

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Event 6567 -(758CDF27)

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Date: 8/4/1967
-Description: Early morning. An engineer, Hugo Sierra Yepez [or Yepes], -is fishing from his boat in the sea about 15 miles north of Arrecife [or -La Guaira], Vargas, Venezuela, when he feels a vibration and the water -begins to boil “in big bubbles, in a circle about six meters in -diameter.” A gray-blue, flat globe emerges. As it hovers close to the -surface, dripping water, he notices a revolving rim with triangular -windows of blue and red. It ascends in a curve then shoots upward. (“The -Question of Submerging UFO’s,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5 (March -1968): 5; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4335

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Event 6568 -(6D343C30)

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Date: 8/4/1967
-Description: Saturn-shaped object with rotating ring emerged from sea, -hovered, ascended slowly, accelerated into sky and out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: La Guaira, Federal District, Venezuela
-ID: 137

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Event 6569 -(A35206F2)

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Date: 8/5/1967
-Time: 2330
-Description: Ronald Sherven and Robert Bodine saw a glowing, white -object on a west-east trajectory north of Sawyer. The object was hidden -by a hill at first but all of a sudden it appeared again over a -cemetery, came to ground level, and sped away to the north.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Oct., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Sawyer, North Dakota
-ID: 864

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Event 6570 -(38D663F1)

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Date: 8/5/1967
-Description: Morning. After a night of heavy rain, Edgar Schielke finds -a circular mark more than 30 feet in diameter in his cow pasture near -Duhamel, Alberta. A UFO group from Edmonton visits the field and finds -three additional rings. An RCAF team from CFB Namao [now CFB Edmonton], -along with Gareth -H. S. Jones of the Defense Research Establishment Suffield [now DRDC -Suffield], visits the farm on August 11 after much of the evidence has -been trampled. Jones finds two more rings. The marks vary from 5 to 7 -inches wide and from 31 feet 9 inches to 36 feet 3 inches, and each is -incomplete on its western side. He is puzzled as to what made the marks, -can find no evidence of a hoax, and seriously considers whether an -aerial object could have made them. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 162–165, 197–205)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4337

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Event 6571 -(AAC8C913)

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Date: 8/6/1967
-Description: Antonio Neri Perez and several other people saw three -glowing, red disks take off from a field near the house.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 65 (Vallee)
-Location: Hidalgo, Mexico
-ID: 865

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Event 6572 -(FE36CE14)

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Date: 8/6/1967
-Description: 7:55–8:20 p.m. Formations of lights in groups of 3–5 are -seen in many states of Mexico, including Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, -Veracruz, and Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán. Most are generally moving -west to east. Many people at the Mexico City International Airport watch -a group between 8:10 and 8:20 p.m. Technicians in the control tower can -make out 9–10 objects through binoculars. Capt. Angel Fojo Ceballos and -Capt. José Luis Espejo are flying an Aeronaves de México [now -Aeroméxico] DC-9 at 23,000 feet over Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. They -see three bright points flying in formation from northwest to southeast -an estimated 30–40 miles away. They cross the horizon at 55,000–60,000 -feet in 40–45 seconds. One of the objects appears to break formation and -approach the aircraft, showing a round shape and metallic composition, -but then it veers away and out of sight. The events are thought to be -the reentry of the Pioneer 7 rocket body that had launched from Cape -Canaveral on August 15, 1966. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, -1968, pp. 65– 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4339

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Event 6573 -(5DF87A49)

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Date: 8/6/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A Peruvian airliner piloted by Capt. Samuel -Sanguaza, copilot César Jordan, and subofficers Oscar Guevara and Jorge -Sarguaza encounters a globe of light while flying between Lima, and -Pisco, Peru. The light changes color from red to orange and blue as it -paces the aircraft for 15 minutes, bobbing up and down, moving closer -and receding, before it zooms away as the airplane nears Pisco. -(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4340

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Event 6574 -(0EE3EE19)

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Date: 8/6/1967
-Description: Office worker Antonio Neri Perez and several others watch -three glowing red discs take off in V formation from a field near their -house in Tetepango, Hidalgo, Mexico. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, -Signet, 1968, p. 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4338

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Event 6575 -(F2A9B617)

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Date: 8/7/1967
-Time: 0200
-Description: In the San Bernardino section, Pedro Riera, of Avila Ave., -was awakened by the shaking of his bed and saw a creature in his room, -which “flew” out through the open window. Lights on the ground blinded -the witness when he rushed to the balcony. Other people had seen a -strange vehicle parked in the street. That afternoon, a strange dwarf -entered the office of Dr. S. Vegas, who examined him. The being spoke -perfect Spanish, had peculiar heart sounds, and did not understand the -notion of “age.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 74 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 866

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Event 6576 -(F9F5C324)

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Date: 8/8/1967
-Description: Evangelical pastor Estanislao Lugo Contreras is on the -shore at Catia La Mar, Vargas, Venezuela, when he sees the water -stirring up in a vast round area. The water begins to turn light blue, -then whitish, yellowish, then brilliant orange. An orange disc rises out -of the sea about 1,650 feet from shore, hovers, then rises obliquely and -disappears. It makes an intense buzzing sound. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the -Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 54–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4341

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Event 6577 -(DA299610)

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Date: 8/8/1967
-Description: 8:40 p.m. An object shaped like a sharply outlined -asymmetrical crescent flies over the Kislovodsk Mountain Astronomical -Station near Kislovodsk, North Caucasus, Russia. The object is slightly -smaller than the moon with a color described as reddish by some -observers, yellow by others. It flies from west to east about 20° above -the horizon, moving from the Big Dipper to Cassiopeia in about 30 -seconds at a uniform speed. The witnesses are Anatoli Sazanov, a -specialist in the ionosphere; V. A. Tsion of the Leningrad Polytechnical -Institute; and seven members of a biological expedition. (Felix Ziegel, -“Unidentified -Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 28; James E. -McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 61; Hobana and Weverbergh 288–289; -Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, -Ballantine, 1992, p. 192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4342

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Event 6578 -(FAD794DA)

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Date: 8/8/1967
-Time: evening
-Description: Evangelic Pastor Estanislao Lugo Contreras was at the shore -when he saw a diskshaped object with a very bright orange glow emitting -a buzzing sound, rise out of the sea, hover a few seconds then rise -obliquely.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 55 (Vallee)
-Location: Salina, Venezuela
-ID: 867

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Event 6579 -(1A0FBFA2)

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Date: 8/10/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Harry E. King and Michael Swartz see a bright -round ball, about 50–60 feet in diameter, in the air about 1,300 feet -away near Winter Haven, Florida. It hovers for 3–4 minutes, then moves -slowly for a quarter mile, rises, shoots away, and disappears in one -second. At 10:00 p.m., they watch a bright light descend for 5 minutes, -move back and forth for one minute, then suddenly disappear. (NICAP case -file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4343

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Event 6580 -(C43DB840)

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Date: 8/11/1967
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 138

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Event 6581 -(F176F304)

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Date: 8/12/1967
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Robert -P. Miedtke and his wife are sleeping in a camper on property -belonging to some relatives on County Highway I some 11 miles west of -Ogema, Wisconsin. They are awakened by their dog barking outside. They -look out the window and see a large, fluorescent, half-moon-shaped -object in a neighboring pasture about 450 feet away. It is shining a -beam of light at a milk house only 25 feet from their camper. The dog -has stopped barking and they can hear none of the usual night sounds. -After about one hour, they hear the sound of someone walking in the -gravel and sand outside. Three times the footsteps are heard going from -north to south. The Miedtkes remain in bed, hoping no one would know -they are in the camper. After another hour, just before dawn, they hear -the dog whimpering and barking, followed by the muffled noise like a -huge generator that fades away after 6–8 seconds. (“Possible -Landing in Wisconsin,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4344

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Event 6582 -(935B8904)

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Date: 8/12/1967
-Time: 0230
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Miedtke, awakened by the barking of their dog, -saw a large hemispherical object with a fluorescent glow and a short -flash of light. Too terrified to go outside, they heard heavy footsteps -around their trailer. At dawn there was a sound like that of a -generator, and seconds later the object was gone.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 27 (Vallee)
-Location: Ogema, Wisconsin
-ID: 868

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Event 6583 -(B1D9D1C1)

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Date: 8/13/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Between Pilar de Goiás and Crixás, Goiás, Brazil, -a plantation worker at the Estancia de Santa Maria, Ignácio da Souza, is -returning home from work when he and his wife see an object in the form -of an upside-down basin 115 feet in diameter sitting on the landing -strip of the ranch. They initially think it is some flying machine -tested by the ranch owner, Ibiracy de Moraes, a wealthy man and former -president of the Bank of Brazil. Between the object and the couple, -there are three humanoid, child-size beings that they initially think -are naked children before realizing that they are hairless creatures -wearing a tight suit of yellow. The beings seem to be playing around -silently, but then move quickly towards them. Da Souza tells his wife to -lock herself up in their house. He is armed with a rifle and frightened, -so da Souza shoots the closest of the beings. At the same time, the UFO -emits a ray of green light that hits him, throwing him to the ground -unconscious. Seeing her husband fall from the kitchen window, his wife -runs onto the scene shouting, interposes herself between the beings and -the body of her husband, and picks up his rifle. But during this time -the beings have retrieved the one that had fallen to ground and quickly -flee to enter the craft. After a short time, it slowly rises vertically -while emitting a buzz similar to that of a swarm of bees. Taken to the -hospital of Goiânia, the state capital, de Souza suffers from nausea and -a general numbness. Burns are noted, initially attributed to a toxic -plant, but when de Souza and de Moraes hear the erroneous diagnosis and -are told what had happened, doctors perform a blood analysis that -returns with a diagnosis of advanced leukemia with life expectancy of -two months. Da Souza quickly deteriorates, suffers, develops yellowish -spots, and dies on October 11. In accordance with his instructions, his -wife burns the bed, the mattress, and the clothing that he has used. -(Clark III 353–354; Brazil 85–88; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August -15, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4345

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Event 6584 -(3A8722B2)

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Date: mid 8/1967
-Description: About 12:00 noon. Electrical engineer Albert Fulton and -superintendent Sherman Anderson are making rounds at the Nova Scotia -Light and Power substation in Caledonia, Nova Scotia. They notice steam -rising from one of three large transformers, then Fulton spots two -silvery disc-shaped objects maneuvering around the sky some distance -away. The pair watches them a they zip back and forth in different -directions from horizon to horizon in 3–4 seconds. Each time they leave -a silvery line about 10 times their length behind them, which disappears -when the objects stop. They watch this spectacle for about one minute, -then both discs come to a common point in front of a suddenly visible -gray, cigar-shaped object. After stopping briefly the two smaller -objects merge into the cigar, taking 12–15 seconds. The large object -disappears. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR -29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4346

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Event 6585 -(2791BDE1)

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Date: 8/18/1967
-Description: A CIA report summarizes interviews with unnamed Russian -astronomers that may possibly have been conducted by members of the -Condon commission. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Report -on Conversations with Soviet -Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR,” -August 18, 1967; Good Above, pp. -230–231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4347

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Event 6586 -(01D65BAE)

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Date: 8/22/1967
-End date: 8/31/1967
-Description: Low, Roach, and -Hynek attend -the XIIIth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in -Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. Low wastes an opportunity -to meet with Charles -Bowen in London, England, and instead goes to Loch Ness, Scotland, -“because neither the Loch Ness monster nor UFOs exist.” (Michael D. -Swords, “The -USAF-Sponsored Colorado Project for the Scientific Study of UFOs,” -1995 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1995; Swords 321; Good Above, -p. 230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4348

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Event 6587 -(58A41758)

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Date: 8/23/1967
-Time: 2000
-Description: A boy and a girl, both 15, noticed a red glow coming down -in the woods. Later they saw a large source of light in mid-air and -heard piercing whistling sounds, then footsteps, and saw a jumping -creature, 10 m away. It was about 1.30 m tall, had an oversized head, -made jerky motions, raised a tube in its arms, and had a “shimmering” -appearance.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Sep., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Kolmarden, Sweden
-ID: 870

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Event 6588 -(6492E5AC)

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Date: 8/23/1967
-Time: early
-Description: Stanley Moxon, of Toronto, driving to Montreal, was between -Joyceville and the Glen Grove Rd. when he encountered a large, -diskshaped craft and two creatures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in white suits -and helmets. They “flew back” into the object at once and it left -silently at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 32 (Vallee)
-Location: Joycevi]le, Canada
-ID: 869

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Event 6589 -(9C9ECBD7)

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Date: 8/23/1967
-Description: Huge disc on or just above ground in field, three small -humanoid beings emerged, apparently gathered specimens. Physical -traces
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Joyceville, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 139

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Event 6590 -(65C02C4B)

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Date: 8/23/1967
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Stanley Moxon is driving on Ontario Highway 15 -between Joyceville, Ontario, and Pine Grove Road when he sees a green -light in a field to the south. He turns off his lights and drives down a -side road to get closer. Minutes later, he turns on his lights again and -they shine on a huge metallic disc hovering just above the ground. Two -entities, 4 feet tall and dressed in white suits and helmets, appear to -be startled and hurry back into the craft, which takes off at tremendous -speed. (“Occupant -in Ontario,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4349

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Event 6591 -(709394D7)

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Date: 8/23/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Two 15-year-olds are strolling around the -Kolmården ridge area in Östergötland, Sweden, when they see a reddish -glow moving back and forth in the nearby woods. Continuing home, they -run across a locked, deserted shack that seems to have some yellowish -lights moving around in one room and noises like muted thuds. The red -glow reappears moving close to the ground from the west. Suddenly it -turns brilliant white and appears to land on the other side of a brook. -They run home and see a huge light like a flashlight hovering 13 feet -above the ground near the house. They hear a whistling sound coming from -the brook and what seem to be footsteps coming toward them. They run to -a ravine where they see, about 35 feet away, a small being with a -disproportionately large head and wearing dark clothing. It lifts its -arms and seems to be holding a box-like apparatus with a tube. Two thin, -wire-like bands appear around the creature’s ankles and give off an -intense white light. They run home again. The next day they return to -where the being was and find some odd three-toed footprints about 6 -inches long. (“‘Monster’ -Report from Sweden,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, pp. 1, 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4350

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Event 6592 -(A74407E3)

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Date: 8/24/1967
-Description: Two humanoid beings in silvery suits, round helmets, -emerged from disc with dome
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wodonga, Victoria, Australia
-ID: 140

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Event 6593 -(F21357CA)

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Date: 8/24/1967
-Time: 1700
-Description: A motorcyclist was suddenly engulfed in a bluish-white -light so dazzling that he had to stop. He then saw a metallic object, 30 -m away, its shape that of two saucers one on top of the other, with a -dome on top, silvery, the lower half dark gray, about 10 m in diameter, -and bearing a black mark or insignia. Near it appeared two figures about -1.5 m tall, wearing silvery coveralls and opaque helmets. A gesture from -them scared the witness, who drove away but was followed by the -object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Sydney-Melbourne Road, Australia
-ID: 871

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Event 6594 -(81810E02)

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Date: 8/24/1967
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Ron Hydes is riding his motorcycle near Wodonga, -Victoria, Australia, when he is surrounded by a blinding blue-white -light that illuminates the road. As he stops, a bright lens-shaped domed -disc, estimated to be 25–30 feet in diameter, descends within a few feet -of the ground about 100 feet away. Two humanoids about 5– 5.5 feet tall -with round helmets and silver coveralls emerge. One steps nearer to the -witness, who flees. The object, surrounded by a pinkish glow, follows -the motorcycle at about 100 feet off the ground. Hydes can hear a -humming sound above the motorcycle’s engine. He stops again and the -object hovers, the hum subsiding. After 30 seconds, the color around the -object changes from pink to brilliant red, and it tilts up at a 45° -angle, then shoots away. (“Occupants -Attempt to Lure Motorcyclist,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, -pp. 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4351

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Event 6595 -(CCB003FE)

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Date: 8/25/1967
-Time: 1700
-Description: Three disks of large dimension were seen to emerge from the -sea by Ruben Norato, after he observed a “precipitous movement of the -water.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: NICAP Mar., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Catia la Mar, Venezuela
-ID: 872

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Event 6596 -(C76F92EA)

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Date: 8/25/1967
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Ruben Norato sees a “precipitous movement of the -water” from the beach at Catia La Mar, Vargas, Venezuela, from which -arise “three huge plate-shaped discs” that streak out of sight. (“The -Question of Submerging -UFO’s,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5 (March 1968): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4352

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Event 6597 -(9740ABEB)

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Date: 8/26/1967
-Description: Campers saw glowing oval that beamed light down, engulfed -canoe. Memory loss and abduction. (See section XIII bibliography, -Fowler, 1990a.)
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: abduction
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Eagle Lake, Allagash Waterway, ME
-ID: 141

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Event 6598 -(477B12B3)

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Date: 8/26/1967
-Time: 0200
-Description: Esteban D. Cova, a private in the Marines, was relieved of -duty at the airport and returned to his quarters. Then he met an ugly -dwarf, 1 m tall, with a huge head, bulgy eyes, and a body covered with -“hairy stuff or wiry metal.” It made a deep whistling sound, and Cova -felt a prickling sensation in his body. In perfect Spanish the creature -said: “Won’t you come with me? We need one human being.” Cova -fainted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 79 (Vallee)
-Location: Maiquetia Airport, Venezuela
-ID: 873

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Event 6599 -(5077301F)

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Date: 8/26/1967
-Description: Saki Macharechi spotted an object in flight, which he -thought was a heron, land near a bridge. He then saw that it was a -dwarf, about 1 m tall, with huge eyes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Maturin, Venezuela
-ID: 874

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Event 6600 -(8CA11FF5)

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Date: 8/27/1967
-Description: David -Saunders proposes to the Colorado project team that they issue -technical reports on whatever phase or case they have concentrated on. -These will be circulated among the staff for review but not for veto. -They would stand as the author’s own work without censure. Appropriate -disclaimers would be attached before they are issued to the public. A -final report might be cobbled together from these technical reports. Condon and -Low apparently -disapprove of this immediately. (Swords 323)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4353

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Event 6601 -(EABC8ABD)

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Date: 8/27/1967
-Description: 11:20 p.m. Kenneth Flack is passing a car near Texas Creek, -Colorado, when his engine and car lights fail. He pulls to the side of -the road, along with the car he is passing and a camper-trailer. He sees -a large object in a field some 900–1,200 feet away. It is -football-shaped and silvery. He approaches it on foot and is hit by a -bright light coming from the object that knocks him out. Bystanders from -other cars carry him back to the roadside and tell him that he had been -frozen in a standing position for 5 minutes. Flack is intensely cold and -sleepy, so another unidentified driver gives him a ride back to Pueblo -in a camper (“1967 -Landing in Colorado,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1969, pp. 3–4; -Lorenzen, The Shadow of the Unknown, New American Library, 1970, -pp. 138–139; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference -Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): 21; Randle, -Levelland, 2021, pp. 143–144; CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4354

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Event 6602 -(0F94C6B6)

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Date: 8/28/1967
-End date: 8/29/1967
-Description: 11:30 p.m.–1:10 a.m. Leslie and Jacqueline Dowdell see a -3–4 dancing lights zigzagging to the northeast over Rivers, Manitoba. -The lights resolve into one object the color of a mandarin orange that -hovers for 2–3 minutes, changing colors, before zooming away to the -north. At 12:30 a.m., Cpl. A. Fedun of CFB Rivers [now closed] sees a -round ball of orange light moving northwest. At 12:45 a.m., -Commissionaire G. Stefanson hears a loud noise, and LAC J. Hebert and -Judy Ross, driving one mile east of Rivers, watch a white flashing light -that remains stationary for 30–50 seconds. They later find some odd dust -on their car and some bubbling of the paint on the top. At 1:00 a.m., -Cpl. K. McArthur hears another loud blast that rattles windows on the -base. At 1:10 a.m., LAC K. Taylor, 8 miles east of Rivers, sees a red -ball of flame trailed by a blue light at 3,000–4,000 feet. An -investigating team from RCAF Trainiong Command Headquarters in Winnipeg -immediately comes out to investigate. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 251–260)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4355

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Event 6603 -(B6416D73)

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Date: 8/29/1967
-Description: 10:30 a.m. François Delpeuch, 13, and his sister -Anne-Marie, 9, are herding cows at Cussac, Cantal, France. They see four -small black beings about 47 inches tall with large heads and pointed -chins around a landed sphere 15 feet in diameter. As the UFO begins to -take off, the beings are sucked into it head-first, and it leaves very -quickly in a blinding light. The police note “sulfur odor and the dried -grass” at the landing spot. The case is reopened and studied in depth by -Claude -Poher. (Wikipedia, “Close -encounter of Cussac”; Jöel Mesnard and Claude Pavy, “Encounter -with Devils,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1968): 7–9; -Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story. Signet, 1969, pp. 280–282; [Claude -Poher], “Enquête -sur l’Observation du 29.08.67 de Cussac (Cantal),” -Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, Centre -Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, 1978; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and -Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): -16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4356

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Event 6604 -(5D15F75B)

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Date: 8/29/1967
-Time: 1030
-Description: Two children saw a sphere, 2 m in diameter, and “four -little devils.” One of them was bending over, apparently busy with -something on the ground, and another held a mirrorlike object. They -hovered and flew around the sphere, then dived into it as it rose with a -soft whistling sound. A smell of sulphur began to spread, and the object -flew away.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5; LDLN 90 (Vallee)
-Location: Cussac, France
-ID: 875

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Event 6605 -(6AE2EAF9)

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Date: 9/1967
-Description: Afternoon. Paul -Stehlin, military aviator and vice-president of Bugatti, is flying -his own plane near Vélizy- Villacoublay, Yvelines, France, when he sees -a silver, cigar-shaped object beside him. The object accompanies the -aircraft for a few minutes, then it accelerates and leaves the plane -behind at terrific speed. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4362

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Event 6606 -(E9F7B7F3)

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Date: 9/1967
-Description: The CIA staff’s frank opinions on Vietnam are sometimes -modified before reaching President Johnson. -At one point the CIA analysts estimate enemy strength at 500,000, while -the military insists it is only 270,000. No amount of discussion -resolves the difference. In September 1967, the CIA under DCI Richard -Helms goes along with the military’s lower number for the combat -strength of the Vietnamese Communist forces. This leads a CIA analyst -directly involved in this work to file a formal complaint against Helms, -which is accorded due process within the agency. (Wikipedia, “Richard -Helms”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4361

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Event 6607 -(90D2993A)

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Date: 9/1967
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Capt. Grigory Demyanovich Oleynikov of the -Russian fishing boat Kama is in Vyborg Bay in western Russia when he -notices a luminescent, milky-white disc descending through the cloud -layer. It stops and hovers at an altitude of 1,300 feet and seems to -have a diameter of about 50 feet. The bottom portion contains nozzles -that emit flames. Athen in complete silence it takes off straight up. -(Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, -p. 153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4359

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Event 6608 -(05970DF7)

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Date: 9/1967
-Alternate date: 10/1967
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Some 40 soldiers and officers at an antiaircraft -artillery unit stationed at Floreşti, Romania, watch an aluminum-colored -object hovering about 2,400 feet in the sky. The unit commander reports -it to the General Command in Bucharest, who order him to shoot it down -if it makes any hostile maneuvers. The object stays in position for more -than two hours, but disappears after a white cloud passes in front of -it. (Romania 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4358

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Event 6609 -(6B74A253)

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Date: 9/1967 (approximate)
-Description: Saunders and -Levine visit Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio to look at the Project Blue -Book files. They find cases stored adjacent to the official files, and -some in a classified safe. Saunders also finds problems when he examines -the statistics in Blue Book Special Report no. 14. Plus all of -Battelle’s original IBM cards have been thrown away. (UFOs Yes, -115–116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4357

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Event 6610 -(83C0FE78)

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Date: 9/1967
-Description: The Midwest UFO Network publishes its first issue of -Skylook.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4360

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Event 6611 -(8F9EB590)

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Date: 9/1/1967 (approximate)
-Description: The Colorado project obtains a third-hand report of a UFO -sighting at Edwards AFB, California, on or around this date. A civilian -employee at the base has seen the report, mentions it to a relative, who -then discusses it with a scientist cooperating with the project. -According to the story, 6 UFOs follow an X-15 as it lands. When project -members call Edwards, they get a runaround. After 2 weeks of phone -calls, they find that no X-15 flew on September 1. (There are flights on -August 21, 25, and October 3 and 4, however.) But no one denies that a -UFO sighting took place. (UFOs Yes, 124–125; Condon, pp. 341–342)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4364

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Event 6612 -(9ADAC881)

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Date: early 9/1967
-Description: Evan Evanson, 18, is returning home in a pickup truck on -Highway 36 south of Taber, Alberta, when his engine heats up and he -pulls to the side of the road to let it cool off. Through the driver’s -window he sees a soundless, green, glowing object like two plates put -together. It seems near enough to touch. The music on the truck radio is -replaced with a beeping sound. Suddenly the object disappears, and -Evanson notices that the truck engine has stopped. (“First -Sighting of UFO Reported at Taber,” Calgary (Alberta) Herald, -September 5, 1967, p. 49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4363

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Event 6613 -(700C4824)

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Date: 9/2/1967
-Time: night
-Description: Nelson Gutierrez, a salesman, saw an object on the Plains -Highway, and a creature, of which he took several photographs.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 78 (Vallee)
-Location: Hato Viejo Farm, Venezuela
-ID: 876

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Event 6614 -(E407D661)

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Date: 9/3/1967
-Description: Paula Valdez, suffering from a headache, was suddenly -aroused by a whistling sound and saw a small man, with a large head and -prominent eyes, who said: “I want you to come with us, so that you’ll -know other worlds, and you’ll realize how small your world is.” The -witness screamed wildly, and the apparition ran.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 80 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 877

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Event 6615 -(05A7108E)

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Date: 9/4/1967
-Description: 5:10 a.m. Police officer P. A. Andrade is on duty at city -hall in Valencia, Venezuela, when he hears a humming noise and footsteps -in a nearby garage. He meets a dwarf, 3 feet tall, with a big head and -bulging, reddish, glowing eyes, wearing a silver-colored, -metallic-looking coverall. Andrade points his automatic weapon at the -creature, but a voice from a hovering disc says in Spanish that he -should not harm the creature. The dwarf then tries to convince Andrade -to “come to their world,” adding it is “very distant and much larger -than the Earth, and with many advantages for Earthlings.” When Andrade -declines, the creature flies back into the object, which takes off. -(Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 82; Vallée, Magonia, -pp. 351–352; -Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR -24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4365

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Event 6616 -(166F07B1)

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Date: 9/4/1967
-Time: 0510
-Description: Police Officer P. A. Andrade was on duty at City Hall when -he heard a humming noise and footsteps in a garage. He met a dwarf, 1 m -tall, with a big head and bulging, reddish glowing eyes, wearing a -silver-colored, metallic-looking coverall. Andrade pointed his machine -gun at the creature, but a voice from a hovering disk said in Spanish -that he should not harm the creature. The dwarf then tried to convince -Andrade to come to “their world,” adding it was “very distant and much -larger than the Earth, and with many advantages for Earthlings.” When -Andrade declined, the creature flew back into the object, which -left.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 82 (Vallee)
-Location: Valencia, Venezuela
-ID: 878

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Event 6617 -(1951D5E9)

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Date: 9/4/1967
-Description: The Industrial Psychologists’ section of the American -Psychological Association sponsors a program on “Problems and Methods of -Gathering Data on UFOs.” Participants include Harold -Greenwald, Richard -H. Hall, Gustave -J. Rath, R. -Leo Sprinkle, and David -Saunders. (Story, -p. 413)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4367

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Event 6618 -(F9764932)

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Date: 9/4/1967
-Description: Dawn. A paperboy in Clevedon, England, discovers a -5-foot-wide, saucer-shaped, metallic object in a field. He calls the -police, who send it to the guided weapons division of British Aerospace, -whose chief design engineer declares it an expensive hoax. Soon five -identical objects are found in fields and golf courses in the southern -part of England. The sites lie on a straight path 220 miles long that -spans 1° of latitude, running west to east from Clevedon to the Isle of -Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. A USAF intelligence officer takes photos -of one in Welford, Berkshire, and chemists with Britain’s Home Office -analyze samples of a foul liquid that is seeping from one of the -objects. But the objects are a prank involving 15 engineering -apprentices, primarily Christopher -Southall and Roger -Palmer, at -the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough. The objects are made of -fiberglass, and the smelly liquid is a fermented mixture of flour and -water. (Wikipedia, “1967 -British flying -saucer hoax”; Clark III 604–605; Jenny Randles, UFO Retrievals, -Blandford, 1995, pp. 108–111; -John Keeling, “Invasion 1967,” Fortean Times 228 (November 2007): 32–41; -“The -Great Saucer Invasion: The Day Six -‘Spaceships’ Landed in England,” BBC News, September 3, 2017; Curt -Collins, “The -UK Saucer Invasion of 1967,” -The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 30, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4366

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Event 6619 -(3C8D0D69)

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Date: 9/5/1967
-Description: Saunders suggests -to Low that -his academic commitments might require a reorganization of project -duties, namely that Low, Roach, and -himself report directly to Condon, -with others reporting to them. Low blows up. Low ultimately agrees but -replaces Roach with Norm Levine. (UFOs Yes, 139–140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4368

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Event 6620 -(0B3A5097)

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Date: 9/6/1967
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Several witnesses at Meir, Stoke-in-Trent, -England, see a vertically oriented “sausage-shaped cloud” in the eastern -sky, behind which a light flashes for about 20 seconds at irregular -intervals. A bright, glowing orange oval then emerges from the cloud and -heads southeast at “fantastic speed.” A light again flashes in the cloud -for about 10 seconds, then stops. The mode of disappearance of the cloud -is not reported. (Roger Stanway and Anthony R. Pace, Flying Saucer -Report, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable, Newchapel Observatory, 1968, -pp. 14–15; Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, -no. 3 (May 2006): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4369

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Event 6621 -(B7ACDEE7)

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Date: 9/8/1967
-Time: 0230
-Description: A. Aguilar, 23, saw a creature outside her bedroom window -and screamed. Her parents ran into the room in time to see it soaring -over rooftops, surrounded by a bluish-yellow glow. It moved as if -suspended from a balloon. A strong smell of “melted iron” was detected -by all.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 81 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 879

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Event 6622 -(FE5F40C5)

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Date: 9/9/1967
-Description: A 3-year-old saddle horse named Lady [not Snippy] belonging -to Nellie -Lewis of the Harry -King Ranch in the San Luis Valley, Colorado, just south of Great -Sand Dunes National Monument, is found dead a couple days after it has -gone missing. The animal appears to have been skinned from the neck to -the shoulders, which are nothing but bleached bones. The cut in the neck -looks smooth and surgical. The soil beneath the horse is damp, and there -is a medicine-like smell. A nearby bush is flattened oddly. Alamosa -County Sheriff Ben Phillips blames Lady’s death on lightning. A few days -later, rangers at Great Sand Dunes arrest John -Henry Altshuler, a pathologist at Ross Medical Center in Denver, for -trespassing after dark; he has actually gone to the area to look for -UFOs. When they find out he is a specialist in blood coagulation, they -say they will drop the arrest record if he takes a look at the dead -horse. He finds that Lady’s lungs, heart, and thyroid are completely -missing and finds the complete absence of blood distressing. Altshuler -begins to think the dead horse has something to do with the UFOs he had -seen when he was in the Great Sand Dunes. Nellie Lewis also admits she -has been watching something in the sky every night. Duane -Martin, a US Forest Service ranger, records a pulse of unusually -high radioactivity near Lady’s carcass, although others think it is only -background radiation. The Pueblo Chieftain reports on the case in its -October 5 edition and it gets picked up by the AP. Pathologist Robert O. -Adams, chief of surgery at Colorado State University’s College of -Veterinary Medicine, investigates Lady for the Colorado project and -concludes that bacteria, birds, and coyotes are responsible for the lack -of blood and organs. He finds an infection in the horse’s right flank -that could have killed it; the cut at the neck might have been someone’s -mercy killing. “Exhaust marks” found are probably fungal infestations, -and indentations are probably weathered hoofprints. Alamosa veterinarian -Wallace Leary later finds evidence of two bullet holes in Lady’s rump. -(“The Snippy -Case,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, pp. 1, 6; “Colorado -Horse Death Ruled No UFO Case,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 2 (October -1967): 4; Donald Merker, “The Appaloosa from Alamosa,” Fate 21, no. 3 -(March 1968): 35, 45–52; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, -pp. 148–158; Condon, pp. 344–347; -UFOs Yes, 155–169; “Town -Gets Snippy about Skeleton of Mutilated Horse,” Denver Post, -December 8, 2006; Greg Newkirk, “Death -on the Great Sand Dunes: The Strange Case of Snippy the Horse, the First -Cattle Mutilation,” Week in Weird, January 8, 2013; Sylvia Lobato, -“After -50 Years, Snippy Still a Mystery,” Alamosa (Colo.) Valley Courier, -September 29, 2017; Clark III 130–132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4370

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Event 6623 -(E1F3B95A)

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Date: 9/10/1967
-Description: Cone-shaped object, haze or mist around lower portion, -approached airliner from west, passed under starboard wing, turning and -maneuvering
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Barcelona, Spain
-ID: 143

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Event 6624 -(14F0789F)

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Date: 9/10/1967
-Description: Several residents of Bruzual, Apure, Venezuela, watch a -white, luminous disc following the course of the Apure River from west -to east at low altitude. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, -1968, p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4371

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Event 6625 -(50D74523)

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Date: 9/11/1967
-Description: Richard -H. Hall resigns as assistant director of NICAP for personal reasons -and is replaced by Gordon -I. R. -Lore. (“Assistant -Director Hall Resigns, Is Replaced by Gordon Lore,” UFO Investigator -4, no. 2 (October 1967): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4372

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Event 6626 -(F2B9D09B)

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Date: 9/11/1967
-Description: 3:30 p.m. About a dozen employees of the Douglas Point -Nuclear Generating Station near Kincardine, Ontario, watch a UFO pass -over the plant in an easterly direction. At one point it hovers above -Lake Huron about a mile and a half offshore and drops something into the -water. Other plant workers see similar objects over the lake or above -the plant on five succeeding nights. The plant isn’t operational for -another year. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and -Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 122–123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4373

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Event 6627 -(889D5035)

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Date: 9/11/1967
-Description: 10:42 p.m. According to radar operators at Kincheloe AFB -[now Chippewa County International Airport] south of Sault Ste. Marie, -Michigan, more than 20 radar targets appear and disappear over the -middle of Lake Superior over an 80-minute period, tracked at speeds of -up to 2,000 mph, sometimes turning at sharp right angles and involving -separation and merging of distinct targets. Radar at Duluth, Minnesota, -has also picked up the targets. The Colorado project sends John -Ahrens and Norm Levine to investigate. They check out rumors of -visual sightings at Sault Ste. Marie, but these do not conform to the -radar trackings. At Duluth, they draw a complete blank with denials all -around. (NICAP, “17 -Unknowns in 80 Minute Period”; UFOs Yes, 123–124; Condon, pp. 164–165; -Sparks, p. 326)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4375

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Event 6628 -(BAB84DBE)

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Date: 9/11/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. During a raging storm near Rosario, Santa Fe, -Argentina, a family watches a huge, glowing orange object hovering in a -field about 1,000 feet away from the farmhouse. The object emits -brilliant beams of light. After 4 hours it ascends and is lost to sight -in seconds. The next day, the witnesses find a sootlike material on the -ground and tracks about 2 inches wide in the flattened grass. (Lorenzen, -UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4374

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Event 6629 -(58EC3FCE)

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Date: 9/11/1967
-Time: 2130
-Description: During a raging storm, an entire family watched a large, -glowing object in a field 300 m away, giving off brilliant beams of -light for 4 hours, after which it took off in seconds. Sootlike material -with an unpleasant smell and tracks on flattened grass were noted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Villa Constitucion, Argentina
-ID: 880

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Event 6630 -(78F6A29B)

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Date: 9/13/1967
-Description: Condon gives -a dinner speech at a spectroscopy symposium at the National Bureau of -Standards in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and talks primarily about -contactees and crackpots. (UFOs Yes, 247–248)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4376

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Event 6631 -(EDA2ABC1)

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Date: 9/14/1967
-Time: 1100
-Description: Fabio J. Diniz, 16, was walking near a hospital when he saw -a mushroom-shaped craft on a playing field. It had a cupola on top, and -a guillotinelike door that slid up. The boy fled, but a voice told him -in Portuguese: “Don’t run away.” He saw two men, 2 m tall, dressed in -green tight-fitting clothes. They told him not to be afraid and to -return the next day, “otherwise we will take your family.” They had -greenish skin, and round eyes set wide apart.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: La Baleia, Brazil
-ID: 881

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Event 6632 -(082A9A20)

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Date: 9/14/1967
-Alternate date: 9/17/1967
-Description: 10:50 a.m. “Fábio Jose Diniz,” 16, is walking along an -asphalt path near the deserted grounds of an isolation unit at Hospital -da Baleia on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He notices an -object in an adjacent football field. It is shaped like a mushroom with -a domed top and surrounded by a row of portholes and a thick central -“stalk” in contact with the soil. A hazy screen like a force field drops -around the object, and a door appears out of nowhere and slides upward -along the column. Two humanlike figures, 6 feet tall, emerge, dressed in -one-piece diving suits of greenish material and helmets. One of them -carries a tube-like implement, and the other has a probe sticking up -from his helmet and talks to Diniz in Portuguese, telling him not to run -away. He starts running anyway, but the figure tells him to come back -the next day or they will take his family. The figure reenters the UFO, -which takes off vertically. He sees psychologist and UFO researcher Hulvio -Aleixo, who says he is in severe shock. At the landing site, police -find some foul-smelling black material that crumbles easily. This is -examined by geophysicist Roberto Murto, who finds it is made of iron, -magnesium, and silica. An impression like a large footprint is also -found. Aleixo subjects the boy to psychological testing and he finds no -disorder. The UFO fails to return the next day. (“Flying -Saucer Is Reported,” Baltimore (Md.) Sun, September 25, 1967, p. 3; -Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 85; Jenny Randles, -UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, pp. 97– 99; -Clark III 177–178; Brazil 88–91; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral -Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): -18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4377

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Event 6633 -(F540B189)

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Date: 9/15/1967
-Description: The carcass of a horse named Snippy was discovered. Unusual -radioactivity and strange traces were claimed to have been found at the -spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Condon 344; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Alamosa, Colorado
-ID: 882

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Event 6634 -(950281B3)

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Date: 9/15/1967
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Separate witnesses in Winsted, Connecticut, see a -large glowing, pulsating object hovering nearby and several small beings -with large heads moving around it. The object’s light dims when cars -approach. (“Flap -Continues in the States,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 9; -Condon, pp. 347–351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4379

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Event 6635 -(CD1AE414)

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Date: 9/15/1967
-Description: Astronomer William -Markowitz publishes an article in Science magazine that declares -extraterrestrial UFOs to be a priori impossible because they do not -follow the laws of physics. (William Markowitz, “The Physics -and Metaphysics of Unidentified Flying Objects,” Science 157 (1967): -1274–1279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4378

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Event 6636 -(2B33A097)

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Date: 9/15/1967
-Time: 2045
-Description: Two teenage girls observed a large, glowing object, and -three small figures, about 1.25 m tall, witll oversized heads, running -near a barn. From the object came a noise similar to that of “a power -mower when it fires but fails to start.” The object blacked out, and the -figures hid while a car passed, after which the object pulsated between -very bright white and dull red, and moved diagonally several -times.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 166; Condon 347 (Vallee)
-Location: Winsted, Connecticut
-ID: 883

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Event 6637 -(2DD87CBD)

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Date: 9/17/1967
-Description: Roach resigns -from the Colorado project in order to pursue academic interests. (UFOs -Yes, 140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4380

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Event 6638 -(7554C015)

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Date: 9/18/1967
-Time: 0100
-Description: Forestry employee Russell Hill heard a strange pulsating -sound and saw an object giving off a green glow hover near his cabin. -Radio interference.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 34 (Vallee)
-Location: Nanton, Canada
-ID: 884

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Event 6639 -(54666A38)

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Date: 9/18/1967
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Russell Hill is stationed as a forestry lookout -at the Raspberry Ridge station near Mount Burke, Alberta. He hears a -strange pulsating sound as a green light sweeps the walls of the lookout -cabin. He sees an object hovering to the southwest and giving off a -greenish glow. He attempts to radio the nearby Highwood Ranger Station, -but the radio ane lights do not work. The object turns white and shoots -up straight into the sky. (“Object -Photographed in Canada,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, -p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4382

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Event 6640 -(BDDDB80A)

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Date: 9/18/1967
-Description: Saunders, Low, and -Condon meet -for 3 hours to discuss Saunders’s suggestions for improving the public -image. Saunders argues that the public can tell the project is headed -toward a negative conclusion. Condon says that if they find -extraterrestrial evidence, he would not disclose it to the public. (UFOs -Yes, 140–141; Swords 324)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4381

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Event 6641 -(573A4763)

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Date: 9/20/1967
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Mrs. Charles Pasko notices a peach-pink glow in -the woods outside her home near Winsted, Connecticut. Thinking it is a -fire, she wakes up her son Jack and they watch it for a while. Three -days later her husband and a forest ranger try to find the burned spot. -They locate a burned and depressed teardrop-shaped area about 35 feet in -diameter. They also find three triangular imprints forming an -equilateral triangle with sides 10 feet long, and a fourth depression in -the center. Other witnesses had seen a UFO coming in at a slant, -breaking and burning tree leaves. Several tall trees in the area are -broken off at the top. (“September -Landing in Conn.,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1967, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4385

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Event 6642 -(DC640F1D)

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Date: 9/20/1967
-Description: 8:30–9:30 p.m. Seven people in Stoke-on-Trent, England, see -a large, bright, silver-colored, oval-shaped object almost overhead and -moving slowly to the northeast. It stops and hovers, then 2–3 smaller -silvery objects emerge from the larger one and move rapidly away in -different directions. The large UFO moves off to the northeast and -slowly disappears. (Roger H. Stanway and Anthony R. Pace, Flying Saucer -Report, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable, Newchapel Observatory, 1968, -p. 16; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, -no. 2 (Summer 2004): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4384

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Event 6643 -(50E5E9F9)

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Date: 9/20/1967
-Description: NICAP provisionally withdraws its support from the Colorado -project. Saunders tells -Low about -it. (UFOs Yes, 141–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4383

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Event 6644 -(3F24AE2F)

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Date: 9/22/1967
-Time: night
-Description: Near Caracas, a race track employee was attacked by a very -strong creature that choked him, but ran away when a horse was heard -neighing frantically in the stable. Thirty min later, a horse was -attacked, and an employee saw a dwarf, 1 m tall, “zoom” out of the -building.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Caracas, Venezuela
-ID: 885

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Event 6645 -(1BC0F0B3)

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Date: 9/22/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Simon Williams and his son Eugene, 14, are -starting a pickup truck with jumper cables in Allen [or Fittstown], -Oklahoma, when they see a disc with a brilliant silvery light and -smaller flashing lights around the rim heading west. It seems to come -closer and hover above a highway. Eugene thinks he can see the -headlights of passing cars reflected on its bottom surface. It then -proceeds slowly west. (“Flap -Continues in the States,” -APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 9; Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, -Signet, 1968, p. 168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4386

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Event 6646 -(5A32C0DD)

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Date: 9/23/1967
-Description: Geology professor watched flight of two silvery -cigar-shaped objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Amherst, MA
-ID: 144

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Event 6647 -(9A225DC5)

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Date: 9/25/1967
-Description: Saunders, Low, and -Condon have -another meeting at Condon’s home. Saunders tells Condon that the -problems with NICAP would not have arisen if Condon had been more -circumspect with his negative remarks. Condon says he understands but -offers no change. (UFOs Yes, 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4387

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Event 6648 -(BA7413C7)

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Date: 9/27/1967
-End date: 9/29/1967
-Description: The Rocky Mountain News publishes a commentary by Condon wherein -he debunks UFOs and disparages NICAP’s contributions. It quotes Low in -a similar vein. Condon talks to the project staff and retracts nothing, -only saying that he was misquoted about being disenchanted about the -project. Project members hold a meeting without Low and Condon to decide -what to do. Levine pushes for mass resignation. Craig is -the sole dissenter. Saunders sides -with Levine but wants to explore other strategies. Ultimately, they -decide to prepare their own report, one “so compelling that Condon would -be forced to accept it on its merits.” (UFOs Yes, 142– 146; Swords -325)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4389

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Event 6649 -(7393BCDD)

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Date: 9/27/1967
-Description: BUFORA researchers Anthony R. Pace and Roger H. Stanway -visit the S4 UFO desk at the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall, London, -England. They talk to a Mr. Cassells, who assures them that all UFO -reports are treated seriously but the Ministry’s interest is solely in -national defense. He adds that no person from the Ministry ever makes -on-the-spot inquiries or field investigations. (Roger H. Stanway and -Antony R. Pace, Flying Saucer Report: UFOs Unidentified, Unidentifiable, -1972; Good Above, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4388

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Event 6650 -(AAA4F2F5)

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Date: 9/28/1967
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Omar Amaya T., chief dispatcher at the Maiquetia -International Airport [now the Simón Bolívar International Airport], -Venezuela, watches three luminous disc pass across the sky from north to -south. Suddenly one lags behind and dives toward the sea but veers up -just before contact. Resuming its position in the formation, it joins -the other objects as they disappear to the east. (Lorenzen, UFOs over -the Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4390

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Event 6651 -(3ED15874)

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Date: 9/28/1967
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Many people in Caracas, Venezuela, watch a -luminous metallic disc cross the sky with an oscillating motion and -appear to land on Cerro El Ávila. A Similar object is seen taking off -from the same spot about 2 hours later. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the -Americas, Signet, 1968, p. 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4391

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Event 6652 -(ED9F33C0)

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Date: 9/29/1967
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Four workers in a restaurant at Wernersville, -Pennsylvania, are alerted by a neighbor to go outside and watch nine -red, pulsating, cigar-shaped objects flying northeastward. A large -triangle-shaped object, also pulsating red, flies into view. The -triangle stops and changes colors to white, green, then back to red. It -takes off in a zigzag motion to the northeast. (R. G. Shunk, “Letter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 (Feb./March 1985): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4392

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Event 6653 -(20167A3E)

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Date: 10/1967
-Description: The DOSAAF Cosmonautics Committee invites the Soviet UFO -Study Group to function under its auspices. (Wikipedia, “Felix -Ziegel”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4393

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Event 6654 -(B8A12ABC)

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Date: 10/1967
-Description: 8:30 p.m. David R. Smith watches a diffuse object with a -series of 5–6 lighted square and oval windows about 450–600 feet away at -treetop level near Homer, Louisiana. It rises and heads south. After 50 -seconds, the lights blink out. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4394

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Event 6655 -(A65A8528)

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Date: 10/2/1967
-Description: Aircraft engineer sighted disc-shaped object with windows, -blinking lights, light beam illuminating ground
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Melville, NY
-ID: 145

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Event 6656 -(3DE13BF7)

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Date: 10/3/1967
-Description: Pilot William -“Pete” Knight reaches a speed of 4,519 mph (Mach 6.72) in a North -American X-15 rocket plane, a record that stands today. (Wikipedia, “William -J. Knight”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4395

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Event 6657 -(E20EFD7E)

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Date: 10/4/1967
-Description: From early evening until 11:30 p.m., numerous independent -witnesses observe unexplained aerial activity in Nova Scotia. Near -Sambro at 9:00 pm, Capt. Leo Howard Mersey and 20 crewmembers of the MV -Nickerson see four brilliant red lights in a rectangular formation that -appear to be on or just above the water. Occasionally one flares up so -brightly that it causes an afterimage in their eves. The objects are -also tracked on ship’s radar. They file a report with the Lunenburg CMP -office. Between 11:00 and 11:30 pm, northwest of Brier Island, the -captain and crew of a fishing vessel see a brilliant white light the -size of the moon. As they watch, three brilliant yellow lights emerge -and form a triangle around the larger light. The satellite objects then -move across the sky and back at high speed. Observations are also made -by other vessels. Five miles southwest of Weymouth, a policeman and -three game wardens see an orange-colored light just above the tree line -moving silently and slowly with spark-like objects emanating. At about -11:20 p.m., just west of Shag Harbour, Laurie -Wickens and four other teenagers driving in a car along Highway 3 -see an object flying low, flashing four lights one after the other, in a -straight line. It appears to be slowly descending at a 45° angle. -Multiple witnesses hear a whistling sound “like a bomb,” then a -“whoosh,” and finally a loud bang. When next seen by the teens, the -object has hit the water’s surface 820– 980 feet offshore. It drifts on -the surface, showing a pale-yellow light. Wickens contacts the RCMP -detachment in Barrington Passage and reports he has seen a large -airplane or small airliner crash into the waters off Shag Harbour. -Within about 15 minutes, 10 RCMP officers arrive at the scene. Concerned -for survivors, the RCMP detachment contacts the Rescue Coordination -Centre in Halifax to advise them of the situation and ask if any -aircraft were missing. Before any attempt at rescue can be made, the -object starts to sink and disappears from view. A rescue mission is -quickly assembled. Within half an hour of the crash, local fishing boats -go out to the crash site in the waters of the Gulf of Maine off Shag -Harbour to look for survivors. No survivors, bodies, or debris are -found, either by the fishermen or by a Canadian Coast Guard search and -rescue cutter, which arrives about an hour later from nearby Clark’s -Harbour. By the next morning, RCC Halifax has determined that no -aircraft are missing. The same morning, RCC Halifax also sends a -priority telex to the Air Desk at Royal Canadian Air Force headquarters -in Ottawa, which handles all civilian and military UFO sightings, -informing them of the crash and that all conventional explanations such -as aircraft or flares have been dismissed. The head of the Air Desk, -Squadron Leader William Bain sends another priority telex to the Royal -Canadian Navy headquarters concerning the “UFO report” and recommends an -underwater search be mounted. The RCN in turn sends another priority -telex tasking Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic with carrying out the search. A -detachment of RCN divers from Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic is assembled on -the HMCS -Granby on -October 6 and for the next three days they comb the seafloor looking for -an object. The final report says no trace of an object is found. In the -1990s, researcher Chris -Styles finds evidence that there is a second crash the same night. -Witnesses see American naval exercises in Shelburne Harbour 30 miles to -the northeast. Speculation is that the original object may have traveled -underwater from Shag Harbour to Shelburne. (Wikipedia, “Shag -Harbour UFO incident”; Sanderson, InvRes, pp. 38–39; -Condon, pp. 351–353; -Good Need, pp. 279–282; -Don Ledger, “UFO Crash at Shag Harbour,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter -1997–1998): 8–9, 20; Don Ledger and Chris Styles, Dark Object, Dell, -2001; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, -Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 94–98; Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts -about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): 9–10; “The -1967 Shag Harbour UFO -Crash: Documents Related to Crash,” Roswell Proof; “Shag -Harbour News Articles,” Roswell Proof; Clark 284–285; Chris -Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -pp. 129–137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4396

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Event 6658 -(91FC67A3)

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Date: 10/5/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Colorado Superior Court Judge Charles -E. Bennett and his wife Christina spot -three circular, red- orange objects traveling from the east to the -southeast in a triangular formation over Denver, Colorado. They can hear -a distinct humming or whirring sound. They move out of sight in 6 -seconds. (“Flap -Continues in the States,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, -p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4397

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Event 6659 -(9DBDA272)

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Date: 10/6/1967
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Radar at Vandenberg AFB, near Lompoc, California, -detects a very large stationary object some miles over the Pacific Ocean -off the Northern California coast. Later, radar detects numerous small -but strong targets traveling eastward in irregular flight. (NICAP, “Condon -Case 35”; Condon, pp. 171–172, 353–365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4398

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Event 6660 -(F372E775)

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Date: 10/7/1967
-End date: 10/9/1967
-Description: Capture and death of Che -Guevara in Bolivia. Félix -Rodríguez, a Cuban exile turned CIA Special Activities Division -operative, advised Bolivian troops during the hunt for Guevara in -Bolivia. In addition, the 2007 documentary My Enemy’s Enemy alleges that -Nazi war criminal Klaus -Barbie advised and possibly helped the CIA orchestrate Guevara’s -capture. (Wikipedia, “Che -Guevara”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4400

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Event 6661 -(16F1CD9F)

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Date: 10/7/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Russell Hill is sitting down to dinner at the -Raspberry Ridge Lookout Station in Alberta when the cabin lights begin -to flicker. He goes out to check the generator and sees an odd green -light moving slowly up the valley from south to north. It approaches to -within 500 feet of the cabin. The object is about 75 feet in diameter -and looks like two bowls clamped together. Around the rim is a pulsating -green light that seems to come from a neon tube. Another green light is -rotating slowly inside the top portion, and there are porthole-shaped -indentations in the side. Suddenly the light on the rim is extinguished, -the upper gfreen light turns white, and the object ascends at a terrific -speed, trailing jets of flame. (“Object -Photographed in Canada,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, -p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4399

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Event 6662 -(A8BBA1F6)

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Date: 10/9/1967
-Description: 5:40 p.m. The 13-year-old son of a prominent businessman is -riding a bicycle along a wash in the back of his home in the area of the -Tucson Speedway in Arizona. He comes across a cylindrical metallic -object standing on end and sitting on two legs about 44 feet away from -him. The legs end in circular pads and are joined by a curved bar. The -object, which is making a low-pitched hum, is about 8 feet tall and more -than 2 feet wide. The boy approaches it for a better view, but it takes -off vertically and disappears in 12 seconds. He finds two impressions in -the hard surface of the wash, 13.4 inches across and about 42 inches -apart (measuring from the outer edges). (“Landing -at Tucson,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, pp. 1, 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4401

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Event 6663 -(5E3CF4F5)

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Date: 10/9/1967
-Time: 1740
-Description: A boy riding his bicycle saw an aluminum cylinder standing -on end, 3 m high, 80 cm wide, supported by two legs ending in round pads -joined by a bar. He got within 12 m of the object before it rose -vertically with a deep, low-pitched hum, but no smoke, flame, or haze. -It left two impressions.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 119 (Vallee)
-Location: East Tucson, Arizona
-ID: 886

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Event 6664 -(0F688717)

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Date: 10/10/1967
-Description: The Lorenzens visit -the Colorado project and find its investigatory procedures “sadly -lacking,” with no standard report form or methodology. They also meet -with Boulder Daily Camera journalist R. Roger Harkins, who has been -covering the Colorado project. They give him a 7-point rationale on why -the CIA might be interested in UFOs, just to see if it gets published. -Harkins dictates the story to the Associated Press, but it is never -published. The Lorenzens suspect the project has a CIA mole. (Low did -work for the CIA in 1949 when it was aiding Albanian resistance -fighters.) (UFOs Yes, 129, 175–176; Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO -Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, p. 5; Robin W. Winks, Cloak and -Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939–1961, Morrow, pp. 396–397)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4402

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Event 6665 -(27B27BBD)

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Date: 10/11/1967
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Nora Tibbs is driving on Highway 2 near -Aldersyde, Alberta, when the headlights, radio, and car engine stop. She -notices an oval-shaped object with a turret on top that begins to circle -her car. It has two white lights and a lighted-up underside. It circles -the car four or five times at a height of 1,000 feet, then flies away. -The witness feels cold during the sighting. The car engine starts by -itself as the object leaves. (“Object -Photographed in -Canada,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 11; Ted Phillips, Physical -Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, Center for UFO Studies, 1978, -p. 37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4404

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Event 6666 -(F06A658E)

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Date: 10/11/1967
-Description: Rex -Heflin is visited by a strange group of men in air force uniforms. -He obtains their names. They ask him about his 1965 photos and topics -like the Bermuda Triangle. He notices a figure in the back seat of their -car and a violet glow. Heflin thinks he is being photographed or -recorded. The FM radio acts strangely.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4403

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Event 6667 -(B0D5E2D5)

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Date: 10/11/1967
-Time: 0010
-Description: Othmar Willi, 37, observed three cylinders, 10 m high, 5 m -in diameter, with two rows of square windows and a small cone on top, -hovering 50 m away and 5 m above a maize field, making a noise -resembling a swarm of bees. A small object was dropped briefly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Oberhrendingen, Switzerland
-ID: 887

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Event 6668 -(3DC6E79B)

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Date: 10/12/1967
-Description: Night. Comedian Dick -Gregory is at a party with friends at Big Sur, California, when -three lights appear in the sky. One is fiery red, while the other two -are bright green. The objects dart about sideways, backwards, in -circles, in jagged lines, and in formation. When Gregory’s writer, Jim -Saunders, signals with a flashlight, the objects seem to respond by -moving in the same direction as the beam. The partygoers watch the -lights for about 40 minutes. Gregory takes two Polaroid photographs that -show a red object at the top and two green ones at the bottom. (Margaret -Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 131)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4405

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Event 6669 -(3A1B1953)

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Date: 10/13/1967
-Description: McDonnell Douglas aerospace engineer Robert -M. Wood briefs the Colorado project on UFOs. Subsequently, Wood -writes Condon a -critical but polite letter listing his concerns about the project’s -shortcomings. He later learns that Condon has contacted CEO James -Smith McDonnell and tried to get him fired. (Robert M. Wood, “A -Little Physics…A Little Friction: A Close Encounter with the Condon -Committee,” IUR 18, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1993): 6–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4406

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Event 6670 -(46700231)

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Date: 10/14/1967
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Physicist Lewis -E. Hollander Jr. and his wife and son are driving near Mendota, -California, when they see a reddish-orange light source hovering close -to the road. They then notice a triangular shape beneath the light. -Thirty seconds later it moves upward to the west, increasing its speed. -The triangular shape fades, and Hollander notices a white glow -(“definitely an ionization color”) behind it. It disappears at an -extreme altitude after 3 minutes. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4407

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Event 6671 -(EA93236F)

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Date: 10/14/1967
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A father and son are returning from a fishing -trip when they notice an odd orange object like a “haystack on fire” -landed in the desert near Ouray, Utah. They stop, get out of the car, -and watch. The object lifts off immediately, looking like a half-moon in -shape and size. It then goes over to the Moon and flies a loop around -it, keeping its flat side down. Then it flies across the Moon’s face and -leaves to the northwest. (Frank B. Salisbury, The Utah UFO Display, -Devin-Adair, 1974, pp. 53–55; Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You -Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January 2006): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4408

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Event 6672 -(B8767C32)

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Date: late 1967
-Description: The Institute for Aerospace Studies at the University of -Toronto, Ontario, begins a UFO study. By October 1968, it is on the -verge of collapse for “lack of something to investigate.” The study -terminates in 1970, but no report on its findings is ever released. -(Arthur Bray, “Government -Cover-Up Exposed,” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 2 (1975): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4442

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Event 6673 -(F1F8ADEA)

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Date: 10/17/1967
-Description: Rep. Louis -C. Wyman (R-N.H.) submits House Resolution 946 for a full UFO -investigation by the House Committee on Science and Astronautics. (“Investigation -of Unidentified Flying Objects,” Congressional Record, House, 90th -Cong., 1st Sess., October 17, 1967, vol. 113, part 21, p. 28949)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4409

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Event 6674 -(1457903A)

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Date: 10/18/1967
-Time: 9 PM
-Description: Witness: John Herbert. One bright, fiery ball flashed four -times while moving east, just above the tree tops. Sighting lasted 1 -minute.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
-ID: 579

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Event 6675 -(1F18B74B)

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Date: 10/18/1967
-Description: 400 individuals attend the first meeting of the UFO Study -Group of the All-Union Committee on Cosmonautics of the Russian DOSAAF. -Retired Soviet Air Force Maj. Gen. Porfiri Stolyarov is elected chairman -and Felix -Ziegel agrees to be deputy chairman. Members include author Alexander -Kazantsev, engineer Arkady Tikhonov, a cosmonaut, 18 scientists, and -200 qualified observers stationed throughout the country. (“Late -News: Official -Russian Move on UFOs,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1967): 2; Hobana and Weverbergh 35; Good Above, p. 232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4410

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Event 6676 -(24839E1A)

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Date: 10/20/1967
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 146

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Event 6677 -(5BA9B369)

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Date: 10/21/1967
-Time: 2200
-Description: Four boys were driving east on State Route 7 when they saw -three men on the road, who “almost flew off and disappeared.” They were -about 1.20 m tall and wore shiny blue-green clothing. Their faces looked -human, but they had very large ears. The next day a small footprint -showing four toes was found in the mud.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III 84 (Vallee)
-Location: Duncan, Oklahoma
-ID: 888

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Event 6678 -(623461E1)

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Date: 10/21/1967
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Ivan Ritter, Jerry Bennet, and two other teens -are driving east out of Duncan, Oklahoma, on the new State Highway 7. -They see something in the road ahead, far out of the range of their -headlights. When the driver turns on his high-beam lights, they see -three men who seem to fly off the road and disappear. They are about 4 -feet tall and wearing tight-fitting blue-green clothing. Their faces -appear human, but with large ears. The next morning, Ritter and Bennet -look around for evidence at the landing site, but all they find is a -small, four-toes footprint in the muddy bottom of a creek bed about 300 -feet from the road. (Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, -pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4412

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Event 6679 -(9608E67D)

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Date: 10/21/1967
-Description: 6:16 a.m. Two control tower operators and an observer at -the south end of the runway at Blytheville Air Force Base [now Arkansas -International Airport] in Blytheville, Arkansas, see two dark oblong -objects flying east to west at about 1,200–1,500 feet. They are tracked -by RAPCON radar for 2 miles. They make a turn to the southwest and -disappear. (NICAP, “RAPCON -Tracks Object, Two Objects Observed from the Ground”; J. Allen -Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 60, 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4411

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Event 6680 -(5ACD3441)

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Date: 10/22/1967
-Description: Night. Edward Fortney and another real-estate agent are -locking up for the night in Charleswood, a suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba, -when they notice a formation of brilliant red, pulsating lights above an -adjacent field. They are joined by six other people who have stopped -their car to look at the lights. Two similar lights appear and take up a -position near the formation. The objects then rise and move away -noiselessly in formation. Floating above Canada Highway 100, they appear -to change positions, forming a perfect triangle. Fortney looks at them -through binoculars and sees dark rectangular objects that the lights are -attached to. The formation dips and bobs toward a line of high-voltage -towers half a mile away. The three lights in triangular formation break -up and form a single file, the wires and towers lighting up with a red -glow as they speed over them. They are last seen traveling northwest. On -his way home, Fortney experiences a “skullbuster” headache that lasts -until midnight. The next day, he visits the site in the field and finds -child-like footprints in the moist soil, 7 inches long and under 3 -inches wide, leading to and from a peculiar circular pile of fist-sized -stones. The heel marks seem deeply impressed in the soil. Fortney also -experiences leg and back pain, sunburn on his face and hands, and a -yellow- green coating on his tongue. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, -Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 47–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4413

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Event 6681 -(7291B857)

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Date: 10/24/1967
-Time: 2130
-Description: Donald Chiszar, 13, and Pat Crozier, 10, saw a bright -object hovcrillg in mid-air. It tilted toward them, and they could see -two big, square windows separated by a bar, and strange lettering under -them. Two aliens, and control panels with lights and knobs, could be -seen inside. It vanished on the spot.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Lor. III, 180 (Vallee)
-Location: Newfield, New York
-ID: 889

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Event 6682 -(888B4A24)

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Date: 10/24/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Donald -Chiszar, 13, and Pat Crosier, 10, are sitting on the Crosier front -porch in Newfield, New York, when they see a bright disc-like object -approach them with its leading edge tilted toward them. On top is a -knob-like protuberance with an antenna and hanging beneath the object is -a “square box” full of red, green, and white lights. Two humanoid -figures and control panels are visible through windows. The object then -tilts back and shoots out of sight. Their hand-held radios produce loud -static during the sighting. (“Flap -Continues in the States,” -APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1967, p. 10; Richard H. Hall, “Dyad ‘Scout -Craft,’” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 23–24; Condon, pp. 375–379)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4415

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Event 6683 -(B863A608)

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Date: 10/24/1967
-Description: UFO with windows approached, tilted down. Two humanoid -figures and control panels visible. Object tilted back up, shot out of -sight in seconds
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Newfield, NY
-ID: 147

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Event 6684 -(494F2CA6)

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Date: 10/24/1967
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Two police constables, Roger Willey and Clifford -Waycott, chase a bright cross-shaped light in their patrol car at 90 mph -between Holsworthy and Hatherleigh on the A307 road, Devon, England. The -object appears to land behind some trees, but takes off before they can -reach the site, though they approach to within 120 feet of the object. -The UFO is later observed to rendezvous in the sky with a similar -object. Other policemen report a UFO on this day and the following day. -(Bernard Wignall, “The -Okehampton Incident,” Flying Saucer Review 13, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1967): 5; UFOFiles2, pp. 75–76; -Geoff Falla, “The -Flying Cross Episode,” BUFORA, 2012; Ian Ridpath, “Devon -‘Flying Cross’ of 1967 Revisited,” Ian Ridpath’s UFO Skeptic, March -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4414

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Event 6685 -(C2015AA5)

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Date: 10/25/1967
-Time: 2045
-Description: Clive Robinson and Richard Corben, 14, and a third boy, -reported the landing of a dome-shaped object with a smaller hump on top, -200 m away. It took off diagonally, leaving some traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Malvern, Great Britain
-ID: 890

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Event 6686 -(0942F879)

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Date: 10/25/1967
-Description: 3:15 p.m. R. G. Putnam, a brakeman on a train running from -Truro, Nova Scotia, to Moncton, New Brunswick, when he sees a disc with -green vapor billowing from it pacing the train at treetop level near -Wentworth Station, Nova Scotia. Putnam feels an intense blast of -radiation, forcing him to cover his face with his hands to look at it. -The object soon drifts away from the train, tips to a 45° angle, then -turns to a vertical poistion. A jet arrives, seemingly in pursuit, and -the object levels out, taking on the appearance of a cigar-shaped cloud. -Both fly out of sight to the west after 35 minutes of observation. One -week later, the hair on the back of Putnam’s hands disappears, his hands -shrivel up, and his eyes are sore and swollen. Two weeks later, his -chest and throat get sore. He reports the sighting to the RCMP and the -Canadian Forces, but apparently gets no response. (Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4416

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Event 6687 -(69C9FE94)

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Date: 10/26/1967
-Time: 0430
-Description: A businessman driving north between Hook and Reading was -puzzled when the electrical system of his car broke down. He then -observed a dull object, 20 m in diameter, 100 m away, at about 15 m -altitude. He made the rest of his journey in a trancelike state.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Reading, Great Britain
-ID: 891

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Event 6688 -(1725A866)

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Date: 10/26/1967
-Description: 11:25 a.m. J. B. W. “Angus” Brooks, a former BOAC pilot and -photo interpreter, is walking his Dalmatian and German shepherd at -Moigne Downs near Ringstead Bay, Dorset, England. An odd-looking craft -descends and hovers at an altitude of 200–300 feet at a distance of -about a quarter mile from them for 22 minutes. The German shepherd has -been foraging for game; when she returns she seems “distraught” as she -stands beside Brooks. Her ears are pricked, indicating she is worried -about the sounds she is hearing, although Brooks can detect no sound -from the object. The odd-shaped craft has a central round chamber -estimated to be 25 feet in diameter and 12 feet thick. Four long slender -fuselages (estimated 75 feet long and 8 feet wide) extend from the -central chamber. In flight, one of the 4 fuselages leads, while the -other three are together in the rear. As the object slows to hover, the -fuselages move to form a cross. The object rotates 90°, then remains -motionless for 22 minutes despite strong winds. Upon departure, the -leading fuselage is not the one that led on approach. The remaining 3 -fuselages come together in the rear as on the approach, and the object -climbs away with increasing speed. The craft appears translucent, taking -on the color of the sky above it. There are dark shadows along the bases -of the fuselages and the center chamber. On future visits to this area, -the German shepherd appears nervous. (Angus Brooks, “Remarkable -Sighting near Dorset,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1968): 3–4; R. H. B. Winder, “Comment -on the Angus Brooks Sighting,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1968): 4–5; “‘Flying -Cross’ UFOs -over Britain,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 3 (Nov./Dec. 1967): 3; “Important -New Details on Flying Cross,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 4 -(Jan./Feb. 1968): 4–5; Good Above, pp. 63–64, -455; -UFOFiles2, pp. 77–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4417

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Event 6689 -(99DC4FF3)

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Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: A spinning object, 7.5 m in diameter, emitting red and -green lights, came down to a river, causing thunderous agitation of the -water, and took off over a forest, with a heat wave.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 92 (Vallee)
-Location: Dympep, India
-ID: 892

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Event 6690 -(FDD5BED2)

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Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: 2:20 p.m. Timothy Robinson, 13, and his family are startled -by the roar of a jet aircraft overhead at Winchester, Hampshire, -England. He dashes out into the garden and sees two English Electric -Lightning fighters fly low overhead. Ahead of the aircraft is a black, -mushroom-shaped object streaking away to the west. It changes direction -abruptly to the northwest and disappears into a cloud, climbing steeply -and outmaneuvering the Lightnings. (Good Above, p. 62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4421

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Event 6691 -(34E90DAF)

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Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Truck driver Chris -R. Helgesen observes a spinning, reddish, round object, about 100 -feet in diameter, pace his truck for about half a mile on US Highway 83 -north of Max, North Dakota. The object then hovers above a field, paces -the truck again, hovers, paces the truck again (stopping when it stops), -turns blue, picks up speed, turns green, then shoots away to the -southeast, turns yellow, and vanishes. Helgesen has it in view for about -one hour. (“New -Close-Ups, Pacings,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 5 (March 1968): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4420

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Event 6692 -(A6F3A6E7)

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Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Charlie Little, the pilot of a Piper-Twin -Comanche, with two other pilots and a passenger on board, is flying over -the Atlantic northeast of Jacksonville, Florida. They see a bright -light, which becomes visible as six huge, round, bright-white lights in -a horizontal row on a darker object. It approaches on a collision course -and is seen to be a gray equilateral triangle with a triangular opening -at its center. The object makes an unbanked 180° turn, then takes off -and disappears in a flash. (Willy Smith, “A Huge ‘Open’ Triangular UFO,” -IUR 9, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1984): 4–6; Philip J. Klass, “Letter,” IUR 10, -no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1985): 13; “Charles Little Responds,” IUR 10, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1095): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4418

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Event 6693 -(A2A68EC5)

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Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A waitress driving home in Parshall, North -Dakota, sees a large, round, revolving object with alternating -triangular areas of coloration. The object is low and moving -horizontally an estimated two blocks away. As it paces her car, she sees -2–3 white light beams coming down vertically from the object. Her car -drives like it has flat tires or rocks that are hitting the bottom of -the chassis. A second witness, police Lt. Glen G. Brunsell, sees a -low-altitude, bright round light like a welding-torch that illuminates -the ground. The object moves slowly with vertical oscillations and -changes color from blue to green-white. It departs vertically, -disappearing in 5 seconds. (“AF -Log Reveals Wave,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 7 (July/Aug. 1968): 6–7; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4419

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Event 6694 -(625C6DFB)

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Date: 10/27/1967
-Description: Sphere rose, paced car, which began steering hard. Object -hovered near missile base, shot straight up out of sight in -seconds
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Parshall, ND
-ID: 148

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Event 6695 -(8436F498)

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Date: 10/30/1967
-Time: 2100
-Description: A businessman was driving toward Boyup Brook when his car -failed completely and stopped, although he did not recall feeling -deceleration. He found a strong light beam aimed at him from a -mushroom-shaped craft, 10 m in diameter. He had no recollection of -starting the car again after the departure of the object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Boyup Brook, Australia
-ID: 893

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Event 6696 -(408E539A)

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Date: 10/30/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Alexander -Spargo is traveling alone in his car on the Mayanup–Kojonup road -about 10 miles east of Mayanup in Western Australia at a speed of about -60–65 miles per hour. He is approached by a lighted object from the sky. -A beam of light comes from a “tube” on the object and immerses the car. -Almost immediately, the car stops dead. However, there is no feeling of -deceleration. The vehicle’s motor, lights, and radio go off. Spargo -hears no noise. The tube seems 2–3 feet in diameter. It is not -uncomfortable to the eyes. After about 5 minutes, the tube closes off -and the object disappears. His vehicle is suddenly going at 60–65 miles -per hour again, with no feeling of acceleration. The object is only seen -from underneath, but he estimates its diameter as 30 feet and about 100 -feet up in the air. It glows an iridescent blue. (Keith Basterfield, -Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 -(1990): 27–28; Keith Basterfield, “Cold -Case Investigation: Boyup Brook -WA, 30 Oct 1967,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific -Investigation, September 23, 2012; Keith Basterfield, “Police -Report on the Boyup Brook Encounter, Uncovered,” Unidentified Aerial -Phenomena— Scientific Investigation, August 29, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4422

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Event 6697 -(C2519B00)

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Date: 11/1967
-Description: Ufologist Ted -Bloecher privately publishes a massive Report on the UFO Wave of -1947, detailing 853 reports gleaned from his years of research into -newspaper archives in June–July 1947. The preface is written by James -E. Mcdonald. (Ted Bloecher, Report -on the UFO Wave of 1947, The -Author, 1967)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4423

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Event 6698 -(75E00018)

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Date: 11/2/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Navajo ranch hands Willie Begay and Guy Tossie, -both 23, are driving south of Ririe, Idaho, on US Highway 26 when they -are blinded by a flash of light. Their car comes to a stop, and -immediately in front of them they see an object 6–8 feet in diameter and -3 feet thick, hovering 5 feet off the ground and shaped like two saucers -joined together. Around the rim is a row of alternately flashing orange -and green lights. On top is a transparent dome, where two small entities -are visible. The dome flips open, and one occupant floats out and -approaches the car. It is 3 feet tall, bald, with ears set high on its -head, round eyes, and a mouth like a slit. It is wearing tight-fitting -coveralls and carries a pack on its back. It opens the car door and sits -behind the wheel as Begay and Tossie move in horror to the right. The -car begins to move as if fastened to the craft into a field of wheat -stubble where Tossie gets out and runs toward the farmhouse of Willard -Hammon for help, followed by another entity apparently holding a -light. Begay stays in the front seat of the car with the first entity, -who tries to communicate with him, twice saying something in a high, -chirruping voice. The second entity returns, and the two float back to -the craft, which rises and departs, a yellow flame-like light coming -from the bottom. Hammon lets Tossie inside his farmhouse, where he -eventually calms down and tells his story. They go back to the site, -where they find Begay in a state of shock in the car. At 11:30 p.m., an -anonymous witness driving between Ririe and Rigby, Idaho, sees a landed -UFO with a small occupant who stops the car and taps on the side window. -(“NICAP Panel -Studies Occupant Reports,” UFO Investigator 5, no. 1 -(Sept./Oct. 1969): 5–6; Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, 1969, pp. 23–27; Clark III 1009–1010; -Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 145–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4424

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Event 6699 -(357FCE77)

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Date: 11/2/1967
-Description: Domed disc, lights along rim, two beings visible in clear -dome, hovered above car. Car drawn into adjacent field, witnesses -confronted by beings
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ririe, ID
-ID: 149

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Event 6700 -(A29DAA2A)

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Date: 11/2/1967
-Time: night
-Description: Will Begay and Clyde Soccie, in their early 20’s, said that -an object landed on top of their car, forcing them to stop. Two dwarfs -spoke to them, but were not understood. The object left.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Ririe, Idaho
-ID: 894

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Event 6701 -(92AAA5B0)

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Date: 11/3/1967
-Description: Carlos Spini and another man saw a luminous, blue, circular -object land nearby, as they were examining some cows. It took off when -they came near.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Personal (Vallee)
-Location: San Jeronimo, Argentina
-ID: 895

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Event 6702 -(DEE1038C)

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Date: 11/5/1967
-Time: 2330
-Description: Lorry driver Karl Farlow told police that as his lights and -radio blacked out, although his diesel engine continued to work, he saw -an egg-shaped object, 3 m long, 15 m away. Moments later, a white Jaguar -coming in the opposite direction also stopped. The object, emitting a -green light and showing a whitish dome under its lower surface, hovered -between the two vehicles for 2 min and left at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 67, 6; 68, 3 (Vallee)
-Location: Fordingbridge, Great Britain
-ID: 896

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Event 6703 -(B6355BAB)

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Date: 11/6/1967
-Description: 1:30 a.m. On a section of the A338 road [now B3347] south -of Sopley, Hampshire, England, truck driver Karl Farlow (or Barlow) -finds that the lights on his diesel truck have failed. As he pulls over, -he sees a glowing, 15-foot-wide, egg-shaped UFO that moves slowly across -the road from the right, passes slowly to the left, then speeds up and -disappears. The object makes a sound like a refrigerator and gives off a -smell like a drill boring through wood. Before it goes away, a Jaguar -sports car comes from the opposite direction, and its engine stalls and -lights fail. The UFO glows a vivid green color. The diesel engine is not -affected. The driver of the Jaguar is a veterinary surgeon, and he and -Farlow call the police from a nearby call box. The witnesses note that -there are marks on the ground and the road surface seems to have melted. -The veterinarian’s girl passenger is taken to a hospital suffering from -shock. A week later, Farlow notices that a 200-foot stretch of the road -at the encounter site has been completely resurfaced and the call box -has been repainted. (NICAP, “Disabled -Engine Continues to Run”; -Roy Winstanley, “Now -the UFOs Are Stopping the Traffic,” Spacelink 5, no. 1 (December -1967): wrap; “Landings -on Increase,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1967, pp. 1, 3; Good Above, -pp. 64–65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4425

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Event 6704 -(83AAD8CB)

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Date: 11/8/1967
-Description: 3:30–4:00 a.m. A business executive is driving near Lake -Elsinore, California, when his lights go out, the car stops, and the -radio goes out. He feels a strong pressure on his head and shoulders. He -then notices a red- orange object 30 feet in diameter hovering in the -road ahead at about 160 feet in altitude. The object hovers about 90 -seconds before it takes off into the fog. (Condon, pp. 380–385; -Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 66–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4426

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Event 6705 -(475D18CF)

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Date: 11/8/1967
-Description: Through unrelenting pressure by British ufologist Julian -J. A. Hennessey, the -Ministry of Defence and RAF UFO files are no longer discarded every five -years as of transitory interest. The MoD confirms that it will retain -its remaining UFO documents. Further pressure to retain files comes in -1970 from MP John -Langford-Holt. (UFOFiles2, -pp. 114–115; -David Clarke, “Briefing -Document: Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” August 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4428

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Event 6706 -(F364D5C2)

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Date: 11/8/1967
-Description: MP Peter -Mills asks about UFO sightings in Devon, England, in the UK House of -Commons and receives assurances from Under-Secretary of State for -Defence Merlyn -Rees, who says that the October 24 police chase involved either -aircraft or the planet Venus. Mills asks if the ministry consulted -scientists about the sightings, and Rees replies that both scientists -and psychologists have been consulted. (Good Above, pp. 65–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4427

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Event 6707 -(04EA96C2)

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Date: 11/10/1967
-Description: Stolyarov and Ziegel, speaking -on Russian Central TV, encourage viewers to send their first-hand -accounts in to the newly formed Soviet UFO Study Group. The response is -overwhelming and embarrassing to the DOSAAF All-Union Committee of -Cosmonautics. Army Gen. A. L. Getman dissolves the UFO Study Group by -the end of November. (Wikipedia, “Felix -Ziegel”; Good Above, p. 233; -Joe Brill, “UFOs -behind the Iron Curtain,” -Skylook, no. 86, January 1975, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4429

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Event 6708 -(A460A2BF)

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Date: 11/13/1967
-Description: Condon, Low, and -editor Harriet Hunter meet to discuss the final University of Colorado -report. Condon deliberately excludes the other senior staff because he -is now insisting on no old cases and no “case book.” He insists on -including everything in which the Colorado project participated in, even -phone calls. He wants to write a section on the harm done by -irresponsible UFO authors. The meeting ends with a roughed-out list of -subject sections and authors. Condon reserves writing the summary and -methodology sections himself. He assigns to Hunter the job of selecting -which cases are included and how they are written up (perhaps he no -longer trusts Low to do this). (Swords 326–328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4430

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Event 6709 -(12EDFE15)

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Date: 11/14/1967
-Description: Keyhoe writes -separate letters to Condon and -Low, -asking if they will agree to examine NICAP’s cases. November 15 — -Canadian Forces Wing Commander Douglas -F. Robertson prepares a 28-page briefing document, CDS Briefing on -Unidentified Flying Objects, on the status of UFO sightings in Canada to -Gen. Jean -Victor Allard, Chief of the Defence Staff. It reviews facts and -procedures and describes cases that have been handled within the -ministry, including the Falcon Lake and Shag Harbour cases, as well as -the Warren Smith photo. Robertson advises that UFO sightings are taking -up too much of the military’s time, but that the scientific community, -specifically the University of Toronto Institute of Aerospace Studies, -might find them interesting. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 24–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4431

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Event 6710 -(42160774)

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Date: 11/14/1967
-Description: Orlando Gonzales and two other persons saw an oval object, -1.5 m high, resting in the middle of a highway 80 m away. It left -straight up.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Barinas, Venezuela
-ID: 897

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Event 6711 -(974161DD)

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Date: 11/15/1967
-Description: The crew of Quebecair Flight 650 sees a bright object at -the end of the runway at Sept-Îles Airport, Quebec. It is as large as a -star and stationary. (Good Above, p. 200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4432

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Event 6712 -(6B5501EA)

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Date: 11/16/1967
-Time: 1830
-Description: Farm manager Alan Pool, 43, saw an object, 6 m in diameter -and 1.5 m high, with round and square windows, land in a field with a -whining noise. It took off and vanished, leaving no trace.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Yerecoin, Australia
-ID: 899

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Event 6713 -(B1CE4FCB)

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Date: 11/16/1967
-Time: 1700
-Description: Mrs. Quick and another woman saw a flickering light and a -deep-red, glowing object at ground level, with a dark figure, slightly -larger than a normal human, approaching it. The object disappeared -suddenly.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
-Location: Storrington, Great Britain
-ID: 898

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Event 6714 -(71645E5C)

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Date: 11/17/1967
-Description: 6:00 p.m. David Seewaldt, 13, is crossing a vacant lot in -Calgary, Alberta. He hears a high-pitched sound and sees a slivery gray -UFO the size of a house about to land. A beam of light shoots from it, -putting him in a “trance” and pulling him into the craft, where he meets -two hideous-looking entities with brown crocodile skin, slits for -mouths, and holes for noses and ears. They wear no clothes and have -hands with only four fingers. They take Seewaldt’s clothes off and lead -him into another room where one studies his hair, eyes, and nose. An -orange ceiling light is directed on him and he is given a shot with a -small needle. The entities dress him again and beam him back to the -field. He runs home in a state of terror and hides under the bed. All -conscious memory of the event vanishes until 5 months later, when it -returns in a dream. In 1968 he is hypnotically regressed by a Dr. Masson -of the University of Alberta. (W. K. Allan, “Crocodile-Skinned -Entities at Calgary,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 6 (April 1975): -25–26; Clark III 280; “David Seewaldt,” etcetrasetcetras, June 13, -2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4433

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Event 6715 -(94248F95)

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Date: late 11/1967
-Description: Night. A large, illuminated hemispherical object appears -low over the shore of the Baltic Sea near Liepāja, Latvia. Its light is -difficult to look at with the naked eye. Later it begins to move and -quickly vanishes over the horizon. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO -Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4434

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Event 6716 -(4B1ECDEA)

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Date: 11/21/1967
-Description: 4:30 p.m. David V. Marin sees an object that looks like an -upside-down candle from his backyard at the edge of Poienarii Burchii, -Romania. He watches it for 10 minutes as it hovers at about 90 feet. It -starts moving slowly northwest and its tail elongates. (Romania -15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4435

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Event 6717 -(BF9D0B02)

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Date: 11/22/1967
-Description: Saunders pays -Keyhoe a -surprise visit in Washington, D.C., and allows him to photocopy the Low memorandum, -saying it should be shared with the NICAP board. Roger Harkins hears -about the memo about the same time. (UFOs Yes, 179, 193–194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4436

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Event 6718 -(C3820363)

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Date: 11/22/1967
-Description: MP Patrick -Wall asks the UK Secretary of State for Defence Merlyn -Rees what exchange of UFO information between the UK, US, and -Russian governments is taking place. Rees replies that the ministry is -in touch with the Americans but not the Russians. (Good Above, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4437

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Event 6719 -(3F9BBE41)

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Date: 11/22/1967
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Ladislau Schmidt is sitting in his kitchen in -Petrila, Romania, with the outside door open. Suddenly his chickens run -inside the house, terrified. Looking up, he sees a silvery disc-shaped -object with a dome and antennas hovering at 15,000 feet. It rotates and -moves away at high speed to the northwest until it is out of sight. -(Hobana and Weverbergh 166–167)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4438

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Event 6720 -(7A885C08)

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Date: 11/22/1967
-Description: 4:25 p.m. US Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. John -Rich Butler and copilot Lt. John H. Gould are flying 10 miles off -the New Hampshire coastline when they see an object like a white rocket -flying with a lateral motion. It first moves upward for 2 seconds at the -rear of the aircraft. It reappears and disappears twice, then another -object that looks like a light aircraft with an unusual white, flashing -light passes above them at a distance of 100–200 feet. Gould has the -impression it has swept wings. (NICAP case file; Jan L. Aldrich, “Updated -Draft Catalogue of UFOs/USOs -Reported by Seagoing Services, NavCat 2,0, 1964–2007,” 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4439

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Event 6721 -(6F2EC9D7)

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Date: 11/24/1967
-Time: 1430
-Description: Technician Ugo Battaglia, 39, and a boy, heard a -high-pitched sound and saw a bright, metallic, disk-shaped object come -down, hit a tree and hover, while three tall men in white coveralls -walked around. The boy later suffered severe headaches. Traces.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-ID: 900

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Event 6722 -(8DED7F6A)

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Date: 11/24/1967
-Description: Canadian Wing Commander D. F. Robertson, after advocating -that the RCAF transfer its UFO files to the National Research Council, -writes a memo urging the NRC to work with the University of Toronto and -the Department of National Defence in investigating Canadian UFO -reports. (Good Above, p. 192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4440

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Event 6723 -(C631D397)

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Date: 11/29/1967
-Time: 0200
-Description: Percy McBride saw a flashing object, the size of a station -wagon, with two aerials, arrive from the east and land in a woods for 15 -min. It made a clicking sound and a noise similar to six radio receivers -tuned on different stations. It had a square, boxlike protuberance -supported by a pole underneath.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRO Jan., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Yarmouth, Canada
-ID: 901

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Event 6724 -(72F675CD)

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Date: 11/30/1967
-Description: Allen R. Utke, Wisconsin State University–Oshkosh assistant -professor of chemistry, writes Gerald -Ford in support of House Resolution 946 sponsored by Rep. Louis -C. Wyman, remarking that the UFO “phenomenon could be of great -importance and concern to this country.” (Bill Murphy, “The Swamp Gas -Aftermath: Some Notes from the Gerald Ford Files,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July -2010): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4441

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Event 6725 -(68C0B02E)

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Date: 12/1967
-Description: The Soviet Academy of Sciences’ Physics Department, led by -Lev -Artsimovich, passes -a resolution denouncing studying of UFOs as such. The Soviet UFO Study -Group is effectively neutered. (Wikipedia, “Felix Ziegel”; -Hobana and Weverbergh 36–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4443

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Event 6726 -(27C860D0)

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Date: 12/1/1967
-Description: Condon and -Low write -Keyhoe back -separately and do not commit to looking at his reports, although they -praise NICAP’s assistance. (“The -Colorado Project Report,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 4 -(Jan./Feb. 1968): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4444

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Event 6727 -(18448954)

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Date: 12/2/1967
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A lieutenant-major in the Romanian army is on -duty in the radar station at Băneasa Airfield [now Aurel Vlaicu -International Airport] near Bucharest, Romania, when he goes outside to -observe an airplane. But the supposed aircraft is a strong, stationary -light 30–40° in the north that descends rapidly, ascends again, moves -left to right, then descends again. Through binoculars it looks conical -or bullet shaped. Dozens of other personnel watch it until it disappears -around 11:30 p.m. (Hobana and Weverbergh 176–177)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4445

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Event 6728 -(FEAD8438)

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Date: 12/3/1967
-Description: Officer Herbert Schirmer vehicle encounter and abduction -case
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ashland, NE
-ID: 150

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Event 6729 -(25B3D2C4)

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Date: 12/3/1967
-Time: 0230
-Description: Police Officer Schirmer observed a bright, aluminum-colored -object just above the road and approached within 14 m, when the object -rose, emitting a shrill beeping noise and a red-orange beam. Under -hypnosis at the University of Colorado, the witness reported that a -small human form, about 1.30 m tall, came from under the craft and -approached him to communicate a message stating that “they” came from -space and would meet him again.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
-Location: Ashland, Nebraska
-ID: 902

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Event 6730 -(C4CB3207)

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Date: 12/3/1967
-Description: Abduction of Herbert Schirmer, a Nebraska patrolmen. Was -told there were alien bases off the Florida coast, the polar region, and -off the coast of Argentina. Motherships were cigar shaped, 6ft diameters -discs for recon surveillance.
-Type: abduction
-Reference: Matrix 1, Valerian
-Location: Nebraska

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Event 6731 -(B8979429)

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Date: 12/3/1967
-Description: Early a.m. Police Sgt. Herbert -Schirmer checks on restless cattle twice at a barn near Ashland, -Nebraska. At 2:30 a.m. he is driving on US Highway 6 when he notices -some red lights along State Route 63 that might be a stalled truck. He -drives a short distance up that road and stops with his headlights -shining on the object. The red lights are blinking through the windows -of a disc hovering at a tilt 150 feet away and 6–8 feet above the road. -It looks made of shiny, polished aluminum. It ascends slowly with a sort -of siren sound and emits a flamelike substance from the bottom. His head -sticking out the window, Schirmer watches it pass overhead then shoot up -out of sight. He drives back to the police station and writes in the log -book, “Saw a flying saucer at the junction of highways 6 and 63. Believe -it or not!” He is puzzled to see it is 3:00 a.m. He gets a headache and -a buzzing noise in his head. He also has a red welt below one of his -ears. In the morning, Chief Bill Wlaskin goes to the site and finds a -piece of metal that he shows to Colorado project investigators. It turns -out to be composed of iron and silicon. On February 13, 1968, Schirmer -is hypnotized in Boulder, Colorado, by R. -Leo Sprinkle. During the session he remembers that his car engine -and radio failed, and a blurry white object came out of the UFO and -communicated with him telepathically. He is taken on board by aliens -(who first ask him, “Are you the watchman over this place?”). They are -humanoids, 4–5 feet tall with long heads, gray-white skin, and cat-like -eyes. They wear silver-gray helmets with small antennas on the left side -of the ear area. Their uniforms and gloves are the same color. An -unusual feature of this case is the emblem of a winged serpent on the -left breast of each entity’s uniform. The Colorado project comes to a -predictable conclusion: “Evaluation of psychological assessment tests, -the lack of any evidence, and interviews with the patrolmen left project -staff with no confidence that the trooper’s reported UFO experience was -physically real.” Schirmer undergoes hypnosis again on June 8, 1968, and -more details emerge. (Clark III 1034–1038; Condon, pp. 389–391; -Michael D. Swords, “Too Close for Condon: Close Encounters of the 4th -Kind,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 3–4; Story, pp. 318–319; -Kevin D. Randle, “The Schirmer -Abduction,” A Different Perspective, October 13, 2008; Randle, -Levelland, 2021, pp. 147–149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4446

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Event 6732 -(59A22532)

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Date: 12/5/1967
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Six teenagers returning from a basketball game -in Concordia, Kansas, detour to drive by a cemetery. They see a light -blinking in the sky ahead, moving in an up-and-down motion to the north. -It appears to be flashing different colors or rotating. They follow it -for about two miles, hoping for a better look. (Condon, pp. 391–394)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4447

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Event 6733 -(62C5E739)

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Date: 12/8/1967
-Description: Bright illumination from domed disc, object tipped forward, -two humanoid figures visible inside. Object rotated, moved away
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Idaho Falls, ID
-ID: 151

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Event 6734 -(4D229B66)

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Date: 12/8/1967
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Marilyn Wilding, 15, goes out on her front step -in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to look for a friend. A light reflecting on the -snow on the ground causes her to look up, and she sees a brightly lit -circular object “about as big as a car” hovering above the house. The -object then tips and rotates so she can see it has a transparent dome on -top. Inside the dome are two indistinct figures. The object rotates -clockwise, maintaining its inclination. It begins moving away; as it -recedes into the distance, its light dims and turns orange. (UFOEv II -459; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “Circular -Object with Dome and Two ‘Figures’ Inside”; Patrick Gross, “Falls, Idaho, -December 8, 1967”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4448

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Event 6735 -(6C51310D)

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Date: 12/10/1967
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Psychologist Adina Păun is walking past the -Republic Factories in Bucharest, Romania, when she sees a bluish-green -object above the plant at about 45°. It has projecting, tapered spines -that are as long as half its diameter. It is higher than rain clouds -that sometimes obscure it, but lower than high-altitude, fast-moving -white clouds. She continues watching it for 15 minutes as she walks -along, but it drifts out of sight when she gets home on Magnet Strada. -(Hobana and Weverbergh 180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4449

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Event 6736 -(4AF9D049)

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Date: 12/12/1967
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Rita Malley is driving home from work on Route 34 -in Newfield, New York, with her young son. She notices a red light -behind her. As it draws closer, she sees it is a disc-shaped object as -large as a boxcar moving at about 90 feet above the road. Then it passes -overhead and causes the car to go off the road into a ditch, and Malley -became terrified. Her son in the back seat looks immobilized with his -eyes “bugged out.” A white beam emanates from the humming object above -her and she hears voices in her head saying that her son would not -remember this and that a friend of hers has been killed in a car -accident. (This turns out to be true.) The car then moves out of the -ditch and back onto the road facing the wrong way. She finds that she -can control the car again and speeds home. (Lloyd Mallan, “Ithaca’s -Terrifying Flying Saucer Epidemic,” Science and Mechanics 39 (July -1968): 30–33, 96–97; T. M. Wright, “UFO’s over Ithaca,” Fate 22, no. 2 -(February 1969): 44–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4452

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Event 6737 -(C49AD6DB)

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Date: 12/12/1967
-Description: The British Embassy in Moscow, Russia, is directed by -London to look into British-Russian cooperation in the investigation of -UFO reports with Stolyarov’s Soviet UFO Study Group. The embassy does -not hear back and does not pursue the subject. (Good Above, pp. 234–235)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4451

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Event 6738 -(71C7A103)

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Date: 12/12/1967
-Description: Levine, Saunders, and -Mary Lou Armstrong bring Hynek together -with James -McDonald to discuss forming a new group after the project ends, no -matter what its conclusion is. The meeting goes fairly well. After Hynek -leaves, McDonald brings up the Low memorandum. -He has apparently heard about it from Keyhoe. -Saunders gives him an official copy. Levine approaches Craig about -a separate report, but Craig considers it mutiny. (UFOs Yes, -179–180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4450

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Event 6739 -(8326F869)

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Date: 12/13/1967
-Description: Geminid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 152

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Event 6740 -(30FB822A)

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Date: 12/13/1967
-Description: 2:00 a.m. As a man is driving near Edmonton, Alberta, his -car lights dim and engine sputters. He pulls to the side of the road and -opens the hood, when he notices a dome-shaped object hovering 450 feet -away. It is metallic, has lights around the edge, and is about 50 feet -high. The object rocks back and forth within a range of 10–15 feet but -remains above the road. Over the next hour, the car body heats up and -the witness’s hair gets hot. His flashlight fails to work. Finally, the -object shoots straight up and vanishes in 2–3 seconds. His headlights -come back on, but he starts the motor only with difficulty. (Mark -Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, -1981, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4453

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Event 6741 -(A4057D6C)

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Date: 12/15/1967
-Description: The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River between Point -Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio, collapses under the -weight of rush-hour traffic, resulting in the deaths of 46 people. -(Wikipedia, “Silver -Bridge”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4454

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Event 6742 -(0DC6A4BD)

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Date: 12/16/1967
-Description: Philip -Klass, who -has heard of McDonald’s -UFO activity in Australia from Low, -starts a letter-writing campaign directed at the Office of Naval -Research, wanting to know who approved his funding and whether they are -funding his forthcoming trip to Europe and Russia. His campaign -continues for the next 18 months, bluntly attacking McDonald’s integrity -and calling him a habitual liar. (Clark III 700)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4455

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Event 6743 -(DB68C9B0)

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Date: 12/19/1967
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness is driving westbound on the east edge -of Belleville, Illinois, when he sees a triangular object with a row of -square lights on one side. He tries following it and manages to stay -roughly beneath it until he loses track of it near Southwestern Illinois -College. Because it appears to be heading toward nearby Scott AFB and -the witness is familiar with the base, he goes to the control tower -there to see if they have tracked anything unusual but they have not. -(Marler 204–208, 270)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4456

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Event 6744 -(488E075E)

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Date: 12/22/1967
-Description: Six teenagers observed a silvery, disk-shaped object with a -pointed projection on top and multicolored lights, 100 m away, and felt -a heat wave when it hovered above them.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FS Jun., 68 (Vallee)
-Location: Holmes County, Ohio
-ID: 903

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Event 6745 -(5A615100)

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Date: 12/24/1967
-Description: Evening. A couple driving near Tucson, Arizona, see a -star-like object fall to earth. Two minutes later, they spot a blob of -red light. Their engine and headlights fail. The object approaches the -car, passes overhead, then moves away to the south. The engine and -lights come back on as it departs. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving -Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4457

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Event 6746 -(DD6DBC80)

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Date: 12/24/1967
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A faculty member of the Harvard Medical School -and several members of his family in Belmont, Massachusetts, see a -silently moving, bright orange light. It is joined by a second light one -minute later, and a third about 30 seconds after that. He retrieves some -binoculars and watches all three. The first two stop about 15°–25° above -the horizon and remain still; the third is still moving. Three or four -more lights arrive, some hovering, others moving. Two or three of the -hovering lights appear to drop smaller lights that flash as they fall. -All are orange in color. After about 20 minutes, they have all -disappeared. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, -pp. 45–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4458

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Event 6747 -(C9412C1B)

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Date: 12/27/1967
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Two people are traveling along a back road in -Wells Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, when they see three -lights on the horizon. They stop the car as the lights approach. They -are attached to a domed disc that is following the road at a height of -300–400 feet. As it approaches to within about 3,000 feet, it makes a -banking movement that reveals square, fluorescent panels on the bottom. -The dome light in their car turns on spontaneously as the whole bottom -of the UFO flashes. The two witnesses get back in their truck and drive -on, but the object follows them for a while, then moves off toward -Elmira, New York. About 20 minutes later, the parents of one witness -experience a power failure in their home on Elmira’s south side. -(Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR -27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4459

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Event 6748 -(D4E50DA7)

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Date: 12/29/1967
-Description: 10:35 p.m. C. J. McCready, his wife, and daughter see a -round, glowing, sparkling, red object above their home on Briarcliff -Road, Atlanta, Georgia. It hovers and drops several trails of a white -substance that appear to fall like a liquid as the object moves slowly -northwest. It is visible for 5 minutes. (NICAP case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4460

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- Event 6749 (6167318F)

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Date: 1968
-Description: Presbyterian religious scholar Barry -Downing publishes The Bible and Flying Saucers, in which he equates -Jesus and angels with space visitors and burning bushes, clouds, and Ezekiel’s -chariot with spacecraft. Downing also believes that Jesus left earth in -a flying saucer to another planet, or perhaps another spatial dimension, -and that a flying vehicle operated by intelligent alien beings was -responsible for the parting of the Red Sea. (Barry Downing. The Bible -and Flying Saucers, Lippincott, 1968; Clark III 109; Jerome Clark, -“Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 -(Fall 1997): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4462

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Event 6750 -(08192AD8)

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Date: 1968
-Alternate date: 1969
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A Polish Air Force pilot takes off from Warsaw -Modlin Airport, Poland, in a MiG-21 for a short, routine mission. Soon -he sees two identical white discs, about 6–10 feet in diameter, moving -at the same altitude and speed as his MiG. His wingman also sees them. -He approaches to within 50 feet of them. During the 5-minute encounter, -radio contact with the controller is lost and contact between the two -pilots deteriorates. Four UFOs follow the two MiGs for another 3–6 -miles, then they accelerate and overtake them, disappearing ahead. -(Poland 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4470

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Event 6751 -(8757EB5D)

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Date: 1968
-Description: Fabio -Zerpa founds the Organizacion Nacional Investigadora de Fénomenos -Espaciales in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It publishes a monthly magazine, -Cuarta Dimension. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, -p. 233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4469

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Event 6752 -(798D5FED)

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Date: 1968
-Description: Project xxxxxxxx (name censured) established to evaluate -all UFO information pertinent to space technology.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A)
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 1953
-See also: 12/69
-See also: 1976

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Event 6753 -(01E7CE2E)

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Date: 1968
-Description: An Australian nuclear physicist attached to the Directorate -of Scientific and Technical Intelligence (part of the Joint Intelligence -Bureau) cooperates with other defense intelligence scientists to form a -“rapid intervention team” to investigate UFO incidents involving -physical evidence. The effort lasts until a wave of UFO reports takes -place in Western Australia and he is denied further access to RAAF -files. (Bill Chalker, “The -UFO Connection: Addendum,” -Flying Saucer Review 31, no. 5 (July 1986): 20; Good Above, p. 166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4467

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Event 6754 -(C9763883)

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Date: 1968
-Description: Vladimir Godic and Crystal Walsh found UFO Research South -Australia, a group committed to use scientific methodology in -investigation and research. (Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony -Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4466

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Event 6755 -(DE0C6514)

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Date: 1968
-Description: UFO skeptic and electrical engineer Philip -J. Klass publishes his first UFO book, UFOs—Identified, in which he -theorizes that sightings are caused by ball lightning and anomalous -free-floating plasmas. Klass’s plasma hypothesis is not well received by -anyone on either side of the UFO debate, who note that Klass is using -one unverified phenomenon (his hypothetical plasmas) to explain another -unverified phenomenon (UFOs). Klass and physicist James -E. McDonald engage in a bitter, 18-month-long debate, leveling a -variety of charges and accusations at one another. In September 1968, -Klass writes to McDonald’s superiors at the US Navy (McDonald is -formally retired from the Navy, but often works with the Office of Naval -Research), questioning how McDonald could spend so much time on UFO -research and still fulfill the requirements for his atmospheric research -grant. This does not result in McDonald losing ONR funding, but it does -draw some criticism of Klass from members of the UFO community. (Philip -J. Klass, UFOs—Identified, Random House, 1968; Clark III 659)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4465

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Event 6756 -(08C7836D)

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Date: 1968
-Description: Italian author Renato -Vesco writes Intercettatelli Senza Sparare, making a case that the -Germans had developed anti-gravity devices at the end of World War II, -testing disc-shaped and tubular craft that were responsible for foo -fighters. After the war, these concepts were acquired by the US and -Russia, leading directly to functional flying saucers. (Renato Vesco, -Intercept—But Don’t Shoot, Zebra/Grove, 1971; Marcello Pupilli and -Giuseppe Stilo, “Solitudine -di un uomo: Le teorie ufologiche e la vita di Renato Vesco -(1924–1999),” UFO Forum, no. 18 (August 2001): 33–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4464

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Event 6757 -(57704789)

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Date: 1968
-Description: Science-fiction author Otto -Binder publishes Flying Saucers Are Watching Us, which borrows -liberally from the theories of engineer Max -W. Flindt (cofounder of the Ancient Astronaut Society), who contends -that extraterrestrials had conducted genetic engineering on our apelike -ancestors to create modern mankind. Binder writes that space people -return every few centuries to interbreed with humans to improve the -stock. He follows this up with Mankind—Child of the Stars in 1974, -coauthored with Flindt. (Otto O. Binder, Flying Saucers Are Watching Us, -1968; Clark III 109; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient -Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4463

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Event 6758 -(99D7E3CF)

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Date: 1968
-Description: The Canadian National Research Council, from its base at -the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Ottawa, Ontario, takes over -the collection of UFO reports from the Department of National Defence. -It partners with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to do the actual -investigations. The NRC’s primary interest is in tracking meteors and -meteorite falls. Non-meteoric sightings are kept in a separate file but -transferred to the Public Archives of Canada [now Library and Archives -of Canada] at the end of every year. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Canada, -Signet, 1981, p. 175; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, -August Night, 2022, pp. 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4468

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Event 6759 -(33F7BE67)

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Date: 1968
-Description: NORAD has control of continental-scale Over the Horizon -radars that cover virtually the entire Eurasian continent looking for -Russian and Chinese missile launches. (Clark III 807)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4461

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Event 6760 -(560E2054)

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Date: early 1968
-Description: Four artillerymen stationed at the naval garrison at Lüda -[now Dalian], Liaoning, China, see a luminous, gold, oval-shaped object -that leaves a thin trail in the air. It climbs steeply at high speed and -disappears. When it begins to climb, all communications and radar -systems fail, nearly causing an accident in the fleet. The naval patrol -goes on alert, and the fleet commander orders his men to prepare for -combat. After 30 minutes, comms and radar return to normal. A two-man -coast guard patrol allegedly sees the UFO land on the south coast and -fires at it with automatic weapons. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, -UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archive, 1983, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4471

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Event 6761 -(86361F10)

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Date: 1/1968
-Description: John Harney and Alan W. Sharp launch a new publication, -Merseyside UFO Bulletin (MUFOB), in Liverpool, England, as an -independent publication from the openly skeptical newsletter begun by -the Merseyside UFO Research Group. John Rimmer assumes the post of -associate editor with the third issue. (Merseyside -UFO Bulletin 1, -No. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1968); Clark III 706; “History -of Magonia,” -Magonia Archive)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4472

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Event 6762 -(3D82461F)

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Date: 1/15/1968
-Description: The USAF Air Defense Command is renamed the Aerospace -Defense Command. (Wikipedia, “Aerospace Defense -Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4473

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Event 6763 -(1224B3F1)

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Date: 1/15/1968
-Description: 7:25 a.m. Two farmers driving a truck near Three Hills, -Alberta, see an object that looks “like a stunted dill pickle,” -greenish-blue in color and silent. Another truck stops and they point -out the object to the others, who say it looks like a flying saucer. -They contact the Calgary Airport, but officials there have had no -reports. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 60–62, -63–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4474

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Event 6764 -(8D6FC10E)

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Date: 1/15/1968
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Janice, Denise, and Lori Achzehner are playing -records in Villa Park, Illinois, when their father’s “Saucer Seeker” UFO -detector goes off. They run outside and see a large orange light -hovering near the house. For 45 minutes they watch as a series of 6 -objects fly in and out of the area. Through binoculars they can see that -the objects are triangular or cone-shaped, no more than a mile away, and -500–1,500 feet high. As they watch, one of the objects approaches a -commercial airliner, makes a 180° turn without slowing, then follows the -aircraft until they are out of sight. (“Use -of Detectors in Spotting UFO,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1968, -p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4475

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Event 6765 -(C7305B11)

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Date: 1/19/1968
-Description: DIA Intelligence Report from Liaison in Moscow, Russia -mentioning an attempt by the British Government in 1967 to collaborate -with the Soviets in UFO research.
-Type: intelligence report (B1-E p543)
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Moscow, Russia
-See also: 2/22/68

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Event 6766 -(3645908F)

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Date: 1/19/1968
-Description: McDonald calls -Low on -the phone and expresses his concerns about the project. The two reach an -impasse. (UFOs Yes, 185; Swords 328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4476

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Event 6767 -(925CEF7B)

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Date: 1/20/1968
-Description: Round orange-red object hovered near ground, moved abruptly -to position behind car, road illuminated. Made repeated passes at -car
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Vermillion, SD
-ID: 153

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Event 6768 -(FDA28ADB)

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Date: 1/20/1968
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Robert Ballard and his wife Lynn are visiting -his parents near Vermillion, South Dakota. Robert goes outside to warm -up his car for the trip home. He sees a large object and calls to his -father to come outside. They watch a big ball of red and orange fire to -the east. At first they think it is the moon and go inside, but as -Robert and Lynn are leaving, the object gives off a flash, and one of -the dogs begins barking vigorously. They drive toward the object, which -seems to be flickering in a field. It seems to be spinning and is 20 -feet above the ground, sometimes less. When Ballard turns onto State -Highway 50, the UFO, about 30 feet in diameter, starts following them. -He accelerates to 60 mph and the object jumps to just behind their car. -At one point it is hovering only 3 feet above an intersection. It keeps -following them at telephone height, even though Ballard speeds up to 110 -mph. After another car goes by them, the object speeds up and heads -straight toward them from behind. Soon it rises and disappears to the -east. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 37–38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4478

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Event 6769 -(0B3751D3)

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Date: 1/20/1968
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Police deputies Bias Fortes and Pinheiro Chagas -are driving 9 miles outside of Brasília, Brazil, when they see a -triangular UFO. They stop and get out to observe it better and watch it -hover for 5 minutes. It accelerates suddenly and speeds to the -southwest, (“First -Sightings of 1968 in Brazil,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1968, -p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4477

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Event 6770 -(C4DA35DB)

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Date: 1/21/1968
-Description: A fire breaks out in the navigator’s compartment of a USAF -B-52 near Thule Air Base, Greenland. The bomber crashes 7 miles from the -air base, causing the non-nuclear explosives aboard to detonate and -rupturing and dispersing its nuclear payload of four hydrogen bombs -carried on an ongoing (since 1960) Operation Chrome Dome alert mission -to deter a Soviet nuclear first strike. The recovery and decontamination -effort is complicated by Greenland’s harsh weather. Contaminated ice and -debris are buried at the Savannah River plant in South Carolina. Bomb -fragments are recycled by Pantex, in Amarillo, Texas. The incident -causes outrage and protests in Denmark. USAF Strategic Air Command -Chrome Dome operations are discontinued immediately after the accident, -which highlights the safety and political risks of the missions. Safety -procedures are reviewed and more stable explosives are developed for use -in nuclear weapons. A BBC News report in 2008 seems to confirm through -declassified documents and interviews with those involved that one -nuclear bomb was lost. However, the Danish Institute for International -Studies concludes in August 2009 that there is no missing bomb and that -the US underwater operation was a search for the uranium-235 of the -fissile core of a secondary, a small object one half meter long. For the -first time, the report is able to present an estimate of the amount of -plutonium contained in the pits of the primaries. (Wikipedia, “1968 -Thule Air Base B-52 crash”; Wikipedia, “Operation -Chrome Dome”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4479

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Event 6771 -(B0171F70)

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Date: 1/22/1968
-Description: In response to a question by MP Teddy -Taylor, UKSecretary of State for Defence Merlyn -Rees writes that the total number of reports for 1967 “reflects a -wave of public interest in UFOs, reaching a peak toward the end of the -year,” and that unexplained sightings (only 46 out of 362) are due to -lack of sufficient information. (Good Above, p. 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4480

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Event 6772 -(02A7D415)

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Date: 1/26/1968
-Description: A-12 pilot Jack -Weeks is dispatched from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, on a -sortie to locate the USS -Pueblo, which has been captured by North Korean forces on January -23. His photographs pinpoint the Pueblo’s exact location in the harbor -of Changjahwan Bay near Wonsan, North Korea. Instead of war plans, the -US proceeds with negotiations for the return of the crew. (Jacobsen, -Area 51, pp. 271–274)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4481

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Event 6773 -(CC579337)

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Date: 1/31/1968
-Description: Morning. At Lajes Air Base on Terceira in the Azores, a -Portuguese military watchman, Serafim Vieira Sebastião, notices a -strange interference on his transistor radio. Looking around, he sees an -oval metallic object surmounted by a transparent tower on top of which -is a small balustrade on which two beings are leaning. The silhouettes -of two more beings are visible in the tower. The object is hovering -above a munitions dump. Serafim phones one of the other sentries then -shines his flashlight on the machine. As he does so, the men on the -tower see him. The object emits a cloud of gaseous dust that overpowers -him. When his colleague finds him a few minutes later, the object has -vanished. (“OVNI -com quatro seres ataca guarda açoriano,” Insólito, no. 13 (June -1976); Nuno Alves, “O -Caso Ilha Terceira (31 de Janeiro de 1968) Serafim Vieira -Sebastião,” UFO Portugal, October 28, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4483

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Event 6774 -(5F9AB7CF)

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Date: 1/31/1968
-Description: McDonald sends -Low a -7-page, single-spaced letter, citing Condon’s -negative statements, his preoccupation with crackpot elements, Condon’s -failure to conduct any investigations himself, the lack of communication -between Low and Condon and the active investigators, and the failure of -the project to take seriously any assertions of cover-up. He mentions -Low’s memorandum, saying “I am rather puzzled by the viewpoints -expressed there.” He concludes: “I am not opposed to negative -findings—on UFOs or other scientific questions; what bothers me is that -it appears that these negative findings were being adumbrated as early -as January 1966, and perhaps even earlier.” He sends a copy to the -project’s open files. (UFOs Yes, 185–187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4482

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Event 6775 -(C7CFDBF0)

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Date: 2/1968
-Description: Felix -Ziegel, Soviet -cosmologist and assistant professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute, -Russia, writes an article on UFOs for Soviet Life with reports supplied -by Novosti. He mentions four UFO reports and concludes that they could -be extraterrestrial in origin. He thinks the 1908 Tunguska event is a -remarkable UFO case and reveals that the USSR established a “UFO Section -of the All-Union Cosmonautics Committee” in October 1967. Ziegel soon -afterwards receives a letter from Edward -Condon, the director of the University of Colorado UFO Project, -suggesting that the Soviet and the American groups should cooperate, -starting with an information exchange. Ziegel and 12 other members of -his group sign a letter requesting the Soviet government to create a -state-sponsored organization that would coordinate all the UFO research -in the country. Next month he receives an official negative response. -(Wikipedia, “Felix -Ziegel”; Felix Ziegel, “Unidentified -Flying Objects,” Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 27–29; -Central Intelligence Agency, “Nothing -But the Facts on UFOs, or Which Novosti Writer -Do You Read?” April 9, 1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4485

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Event 6776 -(5194C0D9)

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Date: 2/1968
-Description: Canada’s National Research Council agrees to become the -official government archive for existing and future UFO reports. The -files are kept in an office of the Council’s Upper Atmosphere Section -(Astrophysics Branch) in Ottawa, Ontario. But the NRC does not -investigate reports. (Good Above, p. 192; -Gregory M. Kanon, “UFOs -and the -Canadian Government,” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 7 (Spring 1976): -18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4484

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Event 6777 -(4A3AF90F)

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Date: 2/1/1968
-Description: Serafim Vieira Sebastiao, a watchman at the Azores Air -Station, saw “an oval object with a metallic gleam, topped by a glass -tower with a small balustrade on which two beings were standing.” There -were two other figures inside the tower. When he shone a light toward -it, a cloud of dust surrounded the witness, the craft vanished, and he -fainted. Investigation by American military authorities.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Criacao do Cabrito, Azores
-ID: 904

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Event 6778 -(605425AF)

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Date: 2/4/1968
-Description: Barking dogs, unusual sound, attracted attention to round -object with ports, flames from underside. Object moved jerkily, rising -and falling, hovered briefly, sped away
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Redlands, CA
-ID: 154

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Event 6779 -(A11894CD)

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Date: 2/4/1968
-Description: 7:20 p.m. About 200 residents of Redlands, California, see -or hear a huge, low-flying, disc-shaped object as it passes overhead. -The UFO is about 50 feet in diameter, with seven lights on its base -emitting bright orange flame. Some 8–10 other lights on its rim -alternate red and green, giving the impression that the object is -rotating. A minister recording his sermon captures a high-pitched, -modulated, whining sound from the UFO on tape. The UFO apparently -descends just west of Columbia Street and north of Colton Avenue, then -proceeds to the northwest for about a mile at an altitude of 300 feet. -Coming to a stop, it hovers briefly, jerks forward, hovers again, then -shoots straight up in a burst of speed. The object is not detected on -radar at Norton AFB [now closed] near San Bernardino or March AFB [now -March Air Reserve Base] in Riverside County. An investigation is -conducted for APRO by four University of Redlands faculty: Philip -Seff (geology), Judson Sanderson (math), Reinhold Krantz (math), and -John -Brownfield (art). They conclude that the object is not attributable -to any known phenomenon or aircraft, but that the recorded sound comes -from an emergency vehicle. (Sparks, -p. 327; James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 52–53; Story, pp. -299–300; -William F. Krupke, “Sonic -Analysis of the Redlands UFO Tape Recording,” Journal of Scientific -Exploration 30, no. 2 (2016): 175–198)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4486

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Event 6780 -(9F6F02C7)

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Date: 2/5/1968
-Description: McDonald’s -letter arrives in Boulder, Colorado. Low is -out of town and the staff read it first. Low does not see it until 4:00 -p.m. the following day when Mary Lou Armstrong shows it to him. He -explodes, saying whoever gave the memo to McDonald should be fired. Condon is -also furious. (UFOs Yes, 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4487

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Event 6781 -(F3902484)

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Date: 2/7/1968
-Description: Low summons -Saunders to -Condon’s -office, asking him if he knew McDonald had -a copy of the memo. Saunders said yes, and didn’t think he needed to -alert anyone, since McDonald is a friend of the project. Condon says, -“For an act like that, you deserve to be ruined professionally!” -Saunders avoids admitting he was responsible (indirectly) for McDonald’s -having the memo. When Norm Levine arrives, Saunders is ordered to leave. -Levine tells him the memo’s release is a group effort. Condon tells -Levine not to discuss this meeting or communicate further with McDonald. -Levine says he can’t do that, Condon tells him he is no longer useful, -and Levine walks out. Condon and Low meet with other staff members the -rest of the day. (UFOs Yes, 188–192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4488

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Event 6782 -(A7CB9833)

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Date: 2/8/1968
-Description: Condon and -Low meet -with Thurston -Manning and Stuart W. Cook from the University of Colorado’s -Psychology Department. Condon tells Mary Lou Armstrong that Saunders and -Norm Levine will be fired. Low types the letters himself and Condon -signs them. Condon also writes a letter to Hynek asking -him to provide 10– 15 of the best cases from his files. (UFOs Yes, -192–193; Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek -correspondence], p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4489

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Event 6783 -(D6AF1A7E)

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Date: 2/9/1968
-Description: Dr. David Saunders and Dr. Norman Levine, members of Air -Force-sponsored Colorado UFO project, fired by Dr. E. U. Condon for -alleged “incompetence” in controversy over project management
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 155

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Event 6784 -(185DD87F)

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Date: 2/9/1968
-Description: Condon and -Low meet -with Craig, -who admits knowing about the memo and says he was concerned about it. He -leaves the meeting “deeply concerned” about the project’s viability. -Roger Harkins writes up the events at the project for the Boulder Daily -Camera; when he interviews Condon, he realizes that Condon “honestly -didn’t know anything about that memo until a couple of days ago.” Condon -admits, in contrast to his statements earlier, that Saunders and -Levine were fired for insubordination, not incompetence. (UFOs Yes, -194–195)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4490

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Event 6785 -(0FFF5EEE)

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Date: 2/9/1968
-Time: 4:20 AM
-Description: Witness: Mr. R.W. Bland. One object, 100’ in diameter, with -concave sides having “portholes” in the center of each gave off -yellow-green light. Hovered 25’ above ground, then moved rapidly toward -the southwest. Gave off pulsating sound, like a length of wire whirled -at high speed above the head. Sighting lasted 1-5 minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Groveton, Missouri
-ID: 580

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Event 6786 -(21D13C4F)

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Date: 2/13/1968
-Description: Luminous elliptical object followed car for 30 minutes, -moved back and forth across road, made sharp turns and unusual -maneuvers, suddenly disappeared
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Missoula, MT
-ID: 156

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Event 6787 -(0374C46C)

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Date: 2/14/1968
-Description: F. -Robert Naka, USAF -chief reconnaissance scientist at MITRE Corporation, tells Robert -Low that, contrary to what NORAD had briefed him on in 1967, NORAD -radars can and do track UFOs “coming in from outer space.” He does not -deny that NORAD has already tracked such objects on occasion. (Clark III -804)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4492

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Event 6788 -(DDB31F5C)

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Date: 2/14/1968
-Description: Hynek replies -to Condon, saying -that he will send him some of his best cases over the next few weeks, -but requests that in return they be given a “thorough investigation.” He -even offers to go to Wright-Patterson AFB and send him copies of good -Blue Book cases, since Quintanilla has -scrupulously been sending him copies of only those he asks for. (Center -for UFO Studies, [Hynek -correspondence], pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4491

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Event 6789 -(F89AC2DE)

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Date: 2/16/1968
-Description: Novosti Science Commentator Villen Lyustiberg writes -“Flying Saucers? They’re a Myth” in the newspaper Moskovskij -Komsomolets. Novosti releases an English translation on March 12. It -explains US reports as either misobservations or misreporting by the -media. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Nothing -But the Facts on UFOs, -or Which Novosti -Writer -Do You Read?” April 9, 1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4493

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Event 6790 -(04DB8504)

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Date: 2/18/1968
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Teenagers Richard Frombach, Boone Powers, -and Chris Beachner are parked next to a pond in a gravel pit near -Vashon, Washington, when they notice a glowing oval object resting on a -hill to the east. They drive into town to pick up an additional witness, -Joseph Frabush, and return to the area, park on the main road, and walk -into the pond area. The object has moved to the east. Frabush thinks it -is metallic and about 30 feet long. They drive back into town for more -witnesses, but when they return the light is gone and the 100-foot pond -is completely frozen over. Temperatures in the area have been above -freezing for several days. Small puddles and mud patches surrounding the -pond are not frozen at all. The pond ice is dry, even though it has been -raining all night. Investigators find that the ice is 3 inches thick in -some spots, composed of 2–5 layers, and riddled with bubbles filled with -air and dirt. (“The -Strange Case of the Frozen Pond,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1968, -pp. 1–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4494

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Event 6791 -(657C175D)

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Date: 2/19/1968
-Description: 11:55 a.m. Martha Heggs is in her farmhouse kitchen about -10 miles west of Bengough, Saskatchewan. She hears a high-pitched whine -that has such a penetrating intensity it is similar to a mild electric -shock, causing a tingling sensation throughout her body. Looking out, -she sees an object 300 feet away circling around a pole with an electric -transformer on it. The object is shaped like two saucers edge-to-edge, -surmounted by a dome with 6–7 ports, rounded at the top and extending -straight down to the base of the dome. These ports are indented and -white in color, resembling frosted glass. The saucers are about 8 feet -wide and the dome about 4 feet wide. The body of the object looks like -dull aluminum. There is a smaller, vented structure on top of the dome -and an antenna on top of that. When the object first appears, a dog is -seen cowering and lying in the snow, trying to cover its ears with its -paws. Sixteen head of cattle, loose in the farmyard, bolt when the -object moves into the area. They enter the cattle sheds and do not -emerge until at least 30 minutes after the object disappears. The object -moves about the farmyard, sometimes hovering, its altitude ranging from -3 feet to 20 feet. After 20 minutes, still 9–12 feet above the ground, -the object leaves the farm through a windbreak and moves north until -lost to view. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., UFOs: A New -Look, NICAP, 1969, Section IV, pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4495

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Event 6792 -(EFF51C68)

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Date: 2/19/1968
-Description: Witness felt “tingling sensations”, domed disc with ports -maneuvered around farm, emitting high-pitched whine. Dog cowered in -snow, tattle bolted
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bengough, Saskatchewan, Canada
-ID: 157

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Event 6793 -(8D880984)

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Date: 2/20/1968
-Description: The US Embassy in Moscow sends an unclassified airgram to -the US Department of State drawing attention to Felix -Ziegel’s article in the February 1968 issue of Soviet Life, which -refers to the Soviet UFO Study Group and concludes that international -cooperation in studying UFOs is vital. (Felix Ziegel, “Unidentified -Flying Objects,” -Soviet Life, no. 137 (February 1968): 27–29; Good Above, pp. 235, -473–474)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4496

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Event 6794 -(3C2FAEA5)

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Date: 2/22/1968
-Description: UNCLASSIFIED AIR GRAM, U.S. Dept. of the State regarding -UFOs in the Soviet Union: Feb. 1968, Soviet Life published three pages -pertinent to UFOs, by Felix Zigel. He also published a UFO article in -1966. Until recently no study of UFOs had been made in the Soviet -Union.
-Type: unclassified air gram
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p473)
-Location: Soviet Union
-See also: 1/19/68

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Event 6795 -(18034BEE)

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Date: 2/22/1968
-Description: Mary Lou Armstrong tells Condon that -the staff has no confidence in Low as -project coordinator, that Low has no interest in UFO sightings or -reports, and that the staff has come to a radically different -conclusion. (UFOs Yes, 199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4497

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Event 6796 -(3292784A)

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Date: 2/23/1968
-Description: Hynek writes -another letter to Condon, -saying that he has reconsidered his decision to send him his best cases, -as he thinks the Colorado project will be unable to investigate them -adequately before its contractual period is up. He does send him a -catalog of recent Blue Book cases and offers to help him obtain from -Wright-Patterson any of the unidentified or insufficient evidence cases -that he wants to see. (Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek correspondence], -pp. 14–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4498

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Event 6797 -(C4BF3520)

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Date: 2/24/1968
-Description: Armstrong resigns from the Colorado project, citing an -“almost unanimous lack of confidence” among senior staffers in Low’s -competence. She also complains that Low has been less than honest about -the radical difference between staff views of UFOs and the views Low and -Condon are -expressing. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, -pp. 239–241, -274–282; -Clark III 698, 1197).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4499

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Event 6798 -(18588EFE)

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Date: 2/27/1968
-Description: 6:55 p.m. Truck driver Andrew Perry is driving from -Bideford to Cullompton, Devon, England, when he sees a bright light -appear at the crest of a hill. As he gets closer, he sees the light is -coming from a mushroom- shaped object. As he reaches about 900 feet away -from the object, he stops the truck and climbs to the top of the cab to -get a better view. He sees about 4–5 figures about 4 feet tall spread -out around the object. Suddenly they scramble toward the UFO and -disappear inside. The object emits a high-pitched whirring sound that -causes his truck to vibrate. Perry gets upset and climbs back into the -truck, driving it fast down the road. Meanwhile, the UFO has risen about -200 feet into the air and is passing above his truck, making a noise so -loud he can’t hear the engine running. Suddenly the truck engine cuts -out. A few seconds later, the noise stops and Perry sees the UFO moving -away in the distance. He drives to the nearest police station to report -the incident. (UFOFiles2, pp. 126– 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4501

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Event 6799 -(5DB6F958)

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Date: 2/27/1968
-Description: 4:30 a.m. A brilliant flood of light from her window -abruptly awakens a woman named Bernor in Templeton, Massachusetts. She -becomes paralyzed, her face is immobile, and her hands and feet ache. -The light goes on and off about 7–8 times, ending around 5:00 a.m. She -slowly recovers over the next few days. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of -the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4500

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Event 6800 -(B0A3782D)

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Date: 2/28/1968
-Description: Condon has -a slight heart attack. (Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek -correspondence], p. 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4502

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Event 6801 -(2376E79A)

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Date: 2/29/1968
-Description: Chairman of the Soviet Astronomical Services Evald -Rudolfovich Mustel, president -of the All-Union Astronomical and Geodetic Society D. Marynov, and -Secretary of the National Committee of Soviet Physicists V. A. -Leshkovtsev write an article in Pravda claiming that there have been no -unexplainable sightings of UFOs on Russian soil. UFOs are “anti-Soviet -products of decadent capitalistic warmongering.” (Good Above, pp. 235–236)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4503

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Event 6802 -(D31C5EBE)

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Date: 3/1968
-Description: Swiss author Erich -von Däniken writes Erinnerungen an die Zukunft, translated into -English as Chariots of the Gods?, the first of several books setting out -the “ancient astronaut” hypothesis in which ancient gods are space -visitors, Homo sapiens was created by cross-breeding or genetic -engineering, nuclear wars were fought in the ancient world, and -monuments were built by levitation. (Erich von Däniken, Chariots -of the Gods? Bantam, 1973; Wikipedia, “Chariots -of the Gods?”; Clark III 110; Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: -Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): -29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4505

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Event 6803 -(9BDDC562)

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Date: 3/1968
-Description: EG&G technician Thornton -D. Barnes arrives in Area 51 in Nevada to reverse-engineer the -Soviet MiG-21 acquired through defecting Iraqi fighter pilot Munir -Redfa. Soviet-built radar systems acquired in the Middle East are -installed around Groom Lake (to aid stealth testing of the SR-71), and -Barnes is also assigned to evaluate them as well as the ECM capabilities -of the MiG. (Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 290–293)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4504

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Event 6804 -(B68B72BE)

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Date: 3/1/1968
-Description: An Over the Horizon Forward Scatter Radar System -440L/Program 673A is turned over to NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain facility -in Colorado by Air Force Intelligence. It has been previously used to -collect intelligence on Soviet missile launches since it was built in -1960–1962. It soon picks up unidentified radar returns. (Clark III -811)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4507

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Event 6805 -(CBDA77C5)

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Date: 3/1/1968
-Description: Boulder, Colorado, police arrest Colorado project officer -Jim Wadsworth for possession of marijuana. He pleads no contest and -resigns. (UFOs Yes, 200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4506

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Event 6806 -(857968C1)

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Date: 3/2/1968
-Description: A magnetic monitoring device with a film camera set up by -the Queensland Flying Saucer Research Bureau at Horseshoe Lagoon, Tully, -Queensland, is triggered around the time that an airliner flying at -6,000 feet from Cairns to Iron Range is paced by a UFO. About 50 feet of -film is exposed. On March 4, another 16 feet is exposed during a local -UFO sighting. The film is apparently intercepted by the RAAF after -Victor Mele, the owner of the film, sends it to a Kodak processing -facility in Melbourne, Victoria. (Good Above, pp. 170–172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4508

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Event 6807 -(321CBE0F)

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Date: 3/3/1968
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Several witnesses are traveling east on Knud -Drive in Columbia, Tennessee, when they notice a large rectangular -object approaching them silently from behind. When they stop the car, -the object is directly overhead and moving east. It has hundreds of -small, dimly lit points of light in 5–6 rows on its base. Witness Norman -E. Bryant thinks it is 1,000 feet long, 250 feet wide, and flying at an -altitude of 2,000 feet. It passes them in a matter of seconds. (“Out -of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1983): -4–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4509

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Event 6808 -(6D57754C)

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Date: 3/3/1968
-Description: About 9:50 P.M. (CST). Hundreds of people reported fiery -objects streaking across the sky, some showering sparks, leaving bright -trails. Zond IV Soviet satellite reentry and decay (Sagan and Page, -1972, 155-161).
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northeastern and Central United States
-ID: 158

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Event 6809 -(89FC2421)

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Date: 3/3/1968
-Time: 0615
-Description: Nick Sgouris, while driving to work, observed a luminous, -cigar-shaped object, about 20 m long, showing numerous multi-colored -lights. The car almost stopped as the object flew low overhead, and the -witness was briefly paralyzed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: APRG Bulletin 67 (Vallee)
-Location: Syracuse, New York
-ID: 905

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Event 6810 -(BA8D019E)

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Date: 3/4/1968
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A man is driving his new Triumph Spitfire up a -country lane near Glossop, Derbyshire, England, when two golden objects -shoot over the top of his car, killing his headlights, radio, and -engine. Moments after the objects pass to the north, the headlights come -back on, but the radio still fails. He is able to restart his car engine -after the lights come on. A BUFORA investigator takes the radio to his -workplace at British Aerospace and finds that two key transistors have -burned out, seemingly due to a power surge. Once the transistors are -replaced, the radio works again. (Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part -4,” Fortean Times 328 (July 2015): 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4511

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Event 6811 -(FDBA742D)

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Date: 3/4/1968
-Description: 6:15 p.m. A cigar-shaped object approaches a car in West -Seneca, New York, and passes in front of it. The object is 50–60 feet -long with blinking yellow lights. The witness tries to speed up, but the -accelerator does not respond. The object disappears instantly. (Mark -Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, -1981, p. 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4510

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Event 6812 -(F48805D9)

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Date: 3/8/1968
-Description: The first SR-71s arrive at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, -to replace the Oxcart A-12s. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -SR-71 Blackbird”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4512

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Event 6813 -(D852CE06)

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Date: 3/10/1968
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Valentina Flores is bringing in her llamas on her -farm between Opoco and Uyuni, Bolivia, when she discovers that her sheep -pen is covered with a net made of some plastic-like material, and that -inside the pen is a helmeted being, 3.5 ft tall, who is engaged in -killing her sheep using a tubular instrument with a hook on the end. -Flores throws stones at the being, whereupon he walks over to an -instrument resembling a radio and, moving a wheel on it, quickly absorbs -all the netting. The woman approaches the pen with a cudgel, upon which -the being throws its instrument at her several times; it returns to him -like a boomerang, after it inflicts superficial cuts on her arms. The -entity picks up the machine, which has absorbed the net as well as a bag -containing sheep entrails, and puts them into a rucksack on his back. -Two legs emerge from the rucksack and extend down to the ground, at -which time the entity rises straight up into the air with an -extraordinary sound and vanishes. 34 sheep are found dead; from every -one, “certain small portions of the digestive organs were missing.” -(Oscar A. Galíndez, “Violent Humanoid -Encountered in Bolivia,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1970): 15–16; Clark III 138–139; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November -9, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4513

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Event 6814 -(EB63AF91)

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Date: 3/12/1968
-Description: James -E. McDonald presents a paper, “UFOs: An International Scientific -Problem,” at an astronautics symposium of the Canadian Aeronautics and -Space Institute, analyzing in depth Philip -Klass’s plasma theory of UFOs and rejecting it as “superficial.” -(James E. McDonald, “UFOs: -An International Scientific Problem,” March 12, 1968; Story, p. 414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4514

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Event 6815 -(8786EF1C)

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Date: 3/19/1968
-Description: 8:30 p.m. 12-year-old Gregory L. Wells is walking toward -the trailer home of his parents in Beallsville, Ohio, when he sees an -oval-shaped, bright red object hovering above some nearby trees and -illuminating the road. It has a band of dimmer red lights around its -midsection. Suddenly a big tube emerges from the object and moves around -until it is pointed at him. A light beam shoots out and hits the upper -part of his arm, knocking him down. His jacket catches fire and he rolls -around, screaming with fright. His mother and grandmother come out to -help, and they both see the red UFO, which just fades away after 10 -minutes. The boy is taken to a hospital and treated for second-degree -burns. His scars are still visible three months later. (“Boy -Burned by UAO in Ohio,” APRO Bulletin, March/April 1968, pp. 1, 3; -James E. McDonald, “Statement -on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying -Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th -Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4515

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Event 6816 -(9C65C2B5)

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Date: spring 1968
-Description: Two prospectors, Ed Sampson and Bill Johnson, are sleeping -in the Anza Borrego Desert, California, when they wake up at the sound -of an explosion. The sky above is filled with a fading red light, and -they see flashes on the western horizon. The two climb to the crest of a -hill and look down. Sampson sees a “red, circular flying saucer” -hovering over the valley, while entities with glowing red eyes march in -single file close to the ridge of an adjacent canyon. Something like a -church bell rings out at intervals, and mechanical clanking is also -audible. After noticing two glowing-eyed creatures standing behind them, -they take off running. (Clark III 557)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4522

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Event 6817 -(BEC8D536)

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Date: 3/26/1968
-Description: McDonald addresses -the question, “Are UFOs Extraterrestrial Surveillance Craft?” in a talk -at the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute for Aeronautics and -Astronautics. (James E. McDonald, “Are -UFOs Extraterrestrial -Surveillance Craft?” March 26, 1968; Story, p. 414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4516

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Event 6818 -(7B04ADD0)

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Date: 3/29/1968
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Meteorologist Ştefan Bălaşa and a group of skiers -watch a shiny object 75°–80° in the sky near the weather station on -Semenic Mountain, Romania. Through binoculars it appears cone-shaped. -Bălaşa continues to watch it until 6:40 p.m. when it begins to dim and -move slowly to the east-northeast. The same or similar object appears in -the same area on the evening of March 30. (Romania 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4517

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Event 6819 -(DEE6BE0E)

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Date: 3/29/1968
-Description: 6:50 p.m. Spectators at a football match in Tismana, -Romania, see a stationary, bright-blue-green conical object that changes -its color to red and disappears by 7:30 p.m. (Hobana and Weverbergh -237–238; Romania 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4518

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Event 6820 -(D9B6798D)

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Date: 3/29/1968
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Two students and two teachers in Târgu-Jiu, -Romania, see a whitish-blue isosceles triangle in the southeast sky. It -changes color to orange then red and departs to the southwest. (Hobana -and Weverbergh 134– 135; Romania 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4519

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Event 6821 -(63428521)

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Date: 3/30/1968
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Teofil Iorga and 120 other construction workers -at the Banat Mine in Oraviţa, Romania, see a luminous globe in the sky. -At 6:10 a.m., a stationary yellowish-white object appears in the -northeast. Iorga takes a photo of it at 8:00 a.m. and looks at it -through a theodolite at 8:15 a.m. It is shaped like a truncated cone -with one side exposed to the sun. At 9:00 a.m., the object ascends and -moves to the south. (Hobana and Weverbergh 129– 130; Romania 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4520

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Event 6822 -(FBE6C9CF)

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Date: 3/30/1968
-Description: 8:00 a.m. Meteorologist Vasile Coţoi and Ingeborg Vityi -observe a white conical object maneuvering slowly against the wind at -the weather station on Ţarcu Peak, Romania. They watch it for 2.5 hours -before it disappears. At 1:00 p.m. it is logged by the weather station -near Berzasca about 1 mile inland from the Danube River. At 4:00 p.m. it -reappears at the Semenic Mountain weather station and is also seen at -Caransebeş, Romania, and other places. (Hobana and Weverbergh 131–138; -Romania 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4521

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Event 6823 -(D1DD3272)

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Date: 4/2/1968
-Description: Science fiction movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” is -released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US

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Event 6824 -(FE69A9F0)

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Date: 4/4/1968
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Two young men in Cochrane, Wisconsin, see a UFO -hover above a car ahead of them; its headlights suddenly go out. The -object appears metallic and glows orange when standing still, but gets -redder and brighter when moving. The object then comes toward their car -and the engine conks out. It hovers overhead for a moment, during which -time the witnesses feel increased heat and weightlessness. The object -departs over a nearby field, emitting a cloudy haze all around its -periphery. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, -1981, p. 40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4524

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Event 6825 -(32B15899)

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Date: mid 4/1968
-Description: Evening. Engineer Gu Ying is sent to a military -construction regiment in the north Gobi Desert, China, when the entire -battalion notices a huge, luminous, red-orange disc with a flashing -light landing in the sand. It is about 9 feet in diameter. The commander -dispatches a team of motorcycle troops to approach it. As they get -closer, the object shoots up into the sky and disappears. The UFO leaves -ground traces like a “seared cross.” The soldiers assume it is a Russian -device. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO -Photo Archive, 1983, pp. 49–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4523

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Event 6826 -(F89B0812)

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Date: 4/27/1968
-Description: The May 14 issue of Look magazine contains an article by John -G. Fuller on the Low memorandum -and the near-mutiny at the Colorado project. (John G. Fuller, “Flying -Saucer Fiasco,” Look 32, no. 10 (May 14, 1968): 58–63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4525

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Event 6827 -(7769AB04)

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Date: 4/29/1968
-Description: Low tells -the press Fuller has -quoted him out of context. Condon and -Low spend the morning talking to legal counsel.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4526

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Event 6828 -(3052B7AB)

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Date: 4/30/1968
-Description: Rep. J. -Edward Roush (D-Ind.) denounces the Colorado project in Congress -based on the Look article and raises doubts about its scientific -integrity. He writes to Air Force Secretary Robert -Seamans to ask for his comments on “this deplorable situation” and -he writes to the Comptroller General Elmer -B. Staats to investigate the use of public funds for the project. -(UFOs Yes, 201–202; “Congressional UFOing,” Wall Street Journal, May 3, -1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4527

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Event 6829 -(06EA67B9)

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Date: 4/30/1968
-Description: Keyhoe and -the NICAP Board of Directors write to President Lyndon -Johnson, enclosing the Low memo -and other evidence and urging that he create an entirely new commission. -Col. Bernhard M. Ettenson, from the Office of the Secretary of the Air -Force, writes back to say that “we expect that Dr. Condon will -fulfill the terms of the agreement.” (“The -Inside Story of the Colorado Project,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 6 -(May/June 1968): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4528

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Event 6830 -(53FB03F8)

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Date: 5/1968
-Time: 2400
-Description: Gerardo Vidal and his wife were driving along Route 2 when -they were caught in “a dense fog” and lost consciousness for 48 hours. -When they came to, it was daytime, and the car, whose paint was badly -scorched, was parked in an unknown road. They spoke to local people and -found that they were in Mexico.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
-Location: Chascomus, Brazil
-ID: 906

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Event 6831 -(F1664D23)

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Date: early 5/1968
-Description: Five UFOs are seen diving into the ocean off Arrecife, -Vargas, Venezuela. (“Current -South American Flap,” -APRO Bulletin, May/June 1968, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4529

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Event 6832 -(9BAABB2C)

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Date: early 5/1968
-Description: Night. Gerardo Vidal and his wife are driving home from -Chascomús to Maipú, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They are just outside -Chascomús when their car is enveloped in a thick green fog. The next -thing they know they are driving on a road near Mexico City in broad -daylight, 4,400 miles to the northwest. Their watches have stopped, and -they discover that two days have passed. They visit the Argentine -embassy in Mexico City, where Vidal calls a relative in Maipú to report -that they are well. However, a June 4, 1968, Reuters dispatch from -Mexico City contains a denial of the incident by the Argentine embassy, -and subsequent inquiries can find no one in Maipú that could be the -Vidals. Finally, in October 1998 Argentine film director Aníbal -Uset admits to researcher Roberto E. Banchs that he had invented the -Chascomús teleportation as a publicity stunt to spread a fantastic story -based on the plot of his upcoming film Ché OVNI. The movie’s poster even -shows a UFO carrying off an automobile. (La Razon (Buenos Aires), June -3, 1968; Oscar A. Galíndez, “Teleportation -from Chascomús to -Mexico,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1968): 3–4; “Further -News on South America,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1968, pp. 7–8; -Internet Movie Database, “Ché -OVNI”; Jacques Vallée, Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for -Alien Intelligence, Ballantine, 1990, p. 96; -Roberto E. Banchs, “The Chascomús Teleportation Hoax,” Fortean Times 351 -(April 2017): 56–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4530

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Event 6833 -(DEA5E23F)

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Date: 5/10/1968
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Grant Callison of Galesburg, Illinois, looks out -his kitchen window and sees a giant bird illuminated by a streetlight. -He and his wife Wilma rush outside for a better look and see three of -them flying in a V-formation at an altitude of 500 feet. They look like -they have metallic feathers or scales. They are flying with a graceful, -fluttering motion. They then see two objects to the south with pulsating -red lights moving in the same direction at the same speed (about 25–35 -mph). On May 20, around 9:00 p.m., the Callisons have another odd -sighting of a single bird-like creature. (Grant Callison, “Winged -Creatures over Illinois,” UFOexperiences, February 6, 2006; Clark -III 655)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4531

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Event 6834 -(64AFF862)

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Date: 5/11/1968
-Description: A farmer in Brinkley, South Australia, notices strands of -material about 65 feet long falling on his property. He says it is like -asbestos rope and as wide as a pencil. On the same day, web-like “fine -woven cotton” is seen on a lawn and draped over wires and a fence in -Cheltenham, Adelaide, South Australia. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: -An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4532

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Event 6835 -(2D5CD0FC)

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Date: 5/13/1968
-Description: George -H. Estabrooks, a -Canadian-American psychologist and former consultant for the FBI and -CIA, tells the Providence Evening Bulletin that the key to developing an -effective spy or assassin is by creating a multiple personality with the -aid of hypnosis, a procedure he describes as “child’s play.” Estabrooks -suggests that Lee Harvey -Oswald and Jack -Ruby could have been controlled in this manner. “This has and is -being done. I have done it. It is child’s play now to develop a multiple -personality through hypnotism.” (Providence (R.I.) Evening Bulletin, May -13, 1968; Colin A. Ross, Bluebird: Deliberate Creation of Multiple -Personality by Psychiatrists, Manitou, 2000, p. 162; Phil Kirby, “Event -/ TV Times: The -Prisoner: -Free for All,” The Culture Vulture, May 10, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4533

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Event 6836 -(45021EF7)

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Date: 5/14/1968
-Description: LOOK article, “Flying Saucer Fiasco” by John Fuller, -reporting internal controversy in the Colorado UFO Project and the Low -“trick” memo.
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 159

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Event 6837 -(8F95CFEF)

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Date: 5/15/1968
-Description: Low is -relieved of 90% of his duties with the Colorado project, effective May -24 and will go back to his job as assistant to Thurston -Manning. (UFOs -Yes, 204)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4534

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Event 6838 -(B39E4B28)

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Date: 5/17/1968
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Caetano Sergio dos Santos is returning home from -his job as a night watchman at Caconde, São Paulo, Brazil. In the -courtyard of his house he sees a cylinder-shaped object, about the size -of a powdered-milk can, stuck in the ground. At each end are dials, one -with a black band, the other with a red one. They are encased under a -glass or plastic lens with embossed figures arranged in a semicircle. -Above each figure is something like an Arabic numeral. Dos Santos takes -the object into the house and studies it for 90 minutes, then puts it on -a windowsill in the bathroom before going to bed. He goes back to work, -then at about 1:00 a.m., he returns home and notices that the object is -lighting up the house, with his wife and son, very agitated, standing -outside with neighbors. She tells him that a loud buzzing and intense -heat had wakened her, both emanating from the object. Dos Santos goes -inside and finds a hole in the roof, tile scattered over the floor, and -the object gone. (“Brazilian Object -Real Puzzler,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1968, pp. 1, 3; Walter -Buehler, “The -Mysterious Caconde Case,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1969): 18–19; Clark III 339)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4535

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Event 6839 -(19A414FA)

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Date: late 5/1968
-Description: Condon hires -science writer Daniel -S. Gillmor to edit the final project report. Gillmor receives -editorial help from Joseph -H. Rush, a -physicist from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Also -assisting is associate editor Harriet Hunter and several specialists -from the local lab of the Environmental Science Services Administration -(including Gordon -David Thayer). Franklin -Roach returns to work on astronaut sightings. By June 1, the date on -which the investigative phase ends, there is a substantially new -crew.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4537

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Event 6840 -(2612CD27)

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Date: 5/21/1968
-Description: Philip -J. Klass attempts to refute James -E. McDonald’s criticisms of his plasma theory of UFOs in a privately -circulated paper. (Phillip J. Klass, “Dr. James -E. McDonald’s ‘Mathematical Proof,’” The Author, May 21, 1968, -pp. 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4536

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Event 6841 -(A80741B1)

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Date: 5/27/1968
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A man is driving near Punta Gorda, Florida, when -his headlights and engine fail. As he gets out to check, he sees a light -slowly descending at treetop level. The object is shaped like a -Pilgrim’s hat with a green glow and bluish color surrounding it. A few -minutes after landing, it takes off at high speed, disappearing in the -northwest. The car starts once it is gone. The witness notices that his -watch has stopped. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports -Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4538

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Event 6842 -(D74768C1)

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Date: 5/31/1968
-Description: McDonald speaks -to the Chicago Chapter of the American Meteorological Society on UFOs. -(James E. McDonald, “UFOs: Atmospheric or Extraterrestrial?” May 31, -1968; Story, p. 414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4539

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Event 6843 -(581ACF44)

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Date: 6/1968
-Time: 0050
-Description: Pedro Pretzel, 39, motel owner, observed an object 50 m -away on road 20, showing two powerful red headlights. Arriving at his -room, the witness found his daughter unconscious. When she came to, she -said that a blond man, 2 m tall, wearing a blue, bright suit, and -holding a paleblue sphere in his hand, had appeared and spoken to -her.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
-Location: Carlos Paz, Argentina
-ID: 907

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Event 6844 -(CDD55AAB)

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Date: 6/3/1968
-Description: McDonald addresses -the Burro Club (Democratic Congressional Administrative Assistants and -Aides) in the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C., on the question -“Does Congress Have a Responsibility to Investigate the UFO Problem?” -(Story, p. 414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4541

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Event 6845 -(1ED51E86)

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Date: 6/4/1968
-Description: A-12 pilot Jack -W. Weeks is lost over the South China Sea near the Philippines -during a functional checkout flight after the replacement of one of its -engines. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4542

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Event 6846 -(C842E34C)

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Date: 6/6/1968
-Description: Capt. U. Tiviroli, commander of an Argentine Airlines Avro, -sees a UFO, along with his copilot and 18 passengers, for 5 minutes -during a night landing at Punta Arenas airport, Chile. An unusually -bright object, long and spindle-shaped, appears above the plane. It -moves in a course parallel to the plane and stops suddenly in midair. -Then it swerves in a right angle back to the plane. It is also seen by -airport observers. (“Argentinian -Pilot Reports -UAO,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1968, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4543

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Event 6847 -(D9FEE246)

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Date: 6/11/1968
-Description: MP John -Langford-Holt asks UK Prime Minister Harold -Wilson whether he is aware that some UFO reports are made to the -Ministry of Defence, while police reports are made to the Board of -Trade. Wilson replies that reports going to the Board of Trade are -passed on to the Ministry of Defence. (Good Above, p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4545

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Event 6848 -(83E1B361)

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Date: 6/11/1968
-Description: Philip -J. Klass attempts to refute James -E. McDonald’s criticisms of his plasma theory of UFOs in another -unpublished paper. (Philip J. Klass, “Does -Dr. James E. McDonald Really Speak with Authority?” The Author, June -11, 1968, pp. 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4544

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Event 6849 -(011CAF81)

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Date: 6/14/1968
-Time: 0300
-Description: Jorge Yaru, 35, saw a strange light outside and a bright -object, the size of a bus, 30 m away. It had yellow, green and red -lights at the bottom. As he approached, the object rose suddenly, -hovered for 40 min, and left at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
-Location: Mendiozaca, Argentina
-ID: 908

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Event 6850 -(6EC8D192)

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Date: 6/14/1968
-Description: Shortly after 12:00 midnight. Isidro Puentes Ventura is on -guard duty in Cabañas, Artemisa, Cuba, when he sees on the ground a -brilliant domed UFO with several antennas on top. He approaches to -within 165 feet and fires about 40 machine gun rounds into it, convinced -it is American. The object turns orange and emits a whistling sound as -Puentes loses consciousness. At dawn, an Army patrol finds him still -unconscious and takes him to a hospital in Pinar del Rio, where he -remains in shock for 6 days, unable to speak. He is then taken to a -Naval hospital in Havana, where he remains in shock another week. At the -site, Cuban and Soviet intelligence specialists find 48 spent cartridges -and 14 bullets flattened by impact with something solid, as well as -equally spaced indentations on the ground. Tests reveal that the soil -has been exposed to a high temperature. (Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles -of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, pp. 82–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4546

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Event 6851 -(A9A8CFDD)

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Date: 6/15/1968
-End date: 6/17/1968
-Description: Night. Allied forward spotters along the eastern part of -the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam see about 30 strange slow-moving -lights. At the time they are interpreted as North Vietnamese -Russian-built M-14 Hound helicopters ferrying men and materiel over the -border. The lights appear the following evening, and several US 7th Air -Force Phantom fighter-bombers soon arrive on the scene and fire on the -intruders, supported by anti- aircraft ground fire. During the Allied -attack the presumed helicopters move down the east coast and out to sea. -The destroyers HMAS -Hobart, -USS -Edson, -and USS -Theodore -E. Chandler are ordered to undertake surveillance missions around -Cồn Cỏ (Tiger Island) along the north central coast. Around 3:14 a.m. on -June 17, the ships are involved in a friendly fire incident in which the -Hobart is hit by 3 missiles from one of the Phantoms, causing major -damage and killing two of the crew. (Jon Wyatt, “HMAS -Hobart Hit during Vietnam UFO Enciunter?” AUFORN Special Report, no. -34 (April 2003), reprinted in UFO Evidence) June 16 and 19 — Night. -Chief of Provincial Police German Rocha and Police Maj. Niceforo Léon -observe a round object with a vivid blue light near El Choro, Poopó, -Bolivia. It lands, leaves a strange, powerful odor, and burns grass and -shrubs. (Gordon Creighton, “A -New South American ‘Wave,’” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1968): 23–24; Oscar A. Galíndez, “South -America Revisited,” Australian UFO Review, no. 10 (December 1969): -41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4548

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Event 6852 -(836CC8F1)

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Date: 6/15/1968
-Description: 1:05 a.m. María Elodia Pretzel, daughter of the owner of -the Motel La Cuesta on National Highway 20 east of Villa Carlos Paz, -Córdoba, Argentina, is locking up for the night when she encounters a -strange-looking man in the dining area. He is 6 feet tall and dressed in -a blue helmet and a suit that glows with an eerie light and seems made -up of scales. In his left hand he is holding a glassy sphere that is -radiating a coherent light that lights up the room. She feels somewhat -paralyzed and is getting a mental message not to be afraid. The entity -raises its other arm, which is emitting beams of light, and she feels -helpless, falling backward. The entity walks slowly toward the outside -door, putting one foot directly in front of the other, arm extended and -holding the now extinguished sphere, and passes outside. Still shaken, -María goes to the laundry room and drops on the floor, head and arms on -a divan. A few minutes later, her father, Pedro Jacobo Pretzel, arrives -and discovers her. Minutes earlier, he had seen two odd, stationary red -lights about 5–6 feet from the ground off Highway 20. Maria is conscious -but very disturbed, a condition that lasts for several days. (Oscar A. -Galíndez, “The -Anthropomorphic Entity at Villa Carlos -Paz—Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 (January 1981): 8–17, -29–31; Oscar A. Galíndez, “The Anthropomorphic -Entity at Villa Carlos Paz—Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6 -(March 1981): 15–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4547

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Event 6853 -(DFB85C5A)

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Date: 6/16/1968
-Time: night
-Description: Chief of Provincial Police German Rocha and Police Major -Niceforo Leon observed a round object with a vivid blue light. It -landed, left a strange, powerful odor, and burned grass and -shrubs.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: El Choro, Argentina
-ID: 909

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Event 6854 -(087269B1)

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Date: 6/18/1968
-Description: Jorge Raul Scassa Sutter and Ruben Andrawos are flying a -Cessna 182 from Villa Dolores, Córdoba, Argentina, to La Guardia, -Catamarca, Argentina. They see an object looking like an overturned soup -plate with a cupola on top. The object is grayish-blue with no windows, -and its diameter is about 90 feet. The object is at the same altitude as -the aircraft, 7,500 feet, and at a distance of 330 feet. It disappears -by flying to the north at a fantastic speed. There is a possible VHF -interference (“frequency fading”) when the object approaches the -aircraft in front. (La Gaceta de Tucumán, June 19, 1968; NICAP, “Cessna -182 Encounters UFO / VHF I/FF”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4549

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Event 6855 -(DA2340B0)

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Date: 6/19/1968
-Time: night
-Description: A settler, Romulo Velasco, 25, saw a bright object land. -From it emerged a strange “tall, slim being” who came toward the -witness, who fainted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Cabreria, Argentina
-ID: 910

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Event 6856 -(208DFD12)

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Date: 6/20/1968
-Description: The US Seventh Air Force holds a “joint service conference -on the UFO problem” in Hawaii after a series of tragic incidents on June -15–17, including a missile attack on “unidentified helicopters” that hit -the Australian Navy destroyer HMAS -Hobart, killing two sailors. An investigation reveals that the Air -Force is in the midst of a wave of sightings of things that are not -enemy helicopters in central Vietnam, just south of and within the DMZ. -(Clark III 1051; Sparks, pp. 327–328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4550

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Event 6857 -(E6097D4E)

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Date: 6/20/1968
-Description: A husband and wife encounter an array of lights that hover -above their car near Roswell, New Mexico. Both have a feeling of great -peace. When the UFO vanishes, the wife finds that the arthritis in her -neck has been healed. (Michael D. Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological -Effects? Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4552

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Event 6858 -(507E4634)

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Date: 6/20/1968
-Description: Following the publication of their book Flying Saucer -Report: UFOs Unidentified, Unidentifiable, British researchers Anthony -R. Pace and Roger H. Stanway visit the UK S4 (Air) UFO desk in -Whitehall, London, again and meet with Leslie Akhurst, John Dickison, -and Alec Cassie. Their request to record the interview is denied, but -they are impressed with Cassie’s ability to recall UFO cases mentioned -in their book. (Good Above, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4551

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Event 6859 -(0961BF47)

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Date: 6/21/1968
-Description: A man riding his bicycle encountered a large object, 50 cm -above the ground. The top part was spinning, and it cast a vertical beam -of red light toward the ground. Calcination traces were found by -police.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
-Location: Miramar, Argentina
-ID: 911

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Event 6860 -(28FA1263)

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Date: summer 1968
-Description: Three teenagers notice an irregular triangular object -flying to the west over housing in Stazic street in Rzeszów, Poland. It -is dark with some brighter bulges on the bottom and emits a buzzing -sound. (Poland 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4540

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Event 6861 -(6E474983)

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Date: 6/25/1968
-Time: 105
-Description: Jorge Ribles, electrician at the Carmal Chemical Plant, -noticed that the engines were at a standstill, while the countryside was -lit up with intensive reddish light. Another man, 52-yearold Jose J. -Rociski, fell unconscious as a vivid light enveloped him. He was unable -to move his left arm for three days, and suffered from pain and extreme -nervousness.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Bouchard, Argentina
-ID: 912

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Event 6862 -(0BE85945)

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Date: 6/26/1968
-Description: An Argentine Trotskyist using the pseudonym J. -Posadas, who formed a movement in 1962 based on the inevitability of -nuclear war, has proclaimed an interest in UFOs as entities with the -ability to master sophisticated technologies that are compatible with -socialism. If UFOs exist, they might be helpful in addressing some of -the major problems in the earth. In his pamphlet, Les Soucoupes -Volantes: Le processus de la matière et de l’energie, la science et le -socialisme, Posadas pleads that “We must call upon beings from other -planets when they come to intervene, to collaborate with the inhabitants -of the Earth to overcome misery. We must launch a call on them to use -their resources to help us.” (J. Posadas, Flying -Saucers: The Process of Matter and Energy, Science, the Revolutionary -and Working-Class Struggle, and Socialism, June -26, 1968; A. M. Gittlitz, I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and -Apocalyptic Communism, Pluto, 2020; Ian Parker, “Believe -It or Not!” Socialist Resistance, May 1, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4553

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Event 6863 -(A11C6F96)

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Date: 7/1968
-Description: A man is driving on Blacketts Lake Road southwest of -Sydney, Nova Scotia, when he sees a saucer-shaped object descending -below the tree line near the lake. He parks his car and runs along a -trail to get closer. He is about 75 feet from the object, which is only -6 feet above the ground in a clearing. The UFO suddenly rises and flies -away. The RCMP blocks access to the site during its investigation. (“Former -RCMP Officer Photographs UFO near Sydney, -N.S.,” Journal UFO 2, no. 4 (March 1981): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4556

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Event 6864 -(3F71DE2E)

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Date: 7/1968
-Description: A CIA team flies into Saigon [now Ho Chi Minh City] to -experiment on three Viet Cong prisoners at Biên Hòa Hospital. Working in -an enclosed compound, the team’s neurosurgeon and neurologist insert -tiny electrodes into their brains. Behaviorists then experiment on the -men, arming them with knives and trying to induce violent behavior in -them using direct electrical stimulation. After a week of -experimentation that fails to incite the men to attack each other, they -are shot dead and their bodies burned. (Sid Taylor, “A -History of Secret CIA Mind Control Research,” -Nexus, April/May 1992)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4555

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Event 6865 -(D0CFE1DB)

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Date: 7/1968
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Walter Rizzi is taking a nap in his car by the -road just south of the Gardena Pass, South Tyrol, Italy, when he wakes -to the smell of something burning. He sees a light about 1,600 feet -further downhill shining through the mist. The mist parts, and he sees -an enormous object that suddenly reminds him of an encounter he had with -a strange hermit on the island of Rhodes in Greece when he was in the -Italian army in World War II. The hermit had predicted he would someday -meet with advanced beings from the cosmos who would provide him with the -assurance of life throughout the universe. Rizzi makes his way downhill -toward the object, which is silvery, some 260 feet in diameter, standing -on three legs, bathed in fleecy white light, and emitting a burning -odor. He gets within 10 feet and cannot go further. He sees two beings -inside a transparent cupola on the top who are looking down at him. To -the right of the object is a robot about 8 feet tall with three legs and -four arms. A beam of light comes from the center of the object, and -Rizzi sees another being dressed in a tight-fitting suit and glass -helmet descending. They communicate telepathically about other planets -and the universe. Eventually the entities reenter the object and take -off. Rizzi claims there are landing marks, effects on the grass, and his -watch starts losing time. (Gordon Creighton, “Introductory -Comments on the Rizzi Case,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 3 -(September 1980): 21–22; Walter Rizzi, “Close -Encounter in the Dolomites,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 3 -(September 1980): 22–27; 1Pinotti 158–169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4557

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Event 6866 -(EC18E0D6)

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Date: 7/1968
-Description: British physicist Reginald -Victor Jones publishes a skeptical view of UFOs in Physics Bulletin, -but supports genuine scientific inquiry. (R. V. Jones, “The -Natural Philosophy of Flying Saucers,” Physics Bulletin, July 1968, -pp. 225–230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4554

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Event 6867 -(C9F250BC)

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Date: 7/1/1968
-Time: 0400
-Description: Raul Calcedo met two giants, almost 3 m tall, in Ricardone. -He fled in terror, in spite of a strange power that tended to make him -stay.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Ricardone, Argentina
-ID: 913

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Event 6868 -(FA54A6EF)

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Date: 7/1/1968
-Time: 1230
-Description: Three boys saw an object, about 8 m wide, 350 m away. It -had a large tripod under carriage and a ladder reaching down to the -ground. These devices were retracted, and the object rose a few meters, -then flew off at high speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
-Location: Botucatu, Brazil
-ID: 914

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Event 6869 -(88935028)

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Date: 7/1/1968
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Three boys are sitting on the main gate of the -UNESP Hospital das Clinicas of the Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, -São Paulo, Brazil. Suddenly they see a large object “as big as a house” -sitting about 1,150 feet to the west of them. It has a large tripod -undercarriage and a ladder reaching down to the ground. The boys can -hear a weird “tinging sound on a high note.” They start to yell as the -UFO retracts its tripod and ladder and rise into the air and speed off -to the east, reaching a great altitude. Alerted by their shouts, other -witnesses see the object moving away. A student named Antônio Alegre -examines the landing site shortly afterward and finds marks forming an -isosceles triangle, two sides measuring 20 feet and one side 23 feet. -(Nigel Rimes, “Landing -at Botucatu,” -Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1968): 21–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4559

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Event 6870 -(199C0C51)

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Date: 7/1/1968
-Description: NASA publishes a Chronological Catalog of Reported Lunar -Events, by Barbara -M. Middlehurst, Jaylee -M. Burley, Patrick -Moore, and -Barbara -L. Welther. Moore -invents the term “transient lunar phenomena” to describe short-lived -changes in brightness, color, or appearance on the surface of the moon. -(Wikipedia, “Transient -lunar phenomenon”; -Barbara M. Middlehurst, Jaylee M. Burley, Patrick Moore, and Barbara L. -Welther, Chronological Catalog -of Reported Lunar Events, NASA -Technical Report R-277, July 1, 1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4558

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Event 6871 -(27AABDE8)

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Date: 7/2/1968
-Time: 0815
-Description: A boy, Sola, saw, a few meters away, a strange being, about -2.10 m tall, hovering in the air, his body emitting a peculiar glow, -near a bright, unknown object.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Cofico, Argentina
-ID: 915

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Event 6872 -(3BED8F2F)

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Date: 7/2/1968
-Time: 1125
-Description: Oscar H. Iriart, 15, saw two men of normal height, with -short, white hair and red clothes, semi-transparent legs, motioning to -him. Near them was an elliptical, silvery machine, 2 m long, 60 cm high, -with three 50 cm legs. The men gave him an envelope with a childish -message and flew off. The witness’s horse and dog were paralyzed for -several minutes. The boy arrived home “like a madman.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
-Location: Sierra Chica, Argentina
-ID: 916

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Event 6873 -(AF0EF1ED)

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Date: 7/2/1968
-Description: 10:00–10:30 p.m. Fred Coulthard Jr. and his brother Wayne -are at a family get-together in the backyard of their father’s home in -Wooler, Ontario, when they see an object with rotating red lights that -agitates the family’s horses and cats. Around 11:30 p.m., -poltergeist-like disturbances (a shattered window, objects thrown -around, a strong odor of roses) begin in the house and continue for -several days. “Fairy rings” are discovered on the ground in a wooded -valley north of town. (Mrs. W. Greystone, “Canada’s -UFO Poltergeist,” in Charles Bowen, ed., Beyond Condon, special -issue no. 2 of FSR, June 1969, pp. 66–68, 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4561

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Event 6874 -(46F64111)

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Date: 7/2/1968
-Description: 11:25 a.m. Oscar Heriberto Iriart, 15, sees two men of -normal height motioning to him at Sierra Chica, Buenos Aires, Argentina. -They have short, white hair and red clothes. They also have -semi-transparent legs because he can see through them to the grass -behind. Near the men is an elliptical, silvery machine, 6.5 feet long, 2 -feet high, with three legs 19 inches high. The men give him an envelope -they telepathically say contains an important message, telling him to -dip it in water before reading, then they fly off. Iriart dips the -envelope in a puddle and finds that both the envelope and his hands are -dry. The message is written in Spanish in a crude handwriting: “You are -going to know the world. F. Saucer.” The witness’s horse and dog are -paralyzed for several minutes. The boy arrives home terrified. The -family goes to the landing site and finds three holes, each about 5 -inches deep and forming an isosceles triangle, the base side measuring -6.5 feet and the other 2 sides 5.2 feet wide. At 11:15 p.m., five -skeptical men (including Police Sgt. Raúl Coronel) from the Sierra Chica -Social Club visit the landing site and declare the holes to be fake. -However, they see a zigzagging light a few feet from the ground and -heading their way. They drop to the ground, it passes over them, and -then shoots away straight up. (Gordon Creighton, “A New -South American ‘Wave,’” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1968): 26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4560

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Event 6875 -(8C2C5850)

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Date: 7/9/1968
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Witnesses at Long Beach, California, see a huge, -glowing, cloud-like mass over the Santa Catalina Channel for 90 minutes. -Five smaller objects are seen maneuvering around it. (Ann Druffel, “Santa -Catalina Island -Recurring ‘Cloud Cigars,’” in Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS -Conference, Chicago, 1976, pp. 62–74; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite -Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 9–10; Ann -Druffel, “Santa Catalina Channel Cloud Cigars,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January -2007): 13–14; Wim van Utrecht, “‘Mother -Ship’ over California,” -Caelestia, August 5, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4562

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Event 6876 -(700DA021)

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Date: 7/13/1968
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Irena -Scott and her sister Sue Postle are traveling west of Boston, -Massachusetts, on State Highway 9 when they see an unusual object to the -south. They watch it intermittently after turning south on State Highway -128 and I-95. It is moving in an erratic pattern and blinking. Then they -see a basketball-sized object 20–50 feet away, near the ground, and -constantly changing colors. Scott pulls over to the side of the road, -loads her camera, and takes five photos, only one of which shows the -light. (Irena Scott, “Fear and Ambiguity in Massachusetts,” IUR 13, no. -4 (July/Aug. 1988): 14–17; Irena Scott, “UFO Studies in the Scientific -Literature,” IUR 15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 18; Irena Scott, “A -Photograph and Its Aftermath,” IUR 15, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1990): 12–14, -23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4563

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Event 6877 -(FCADDECB)

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Date: 7/17/1968
-Description: Late evening. A civil servant is allegedly snatched off the -São Paulo Highway in Brazil and taken into a UFO by four green entities -wearing devices that look like headphones. While he is in a state of -paralysis, they question him via telepathy about human customs, -physiology, and reproduction. The creatures depart abruptly as if in -response to instructions. (Gordon Creighton, “Physical -Examination by ‘Miniature Martians,’” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1969): 32, 34; Clark III 279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4564

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Event 6878 -(5AFC9301)

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Date: 7/18/1968
-Description: 1:05 a.m. RCMP Constable W. J. Whyte and his wife spot a -yellow circular object at high altitude moving west to east near Truro, -Nova Scotia. It looks like a satellite, but turns reddish before -disappearing in the distance. At 1:10 p.m., a couple near Onslow -Mountain a few miles to the north see a rosy red light in the southwest -hovering just above the trees. They watch it for 15 minutes before it -moves and accelerates out of sight. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 70–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4565

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Event 6879 -(EA52B008)

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Date: 7/20/1968
-Description: After 12:00 midnight. Three 14-year-old girls at a summer -camp at Kaarnajärv, near Otepää, Valga County, Estonia, see a swiftly -moving star and a cigar-shaped object in the distance that quickly -disappears. Somewhat disturbed, they decide to retire to bed. Through a -window they see a bright object about 165 feet away. It is surrounded by -reddish-orange and yellow beams of light. Soon it goes out, leaving only -a dark greenish nebula with a blue-green ring around it that illuminates -the surrounding woods. They watch it for about 5 minutes until it blinks -out. One of the girls goes outside and sees a female figure, less than 5 -feet tall and wearing a silver ribbon, standing where the object had -been. It vanishes. The next morning, they find a circular burnt area -about 6 feet in diameter and four wedge-shaped prints in the soil. (Juri -Lina, “UFO -Landings in Estonia,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 1 (June 1978): -3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4566

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Event 6880 -(E752A3EA)

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Date: 7/22/1968
-Description: 1:20 a.m. Adela Casalvieri de Panassiti, 45, night nurse at -the Dr. Carlos Pereyra Neuropsychiatric Hospital at Ituzaingó 2837, -Mendoza, Argentina, hears a loud, penetrating, humming noise outside in -the hospital courtyard. Going out to see what it is, she observes a -mushroom-shaped landed object only 65 feet away. It is luminous and -sitting in the middle of the courtyard. A bright red beam comes from the -object and strikes her, and she finds that her legs are paralyzed. -Putting her hands up to her face for protection, she discovers she is -completely unable to move. She remains immobilized for a number of -minutes until the red beam is extinguished. At this time, the object -ascends vertically then flies off rapidly to the south, barely clearing -the wall that surrounds the courtyard. Before it disappears, she is able -to observe several human-looking figures through square portholes that -encircle the craft. These beings move back and forth, passing each -other, and are visible from the waist up only. A lead- gray stain, 31 x -12 inches, that smells of sulfur is found at the landing site. It -persists for two days. Several small potted trees are burned. Casalvieri -de Panassiti has first-degree burns on her face and hands (an allergic -reaction?), and parts of her nurse’s cap and clothing are singed. In -addition, her watch, which has stopped at 1:30 a.m., is found to be -radioactive, as is her ring. The daughters of a garrison commander -witness a luminous, egg- shaped object at the same time from the -garrison casino. (“Argentina: -Hospital Landing at El Sauce,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1968): 32; Roberto Banchs, “Mendoza: Agitacion por -Apariciones de OVNIs (22 Julio y 09 Ago 1968),” Visión OVNI, November -11, 2008; Scott Corrales, “1968: -A Nurse Burned by an Alleged -UFO (CE-2),” Inexplicata, July 25, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4568

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Event 6881 -(8029FF46)

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Date: 7/22/1968
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Off-duty police constable Martyn -Johnson is walking with his girlfriend in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, -England, when they see two lights approaching them from above a nearby -park. They are giving off many colored lights. As they hover above a -nearby house, the couple’s poodle becomes agitated and runs off. The two -lights then become four and arrange themselves in an oblong formation. -All at once they vanish at terrific speed, following a railway to the -northeast. A few hours later, Johnson is awakened and told to report to -police headquarters, where there are two “government men” waiting to -quiz him about the sighting. They desperately try to convince him that -he has seen an aircraft or helicopter. They tell him he is sworn to -secrecy for the next 25 years. When he asks what he has seen, they tell -him, “What you have seen is an unidentified flying object or UFO. Some -people call them spaceships, and if the people of the world knew how -many genuine sightings there were like yours, there would be total -panic.” (UFOFiles2, pp. 82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4567

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Event 6882 -(80532201)

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Date: 7/23/1968
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Daíldo de Oliveira, a night watchman for the CESP -electrical substation near Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil, confronts three -intruders who overpower him outside a control center building. A large -UFO 50 feet tall is resting nearby on the ground; it takes off in a -zigzag pattern towards the city of Lins. (Clark III 183–185; Brazil -93–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4569

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Event 6883 -(391CE42E)

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Date: 7/25/1968
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Juan Sivori, his wife, and a daughter see a -silver object shaped like a spinning top a they are driving along -Highway 226 near La Pastora, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is only 115 -feet from them and the size of a truck. The engine of their car stops -running as the UFO hovers for about 5 minutes at a height of 33 feet. -When it rises into the air and vanishes, the car engine starts up again. -(Oscar A. Uriondo, “Preliminary -Catalogue of Type I -Cases in Argentina, Part 4,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, -no. 16 (August 1973): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4570

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Event 6884 -(079E6F4D)

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Date: 7/26/1968
-Description: “UFO Project: Trouble on the Ground” by Philip M. Boffey in -Science magazine, reporting on the internal problems of the Colorado UFO -Project.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 160

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Event 6885 -(D4B77136)

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Date: 7/28/1968
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A farmer, his wife, and two children near -Upton, Quebec, are awakened by the barking of their dog. When he gets up -to investigate, he sees a sparkling, rotating “cloud” in the yard. It -flies just over him and goes into a nearby field. About 12 feet in -diameter, it is dark on the bottom but luminous on top. The cows in the -field are being chased by 4 or 5 small entities, perhaps 3 feet tall -with heads shaped like bottles. As the UFO flies above them, they -disappear. The cattle seem ill for weeks afterwards. (John Brent -Musgrave, UFO Occupants and Critters, Global Communications, 1979; Clark -III 280)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4571

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Event 6886 -(3CE4848C)

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Date: 7/29/1968
-Description: The hearings that Rep. J. -Edward Roush and NICAP have been calling for are held as a -“Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects” before the House Committee on -Science and Astronautics. Rep. George -P. Miller (D-Calif.) is chairman of the committee, but Roush directs -most of the proceedings. Hynek, -McDonald, -Sagan, -Robert -L. Hall (University of Illinois at Chicago), James -A. Harder (UC-Berkeley), and Robert -M. L. Baker Jr. (UCLA) give testimony. Hynek is introduced by -Rep. Donald -Rumsfeld (R-Ill.). Menzel, -R. -Leo Sprinkle, Garry -C. -Henderson, Stanton -T. Friedman, Roger -N. Shepard, and -Frank -B. Salisbury offer prepared papers. NICAP representatives are not -permitted to testify. Many witnesses parrot the NORAD party line that -its radars only look in certain directions (when indeed it looks for -many types of potential attacks in all directions). Harder states: “On -the basis of the data and ordinary rules of evidence, as would be -applied in civil or criminal courts, the physical reality of UFOs has -been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.” McDonald makes the biggest -impression, presenting 30 pages of UFO reports. He states: “my own -present opinion, based on two years of careful study, is that UFOs are -probably extraterrestrial devices engaged in something that might very -tentatively be termed ‘surveillance.’” Menzel concludes that UFOs merit -no more scientific study than “the concept of ghosts, spirits, witches, -fairies, elves, hobgoblins, or the devil.” The symposium has no lasting -impact, as Congress does nothing about the problem. (Symposium -on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, -US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., -July 29, 1968; “Congressional -Hearings on UFO Problems: Scientists Urge Unbiased -National Investigations,” UFO Investigator 4, no. 7 -(July/Aug. 1968): 1–5; Clark III 811)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4572

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Event 6887 -(A6B1160F)

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Date: 7/29/1968
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 161

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Event 6888 -(40C500DB)

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Date: 7/29/1968
-Description: House Science and Astronautics Committee symposium on UFOs -chaired by Rep. Edward Roush (D-Ind.). Witnesses included Robert M. -Baker, Robert L. Hall, James A. Harder, J. Allen Hynek, James E. -McDonald, and Carl Sagan.
-Type: official
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 162

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Event 6889 -(DE20580A)

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Date: 7/30/1968
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A land surveyor and his wife in Claremont, New -Hampshire, are preparing to retire when they see a dome-shaped object in -a field about 230 feet behind their house. It is about 20 feet wide and -moving slowly 10 feet above the ground, creating shadows on the freshly -cut hay. The UFO shines a 20-foot wide gray-colored beam of light onto -the ground. Their children moan and cry out in while they are sleeping -and their dogs are whining loudly. They hear a high-pitched humming -sound like a utility pole transformer. A few minutes later the object -moves 25 feet to the east, the humming growing louder. At one point, a -projection from the object descends to the ground. Around 4:30 a.m., the -object goes brighter and slowly moves off toward the west. (Donald E. -Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 38–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4573

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Event 6890 -(71B7BFBD)

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Date: 7/30/1968
-Description: Dome-shaped object hovered low over ground, grayish light -beam cast sharp shadows. Humming sound, dogs reacted strongly
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Claremont, NH
-ID: 163

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Event 6891 -(AEDBAD9E)

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Date: 7/31/1968
-Time: 0900
-Description: Luce Fontaine, 31, a farmer, was in a clearing when he -suddenly saw an oval object, 25 m away, less than 5 m above ground. It -had a clear center, dark-blue ends, two protrusions on top and bottom, -and measured 5 m in diameter, 2.5 m in height. In the object stood two -beings, 90 cm tall, wearing coveralls. A violent flash and a blast of -hot air were noted as the object vanished.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: LDLN 96 (Vallee)
-Location: Plaine-des-Cafres, La Reunion Island
-ID: 917

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Event 6892 -(F1F30C19)

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Date: 7/31/1968
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Farmer Luce Fontaine is collecting grass for his -rabbits at La Plaine des Cafres on the island of Réunion (in the Indian -Ocean east of Madagascar), when he sees an oval-shaped object about 75 -feet away. It is sitting about 15 feet from the ground on a flange of -metal; a similar structure protrudes from its top. The cylinder has two -blue ends and a transparent center through which he can see two -humanoids less than 3 feet tall in metallic helmets and dressed in puffy -suits like the Michelin Man (the tire company mascot). Seemingly sensing -Fontaine looking at them, they turn their backs and the object -disappears in a sudden flash of light and a burst of hot air. The -incident is investigated by Capt. Maljean of the local Gendarmerie and -Capt. Léopold Legros of the Civil Protection Service, who detect an -abnormal amount of radioactivity at the site and on Fontaine’s clothing -10 days afterward, as well as six apparent landing marks in the ground. -A country club called “La Soucoupe Volante” (Flying Saucer) is later -built on the site. (“Contact -Casualty on Réunion,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1969): 8, 11; Jean-Claude Bourret, Le Nouveau Défi des -O.V.N.I., France-Empire, 1976; Antonio Huneeus, “The -‘Michelin Man’ Encounters on Réunion Island,” Open Minds, July 30, -2010; Patrick Gross, “Plaine -des Caffres, La Réunion, July 31, 1968”; La Soucoupe Volante Country -Club, Facebook -page)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4574

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Event 6893 -(8B0A07A9)

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Date: 8/1968
-Description: The US Air Force Weapons Laboratory begins to set up a -field instrumentation lab at Con Thien combat base near the -Demilitarized Zone, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, specifically for the -purpose of investigating and tracking unidentified aircraft. The first -project name is HAVE FEAR. At least 500 UFO sensor trackings via -radar-visual, laser range-finder, video camera, infrared, nightscope, -and telescope are investigated through April 1969. The UFOs, often seen -as red lights, usually travel at speeds of 30–80 mph at altitudes of -1,200–1,600 feet. After several days of tracking, the red blinking -lights extinguish when under radar surveillance. They are only seen at -night and only in certain places. In mid-August, Project LETHAL CHASER -is added, using portable manpack radars. The findings involve 99% UFOs -and only 1% IFOs, primarily because the system does not include human -anecdotal accounts. Pacific Air Forces’ unit history clearly states the -investigation is about UFOs, not enemy helicopters. (Clark III -1050–1054; Sparks, p. 328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4575

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Event 6894 -(06048111)

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Date: 8/4/1968
-Description: 4:15 a.m. Three witnesses in Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan, -watch a luminous object, about 25 feet in diameter, as it hovers for -several minutes. Later it circles above the house 300 feet away. A -4-foot circle of barren grass is found, although an 18-inch circle in -the center is undamaged. (Ted Phillips, Physical -Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, Center -for UFO Studies, 1978, p. 57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4576

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Event 6895 -(9B030128)

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Date: 8/7/1968
-Description: 8:10 p.m. As a young man and woman watch from the end of a -dock at Buff Ledge Camp [now closed] along the shore of Lake Champlain -north of Burlington, Vermont, a bright light appears in the southwest -sky and swoops down in a long arc until it stops and assumes a -horizontal position. It now resembles a white, glowing, cigar-shaped -object, possibly as far away as the Adirondack Mountains more than 10 -miles from the witnesses. According to the young man, three tiny white -lights emerge one at a time from the right-end bottom of the UFO. As -soon as the third is expelled, the object retreats along its original -path and vanishes seconds later. The three smaller objects perform a -series of spectacular maneuvers, all the while moving closer. After 5 -minutes the objects assume a horizontal triangle formation, and two head -off in opposite directions, one to the north, the other to the south, -making a sound like “thousands of different tuning forks.” The remaining -object (40–50 feet across) moves toward the witnesses. It ascends and -vanishes in three seconds, only to reappear moments later as it descends -along the same trajectory and plunges broadside into the water. A sudden -wind blows waves across the heretofore placid surface. Animals up and -down the shore howl and shriek. A few minutes later the UFO surfaces and -moves toward the witnesses. It stops 60 feet from them, hovering about -15 feet above the water. The young man can see two figures with large -heads, oversized oval eyes, and small mouths. Visible to the waist, they -are short and clothed in skintight gray or silver uniforms. Thus begins -an abduction experience that was only uncovered through separate -hypnotic sessions with each of the witnesses by Walter -N. Webb years later. Webb’s background checks, buttressed by -psychological analyses, convinces him that there is no question of a -hoax. (Walter N. Webb, Encounter at Buff Ledge: A UFO Case History -CUFOS, 1994; Richard F. Haines, [Review], JUFOS 6 (1995/96): 248–251; -Clark III 220–222; B. J. Booth, “The -Buff Ledge Abduction,” UFO Casebook)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4578

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Event 6896 -(5F162E95)

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Date: 8/7/1968
-Description: McDonald addresses -the Boeing Management Association in Renton, Washington, on “UFO -Investigations: Past, Present, and Future.” (Story, p. 414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4577

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Event 6897 -(EB0DAA55)

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Date: 8/7/1968
-Description: Dual abduction of male and female summer camp staff -members. Independent recall of event years later
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Buff Ledge, VT
-ID: 164

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Event 6898 -(BDB188DD)

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Date: 8/15/1968
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Dick Skewes is driving west with his wife -Anne and babysitter Gail Yemm about 20 minutes east of Springhill, Nova -Scotia, on the Trans-Canada Highway. After driving up a hill, he sees a -group of 5–6 lights hovering 50 feet above some trees on his left. -Another light is approaching at high speed to join the others. One of -the objects breaks away and descends silently over the highway in front -of them, its yellow lights flashing brilliantly, on an apparent -collision course. When it is 40–50 feet away it veers upward and -disappears to the east. Skewes continues down the highway and loses -sight of the objects when he rounds a bend. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s -UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 79–81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4579

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Event 6899 -(E72B02A8)

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Date: 8/16/1968
-Description: 2:51 a.m. The crew of a Canadian Forces Hercules C-150E are -flying above Regina, Saskatchewan, when they see a cigar-shaped object -cross their flight path. It has 6 rectangular patches on its side. It is -visible with the naked eye for about 90 seconds, then it rapidly shrinks -and disappears to the southwest very rapidly. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO -Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, p. 112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4580

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Event 6900 -(CE0789C3)

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Date: 8/16/1968
-Description: 6:00 a.m. A farmer doing barnyard chores at La Serra -d’Almos, Catalonia, Spain, glimpses a light more than half a mile away. -He thinks someone’s car has stalled, so he walks over with his dog -intending to help. But he finds a globe-shaped, glowing object hovering -3 feet above the ground. On the other side of it, he sees two creatures -of an octopus-like appearance. Light-colored, 3 feet tall, they are -running on “four or five legs” toward the UFO, which abruptly takes off. -Reporters and UFO investigators find a considerable area of burned grass -at the site. Those who visit the site shortly afterwards find their -watches stop mysteriously. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A -Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS, -1976, pp. 14–15; Clark III 280– 281)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4581

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Event 6901 -(64754A40)

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Date: 8/17/1968
-Description: 8:21 p.m. Capt. Benjamin Gabrian is flying an Ilyushin -Il-18 airliner at 22,800 feet in the vicinity of Oradea, Romania, when -he sees an oval object on his right about a half-mile away and 900 feet -higher. It is moving at high speed and emitting a bright green light. -They watch it for 10–15 seconds before it accelerates and disappears to -the west. (Hobana and Weverbergh 180–182; Romania 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4582

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Event 6902 -(A775AE13)

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Date: 8/18/1968
-Description: 1:20 p.m. Technician Emil Barnea, his girlfriend Zamfira -Matea, and two other friends are picnicking in the Hoia Baciu forest -near Baciu, not far from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, when they see a round, -metallic, luminous object moving slowly through the sky. Its brilliance -increases and decreases as it maneuvers around for 2 minutes. Barnea -succeeds in taking four photos of the object before it suddenly -accelerates and shoots upwards. (Hobana and Weverbergh 99–107; UFOEv II -287; Adrian Pătruţ, “Phenomena -in the Hoia Baciu Wood near Cluj-Napoca,” Flying Saucer Review 53, -no. 1 (Spring 2008): 10; Chris Hill, “Hoia Baciu: Romania’s Haunted -Forest,” Fortean Times 382, August 2019, pp. 32–36; Patrick Gross, “Emil -Barnea’s Photographs, Cluj, Romania, 1968”; Romania 21–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4583

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Event 6903 -(2E18F27E)

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Date: 8/18/1968
-Description: Round silver object flew overhead, reversed direction, -three photos taken. Object finally shot upward out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Cluj, Romania
-ID: 165

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Event 6904 -(B5C95F86)

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Date: 8/21/1968
-Description: 6:58 a.m. The Canadian destroyer HMCS -Mackenzie is on a mission in the Pacific Ocean about 930 miles off -the coast of California. Four of the ship’s crew, including Maj. W. J. -Draper, see a group of starlike lights approaching from the northeast, -initially only 10° above the horizon. They are flying in a row, and one -in the middle of the line seems larger and has a white glow around it. -Within 5 minutes, the procession of 20 objects passes nearly overhead, -heading west. They maintain a steady course until they are lost to view -13 minutes later. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August -Night, 2022, pp. 73–74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4584

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Event 6905 -(CBF1C804)

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Date: 8/22/1968
-Description: 5:40 p.m. Capt. Walter Gardin and Capt. Gordon W. Smith are -flying over Zanthus, Western Australia, at 8,000 feet in a Piper Navajo -single-engine airplane when they see a large cigar-shaped object -surrounded by five smaller ones. The formation maintains a constant -angle from their own flight path for more than 10 minutes, while they -are flying at 224 mph. The large object then opens up its center and the -smaller objects fly to and from the larger object. Ground air control -reports no known air traffic in the area. At this point the radio fails -at all frequencies until the objects fly away. (“Pilots -See Formation over Australia,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1969, pp. 1, -4; Paul B. Norman, “‘Motherships’ -over Australia,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 (March 1979): 9–10; -Paul B. Norman, “Countdown -to Reality,” Flying Saucer Review 31, no. 2 (January 1986): 19–20; -Good Above, pp. 172–173; -Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “The -BOAC Labrador Sighting of June 29, 1954: Similar Reports,” -Caelestia, October 31, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4585

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Event 6906 -(2153F379)

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Date: 8/22/1968
-Description: Luminous white UFO emitted six smaller “satellite -objects”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kalgoorlie, Australia
-ID: 166

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Event 6907 -(FA088206)

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Date: 8/25/1968
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Hospital assistant Maria José Cintra of the -Serafim Ferrreira sanitarium in Lins, São Paulo, Brazil, hears a noise -like the braking of a car. Cintra readies herself to meet people needing -medical assistance. She opens a glass door and asks the visitor if she -is a patient. The visitor, just over 6 feet tall, answers in an unknown -language. The visitor is wearing a blue satiny cape, matching shoes, and -a dress with a high collar and long sleeves. She shows Cintra a vessel -with engraved ornaments, and Cintra fills it with water from a fountain -and offers her a doughnut. The visitor walks to the door of the -sanitorium and through some flowerbeds. At this point Cintra notices a -semicircular “pebble-like” light on the ground and a UFO floating 1–2 -feet above the grass. She feels the force of an invisible rotating -movement and notices that the visitor is no longer there. The UFO rises -into the air, making soft sounds like those she heard when the visitor -arrived. Later, she and the sanitorium manager and his wife find -high-heeled footprints on the freshly waxed floor near the door. On the -lawn they discover a spot of scorched grass that persists for 4 months. -Subsequent investigation reveals a depression in the ground 5–7 inches -deep, apparently made by a vehicle with a diameter of about 6.5 feet. -From his bed, another patient has seen the UFO land some 260 feet from -the fence of the sanitorium and remain there for 15 minutes. (“Mulher Extraterrestre -Pede Água, em Lins, Est. de São Saulo,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 66/68 -(Jan./June 1969): 72–74; Nigel Rimes, “Another -Hospital Visited,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1969): -4–6; Gordon Creighton, “Confrontation -at Lins,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1969): 22–23; -Clark III 684–685; “O Fantástico -Caso Lins,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; “O -Fantástico Caso Lins,” Oarquiva; Brazil 99–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4586

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Event 6908 -(FFE9FD8D)

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Date: 8/26/1968
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Pearl Christiansen is unchaining the driveway to -her ranch near Gleeson, Colorado, when she notices a round, silver disc. -She watches it for 5 minutes, then a second object appears, “very shiny -and gold.” Both are hovering above 7,200-foot high Brown’s Peak. They -remain for several hours, then just after midnight they back away behind -the mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Mayfield also see the objects. Daily -Citizen reporter Cecil James and photographer Dan Tortorell visit the -apparent site and find erratic burned patches of Dasylirion plants -(charred at the base but not at the top) and grass. Rocks show evidence -of high heat and are still hot to the touch two days later. (Cecil -James, “Gleeson -UFO Leaves -Traces,” Tucson (Ariz.) Daily Citizen, October 19, 1968, Olé -magazine, pp. 10, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4587

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Event 6909 -(E05667CC)

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Date: 8/27/1968
-Time: early
-Description: Maria Josa Cintra, who worked at the Clemente Ferreira -Sanatorium, was awakened by a noise. At the front door was a -“foreign-looking” woman of normal height, wearing light-colored clothes, -and a headdress exposing only her face. She spoke in an unknown -language, and handed Marie a mug and a glass bottle covered with -beautiful engravings. Maria filled them. The woman said something such -as “Rempaua,” and went out to a pearlshaped, bright object that took off -with the sound of wings.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Lins, Brazil
-ID: 918

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Event 6910 -(DC5F6CCC)

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Date: 8/31/1968
-Time: early
-Description: Three witnesses, among them two Casino employees, stated -that they observed five dwarfs, with oversized heads, who emerged from a -landed craft and traced undecipherable signs on the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Le Figaro Sep. 2, 1968 (Vallee)
-Location: Mendoza, Argentina
-ID: 919

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Event 6911 -(3799FC2B)

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Date: 9/1/1968
-Description: 3:42 a.m. Juan Carlos Peccinetti and Fernando José Villegas -are driving home after getting off work at a casino in Mendoza, -Argentina. On the Calle Neuquén, their car stops and the lights go out. -They find themselves unable to move and several humanoid beings standing -near an enormous landed UFO. They receive telepathic messages from the -aliens who make marks on the windshield and one side of their car and -see a screen full of dystopian images. The beings prick their fingers -and take blood samples before gong back to the UFO. However, the two -later admit to making up the story. (Charles Bowen, “One -Day in Mendoza,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1968): -2–5; Clark III 601)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4588

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Event 6912 -(738E701D)

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Date: 9/4/1968
-Description: Two US Air Force pilots flying in the vicinity of Goose Bay -AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador, spot a spherical metallic object -flying in a southerly direction at 33,000–41,000 feet. It crosses behind -them, stops, performs two 360° turns and disappears after 5 minutes at -30° above the horizon. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and -Abductions, Methuen, 1979, p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4590

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Event 6913 -(8ACD86FB)

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Date: 9/4/1968
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A scoutmaster and 12 River Scouts are having a -camp-out by bonfire in the mountains near Caracas, Venezuela, when they -see two intensely glowing red discs, each about the size of the full -moon, as they rise one at a time from some low hills, hover momentarily, -and descend again. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, -p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4591

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Event 6914 -(63718EA9)

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Date: 9/4/1968
-Description: Hynek receives -a letter from Col. Raymond -S. Sleeper, commander of the Air Force Foreign Technology Division. -Sleeper notes that Hynek has publicly accused Project Blue Book of -shoddy science, and further asks Hynek to offer advice on how Blue Book -could improve its scientific methods. Hynek later declares that -Sleeper’s letter is “the first time in my 20 year association with the -air force as scientific consultant that I had been officially asked for -criticism and advice [regarding] … the UFO problem.” (J. Allen Hynek, -The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., pp. 189–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4589

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Event 6915 -(448451EA)

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Date: 9/5/1968
-Description: Night. Thousands of people in Madrid, Spain, see a bright -object in the sky, causing a monumental traffic jam. The Spanish Air -Force scrambles an F-104 jet to intercept it. The pilot climbs to 50,000 -feet but the object is still above him, and he has to return for fuel. -Air Force radar tracks the UFO moving slowly at 90,000 feet. A photo -taken through a telescope at the Royal Observatory of Madrid shows a -triangular object, apparently solid on one side and translucent in some -sections. The object disappears at great speed. The Madrid Weather -Bureau says it has no meteorological balloons aloft. (“Triangle-Shaped -Object over Madrid,” APRO Bulletin, Sept./Oct. 1968, p. 4; Good -Above, pp. 149–151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4592

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Event 6916 -(1262DC6A)

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Date: 9/6/1968
-Description: 9:30 p.m. John Dow and Paul Franklin are driving on -Springfield Road in Taradale, New Zealand, when they notice 20–30 red -and green lights flying aimlessly above the city dump. They pull off the -road to watch, and a “thunderous explosion” rips through the air, -shaking the car. Immediately, the lights begin to group, take off -vertically, and disappear. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., -Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4593

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Event 6917 -(DE2FEB22)

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Date: 9/10/1968
-Description: Evening. John Dow and Paul Franklin are on the Omarunui -Road southwest of Taradale, New Zealand. They see a circular object with -a red and green light that is only a few feet in diameter and glowing -white. Heading toward the source, they watch as the UFO disappears -behind a cloud. After crossing a bridge, they see the object again, -hovering on the opposite side of the river. The object glows intensely -and speeds toward the automobile from the rear. Panicking, they try to -jump out of the car, which is traveling at 35 mph, but get tangled up -and the car veers out of control. Both of them fall out the left door as -the bright UFO hovers 2 feet above the car roof. The car crashes into -the store of a fruit dealer on Gloucester Street. A crowd gathers around -the two young men, still dazed and shocked. Nearly 24 hours later the -witnesses are treated for “bruises and abrasions” at the Napier Hospital -outpatient clinic because “their clothes were sticking to them.” Dow is -charged with reckless driving, but the circumstances convince the court -to drop the charge and the insurance company pays for the damages. -(Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 48–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4594

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Event 6918 -(784AB555)

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Date: 9/13/1968
-Description: Condon calls -together Craig, Gillmor, Roach, and -Rush to -discuss what the project’s recommendations should be. He writes the -recommendation section shortly afterwards. (Roy Craig, UFOs: An -Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for Evidence, University of North -Texas, 1995, p. 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4595

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Event 6919 -(52F002C0)

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Date: 9/15/1968
-Time: 9:30 PM
-Description: Witness: missionary pilot Jay Cole, flying a Beech C-45 -twin-engined utility plane. One light performed aerobatics for 15 -minutes and then vanished. A second light appeared, heading toward them -on a collision course, made a 90 degree turn and disappeared. Later, -ground radar told them a target was following them. Sightings lasted 15 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: near Ocala, Florida
-ID: 581

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Event 6920 -(2D2C1A8C)

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Date: 9/15/1968
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Farmers in the area around Carora, Lara, -Venezuela, have a difficult time controlling their cattle and horses -when a saucer-shaped object with flickering yellow lights flies over the -area at high speed and low altitude. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, -Signet, 1969, p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4596

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Event 6921 -(C0612AE6)

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Date: 9/15/1968
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mathematician Miron Oprea is driving with his -wife and two nephews northwest of Ploieşti, Romania, when they see a -cylindrical object emitting a bluish light and descending slowly to the -west near the Vega oil refinery. (Hobana and Wverbergh 183–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4597

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Event 6922 -(9476E4BF)

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Date: 9/16/1968
-Description: A car-racing contest at Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela, is -disrupted when a low-flying disc flies above the grandstands. A -photographer gets a snapshot that shows a sausage-shaped object about -12–15 feet above the heads of the crowd on the uppermost tier of -bleachers. (Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4598

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Event 6923 -(267B8589)

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Date: 9/17/1968
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Two air control tower operators at Nellis Air -Force Base, Nevada, watch a bright light moving in a way they cannot -explain. (J. Allen Hynek. The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, p. 44; -Sparks, -p. 329)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4599

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Event 6924 -(1048B05C)

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Date: 9/18/1968
-Description: Farmer Marius -Magnan sees three dull metallic, gray, football-shaped UFOs at an -altitude of 2,500 feet and 2 miles away at Ste. Anne, Manitoba. They are -traveling northwest to southeast in a vertical orientation at tremendous -speed. The UFOs are discharging white substance from the upper surface -just like popcorn. The white substance streams upward from two of the -objects and downward from the third. After they disappear, a white, -fibrous substance falls and settles on foliage, buildings, and power -lines. The University of Manitoba analyzes a sample and finds it to be -“cellulose-like and unstable,” with a uniform fiber diameter of 5 -microns, and probably rayon coated with a gummy substance. (Brian -Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): -104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4600

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Event 6925 -(539A3DDF)

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Date: 9/18/1968
-Description: 4:15 a.m. Patrolman Arthur H. Byrd sees an object flashing -red, blue, and yellow lights on Hunter Road in San Marcos, Texas, -approaching at great speed. He follows it along Interstate 35 toward -Luling and San Antonio, and at Redwood Road it comes to a stop. It -slowly fades away by 7:15 a.m. (“UFO -Said Followed for Hours,” -Austin (Tex.) American, September 19, 1968, p. 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4601

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Event 6926 -(80B7D846)

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Date: 9/19/1968
-Description: 3:15 p.m.–7:15 p.m. A lighted white object is seen by many -witnesses over Cluj-Napoca and other towns in northwestern Romania. Some -of the sightings are attributable to a balloon, but others seem to be -moving against the wind and internally lit. (Hobana and Weverbergh -139–149; Romania 27–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4602

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Event 6927 -(B03D4114)

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Date: late 9/1968
-Alternate date: late 9/1969
-Description: Night. A teenager is putting hay in a rabbit pen at his -home in the East Linden neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. He hears a -clapping noise and sees an entity dressed in a black uniform with a -silver belt walking in the woods nearby. Its head has an eerie yellow -glow. Scared, he runs into the house to get his parents, but the entity -is gone when they go out to look for it. The next morning a neighbor -stops by to ask if they had seen any lights in a field the night before. -The families go to the field and find a large oval place where the -grass, weeds, and bushes have been pressed down. (Irena Scott, -“Observation of an Alien Figure,” IUR 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1987): 20, -25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4603

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Event 6928 -(DA9679C5)

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Date: 9/26/1968
-End date: 9/27/1968
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Industrial chemist Henrique Schneider Jr. gets up -and checks the fire in the kiln next to his house in Vila Baumer in the -northern part of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. He comes across a -strange object in the pottery yard about 16 feet away. It is a -cone-shaped device about 13 feet high sitting on a tripod under which a -bluish light illuminates the ground, and it has a rectangular opening -through which comes a treadmill. On the treadmill are two squared -cylinders standing on end, both motionless. Schneider feels paralyzed -and begins to converse telepathically with the nearest cylinder, which -answers his questions clearly and briefly about where they come from, -which is another star system, and they are investigating global warming -on earth. Soon the treadmill goes back up into the object, the entrance -closes, and it takes off with a hissing sound. The next day, Schneider -finds a burned circle of grass just over 2 feet in diameter at the -landing site. Inside this is a smaller circle of compressed grass and -three holes where the tripod stood. (Carlos Varassin, “O -Estranho Caso da Vila Baumer,” -SBEDV Boletim, no. 94/98 (September 1973/June 1974): 41–44; “Contato -Imediato em Joinville,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil -141–145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4604

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Event 6929 -(8564BE17)

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Date: 9/29/1968
-Description: Night. Amateur astronomer Hermanus -Voorsluys and ex-police officer Reginald -Neal take several photographs of a UFO that they have seen for -several nights above Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt at the southern tip -of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. One photo shows a large object -surrounded by four smaller luminous objects that have emerged from it, -as well as a fifth object that has just appeared. After a zig-zagging -descent, the smaller objects return to the level of the parent object -and disappear. (“Mystery -over Naval Base,” Canadian UFO Report 1, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1969): -4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4605

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Event 6930 -(793C4132)

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Date: 9/30/1968
-Description: Philip -J. Klass writes a letter to Robert -A. Frosch, wanting -to know who has financed James -E. McDonald’s -visits to Australia to investigate UFOs and who would fund his upcoming -trip to Europe and the USSR. In late 1967, McDonald had secured a modest -grant from the Office of Naval Research in order to study cloud -formations in Australia. While there, McDonald conducts some UFO -research on his own time. Klass mounts an extended, concerted campaign -against McDonald, arguing that he has squandered government funds. The -ONR responds by announcing that they had known of McDonald’s UFO -interests and have no objections to his personal hobbies. The University -of Arizona comes to McDonald’s defense, announcing that his UFO research -was done on his own time, and has no adverse impact on his regular -teaching and research duties at the university. (Clark III 700)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4606

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Event 6931 -(8F67BAB6)

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Date: 10/1968
-Description: Brazil’s System of Investigation of Unidentified Aircraft, -created by the Fourth Air Zone Command of the Brazilian Air Force and -sponsored by Brig. Gen. José Vaz da Silva and coordinated by Maj. -Gilberto Zani de Mello, goes into operation to investigate UFO -sightings, especially physical trace cases. The operation lasts until -the end of 1972. (Wikipedia, “SIOANI”; -Clark III 1072–1073)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4608

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Event 6932 -(1346076B)

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Date: 10/1968 (approximate)
-Description: A 7-page National Security Agency thought piece on UFOs is -written by an unnamed NSA analyst around this time. It is declassified -in 1984 with a disclaimer saying that it does not represent NSA policy. -It discusses various hypotheses for UFOs (hoaxes, hallucinations, -natural phenomena, secret earth projects, and extraterrestrial -intelligence) and speculates what each answer would mean for the human -species, placing credence in the ETH. ([US National Security Agency], -“U.F.O. -Hypothesis and Survival Questions,” [October 1968]; Good Above, pp. 423–424)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4607

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Event 6933 -(90D46029)

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Date: 10/2/1968
-Description: 6:20 a.m. While oiling his tractor’s engine at the end of -Avenida da Saudade in Lins, São Paulo, Brazil, Turíbio Pereira sees only -a few feet away a golden cigar-shaped object hovering one foot above the -ground. It is about 16 feet long and 10 feet wide. There is a platform -around it and on the top a transparent dome is open. Inside there are -four stools and an instrument panel. Pereira sees four beings around it -wearing blue tunics and red skirts. One is on the platform with a weapon -in its hand, another is picking up earth samples, the third is looking -at his tractor’s engine, and the fourth is inside the object at the -instrument panel. The being with the weapon fires it and a luminous ball -hits Pereira in the stomach, paralyzing him. The entities go inside, and -a transparent dome encloses them. The object ascends and shoots off at -high speed. With difficulty, Pereira climbs off the tractor and stumbles -to the road where a friend takes him home. Later he is given a medical -examination by Antônio Geris and summoned to a Brazilian Air Force -facility where he is questioned and held for three days. (Gordon -Creighton, “Confrontation -at Lins,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1969): 22–23; -Patrick Gross, URECAT, December -22, 2006; Brazil 105–107)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4609

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Event 6934 -(DFA6C6A5)

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Date: 10/5/1968
-Description: 7:52 p.m. John D. Hickey and his family are driving near -West Morehead Street in Charlotte, North Carolina. While stopped at a -traffic light, he sees a black object like a short cigar moving on his -left, but it stops and hovers above a low building about 500 feet away. -Suddenly three large gray-white lights shaped like television picture -tubes turn on, each about 22 inches in diameter. A small black arm-like -device moves slowly out of one end, extends a few feet, then stops. A -blue light is at one end. The three large lights begin to blink slowly, -then rapidly for 25 seconds. The blue light goes out, the arm retracts, -the large lights blink more slowly until they stop. The lights go out -and the object moves to the east. (“Nocturnal -Light Becomes CE-I in Charlotte, NC,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1984): 1, 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4610

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Event 6935 -(3D11CCA0)

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Date: 10/7/1968
-Description: Hynek responds -to Col. Sleeper’s -request with an extended commentary prefaced by a succinct, eight-point -critique of everything Project Blue Book has done wrong: the project -suffers from (1) inadequate execution, (2) inadequate staff, (3) lack of -open consultation with scientists outside the Air Force, (4) laughable -statistical methods, (5) too much time spent on routine cases and not -exceptional cases, (6) inadequate data provided by local Air Force base -investigators, (7) biased evaluations, and (8) inadequate use of the -project’s own scientific consultant. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO -Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 202–206, -283–305; -Clark III 925)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4611

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Event 6936 -(67493545)

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Date: 10/9/1968
-Time: 0620
-Description: Doribio Pereira, 41, municipal employee, suddenly observed -a golden, cigar-shaped object, and a figure armed with a flashing weapon -that immobilized him. Three beings were standing on a platform under the -craft, and another figure appeared to be using a keyboard inside the -transparent top part. The object took off rapidly, leaving the witness -in a state of shock.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Lins, Brazil
-ID: 920

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Event 6937 -(8B4A7947)

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Date: 10/18/1968
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Hundreds of witnesses view a conical object that -appears above Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, traveling from northwest -to southeast. The UFO at first appears bright blue then changes first to -a whitish-blue then to red. When it reaches a point just south of -Sarajevo and northeast of the city of Mostar, the object turns to the -east. It remains in view from 90 minutes to two hours. Members of the -Akademski Astronomsko-Astronautiki Klub take photos of the object and, -six months later, issue a report on their investigation of the incident. -It estimates that the UFO was flying at an altitude of 16 miles and a -speed of 20 mph, probably guided by air currents and not self-propelled, -and most likely was a military reconnaissance balloon. (Hobana and -Weverbergh 84–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4612

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Event 6938 -(B3D68503)

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Date: 10/24/1968
-Description: 6:47 p.m. The Romanian oil tanker Argeş is steaming through -the Mozambique Channel when Third Officer Ştefan Anton and Commander -Nicolae Ştefanescu see a bright orange-yellow disc half the diameter of -the Moon moving swiftly and emitting blue-green rays from its center. At -one point it stops abruptly for a moment andchanges course to the east. -By sextant they estimate it is 15.5 miles away and 56 feet in diameter. -(Hobana and Weverbergh 250–251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4614

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Event 6939 -(72257FC5)

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Date: 10/24/1968
-Description: 2:15–5:18 a.m. Sixteen military personnel stationed -throughout the Minuteman ICBM missile complex at Minot AFB, North -Dakota, report a very large, brightly illuminated aerial object, -alternating colors from brilliant white to orange-red and green, with -the ability to hover, accelerate rapidly, and abruptly change direction. -Ground radar tracks an unidentified target correlated with a visual -orange glow and radios it (saying, “Someone is seeing flying saucers -again”) to the attention of the USAF crew of a B-52H Stratofortress -bomber at 2,000 feet as a UFO target 24 miles to the northwest. It -shifts to 15 miles at 3:35 a.m. RAPCON alerts the pilots (instructor -pilot Maj. Bradford -Runyon and copilot Maj. James -Partin) to the location of the UFO near Bowbells, North Dakota, -which the B-52 navigator Capt. Patrick -D. McCaslin observes on the radarscope maintaining a three-mile -distance throughout a standard 180° turnaround. Radar navigator Maj. -Charles Richey captures the tracking on film. As the B-52 starts its -descent back to Minot AFB, the UFO appears to close distance to one mile -at a high rate of speed, pacing the aircraft for nearly 20 miles before -disappearing off the radarscope. Both B-52 UHF radios cannot transmit -during the close radar encounter with the UFO and when the radarscope -film is recorded. Shortly afterwards, RAPCON provides vectors for the -B-52 to overfly a stationary UFO on or near the ground. After turning -onto the downwind leg of the traffic pattern, the pilots observe a -large, illuminated UFO ahead of the aircraft for several minutes, before -turning onto the base leg over the UFO while observing it at close -range. After the B-52 lands, both outer and inner-zone intrusion alarms -are activated at the remote missile Launch Facility Oscar-7. The -duration of the reported observations is over three hours. Other -witnesses include Capt. Thomas Goduto, S/Sgt -James -F. Bond, S/Sgt -William -E. Smith, A1C -Robert -O’Connor, A1C -Joseph -P. Jablonski, and -A1C Gregory Adams. The chief of the 862nd Combat Support Group, Lt. Col. -Arthur -J. Werlich, is designated as Blue Book liaison and he calls the -report in at 4:30 p.m. after SAC investigations, an analysis of the -radarscope film, and the B-52 crew debriefing. Werlich provides Blue -Book with selected data through October 31. On November 13, Blue Book -chief Lt. Col. Hector -Quintanilla completes his evaluation and forwards the final report -to SAC headquarters. It is a single-page letter providing several -possible explanations for the various reports, along with 11 pages of -attachments cobbled together in support. He attributes the B-52 radar -contact and loss of UHF transmission to “a plasma similar to ball -lightning.” (NICAP, “Minot -Tracks Object, B-52 Sees and Tracks UFO”; -Sparks, p. 330; -Clark III 748–763; Thomas Tulien, “A -Narrative of Events at Minot Air Force Base,” Sign Oral History -Project; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 137–139; -Martin Shough, “Minot -Air Force Base, Oct 24 1968,” 2006; Nukes 319–323; Thomas E. -Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 (Mar. 2012): 32–33; “The Minot -AFB B-52 UFO Incident,” Above Top Secret forum, February 24, 2010; “New -Witness to UFO Incursion at Nuke Missile -Complex,” The UFO Chronicles, October 17, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4613

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Event 6940 -(2C75BD7D)

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Date: 10/31/1968
-Description: The Colorado project delivers its report, Scientific Study -of Unidentified Flying Objects, to the Air Force. The first two -sections, conclusions and recommendations, are written by Condon himself. -He concludes that “further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be -justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.” It -is a clear signal to shut down Project Blue Book. Yet 30% of its cases -are unexplained. Condon says a UFO cover-up is unthinkable because no -one could keep such a secret for so long. He refutes the claim that the -CIA has installed an agent within the project. He disapproves of UFO -“amateurists,” especially NICAP. The project ignored old cases because -they only offered witness testimony, are probably misidentifications, -and it makes little sense to reinterview witnesses. But this means -ignoring the most compelling cases of the past 20+ years. Condon rejects -the ETH because it is so unlikely that aliens can get here from there. -This attitude suggests that Condon’s approach is fundamentally -antiempirical. The report also includes summaries of field studies, -photographic evidence, direct and indirect physical evidence, optical -and radar cases, and astronaut sightings. In the field studies section, -Roy -Craig concedes that some of the older cases suggest something -extraordinary (Great Falls, RB-47). William -K. Hartmann divides photo cases into fabrications, -misidentifications, poor image quality, and clear images that lack -sufficient data. Great Falls and McMinnville are the only two that he -considers unusual. Gordon -Thayer discusses the predominance of anomalous propagation in radar -cases. In finding natural explanations, Thayer often disregards witness -testimony. The rest of the report is mostly padding. (Wikipedia, “Condon -Committee”; Michael D. Swords, “The University of Colorado UFO -Project: The ‘Scientific Study of UFOs,’” JUFOS 6 (1995/96): 149–184; -Swords 329–332)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4615

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Event 6941 -(948BA6EF)

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Date: 10/31/1968
-Description: Colorado UFO Project final report submitted to secretary of -the Air Force for review by the National Academy of Sciences.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 167

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Event 6942 -(0338E56D)

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Date: 11/1968
-Description: Two children are playing in the garden of their father’s -hotel in Southampton, England, when they notice a “speck” come out of -the clouds. It grows in size and comes closer, moving above the hotel -roof. The shape is a large flattened disc with black square windows on -the side. It moves to a point about 10 feet directly above them and -hovers for 30 seconds, then it speeds up and disappears behind some -trees. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 (June 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4616

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Event 6943 -(0A9D68B0)

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Date: 11/2/1968
-Description: 3:55 a.m. A partially paralyzed Algerian veteran, Dr. X, -has suffered an injury to his leg while chopping at a stump on his -property in a village in the south of France on October 29. He is lying -in bed when he is awakened by his crying 14-month-old son. He sees two -luminous objects outside his house. They are coming close together and -merging about 590 feet away. A vertical beam of light is aimed at him -for a second as the object tilts, and then the display vanishes with a -sort of explosion, leaving behind a slowly dissolving cloud. Shortly -afterwards, the man’s leg heals and his war wound is better. He also -experiences nightmares, stomach pains, and a red pigmentation appears -around his navel, forming a triangle. He goes to a dermatologist but -does not mention the UFO; the doctor is stumped. The man’s son also -develops a red triangle. In November 1984, a French radio reporter -records the gradual reappearance of the triangle on X’s abdomen. (Aimé -Michel, “The Strange -Case of Dr. X,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Percipients, special -issue no. 3 of FSR, September 1969, pp. 3–16; Aimé Michel, “The -Strange Case of Dr. ‘X,’ Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1971): 3– 9; Clark III 410–413)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4617

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Event 6944 -(B5DE446D)

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Date: 11/2/1968
-Time: 0355
-Description: During a thunderstorm, a medical doctor was awakened by his -crying 14-month-old son. He saw two luminous objects outside his house, -and observed them coming close together and merging about 180 m away. A -vertical beam of light was aimed at him for a second as the object -tilted, and then the display vanished with a flash, leaving a slowly -dissolving cloud. Persistent nightmares and various physiological -phenomena were later recorded.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: 1 (Vallee)
-Location: France
-ID: 921

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Event 6945 -(4E96A845)

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Date: 11/6/1968
-Description: Two teenage boys see a disc-shaped UFO about 200 feet in -diameter discharging angel hair over the Spring Branch West area of -Houston, Texas. C. -E. “Gene” Senter investigates and recovers a twig with angel hair -that he puts in a plastic bag and freezes. A chemist analyzes the -substance in a petroleum-industry lab but finds out little other than it -is sticky and fibrous. (Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A -Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4618

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Event 6946 -(AB55AF26)

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Date: 11/15/1968
-Description: The Air Force sends the Colorado report to the National -Academy of Sciences for review by an 11- member panel, chaired by Yale -University astronomer Gerald -Maurice Clemence and charged with an independent assessment of its -scope, methodology, and findings. (Clark III 1197–1198)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4619

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Event 6947 -(C75EE82F)

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Date: 11/20/1968
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Milan and Doris Milakovic and their son are -driving southwest out of Hanbury, Staffordshire, England, when several -rabbits run across the road from their left. Suddenly they see a -brilliant object. They stop the car and watch as it rises from a field -on their left, silently pass over the car, and move toward a solitary -house about 300 feet away on the right where it stops and hovers, -“quivering like jelly.” The air temperature seems to drop. For -approximately 5 minutes, they see what appear to be several humanoid -figures walking across the bright top of the UFO, which is as wide as -the house. Intermittently, some of the figures bend down as though -looking at something in the part of the object below the rim. Then the -UFO begins moving up in a pulsating or jerky movement. The intensity of -its light increases and Milakovic feels like his eyes are burning. -Thoroughly frightened, Milakovic pushes his wife and son back into the -car and speeds away from the scene. (W. Daniels and N. M. H. Turner, “The -Milakovic Report,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1969): -2–3, 24; Patrick Gross, “UFO -with Humanoid Occupants, Hanbury, England, November 20, 1968”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4620

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Event 6948 -(4DDD4F88)

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Date: 11/20/1968
-Time: 1730
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Milakovic were driving to Hednesford when they -suddenly saw a brilliant object rising from a held to the left and -hovering above a house. It appeared to “quiver like a jelly.” Several -figures were seen on the deck of the craft for about five min, then it -left with a jerky motion.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
-Location: Hanbury, Great Britain
-ID: 922

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Event 6949 -(158C594E)

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Date: 11/22/1968
-Description: Oval object beamed light down on car, electrical system -failed. After it departed rapidly straight up, electrical system resumed -functioning
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Albany, GA
-ID: 170

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Event 6950 -(5A29FCBF)

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Date: 11/22/1968
-Description: Domed disc descended, flew over shrimp boat. Hovered -briefly, shone light down on boat, then took off straight up out of -sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Biloxi, MS
-ID: 169

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Event 6951 -(1C544B07)

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Date: 11/22/1968
-End date: 11/27/1968
-Description: Flurry of sightings primarily in the southeastern and -northwestern United States.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 168

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Event 6952 -(7BC0C6C4)

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Date: 11/22/1968
-Time: 2100
-Description: A dozen witnesses saw a lens-shaped object surrounded with -a blue glow, making a noise similar to that of a jet and emitting -flashes, which landed in a field briefly. It suddenly took off and was -lost to sight at the horizon.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: France-Soir Nov. 24, 1968 (Vallee)
-Location: Fleury-d’Aude, France
-ID: 923

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Event 6953 -(B197D8C6)

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Date: 11/23/1968
-Description: 8:05 p.m. An accountant named Jones is driving his 1967 -Ford Custom along the road between Newton and Albany, Georgia. When he -rounds a bend he sees a brilliant yellowish-white light about 200 feet -ahead of him and 50–75 feet above the road. As he approaches, the car -radio fades into static. Then the object emits a beam of well-defined -light about 5–6 feet across that illuminates the trees and causes his -engine and radio to cut out as it passes over his car. The object -changes color to orange-red and ascends at a high rate of speed, -disappearing in less than 15 seconds. The car engine starts -spontaneously afterward. (Hynek UFO Report, pp. 189–191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4621

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Event 6954 -(FA916FB5)

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Date: 11/23/1968
-Time: 8:05 PM
-Description: Witness: Mr. Jones, accountant. One oblong light, 120-150’ -wide. Hovering 75’ above the ground, it emitted a beam that lit the -ground. Radio gave off static, then car engine stopped. Light flew away -vertically and car engine restarted itself. Sighting lasted 3-4 -minutes.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Newton, Georgia
-ID: 582

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Event 6955 -(5884BAE3)

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Date: 11/25/1968
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Elaine Pelchy is driving with her 2-year-old son -and dog on Highway 174 south of Marcellus, New York, when they see an -object with five red, blinking lights about 100 feet in front of her car -and heading southeast. The radio gets a lot of static and the English -setter begins to get nervous, clawing at the window and putting its head -over its eyes and ears. The boy starts crying, then the car engine -begins to sputter. The object executes a U-turn and moves to the -northwest as the lights change to blinking blue and white. Suddenly, the -UFO stops and changes to a white, dome-shaped object with a “fluorescent -star” next to it. The larger object merges into the star and disappears. -Pelchy drops her son off at her mother-in-law’s, then returns on the -same route. The dog starts to whine again as a light the size of a -basketball fluctuates in intensity and zigzags across the sky. She goes -home but returns to the scene with a neighbor and the light is still -visible and maneuvering. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, pp. 40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4622

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Event 6956 -(90D0CF78)

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Date: 11/26/1968
-Description: 5:40 p.m. Three control tower operators (Jack Wilhelm, Jack -Reeves, and John Fischer) at Bismarck (North Dakota) Airport observe two -swiftly moving round objects traveling in opposite directions. They -reverse course and approach each other, hover together, then instantly -zoom off to the northeast. Air Force radar at Great Falls, Montana, -picks up “foreign objects” at the same time 85 miles northeast of -Bismarck. The objects are also seen by Robert Watts, who is flying a -Cessna 150. (NICAP, “Air -Force Radar Tracks Objects”; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, -Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 43–44, 51–52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4623

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Event 6957 -(B6080BE0)

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Date: 11/26/1968
-Description: Four bright, oval objects paced aircraft. Pilot turned -plane toward them, objects formed vertical stack, shot up and out of -sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lake Cyprus, FL
-ID: 172

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Event 6958 -(BF779A72)

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Date: 11/26/1968
-Description: Pilots saw two luminous objects join up, hover about 10 -seconds, then speed out of sight in seconds. Confirmed by Air Force -radar
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bismarck, ND
-ID: 171

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Event 6959 -(5B9750DD)

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Date: 11/27/1968
-Description: Round object with body lights hovered, shone red light beam -to ground. When officer shone flashlight at object, it immediately -blacked out
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Belcourt, ND
-ID: 173

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Event 6960 -(26E81FB3)

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Date: 11/27/1968
-Description: A 41-page paper by George Kocher of the RAND Corporation, -“UFOs: What to Do?” is produced as an internal document. It notes the -likelihood of intelligent life in the universe, speculates UFOs may well -have been around for a long time, looks at some compelling reports, and -assesses the difficulty of estimating the number of sightings worldwide -“because of the lack of suitable data collection means.” (George Kocher, -“UFOs: -What to Do?” -RAND Corporation, November 27, 1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4624

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Event 6961 -(449149F6)

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Date: 12/1968
-Description: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics -announces that it has formed a UFO Subcommittee to study the UFO -phenomenon objectively. Joachim -P. Kuettner of ESSA Research Laboratories is the chairman; other -members include Jerald -M. Bidwell of Martin Marietta, Glenn A. Cato of TRW Systems Group, -Bernard N. Charles of Aerospace Corporation, Murray Dryer of ESSA -Research Laboratories, Howard D. Edwards of Georgia Institute of -Technology, Paul -MacCready of Meteorology Research, Andrew J. Masley of Douglas -Missile and Space Systems Division, Robert Rados of NASA Goddard Space -Flight Center, and Donald M. Swingle of the US Army Electronic Command. -It announces in Astronautics and Aeronautics that the UFO issue “cannot -be resolved without further study in a quantitative scientific manner -and that it deserves the attention of the engineering and scientific -community.” (“AIAA -Committee Looks at UFO Problem,” Astronautics and Aeronautics, -December 1968, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4626

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Event 6962 -(E5BAB6F5)

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Date: 12/1968
-Description: David -R. Saunders (along with journalist R. Roger Harkins) explains his -version of the Colorado project in UFOs? Yes! (David R. Saunders and R. -Roger Harkins, UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong, Signet, -1968)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4625

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Event 6963 -(A679300A)

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Date: 12/8/1968
-Description: Top-shaped object paced car, sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Grey, South Australia
-ID: 174

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Event 6964 -(872E6DAF)

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Date: late 12/1968
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Traumatologist Sebastian José Tarda is on -vacation in Patagonia and leading a group of secondary school students -on a motorboat field trip on Nahuel Huapi Lake, Argentina. Tarda is -taking photos of the lake shore near Puerto Blest, but does not notice -anything unusual. When one slide is developed, it shows a blurry white -object against a mountainous background. An analysis by the Argentine -UFO group Circulo de Investigación Cientifico Espacial states that the -image is not caused by a lens flare, damaged emulsion, or a known -object. Another analysis suggests that the object moved while the -shutter was depressed. Ground Saucer Watch considers it a lens flare. -(“UFO -Appears in Photo over Nahuel Huapi Lake, Argentina,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 3, no. 1 (February 1982): 1–2; “Dr. Tarda -1968 Photograph Judged Lens Flare by GSW,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 3, no. 2 (April 1982): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4628

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Event 6965 -(F397EE3C)

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Date: 12/26/1968
-Description: The Spanish Air Ministry’s press office issues a release -inviting citizens to report UFO cases to the air force. A few days -later, Second Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mariano -Cuadra Medina issues the first regulations in Spain on how to handle -UFO reports. The information is rated confidential. (Swords 423)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4627

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- Event 6966 (CEA02704)

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Date: 1969
-Description: Gérard Lebat founds Groupe d’Études des Objets Spatiaux, -which publishes GEOS International from July 1969 to July 1970, then Les -Extraterrestres from November 1970 to October 1979, then Hypothèses -Extraterrestres from January 1980 to July 1981, in Rebais, -Seine-et-Marne, France. (GEOS -International, no. 1 (July 1969)); Les Extraterrestres, no. -9 (Nov./Dec. 1970); Hypothèses -Extraterrestres, no. -13 (January 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4630

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Event 6967 -(2AD7D914)

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Date: 1969
-Description: Contactee Ted -Owens writes How to Contact Space People. Owens, who calls himself -the “PK Man,” attributes his psychic and precognitive abilities to UFO -occupants who operated on his brain when he was a child, a modification -that made him half-human, half-alien. He claims to be in two-way contact -with saucer intelligences. (Ted Owens, How to Contact the Space People, -Saucerian, 1969; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, pp. 235–236)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4632

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Event 6968 -(40555090)

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Date: 1969?
-Description: A retired Colonel from Wright-Patterson AFB with Top Secret -Clearance states that a 2-man saucer crashed near Whitewater Lake, -Indiana as a result of an electrical disturbance in the -atmosphere.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)
-Location: Whitewater Lake, Indiana
-See also: 1968

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Event 6969 -(57F726C3)

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Date: 1969
-Description: Night. During its extended deployment to Vietnam with the -7th Fleet, the destroyer USS -Leary is -navigating fishing waters in the Gulf of Tonkin. Ensign Will -Miller is alerted by the lookout about a possible light from a -fishing boat in the water ahead. But the light suddenly moves from above -the water to below the surface and heads rapidly toward the ship at 45° -to the bow, passing below the vessel. The sailors run to the starboard -side to see whether it will emerge, but it does not. Nothing is tracked -on radar or sonar or by the ECM system. (Good Need, pp. 284–285)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4634

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Event 6970 -(4E07D58F)

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Date: 1969
-Description: Spanish ufologist Antonio -Ribera receives his first Ummo communication, a letter postmarked -from Paris, Franca. An Ummo cult has begun to form, and books—both -journalistic accounts and anthologies of Ummo writings—find an avid -readership. (Clark III 1185)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4633

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Event 6971 -(39E15FDB)

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Date: 1969
-Description: The CIA’s Operation Often is initiated by the chief of the -CIA’s Technical Services Branch, Sidney -Gottlieb, to -“explore the world of black magic” and “harness the forces of darkness -and challenge the concept that the inner reaches of the mind are beyond -reach.” As part of the operation, Gottlieb and other CIA employees visit -with and recruit fortune-tellers, palm-readers, clairvoyants, -astrologers, mediums, psychics, specialists in demonology, witches and -warlocks, Satanists, and other occult practitioners. (Wikipedia, “Project -MKOFTEN”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4629

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Event 6972 -(87227912)

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Date: 1969
-Description: In Passport to Magonia, Jacques -Vallée proposes a radically revisionist argument that UFOs are -better understood when related to folk traditions about supernatural -creatures (elementals, fairies, angels, demons) than to astronomers’ -speculations about life in outer space. He says science cannot -adequately deal with such matters, although he does not specifically -disavow the scientific method. It is the first book to question the ETH -and the first to lay the groundwork for the psychosocial hypothesis, -which sees UFOs as largely the product of unusual mental states and -perpetuated by social acceptance. He argues that ostensible otherworldly -manifestations are fantastic images propelled via psychic technology -from humanity’s future to generate myths and religions that will change -fate. In time the book leads to a new school of ufology whose advocates -hold that UFOs and other anomalous experiences are internally generated -and shaped entirely by cultural processes as opposed to nonhuman -intelligences. Jerry -Clark writes that the “genius of Passport, a genuinely brilliant -work, is its success in placing UFOs into not only cultural but -experiential context.” (Jacques Vallée, Passport -to Magonia, Regnery, 1969; Clark III 939–940, 1214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4631

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Event 6973 -(C5993115)

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Date: 1/1969
-Description: John Magor begins publishing the quarterly Canadian UFO -Report in Duncan, British Columbia. It persists through the summer issue -of 1979. (Canadian -UFO Report 1, no. 1 (January 1969))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4635

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Event 6974 -(C56B85E0)

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Date: 1/6/1969
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Future president Jimmy -Carter is preparing to give a speech at a Lions Club meeting at -Leary, Georgia. One of the guests calls his attention to a strange -object visible about 30° above the horizon to the west of where he is -standing. Carter describes the object as being bright white and about as -bright as the moon. It appears to have closed in on where he is standing -but stops beyond a stand of pine trees some distance from him. The -object changes color, first to blue, then to red, then back to white, -before appearing to recede into the distance. Carter feels that the -object is self-illuminated and not solid in nature. Carter’s report -indicates that it is witnessed by about 10–12 other people and is in -view for 10–12 minutes before it passes out of sight. Skeptic Robert Sheaffer concludes -that the object is a misidentification of Venus. Ufologist Allan -Hendry does calculations and agrees with the assessment of the -object as Venus. A member of the Carter family thinks it might have been -a barium cloud produced by rockets launched from Eglin AFB near -Valparaiso, Florida. (Wikipedia, “Jimmy -Carter UFO -incident”; Clark III 225; Good Above, pp. 368, 516–517; -Robert Sheaffer, “President -Jimmy Carter’s Sighting -of a UFO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4636

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Event 6975 -(79566846)

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Date: 1/8/1969
-Description: National Academy of Sciences letter by Dr. Frederick Seitz, -president, to secretary of the Air Force, stating that the NAS review -panel “unanimously approved” the Colorado University (Condon Committee) -report.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 175

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Event 6976 -(B0224F15)

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Date: 1/8/1969
-Description: Science reporter Walter -Sullivan writes that the soon-to-be-released Colorado project report -will debunk the extraterrestrial hypothesis and dismiss “demands of some -scientists and laymen for a large-scale effort to determine the nature -of such ‘flying saucers.’ Such a project, the report says in effect, -would be a waste of time and money.” Sullivan dismisses the project’s -critics as “UFO enthusiasts.” (Walter Sullivan, “U.F.O. -Finding: No Visits -from Afar,” New York Times, January 8, 1969, pp. 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4638

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Event 6977 -(E6F58202)

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Date: 1/8/1969
-Description: The National Academy of Sciences releases its review of the -Colorado project report, giving its enthusiastic approval. In a letter -to Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Alexander -H. Flax, Frederick -Seitz expresses the hope that the review would “be helpful to you -and other responsible officials in determining the nature and scope of -any research effort in this area.” (National Academy of Sciences, “Review -of the University of Colorado Report on -Unidentified Flying Objects by a Panel of the National Academy of -Sciences,” January 8, 1969; Story, pp. -244–245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4637

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Event 6978 -(55A1ABBF)

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Date: 1/9/1969
-Description: University of Colorado “Condon Report” publicly -released.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 176

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Event 6979 -(3B20472A)

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Date: 1/9/1969
-Description: The Colorado project report is released to the public in a -965-page Bantam Books edition. (Edward U. Condon, scientific director, -Scientific -Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Bantam, 1969; [HTML -version])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4639

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Event 6980 -(F11A027D)

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Date: 1/11/1969
-Description: Press conference at National Press Club. Donald Keyhoe, -NICAP director, Richard Hall, N1CAP assistant director, Dr. James E. -McDonald, and Dr. David R. Saunders disputing conclusions of the Condon -Report.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Washington US
-ID: 177

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Event 6981 -(2F2B56FD)

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Date: 1/11/1969
-Description: Keyhoe, Saunders, and -McDonald hold -a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to -criticize the Condon report. (Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet -ed., 1976, pp. 216–217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4640

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Event 6982 -(5841FE65)

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Date: 1/17/1969
-Time: 3:24 AM
-Description: Witness: Mr. Roman Lupton, test facility mechanic. Several -amber lights–one of them blinking–in an elliptical formation, flew -forward slowly while moving up and down, then turned and disappeared -after 2 minutes. Made a humming sound.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: BlueBook -Unknowns PDF
-Location: Crittenden, Virginia
-ID: 583

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Event 6983 -(D5E5F1A8)

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Date: 1/20/1969
-End date: 8/9/1974
-Description: President Richard Nixon in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: (Wikipedia)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon)

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Event 6984 -(B3EB294C)

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Date: 1/21/1969
-Description: The Lucens reactor in Vaud, Switzerland, suffers a -loss-of-control accident that leads to a partial core meltdown and -massive radioactive contamination of its cavern, which is sealed. -(Wikipedia, “Lucens -reactor”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4641

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Event 6985 -(5EC5BF84)

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Date: 1/22/1969
-Description: Elements of the Ninth Marine Division go more than a mile -into Laos to protect the flanks of a major combat operation. The New -York Times reveals the operation on February 12. Though American combat -involvement in Laos is not officially acknowledged until 1969, the US is -known to have organized, trained, and equipped a clandestine army of -Laotian irregulars since the early 1950s, under the direction of the -CIA. (Seymour M. Hersh, “Secret -1969 Foray into Laos Reported,” New York Times, August 12, 1973, -p. 1, 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4642

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Event 6986 -(BB1521E4)

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Date: 1/25/1969
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A young couple is driving near Plattville, -Illinois. The woman sees a bright object like an ice- cream cone low in -the sky ahead, traveling big end first. They get within a quarter mile -and the object turns point up and only 30 feet off the ground. Security -lights on a nearby farmhouse go off. The object spins and flashes, and -the car engine and lights go off. The front end of the car lifts 3 feet -off the ground. The UFO moves away and the car drops and regains its -power. (Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. -4 (March 2008): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4643

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Event 6987 -(8CAFA404)

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Date: 1/31/1969
-Description: After a series of UFO sightings and radar trackings -beginning in October 1968, the US Air Force and Army set up another UFO -observation network in the West Central Highlands near Pleiku, Vietnam, -using pulse acquisition radar, continual wave acquisition radar, and -illumination radar. The system picks up 365 unidentified tracks through -April. (Clark III 1052–1054)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4644

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Event 6988 -(73B80F5D)

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Date: 2/1969
-Description: 2d Lt. Carmon L. Morano replaces Lt. Col. Hector -Quintanilla as head of the moribund Project Blue Book. (Sparks, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4645

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Event 6989 -(43165900)

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Date: 2/1/1969
-Description: Roscoe Drummond, syndicated columnist, in Christian Science -Monitor (response to University of Colorado report): “I find it hard to -escape the conclusion that there are too many unexplained and presently -unexplainable unidentified flying objects from too many credible and -responsible witnesses to banish the subject from public concern.”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 178

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Event 6990 -(D8BBC16C)

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Date: 2/7/1969
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Tiago Machado, 19, wakes up at his home in -Pirassununga, São Paulo, Brazil, and hears a neighbor shouting about a -silvery-blue object landed on a hill on the grounds of the Zootecníca. -He watches it for a time, then goes in to get binoculars. He goes off to -the hill and approaches the object until he is about 33 feet away. It is -a disc made of silvery metal with a dome on top. It is about 13 feet in -diameter and stands on three legs. A door opens and two men come -floating down to the ground. Machado can see two other beings inside. -The men walk toward him, making signs. They are wearing silver diver’s -suits, have black teeth and thin-lipped mouths, and one eye is lower -than the other. Each has a kind of burn or cicatrice on each cheek. -Machado is nervous, so he lights a cigarette. The beings apparently -think this is funny, so he tosses the cigarette pack toward them. One of -them leans sideways and stretches out his hand. The pack floats 8 inches -up to his hand and disappears. Suddenly one of Machado’s friends calls -out to him, and the beings walk back to the UFO, still facing him, and -jump up to the door. The last one in pauses and pulls out a kind of -weapon, points it at Machado, and a flame like a welding arc comes out -of the barrel and floats toward him, hitting him in the thigh. He feels -faint and paralyzed as the UFO takes off. His friends carry him to a -neighbor’s house and find a red swelling on his leg. Later, -investigators find three imprints in an equilateral triangle at the -site, each about 5 inches in diameter. Soil samples taken show no -radioactivity. (Nigel Rimes, “The -Pirassununga Landing,” in Charles Bowen, ed., UFO Percipients, -special issue no. 3 of FSR, September 1969, pp. 39–45; Brazil 109–114; -“Caso -Tiago Machado,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4646

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Event 6991 -(1C37CC01)

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Date: 2/12/1969
-Description: McDonald presents -“A Dissenting View of the Condon Report” to the DuPont Chapter of the -Scientific Research Society of America in Wilmington, Delaware. (James -E. McDonald, “A Dissenting View of the Condon Report,” February 12, -1969; Patrick Gross, “Scientists -Take Position”; Story, p. 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4647

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Event 6992 -(3683ACDF)

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Date: 2/13/1969
-Description: McDonald speaks -on “UFOs: A Challenge to Observation” at the American Meteorological -Society in Washington, D.C. (James E. McDonald, “UFOs: -A Challenge to Observation,” February 13, 1969; Story, p. 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4648

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Event 6993 -(09BF1598)

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Date: 2/18/1969
-Description: Morning. Barbara Smyth, a teacher in a small town in -Alberta, is driving to school when she sees on her right a “gigantic, -bright pinky-red coloured” object “about seven times the size of a steel -granary of 14ft. diameter.” It looks like two rounded layers divided by -a thin blue line. There are two flashing white lights on the top and a -tent-like structure that pulsates and changes color from silver to fiery -yellow. The UFO starts spinning counterclockwise and jumps over to the -next hill. Suddenly, her car is no longer under her control as it floats -down a very bumpy road. After three minutes the UFO disappears, and the -car returns to normal. (W. K. Allan, “A -UFO and the Car Which ‘Floated Along,’” Flying Saucer Review Case -Histories, no. 6 (August 1971): 8, iii; Clark III 250)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4649

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Event 6994 -(5FD0E5E2)

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Date: 2/19/1969
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Two telephone linemen are working atop a pole -near Lebel-sur-Quévillon, Quebec, when the see a gray, metallic cylinder -with four fins at its end moving slowly west to east over the trees and -about 150 feet above the ground. The object is 100 feet long and only 15 -feet in diameter. The men watch it for a few minutes as it glides slowly -out of sight. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August -Night, 2022, p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4650

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Event 6995 -(175AE8EA)

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Date: 2/21/1969
-Description: Soviet super-heavy N-1 rocket fails its first attempt
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

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Event 6996 -(92F7DF44)

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Date: 3/1969
-Description: Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information -representative Maj. David -J. Shea attends a meeting in the Pentagon in which “there was no -doubt that Project Blue Book was finished.” (Clark III 926)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4651

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Event 6997 -(76D08E8D)

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Date: 3/3/1969
-Description: Hynek submits -a UFO research proposal to Col. George -R. Weinbrenner, FTD -Commander, in which he reveals that out of the approximately 10,000 -reports in the Project Blue Book files, he estimates that 1,000–3,000 -(10%–30%) are “interesting” unexplained cases (“unknowns”). (J. Allen -Hynek, “Preliminary -Proposal for Subject -Investigation,” March 3 and 19, 1969)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4653

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Event 6998 -(A74C78A2)

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Date: 3/3/1969
-Description: The US Navy establishes its Fighter Weapons School (Top -Gun) to teach fighter and strike tactics to selected aviators and -officers at Naval Air Station Miramar [now Marine Corps Air Station -Miramar] in San Diego, California. Its focus is on combat training -against MiG fighters, now that MiG testing at Groom Lake, Nevada, has -been successful. (Wikipedia, “United -States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4652

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Event 6999 -(AF3D1D38)

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Date: 3/4/1969
-Description: Object emitting blinding light beam paced ahead of vehicle, -heat felt. Light beam associated with E-M effects. Object rose and fell, -veered off, flew out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Atlanta, MO
-ID: 179

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Event 7000 -(79B5DFCC)

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Date: 3/4/1969
-Description: 10:00 p.m. RCMP Constable R. J. Shannahan is on foot patrol -near 24 Sussex Drive, the Prime Minister’s residence in Ottawa, Ontario. -He looks up and sees two bright flashing red lights above and slightly -inside the gates to Rideau Hall. One light moves east and is lost to -view in one minute, while the other moves west and is visible for 5–6 -minutes. No jets are scrambled, and there is no indication that radar -installations are asked about unidentified targets. (Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 75–77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4655

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Event 7001 -(8D07E7AF)

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Date: 3/4/1969
-Description: 6:40 a.m. William -Overstreet, 50, is driving his truck on Missouri J between Elmer and -Atlanta, Missouri, when he sees a bright reddish-orange light about 100 -feet in diameter and floating along at 40 mph. It begins to follow the -road and beams a strong, cone-shaped white light on to the road from a -height of 50 feet. Overstreet can feel the heat. The object changes from -red to a blue sphere surrounded by a red ring. He attempts to drive -through the beam, but his motor and radio die when he gets to within 6 -feet. The beam moves away a bit, he tries again, and the same thing -happens. The UFO moves about a mile away, turns back to red, switches -off the beam, and cruises away. (NICAP, “100ʹ -Object Affects Radio and Truck Engine”; “E-M -Effect on Truck in Missouri,” APRO Bulletin, May/June 1969, p.4; -Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March -2008): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4654

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Event 7002 -(639FDE50)

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Date: 3/4/1969
-Description: Near Atlanta, Missouri: The City Marshall and Mail Carrier -in Elmer, Missouri, William R. Overstreet observed an UFO at early dawn -over the road ahead of him. It was about 100 ft. in diam. apparently -rotating clockwise and emitting a strong white beam of light down to the -road which seemed to magnify the size of theroad it was shining on. He -felt intense heat from the direction of the UFO and his CB radio was -dead. As heneared the light beam from the UFO his truck motor and radio -quit. As the beam moved away from his truck he was able to start the -engine again. He followed the UFO for about 4 mi. staying away from the -beam. The UFO followed the contour of the land it was flying over. After -7–8 min. the UFO veered away and went out of sight. “I had never -believed in them too much until I saw this,” he said. “Now I know that -there is something to these UFOs!”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-F p265)
-See also: 8/13/75
-See also: 6/66

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Event 7003 -(146C00A4)

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Date: 3/6/1969
-Description: Light beam shone on road ahead of car, dog reacted. Witness -drove beneath domed disc, car motion slowed. Eye irritation
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lancaster, MO
-ID: 180

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Event 7004 -(6ECAB515)

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Date: 3/6/1969
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A woman is driving with her St. Bernard dog -between Glenwood and Lancaster, Missouri. The dog becomes agitated and -she sees a bright blue-white beam of light illuminating the road and a -domed disc 1,000 feet in the air. The dog jumps into the front seat and -become quite panicked. She tries to drive through the beam, but the car -slows from 50 mph to 8 mph but manages to get to the other side when the -car picks up speed. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, p. 32; Ted Phillips, “UFO -Events in -Missouri, 1857–1971,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 8 -(December 1971): 11; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” -IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4656

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Event 7005 -(4D04DA5D)

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Date: 3/10/1969
-Description: Disc with dome passed overhead, stopped, emitted light beam -onto road, illuminating police chief’s car. Finally ascended, flew away -to south
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Westhope, ND
-ID: 181

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Event 7006 -(D6D270FA)

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Date: 3/14/1969
-Description: Flight surgeon, crew of KC-135, observed huge black -cylinder hovering, inclined in vertical position. Fighter aircraft sent -to investigate, object disappeared
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Thailand
-ID: 182

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Event 7007 -(6BB0053F)

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Date: 3/17/1969
-Description: Two pilots are flying a Cessna 150 between Phoenix and Lake -Havasu, Arizona, when the pilot in the right seat rises up and sees -maybe 2 dozen oval, white discs on the left side of the plane, flying -very low and in a rough formation. Each has the hint of a blister near -the front. The speed is 200–300 mph, and the only maneuver they make is -pitch and roll, all done simultaneously, in unison. For 20 seconds, both -pilots watch the objects pass below their aircraft and beyond. (Michael -D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2 (January 2006): -11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4657

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Event 7008 -(6D3F262E)

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Date: 3/18/1969
-Description: The US begins a covert SAC bombing campaign, Operation -Menu, in eastern Cambodia that lasts until May 26, 1970. An official -USAF record of US bombing activity over Indochina from 1964 to 1973 is -declassified by President Bill -Clinton in 2000. The report gives details of the extent of the -bombing of Cambodia, as well as of Laos and Vietnam. The Menu bombings -are an escalation of what has previously been tactical air attacks. -Operation Freedom Deal immediately follows Operation Menu. Under Freedom -Deal, B-52 bombing is expanded to a much larger area of Cambodia and -continued until August 1973. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Menu”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4658

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Event 7009 -(342B0E57)

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Date: 3/28/1969
-Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower dies
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 7010 -(4EA4BFD1)

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Date: 4/1969
-Description: “The Condon Report and UFOs” by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, -Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, called the report: “a strange sort of -scientific paper [that] does not fulfill the promise of its title. . . -[It] leaves the same strange, inexplicable residue Of unknowns which has -plagued the U.S. Air Force investigation for 20 years.”
-Type: report
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 183

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Event 7011 -(3C9154A5)

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Date: 4/1969
-Description: Hynek writes -a review of the Condon report -for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, calling it a “strange sort of -scientific paper [that] does not fulfill the promise of its title…. [It] -leaves the same strange, inexplicable residue of unknowns which has -plagued the U.S. Air Force investigation for 20 years.” (J. Allen Hynek, -“The -Condon Report -and UFOs,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 25 (April 1969): -39–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4659

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Event 7012 -(1ED3A0B9)

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Date: 4/3/1969
-Description: 7:38 P.M. Bright fireball meteor traveling south-southeast -to north-northwest, leaving long trail, sparks.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Southern UK
-ID: 184

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Event 7013 -(F60F8ABA)

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Date: 4/12/1969
-Description: During a Fouga Magister aircraft training mission at Pori -Airport, Finland, a Finnish Defence Forces flight controller tells -pilot-in-training Tarmo -Tukeva to investigate seven air balloons that are floating at -approximately 5,000–9,800 feet above the airport. Tukeva reports that -the objects are ball or disc-shaped but cannot determine how far away -they are. Tukeva sees the objects accelerate away from him “at great -speed.” Indeterminate radar images are also later reported 125 miles -away in Vaasa. A second pilot-in-training, Jouko Kuronen, overhears the -radio communications between the flight controller and Tukeva and sees -the UFOs as well. According to the Finnish Armed Forces magazine -Ruotuväki, the reports are similar to other cases occurring over bodies -of water during ongoing military exercises and may have been due to -“transnational spy planes or aircraft.” (Wikipedia, “Finnish -Air Force UFO sighting”; “1969: -Pilots Report 7 Yellow Spheres at Pori Airport, Finland,” UFO -Casebook, August 13, 2013; “Ruotuväki: -Ilmavoimien lentäjät tekivät merkittävän ufo-havainnon 60-luvulla,” -Ilta-Sanomat, May 8, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4660

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Event 7014 -(31AA7F12)

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Date: 4/17/1969
-Description: Morning. T. J. Hefferman of Bungawalban, New South Wales, -wakes up and notices that his dogs are “strangely subdued.” Outside, he -finds a flattened area in a sacaline (Reynoutria sachalinensis) forage -crop on his property. A roughly circular area is flattened in four -distinct patches, the largest 60 by 15 feet. All the stalks lie in one -direction, north to south. The previous night, two men working night -shift on a flood mitigation dredge a quarter mile north of the farm had -seen a glow in the sky, and a neighboring farmer had seen two “toplike -objects” moving about for a number of nights. G. Testa, an independent -investigator from Lismore, visits the site on April 20 and takes 25 feet -of 8mm color film to document the damage. (Bill Chalker, “1969: -The Great UFO Daze -of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020; Clark III 1138–1139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4661

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Event 7015 -(E862B35C)

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Date: 4/19/1969
-Description: Evening. Two witnesses 5 miles east of Hill City, Kansas, -watch a multi-colored object approach to within 100 feet of their car. -The car engine fails. The object hovers at 75 feet above the ground for -3 minutes, then slowly moves away. The car then restarts without -trouble. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, -1982, p. 46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4662

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Event 7016 -(A84032E7)

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Date: 4/20/1969
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A woman out walking at Harwood Island, New South -Wales, sees and hears a large patch of 2-year- old cane rustling and -waving on a still night. A powerful beam of light switches on across the -top of the cane path, and it slowly turns in a half circle before going -out and being replaced by a “low beam” and “cabin lights.” A UFO is -above the cane and she feels a powerful force lifting her up and pulling -her toward the object when the “high beam” is on. The helmet-shaped -object is 20–28 feet long and 22 feet wide. At its closest the UFO is -40–50 feet away. It disappears suddenly. (Bill Chalker, “1969: -The Great UFO Daze of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020; Clark -III 1139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4663

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Event 7017 -(3802E917)

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Date: 4/22/1969
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Three witnesses are driving in heavy rain near -Hammond, Ontario, when they see an object like a huge “drinking cup -turned upside down.” It has two bright lights directed horizontally and -appears to have a row of portholes with pink light coming from within. -They estimate it is 5 feet off the ground, 20 feet long, and 200 feet -away. They can hear a whining noise like a generator. After 15 minutes, -the object turns and zooms over some nearby power lines, over the trees, -and out of sight. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August -Night, 2022, p. 77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4664

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Event 7018 -(3E75CCEF)

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Date: 4/23/1969
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Virginia A. Guinn and a boarder are awakened by -loud howlings and yowlings from the dogs and cats at her farm in Silver -Spring, Maryland. Going outside, the witnesses see a round UFO “as large -as two rooms” that is a bluish-white color like the glow around a -welder’s arc. The object is moving beyond the barn to the -north-northeast. They heard a humming noise and the object blinks out -and the animals quiet down. Guinn discovers later that morning that the -horses in the barn had broken free of their stalls and knocked harnesses -off the walls. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, p. 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4665

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Event 7019 -(18F1497F)

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Date: 4/25/1969
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A woman and her 11-year-old daughter are -travelling by taxi past Roberts Park in Greenacre, New South Wales, when -they spot a “Japanese lantern” above some trees. One minute later, as -the taxi turns a corner, they see it again, 100–130 feet away, -apparently in the same spot. The driver stops the taxi, and they can see -what looks like a metallic craft, approximately 33 feet in diameter, -with the appearance of “two soup bowls joined rim- to-rim.” There is a -steady red light on top. The object seems to be noiselessly rocking -backwards and forwards, at a frequency of 1–2 rocks per second. A -“depressing blue glow” can be seen through a window that takes up most -of the upper part. A humanoid figure is apparently operating controls -near the window. Another figure is pointing at the witnesses. A third -seems to be walking toward a back door. All three are apparently -human-sized and are either wearing tight black clothing, are black -skinned, or seen in silhouette. After 15 seconds or less, the driver -speeds off down the road, drops the couple off, and drives off quickly -without taking their fare. At 8:00 p.m., the woman and her daughter -return to the park. The UFO is not to be seen. (Bill Chalker, “1969: -The Great UFO Daze -of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4666

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Event 7020 -(D6B55805)

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Date: 4/26/1969
-Description: Condon speaks -publicly for the first time after the end of the Colorado project in an -address to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, -Pennsylvania, on “UFOs I Have Loved and Lost.” He concludes by saying, -“Let me say that where corruption of children’s minds is at stake, I do -not believe in freedom of the press or freedom of speech. In my view, -publishers who publish or teachers who teach any of the pseudosciences -as established truth should, on being found guilty, be publicly -horsewhipped, and forever banned from further activity in these usually -honorable professions.” (Henry W. Pierce, “Professors -Threaten Own Free Speech,” Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette, May 10, -1969, p. 21; Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet eds., 1976, p. 224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4667

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Event 7021 -(92CA28E7)

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Date: 5/1969
-Description: Rod B. Dyke launches the monthly UFO Newsclipping Service -in Seattle, Washington, which soon becomes a primary source for media -reports on UFOs and related phenomena. The service is largely run by Lucius -Farish as co-editor in Plumerville, Arkansas, beginning in July -1977. Farish publishes it on his own from January 1991 until November -2007, when Dyke reacquires it and keeps it going again with co-editor -Chuck Flood until December 2008. The final editor is David -Marler, who -runs the service from January 2009 to August 2011, when it ceases -publication. (UFO -Newsclipping Service, no. 1 (May 1969))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4668

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Event 7022 -(214E64B8)

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Date: 5/1969
-Description: John -A. Keel begins publishing an unscheduled, free newsletter titled -Anomaly in New York City. It continues until April 1974. (Anomaly, no. -1 (May 1969))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4669

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Event 7023 -(0270683F)

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Date: 5/1/1969
-Description: 5:30 p.m. An illuminated triangular object moves -soundlessly from south to north over Negru Vodă, Romania. After 20 -minutes of hanging motionless it disappears swiftly to the east. (Hobana -and Weverbergh 161–162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4670

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Event 7024 -(26CA8343)

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Date: 5/4/1969
-End date: 5/9/1969
-Description: 3:00 p.m. A 24-year-old Brazilian soldier named José -Antônio da Silva is fishing by himself at Bebedouro (apparently a small -lagoon in the Área de Proteção Ambiental do Carste de Lagoa Santa) near -Matozinhos, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when he begins dozing off. He -perceives figures moving around him, and he feels himself shot with -something that paralyzes his legs. Two small humanoid beings, joined by -a third, drag him off into a strange machine shaped like two saucers -joined together by a thick, vertical cylinder. The machine lifts off, -and after a long interval it lands. Da Silva is carried by his armpits -into a large quadrangular room, where he finds himself with his original -three captors and a fourth being—also humanoid, with red hair and a -beard that comes down to his waist—who seems to be their leader. He -remembers afterward that all four have mouths that look like fishes’ -mouths. The room is made of stone. Inside, on a low shelf seemingly -fashioned out of stone, da Silva sees the bodies of four human men lying -stretched out side by side. Naked, rigid, and positioned on their backs, -the bodies bear no visible wounds, but it is obvious that they are dead. -One is a well-built black man and another has light brown skin. Two -others, more slightly built, are Caucasian, one of them very blond “like -a foreigner.” The beings do not speak any Portuguese but, using -pictures, the leader manages to convey to da Silva that they want him to -be their guide and weapons provider for what he supposes is a subsequent -invasion of Earth. He refuses, fingering his crucifix, which the angry -leader rips from his hand. Out of nowhere, da Silva sees appear in front -of him a human figure who stands motionless, gazing at him in a friendly -fashion. The figure, about five and a half feet tall, is Caucasian, -slender, bearded with long fair hair, and dressed in a friar’s cassock. -Amazingly, the little men seem oblivious to his presence. Speaking in -Portuguese, the figure gives da Silva certain “revelations” that he -afterward insists on keeping secret. He apparently knows who the figure -is but he does not reveal that either, saying only that he wasn’t Jesus. -The figure vanishes, and the beings who have abducted him start -quarreling among themselves. They carry da Silva back to their machine; -there follows another flight, another landing. Da Silva awakens in the -dawn of what turns out to be May 9, four and a half days after his -abduction, some 300 miles to the east of the place where he had been -abducted. He supposedly bears the physical marks of his ordeal— wounds -on his neck, lameness in one leg—for days afterward. (Húlvio Brant -Aleixo, “O -Caso ‘Bebedouro,’” SBEDV Boletim, no. 94/98 (Sept. 1973/June 1974): -7–22; Húlvio Brant Aleixo, “Abduction -at Bebedouro,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1973): -6–14; Húlvio Brant Aleixo, “Bebedouro -II: The Little Men Return -for the Soldier,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4 (November 1975): -32–35; Walter Buhler, “Thoughts -on the -Bebedouro Case,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4 (November 1975): -36–38; “O -Caso de Bebedouro,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; David Halperin, -“Jerome -Clark and Loren Coleman: ‘Descent into Hell’ and the -Bebedouro Abduction,” davidhalperin.net, July 27, 2018; Clark III -185–189; Brazil 116–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4671

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Event 7025 -(C275BB22)

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Date: 5/11/1969
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Near the village of Chapeau, Quebec, on -L’Isle-aux-Allumettes in the Ottawa River, farmer Leo Paul Chaput is -awakened by his dog barking. He looks out the window and sees a -brilliant light close to the ground. The light source seems to be a -domed craft with a flat bottom (like a World War I helmet) about 500 -feet away. He looks away briefly, and the object is gone, although he -can hear the diminishing sound of a motor. When Chaput gets up in the -morning, he finds a large circular indentation in the ground, 600 feet -from his house. The impression is 32 feet in diameter and is surrounded -by a ring of scorched grass 2.5 feet wide. Inside, the vegetation is not -damaged, but there are three holes that form a perfect equilateral -triangle, 15 feet on a side. The holes are 8 inches in diameter and 3 -inches deep. He finds a second, slightly smaller circle to the -southwest, again with scorched grass and 3 indentations. A third ground -marking, a semicircle, is near the second. (Donald E. Keyhoe and Gordon -I. R. Lore Jr., Strange -Effects from UFOs, NICAP, -1969, p. 45; Brian C. Cannon, “UFO Alert -in Ontario,” Canadian UFO Report 1, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1969): 19–21; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 153–154; -Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn -Press, 2006, pp. 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4672

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Event 7026 -(EDDCED9E)

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Date: 5/12/1969
-Description: The DARPA Pandora Project committee discusses plans to move -forward with eight human subjects who will be exposed to microwaves -similar to the Moscow Signal and then given a full battery of medical -and psychological tests. The committee recommends “gonadal protection be -provided” to the male test subjects; however, human testing is not -pursued. The program is shut down later in 1969, with an effect of the -signal on behavior and/or biological functions deemed “too subtle or -insignificant to be evident.” (Wikipedia, “Moscow Signal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4673

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Event 7027 -(85299C7A)

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Date: 5/18/1969
-End date: 5/20/1969
-Description: Evening. A localized power blackout cuts off electricity at -the Lester Kaiser farm near Rising Sun, Indiana, for 2 hours. The next -night, George Kaiser watches a hairy, muscular, bipedal creature that -flees upon being seen. It leaves tracks showing three toes and a big -toe. On May 20, a neighbor sees a glowing, greenish-white UFO as it -hovers for several minutes. (John Keel, Strange Creatures from Time and -Space, 1970, pp. 94–95; Clark III 556; Patrick Gross, URECAT, May -29, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4674

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Event 7028 -(2C773B7E)

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Date: 5/22/1969
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Graham Longey sees a large, brilliant, circular -white object hovering a few feet off the ground at Glenorchy, Tasmania. -Windows encircle its midsection. It begins to move rapidly upward, and -by the time he dashes out of his house it is gone. On the site, Longey -finds an elliptical area of burned grass 18 feet by 12 feet. A small -tree nearby is scorched and has limbs broken. He notices an oily smell. -(Clark III 1139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4675

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Event 7029 -(E1CFB64E)

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Date: 5/23/1969
-Description: 6:35 p.m. A 13-year-old boy in Cloverdale, Western -Australia, notices a moving light to the south and about 10° above the -horizon. He calls his mother, who sees a steady red light on top of a -more diffuse blue-white light darting haphazardly in a zigzag pattern -but in general moving to the north until it disappears behind their -house. The witnesses shift their position and can still see the light -hovering in the northwest. The light is now seen as circular with hazy -edges and about half the diameter of the full moon. At about 7:00 p.m. -it moves at high speed to the north. The mother calls the radar station -at Kalamunda, which simultaneously gets a request from Perth Airport to -check out an unidentified echo on their meteorological radar. The -Kalamunda operator sees a large echo some 9 miles away, which reappears -for short durations on 5 further occasions and is last seen at 7:42 p.m. -(Swords 397–398; Bill Chalker, “1969: -The Great UFO Daze of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4676

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Event 7030 -(267DC23A)

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Date: 5/28/1969
-Description: McDonald presents -a talk that is critical of the Colorado project at the Sacramento, -California, section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and -Astronautics. (James E. McDonald, “A Very Creditable Effort?” May 28, -1969; Story, p. 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4677

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Event 7031 -(3A7E0E49)

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Date: 5/31/1969
-Description: The Midwest UFO Network (later Mutual UFO Network) is -founded in Quincy, Illinois, by Walter -H. Andrus Jr., who -leaves APRO and takes many of its members with him. It is conceived as a -grassroots organization with state and local leaders overseeing -activities and investigations. Allen R. Utke, associate professor of -chemistry at Wisconsin State University, is selected as the first MUFON -Director (Clark III 784)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4678

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Event 7032 -(8CE2A9F6)

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Date: 6/1969
-Description: Although President Richard -Nixon does not trust J. -Edgar Hoover, he -accepts the FBI’s help through an “intelligence letter” program, -codenamed INLET. This program is not only intended to provide the -president with domestic and international security issues, but also, -“items with an unusual twist or concerning prominent personalities which -may be of special interest to the President.” Nixon orders seven -wiretaps on his staffers. (John Greenewald, “INLET -(Intelligence Letters) Reports, 1960s and 1970s,” The Black Vault, -May 7, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4679

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Event 7033 -(F42F956D)

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Date: 6/10/1969
-Description: McDonald gives -a public talk sponsored by NICAP in Washington, D.C., on “UFOs Unsolved: -A Scientific Challenge.” (James E. McDonald, “UFOs: -Unsolved: A Scientific Challenge,” June 10, 1969; Story, p. 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4680

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Event 7034 -(78CD1EA9)

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Date: 6/11/1969
-Description: McDonald meets -privately with representatives on the Air Force Office of Scientific -Research in Arlington, Virginia, urging a new look at the UFO problem. -(Story, p. 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4681

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Event 7035 -(7A1A917E)

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Date: 6/17/1969
-Description: Turkish Air Force pilot Süleyman Tekyildirim is ordered to -intercept a UFO above his base in Turkey in a US- built F-5A Freedom -Fighter. He flies above it, thinking it is a meteorological balloon -because it looks gray and like an upside-down light bulb. However, it -moves to his left and takes off at fantastic speed. He tries to reach -it, but it eludes him and speeds away. (Good Need, p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4683

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Event 7036 -(0EE64D3A)

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Date: 6/17/1969
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Kaneto and Kioko Nobutoshi witness a “brilliantly -illuminated window” hovering in the air in Ibiúna, São Paulo, Brazil. It -appears to be 30 feet in diameter, 10 feet high, and illuminates a small -part of the ground. The sighting lasts 45 minutes, with the object -stationary all the time. It then vanishes. Later examination of the -ground underneath reveals a circle of flattened grass, 25 feet in -diameter, swirled counterclockwise, with some small secondary swirls. -(Hans Bemelmans, “Reports -from Ibiuna,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1970): -15–19; Terry Wilson, “1969: -Ibiuna,” Old Crop Circles)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4682

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Event 7037 -(2EBF0FF8)

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Date: 6/19/1969
-Description: 12:25 a.m. Radio/TV engineer Robin Peck is driving a van -just north of Bircham Newton, Norfolk, England, when his headlights and -motor fail. He looks under the hood, feels some “static electricity,” -and his hair stands on end. He looks up and sees a bluish, -upside-down-mushroom-shaped object hovering 100–150 feet over the trees -on a nearby farm. It has an orange glow around it. Peck feels that the -air is electrified. His luminous wristwatch glows intensely and -unnaturally. After about one minute the object takes off and disappears -rapidly. The van’s electrical system returns to normal. (Peter Johnson, -“Auto-Stop -near Docking,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 5 (June -1971): 1–2; UFOFiles2, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4684

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Event 7038 -(6FBF71DF)

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Date: 6/19/1969
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Arthur Hendry, 17, is getting ready to cycle -home near Docking, Norfolk, England, when he hears a strange whistling -noise above him that intensifies and becomes a powerful throbbing. His -muscles feel frozen or paralyzed as if he is receiving a severe electric -shock. After a few seconds the noise stops, and he feels normal again. -(UFOFiles2, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4685

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Event 7039 -(57F84157)

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Date: 6/19/1969
-Description: E-M effects on car, static electricity. Bluish object -shaped like inverted mushroom hovered overhead. Took off at high -speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Docking/Bircham Newton, UK
-ID: 185

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Event 7040 -(2E1A21DF)

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Date: 6/26/1969
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Sr. Benedito, a justice of the peace, is walking -along a trail about 4 miles northwest of Ibiúna, São Paulo, Brazil, when -he hears a humming noise like a swarm of bees. He sees an odd object -rocking from side to side that suddenly drops into the brush out of -sight. Thinking it is an accident, he approaches to within 20 feet and -sees the landed object, which then ascends, hovers a moment, and takes -off in a gentle climb. He hears the humming sound again and feels a -blast of air as it moves away. The Brazilian Air Force investigates the -landing, and UFO investigator Hans Bemelmans finds some scorched grass -in the thickly tangled brush. (Hans Bemelmans, “Reports -from Ibiuna,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1970): -15–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4686

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Event 7041 -(2461A14D)

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Date: 7/1969
-Alternate date: 8/1969
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A US Marine private named Earl -Morrison is on guard duty with other soldiers in a bunker near Da -Nang, Vietnam, when they see a black, naked woman with bat-like, glowing -wings moving through the air toward them. It flies about 6–7 above their -heads. She soon starts flapping her wings and flies away. (“Don Worley, -“The -Winged Lady in Black,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 10 -(June 1972): 14–16; Clark III 779)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4688

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Event 7042 -(E1AB5A99)

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Date: 7/1969
-Description: After a series of UFO sightings and landing traces are -reported in the area around Ibiúna, São Paulo, Brazil, the Brazilian Air -Force informs local officials who are investigating the reports that -they must not “under any circumstances give any information on UFO -activity to any press, radio, or television reporter or representative. -This is a matter of national security, and all press releases will be -made by the Brazilian Air Force Public Relations Department.” (Hans -Bemelmans, “Reports -from Ibiuna,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1970): 15; -“Brazil: -Censorship of UFO Reports,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1973): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4687

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Event 7043 -(021ED572)

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Date: 7/3/1969
-Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its second test -attempt
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

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Event 7044 -(5CA20BE3)

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Date: 7/4/1969
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Two children, Mauricio Gnecco and Enrique Osorio, -in Anolaima, Colombia, see a glowing object about 900 feet away. It -approaches to within 180 feet and the children run over the hill to tell -other children and adults. Thirteen people, including their father, -return to see the object. Arcesio Bermúdez takes a flashlight with him -and returns in terror after seeing a small person and a craft that -lights up and flies away. Within 2 days, Bermúdez loses all appetite, -his skin temperature drops, blue spots appear on his skin, and his -stools become bloody. Within a week, two Bogotá physicians, unaware of -his UFO experience, concludes he has gastroenteritis. Within hours of -his exam, Bermúdez dies. His doctor claims he has previously been in -good health. His injuries suggest a fatal whole-body ionizing radiation -dose of 300–500 rems. Likely only X-rays, gamma rays, or neutrons could -travel a distance of 45 feet through the air. (“UFO -Observed at Farmhouse in Colombia,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1969, -pp. 1, 4–5; Story, pp. 23–25; -Clark III 253, 950; “Colombia: -Arcesio Bermúdez, the Man Killed by -a UFO,” Inexplicata, December 14, 2015; Cristian Ávila Jimenez, “La -misteriosa muerte de columbiano 3 días después -de ver supuesto OVNI,” El Tiempo (Bogotá), August 20, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4689

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Event 7045 -(EF70E434)

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Date: 7/11/1969
-Alternate date: 7/18/1969
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Economics student Tim Oliver is near a golf -course on the outskirts of Beaufort, Victoria, Australia, when he sees a -red “star” over a hill about a mile away. On closer inspection, it -proves to be a hovering UFO. He quickly goes home, and by the time he -returns with his mother in the family car, the UFO has been joined by -another identical object. They are moving about 20 mph to the southeast, -50 feet in the air, 200 feet apart, and nearly parallel to some -high-powered electrical lines. As they drive to right outside the golf -course, both UFOs apparently respond to their presence by turning toward -them but soon resumed their parallel course when Oliver turns the car -engine off. Oliver walks to within 50 feet of the leading object. Each -is about 30 feet in diameter, saucer-shaped, with an upper flat-topped -cupola and about 24 square windows through which comes the bright red -light. They are completely silent. Both he and his mother (who has -watched from the golf course fence) see the UFOs disappear to the -southeast, still flying parallel to the power lines. (Bill Chalker, “1969: -The Great UFO -Daze of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4690

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Event 7046 -(B7AE64FE)

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Date: 7/12/1969
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Patti Barr and Kathy Mahr, two teenage cousins, -hear a loud roaring noise at Van Horne, Iowa, while upstairs in their -house. They look out the window to see a reddish-orange ball of light -rotating and spinning counterclockwise above the adjacent soybean field. -The next morning, they tell Pat’s father, farmer Warren Barr, who then -discovers a 24-foot-diameter, nearly bare oval in the soybean field. The -plants’ leaves are severely dehydrated, dry, and brittle. This case was -investigated by several groups at the time; localized intense heat or -radiation is listed as most likely cause. (“Sight -UFO over Benton County Farm,” Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, August 6, -1969, p. 4C; NICAP, “The -1969 UFO Chronology” and [photos]; -“UFO -over Iowa Bean Field,” APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1969, pp. 1, 4; J. -Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 149–150; -Kevin D. Randle, “The -Iowa UFO Landings,” Official UFO, July 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4692

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Event 7047 -(21F7B654)

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Date: 7/12/1969
-Description: Contactee Paul -Solem, who -has been speaking to Shoshone-Bannock Indians at Fort Hall Indian -Reservation in Idaho about a migration of Indian peoples and the coming -of a True White Brother, publicly calls for the appearance of the flying -saucer beings. Many people, including Idaho State Reporter Barbara -Boren, see two “star-like moving lights” high in the air. (Barbara -Boren, “Blast -Rocking North America to Start Indian Migration, Says -Self-Styled Seer,” Pocatello Idaho State Journal, July 16, 1969, -pp. 1, 8; Clark III 1094)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4691

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Event 7048 -(37D5B450)

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Date: 7/13/1969
-Description: Early morning. Edgar Paquette and Mrs. Leo Edwards are -driving near Petawawa, Ontario, when they see a bright star that lights -up the Ottawa River next to them. Convinced the light is following them, -Paquette turns off the headlights, which makes the object appear to -hesitate. But he gets out of the car, causing the interior light to go -on, and the object descends to within 60 feet of the ground. When he -starts signaling it with a flashlight, it comes even closer, and -Paquette sees that it is 8 feet in diameter with two legs beneath it. -Both of them panic and drive home, dragging their teenage children out -of bed to look at the light. Ontario police officers Jack McKay and -Grant Chaplin follow the light for 38 minutes as it travels at a high -altitude. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, -2022, pp. 83–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4693

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Event 7049 -(D2452380)

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Date: mid 7/1969
-Description: Bernard O’Brien is cutting grass in a field with his -tractor near Manotick, Ontario, when a small cloud of smoke rises from -the ground as he passes over a particular spot. He notifies the field’s -owner, John Fox, who comes out for a look. Fox finds three near-perfect -circles in the field, two together and the third nearly 150 feet away. -Each of them are rings of affected grass 15–20 feet in diameter and -about a foot wide. Grass is flattened inside the circle, but the rings -themselves are dark and contain a crystalline substance. Peter -Millman of the National Research Council claims that the circles are -caused by the fairy ring mushroom (Marasmius oreades) because an -analysis of the crystalline substance shows no evidence of mineral -content or radioactivity. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, -August Night, 2022, pp. 187–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4694

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Event 7050 -(0A20819A)

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Date: 7/16/1969
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Sylvia Annola, 10, sees a large gray object with -blinding lights descending above a well on her family’s farm near Abee, -Alberta. She looks directly at the object, which is only about 10 feet -away, and experiences a temporary loss of vision. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO -Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 50–53)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4695

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Event 7051 -(D6940829)

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Date: 7/21/1969
-Description: The Apollo 11 Lunar Module lands the first astronauts on -the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz -Aldrin. (Wikipedia, “Apollo -11”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4696

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Event 7052 -(7EAD4055)

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Date: 8/1969
-Description: 1:45 p.m. James D. Appleman is driving on the Pennsylvania -Turnpike when he notices a dome-shaped, metallic object hovering in the -clouds ahead. He stops the car and gets his camera out of the trunk, but -by that time the object is gone. (“Did -a Twin Photograph a Twin UFO?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 1 -(January 1981): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4697

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Event 7053 -(1A020B2D)

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Date: 8/22/1969
-Description: The National Amateur Astronomers Association hosts an open -forum in Denver, Colorado, “Science and the UFO,” with presentations by -James -A. Harder, R. -Leo Sprinkle, J. -Allen Hynek, David -Saunders, James McDonald, and -Frank -Salisbury. When -asked how many of the 500 people assembled have had a UFO sighting, -about 75 hands go up. (“Scientists Urge New UFO Studies,” Fate 23, no. 4 -(April 1970): 38–48; George W. Earley, “Astronomers Raise Their Hands,” -IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4698

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Event 7054 -(5A4C09F3)

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Date: 8/29/1969
-Description: 6:20 a.m. Norman Vedaa and a passenger are driving along -Interstate 80S [now Interstate 76] about 70 miles east of Denver -[putting them roughly near Fort Morgan, Colorado]. They notice a -brilliant, yellow-gold object hovering high in the air. They manage to -take two photographs before it speeds away. Ground Saucer Watch -concludes from its density profile in the photos that it is a solid -object. (William H. Spaulding, “Observational -Data of an Anomalistic Aerial Phenomenon,” Flying Saucer Review 22, -no. 1 (May 1976): 12–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4699

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Event 7055 -(D559CFCB)

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Date: 8/30/1969
-Description: Afternoon. Future ufologist Bill -Chalker, 17, -is relaxing on a surfboard in the middle of the Clarence River in -Grafton, New South Wales. He notices streams of fine filament coming -down out of the sky over the river. He collects some samples, seeing no -spiders, but the material dissipates into nothing. He later learns that -other people, including his parents, watched an elongated white UFO -moving at right angles to the filament fall. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel -Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7; Clark -III 124–126; Bill Chalker, “1969: -The Great UFO Daze of Oz,” The Oz Files, September 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4700

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Event 7056 -(104CFB4C)

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Date: 8/30/1969
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Ion Hobana is at the North Railway Station in -Bucharest, Romania, when he sees a triangular object rise from behind -the station building. It is a dull orange color and moves with one of -its sides facing forward. Three smaller globes trail it in a straight -line. The object travels to the right and disappears after a few -seconds. (Hobana and Weverbergh 179–180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4701

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Event 7057 -(ED1FB1C0)

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Date: 8/31/1969
-Description: Day. An RAAF Canberra bomber chases but fails to catch a -UFO over northern New South Wales. The plane is dispatched from RAAF -Base Amberley near Ipswich, Queensland, after hundreds of people in -Kygole and along the Darling Downs report the object, which is shaped -like an aluminum Zeppelin. Some witnesses observe the object for 3 hours -as it hovers above towns and farms. The UFO speeds away when the -Canberra tries to close in on it. (“RAAF -Chase UFO over Darling Downs,” UFOIC Newsletter, no. 26 (December -1969): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4702

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Event 7058 -(579715A1)

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Date: 9/4/1969
-Description: A farmer, Bert -O’Neil, discovers a circular patch of dead and silvery-white manuka -plants (Leptospermum scoparium, tea tree) in the midst of otherwise -green and lush growth on a remote section of his farm near Ngatea, New -Zealand. Near the center of the circle, he finds three ground -indentations, positioned so as to form the inside points of a triangle. -Off to one side is the taller stand of tea tree, also bleached and dead. -He remembers seeing this from afar three weeks earlier, arousing his -curiosity. The dead scrubweed within the circle is still standing and -undisturbed. It looks as if some large object has come down from the sky -and landed on three long stilts. At first, O’Neil only discusses his -find within the family, but the news quickly leaks to the local radio -and press. (Harold H. Fulton, “The -Ngatea Mystery Circle, 1,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1970): 27–28; Harold H. Fulton, “The -Ngatea Mystery Circle, 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 3 (May/June -1970): 32– 33; Harold H. Fulton, “The Ngatea Mystery Circle: Terrestrial -or Extraterrestrial?” UFOcus NZ, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4703

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Event 7059 -(BCA03018)

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Date: 10/1969
-Description: NICAP obtains a copy of a chapter of a textbook in use at -the US Air Force Academy, Introductory Space Science, for the academy’s -Physics 370 course. The last chapter is on “Unidentified Flying Objects” -and concludes that the “UFO phenomenon appears to have been global in -nature for almost 50,000 years” and considers the “unpleasant -possibility of alien visitors to our planet, or at least of alien -controlled UFO’s.” It recommends keeping an “open and skeptical mind.” -(“AF -Academy Teaches Students UFOs Real,” UFO Research Newsletter 1, no. -1 (April 1971): 1; ClearIntent, pp. 13–14; -Good Need, p. 230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4704

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Event 7060 -(490E2EF4)

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Date: 10/1969
-Description: Jimmy Carter sees and reports a UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p516)
-Location: Leary, Georgia

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Event 7061 -(D1E440C8)

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Date: 10/3/1969
-Description: After 8:00 p.m. RCMP Constable S. B. Barrie and his wife -Vivian are driving 5 miles west of Rennie, Manitoba, on a poor highway -in bad weather. He stops to clean mud off the headlights and noticees a -light to the east hanging just off Highway 44 and over the trees. He -continues driving and he sees the light as a light-pink inverted saucer -moving with a jerky motion. Now only 500 feet away, it seems to be 20 -feet in diameter with an odd white tail that snakes toward the ground. -Suddenly the car’s windshield wipers stop working, the headlights go -out, and the engine stalls. Barrie gets out of the car and the object -zooms silently to the southwest and is lost to sight. He senses the air -has a strange, heavy odor, but he is able to get the car started again. -(Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -pp. 81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4705

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Event 7062 -(8ACDB620)

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Date: 10/8/1969
-Description: A large area of St. Louis, Missouri, is blanketed by a -pure-white, sticky substance ranging from dime-size to 10-foot-long -streamers. The majority of it sublimates on ground contact. The -Smithsonian concludes it is caused by ballooning spiders, even though -only one spider specimen is found. When a sample is tested by Wayne E. -Black of the St. Louis County Health Department, he finds the samples -test negative for protein, the basic composition of spider web. -(Washington Post, March 28, 1970; “A -Classic Case of ‘Angel-Hair,’” Pursuit 3, no. 4 (October 1970): -72–73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4706

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Event 7063 -(DE04F338)

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Date: 10/20/1969
-Description: Brig. Gen. Carroll -H. Bolender, USAF -Deputy Director of Development, writes a draft document saying that the -“continuation of Project Blue Book cannot be justified either on the -ground of national security or in the interest of science.” Bolender -adds that “reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect -national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force -Manual 55-1 and are not part of the Blue Book system.” This is a clear -indication that Blue Book is only a front for a classified UFO project. -(Brig. Gen. C. H. Bolender, “Unidentified -Flying Objects (UFO),” October 20, 1969; Swords 336)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4707

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Event 7064 -(C2E1F6F7)

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Date: 10/24/1969
-Description: 12:43 a.m. A Chilean Navy destroyer is moving north at 20 -knots in the South Pacific Ocean about 350 miles south of Valparaiso, -Chile. The radar officer reports a target rapidly approaching the ship, -apparently moving 213 miles in one minute, which would indicate a speed -of 12,780 mph. At 12:47 a.m., the target is only 12 miles away, and it -suddenly breaks into six targets. The officer in charge and five other -personnel can now see one massive and five smaller lighted objects -approaching the ship. The large UFO looks like a big box with -semicircles on the side, and it is bigger than the ship, which is 360 -feet long. The five smaller objects are egg- shaped, bluish, and no more -than 8 feet long and 5–6 feet wide. At about 6,000 feet from the ship, -the smaller objects move away from the larger one, three to portside and -two to starboard, and begin flying in ellipses between the ship and the -large object. At 900 feet away, the officers can hear the object make a -humming noise. The ship’s power and instruments go dead as the large -object passes overhead. Bright red lights under the UFO seem to be -moving back and forth inside the craft, visible through a half-circle on -the bottom. “Corn cobs” with green or turquoise pulsating lights are on -the side. When the UFO is 600 feet away, the power comes back on. The -smaller objects, never coming closer than 1,500–3,000 feet, fly around -the ship and join up with the large object on the other side. All 6 -objects vanish about 2 miles away. At least 8 minutes have passed, with -three radar technicians tracking the UFOs. The ship’s commander orders -everyone to keep silent about what they have seen. The sighting is -deleted from the ship’s log. The six witnesses are debriefed for two -days in Valparaiso by two Chilean Navy officers and four Americans who -are allegedly naval attachés with the US Embassy. (NICAP, “Six Objects -Observed and Tracked by Destroyer”; Bill Chalker, “EM -UFO Incident off Chile in 1969,” APRO Bulletin 33, no. 3 (January -1986): 7–8; Bill Chalker, “An Extraordinary Incident off Chile,” IUR 10, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 4–6; Bill Chalker, “EM -UFO Incident off Chile in 1969 (Conclusion),” APRO Bulletin 33, no. -5 (April 1987): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4708

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Event 7065 -(2118C3A8)

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Date: 10/24/1969
-End date: 10/27/1969
-Description: The Turkish Air Force is inundated with reports of UFOs -over Ankara, Turkey. Jet fighters are scrambled from Mürted Air Base -[now closed] northwest of the city and close to within 7.5 miles, but -the objects always pull away and climb higher. Even the base commander, -Ercüment Gökaydin, flies with the interceptors to 35,000 feet, but the -UFO is at a height of 50,000 feet. It is a silvery, oval disc. The jets -take gun-camera film, which has never been released. One pilot says the -object has three round portholes. (Good Need, p. 299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4709

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Event 7066 -(728A71D3)

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Date: 10/27/1969
-Description: NICAP Assistant Director Gordon -I. R. Lore Jr. writes board member Joseph -B. Hartranft -Jr. an 11-page letter outlining the organization’s difficulties. He -alerts the board of directors to the growing financial crisis brought on -by Donald -E. Keyhoe’s failure to keep adequate books and records. He urges the -hiring of a business director. In the summer he had gotten permission -from Keyhoe to fire five of NICAP’s eight employees as a cost- saving -measure. (Clark III 794)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4710

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Event 7067 -(11DA0BB4)

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Date: 10/30/1969
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Chapin are driving at their mine -site near Redding, California, when they see a rattlesnake in the road. -As they get out to go to the mine and kill the snake, they find the area -oddly hot. They notice a disturbance in the brush some 60 feet away in a -flattened area of mine tailings. An egg-shaped object rises noiselessly -a few feet off the ground and takes off down the canyon, swaying but not -striking small trees. Soon it zooms upward at a sharp angle and is out -of sight in seconds. They find a shallow, oval, depressed spot less than -2 inches deep and 10 feet across in the mine tailings. A conical pile of -unusual-looking sand is also discovered, and two days later they find a -metallic glob about the size of a fist nearby. They have the material -analyzed in 1977. Scattered about in the unusual sand pile are irregular -bits of pale-green glass-like material made of nearly pure silicon. The -metal glob is completely black on the outside and 77% copper in the -interior, combined with tin and traces of silver, chromium, and other -metals. Both are considered foreign to the geology of the mine site. -(“The Redding, California CE II Case,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978): -insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4711

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Event 7068 -(19DFDBFC)

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Date: 10/30/1969
-Description: Circular object with lights hovering over airport sped away -making high, whining sound when security guard shone spotlight on -it
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Waipukurau, New Zealand
-ID: 186

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Event 7069 -(56303C89)

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Date: 11/8/1969
-Description: Australian physicist O. H. “Harry” Turner has been working -with other scientists to set up a “rapid intervention team” for the RAAF -to investigate UFO physical evidence. In a memo to the director of the -Joint Intelligence Bureau, he indicates he is working with John Morton -of Australian National University, John Symonds from the Australian -Atomic Energy Commission, and Michael -Duggin of the National Standards Laboratory. The plan is soon -dropped by the JIB. (Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government and UFOs,” -IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 21; Swords 396–397)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4712

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Event 7070 -(6F78EB60)

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Date: 11/9/1969
-Description: The D-21 drone makes its first reconnaissance mission over -China, launched from a B-52. It flies over the Lop Nur Nuclear Test Base -in Xinjiang but strays off course into Siberia and crashes. (Wikipedia, -“Lockheed -D- 21”; -Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4713

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Event 7071 -(618370CF)

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Date: 12/1969
-Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) continues after Project -BLUEBOOK is closed.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A)
-Attributes: Majestic

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Event 7072 -(CA914C23)

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Date: 12/3/1969
-Description: The NICAP board of governors demands Keyhoe’s -resignation. He retires, under protest, at age 72. Leading the effort is -board chairman Col. Joseph -Bryan III, who -takes over as acting president. (“Major -Keyhoe Retires,” -UFO Investigator, May 1970, pp. 1, 3; “NICAP -Redeploys,” UFO Investigator, May 1970, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4714

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Event 7073 -(DE39DC7A)

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Date: 12/5/1969
-Description: Bryan dismisses -NICAP Assistant Director Gordon -I. R. Lore Jr., replacing him with G. Stuart Nixon as -secretary-treasurer. (“Major -Keyhoe Retires,” UFO Investigator, May 1970, pp. 1, 3; Clark III -794)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4715

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Event 7074 -(2B34813A)

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Date: 12/17/1969
-Description: Air Force Secretary Robert -Seamans announces the termination of Project Blue Book, based on the -Condon report, the NAS endorsement, and “past UFO studies.” He repeats -the Bolender wording -that Blue Book “cannot be justified either on the ground of national -security or in the interest of science.” Technically, Blue Book does not -terminate until January 30, 1970. Blue Book records are moved to Maxwell -AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, in a building that requires security -clearance to enter. Eventually, the files, minus the witness names, are -consigned to the Modern Military Branch, Military Archives Division, -National Archives, Washington, D.C. (Office of Assistant Secretary of -Defense, “Air -Force to Terminate Project ‘Blue Book,’” December 17, 1969; “Air -Forces Closes Study of U.F.O.s,” New York Times, December 18, 1969, -pp. 1, 41; “The -Book Is Closed,” UFO Investigator, May 1970, p. 3; Sparks, -p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4716

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Event 7075 -(BA06005C)

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Date: 12/17/1969
-Description: Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans, Jr., -announced termination of Project Blue Book UFO study.
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 187

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Event 7076 -(9F1B914D)

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Date: 12/18/1969
-Description: Condon is -quoted in the New York Times that his investigation “was a bunch of damn -nonsense,” and he is sorry he “got involved in such foolishness.” (“Air -Forces Closes Study of U.F.O.s,” New York Times, December 18, 1969, -pp. 1, 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4717

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Event 7077 -(63E48D55)

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Date: 12/26/1969
-End date: 12/27/1969
-Description: The American Academy for the Advancement of Science holds a -special two-day segment on “Unidentified Flying Objects” at its annual -meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton Hotel. The program is -arranged by Thornton -Page (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center), Philip -Morrison (MIT), Walter -Orr Roberts (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research), and -Carl -Sagan (Cornell). Rising to the occasion, James -E. McDonald presents -an excellent critique of the Air Force and Colorado project -investigations as well as an in- depth examination of the RB-47 and -Lakenheath-Bentwaters cases. Donald -Menzel attempts to show that all UFO sightings can be explained, -even though some of his “explanations” are complex. Morrison discusses -the nature of hard evidence and concludes that reliable UFO reports -would stand up both in a court of law and in the rigors of science. -Cornell University Press publishes the proceedings, UFOs—A Scientific -Debate, in 1972. (James E. McDonald, “Science -in Default: Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations,” -December 27, 1969; Walter N. Webb, “Allen Hynek As I Knew Him,” IUR 18, -no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1993): 9–10; Clark III 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4718

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Event 7078 -(6284A9F5)

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Date: 12/26/1969
-End date: 12/30/1969
-Description: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) -annual meeting, in Boston, MA, included panel discussion on UFOs. -Scientists joined in statement asking for preservation of Air Force UFO -files for future study.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Boston, MA
-ID: 188

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Event 7079 -(9489EFD9)

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Date: 12/28/1969
-Description: A man named Patric is driving from Midland to Windsor, -Ontario, on heavily snowed roads after an accident has blocked the main -highway. Suddenly, his car engine, headlights, and radio fails, and he -crawls to a halt in front of a star-like glow with a prismatic, -multi-colored aura 100 feet ahead. Inside the glow is a domed object. A -loud humming noise commences and the object shoots into the sky. The car -comes back to life, but Patric inexplicably reaches Windsor one hour -late. (Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 -(Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4719

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- Event 7080 (0461FAD0)

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Date: 1970
-Description: The crew of a US Air Force C-5A Galaxy transport, flying at -500 mph at 37,000 feet, encounters a UFO over Moula Idris, Saudi Arabia -[=Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, Morocco?]. An RAF officer on detachment is -flying the aircraft, and he describes the object as like two saucers -joined together, surrounded by red, green, and yellow and flying at -75,000 feet. (Good Need, pp. 298–299)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4724

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Event 7081 -(B95BADFA)

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Date: 1970
-Description: UFO-Sverige is formed as the first nationwide UFO -organization in Sweden; it is essentially an association of 20 UFO -groups in different parts of the country. The secretary’s office is -located in Skånninge. It publishes the magazine UFO-Information from -1969 to 1980, then UFO-Aktuellt beginning in 1980. (Wikipedia, “UFO- Sverige”; -UFO-Information, no. -1 (October 26, 1969); C. Göran Norlén and Johan Gustavsson, “Tidskriften UFO-Aktuellt,” -Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4723

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Event 7082 -(D4ED8EEA)

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Date: 1970
-Description: The CIA is testing a small drone aircraft in the shape of a -bird at Groom Lake, Nevada. Called Project Aquiline, the agency wants to -fly a reconnaissance UAV over key intelligence targets, such as ICBM -sites and nuclear test grounds in the Soviet Union and China, without -detection. At least one of the prototypes is flown from Area 51 more -than 20 times. The project is cancelled in 1971 before deployment and -has never been declassified. (Wikipedia, “Project -AQUILINE”; David Hambling, “Area -51’s Robotic Spy Bird,” Wired, November 6, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4722

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Event 7083 -(8C58469A)

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Date: 1970
-Description: Ivan -T. Sanderson publishes his last UFO book, Invisible Residents, which -compiles reports of unusual objects seen in or around bodies of water. -He speculates that such cases need not involve the presence of -extraterrestrials, but possibly an indigenous intelligence that evolved -independently in the oceans. (Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, World, -1970; Clark III 1028)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4720

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Event 7084 -(9CE104BA)

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Date: 1970
-Description: John -A. Keel publishes UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, in which he presents -a theory that UFOs are produced by ultraterrestrials—beings who are able -to manipulate matter and our senses and who in the past manifested -themselves as fairies or demons. (John A. Keel, UFOs: -Operation Trojan Horse, Manor -Books ed., 1976; Wikipedia, “Operation -Trojan Horse (book)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4721

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Event 7085 -(01C69244)

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Date: 1970’s
-Description: Private letter sent to BSRF from an active duty USAF pilot -asking for information.
-Type: letter
-Reference: BSRA archive
-Location: San Diego, CA

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Event 7086 -(C86A4A1F)

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Date: early 1970
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A peasant in the Taijiang(?) District of Fujian -province, China, sees a metallic, pan-shaped object land behind a hill. -It radiates a brilliant green light, and a strange musical tone emanates -from it. After he reports it, the local army commander mobilizes -hundreds of soldiers who attempt to surround the object. After about one -hour, the object emits a bright white light and takes off vertically. -(Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo -Archive, 1983, p. 56) Early 1970s — 2:30–3:00 a.m. Two young men in -Furnace Creek, California, are followed by a red ball of light the size -of a beach ball. They get scared and run ahead to their house, slamming -and locking the door behind them. The ball stops at the edge of their -yard, hovering and oscillating in size. After 4–5 minutes, the ball -moves away and creates a vortex, causing stones to rise and circle in -the air. They can hear the sound of the stones hitting together. Then -the light blinks out, and the rocks crash down onto the road. (Michael -D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR -27, no. 4 (Winter 2002–2003): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4725

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Event 7087 -(C0014371)

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Date: 1/1/1970
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Registered nurse Doreen Kendall is looking out a -window at the Cowichan District Hospital in Duncan, British Columbia, -and sees a bright, Saturn-shaped object about 50 feet in diameter -hovering one story above her, about 60 feet off the ground and 40 feet -away. It has a row of lights around its middle. She can see two humanoid -figures in dark, tight-fitting clothing and wearing headgear in the -upper portion. One stands at an instrument panel, with the other behind -it. The second being looks directly at Kendall, then touches the first -being, who moves a lever, apparently causing the craft to tilt down and -provide a view of its interior. Kendall calls for other witnesses, who -arrive in time to see the UFO leave. (“Human-Like -Pair in -Saucer,” Victoria (B.C.) Daily Times, January 5, 1970, pp. 1–2; “UFO -Occupants Seen near Hospital,” Canadian UFO Report 1, no. 7 (Summer -1970): 3–12; UFOEv II 459–460; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 139– 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4726

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Event 7088 -(59084A1F)

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Date: 1/1/1970
-Description: Hospital nurse saw craftlike object hovering near building, -two humanoid figures visible in upper portion
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Duncan, B.C., Canada
-ID: 189

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Event 7089 -(AE16386F)

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Date: 1/3/1970
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 190

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Event 7090 -(B079E90B)

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Date: 1/7/1970
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Two skiers, lumberjack Aarno Heinonen and farmer -Esko Viljo, at Imjärvi, Finland, watch a disc- shaped, buzzing UFO -approach them and hover. It is so close to Heinonen that he could touch -it with his ski pole. From an opening in the center of the object’s -bottom, a bright light beam is emitted, creating an illuminated area of -3 feet in diameter on the snow beneath it, edged with black. A red gray -mist descends again; when it clears, both men can see, only 10 feet -away, a 3-foot tall humanoid creature standing in the illuminated area, -carrying in its hands a black box with a pulsating yellow light. Its -arms and legs are very thin, its face pale like wax, and its nose -hooked; it wears a light green coverall with darker green knee boots, -white gauntlets, and a conical metallic helmet. Then the mist again -descends, and long red, green, and purple sparks float out from the -lighted area. A sort of flame rises from this spot and enters the UFO; -then the mist and the UFO vanish. After this experience, Heinonen finds -his right leg numb, and he vomits and passes black urine; Viljo also -suffers severe physiological effects. Heinonen claims, two years later, -a series of contacts with a female spacewoman. (Sven-Olof Fredrickson, -“Finnish -Encounter in the Snow,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1970): 31–32; “Finns -Observe UFO Occupant,” -APRO Bulletin, July/Aug. 1970, pp. 6–7; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “A -Humanoid Was Seen at Imjärvi,” -Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1970): 14–18; Sven-Olof -Fredrickson, “More -on the Imjärvi Case,” -Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1970): 22; Anders Liljegren, -“The -Continuing Story of the Imjärvi -Skiers, Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 3 (September 1980): -15–17; Anders Liljegren, “The Continuing -Story of the Imjärvi Skiers, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 -(January 1981): 18–20; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, -Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 75–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4727

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Event 7091 -(3BD55342)

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Date: 1/7/1970
-Description: Two skiers saw disc-shaped object approach, hover, humanoid -appeared in light beam from object. Memory loss, extensive physiological -effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Imjarvi, Finland
-ID: 191

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Event 7092 -(531EC651)

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Date: 1/21/1970
-Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute of -Aeronautics and Astronautics sponsors a panel that meets in New York -City to discuss differing viewpoints on UFOs. Among the panel members -are Hynek, McDonald, Thornton -Page, Gordon -D. Thayer, and -Philip -Klass. The -subcommittee, led by Joachim -P. Kuettner, consists of scientists with no previous position on -UFOs and reaches several middle-of-the-road conclusions. It criticizes -the NAS position that the ETH is the least likely explanation and -rejects McDonald’s position that it is the “least unsatisfactory.” It -criticizes the Condon report, in which the conclusions do not match the -data, and recommends a moderate-level, ongoing study of UFOs. (“UFOs, -an Appraisal of the Problem: A Statement by the UFO -Subcommittee of the AIAA,” Aeronautics and Astronautics 8, no. 11 -(November 1970): 49–51; Clark III 101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4728

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Event 7093 -(63E363C0)

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Date: 1/29/1970
-Description: A Uruguayan professor of socioeconomics takes a photo of a -cigar-shaped object in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Analysis shows that it -was probably a streetlamp. (“A -Street Lamp, or Sign, Or,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 3 -(June/July 1983): 1; “Rio -de Janeiro 1970 Photograph Termed Streetlamp,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 4, no. 6 (Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984): 3, 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4729

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Event 7094 -(A721178C)

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Date: 1/30/1970
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Project Blue Book’s doors close as its office is -staffed for the last time. The files have been packed in boxes and are -on their way to the Air Force Archives at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, -Alabama. (“The Book -Is Closed,” UFO Investigator, May 1970, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4730

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Event 7095 -(9640C51A)

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Date: 3/28/1970
-Description: 11:00 p.m. About 30 UFO spotters gathered on Cradle Hill, -just outside Warminster, Wiltshire, England, see a flashing purple -light. One of their sensors buzzes, indicating a strong magnetic field, -and one observer (Norman Foxwell) takes photos that appear in the -July/August 1970 Flying Saucer Review. But the UFO is actually a light -beam from a high-intensity purple spot-lamp operated by a group of UFO -debunkers, among them physicist David I. Simpson. Foxwell himself is -part of the skeptical group (having pre-exposed a spurious UFO image), -as is the individual who operated the bogus magnetic-field sensor. The -hoax is revealed six years later. (John C. Ben, “Photographs -from Cradle Hill,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1970): -4–5; Percy Hennell, “The Warminster -Photographs Examined,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1970): 6–7; Charles Bowen, “What -the Eye Sees,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1970): 7; -Pierre Guérin, “Warminster Photographs: -A Tentative Interpretation,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1970): 7–8; Charles Bowen, “Progress -at Cradle Hill,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 (March/April 1971): -11–12; S. E. Scammell, “A Surveyor’s -Criticism,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 (March/April 1971): 13; -John E. Ben, “Continued Investigations -at Warminster,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 (March/April 1971): -14–16; Terence Collins, “A Further -Examination of the Warminster Photographs,” Flying Saucer Review 17, -no. 2 (March/April 1971): 16– 18; Michael Samuels, “Unexpected -Photographic Effects at Warminster,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 -(March/April 1971): 18–21; David I. Simpson, “Experimental -UFO Hoaxing,” MUFOB, new series 2 (March 1976): 3–6, 11–12; David I. -Simpson, “Controlled -UFO Hoax: Some Lessons,” Skeptical Inquirer 4, no 3 (Spring 1980): -32–39; David Clarke, “The Warminster Syndrome,” Fortean Times 331 -(October 2015): 40–47; David Clarke, How UFOs Conquered the World, -Aurum, 2015; Steve Dewey and Kevin Goodman, History of a Mystery: Fifty -Years of the Warminster Thing, Swallowtail, 2015; Clark III -602–603)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4731

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Event 7096 -(0C97EF83)

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Date: 3/31/1970
-Description: Explorer 1, the first US satellite, decays
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia -Link
-See also: 2/1/58

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Event 7097 -(F126C83F)

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Date: 4/15/1970
-Description: Daylight disc photo similar to August 3, 1965, Santa Ana, -CA, photos
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mar,del Plata, Argentina
-ID: 192

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Event 7098 -(3CAC6676)

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Date: 4/29/1970
-End date: 4/30/1970
-Description: Around midnight. Several independent groups of witnesses to -the west of Lake Anten, Västra Götaland, Sweden, watch a red, glowing -sphere fly around the lake and neighboring areas. It occasionally sends -out a beam of light to the ground. Some of the observers get the -impression that the beams originate on the ground rather than from the -object. The next morning a few of the observers get into boats and sail -to the spot where the sphere was seen hovering. In one corner of the -garden of an isolated farmhouse named Enebacken, they find three round -marks, one foot in diameter and 1.5 inches deep, burned into the ground -in the shape of an equilateral triangle. A UFO group in Gothenburg, -Sweden, takes soil samples to a laboratory for gamma-ray testing and -finds significant non-background radiation at a peak that seems to -derive from cesium-137, a radioactive isotope. (Sven-Olof Fredrickson, -“A -Landing near Lake Anten?” Flying Saucer Review 17, no 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1971): 13–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4732

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Event 7099 -(2380694D)

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Date: 5/5/1970
-Description: Although the Air Force is no longer involved with UFOs, the -Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio continues to -contract Hynek’s -services as a “special consultant” on atmospheric phenomena. He reports -to Col. George -R. Weinbrenner, whom -he visits every once in a while in Dayton. He continues with the -contract through 1974. (Jennie Zeidman, “I Remember Blue Book,” IUR 16, -no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 12, 23; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, -Inside the Real Area 51, Tantor Media, 2013, pp. 203–213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4733

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Event 7100 -(8FC612E1)

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Date: 5/14/1970
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A graduate engineering student in Bangor, Maine, -notices two nocturnal lights in the Ursa Major constellation moving in a -counterclockwise circle around a common center at a constant velocity. -They abruptly stop moving, leaving them in a north-south position. After -a short time, they move away from each other, then the light moving -south suddenly halts. The other light is moving slower than a meteor but -faster than a jet aircraft. (J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, -Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4734

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Event 7101 -(E92151D1)

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Date: 5/29/1970
-Description: John L. Acuff, an experienced manager but not a UFO -researcher, becomes the new president of NICAP. He is the former -executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Society of Photographic -Scientists and Engineers [now the Society for Imaging Science and -Technology], which has cooperated with NICAP on photoanalysis but also -has military and CIA connections. Acuff and G. Stuart Nixon dismantle -the NICAP system of affiliates and state subcommittee system that have -promoted the organization for years. Regional members are told to -operate independently from one another; cooperation is discouraged. -Criticism of the government’s UFO policy is no longer permitted and -NICAP turns into a mere “sighting collection center.” Nixon is appointed -executive director. (“NI-CIA-AP -or NICAP?” Just CAUSE 1, no. 7 (January 1979): 5–13; Richard H. -Hall, “The -Quest for the Truth about -UFOs: A Personal Perspective on the Role of NICAP,” in 1994 MUFON -UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1994, pp. 185–201; Clark III -794)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4735

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Event 7102 -(B5FB2149)

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Date: 6/1970
-Description: Contact (UK) begins publishing The UFO Register, a journal -edited by J. -B. Delair that focuses on sightings and data. It continues -sporadically until 1995. (The -UFO Register 1, part 1 (June 1970))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4736

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Event 7103 -(F8643830)

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Date: 6/1970
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A truck driver is approaching Emerald Beach, New -South Wales, when he sees a bright light on he ocean side of the -highway. A circular object rises from behind some woods 1,600 feet from -the road. It hovers for 30 seconds at an altitude of 66 feet. Relative -to the trees, the object appears to be about 33 feet in diameter, and -flames seem to shoot from its base. It slowly returns to the ground, -where it is partially obscured by trees, but it continues to emit beams -of light from its top and sides. Fearful, the driver leaves the area. -Ufologist Bill -Chalker accompanies the witness to the landing site, where they -discover six circles of dead grass of varying sizes and burned trees. -(Bill Chalker, “Physical Traces,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, -p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4737

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Event 7104 -(96A141AA)

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Date: 6/13/1970
-Description: MUFON holds its first annual conference in Peoria, -Illinois. Shortly afterwards, Walt -Andrus succeeds Utke as MUFON director. (John F. Schuessler, “A -Brief History of MUFON,” November 28, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4738

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Event 7105 -(6D4F6181)

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Date: 6/27/1970
-Description: 11:40 a.m. Aristeu Machado, his wife and children, and João -Aguiar of the Brazilian Federal police, see a metallic, domed disc -resting on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean about a half-mile off the -coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two humanoid figures are standing on -the rim. After a while the object skims the surface of the water and -takes off, lights flashing from the underside. Once airborne, the wife -can clearly see the two occupants sitting inside. (UFOEv II 460; Brazil -128–130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4739

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Event 7106 -(B765C401)

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Date: 6/27/1970
-Description: Domed disc on ocean surface, two humanoid figures visible, -took off in an arc, headed out to sea
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-ID: 193

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Event 7107 -(099EEB99)

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Date: 7/1970
-Description: Afternoon. John and -Mary -Pilichis see a huge cigar-shaped object over their home at Rome, -Ohio. At the same time, their daughter Bonnie and a friend are at a -swimming pool about one-half mile away when they see 3 silvery discs -flying end-to-end in the direction of their home. The parents then see -the discs as well. The cigar and the discs form a line and move into a -large, peculiar cloud. After 3–4 minutes, the cloud begins to break -apart, with no UFOs showing. (Ohio UFO Reporter, Sept./Nov. 1971; -Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May -2006): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4740

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Event 7108 -(C03C5D95)

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Date: 7/4/1970
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A 33-year-old Port Monmouth, New Jersey, -housewife wakes up and sees a “big round ball” with an “eerie white -glow” hovering over the meadows across the street. She watches it -bouncing back and forth for 15 minutes as a series of red lights flash -in sequence across it. The size is about 25–30 feet wide. The -streetlight has gone out and comes back on when the object leaves. Her -son and brother-in-law later find three imprints 30–40 feet apart in the -shape of a triangle in the meadow. They also find circles impressed in -the grass, the largest 15–20 feet in diameter. Then they find tracks -“going to the creek like they had dragged some small round thing into -the ditch” as well as “two sets of a dozen imprints which were about two -feet apart. They were curved like raindrops. It was very visible, the -grass was all crushed down, there was mud on the banks of the creek, and -there were signs of the tracks in the mud.” One week later, the light -returns and crosses the field across the street. The family television, -the car ignition, and the telephone behave strangely for days afterward. -(Berthold E. Schwarz, “The Port -Monmouth Landing,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 3 (May/June 1971): -21–27; Clark III 251–252)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4741

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Event 7109 -(CD6BE5FC)

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Date: 7/23/1970
-Description: President Nixon makes -it clear that he wants a major effort against domestic dissidents. At an -Oval Office meeting in June with the Inter Agency Committee on -Intelligence (H. -R. Haldeman, John -Ehrlichman, Tom Charles -Huston, J. -Edgar Hoover, Richard -Helms, Adm. -Noel Gaynor, and Lt. Gen. Donald -W. Bennett), Nixon hears suggestions for expanded mail openings, -resumption of illegal break-ins, electronic surveillance, and expanded -counterintelligence. He approves the plan in July but will not sign it; -neither will Haldeman or Ehrlichman. The plan was originally put -together by Huston. Hoover torpedoes it when he announces that he will -go along with it as soon as he gets written authorization from Nixon for -all those break-ins and wiretaps. (Wikipedia, “Huston -Plan”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4742

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Event 7110 -(2CDDEF19)

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Date: 7/25/1970
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A witness comes across a landed domed disc, about -20 feet in diameter and 10 feet high with windows in the dome and -portholes in its side, sitting on 4 legs near Jabreilles-les-Bordes, -Haute-Vienne, France. He is blinded by a yellow-orange light beam and -paralyzed by fright. As the object ascends with a whistling sound, he -feels a wave of heat. At 330 feet altitude, the object jumps vertically -and disappears behind a mountain. Four imprints are found forming an -irregular figure on the hillside. (MM. Gaille, J. Gorce, and J. F. -Gorce, “Atterrissage -près de Jabreilles-les-Bordes (Haute Vienne), part 1,” Lumières dans -la Nuit, no. 113 (August 1971): 11–14; MM. Gaille, J. Gorce, and J. F. -Gorce, “Atterrissage -près de Jabreilles-les-Bordes (Haute Vienne), part -2,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 114 (October 1971): 9–14; Ted -Phillips, Physical -Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, CUFOS, -1976, p. 71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4743

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Event 7111 -(9EE83619)

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Date: 8/1970
-Description: Day. A group of Russian hydrologists are conducting -research on a motorboat on Kronotsky Lake, Kamchatka Krai, Russia. -Suddenly, about a half-mile away a dome of water rises up and a -gray-colored oval object rises up. It is roughly 165 feet in diameter, -rises to about 500 feet, and hovers nearly overhead. The engine of the -motorboat stalls. The team watches for another 90 seconds before they -row away, but the object moves away at reat speed and disappears. The -boat’s motor starts working again. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO -Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp .82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4744

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Event 7112 -(0C31A9BA)

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Date: 8/7/1970
-End date: 8/12/1970
-Description: Evening. Contactee Paul -Solem, who -has managed to convince a number of Hopi Indian elders, among them Chief -Dan -Katchongva, that -he is a true prophet heralding the coming of a True White Brother, -publicly summons his space brother friends telepathically for 15 minutes -in Prescott, Arizona, where UFOs have been reported over the previous -few days. After Solem announces that “they’re here,” a “star” appears -that had not been there before and Solem receives a message from space -brother Paul 2, who tells him that the saucers are appearing because of -a Hopi prophecy. Others see zigzagging lights in the sky over the next -few nights, and Prescott Courier photographer Chuck -Roberts takes a time-lapse photo of one. (Jerome Clark, “Indian -Prophecy and -the Prescott UFOs,” Fate 24, no. 4 (April 1971): 54–61; John A. -Keel, “America’s First UFO Experts: The Hopi,” UFO Report, Summer 1974; -Armin W. Geertz, The Invention of Prophecy, University of California, -1994; Clark III 1094–1095)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4745

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Event 7113 -(568A5452)

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Date: 8/11/1970
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 194

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Event 7114 -(E16E00D0)

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Date: 8/13/1970
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Police officer Evald Hansen Maarup is driving 5 -miles south of Haderslev, Denmark, when he is surrounded by a -bluish-white light. His engine stops and the car lights and radio go -out. Heat inside the car increases. He sees a conical light coming from -the bottom of a large, silent, gray object. After a few seconds, the -light is drawn into the UFO, a process that takes about 5 minutes. It -speeds away vertically. (“UFO’et -ved Haderslev,” -UFO-Nyt, 1970 no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1970): 211–213; “Et -mærkeligt ‘Tysk Militærfly,’” UFO-Nyt, 1974 no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1974): -205–206; “The -Haderslev UFO,” BUFORA Journal 8, no. 4 (September 1979): 26–27; Kim -Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 72–75; -“Dansk -Politibetjent stoppet af -UFO,” UFO-Sandheden, February 1, 2007; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update -on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September -2011): 15–16; Lon Strickler, “The -Maarup Encounters,” Phantoms and Monsters, September 5, 2012; -Patrick Gross, “Close -Encounter in Denmark, August 13, 1970”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4746

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Event 7115 -(9E8B5032)

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Date: 8/13/1970
-Description: Egg-shaped object approached police car, engine, lights, -and radio failed. Object took off at high speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Haderslev, Denmark
-ID: 195

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Event 7116 -(EB078C79)

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Date: 8/14/1970
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Residents of Little Heart’s Ease and St. Jones -Within on the Southwest Arm in Newfoundland watch a blood-red fireball -8–10 feet long with a trail of lighter color for about 5 minutes as it -passes overhead to the northeast. It makes a rushing noise before it -crashes into the water near the mouth of the harbor at Little Heart’s -Ease. When the RCMP arrive to investigate, they go out in a boat but can -find no submerged object. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, -August North, 2022, p. 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4747

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Event 7117 -(39646B2C)

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Date: 8/29/1970
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Several witnesses in Enebacken, Sweden, see a -bright, round, red light maneuvering around the ground, emitting beams -of yellow-white light. Three round landing marks in a triangular -formation are found in the garden of Richard Johansson’s small farm near -Lake Anten. Soil samples are taken and analyzed, with the results -showing an increased level of gamma radiation in the test samples from -one of the landing marks. (Sven- Olof Fredrickson, “A -Landing near Lake Anten?” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1971): 13–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4748

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Event 7118 -(B94CD8C2)

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Date: 8/30/1970
-Description: 11:30 a.m. A 7-year-old girl in Vincennes, Indiana, sees a -metallic disc in the east-northeast hovering over Wheatland Road. She -tells her parents, and her father goes outside and sees it too. He -re-enters the house to get his 7x50 binoculars. The object is about a -quarter of a mile away and looks like a squared-off conning tower about -30 feet in diameter. They watch it for 90 seconds, after which it leaves -in a swooping dive to the north-northeast. (NICAP, “Domed -Disc Observed in Broad Daylight / MADAR Connection”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4749

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Event 7119 -(A16D0200)

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Date: 9/1970
-Description: 9:00 p.m. While walking home from a high school football -game in Jessup, Pennsylvania, Frank Scassellati, 16, observes a glowing -white, apparently metallic, silvery disc in the southeast sky moving -from left to right. Around the dome on top is a row of rectangular -windows; three spheres and a flat circle are visible on the underside. -The object moves out of sight behind local terrain. Though he does not -report the sighting to any authorities, Scassellati says that a few -nights later he notices a limousine parked outside of his house with -four men in black suits and hats sitting in it. They reappear for -several nights but he has no interaction with them. (Center for UFO -Studies, [case -documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4750

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Event 7120 -(3DA8E9D7)

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Date: 9/8/1970
-Description: Dusk. A farmer near Zillah, Washington, is dismounting from -his tractor when he sees a triangular object hovering in the air. Steel -gray in color, it has a red light at each of its bottom corners and -white lights in its center. It eventually moves upward and out of sight. -(“Sighting -Advisory,” UFO Investigator, January 1971, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4751

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Event 7121 -(8A1D0DAA)

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Date: 10/24/1970
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Gerald Adams and Donna Martin are parked on a -dirt road 3–4 miles north and a half-mile west of MacGregor, Manitoba. -They notice a bright light approaching from about a half-mile away. When -it lands 150 feet from them, they notice it is an oblong object 8 feet -in diameter with 9 “rods” and a red light on top. Adams takes Martin -home but returns to the site. The object has moved farther away and is -hovering above the ground. As he drives closer, he sees a humanoid -entity about 4 feet tall dressed in a helmet and a silver metallic -uniform crossing the road about 50 feet in front of him. He brakes, but -the entity has gone. The UFO slowly lifts vertically from the ground and -speeds away to the northwest. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 146–150, 160)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4752

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Event 7122 -(FC7B9022)

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Date: 10/29/1970
-Description: Disc with dome descended, hovered over car, driver blinded -by strong blue-white light, physiological effects. Object departed -rapidly straight up
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Helleland, Norway
-ID: 196

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Event 7123 -(C99A106E)

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Date: 10/29/1970
-Description: 5:40 p.m. Reidar Salvesen is driving about 2 miles east of -Helleland, Rogaland, Norway, when a dazzling light forces him to stop -the car. He looks up and sees a globe about 60 feet in diameter -approaching noiselessly. It stops about 18 feet in front of the car and -hovers for 50 seconds about 30 feet up. Suddenly the object shoots -straight up into the air, causing Salvesen to fall on the pavement. He -hears a sharp crack caused by his front windshield shattering. About -3,200 feet in the air the globe changes to a fireball, which quickly -disappears. After sweeping up the shards of windowpane glass, he drives -on, but feels a numbness in his tongue a few minutes later. He also has -an abrasion on his hand from falling down, but the skin sloughs off as -if burned, and he has a redness around his eyes when he returns home. -His travel clock starts keeping time badly. (“I -Met a ‘Flying Saucer,’” Scandinavian Newsletter, no. 1/2 (April -1971): 4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4753

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Event 7124 -(F7429B60)

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Date: 11/1970
-Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute for -Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) published its report, UFO, An -Appraisal of the Problem, recommending continued investigation of UFO -sightings.
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 197

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Event 7125 -(A67E0265)

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Date: 11/1970
-Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute of -Aeronautics and Astronautics publishes a formal statement in its journal -Aeronautics and Astronautics. It recommends “a continuing, -moderate-level effort with emphasis on improved data collection by -objective means and on high-quality scientific analysis” as the “only -promising approach” to solving the UFO problem, and sharply criticizes -the Colorado project’s conclusion that studying the subject will not add -to scientific knowledge. (“UFOs, -an Appraisal of the Problem: A Statement by the -UFO Subcommittee of the AIAA,” Aeronautics and Astronautics 8, no. -11 (November 1970): 49–51; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, -Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 249–251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4754

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Event 7126 -(5B8955CD)

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Date: 11/1/1970
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Stewart Wilkinson and his wife are driving on -the Trans-Canada Highway just west of Pense, Saskatchewan, when they see -an disc-shaped object with a beam of light extending down to the road. -It follows his car about 20 feet to the right at an altitude of 10–15 -feet. At one point it moves ahead and hovers above a truck parked a -half-mile away. When he comes alongside the truck, the object moves to -the left side of his car about 30 feet away and almost on the ground. -Wilkinson slows down and comes to a stop, and the object follows suit, -hovering for another 10–15 seconds before disappearing into the lights -of Moose Jaw to the west. It has followed his car for 12 minutes and 10 -miles. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, -2022, pp. 85–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4756

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Event 7127 -(A88A8E25)

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Date: 11/5/1970
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Albert Formiller is fishing for bass in Cholla -Bay, Sonora, Mexico, when he sees a light in the sky coming from a -saucer-shaped object, which stops and hovers about 200–300 feet above -the surface. A light from a tube on the bottom illuminates a broad -stretch of water about one half-mile wide. It changes from a broad -floodlight to a sharp spot on the surface, apparently as it is raised or -lowered. After a few minutes, a cloud forms around the object. After 5 -minutes, the searchlight is turned off and a similar light appears on -top of the UFO, illuminating the upper part of the cloud. The object -then moves west and is visible for 20 minutes in all. (Carl W. Feindt, -“Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): -23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4755

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Event 7128 -(25261790)

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Date: 11/16/1970
-Description: Evening. One adult and four teenagers are leaving a -basketball game at Beckemeyer (Illinois) Elementary School when they -notice a triangular object with orange and white lights moving in an -erratic manner to the south. They watch it for 10 minutes, and a smaller -object emerges from the triangle. (“UFO -Sighted,” Breese (Ill.) Journal, November 19, 1970, via UFO -Newsclipping Service, no. 20 (December 1970): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4757

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Event 7129 -(6918064D)

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Date: 11/17/1970
-End date: 11/20/1970
-Description: At a Radar Meteorology Conference in Tucson, Arizona, McDonald presents -a paper on “Meteorological Factors in Unidentified Radar Returns.” -(James E. McDonald, “Meteorological -Factors in Unidentified -Radar Returns,” November 1970; Story, p. 416)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4758

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Event 7130 -(D58CFD3C)

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Date: 11/29/1970
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A 17-year-old student at Oizumi High School is -riding his bicycle home at Tatebayasi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, when he -sees 5–6 objects flying in formation on a straight path from northeast -to southwest. Seconds later, a solitary object appears to the north and -approaches swiftly. The student parks his bicycle and runs up some steps -to a raised enclosure for a better view. The single UFO changes course -and circles several times, descending slowly. It then hovers, climbs, -and disappears. The student gets back on his bike and sees a bright -flash of white light to the southeast, which startles him and he pedals -home quickly. The student returns the next day to the enclosure, which -is actually a raised tombstone. He finds four circular patches of -flattened grass. (Takao Ikeda, “A -Close Encounter in Tatebayasi,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, -no. 10 (June 1972): 10– 11, 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4759

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Event 7131 -(49051773)

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Date: 12/14/1970
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Belgian writer Julian Weverbergh and his wife are -awakened in Bucharest, Romania, by a bright red glow, which changes to -white. A spherical light is hovering above a bus before disappearing. -(Hobana and Weverbergh 271)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4760

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- Event 7132 (869BB029)

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Date: 1971
-Description: A secret computer database of the NORAD Unknown Track -Reporting System (NUTR) that logs air defense unknowns is launched and -maintained for assessment of “airspace sovereignty.” (Clark III -801)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4762

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Event 7133 -(ADB33356)

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Date: 1971
-Description: Unhappy with NICAP leadership, Raymond -E. Fowler (and most of his Massachusetts Subcommittee) transfers his -allegiance to MUFON. (Clark III 517)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4761

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Event 7134 -(015ED8B1)

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Date: 1/3/1971
-Description: 6:15 a.m. Maun and Matta Talana are drinking coffee when -they see a brilliant light approaching from the lake outside their home -at Saapunki, Kuusano, Finland. It is about 33 feet in diameter and -moving against the wind. Their electricity goes off briefly. Looking out -the window, the Talalas see their whole yard bathed in light caused by a -huge fireball about 60 feet away, which rises up and disappears after a -few seconds. Around 8:30 a.m., their son Timo asks them what the marks -are in the snow outside. He has noticed a spot of hard green ice that is -not covered with snow. Mauno takes some green ice and melts it into dark -green water. The melted area is about 20 feet long by 10 feet wide, in -the middle of which are ice needles as big as fingers with a ball of ice -on top and some soot. The following day, he tells the newspaper, which -sends a photographer to the site. UFO researchers from Oulu arrive on -January 6 and take samples from the melted area and measure radiation. -(Elis W. Grahn, “Saapunki -UFO and Green Ice,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 2 (March/April -1971): 2–3, 27; “Green Water -from Saapunki: Result of Water Sample Analysis,” Flying Saucer -Review 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1971): 26– 27; Ahti Karavieri, “The -Saapunki UFO: Results of Investigations,” Flying Saucer Review 17, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1971): 23–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4763

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Event 7135 -(56009BEA)

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Date: 1/7/1971
-Description: Two boys independently observe a metallic object with an -orange glow flying over Dennis, Massachusetts. It descends and -disappears over some trees and looks as if it is about to fall into -Scargo Lake. One boy sees a hole in the ice on the lake; steam is rising -from it, and the water in the hole looks agitated. NICAP investigator Walter -N. Webb visits -the lake on January 10 and reports that the hole “was formed by a rather -sudden melting process.” (“NICAP -Probes Crashed Object Report,” UFO Investigator, February 1971, -p. 1; “NICAP -Probes Crashed Object -Report: Search Still Hampered by Bad Weather,” UFO Investigator, -March 1971, p. 3; Clark III 339)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4764

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Event 7136 -(4638C54E)

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Date: 1/23/1971
-Description: The Porto Alegre, Brazil, newspaper Correiro do Povo notes -UFO sightings are recurring in a rural location close to the federal -capital of Brasília. An unnamed local peasant is quoted as saying that -the “state governor” shows up regularly and looks for “little stones” in -the nearby woods. Always dressed in black, he arrives via an airplane -“made of two dishes, like, one atop the other, and when it goes up in -the air it changes color and then disappears quicker than a flash.” -(Gordon Creighton, “South -American Roundup, 1971, Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review Case -Histories, no. 10 (June 1972); 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4765

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Event 7137 -(6AAF4302)

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Date: 1/25/1971
-Description: 9:30 a.m. Gunar Gruenzner is taking photos of the scenery -near Praia da Armação beach in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, -when he claims to see an intense light beginning to descend. He snaps a -photo but can no longer see the light. The photo shows a circular light -with a dark aura. Probably a film defect. (“Observations diverses -à l’étranger: Photographie au Brésil,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. -120 (October 1972): 13–14; Wim van Utrecht, “Shiny -Cigar Photographed over Brazilian Beach,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4766

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Event 7138 -(57BDDACF)

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Date: 2/1971
-Description: The Borderline Science Investigation Group is founded in -Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, by Ivan A. W. Bunn. It publishes Lantern, a -newsletter that continues for 40 issues through late 1982. (Lantern, -no. 3 (Autumn 1973))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4767

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Event 7139 -(5425B96E)

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Date: 2/5/1971
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Petter Aliranta and Esko Juhani Sneck are working -in the woods around Kangaskylä, near Kinnula, Finland, when they see a -15-foot object descend to a clearing 50 feet away. As it lands, a small -entity just under 3 feet tall glides to the ground from an opening on -the underside. Through 3 windows on the UFO, three more entities can be -seen. The entity approaches Aliranta, who turns on his chain saw. -Suddenly, the being turns around and heads back to the UFO. As the -humanoid is rising back up into the air, Aliranta grabs it by the heel -of its boot with his bare hand. It burns him like a hot iron, and he has -to let go. The burns are clearly visible 2 months later. The humanoid -gets back inside, and the UFO takes off with a hum. Before the two men -go back, they look at markings in the snow. At the end of each landing -foot there had ben a round plate. These plates have penetrated the full -depth of the snow (1.3 feet), leaving four round prints forming an even -square 6.5 feet on each side. Circular footprints left by the entity are -clearly visible, about 6 inches wide. Possible hoax. (Tapani Kuningas, -“The -Humanoid at Kinnula,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1971): 18–19; Patrick Gross, URECAT, April -5, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4768

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Event 7140 -(E63AF0D1)

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Date: 2/23/1971
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Thousands of people in Turin and other places in -Piedmont, Italy, observe a conspicuous red cloud in the western sky, -just above the crest of the Alps, moving majestically and changing shape -slowly. Someone takes a photograph of it from Caluso. The following day, -the French Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales -announces that the cloud was caused by a Tibere, an experimental -three-stage rocket for atmospheric reentry tests. (Sofia Lincos and -Giuseppe Stilo, “La -lunga notte della nube rossa,” CICAP, November 5, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4769

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Event 7141 -(DD6B2001)

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Date: 3/2/1971
-Description: James -E. McDonald testifies as an expert in atmospheric physics at the -House Committee on Appropriations hearings on the Concorde supersonic -transport and its potentially harmful effects. His opponents question -his credentials and ridicule him as someone who believes in “little men -flying around in the sky.” (Clark III 701)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4770

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Event 7142 -(6B436A2A)

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Date: 3/8/1971
-Description: The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI burgles an -FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, takes several dossiers, and -exposes the FBI COINTELPRO program by passing this material to news -agencies. (Wikipedia, “Citizens’ -Commission to Investigate the FBI”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4771

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Event 7143 -(3077FA4A)

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Date: 3/14/1971
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Five silver objects, four of them in a box -formation with a fifth leading, are seen over Christies Beach, Adelaide, -South Australia. Filaments fall. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An -Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4772

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Event 7144 -(67C45B33)

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Date: 3/15/1971
-Description: 3:10 p.m. Several silvery-white balls are seen in the air -over Maslin Beach, Adelaide, South Australia. White “fairy floss” is -found on the ground that tends to melt and disappear when picked up. It -is extremely light and tenuous. (Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An -Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4773

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Event 7145 -(DBDA627F)

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Date: 4/1971
-Description: Hoover terminates -the COINTELPRO program, but the FBI continues to use similar tactics -from time to time. (Wikipedia, “COINTELPRO”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4776

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Event 7146 -(D0A5381F)

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Date: 4/1971
-Description: James -McDonald shoots himself in the head, leaving him blind, and is -committed to the psychiatric ward of the V.A. Medical Center in Tucson, -Arizona. He has been depressed about his disintegrating marriage. He -signs himself out in June. (Clark III 701)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4777

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Event 7147 -(BC036C85)

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Date: 4/1971
-Description: UFO Research Associates in Washington, D.C., begins -publication of the UFO Research Newsletter, edited by Gordon -I. R. Lore Jr. It -runs until September 1980. (UFO -Research Newsletter 1, no. 1 (April 1971))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4775

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Event 7148 -(D123500A)

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Date: 4/1971
-Description: Industrial Research magazine publishes the results of a -survey in which 80% of its members reject the Condon report, 76% believe -that the government is concealing UFO facts, and 32% accept the ETH. -(Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp. 234–235)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4774

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Event 7149 -(D06FCC09)

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Date: 4/2/1971
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. Following several sightings of a bright -light in the sky at West Kempsey, New South Wales, an aboriginal man at -Greenhill sees a hairless face pressed up against his kitchen window. -Immediately he is “sucked out” through the window and falls 7 feet to -the steps below. Frightened but largely unhurt, he runs away and his -wife pursues him. She takes him to the hospital where a cut on his hand -is treated. (Eileen Buckle, “Defenestration -at Kempsey,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1971): -20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4778

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Event 7150 -(E3761DC0)

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Date: 4/14/1971
-Description: CIA Director Richard -Helms gives a rare public address in which he insists that the CIA -does not surveil domestic mail. However, the HTLINGUAL program, which is -still in effect until 1973, does so. The New York City component of the -program alone examines more than 2 million mailed items every year, -photographs 30,000 envelopes, and opens 8,000–9,000 letters. (Wikipedia, -“HTLINGUAL”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4779

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Event 7151 -(926EB46A)

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Date: 4/14/1971
-Description: Close-range sighting of disc with windows, two humanoid -figures visible inside, light beam upward from top
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Callery, PA
-ID: 198

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Event 7152 -(3340B3A4)

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Date: 5/1971
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Alojz Krz comes across a UFO sitting on three -legs in a shallow hollow in a field near Stara Cerkev, Slovenia. He -approaches within 65 feet of it, and it frightens him considerably. -Around 8:00 p.m., 17-year-old Angela Rajhs is bicycling in the same area -and watches the landed object for 4–5 minutes. As she is cycling away, -the object takes off, turning in a wide spiral. Rajhs returns to the -scene with her parents the next day and finds several pointed holes in -the ground about 6–8 inches in diameter. The nearby grass seems burned. -(Milos Kremelj, “Close -View of Landed Craft,” Canadian UFO Report 4, no. 4 (Summer 1977): -9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4783

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Event 7153 -(C495E302)

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Date: 5/1971
-Description: 6:00 a.m. A 16-mm film is allegedly taken of retrieved UFOs -at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico. It supposedly -shows “three disc-shaped craft,” one of which lands and the other two -fly away. A door opens on the landed vehicle and three human-sized -beings emerge with an odd, gray complexion and pronounced noses. They -wear tight-fitting jump suits and thin headdresses that appear to be -communication devices. In their hands they hold a “translator.” A -Holloman base commander and other Air Force officials go out to meet -them. (Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking -Animal Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms, Howe -Productions, 1989; Clark III 357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4782

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Event 7154 -(72CECC52)

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Date: 5/1971
-Description: The Société Belge d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux is -established in Brussels, Belgium, by Lucien -Clarebaut. It -publishes the journal Inforespace from 1972 to 2007. (Comité Belge -d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux, “Qui sommes-nous?”; -Inforespace, no. -1 (1972))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4781

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Event 7155 -(82E6E0F1)

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Date: 5/1971
-Description: Oswald -G. Villard Jr., Antony -C. Fraser-Smith, and -R. P. Cassam write an article at the request of the Office of Naval -Research and the Advanced Research Projects Agency that explores whether -long-delayed radio echoes could be attributable to an extraterrestrial -probe. They consider it possible but inefficient. (Oswald G. Villard, et -al., “Long-Delayed Echoes: Radio’s ‘Flying Saucer’ Effect,” QST 53 (May -1969): 38; Oswald G. Villard, Antony C. Fraser-Smith, and R. P. Cassam, -“LDEs, Hoaxes, and the Cosmic Repeater Hypothesis,” QST 55 (May 1971): -54–58; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and -Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4780

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Event 7156 -(74C8AD78)

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Date: 5/23/1971
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Rudi Nagora and his wife are driving near Sankt -Lorenzen ob Eibiswald, Styria, Austria, for a Sunday outing. Nagora gets -out of the car and hears a whizzing sound and sees a silver, metallic -object overhead moving in a zigzag pattern. He takes 11 consecutive -color photographs of it over a 10-minute period. (Richard F. Haines, “An -Analysis of Multiple UAP Photographic Images (May 23, 1971, Austrian -Alps),” JUFOS 9 (2006): 31–70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4784

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Event 7157 -(278B564F)

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Date: 5/24/1971
-Description: 12:10 p.m. Retired artist Julio -Suárez Marzal is in the first-floor dental office of Walter Griehl -on the Avenida Pedro Molina in Mendoza, Argentina, when they see a -flattened, Saturn-shaped object about a half-mile away to the south. -Griehl goes to retrieve some binoculars and misses most of the sighting. -It is an incandescent dark orange in color and moving from east to west. -It begins floating down with a rocking movement and approaches to within -230 feet. Suárez Marzal sees that it is revolving because of a small -circular mark on its rim. A dense cloud issues from the object and -surrounds it, turning it pearly gray with a faintly bluish sheen. As it -gets closer, the circular mark seems to extend like a bronze-colored -cylinder and has a handle-like protuberance on top. At one point it -moves away to the northeast and disappears for 4 seconds but reappears -even closer, only 130 feet away. It remains stationary for 10 seconds, -and the cylinder seems deliberately pointed toward the short-wave -antenna on the nearby central post office. He estimates it is 18–20 feet -in diameter. It continues rocking and changes shape from a globe to a -hat to an oval. Then after being visible for 90 seconds it takes off -suddenly to the south, leaving a trail of vapor. (Antonio Baragiola, “A -Remarkable Case from Mendoza, Argentina,” Flying Saucer Review 18, -no. 2 (March/April 1972): 7–11; François Lagarde, “Note -on the Mendoza Report,” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 2 (March/April -1972): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4785

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Event 7158 -(66029FED)

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Date: 5/24/1971
-Description: Saturn-shaped object darted around, rocked back and forth -while hovering, rapid acceleration upward at angle
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mendoza, Argentina
-ID: 199

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Event 7159 -(A0B4EEA5)

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Date: 5/25/1971
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Mr. C. Archer is woken up in his home at -Lynchford, Tasmania, by his dogs barking and a strange humming noise -like a generator. He can’t see anything outside and after 30 minutes the -humming stops. The next day, a flattened area of grass and blackberries -is found about 600 feet from the house. It is about 30 by 15 feet with a -spiral pattern in the middle and 6 regularly placed indentations. Later, -another set of similar indentations is found, roughly in the shape of a -triangle. (W. K. Roberts, “Burst -of UFO Activity in Tasmania,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, -no. 9 (October 1971): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4786

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Event 7160 -(2930D6DA)

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Date: 6/1971
-Alternate date: 7/1971
-Description: 8:30 p.m. The aircraft carrier USS -John -F. Kennedy is completing an Operational Readiness Exercise in the -Caribbean Sea when an incident occurs following an 18-hour period -simulating General Quarters. Yeoman Third Class James M. Kopf is in the -Communications Center monitoring messages on various teletypes. Suddenly -all the messages begin coming in garbled and he hears that all ship -communications are out, including the radar, compasses, and electrical -systems. A signalman from the deck tells them over the intercom that -something is hovering above the ship. Kopf and others rush topside and -see a huge, pulsating, orangish sphere stationed silently above the ship -at a 60°–70° angle. The object remains about 20 minutes, but Kopf sees -it only one minute before General Quarters sounds and he needs to return -to his battle stations. The two F-4 Phantom jets on high readiness alert -cannot take off. Soon the messaging returns to normal and the crew -stands down after 2 hours. Kopf thinks only about 18 men witnessed the -object out of the 5,000 on the carrier, because everyone is exhausted -from the exercise. He hears that commanding officer Capt. Ferdinand -B. Koch is frustrated by the event, but two days later Koch reminds -the crew that certain events are to be considered classified. (Good -Need, pp. 285–288)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4787

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Event 7161 -(B981DA19)

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Date: 6/9/1971
-Description: Evening. Esther Clappison sees a light through her windows -in Rosedale, Alberta, and goes out onto her porch and sees a rectangular -object on the ground. One end of it is open, revealing a diffused, white -light. Two human- like forms are moving about inside. A third figure is -outside in a crouched position, picking up rocks. They all appear to be -wearing drab-green coveralls. She goes inside briefly, but the object is -gone when she returns. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and -Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 67–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4788

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Event 7162 -(0461EFAF)

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Date: 6/13/1971
-Description: 11:40 a.m. James -E. McDonald is found dead along a shallow creek in Tucson, Arizona, -of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A suicide note nearby notes his -domestic problems. (Ann Druffel, “Remembering James McDonald,” IUR 18, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1993): 4–6, 23–24; Clark III 701)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4789

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Event 7163 -(74906E98)

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Date: 6/13/1971
-Description: The New York Times begins publishing excerpts of the -Pentagon papers, leaked by former military analyst Daniel -Ellsberg, which -detail the secret history of the US political-military involvement in -Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. (Wikipedia, “Pentagon -Papers”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4790

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Event 7164 -(C445C2C5)

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Date: 6/26/1971
-Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its third test -attempt
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

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Event 7165 -(686EC33D)

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Date: 6/29/1971
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A man is hiking in Delamere Forest east of -Chester, England, when an “electric blue light” appears ahead and moves -toward him, dancing erratically in and out of the trees. He walks toward -it but before taking 20 steps he finds himself walking calmly back. The -object then moves along a mud track and disappears into a small “garage” -in the bushes. After wandering around in a disoriented state for some -time, he searches for the “garage” but cannot find it. (Jenny Randles, -“Much More Than Marsh Gas,” Fortean Times 311 (March 2014): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4791

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Event 7166 -(E3126716)

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Date: 7/7/1971
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Spanish physician Guillermo Arguello de la Motta -is a guest of his friend Antonio Arocha at San Juan de los Morros, -Guárico, Venezuela. They suddenly see two men dressed in black, both -wearing red ties and black berets. They emerge from a brand-new red Ford -Mustang, at a distance of 1,600 feet from the house. They stand there -waiting for 5 minutes, then begin to put on orange belts, talking -together animatedly. Suddenly a shining object appears in the sky, -descends, and stops at a height of 2 feet from the ground. It is -circular, bell-shaped underneath, and has a “turret” on the top. The -object changes rapidly in color from orange to blue and to white. -Suddenly a small staircase is dropped from the object, enabling the two -men from the Mustang to enter the UFO. The staircase is drawn in, then -the object takes off at an impressive speed. (Gordon Creighton, “South -American Round-Up, -Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 10 (June 1972): -9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4792

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Event 7167 -(471BA110)

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Date: 7/8/1971
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Miner Claude Girard is parked on the road near -the bridge over the Hurricana River in Joutel, Quebec, when he sees a -circle 15–20 feet in diameter on the surface of the water with a jet of -water in the center reaching a height of 20 feet. When the water jet -settles down, Girard can see a cylindrical object, 6–8 feet in length -and rusty black in color, beneath the surface. It slowly begins to lean -to one side and sinks in less than a minute. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s -UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4793

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Event 7168 -(6DA6814C)

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Date: 7/17/1971
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Tea planter Parl Abeywickrema, his two -assistants Oswin de Alwis and Nimal Dunuwille, and the driver Sirisena -Wijesinghe are driving between the Hope Estate in Rikillagaskada, Sri -Lanka, and the Rockwood Estate in Hewaheta when they see a bright object -larger than the full moon above the hilly horizon. Soon it approaches -the, and Abeywickrema orders the driver to stop. They watch the object, -now hovering about one- quarter mile away at an altitude of 1,000 feet. -After 10 minutes it silently swoops toward them at high speed and stops -300 feet away at a height of 100 feet. The object is about 25 feet in -diameter with two “tapering wings” on either side and casts a -fluorescent yellow glow. After a few more minutes, the UFO moves toward -the southwest at a 45° angle after drawing its two wings inside the main -body. Some 50 witnesses report the same or similar objects in the same -area that night, and both Abeywickrema and Wijesinghe report seeing UFOs -around 2:00– 3:00 a.m. after returning home. (Story, pp. 169–170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4794

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Event 7169 -(00E6E786)

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Date: 7/29/1971
-Description: A CIA internal memo reports that a citizen named Vartorella -has expressed the opinion that the CIA used the Colorado project as -“whitewash to cover a CIA-initiated program begun prior to January -1953.” The writer runs through a brief history of the Robertson Panel -and suggests the following response: “We’re sorry, but we have had no -interest in the UFO matter for many years, have no files or persons -knowledgeable on the subject, and hence are unable to respond to his -charges and questions.” (ClearIntent, p. 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4795

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Event 7170 -(63C4519F)

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Date: 7/29/1971
-Description: Night. A woman living on a farm outside Saint Hyacinthe, -Quebec, watches as two dark circular objects with red rotating lights -hovering above her potato field. It quickly disappears. The next -morning, her husband finds two 11-foot-wide circular patches of crushed -and burned potatos where the UFO had hovered. Investigators estimated -the object had burnes or irradiated the field from a height of 15 feet. -(Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, p. 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4796

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Event 7171 -(FB1A0B95)

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Date: 8/6/1971
-Description: U.S. KH-9 “Big Bird” spy satellite incinerated on reentry -into atmosphere.
-Type: official
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 200

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Event 7172 -(FCBC045F)

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Date: 8/9/1971
-Description: Airline flight paced for 20 minutes by glowing orange disc -(“like two round basins, one on top of the other”)
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Minas Gerais region, Brazil
-ID: 201

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Event 7173 -(CD2F183D)

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Date: 8/11/1971
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 202

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Event 7174 -(8896BCB5)

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Date: 8/16/1971
-Description: Jan-Ove -Sundberg sees a landed UFO in a cleared area above Foyers, -Inverness, Scotland, on Loch Ness. Three human-shaped figures in gray -coveralls emerge from some bushes and enter the craft, which then takes -off. Sundberg snaps a photo, then contacts writer and monster researcher -Frederick -William “Ted” Holiday, who is looking for a UFO connection with the -loch. However, Sundberg eventually confesses that he made up the story. -(F. W. Holiday, “Exorcism -and UFO Landing at Loch Ness,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1973): 3–7, 13; Roland Watson, “Ted -Holiday’s Final Days,” Loch Ness Monster, May 31, 2008; Clark III -600–601)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4797

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Event 7175 -(7C4D788D)

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Date: 9/3/1971
-Description: G. -Gordon Liddy and E. -Howard Hunt break into the office of Lewis J. Fielding, Daniel -Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. (Wikipedia, “Daniel -Ellsberg”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4798

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Event 7176 -(522A8BB7)

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Date: 9/4/1971
-Description: Aerial survey plane photo showing disc on edge
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lago de Cote, Costa Rica
-ID: 203

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Event 7177 -(A6F2B151)

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Date: 9/4/1971
-Description: 8:25 a.m. Pilot Omar Arias is flying a twin-engine Canadian -Aero-Commander F680 at a height of 10,000 feet above Lago de Cote, Costa -Rica, taking aerial photos as part of a preliminary study for future -hydroelectric projects. On board are photographer Sergio Loaiza, a -specialist in aerial photography, plus geographer Juan Bravo and -topographer Francisco Reyes. Loaiza was using a R-M-K 15/23 camera, -specially made for cartography and using high-resolution black-and-white -film, strapped on the bottom of the aircraft and taking automatic photos -with an intervalometer. No one sees a thing while they are up in the -air, but when Loiaza reviews his images, he discovers in frame 300 what -seems to be a huge metallic disc against the dark background of the -lake. The object does not appear in the previous or following frames. Jacques -Vallée obtains a copy of the negative and examines it with Richard -Haines and concludes that the photo shows “an unidentified, opaque, -aerial object was captured on film at a maximum distance of 10,000 feet. -There are no visible means of lift or propulsion and no surface markings -other than darker regions that appear to be nonrandom.” (Richard F. -Haines and Jacques Vallée, “Photo Analysis -of an Aerial Disc over Costa Rica,” Journal of Scientific -Exploration 3, no. 2 (1989): 113–131; Richard F. Haines and Jacques -Vallée, “Photo -Analysis of an Aerial Disc over Costa Rica: New Evidence,” Journal -of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 (1990): 71–74; Mick West, “1971 -Lake Cote / Lago de Cote UFO Aerial Photo,” Metabunk,org, May 10, -2021; Bryce Zabel, “The -Best UFO Photo Ever Taken?” Medium: The Trail of the Saucers, May -10, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4799

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Event 7178 -(ABDD2B38)

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Date: 9/12/1971 (approximate)
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Juan Rodríguez Domínguez, 82, who goes by the -nickname of Juan el de la Palmareña, is in his hut on the Los Lunarejos -farm just over a mile from Aznalcóllar, Seville, Spain, when he sees a -bus-sized object landing near an abandoned well 1,000 feet away. More -than 50 “soldiers” in blue “uniforms” emerge. They march in formation -into a hollow in the field and are lost to view. Juan can now see only -five or six “chiefs” standing on a slope and staring in his direction. -When they shine a light at him, he ducks behind the hut. A bit later he -looks out again and they shine the light once more. Frightened, he flees -to Aznalcóllar to inform his employers, who do not take him seriously. -He later insists that the object and the “soldiers” have left marks in -the ground, but police do not bother to follow up. (Ignacio Darnaude, -“An -‘Army of Humanoids’ Stated to Have Landed -in Spain,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974): 19–21; -Ignacio Darnaude, [case -clippings]; Clark III 282)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4800

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Event 7179 -(E84056B5)

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Date: 9/19/1971
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Arthur Honke, Alec Honke, and Gordon Campbell are -driving north just outside Winnipeg, Manitoba, to do some hunting. They -see a bright flash as something passes overhead and in front of the car. -It now appears ahead of them on the right side of the road. Honke pulls -alongside it and steps out of the car. They can hear a low-pitched -humming from the object only about 150–225 feet away. It is shaped like -two saucers, one on top of the aother, and has flashing green and red -lights and one white statonary light. The object hovers for 30 seconds, -then starts moving slowly to the southeast. But as the men drive north -again, the object begins following them at a distance for about 45 -minutes. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, -2022, pp. 86–87, 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4801

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Event 7180 -(ACE84DAD)

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Date: late 9/1971
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Chen Chu, a member of a People’s Liberation Army -unit stationed in Dingzhou, Hebei, China, is on assignment in a small -valley north of the city when he and other soldiers notice a ball-like -object rising slowly to the north of their quarters. It is emitting -mist, and after a few seconds it spurts out a large jet of smoke and -rises in the air. It hovers a few more seconds then rises to a higher -level. Soon it drops down toward the ground and disappears. The unit -dispatches a motor vehicle to find the object, but due to the ruggedness -of the mountain roads, it turns back after more than 3 miles. (Wendelle -Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, -p. 72) Autumn — Gene and Geneva Steinberg begin publishing Caveat -Emptor, a newsletter on UFOs and other anomalies, in Charleston, South -Carolina. It runs until October 1974, then goes on hiatus until late -1988 when it is again edited by the Steenberg’s, this time in New -Jersey. It persists until fall 1990. (Caveat -Emptor 1, no. 1 (Fall 1971))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4802

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Event 7181 -(74D19521)

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Date: 10/2/1971
-Description: 6:30 a.m. An ex-Air Force man is driving from Caro to -Watrousville, Michigan, and spots a triangular UFO with a large white -light at the bottom and many smaller red lights around it. It makes -sharp turns at fantastic speed and moves quickly out of sight. (“Sighting -Advisory,” UFO Investigator, December 1971, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4803

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Event 7182 -(C0C8A475)

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Date: 10/2/1971
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Two students, Vània, 9, and Vera, 21, are sitting -down outside their residence on a busy street in the populous -neighborhood of São Cristóvão in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when they see a -luminous, yellow, silent object above a building across the street some -260–300 feet away. They run out into the street to alert others, and the -object follows them above the roofs of houses. Another student, Nelson -Calmon Schubsky, 23, and his fiancée rush into the street along with -many others to see the object. Chbosky has a Leica camera and takes two -photos without having time to adjust the settings. The UFO has three -luminous appendages (white, yellow, and red) and is rose-colored in the -center with a red outline. It pulsates rapidly, changes color, and -disappears behind a nearby tower. Chbosky’s photos are blurry. (“UFO -é Fotografado no Rio de Janeiro (RJ),” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, -2016; Clark III 1007–1009; Brazil 146–149)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4804

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Event 7183 -(96814CE6)

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Date: 10/5/1971
-Description: Early morning. While on the downwind leg of the pattern to -runway 20L at the Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, four -pilots on board a single-engine Cessna airplane watch as a “huge star” -approaches them on their starboard side. The object descends to their -altitude and slows rapidly to their air speed, smoothly changing its -direction to fly parallel with them at an estimated distance of 98 feet. -It looks like an “inverted dish” with a small rounded protrusion -centered on its upper surface that seems to contain oval windows. What -appears to be the head of a person is seen in one window looking at -them. The UFO is seen for about 85 seconds. The object descends at high -velocity toward the water’s surface, turns sharply left without any -hesitation and disappears from sight in several seconds. The reporting -witness is Chief Flight Instructor José Américo C. Medeiros, 23, pilot -of the Cessna. (Richard F. Haines, “Airplane Pacing in Rio,” IUR 34, no. -2 (Mar. 2012): 3–6, 26–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4805

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Event 7184 -(3762B7CE)

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Date: 10/11/1971
-Description: Soviet Salyut 1 space station burned up during atmospheric -reentry.
-Type: official
-Type: landing
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 204

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Event 7185 -(95685E39)

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Date: 11/2/1971
-Description: Brilliantly lighted, mushroomshaped object hovered just off -ground, sheep reacted, light beam, landing traces, physiological -effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Delphos, KS
-ID: 205

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Event 7186 -(6A3272CC)

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Date: 11/2/1971
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Ronald Johnson, 16, is tending sheep on his -family’s farm at Delphos, Kansas, when he hears a rumbling sound and -sees (75 feet away in a small grove of trees) an object become suddenly -illuminated with a mass of blue, red, and orange colors. Nine feet in -diameter and 10 feet high, the UFO is slightly domed at the top and is -hovering 2 feet above the ground. He and his dog stare at the object -while the sheep are bellowing. After several minutes, the glow at the -base becomes more intense and the object takes off at an angle, clearing -by no more than 4 feet a shed attached to the sheep pen. The rumbling is -replaced by a high-pitched wail. Johnson is temporarily blinded but -recovers his sight a few minutes later and sees the object still there. -He runs into the house to tell his parents, and they also see the light -in the southern sky moving off into the distance. At the site where the -UFO has been is a glowing, gray-white circle where the soil seems to be -crystallized. After the parents touch the soil, it turns their fingers -numb, persisting for several weeks. Johnson takes a photo of the circle. -Seven separate soil analyses are conducted. Soil samples taken from the -ring so not absorb water, have a higher acid content, and contain more -soluble salts and calcium. They also produce less seed growth than -control samples and are coated with a hydrocarbon of low molecular -weight that is difficult to remove. A second substance is also found -that is composed of white, crystalline fibers. (NICAP, “Delphos, -Kansas, November 2, 1971”; “Landing Case -in Kansas,” APRO Bulletin, Nov./Dec. 1971, pp. 1, 3; Ted Phillips, -“Landing -Report from Delphos,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 9 -(February 1972): 4–10; Vallée, The Invisible College, Dutton, 1975, -p. 35; Clark III 400–402; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, -Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 79–82; Erol A. Faruk, “The Delphos Landing: New -Evidence from the Laboratory,” IUR 12, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1987): 21–25; -Erol A. Faruk, “The Delphos Landing: New Evidence from the Laboratory, -Part Two,” IUR 12, no. 3 (May/June 1987): 19–21; Erol A. Faruk, “The -Delphos Case: Soil Analysis and Appraisal of a CE-2 Report,” JUFOS 1 -(1989): 41–65; Michael D. Swords, “Research Note: Delphos, Kansas, Soil -Analysis,” JUFOS 3 (1991): 115; Michael D. Swords, comp., “Soil Analysis -Results,” JUFOS 3 (1991): 116–133; Erol A. Faruk, “Further Comment on -the Delphos Data,” JUFOS 3 (1991): 134–137; 8 (2003): 1–25; Ted Phillips -and Jennie Zeidman, Delphos: A Close Encounter of the Second Kind, UFO -Research Coalition, 2002; Phyllis A. Budinger, “New Analysis of Soil -Samples from the Delphos UFO Case,” JUFOS 8 (2003): 1–25; Erol Faruk, -“The -Delphos CE2 Case: -A New Appraisal of the Data,” Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, -November 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4806

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Event 7187 -(68D8AAAF)

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Date: 11/3/1971
-Description: The Ugandan representative to the United Nations, Grace -Ibingira, asks the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to -encourage astronauts who encounter UFOs to treat them respectfully. He -wants to insert a clause to that effect into a UN statement on space -exploration, but his colleagues are unmoved. (Clark III 1189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4807

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Event 7188 -(C570E6BE)

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Date: 12/1971
-Description: At Tooligie Hill, South Australia, farmer Robert Habner -finds a single-ring crop circle 10 feet in diameter in a wheat paddock. -Another family had seen a red ball of light in the area the previous -night. (Allen Tiller, “Tooligie -Hill UFO Crop Circle,” Eidolon Paranormal, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4808

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Event 7189 -(6460C952)

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Date: 12/20/1971
-Description: Prior to the launch of a Black Arrow rocket, an -unidentified aircraft is seen by a trained meteorological observer over -prohibited airspace at the RAAF Woomera Range Complex in South -Australia. The RAAF explains it as reentering space debris, although it -is impossible to confirm. (Swords 401) Last week of December — After -sunset. Norman W. Kasting is flying on a commercial airliner between -Dallas, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. He notices something approaching -the plane from behind on the west side. It passes within a few hundred -yards of the aircraft and 10–20 feet below its level, flying faster than -the plane. The object is metallic and shaped like an upside-down bowl -about 30–40 feet in diameter and 15 feet tall. It has orange or amber -lights around the edge. (“Out -of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4809

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- Event 7190 (6C82C7E7)

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Date: 1972
-Description: Betty -Hill begins making numerous trips to a rural area near Kingston, New -Hampshire, where she claims to see 6–7 UFOs every night, often at close -range. Saucer-seeking pilgrims join her on these vigils. CUFOS field -investigator John -Paul Oswald joins her occasionally and is convinced she is only -seeing airplanes and, on one occasion, a streetlight. She claims no -further abductions or CE3s, but many ufologists think her celebrity has -clouded her judgment. (Clark III 586)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4810

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Event 7191 -(508AEC51)

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Date: 1972
-Description: Project SNOWBIRD established to test fly a captured flying -saucer. This was an alleged ongoing 1972 Top Secret project that -researched, developed and implemented alien spacecraft technology and -test flown recovered UFOs. It is possible that the UFO involved in the -CASH/LANDRUM CASE was built by the Americans as part of this project, -however another “Project Snowbird” has been found described as a “Joint -Army/Air Force peacetime military exercise in the sub-arctic region in -1955” in the 1963 Gale Research’s Code Names Dictionary. Project -SNOWBIRD is another project that was revealed in the Project AQUARIUS -Briefing Document.
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A, SNOWBIRD)
-Reference: archive.org

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Event 7192 -(2D48DD1E)

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Date: 1972
-Description: Kilbjørn Stenødegård founds the Norsk UFO Center in -Trondheim, Norway. It publishes UFO Forum from 1973 to 1978. The Norsk -UFO Center in Bergen publishes Rapportnytt from 1974 to 1981. (UFO -Forum, no. -1 (1973); Rapportnytt, no. 1 (1974))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4815

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Event 7193 -(A4F225AC)

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Date: 1972
-Description: Luis do Rosário Real founds the Sociedade Pelotense de -Investigacão e Pesquiso de Discos Voadores in Pelotas, Rio Grande de -Sul, Brazil. It publishes a Boletim SPIPDV. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO -Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 296)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4814

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Event 7194 -(40B70F1D)

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Date: 1972
-Description: Alberto Romero founds Grupo de Pesquisas Aérospaciais -Zenith in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It begins publishing Boletim G-PAZ -annually. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, pp. 136–137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4813

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Event 7195 -(058B5EDF)

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Date: 1972
-Description: The Centro de Estudos Astronomicos e de Fenómenos Insolitos -is founded in Porto, Portugal. It begins publishing a monthly journal, -Insolito, in 1975. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, -p. 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4812

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Event 7196 -(7C0F32D2)

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Date: 1972
-Description: Oscar A. Uriondo and Roberto E. Banchs found the Centro de -Estudios de Fénomenos Aéreos Inusuales in Buenos Aires, Argentina. -(Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4811

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Event 7197 -(785D16CE)

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Date: 1/1972
-Description: Air Commodore Anthony -Norman Davis becomes the first head of the British UFO desk to -appear on TV to explain how the ministry investigates sightings. The -program is part of the BBC’s Man Alive series and includes the “man from -the ministry” engaging in debate with a panel of experts and taking -questions from the audience. The program is filmed in Banbury, England, -town hall following a wave of UFO sightings in Oxfordshire. Davis says -all reports received by the Ministry of Defence are “examined with an -open mind and without prejudice” but denies that the MoD possesses any -evidence that can prove the existence of extraterrestrial visitors. -(UFOFiles2, pp. 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4816

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Event 7198 -(23329D07)

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Date: 1/1972
-Description: Night. High school senior Donna Wilkins is driving in a -rural area near Bartelso, Illinois, with a boyfriend when they see -lights traveling back and forth in an odd pattern in the distance. -Suddenly a luminous triangular object appears right next to them and -they speed up. It maintains the same position above their car even -though they accelerate to 85 mph. The underside seems to be composed of -metal beams. It disappears beyond a tree line as they enter town, (“They -Still Keep Seeing UFOs in Carlyle,” East St. Louis (Ill.) Metro-East -Journal, May 31, 1972, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 38 (June 1972): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4817

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Event 7199 -(F07F45C0)

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Date: early 2/1972
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Sarajevo International Airport in Bosnia picks up -an unidentified radar target traveling at about 37 mph. It appears -visually as a triangular object. When a Jat Airways Convair approaches -the target, it accelerates and vanishes. (Milos Krmelj, “Report -from Ljubljana, Slovenia,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. -13 (February 1973): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4818

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Event 7200 -(1A099DF5)

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Date: 3/1972
-Description: Victor -Marchetti, who -has worked as an analyst for the CIA from 1955 to 1969, announces his -plans to write a nonfiction book about the agency and completes a draft -of an article for Esquire which, according to a later CIA account, -includes “names of agents, relations with named governments, and -identifying details of ongoing operations.” The CIA receives a copy of -the article and decides to seek an injunction against its publication. -The basis for seeking an injunction against Marchetti is the secrecy -agreement which he signed when beginning employment at CIA. The agency -presents the agreement and the parts of the draft article it considers -in violation of the agreement, to Judge Albert -Vickers Bryan Jr. of the US District Court for Eastern Virginia, who -grants a temporary restraining order in April. The case proceeds to -trial, at which Bryan finds for the CIA and issues a permanent -injunction requiring Marchetti to submit his writings to CIA for review -prior to publication. Marchetti appeals the injunction to the Fourth -Circuit Court of Appeals, which upholds Bryan’s restraint but limits it -to classified material. The appeals court also finds that Marchetti is -entitled to timely review of materials he submits to the CIA. Marchetti -appeals again to the US Supreme Court, but SCOTUS rejects Marchetti’s -appeal in December. Marchetti continues work on his book with a -coauthor, John -D. Marks, and -signs a book contract with publisher Alfred A. Knopf. In August 1973, -they submit their manuscript to the CIA. After reviewing the manuscript, -the agency responds with a list of 339 passages that it claims are -classified information and demands their deletion. Marchetti and Marks -reject the demand and indicate they will go to court to print the -manuscript as written. The CIA then withdraws its objections to 171 of -the items but stands firm on the remaining 168. The trial is held again -before Judge Bryan. This time, however, he rejects all but 26 of the -deletions requested by the CIA on the grounds that the information in -them is not properly or provably classified. The CIA appeals Bryan’s -ruling, and ultimately the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds all -168 of the deletions. The book is published by Knopf in 1974 as The CIA -and the Cult of Intelligence. It is printed with blanks for deleted -passages and boldface type for the 171 deletions that CIA originally -requested and later withdrew. It is the first book the federal -government of the United States ever goes to court to censor before its -publication. (Wikipedia, “Victor Marchetti”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4819

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Event 7201 -(D5B50706)

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Date: 3/8/1972
-Description: President Nixon legitimizes -the use of special access controls and the “special access program” is -finally made official. These are security protocols that provide highly -classified information with safeguards and access restrictions that -exceed those for regular (collateral) classified information. SAPs can -range from black projects to routine but especially sensitive -operations, such as COMSEC maintenance or Presidential transportation -support. In addition to collateral controls, an SAP may impose more -stringent investigative or adjudicative requirements, specialized -nondisclosure agreements, special terminology or markings, exclusion -from standard contract investigations (carve-outs), and centralized -billet systems. (Wikipedia, “Special -access program”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4820

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Event 7202 -(FC3065E7)

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Date: 3/12/1972
-Description: The tabloid newspaper The National Enquirer announces a -$50,000 reward to “the first person who can prove that an Unidentified -Flying Object (UFO) came from outer space and is not a natural -phenomenon.” It has appointed five experts to a blue-ribbon panel that -will evaluate all the entries: J. -Allen Hynek, R. -Leo Sprinkle, Frank -B. Salisbury, James -A. Harder, and -Robert -F. Creegan. The deadline for evidence is January 1, 1973. On May 23, -1973, the panel announces that none of the entries examined warranted -the full prize, but it has decided to award $5,000 to the Johnson family -of Delphos, Kansas, for submitting the 1971 landing trace evidence. The -panel awards seven other UFO cases with a portion of the reward, the -last going to Deputy Sheriff Val -Johnson in 1980. (Isaac Koi, “Concensus -Lists: National Enquirer Panel,” UFOs and Rationality, April 1, -2008; Curt Collins, “The -Blue Ribbon UFO Panel of the National -Enquirer,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, September 13, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4821

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Event 7203 -(07BC0809)

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Date: 3/19/1972
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A boy named Mario goes out onto his patio at -Santa Maria Acuexcomac, Puebla, Mexico, to look for a broom when he sees -a bluish light, which gets larger as if it is approaching the ground. He -sees that the thing is descending into a vacant lot and, thinking it is -a hot air balloon, runs towards it. When he reaches the lot, he sees the -thing is a kind of luminous sphere giving off a blue light like that of -a welding torch. Mario now becomes frightened and runs to call his -mother. As he goes in the house, two neighbors, Zacarian Mendoza and -Manuela Carlotta de Mendoza, also see the object. When Mario comes out -again accompanied by his mother Josefina, the object, which has been on -the ground for 7 minutes, begins to rise up, producing a hum and casting -off more blue sparks. Gradually the light and sound are lost in the sky. -The next day, Mario goes to the site and finds four deep tracks, about 8 -inches deep, separated exactly from each other in the form of a square -of 8.2 feet. At an equidistant point in the center of the tracks there -is a black burnt mark on the ground. (Ted Phillips, “Landing Traces: -Physical Evidence for the UFO,” in MUFON Symposium 1973, Midwest UFO -Network, 1973, p. 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4822

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Event 7204 -(E889F007)

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Date: 4/1/1972
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two students are driving between Cacuso and -Lucala, Angola, when suddenly their vehicle’s engine and lights fail. -They check the batteries and fuses, which are all normal. Then they see -two bright lights. Shortly afterward, they hear a whistling noise coming -from an object about 130 feet away. It is about 130 feet across, partly -lit up, and has three legs hanging from it. It rise to a height of 40 -feet, where it hovers briefly, retracts its legs, whistles again, and -turns on edge as it moves away. As soon as it leaves, the vehicle’s -lights come back on and the engine returns to normal. (Herbert S. -Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, -no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4823

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Event 7205 -(1C73CD2D)

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Date: 4/14/1972
-Description: Evening. At least four adults in various parts of -Waterbury, Connecticut, spot a triangular-shaped UFO moving silently. -The witnesses estimated its width at about 130–195 feet. (“Sighting -Advisory,” UFO Investigator, December 1972, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4824

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Event 7206 -(4FCC0C6F)

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Date: 4/24/1972
-Description: Day. A man in Willow Point, British Columbia, on the Inside -Passage takes a photo of a disc-shaped object spinning “like a top” and -hovering in the sky above Quadra Island. The object has a dull sheen -like dirty chrome and lights flashing around its rim. The UFO wobbles, -tilts, and shudders, then shoots straight upward about 1,000 feet. It -then takes off to the north on a zigzag course. The photo is blurry, but -shows a disc. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August -Night, 2022, pp. 72–73, 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4825

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Event 7207 -(087047A2)

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Date: 5/26/1972
-Description: President Richard -Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid -Brezhnev sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty at the 1972 Moscow -Summit. Under the terms of the treaty, each party is limited to two ABM -complexes, each of which is to be limited to 100 anti-ballistic -missiles. Ratified by the US Senate on August 3, the treaty remains in -force until June 2002 when the US withdraws. (Wikipedia, “Anti-Ballistic -Missile Treaty”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4826

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Event 7208 -(23E37ACF)

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Date: 6/1972
-Description: Edward Harris begins publishing Cosmology Newslink, a -monthly newsletter on UFO and contactee topics, in Dunmow, Essex, -England. It persists until the Summer 1994 issue. (Cosmology -Newslink, no. -1 (June 1972))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4828

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Event 7209 -(760F994C)

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Date: 6/6/1972
-Description: New York City artist and psychic Ingo -Swann visits the Stanford Research Institute [now SRI International] -in Menlo Park, California, to begin remote viewing experiments. He is -brought by Harold -E. Puthoff and other scientists to a building where, several floors -below, is a heavily shielded magnetometer whose sole function is to -measure quarks. One scientist asks him to “perturb” the device. As Swann -sits there trying to visualize the magnetometer, a scientist monitoring -it tells the group that the needle is moving wildly and malfunctioning. -The scene is repeated several more times, each time when Swann is -imagining the device. Puthoff is intrigued. He writes up his findings -and a few weeks later he is visited by two CIA intelligence analysts who -want Puthoff and SRI to investigate remote viewing for espionage -purposes. (Wikipedia, “Ingo -Swann”; Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: -The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies, Dell, -1997; Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. -Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and -Psychokinesis, Little, Brown, 2017, pp. 130–136; Edwin C. May and Sonali -Bhatt Marwaha, eds., The Star Gate Archives, Volumes 1–4, Reports of the -United States Government Sponsored Psi Program, 1972–1995, McFarland, 4 -vols., 2018–2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4829

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Event 7210 -(B12799AC)

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Date: 6/9/1972
-Description: Motorist experienced engine failure, pulsating yellow oval -object visible on road ahead. Object illuminated trees as it -departed
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Algodonales, Cadiz, Spain
-ID: 206

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Event 7211 -(A0B536F8)

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Date: 6/17/1972
-Description: 2:30 a.m. The White House Plumbers are arrested in the -process of burglarizing and planting surveillance bugs in the Democratic -National Committee offices at the Watergate Building Complex in -Washington, D.C. (Wikipedia, “Watergate -scandal”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4830

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Event 7212 -(DD066A56)

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Date: summer 1972
-Description: Early morning. The Musson, a Russian scientific ship, is in -the North Atlantic roughly 300 miles from Bermuda. The electrician, -radio operator, and one of the navigators see an elliptical object -moving slowly through the cloudless sky at high altitude from north to -south. It changes shape to a wheel and then to an elongated, -silvery-white ellipse, then it disappears from view. (Stonehill and -Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 60)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4827

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Event 7213 -(AC8A87ED)

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Date: 6/22/1972
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Javier Bosque, a seminarist of the order of -St. Joseph Calasanz, is reading in bed at his room at the Colegio -Escolapios in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, when he notices a bright light -outside through the half-closed shutters of his window. To his surprise, -the window begins opening by itself and a 2-foot-long, football-shaped, -metallic, luminous object enters his room and approaches the foot of his -bed. His radio begins to emit a loud, continuous sound. He reaches over -and turns on a cassette tape recorder. The object descends from about 6 -feet above the floor to 15 inches above it. A beam of solid light -extends from the object, touching the radio twice, retracts, then -touches the cassette recorder. Bosque grabs the recorder and holds the -microphone in his lap. The object ascends to about 6 feet above the -floor and moves out the window and up. The radio sound weakens. The -8-minute sound recording is analyzed by laboratories in Spain, Brazil, -France, and the US. It contains some pure tones at first, followed by -modulations in amplitude. Robert H. Coddington finds, after an analysis -of the tape, that it most likely is a recording of the chance reception -of an ordinary test transmission from a terrestrial broadcast station -and does not match Bosque’s narrative. (Albert Adell and Pere Redón, “UFO -Enters and Inspects -a Room,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 2 (March/April 1973): 10–13, -iii; “Bosque -Spanish UFO Tapes Deemed -Non-Startling,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 (December 1980): -4; Willy Smith, “A Bizarre Event at Logroño: A Taped UFO Sound,” IUR 7, -no. 4 (July/Aug. 1982): 8–10; “Logroño -(Spain) Tape Recording Explained,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 2 (April/May 1983): 5–7; Robert H. -Coddington, “Further Analysis -of the Logroño Tape,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 2 (April/May -1983): 7–10; Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 -(June 2007): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4831

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Event 7214 -(87DB5743)

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Date: 6/26/1972
-Description: 8:00 a.m. Bennie Smit, the new owner of Braeside Farm 9 -miles from Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, South Africa, is alerted to a -“fiery red ball hovering at tree-top level” by his hired hand Boer de -Klerk. Its color changes to bright green and then to whitish yellow, -with flames shooting out. Smit dashes home, grabs a rifle, and calls the -police. He shoots at the object, but the bullets have little effect. At -10:30 a.m., police sergeant Piet C. Kitching and warrant officer P. R. -van Rensburg arrive at the spot where the UFO is still hovering. As the -object moves away, Smit fires at it an eighth time; this time he hears a -thud, and the object moves up and down and stops changing colors. Smit -and Kitchin fire at it some more, after which it disappears and -reappears about 60 feet away looking gunmetal gray in color and somewhat -oval-shaped. After they fire two final shots, the object moves away -through the trees around noon. The next day, van Rensburg leads a team -of police officers to the site, looking for evidence. They find nine -circular imprints of its supposed landing gear found in damp clay soil. -On June 28, Brig. A. Vosloo, divisional commander of police for the -Eastern Cape, takes soil samples and plaster casts of the imprints. -(Wikipedia, “UFO -Sightings in South Africa”; Charles Bowen, “A -Hot Reception at Fort Beaufort,” Flying Saucer Review Case -Histories, no. 11 (August 1972): 1–7; Philipp Human, “Fort -Beaufort Tailpiece,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 11 -(August 1972): 7; Clark III 510–511)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4832

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Event 7215 -(D3AFC17F)

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Date: 6/29/1972
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A dark, wedge-shaped UFO passes directly over -several witnesses at 200–500 feet altitude in Buffalo, South Dakota, at -a slow speed. About 100 feet long, it has two brilliant white lights at -the front and two orange-white lights in the rear. It moves with the -blunt edge forward and hovers intermittently for 40 minutes. It emits a -sound like rushing air. (Glenn McWane and David Graham, The New UFO -Sightings, Warner, 1974; Marler 85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4833

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Event 7216 -(115E3E4F)

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Date: 7/1972
-Description: J. -Allen Hynek publishes The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry, in -which he charges the Air Force with indifference and incompetence in its -UFO investigations. He also critiques the Condon report and details -well- documented reports of six types of UFOs: nocturnal lights, -daylight discs, radar/visual observations, and close encounters of the -first, second, and third kind. It is an “articulate challenge to his -colleagues to tolerate the study of something they cannot understand,” -according to a reviewer in Science. (J. Allen Hynek, The -UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974; Clark III 620)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4834

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Event 7217 -(7A84209C)

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Date: 7/3/1972
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Maureen Puddy, 27, sees a disc-shaped object on -the Mooraduc Road near Frankston, Victoria, Australia. The object is a -huge blue disc that hovers above her car. (Keith Basterfield, “Present -at the Abduction,” IUR 17, no. 3 (May/June 1992): 13–14, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4835

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Event 7218 -(F117BC76)

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Date: 7/4/1972
-Alternate date: 7/4/1973
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Capt. Erling Bakke and his wife see a peculiar -vessel on the water east of Sundsøya, Trøndelag, Norway. It is black, -about 25 feet long, 6 feet high, and traveling about 60 mph. It rises up -at a 45° angle, then disappears. (J. O. Sundberg, “Stor -Expedition till Nansenfjorden,” UFO Information, 1975, no. 3, -pp. 9–10; Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine -Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4837

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Event 7219 -(A5DA41F3)

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Date: 7/4/1972
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Girl guide leader Claudine Dieupart alerts 43 -other girl guides and Belgian missionary Rev. Fr. Quertemont, who are -sitting around a campfire at Lamonriville, Malmédy, Belgium, to a -triangle of white lights moving overhead. They watch the lights for 5 -minutes. At 10:30 p.m., several witnesses at a bus stop in Liège view a -triangle of bright globes of light moving slowly from west to east. They -pass through a cloud bank, illuminating it. About the same time, other -witnesses in the western suburbs see a similar display. At 10:31 p.m., a -factory worker in Flawinne watches a triangle of three bright lights -ascending vertically. At 10:40 p.m., a couple in Spy observe a -triangular display of lights surrounded by bluish sparks. At 10:45 p.m. -a farmer in Ellezelles notices three bluish beams of light shining down -from a luminous cloud. (Marler 85–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4836

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Event 7220 -(3D829930)

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Date: 7/5/1972
-Description: 12:10 p.m. A witness in Belgium is parking his car when he -notices a dozen whitish objects flying about randomly at a low altitude. -A neighbor describes them as vaguely shaped, fleecy, and rotating -slowly. They seem to be moving around a dark triangular object. (Marler -87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4838

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Event 7221 -(CE62EF3D)

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Date: 7/10/1972
-Description: Luminous object beamed light at car, engine lost -power
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Alcaracejos, Cordoba, Spain
-ID: 207

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Event 7222 -(7F7B2434)

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Date: 7/19/1972
-Description: 10:35 p.m. Herbert and Mady Mathar and their two children -are walking in Faymonville, Belgium, when they see a red-orange point of -light slowly moving toward them. Closer, they see that it is hat-shaped. -Mathar runs inside to get a camera and takes two photos before the -object disappears. Ballester Olmos and van Utrecht conclude that the -photos show the Moon setting in the southwest. (Vicente-Juan Ballester -Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, Belgium -in UFO Photographs, Volume 1 (1950–1988), FOTOCAT -Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 99–113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4839

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Event 7223 -(CD61793F)

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Date: 7/25/1972
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Maureen Puddy sees the same object she had seen -on July 3 at almost the same spot. This time it seems to drain power -from the car, causing it to stop, the car steering itself off the road. -A voice in her head tells her, “All your tests will be negative. Tell -media, do not panic. We mean no harm.” Several months later, she is -“mentally” abducted into a room where she sees an entity. This event -occurs while two other people are present with her, but they only report -that Puddy lapses into unconsciousness. On a later occasion, the entity -appears as she is driving the car. (Judith M. Magee, “The -Close Encounter of Maureen Puddy,” Australian Annual Flying Saucer -Review, 1983, pp. 4–9; Judith M. Magee, “The -Close Encounter of Maureen Puddy,” Victorian UFO Research Society, -1996; Keith Basterfield, “Present at the Abduction,” IUR 17, no. 3 -(May/June 1992): 13–14, 23; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification -System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 20) July 27 — -The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Oceans and International -Environment holds hearings on Senate Resolution 281, proposing an -international treaty to ban weather modification as a weapon of war. -Dartmouth environmental scientist Gordon -J. F. MacDonald opposes the bill, saying that research needs to be -unfettered, but he mentions weapons that might use electrical waves, -created by the differential between the ionosphere and the surface of -the earth, “that would be tuned to the brain waves…. About ten cycles -per second…. You can produce changes in behavioral patterns or in -responses.” (Prohibiting -Military Weather Modification, -Hearings before the Subcommittee on Oceans and International -Environment, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 92nd Cong., 2nd -Sess., on S. Res. 281, pp. 72–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4840

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Event 7224 -(D26FDCEF)

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Date: 8/1972
-Description: The Archives for UFO Research (Arbetsgruppen för Ufologi) -is founded in Södertälje, Sweden, by Håkan Blomqvist, Kjell -Jonsson, and -Anders -Liljegren. Its -specialized research library for UFO literature is established in 1974, -and in 1979 AFU moves to Norrköping. It publishes Ufologen from 1972 to -1974 and the AFU Newsletter from March 1975 to October 2008. In April -2013 it changes its name to the Archives for the Unexplained. Its -holdings in 2020 include a reference library of more than 20,000 titles, -more than 50,000 magazine issues, some 500,000 clippings, and more than -50,000 European UFO cases. (Wikipedia, “Archives -for UFO -Research”; Archives for the Unexplained, “About -AFU”; Ufologen, no -1 (July 1972); AFU -Newsletter, no. 1 (March/April 1975); AFU -Annual Report, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4842

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Event 7225 -(348182CA)

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Date: 8/1972
-End date: 10/1972
-Description: Numerous UFO sightings are reported throughout rural areas -of Puerto Rico, as well as in San Juan and Ponce. People travel to the -small town of Adjuntas, where the objects are seen frequently. One -Friday night, the mayor of Adjuntas is traveling with a group of people -in three cars along a lonely stretch of road in Barrio Garzas when he -sees three bright discs moving through the sky. Their light changes in -color and intensity. Sightings also center on the town of Utuado, where -the Air National Guard has scrambled F-104s to chase the objects. A -teacher at Utuado High School is driving back from town with his brother -when they see a bright light off in the bush 300 feet from the road. -They get out of the car and approach the light, which is sitting in a -clearing. It is a flattened disc about the size of a small house and has -a set of small, dark rectangles evenly spaced around its edge. It is -brilliantly lit and its colors are constantly changing. They watch the -object for a few minutes until it vanishes like “someone turning off a -light.” (Salvador Freixedo, “UFOs -over the Caribbean,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 14 -(April 1973): 9–10; Henry Cordova, “Encounter in Puerto Rico,” IUR 25, -no. 1 (Spring 2000): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4846

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Event 7226 -(FE4676CB)

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Date: 8/1972
-Description: Ingo -Swann returns to the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, -California, as do the two CIA intelligence analysts. With Swann in a -Faraday cage, the SRI team conducts a series of what’s-in-the-box tests -in which office supplies hidden inside a box are presented to Swann, who -is asked to identify the objects inside. During a lunch break one of the -CIA agents walks outside and collects a small brown moth, capturing it -alive, and sealing it inside a box. When Swann looks at the box, he sees -“something small, brown, and irregular, sort of like a leaf…. Except -that it seems very much alive, like it’s even moving.” (Annie Jacobsen, -Phenomena, Little, Brown, 2017, p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4841

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Event 7227 -(552696B0)

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Date: 8/9/1972
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A married couple, both college professors, are -camping out in a garden in the backyard of some friends’ home just off -the road to Nîmes at Saint-Jean-du-Gard, Gard, France. The woman is -walking outside and sees a shiny white ball the size of a small car -sitting in a nearby parking lot. She hears footsteps behind her and sees -a dark shape about 4 feet tall in the shape of a parallelepiped topped -by an oval where a head would be. It has 2 white circles for eyes, but -no visible arms or legs. It turns toward her and she feels an -extraordinary fear. After a few seconds, she runs back inside the tent. -(Patrick Gross, “Saint-Jean-du-Gard, -France, August 9, 1972”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4843

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Event 7228 -(E52DCBBB)

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Date: 8/10/1972
-Description: Bright daylight fireball meteor filmed lasting up to 45 -seconds or more.
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Western United States
-ID: 208

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Event 7229 -(12E256F3)

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Date: 8/10/1972
-Description: 2:29 p.m. An earth-grazing meteor passes 35 miles above the -Earth’s surface, entering the atmosphere above Utah at 9.3 miles/second -and passing northward, leaving the atmosphere over Alberta. It is seen -by many people and recorded on film and by space-borne sensors. An -eyewitness to the event, located in Missoula, Montana, sees the object -pass directly overhead and hears a double sonic boom. The smoke trail -lingers in the atmosphere for several minutes. (Wikipedia, “1972 -Great Daylight Fireball”; “A -Meteor That Missed Mountain States -May Have Had Hiroshima Bomb Force,” New York Times, July 4, 1974, -p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4844

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Event 7230 -(B9B7F1B2)

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Date: 8/11/1972
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 209

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Event 7231 -(F087F075)

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Date: 8/12/1972
-Description: 2:00 a.m.–5:00 a.m. About 30 young members of the Taizé -Community in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, France, are having a discussion in a -rustic theatre circle to the northwest of the community buildings. -Renata Faa is the first to see a star-like object come out of the sky in -the west. It lands on the ground on a ridge facing them. Eventually, -after more yellow lights appear on the object, they see it as -cigar-shaped and about 100 feet long. Five other white lights emit -luminous beams that extend progressively across the ground. Two cupolas -are visible on its left side. Three small white discs appear on the -right side, apparently emerging from the main object, and perform -complex maneuvers. Some of the witnesses feel a tingling in their -fingertips and knees. Faa and three of the other witnesses decide to -walk through the fields and approach the object. Around 3:00 a.m., a -multitude of red particles appear in the air around the approaching -witnesses and in the ground around them. The lights on the object -constantly change their patterns of display and movement. The four -witnesses see a dark mass like a haystack on their left about 30 feet -away. A small red light is moving haphazardly around it. When one of -them shines a flashlight on the haystack, the beam travels horizontally -for a bit then is directed perpendicularly upward. Finally, toward 5:00 -a.m., the large object rises up and moves off to the south, following -the terrain. (J. Tyrode, “Taizé: -A Case Right out of the Ordinary,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1973): 16–21; F. Lagarde, “A -Few Words about Taizé,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1973): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4845

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Event 7232 -(638FCB48)

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Date: 8/12/1972
-Description: Elliptical object with bright lights hovered near ground -emitting light beams downward, satellite objects emerged. UFO reacted to -flashlight
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Taize, France
-ID: 210

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Event 7233 -(63257D14)

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Date: 8/19/1972
-Description: Luminous, bowl-shaped object hovered near ground. Blinding -white light brightly illuminated terrain. Object made “whooshing” noise, -shot straight up
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Colby, KS
-ID: 211

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Event 7234 -(C79405E2)

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Date: 9/1972
-Description: 8:00 p.m. While commuting home by train from nearby -Debrecen, Hungary, workers see about 7 luminous, orange-colored ellipses -floating high above Nyírábrány. The phenomena are still there as they -are walking home from the train station. The lights are as bright as the -full moon and remain in position in a formation of three rows. The -spectacle lasts for 30 minutes. The display is seen for the next four -evenings in a row in the same part of the sky west of the village. On -the last night, one of the lights disappears but returns to the same -position in the formation. (Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in -Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4848

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Event 7235 -(2FF9D576)

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Date: early 9/1972
-Description: Just after midnight. Vasile Cărăbuş, a night watchman at an -agricultural cooperative in Valea Plopului, Romania, sees a yellow star -with a trail crossing the sky. It then hovers and appears to land in an -orchard on the Odaia hill about 1 mile away. A couple days later, -Cărăbuş and other locals visit the orchard and find a circular area 15 -feet in diameter where all the stems are broken off about 3 feet from -the ground. In the center of the circle is a mound of earth about 2 feet -in diameter and 15 inches high. In the middle of this is a round hole at -least 6 feet deep, around which are three identical impresions 4.5 feet -apart. Hundreds of curious onlookers visit the site, among them engineer -Justin -Capră, who -detects a substantial increase in gamma radiation in the center of the -circle. Ufologist Călin Turcu notes that the vegetation on the mound of -earth is completely absent for the next 4 years and frail after that. -(Hobana and Weverbergh 276–279; Romania 34–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4847

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Event 7236 -(B77925E2)

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Date: 9/10/1972
-Description: 12:45 p.m. Greengrocer Allan James is checking a load on -his truck prior to descending from the top of a hill west of Georges -Creek, New South Wales. He notices a huge, cigar-shaped object with -smaller objects emerging from each end. They group into an arrowhead -formation before moving southeast. The large object then climbs at a -high rate of speed and disappears. The duration is about 10 minutes. -(Eileen Buckle, “Is -Kempsey a UFO -‘Window’?” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 6 (April 1975): 3–4; Herbert -S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer -2004): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4849

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Event 7237 -(4E653BEF)

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Date: 9/14/1972
-Description: 4:20 a.m. An unidentified target is detected on radar at -the Palm Beach (Florida) International Airport by FAA air traffic -controller C. J. Fox. Fox describes the contact as a “good clear -target.” The object is tracked for over an hour when at approximately -6:00 a.m., NORAD is alerted. Two F-106 jet fighters are dispatched from -Homestead AFB [now Homestead Air Reserve Base] in Miami–Dade County to -locate and identify the object. The UFO disappears from radar scopes -shortly before the jets arrive. At the airport, FAA watch supervisor -George Morales views the object through binoculars and describes it as -silver-white in color and cigar-shaped. Officials at Miami International -Airport, which also tracks the strange object, report no aircraft are -known to be in the area where the UFO was spotted. (NICAP, “Ground/Visual; -Two 106’s Scrambled”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4850

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Event 7238 -(EEDCEC1F)

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Date: 9/14/1972
-Description: 4:00 p.m. David Owen is sitting on his patio in Bateau Bay, -New South Wales, when he notices a distinct “red arrowhead” moving from -southwest to northwest in a slow climb. After watching it for several -minutes, he takes a color photo with his Instamatic, which shows a disc -reflecting light. (“Australian -Arrowhead Photograph -Reveals Unseen Possible UFO,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 -(February 1981): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4851

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Event 7239 -(186766ED)

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Date: 9/14/1972
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A married couple in Houston, Missouri, watches an -unusual bright object after their portable TV is disturbed by -interference. It is larger than a star and persists for several minutes -before it disappears in a burst of speed. At 3:00 a.m. they are awakened -by their dogs barking at something in a nearby woods. They see a bright -flash of light at ground level. The next morning, they find an evergreen -tree about 300 feet from the house that is yellow on one side and -normal-looking on the other. Next to it is a 20 feet x 14 feet oval area -of depressed grass. In the center are three small imprints, each sowing -an extension or “toe.” The imprints are about 2.5 inches long; one is -1.5 inches deep. A blackened area in the shape of a triangle is in the -center of the imprints. (Ted Phillips, Physical -Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, CUFOS, -1976, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4852

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Event 7240 -(8C889E12)

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Date: 9/20/1972
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A man is driving near Rougemont, Quebec, when he -sees a Saturn-shaped object about 100 feet in diameter moving with a -pendulum motion toward Mont Rougemont. It climbs to the top of the hill -and settles in for 4 minutes. He watches it increasingly brighten from a -row of windows at the upper dome and glow pink on the bottom side. He -flashes his lights at it, and it rises and dives at his car, passing -just 30 feet above it. The engine stalls, the radio goes off, and the -headlights dim. A wave of heat passes over him, then the UFO races away. -((Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, pp. 144–146; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the Force,” -IUR 31, no. 4 (Mar. 2008): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4853

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Event 7241 -(52920F69)

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Date: 9/25/1972
-Description: 1:00–1:30 a.m. Near Anderstorp, Sweden, a witness is -driving his Opel at 25 mph when the car radio stops working. A couple -minutes later, a very bright blue-white light appears behind the car, -enveloping the entire vehicle in light at the same time as all -electrical equipment in the car ceases to work. The headlights go out -and the engine and wipers stop. The light persists for 5 minutes, and -the temperature inside the car rises. Suddenly the light is gone, and -the electrical system works again. The car starts at the same time as -the witness smells a strong odor of ammonia or ether. The witness drives -home quickly, terrified. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle -Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4854

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Event 7242 -(BAD03804)

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Date: 9/27/1972
-Description: 5:40 a.m. Teodoro Merlo, maintenance man for the -Ika-Renault factory in Santa Isabel, Córdoba, Argentina, is making early -rounds at the plant. He enters a previously locked washroom and sees a -man sitting on one of the basins who is nearly 8 feet tall and wearing a -close-fitting, dark-blue, one-piece garment tight at the wrists. It has -a bald head with high, pointed ears, and very white skin. As Merlo -approaches, the light by the janitor goes out and a light near the -entity goes on spontaneously. Merlo hears a noise like “a metal object -striking glass,” and the entity disappears. (Oscar A. Galíndez, “The -Anthropomorphic Phenomena at Santa Isabel, Part 3,” Flying Saucer -Review 21, no. 5 (February 1976): 14–16; Oscar A. Galíndez, “Argentina: -The Anthropomorphic Phenomena -of Santa Isabel,” Inexplicata, September 22, 2011; Patrick Gross, URECAT, February -23, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4855

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Event 7243 -(C56B2CF7)

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Date: 10/1972
-Description: Harry Belil begins publishing Beyond Reality, a newsstand -magazine devoted to parapsychology and (sometimes) UFOs, in New York -City. It continues through November 1980 and publishes several special -UFO issues. (Beyond -Reality, no. -1 (October 1972))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4856

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Event 7244 -(83D65F9E)

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Date: 10/1/1972
-Description: The CIA awards the Stanford Research Institute [now SRI -International] in Menlo Park, California, a contract for $49,909 for an -eight-month research project on remote viewing. It is given the name -Biofield Measurements Program. (Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena, Little, -Brown, 2017, pp. 136–137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4857

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Event 7245 -(E418CC4E)

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Date: 10/2/1972
-Description: A letter from the Dept. of National Defense, Canada, Brig. -Gen. L.A. Bourgeois states: All UFOs reported to CFHQ are investigated -by the Director of Operations. It isn’t a practice to allow the public -to study these files. Since the beginning of 1968 these UFO reports have -been passed along to the NRC. Evidence suggests that UFOs present no -threat to the world. They exhibit a unique scientifically advanced -technology.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p467)
-See also: 9/19/26

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Event 7246 -(C51A571B)

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Date: 10/2/1972
-Description: A letter from the Canadian Department of National Defence -states that UFO reports received by the Canadian military are passed on -to the National Research Council to determine whether a scientific -investigation is warranted. It notes that “certain reports suggest that -they exhibit a unique scientific or advance technology that could -possibly contribute to scientific or technical research.” (Good Above, -pp. 193, 467)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4858

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Event 7247 -(7D0ECF14)

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Date: 10/8/1972
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Security guard John Byrne is patrolling -Cairo Mill, an old factory at Waterhead, Lancashire, England, that has -been converted to an electronics system testing facility for jet -aircraft. Near the bicycle shed he hears a deep humming noise like a -generator inside a closed room. The sound bores into his head. He looks -up and sees a huge object parked at a height of 300 feet adjacent to the -tower end of the mill. It resembles a glowing bell shape turned on end -with the flat base vertical to the sheer wall of the tower. The object -is giving off a blue, fluorescent glow that falls like a curtain of -solid light. Byrne watches for several minutes until the object turns -sharply on edge and moves straight up into the sky until it is only a -blob of light. (Jenny Randles, “Beam Me Up,” Fortean Times 381 (July -2019): 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4859

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Event 7248 -(FF257B90)

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Date: 10/9/1972
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Ralph and Grace Clapp are driving along Middle -Country Road near Selden, New York, when they see a bright white light. -It is joined by a red and a green light. They continue driving, and -around 7:55 p.m. at the top of a hill west of Coram, the white light -hovers into view above the treetops to heir left. Grace sees rectangular -windows and no wings on a triangular object that is at least 100 feet -across and moving slowly and continuously through the sky. (Ted Bloecher -and Sylvia Meagher, “The Seldon UFO,” IUR 32, no. 2 (December 2008): -11–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4860

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Event 7249 -(28B55B79)

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Date: 10/23/1972
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Daryle Brown and two copilots are flying a -Wardair airliner at 22,000 feet some 180 miles northwest of Churchill, -Manitoba, when they see a bright streak of light approaching from the -west. As it comes closer, it appears to be a bullet-shaped object larger -than a Boeing 727 and adorned with a cluster of multicolored pulsating -lights. Brown notifies the 15 passengers aboard and turns out the -interior lights so they can see the object better. Almost a dozen -portholes are visible, while red and yellow lights are flashing on the -top. At the rear of the object is a fog-like cloud and orange sparks. It -takes up a position about 2,500 feet in front of the jet and on the same -flight path. The object shines a beam of light at the airplane, bathing -it in light that is bright enough to read to, and stops in mid-air -directly in front of the jet. Before Brown can take evasive action, it -moves off to the right. A dense fog engulfs the object as it disappears -in the distance. (Jeff Holt, “Rencontre -avec un UFO dans le Grand -Nord Canadien,” UFO-Quebec, no. 9 (1977): 13–14; Yurko Bondarchuk, -UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, -pp. 167–169)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4861

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Event 7250 -(7B452675)

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Date: 10/28/1972
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Cpl. Juan Fuentes Figueroa and four other -Uruguayan Navy seamen are stationed at the lighthouse on Isla de Lobos, -off Punta del Este, Uruguay. Fuentes goes to inspect the electrical -generators and discovers some odd lights, which prompts him to retrieve -a handgun from his room. When he returns, he notices an object in the -shape of an inverted bowl with several white, yellow, and violet lights -on top of a 20-foot terrace. An entity is next to the object and two -others (one much taller) are descending from the UFO. They all notice -Fuentes and face him from about 89 feet away. He raises his gun to shoot -but feels strangely paralyzed and confused. The beings reenter the UFO, -which moves straight up emitting a humming noise. When it reaches a -height of 150 feet, it tilts, belches a bright fireball, and silently -disappears at tremendous speed to the southeast. (Willy Smith, “Alien -Encounter at Isla de Lobos, Uruguay, 10-28-1972,” UFO Casebook; -Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, -1987, pp. 106–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4862

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Event 7251 -(65F06B0D)

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Date: 11/7/1972
-Description: Contactee Gabriel -Green runs for US President as a candidate of the Universal Party, -with Daniel -Fry as his running mate, on the ballot in Iowa. The party offers -solutions recommended by extraterrestrials for national and -international problems. He gets less than 200 votes and subsequently -retires from public life. (S. D. Tucker, False Economies: The Strangest, -Least Successful, and Most Audacious Financial Follies, Plans, and -Crazes of All Times, Amberly, 2018, chapter 3, excerpted in “Taxing -Credulity,” Fortean Times 367 (June 2018): 52–55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4863

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Event 7252 -(685807A3)

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Date: 11/10/1972
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A 19-year-old is riding his Yamaha 250cc Twin -motorcycle near Heathfield, East Sussex, England, when suddenly the -headlights dim and go out and the engine fails, emitting an “electrical -arcing” odor. He looks up and sees a white blob about 100 feet away -hovering above some trees. It is about 60 feet high, 30–40 feet in -diameter, and glowing white but fuzzy in appearance. After a few seconds -it zooms away at about 100 mph in a straight line and is lost to sight. -The motorcycle starts by itself. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle -Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4864

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Event 7253 -(0C85DEF0)

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Date: 11/12/1972
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Three soldiers (Petrus Nel, Fanie Rosseau, and -Gerrie Buitendag) are guarding a petrol dump at Rosmead, East Cape, -South Africa, when they see a red light moving in circles above the -tennis court adjacent to the primary school. At nearby Middelburg police -station, Sgt. John Goosen and Constable Koos Brazelle are looking -towards Rosmead with binoculars and see an odd light above the town. -School Principal Harold Truter sees the light moving vertically up from -his home near the tennis court. The court is churned up with huge chunks -of surface tar dug up, so he calls the Middelburg police about it. -Goosen and Brazelle respond. There are 5 holes in the court, the largest -10 feet in diameter. Two spike holes are also found. The only entrances -to the court are still locked up and there are no vehicle tracks inside -or outside. A eucalyptus tree at the end of the court has suddenly begun -to die and appears scorched. District Police Commandant Col. B. J. van -Heerden unsuccessfully tries to duplicate the damage with shovels. -(Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, pp. 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4865

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Event 7254 -(DB28B583)

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Date: 11/13/1972
-Description: Two witnesses watch an unknown aircraft maneuver along -Sognefjord, Vestland, Norway. Thirty Norwegian Navy vessels, plus NATO -forces, are already investigating a mystery submarine reported in the -fjord. The same night, four other witnesses observe a “bright object” on -the water. (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine -Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4866

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Event 7255 -(0AF18CBF)

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Date: 11/17/1972
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Two RCMP officers see an object 12 feet in length -heading northwest near McIvers on the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. It -disappears in the water with a loud splash. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s -UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 102)c
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4867

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Event 7256 -(59F118C9)

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Date: 11/20/1972
-Description: CIA chief Richard -Helms comes to Camp David to an interview with Nixon about -what he thinks is a “budgetary matter.” Nixon’s chief of staff, H. -R. Haldeman, also attends. Helms is informed by Nixon that his -services in the new administration will not be required. On Helms’s -dismissal William -Colby later comments that “Dick Helms paid the price for that ‘No’ -[to the White House over Watergate],” distancing the CIA from the -scandal. Helms begins a CIA clean-up, closing down Operation Often and -other sensitive programs. (Wikipedia, “Richard -Helms”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4869

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Event 7257 -(4D9C6BEA)

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Date: 11/20/1972
-Description: 1:00 p.m. An unidentified submerged object is seen near -Kyrkjebø, on Sognefjord, Norway, as it heads away from Mårenlandet -toward the fjord’s southern end. Around 1:15 p.m., it is seen by five -police officers on Kvamsøy. Norwegian Navy frigates drop mines on the -object. (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine -Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4868

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Event 7258 -(2446B8D2)

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Date: 11/21/1972
-Description: Night. Four witnesses see four rockets shooting up from the -water at Hermansverk, Vestland, Norway. They are silent and resemble -small red balls of light. They are also seen the following day, and the -Norwegian Navy fires an antisubmarine missile at the intruders. (Ole -Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in -Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4870

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Event 7259 -(C0602195)

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Date: 11/23/1972
-Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its fourth and final -test attempt
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

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Event 7260 -(FAA8D11E)

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Date: 11/26/1972
-Description: Judy Kendall abduction, three types of beings
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Between Bedoga Bay and Woodland, CA
-ID: 212

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Event 7261 -(0E5585BD)

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Date: 11/28/1972
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A witness at Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia, -sees lengths of glistening material wrapped around a signpost and on -looking up sees that more is falling from the sky. He collects a small -sample of the thickest section, but the strands dissolve in his fingers. -(Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. -1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4871

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Event 7262 -(1EDE341C)

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Date: 11/30/1972
-Description: 11:15 p.m. A motor mechanic named Maxwell is out testing -his vehicle in Murray Bridge, South Australia, when the engine dies and -lights go out as he is coming over a rise in the road. The lights come -back on but vary in intensity several times. He decides to stop the car. -To his left he sees a “diamond shape with the top cut off” noiselessly -sitting on the ground 148 feet away in a paddock. His car radio starts -making a noise like a “computer on TV,” a constant rhythm. He tries the -ignition key but nothing happens, not even the oil light comes on. He -tries the wipers and the electric air horn but they do not work either. -He locks all the doors and winds up the windows and just sits there for -the next 45 minutes. After this time the object leaves, and he finds he -can restart the car. An inspection of the vehicle the next day reveals -no cause for the electrical problems. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on -Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): -19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4872

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Event 7263 -(B7BD4E6C)

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Date: 12/1972
-Description: Night. Romanian Air Force pilot and writer Lt. Col. Doru -Davidovici is at an unnamed military base in Romania when he sees an -oval UFO flying parallel to the ridge of a roof. It traverses 50°–60° of -horizon in 45–50 seconds and disappears among some trees. It is -egg-shaped, a white-violet color as if wrapped in a cloud of bright -light, and leaves a long trail behind, but it changes to red-orange -before disappearing. Radar at the base tracks the object flying north to -south at 3,700 mph at a height of 43 miles. (Romania 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4873

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Event 7264 -(A99953CB)

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Date: 12/2/1972
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Four witnesses in Hinojos, Huelva, Spain, see a -fiery, square-shaped object flying close to the ground, lighting up the -terrain. The headlights in two cars die. The car with a gasoline-powered -engine also stalls, but the car with the diesel engine keeps running. -(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part -Two,” IUR 34, no. 11 (Sept. 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4874

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Event 7265 -(12FFEF91)

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Date: 12/13/1972
-Description: 7:04 p.m. Fritz Abbehusen is watching TV in Dias d’Ávila, -Bahia, Brazil, when his set experiences some interference. He goes out -on the porch and sees a huge, round luminous object descending to a hill -approximately 3 miles from his home. After a while, he goes to get -binoculars, and with these he can see that the luminous shape is -hovering a several feet above the ground. Its lower part is glowing like -a neon light, while the upper part has a row of orange-red portholes. -His wife Margarida and servant join him to look at the display. -Suddenly, three blinking lights emerge from the object. One of these -lights slowly moves in the direction of his house. After 15 minutes, the -moving light has arrived within 165 feet in back of the house. Three -small beings emerge from it, wearing what appears to be a one-piece suit -of whitish or light-gray color. The beings keep their elbows close to -the body when walking, as if on tiptoe, raising their knees -exaggeratedly at each step. They go away, but the big object remains on -the hill until around midnight. At one time it emits a beam that sets -the brush on fire. (Patrick Gross, “Dias -d’Ávila, Brazil, December 13, 1972”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4875

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Event 7266 -(BB1090D6)

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Date: 12/24/1972
-Description: 9:40 a.m. L. J. Reeves is stationed at the PIN-1 Distant -Early Warning site at Clinton Point, Northwest Territories, on the -Amundsen Gulf. He sees an object like a bright star that moves west to -east, stops, then continues on and fades into the distance after 5 -minutes. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, -2022, p.73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4877

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Event 7267 -(37E84335)

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Date: 12/24/1972
-Description: 3:00 a.m. The Romanian ship Moldoveanu is in the Labrador -Sea off Labrador, Canada, when the crew notices a shiny object headed at -high speed straight toward their vessel and flying low over the waves. -It stops above the ship, changing its shape and color. After an hour, it -shoots into the sky and disappears. (Hobana and Weverbergh 279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4876

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Event 7268 -(796CE272)

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Date: 12/30/1972
-Description: A man driving on the A4155 from Henley to High Wycombe, -England, rounds a bend and sees an object resembling a vertical cone. -What seem to be fluorescent strip lights run down the side, and it emits -an intense, high-pitched whistle. The next thing he knows, he is driving -through Marlowe in total silence with no memory of how he got there. -Some 90 minutes have vanished from his memory. (Jenny Randles, “The -Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 (Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4878

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- Event 7269 (3120E282)

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Date: 1973
-Description: Suomen Ufotutkijat ry, the Finnish UFO Research -Association, is founded in Tampere, Finland. Over the years it has -published a Quarterly Report, an Annual Report, and a member newsletter -Ufotutkija beginning in 1997 (now called Yhteydeksi). (Wikipedia, “Suomen -Ufotutkijat”; The -UFO Research of Finland Annual Report, 1981)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4884

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Event 7270 -(5031351C)

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Date: 1973
-Description: David Duquesnoy founds the Association des Amis de Marc -Thirouin in Valence, France, named in honor of the founder of the first -UFO organization, Commission Internationale d’Enquêtes sur les Soucoupes -Volantes, in France in 1951. It begins publishing UFO Informations, -edited by Michel Dorier, in March 1974 and continues it through 1983. -(UFO -Informations, no. -1 (March 1974))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4883

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Event 7271 -(173D1F3C)

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Date: 1973
-Description: The Midwest UFO Network changes its name to the Mutual UFO -Network and focuses on building a national grassroots UFO investigation -network.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4882

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Event 7272 -(724E2B0B)

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Date: 1973
-Description: Dr. Joseph -C. Sharp of Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, while in a -soundproof room, allegedly hears spoken words broadcast by “pulsed -microwave audiogram.” Broadcast in a range between 300 MHz to 3GHz, -Sharp is able to identify words that are broadcast without any form of -electronic translation device—by direct transmission to the brain. (Jim -Keith, Mind -Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control, 2014, -p. 220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4881

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Event 7273 -(F5C3CFF5)

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Date: 1973
-Description: Most Project MKUltra records are deliberately destroyed by -order of CIA Director Richard -Helms. A cache of some 20,000 documents survives Helms’s purge, as -they are incorrectly stored in a financial-records building and -discovered following a FOIA request in 1977. These documents are fully -investigated during the Senate Hearings of 1977. HTLINGUAL and the NSA’s -Minaret programs are shut down to avoid exposure during the Weathermen -trial. (Wikipedia, “Project -MKUltra”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4880

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Event 7274 -(FDD26294)

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Date: 1973
-Description: NORAD now has infrared sensor satellites covering 100% of -the earth’s surface from geostationary orbits on a 24-hour basis. (Clark -III 807)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4879

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Event 7275 -(5C8FDC66)

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Date: 1/1/1973 (approximate)
-Description: After 12:00 midnight. A married couple is driving in -Osorno, Chile, when their car stalls just as a disc- shaped object with -flashing red and green lights flies overhead. The engine comes to life -again after the object disappears. (“Shape-Changing -UFO Stops Car,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 3 (May/June 1973): -29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4885

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Event 7276 -(5A31BDDE)

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Date: 1/3/1973
-Description: NASA announces that Project NERVA has been terminated, even -though the project to build a nuclear rocket has been proceeding well. -Annie -Jacobsen claims that some failed nuclear tests that have never been -declassified could have been responsible. (Wikipedia, “NERVA”; -Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 311–313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4886

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Event 7277 -(E13CA894)

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Date: 1/11/1973
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Building surveyor Peter Day is driving near -Cuddington, Bucks, England, when he sees an orange light in the north, -moving eastwards. He finds a convenient place to stop, wind down the -window, and point his movie camera at the object. He captures 20 seconds -of the orange blob on color film as it pulsates and passes behind -distant trees before disappearing suddenly (in a single frame). (Jenny -Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, pp. 160–161; -Jenny Randles, Fire -in the Sky: Case History Number 2, The Buckinghamshire UFO Movie -Film, BUFORA, -1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4887

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Event 7278 -(18C774BF)

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Date: 2/2/1973
-Description: Intense blue-white light paced airliner for 20-25 seconds, -navigation instruments malfunctioned
-Type: sighting
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Auckland, New Zealand
-ID: 213

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Event 7279 -(91737604)

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Date: 2/2/1973
-Description: Richard -Helms is abruptly dismissed and James -R. Schlesinger is named director of central intelligence.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4888

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Event 7280 -(C583B972)

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Date: 2/8/1973
-Description: Youths photographed disc-shaped object, analysis supported -authenticity
-Type: sighting
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Conejo, CA
-ID: 214

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Event 7281 -(63383648)

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Date: 2/14/1973
-Description: Disc with dome maneuvered around DC-8 aircraft, confirmed -by airborne radar. Shadowy figures seen in dome
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: McAlester, OK
-ID: 215

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Event 7282 -(85DE0C0E)

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Date: 2/19/1973
-Description: President Richard -Nixon meets on the 18th green of the Inverness (Florida) Golf and -Country Club with entertainer Jackie -Gleason. Gleason -has long been a fan of UFOs. He later becomes a subscriber to the -newsletter Just Cause (Citizens Against UFO Secrecy). Gleason has a -collection of 1,700 books on parapsychology, UFOs, and the unknown. -Gleason’s second wife, Beverly -McKittrick, says -that Nixon took Gleason to a heavily secured area at Homestead AFB [now -Homestead Air Reserve Base] in Miami-Dade County where he views the -remains of small aliens in a top secret repository. McKittrick relates -this story in an unpublished manuscript of Gleason called “The Great -One.” Larry -Bryant, editor -of Just Cause, the newsletter Gleason had a subscription to, files a -Freedom of Information Act request with Homestead AFB. Bryant requests -documentation on the repository and Gleason’s visit there to see the -alien bodies. Homestead replies that “no such records existed.” Bryant -also sends an advertisement to the Homestead AFB newspaper soliciting -information. The public affairs officer at Homestead denounces the -Bryant advertisement and “forbade its publication.” At the same time -Bryant writes Gleason providing him with a draft affidavit. He asks -Gleason to execute the affidavit so it can be used as part of a growing -accumulation of evidence Bryant is collecting in preparation for taking -the government to court to release all information on alien crash -retrievals. Gleason does not reply. Shortly before his death in 1987, -one story says Gleason confirms the story about seeing the bodies at -Homestead. The person who Jackie Gleason tells the story to is Larry -Warren, who -is a member of the Air Force Security Police at RAF Bentwaters [now -closed] near Woodbridge, Suffolk, one of two bases in England where in -late December 1980, three days of bizarre UFO incidents take place. -Warren says that Gleason and Nixon enter a room with 6–8 glass-topped -freezers. Inside “were the mangled remains of what I took to be -children.” On closer inspection, he sees that some of the figures look -old and injured. Gleason cannot sleep or eat for three weeks after the -visit. The director of the Secret Service under President Clinton, Lewis -C. Merletti, claims -that the idea of a president escaping his secret service agents only -happens in the movies. In response to a question by reporter Joan London -about the possibility of the president escaping his protection to go out -and secretly do something, Merletti claims, “all Hollywood. There’s no -sneaking out. It has never happened.” Marty -Venker, a Secret Service agent who worked with Merletti under -Presidents Ford and -Carter, however, -tells a different story. In his book Confessions of an Ex-Secret Service -Agent he explains that not only can the president disappear, but it has -happened. Venker states that in the exact year of the Homestead incident -with Gleason, 1973, Nixon tries to cut his secret service protection. -Venker also states that it was not uncommon for Nixon to try to elude -his Secret Service detail. The agents working on the Nixon presidential -detail were warned about it. Nixon is familiar with Homestead AFB, which -is only minutes from his Biscayne Bay compound. There is no proof that -Nixon escorted Jackie Gleason to view alien bodies at Homestead, but -everything checked out indicates it could very well have happened. It -would have been very easy in terms of distance for the Gleason/Nixon -alien event to have occurred. (presidentialufo.com, “President -Nixon, 37th President, January 20, 1969–August 9, 1974”; Brian J. Robb, -“The Entertainer, the President, and the Aliens,” Fortean Times 366 (May -2018): 30–36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4889

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Event 7283 -(DB3948FA)

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Date: 2/21/1973
-Description: Night. Clearwater High School basketball coach Reggie Bone -and five players on his team are driving back to Clearwater after a -game. On US Highway 60 near Ellsinore, Missouri, Bone notices a “bright -shaft of light beaming down out of the sky.” A few miles later, near -Brushy Creek, student Randal Holmes notices another light, and Bone -pulls over for a closer look. They see lights about 600 feet away from -the road hovering over an open field at about 400 feet altitude. The -lights seem to be portholes, each a different color: red, green, amber, -and white. According to student Cary Barks, they watch it for 10 minutes -before the lights rise up noiselessly and disappear over a hill. Around -10:00 p.m., Edith Boatwright of nearby Mill Spring sees a similar object -flying low near her farmhouse. (“Mysterious -Lights Keep Piedmont in the Dark,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March -23, 1973, p. 1; MUFON, “Piedmont Missouri Case, 1973”; Harley D. -Rutledge, Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of -UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall, 1981, pp. 6–7; -Marler 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4890

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Event 7284 -(EA53592F)

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Date: 3/2/1973
-Description: Schlesinger appoints -William -Colby head of the CIA’s clandestine branch.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4891

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Event 7285 -(3EF7CA2D)

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Date: 3/20/1973
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Lucie Vandervoort is looking out a window of her -house in Tarcienne, Belgium, when she sees a bright light approaching. -It passes over the roof of a nearby house, then banks, makes a 90° turn, -and begins to blink as it disappears to the east. Similar objects appear -every 10 minutes, continuing until 9:15 p.m. The objects’ slow speed -allows her to take photos. At one point she looks through her late -husband’s World War I trench periscope and sees a humanoid figure -dressed in shiny, tight-fitting clothes and standing in the front of one -of the objects. Only one photo turns out and shows a squarish light -against a dark sky. Analysis suggests that the objects were probably -aircraft taking off from the military base at Florennes a few miles -away, the humanoid figure was imaginary, and the photo was a blurry -streetlight. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, Belgium in -UFO Photographs, Volume 1 (1950–1988), FOTOCAT -Report no. 7, 2017, pp.172–183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4892

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Event 7286 -(05B50745)

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Date: 3/24/1973
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Arthur de Weerdt is watching a distant airliner -in Borgerhout, Belgium, when he notices another sunlit object pacing the -aircraft at a higher altitude. Suddenly the object stops and remains -motionless for about one minute, then moves at a greater speed, making -an angle of 70° before coming to another wobbling halt for about 8 -minutes. De Weerdt manages to take a color photograph of the object, -which shows a whitish spot. Ballester Olmos and van Utrecht suspect the -witness saw a weather balloon and that the photo is the result of a -development flaw. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Wim van Utrecht, Belgium -in UFO Photographs, Volume 1 (1950–1988), -FOTOCAT Report no. 7, 2017, pp. 183–196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4893

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Event 7287 -(0E725808)

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Date: 3/28/1973
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Two witnesses see an object with a rough -triangular shape hovering at about 200 feet above trees on Stony Lane in -Exeter, Rhode Island. It glows with brilliant white lights and has -smaller green and red lights at the points of the triangle. The object -makes a slight buzzing sound as it moves away. (“Flap -over Rhode Island,” APRO Bulletin 21, no. 6 (May/June 1973): -9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4894

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Event 7288 -(F60A25F3)

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Date: 3/29/1973
-Description: The last United States combat troops left Vietnam
-Type: war
-Reference: link
-Location: Vietnam

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Event 7289 -(09BAAA23)

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Date: 4/1973
-Description: Scottish author Duncan -Lunan claims he has identified and deciphered a hidden radio message -sent as long delayed echoes by an alien space probe that had been -detected in 1927. Published along with an accompanying editorial -disclaimer, Lunan maintains that the putative message comes from an -object at the L5 point in the same orbit as the Moon, sent by the -inhabitants of a planet orbiting Epsilon Boötis. He says the message -reads, “Start here. Our home is Epsilon Boötis, which is a double star. -We live on the sixth planet of seven, coming from the sun, which is the -larger of the two. Our sixth planet has one moon. Our fourth planet has -three. Our first and third planets each have one. Our probe is in the -position of Arcturus, known in our maps.” (“Spaceprobe from Epsilon -Boötis,” Spaceflight 15, no. 4 (April 1973); Duncan Lunan, Man -and the Stars: Contact and Communication -with Other Intelligence, Souvenir, 1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4895

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Event 7290 -(A2B54A77)

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Date: 4/1973
-Description: Southeast Missouri State University physics professor Harley -Rutledge hears of numerous reports of unidentified lights in the sky -around Piedmont, Missouri, and decides to subject these reports to -scientific analysis. He puts together a team of 620 observers with -college training in the physical sciences, including a large array of -equipment at 158 different viewing stations: binoculars, RF spectrum -analyzers, Questar telescopes, low-high frequency audio detectors, an -electromagnetic frequency analyzer, cameras, sound recorders, Geiger -counters, and a galvanometer to measure variations in the Earth’s -gravitational field. The resulting Project Identification commences in -April, logging several hundred hours of observation time and 157 -documented sightings over the next 7 years. This is the first UFO -scientific field study, able to monitor the phenomena in real-time, -enabling Rutledge to calculate the objects’ actual velocity, course, -position, distance, and size. Observation of the unclouded night sky -often reveals “pseudostars”—stationary lights camouflaged by familiar -constellations. Some objects appear to mimic the appearance of known -aircraft; others violate the laws of physics. The most startling -discovery is that on at least 32 recorded occasions, the movement of the -lights synchronize with actions of the observers. They appear to respond -to a light being switched on and off, and to verbal or radio messages. -Rutledge publishes a final report, Project Identification, on his field -research in 1981. (Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification: -The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall, -1981; Mark Rodeghier, “Book Review: Project Identification,” IUR 7, no. -1 (January 1982): 14–16; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, -1980, p. 249; -Greg Little, “Why -Do Ufologists Largely Ignore the Most Scientific Field Study of -UFOs Ever -Conducted?” Alternate Perceptions, no. 146 (March 2010))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4896

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Event 7291 -(B0842C9C)

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Date: 4/1/1973
-End date: 4/8/1973
-Description: At least 16 sightings of round or egg-shaped objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Los Angeles Basin, CA
-ID: 216

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Event 7292 -(A1288374)

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Date: 4/6/1973
-Description: Domed disc with ports and legs hovered in a grove of trees, -physical traces found
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ellsinore, MO
-ID: 217

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Event 7293 -(C5B96CAA)

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Date: 4/9/1973
-Description: Physicist Peter -A. Sturrock mails questionnaires to all 1,175 members of the San -Francisco, California, Chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics -and Astronautics asking their opinions on the UFO phenomenon. He -receives 423 responses from scientists who have seen things they thought -could be UFOs. (Peter A. Sturrock, “UFO -Reports from AIAA Members,” Astronautics and Aeronautics 12 (May -1974): 60–64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4897

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Event 7294 -(93AE992B)

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Date: 4/27/1973
-Description: Ingo -Swann, in -a remote-viewing experiment at Stanford Research Institute, concentrates -on the Pioneer -10 space probe on its way to Jupiter. Monitored by Harold -Puthoff and Russell -Targ, Swann yields 13 specific factors about Jupiter, none of which -are scientifically anticipated—including the existence of a planetary -ring. (Wikipedia, “Ingo -Swann”; Ingo Swann, Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial -and Human Telepathy, Ingo Swann Books, 1998, pp. 18–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4898

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Event 7295 -(0DD708D8)

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Date: 5/1973
-Description: A series of meetings takes place between USAF -representatives (Col. William -T. Coleman and Col. George Weinbrenner) -and two well-connected Hollywood figures: documentarist Robert -Emenegger and producer Allan Sandler. The -colonels encourage the pair to make a documentary on the UFO phenomenon -and the question of extraterrestrial life. Not only will they have the -military’s full cooperation, they will also have access to their files, -including those of the Department of Defense. Upon arriving at Norton -Air Force Base [now San Bernardino, California, International Airport] -the two men are immediately taken to a “clean room used by the CIA,” -designed so that “there was no way anyone could eavesdrop” on events -taking place inside. Here the proposal takes place, including the -promise of using 3,200 feet of a 1971 UFO landing footage at Holloman -AFB, New Mexico, that shows several of the “alien visitors” and their -meeting with the representatives from the US government. Paul Shartle, -chief of requirements for the Norton AFB audiovisual program, promises -to get the Holloman footage. Emenegger is told that the military is -monitoring signals from an alien group that their extraterrestrial -visitors know nothing about. At the last minute, permission to use the -film is withdrawn, though Emenegger and Sandler are encouraged to -describe the Holloman landing as something that might happen in the -future or could have happened. Emenegger goes to Wright-Patterson AFB in -Ohio to talk to Weinbrenner, who while haranguing about the need to find -out about Soviet Mig-25s, hands Emenegger a signed copy of Hynek’s -The UFO Experience. (presidentialufo.com, “Disclosure Pattern 1972–75”; -Clark III 357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4899

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Event 7296 -(EB1DFFAC)

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Date: 5/9/1973
-Description: Schlesinger orders -all CIA officials to report on any activities that “might be construed -to be outside the legislative charter of this Agency.” The CIA Office of -the Inspector General compiles these into a 693-page report on -“potential flap activities,” including surveillance of journalists, -Operation Chaos, MKUltra, and mail interception. These come to be known -as the Family Jewels. (Wikipedia, “Family -Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4900

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Event 7297 -(22FA35FF)

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Date: 5/18/1973
-Description: Two men at Miliscola Beach, Bacoli, Naples, Italy, see a -bright disc with a dome 165 feet away over the sea. It hovers at a -height of 10 feet and then moves closer. Their car engine and lights -fail. The dome is bright like a white neon light, and a red light is -rotating around it. After 3–4 minutes, the object lifts off and the car -can be restarted. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference -Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4901

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Event 7298 -(8A4AC31F)

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Date: 5/19/1973
-Description: Strange, nylon-like patterns are seen in the sky above -Gawler, South Australia. After falling, they vaporize when touched. -(Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. -1 (Spring 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4902

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Event 7299 -(D3D0BBAD)

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Date: 5/22/1973
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Onilson Pátero, an organizer of public libraries -for the State of São Paulo, Brazil, is just outside Catanduva, after -giving a ride to a stranger. First his car radio gets static and the -engine begins to fail. Suddenly he notices a blue circle of light about -8 inches in diameter moving around inside his car. It passes in front of -the dashboard and he sees it is transparent. Then a beam of blue light -shines on him from the top of the hill he is driving up. He pulls over -to avoid a collision, but the light keeps coming toward him. Overcome by -a sensation of heat and stuffiness, he steps out of the car and hears a -buzzing noise. The UFO is a gray structure about 25 feet thick and 36 -feet wide, resembling two soup plates attached rim to rim. A tube -stretches out from its base toward the ground. Pátero panics and runs -about 100 feet when something holds him back. Turning, he sees that a -rod of blue light from the UFO is moving above his car. The light seems -to make the car transparent, allowing him to see the contents of the -trunk, the wheel gears, the engine, and the interior of the body. Pátero -faints. An hour later, two young men drive by and see him lying on the -ground in gushing rainwater. They speed on into Catanduva and return -with a policeman, Clóvis Queiros. Turning Pátero over, he regains -consciousness and they take him to the hospital, where he is soon -released. However, the next day he feels an itchiness on his back and -stomach. Irritated patches of his skin turn purplish blue. Later, these -spots turn yellow and eventually disappear. Subsequent medical -examinations show no cause for the discoloration, and Pátero seems in -good mental health. He experiences another encounter on April 26, which -some investigators think might be a fantasy. (“Close -Encounter in Brazil,” APRO Bulletin 21, no. 6 (May/June 1973): 1, 3; -“Caso -do Automovel que Ficou Transparente,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 94/98 -(September 1973/June 1974): 30–40; “Caso -de Onilson Pátero,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 99/103 (July 1974/April -1975): 2–18; Gordon Creighton, “The -Car That Turned Transparent,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 3/4 -(November 1975): 14–15; Brazil 154–163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4903

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Event 7300 -(8389465E)

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Date: 5/24/1973
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Harley Rutledge and three other members of his -Project Identification team at the municipal airport in Farmington, -Missouri, see a configuration of four lights (white, red, red, white) -flying silently overhead at an altitude of about 2,500 feet. Through -binoculars, Rutledge can see the white lights reflecting off a metallic -structure that could be anywhere from 368 to 2,600 feet across. The -array moved quickly out of sight. (Harley D. Rutledge, Project -Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena, -Prentice-Hall, 1981, pp. -77–99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4904

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Event 7301 -(8F15BB66)

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Date: 5/27/1973
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A Mrs. Geni, 57, is preparing some wedding cake -at her home in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. Through her -balcony window she sees a reflection of some kind in her walled-in -backyard. When she goes to her porch door, she sees a flying object -hovering above the roof of one of the rented buildings on the ground -floor in the back some 50 feet away. The object is white-metallic and -luminous on the bottom, about 6.5–13 feet wide and 3–6 feet high, with a -kind of credenza behind which three entities can be seen. They are small -with large round heads, big eyes, protruding lips, dark brown skin, -small ears, long flat noses, small arms, and wearing a cap with a ball -in the center. Each holds a device like a flashlight that emits a beam -of different colors: green on the left, red in the middle, and orange on -the right. The object emits a noise like a motor as it sways above the -building, then after a few minutes it moves away beyond the horizon. -Mrs. Geni goes back to work, but she now has pains in her knees, legs, -and head. She screams in pain, and the young woman who rents the -building in the back arrives to help. She also has heard the motor noise -and confirms that Mrs. Geni’s face is swollen with bloodshot eyes that -last for 3 days. At about 5:00 a.m., Mrs. Geni suffers a prolapsed -uterus, for which she has to undergo surgery on June 8. She gradually -loses hearing in her right ear, her vision deteriorates, and spots -appear on her skin. A clock in the kitchen begins to behave erratically. -In the backyard, a dwarf coconut tree and a jabuticaba tree both lose -their leaves prematurely. (“Caso -dos Anões de São José do Rio Preto,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 121/125 -(March/Dec. 1978): 15–19; Brazil 163–166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4905

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Event 7302 -(FC309740)

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Date: 6/4/1973
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Jill Cotmore wakes up in her home near Tyringham, -New South Wales, with an uneasy feeling. She lights a cigarette and the -room is immediately engulfed in a bright light, even though the windows -have heavy curtains. It is so bright that she can’t even see a cupboard -3 feet away from her. Outside, her horse is going berserk. Suddenly, the -light is gone. The next day, she finds the horse frothing, and it had -apparently been running around the house during the night. This takes -place in the middle of a concentration of UFO reports in the area. (Bill -Chalker, “An -Australian Chronicle, Part Two,” APRO Bulletin, June 1976, -p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4906

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Event 7303 -(D895CA32)

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Date: 6/28/1973
-Description: Mobile home park UFO landing, sound, E-M, animal reactions, -light beams, bright illumination, physical traces
-Type: landing
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Columbia, MO
-ID: 218

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Event 7304 -(6153A7A1)

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Date: 6/28/1973
-Description: 12:30 a.m. University of Missouri animal care technician -James G. Richards, 41, and his daughter Vanea, 16, hear a loud, -persistent, thrashing sound outside their house trailer in Columbia, -Missouri. Richards moves to the window and sees two bright, silver-white -light beams about 5 feet apart from each other and 50 feet away from his -window. The beams disappear, and a glowing bright oval form appears, -about 12–15 feet in diameter, lighting up the area. The thrashing sound -is apparently made by trees moving as if blown by wind, and after the -oval form appears, this sound suddenly ceases. As Richards moves from -window to window, he notices his dogs lying very still near the corner -of the trailer that is nearest to the oval object. The dogs are large -security animals that are not easily frightened. Richards thinks it -strange they are not barking at all the noise and the bright lights. The -object moves away to 200 feet from the window and hovers, and now, less -bright to the eye, the witnesses can see a blue band of light and an -orange glow extending around the outer edge of the oval. The oval moves -back near its original position and disappears by growing smaller before -police arrive at 1:45 a.m. Later searches uncover broken tree limbs, -damaged foliage, scorched leaves up to a height of 35 feet, and -impressions on the ground as deep as 2 feet. (NICAP, “Columbia, -Missouri: June 28, 1973”; Ted Phillips, “Landing -at Columbia, Missouri,” Flying Saucer Review 19, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1973): 18–25; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, -1988, pp. 268–270; UFOEv II 61–62)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4907

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Event 7305 -(F8D4F0C4)

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Date: 7/1973
-Description: David -Rockefeller founds the Trilateral Commission in Tokyo, Japan, to -foster closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe, and North -America. It initiates its biannual meetings in October in Tokyo. -(Wikipedia, “Trilateral -Commission”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4908

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Event 7306 -(1BAB80F8)

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Date: 7/7/1973
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A Mrs. Good is closing the curtains of her house -at Porthcothan Bay, Cornwall, England, when she sees two dark -semi-cigar-shaped objects hovering over the bay. They are positioned on -either side of a glowing, symmetrical ring. After a few seconds, the -ring enters the left object and the two shoot off at terrific speed -upward. The remaining object follows the same path a short time -afterward. She reports the sighting to the nearby RAF St. Mawgan, which -explains the sighting as “sun dogs.” (UFOFiles2, pp. 86–87)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4909

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Event 7307 -(CE1B5928)

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Date: 7/12/1973
-End date: 7/16/1973
-Description: A fire destroys some 16–18 million official military -personnel records at the Military Personnel Records Center in Overland, -Missouri. The losses to federal military records collection include 80% -loss to records of US Army personnel discharged November 1, 1912, to -January 1, 1960; 75% loss to records of US Air Force personnel -discharged September 25, 1947, to January 1, 1964, with names -alphabetically after Hubbard, James E.; and some US Army Reserve -personnel who performed their initial active duty for training in the -late 1950s but who received final discharge as late as 1964. None of the -records have duplicate copies, nor are there microfilm copies. No index -of these records was made prior to the fire. (Wikipedia, “National -Personnel Records Center fire”; -Kevin D. Randle, “Military Records,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4910

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Event 7308 -(285D4E81)

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Date: 7/25/1973
-Description: 1:35 p.m. A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8 is flying west -at 31,000 feet above the eastern coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, when -the pilot sees a “large balloon in close proximity” and radios air -traffic control to report it. He says it is 200 feet in diameter and 3 -miles away and has been paralleling their course for 5–6 minutes at a -speed of 575 mph. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August -Night, 2022, p. 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4911

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Event 7309 -(5E12B57B)

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Date: 7/26/1973
-Description: A secret US State Department airgram on “Guidance for -Dealing with Space Objects Which Have Returned to Earth” refers to -Project Moon Dust: “the designator MOONDUST is used in cases of non-US -space objects or objects of unknown origin.” (Christopher D. Allen, -“Dubious Truth about the Roswell Crash,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): -14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4912

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Event 7310 -(FA93235F)

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Date: 7/27/1973
-Description: A 16-year-old UFO buff finds and photographs some strange -marks on the ground near Lago d’Idro, Brescia, Italy. In 1977 he -undergoes hypnotic regression and realizes he has been touched by a -human shape that makes him lose consciousness. When he wakes up he is -being sucked into an aerial object through an opening at its base. He -finds himself in a round room with four beings. Then a woman comes in -and the entities begin moving around and touching him. He is paralyzed -and can only move his eyes. He is then taken to another room and -directed to sit on a chair as the UFO lands in the spot where he had -been before. He then leaves the object and watches it take off. He picks -up his camera and photographs the ground traces. (Paolo Fiorino, Gian -Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, -no. 4 (July/Aug. 1989): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4913

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Event 7311 -(46B60C5A)

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Date: 8/1973
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Three people are sitting in their front yard in -West Seneca, New York, when they hear a low hum coming from an object -above their garage. It is a silvery half-egg with glowing -orange-and-blue overtones. It begins a slow descent toward the roof, and -when it is only 5 feet away, one of the witnesses yells for it to stop. -The object stops, hovers briefly, and shoots away straight upward. One -of the witnesses hears the same hum at about the same time two days -later, and the same object appears, moving down the street. The object -is only 3–4 feet above the pavement and covers the width of the road. -The witness approaches it, and it stops at the end of his driveway. He -walks toward it and gets only 4–5 feet from it without feeling any heat. -When his dog barks, he backs away. The object waits a moment, then -slowly moves 20 feet down the street, quickly rises, and vanishes -rapidly at a 45° angle. (Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from -the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 23–24) Between August -3–6 — Night. A woman and her children are watching the stars in their -backyard in San Antonio, Texas. Two “very perfect” cumulus clouds move -into view low above them. A perfectly round sphere with a green glow -slowly emerges from the top of the cloud on the left. Soon they see -lightning going back and forth from the two clouds but never toward the -ground. One lightning bolt hits the sphere and red sparks fly out, -whereupon the sphere slowly reenters the cloud. The clouds remain -stationary for 35–40 minutes until the sphere disappears, then they -float on. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” -IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4914

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Event 7312 -(2212BDDD)

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Date: 8/11/1973
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 219

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Event 7313 -(9B13F4EA)

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Date: 8/28/1973
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Journalists Titus Zăgrean and Ion Moise are -driving near Budacu de Jos, Romania, when they see a big milky-white -light in the sky approaching the road they are on. As it crosses the -road, they see it is rotating and about 3 feet in diameter. Moving to -the west, it veers sharply to the north, accelerates, changes color to -yellow-orange then red, and departs at fantastic speed. (Romania -40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4915

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Event 7314 -(9E9EA187)

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Date: 8/31/1973
-End date: 12/1973
-Description: Flurry of sightings in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, -Mississippi, and Ohio. Fast-moving oblong objects with bright flashing -or revolving lights witnessed by local and state police. (See separate -chronology, section VIII.)
-Type: sighting
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 220

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Event 7315 -(2BABF1E3)

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Date: 9/1973
-Description: Jenny -Randles and David Rees found the Manchester Aerial Phenomena -Investigation Team in the Greater Manchester area, England. It publishes -the Skywatch newsletter through early 1982. (Skywatch, -no. 1 (September 1973))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4916

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Event 7316 -(224FD185)

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Date: 9/1973
-Description: At Great Lakes Naval Base, Instructor R. K., Gunnery School -Grade E-4, while delivering a sealed envelope to the Commandant in the -quonset hut, was surprised to see a saucer 30 ft. diam. and 10 ft. ht. -resting on a wooden platform. Description: Silvery blue and shimmering, -it tapered like a teardrop with a flange running along its topside from -one end to the other and there were no windows. R.K. believed this -saucer to be the one shot down on its third pass over a Navy vessel by a -missile. The saucer crashed in 350 ft. water between Hawaii and the -mainland. It was retrieved by a Glomar Explorer, shipped to Hawaii then -stateside to Chicago.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: Pea -Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY, HAWAII)
-Location: Hawaii

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Event 7317 -(44AF6FFD)

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Date: 9/4/1973
-Description: William -Colby is named director of central intelligence to succeed James -R. Schlesinger, who leaves on July 2 to become Secretary of -Defense.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4917

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Event 7318 -(3D8AA502)

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Date: 9/11/1973
-Description: Chilean President Salvador -Allende is overthrown by the armed forces and national police in a -coup d’état with the covert support of the CIA. (Wikipedia, “United -States intervention in Chile”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4918

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Event 7319 -(D606DED0)

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Date: 9/17/1973
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Anne Taylor is walking to her farm in Romford, -Essex, England, after walking her three dogs when she sees a green light -near the cowshed. She continues watching the light, which starts moving -toward her slowly. Her two terriers are whining and cringing. The light -approaches to within a few feet of her, about 12 feet above the ground. -It is completely silent. Her watch has stopped, and her spine begins to -tingle. She hears a jet plane in the distance, and the light goes out. -She hears an “electric whirring” and the green ball shoots straight up. -Her dogs return to normal behavior, and her watch starts up again when -she returns to the house. (UFOFiles2, p. 86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4919

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Event 7320 -(3D38A653)

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Date: 9/23/1973
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A truck driver is driving to work near Tyler, -Texas, when a small “cub airplane” seems to fly directly in front of -another car on the highway, nearly causing a wreck. The plane flies up -over the side of the road and hovers above some trees. Then it changes -into a cigar shape with lights. The driver gets out of his truck to -watch. The cigar moves off then returns with a new, round shape. It -lights up with many multicolored lights and moves above a nearby house. -It makes a low, “loop-loop-loop” thumping sound. Then a large, bright, -square light descends and swings from the other object. It approaches -the truck, then swings back and forth. He tries to jump back in the -truck but apparently passes out. He later notices he has some marks on -his hip and shoulder. He does remember seeing the UFO change from a -round shape into a triangle, and then move out of sight. (Michael D. -Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 -(Summer 2002): 24; Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, -no. 2 (Summer 2004): 17) Autumn — Late night. 1st Lt. Walter F. Billings -is a deputy crew commander at the Francis E. Warren AFB Golf launch -control capsule missile site northwest of Sidney, Nebraska. Over UHF -radio, he hears the crew at LCC India, southwest of Sunol, Nebraska, -order its security guards to investigate an alarm at one of India’s 10 -launch sites. The guards find that the inner security alarm has also -been triggered, meaning that something has penetrated the security fence -surrounding the site. They find a large, bright UFO hovering above the -site. One minute later, the UFO moves off slowly for several thousand -feet then zooms off at a high rate of speed. All crews on duty that -night are told not to say anything to the public or media about anything -they heard on UHF radio that night. (Nukes 338–339)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4920

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Event 7321 -(F8AA857A)

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Date: 10/1973
-Description: Night. Sgt. Michael D. Jenkins of the 96th Security Police -Squadron is stationed at Dyess AFB southwest of Abilene, Texas, when a -major alert goes off at the base after a large ball of light is reported -hovering 100–150 feet above igloo bunkers housing nuclear weapons. -Twelve police with M-16s are sent to the Weapons Storage Area, and an -incoming C-130 is asked to do a fly-by of the area to get a look at the -object. Three K-9 teams that normally patrol the perimeter report that -their dogs are afraid and acting up. An order to fire on the object -comes from Strategic Air Command Headquarters Offutt AFB near Bellevue, -Nebraska. Jenkins hears gunfire and sees a bluish-white streak as the -object speeds off. As it leaves, it drops a trail of “angel hair” all -the way from the weapons area to the southwest perimeter of the base. -The angel hair hangs around on the area ropes and buildings for three -days. On the third day it rains and the material dissolves, completely -disappearing. (Robert L. Hastings, “UFO -Fired Upon As It Hovered over Nuclear Bomb Storage Facility, Says Former -USAF Security Policeman,” UFOs & Nukes, December 1, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4922

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Event 7322 -(C7BA4931)

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Date: 10/1973
-Description: J. -Allen Hynek and Sherman J. Larsen establish what will become the -Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois, with Larsen’s existing -Public Education Group as a base. (Clark III 627; Sherman J. Larsen, -“The Founding of CUFOS,” IUR 11, no. 3 (May/June 1986): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4921

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Event 7323 -(008320DE)

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Date: 10/4/1973
-Description: Elliptical object with dome hovered about 10 feet off -ground, swaying back and forth. Humanoid being appeared, reptered craft -when observed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Chatsworth, CA
-ID: 221

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Event 7324 -(CBCC7DAE)

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Date: 10/6/1973
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A couple strolling along a country road near -St.-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, see a bright light like a projector -emanating from a nearby field. Later, at 11:30 a.m., the woman is -hanging clothes on a line in her backyard when she notices a column of -smoke rising from fields in the north. She calls over two workmen doing -repairs at her home, and they see a yellowish object like a tent near -the smoke. Soon a square, yellow object resembling a bulldozer emerges -from the tent and travels about 180 feet to a small spring. Between the -two objects, moving around in the field, are five “little people” about -4 feet tall performing various actions. Assuming them to be boy scouts, -the witnesses notice they are wearing some kind of helmets and clothing -that is the same color as the tent. The witnesses return to their work -and 20 minutes later someone notices that the objects and figures have -disappeared. The couple’s daughter returns in half an hour and goes to -check the location. She finds a large, circular patch of burned and -crushed grass about 45 feet in diameter, as well as two tracklike marks, -each about 6 inches wide. Returning, the daughter feels ill with -headache and nausea. A month later, UFO investigators arrive and find -additional marks in the shape of a triangle. (Wido Hoville, “Un -atterrissage á Saint-Mathias de Chambly,” -UFO-Quebec, no. 1 (1975): 6–9; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The -Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 106–107; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November -7, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4923

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Event 7325 -(9E3514BB)

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Date: 10/8/1973
-Description: Evening. A police officer near Laurel, Mississippi, chases -a yellow object shaped like a top and making “exhaust-like” noises for -several miles. As he approaches within 200 feet, his car stalls and the -radio and headlights die. When the object moves away, the lights and -radio come back, but the engine will not start for several minutes. -(Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, -1981, p. 58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4924

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Event 7326 -(FB427358)

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Date: 10/10/1973
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A family in Niantic, Connecticut, watches two -greenish discs and a white sphere maneuvering over a nearby lake. Odd -clouds seem to be accompanying the two discs. One disc and its cloud -disappear, while the other disc flies in and out of its cloud as if -playing “peekaboo.” (Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO -Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4925

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Event 7327 -(7F19495F)

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Date: 10/11/1973
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Larry Booth of Pascagoula, Mississippi, finishes -watching TV and checks the front door. He sees a huge round object -hovering 5–8 feet above a nearby streetlight. It has red lights that are -moving in a clockwise motion around it. It slowly moves away. (Clark III -895)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4928

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Event 7328 -(0C4D2E6A)

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Date: 10/11/1973
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Parole Officer Raymond -Broadus, Pascagoula City Councilor Emmanuel P. Sigalas, and an -unidentified woman are driving on US Highway 90 west of Gautier, -Mississippi, when they see a large, swiftly moving object that descends -and hovers a few hundred yards above the ground and meanders toward the -Pascagoula River. (Clark III 895)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4927

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Event 7329 -(4DFC2EF2)

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Date: 10/11/1973
-Description: Around 7:00 p.m. Two men, 19-year-old Calvin Parker and -42-year old Charles -E. Hickson Sr., both -of Gautier, Mississippi, are fishing in the Pascagoula River when they -hear a buzzing noise behind them. Both turn and are terrified to see a -10-foot-wide, 8-foot-high, glowing egg-shaped object with blue lights at -its front hovering just above the ground about 40 feet from the -riverbank. As the men, frozen with fright, watch, a door appears in the -object and three strange beings float just above the river towards them. -The two become numb and paralyzed as the entities carry them into the -UFO. Some kind of “eye” device scans them before they are released 20 -minutes later. They first contact Keesler AFB in Biloxi, but no one is -interested; then they drive to the offices of the Mississippi Press -Register a few blocks away, but it is closed. So they call the Jackson -County Sheriff’s Office to report their encounter, and they arrive there -at 10:30 p.m. At one point during 2 hours of intense grilling by Sheriff -Fred -R. Diamond, they -are left alone in an interrogation room where they are unknowingly tape -recorded while they continue to speak to each other about the abduction, -emotionally distressed. (Wikipedia, “Pascagoula -Abduction”; NICAO, “The -Hickson/Parker Incident”; “The -Pascagoula Affair,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1973): 1, -3–4; Clark III 893–898; Charles Hickson and William Mendez, UFO Contact -at Pascagoula, Wendelle C. Stevens, 1983; Calvin Parker, Pascagoula: The -Closest Encounter: My Story, Flying Disk, 2018; Calvin Parker, -Pascagoula: The Story Continues: New Evidence and New Witnesses, Flying -Disk, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4926

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Event 7330 -(46F78C2E)

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Date: 10/11/1973
-Description: Charles Hickson and Charles Parker abduction case
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pascagoula, MS
-ID: 222

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Event 7331 -(D3B0CBC6)

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Date: 10/12/1973
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A commercial pilot is flying a Piper PA-32 -Cherokee Six near Mount Baldy, Arizona, at an altitude of 2,500 feet. He -notices a red flashing light on the ground in a remote area, and circles -around for a closer look. As he does so, the light begins moving too and -reaches a speed about the same as his plane, 170 mph. It is flashing -regularly at 2-second intervals. The object is skimming over the ground, -apparently following undulations in the landscape. He changes course -again to intercept the light, which accelerates instantaneously to 800 -mph, moving up and over Mount Baldy, following its contours. The pilot -follows it for a few minutes, about 50–60 miles. After about 5 minutes -the light makes a right-angle turn and accelerates vertically. After -8–10 flashes, it disappears into the upper atmosphere. (Mark Rodeghier, -“Out of the Past: An Incredible Light,” IUR 9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1984): -7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4929

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Event 7332 -(4F616E53)

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Date: 10/15/1973
-End date: 10/16/1973
-Description: Sheriffs saw and chased pulsating orange objects that -alternately hovered, swinging like pendulum, darted around at high -speed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pine, LA
-ID: 223

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Event 7333 -(276835BE)

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Date: 10/16/1973
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Upon arriving home at Albany, Ohio, Mary Geddis -sees a “ghost-like” figure floating about 50 feet above the ground at -1,000 feet distance; it is about 4 feet tall and thin, “like a person -draped in a close-fitting sheet.” It is seen only briefly when she -notices a bright white object moving about, and approaches to within 200 -feet before going away. The object is about 20 feet in diameter and -about 25–30 feet off the ground. Later, as she is making supper, she -sees a “little blue-green thing” about 2.5 feet tall and with a face -with “spiky things at the tops and the sides of the head” looking in an -open door; it has stumpy arms (she sees no legs) and quickly disappears -from sight. UFO sightings occur around the same time in nearby Athens, -Ohio. (George M. Eberhart, “The -Little ‘Electric’ Man,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 (March 1975): -10–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4931

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Event 7334 -(13E2C654)

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Date: 10/16/1973
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A 50-foot-wide bluish object hovers 2–3 feet -above US Highway 82, seemingly suspended on a beam of light, near -Eupora, Mississippi, 300 feet from a car. The engine and headlights fail -as the object lands. Another object hovers about 60 feet above the -first, illuminating it. A “catfish-like” creature emerges with flippers -for hands, a wide mouth, and feathers on its back. It holds onto a -handrail on the craft and never goes down to the ground. It gets back in -and the object rises into the air. The driver restarts the car. -(Columbus (Miss.) Triangle Advertiser, October 24, 1973; David Webb, 1973: -Year of the Humanoids, CUFOS, 1976, p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4932

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Event 7335 -(0465558B)

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Date: 10/16/1973
-Description: Night. William and Donna Hatchett are driving down a -country road near Mannford, Oklahoma, when she sees a bright light -coming from the south. They first think it is a security light on a -pole, but then realize the object is pacing them and descending. When -the Hatchetts stop the truck, the light also stops in front of them. As -the object hovers, it gives off a blinding light and a penetrating -low-pitched hum. They have a feeling that there are occupants who know -everything they are thinking. Donna is so afraid that she twice leaves -the truck cab and goes into the back. William manages to persuade her to -return, and they set off, the object rising up in the opposite -direction. (Kevin D. Randle, The UFO Casebook, Warner, 1989, -pp. 143–144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4933

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Event 7336 -(E650A4FB)

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Date: 10/16/1973
-Description: Midnight. Single mother Pat Roach is dozing on the couch -with her 5-year-old son Kent in an isolated house on the outskirts of -Lehi, Utah. Suddenly, Kent wakes up screaming that he has seen a -“skeleton.” Roach has a vague memory an intruder and a bright light. -Suspecting a prowler, she phones a neighbor, who calls the police at -12:10 a.m. A few minutes later, officers arrive, talk to Roach, find -nothing amiss, and leave. Roach then checks on her other children. Two -of them, Bonnie and Debbie, tell her they had seen a spaceman who had -come into the house and taken them on a spaceship. Debbie remembers -being told not to tell anyone, as well as seeing a line of people -waiting to go on board. Disturbed, Roach takes her children and spends -the rest of the night at a friend’s house. In 1975, Roach sees an -article by Kevin -Randle on UFO abductions and contacts him. Randle arranges for an -interview and hypnosis sessions with APRO’s research director James -A. Harder. An -abduction tale slowly emerges that involves some elements that are -little known in 1975, among them the aliens’ clinical coldness, their -curiosity about human emotion, their interest in gynecology, and human -participants in the physical examination. However, Randle now believes -that Roach underwent sleep paralysis, was influenced by some abduction -accounts over the years, and was led into the narrative by Harder’s -leading questions during hypnosis. (Clark III 1011– 1012; Story, pp. 309–310; -Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, -Berkley, 1977, pp. 9–24; -Kevin D. Randle, “Alien -Abduction and Leading the Witness,” A Different Perspective, March -28, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4934

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Event 7337 -(B0C97B5D)

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Date: 10/16/1973
-Description: At a press conference in Illinois, USAF Chief of Staff -Gen. George -Scratchley Brown states that sightings of what were presumed to be -enemy helicopters during the Vietnam War took place, always at night, -and prompted shooting by US ground forces. A Combat Air Activities file -of 16 such incidents between 1967 and 1969, especially around Pleiku in -February 1969, documents some of this activity. (Barry Greenwood, “Air -Force Vietnam -Era UFO Reports Surface,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 14 (May 2015): -3–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4930

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Event 7338 -(38F36315)

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Date: 10/17/1973
-Description: Ohio Gov. John -J. Gilligan and his wife Mary are -driving near Ann Arbor, Michigan, when they see an amber-colored -vertical beam of light. When asked to confirm the sighting, he tells -reporters: “I saw this. It wasn’t a bird or a plane.” (“Gilligan -Spots Strange Object,” Hamilton (Ohio) Journal News, October 17, -1973, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4935

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Event 7339 -(E24BD138)

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Date: 10/17/1973
-Description: Pulsating object photographed during sighting wave
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Elkhorn, WV
-ID: 224

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Event 7340 -(66442591)

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Date: 10/17/1973
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. Falkville, Alabama, Police Chief Jeffrey -Greenhaw responds to a phone call about a UFO on the outskirts of town. -On a gravel road, he sees a 5-and-a-half-foot-tall, silver-suited figure -in his headlights. He stops, gets out, and talks to the figure, all the -while taking Polaroid photos of it. It steps towards him and Greenhaw -turns on the red rotating police car light. The figure runs away and -although Greenhaw pursues it in his car, it eludes him. The photos -quickly become a national news story. NICAP investigator Marion Webb and -others strongly suspect this is a hoax. (NICAP, “Falkville, -Alabama, Entity / Jeff Greenhaw Case, Oct. 17, 1973”; “Police -Chief’s Nightmare: Real or Contrived?” UFO Investigator, October -1974, pp. 1–2; “Police -Chief Hoaxes UFO,” -UFO Investigator, January 1977, p. 4; Clark III 482; Good Above, pp. 301–302;)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4937

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Event 7341 -(1988B900)

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Date: 10/17/1973
-Description: Paul Brown is driving on US Highway 29 near Danielsville, -Georgia, when his car radio suddenly goes wild with strange sounds. He -sees a silver, oval-shaped object about 300 feet ahead on the road. He -stops and sees two beings with red faces and white hair. Brown grabs a -pistol and steps halfway out of his car, but the beings return to the -object, which takes off with a whooshing sound. (Athens (Ga.) -Banner-Herald, October 18, 1973; “First -Flap in Six Years Resurrects UFOs As National Controversy,” UFO -Investigator, November 1973, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4936

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Event 7342 -(0881AE64)

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Date: 10/18/1973
-Description: Capt. Lawrence Coyne, while flying an Army helicopter with -three other crewmen were 45 minutes out over Mansfield when Staff -Sgt. Robert Yanacsek spotted a red glowing UFO headed toward their -helicopter at an estimated 600 mph. It stopped abruptly 500 ft. above -them. It had a big, gray, metallic looking hull about 60 ft. long, -shaped like an airfoil or streamlined cigar with a red light in front -and a green light in the rear, the lead edge glowed red a short distance -from the nose. There was a center dome. The ’copter radio wouldn’t -function and the copter was set for a 20 degree dive but gained altitude -from 1700 ft. to 3500 ft. with no power applied. After a slight “bounce” -the UFO took off to the N.E.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-F p319, 271)
-Location: Mansfield, OH

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Event 7343 -(09B2B8B6)

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Date: 10/18/1973
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Army Reserve Capt. Lawrence -J. Coyne (with his crew 1st Lt. Arrigo Jezzi, Sgt. John Healey, and -Spec5 Robert Yanacsek) is flying an Army Reserve UH-1 Huey helicopter at -1,200 feet from Columbus to Cleveland, Ohio. Healey notices a steady, -southbound red light. It looks like the port-wing light of an aircraft -but seems brighter and carries none of the other FAA-required lights. He -watches it disappear behind the helicopter and doesn’t tell the others. -A couple minutes later, Yanacsek sees a bright red light on the eastern -horizon and watches it for 90 seconds, realizing it is pacing the -helicopter. He mentions it to Coyne, who tells Healey to watch it. Soon -the light turns and comes towards the helicopter. Coyne takes the -controls from Jezzi and puts the helicopter into a descent. He calls -Mansfield (Ohio) Approach Control but fails to get a response. The red -light is now closing on them at a dangerous rate of speed, possibly 684 -mph. Coyne pushes the stick down, forcing the helicopter to descend -quickly. When he gets to an altitude of 650 feet above the treetops, -Coyne looks up and sees the object covering the entire front windshield. -The red light is on its nose and a white light is on the tail of this -cigar-shaped, metallic structure. Under the tail, a green beam sweeps a -90° arc and shines through the windshield. It hovers above them for -10–12 seconds before accelerating and heading northwest. The bright -white light just snaps out. Coyne looks at the altimeter and realizes -they have been ascending and are now at 3,500 feet, but the stick is -still down. He pulls the stick up and the helicopter levels out at 3,800 -feet. Reviewing his instruments, Coyne notices that the magnetic compass -is rotating slowly, while the Radio Magnetic Indicator is functioning -normally. They make radio contact with Akron and fly on to Cleveland -without further incident. Other witnesses on the ground have seen the -incident. (NICAP, “Coyne -Helicopter, E-M / Magnetic Compass Encounter”; Jennie Zeidman, “UFO–Helicopter -Close Encounter over Ohio,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no, 4 (November -1976): 15– 19; Jennie Zeidman, “More -on the Coyne Helicopter Case,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 4 -(January 1978): 16– 18; Jennie Zeidman, A Helicopter-UFO Encounter over -Ohio, CUFOS, 1979; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean -Tomes, 1987, pp. 82–85; Jennie Zeidman, “Green Light over Mansfield,” -IUR 13, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1988): 13–14; Jennie Zeidman, “The Coyne Case: -Correction and Update,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 17–18; Michael -D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund -for UFO Research, 2005, p. 145; Patrick Gross, “The -Coyne Incident, Mansfield, Ohio, USA, 1973”; Kevin D. Randle, “The -Coyne Helicopter UFO Case,” A Different Perspective, August 5, 2014; -Kevin D. Randle, “The Coyne -Helicopter Encounter–Explained?” A Different Perspective, May 1, -2018; Good Above, pp. 302–303; -Clark III 309–312; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 159–161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4939

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Event 7344 -(CF914EDF)

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Date: 10/18/1973
-Description: Army Reserve helicopter encountered domed, craftlike object -that beamed green light into cockpit, lifted helicopter off course
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mansfield, OH
-ID: 225

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Event 7345 -(8023556F)

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Date: 10/18/1973
-Description: 3:30 p.m. A witness in Hamilton, Illinois, sees a huge gray -oval or oblong UFO. A second object appears that resembles the first but -seems to be covered in “cobwebs” on its upper surface. About 15 minutes -later, “cotton-like” material is found that when handled becomes a -“small ball which melted as it was touched.” The next morning, a -collected sample has totally sublimated. (Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of -Angel Hair, 1947– 2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4938

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Event 7346 -(37E031D1)

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Date: 10/18/1973
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A group of people in Wooster, Ohio, notices a -bright, pulsing, triangular object with three colored lights at each -apex, pulsating at different rates. When the object moves, the red light -becomes brighter. It moves right, left, up, and down for 25 minutes. The -UFO then dips down and shoots straight up into the sky. (Michael D. -Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4940

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Event 7347 -(C2AC9B87)

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Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 226

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Event 7348 -(14FD3B92)

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Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Two women driving in a Volkswagen near Fort -Smith, Arkansas, see a glowing object approach them from the south. It -descends within 6 feet of their car, at which point the headlights, -radio, and engine all fail. The object is about 8 feet in diameter, -shaped like a disc, and emits a “computer-like” sound. After about 5 -minutes, it moves away quickly. (Fort Smith (Ark.) Southwest Times -Record, October 21, 1973; Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, -1981, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4941

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Event 7349 -(97130171)

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Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Sam Richerson and his wife awaken in their home -in Campbellsville, Kentucky, when a barking dog disturbs his young son -from a deep sleep. When his wife attends to him, she notices a glowing -object across the street. They stand and watch the object for 15 -minutes. It is a triangular-shaped object the size of two cars hovering -at treetop height 300 feet away. (Campbellsville -(Ky.) News-Journal, October 25, 1973; Marler 89–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4942

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Event 7350 -(DD7122B1)

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Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A witness sees a triangular-shaped object with -bright white lights hovering above Milton Road in Alton, Illinois. A -second triangle is above the first. (“Latest UFO over Milton (Road),” -Alton (Ill.) Telegraph, October 22, 1973; Marler 90, 209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4945

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Event 7351 -(7D1A648F)

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Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: 6:50 a.m. A conductor on a Louisville & Nashville -Railroad train moving northeast out of Mount Vernon, Indiana, sees a -bright white light coming out of the north and heading east. When they -reach Caborn, Indiana, he notifies the rear conductors, who can now see -a bright light (possibly another train) behind them. The train’s -automatic blocking system is showing a red light, indicating there is a -train to the rear. When the train reaches Belknap, the engine stops -because a rear diesel unit has apparently overheated. The yardmaster in -Evansville informs them that there never was any train behind them. The -conductor hits a reset button and the train starts with no trouble. The -light in the rear seems to be moving away, and the blocking system turns -to an amber signal. (NICAP, “UFO -Disables Train”; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 161–162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4943

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Event 7352 -(B9D0A1E1)

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Date: 10/20/1973
-Description: A UFO passes over Round Valley Reservoir, Clinton Township, -New Jersey. Three people who are driving by and watching the object -experience car failure. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4944

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Event 7353 -(B8306664)

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Date: 10/21/1973
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Reafa -Heitfeld wakes up in her trailer on the west side of Cincinnati, -Ohio, and notices a bright light shining outside. The source is a row of -six lights forming an arc outside her window, as well as another bright -light over the parking lot. Outside the second light she can see a gray -“apelike creature” that seems to be fixing something. In the process of -calling the police, she hears a loud, deep, booming sound, and the -object and creature are gone. Investigator Leonard -Stringfield finds that a fire alarm had gone off at the same time in -a nearby warehouse only 150 feet away, although firemen can locate -nothing that set it off. (Clark III 554)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4946

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Event 7354 -(67735149)

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Date: 10/22/1973
-Description: 9:45 p.m.–after midnight. Dewayne and Debbie Donathan are -driving toward their home 9 miles east of Hartford City, Indiana, when -they see two strange-looking figures 30 feet ahead of them on the road. -Four feet tall, they are dressed in tight-fitting silver suits and wear -boxlike shoes. They move in a clumsy fashion, their arms flopping oddly -along their sides. Debbie accelerates and drives past the figures. The -witnesses alert the sheriff’s office, and two officers and a civilian -friend, Gary -Flatter, investigate. -They see no figures but hear an odd, high-frequency sound. Around -midnight, Flatter hears the sound again south of the original encounter -and notes wild animals leaving the area. His headlights pick up two -4-foot figures 20 feet off the side of the road. He can see a hose going -from their egg-shaped helmets down to their chests. Three times they -rise 3 feet into the air then float down. The fourth time, they fly -away, still standing erectly. (“Occupants -in Indiana,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1973): 1, 3; Clark -III 278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4949

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Event 7355 -(17F50A5D)

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Date: 10/22/1973
-Description: 6:50 p.m. A man is farming in Upton, Indiana, when he -notices an object that looks like it is going to land. He and his -daughter walk toward the other side of the field to investigate. They -can see an object with red, white, and green lights near the railroad -tracks. As a train passes through, the object dims and hovers near it -for one minute, then takes off to the southeast. An object is seen -flying above a train at Maunie, Illinois, the same evening. (NICAP, “The -1973 UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4948

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Event 7356 -(3E5E63B4)

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Date: 10/22/1973
-Description: June Margolin sees a shiny globe dropping web-like -substance in large amounts over Sudbury, Massachusetts. It drapes over -trees and telephone lines. She collects a sample and puts it in the -refrigerator, but the substance still dissipates into strong white -threads. The University of Massachusetts field station examines a -sample. It is not spider web, but there is not enough of it for a -chemical analysis. X-ray fluorescence and diffraction analysis indicates -sodium, aluminum, silicon, sulfur, chorine, potassium, calcium, iron, -nickel. The substance is 95% organic. Two other analyses indicate -slightly different composition. (“UFO -‘Angel’s Hair’ Still Remains -a Mystery,” UFO Investigator, March 1974, pp. 1, 3; Brian Boldman, -“Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 105–106; Brian -Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall -2001): cover)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4947

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Event 7357 -(7FAA0200)

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Date: 10/23/1973
-Description: Bonnie Collier observes two metallic cigar-shaped objects -over Midway, Texas. She photographs one of them. About 20 minutes later, -she notices monarch butterflies are getting entangled in “sheets of a -web-like substance” falling to earth. She retrieves a grapefruit-sized -sample from a mesquite tree and stores it in a box. Some 20 years later, -the sample is analyzed by two engineering students at the University of -Texas at Austin. A neutron activation survey indicates high -concentrations of sodium, potassium, zinc, and lanthanum. Other tests -indicate the sample is spider silk produced by a cribellate orb weaver -spider. (Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, -no. 3 (Fall 2001): 14; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A -Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4950

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Event 7358 -(002E7507)

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Date: 10/24/1973
-Description: 9:00 p.m. David Simpson’s car engine stops and the -headlights go out when an oval object, 12 feet wide by 8 feet high, -lands close by near Dobson, North Carolina. He sees a humanoid with -balls of fire for eyes looking into the car. After the creature leaves, -the car engine and lights come back on without his having to start the -ignition. (David Webb, 1973: -Year of the Humanoids, CUFOS, -1976, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4951

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Event 7359 -(3257A9F1)

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Date: 10/25/1973
-Description: Director of FBI, Clarence M. Kelley, states: UFOs are not -and never has been a matter that is within the investigative -jurisdiction of the FBI.
-Type: statement
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p475)
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 7360 -(513AE8D0)

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Date: 10/25/1973
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A 22-year-old man and two 10-year-old boys -allegedly see a bright-white, dome-shaped UFO about 100 feet in diameter -land in a field near Uniontown, Pennsylvania. “Screaming sounds” emanate -from somewhere nearby. The UFO makes a lawnmower-like sound. Suddenly -they see two large apelike creatures with glowing green eyes walking -along a fence, one in front of the other. The older witness fires a -tracer slug with his rifle over the creatures’ heads, but they continue -moving forward, seemingly communicating by making whining sounds. The -tall and closer of the two, about 8 feet tall, is running its left hand -along the fence, while the smaller one is struggling to keep up. The -older witness fires three bullets into the larger creature’s chest. It -whines and reaches toward the smaller creature. The UFO vanishes and the -lawnmower sound ceases. The area where the UFO had been is now glowing -brilliant white. The hairy creatures head toward the woods. A policeman -arrives at 9:45 p.m. and finds the landing spot still glowing slightly. -They hear something moving in the woods nearby and smell a sulfur-like -odor. The officer and the witness panic and jump into the police car and -drive about 150 feet. Stan -Gordon shows up at 1:30 a.m. with four members of his Westmoreland -County UFO Study Group. In the company of the witness and his father, -they walk around the field until the witness undergoes a violent -emotional attack, during which he growls like an animal and throws his -father and an investigator to the ground. During his attack, he has an -apocalyptic vision in which he receives a dire warning from a man in a -black hat and cloak. The older witness undergoes hypnosis with -psychologist Berthold -Eric Schwarz, who says he has visions about the impending end of the -world and after the event he “felt like an animal.” (Berthold Eric -Schwarz, “Berserk: -A UFO-Creature -Encounter,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 1 (July 1974): 3–11; Clark -III 556)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4954

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Event 7361 -(60166523)

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Date: 10/25/1973
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Lt. Commander Moyer is traveling south from Naval -Communication Station Harold E. Holt, a restricted US National Security -Agency station along Murat Road on North West Cape, north of Exmouth, -Western Australia, when he sees a large, black object in the sky 5 miles -to his west at an altitude of 2,000 feet. After about 20–25 seconds, the -object accelerates at speed to the north. It is first seen at about 20° -elevation, to the west. Moore estimates its angular size as half a -degree. It is initially stationary and there is no associated noise at -any point, no trail or exhaust. It is last seen at 45°–50° elevation. At -about 7:20 p.m., William Gordon Lynn, an Australian civilian and US Navy -employee fire captain, notices a large, stationary, black object in the -clear sky. It has a halo around the center, which appears to be either -revolving or pulsating. He watches it for an estimated four minutes, -after which it takes off speedily in a northerly direction and -disappears after a few seconds. He thinks it is about 30 feet in -diameter and hovering at 1,000 feet over the hills west of the base. On -this same date, the base is communicating a DEFCON III alert to -conventional and nuclear forces in the region during the Yom Kippur War -(an NSA misreading of a Syrian message to the USSR had indicated a -Soviet build-up). (NICAP, “Black Sphere -Observed / DEFCON-3 Reached”; Bill Chalker, “The North West Cape -Incident: UFOs and Nuclear Alert in Australia,” IUR 11, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1986): 10–11; Bill Chalker, “The -UFO Connection: Startling Implications for -Australia’s North West Cape, and for Australia’s Security,” Flying -Saucer Review 31, no. 5 (July 1986): 16– 18; Good Above, pp. 174–175; -Bill Chalker, “UFOs -Sub Rosa Down Under, Part 4,” 1996; Swords 403–405)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4953

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Event 7362 -(68F77531)

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Date: 10/25/1973
-Description: FBI Director Clarencc -M. Kelley explains in a letter to a resident of La Habra, -California, that the investigation of UFOs “is not and never has been a -matter that is within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI.” (Good -Above, pp. 253, 475)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4952

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Event 7363 -(2C10C586)

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Date: 10/28/1973
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Karl Fichtinger watches an odd orange-yellow -light to the south of Bad Traunstein, Austria, that projects two beams -of light that creep slowly upward like a pair of snail feelers. After -moving up a short distance, they begin curving outward. After 7–10 -seconds when they reach a certain height they stop moving, the two tips -turn green for 2–3 seconds, a green mist falls down sideways, and the -beams disappear. After 2–5 seconds the process repeats again and again. -Around 12:30 a.m. he wakes his friend Johann Pritz in another house and -they continue to watch the display for several hours. At 2:00 a.m. the -light emits a red “missile” that moves east, stops, turns yellow-orange, -and produces a similar pattern of signals. Then they notice a third -object in the west that looks more like a dark domed disc, and it is -also sending thin feelers up light upward. Three more smaller lights -join the one in the east. At 3:30 a.m., the missile in the east stops -and takes off to the south but the others remain. The witnesses go home -at 4:30, and all the objects are gone by 6:00 a.m. They estimate that -the first object has given off 1,200 signals, the domed disc some 550, -and the missile a minimum of 360. (Ernst Berger, “Luminous ‘Snails’ -near Traunstein, Austria,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2 (October -1974): 12–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4956

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Event 7364 -(97F307A5)

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Date: 10/28/1973
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Truck driver Dionisio Llanca is changing a tire -along Highway 3 some 11 miles from Bahía Blanca, Argentina, when a UFO -lands and three humanlike beings, two men and a woman, approach him. -Nearly paralyzed by the light from the UFO, Llanca lets one of the -beings take a blood sample and later remembers going on board the craft, -whose occupants warn him that humans are headed towards disaster. He -loses consciousness and wakes up in a railyard 5.5 miles away, then -finds himself in a hospital. However, Argentine UFO investigators find -major discrepancies and consider Llanca’s story an invention devised to -make some money. (“Occupant -Encounter in Argentina,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 3 (Nov./Dec. 1973): -7–8; “Possible -Hoax,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4 (Jan./Feb. 1974): 11; Gordon -Creighton and Charles Bowen, “The -Extraordinary Case of Dionisio -Llanca and the Ufonauts,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 4 (November -1980): 2–10; Guillermo Roncoroni, “Dionisio -Llanca: El Informe Solari,” UFO Press, no. 19 (Jan./March 1984): -32–35; “The -Case of Dionisio -Llanca in Argentina,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2 (December -1984): 25–26; “The -Abduction of Dionisio -Llanca,” Above Top Secret forum, February 4, 2016; Clark III -601–602)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4955

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Event 7365 -(D0DED754)

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Date: 11/1973
-Description: Numerous reported landings, humanoids, and E-M effects on -cars in province
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Quebec, Canada
-ID: 227

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Event 7366 -(BE8D2C12)

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Date: 11/1973
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A witness in Sauk Village, Illinois, is sitting -in her dark living room when a light outside causes it to get brighter. -She sees a lighted domed disc hovering in the front yard. A central -section is filled with alternating blue and gold rectangular lights. It -appears to be revolving, except for the dome, which is stationary. Her -husband joins her and they continue watching it for 10 minutes. It -quickly takes off straight up in 10 seconds. (“Illinois,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 (April/May 1985): 5, 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4957

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Event 7367 -(7319D474)

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Date: 11/2/1973
-Description: Night. Police officers looking into reports of a “strange -animal” seen in the area of Midland, Pennsylvania, spot a large, -disc-shaped object in the sky overhead. At least 100 other people also -see the object. (Clark III 556)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4959

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Event 7368 -(62AA37A1)

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Date: 11/2/1973
-Description: 2:45 a.m. Lyndia Morel, a masseuse in Manchester, New -Hampshire, leaves work and begins driving on State Highway 114 to her -home in nearby Goffstown. On the outskirts of Manchester, she sees an -odd light in the sky that is flashing different colors. The light -vanishes when she reaches Goffstown, but it reappears twice more, -seemingly brighter and closer. She sees that it is an orange-and-gold -globe covered with hexagons like a honeycomb, with an oval window on the -upper left. The red, green, and blue flashes come from somewhere near -the center of the object, and she hears a high-pitched sound. Suddenly -she is unable to remove her hands from the steering wheel. She feels -that the object is taking control of her and the car and pulling them -in. Her car speeds up against her will as she passes Westlawn Cemetery. -The object is now only a few hundred feet away, and through a window she -sees a smallish humanoid figure standing behind a console. The figure -has a round, grayish head, a wrinkled face, a downturned slit of a -mouth, and two large eyes with dark pupils. She feels that he is sending -her a telepathic message to be unafraid. Somehow, she slows the car and -turns into the driveway of a house just past the cemetery. She jumps out -and runs to the kitchen door of the house, ignoring a German shepherd -dog that growls and barks at her. She pounds on the door and rings the -bell and yells for help as the UFO moves to a position across the -street, hovering and watching her, still emitting a high-pitched sound. -The residents, Mr. and Mrs. Beaudoin, come to the door and find a -terrified woman who is covering her ears and claiming that a UFO is -after her. The Beaudoins cannot see or hear anything, but Mrs. Beaudoin -calls the police. Investigator Walter -N. Webb finds that the position of the UFO corresponds too closely -to the planet Mars, at least in the later stage of the sighting, to rule -that explanation out entirely. (“Occupant -Encounter in New Hampshire,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4 -(Jan./Feb. 1974): 5–7; “The -1973 UFO Encounter of Lyndia Morel,” UFO Casebook)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4958

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Event 7369 -(3F757AC3)

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Date: 11/3/1973
-Description: Day. At the bottom of a gully in an isolated section of the -woods near Midland, Pennsylvania, two hunters find a 42-foot ring -impressed in the grass. Investigator Stan -Gordon finds a trail of three-toed footprints—11 inches long and 5 -inches wide—some 250 yards from the ring. (Clark III 556)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4960

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Event 7370 -(01AAA52E)

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Date: 11/6/1973
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A USAF security policeman at the eastern portion -of Kirtland AFB near Albuquerque, New Mexico, sees a large, glowing -object hovering 100 feet above the Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage -Facility. It is an oblate spheroid, 150 feet in diameter, gold in color, -and absolutely silent. Nine other air policemen are alerted, and four -F-101 Voodoo Air National Guard interceptors are scrambled from -Kirtland. The UFO begins moving east and passes out of sight at treetop -level in the Manzano Mountains. (R. C. Hecker, “New -Mexico Reports,” -APRO Bulletin 23, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1974): 5; Good Need, p. 321)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4962

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Event 7371 -(1FD6B583)

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Date: 11/6/1973
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Off-duty patrolmen Gary Steinberg and Thomas -Brown are sitting in an unmarked patrol car in Freeport, New York, -facing east. They see a bright light in the sky that is not the -helicopter they think it is at first. They watch it for 5–10 minutes -before it moves away to the southeast. Steinberg tries to get closer in -the patrol car, while Brown stays behind and directs him by radio. He -gets to within 300–400 feet of it, as it is 700–800 feet in altitude. It -now appears football-shaped and 100 feet long. He watches it for 10–15 -minutes as it glows silvery blue with an occasional yellow-red pulsating -tint. The object then moves off to the southwest, stopping occasionally. -A smaller object comes up on his right and drifts up to the larger -object and merges with it. The larger object dims in sections (about -16), one after the other, and it takes off to the southwest and -disappears in a couple seconds. (Dick Ruhl, “Merging -UFOs over Long Island,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4 (Jan./Feb. 1974): 1, -3– 4; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, -no. 2 (Summer 2004): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4961

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Event 7372 -(A96F95F8)

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Date: 11/8/1973
-Description: Top-shaped object with windows moved with “incredible -speed,” darted behind jet interceptor, shot straight up in sky
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: La Paz, Bolivia
-ID: 228

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Event 7373 -(E64BCF16)

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Date: mid 11/1973
-Description: Evening. Two sentries at a lookout post on the perimeter of -Istrana Air Base, Veneto province, Italy, see two beings, about 4 feet -11 inches tall, dressed in white. Further away they see an -unconventional craft. The beings run to the UFO and speed away. Marks -are found at the landing site. (“Italy: -Top Secret,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 (March 1975): iii; Good -Above, pp. 143–144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4963

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Event 7374 -(F004A55E)

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Date: 11/16/1973
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Two 11-year old boys are outside in Lemon Grove, -California, intending to play in a vacant lot or field in the -neighborhood. When they arrive, there is a dark object hovering about 18 -inches above the field. It seems inactive. One of the boys cautiously -approaches and raps it with his flashlight, making a sound like metal on -metal. Instantly, the object’s dome lights up in a brilliant red light -that illuminates the entire area. It rises three or four more feet off -the ground, and a row of green lights light up around its perimeter, -flashing in sequence. The thing begins rotating and making a “woooo -woooo woooo” sound. The object is easily visible now and appears as a -domed disc. The dome is large and tall (about equal to half or more of -the disc height) and glowing bright red, then flashing intermittent red. -The boys are now frightened and start to run away as the object takes -off toward the southwest. At the site are found three marks forming an -equilateral triangle within an area of grass swirled in a -counterclockwise pattern. A magnetometer at La Posta Astro-Geophysical -Observatory in Campo, California, allegedly registers a perturbation at -7:20 p.m. (NICAP, “Object -Hovers 18ʺ off Ground / Magnetometer Perturbation”; -“Boys -Encounter Landed Object,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 4 (Jan./Feb. 1974): -7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4964

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Event 7375 -(6728E57B)

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Date: 11/17/1973
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Johann Pritz notices an oblong object emitting -lights upward (similar to those he had seen on October 29) as he is -driving near Ulltichschlag, Austria. He drives home to Bad Traunstein -and continues watching the display to the south. He gathers several -other witnesses in town, and they continue watching until the object -fades out after 7:00 p.m. (Ernst Berger, “Luminous -‘Snails’ near Traunstein, Austria,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2 -(October 1974): 16–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4965

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Event 7376 -(A0932877)

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Date: 11/18/1973
-Description: About 6:00 p.m. Four women are driving south from Tracy, -Quebec, to Contrecoeur when they see a “watermelon-sized” ball of -yellowish light suddenly appear above a pylon a quarter of a mile ahead -of them. As they pass, it starts moving westward over the St. Lawrence -River. The object seems to change shape as it flies, becoming -alternately larger and smaller, dimming and growing in intensity. The -light follows them as they weave in and out through wooded areas. -Eventually the object is lost to sight as the women drive into Montreal. -At one point they encounter a large volume of traffic that seems to be -slowed by an odd pink cloud lying across the highway. They also see a -small human figure standing in the middle of the road. (Chris Rutkowski -and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, -pp. 107–108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4966

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Event 7377 -(7B95A99F)

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Date: 11/22/1973
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A woman living in an isolated area near Joliette, -Quebec, notices a white object outside her kitchen window. She moves -closer to the window and sees a 4-foot-tall being with huge glowing -eyes. Around its head or helmet there is a halo; its shoulders slope at -a 45° angle from the head. After 15 seconds, the figure withdraws. She -alerts her husband, who goes outside to investigate but only finds the -dog “scared to death.” The following night the cat is spooked. (Claude -Macduff, “The -November 1973 UFO-Invasion of Quebec,” The UFO Register 7, no. 1/2 -(1976): 12–15; Clark III 496; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The -Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 108–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4967

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Event 7378 -(9C0700A9)

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Date: 11/28/1973
-Description: Gallup Poll showed that 51 percent of Americans believe -UFOs are “real,” 11 percent claim personal sightings, and 93 percent are -aware of the subject.
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 229

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Event 7379 -(BB626D63)

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Date: 11/28/1973
-Description: A Gallup poll shows that 51% of Americans believe UFOs are -“real,” as opposed to 27% who think they are “imaginary.” And 11% claim -to have seen a UFO, extrapolating into 15 million Americans. (“51% -in Gallup Poll -Believe in U.F.O.’s: 11% Note Sightings,” New York Times, November -29, 1973, p. 45; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on -UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4968

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Event 7380 -(437F2B91)

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Date: 11/30/1973
-Description: UFO hovered and darted around near CaseIle Airport, seen by -pilots and tracked on airport radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Turin, Italy
-ID: 230

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Event 7381 -(F3AC83BE)

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Date: 11/30/1973
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Pilot Riccardo Marano is about to land at Caselle -Airport, Turin, Italy, in a Piper Navajo, when the controller notifies -him that there is a UFO about 1,320 feet above the runway. He sees a -luminous, multicolored ball of light changing from violet to blue to -dark red. “When I got closer and had a better view, the object at once -made off, flying in a most irregular fashion, maneuvering in a way I -have seen no plane do, making fantastic lateral deviations, and sudden -vast jumps to and fro, as if it enjoyed playing hide-and-seek. Its speed -was as high as” 540 mph, Marano says. Col. Rustichelli, commandant of -the Caselle military airfield, sees the UFO on his own radar screen. “It -was something solid, lit up, like a plane on my radar.” Commander -Tranquillo, pilot of an Alitalia Air Line DC-9 en route from Turin to -Rome, calls to the control tower: “I see a shining thing giving out -intermittent flashes of light, four miles from me. I dare not approach. -I give way.” Commander Mezzalami in another Alitalia DC-9 reports: “I -was able to observe the object … notified by the control tower just as I -was about to touch down. I had a good view of it        I can offer no -theories as to its significance and can only say that it was something -very strange indeed.” (NICAP, “UFO -Darts To and Fro, Observed from 3 Aircraft and Gnd Radar”; -Story, p. 373; -F. Lagarde, “Italie: -Turin 30 Novembre et Suza 24 Novembre 1973,” Lumières dans la Nuit, -no. 133 (March 1974): 5–6; Gordon Creighton, “The -Italian Scene Once More,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2 (October -1974): 27; 1Pinotti 185–186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4969

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Event 7382 -(1374DF30)

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Date: 12/1973
-Description: Kansas is quietly undergoing an epidemic of strange cattle -deaths. The incidents first receive wide publicity in the December 22 -Kansas City Times, which takes note of the fact that most of the deaths -are Black Angus. They have died within a few miles of US 81 in a dozen -counties in north-central Kansas. Many show knife marks on the -carcasses, including the apparent butchering of sex organs. The lack of -blood and footprints is also puzzling. Sheriffs from the affected -counties meet and decide that cultists are responsible. But according to -the Kansas State University Veterinarian Laboratory in Manhattan, the -animals have died of bloat and coyotes have eaten the soft parts. Many -ranchers reject the explanation. Mystery helicopters are also linked to -the mutilations. (Clark III 133; “Cattle -Mutilations Baffle Kansas -Farmers, Officials,” Kansas City (Mo.) Times, December 22, 1973, -pp. 1–2, 16; Jerome Clark, “Strange Case of the Cattle Killings,” Fate -27, no. 8 (August 1974): 79–90; Roberta Donovan and Keith Wolverton, Mystery -Stalks the Prairie, THAR -Institute, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4970

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Event 7383 -(263DAAB3)

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Date: 12/1973
-Description: Donald -E. Keyhoe publishes Aliens from Space, in which he continues to -ignore occupant cases but finally admits that the CIA, not the Air -Force, is the primary perpetrator of the UFO cover-up. (Donald E. -Keyhoe, Aliens from -Space: The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects, Doubleday, -1973; Clark III 649–650)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4971

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Event 7384 -(03E4AD6D)

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Date: 12/1973
-Description: The Société Varoise d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux in -Toulon, France, begins publishing the journal Approche in conjunction -with the Société Vauclusienne d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux in Vedene, -France. (Approche, no. -1 (December 1973))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4972

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Event 7385 -(0A3AE09E)

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Date: 12/3/1973
-Description: James Yorke and his family watch a triangular UFO with -colored lights on the bottom for 15 minutes two miles north of -Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. It is over Minas Basin and crossing the water -very slowly. (Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. -3 (Fall 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4973

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Event 7386 -(4E5AEF51)

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Date: 12/6/1973
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Witnesses at Fabrègues, Hérault, France, see a -landed domed disc on legs with a brightly lit “blister” on top, flashing -red and white lights around the rim and making a humming sound. A door -opens and a ladder unfolds, causing the witnesses to flee. The craft -changes to an orange glow and chases them. Later, four imprints in a -51-inch square are found, along with ladder marks. The area appears -“swept” as if by a blast. (Yves Herbo, “Décembre -1973: Atterrissages avec traces à Fabrègues,” Sciences Faits et -Histoires, November 21, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4974

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Event 7387 -(ABC8EEF7)

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Date: 12/8/1973
-Description: While harvesting, farmer Kevin O’Connell finds seven -sections of his oat crop flattened into circles 3 miles west of -Bordertown, South Australia. They are spread over 20 acres and the -largest is 14 feet in diameter. The oats are flattened counterclockwise. -(Terry Wilson, “1973: -Bordertown,” Old Crop Circles)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4975

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Event 7388 -(8F450DE6)

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Date: 12/10/1973
-Description: Egg-shaped object with body lights sped toward witnesses, -hovered. Reacted to light signals, sped off to south, departed upward at -steep angle
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hochries, Germany
-ID: 231

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Event 7389 -(57A7A8D9)

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Date: 12/13/1973
-Description: Patrick Thrush spots a hovering UFO above a river with a -tube leading from the craft to the water. Witness takes 2 photos with -his flash, the tube retracts and the UFO goes over his car and drops -warm dry “rocks” on it. UFO seen by another witness. Norman S. Bean -contacted.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Bradenton, FL

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Event 7390 -(5647EC63)

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Date: 12/15/1973
-Description: A single crop circle is found in a wheat field at Wokuma, -South Australia. The wheat has been flattened counterclockwise and there -are two bare patches. (Terry Wilson, “1973: -Wokuma,” Old Crop Circles)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4976

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Event 7391 -(D93AF057)

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Date: 12/20/1973
-Description: 2:15 a.m. Michael Wagner and Robert B. Klinn of Pacific -Palisades, California, see a yellow, glowing blob hovering in the -south-southeast. Through a telescope, the blob is seen to be a precise -arrangement of round, yellow-gold lights. It fades away after 75 -minutes. (Ann Druffel, “Santa Catalina Island Recurring ‘Cloud- -Cigars,’” Proceedings -of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center -for UFO Studies, 1976, pp. 67–68; Ann Druffel, “Santa Catalina Channel -Cloud Cigars,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4977

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- Event 7392 (AB659A19)

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Date: 1974
-Description: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) renewed
-Type: law
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 7393 -(E9128D6B)

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Date: 1974
-Description: Contact (UK) expands to Contact International, after -establishing many overseas branches in Turkey, Colombia, and elsewhere. -It has an international membership of 2,000. (Story, p. 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4980

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Event 7394 -(D2C1E965)

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Date: 1974
-Description: Perry Petrakis founds the Association d’Étude sur les -Soucoupes Volantes in Aix-en-Provence, France, and soon establishes -branches in Vevey, Switzerland, and Kalmthout, Belgium. It begins -publishing the AESV bulletin through June 1981. AESV continues under the -name SOS-OVNI in 1990. (AESV, -no. 6 (April 1978))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4979

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Event 7395 -(2CDE06E0)

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Date: 1974
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Two women are driving along Hamilton Road, -Quakers Hill, New South Wales, when the car suddenly shakes violently -and stops. The radio will not turn on. The driver gets out of the car to -get her children out of the back seat when she looks up and sees a -massive disc-shaped object at an altitude no greater than the nearby -power pole. It is surrounded completely by lights and has a dome in the -middle on the top. The object is gun-metal gray and the size of half a -football field. It silently moves over the dairy farm next to the road. -Then it stops and shoots up into the air. The car starts up with no -problems afterward. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle -Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4985

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Event 7396 -(9917DF8B)

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Date: 1974
-Description: John Hind establishes the Irish UFO Research Centre in -Belfast, Northern Ireland. It publishes the Irish UFO News from 1976 to -1980. (Irish -UFO News 1 no. 2 (July 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4981

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Event 7397 -(6F176DDD)

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Date: 1974
-Description: The French government decides to systematically gather UFO -reports from the gendarmerie and transmit them to the Centre National -d’Études Spatiales (CNES). At the time, the gendarmerie has about 300 -reports and is getting 100 new ones each year. A committee of the -Institut des Hautes Études de Defense Nationale recommends the creation -of a special UFO investigation agency. (Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to -SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter -2000–2001): 11; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official -French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4978

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Event 7398 -(D57B64C7)

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Date: 1974
-Description: John Rimmer has moved from Liverpool to London, England, in -1973, but John Harney moves there this year to work for the Kew -Observatory. MUFOB continues in London, with Rimmer taking over the bulk -of the editorial work. (“History -of Magonia,” -Magonia Archive)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4984

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Event 7399 -(AF65D990)

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Date: 1974
-Description: The UFO Subcommittee of the American Institute of -Aeronautics and Astronautics is disbanded. (Story, p. 8) -1974 — Bob -Gribble, a Seattle, Washington, fireman, establishes the National -UFO Reporting Center, with a hotline phone number that is shared with -Federal Aviation Administration offices. (“Profile,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March -1982): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4983

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Event 7400 -(91D4781E)

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Date: 1974
-Description: UFO skeptic Philip -J. Klass publishes UFOs Explained, taking on some difficult UFO -cases but finding none worthy of attention. Ufologists take vigorous -issue with his representation of cases and publish numerous refutations -that are little noticed outside the UFO community. (Philip J. Klass, -UFOs Explained, Random House, 1974; Clark III 659)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4982

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Event 7401 -(CA49194C)

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Date: 1/1974
-Description: Don -Berliner of the Fund for UFO Research does an exhaustive review of -the then unreleased Project Blue Book files at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, -which include many witness names that are later redacted for public -release. (Sparks, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4986

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Event 7402 -(3C2B5BE3)

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Date: 1/1974
-Description: Since 1968, Marjorie -E. Fish, a schoolteacher in Oak Harbor, Ohio, has been fascinated -with the star map drawn by Betty -Hill after her abduction. If she could figure out what stars are on -the map, she might be able to determine where the UFO came from. With -much difficulty and many failed attempts, Fish creates a 3D map that -indicates the relevant stars are the two in the Zeta Reticuli binary -system, 39.3 light years from earth. She first publishes her results in -Pursuit. Later observations reveal some interpretations in Fish’s map to -be inaccurate, and she rejects her hypothesis in 2011. (Wikipedia, “Betty -and Barney Hill”; Marjorie E. Fish, “Validation -of the Betty -Hill Map,” Pursuit 7, no. 1 (January 1974): 4–8; Terence Dickinson, -“The Zeta Reticuli Incident,” Astronomy 2, no. 12 (December 1974): 5–18; -“Update on the Betty Hill Star Map,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 -(Jan./Feb. 1981): 16, 29; Allan Hendry, “UFO Road Map: or, Lost in the -Stars,” Fate 35, no. 2 (February 1982): 56–63; David J. Eicher, “The -Zeta Reticuli (or Ridiculi) Incident,” January 31, 2001; Brett -Holman, “Goodbye, Zeta Reticuli,” Fortean Times 242 (December 2008): -50–52; Colin Johnston, “The Truth about Betty Hill’s UFO Star Map,” -Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, August 19, 2011; Clark III -586–487)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4987

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Event 7403 -(5BBFFA1B)

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Date: 1/3/1974
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Two young student teachers are driving home near -Leek, Staffordshire, England, when a green mass appears to follow them. -The couple feels a presence. Despite being on a lonely road, they get -out of the car to watch a dark mass low above their heads, with arcs of -blue and green light encircling them. In terror, they head off over the -moors, but moments later they run over a cattle grid, inexplicably -finding themselves in Ilam 12 miles away. Seconds later there is another -bump and they reach a developed area that turns out to be a town 20 -miles to the north. They find a police station to report the incident -and find that it is now 3:30 a.m. (Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of -Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 (Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4989

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Event 7404 -(E1B5BB11)

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Date: 1/7/1974
-Description: UFO landed, humanoid encounter
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Warneton, Belgium
-ID: 232

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Event 7405 -(40B53952)

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Date: 1/7/1974
-Description: 8:40 p.m. A man’s car suddenly dies as he is driving near -Warneton, Belgium. He sees a landed domed disc with a flat bottom like a -WWI helmet, 23–33 feet in diameter and 7–10 feet wide. It has a flange -around its base and three legs. White and orange alternating bands are -on the glowing object. Two humanoid beings approach him. They have broad -shoulders, heads shaped like inverted pears, long arms, large eyes, and -no noses. One is about 4 feet tall, the other somewhat taller; a third -being remains near the craft. They wear internally lit cube- shaped -helmets with the face visible, gray jumpsuits, and gloves. The taller -being comes within 12–15 feet of the vehicle, then opens and closes its -mouth. The witness feels a shock to the back of his head and hears a -low- pitched sound. The two humanoids quickly return to the craft, which -now pulses with an electric blue color, and departs. (MM. Bazin, -Bigorne, and Bodin, “Atterrissage -à Warneton (Belgique): Contact avec les Ufonautes,” Lumières dans la -Nuit, no. 139 (November 1974): 3–6; “The -Robots at Warneton,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 5 (March 1975): -6–9; UFOEv II 493)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4990

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Event 7406 -(3B182EDB)

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Date: 1/8/1974
-Description: 3:00 a.m. John -E. Justice leaves the Ohio Masonic Home in Springfield, Ohio, when -his headlights dim and the engine dies. He sees a display of aerial -lights descending a short distance in front of him. The blinking lights -are multicolored “like a rainbow.” Suddenly they blink out and are -replaced by a blinding steady white light about 6 feet ahead of and 3 -feet above the car. The light is coming from the inside of the object, -where he can see a lighted room with a golden aisle and five occupants -seated on the left-hand side in a straight row. Each seat is a different -color, and the garments of the occupants match the color of the seat. -Each has long brown hair that reaches the floor. The object departs -suddenly, the interior blinking out and the colored lights reappearing. -The car engine starts without difficulty. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update -on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): -16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4991

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Event 7407 -(6EE2F3D1)

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Date: 1/18/1974
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Giuseppe Cardelli is driving between Milan and -Bologna, Italy, when he sees a “strange shining ball” in the sky. He -stops his car, gets out, and photographs it. He submits the photo to -NASA, which replies on June 18 that it has no explanation. A consultant -wonders whether the photo shows a reflection in the car window and finds -the “wiggly clouds to the right” interesting. (“Italian -Photo Unexplained,” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 3 (September 1975): 1, -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4992

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Event 7408 -(9E5DC7F6)

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Date: 1/23/1974
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Witnesses at Llandrillo, northern Wales, see a -bright object followed by a luminous tail and (according to one witness) -a blinking blue light. The object is motionless for several minutes, -during which time it dims then becomes very bright. It appears to crash -around Cadair Bronwen mountain, east of the village. Many people hear a -terrific explosion and a violent shaking of the ground recorded up to 60 -miles away. Astronomers at Leicester University, England, record at -least three fireball meteors this evening. The British Geological Survey -identifies the source of the explosion as an earthquake. Police and a -mountain rescue team from RAF Valley in Anglesey, Wales, are in the area -almost immediately and cordon off access to the supposed crash site on a -barren hilltop. They find no trace of a crash the next day, but a nurse -on the way to the crash site after being telephoned by police -headquarters is on her way up the mountain with her daughters when she -sees something sitting on the ground ahead of her. It seems to be intact -and is large, circular, and glowing orange. The nurse and her daughters -are within a few hundred feet when police and military forces show up -and clearly tell her to leave the area. Researcher Tony -Dodd is reportedly approached by a retired military man using the -name of “Robert Prescott” who tells him that he and some others were -assigned to transport two oblong crates from the crash site to a place -called Porton Down where the UK Ministry of Defence’s Defence Science -and Technology Laboratory is located. They are instructed not to stop -for anyone. Military personnel open the crates and Prescott sees two -humanoid figures, apparently dead, about 5–6 ft tall, very thin, almost -skeletal in nature with a covering skin. These are placed in -decontamination suits. Other units supposedly transport live aliens from -the crash site. At 10:00 p.m., a man watches a luminous sphere descend -into the sea near the Dee Estuary about 25 miles north. Nick -Redfern speculates that a UK version of Project Moon Dust might be -in activation, which could explain reports of mystery helicopters in the -area in prior weeks. Jenny -Randles hears later from a former UK government official that a -crashed UFO is being kept in a military base in South Wales. In May, -Welsh MP Dafydd -Elis-Thomas asks Defence Minister Brynmor -John if any official investigation was made; John says the only -official investigation was made by the RAF Valley team. National -Archives files released in 2005 show that the MoD consulted the -Meteorological Office and DI55, which says the meteor explanation is the -likeliest. (Wikipedia, “Berwyn Mountain -UFO incident”; Jenny Randles, “The Night the Mountain Exploded,” IUR -21, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 9– 11, 32; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO -Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 116–124; Andy Roberts, -“Fire on the Mountain: The Berwyn Mountain Incident,” IUR 24, no. 3 -(Fall 1999): 16–23, 30; UFOFiles2, pp. 90–91; -“Files -Released on 1974 ‘Welsh Roswell,’” BBC News, August 5, 2010; Andy -Roberts, UFO Down? The Berwyn Mountain UFO Crash, CFZ Press, 2010; Clark -III 287–288)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4993

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Event 7409 -(C2EDEEAA)

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Date: 1/24/1974
-Description: While the RAF rescue team is still operating around Cadair -Bronwen, three family members see a bright object in the sky near the -mountain. Through field glasses, they see a disc-shaped object divided -into red, green, yellow, and purple sections. After 10 minutes they call -the police and the object disappears behind a cloud.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4994

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Event 7410 -(57AD91DE)

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Date: 1/26/1974
-Description: V-formation of luminous orange discs observed by airline -crew
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lisbon, Portugal
-ID: 233

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Event 7411 -(87C88BB5)

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Date: 1/26/1974
-Description: 2:59 a.m. Capt. Lars Berglund and the crew of a Boeing 727 -airliner flying near Lisbon, Portugal, see a V- formation of 10–15 -luminous orange discs. Berglund rules out a satellite reentry because of -its precision. After the formation passes, another Portuguese aircraft -reports the same objects to ground control. A Norwegian and a British -aircraft also report the same phenomenon. (“Formation -Seen by Air Crews,” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 5 (March/April 1974): 7–8; -“Airliner -Met 15 UFOs over Lisbon,” UFO-Sweden Special Report, 1974 no. 4, -pp. 3– 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4995

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Event 7412 -(25F8BD48)

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Date: 2/1974
-Description: Hynek visits -the APRO headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, asking for a contact list of -APRO investigators for the Center for UFO Studies to make use of in a -cooperative fashion. Coral -Lorenzen is suspicious of Hynek’s background and does not provide -him the list. (“Hynek: -UFO Movement Basically Amateurs,” APRO Bulletin 33, no. 2 (January -1986): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4996

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Event 7413 -(39EE1CF0)

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Date: 2/6/1974
-Description: Late evening. A woman watching TV in rural Fayette County -near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, hears a “rattling of tin cans” on her -porch. She grabs and loads a shotgun, turns on the porch light, and -steps into the doorway of the porch, where she encounters a 7-foot-tall -apelike creature with its hands raised in the air. She fires into his -midsection and it “just disappeared in a flash of light.” Her -son-in-law, who lives in a trailer 100 feet away, hears the shot, grabs -a revolver, and heads for her house. Along the way, he sees “shadows of -four or five hairy people” who approach him. They have “fire red eyes -that glowed in total darkness.” About 1,500 feet away, a red, flashing -light hovers above the trees. Investigating police arrive and find no -tracks but notice that the animals seem terrified. The son-in-law tells -investigator Stan -Gordon that he had encountered a similar apelike creature in -November 1973. (Clark III 556–557; Stan Gordon, “UFO’s, in Relation to -Creature Sightings in Pennsylvania,” MUFON 1974 UFO Symposium -Proceedings, MUFON, 1974, pp. 132–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4997

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Event 7414 -(A5623BB3)

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Date: 2/8/1974
-Description: Sunset. Mullah Umar Siddiq, merchant Ibrahim Khaleb, and -physician Muhammad Watif are standing on the roof of the Al-Hud Mosque -in Al Mukalla, Yemen, when they see three large white discs gliding -slowly downward. They gather some provisions, hire three camels, and -head for the Wadi Jawlan 32 miles to the east, where they estimate the -objects have landed. At dawn, they dismount to say prayers, and a vivid -glow lights up the eastern sky above the Wadi Jawlan for a few seconds. -The light is yellowish-white and comes from three beams that are -stabbing upwards and fanning out into the sky. Although the light dies -down, the beams are still visible, eventually growing paler. They find -deep, clear-cut tracks of caterpillar-track vehicles all over the rugged -area. At three places, about 325 feet apart, they find numerous scoop -marks, about 33 inches wide, in an area in the form of a triangle with -sides 17 feet wide. The rock has been fused and melted and the grass and -thorn-scrub is burnt. (Gordon Creighton, “An -Arabian Landing?” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974): -12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4999

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Event 7415 -(F765153E)

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Date: 2/8/1974
-Description: 7:25 a.m. Ten girls from the orphanage school in Vălenii de -Munte, Romania, watch two yellow-orange spheres above a hill to the -southwest of town. After 10 seconds, they merge into one object and take -the form of an elongated oval with an orange dome. It begins moving -slowly toward the west-southwest, then accelerates and disappears behind -the treeline after 40 seconds. Fresh marks are found in a plowed field -at the site where the object was seen. (Romania 36–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4998

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Event 7416 -(EC116AD9)

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Date: 2/14/1974
-Description: 4:25 a.m. Two brothers are transporting their parents’ -furniture in a U-Haul truck near Ely, Nevada, when they notice a round, -orange object that paces them, then approaches. They feel as though they -are “hit by a blast of wind or force field.” The engine and lights give -out, the steering goes, and the truck seems to momentarily float, come -back down, and coast to a stop. Ahead of them, just over a hill, they -see a large, round object with a domed top and wings. The other object -approaches again. One brother points a flashlight at it, whereupon they -both get an intense feeling of isolation that lasts about 20 minutes. -Since the truck appears to be damaged, they flag down a passing car and -call for a tow truck. When the tow truck hauls it away, the rear wheels -fall off. It needs new tires, a rear axle, outside housing, and gears. -(“Car -Disabled by UFO?” APRO Bulletin 22, no. 6 (May/June 1974): 4–5; -UFOEv II 218–219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5000

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Event 7417 -(D4751DE3)

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Date: 2/14/1974
-Description: Round orange object paced, approached truck, E-M effects on -lights and engine, truck lifted off road, steering control lost, feeling -of vacuum
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ely, NV
-ID: 234

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Event 7418 -(2931030A)

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Date: 2/21/1974
-Description: French radio journalist Jean-Claude -Bourret interviews French Defense Minister Robert -Galley for his France Inter radio program, OVNIs: Pas de panique! -Galley says his department has been interested in UFO reports since the -French wave of 1954. Ministry records contain many baffling radar/visual -cases. He speaks of the strong quality of the evidence and that people -must regard UFOs with a “completely open mind.” The mass of UFO reports -“from the airborne gendarmerie, from the mobile gendarmerie, and from -the gendarmerie charged with conducting investigations,” all of which -are forwarded to CNES, would make people see that it is “pretty -disturbing.” (“French -Minister Speaks on UFOs,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 2 (October -1974): 3–4; Good Above, p. 129; -Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” -IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 11; Yves Herbo, “OVNIs -et divulgation: Le Ministre des Armées françaises l’a fait en 1974,” -Sciences Faits et Histoire, February 2, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5001

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Event 7419 -(7D04DE20)

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Date: 3/1974
-Description: About 9:00 p.m. A missile launch officer with the 564th -Strategic Missile Squadron is on watch at the Malmstrom AFB Romeo Flight -missile alert facility near Brady, Montana, when both the outer and -inner alarms go off. A security alert team arrives and sees a large, -brilliantly self-illuminated object hovering above the Romeo-29 launch -facility. Suddenly, the missile starts a countdown. The officer quickly -flips the inhibit switch, which puts the system offline. Then the system -spontaneously restarts and the missile goes into launch mode again, -followed by an inhibit order that does not work. But the launch code is -false and the missile remains in its pad. Meanwhile, the UFO moves away -straight up at high speed. An F-106 interceptor attempts unsuccessfully -to reach it, and Malmstrom AFB radar tracks the UFO. Later he learns -that the ground electronics in Romeo-29 are fried as if from a surge. -(Nukes 353–355; Robert L. Hastings, “Former -U.S. Air Force Missile Launch Officer Says -a UFO Activated One of His ICBMs—Twice!” December 7, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5002

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Event 7420 -(1C86A8CA)

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Date: 3/1974
-End date: 6/1974
-Description: Concentration of UFO sightings, including vehicle -encounters
-Type: sighting
-Type: encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Spain
-ID: 238

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Event 7421 -(4A9D751D)

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Date: 3/9/1974
-Description: 9:58 p.m. Fiat Corporation pilot Alfonso Isaia chases a -luminous, saucer-shaped object with colored rings near Milan, Italy. The -UFO is confirmed by Milan radar. (MUFON UFO Journal, March 1989, p. 19; -Massimiliano Aiello, “L’avvistamento -del Pilota del Agnelli,” Massimiliano Aiello, January 17, 2013; -1Pinotti 188–189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5003

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Event 7422 -(BA4CD2B2)

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Date: 3/9/1974
-Description: Luminous saucer-shaped object with colored rings ahead of -plane confirmed by Milan radar, chased by pilot
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Milan, Italy
-ID: 235

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Event 7423 -(269A834D)

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Date: 3/13/1974
-Description: An Argentine Airlines plane en route from San Juan, Puerto -Rico, to Córdoba, Argentina, is flanked by two glowing objects that pace -it for several minutes, then speed away. (UFOEv II 121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5004

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Event 7424 -(3E068CDC)

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Date: 3/13/1974
-Description: Argentine Airlines plane flanked by two glowing objects -that paced it for several minutes, then sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: En route San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Cordoba, Argentina
-ID: 236

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Event 7425 -(736FDD23)

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Date: 3/17/1974
-Description: The crew of a TWA airliner over Taiwan sees a shiny oval or -cigar-shaped object and four smaller, spherical, satellite objects. -(UFOEv II 415; Richard F. Haines, “A Review of Selected Sightings from -Aircraft from 1973 to 1978,” in 1979 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, -MUFON, 1979, p. 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5005

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Event 7426 -(D9B82D35)

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Date: 3/17/1974
-Description: TWA airliner crew observed shiny oval or cigar-shaped -object, five smaller spherical-appearing satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Taiwan
-ID: 237

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Event 7427 -(80089B7A)

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Date: 3/20/1974
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Adrian Sánchez Sánchez, a salesman, is driving -near El Castillo de las Guardas, Seville, Spain, when he sees a large -metallic UFO, 450–600 feet long, with three smaller ships shaped like -yo-yos. It flies silently and has no windows but towers above and below. -One of the objects silently pursues Sánchez and disappears as he enters -a village. (Eileen Buckle, “Spanish -UFO Fiesta,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974): 3; -UFOEv II 345)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5006

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Event 7428 -(C71B2DFF)

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Date: 3/23/1974
-Description: 3:00 a.m. The chauffeur of the president of the Cádiz -Provincial Commission is driving on the highway in Sanlúcar de -Barrameda, Spain, when he sees a “luminous, metal-like” object moving -upward with great brilliancy. As he approaches it, he feels a strange -sensation. His car comes to a near stop, wavering back and forth like a -feather. (UFOEv II 346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5007

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Event 7429 -(09499A31)

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Date: 3/23/1974
-Description: Night. A young man (pseudonym Harald Andersson) comes out -of the parish house in Markim, Stockholm County, Sweden, when he hears a -voice in his head telling him to follow a dark forest road. Just after -passing a small cottage, he sees two runestones by the side of the path. -Suddenly a blinding light knocks him to the ground where he lies -unconscious for a while, then wakes up on the doorstep of his villa in -Lindholmen, Vallentuna. His wife, disturbed by his condition (bleeding -from his forehead and a burn on his cheek), takes him to Danderyds -Hospital where hypnotherapist Ture -Arvidsson regresses him to the time of the incident (twice, on April -1 and May 20). He discovers that a beam of light has floated him up into -the air while tall, hooded figures touch his head with an unknown -device, saying they will meet again in the future. Extraordinary -abilities follow, including his ability to disrupt a compass needle, see -vibrant auras, and premonitions. The incident is apparently witnessed by -another man a short distance away. The Swedish Home Guard assigns 50 of -its personnel to work with 15 ufologists to examine the region. The -group reports a few odd lights in the sky. (Håkan Blomqvist, “An Abduction -in Sweden?” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 (August 1987): -14–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5008

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Event 7430 -(4038EC54)

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Date: 3/23/1974
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A French doctor allegedly photographs an odd -object near Albiosc, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. The color image -shows a red object like a domed disc and four bright, beamlike -extensions. UFO investigator Jean Bedet receives the slide anonymously -on April 14, with a note pinned to his car windshield when he is -visiting the town of Tavernes, Var. Bedet says his wife and others had -seen a similar object at 11:00 p.m. the same night. The consensus among -researchers in France is that the photo is a hoax perpetrated by Bedet -to confirm the visual sighting. (Michel Monnerie, “La -Veillée Nationale d’Observation à Barjols (Var),” Lumières dans la -Nuit, no. 138 (October 1974): 22–26; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “An -Approach to UFO Pictures in France,” -FOTOCAT Report no. 6, [2009], p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5009

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Event 7431 -(143069F3)

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Date: 3/26/1974
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Truck driver Maximiliano Iglesias sees a strange -object like a plate placed above another large, round object hovering -above the highway in Valdehijaderos, Salamanca, Spain, 650 feet away. -Another object is 60 feet away. Two beings come out of the first UFO, -point to the truck, then go in again. Both objects fly away. At 11:30 -p.m., the same witness watches three silver ships parked on the highway -with a floodlight. He stops his engine as some figures approach. He runs -and they follow. They are about 6.5 feet tall, with arms and legs, but -he cannot see their faces. On March 27, the Guardia Civil investigate -and find a hole in the ground. (Pere Rédon, “Valdehijaderos, -de Nuevo,” Stendek 5, no. 18 (December 1974): 12–16; Eileen Buckle, -“Spanish -UFO Fiesta,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974): 4–6; -UFOEv II 346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5010

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Event 7432 -(05D0EE33)

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Date: 3/27/1974
-Description: Antoine, -Jerri, and Terry Betz investigate a small brush fire near their -residence on Fort George Island, Florida, and come across a metal sphere -the size of a bowling ball and weighing 22 pounds. They think the sphere -could be a 16th-century cannonball and decide to take it home. Several -days later, while Terry is playing the guitar, the sphere seems to react -to the music and makes a throbbing noise. Later, the sphere rolls and -stops on its own and changes direction. The sphere makes a noise when -hit with a hammer, and Terry finds that it moves after being shaken and -placed on the ground. In 2012, an analysis by Skeptoid indicates that -the sphere is a ball check valve produced by the Bell & Howell -company. Its size, weight, and metallurgical composition match those of -the company’s check valves. The ball is almost perfectly balanced, and -it takes only a small stimulus to make it move or change direction. New -Mexico artist James Durling-Jones, who collects scrap metal for his -sculptures, remembers loading ball check valves into the rooftop luggage -rack of his Volkswagen van and driving through the Jacksonville, -Florida, area around Easter of 1971. A few of the balls rolled off the -luggage rack and were not retrieved. Skeptoid concludes that this is the -sphere’s origin. (Wikipedia, “Betz -mystery sphere”; Brian Dunning, “The -Betz Mystery Sphere,” Skeptoid podcast, no. 334, October 30, -2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5011

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Event 7433 -(ADD764E5)

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Date: 3/27/1974
-Description: Night. A large, brightly shining, spindle-shaped object -that remains stationary in the air is seen by numerous witnesses in -Málaga, Spain, and photographed by Sr. Salas, picture editor of the Sur -newspaper. (Eileen Buckle, “Spanish -UFO Fiesta,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974): -4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5012

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Event 7434 -(25B60DB2)

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Date: 3/29/1974
-Description: 1:45 a.m. A French vacationer and a local female friend are -lying on a sloping beach near Lomé, Togo, when they hear a high-pitched -whine and see an unlighted cylindrical object above the ocean. It heads -toward them on a level flight path until it gets to 500 feet away. It -stops, and within moments a tidal wave washes over the two witnesses. -Wave after wave crash over them as they hold onto a nearby tree. The UFO -emits powerful beams of light, and the Frenchman can see the waters -parting in a deep trough. They remain paralyzed for 20 minutes until the -UFO turns off its lights and flies out to sea. The water surface returns -to normal. Over the next few days, the man feels strangely exhausted and -has a ringing in his ears. (Joël Mesnard, “UFO -over Sea Causes Surge of Tidal Waves,” -Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 (April 1977): 4–5, iv; Clark III -250–251)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5013

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Event 7435 -(91F00C02)

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Date: 3/30/1974
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Motorists are blinded by a bright yellow-green -object on or near the ground along a road near Ombreiro, Lugo, Spain. -Car engines fail, headlights go out. After 3–4 minutes, the UFO rises -silently and moves away horizontally. It makes a soft buzzing or -whistling sound. (UFOEv II 454)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5014

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Event 7436 -(DCF9EF5C)

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Date: 3/30/1974
-Description: Blinding light from hovering object, car engine quit, -lights went out. Object flew away with whistling sound, car then -functioned normally
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hombreiro, Lugo, Spain
-ID: 239

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Event 7437 -(C3624552)

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Date: 4/1974
-Description: A woman military staffer at the GEC-Marconi contracting -company in Frimley, Surrey, England, learns that a break-in has occurred -the previous night. A guard suffers a nervous breakdown, is taken to an -unnamed hospital, and is not seen again. Later, she hears a discussion -in her supervisor’s office and describes it to Nick -Redfern: “We have no way of keeping these beings out. We just don’t -know what to do next. If they can get in here, they can get in -anywhere.” She learns that the guard had seen an alien sifting through -files and papers. A blue light emanated from its helmet, and the being -dematerialized before the guard’s eyes. (Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: -UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 126; Nick Redfern, -“An -Extraterrestrial 007?” Mysterious Universe, December 9, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5015

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Event 7438 -(F01D4353)

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Date: 4/1974
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A staff sergeant assigned to the 355th Security -Police Squadron stationed at Incirlik Air Base, Adana, Turkey, witnesses -a white, glowing UFO hovering silently over the nuclear storage area -about 500 feet above the ground for one hour. It appears to be the size -of a Volkswagen. At 4:00 a.m., the UFO suddenly and silently accelerates -toward the city. The witness sees the object from the Security Police -dormitory about 2 miles away. The next day, other security personnel -tell him that the only measures taken are “to set up their M-60 machine -guns, and that they were not to fire on the object unless it initiated a -hostile act.” (Brian Vike, “Sgt. Reports Bizarre -Events at WY Missile Base,” Rense.com, July 7, 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5016

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Event 7439 -(AA8D5C22)

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Date: early 4/1974
-Description: A couple driving on a country road in east Hancock County, -Ohio, spot a low light in the northeastern sky. They drive toward it, -but it shoots up into the air so they can see its underside. As the man -alerts people to the object on his CB radio, he sees the object lower a -box, seemingly to take samples. Then the object approaches the couple -and they drive away quickly, but it follows them for 47 miles. At 2:15 -a.m., they pull into a Wigwam restaurant, where a man rushes up to them -and asks them, “What did you see in the sky?” He denies having a CB -radio, and talks in a strangely slow and choppy manner. The man -continues to bother them, so they drive away from the Wigwam. Soon they -are followed by some strange lights and an orange ball. They stop the -car where the road ends and see a “little man on a little black object.” -The lights follow them all the way home to Findlay, Ohio. (Clark III -731–733)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5017

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Event 7440 -(6A43DE49)

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Date: 4/4/1974
-Description: Two 12-year-old girls in A Estrada, Galicia, Spain, see a -noiseless metallic object that stops for a few seconds 30–40 feet from -the ground, then moves off. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A -Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events -in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS, -1976, pp. 47–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5018

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Event 7441 -(2508719F)

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Date: 4/13/1974
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Julio Acosta Bertol (a teacher), his wife, and a -student at Herrera de Alcántara, Cáceres, Spain, observe a luminous -rhomboid object with a pink-yellowish semicircle on its upper left. The -student hears a prolonged, alarm-like noise. They watch the UFO for 5–6 -minutes from a distance of 900 feet before it moves off. (Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos, A -Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS, -1976, p. 49; Nick Redfern, “Spain’s -UFO Wave: 1973–1974,” Mysterious Universe, August 28, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5019

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Event 7442 -(ADC3564F)

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Date: 4/15/1974
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. George Torres observe a flat, round -object moving to the north over the low hills in back of their home in -Tijeras Canyon, New Mexico. It is in the apparent area of the Manzano -Nuclear Weapons Storage facility attached to Kirtland AFB. The object -changes course to the east at an altitude of 2,000 feet and appears to -be 50–75 feet in diameter. It is rotating silently on a central axis. -The object turns abruptly to the south, passes behind a small mountain -peak, turns east again, and vanishes over the Manzano Mountains. (R. C. -Hecker, “New -Mexico Reports,” APRO Bulletin 23, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1974): -5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5022

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Event 7443 -(377D0EC5)

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Date: 4/15/1974
-Description: A photojournalist takes four photos of a round object over -A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. (Dolan II, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5021

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Event 7444 -(5A5531C8)

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Date: 4/15/1974
-Description: Passengers on a ferry on the Strait of Gibraltar between -Ceuta and Algeciras, Spain, see a round, intense torch-like light rise -out of the water near a huge rock, travel at low altitude, then fall -into the water again. This happens once again. (UFOEv II 346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5020

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Event 7445 -(E50EA3CF)

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Date: 4/16/1974
-Description: 12:50 a.m. Mauro Bellingeri, 26, and his wife Carla Farè, -23, are returning to their villa in Santa Maria del Tempio, -Alessandrino, Italy, when they notice a bright object that dives -abruptly toward them, stopping at a height of 40 feet above the villa. -The Bellingeris get out of the car to look at the motionless object. It -has a transparent dome and a central ring of revolving red, green, and -yellow lights. Inside the dome are three human- like beings with large, -round, opaque, grayish helmets. At the base of the headgear is a -hoselike apparatus. One being turns in their direction, then moves back. -All three beings then rotate in unison. At this point, 3–4 jets of flame -appear beneath the craft, the central portion begins to revolve rapidly, -and they hear a whistling sound and feel a blast of air. The UFO speeds -away, continuing to whistle. (UFOEv II 460–461; 1Pinotti 189–191; Carlo -Pirola, UFOs: Reinvestigation in Italy, Lulu.com, 2019, pp. 68–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5023

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Event 7446 -(0BA336AE)

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Date: 4/16/1974
-Description: Disc with dome descended, three beings visible inside -transparent dome
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Casale Monferrato, Italy
-ID: 240

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Event 7447 -(B5D1E7C6)

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Date: 4/19/1974
-Description: About 9:30 p.m. Ruth Currie and her daughter Laurie see a -bright light that seems to be only several hundred feet from their house -in Altamont, New York. Curious, they walk toward it until they are -within about 200 feet. An oval object is resting on the roadway. It -appears to have large windows in the top half, from which comes a -brilliant golden glow. Changes of contrast in this light give them the -impression that something is moving around within. Currie sends her -daughter to get a neighbor, Rose Curtis, and they return shortly. Currie -then retreats to her home and phones her husband, who drops what he is -doing and hurries over. He can see an object rising up. It shifts speeds -and accelerates out of sight. During the bulk of this encounter, the -neighborhood dogs are putting up a continuous volley of barking. The -next morning, the witnesses get together and go to the site, where they -find an area of burned grass 50–75 feet in diameter. (Center for UFO -Studies, HUMCAT -Index 1974, p. 40; NICAP, “The -1974 UFO Chronology”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5024

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Event 7448 -(D73BBE24)

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Date: 4/29/1974
-Description: Roy Hiltner discovers an odd imprint in his soybean field -near North Creek in northwestern Putnam County, Ohio. It is a depression -8 feet in diameter and 12 inches deep, with seven 4-foot-long grooves -radiating from it. In the center are two holes, each 12 inches in -diameter and 12 inches apart. Local and state officials examine the site -and cannot determine a cause. (“Two -Physical Trace Cases in Northwest Ohio Unexplained,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 6, no. 3 (June/July 1985): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5025

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Event 7449 -(607226B0)

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Date: 5/1974
-Description: 3:30 a.m. US Army Pfc R. Jack Phillips is assigned to the -193rd Military Police Battalion guarding Area 3 of an Army Ordnance -Depot [now returned to Germany] where surface-to-surface Pershing -missiles are stored near Fischbach bei Dahn, Rhineland-Palatinate, -Germany. Suddenly waking up, he watches an extremely bright star above -him for about 15 seconds. Suddenly it approaches very quickly and hovers -just beyond the depot fence line about 300 feet away. The light now -looks like a domed disc about 60 feet in diameter with a concave -indentation on its underside. It is covered in a greenish glow and -completely silent. After 5 seconds the object gets much brighter for a -second then dims again. The security lights in the complex go out. -Phillips tries to report this, but his field phone is out. The backup -generators fail to turn on. Some 30 seconds later, the object takes off -so swiftly that he can’t tell in which direction it leaves. The lights -come back on and all the bunker alarms go off. A roving unit needs to -come by to reset all the alarms manually. Phillips admits that most of -the guards sleep on duty, and that is probably why no one else has seen -the object. (Nukes 343–346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5027

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Event 7450 -(3EB41A7D)

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Date: 5/1974
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Iuliu Marian and his wife wake up abruptly in -their home in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Outside they see a bell-shaped -object or silhouette with a light tube in the center that seems to be -waiting for them. Marian grabs a sports sword he keeps under the bed and -goes outside, but the object is already moving away. He follows it -around a corner of the house and the object is nowhere to be seen. -Marian senses the object is still there somehow because he feels some -kind of force field. Against his will he returns to his bedroom, the -forcefield disappears, and he goes right back to sleep. (Romania -128–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5026

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Event 7451 -(C6D573C0)

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Date: 5/5/1974
-Description: 5:30 p.m. David Dorn and Troy Warton, both 11, leave home -in Lincolnshire, Illinois, to play basketball. As they walk down the -street, they notice a dark object in the western sky. It comes closer, -drops to a height just above the treetops, hovers slightly, then rises -up and disappears. David has a new camera and he snaps six photos with -his Kodak X-15 camera. The color pictures reveal a distinct dark object -in the clouds and over the trees. Unfortunately, he discards the -negatives. (“Boy’s -New Camera Records UFO,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 -(September 1980): 1) May 7 (possibly 1973) — 9:00 p.m. Margaret -K. Roffe, nurse’s -aide at the Coatesville (Pennsylvania) Veterans Administration Hospital, -hears tree branches swishing and swaying nearby and sees a UFO descend -and land on the roof of Building no. 1 about 150 feet away. Four -silver-colored legs emerge from the object, followed by a ramp with -steps. Three small figures climb down backwards. They are speaking to -each other in high, squeaky voices that sound like “so many birds.” She -says “The being nearest the edge of the roof had a very elongated head, -grayish=looking skin, arms that extended well below his knees, and what -looked like long claws instead of fingers. His legs appeared rather -short.” He is bald and looks old. The scene is well lit by an -illuminated dome on the roof of the building. When one of the entities -notices the witness, they reenter the object, which takes off slowly -over the trees, which are again violently agitated. The legs withdraw as -it takes off. (Clark III 277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5028

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Event 7452 -(41A6A3C9)

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Date: 5/7/1974
-Alternate date: 5/9/1974
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Businessman Amadeo Villar is driving with his -wife and daughter near Altos de Cabrejas, Cuenca, Spain, when they see a -bright orange object for 40–50 seconds. It darts behind the clouds, -where it is still dimly visible. (José Vicente Avila, “Spain: -A UFO over Cabrejas, Witnessed by Three (1974),” Inexplicata, -October 28, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5029

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Event 7453 -(1185FF8A)

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Date: 5/9/1974
-Description: The documentary film UFOs: Past, Present, and Future is -released along with a paperback book of the same title by Robert -Emenegger. The -film shows stock footage of Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico, and a -recreation of a landing at a hypothetical military base. (Wikipedia, -“UFOs: Past, Present, and Future”; Robert Emenegger, UFOs: Past, -Present, and Future, Ballantine, 1974; Internet Movie Database, “UFOs: -It Has Begun”; “UFOs -(It Has Begun) Past, Present, and Future documentary,” Jaded Truth -YouTube channel, September 29, 2017; Clark III 357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5030

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Event 7454 -(73C1000D)

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Date: 5/15/1974
-Description: A businessman and a teacher in Pedroche, Córdoba, Spain, -see a round object the “size of a table” that chases their car and -obstructs their path on the road. They turn the car around rapidly and -flee. (UFOEv II 346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5031

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Event 7455 -(ED778069)

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Date: 5/17/1974
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Electronic scanning equipment at the Manzano -Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility attached to Kirtland AFB near -Albuquerque, New Mexico, registers a burst of energy in the upper -atmosphere in the 250–275 MHz range. The burst throws all the facility’s -instruments off. A trajectory of an apparent falling object is plotted, -and a recovery team is dispatched to an area southwest of Chilili, New -Mexico, that is cordoned off. A few hours later, a circular, metallic -object about 60 feet in diameter is dismantled and transported into a -hangar at Kirtland AFB. (R. C. Hecker, “New -Mexico Reports,” APRO Bulletin 23, no. 2 (Sept./Oct. 1974): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5032

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Event 7456 -(3622DF24)

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Date: 5/20/1974
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A baker named Le Meur, with his wife and two -children, is traveling on a small road toward Landévennec, Finistère, -France, when they notice a powerful light ahead at ground level. It -consists of a string of 7–8 spheres, each about one foot in diameter and -arranged horizontally, about 3 feet above the road. Le Meur turns around -and heads to the local Gendarmerie station in Telgruc-sur-Mer to report -it. The police examine the site the next day and find a patch of ferns -that appear abnormally wilted. They collect some plant and soil samples -and send them to a lab in Paris for analysis. The wilted, brown ferns -are found to be without chlorophyll and an unknown element (indicating -pheophytins associated with the degradation of chlorophyll) shows up in -the chromatography in ultraviolet light. (Joël Mesnard, “Landévennec, -May 20, 1974,” IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 20–21; Jérôme Frasson, “An -Attempt to Learn about the Trauma Undergone by the Ferns,” IUR 32, no. 4 -(October 2009): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5033

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Event 7457 -(A46FFCE3)

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Date: 5/22/1974
-Description: The wife of a journalist on Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain, -photographs an object described in a US Defense Department report as -“somewhat like a top.” It remains stationary for a while, then rises and -disappears. (Dolan II 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5034

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Event 7458 -(4E78BE5D)

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Date: 5/28/1974
-Description: Day. A resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, sees a large -glowing object moving across the western face of the Sandia Mountains. -It is so bright that no structure is visible. The witness opens his -window to listen for noise coming from the object, but there is none. As -he watches, the object appears to land on a nearby hill where it remains -for an hour before it shoots into the air and vanishes. Three young men -are camping in the Sandia Mountains that day around noon. They notice a -silver-white UFO on the ground on the east side of Tramway Boulevard NE, -between Menaul Boulevard and Copper Avenue. Next to it is a silver, -triangular-shaped object with odd rune-like symbols on one of the -pointed ends. After reporting the sighting, they wind up being taken to -Kirtland AFB for interrogation by civilian intelligence agents. They are -told they have witnessed a “Soviet incident” and are to keep their -mouths shut, which they do for 34 years before talking to Linda -Moulton Howe in 2007. Around 9:00 p.m., a family sees a large, -glowing, football-shaped disc moving across Albuquerque toward the -Sandia foothills. They jump in their car and try to follow the object, -using dirt roads on the east side of Tramway. They are stopped by a -state police officer, beyond whom they can see the UFO hovering low next -to a rocky hill. It is surrounded by armed military personnel. (“Recent -Sightings Reported in New Mexico,” UFO Investigator, July 1974, -p. 3; Linda Moulton Howe, “Glowing -Disc Encounter with Military in Albuquerque, NM,” -Earthfiles, November 29, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5035

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Event 7459 -(7E6A1617)

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Date: 5/31/1974
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A prolonged Peugeot-pacing case from Mvuma to -Beitbridge, Zimbabwe, takes place along the A4 highway, during which -motorists experience electromagnetic effects, loss of steering control -for their vehicle, abnormal cold and silence, translocation from one -place to another, altered appearance of the terrain, humanoid encounter, -and amnesia. (Carl Van Vlieden, “Escorted -by UFOs from Umvuma to Beit Bridge,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 2 -(August 1975): 3–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5036

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Event 7460 -(D896A986)

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Date: 6/1974
-Description: MUFON pledges its cooperation with CUFOS, offering its -network of investigators to secure raw data for analysis. (Skylook, June -1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5039

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Event 7461 -(5603B8A9)

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Date: 6/1974
-Description: Astrophysicist Michael -H. Hart formulates the basic points of Enrico -Fermi’s “Fermi Paradox” for an article in the Quarterly Journal of -the Royal Astronomical Society. The paradox is the apparent -contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial -civilizations elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy and various high -estimates for their probability (such as those that result from -optimistic parameters for the Drake equation). (Wikipedia, “Fermi -paradox”; Michael H. Hart, “Explanation -for the Absence of Extraterrestrials on Earth,” Quarterly Journal of -the Royal Astronomical Society 16 (June 1975): 128–135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5041

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Event 7462 -(25C19523)

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Date: 6/1974
-Description: The Circulo de Argentino de Investigaciones Ufológicas in -Córdoba, Argentina, publishes the first issue of OVNIs: Un Desafio a la -Ciencia, edited by Oscar A. Galíndez. It runs for 10 issues through -February 1976. (OVNIs: -Un Desafio a la Ciencia, No. 1 (July 1974))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5040

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Event 7463 -(32466F8F)

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Date: 6/9/1974
-Description: Night. Maj. Shiro Kubota and Lt. Col. Toshio Nakamura are -flying an F-4EJ Phantom II interceptor over the northern perimeter of -Japan, apparently to intercept a Soviet aircraft. Ground control -explains that they are to investigate a bright orange-red light reported -by ground witnesses and tracked on radar. Leveling off at 30,000 feet, -they see the light a few miles ahead. It appears to be about 33 feet in -diameter, with square-shaped marks around its side. The object dips in a -shallow turn as they approach. Suddenly the object reverses direction -and shoots straight toward them. Nakamura forces the aircraft into a -sudden dive to avoid it, missing the UFO by “inches.” The object then -makes high-speed passes at the plane, drawing closer. Then, allegedly, -the UFO strikes the F-4, forcing the two pilots to eject. Nakamura’s -parachute catches fire and he falls to his death. (Good Above, pp. 430–431)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5042

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Event 7464 -(1DA813F8)

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Date: 6/12/1974
-Description: Alfred A. Knopf publishes The CIA and the Cult of -Intelligence by Victor -Marchetti and John -D. Marks, which discusses how the CIA works and how its original -purpose (collecting and analyzing information about foreign governments, -corporations, and persons in order to advise public policymakers) has, -according to the authors, been subverted by its obsession with -clandestine operations. Marchetti uses the expression “cult of -intelligence” to denounce what he views as a counterproductive mindset -and culture of secrecy, elitism, amorality, and lawlessness within and -surrounding the CIA in the service of American imperialism. (Wikipedia, -“The -CIA and the -Cult of Intelligence”; Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, The -CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, Knopf, -1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5043

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Event 7465 -(3C59A889)

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Date: 6/14/1974
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Santiago Pulido Romero is driving in Medellín, -Badajoz, Spain, near the Castillo when he sees a pot- shaped object -rapidly approaching him 300 feet above the ground. He turns off his car -lights, but the object follows his car parallel to the road about 210 -feet away to the right. When he switches his headlights back on, the -object begins approaching again, so he switches them off and the object -retreats. When he arrives at his father’s property, the object hovers -over the barn, moving up and down, so he runs into the house. Later -Pulido goes outside to check, and the object is still hovering, lighting -up the entire area like daytime. Three humanoid beings are visible -inside the object. Early the next morning at sunrise, the object -abruptly speeds away. Other witnesses in separate locations also see a -UFO. (Eileen Buckle, “Spanish -UFO Fiesta,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 (December 1974): 6–7; -“Un -OVNI repond à des signaux lumineux en Espagne,” Inforespace, no. 22, -August 1975, pp. 14–15; “1974: -UFO with Occupants Hover over Farm,” ThinkAboutIt, April 6, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5044

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Event 7466 -(EE060224)

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Date: 6/15/1974
-Description: Mountain guide Keo Wha Unan is inspecting the outer -perimeter of a rock formation near Mount Dhajar (apparently in the Bayan -Har Mountains, Tibet) to make certain it is safe for the next day’s -climb. He emerges from a cave and sees a silvery disc hovering about 4 -feet above the ground behind a crest of high rocks. It is windowless and -shiny with no protrusions. He sees three humanoid figures gathering snow -and rocks and putting them inside the UFO. After 5 minutes, they climb a -ladder into the craft. The object rises a few feet and shoots straight -up like a flash. (Harry Hill, “The -Bizarre Ancient Astronauts of Tibet,” UFO Update!, no. 5 (Winter -1980): 49, 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5045

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Event 7467 -(466321EC)

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Date: 6/16/1974
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A farmhand is driving near Cáceres, Extremadura, -Spain, when a bright object illuminates the highway. He sees three tall, -helmeted figures standing inside the craft. When the witness turns off -his headlights, the UFO moves away; when he turns them back on, the UFO -approaches and follows him home about 230 feet above his car. He turns -off his lights again, and the UFO slowly flies away. (UFOEv II -346)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5046

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Event 7468 -(279069CA)

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Date: summer 1974
-Description: Late evening. A witness living southwest of Lodi, -Wisconsin, sees an intensely bright light that is illuminating a hill on -an adjacent golf course. It covers an area the size of a football field, -but he cannot see a beam or light source. A few hours later, a couple -driving on State Highway 113 south of Lodi observe a triangular object -with red and blue circular lights suspended beneath it. The object -passes silently less than 20 feet above their car, hovers momentarily, -and resumes its slow pass overhead. It is twice the size of their car. -They watch as the lights shut off and the object is gone. At 1:00 a.m., -a man in Lodi sees what he thinks are headlights pulling into his -driveway. He sees three bright points of light fixed horizontally in the -black sky. He goes in to get his brother who has a telescope, and they -attempt to spot the lights (only two now) with the scope. It takes a -while, and when they look straight up they see a large, triangular -object right above them. No lights are visible, but its undersurface is -clearly defined and metallic. It moves over the house, tips upward at a -45° angle, and shoots away. (Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, -Part Two,” IUR 13, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1988): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5037

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Event 7469 -(9407DA44)

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Date: summer 1974
-Description: Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. California Gov. Ronald -Reagan and his pilot Bill Paynter in his Cessna Citation see a -bright white light zigzagging through the sky near Bakersfield, -California. They follow the light for several minutes. Paynter says it -“was a fairly steady light until it began to accelerate, then it -appeared to elongate.” Then, “to our utter amazement, it went straight -up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all -about it…. And we read up on the long history of UFOs.” -(presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th President, January -20, 1981–January 20, 1989”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5038

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Event 7470 -(DD8CDE48)

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Date: 6/25/1974
-Description: 1:15 a.m. A witness is up late in his trailer home at -St.-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Quebec, when he hears a “bumm, bumm, bumm” -sound, as if something very heavy has fallen onto the ground. He looks -out the living room window and sees a UFO hovering low above a near -field. It is a disc with a red domed area and an orangish lower area -punctuated by oval windows from which comes white light. He sees a -6-foot-tall robot that has apparently emerged from the object and is now -only 15 feet from his window. He and his wife see three more robots near -the trailer next door. The observation lasts 3 hours as the couple peek -out of the window periodically. At one point, they see 15 robots -standing in line together close to a creek for 5 minutes. As if on -command, they suddenly move together; when they look out again at 4:20 -a.m., the craft and the robots are gone. (Marc Leduc, “Un -atterrissage et des humanoïdes á Drummondville,” UFO-Quebec 1, no. 1 -(1975): 10–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5047

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Event 7471 -(EBD40A18)

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Date: 7/2/1974
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Some fishermen at Praia dos Navegantes beach, -Santa Catarina, Brazil, see a disc with small thrusters on its sides -descend and fall into the ocean about 328 feet away. Thinking it is an -aircraft, the men head to the splashdown site to help survivors. As -Ubelino Severino gets closer, the object sinks, leaving only foam at the -surface. (Brazil 517–520)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5048

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Event 7472 -(E3EC6D42)

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Date: 7/9/1974
-Description: Psychic Pat -Price accurately remote views the Soviet URDF-3 facility adjacent to -the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan for the Stanford Research -Institute [now SRI International] in Menlo Park, California. In another -experiment, Puthoff and -a skeptical scientist named Earl Jones drive to 9 separate metropolitan -areas, all chosen by Jones. Back in the SRI lab, Targ monitors -Price, who describes 7 of the places accurately —in some cases before -Jones and Puthoff even reach the target or before Jones has decided on a -target. Price also claims to sense four underground alien bases, -volunteering the data outside the SRI experimental parameters. The bases -are located under Monte Perdido, Huesca, Spain; Mount Nyangani, -Zimbabwe; Mount Hayes, Alaska; and Mount Ziel in Australia’s Northern -Territory. (Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of -America’s Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, pp. 113, 118, 148–151; -Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena, Little, Brown, 2017, pp. 166–171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5050

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Event 7473 -(F0FB9097)

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Date: 7/9/1974
-Description: Early morning. An elliptical object with rows of -alternating red and green lights hovers about 200 feet above a park in -Kingston, New York. A hazy white glow emanates from the underside. The -object moves to within 500 feet of a police car. When officers James -Wallace and Richard Ramsdell turn their spotlight on, a brilliant beam -lights up the cruiser. The beam switches off and the object races away -at high speed. (“Hovering -Object Shines Spotlight -on Police Car,” UFO Investigator, October 1974, p. 3; UFOEv II -45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5049

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Event 7474 -(35764E06)

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Date: 7/9/1974
-Description: Elliptical object with body lights hovered low, moved -toward police car. Officer turned spotlight on it, brilliant white beam -from object illuminated patrol car
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kingston, NY
-ID: 241

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Event 7475 -(817D3DA5)

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Date: 7/14/1974
-Description: 3:36 p.m. A Scandinavian Airlines flight en route to -Burlington, Vermont, is flying at 35,000 feet 35–40 miles southeast of -Quebec City, Quebec. Capt. Korsvold and the crew notice a triangular -object moving southwest and has it in sight for 7 minutes. Radio -interference is reported. At the same time, C. W. Bacon is flying a -private jet about 35 miles southeast of Quebec City and sees the same -triangular object, but it seems to be stationary. Air traffic control at -CFB Bagotville in Saguenay, Quebec, reports strong interference on a -frequency of 121.5 MHz, a frequency reserved for aircraft in distress. -The signal is also disrupting transmissions for 10 minutes at RCAF -Station Mont Apica [now the Lac Castor Canadian weather radar station]. -All is quiet after both the UFO and interference are gone. (Good Above, -p. 200; -Arthur R. Bray, The UFO Connection, Jupiter, 1979, pp. 45–46; Patrick -Gross, “Files -Obtained from the National Archives of Canada”; Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 89–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5051

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Event 7476 -(E95CC967)

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Date: 7/15/1974
-Description: Two unregistered helicopters, a white helicopter, and a -black twin-engine aircraft open fire on Robert Smith Jr. while he is -driving his tractor on his farm in Honey Creek, Iowa. This attack -follows a rash of cattle mutilations in the area and across the nearby -border in Nebraska. (Wikipedia, “Cattle -mutilation”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5052

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Event 7477 -(FA8BA339)

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Date: 8/8/1974
-Description: President Richard -Nixon resigns in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5053

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Event 7478 -(E00D2CAB)

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Date: 8/9/1974
-Description: President Gerald Ford in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 7479 -(1163E7CA)

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Date: 8/11/1974
-Description: 3:23 a.m. Police officers Mark E. Paine and Michael Alden -watch three luminous UFOs in a triangle formation between Tilton and -Concord, New Hampshire. A fourth object, a domed ellipse, rises from the -trees and approaches their car. As the officers signal the object, it -signals back, then veers away. (UFOEv II 175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5054

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Event 7480 -(9159F8EE)

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Date: 8/12/1974
-Description: 11:30 a.m. A 15-year-old boy sees a disc maneuvering near a -hedgerow at La Brousse, Charente-Maritime, France. It is about the size -of a medium car, dull-lead in color, with a green reflective dome. One -of three windows open “exactly like the shutter of a vanishing headlight -on a sports car.” The lower part of the object rotates, but the dome -does not. Later, three sharply defined circles of burnt straw form an -isosceles triangle within an oval area of crushed straw. Within each -imprint are two small pieces of lead. (M. Chasseigne, “Atterrissage -à La -Brousse, près de Matha,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 140 (December -1974): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5055

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Event 7481 -(3474B6AE)

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Date: 8/16/1974
-Description: 8:00 p.m. David Bates, 8, Steven Stillie, 10, and Henry -Stillie, 7, are taking a shortcut past an abandoned sandpit close to -their homes in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Suddenly they hear a -high-pitched whine and the cat Bates is carrying panics and escapes his -hold; it runs several yards and then stops abruptly. They then see an -object with a red light on top and flashing green and white lights on -either end. Moving slowly, the UFO reverses course and with an -undulating motion heads for the clearing where the sandpit lies and -lands there, about 150 feet away. The whine becomes intense. As the -object settles down, it releases a blast of hot air that blows dust on -he boys. It extends three short legs and blue sparks leap up from the -ground. The boys run home. Investigator Graham Conway finds residual -material present in three indentations at the site. Analysis shows that -it contains an abnormally high amount of zinc. (Graham Conway, “Close -Encounter,” Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 4 (1975): 8–11; Graham -Conway, “Close -Encounter,” UFO*BC; Graham Conway, “CE2 Secrets,” IUR 17, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1992): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5056

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Event 7482 -(3C8818B0)

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Date: 8/23/1974
-Description: 9:00 p.m. John -Lennon and May -Pang watch a rotating, oval-shaped disc with a red light on top from -the roof of his penthouse apartment on East 52nd Street in New York -City. It is flying less than 100 feet away and moves off soundlessly as -they watch it. Lennon mentions it in a liner note to his 1974 Walls and -Bridges album. (David Halperin, “John -Lennon, May Pang, and the UFO (1) Their Story,” davidhalperin.net, -February 11, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5057

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Event 7483 -(8B6A122F)

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Date: 8/25/1974
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. A document is leaked to UFO researchers in -the US and UK in 1992 and is apparently composed by someone within the -US intelligence community who either personally knows about the case or -who has run across top-secret documents. Now known as the “Deneb -Report,” the document alleges that the following incident took place. -Military radar at Corpus Christi, Texas, detects an unknown target -moving toward the Texas Gulf coast. Traveling at a speed of 2,500 mph at -an altitude of 75,000 feet, the UFO is first spotted over the Gulf of -Mexico about 200 miles east of Corpus Christi. After going through -maneuvers suggesting intelligent control, the object quickly turns south -along the Texas coast, avoiding entry over land, and seems headed toward -Brownsville. As the disc continues to hug the Texas coastline, it -exhibits controlled descent, calculated turns, speed reductions, and -other clear indications of control. The object descends from 75,000 feet -to about 45,000 feet by the time it crosses over land into northern -Mexico, about 40 miles south of Brownsville. Its speed is down to 2,000 -mph and it is slowing very gradually. Zigzagging around mountain peaks -that tower above 5,000 feet, the UFO continues to descend, although its -speed is still near 2,000 mph at the time that it encounters another -aircraft headed toward it on a collision course. Somewhere over a vast -desert plain known as El Llano near Coyame, Chihuahua, Mexico, a mid-air -collision occurs with a small aircraft flying from El Paso to Mexico -City. Debris from the crash rains down on the desert plain below, and -efforts are soon underway by both Mexico and the US to recover the -remains. Mexican spotter planes first locate the wreckage of the -aircraft, even as US electronic surveillance personnel listen in on the -rescue activities from across the Texas border. The Americans hear the -Mexican spotter planes say that the small craft is almost totally -destroyed and that they have found a second crash site nearby with the -remains of a nearly intact, shiny, silvery disc. The object is 16 feet, -5 inches in diameter, and equally convex on both upper and lower -surfaces. There is an outer rim around the central circumference. The -height is slightly less than 5 feet. They see no visible portholes, -doors, or markings. In addition, no lights of any kind are apparent. -There is also no obvious mechanism for propulsion. The external surface -of the disc is like silvery polished steel. Mexican troops recover the -crashed disc, winching it up onto the bed of a large military truck. -They also retrieve fragments of the crashed civilian aircraft, although -there is not much left of it. (“Presidio 1974,” -Texas UFO Museum and Research Library; Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, The -Coyame Incident, Roswell Books, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5058

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Event 7484 -(DCDC72F0)

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Date: 9/1974
-Description: Author Charles -Berlitz writes The Bermuda Triangle, in which he popularizes the -concept of the Bermuda Triangle as an area of ocean prone to -disappearing ships and airplanes. He quotes his friend J. Manson -Valentine, who has reported several UFO sightings in the area. He also -perpetuates a fake radio transmission from Lt. Charles Taylor of the -missing TBM Avenger bombers in December 1945 containing the warning, -“Don’t come after me… They look like they are from outer space.” -Berlitz’s claims of unusual EM effects occurring in the Triangle are -also fabrications. (Charles Berlitz, The -Bermuda Triangle, Avon, -1974; Story, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5059

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Event 7485 -(C0BB6C59)

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Date: 9/1/1974
-Description: 11:00 a.m. While he is driving a swather to harvest his -rapeseed crop near Langenburg, Saskatchewan, farmer Edwin Fuhr, 36, -notices a metallic-appearing dome-shaped object about 50 feet away and -stops to investigate. Walking to within 15 feet of it, Fuhr sees that it -is spinning and swirling the grass beneath it. This frightens him and he -backs away. Climbing back on the swather, he looks around and sees four -more identical domes “like brushed stainless steel” arranged in a rough -semicircle, all hovering and spinning about a foot above the ground. -Whether from fear or an EM effect, Fuhr cannot get the throttle and -steering wheel of the swather to respond. One object suddenly takes off, -quickly followed by the other four, ascending in a step formation. At -about 200 feet they stop, each emitting a puff of gray vapor from -exhaust-like extensions at the base. The vapor extends about 6 feet, -followed by a downward gust of wind which flattens the rapeseed in the -immediate area. The objects then form a straight line, hover for a -minute or two, then suddenly ascend into the low cloud cover and -disappear. Fuhr goes to the landing area and finds five rings of -depressed grass swirled in a clockwise fashion. There is no evidence of -heat or burning. Some additional circles are found in the area later -that month. Fuhr later learns that cattle in a nearby field bellowed and -broke through a fence about the time of the sighting. Royal Canadian -Mounted Police Constable Ron Morier, quoted by Canadian Press, says: -“Something was there and I doubt it was a hoax. There’s no indication -anything had been wheeled in or out and Mr. Fuhr seemed genuinely -scared.” Later Morier tells an investigator, “There is no way that this -is a hoax. Whatever was in there, it came out of the air and departed -the same way, as far as I could tell.” (Ted Phillips, Physical -Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, CUFOS, -1975, p. 104; Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, -Methuen, 1979, pp. 22–24; Chris Rutkowski and John P. Timmerman, -“Langenburg, 1974: A Classic Historical CE2 and a Crop Circle -Progenitor?” IUR 17, no. 2 (March/April 1992): 4–11; Michael D. Swords, -GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO -Research, 2005, pp. 148–159; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The -Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 110–113; “Interview -with Edwin Fuhr 37 Years Later: -The Langenburg UFO Case,” AboveTopSecret forum, January 20, 2017; -Mark Melnychuk, “The -Farmer Who -Saw and the Mountie Who Believed: Sask.’s Most Famous UFO Sighting,” -Regina (Sask.) Leader-Post, September 29, 2017; Clark III 673–675; Chris -Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, pp. 192– -196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5060

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Event 7486 -(B780ED74)

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Date: 9/1/1974
-Description: Five dome-shaped objects in pasture, spinning and swirling -grass. Objects took off, aligned in formation, climbed into clouds
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Langenburg, Saskatchewan, Canada
-ID: 242

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Event 7487 -(19D5A6F0)

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Date: 9/9/1974
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Professor Andrei Antalffy and his wife are in -their summer cottage near Târgu Mureş, Romania, when she notices a -silvery-white light behind the house. They go outside and see a -rectangular “wall of opaque light” about 82 feet long and 550 away from -them. In front of the wall on the ground are four orange spheres about -18 inhes in diameter and grouped two-by-two. They continue to watch the -display from inside the cottage until midnight when they retire for the -night. (Romania 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5061

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Event 7488 -(1CC35405)

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Date: 9/16/1974
-Description: Around 9:30 p.m. Mrs. A. Richards is driving a 1968 Toyota -a few miles northwest of St. Helens, Tasmania, with her two children. -The car radio suddenly turns to static as she is passing over a bridge -and the sky ahead lights up. The car then loses power as it travels up -an incline, and everything goes dead—car lights, radio, heater, and -engine. The landscape is lit up by a bright area of light ahead. The -mother tries to start the car without success. A deafening vibrating -noise then seems to envelop the car. About the same time all three of -them feel electric shocks like vibrations for one minute, and a choking -smell fills the car so that they leap from the car and flee the scene, -leaving the car and the glow in the sky behind. After nearly 2 miles, -they reach a house whose resident gives them a ride back to the car to -see what is wrong. The hood is warm, but the car starts up and there is -no sign of a light. A check at the local garage finds water in the -radiator low, otherwise both radio and electrical systems are in working -order. The mother suffers from swollen arms and fingers the following -day. The right side of her face is numb and she has red marks above her -right eyebrow. (“Auto-Stop,” -TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 14 (1975): 10–11; “UFOs -and Auto-Stops,” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 91 (February 2002): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5062

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Event 7489 -(3BAF5A4C)

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Date: 9/21/1974
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A Swedish army officer is driving with his -family near Knutby, Uppsala County, Sweden, when a blinding light -approaches the car from the right at an altitude of about 30 feet. The -car stops and the radio and headlights go out. The UFO passes the road -ahead and then lands on the left side about 250 feet from the road. A -large area is lit up by the blinding, green-shimmering light from the -object. The witnesses hear a sound like a swarm of bees. Through -binoculars, the officer sees an egg-shaped structure some 33 feet long -and around 10 feet high. The car engine still does not work. He gets out -of the car, then hears a deafening roar. The UFO is taking off -vertically with a rocking motion. It flies off slowly at about 100 feet -altitude for a few hundred yards, then takes off and disappears in a -fraction of a second. He gets back in the car and the radio is playing -music and the car starts easily. (Boris Jungkvist, “Swedish -Army Officer Experiences Landing and EM Effects,” AFU Newsletter, -no. 17 (Oct./Dec. 1979): 11–13; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle -Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): -16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5063

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Event 7490 -(2D25F095)

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Date: 9/26/1974
-Description: 9:30–10:00 p.m. More than 100 people in north Zealand, -Denmark, watch unusual objects and lights in the sky. One driver is -suddenly surrounded by a dazzling red light that illuminates the area. -The engine, lights, and radio fail. After several attempts, he restarts -the car and turns on the lights. A cone of white neon light descends -toward the car. A bumping noise and a sound like broken glass is heard -on the roof, and then a foot-long spurt of flame erupts from the car -radio. The engine and lights fail again. After about 6 seconds a -distinct “click” is heard, and everything works normally again. The car -engine and radio are undamaged. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on -Vehicle Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): -20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5064

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Event 7491 -(32EFA6F8)

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Date: 9/27/1974
-Description: An 11-year-old boy and an older friend are on a farm near -Jindabyne, New South Wales, when they notice a bright white light about -one-half mile away for about 30 minutes. In 1983, the younger man begins -to have “vivid memories” of that evening and realizes that both -experienced about two hours of missing time. Soon the memory of an -abduction emerges in which both witnesses undergo an examination of some -kind. (Mark Moravec, “The -Jindabyne UFO Abduction Case,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 5, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1984): 6–10; MUFON UFO Journal, February 1988, -pp. 13–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5065

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Event 7492 -(BC85C8D9)

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Date: 9/30/1974
-Description: Newsweek brings the issue of cattle mutilations to a -national audience. Noting that “more than 100 cattle have been found -dead and gruesomely mutilated in Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa,” it lists -possible culprits: witchcraft cultists, UFOs, helicopter-borne rustlers, -marijuana smugglers, and predators. In months and years to come, the -scare spreads from the Midwest to the West to the South. (Clark III 133) -Autumn — 10:00 a.m. A metallic disc some 300 feet across approaches a -South Korean antiaircraft shore battery. The commander launches an -MIM-23 Hawk guided missile which is immediately shot down by a “white -ray” from the UFO. The second ray is directed at the battery, melting -the remaining two Hawk missiles into an unrecognizable mass. (Soviet -Military Review, June 1989; Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, -1977, pp. 135–136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5066

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Event 7493 -(A104C29C)

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Date: 10/10/1974
-Description: 10:10 p.m. John Breen, a Canadian armed forces pilot, is -paced by a UFO over Grand Falls, Newfoundland, in his Cessna 172, en -route from Deer Lake to Gander. A passenger first notices a strange -light following the plane when they are 50 miles away from Gander. Every -time Breen looks at the light it seems to turn off, but finally he gets -a better view: “It seems to be sort of a triangle—or delta-shaped, -luminescent greenish light following us.” It stays on for 3–4 seconds, -then goes off for a bit, then on again. Gradually it remains steady. -About 25–30 miles from Gander, Breen radios the airport, which has no -traffic in the area. The object’s reflection is clearly visible in the -water of Gander Lake. Breen says: “I started a right turn and then cut -hard left. Gander then picked up the object for two or three sweeps, -which would have been about 10–12 seconds. When we turned around, I just -saw it going off the other way and then I lost it because of the back of -the airplane.” (Gregory M. Kanon, “’Something’s -Up Here with Us!” Canadian UFO Report 4, no. 6 (Winter/Spring 1978): -3–4; Good Above, pp. 200–201; -Patrick Gross, “Files -Obtained from the National Archives of Canada”; Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5067

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Event 7494 -(9AEA5A1E)

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Date: 10/11/1974
-Description: Robert Spencer Carr described in great detail on a local -radio show interview the Aztec crash, had anonymous military and -civilian witnesses, made international news.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: Tampa, Florida
-See also: 3/25/48

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Event 7495 -(5CFD4BA5)

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Date: 10/11/1974
-Description: 4:15 a.m. The captain and crew of a Capital Airlines DC-8 -descending into Gander, Newfoundland, watches as a UFO flashing red and -white lights draws alongside the plane as it flies at 290 mph at 7,500 -feet. It maintains a parallel course until it finally disappears in -cloud cover about 5 miles from Gander. Air traffic control at Gander -confirms there is no other aircraft in the vicinity. (Good Above, p. 201; -Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -p. 91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5068

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Event 7496 -(45347D24)

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Date: 10/11/1974
-Description: 4:10 p.m. An astronomer in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, is -driving a pickup truck when he sees a silver-gray domed disc behind him -to the west. It moves from southeast to northwest on a level, straight -course, but in the last 2–3 seconds it turns upward, accelerating -rapidly. The witness’s truck stalls out when he tries to accelerate, but -the tape deck keeps operating. (“Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey, Part -2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5069

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Event 7497 -(EE1F68EC)

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Date: 10/11/1974
-Description: The Energy Reorganization Act dissolves the Atomic Energy -Commission and splits responsibility for its functions, assigning to the -Energy Research and Development Administration [now the US Department of -Energy] the responsibility for the development and production of nuclear -weapons, promotion of nuclear power, and other energy-related work, and -assigning to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission the regulatory work, -which does not include regulation of defense nuclear facilities. -(Wikipedia, “Energy -Reorganization Act of 1974”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5071

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Event 7498 -(5A8959E2)

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Date: 10/11/1974
-Description: Robert -Spencer Carr is the guest on a local radio show to promote the -upcoming Flying Saucer Symposium by PSI Conferences in Tampa, Florida. -During the interview, Carr makes the shocking disclosure of the US -government’s cover-up of the UFO crash in Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948 -with 12 dead aliens aboard. The Air Force allegedly is storing the -bodies at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, in Hangar 18. The -announcement creates a media sensation that lasts for months in print -and broadcast news. (Dave Casey, “UFOs -and 12 Little Men,” -Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News, October 12, 1974, p. 1; Curt Collins, “Robert -Spencer Carr and Hangar 18,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 29, -2018; Curt Collins, “Inside -Hangar 18 with Dr. Robert Carr,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, June -1, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5070

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Event 7499 -(D2F401E3)

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Date: 10/14/1974
-Description: 9:09 p.m. Air Force security personnel assigned to the -Bomber Alert Area of Grand Forks AFB near Emerado, North Dakota, see two -large, solid black, oval shapes hovering at 1,500 feet altitude in the -northwestern sky. Although each of the unlit objects has five small -lights arrayed across its surface, the UFOs approach to within -one-quarter mile of the alert area before they are noticed. Within a -3-minute period, 14 security police sentries, two military pilots, and a -B-52 maintenance supervisor independently report the objects to their -respective control locations. Static on radio and other communications -networks are noted. After hovering for 2 minutes, the UFOs slowly move -in tandem toward the south, making a faint humming sound as they fade -from view. (Nukes 347–348)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5072

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Event 7500 -(9A12A184)

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Date: late 1974
-Description: President Gerald -R. Ford creates the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, a group of -scientists, technicians, and engineers operating under the US Department -of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Its task is to be -“prepared to respond immediately to any type of radiological accident or -incident anywhere in the world.” Since 1975, NEST has been warned of 125 -nuclear terror threats and has responded to 30. All have been false -alarms. (Wikipedia, “Nuclear -Emergency Support Team”; Jeffrey T. Richelson, Defusing -Armageddon, Norton, -2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5087

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Event 7501 -(C25517BE)

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Date: 10/15/1974
-Description: Night. Five witnesses in Ramona, California, watch a -mysterious round object as it maneuvers over the Santa Maria Valley. It -lands on a hillside and turns ruby red before becoming a brilliant white -light. As it passes over, horses act up and a dog tries to grab one -witness by her sleeve back into the house. Another dog, chained, runs in -and out of the doghouse repeatedly, and the chickens and goats are -agitated as well. Radio and TV reception is disrupted, and a compass -points to the object as it is moving. The object hovers briefly, then -shoots away, emitting a noise like something between a hum and a -foghorn. (NICAP, “Object -Lands / Animal Reactions / -Compass Deviates”; Bob Gribble, “Looking Back,” MUFON UFO Journal, -no. 258 (October 1989): 24) October 25 — 4:15 p.m. Oil-well digger E. -Carl Higdon Jr. is hunting elk on the northern edge of Medicine Bow -National Forest southeast of Rawlins, Wyoming, when he sees five elk -standing motionless. He attempts to shoot one, but the bullet falls -about 50 feet from him as if hitting an invisible obstruction. He goes -to pick it up, then hears a twig snap and sees a humanoid being (more -than 6 feet tall) under a tree about 50 feet away. Its hair is sticking -up “like wheat straw,” it is bow-legged, and it is wearing a black -coverall suit and black shoes. Two belts cross its chest, and another is -wrapped around its waist. The being asks Higdon how he is doing and -whether he is hungry, after which it tosses him a package of pills. It -tells him to take one, saying it will last for four days. Higdon looks -up the hill and sees a transparent, lighted cubicle. Suddenly he finds -himself inside it, strapped to a seat with a helmet on his head. Two -humanoids are also inside, as well as four seats, a control panel, a -mirror, a map, and several elk, frozen in a cage. The craft takes him to -what seems to be another planet with a mushroom-shaped tower, 100 feet -tall. He and one of the humanoids float to the tower, go down an -elevator, pass down a corridor, and go into a room with a platform. -After being screened by a “glassy shield,” Higdon is told he is “not any -good for what we need” and is taken back to the original location, where -he rolls down a hill, hurting his head, neck, and shoulder. Around 6:30 -p.m., Higdon radios his boss, Roy Fleming of the AM Well Service in -Rawlins, with his location and asks for assistance. At 11:40 p.m., -Higdon is found by a rescue party, which includes Fleming, the Carbon -County sheriff, a deputy, and three other men in several -four-wheel-drive pickup trucks. He seems confused, so he is taken to -Carbon County Memorial Hospital, unable to remember his own name. He -does not recover his memory until the evening of October 27. Many -details emerge after Higdon is hypnotized by R. -Leo Sprinkle on November 2 and 17. (Clark III 573–576; Lorenzen, -Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, pp. 25–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5073

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Event 7502 -(31C5F900)

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Date: 10/17/1974
-Description: Dogs barked furiously, circular yellow-white object emitted -two light beams to ground, illuminated terrain brightly
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Maitland, N.S.W., Australia
-ID: 243

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Event 7503 -(B5324977)

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Date: 10/20/1974
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 244

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Event 7504 -(32F5291B)

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Date: 10/25/1974
-Description: Carl Higdon abduction
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Rawlins, WY
-ID: 245

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Event 7505 -(9FED28B3)

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Date: 10/27/1974
-Description: Abduction case
-Type: abduction
-Type: case
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Aveley, UK
-ID: 246

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Event 7506 -(39104A67)

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Date: 11/1974
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Claire Haser, on an isolated ranch northeast of -Goldendale, Washington, sees a yellowish-white glow in the sky on the -ground to the north. At 11:00 p.m., as visitors are leaving, she steps -outside and sees it again, closer and more intense. Suspended in the air -only 10 feet away from the porch and 15 feet above the ground is a -“cylinder” about 3 feet long and 14 inches in diameter, standing with -its end pointed toward the ground. Projecting from the object is a long, -narrow, beam of light about 2 inches in diameter and 3 feet long. The -end of the beam is diffuse, and it is slowly rotating clockwise. She -watches it for 10 minutes. Not wanting to approach the object, everyone -goes back inside. The object is gone 30 minutes later. (Greg Long, -“Strangeness at Yakima,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5075

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Event 7507 -(AB5D61F5)

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Date: 11/1974
-Description: Night. A witness is traveling in his 1971 Mitshubishi Colt -near the Sideling hill in northeastern Tasmania when he notices a huge -flame-colored glow lighting up the bush to the north. It looka larger -than a house. The headlights, radio, and motor of his car all cut out -and he is left watching the glow for several minutes. He notices his -luminous watch dial has become brighter and that the car’s clock is -running 2 minutes slower after the sighting. The mass of light moves -back and forth, rises up and away from the witness, and disappears. The -witness then able to start his car and continue on his journey. -Afterward, the front left mudguard changes color from red to more of an -orange. (“UFOs -and Auto-Stops,” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 91 (February 2002): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5076

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Event 7508 -(C118675B)

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Date: 11/1974
-Description: The Centre for UFO Studies–Australian Co-Ordination Section -is founded by Harry Griesberg and David Seargent in Gosford, New South -Wales, as a clearinghouse for UFO reports throughout Australia. It -publishes the ACOS Bulletin through December 1979. (ACOS -Bulletin, no. -1 (March 1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5074

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Event 7509 -(D4FBAB4D)

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Date: 11/2/1974
-Description: Robert -Spencer Carr gives a lecture at the Flying Saucer Symposium at the -International Inn in Tampa, Florida, on the 1948 Aztec, New Mexico, -crash/retrieval and the aliens allegedly stored in Hangar 18, calling it -the “worst-kept secret in the world.” Carr’s hour-long lecture is short -on specifics, but in the question-and-answer session afterward, he is -asked about his sources for the information. Carr says there are three -witnesses, but they must remain unnamed. He says that the US government -will end the coverup, admit that UFOs are really spacecraft from other -worlds, and it will happen soon—before the end of the year. Curt Collins -writes, “Part of the reason Carr’s story took hold was that it was so -familiar, people wanted something like it to be true, and that it seemed -to come from an authority figure, a university professor with official -governments contacts and sources It also struck a chord with the public, -capitalizing on their distrust of the government following the Vietnam -war and Watergate scandal.” (“UFOs -and 12 Little Men,” Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News, October 12, 1974, -p. 1; “Symposium -Hums with UFO Talk,” Tampa Bay Times, November 4, 1974, p. 1-D; Curt -Collins, “Ufology 1974: The Flying Saucer Symposium in Tampa,” The -Saucers That Time Forgot, May 25, 2018; Curt Collins, “Robert -Spencer -Carr and Hangar 18,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 29, 2018; -Curt Collins, “Inside -Hangar 18 with -Dr. Robert Carr,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, June 1, 2018; Curt -Collins, “The -Day after Saucergate,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, June 4, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5077

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Event 7510 -(8E7EBBCF)

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Date: 11/4/1974
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A witness is driving near Scottsdale, Tasmania, -when he sees a large, silent UFO. His car engine and radio cut out and -his watch dial lights up brightly. The object moves away and abruptly -ascends vertically. The left-hand mudguard changes color permanently -from red to orange. (Ted Phillips, “Vehicle Effects,” -MUFON UFO Journal, no. 446 (June 2005): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5078

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Event 7511 -(56F783CF)

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Date: 11/5/1974
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Harold Verge is driving between Mahone Bay and -Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, in the pouring rain when he sees three bright -amber lights appear in his rear-view mirror. Suddenly they move to the -rigt side of his car and pace it for 30 seconds before disappearing -abruptly. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, -2022, p. 83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5080

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Event 7512 -(6A83C915)

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Date: 11/5/1974
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Jesse and Johanna Chilton are driving south on -Provincial Highway 2 near Olds, Alberta, when they see a disc about 9 -feet in diameter and 50 feet away on their right at a height of 25 feet. -It turns and passes them in the opposite direction and they note several -exhaust ports emitting yellow flame. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 226–227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5079

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Event 7513 -(3F0C958B)

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Date: 11/7/1974
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Two schoolgirls are biking home from school in -Waterford, Connecticut, when they see a ball of fire in the sky. They -ride to one of their homes and go out in a car, hoping to take a photo. -When they get to the shore of Niantic Bay, they see it again with -several other people who have stopped. The object is now shaped like a -triangular space capsule with rounded corners. Flames shoot from the -back as it performs elaborate rolls and maneuvers. Then it takes off. -(Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer -2004): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5081

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Event 7514 -(51F4FE02)

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Date: 11/11/1974
-Description: Night. Police officers Zachary Space and Lester Nagle watch -an object hovering level with high-tension wires east of Madison, Ohio. -It comes down above the wires for 15–20 seconds, rises up slowly out of -sight, then appears again. Along with a deputy sheriff, they watch the -object for 20 minutes. It leaves like a flash. (Fort Worth (Tex.) Cross -Country News, January 8, 1975; Marler 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5082

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Event 7515 -(970CE219)

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Date: mid 11/1974
-Description: 5;30 p.m. Giovanna Sensoli is attending to her animals by -her farmhouse near Castelleale, Romagna, Italy, when she notices her -chickens and rabbits seem terrified. She notices a man seated on a box -that is suspended in the air above her house, rocking to and fro, and -only about 12 feet from her. He seems to be about 6 feet 6 inches tall -and dressed in a shiny, one-piece garment with green, red, and white -markings, and a pair of ski boots with square toes and heels. A helmet -covers his face, but he seems to be looking for something. The box has a -control rod with colored stripes. The man moves a bit further away to -the east on his box. Sensoli sees a bright light to the north and she is -overcome by heat. The house is lit up for a few seconds. Sensoli follows -the man, trying to understand his gesticulations, but he departs to the -east, followed by the light. The incident has lasted 15 minutes. -(Gianfranco Lollino, “The -‘Flying Man’ at Castelleale (Italy),” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 4 -(June 1987): 25–27; 1Pinotti 193–197)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5083

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Event 7516 -(526AB25E)

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Date: 11/17/1974
-Description: 9:00 a.m. A businessman is taking a walk along the shore of -Nørresø in Viborg, Denmark, when he notices an object above the eastern -bank of the lake. He snaps a photo of it as it hovers in the air about -1,600– 3,300 feet away. He looks around to see if there are other -witnesses, but when he looks back the object is gone. The photo shows a -circular object with an estimated diameter of about 65 feet with some -cloudy filaments hanging from its base. Investigators suspect it may be -a rare instance of a small cumulus cloud that has developed from a black -smoke ring. (Wim van Utrecht, “Jellyfish -UFO Photographed over -Denmark,” Caelestia, May 17, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5084

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Event 7517 -(5A0F5649)

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Date: 11/22/1974
-Description: 7:30 p.m. At two-minute intervals, three bright red lights -are seen climbing very quickly from the horizon at Madeira, Canary -Islands, after which they create brilliant concentric circles. A -reporter in Funchal takes a few photos. The lights are probably Poseidon -missiles launched by the submarine USS -Mariano G. Vallejo several hundred kilometers to the west. -(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile -Tests and the Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5085

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Event 7518 -(9B0DD888)

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Date: 11/28/1974
-Description: 11:43 a.m. Hugo W. Feugen is flying his own Aeronca -Champion aircraft on a bright day over Shabbona, Illinois, and he is -checking his position on the aeronautical map to determine if he was -still on course. When he looks up, he notices that the magnetic compass -is rotating counterclockwise at a rate of four revolutions per minute. -He looks to his right side and sees nothing but the town below him. When -he turns to his left, he sees a disc or ellipse flying parallel to his -aircraft at the same speed (75–80 mph) and altitude, pacing him at 120° -at an estimated one-quarter of a mile distance. He estimates its size as -120 feet long and 30 feet thick. After pacing him for 8–10 seconds, the -object tips slightly and he sees that it is not an ellipse but round in -shape. As it tips up at an angle, it accelerates to a fantastic speed -toward the east and is out of sight in less than one second. (NICAP, “Pilot Says -Compass Affected”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5086

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Event 7519 -(0F65F6B0)

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Date: 12/1974
-Description: Astronomy magazine editor Terence -Dickinson writes an open-minded article about Marjorie -E. Fish’s analysis of Betty -Hill’s star map and solicits comments from scientists about it. -Virtually every issue of the magazine in 1975 carries letters debating -the pros and cons of the map, including one by Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan. (Terence -Dickinson, “The Zeta Reticuli Incident,” Astronomy 2, no. 12 (December -1974): 5–18; David J. Eicher, “The -Zeta Reticuli (or Ridiculi) Incident,” January 31, 2001; Clark -587)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5088

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Event 7520 -(1599DBA6)

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Date: 12/1974
-Description: Date given by Professor Carr on 10/11/74 predicting the -government will launch a carefully-engineered acclimation effort to -prepare American public for an announcement of the existence of -extraterrestrial life.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: Tampa, Florida

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Event 7521 -(239639A2)

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Date: 12/1974
-Description: 7:30 a.m. A witness sees a vertical object floating above -Wemeth Low, a hill near Higher Chisworth, Derbyshire, England. It has a -flattened upper end and a tapered base. It changes shape from round to -oval and cigar and back to oval before it disappears and discharges -several small spheres from its blunt end “like soap bubbles.” (Herbert -S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring -2004): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5089

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Event 7522 -(20A9CFB8)

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Date: 12/2/1974
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Dairy farmer William -L. Bosak is driving back to his house southeast of Frederic, -Wisconsin, on County Road W when he sees an object reflected in his -headlights on the westbound side of the road in front of him. It is a -disc-shaped UFO, the bottom half obscured by the fog. But what holds his -attention is something inside the object’s “curved front of glass.” -Inside stands a figure with its arms raised above its head. He thinks -the figure is as scared as he is because its eyes are protruding. It is -generally human in shape, but its body is covered in dark tan fur except -on the face and chin. Its head hair seems to be swept back, and the -calf-like ears stretch out about 3 inches. The mouth and nose seem flat. -Bosak speeds past the object and his car lights suddenly go dim. He -hears a whooshing sound and the UFO is lost to view. (“Occupant -Case in Wisconsin,” APRO Bulletin 23, no. 4 (Jan./Feb. 1975): 1, 4; -Jerome Clark, “The -Frightened Creature on County Road W,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. -1 (June 1975): 20–21; Clark III 557–558; Patrick Gross, URECAT, -October 20, 2006)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5090

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Event 7523 -(4665EB6A)

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Date: 12/9/1974
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A married couple in Bad Traunstein, Austria, -watch for more than 30 minutes a triangular object that hovers above a -nearby pylon and sends out beams of green, blue, and red light. (Ernst -Berger, “The ‘Snails’ -Are Still Around,” Flying Saucer Review 21, no. 5 (February 1976): -29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5091

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Event 7524 -(F40018FB)

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Date: 12/11/1974
-Description: 1:22 a.m. Teacher Călin Turcu hears his dog barking -insistently in the backyard of his home in Vălenii de Munte, Romania. -Beyond a river about a half-mile away he sees a pulsating, dazzling -white light like that coming from a welding machine that illuminates the -trees for miles around. In the next 3–4 minutes he takes 7–10 photos. -The light persists for 12 minutes until it ascends and fades slowly out. -(MUFON UFO Journal, no. 114 (May 1977); Augustin Moraru, “Phénomène -Lumineux Photographie au-dessus de Valenii de Munte,” UFO- Quebec, -no. 13 (March 1978): 18–19; Romania 38)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5092

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Event 7525 -(45DE93ED)

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Date: 12/17/1974
-Description: 2:30 a.m. John Wagner is in his farmhouse near MacNutt, -Saskatchewan, when he notices a large, bright glow to the west that -lasts for 25 minutes. The next morning, he finds a circular ring in the -snow about 20 feet in diameter. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 190–191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5093

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Event 7526 -(D3BDAEB9)

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Date: 12/18/1974
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Executive Engineer Mohammad Riaz and others see a -circular light appear above the V-shaped mountain overlooking the -approach to Pattan, Pakistan, for about 25 minutes. It is also seen in -Chitral, Pakistan. An earthquake (Hunza Earthquake) centers on the area -on December 28, so this could be a type of earthquake light. (Col. -William S. Gilliland, “Balls -of Fire Memo,” US Department of Defense Intelligence Information -Report, December 18, 1974)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5094

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Event 7527 -(A8909081)

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Date: winter 1974
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Harry Charlton and his wife have just driven -east through Melrose, New Mexico, when they see two objects moving on -their left at about 1,500 feet altitude. They have no wings, tail -sections, or engine nodules. Both are dull gray, like galvanized sheet -iron. The larger one is in front, with a slightly smaller one about 600 -feet behind. Charlton thinks they are about a half-mile away, but he can -hear no noise or see any smoke. When the objects are about abreast of -the car, a sliding door opens on the larger one near the front end. A -large, shiny sphere (like polished aluminum) about 15–20 feet in -diameter emerges, moves toward the smaller object, and enters it after a -door opens near the rear end. After they move out of sight in a few -minutes, Charlton sees two F-111s take off in their direction from -Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis. (Harry Charlton, [Letter], -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 5 (May 1981): 3.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 4988

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Event 7528 -(8F565362)

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Date: 12/22/1974
-Description: Investigative journalist Seymour -Hersh reveals some of the contents of the CIA “Family Jewels” in a -front-page New York Times article. Covert action programs involving -assassination attempts on foreign leaders and covert attempts to subvert -foreign governments are reported for the first time. In addition, the -article discusses efforts by intelligence agencies to collect -information on the political activities of US citizens. (Wikipedia, “Family -Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5095

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Event 7529 -(9F2B2634)

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Date: 12/31/1974
-Description: Night. Dave Percy and two other security guards at the -Pickering, Ontario, Nuclear Generating Station are preparing to greet -the new year when they see a cluster of bright red spheres over Lake -Ontario to the south. One of them moves closer and hovers over the -Number 3 and 4 reactor buildings. It is about 30 feet across. The object -hovers for 6–7 minutes, then after a bright flash it takes off. (Yurko -Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, -p. 120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5098

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Event 7530 -(B2B6F86B)

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Date: 12/31/1974
-Description: The CIA Family Jewels reports describe numerous activities -conducted by the CIA during the 1950s to 1970s that violate its charter. -According to a briefing provided by CIA Director William -Colby to the Justice Department, these include 18 issues that are of -legal concern. The documents are released on the CIA website on June 25, -2007. (Wikipedia, “Family -Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5096

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Event 7531 -(0C016ED1)

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Date: 12/31/1974
-Description: The Privacy Act, signed into law by President Gerald -R. Ford, establishes a Code of Fair Information Practice that -governs the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of -personally identifiable information about individuals maintained in -systems of records by federal agencies. The act also provides -individuals with a means by which to seek access to and amend their -records, and it sets forth various agency record-keeping requirements. -Each agency must file an annual report on its FOIA requests to Congress. -Citizens can also petition courts to render decisions on whether or not -to release documents from agencies. FOIA soon disproves the longstanding -denial of interest in UFOs by the CIA, FBI, and military agencies. -(Wikipedia, “Privacy -Act of 1974”; -ClearIntent, p. 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5097

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- Event 7532 (BA231830)

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Date: 1975
-Description: MUFON moves its headquarters from Quincy, Illinois, to -Seguin, Texas.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5099

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Event 7533 -(C3FFAF69)

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Date: 1975
-Description: John -A. Keel publishes The Mothman Prophecies, an investigation into -sightings of a winged creature called Mothman in the area around Point -Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966–1967. It combines these accounts with -his theories about UFOs and various paranormal phenomena, ultimately -connecting them to the collapse of the Silver Bridge across the Ohio -River on December 15, 1967. (Official investigations in 1971 determine -it was caused by stress corrosion cracking in an eye bar in a suspension -chain.) Other entities that Keel chronicles are not-quite- human -individuals (men in black) who intimidate witnesses and seem linked with -UFOs. Sometimes, he writes, they threaten witnesses who have not told -anyone else about their sightings. Usually they wear dark suits, -sometimes with turtle-neck sweaters, and have dark complexions and -Oriental features. Others are pale and bug- eyed. Their behavior is -frequently odd, as if they are operating in an environment alien to -them. In many cases they drive black Cadillacs or other limousine-like -vehicles. (John A. Keel, The -Mothman Prophecies, Saturday Review, 1975; Wikipedia, “The -Mothman Prophecies”; Clark III 640, 729–730)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5100

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Event 7534 -(35A0E86A)

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Date: 1975
-Description: Night. Sgt. Eric Slater is flight security controller at -the Francis E. Warren AFB Tango-1 missile launch facility southeast of -Wheatland, Wyoming. He sees a bright white light coming over the -mountains from the Romeo-1 launch facility northwest of Meriden, hugging -the contour of the landscape. It stops about 3 miles away and hovers for -1–2 hours. At one point a light beam shoots down from the UFO into the -valley below. Then it comes straight for Tango-1. Slater sees it has a -dome on top and small, alternating red-and-blue lights on each side. It -only leaves when two F-4 Phantoms from Denver enter base airspace to -pursue it. (Nukes 336–337)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5110

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Event 7535 -(7E605C65)

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Date: 1975
-Description: Jacques -Vallée publishes The Invisible College, in which he speculates that -the UFO phenomenon is a “control system” in which UFOs have been -conditioning the human species throughout history using a -thermostat-like precision. He believes that it is producing a silent -change in human consciousness. (Jacques Vallée, The Invisible College, -Dutton, 1975; Story, p. 90; -Clark III 1214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5102

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Event 7536 -(581F26DC)

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Date: 1975
-Description: Wido Hoville founds the UFO-Quebec organization in -Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, and begins publishing the journal -UFO-Quebec, edited by Norbert Spehner. It continues until December 1981. -(UFO-Quebec, -no. 1 (Jan./April 1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5103

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Event 7537 -(487681C5)

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Date: 1975
-Description: Pierre Monnet founds the Groupement de Recherche et d’Étude -du Phénomène OVNI in Sorgues, Vaucluse, France. It publishes Vaucluse -Ufologie from 1977 to 1981. (Vaucluse -Ufologie: Bulletin d’Information du GREPO, no. -1 (Jan./Feb. 1977))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5104

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Event 7538 -(B7F2C45D)

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Date: 1975
-Description: Gilbert Peyret founds Groupement Langeadois de Recherches -Ufologiques in Le Puy, France. It publishes OVNI 43 from 1978 to 1980. -(OVNI -43, no. -1 (January 1978))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5105

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Event 7539 -(E9EF90D3)

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Date: 1975
-Description: Ex-CIA Pilot John Lear stated “The main Air Force sightings -were in 1975. And the UFOs descended on every Strategic Air Command base -guarding the perimeter of the northern United States. They hovered over -the nuclear weapons storage area and they stayed there with impunity for -up to two and three hours over a period of three days.”
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Loring AFB

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Event 7540 -(D3D91E8F)

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Date: 1975
-Description: ATF agent Donald E. Flickinger, acting on information -supplied to him by a writer who has been investigating animal -mutilations, launches an investigation into a supposed Satanist network -said to be behind the cattle mutilations. He determines the story is a -scheme hatched by a federal prisoner to get leverage to be transferred -to a county jail. (Daniel Kagan and Ian Summers, Mute Evidence, Bantam, -1984, p. 40; Clark III 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5109

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Event 7541 -(30BD8CCA)

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Date: 1975
-Description: Martial Robé founds Groupe Privé Ufologique Nancéien in -Nancy, France. It publishes Réalité ou Fiction from 1975 to 1987. (Réalité -ou Fiction, no. -0 (1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5106

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Event 7542 -(90B82028)

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Date: 1975
-Description: The Centro Investigador de Objetos Volantes Extraterrestres -begins publishing Vimana, edited by Julio Arcas Gilardi, in Santander, -Cantabria, Spain. It continues through 1980. (Vimana, -no. 1 (1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5107

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Event 7543 -(2EF8DC3C)

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Date: 1975
-Description: The German-speaking MUFON Central European Section begins -publishing a monographic series of reports on specific ufological -topics. Edited by Illobrand -von Ludwiger in Feldkirchen-Westerham, Bavaria, Germany, the first -is titled Die Erforschung unbekannter Flugobjekte. The 12th title is -published in 2009. Von Ludwiger publishes two further monographs under -the imprint of the Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft zur Analyse anomaler -Phänomene in 2017 and 2019. (“Die -Erforschung unbekannter Flugobjekte,” Bericht, Mutual UFO Network– -Central European Section, no. 1 (1975); “Rätselhafte -Lichter und Objekte am Himmel,” IGAAP-Bericht, no. 1 (2017))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5108

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Event 7544 -(8E140D47)

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Date: 1975
-Description: Jerome -Clark and Loren -Coleman publish The Unidentified, one of the first books to reject -the notion of alien involvement in UFO experiences and maintain that UFO -visions and other paranormal experiences are the psyche’s attempt to -escape the stranglehold that rationalism has on human consciousness. -Clark later comes to believe his own conclusions are unverifiable, -ill-conceived, grandiose, and dismissive of physical evidence. (Jerome -Clark and Loren Coleman, The Unidentified: Notes toward Solving the UFO -Mystery, Warner, 1975; Clark III 942)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5101

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Event 7545 -(651CA430)

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Date: 1/1975 (approximate)
-Description: Kevin -D. Randle and Robert C. Cornett prepare a catalog of “Unknown” cases -from the Project Blue Book files before they are withdrawn from public -access in April. About 40 of these cases are not in the Don -Berliner version. (Sparks, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5111

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Event 7546 -(4ACFC7E7)

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Date: 1/1/1975
-Description: 6:25 a.m. Four Spanish Army soldiers (Manolo Aguera, Felipe -Sánchez, Ricardo Iglesias, and José Laso) are driving near -Quintanaortuño, Burgos, Spain, when Aguera sees a light fall from the -sky at great speed. He stops the car and all four get out and watch a -bright yellow object just above the ground some 1,300 feet away where -the light has fallen. It has the form of a truncated cone and emits -white jets of light toward the ground. The light goes out suddenly and -four others appear in a straight line, lighting up in succession. -Driving on toward Burgos, the soldiers stop two more times to watch the -lights. Investigator Malo Martínez later finds two parallel scorched -areas where there are numerous randomly spaced holes where the grass has -been burned all the way to the ground. (“Aqui -Vimos el OVNI,” Stendek, no. 18 (December 1974): cover; Pere Redon, -“Burgos: -Primer Caso de 1975,” Stendek, no. 19 (March 1975): 3–9; -Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A -Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain -and Portugal, CUFOS, -1976, p. 53; Pere Redon, “The -Landing near Burgos,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 (August 1977): -22–24, 27; Swords 433)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5112

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Event 7547 -(FFFE21DF)

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Date: 1/1/1975
-Description: Just before sunrise. Actor Warren -Oates is with four friends (Lee -Clayton, Trina -Mitchum, Judy A. Jones, and Ted -Markland) in the desert about 20 miles northeast of Palm Springs, -California, when they see an object moving in a semicircle through the -night sky. They describe it as an oval, metallic object flashing yellow, -green, and white lights, with one large orange light in the center. -Clayton, watching it through binoculars, sees a bell shape on the top, -and estimates it is about 3–5 miles away at an altitude of 2,000 feet. -It stops and hovers momentarily before moving off behind the mountains. -(Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5113

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Event 7548 -(9B691B82)

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Date: 1/2/1975
-Description: 2:45 p.m. Michael Lindstrom and his wife are relaxing on -the beach near the Kauai Sands Hotel on the east side of the island of -Maui, Hawaii. His wife notices a strange object moving southward over -the beach toward her, and she runs to tell her husband, who is walking -nearby. It is soundless, has a square shape, its center is white or -silver, and it has a black stripe along its perimeter. A row of lights -is visible along the lower edge. He estimates that it is flying at 5,000 -feet altitude traveling diagonally to the direction of the wind, and is -about one mile away. Before it disappears to the southwest after two -minutes, Lindstrom takes three photographs (slides), which show a -spherical object bisected by a black square and topped by five bright -dots. (Bruce Maccabee, “A Rare Photo Coincidence,” IUR 15, no. 3 -(May/June 1990): 4–9, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5114

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Event 7549 -(8944CF95)

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Date: 1/2/1975
-Description: 11:00 p.m. An officer and several soldiers on a military -patrol at the Las Bardenas Reales firing range near Arguedas, Navarre, -Spain, see a group of intense lights moving slowly then remaining -stationary on the ground for 25 minutes. Through binoculars, they see an -object shaped like “half an orange” that rises and slowly disappears on -the horizon. Some 30 observers view the lights for 3–4 minutes. -(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue -of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS, 1976, p. 53; -Gordon Creighton, “UFO Lands -on Spanish Air Force Target Range,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 -(March 1979): 17–18; UFOEv II 87; Swords 433–434, 526; Good Above, pp. 151–152, 459)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5115

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Event 7550 -(D0DA3341)

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Date: 1/2/1975
-Description: Dome-shaped object observed on ground by guard at Air Force -base. Body lights visible, ground illuminated as object took off
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Navarra, Spain
-ID: 247

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Event 7551 -(36B6ABF1)

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Date: 1/2/1975
-Description: Photo of Saturn-shaped object with squarish ring, similar -to July 7, 1989, case
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kauai, HI
-ID: 248

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Event 7552 -(36B54F7F)

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Date: 1/3/1975
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 249

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Event 7553 -(25906FE5)

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Date: 1/4/1975
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Carlos Alberto Diaz is walking home from a bus -stop along Daniel de Solier street, Ingeniero White, near Bahía Blanca, -Argentina, when he is blinded and paralyzed by a beam of light. He -revives inside a UFO where three greenish, 6-foot-tall creatures, are -plucking hair from his head and body. Diaz faints and wakes up in the -afternoon in Buenos Aires some 400 miles away, where someone takes him -to the Hospital Ferroviario. However, an extensive investigation by -ufologist Roberto Enrique Banchs uncovers numerous discrepancies that -strongly indicate a hoax. (Roberto Enrique Banchs and Richard W. Heiden, -“Carlos -Alberto Diaz Is a Hoaxer,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 2 (August 1977): 8; -Lon Strickler, “The -Carlos Alberto Diaz Abduction,” Phantoms and Monsters, March 2, -2012; Clark III 602)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5116

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Event 7554 -(90159207)

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Date: 1/8/1975
-Description: Confidential Spanish Report, Spanish Air Force: UFO spotted -by military personnel at Las Bardenas Reales, near Zaragoza Air -Base
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p459)
-Location: Las Bardenas Reales, Spain

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Event 7555 -(3C5A2CB6)

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Date: 1/12/1975
-Description: 2:45 a.m. George O’Barski is driving home through North -Hudson Park, New Jersey, when he hears static on his CB radio. Through -the window he sees a dark, round object with brightly lit windows -hovering over the ground about 100 feet away. Ten small (3.5-feet tall), -helmeted figures dressed in coveralls emerge from the UFO, dig up soil, -and collect it in bags for about 3 minutes before returning to the -craft, which takes off with a humming sound. O’Barski returns to the -site the next day and finds holes that had been left. Hudson County -Police Officers Thomas Feldhan and John Mackanics investigate and file -reports. Months later, O’Barski relays the story to an acquaintance, Budd -Hopkins, who -is interested in UFOs. Hopkins and two others associated with the Center -for UFO Studies find independent witnesses, including a doorman at the -high-rise Stonehenge apartment building, Bill Pawlowski, who sees a UFO -with multiple lights in the park the same time. Hopkins, Ted Bloecher (then -the director of New York MUFON), and Jerry Stoehrer, also of MUFON, -investigate the incident and take soil samples. (Wikipedia, “Stonehenge -(building)”; Ted Bloecher, “The Stonehenge Incidents, January 1975,” -Proceedings -of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center -for UFO Studies, 1976, pp. 25–38; Ted Bloecher, “The -‘Stonehenge’ Incidents of January 1975,” Flying Saucer Review 22, -no. 3 (October 1976): 3–7; Ted Bloecher, “The -‘Stonehenge’ Incidents of January 1975, Part 2,” Flying Saucer -Review 22, no. 4 (November 1976): 5–11; Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 64; Budd -Hopkins, Missing Time, R. Marek, 1981, pp. 34–50; Clark III -1109–1112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5117

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Event 7556 -(6F330A94)

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Date: 1/20/1975
-End date: 1/22/1975
-Description: At the 13th Aerospace Sciences Meeting of the American -Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Pasadena, California, -physicist Peter -A. Sturrock organizes a UFO symposium that features talks by -astronomer J. Allen -Hynek, ufologist -Jacques -Vallée, psychologist David -R. Saunders, Hynek associate Fred -Beckman, and ufologist Ted Phillips. (Clark -III 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5118

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Event 7557 -(61772490)

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Date: 1/27/1975
-Description: A US Senate committee to investigate abuses by the CIA, -NSA, FBI, and IRS is created by a vote of 82–4. Chaired by Sen. Frank -Church (D-Idaho), the committee is part of a series of -investigations into intelligence abuses in 1975, dubbed the “Year of -Intelligence,” including its House counterpart, the Pike Committee, and -the presidential Rockefeller Commission. It conducts 800 interviews and -250 executive and 21 public hearings. The committee’s efforts lead to -the establishment of the permanent US Senate Select Committee on -Intelligence in 1976. (Wikipedia, “Church -Committee”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5119

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Event 7558 -(784F433E)

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Date: 1/28/1975
-Description: Afternoon. Eccentric and contactee Billy -Meier sees a disc-shaped spacecraft in Switzerland and takes several -photographs of it. The ship lands in a nearby meadow, and a beautiful, -pale-skinned, amber-haired spacewoman steps out and approaches him and -talks to him for an hour and a half. Her name is Semjase from the planet -Erra in the constellation Lyra (although they have since emigrated to -the Pleiades), and she is the granddaughter of a being named Sfath, who -had contacted Meier in 1944. Many other contacts continue, and Meier -produces more photos so that he becomes a regional occult celebrity. -(Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Contact from the Pleiades, The Author, 1982; -Gary Kinder, Light -Years: An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial Experiences -of Billy Meier, Atlantic -Monthly, 1987; George M. Eberhart, “Photographs and Red Faces,” IUR 12, -no. 4 (July/Aug. 1987): 19; Bruce Maccabee, “Pendulum from the -Pleiades,” IUR 14, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1989): 11– 12, 22; Derek -Bartholomaus, Billy -Meier UFO Case website)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5120

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Event 7559 -(9BF347B2)

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Date: 1/31/1975
-Description: Night. Mike McKenna, security guard at the Pickering, -Ontario, Nuclear Generating Station, sees 6 balls of light from his -position at the east gate. They vary in color from bright red to almost -white and remain in the area for nearly 2 hours. Two move in from Lake -Ontario and hover above the plant’s service center. After remaining -motionless for 30 minutes, they take off straight up at a rocket-like -speed. (Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, -Methuen, 1979, pp. 120–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5121

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Event 7560 -(A55CA249)

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Date: 1/31/1975
-Description: 10:20 p.m. Alan Lott is walking his dog in Caversham, -Berkshire, England, when he sees a group of bright lights to the east. -He calls his wife, Clarice, and they both view the lights through -binoculars. They are moving slowly and silently in a straight line from -east to west and are now directly above the Lotts’ house. The three -brightest lights are orange-yellow and arranged in an equilateral -triangle formation. There are two smaller lights, one red and another -white. After 5 minutes, the formation vanishes behind houses and trees. -(UFOFiles2, pp. 88– 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5122

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Event 7561 -(BD9B7669)

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Date: 2/1975
-Description: Domestic birds, ducks, goats, rabbits, geese, cattle, pigs, -and sheep are found dead throughout Puerto Rico with what one -veterinarian characterizes as “strange wounds.” The deaths typically -occur in the early morning hours and are caused by a sharp instrument -that can punch through flesh and bone, usually in the neck region. -Around this time and through July, some Puerto Ricans see large, -unidentified birds, as well as UFOs. (Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, “UFOs -and Mysterious Deaths of Animals, Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review 22, -no. 5 (February 1977): 15–18; Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, “UFOs -and Mysterious Deaths of Animals, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 22, -no. 6 (April 1977): 6–10; Clark III 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5123

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Event 7562 -(A838DFC1)

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Date: 2/1975
-Description: New York City psychic Ingo -Swann receives a phone call from a friend in a government agency who -tells him that he will be contacted by a “Mr. Axelrod.” One morning in -March at 3:00 a.m., Axelrod calls Swann and asks him to be in -Washington, D.C., at 12:00 noon. This leads to an unlikely adventure -involving Swann’s remote viewing of a secret extraterrestrial base on -the hidden side of the Moon and his “shocking” experience with a sexy, -scantily dressed female alien in a Los Angeles, California, supermarket. -He concludes that extraterrestrials are living on Earth in humanoid -bodies. Swann deduces that there are many extraterrestrials, that many -are “bio- androids,” and that they are aware their only foes on Earth -are psychics. Later, Swann and Mr. Axelrod take a flight to an unknown -northerly destination, deduced by Swann as possibly Alaska. Along with -two twin bodyguards, Swann and Axelrod attempt to secretly watch a -recurrent UFO appear and suck up the water of a lake. Axelrod discloses -that the silent, growing, oscillating triangle is simultaneously -scanning the area and eliminating any animals, and that the silent beams -emanating from the object are “blasting deer or porcupines from the -woods or something.” The bodyguards realize they are discovered and the -group is attacked by the UFO. Swann is thrown to safety by his -colleagues and sustains a minor injury. (Wikipedia, “Ingo -Swann”; Ingo Swann, Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial -and Human Telepathy, Ingo Swann Books, 1998, pp. 23–61, -85– 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5124

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Event 7563 -(6A8CA4B9)

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Date: early 2/1975
-Description: Night. A farmer is walking to his barn north of Lundar, -Manitoba, when a red ball of light, 14–16 inches in diameter, swoops low -over his head. As he gazes up at it, he feels as if hot plastic is being -poured on his head. He suffocates and cannot think clearly while it is -above him. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, -2022, p. 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5125

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Event 7564 -(70501C43)

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Date: 2/4/1975
-Description: Night. Three Pickering, Ontario, ambulance drivers, a -Durham regional police constable, and Andy Parks, music director of -radio station CHOO in Agincourt, watch pulsing, multicolored objects -maneuvering above the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Parks says -they are “floating around, zipping this way and that.” (Yurko -Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, -pp. 121–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5126

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Event 7565 -(71912F6D)

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Date: 2/10/1975
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Two 15-year-old boys in Annadale, Staten Island, -New York, see a glowing ball, 20 feet in diameter, hovering about 400 -feet away above some trees near a frozen pond. The brilliant orange mass -compresses itself from football-shaped to basketball-shaped over a -period of 10 minutes then suddenly disappears. Another witness who is -walking a German shepherd dog around the same time reports that the dog -reacted very nervously to something in the woods. The boys return early -the next morning and find that some trees, ranging 5– 20 feet in height, -have been sheared off and some are coated with a carbon-like substance. -NICAP investigators have dirt and wood samples analyzed at a scientific -laboratory and find that the trees are only superficially burned on -their bark but that the fire is oil-based. They suspect the glowing -object is a low-temperature fuel fire. (“Converging -Ball of Light Mystifies Witnesses,” UFO Investigator, April 1975, -p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5127

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Event 7566 -(CE02A524)

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Date: 2/14/1975
-Description: 12:05 p.m. Antoine Séverin, 21, is on the slope of Piton du -Calvaire, a hill outside Petite Île on the southern coast of Réunion in -the Indian Ocean, when he hears a deafening beeping sound, feels a blast -of heat, and sees a bright metallic object hovering about 5 feet above -the ground. A ladder with three steps appears on the underside, and a -small being like the “Michelin man” emerges. He is holding a shining -object. Two other beings emerge, all with antennae on their heads. A -fourth is visible through a porthole. Then Séverin is hurled onto his -back by a powerful flash of light. The beings run up the ladder and -withdraw it, then the UFO takes off, emitting a loud whistle. For -several days he has blurred vision, impaired speech, and a medical -diagnosis of shock. The Gendarmerie investigate the case and judge him -to be mentally sound. (Lt.-Col. Lobet, “Atterrissage -à Petit Île (Réunion) -le 14 Février 1975,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 147 -(Aug./Sept. 1975): 4–10; Lt.-Col. Lobet, “Another Close -Contact on Réunion, Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 2 (July -1979): 6–10; Lt.-Col. Lobet, “Another Close -Contact on Réunion, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 2 -(September 1979): 7–10; Patrick Gross, “Petit-Île, -La Réunion, February 14, 1975”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5128

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Event 7567 -(483295ED)

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Date: 2/14/1975
-Description: Three humanoid beings in protective gear emerged from domed -disc, witness injured, paralyzed, by flash of light
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Petite-Ile, Reunion, France
-ID: 250

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Event 7568 -(17769CCE)

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Date: 2/17/1975
-Description: Sheriff, county and state officials observed bright, round -object hovering near missile base. Object made rapid darting movements, -bobbed up and down
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Harlowton, MT
-ID: 251

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Event 7569 -(D68ACD58)

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Date: 2/17/1975
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Wheatland County Sheriff Richard Egebakken sees a -bright, round object hovering about 500 feet near the Malmstrom AFB K-01 -Minuteman missile alert facility 1.7 miles east-northeast of Harlowton, -Montana. When Deputy Larry Clifford drives to a point about one mile -from the site, the object suddenly shoots up to 2,000 feet, stops, and -hovers again. State Game Warden Gene -Tierney says it is not an aircraft. Commissioner Edgar -Langston, also a pilot, sees the object through binoculars from his -ranch 15 miles south of Harlowton and sees an antenna-like protrusion on -the top. Deputy Herb Lynn stops his pickup truck a few miles out of town -to watch and sees it flitting around the sky in all sorts of crazy -directions. Deputy Russ Mill, within a mile of K-01, describes a blue -object bobbing up and down. Radar at Malmstrom AFB does not track -anything. (UFOEv II 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5129

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Event 7570 -(D4ACF4C7)

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Date: 2/23/1975
-Description: Night. Glenn E. Bradley sees two large cylindrical objects -like grain silos floating above Matachewan, Ontario. Both are shining -white floodlights downward to the ground and have bright lights at the -top. They are traveling to the west at about 30 mph. Bradley begins -following them in his pickup truck. Outside the lights of the town he -notices that the two silos are accompanied by smaller UFOs about 50 feet -in diameter, all darting about at high speed. They appear to be entering -and exit the larger silos. (“Silos -over Ontario,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 (Feb./March -1985): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5130

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Event 7571 -(0FA13128)

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Date: 2/26/1975
-Description: Intensely bright domed disc, orange glow, emitted conical -light beam down on lake, illuminated terrain, sped away at “colossal -speed”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lake Sorell, Tasmania
-ID: 252

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Event 7572 -(A460A36D)

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Date: 2/26/1975
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A former RAAF crewman and a companion are on a -fishing trip to Lake Sorell, Tasmania, when they see three glowing -objects in the northeast sky, one smaller than the other two. Two of the -UFOs move closer and hover, then recede, intermittently obscured by -clouds. Each has a pulsing red light on its base. The main larger object -is an elongated disc with a row of twinkling red lights around the rim. -After a bank of clouds go through with a passing storm, the object -reappears, glows brightly, and suddenly zooms toward the witnesses at -“phenomenal speed.” It stops abruptly about 2,900 feet away at a height -of 490 feet, its lights dimming. It projects a brilliant, cone-shaped -light beam toward the lake and sweeps it toward the terrain, -illuminating the side of a mountain. Then it sweeps back across the lake -beneath the object and fades out. The lake’s surface glows a fluorescent -blue-white. The object then shoots away to the northeast. A second -object, which has been hovering to the north toward Mount Penny, speeds -off in the same direction. (“UFO -and Light in Tasmania,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 (April 1977): -30–31; Story, pp. 344–345; -UFOEv II 219–221; CUFOS -case files)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5131

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Event 7573 -(41FD9CB3)

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Date: 3/1975
-Description: Project Blue Book files transferred from Maxwell AFB, -Alabama, to Natignal Archives in Washington, DC.
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 253

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Event 7574 -(C0D15EDD)

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Date: 3/2/1975
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A couple and their daughter see a large, -yellowish, egg-shaped light moving erratically in short spurts outside -their home in the Great Swamp Management Area near West Kingston, Rhode -Island. It then stops and hovers for 5 minutes. They then see two -orange-white, ball-shaped objects drop from the large UFO and move -northward at the approximate speed of an aircraft, disappearing over the -horizon. The large object again moves erratically toward the southeast, -gradually picking up speed. (“Object -Ejects Small Spheres,” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 2 (August 1975): -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5133

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Event 7575 -(EA5C0C0D)

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Date: 3/2/1975
-Description: A police officer in Phillips, Wisconsin, hears odd noises -on his patrol car radio, then he sees a disc-shaped object with a -rounded hump on its top and bottom, along with red and orange lights on -the bottom edge. He estimates the object is 30 feet in diameter. When he -directs his spotlight on it, the object rapidly ascends. (Richard F. -Haines, CE-5: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, Sourcebooks, 1998, -p. 109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5132

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Event 7576 -(C413D673)

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Date: 3/7/1975
-Description: The US Embassy in Algiers, Algeria, sends a report to US -Secretary of State Henry -Kissinger, stating that strange “machines” have been maneuvering -over Algerian airspace since January, some near military installations -and usually around 7:00–7:30 p.m., often by multiple witnesses. An -object with a bright light has been seen near Oran, Bechar, and off the -coast on March 6 (when it is also confirmed on radar). (ClearIntent, pp. 79–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5134

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Event 7577 -(34DF352C)

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Date: 3/18/1975
-Description: 1:30 p.m. Pat McCarthy, 19, is in a quarry off Ontario -Highway 5 near Waterdown, Ontario, trying to take photos of hawks. He is -about to leave when he sees a dark object resembling a Frisbee. It is -moving swiftly, and he takes four photos of it, capturing the object 3 -times. He estimates the object is twice as long as a DC-8. He takes the -camera to the Hamilton Spectator, which processes the film in its -darkroom. (Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator, March 18–19, 27, 1975; “Canadian -Photo Case,” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 4 (October 1975): 1, 3, 6; Yurko -Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, -pp. 15–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5135

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Event 7578 -(A4774A41)

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Date: 3/22/1975
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Two young men and three girls are driving along -the Mount Flora to Dingo Beach Road about 50 miles from Nebo, -Queensland, when they see a strange light in a gravel storage area to -the left of the road. The object is a box-like mass, 8 feet high and 9 -feet wide, with a row of flashing white-to-yellow lights about 3 feet -above the ground and a circular mass above it. As they stop the car, the -object emits a tremendous bang like a shotgun. They are startled and -drive on, feeling that the circular mass is watching them, then they -return to the original location, but the girls in the back seat are -terrified. They drive 9 miles further and find a road construction crew -and tell them about the UFO. The two men convince one of the workers to -return to the spot, but the object is gone and they find unusual ground -marks. On March 25, two investigating officers from RAAF Base Townsville -examine three oval-shaped areas, one roughly circular area, and one -rectangular area, all apparently recent and produced by a heavy weight -or pressure. (Swords 405–406; Bill Chalker, “Physical Traces,” UFOs -1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 190–192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5136

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Event 7579 -(727D2904)

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Date: 3/28/1975
-Description: Sen. Barry -Goldwater (R-Ariz.) writes, in response to an inquiry from UFO -researcher Shlomo Arnon: “The subject of UFOs is one that has interested -me for some long time. About ten or twelve years ago I made an effort to -find out what was in the building at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base -where the information is stored that has been collected by the Air -Force, and I was understandably denied this request. It is still -classified above Top Secret. I have, however, heard that there is a plan -underway to release some, if not all, of this material in the near -future.” (Good Above, p. 2; -Nick Redfern, “UFOs -and Senator Barry Goldwater,” Mysterious Universe, May 1, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5137

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Event 7580 -(DCDAAE5B)

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Date: 3/28/1975
-Description: Letter from Senator Barry Goldwater stating: Ten or twelve -years ago I tried to get access to the building at Wright-Patterson -(HANGER-18) where UFO artifacts were stored and I was understandably -denied access. It is still classified above TOP SECRET. I’ve heard they -plan to release some of the information in the near future and hope not -to have to wait too much longer.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p2)
-Reference: See Barry Goldwater’s “Blue Room” letters and released FOIA -Material 1975–1984, Burbank CA, asked General Curtis LeMay to see Blue -Room
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 7581 -(5FAC4BA3)

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Date: 4/1975
-Description: Blue Book files are withdrawn from public access by Air -Force Archives at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, as the security -classification and privacy review panel begins reviewing them, -sanitizing witness names, and destroying or removing certain documents -thought embarrassing. The redactions are made on the original paper -files. (Sparks, pp. 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5138

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Event 7582 -(48472A9D)

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Date: 4/1/1975
-Description: The Federal Aviation Administration approves cooperation -with the Center for UFO Studies, authorizing air traffic controllers and -other personnel to report UFO sightings as their workload permits. -(Story, p. 417)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5139

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Event 7583 -(B0563C2E)

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Date: 4/3/1975
-End date: 4/9/1975
-Description: Concentration of sightings of Vshaped objects, -hover-acceleration, bright illumination
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lumberton, NC
-ID: 254

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Event 7584 -(57C1D1EE)

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Date: 4/3/1975
-End date: 4/9/1975
-Description: Some 57 separate UFO sightings involving triangular or -delta-shaped UFOs occur in the area around Lumberton, North Carolina. -Many cases involve an object hovering silently at low altitude, -accelerating instantly, and turning without banking. They are often seen -at treetop level and with a bright and maneuverable spotlight. Among the -witnesses are 48 police officers. (“Witnesses -Discount Theory That UFO Was Airplane,” Raleigh (N.C.) News and -Observer, April 5, 1975, p. 19; “UFO -‘Mystery’ Returns with -New N.C. Sightings,” Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, April 6, -1975, p. 1; Jennie Zeidman, The Lumberton UFO Report: UFO Activity in S. -North Carolina, April 3–9, 1975, CUFOS, 1976; “Landing -Reported in N. Carolina,” Skylook, May 1975, pp. 3–5; UFOEv II -347–348; Marler 91–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5140

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Event 7585 -(1E4CC409)

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Date: 4/14/1975
-Description: Tage -Eriksson, head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National Defence -Research Institute, finds the work a waste of time and tries to get it -transferred back to the Defense Staff. His request is denied. (Swords -368)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5141

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Event 7586 -(BD7E1762)

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Date: 4/15/1975
-Description: Disc-shaped object with dome, light beam, made right-angle -turn, approached, hovered. Began to oscillate, shot straight up out of -sight in seconds
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Jose, CA
-ID: 255

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Event 7587 -(3498841B)

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Date: 4/20/1975
-Description: Night. Stationary beams of light are seen at San José de -Jáchal, San Juan, Argentina. In a remote area, three imprints are found -forming a 12-foot equilateral triangle surrounding a large smoke blot. -Nearby plants are burned and stones are blackened. Some footprints are -noted. Seven mushrooms nearly 8 inches tall are found growing there the -following day. (Fred Merritt, “A Preliminary Classification of Some -Reports of UFOs,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5142

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Event 7588 -(D38DDE26)

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Date: 4/26/1975
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two young witnesses see a light descend briefly -behind a school in Chomedey, Laval, Quebec, for a few seconds. They find -a piece of metal and a hole in the ground. (Ted Phillips, Physical -Traces Associated with UFO -Sightings, CUFOS, 1975, p. 106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5143

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Event 7589 -(9574D087)

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Date: 5/3/1975
-Description: Saturn-shaped UFO, E-M effects on truck, two humanoids -visible through transparent dome
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: occupant encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Antonio, TX
-ID: 257

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Event 7590 -(4050FB1B)

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Date: 5/3/1975
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Alois Olenick, 48, is driving west on Mogford -Road south of San Antonio, Texas, when an amber- colored object rises up -from a grove of trees. The object approaches him quickly, the light on -its front changing from amber to red. When it hovers over his pickup for -10–20 seconds, the lights go out and the engine goes dead. He can see -two occupants through a clear dome on the top of the UFO. They are bald -with long prominent ears and long noses. The bottom of the object is -“highly polished metal” that casts a reddish glow. Olenick hears no -engine noise, only a shriek of wind. The object takes off straight up -and vanishes instantly. (Gary Graber, “Two Occupants in Craft,” Skylook, -no. 99 (February 1976): 3–4; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle -Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September 2011): 17; -UFOEv II 461–462)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5146

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Event 7591 -(37BA9443)

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Date: 5/3/1975
-Description: 1:34 p.m. Carlos Antonio de los Santos Montiel is flying a -Piper PA-24 Comanche from Zihuatenejo, Guerrero, Mexico, to Mexico City -at about 15,000 feet. While passing over Laguna de Tequesquitengo in -Jojutla, Morelos, he feels a strange vibration in his airplane. Then he -sees to the right, pacing alongside, a 10-to 12-foot-diameter disc with -a dome on top. Another appears to the left of the plane, and a third -disc approaches head-on, dropping beneath the plane. Carlos feels a jolt -as if the object has impacted. He pulls the landing gear lever, but it -fails to operate. The plane feels as if it is pulled or lifted, and the -controls refuse to respond. Although badly shaken, Carlos notifies -Mexico City by radio, describing what is happening. At the same time, -air control radar is showing unexplained objects near his plane that are -capable of sharp turns, unlike normal aircraft. Finally, their blips -merge on the radar screen and speed away toward Popocatépetl volcano. -After the objects leave, Montiel is able to lower his landing gear -manually and land safely. Aviation personnel who know him testify to his -sobriety and trustworthiness. A week later, de los Santos is invited to -discuss the sighting on a TV talk show. As he drives to the interview, a -large black Cadillac limousine pulls in front of him on the freeway. An -identical car appears behind, forcing him to the side of the road. Four -tall, broad-shouldered, pale-skinned men in dark suits jump out and -approach him, still in his car. Speaking Spanish in a mechanical tone, -one warns him to keep quiet about the sighting “if you value your life -and your family’s too.” He breaks his appointment, and does so a month -later after another visit by the men in black before an interview with -J. -Allen Hynek. (NICAP, -“UFOs -‘Escort’ Mexican Aircraft -/ Radar Confirmed”; “UFOs -‘Escort’ Mexican Aircraft,” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 2 (August 1975): -1, 3–4; Jerome Clark, “Carlos -de los Santos and the Men in Black,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 4 -(January 1979): 8–9; Clark III 730; UFOEv II 133–134; Patrick Gross, “Piper -P24 Paced by Three Flying Discs, 1975”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5145

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Event 7592 -(9522CF8D)

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Date: 5/3/1975
-Description: 8:00 a.m. A professional photographer is taking pictures of -the Irma kød company south of Copenhagen, Denmark, when he sees a bright -flash off to his right. When he develops one photo, the image shows an -odd object tilted at an angle and slightly out of focus. (Kim Møller -Hansen, “Danish -UFO-Photo?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6 -(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5144

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Event 7593 -(5DE7E561)

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Date: 5/3/1975
-Description: Three domed discs paced small aircraft, one off each wing -and one behind, confirmed by radar. E-M effects on radio, aircraft -lifted
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Tequesquitengo Lake, Mexico
-ID: 256

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Event 7594 -(B1C18965)

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Date: 5/4/1975
-Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 258

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Event 7595 -(F8FFB791)

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Date: 5/4/1975
-Description: Before midnight. Paul Dedieu, his brother, and a friend are -driving near Haywood, Manitoba, when they see an odd star. Red lightning -seems to light it up and it zooms away, dripping molten metal and -crashes in the vicinty of Lake Manitoba to the north. (Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5147

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Event 7596 -(0CB2CE42)

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Date: 5/6/1975
-Description: Day. A pilot testing some new equipment in his airplane -southeast of Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, sees three silvery -UFOs with portholes flying in formation ahead and closing in on his -aircraft. The pilot descends to 1,000 feet, but they keep pace, one on -each wingtip, the third above the plane. The pilot levels off and climbs -quickly to 3,000 feet, but the objects match his maneuvers for another -60 minutes. All the control panel instruments go haywire, and the pilot -loses all sense of time. The UFOs are confirmed by base radar. -(Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 145–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5148

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Event 7597 -(4FBE19D6)

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Date: 5/12/1975
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Lyle Carson is in his farmhouse 2.5 miles east -of Peesane, Saskatchewan, when he and his wife observe a green light for -10–15 minutes. On May 14, Carson is checking some fences and he comes -across a perfectly round circle of burned grass, 5 feet in diameter and -6 inches thick on the outside edge. The RCMP take photos and samples. -(Ted Phillips, Physical -Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, CUFOS, -1975, p. 107; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August -Night, 2022, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5149

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Event 7598 -(4C13DA90)

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Date: 5/13/1975
-End date: 5/14/1975
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Multiple witnesses see a bright light a few -miles north of Carman, Manitoba, where it has been appearing so -frequently since April 10 that it has been nicknamed “Charlie Redstar.” -CKY-TV station employees Bill Kendricks and Allen Kerr see a light on -the western horizon that rises up, moves slowly south, flashes -brilliantly, then shoots straight up. Newspaper editor Howard Bennett -and others see a smoky red light above some tall trees. Bennett leads -investigators to a potential landing site. Using a radiation survey -meter, they find a few radioactive hot spots about 255 feet apart, each -with a radius of 25 feet. (Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The -Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 124–126; Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 161, 171–181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5150

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Event 7599 -(1C054221)

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Date: 5/16/1975
-Description: Three men wander away from a party on the shore of -Stephenfield Lake, Manitoba, when they see a “moon- shaped” object -hovering over a dam on the far shore. As they watch, a beam of light -shoots from the object to the surface of the lake. A glowing object -appears underneath the surface and begins moving toward the witnesses. -When it is about 20 feet away, one of them throws a rock at it. It -appears to break into pieces and return to its original location, and -the beam goes out. (Chris Rutkowski, Visitations? Manitoba UFO -Experiences, Winter Press, 1989, p. 18; Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light -into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5151

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Event 7600 -(5BC042BB)

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Date: 5/26/1975
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Didier Burr, 17, photographs a dark, disc-shaped -object outside his second-story window in Nancy, France. The sighting -only lasts 10–15 seconds. The photo shows a slightly blurry disc above a -nearby building. (Patrick Gross, “Nancy, -France, May 26, 1975”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5152

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Event 7601 -(1D31180A)

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Date: 5/30/1975
-Description: Russell Worobetz is cultivating some stubble near Hazel -Dell, Saskatchewan, when he finds two burned areas in the center of his -field. They are 5 feet in diameter and 4 feet apart. (Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5153

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Event 7602 -(B3E873B6)

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Date: 6/1975
-Description: Historian David -M. Jacobs publishes The UFO Controversy in America, based on his -Ph.D. dissertation in history. It becomes a classic history of UFOs and -the investigations of the Air Force and other government agencies. -(David M. Jacobs, The -UFO Controversy in America, Indiana University, 1975; Clark III -629)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5155

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Event 7603 -(80870407)

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Date: 6/20/1975
-Description: 11:10 p.m. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable -patrolling on Grand Valley Road northwest of Brandon, Manitoba, notices -a bright white light to the northwest, apparently in the area of -Kirkham’s Bridge. Another RCMP in the bridge area sees the light 10 -minutes later, apparently 220–300 feet above the ground. One officer -attempts to close with the light unsuccessfully until he is 3 miles -southeast of Hamiota. It flashes red and disappears at 12:15 a.m. -(Patrick Gross, “Files -Obtained from the National Archives of Canada”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5156

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Event 7604 -(C66231B9)

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Date: summer 1975
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. An orange object appears several -times above two fishing trawlers one mile off the coast of Topsail -Beach, North Carolina. (Cordy Hieronymus, “Out -of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March 1984): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5154

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Event 7605 -(1B660847)

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Date: 6/23/1975
-Description: 12:37 p.m. A British naval vessel is stationed off the west -coast of Ireland in a thick fog when the radar operator picks up an -echo, presumably a surface vessel closing in on the ship. However, the -blip accelerates to an “impossible” speed in one minute. The operator -notifies the captain, who files a report. The case is investigated by -the Ministry of Defence. (Peter Bottomley and Gordon Clegg, “MoD -Tracks UFO on Radar,” BUFORA Journal 4, no. 12 (March/April 1976): -8–10; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & -Schuster, 1997, pp. 128–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5157

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Event 7606 -(3BDE6701)

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Date: 6/30/1975
-Description: The USAF Aerospace Defense Command becomes the US executive -agent in NORAD. Its Continental Air Defense Command, which it had taken -over in 1957, is disestablished and transferred to the Aerospace Defense -Command. (Wikipedia, “Aerospace -Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5158

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Event 7607 -(4B1F9A15)

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Date: 7/1975
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Margareta Ivanciov is walking from the train -station in Teremia Mare, Romania, when she sees a bright yellow-orange -globe nearly 2 feet in diameter floating about 90 feet in front of her -and 7 feet above the pavement. It speeds up when she approaches it, -keeping the same distance. She notices that it is composed of thousands -of bright dots emanating the same color light. It disappears around a -corner, anticipating her route, and follows her home, where it hovers -briefly before moving into a neighbor’s yard. (Romania 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5161

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Event 7608 -(9D7C8C33)

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Date: 7/1975
-End date: 11/1975
-Description: Concentration of sightings
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northern U.S. and Canada
-ID: 259

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Event 7609 -(96B0B8FE)

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Date: 7/1975
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A family of four is driving home along the Tasman -Highway near Hobart Airport, Cambridge, Tasmania. The interior of the -car becomes hot, the engine stalls, and they roll to a stop. Although -there is no smell in the air, the family feels that they can taste -something like gasoline. Then they see an object hovering above the road -ahead of them. It seems 650–980 feet distant and 65 feet in the air. It -looks round, is colored a metallic grayish-white, and has its own -irridescence or glow. The diameter is close to the width of the road, -perhaps 16 feet. They stare at the object for 2 minutes. Suddenly, in a -spiraling take-off, the object speeds away to the south. The husband is -a car mechanic, and he finds nothing wrong with the car. He gets back -in, starts the car, and they go home without further incident, although -the object still is visible several more minutes as a diminishing light. -(“UFO -Reports from Around Australia,” ACOS Bulletin, no. 12 (December -1977): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5162

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Event 7610 -(93D2492B)

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Date: 7/1975
-Description: François Breuil begins publishing L’Insolite in Mâcon, -Saône-et-Loire, France. It continues until January 1982. (L’Insolite, no. -1 (July 1975))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5160

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Event 7611 -(D5FFA350)

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Date: 7/1/1975
-Description: Day. A Dutch couple on vacation snap a photo of the -panoramic landscape of the Pyrenees mountains just after leaving El Pas -de la Casa, Andorra. They have the roll developed in Calafell, -Catalonia, Spain, and are surprised to see a strange, yellow-and-orange -object in motion in the foreground and casting a distinct shadow. -Investigators from the Netherlands UFO group NOBOVO determine that the -object is really a road sign photographed directly from their -slow-moving vehicle (the speed of the car was estimated to be no more -than 22 mph). (Wim van Utrecht, “Spinning -UFO Photographed during Take-Off,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5163

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Event 7612 -(75BAA2BC)

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Date: 7/2/1975
-Description: Photos of Saturn-shaped object, very similar to Hamazaki -videotape of July 6-7, 1989
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hawaii
-ID: 260

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Event 7613 -(56E53FB8)

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Date: early 7/1975
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Four young people camping out on the shore of the -Charvak Reservoir in Uzbekistan wake up in terror for no apparent -reason. They see a glowing sphere rise silently from under the water -about one-half mile from shore. Concentric circles of varying thickness -and brightness form around it. They watch it for 7 minutes, completely -terrified. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, -2020, pp. 121–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5159

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Event 7614 -(85E3A428)

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Date: 7/6/1975
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Joe Borda is doing farm chores at Mount Pleasant, -Ontario, when he sees a domed metallic cylinder landed in a tobacco -field. Thinking it is probably a tank truck, he continues and goes home. -On July 8, he comes across a circular crushed patch of tobacco plants -about 30–40 feet in diameter. Inside the circle are two spots of some -substance, reddish purple in color, that feels slippery and oily. The -provincial police remove some soil samples; they are not radioactive and -do not contain oil. (Graham Conway, “Strange -Voice Heard after UFO Landing,” -Canadian UFO Report 3, no. 8 (Summer 1976): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5164

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Event 7615 -(BC775FF4)

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Date: 7/14/1975
-Description: Ground Saucer Watch of Phoenix, Arizona, headed by William -Spaulding, files a FOIA request with the CIA for copies of all of its -UFO documents or investigations. (ClearIntent, p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5165

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Event 7616 -(B75AA64E)

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Date: 7/15/1975
-End date: 7/16/1975
-Description: 8:15 p.m. David Burgess, an official at Khami Prison in -Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and a friend see from their car an orange object, -almost circular with a flat bottom and a rounded top, hovering above the -prison about 1–2 miles away. At 8:45 p.m., another official sees an -object in the same place. The following night at 7:30 p.m., a bright -silvery object is seen hovering motionless 2–3 miles northeast of the -prison by a Mr. and Mrs. Rossiter and their three children. It then -moves rapidly to the east. (“Southern -Africa Reports Several UFO Sightings,” Skylook, October 1975, -pp. 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5166

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Event 7617 -(B281C520)

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Date: late 7/1975
-Alternate date: early 8/1975
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A married couple and their small son are driving -in the country near Pittsburg, Kansas, when the wife notices an object -moving quickly toward them. It comes across the highway at about -telephone pole height. The object is round and glowing intensely, with -even more intense, small panels inset all around it. It is as wide as -the highway and remains hovering. The man pulls the car over and the UFO -begins to pull away. They continue following it, but the object changes -its motion frequently. Finally it picks up speed and blinks out. -(Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR -27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5170

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Event 7618 -(01ED128D)

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Date: 7/22/1975
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A young boy on holiday with his family in Wales -wanders by himself to the top of Wylfa Hill, south of Machynlleth, -Powys, Wales. At the top he sees an apparently landed object. About 40 -feet wide, it is comprised of a 7-foot round base and surmounted by a -clear plastic–like, hemispherical dome. Large round lights about 5 feet -in diameter are spaced evenly around the base, about 7 of which are -visible, shining in strange colors. Each seems to be recessed into the -silvery, metallic base. Clearly seen within the dome is a 7-foot-tall, -15-foot-wide, metallic unit, Two “jelly-like” entities are seen next to -it, one on each side. They are approximately 7 feet tall, a -whitish-translucent color, amorphous, and constantly changing shape. -Inside each entity are hundreds of 6-inch, white, disc-like forms, -similar to doughnuts. When another of these entities floats toward the -object, the boy flees the scene and unsuccessfully tries to persuade his -father to take a look. Returning alone, the boy sees the object carrying -the entities disappear by pulsing in and out and changing color rapidly -to match those of the surrounding sky and grass. It then “merges” into -them. Immediately afterward, the boy suffers acute shock and what a -doctor diagnoses as hysterical blindness in one eye that persists for -months. (Andrew Collins, “Jelly-like -Entities at Machynlleth,” -Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 4 (January 1979): 14–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5167

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Event 7619 -(DB87096A)

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Date: 7/26/1975
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Three Dutch hikers are about to take on the last -kilometers of a two-day mountain trip in the Swiss Alps when they -allegedly encounter a circular object hovering in the air in front of -them. It seems to be made of “some sort of metal, not unlike aluminum,” -is dull gray in color, and resembles an inverted soup plate. The strange -contraption is approximately 50 feet in diameter and appears to be -suspended over the small village of Zwischbergen, Valais, Switzerland, -some 328–1,640 feet away. One of them succeeds in taking a color slide -of the phenomenon. Immediately after the photo is taken, the object -starts to move and glides behind the trees, where it disappears from -view. Possible hoax. (“The Saas Fee Photo,” IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June -1995): 19; Wim van Utrecht, “The -Zwischbergen ‘Saas Fee’ Photo,” Caelestia, July 15, 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5168

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Event 7620 -(D229FF80)

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Date: 7/29/1975
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 261

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Event 7621 -(7D80A3D6)

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Date: 7/31/1975
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Farmer Danie van Graan goes to inspect his sheep -enclosure at Loxton, Northern Cape, South Africa, and sees a silvery -disc with prong-like legs. He approaches to within 15 feet of it. -Through a large window he can see 4 people, one standing near a panel of -flashing colored lights, the other three apparently looking at some -device. The entities are about 5 feet tall, thin and pale, and are -wearing whitish coveralls with hoods hanging down around their necks. -They have fair-colored hair, slanted eyes, and sharp, pointed chins. -They all suddenly look up at him, and van Graan hears a “tick” noise as -a light beam hits him in the face. Ill and confused, he tries to avoid -the beam. His nose bleeds and he starts vomiting. The humming increases -to a sharp whine, and the object takes off at a sharp angle. Later -investigation reveals 4 marks on the outside perimeter of a circle 30 -feet in diameter impressed in the ground, with crisscrossed central -markings. A deposit of small, green granules is found near the center; -analysis shows this to be carbon dust, grit, shale with feldspar -inclusions, and thaumasite. Nothing grows in the affected area later. -(UFO EvII 493–494)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5169

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Event 7622 -(A0283CFE)

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Date: 7/31/1975
-Description: Oval object, occupants visible; light struck witness in -face, nose bleed and vomiting. Physical traces at site
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Loxton, South Africa
-ID: 262

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Event 7623 -(1D1FEE6F)

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Date: 8/1975
-Description: The Aviation and Air Defense division of the Swiss Army -draws up a seven-page report on UFOs. (“Forscher findet -verschollene UFO-Akten der Schweiz,” Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell, July -8, 2013; “The Swiss X-Files,” Fortean Times 312 (April 2014): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5171

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Event 7624 -(CE292342)

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Date: 8/11/1975
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 263

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Event 7625 -(D3E6AEFF)

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Date: 8/13/1975
-Description: Staff Sgt. Charles L. Moody, USAF, drove out to the -outskirts of town late one night to watch for meteors. As a disc-shaped -UFO descended toward him, he tried to start his car to get away but it -wouldn’t start. He heard a high pitched whining sound from the UFO and -saw shadowy figures in it and felt numbness, after which the UFO -departed. After driving home he found he couldn’t account for 1.5 hours. -The next day his back was inflamed and he discovered a small puncture -wound over his spine and a few days later he developed a body rash. As -months passed he regained memory of the missing 1.5 hours. He remembered -that he had been in the UFO and in telepathic communication with small -4’8” humanoids. They had whitish gray skin, large heads, large eyes, -small slit-like mouths and mask-like features. He had been in a -drug-like state on a table and they had poked a rod like device into his -back. After this they escorted him about the ship and later dropped him -off at his car.
-Type: ce4 event
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-F p282)
-Location: Alamogordo, NM
-See also: 3/4/69

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Event 7626 -(740A12F2)

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Date: 8/13/1975
-Description: Near Haderslev, Denmark: Police Officer Evald Hansen Maarup -was driving home at 10:50 p.m. when all of a sudden his car was engulfed -by a bright blue light while at the same time his car lost all power. -The temperature in his car rose to that of a warm summer day and his -radio was dead so he couldn’t call for help. The bright beam from the -UFO was conical in shape with a bottom diam. of 4–5 meters and a top -diam. at the UFO of 10 meters. Two dome-like protrusions were visible on -the underside of the UFO that was hovering at about 20 meters altitude. -He activated a special camera on the patrol car which automatically took -3 pictures of the UFO. As the UFO sped away he regained power to his -car. The developed film which was later turned over to the Danish AF -showed the light source of the UFO on it. No report or analysis has been -available from the AF to date.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-F p281)
-Location: Haderslev, Denmark
-See also: 3/4/69

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Event 7627 -(EC0B780A)

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Date: 8/13/1975
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Sgt. Charles L. Moody, stationed at Holloman AFB, -is out in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, awaiting a meteor -shower. He sees a metallic disc drop from the sky some 300 feet in front -of him. It is about 50 feet long, 20 feet wide, and faintly luminous. It -stops descending at 20 feet altitude and begins approaching Moody. -Uneasy, he gets in his car and turns the ignition on, but the engine is -dead. Moody can see an oblong window in the UFO and shadow figures -moving within. He hears a high-pitched sound like a dental drill for a -short time, then he feels numb. The next thing he knows, the UFO is -ascending and disappears from sight within seconds. The car starts and -he drives home, where he notices the time is 3:00 a.m., representing -about 90 minutes he can’t account for. Moody gets a pain in his lower -back in the afternoon. Soon he is put in touch with APRO’s Jim -Lorenzen, who -calls him on August 21. Moody now has a heat rash on his lower body. His -memories about the incident eventually return, and the Lorenzens visit -him in 1976 at an overseas post where he narrates an abduction scenario -with shortish, human-like aliens with big heads and wearing coveralls. -(L. J. Lorenzen, “The -Moody Case,” APRO Bulletin 24, no. 12 (June 1976): 6; L. J. -Lorenzen, “The -Moody Case,” APRO Bulletin 25, no. 1 (July 1976): 2, 5–6; Lorenzen, -Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, pp. 38–51; -Good Need, pp. 323–325; -Story, pp. 233–234; -Clark III 770–771)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5172

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Event 7628 -(99B580EB)

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Date: 8/13/1975
-Description: Sgt. Charles L. Moody abduction case
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Alamogordo, NM
-ID: 264

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Event 7629 -(C4332CFF)

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Date: 8/14/1975
-Description: Pilots and air traffic controllers at airport observed -red-orange disc, gray mist formed, object shot out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Stockton, CA
-ID: 265

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Event 7630 -(F09DED4D)

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Date: 8/14/1975
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Maj. Claude Riddle is flying a helicopter at 900 -feet while approaching Stockton (California) Metropolitan Airport. -Suddenly, air traffic controller Joe Savage sees flashing lights closing -in on him in a collision course. When he advises Riddle to take evasive -action, the object turns orange and shoots up to 5,000 feet, where it -hovers. Riddle looks behind him and sees another light trailing him a -mile or so away. When he swings around, he sees it shimmering like a -diamond and as big as a jetliner. Two blue beams come out from the -sides. Dan Long, another controller sees the object through field -glasses at an altitude of about 2,000 feet, then it moves upward while -emitting a glow of green-tinted smoke and flashing red lights. Gary -Duran and two friends also see the object while walking near the -airport. After 5 minutes of hovering near the airport, the object turns -bright red and shoots off. (“California -Pilot Encounters UFO,” Skylook, no. 99, February 1976, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5173

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Event 7631 -(0C443CEA)

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Date: 8/20/1975
-Description: Evening. Police stations in the area of Albany, New York, -receive numerous calls about UFO sightings. State Trooper Michael Morgan -is dispatched to the scene of one of the sightings, where a police -detective is observing a blimp-sized object hovering at 500 feet over -Lake Saratoga. As the reddish, glowing UFO flashes on and off, two -smaller objects approach and merge with it. Air traffic controllers at -Albany Airport locate the object on a radar scanner. After a few -minutes, the two smaller objects break away and leave in the direction -from which they had come. The first object moves toward the two -policemen who see a brilliant white light shining from the center of its -base as it passes over them. Silently, the craft turns and moves away -slowly. Suddenly, the UFO disappears. After tracking the target for 45 -minutes, the radar operators lose contact with it. However, within a -short time, they receive a call from the pilot of a military airplane -who warns them that he has just seen a red fireball 1,000 feet above him -headed toward the airport. The controllers locate the object just as it -enters the 50- mile range of one of their radarscopes. The anti-clutter -device is thrown to ascertain whether or not the blip is a radar angel, -but the image still comes through clearly. The controllers estimate its -speed to be 3,000 mph. About five miles outside Albany, the target -vanishes. The controllers speculate that it has either accelerated to a -speed of 5,000 mph or has executed a seemingly impossible vertical -maneuver at high speed. During the same time as the Albany sightings, -large discs and bright lights are seen at low altitude less than 50 -miles north over the South Glens Falls area and as far north as Lake -George. The case is investigated by Ernest -Jahn, who contacts the Smithsonian Institution in Cambridge, -Massachusetts. They are unable to give any explanation for the -sightings. (Margaret Sachs, UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5174

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Event 7632 -(9508F4E0)

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Date: 8/26/1975
-Description: 3:15 a.m. Terry O’Leary, his girlfriend Jackie Larson, and -Jackie’s mother Sandy Larson leave Fargo, North Dakota for Bismarck, -which they plan to reach around 7:00 a.m. Forty-five miles into their -trip on Interstate 94, they see a brilliant flash of light and sounds -like thunder. About 50 yards away on their left, they watch 8–10 orange, -glowing objects heading south to east. One is distinctly larger than the -others. The lights descend in a straight line at a 30° angle until they -stop over a grove of trees. Suddenly one of the objects splits in half -and others shoot away. At this point, the witnesses feel peculiar -sensations of being unable to move. Jackie finds herself sitting in the -back seat (she had been in the front seat with the others) and the -lights are gone. The witnesses drive on to Tower City, North Dakota, -where Sandy notes the time is 5:23 a.m., an hour later than it should -have been. Through a mutual friend, Sandy eventually contacts ufologist -Jerome -Clark, who puts her in touch with psychologist R. -Leo Sprinkle, who has used hypnotic regression in abduction cases. -Sprinkle conducts three hypnotic sessions with Sandy and Jackie Larson -on December 4–6. Sandy remembers a 6-foot-tall entity that looks like a -mummy, various medical procedures, and a journey to a place with sand. -She has further regressions with Sprinkle in January and February 1976, -and she describes an otherworldly journey with three beings on a UFO. -Clark writes: “What makes the Larson story interesting, in retrospect, -however, is its anticipation of many abduction motifs which, though -barely noted or entirely unknown in 1975, had become repeatedly -demonstrated aspects of the experience by the late 1980s. (Clark III -675–678; Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer -Space, Berkley, 1977, pp. 52–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5175

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Event 7633 -(B9D38DA5)

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Date: 8/29/1975
-Description: Gray, disc-shaped UFO, bright illumination, darted above -car, hovered, cast pulsating light beam down on it. Physiological -effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Muret, Haute-Garonne, France
-ID: 266

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Event 7634 -(9D4120D7)

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Date: 9/1975 (approximate)
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Lt. Rafael Muñoz Pastor is returning to Jerez -air base [now Jerez Airport], Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain, -piloting a Grumman AN-1 antisubmarine aircraft with four other crew -members. He is flying at 3,500 feet and is already on the landing -approach to Jerez, when he receives a call from the Seville air traffic -center asking him if he can see any aircraft over Sanlúcar de Barrameda, -Cádiz, where they have a radar target. The crew is seeing a “round -light, brilliant red in color and with yellowish edges” in the area, so -they are ordered to get closer. When they are 4–5 miles from Sanlúcar, -the red ball ascends vertically from 1,000 feet to some 10,000–20,000 -feet. Numerous residents of Sanlúcar also see the object from cafes. An -F-5A fighter is scrambled from Morón Air Base in Seville province, which -also spotted the object, and the Grumman returns to Jerez after viewing -the light for an estimated 45 minutes. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, -“Spanish Military UFO Encounter,” IUR 28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): -7–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5176

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Event 7635 -(E0E281DA)

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Date: 9/3/1975
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Three witnesses in Tujunga, California, see two -helicopters following a UFO. The top of the object is a vibrant blue -green, the middle portion white, and the bottom part red. It appears to -change to a saucer shape and zigzags around the sky. Shortly before -11:00 p.m., the witnesses see the lights go on at a nearby Nike missile -base in the mountains. Afterward, the witnesses’ eyes turn red and -painful. (Ann Druffel, “California Report: -The Mystery Helicopters,” Skylook, no. 99, February 1976, -pp. 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5177

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Event 7636 -(4D7590F2)

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Date: 9/11/1975
-Description: Sen. Floyd -K. Haskell (D-Colo.) contacts the FBI and relates his concern about -dead and mutilated cattle found in Colorado and other western states. -The mutilations involve loss of ears, eyes, and genitalia, with most of -the blood drained from the carcasses. Haskell estimates there have been -130 mutilations in 9 states during the past two years. He has also heard -that US Army helicopters have been seen near the sites of some of the -mutilations. (Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Animal -Mutilation Part 1 of 5,” FBI Records: The Vault, pp. 12–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5178

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Event 7637 -(977FC8EC)

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Date: 9/14/1975
-Description: Calling themselves The Two (or Bo and Peep), Marshall -Applewhite and Bonnie -Nettles hold a meeting in a hotel in Waldport, Oregon. When 20 of -the 300 audience members disappear after the meeting, the Oregon State -Police launch an investigation. Other audience members think the topic -is vague but involves something about leaving in a UFO from a camp -somewhere in Colorado. (Clark III 565)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5179

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Event 7638 -(8DC2091D)

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Date: fall 1975
-Description: A married couple and the husband’s business partner -purchase an abandoned ranch property in a remote rural area of western -Colorado, hoping to turn it into a working cattle ranch. Not long after -moving in, numerous weird events start taking place that last for a -two-year period: whirring noises, UFOs, strange footprints in the snow, -hairy bigfoot-like creatures, and UFO occupants. The witnesses -eventually move back to Denver, where they are interviewed by geologist -John S. Derr and psychologist R. -Leo Sprinkle, as well as R. Martin Wolf, Steven Mayne, and Jerome -Clark. (John -S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple -Phenomena on Colorado Ranch,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 1 (July 1978): -5–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple -Phenomena on Colorado Ranch, Part -2,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 2 (August 1978): 7–8; John S. Derr and R. -Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple -Phenomena on Colorado -Ranch, Part 3,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 3 (September 1978): 6–8; John -S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple -Phenomena on Colorado Ranch, Part 4,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 4 -(October 1978): 5–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple -Phenomena on a Rocky Mountain Ranch, Part 5,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. -5 (November 1978): 5–8; John S. Derr and R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple -Phenomena on a Rocky Mountain Ranch, Part -6,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 6 (December 1978): 7–8; John S. Derr and -R. Leo Sprinkle, “Multiple -Phenomena on -a Rocky Mountain Ranch, Conclusion,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7 -(January 1979): 5–8; Clark III 558–559)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5181

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Event 7639 -(BC5EE76E)

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Date: fall 1975
-Description: Evening. Two soldiers of a Chinese People’s Liberation Army -unit stationed in Jianshui County, Yunnan, China, encounter a huge -saucer-shaped object circling above their heads and emitting beams of -soft orange-colored light. One of the men runs into the camp to sound an -alarm, while the other stays to watch it. A few minutes later, the camp -commandant and about a dozen armed men run up to the barracks entrance -and find no trace of the soldier who had stayed behind. The commandant -orders all officers and enlisted men to search, but they do not find -him. A few hours later, four soldiers taking over sentry duty suddenly -hear the sound of someone moaning behind them. They see the missing man, -who has reappeared. His eyebrows, beard, and hair have grown extremely -long. When he fully regains consciousness, his memory is completely -gone. His wristwatch shows that it had stopped long ago. His weapons and -watch are found to be slightly magnetized. (Paul Dong, “Extracts -from Paul Dong’s Feidie -Bai Wen Bai Da (Questions -and Answers on UFOs),” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 (August 1984): -17; Clark III 653)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5182

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Event 7640 -(B7C22B7D)

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Date: fall 1975
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A couple driving east toward Toppenish, -Washington, see a bright white light that appears overhead and slightly -ahead of them. At first they think it might be a helicopter with a -searchlight, but then an area about one mile in diameter lights up -around their car, their radio becomes noisy, and their headlights dim. -The flood-lit area suddenly goes out and the light speeds up in the sky -and disappears. When they reach Ahtanum, Washington, about 25 miles from -the first incident, the bright light again appears overhead briefly, -then streaks away and disappears. (W. J. Vogel, “The Yakimas and -‘Earthlights,’” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5183

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Event 7641 -(BD1D5EE5)

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Date: 9/27/1975
-Description: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics -hosts a symposium, “Hypotheses Concerning the Origin of UFOs,” sponsored -by the Los Angeles, California, section. The proceedings are published -under the title Thesis and Antithesis. (Story, p. 417)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5180

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Event 7642 -(2E24CC60)

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Date: 9/30/1975
-Description: Domed disc hovered, illuminated area “like daylight,” cows -fled. Emitted bright red light, humming sound, took off at high -speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Corning, CA
-ID: 267

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Event 7643 -(0F5CCE9E)

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Date: 10/1975
-End date: 12/1975
-Description: Reliable military personnel saw unconventional and -unexplained aerial objects hovering around nuclear weapons storage -sites, aircraft alert areas and missile control complexes at -installations across the northern United States. In some instances, as -radar sightings of the objects were made, Air Force fighter planes were -sent aloft in unsuccessful pursuit, although the records gave no -indication that the fighters fired on the intruders.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Washington -Post
-Location: US

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Event 7644 -(88E6ABAC)

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Date: 10/1975
-Description: University of Montana sociologists Robert -Balch and David Taylor locate the followers of Applewhite and -Nettles in -Arizona and join the group clandestinely. The Two make themselves -scarce, fearing an infiltration and possible assassination. Balch and -Taylor describe the cult in a Psychology Today article in October 1976 -and articles in sociological journals. (Robert W. Balch and David -Taylor, “Salvation in a UFO,” Psychology Today 10, no. 5 (October 1976): -58–62, 66, 106; Robert W. Balch and David Taylor, “Seekers -and Saucers: The Role of the -Cultic Milieu in Joining a UFO Cult,” American Behavioral Scientist -20, no. 6 (July/Aug. 1977): 839–860; Robert W. Balch, “Waiting -for the Ships: Disillusionment and the Revitalization of Faith in Bo and -Beep’s UFO Cult,” -in James R. Lewis, ed., The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other -Worlds, State University of New York, 1995, pp. 137–166; Clark III -565–566)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5184

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Event 7645 -(82E8C0BF)

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Date: 10/7/1975
-Description: 8:00 p.m. After his sister calls and alerts him to a “fiery -glow” near his barn on Three Mile Lake Road north of Bracebridge, -Ontario, Robert Suffern, 27, drives to the spot and finds no fire. -However, when he starts going back to his sister’s house he finds a -large disc-shaped object resting in his path. The UFO quickly ascends -and is lost to sight. When he turns around and starts heading to his own -home, a small figure wearing a helmet and silver-gray walks in an -“ape-like fashion” in front of his car, causing him to hit the brakes. -It runs into a field. Suffern gets out and puts his hands on a post and -he seemingly becomes weightless, making it easy to jump over the fence. -Later that night he sees an “orange fluorescent light” in the pasture of -his property. Moments later, he receives two phone calls telling him not -to interfere. On October 12 at 3:00 a.m. Suffern receives a phone call -from a “Lt. Colin Hunter” from the White House and leaves a number to -call him back. He calls the number later and talks to a military officer -claiming to be Lt. Col. Waters. A month later, he and his wife are given -a thorough examination by Canadian military doctors. (Patrick Gross, URECAT, -September 13, 2006; “The -Robert Suffern UFO -Encounter,” Above Top Secret forum, September 26, 2009; John -Greenewald, “Suffern -Three Mile Lake Incident: -UFO Lands on Road, White House Reportedly Calls,” The Black Vault, -July 6, 2017; Clark III 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5185

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Event 7646 -(20EE4792)

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Date: 10/17/1975
-Description: Large object with green flashing lights passed over truck -from behind, hovered ahead, lights and engine failed, light beam -directed toward truck
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Helena, MT
-ID: 268

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Event 7647 -(31B6B240)

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Date: 10/17/1975
-Description: Morning. Masaki Machida, a TV reporter for the Akita -Broadcasting Company, is at Akita Airport in Akita Prefecture, Japan, -when he sees a disc-shaped object descending in the east. Air traffic -controllers and passengers watch the golden disc with white lights hover -5,000 feet above the ground some 5 miles from the airport. -Telecommunications officer Kenichi Waga warns all pilots to watch out -for the UFO. Toa Domestic Airlines pilot Capt. Masarus Saito says the -object looks like two plates put together. After 5 minutes, it flies off -to the west. (Margaret Sachs, UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5186

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Event 7648 -(6382D8E4)

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Date: 10/18/1975
-Description: 12:30 a.m. John Struble is driving his truck 25 miles -northwest of Helena, Montana, when he notices a large object, 50 feet in -diameter and 25–30 feet in the air. The object passes over his truck -from the rear and then stops and hovers about 300 feet ahead of him. It -directs a very bright light at him, causing the truck’s lights and -engine to go out. The UFO remains for about 5 minutes before it moves -away. The object makes a noise like a big jet and then rockets straight -up into the sky and moves away to the east at an incredible speed. When -the UFO disappears the truck’s lights and engine come back on. Struble -notices that his nonelectric watch has stopped for 5 minutes, the -duration of the sighting. (ClearIntent, p. 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5187

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Event 7649 -(2E970518)

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Date: 10/20/1975
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 269

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Event 7650 -(656DA518)

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Date: 10/20/1975
-Description: An NBC-TV movie, The UFO Incident, on the Betty -and Barney Hill abduction case airs, starring James Earl -Jones and Estelle -Parsons. It -is based on the book The Interrupted Journey by John -G. Fuller. (Wikipedia, “The -UFO Incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5188

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Event 7651 -(2F46E2F2)

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Date: late 10/1975
-Description: 2:45 a.m. James D. Appleman of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, sees -two large condensation trails making a giant X just above the moon. For -several nights he has been noticing two unusual stars forming different -shapes, and he thinks this might be related. He grabs his camera and -takes three black-and-white photos. Two of the photos show two irregular -light blobs, which he does not remember seeing when he exposed the film. -In 1980, he sends a copy of the photos to the Center for UFO Studies -because they resemble the lights in two undated photos taken from an -airplane by J. Allen Hynek that appeared in his book The UFO Experience. -(“Did -a Twin Photograph -a Twin UFO?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 1 (January 1981): 1; -J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine, 1974, opp. -p. 151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5189

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Event 7652 -(666DA9FB)

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Date: late 10/1975
-Description: Near 12:00 midnight. An incident occurs near Cheyenne -Mountain, Colorado, the home of the National Combat Operations Center, -that triggers a Security Option 5 Alert. According to an informant at -the center interviewed by Francis -Ridge, nobody -is allowed to enter the base, except cleared, high-ranking officers or -cleared security patrols. No one is to leave. Those personnel on base -who have just completed duty are rolled out of bed. Jet interceptors are -scrambled. Unidentified targets are tracked on radar for at least 20 -minutes. In fact, everything they put in the air for an attack on the US -is airborne. The base stays on alert through 6:00 a.m. (NICAP, “Security -Option 5 Alert at NORAD”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5190

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Event 7653 -(4720B02A)

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Date: 10/27/1975
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Factory workers David Stephens and Glen Gray are -sitting in a trailer they share in Norway, Maine, when they hear -something explode outside. Briefly puzzled, they decide to go for a -drive to nearby Thompson Lake. A short distance down the road, their -vehicle abruptly turns onto a back road leading into Oxford, Maine. Gray -no longer has control of the steering. Two minutes later, they pass -through Oxford, a trip that normally takes 10 minutes, and down the -eastern side of Thompson Lake. A mile south of Oxford, they see a herd -of cows resting on the ground and shaking their heads from side to side. -A few seconds later, they see two white lights on their left in a -cornfield. The lights suddenly rise into the air. Gray stops the car, -rolls down the windows and listen for the sounds of an engine, but the -lights are soundless. Now they have a good view of a huge, -cylinder-shaped object 20–30 feet away. Around its body are green, blue, -and yellow lights that suddenly go out when the object ascends above a -row of trees. Gray starts the car and roars down the road, followed by -the UFO. The next thing they know, they are a mile farther down the -road, the car stopped. Their eyes feel like they are on fire and appear -orange. The UFO is visible in the eastern sky. They drive into West -Poland, Maine, turn around, and go back the way they came. After a few -minutes the UFO disappears, and they decide to go south again. For no -reason, Gray turns onto a gravel road leading to Tripp Pond, where the -engine stalls and the radio goes out. They can see the cylinder-shaped -UFO in the sky about 500 feet away, which moves farther away as soon as -they notice it. Some 45 minutes later, two disc-shaped objects with -colored lights appear, and a thick fog rises out of Tripp Pond, -engulfing the car. The radio abruptly turns on, and as they drive -further, they receive a mental impression indicating that “We’re not -done with you yet. We are coming back for you.” It is now 6:30 a.m. At -7:00 a.m., they arrive at Stephens’s parents’ house in Oxford, suffering -from burning eyes, sore throats, and aching teeth. They are not speaking -coherently. Gray has some hallucinations later in the day while watching -TV. Maine ufologists Shirley -Fickett and Brent -Raynes soon hear about the case and meet with the two on the evening -of October 28. Many unusual events take place that night and the next -day, so Fickett contacts hypnotist Herbert -Hopkins, 58, -in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. He conducts eight hypnosis sessions between -December 1975 and March 1976. Gray becomes upset early in the -investigation, so only Stephens’s testimony is complete. It indicates an -abduction scenario similar to other cases. (Brent M. Raynes, “The -Twilight Side of a UFO Encounter,” -Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 2 (July 1976): 11–14; Shirley M. Fickett, -“The -Maine UFO Encounter: Investigation -under Hypnosis,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 2 (July 1976): 14–17; -Berthold Eric Schwarz, “Comments -on the Psychiatric-Paranormal Aspects of the Maine Case,” Flying -Saucer Review 22, no. 2 (July 1976): 18–22; Lorenzen, Abducted! -Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, pp. 70–79; -Marcus Lowth, “The -Disturbing Alien Encounter of David Stephens,” UFO Insight, August -29, 2018; Clark III 861–865)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5191

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Event 7654 -(2F04066B)

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Date: 10/27/1975
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Sgt. Grover K. Eggleston of the 2192nd -Communications Squadron is on duty at the Loring AFB [now Loring -International Airport] tower near Limestone, Maine, when the call from -the Command Post comes in. He observes the unknown target. Six minutes -later, Eggleston notes that the target appears to be circling -approximately 10 miles east-northeast of the base. This action lasts for -40 minutes when, suddenly, it disappears from the screen. Either the -object has landed or it has dropped below the radar coverage. The Wing -Commander arrives at the weapons storage area 7 minutes after the -initial sighting. Immediately other units of the 42nd Police begin -pouring into the area. Security vehicles with blue flashing lights are -converging from all over the base. Through the Loring Command Post, the -Wing Commander requests fighter coverage from the 21st NORAD Region at -Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, New York, and the 22nd -NORAD Region at North Bay, Ontario. However, fighter support is denied -by both regions. The Wing Commander then increases local security -posture and requests assistance from the Maine State Police in trying to -identify the unknown craft, which they presume is a helicopter. They -make a call to local flight services for possible identification, -without results. The 42nd Security Police conduct a sweep of the weapons -storage perimeter inside and out. An additional sweep is made of the -areas that the craft has flown over. All actions produce no results. The -craft breaks the circling pattern and begins flying toward Grand Falls, -New Brunswick. Radar contact is lost in the vicinity of Grand Falls, 12 -miles from Loring. Canadian authorities are not notified. (NICAP, “UFO -Circles Weapons Storage -Area”; ClearIntent, pp. 16–26; -Nukes 361–363, 369–371)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5193

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Event 7655 -(67B9163C)

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Date: 10/27/1975
-Description: The Loring AFB incidents are extremely well documented, -both in terms of personal testimonials and declassified CIA and National -Military Command Center (NMCC) documents. Retired Sgt. Stephen B. -Eichner was on duty when a strange object hovered over the Loring -ammunition dump. Eichner told how he and fellow airmen had seen a -football-shaped reddish orange object, three or four car-lengths long, -hovering over the Loring ammunition dump. He said the object suddenly -vanished, then reappeared some distance away at the end of a runway. -Numerous other visual and radar sightings were made at Loring. Air Force -planes were scrambled in a luckless attempt to track down the object. -Eichner said it made no noise and could not be mistaken for a -helicopter.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Washington -Post
-Reference: Debrief
-Location: Loring AFB

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Event 7656 -(29BEF735)

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Date: 10/27/1975
-Description: 7:45 p.m. S/Sgt. Danny -K. Lewis is patrolling the weapons dump at Loring AFB [now Loring -International Airport] near Limestone, Maine, when he sees an -unidentified aircraft approaching the north perimeter at an altitude of -about 300 feet. It has a red navigation light and a white strobe light. -The craft enters the perimeter of the base. In the control tower, -S/Sgt. James -P. Sampley of the 2192nd Communications Squadron is on radar duty -and gets a return from an unknown target 10–13 miles east-northeast of -Loring. Sampley makes numerous attempts by radio on all available -communications bands, civilian and military, to contact the craft, but -he gets no response. The unidentified craft circles and comes within 300 -yards of the restricted nuclear storage area at a low altitude of 150 -feet. Back at the weapons dump, Lewis notifies his Command Post at the -42 Bomb Wing that an unknown aircraft has penetrated the base perimeter. -The base is immediately put on major alert status, a Security Option 3, -and Security contacts the tower. (ClearIntent, pp. 16–26; -Nukes 361–363, 369–371)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5192

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Event 7657 -(AFC19F4F)

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Date: 10/27/1975
-Description: October 28, 1975; Objects with body lights penetrated -security areas on two consecutive nights, hovered near weapons storage -area, tracked on radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Loring AFB, ME
-ID: 270

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Event 7658 -(1295E2AA)

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Date: 10/28/1975
-Description: Confidential CINC/NORAD Report: UFOs, suspicious objects -seen by ground personnel. Sounded like jet aircraft. Intermittent radar -contact made with object. Jets scrambled to intercept but objects lights -went out, interceptors passed and then came on again. Then the object -increased in speed and raised to a high altitude and could not be -discerned from the stars. Description: Through binoculars, looked like -100 ft. sphere and appeared to have craters around the outside. To date, -AF and SAC helicopters have failed to provide a positive I.D. of the -UFO.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p468)
-Location: Loring AFB
-See also: 11/11/75
-See also: 7/52

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Event 7659 -(8606D47C)

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Date: 10/28/1975
-Description: 7:45 p.m. While patrolling the weapons storage area, -S/Sgt. Danny -K. Lewis, along with Sgt. Clifton W. Blakeslee and Sgt. William J. -Long, again spots the lights of an unidentified aircraft approaching -Loring AFB near Limestone, Maine, from the north at an altitude of about -3,000 feet. It approaches to within about 3 miles of the base perimeter -and is seen to have a flashing white light and an amber or orange light. -Lewis reports the sighting to his Command Post, and the Wing Commander -comes out to the weapons storage area to see for himself. He reports -seeing an object whose speed and motion are similar to that of a -helicopter. The craft is also observed on radar and observed over the -flight line by Sgt. Steven Eichner, Sgt. R. Jones, and others. They see -an orange and red object shaped like a stretched-out football hovering -in mid-air. It turns out its lights and then reappears making jerky -motions, then hovers about 150 feet over the end of the runway. It is -about four car- lengths long, solid, reddish-orange, with no doors or -windows, and with no visible propellers or engines. It is completely -silent. The base goes on full alert and a sweep is made by security, but -the object turns off its lights and is not seen again. Radar picks up a -target moving in the direction of Grand Falls, New Brunswick. SAC -Headquarters is again notified.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5194

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Event 7660 -(CC4123CC)

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Date: 10/29/1975
-Description: NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: AFB penetration. At 290200 -EST, AFOC informed NMCC that an unidentified helicopter (UFO), possibly -two, had been sighted flying low over Loring AFB, Maine, in proximity to -a weapons storage area. Army Nat. Guard helos called in to assist in -locating UFO. NORAD informed of the incident by SAC. Received authority -to proceed into Canadian airspace, if necessary, to locate UFO. A -similar incident was reported the evening before.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p468)
-Location: Loring AFB

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Event 7661 -(4934AACE)

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Date: 10/29/1975
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Another unidentified helicopter is seen near the -weapons storage area at Loring AFB, Maine. October 29 or 30 — 4:00 p.m. -A radar-visual UFO sighting takes place at Wurtsmith AFB [now -Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport] near Oscoda, Michigan. (NICAP, “Shiny -Disc Hovers over Restricted Area”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5195

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Event 7662 -(D0885DFF)

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Date: 10/30/1975
-Description: Security police and others watched objects breach security -areas, hover low over weapons storage area
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wurtsmith AFB, MI
-ID: 271

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Event 7663 -(E33643F7)

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Date: 10/30/1975
-Description: 10:10–11:00 p.m. A series of unidentified helicopter -sightings take place in a secure area in Wurtsmith AFB [now -Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport], Michigan, by security police on the ground -and by the crew of a KC-135 tanker returning from a refueling mission -piloted by Maj. Frederick Pappas and 5 crew members. The tanker at 2,700 -feet has visual and skin paint over Lake Huron for about 20 miles -heading southeast. The light hovers and moves up and down in an erratic -manner. The tanker follows the object for 1–2 hours, but never get close -enough to see anything other than a single, steady orange light. (NICAP, -“UFO -Chased by KC-135 Tanker”; Nukes 371– 372; Skinwalkers 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5196

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Event 7664 -(7833E9D4)

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Date: 10/31/1975
-Description: 11:17 p.m. A visual sighting of an unidentified object is -reported 4 miles northwest of Loring AFB, Maine. The alert helicopter is -launched to identify the object but is unable to make contact and is -launched again at 1:46 a.m., in response to a slow-moving target picked -up by RAPCON radar. (NICAP, “RAPCON -Tracks Slow- Moving -Target during Loring Intrusions”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5197

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Event 7665 -(89ADA8B3)

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Date: 11/2/1975
-Description: Night. Witnesses in Medford, Minnesota, including Helen -Kay, see a brilliant orange-red light go behind a building, where they -suspect it has landed. At the location, they find a bare spot, 12 feet -square, of burned grass and ashy residue. At some distance away they see -a red ball of light above the trees and try to catch up with it by car -but it eludes them. Soil samples from the alleged landing site are -submitted to geologist Edward -J. Zeller at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, who subjects them -to an examination using thermoluminescence and finds the readouts normal -for the center of the trace but severely elevated at the edges. He -suspects that the edges have been subjected to hard ionizing radiation, -but this is not conclusive. (“UFO -Sighting Noted,” Fergus Falls (Minn.) Daily Journal, November 5, -1975, p. 22; Edward J. Zeller, “The -Use of Thermoluminescence for the Evaluation of -UFO Landing Site Effects,” Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, -Center for UFO Studies, 1976, pp. 301–308, reprinted in IUR 28, no. 4 -(Winter 2003–2004): 19–22, 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5199

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Event 7666 -(09F8B59C)

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Date: early 11/1975
-Description: 8:00–9:00 p.m. Bill Jackson, a reporter for the Sterling -(Colo.) Advocate, his wife Cheryl, and their young child are driving on -State Highway 61 halfway between Otis and Sterling, Colorado, when they -see a red light in the sky ahead of them. As it approaches, they see it -is a huge object (as big as a 747) with a dozen rows of multicolored -lights, perhaps hundreds of them. It passes slowly over their car, so -close that Jackson thinks he can hit it with a stone. They drive at high -speed the rest of the way to Sterling. (Richard Sigismond, “A CE-I, a -Lonely Road, a Black Night,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984): 5, 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5198

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Event 7667 -(CBF19C78)

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Date: 11/3/1975
-Description: Late night. Unknown individuals penetrate the flight line -at Grand Forks AFB north of Emerado, North Dakota. At least two KC-135 -aircraft are hit by small arms fire. Security forces pursue the -intruders but apparently do not apprehend them. (ClearIntent, pp. 48–49)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5201

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Event 7668 -(87742A54)

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Date: 11/3/1975
-Description: 5:45 a.m. Ontario Police constables in Haileybury, Ontario, -see a round object with fingers of white light emanating from it -hovering northeast of town. Another object to the north of it has red, -green, and white lights. After about 1 hour both objects begin moving -slowly south and gaining altitude. They are still visible at 7:00 a.m. -(Patrick Gross, “Files -Obtained from the National Archives of Canada”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5200

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Event 7669 -(59705732)

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Date: 11/5/1975
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Jim Divall is driving north of Redwater, -Alberta, when he comes upon a large, black, revolving object in the road -ahead. He has to drive his vehicle into a ditch to avoid hitting it. The -object is 40 feet in diameter. He gets out to watch it for a few minutes -as it makes a rushing sound, then it disappears. (Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 185)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5202

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Event 7670 -(12937AC6)

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Date: 11/5/1975
-Description: Travis Walton abduction case
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Heber, AZ
-ID: 272

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Event 7671 -(E89175F1)

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Date: 11/5/1975
-Description: Just after 6:00 p.m. Travis -Walton and six fellow log cutters finish a long day of thinning -undergrowth in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake, -Arizona. Heading up Mogollon Rim Road, Walton soon notices something -shining among the branches off to the right. The others see it too. They -turn up Old Verde Road toward Turkey Springs. The spaces between the -trees flash by too quickly to make out what the object is, but a -clearing reveals a yellowish glow that washes across the road in front -of them. The driver speeds up to get a closer look. They reach the -clearing, and about 110 feet away a glowing disc hangs in the air, -making a high- pitched buzz and floating motionless between the trees, -only 15 feet off the ground. The truck slams to a halt and Walton opens -his door to get a better look. There is no sound. One of the cutters -shouts: “My God! It’s a flying saucer!” Walton then steps out of the cab -and walks toward the object. The others beg him to get back in the -truck, but he feels compelled to get a close-up look. He approaches the -craft cautiously, glancing back to the truck now and then as his friends -continue to plead with him. Coming within 6 feet, Walton stops and -stares up at its glowing underside. Suddenly, the silence gives way to -what Walton later describes as the thunderous swell of a turbine engine. -A narrow beam of light fires from the bottom of the disc and strikes -Walton in the chest. It lifts him up, then knocks him unconscious to the -ground like a thunderbolt. In a panic, the rest of the crew speeds away -toward the main road, terrified. When the men regain their senses, they -return to the clearing to rescue Walton, but the craft is gone and so is -Walton. Despite a thorough search of the area, they find no trace of him -and drive home. When they report what happened, the authorities discount -the men’s tale as a ridiculous attempt to cover up a murder and launch -an extensive search for Walton’s body. They search for several days and -find nothing. Walton reappears outside Heber, Arizona, on November 10 -and corroborates their story, with the addition of what happened aboard -the spacecraft. Walton awakes in a hospital-like room, observed by three -short, bald creatures. He fights with them until a human wearing a -helmet leads him to another room, where he blacks out as three other -humans put a clear plastic mask over his face. He remembers nothing else -until he finds himself walking along a highway, with the UFO departing -above him. In the days following, The National Enquirer awards Walton -and his coworkers a $5,000 prize for “best UFO case of the year” after -they pass polygraph tests administered by Cy Gilson of the Arizona state -police (repeated in 1993), the Enquirer, and APRO. A private -investigator named John McCarthy tests Walton using an outdated -procedure with a polygraph in 1975 and finds him deceptive. (Wikipedia, -“Travis -Walton UFO Incident”; Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings -from Outer Space, Berkley, 1977, pp. 80–113, -161–190; -Travis Walton, Fire -in the Sky, Marlowe, 1996; Geoff Price, “Lie Detection in UFO -Controversies,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 15–16, 31; Kevin D. Randle, -“The Truth about Polygraphs,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter 1997–1998): 28; -Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman -Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 145; Clark III 1234–1249)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5203

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Event 7672 -(3DAD30F7)

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Date: 11/6/1975
-Description: US Attorney General Edward -H. Levi issues a set of guidelines to limit the activities of the -FBI. These guidelines require the FBI to show evidence of a crime before -using secret police techniques like wiretaps or entering someone’s home -without warning.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5204

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Event 7673 -(9BC4E9E6)

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Date: 11/7/1975
-End date: 11/8/1975
-Description: Base personnel saw orange disc that breached security area, -illuminated missile site, tracked on radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Malmstrom AFB, MT
-ID: 273

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Event 7674 -(1159B1FA)

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Date: 11/7/1975
-Description: 3:00 p.m.–November 8, 9:53 p.m. Remote electronic sensors -trigger an alarm at Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, Montana, indicating that -something is violating security at several missile launch sites. -Underground, in the launch control facility, two officers note the -signal, but there is no TV surveillance topside. A missile security -helicopter checks the area and Sabotage Alert Teams consisting of 4–6 -men are ordered to proceed to the areas. One SAT team drives down the -highway and onto a dirt road that leads to the K-7 area near Judith Gap, -Montana. About a mile away, the team sees an orange, glowing object. As -they close to within half a mile, they can see that the object is -tremendous in size. They radio to the launch control facility that, from -their location, they are viewing a brightly glowing, orange, football -field-sized disc that illuminates the missile site. The SAT team is -ordered to proceed into the K-7 site. However, they refuse to go any -farther, clearly fearful of the intimidating appearance of the object. -It begins to rise, and at about 1,000 feet, NORAD picks up the UFO on -radar. Two F- 106 jet interceptors are launched from Great Falls and -head toward the K-7 site. The UFO continues to rise. At about 200,000 -feet, it disappears from NORAD’s radar. The F-106s are never able to get -a clear sighting of the several UFOs, which play cat-and-mouse with the -aircraft, extinguishing their illumination when they approach, and -re-illuminating after the fighters return to base. All members of the -SAT team are directed to the base hospital, where they are -psychologically tested. No one can identify the object, but the members -of the SAT team obviously have been through a traumatic experience. -Targeting teams, along with computer specialists, are brought to the -launch site to examine the missile and the computer in the warhead. When -the computer is checked, they find that the tape has mysteriously -changed target numbers. The reentry vehicle is then taken from the silo -and brought back to the base. Eventually the entire missile is changed -out. Radar and visual sightings continue for the next 31 hours. (NICAP, -“Malmstrom -AFB Incident (1975)”; ClearIntent, pp. 27–29; -Richard Sigismond, “Four Huge Orange Discs and the Case for the UFO,” -IUR 8, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1983): 7–8; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” -IUR 34, no. 2 (Mar. 2012): 11–12; Nukes 358–361)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5205

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Event 7675 -(F3226D9A)

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Date: 11/10/1975
-Description: 10:15–11:20 p.m. A bright light passes over Minot AFB, -North Dakota, moving west to east at 1,000– 2,000 feet. (ClearIntent, p. 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5206

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Event 7676 -(A4B36616)

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Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: Evening. Capt. Keith -Wolverton of the Cascade County Sheriff’s Department and a deputy -are returning to Great Falls from Missoula, Montana. Suddenly a large -orange light descends out of the northern sky, lighting up both sides of -the road. It passes directly over the cruiser at about 200 feet. It goes -from horizon to horizon in 4 seconds. (ClearIntent, pp. 34–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5210

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Event 7677 -(C676BD48)

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Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: A Montana Fish and Game Department employee at Freezeout -Lake, Montana, sees a light flying directly behind a B-52 bomber. Using -his rifle scope to get a better look, he notes that the strange object -seems to be pacing the aircraft. The object then briefly attaches itself -to the B-52, detaches, and climbs out of sight. The sighting is reported -to Sheriff Pete Howard of Choteau County. Howard conducts follow-up -interviews with military personnel and learns that as the object -attaches itself to the B-52, the plane’s radar equipment goes out. -(ClearIntent, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5208

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Event 7678 -(0B4E2189)

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Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: Confidential CINC/NORAD Report
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p468)
-Location: US
-See also: 10/28/75

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Event 7679 -(EC93A3DC)

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Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: A confidential NORAD communication reveals that Air Guard -helicopters, Strategic Air Command helicopters, and NORAD F-106s are -scrambled during the recent UFO sightings over Northern Tier military -bases. They fail to produce positive identifications. In a priority -message sent from SAC headquarters in Offutt AFB near Bellevue, -Nebraska, to numerous Air Force bases during the same month, the Air -Force reveals its continuation of a policy to deny USAF interest in the -subject: “News media queries concerning such unidentified overflights -are properly the concern of the Air Defense Command, and queries should -be referred to CINC- NORAD/OI… Remarks should be confined to personal -experiences and care should be taken to avoid speculation or to imply -Air Force interest beyond security of the installation.” (Margaret -Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 347; -Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing -Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 87–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5209

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Event 7680 -(73AA4DCD)

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Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: Civilians, police officers, military officers, and NORAD -radar saw and tracked UFOs that alternately hovered and darted around at -high speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Falconbridge, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 274

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Event 7681 -(66253BAD)

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Date: 11/11/1975
-Description: 6:15 a.m. A spherical object is observed from Canadian -Forces Station Falconbridge [now closed] in Valley East, Ontario. The -object appears to be rotating and has a surface similar to the moon. The -object ascends and descends. The object is observed on height-finder -radar at altitudes from 42,000–72,000 feet intermittently for 6 hours. -Two F-106 jets are sent from Selfridge AFB [now Selfridge Air National -Guard Base] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, but report no visual or radar -contact. Other lights are seen periodically over the next few days, -including at least seven members of the Ontario Police in Sudbury. -(NICAP, “Spherical -Object Tracked on Height -Finder Radar”; ClearIntent, pp. 50–51; -Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, pp. 152–156; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO -Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 114–121; Good Above, pp. 202–203; -Patrick Gross, “Files -Obtained from the National Archives of Canada”; -Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -pp. 207–219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5207

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Event 7682 -(B6B90DF2)

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Date: 11/17/1975
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Suzanne Erenberger and Dave Vardeman are driving -on US Highway 30 about one-quarter mile west of Mount Vernon, Iowa, when -they see white lights in the southwestern sky. They stop the car and get -out to watch for a while. Frightened, they drive into town to notify the -police. The police chief describes Erenberger as “terrified, nearly -hysterical.” An officer accompanies the two students back to the -location but sees nothing unusual. Erenberger tells a reporter from the -Cedar Rapids Gazette that they were only 30 feet away from one of the -lights, which was only 25 feet off the ground. She makes a drawing of a -domed object for a high-school newspaper. UFO investigator Kevin -D. Randle interviews Erenberger on November 27, and she tells him -there is a bright light coming from a 30-foot-wide disc-shaped object -with a huge glass dome. She thinks she can see two humanoid shapes -behind it. But Vardeman separately tells Randle that he only sees lights -in the distance and nothing else. Randle also talks to an additional -witness, Richard -Manson, who has seen a red light about the same time. Randle -concludes that the lights come from aircraft landing at the Cedar Rapids -Municipal Airport and that Erenberger’s details are confabulations. (“Coed: -‘No Doubt about What I Saw,’” Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette, November -19, 1975, p. 3C; Kevin D. Randle, “UFOs on Memory Lane,” IUR 26, no. 1 -(Spring 2001): 9–11, 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5211

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Event 7683 -(38FA2232)

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Date: 11/20/1975
-Description: Michel, Robert, and Claude Souris found the Centre d’Études -et de Recherches des Phénomènes Inexpliqués in Saintes, France. It -publishes a CERPI Circulaire newsletter from February 1976 to 1981. (CERPI, -no. 1 (February 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5212

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Event 7684 -(A760C88D)

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Date: 11/30/1975
-Description: Unit One of the Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], Russia, -nuclear power plant is being brought back online after scheduled -maintenance when it begins to run out of control. A partial meltdown -occurs, destroying or damaging 32 fuel assemblies and releasing -radiation into the atmosphere over the Gulf of Finland. The official -line is that a manufacturing defect caused the destruction of only one -fuel channel, but the accident is really caused by an uncontrollable -increase in the steam void coefficient. (Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at -Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 66–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5213

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Event 7685 -(29E5D3AA)

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Date: 12/1975
-Description: The Air Force panel finishes reviewing the Blue Book files -and turns over the sanitized version to the National Archives, -apparently without yet physically moving the files to NARA facilities. -These files now include an added set of AFOSI files of UFO -investigations from 1948 to 1968 released by AFOSI in December 1975. (Sparks, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5214

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Event 7686 -(D9820CC7)

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Date: 12/12/1975
-Description: Robert Suffern and his wife meet with two military -officers, one Canadian, the other American, at his home near -Bracebridge, Ontario. They tell him the October 7 incident was a -“mistake” caused by the malfunctioning of an extraterrestrial -spacecraft. The officers show him close-up photos of UFOs and say that -their governments have been cooperating with aliens since 1943. (Clark -III 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5215

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Event 7687 -(EDBB689A)

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Date: 12/14/1975
-Description: Late evening. A man is driving his truck on a gravel road -along Toppenish Ridge in the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington -State when he sees a cow and two calves running toward him as if fleeing -from something. Moments later he sees three figures in the ditch. One -jumps up on the road, covering 15 feet in a single slow-motion leap, its -arms above its head. The witness describes it as a skinny, 7-foot-tall -man with a narrow, pale face and long, pointed nose. It is dressed in -close-fitting black clothing and boots. On its chest there is a white -trapezoid insignia. The entity is carrying something purple it its left -hand that has a wire on it that runs down its arm. The other two -creatures remain on the side of the road. The witness speeds up, -swerving around the figure. A few moments later, a bright, elongated UFO -appears behind him. The interior of the truck is flooded with light. -Suddenly he becomes aware of a “shadow” in the passenger seat. From the -shape of the head and coat, the man “knows” it is a friend of his. The -friend looks at him, leans forward and looks up at the light, falls -back, wipes his eyes, and vanishes. At that moment, the light -disappears. The next morning, he learns that his friend has been killed -in a shooting. (Greg Long, Examining the Earthlight Theory: The Yakima -UFO Microcosm, CUFOS, 1990, pp. 56–60; Clark III 281)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5216

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Event 7688 -(4F92C210)

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Date: 12/15/1975
-Description: Jacques -Vallée and J. -Allen Hynek publish The Edge of Reality, which discusses how the -extraterrestrial hypothesis does not seem to explain UFOs fully. -Although they acknowledge the UFO phenomenon is real, its reality skirts -the edges of accepted science, and they both lean toward an -interdimensional hypothesis. (J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallée, The -Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, -Regnery, 1975)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5217

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- Event 7689 (A37AC334)

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Date: 1976
-Description: In Worlds Beyond, Ian -Ridpath discusses ETI, life and human development, life in the Solar -System, the feasibility of interstellar travel, and the possibility that -alien probes have already visited Earth. (Ian Ridpath, Worlds -Beyond, Harper and Row, 1976; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and -UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994): 146–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5225

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Event 7690 -(CBDA9982)

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Date: 1976
-Description: Project SIGMA becomes an independent project from Project -xxxxxxx.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A, SIGMA)
-Location: US
-Attributes: Majestic
-See also: 1968

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Event 7691 -(DE93246B)

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Date: 1976
-Description: US writer Bill -Kaysing publishes a book claiming that NASA lacks the technical -expertise to land astronauts on the moon and that numerous optical -anomalies in the Apollo photos show that the moon landings are faked in -a studio or at Area 51. The book launches a host of similar moon landing -conspiracy theories. (Wikipedia, “Moon landing -conspiracy theories”; Bill Kaysing, We Never Went to the Moon: -America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, Health Research, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5219

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Event 7692 -(190E9C28)

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Date: 1976
-Description: David -Saunders gives his UFOCAT computer file to the Center for UFO -Studies in Evanston, Illinois, where it is updated by Fred Merritt. The -database is kept on an IBM mainframe computer at a nearby computer -facility with a magnetic tape backup. In 1982 it proves too expensive -for CUFOS to maintain on a mainframe, so it is removed from active use -and stored on tape. (Fred Merritt, “UFOCAT: A Unique Tool for Research,” -IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1976): 14–15; Center for UFO Studies, “UFOCAT-2009”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5218

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Event 7693 -(B20AF934)

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Date: 1976
-Description: Meteorologist Sture -Wickerts replaces Tage -Eriksson as head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National -Defence Research Institute. (Swords 368)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5224

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Event 7694 -(8326626E)

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Date: 1976
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A man who lives on a hill overlooking the Boeing -factory in Renton, Washington, notices lights hovering above the -building at the south end of the plant. Suddenly the lights shoot -straight up in the air and move to the north end of the plant, dropping -down and hovering again. It then makes a quick arc and hovers about 900 -feet above the witness’s house. The object is circular with a curved low -top, sides that slope inward, silent, and a continuous row of windows -separated every 10–15 feet by thin vertical supports. A yellow or amber -light is at the top. It is about 50 feet in diameter and 12–15 feet -high. He can see 3–4 images moving back and forth inside the craft. -After about 3 minutes, the object moves toward Lake Washington and -disappears in 4 seconds. (“UFO -Seen Inspecting -Seattle Boeing Plant,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6 -(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5226

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Event 7695 -(70233C86)

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Date: 1976
-Description: Ancient astronaut author Zecharia -Sitchin writes his first book of many, The 12th Planet, proposing an -explanation for human origins involving extraterrestrials. Sitchin -attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, -which he claims was a race of beings from a planet beyond Neptune called -Nibiru. He asserts that Sumerian mythology suggests that this -hypothetical planet of Nibiru is in an elongated, 3,600-year- long -elliptical orbit around the Sun. (Zecharia Sitchin, The -12th Planet, Avon, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5220

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Event 7696 -(55577563)

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Date: 1976
-Description: In his book Gods of Aquarius, author Brad -Steiger introduces the concept of “Star People,” human beings tied -by physiology, past lives, or both, to extraterrestrials who came to -earth long ago and are preparing them for a societal transformation. -(Brad Steiger, Gods of Aquarius: UFOs and the Transformation of Man, -Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976; Clark III 90–91)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5221

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Event 7697 -(3C9D0A5B)

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Date: 1976
-Description: Author Roberta -Donovan publishes Mystery Stalks the Prairie with Cascade County -Deputy Sheriff Keith Wolverton of -Great Falls, Montana, documenting his investigations of cattle -mutilations with a suspected cult involvement. They are not sure whether -mystery helicopters and UFO s are related to the mutilations, but either -way federal government officials seem to know what is going on. (Roberta -Donovan and Keith Wolverton, Mystery -Stalks the Prairie, THAR -Institute, 1976; Wikipedia, “Cattle -mutilation”; Nukes 365–369)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5222

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Event 7698 -(7814ABCB)

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Date: 1976
-Description: Historian Nicolas Greslou launches the Comité Savoyard -d’Études et de Recherches Ufologiques in Chambery, France. It publishes -a quarterly newsletter, Le Phénomène OVNI, from 1977 to 1985. (Le -Phénomène OVNI, no. 1 (Oct./Dec. 1977))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5223

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Event 7699 -(4421D00E)

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Date: 1/3/1976
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 275

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Event 7700 -(8C23A751)

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Date: 1/4/1976
-Description: A technician driving home is stuck in rush hour traffic at -Sale, heading toward Altrincham, Cheshire, England. Suddenly his radio -begins to hiss and crackle, and flashes of light spark out, dancing -across the windshield. As he looks out through the steady rain, two -angular, ice-blue lights pass slowly across his field of view. Moments -later they are gone, the sparking stops, and the radio works again. -(Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 -(Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5227

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Event 7701 -(1056BA9A)

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Date: 1/6/1976
-Description: Domed disc with body lights descended, illuminated car -interior with blue light. Missing time, abduction, physiological -effects
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Stanford, KY
-ID: 276

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Event 7702 -(6DE157BD)

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Date: 1/6/1976
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Mona Stafford and two friends, Louise Smith and -Elaine Thomas, are driving southwest on Highway 78 between Stanford and -Hustonville, Kentucky, when they see an intense red glow in the east. It -grows larger, then descends rapidly to the right of the car at tree-top -level. As it hovers, they can see a disc shape with round windows with -rotating, blinking red lights around each of them; yellow lights stretch -below these, and a luminous blue dome is on top of the object. The UFO -moves closer, flips on its side, and shines three beams of bluish-white -light on the road, and another into their vehicle. Smith, apparently -dazed, gets out of the car, but Stafford pulls her back in. There is a -“dead silence,” their skin tingles, and they start getting severe -headaches. They find the car has started back up on its own and is -moving at 85 mph with no help from Smith. Stafford feels as if it is -being pulled. Moments later, they find themselves 8 miles away, just -outside Hustonville. When they get home to Smith’s trailer in Liberty, -Kentucky, around 1:25 a.m., they find they are missing about an hour and -a half of time. All three of them experience odd physical and -psychological symptoms. The women are hypnotized by ufologist R. -Leo Sprinkle, who -finds that they have generally compatible memories of an abduction -event. Over time, their memories of the missing time period grow more -elaborate, but their story contains elements and images echoed in other -accounts before and since. (“The -Kentucky Abduction,” APRO Bulletin 25, no. 4 (October 1976): 1, 3–6; -Lorenzen, Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space, -Berkley, 1977, pp. 114–131; -“The Kentucky Abduction,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 6–7; Story, pp. 192–195; -John Greenewald, “The -1976 Stanford, -Kentucky, Abductions,” The Black Vault, April 26, 2016; Clark III -643–648)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5228

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Event 7703 -(C7BE3E11)

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Date: 1/21/1976
-Description: MEMO from NMCC by Rear Adm. J. B. Morin stating: Two UFOs -reported near the flight line at Cannon AFB, N.M. Security Police report -the UFOs to be 25 yards (75 ft.) in diameter, gold/silver in color with -blue light on top, hole in the middle and red light on the bottom.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p524, B1-F p342)
-Location: Cannon AFB, NM

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Event 7704 -(90FA5D41)

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Date: 1/21/1976
-Description: Before 3:55 a.m. Security police see two UFOs near the -flight line at Cannon AFB, southwest of Clovis, New Mexico. The objects -are 75 feet in diameter, gold or silver in color, with a blue light on -top, a hole in the middle, and a red light on the bottom. An Air Force -officer calls the UFO Education Center in Wisconsin to report he “had a -very close sighting and was able to witness a type of vehicle that did -maneuver and that was unlike any type aircraft he has ever seen.” One -observer claims to see a dozen UFOs through a Starlight Scope from the -flight tower. A Clovis policeman sees a cigar-shaped object with -pulsating red, white, and blue lights. (“UFOs Continue -Clovis Visits,” Las Cruces (N.Mex.) Sun-News, January 25, 1976, -p. 1; Rear Adm. J. G. Morin, “Report of -UFO, Cannon AFB, NM,” January 21, 1976; “Cannon AFB: UFOs, Burned -Circles, and Cows Found Mutilated,” UFO Info; Good Above, p. 524; -Good Need, p. 349)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5229

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Event 7705 -(AF11C2C7)

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Date: 1/23/1976
-Description: 6:00–10:30 p.m. “Scores” of UFO sightings take place around -Clovis, New Mexico. Town Marshal Willie Ronquillo of -Texico follows a silent object with green, yellow, and blue lights 900 -feet above his car before it speeds away to the north. A police -dispatcher in Artesia sees 6–7 flashing lights in the sky at 750–1,000 -feet altitude. They hover for a while, then move away at high speed -toward Carlsbad. Members of the UFO Study Group, composed of employees -of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories, arrive in Clovis at 11:30 -p.m. to investigate. (“UFOs -Continue Clovis Visits,” Las Cruces (N.Mex.) Sun-News, January 25, -1976, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5230

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Event 7706 -(BEEEC72A)

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Date: 1/31/1976
-Description: 3:30–5:00 a.m. UFOs are spotted by security police over the -radar site at the Armament Development and Test Center at Eglin AFB, -southwest of Valparaiso, Florida. Photos are taken. (Brig. Gen. Fred A. -Treyz, “Unidentified -Flying Object Sighting,” January 31, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5231

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Event 7707 -(BFD381A1)

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Date: 2/1976
-Description: Ufologist James -W. Moseley launches an eight-page newsletter of UFO information and -rumor. Its title varies, but by July 1981 Moseley has settled on Saucer -Smear. It is sent out for free every month or so to several hundred UFO -buffs whom Moseley calls “nonsubscribers.” (Clark III 776)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5232

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Event 7708 -(7FC393BF)

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Date: 2/1976
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Ruby -Breslin is driving along Central Expressway in Dallas, Texas, when -her daughter sees an object just as she takes the exit ramp to the -Northwest Highway. It has windows and a flashing red light on top, and -hovers for 4–5 minutes before shooting straight up. (“Out -of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5233

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Event 7709 -(61196C4C)

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Date: 2/1976
-Description: Night. A married couple living near the Tasman Highway in -Tasmania have retired for the evening. The woman is already asleep and -the man has just turned off the light when he sees three 7–8 feet tall -entities passing through the closed door of the bedroom. One touches the -man’s leg and he goes numb to the waist. He lets them attach some kind -of glowing sack to his body, but when they start to approach his wife, -he lashes out with one arm that hasn’t gone numb. His wife wakes up and -starts struggling too. The entities exit through some kind of orange -portal outside the closed window and disappear. (Michael D. Swords, “A -Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5234

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Event 7710 -(48C6AC18)

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Date: 2/19/1976
-Description: The National Archives starts microfilming the redacted -Project Blue Book files through the commercial firm Fuller & Dees -Marketing Group in Montgomery, Alabama. (Sparks, -p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5235

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Event 7711 -(F2DED12E)

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Date: 2/20/1976
-Description: In answer to a request by UFO researcher Robert -Todd, the -National Security Agency states that the NSA “does not have any interest -in UFOs in any manner.” (ClearIntent, p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5236

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Event 7712 -(5CAB2EDB)

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Date: late 2/1976
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A man in Kettering, Tasmania, is awake tending to -a child when he looks outside to his east and sees what he thinks is an -aircraft descending at 45°. After watching for a couple of minutes, he -goes outside. The object comes down behind a small bank on the far side -of a sports field opposite his house. He crosses the field, climbs the -bank, and sees from about 82 feet away, a dome-shaped object emitting a -bright-white to yellow light from three or four windows. When he looks -through the object’s windows he can see a tall cylinder (that he likens -to a ship’s compass mounting), motionless gray shapes (like car seats -with headrests seen from the rear), and perhaps entities. He hears a -humming noise. The object takes off to the east with the noise -increasing in volume. It climbs away at 60° and recedes to a point -source and disappears. The total duration is 6–7 minutes. The next day -he returns to the spot and notes the rough grass beyond the sports field -has been scorched in a circular patch. This grass later dies. On October -24, 1977, the Tasmanian UFO Information Centre takes soil samples of -this area that are examined by Geoff Stevens using a thermoluminescence -test. His investigation reveals no significant, systematic differences -in the thermoluminescence content of soil and mineral particles taken -from within the affected area, and control samples taken from outside -this area. (Geoff Stevens, “Thermoluminescence Measurements of Soil -Samples Affected by a UFO,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1978, pp. 1, 3–6; -Keith Roberts and Geoff Stevens, “The -Kettering, Tasmania, Landing: A Study,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. -3 (November 1978): 18–21; “Tasmanian Landing in 1976,” IUR 31, no. 2 -(June 2007): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5237

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Event 7713 -(4F5FF6EC)

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Date: 3/1976
-Description: Werner -Walter and Hansjürgen Köhler found Centrale Erforschungsnetz -Auβergewöhnlicher Phänomene [later Himmelsphänomene] in Mannheim, -Germany. The first issue of its somewhat skeptical, anti-ETH, monthly -CENAP-Report is published, continuing until May 2007. (Wikipedia, “Centrales -Erforschungsnetz Auβergewöhnlicher -Himmelsphänomene”; CENAP -Report, no. -1 (May 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5238

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Event 7714 -(7A70BE7D)

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Date: 3/3/1976
-Description: Night. Claude Bosc, a student pilot flying a French Air -Force T-33 on a training mission at 19,500 feet, sees a rapidly -approaching bright light in the distance near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, -France. In 1–2 seconds, the object speeds toward him and his plane is -surrounded by a green phosphorescent light that illuminates the aircraft -for several seconds. The green sphere, only 3–6 feet in diameter, avoids -a collision at the last minute and passes over his right wing. The radar -shows nothing, but two other pilots see the encounter from a distance. -(Comité d’Études Approfondies, Les OVNI et la Defense: A Quoi doit-on se -Préparer? (UFOs -and Defense: What Should We Prepare -for?), July 16, 1999, pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5239

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Event 7715 -(A61B19B5)

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Date: 3/11/1976
-Description: An Iberian Airlines pilot flying above Palma de Mallorca, -Balearic Islands, Spain, watches an elongated object, shaped like a -dirigible gondola and lighted from within through several window-like -openings, pace his aircraft with occasional bursts of speed. (UFOEv II -122, 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5240

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Event 7716 -(B49B056C)

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Date: 3/15/1976
-Description: 10:14 p.m. Two objects are tracked on radar flying over the -landing strips at Simón Bolívar Airport near Caracas, Venezuela, at -3,000 mph. Tower operators ask the unidentified craft to identify -themselves. Instead they take off and disappear over the Caribbean Sea. -(Richard H. Hall, “UFOs -Tracked on Radar at Venezuelan Airport,” -MUFON UFO Journal, no. 110 (January 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5241

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Event 7717 -(DB0356D4)

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Date: 3/22/1976
-Description: 5:42 a.m. A couple are stopped in their car outside a hotel -in Nemingha, New South Wales, deciding on directions. Suddenly a bright, -greenish-yellow light descends and completely envelops a nearby white -car, which drifts to the wrong side of the road, wrapped in a thick ball -of white haze. Its headlights go out. After 2 minutes the haze -dissipates, and a woman gets out of the car and wipes a white substance -off the windshield with a yellow cloth. She is about to get back in when -its lights come back on by themselves. She throws the cloth on the -roadside, drives a short way, and the yellow cloth bursts into flame. -When the white car passes the couple, they notice it is covered in a -thick white substance, except for the windshield. (Bill Chalker, “Road -Hazard Down Under?” -Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 (February 1977): 28–32; Bill Chalker, “Postscript -to the Nemingha Case,” -Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 (October 1977): 22, 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5242

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Event 7718 -(334028D1)

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Date: 3/26/1976
-Description: The CIA responds to the Ground Saucer Watch FOIA request, -claiming that its only involvement with UFOs was with the 1953 Robertson -Panel. (ClearIntent, p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5243

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Event 7719 -(DD70841D)

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Date: 3/31/1976
-Description: During a campaign stop in Appleton, Wisconsin, Georgia -Gov. Jimmy -Carter is asked by Thomas Heiman, associate director of the UFO -Education Center, whether he would make public all the UFO files if he -became president. Carter answers, “Yes, I would make these kinds of data -available to the public, as President, to help resolve the mystery about -it.” (Grant Cameron, “Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Prize, and -Extraterrestrials”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5244

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Event 7720 -(487396C6)

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Date: 4/1976
-Description: DARPA names Lockheed the winner of a competition to build a -stealth bomber. Immediately it begins manufacturing two flying Have Blue -prototypes in Skunk Works Building 82 in Burbank, California. -(Wikipedia, “Lockheed -Have -Blue”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5245

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Event 7721 -(35A632B0)

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Date: 4/1976
-Description: Michel -Monnerie and Raymond Bonnaventure begin publishing Ufologie Contact, -a newsletter intending to reach all the UFO groups iaround Paris, -France. It soon falls under the auspices of the Société Parisienne -d’Étude des Phénomène Spatiaux et Étranges in Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, -France, and continues through at least 1981. (Ufologie -Contact, ser. -1, no. 2 (May 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5246

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Event 7722 -(F4AE401A)

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Date: 4/2/1976
-Description: 1:50 a.m. Detective Sgt. Norman Collinson is driving home -along the M62 and M66 motorways near Bury, Greater Manchester, England. -As he turns north onto the M66 he observes a white disc of light moving -very fast, crossing the path he is traveling. The object is heading -toward Knoll Hill, east of Bury. The UFO makes a right- angle turn onto -a south-southeast heading. Puzzled, the officer stops his vehicle and -gets out to look at the light. As he does so, the light stops and hovers -nearby. It then begins to perform a series of spectacular right-angle -box turns, after which it moves off in the direction of Heywood, with -Collinson following it in his car. The object stops a second time and -again repeats the angular movements before streaking away at a -tremendous speed. The incident is reported to the MOD and Manchester -Airport. (Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington, “Police Encounter -at Bury,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 (August 1977): 13, -15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5247

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Event 7723 -(5E2CA1BB)

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Date: 4/3/1976
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Several residents of Quixadá, Ceará, Brazil, -during an outdoor physical education session, see a large disc-shaped -object that glides silently a few feet from the ground emitting an -intense light. At about the same time in another part of the city, Luis -Barroso Fernandes is preparing to travel to a site a few kilometers away -on his donkey cart. He soon hears a buzzing sound, and a flying object -10 feet in diameter positions itself above him. It slowly descends in -front of his cart about 100 feet away. The device emits a beam of light -that strikes the donkey and Barroso, who immediately become paralyzed. A -door opens on the UFO and two small beings emerge. One holds something -like a flashlight and aims a beam that strikes Barroso in the face, -causing him to lose consciousness. He wakes up in a different spot, -dizzy and suffering from a burning sensation on his face, and a -headache. The left side of his body is reddish, and he has difficulty -getting into his cart and getting it moving. He asks his wife to take -him to Dr. Antônio Moreira Magalhães, who prescribes a tranquilizer. He -continues to feel sick, his eyes burn continuously, and the left side of -his body is red. A few days later, his hair turns gray and he suffers -memory lapses. After his symptoms worsen and other doctors fail to help, -his family checks him into a psychiatric hospital in Fortaleza. His -condition deteriorates, and he dies in April 1993. (Elias Bruno, “Brazil: -The Barroso -Case,” Inexplicata, April 29, 2012; Clark III 180–182; Brazil -179–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5248

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Event 7724 -(982F1EB8)

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Date: 4/9/1976
-Description: CONFIDENTIAL CIA Message: Source (name Censored) seeks -guidance from CIA UFO experts as to material in his report that should -remain classified.
-Type: confidential message
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p508)
-Location: Langley, VA

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Event 7725 -(2E073948)

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Date: 4/14/1976
-Description: A heavily redacted CIA memo shows a reference to someone’s -having sought “guidance from CIA UFO experts as to material in his -report that should remain classified.” (ClearIntent, p. 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5249

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Event 7726 -(203800AC)

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Date: 4/17/1976
-Description: June and Vicky Melling, on vacation in Mawnan, Cornwall, -England, see a large winged creature hovering above the tower of -St. Mawnan and St. Stephen’s Church. They are so frightened by the sight -of a large “feathered bird-man” that their father Dan Melling cuts short -the vacation. Magician and showman Tony -“Doc” Shiels investigates -the case, and one of the girls provides him with a drawing of the -creature, which he dubs “Owlman.” Other sightings emerge over the next -few years. Occult historian Gareth J. Medway suggests that the whole -thing is a hoax by Shiels, who has a reputation for hoaxing. Medway -notes that witnesses claiming encounters with the legendary monster -“were either Doc Shiels, or friends of Doc Shiels, or relatives of Doc -Shiels, or reported their sightings to Doc Shiels (and to no one else), -or else wrote letters describing what they had seen to newspapers and -were never interviewed by anyone.” (Wikipedia, “Owlman”; -Robert J. M. Rickard, “Birdmen of the Apocalypse!” Fortean Times 17 -(August 1976): 14–20; Doc Shiels, “To Wit! To Woo? Some Thoughts about -Owlman,” Fortean Times 27 (Autumn 1978): 44–46; Jonathan Downes, The -Owlman and Others, Domra, 1997; Clark III 602)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5250

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Event 7727 -(82DD0C49)

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Date: 4/22/1976
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Police officer George Wheeler, on duty at -Elmwood, Wisconsin, notices a glow at the top of Tuttle Hill. He drives -closer and sees an object as high as a two-story house and 250 feet -across with an orange-white light at the top and six bluish-white lights -on the side. It is 500 feet away and about 100 feet off the ground. He -thinks he can see, though an open side panel, something moving inside -it. The object has several partially extended legs and a long, black, -hose-like appendage. Suddenly the object rises straight up. He sees some -kind of flash and his car lights go out, the motor stops, the radio goes -dead, and he becomes dazed. A second police car arrives, noticing that -the car door is open, and takes the witness to a hospital, from which he -is released four days later. Some people in the area have difficulty -with TV reception at the same time as the encounter. (“Sighting -Reports,” CUFOS News Bulletin, June 1976, pp. 5–6; Patrick Gross, “George -Wheeler’s Close Encounter, 1976”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5252

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Event 7728 -(DD659979)

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Date: 4/22/1976
-Description: 1:45 a.m. RCMP Constable Bill Toffan sees an apparent -vehicle with its lights flashing ahead of him as he is driving on Canada -Highway 16 west of Terrace, British Columbia. As he rounds a curve, he -sees it is actually in the air 300 feet above the trees. Suddenly there -is a blinding flash and he nearly loses control of his car. After a -brief report appears in the press, the RCMP orders Toffan not to discuss -the incident. (“Mountie -‘Ordered’ into Silence,” -Vancouver (B.C.) Sun, April 26, 1976, p. 8; Good Above, pp. 194–195; -Patrick Gross, “Files -Obtained from -the National Archives of Canada”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5251

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Event 7729 -(87BCECB7)

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Date: 4/23/1976
-Description: 2:40 a.m. A 1st Lt. is on communications duty aboard a US -Navy destroyer in the Atlantic southwest of Bermuda. The lookout calls -his attention to a green light dead ahead through light fog three miles -away at 10° above the horizon. Radar reports no target and the sonar -room hears no engines. The crew watches the green light dip to 30–40 -feet above the surface and approach the ship. The lieutenant orders a -course change to starboard, and the green light becomes much larger, -making a comparable turn to port in order to pace the ship. The ship and -the object both make subsequent turns, with the light now only 50-60 -feet away. Suddenly a large blip appears on the radar scope. The -destroyer returns to its original heading and the light stations itself -on the port beam. When the captain comes on deck, the light circles the -ship twice. Then once again off to port, it becomes a brighter green, -tilts at an angle, and submerges. The next day the captain tells the -crew not to discuss the incident. (Donald R. Todd, “Ship’s -Crew Sees UFO,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 11 (May 1978): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5253

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Event 7730 -(D1E88169)

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Date: 4/30/1976
-End date: 5/2/1976
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies holds its first conference on -UFO research at the Hyatt House in Lincolnwood, Illinois. The -proceedings are published later in the year, featuring papers on -sighting waves, exosociology, and humanoid reports. Presenters include -Ted -Bloecher, Ann -Druffel, Loren -Gross, Richard -H. Hall, David -M. Jacobs, James -McCampbell, David -Saunders, R. -Leo Sprinkle, David -Webb, and Ray -Stanford. (Charles -Bowen, “The -Editor Goes West,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 2 (July 1976): -26–28; Richard F. Haines, “CUFOS -Holds Its First Technical Conference,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. -3 (October 1976): 13–17; Proceedings -of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center for UFO Studies, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5255

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Event 7731 -(624DDC1F)

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Date: 4/30/1976
-End date: 5/1/1976
-Description: The Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the -Paranormal is launched at a specially convened conference of the -American Humanist Association. Paul -Kurtz, James -Randi, Martin -Gardner, and -Ray Hyman take -seats on the executive board. The committee will be funded with -donations and sales of their magazine, Skeptical Inquirer. (Wikipedia, -“Committee -for Skeptical Inquiry”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5254

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Event 7732 -(8E2FA0B7)

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Date: mid 5/1976
-Description: The US National Archives publicly releases the redacted -Project Blue Book paper files at its College Park, Maryland, branch. (Sparks, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5256

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Event 7733 -(520E1D2D)

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Date: 6/1976
-Description: Ground Saucer Watch issues its first newsletter, which is -published through December 1982. (Ground -Saucer Watch -Bulletin, no. -1 (June 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5257

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Event 7734 -(3AFD123D)

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Date: 6/11/1976
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Hélène Guiliana is driving through -Chatuzange-le-Goubet, Drôme, France, when her car engine misfires and -stalls and the headlights go out. Some 80 feet away near the Pont du -Martinet bridge she sees an orange light in the form of a “dome.” She -experiences fear and covers her face with her hands. After what seems a -few seconds, the light disappears. Driving home upset and afraid, she -misses a familiar sign and drives a mile out of her way. When she -arrives home, it is 4:00 a.m. Under hypnosis on July 22 (repeated on -August 18), she tells of meeting two waist-high dwarves with large eyes, -dressed in black overalls. They carry her toward the light, which she -enters through an iron door. Inside a high, round room, they place her -on a table, putting handcuffs on er hands and feet. After an -examination, she is returned outside and the craft departs straight up -noiselessly. (“L’Etrange -Rencontre d’Hélène Guiliana,” Ouranos, new ser. 18 (Jan./Mar. 1977): -5–7; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1976): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5258

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Event 7735 -(01B4EEA5)

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Date: 6/11/1976
-Description: Dome-shaped object hovered above road, E-M effects on car. -Missing time, abduction
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Le Martinet, Drome, France
-ID: 277

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Event 7736 -(1D66265A)

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Date: 6/20/1976
-Description: After 1:00 a.m. A young married couple and their -4-month-old child are detained and examined by entities as they are -traveling near Goodland, Kansas, en route to Colorado. UFO investigator -Richard -Sigismond meets repeatedly with them in July–October 1976 using -hypnotic regression techniques to enhance their memories. The experience -is traumatic for them, and they require counseling. (“Abduction in -Western Kansas,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1976): 12; “Abduction in Western -Kansas,” IUR 2, no. 10 (Oct. 1977): 4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5259

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Event 7737 -(300EC2DB)

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Date: 6/21/1976
-Description: 12:40 a.m. Police officer Th. Brandt-Jensen sees a bright, -blue-white light cross the road behind him in Ringsted, Zealand, -Denmark. He thinks it might be an airplane in trouble. He speeds up to -90 mph toward a crossroad where he can pull off the highway. The object -catches up to within 165–250 feet and its light strikes his car, the -engine and lights going out immediately. He guides the coasting vehicle -to the road shoulder, gets out, and catches a glimpse of the object as -it disappears behind the horizon. It resembles a glider with a ray of -light coming from it that swings back and forth as it passes his car. It -makes a slight whistling sound and appears to be about 50 feet long. -(“UFO -Rapporter Danmark,” UFO-Nyt, 1976 no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1976): 186–187; -Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part -Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5260

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Event 7738 -(1D7CE490)

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Date: 6/22/1976
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A bright red light like a rocket emerging from -the sea at a distance climbs diagonally and turns into a brilliant -semicircular dome over the Canary Islands. It is transparent with a -bluish-white hue. The crew of the corvette Atrevida watches the object -for 40 minutes, during which time a foreign tourist takes a photo. 400 -miles to the south, the crew of the ship Osaka Bay also sees the -luminous phenomena in the shape of a sphere. Maj. Antonio Munáiz -Ferro-Sastre investigates the sightings for the Spanish Air Force and -rejects the hypothesis that the light is from a naval missile launch. -However, two Poseidon missiles are launched in the area around the same -time by the submarine USS -Von Steuben. (J. M. Sanchez, “Canary -Islands Landing: Occupants Reported,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 -(October 1977): 4–7; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio -Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, -pp. 91–97; -Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile -Tests and the Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): -3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5262

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Event 7739 -(736DE07B)

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Date: 6/22/1976
-Description: 9:27 p.m. Dr. Don Francisco-Julio Padrón León and Santiago -del Pino are traveling in a taxi when they see a gigantic ball of light -200 feet ahead of them between Gáldar and Agaete, Gran Canaria, Canary -Islands. The taxi radio cuts out. Inside the light, which is actually -like a transparent soap bubble, they see some panels and two enormous -beings on a platform. The humanoids are some 9–10 feet tall, wear black -diving helmets and red tight- fitting coveralls, and are moving levers -about. Their hands are enclosed in black cones. The backs of their heads -are disproportionately large, and their legs are short. The taxi driver -switches the headlights on, and the UFO rises as a bluish gas is emitted -from a tube and expands the size of the sphere to a 20-story building. -The driver turns the car around and goes to a nearby house. The -inhabitants say their TV set just blacked out. They continue watching -through a window. When the sphere stops expanding, they hear a -high-pitched whistle and the object speeds off to the northwest. (J. M. -Sanchez, “Canary -Islands Landing: Occupants Reported,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 -(October 1977): 4–7; Good Above, pp. 153–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5261

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Event 7740 -(E41E8F2D)

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Date: 6/23/1976
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Paulo Coutinho, 18, is returning home from a -night class in Aricanduva, São Paulo, Brazil, when he sees a light in -the sky moving westward. Suddenly he feels paralyzed as the light -approaches and descends about 25 feet away. A short being emerges with a -big head, large eyes, pointed ears, small mouth, and an upturned nose -like a pig. It is bald, has no eyebrows, and wears a tight one-piece -bluish-gray suit with an emblem on its chest. Coutinho rises into the -air toward a huge cigar-shaped object, in which he undergoes an -abduction experience. Coutinho is still missing the next morning. A -friend finds his books and notebooks scattered on the street and brings -them to his parents. A police search fails to find him. In the evening -of June 24, Coutinho is discovered lying on the steps of the garden door -in a semiconscious state. He is cold as if he has been there some time. -He is later revived at a nearby hospital. The police officer who carries -him to the ambulance later feels a strong irritation in his arms. -Ballpoint pens in Coutinho’s pockets are radioactive. (“O -Caso dos Añoes Extraterrenos -de Vila Aricanduva São Paulo, Capital,” SBEDV Boletim, no. 116/120 -(July 1977/Feb. 1978): 6–18; “Caso -Paulo Coutinho,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil -185–194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5263

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Event 7741 -(72997A13)

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Date: 6/26/1976
-Description: Spanish journalist Juan -J. Benitez interviews Gen. Carlos Castro Cavero, commander of the -Canary Islands division, who tells him: “The nations of the world are -currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. -There is an international exchange of data. Maybe when this group of -nations acquires more precise and definite information, it will be -possible to release the news to the world.” He says the Spanish Air -Ministry investigates UFO cases, including those involving pilots. He -admits that he has watched a UFO for more than an hour at his ranch. It -remains stationery for that length of time, then shoots off towards Ejea -de los Caballeros, Zaragoza, covering 12.5 miles in less than 2 seconds. -Cavero believes UFOs are “spaceships or extraterrestrial craft.” (Gordon -Creighton, “Important -Statement by Spanish Air Force Chief,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. -3 (October 1976): 2; Patrick Gross, “Documents: -50 Years of UFO Disclosure”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5264

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Event 7742 -(8BF6F785)

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Date: 7/1976
-Description: The New England UFO Study Group publishes its first -newsletter, which lasts through September 1982. (New England -UFO Newsletter, no. -1 (July 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5265

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Event 7743 -(3F606924)

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Date: 7/11/1976
-Description: Two Indian Air Force MiG 21 jets are scrambled near the -Pakistani border to intercept what appears initially on radar to be a -Pakistani jet. But the object is moving at 2,600 mph, and the two pilots -see the target is an amber- colored disc that pulls away before they can -catch up to it. (Good Need, p. 303)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5266

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Event 7744 -(0846B58F)

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Date: 7/12/1976
-Description: The National Archives makes available the 94 reels of 35mm -microfilm with redacted Project Blue Book files. (Sparks, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5267

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Event 7745 -(186D8CB7)

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Date: 7/14/1976
-Description: Before dawn. For a period of two hours, two brightly -shining UFOs perform fantastic maneuvers at the Gobernador Edgardo -Castello Airport in Viedma, Rio Negro, Argentina. At dawn, the sunlight -neutralizes the bright lights of the UFOs, but the observers see them -leave the area at high speed. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November -1976): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5268

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Event 7746 -(5C6F3770)

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Date: 7/23/1976
-Description: J. -Allen Hynek arrives on the set of Steven -Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Mobile, Alabama, -and gives a lecture on UFOs to some of the actors who are interested (Bob -Balaban, Richard -Dreyfuss, Melinda -Dillon, and -30+ others. At some point his cameo is filmed. (Bob Balaban, Spielberg, -Truffaut and Me: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, an Actor’s Diary, -Titan, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5269

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Event 7747 -(0BDE3199)

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Date: 7/28/1976
-Description: Capt. Eldon -W. Joersz and Maj. George T. Morgan Jr. attain a world airspeed -record of 2,193 mph in a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird over Beale AFB near -Marysville, California. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -SR-71 Blackbird”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5270

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Event 7748 -(7A849B12)

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Date: 7/28/1976
-Description: 3:45 p.m. Adult counselor Ira Leifer and 13 teenage boys -are resting from a hike in the woods at Camp Delaware [now Greenwood -Trails] west of Winsted, Connecticut, when they hear a high-pitched -whine. They see a silvery, flat-bottomed UFO 15–25 feet in diameter -through a clearing in the trees. A purple haze surrounds it and on top -they see a red glow. The object is hovering at a steep angle. After -15–25 seconds the whine returns, and the object takes off and is lost to -sight in a second or two. (“Daylight CE I Seen by 14 Witnesses in -Connecticut,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976): 6–7; Clark III 247)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5271

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Event 7749 -(A0BD60F1)

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Date: 7/29/1976
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 278

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Event 7750 -(54CBDF41)

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Date: 7/30/1976
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A British Airways Trident 2E piloted by -Capt. Dennis Wood is flying at 29,000 feet over the North Atlantic about -40 miles south of Lisbon, Portugal, when air traffic control radios a -Lockheed L-1011 TriStar that is flying near them and asks for a -confirmation of a radar target. Wood and his crew look up and see a -stationary bright light. They announce the sighting to their passengers. -After several minutes watching the light, two cigar- shaped objects -appear below and to the right of the light. A Portuguese airliner in the -vicinity also observes the objects. Wood confirms the sighting, saying, -“There is no way this is a star or planet.” Fighters are immediately -scrambled from Lisbon. (NICAP, “Battleship-Sized -Object Tracked by 3 Airlines”; Jenny Randles, “Casebook: The -Portugal Sighting,” Fortean Times 199 (September 2005): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5273

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Event 7751 -(419BDDD2)

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Date: 7/30/1976
-Description: NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: Reports of UFOs. At approx. -0345, EDT, the ANMCC received several reports of UFOs near Fort Ritchie. -At 0130, civilians reported an UFO to the NAB. At 0255, two separate -patrols sighted three UFOs; oblong with a reddish tint. At 0300, the -Desk Sgt. (name with held) sighted an UFO over the ammo storage area at -100–200 yds. altitude. At 0345, an Army Police Sgt. sighted an UFO in -the vicinity of sight R. ANMCC was requested to have each individual -write a statement on the sightings. One person said the UFO was the size -of a 2.5 ton truck.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Fort Ritchie, Cascade, Maryland

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Event 7752 -(8D07D155)

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Date: 7/30/1976
-Description: 1:30–3:45 a.m. Patrols at different locations in the US -Army’s Fort Ritchie [now closed], in Cascade, Maryland, see objects over -the base. One crew sees three oblong objects with a reddish tint. -Another watches a UFO over the ammunition storage area at an altitude of -300–600 feet. In another spot, an Army police sergeant sees an aerial -object the size of a two-and-a-half-ton truck. (Brig. Gen. L. J. LeBlanc -Jr., “Reports -of Unidentified Flying -Objects (UFOs),” National Military Command Center, July 30, -1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5272

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Event 7753 -(EC54CCCC)

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Date: 7/31/1976
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Debbie Focken and other witnesses see an oblong -object with illuminated windows hovering about 100 feet above Eldon’s -Standard Service Station in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Apparently the UFO -causes extensive electrical damage to a CB radio, a burglar alarm, an -adding machine, a cash register, and a vending machine. The owner and -employees claim that lightning has caused the damage, and that is what -they report to the insurance agency, but there is no thunderstorm that -evening. (“Gas Station Damaged by UFO?” IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1977): -13; “Council Bluffs CE II,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5274

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Event 7754 -(5242586E)

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Date: 8/1976
-Description: American SF novelist George -H. Leonard publishes Somebody Else Is on the Moon, which records his -observations, drawings, and NASA photos of lunar pipes, conduits, gears, -gas nozzles, flares, huge rigs for sifting through dust, hovering -vehicles, odd lights, and electromagnetic towers on the lunar -surface—all of it indicating alien mining operations. Leonard argues -that NASA secretly knows of alien activity on the Moon. It is possible -that Leonard has written the book as a spoof. (George H. Leonard, Somebody -Else Is on the Moon, McKay, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5275

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Event 7755 -(6AD19A38)

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Date: 8/1976
-Description: A. Troitsky and six others observe a silvery disc over the -Pirogovskoye Reservoir north of Moscow, Russia. It is about 8 times the -apparent size of the full moon and is moving slowly at an altitude of -perhaps 120 feet. The object has two revolving stripes along its side -and a black hatch on its underside from which a small cylinder -protrudes, its lower portion rotating. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s -USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5278

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Event 7756 -(F89D31FE)

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Date: 8/1976
-Description: Day. A man is working on his mobile home in the forested -hills near Medford, Oregon, when he sees two intensely bright lights -“like burning magnesium” silently move across the sky, side by side. -They appear to be discs, curved on the top and flat on the bottom, and -in between them is a third object, which seems to be a World War II–era -bomber. The tips of each wing appear to be resting on the discs, and its -propellors are not turning. The three objects pass overhead and move -beyond the hill behind him. (Michael D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too -Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4 (Winter 2002–2003): -8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5277

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Event 7757 -(40BAF1B4)

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Date: 8/1976
-Description: 10:17 a.m. A Swedish J-5 jet pursues six delta-shaped -silver objects in formation until they accelerate out of sight over Lake -Bolmen, Sweden. (“Swedish -Air Force Colonel Reports Six Delta-UFOs,” AFU Newsletter, no. 18 -(Jan./Mar. 1980): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5276

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Event 7758 -(1BA81DBF)

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Date: 8/2/1976
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A domed UFO is seen at an altitude of 15–18 feet -at St.-Pierre-sur-Mer, Hérault, France. It has orange lights that go on -and off slowly. (M. Grazioli, “Enquête -dans l’Hérault,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 166 (June/July 1977): -26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5279

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Event 7759 -(83C185E0)

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Date: 8/3/1976
-End date: 8/4/1976
-Description: 11:25 p.m. The pilot of Tunisair Flight Tu8953, en route -from Monastir to Tunis, Tunisia, sees a flying object at 3,200–3,900 -feet moving north to south. At 11:27 p.m., five objects showing red and -green lights are seen over Monastir and confirmed on radar. From 12:24 -a.m. to 4:00 a.m., five separate radar returns are tracked and visually -confirmed. (ClearIntent, p. 80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5280

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Event 7760 -(8102AAC6)

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Date: 8/4/1976
-End date: 8/5/1976
-Description: 10:43–10:52 p.m. An Air France pilot en route to Monastir, -Tunisia, is followed by an unidentified object. (ClearIntent, pp. 80–81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5281

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Event 7761 -(B5B6C636)

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Date: 8/6/1976
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A family is driving in Gaspésie National Park, -Quebec, when a beam of red light penetrates the fog and creates a -six-inch circle on the road ahead. The beam paces ahead of them for -several miles, then collapses and withdraws upwards. A dazzling white -light then approaches and stops ahead. Strong heat builds up in the car, -so the father stops the vehicle. The headlights and radio fail, and the -engine dies. All four get out and walk toward the object, which now -appears as a scallop-shaped craft on landing legs, stretching across the -road. The wife notices a massive “face” looking at them. Two 7-foot tall -beings are apparently floating near the UFO, dressed in close-fitting, -khaki-brown suits. The witnesses flee back into the car. The object -moves away in a flash of light and burst of heat. The car starts again. -All four suffer from itching for the next 10 hours. (Jean Ferguson, Les -Humanoides: Les Cerveaux qui Dirigent les Soucoupes Volantes, Leméac, -1977; NICAP, “Gaspesian -Park, Quebec: -Humanoids/E-M Case”; Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with the -Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5283

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Event 7762 -(CCD22AEB)

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Date: 8/6/1976
-Description: 12:20 a.m. Police at La Soukra, Tunisia, see four lighted -objects that disappear one by one until 1:45 a.m. (ClearIntent, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5282

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Event 7763 -(F7E4F27C)

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Date: 8/7/1976
-Description: 11:48 p.m. The control tower at the Djerba-Zarzis -International Airport, Tunisia, tracks a UFO on radar to the northwest. -The sighting is confirmed by a Tunisair pilot, who says it is a lighted -object that seems to touch down near the airport then turn south after -climbing up. (ClearIntent, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5285

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Event 7764 -(3DC472CB)

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Date: 8/7/1976
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mark Ziegelbauer, 15, of Malone, Wisconsin, and -his father Orville see -multicolored lights fly past their new silo and land in a distant -hayfield. Mark drives over to the spot and shines his headlights into -the field. He sees an object the size of a “camper-trailer” and two -green men, one about 5 feet 7 inches, the other shorter. They put their -hands up and “disappeared somehow.” (“Youth -Claims Seeing 2 Green Men from UFO,” Fond du Lac (Wis.) Reporter, -August 10, 1976, p. 26; Clark III 279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5284

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Event 7765 -(AD6237FC)

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Date: 8/8/1976
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Radar at Sidi Ahmed Air Base at Bizerte Airport, -Tunisia, tracks a target going east to west. It turns south and -disappears. Tunisian authorities contact the US State Department asking -whether the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean can shed any light on -the incidents. (ClearIntent, p. 81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5286

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Event 7766 -(24C45190)

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Date: 8/10/1976
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Teresa de Tejero wakes up suddenly in her room at -the Hotel Da Balaia in Albufeira, Portugal, and sees a vivid luminous -rectangle on the window curtains. She wakes up her husband Francisco, -who goes to the window and sees an object with six reddish lights that -appears to be on another wing of the hotel. One of its lights seems to -be directed straight into their bedroom. They go back to sleep. In the -morning, Francisco looks out the window and finds there is no hotel wing -where he thought the UFO was. He realizes that the object must have been -huge to masquerade as two floors of the hotel. (Ignacio Darnaude, “Spies -in the Supernumerary Attic?” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 (October -1977): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5287

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Event 7767 -(7C89991F)

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Date: 8/11/1976
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two boys aged 13 and 14 are standing on the -beach in La Linea de Concepción, Spain, facing the Strait of Gibraltar -when they see a yellowish-white UFO approaching from over the -Mediterranean. It seems to have an axis that bisects it. The object -climbs rapidly, changing color to whitish and then a vivid yellow. It -approaches another, larger object and enters it. While they watch it, -the light of a nearby lighthouse goes out temporarily. The larger object -remains in place. (“UFO -Blacks Out Lighthouse,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 1 (June 1977): -iii)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5288

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Event 7768 -(EAFD9EE1)

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Date: 8/13/1976
-Description: 8:30 a.m. The pilot of a Piper Arrow PA-28 is flying at -3,500 feet between Diepholz and Petershagen, Germany, when he notices a -strange light approaching from the northeast. After 3–5 minutes, the -object comes closer and takes a fixed position off the left wing. The -object is oval-shaped and very bright yellow in its center with an -indistinct flame-orange boundary. Suddenly the Piper goes into two rapid -360° clockwise rolls from which the pilot must recover manually. He -discovers that he has dropped about 500 feet during the roll-and- -recovery maneuver. When he next checks his instrument panel, he -discovers that his magnetic compass is spinning in a clockwise direction -so fast that he can’t read the number in its square window. Looking -outside again, he sees that the UFO is still behind him, suggesting that -he has lost the same amount of altitude. The pilot climbs back to his -cruise altitude and calls on the radio to flight control at Hannover -airport. The air traffic controller tells him that the radar shows both -his airplane and another object nearby. The controller says that an -aircraft will be sent to investigate. Little more than 4 minutes later, -two USAF F-4 Phantom jets arrive on either side of him travelling -400–500 mph. The jet on the right side is slightly lower, closer, and -ahead of the jet on the left. The pilot is certain they are American -planes. Just as the jets arrive, the UFO accelerates forward and then -upward at about a 30° angle above the horizontal and turns right, -passing in front of his aircraft. It quickly outdistances its pursuers -and is out of sight in a matter of seconds. The compass eventually -returns to normal operation after the UFO departs. The pilot is -interrogated after his landing by “military men.” (Richard F. Haines, -“An Aircraft/UFO Encounter over Germany in 1976,” IUR 24, no. 4 (Winter -1999): 3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5289

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Event 7769 -(F114BF6C)

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Date: 8/14/1976
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A couple out walking along a road on Cartmel Fell -in Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England, see a bright light in -the sky. Through binoculars, it looks like a silver disc reflecting -light from its top surface. After 30 seconds, it becomes smaller as if -it is moving away. Two other witnesses see a similar object at the same -time. (“Report -7670,” Northern UFO News, no. 28 (September 1976): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5290

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Event 7770 -(5E5D7283)

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Date: 8/15/1976
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A distant bright light appears above El Real de -la Jara, Seville, Spain, as 20 automobiles stop on the highway to watch -it. Taxi driver Pablo Garcia García blinks his lights at it, and the -object appears to approach much closer. García stops signaling, but the -other drivers panic and drive away rapidly. (Gordon Creighton, “Some -Recent Spanish Reports,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 6 (April -1977): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5291

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Event 7771 -(0B7C1F4E)

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Date: 8/20/1976
-Description: Brothers Jim and Jack Weiner, with friends Charles Foltz -and Charles Rak, claim they are abducted by aliens during a camping trip -near Allagash, Maine. According to the four men, hypnotic regression -allows them to recall being taken aboard a circular UFO and being -“probed and tested by four-fingered beings with almond- shaped eyes and -languid limbs.” In a later interview by the St. John Valley Times, -Charles Rak changes his story, saying he did see strange lights during -the camping trip, but the abduction part of the story is a total -fabrication, and he went along with the narrative for financial gain. -The other three members of the group stand by the abduction story. -According to Jim Weiner, “Jack, Charlie, and I, after all these years, -are still in agreement with the Eagle Lake event as we (three) remember -it. We also accept the results of the hypnotic regression sessions and -subsequent polygraph tests as supportive of an abduction scenario.” -(Raymond E. Fowler, The Allagash Abductions, Wild Flower, 1993; Jessica -Potila, “Subject -of 1976 UFO Incident Casts Doubt on ’Allagash Abductions,’” -Fort Kent (Maine) Fiddlehead Focus, September 10, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5292

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Event 7772 -(FDCECB5A)

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Date: 8/21/1976
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A 90-foot-long cigar-shaped object descends from -4,000 feet over the Forêt de Molière to the east of Poitiers, France. -Witnesses hear a humming sound and smell an odor. It ascends and -disappears. (Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier -dossier complet des rencontres rapprochées en France, Alain Lefeuvre, -1979, p. 627)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5293

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Event 7773 -(9C289D2E)

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Date: 8/22/1976
-Description: Midnight–4:00 a.m. Eleven witnesses see a luminous orb, -9–21 feet in diameter, with antennae, flying over Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, -Bas-Rhin, France. (Ph. Wiedenhoff, “Dans -le Bas-Rhin,” Lumières de la Nuit, no. 166 (June/July 1977): -17–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5294

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Event 7774 -(BEA5509F)

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Date: 8/25/1976
-Description: 12:30 p.m. Three children see beings in polished-silver -suits and a UFO rising upward from a schoolyard in North Reddish, -Stockport, Manchester, England. (David Rees, “‘Floating’ -Entity at Reddish,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 2 (July 1979): -29–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5295

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Event 7775 -(C83AE59B)

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Date: 9/1976
-Description: The Cambridge UFO Research Group is founded by Bonnie -Wheeler in Cambridge, Ontario. She produces a bimonthly newsletter -through September 1994. (Cambridge -UFO Research Group Newsletter 2, no. 3 (September 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5297

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Event 7776 -(E7424D51)

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Date: 9/1/1976
-Description: 10:35 a.m. A witness is walking with her dog in a field off -Larimer County Road 76H northwest of Larimer, Colorado. She looks up and -sees a large (100 feet long), silver-colored, silent cylinder flying at -about 50 mph to the south. It is only 200–250 feet in altitude and has -two rings around it towards each end. She watches it for several -minutes. (“More Letters,” IUR 8, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1983): 16; “More -Similarities Begin to Appear,” CUFOS Associate Bulletin 4, no. 6 -(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5298

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Event 7777 -(22FFB5C3)

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Date: 9/1/1976
-Description: Day. A retired science teacher watches a circular glowing -object while walking on a beach near Aguada, Puerto Rico. The object -moves slowly, hovers, then falls abruptly, tumbling over and over, until -it nearly enters the ocean. It then rights itself and moves slowly -westward. It has a dull gray finish and appears to be quite distant. -(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5299

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Event 7778 -(EEB54B68)

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Date: early 9/1976
-Description: Three men watch a dense white cloud hover low above Rua -Cajati in São Paulo, Brazil. It dissipates, revealing a disc-shaped -object that emits light beams of various colors. When policemen arrive -and draw their weapons, they become paralyzed like statues. The smoke -cloud reappears and envelops the disc, which takes off. (O Dia (Rio de -Janeiro), September 8, 1976; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December -1976): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5296

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Event 7779 -(5328281F)

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Date: 9/3/1976
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Two women, one 63 and the other an 18-year-old -relative, are returning from a family visit in Fence Houses, Durham, -England, when they see a peculiar object resting on a mound of earth in -a section of mining wasteland. They walk toward it, feeling a sort of -attraction, and see that it is an oval object about 3 feet high and 5 -feet long and standing on chrome or steel runners. The main compartment -is glasslike with an orange section on top. When they reach the object, -they sense the wind and traffic noise have stopped. The older woman -touches the glassy side, which feels warm. At this point two strange -entities are seen within the craft with long white hair parted down the -middle, large eyes, and claw-like hands. They are both the size of a -large doll, perhaps 1–1.5 feet tall. Frightened, the two women hurry -away, noting that the street noise has returned. The object then takes -off at great speed, making a humming noise. (William D. Muir, “UFO -Landing at Fencehouses, County Durham,” -Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 (April 1977): 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5302

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Event 7780 -(A58ACAEB)

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Date: 9/3/1976
-Description: Early morning. A witness in Bethel, Alaska, hears a -high-pitched whine and looks out at the tundra where a small (2.5–3-inch -diameter) white beach ball seems to be moving just above the ground. -After a while it tilts so that she can see it is a disc with a rotating -“platinum-shiny” area in the middle. The object arcs upward, then back -down, and seems to disappear into the ground, whereupon the whine stops. -She can find no ground markings. (Michael D. Swords, “Unusual -Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): -24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5300

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Event 7781 -(A79AF2C3)

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Date: 9/3/1976
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Farm laborer João Romeu Klein, 19, returns home -to Brusque, Santa Catarina, Brazil, after visiting a friend. As he -approaches the house, he spots a flying object in the shape of a deep -dish that rotates slowly counterclockwise. The upper part of the object -is flattened, and a luminous light on top varies according to the speed -of the craft’s movement and vacillates from red (high speed) to orange, -from yellow to light green, and finally to white. When the craft is -still, the intensity of the light diminishes. The object itself is gray -in color and nearly 10 feet in diameter. The UFO moves toward Klein, -passes 33 feet above his head, and then hovers in front of him about 16 -feet from the ground. A bright, red light shines from the center of its -base, through which three small beings about 3 feet tall slowly descend. -The humanoids form a line across the entire width of the road and -prevent him from passing as the UFO moves behind him some 33 feet away -and 26 feet above the ground, close to some trees. The beings open their -arms in an apparent blocking gesture, communicating with each other in -an unfamiliar language. Klein draws his knife and tosses it toward the -beings; it whizzes through the air, but at one point appears to float -before falling to another spot. Each being wears a staff at its waist. -The crew member in the center reacts by waving his staff toward Klein. -The staff fires a beam of bluish-white light that hits Klein in the left -thigh. He faints on being struck and is later found by his neighbors. -His leg is paralyzed, so he goes to Azambuja hospital in Brusque, where -doctors find no sign of injury. He recovers after a few days. (“Os Tripulantes -da Serra do Moura, Novo Trento, Brusque, Estado de Santa Catarina,” -SBEDV Boletim, no. 136/145 (Sept. 1981/April 1982): 10–12; Clark III -218–220; Luis Lopez, “Quase -40 Anos Depois, Homem Relata Experiência -com Extraterrestres em Brusque, SC,” Novos Insólitos, May 12, 2016; -Brazil 194–198)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5301

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Event 7782 -(A780F9BC)

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Date: 9/8/1976
-Description: Leoncio Torres and Elena Bedjara are driving a truck on the -road between Ollachea and Ayaviri, Peru, when a UFO lands 90 feet in -front of them. Two strange creatures about 6 feet tall approach the -blocked truck with flashlights. The creatures touch the couple’s backs -and they feel a burning sensation. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 1 -(January 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5303

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Event 7783 -(D5810E03)

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Date: 9/9/1976
-End date: 9/10/1976
-Description: Around 3:00 p.m. A worker at the Liangshan Cotton Mill -south of Longwangmiao, Shandong, China, sees a spherical object at 45° -elevation about 9,800–13,000 feet away. The upper part is bright silver, -and the lower part is dark gray. It moves in the direction of the sun. -It reappears on September 10, although it seems larger. It shrinks in -size toward 12:00 noon and finally appears like a twinkling star in the -daytime. It reverts to its former size in the afternoon, and then in -front of more than 1,000 witnesses it flies away and disappears around -5:00 p.m. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO -Photo Archives, 1983, p. 88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5305

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Event 7784 -(25F01281)

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Date: 9/9/1976
-Description: About 2:00 a.m. Farmer Hermelindo da Silva is making his -way home from the bar he owns in Vargem Grande, Minas Gerais, Brazil, -when his dog grows agitated. A flash of light illuminates the area, -followed by a strange buzzing sound. He sees a bright object about 4 -feet in diameter above him. The dog begins barking nonstop until it -receives some type of shock, apparently from the craft, and flees in -terror. The light goes out, and da Silva runs back to the bar and -flattens himself against the outside wall. The object lights up again, -scaring him, so he picks up a piece of wood and throws it at the object. -The light goes out again and the buzzing ceases, only to be replaced by -a hiss. He feels a blow to his shoulder and falls to the ground, then he -runs toward his house with the object 10 feet above him. Cables and -hooks descend from the UFO, accompanied by a small creature about 3 feet -tall. Da Silva hits its shoulder, causing it to jump and fall, then gets -into a fight with it for 15 minutes. Finally, the creature loops a cable -around da Silva’s ankle and hoists him screaming into an opening on the -craft. His brother-in-law hears him and sees him ascending. Da Silva -manages to get loose from the cable and falls 20 feet into a plant. He -runs to the house, bruised. (Clark III 1220–1221; Brazil 198–200)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5304

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Event 7785 -(266C9BD3)

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Date: 9/10/1976
-Description: 6:00–7:00 p.m. British European Airways Flight 831 from -Moscow to London is cruising at 33,000 feet over Lithuania when a -blinding, stationary light is seen on the starboard side of the -airliner, apparently 10–15 miles away and 5,000–6,000 feet below. The -light resembles a yellowish sodium vapor lamp and is too intense to view -directly. It lights up the top of the cloud layer below. The pilot asks -the Soviet authorities to identify the source, but they come back with a -negative response, saying he should not ask questions. The light is -visible for 10–15 minutes. (“Aerial -Observation of Intense Source of Light,” CIA Foreign Intelligence -Information Report, November 18, 1976)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5307

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Event 7786 -(7C21B3D9)

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Date: 9/10/1976
-Description: 12:54 a.m. Bill Pecha Jr. is watching TV in his home 3 -miles southwest of Colusa, California, when suddenly the picture -crackles, fades, and blacks out, and the air conditioner dies. He goes -outside to check on the circuit breaker and feels an electrical -sensation. He looks up and sees an object 85 feet in diameter hovering -above a TV antenna near the barn about 50 feet away. The main body of -the craft is a disc shape, which appears to be rotating in a clockwise -direction, with a large dome that remains stationary on top. The object -makes little or no sound, and is silver or gray in color, except for the -very bottom, which has a “porcelain” look about it. Two hook- like -cables are hanging down. Pecha approaches until he is just under one -edge. The UFO moves slowly away and retracts its cables. Two hatches -open on either end, revealing a “spotlight.” He goes inside and wakes up -his wife Lenda, who also sees the object. Pecha can now see two other -objects over high-tension power lines a mile to the west, emitting light -beams at the tops of the transmission towers. The first UFO is moving -closer and passes over a neighbor’s house, shining a light on it. -Frightened, Pecha grabs his two children and he and his wife speed away -in their pickup. They stop at a friends’ house and draw their attention -to the distant light. The encounter ends at 1:03 a.m. (Paul Cerny, “UFO -Hovers over California Farm,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 197 (October -1976): 3– 8; Center for UFO Studies, [case -files]; “The UFO Finalist,” IUR 2, no. 1 (January 1977): 6–8; Clark -III 294–296; Micah Hanks, “Tentacles -and Telephone Lines: The Colusa, California, UFO Incident of 1976,” -Mysterious Universe, February 22, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5306

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Event 7787 -(EBC80C99)

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Date: 9/10/1976
-Description: Low-hovering disc with dome, rotating rim and bright -lights, power failure. Object moved away, shone beams of light -down
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Colusa, CA
-ID: 279

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Event 7788 -(BDF34D57)

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Date: 9/11/1976
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Herbert -Hopkins, the -hypnotist investigating the 1975 Oxford abduction case, is alone in his -home in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. The telephone rings, and the caller -identifies himself as vice president of the nonexistent New Jersey UFO -Research Association. He wants to come and discuss the Oxford case. -Hopkins consents, telling him to come right over. As soon as he switches -on the back light, he sees a man in dark clothing walking up the porch -stairs. Hopkins unthinkingly opens the door right away. The stranger is -wearing a black derby, black jacket, black tie, white shirt, gray -gloves, black trousers, and black shoes. The crease in his pants is -razor sharp. The man never introduces himself but sits down and removes -his hat. He is completely hairless, devoid of eyebrows and eyelashes, -but his lips are a vivid red. The stranger speaks in a monotone. After -Hopkins discusses what he knows about the David Stephens case, the man -remarks, “That’s just what I thought,” and abruptly changes the subject. -“You have two coins in your left pocket,” he says. Hopkins acknowledges -he has a dime and a penny. The stranger tells him to take one out and -hold it in his palm. He does and is shocked to find that its color has -changed to bright silver, then light blue. It grows blurry and fuzzy and -finally fades away in a vapor. The stranger says that no one else “on -this plane will ever see that coin again.” The stranger then asks if he -knew why Barney -Hill died, saying “He died because he knew too much. He died because -he had no heart, just as you have no coin.” He orders Hopkins to destroy -all the audiotapes of Stephens’s hypnosis sessions, as well as any other -UFO literature he has sitting around, or he will suffer the same fate as -Barney Hill. The stranger gets up, speaking slowly, and says his energy -is running low. He gets up slowly and walks down the porch steps one -foot at a time. Hopkins sees a bright light outside, rushes to the -kitchen window, and sees the light and the man are gone. About 90 -minutes later, Mrs. Hopkins and two of their sons arrive home from a -movie. He tells them what happened, and one of the sons finds a series -of marks in the narrow driveway that look like a small tractor tread. -They are gone the next day. Hopkins burns all his tapes, correspondence, -and literature at the urging of his family. (Berthold Eric Schwartz, “The -Man-in-Black Syndrome, Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 4 -(January 1978): 9–15; Berthold Eric Schwartz, “The -Man-in-Black Syndrome, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 5 -(February 1978): 22–25; Berthold Eric Schwartz, “The -Man-in-Black Syndrome, Part 3,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 6 -(April 1978): 26–29; Clark III 863–864)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5308

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Event 7789 -(38025072)

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Date: 9/11/1976
-Description: Night. Three members of the Hood family are driving back -along a country road to their home in Little Britain, Ontario. Paul Hood -notices a flashing light in the treetops. When their car approaches, it -darts off. Days later, Paul and Don Hood find a 30-foot-diameter circle -of burned ground and grass swirled in a counterclockwise direction near -a split-rail fence in a swamp less than a quarter-mile from their home. -Six holes the size of grapefruits are also present. (“Foreign Forum,” -IUR 2, no. 1 (January 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5309

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Event 7790 -(457D938E)

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Date: 9/13/1976
-Description: Ranch worker George Aguerre sees an object like an upturned -funnel with windows landing for 3–4 minutes near Tacuarembo, Uruguay. It -emits two brilliant beams of light from the top and is about 45 feet in -diameter. Police find landing marks and a burned area. (“Foreign Forum,” -IUR 2, no. 1 (January 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5310

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Event 7791 -(EE39B524)

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Date: mid 9/1976
-Description: 4:00 p.m. A copilot of a Boeing 727 for the Brazilian Varig -airline sees a disc-shaped object about 120 feet in diameter over the -Amazon forest between Manaus and Belém, Brazil. The aircraft’s radar -confirms the sighting. The pilot is carrying a camera and snaps a photo -of the UFO, which starts jumping from one side to the other in front of -the plane, causing the crew to panic. The sighting lasts about 5 -minutes. (Clark III 198; Brazil 535–536)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5311

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Event 7792 -(8F5F0463)

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Date: 9/16/1976
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A witness in Eureka, California, sees a large -orange light at treetop level that rushes overhead, then stops and -hovers for 5 minutes. (“Case 1-1-7,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5313

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Event 7793 -(5FA89F4B)

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Date: 9/16/1976
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Six witnesses in Modesto, California, see a -rolling orange ball of light heading slowly south. Possible balloon. -(“Case 1-1-6,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5312

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Event 7794 -(7E6C7C5B)

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Date: 9/18/1976
-End date: 9/19/1976
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Residents of the northeast portion of the city -of Tehran, Iran, watch a multicolored aircraft hovering a few thousand -feet in the air. Some of them call the nearby Mehrabad Airport, reaching -night supervisor Houssain Pirouzi, who goes outside at 11:15 p.m. to -look. With his binoculars, he sees a bright object flashing colored -lights and changing positions at an altitude of 6,000 feet. Around 12:30 -a.m., Pirouzi alerts the Iranian Air Force command post. Deputy -Gen. Nader Yousefi also sees the object and scrambles an Air Force F-4 -Phantom II interceptor piloted by Capt. Aziz Khani and 1stLt. Hossein -Shokri from Shahrokhi Airbase [now Hamadan Airbase] to the west at 1:30 -a.m. They close in on the object, but the jet’s radio and instruments -give out. Only when Khani pulls away does functionality return. Squadron -Cmdr. Parviz Jafari takes off in a second jet with 1stLt. Jalal Damirian -in pursuit at 1:40 a.m. Some 27 miles from the UFO, Jafari picks the -object up on radar, the return indicating something the size of a Boeing -707. Visually, it is flashing like a strobe with intense red, green, -orange, and blue lights (in a diamond shape) so bright that Jafari -cannot see its body. He approaches within 70 miles, then the object -jumps 10° to the right, then twice again the same amount. Suddenly a -smaller round object comes out of the large object and heads straight -toward the interceptor at a high rate of speed. Jafari tries to fire an -AIM-9 heat-seeking missile at it, but his weapons control panel -malfunctions, as well as his radio and instruments. Jafari turns to the -left to avoid an impact with the small object, which approaches to 4 -miles distance, then stops. It returns to the large object, which emits -another smaller object. Jafari is ordered back to the base, but the -light follows him. During final approach, another object (a thin -rectangle with three lights) appears at low altitude in front of his -plane. Gen. Yousefi then orders Jafari to approach the light and get a -look. When he is within 4 miles, the radio and instrument panel go out -again. The light disappears from view after Jafari lands. Base Commander -Gen. Abdulah Azerbarzin claims the complete investigation records are -turned over to the US Air Force, which insists it only has one memo from -USAF Lt. Col. Olin R. Mooy, who sat in on one of the pilot interviews. A -US Defense Intelligence Agency evaluation rates the case High (of major -significance). The sighting is apparently tracked by a US Defense -Support Program satellite. (Wikipedia, “1976 -Tehran UFO incident”; -NICAP, “Iranian -F-4 Phantom Jet Chase, Radar/Visual/E-M/IAD Signal”; “Foreign -Forum,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976): 2; “The U.S. Government and the -Iran Case,” IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 6–7; “Review of Iranian UFO -Reports,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 14–15; “Now -You See It, Now You Don’t!” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 1 (February 1982): 3; Center for UFO -Studies, [case -documents]; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean -Tomes, 1987, pp. 85–88; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio -Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, -pp. 98–104; -Clark III 624–626; Kean, pp. 86–92, 149–150; -Swords 340–341; Good Above, pp. 318–321, -497–500; -Good Need, pp. 302–303, -315–317; -A. Meessen, “Deux -jets F-4 rencontrent un ovni à Téhéran,” April 30, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5314

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Event 7795 -(2EF49D40)

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Date: 9/19/1976
-Description: Tehran, Iran: Civilians reported an UFO to the AFB. The -Iranian AF scrambled an American F-4 for intercept. As the F-4 was -vectored towards the brilliant UFO, all communications and -instrumentation were suddenly lost. As the pilot broke off pursuit, all -aircraft functions returned to normal. A second F-4 that was scrambled -began closing in on the UFO at greater than Mach 1 and was closing on -the UFO at 150 nautical mph., but the UFO accelerated and stayed ahead -of the F-4 (confirmed by Radar). Multi-colored flashing lights were -visible on the UFO. The moment the F-4 pilot tried to lock an AIM-9 -missile at the UFO he lost all weapons panel and communication control. -The UFO launched two smaller UFOs, one of which began to follow the F-4. -After evasive action by the F-4, the smaller UFO returned and united -with the larger UFO. The other smaller UFO seemed to have landed on the -ground so the pilot flew down to investigate it. The landed UFO appeared -to be 12feet in diameter. As the pilot descended the light from the -landed UFO went out and he lost sight of it. The DIA termed this -sighting as “an outstanding report. This case is a classic which meets -all the criteria necessary for a study of a UFO phenomenon.” And, “an -inordinate amount of maneuverability was displayed by the UFOs.”
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p497, TEHRAN, B1-F p288, B1-G p72)
-Location: Tehran, Iran
-See also: 10/2/72
-See also: 9/20/76

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Event 7796 -(F16B99AD)

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Date: 9/19/1976
-Description: 1:00–2:00 a.m. A silvery, luminous circular object is seen -flying southwest to northwest (parallel to the coast) at an altitude of -3,200 feet in multiple locations in Morocco, including Agadir, El Kelaa -des Sraghna, Essaouira, Marrakesh, Casablanca, Rabat, Kenitra, Meknes, -and Fez. It gives off an intermittent trail and is completely silent. -The US Embassy in Rabat forwards a summary to the US State Department, -asking for more information. A reply comes in October from Secretary of -State Henry -Kissinger, who -cites the Condon study and natural causes, although he rules out meteors -and reflections from a polar-orbiting satellite. (ClearIntent, pp. 86– 88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5315

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Event 7797 -(ED94F424)

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Date: 9/19/1976
-Description: F-4 fighter aircraft attempted intercept of radar-visual -UFO, E-M system failures, physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Tehran, Iran
-ID: 280

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Event 7798 -(A87FD9AB)

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Date: 9/19/1976
-Description: A TAP Air Portugal Boeing 707 nearly collides with a UFO -shortly after takeoff at Lisbon, Portugal. The oval object is glowing -blue with a horizontal row of red and white lights. It is also seen by -an air traffic controller who says that the object does not show up on -radar. (“[Aerial -Emergency in Lisbon Due to a ’Flying Disc’]” -La Crónica (Buenos Aires), September 23, 1976; Good Above, p. 154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5316

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Event 7799 -(9AB3F284)

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Date: 9/22/1976
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A 10-year-old-boy in Regal, Minnesota, sees a -3.5-foot-tall creature with a large bald head, large red eyes, and green -skin floating outside his bedroom window. A couple minutes later, the -creature floats down to a cube-shaped craft, which he enters. (“Case -1-1-27,” IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5317

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Event 7800 -(A79D5CD4)

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Date: 9/24/1976
-Description: 7:30 p.m. John Hopkins, the son of hypnotist Herbert -Hopkins, and his wife Maureen, meet two odd individuals, “Bill” and -“Jane,” who have arranged a meeting at a fast-food restaurant near their -home in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. The conversation is uncomfortable and -strange but does not involve UFOs. (Clark III 864–865)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5319

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Event 7801 -(DD6F2E87)

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Date: 9/24/1976
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A conservation officer and his wife watch a dark -object fly over Lake Red Rock near Otley, Iowa. It moves noiselessly at -40 mph and about 600 feet altitude. Binoculars reveal a blinking red -light flanked by pairs of amber lights. (“Case 1-1-35,” IUR 1, no. 1 -(November 1976): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5318

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Event 7802 -(6440A918)

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Date: 9/25/1976
-Description: Night. Vera White and three others traveling by car between -farms in the Karawinna area to the west of Mildura, Victoria, Australia, -notice a strange object on the ground in a paddock. It takes off -vertically and hovers silently for about 5 minutes. They return to the -site in the daytime and find a circle of flattened, discolored grass -about 30 feet in diameter. (Melbourne Sun, September 29, 1976; “Foreign -Forum,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1976): 10) Autumn —2:00 a.m. Missile -Combat Crew Commander Bruce Fenstermacher is on alert duty at one of the -underground launch capsules at Francis E. Warren AFB near Cheyenne, -Wyoming, with another crewman, when the officer-in- charge at the launch -facility asks two security guards to report anything that seems unusual. -A few seconds later, one of them reports seeing a pulsating white object -in the sky. He can see flashing red and blue lights between the -pulsations. It is about 10 miles north of their position and close to -the launch control facility itself. The UFO is hovering about 100 feet -above the building and looks like a “fat cigar” about 50–60 feet long. -It begins to move away but stops close to one of the missile silos. Over -the next 2 hours or so, the UFO hovers near several more missile silos. -The security guards are terrified and refuse to approach any missile -site that has the UFO over it. Sometime around 4:30 a.m., the object -zooms away and disappears in seconds. (Nukes 340–343)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5320

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Event 7803 -(0147C17E)

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Date: 10/1976
-Description: George J. Myers and his wife are traveling 3 miles -southeast of Winnebago, Nebraska, on US Highway 73 [now US 75] when they -notice a large patch of cornfield with no corn growing. It is on sloping -ground and in the shape of a perfect circle 100 feet in diameter. They -learn from local farmers that it had appeared earlier in the year while -the corn was still quite short, killing off growth later in the summer. -A light “like lightning” was seen shortly before the damaged area was -noticed. Myers takes photographs of the circle and soil samples, which -are later taken to the University of Nebraska and show evidence of a -chemical spill. (“Large -Circular Physical Trace: Is -It Common?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 1; -“Large -Physical Trace Identified,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1 -(Feb./March 1983): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5323

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Event 7804 -(93765952)

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Date: 10/1976
-Description: Guillermo Carlos Roncoroni begins publishing UFO Press in -Buenos Aires, Argentina, until November 1986. (UFO -Press, no. -1 (October 1976); Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, -Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 99–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5322

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Event 7805 -(080D59D0)

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Date: 10/1976
-Description: The head of the UFO desk at the Swedish National Defence -Research Institute, Sture -Wickerts, travels to Målilla, Kalmar County, Sweden, to conduct a -search for an unknown object thought to have crashed in the woods. He -supervises diving operations into a water-filled hole possibly connected -to the incident. Nothing is found but old logs. (Swords 369)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5321

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Event 7806 -(232D5DB4)

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Date: 10/7/1976
-Description: Sir Eric Gairy, Prime Minister of Grenada, addressed the UN -General Assembly urging recognition of UFOs as a serious international -scientific problem.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New York, NY
-ID: 281

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Event 7807 -(8B205427)

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Date: 10/12/1976
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Multiple independent witnesses in Sonora, -California, are drawn outside by a loud noise like “six jets.” They see -a large red oblong UFO hovering with a wobbling motion. After 5 minutes, -the UFO shoots upward and disappears. The next day, angel hair strands -are found and sent to David Miletich at the University of Chicago. They -are found to be “whitish, fibrous material of uniform composition being -quite fine with frequent branching.” The primary constituents are carbon -and nitrogen, but it is not spider web. A sample tested at the Michael -Reese Hospital Microbiology Lab shows it to be contaminated with a low -level of radioactive tritium. (“Angel Hair: Under Analysis,” IUR 2, no. -8 (August 1977): 4, 8; “Angel-Hair Analysis Complete,” IUR 3, no. 3 -(March 1978): insert; Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A -Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 106–107)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5324

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Event 7808 -(80082F18)

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Date: 10/17/1976
-Description: Control tower and airline pilot on runway observed glowing -disc like “two plates placed together” hovering to south. Object then -flew away.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Akita Airport, Japan
-ID: 282

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Event 7809 -(8A4A9BAE)

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Date: 10/17/1976
-Description: 10:40 a.m. A brilliant golden disc hovers south of Akita -Airport, Japan, for 5 minutes. Kenichi Waga, telecommunications officer -in the control tower, says “It was disc-shaped, larger than a car, but -smaller than an airplane.” Capt. Masara Saito, 34, Toa Airlines [now -Japan Air System] pilot, is preparing to take off when he notices “a -strange looking disc-shaped object 5,000 feet from the ground.” Tazawa -Takumi, air traffic controller on duty, who observes the object through -binoculars, says it looks like “two plates placed together, with the top -one inverted.” The unidentified object finally flies away toward the -sea. (NICAP, “Disc -Hovers near Japanese Airport”; -UFOEv II 134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5325

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Event 7810 -(356F2BE5)

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Date: 10/19/1976
-Description: 9:35 p.m. A group of people at the southwest end of Lake -Harriet in Minneapolis, Minnesota, watch a yellow cone of light with a -row of windows at the bottom hover below the cloud cover for 2 minutes, -disappear, and reappear in a new location. This repeats 4–5 times before -the object shoots up into the clouds. (“Case 1-2-20,” IUR 1, no. 2 -(December 1976): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5327

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Event 7811 -(16F7BA47)

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Date: 10/19/1976
-Description: An object like a silver, luminous mercury lamp is seen over -Paso de Los Toros, Durazno, Uruguay. The UFO allegedly causes the -deformation of a metal refrigerator, the discharge of three car -batteries, and the bursting of a refreshment bottle. (“Foreign Forum,” -IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5326

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Event 7812 -(AFC7CFE2)

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Date: late 10/1976
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Four physicians and a diplomat in an undeveloped -region of Algeria south of Algiers watch a bright oval light on the -horizon heading toward them. The object casts a faint beam downward, -sweeping the ground, as it darts around the sky silently. It is bright -when in motion, but faint when it stops. After an hour it fades, leaving -a glowing space in the dark sky. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April -1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5329

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Event 7813 -(DBBC4A81)

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Date: 10/22/1976
-Description: 1:20 a.m. Paul Thompson is driving home from his job on -Interstate 494 where the highway turns to the northeast in Woodbury, -Minnesota. He sees yellow and red lights about 2 miles ahead on the -north side of the road. As he moves closer, he finds that the lights are -actually two objects suspended in the air above a marshy area behind -some woods about 300–400 feet north of the interstate. They are soft -rounded triangles with red glows at the tip of the triangle and yellow -pulsating lights protruding from the blunter ends. The objects are -apparently metallic, about 20–25 feet in their longer dimension, and -hover without making a sound. Thompson gets out of his car to watch. A -truck approaches and one object rises vertically and zooms away. As the -truck is abreast of his position, the second object ascends and flies -directly over them. A CUFOS investigator examines the marshy area two -days later and finds an oblong area, 40 feet by 20 feet, devoid of -cattails and heavy grass. Inside the oblong is a smaller, irregular area -where he finds exposed soil is and a few round holes the size of a -quarter. He takes soil samples, which are sent to University of Kansas -geologist Edward -J. Zeller for thermoluminesce testing. The soil from the site center -shows essentially no thermoluminescence, indicating t had been subjected -to strong heat. (CUFOS -case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5328

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Event 7814 -(0715DAA6)

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Date: 10/23/1976
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Three men—Nicholas Flaskas, Frank Zonaras, and -Bill Zonaras—waiting to film a solar eclipse at Taola Point in Ben Boyd -National Park, New South Wales, notice two unusual objects on the -horizon close to the ocean. The UFOs alternately move toward and away -from them. The men take both motion picture and still photos, showing -one bell-shaped object and another discoid in shape. They turn their -attention to the eclipse and when it is over, the objects are gone. -(David Reneke, “The -Benboyd UFO Movie: History and Evaluation,” UFO Research Australia -1, no. 2 (March/April 1980): 19–23; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, -and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): -31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5330

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Event 7815 -(EA82D15A)

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Date: 10/30/1976
-Description: Spanish journalist Juan -J. Benítez receives the first batch of some 300 pages of UFO reports -from the Spanish Air Ministry in Madrid, Spain. The documents include -photos and clips of gun-camera film taken by air force pilots. (Gordon -Creighton, “The -Spanish Government Opens Its Files,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 -(October 1977): 3; J. J. Benítez, OVNIs: Documentos oficiales del -gobierno español, Plaza y Janés, 1977; Good Above, p. 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5331

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Event 7816 -(38B2BD74)

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Date: 11/1976
-Description: The first issue of the International UFO Reporter (IUR) is -published by the Center for UFO Studies, with J. Allen -Hynek as editor-in-chief and Allan -Hendry as managing editor. (IUR 1, no. 1 (November 1976); Clark III -567–568, 627)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5332

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Event 7817 -(A650D3A8)

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Date: 11/1976
-Description: Dominique Delille founds Groupe d’Études du Phénomène OVNI -in Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay, Loire, France. It publishes a quarterly -newsletter, Siècle Inconnu, which continues under the names GEPO -Informations and OVNI et Cie through 1983. (INFO -OVNI, no. -1 (November 1976))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5333

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Event 7818 -(6AC8B4F2)

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Date: 11/4/1976
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A married couple in Martinsburg, Ohio, see two -irregularly shaped objects, rounded on the bottom, hovering low near -their car. One descends, flying over some woods, while the other is seen -above the telephone wires by the road. Both have a red light on top, a -whiter flashing light on the bottom, and a revolving red light. Around -9:30 p.m., three similar objects are seen by a woman 4 miles away, -slowly changing formation for 5 minutes in the east. (“Case 1-2-62,” IUR -1, no. 2 (December 1976): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5334

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Event 7819 -(E23FA149)

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Date: 11/5/1976
-Description: 8:08 p.m. A young woman is watching television at her home -in Rives, Isère, France. She sees a bright light outside and calls her -father. From their balcony they watch an intense white light speed -across the sky from northwest to southeast and disappear in the -mountains. The father thinks the light is spinning. At the same time a -French physicist is driving 7 miles away near Voreppe. He sees a -luminous disc brighter than the full moon and stops his car to watch it. -The object is white in the center, bluish-white at the periphery, and is -surrounded by an intense green halo. It is moving silently southeast but -stops for a few seconds before moving off 30° from its previous course -at a much greater speed. It passes in front of the Massif du Taillefer -before it disappears behind Mont Néron. The sighting lasts 20–25 -seconds. (Jacques Vallée, “Estimates -of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of -Unexplained Aerial Objects with Defined Luminosity Characteristics,” -Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 352–354)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5335

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Event 7820 -(9CFDC125)

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Date: 11/8/1976
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Two 14-year-old girls in the northern part of -Belmont, North Carolina, see a round gray object about 20–30 feet in -diameter “on edge.” It hovers several hundred feet in the air for 5 -minutes, then moves east over the trees. It emits a beeping noise and is -covered in flashing white lights and red steady lights. More than 100 -people report seeing UFOs in nearby Gastonia on November 10. (“Case -1-2-75,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December 1977): 11; “106 -People ‘Saw UFOs,’” Gastonia (N.C.) Gazette, November 11, 1976, -p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5336

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Event 7821 -(F1F57F7F)

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Date: 11/10/1976
-Description: 8:20 p.m. A teenage girl driving alone near Putnam, -Connecticut, passes underneath two dark metallic objects about 50 feet -in diameter, one flying at an angle behind the other. Both objects have -a red light in front, two on the sides, and a blue light in the back, -all blinking. One banks slightly before it goes out of view, revealing a -row of illuminated windows around the circular edge and a smaller circle -like a “hatch” underneath. (“Case 1-2- 79,” IUR 1, no. 2 (December -1977): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5337

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Event 7822 -(A093EE7E)

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Date: 11/14/1976
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Joyce Bowles and Ted Pratt are driving down the -A272 near Winchester, England, when their car starts to jolt and shake -and then veers off the road into a grass verge by the roadside. The car -is subject to electrical interference as the engine roars, and the -lights seem to shine brighter than usual. They spot what appears to be -an orange, cigar-shaped craft, 15 feet in length, with three entities -behind a window. As they watch, a bearded humanoid wearing a silver suit -comes out of the object, walks to the car, and looks in on the -witnesses. He then disappears and the couple are able to drive off. -(Leslie Harris, “UFO -and Silver-Suited Entity Seen near Winchester,” -Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 (February 1977): 3–6; Richard Nash, “UFO -and Occupants Reported -near Winchester,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 (February 1977): -7–8; Jenny Randles, “Questions -and Comments -on the Nash Interview,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 (February -1977): 8; Frank J. Wood, “Alleged CE-III -at Winchester: Vehicle Examination,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 5 -(February 1977): 9–14; Good Above, pp. 70–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5338

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Event 7823 -(1D69DF62)

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Date: 11/15/1976
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Six distant objects with brilliant white lights -are seen performing unusual patterns in the sky at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. -They seem to have a metallic texture and make an intermittent sound like -a “belt sander on metal.” (“Case 2-1-1,” IUR 2, no. 1 (January 1977): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5339

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Event 7824 -(78045F83)

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Date: 11/16/1976
-Description: Lockheed’s first Have Blue demonstrator stealth aircraft, -HB1001, after going through numerous tests and getting a visual -camouflage makeover, is flown from Burbank, California, to Area 51 in -Nevada. After four taxi tests, HB1001 is ready for test flights. -(Wikipedia, “Lockheed -Have -Blue”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5340

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Event 7825 -(BEC94CE2)

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Date: 11/19/1976
-Description: President-Elect Jimmy -Carter meets with CIA Director George -H. W. Bush to discuss certain “exotic and very closely held items -relating to sources and methods.” At one point, Bush and his aide -Jennifer Fitzgerald take Carter and Vice President Walter -Mondale aside to describe particularly sensitive CIA programs. -Congressional Research Service Policy Analyst Marcia -S. Smith claims that part of the debriefing is about UFOs, which -Carter has asked about. But Bush explains that this “information was -information that existed on a need to know basis only. Simple curiosity -on the part of the President wasn’t adequate.” Carter determines to -replace Bush with his Naval Academy classmate Stansfield -Turner after the inauguration. (presidentialufo.com, “President -Carter, Daniel Sheehan, and Donald Menzel: The Congressional Research -Service UFO Studies for President Carter”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5341

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Event 7826 -(075C9018)

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Date: 11/19/1976
-Description: Commandante Angel Parreno, the pilot of an Iberian Airlines -Boeing 727 on a flight from Santiago de Compostela to Madrid, Spain, -watches an unknown object accompany his aircraft for 20 minutes. -Possible barium cloud released by a rocket. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. -4 (April 1977): 2; Good Above, p. 154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5342

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Event 7827 -(588CA17D)

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Date: 11/19/1976
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Witnesses from aircraft and ships around the -Canary Islands watch a point of light climbing into the sky in a spiral -motion, expanding to a diameter 3–4 times that of the moon. It has a -semicircular shape and gives the impression that it is resting on the -horizon. Among the witnesses are Gen. Carlos Dolz de Espejo, chief of -staff of the Canary Islands Air Zone, and the crew of the Spanish Navy -school ship Juan -Sebastian Elcano. Maj. -Antonio Munáiz Ferro-Sastre again investigates, concluding that it was a -“craft of unknown origin endowed with an unknown propulsion energy.” The -time correlates with four Poseidon missile launches by the submarine USS -Alexander Hamilton. (Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile Tests and the -Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5343

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Event 7828 -(F7E866ED)

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Date: 11/19/1976
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Three women watch a large yellow-orange light -slowly and silently meander 150 feet above a church in St. Peter, -Minnesota. They drive to a police station, where officers also see the -now distant light head from west to east. (“Case 2-1-16,” IUR 2, no. 1 -(January 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5344

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Event 7829 -(385CF3BA)

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Date: 11/23/1976
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A lounge owner and an employee are frightened -when an object 3 times the size of a helicopter flies over their car -from the south in Kenner, Louisiana. It has flashing red, green, and -white lights. The object hovers above some trees in the distance for 2 -minutes, then heads slowly east toward Moisant Airport [now Louis -Armstring New Orleans International Airport]. (“Case 2-1-25,” IUR 2, no. -1 (January 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5345

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Event 7830 -(1809701F)

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Date: 11/24/1976
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An Indiana Gas serviceman sees a 12-foot white -cone of light with sparklers at its base diminish to a blinding point -source alongside his pickup truck outside New Albany, Indiana. It -follows him from the Kentucky border and moves silently ahead into the -eastern sky when he reaches town. Other witnesses see it as a distant -point of light; when they leave, the object rushes back over the -serviceman’s house and disappears into the northwest. (“Case 2-1-27,” -IUR 2, no. 1 (January 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5346

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Event 7831 -(4E1AED72)

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Date: 11/25/1976
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A couple in Beecher, Illinois, watch an oblong, -glowing, orange object 45° in the western sky for 5–6 minutes. Holding -stationary, the object diminishes to a point source and returns to its -original shape, larger than the moon. (“Case 2-1-29,” IUR 2, no. 1 -(January 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5347

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Event 7832 -(64A69F0A)

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Date: early 12/1976
-Description: Afternoon. Eero Lammi is on his way home from school in -Oulu, Finland, when he sees a 15-foot ball of light move across toward -him from across the Gulf of Bothnia and land in a nearby field. When he -approaches it, the object shoots out a beam of light that hits him in -the chest. He feels a searing pain and blacks out. His parents think it -is a prank until a doctor finds slight burns on his chest and back. The -case is investigated by the Swedish Military High Command. (“Foreign -Forum,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5348

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Event 7833 -(B0009FF5)

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Date: 12/5/1976
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Several witnesses at Sollefteå, Västernorrland, -Sweden, observe an elongated object (an estimated 148 feet long) with -round openings along the fuselage. A blue-green light is shining from -the openings, a red light at the front, and a diffuse orange glow from -the underside. The object hovers above a military base built into the -mountainside at an elevation of about 165 feet. After a while, the -object moves on and hovers above a nearby power station. Then it moves -jerkily sideways, jumping rapidly between different positions. After -hovering for 15 minutes, it tilts up and rapidly speeds upwards and out -of sight, disappearing at 3:30 p.m. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 4 -(April 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5349

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Event 7834 -(E4D74A8A)

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Date: 12/14/1976
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Panoramic radar at an air force base at -Contrexéville, Vosges, France, picks up unknown targets at 2:00 a.m., -3:00 a.m., and 3:30 a.m. Seven air traffic controllers are the -witnesses. The radar paints the targets as 10–15 miles apart every 10 -seconds, meaning their speed is estimated at 4,200–6,200 mph, a -supersonic speed of Mach 5 to 8, at an altitude of 6.5 miles. (Claude -Poher, “A Case of Radar Detection of UFOs in France,” IUR 29, no. 3 -(Fall 2004): 13–14, 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5350

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Event 7835 -(0F35C718)

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Date: 12/15/1976
-Description: 9:20 p.m. A driver in Holland, Massachusetts, sees a -cigar-shaped object twice the width of the moon hovering low in the east -about 500 feet away. Human-like forms are visible through a row of -windows on the side. It disappears in a bright red flash. (“Case 2-2-1,” -IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5352

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Event 7836 -(0E6FC43F)

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Date: 12/15/1976
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Arnold Barker is driving south on Alberta Highway -46 [now Highway 63] nearly 3 miles south of Boyle, Alberta, when he sees -two bright flashing lights flying west to east. As the object passes -overhead, he realizes it is not an airplane. He jumps out of his truck -to get a better look and sees that the lights are now red, zigzaging, -and attached to each other by a faint connection. The object appears to -be landing silently in a field to the east of the road, but it stops -about 6–10 feet from the ground and 100–150 feet away. Barker takes a -few steps toward it, but it takes off and moves north. He gets in his -truck again to turn around and the object follows him, again as a white -light. He speeds up to 75 mph and outdistances it. (Chris Rutkowski, -Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August North, pp. 185–187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5351

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Event 7837 -(6B7193DD)

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Date: 12/16/1976
-Description: 12:15 p.m. Michael Winterborne, meteorological officer for -the Kalgoorlie Airport in Western Australia, sees a white, -football-shaped object, glowing and pulsating with fuzzy edges, rush -from the northeast horizon to the northwest horizon at great speed. At -2:45 p.m., he sees it again, arching overhead toward the west. Both -incidents are timed by stopwatch at 12 seconds. Dave Bower, at the -Scotia nickel mine about 50 miles to the north, sees a UFO drifting -slowly westward at about 1,000 feet altitude. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, -no. 3 (March 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5353

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Event 7838 -(B01818A7)

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Date: 12/18/1976
-Description: 12:55 a.m. On Wood Canyon Road east of Soda Springs, Idaho, -police officer Dennis Abrams has a close encounter with a 30-foot -diameter, oval-shaped UFO. It lacks any seams or windows and has the -bulk of three to four cars. It emits a light green light and hovers only -60 feet away. It makes no sound when hovering but makes a whistling -“wind” sound when in motion. (“CE-I Seen by Independent Policemen in -Idaho,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5354

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Event 7839 -(75DA6271)

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Date: 12/18/1976
-Description: A Flugfélag Íslands [now Air Iceland Connect] airliner in -flight from Akureyi to Reykjavik, Iceland, picks up a clear radar target -at 18,000 feet over the Mælifell volcano. It tracks the object for one -minute as it rushes 2 miles below the aircraft at 3,600 mph. The object -is not seen visually. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): -2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5355

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Event 7840 -(29B1C5EA)

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Date: 12/18/1976
-Description: 5:20 p.m. Several children in Newfolden, Minnesota, see an -object speeding across the sky then stopping. It has 6–9 orange and -white lights flashing on and off around the perimeter. (“Case 2-2-9,” -IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5356

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Event 7841 -(C9F85A1A)

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Date: 12/18/1976
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A group of witnesses see a red-orange oval light -pass overhead in Miami, Florida, about 250 feet up. It turns west in a -smooth, even motion. (“Case 2-2-12,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5357

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Event 7842 -(8E6059FA)

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Date: 12/19/1976
-Description: The first KH-11 Kennen reconnaissance satellite (codenamed -Key Hole) is launched by the US National Reconnaissance Office. It is -the first American spy satellite to use electro-optical digital imaging -that offers real- time optical observations. The capabilities of the -KH-11 are highly classified, as are images they produce. The satellites -are believed to have been the source of some imagery of the Soviet Union -and China made public in 1997; images of Sudan and Afghanistan made -public in 1998 related to the response to the 1998 US embassy bombings; -and a 2019 photo, revealed by President Donald -Trump, of a failed Iranian rocket launch. (Wikipedia, “KH-11 -KENNEN”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5358

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Event 7843 -(4EA16871)

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Date: 12/19/1976
-Description: 6:20 p.m. A witness in Concord, California, sees a silent, -star-like light moving northward in an erratic fashion: zigzagging, up -and down, in circles, backing up, speeding up for 1 minute. Then it -speeds up and moves downward in a curve, zooming out of sight in 1 -second. (“Case 2-2-13,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5359

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Event 7844 -(DA090019)

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Date: 12/19/1976
-Description: Night. Neil Brennan and Dean Gibbs step outside when they -hear a whirring noise near Aquinas College, Salter Point, Western -Australia. Brennan sees a bright disc, 2 feet in diameter, hovering 30 -feet in the air behind his house. It then disappears toward the west. -(Perth News (W.A.) News, December 20, 1976; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. -2 (February 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5360

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Event 7845 -(DB7ABEE3)

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Date: 12/29/1976
-Description: Mr. and Mrs. Chapin, who had the previous experience in -October 1969, again notice that their mine site near Redding, -California, is unseasonably warm. Chapin walks carefully down toward the -creek as his wife remains in the car. When he shouts and tells her to -bring the gun, she observes a similar object to the one they had seen -seven years earlier, except more pock-mocked on the surface, some -175–200 feet away from Mr. Chapin. It moves rapidly in the air and zaps -both of them, knocking them to the ground. Chapin hits his head against -the canyon wall and his wife falls to the road. They remain unconscious -for about 15 minutes. (“The Redding, California CE II Case,” IUR 3, no. -3 (March 1978): insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5361

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- Event 7846 (ECA41699)

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Date: 1977
-Description: Maj. Gen. Hideki Komura, an adviser to Japan’s Cabinet -Research Office, admits that UFO investigations are carried out at a top -level. He says that in the 1950s, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force -encouraged reports from the public, but they had too many reports to -analyze. Now he admits they cooperate closely with the US government’s -Foreign Technology Division. (Good Above, p. 431)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5370

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Event 7847 -(B1C631BB)

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Date: 1977
-Description: Former USAF Sergeant, Mario Woods, claims that Richard Doty -was present at the debriefing of his 1977 UFO incident over a nuclear -silo at Ellsworth AFB.
-Type: debriefing
-Reference: link
-Location: Ellsworth AFB

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Event 7848 -(11FA0C50)

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Date: 1977
-Description: An Australian soldier is traveling on the Nullabor Plain in -South Australia when he and a companion, an American soldier, watch the -descent of a purple-green fireball. They drive to the impact site and -see a crashed UFO. The Australian goes inside and sees two aliens, one -dead and the other making a squealing sound. They are about 5 feet tall -and pot-bellied, with long, thin arms and large, black eyes. When he -comes out again, he finds that military personnel have arrived. They -arrest him and his friend and keep him in custody for two weeks. (Bill -Chalker, “UFO -Crash/Retrieval Stories: The Australian Experience,” 1998; Clark III -345)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5369

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Event 7849 -(803C6D13)

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Date: 1977
-Description: CAUS (Citizens Against UFO Secrecy), a non-profit freedom -of information activist group that advocates for the release of -classified information regarding UFOs, is founded.
-Type: non-profit organization
-Reference: Wikipeda
-Location: Scottsdale, Arizona

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Event 7850 -(BDBE6CCD)

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Date: 1977
-Description: V. Alexeyev said that at some “unnamed” weapons test ranges -when UFO’s appeared soldiers signaled, mostly in a physical way. The -UFO’s responded by “compressing” their visual shape.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union
-Attributes: communication

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Event 7851 -(34AC175A)

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Date: 1977
-Description: Roger Thome founds Groupe d’Étude et de Recherche sur les -OVNI Haute-Marne/Meuse in Chaumont, Haute- Merne, France, which -publishes five issues of Groupe 5255 in 1980–1982. (Groupe -5255, no. 1 (February 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5367

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Event 7852 -(D80DCAB3)

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Date: 1977
-Description: Fernando António Milhano Patinha founds OVNIGrupo 7 in -Lisbon, Portugal. It publishes a quarterly magazine, OVNI. (Margaret -Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 235)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5366

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Event 7853 -(23CDB5E8)

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Date: 1977
-Description: José Jean Pereira de Alencar founds the Centro de Estudos -Ufologicos in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, and publishes the journal -UFOnotas. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5365

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Event 7854 -(5269F0E4)

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Date: 1977
-Description: Lawrence J. Fenwick, Joseph Muskat, and Harry Tokarz found -the Canadian UFO Research Network in Willowdale, Ontario, to investigate -reports and inform the public. It begins publishing the CUFORN Bulletin -in late 1979, lasting until the summer of 1999. (CUFORN -Bulletin 1, no. 2 (January 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5364

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Event 7855 -(03FB5432)

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Date: 1977
-Description: Constitutional attorney Daniel -P. Sheehan, at -the request of Congressional Research Service researcher Marcia -S. Smith, visits -the brand-new Madison Building at the Library of Congress to look at the -“classified sections of Project Blue Book.” He claims to have seen -photos of a flying saucer embedded in snow and surrounded by USAF -personnel wearing parkas. There are symbols on the side of the crashed -craft. (presidentialufo.com, “President Carter, Daniel Sheehan, and -Donald Menzel: The Congressional Research Service UFO Studies -for President Carter”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5363

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Event 7856 -(2120FEDF)

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Date: 1977
-Description: J. -Allen Hynek publishes The Hynek UFO Report as a review of and -commentary on Project Blue Book records. It is largely ghostwritten by -Elaine M. Hendry, Allan -Hendry’s wife and a graduate student in astronomy at Northwestern -University. (J. Allen Hynek, The -Hynek UFO Report, Dell, 1977; Clark III 620)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5362

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Event 7857 -(B6D8FAB1)

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Date: 1977
-Description: California State University, Long Beach, English professor -Alvin -H. Lawson, along with technical writer John DeHerrera and physician -William C. McCall, carries out a study in Anaheim (California) Memorial -Hospital to determine if the abduction stories told by “real” abductees -under hypnotic regression resemble the stories told by others who are -asked to imagine an abduction under hypnosis. After the experiment, -carried out by student volunteers, Lawson declares that the imaginary -accounts are all but identical to the real accounts. He then formulates -a Birth Memories Hypothesis, which argues that abductions are -nonphysical, archetypal fantasies in which the witness’s birth memories -play a central role. However, Lawson’s methodology and results are later -critiqued severely. (Alvin H. Lawson, “What -Can We Learn from Hypnosis of Imaginary ‘Abductees’?” MUFON UFO -Journal, no. 120 (November 1977): 7–9; Alvin H. Lawson, “What -Can We Learn from Hypnosis of Imaginary -‘Abductees’? Part 2,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 121 (December 1977); -Alvin H. Lawson, “What Can We Learn from Hypnosis of Imaginary -‘Abductees’? Part 3,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 122 (January 1978); Alvin -H. Lawson, “Hypnosis -of Imaginary ’Abductees,” in Curtis G. Fuller, ed., Proceedings of -the First International UFO Congress, Warner, 1980, pp. 195–213; D. -Scott Rogo, “Imaginary Facts: The Case of the Imaginary Abductions,” IUR -10, no. 2 (March/April 1985): 3–5; D. Scott Rogo, “Birth Traumas from -Outer Space,” IUR 10, no. 3 (May/June 1985): 4–5, 16; Clark III -944–945)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5368

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Event 7858 -(80D7543F)

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Date: 1/1977
-Description: Alfred -Webre joins the Center for the Study of Social Policy at the -Stanford Research Institute [now SRI International] in Menlo Park, -California, as a senior policy analyst. He intends to develop an -“extraterrestrial communication” project with White House backing. He -plans to establish a comprehensive UFO database, hire scientific -advisers to evaluate the data, and issue policy recommendations, -including one to end military and intelligence secrecy. He is referred -to an unnamed female staff member of the White House Domestic Policy -Staff, who is supportive of his proposal. He is promised approval of his -proposal, but never hears back from the White House again. The request -is terminated in September. (Steven M. Greer, Disclosure: Military and -Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History, -Crossing Point, 2001, pp. 441–446; Dolan II 142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5373

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Event 7859 -(52E942D3)

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Date: 1/1977
-Description: Peter -A. Sturrock of Stanford University releases the results of his -survey on UFO sightings and beliefs of professional American -astronomers. He has mailed out 2,611 questionnaires, with half (1,356) -completed and returned. Sixty-two respondents (nearly 5%) say they have -witnessed or obtained an instrumented record of an event they could not -identify and that might be related to UFOs. Some 53% prefer additional -scientific study of UFOs. (“Sturrock -Reports His UFO-Survey Results,” Physics Today 30 (May 1977): 112; -“Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5372

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Event 7860 -(1ED72C39)

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Date: 1/1977
-Description: The Roper Organization asks two questions about UFOs in a -survey: 44% “believe in” life elsewhere in the universe and 29% in UFOs -as extraterrestrial. (Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on -UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5371

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Event 7861 -(C07C979A)

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Date: 1/1977
-End date: 5/1977
-Description: Miniwave of UFO sightings, including round and triangular -objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: UK
-ID: 283

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Event 7862 -(57C80C67)

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Date: 1/1/1977
-Description: 8:00 p.m. François Perez and his wife are chased in their -car by a 33-foot long oval object in Valence, Drôme, France. They -retrace their route one hour later after telling police. They see the -oval object again, about 1,200 feet from them in a field. It appears to -be 90–120 feet in diameter and surrounded by a halo of white light. -After 10 minutes, the object begins flashing and rises up into the air -at a 45° angle. They complain of eye pain and conjunctivitis for 48 -hours afterward, and Perez’s watch stops working. (“French -Couple Report Being Chased by ‘Big -Glowing Star,’” Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1977, p. 28; “Foreign -Forum,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5374

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Event 7863 -(C6FC9097)

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Date: 1/6/1977
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Florida Malboeuf is sitting at her window at 6420 -Casgrain Avenue in Montreal, Quebec, when she sees an oyster-shaped, -flat-bottomed metallic object with a row of white lights around its -base. It flies in from the north and lands on the rooftop of a -three-story apartment building across the street from her only 60 feet -away. Immediately two figures appear on the roof; they are over six feet -tall and thin, with long arms. They are wearing white one-piece uniforms -with their heads covered with tight “bath helmets.” They stand looking -at the street, then at the sky, then they apparently return to the -object. A moment later they disappear, and the UFO rises from the roof -about 20 feet and flies off to the east. Her son André goes over to the -rooftop in question and finds a large, elliptical-shaped crust of ice, -about 18 feet in diameter, on top of the snow. He also finds four small -footprints only 6.5 inches long. (Marc Leduc and Wido Hoville, “Un -UFO sur une maison,” UFO-Quebec, no. 9 (1977): 6–10; Yurko -Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, -pp. 62–66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5375

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Event 7864 -(9F1C48A9)

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Date: 1/10/1977
-Description: 12:00 noon. Horse farmer William -McCarthy is looking out his window at the falling snow when he is -surprised to see a hole in his pond in the town of Wakefield, New -Hampshire. The pond, 105 by 75 feet, was frozen solid just the day -before. He goes outside for a closer look. The hole is perfectly round -and cuts smoothly through 14 inches of ice. Eight inches of slush -surrounds the hole. Peering into the hole, McCarthy sees something that -looks like a one-foot-square box. He races back to the house and brings -family members over for a look. Then he goes to the barn to pick up a -rake, hoe, and pole. Back at the pond, McCarthy sees that the box has -sunk three feet into the muck at the bottom. Frustrated in his attempt -to retrieve the object, he calls a friend, Bob Palmer, who arrives -around 2:30 p.m. Concerned that they might be dealing with radioactive -satellite or aircraft debris, Palmer notifies the police, who soon -arrive in the company of a local Civil Defense representative. The -Geiger counter indicates a reading alarmingly above normal (3 roentgens -per hour versus normal background radiation of .001 roentgen). The -McCarthys are warned to stay away from the water, and the CD man and the -police leave to inform their superiors. By 4:00 p.m. the circle of slush -has expanded to 10 feet. When McCarthy observes the pond in the morning, -he discovers a second hole, this one about 50 feet from the original. -Not long afterwards, someone from the attorney general’s office warns -McCarthy not to let his animals drink from the pond; he reappears later -in the day to express concern about possible water seepage. He also -directs McCarthy and his family not to discuss the affair with anyone -else until the official investigation is completed. The next day the -pond is frozen over again. Disregarding warnings, McCarthy walks out on -it and looks down through the clear ice where the hole has been and to -the pool bottom. A fresh 6-inch-wide trench stretches from beneath the -first hole all the way to the second. To all appearances, the object -that entered via the former has left via the latter. State police escort -all but the officially connected off the farm. Investigators try -unsuccessfully to drain the pond, then see a 6-by-3-foot opening where -the original hole had been. Distant observers think they see the -searchers retrieve a black object and place it inside a van, which -quickly leaves the area. By the end of the day, a statement from the -governor’s office declares that more sophisticated equipment has found -no abnormal radioactivity in the pond and the surrounding area. The -black object, the authorities contend, is a container filled with soil -and stone samples collected for analysis. (“What’s -Going On? N.H. Pond Mystery Called False Report,” Boston Globe, -January 14, 1977, p. 3; Allan Hendry, “The Wakefield Incident: Telling a -UFO from a Hole in the Ground,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): 8; -“Wakefield Wrap-Up,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): insert; Clark III -1233–1234)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5376

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Event 7865 -(965F46BF)

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Date: 1/10/1977
-Description: 4:00 p.m. A driver stopped at an intersection in Biloxi, -Mississippi, watches a disc on edge descend at an 80° angle, growing -larger. When it reaches treetop level, it banks in a curve into the -trees. As it leaves, it presents a round face as large as the full moon. -(“Case 2-2-48,” IUR 2, no, 2 (February 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5377

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Event 7866 -(B53F2198)

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Date: 1/11/1977
-Description: The crew of an Indian Air Force jet transport is flying 42 -miles west of Varanasi, India, when it encounters three luminescent -discs that fly past, circle once, then continue east. Apparently, -thousands see the objects from the ground over a period of 45 minutes. -(Good Need, p. 303)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5378

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Event 7867 -(D13E41F7)

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Date: 1/13/1977
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A driver is paced by a UFO shaped like a -flattened football with a dark equator in Plantation, Florida. The -noiseless object is glowing with a steady white light underneath. It -moves erratically in front of the car, and turns a corner as she pulls -into her home. As she jumps out, she sees a second object join it in the -northeast, and both speed toward the east in 5–6 seconds. (“Case -2-2-52,” IUR 2, no. 2 (February 1977): insert.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5379

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Event 7868 -(E0114DE0)

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Date: 1/15/1977
-Description: 8:15 p.m. An unusually bright light is seen bobbing up and -down low in the southern sky of Charleston, Oregon, for 30 minutes. It -gradually drops below the horizon. (“Case 2-3-2,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March -1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5380

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Event 7869 -(08009BD8)

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Date: mid 1/1977
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Eino Maki is out grooming the ski slopes at the -Briar Mountain Lodge near Norway, Michigan. He notices that a nocturnal -light UFO (seen frequently in the area since November 1976) is keeping -pace with him as he moves up and down the slopes, edging closer. At -first it is about 2 miles away at treetop level; now he can see red -lights on the object. A bit unnerved, Maki goes back to the lodge and -positions himself behind it. The light moves out of sight, and Maki goes -back to work about 15 minutes later. Soon the light returns and it is -below him on the same ski run, shining brightly. He decides to go home -in his pickup truck. One week later, around 11:00 p.m., the same thing -starts happening again, but Maki decides to run home right away. -(Kenneth Schellhase, “UFOs on the Ski Slopes of Northern Michigan,” IUR -7, no. 2 (March 1982): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5381

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Event 7870 -(3E2F4C20)

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Date: 1/20/1977
-End date: 1/20/1981
-Description: President Jimmy Carter in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipeda
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 7871 -(4FD999B5)

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Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: Night. Capt. Gustavo Ferreira and the crew of Avianca -flight HK-1273 see an extremely bright white light in front of his -plane. They are 7 minutes out of the El Dorado Airport in Bogotá, -Colombia, westbound at 20,000 feet. At the same time, airport radar -operator Jorge Jimenez watches a target moving at 27,340 mph in a zigzag -motion. Ferreira watches the light change color in response to his -turning on his landing lights and head south after 3 minutes. Jimenez -sees the target cut 90° to the south at the same time. (“Foreign Forum,” -IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 2; UFOEv II 135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5385

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Event 7872 -(3B311333)

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Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Robert Melerine and Irwin Menesses are doing some -hunting along a dike canal about one mile northeast of Yscloskey, -St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, one in a boat and the other walking along -the shore. Melerine sees a bright red light in the sky. Suddenly the -light seems right around him as the boat is engulfed in the glow, which -extends to the surrounding landscape. There is no noise, and the light -flies away into the woods. Menesses is already back at camp and has not -seen the light. They both get into the boat and move down the dike -canal, using the outboard motor. The light reappears and moves closer to -them. Although the motor is running the boat is not moving, seemingly -held in place. Then the light quickly leaves and the boat lurches -forward with great force, causing both men to fall. The light again -flies at low level into the trees and continues on until they lose it. -They estimate that the light is about 15–25 feet in diameter, roughly -circular, faceted, and strikingly fast when it moves toward them. Both -men report nausea, stomach aches, and fever for 2 days after the -incident (it is flu season). (“Mysterious Hovering Light Observed by -Yscloskey Men,” St. Bernard (La.) News, January 26, 1977; “Mysterious -Hovering Light Still a Mystery,” St. Bernard (La.) News, February 9, -1977; Ted Peters, “Warm -Light Stops -Everything!” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 111 (February 1977): 3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5384

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Event 7873 -(2AEC7BCE)

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Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Three female factory workers in Bridlington, -Yorkshire, England, are walking to work on Bessingby Way when they see a -hazy oval object hovering above the Britax PMG factory roof just before -it begins moving to the right and stopping again. Almost immediately -they spot another hazy object hovering above the adjacent K. B. Dixon -woodyard. It begins moving forward at a slow pace then stops above a -ventilation pipe in the Dixon factory wall. As it hovers the haze -disappears, and the object’s features become more distinct. It is larger -than a double-decker bus and shaped like a rugby ball. All three are -able to see through a row of windows on the side that reveal a corridor -inside. On one end is a tube-like structure or pole. Soon it moves over -some community gardens and hovers briefly at about 6 feet altitude, -lowers its “pole,” and appears to suck up a polythene bag. Both objects -now move off to the west. The sighting duration is 5–10 minutes. The -witnesses are terrified during the event, experiencing a cold sensation -sweeping over them and a prickly irritation in their eyes. They develop -sore throats and colds. (Robert Morrell, “UFOs -over Bridlington Factories,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 (October -1977): 8–10, 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5383

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Event 7874 -(C1E0D2D9)

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Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: Brilliant white light zigzagging erratically at high speed, -confirmed on ground and airborne radar. Responded to pilot flashing his -landing lights.
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bogota, Colombia
-ID: 285

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Event 7875 -(CDA680B9)

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Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: Boat brightly illuminated by round glowing object, abnormal -silence, heat, boat held back as if by invisible force, light beam, time -loss
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: St. Bernard Parish, LA
-ID: 284

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Event 7876 -(9E6C0249)

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Date: 1/21/1977
-Description: 3:15 p.m. An observer in Aspen, Colorado, watches a -stationary object for more than an hour. Through binoculars it looks -like a 3:1 rectangle with rounded corners of blue-green light. It fades -from view in the same position. (“Case 2-3-12,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March -1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5382

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Event 7877 -(97DE72DB)

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Date: 1/27/1977
-Description: 1:05 a.m. A 19-year-old trucker is driving on State Highway -329 southeast of Prospect, Kentucky, when he spots a rectangular, -orange-red object coming down near his jeep. His radio fails 15 seconds -into the sighting. He feels compelled to watch the object, which stays -in the vicinity only a short time. When he arrives home, he discovers -that it has taken 45 minutes to complete a 7-minute trip. Later under -hypnosis, he relates being taken inside the object and examined by three -strange creatures who are shaped like machines (looking like a giant -one- armed tombstone, a 7-foot teletype machine, and a man-sized Coke -machine). The electrical system on his jeep goes haywire the day after -the abduction. (“Single Witness Abduction in Kentucky,” IUR 2, no. 4 -(April 1977): 6–7; Carla L. Rueckert, “Kentucky -Close Encounter,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 3 (October 1977): -15–16, 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5386

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Event 7878 -(434DD99F)

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Date: 1/28/1977
-Description: 10:05 p.m. Students in Platteville, Wisconsin, watch an -orange “fuzzy oval” object larger than a full moon descend from a low -angle above the southern horizon into distant trees. (“Case 2-3-22,” IUR -2, no. 3 (March 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5387

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Event 7879 -(7E4E63B5)

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Date: 1/29/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A patrolman and an unnamed couple in East Haven, -Connecticut, see a horizontal row of 5–6 white lights, rotating left to -right. The object hovers for 6 minutes, rises from 45° in the east to -80°, drops lower, executes left and right 90° turns, and fades low in -the southern sky. (“Case 2-3-23,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5388

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Event 7880 -(19F60C90)

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Date: 2/1977
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A Danish serviceman is walking to his quarters -at Naval Station Grønnedal [now Kangilinnguit] in Greenland pauses to -look at the Northern Lights. He retrieves a camera to take photos and -notices an elliptical dark object below the aurora. The object appears -on only one of his time-exposure photos. Possible altocumulus cloud. -(Kim Møller Hansen, “Elliptical -Object over Greenland Naval Station,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, -no. 3 (June/July 1984): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5389

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Event 7881 -(D702C523)

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Date: 2/1977
-Description: An Italian Air Force F-104 is followed for 23 minutes by a -UFO that is brighter than the moon. It remains about 2,400–2,700 feet -behind the plane. The base authorizes him to intercept it, but when he -climbs to 12,000 feet, the UFO paces him then disappears.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5390

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Event 7882 -(37B1861B)

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Date: 2/1/1977
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Two helicopter pilots flying south at 60 mph near -Carthage, Missouri, watch a northbound light pass beneath them and climb -to their altitude at 2,000 feet and 300–500 feet away. It appears to be -a dark, vertical cylinder 10–15 feet high, 5–8 feet wide, and with -struts and a light on the bottom. As the helicopter circles, the object -rises higher and heads southeast, disappearing in a second or two. -(“Case 2-3-33,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5391

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Event 7883 -(92E71A94)

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Date: 2/1/1977
-Description: 9:05 p.m. A police sergeant in Glendale, California, sees a -bright red light 45° in the west. He drives “within a block” of the -light and sees it as bigger than the full moon, perhaps 100–150 feet in -diameter, and hovering silently for 3–4 minutes. It moves at incredible -speed away to the west. (“Case 2-3-35,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March 1977): -8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5392

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Event 7884 -(0429B7E2)

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Date: 2/2/1977
-Description: Farmer Zbigniew Tuszewski finds a strange disc 1.6 feet in -diameter and weighing 66 pounds in his field in Dalabuszki village, -north of Gostyń, Poland. Concave on one side, flat on the other, the -find does not appear to be from a satellite. A spectroscopic analysis -shows the presence of nickel, cobalt, niobium, molybdenum, vanadium, and -tellurium; however, another analysis shows no evidence of nickel. -(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5393

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Event 7885 -(5C124537)

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Date: 2/4/1977
-Description: 6:30 a.m. A woman and her daughter step outside their house -in Senožeti, Slovenia, and see a glowing orange ellipse about four times -the size of the moon hovering about 10° above the forest. It is silent -and has 4–7 brighter spots on it. Walking along, they watch the object -disappear and see a glow arising from the woods as if there is a fire in -a nearby village. They run to the spot but find nothing there. (“Foreign -Forum,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5394

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Event 7886 -(8D00E7FB)

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Date: 2/4/1977
-Description: Around 12:00 noon. Fifteen children, mostly 10-year-old -boys, at Broad Haven Primary School in Pembroke, Wales, are playing -football when they see a silvery cigar-shaped UFO in a field behind the -building, partially hidden by trees and shrubs. Two in the group say it -has a silver dome with a flashing light at the top. Six of them claim to -see a silver man with pointed ears next to the craft. The school’s -headteacher Ralph Llewellyn asks them to draw the UFO and is amazed at -how similar the drawings are. Local UFO enthusiast Randall Jones Pugh -brings the story to the attention of the national media and soon -sightings of UFOs and alien occupants spring up within a 20-mile radius -of Broad Haven, especially near RAF Brawdy [now Cawdor Barracks], east -of St. Davids. (Peter Paget, The Welsh Triangle, Granada, 1979; “Broad -Haven UFO Sightings Marked 40 Years On,” BBC News, February 4, 2017; -Peter Paget, The Welsh Triangle Revisited, The author, 2018; David -Clarke, “Close Encounters of the Playground Kind,” Fortean Times 357 -(September 2017): 16–18; UFOFiles2, pp. 94–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5395

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Event 7887 -(279816ED)

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Date: 2/6/1977
-Description: UFO researcher Larry -W. Bryant writes a letter to President Jimmy -Carter, suggesting that he look into the roles played by military -and civilian intelligence agencies in the UFO cover-up. He receives the -standard USAF brush-off letter, saying that UFOs are no longer being -investigated. (Larry W. Bryant, UFO Politics at the White House, -Invisible College, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5396

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Event 7888 -(98DA77BE)

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Date: 2/9/1977
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A deputy sheriff and constable in Flora, -Mississippi, watch a UFO six times the size of their car hover 20–50 -feet above them for 30 minutes. (“Case 2-3-48,” IUR 2, no. 3 (March -1977): 8; “Close Encounter in Mississippi,” IUR 2, no 4 (April 1977): -7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5398

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Event 7889 -(1892B5E8)

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Date: 2/9/1977
-Description: 5:20 a.m. A high-altitude light is seen hovering for -several minutes above Bondi, New South Wales, Australia, before shooting -off to the east. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5397

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Event 7890 -(FFC0E42E)

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Date: 2/10/1977
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Tom Thibault is alone on the road to Southville, -Nova Scotia, when his car is pushed back 250 feet by a 30-by-60 foot -object hovering silently 10–12 feet above the road. A blue light emerges -from the object that creates an electric shock and an unbearable noise. -Thibault suffers a memory loss and gets headaches when he drives by the -scene afterward. (Digby (N.S.) Courier, February 24, 1977; “Foreign -Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5399

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Event 7891 -(1CEC7C73)

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Date: 2/11/1977
-Description: 8:40 p.m. Health service cook Slavka Gorsek and her two -children see an intense beam of light come through a bedroom window in -their home in Gaberke, Slovenia. It illuminates the room briefly then -goes out. The light is coming from an egg-shaped object about 8–11 feet -wide that has landed only about 50 feet away behind a chicken coop. It -is bright white with a green or blue center. For 2–3 minutes they can -see and hear nothing, until the object flashes again and takes off. -Three days later Gorsek notices a “glimmering dust” at the landing site -and the marks of five landing gear. An analysis is performed but with -ambiguous results. (Milos Krmelj, “UFO Landing -in Yugoslavia,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 118 (September 1977): -6–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5400

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Event 7892 -(FBB14BE6)

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Date: mid 2/1977
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Another nocturnal light mimics Eino Maki’s -movements as he grooms the ski slopes at Brian Mountain Lodge near -Norway, Michigan. After going away once, it reappears right over him, -illuminating him and a large area around him. He races his tractor at -top speed (15 mph), maneuvering under struts and wires so it can’t get -at him. Assistant Manager Jake Malone hears the tractor gearing up -outside and sees a huge brilliantly lit object the “size of a boxcar” -following Maki up the slope. When he reaches the top, the UFO hovers, -silently bouncing up and down, about 500 feet from the lodge. Maki -estimates the object is about 60–80 feet long. Some 10–15 people exiting -the lodge begin to see the display as well. (Kenneth Schellhase, “UFOs -on the Ski Slopes of Northern Michigan,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March 1982): -10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5401

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Event 7893 -(5598F8BD)

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Date: 2/16/1977
-Description: Morning. Four boys and one adult at Penlee Secondary School -in Plymouth, Devon, England, independently see a cigar-shaped object -flying horizontally above the school playground before it climbs into a -cloud and disappears. (David Clarke, “Close Encounters of the Playground -Kind,” Fortean Times 357 (September 2017): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5402

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Event 7894 -(E1A2B7B7)

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Date: 2/16/1977
-Description: Afternoon. Nine children, age 8–11, are playing netball -with their teacher, Mair Williams, at Rhosybol School in Anglesey, North -Wales, when they see an object flying north. It has a black dome on top -and a silver, cigar-shaped base. It remains in sight for 3 minutes, goes -behind the only cloud in the sky, reappears for one minute, then -disappears. The teacher takes them back inside, separates them, and -tells them to draw what they have seen. The sighting is reported to RAF -Valley in Anglesey, which can offer no positive identification. (David -Clarke, “Close Encounters of the Playground Kind,” Fortean Times 357 -(September 2017): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5403

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Event 7895 -(253AD453)

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Date: 2/16/1977
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A commercial pilot standing outside his truck in -Canton, Mississippi, watches a cylindrical object about 40 feet long -pass alongside him a few hundred feet away at 30 mph. It has one steady -white light in front and makes a noise like a wheezing turbine. It -recedes into the west after 5 minutes. (“Case 2-4-6,” IUR 2, no. 4 -(April 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5404

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Event 7896 -(2BFBCEF9)

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Date: 2/16/1977
-Description: 9:15 p.m. A woman in Utica, Michigan, watches for 2 minutes -a vertical cylinder of white light that is pointed at the top. It is -stationary, silent, shrouded in white haze, and about 10 times as long -as the full moon. (“Case 2-4-7,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5405

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Event 7897 -(DB80F655)

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Date: 2/18/1977
-Description: Disc hovered, illuminated barnyard, farm animals reacted, -watchdog later died. Witness felt electric shock, heat, paralysis. -Physiological and physical effects.
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Salto, Uruguay
-ID: 286

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Event 7898 -(3916D079)

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Date: 2/20/1977
-Description: 10:15 p.m. A domed disc is seen for 1–2 minutes by a man -and his son in Victorville, California. It is silver in color with three -windows, three legs or wheels, and two hooks at both ends. It hovers -above houses 3–4 blocks away, then recedes toward the northwest after -attaching itself to the top of a second object to form a sphere. (“Case -2-4-15,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5406

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Event 7899 -(FED3D3BA)

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Date: 2/22/1977
-Description: Severe corrosion of the KS 150 reactor in Jaslovské -Bohunice, Czech Republic, causes a release of radioactive material into -the plant area, requiring a complete decommission. (Wikipedia, “KS -150”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5407

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Event 7900 -(8E1F3511)

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Date: 2/22/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Antonio Serena, his wife Francesca Castellanos, -and their three children are followed by a bright light for one hour and -a distance of about 25 miles. The light is first spotted as they are -driving northwest of Llíria in Valencia province, Spain, and follows -them through the town of Vilamarxant. The car experiences some engine -and light problems and des not seem to be able to accelerate. When they -approach the village of Cheste, the light seems to move ahead of them, -get much closer, and extend some legs in preparation for landing. One of -the daughters gets sick from anxiety. The object moves away when a -second auto approaches from the opposite direction. Despite the seeming -drama of the incident, the light seems to have been Venus and the engine -problems are due to a drained battery, as Ian -Ridpath points out. (Story, pp. 327–330; -Ian Ridpath, “A -Spanish Close Encounter -Re-examined,” Ian Ridpath’s UFO Skeptic Pages, January 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5408

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Event 7901 -(1EA523B2)

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Date: 2/24/1977
-Description: Humanoid encounter
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Langenargen, Lake Constance, Germany
-ID: 287

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Event 7902 -(748D5C59)

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Date: 2/25/1977
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A 16-year-old bicycling near Cyprus College in -California is followed by a star-like object that appears in the west, -45° up. The light enlarges to a thin cigar-shape, 4–5 times the width of -the moon, after rushing toward him in 5 seconds. He cycles away, -frightened, and has to be driven home in tears by friends. His friends -and family see the object as a “star” that sets in the west in 25 -minutes. Possibly Jupiter. (“Case 2-4-19,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5409

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Event 7903 -(73AA76C8)

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Date: 2/26/1977
-Description: 9:00 p.m. An accident investigator in Ontario, California, -sees a white triangle with rounded sides as big as the full moon. It -moves silently and slowly from overhead toward the east, 45° up. It -changes course twice in the next 4–5 minutes before it disappears in the -distance. (“Case 2-4-21,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5410

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Event 7904 -(15754CCC)

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Date: 3/4/1977
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Ludwig Siegal is driving on Provincial Road 201 -about 4 miles west of Sundown, Manitoba. He sees a shimmering oval -object ahead of him and silently hovering about 15 feet above the -highway. It is yellowish cream around the outer edge, darkening to more -yellowish in the middle. He passes directly underneath the object, which -does not appear to be solid. Two miles further, Siegal sees three -entities, 5 feet tall and shaped like bowling pins, in the glare of his -headlights. They are arranged in a row along the left side of the road -and have bulbous heads, narrow necks, and flared bodies. Unable to stop -in time, he crashes into the group but feels no impact. They simply -disappear as they touch the car’s bumper. Looking in his rear-view -mirror, he sees all three of them reappear behind his car, shrink to a -small size, and vanish. Siegal calls the RCMP from a nearby friend’s -house. They find skid marks, but no traces of blood or any impact marks -on Siegal’s car. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August -Night, 2022, pp. 166, 221–223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5411

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Event 7905 -(E5CE485E)

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Date: 3/7/1977
-Description: Radar-visual UFO approached Mirage bomber, sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France
-ID: 288

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Event 7906 -(259888E1)

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Date: 3/7/1977
-Description: 8:34 p.m. French Air Force pilot Maj. René Giraud and -navigator Capt. Jean-Paul Abraham, flying a Dassault Mirage IV -supersonic bomber over Chaumont, Haute-Marne, France, see a huge UFO. -The light appears bigger and bigger as it approaches their aircraft from -the rear right. The pilot is flying at Mach 0.98 and makes a turn to the -right and then to the left to make sure the light is not a reflection of -some sort in the cockpit. As he does these maneuvers, both crew members -can distinguish that the light is on the front of a dark, solid object. -Despite the evasive maneuver, the unidentified object manages to stay -exactly behind them for a few seconds, a very dangerous situation if the -unknown object is hostile. Then the object makes a turn to the northwest -at an estimated speed of Mach 2, and flies away to the left of the -Mirage IV. (Kean, pp. 123–124; -Good Need, pp. 304–305; -Patrick Gross, “Mirage -IV Jet Bomber Encounters UFO, France, March 7, 1977”; “L’Observation -d’OVNI du Colonel -René Giraud (1977),” OVNI et Extraterrestre, November 10, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5412

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Event 7907 -(2E999EFC)

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Date: 3/8/1977
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Eleven witnesses in six groups (including Thelma -Lowe, Harold Wilson, Sara Green, Mrs. Everett Miller, Mrs. W. E. Runge -II, and Robert Smyth) watch a red ball of fire the size of the full moon -drift over their houses and alight on the ground south of Gatchellville, -Pennsylvania. It leaves a large patch of burning grass (100 feet long by -30 feet wide), with a mysteriously unscathed area delineated by three -holes at the vertices. (“Case Number 2-4-44,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): -6–7; “Close-Out on the Gatchellville, PA CE II,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March -1978): insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5413

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Event 7908 -(6CA26309)

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Date: 3/9/1977
-Description: Brightly lighted ellipse hovered, car engine failed, lights -dimmed. Pressure, tingling sensation felt, physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Nelson, North Lancashire, UK
-ID: 289

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Event 7909 -(7374442D)

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Date: 3/9/1977
-Description: 12:34 a.m. Captain Assapa, Flight Officer Berehan, and -Flight Engineer Negassa of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET-701 are flying -near Qarun Lake, Egypt, when they see a formation of eight lights, with -two larger ones in the lead, flying southeast. They are the color of -“arc welding.” (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5414

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Event 7910 -(18BB5FCF)

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Date: 3/9/1977
-Description: 3:10 a.m. Brian Grimshaw and his friend Jeff are driving to -a textile factory in Nelson, Lancashire, England, when they see a -cigar-shaped, metallic object in the sky. They stop the car for a better -look. The UFO has lights at either end that are changing color, and the -entire object is surrounded by a gray mist. The witnesses hear a sound -they describe as like the tide coming in and going out. As the object -comes closer, the car engine stops and the headlights dim. After five -minutes, the object flies off and the car restarts. Both witnesses come -down with headaches shortly afterward. (Tony Grimshaw and Jenny Randles, -“Frightening -Car-Stop near Nelson,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 (August 1977): -3–5, 12; UFOEv II 223–224; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part 4,” -Fortean Times 328 (July 2015): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5415

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Event 7911 -(011FF863)

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Date: 3/9/1977
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Susanna and Maria Stratford watch a shiny saucer -with a red light on top and a rounded bottom descend to 30 feet above -the ground and hover for 20 minutes, veering left and right above the -trees in Saanich, British Columbia. It disappears toward the east. (“Night -UFO: It Came Back to See Us,” Victoria (B.C.) Times, March 11, 1977, -p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5416

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Event 7912 -(7EBB9BA5)

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Date: 3/9/1977
-Description: 10:40 p.m. Four adult witnesses in Long Grove, Illinois, -are attracted outside by a loud crackling noise. Searching around with a -powerful spotlight, they see an object 60° up in the northern sky about -1,000 feet up. It is a white, tapered rectangle with a black silhouette -behind it about the size of the full moon. They watch it maneuver within -the spotlight beam and watch it sporadically for 30 minutes until it -vanishes within the beam; the noise stops immediately. (“Case 2-4-46,” -IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1975): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5417

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Event 7913 -(089A2D69)

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Date: 3/10/1977
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Ten crew members of two oil tankers anchored one -mile apart at the Arjuna Oil Field in the Java Sea, Indonesia, see an -object the apparent size of the full moon. It is primarily dark with a -red light in the middle and emits beams of yellowish-white light in two -directions. It is only about 1,000 feet above the surface of the water. -Coming from the west, it circles the offshore oil field twice and then -speeds off to the east after 5 minutes. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 2 -(February 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5418

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Event 7914 -(6D0A0F8A)

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Date: 3/11/1977
-Description: Rancher B. T. Bray discovers a 14-foot diameter, circular -ring in a paddock at Brayfield Station, southwest of Port Neill, South -Australia. No UFO is seen. The topsoil, soft everywhere else, is -surprisingly hard in the ring, with the grass in the center undisturbed. -(Adelaide (S.A.) Advertiser, March 12, 1977; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. -8 (August 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5419

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Event 7915 -(20B4A1D8)

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Date: 3/12/1977
-Description: 9:05 p.m. United Airlines Flight 94 is flying south of -Syracuse, New York, on a course toward Boston’s Logan Airport in -Massachusetts. Suddenly the airplane starts a gradual, smooth (15° bank -angle) turn to the left by itself. Within 5–10 seconds both captain Neil -Daniels, 57, and the flight officer turn and look to their left side and -see an “extremely bright white light at about their own altitude.” It is -perfectly round and almost 3° arc in apparent diameter. Daniels -estimates its distance to be about 3,000 feet and probably as big or -bigger than a DC- 10 in size. Its intensity is like that of a flashbulb. -Boston Center calls them and asks, “United 94, where are you going?” -Daniels replies, “Well, let me figure this out. I’ll let you know.” Then -they notice that “the three compasses were all displaying different -readings. The FO’s compass was within 20° arc of the compass in front of -the captain and was not rotating. It was then that the FO uncoupled the -autopilot and flew the airplane manually.” Meanwhile, the UAP “followed -right along with us” for about 4–5 more minutes then “it took off and -picked up speed very rapidly and just disappeared, over about 15 -seconds, back towards our 8:00 o’clock position and slightly upward.” -Daniels asked ATC if they have any radar traffic in the area and they -reply, “no.” Later, ATC tells Daniels, “So whatever it was, we don’t -know. But it did cause a disruption in the magnetic field around the -aircraft to the point where it did pull the aircraft off course.” -(Richard F. Haines, “Aviation -Safety in America: A Previously -Neglected Factor,” NARCAP, October 15, 2000, p. 80; “Air -Force Pilot Neil Daniels Sighting,” Riddlept YouTube channel, -October 8, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5420

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Event 7916 -(3E7E7B64)

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Date: mid 3/1977
-Description: Observers at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran, see 20–25 -UFOs flying from the desert toward the city. The pilots and passengers -of an Iranian airliner flying at more than 6 miles altitude about 87 -miles from the city describe them as yellow in color. A Japanese pilot -the same distance south of Tehran switches on all his lights when he -sees a huge object in front of his plane. He claims 15–20 smaller -objects fly out of the large one directly toward the pilot, who changes -course and heads for Mehrabad. (“Review of Iranian UFO Reports,” -IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5421

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Event 7917 -(B14C1615)

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Date: mid 3/1977
-Description: Around 11:00 p.m. James Ferguson and Tom Patton are in the -desert about 2 miles west of Tucson, Arizona, preparing to take night -photographs of saguaro cacti using flash-lighting effects. As they are -getting ready to take a photo, the floor of the desert around them -suddenly brightens. They see a large mass of light rise from behind a -distant range of hills and hover for many minutes just above the -horizon. Quickly, they turn the camera on its tripod toward the light -and take a time exposure. Several minutes pass and suddenly the light -moves rapidly to the north and disappears in the distance. The trail of -light on the photo shows the light’s departure. (“1977 -Nocturnal Light Photograph Reported,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, -no. 1 (May 1980): 1; “Tucson -1977 -Nocturnal Light Remains Unidentified,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, -no. 4 (August 1980): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5422

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Event 7918 -(FB67C311)

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Date: 3/19/1977
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Sylvia Laidler and her daughter Darlene are -driving eastbound on Highway 401 near Belleville, Ontario, when a red -streak appears in the north. The object stops abruptly over the highway -in front of her car, maintaining a red, pulsating glow, then approaches -them, flying on the south side of the road at tree-top level. It is -triangular with turquoise lights, red flashing lights, and a golden -light flashing at the bottom. It hovers silently above them briefly then -moves off to the south. (“UFO Hovered over Car,” Belleville (Ont.) -Intelligencer, May 6, 1977; Marler 96–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5423

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Event 7919 -(E318842C)

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Date: 3/22/1977
-Description: 10:20 a.m. Tom Evison and his wife watch for 15 minutes a -bright stationary light an estimated 10 miles north of their location in -Seatoun, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. Seen through a telescope, -it appears as elongated with black vertical lines. It slowly fades away -in place. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5424

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Event 7920 -(3FECD161)

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Date: 3/24/1977
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Witnesses on La Palma and Tenerife, Canary -Islands, see a reddish light emerge from the sea, climb very fast, move -in a zigzag fashion, and leave behind a huge, bright halo that lasts 10 -minutes. Several minutes later, a Scandinavian DC-8 passing over Ad -Dakhla on the coast of Western Sahara observes a luminous cloud to the -west. A South African Airways jumbo jet describes the same phenomenon. -310 miles to the south, Capt. M. Brackenridge and the crew of the -merchant ship Kinpurnie Castle witness a luminous semicircle on the -horizon, with a small bright arc inside. In only 3 minutes it has -reached colossal dimensions. Seven minutes later, it has completely -dispersed, after a second luminous spot appears above it. The sighting -correlates with the launch of two Poseidon missiles from the USS -Woodrow Wilson. (Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy Missile Tests and the -Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5425

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Event 7921 -(ECAD7B9D)

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Date: 3/29/1977
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A witness in a rural area near West Decatur, -Pennsylvania, sees an “upside-down teardrop” object 100–200 feet long -and 60 feet wide drift in from the east at treetop level. With the point -of the teardrop pointing upward, the gray-brown object features a large -panel of fluorescent green light on the bottom. Drifting west into a -field, the object makes a sound like a “rope spinning in the air.” -Climbing at a 45° angle to a half-mile up in 15 seconds, it levels off -and accelerates to the southwest in 8 seconds. (“Case 2-5-43,” IUR 2, -no. 5 (May 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5426

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Event 7922 -(89B0B158)

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Date: 4/1/1977
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A woman is driving her three young children -south on the west side of DeRuyter, New York, when she finds herself -overtaking and driving underneath a 35–40-foot object hovering 30 feet -above the maple trees. The UFO has three outer red and blue lights and a -sequential series of red lights in two rows on the center bottom. One -mile away, two other witnesses go in search of a red glow without being -able to overtake it. (“Case 2-5-46,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5427

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Event 7923 -(F0E38F88)

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Date: 4/5/1977
-Description: 2:17 p.m. A pilot driving on I-94 northbound near -Deerfield, Illinois, sees an object coming toward him (southbound) first -in the distance then directly above him later on. It is a silver -mushroom three times the apparent size of the moon, and it moves -silently toward Chicago against the wind. (“Case 2-5-51,” IUR 2, no. 5 -(May 1977): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5428

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Event 7924 -(E41631C5)

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Date: 4/5/1977
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A young couple and others in Lincolnton, North -Carolina, see 5–6 red-orange lights hovering 200 feet away. (“Case -2-5-52,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5429

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Event 7925 -(FA3655F4)

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Date: 4/8/1977
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A domed disc-shaped object flies around two -witnesses in Cedar Springs, Michigan, hovering and flashing over some -nearby trees. Ring ground marks are later found. (“Case 2-5-57,” IUR 2, -no. 5 (May 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5430

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Event 7926 -(F9BD7697)

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Date: 4/8/1977
-Description: 8:08 p.m. A teenager and his mother in St. Louis, Missouri, -watch a flat disc four times the width of the moon silhouetted against -the clouds. It has three steady white lights around its edges and moves -silently from a high angle in the east to a low angle in the west. -(“Case 2-5-58,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5431

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Event 7927 -(24A10BBD)

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Date: 4/8/1977
-Description: 10:35 p.m. A cigar-shaped object glowing red at each end -darts north to south across Interstate 64 in Lexington, Kentucky, -several times. (“Case 2-5-80,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5432

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Event 7928 -(22FC1648)

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Date: 4/10/1977
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Martha and Olof Eriksson watch a yellow light -with a red “textile-like” appendage hanging below it at Flykälen, -Jämtland, Sweden. It is 100 feet in diameter and moving from south to -north. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5433

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Event 7929 -(71A88D12)

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Date: 4/14/1977
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Captain Scherrer, Senior First Officer Schmid, -and hostess Rothenhofer are on board Swissair Flight SR-798 near -Maastricht, Netherlands. Schmid notices the first of four -“lightning-like lights” in an otherwise clear sky. Ground radar calls -the plane’s attention to a target 15 miles away at their 1 o’clock -position. The crew sees two targets briefly at that position but only on -radar. Then all three of them see another flash. Maastricht radar -watches the target fall back east of the plane and rush at high speed -back to a 1 or 2 o’clock position only 3 miles away. There is still no -visual contact. A few minutes later, a third silent lightning-like flash -is seen just in front of the airliner. Maastricht radar watches the -target playing with the plane behind its tail and right wing, where the -fourth flash is seen. A military radar places the speed of the target -when moving fast at Mach 4 or 5. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June -1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5434

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Event 7930 -(E097A0CB)

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Date: 4/17/1977
-Description: 4:00 p.m. A woman in La Louvière, Hainaut, Belgium, watches -a flat cylinder with faceted sides move from the southwest to northeast. -The object is dark, seems solid, and emits no smoke or trail. It moves -in a straight line with an oscillation in the same direction as the -wind. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5435

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Event 7931 -(B3E9A6F3)

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Date: 4/17/1977
-End date: 4/23/1977
-Description: An International Congress on the UFO Phenomenon is held in -Acapulco, Mexico, organized by Mexico City businessman Guillermo Bravo. -Speakers include J. -Allen Hynek, Jacques -Vallée, John -A. Keel, William Spaulding, Walt -Andrus, and Dennis -Hauck. Prime Minister Eric -Gairy makes a strong plea for a United Nations program to -investigate UFOs. (J. Allen Hynek, “‘First’ International Congress on -the UFO Phenomenon,” IUR 2, no. 5 (May 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5436

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Event 7932 -(068C70E6)

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Date: 4/18/1977
-Description: About 12:05 a.m. George Thrupp and Margaret Mancour of the -weather office at Vancouver International Airport in British Columbia -have just gotten off their shift when they see a “blue flash” over the -airport. It appears in the south sky above Richmond. The light is coming -from a cigar-shaped object larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet that is -orange on the top half and blue on the bottom half with dark portholes -along the side. (“Pair -Sight UFO at -City Airport,” Vancouver (B.C.) Sun, April 19, 1977, p. 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5437

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Event 7933 -(C85B4E61)

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Date: 4/18/1977
-Description: White House Press Secretary Jody -Powell states in the “Washington Whispers” column of US News and -World Report that “before the year is out” there will be “unsettling -disclosures” about UFOs, “based on information from the CIA.” Later, the -White House claims the story is a “misunderstanding” by Powell. (Robert -Scheaffer, “‘UFO -Disclosure’ Happening Again This Year,” Skeptical Inquirer 40, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 2016): 16– 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5438

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Event 7934 -(75A43C04)

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Date: 4/19/1977
-Description: Early morning. Rosa Granville, proprietor of the Haven Fort -Hotel in Little Haven, Pembroke, Wales, is disturbed by a strange -humming noise. She looks out a window and sees an oval-shaped object -“like the moon falling down” land behind her home. Two tall humanoids -appear in front of the UFO, which is about the size of a minibus. They -have blank faces and pointed heads and are wearing white outfits like -boiler suits. They appear to “take measurements or gather things” and -climb a grassy bank in a field. When she returns to the window after -calling other family members, the object and the figures have vanished. -(UFOFiles2, p. 96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5440

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Event 7935 -(D029A646)

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Date: 4/19/1977
-Description: Santiago Laco Ozano, 32, is milking cows in Rocha, Uruguay, -when he hears a strange noise as the area around him is illuminated. -Looking up, he sees a small object giving off a powerful beam of light. -He faints, and on recovering about 5 minutes later, notices his hair is -slightly burned. He is admitted to a nearby hospital, whose personnel -verify the singeing and that his scalp has no lesions. (“Foreign Forum,” -IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5439

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Event 7936 -(0AEBF35D)

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Date: 4/21/1977
-Description: 7:15 p.m. A couple in Towson, Maryland, sees a gray capsule -with short, stubby wings, two yellow headlights, and no windows. Several -times the full moon, the object flies silently from low in the east to -above their car in 4 minutes. (“Case 2-6-5,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5441

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Event 7937 -(F234D5A2)

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Date: 4/22/1977
-Description: 3:10 a.m. Three witnesses in Washburn, Wisconsin, see a -flat, round object with five white lights on its rim and two red lights -on its bottom. It pursues their car for three-quarters of a mile, even -around curves and driving at 90 mph. The object overshoots them, slows -down, and moves only 30 feet in front of them. After 4 minutes it -accelerates in a steep climb toward the southwest. (“Case 4-22-77,” IUR -2, no. 6 (June 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5442

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Event 7938 -(66679B0A)

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Date: 4/23/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Pilot William Sorum and copilot Richard Drzal are -flying a DC-10, Northwest Orient Flight 27, from Seattle, Washington, to -Anchorage, Alaska. About 50 miles east of Middleton Island, Alaska, they -see a bright white star moving smoothly from the southern horizon across -their field of view to the northern horizon for about 40 seconds. It -passes in front of them at a 45° above them at their altitude of 39,000 -feet. Radar Approach Controller Terry Siegrist and others at Anchorage -International Airport see a linear flight of four separate -unidentifiable blips suddenly appear on radar screens at 30 miles -distance from the city, covering 10 miles in 6–12 seconds (3,600 mph). -Correlation between the two observations is not established. -(“Radar/Visual in Alaska,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5443

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Event 7939 -(FE7AEEBB)

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Date: 4/25/1977
-Description: 3:45 a.m. Eight soldiers camped on a military patrol 3 -miles from Putre, Arica y Parinacota, Chile, suddenly see two bright -violet lights nearby. The soldiers’ dog and horses remain still while -the lights hover nearby. The leader of the group, Corporal Armando -Valdés Garrido, orders the other soldiers to put out their campfire. The -two large lights are about a half-mile away and hovering close to the -ground. Valdés approaches the lights, ordering them to identify -themselves. At this point a bright light envelops Valdés and he -apparently vanishes in a mist in plain view of the others. The soldiers -frantically begin searching for him but are unable to find him. At -around 4:15 a.m., Valdés suddenly reappears. He has a strange look on -his face and he gives out a sinister laugh, asking several times where -his mother is. Then he says, again in a very sinister sounding voice, -“You will never know who we are and where we come from.” The others -notice that he appears to have a week’s growth of beard, whereas he had -been clean-shaven just an hour ago, and his digital watch indicates the -impossible date of April 30. He is almost in hysterics and one of the -soldiers has to slap him, at which point Valdés faints. One of the other -soldiers, Raúl Salinas, who has been standing a few feet in back of the -others, notices a strange humanoid creature behind some nearby rocks. He -describes it as half animal and half human; no facial features are -visible, but it seems to be wearing a helmet and is carrying a red -light. Salinas is stunned to see the creature appear at several places -simultaneously. He thinks that there might be several humanoids. He does -not mention this to the others at the time, since they are already -scared, but the others do not see the humanoid or humanoids. When Valdés -wakes up he cannot remember where he has been. In 2013, Valdés, now an -evangelical pastor, admits that no one on the patrol saw aliens—only -that they saw something that frightened them. He claims he only left the -group to go urinate. Many ufologists now feel that the Chilean -government encouraged the abduction scenario to mask the presence of -troops and horses in northern Chile in the event of a war with Argentina -or a regional conflict. (Wikipedia, “Caso -Cabo Valdés”; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 2; “The -Chilean Abduction,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 1 (July 1977): 1, 3; “Cabo -Valdés se confiesa: ‘Nunca me abdujeron,’” La Cuarta, February 18, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5444

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Event 7940 -(44BD6F9B)

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Date: 4/26/1977
-Description: Pauline Coombes reports seeing a luminous silver figure 7–8 -feet tall looking into her window at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, -Wales, for an hour. She doesn’t say anything until her son notices it -too. Humanoid in form, the figure’s face is black and featureless; it -vanishes when a neighbor drives up. Two weeks earlier, a yellow sphere -had chased her car; she accelerated to 80 mph to escape it. (“Foreign -Forum,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5445

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Event 7941 -(E438BBCB)

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Date: 4/29/1977
-Description: Manuel Lopez, the pilot of a single-engine plane, is -allegedly blinded in flight by a UFO near Bogotá, Colombia. Circling in -the air for 2 hours, Lopez’s calls for help are recorded and played on a -local radio station: “I’ve lost my sight; I don’t know what to do!” Four -aircraft surround him and talk him down to a safe landing at El Dorado -International Airport by radio. He is rushed to a military hospital -suffering from shock. (“Colombian Pilot -Says UFO Blinded Him,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7, 1977, -p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5446

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Event 7942 -(7C9938D5)

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Date: 4/29/1977
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A woman and her daughter are driving north of -Oxford, Ohio, when a white light begins pacing their car on the left -about 180 feet away. They speed up and pass it after 3 minutes. The -mother only sees a light, but the daughter perceives a “saucer with a -vertical cone.” (“Case 2-6-34,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5447

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Event 7943 -(E0D77980)

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Date: 5/1977
-Description: Groupe d’Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies -(GEPAN) organized under the auspices of the French national space agency -for the study of UFOs.
-Type: official
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: France
-ID: 290

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Event 7944 -(63450696)

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Date: 5/1977
-Description: Leonard -H. Stringfield’s Situation Red: The UFO Siege! is published, -supporting the thesis that the US military has acquired extraterrestrial -hardware and possibly bodies. The book immediately prompts dozens of -alleged first- hand witnesses of crashed UFOs or alien bodies to contact -Stringfield with their stories. One of his informants is a medical -doctor (“Doctor X”) who says he has conducted medical tests on alien -cadavers at a major medical facility in the eastern US. Stringfield is -later able to visit Doctor X and a colleague of his, Doctor Y, who has -examined an alien tissue sample under a microscope. The aliens are said -to be 3.5–4.5 feet tall, weighing 40 pounds, with large heads. They have -slender torsos and long, thin arms. Their skin is tan or gray, elastic, -and reminiscent of reptilian skin. A colorless liquid is present in the -bodies; there are no red cells. The eyes are slanted without pupils, and -they have heavy brow ridges, apertures in place of ears, small noses, -and slitlike mouths. They have no teeth. Doctor X avoids Stringfield’s -later questions. (Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege! -Doubleday, 1977; UFOEv II 593)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5448

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Event 7945 -(52D1ADBF)

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Date: 5/1977
-Description: A young radio technician is lying in bed during a power -blackout in Gloggnitz, Austria. Suddenly a hollow globe about 1.6 feet -in diameter and made up of separate red bars of light appears over the -bedroom floor. It begins moving slowly and silently toward a glass door. -The witness jumps out of bed, bumping into the ball of light with his -leg. He feels nothing and there are no aftereffects. The bars of light -begin to shrink in diameter, causing the ball to dim and disappear. No -traces are left behind. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR -31, no. 2 (June 2007): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5449

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Event 7946 -(1BD04470)

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Date: 5/1/1977
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Amateur astronomer Lev Boethin sees a red-brown -oval object 10 times the size of the moon near Mudeng, Philippines. It -moves silently from the southeast to the northwest parallel to the -ground 20° above the horizon. He estimates it is only 300 feet away and -moving faster than an aircraft. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June -1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5450

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Event 7947 -(8DD78537)

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Date: 5/1/1977
-Description: The Groupe d’Etude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non -Identifiés (GEPAN) is founded as a section of France’s Centre National -d’Études Spatiales on the initiative of CNES Director Yves -Sillard. Its purpose is to quiet public fears about a flurry of UFO -sightings, as well as to coordinate reports of the Gendarmerie, civil -aviation, the Air Force, and the meteorological service. Its first -director is aeronautical engineer Claude -Poher. GEPAN sets up a Scientific Council of astronomers and other -scientists and professionals to put in place data- collection systems -for UFO reports from official agencies and investigate cases already -reported. (Jean-Pierre Petit, “The -Truth about G.E.P.A.N.,” Flying Saucer Review 35, no. 4 (December -1990): 22–24; Mark Rodeghier, ed., “The 1999 French Report on UFOs and -Defense,” IUR 25, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 20–21; Gildas Bourdais, “From -GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter -2000–2001): 11–13; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official -French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 12–13: Swords 440–442; -Good Above, pp. 135–136; -Clark III 546)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5451

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Event 7948 -(0F4B9124)

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Date: 5/3/1977
-Description: 3:55 a.m. A caller tells police in Hainault, northeast -London, that a strange object is above the small lake in Hainault Forest -Country Park. Two policemen are dispatched, and they see a “large bright -red light” on the eastern shore. They exit their vehicle and notice an -object like a “bell tent” about 900 feet away that continuously pulsates -from dull to very bright red for the next 2–3 minutes. The UFO seems to -be hovering silently. Then the object appears to “dissolve on the spot.” -The officers decide somewhat reluctantly to go across the lake and -investigate. Then one of them looks up and briefly sees a thin, large, -white crescent hanging in the sky. This also dissolves on the spot. -Reaching the location of ground zero, they find nothing except a strong -burning smell. They make a report to the local UFO group, the Essex -Hotline, and investigator Barry M. King interviews one of the officers -that night. The next day, one large bush is found damaged: flattened in -the center and slightly burned. A gorse bush appears to have borne a -heavy weight, because almost all the limbs are snapped off the central -branch and displaced in an outward-radiating splay. No radiation or -magnetic anomalies are found. (Barry M. King, “Landing -at Hainault Seen by Police,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 (August -1977): 8–11; Andrew Collins, “Follow-Up -at Hainault,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 2 (August 1977): -11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5452

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Event 7949 -(6B6CC01C)

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Date: 5/3/1977
-Description: 6:35 p.m. Several people in the eastern part of Jakarta, -Indonesia, are watching the sky with binoculars when they see a round -UFO that traverses the sky in one minute. It carries flashing red, -green, white, and blue lights located in circles around the rim. -(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5453

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Event 7950 -(F36AE6BF)

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Date: 5/3/1977
-Description: 9:20 p.m. A woman in Wilcox, Pennsylvania, sees a large -silver sphere with many blue lights around its equator. The object -hovers close to the west side of her house, casting a spotlight on the -ground. It begins moving and disappears straight up in one second. Her -two dogs refuse to go near the spot afterward and are fussy about -eating. (“Case 2-6-53,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5454

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Event 7951 -(DF8D8A8B)

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Date: 5/7/1977
-Description: Night. Jenny Nordin and a companion in Undersåker, -Jamtland, Sweden, watch a triangular object with its apex pointing -downward shining and gleaming above a woods. A string of lights appears -around its base and the object changes to a rectangle with a pointed -top. The display continues for 2 hours until a spotlight shines down -from the right side, illuminating the trees. An enormous object with -three large windows rises up in the light; both objects hover and -gradually extinguish. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977): -8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5455

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Event 7952 -(54A78CF2)

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Date: 5/8/1977
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A couple driving west on Interstate 80 in Joliet, -Illinois, watch an object like a silver straw hat move silently -eastbound over their car. At 2:30 p.m., see a silver sphere with a -Saturn ring or halo around it. (“Case 2-6-64” and “Case 2-6-65,” IUR 2, -no. 6 (June 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5456

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Event 7953 -(CAB9288F)

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Date: 5/10/1977
-Description: 5:10 a.m. Phylis Barlow watches a triangular UFO circling -slowly in the sky above Rome, Georgia. It is flying at a tilt, and on -the bottom is a circle of foggy light surrounding a triangle of intense -bright light. She watches it with a friend for 10 minutes as it makes a -second pass over the area. It descends silently to 1,000 feet and they -can see it has a grayish-silver color and three creamy yellow, -honeycombed lights. It moves off to the southeast at great speed. (Rome -(Ga.) News-Tribune, May 10, 1977; Marler 97–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5457

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Event 7954 -(D6C5D46E)

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Date: 5/11/1977
-Description: 4:45 a.m. Three witnesses in Fresno, California, see a -bright yellow light rise erratically from the northern horizon to a -fixed position overhead in one minute. A second light, flashing white 3 -times a second, rises from the west to a 50° position above the western -horizon. Both are stationary for 3 minutes. The yellow object sways back -and forth. The white light disappears and the yellow light fades into -the overcast. (“Case 2-6-79,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5459

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Event 7955 -(41F708A6)

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Date: 5/11/1977
-Description: 9:45 p.m. An adult couple near Bonner Springs, Kansas, see -a silent disc-shaped object with white windows hovering for 70–80 -seconds, then fly away slowly. (“Case 2-6-84,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): -wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5460

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Event 7956 -(D3C0A442)

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Date: 5/11/1977
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman and her son are awakened in their home in -Clearfield, Pennsylvania, by a loud humming sound. They see a green, -glowing sphere with a dark equator hovering for 30 minutes near the -house. It shoots straight up and away and the hum stops. The 11-year-old -boy stays home from school for several days because he is scared. (“Case -2-6-77,” IUR 2, no. 6 (June 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5458

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Event 7957 -(3312EC4F)

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Date: 5/15/1977
-Description: 4:30 a.m. A driver in Clarksville, Tennessee, sees a round -object with 7–8 blue-green lights flashing in its center. It appears to -drop 7–8 red flares as it is flying southbound in a straight path. -(“Case 2-7-1,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5461

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Event 7958 -(DEC776E4)

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Date: 5/16/1977
-End date: 5/17/1977
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Officers M. L. Davidson and F. E. Bartlett of -the Memphis Police Tactical Squad spot a triangular UFO near Old Allen -Road and Frayser-Raleigh Road in Memphis, Tennessee. At 3:45 a.m., -officers T. L. Todd and J. W. Jeter watch a similar object, 300 feet -long, near the Norris Road exit of Interstate 240. It is hovering about -200 feet above the ground near some power line towers and is in the -shape of a perfect triangle standing on edge. Later, Jeter watches it -through his rifle scope flying horizontally then taking off at great -speed. A Tennessee State Highway patrolman has also seen a triangular -object in Collierville. (“Triangular -Red, Green, Flying -Object Sighted,” Brownsville (Tex.) Herald, May 17, 1977, p. 1; -Marler 94–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5462

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Event 7959 -(99EFDB5C)

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Date: 5/17/1977
-Description: The Joint Chiefs of Staff re-release JANAP 146 (E), -specifying “unidentified flying objects” as something that must be -reported by military personnel. It distinguishes UFOs from other types -of known aircraft. (Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Change -No. 2 to JANAP 146 (E),” May 17, 1977)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5463

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Event 7960 -(0F8109CB)

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Date: 5/19/1977
-Description: 10:45 p.m. A travel agent driving in Clayton, New Jersey, -watches a blindingly bright round object composed of many small white -lights packed together and three main lights in front. It hovers for -nearly a minute over telephone wires, then the lights begin flashing and -the object ascends in a steep climb. (“Case 2-7-15,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July -1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5464

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Event 7961 -(7B08E6F8)

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Date: 5/20/1977
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Three 14-year-old boys are in a field near -Bayview Avenue and Willow Pass Road, West Pittsburg [now Bay Point], -California, about a half mile from Suisun Bay. They see a saucer-shaped -object surrounded by a row of white, rectangular windows that flash on -and off. A blue light zigzags near the object. It is hovering near the -ground between railroad tracks and the bay, then it shoots across the -water in a matter of seconds and returns equally fast, moving silently -toward them and stopping about 150–300 feet away. One minute later, they -see three figures advancing toward them from near the lights. They are -dark human forms, about 5-foot-6 to 6 feet tall, surrounded by mist and -moving with a stiff, limping walk. The boys run across the street and -look back in time to see the figures fade from view. (“UFO with ‘Dark -Figures’ in California,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5465

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Event 7962 -(27980A95)

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Date: 5/21/1977
-Description: 10:20 p.m. Three airmen stationed at RAF Waddington in -Lincolnshire, England, observe a triangular-shaped light moving -erratically in the sky. Within minutes the light is tracked on radar at -RAF Patrington [now closed], moving in a zigzag pattern. The target -registers on radarscopes for 4 minutes until the screens are “partially -obliterated by high-powered interference” that returns to normal once -the target disappears. (Good Need, p. 305)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5467

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Event 7963 -(8AE26C71)

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Date: 5/21/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A family in St. Louis, Missouri, sees a “comet” -with a long tail moving in the northeast. (“Case 2-7- 25,” IUR 2, no. 7 -(July 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5466

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Event 7964 -(3F6C9C13)

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Date: 5/26/1977
-Description: 1:15 a.m. The crew of an RAF Avro Vulcan B.2 bomber piloted -by Flight Lt. David Edwards is flying at 28,000 feet over the Bay of -Biscay off the coast of France at a speed of Mach 0.86 when they observe -bright lights coming from the west. The lights resemble aircraft landing -lights, but they soon blink out leaving a large orange glow with a -bright-green fluorescent spot. An object emerges from the glow, moving -to the west, climbing at an angle of 45°, and leaving a thin contrail. -The radar operator reports jamming-type interference. Camera film from -the aircraft’s radar records a “strong response” from the direction of -the sighting, consisting of three separate radar returns at varying -distances, the third made up of three targets all 600 feet wide. On the -film the UFO appears as an “elongated shadow.” (Good Need, pp. 305–307; -UFOFiles2, pp. 92–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5468

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Event 7965 -(58BAB4DC)

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Date: 5/26/1977
-Description: 8:45 a.m. Two witnesses in Detroit, Michigan, see three -blue teardrop-shaped objects moving in a V- formation. They move from a -high angle in the north to a low angle in the northwest, hovering “like -helicopters” for one minute. They pull out of formation, swoop low, -regroup, and climb again in formation at a 40° angle, fading from view. -(“Case 2-7-35,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5469

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Event 7966 -(37E3E29D)

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Date: 5/26/1977
-Description: 4:10 p.m. A 39-year-old radio announcer and his wife are -watching an eastbound jet overhead at Dowagiac, Michigan. Suddenly a -brown, cigar-shaped object, distinctly outlined, rushes from the rear -left side of the plane to a position “one plane length” behind it. The -object is 1.5 times as long as the jet. It follows for about 30 seconds -and then rushes ahead of it and is gone in 3 seconds. (“Case 2-7-36,” -IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5470

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Event 7967 -(382C83A5)

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Date: 6/6/1977
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Mark Henshall is riding his motorbike home at -Lartington, Teesdale, England, in the pouring rain when he sees two -purple lights to his side. He notices he is losing power as he rides up -a small hill. A car is just starting to pass him, and it too is slowing -down. Suddenly, both bike and car are enveloped in a nearly blinding, -fuzzy, ultraviolet light. Henshall feels his bike being pulled up the -incline and notices steam pouring off his back and legs, which are -getting unbearably hot. The motorcycle and car stop just as the misty -violet glow overhead vanishes. The car driver tells Henshall that he -lost all engine power for 30 seconds and yet was pulled forward. The -metal side of the motorbike is far hotter than normal and impossible to -touch without risking serious burns. The brakes are found to be so badly -worn that they need a complete resetting. When Henshall returns home, -his mother notices that his face is sunburned and hot to the touch. He -also experiences nausea for a few days. (Brian Straight, “Vehicle -Stop near Barnard Castle,” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 5 (February -1978): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5473

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Event 7968 -(7AF387AE)

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Date: 6/10/1977
-Description: A woman in Deerfield, Illinois, watches a gray-white light -projecting “dots of color” that are drawn back to the source. It remains -stationary in the low southwestern sky for 15 minutes, then shoots off -in a slight climb in a matter of seconds. (“Case 2-7-87,” IUR 2, no. 7 -(July 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5474

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Event 7969 -(F0E2297B)

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Date: 6/14/1977
-Description: President Jimmy -Carter is allegedly given a UFO briefing at the White House and -bound to secrecy. According to former USAF Capt. Robert -M. Collins, an MJ-12 officer meets with Carter. A reconstruction of -the conversation is known as “Executive Briefing: Project Aquarius” and -later leaked to UFO researcher William Moore. However, -there is no hard evidence that such a briefing has taken place. (Robert -M. Collins, ed., “Executive -Briefing: Project Aquarius”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5475

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Event 7970 -(FA5AF505)

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Date: 6/14/1977
-Description: Prime Minister Eric -Gairy of Grenada opens the Organization of American States General -Assembly with a call for a n international investigation of UFOs. He -says he was asked by participants at the UFO conference in Acapulco, -Mexico, to continue his efforts. He asks OAS members to support the -issue when it comes up at the United Nations. (“Caribbean Government -Calls for UFO Probe,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5476

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Event 7971 -(950CB429)

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Date: 6/17/1977
-Description: 12:00 noon. José Francisco Rodrigues is flying a Portuguese -Air Force Dornier Do 27 light plane over the Castelo de Bode dam in -central Portugal. When he emerges from the clouds, he sees a dark object -against a backdrop of white stratocumulus clouds, slightly to the right -of his plane. Thinking that the object is a cargo plane, he banks to the -left and immediately radios to ask if there is any traffic in the -vicinity. Air controller Sgt. Jose Vicente Saldanha replies in the -negative. As Rodrigues completes a turn to port, the object suddenly -appears at his 11 o’clock position no more than 20 feet away. It is -definitely not a cargo plane. The upper section, partially concealed by -cloud, is black, and on the lower section there are four or five panels. -The object is about 42–50 feet in diameter. Suddenly it accelerates and -vanishes from what the pilot believes is an initial stationary position. -The Dornier begins to vibrate violently and goes into an uncontrolled -dive. Struggling to regain control, Rodrigues pushes the control column -forward. Air speed increases to 160 mph then 207 mph as the ground comes -nearer. He regains control when almost “touching the tree tops” and the -plane lands in one piece with a badly shaken pilot. During the encounter -the directional electric gyroscope (connected to a magnetic compass) -rotates wildly, and by the time the plane lands it has deviated by 180° -relative to the magnetic compass. (Willy Smith, “Unknown Intruder over -Portugal,” IUR 10, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1985): 6–8; Good Above, pp. 154–156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5477

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Event 7972 -(547276C0)

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Date: 6/17/1977
-Description: Dusk. Five individuals—Dale Schexnaider and his wife, their -two daughters, Jena, 14, and Krissy, 11, and a close family friend—are -breaking camp and preparing to go home from the Cotile Lake Recreation -Area, Louisiana. Just before they reach the clearing that leads to the -road, the male friend begins feeling a “low frequency vibration” in his -bones. Looking upward, he sees the outline of a huge, disc-shaped UFO -hovering completely still, surrounded with points of light. The friend -estimates it is about 75 feet across and 50 feet tall. The two daughters -have been talking, but they too notice the humming noise and see the -UFO. The object then floats almost directly above them, and the middle -of the craft starts to glow. Several rays or beams of blue light shoot -from the UFO, striking them in the solar plexus. It is an intense, -electric, silver-blue, thin beam. They hear crackling sounds in the air -and they can’t move. Slowly they force their heads down to see their -arms glowing with electric blue light. Movement is difficult—as in a -dream, slow and heavy. After about 10 seconds, all the lights vanished -instantly, along with the force field. The craft begins to glide away -over the treetops. The children are frantic, and the male friend is -inwardly terrified. The parents are back at the camp and see none of -this. The case is reported to J. -Allen Hynek by a friend, and he later visits the witnesses and -speaks to all three. (“A CE-II As a Picnic Guest,” CUFOS Bulletin, -Summer 1980, pp. 1, 3; “An Electric-Blue Close Encounter,” CUFOS -Bulletin, Spring 1981, pp. 4–5, 10, 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5478

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Event 7973 -(B46B808B)

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Date: 6/20/1977
-Description: A committee of advanced workshop participants from the -Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale has been tackling the -UFO situation for the French government since at least 1976. It produces -a report titled Rapport sur les “Phénomènes Aeriens Non Identifiés, -which is translated into English by Bonita Samuelson and published by -the Center for UFO Studies in 1980 under the title Report on -Unidentified Aerial Objects. The committee members are divided about the -existence of true UFOs, but they agree that the UFO theme can be used in -psychological warfare. (Claude Maugé, “GEPAN and COMETA,” IUR 27, no. 1 -(Spring 2002): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5479

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Event 7974 -(35A0FCDD)

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Date: summer 1977
-Description: Around 2:00 a.m. Senior Airman James M. Dunn is on K-9 -security patrol at the Weapons Storage Area at Loring AFB [now Loring -International Airport] near Limestone, Maine, when he gets a call from a -sergeant at Entry Control about a bright light above his truck. He sees -an intense light, which is directed onto the truck at a 45° angle. The -interior of the truck cab seems to glow with a greenish hue. About 5 -seconds later the light goes out. Dunn talks to the sergeant, who seems -a bit stunned. A few minutes later, two F-106 interceptors shoot above -the WSA, apparently looking for a radar target. (Nukes 373–375)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5471

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Event 7975 -(8CDBD211)

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Date: summer 1977
-Description: Physicist Bruce -Maccabee uses FOIA requests to obtain some 400 pages of UFO-related -documents, mostly from 1947–1955, from the FBI by the end of the year. -(Bruce S. Maccabee, “UFO -Related Information from the FBI -File, Part 1,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 119 (October 1977): 13–15, reprinted in -UFO Investigator, November 1977, pp. 1–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5472

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Event 7976 -(847584E3)

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Date: 6/24/1977
-End date: 6/26/1977
-Description: Fate magazine holds an International UFO Congress at the -Pick-Congress Hotel [now the Congress Plaza Hotel] across from Grant -Park in downtown Chicago, Illinois, in commemoration of the 30th -anniversary of the Kenneth -Arnold sighting. Some 1,500 people attend to hear speakers Ted -Bloecher, Jerome -Clark, Jacques -Vallée, Stanton -T. Friedman, Kenneth -Arnold, Jim -and Coral Lorenzen, David -M. Jacobs, Frank -Salisbury, J. -Allen Hynek, Ted -Phillips, Dennis -Hauck, Betty -Hill, and R. -Leo Sprinkle. Fate editor Curtis -G. Fuller publishes the presentations in paperback format in May -1980. (“Chicago UFO Conference,” IUR 2, no. 7 (July 1977): wrap; Curtis -G. Fuller, ed., Proceedings of the First International UFO Congress, -Warner, 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5480

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Event 7977 -(FAE03FF6)

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Date: 6/25/1977
-Description: A man is driving on the A303 with his partially sighted -fiancée near Warminster, Wiltshire, England, when they see a triangle of -white lights ahead of them. When the lights get near to the car, they -break away, one to the side of the road, and the two others on either -side of the witnesses. They dance in the air for a while, then an orange -globe emerges from the center of each. All the lights move to the rear -of the car and disappear behind it. (UFOFiles2, p. 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5481

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Event 7978 -(77DA7639)

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Date: 6/25/1977
-End date: 6/26/1977
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale holds its Second National -Conference in Toscolano-Moderno, Brescia, Italy, to commemorate the 30th -anniversary of Kenneth -Arnold’s sighting. Speakers include Roberto -Pinotti, Antonio -Ribera, Ion -Hobana, Florin -Gheorghiţă, W. -Raymond Drake, Ernest -Ameglio, Roberto Farabone, Roberto Villamil, Gianni Settimo, Sergio -Conti, Francesco Izzo, Renzo Cabassi, Stelio Asso, and Mario Pagni. (“2o Congresso -Nazionale di Ufologia,” Notiziario UFO, no. 75/76 (July/Dec. 1977): -1–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5482

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Event 7979 -(BFB712C0)

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Date: 6/26/1977
-Description: 2:45 a.m. Two witnesses see a flashing light source pass -swiftly across the sky twice in about 10 minutes in Greece, New York. -(“Case 2-8-26,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5483

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Event 7980 -(8B52832A)

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Date: 6/27/1977
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A woman and three children in Genesee, -Wisconsin, drive toward a structure composed of three parallel cylinders -until they are underneath it. The hovering object looks as big as the -full moon, with two steady white lights in front and a red light on top. -When she stops her car, the object moves off to the southeast. (“Case -2-8-36,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5484

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Event 7981 -(47FE11C5)

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Date: 6/28/1977
-Description: Night. A man with a flat tire is stopped on the highway -between Abadan and Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran, when he suddenly feels heat -from a nearby “huge, bright object” that changes from red to green to -purple to blue. Its lights go off, and as the witness sits in the car to -sleep, the light returns, even closer. When he turns off his car -headlights, the UFO extinguishes its lights. (“Review of Iranian UFO -Reports,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5485

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Event 7982 -(A89C81BA)

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Date: 7/1977
-End date: 12/1977
-Description: Numerous UFOs are reported in Colares, Pará, Brazil. -Residents claim that scars on their bodies are caused by lights in the -sky that they call “Chupa Chupa” (literally “sucker-sucker”). Believing -it will keep the lights away, residents of Colares organize night -vigils, light fires, and ignite fireworks. Mayor José -Ildone Favacho -Soeiro officially requests help from the Brazilian Air Force. The -operation, a historic military operation in the Amazon basin, is -commanded by Capt. Uyrangê -Bolivar Soares Nogueira de Hollanda Lima. In late 1977, several -photos of the lights are recorded, but the military remains skeptical. -After approximately four months, the operation is closed after the Air -Force can identify no unusual phenomena. The official documents can be -seen in the Brazilian National Archives. According to ufologist Jacques -Vallée, a number of individuals are reportedly killed as a result of -the “lightning” fired at them by the UFOs, and injuries are consistent -with radiation effects from microwaves. Other ufologists claim that the -lights from UFOs have sucked blood from 400 people. In 1997, two decades -after the operation, Capt. Hollanda gives an interview to ufologists Ademar -José Gevaerd and Marco Antônio -Petit where he recounts his experiences living alongside his men. -Three months after the interview, he is found dead in his home “after he -seemingly hung himself using the belt of his bathrobe,” attracting the -interest of conspiracy theorists. (Wikipedia, “Operação -Prato”; Jacques Vallée, Confrontations, Ballantine, 1990, pp. 136– 139, 220–226; -Good Need, pp. 367–368; -Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure, Century, 2000, pp. 187–200; “Caso -Chupa-Chupa e Operação Prato: Entrevista com o Coronel Hollanda,” -Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil 442–493; Clark III 838–857; -Patrick Gross, “Colares -1977”; Skinwalkers 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5486

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Event 7983 -(7F45E644)

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Date: 7/1977
-Description: Howard Gontovnick begins monthly publication of UFO Canada -in Laval, Quebec. It continues until April 1979. (UFO -Canada 1, no. 1 (July 1977))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5487

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Event 7984 -(90F78BB4)

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Date: 7/1977
-Description: Flight Lieutenant A. M. Wood sees two luminous, round -objects, 4–5 times the size of the full moon, hovering 5,000 feet in the -air over the sea off RAF Boulmer near Alnwick, Northumberland, England. -Two other base personnel, a Cpl. Torrington and a Sgt. Graham, watch the -objects with Wood for almost 2 hours. They are tracked on base radar and -at RRH Staxton Wold. The objects separate, one moving west of the other -and “as it maneuvered it changed shape to become body-shaped with -projections like arms and legs.” (“RAF -Boulmer: Reports -of UFO Sightings Were Hushed Up,” Northumberland Today, January 28, -2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5488

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Event 7985 -(566C7ED8)

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Date: 7/1/1977
-Description: Luminous round object with dome hovered above a NATO base -security zone, spinning. Changed color, emitted sound like swarm of -bees
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Aviano, Italy
-ID: 291

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Event 7986 -(B54DDB20)

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Date: 7/1/1977
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Electronic alarms suddenly sound at NATO’s Aviano -Air Base north of Pordenone, Italy. Something has set off the magnetic -and motion detectors in the high hurricane-type fence protecting the -compound. Simultaneously a power outage occurs at the Victor Alert -facility that houses fighter aircraft, and though a back- up system -immediately kicks in, minor power fluxes go on for the next 15 to 20 -minutes. An American soldier named James Blake sees a large bright light -hovering at a low altitude above a soybean field about 600 feet beyond -the fence line of the compound. Many soldiers see the object, which -appears to be domed, spinning, and changing colors. It is 150 feet in -diameter and making a noise like a “swarm of bees.” USAF security and a -unit from the Italian National Police are dispatched, but the object -moves away before the units arrive. (Antonio Chiumiento, “UFO -Alert at a NATO Base in Italy,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2 -(December 1984): 2–5; Good Above, pp. 144–145; -Jerry Rowles, “The -Mystery of Aviano,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 334 (February 1996): 3–6; -John S. Derr, “Quake -Light?” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 336 (April 1996): 19–20; Gerald E. -Rowles, “Update -on Aviano,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 367 (November 1998): 19; 1Pinotti -199–204; Patrick Gross, “Aviano -AFB, Italy, July 1st, 1977”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5489

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Event 7987 -(EB35BD83)

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Date: 7/2/1977
-Description: 12:45 p.m. A woman driving her car in Benton Harbor, -Michigan, sees a silent silver disc, edge on, with the apparent diameter -of the full moon. It is hovering motionless with its left side tilted -down. Trees obscure her vision for about one minute; when they clear, -the object is gone. (“Case 2-8-51,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5490

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Event 7988 -(23BAE64D)

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Date: 7/3/1977
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Jennifer F. Canfield and her husband are sitting -on their front porch in Pennsylvania across the Delaware River from -Callicoon, New York, when they notice a brilliant light coming slowly -and silently up the river from the southeast at 1,000–1,500 feet. -Through binoculars, it appears to be a domed elliptical object with two -headlights and apparent windows. The object suddenly blinks out. (“1977 -Sketch/Sighting and 1981 Sketch Similarity: -Another One,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1983): -1, 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5491

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Event 7989 -(5EE37DA9)

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Date: 7/3/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A man in Clarksburg, West Virginia, briefly -watches a silver rectangular object fly under a low cloud cover toward -the north. It climbs at a 30° angle and is lost in the clouds. (“Case -2-8-54,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5492

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Event 7990 -(840C8B0A)

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Date: 7/4/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Ten witnesses in different parts of Rapid City, -South Dakota, observe three dark objects moving silently toward the -west. Each has a row of closely spaced red lights randomly flashing. Two -of them seem to merge in the distance, and the remaining pair disappears -into a cloud bank. (“Case 2-8-55,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): -wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5493

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Event 7991 -(3B9EFBAE)

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Date: 7/6/1977
-Description: 6:30 p.m. At Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia, a ham radio -operator reports a UFO that moves from west to east in about seven -minutes. The object is flat, but positioned directly overhead it appears -round in shape and yellowish-green in color. It hovers for about 5 -seconds, then resumes its movement and disappears in the distance. -(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5494

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Event 7992 -(2FD2AFE5)

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Date: 7/7/1977
-Description: 11:00 p.m. The Russian motor ship Nikolay Ostrovsky is -going north through the Strait of Tartary, off the east coast of Russia, -when the crew sees a cloud-like formation in the shape of a rectangle, -moving at the same speed as the ship, about 980–1,300 feet to the east. -Radio operator O. Dereza has an eerie feeling of being watched. It -disappears at 11:32 p.m. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, -Flying Disk, 2020, p. 115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5496

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Event 7993 -(3448C001)

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Date: 7/7/1977
-Description: 8:30 p.m. As some 3,000 people are attending an outdoor -screening of a Romanian film in Zhangpu County, Fujian, China, two -objects appear in the sky, flying low. They emit an intense orange glow -and are only a few feet apart, traveling in complete silence for a few -seconds before speeding out of sight. A panic ensues, and allegedly 300 -people are injured and two children killed. (Anthony Lee, “UFO -Reports from China (2),” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 4 (March -1983): 24–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5495

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Event 7994 -(A6243D21)

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Date: 7/9/1977
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A 38-year-old singer sees a dull-silver, -saucer-shaped UFO hovering on the left side of Telegraph Road in Flat -Rock, Michigan. It is only about 200 feet above the ground and 150 feet -from the road. It has many red and green lights around its rim, and a -beam of light illuminates the ground for 2 minutes. The object floats -away over the treetops, moving toward the southwest. (“Case 2-8-72,” IUR -2, no. 8 (August 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5497

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Event 7995 -(623DA2E1)

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Date: 7/12/1977
-Description: Night. A man and his daughter in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, -see a small humanoid in a green inflated suit with a pointed helmet that -has a light on top. When the daughter switches on an outside light, it -seems to be scared and activates a backpack that lets it climb upward -over a neighboring farm and trees. The cows react by making a racket. -Another person in the area reports an illuminated UFO. (Jenny Randles, -“Superman vs. Airbus,” Fortean Times 323 (February 2015): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5498

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Event 7996 -(402A51BD)

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Date: 7/13/1977
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A couple in Dinwiddie, Virginia, see a large -silvery star stationary in the sky as rolling storm clouds pass -overhead. It “skips” in position slightly once and increases in -brightness when lightning flashes. It disappears when another lightning -strike occurs. (“Case 2-8-84,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5499

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Event 7997 -(E55E2ACF)

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Date: 7/15/1977
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Adult witnesses on a boat on the Colorado River -near Blythe, California, watch an oval light, 3–4 times the size of the -moon, darting silently above them in all directions and on both sides of -the river. It stops abruptly, comes close to the boat, then curves -around the river. (“Case 2-9-2,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5500

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Event 7998 -(7368E00C)

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Date: 7/16/1977
-Description: 11:15 p.m. As Air India Flight 9, piloted by Capt. Dingra, -makes its final approach to Dum Dum Airport [now Netaji Subhas Chandra -Bose International Airport] in Kolkata, India, air traffic controllers -notice a second object closing in on the Boeing 747. Witnesses on the -ground report a saucer-shaped object rushing toward the airliner. When -it gets dangerously close, the passengers and crew can see it. It -departs 2 miles from the aircraft’s final touch-down. (Good Need, p. 304)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5501

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Event 7999 -(F770DB48)

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Date: 7/16/1977
-Description: Before 12:00 midnight. A bright light in the west above -Baton Rouge, Louisiana, moves 10°–15° from its original position and -back again. The object remains in the same position, even though the -stars have shifted by the time it is last seen at 1:15 a.m. (“Case -2-9-4,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5502

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Event 8000 -(A2D2366C)

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Date: 7/17/1977
-Description: Romanian ufologists Călin Turcu, Valeriu Niculescu, Adrian -Pătruţ, and Augustin Moraru establish an informal group called “Romanian -UFO Researchers” (RUFOR). It publishes 27 issues of a RUFOR newsletter -between 1979 and 1986 and 21 issues of a RUFOR magazine in 1994–1996. -(Romania 38–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5503

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Event 8001 -(00E3281B)

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Date: 7/18/1977
-Description: 12:05 a.m. An intense blue-white glow hovers 200–300 feet -above a creek near Fairview, Pennsylvania. After 4 seconds, it jumps to -the north with a hum “like a hair dryer” and is lost to sight. (“Case -2-9-8,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5504

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Event 8002 -(F8AC9764)

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Date: 7/21/1977
-Description: 10:05 p.m. Witnesses in Glenview, Illinois, watch a light -move from the north to the southeast in about 3 seconds. It stops for 1 -second, hooks backward, and stops again. When the witnesses look back, -it has disappeared. (“Case 2-9-19,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5506

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Event 8003 -(7CC9ABCA)

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Date: 7/21/1977
-Description: Frank -Press, director -of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, writes to Robert -A. Frosch, NASA -administrator, and explains that the White House is receiving numerous -inquiries about UFOs and wonders if NASA could form a small panel to -follow up on the Condon report to see if there are any new findings. -Press also suggests that NASA become the focal point for further UFO -inquiries. (Story, p. 242; -Clark III 787; Good Above, pp. 368–369)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5505

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Event 8004 -(C9FEFC1A)

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Date: 7/23/1977
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A 26-year old woman and her 13-year-old niece -look out their bedroom window in Lindley, New York, before retiring and -see 11 or 12 white lights in a dipper-shaped formation that are moving -about in the sky. One bright light appears on a hill 900 feet away. They -hear a whooshing sound, then two lights rise into the air. They next -hear footsteps from Morgan Creek about 300 feet away and see two small -figures floating up and down in front of a tree. Then they see several -more figures at various spots carrying what seem to be flashlights. They -wear tight-fitting, “skin diver” suits with glowing green belts. One of -the witnesses sees a luminous red rectangular object that approaches the -creek and then backs away. At this point both witnesses develop severe -headaches. Then a figure on a distant hill on a neighbor’s farm shines a -light on a tombstone there, and the stone seems to rise up into the air -and move back and forth. A figure taller than the others, who are less -than four feet tall, stands near the light on the hill and calls out an -“ooh, ooh” signal. The others all approach him and, 5 minutes later, -deploy back into adjacent fields. One of them approaches the house. He -comes under the second-story window and drops to the ground, as if to -conceal himself, then approaches the door and rattles the handle. By -this time, 3:45 a.m., the older witness has called her mother, who -notifies the state police. All of the lights and figures disappear just -prior to the arrival of the police, the lights in the sky -indistinguishable from stars. Both witnesses believe only an hour has -passed but in fact more than three hours has elapsed. They complain of -burning eyes and headaches that last for two days. The witnesses find -three footprints in the powdery dust of their driveway. Further -incidents occur on July 25 and August 1. (Allan Hendry, “The Lindley -Episodes: CE III’s in New York State,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): -5–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5507

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Event 8005 -(6F0129BC)

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Date: 7/26/1977
-Description: 10:10 p.m. Astronomer Zhang Zhousheng and others watch a -strange spiral object in the air above a northern suburb of Chengdu, -Sichuan, China. At its center is a yellowish light, with the arms of the -spiral blue and greenish. The object is 60° in the air and moving in a -straight line at a constant speed. It is visible for about 5 minutes -before it is covered up by clouds. The object is visible to other -witnesses in localities along a 110-mile, north-to-south line, for as -long as 10 minutes. (Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern -China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 99–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5508

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Event 8006 -(3B182C9E)

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Date: 7/29/1977
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 292

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Event 8007 -(F0A58473)

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Date: 7/30/1977
-Description: Early morning. Airmen on the night shift at RAF Boulmer in -Alnwick, Northumberland, England, are alerted by a call from a civilian -who is watching two bright objects hovering above the North Sea. Duty -controller Flight Lt. A. M. Wood and others on the base can also see -them, hovering close to the shore at about 4,000–5,000 feet. They move -apart slowly as they climb into the sky. The object on the west side is -conical with its apex at the top. It seems to be rotating and changes -its shape to an arrowhead. It is apparently 4–5 times the size of a -Whirlwind helicopter. After the objects move away out to sea, radar at -RAF Boulmer picks up two targets 20–30 miles out, corroborated by radar -at RAF Patrington in Yorkshire. (UFOFiles2, p. 92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5509

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Event 8008 -(FBBA2E99)

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Date: 7/31/1977
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A university art professor in Normal, Illinois, -calls his wife and secretary to see a silver “stretched cigar” three -times its apparent diameter in length. The object flies in a slow, -straight path from southwest to northeast and is lost in the trees. -(“Case 2-9-68,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5510

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Event 8009 -(027F42AF)

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Date: 8/1977
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Graham Niven sees two green objects in the -southern sky at Raeford, North Carolina. They are moving swiftly to the -north. (“One -Reporting Witness: Two Reported Sightings,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 2, no. 10 (October 1981): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5511

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Event 8010 -(A03F60A2)

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Date: 8/1/1977
-Description: 9:30 a.m. An 11-year-old boy playing baseball in -Springfield, Ohio, sees a white cigar-shaped object flying southbound -from low in the western sky for 15 seconds. (“Case 2-9-70,” IUR 2, no. 9 -(September 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5512

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Event 8011 -(E40427AB)

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Date: 8/2/1977
-Description: Marauding UFOs destroy the town of Chester, Illinois, -according to a hoax concocted by Official UFO magazine editor Myron -Fass. (Allan -Hendry, “Sleep Well, Chester, Illinois: It’s Ufology That’s Hurting,” -IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): wrap; Clark III 599)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5513

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Event 8012 -(9BC2A9F8)

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Date: 8/3/1977
-End date: 8/18/1977
-Description: Italian researchers Giovanni and Piero Mantero of the -Centro Internazionale Richerche e Studi sugli UFO in Genoa hold a 15-day -skywatch on Monte Verrugoli west of La Spezia, Italy. The mountain is -known for reports of strange phenomena. During the skywatch a total of -108 nocturnal lights are observed, 82 appearing as points of light, 7 -oblong in shape, 7 spherical, one like a tilted plate, 3 discoid, one -like a half-moon, and 7 other miscellaneous forms. Most are yellow, but -some are reddish or blue. Occasionally the unidentified lights seem to -increase in luminosity in response to signals made with a flashlight. -During their presence, dogs in the neighborhood bark almost constantly. -The objects disappear when conventional aircraft appear in the sky. -Sounds of breaking tree branches are heard, unidentified voices are -registered on a tape recorder, wristwatches malfunction, and areas of -flattened grass are found. On one of the last nights of the project, -Giovanni Mantero claims to have seen a strange aerial entity with a -transparent face. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, -pp. 232–233)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5515

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Event 8013 -(998D4C46)

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Date: 8/3/1977
-Description: Afternoon. NASA astrophysicist Richard -C. Henry is one of several persons asked to attend a meeting to -discuss what to do about Frank -Press’s recommendation. The group decides to turn the issue over to -Space Science Director Noel -W. Hinners. At -the end of the meeting, Henry lets Hinners know that he has some -relevant expertise on UFOs (as a consultant to APRO). (Richard C. Henry, -“UFOs -and NASA,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 2, no. 2 (1988): -93–142; Clark 787–788)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5514

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Event 8014 -(B0CC7479)

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Date: 8/3/1977
-Description: Orange-red objects hovered nearby, car lost power
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Thaxted, North Essex, UK
-ID: 293

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Event 8015 -(0A7BDA96)

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Date: 8/4/1977
-Description: The offices of the Energy Research and Development -Administration and the Federal Energy Administration are dissolved and -become the cabinet-level US Department of Energy, with the oversight of -policies on energy and safety in handling nuclear material. Its -responsibilities include the nation’s nuclear weapons program, nuclear -reactor production for the US Navy, energy conservation, energy-related -research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production. It -also directs research in genomics; the Human Genome Project originated -in a DOE initiative.(Wikipedia, “United -States Department of Energy”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5516

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Event 8016 -(9774D50C)

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Date: 8/4/1977
-Description: 9:10 p.m. A man in Teddington, southwest London, England, -is outside watching the sky when he sees a small light traveling fast to -the right of a well known Heathrow Airport flight path. Watching it -through binoculars, it looks like a metallic submarine shape with five -portholes. It hovers for 20 seconds almost on the flight path. It moves -away quickly when an aircraft approaches. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 -(June 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5517

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Event 8017 -(15B49B6C)

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Date: 8/6/1977
-Description: 8:55 p.m. A young woman close to Port Columbus Airport [now -John Glenn Columbus International Airport] in Columbus, Ohio, stops her -car to watch two cylindrical objects with bulbous ends approach her from -the southwest. They are dark gray or green and have bright white lights -on opposite ends. They appear to bank and twist for 10–15 seconds. One -ascends, stops, and vanishes; the other does the same maneuver one -second later, all “too fast for airplanes.” (“Case 2-9-81,” IUR 2, no. 9 -(September 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5518

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Event 8018 -(2567C40F)

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Date: 8/7/1977
-Description: A nearly perfect circular ring, 12 feet in diameter and 8 -inches wide is discovered in someone’s backyard on an island in the -Mississippi River near Galena, Illinois. The ring is caused by a -substance composed of tiny beads that discolors the grass and leaves on -the ground. A similar ring is found near Chesterton, Indiana, on August -12. Analysis by the University of Chicago shows that the rings are -caused by slime mold. (Allan Hendry, “A Physical Trace Doth Not a CE II -Make,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5519

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Event 8019 -(781FEB20)

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Date: 8/9/1977
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A witness in Wheaton, Illinois, sees 8–16 -pinpoints of light “like magnesium burning” silently maneuvering in and -out of the overcast clouds. They appear to be approaching very fast from -60° in the north. Looping and swooping, they move apart after about 15 -seconds. (“Case 2-9-85,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5520

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Event 8020 -(FC2C6D34)

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Date: 8/10/1977
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Two adult couples in Bridgewater Township, New -Jersey, watch a bright, blue-green star silently loping from low in the -west toward the northeast for 30–45 seconds. (“Case 2-9-87,” IUR 2, no. -9 (September 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5521

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Event 8021 -(06BDCC7E)

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Date: 8/11/1977
-Description: 8:05 p.m. A 37-year-old police detective in South -Brunswick, New Jersey, watches a silent disc-shaped object come over the -horizon. Four other witnesses also see it. There is something that looks -like a rotating “radar mast” on the object. It rises into the clouds and -shoots off toward the north-northeast after 3.5 minutes. (“Case 2- -9-88,” IUR 2, no. 9 (September 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5522

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Event 8022 -(CE025486)

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Date: 8/11/1977
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A couple are driving near Hayden, Alabama, when -they see an object hovering silently about 150 feet in the air. A -blue-gray light in its center turns on and they can see its disc-like -shape and size, which is about 65 feet in diameter. The object shoots -north like a bullet, then stops a short distance away. Keeping it in -view, they drive home and call the police. The woman sees the UFO circle -around them three times and land. A second object comes out of the hills -to the northeast and stops directly above the first object at about 400 -feet. The lower object rises up to join the other briefly, and they can -see a blinking red light on top. The objects accelerate to the south and -vanish from sight. Total duration is 5 minutes. (“Case 2-9-89,” IUR 2, -no. 10 (October 1977): wrap) August 13 (approximately) — Night. At -Nocero Umbra, Perugia, Italy, several witnesses, including Bruno Vitali, -see a cone-shaped object “more than a meter high.” Vitali tries -unsuccessfully to hit the object with his car because as he speeds -forward, the object maintains the same distance. Students who -investigate the site later find a stone that is intensely hot 2 days -after the encounter. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 12 (November 1977): 2; -Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 -(Spring 2002): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5523

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Event 8023 -(99F91893)

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Date: mid 8/1977
-Description: Between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. Canute Jensen, 13, and Kevin -Rurka, 12, are in a treehouse on the Chris Jensen farm 27 miles north of -Edmonton, Alberta. They are taking photos when they see a large, dark, -block- shaped object moving through the sky. Canute snaps three photos -before the object disappears upward in the clouds. (“UFO -Photographed from a Tree-House in Canada,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 7, no. 8 (August 1981): 1, 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5524

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Event 8024 -(9274342E)

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Date: 8/15/1977
-Description: The Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, in searching -for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, detects a strong, -intermittent signal lasting for 72 seconds that stands out distinctly -from the background noise. The team quickly rules out a terrestrial -origin or a broadcast from a satellite. Nevertheless, the signal is so -powerful and unusual that Jerry Ehman, the astronomer who analyzes the -data print out, annotates the signal with the word “Wow!” The Big Ear -team continued to observe the same part of the sky, as have others, but -the Wow! signal never returns. In 2020, using the Gaia 3D star database -developed by the European Space Agency, amateur astronomer Alberto -Caballero identifies a Sun-like star in the region of the sky where the -Wow! signal originated. (Wikipedia, “Wow! -Signal”; Daniela Breitman, “Wow! -Signal Explained after 40 Years?” EarthSky, June 7, 2017; “Sun-Like -Star Identified As the Potential Source of the Wow! Signal,” Physics -ArXiv Blog, November 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5525

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Event 8025 -(1A7AC43E)

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Date: 8/17/1977
-Description: 2:00 p.m. James R. Leming is driving on Interstate 70 -westbound about 15 miles west of the Nebraska– Colorado state border. He -sees a strange object moving swiftly in the sky and pulls over to watch. -It moves to the north, then veers back to the highway and runs a -parallel course along the interstate. Directly over the road it remains -stationary for 3 minutes, and Leming is able to take three photographs, -only one of which is not blurry because the object began speeding away. -He estimates it was 600 feet away, its altitude at about 500 feet above -the road, positioned at a 40° angle above the horizon, and 40–45 feet -from tip to tip with a downward curve at each end. Ground Saucer Watch -explains the photo as a chip in the glass of Leming’s windshield, but -Leming contests that. (“1977 -Photograph/Sighting and 1982 Sketch Similarity,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 1; Fred Adrian, “Letter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1983): 2–3; James R. -Leming, “Letter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 (Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984): 2))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5526

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Event 8026 -(7EDEAEBF)

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Date: 8/28/1977
-Description: 12:38 a.m. Two witnesses on a deserted rural boulevard near -Hayward, California, see an odd triangular object with red, blue, and -white lights. They drive toward it, overtake it, and pass underneath, -and they see that it is much larger than the full moon. Then it turns -abruptly and follows them, but they accelerate to 65 mph and evade it. -(“Case 2-10-35,” IUR 2, no. 10 (October 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5528

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Event 8027 -(329B47CE)

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Date: 8/28/1977
-Description: 8:40 p.m. The same couple in Hayden, Alabama, who saw a UFO -on August 11 see a similar bright object 2 miles away from the previous -site. It has several beige lights, and it darts toward their car in -seconds when they stop to look. All the lights go out and come back on -at the same time. (“Case 2-10-37,” IUR 2, no. 10 (October 1977): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5529

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Event 8028 -(9E218243)

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Date: 8/28/1977
-Description: 12:10 a.m. For more than 20 minutes, police (including PC -Ian MacKenzie, PS James Trohear, PC Alexander Inglis, and PC David Wild) -and citizens in Windermere, Cumbria, England, watch a large lighted -object in the shape of a “stingray fish” (triangular). It flies slowly -at 1,500 feet altitude, hovering occasionally. All witnesses describe it -as silent, except for one, who hears a “quiet hum.” (Nick Redfern, A -Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, -pp. 131–133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5527

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Event 8029 -(1193FF46)

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Date: 8/31/1977
-Description: 12:30–3:15 a.m. A total of seven witnesses see a lighted -cylindrical object at the top of a disused quarry on the road between -Sturno and Frigento, Avellino, Italy. Near the object is an entity about -7 feet 10 inches tall. It has two red-orange lights in a spot where its -eyes might be and is wearing metallic-looking coveralls, a possible -helmet, a metallic belt, and a black box on its arm. At one point the -entity shines a bright beam of light at them. The duration of the -sighting is due to the original two witnesses going back and forth to a -nearby village to collect additional observers. A triangle of -depressions is found that indicates something as heavy as 40 tons has -landed there. Some of the witnesses are regressed hypnotically and -recall the same narrative. (Maurizio Verga, “Seven Scared -Witnesses and a Humanoid,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 1 (May -1979): 17–19, 22; 1Pinotti 205–210)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5530

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Event 8030 -(60AFB94F)

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Date: 9/1977
-Description: Lt. Gen. Akira Hirano, chief of Japan’s Air Self-Defense -Forces, admits that UFOs are seen frequently in Japan and that they are -quietly investigated. However, the following day his staff denies that -he intended to comment on official investigations. (Good Above, p. 430)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5532

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Event 8031 -(57A60FEC)

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Date: 9/1/1977
-Description: Air Force Letter from Col. Charles H. Senn, Wash., D.C., to -Gen. Duward L. Crow (Ret.), NASA, Wash., D.C. stating: Enclosed are the -UFO Fact Sheet and standard response to UFO public inquiries you -requested. I sincerely hope you are successful in preventing a reopening -of UFO investigations.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p581)
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 8032 -(BD72816F)

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Date: 9/4/1977
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Farmer Luis Sandoval, 74, is resting in a hammock -near Corozal, Puerto Rico, when he decides to get up and move to another -spot. He hears some popping noises and sees an object like an elongated, -bright blue candle. It moves toward him, making an increasingly loud -roaring-engine noise, then drops down beside him. The object abruptly -turns into a 3-foot-high dwarf, dressed in jacket and tie, with an ugly -face. He speaks encouragingly, says he is an extraterrestrial, and gives -Sandoval a complete physical examination. The dwarf steps away to admire -the scenery and says, “How nice Puerto Rico is.” He then turns into a -flaming blue candle and vanishes upward in a flash. Other dwarf -sightings take place in the area. (Gordon Creighton, “A -New Medicare?” -Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 2 (August 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5533

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Event 8033 -(F2BDDFEB)

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Date: 9/6/1977
-Description: NASA administrator Robert -Frosch responds to Frank -Press, saying that he is “inclined to agree” with his recommendation -on a new UFO panel; however, NASA wants to be assured that an inquiry is -“justified,” and that if funding is provided, it could hire a project -officer to review reports from the past 10 years. (Clark III 787)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5534

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Event 8034 -(7A665084)

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Date: 9/7/1977
-Description: 10:24 p.m. A white glow is seen rushing silently three -times over a 15-minute period in Tooele, Utah. It first travels to the -south but executes a 90° turn toward the west. Five minutes later it -returns, moving east. Ten minutes later it reappears, slower and lower, -moving to the northeast. (“Case 2-10-58,” IUR 2, no. 10 (October 1977): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5535

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Event 8035 -(4CCBCB43)

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Date: 9/8/1977
-Description: 12:30 a.m. An ex-pilot sees a dark, bullet-shaped object -while walking his dog in New Orleans, Louisiana. It rushes silently to -the east and changes course slightly to the southeast. (“Case 2-10-60,” -IUR 2, no. 10 (October 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5536

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Event 8036 -(EAEA3594)

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Date: 9/9/1977
-Description: Grenada Prime Minister Eric -Gairy meets with President Jimmy -Carter in the White House for 45 minutes. Carter gives Gairy a copy -of the Condon report. (Dolan II 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5537

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Event 8037 -(35FED06B)

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Date: 9/14/1977
-Description: Press again -asks Frosch for -help with Carter’s -UFO mail problem and repeats his suggestion for a scientific UFO panel -to investigate reports. (presidentialufo.com, “President Jimmy -Carter”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5538

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Event 8038 -(26BD26D1)

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Date: 9/15/1977
-Description: 2:15 a.m. A 33-year-old bus driver named Antonio Bogado La -Rúbia leaves his home in Paciência, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to catch a -bus. As he is walking by a deserted field, he sees a UFO “like an -enormous hat.” He takes two steps back and is grabbed by two men. -Suddenly he is floating inside the UFO, surrounded by two rows of a -dozen men each, about 5 feet 5 inches tall. They are wearing -football-shaped helmets with a wide band running across the broad -portion and are cut into mirror-like sections from which blue flashes -are emitted. They seem like robots, but La Rúbia can hear them -breathing. A typical abduction scenario follows. (“Brazilian -CE4 Case,” -APRO Bulletin 26, no. 4 (October 1977): 1–4; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. -11 (November 1977): 2, 8; “Ufonautas -Unipedais (Robôs) Seqüestram Motorista de Ônibus no Rio de Janeiro,” -SBEDV Boletim, no. 121/125 (March/Dec. 1978): 20–44; Brazil -211–224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5539

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Event 8039 -(F3FBFDCC)

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Date: 9/17/1977
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A couple driving near Kargowa, Poland, notice two -unusual lights in the sky. They drive a half mile further, then the -lights approach them at incredible speed and hover above the car. The -driver stops to look at them and notices that one light is bigger and -whiter than the smaller yellowish light. When he drives away, the lights -continue to pace them for 6 miles, keeping 10–30 feet away from the car -until they reach Wolsztyn, where they rise up and speed away. (Poland -32–33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5541

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Event 8040 -(5B38F51A)

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Date: late 9/1977
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A witness working as a receptionist at the -Paralela 45 Motel on Highway 1 north of Ploieşti, Romania, sees a large -object 3–4 times as large as the Moon, which is visible in another part -of the sky. It has an orange-red core with a yellowish-red halo at the -edges. It stands motionless for 3–4 minutes, then descends slowly toward -the southwest before shooting away at an nicredible speed. (Romania -42–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5540

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Event 8041 -(6C675B0A)

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Date: 9/20/1977
-Description: 3:00 a.m. The watch officer of an Alfa-class nuclear -submarine in the White Sea off Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, -notices an object moving swiftly to the southwest. It seems to stretch -out, turning into a long, glowing ribbon. As it flies over him, it looks -like a cylinder with one of the ends becoming asymmetrical. The cylinder -ejects small objects that fly off in different directions. (Stonehill -and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5542

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Event 8042 -(32C08870)

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Date: 9/20/1977
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A large “star” sending out beams of light appears -moving slowly over Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia. It is last seen as a -semicircular glow, bright red in the middle and white on the sides. The -total duration is 10–12 minutes. Scientist Mikhail Dimitryev describes -it as a “giant jellyfish.” The phenomenon is seen over a vast territory, -from Copenhagen, Denmark, and Helsinki, Finland, in the west to -Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia, in the east. Government officials -from northern European countries send letters to Anatoly -Alexandrov, president -of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, expressing concern about whether -the observed phenomenon is caused by Soviet weapons testing and whether -it constitutes a threat to the region’s environment. Col. Boris Sokolov reveals -that the phenomenon is observed from 12:00 midnight by military men -along the Finnish border; when they try to report it, all their -communications fail. All communications are restored after the -phenomenon ceases. Since 1977, the phenomenon has often (though not -universally) been attributed to the launch of the Soviet satellite -Kosmos-955. In the same year, a preliminary report for the Academy of -Sciences of the USSR contains an immense body of visual observations, -radiolocation reports, physical measurements, and accompanying -meteorological data. It concludes that “based on the available data, it -is unfeasible to satisfactorily understand the observed phenomenon.” -(Wikipedia, “Petrozavodsk -phenomenon”; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 10 (October 1977): 2; -Gordon Creighton, “A -Russian ‘Jellyfish,’” Flying Saucer Review 23, no. 4 (January 1978): -19–20; Good Need, pp. 351; -Enrique Vicente, “UFOs in the Soviet Union,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean -Tomes, 1987, pp. 118–119)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5543

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Event 8043 -(65528BF0)

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Date: late 9/1977
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Ethel May Field is in her backyard in Parkstone, -Poole, Dorset, England, when she hears a humming nose and looks up. A -circular object with a dome on top is approaching from the -south-southwest. Its surfaces are gray, and a brilliant blue-yellow -light is streaming from the underside. It is about 20 feet in diameter, -and Field can see two humanoid figures visible almost to the waist -inside the dome. The object hovers above her garden, its light so -brilliant that she puts her hands up to shield her eyes. She can feel -the heat on her hands and a vibration in the ground for a second or two. -The occupants have silver suits and headgear. The figure on the right -appears to be operating controls, while the one on the left is looking -directly at her, making a gesture as if pointing downward. Alarmed, she -runs back to the house and the object speeds away to the northwest. In -the following week, she develops a skin irritation on the palms of her -hands. (Leslie Harris, “Parkstone -UFO and Occupants,” -Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 2 (August 1978): 6–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5549

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Event 8044 -(DBAC7C09)

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Date: 9/21/1977
-Description: Ground Saucer Watch files a complaint, spearheaded by -lawyers Peter Gersten and -Henry -Rothblatt, with the CIA for failure to produce materials on the 1952 -Ralph Mayher incident and the Durant report -on the 1953 Robertson Panel. (“CIA Sued over UFO ‘Cover-Up,’” IUR 3, no. -1 (January 1978): wrap; “CAUS -Picking Up -Where GSW and NICAP Left Off,” Just Cause 1, no. 1 (April 1978): -1–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5544

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Event 8045 -(0EB55A2F)

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Date: 9/21/1977
-Description: 8:47 p.m. A student notices a flashing light in the -northern sky in Phoenix, Arizona. Suddenly, a formation of 8 triangles -with rounded edges appears, 7 of them in a straight line, equally -spaced. The eighth is slightly forward. They shoot noiselessly overhead -and are lost in the glare of the southern sky. One crosses the face of -the Moon. (“Case 2-11-9,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5545

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Event 8046 -(4DE2F2FD)

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Date: 9/22/1977
-Description: Three objects like aircraft tracked on FAA radar in -V-formation at almost 17,000 mph
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Omaha, NE
-ID: 295

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Event 8047 -(B589576E)

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Date: 9/22/1977
-Description: 5:25 a.m. Capt. George -Didlake, piloting Continental Airlines Flight 954, is climbing to -33,000 feet out of El Paso, Texas, when he sees an elongated object -rapidly overtaking his DC-10. It has a row of brightly illuminated -windows running front to rear and is blow the aircraft at roughly 12,000 -feet. First Officer Jack Forsythe and Second Officer Russ -Goodenough see the object as well. It passes the aircraft at a speed -“beyond comprehension,” makes a 90° turn, and shoots up out of sight. -(Dave Kenney, “Airline -Crew Spots UFO,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 3 (September 1977): 1, -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5546

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Event 8048 -(F31CAE80)

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Date: 9/22/1977
-Description: Four FAA radar controllers in Omaha, Nebraska, track a -large formation of unidentified objects. They are gone from the scope in -less than a minute at an estimated speed of 17,000 mph. (MUFON UFO -Journal, March 1983, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5547

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Event 8049 -(0ED79052)

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Date: 9/22/1977
-Description: 10:25 p.m. A police detective in Ardmore, Oklahoma, watches -a pulsating star rush about erratically. (“Case 2-11-12,” IUR 2, no. 11 -(November 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5548

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Event 8050 -(212132FE)

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Date: 9/22/1977
-Description: Object with row of “windows” overtook airliner, -accelerated, made 90-degree turn, soared upward out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: El Paso, TX
-ID: 294

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Event 8051 -(A70B4983)

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Date: fall 1977
-Description: 5:20 p.m. A female police constable in Isfield, Sussex, -England, sees a silent object flying at 300 feet altitude while waiting -for a bus. On an impulse, she waves at the object, which then approaches -her. It seems to be made of light greenish-gray metal with a moderately -reflective surface. On top of its dome is a blue-green light, and -underneath the object is a dense, black, circular section. At its -closest approach, it is no further than 50 feet away. Her memory is -unclear after this, but when the bus arrives, she feels numb and -uncoordinated and seems to have lost 20 minutes of time. (Good Above, pp. 115, -457)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5531

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Event 8052 -(7590154E)

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Date: 9/27/1977
-Description: 12:15 p.m. A dredge master and four crew members see a UFO -that remains visible for one minute off the northwest coast of Wowoni -Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Consisting of a cone of translucent -material with dark spots, the object emits violet, white, and red light -from its top. It has a forward, undulating motion against the wind and -is spinning on its axis at about 9,000 feet altitude. (“Foreign Forum,” -IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5551

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Event 8053 -(41C10742)

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Date: 9/27/1977
-Description: 4:36 a.m. A witness is driving toward Kirksville, Missouri, -about 6 miles west of town when he notices a light behind him to the -left. It is a yellow-orange object with flashing red lights, as big as -the Moon, and is following him about 500 feet away at treetop level. He -increases his speed to 120 mph, but the UFO keeps the same pace. As he -reaches town the object climbs slightly and shoots off out of sight in 2 -seconds. (“Case 2-11- 22,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5550

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Event 8054 -(4C9C4171)

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Date: 9/28/1977
-Description: 2:45 p.m. A grocery store clerk watches a distant bright -light moving west over Burlington, Iowa. A second point of light -appears, catches up to the first one, and both weave a figure 8 at least -6 times as they pass nearly overhead to the west. (“Case 2-11-24,” IUR -2, no. 11 (November 1977): 3) Early autumn — 5:20 p.m. A woman police -constable is waiting at a bus stop near Lewes, East Sussex, England, -when she notices a large, silent object at about 300 feet altitude. On -impulse, she waves at the object, which then comes closer. It seems to -be made of a light greenish-gray metal with a moderately reflective -surface. A blue-green light is coming out of its dome, and underneath -the object is a dense, black, circular section. At closest approach, the -UFO is no more than 50 feet away. She experiences a sense of -timelessness, and she later cannot account for about 20 minutes of time. -When the bus arrives, she feels a numbness as she fumbles for change. -When she gets to the top deck, the object is gone. She develops an acute -headache that lasts into the following day. Her eyes burn and water for -a week afterward, and she suffers recurring gastric discomfort. (Good -Above, pp. 115–116, -457)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5552

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Event 8055 -(F8F4705D)

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Date: 10/1977
-Description: The Petrozavodsk phenomenon in Russia contributes to the -creation of the Setka program—Soviet research into anomalous atmospheric -phenomena, proposed by scientist Anatoly -Alexandrov. Two research commissions are set up: the Setka-MO, under -the orders of the Ministry of Defense and composed mainly of military -personnel, and the Setka-AN, under the orders of the Soviet Academy of -Sciences and composed of scientists. The first group has the task of -studying the military aspects of the problem, such as the possible -influences of the UFOs on the malfunctioning of military devices and -installations; the ministry names special officers in all military units -who are tasked with the responsibility of watching out for unusual -phenomena. The second group studies physical effects related to UFOs and -tries to understand the causes. The coordination of the first commission -is entrusted to Col. Boris -Sokolov, that -of the second commission to Prof. Vladimir -Migulin, supported by Dr. Yulii -Platov as deputy coordinator. According to one of his aides, Igor -Sinitsin, it is KGB Chairman Yuri -Andropov who initiates these programs. (Wikipedia, “Programma -Setka”; Good Above, p. 237; -Good Need, pp. 351–352; -Nick Paton Walsh, “KGB -Chief Ordered 4m Soldiers to Keep Watching the Skies for UFOs,” The -Guardian, March 23, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5553

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Event 8056 -(A4C3A2FD)

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Date: 10/1/1977
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Leo and John Girardeau are hunting 3 miles west -of Libau, Manitoba, when they see an object approaching from the west at -an altitude of 500 feet. As it approaches, the witnesses go into their -truck and turn on the lights. The object, about 75–100 feet wide and -25–30 feet high, reverses direction and moves westward. One of the men -fires a shotgun to lure it back; when this fails, they pursue it in -their truck. Running out of road a few miles later, they stop and watch -it move out of sight. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 12 (December 1977): -2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5554

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Event 8057 -(A537FD5B)

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Date: 10/4/1977
-Description: 2:45 p.m. A group of 10 children see a strange object -hovering between two trees while they are playing at Upton Primary -Junior School in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. Their teacher, -Mrs. Hindmarsh, immediately separates them and asks them to draw what -they have seen. Their drawings are consistent, so she passes them on to -the Cheshire police, who take the report seriously and check with the -Manchester Airport, which reports that nothing unusual was detected on -radar. (UFOFiles2, p. 97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5555

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Event 8058 -(BBE99575)

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Date: 10/5/1977
-Description: 10:40 a.m. TV cameramen Manuel Juarez and Oscar Tobar are -videotaping a car commercial in Guatemala City, Guatemala, when a UFO -comes into view. Instead, they videotape the UFO, which is in view for -51 seconds moving at about 100 mph. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no. 11 -(November 1977): 8; “First Photos of Guatemala Videotape,” IUR 3, no. 1 -(January 1978): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5556

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Event 8059 -(8643CFAE)

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Date: 10/7/1977
-Description: Prime Minister of Grenada Eric -Gairy addresses the UN General Assembly urging the recognition of -UFOs as a serious international scientific problem. He says that he has -seen a UFO and was “totally overwhelmed” by the experience. (UFOEv II -20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5557

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Event 8060 -(C0DF5A77)

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Date: 10/7/1977
-Description: The Soviet submarine repair ship Volga is in the Barents -Sea when its radar picks up an unknown target approaching at a distance -of 60 miles. Captain Tarankin goes to the bridge and sees 9 bright discs -moving in from the northeast. They arrive and circle around the ship’s -masts for 18 minutes. During this time, all of the ship’s communications -links no longer work. Captain Tarankin tells his men to remember the -incident, so that no one will be able to say their captain is drunk or -crazy. After the discs depart, communications is restored. The incident -raises some concern in the Soviet Navy, and Fleet Admiral Nikolai -Ivanovich Smirnov issues a directive on mandatory reporting of UFO -sightings by Soviet hydrographic, scientific research, and -reconnaissance ships. The directive is written by naval officer and -ufologist Vladimir -G. Azhazha and signed by Naval Deputy Chief of Staff Petr -Nikolayevich Navoytsev. (Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet -Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, pp. 29–30; -Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, -pp. 11–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5558

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Event 8061 -(05C0E157)

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Date: 10/9/1977
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Holly Prunchak is working as a security guard at -the French-Hecht plant east of Walcott, Iowa, when she sees flashing -lights rising straight up from distant trees in the northwest. They -level off and move toward her. They are blinding in intensity and flash -on and off like a beacon, apparently surrounded by a dark oval shape. -Her FM radio goes silent, and her walkie-talkie fails. All animal sounds -go quiet when the object is in view. The object looms about 300 feet -away, passing near a streetlight that extinguishes for at least one -minute. The object drops down onto trees of an adjacent farm. At this -point she hysterically calls for help on a telephone intercom system, -but no one takes her seriously. (“CE II in Iowa,” IUR 2, no. 12 -(December 1977): 4, 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5559

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Event 8062 -(F8DC0010)

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Date: 10/11/1977
-Description: 7:55 p.m. A farmer in Fairfield, Vermont, hears an odd -noise and looks out his window. He and his family watch a bright light -source (a bright red light flashing next to a dimmer white light) -hovering above a swamp. The object shines a light beam down into the -swamp as if searching for something. A second red light approaches from -over a nearby house and comes within several hundred feet of the first -object; both continue to hover and circle. One vanishes at 11;30 p.m., -while the other persists until 1:30 a.m. when the sky becomes cloudy. -(“Case 2-11-53,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5560

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Event 8063 -(84CB22C5)

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Date: 10/13/1977
-Description: 3:55 p.m. A retired police officer and ex-pilot in Toledo, -Ohio, watches, along with other young men, a “star” in clear daylight -rush from south-southeast to north-northeast, passing east of overhead -in a straight path without sound or trail. The estimated speed is Mach -1, but it slows down and stops for the last 10–15 seconds before -vanishing. (“Case 2-11-60,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5561

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Event 8064 -(81D6E617)

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Date: 10/13/1977
-Description: 10:15 p.m. S/Sgt Steven N. Haidinger is in his backyard at -Chanute AFB [now closed] near Rantoul, Illinois, where he is looking at -the moon through his telescope. He hears what sounds like wind passing -around a building and looks straight up. About 500 feet in the air is an -object slowly moving from the west-northwest. He trains his telescope on -it and tries to follow it. The object looks rectangular, about 150 feet -long, and 10 feet across. It has small, square indentations in patterns -along its sides and it rotates as it moves, about once every 2 seconds. -It moves out of sight in about 12 minutes. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 1 (January 1981): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5562

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Event 8065 -(7CBE7BD2)

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Date: 10/14/1977
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A physician in Toledo, Ohio, watches a red-orange -object moving silently east, passing overhead, and disappearing in the -distance. Possible balloon. (“Case 2-11-63,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November -1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5563

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Event 8066 -(85952D0B)

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Date: 10/15/1977
-Description: 6:45 p.m. British diplomat Alan K. Rothnie is driving near -Rolvenden, Kent, England, when he sees a glowing bluish object in the -sky traveling fast from south to north and shaped “somewhat like a -flattened avocado pear.” The blunt leading end seems to be rimmed with a -shining metal, and the back end is trailing sparks. The object moves -away in 90 seconds. (UFOFiles2, pp. 87–88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5564

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Event 8067 -(27085409)

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Date: 10/17/1977
-Description: A woman and her children watch a blindingly bright red -light from their first-floor porch in Uccle, Belgium. It is stationary -and silent for one hour in the southwest at an estimated 1,000 feet -altitude. Finally, the object moves toward the west, then north, and -disappears in the distance. An independent group of witnesses several -streets away also watch the light. A half-hour later, the daughter of -the original family sees another pair of similar objects in the south -about 400–500 feet off the ground. These circle for 30 minutes and then -disappear to the south. One hour later, the family watches another -bright light maneuvering in the southwest before disappearing. (“Foreign -Forum,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5565

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Event 8068 -(3DDDE740)

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Date: 10/20/1977
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Keith Kilford and Philip Staff watch a small -orange triangle over a house in Bromley, Kent, England, that grows to -twice its size, shrinks again, and moves rapidly away until it -disappears. It reappears about 10 minutes later and disappears again. -(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no 12 (December 1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5567

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Event 8069 -(7F1DF8DA)

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Date: 10/20/1977
-Description: Several witnesses in San José, Costa Rica, see lighted -objects around Pico Blanco, a mountain to the south of town. One -physician sees a “squat, orange object” for 20 minutes until it ascends -at great speed and disappears. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 2, no 12 (December -1977): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5566

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Event 8070 -(F7C64E95)

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Date: 10/22/1977
-Description: 2:40 a.m. A half-moon-shaped orange cloud, 3 times the size -of the Moon, is seen hovering and descending at Irondequoit, New York. -Chunks “like teardrops” are seen falling off. (“Case 2-12-16,” IUR 2, -no. 12 (December 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5568

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Event 8071 -(1E516CE4)

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Date: 10/23/1977
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A glowing triangular white cloud is seen in -Rochester, New York, receding to the southwest. (“Case 2-12-17,” IUR 2, -no. 12 (December 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5569

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Event 8072 -(1447FD5D)

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Date: 10/24/1977
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A musician watches a saucer-shaped object at -Cerrillos, New Mexico, approaching at a low angle from the south. It -moves across his view for 15–30 seconds, stops for 15–20 seconds in the -southwest, and zooms away. (“Case 2-12-25,” IUR 2, no. 12 (December -1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5570

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Event 8073 -(CDF733FD)

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Date: 10/25/1977
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Three witnesses, including two deaf 14-year-olds, -Johny Myhr and Frank Sverre Mandt, view a disc-shaped object some 33 -feet in diameter that hovers and then descends behind some bushes at -Åsbygda, Ringerinke, Norway. After about 10 seconds it rises into the -air again. The boys run to the nearby Alm school. They notice the object -ascending at a 40° angle and see several windows in the craft. What -appears to be a human-looking person is behind one of the windows. -Tracks are later found in the newly plowed field. Each track is -rectangular with rounded corners, and measures 5.5 inches by 1.2 feet -with a depth of 4 inches. The tracks are arranged in a triangular shape. -(“Strange -Aircraft Spotted in Åsbygda,” Nordic UFO Newsletter 1, no. 1 (1981): -16–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5571

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Event 8074 -(99DD73AB)

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Date: 10/26/1977
-Description: Red sphere ahead of airplane, navigation instruments and -radio E-M effects. UFO changed color to white, climbed vertically at -high speed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Between Abilene and Dallas, TX
-ID: 296

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Event 8075 -(5AE5103C)

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Date: 10/26/1977
-Description: 12:45 p.m. En route from Dyess AFB near Abilene, Texas, to -Dallas, cruising at 15,000 feet in a T-38 jet trainer, 1st Lt Seth -Bryant (instructor pilot) and 1st Lt Choate (student pilot) overhear -transmissions from Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center to -another pilot who has seen a red object he cannot identify. Choate then -sees the red object and informs the pilot of its position. The object is -flying at 10,000–12,000 feet and seems stationary. The distance is -estimated to be about 23 miles away. Initially, the light is brilliant -and appears to be closing rapidly. An evasive maneuver is considered but -deemed unnecessary. The pilot contacts Fort Worth Center, giving the -position of the object and asks if he is tracking anything on radar, but -he isn’t. The size of the red light decreases, similar to a very slowly -rotating beacon, and is lost to sight. The total duration is less than a -minute. Choate recalls static over his headset at the time. (NICAP, “Near -Collision with T-33 / Radio Static”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5572

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Event 8076 -(146B09F5)

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Date: 10/27/1977
-Description: 5:35 p.m. At Cagliari Elmas Airport on Sardinia, Italy, -three helicopters of the Italian Army’s Aviazione Leggera dell’Esercito -are followed for more than 5 minutes by an orange disc. It is seen and -tracked by both military and civilian witnesses and from the airport -control tower. Air Force Col. Giomaria orders a jet interceptor to take -off but it fails to catch up to the intruder. Maj. Francesco Zoppi and -copilot Lt. Riccardelli manage to approach to within 1,000 feet. The -sighting causes a feverish exchange of messages between airport -personnel, the NATO base at Decimomannu, Sardinia, the USS -Saratoga, and -several military planes in flight. Col. Mario d’Angelo, commander of the -airport’s Air Force base, sends a detailed report to Attilio -Ruffini, the Italian Minister of Defense, who orders an -investigation. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 4 (April 1978): 2; “Italian Government -Report,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 146 (April 1980): 15; Good Above, pp. 145–146; -1Pinotti 211– 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5573

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Event 8077 -(6851DC55)

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Date: 10/29/1977
-End date: 11/3/1977
-Description: Police and citizens in the area of Erie, Pennsylvania, -report multiple sightings of star-like lights, some flashing. Some are -likely aircraft. (“Mini-’Flap’ in Northwestern Pennsylvania: But of -IFOs?” IUR 2, no 12 (December 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5577

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Event 8078 -(3F424863)

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Date: 10/29/1977
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Two young teenagers in North East, Pennsylvania, -notice a light flashing different colors in the west. They think they -see a dark “pancake” body twice the Moon’s diameter attached to the -light. They go into their house where they are babysitting, and the -object shines a spotlight down to the spot where they were originally -standing. It hovers about 10 feet above some grapevines, then swoops -toward the house and moves into trees to the north. They call police, -but every time one visits the house, all they can see is a distant -light. (“Case 2- 12-39,” IUR 2, no. 12 (December 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5576

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Event 8079 -(D208FA62)

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Date: 10/29/1977
-Description: 7:30 a.m. A patrolman in North East, Pennsylvania, spots a -brown, cigar-shaped object moving towards him. He can see a tail fin. It -changes direction to the southwest and disappears, (“Case 2-12-37,” IUR -2, no 12 (December 1977): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5574

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Event 8080 -(2E75B6CB)

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Date: 10/29/1977
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Four men at a gas station in downtown Hagerstown, -Maryland, watch a round white object half the size of the Moon. It -silently orbits counterclockwise around a cloud, emerging from behind, -crossing in front, then disappearing behind. (“Case 2-12-38,” IUR 2, no. -12 (December 1977): 3–wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5575

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Event 8081 -(B216C73B)

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Date: 10/31/1977
-Description: David -Williamson Jr., a -NASA assistant administrator for special projects, drafts a memorandum -of a proposed letter to be signed by Noel -W. Hinners and sent to Robert -A. Frosch. The -letter mentions a revival of interest in UFOs and paranormal phenomena, -as well as new sightings. It mentions a lack of tangible evidence to -analyze and a lack of protocols for investigating UFOs as hindrances to -NASA setting up an investigatory panel: “All in all, undertaking a -formal study at this time appears to be fraught with peril.” Williamson -sees two choices: refuse the project, or have NASA review the best cases -from civilian UFO organizations and new cases. He foresees problems with -workload, peer pressure, and prejudgment—an enormous expenditure of -resources. However, he recommends examining the best cases from the -civilian groups. The inquiry will be handled by Hinners, Williamson, and -NASA administrator Kenneth -D. Chapman. (Clark III 788)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5579

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Event 8082 -(EF8F5B45)

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Date: 10/31/1977
-Description: The National Enquirer sends a series of questions to -Secretary of the Air Force John -C. Stetson about the 1975 Northern Tier UFO incidents. The Air Force -admits they do not know what the objects were. (ClearIntent, pp. 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5578

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Event 8083 -(DB0DB763)

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Date: 10/31/1977
-Description: 9:35 p.m. Several students in Placentia, California, watch -a disc with four lighted portholes hovering and eclipsing the moon for a -few seconds. It shoots away toward the north. (“Case 2-12-46,” IUR 2, -no. 12 (December 1977): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5580

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Event 8084 -(B7950BDB)

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Date: 11/1/1977
-Description: Afternoon. Students Johnny Myrh and Frank Sverre see a -flying object approaching from the north as they are walking home from a -school bus station in Nybygda, Ringerike, Norway. The light-green object -lands about 300 feet away in a newly ploughed field. They see a -human-like figure inside the object behind one of its windows. After 10 -seconds, the object lifts off, leaving three equally spaced marks in the -ground, 1.2 feet long and 3–7 inches wide. Each imprint is made by -something with a curved bottom. The sighting is partially corroborated -by one of the attendants at the school who sees a shining object at the -same time and place but at a much greater distance. (“Foreign Forum,” -IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5581

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Event 8085 -(56C8B6B2)

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Date: 11/2/1977
-Description: Italian Air Force pilots and pilots of two German Air Force -F-101G Starfighters, as well as the tower personnel at Cagliari Elmas -Airport on Sardinia, Italy, see a circular or elliptical ball of fire -flying at tremendous speed. (Good Above, p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5582

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Event 8086 -(8BB45095)

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Date: 11/10/1977
-Description: 4:31 p.m. UFO researcher Ray -Stanford sees a stationary metallic gray object in the southwestern -sky as he is walking his dog in Austin, Texas. Its smaller end is at the -top and there is a slight variance around the larger, lower end of the -object, which seems to be vibrating. After several seconds, it seems to -elongate and rotate. After another 10 seconds, it appears in the shape -of a Coke bottle, then disappears quickly. (Ray Stanford, “Letter,” IUR -7, no. 3 (May/June 1982): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5583

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Event 8087 -(36F0BBB5)

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Date: 11/12/1977
-Description: Evening. William -J. Hermann sees a disc-shaped object chasing a Cessna aircraft over -Charleston, South Carolina. (Clark III 570)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5584

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Event 8088 -(DEEDFA88)

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Date: 11/16/1977
-Description: 10:59 p.m. An alarm sounds at the Ellsworth AFB L-09 -missile site 7 miles southwest of Nisland, South Dakota. Two security -men, Airmen 1st Class Kenneth Jenkins and Wayne E. Raeke, are dispatched -to the scene from Ellsworth. As Raeke is inspecting the rear fence line, -he (allegedly) sees a helmeted figure in a glowing green metallic suit. -It points a weapon at Raeke’s rifle and causes it to disintegrate, -burning his hands and arms. Jenkins helps him back to their security -vehicle. When Jenkins goes back to the rear fence line, he sees two of -these beings. They ignore his command to halt, so he opens fire on them. -His bullets strike one on the shoulder and the other in the helmet. The -figures run over a hill and Jenkins pursues them. He sees them entering -a 20-foot- diameter saucer-shaped object that shoots away over the -horizon. As Raeke is air-evacuated from the scene, investigators -discover that the missile’s nuclear components have been stolen. A -follow-up investigation by Bob Pratt of -the National Enquirer determines that Jenkins and Raeke are real and on -active duty, but everything else about the incident is bogus. Raeke has -suffered no injuries and does not even know Jenkins. (“Incident/Complaint Report,” -November 16, 1977; Clark III 358–359)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5585

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Event 8089 -(E7BE4831)

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Date: 11/17/1977
-Description: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven -Spielberg, premieres -in New York City. The plot involves benevolent aliens who make their -presence known to selected individuals and world governments through -escalating UFO waves. The film culminates in a spectacular landing and -contact hidden from the public by an ingenious cover-up. (Jennifer -Henderson and George M. Eberhart, “30 Years of Close Encounters,” IUR -31, no. 3 (October 2007): 16–18, 28; Clark III 259; Internet Movie -Database, “Close -Encounters of the Third Kind”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5586

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Event 8090 -(4CE994C1)

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Date: 11/18/1977
-Description: 9:17 p.m. A bright white light moving at a high rate of -speed comes alongside a small aircraft flying at 13,000 feet between -Vichy and Troy, Missouri, and paces the airplane for 3 minutes. The -light then moves away at high speed. The pilot reports that while the -light is abreast of his aircraft, one of his transponders stops working. -After the UFO pulls away, the transponder resumes its normal operation. -The object paces the aircraft for 3–4 miles at a distance of 17 miles -and is fairly high above the aircraft. The pilot turns on his other -transponder and nothing happens, then the object takes off on a -120°–130° heading and shoots out of sight. The second transponder -recovers, but the pilot can never get the first one to work again. He -has no trouble with the other instruments. (NICAP, “UFO -KO’s Transponder”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5588

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Event 8091 -(2B212CF7)

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Date: 11/18/1977
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A hunter sees an object 4–5 times the size of the -full moon ascending about 900 feet away in a wooded area near Richmond, -Virginia. It is smoky-gray and egg-shaped with one white light at the -top and two flashing lights on the bottom. Possible balloon. (“Case -3-1-12,” IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5587

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Event 8092 -(9E230FE9)

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Date: 11/24/1977
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A polygraph examiner with experience as a pilot -and sailor is sitting on her porch in Smyrna, Georgia, when she notices -an object the size of a distant aircraft fly out ion front of the moon. -The object is white, intensely luminous, and shaped like a hemisphere. -It hovers for a few seconds, shoots straight up, hovers again, and then -tilts back (showing its bottom portion with two Saturn-like rings of -light) and flies back in front of the moon and disappears. (“Case -3-1-20,” IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5589

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Event 8093 -(98426A96)

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Date: 11/27/1977
-Description: William -J. Hermann chases another disc-shaped UFO in Charleston, South -Carolina, in his car and takes four photographs. He has other sightings -on December 2 and 4 and on January 22, 1978, when he snaps eight photos. -(Clark III 570)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5590

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Event 8094 -(FECD36A9)

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Date: 11/28/1977
-Description: Wellington Friday, UN ambassador at large for Grenada, -addresses the United Nations on the seriousness of the UFO phenomenon -and the need for global cooperation in investigating them. He is aided -in his statement by ufologist Leonard -Stringfield. Friday -appeals to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to convene UFO hearings. -The next two days are focused on preparation of a draft resolution to be -presented to the General Assembly on November 30. The United States says -that it can “sympathize” with Grenada’s efforts but cannot support the -draft resolution. On November 30, the US delegates, Coast Guard Cmdr. -John Feigle and John Krindler, meet with Grenada Prime Minister Eric -Gairy in a closed-door session to make the resolution more moderate. -(Leonard H. Stringfield, “Inside Look at Grenada’s UFO Mission at the -United Nations,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 6–7; MUFON UFO Journal, -October 1978; Antonio Huneeus, “Rare -Footage of Famous 1978 UN -UFO Hearing Found,” Open Minds, May 13, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5591

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Event 8095 -(0B033B44)

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Date: 11/29/1977
-Description: Hovering dome-shaped object sped toward witness, stopped, -beamed blue light onto dead tree, which fluoresced in bright colors. -Sheep fled
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Waimata Valley, Gisborne, New Zealand
-ID: 297

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Event 8096 -(B0A00D8E)

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Date: 12/1977
-Description: Jim -and Coral Lorenzen publish Abducted!, a collection of 20 years of -UFO abduction cases. Most of the aliens they describe are small with -large heads and eyes, no hair, and communicate by telepathy. They -suggest that abductions are the latest logical step in an alien -information-gathering process. Each abductee, they believe, has specific -information of value to the aliens. (Coral and Jim Lorenzen, Abducted! -Confrontations with Beings from -Outer Space, Berkley, -1977)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5593

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Event 8097 -(50C110CE)

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Date: 12/1977
-Description: GEPAN’s Scientific Council holds its first meeting. The -group is given a two-volume report of 290 pages, including three general -presentations, three detailed investigations, an analysis of two UFO -photos, and five statistical analyses of samples and cases. The council -reaches conclusions and recommendations for further study. (Gildas -Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, -no. 4 (Winter 2000– 2001): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5592

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Event 8098 -(A530358F)

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Date: 12/1/1977
-Description: The Have Blue HB1001 stealth aircraft is tested for the -first time at Area 52 in the Tonopah Test Range by pilot Bill -Park. (Wikipedia, -“Lockheed -Have -Blue”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5595

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Event 8099 -(E1E1F03E)

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Date: 12/1/1977
-Description: 8:28 p.m. An electrician is driving east out of Elm City, -North Carolina, when a large object drifts into view from the north. It -has one intense headlight in front, 4–6 blue lights around the edges, -and many red and white lights forming portholes along the sides. It is -shaped like a torpedo with four swept-back fins at the back with a round -band connecting them, and it is making a humming sound. (“Case 3-1-30,” -IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): 3, wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5596

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Event 8100 -(426FA24F)

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Date: early 12/1977
-Description: 5:15 p.m. A witness is driving from Falck to Brettnach, -Moselle, France, when he notices three lights on a triangular object -hovering silently. It disappears abruptly. (Marler 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5594

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Event 8101 -(1A7FCF38)

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Date: 12/2/1977
-Description: Night. A farmer in the Waimata Velley of New Zealand wakes -up when his dogs bark loudly in their kennels. He goes to the back door -and sees a landed saucer-shaped craft in a paddock about 100 feet away. -It is about 50 feet in diameter and bright red with two open doors in -the side. By the kennels he sees two humanoid beings about 4 feet 8 -inches in height with slim builds. They are carrying one of the dogs, -which appears comatose. The farmer shoots and hits one of the creatures, -apparently startling them into dropping the animal. The being that is -hit runs off into the bushes, and the other runs into the UFO, which -then ascends vertically. The dog remains dazed for a few minutes and -then becomes agitated. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 (June 1978): -2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5597

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Event 8102 -(7CFD4F00)

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Date: 12/6/1977
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Three people in a car near Tatapouri Point, New -Zealand, see a red disc coming from the direction of the ocean. It seems -to follow their car for about one mile until the driver stops. At that -instant, the object veers off into the hills northwest toward the -Waimata Valley. They note their car lights are much dimmer than usual, -and on arriving at their destination discover that the car battery has -no water in it. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 (June 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5598

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Event 8103 -(40E4A491)

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Date: 12/6/1977
-Description: 9:05 p.m. A man in Big Sandy, Tennessee, sees an unusual -configuration of lights outside his bedroom window in the -east-northeast. They are oriented like a telephone pole with a red light -on top and many white and blue lights down both sides. He and his wife -watch the object for 10 minutes as it hovers, drops down, and glides to -another hovering position. Eventually it moves out of sight behind -trees. (“Case 3-1-40,” IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): wrap)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5599

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Event 8104 -(6509368B)

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Date: 12/7/1977
-Description: The United Nations draft resolution on UFO investigations -is shelved until next year’s General Assembly. (“United Nations Shelves -UFO Involvement,” IUR 3, no. 1 (January 1978): wrap; Leonard H. -Stringfield, “Inside Look at Grenada’s UFO Mission at the United -Nations,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5600

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Event 8105 -(653725B3)

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Date: 12/8/1977
-Description: Four UFOs tracked on radar; bright, circular objects -maneuvered around airliner
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Los Angeles, CA
-ID: 298

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Event 8106 -(8323EFDF)

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Date: 12/8/1977
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Oxnard, California, -track 4 UFOs about 3–5 miles north of Laguna Peak. They watch the -targets for nearly 3 hours. Around 9:00 p.m., a Golden West commuter -aircraft reports two large bright lights maneuvering around it for 15 -minutes. The pilot says the object approaches so close that it “scared -the hell out of me.” (MUFON UFO Journal, March 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5601

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Event 8107 -(6003B075)

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Date: 12/13/1977
-Description: Geminid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 299

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Event 8108 -(09040FB6)

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Date: 12/13/1977
-Description: The UN General Assembly adopts Decision 32/424, which -acknowledges Eric -Gairy’s resolution, forwards it to member states, and shelves the -matter until the next general assembly one year later. (Leonard H. -Stringfield, “My -Advisory Role for Grenada’s UFO Mission at the United Nations,” -MUFON UFO Journal, no. 120 (November 1977): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5602

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Event 8109 -(401F93FE)

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Date: 12/13/1977
-Description: The National Enquirer publishes Bob -Pratt’s well-researched article, “UFOs Spotted at Nuclear Bases and -Missile Sites” about the Northern Tier cases. He lists names and dates -that can be used for a FOIA request, which UFO researcher Barry -Greenwood promptly files. (ClearIntent, pp. 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5603

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Event 8110 -(9A024D24)

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Date: 12/17/1977
-Description: Two UFOs tracked on radar giving “strong” returns, at -speeds in excess of 1,000 mph. One made head-on pass at an aircraft, -observed on radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Colorado and South Dakota
-ID: 300

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Event 8111 -(CDE04D35)

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Date: 12/17/1977
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A red, luminous object is seen by Kenny and Carol -Drake of Council Bluffs, Iowa, falling to earth near the northern city -limits. At the scene, they find an area covered by molten metal that is -glowing orange- red, igniting the grass. Police and firemen who arrive -15 minutes later all see the fallen mass, estimated at 35–55 pounds. An -investigation concludes that it is not space debris, a meteorite, or a -hoax. Two of the 11 witnesses to the fall describe a round object -hovering in the sky, edged by blinking red lights. The retrieved -material is composed of solid metal and slag with white ash inclusions. -(Jacques Vallée, “Physical -Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained -Aerial Objects with Material Samples,” Journal of Scientific -Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 367–372; Keith Basterfield, “Vallée–Nolan, -et al., Peer Reviewed Analysis of Unusual Materials Paper -Published,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, -December 11, 2021; Garry P. Nolan, Jacques F. Vallée, Sizun Jiang, and -Larry G, Lemke, “Improved -Instrumental Techniques, Including Isotopic Analysis, Applicable -to the -Characterization of Unusual Materials with Potential Relevance to -Aerospace Forensics,” Progress in Aerospace Sciences 128 (January -2022))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5606

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Event 8112 -(654688D1)

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Date: 12/17/1977
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Marguerite Camp is in her pickup truck on State -Highway 2 near Kenyon, Rhode Island, when she spots an “ovoid, -plate-like” object that is tilted slightly to the west. She stops and -gets out to watch the UFO, which is 3–4 times the size of a B-29 in -diameter and glowing blue-white. She sees 4–5 dark windows and its -bottom half is blurry. Another woman, driving an AMC Gremlin, pulls up -behind her. While they are watching the object, the engines of both -vehicles stall. The object turns up on its edge and climbs vertically, -and hovers for 10 more minutes. The second woman gets back in her car, -starts it up, and drives away. The object speeds off to the west, takes -on a pinkish glow, and fades in the distance. (Dan Todd, “Large -Objects Stalls Autos,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 1 (July 1978): -4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5605

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Event 8113 -(81DC28FD)

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Date: 12/17/1977
-Description: 3:34 a.m. Radar facilities in Colorado and South Dakota -track two UFOs that give strong returns, moving at more than 1,000 mph. -They are tracked for the next 30 minutes, during which time one of the -objects makes a close head-on pass at an aircraft. A third radar station -is unable to function while the unknowns are in the area. One of the -other facilities is put out of operation when the main shaft holding the -radar antenna is severely bent by an unknown force. (MUFON UFO Journal, -March 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5604

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Event 8114 -(CDA918CB)

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Date: 12/21/1977
-Description: NASA administrator Robert -A. Frosch sends a response to Frank Press at OSTP, saying that NASA -would be willing to continue to answer public inquiries and examine any -bona fide new physical evidence that comes in, but declines to set up a -panel to investigate cases. (Story, pp. 242–243; -Clark III 788–789; ClearIntent, p. 193; -presidentialufo.com, “President Jimmy Carter”; “NASA -Letter Declines UFO ‘Research Activity,’” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 120 -(November 1977): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5607

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Event 8115 -(4294EFF0)

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Date: 12/22/1977
-Description: White disc, red blinking lights top and bottom, paced -airliner for 20 minutes. Emitted green “smoke” from underside, sped out -of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: North Atlantic
-ID: 301

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Event 8116 -(D053A3D5)

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Date: 12/27/1977
-Description: 10:54 p.m. Police officers Ron Arey and Howard Dellinger -are flying in a Bell Jetranger police helicopter at 1,100 feet in -Charlotte, North Carolina, when they see two lights approaching from the -northwest. They pass the chopper to the right at an estimated 200 feet. -Charlotte FAA air traffic controller Ray Bader confirms two unknown -targets on radar. Later on, the object circles the helicopter at an -estimated distance of 200 feet. The UFO looks like a globular white -light reflecting upward into a silver, parachute-like object with ribs -connecting the light to it. Possibly a prank balloon. (“Object -over N.C. on Dec. 27, 1977,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 8 (February -1978): 1, 5); “A Radar-Visual in Charlotte: UFO or Prank Balloon?” IUR -3, no. 3 (March 1978): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5609

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Event 8117 -(A9DF1B17)

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Date: 12/27/1977
-Description: A White House press release states that it accepts NASA’s -evaluation of the UFO situation and will not pursue its initiative any -further.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5608

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Event 8118 -(BDCDE1D3)

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Date: 12/30/1977
-Description: Stanford astrophysicist Peter -A. Sturrock writes to Frosch, -offering to make available physical evidence “such as films, material -samples, etc.” obtained by his Study Group on Anomalous Phenomena. -(Clark III 789)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5610

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Event 8119 -(974EB14B)

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Date: 12/30/1977
-Description: A white, oval light about 27 feet in diameter paces a car -90 feet away near Keith, South Australia. The two witnesses, a brother -and sister, report that as they slowed their car to 5–10 kph, the engine -begins misfiring. They stop, and the light continues on its course. -After it is gone, the car can be started again and driven with no -difficulties. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5611

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- Event 8120 (686E562C)

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Date: Late 70’s
-Description: In an interview, Colonel-General Gennady Reshetnikov, chief -of the Top Command Academy of the Air Defence Forces reported several -incidents where aircraft were scrambled to chase UFO’s. He also -investigated sightings of a cigar shaped object with portholes in the -late 70’s over Arctic region of Norilsk, alarming local military -units.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Norilsk, Soviet Union

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- Event 8121 (42E7615B)

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Date: 1978
-Description: A Gallup survey this year shows that 57% of Americans think -UFOs are real, 9% have reported a sighting, and 51% think there is -intelligent life on other planets. A Roper Organization survey finds -that 7% have seen a UFO. (“A New Gallup Poll on UFOs,” IUR 3, no. 6 -(June 1978): insert; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on -UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5612

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Event 8122 -(B8D6F142)

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Date: 1978
-Description: Gene -Duplantier publishes one issue of Ufolk in Willowdale, Ontario, a -compendium of photos of many ufologists active in the mid-1970s. (Ufolk, -no. 1 (1978))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5613

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Event 8123 -(BF7D67C2)

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Date: 1978
-Description: After many years of informal contacts with the Italian -military, Centro Ufologico Nazionale succeeds in obtaining from the -staff of the Italian Department of Defense the first official dossier of -UFO sightings reported by Italian military personnel during 1977. -(Story, p. 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5614

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Event 8124 -(746E6D55)

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Date: 1978
-Description: Brazilian ufologist Irene -Granchi begins publishing a quarterly magazine titled OVNI Documento -in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, -Putnam, 1980, p. 235)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5615

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Event 8125 -(68A455C7)

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Date: 1978
-Description: Timothy -Green Beckley begins publishing a somewhat sensational UFO Review in -New York City. It runs at least until 1994. (UFO -Review, no. -1 (1978))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5616

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Event 8126 -(6445C44E)

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Date: 1/1978
-Description: Playboy publishes a “panel discussion” on UFOs that -features essays by J. -Allen Hynek, R. -Leo Sprinkle, James -A. Harder, Frank -Salisbury, Jacques -Vallée, Philip -J. Klass, and -Ernest -H. Taves. (“Playboy -Panel: UFOs,” Playboy, January 1978, pp. 67–98, 128, 249–250)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5617

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Event 8127 -(8D0288D6)

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Date: 1/1978
-Description: The Russian Academy of Sciences releases a report, -translated by Richard -F. Haines and published by the Center for UFO Studies as -Observations of Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena in the USSR: A -Statistical Analysis, written by Lev -M. Gindilis of the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute in Moscow. -Data processing and bookkeeping is performed by I. G. Petrovskaya and -most of the text is written by engineer-physicist D. A. Menkov. -Significantly, the report is approved for official publication by -Academician Nikolai -Kardashev, one of the USSR’s top experts in SETI. Its reports and -data come from a sample of 256 Russian cases compiled by Felix Ziegel. According -to space historian James -Oberg, many of the sightings in the report correspond to Soviet -tests and reentries of the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System, a -nuclear weapons delivery system developed in the 1960s. (Wikipedia, “Petrozavodsk -phenomenon”; L. M. Gindilis, D. A. Men’kov, and I. G. Petrovskaya, -Observations -of Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena in the USSR: A Statistical -Analysis, CUFOS, June 1980; “Russian Report on UFOs,” IUR/Frontiers -of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 16–17; James E. Oberg, “The Great -Soviet UFO Cover-Up,” MUFON UFO Journal, October 1982; Swords -458–460)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5618

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Event 8128 -(D7EC7B21)

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Date: 1/1978
-Description: During the flight of a Yakolev Yak-40 airliner between the -Medvezhye gas field and Nadym, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, -the crew notices a bright round object that approaches rapidly and -sometime later appears in front of the aircraft, apparently much larger. -A crash appears imminent, but the object soars up in front of the nose -of the airliner. (Paul Stonehill, “Pilot -and Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich and UFOs,” Open Minds, June 12, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5619

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Event 8129 -(73F9CAB4)

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Date: 1/1978
-Description: Night. Police Sgt. Tony Dodd and Constable Alan Dale are -driving near Cononley, North Yorkshire, England, when the road in front -of them lights up. They stop the patrol car, look up, and see an object -about 100 feet away and moving silently at 40 mph. It has three large -spheres below it, portholes around the perimeter, and a dome on top. The -object passes overhead and seems to land in a wood on a distant -hillside. (Good Above, pp. 116–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5620

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Event 8130 -(ADD1621A)

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Date: 1/1/1978
-Description: Veteran pilot observed domed disc with portholes
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Santa Monica, CA
-ID: 302

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Event 8131 -(9E2DDE2E)

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Date: 1/1/1978
-Description: 12:45–1:00 p.m. Pilots Floyd -P. Hallstrom (in a Cessna 170A) and Jim Victor (in a Mustang II -4954) are flying over Santa Monica, California, at 7,500 feet when they -see an object approaching at high speed. As the UFO passes about 6,000 -feet to his left, Hallstrom is looking down on it an angle of about -30°–45° and its true form suddenly becomes clear to him. He is able to -make out the complete form of a saucer and can see the dome, also very -vividly clear, including all the windows, about 16–20 evenly spaced -around the circumference of the dome, located just above the base. The -dome appears to be a perfect hemisphere about 20 feet in diameter -resting on the base, which is about 30 feet in diameter. The UFO -continues on a course opposite to the pilot’s with no sign of rotation, -oscillation, pitch, roll, or yaw. Neither is there any sign of a -propulsion system. The sun reflects off the dome as a bright spot when -the UFO passes. After about a minute, the object disappears from view -behind the Cessna. (NICAP, “Cessna -Encounters Disc with Dome and Windows”: “An Air-Visual Sighting of a -Daylight Disc in California,” IUR 3, no. 4 (April 1978): insert; UFOEv -II 136–138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5621

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Event 8132 -(C4B01F10)

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Date: 1/2/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Four young men are driving through an isolated -area known as Simonswood Moss, between Rainsford and Kirkby, West -Lancashire, England, when they realize they have taken a wrong turn onto -a narrow dirt road bordering a ditch. They suddenly see a 7-foot tall -figure with red eyes appear in the glare of the headlights 26 feet -ahead. The being is wearing a white fluorescent one-piece suit with -boots, it has no discernible facial features, and it has short arms -ending in claws. On its chest is a box with two flashing red lights. The -figure takes two steps towards the witnesses and suddenly stops. The -witnesses panic and leave the area, driving to a nearby farm where they -notify the police. A later investigation suggests that they have seen a -cow wandering down the lane, the car’s headlights reflecting in its -eyes. (Peter Hough, “UFO Occupants,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, -1987, pp. 129–130; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September -11, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5622

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Event 8133 -(A81A4E91)

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Date: 1/3/1978
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 303

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Event 8134 -(04473311)

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Date: 1/9/1978
-End date: 1/10/1978
-Description: Humanoid case
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: South Middleton, MA
-ID: 304

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Event 8135 -(B433DF80)

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Date: 1/10/1978
-Description: 12:25 a.m. A 31-year-old paramedic is driving to pick up -her husband (a policeman) from work in Chicago, Illinois, when her -3-year-old son draws her attention to a “moving star” nearly overhead. -At her destination a few seconds later, she notes a silver disc-shaped -object (“with teacups on top and bottom of saucer”) as large as a full -moon moving forward with yellow-orange trail behind as it moved. The -object stops, reverses direction, moves forward again, and moves off -behind a building. The trail is only visible while the object is in -motion. Duration is 1–2 minutes. (“Case 3-2-39,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February -1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5623

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Event 8136 -(D9674C14)

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Date: 1/14/1978
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Four witnesses inside a house in Delavan, -Wisconsin, see an orange ball half the size of the full moon descend -into view through a window. They watch the sphere hover for one minute, -move 10° to the north, hover, and then move off quickly to the northern -horizon. (“Case 3-2-50,” IUR 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5624

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Event 8137 -(6F573E75)

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Date: 1/17/1978
-Description: As a response to Sturrock’s -letter, NASA astrophysicist Richard -C. Henry writes to Noel -Hinners suggesting that examination of any UFO evidence could be -assigned to the Astrophysics Division at Goddard Space Flight Center -managed by Program Scientist Frank -Martin. He suggests as project scientist Stephen -P. Maran at -Goddard. Henry gets no response. (Clark III 789)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5625

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Event 8138 -(1FD1D6E6)

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Date: 1/18/1978
-Description: MP at Ft. Dix shoots and kills an Alien. Incident report -sent to Col. Landon and Brig. Gen. Brown (AFOSI). The reporting officer -was S. W. (initials), Lt. 1st Class. Sgt. J.M. (initials), Security -Police Squad (PACAF) also witnessed and reported the incident (Sept. 16, -1980).
-Type: alien encounter
-Reference: link
-Location: Ft. Dix, NJ

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Event 8139 -(ACE39AF5)

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Date: 1/18/1978
-Description: During the early morning hours of January 18, 1978, UFOs -were sighted flying over Fort Dix and McGuire AFB, adjacent military -bases. Shortly afterward, an Air Force security patrol was ordered to -the back gate of McGuire AFB to allow entry to New Jersey State Police -who were searching for something.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Ft. Dix, NJ

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Event 8140 -(F130F3AF)

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Date: 1/18/1978
-Description: Formations of UFOs seen, MP at adjacent Fort Dix shot -humanoid being, AF security police found body on deserted runway
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: McGuire AFB, NJ
-ID: 305

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Event 8141 -(3B234AB7)

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Date: 1/18/1978
-Description: 3:00–5:00 a.m. A security policeman at McGuire AFB [now -Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst] in Burlington County, New Jersey, is -called to help investigate a low-flying UFO over the neighboring Fort -Dix army base. An Army MP pursues the object, but his radio transmission -is cut off just as a grayish, 4-foot-tall being with fat head, long -arms, and a slender body appears in front of his car. The MP fires five -rounds into the being and one round into the object above. The UFO -shoots upward and joins 11 others high in the sky, and the being runs -into the woods toward the Fort Dix fence line. A security patrol finds -its dead body near the McGuire AFB runaway, giving out a foul, -ammonia-like stench; then AFOSI arrives and ropes everything off. -Retired USAF Maj. George -Filer III, who -later serves as MUFON New Jersey director, asserts that he was stationed -on the base at the time and that the story is true, although he did not -see the alien. (UFOEv II 97–98; Leonard H. Stringfield, “The -Fatal Encounter at Ft. Dix–McGuire: A Case Study: Status Report IV,” -1985, in MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, 1985; Leonard Stringfield, -“The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947– 1987, Fortean -Tomes, 1987, pp. 153–155; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1987; John L. Guerra, -Strange Craft: The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s -Life with UFOs, The Author, 2018; Erik Larsen, “In -New Book, Retired -Air Force Major Claims Alien Was Killed at Joint Base -McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst,” app, September 3, 2019; Clark III 511–513; -Keith Basterfield, “NIDS -Investigated the Reported Shooting of a Non-Human Entity: Fort -Dix/McGuire AFB, 18 January 1978; the NIDS Investigation,” -Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, December 17, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5626

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Event 8142 -(1699068C)

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Date: 1/19/1978
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy files a request with the US -State Department for classified UFO documents and includes the date and -time information, transmittal numbers, and message serial numbers, but -the department replies that it cannot locate the specified information. -(ClearIntent, pp. 193–194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5627

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Event 8143 -(1903DE01)

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Date: 1/23/1978
-Description: 7:40 p.m. A carpenter is standing on his front porch in -Toledo, Ohio, when he notices a stationary saucer- shaped object about -30° above the horizon in the eastern sky. It is lit by the reflection of -the city lights and the Moon and is slightly larger than a distant -aircraft. It has dark, outlined windows and a small structure on top. -The object then moves off rapidly to the south and blinks out. (“Case -3-3-14,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5628

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Event 8144 -(F95B7168)

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Date: 1/24/1978
-Description: The Soviet reconnaissance satellite Kosmos 954 reenters the -Earth’s atmosphere while traveling on a northeastward track over western -Canada. At first the USSR claims that the satellite has been completely -destroyed during re-entry, but later searches show debris from the -satellite has been deposited on Canadian territory along a 370-mile path -from Great Slave Lake to Baker Lake. The effort to recover radioactive -material from the satellite is dubbed Operation Morning Light. Covering -a total area of 48,000 square miles, the joint Canadian–US team -(consisting of the emergency Nuclear Emergency Support Team) sweeps the -area on foot and by air through October 15. They are ultimately able to -recover 12 large pieces of the satellite, 10 of which are radioactive. -(Wikipedia, “Kosmos -954”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 314–316)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5629

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Event 8145 -(C5A05822)

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Date: 1/26/1978
-Description: 12:31 a.m. A policeman in Williamston, North Carolina, -watches a round light the size of the full Moon at 60° in the northwest. -The light moves quickly toward the south then hovers 10–15 seconds -before changing course. A windstorm is in progress and the object is -beneath the clouds. Another officer 3 miles away also watches the object -for 10–20 seconds before it disappears. (“Case 3-3-19,” IUR 3, no. 3 -(March 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5630

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Event 8146 -(9265C523)

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Date: 1/27/1978
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A flight instructor is flying his Cessna -172 to Opalocka, Florida, when he sees a formation of six objects with -no lights over Key West. Each object is disc-shaped and reflects the -moonlight. They are flying in a ragged straight line, approximately -equidistant, at 7,000 feet, then disappear in the distance. (“Case -3-3-24,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5631

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Event 8147 -(F6409F6E)

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Date: 1/27/1978
-Description: Early morning. Four men on the banks of the River Weaver -see a silver balloon-shaped object land in a meadow near Frodsham, -Cheshire, England. It emits a strong purplish glow that makes it hard to -look at. Two entities of normal height emerge. They wear silvery suits -and have miners’ lamps on their heads, and these glow purple. Cows on a -nearby field seem to become paralyzed, unable to move. Using a metal -cage, the entities pen in one cow and seem to measure it. The witnesses -become frightened and run from the area, and as they run they feel a -strange tingling sensation in their groins. One of the men develops -sunburn-like marks on his leg. (Jenny Randles, Alien Abductions: The -Mystery Solved, Inner Light, 1988, pp. 66–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5632

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Event 8148 -(078E085A)

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Date: 1/27/1978
-Description: Cheryl DeSanctis sees a blinking red and white light -hovering above some trees near Barry Drive in Vineland, New Jersey. She -watches it for 5 minutes, then a red ball moves from behind it, -descending to just a few feet above the rooftops where its light -reflects off the houses. After 10 minutes, the red ball moves to the -north and the first light departs to the south. (“Vineland -Is Beset by UFO Sitings,” Atlantic City (N.J.) Press, February 3, -1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 105 (April 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5633

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Event 8149 -(6DEC6814)

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Date: 1/28/1978
-Description: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics held -symposium on Space and UFOs in Los Angeles, CA.
-Type: official
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: US
-ID: 306

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Event 8150 -(6D9F2857)

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Date: 1/31/1978
-End date: 2/1/1978
-Description: 6:15 p.m. Four boys are playing on the ice of the Montvale -(N.J.) Memorial Elementary School playing field. They notice an -“airplane” that passes slowly over the field; moments later, another -object arrives, shaped like a square with large yellow lights in each -corner, with a slight dome on top and a red light underneath. It emits a -red beam of light toward the ground but stops short before touching it. -They next notice several humanoid figures moving around the school park, -walking stiffly. They are about average height and bald-headed, dressed -in bright yellow outfits with boots and gloves. One of them looks -different, because he has a larger head that seems “creased” down the -middle and has on a brown cape over the yellow suit. As the boys watch, -they note an uncanny silence and an unpleasant sulfur-like odor. The -figures walk away toward the nearby Public Works Garage. The boys then -notice another figure, this one a woman standing in the parking lot. She -has medium long brown hair and wears a dark suit with blue fur around -her shoulders. She walks in slow motion and sits down on a low fence and -raises her arm very slowly, pointing to the sky at another hovering -square object. The woman then walks toward the Public Works building and -at one point seems to appear and disappear as a police vehicle drives by -near her. A similar scenario occurs the next evening. (Ted Bloecher, -“CE-III Report from Montvale, N.J.: Preliminary Report,” MUFON UFO -Journal, no. 123 (February 1978): 4–7; “A Possible Close Encounter of -the Third Kind in New Jersey,” IUR 3, no. 4 (April 1978): 3, 7; Patrick -Gross, URECAT, December -6, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5634

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Event 8151 -(5ECCE58C)

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Date: 1/31/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Pat Martinelli is outside her home on North -Maple Drive in Vineland, New Jersey, when she sees an object silently -hovering above the nearby trees. It is a triangle with the point at the -back and many red and white lights. (“Vineland -Is Beset by UFO Sitings,” Atlantic City (N.J.) Press, February 3, -1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 105 (April 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5635

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Event 8152 -(3D7D4802)

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Date: 2/1978
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A State Police officer is on foot patrol between -Ornontowice and Chudów, Poland, when he notices that his dog is acting -strangely. He looks up and sees a black cigar-shaped object with small -windows moving above him. He hears a slight humming noise like a vacuum -cleaner. It moves off to the northeast. (Poland 109– 110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5636

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Event 8153 -(EC27627B)

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Date: 2/1/1978
-Description: NASA Information Sheet claims NASA is not involved in a -research program involving UFOs, nor is any other government agency. The -U.S. Air Force no longer investigates UFOs. (see NASA arrest laws re. -private citizens)
-Type: information sheet
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p515)
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 8154 -(4F232463)

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Date: 2/1/1978
-Description: Night. Six teenagers are driving north on Hance Bridge Road -in Vineland, New Jersey. They see a series of four large lights low in -the sky approaching them. It swerves about 500–600 feet in altitude and -a mile distant, and they can see that the object is triangular with a -light in each corner. It returns the way it came, so they decide to -follow it for 6–7 miles before pulling over and stopping the car. When -they turn their headlights off, the object’s lights go out. When they -turn the headlights back on, the UFO lights up again. (“Vineland -Is Beset by UFO -Sitings,” Atlantic City (N.J.) Press, February 3, 1978, via UFO -Newsclipping Service, no. 105 (April 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5637

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Event 8155 -(75FA6724)

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Date: 2/2/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Brian Mosychuk is walking in a neighborhood of -Edmonton, Alberta, when he sees a car-sized object with blue lights on -front and back approaching from the northwest. It hovers above him -making a rumbling sound, then a beam of light shoots toward him. -Mosychuk leans back to avoid the beam, but it shines on his feet in the -snow. He runs away, and when the looks back the object is flying away to -the northeast, leaving behind a red trail. He tells his father, who goes -out and finds a round circle in the snow. They call the police, who find -a melted hole about 28 inches in diameter. Samples of snow, including -some with carbon spots, are taken to CFB Edmonton for a contamionation -check. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, -2022, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5639

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Event 8156 -(705950DB)

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Date: 2/2/1978
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy supplies the US State -Department with more information regarding UFO documents that it knows -exist, but are stonewalled for months until they are sent a photocopy of -an article in UFO Investigator that includes some of the documents. As -Barry -Greenwood writes, “the only way to get documents released was to -have them in the first place so that one could mail them back to the -agency as proof that they existed.” (ClearIntent, p. 194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5638

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Event 8157 -(E7F9CA42)

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Date: 2/4/1978
-Description: 3:30–4:00 a.m. A weird humming sound awakens Claire Semaza -and her two children in Orange, California. The sound increases in -volume until it hurts her ears, and the family dog barks frantically, -punctuated by an odd pause for several seconds. Outside, they see an -oval or cigar-shaped object not far above the trees about one half-mile -away. Below and around it is a layer of gray haze. It begins slowly -rising, leaving the haze behind. The object has a bright red light at -each end that sends shafts of light toward the ground. Several -bluish-white lights are visible between the two red ones. It rises -higher, flashes a brilliant white light on and off for 3 seconds, then -quickly disappears. Meanwhile, the dog has been taking her 7 puppies one -by one and hiding them behind the drapes on the second floor. (Idabel -Epperson, “Canine Mother Hides Puppies from UFO,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. -122 (January 1978): 7; “Unusual Animal Reaction in California NL Case,” -IUR 3, no. 4 (April 1978): insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5640

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Event 8158 -(2EDD4204)

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Date: 2/5/1978
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Two Bradley University security guards in Peoria, -Illinois, are making their rounds when their car lights up. An intensely -bright object is ahead of them and about 45° up in the east. They drive -another two blocks to an open areas and get out of the car to watch two -objects, the larger of which is as big as the full Moon. They are both -changing colors from green to red to white. The smaller one abruptly -disappears as the larger object is flying loops, dropping down behind -the houses, moving back up, and maneuvering abruptly. They discuss the -UFOs with some passing students. The object remains visible for at least -45 minutes. (“Case 3-3-62,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978): insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5641

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Event 8159 -(B77FFA32)

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Date: 2/9/1978
-Description: A carbon copy of an apparent USAF incident report is -received at the office of the National Enquirer in Lantana, Florida. -Accompanying the document is an unsigned letter dated January 29 and -“revealing” the Ellsworth AFB incident of November 16, 1977. (Bob Pratt, -“The -Truth about the ‘Ellsworth Case,’” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 191 -(January 1984): 6–9; Clark III 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5642

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Event 8160 -(FB27E0D9)

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Date: 2/10/1978
-Description: WJR-AM radio personality Marc Avery is on his way to the -Detroit Metropolitan Airport on I-275 when he and his wife see two -lights hovering above their car for 30–50 seconds. He calls the radio -station and speaks on air, asking if anyone else has seen the lights. -Two men in the area of Merriman Road and Michigan Avenue in Wayne, -Michigan, call in to say that 5 minutes earlier they had seen a large -UFO traveling east to west at treetop level. (“Forty -Years Ago This Weekend, a WJR Radio Personality May Have Encountered a -UFO,” Michigan Radio, February 9, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5643

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Event 8161 -(136F3B6E)

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Date: 2/12/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. David Mace and his wife are driving on Tennant -Way approaching Lake Sacajawea in Longview, Washington, when they see an -orange triangle with a hole in it silently hovering above the lake near -Washington Way. They watch it for 15 seconds before it takes off to the -west. (“Couple -Reports UFO above Lake Sacajawea,” -Longview (Wash.) News, February 13, 1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, -no. 104 (March 1978): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5644

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Event 8162 -(7B90B3E1)

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Date: 2/19/1978
-Description: The television series Project U.F.O. debuts in the US on -NBC-TV. Running for two seasons of 13 episodes each, the show is based -loosely on the real-life Project Blue Book. The show is created by Jack -Webb, who pores through Air Force files looking for episode ideas. -The first season stars William -Jordan as Maj. Jake Gatlin alongside William -Caskey Swaim as Staff Sgt. Harry Fitz. Former USAF Col. William -T. Coleman is a producer. (Wikipedia, “Project -U.F.O.”; Internet Movie Database, “Project -U.F.O.”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5646

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Event 8163 -(498A61BE)

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Date: 2/19/1978
-Description: 1:20 p.m. Radar operators on two separate systems in -Minnesota track a large, solid object, which starts ascending rapidly as -soon as one operator switches his system to manual. It seems to take -evasive action by stopping, starting, and descending. The operator -tracks it traveling about one mile in one second (3,600 mph) and moves -vertically “instantaneously.” (MUFON UFO Journal, March 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5645

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Event 8164 -(F804665C)

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Date: 2/22/1978
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Brian Metcalfe, an FAA air traffic controller, is -driving northeast on Interstate 80, approaching Newcastle, California. -Seeing two intense lights moving slowly in the sky, he pulls over and -gets out to look. The only sound he can hear is a low hum. The object -moves southwest along the freeway at about 30–40 mph at an altitude of -2,000–3,000 feet. He notices it is delta-shaped. Other witnesses in the -area also see the object over Auburn, California, just before 10:00 p.m. -(“More -Reports Confirm Sighting Strange Craft in Placer Area,” Auburn -(Calif.) Journal, March 1, 1978, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 105 -(April 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5647

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Event 8165 -(3D619357)

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Date: 2/23/1978
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A couple hears interference on their car radio -in Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy. When the man gets out to -investigate, a warm, violet light envelops him. He sees four shapes and -lights all around. After walking around the car, he goes back inside and -finds his girlfriend crying. Twenty minutes of missing time has passed. -(Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions -in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug.1989): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5648

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Event 8166 -(5687AC25)

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Date: 2/28/1978
-Description: Stanton -Friedman has discovered retired Maj. Jesse -A. Marcel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and interviews him about the -1947 Roswell, New Mexico, incident. Marcel says the debris was like -nothing on earth. Friedman has also interviewed Lydia -Sleppy, who worked at Albuquerque radio station KOAT and remembers -the military intervention on the story. William -L. Moore and Friedman compare notes from two separate interviews -Friedman has conducted about the crash. By 1980, Friedman and Bill Moore -have interviewed at least 62 witnesses to the Roswell incident. (Charles -Berlitz and William L. Moore, The -Roswell Incident, Grosset & Dunlap, 1980; Kevin D. Randle and -Anthony Bragalia, “Two Roswell Witnesses, Reconsidered,” IUR 32, no. 3 -(July 2009): 6–8, 24; Clark III 320)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5649

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Event 8167 -(4C9E181B)

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Date: 3/1978
-Description: Widespread UFO sightings, including formations and -disc-shaped objects with windows
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Minnesota
-ID: 307

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Event 8168 -(48A0B5B7)

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Date: 3/9/1978
-Description: Pilot Luciano Ascione is flying northbound at 2,600 feet 75 -miles away from Vicenza, Italy, when a green, rocket-shaped object -appears on his right about 1 mile away. Other planes in the area report -a green flash. (ClearIntent, pp. 92–93; -1Pinotti 214–215)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5650

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Event 8169 -(FD5C6786)

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Date: 3/11/1978
-Description: Sundown. Two men from L’Île-Perrot, Quebec, are camping -near the shore of Reservoir Baskatong when they see a comet-like, bright -blue object leaving a fiery trail plummeting toward the surface of the -lake. It disappears behind trees, and the men jump up, grab their -cameras, and run to the lake. The object is hovering silently above the -surface, where it remains stationary for 30 seconds before moving to the -other side of the lake. One of them starts snapping photos, but after 5 -seconds the object rises swiftly and disappears like a flash into the -sky. (“UFO -Said Photographed,” Tampa (Fla.) Times, March 13, 1978, p. 1; -“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 4 (April 1978): 2; Wido Hoville and Don -Donderi, “RR2 -au Lac Baskatong,” UFO-Quebec, no. 16 (December 1978): 8–10, 15–22; -Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, -1979, pp. 4–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5651

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Event 8170 -(01CCF449)

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Date: 3/11/1978
-Description: 10:40 p.m. Four witnesses in the Waimata Valley, New -Zealand, watch a red and green object shaped like a top hat. Two of them -approach in their car to about 100 feet, but the object shuts off all -its lights and disappears. The same object reappears twice more the same -evening. (Gisborne (N.Z.) Herald, March 16, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR -3, no. 5 (May 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5652

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Event 8171 -(171891A8)

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Date: 3/12/1978
-Description: Early morning. A mill worker at Kawerau, New Zealand, is -driving back to Gisborne when a brilliant orange light illuminates the -interior of his car. He sees a large oval object floating alongside -about 50 feet away. He thinks it is as large as a five-story building -and has thousands of small lights on the sides. Slowly it rises to 300– -400 feet and floats away. (Gisborne (N.Z.) Herald, March 16, 1978; -“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, np. 5 (May 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5653

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Event 8172 -(C662D099)

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Date: 3/16/1978
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Mayor Mark -M. Millis of Arroyo Grande, California, and Mayor Al -Dutra of Grover City are leaving a meeting at Arroyo Grande City -Hall when they see a triangular-shaped lighted object the size of a -Boeing 747 moving slowly to the southwest about one mile in the air. -Capt. Antony Wood of the San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Department also sees -the object at Oceano, and other witnesses as far north as Morro Bay -report the UFO, which has two bright lights in front and smaller ones in -the back. (“Mayors, -Police, Others See UFO in South -County,” Santa Maria (Calif.) Times, March 17, 1978, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5654

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Event 8173 -(D8253257)

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Date: 3/17/1978
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Service engineer Ken Edwards is driving back -from a union meeting in Sale, Greater Manchester, England, on Daten -Avenue, Risley, past the UK Atomic Energy Authority site. As he is -approaching the roundabout near the Universities Research Reactor -building and the UKAEA fire station, he notices a 7-foot-tall silver -figure coming down a steep embankment to his left. Stopping his van, -Edwards watches the figure descend with an unnatural stiff-legged gait. -The figure walks across the road only 15 feet from him. As he passes -Edwards, the figure looks at him and two beams of light shoot from its -eyes and dazzle him. It continues walking toward the security fence -surrounding the UKAEA site. The figure raises an arm (one of two that -seem to come out of its chest) and walks through the 10-foot-tall, -barbed wire-topped, chain link fence, disappearing into the darkness. He -later drives to the Pudgate police station to report the sighting. -Police accompany him to the site where they find a group of UKAEA -constabulary officers gathered at the spot, but since there is no hole -in the fence, they discount his story. However, years later investigator -Glen Vaudrey discovers that the tall figure was a 6 foot, 5 inch fireman -dressed in a high-temperature fire suit who was trying to scare some -students in an isolation building across the road. (Jenny Randles, “Man -on the Moss,” Fortean Times 305 (October 2013): 29; Glen Vaudrey, “Atom -Age Alien? Solving the Mystery of the Risley Silver Man,” Fortean Times -397 (October 2020): 36–41; Jenny Randles, “Silvery Ships from the -Stars,” Fortean Times 403 (March 2021): 30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5655

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Event 8174 -(66464FEE)

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Date: 3/18/1978
-Description: William J. Herrmann abduction case
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Summerville, SC
-ID: 308

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Event 8175 -(99A26740)

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Date: 3/18/1978
-Description: Around 4:00 p.m. Leo Giampietro and his wife are driving 15 -miles west of Palm Springs, California. He pulls over when he sees a -brown-colored domed disc the size of a distant aircraft moving in a -straight path over the mountains in the southwest. It hovers for a few -seconds and he can hear a humming sound. He manages to snap tree photos. -The noise stops and the object shoots straight up and disappears. (“Case -3-5-18,” IUR 3, no. 5 (May 1978): 3; “Case Update,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August -1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5656

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Event 8176 -(30CF8CB9)

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Date: 3/18/1978
-Description: 9:15 p.m. William -J. Hermann is out looking for UFOs near Charleston, South Carolina, -when he sees apparently the same UFO he has photographed frequently -before. He starts running toward it when it suddenly swoops toward him -and directs a paralyzing blue-white beam at him. Hermann loses -consciousness. When he wakes up again, it is 12:05 a.m. and he is in a -field in Summerville, 15 miles from his home. He sees the UFO departing -in its characteristic zigzag pattern. He calls the police, who drive him -home. The next few nights he suffers from nervousness, headaches, and -insomnia. Not long afterward, he is hypnotized by James -A. Harder, an -engineering professor affiliated with APRO. He recalls an -abduction/contact experience on board a spacecraft with beings from Zeta -Reticuli. The leader tells him that if mankind persists in its warlike -ways, civilization will be destroyed. Hermann continues to experience -contacts and he begins to channel alien writings. (Wendelle C. Stevens -and William J. Hermann, UFO Contact from Reticulum, Wendelle C. Stevens, -1981; Patrick Gross, URECAT, April -18, 2012; Clark III 570–571)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5657

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Event 8177 -(36ACC4A9)

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Date: 3/22/1978
-Description: 7:00 and 8:45 p.m. Two waves of UFO sightings are reported -over a wide area between Cumberland, Wisconsin, and Newport, Minnesota. -UFO investigator Robert E. Engberg traces the first wave beginning -around Chisago City, Minnesota, and moving east between Dresser and -St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. The second wave originates near Cumberland -and follows an 85-mile course to St. Paul, Minnesota. Witnesses see -formations of red lights, single round objects with red body lights, and -orange globes in straight-line and oblique formations. Some disc-shaped -objects are also reported with rows of body lights. (“Valley -UFO Sightings of March 22, 1978, Described,” -Taylors Falls (Minn.) The Dalles Visitor, May 1979, via UFO Newsclipping -Service, no. 119, pp. 7– 9; “A Mini-Flap in Minnesota: UFO or -Helicopters?” IUR 3, no. 5 (May 1978): insert)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5658

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Event 8178 -(6883FE0A)

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Date: 3/22/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Gary Oickle, David Oickle, and two friends are -sitting around a campfire in Patapsco Valley State Park, Maryland, near -the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tunnel. They see a strange object in -the southeastern sky that moves around for 10 minutes before it -disappears behind a ridge. Another object soon appears over their -campsite from behind a ridge to the north; this time it is a triangular -shape about 150–200 feet on each side with large windows, three white -lights at each corner, and a red light on top. Three of the witnesses -think they see the silhouette of a figure in the windows. It moves very -slowly, hovering at times, to the southeast. Another star-like object -appears in the south after the triangle moves away. It changes colors -repeatedly from blue to green to yellow to red. (Joe and Doris Graziano, -“Object -over State Park,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 10 (April 1978): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5659

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Event 8179 -(121ABCDF)

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Date: 3/24/1978
-Description: In one case documented by New Mexico police and the FBI, an -11-month-old cross Hereford-Charolais bull, belonging to Manuel Gomez of -Dulce, New Mexico, is found mutilated. It displays “classic” mutilation -signs, including the removal of the rectum and sex organs with what -appears to be “a sharp and precise instrument,” and its internal organs -are found to be inconsistent with a normal case of death followed by -predation. The animal’s heart, as well as bone and muscle samples, are -sent to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for microscopic and -bacteriological studies, while samples from the animal’s liver are sent -to two separate private laboratories. Los Alamos detects the presence of -naturally occurring Clostridium bacteria in the heart but is unable to -reach any conclusions because of the possibility that the bacteria -represent postmortem contamination. They do not directly investigate the -heart’s unusual color or texture. Samples from the animal’s liver are -found to be completely devoid of copper and to contain 4 times the -normal level of zinc, potassium, and phosphorus. The scientists -performing the analysis are unable to explain these anomalies. Blood -samples taken at the scene are reported to be “light pink in color” and -“did not clot after several days” while the animal’s hide is found to be -unusually brittle for a fresh death (the animal was estimated to have -been dead for 5 hours) and the flesh underneath is found to be -discolored. (Wikipedia, “Cattle -mutilation”; Amanda Push, “Underground -Aliens and Cattle Mutilations: Dulce, New -Mexico, Has Long Been the Site of Strange Activity and Conspiracy -Theories,” DGO, February 26, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5660

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Event 8180 -(1A20A4B2)

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Date: 3/24/1978
-Description: Just after 12:00 noon. Luis Carlos Serra, 16, is picking -guava in the forest just west of Penalva, Maranhão, Brazil, when he -hears a sharp noise like a car horn. He looks up and sees a bright white -light about 20 inches wide high above the palm trees. Suddenly he falls -flat on his back, paralyzed. After a short time, he starts rising in the -air toward a round UFO with four balls on the bottom, a dome on top, and -three windows. He floats through one of the windows head-first. Inside -he drops to the floor, still paralyzed, and sees three entities about 3 -feet high and wearing “diving suits.” He is taken somewhere with no -trees and tall grass and subjected to an examination. Soon he loses -consciousness and wakes up three days later in a scrub forest. A nearby -fisherman, José Ribamar dos Santos, hears his cry, finds and recognizes -him, and takes him back to town. Serra is examined in the hospital by -Dr. Linda Macieira, who finds that he has four teeth missing and is -completely bald with his hair burned off. He has a general loss of motor -control and a lack of sensitivity to pain. He does not eat, so he is fed -intravenously for the 7 days he is hospitalized. On March 30 he is -transferred to the Serme Hospital in São Luis, where 6 doctors examine -him, including neurologist Antônio -Saldanha, who -finds that Serra still cannot speak and is generally unresponsive and in -shock. Two psychiatrists, Renato Barcelar and Barcelar Viana, examine -him after he recovers his ability to speak a few days later. He repeats -his story without variation every time. He is discharged on April 7. -(Clark III 899–901; “Caso -Luis Carlos Serra,” Galáxia Mundo GAEMU, April 2014; Brazil -251–255)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5661

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Event 8181 -(E10E0F55)

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Date: 3/27/1978
-Description: Astronaut Gordon -Cooper appears on the Merv Griffin Show and discusses UFO stories -from government insiders. Merv -Griffin asks him about occupant reports, and Cooper thinks they are -credible. From what he has heard (although he has never been briefed on -the matter), the aliens look no different from ordinary humans. (Thomas -O’Toole, “Cooper: -UFO Stories from ‘Credible’ Sources,” Washington Post, April 7, -1978)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5662

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Event 8182 -(2D5CC023)

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Date: 3/27/1978
-Description: During a 9-hour period near San Diego, California, an F-14 -Tomcat aircraft loses control and makes touch- and-go landings; an A-4 -Skyhawk crashes into the Pacific 50 miles to the west; and an S-3A -Viking anti- submarine aircraft from Naval Air Station North Island -explodes and crashes into the ocean 6 miles from the base. On March 28, -a college art instructor and a shipping company owner are talking on the -phone when they are interrupted by another conversation on the line. -Someone is apparently giving a briefing to a general about aircraft -losses, instruments going haywire, and something that crashed near Palm -Springs that the news media was told was a meteor. A “General Kelley” -[Lt. Gen. Robert -E. Kelley at Eglin AFB? Lt. Gen. John -R. Kelly Jr. at the Pentagon?] is said to be on his way to the site. -No agency admits to having such a conversation. (ClearIntent, pp. 194–195)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5663

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Event 8183 -(08D0E8B7)

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Date: 3/28/1978
-Description: 12:00 midnight–1:30 a.m. Irene Bigelow is outside her home -in Denver, Colorado, when she sees three bright-orange UFOs motionless -in the air for more than an hour. She estimates they are as large as her -garage’s double door. At 1:30, they break formation, with the light on -the right moving to the right. The other two remain stationary at first, -then all three ascend into the sky in different directions. (Richard -Sigismond, “Four Huge Orange Discs and the Case for the UFO,” IUR 8, no. -2 (March/April 1983): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5664

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Event 8184 -(91F57093)

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Date: 3/29/1978
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Christopher Kloppenborg and Geoffrey Kloppenborg -are out mustering sheep near Albury, New South Wales, Australia. They -see a very bright, stationary, chrome-colored light that is casting a -shadow on a hillside. They use binoculars to watch it for 5–8 minutes. -It appears to have black shapes along its side and is shaped like a -short cigar. Geoffrey returns to the house to get a camera, and on his -return he sees a second, smaller object, traveling over the hills toward -the first object. It turns in front of the bigger object, and then both -depart over the hills to the east. (Melbourne Herald, April 8, 1978; -“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5665

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Event 8185 -(01421283)

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Date: 3/31/1978
-Description: 8:30 p.m. A young man is walking his dog in a field in -Dublin, Ireland, when he spots a silver cigar-shaped object hovering -about 45° above the horizon. For the next 20 minutes, a doorway -repeatedly (about 20 times) opens, releasing a red light, the door -closes again, the red light returns to the object, and the door opens -and readmits it. The object remains motionless another 10 minutes, then -shoots upward at fantastic speed. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July -1989): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5666

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Event 8186 -(A7CEBF12)

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Date: 4/1978
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy is formed by W. -Todd Zechel, Brad -Sparks, and -Peter Gersten. -Its purpose is to uncover UFO data through the Freedom of Information -Act, lawsuits against government agencies, and investigation of -high-quality UFO reports. It launches a newsletter, Just Cause. The -group brings a lawsuit against the CIA using the Freedom of Information -Act for release of UFO documents. It receives more than 900 documents -from the CIA in 1979 but are refused 57 because of “national security -considerations.” Just Cause lingers on until January 1982 under the -title UFOrmant. (Wikipedia, “Citizens -Against UFO Secrecy”; “CAUS Picking -Up Where GSW and NICAP Left Off,” Just Cause 1, no. 1 (April 1978): -1–4; ClearIntent, p. 192; -Clark III 240)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5667

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Event 8187 -(8602C845)

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Date: 4/1978
-Description: An Iranian airline pilot is flying between Ahvaz and -Tehran, Iran, when he sees a glittering flying object. He manages to -photograph it, but civil aviation authorities prohibit its release. -Radar controllers at Mehrabad Airport track a target 20 times the size -of a jumbo jet on their screens. (ClearIntent, p. 89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5668

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Event 8188 -(D77198AC)

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Date: 4/2/1978
-Description: Round object with body lights hovered ahead of car, made -pulsating sound. Tilted down, beamed a bright light from the top onto -car.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Strinestown, PA
-ID: 309

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Event 8189 -(944DF6AC)

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Date: 4/2/1978
-Description: Morning. A loud explosion on Bell Island, Newfoundland, -causes damage to some houses and electrical wiring in the surrounding -area. A number of TV sets in Lance Cove and other communities explode at -the time of the blast. It is initially thought to be caused by ball -lightning. Meteorologists state that atmospheric conditions at the time -are not conducive to lightning, -although some witnesses report balls of fire and streaks of light in the -sky. The boom is heard 34 miles away in Cape -Broyle. The incident is investigated by John -Warren and Robert Freyman from Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New -Mexico, as a possible a “superbolt”—an unusually large bolt of -lightning. A 2004 documentary on the History Channel about -electromagnetic pulse weapons, The Invisible Machine, investigates the -possibility that it may have been the result of top-secret experiments. -However, on April 23, 2019, hundreds of people on the island hear -another explosion, which is almost immediately determined to have been a -massive section of rock breaking away from the northern part of the -island and impacting the ground and sea with extreme force. Large cracks -almost two feet across were observed developing in the area in the years -prior to the collapse, and signs were placed to warn visitors to stay -away from the unstable features. (Wikipedia, “Bell -Island (Newfoundland and Labrador)”; ClearIntent, pp. 96–97; -Brian Dunning, “The -Bell Island Boom,” Skeptoid podcast no. 190 (January 26, 2010); B. -Jessee, “The -Bell Island Boom,” -Medium: The Mysterious Miscellany, December 23, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5669

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Event 8190 -(8AD43D92)

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Date: 4/2/1978
-Description: 1:40 p.m. Warren Smith is 8–9 miles northwest of Calgary, -Alberta, when his border collie starts running in circles and looking -up. Smith looks out his window and sees a silent, grayish-silver disc -slightly larger than the full moon. It moves straight up and down, in -and out of the cloud layer three times for about 30 seconds. Each time -the object comes out of the clouds it remains visible for about 10 -seconds. Smith notices a large number of “lightning rods” that move in -and out on its surface. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 5 (May 1978): -2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5670

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Event 8191 -(7ECBA979)

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Date: 4/2/1978
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Lee Robinson is riding her motorcycle on Sunset -Road toward Henderson, New Zealand, when she stops to watch floating -lights approaching her from the distance. She makes out a wedge-shaped -form, broad at the front and narrow at the back, with two red lights, a -green light, and a glass front. It stops 600 feet away, hovering. Two -figures in dark robes can be seen from the waist up looking down at her. -She stares at it petrified for several minutes until a car approaches -and the object flies off. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September -1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5671

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Event 8192 -(3D591966)

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Date: 4/6/1978
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Vicki Burns is standing outside the stable on her -farm near Prince George, British Columbia, when a narrow beam of light, -2 inches in diameter, comes from above some trees and shines into her -barn for 5 seconds. She hears her horses scream, and inside they seem -dazed and frightened. She and her mother notice a bright white light -moving in the sky, darting back and forth. Some neighbors come over for -3 hours to watch the light for and attend to the horses. An odd circle -is found on either side of the filly’s neck. A veterinarian, Dr. McKee, -examines the horses the next day, and they still appear to be in shock. -He explains the circle as ringworm, but cannot account for the animals’ -fatigue or behavior. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, -August Night, 2022, pp. 223–226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5672

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Event 8193 -(EBB2C587)

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Date: 4/6/1978
-End date: 6/24/1978
-Description: Six cattle are found mutilated on farms near Elsberry, -Missouri. Orange lights and “flashing stars” are seen in the vicinity. -(“Background on the Elsberry Events: Are UFOs Linked with Cattle -Mutilations?” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 5–6; Marler 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5673

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Event 8194 -(DB0B7FBB)

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Date: 4/9/1978
-Description: 10:10 a.m. A single witness looking out his bedroom window -in Toronto, Ontario, watches a silver shiny cigar traveling eastbound -for 10 seconds. The object is brighter than the moon. (“Foreign Forum,” -IUR 3, no. 5 (May 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5674

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Event 8195 -(6901730D)

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Date: 4/11/1978
-Description: The crew of the HMAS -Adroit, operating -out of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, in the Timor Sea, watches -a UFO hover and sink to the horizon several times before disappearing. -It is large and bathed in bright red lights. At one point it seems to be -close to the ship and at another point it flickers on and off. (Swords -406)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5675

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Event 8196 -(5BF89CB8)

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Date: mid 4/1978
-Description: Many residents of Mumbai, India, sight a bright white, -streak-like light moving at several hundred miles per hour from north to -south at an altitude of about 2,000 feet. A similar object is seen the -following day, moving south to north. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 6 -(June 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5676

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Event 8197 -(18864502)

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Date: 4/19/1978
-Description: Day. Police officer Mark Coltrane is on patrol in Colfax, -Wisconsin, and stops by the side of the road to eat lunch. His radio has -some static. He then notices a metallic-looking disc rising into the sky -a short distance from the parking space. While the object seems to move -toward him, Coltrane picks up his Polaroid camera, comes out of the car, -and snaps some photographs. The object is so close in one of the images -that some details of its lower surface are visible. The total -observation lasts a few minutes, the object soon accelerating and fading -into the distance. (Patrick Gross, “Colfax, -Wisconsin, USA, April 9, 1978”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5677

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Event 8198 -(7466F55F)

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Date: late 4/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A dog staying with a couple living on Michigan -Avenue in Dearborn, Michigan, near the Ford Motor plant lets out an -awful howl. The woman goes outside to see what the matter is and notices -a large round object, perfectly silent, about 500 feet above the garden. -It hovers a minute or two then moves toward the Ford plant. It is about -125 feet in diameter and has a row of windows circling the bottom that -emit colored light. It stops every 2–3 minutes and never travels more -than 25 mph. They watch it for a total of 15 minutes, and their landlady -sees it as well. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 1 (May 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5680

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Event 8199 -(F5A28A14)

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Date: 4/26/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Debra Gairns, her husband, and a friend are -driving in Welland, Ontario, when a triangular object with red, blue, -and white blinking lights hovers briefly and silently above their car. -It moves away and stops above a grove of trees. (Marler 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5678

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Event 8200 -(DCCA9881)

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Date: 4/27/1978
-Description: Two witnesses near the Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International -Airport in Rome, Italy, watch a small green object shoot out of a larger -green object. The display moves smoothly from directly overhead to about -45° in 15 minutes. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5679

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Event 8201 -(18FED991)

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Date: 4/29/1978
-Description: Night. Ten persons call the Aurora, Illinois, police -department to report a UFO. One couple believes they have had a close -encounter with the object, which they describe as a domed disc the size -of a football field. The police alert the Center for UFO Studies and Allan -Hendry interviews some of the witnesses. He learns that some connect -TV interference and power failures with the UFO’s appearance. An -11-year-old boy is so frightened that he hides behind the back seat of -the family car. However, Hendry identifies the source of the sighting as -an advertising plane owned and operated by a Chicago firm. (Allan -Hendry, “The Case for IFO Study: A Recent Example,” IUR 3, no. 6 (June -1978): 6–7; Clark III 568)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5681

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Event 8202 -(1A0801F5)

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Date: 5/1978
-Description: Red Army officer Anatoly Malishev is allegedly confronted -near Pirogovskoye Reservoir, Mytishchinsky District, north of Moscow, -Russia, by two entities wearing dark suits who communicate with him by -telepathy and take him on board their craft. He is given a salty-tasting -drink, but requests an alcoholic drink, only to find that the entities -do not imbibe. He asks why, and they reply, “Perhaps if we did, we would -not be such an advanced civilization.” They take him on a trip to the -dark side of the Moon (where they have a base) and to their home planet -3 light years away then back to Earth, all taking about 40 minutes. -Malishev reports his experience to his superior officers, who threaten a -court martial. However, he is subjected to hypnosis and passes a lie -detector test and apparently does not go through a trial. (Nikita A. -Schnee, “Contact -Reported near Pyrogovskoye Lake,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6 -(March 1981): 6–8; Heikki Vertanen, “Soviet -Contact Case near Pyrogovskoe Lake: -The Missing Pages,” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 3 (January 1983): -20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5682

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Event 8203 -(A50B689D)

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Date: 5/6/1978
-Description: 4:15 p.m. An object crashes into the southern slope of El -Taire mountain on the Rio Bermejo along the border of Bolivia and -Argentina. It produces a sonic boom that is heard 120 miles away and -shatters windows in villages 30 miles away. Argentinian border police -search for wreckage, while reporters visit the town of Aguas Blancas, -Bolivia, to interview witnesses. Velez Orozco is one of the witnesses to -the fall, and he thinks the object was 15 feet in diameter and conical. -Border Patrol Cpl. Natalio Farfan Ruiz says the object “made the earth -tremble” as it passed over. The Bolivian Air Force dispatches three -airplanes and discovers the crash site on its side of the border. One of -the flights includes a Bolivian astronomer, who sees a rockslide that -may have been caused by the crash. On May 14, police from Tarija, -Bolivia, find the object, a dull metallic cylinder 12 feet long with a -few dents. A telex sent by US Ambassador Paul -H. Boeker to the State Department requesting an explanation. In a -secret telex on May 18, Secretary of State Cyrus -Vance replies that “appropriate government agencies” have been -consulted, but there is no correlation with known re-entries. He refers -Boeker to the 1973 Project Moondust order. The US military attaché in La -Paz sends a message to Wright-Patterson AFB and USAF headquarters at the -Pentagon, claiming that the Bolvian Army has found nothing, but would -send two USAF officers to Tarija to investigate. Col. Robert Simmons and -Maj. John Heise arrive with a Bolivian Air Force officer. On May 23, -three Bolivian Air Force officers and a guide set out on horseback to -the mountain, locating the rockslide on May 25. Parallel to the slide is -a 325-foot trench, 10–12 feet wide at the top. Some of the large rocks -appear burned, and the grass around it is brown and withered. (“Foreign -Forum,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 2; ClearIntent, pp. 201– 205; -Kevin Randle, The Government UFO Files, Visible Ink, 2014, pp. 279–280; -Michael Hesemann, “UFO Crash -in Bolivia Witnessed by Thousands of People”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5683

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Event 8204 -(3306E9D7)

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Date: 5/7/1978
-Description: A squadron of 40 UFOs circle dozens of times in formation -over San Luis province, Argentina, in the midst of a luminous -bluish-green light. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): -2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5684

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Event 8205 -(F6D8CD0C)

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Date: 5/10/1978
-Description: Evening. Numerous people watch a moon-sized oval object -with clearly delineated edges, no trail, and an intense white light in -Clavarazza, Genoa, Italy. It remains stationary high in the sky for -three minutes, pulsates for 7 minutes, then blinks out. (“Foreign -Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1989): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5686

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Event 8206 -(4B588003)

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Date: 5/10/1978
-Description: Early morning. Farmer Jan -Wolski is out driving a horse-drawn cart in Emilcin, Poland, when he -is jumped by two “short, green-faced humanoid entities” about 5 feet -tall. They jump onto Wolski’s cart, sit next to him, and start to speak -in a strange language. At first, he mistakes them for foreigners because -of their “slanted eyes and prominent cheekbones.” Wolski drives his -cart, with the two beings aboard, to a clearing where a large white -object is hovering about 16 feet in the air. It is about 15–16 feet high -and as long as a bus. Four black objects on the surface generate a -humming sound. A platform descends to the ground, and he is taken on -board by the two entities, along with two additional ones. There are -about 8–10 benches situated around the craft, each for one person to sit -in. There are some rooks in front of the door, one of which is moving -its legs and wings but seems to be immobilized. Wolski is then examined -with a tool that resembles two dishes or “saucers.” After this, he is -ordered to get dressed again, and then he notices there are no lights or -windows on the craft, only the daylight coming through the door. The -entities eat and offer him something like icicles, but he refuses them. -The UFO’s interior is black with a grayish tint, similar to that of the -creatures’ outfits. Wolski returns home to his family and notifies them -of what has happened, urging them to come see the floating craft. He -tells his sons, who call to other neighbors, and together they go to -investigate the site. The grass where the craft had been shows signs of -usage, trodden down and “covered with dew and paths coming in all -directions.” Wolski goes home, leaving the rest of the neighbors and -family at the site. His sons claim there are footprints left behind by -the beings, though they do not describe them well. (Wikipedia, “Emilcin -Abduction”; “Story of a Polish CE-III,” IUR 8, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1983): 13–14; Poland 35–40; “The Jan Wolski Case: An Amazing -Close Encounter (Poland, 1978),” History Disclosure, May 25, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5685

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Event 8207 -(C7858DFF)

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Date: 5/13/1978
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A 16-year-old student, Jamshid Saiadipour, is -staying up late studying for exams in Shiraz, Iran. He looks through his -window and sees a glowing, hat-shaped UFO, hovering motionless. He takes -a photo of it, which appears in the May 18 issue of Tehran Magazine. The -article winds up in US Defense Intelligence Agency files and is released -through FOIA in 1980. (“Matching -Photo from Iran Found in CUFOS Files,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, -no. 8 (August 1981): 4; “Sheraz, -Iran, October 8, 1978,” Popular Mechanics, July 1998, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5688

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Event 8208 -(C9009F1F)

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Date: 5/13/1978
-Description: 3:32 a.m. Police officer Manuel J. Amparano is on the -outskirts of Kerman, California, when he sees a reddish glow ahead. -Getting closer, he observes an oval-shaped object, smaller in apparent -size than the full moon, hanging silently in the sky. It is a very -bright crimson-red color, which despite its brightness does not hurt his -eyes. It shoots out a beam of blue light similar to a camera flash, then -recedes and is gone. Amparano feels “a tingling sensation” in his body -as he drives to the station, but he is not concerned. When he gets out, -the 6 witnesses at the station note that he is sunburned “as red as a -lobster.” His skin shows this condition for about 4 hours before -returning to normal, even in areas underneath his uniform. However, no -burn is present where the car door is between him and the flash. Also, -he has no burn on his back, which is away from the car window as he -peers out. Although the redness fades, there are areas where the skin is -actually burned (arms, face, neck). These are noted on a visit to Fresno -Community Hospital. These burns are visible for 2 days. The day -following the encounter, “fever blisters” break out on his face and in -places on his arms, and these last a week. Allegedly, doctors at the -hospital tell the officer that the burns look like they are caused by -microwave radiation. (“California Policeman Burned by UFO,” IUR 3, no. 9 -(September 1978): 10–11; “A Classic CE2P: Kerman, California, 1978,” IUR -33, no. 4 (May 2011): 11–12; Jason Marzak, “1978 Kerman UFO Burning: -061401,” Fringe Republic, June 11, 2014; Kevin D. Randle, “May -13, 1978: Kerman, California,” A Different Perspective, June 15, -2015; Kevin D. Randle, “Kerman, -California UFO Case: An Update,” A Different Perspective, June 20, -2015; Kevin D. Randle, “Kerman -Police Officer Adds His Perspective,” A Different Perspective, -August 26, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5687

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Event 8209 -(31DA7F48)

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Date: 5/13/1978
-Description: 10:45 p.m. A teen couple are sitting on a porch in -Northport, Alabama, when they see an intensely bright pale- yellow -light. It is oblong in shape and the size of the full moon. It hovers in -the east for about 15 minutes, rocking slightly black and forth. They -see three tripod legs on the underside. The girl’s mother comes out and -notices her daughter is pale and shaking with fear. The object falls a -short distance and remains stationary again for a few seconds before -moving slowly away beyond trees on the horizon. (“Case 3-6-29,” IUR 3, -no. 6 (June 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5689

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Event 8210 -(40EBD4D4)

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Date: 5/14/1978
-Description: Navy radar tracked an oblong object with body lights, -illuminating the terrain, observed by citizens. Object alternately -hovered and accelerated
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ocala, FL
-ID: 310

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Event 8211 -(F16DF5DE)

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Date: 5/14/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. SK-1 Robert J. Clark, the duty officer at the US -Navy Pinecastle Electronic Warfare Range in Ocala National Forest, -Florida, receives a call from Rocky Morgan reporting an oblong-shaped -UFO with an intensely bright, flashing light near Silver Glen Springs. -Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center reports no aircraft in the -area. Clark and the base air controller, Gary Collison, climb an -observation tower and contact external security to alert radar -technician Timothy Collins. They watch a cluster of stationary lights at -an estimated altitude of 1,600 feet to the west-northwest perhaps 3 -miles away. Collins activates the MSQ-102 Radar. After a 20-minute -warmup, the radar detects an unidentified blip fluttering over the -tower. The tracking computer is put on the target, which is showing very -little movement. At 11:20 p.m., his radar locks on to it at treetop -level. It seems to be as large as a jetliner. 10–15 minutes later it -vanishes from both sight and radar, but at 11:40 p.m. he sees a similar -object 15° to the north. Collins tries to train the radar on the object, -but it disappears suddenly. Around midnight, another object is seen 3 -miles to the northwest. For 5 seconds it moves at 575 mph, then -accelerates for 2 seconds, and executes a hairpin turn in one second—a -radical reversal of direction. Now the UFO is shooting northward toward -the base, slowing to a mere 3 mph. Collins finally locks on this object. -Shortly afterward, the target vanishes. A dozen naval personnel visually -observe red, green, and white lights from the control tower for more -than an hour. The captain of the Lisa C on the Apalachicola River also -witnesses the lights at 10:30 p.m. (or 1:00 a.m.). (NICAP, “Radar -Confirms Unidentified Lights”; “Flying -Object Baffles Computer with -Maneuvers in Florida Sky,” International Herald Tribune, May 18, -1978; “Navy -Says Unusual Sighting Was Just -an Object Flying Unidentified,” Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, May 18, -1978, p. 4-C; “Navy Radar-Visual in Florida, Part I,” IUR 3, no. 6 (June -1978): 4–5; “Case 3-7-1,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 3; “UFO -Sighting at Pinecastle -Elecytronic Warfare Range,” UFO Investigator, September 1978, -pp. 1–2; Second Look, April, May, June, October 1979; Clark III -829–830)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5690

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Event 8212 -(8166B88F)

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Date: 5/15/1978
-Description: Evening. Ignacio Sanchez Munoz, 19, is walking along the -road between Cuajimalpa borough and Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City, Mexico, -after finishing work at a nearby restaurant. He observes a hovering, -multicolored, luminous, cube-shaped object that is making a buzzing -sound and emitting a yellow beam. He then receives telepathic thoughts -telling him that the cube is not occupied, but soon human-like beings -will arrive on Earth. After conversing with the voice for about an hour -he is told, “soon we shall return to chat with you.” (“Foreign Forum,” -IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 2; Patrick Gross, URECAT, April -30, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5691

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Event 8213 -(682DCF91)

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Date: 5/17/1978
-Description: 8:00 a.m. A 71-year-old farmer is driving his horse-drawn -carriage through a wooded area about 37 miles outside Lublin, Poland. By -the roadside he sees 2–4 men about 5 feet tall wearing tightly fitting -black “diver suits.” The men have green faces, slanting eyes, and webbed -fingers; they move in a jumping motion and invite him into a -“bus-shaped” white rectangular vehicle hovering nearby. The interior -looks like a completely black room outfitted only in benches. He is -examined by an apparatus that looks like an X-ray machine, and the men -offer to share with him a transparent substance that they are eating, -but he declines. The farmer later returns to the site with some -villagers and finds rectangular footprints in the muddy road bank. -(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5692

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Event 8214 -(820AE853)

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Date: 5/30/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two witnesses are stargazing with a telescope 5 -miles west of Tulsa, Oklahoma, when they see four gray-white ovals in a -fixed sword-like formation pass silently overhead in a straight line -from the southwest. They are lost behind trees above the northeast -horizon. Each oval is about the size of the moon and flying in a 45° -angle to the direction of travel. (“Case 3-7-54,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July -1978): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5693

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Event 8215 -(23436FC6)

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Date: 6/1978
-Description: Peter Gersten, on -behalf of Ground Saucer Watch, files a discovery motion requesting UFO -files from the CIA. His motion consists of 635 interrogatory questions, -nearly 300 requests for documents, and includes 60 CIA documents -attached as exhibits. (Richard Hall, “Lawsuit -Filed against CIA,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 126 (May 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5695

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Event 8216 -(EE26820D)

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Date: 6/1978
-Description: GEPAN’s Scientific Council meets for the second time. This -time, a five-volume report totaling 670 pages is prepared. The first -volume is a synthesis written by Claude -Poher. Volumes 2–4 contain 10 detailed field investigations and the -fifth volume gathers other studies and less detailed cases. The reports -are never published. According to Jean-Jacques -Velasco, Poher’s assistant, the statistical study evaluates 678 -reports and classifies them into four categories: perfectly or probably -identified (26%), insufficient information (36%), and unidentified -(38%). The council asks for a deeper study on statistical methodology, -models of propulsion, and the psychology of perception. (“First Summary -of the Work of the French Government’s ‘GEPAN’ UFO Organization,” IUR 3, -no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 22; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: -Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): -12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5696

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Event 8217 -(DFF1ACE3)

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Date: 6/1978
-Alternate date: 7/1978
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Graham Niven and friends are listening to the -radio in Raeford, North Carolina, when it picks up some strange -interference for about 10 minutes, They see a rectangular UFO with -rounded edges coming toward them from the south. (“One -Reporting Witness: Two Reported Sightings,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 2, no. 10 (October 1981): 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5697

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Event 8218 -(13CC5314)

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Date: 6/2/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A married couple driving toward Hameenlinna, -Finland, watch a formation of 7–9 bright lights in the eastern sky. -After 8 seconds, they disappear behind trees. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, -no. 5 (May 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5698

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Event 8219 -(F4F26599)

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Date: 6/10/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A dark, silent wedge-shaped object with a square -formation of white lights in the back and a triangular formation of red -and white lights in the front paces a car driven by two students, ages -21 and 19, as they travel east on State Highway 299 near New Paltz, New -York. The UFO turns south toward them and passes over their car. The -male student gets out and runs underneath it, noting it is as large as -his outstretched hand at arm’s length. It shoots off toward the -southwest horizon in a few seconds. (“Case 3-7-121,” IUR 3, no. 7 (July -1978): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5699

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Event 8220 -(BBB7001D)

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Date: 6/11/1978
-Description: Cessna pilot observed small silvery oval that maneuvered -near his plane
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Los Angeles, CA
-ID: 311

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Event 8221 -(695D20E9)

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Date: 6/11/1978
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Capt. Namdar, the pilot of a Boeing 707 flying -from Shiraz to Tehran, Iran, is descending to 25,000 feet over Isfahan. -He sees a huge, purple form passing below him at amazing speed. The -Tehran airport cannot confirm a radar tracking. Suddenly the plane’s -cabin is flooded with brilliant yellow light radiating from two sources. -It feels as hot as “a sunny day in summer in Spain.” The purple light -continues to follow the plane until a portion of the UFO separates from -it and moves toward the southeast side of the witnesses. Then the -original object vanishes. (“Review of Iranian UFO Reports,” -IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5700

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Event 8222 -(4BE57303)

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Date: 6/11/1978
-Description: 11:28 p.m. After hearing reports of unidentified aircraft -from two previous sentries, Gunnery Sgt. Brininger and PFC Johnny -Johnson, go on sentry patrol at Naval Weapons Station Earle in Monmouth -County, New Jersey. Standing outside on an 80-foot tower, the two men -watch a distinctly outlined, illuminated white ball with a short conical -tail approach from the south. Within 5 seconds, the object moves west of -their position and 20°–30° up Briniger estimates that the ice-cream cone -shaped UFO is as close as 300 feet away and 200 feet in the air, flying -parallel to the fence line. He directs a spotlight at the object, which -abruptly makes a sharp turn to the west. It is in sight for 8–10 -seconds. (“Case 3-7-130: Three UFOs over High Security Military Base?” -IUR 3, no. 7 (July 1978): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5701

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Event 8223 -(B02146DE)

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Date: 6/15/1978
-Description: Before 3:00 a.m. The Russian motor ship Novokuznetsk is -departing from the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador. The crew sees from the -bow four rapidly departing bright white trails about 66 feet in length. -At the same time, two other trails 33 feet long approach the vessel. -Later, straight ahead of the ship, a white luminescent sphere rises up -from the water, flies around the ship, hovers for a few seconds at an -altitude of 60 feet, flies higher, zigzags, and dives back into the -water, (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, -pp. 66–67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5702

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Event 8224 -(4D5128C8)

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Date: 6/17/1978
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Patrolmen Robert Fiorentino and Amthony Puglio of -the Maplewood (New Jersey) Police Department see a soundless triangular -UFO, twice the size of the full moon, while on patrol. It has a white -light on each tip and red lights in the center. The object circles them -twice and shines bright lights down on them. (“It’s Unidentified, -Flies, But Doesn’t Scare Cops,” New York Daily News, June 24, 1978, -p. 4JL)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5703

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Event 8225 -(4B2D81CB)

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Date: 6/17/1978
-Description: 1:20 p.m. Photographer Linda Arosemena is taking photos of -President Jimmy -Carter’s helicopter taking off from Fort Clayton [now closed] near -Balboa, Panama. Her final frame shows an oval object that she has not -visually noticed. Arosemena, who works for the Defense Mapping Agency at -Fort Clayton, sends the photo to Carter with an explanation of the -circumstances. Brenda Reilly and Sandra Chandler report seeing a similar -object on June 16 while fishing at nearby Fuerte Amador. (“UFOs -Breach Presidential Security!” UFO Update! no. 2 (Winter 1979): 15, -56; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5704

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Event 8226 -(7B9204C3)

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Date: 6/18/1978
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Manford Hammond, a water superintendent in -Elsberry, Missouri, watches an object “like two hubcaps put together” -that alternately hovers and maneuvers slowly and silently from the -vantage point of his home on Black Street. (“Case 3-8-12,” IUR 3, no. 8 -(August 1978): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5705

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Event 8227 -(C4125AE6)

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Date: 6/19/1978
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Franck Pavia and Jean-Marc Guitard are stopped on -the side of a road in Gujan-Mestras, Gironde, France, to repair a turn -signal when suddenly all the lights in the town go out. A powerful -rumble startles them, and they notice an oval, red object surrounded by -white flames flying toward them at an altitude of 11,000 feet. Jean-Marc -is unable to breathe and faints. The object then changes direction and -shoots away. They knock on the door of a baker named Varisse to tell -their story, visibly terrified. At about the same time, a restaurant -manager named Bachère is driving toward Bordeaux when he sees a large -orange ball, very bright, hovering above La Réole at about 1,000 feet -before disappearing. It reappears at the same spot one minute later. -(Jacques Vallée, “Estimates -of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with -Defined Luminosity Characteristics,” -Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 354–356)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5706

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Event 8228 -(6F68897E)

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Date: summer 1978
-Description: Day. Eligio Macchini is taking photos from the rail of a -river excursion boat on the Rhine River, Germany. When the film is -developed, he notices a dark spot on one print. Years later, he sends it -to the Center for UFO Studies, which determines it is not an emulsion -defect or processing flaw. (“Möglicher -UFO ist über dem Rhein photographieren,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 2 (April 1982): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5694

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Event 8229 -(E37E36C0)

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Date: 6/22/1978
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman in Pacific Palisades, California, watches -an irregularly shaped oval glow with shifting green-yellow-gray colors -like a “TV glow.” Moving slowly eastward at first, it speeds up until it -recedes to a star size, then arcs back in two minutes and disappears in -the northwest. Two other witnesses also see the UFO. (“Case 3-18-18,” -IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978):3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5707

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Event 8230 -(2BE2FC2C)

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Date: 6/24/1978
-Description: 10:48 p.m. The pilot and passenger of a commercial charter -plane flying northwest between Madison and New Lisbon, Wisconsin, see a -distant bright light making extremely fast back-and-forth motions. At -one point it passes above the plane. The object is tracked on radar by -air traffic controllers Glen Wonnacott and Wayne Nurenberg at the Aurora -(Ill.) Air Route Traffic Control Center. (“Radar-Visual in Wisconsin,” -IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 11–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5708

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Event 8231 -(24F5EB56)

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Date: 6/26/1978
-Alternate date: 6/27/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. The 77-year-old mother of a prominent TV -commentator is dazzled by a white, rotating globe of light on a rooftop -terrace across from her inner house court in Vienna, Austria. The light -appears to be breaking into pieces that fall down. Then a spotlight cone -moves along the gutter of the terrace from left to right toward the -light, and both lights go out. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 -(Oct./Nov. 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5709

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Event 8232 -(A87407F4)

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Date: 7/1978
-End date: 12/1978
-Description: Italian, South American, Middle Eastern, and Asian UFO -wave. (See separate chronology, section VIII.)
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 312

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Event 8233 -(C0255E3E)

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Date: 7/1978
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Seamen on the Russian vessel Yargora in the -Mediterranean not far off the coast from Algiers, Algeria, observe a -pearly white flattened sphere moving to the west. On its underside it -has three antenna. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying -Disk, 2020, p. 52)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5710

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Event 8234 -(45BFA3C0)

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Date: 7/1978
-Description: 1:00 p.m. A witness and his father are driving a U-Haul -truck north on Interstate 65 near Ardmore, Alabama. Just after passing -the welcome center, they look up and see a large silver ball on the tree -line to the east. After disagreeing on whether it is a weather balloon, -they stop the truck and get out to look. A door slides open in the -bottom of the object and a smaller silver ball emerges and moves to -their right, and a second comes out and moves to the left. They both -hover for about 5 minutes, then return one at a time to the larger -object, which stands motionless a few more minutes before slowly moving -away to the northeast. Suddenly it shoots away at great speed. (Herbert -S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer -2004): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5711

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Event 8235 -(6F378B8A)

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Date: 7/2/1978
-Description: 8:00 a.m. Verlee Carson is sitting in her house in Ely, -Nevada, and notices two jets flying overhead to the south. One is -followed closely by four white balls and the other is followed by three -balls. (Viril Staff, “Letter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5712

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Event 8236 -(073F45F5)

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Date: 7/3/1978
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A Mrs. Jenkinson and a friend are playing tennis -in Louth, Lincolnshire, England, when they spot a flat, silver oval in -the sky reflecting sunlight and moving in a straight line northward in -the western sky. They watch it for 5 minutes. Another object is seen a -few minutes later in moving north in the eastern sky. (“Case 7887,” -Northern UFO News 52 (September 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5713

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Event 8237 -(D217EA4D)

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Date: 7/4/1978
-Description: 3:15 p.m. A small domed disc, about 3–4 feet in diameter -with rotating parts on top, makes a head-on pass at 800 mph toward Floyd -Hallstrom and Keith Sorensen, who are flying a Cessna at 120 mph and -3,500 feet altitude near Santa Paula, California. Its dome is a bright -chrome with two protrusions. Hallstrom turns the plane around and the -object makes a second pass before disappearing. (“Case 3-8-80,” IUR 3, -no. 8 (August 1978): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5714

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Event 8238 -(E1631E4C)

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Date: 7/4/1978
-Description: 3:45 p.m. A 34-year old school principal in Schaumburg, -Illinois, watches a distinctly outlined metallic sphere the size of -airplane rush in from the east at a speed faster than an aircraft and -exceptionally high. The object stops dead over his house and remains -stationary for 2–3 minutes. Then it starts rising with a slight veer to -the south until it is out of sight. (“Case 3-8-81,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August -1978): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5715

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Event 8239 -(8BBA09F1)

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Date: 7/4/1978
-Description: Two Italian Air Force sergeants (Franco Padellero and -Attilio di Salvatore), an Italian Navy NCO (Maurizio Esposito), and -Antonina di Pietro are driving in the Parco dell’Etna, Sicily, Italy, -when they spot a triangular formation of three red pulsating lights -above Monte Sona. They stop the car for a better look. One of the lights -breaks away from the group and approaches as close as 980 feet before -disappearing. They drive in that direction and stop by a ravine to look -at a luminous disc that gives off a yellow light about 325 feet away. -Five or six very tall entities are standing next to it. Two of them walk -up the ravine to within 16 feet of the witnesses. They are dressed in -tight-fitting white coveralls and have shoulder-length hair. The two -smile, and one points to the disc, which is radiating multicolored -lights. The lights go out temporarily when another car drives by. -Duration is 35 minutes. All the witnesses feel a euphoria, even 36 hours -afterward. Richard -Hall notes that the witnesses have satisfied their curiosity and -drive away without more concern; he indicates that they have been -exposed to the lectures of contactee Eugenio -Siragusa, although -the witnesses seem to be responsible people. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, -no. 8 (August 1978): 2; Good Above, pp. 146–147; -Maurizio Verga, “La -vague italienne de 1978,” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 207 -(Aug./Sept. 1981): 33; Richard H. Hall, “Italian UFO Wave of 1978,” -MUFON UFO Journal, no. 153 (November 1980): 12–13; Patrick Gross, URECAT, November -12, 2009; 1Pinotti 216– 217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5716

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Event 8240 -(8FCA8284)

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Date: 7/5/1978
-Description: Many cattle mutilations are occurring on the ranch owned by -Manuel Gomez near Dulce, New Mexico. State Police Officer Gabe -Valdez, having -heard that certain cows might be marked in some way before being -mutilated, pens 120 of Gomez’s cattle in a corral and moves them through -a squeeze chute under a series of ultraviolet lights. The examination -reveals that five of the animals have a “glittery substance on the right -side of the neck, the right ear, and the right leg.” Valdez and Gomez -remove the substance, along with control samples, and send them to Robert -Schoenfeld at the Schoenfeld Clinical Laboratories in Albuquerque. -Schoenfeld finds “highly suspicious” deposits of potassium (70 times -above normal), magnesium, calcium, and aluminum. (Tommy Roy Blann, “UFO -Connection in Dulce and Taos, New Mexico?” MUFON UFO Journal, no. -138 (August 1979): 14; Greg Valdez, Dulce Base: The Truth and Evidence -from the Case Files of Gabe Valdez, Levi-Cash, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5717

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Event 8241 -(E326F25B)

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Date: 7/6/1978
-Description: Car levitated, altered environment, memory loss, -translocation of vehicle
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mendoza, Argentina
-ID: 313

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Event 8242 -(3EC27DB1)

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Date: 7/6/1978
-Alternate date: 7/7/1978
-Description: Between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. The fiancée of Robert Garbauskas -is in Sandwich, Massachusetts, taking photos of a ship in the Cape Cod -Canal when she sees a small, rust-colored, apparently solid object -hovering about 35° in the sky for 3–4 minutes. She snaps a photo of it, -which shows a dark object with a yellow arc of light above it. (“1978 -Object with Arc of Light Photographed,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter -1, no. 4 (August 1980): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5718

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Event 8243 -(F1599BDA)

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Date: 7/7/1978
-Description: At the urging of Grenada Prime Minister Eric -Gairy, the -Grenada delegation to the United Nations issues a statement calling for -“open discussions on the very important subject [of UFOs] … a matter of -great significance at this time for all mankind.” (“U.N. Background,” -IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 5; Clark III 1189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5719

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Event 8244 -(5279EC66)

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Date: 7/7/1978
-Description: The CIA agrees to let Ground Saucer Watch amend its -complaint to include requests for virtually all CIA- related UFO -records. The lawsuit opens in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. -(“Update on the Ground Saucer Watch (GSW) Lawsuit Against the CIA,” IUR -3, no. 7 (July 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5720

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Event 8245 -(43E73C10)

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Date: 7/11/1978
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A man driving alone in a remote area on State -Highway 100 three miles south of Waterbury, Vermont, sees a beam of -light descend from the trees. It is about 1.5–2 feet in diameter but -spreads out into a cone that covers the entire street and moves toward -his car, illuminating the interior like “40 flash cameras.” The -reflection off the car hood is dazzling. Petrified for 45 seconds, he -finally sticks his head out the door and feels considerable heat. The -light shrinks and dims, revealing the silhouette of a saucer darker than -the sky and about 80–100 feet in diameter. The object is at treetop -level and has small steady white lights on each side and a rib-like -structure on the bottom. After hovering above the car a few seconds, it -moves southwest about 200 yards and then takes off almost -simultaneously. (“Case 3-8-129,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5721

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Event 8246 -(F7DB0B23)

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Date: 7/13/1978
-Description: Todd -Zechel, research director of Ground Saucer Watch and director of -Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, files a FOIA request with the CIA that -includes information about a crashed spacecraft. (“GSW + FOIA + CIA = -1,000 Pages of UFO Information,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5722

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Event 8247 -(B1F03425)

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Date: 7/14/1978
-Description: Dawn. A Spanish Army unit on an exercise in Mazarrón, -Murcia, Spain, watches an unfamiliar group of lights for two hours above -a road: a red light that vanishes occasionally, two greenish-white -lights that shine sporadically, and four white lights that appear -irregularly and fly without any specific formation. Their height over -the terrain is estimated at 13–100 feet. The lights oscillate and move -forward, leaving the road and moving around obstacles like houses and -hills, then coming back to the road in front of the group of soldiers. A -reconnaissance of the area the following night reveals nothing unusual, -except the antenna of a meteorological station that probably was not the -source of the lights. (Swords 434)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5723

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Event 8248 -(5A07FC70)

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Date: 7/14/1978
-Description: Eric -Gairy, accompanied -by ufologists J. -Allen Hynek, Jacques -Vallée, David -R. Saunders, Leonard -H. Stringfield, and -Claude -Poher, meet -with UN Secretary General Kurt -Waldheim to organize a steering committee to develop plans for -possible UN involvement in UFO research. (Clark III 1189; “UFOs in the -U.N.,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5724

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Event 8249 -(24522327)

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Date: 7/16/1978
-Description: Residents sleeping on their terraces in the northern pat of -Tehran, Iran, spot a “strange glowing object” floating southwest toward -Saveh. One witness claims it is hovering directly above him. The control -tower at Mehrabad Airport confirms the existence of the light. An air -crew reports unusual readings on their instruments. (Tehran Journal, -July 18, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 2; Good -Above, pp. 321–322, -501– -502)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5725

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Event 8250 -(FC7CE9D2)

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Date: 7/18/1978
-Description: DoD Staff Message: UFO spotted over North Tehran, -Iran
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p501)
-Location: Tehran, Iran

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Event 8251 -(E384FDDF)

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Date: 7/19/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A teacher is driving with his wife through -Hudson, New York, when they spot a motionless, amber- colored, curved -object in the sky as wide as a full moon. It remains behind them as they -drive to a friend’s house, where they join another couple to watch it. -The light suddenly goes out, and 30 seconds later they hear a roar that -moves off to the southeast. (“Case 3-9-19,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September -1978): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5726

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Event 8252 -(B3D48D3E)

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Date: 7/20/1978
-Description: 1:20 a.m. A soldier on duty at the main gate of the -military section of the Logroño-Agoncillo Airport in La Rioja, Spain, -sees a strange object in the air. A second lieutenant and a corporal get -to the gate in time to watch for 5 minutes an object moving slowly and -noiselessly east to west some 3,300 feet above the ground. Two of the -witnesses describe it as lozenge-shaped, while the other two say it has -the shape of a triangle. All agree that there is an intense white light -flashing at one-second intervals in the center, while other lights -appear in various parts of the dark object. It continues to fly steadily -until it disappears from sight. (Swords 434)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5727

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Event 8253 -(D18B76ED)

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Date: 7/21/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Chloene Bechdolt notices a bright red light near -the ground in the north field of her farm near Uniopolis, Ohio. She goes -inside and around 10:00 p.m. notices that the light is still there and -larger in size. She goes back outside and approaches the light, thinking -it might be poachers. She thinks she hears someone talking, so she -shouts a warning at it. The object makes a hum and shoots straight up. -On July 23, she and her nephew find a 100-foot circular area of cut -beans in the field, and the timothy stubble looks like it has been -scorched about one inch from the ground. (“Large -Circular Physical Trace: Is It Common?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter -3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5728

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Event 8254 -(98BA96CF)

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Date: 7/21/1978
-Description: 10:15 p.m. A couple in Davyhulme, Greater Manchester, -England, observes a dark disc hovering in the twilight sky. It is -surrounded by an aura, from which 30–40 beautiful purple rays shoot out -at various angles like spokes from a wheel, extending to about 12 times -the diameter of the central disc. After about 90 seconds, the “rays” -collapse inward in sequence, and the object slowly extinguishes itself. -During the sighting, the couple notice with some puzzlement that the -normally busy street is strangely quiet and devoid of people and -traffic. (Clark III 866; Jenny Randles, UFO Reality, R. Hale, -1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5729

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Event 8255 -(C84A4026)

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Date: 7/22/1978
-Description: 1:15 p.m. A retired couple in Ventura, California, is -attracted outdoors by an odd noise and see a silver form moving -overhead. It has lines across its surface and is making a noise like a -card flapping against bicycle spokes. It flies straight away and -disappears in the northeast. (“Case 3-9-28,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September -1978): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5730

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Event 8256 -(D4A0F875)

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Date: 7/23/1978
-Description: Several Coast Guard stations observed cigar-shaped object -with same pattern of body lights, moving at very high rate of -speed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lake Michigan
-ID: 314

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Event 8257 -(627FBF93)

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Date: 7/26/1978
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Chinese Air Force flying instructor Sha Yongkao -is piloting a plane with a student at an airfield in Shangxi province, -China. They are flying at 9,800 feet when they see two glowing objects -circle the airport twice before moving off. Yongkao attempts to pursue -the objects unsuccessfully and is told no other aircraft are being -tracked in the vicinity. (Paul Dong, “Extracts -from Paul Dong’s Feidie -Bai Wen Bai Da (Questions -and Answers on -UFOs),” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 (August 1984): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5731

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Event 8258 -(0480F9E5)

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Date: 7/27/1978
-Description: 7:46 p.m. Three men are flying a radio-controlled model -airplane in a field in Marshall, Michigan, when they spot a silver -cylindrical object with black lines across its surface. It moves -eastward from directly overhead to a position 45° up in the east and -vanishes. (“Case 3-9-68,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5733

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Event 8259 -(4BEE8785)

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Date: 7/27/1978
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Two witnesses in Sheffield, Ohio, watch a -“silver banana” with a red and blue flashing light about a half-mile -away, low in the east. They hear a wavering hum. It approaches their car -to within 600 feet; the car’s electrical system fails, and the engine -stops and cannot be restarted for another 90 minutes. After about 15 -minutes the light shoots away to the west. (“Case 3-9-65,” IUR 3, no. 9 -(September 1978): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5734

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Event 8260 -(91D913FB)

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Date: 7/27/1978
-Description: Woman reported brilliantly lighted object buzzed her car, -briefly lifted it off road
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Union, MO
-ID: 315

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Event 8261 -(CDF63E5F)

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Date: 7/27/1978
-End date: 7/28/1978
-Description: Rash of UFO sightings reported to police over two days, -probably including Delta Aquarid meteors
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Union, MO
-ID: 316

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Event 8262 -(AC15118C)

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Date: 7/27/1978
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Clora -E. Winscher is driving a 1974 Mercury Comet east on US Highway 50 on -the east side of Union, Missouri, at about 45 mph. She notices in her -rearview mirror a brilliant light approaching from behind at high speed. -She feels a “terrific shove” and the rear end of the car lifts up and -gets moved along the road for 300 feet, completely out of control. As -she approaches a bridge, the car drops down again, and she sees the -light rise over the roof and disappear upward to the left. Two dents, 22 -inches apart, are found in the upper edge of the trunk, but the paint is -not fractured. About the same time, 12 miles west in Beaufort, Missouri, -Velma -Clines watches a dull red-orange, round UFO fly toward her house -before it speeds away. (UFOEv II p. 278; “Case 3-9- 59,” IUR 3, no. 9 -(September 1978): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5732

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Event 8263 -(ACDCE46D)

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Date: 7/28/1978
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Personnel at the Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, -Coast Guard station watch a similar light for 4 minutes moving swiftly -from west to northwest. (“Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin -Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5738

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Event 8264 -(0355E2BA)

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Date: 7/28/1978
-Description: 11:57 p.m. Six members of the Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Coast -Guard station, including Doug Wangen and Seaman Gary Randall, see a -lighted object with flashing white, red, green, orange, and blue lights -coming from Lake Michigan and moving toward Rawley Point. It stops -abruptly, and Randall snaps 10 photos. The object then “slingshots” to -the northwest in seconds. (“Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin -Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5737

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Event 8265 -(83BEF9A5)

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Date: 7/28/1978
-Description: 11:45 p.m. The Ludington, Michigan, Coast Guard station -gets a phone call from a man whose daughter and boyfriend have seen a -strange object over Lake Michigan. Coast Guardsman Don Clark and others -see a cluster of white lights, one flashing, and one steady green light -near the shoreline. It is very bright, proceeds westerly past the Big -Sable Point Lighthouse, and then accelerates silently over the horizon -“faster than a plane.” Clark radios the Coast Guard station at Two -Rivers, Wisconsin, about the light. (“Complete Details on the Michigan- -Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5736

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Event 8266 -(137D5E02)

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Date: 7/28/1978
-Description: 8:28 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Gruss of Benton Harbor, Michigan, -see a long, brightly lit, silver cylinder at about 6,000 feet altitude. -It stays stationary for 30 minutes, then moves southwest. (“Complete -Details on the Michigan- Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 -(August 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5735

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Event 8267 -(5E653CC0)

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Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: 12:01 a.m. A second westbound light is seen by Coast Guard -at the Ludington, Michigan, station. It has red lights and very bright -strobes flashing erratically. The Two Rivers, Wisconsin, station spots -an object 3 minutes later, but it is moving north. (“Complete Details on -the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August -1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5739

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Event 8268 -(61E3990D)

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Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: 12:25 a.m. Coast Guard observers at the Grassy Island Range -Lighthouse in Green Bay, Wisconsin, report to Two Rivers that they are -seeing a UFO heading to the west at high speed with white and red -flashing lights. (“Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast -Guard Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5740

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Event 8269 -(4C86FE6E)

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Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 317

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Event 8270 -(5953EF17)

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Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Seaman Gary Randall and another witness at the -Two Rivers Coast Guard station see another UFO closing in from the -southwest. It approaches for 40 seconds then stops for 1 minute. Then it -flies northeast and shoots straight up and out of sight in 20 seconds. -(“Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard Sightings,” IUR -4, no. 2 (August 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5741

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Event 8271 -(26A482D4)

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Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: 2:40 a.m. A Coast Guard vessel in Lake Superior among the -Apostle Islands, Wisconsin, sees a large, yellow- white, oblong object -that appears and reappears briefly in a slightly different position each -time. (“Complete Details on the Michigan-Wisconsin Coast Guard -Sightings,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5742

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Event 8272 -(59598AE4)

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Date: 7/29/1978
-End date: 7/30/1978
-Description: The 1978 MUFON UFO Symposium takes place in Dayton, Ohio. -Ufologist Leonard -Stringfield announces that he has collected more than 50 sources -with “information relative to the subject of retrievals or storage of -alien craft, and/or deceased alien humanoids recovered from the craft.” -He presents 17 witness testimonies to the audience as evidence of some -9–10 possible retrievals of crashed or downed UFOs, although his refusal -to provide their names embroils him in controversy. This is the first of -his seven “status reports” on accounts and rumors about UFO -crash/retrievals. (Leonard H. Stringfield, “Retrievals -of the Third Kind,” 1978 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, -1978, pp. 77–105; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, -pp. 75–76; Leonard Stringfield, “The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s -Cage,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 145–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5743

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Event 8273 -(BA746C19)

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Date: 7/29/1978
-Description: Ufologist Leonard Stringfield gives his first talk on Crash -Retrievals in Dayton, OH. He is threatened twice (by phone and then in -person), moved to a location not of his choosing by security men with -radios.
-Type: public presentation
-Reference: link
-Location: Dayton, OH

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Event 8274 -(26DECCEE)

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Date: 8/1978
-Description: Bank manager Serrano Silva and a Columbian Navy officer -suffer temporary paralysis when a flying object buzzes their car on a -highway between Tunja and Bogotá, Columbia. The car’s engine and -headlights die. (“South America: -Hotbed of Bizarre UFO Sightings,” Windsor (Ont.) Star, November 14, -1978, p. 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5744

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Event 8275 -(2C91F3B0)

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Date: 8/3/1978
-Description: 7:20 p.m. An engineer, his wife, and his daughter are -driving toward Nurmijärvi, Finland, when a 6-foot oval with clear black -contours and a light-colored center flies silently in front of them, -moving from right to left in 5– 10 seconds before vanishing. (“Foreign -Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5745

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Event 8276 -(70DC2BD1)

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Date: 8/3/1978
-Description: 10:50 p.m. During a mini-flap of UFO sightings in Lowell, -Massachusetts, a couple watch an oval light that has rising bands of -shifting colors hovering above trees to the northwest. The man jumps in -the car to drive to it as the woman continues watching and sees a -smaller light appear to its right. A third light appears to the left, -which swings above the first light and joins the second one. All of the -lights vanish. (“Case 3-9-104,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5746

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Event 8277 -(468FA829)

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Date: 8/4/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A 12-year-old boy in East Leroy, Michigan, hears -a noise and looks out his window to watch a silver cigar drop vertically -downward to a position 100 feet away and 15 feet up. It snaps into a -horizontal position and hovers for 5–10 seconds. A white, steam-like -exhaust emits from a funnel at its rear and steams up the boy’s window. -After a few more seconds it zooms off into the sky. (“Case 3-9-107,” IUR -3, no. 9 (September 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5747

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Event 8278 -(7799803D)

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Date: 8/5/1978
-Description: 9:50 p.m. A family on the shore of Lake Sorell, Tasmania, -watch a glow behind a hill to the south. Within minutes, the whole area -lights up and a small white light appears, moving back and forth at tree -level. It remains visible 20–30 minutes, then disappears suddenly. -Earlier in the day, another group had reported a brown, cigar- shaped -object over nearby Lake Crescent. (Launceston Examiner, August 12, 1978; -“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5748

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Event 8279 -(4951B7DE)

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Date: 8/5/1978
-Description: 11:15 p.m. A TV director is driving northwest on State -Highway 5 about 2 miles southeast of Laurie, Missouri. He and his son -watch two red lights rise up about 25 feet off the road to their left to -an altitude of 30 feet. They are attached to a triangular object that -flies over their car to their right, cut back to the top of a hill, turn -around, and approach them again, only to descend behind trees. The rear -dimension of the triangle is about 10–15 feet across. (“Case 3-9-120,” -IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5749

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Event 8280 -(BF33B053)

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Date: 8/7/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A couple is driving west on War Memorial Drive -to a First Assembly of God church in Peoria, Illinois when they see a -shooting star fly across their view. Five minutes later, they arrive at -church and, walking behind it, see a bright white light with flashing -red and blue lights hovering about 40 feet in the air for 5–7 minutes. -It shoots off to the east in a split second. (“Case 3-9-132,” IUR 3, no. -9 (September 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5750

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Event 8281 -(841C626B)

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Date: 8/8/1978
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Witnesses in Belton, Missouri, and several -military personnel at nearby Richards-Gebaur Air Reserve Station [now -closed] witness the flyover of a UFO that is also briefly tracked on -radar. Joseph Staudinger Jr. sees the object at about 2,800 feet in -altitude and looking like two white strobe lights in front and back with -three rows of red lights that are rotating around its middle. The -encounter lasts 45 minutes. A cattle mutilation has been discovered -earlier that day in Elsberry, Missouri. (“Heavily-Witnessed Radar-Visual -Case near Kansas City,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5752

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Event 8282 -(EF55A74D)

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Date: 8/8/1978
-Description: A group of tourists along the shore of the Sea of Azov near -Henichesk, Ukraine, see a flying disc three times larger than the moon. -It has protrusions on the top and bottom, two rows of portholes, and is -surrounded by a bright orange glow. Every 15 seconds, smaller discs (a -total of 15–20) fly out from the lower protrusion, accompanied by a -blinding explosion. They hover for a few seconds then depart rapidly to -the south. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, -2020, p. 176)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5751

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Event 8283 -(F5C8540D)

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Date: 8/10/1978
-Description: CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator Gene F. Wilson asks -Todd -Zechel of CAUS to suspend his FOIA request until he has a chance to -look at the 1,000 pages of documents that are currently under review for -release. Most of these files are from the Office of Scientific -Intelligence in the 1950s, leading CAUS to suspect that they will mostly -consist of Air Force and Navy UFO reports, plus some records of -unauthorized CIA investigations. ((“GSW + FOIA + CIA = 1,000 Pages of -UFO Information,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5753

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Event 8284 -(508622AC)

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Date: 8/11/1978
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 319

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Event 8285 -(61F53DEC)

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Date: 8/11/1978
-Description: 11:59 p.m. A deputy sheriff and four youngsters are driving -on Chancellors Run Road in Great Mills, Maryland, when they see a -silvery, blimp-shaped light hovering at treetop level above some -trailers. It appears larger than a full moon. The deputy shines the -cruiser’s spotlight toward it and scans the length of the object, yet -the beam does not light up the large shape. She drives closer, but the -UFO begins to get cloudy on its underside and moves slowly behind the -trees. (“Case 3-9-184,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5754

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Event 8286 -(5277A85E)

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Date: 8/11/1978
-Description: Silver dome-shaped object, green glow, hovered overhead, -began circling. E-M effects, dogs whined. UFO finally took off at high -speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Roosevelt, UT
-ID: 318

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Event 8287 -(E04D631B)

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Date: 8/12/1978
-Description: 9:25 p.m. A young couple in Niceville, Florida, are driving -on a dirt road when a lighted object that looks like an eye moves toward -them. The center part is like shiny black glass and the body is metallic -silver with two antennae on top. It fills half the windshield in angular -size as it moves over the roof of the car. They hear no noise and feel -no rush of wind. (“Case 3-9-187,” IUR 3, no. 8 (September 1978): -9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5755

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Event 8288 -(CFD50DEE)

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Date: 8/16/1978
-Description: Air traffic controllers at Gatwick Airport near Crawley, -West Sussex, England, see a UFO but decline to say exactly what it is. -(Good Above, p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5756

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Event 8289 -(FFC8FC46)

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Date: 8/17/1978
-Description: Assistant US Attorney for the District of Columbia William -Briggs asks Peter Gersten of -Ground Saucer Watch to identify broadly all categories of UFO documents -to enable the CIA to search for all its UFO records. Based on a draft by -Brad -Sparks, Gersten -prepares a stipulation that requests the CIA to conduct a reasonable -search of 22 CIA component branches. US District Court Judge John -H. Pratt makes the order a binding one, giving the CIA until -mid-December to complete the task. (“GSW + FOIA + CIA = 1,000 Pages of -UFO Information,” IUR 3, no. 8 (August 1978): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5757

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Event 8290 -(86390078)

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Date: 8/17/1978
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Radars of the Air Self-Defense Corps at Nemuro -Radar Site on Hokkaido, Japan, pick up a target flying from the north to -south-southwest at about 40 mph more than a half-mile above Nemuro -Channel south of Kunashir Island. It approaches the eastern end of -Hokkaido and is later picked up by radars at Cape Erimo. Two F-4EJ -Phantom jets are scrambled from Chitose Air Base about 10 minutes later -and are guided to the targets, now in the vicinity of Nakashibetsu. But -the pilots can see nothing on their airborne radars and return empty- -handed. The target persists on ground scopes, moving south toward -Kushiro. Twice more, jets are sent up but fail to detect a blip. -(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 9 (September 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5758

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Event 8291 -(CAA6384D)

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Date: 8/18/1978
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A relative staying at the home of UFO researcher -Douglas Dains in Port Crane, New York, notices the reception on the -television is disrupted shortly before a UFO detector (a magnetic field -instrument) starts buzzing. Dains himself is not at home. The relative -steps outside and sees a domed UFO with a red light on top of an antenna -approach from the northwest to a position 50 feet behind a tree and 45 -feet in the air. It hovers there for 30 seconds. It then departs to the -southwest, disappearing behind a mountain. (“The Absent UFO Researcher,” -IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5759

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Event 8292 -(B8B241E7)

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Date: 8/20/1978
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A nurse is sitting in her car on Oberlin Street -in Maplewood, New Jersey, when she sees an object shaped like a car -fender with four blue lights moving toward her from the east. She gets -out of her car as it flies overhead. Then it stays in place, rocking -silently back and forth, before taking off to the northeast, making a -machine-like noise. (“A Huge ‘Car Fender,’” IUR 3, no. 12 (December -1978): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5760

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Event 8293 -(239D03FD)

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Date: 8/20/1978
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A 64-year old security guard is on patrol in -downtown Toledo, Ohio, looking at a “large plane” approaching from the -north. As it passes overhead at a uniform speed, about 1,500–2,000 feet -up, it is seen as a cigar with small brackets. It is dull silver, -distinctly outlined, and twice the angular size of the full moon. It -then continues its straight path southbound to the horizon. (“A Daylight -Urban ‘Cigar,’” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5761

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Event 8294 -(9D212E97)

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Date: 8/21/1978
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A witness sketches an oblong UFO over an open -area near Banksville, New York. It is at least 150–200 feet long with -while and blue colors, two lights in front, and silent. It disappears -over a golf course t the northeast. (“Long -Rectangular UFOs: Five Different Cases of Similarly Shaped Objects,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 9 (September 1981): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5762

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Event 8295 -(B8EFCDC7)

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Date: 8/21/1978
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A 33-year old housewife, in the company of her -children, 8 and 10, watches a silver Frisbee-like object from their -front porch 3 miles north of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. Standing -outdoors, they see the saucer in the southeast, much larger than a full -moon would look, perhaps as large as a car. The Frisbee has a sharp -outline and metallic appearance. No sound can be heard over the heavy -traffic noise. According to the children, it then shoots over to the -southwest in two seconds. Finally, it moves straight up out of sight in -an instant. Duration is 5–8 minutes. (“A Daylight ‘Frisbee,’” IUR 3, no. -12 (December 1978): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5763

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Event 8296 -(BD6999C5)

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Date: 8/21/1978
-Description: Night. The Madagascar Interior Ministry announces that a -UFO has crashed and exploded in the marketplace at Fort-Dauphin. Radio -Madagascar says that the cigar-shaped object had lit up the ground -before plunging downward. Locals rush out of bed to put out the flames. -(“Foreign Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5764

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Event 8297 -(B4808175)

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Date: 8/22/1978
-Description: 7:03 a.m. Four men are driving in a carpool from Moscow, -Pennsylvania, to work at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Coolbaugh Township -on I-380. They watch a small circular “cloud” descend suddenly in the -south. It changes to a bright silver and hovers, rocking from side to -side. It now looks solid and metallic. It rises slightly and flies off -to the southeast at an estimated 800–900 mph. (“A Daylight ‘Cloud,’” IUR -3, no. 12 (December 1978): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5765

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Event 8298 -(ED0FA069)

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Date: 8/22/1978
-Description: An oval-shaped translucent object ringed by a halo of light -flies silently over the Andes Mountains in Neuquen province, Argentina, -in a 300-mile path. (“Close -Encounters Thrill Latins,” Detroit (Mich.) Free Press, November 22, -1978, p. 6C)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5766

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Event 8299 -(9DAED253)

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Date: 8/22/1978
-Description: Object ahead of airliner, opening appeared, smaller objects -emerged, maneuvered around it, reentered and “departed at a tremendous -speed.”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Adelaide to Perth, Australia
-ID: 320

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Event 8300 -(784DA3F5)

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Date: 8/23/1978
-Description: 8:04 p.m. P. A. Hadden is on board the tanker MV Ficus in -the Indian Ocean [or the South China Sea] 260 miles from the Malacca -Strait. He watches an elongated triangle formation of three lights -moving in from 60° above the northeast horizon. When they reach 75°, -nearly overhead, the lights suddenly stop. He estimates them to be 100 -miles high. The light in the right rear continues moving in the opposite -direction of the ship and off to its left at great speed, disappearing -in the distance; the light in the left rear shifts over to occupy the -position in the formation it had occupied. After 5 seconds of remaining -still, it shoots back to the left again and departs at high speed. The -remaining light rushes forward, following the same path as the first -light. Total duration of the sighting is 1 minute 20 seconds. (“Foreign -Forum,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5767

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Event 8301 -(AEF186D1)

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Date: 8/24/1978
-Description: 11:40 p.m. Two 19-year old girls, driving west near tiny -Ginghamsburg, Ohio, watch two oddly colored orange lights twice the size -of aircraft landing lights. A humming sound can be heard both from the -lights and from the car radio. The driver can’t get the car to go faster -than about 20 mph. The lights are coming from the left, one directly -over the other. They look away momentarily and the lights are gone; they -look again, and the lights are moving above the car. From the south they -have moved to the northwest over a field. A rod or a light beam comes -down from one ball of light and shines a light at the witnesses for one -second. The driver tries to flash the car lights at it, to no avail. -They look away briefly and do not notice how the lights vanish. (“Car -Interference in Ohio?” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5769

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Event 8302 -(E7E7419A)

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Date: 8/24/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A 54-year old cook is driving north from her -brother’s house about 10 miles south of Ottumwa, Iowa. She is on -Cliffland Road alongside the Des Moines River in a wooded, rural area. A -full-moon-sized red- orange light shoots silently from the east to the -west in several seconds. As it flies across the front of her car, her -windshield fogs up and the car stalls out to a stop. The interference -lasts only a few seconds, and the car restarts without her turning the -key; the window defogs as quickly as it had steamed up. She last sees -the light against a background of trees up ahead, lower than the -treetops. (“Car Interference in Iowa,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): -14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5768

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Event 8303 -(066183E8)

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Date: 8/27/1978
-Description: 4:45 p.m. A Korean War veteran in Gloucester, -Massachusetts, watches a bright yellow cylinder approaching him from low -in the north. At an altitude of 2,000 feet, it appears smaller than an -F-100 fighter. It moves off to the south, flying faster than a jet. -(“And Then, 3 Hours Later,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5771

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Event 8304 -(ADB2E5DC)

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Date: 8/27/1978
-Description: 1:40 p.m. Arthur Silva is flying a Cessna 150 about 10 -miles north of Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Harold Johnson as -passenger. Johnson sees a bright reflective object at the same altitude -(2,500 feet) directly ahead about 4 miles away. It moves closer, picking -up speed and shooting by them at about 600 mph, apparently missing the -plane by 1,000 feet. It is a silvery-white, metallic sphere with no -wings and about 18 feet in diameter. (“Daylight Sphere over -Massachusetts,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5770

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Event 8305 -(85E71830)

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Date: 8/28/1978
-Description: Six papers are presented at the American Psychological -Association Symposium in Toronto, Ontario, relating to the topic of -using hypnosis to investigate UFO experiences. The presenters are H. -Kent Newman, R. Leo -Sprinkle, James -Harder, Alvin -Lawson, W. -C. McCall, and Michael -Persinger. (“Ufologists -Meet the Social Scientists,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): -19–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5772

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Event 8306 -(60A0D87B)

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Date: 8/30/1978
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A witness is standing outdoors at a suburban -shopping center in Nashua, New Hampshire, when she spots a formation of -6–8 white lights arranged in a circle and moving from southeast to -north. (“Meanwhile, a Little Ways North,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): -15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5773

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Event 8307 -(B8C4ED63)

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Date: 8/30/1978
-Description: Late night. Residents of Lisbon, Portugal, see a large -round object with bright red and white lights flying about 600 feet -above the ground. (“Portuguese -Welcome UFO,” Oshkosh (Wis.) Daily Northwestern, August 31, 1978, -p. 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5774

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Event 8308 -(F0E5E05F)

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Date: 8/30/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m.–midnight. A 38-year-old man is driving a pickup -on State Highway 38 a half-mile west of Nisula, Michigan, when a -cone-shaped object flies toward him from the east. It has two steady red -lights at the ends and one steady white light in the middle. It flies -low and silently over the truck, which then stalls for one second. He -gets home and he and his wife watch the red lights in the distance, -still moving slowly up and down from east to south. (“Another Vehicle -Stalled,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5775

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Event 8309 -(B875805D)

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Date: 8/30/1978
-Description: 11:10 p.m. A man in Gloucester, Massachusetts, looks out -his window to see what is causing a loud sound in 5-second bursts. He -sees over Ipswich Bay an elongated, fiery red rectangle moving north to -south at around 100 mph. One end is dipped down 45°. It stops, hovers -for 10 seconds, and moves out of sight behind trees. (“Again, 3 Hours -Later,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5776

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Event 8310 -(1FC18E0E)

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Date: 9/1978
-Description: GEPAN organizes a large gathering of about 100 people from -more than 40 civilian UFO groups, but cooperation does not last. -Criticism comes from both skeptics and the conspiratorial-minded. -(Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” -IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5777

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Event 8311 -(0852237A)

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Date: 9/1978
-Description: Chris -Rutkowski begins publishing the Swamp Gas Journal newsletter in -Winnipeg, Manitoba. It continues until summer 1997, with six special -issues thrown in. (Swamp -Gas Journal, no. -1 (September 1978)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5778

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Event 8312 -(E7ED74AF)

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Date: 9/1978
-Description: UFOs are reported around Heathrow Airport in London, -England. A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority denies that any -are tracked on radar, but adds, “It’s in the interest of national -security that not too much fuss is made about this sort of thing.” (Good -Above, p. 72)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5779

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Event 8313 -(8C339447)

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Date: 9/1/1978
-Description: After 8:00 p.m. Several villagers in Llanerchymedd, -Anglesey, Wales, including some teenagers and a man hunting rabbits, -watch a bright white light descend slowly behind a new housing estate. -An egg-shaped object is seen hovering and illuminating the trees. Other -independent witnesses see a large silvery sphere above a field and watch -the cows panic and hear neighborhood dogs start barking furiously. A -Mrs. Parry and her young daughter look out from an upstairs bedroom and -see three tall men in gray uniforms with caps or helmets attached to -their suits walking across a field. Some of the teens run to the village -to alert the police, who upon their arrival find the village in an -uproar, thinking it has been invaded. At 10:00 p.m., Vivienne Roberts -sees a purplish object with a mass of yellow lights above the vicarage. -Her horses begin to panic and sweat profusely. Later, UFO investigators -triangulate the position of the supposed landing site and find a -circular patch of flattened barley and a path leading up to it. (Martin -Keatman, “The -Llanerchymedd UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 5 (March 1980): -16–23; Story, p. 211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5780

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Event 8314 -(D389C510)

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Date: 9/2/1978
-Description: 8:00–8:15 a.m. Roberto Pozzi, 14, hears a noise like ducks -and hissing combined in a western suburb of Alessandrio, Piedmont, -Italy. He sees an object over a nearby cornfield. It stops making noise, -swings laterally, and shoots up into the air. He finds a 22-by-10-foot -depressed area of cornstalks bent down halfway up the stalk. Two rows of -stalks are bent to the east, a third row to the west. Other sightings -take place in the same area around Alessandrio on September 3, 6, 7, and -13. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): -14; 1Pinotti 217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5781

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Event 8315 -(05B41E13)

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Date: 9/3/1978
-Description: David W. Swift of the University of Hawaii Department of -Sociology presents a paper prior to the American Sociological -Association meeting in San Francisco, California, on the disconnect -among scientists’ support for SETI research and their disdain for UFO -research. (“Scientists’ Selection of New Areas for Investigation: UFOs -or ETI?” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5782

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Event 8316 -(8E7B7998)

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Date: 9/3/1978
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Edilia Cresta Gallo and three other women see a -strip of white light descend between a road and a maize field in -Alessandrio, Piedmont, Italy. The strip morphs into a bright fireball -about 5 feet wide. It disappears and reappears twice more. The women -complain of a burning sensation in their eyes. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian -Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5783

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Event 8317 -(FB1324EB)

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Date: 9/4/1978
-Description: 12:15 a.m. A university professor in Gordon, Wisconsin, -sees a flashing, pale-yellow ball of light as he is driving north on US -Highway 53. It crosses the road in front of him only 50 feet away at an -estimated 160 mph. It makes a sharp 90° turn parallel to the road, -descending to about 15 feet, and travels parallel to his car at 60 mph -about 150 feet west of the road. As he slows down to 20 mph for a better -look, the light also slows down. When the light is 250 feet ahead, it -goes out. (“A Professorial Witness,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5784

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Event 8318 -(E2FB0F2B)

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Date: 9/6/1978
-Description: Late evening. Two witnesses at the San Michele boarding -house in Sassello, Savona, Italy, see two round black objects close -enough to form a figure 8. The are making sounds like incomprehensible -radio chatter. They depart at great speed, leaving circular imprints -behind. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 -(Sept./Oct. 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5786

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Event 8319 -(CC004C64)

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Date: 9/6/1978
-Description: 6:45 a.m. Juan O. Perez, 12, goes to gather a herd of -horses near Venado Tuerto, Argentina. As he rides his horse, he senses -something flying overhead. Several objects appear and begin maneuvering -and shooting out beams of multicolored light. His horse panics, and -Perez manages to ride home. His father berates him and tells him to go -back. When he returns, he finds a large domed object with windows on the -ground. A door opens and a 7-foot-tall being wearing gloves and a -cylindrical helmet appears. It seems to be attached to the object by -some type of breathing apparatus. It invites Perez inside the craft, so -he ties his horse to a ladder protruding from the bottom of the object -and climbs in. His horse is panicked again and keeps kicking the object, -injuring its leg. Inside, he sees a panel with buttons and some tables. -A robot-like entity is cutting some animal bones into pieces. Perez -tries touching the tall being and objects inside but is prevented by an -invisible barrier. Perez jumps out the door and back to the ground. The -tall being follows him outside. Perez asks for one of the giant’s gloves -as proof of his experience. When it takes off the glove, Perez sees a -green, claw-like hand with blue metallic nails. The tall being then -pricks Perez’s right arm and apparently extracts some blood. As Perez -rides home with the glove, two flying objects catch up to him and emit a -small slab and sphere that descend and brush by the horse. They pull the -glove up with a magnetic force. The wound on Perez’s arm stays open for -many years and seeps a transparent liquid. A scar remains six years -later when Perez has a medical check-up for military service; he is -declared unfit because of the story he tells about its origin. After the -event, Perez begins having premonitory dreams about unfortunate events. -(Jacques Vallée, Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact, -Ballantine, 1990, pp. 153–156; -“Jacques -Vallée: The Juan Perez UFO Case,” Above Top Secret, October 20, -2019; David Metcalfe, “Witness -of Another World: Exploring the Soul of a Phenomenon,” Exploring the -Outer Edges of Society and Mind, October 21, 2019; Mark Pilkington, “The -Gaucho Also Cries,” Fortean Times 391 (April 2020): 38–40; Internet -Movie Database, “Witness -of Another World”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5785

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Event 8320 -(47811F4A)

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Date: 9/7/1978
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A college student in Dayton, Ohio, sees two -bright orange lights, closely spaced horizontally. They remain -stationary for 2 minutes, then dim and begin to move for 2–3 minutes. -(“This One’s 50-50,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5787

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Event 8321 -(86392906)

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Date: 9/7/1978
-Description: 8:40 p.m. Many people in the San Michele boarding house in -Sassello, Savona, Italy, see a large luminous object hovering above La -Carta to the east. The boarding house owner, Piera Viacava, switches on -the TV, but the picture is distorted. The light moves south for a few -minutes. Franco Viacava drives off in a Fiat with two friends toward the -light, but their engine loses power and slows down. The radio and tape -player also malfunction briefly. A French woman driving in the area has -her car stopped as the object hovers suddenly above her. Her dog barks -until the light goes away and the car resumes working. (“UFO Flap 1978: -Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Oct./Nov. 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5788

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Event 8322 -(E554C7D5)

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Date: 9/9/1978
-Description: 8:35 p.m. Airline pilots flying over the Mediterranean -about 88 miles east of Barcelona, Spain, watch some unidentified lights -for 35 minutes. Personnel from Barcelona Air Control Center maintain a -conversation with the pilots but detect no targets on their radar -screens. (Swords 434–435)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5789

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Event 8323 -(6B09569E)

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Date: 9/10/1978
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Richard Renne is flying his single-engine -Beechcraft Bonanza at 9,500 feet southeast at 170 mph near Bakersfield, -Missouri, when he sees a yellowish-white light descending from 15,000 -feet. It follows him behind his right wing, then shoots up to 20,000 -feet in a perfectly straight trajectory. It moves back to his 3 o’clock -position before it shoots off upward. (“But This One’s Good,” IUR 4, no. -1 (July 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5790

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Event 8324 -(257A141B)

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Date: 9/10/1978
-Description: 10:15 p.m. A stationary formation of several dozen lights -is seen at Dearborn Heights, Michigan, for 15 minutes before it -disappears. (“Michigan NL,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5791

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Event 8325 -(D0D0E10A)

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Date: 9/13/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Angelo Ciompi watches a reddish disc moving in -the eastern sky above Spinetta Marengo, Italy. It stops abruptly, drops -down, and is lost to sight behind some houses. A column of flames rises -up from the spot. Ciompi and others rush to the area and see a fire -burning in the brushwood-covered wasteland. Firemen put out the blaze, -but the area is overflown by lights in the evening that descend and -ascend at the site. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 -(Oct./Nov. 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5792

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Event 8326 -(101982E9)

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Date: 9/14/1978
-Description: 6:00 a.m. Hundreds of witnesses all over Italy, from Sicily -to Florence, watch a luminous projectile moving northward. Italian -ufologists are calling it a UFO rather than a meteor because a few -accounts have it moving in a different direction or appearing to stop -briefly. Probable meteor. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. -3/4 (Oct./Nov. 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5793

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Event 8327 -(E3BDE255)

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Date: 9/15/1978
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A 26-year-old secretary is awakened in -Carpentersville, Illinois, by a whirring sound. She goes to the bedroom -window to look outside. The noise stops, but then she sees the figure of -a 6-foot tall man. He is dressed in a silvery suit. Several feet away -from him she sees a small, silver, domed disc (about 3 feet wide by 2 -feet tall) sitting on the edge of the grass. It is opaque and smooth and -the source of the whirring sound. The witness then screams at her -husband to wake up, and her dog starts barking furiously. They both try -to phone the police but the phone is not working. When the police arrive -15 minutes later, both the visitor and the UFO are gone. (“Stuffing a -6-Foot Ufonaut into a 2-Foot UFO,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 12; Patrick -Gross, URECAT, October -27, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5795

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Event 8328 -(AD9A1F37)

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Date: 9/15/1978
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A 31-year-old woman is lying in bed awake for 30 -minutes at her home in Delano, Tennessee, when a funny feeling makes her -look outside. She stands at the south window looking out at fields and -sees a bright moon and an object with lights in a long shape, red and -pink as if on fire, in the southwest. Two “normal” men dressed in white -suits can be seen about 300 feet from the window, but it is too dark for -details. They start moving toward the house, but then stop and turn -back. The UFO comes in fast at this point very close to the ground, then -leaves quickly, climbing to the west. (“Tennessee Humanoids?” IUR 4, no. -1 (July 1979): 12; Patrick Gross, URECAT, May -15, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5794

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Event 8329 -(399E7E1B)

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Date: 9/16/1978
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Stephen Colclough and his girlfriend are driving -through Dilhorne, Staffordshire, England, when they notice a red and -white light moving across the sky. Suddenly an enormous black object -looms up in front of them, completely silent, and shoots a powerful -searchlight beam for at least 3 seconds. (“UFO Shot a Beam of Light at -Our Car: Claim,” Stoke-on-Trent (UK) Evening Sentinel, September 16, -1978; Marler 102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5796

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Event 8330 -(62494EC5)

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Date: 9/17/1978
-Description: Car engine and lights failed, domed disc descended onto -road. Two small humanoids emerged, examined car, reentered object, took -off
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Torrita di Siena, Italy
-ID: 321

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Event 8331 -(B0B0A48B)

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Date: 9/17/1978
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Hairdresser Rivo Faralli hears an explosion like -a rifle shot at Torrita di Siena, Italy. He goes to visit his mother on -the other side of town, who has also heard the noise and seen a flash of -light that causes the lights and TV to go out. When Faralli is driving -home at 9:00 p.m. on the Via Pié agli Orti, the engine and lights of his -car die. He feels paralyzed as he watches a domed disc come near and -float inches from the ground. The dome opens up and two 3.5-foot-tall -beings emerge, floating 4 inches from the ground. They are wearing green -one-piece suits; their helmets have clear visors and two small spiraling -antennas. Their faces look like green- skinned skulls through the -visors. Faralli watches them make a full circle around the car without -noise or gesture, then return to the UFO, which rises up several yards, -seemingly propelled by three red, orange, and blue-colored beams, and -shoots off vertically. The car starts on its own. He returns to the site -the following day and finds three burn marks in the unpaved road. -Digging into the ground, he finds the earth carbonized to a depth of 8 -inches. Soil samples are taken to the European Atomic Energy Community -labs at Ispra, which finds that the road material has been burned by a -temperature less than 500° Celsius, and not by a bonfire or hydrocarbon -fuels. (Roberto Pinotti, “Landing, E.M. Effects, and Entities at Torrita -di Siena,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1979): 3–6; -Maurizio Verga, “Another -CEIII Report from Italy,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1979): 6–7; “UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 -(Sept./Oct. 1979): 15–16; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle -Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 18; UFOEv -II 495– 496; 1Pinotti 220–223; Patrick Gross, URECAT, January -15, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5797

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Event 8332 -(E12C964A)

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Date: 9/18/1978
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Giorgio Filiputti is fishing in the Corno river -at the point where the Zumiel irrigation canal runs into it south of San -Giorgio di Nogaro, Udine, Italy, when he hears a whistling sound, sees -vegetation rustling, and feels a blast of air. Climbing up the riverbank -to investigate, he sees a domed disc about 13–16 feet in diameter that -is resting on a mudflat 66 feet away. The object is brassy or yellowish -metallic with telescopic legs that terminate in flat pads. A figure -about 3.5 feet tall appears from behind the dome, walking around the -rim. It wears tight-fitting coveralls of scaly, silvery material that -sparkles in the sunlight. It wears boots, has two containers at waist -level, and white gloves. Its face is dark bronze with almond-shaped eyes -and large pupils. The entity stares at the shocked Filiputti. After a -few minutes it begins walking again, stoops down, and works on a -horseshoe-shaped protrusion on the dome. Finally, it continues walking -around to the other side. Filiputti hears a rumbling sound and a -piercing whistle as the object begins to rise, withdrawing its landing -gear. The underside looks like it has a grid pattern, and it emits a -bluish glow like a tongue of flame. When it reaches an altitude of 33 -feet, it turns on edge and speeds out of sight to the southwest. He has -been watching it for about 6 minutes. Three circular imprints about 20 -inches in diameter are found in the dry mud and sand. (Antonio -Chiumiento, “’The Little -Oriental Airman’: Another Remarkable C.E.III Case in Italy,” Flying -Saucer Review 28, no. 5 (June 1983): 3–8; UFOEv II 497–498; 1Pinotti -223–230)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5798

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Event 8333 -(0D84E186)

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Date: 9/18/1978
-Description: Whistling sound, disc-shaped object with dome on mudflat. -Small humanoid emerged, made repair to craft, took off with loud -explosive sound
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Melaria, Porto Nogaro district, Italy
-ID: 322

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Event 8334 -(383E8821)

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Date: 9/20/1978
-Description: 5:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Hundreds of people watch a white, -roughly triangular object over Tuscany, Italy. It moves northeast and -turns red. Probable balloon. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. -3/4 (Oct./Nov. 1979): 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5800

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Event 8335 -(6294387D)

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Date: 9/20/1978
-Description: 3:40 p.m. G. W. Schoen is spreading fertilizer on a farm -near Westminster, Maryland, when he notices a gray, pear-shaped object -tilted at an angle and flying above the edge of a wooded area. He can -see plates, girders, cylinders, and other structures on it. Schoen -senses that it is exerting a mild “pulling” force on him. It is visible -for 30–35 seconds before it passes behind a cloud. He estimates it is -340–350 feet long. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5799

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Event 8336 -(E4DD24E9)

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Date: 9/21/1978
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A young man walking near a yard in Cosenza, -Calabria, Italy, sees the area illuminated as if by daylight. The -surrounding blocks are lost to view. On a hill he sees an oval object -and a human shape with two antennae. Frightened, he runs away but falls -as four humanoids come closer to him by jumps. He faints, and when he -comes to he is surrounded by four entities wearing buttoned jackets, a -rucksack, and helmets with antennae. Their hands look like pincers. He -faints again and walks up at 8:30 p.m., but the UFO and entities are -gone. (Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, -“Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug.1989): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5801

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Event 8337 -(3BAA797E)

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Date: 9/22/1978
-End date: 9/23/1978
-Description: Car participating in road rally brightly illuminated by -glowing object, lifted off road, driver and passenger blinded, steering -control lost
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
-ID: 323

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Event 8338 -(33A2132A)

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Date: 9/23/1978
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Carlos Acevedo and Angel Moya are driving a -Citroën CG on the flat pampas south of Buenos Aires, Argentina, -stragglers on the final leg of a 39-day stock car race. They notice a -yellow and violet light shining in their rear-view mirror, approaching -fast. Suddenly, the engine and headlights quit, then the car is lifted -15 feet off the road and set down again one minute later 75 miles north. -The gasoline tank is also allegedly drained. (San Diego (Calif.) Union, -November 14, 1978; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5802

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Event 8339 -(6173313A)

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Date: 9/23/1978
-Description: 1:28 p.m. A man is driving past a cattle lot 2 miles north -of Dexter, Iowa, when he sees a silver cigar- shaped object 150 feet -above the ground. He jumps out of his truck and tries to get underneath -it as it hovers, but it moves off to the northeast and is gone in less -than a minute. (“Another Daylight Cigar,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): -12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5803

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Event 8340 -(EC41FD43)

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Date: 9/23/1978
-End date: 9/24/1978
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. Two cable car technicians at the -Bâlea Lake resort, Romania, are awakened by a red light visible through -dense fog. It is apparently coming from an object some 30 feet outside -their window. The light disappears. At the same time, at a military -barracks on the site where soldiers have been assigne dwork duties, Cpl. -Ioan Dörr gets up and goes outside for a drink of water from a tap at -the corner of the building and sees a dark, motionless silhouette only a -few feet away. It persists for at least another 5 minutes. The next -evening at 11:45 p.m., Sgt. Ion Radu notices a dark figure about 8 feet -tall moving slowly on a mound some 65 feet away. Noticing that something -had broken open the shutters of their barracks windows, some of the -soldiers begin throwing stones at it. Radu approaches to within 4 feet -of the figure and raises a club to hit it, but he feels a hot blast and -falls backward into the snow. Two other soldiers with him remain -paralyzed for a few seconds. The entity moves away with kind of a -floating motion. Radu remains unconscious for about 10 minutes as the -soldiers try to resuscitate him. Five soldiers see a “wreath of lights” -at the spot where the figure had stood and others hear mysterious -scratching at the window shutters. The next morning they find four -parallel scratches on the shutters about 4 inches apart. The soldiers -all decide to spend the next night at a nearby resort. (Romania -130–132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5804

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Event 8341 -(14E05993)

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Date: 9/24/1978
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Two witnesses see a silver oval moving from east -to west in Vineland, New Jersey. (“Daylight Oval,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July -1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5805

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Event 8342 -(C5C81B9A)

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Date: 9/26/1978
-Description: 12:05 a.m. A 19-year-old grocery worker is driving on Lunn -Road in Strongsville, Ohio, when she sees on her left a flat-domed disc -edge on. She stops her car, and the object moves closer. When it is -right in front of her car over the road, her FM radio gets lost in -static for 10–15 seconds and her headlights flash off for one second. -Then the object slowly rises up and flies off out of sight to her right. -(“Another EM Story,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5806

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Event 8343 -(3BA675C8)

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Date: 9/27/1978
-Description: 7:25 p.m. Two witnesses see a formation of lights above a -suburban forest preserve in Gurnee, Illinois. One steady red light is on -top, two steady yellow lights are below them, and one blue flashing -light is seen briefly. It suddenly drops halfway to the ground and back -up again in 5 seconds before moving off to the north. (“Illinois NL,” -IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5809

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Event 8344 -(A824FBAC)

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Date: 9/27/1978
-Description: 8:00 a.m. Katarzyna Kolińska is on her way to school in -Przyrownica from Magnusy, Poland, when she sees a bright flash of light -near a mountain. The children who arrive at the school before classes go -to a small nearby grove of trees to play. There they encounter a strange -man, 5.5 feet tall with a green face and dark costume, who is walking -through the forest 30 feet away. He turns to face the children, and they -panic and run back to school, one child losing his shoe in the rush. The -teacher returns with some of the children to the spot, but student Anna -Jarocińska goes in the wrong direction and meets only 480 feet from the -school a being whose face is a “featureless mask.” (Poland 43–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5807

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Event 8345 -(4EB019D9)

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Date: 9/27/1978
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Henryk Marciniak is picking mushrooms in the -forest near Golina, Poland. He notices a strange landed object standing -on four legs about 330 feet away in a clearing. When he rides over to -investigate, a door opens and two small beings with unpleasant faces and -greenish skin emerge, walking down some steps that have appeared. They -approach him, one poking at the motorcycle and the other holding a -device like a camera. The first one takes his bag of mushrooms. -Marciniak shakes hands with them and tries to indicate the mushrooms are -edible and the bike is for riding. Suddenly a buzzing sound comes from -the object. The two entities go back inside and the object takes off and -disappears. Many years later Marciniak denies the story, possibly -because he wants to be left alone. (Poland 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5808

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Event 8346 -(401C9E59)

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Date: 9/28/1978
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Two women driving south through a residential -area of Omaha, Nebraska, sees a dark cone- shaped object approaching her -from the right. It has three bright white lights on the bottom. The -object slows down, flying low, and the witnesses pass by it. A -pre-recorded tape in the car’s player gets completely erased as this -happens, even though other tapes in a box are not affected. (“A ‘Zapped’ -Cassette,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5810

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Event 8347 -(50F105D6)

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Date: 9/28/1978
-Description: 7:20 p.m. A man in Kettering, Ohio, spots a grayish cigar -reflecting the light of the setting sun. Flying silently with its long -dimension in the direction of travel, it seems to be 10,000 feet or -lower. (“What’s Going on in Ohio? Another Daylight Cigar!” IUR 4, no. 1 -(July 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5811

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Event 8348 -(E0191DA2)

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Date: 9/29/1978
-Description: A resident Indian woman sees a disc-shaped object take off -from the Groendal Nature Reserve near Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South -Africa. (MUFON UFO Journal, October 1978)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5812

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Event 8349 -(22F47137)

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Date: 10/1978
-Description: John Acuff’s mismanagement of NICAP (destruction of the -reporting network, loss of members, paying himself a $20,000 -contractor’s fee) leads to his resignation as director. Acuff remains on -the board and keeps the case files in his personal possession. He is -replaced by Alan Hall, a retired CIA employee who accepts the position -after a number of other ex-CIA men are offered the job. Support for Hall -on the NICAP board comes from Charles Lombard, an aide to Sen. Barry -Goldwater and a former covert CIA employee. Lombard and John Fisher -are voted onto the board. (Richard H. Hall, “The -Quest for the Truth about UFOs: A Personal Perspective on -the Role of NICAP,” in 1994 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, -1994, pp. 185–201; ClearIntent, p. 207)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5813

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Event 8350 -(8DED6928)

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Date: 10/1978 (approximate)
-Description: 12:00 noon. Two Chilean F-5 aircraft piloted by Capts. -Hernán Gabrielli Rojas and Danilo Catalán Farias are on a training -mission near Mejillones, Chile. Both pilots see a radar target that -gives a return equal to 10 aircraft carriers. Ground radar at Cerro -Moreno airport [now Andrés Sabella Gálvez International Airport] in -Antofagasta picks up the object and confirms its large size. The pilots -continue to fly south between 30,000–35,000 feet. At a distance of 20 -miles, they see an object “like a plantain banana” swathed in smoke. -They approach it cautiously with their gun cameras on, but the UFO -disappears at a huge speed to the west, heading toward Easter Island, -vanishing from all three radar screens. Duration is 5 minutes. (Martin -Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “Antofagasta, -Chile: October 1978,” Caelestia, October 31, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5814

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Event 8351 -(3A0E022C)

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Date: 10/2/1978
-Description: 11:15 a.m. Four students, ages 12–16, from Despatch, -Eastern Cape, South Africa, are hiking in the Groendal Nature Reserve -when they see a silver object on the ground. About 900 feet to the west -of it are two beings in silver suits that seem to glide without walking. -A third being joins them, holding a silver “suitcase,” and they glide -along a fence along a steep incline a short way before vanishing. The -silver object disappears too. Later, three forest workers find 7-inch -oval footprints about one mile from the site. On October 18, three South -African police officers and two trackers visit the encounter site and -find a large area of depressed grass with 8 symmetrical marks around its -perimeter and 4 marks within the oval area. (“South African CE III,” IUR -5, no. 1a (January 1980): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5815

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Event 8352 -(77236910)

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Date: 10/6/1978
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Two witnesses driving west on US Highway 87 -halfway between Capulin and Des Moines, New Mexico, see an octagonal -object several times larger than the moon with light shining through -sections of it. As it passes above their car, it seems to be metallic. -(“The Octagonal Tank,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5816

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Event 8353 -(1EAA07C9)

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Date: 10/7/1978
-Description: A woman is driving with her 13-year-old nephew near San -Cataldo, Sicily, Italy, when one of her tires has a blow-out. She -repairs the tire but cannot start the car again. Above at an altitude of -50 feet, she sees a silver object resembling a plate turned upside down, -about 65 feet in diameter. It emits a strong light, and the bottom has a -transparent door through which she can see three or four shadows passing -behind it. The UFO leaves quickly with a humming sound after 5–10 -minutes. (Maurizio Verga, “La -vague italienne de 1978 (Deuxième Partie),” Lumières dans la Nuit, -no. 210 (December 1981): 32; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle -Interference Reports, Part Two,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sept. 2011): 20; Patrick -Gross, URECAT, November -17, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5817

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Event 8354 -(1BF8C717)

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Date: 10/7/1978
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Two truck drivers on US Highway 224 near Lodi, -Ohio, see a tight formation of pink/red lights flashing on and off -floating toward them to the north. They both stop to get out and look. -All four lights break formation and move off in different directions, -disappearing in seconds. (“Intriguing Ohio NL’s,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July -1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5818

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Event 8355 -(3BFA259F)

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Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 7:00–9:00 a.m. A very small object is seen resting in a -field 300 feet from the Marlett -Sturgell farmhouse near Jenkins, Missouri. For 2 hours it is watched -intermittently by his wife Dora, -son Norman, son-in-law, and two others, all members of the Sturgell -family. At 9:00 a.m., it ascends and moves off to the northwest. The -witnesses then notice a larger, more distant object, wingless, hovering -in the sky. The small object heads directly toward it and either flies -under it or enters into it. It moves away rapidly and disappears. -(“Physical Trace Case in Missouri,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December 1978): -11–13; Donald L. Seneker and George M. Koch, “Missouri -Landing- Trace -Case,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 135 (May 1979): 3–7; Herbert S. -Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer -2004): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5819

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Event 8356 -(88FDD9F5)

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Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 5:11 p.m. A couple in Huntington Park, California, watch a -huge black disc at a high altitude moving toward the Sierra Madre -Mountains in the northeast. (“Who Else Saw This Monstrous Disc?” IUR 4, -no. 1 (July 1979): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5821

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Event 8357 -(5AD99895)

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Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 7:10 p.m. A student takes a photo of a distant daylight -disc from his home, 2 miles east of Anderson, South Carolina. (“UFO -Photo,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5822

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Event 8358 -(6EE1B5A2)

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Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 10:40 p.m. Elfed Williams is driving south on the A5025 -near Penysarn, Anglesey, Wales, when he sees an orange light that passes -overhead and hovers in the southwest. He stops at a friend’s house in -the village and they continue to watch the light, which increases in -size and is still hovering silently at about 200 feet. At first it looks -like two saucers joined at the rims by a black band, but when it begins -approaching the witnesses, it takes on the shape of an orange-hued -triangle. It moves away then shoots off at a fast speed, (Kevin Babbs, -“Expanding -UFO over -Anglesey,” Flying Saucer Review 25, no, 1 (Jan./Feb. 1979): -23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5823

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Event 8359 -(E76452F2)

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Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A Mr. and Mrs. Trantor are driving along the -A580 near Lowton, England, when their headlight beams catch a figure -standing in the grassy strip between the two lanes. It is well over 6 -feet tall and dressed in a silver-foil reflective suit. It is immersed -in orange light. Stunned, they drive past it. (Jenny Randles, “Fake -Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 8–9; -Patrick Gross, URECAT, April -26, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5824

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Event 8360 -(EF68D48E)

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Date: 10/8/1978
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Teenager Franklin Youri takes a photo of an -unusual object behind his home near Lake Urmia, Iran. It appears just -above the line of the roof, and its shape is similar to the May 13 -Iranian photo. (“Interesting Newly -Discovered Photo from Iran,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 7 -(July 1981): 1, 3; “Sheraz, -Iran, October -8, 1978,” Popular Mechanics, July 1998, p. 64)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5820

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Event 8361 -(DD2E1D3D)

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Date: 10/10/1978
-Description: 6:35 a.m. A chemistry professor in Agoura Hills, -California, goes outside to observe Jupiter and sees another bright -object to the south of it. It is moving slowly and soon splits into two -lights, one brighter than the other. They spread apart and move away at -different speeds. (“Another Nocturnal Light That Split Up,” IUR 4, no. 1 -(July 1979): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5825

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Event 8362 -(F6715630)

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Date: 10/10/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A Mrs. Grime and her two sons, 15 and 21, see a -silvery disc ringed by flashing white lights near their home in Leigh, -England. They can see three bumps on its underside. It makes a faint -humming sound as it moves overhead. (Jenny Randles, “Fake Photographs, -Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5826

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Event 8363 -(FFC7C63C)

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Date: 10/20/1978
-Description: Dusk. Kate Chmurny, an archaeologist at Plymouth State -College in New Hampshire, watches a triangular object flying at 30 mph -northward along Interstate 93 at a height of 100 feet above the -Pemigewasset River floodplain in Campton, New Hampshire. It is about 20 -feet wide and completely silent, moving by raising and lowering one -side. The object has a single bright white light on the underside and -rows of red and greenish lights along the edges that reflect against a -metallic surface. (Joseph K. Long, “Letter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 2 (April/May 1983): 5–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5827

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Event 8364 -(B03804F6)

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Date: 10/20/1978
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 324

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Event 8365 -(60171342)

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Date: 10/21/1978
-Description: Cessna pilot Frederick Valentich aerial encounter with -elongated object, plane and pilot disappeared
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bass Strait, Australia
-ID: 325

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Event 8366 -(2FE42CFF)

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Date: 10/21/1978
-Description: Aircraft Accident Investigation Summary Report: Fredrick -Valentich vanished while reporting a UFO playing cat and mouse with his -airplane which was a Cessna 182L. It’s hovering above me… it’s got a -greenlight and sort of metallic (like) it’s all shiny (on) the outside… -it’s hovering and it’s Airplane not an aircraft… (end of -transmission…pilot presumed dead).
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p461-463, B1-F p298)

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Event 8367 -(F340CB9B)

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Date: 10/21/1978
-Description: 7:06 p.m. Australian pilot Frederick -Valentich, 20, -is on a 145-mile training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft over -Bass Strait between Moorabbin, Victoria, and King Island. He radios -Melbourne air traffic control to report that an unidentified aircraft is -following him at 4,500 feet. He is told there is no known traffic at -that level. Valentich can see a large, unknown aircraft that appears to -be illuminated by four bright landing lights. He is unable to confirm -its type but says it has passed about 1,000 feet overhead and is moving -at high speed. Then he says the aircraft is approaching him from the -east, thinking that the other pilot might be purposely toying with him. -The other aircraft is “orbiting” above him. It has a shiny metal surface -and a green light on it. Then he begins experiencing engine problems. -Asked to identify the aircraft, Valentich radios, “It’s not an -aircraft.” His transmission is then interrupted by unidentified noise -described as being “metallic, scraping sounds” before all contact is -lost. A sea and air search is undertaken that includes oceangoing ship -traffic, an RAAF Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft, plus eight civilian -aircraft. The search encompasses more than 1,000 square miles. Search -efforts cease on October 25 without result. A Department of Transport -investigation into the disappearance is unable to determine the cause, -but it is “presumed fatal” for Valentich. In 1983, an engine cowl flap -is found washed ashore on Flinders Island. In July 1983, the Bureau of -Air Safety Investigation asks the Royal Australian Navy Research -Laboratory about the likelihood that the cowl flap might have traveled -to its final position from the area where the aircraft disappeared. The -bureau notes that “the part has been identified as having come from a -Cessna 182 aircraft between a certain range of serial numbers.” which -includes Valentich’s aircraft. At least 15 other UFOs are reported -between midday and 9:00 p.m., six in Victoria, one on King Island, and -others further away. Roy Manifold, vacationing at Crayfish Bay, Cape -Otway, Victoria, inadvertently takes two photos of peculiar black -objects just 20 minutes before Valentich reported his sighting. -(Wikipedia, “Disappearance -of Frederick Valentich”; -“Fred Valentich: The Missing Australian Pilot,” IUR 3, no. 12 (December -1978): 2–10; Bill Chalker, “The -Missing Cessna and the UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 (March -1979): 3–5; Bill Chalker, “Vanished? -The Valentich Affair Re-examined,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 2 -(December 1984): 6–12; Richard F. Haines, Melbourne -Episode: Case Study of a Missing Pilot, L.D.A. -Press, 1987; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, -“Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 31–32; Good Above, pp. -175–182, 461–463; -ClearIntent, pp. 93–96; -UFOEv II 138–140; Kean, pp. 54–58; -Richard F. Haines and Paul Norman, “Valentich -Disappearance: New Evidence and a New Conclusion,” Journal of -Scientific Exploration 14, no. 1 (2000): 19–33; Clark III -1208–1212)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5828

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Event 8368 -(DB9D665E)

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Date: 10/23/1978
-Description: 6:30–8:30 p.m. Some 200 people involved in 67 sighting -reports watch a lighted delta-shaped UFO over Leicestershire, England. -(“Throwing -a Light on UFO,” Leicester (UK) Mercury, December 2, 1985, via UFO -Newsclipping Service, no. 199 (February 1986): 12; Marler 103, -120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5829

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Event 8369 -(D4FBA35B)

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Date: 10/23/1978
-Description: 10:04 p.m. Chinese Air Force pilots are attending an -outdoor film screening at Lintao Air Base, Gansu province, China, when -an elongated object with two searchlights and a glowing tail appears in -the sky moving to the west. Chinese Air Force pilot Zhou Qingtong says -it is large and close to the ground. They watch it for 2–3 minutes as it -circles above them. A report in the CIA files indicates it is flying at -20,000 feet, varying from witness reports. (“UFO -Report from China,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 (February -1981): 5; “A -Close Encounter -with Unpleasant Consequences,” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 4 (March -1983): 25; Good Above, pp. 213–214; -Wendelle Stevens and Paul Dong, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo -Archives, 1983, pp. 119–120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5830

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Event 8370 -(B07DD417)

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Date: 10/25/1978
-Description: The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act creates a -“secret federal court” (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) for -issuing wiretap warrants in national security cases. This is in response -to findings from the Watergate break-in, which allegedly uncovers a -history of presidential operations that has used surveillance on -domestic and foreign political organizations. (Wikipedia, “Foreign -Intelligence Surveillance Act”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5832

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Event 8371 -(5970654D)

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Date: 10/25/1978
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Giuseppe di Giovanni, a 51-year-old farmer, is in -search of a stray cow in the hills of San Donato di Tagliacozzo, -Abruzzo, Italy, when he comes to an open field and spots a large -light-brown object shaped like a shoeshine box on the ground. Lighted -windows surround the craft. He approaches to within 3 feet and sees 6–7 -humanoid beings inside. They are small and humanlike, both male and -female. The women are blonde and have beautiful pink skin. They smile at -him. The men are uglier, have darker skin, and appear elderly. They -ignore him. Frightened, he runs behind a bush. When he looks out again, -the object is gone. (“UFO Flap 1978: Italian Style,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 -(Sept./Oct. 1979): 17–18; 1Pinotti 238–239)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5831

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Event 8372 -(F929A8AC)

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Date: 10/26/1978
-Description: Night. RCMP Constable James Blackwood receives a report -about a UFO hovering above Random Island across from Clarenville, -Newfoundland. He heads down to the waterfront and sees an object about -200 feet above the sound. He observes it for nearly two hours with -binoculars and a high-powered scope. It is soundless, oval, and has a -fin on its tail. When Blackwood flashes the lightbar on his cruiser, the -object mimics it by flashing some lights of its own. (“ICYMI: -Story of UFO Sighting in Newfoundland Town Is in Mint Condition,” -Saltwire, October 8, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5833

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Event 8373 -(E76BA73B)

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Date: 10/28/1978
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Joyce Blackburn is putting out milk bottles on -the step of her bungalow on the south side of Warrington, England. She -sees a strange light hovering above the Fiddler’s Ferry Power Station. -Her husband and two children also watch the UFO until it starts -pulsating and moving away. Its glow is so bright that their eyes hurt in -looking at it through binoculars. It vanishes, then reappears heading -toward them at an angle. They can see it is a disc with a dome on top, -tilted slightly toward them. As it passes over their heads, they hear a -faint humming noise and can see three orange bumps in a triangular -formation on its underside. It moves away to the northeast toward -another power station. Total duration is 7 minutes. (Jenny Randles, -“Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): -10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5834

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Event 8374 -(17B55FEB)

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Date: 10/29/1978
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Janet Fletcher is stopped at a traffic light in -Woolston, England, when she gets static on her radio for a few seconds. -She sees a bell-shaped object to the east hovering above a rail line. It -has a bright light on top and rings of light circling the base, which -has three glowing inset lights or bumps. After 30 seconds, it tilts at -an angle and begins to move away, apparently descending. She moves -forward when the light changes, but she does not see it again. (Jenny -Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1986): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5835

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Event 8375 -(9C5D1A97)

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Date: 10/30/1978
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Two teenagers see a triangular UFO over a field -in Sherman, Texas. The object shoots a blue light at the witnesses, -temporarily blinding them. (“Sherman -Youth ‘Sights’ UFO,” Denison (Tex.) Herald, October 31, 1978, via -UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 114 (January 1979): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5836

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Event 8376 -(3923FFD0)

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Date: 10/30/1978
-Description: Pilots and air traffic controllers saw shiny objects, one -sped away, circled, maneuvered, descended in distance
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Tobalaba Airfield, Santiago, Chile
-ID: 326

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Event 8377 -(220340B2)

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Date: 11/1978
-Description: A new civilian UFO “initiative group” holds its inaugural -seminar at Moscow University in Russia. It is directed by former navy -officer and ufologist Vladimir -G. Azhazha with the assistance of Nikita A. Schnee. Launched under -the auspices of the A. S. Popov Scientific and Technical Society for -Radio, Electronics, and Television, the group calls itself BPVTS for -short. Members include Lev -M. Gindilis of the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute in Moscow, -Vice Admiral M. M. Krylov, space technician Y. G. Nazarov, and cosmonaut -Yevgeny -Khrunov. At -the seminar, some individuals storm into the auditorium and disrupt the -meeting; university officials ask the group to leave. Schnee claims that -Felix -Ziegel is responsible for the disruption in order to thwart the -activities of civilian researchers. (Nikita A. Schnee, “Ufology -in the USSR,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 1 (June 1981): -8–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5837

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Event 8378 -(F9FBAB5C)

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Date: 11/1/1978
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Jenny -Randles’s father is getting static on his VHF radio channel at their -home in Irlam, Greater Manchester, England. Shortly afterward, they both -hear a loud roar. She looks out the window and sees a row of four white -lights that drift slowly past from west to east. An hour later, Randles -goes outside and talks to 9 children who have been playing outside. They -have seen the object too. It is diamond shaped and framed by lights that -do not flash. Some report three lights or bumps on the underside. (Jenny -Randles, “Fake Photographs, Real Sightings,” IUR 11, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1986): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5839

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Event 8379 -(4FCB88A1)

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Date: 11/1/1978
-Description: The Air Force decides to produce an F-117A stealth fighter -based on the mostly successful tests of Have Blue aircraft at Tonopah -Test Range in Nevada. The contract goes to Lockheed’s Skunk Works. (“Lockheed -F- 117 -Nighthawk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5838

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Event 8380 -(EC72B915)

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Date: 11/7/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A witness traveling west on US Highway 20 near -South Bend, Indiana, notices a bright light in the sky, much larger than -a star. Suddenly it moves directly to the south of her location at a -fast rate of speed. As it approached, it disappears and she hears a -tremendous roar that shakes the ground. Suddenly, an object banks -directly in front of her car about 90 feet away and no more than 20 feet -above the ground, making a slow, deliberate turn, then hovering or -moving slowly and silently in front of her, then passing behind her car. -It is ringed with small windows and has alternating and flashing blue -and red lights near each window. She turns around but loses sight of it. -(“Recently -Received Sighting Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 4 -(April 1981): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5840

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Event 8381 -(CF5ECA52)

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Date: 11/8/1978
-Description: 5:30 p.m. While fishing in the Adriatic Sea off San -Benedetto del Tronto, Marche, Italy, on board the Exodus, three -fishermen—Flaviano Mattiucci, Gennaro Mattiucci, and Dino Focaracci—see, -at low altitude and for a few seconds, a red and yellow spherical light. -After emerging from the sea, it seems to return into it, after rising -and falling from the sky. About one hour later, the radar of another -fishing boat, the Andrea Padre, reports a moving submerged object, which -appears to follow the vessel. (NICAP, “Ship -Tracks Submerged Object / Boat Observes -Light”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5841

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Event 8382 -(10E9658B)

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Date: 11/9/1978
-Alternate date: 11/10/1978
-Description: A cylinder-shaped UFO “bigger than a jumbo jet” with a -large dome and flashing lights appears over the northern oil fields of -the Kuwaiti Oil Company at Umm Al-Aish, Kuwait, causing the pumping -station to automatically shut down. It lands and remains on the ground -for seven minutes. When the UFO vanishes, the pump starts working again. -There are seven witnesses, one of them an American. This and other -sightings compel the government of Kuwait to appoint a committee of the -Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research to investigate the reports. -(NICAP, “Major -UFO/E-M Incidents over Kuwait”; “UFOs -over Kuwait,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7 (January 1979): 1; “Kuwaiti -Landing,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 6; ClearIntent, p. 90; -Clark III 662)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5843

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Event 8383 -(69189090)

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Date: 11/9/1978
-Description: The CIA contacts the NSA with a referral of 15 UFO -documents for review for possible declassification through the GSW -lawsuit. (ClearIntent, p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5842

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Event 8384 -(268C6B7D)

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Date: 11/9/1978
-Description: Project Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper, in -a letter to the U.N., states that UFOs are interplanetary vehicles and -crewed by aliens. He also describes seeing 100’s of UFO’s over Europe -during 1951.
-Type: letter
-Reference: link
-Location: New York City

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Event 8385 -(CA080653)

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Date: 11/9/1978
-Description: Technicians observed landing of discshaped object in oil -field, E-M effects on oil pumps and communications
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kuwait
-ID: 327

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Event 8386 -(7ADC0CD4)

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Date: 11/13/1978
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Elizabeth McKibben, a British nurse at the Inuit -settlement of Black Tickle, Labrador, sees a red-orange light to the -west hanging motionless at 1,000 feet above some houses for 30 minutes. -A second light appears suddenly and moves underneath the first, and both -begin a slow descent and disappear. Several young students also see the -object and make drawings of it. A fire had broken out 2 miles west on -the tundra about 3 hours before the sighting, apparently caused by -“fireballs” hitting the ground. Teacher Stephen MacDonald goes to help -put out the fires at Martins Pond, where the tundra is burning in -patches [methane outgassing?]. (“Canadian Trace?” IUR 5, no. 1a (January -1980): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5844

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Event 8387 -(FFF0E1F5)

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Date: 11/15/1978
-Description: Four military aircraft are flying over eastern Washington -State when an unknown object is detected on radar at 13,000 feet some 40 -miles away. One of the jets is ordered to approach the object. The pilot -gets a visual confirmation but cannot lock on with his in-flight radar. -The interceptor comes within 8 miles of the object but is forced to turn -away by low fuel. (MUFON UFO Journal, August 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5845

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Event 8388 -(897005AD)

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Date: 11/20/1978
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A female medical technician, her sister, -daughter, and two housemaids experience a power failure in their home in -a northern suburb of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. They see a -bright light in the sky that shoots out bright blue rays. It moves off -behind a hill, and two small lights, one yellow, the other reddish, -approach from the same hill. The witnesses run upstairs and watch from a -window. The lights stop next to a road, the Avenida de los Martires, as -a car comes along and illuminates them with its headlights. The women -now see that the lights are attached to the abdomens of two flying -entities, which appear to be cone-shaped, twice as tall as a -normal-sized man, and wearing white translucent sheets. Three -silhouettes cross the car’s headlights, and all the lights (including -the car’s) go out. The witnesses hear a metallic noise like a garage -door. Then the two lights turn on again and fly off. The power in the -house returns. The episode lasts 45 minutes. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, -no. 2 (August 1979): 2; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December -3, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5846

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Event 8389 -(3EBC21AA)

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Date: 11/21/1978
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A UFO appears over a Kuwaiti oilfield at -Al-Sabriyah near the Iraqi border. An employee of the company takes -photos of it as it passes a water tower and then hovers over the site -for 30 minutes. Long- distance communications cease functioning. The -internal phone system works, however, and workers are able to alert -their boss, who steps outside and sees the object. (“UFOs -over Kuwait,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7 (January 1979): 1, 3; “Kuwaiti -Landing,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 6; Clark III 663)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5847

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Event 8390 -(110DB1A8)

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Date: 11/21/1978
-Description: Two airliner crews encountered disc with dome, structural -features, emitting light beams
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Newfoundland
-ID: 328

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Event 8391 -(970AB53A)

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Date: 11/22/1978
-Description: 5:30 p.m. Elsie Oakensen is driving home to Church Stowe, -Northamptonshire, England, on the A5 when she passes beneath a hovering -object shaped like a dumbbell with red and green lights. As she turns -onto Main Street, her foot is flat on the accelerator but there is no -sound from her engine and her car coasts to a halt. Her car lights fail -as circles of light dance around the road, illuminating a nearby -farmyard. The car restarts, but she only drives about 300 feet when it -stops again. She claims the “natural light” disappears and she is -enveloped in pure darkness. Then suddenly a white circle of light -approximately 3 feet in diameter shines on the road, as if someone has -pressed on a switch, the normal light returns, and she drives the car -normally. She estimates she has about 15 minutes of missing time. Later, -at 7:10 p.m., she feels a tightening sensation around her forehead, one -that she remembers having felt just prior to the encounter. At 7:20 -p.m., four young women driving through the nearby village of Preston -Capes see red and green lights and beams shooting out from clouds as -their car engine temporarily loses power. After trying hypnosis with -minimal results, Oakensen tries creative visualization at the scene and -recovers some abduction memories. (Patrick Gross, URECAT, November -13, 2011; Jenny Randles, “Much More Than Marsh Gas,” Fortean Times 311 -(March 2014): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5848

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Event 8392 -(CA26B548)

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Date: 11/24/1978
-Description: 11:45 a.m. Angelo d’Ambros, 61, is out gathering firewood -in a copse near Gallio, Vicenza, Italy, when he comes across two -entities just a few feet away from him. One is about 4 feet tall, the -other about 8 inches shorter. They are suspended in the air about a foot -off the ground. They are extremely thin and have a yellowish skin that -is stretched tightly over their bones. Their heads are bald, and at the -sides are enormous ears that rise vertically and end in points. Their -eyes are large and white, without eyelids. Their large noses extend down -to the lower lip of a sizable mouth from which extend two tusks. They -wear tight-fitting coveralls. The smaller one starts moving back and -forth from right to left in very quick jerks. Its motion causes a stir -in the air, and vegetation rustles as the tips of its ears touch the -lower branches of nearby trees. Incomprehensible grumblings come from -the mouth of the shorter entity. The taller being reaches one of its -long hands to take away d’Ambros’s pruning knife. D’Ambros holds on to -it tightly, but he feels a strong electric shock. He grabs a large -branch and takes a swipe at them as they take flight. D’Ambros runs -after them, and he watches them make for a domed UFO resting in a -clearing 100 feet away on four landing pods. The entities climb aboard, -and the object takes off horizontally at a dizzying speed in absolute -silence and disappears behind high fir trees. The next day he returns to -the clearing and finds a nearly circular area about 12 feet in diameter -in which the grass appears black, pressed, and whirled in a -counterclockwise direction. D’Ambros discovers two U-shaped traces about -8 inches long. (“Two Humanoids in Gallio,” IUR 8, no. 3 (May/June 1983): -8–11; Antonio Chiumiento, “Gallio: -Faccia a faccia con -due ufonauti,” Notiziario UFO 3, no. 4/5 (April/May 1980): 4–9; -Antonio Chiumiento, “Umanoidi -a Gallio, Seconda -Parte,” Notiziario UFO 16, no. 99 (May/Dec. 1981): 16–19; 1Pinotti -241–250)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5849

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Event 8393 -(7BE8463B)

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Date: 11/27/1978
-Description: Also December 8, 1978. UN committee meetings on UFOs. -Speakers included J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, Stanton Friedman, -Lawrence J. Coyne.
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New York, NY
-ID: 329

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Event 8394 -(90550695)

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Date: 11/27/1978
-Description: J. -Allen Hynek, Jacques -Vallée, Stanton -T. Friedman, Lawrence J. Coyne, and Grenada Ambassador at Large -Wellington Friday speak before the UN Special Political Committee. -Grenada seeks to interest the UN in a three-member panel to initiate a -formal UFO study program, but its efforts are unavailing. (Clark III -1190; J. Allen Hynek, “Ufologists and the United Nations: A Novel Moment -in the History of UFO Research,” IUR 3, no. 10/11 (Oct./Nov. 1978): -3–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5850

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Event 8395 -(622D135B)

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Date: 12/1978
-Description: Alan N. Hall, a retired CIA employee, officially becomes -president of NICAP among baseless charges that a sinister CIA conspiracy -has undermined the organization. He operates out of his home without -access to the files. (“To -Our Readers,” UFO Investigator, April 1979, p. 3; Richard H. Hall, -“The -Quest for the Truth about UFOs: A Personal -Perspective on the Role of NICAP,” in 1994 MUFON UFO Symposium -Proceedings, MUFON, 1994, pp. 185–201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5851

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Event 8396 -(6B21D34D)

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Date: End of 1978
-Description: UFO research at the USSR Academy of Sciences came under the -umbrella of STEKA-AN. UFO acronym was banned until 1989, instead -“Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena” was the sanctioned acronym.
-Type: book reference
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 8397 -(F5F642CB)

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Date: 12/1/1978
-Description: President Jimmy -Carter establishes the Information Security Oversight Office through -Executive Order 12065, “National Security Information.” The office is -under the jurisdiction of the National Archives and Records -Administration, and its mission is to provide for an informed American -public by ensuring that the minimum information necessary to the -interest of national security is classified and that information is -declassified as soon as it no longer requires protection. (Wikipedia, -“Information -Security Oversight Office”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5852

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Event 8398 -(5E87B5BE)

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Date: 12/2/1978
-Description: A civil servant takes a photo of a UFO as he is walking -along a beach in Kuwait. It shows a domed disc with a self-luminous tube -protruding from the bottom. Other witnesses also see the UFO. (“UFOs -over Kuwait,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 7 (January 1979): 3; Clark III -663)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5853

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Event 8399 -(04EF199D)

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Date: 12/4/1978
-Description: The CIA passes on three other UFO documents to the NSA for -declassification review. (ClearIntent, p. -181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5854

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Event 8400 -(4DDD114C)

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Date: 12/6/1978
-Description: 11:30 p.m. While patrolling at Marzano, near Torriglia, a -village northeast of Genoa, Italy, 26-year-old night watchman Piero -Fortunato Zanfretta notices four lights moving in a courtyard. He gets -out of his car holding his pistol and flashlight, moving cautiously -along a house wall. Something pushes him forward and he falls. When he -gets up, his head hits something and he points his flashlight upward to -see a 6-foot-tall creature with an ugly face. Terrified, he runs to the -car and is blinded by a yellow, triangle-shaped object taking off from -behind the house. He calls for help on the radio. When his colleagues -arrive at 1:00 a.m., they find him lying in a nearby lawn in a confused -state of mind. On December 23, Zanfretta is hypnotized by a medical -doctor. An abduction scenario emerges in which he is taken to a bright -room by giant entities who put a hot and painful helmet on his head. The -humanoids are green-skinned and have yellow triangular eyes, red veins -on their heads, pointed ears, and rounded fingers. Further abductions -and memories emerge over time, finally ceasing in 1980. (“UFO Flap 1978: -Italian Style, Part Two, December,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979): 13–15; -Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions -in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug.1989): 15–16; Rino Di Stefano, The -Zanfretta Case: Chronicle of an Incredible True Story, The Author, -2014; Jason Charbonneau, “Zanfretta -Abductions, 1978–1981,” Think Anomalous, May 6, 2017; 1Pinotti -253–258)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5855

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Event 8401 -(27DBAFB0)

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Date: 12/8/1978
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two young men walking along a mountain slope -near Milanere, Torino, Italy, see a blue-white light among the trees. -One of them walks toward it, but he disappears. A few minutes later the -light takes off into the sky. The other man goes for help and a group of -people comes to search for the missing man. He is found in a different -direction, unconscious, cold, and weak. Both witnesses suffer from -conjunctivitis for several days. The one who vanished has a strange scar -on his leg. He only remembers approaching a pear-shaped light when he -sees 3–4 human shapes with pumpkinlike heads silhouetted against the -light. He becomes paralyzed and can vaguely remember being touched and -raised. (Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, -“Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug.1989): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5857

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Event 8402 -(DA65D1C0)

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Date: 12/8/1978
-Description: The United Nations meetings on UFOs conclude, resulting in -UN Decision 33/426 relating to the “establishment of an agency or a -department of the United Nations for undertaking, coordinating, and -disseminating the results of research into unidentified flying objects -and related phenomena.” Beyond newspaper publicity, the meetings have no -impact and no other nation backs Grenada. (“Grenada -UFO Item,” WikiLeaks, [telegram], December 8, 1978)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5856

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Event 8403 -(5CEC27A4)

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Date: 12/10/1978
-Description: The weekly Parade magazine carries a story by Michael -Satchell summarizing the UFO events at Loring, Malmstrom, Wurtsmith, and -other Northern Tier bases. (Michael Satchell, “UFO’s vs. USAF: -Amazing (But True) Encounters,” Parade magazine, December 10, 1978, -pp. 8–11; ClearIntent, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5858

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Event 8404 -(90D3F31F)

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Date: 12/14/1978
-Description: As a result of the Ground Saucer Watch lawsuit, the CIA -releases some 340 of its own UFO-related documents, 900 pages in all. -The letter, signed by CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator George -Owens, states that 57 documents are being withheld for national security -purposes. Also, 196 other documents originating from other agencies are -forwarded to them for response to GSW. The CIA had faced a deadline of -December 1977 to produce the documents but were granted an extension by -US District Court Judge John -H. Pratt. (“The -GSW vs. CIA Lawsuit,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 20–22; Good -Above, pp. 327–328)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5859

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Event 8405 -(282E7C09)

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Date: 12/16/1978
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Radar detects a UFO at 10,000 feet in the region -around Calama, Chile. Three F-5Es are sent from Antofagasta to intercept -it and they see a large triangular object some 50 times the size of -their planes. (“Select Triangular UFO Cases,” Bob Pratt Files)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5860

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Event 8406 -(53A64E05)

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Date: 12/20/1978
-Description: US Rep. Samuel -S. Stratton (D-N.Y.) expresses concern to his Armed Services -Investigations Subcommittee about the “alleged ability of unknown -aircraft to penetrate airspace and over above SAC bases, their weapons -storage areas, missile sites, and launch control facilities, and the -inability of Air Force equipment and personnel to intercept and identify -such aircraft.” Stratton sends a letter to USAF Maj. Gen. Charles -C. Blanton requesting -incident reports. (ClearIntent, p. 54)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5861

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Event 8407 -(33BCA5BB)

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Date: 12/21/1978
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Capt. John -B. Randle is flying an Argosy cargo plane from Blenheim to -Christchurch, New Zealand, when he notices white lights in the sky above -the mouth of the Clarence River at Waipapa Bay. He contacts Wellington -Air Traffic Control, which confirms that it has five oscillating objects -on its scopes. The lights are also seen on the ground. (“The New Zealand -UFO Films, Part I,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 3; Clark III 799)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5862

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Event 8408 -(C9F318A1)

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Date: 12/21/1978
-Description: Also December 22 and 31, 1978. New Zealand radar-visual and -photo cases.
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New Zealand
-ID: 330

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Event 8409 -(EFB916B5)

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Date: 12/21/1978
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Wellington Air Traffic Control contacts -Capt. Vern Powell, pilot of a freight aircraft about to make the -Blenheim to Christchurch run, New Zealand, alerting him to the position -of the objects, which have stayed in position. He ascends to 7,500 feet -and sees one white light, tinged with red, through the clouds. It -follows Powell’s plane, and Wellington radar tracks it for 12 miles -before it disappears. As they near Christchurch Airport, Powell and his -copilot Ian Pirie notice a return on their onboard radar. By the next -sweep it has moved one mile closer, moving at about 8,000 mph. They -cannot confirm anything visually, but the radar indicates the object has -streaked off to the left and disappears. Then Powell and Pirie see a -flashing light in front of them. (“The New Zealand UFO Films, Part I,” -IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 3–4; Clark III 799)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5863

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Event 8410 -(9E3EAA4C)

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Date: 12/22/1978
-Description: Peter Gersten of -CAUS files a request with the NSA for copies of the 18 UFO-related -documents the CIA has referred to it. NSA’s Chief of Policy Roy R. -Banner later declines their release on the basis of national security. -(ClearIntent, p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5864

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Event 8411 -(13177B48)

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Date: 12/24/1978
-Description: 6:50 p.m. Benito Franchi, 45, is working in the power -station at Pietracamela, Terama, Italy, in a room with two AC -generators, one connected to power and the other disconnected, when he -suddenly feels ill and faint. The working generator’s dial hands -register an overload on the network, and the dial hands on the -disconnected generator are also waving. This continues for about one -minute, leaving the dials badly out of calibration. Franchi feels -paralyzed and falls to the ground. Suddenly everything stops, and out of -the window he sees three or four bright flashes coming from a ball of -brilliant red light that hurts his eyes. The object takes off and -disappears to the southwest. Franchi suffers from severe conjunctivitis, -and the generator dials must be calibrated again. Shortly afterward, a -large luminous UFO is seen hovering above the Gran Sasso massif to the -southwest. (1Pinotti 259)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5865

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Event 8412 -(67DFF708)

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Date: 12/30/1978
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Erwin Vitelli sees a steely-blue object hovering -in the southern sky above Zuchwil, Solothurn, Switzerland. It appears in -the shape of three globes merging with one another, each one with a -light source directed downward. The object is visible for about one -minute. (“Early -Morning, Late December, Swiss Sighting,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1 (Feb./March 1983): 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5866

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Event 8413 -(24C0B775)

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Date: 12/31/1978
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Hundreds of people in the United Kingdom see a -bright light with a long trail behind it streak across the heavens from -northwest to southeast. RAF Fylingdales in the North York Moors, -England, quickly identifies it as the reentry of a booster rocket that -launched a Russian satellite, Kosmos 1068, into orbit on December 26. -Jenny Randles examines reports of the reentry, which in general -accurately reflect the event, and compares them to UFO reports, -concluding that it is unlikely that all UFOs are IFOs in various degrees -of exaggeration. (Jenny Randles, “The Case Against the IFO,” IUR 10, no. -1 (Jan./Feb. 1985): 4–6; Jenny Randles, “Jenny Randles Replies,” IUR 10, -no. 3 (May/June 1985): 8–9, 15; UFOFiles2, pp. 98–99; -Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 -(Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5869

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Event 8414 -(DDCFF86A)

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Date: 12/31/1978
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Bobby Hines wakes up at her home in Demopolis, -Alabama, because her dogs are barking outside. She sees a large, bright -object hovering above the trees 1,800 feet from the house and wakes her -husband. The UFO is the size of a small house and triangular in shape. -It approaches the witnesses, moving in a zigzag pattern and hovering 50 -feet off the ground for 30 minutes. Two police officers respond to their -call and watch the UFO as well, which finally moves off to the southeast -making a funny noise. (Marler 103–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5868

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Event 8415 -(4D7BF47F)

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Date: 12/31/1978
-Description: 12:10 a.m. Quentin -Fogarty, a -reporter for Melbourne’s 0/10 Network assigned to do a story on the Vern -Powell sighting 10 days earlier, has chartered an Argosy cargo plane, -piloted by Capt. William Startup and First Officer Robert Guard. While -flying from Wellington to Christchurch, New Zealand, with David Crockett -and his wife Ngaire as camera crew over the Cook Strait near the site of -the Powell sighting, Startup and Guard see 6–7 bright, pulsating lights -like Chinese lanterns above the sea off Kaikoura. They fade and -disappear, then return to view. Crockett starts filming. Wellington is -tracking a target a mile behind the aircraft that stays on the screen -for about one minute without moving. Another, stronger target appears to -the right of the plane. Fogarty manages to crack, “Let’s hope they’re -friendly!” Twice, Startup vainly attempts a 360° turn to get a glimpse -of the object. After landing at Christchurch, Startup invites the -passengers to accompany him back to Blenheim. Fogarty, Crockett, and -another journalist, Dennis Grant, agree to do so. The plane flies out at -2:15 a.m., and within 2 minutes aircraft radar picks up a target 37 -miles away. Startup turns toward it, but it moves to the right and -vanishes almost immediately. Other radars pick up targets -intermittently. The object returns in view of the plane, moving toward -it, then drops out of sight to the right. Afterward, Fogarty notices a -strange light that seems to be coming from the cargo hold. Two pulsating -white lights soon appear on the port side of the plane. One settles into -a rolling, turning pattern and falls at an incredible speed. This -sequence Crockett captures on film. Bruce Maccabee spends -10 days in New Zealand and Australia interviewing witnesses and -analyzing the film, which he concludes does not have any mundane -explanation. (Wikipedia, “Kaikoura -lights”; “The New Zealand UFO Films, Part I,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July -1979): 4–8; “The New Zealand Film Analysis, Part II,” IUR 4, no. 2 -(August 1979): 3–6); Story, pp. 392–395; -W. C. Chalker, “A -Re-Viewing of the Great Nocturnal Light,” Flying Saucer Review 26, -no. 1 (June 1980): 12–18 Quentin Fogarty, Let’s Hope They’re Friendly! -Angus and Robertson, 1983; Bruce Maccabee, “Analysis -and Discussion of the Images of a Cluster of Periodically Flashing -Lights off the Coast -of New Zealand,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 1, no. 2 (1987): -149–190, slightly revised in -January 2002; Bruce Maccabee, “Atmosphere -or UFO? A Response to the 1997 SSE Review Panel Report,” Journal of -Scientific Exploration 13, no. 3 (1999): 431–443; Clark III 799–801; “How -the 40-Year-Old Mystery of a UFO in New -Zealand Lives On,” News.com.au, December 19, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5867

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- Event 8416 (7D1D0616)

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Date: 1979
-Description: The Argentine Air Force creates another group to study UFOs -within the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales. It lasts until -1987. (Milton W. Hourcade, “Argentina: -UFO Declassification,” UAPSG–GEFAI, July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5873

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Event 8417 -(515A7F2A)

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Date: 1979
-Description: The Uruguayan Air Force creates CRIDOVNI, a special -commission to investigate all UFO sightings within the country. It -includes freelance ufologists but seems to have disbanded in the -mid-1980s. (Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, -Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5874

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Event 8418 -(92FBBF56)

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Date: 1979
-Description: The English-language Sri Lanka UFO Register begins -publication in Weligama, Sri Lanka, edited by Ananda L. Sirisena. It -continues through 1988. (Sri -Lanka UFO Register, no. 2 (Oct./Dec. 1979))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5875

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Event 8419 -(2F532048)

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Date: 1979
-Description: Jacques Bonabot founds the Studiegroep voor Vreemde -Luchtverschijnselen in Antwerp, Belgium, as the Flemish counterpart to -the Groupement pour l’Étude des Sciences d’Avant-Garde in Bruges. It -publishes SVL Tijdschrift from January 1982 to October 1987. (SVL -Tijdschrift 1, no. 1 (January 1982))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5871

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Event 8420 -(8665EDA4)

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Date: 1979
-Description: British science fiction author David -Langford publishes an allegedly nonfiction novelette, An Account of -a Meeting with Denizens of Another World, 1871. It is an account of a -UFO encounter, as experienced by a man in Buckinghamshire, England; in -its framing story Langford claims to have found the manuscript in an old -desk (the story’s narrator, William -Robert Loosley, is a genuine ancestor of Langford’s wife). But no -ufologists take it seriously. (David Langford, An Account of a Meeting -with Denizens of Another World, 1871, David and Charles, 1979; Clark III -599–600)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5870

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Event 8421 -(ED6D6FF6)

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Date: 1979
-Description: Patrick Geoffroy founds the Association Dijonnaise de -Recherches Ufologiques et Parapsychologiques in Ruffey-lès-Echirey -(later in Quetigny), Côte-d’Or, France. It begins publishing Vimana 21, -a journal that continues until early 1989. (Vimana -21, no. 1 (1979))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5872

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Event 8422 -(BCF2DEF9)

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Date: 1979
-Description: Ufologist Paul Bennewitz, President and owner of Thunder -Scientific Company in Albuquerque, NM, lives next to the Manzano Weapons -Storage Area, near Sandia Base. He’s also an investigator for APRO -(Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization), and others see strange lights -in the night sky over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque.
-Type: letter
-Reference: link
-Location: Albuquerque, NM

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Event 8423 -(7E7AAB48)

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Date: 1/1979
-Description: Axel -Ertelt begins publishing Mysteria, a journal of UFO and ancient -astronaut information, in Halver, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany. It -continues through at least April 1987. (Mysteria, -no. 1 (1979))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5877

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Event 8424 -(B7928E38)

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Date: 1/1979
-Description: In an article in Just Cause, researcher Todd -Zechel claims that Keyhoe’s -National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena has long been -riddled with CIA-friendly or covert board members and staff, among them -Joseph -Bryan III, Karl -T. Pflock, Stuart -Nixon, John Acuff, and Roscoe -Hillenkoetter. Because -of NICAP’s current acute financial crisis, he concludes that if the CIA -had wanted to “destroy the leading anti-secrecy organization of the -1960s, they couldn’t have done a better job.” Richard -H. Hall disputes this analysis. (Todd Zechel, “NI-CIA-AP -or NICAP?” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 133 (Jan./Feb. 1979): 6–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5876

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Event 8425 -(DD112BE3)

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Date: 1/1/1979
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Former USAF UFO spokesman Albert -M. Chop and his wife and daughter watch a triangular UFO moving -slowly eastward over the mountains southeast of Palm Desert, California. -It is about 10 times as bright as the background stars. It is in sight -for about 45 minutes, by which time it has become a small, distant light -in the eastern sky. (Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, -p. 61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5879

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Event 8426 -(3F02639F)

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Date: early 1/1979
-Description: About 6:00 p.m. A1C John W. Mills III is with a second -lieutenant conducting a below-ground azimuth alignment procedure at the -Ellsworth AFB Delta-3 missile site southwest of Cottonwood, South -Dakota, when the security guard bangs on the ladder and tells them to -come up. Going topside, they hear a loud, low-frequency hum permeating -the launch facility. The guard leads them out of the gate where they see -a dark object with straight edges in the sky. It seems to be shaped like -a parallelogram, but they can’t tell how high it is. The guard is upset, -but the other two men are oddly calm, even though they are not supposed -to be outside the gate, and they return to the missile and descend the -ladder to continue the alignment. Then the lights go off, the truck -engine stops running, the radio goes out, and the missile site goes off -alert. The hum is gone, but they can still see the dark object. Some 10 -minutes later the lights come back on and they notice the object is -gone. Targeting teams from two other launch sites report similar -experiences. (Nukes 377–387)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5878

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Event 8427 -(4FBFA25E)

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Date: 1/3/1979
-Description: Dog barked, mother and child saw craft on ground, humanoid -encounter
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mindalore, South Africa
-ID: 332

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Event 8428 -(33BF02FE)

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Date: 1/3/1979
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 331

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Event 8429 -(07C764D0)

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Date: 1/4/1979
-Description: Just after 12:00 midnight. Meagen Quezet and her son André -go looking for their dog that has just run barking away from their home -in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa. Driving along a remote country -road, they find the dog standing 60 feet away from a lead-colored, -egg-shaped object with landing gear. Five or six dark- skinned entities -are standing in front, wearing white or pink suits and shoes. One with a -beard bows to Quezet and says something unintelligible. André runs to -get his father, whereupon the beings enter the craft, which takes off -making a purring sound. Quezet undergoes hypnotic regression by Bernard -Levinson on June 21, where she remembers the “leader” cajoling her -to come on board, which she does with her son, seeing lights, panels, -chairs, and a table. They jump out again, protesting that they can’t go. -(“Another South African CE III,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): -7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5880

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Event 8430 -(E67A8823)

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Date: 1/5/1979
-Description: Three glowing, red triangular objects confronted car, -forward motion impeded, physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Auburn, MA
-ID: 333

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Event 8431 -(CD02F5DD)

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Date: 1/5/1979
-Description: 6:20 p.m. Anmarie Emery is driving near Auburn, -Massachusetts, when she notices three, red-glowing, triangular objects -flying over woods to her left. As she rounds a corner, she sees them -hovering above the road directly in front of her. The radio goes dead, -the car slows to a stop (although the engine continues to run), and she -feels completely paralyzed. The closest object is only 30 feet away. She -feels heat on her face and smells an unpleasant odor. When another car -approaches, the three objects shoot straight up, one at a time, and -everything returns to normal. When she returns home to Cambridge, -Massachusetts, she notices her face is reddened. She develops a rash and -peeling skin the next day. (Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, -1988, pp. 302–303; Raymond E. Fowler, “Close -Encounters with E-M and Physical Effects,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. -134 (March/April 1979): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5881

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Event 8432 -(4557D368)

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Date: 1/6/1979
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A journalist aboard the Japanese icebreaker Fuji in -Antarctic waters sees an object resembling a bluish-white kite moving -silently at a high rate of speed. Witnesses guess the altitude as 2–3 -miles, with differences of opinion on whether its course s straight or -zigzag. The crew reports further sightings of a similar object. (Asahi -Shinbun (Osaka), January 23, 1979; “Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August -1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5882

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Event 8433 -(6EB43088)

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Date: 1/16/1979
-Description: Gen. Emiliano Alfaro Arregui, chief of staff of the Spanish -Air Force, writes to the Ministry of Defense to say that whenever a UFO -sighting is reported to the authorities, an Informing Judge is appointed -by the corresponding Air Region to proceed with a proper investigation. -Some reports are caused by natural phenomena, while others are -unidentified. (Swords 424, 513)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5883

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Event 8434 -(0190B7E1)

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Date: 1/18/1979
-Description: 7:07 p.m. Brinsley -Le Poer Trench, Lord Clancarty, has put down a motion for debate in -the House of Lords on the official policy of the UK government on UFOs. -He begins the debate by launching into a history of UFOs and stresses -the international character of the phenomenon. He concludes with a -request for the Minister -of Defence to -be interviewed on national TV. Lord -Trefgarne rejects the proposal on the grounds that there are many -things that can masquerade as UFOs, plus the Bible has nothing to say -about extraterrestrials. Lord -Kimberley agrees that a parliamentary group should be set up. Lord -Oxfuird and Lord -Davies agree there should be future investigations to settle the -question. The Bishop -of Norwich expresses concern that a UFO cult could compete with -Christianity. Lord -Gladwyn deems the evidence inconclusive, but Lord -Kings Norton favors an investigation. Lord -Rankeillour states emphatically that UFOs exist, and they might be -dangerous. Lord -Gainford relates a personal sighting of a nocturnal light over -Argyll, Scotland, the previous December 31. The Earl -of Halsbury provides a list of natural causes for UFOs, and Lord -Hewlett paraphrases debunking arguments. The Earl -of Cork and -Orrery lashes out at Trefgarne’s skepticism. Lord -Strabolgi firmly rejects the request for an official investigation -on the grounds that all UFO reports can be explained conventionally. -Clancarty winds it up by saying, “Nothing is impossible in this world or -this universe. It is just that the seemingly impossible takes a little -time to come about.” (“Unidentified -Flying Objects,” Hansard Lords Debate, vol. 397, cc1246–1316, -January 18, 1979; Allan Hendry, [House of Lords UFO Debate], IUR 4, no. -2 (August 1979): 9–11; Good Above, pp. 73–75; -UFOFiles2, pp. 99–104; -Clark III 616–618)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5884

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Event 8435 -(937DF5F0)

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Date: 1/18/1979
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A car driven by a 42-year-old woodcutter stops -abruptly in Lusiana, Vicenza, Italy. Its lights go out and the doors -open by themselves. An orange ball is sitting in the road ahead, and two -3-foot-tall, copper- colored humanoids emerge from a door. They are -wearing metallic-looking, scaled coveralls. Their hands are long and end -in pointed nails. They invite him on board by gestures and he follows -them into a small room with electronic-looking gadgets and a screen. -They begin undressing him, but he resists. The wall opens and an overall -garment is shown to him. He refuses to wear it and he implores them to -let him go. One of the beings gives him a small box with writing on it. -A door opens and the man leaves. Suddenly the orange light disappears -and his car lights come on again. (Paolo Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, -and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1989): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5885

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Event 8436 -(9BE0CF52)

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Date: 1/20/1979
-Description: The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research committee -releases its report on eight UFO sightings in Kuwait from November to -December 14, 1978. The report rejects the idea that the UFOs are -espionage devices, but it remains equivocal about whether they are -extraterrestrial. The committee recommends that the government take all -measures to protect the country and its oilfields. (“‘UFO’ -Sightings Cause Security Concern in Kuwait,” WikiLeaks, [telegram], -January 29, 1979; ClearIntent, p. 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5886

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Event 8437 -(4D4D63AB)

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Date: late 1/1979
-Description: The Setka-AN group of the USSR Academy of Sciences -publishes a skeptical article in the weekly publication Nedelya that -tries to show that all UFOs are natural phenomena that UFO enthusiasts -are popularizing through their inept investigations as anomalous. -Setka-AN hopes to have a solution to the UFO problem “in a few months.” -(Nikita A. Schnee, “Ufology -in the U.S.S.R.,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 1 (June 1981): 8; -Good Above, p. 237)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5888

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Event 8438 -(7BCB4D7B)

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Date: 1/21/1979
-Description: Front-page stories of another UFO sighting in Kuwait appear -the day after the committee’s report. (ClearIntent, p. 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5887

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Event 8439 -(31FD1D54)

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Date: 1/29/1979
-Description: Peter Gersten appeals -the NSA’s decision to withhold the 18 UFO-related documents forwarded to -the NSA by the CIA but is again denied. (ClearIntent, p. 181)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5889

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Event 8440 -(3B554C9A)

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Date: 2/1979
-Description: A woman and her aunt in Shelby, Ohio, are just sitting down -to watch television when a bright light shines outside their window. It -is hanging in the air behind their dog kennel. When the woman goes out -to investigate, two more lights appear and enter the original one. Then -that light disappears and is replaced by red and green lights that -resolve into a large number of lights of both colors on an object. As -she approaches, the UFO begins to move toward her and passes overhead. -It is as big as a jetliner, with bolts on its base as large as -volleyballs. Her dog begins whining and cowering, and she gets a severe -pain in her head that causes her to fall on her knees. As the object -moves away with a soft whirring noise, she gets back on her feet. She -estimates she was only outside for 5 minutes, but she and her aunt -cannot account for an additional 45–50 minutes. Her headache persists -for several weeks. (Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the -Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5891

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Event 8441 -(A621F46A)

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Date: 2/1979
-Description: Mississippi House Resolution No. 14, proposed by Rep. Horace -Buckley of Jackson and calling for a complete US Senate -investigation of UFO sightings, dies in committee. (Allan Hendry, “UFOs -and Government: 1979,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 7–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5890

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Event 8442 -(E0568D1D)

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Date: 2/5/1979
-Description: Brilliant illumination of car, E-M effects. Driver shocked -and dazed, memory loss
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lawitta, Tasmania
-ID: 334

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Event 8443 -(275EB63A)

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Date: 2/5/1979
-Description: 9:50 p.m. A man is driving on the Lyell Highway near -Lawitta, Tasmania, when his car radio stops. Seconds later, an intense -white light envelops the car, and he cannot see beyond the hood. The -car’s lights and motor fail at the same time. The next thing he knows, -he is getting stopped in Hobart by police for driving his car without -headlights. The police find that he does not know his name, where he has -come from, or where he is going. He is taken to the hospital and -examined, where he is found to be in a state of shock. It is only at the -Royal Hobart Hospital that his memory of the preceding events returns. -His vehicle, a Ford Cortina 71TC, is inspected and found to have a dead -battery and low oil level. The cut-off switch on the alternator needs -replacing, as does some wiring, especially for the headlights. Radiator -water is also found to be low. (“Sightings,” -TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 27 (May 1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5892

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Event 8444 -(294653E9)

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Date: 2/9/1979
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Peter Hathaway is driving on the Bruce Highway -north of the Liverpool Creek bridge near Cowley Beach, Queensland, when -he sees a “little white light” sitting on the edge of the asphalt. As he -approaches within 100 feet, he notices a dark beehive-shaped object -behind it, which now rises vertically off the surface about 3 feet. -Hathaway is momentarily blinded by a flash of light. Opening his eyes, -he sees that his car headlights and engine have stopped. He coasts to a -truck rest stop, where his lights come back on and the engine starts -perfectly. (“1979,” -Australian UFO Research Network; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, -Aurora, 1988, pp. 304–305)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5894

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Event 8445 -(4E9CF046)

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Date: 2/9/1979
-Description: Joseph -J. F. Clark, associate director, Legislative Liaison for the Air -Force, responds to Rep. Samuel -S. Stratton (D-N.Y.) -saying that “permanent” UFO files are not maintained, but includes some -memos, messages, and log entries from the Northern Tier cases that have -already been released through FOIA requests. Stratton fails to follow -up. (ClearIntent, p. 55)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5893

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Event 8446 -(5CFD8494)

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Date: 2/16/1979
-Description: Peter Gersten again -files a FOIA request with the NSA, this time requesting all documents in -its possession or under the control of the NSA relating to UFOs. -(ClearIntent, pp. 181–182)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5896

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Event 8447 -(B45F7380)

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Date: 2/16/1979
-Description: New Mexico State Police Officer Gabe -Valdez informs the FBI that cattle in New Mexico are “being shot -with some type of paralyzing drug and the blood is being drawn from the -animal after an injection of an anti- coagulant.” In some cases, the -animal’s legs have been broken, perhaps by clamps being placed on them. -Helicopters without any identifying numbers are seen in the area of -these mutilations. Valdez tells the FBI that he thinks it is a -clandestine operation either by the CIA or the Department of Energy -(although in 1980 he tells journalist Linda -Moulton Howe that he thinks aliens are responsible). (Federal Bureau -of Investigation, [cattle mutilation -documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5895

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Event 8448 -(F5E80C3C)

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Date: late 2/1979
-Description: 9:10 p.m. Chinese Air Force flight instructor Sha Yangkao -is flying a night fighter over Houma, Shanxi, China, when he sees a -bright luminous object shoot across the sky from south to north, -apparently flying supersonically at an altitude of 3,300 feet. (Paul -Dong, “Extracts -from Paul Dong’s Feidie -Bai Wen Bai Da (Questions -and Answers on UFOs),” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 (August 1984): -14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5899

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Event 8449 -(689A74A2)

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Date: 2/22/1979
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Two 14-year-old girls, Lynsey Tebbs and Susan -Pearson, are tobogganing down the slopes that surround their housing -complex in Meanwood, Leeds, England. They are startled by a loud whining -noise coming from an object that is descending nearby. After it lands, -the noise changes to a hum, which then fades as it rests on the snow. It -is gray and egg-shaped, with two fins on either side, and is the size of -a small car. Frightened, the girls run up the hill but pause to take -another look. The object rests on the ground for about 3 minutes, then -starts humming and approaches the girls, landing again on the slope -about 80 feet away. After another few minutes, it wobbles and takes off. -Investigators from the Yorkshire UFO Society visit the site on February -25 and find odd indentations in the snow in two places. (Mark Birdsall -and Graham Birdsall, “Landing -and Possible Traces near Leeds,” -Northern Ufology, no. 62 (July 1979): 9–10; Good Above, pp. 72–73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5897

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Event 8450 -(6A033419)

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Date: 2/25/1979
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Both Circulación Aérea Militar Operativa (CAMO) -radar and radar at the W-8 military station detect an unidentified -target 52 miles to the southeast of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, flying -at an altitude of 14,400 feet. An Iberia airliner in the area is -alerted, and the pilot reports an intense, elongated light above his -position. The W-8 local radar detects a transponder signal. (Swords -435)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5898

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Event 8451 -(1AF67F7D)

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Date: 3/1979
-Description: 9:00 a.m. Two Republic of Korea Air Force F-4D Phantom II -jets, piloted by Lt. Col. Seungbae Lee and Col. Byungsun Lim, are flying -at 15,000 feet while returning from the annual Team Spirit military -exercise to Daegu Air Force Base, South Korea. Near Palgong Mountain in -the Taebaek Range, a star-like, stationary object appears in the -distance that grows in size as the jets approach. Neither the aircraft -nor the base can register the object on radar. When they reach within 15 -miles of the light, it shoots away to the east and hovers again. The -disc is as big as a jumbo jet and radiates bright golden light from top -to bottom. Red and blue lights sparkle from its rim. After the jets -circle twice above the object, it speeds away to the east. (Good Need, -p. 310)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5900

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Event 8452 -(5732550E)

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Date: 3/2/1979
-Description: Early morning. Witnesses in Rivera, Uruguay, see an -oval-shaped object with portholes. One witness, Ernesto Fagundez, -watches the UFO circle a transmitting tower he is working on then stop. -Through the portholes he can see entities with large heads that are -wearing transparent helmets. The object dives over a truck carrying farm -workers before it rises into the air, leaving a fiery trail and a column -of smoke. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 (Aug. 1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5901

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Event 8453 -(D4BFBF7F)

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Date: 3/3/1979
-Description: The Spanish Joint Chiefs of Staff meet and decide to -formally define UFO information as classified, rather than confidential. -The reason is that the civilian UFO group Centre d’Estudis -Interplanetaris in Barcelona had solicited King Juan -Carlos I in January to provide access to UFO information collected -by the Spanish armed forces. (Swords 424, 514)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5902

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Event 8454 -(C1CC1AB7)

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Date: 3/5/1979
-Description: Dusk. Many residents of the Canary Islands are captivated -with the sight of a strange sunset. Multicolored concentric rings or -bright zigzag trails are seen on the horizon towards the west, forming -an enormous cloud. A few minutes after 8:00 p.m., a point of light is -seen to ascend, leaving a luminous jet that appears to expand, -developing into a huge, bright dome. Independent sets of clear photos -are obtained from distant points of view. The phenomenon is even seen -from Safi, Morocco. Maj. Pedro Ortega García and Capt. José Juan Abad -Cellini investigate for the Spanish Air Force and conclude that the -luminous cloud was 320 miles in diameter at an altitude of 40 miles. -They again reject the missile hypothesis, but the US Navy has launched -four Poseidon missiles from the USS -Kamehameha around the same time that probably account for the -phenomena. (Vicente- Juan Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Pérez, “Navy -Missile Tests and the Canary Islands UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): -4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5903

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Event 8455 -(5E1433F6)

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Date: 3/6/1979
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Ben -Chastain watches a round, luminous object about 12 feet in diameter -skimming low over treetops in Westminster, South Carolina, arousing the -dogs. At one point the object comes within 150 feet, its glow -illuminating the area. Oconee County Deputy Sheriff Jimmy -Roach and his wife see the object from a distance. About 8:00 p.m., -Bill Osborne watches a larger object (80 feet long and 25 feet wide) -that sweeps the area with a light beam. (Iris Harrelson Maack, “Press -Reports,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 12 (June 1979): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5904

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Event 8456 -(EACBD4A5)

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Date: 3/6/1979
-Description: Dome-shaped object skimmed treetops, moved up and down, -illuminated area. Similar object hovered over highway, swept area with -light beam
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Westminster, SC
-ID: 335

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Event 8457 -(76253021)

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Date: 3/13/1979
-Description: While Grenada Prime Minister Eric -Gairy is at the United Nations, the New Jewel Movement led by Maurice -Bishop launches an armed revolution and overthrows the government. -Gairy stays in exile in the US until 1983.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5906

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Event 8458 -(D45E15EB)

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Date: 3/13/1979
-Description: 11:00 a.m. An uncorrelated radar target is detected over -the Mediterranean Sea north of Algeria by radar in the Pegaso control -room at Torrejón Air Base in Madrid, Spain. It is traveling at 970 mph -on a northwest course toward Spain. Three minutes later a scramble is -ordered, and a Dassault Mirage III fighter takes off from Manises Air -Base [now Valencia Airport] to identify the target, but the track soon -vanishes from the radar. It has moved about 71 miles in that time. Four -minutes later, the target reappears in another position, this time -motionless. The Mirage is vectored toward the new position. When the -fighter is about 9 miles from the target, it moves in a northwest -direction, accelerating to 840 mph and climbing to more than 15 miles. -Six minutes later, it changes course to the northeast, and in two -minutes it is gone. The Mirage never gets a visual contact. (Swords -435–436, 527)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5905

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Event 8459 -(98B70AC2)

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Date: spring 1979
-Description: UFO investigator Raymond -E. Fowler publishes The Andreasson Affair, introducing the story of -Betty Andreasson, a -Massachusetts housewife who recounts a 1967 abduction encounter with -short humanoids having large heads and eyes. (Raymond E. Fowler, The -Andreasson Affair, Prentice-Hall, 1979)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5908

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Event 8460 -(4B855222)

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Date: 3/28/1979
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Reactor number 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear -Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, suffers a partial -meltdown, resulting in a radiation leak. The accident begins with -failures in the non-nuclear secondary system, followed by a stuck-open -pilot-operated relief valve in the primary system, which allows large -amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to escape, contaminating the -containment building with thousands of gallons of radioactive water. The -staff has no choice but to vent radioactive gases directly into the -atmosphere. The mechanical failures are compounded by the initial -failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a -loss-of-coolant accident due to inadequate training and computer -interface oversights relating to ambiguous control room indicators. In -particular, a hidden indicator light leads to an operator manually -overriding the automatic emergency cooling system of the reactor because -the operator mistakenly believes that there is too much coolant water -present in the reactor and causing the steam pressure release. No one is -harmed by the released radiation, which is contained entirely in a cloud -of short-lived isotopes of inert gases that drift out over the Atlantic -Ocean. (Wikipedia, “Three -Mile Island accident”; Mike Gray and Ira Rosen, The Warning: -Accident at Three Mile Island, Norton, 1982; Grace Halden, Three Mile -Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Popular -Culture, Routledge, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5907

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Event 8461 -(794095BC)

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Date: 4/9/1979
-Description: Two Apache tribal officers on patrol near Dulce, New -Mexico, see a round, silent craft hovering 50 feet above the ground, -with a searchlight aimed downward on cattle below. (Wikipedia, “Cattle -mutilation”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5909

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Event 8462 -(80C97A30)

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Date: 4/12/1979
-Description: Early evening. A family is driving home from the grocery -store at Brockton, Massachusetts. They see a piano- shaped object with -lights all over it. A spotlight is beaming down, and there is one red -light on top. They lose sight of the object, but suddenly all four car -windows go down and back up; then they go down halfway and back up. The -same thing happens when they stop at a red light. They see the object -again, which is now following them. They park near their house, and the -UFO hovers across the street. The man shuts off Michael D. Swords, -“Messing Around with the Force,” the engine and the windows act up again -as the UFO moves directly overhead. The father and son get out of the -car, and the UFO shoots a beam down at each of them in turn. It then -moves down the street and away. (Michael D. Swords, “Messing Around with -the Force,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5910

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Event 8463 -(D75A370A)

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Date: 4/19/1979
-Description: 11:30 p.m. John Milroy and his mother are driving from -Ardersier to Croy, Inverness, Scotland, when he sees headlights in the -distance. The lights get larger and rise above the road. Thinking it is -an airplane crash, they get out of the car and experience an abnormal -silence; they can no longer hear the car engine or the door slam when -they flee. Everything reverts to normal when they reach a ditch. The -mother is so excited she needs to be sedated the next day. (“Foreign -Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5911

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Event 8464 -(ACF0572D)

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Date: 4/20/1979
-Description: Former astronaut and US Sen. Harrison -Schmitt (R-N.Mex.) and US Attorney R. -E. Thompson convene an informal public hearing on cattle mutilations -in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its goal is to show that criminal activity -is taking place involving many states and it requires federal action. -About 200 people attend, including Fort Worth (Tex.) Star-Telegram -reporter Jim -Marrs. Thompson -warns law enforcement officers not to reveal any evidence that might be -used at a later trial. (Thomas P. Deuley, “Mutilation -Hearings Held in New Mexico,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 137 (July -1979): 8–9; Christopher O’Brien, Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the -Cattle Mutilation Mystery, Adventures Unlimited, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5912

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Event 8465 -(D31CE86B)

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Date: 4/21/1979
-Description: Late night. A helicopter pilot and a mechanic are returning -by car to their unit in the Blonie area, Poland. A light descends -rapidly and silently over the road, resolving itself into 4 large lights -attached to a solid object more than 100 feet long. It stops and hovers -at 300 feet and then shoots upward instantaneously. (Poland 68–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5913

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Event 8466 -(5142B354)

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Date: 4/25/1979
-Description: Retired FBI agent Kenneth -M. Rommel Jr. begins a major investigation of cattle mutilations. -Financed by grants from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration -and the Santa Fe, New Mexico, District Attorney’s office (which has been -designated as the coordinating state investigative agency for cattle -mutilations), the inquiry focuses on New Mexico cases, though it pays -some attention to incidents in other states. (Wikipedia, “Cattle mutilation”; -Clark III 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5914

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Event 8467 -(53CC0900)

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Date: 5/1979
-Description: Victor -Marchetti, former -special assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA and author of the -1974 book The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, writes an article in -Second Look on “How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon.” He asserts that -“we have, indeed, been contacted—perhaps even visited—by -extraterrestrial beings, and the US government, in collusion with other -national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information -from the general public.” He claims that the CIA does not discuss UFOs -openly because they are deemed “sensitive activities,” but he has heard -rumors of crashed UFOs and extraterrestrial signals picked up by the -National Security Agency. Attempts by the government to deny the reality -of UFOs have all the hallmarks of a classic coverup, he writes. (Victor -Marchetti, “How the CIA Views the UFO Phenomenon,” Second Look 1, no. 7 -(May 1979): 2–7; Nukes 490–491)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5915

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Event 8468 -(A26954DE)

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Date: 5/1/1979
-Description: Oil field landing, reaction to light, landing traces
-Type: landing
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Vizcacheras, Argentina
-ID: 336

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Event 8469 -(1B1F5BCC)

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Date: 5/1/1979
-Description: 4:00 a.m. YPF company engineers at the Vizcacheras oil -fields in a remote area of Argentina’s Mendoza province accessible only -to employees are awakened by goats bleating in a corral. When they go -outside to investigate, they see a UFO hovering silently about 230 feet -from the encampment and 65 feet above the ground. They wave a lantern -and the UFO seems to respond by blinking a light, then slowly lands -nearby. More light signals are exchanged, then the UFO takes off and -disappears toward the Andes mountains at 4:35 a.m. After the sighting, -the goats (about 1,500) refuse to return to their corral. The engineers -go to inspect the landing spot and find a large circle in which the sand -has been petrified or hardened into chunks. Soil samples are taken to a -Professor Corradi for analysis. Corradi, identified as director of the -Institute for Extrahuman Studies, says the samples are being analyzed by -the Office of Mining. Corradi remarks that that the “permanent presence -of the UFOs over the uranium mines of La Pintada and Cuesta de los -Terneros in San Rafael and now in Vizcacheras, is not a coincidence.” -(Richard H. Hall, “Extraterrestrial -Psychology,” 1988; “Argentine Oil Field Landing,” MUFON UFO Journal, -no. 139 (September 1979))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5916

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Event 8470 -(B4CBC4E4)

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Date: 5/4/1979
-Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 337

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Event 8471 -(C9EA3867)

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Date: 5/7/1979
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Two witnesses on an airliner about one hour -south of Chicago, Illinois, notice two bright-white rectangular objects -slightly higher than the airplane. They gradually fade from view. (“Long -Rectangular UFOs: Five -Different Cases of Similarly Shaped Objects,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 2, no. 9 (September 1981): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5917

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Event 8472 -(B80ACE50)

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Date: 5/9/1979
-Description: Early morning. A fleet of 10–15 UFOs alarms people in -Choconta, Colombia. Eight of the objects have lights that change from -red to blue to orange and yellow. An electrical blackout takes place, -and dogs, chicken, and cattle get disturbed and run away. The objects -examine the Telecom satellite tracking station before ascending rapidly -and disappearing in the clouds. (“Foreign Forum,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August -1979): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5918

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Event 8473 -(9B1E790A)

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Date: 5/16/1979
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Arlindo Gabriel dos Santos is hunting with two -friends in a forest near Baependi, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when he becomes -separated from the others. He sees an object descend towards the ground -in a clearing. He approaches to within 600 feet and sees that the object -is shaped like a telephone booth about 3 feet tall. He takes a photo of -the object before it abruptly disappears in plain sight. He walks to the -clearing and sees another object shaped like a toy top and a little -larger than the previous object, descending swiftly. It has a small -propeller on top and a long, pointed protrusion on the bottom. As he -tries to photograph the second object, he hears a whooshing sound, and -the craft is quickly enveloped in smoke. He notices a third craft -descending overhead. This one is barrel-shaped and hovers for a bit -before landing. It also has a large propeller at one end and is covered -with red stripes. It vanishes when he tries to approach. Dos Santos -finally sees a huge, white, egg-shaped object descend. It has a pointed -top and fin-like protrusions on each side. Next to the fins are several -windows. As it descends it makes a horrific noise like a choking motor -and puts out four landing pods. He approaches and tries to take another -photograph, but there is a sudden flash that temporarily blinds him and -leaves his eyes irritated. Frightened, he drops the camera and runs, but -is only able to get about 30 feet before he is can no longer move. -Behind him he notices two men wearing helmets with transparent visors -and gloves. They grab him, each taking one arm. He begs them to let him -go in the name of God, but they answer, “In the name of God, we are all -brothers; we don’t harm anybody.” The voice comes from a box-like -apparatus on their backs. He is taken toward the landed UFO. As he gets -near, he can feel an intense cold surrounding it. Another helmeted -figure stands by a ladder extending from the craft, looking from side to -side. The man asks dos Santos if he has seen a “Zurca.” Dos Santos -thinks he is referring to one of the smaller objects. The man extends a -gloved hand and pulls dos Santos inside the craft through a square -doorway. The atmosphere inside the craft is pleasant and cool, and there -is a smell like “baby powder” in the air. Other men wearing dark, -tight-fitting outfits are sitting on seats. The men have large slanted -eyes, thin noses, and large mouths, and they are operating some type of -machinery. They stand up and begin conversing in an unknown language. -Suddenly, a heavyset woman emerges from another room. She wears a white -uniform, gloves, but no helmet. Dos Santos describes her as good -looking, tanned, with long light fine hair. The woman and one of the men -then take him into a corridor. He enters a room where he sees a square -object in the middle. The man pushes a button on the wall and the object -rises. It resembled a large piece of marble. The woman takes out a long -wand and points it at the object. On the object dos Santos sees an image -of the planet Earth and other planets. At this point, the man removes -his helmet revealing short, light-colored hair. When dos Santos leaves -the craft, he is told to cover his eyes and not look as the object -leaves. He follows these instructions and does not see the object -depart. (NICAP, “May -16, 1979: Near Baependi, Minas Gerais State, Brazil”; -“Grandes -Manobras Extraterrestres na Fazenda do Sobrado, Baependi, MG,” SBEDV -Boletim, no. 132– 135 (Jan./Aug. 1980): 28–71; Jackson Luiz Camargo, “O -Caso do Embornal,” Portal Fenomenum, June 15, 2016; Brazil -258–266)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5919

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Event 8474 -(BD49258F)

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Date: 5/19/1979
-Description: 2:27 a.m. Tailor Mike Sacks and his brother Ray are on the -moors near Stacksteads, Lancashire, England, looking for the UFO that -Mike had already seen twice the previous winter. They have staked out -the hills with a camera and suddenly hear a muted howling noise echoing -through the night. The noise is coming from a white, glowing light -falling toward them. The glowing mass slows down and the howling stops. -Now directly overhead, the object is hovering just feet above a stream. -They see a dome on top that emits electric blue sparks, a middle -section, and a rim with a translucent metallic glow. The object tilts to -reveal intricate detail on its underside, then accelerates and -disappears. The men take a dozen photos, but they only show black sky -when processed. (Jenny Randles, “The House on Haunted Moor,” Fortean -Times 322 (January 2015): 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5920

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Event 8475 -(C26BCEBB)

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Date: 5/20/1979
-Description: 8:00 a.m. A scientist, Ron Kruppa, sees a large UFO -emitting smaller objects in Davao City, Philippines. (“Stretching the -Truth in the Philippines,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5921

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Event 8476 -(D8432F05)

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Date: 5/22/1979
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A man walking in a park in Piastów, Poland, sees -two bright yellow beams of light coming from a dark object about 10 feet -wide floating just above the ground. Walking to within 10 feet of the -object, he can see a third beam of light below it. Green geometrical -shapes appear and vanish along the side of the UFO. A blinking red light -shines out on the upper surface, in between the vertical bars of an -H-shaped sign taking up almost the entire top. Suddenly the object -shines with a white-blue light, and the man’s face feels like it is -burning. Frightened, he runs away and does not look back. The next -morning, he feels as if something heavy is pressing on his head; two -weeks later, sores containing dried blood break out on his face. -(Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1986): 15–16; Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs in Poland,” UFOs -1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5922

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Event 8477 -(2D932DD3)

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Date: 5/26/1979
-Description: 12:05 a.m. The pilot of a private airplane flying near -Hailey, Idaho, spots five orange objects flying in a horizontal line. -They tilt, spread out, and regroup in a vertical formation. As they pass -to his left, his magnetic compass and direction finder begin spinning, -the radio is filled with static, and the engine sputters. One of the -objects approaches at high speed, and the pilot begins a climb and loses -sight of the UFOs. (NICAP, “Compasses, Radio, -Engine Affected on Aircraft”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5923

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Event 8478 -(F2F2A09E)

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Date: 5/26/1979
-Description: Private pilot and airline crew saw string of orange objects -maneuvering and changing formation, tracked on radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hailey, ID
-ID: 338

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Event 8479 -(5D1D30FE)

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Date: 6/1979
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman doctor is in the TV room of her parents’ -home in Boardman, Ohio, suffering from insomnia. She sees something -flashing outside the window, illuminating the entire area outside. A -cylinder-shaped light comes through the closed window and passes three -feet from her face. It then comes to look more like a paperclip that -flashes on and off, meandering about, apparently not interested in her. -She runs into the bedroom and does not see it again. (Michael D. Swords, -“A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5925

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Event 8480 -(D48B6069)

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Date: 6/1979
-Description: In Messengers of Deception, Jacques -Vallée claims that a shadowy human group, some of whom have -infiltrated UFO organizations like NICAP and CUFOS, is manipulating UFO -myths for its own purposes, while the UFO phenomenon operates as a -control system—manifested in “intense activity followed by quiet -periods—intended to lead human consciousness into a new concept of -reality.” On the other hand, he argues that the UFO phenomenon is -ancient and that the message has changed with the times. He claims the -current concept of flying discs originated in Germany in the 1930s, with -the unknown private group gaining control of them after World War II. -Contactees are manipulated by human programmers. Many ufologists think -Vallée has gone too far in his anti- ETH approach and is conspiracy -mongering. (Jacques Vallée, Messengers -of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults, -And/Or, 1979; Vincent White, “A -Critique,” APRO Bulletin 27, no. 12 (June 1979): 3–5; Clark III -1214)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5924

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Event 8481 -(C44AC951)

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Date: 6/10/1979
-Description: 4:40 p.m. A family in Milford, Connecticut, watches a disc -“like two plates put together” approach from the south. It is silver on -top and dark on the bottom and seems to have a band around the edge and -triangular markings. After it passes silently behind the trees to the -north of them after 1 minute, they jump into a car and drive after it. -It seems to be traveling at 20–25 mph, and they are able to overtake it -flying parallel to the road. It seems to be flying at an altitude of -1,000 feet, and disappears to the north. (“Case 4-1-40,” IUR 4, no. 1 -(July 1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5926

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Event 8482 -(112A750B)

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Date: 6/12/1979
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Members of a rock band practicing in a barn in -Pine Ridge, South Carolina, step outside to watch an unusual form -hovering low over the containment building and smokestack of the -Carolina Power and Light nuclear power plant one half mile away to the -northeast. An ovoid-shaped object, seen primarily by its lights, shines -two bright yellowish-white beams of light. After hovering motionless for -2–5 minutes, all the lights fade except a blue light. The UFO moves off -and is gone almost instantly. After about 5 minutes, a second object is -seen hovering for 2–5 minutes to the right of the nuclear power plant -and directing a beam of light at it. It flies off toward the northwest. -No one at the power plant reports seeing anything unusual. (“Case -4-1-47,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5927

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Event 8483 -(41A159D0)

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Date: 6/14/1979
-Description: 8:30 a.m. A woman in St. Petersburg, Florida, sees an -object with a long transparent trail. (“Case 4-1-51,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July -1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5928

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Event 8484 -(0E7CE936)

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Date: 6/17/1979
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A witness in North Prairie, Wisconsin, watches a -star, slightly dimmer than Jupiter, move silently across the sky from -east to west, passing overhead. It suddenly makes a 90° turn to the -north and is lost in the cloud cover. Ten minutes later, he and his -family watch a similar light transit the sky, again from east to west, -in 10–15 seconds. (“Wisconsin NL,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5929

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Event 8485 -(8C6E2526)

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Date: 6/19/1979
-Description: 10:02 p.m. A witness in Clarksville, Tennessee, is walking -his dog when he sees a metallic egg-shaped object, surrounded by a glow, -approaching from the west. It appears to be at 8,000 feet altitude. It -comes to a stop for 30 seconds, then picks up speed slowly for 7 -seconds, and blasts off with a shower of sparks trailing behind it, -disappearing in the southeast. (“Rocketing ‘Egg’ over Tennessee,” IUR 4, -no. 2 (August 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5930

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Event 8486 -(3AFF0E8E)

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Date: 6/26/1979
-Description: 3:20 p.m. A sharply outlined “mushroom” is seen moving out -of the south by a group of eight neighbors in the northeast section of -Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is smaller than the full moon, but at one -point they can detect four “domes” on its rotating underside. The object -is illuminated with colors ranging from burgundy to silver. At one point -it makes a 90° turn and circles around completely, becoming a minty -green color. It continues slowly north and disappears. (“An ‘Adamski’ -Mushroom?” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5932

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Event 8487 -(64A84F23)

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Date: 6/26/1979
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A 77-year-old man in Wheeling, Illinois, is -awakened by his border collie and goes outside. When he opens the back -door he sees a uniformly glowing “balloon,” 6–7 feet in diameter and -sharply outlined. His dog steps forward and watches it as it hovers -rock-steady at 60 feet up and 100 feet away or less. After 4–5 minutes -it moves slowly behind the trees to the southwest. Running to the front -of his house, he sees an identical form 70 feet up and moving silently -to the northwest. It goes behind trees in 3–4 minutes. Duration is 10–13 -minutes. (“Two Glowing Globes,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5931

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Event 8488 -(26E428C1)

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Date: 6/28/1979
-Description: Security guard Antonio Carlos Ferreira is allegedly -abducted from his workplace, a furniture factory in Mirassol, São Paulo, -Brazil. He is approached by three humanoid figures who tranquilize him -and take him aboard a small ship that ferries him to a larger craft -further away. There he is put in front of a large TV screen and -presented with a variety of images before being forced to mate with a -female alien. He is tranquilized again and returned to the ground. The -aliens are approximately 4 feet tall with pointed ears, slanted eyes, -and human-like mouths. They lack eyebrows or eyelashes and speak in a -language that superficially resembles Japanese. Some have dark skin and -red curly hair, while others have light skin and straight black hair. -The ship is spherical with three legs protruding from the bottom, and -the interior is lit by bright red and green lights. Ferreira states that -he encountered the aliens again in 1982, with the craft supposedly -landing close enough for him to see the female alien and a childlike -alien observing him from a distance. He experiences a third encounter -later in 1982 in which he is taken into the hangar of an alien craft by -a green beam of light before being injected with a yellow substance. He -is then taken to meet the two aliens once more, the younger of whom he -is led to believe is his own child. Other encounters follow, to a total -of 16 or 20 between 1979 and 1989. (Wikipedia, “Caso -Mirassol”; Ney Matiel Pires, “3-Sexto -Contato com Ufonautas de Antônio Carlos Ferreira,” SBEDV Boletim, -no. 158–161 (May/Dec. 1984): 14–54; Walter K. Buhler, Guilherme Pereira, -and Ney M. Pires, UFO Abduction at Mirassol, UFO Photo Archives, 1985; -Clark III 764–765; Aileen Garoutte, “Contact -at Mirassol,” UFOexperiences, May 22, 2005; Brazil 277–282)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5933

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Event 8489 -(A167619D)

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Date: 7/1979
-End date: 12/1979
-Description: Flurries of sightings
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, CA
-ID: 339

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Event 8490 -(A0BB8BB3)

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Date: 7/1/1979
-Description: 3:40 p.m. A factory supervisor and his wife are driving in -Crystal Lake, Illinois, when they see an aluminum- colored ellipse -hovering in the north-northeast at an estimated 1,000 feet. It moves -with jerky movements to the east-southeast, drops down to 500 feet, and -remains stationary over a stand of trees about one mile away for 2–3 -seconds. It ascends and descends about five times. (“Daylight Disc in -Illinois,” IUR 4, no. 2 (August 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5934

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Event 8491 -(4319F166)

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Date: 7/4/1979
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A Swedish man is walking along a dark road after -leaving a tavern not far from Monastiri Beach, Poros, Greece. He hears a -powerful buzzing or shushing noise overhead. Not more than 25 feet above -the trees on the uphill side of the road is a black, disc-shaped object, -about 25 feet wide, that is blocking out the light of the stars. Within -seconds a bright light beams down at him from the center of the object. -He feels an electrical sensation and a general lightness. The light -blinks out and the man begins running away, but the disc is descending -and following him. The beam of light blinks on again when it is 50–60 -feet above him. Two backpackers witness this and come running to aid -him. The light blinks out again and four blinking red and green lights -appear at the edge of the disc, which moves ahead another 150–200 feet. -The UFO then rises to 400–500 feet and flies steadily until it -disappears behind a hill. (“High Adventure in Greece,” IUR/Frontiers of -Science 3, no. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1982): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5935

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Event 8492 -(914E4CC7)

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Date: 7/17/1979
-Description: 6:00 a.m. A couple in a rural area northeast of Des Moines, -Iowa, are fixing breakfast when through their window they see a small, -circular light source to the northeast. It hovers silently for 5 -minutes. It starts moving slowly upward at a 70° angle, then breaks into -two smaller objects that shoot out of sight. (“Iowa UFO Splits in Two,” -IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5936

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Event 8493 -(0E0F5C45)

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Date: 7/25/1979
-Description: 11:30 a.m. Farmer Federico Ibáñez Ibáñez, 54, leaves the -village of Turís, Valencia, Spain, to gather grapes from his vineyard. -He finds an egg-shaped, white, metallic object resting on two feet in -the access road to his field. Two small beings run from behind a carob -tree on his left and enter the craft. They are wearing white outfits -“puffed up with air” with protruding black tubes. The UFO suddenly -ascends at great speed, stirring up a whirlwind. The case is -investigated in depth in 1979 and reinvestigated in 2008. It features -unique shapes for both the landed craft and its occupants. The one -witness is apparently credible. Ground traces are found as -circumstantial evidence. Spanish investigator Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos concludes: “My considered impression is that the -witness sincerely believes in the tangible reality of his experience, -and I have not found any reasonable evidence of a lie or episode of -fantasy, nor any proof that he embellished his account.” Ballester -Olmos’s latest thought is, “Did the witness invent or hallucinate the -event under the influence of the current publicity for the Star Wars -movie?” (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Imagination or Reality? The -Landing at Turís, Revisiting a 1979 Spanish CE3,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March -2010): 3–7, 22–24 ; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Imagination -or Reality? The Landing at Turis,” Academia.edu, [2013])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5937

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Event 8494 -(08D10AE2)

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Date: 7/27/1979
-Description: 11:10 p.m. Gary Hull is on the patio of his in-laws’ home -in Stamford, Connecticut, when he sees an orange light in the northwest. -He calls his wife Kathleen and others, and they watch it move silently -across the sky at treetop level. After 5 minutes, it stops and hovers. -Four or five white flashes erupt from its right side, followed by 4–5 -faint sounds like firecrackers. At 11:19, a commercial jet flies -overhead and under the UFO, which accelerates almost straight up in 5–10 -seconds, diminishing to a pinpoint. Other witnesses 3.5 miles to the -north and a few miles to the west watch similar objects. (“Independent -Witnesses in Connecticut,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5938

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Event 8495 -(D723B201)

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Date: 7/29/1979
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 340

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Event 8496 -(F948A144)

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Date: 8/1979
-Description: Evening. A resident of Człuchów, Poland, is rowing his boat -on a lake when he sees a “dark oblong object” moving rapidly and -soundlessly along the surface of the water without disturbing it. It -disappears behind some lakeside vegetation. Another witness on shore -sees it apparently land, so he calls his two dogs and heads toward the -spot. About 65 feet from the shore he can see two entities in dark suits -walking toward the forest. The dogs run toward them and they stop and -turn around. The dogs stop in their tracks, bark, and retreat in terror. -The witness watches the entities as they continue walking. They are -about 5 feet tall and sealed in diving outfits. At the level of their -eyes is a glass plate through which they can apparently see. Their hips -are unnaturally wide and each has a hump between the back of the neck -and the shoulders. The witness calls out to them, but they begin running -into the trees. A luminous rectangular object floats up from the -treetops about 325 feet away and hovers 100 feet from the ground. A -blue-green light is along its sides, shading away into white in the -middle. The UFO speeds away, leaving no findable landing traces. The -witness claims his dogs’ front legs become paralyzed 6 months later and -he has to put them to sleep. (Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists -in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1986): 16; ; Bronislaw Rzepecki, -“UFOs in Poland,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, -pp. 124–125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5941

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Event 8497 -(E23BA711)

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Date: 8/1979
-Description: Dusk. A witness in Halifax, Nova Scotia, watches through a -telescope a round object with 12–18 lights around its base approaching -from the southeast. It hovers for about 30 seconds. He calls to his wife -to verify the observation, which has now moved directly overhead. The -lights give off constant beams downward. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5940

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Event 8498 -(90615045)

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Date: 8/1979
-Description: Harry Griesberg and David Seargent form the Australian -Centre for UFO Studies from the CUFOS Australian Co-Ordination Section. -(Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: -A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5939

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Event 8499 -(2213471D)

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Date: 8/1/1979
-Description: The Fund for UFO Research is established as a nonprofit -corporation in the District of Columbia to raise money to support -scientific UFO research and public information projects. It remains -active through 2011. (Fund for -UFO Research Quarterly Report, Oct./Dec. 1983; Clark III 520)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5944

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Event 8500 -(D90515AD)

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Date: 8/1/1979
-Description: 1:35 a.m. Westchester County police officer William -Shaughnessy sees apparently the same white ball of light at the Ward -Pound Ridge Reservation, New York, as that reported by several citizens -of Lewisboro the same night. It passes southeast directly over his car, -at 600–800 feet altitude. It stops above some treetops, makes a complete -right turn, and disappears to the west. 12 minutes later, it comes -flying back, hovers, shoots over his car again, and is gone quickly. -During this time, Shaughnessy cannot reach his station by either -low-band FM or portable radio. (“Cop Ridiculed for NL Sighting in New -York,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5942

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Event 8501 -(8E7C1088)

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Date: 8/1/1979
-Description: US Air Force Intelligence is redesignated the Electronic -Security Command. (Wikipedia, “Air -Force Intelligence, -Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5943

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Event 8502 -(4823AD00)

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Date: 8/1/1979
-Description: Astronomer Allan -Hendry publishes The UFO Handbook, a harshly pessimistic assessment -of his investigative experience with the Center for UFO Studies in -Evanston, Illinois. The first part covers IFOs, showing how normal -objects can be misinterpreted as UFOs. The remainder of the book covers -techniques that can be used by UFO investigators. (Allan Hendry, The UFO -Handbook, Doubleday, 1979; Clark III 569)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5945

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Event 8503 -(6E42BDA0)

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Date: 8/2/1979
-Description: Morning. A teen who mows the lawn finds a strange design on -the lawn of an 8-acre estate about 8 miles north of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. -The owner waits a week before reporting it to the police, who alert the -Center for UFO Studies, which investigates the marking on August 22. The -trace is visible as flattened, yellowed grass in a semicircle between -two straight lines forming a 120° angle. An analysis of the soil sample -indicated nothing unusual in the chemistry, and no herbicides or -petroleum. (“1979 -Ground Mark Remains Unidentified,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. -2 (June 1980): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5946

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Event 8504 -(1F6E54D9)

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Date: 8/2/1979
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Multiple witnesses watch a triangular object -flying from south to north over Herndon and Atwood, Kansas; and -Culbertson and McCook, Nebraska. (Marler 104–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5947

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Event 8505 -(C654C2CF)

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Date: 8/4/1979
-Description: 10:35 p.m. Maria Artura and her grandson see a domed, -disc-shaped object approach from the west over Canoga Park, Los Angeles, -California. Two humanoid beings with oversize heads are inside. The -object stops and hovers above an apartment building on the other side of -the street. It tilts to one side, returns to horizontal, then flies -behind a tree, stops, and tilts the other way. Finally, it flies away to -the west. (“California Humanoids?” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 11; -Richard H. Hall, “Dyad ‘Scout Craft,’” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): -25; Patrick Gross, URECAT, December -25, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5948

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Event 8506 -(33D4B1C2)

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Date: 8/4/1979
-Description: Large, glowing disc with bubblelike dome on top, two -humanoid beings visible through transparent dome
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Canoga Park, CA
-ID: 341

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Event 8507 -(9C2EA7F5)

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Date: 8/5/1979
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A man driving 20 miles north of Milwaukee, -Wisconsin, sees five large red lights suddenly appear in front of his -car. They are in a V-formation, four in one row, the fifth forming the -other. They move downward toward the horizon, where they vanish. -(“Strange Formation in Wisconsin,” IUR 4, no. 3/4, Sept./Oct, 1979): -11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5949

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Event 8508 -(E06A9014)

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Date: 8/9/1979
-Description: Pilot observed two disc-shaped objects below his plane, -contour flying “on the deck” through hills and valleys
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hayfork, CA
-ID: 342

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Event 8509 -(97872F03)

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Date: 8/10/1979
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Two witnesses are on the shore of a lake near -Czluchow, Poland, when they see an object gliding swiftly along the -surface and vanishing behind some vegetation on the bank. One witness -collects his dogs and approaches the spot, but before he gets there, he -encounters two entities dressed in black who are moving toward the -woods. The dogs run toward them barking, but the entities turn to face -them and the dogs stop barking and go back. The beings are dressed in -coveralls. They have wide hips, a lump at the base of their necks, and -curved forearms, and they are gliding rather than walking. They vanish, -and while searching for them the witness sees a rectangular object -hovering about 300 feet away and flashing beams of white and blue-green -light. It vanishes suddenly. (Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFO -Reports from Poland,” Flying Saucer Review 33, no. 1 (March 1988): -5–6; Poland 46–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5951

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Event 8510 -(44E81885)

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Date: 8/10/1979
-Description: Two large metallic spheres are found in Bolivia, one near -Enconada and another near Buen Retiro, just hours after reports of a -fireball in Bolivia and northern Chile. Newspaper reports at the time -focus on the reentry of a satellite or rocket stage as the possible -cause, suggested by Col. Ariel -Coca, director of the Bolivian Air Force Academy. The Defense -Attaché of the US Embassy in La Paz promptly informs the US Defense -Intelligence Agency via telexed Moon Dust reports, which include -translations of two Bolivian newspaper reports. Moon Dust is the -unclassified name of a cold war USAF program to obtain Soviet space -hardware that survives reentry. In 2014, amateur satellite tracker Ted -Molczan presents strong circumstantial evidence that the spheres are -debris from the reentry of the Delta rocket second stage 1979-072B that -launched Westar -3 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the same day. (“Moon -Dust, Object Found near Santz Cruz *U*,” August 17, 1979; “Moon -Dust, Additional -Object Reportedly Found near Santa Cruz *U*,” August 21, 1979; Ted -Molczan, “Re-Entry -Sightings and -Debris Recovery of 1979-072B, Bolivia: 1979 August 10 UTC,” Visual -Satellite Observer, July 30, 2014; Ted Molczan, “Bolivia: -Spheres Found August 1979, La Prensa Article,” Visual Satellite -Observer; Good Above, pp. 322–323)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5950

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Event 8511 -(C67F4CB4)

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Date: 8/11/1979
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two 18-year-olds, a male college student and a -female telephone company employee, are sitting in a car near Bergen -Park, Colorado, looking at the homes at the base of a small mountain on -Soda Creek Road off Interstate 70. They see a white light about -two-thirds of the way up the mountain. It grows bigger, four times the -brightness of the houselights at the base of the mountain. It seems to -become a cluster of four lights with a dark space in the middle. After 3 -minutes, the light silently rises over the mountain, hovers for 3 -seconds, and drops down behind it. A glow remains over the mountain. -(“Colorado Landing,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5953

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Event 8512 -(CB236EC3)

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Date: 8/11/1979
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 343

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Event 8513 -(62245574)

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Date: 8/11/1979
-Description: 9:41 p.m. A graduate student and a friend are taking an -evening drive in a semi-rural area in Northfield Township, Michigan. -They notice two white stationary lights about 300 feet from the road and -500 feet in the air. They turn the car around and see another formation -of white lights and a flashing red light to the west. A total of three -sets of lights appear heading south. They follow one group, which hovers -above some power lines. The couple continues to pursue and be pursued by -the similar formations of lights for 30 minutes. At the intersection of -Joy and Whitmire Lake Road, one set of lights flies directly above them -at 1,000–1,500 feet altitude, making a noise like a jet or the wind. -(“Scientists Chase Michigan UFOs?” IUR 4, no. 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): -11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5952

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Event 8514 -(E10CC9C4)

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Date: 8/12/1979
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Engineer Y. Podvyazniy and two companions are on -the shore of the Black Sea west of the microdistrict of Khosta near -Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. They notice a brightly illuminated object -approaching erratically from the sea. Suddenly it skips to within one -mile of the witnesses, who take 9 photos, estimate its size as 165–330 -feet, and notice four glowing lights that look like portholes. The -object is only 16–65 feet above the water when it slowly moves away to a -distance of 9 miles. A patrol boat uses its searchlight to illuminate -the object, which appears to be spherical. When the object lights up and -dims, the searchlight and the patrol boat’s lights also dim. (Stonehill -and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 133–134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5954

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Event 8515 -(BB1A408A)

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Date: 8/12/1979
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two teenage brothers are driving 9 miles west of -Rolla, Missouri, in an undeveloped area. A red light and a blue light -appear over the car, apparently circling each other. The two lights seem -to blend into one, forming a soft white color. Sparks shoot out, and the -single light source arcs upward and vanishes in the western sky. Both -feel strange sensations of both pressure and floating as this occurs. -These effects, along with involuntary body movements and trouble -speaking and breathing, last 10 minutes. (“Teens Claim Bizarre Effects,” -IUR 4, no 3/4 (Sept./Oct. 1979): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5955

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Event 8516 -(F25F4118)

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Date: mid 8/1979
-Description: Night. Hospital administrator Jon Linnell and his wife are -driving home from Northwood, North Dakota, to Warren, Minnesota, when -they see bright lights over a field to the left. 15 seconds later the -lights come toward them and hover above their car. Linnell slows the car -down and the object takes off to the north. It is silent and too bright -to look at. (“Deputy’s -UFO Story Evokes -Other Tales,” Minneapolis Star, September 11, 1979, pp. 1, 5; Clark -III 716)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5956

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Event 8517 -(D110235A)

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Date: 8/16/1979
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A silver, pan-shaped object flies past an -eastbound truck near Providence, Kentucky, at 2,000– 3,000 feet -altitude. It tumbles in flight, turning over sideways before -disappearing behind a hill. (“Kentucky Daylight Saucer,” IUR 4, no. 6 -(December 1979): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5958

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Event 8518 -(B8D83C37)

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Date: 8/16/1979
-Description: 4:22 a.m. A male nurse is driving south on US Highway 19 -seven miles south of Washington, Pennsylvania. Ahead of him on the left -is a large, luminous object that looks like a football. It appears to be -60 feet up as he drives underneath it. It remains stationary as he -drives away. (”Pennsylvania ‘Football,’” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5957

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Event 8519 -(064B5A15)

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Date: 8/17/1979
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Elma l’Abbe is flying above Saint-Jovite, Quebec, -in a Piper PA-28 Cherokee Warrior piloted by a friend. She looks out the -window and notices that both wings are turning red. The pilot says his -controls are jammed, but both feel the aircraft being pulled upward. -They then see a large red ball of energy nearly 300 feet in diameter and -50 feet thick close to the right wing. It speeds away rapidly and -appears to have a white light on its tail end. The aircraft falls about -1,000 feet and levels out at 4,000 feet. The object disappears into a -cloud, where it rotates, showing red on one side and white on the other. -The ball of light disappears into the orange sky of the sunset. (Chris -Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -pp. 92–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5959

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Event 8520 -(04B400E9)

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Date: 8/19/1979
-Description: 10:20 p.m. A witness at his home 16 miles southeast of -Dallas, Texas, sees a shimmering light with amber portholes silently -darting around near some radio towers. (“Texan NL,” IUR 4, no. 6 -(December 1979): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5960

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Event 8521 -(B8D054B2)

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Date: late 8/1979
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Mrs. H. M. Dickinson and another witness see a -small, transparent object shaped like a lightbulb moving west to east -just outside the window of her home in Surry, Maine. Inside it is an -entity sitting on a box and facing what seems to be a control panel. The -object is lighted from within and blinks out after 5 seconds. (“Seated -Occupant in Light-Bulb-Shaped 1979 Maine CE-III,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 5, no. 2 (April/May 1984): 1, 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5962

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Event 8522 -(3BEDC743)

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Date: 8/20/1979
-Description: 7:30–9:00 p.m. Some 119 people in northern and eastern -Poland observe several different types of cylindrical or spherical UFOs. -Reports come from Sopot, Jurata, Gdańsk, Bydgoszcz, Malbork, Jastrzębie, -Olsztyn, Świecie, and Warsaw. Vacationers in Sopot and Jurata see a -cigar ejecting a smoky trail and flames. In Gdańsk, the objects are -cigar-shaped or oblong changing into a sphere. Bogdan Śmiech from -Malbork watches 9– 10 balls of light 3–4 miles above the ground. (Poland -72–73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5961

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Event 8523 -(D96DDC0A)

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Date: 8/23/1979
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Two fishing boats belonging to the Szomborg -family, the Hel-125 and Hel-127, are in the Baltic Sea some 46 miles off -the Hel peninsula, Poland, when their radar malfunctions and the TV set -reception fails. Lucjan Szomborg on the Hel-127 notices two bright-red -lights in the air less than a mile away. Suddenly another larger, -pulsating light appears abut 1,500 feet in front of the boat and the -original two lights, which are apparently attached to a dark object, -move silently toward it. A white light emerges from the two smaller -lights, which then disappear in the distance. The pulsating light begins -flashing erratically, emitting strong vibrations, and Szomborg steers -his boat closer. The red light places itself directly in the Hel-127’s -path three times, matching the boat’s course changes. The crew members -begin to get nervous, some getting severe headaches, chest pains, and -nausea. The navigator, Henryk Elwardt, is gripped with pain, affected by -the pulsing vibrations. Szomborg, feeling symptoms of paralysis and -temporary blindness, manages to change course and warn his father on the -Hel-125 of danger. All the on-board equipment has suddenly stopped -working. After 20 minutes, Szomborg notices that the red sphere has -moved further away. The boats safely return to Hel by 4:00 a.m., and the -equipment is working again. Doctors, neurologists, and psychiatrists -examine the crew and find nothing physically wrong, but they are -prescribed sedatives and the Polish Navy prohibits them from going out -to sea for 3 weeks. (Poland 122–124; “UFO -nad Bałtykiem 23 sierpnia 1979 r.,” UFO-Relacje.pl, August 4, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5963

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Event 8524 -(35224123)

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Date: 8/25/1979
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Three witnesses in a boat at Balsam Lake, -Wisconsin, watch an object with a metallic surface move downward in an -oscillating manner and maneuver for 6–7 minutes. (“Wisconsin DD,” IUR 4, -no. 6 (December 1979): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5964

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Event 8525 -(7246EADC)

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Date: 8/27/1979
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Flying instructor Laurie Adlington has just left -Blackbushe Airport in Yateley, Hampshire, England, with Lt. James -Plastow from Sandhurst Military College for his pilot’s license test in -a Cessna 150. They are at 2,000 feet heading toward Basingstoke when -Adlington suddenly grabs the controls and throws the Cessna into a steep -bank and descent to avoid a collision. An object suddenly speeds past -the front of the aircraft, coming within a few feet of the windshield. -The rotating object is about 12 inches in diameter, shaped like a -doughnut, reflects light with a silvery glow “like a blob of mercury,” -and has a honeycombed surface. They can make out the hint of an aerial -on one side. The object begins flying around the plane for a short time -before it flies underneath it and then streaks upward and away to about -3,000 feet. Possible early use of a drone. (Omar Fowler, “Mini-Disc -over Blackbushe,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 1 (June 1980): -18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5966

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Event 8526 -(918C7F87)

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Date: 8/27/1979
-Description: 1:40 a.m. Deputy Sheriff Val -Johnson is on duty in the west end of Marshall County, Minnesota, -driving on County Highway 5 west of Stephen when he sees a light through -his side window. The light is to his south, shining from a grove of -trees standing along State Highway 220 near the Red River. He thinks it -might be from a downed drug-smuggling airplane. He turns south on 220, -accelerates to 65 mph, and moves closer. The light moves toward him, -traveling so fast that it crosses the 1.5 miles separating them almost -instantaneously. It makes no sound and still looks just like a blinding -light. Johnson hears glass breaking and sees the inside of the patrol -car light up. After the light hits, he loses consciousness. When he -wakes up, his head is resting on the steering wheel and his eyes are -staring at the red “engine” light on the dashboard. He looks out the -window and sees the car has skidded sideways across the northbound lane -and now faces eastward. The front tires are touching the gravel on the -shoulder. He can see only with difficulty and feels like he is moving in -slow motion. At 2:19 a.m., he radios headquarters and asks for -assistance. Deputy Greg Winskowski arrives on the scene shortly. Johnson -is still inside the car with a red bump on his forehead, so he calls an -ambulance. At the hospital, Dr. W. A. Pinsonneault examines Johnson’s -eyes, but the probe light hurts so much that Johnson cannot stand it -more than a few seconds at a time. Pinsonneault suspects corneal flash -burns and covers his eyes with bandages. Sheriff Dennis Brekke drives -Johnson’s 1977 Ford LTD patrol car back to the garage. The inside light -on the driver’s side is smashed. On the hood, 4 feet 4 inches behind the -smashed light and close to the windshield, is a flat-bottomed, circular -dent, half an inch in diameter. A crack in the windshield on the -driver’s side about 18 inches behind the dent runs top to bottom, with -four apparent impacts; it looks as if a cluster of small objects, stones -perhaps, have done the damage. The car’s battery-powered clock, set -correctly at 7:00 p.m. when Johnson came on duty, is 14 minutes late. So -is Johnson’s wind-up wristwatch, set at the same time. The red plastic -lens covering the roof light on the driver’s side shows a triangular -puncture, and the lens is dislodged from the housing. A radio antenna -shaft is bent over at a 60° angle. The large “bubble” lamp just inches -in front of the antenna is unscathed. The trunk antenna for CB radio is -bent at 90°. Brekke, after calling the Center for UFO Studies in -Evanston, Illinois, takes Johnson to Grand Forks, North Dakota, at 11:00 -a.m. for an eye examination by ophthalmologist Leonard Prochaska, who -finds that Johnson’s problems have cleared up. Allan -Hendry of CUFOS determines that the car damage is inconsistent with -anything an airplane could have caused. Meridan French, a windshield -expert with the Glass Division of Ford Motor Company, concludes that a -flat-ended object had made a forceful impact with the hood and then -tilted toward the windshield. A team of engineers at Honeywell’s -materials testing laboratory indicates that flying particles were -responsible for the damage to the headlight glass and lamp plastic. -(Wikipedia, “Val Johnson -incident”; NICAP, “Val -Johnson Case”; “Deputy’s -UFO Story Evokes -Other Tales,” Minneapolis Star, September 11, 1979, pp. 1, 5; -“Minnesota CEII: The Val Johnson Story,” IUR 4, no. 3/4 -(Sept./Oct. 1979): 4–9; “Minnesota CEII: The Val Johnson Story, Part -Two, Laboratory Analyses and Conclusion,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979): -4–11; Chris Rutkowski, “Special -Report: Stephen, Minnesota; Not Proof, But…” Swamp Gas Journal 1, -no. 6 (April 1980): 1–4; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close -Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 25; Clark III 713–716)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5965

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Event 8527 -(5C5354AD)

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Date: 8/27/1979
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A family in Smithtown, New York, watches a round -object with a band around its equator and many small orange lights fly -toward them from the north. They remain outside after it disappears, -hoping it will return, and it does, flying from west to east and rising -up sharply and silently. (“New York NL Appears Twice,” IUR 4, no. 6 -(December 1979): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5967

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Event 8528 -(BCC0BFF3)

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Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A 47-year-old housewife sees the lower corner of -a gigantic “mothership” outside her living room window in a southwest -suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The blimp-like UFO is so huge she can’t see -the whole length or height. It extends the whole block of houses at -treetop level. She reports four different kinds of humanoid creatures (7 -in all) visible through the hull, which is luminous and yellow in color. -She hears a loud humming sound. The duration is 45 minutes. (“Two That -Got Away,” IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5971

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Event 8529 -(014F36B5)

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Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A married couple is taking their dog on a duck -hunt between Dziki and Ernestowo, Poland, when they notice a “strange -orange ball” coming from behind a hill about 3 miles away. The husband -studies it through binoculars, estimating its speed as about 95 mph. The -ball proves to be the front of a huge steel-colored cigar- shaped -object, which stops 1,300 feet away and hovers above some buildings for -about 10 seconds. They can see five large, square windows with rounded -corners; the three in the front glow with orange light, while the other -two seem covered by a shade. The object moves forward about 40 feet and -stops. Half a minute later, sparks shoot from the rear and the UFO -vanishes over the horizon. An orange glow remains behind. Alojzy Pawlik -sees the same object in Laskowice at about the same time. (Bronislaw -Rzepecki, “Encounters in Poland,” IUR 12, no. 3 (May/June 1987): -17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5970

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Event 8530 -(5DE20F17)

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Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 8:00 a.m. A woman is in her alfalfa field 10 miles north of -Pasco, Washington, when she sees what appears to be a post sitting a -half-mile away. It is about 4–5 feet tall. About 10 minutes later she -sees that the object is now in the air, flying slowly in a horizontal -position, land bullet-shaped, looking black on its flat end and silver -on its rounded end. A neighbor also sees the object before it disappears -in the west. (“A Flying Fence Post in Washington State,” IUR 4, no. 6 -(December 1979): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5969

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Event 8531 -(F1E61D39)

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Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Russ Johnson is driving on Highway 50 on the -western outskirts of Vermillion, South Dakota, when he spots a blinding -headlight in front of him. It is stationary for 2 seconds, then it -streaks toward him and engulfs his car. Johnson closes his eyes and hits -the brakes, skidding the car to a stop, spinning sideways until it faces -east. He opens his eyes and sees the light heading away west. The next -day, the still-shaken Johnson goes to the site with Robert Adams at the -University of South Dakota, who sees the skid marks. (Clark III 716; -“Case 4-5- 2,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5968

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Event 8532 -(4B83C9CA)

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Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: Silvery cigar with orange light and square windows -approached, hovered, finally sped away over horizon
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ernestowo, Poland
-ID: 344

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Event 8533 -(EDA935D0)

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Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Harry Joe Turner is driving a 1974 Kenworth -tractor-trailer loaded with mustard and ketchup on US Highway 17 two -miles from Warrenton, Virginia. His CB radio starts acting up, giving -out a noise that gets louder and louder. Something grabs him tightly on -his left shoulder. He sees a large object looming over his cab and hears -two thumps. Even though he is going 70 mph, he sees a figure standing -outside. When it throws open the door, Turner grabs his .32 automatic -pistol and fires 8 rounds at it with no effect. He then blacks out. -Turner wakes up in the passenger seat at 3:00 a.m. at his destination in -a Fredericksburg warehouse but can’t remember how he got there. The -odometer indicates he has only traveled 17 miles, not 80, yet he has -used 114 gallons of fuel. The top 2 inches of the CB antenna are melted -off, and 30 inches of the AM/FM antenna has broken off. A filmy -substance covers the truck. He drives back home but is confused and his -eyes are overly sensitive to light. Turner wakes up in a Winchester -hospital diagnosed with a broken blood vessel in his left eye. He begins -to remember more about the experience and recalls his truck being lifted -into a UFO piloted by two humanlike figures dressed in white shirts and -pants, one of whom is named Alpha La Zoo Loo. He seems to take a trip in -space to a planet beyond Alpha Centauri. On September 3, after taking -valium, Turner is arrested for speeding. He thinks aliens are chasing -him. Turner continues to undergo anxiety attacks. Allan -Hendry and Fred Whiting from the Center for UFO Studies are unable -to corroborate Turner’s story, and the two antennas appear to be -deliberately altered. (Iris Maack, “Truck, -Rig, Abducted (?),” APRO Bulletin 28, no. 6 (December 1979): 1–3; -Clark III 1139–1141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5973

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Event 8534 -(BBF07B7E)

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Date: 8/29/1979
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Charles Weeden and his father see an orange -light moving erratically in the sky to the west over Sycamore, Illinois. -They call the police, and Deputy Berna Van Vlerah looks outside the -station 2.5 miles west of the Weedens and sees the orange light to her -southeast, low above the horizon. Using binoculars, she sees a flat- -bottomed orange dome shape within the light. She watches it for 5 -minutes, then drives to the Weedens and watches it there to the west. -(“Orange NL in Illinois?” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5972

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Event 8535 -(BDE5BE5A)

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Date: 8/30/1979
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A student camping out at Slip Bluff County Park -near Lamoni, Iowa, is awakened by her dog barking. She sees a formation -of lights on an oval object about a city block away. It moves away -horizontally, still close to the ground. (“Landing in Iowa?” IUR 4, no. -6 (December 1979): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5974

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Event 8536 -(136FFEF4)

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Date: 8/30/1979
-Description: 4:00 p.m. During a thunderstorm, three passengers and the -driver watch a 2-foot yellow and green ball of light rush down from the -north only 5 feet in front of a Metropolitan Transit Commission bus on -the southwest side of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It hits the pavement and -erupts into a shower of sparks and smoke with a loud explosion. The -shocked bus driver runs over the point of impact as the vehicle is -shaking. No lasting effects can be found in the pavement after the -storm. (“Case 4-5-3,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5975

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Event 8537 -(D80D2548)

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Date: 9/1979
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy is losing momentum due to lack -of money and public support. Search fees have become prohibitive: In -response to a CAUS request for data on UFO trackings, NORAD informs them -that it will require 18,383 hours and $294,157. (MUFON UFO Journal, -October 1979)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5976

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Event 8538 -(1DDCBC4A)

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Date: 9/3/1979
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Two witnesses watch an “aluminum oil drum with -wings” flying silently above Oroville, California, in a straight line. -(“California Flying Drum,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5977

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Event 8539 -(CA270DE1)

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Date: 9/3/1979
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Two couples in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, see a red -disc hovering in the western sky as they are driving from their cottage. -The dashboard and engine lights fail, so the driver pulls over. The -lights come back on but go off again when the car moves forward again. -This happens again 5–6 times in less than a minute. Once their view of -the light is blocked, the lights come back on. The object moves on to -the southwest at incredible speed. (“Car Interference Case,” IUR 4, no. -6 (December 1979): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5978

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Event 8540 -(C0BF7F79)

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Date: 9/3/1979
-Description: 10:40 p.m. Two witnesses in Cape Charles, Virginia, see a -bright light zigzagging in an unusual manner for one minute in the -northeast. (“Virginia NL,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5979

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Event 8541 -(8F852C7C)

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Date: 9/4/1979
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Two boys in Ashland, Wisconsin, watch a -cone-shaped object with a slightly curved bottom flopping around and -tumbling in the sky. They chase it on their bicycles but it outdistances -them. (“Tumbling Cone in Wisconsin,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): -7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5981

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Event 8542 -(4B6E42BF)

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Date: 9/4/1979
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Three men are driving north along Richmond -Township Road A near New Richmond, Wisconsin, when they see a silver -disc 500 feet to the west over some treetops. It moves toward the road -and crosses it at 10 mph behind their pickup, then pausing to hover -above a field 10 feet up. They jump out to watch the UFO wobbling about -300 feet away. Two more cars stop to watch. The object moves off to the -east, still wobbling. (“DD and Independent Witnesses,” IUR 4, no. 6 -(December 1979): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5980

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Event 8543 -(DD055B9C)

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Date: 9/5/1979
-Description: 3:40 a.m. Dr. Barbara Anaczkowska-Piazza, a driver, and a -stretcher bearer are taking a pregnant patient in an ambulance from -Żuławka Sztumska to the hospital at Sztum, Poland. As they are passing -through Tropy Sztumskie, they notice a large orange-red ball on their -left that seems to parallel them as they turn toward Kalwa. At one point -it looks so close that the driver fears it will block their way. It -seems to have two dark, horizontal bands across it. They turn back to a -railway crossing and alert the guards to the object, which is now less -bright and soon turns dark. The observation lasts 20 minutes. Although -there are some discrepancies in the accounts of its movement, Wim van -Utrecht and others are certain that it was the full moon setting. (Emma -Popik, “Under Intelligent Control?” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6 -(March 1981): 2–4; Poland 55–57; Wim van Utrecht, “Lunar Terror -in Poland: A Doctor’s Dilemma,” CENAP UFO-Forschung, October 31, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5982

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Event 8544 -(1D762A75)

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Date: 9/5/1979
-Description: 10 :45 a.m. Lawrence Hogan is driving on County Road MM one -mile east of Dresser, Wisconsin. A black dot moves over the trees ahead -of him about 50 feet up, slowing down 600 feet away and descending below -the tree line. He stops his truck to watch it move east. He sees that -the object is metallic and silent. He chases it, alternately moving and -hovering, for 5 minutes. (“Then, the Next Day,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December -1979): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5983

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Event 8545 -(834ABB25)

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Date: 9/9/1979
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A salesman and some customers are outside in -Richfield, Minnesota, when they notice a silver form shaped like a truck -tire with a flat underside moving to the south. It hovers for 4–5 -seconds before moving off only 80–90 feet away from them. (“Minnesota -Daylight CE I,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5985

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Event 8546 -(FECCB9F4)

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Date: 9/9/1979
-Description: 4:30 a.m. A driver sees a bright amber light through her -windshield to the west in Streamwood, Illinois. It approaches, then -moves back to the west, dipping left and right. It approaches again, -floating downward and growing brighter. Red and yellow spikes of light -emanate from a bright white center. When she feels her face growing hot, -she pulls sharply onto another street. Looking through her rear-view -mirror, she sees the light make an abrupt turn to the left and disappear -in the north in a few seconds. By noon, her face is sunburned and sore; -the skin flakes off the next day and she quickly recovers. (“Case -4-5-4,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5984

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Event 8547 -(444805BD)

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Date: 9/11/1979
-Description: 5:40 p.m. Donald Schultie watches a blue-gray object -approach him from the east in Millsboro, Delaware. His son and -councilwoman Dorothy Grey also see it. The UFO is an oblate sphere with -a flashing white light. He estimates it is 10 feet wide. It hovers -300–500 feet away in a nearby field for 5 minutes then moves up and away -to the northwest. (“Delaware DD,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5986

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Event 8548 -(3B0C8256)

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Date: 9/12/1979
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A fire lookout at the Satus Peak tower on the -Yakama, Washington, Indian Reservation sees a large orange ball of light -between the Goat Rocks Wilderness Area and Mount Adams. It remains below -the skyline for the most part, slowly moving in a number of different -directions before fading from view. An hour and 15 minutes later, two -more orange balls appear in the area of Simon Butte. Moving erratically. -They are joined by a third light, and all fade away after 45 seconds. -The third ball apparently makes another appearance 5 minutes later and -is visible for 45 seconds. (“More NLs in Yakima,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December -1979): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5988

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Event 8549 -(A83DD1D4)

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Date: 9/12/1979
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A complete power failure takes place in Huaihua, -Hunan, China. At 9:00 p.m., a bright object appears overhead, emitting a -vertical stream of white rays. It flies upward at an angle and vanishes -soundlessly a minute later, leaving two masses of hemispherical luminous -clouds about 328 feet across. (Paul Dong and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFOs -over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, p. 132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5987

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Event 8550 -(79A02D4C)

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Date: 9/14/1979
-Description: Disc with flamelike jets around perimeter hovered ahead of -car, darted from point to point. Took off at “very high speed”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Canoga Park, CA
-ID: 345

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Event 8551 -(BB8F946B)

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Date: mid 9/1979
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Teenagers Holly Travis and Debbie LaRose wake up -at the Travis house in Sanford, Maine, and see through a window a huge, -orange, round object whose underside is clearly visible as it slowly -(10–15 mph) passes overhead, gently spinning on its axis, at about 500 -feet elevation. It slowly descends behind the roof of the neighbor’s -house. (Richard Sigismond, “Four Huge Orange Discs and the Case for the -UFO,” IUR 8, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1983): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5989

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Event 8552 -(3D82E894)

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Date: 9/16/1979
-Description: Night. Curtis Olson is mowing hay on his farm near Lake -City, Minnesota, when he finds a circle of flattened corn 50 feet in -diameter. The stalks are flattened in a pattern radiating from the -center of the circle, and some are charred. He finds a path leading to -another circle 18 feet away. At first, he thinks lightning caused it, -but then he considers the possibility of a UFO. County Extension Agent -Matt -Metz thinks it might have been a combination of wind and decay. In -1987, Curtis’s uncle David Olson admits to creating the circles as a -practical joke, using his burlap-covered feet and a posthole tamper. -(“Farmer -Says UFO Caused -Field Damage,” Minneapolis Tribune, September 19, 1979, pp. 2B, 4B; -“Not -Everyone in Lake City Accepting -Prankster’s Confession -in UFO Mystery,” Minneapolis Star and Tribune, April 8, 1987, -pp. 1B, 6B; Clark III 602)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5990

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Event 8553 -(9D938420)

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Date: 9/17/1979
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A witness driving in Portsmouth, Virginia, sees a -large star approaching her until it is only 30 feet up and less than a -block away. She says it seems as large as a three-story house and looks -like a gigantic faceted wedding cake with three layers. She hears a -muffled sound of a motor. One small green light is on the object’s side, -while the underside floods the ground with light. After 2 minutes, it -moves slowly off to the left. (“A Faceted Wedding Cake?” IUR 4. No. 6 -(December 1979): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5991

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Event 8554 -(A17FF5E5)

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Date: 9/19/1979
-Description: Peter Gersten, -on behalf of Ground Saucer Watch, meets with CIA attorneys and Judge John -H. Pratt at US District Court for the District of Columbia. The CIA -has moved for summary judgment, asserting that the GSW requests for UFO -files are an “undue burden” and that the papers released so far are of -little importance. Pratt gives GSW 60 days to provide a written response -to the CIA motion. (MUFON UFO Journal, October 1979)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5992

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Event 8555 -(5D101BE8)

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Date: 9/20/1979
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A woman is driving in Poplar Grove, Illinois, -when a pear-shaped blue light, surrounded by a white haze, engulfs her -van in blinding light. Her AM radio is racked with static. She floors -the accelerator to get away but can’t get past 40 mph. She recalls a -sense of lightness as if she and the van are floating. The next thing -she remembers is driving almost 6 miles further ahead at the -intersection of Beaverton and Poplar Grove Road. She stops a police car -for help, and her husband comes to pick her up. She sleeps abnormally -and exhibits bouts of hysteria for a while after the event. (“Case -4-5-5,” IUR 4, no. 5 (November 1979): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5993

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Event 8556 -(4072099F)

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Date: fall 1979
-Description: MUFOB changes its name to Magonia, with a nod to Jacques -Vallée’s book Passport to Magonia. It continues until April 2009. -(Magonia, no. -1 (Autumn 1979); Clark III 706; “History -of Magonia,” -Magonia Archive)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5996

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Event 8557 -(0DC7114F)

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Date: 9/26/1979
-Alternate date: 9/27/1979
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Pat Gagliardo and another woman watch a single, -blinking white light moving above the treetops near Norwich, -Connecticut. They drive home to get two binoculars and another witness, -then see the light approaching them from the east, now visibly attached -to a boomerang-shaped object with the concave side toward them. It -stops, tumbles end over end, and moves toward them again, slowly passing -overhead, then shoots off to the east. (“Connecticut NL,” IUR 4, no. 6 -(December 1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5994

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Event 8558 -(C858EAC9)

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Date: 9/29/1979
-Description: 8:45 a.m. A screenwriter sees two bright silver spheres -moving above Hollywood, California. Each is somewhat smaller than a full -moon and are revolving counterclockwise around a common axis between -them. (“A Different Kind of Hollywood Spectacle,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December -1979): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5995

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Event 8559 -(F12E74D6)

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Date: 10/1979
-Description: In a remote area near Melville, Saskatchewan, a CUFOS -investigator is looking into a cattle mutilation when his truck begins -swerving uncontrollably. He stops and gets out as he hears a low humming -noise in the nearby bush. Walking toward it, he feels sharp pains in his -back and his knees collapse. The hum becomes louder as he crawls back to -the truck and drives away. He loses his sense of direction and hears a -rapid clicking noise. The speedometer needle fluctuates wildly between -10 and 85 mph. Suddenly his disorientation leaves and he drives home. -(“Two -CE-IIs in Western Canada,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 -(August 1980): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5998

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Event 8560 -(580C9E63)

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Date: 10/1979
-Description: Day. Cornel Alexandru Olteanu is gathering mushrooms in a -forest near Valea Berii near the source of the Teleajen River in the -Ciucaş Mountains, Romania. He notices a gray object like a car in a -clearing under a high cliff about 320 feet away. He walks toward it and -sees it looks more like a metallic disc with a turret and is sitting on -3–4 legs. Nearby are two little men about 4 feet tall who seem to be -working on something. They have large eyes, bald heads, and yellowish -skin, and they are dressed in a one-piece suit. Noticing him, they turn -toward Olteanu, who is suddenly unable to move. The men turn around and -climb up a ladder into the object. Flashing white lights come on and the -object takes off into the sky and over some trees, which bend over as if -they are going through a hurricane. After it is gone, Olteanu can move -again. He notices a yellowish stain at the landing site. (Romania -132–133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5999

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Event 8561 -(DC11FC3F)

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Date: 10/1979
-Description: Construction for an F-117A Nighthawk support facility -begins at Tonopah Test Range inside Area 52, Nevada. The facility at -Area 51 serves as a model for the Tonopah project. (Jacobsen, Area 51, -p. 343)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 5997

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Event 8562 -(AAE2A1BB)

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Date: 10/4/1979
-Description: 12:00 noon. A sales manager watches a silver, domed-shaped -object with a black flat bottom from a 38th- floor window on Madison -Avenue and 26th Street in New York City. It is seen by three others on -the same floor and two others on the floor immediately below. It moves -north and makes a sharp turn before apparently hitting the Empire State -Building. It clears the Pan Am building and flies off along the Hudson -River at a high altitude. (“The UFO That Almost Hit the Empire State -Building,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6000

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Event 8563 -(6C3BAF25)

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Date: 10/6/1979
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A couple driving south on County Road 46 near -Amery, Wisconsin, see two red, luminous globes, each as large as the -full moon, hovering above the southeast horizon. They drive on another -2–3 miles watching them before the two objects join together and hovers -250 feet above the field to their left, bathing it in a pinkish glow. -(“Red Globes in Wisconsin,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6001

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Event 8564 -(7A7A68E2)

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Date: 10/6/1979
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A couple are driving on Interstate 35 east of -Barnum, Minnesota, when they see a ball of light 3–6 feet in diameter -approaching low over some trees. It rolls and bounces silently over the -top of the car in about 10 seconds. After driving another 500 feet, the -car’s engine dies and the headlights malfunction. The battery is so dead -that it can’t be jump-started. The alternator also has to be replaced. -The mechanic who does the repair work says that the interior looks like -a fire has gone through it (though not the exterior). (“Case 4-5-6,” IUR -4, no. 5 (November 1979): 12; Mark Rodeghier, “A -Summary of Vehicle Interference Reports and a Description of a Possible -Natural Phenomenon Causing Some Events,” The Spectrum of UFO -Research, CUFOS, 1988, p. 165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6002

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Event 8565 -(5A5949F9)

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Date: 10/16/1979
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Two witnesses on the east side of Saint Paul, -Minnesota, near Interstate 694 see a silvery domed disc with a flat -bottom traveling toward the southwest, moving up and down and drifting -about. (“Another Minnesota DD,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6003

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Event 8566 -(9C523BA2)

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Date: 10/20/1979
-Description: 12:30 a.m. A 15-year-old boy in a farmhouse in Baldwin, -Wisconsin, sees two intese white lights circling counterclockwise over a -hayfield about 1,200 feet away. He goes outside for a closer look, but -the lights disappear. Three days later, the family finds a 30 foot-by-45 -foot triangular area of brown and dried vegetation in the hayfield. -(“Wisconsin CE II?” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6004

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Event 8567 -(E81DCF23)

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Date: 10/25/1979
-Description: 5:56 p.m. A young man and his sister are driving through -Westmont, Illinois, and see a flat-bottomed object. Bright luminous -white in the middle, its outer edge is more yellow. It moves back and -forth, somersaults, and disappears. (“Illinois Flipping Disc?” IUR 4, -no. 6 (December 1979): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6005

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Event 8568 -(DF04C2E8)

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Date: 10/27/1979
-Description: 6:15 a.m. Lou Blackburn takes three photographs of his -friends’ fishing boat coming out of the Motunau River on the South -Island of New Zealand. After it is developed, one of the slides shows a -cluster of about 19 blue-white lights in the sky. (Fred and Phyll -Dickeson, “The -Motunau, New Zealand, UFO Photograph,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, -no. 6 (June 1981): 1, 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6006

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Event 8569 -(5B921CAF)

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Date: 10/27/1979
-Description: Three Russian aircraft approaching Khatanga, Krasnoyarsk -Krai, Russia, encounter a large UFO about 850 feet long and only a -half-mile away with three spheres attached to it. Each sphere has three -portholes. The pilot of an Antonov An-26 transport cannot get his -compass to work properly unless it is directed at the object, which -paces the aircraft, flying over and around it. A similar object is seen -shortly afterward at Alykel Airport near Norilsk, and the Messoyakha Gas -Field. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, -p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6007

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Event 8570 -(7C60F9E4)

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Date: 10/29/1979
-Description: In Hayden v. National Security Agency/Central Security -Service the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit -rules that the records of the National Security Agency are so sensitive -to national security that they are afforded a “special dispensation” -from adversarial scrutiny through FOIA. (Hayden -v. National Security Agency -/ Central Security Service, US -Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, October 29, 1979)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6008

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Event 8571 -(C72FF5F3)

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Date: 11/1979
-Description: Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO changing colors and -hovering for 30 minutes over secret rocket test range (Kapustin Test -Range — where V-2 was tested)
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Test Range

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Event 8572 -(7FE99347)

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Date: 11/1979
-Description: During rocket tests at the Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan -Oblast, Russia, a Col. Gen. Sapkov and other officers see a bright-green -elliptical object, occasionally changing hues, hover over the range for -30 minutes. Sapkov claims to see the same phenomenon in 1986 and is -assured by officers that this is a common occurrence. (Paul Stonehill -and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind -the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 51)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6009

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Event 8573 -(F61B5FFA)

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Date: 11/4/1979
-Description: Iran Hostage Crisis
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Iran

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Event 8574 -(13A615A1)

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Date: 11/8/1979
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Five teenage girls in West Palm Beach, Florida, -watch a round object with multiple lights, a door, and a bubble roof -descend to the east and hover there for 5 minutes. It rises again, flies -over a store near the witnesses and disappears over the southern -horizon. (“Palm Beach Puzzle,” IUR 4, no. 6 (December 1979): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6010

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Event 8575 -(85F33FC3)

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Date: 11/9/1979
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Robert -Taylor, a 61-year-old forestry worker, is out one night working in -the Dechmont Woods near Livingston, Scotland. Taylor and his dog are on -duty when he spots a UFO hovering completely motionless and silent above -the ground. Described as approximately 20 feet across and 12 feet high, -the strange object is made of a “dark gray metallic material.” Taylor -thinks the UFO is possibly going transparent from time to time in order -to disguise itself. A ring or platform encircles the object with spikes -topped with propellers. Two more small spiky spheres come from the craft -and make a sound as their spikes move across the ground. Taylor is then -grabbed by these two smaller objects and dragged to the UFO. As this is -happening, he can smell a strong, sickening odor. Soon after this, he -loses consciousness and remains passed out about 20 minutes. He is woken -up by his dog, which is running around and barking in a panic. He hears -a kind of hissing sound and realizes that the craft is beginning to -leave. Seconds later the UFO disappears. Taylor is unable to walk or -talk properly after the event. He suffers from a headache, sickness, and -pain in his chin for some hours afterward. Authorities are appointed to -investigate the site and find tracks where Taylor says the smaller -spheres were dragging him. (Wikipedia, “Robert -Taylor incident”; NICAP, “Taylor Incident”; Steuart Campbell, “Close -Encounter in Scotland,” -Journal of Transient Aerial Phenomena 1, no. 2 (March 1980): 43–46; -Martin Keatman and Andrew Collins, “Physical -Assault by Unidentified Objects at Livingston, Part I,” Flying -Saucer Review 25, no. 6 (April 1980): 2–7; Martin Keatman and Andrew -Collins, “Physical -Assault by Unidentified Objects at Livingston, Part II,” -Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 1 (June 1980): 25–28; Martin Keatman and -Andrew Collins, “Physical -Assault by -Unidentified Objects at Livingston, Part III,” Flying Saucer Review -26, no. 3 (September 1980): 1–4; “A Scottish Abduction?” IUR/Frontiers -of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 15–16; Steuart Campbell, “Close Encounter -at Livingston,” ed., Charles F. Lockwood and Leslie W. Bayer, BUFORA -Case History No. 1, July 1982; Patrick Gross, “Dechmont -Woods, Scotland, November 9, 1979”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6011

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Event 8576 -(43EED5E1)

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Date: 11/11/1979
-End date: 11/12/1979
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Flight JK-297, a TAE Supercaravelle outbound -from Salzburg, Austria, has just made a refueling stop on Mallorca, -Balearic Islands, Spain, before setting course toward Las Palmas in the -Canary Islands. Pilot Francisco Javier Lerdo de Tejada and his crew -notice a set of red lights that are fast approaching the aircraft. They -appear to be on a collision course, alarming the crew. The captain -requests information about the lights, but neither the Pegaso Defense -Radar Center in Torrejón Air Base, Madrid, nor the flight control center -in Barcelona can provide any explanation. In order to avoid a possible -collision, the captain changes altitude. However, the lights mirror the -new course and stay about 1,600 feet away from the plane. Since the -object is violating all elementary safety rules and the crew considers -an evasive maneuver impossible, the captain decides to go off-course and -make an emergency landing at the Manises airport in Valencia. The lights -abandon the pursuit just before the aircraft lands. However, three new -UFO targets are detected by the radar, each one with an estimated -diameter of 650 feet. The objects are seen by several witnesses. One of -the UFOs passes very close to the airport runway, and emergency lights -are lit by the land crew in case the object happens to be an -unregistered flight experiencing difficulties. Because the object -answers no attempts to communicate, a Mirage F-1 takes off at 2:10 a.m. -from the nearby Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete to intercept the object. -The pilot, Spanish Air Force captain Fernando Cámara, has to increase -his speed to 920 mph just to achieve visual contact with what he sees as -a truncated cone-shaped object. Despite his initial efforts, the object -quickly disappears. Cámara is told of a new radar target, indicating -that another object might be near Sagunto. When he is close enough, the -object accelerates and disappears again. This time, though, the UFO -seems to respond, and the Mirage has its electronic flight systems -jammed. At last, and after a third intercept attempt, the UFO finally -disappears, heading for Africa. After 90 minutes of pursuit, the pilot -is forced to return to the base with no results. (Wikipedia, “Manises -UFO incident”; -NICAP, “Spanish -Radar Visual Case? Probably Not”; “Spanish Radar Visual Case,” IUR -4, no. 6 (December 1979): 14–15; Good Above, pp. 156–157; -Juan José Benitez, “Jetliner -‘Intercepted’ by UFO near Valencia,” -Flying Saucer Review 25, no. 5 (March 1980): 13–15; J. J. Benítez, -Incidente en Manises, Plaza y Janés, 1982; J. Plana Crivellén, “Encounters -in Spanish Air-Space between Aircraft and UFOs,” Flying Saucer -Review 34, no. 1 (March 1989): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6012

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Event 8577 -(D558A379)

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Date: 11/14/1979
-Description: 8:10 p.m. A witness near Killaly, Saskatchewan, sees a -white light land in a field about a quarter mile to the south of her -house and then go out. Her dogs keep snarling and barking all night -long. The next morning her husband passes the field and notices that it -is emitting a dense cloud of smoke. He finds a ring of smoldering grass -some 30 feet in diameter, but with snow still visible in the center. The -unburnt grass next to it is flattened. (“Two CE-IIs -in Western Canada,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 (August -1980): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6013

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Event 8578 -(053447E4)

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Date: 11/15/1979
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A group of children playing in Chiraleș, Romania, -see a milky-white object that looks like a mace head with protuberances -moving silently from north to south about 50 feet from the ground. It -appears to be 3 feet in diameter and lands at a nearby mound. The -children run toward the mound but stop when they see two glowing objects -land on it with tripod legs. Two little men 2.5 feet tall, dressed in -metallic costumes with antennae, come out of one of the objects through -a door and walk around with a bouncing motion. The children keep -approaching, so the men run back into the craft, which takes off in a -burst of red-orange flames. Small circular impressions are found, -although they get disturbed by curious onlookers. (Romania -134–135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6014

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Event 8579 -(12B63857)

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Date: 11/15/1979
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Two teenage boys in Gadsden, Alabama, see a domed -disc the size of a house approach them from the south until it is 900 -feet away and 750 feet in the air. The light underneath it is so bright -that it illuminates the entire object. It makes a U-turn and passes -overhead as it moves south with a jerky motion. (“Alabama Saucer,” IUR -5, no. 1 (January 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6015

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Event 8580 -(B1BC7398)

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Date: 11/17/1979
-Description: 2:30 p.m. A 13-year-old boy is walking home from school -through a clearing in the woods in Pound Ridge, New York, when he sees -what looks like a solid, 3-foot-tall maple tree surrounded by an -electric glow. It hovers for 3 seconds only 12 feet away from him, then -shoots straight up into the sky, changing color from green to red. (“A -Flying Tree in New York?” IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6016

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Event 8581 -(A1971771)

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Date: 11/17/1979
-Description: 4:20 p.m. The underground Pegaso Defense Radar Center at -Torrejón Air Base in Madrid, Spain, detects an unknown target some 25 -miles south of Motril, Grenada, and a Mirage F1 is scrambled from Los -Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Castilla–La Mancha. By the time the jet -arrives in the vicinity, the target has disappeared. At 6:16 p.m., the -pilot is heading back to Los Llanos when he sees three powerful -red-yellow lights in the shape of a triangle about 12 miles away. They -do not register on radar. In spite of chasing the lights at 720 mph, the -Mirage cannot close the gap. During his descent into Los Llanos, some -childish, laughing voices break into the UHF-1 channel linking him to -Pegaso: “Hello, how are you? Hello, hello,” they say in Spanish. The -interference lasts 30 seconds. (“El -OVNI que sobrevoló la ciudad de Motril,” OVNI: ¿Mitologia o -Realidad?, May 24, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6017

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Event 8582 -(0564F8D1)

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Date: 11/18/1979
-Description: 1:15 a.m. A man in Antioch, California, watches a bright -red light flying from east to the northeast. It stops for 3–5 seconds -and changes to purple then pale blue and moves off. (“Fast NL in -California,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6018

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Event 8583 -(7FA63A42)

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Date: 11/26/1979
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A phone call to police in Pontoise, Val d’Oise, -France, brings officers to the apartment of Jean-Pierre Prevost, 25, a -clothing seller, who has claimed that a colleague, Franck Fontaine, has -been abducted by a UFO. Fontaine reappears on December 3, claiming to -remember only that a luminous fog had descended on his car and he woke -up later in a cabbage field. GEPAN investigates and finds the story -problematic. On July 7, 1983, Prevost confesses that the story was a -hoax intended to promote a spiritual message. (Enquête -GEPAN 79/07: -A propos d’une disparition, Note Technique no. 6, Groupe d’Étude des -Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non- identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude -Spatiales, March 31, 1981; “French Abduction: ‘Travis Walton’ Style,” -IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980): 3; Jacques Bonabot, “1979 Fontaine Case Now -Admitted to Be a Hoax,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 190 (December 1983): 10; -“Cergy-Pontoise -Hoax,” Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology; Clark III -230–232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6019

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Event 8584 -(6468E21E)

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Date: 11/27/1979
-Description: 4:25 p.m. Yvette Godfrey is assistant manager of a spa in -the Barker Shopping Plaza off State Highway 82 near the Connecticut -Turnpike in Norwich, Connecticut. She sees a cigar-shaped object -hovering at an angle directly above the Norwich Sheraton Motor Inn about -30 feet above the Sheraton sign on the roof. Other women at the spa -observe it too. It moves a bit to the south and stops again for a minute -before turning west into the clouds. (“Connecticut Cigar,” IUR 5, no. 1 -(January 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6021

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Event 8585 -(6AC878B0)

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Date: 11/27/1979
-Description: A 13-year-old girl (“Christelle”) in France is terrorized -by the landing of a UFO and the sight of one of its crew. GEPAN -investigates the landing traces. Grass is flattened for several days -after the incident, and samples are taken to Paul Sabatier University in -Toulouse for analysis. Prof. André Touzé of the university’s Center for -Plant Physiology says there is no “unequivocal evidence of chemical of -biological disturbance of the samples.” (Enquête -GEPAN no. 79/06, Note -Technique no. 8, Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non- -identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, October 26, 1981; Peter -A. Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, Warner, 1999, pp. 97–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6020

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Event 8586 -(AE76DBE2)

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Date: 11/30/1979
-Description: 8:00 p.m. At Playa el Combate beach outside Pole Ojea, -Puerto Rico, Ramonés Torres and his wife are watching television when -they see a bright light hanging at a height of 100 feet above the sea -about 900 feet from their house. After about 30 minutes it moves down -toward the sea, flares up, and goes out. Torres goes back to the TV set, -but after 15 minutes the light returns, this time shining brightly -through the window. The light is on a platform floating on the sea only -130–140 feet away, approaching at about 8 mph, and they can see a small -man on it about 4 feet high wearing silvery-white coveralls and a big -helmet. Suddenly the platform reverses and the light goes out. (Jorge -Martín, “A -Small Alien Being Seen in Puerto Rico,” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. -3 (Autumn 1999): 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6022

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Event 8587 -(8ABDA16F)

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Date: 12/1979
-Description: The Moscow City Committee of the Soviet Communist Party -forbids all activities of the BVPTS civilian UFO group, but it persists -into the 1980s. (Nikita A. Schnee, “Ufology -in the USSR,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 1 (June 1981): 8–10; -Nikita A. Schnee, “Comments,” -AFU Newsletter, no. 27 (Jan./Dec. 1984): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6023

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Event 8588 -(74AC854D)

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Date: 12/1/1979
-Description: The US Strategic Air Command assumes control of the -ballistic missile warning system and all Space Surveillance Network -facilities from the deactivating Aerospace Defense Command, with data -streams continuing to flow to NORAD. NORAD retains the radar networks -and operates many radar sites jointly with the FAA as Semi-Automatic -Ground Environment. (Wikipedia, “Strategic -Air Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6024

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Event 8589 -(2430A2D3)

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Date: 12/3/1979
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Chris and Ralph Smith of Shag Harbour, Nova -Scotia, see a shiny, semicircular object with red and yellow fire -beneath it hover for 5 minutes before it disappears into the sea. (Chris -Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, -pp. 102–103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6025

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Event 8590 -(E9237898)

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Date: 12/3/1979
-Description: 10:20 p.m. Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer -John Pushie takes 7 photos (four of which turn out) of a bright light -from his home 7 miles west of Sydney, Nova Scotia. The light hovers in -one spot then moves quickly away at one point. He shows them to the -commanding officer of CFS Sydney Radar Base [now closed] in Lingan Road, -who says he wants to send them to the National Research Council. One -month later they are returned with a note saying that Pushie had -photographed the star Vega. (“Former -RCMP Officer Photographs UFO -near Sydney N.S.,” Journal UFO 2, no. 4 (March 1981): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6026

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Event 8591 -(5731C44E)

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Date: 12/4/1979
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Two witnesses are driving on State Highway 32 -near Mansfield Depot, Connecticut, when they see a bright, -football-shaped “cloud” hovering low over the trees to the north, -turning slowly. The driver stops just north of the intersection with US -Highway 44. The object is now seen to have a complex shape with multiple -lights as it hovers above some power poles to the west. It starts moving -slowly to the south. The witnesses try to follow it but lose sight of -it. (“Six Days Later in Connecticut,” IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980): -4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6027

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Event 8592 -(6BDFF920)

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Date: 12/5/1979
-Description: 5:55 p.m. Norma White watches a bright star from her -restaurant in Ansted, West Virginia. It remains stationary for 15 -minutes at a height of 2,000 feet over the mountains to the north. Then -it approaches her, passing overhead at 100 mph. It hurts her eyes to -look at it. Then the light goes out, allowing her to see a Y-shaped -object emitting a dull green light. Clusters of red lights are at the -three points of the Y. It silently turns and flies off to the east. -Other lights appear in the sky (18 or so) and are observed by police -officers Charles Crosier and Dan Cohenour. (“The Mini-Flap of West -Virginia,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6028

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Event 8593 -(F11D2F2A)

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Date: 12/6/1979
-Description: 6:29 a.m. An Archuleta County deputy sheriff is driving -west on US Highway 160 in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, when he sees an -orange-gold light in the western sky. It quickly grows to the size of a -fuzzy full moon in 2–3 seconds. Holding its position, it vanishes -without a sound. (“Colorado UFO: Head On?” IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6029

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Event 8594 -(849272F5)

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Date: 12/7/1979
-Description: 10:10 p.m. A couple sees a milky-white object while driving -through Madison, Connecticut. They pull over on Bishop Lane and watch it -make abrupt changes of direction for a few minutes before it fades from -sight. (“Connecticut Disc,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6030

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Event 8595 -(2BA80A4E)

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Date: 12/9/1979
-Description: 9:45 p.m. US Coast Guard Storekeeper 1st Class Michal -Williams sees a stationary white light above the Mississippi River near -the dam in Keokuk, Iowa. It lights up the river below it. The light -moves straight up at high speed, changing from white to red and coming -to an abrupt stop. The light goes out. Williams and a radioman see it -again in the northeast and view it through binoculars. It has two red -lights and a white light flashing irregularly. It flies around the dam -and into the west-northwest in a matter of seconds. (“Coast Guard -Sighting in Iowa,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6032

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Event 8596 -(D0570E26)

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Date: 12/9/1979
-Description: 9:15 a.m. French Air Force Capt. Jean-Pierre Fartek and his -wife observe an oscillating UFO hovering near the ground in front of a -row of apple trees at his home in a village near Dijon, Côte d’Or, -France. It looks like two “reversed saucers pressed against each other,” -gray-metal above and dark blue below, with no lights or portholes. He -describes the sighting to Gen. Denis -Letty, who -includes the case in the 1999 COMETA report. (“1979: -Air Force Captain Jean-Pierre Fartek Spots UFO,” UFO Casebook, -September 14, 2010; Kean, pp. 124– 126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6031

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Event 8597 -(A5A08721)

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Date: 12/11/1979
-Description: 11:45 a.m. Flight instructor Leslie Groves is tutoring a -pupil aboard a Cessna 150 flying at 4,500 feet south of Bolton, Greater -Manchester, England, when he spots something strange that appears to -come out of a cloud above Winter Hill. It is clearly a solid ball of -white light that is passing in and out of the clouds. He asks the -student to bank in order to minimize any risk of a collision. By now the -object is pulling away in an arc described as a “well-controlled -swooping motion” at about 2,500 feet. (Ron Sergeant and Jenny Randles, -“Aircraft -in Encounters -over Bolton,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 1 (June 1980): -19–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6033

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Event 8598 -(A1273831)

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Date: 12/13/1979
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Two truckers (Wang Dingyuan and Wang Jianming) -are driving separate vehicles on the Lanxi-Xin’angiang Highway near -Longwangmiao, Zhejiang, China, when they see a bright beam of light -ahead. When the lead driver sees two “unusual human beings” standing on -the highway, he stops. They are short, perhaps 4.5 feet tall, and wear -what look like spacesuits. The second driver also stops but does not see -the beings, which soon vanish. The drivers decide to switch vehicles. A -few miles down the road, the new lead driver sees the same entities, and -the men again stop the trucks. The drivers turn their lights off and on, -but the beings remain. When one of the drivers emerges with a crowbar, -they disappear. (Paul Dong and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFOs over Modern -China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, pp. 140–141; Good Above, pp. 214–215)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6034

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Event 8599 -(35DD0493)

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Date: 12/20/1979
-Description: 4:30 a.m. A pilot and two other witnesses are driving near -Therien, Alberta, when they see an elongated object drop from 1,000 feet -to 200 feet, turning red as it descends, for about 5–10 minutes. It -crashes into the ground not too far away from their car. They can feel -the impact. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, -2022, p. 103)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6035

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Event 8600 -(57765768)

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Date: 12/23/1979
-Description: 3:30 p.m. A salesman exiting the Orange Freeway at -Riverside in Northeast Anaheim, California, sees an object silently pass -over him at 300 feet up. The front part is octagonal and the rear is a -rectangle. (“A California ‘Whatsit.’” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6036

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Event 8601 -(06D172EE)

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Date: 12/27/1979
-Description: 11:15 a.m. Two construction workers are driving south on -Knott Street in Coquille, Oregon, when they see a bright flash in the -southern sky. It is caused by a reflection off a thin, metallic, domed -object wobbling nearby. It is about 40–50 feet in diameter and 6–7 feet -thick. The object descends to about 1,000 feet. The witnesses try to -drive closer and look at it through inexpensive binoculars as it flies -down the valley before it disappears to the south. (“Daylight Disc in -Oregon,” IUR 5, no. 1a (January 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6037

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Event 8602 -(964D1F85)

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Date: 12/27/1979
-Description: Night. A car factory worker at Halewood, Merseyside, -England, is walking home when he senses something behind him. Turning -around, he sees a floating white sphere, several feet in diameter, -heading silently toward him. He watches it pass, and the tingling at the -back of his neck intensifies. When it is about 20 feet ahead, it stops -and shoots to the southwest at a 45° angle. The man’s hair remains -charged with static for two days. (Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of -Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 (Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6038

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Event 8603 -(7052155D)

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Date: 12/30/1979
-Description: After presenting his findings to the GEPAN Scientific -Council, Claude -Poher resigns as director. His position is not made public, but it -meets with strong opposition from the media. Poher then takes a one-year -leave of absence from CNES to sail around the world with his family in a -boat he has built himself. Mathematician Alain -Esterle replaces Poher as GEPAN director, remaining until 1983. -Under his direction, GEPAN is productive, issuing a series of detailed -technical notes on cases. (J. Allen Hynek, “GEPAN: France’s Official UFO -Agency,” IUR 5, no. 1 (January 1980): 6–8; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN -to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter -2000–2001): 12–13; Clark III 546)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6039

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Event 8604 -(2B216DE8)

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Date: 12/31/1979
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A family in Demopolis, Alabama, wakes up to the -sound of their dogs barking wildly. When one witness goes outside to -quiet them, he sees a bright, triangular object the size of a house -hovering above trees about 1,200 feet away. It approaches in a zigzag -path. (Demopolis (Ala.) Times, January 4, 1979; Marler 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6040

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- Event 8605 (D64CDDFC)

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Date: 1980’s
-Description: Area-51 workers and widows said that throughout the 1980s -the Air Force and its contractors regularly filled 55-gallon drums with -toxic wastes, emptied them into football-field size trenches, doused -them with jet-fuel and burned them. They claimed that the U.S. Air Force -generated and mishandled hazardous substances, and that the -Environmental Protection Agency failed to take necessary action to -enforce the requirements of the resource conservation act against the -Air Force.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Area 51

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Event 8606 -(C0B41922)

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Date: 1980
-Description: Ann -Druffel and D. -Scott Rogo publish The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, a report on their -investigations into a series of abductions and UFO-related events in -California involving several women over a period of 25 years. (Ann -Druffel and D. Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, Prentice-Hall, -1980; Clark III 415)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6041

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Event 8607 -(45169578)

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Date: 1980
-Description: Richard -F. Haines, an -aerospace psychologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, -California, publishes Observing UFOs, a technical book on analyzing UFO -reports. (Richard F. Haines, Observing UFOs: An Investigative Handbook, -Nelson-Hall, 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6042

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Event 8608 -(43333A90)

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Date: 1980
-Description: Alejandro -Agostinelli and Juan Carlos Zabalgoitia establish the Centro de -Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos No Convencionales in Buenos Aires, -Argentina, and publish three issues of a boletín informativo. (CEFANC -Boletin Informativo, no. -1 (Jan./March 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6043

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Event 8609 -(13A6A065)

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Date: 1980
-Description: An All-Russian Research Public Organization is launched -informally by Russian science-fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev, aerospace -engineer Vadim -Chernobrov, astronaut Georgy -Beregovoy, and other enthusiasts to explore the mysteries of the -universe and nature, research new ways of space technology development, -and collect information about UFOs and anomalous events in the Soviet -Union. (Wikipedia, “Kosmopoisk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6044

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Event 8610 -(E4D9E4D6)

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Date: 1980
-Description: Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen publish The Search for -Life in the Universe, an open-minded textbook on SETI. (Donald Goldsmith -and Tobias Owen, The -Search for Life in the Universe, Benjamin/Cummings, -1980; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 (1994): -147–151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6045

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Event 8611 -(6B5C7C01)

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Date: 1980
-Description: During interception exercises, seven MiG-12s from the -Mierzęcice Air Base [now Katowice Airport], Poland, notice a -saucer-shaped object with flashing lights approaching them. It has a -blue-gray cupola on top and is three times bigger than any of the -aircraft. It flies to each of the MiGs and maneuvers around them. -(Poland 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6046

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Event 8612 -(A624FD70)

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Date: 1/1980
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A Brazilian electronics businessman and 9 others -see a disc-shaped object shine a light down on the water near the -eastern bank of the Rio Tapajós 30 miles south of Santarém, Brazil. The -man, his family, and some relatives are camping at a beach. Several -teenagers are still awake, lying in hammocks and talking, when they see -the UFO come across the river, stopping about 30 yards from the beach -and shining a light on the water 60 feet below. The UFO hovers briefly -then begins moving north, parallel to the shore. It travels more than -half a mile, with the spotlight shining straight down before it -disappears. The light beam leaves a trail of luminescence for several -hundred yards. (Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in -Brazil—Where Next?, Horus House, 1996, pp. 146–147; -Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 -(December 2010): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6048

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Event 8613 -(D737E0A2)

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Date: 1/1980
-Description: The Gemeinschaft zur Erforschung unbekannter Phänomene -(later Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des UFO- Phänomens) publishes the -first issue of Journal für UFO-Forschung in Lüdenscheid, North -Rhine–Westphalia, Germany, which is still in operation in 2022. (Journal -für UFO-Forschung, no. 1 (January 1980); Journal für UFO-Forschung -website)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6047

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Event 8614 -(717008AB)

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Date: 1/10/1980
-Description: The NSA’s Roy R. Banner releases two UFO-related documents -to Peter Gersten, but -states that the original 18 he has requested are exempt from release -because of national security, adding that the NSA is reviewing 79 other -documents originating with other federal agencies. (ClearIntent, pp. 182–187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6049

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Event 8615 -(F7A23731)

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Date: 1/13/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Brenda Simanski and Janine Mattson quit their -shift at the Seminary Nursing Home on Pioneer Road in Red Wing, -Minnesota. Standing in the parking lot, they see a star making a bizarre -zigzag pattern. It moves above them and they see it is a triangle 15 -feet wide and 20 feet long with two white lights in front, blue lights -in two of the corners, and a red light between the blue ones. Three -other witnesses come out of the building and also watch the object, -which leaves slowly and silently to the north-northwest. (“5 -Watch Tree-Hovering UFO -for 6 Minutes, ‘Won’t Say It’s from Space,’” Red Wing (Minn.) -Republican Eagle, January 15, 1980, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. -128 (March 1980): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6050

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Event 8616 -(A31D18A7)

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Date: 1/14/1980
-Description: 6:05 a.m. Truck driver William Barrett is on an early -delivery run from Burnley to Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, when he -hears a deep humming sound. Looking ahead, he sees a machine with flames -underneath hovering at a lay-by off the roadside. He slows his truck to -a near crawl and moves past the object, which looks like a “toast rack” -with curved sides and three red glows emerging from the edge to create a -misty fuzziness obscuring the base. Now only 25 feet away, he sees that -it has a bell- or tortoiseshell shape with a metallic sheen and a tube -sticking up from the top. The red glows emerge from under a rim that -runs around the lower part of the object. He can now see two figures -standing in front of the object, one standing erect and wearing a -uniform with a peaked cap, and the other crouched forward, wearing a -silvery-gray jump suit. As he passes, the arc lights on the object start -flickering like a disco. His headlights go out, and his mind gets hazier -and he loses consciousness. He experiences missing time until he jerks -awake sometime around 8:30 a.m. (Jenny Randles, “Close Encounter in UFO -Alley,” IUR 26, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 3–8, 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6051

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Event 8617 -(9240EA94)

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Date: 1/17/1980
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Chilean astronomer Fernando -Noël is at his home in the eastern suburbs of Santiago, Chile, when -he sees a luminous point of light at 20° elevation moving from southwest -to west. It is silent and resembles a satellite. He calls two other -witnesses, during which time the object disappears. At 10:45 p.m., he -sees a bright light moving slowly toward the zenith. Looking more -closely, he sees it is actually a group of 30 objects in a V- formation. -Each individual light of the group is pale white with a slight tint of -yellow. The formation moves from 20° above the western horizon to about -20° above the eastern horizon before disappearing gradually. The -duration is approximately 2 minutes. (“Unidentified -Atmospheric Phenomena Observed by an Astronomer,” Journal of -Scientific Exploration 7, no. 4 (1993): 439–441)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6052

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Event 8618 -(45014440)

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Date: 1/21/1980
-Description: 11:40 p.m. Seven women are driving home in two cars from a -bridge game near Council Bluffs, Iowa. The first car with six witnesses, -including Marilyn Anderson, sees a cluster of lights in the western sky -as they are driving on Pioneer Trail. The lights are hovering about -200–300 feet above a bluff less than a city block away. When they stop -the car to get out for a closer look, the lights speed away to the -southwest. The seventh woman, in a separate car behind them, does not -see the lights, but Anderson tells her about them when she pulls up. She -continues driving home, but when she gets to Longview Drive, her car -stalls, and the radio and lights go out. She restarts the car, but it -stalls out another quarter-mile away. A bright orange light appears in a -cornfield about 900 feet away with an intensity that hurts her eyes. -Scared, she locks herself inside the car and passes out. When she wakes -up, her car is turned sideways across the road, but she is able to drive -it home. She can still see the orange light from her kitchen window, but -she has some blotches and redness on her skin that fades by 4:20 a.m. -(“Possible Abduction in Iowa,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 -(July/Aug. 1980): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6053

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Event 8619 -(2B4734A6)

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Date: 1/23/1980
-Description: Peter Gersten files -an appeal with the NSA to release more UFO material. (ClearIntent, p. 187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6054

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Event 8620 -(C1AD09C9)

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Date: 1/24/1980
-Description: 1:00 p.m. A. Golotikin is working as a mechanic aboard the -Brilliant, a Russian fishing trawler operating 20–30 miles off the coast -of Western Sahara. He and the rest of the crew see a black, cigar-shaped -object moving slowly toward the ship in complete silence. They watch it -for 5–7 minutes through binoculars, then it disappears as it gets closer -to the ship. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, -2020, pp. 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6055

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Event 8621 -(1E85BE3E)

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Date: 2/1980
-Description: The Australian Centre for UFO Studies begins publishing the -Journal of the Australian Centre for UFO Studies, edited by Harry -Griesberg and Keith -Basterfield, until -at least November 1985. (Journal -of the Australian Centre -for UFO Studies 1, no. 1 (February 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6056

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Event 8622 -(010ECD41)

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Date: 2/7/1980
-Description: 9:50 p.m. Daryl Browne, a ranch hand at the Glenalta horse -ranch near Stirling, South Australia, is watching TV when he hears dogs -howling and timber crashing outside. His two guard dogs are howling in -fear. Outside he sees a yellow half-moon-shaped object about 25–30 feet -long. It is 100 feet up in the branches of a 230-foot-tall cypress tree, -branches bending under its weight. The trunk shows large gouges. Browne -calls the police, but the object is gone by the time they arrive. For 2 -days, Browne’s dogs refuse to go near the tree. (“UFO Smashes Tree in -Australia,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): -16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6057

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Event 8623 -(9F3D6C4D)

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Date: 2/21/1980
-Description: 11:15 a.m. An 11-year-old girl getting ready for bed in -Stamford, Connecticut, looks through a window and sees a large white -oval of light low in the west-northwest sky, apparently four times the -size of the moon. Her grandmother joins her and watches the object, -which is swinging with a pendulum motion. It is still visible about 30 -minutes later. The family’s German shepherd dog barks continually at it -while it is visible and for 20 minutes after it is last viewed. (Allan -Hendry, “Unusual -Backyard Visitor,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 2 (June 1980): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6058

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Event 8624 -(FB27E68C)

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Date: 2/25/1980
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Oil worker Rusty Pennington is watching a pump a -quarter mile west of Youngsville, Pennsylvania. Suddenly he hears an -explosion that lasts only a split second and sees a domed disc to the -left of his truck. He estimates the object is 20 feet wide and 6–8 feet -high. Flying at treetop level, it streaks silently downward from -southwest to northeast and disappears in the distance. (“Daylight Disc -in Pennsylvania,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): -14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6059

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Event 8625 -(5C39ED63)

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Date: 2/28/1980
-Description: The National Enquirer runs an article, “Former Intelligence -Officer Reveals ‘I picked up wreckage of UFO that exploded over U.S.’” -that includes a portion of a December 1979 interview by Bob -Pratt with Jesse Marcel -Sr. as a pre-publication teaser for Berlitz and -Moore’s -forthcoming book. (Patrick Gross, “Roswell -1947: First -Ufologists Investigations”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6060

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Event 8626 -(A9050559)

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Date: 3/1980
-Description: Nanotechnologist Robert -A. Freitas Jr. advocates searching for alien probes or artifacts on -planets, satellites, and asteroids because it is more cost-effective -than looking for distant radio signals. (Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Interstellar -Probes: A New Approach to SETI,” Journal of the British -Interplanetary Society 33 (1980): 95–100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6061

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Event 8627 -(B3975B34)

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Date: early 3/1980
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Fred Wirth Jr. steps outside his home in -Bulverde, Texas, and sees a large orange glow 45° up in the northern sky -about 100 feet above his property, lighting it up with an orange glow. -After hovering silently, it shoots up in the air and stops, now -appearing as a red, blinking dot. His wife joins him but instantly -becomes nauseous and throws up. He starts sweating profusely. (“Strange -Reactions to Huge Glow,” IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 74–75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6062

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Event 8628 -(CAC8C3A9)

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Date: 3/7/1980
-Description: 12:10 a.m. Former Navy pilot Larry Crawford sees a -star-like light moving 700–800 mph at 30,000 feet above Memphis, -Tennessee. While he is watching it move for 10 seconds, it executes a -hairpin turn. (“Pilot: ‘No Human Could Have Survived Turns Like That!’” -IUR/Probe, September 1980, pp. 75, 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6063

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Event 8629 -(3614110D)

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Date: 3/8/1980
-Description: Object buzzed car, jetlike sound, bright illumination. Dog -howled as if his ears hurt
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wilmington, NC
-ID: 346

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Event 8630 -(0C7516EF)

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Date: 3/12/1980
-Description: 12:45 a.m. At least 10 witnesses, including city police and -county sheriff deputies, watch an odd light maneuvering, climbing, and -descending in the sky above Gladstone, Michigan. (“Much Ado about -Little?” IUR/Probe, September 1980, p. 78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6064

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Event 8631 -(DC1B2620)

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Date: 3/13/1980
-Description: 7:50 p.m. A subcontractor on a job is driving near Haselor, -Warwickshire, England, when he sees a white, cigar-shaped object with a -steady red glow on either end pass in front of his windshield. The -steering wheel instantly becomes hot, causing him to lift his hands off -the wheel. He maneuvers the car off the road until it cools enough to -steer. (Tony Green, “Witness -Burned by Passing UFO,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 5 (January -1981): 32–33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6065

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Event 8632 -(DA093CD0)

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Date: 3/15/1980
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A couple in Bannock, Ohio, Spot a bright light in -the southwestern sky. They watch it for 20 minutes before it approaches -their home. The light is a spotlight attached to a large cigar-shaped -object with red and blue lights along its length. The spotlight switches -off as it passes overhead and moves to the northwest. (“Chief -Investigator Allan Hendry Reports: Huge Cigar UFO in Ohio,” CUFOS -Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 (August 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6066

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Event 8633 -(888698F7)

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Date: 3/22/1980
-Description: Three smaller objects were observed on airport radar -joining a larger, brighter object, then separating again
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Burlington, VT
-ID: 347

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Event 8634 -(B18A0D4B)

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Date: 3/22/1980
-Description: Stringfield meets -with two new sources in Erie, Pennsylvania, who show him three photos -allegedly showing an alien cadaver encased in glass in Wright-Patterson -AFB near Dayton, Ohio. He is suspicious and tries to verify them. (MUFON -UFO Journal, December 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6067

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Event 8635 -(19D845E6)

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Date: 3/22/1980
-Description: 10:00–11:00 p.m. Burlington (Vermont) International Airport -radar tracks three small objects that join with a larger, brighter -object then separate again. They are apparently over Malletts Bay. -Speeds of up to 1,500 mph are recorded, and the objects quickly -disappear to the west. Traffic controller Donald Kernan says the lights -“did a kind of dance.” (NICAP, “Satellite -Objects on RADAR”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6068

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Event 8636 -(ED962FB4)

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Date: 3/24/1980
-Description: 7:30 p.m. When his dog starts barking furiously, James -Balkcom notices a bright light moving along the railroad tracks in -James, Georgia, at treetop level. It comes to a stop and hovers above -the home of Benton Evans. The Evanses go outside to watch the light, -which has colored lights blinking inside it. After 5–10 minutes, it -begins moving along the tracks again with a pulsing “shh-shh” noise. -(“Low-Flying Georgian Globe,” IUR/Probe, September 1980, -pp. 78–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6070

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Event 8637 -(C8E21CA5)

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Date: 3/24/1980
-Description: The NSA issues a general denial of releasing all of its UFO -materials to the public as requested by Peter Gersten. (ClearIntent, -p. 187)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6069

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Event 8638 -(65C99584)

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Date: 3/25/1980
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Debbie Harris and Sheri Gustafson are driving on -the Dayton–Xenia Road three miles east of Dayton, Ohio, when Harris -notices bright, beaming lights in the sky. They assume it is an -illuminated tower, but when they pull over, it appears to be about 25 -feet above the ground and 210 feet away. The lights seem to come from an -airplane-sized object with a green light, a red light, and crossed white -beams. After hovering to their north for about 2 minutes, it shoots off -rapidly to the northeast and disappears behind a hill. (“Ohio -Close Encounter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 3 (July 1980): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6071

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Event 8639 -(7AC5A172)

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Date: 4/1980
-Description: A farmer in central Texas is walking through his pasture to -check on a cow that is about to give birth. Instead, he sees two -nonhuman creatures carrying a calf between them, each holding one of its -limbs. They are about 4 feet high and light yellow-green in color. He -runs away and does not return to the location for two days, whereupon he -finds the carcass of the calf. It looks as though it has been turned -inside out, and only the head, feet, and hide remain. Researcher Tom -Adams says the farmer is extremely reluctant to discuss the incident -any further. (MUFON UFO Journal, July/August 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6072

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Event 8640 -(064C236B)

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Date: 4/2/1980
-Description: Car drove into “fog,” headlights deflected upwards, driver -abducted onto silvery domed object with portholes, examined on metallic -table
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pudasjarvi, Finland
-ID: 348

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Event 8641 -(ED1D805E)

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Date: 4/6/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. William Meara and his wife Brenda are driving on -I-84 just south of its intersection with I-90 in Sturbridge, -Massachusetts, when they see a red blur above a road sign. The blur -resolves into a disc about 30 feet in diameter with smaller discs -surrounding it. The object passes silently above their car, moving -northeast. The duration is 3 minutes. When Meara tries to start his car -30 minutes later at home, it acts completely dead but works again -normally the next morning. (“Connecticut Close Encounter,” IUR/Frontiers -of Science 2, no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1980): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6073

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Event 8642 -(F347A48F)

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Date: 4/10/1980
-Description: A businessman driving on the Philadelphia Church Road near -Lincolnton, North Carolina, sees a red, disc- shaped object approach and -hover above his car. It directs a light toward the ground. When he stops -his car and rolls down the window, he hears an intense humming sound. He -watches it for about 5 minutes until it takes off at a 30° angle and -heads south, leaving a thin exhaust trail. (“Those -Funny Lights in the Sky,” Hickory (N.C.) Focus, May 1, 1980, via UFO -Newsclipping Service, no. 130 (May 1980): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6074

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Event 8643 -(2D558585)

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Date: 4/10/1980
-Description: Red disc-shaped object emitted light beam to ground. Took -off with intense humming sound leaving exhaust trail
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lincolnton, NC
-ID: 349

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Event 8644 -(FDF1F1DD)

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Date: 4/11/1980
-Description: 7:15 a.m. Personnel at the La Joya Air Base [part of the -Mariano Melgar Airport], Arequipa, Peru, see a strange object flying in -the vicinity. The base commander orders a Sukhoi Su-22 fighter-bomber to -destroy the target, assumed to be a Chilean balloon. Lt. Oscar Santa -María Huertas commands the scrambled aircraft. As soon as the object is -in his sights some 1,800 feet above the ground, he fires 64 rounds from -his 30mm guns at it. The bullets seem to hit the object without causing -any damage. The UFO then hurls skyward at tremendous speed. Huertas -follows, putting the Sukhoi into Mach 1.2. As he approaches, the object -makes a sudden stop and the Sukhoi flies past it at 36,000 feet. Further -maneuvering takes place, and Huertas finds the object chasing him at one -point at 62,000 feet. He abandons the mission 52 miles away from the -base. After he lands 22 minutes later, the object reappears at the base -and remains visible nearly 2 hours. A Department of Defense information -release gives an erroneous date of May 9, 1980. (Kean, pp. 93–98, 150–151; -Dolan II 214; Good Above, pp. 324–325, -503–504; -Yohanan Díaz Vargas, “Peru: -La Joya AFB, the Perfect UFO Case (1980),” Inexplicata, November 14, -2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6075

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Event 8645 -(F1ED33EF)

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Date: 4/13/1980
-Description: A witness is driving on the eastern outskirts of Halifax, -Nova Scotia, when he sees an unusually bright light. As he drives 5–6 -miles closer, it resolves into two lights side by side. After driving -another 20 miles closer, he sees the two lights are attached to one -object. When directly underneath, it appears to be 1,000–1,200 feet long -and cigar-shaped with lights on the front and back and one side. A truck -driver has also pulled over to watch the UFO. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6076

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Event 8646 -(5877FEC5)

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Date: 4/17/1980
-Description: Day. Michael Romanowski, 8, sees a white boomerang-shaped -object in Buffalo, New York. (“Crescent Reports -from New York and Illinois,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 -(August 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6077

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Event 8647 -(3501DDD7)

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Date: 4/20/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A group of nine family members are on their front -lawn in Hyderabad, India, and see a bell-shaped cloud forming at about -2,000–3,000 feet altitude. It remains stationary and they look away, but -soon they see three smaller bell-shaped clouds forming evenly spaced -below the first and forming an equilateral triangle. The smaller clouds -then merge with the larger one and form an orange ball bright enough to -throw a shadow on the roof near them. It shoots off at great speed -toward the airport, then disappears after breaking into four smaller -orange balls of light. The duration of the sighting is 15 minutes. -(Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. -4 (July 2005): 18–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6080

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Event 8648 -(88DFB961)

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Date: 4/20/1980
-Description: Five apparently metallic Saturnshaped objects, Iligh-speed -flight in formation at low altitude, visible against local terrain
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Mateo, CA
-ID: 350

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Event 8649 -(CC1DC82A)

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Date: 4/20/1980
-Description: 5:30 a.m. Richard -A. Jokinen, an -electrical engineer, is driving north on I-280 in San Mateo, California, -on a fishing trip with his 18-year-old son. They see five bright, -apparently metallic, Saturn-shaped objects flying very fast in formation -at low altitude. The objects are traveling about 500 feet above the -Crystal Springs Reservoir and are visible against trees of the coastal -mountains west of the reservoir. The sighting lasts about 5 seconds, -during which the objects cross 120° of viewing angle. (Allan Hendry, “Five -‘Saturns’ in California,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 -(September 1980): 3; UFOEv II 164–165)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6078

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Event 8650 -(7D6CD5DF)

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Date: 4/20/1980
-Description: 8:20 p.m. Sam Puccinelli is parking his car in his garage -in Palatine, Illinois, when he sees a crescent-shaped, gray-black object -with flashing white lights. He looks at it with his binoculars with his -13-year-old son for 7 minutes before it disappears. (“Crescent -Reports from New York and Illinois,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, -no. 4 (August 1980): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6079

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Event 8651 -(5014D296)

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Date: 4/21/1980
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 351

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Event 8652 -(86EF48D9)

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Date: 4/22/1980
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Police Officer Manuel Medina and dispatcher -Sedilla of Springer, New Mexico, are parked on a traffic watch when one -of them notices a bright star in the west at about 45° moving like a -balloon with a start- stop motion. Medina shines his car’s spotlight on -the object, which drops to a lower elevation. He turns the light off and -the object ascends again. He turns the red cruiser light on, and the -object seems to respond with a reddish hue. The light disappears over -the Cimarron Mountains 20 miles away at 11:10 p.m. (Allan Hendry, “Familiar Description,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 2 (June 1980): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6081

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Event 8653 -(618E99E5)

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Date: 4/26/1980
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two witnesses in Holton, Indiana, watch a -luminous flashing form in the northwest sky. Golden- colored and -triangular in shape, it appears larger than the full moon. The object -hovers, then shoots straight up in seconds. It zigzags before vanishing -in the northwest. (“Golden -Triangle in Indiana,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 (September -1980): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6082

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Event 8654 -(95A615BE)

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Date: 5/1980
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy’s attorney Peter Gersten brings -a lawsuit against the National Security Agency to compel it to release -135 documents it has withheld from FOIA requests. The suit also includes -the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration -(which it claims conducted an inadequate search for its UFO records). -(Fred Whiting, “CAUS Goes to Court,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 -(Sept./Oct. 1980): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6083

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Event 8655 -(C5C82E2C)

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Date: 5/1980
-Description: Early afternoon. Thousands of base personnel and their -families are congregating at Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City, South Dakota, -to watch an SR-71 Blackbird take off after a refueling stop. A1C John W. -Mills III and a few other airmen are on top of the barracks for a view. -They see an odd, triangular object above the B-52 Alert Pad about half a -mile away. It begins to move down the flight line, and they see it is a -gray-black delta shape at an altitude of 500 feet. For some reason it is -not visible through the pair of binoculars they have. It makes a right -turn and suddenly disappears above a parachute-rigging building. The -SR-71 does not take off. Later in the day, an official “flash” message -goes out to base personnel telling them not to talk to the press in case -they had seen anything. (Nukes 387–392)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6084

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Event 8656 -(E26908FD)

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Date: 5/1980
-Description: The Chinese UFO Studies Association is established under -the auspices of Wuhan University, with branches in Beijing, Shanghai, -and the provinces of Guangdong, Sichuan, Shanxi, Hubei, and Guangxi. It -is headed by Cha Leping, a 26-year-old astrophysics student. The -association later is incorporated into the China UFO Research -Organization as an official branch of the Chinese Academy of Social -Sciences. (Paul Dong, “Letters,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March 1982): 3; Good -Above, p. 206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6085

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Event 8657 -(5C51B4E3)

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Date: 5/1980
-Description: Late afternoon. Two witnesses are driving through Manlius, -New York, when they catch a glimpse of a disc- shaped object the size of -a football field hovering above a patch of trees. The driver stops the -car and steps outside. Yellow, red, and green lights are rotating around -its perimeter. A commercial aircraft and news helicopter are also -visible in the sky. The object is still not moving and soundless. Then -two jet fighters, apparently scrambled from Griffiss AFB [now the -Griffiss Business and Technology Park] in Rome, New York, fly toward the -object, which takes off like a bullet and disappears. (Dolan II -211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6086

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Event 8658 -(C144639F)

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Date: 5/2/1980
-Description: Shiny sphere flying with rapid up and down motions observed -through binoculars. Stopped, spinning, over Lick Observatory, -accelerated rapidly and sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Jose, California
-ID: 352

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Event 8659 -(AA93B9C0)

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Date: 5/2/1980
-Description: 10:15 a.m. A Santa Clara County park ranger and another -county employee are in the hills east of San Jose, California, when they -see a shiny, mirror-like spherical object moving north to south. They -take turns studying it through binoculars. The object has a blue-green -band in the center and is orange at the bottom. It makes rapid up- -and-down motions as it moves forward and spins faster as its speed -diminishes. The object stops and spins toward Lick Observatory to the -east of their position for 10 seconds. Then it accelerates rapidly and -speeds away to the south. The sighting duration is 3–4 minutes. (UFOEv -II 226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6087

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Event 8660 -(C0532D6B)

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Date: 5/4/1980
-Description: Eta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 353

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Event 8661 -(D4D6712F)

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Date: 5/5/1980
-Description: As she is driving home from Oklahoma to Eagle’s Nest, New -Mexico, Myrna Hansen and her 6-year-old son see several UFOs in a field -near Cimarron, New Mexico, after which they suffer confusion and a -4-hour loss of time. Paul -Bennewitz, an Albuquerque, New Mexico, owner of humidity equipment -company Thunder Scientific and a UFO investigator, on May 11 brings -psychologist R. -Leo Sprinkle in to meet Hansen. He hypnotizes them and gets a -detailed abduction story from the mother, who also remembers watching -the aliens mutilate a calf. Hansen also remembers being taken by the UFO -to an underground area in New Mexico (leading Bennewitz to suspect it is -the Manzano Weapons Storage Area at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque) where -she sees tanks of water with cattle body parts, as well as a human arm. -(Linda Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal -Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms, Howe Productions, -1989, pp. 112–116; Linda Moulton Howe, Facts and Eyewitnesses, The -Author, 1993, pp. 234–245; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 15–28; -Marcus Lowth, “The -Chilling and Bizarre Abduction Encounter of Myrna Hansen,” UFO -Insight, May 19, 2018; Clark III 359–360)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6088

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Event 8662 -(4CFC1C41)

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Date: 5/6/1980
-Description: Leonard -Stringfield finds an article in UFO Sightings by David McCarthy -titled “Quest for Teleportation,” which features a photo of an alien -cadaver similar to the ones he was given in March. (David McCarthy, “The Quest -for Teleportation,” UFO Sightings 1, no. 1 (July 1980): 40–45; MUFON -UFO Journal, December 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6089

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Event 8663 -(73377E80)

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Date: 5/7/1980
-Description: Disc with dome maneuvered near car, E-M effects on -radio
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Valdese, NC
-ID: 354

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Event 8664 -(BB38A39F)

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Date: 5/7/1980
-Description: Day. X-ray technician Ruth Weaver experiences interference -on her car radio while driving near Valdese, North Carolina. It blacks -out completely and she sees a huge object move beneath the cloud cover -directly ahead of her car. It makes a U-turn, then it banks, revealing -the shape of an upside-down soup bowl with a dome on top. A red triangle -is on the underside. It looks like a Stetson hat as it moves away. -(UFOEv II 452; George D. Fawcett, Human Reactions to UFOs Worldwide -(1940–1983): What We Have Learned from UFO Repetitions, The Author, -1986, p. 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6090

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Event 8665 -(2BCFCCD2)

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Date: 5/7/1980
-Description: 3:50 p.m. A Dutch KLM airliner is flying just over 30,000 -feet above the Dachstein Mountains in the Austrian Alps. The pilot sees -a gray spherical object flying overhead, which he reports to the Air -Control Center in Vienna, which contacts the Austrian Air Force. Maj. -Karl Schwarz orders three Saab 105 aircraft to intercept. Once they make -visual contact, two of the jets attempt the intercept while the third -takes film footage. The UFO’s erratic movements, however, make it -impossible to follow, and the object is soon out of sight. At 5:50 p.m., -a German Lufthansa airliner comes in close contact with a similar -object, Schwarz orders two more fighters to scramble. The Saab 105 -pilots think the object’s variable speed means it is playing with them. -It is flying some 9,800 feet above them, but they cannot maneuver well -enough to catch it. (Terry Hooper, “UFO -Interceptions Attempted,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 4 (November -1980): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6091

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Event 8666 -(F6C8BDC9)

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Date: 5/9/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman is driving home with her daughter in -Bargersville, Indiana, when bright red flashes of light illuminate the -inside of her truck and the surrounding area. The flashes are caused by -red balls of light about the size of lemons in the empty fields around -them. The balls blink on and off in succession, climbing up one -telephone pole. Moving down, and crossing the road to perform the same -motion on another pole. They approach the truck, forcing her to back up -the truck. Finally, the phenomenon ceases and she drives home. When they -get there, her German shepherd dog starts whining and barking. Her -husband steps outside to see what’s going on. Suddenly, their two -daughters start screaming as small red balls of light move across their -mother’s back and behind her hair. She does not feel anything, but the -dog runs to the barn and stays there all night. (“Allan -Hendry Reports: -A Spooky Experience in Indiana,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 6 -(October 1980): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6092

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Event 8667 -(ED461D6C)

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Date: 5/10/1980
-Description: DoD Report: The FAP (Peruvian Air Force) spotted a UFO -twice and tried to intercept and destroy the UFO without success.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p503)
-Location: Area 51
-See also: 7/1952

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Event 8668 -(10CBD1B5)

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Date: 5/14/1980
-Description: Glowing disc cast light beam onto road. Car entered beam, -headlights flickered off and on several times, afterwards worked -normally
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Simpson County, MS
-ID: 355

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Event 8669 -(EC0F968C)

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Date: 5/14/1980
-Description: 9:15 p.m. John Ray spots three dark discs while he is -driving in the rain through a rural area near Mars Hill, Maine. Each is -larger than the full moon and has numerous white lights on the bottom. -They pass silently above his car and hover ahead of him in close -formation about 500 feet up. Suddenly they take off and disappear. (“Close -Encounter in the Rain,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 7 -(November 1980): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6094

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Event 8670 -(961C5F4E)

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Date: 5/14/1980
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Howard and Julia Pickrel are driving on US -Highway 49 through Simpson County, Mississippi, when they see a glowing -disc high in the sky. A beam of light from the disc makes a spot of -light on the ground as wide as their car. As they drive through the -light beam, their lights go on and off 7–8 times. After they are out of -the beam’s path, the lights do not flicker again. (Richard H. Hall, -Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 307–308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6093

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Event 8671 -(C45C1E8F)

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Date: 5/16/1980
-Description: 3:00 p.m. A civilian pilot is flying a Pirat glider near a -cement mill in Działoszyn, Poland, when he notices an object maneuvering -across the fumes from factory chimneys below. Seconds later it moves in -front of the glider, and he takes evasive action. It is an isosceles -triangle shape with a side length of 30 feet and a dull brownish- green. -At one point it turns up one of its corners at an angle of 45° in an -apparent attempt to correct its flight. Then it changes orientation to -the horizontal, shrinks in size, and disappears. A similar object is -seen the same day near Wielún. (Poland 69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6095

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Event 8672 -(CCED5439)

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Date: 5/22/1980
-Description: 11:05 p.m. The Air Transit Control Center at Gran Canaria -Airport in the Canary Islands detects some unidentified traffic toward -the southwest moving at 685 mph. A few minutes later, an aero-taxi pilot -reports a bright object passing to his left and descending toward the -ocean. A Spanish Air Force officer investigates and concludes the object -is unknown, even though its position observed by the pilot matches that -of Venus. A false radar echo is also possible. (Swords 436, -528–529)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6096

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Event 8673 -(FCB189F9)

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Date: 5/23/1980
-End date: 5/25/1980
-Description: The first Rocky Mountain Conference on UFO Investigation, -organized by psychologist R. -Leo Sprinkle to bring contactees together, is held in Laramie on the -University of Wyoming campus. Barely 20 people show up, but Sprinkle -notes they are average, normal people, though highly susceptible to -hypnotic suggestion. Most claim some psychic abilities, and many report -a feeling of being monitored or experiencing continuing contact with UFO -entities. They feel anxiety about the state of the human race and worry -about a coming cataclysm. The conferences continue to at least 1996, -attracting as many as 200 attendees. (Clark III 300–301)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6097

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Event 8674 -(C2ADDF50)

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Date: 5/28/1980
-Description: Denver KMGH-TV investigative journalist Linda -Moulton Howe releases A Strange Harvest, a 2-hour documentary that -suggests unusual wounds found on cattle are the work of extraterrestrial -beings who harvest body parts required for their survival or research, -and that the US government is complicit. The documentary wins a Regional -Emmy award in 1981. She interviews Denver surgeon Arlen -Meyers on excising tissue with a laser; and Lou -Girodo, chief investigator for the District Attorney’s Office in -Trinidad, Colorado. The show also features a hypnotic regression session -by R. -Leo Sprinkle on Judy Dorarty, who says she witnessed a mutilation -outside Houston, Texas, in May 1973; under hypnosis, she describes -seeing a calf drawn up in a pale yellow beam of light into a UFO. -(Internet Movie Database, “A -Strange Harvest”; Clark III 363; “Alta -Loma 1973,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 1, -2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6098

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Event 8675 -(7A4459AF)

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Date: 5/30/1980
-Description: The CIA moves for summary judgment in Peter Gersten’s -lawsuit for UFO documents. The court grants it, despite the 57 remaining -UFO documents the CIA admits it is withholding. CAUS appeals on June 24. -(“CAUS Update,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980): -15–16) Early summer — Two women see a green, miniature airplane outside -a house in Matsbo, near Hedemora, in central Sweden. (Clas Svahn, “Green -Miniature Airplane Hovers in Front of a House,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall -2004): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6099

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Event 8676 -(0E4A14BC)

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Date: 6/1980
-Description: NICAP is disbanded after the last issue of the UFO -Investigator is published, and its files are eventually turned over to -the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Illinois. (UFO -Investigator 11, no. 6 (June 1980); Clark III 794)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6100

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Event 8677 -(EF939CEA)

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Date: 6/1980
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy is reorganized after the -departure of W. -Todd Zechel, with Peter Gersten as -director and Lawrence Fawcett as assistant editor. (Clark III 240)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6101

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Event 8678 -(210FC1F5)

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Date: 6/1980
-Description: Leonard -H. Stringfield publishes The UFO Crash/Retrieval Syndrome: Status -Report II, New Sources, New Data, presenting the accounts and rumors he -has heard of crashed UFOs retrieved by the military. He has contacted -four different military sources claiming to have seen a movie film -depicting a crashed saucer and small alien bodies. (Leonard Stringfield, -“The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean -Tomes, 1987, p. 147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6103

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Event 8679 -(1A1A0A8C)

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Date: 6/1980
-Description: Kenneth -Rommel releases Operation Animal Mutilation, a long report that -devastatingly debunks popular theories. The animals have died of natural -causes, he contends, and the mysterious aspects can be explained -prosaically. He cites ornithologist Kenneth Sager: “The larger the -animal, the more difficult it is for the scavenger to gain access to the -food supply below the tough surface. [Thus they attack the] softer -points of entry, namely the eyes, anal openings, and the soft underbelly -areas, especially the udders of female bovines.” L. D. Kuttner of the -University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine says that many -scavengers can make as clean a cut as “might be done by a surgeon with a -knife.” (Wikipedia, “Cattle -mutilation”; Kenneth M. Rommel Jr., Operation Animal -Mutilation, Report -of the District Attorney, First Judicial District, State of New Mexico, -prepared for the US Criminal Justice Department, 1980; Federal Bureau of -Investigation, Animal Mutilation documents, 1974– 1980, part -1, part -2, part -3, part -4, part -5; Clark III 133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6102

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Event 8680 -(3853FD04)

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Date: 6/2/1980
-Description: Stringfield receives -eight more prints showing an alien cadaver encased under glass. One -photo shows a hand with four fingers and clawlike nails. His source -claims they were obtained from a secret study conducted at the -University of Pennsylvania. (MUFON UFO Journal, December 1980; Leonard -Stringfield, “The Chase for Proof in a Squirrel’s Cage,” UFOs 1947–1987, -Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 147–148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6104

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Event 8681 -(4A18B85B)

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Date: 6/3/1980
-Description: R. -Leo Sprinkle arrives at Paul -Bennewitz’s house in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for another hypnotic -session with Myrna Hansen. Bennewitz, now very paranoid, meets him at -the door with a gun, saying he needs to protect himself from aliens. A -strained and brief hypnosis session follows, after which Sprinkle -returns to Wyoming. (Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 24–25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6105

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Event 8682 -(67EDBA39)

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Date: 6/11/1980
-Description: An unknown cigar-shaped object passes close to a commercial -aircraft near Venice, Italy. (Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy -Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6106

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Event 8683 -(2A3E2229)

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Date: 6/14/1980
-Description: Evening. Many residents of Moscow, Russia, see a huge, -reddish-orange, horseshoe-shaped object accompanied by swirling luminous -gases. Some 250 miles to the west, Lt. Col. Oleg Karyakin hears a low- -frequency booming noise and sees a bright object less than 500 feet -away. He runs toward it, feels some resistance, but continues until he -is about 150 feet away. It gives off a high-pitched sound and briefly -emits three white rays, then ascends rapidly, hovers for 2 seconds, then -moves to the northwest and vanishes. Shortly afterward, he sees a large, -reddish UFO above some treetops. Another bright object is accompanying -the first, flying horizontally and leaving a fiery trail. Some 30 others -witness this event. Soviet investigators conclude that the objects were -the launches of two communications satellites, a Gorizont and -Kosmos -1188. (Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: -Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 59; -Good Above, pp. 238–241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6107

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Event 8684 -(A8CEA538)

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Date: 6/14/1980
-Description: 7:00–8:00 p.m. A flurry of UFO sightings by numerous -witnesses takes place in Córdoba, Jorge Newbery and Ezeiza airports in -Buenos Aires, and Rosario, Argentina, including airport personnel and -meteorologists, with extensive newspaper coverage. Objects appear singly -and in “fleets” and are described variously as “luminous -oval-spherical,” “spinning top,” spindle-shaped, and a sphere that emits -“an intense luminous ray that illuminated the surface of the river.” At -Pajas Blancas Airport in Córdoba, a UFO causes operations to be stopped -for several minutes after it follows the landing pattern of aircraft -into the airport. Sightings occur around the same time in Uruguay, -Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay. CUFOS suspects many of the observations -might be due to a high-altitude barium cloud produced by a rocket -launch. (“The UFO ‘Flap’ in South America,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, -no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1980): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6108

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Event 8685 -(3D7C3A42)

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Date: 6/15/1980
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A 70-year-old woman in Oak Park, Illinois, sees -an object like a white half-moon with a serrated edge. At first she -thinks it is the moon, but it begins moving to the east and disappears -in 5 minutes. (“Allan Hendry -Reports: A Lunar Impostor,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 4 -(August 1980): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6109

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Event 8686 -(1E2C3AB7)

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Date: 6/15/1980
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Security Policeman Charles P. Wagner and two -others at RAF Bentwaters [now closed], near Woodbridge, Suffolk, -England, watch a 2-foot diameter spherical object maneuver above several -A-10 aircraft parked at the base. Moments later, the orb suddenly splits -into three smaller spheres, all of which vanish in a flash of light. -(Robert L. Hastings, “New -Bentwaters UFO Witness Goes on the Record,” UFOs & Nukes, -November 22, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6110

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Event 8687 -(A1DC27DE)

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Date: 6/15/1980
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Students Kevin Smith and Jill Harper are walking -along Hidden Beach in Rio Del Mar, California, when a 4-foot-long, -10-inch-wide cigar-shaped object passes about 30 feet above them moving -southwest over the water and landing in the ocean without a splash. As -it bobs about, a light comes on in the interior. Smith yells at it and -the light goes out. (“Romance under a UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, -no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6111

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Event 8688 -(8D1F75D8)

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Date: 6/17/1980
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two women driving with four young children north -on Interstate 75 near Grayling Army Airfield in Grayling, Michigan, when -they see two lights moving from right to left in front of their car. Two -minutes later, three more lights (two blinking, one steady) appear to -the right and pace the car at 85 mph, moving closer until they are about -100 feet directly above them. They are completely silent and possibly -attached to an oblong-shaped object. (“Michigan -Close Encounter,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 3 (July 1980): -2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6112

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Event 8689 -(5D44FEDF)

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Date: 6/20/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. While descending through 15,000 feet for a -landing, a senior Kuwait Airways pilot and crew observe a huge, brightly -illuminated hemispherical object with a flat base moving steadily -eastward over Kuwait City at a slightly lower speed than his aircraft. -“When I turned north at Wafra, the phenomenon was still clearly visible -and remained so until we descended below the haze layer and started to -approach the runway.” The crew of another airline flight 90 miles away -reports sighting the same phenomenon. Radar does not detect the object. -(American Embassy, Kuwait, “Investigation of Unusual ‘Light Phenomenon’ -Seen in Kuwait’s Skies,” telex, July 1980, in “U.S. -State Department ‘UFO’ Documents, Reviewed and Released 7 Feb -2000”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6113

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Event 8690 -(C16EAFE1)

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Date: Summer 1980
-Description: Ex Soviet test pilot Lev Vyatkin plane collided with an -aircraft emitting a “hard beam”. The pilot managed to land successfully, -but the wing, touched by the beam, continued to glow for several more -hours.
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: link
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 8691 -(32940271)

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Date: 6/21/1980
-Description: 1:30 a.m. Janet McLeod notices two large, orange, domed -discs circling low about four blocks west of her home in Assumption, -Illinois. They stop and hover at treetop level. The top one gradually -fades out from top to bottom. The lower one turns on its side and shines -a beam toward the ground for 5 minutes. Then it goes back to the -horizontal and fades out in the same way. When she steps outside 5 -minutes later, she notices it is dead quiet, the natural sounds resuming -after 2 minutes. (“Twin Domed Discs in Illinois,” IUR/Frontiers of -Science 2, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1980): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6114

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Event 8692 -(951E5CCB)

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Date: 6/28/1980
-Description: Two civilian pilots, José L. Maldonaldo Torres and José A. -Pagán Santos, are flying an ERCO Ercoupe 415-D at 1,500 feet over the -Mona Passage between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. They send -out a mayday message saying they are looking at a “weird object” that -makes them change course three times. Their plane disappears and no -wreckage is found. (Good Need, pp. 312, 320)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6115

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Event 8693 -(5E89F651)

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Date: 7/1980
-Description: AFOSI special agent Sgt. Richard -Doty writes an anonymous letter to APRO claiming that a Civil Air -Patrol cadet named Craig R. Weitzel had seen and photographed a UFO -landing near Pecos, New Mexico. Weitzel takes photos and is debriefed at -Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque. An alien, a man in a dark suit from Sandia -Laboratories, and crashed UFOs stored at the Manzano Nuclear Weapons -Storage Facility are also mentioned. But the letter is disinformational -bait to see whether the Lorenzens might -prove to be “useful idiots.” Weitzel admits to investigator William -Moore and, later, Benton Jamison in 1985 that he had seen a UFO in -1980, but it was a classic daylight disc and took place in the -southeast, not New Mexico. Much later on, Doty admits to Moore that he -had composed the letter as disinformation. (Clark III 361–362; Greg -Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 54–57, 64–66; -Good Above, pp. 406–408; -[Richard Doty], Craig -Wetzel letter, July 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6116

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Event 8694 -(E953DD9B)

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Date: 7/12/1980
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A professor and his wife are getting ready for -bed in Urbandale, Iowa, when they notice three round light spots in a -triangular formation high in the southern sky. The lower two are like -bright stars, while the upper ones seem larger. The smaller lights are -zig-zagging and coming together under the larger light for 20 minutes -until all three abruptly disappear. (“Meandering -Lights in Iowa,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 6 (October 1980): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6117

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Event 8695 -(4943ECF4)

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Date: 7/21/1980
-Description: Farmer John Scull discovers a circular swathe of flattened -oats in his field near the Westbury White Horse in Wiltshire, England. -He discovers a second circle on July 31 and informs the media on August -13. (UFOFiles2, p. 117; -Terry Wilson, “Case -Study 1: Westbury 1980,” Men Who Conned the World, December 24, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6118

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Event 8696 -(AA069382)

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Date: 7/28/1980
-Description: Author and researcher John Keel is interviewed by David -Letterman. Keel says that animal mutilation cases keep him up at -night.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: New York City

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Event 8697 -(D7C1E925)

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Date: 8/1980
-Description: Three guards reported sighting an aerial light which -descended on the Sandia Military Reservation. Ernest Edwards reported -the sighting to AFOSI Special Agent Richard Doty, unaware that Doty had -already heard from Russ Curtis (the Sandia Security Chief) that a Sandia -Security guard had sighted a disc-shaped object near a structure just -minutes after the sighting by the three Manzano guards. Doty included -these reports and several others in his formal report, forwarding it to -AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) Headquarters in -Washington DC.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Manzano Test Range

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Event 8698 -(6716EEE8)

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Date: 8/1980
-Description: Another set of photos allegedly showing part of an alien -cadaver is released by Charles Wilhelm and Dennis Pilichis, who receive -them through UFO researcher Willard McIntyre, apparently from an -anonymous US Navy source. William Spaulding of Ground Saucer Watch -analyzes them and suggests they show a monkey used in early rocket -tests. (Leonard H. Stringfield, “Status Report on Alleged Alien Cadaver -Photos,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 154 (December 1980): 11–16; Leonard H. -Stringfield, “The -Puzzling Case of the Cadaver Photos,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 163 -(September 1981): 15–19; Juan-Vicente Ballester-Olmos, “The -Tomato Man in Retrospective,” -UFO FOTOCAT Blog, March 13, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6119

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Event 8699 -(3D21C6A6)

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Date: 8/1980
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two students at Tsinghua University in Beijing, -China, see a brilliant oval object in the sky near the Summer Palace. It -has several lights that flash on and off 2–3 times per second. The -object itself is shaped like “two straw hats placed brim to brim” with a -brilliant center line. It stops hovering and ascends vertically, -disappearing in 3–4 seconds. (“The Chinese Connection…and Some Wholesome -Chinese Philosophy,” IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6121

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Event 8700 -(1C336649)

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Date: early 8/1980
-Description: Thousands of witnesses see UFOs for several days in a row -over Tianjin, China, and the Bohai Sea. One large object keeps appearing -and vanishing like a will-o’-the-wisp. Occasionally objects are tracked -on radar. (Paul Dong, “Extracts -from Paul Dong’s Feidie -Bai Wen Bai Da (Questions -and Answers on UFOs),” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 (August 1984): -18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6120

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Event 8701 -(9B332B93)

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Date: 8/8/1980
-End date: 8/9/1980
-Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Three security policemen on the -eastern side of the Manzano Weapons Storage Area adjacent to Kirtland -AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, see a bright light descend in a -restricted area about 3 miles to the north-northeast. It travels quickly -and stops suddenly over Coyote Canyon. At 12:20 a.m., a Sandia guard -observes a disc-shaped object with a bright light hovering behind a -building. He approaches it with a shotgun and attempts to use his radio, -but it has stopped working. The object shoots straight up. These and -other incidents result in a report being filed with the Air Force Office -of Special Investigations at Kirtland. The incident is subsequently -investigated by agent Richard -Doty, who -files a preliminary report on the incident. The document is leaked to William -Moore in January 1982 and obtained in a subsequent FOIA request by -Barry -Greenwood. Moore and Bruce -Maccabee both interview Doty, who says there are most likely other -documents including a longer report that he had written up. However, -after Noah Lawrence at AFOSI Headquarters tells Maccabee there are no -other documents on file, Doty begins to backtrack. Maccabee also meets -Russ Curtis inside the Manzano area who says that the incident never -took place (which contradicts Curtis’s statement to Moore in 1982). -(Clark III 362; Good Above, pp. 405–406, -522–523; -Good Need, pp. 322, -329; -Bruce Maccabee, “UFO -Landing near Kirtland -AFB: Welcome to the Cosmic Watergate,” 2000; Robert L. Hastings, “UFOs -Filmed Hovering over U.S. Air -Force Nuclear Weapons Storage Area,” UFOs & Nukes, May 13, -2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6122

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Event 8702 -(BD38AD57)

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Date: 8/9/1980
-End date: 9/3/1980
-Description: AFOSI Complaint Form: At Kirtland AFB three persons report -seeing UFO over a Restricted Test Range. On Aug. 9th a Sandia Security -Guard drove down the Coyote Canyon access road to check out an alarmed -building and observed a landed UFO next to an alarmed building. The UFO -was around disk shaped object. As he approached the object on foot -equipped with a shotgun the object took off in a vertical direction at a -high rate of speed. His radio wasn’t working right at the time so he -couldn’t reach dispatch. The building contained HQ CR 44 material. -(Nature of material not known.)
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Kirtland AFB

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Event 8703 -(EE6D02D7)

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Date: 8/15/1980
-Description: UFO skeptic Philip -Klass sends a letter to A. G. McNamara of the Herzberg Institute of -Astrophysics in Ottawa, Canada, which serves as a repository for -Canadian UFO reports for the Canadian National Research Council. Klass -characterizes New Brunswick ufologist Stanton -Friedman as a snake oil salesman and UFO guru whose lectures are -filled with falsehoods, disparaging his credentials, his ego, and his -modus operandi. He warns McNamara that the astronomers at the institute -will soon be the targets of Friedman’s coverup accusations. (Dolan II -221–222)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6123

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Event 8704 -(C1681564)

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Date: 8/17/1980
-Description: 1:15 a.m. Security guard Phil -Battle is driving his truck in the parking lot of the Teledyne-Ohio -Steel plant in Lima, Ohio, and sees an unusual bright light in the sky. -He steps out and watches a round, silvery form about 270 feet away. It -has little holes on the surface, a flashing yellow light, and white -floodlights all around it. It hovers for about 5 minutes, moving back -and forth. Battle’s CB radio does not work when he tries to alert -others. Suddenly a yellow light shoots out at Battle, knocking him back -against his truck, scarring his knee and hurting his back and kidneys. -The beam also reddens his left eye. The UFO then takes off. He and other -guard look for the object and see a light about 1,200 feet to the north, -slightly larger than the moon, which drifts westward after 15– 20 -seconds. (“Knocked Back by a Light Beam,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, -no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1980): 14; “Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 1 (January 1981): 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6124

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Event 8705 -(7FAF7351)

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Date: 8/20/1980
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A college student is driving on a rural road -about 5 minutes east of Mossy Head, Florida, when he becomes aware of an -array of lights hovering above a hill ahead of him. They move low over -the area from right to left, 300–600 feet ahead of him. It disappears, -but another cluster of lights rushes by him on his left side with a -quiet whoosh sound. Inadvertently he begins driving more slowly, slumped -over the steering wheel. He continues driving to Jacksonville, where he -notices his bare feet are red and inflamed. The redness fades away by -the evening of the following night, leaving only some apparent bites -marks that are sore to the touch. (“A -CE I— or -II—or III in Florida,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 7 (November -1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6125

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Event 8706 -(E325283A)

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Date: 8/21/1980
-Description: Young woman and daughter driving home, E-M effects on car, -car lifted off road onto craft, humanoids examined them on tables in -room with “fog” on floor
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: East Texas
-ID: 356

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Event 8707 -(52DA1C2F)

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Date: 8/24/1980
-Description: 4:08 a.m. Three tourists camping out in the Changping -District near the Juyong portion of the Great Wall of China take a photo -of an unusual object. The photo reportedly looks like three stars in an -inverted T shape with a surrounding halo of light. (“First -UFO Spotted in China,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 3 (March -1981): 4; “Chinese UFO Study,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 -(March/April 1981): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6126

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Event 8708 -(4B4C610F)

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Date: 9/1980
-Description: Charles -Berlitz and Bill -Moore publish The Roswell Incident, the first major review of the -1947 Roswell crash, based largely on Stanton -Friedman’s research. (Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore, The -Roswell Incident, Berkley, -1980; Clark III 320)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6127

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Event 8709 -(010B1F4C)

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Date: 9/1/1980
-Description: The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L. -Moore is published.
-Type: book
-Reference: Amazon
-Location: US

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Event 8710 -(A18CBF83)

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Date: 9/1/1980
-Description: NSA attorneys move for a summary judgment in the -CAUS-initiated lawsuit, asserting that the 135 documents are being -justifiably withheld. (“CAUS Update,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 -(Nov./Dec. 1980): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6128

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Event 8711 -(880CFAFB)

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Date: 9/3/1980
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Margaret Lambert and her family are parked at a -scenic overlook along Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park in -Virginia when they notice a bright reflection. She is taking a photo of -her son and the reflection seems to be pulsating as she focuses her -camera. It appears as a small round light behind her son’s head in the -photo. (“‘Glowing Object’ Photographed on Virginia Hillside,” CUFOS -Associate Newsletter 1, no. 5 (May 1981): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6129

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Event 8712 -(B057541C)

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Date: 9/4/1980
-Description: 1:15 p.m. Flight instructor Lloyd List is flying northbound -at 138 mph in a Cessna 172 at 6,500 feet about 5 miles south of the -airport in Red Bluff, California. His passenger, a school official, -calls his attention to a shiny object ahead of them. For the first 5–6 -seconds, the object grows larger in angular size. Then it stops getting -larger, as if it has adopted the Cessna’s speed and direction. They -close in on the object and watch it shoot right by the airplane’s left -wingtip only 30 feet away. It looks like a metallic football no larger -than 3 feet in size. It is silent and the surface has a mirror finish. -It exhibits no wobble as it passes through the plane’s turbulence. List -descends to 6,000 feet and turns to the south to look for it but cannot -find the object. (“Plane’s Near Collision with Mini-UFO,” IUR/Frontiers -of Science 3, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6130

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Event 8713 -(DEF596ED)

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Date: 9/6/1980
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Ufologist Jenny -Randles and a friend are riding a motorcycle north on the M4 after -attending the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, when they see -three lights that appear one after another then line up in a triangular -formation hovering above a distant hilltop. As they drive past, one -light blinks out, leaving two side by side. (Jenny Randles, “Mass Market -Media Saucery,” Fortean Times 361 (Christmas 2017): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6132

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Event 8714 -(2BA47B0A)

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Date: 9/6/1980
-Description: UFO proponents and debunkers square off at the Smithsonian -Institution in Washington, D.C., for a day- long debate on the merits of -UFO sightings. The proponents include Bruce -Maccabee, J. -Allen Hynek, and -Allan Hendry; -the debunkers are Philip -J. Klass, James -E. Oberg, and Robert -Sheaffer. The debate is moderated by Frederick -C. Durant. The most heated exchanges occur between Klass and Hendry -over the Val -Johnson close encounter case of 1979. (Stuart Rohrer, “Tempest -in a Saucer,” Washington Post, September 8, 1980, p. B-1; J. Allen -Hynek, “Encounter at the Smithsonian,” CUFOS Bulletin, Fall 1980, -pp. 6–10; Jerome Clark, “Phil Klass vs. the ‘UFO Promoters,’” Fate 34, -no. 2 (February 1981): 56–67; Clark III 1081–1082)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6131

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Event 8715 -(1E72E079)

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Date: 9/8/1980
-Description: After doing a radio show in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Bill -Moore is contacted by phone from someone at Kirtland Air Force Base. -He meets the man he calls “Falcon” (described as elderly and gaunt) -later at a restaurant, beginning a long-running relationship between -Moore and 10 members of a shadowy group connected with military -intelligence and supposedly opposed to the coverup of UFOs. The story -soon emerges that the Roswell incident involved alien bodies and that in -1949 another alien, this one still alive, was found and housed at Los -Alamos until its death in the early 1950s. It is called an -Extraterrestrial Biological Entity (EBE) and is the first of three that -the government would have in its custody. Moore decides to cooperate -with these AFOSI sources and provide them with information. They tell -him there is considerable interest in Paul -Bennewitz and that he is to spy on Bennewitz and APRO as well, -inundating them with disinformation that Doty and others will supply. -(Clark III 360; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 59–63)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6133

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Event 8716 -(BB9C6DE7)

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Date: 9/8/1980
-Description: Doty writes -and signs a fake two-page AFOSI complaint form, titled “Kirtland AFB, -NM, 8 Aug–3 Sept 1980, Alleged Sightings of Unidentified Aerial Lights -in Restricted Test Range,” which describes several UFO sightings at -Manzano and at the Coyote Canyon section of the Department of Defense -Restricted Test Range, as well as an alleged report of a UFO landing on -August 10 by a New Mexico state patrolman. (Clark III 362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6134

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Event 8717 -(C52A299D)

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Date: 9/9/1980
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Barbara Kaisler is driving home with her daughter -in Portsmouth, Virginia, when they see a dark disc some 5–6 stories -higher than the rooftops in the north. When they stop at an -intersection, they can see the disc tumbling end over end, now climbing -at a 30° angle. It disappears in clouds to the northeast. (“Dark Disk in -Virginia,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 (March/April 1981): -14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6135

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Event 8718 -(8BBB7BB6)

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Date: 9/11/1980
-Description: 4:20 a.m. Jerry McAlister is awakened in his bedroom in -Anderson, South Carolina, by a loud screech. He goes to the window and -sees a round object about 70 feet wide hovering above his backyard trees -110 feet away. Hundreds of steady bright white lights surround its -perimeter, rotating in a clockwise direction. A row of square white -windows is also visible. McAlister wakes up his wife Faye, who also -watches the object, which, after tilting on its side, is now receding to -the east-northeast at a good rate of speed. The UFO settles into place -as a distant white light source that persists until dawn at 7:05 a.m. -McAlister claims his ears ring for another 3 days from the initial -noise. (“South Carolina’s Giant UFOs,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 -(Sept./Oct. 1980): 11– 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6136

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Event 8719 -(13491269)

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Date: 9/11/1980
-Description: 8:05 a.m. Larry Garrett is working on his car in Easley, -South Carolina, when he hears a sound like a swarm of bees. Looking -north, he sees a large metallic UFO with black, square windows. He -guesses it is 80–100 feet in size. It hovers above a hill then drifts -off to the north behind some trees. (“South Carolina’s Giant UFOs,” -IUR/Frontiers of Science 2, no. 6 (Sept./Oct. 1980): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6137

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Event 8720 -(1E3A0527)

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Date: 9/11/1980
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Milton -Shippee and his family are driving south on State Highway 32 near -I-84 in West Willington, Connecticut, when they see a “pancake”-shaped -object in the southeast. It is tilted on one side as it moves about 50 -mph. (“‘Domed Pancake’ over Connecticut,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, -no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6138

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Event 8721 -(5F823EA6)

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Date: 9/12/1980
-Description: A bright, round object radiating red and white colors from -all sides is reported south of Bojnord, North Khorasan, Iran. It moves -very quickly for one hour above the city. (“Review of Iranian UFO -Reports,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6139

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Event 8722 -(874C8836)

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Date: 9/13/1980
-Description: Night. Some people camping near Hamilton, Texas, wake up -when their tent is lit up with a yellow glow. Outside is a loud humming -sound and above them at no more than 125 feet is a triangular object. -The underside is grayish or greenish, and two lights appear at each tip -in a combination of yellow-white, red-green, and blue-white. The object -is moving north very slowly but stops for about 10 seconds and begins to -pulsate, almost sounding as if it will stall. It starts up again, heads -north, and is soon gone. Thirty minutes later, the group hears a loud -explosion, and some people see sparks above the top of a hill. (MUFON -UFO Journal, January 1981)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6140

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Event 8723 -(7B9DAFCA)

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Date: 9/16/1980
-Description: Sgt. J.M. (initials) of the PACAF writes to Len Stringfield -that he was stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ, when, on Jan. 18, 1978, an MP -shot and killed an alien at the Ft. Dix Army base next to the AFB.
-Type: letter
-Reference: (link
-Location: McGuire AFB, NJ
-See also: 1/18/78

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Event 8724 -(A467A43D)

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Date: 9/21/1980
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A witness is driving west on a county road near -Lima, Ohio. She looks up and sees a square opening in the clouds that -looks like a picture frame. A vivid orange or red object that looks like -the bottom of an Army tank with runners on two sides appears in the -opening, remaining stationary for a few seconds before disappearing back -into the opening, which then fills up with clouds. (“Army -Tank in the Clouds in Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 7 -(November 1980): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6141

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Event 8725 -(E99A1A95)

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Date: 9/22/1980
-Description: 3:43 a.m. Pan Am Flight 440, flying at 39,000 feet and -piloted by Capt. Dave Garber, nearly collides with an unidentified -blue-green cigar-shaped object over the Caribbean Sea south of Haiti. -The UFO has a horizontal row of 5–6 steady lights, which the flight crew -presumes are windows. The distance between the Pan Am flight and the UFO -at its closest approach is less than a mile. The estimated length of the -UFO is 50 feet. It changes course when the plane flashes its landing -lights. The event is witnessed independently by the crew of two other -airliners in the area. (“‘Chiles-Whitted’ Revisited: UFO Sighting -Confirmed by Three Flight Crews,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 -(Nov./Dec. 1980): 12–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6142

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Event 8726 -(B53969D6)

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Date: 9/26/1980
-Description: 2:26 p.m. A woman watches a Saturn-shaped object approach -her home in Blythe, California, from the east and pass overhead for 2–3 -minutes and shoot straight up out of sight. (“Daylight ‘Saturn’ over -California,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980): -14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6144

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Event 8727 -(D78AA1D1)

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Date: 9/26/1980
-Description: 4:30 a.m. Susan Southerland, Debbie Riley, and Kim Conolty -are driving in Washington, Indiana, when they see a streetlight-shaped -light source slightly above the treetops. It begins moving toward them. -Even after their car turns, the light stays on their left side. They -drive to the police station and ask officers Tim Roark and Don Grannon -to look at it through binoculars, and they are convinced it is something -unusual. (“UFO Mini-Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science -3, no. 3 (Mar./Apr. 1981): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6143

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Event 8728 -(0EEEE388)

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Date: 9/30/1980
-Description: 1:00 a.m. George Blackwell, a farmer near Rosedale, -Victoria, Australia, is awakened by a noise and his disturbed livestock. -Getting up, he goes outside and sees a 24-by-15-foot sphere passing by, -some 6–9 feet off the ground and 450 feet distant. It stops above a -water tank, then settles to the ground. Blackwell rides a motorcycle to -the spot and stops 45 feet from the landed object. It is making a loud -whistling sound. After 3 minutes, the UFO emits a louder noise, gives -off a blast of air, and moves off to the east. A 30-foot doughnut-shaped -ring is found where the object rested, and Blackwell experiences health -problems the next week. The 10,000-gallon water tank is mysteriously -drained of water. (NICAP, “Rosedale, -Victoria, Australia: September 30, 1980”; Keith Basterfield and Bill -Chalker, “Rosedale, -Victoria: A Close Encounter,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 2, -no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 17–22; Bill Chalker and Keith Basterfield, “The -Rosedale Landing with Physical Traces,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. -6 (March 1981): 4–5; “Physical Trace in Australia,” IUR/Frontiers of -Science 3, no. 3 (March/April 1981): 14–15; “From Foreign Lands,” -IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1981): 17; Bill Chalker and -Keith Basterfield, “Landing -with Physical Traces near Rosedale, Victoria, Australia,” APRO -Bulletin 29, no. 12 (December 1981): 3–5; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir -Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): -31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6145

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Event 8729 -(1328D750)

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Date: 9/30/1980
-Description: UFO researcher William -Moore meets for the first time with AFOSI officer Richard -Doty (whom Moore refers to as “Sparrow”). Doty is the middleman for -an Air Force colonel (later called “Falcon” by Moore) who Moore first -contacted on September 5. (The identity of the colonel has not been -established, but it may possibly be Doty’s superior officer, Col. John -Barry Hennessey.) Doty claims that Stanton -T. Friedman and Brad -Sparks know him personally and will vouch for him (untrue). (Brad -Sparks and Barry Greenwood, “The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of -MJ-12,” in MUFON 2007 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, -2007, pp. 92–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6146

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Event 8730 -(D47E2806)

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Date: 9/30/1980
-Description: Spinning topshaped object with body lights, whistling -sound, landed near water tank, vibrations felt, uncomfortable sound, -livestock reacted. Physical traces
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Rosedale, Victoria, Australia
-ID: 357

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Event 8731 -(64C98F13)

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Date: 10/1980
-Description: Leonard -Stringfield, who -now has about 20 first-hand informants to various crash/retrievals, -begins to encounter resistance and silence from some of them, who are -apparently under increased suspicion and surveillance. (MUFON UFO -Journal, December 1980)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6147

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Event 8732 -(D98503B7)

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Date: 10/1980
-Description: James W. Allen, 14, is photographing Ben Vrackie mountain -in Perthshire, Scotland. As he is walking home he hears a weird humming -noise, sees a disc-shaped object, and takes a photo of it. Analysis of -the photo points to a hoax photo of a helium-filled balloon. (“Young -Scottish Photographer Sends Photograph,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter -2, no. 10 (October 1981): 1, 6; Steuart Campbell, “Investigation -Report on 1980 Photograph at Pitlochry, -Scotland,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 (Feb./March 1985): -1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6148

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Event 8733 -(7F93DB61)

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Date: 10/1980
-Alternate date: 11/1980
-Description: Ground-based radar at RAF Neatishead, near Norwich, -England, tracks an aerial object executing aerial maneuvers that “defied -all convention.” A very bright light is seen by the pilot of an RAF F-4 -Phantom II aircraft. It vanishes as quickly as it has appeared. (Nick -Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, -1997, p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6149

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Event 8734 -(A12107B8)

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Date: 10/1/1980 (approximate)
-Description: A group of people go to Lucky Point, east of Monroe City, -Indiana, to look for UFOs. High in the eastern sky they notice a dark -triangle, as large as the full moon and possibly surrounded by a light -glow. As it moves overhead, they hear a voice announce, “the time is -now.” It changes direction slightly and accelerates to the northwest. -The group reports a tingling sensation and a humming noise on their FM -scanner radios. (“UFO Mini- Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of -Science 3, no. 3 (Mar./Apr. 1981): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6150

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Event 8735 -(754236CD)

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Date: 10/5/1980
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Five off-duty metalworkers at the Dagang -Oilfield, Tianjin, China, see a cone-shaped, red, glowing object that -lights the area below. Workers feel a scorching heat as it flies by and -disappears over Bohai Bay. (Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over -Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6151

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Event 8736 -(FB3DCC5B)

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Date: 10/6/1980
-Description: 5:50 p.m. A retired man is resting on his sundeck in -Ipswich, Massachusetts, when he sees a silver object tumbling -end-over-end. He grabs binoculars and watches as it passes overhead and -continues, appearing to descend as it disappears behind trees toward the -Sagamore Hill Solar Radar Observatory [now relocated to Millstone Hill, -Westford] in South Hamilton. (“Tumbling Daylight UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of -Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6152

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Event 8737 -(01EA9444)

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Date: 10/7/1980
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Witnesses near Yelm, Tenino, and Offutt Lake, -Washington, report a large object shaped like a triangle or diamond with -red and green lights. (“Thurston -County Logs Some Mysterious Night Sights,” Olympia (Wash.) Daily -Olympian, October 9, 1980, p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6153

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Event 8738 -(5DF13A58)

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Date: 10/15/1980
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A Knox County, Indiana, deputy sheriff stops by -the side of a road to stretch his legs. Out of the east comes a black -triangular form, as big as a house and 10 times the angular size of the -full moon. He estimates it is 250 feet away and 200 feet up at its -closest. Five figures are visible from the waist up through a long -window on one side of the triangle. Large slanted unblinking eyes, white -skin, and a straight-line mouth are visible on their elongated heads. He -thinks they look afraid, so he tries to telepathically assure them not -to be afraid. They respond by asking him, “Why do you hate the -Iranians?” The object draws closer the speeds away to the northeast. -During the sighting, his police radio displays intermittent interference -and his patrol car’s engine and headlights pulsate. The deputy feels -light-headed and sluggish, and his eyes water. (“UFO Mini-Flap in -Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 (Mar./Apr. 1981): -11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6154

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Event 8739 -(E78B0DE8)

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Date: 10/15/1980
-End date: 10/20/1980
-Description: According to analyst Gary -Sick, meetings -are allegedly held in Paris, France, between emissaries of the -Reagan/Bush campaign, with future CIA Director William -J. Casey as a key participant, and “high-level Iranian and Israeli -representatives” to make a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of -the American hostages until after the election. In return for this, the -United States purportedly arranges for Israel to ship weapons to Iran. -Sick is never able to prove his claims, but the evidence suggests that -the Reagan administration -ships arms to Iran, both through Israel and directly, from 1981 to 1987 -as payment for Iranian cooperation. (Wikipedia, “October -Surprise conspiracy -theory”; Gary Sick, October -Surprise: America’s Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald -Reagan, Times -Books, 1991)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6155

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Event 8740 -(C2088419)

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Date: 10/16/1980
-Description: Evening. Operators at Tianjin Binhai International Airport, -China, are observing the movements of Flight 402 on radar when an -unexplained echo shows up. When the airliner is about 6,500 feet from -the runway, the plane’s blip disappears for 7 seconds. The mystery -target gives a strong, distinct return, and it seems to cause strong -radio interference as the airliner touches down. Other anomalous targets -show up later that night, but none are seen visually. (Good Above, pp. 215–216; -Paul Dong, “Extracts -from Paul Dong’s Feidie -Bai Wen Bai Da (Questions -and Answers on UFOs),” Flying Saucer Review 29, no. 6 (August 1984): -18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6156

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Event 8741 -(714BE2ED)

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Date: 10/19/1980
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Donald Shive, his wife Star, and two children are -driving west near Albion, Michigan, when they see an object with two -white lights on the sides and a red and blue light on the front and -back. It is moving at about 25 mph at an altitude of 200–500 feet when -it moves over the car at an intersection. The car stalls and the lights -go out briefly. (“UFO Stalls Van in Michigan?” IUR/Frontiers of Science -3, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6157

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Event 8742 -(5F05A116)

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Date: 10/20/1980
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 358

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Event 8743 -(951772AF)

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Date: 10/21/1980
-Description: 8:35 a.m. Betty Long and a friend see a formation of three -egg-shaped objects in the northern sky over San Diego, California. The -bright sun makes them seem uniformly white and featureless. After moving -to the right for three minutes, they turn 90° to the left and move away -from the witnesses. The formation retains its triangular shape -throughout the sighting. (“Daylight -‘Eggs’ over California,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 -(December 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6158

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Event 8744 -(AA1D2385)

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Date: 10/23/1980
-Description: Boomerang-shaped object with body lights shone brilliant -light beam down smoke stacks, accelerated, made noninertial turn. -Satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Morenci, AZ
-ID: 359

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Event 8745 -(E98FEFB7)

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Date: 10/23/1980
-Description: 8:55 p.m. Randall Rogers and Larry Mortensen, employed at -the Phelps-Dodge Corporation’s copper smelting site at Morenci, Arizona, -go outside to pick up three other employees for an evening meal break. -They notice a boomerang-shaped object approaching the north smokestack -at 1,500–2,000 feet altitude and a very slow speed. It stops and hovers -briefly, then comes down to 700–1,000 feet, just above the stack. A -brilliant light erupts from the forward angle and shines directly down -into the interior of the stack. 10 seconds later it goes out and the -object moves south to hover above the south stack and shine the bright -light inside. It then moves off at 5–10 mph to the south, then suddenly -takes off at great speed to the southwest. A very short time later, it -returns and hovers above the slag dump. The object is seen as dull black -and perhaps 1,320 feet from wingtip to wingtip. Eight reddish lights are -on each wing about 75 feet apart and connected by a white tube of light. -Greenlee County Sheriff Ralph Gomez also observes the object, as do -about 100 members of the Morenci High School band. (“UFO -over Copper Smelter,” APRO Bulletin 29, no. 7 (1981): 1–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6159

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Event 8746 -(68DF7903)

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Date: 10/24/1980
-Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz contacts Major Ernest Edwards -of the Kirtland AFB Security Police who, over the period of the next few -months, became concerned and requested the guards on the Manzano Weapons -Storage Area to report to him any sightings of unusual aerial -lights.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Location: Manzano Test Range

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Event 8747 -(18164891)

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Date: 10/26/1980
-Description: Paul -Bennewitz over a number of months has become convinced that he has -uncovered evidence of aliens controlling humans through electromagnetic -devices, and furthermore claims that UFOs are regularly flying near -Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque and the nearby Manzano Nuclear -Weapons Storage Facility and Coyote Canyon Test Area. He is also -convinced there is an alien base beneath Archuleta Peak northwest of -Dulce, New Mexico. After failing to convince APRO (who considers him -deluded), Bennewitz contacts AFOSI special agent Sgt. Richard -Doty at Kirtland Air Force Base, who meets with him at his home -today along with Jerry Miller, Kirtland’s scientific advisor for the Air -Force Test and Evaluation Center. (Clark III 359; Greg Bishop, Project -Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 34–35, 135–137; -Robert L. Hastings, “UFOs -Filmed Hovering over U.S. Air Force -Nuclear Weapons Storage Area,” UFOs & Nukes, May 13, 2012; -Alejandro T. Rojas, [Bennewitz/Kirtland AFB documents]; Alejandro T. -Rojas, “Ex–Air -Force Law Enforcement Agent Claims He Hoaxed Major UFO Mythologies,” -June 29, 2019; Dolan II 225–229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6160

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Event 8748 -(6E3DA7D9)

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Date: 10/26/1980
-Description: 7:00 p.m. An oddly shaped UFO is observed by a husband and -wife on their farm 2 miles southeast of Bloomfield, Indiana. The object -looks like two full moons spaced about 12 feet apart with a flashing red -light in back like a lopsided triangle. Each white light is about 3 feet -in diameter, and the white is intense but nothing around lights up. The -object is at treetop level and passes to the right of a security light. -There is no reflection of metal anywhere. The woman gets the impression -that the lights are connected to something huge, saying: “The object -passed about 20 feet above the barn making no sound and lights making no -light. When it was over the barn roof, the sows with baby pigs in the -barn jumped up and began wild grunting and knocking about in their pens. -They settled down immediately after the object cleared the roof. The -object is now coming very slowly towards the front of our house and -yard. My husband had gone back into the house to watch from the front -windows, my children are crying, and I am on the back porch having the -time of my life.” The UFO disappears behind the roof line of the house. -(“Tractor-Chasing Saucer,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 5 -(July/Aug. 1981): 14–15; “October -UFO in Indiana Reported,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 8 -(August 1981): 6; “Greene -County, -Indiana, 1980 CE II,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 2 (April/May -1985): 1, 6, 8; John P. Timmerman, “Greene County Close Encounter,” IUR -28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 10–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6161

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Event 8749 -(E0B0C0F1)

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Date: 10/31/1980
-Description: Day. The airport control tower at Canoas, Rio Grande do -Sul, Brazil, detects a UFO on its radar. An F-5 squadron has just -landed, with the exception of one plane, whose pilot requests -authorization to pursue. He sees a bright gold object right in front of -him and accelerates to approach, but the object immediately speeds up. -The control tower loses the object on its radar. The pilot continues to -pursue for 2 minutes before the UFO speeds off over the ocean. (Clark -III 206–207; Brazil 555–556)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6162

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Event 8750 -(EAA5297F)

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Date: 11/2/1980
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Mike Clampett and his wife are stepping out of a -Toyota showroom on Solano Avenue in Vallejo, California. They see a -group of people looking at the sky where a Piper Cub seems to be on a -collision course with a cigar-shaped object. The plane is moving north -to south while the UFO flies silently from high in the east to the west. -The object is rotating or spiraling about once every second. It takes -nearly 10 minutes for the object to reach nearly overhead, dropping in -altitude all the while. It remains stationary in the zenith about 5 -minutes then moves to the south at a higher altitude. (“A Spiralling -Daylight Cigar,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): -11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6164

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Event 8751 -(5F5ECA86)

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Date: 11/2/1980
-Description: 12:42 p.m. A couple driving westbound on US Highway 50 some -20 miles east of Montrose, Colorado, notice a silver, oblong object in -the distance. As the highway starts to curve, it is seen against a -background of mesa. They stop the car for a better look for another 10 -seconds. It banks like an aircraft to the right and its shape changes to -an oval. It disappears by shooting up over the top of the mesa toward -the northeast. (“Daylight Disc in Colorado,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, -no. 3 (March/April 1981): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6163

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Event 8752 -(16A540B6)

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Date: 11/5/1980
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A private pilot named Dennis is flying a Piper -PA-32R-301T Turbo Saratoga SP at 8,000 feet near Lake Berryessa, -California. He spots an orange, bullet-shaped light that is keeping even -with him at 212 mph. The light brightens and begins to pulse with an -increasing frequency, then shoots forward and makes a perfect -right-angle turn upward. Five minutes later, it reappears behind him and -performs a similar maneuver. The sighting is corroborated by a -commercial airliner. (“A Twin ‘Déjà vu’ Sighting?” IUR 7, no. 1 (January -1982): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6165

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Event 8753 -(0CDD686E)

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Date: 11/6/1980
-Description: 7:55 a.m. Nancy Parker is a passenger on a Western Airlines -flight passing over Monterey Bay, California. She takes three photos of -the scenery below, but when she develops the film, a bright, disc-shaped -object appears on the second photo. Probable reflection or lens flare. -(“Reflection -or Object? Photo from Airliner Being -Studied,” CUFOS Associates Newsletter 2, no. 3 (March 1981): -1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6167

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Event 8754 -(4A43EFF8)

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Date: 11/6/1980
-Description: Peter Gersten files -a reply to the NSA’s September request for summary judgment. (“CAUS -Update,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1980): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6166

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Event 8755 -(B7EA13F8)

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Date: 11/10/1980
-Description: Paul -Bennewitz visits with a small group of officials—including Brig. -Gen. William -Brooksher, base AFOSI head Maj. Thomas Cseh, and scientists from the -USAF Phillips Weapons Lab—at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico to present his -film, photos, and electromagnetic findings. (Clark III 359; Greg Bishop, -Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 41–44; -Alejandro T. Rojas, [Bennewitz/Kirtland AFB documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6168

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Event 8756 -(D4A07D48)

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Date: 11/10/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A man observes a stationary white light some 30° -up in the western sky near the intersection of State Highway 30 and -Interstate 270 in Sunset Hills, Missouri. A second object, orange in -color, silently circles it for several minutes before taking off to the -west. (“Orbiting -Lights near St. Louis,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 -(December 1980): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6169

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Event 8757 -(079204D4)

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Date: 11/10/1980
-Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz presented his evidence of -sightings near the Kirtland Air Force Base and the Manzano range to high -ranking Air Force personnel including Brigadier General William -Brooksher. In the report of this meeting, it is noted that Bennewitz was -advised to apply for an Air Force grant to study the phenomena.
-Type: private presentation
-Reference: link
-Location: Manzano Test Range

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Event 8758 -(F4C9A65E)

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Date: 11/11/1980
-Description: 6:40 p.m. Seven commercial aircraft—four Iberia Boeing -727s, a British airliner, an air-taxi, and a Transeuropa -aircraft—encounter an unusual green object over Barcelona, Maella, Palma -de Mallorca, and other points in northeastern Spain. Spanish journalist -Juan -J. Benítez investigates and determines that either 7 identical UFOs -are involved or a single object is responsible, one capable of traveling -hundreds of miles within minutes. Comandante Ramos, one of the Iberia -pilots, says that the object is “like an enormous soap bubble” that is -coming straight for his aircraft. He puts it into an evasive dive. When -it passes close to the plane, they see a second smaller ball. (Juan J. -Benítez, “Anniversary -Aerial Encounters,” Flying Saucer Review 26, no. 6 (March 1981): -12–14; Good Above, pp. 157–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6170

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Event 8759 -(16C15AA7)

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Date: 11/16/1980
-Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 360

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Event 8760 -(2F1D3716)

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Date: 11/17/1980
-Description: SECRET USAF OSI Document: Analysis of photo of UFO -following C-5A aircraft inclusive. Photo analysis of Cylinder Shaped UFO -legitimate. Photo E. showed legitimate disc shaped UFO of 37 ft. -diameter with trilateral insignia on object. USAF still has an interest -in all UFO sightings over installations and test ranges. Several other -Government agencies, lead by NASA, actively investigate legitimate -sightings through COVERT COVER. One agency that deceives the public -which such covert cover is the UFO reporting center at U.S. Coast and -Geodetic Survey, Rockville, MD. 20852. (The results of PROJECT AQUARIUS -is still classified TOP SECRET with access limited to “MJ-12”.)
-Type: secret document
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p528)
-Location: US
-Attributes: majestic

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Event 8761 -(0C27B6BD)

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Date: 11/17/1980
-Description: Sgt. Richard -Doty tells Bennewitz that -AFOSI has decided against any further investigation of his claims. The -same day, Doty forges a communication (later called the “Aquarius -document”) from AFOSI headquarters at Bolling AFB in Washington, D.C., -to the Seventeenth District AFOSI office at Kirtland and gives it to Bill -Moore. It -mentions, briefly and cryptically, analyses of a UFO film apparently -taken in October. It also mentions MJ-12 and a government UFO -investigation “outside official intelligence channels” called the -Aquarius Project. Bill Moore calls it a retyped version of a real AFOSI -message with a few spurious additions. Doty tells Moore to pass it on to -Bennewitz, which he does eventually. In 2005, Doty tells radio host Art -Bell that AFOSI’s interest in Bennewitz has nothing to do with -aliens; rather, it is to protect the technologies and activities at -Kirtland AFB. (Good Above, p. 528; -Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 43, 120–129; -“Greg -Bishop and -Richard Doty, Coast to Coast AM with Host Art Bell, Interview -Transcript,” February 27, 2005; Clark III 362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6171

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Event 8762 -(7F0B8619)

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Date: 11/18/1980
-Description: For the resolution of the CAUS v. NSA, the National -Security Agency creates two affidavits to explain why UFO information is -to be withheld from the public. The affidavits are written by the chief -officer of policy for the NSA, Eugene F. Yeates. The first of the two is -the “unclassified, softened-down” version released to CAUS and the -public. The affidavit says that it is in the NSA’s direct interests not -to have the documents published, as they can compromise national -security because they contain sensitive intelligence regarding the -interception of foreign communication; and no meaningful amount of -information can be declassified without giving foreign intelligence -information regarding US time and methods of information interception. -The second affidavit is for Judge Gerhard -A. Gesell only, classified “top secret,” which the judge can read -with an “in camera” clearance. The judge sides with the NSA after -reviewing the affidavit (released to CAUS through an FOIA request with -95% redactions, later released in 1997 with only 25% redacted, and in -2014 with a bit less missing). Gesell states that “the public interest -in disclosure is far outweighed by the sensitive nature of the materials -and the obvious effect on national security their release may well -entail.” CAUS fashions an appeal to the US Supreme Court. (Wikipedia, -“Citizens -Against UFO Secrecy”; Eugene F. Yeates, In -Camera Affidavit, Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects -Secrecy v. National Security Agency, US District Court for the District -of Columbia, October 9, 1980; J. Allen Hynek, “A Cosmic Watergate?” IUR -9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1984): 10–12; ClearIntent, pp. 187–188; -Good Above, pp. 417–419, -535–539); -John Greenewald, “UFOs: -The National Security -Agency (NSA) Collection,” The Black Vault, September 10, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6172

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Event 8763 -(B4F23F31)

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Date: 11/18/1980
-Description: 7:30–11:00 p.m. Many people living in northern Missouri and -northeastern Kansas, from Edina, Missouri, to Fairview, Kansas, report a -formation of unusual lights traveling slowly and noiselessly. An airport -and the police department in Kirksville, Missouri, receive 25 calls or -so. The basic description is a triangular formation with two bright -headlights. Rick Hull, a 20-year-old photographer from Trenton, -Missouri, watches the lights pass overhead four different times; the -underside shows a diamond-shaped array of white lights with a steady red -beacon in the middle. There are also two bright headlights and an -apparent dome with seven green lights around it. He manages to -photograph the array only once out of several attempts. Most people -provide an estimated altitude for the lights as 300–400 feet, but a -Trenton witness puts it at 1,000–1,500 feet, and Missouri Highway -Patrolman Bob Lober guesses 1,500–1,800 feet in Edinburg, Missouri. The -lights change direction frequently. Radar technician Franklin West, -located at a remote radar station of the Kansas City Air Route Traffic -Control Center at Sublette, Missouri, finds a radar target in the same -direction and distance as visual reports that local witnesses alert him -to. It passes through the Kirksville area 4–5 times in a 2–3 hour -period. He estimates its speed at 45 mph. A pilot landing at the Olathe, -Kansas, Air Route Traffic Control Center says he recognizes the UFO as a -refueling tanker with jets following it, which matches an established -refueling track in the area. The Center for UFO Studies confirms that -Altus AFB in Oklahoma, flew a huge C-5A cargo aircraft behind a KC-135 -tanker from Grissom AFB in Peru, Indiana, that evening. The two planes -flew in tandem at 20,000 feet at an indicated air speed of 250 knots -beginning at 8:00 p.m. and ending around 11:00 p.m. However, there are a -few discrepancies with the reports. (“North -Missourians Report Strange -Lights in Night Sky,” Chillicothe (Mo.) Constitution-Tribune, -November 19, 1980, pp. 1, 12; Joe and Doris Graziano, “Press -Reports,” APRO Bulletin 29, no. 5 (June 1981): 6; “Radar-Visual -Light Form Seen by Independent Witnesses,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, -no. 3 (March/April 1981): 12–14; Marler 109–112)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6173

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Event 8764 -(8C1E1F5F)

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Date: 11/19/1980
-Description: Light beamed onto car, lights and radio failed, car -levitated on board domed craft surrounded by dense cloud or mist, couple -examined. Car placed back on road
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Longmont, CO
-ID: 361

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Event 8765 -(3A9327C6)

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Date: 11/19/1980
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A couple is driving home to Longmont, Colorado, -from Denver when they hear a loud “whish” and a beam of blue light -strikes their car. Their headlights begin to dim and the radio emits -static before fading out. The back wheels of the car leave the pavement -and the car rises at an angle into the air. They lose consciousness and -wake up as the car is resuming its 50 mph journey down the road. More -than one hour of time is missing. The next day, the woman finds a -rectangular mark on her abdomen and soon has vivid dreams of a craft and -an entity. She develops a nearly fatal case of pneumonia and finds out -she is pregnant. The man discovers a melanoma on his legs, but it -improves. Under hypnosis they recall seeing a hovering domed craft, a -luminous entryway, and a humanoid with a large head, gray skin, thin -fingers, and shiny golden garb. (Richard Sigismond, “CE-IIIs: New -Dimensions in Investigations,” IUR 7, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1982): -9–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6174

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Event 8766 -(0110F469)

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Date: 11/24/1980
-Description: Official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that an -association to study UFOs had been established in Peking.
-Type: official
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: China
-ID: 362

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Event 8767 -(BBD0BA39)

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Date: 11/24/1980
-Description: Around 10:00 p.m. A teenager in New Lenox, Illinois, sees -two green light sources from his bedroom window. They move back and -forth in the southern sky and disappear briefly when a plane flies below -them. (“UFOs—or IFOs over Joliet?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 -(Jan./Feb. 1981): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6175

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Event 8768 -(950FA2B8)

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Date: 11/25/1980
-Description: Early morning. Policemen in New Lenox, Manhattan, Joliet, -and Ellwood, Illinois, watch a bright white light that fluctuates in -brightness and mostly remains stationary. Probable sightings of Venus. -(“UFOs—or IFOs over Joliet?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 -(Jan./Feb. 1981): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6176

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Event 8769 -(DA81C53C)

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Date: 11/25/1980
-Description: 6:40 a.m. A glowing orange ball is seen maneuvering around -the Ninian Northern oil platform in the North Sea. It is large enough to -be seen by workers at the Brent oil platform 12–15 miles away. An RAF -Hawker Siddeley Nimrod aircraft is sent to the area, but no public -conclusions are reached about its nature. (Nick Redfern, A Covert -Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6177

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Event 8770 -(6E8A657C)

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Date: 11/26/1980
-Description: Doty receives -a call from former astronaut Sen. Harrison -Schmitt (R-N.Mex.) who asks him about AFOSI’s role in Bennewitz’s -claims. Doty tells him they are not investigating. But Doty later admits -what he tells Schmitt is not true. AFOSI has told him to make Bennewitz -believe there is an impending alien invasion because Bennewitz is -actually observing secret Air Force projects. According to Doty, the Air -Force wants to discredit Bennewitz so no one will figure that out. -However, Doty claims that in doing so, he created hoaxed documents that -are given to Bennewitz and other UFO researchers, and that he broke into -Bennewitz’s house and office. (Alejandro T. Rojas, “Ex–Air -Force Law Enforcement Agent Says He Hoaxed Major UFO Mythologies,” -Huffington Post, May 13, 2014; Clark III 359–362)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6178

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Event 8771 -(CC280FB1)

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Date: 11/28/1980
-Description: Constable Alan Godfrey encountered craft on road, time -loss. Abduction scenario emerged under hypnosis
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK
-ID: 363

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Event 8772 -(03D08430)

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Date: 11/29/1980
-Description: 5:00 a.m. While checking reports of cattle wandering around -a local council estate in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, Police -Constable Alan -Godfrey allegedly sees a bright light ahead on Burnley Road that -appears to be a hovering, rotating object. He sees twigs and leaves -swirling around beneath it. He experiences missing time of approximately -25 minutes, during which he splits a boot and acquires an itchy, red -mark on his foot. Via hypnotic regression, he recalls being medically -examined by alien creatures. In May, Godfrey had investigated the death -of Zigmund -Adamski, who -had been missing for five days before his body was found on top of a -coal pile. According to the coroner, Adamski died of a heart attack. -Godfrey tells reporters at the time that he believes it possible that -Adamski was abducted by aliens and placed on the coal pile “by someone -or something.” Godfrey self-publishes Who or What Were They? in 2017, a -book that includes his speculations regarding the Adamski case, -abduction claims by Travis -Walton, and his own UFO sighting. In 2014, a partial witness to the -event surfaces, a bus driver on Burnley Road who around 4:55 a.m. -experiences one of the physical effects Godfrey describes—an oddly -localized whirlwind buffeting debris and leaving a swirled road surface -beneath. (Wikipedia, “Alan -Godfrey”; Jenny Randles, “The -Alan Godfrey Abduction, November 28, 1980,” -UFO Casebook; “Alan -Godfrey,” Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study; Jenny Randles, -The Pennine UFO Mystery, Granada, 1983, pp. 122–135, 147–168; -Good Above, pp. 118–119; -Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley: Part One,” Fortean Times 325 (April -2015): 27; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley: Part Two,” Fortean Times 326 -(May 2015): 27; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part 3,” Fortean Times -327 (June 2015): 29; Jenny Randles, “Flappy Valley, Part 4,” Fortean -Times 328 (July 2015): 28–30; Alan Godfrey, Who or What Were They? The -Author, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6179

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Event 8773 -(747D35D2)

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Date: 11/29/1980
-Description: Mechanic Granger Taylor, 32, of Duncan, British Columbia, a -man obsessed with aliens and UFOs to the point of building his own -full-size model in his backyard, announces to his friends and parents -that he is going to board an alien spacecraft and take a 42-month -interstellar voyage. He is never seen again. In 1986, truck fragments -and bones are found at a blast site on Mount Prevost. Though DNA testing -is not in common use at the time, pathology work by the coroner -attributes the adult human bones to Taylor. Fragments of clothing found -amid the decayed material are from a shirt owned by Taylor, as confirmed -by his mother. Representatives from the auto division of the RCMP -confirm the truck is his. A report by the B.C. Coroners office -officially declares Taylor dead. A CBC-TV documentary about Taylor, -Spaceman, is released in 2019 but fails to come up with a likely -explanation. (Tyler Hooper, “The -Man Who Went to Space and Disappeared,” Vice, July 1, 2016; Mike -Taylor, “What -Happened to Granger Taylor?” Vancouver (B.C.) Times Colonist, -February 3, 2019; CBC-TV, “Spaceman,” -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6180

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Event 8774 -(4B568B1F)

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Date: 12/1980
-Description: UFO landing between the Bentwaters and Woodbridge NATA -bases in England. Nearby animals driven into a frenzy, surrounding trees -damaged, left moderate levels of radiation, 17 firsthand witnesses, -event filmed.
-Type: ufo landing
-Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4–1985
-Location: between the Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge
-See also: 3/3/1985

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Event 8775 -(36B4689A)

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Date: 12/1980
-Description: Army Lt. Col. John -B. Alexander discusses in Military Review how psychotronic weapons -could be developed by studying the paranormal. He discusses the -remote-viewing studies of Russell -Targ and Harold -E. Puthoff and -their potential military applications. As for psychotronic weapons, he -sees much potential, saying, “with development, these weapons would be -able to induce illness or death at little or no risk to the operator. -Range may be a present problem, but this will probably be overcome if it -has not been already.” As an example, he cites work by the Soviets, who -have “examined the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans and -have applied those techniques against the US Embassy in Moscow.” (John -B. Alexander, “The -New Mental Battlefield: ’Beam -Me Up, Spock!’” Military Review 60, no. 12 (December 1980))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6181

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Event 8776 -(146D20E3)

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Date: 12/3/1980
-Description: 8:30 p.m. On State Highway 57 about 10 miles south of -McLain, Mississippi, Robert and Janice Lowrey [or Lawrey?] see a -luminous, blue-white ball of light to the east. The FM radio of their -car quits, the car’s headlights dim, and the car heater quits when light -comes briefly over the right side of the hood. They estimate the light -to be about a foot in diameter and only 3 feet away. The seat belt alarm -also comes on during the encounter. The light just vanishes. (“Vehicle -Affected by Mini-UFO?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 2 -(Jan./Feb. 1981): 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6182

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Event 8777 -(0ED03FF6)

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Date: 12/4/1980
-Description: Radar-visual sighting of four objects at airport
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Perth, Western Australia
-ID: 364

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Event 8778 -(D2C1BB30)

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Date: 12/4/1980
-Description: 8:38 a.m. Graham Moyle and other controllers at the Perth, -Western Australia, airport report watching “silver tumbling discs” two -or three times through 11:00 a.m. Danielle Russell, 12, sees four -objects with lights that change color from red to blue to green moving -quickly north to south at 11:00 a.m. There is a reported paint on the -radar 7 miles distant at a speed of 138 mph and a height of 5 miles. The -target is lost in the radar’s cone of silence. The RAAF scrambles a -Macchi jet, but it cannot find the objects. At 1:20 p.m., a target is -detected on the radar at 21 miles, due south. The tower tracks an object -high above one of the runways. Five minutes later, the radar returns -another target. (“Jet Hunt for Australian UFOs,” IUR/Frontiers of -Science 3, no. 2 (Jan./Feb. 1981): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6183

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Event 8779 -(5123E3A2)

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Date: 12/5/1980
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two teenagers parked next to a swimming pool in -a subdivision of Normal, Illinois, see a stationary bright white light -about half the size of the full moon in the western sky. Suddenly it -splits into two smaller halves that rejoin, growing small and fuzzy, -then brighten and enlarge. Three small lights shoot out and snap back in -again. They watch the display for about one hour. During the last 15 -minutes, their ears begin to hurt simultaneously. The pain shifts from -their right ears to their temples, and they both feel a pea-shaped lump -under their skin. They return home. The next day the lumps are gone but -they have headaches. On December 8 at 8:45 p.m., the boy returns to the -same spot alone and sees another light for about one minute. When he -calls his girlfriend again to tell her, both regain the painful lumps in -their temples. (“Youths -Link Pain with UFO,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 (February -1981): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6184

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Event 8780 -(22500776)

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Date: 12/6/1980
-Description: 9:01 a.m. Jean Findley of Poole, Dorset, England, is -waiting for a bus and feels the urge to look up. She sees a disc-shaped, -domed UFO hovering above nearby trees. Feeling “spellbound” and -experiencing a sensation of “peace, calm, and warmth,” she watches the -object emit a beam of light, rotate once, and fly away at a great rate -of speed. She looks at her watch and sees that 4 minutes have elapsed, -seemingly in the space of a few seconds. Even though it is rush hour, -she sees no one else around. (Clark III 866; Jenny Randles, UFO Reality, -R. Hale, 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6186

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Event 8781 -(68ED52C0)

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Date: 12/6/1980
-Description: 12:45 a.m. A man is driving westbound a few miles north of -Edwardsville, Illinois, when a disc-like object cuts across his view -from the south about 100 feet away. It seems to be 40 feet in diameter -and 9–13 feet thick. Five intense, steady, blue-white lights illuminate -its dark shape. He sees windows at the center. The witness tries to -drive toward the object, but his car engine fails for 1–2 minutes. The -object zips off after a few minutes. (“Current -Sighting Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 3 (March 1981): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6185

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Event 8782 -(15935725)

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Date: 12/13/1980
-Description: 5:47 p.m. James Garrigus sees an oblong, pulsating orange -glow descending at a 30° angle in the northeast as he is driving in -Lima, Ohio. Suddenly it curves back upward in a backwards “J,” -continuing to move in the same direction. The light increases speed, -still bobbing and spinning, and finally shoots upward. (“Nocturnal -Light in Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 (February 1981): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6187

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Event 8783 -(FADF6EF4)

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Date: 12/15/1980
-Description: 3:00 p.m. About 40 witnesses at the Orpington Hospital -redevelopment site in London, England, watch a UFO that alternately -hovers, moves slowly, shoots across the sky, and finally divides into -three and disappears straight up at 4:15 p.m. The object is an elongated -triangular shape with a reddish-orange nose, silvery body, and -diamond-blue rear section, with its nose pointing southeast. Peter -McSherry, clerk of works for Lovell (Southern) Ltd estimates its height -at 50,000 feet. A video of the object is taken in the presence of other -witnesses at Seal Chart near Sevenoaks, Kent, and although it shows only -a point of light in a cloudless sky, it does corroborate the sighting. -(Good Above, pp. 76–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6188

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Event 8784 -(7B4FDD4A)

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Date: 12/25/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Soviet spy satellite Kosmos 749 re-enters the -Earth’s atmosphere, breaks into several pieces, and creates a -spectacular fireworks display over northwest Europe. Police stations, -coast guards, and the RAF receive hundreds of calls reporting four or -five “comet-like objects leaving bright trails.” Astronomers also record -three fireball meteors the same night, the largest and brightest -appearing at 3:00 a.m. (UFOFiles2, p. 105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6189

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Event 8785 -(35A9BD82)

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Date: 12/26/1980
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A series of reported sightings of unexplained -lights near Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, have become linked with -claims of UFO landings. The events occur just outside RAF Woodbridge -[now MOD Woodbridge], used at the time by the United States Air Force. -USAF personnel, including deputy base commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles -I. Halt, claim to experience a UFO event. A security patrol (A1C John Burroughs and -S/Sgt Budd Steffens) near the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge sees lights -apparently descending into nearby Rendlesham Forest. These lights are -attributed by astronomers to a piece of natural debris seen burning up -as a fireball over southern England at the time. The observers initially -think it is a downed aircraft but, when others (S/Sgt James -Penniston, Burroughs, and A1C Edward -Cabansag) enter the forest to investigate they see, according to -Halt’s memo, a glowing object, metallic in appearance, with colored -lights. As they attempt to approach the object, it appears to move -through the trees, and “the animals on a nearby farm went into a -frenzy.” Penniston later claims he and Burroughs encountered a “craft of -unknown origin” while in the forest, which he photographs and touches, -although there is no publicized mention of this at the time and no -corroboration from other witnesses. (Burroughs only reports a blinding -white light.) Shortly after 4:00 a.m., local police are called to the -scene, but they report that the only lights they can see are those from -the Orfordness Lighthouse, a few miles away on the coast. After -daybreak, Burroughs and Penniston return to a small clearing near the -eastern edge of the forest and find three small impressions on the -ground in a triangular pattern, as well as burn marks and broken -branches on nearby trees. At 10:30 a.m., the Suffolk Constabulary are -called out again, this time to see the impressions, which they think -could have been made by an animal. Georgina -Bruni, in -her book You Can’t Tell the People (2000), publishes a photo of the -supposed landing site taken on the morning after the first -sighting.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6190

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Event 8786 -(CF012C83)

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Date: 12/27/1980
-Description: USAF UFO report signed by Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, Deputy -Base Commander, RAF Woodbridge stating: Two USAF security police -patrolmen saw a UFO either hovering or on legs outside the backgate, -Woodbridge. Being early morning, it illuminated the entire forest with a -white light. Description: Metallic in appearance and triangular in -shape, pulsing red light on top and banks of blue lights underneath. -Approx. 2–3 meters across and 2 meters high. It maneuvered through the -trees and disappeared.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p456)
-Location: RAF Woodbridge
-See also: 12/29/1980

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Event 8787 -(D7B5C665)

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Date: 12/27/1980
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Construction workers skating in Yantan Park, -Lanzhou, Gansu province, China, notice a red triangular object moving -slowly in the eastern sky. It moves above them and they notice it has a -misty circle surrounding it and a dark red center. It also has a gray -protuberance that shines a brilliant light, and the outer edge emits -regular flashes of yellow light. They watch it for 7 minutes until it -disappears in the northwest. (“The Chinese Connection…and Some Wholesome -Chinese Philosophy,” IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6191

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Event 8788 -(4B4EB371)

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Date: 12/27/1980
-End date: 12/30/1980
-Description: Air Force security police encounter with landed craft in -Rendlesham Forest, physical evidence
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bentwaters AFB, UK
-ID: 365

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Event 8789 -(E9F2F977)

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Date: 12/28/1980
-Description: 1:48 a.m. RAF Woodbridge Deputy Base Commander Charles -Halt visits the alleged December 26 landing site with 20–30 -servicemen (including John -Burroughs, Sgt. Adrian -Bustinza, Sgt. Bobby -Ball, and Sgt. Monroe -Nevels). They take radiation readings in the triangle of depressions -and in the surrounding area using an AN/PDR-27, a standard US military -radiation survey meter. Although they record 70–100 microR/hr at the -landing site, in other regions they detect only 30–40 microR/hr, around -the background level. Furthermore, they detect a similar small “burst” -over half a mile away from the landing site. Halt records the events on -a microcassette recorder, the “Halt tape,” released to UFO researchers -in 1984 by Col. Sam Morgan, who has succeeded Ted -Conrad as Halt’s superior. The tape chronicles Halt’s investigation -in the forest in real time. During this investigation, a flashing light -is seen across the field to the east, almost in line with a farmhouse, -as the witnesses had seen on the first night. The Orfordness Lighthouse -is visible further to the east in the same line of sight. Later, three -star-like lights are seen in the sky, two to the north and one to the -south, about 10° above the horizon. The brightest of these hovers for -2–3 hours and seems to beam down a stream of light from time to time. -Astronomers have explained these as merely bright stars. In June 2010, -retired Col. Charles Halt signs a notarized affidavit, in which he again -summarizes what happened, then states he believes the event to be -extraterrestrial and covered up by both the UK and US military. -Contradictions between this affidavit and the facts as recorded at the -time in Halt’s memo (dated January 13, 1981) and tape recording (made -December 28) have been pointed out. In 2010, base commander Col. Ted -Conrad provides a statement about the incident to UFO researcher David -Clarke. Conrad -states that “We saw nothing that resembled Lieutenant Colonel Halt’s -descriptions either in the sky or on the ground” and that “We had people -in position to validate Halt’s narrative, but none of them could.” In an -interview, Conrad criticizes Halt for the claims in his affidavit, -saying “he should be ashamed and embarrassed by his allegation that his -country and Britain both conspired to deceive their citizens over this -issue. He knows better.” Conrad also disputes the testimony of Sgt. James -Penniston, who -claims to have touched an alien spacecraft; he had interviewed Penniston -at the time and he had not mentioned any such occurrence. Conrad also -suggests that the entire incident was a hoax.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6192

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Event 8790 -(B6C6A7E9)

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Date: 12/28/1980
-End date: 12/29/1980
-Description: Around 12:00 midnight. USAF A1C Larry -Warren claims he is on patrol at RAF Woodbridge with other -servicemen who are bringing lighting equipment to a large clearing -called Capel Green. At 12:30 a.m., he is directed into the woods to -“investigate a disturbance.” They soon come to a large field where about -40 military personnel are gathered. They are ordered to surround what -appears to be a bright fog or mist. When his group enters the field, -Warren sees it is a glowing, yellow-green, circular object not more than -12 inches in height. Two officers walk around it with Geiger counters, -someone takes photos, and another operates a movie camera. He hears -shouts of “Here it comes!” and sees a small red light that quickly -approaches his group at 1:30 a.m. The basketball-sized object makes a -downward arc and hovers at 20 feet above the ground. It then explodes in -a blinding flash that gives off no heat. Instantly, about 25 away, -Warren claims he sees a large, pyramid-shaped object topped by a glowing -red light. Covering the entire surface are what look like boxes and -pipes. An officer orders Bustinza and -Warren (now feeling nauseous) to approach within 10–15 feet of the -object. Before long they are ordered further back. A staff car arrives, -carrying Col. Gordon -Williams and his staff. From far behind the object comes a bright -bluish ball of light. Warren claims he can see large-headed beings -inside. He sees Col. Williams approach the beings and stare at them. -Warren arrives back at Security Control at 4:30 a.m. Most ufologists -find Warren’s account unreliable, and the book he coauthored, Left at -East Gate, is withdrawn by the publisher, Cosimo, in 2017 after finding -“inaccurate or embellished” testimony. In 2010, Jenny -Randles, who first reported the Rendlesham case in the London -Evening Standard in 1981 and coauthored with local researchers the first -book on the case in 1984, Sky Crash: A Cosmic Conspiracy, emphasizes her -previously expressed doubts that the incident was caused by -extraterrestrial visitors. While suggesting that an unidentified -phenomenon might have caused parts of the case, she notes: “Whilst some -puzzles remain, we can probably say that no unearthly craft were seen in -Rendlesham Forest. We can also argue with confidence that the main focus -of the events was a series of misperceptions of everyday things -encountered in less than everyday circumstances.” The most plausible -skeptical explanation is that the sightings are due to a combination of -several factors. The initial sighting on December 26, when the airmen -saw something apparently descending into the forest, coincides with the -appearance of a bright fireball over southern England; such fireballs -are a common source of UFO reports. The supposed landing marks are -identified by police and foresters as rabbit diggings. According to the -witness statements from December 26, the flashing light seen from the -forest lay in the same direction as the Orfordness Lighthouse. When the -eyewitnesses attempted to approach the light, they realized it was -further off than they thought. Timings on Halt’s -tape recording indicate that the light he saw, which lay in the same -direction as the light seen two nights earlier, flashed every five -seconds, which was the flash rate of the Orfordness Lighthouse. The -star-like objects that Halt reported hovering low to the north and south -are thought by some skeptics to have been misinterpretations of bright -stars distorted by atmospheric and optical effects. No evidence has -emerged to confirm that anything came down in the forest. However, Nick -Redfern in The Rendlesham Forest UFO Conspiracy alleges that the -events were created by US and UK military as part of a series of -top-secret experiments involving ball lightning and the “use of -sophisticated holograms and hallucinogens” to test the reactions of the -personnel exposed to them. (Wikipedia, “Rendlesham -Forest incident”; NICAP, “Rendlesham Forest -Encounter / Halt Case”; Brenda Butler, Dot Street, and Jenny -Randles, Sky Crash, Grafton, 1984; Jenny Randles, “Mystery at -Rendlesham,” IUR 9, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1984): 10–11, 15; “A -Flashlight in the Forest,” The Guardian (UK), January 5, 1985, p. 9; -Robert H. Coddington, “An -Analysis of the Rendlesham Forest Incident Tape,” -IUR 10, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1985): 9–13; Jenny Randles, “The -Cover-Up in England,” IUR 12, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 9–12, 20; -Jenny Randles, “A -Fire in the Forest: New Light on the Rendlesham Landing,” IUR 13, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1988): 4–17, 21; Jenny Randles, “Rendlescam,” -IUR 14, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1989): 16–18; Good Above, pp. 79–96, 456; -Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, pp. 141–165; -Larry Warren and Peter Robbins, Left -at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwaters-Woodbridge -UFO Incident, -Its Cover-Up, and Investigation, Marlowe, -1996; Jenny Randles, UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe? The Full Story of -the Rendlesham Forest Close Encounter, Blandford, 1998; Jenny Randles, -“Seeing the Forest for the Trees: New Twists in the Bentwaters Case,” -IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 16–19, 29–30; Don Berliner, with Marie -Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available -Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 105–111; -Georgina Bruni, You Can’t Tell the People, Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000; -Jenny Randles and Richard Hall, “The -Rendlesham Forest Case: Point/Counterpoint,” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall -2000): 8–15, 30; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham -Forest: The British MoD File,” IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 21–25, -30–32; Ian Ridpath, “The Rendlesham -Forest UFO Case,” Ian Ridpath, February 28, 2003; “Rendlesham: -UFO Hoax,” Inside Out: BBC, June 30, 2003; Dave Cosnette, “The -Bentwaters Rendlesham Forest Incident,” January 2005; Michael D. -Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for -UFO Research, 2005, pp. 145–146; Kean, pp. 169–173, 179–188; -UFOFiles2, pp. 105–115; -Nick Pope, with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, Encounter in -Rendlesham Forest, Thistle, -2014; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part One,” Fortean -Times 336 (February 2016): 24–25; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham Forest -Genesis: Part Two,” Fortean Times 337 (March 2016): 28–29; Jenny -Randles, “Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part Three,” Fortean Times 338 -(April 2016): 26–27; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham Forest Genesis: Part -Four,” Fortean Times 339 (May 2016): 26–27; Jenny Randles, “Rendlesham -Forest Genesis: Part Five,” Fortean Times 340 (June 2016): 28–29; Andrew -Pike, The Rendlesham File: Britain’s Roswell? Flying Disk Press, 2017; -Nukes 403–443; Clark III 950; Matt Salusbury, “Rendlesham Revisited,” -Fortean Times 387 (Christmas 2019): 28–29; Jim Penniston and Gary -Osborn, The Rendlesham Enigma: Book 1, Timeline, The Authors, 2019; “Colonel -Charles Halt Returns to Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, Sept. 8th -2019,” David Young Paranormal Dimensions Radio Presenter YouTube -channel, October 6, 2019; Nick Redfern, The Rendlesham Forest UFO -Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2020; Jim Penniston and Gary Osborn, “The -Full Report,” The Rendlesham Forest Incident Official Website; Jim -Penniston and Gary Osborn, “Witness Statements,” The Rendlesham Forest -Incident Official Website; Jim Penniston and Gary Osborn, -“Others Involved,” The Rendlesham Forest Incident Official Website; -Center for UFO Studies, [Rendlesham -case documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6193

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Event 8791 -(01AE1A30)

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Date: 12/29/1980
-Description: Lt. Col. C. I. Halt, sees a UFO that separates into 5 UFOs -and later sees 3 other UFOs.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p456)
-Location: RAF Woodbridge
-See also: 12/27/1980

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Event 8792 -(4469CB55)

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Date: 12/29/1980
-Description: A low flying UFO was escorted by a large number of -helicopters (23) including some Chinooks and possibly Hueys, near -Dayton, Texas. It was probably escorted to the Top Secret underground -installation within Fort Hood, Texas. The secret air force base is NOT -listed in the Air Force Officer’s Guide or the Air Force Almanac (it is -an Army AFB). The name of the Secret base is Gray AAF, Texas. The -special group piloting the helicopters escort for UFO are known as the -“BLUE BOYS”. The Texas Department of Public Safety works closely with -Gray AAF on UFO cases.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Dayton, TX
-See also: 6/6/88

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Event 8793 -(330B511E)

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Date: 12/29/1980
-Description: Cash-Landrum incident. It was investigated by ex-Col. John -B. Alexander on behalf of the inspector General of the Pentagon.
-Type: ufo encounter
-Reference: link
-Location: north of Houston, TX

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Event 8794 -(051DAEC2)

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Date: 12/29/1980
-Description: 9:00 p.m. While driving through the Piney Woods of East -Texas near Huffman, about 40 miles northeast of Houston, Betty -J. Cash and her two passengers notice a bright light ahead. As they -draw within about 130 feet, they are confronted by a fiery -diamond-shaped object, emitting flames down toward the road. What -happens after that is mind-boggling. Betty Cash and Vickie and -Colby -Landrum suffer apparent radiation illness after watching a -flame-spewing UFO and mystery helicopters. Eventually, Cash and Landrum -contact their US Senators, Lloyd Bentsen and -John -Tower, who -suggest that the witnesses file a complaint with the Judge Advocate -Claims office at Bergstrom Air Force Base [now Austin-Bergstrom -International Airport]. In August 1981, Cash, Landrum, and Colby are -interviewed at length by personnel at Bergstrom and told that they -should hire a lawyer and seek financial compensation for their injuries. -With attorney Peter Gersten taking -on the case pro bono, the case winds its way through the US courts for -several years. Cash and Landrum sue the federal government for $20 -million. On August 21, 1986, US District Court Judge Ross -N. Sterling dismisses their case, noting that the plaintiffs have -not proved that the helicopters are associated with the government and -that military officials have testified that US armed forces do not have -a large, diamond-shaped aircraft in their possession. Although there is -no doubt that the incident occurred, it is now considered by many to be -a non-UFO case. In December 2018, Brian -Dunning investigates the case and reports his findings on the -Skeptoid podcast. He finds that the notes taken by Cash’s cardiologist, -Vasudev -B. Shenoy, attribute -her hair loss to the autoimmune disease alopecia areata, that her other -symptoms could be caused by illnesses that started before the incident, -and that Landrum’s only documented illness is developing a cataract in -one eye. He suspects that “Cash and Landrum wrongly, but honestly, -placed the blame for their health problems onto whatever they saw; and -even pushed the truth a bit trying to get the Air Force to pay for it.” -(Wikipedia, “Cash-Landrum -incident”; NICAP, “Cash/Landrum -Case”; “Burns -Follow UFO Incident,”APRO Bulletin 29, no. 8 (1981): 1–4; “Physical -Effects, Helicopters, and a Fiery UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. -4 (May/June 1981): 13–14; John Schuessler, “Cash-Landrum Case Closed?” -MUFON UFO Journal, no. 222 (October 1986): 12, 17; John Schuessler, “Medical -Injuries Resulting from -a UFO Encounter,” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, -pp. 58–69; John F. Schuessler, The Cash-Landrum -Radiation Case, Project VISIT, 1998; “Huffman -1980,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, December 11, 2006; -Michael D. Swords, “Can UFOs Cause Physiological Effects? Part 2,” IUR -34, no. 1 (September 2011): 4–5; Good Above, pp. 303–305; -ClearIntent, pp. 106–108; -Good Need, pp. 335–337, -345–346; -Clark III 226–228; Curt Collins, “The -Cash-Landrum Case UFO Document Collection,” Blue Blurry Lines, -October 3, 2019; Project VISIT, [case -articles and clippings])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6194

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Event 8795 -(9F927FFB)

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Date: 12/29/1980
-Description: Diamond- or spindle-shaped object blocked vehicle. Heat, -sound, strong physiological effects indicating radioactivity. Mystery -helicopters followed UFO
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Huffman, TX
-ID: 366

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- Event 8796 (4035762D)

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Date: 1981
-Description: The “China Society of UFO Research” (CSUR) research -organization was established. More than 600 UFO’s have been reported -within the past 5 years in China. Studies will be done on UFO’s and -human body science relationships.
-Type: research organization
-Reference: “Above Top Secret” by Timothy Good page 219
-Location: China

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Event 8797 -(C3E13327)

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Date: 1981
-Description: A husband and wife are sleeping in their farmhouse near -Newark, Ohio, when their dogs start barking loudly. They can hear people -talking outside their window in a “foreign” language. They do not -investigate, but in the morning they find three sets of footprint-like -traces outside. They look like elongated scratch marks about 12 inches -long, are uniform in shape, and go all the way to the fence line and -through it. The couple begins to see a “perfectly round white circle of -light,” about 1.5 inches in diameter, moving slowly around in their -bedroom each night. The light is seen for about a month, no matter how -the blinds and curtains are arranged. Sometimes it would stop moving for -hours. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June -2007): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6197

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Event 8798 -(428CC54F)

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Date: 1981
-Description: The Norsk Institutt for Vitenskapelig Forskning og -Opplysning in Trondheim, Norway, begins publishing the NIVFO Bulletin, -edited by Gunnar Bertelsen and Kilbjørn Stenødegård. It continues -through spring 1995. (NIVFO Bulletin, no. -1 (1981))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6198

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Event 8799 -(A6EDFD15)

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Date: 1981
-Description: Center for UFO Studies researcher Mark -Rodeghier publishes UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, a -comprehensive catalog and analysis of 441 cases where UFOs seem to -affect cars or motorcycles. He finds that most of these cases occur in -the late evening or early morning hours, and that in 35% of the cases, -witness estimate they are within 100 feet of the object. Rodeghier also -notes a high concentration of four characteristics: the presence of a -light beam, loss of control of the vehicle, a physiological effect on -the witness, and the UFO chasing the vehicle. (Mark Rodeghier, UFO -Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, -1981)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6196

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Event 8800 -(C9F3851D)

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Date: 1981
-Description: New York artist Budd -Hopkins publishes Missing Time, which first describes his research -into abductions that show they are far more plentiful than anyone -suspects, biological in purpose, and perhaps lifelong in scope. Hopkins -also shows that a period of unexplained missing time is a typical aspect -of the abduction experience. The information comes primarily from -hypnotic regression performed by licensed psychologist Aphrodite -Clamar, who also conducts psychological tests on the abductees. -(Budd Hopkins, Missing -Time: A Documented Study of UFO -Abductions, R. -Marek, 1981)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6195

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Event 8801 -(E87BED38)

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Date: 1/1981
-Description: A. Bindas observes a radiant object above the city of -Khatanga, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, during the polar night. It -disappears and reappears abruptly, hovers, and directs a wide beam of -light on the ground. After 5–7 minutes it zooms off in a spiral-shaped -trajectory. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, -p. 97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6199

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Event 8802 -(DC82A71E)

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Date: 1/3/1981
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 367

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Event 8803 -(63A83A32)

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Date: 1/6/1981
-Description: Four silvery discs executed turns, maneuvers, in a diamond -formation. Objects flashed in sunlight as they turned, crossed western -sky
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Payson, AZ
-ID: 368

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Event 8804 -(D25802CC)

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Date: 1/8/1981
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A well-documented case of physical effects from a -UFO takes place in Trans-en-Provence, Var, France. Renato Nicolaï, a -gardener, hears a strange whistling sound while doing agricultural work -on his property. He then sees an object in the shape of two saucers, one -inverted on top of the other, about 8 feet in diameter land about 150 -feet away at a lower elevation. It has a thick band around the middle -section, two circles that look like trapdoors, and two feet that extend -about 8 inches below the body of the machine. The object takes off -almost immediately, rising above the tree line and departing to the -northeast. The case quickly comes to the attention of the police and is -soon investigated by GEPAN, the French government’s scientific team of -UFO investigators. The physical traces include evidence of vegetation -and soil heating, skid marks, and circular ground marks. The chemical -analysis reveals that the soil has been heated to 300°–600° C. Jean-Jacques -Velasco thinks that the object could have weighed between 4 and 5 -tons. Trace amounts of phosphate and zinc are found in the sample -material, and an analysis of wild alfalfa near the landing site shows -chlorophyll levels 30%–50% lower than expected. The police report says -that the trace, which appears on an active road, looks like one made by -a car tire. This explanation is dismissed by GEPAN because of Nicolaï -saying otherwise. (Wikipedia, “Trans-en-Provence Case”; -NICAP, “Disc -Leaves Extensive Ground Traces”; Enquête -81/01: Analyse d’un Trace, Note -Technique no. 16, Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux -Non-identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, March 1, 1983; -Michel Bounias, “Biochemical -Traumatology As a Potent Tool for Identifying Actual Stresses Elicited -by Unidentified -Sources,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 (1990): 1–18; -Jean-Jacques Velasco, “Report -on the -Analysis of Anomalous Physical Traces: The 1981 Trans-en-Provence UFO -Case,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 (1990): 27–48; -Jacques Vallée, “Return -to Trans-en-Provence,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, no. 1 -(1990): 19–25; Michel Bounias, “Further Quantification of -Distance-Related Effects in the Trans-en-Provence Case,” JUFOS 5 (1994): -109–121; Peter Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, 1999, pp. 257–297; -Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing -Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 112–120; -Swords 443–445; 2Pinotti 53–56)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6200

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Event 8805 -(D95CE921)

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Date: 1/8/1981
-Description: Landing, physical trace case investigated by official -French agency
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Trans-en-Provence, France
-ID: 369

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Event 8806 -(254D0BBE)

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Date: 1/9/1981
-End date: 3/7/1981
-Description: Local concentration of sightings
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northern California
-ID: 370

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Event 8807 -(308F601A)

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Date: 1/12/1981
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy files an appeal against the -CAUS v. NSA decision. (ClearIntent, p. 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6201

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Event 8808 -(3FFCFDA0)

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Date: 1/13/1981
-Description: Bentwaters AFB Air Force Memo from Lt. Col. Charles I. -Halt, Deputy Base Commander.
-Type: memo
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Bentwaters AFB
-See also: 12/27/80
-See also: 12/29/80

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Event 8809 -(F84D1AAC)

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Date: 1/15/1981
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Three sets of witnesses in Prairieton, Indiana, -driving past two different fields on the same road, see 7–11 -four-foot-tall humanoids that appear to be searching for something. Some -witnesses think they are naked; others report they are wearing -“tight-fitting suits.” Most witnesses are within 20 feet of the -creatures, usually watching for 15–20 seconds before racing off. At -10:30 p.m., two women in a different area of town get a fleeting glimpse -of a 6–7-foot tall creature with fur and luminous red eyes. (“UFO -Mini-Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 -(Mar./Apr. 1981): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6203

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Event 8810 -(9C46E9ED)

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Date: 1/15/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. People in Terre Haute, Indiana, begin reporting a -string of about a dozen lights in the sky to a local television station. -The lights are stationary then disappear by shooting straight up. (“UFO -Mini-Flap in Southern Indiana,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 3 -(Mar./Apr. 1981): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6202

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Event 8811 -(2287BD0D)

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Date: 1/17/1981
-Description: 10:00 a.m. A witness at a construction site near Virginia -Beach, Virginia, sees two silver cigars moving northbound in the eastern -sky. Each has distinct outlines, a surface like aluminum, and pointed -ends. They are flying with a slight up/down motion but horizontally at -about 1,000–2,000 feet. (“Current -Sighting Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 3 (March 1981): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6204

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Event 8812 -(F95D1CC5)

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Date: 1/20/1981
-End date: 1/20/1989
-Description: President Ronald Reagan in office.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 12/27/80
-See also: 12/29/80

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Event 8813 -(4432B9D3)

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Date: 1/22/1981
-Description: Many witnesses see a brilliant triangular object with -multiple red lights descending swiftly above the treetops just southeast -of Jesup, Georgia. It is only visible for a few seconds. (Marler -171–172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6205

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Event 8814 -(9DC90D5C)

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Date: 1/25/1981
-Description: Hovering cigar- or spindle-shaped object, disc with dome, -darting motions, numerous photographs taken
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Chatsworth, CA
-ID: 371

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Event 8815 -(EB9A4D11)

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Date: 2/7/1981
-Description: The Larry King Show carries a three-hour program on UFOs -with a panel consisting of Richard -H. Hall, Bruce -S. Maccabee, and -Don -Berliner. The -first hour consists of Larry -King interviewing the panelists; then he takes phone calls for two -hours. (MUFON UFO Journal, March 1981, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6206

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Event 8816 -(48A5F7F6)

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Date: 2/9/1981
-Description: Red-lighted object made pass at aircraft, instant -relocation. “Very tight turns,” hovered, accelerated away at “extremely -high rate of speed.”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Jose, CA
-ID: 372

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Event 8817 -(F01D809D)

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Date: 2/12/1981
-Description: Night. About 25–30 people on an interstate highway in -Flagstaff, Arizona, see a cigar-shaped object like a blimp, white in -color with dark veins. A small white object is at one end. After 2 -minutes, the small object takes off at a high rate of speed and -disappears. Meanwhile, a fog surrounds the blimp and it drifts away. -(Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May -2006): 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6207

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Event 8818 -(5353DF1E)

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Date: 2/28/1981
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies can no longer afford to keep Allan -Hendry on as a full-time investigator, so his affiliation ends. It -closes its Evanston, Illinois, office and moves to Allen -Hynek’s home. (Clark III 569)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6208

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Event 8819 -(BC363F32)

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Date: 3/1981
-Description: 4:30 a.m. A witness is driving toward a pancake house in -Memphis, Tennessee, for a cup of coffee when she sees three shining -objects in the sky. She is so engrossed in watching that she passes by -the restaurant. Suddenly the objects disappear into what look like puffs -of smoke. A minute later, one reappears directly over the street in -front of her. She turns into the Admiral Benbow Inn parking lot and -alerts the night watchman, who sees the object hovering above her car -and then rise above the inn. (“UFOs in a Puff of Smoke,” IUR/Frontiers -of Science 3, no. 5 (July/Aug. 181): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6211

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Event 8820 -(ABBDF841)

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Date: 3/1981
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale begins a newsletter to -supplement its official journal, Notiziario UFO, edited by Roberto -Pinotti. Titled -Quaderni UFO, it is edited by Gianfranco Neri in Bologna, Italy, and -continues through at least May 1983. (Quaderni -UFO 1, no. 1 (Mar./Apr. 1981))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6209

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Event 8821 -(4A3DD4A5)

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Date: 3/1981
-Description: The Journal of UFO Research is first published by China’s -UFO Research Organization. (Paul Dong, “Letters,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March -1982): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6210

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Event 8822 -(D8659FED)

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Date: 3/6/1981
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A registered nurse living on West Granville -Avenue on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, watches a triangular -array of three white lights outside her south-facing window. The lights -seem to be connected by “spokes.” The array is rotating in a clockwise -direction. (“Nocturnal -Triangle in Chicago Night Sky,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 -(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1984): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6212

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Event 8823 -(EB1EE2CB)

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Date: 3/17/1981
-Description: 4:03 a.m. Sgt. Russell Yokum of the St. Helens, Oregon, -police is on patrol on US Highway 30 on the edge of town when he sees a -bright light apparently above the Columbia River. He goes to the -Columbia County Courthouse for a better view, where he is joined by -other police, but the object is no longer visible. Meanwhile, they are -conversing via CB radio with Donald Atkins, who is in nearby Ridgefield, -Washington, and watching a stationary light over the river. Atkins -transmits a faint humming sound the object is making through his CB -radio to officer Ricky Cade, who captures it on a cassette recorder. -Yokum and Cade look to the south and see a bright orange-red light about -80–100 feet above the river, apparently the same one that Atkins is -watching. (“An Orange(!) Ball at St. Helens for St, Patrick,” -IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no 4 (May/June 1981): 11–13; Mark Rodeghier, -“St. Helens Revisited,” IUR 7, no. 3 (May/June 1982): 12–14; J. Allen -Hynek and Howard R. Schechter, “Narrow-Band -Acoustic Analysis of a Recorded UFO Sound,” The Spectrum of UFO -Research, CUFOS, 1988, pp. 1–12; Julie Thompson, “The -Strange Case of the St. Helens UFO,” St. Helens (Oreg.) Chronicle, -October 11, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6213

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Event 8824 -(C6E0FFAE)

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Date: 3/18/1981
-Description: NORAD becomes the North American Aerospace Defense Command. -(Wikipedia, “North -American Aerospace -Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6214

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Event 8825 -(2A29C3CF)

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Date: 3/20/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Larry Tilman is on Neil Road southwest of London, -Ohio, hoping to get a UFO photo. He notices a small orange light over -the city moving in a zig-zag fashion. It moves closer to his location, -so he takes a time exposure photo as the light blinks out. (“Nocturnal -Lights, March 20–21, 1981, London, Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter -5, no. 2 (April/May 1984): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6215

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Event 8826 -(DC71E2C5)

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Date: 3/21/1981
-Description: 11:35 p.m. A friend is driving Alba Dunlap home northbound -on Runnymede Road in Toronto, Ontario. They see a disc-shaped object -directly ahead and above them that has a red light on a central dome and -white flashing lights around its perimeter. It seems to be 30–40 feet in -diameter. They watch it for 2 minutes, then it moves slowly west and -disappears. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 6 (June 1981): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6217

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Event 8827 -(26FCEC28)

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Date: 3/21/1981
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Larry Tilman again takes time-exposure photos of -orange balls of light east of London, Ohio, near Madison Lake State -Park. One appears to be the size of a car. (“Nocturnal -Lights, March 20–21, 1981, London, Ohio,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 2 (April/May 1984): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6216

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Event 8828 -(D5747A80)

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Date: 3/30/1981
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A huge bright light hovers over trees for 10 -minutes in Alton, Illinois. The UFO moves towards two witnesses at about -10 mph. Frogs stop croaking and dogs begin barking excitedly. The object -appears oval and is black except for lights on the circumference. A -large circular opening is visible in the bottom of the black disc. -Inside the opening the witnesses see “this churning motion of bright -white light with yellow and orange colors in it…like gases rolling -around in there.” After about 20–30 minutes it takes off rapidly. -Shortly thereafter a jet flies over. Another UFO is seen coming across -the trees a good 5 minutes later with the same results. (“Another -World,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1981): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6218

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Event 8829 -(7513FE3F)

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Date: 4/3/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Some 50 people driving on National Route 35 north -of Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina, watch an object hovering about 300 -feet directly over the Escuela Agrotécnica de Santa Rosa for several -minutes. It is a saucer-shaped craft about 100 feet in diameter that is -radiating light over its circumference due to an intense white light at -its center. It speeds away to the west and disappears. (“A New Radio -Link,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring 1981, p. 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6219

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Event 8830 -(420CC969)

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Date: 4/8/1981
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A private pilot named Dennis is flying a Piper -PA-28-181 Archer II near the San Luis Reservoir, California, when a -bullet-shaped object pulls alongside the airplane. Simultaneously, -Dennis’s distance-measuring equipment, navigation and communications -radios, and transponder go out. The object shoots ahead of the plane by -about 1,500 feet and executes some erratic motions. Then, slowly -drifting back, it paces him. The object is glowing orange and has a -whirling bluish ring around it. The object pulsates and shoots forward -about 4–5 miles ahead of the plane, and makes an instantaneous -right-angle turn upward, in somewhat of a repeat of his November 5, -1980, sighting. (“A Twin ‘Déjà vu’ Sighting?” IUR 7, no. 1 (January -1982): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6220

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Event 8831 -(974B6BDE)

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Date: 4/12/1981
-Description: Two-foot diameter aluminum-like disc hovered a few feet off -road about 40 feet away. Climbed rapidly through sky and disappeared in -distance
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Goodhue, MN
-ID: 373

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Event 8832 -(27E165EB)

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Date: 4/15/1981
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Walking through the parking lot of the P&C -grocery store in Windsor, Vermont, Linda Kingsbury and Lucy Slothower -notice two bright lights in the sky moving toward them. They are part of -a dark, triangular object with additional blue and yellow lights on the -underside. As it passes overhead, they hear a heavy humming. (“UFO -Cruises Windsor,” White River Junction (Vt.) Valley News, April 17, -1981, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 142 (May 1981): 4; Joe and Doris -Graziano, “Press -Reports,” APRO Bulletin 29, no. 8 (August 1981): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6221

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Event 8833 -(60539288)

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Date: 4/16/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Engineer Eugene -A. Fucci is driving southeast on Interstate 89 in Grantham, New -Hampshire, when he notices two bright stars, one of which descends to -just above the horizon. Shortly afterward, a huge triangular- shaped -object with colored lights on the underside and a bright white light on -top flies over his car. He estimates the object is about the size of -five B-52s and moving at 2,000 feet altitude at 200 mph. It appears to -be all metal and black in color. It passes to the west-southwest. (“Mount -Sunapee UFO Supports Area Sightings,” West Lebanon (N.H.) Valley -News, April 22, 1981, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 143 (June 1981): -4; “Triangular UFO, -April 16, 1981, at Grantham, N.H.,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no -2 (April 1981): 2, 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6222

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Event 8834 -(00605672)

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Date: 4/20/1981
-Description: Small, shiny object below private plane. Object fluttered -or tilted, accelerated rapidly, sped away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Reno, NV
-ID: 374

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Event 8835 -(CBB19EF9)

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Date: 4/21/1981
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 375

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Event 8836 -(14FC2025)

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Date: 4/25/1981
-Description: 7:00 a.m. Du Shengyuan notices a curious object circling in -the sky above Beijing, China. After unsuccessfully calling media -outlets, he goes back outside and finds the object is now directly -overhead at more than 6,500 feet. Through binoculars he can see it is -bullet-shaped and varies its speed, sometimes hovering. The middle part -is white, and the bottom is luminous green. It moves out of sight at -7:25 a.m. Some 20 other people also watch the UFO. (Paul Dong and -Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, -pp. 216–218; Good Above, pp. 217, -470)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6223

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Event 8837 -(655D2A69)

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Date: early 5/1981
-Description: Merle Shane McDow is attached to the US Navy Atlantic -Command Support Facility in Norfolk, Virginia, when a UFO is tracked -moving at high speed on at least five radar scopes up and down the -Atlantic coast. The UFO sets off a Condition Zebra alert in the Naval -Command Center, and Adm. Harry -D. Train II gives the order to force down the object and recover it. -US jets chase the UFO for more than an hour as far north as Greenland, -sometimes confirming it visually, but it evades them. During the event, -KH-11 reconnaissance satellites take photos of the object. The object -moves from Nova Scotia to Norfolk in one sweep of the radar. Eventually -it moves off at tremendous speed. (Steven M. Greer, Disclosure: Military -and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History, -Crossing Point, 2001, pp. 238–245; Stephen Erdmann, “Dr. Greer’s -Greatest UFO Query,” UFO Digest, June 1, 2018; Good Need, pp. 337–338; -“Condition -Zebra: UFOs Overhead, Merle Shane McDow,” Abundance of Energy -YouTube channel, October 7, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6224

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Event 8838 -(247376E4)

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Date: 5/4/1981
-Description: 2 :00 p.m. As he is pulling up to his home in Danville, -Pennsylvania, on a motorcycle, William F. Hummer notices “cobwebs” -hanging over houses, telephone wires, and parked cars. Wispy material is -falling from the sky. He sees something moving around in the sky and -goes in to get binoculars. He and another man watch several flying discs -as they dart overhead in groups of twos and threes. One pauses and he -can see it is round and metallic with a dome and “kind of peak on it.” -His sister joins them and says they can see big masses of material -floating around for 30 minutes. (Clark III 126)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6225

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Event 8839 -(76F972F2)

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Date: 5/5/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. The Earl Richards family in Tewksbury, New -Jersey, notices lights moving outside after their television goes off -and the electric lights dim. Earl Jr. sees dozens of green, blue, and -red lights buzzing in the southern sky, apparently accompanying an -enormous flying object covered with hundreds of lights. It is elongated -and he can see an outline of wings. (“UFO -Reported in Tewksbury,” Hunterdon County (N.J.) Democrat, May 14, -1981, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 143 (June 1981): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6227

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Event 8840 -(C65F7E91)

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Date: 5/5/1981
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Russian cosmonaut Vladimir -Kovalyonok is orbiting in the Salyut -6 space station over South Africa and moving toward the Indian -Ocean. After doing some gymnastic exercises, he notices through a -porthole an elliptical object resembling a “melon” with two clouds like -a “barbell,” moving in the same direction as the Salyut in a suborbital -path. Then a “kind of explosion happened, very beautiful to watch, of -golden light.” One or two seconds later, a second explosion follows, and -two golden spheres appear. Soon the Salyut enters the Earth’s terminator -and he cannot see them any longer. James -Oberg speculates that the object could have been a South African -test of an Israeli Jericho-class solid-fuel missile from the Denel -Overberg Test Range near Arniston, Western Cape. (Pegasus Research -Consortium, “Russian -Cosmonaut Sees UFO While in Orbit Aboard Salyut-6 Space -Station,” 2002; Mori, “The Amazing Story of the Salyut-6 UFO -Encounter,” forgetomori, April 16, 2011; James Oberg, “Have -Cosmonauts Seen Launches?” December 18, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6226

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Event 8841 -(F1EC9D51)

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Date: 5/14/1981
-Description: Cosmonauts Victor -Savinykh and Vladimir -Kovalyonok, aboard the Salyut -6 space station, supposedly observe a strange spherical object with -8 windows and well-lit inside. At first it is 1/2 mile away but it -eventually approaches to 300 feet. Inside, the cosmonauts see three -brown-skinned beings with slanted bright blue eyes, straight noses, and -bushy eyebrows. At a distance of 100 feet, they resemble mechanical -robots. Their facial expressions remain emotionless. They seem to be -requesting closer contact with the Soviet craft. The object shifts -around erratically and from time to time it vanishes, but then reappears -in an instant. It seems to be metallic, but it has no doors, no solar -batteries, no optical systems, no antennae, and no marks or writing of -any kind. The cosmonauts also notice normal-looking armchairs, some -devices, and walls inside the craft. Using a pair of powerful -binoculars, the cosmonauts see the beings showing them what appears to -be a star map. Allegedly the cosmonauts film the event and the film is -later shown to party leaders by cosmonaut Georgy -Beregovoy. (Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: -Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, -pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6228

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Event 8842 -(CB5ABAAE)

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Date: 5/16/1981
-Description: 2:30 p.m. A man is fishing in the Thompson River near -Kamloops, British Columbia, when the water about 300–450 feet away -starts bubbling up. A 15–20-foot UFO rises out of the water and slowly -approaches the witness at a 45° angle, passes directly above him, -accelerates upward, and speeds away. Pellets from the UFO, apparently -from the object, fall around him. (“A Submarine UFO,” IUR/Frontiers of -Science 3, no. 5 (July/Aug. 1981): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6229

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Event 8843 -(B8B88DE1)

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Date: 5/20/1981
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A witness is driving south on Shawnee Road -southwest of Lima, Ohio, when he notices lights on his left less than a -mile ahead. He sees an object hovering silently about 150–200 feet away -and 75–100 feet in the air. He watches it from his car for 3 minutes. It -has a glowing lavender-colored area around its outer edge and a dim -white light radiating from the center of its flat base. The object moves -to the northeast and accelerates. He loses interest and drives away, but -another object begins moving parallel to his car about 300 feet to his -left. He speeds up, but it maintains its pacing until it veers to the -southwest. (“Recent -Close Encounter with UFO in Ohio,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 7 (July 1981): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6230

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Event 8844 -(11B0ECB5)

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Date: 5/22/1981
-Description: Evening. Several hundred people in Florida, Uruguay, watch -a drum-like UFO with red lights on the rear and green and red lights on -each side. Its appearance coincides with an electrical blackout due to a -power overload in the area. (“A New Radio Link,” CUFOS Bulletin, Spring -1981, pp. 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6231

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Event 8845 -(0533E4F5)

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Date: 6/5/1981
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Ding Shiliang and other students at Xi’an -University, Shanxi, China, see a luminous flying object that splits into -two parts, then three, then four. Shortly afterward, two of the units on -either side vanish, leaving the other two segments still in position. -Another UFO appears and the objects merge into one, splitting into two -again later. It vanishes 20 minutes later. (Paul Dong and Wendelle -Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo Archives, 1983, -pp. 219–220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6234

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Event 8846 -(BF5217AC)

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Date: 6/10/1981
-Description: 5:19 p.m. A worker at Sandia Laboratories is in the back -yard of his home on the east side of Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he -sees an object flying west at a high altitude, 20,000–30,000 feet. It -begins to tumble erratically. A second object with a bright light -appears slightly above it, moving 2–3 times faster than a commercial -airliner. The witness can hear no sound. The duration is 5 minutes. -(“What the Bombardier Saw,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 -(Jan./Feb. 1982): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6236

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Event 8847 -(D7DF46D7)

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Date: 6/10/1981
-Description: 12:15 a.m. An Indian couple on the Yakama Indian -Reservation in Washington State are driving west when the immediate area -around their vehicle is illuminated. Overhead they see a large -“badge-shaped” object about 35 feet in the air. Its periphery is marked -by small, multicolored flashing lights. There are three large -pale-yellow lights, one on each side and one centered between these. The -object follows them for about one mile and then ascends vertically at a -rapid speed and disappears into a cloud-like mist of its own making. -(“Yakima Reservation Report,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6235

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Event 8848 -(49FA7A0E)

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Date: 6/12/1981
-Description: Disc with dome hovered over truck, forward motion impeded, -truck lifted off road
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Alice, TX
-ID: 376

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Event 8849 -(A9061FC4)

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Date: 6/12/1981
-Description: Farmer Chen Kang and his wife watch an object with -twinkling lights in southern Taiwan. After hearing a strange sound, they -look up and see a crystal object shaped like a reversed cone gliding -downward. It lands behind a tree and continues whirling like a top and -emitting fog. It flies off after about 10 minutes without leaving any -traces. (South China Morning Post, June 14, 1981; “UFO -Lands in Taiwan,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 7 (July 1981): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6237

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Event 8850 -(DDC4DD5E)

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Date: 6/18/1981
-Description: The first YF-117A stealth fighter makes its maiden flight -at Groom Lake, Nevada. The aircraft remains a tightly held secret for -much of the 1980s. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -F-117 Nighthawk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6238

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Event 8851 -(D9C4A245)

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Date: summer 1981
-Description: William -Moore gives Paul -Bennewitz an altered version of the Project Aquarius document from -1977. Moore had seen the original in November 1980 and has had his own -copy since February 1981. He gives Bennewitz this document on behalf of -Air Force Intelligence, knowing it has been altered, in order to retain -his access to inside information. The document is the first time that -the term MJ-1 makes its appearance. According to Moore, the original -said that the NSA had altered Bennewitz’s photos and incidentally found -them to be authentic. In the altered memo, NSA becomes NASA. (Greg -Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 120–123)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6232

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Event 8852 -(E0C81595)

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Date: summer 1981
-Description: Chinese UFO researcher Paul Dong (Moon Wai), a resident of -California, becomes the editor of the China UFO Research Organization’s -Journal of UFO Research and goes on a month-long lecture tour all over -China. He collects hundreds of UFO cases from the period 1978–1981. In -the next few years, hundreds of other cases (some dating back to 1940) -are published in the journal. Many of them are published in UFOs over -Modern China, by Wendelle C. Stevens and Paul Dong, 1983. (Paul Dong, -“Letters,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March 1982): 3; Good Above, pp. 206–207)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6233

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Event 8853 -(CB54D5EE)

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Date: 7/1981
-Alternate date: 8/1981
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A man is camping with the Red Cross in a small -town to the southeast of San José, Costa Rica. He sees a well-lit, -triangular object about 1,200 feet away and perhaps 1,000 feet above the -ground. It is completely silent. After hovering, the object turns, -moves, makes a sharp angular turn, and then another to draw a triangular -path in the sky. Then it moves rapidly high, then low, back to its -original location. A second triangle approaches, and they hover in close -proximity to each other for 30 minutes. Then they split up and disappear -rapidly. (Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 -(Summer 2004): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6255

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Event 8854 -(76EC21A0)

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Date: 7/4/1981
-Description: Major airline L-1011 jumbo jet en route from San Francisco -to New York City encountered silvery disc-shaped object
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Over Lake Michigan
-ID: 377

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Event 8855 -(A2E74916)

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Date: 7/4/1981
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Captain Phil Schultz is flying TWA Flight 842, a -Lockheed L-1011 TriStar commercial airliner, east at 37,000 feet over -south-central Lake Michigan not far from Muskegon, Michigan, when a -silvery disc darts into view ahead and above it. Expecting a mid-air -collision, they brace themselves for impact. The object then moves -rapidly in an arc down to the left and rolls, presenting a side view -with six evenly spaced black portholes along the edge. It then -disappears to the north. Schultz estimates the disc is moving at 1,000 -mph. (Richard F. Haines, “Commercial -Jet Crew Sights Unidentified Object: Part 1,” Flying Saucer Review -27, no. 4 (January 1982): 3–6; Richard F. Haines, “Commercial -Jet Crew Sights Unidentified Object: Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review -27, no. 5 (March 1982): 2–8; UFOEv II 141–142; Kean, pp. 59–61)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6239

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Event 8856 -(1B5F0A0A)

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Date: 7/11/1981
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A camp director at Girl Scout camp headquarters -near Port Byron, Illinois, suddenly hears his dog barking in a warning -manner. Through the trees that screen the camp swimming pool, he sees -bright lights. He moves to an unobstructed view of the pool and notices -the pool lights are not on. Instead, directly above the pool, and higher -than the regular lights, is a brilliant light. Suddenly the lights go -out. He hears a whirring noise that rises in pitch as it apparently -rises into the sky. When he turns on the lights, he notices the pump is -not running and the water level is down three feet, meaning some 30,000 -gallons of water are gone. (“Encounter at the Pool,” IUR/Frontiers of -Science 3, no. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1982): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6240

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Event 8857 -(F3954795)

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Date: 7/12/1981
-Description: Brightly lighted, dome-shaped object with windows -approached, turned, followed car, bright illumination. Object finally -shot away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Temuka, New Zealand
-ID: 378

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Event 8858 -(6ABE035F)

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Date: 7/12/1981
-Description: 12:50 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Thew are driving east along a -back road from Pleasant Point to Temuka, New Zealand, with their three -young daughters when they are confronted by a brilliant, bright green, -gold, and red object coming from the opposite direction. It stops -abruptly about 600–900 feet away, then changes direction and begins -silently pacing the car. Mrs. Thew, who is driving, becomes frightened -and speeds up to 65 mph in an effort to reach a lighted area of town. -The UFO keeps pace and moves closer, allowing the witnesses to see more -details, such as two slots like vertically elongated rectangles and a -row of square portholes. After a while it shoots away to the east. When -they arrive home in Temuka at 1:20 a.m., they are surprised to see the -object about 1,000 feet overhead. It remains visible another 40 minutes. -(UFOEv II 49–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6241

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Event 8859 -(A4705C16)

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Date: 7/15/1981
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Robert H. Nelson is flying a kite on the west -side of Westfield, Massachusetts, when he notices a white rectangular -object motionless in the southeast. After 20 seconds it emits swirls of -vapor along its entire length that gradually dissipate. Another similar -object appears in the north at the same altitude and also emitting vapor -or smoke. (Robert H. Nelson, “Letter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6243

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Event 8860 -(7A6ECAEA)

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Date: 7/15/1981
-Description: 10:55 p.m. Four witnesses, three of them fire control -lookouts, on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington State, see a -large, bright-white object make two passes over the reservation. One -witness sees a rocketlike flame coming out of the object. On a second -pass, the object is moving south when it makes an almost right-angle -turn and disappears to the west. (“Yakima Reservation Report,” IUR 8, -no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 11, 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6242

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Event 8861 -(4FF6938E)

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Date: 7/16/1981
-Description: Before midnight. Two teenage boys are driving south on -Highway 2A past CFB Penhold [now Red Deer Regional Airport]. A -cube-shaped object 100 feet long with flashing lights approaches them -from the front, stops about 15 feet off the ground, circles their car, -and moves out of sight. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, -August Night, 2022, p. 227)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6244

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Event 8862 -(D21844B4)

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Date: 7/19/1981
-Description: 8:27 p.m. Malcolm Smith is traveling on a boat up the -Mahakam River in Borneo, Indonesia, when he sees an odd star that begins -to blink, move in an arc, fade, and go out. It reappears 2 minutes -later, moving and blinking more frequently, then it veers away and fades -out. (Malcolm Smith, “Enigmatic Objects,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): -30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6245

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Event 8863 -(DEEB68AA)

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Date: 7/19/1981
-Description: Around 11:45 p.m. Chrystal Jackson and her son Chris are -driving north on State Highway 17 near Sugar Camp, Wisconsin, when they -see a large, reddish-orange, elliptical object hovering near some pine -trees less than 500 feet away on their right. One minute later, their -car’s speed unaccountably reduces from 55 to 30 mph. The car seems to be -dragging, even with the accelerator pressed to the floor. The object -keeps the same distance from the car for 10–15 minutes and another 10 -miles when they turn west on State Highway 70, although it appears to be -stationary. The car regains engine power after another 2 miles. A -mechanic later finds that the two fuses controlling the brake lights and -tail lights have blown, and the battery is leaking. A few days later, -they discover that the thermostat in the engine is broken. (Mark -Rodeghier, “Two People, a Car, and a Strange Object,” CUFOS Bulletin, -Summer 1981, pp. 9–10, 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6246

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Event 8864 -(0E4AA98D)

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Date: 7/22/1981
-Description: 3:10 a.m. Al Wagner, toll booth operator at the Mississippi -River bridge in Muscatine, Iowa, goes out to feed some wild rabbits that -hang around the bridge, when he notices six of them lying flat as though -paralyzed with fear. Wagner sees an orange, nearly spherical object -rising from behind the trees on the Illinois side of the river. It is -about 30 feet in diameter and is glowing with an internal yellow light, -which goes out as the object approaches. The object clears the highest -part of the bridge by about 10 feet, making a wheezing sound. At its -closest, it is 150 feet above the ground and 750 feet away from Wagner. -It disappears above a small hill to the west. (“The Case of the -Paralyzed Rabbits,” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1982): -13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6247

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Event 8865 -(7A88B8CC)

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Date: 7/23/1981
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Louise -Betulius is fishing in a lake near Evansville, Indiana, when she -sees the reflection of a large object in the water. It is a large sphere -about 10–12 feet in diameter and moving silently west to east. Shortly -afterward, it returns over some trees to the east, moving slowly toward -the lake. It comes down about 3 feet off the ground and hovers 4–5 feet -from the edge of the water, then moves slowly back to the east. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1982): 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6248

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Event 8866 -(80116339)

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Date: 7/23/1981
-Description: 10:30 p.m. James L. McCabe is sitting outside his home on -Highland Avenue in Dover, New Jersey, looking for satellites with -binoculars. Suddenly, two flashing white lights appear above the -southern horizon. Their flashes become more frequent when their speed -increases. One speeds away, but the other approaches, slipping in and -out of the clouds for 20 seconds. He estimates it is at 1,500 feet when -overhead, has a flat bottom, a strange raised center section, and a flat -metallic color. Its top has a rippled appearance. The upper section has -two windows. (“Cast -Metallic Object Reported over Dover, New Jersey,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 4, no. 2 (April/May 1983): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6249

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Event 8867 -(381E17E1)

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Date: 7/29/1981
-Description: Delta Aquarid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 379

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Event 8868 -(593D0B58)

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Date: 7/30/1981
-Description: Sen. Pete -Domenici (R-N.Mex.) meets briefly with Sgt. Richard -Doty at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, about AFOSI -investigations into Paul -Bennewitz’s claims. He then dashes off to talk to Bennewitz. -However, he soon loses interest and drops the matter. (Clark III 359; -Alejandro T. Rojas, [Bennewitz/Kirtland AFB documents])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6250

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Event 8869 -(553C6FB8)

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Date: 7/30/1981
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Jennifer Lindsey and her three children are -driving near Berwick, Mississippi, when they notice an object with -bright lights moving back and forth across the sky. As they arrive home, -the object is moving at a low altitude above the house. It is bigger -than an airplane, shaped like an arrowhead, and appears to be metallic. -Behind it is a red light traveling in tandem. It passes over the house -again 30 minutes later, moving west, without the trailing red light. -(Doris and Joe Graziano, “Press -Reports,” APRO Bulletin 30, no 1 (February 1982): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6251

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Event 8870 -(33685E9C)

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Date: 7/31/1981
-Description: An interview with Russian UFO expert Felix -Ziegel appears in the Italian weekly magazine Gente, followed by a -second part in the August 7 issue. Ziegel claims he has 50,000 UFO -reports on file in the Moscow Aviation Institute and has compiled eight -volumes of research material that are still unpublished. He believes -there are three basic types of UFO occupants: spacemen (tall beings), -humanoids (human-like), and aliens (short and like the “greys”). He says -that UFOs carry crews of androids that possess the ability to appear and -disappear at will and “seem to be deliberately constructed in order to -confound all our notions of space, matter, time, and dimension.” (Good -Above, pp. 240–241)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6252

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Event 8871 -(83928FE7)

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Date: 7/31/1981
-Description: Black sphere and satellite lights seen, two approached -motorboat, one surrounded by “fog.” Paralysis felt, missing time, -physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Lieksa, Finland
-ID: 380

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Event 8872 -(6C040EB7)

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Date: 7/31/1981
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Two men in a motorboat on lake Mönninselkä near -Pielisjärvi, Finland, see a dark spot in the sky. Four lights suddenly -appear above them, and a fog forms in front of the boat. They lose the -ability to move and soon lose consciousness. When they wake up, they are -differently placed in the boat, the time is 4:10 a.m., and the boat is -drifting. They go back ashore to their cottage, their heads begin to -ache, and they feel very sleepy. Their hands tremble for nearly 2 weeks -afterward, and their sense of balance is disturbed. (“The -Pielinen Event,” UFO Research of Finland Annual Report, 1981, -p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6253

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Event 8873 -(82418D06)

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Date: 7/31/1981
-Description: 9:15 p.m. A husband and wife are driving along a bumpy road -near Kinston, North Carolina, when their headlights and dash lights go -out and the engine stops. They open the doors and get out to push the -car to the side of the road (noticing later that it is odd that they can -see the road on a moonless night) and the lights suddenly come on again. -They start the car up again and drive the short way home. Mechanics tell -them they don’t know why a car would do that, so they assume there was a -UFO involved. (“Cars That Go Stop on the Night,” IUR 7, no. 1 (January -1982): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6254

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Event 8874 -(07477B98)

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Date: 8/1981
-Description: Three mysterious flattened circles appear in a cornfield -within a natural amphitheater known as The Devil’s Punchbowl at -Cheesefoot Head near Winchester, Wiltshire, England. The central circle -is 55 feet in diameter; two smaller circles are arranged on either side. -Ufologist Pat -Delgado examines the field and is struck by the sharply defined -edges of the circles and the manner in which the cornstalks are -flattened in a clockwise swirl. He suspects UFO activity. (Pat Delgado, -“Cheesefoot -Head Mystery Rings,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. 5 (March 1982): -13–15; Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews, Circular Evidence, Guild, 1989, pp. 20–21; -Pat Delgado, “1981: Cheesefoot -Head Triplet,” The Croppie, July 11, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6256

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Event 8875 -(46B18F7B)

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Date: 8/8/1981
-Description: 6:15 p.m. A witness is on the beach with some friends at -Chalupy on the Hel peninsula, north of Gdynia, Poland. He leaves them -briefly to go back to a camping area and sees, 500 feet in front of him, -“two boys in dark suits” dashing into the bushes on his right. A moment -later they reappear, standing on the path in front of him. They are 5 -feet tall, wear green suits, and have green faces with big, -almond-shaped eyes and slits for mouths. He can see dark boxes, violet -and yellow cables, and tapes and spirals hanging from belts on the -entities. He notices a silvery object and receives a telepathic message -to “not be afraid.” He walks closer to them and hears another message: -“Keep walking. Don’t stop.” The witness has the curious sensation of -“passing through the interior of a ball.” He walks past them, looks -back, and they have disappeared. On his right, the silvery disc, 6 feet -high and 16–20 feet long, is hovering only 3 feet above the ground. -Investigators later find seven odd oval marks where the object had been. -(Bronislaw Rzepecki, “Encounters in Poland,” IUR 12, no. 3 (May/June -1987): 18, 21; Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFO -Reports from Poland,” Flying Saucer Review 33, no. 1 (March 1988): -6–7; Poland 48–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6257

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Event 8876 -(53C523C9)

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Date: 8/10/1981
-Description: 3:30 a.m. Russell Matson is driving west on 150th Street in -Apple Valley, Minnesota, when just west of Pilot Knob Road he sees a -hexagonal object nearly overhead, at perhaps a distance of 500 feet. It -has two green, two red, and white lights on its corners. It is 60–90 -feet across. The object pivots, making a 90° turn while stationary, then -descends and approaches the witness. It makes a soft whooshing sound as -it passes, like gas escaping from a propane tank. (“The Investigator’s -Dilemma,” IUR 7, no. 1 (January 1982): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6258

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Event 8877 -(F4F15F32)

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Date: 8/12/1981
-Description: 2:15 a.m. Rupert Pring is several miles outside of -Anderson, Indiana, taking time-exposure photographs of the Perseid -meteor shower with a camera attached to a tripod. He notices a distant -light flashing like a strobe far to the south; it is soon joined by a -second strobing light, and both move northeast in a straight line. The -lights are as bright as a “halogen automobile headlight at 50 feet.” -They stop moving briefly twice near the star Eta Tauri, then make a -sharp right turn to the southeast. When Pring first notices the lights, -he gets out of his car for a better sight, but freezes abruptly, “like -something heavy was pushing down on my head and shoulders.” He -experiences nausea for three days afterward and has a temporary, -day-long memory loss. Meanwhile, the camera has captured much of the -6-second flight path of the lights in an 8-minute time exposure. Further -investigation prompts Pring to reveal that he and his wife had an -abduction experience with missing time later that morning. As for the -photo, the lights were most likely caused by Pring failing to close the -shutter of his camera as he removed it from the tripod and thus picked -up two mercury-vapor lights at a farmhouse about a half-mile away. (“A -Nocturnal Light Close Encounter,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March 1982): 5–7; Mark -Rodeghier, “March-April Cover Photo Mystery Solved,” IUR 7, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1982): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6259

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Event 8878 -(F21D9255)

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Date: 8/15/1981
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Twenty workers returning from the fields at the -Forestry Commission Station of La Rochelle, 5.5 miles northeast of -Mutare, Zimbabwe, see a ball of light moving around at a low level. -Clifford Muchena is in charge of the group, and he watches the 5-foot -fireball maneuver around the grounds then move up to an observation -tower, entering through the top window before it bursts into flame. As -Muchena is ringing a warning bell, he sees the fireball come back down -the tower, go past him, and burst into flame again at an outbuilding. -Muchena goes to douse the fire but stops when he sees three men wearing -silver coveralls. The light is too bright to see clearly, and after it -goes out the beings are gone. Women in the compound have seen the -fireball and the entities and run out into the bush, thinking they are -ghosts. (Cynthia Hind, “Entities -at New Rochelle,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 183 (May 1983): 6–10; -Cynthia Hind, “UFOs and the African Tribal System,” UFOs 1947– 1987, -Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 94–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6260

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Event 8879 -(DB794255)

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Date: 8/16/1981
-Description: A huge object approaches the island of Cyprus. Radar at a -Sovereign British Base, either Akrotiri or Dhekelia, track it at 30,000 -feet going 900 mph. It comes to a sudden stop and hovers above the base -for 45 minutes. Witnesses take many photos of a bright white triangle -more than 700 feet long. Allegedly, the Ministry of Defence had sent an -encrypted message to the base prior to the sighting, ordering a -“complete stand-down of aircraft in the event that any strange ‘aerial -phenomena’” are sighted. On August 17, a man and woman arrive at the -base, stay for 6 hours, then leave with all the photos and other -evidence. Shortly afterward, according to an informant, US and UK Air -Force personnel meet at RAF Lakenheath in England to discuss the case. -(Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & -Schuster, 1997, pp. 157–158)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6261

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Event 8880 -(D5B14631)

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Date: 8/30/1981
-Description: UFO brightly illuminated car, witness badly frightened, -memory loss. Fired pistol at object circling the car, fled at high -speed. Red dots like puncture marks found on wrists
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: El Cajon, CA
-ID: 381

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Event 8881 -(695D9BC0)

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Date: 9/1981
-Description: The Association d’Étude sur les Soucoupes Volantes renames -its AESV Bulletin as OVNI Présence and moves its publishing operation to -its Swiss office in Vevay, Switzerland. Yves Bosson takes over as chief -editor. The magazine continues until February 1995. (OVNI -Présence, no. 18 (September 1981))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6262

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Event 8882 -(4E09D518)

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Date: 9/10/1981
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Denise Bishop, 23, is returning to her home in -Weston Mill, Plymouth, England, when she sees some lights behind the -house. As she goes to the back of the bungalow, she sees an enormous -metallic-gray UFO hovering above houses on top of a hill. Six or seven -broad shafts of light are shining down on the rooftops beneath it. As -she grabs the doorknob to go inside, a lime-green pencil of light comes -from the object and hits the back of her hand and she cannot move. The -light remains for 30 seconds; when it switches off, she opens the door -and goes inside. The UFO then lifts into the sky and moves away. An hour -of so later, she notices a burn mark on her hand. The next day she -visits Bob Boyd, an investigator with the Plymouth UFO Research Group, -who takes photos of her hand, which has a patch of shiny dermis with -spots of blood and bruising. On September 12, Boyd visits her with a -nurse, who persuades her to see a doctor. Scab tissue forms on September -15, followed by a scar that is still visible in July 1982. (Good Above, -pp. 98–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6263

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Event 8883 -(A4F8E2B6)

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Date: 9/18/1981
-Description: Triangular objects with body lights, humming sound, -observed three times over freeway and valley area
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Conejo Valley, CA
-ID: 382

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Event 8884 -(2B0A82A1)

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Date: 9/18/1981
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Six members of a family in Simi Valley, -California, watch a light approach and see a triangular object with five -bright white lights on the front and sides. The unlit center portion -appears to be like brushed aluminum with a grid pattern. As it passes -overhead, they hear a low-pitched hum. A blinking, red-orange light is -at the rear. Two or three smaller lights are following in its path. -(UFOEv II 229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6264

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Event 8885 -(74ED08B6)

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Date: 9/18/1981
-Description: 9:15 p.m. John Sharwath and Randy Bandurant are driving -north on the Moorpark Freeway north of Thousand Oaks, California, when -they notice three bright lights like floodlights on the horizon to the -north. As they approach the end of the freeway in Moorpark, the light -resolves into five separate lights, three in a row above and two below. -When they pass nearly under the lights, they notice two triangular -bodies that the lights are associated with. At 9:25 p.m., Cherie -Thompson and Joyce Bandurant are driving on the Moorpark Freeway some -distance behind the other car, and they see two triangular lighted -objects. The lowest passes over their car at 50– 100 feet altitude near -the Olsen Road interchange. They stop along the freeway to watch, but -the objects are disappearing behind the hills. (MUFON UFO Journal, -January 1982; UFOEv II, 229–231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6265

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Event 8886 -(108878CB)

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Date: 9/25/1981
-End date: 9/27/1981
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies holds a second conference in -Chicago, with talks by J. -Allen Hynek, Budd -Hopkins, Bruce -Maccabee, and -Mark -Rodeghier. Presented -papers are printed in The Spectrum of UFO Research. (“CUFOS -Symposium in Chicago Well-Attended,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, -no. 11 (November 1981): 1, 6; Mimi Hynek, ed., The -Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988; Ron Westrum, [review], JUFOS -1 (1989): 172–174)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6266

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Event 8887 -(40954396)

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Date: 9/26/1981
-Description: Mountaineers Reinhold -Messner and Doug -Scott watch a UFO the size of the full moon for nearly 3 hours -during an unsuccessful attempt on the main peak of Mount Chamlang in the -Himalayas near Makalu in Nepal. The object at first is moving slowly -southward, then shifts to the east, northwest, and finally north, making -irregular movements before it disappears somewhere over Tibet. (“Top -Climber: I Spotted UFO,” Montreal (Quebec) Gazette, October 10, -1981, p. 26; “From the Heart of Asia: Two UFOs, a Half Century Apart,” -IUR 7, no. 1 (January 1982): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6267

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Event 8888 -(9BC0F9DE)

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Date: 9/28/1981
-Description: Hungarian-American filmmaker and UFO hobbyist Colman -VonKeviczky, founder of the Intercontinental UFO Galactic Spacecraft -Research and Analytic Network, writes a five-page letter to President Ronald -Reagan, claiming that UFOs are an extraterrestrial task force that -will destroy earth unless world leaders collaborate. It is the third -time he has written, and it includes 17 documents that illustrate the -“potential threat of the UFO forces.” In response to VonKeviczky’s -letter to Reagan, Maj. Gen. Robert -L. Schweitzer, White House chief military advisor, writes: “The -President is well aware of the threat you document so clearly and is -doing all in his power to restore the national defense margin of safety -as quickly and prudently as possible.” VonKeviczky shows the letter to -the Associated Press, which contacts Schweitzer, who says the letter is -a mistake and thought the threat refers to the Soviets. Schweitzer is -fired on October 21 for making unauthorized belligerent statements about -Russia. (presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th President, January -20, 1981–January 20, 1989”; “A Top -General Talks of War, Is -Reassigned,” Boston Globe, October 21, 1981, pp. 1, 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6268

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Event 8889 -(DB947881)

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Date: 10/1981
-Description: Local concentration of sightings
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Texas Gulf Coast
-ID: 383

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Event 8890 -(2892B130)

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Date: 10/1981
-Description: NORAD refuses to waive fees for FOIA requests from Citizens -Against UFO Secrecy because of “cumulative and recurring” requests. -(ClearIntent, p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6269

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Event 8891 -(F10350D9)

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Date: 10/1981
-Description: USAF Airman Simone Mendez, 21, trained as a -telecommunications specialist, is working at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, -Nevada, with a top-secret clearance. One of her coworkers gives her a -top-secret message with a copy of a classified document stating that -NORAD has been tracking UFOs entering the Earth’s atmosphere. She holds -on to it until January 1982 when she attempts to return the document to -Nellis. She is told that the document must be destroyed. One thing leads -to another, and Mendez finds herself under interrogation by the FBI and -AFOSI. This includes polygraph tests, which she fails because she finds -them very distressing. This leads to an emotional breakdown, -hospitalization, and medication. There are more interrogations over the -next few months, and another hospitalization. Eventually, the Air Force -clears her of criminal charges, but her security clearance is stripped, -and she is transferred to another base. (“The -Simone Mendez Case,” Alien Expanse, September 18, 2018; Paul -Carr, “Conversation -18: Simone Mendez,” Aerial Phenomena Investigations, September 23, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6270

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Event 8892 -(0382150F)

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Date: 10/2/1981
-Description: Afternoon. Three days after a nighttime UFO sighting, Grant -Breiland goes down to the business district in Victoria, British -Columbia, to meet a friend. When the friend does not show, Breiland -calls him up from a pay phone. Immediately afterward, he sees two men -watching him. Dressed in dark suits, they have suntanned, expressionless -faces and unblinking eyes. When they speak, their lips do not move. The -first one asks his name, then the second asks for his address and phone -number. He does not respond, and after 5 seconds, the men leave through -the main door and walk in perfect synchronization to a nearby roadway. -Breiland follows them and sees them enter a muddy plowed field some -80–90 feet across. Three-quarters of the way across, the men vanish, -leaving no footprints behind. During the entire time the men are -visible, no other human beings are in view and no cars pass by. (P. M. -H. Edwards, “M.I.B. -Activity Reported from Victoria B.C.,” Flying Saucer Review 27, no. -4 (January 1982): 7–12; Clark III 733)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6271

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Event 8893 -(AE9740BB)

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Date: 10/8/1981
-Description: Daylight disc photo
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada
-ID: 384

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Event 8894 -(EED54FB8)

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Date: 10/8/1981
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Hannah McRoberts is taking photos with her -family at a rest area some 30 miles north of Kelsey Bay, Vancouver -Island, British Columbia. She snaps a color photo of one of the -mountains to the west that has an interesting cumulus cloud above it. -When the photo is developed, it shows a silvery disc to the right of and -above the peak. UFO researcher Richard -F. Haines examines the original and determines that the image shows -an unknown three-dimensional object positioned at least 30 feet away -from the camera. (NICAP, “Daylight -Disc Photo”; -Richard F. Haines, “Analysis -of a UFO Photograph,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 1, no. 2 -(1987): 129–147)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6272

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Event 8895 -(3F9FE5BA)

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Date: 10/15/1981
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Many citizens of Hällefors, Sweden, observe a -huge cigar-shaped object “as large as a truck” that appears suddenly in -the north gliding along just above the treetops. Four oblong windows are -apparent, through which a blue-white light shines, and a red light is in -the rear. A clear and piercing engine noise is evident as it slowly -moves south for more than an hour. Former Chief Constable Björn Fagrell -describes it as like two connected railway cars. The object makes a slow -clockwise turn around the village, after which a flame comes out of the -rear of the object. (“‘Flying -Truck’ Seen over Hällefors for 75 Minutes!” Nordic UFO Newsletter, -1982, no. 1, pp. 6–8; Stig Aggestad, “The -Hällesfors Incident Continues to Grow: Giant UFO Still -Unidentified,” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1983, no. 1, pp. 2–3; Christer -Nordin, “The -UFO over Hällefors: A Smuggled-In Airship, -Says ‘Magasinet,’ a Channel 2 TV Program,” Nordic UFO Newsletter, -1983, no. 1, pp. 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6273

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Event 8896 -(F5664C77)

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Date: 10/19/1981
-Description: Barry Goldwater, Senator, Arizona, in a letter to Lee -Graham, Aerojet Electric Systems, Azusa, CA, states that he has given up -trying to get into the BLUE ROOM at Wright-Patterson AFB where UFO -artifacts are stored by the Air Force.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 8897 -(26ED6D9E)

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Date: 10/19/1981
-Description: Sen. Barry -Goldwater (R-Ariz.) responds to constituent Lee M. Graham asking -about rumors of alien technology and bodies at Wright-Patterson AFB in -Ohio. He writes: “I have long ago given up acquiring access to the -so-called blue room at Wright-Patterson…. this thing has gotten so -highly classified, even though I will admit there is a lot of it that -has been released, it is just impossible to get anything on it.” (“The -Color Blue and UFO’s,” Above Top Secret forum, March 30, 2011; Nick -Redfern, “UFOs -and Senator Barry Goldwater,” Mysterious Universe, May 1, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6274

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Event 8898 -(F3662C27)

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Date: 10/28/1981
-Description: An appeal of the CAUS v. NSA case is heard by a three-judge -panel (J. -Skelly Wright, Roger -Robb, and Norma -Holloway Johnson) of the US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia. -In a brief decision issued barely a week after oral arguments, the -judges uphold the lower court’s decision without comment. (“Suit -Seeks to Lift Secrecy -Veil from Agency’s Documents,” Washington Post, December 3, 1981; -William A. Moore, “CAUS -vs. NSA -Lawsuit Goes to US Supreme Court,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 1 (February -1982): 2–3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6275

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Event 8899 -(14386223)

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Date: 11/1981
-Description: Localized concentration began, continuing off and on for -several years. Many structured object cases, photographs (see -January—February 1984).
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hessdalen, Norway
-ID: 385

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Event 8900 -(6418E9C4)

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Date: 11/1981
-Description: Residents of the Hessdalen valley, Norway, begin reporting -frequent sightings of unusual lights that hover (sometimes for as long -as an hour) and sometimes streak off at speeds that render them all but -invisible. On many occasions the lights are below the horizon, either -just beneath the tops of nearby mountains or not far from the ground or -the rooftops of nearby houses. The lights come in various shapes, but -three predominate: a bullet or cigar, a sphere, and an “upside-down -Christmas tree.” They are usually yellow or white. Sometimes a small red -light appears in front of the others, the various lights maintaining a -fixed position, leading observers to suspect they are all attached to a -single, dark object. More often than not, they are seen at night moving -from north to south; but daylight sightings also occur, usually during -the winter. Anomalous sounds are sometimes reported. Especially frequent -activity occurs between December 1981 and mid-1984, when the lights are -seen 15–20 times per week, attracting many tourists. (Wikipedia, “Hessdalen -lights”; “Project Hessdalen: The Colored Lights of Norway,” IUR 8, -no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983): 6–8; “Project Hessdalen,” IUR 10, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1985): 14; J. Allen Hynek, “Tracking the Hessdalen Lights,” -IUR 10, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1985): 10–11; Clark III 571)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6276

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Event 8901 -(58A321E9)

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Date: 11/3/1981
-Description: Newspaper article on CAUS vs. NSA: “Suit Seeks to Lift -Secrecy Veil From Agency’s UFO Documents”.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Washington -Post
-Location: US

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Event 8902 -(76E538C2)

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Date: 11/3/1981
-Description: Civil Action, Case #80–1562, goes against the plaintiff and -for the defendant, the NSA. The NSA retains the right to withhold 156 -Top Secret records containing communications intelligence (COMINT) -reports which were produced between 1958 and 1979. Only military -personnel with a Top Secret Clearance were allowed to view the documents -for the court hearing. NOT even the Judge was allowed to see them, even -though he ruled against the plaintiff (CAUS).
-Type: court case
-Reference: Pea Reseach (A3, B1-A)
-Location: US
-See also: 6/24/83

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Event 8903 -(EEAACDF3)

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Date: 11/3/1981
-Description: The US District Court for the District of Columbia issues a -per curiam judgment that denies an appeal of the CAUS case against the -NSA. (“Federal -Court Upholds Decision Against CAUS,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, -no. 12 (December 1981): 6; ClearIntent, p. 188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6277

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Event 8904 -(051401B7)

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Date: 11/12/1981
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Air traffic controllers at the Greek-American -NATO base in Chortiatis, Greece, pick up unidentified targets on their -radar screens. Six pursuit aircraft are scrambled, but the UFOs -disappear as soon as the planes approach. At 6:45 p.m., luminous objects -appear over Edessa, Greece, and maneuver for 30 minutes. Other objects -are spotted at Kalochori, Michaniona, Giannitsa, Larissa, Ptolemaida, -and Lagyna. (“The Hide-and- Seek of the UFOs and the Six Jets That Went -after Them,” IUR 7, no. 1 (January 1982): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6278

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Event 8905 -(98152B84)

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Date: 11/24/1981
-Description: Domed disc hovered nearby, beamed light down onto truck. -Driver fled, object followed and beamed light on truck a second time -before departing
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Marshall, TX
-ID: 386

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Event 8906 -(DCCEBB97)

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Date: 11/24/1981
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Power company employee Dale -Spurlock sees a red pulsating domed disc at treetop level while -driving just north of Darco, Texas, on the Darco Cutoff Road near a -small lake and some power lines. It has four colored lights—a row of -red, blue, green, and amber lights—at the base of the dome. It makes no -sound as it passes left to right just above the tress, and then hovers. -The object tilts and two headlights from the front of the UFO shine -directly down on Spurlock’s pickup truck. The object is revolving -counterclockwise and moves off to the east. The truck’s electrical -system (alternator and battery) is damaged. (“Nocturnal Rural -Encounters,” IUR 7, no. 3 (May/June 1982): 5–8; “1977 -Sketch/Sighting and 1981 Sketch Similarity: Another One,” CUFOS -Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1983): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6279

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Event 8907 -(9A62B6E0)

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Date: 12/1981
-Description: A triangular object appears between Royton and Oldham in -Greater Manchester, England. The UFO has a light on each corner; one of -the lights detaches and flies off. (Marler 137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6280

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Event 8908 -(06D3BC3F)

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Date: 12/4/1981
-Description: President Ronald -Reagan issues Executive Order 12333 extending the powers of US -intelligence agencies. It is regarded by the American intelligence -community as a fundamental document authorizing the expansion of data -collection activities and later is employed by the National Security -Agency as legal authorization for its collection of unencrypted -information flowing through the data centers of internet communications -giants Google and Yahoo! It repeats a prohibition against state -assassinations. (Wikipedia, “Executive -Order 12333”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6281

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Event 8909 -(7220CAE5)

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Date: 12/8/1981
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Alma Hobbs is driving with her two children on -State Highway 12 three miles southwest of Reserve, New Mexico. An -enormous UFO shaped like an orange ball, estimated to be 750 feet in -length, makes a number of turns in the sky. They arrive at a restaurant -near the intersection of State 12 and US Highway 180, where Dan Luscomb -and Rosie Tafoya also see the object, which executes a 90° turn near -Luna Mountain as a jet aircraft chases the UFO out of sight. (“Hunting -Old and New UFOs in New Mexico,” IUR 7, no. 2 (March 1982): 13–14; -“Update on the Reserve, N.M. ‘Tube-Like’ UFO,” IUR 7, no. 3 (May/June -1982): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6282

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Event 8910 -(AB9D4473)

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Date: 12/15/1981
-Description: After sunset. Ali Ozel sees an extremely bright light -hovering at a distance of 650–980 feet above his car in Aksaray, central -Anatolia, Turkey. It performs some maneuvers and disappears to the -southwest. (“‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1983): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6283

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Event 8911 -(962DB7A8)

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Date: 12/19/1981
-Description: UFO swooped over vehicle, blocked road
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Areal, Brazil
-ID: 387

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Event 8912 -(9A964047)

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Date: 12/20/1981
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Journalists Nils -Kåre Nesvold and Per Holden see a shiny, spherical object at -Vongraven, Norway, the apparent size of a large star. It is steady and -intense with no halo. It is flying nearly 3 miles distant and about -3,300–6,500 feet above a mountain. Its speed is irregular, and it -changes both course and altitude. Suddenly it disappears as though it is -switched off. (Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean -Tomes, 1987, pp. 89–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6284

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Event 8913 -(36557176)

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Date: 12/21/1981
-Description: Captain O. Celen and other people in Aksaray, Turkey, see a -huge, glittering, silent, egg-shaped object shedding a greenish light -over the building site of the Aksaray Engine Factory. It is hovering at -800–1,000 feet and shoots away to the southwest. (“‘Mysteries of -Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6285

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Event 8914 -(A0C3C18B)

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Date: 12/28/1981
-Description: 10:30 a.m. G. W. Schoen and two others are talking outside -a stable on a farm south of Westminster, Maryland, when they see a -grayish-black object flying east to west against the wind and below the -clouds at 1,000 feet. It is shaped like a lightbulb, with visible ribs -and dark black lines. It climbs slowly and gradually disappears from -sight. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6286

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Event 8915 -(1493CCD5)

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Date: 12/29/1981
-End date: 12/30/1981
-Description: William -Moore meets twice with AFOSI officer Richard -Doty in a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Doty provides Moore -with copies of three documents, one of which is a “fake” to test Moore. -Another is the one-page Aquarius teletype. (Brad Sparks and Barry -Greenwood, “The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12,” in MUFON -2007 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 2007, -pp. 92–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6287

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- Event 8916 (97D3808A)

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Date: 1982
-Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz was sending regular reports to -the APRO and contacted US Senator Harrison Schmidt and Senator Peter -Domenici, as well as other UFO investigators such as Linda Moulton Howe -and John Lear. By 1982, APRO had decided to investigate Bennewitz’s -claims. They sent William Moore, one of their directors and a former -schoolteacher turned writer and ufologist, to talk to Bennewitz. Bill -Moore later stated in a public confession that he was recruited by -someone with the code name Falcon to lead Paul Bennewitz astray by -giving him false information. He claimed that he was given his orders by -AFOSI agents (believed to be Richard Doty and Steve Atwater), and that -for four years, he was asked to feed disinformation, including the -forged “Aquarius Document” to Bennewitz. This disinformation included -“verification” of Bennewitz’s beliefs about the “grays” and the -underground base at Dulce. Bennewitz had to be hospitalized for -“exhaustion”. He later died on June 23, 2003.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link
-Location: Albuquerque, NM

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Event 8917 -(4D1204C7)

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Date: 1982
-Description: Richard -Mingus is coordinating security operations for Livermore in the Area -6 section of the Nevada Test Site when, just as an unsecured, live -nuclear weapon is being lowered into an 800-foot-deep shaft prior to -testing, an alert goes off that the facility is under attack. It turns -out that Wackenhut Security has decided to conduct a mock helicopter -attack on an access point to Area 51 to test the system for weaknesses -but neglects to inform the Department of Energy beforehand. (Jacobsen, -Area 51, pp. 333–338)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6288

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Event 8918 -(6C3B5ECB)

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Date: 1982
-Description: The National Security Agency, through the Department of -Justice, covertly misappropriates a Prosecutors Management Information -System (PROMIS) developed by private firm Inslaw to aid prosecutors in -tracking cases. Inslaw claims that the feds withheld payments on the -software, then pirated it, making modifications to allow it to monitor -intelligence operations, then giving or selling it to Israel and 80 -other countries through Earl -W. -Brian, a -man with close personal and business ties to President Ronald -Reagan and then-presidential counsel Edwin -Meese. The -NSA uses it to covertly conduct real-time electronic surveillance of the -flow of money to suspected terrorists and other perceived threats to US -national interests. Fabrizio -Calvi and Thierry Pfister in 1997 claim that NSA has been “seeding -computers abroad with PROMIS-embedded SMART (Systems Management -Automated Reasoning Tools) chips, code-named Petrie, a Trojan horse -capable of covertly downloading data and transmitting it, using -electrical wiring as an antenna, to US intelligence satellites” as part -of an espionage operation. (Wikipedia, “PROMIS -(software)”; Ryan Gallagher, “Dirtier -Than Watergate,” New Statesman, April 20, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6289

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Event 8919 -(34F03C70)

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Date: 1982
-Description: Audits and Surveys, in a report sponsored by Merit Report, -finds that 49% of Americans definitely or probably think -extraterrestrial UFOs have been here. (Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of -Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6290

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Event 8920 -(4E8FFEDD)

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Date: 1982
-Description: Brazilian ufologist Irene -Granchi founds the Centro de Investigação sobre a Natureza dos -Extraterrestres in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The group is eventually taken -over by her daughter Chica -Granchi. (Claudio -Tsuyoshi Suenaga, “Entrevista: -Irene Granchi, a Grande Pioneira da Pesquisa Ufológica no Brasil,” -Portal UFO, May 4, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6291

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Event 8921 -(1FB827C6)

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Date: 1982
-Description: The Royal Australian Air Force grants permission to UFO -researcher Bill -Chalker to examine its UFO files. Chalker visits the archives in -Canberra, A.C.T., and reviews more than 1,000 reports in 53 RAAF files -through 1984, allowing him to compile a detailed summary covering the -years 1950 to 1980. He concludes that the existence of some interesting -cases in the files is not suggestive of an RAAF coverup. (Keith -Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A -Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6292

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Event 8922 -(FC97853B)

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Date: 1/2/1982
-Description: Writer Bob -Pratt flies out to Arizona to meet William -Moore, who -has called him to propose a non-fiction book project about UFOs. Moore -tells him about MJ-12, Project Aquarius, and other alleged revelations. -Pratt secretly tapes his conversations with Moore, which reveal his -contacts with Richard -Doty and other agents of disinformation. (Brad Sparks and Barry -Greenwood, “The Secret Pratt Tapes and the Origins of MJ-12,” in MUFON -2007 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 2007, -pp. 92–159)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6293

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Event 8923 -(ABD11EB2)

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Date: 1/3/1982
-Description: Two Brazilian Air Force F-5 fighters flying at about 5,000 -feet over Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, see a dark -metallic-looking object about 66 feet long, 55 feet high, and 3,000 feet -away. The control tower cannot see anything in the vicinity. The F-5s -get closer, but the object ascends and stays above them. They stay in -this position for 30 seconds and then the UFO accelerates and -disappears. (Clark III 205; Brazil 552)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6294

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Event 8924 -(B6FA4F48)

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Date: 1/5/1982
-Description: The Society for Scientific Exploration is founded by Peter -A. Sturrock at a meeting held at the National Academy of Sciences in -Washington, D.C., in order to study phenomena “generally regarded by the -scientific community as being outside their established fields of -inquiry.” (“Professors -Join in UFO Study Forum,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 -(Aug./Sept. 1982): 1, 3; Clark III 1082–1083)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6295

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Event 8925 -(068431BB)

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Date: 1/9/1982
-Description: 8:20 p.m. Carl (Eddie) Cox III steps outside his rural home -near Washington, North Carolina, to photograph the rising full moon with -a new 35mm camera using high-speed color film. He sees and takes 8 -photographs of a strange, tubular object moving from the northeast. The -photos show a double tube with varying configurations of white and -red-orange lights. The final photo shows the tops of nearby trees and -distant condensation trails. Analysis suggests that the sighting is due -to a distant aircraft passing through a condensation trail. (“Tubular -UFO Photographed, -January 9, 1982,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 3 (June/July -1982): 1, 4; “January -UFO Photos -Become Identified FOs,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 6 -(Dec. 1982/Jan. 1983): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6296

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Event 8926 -(9A9FBD9E)

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Date: 1/15/1982
-Description: 7:05–11:35 p.m. Three sightings occur one after the other -in Turkey. An object resembling a tray is seen at 7:05 p.m. over Niğde -in central Anatolia. At 9:35 p.m., two UFOs are reported at Havsa, -Edirne, accompanied by reported malfunctioning TV sets in the town. -Around 11:30 p.m., a reported UFO causes the citizens of İzmir, western -Anatolia, to panic. When the UFO hovers above the Buca forest it takes -on a flaming appearance, causing fire brigades to rush to the scene, -keeping watch over the object for 45 minutes until it vanishes. -(“‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1983): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6297

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Event 8927 -(CD984140)

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Date: 2/1982
-Description: William -Moore receives a plain envelope from one of the intermediaries of -“Falcon.” Inside are Air Force documents signed by Richard -Doty regarding unexplained lights over Kirtland AFB and Manzano in -New Mexico from 1980. Moore and Bruce -Maccabee examine the documents and conduct a detailed on-site -investigation, finding no contradictions. (Greg Bishop, Project Beta, -Paraview, 2005, p. 209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6298

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Event 8928 -(F51416F8)

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Date: 2/2/1982
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Susanne Anderson, 18, is jogging in Skövde, -Sweden, when she notices two intense blinking lights that seem to be -coming toward her. She hears no sound and gets frightened. After -speeding up to a full run, she turns around and sees a metal-blue, -saucer-shaped object with a blinking red light on the bottom. Terrified, -she hides in a school building. (“A Short Tale of a Swedish CE-1,” IUR -7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6299

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Event 8929 -(F62762F0)

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Date: 2/6/1982
-Description: Prof. John Spencer Carr of Clearwater FL calls ufologist -Leonard Stringfield and revealed a key USAF officer’s witness name to -the 1948 Aztec C/R. Stringfield sat back dumbfounded, because in the -past this officer had spoken to Stringfield and told him about UFO’s. -The USAF officer saw the occupant bodies on location.
-Type: telephone call
-Reference: Twitter
-Location: Clearwater FL
-See also: 3/25/48

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Event 8930 -(51A91677)

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Date: 2/8/1982
-Description: Capt. Gerson Maciel de Britto, piloting a Boeing 727 for -VASP Flight 169, notices an intense light source while flying over -Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil, on a southern course. It starts -accompanying the aircraft in a parallel course, keeping the same -distance. But the object soon begins changing its speed, moving ahead of -the plane and then allowing it to catch up. As it approaches Belo -Horizonte, the object approaches the plane, allowing crew and 150 -passengers to view its lenticular form. At this point, the light -emanating from the UFO penetrates the interior of the cabin and -illuminates it with a bluish tint. The UFO is still in clear view as the -aircraft begins landing at Galeão Airport in Rio de Janeiro. Some -witnesses on the Rio-Niterói Bridge also see the object. (“The Climactic -UFO Case of the Winter 1982 Brazilian ‘Flap,’” IUR 7, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1982): 11–13; Luiz Augusto da Silva, “Unidentified -Aerial Phenomena: The VASP-169 Flight Brazilian Episode Revisited,” -Journal of Scientific Exploration 27, no. 4 (2013): 637–654; Patrick -Gross, “UFO-Aircraft -Encounters”; Clark III 198–200; Brazil 537–541)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6300

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Event 8931 -(CC303401)

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Date: 2/10/1982
-Description: 11:35 p.m. Tammy Utt and two other 17-year-old girls are -driving in a car on I Road and 18th Road west of Escanaba, Michigan, -when they encounter a low-flying domed disc. The mist from the rear of -the object looks like “lit up snowflakes.” The rim around the bottom of -the UFO has red windows all the way around it, and a red light shines -through the windows. The sighting lasts seven minutes. (“Nocturnal Rural -Encounters,” IUR 7, no. 3 (May/June 1982): 8–11; Kenneth C. Schellhase, -“A Unique Triad of CE-I Sightings,” IUR 7, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1982): -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6301

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Event 8932 -(81D128D7)

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Date: 2/12/1982
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Civil engineer Robert A. Sproat is driving south -on Gouger Road just south of County Road 7 in Lockport, Illinois, when -he sees a light similar to an aircraft landing light over the Lockport -locks and dam. It begins a smooth banking turn to the left at about -1,000 feet, and he can make out a structure about 40 feet square. -(Robert A. Sproat, “Letter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 3 (June/July 1983): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6302

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Event 8933 -(3C147C50)

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Date: mid 2/1982
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Aubre Brogden is driving along Vermont Highway 36 -near Bakersfield, Vermont, when she sees a lighted triangular object in -the sky approaching her. As she pulls into her driveway, it hovers above -her backyard about 25 feet away then silently moves directly above her. -She estimates it is as large as a football field. The object moves away -noiselessly. (“Recurrent -Sightings on Vermont Highway,” APRO Bulletin 31, no. 7 (July 1983): -4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6303

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Event 8934 -(A3D91905)

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Date: 2/19/1982
-Description: 4:54 p.m. A strange radiance is noticed in the sky above -the frozen Lake Onega, from Petrozavodsk in the Republic of Karelia, -Russia. The glow is pale blue and is shaped like a cloud, inside of -which is an elliptical bright spot. After a few minutes, the bright spot -disappears behind the forest, but the luminescent cloud remains in the -sky for a time. Around 5:00 p.m., two more spots appear, moving -together. One of them resembles the first object but is smaller. The -other is a luminous sphere moving in a spiral. As it moves, it leaves a -hazy trail that quickly disappears. At 5:15 p.m., a bright arrow-shaped -object flies directly above the city a great speed, leaving a trail. -None of the objects make any sound. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO -Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 152)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6304

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Event 8935 -(C704CF3B)

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Date: 2/19/1982
-Description: E-M effects on car, dome-shaped object overhead, driver -blacked out, taken to hospital with memory loss, physiological -effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: medical
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Allen, Rio Negro Province, Argentina
-ID: 388

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Event 8936 -(ED734E18)

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Date: 2/24/1982
-Description: 5:15 a.m. Neillsville, Wisconsin, police officer Chuck -Urban is patrolling 12 miles west of town when a bright light approaches -him on his left. He stops his squad car, turns off his headlights, grabs -a camera, and takes a picture that turns out poorly. He hears no sound -from the object. The light follows him as he returns to Neillsville. The -light is so bright he can see the road plainly. At one point the light -crosses the road ahead of him for a few miles, then recrosses to the -other side. He loses sight of it as he enters town. (“Nocturnal Rural -Encounters,” IUR 7, no. 3 (May/June 1982): 11; “Neillsville Revisited: -The Cop and the Light That Turned Night into Day,” IUR 7, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1982): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6305

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Event 8937 -(A6A6017E)

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Date: 3/1/1982
-End date: 3/5/1982
-Description: A worldwide nuclear war game was directed from the White -House (source: House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on -International Security & Scientific Affairs hearing, April 2, 1982. -Rep. Larry Winn, Jr. ER-Kans.] presiding).
-Type: official
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Washington DC
-ID: 389

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Event 8938 -(5966C581)

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Date: 3/4/1982
-Description: Brinsley -Le Poer Trench, the Earl of Clancarty, asks in the House of Lords -how many UFO reports the Ministry of Defence has received in the past 4 -years, Viscount -Long replies that there were 750 sightings in 1978, 550 in 1979, 350 -in 1980, and 600 in 1981. Clancarty thinks the totals must be higher, -but Long explains that not all reports reach the MoD. The Earl -of Kimberley asks how many of those remain unidentified, and Long -replies that he does not have those figures as they “disappeared into -the unknown before we got them.” Peter -Hill-Norton asks whether all UFO reports received by the MoD before -1962 were destroyed because they were of “no defense interest,” and if -so, who decided that. Long says that all reports have been preserved -since 1967. (Good Above, pp. 101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6306

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Event 8939 -(BF96D9C2)

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Date: 3/6/1982
-Description: Night. A cylindrical object passes above the Stadium -Morenão in Campo Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, during a soccer game -attended by more than 24,000 people. (Brazil 290–293)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6307

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Event 8940 -(C15F013F)

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Date: 3/8/1982
-Description: Peter Gersten’s -84-page petition (filed in early 1982) for the Supreme Court to hear an -appeal of CAUS v. NSA is dismissed by the US Supreme Court, which -declines to hear the case because releasing the files “could seriously -jeopardize the work of the agency and the security of the United -States.” (ClearIntent, pp. 188–189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6308

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Event 8941 -(D7E2230F)

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Date: 3/8/1982
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Two highly technically trained people separated -by more than a mile observe a silent object near Bethel, Connecticut. -(“The Case of the Rumbling Leviathan,” IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): -8–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6309

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Event 8942 -(1DD2B597)

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Date: 3/17/1982
-End date: 3/20/1982
-Description: The Project Hessdalen team manages to take four photos of -oblong lights passing in front of Finnsåhøgda and Fjellbekkhøgda -mountains near Hessdalen, Norway. (“Project Hessdalen: The Colored -Lights of Norway,” IUR 8, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6310

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Event 8943 -(76003A1F)

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Date: 3/21/1982
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Karl Stewart is driving eastbound on the Ohio -Turnpike in northwest Ohio when he sees what appears to be a jet -aircraft to the south at about 500 feet altitude. Its lights are much -brighter than normal landing lights, and there are no airports in the -vicinity. Pulling over to watch it, he sees it has three arms, small -windows, and red and green strings of running lights. It gains altitude -before banking north over the highway. (“A -New Model -UFO?” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1 (Feb./March 1983): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6311

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Event 8944 -(134A3DEA)

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Date: 3/23/1982
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Tim Miron, 18, is driving north on I Road -northwest of Escanaba, Michigan, when he sees an orange-red light, which -gets bigger and begins flashing red beams from its underside after he -turns on I.5 Lane. The object keeps moving closer and he sees it -directly behind a telephone pole to his left 125 feet from the road, -hovering 10 feet above the ground. Miron arrives at his family’s farm, -jumps out, and sees the UFO moving directly toward him. He wakes up his -mother and the two of them watch the object for the next 30–45 minutes -as it maneuvers over a wide area around the farm, finally disappearing -behind some trees. (Kenneth C. Schellhase, “A Unique Triad of CE-I -Sightings,” IUR 7, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1982): 5–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6312

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Event 8945 -(CA6E16E8)

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Date: 3/26/1982
-Description: Leading investigators from UFO-Norge hold a town meeting in -Ålen, Norway, near Hessdalen. Of the 130 residents who attend, 17 say -they have seen a yellow spherical light, 12 a cigar-shaped object, and 6 -an oblong object with one red and two yellow lights. Later in the week, -two officers from Værnes Air Station in Trondheim interview some -witnesses and conclude that Hessdalen residents have been seeing these -lights since 1944 and their accounts are credible. (Clark III 571; Kim -Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 89, -90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6313

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Event 8946 -(8AE7AC81)

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Date: 3/30/1982
-Description: 11:15 p.m. Nanette Morrison is driving home in -Charlottesville, Virginia, when she spots a large, brilliant light in -the sky hovering several hundred feet in the air and a quarter mile -away. It approaches as she makes a turn and flies right over her car, -later pacing her as she drives the remaining 15 blocks. She pulls up to -the curb, and the UFO stops and hovers above a house across the street -less than 400 feet away. The object reverses direction and moves away as -she runs up to her house. (J. Allen Hynek, “A Remarkable Double -Encounter,” IUR 8, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983): 4–5; “Double Encounter -Questioned,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6314

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Event 8947 -(E841D411)

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Date: 4/1/1982
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Nanette Morrison looks out her front window and -sees a bright, fluorescent object hovering a few hundred feet above the -tree line and a short distance away from her home in Charlottesville, -Virginia. She tells her mother to come and look. As she does, the object -flares up brightly and zips away at an incredible speed. (J. Allen -Hynek, “A Remarkable Double Encounter,” IUR 8, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983): -5, 15; “Double Encounter Questioned,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): -15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6316

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Event 8948 -(5C2DD642)

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Date: 4/1/1982
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Three men are repairing a jeep in Petrolia, -Pennsylvania, when one of them notices a bright object with a flashing -red light just above the trees. A few minutes later they see it has -risen much higher. After they turn on the jeep’s headlights, the bright -object moves toward them. When they turn the lights off again, the -object backs away. The lights go on again, and the UFO passes over their -heads at 250 feet. Its bright lights go out, and its triangular shape -becomes clear, as well as its gun-metal color and the luminescent mist -surrounding it. A red light is on the front, with white and amber lights -on the other angles. Two bright lights shoot away from the triangle, one -going north and the other south. When a jet approaches from the east, -the object stops and becomes bright. Then it rises straight up until it -is out of sight. For several days, the witnesses have severe headaches, -and one has diarrhea. Other triangular UFOs are seen in the Pittsburgh -area from March 22 to May 19. (Stan Gordon, “Pennsylvania -Low-Level UFO Sightings,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 172 (June 1982): -3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6315

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Event 8949 -(4D1F690D)

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Date: 4/2/1982
-Description: President Reagan issues -Executive Order 12356, which eliminates response time limits on FOIA -requests. Searches for UFO documents show significantly more delays of 2 -years or more, and search fees rise dramatically. (Wikisource, “Executive -Order 12356”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6317

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Event 8950 -(0F326BEC)

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Date: 4/3/1982
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman schoolteacher in Bolingbrook, Illinois, -is awakened by a high-pitched sound “like a blender running in a box.” -She looks outside and sees a bright blue, domed, disc-shaped object land -next to some power lines. It lifts off and then lands a second time. The -UFO has blue lights around the rim and is only about 150 feet away. The -blue lights illuminate the area as bright as day. A streetlight goes -out. The police receive calls of power outages and blue flashes at the -same time. (Fred Merritt, “A Blue Domed-Disc for Bolingbrook,” IUR 7, -no. 4 (July/Aug. 1982): 6–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6318

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Event 8951 -(E1F47CE0)

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Date: 4/7/1982
-Description: The Earl -of Cork and Orrery asks in the House of Lords how many of the 2,250 -sightings of UFOs reported to the MoD in 1978–1981 are still classified. -Viscount -Long says none are and there is no reason why anyone could not come -and look at the reports in the MoD archives. (Good Above, pp. 102–104)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6319

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Event 8952 -(05F1A612)

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Date: 4/8/1982
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Angie Parrotta and Nancy Hanson, both 18, are -driving south on County Road 533 west of Escanaba, Michigan. They notice -a bright star to the southwest, which soon becomes two huge -yellowish-white “headlights” attached to an object. It descends and -moves toward them. They speed up but the object keeps pacing them on -their right. They become frightened when they see a blinking red light -on the craft. They watch the UFO move swiftly toward Escanaba in the -east and quickly lose sight of it. (Kenneth C. Schellhase, “A Unique -Triad of CE-I Sightings,” IUR 7, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1982): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6320

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Event 8953 -(565A7E00)

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Date: 4/22/1982
-End date: 4/23/1982
-Description: Night. A group of Polish Air Force pilots during missions -over northwest Poland in the area from Elbląg to Ostróda and Olsztyn -encounter a weird light at 47,500 feet that does not appear on their -radar. It looks like a cloud with the central part a raised-up cupola -and is emanating beams of light from the underside. Around it is some -kind of vapor. (Poland 66)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6321

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Event 8954 -(A3F1D2A6)

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Date: 4/23/1982
-Description: 5:15 a.m. Officials at the Head Office of Meteorology in -Ankara, Turkey, observe two UFOs that are maneuvering over the city for -an hour. They are elliptical and disappear in the direction of the -Eskisehir Highway around 6:15 a.m. (“‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity -Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6322

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Event 8955 -(EBAF17B0)

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Date: 4/27/1982
-Description: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy files a request with the -National Security Agency for all legal documents used to prepare its -case in CAUS v. NSA, especially any portion of the top-secret Yeates -affidavit of November 1980. (ClearIntent, p. 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6323

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Event 8956 -(C23866B1)

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Date: 5/18/1982
-Description: NSA Director of Policy Eugene Yeates releases a highly -redacted portion of his 21-page affidavit used in the CAUS v. NSA -lawsuit. An unredacted section reveals that the NSA holds 79 UFO -documents referred by other agencies as well as 160 documents -originating with the NSA, four of which have already been released. -(ClearIntent, pp. 189–190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6324

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Event 8957 -(FD304957)

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Date: 5/22/1982
-Description: Diamond-shaped object with body lights, bright -“headlights,” flew overhead, seen clearly in police spotlight. Abnormal -silence
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Cleveland, TX
-ID: 390

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Event 8958 -(A77517CC)

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Date: 5/22/1982
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Liberty County Deputy Sheriff John McDonald -notices two bright lights above tall pine trees near Cleveland, Texas. -He points his spotlight toward them as they sink out of sight, but they -reappear and pass over his head at about 1,000 feet. He shines his -spotlight again and sees a diamond shape with four rounded corners. The -object is large, silent, and grayish in color. Seconds later he hears a -high-pitched whine as it quickly departs. (John F. Schuessler, “Policeman -Encounters Diamond-Shaped UFO,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 182 (April -1983): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6325

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Event 8959 -(A9CAE65E)

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Date: 5/24/1982
-Description: 10:15 p.m. An orange-colored light is seen by many tourists -moving at a slow speed at an altitude of 4,900– 6,500 feet toward -Marmaris, Muğla, Turkey. It hovers for about 5 minutes over the sea, -moves to the south, speeds up, and ascends. (“‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO -Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6326

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Event 8960 -(446A2221)

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Date: 6/1982
-Description: Leonard -H. Stringfield issues his third status report, UFO Crash/Retrievals: -Amassing the Evidence. (Leonard H. Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: -Amassing the Evidence, Status Report III, The Author, 1982)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6327

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Event 8961 -(D0C8CEE9)

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Date: 6/1/1982
-Description: Two UFOs allegedly hover above the Baikonur cosmodrome, -Kazakhstan, for 14 seconds, one of them directly above launch pad number -1. On June 2, bolts and rivets are found that supposedly have been -sucked out of the support towers, and welded sections have come apart. -The other UFO hovers above the adjacent housing complex, knocking out -thousands of panes of glass or making fine holes in them. The cosmodrome -is said to be put out of action for two weeks. (Gordon Creighton, “Russia: -Naughty Henry Gris Says It Again! ’Soviet Space- Centre -Knocked Out by UFOs,” Flying Saucer Review 28, no. 6 (August 1983): -27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6328

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Event 8962 -(FC44C7DC)

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Date: 6/3/1982
-Description: Night. The examining magistrate and bailiff at Demirköy, -Kirklareli, Turkey, watch an object with orange lights at an altitude of -160–200 feet. It has two lighted hemispheres with a dark rectangular -mid-section. The poplar trees underneath it are shaking violently. -(“‘Mysteries of Turkey’: UFO Activity Revealed,” IUR 8, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1983): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6329

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Event 8963 -(4D77427D)

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Date: 6/10/1982
-Description: Three witnesses in Madbury, New Hampshire, see a -wedge-shaped object with bright white lights and smaller blue-green-red -body lights hovering about 50 feet above the Bellamy Reservoir, its -lights reflecting on the surface of the water. As they try to move to a -better viewing location, the object moves away, almost instantly. They -see it again hovering above a house with an oscillatory motion. A red -light beam shines down on the house and then on the car. After a while -the object approaches the car from behind and passes above it by about -30 feet. (UFOEv II 41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6330

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Event 8964 -(D65D0CAA)

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Date: 6/10/1982
-Description: Wedge-shaped object with body lights hovered low over -reservoir, lights reflecting in water. Instant relocation, red light -beam shone on house, then on car
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Madbury, NH
-ID: 391

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Event 8965 -(22D600C3)

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Date: 6/12/1982
-Description: Everyone on board a British aircraft sees a large -translucent object 500 feet long flying at 41,000 feet altitude over -Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria, Germany. It has the form of a “double rectangle -surmounted by a globe (egg-shaped) crowned by a silver one.” (Nick -Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, -1997, p. 162)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6331

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Event 8966 -(20F9C744)

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Date: 6/18/1982
-Description: 9:10–10:53 p.m. Five Chinese Air Force pilots are flying on -patrol over the northern military frontier in Hebei province, China. At -10:06 p.m., a large yellowish-green object appears in the northern sky, -whirling fast and creating rings of light. After 10 seconds, the center -of the ring explodes “like a hand grenade.” It grows larger than the -apparent size of the full moon, and black spots appear near its center. -The aircraft lose their communications and navigational systems and are -forced to return to their base. (NICAP, “Five -Chinese Pilots Encounter -Object / EME”; Good Above, pp. 217–218, 471; -Paul Dong and Wendelle Stevens, UFOs over Modern China, UFO Photo -Archives, 1983, pp. 243–245)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6332

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Event 8967 -(9BD9CF20)

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Date: 6/25/1982
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Kathy Freeman watches a bright star that makes -two right-angle turns near Libertyville, Illinois. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6333

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Event 8968 -(ED076DAF)

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Date: 6/27/1982
-Description: Bob Lazar appears on the front Sunday page of the “Los -Alamos Monitor”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Los Alamos, NM

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Event 8969 -(5C73E88F)

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Date: 6/27/1982
-Description: Following a screening of E.T.: The Extraterrestrial at the -White House, President Reagan leans -over to director Steven -Spielberg and comments, “You know, there aren’t six people in this -room who know how true this really is.” (presidentialufo.com, “Ronald -Reagan, 40th President, January 20, 1981–January 20, 1989”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6334

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Event 8970 -(AF7B6443)

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Date: 7/1/1982
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies discontinues its toll-free 1-800 -number distributed to police offices across the country. (“Discontinue -800 #, Report Quality Low,” IUR 7, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1982): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6335

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Event 8971 -(F8BDAF6D)

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Date: 7/6/1982
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A man driving alone near Hampshire, Tasmania, -finds that his car is gradually losing power and stops. He turns off the -ignition and the lights, then gets out of the vehicle when he notices a -stationary, noiseless object that looks like a large army helicopter -about the size of a bus. It is blue-black in color and seems to be -gradually moving to the west for about 90 seconds. He starts the car’s -engine and leaves the area. An inspection of the car finds nothing to -account for its behavior. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle -Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6336

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Event 8972 -(8C743BCE)

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Date: 7/28/1982
-Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets Dr. Edward Teller at a -presentation.
-Type: meeting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Los Alamos, NM

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Event 8973 -(2A6DD328)

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Date: early 8/1982
-Description: A man is in a meadow near a forest on the shore of the -Vistula River a few miles northwest of Warsaw, Poland. Suddenly he hears -a sound like an electric motor and sees a rectangular, black, domed -object above the treetops that rises and sails slowly beyond the river. -Windows in the dome cast a flickering light (Bronislaw Rzepecki, -“Encounters in Poland,” IUR 12, no. 3 (May/June 1987): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6337

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Event 8974 -(F67D81AB)

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Date: 8/21/1982
-Description: Bob Lazar appears in the “Arizona Republic” newspaper in -Phoenix AZ and is said to be working in “Los Alamos, NM National -Laboratory”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: Phoenix, AZ

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Event 8975 -(E4A9D0ED)

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Date: 9/1982
-Description: Rosalind Reynolds-Parnham and her boyfriend Philip are -driving through the northwestern outskirts of Sudbury, Suffolk, England, -when they see an object with an oval mass of orange lights moving -through some pylons and causing sparks. They can smell a noxious odor. -They drive on, and when they are near Cavendish on the A1092 some lights -approach them from behind and the car loses power. When they arrive at -their destination, they realize they have lost four hours of time. -Rosalind begins to recall an abduction experience, aided by some -disturbing dreams and odd scars on her abdomen. (Jenny Randles, -“Abduction and Physiological Effects,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): -4–6, 23; Carl Nagaitis and Philip Mantle, Without Consent: A -Comprehensive Study of Missing Time and Abduction Phenomena in the -United Kingdom, Ringpull, 1994; “Aliens -Cost Me My Boyfriend and -Kids,” London Express, August 24, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6338

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Event 8976 -(B6C20E83)

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Date: 9/2/1982
-Description: 7:15 p.m. John T. Sery notices an object following a Cessna -aircraft at an altitude of 1,500 feet above Minneapolis, Minnesota. It -matches the pace of the airplane until it reaches a point about 4 miles -away when it descends. His two daughters also view the UFO. The bottom -and top of the object are jet black, and it has an equatorial band that -is silvery metallic with a hint of rainbow reflections. (“Minnesota -Flying Black Hamburger,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 6 -(Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6339

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Event 8977 -(666DEEE7)

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Date: 9/9/1982
-Description: A partial meltdown occurs at Chernobyl nuclear power plant -Unit One in Pripyat, Ukraine. Officials deny that an accident has taken -place, but radioactive contamination reaches the town and spreads as far -as 9 miles from the plant. It includes iodine-131, fragments of uranium -dioxide fuel, and hot particles containing zinc-65 and -zirconium-niobium-95 consistent with partial destruction of the reactor -core. Contaminated areas around the plant are simply sluiced with water -and covered with soil and leaves. Lenin Square is discreetly covered -with a new layer of asphalt. (Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, -Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 69–70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6340

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Event 8978 -(9ACEC9D3)

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Date: 9/17/1982
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Capt. Stefan Freitag and the crew of the Romanian -cargo ship Bosca are steaming 200 miles off the coast of Brazil in the -South Atlantic when they see an object like a full moon, accompanied by -a smaller, star-light object, which grows brighter and larger in size. -Both objects disappear, leaving behind a shiny cloud. Then another -moon-like object appears, during which a silent explosion takes place -and an orange object is ejected. A fourth moon appears and approaches -the ship, causing the crew to panic and the ship’s dog to howl. A fifth -object appears briefly, leaving a glow that persists for 30 minutes. A -Geiger counter indicates a radiation level of 5–7 rads on the ship. A -similar phenomenon is seen by another ship in the general area at 11:03 -p.m. and on the following night. (Gerhard Cordier, “Adventure -under the Equator,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3 -(Nov./Dec. 1983): 3; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1985; Marine Observer 53 -(1983): 132)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6341

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Event 8979 -(D8F3B4EF)

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Date: 9/18/1982
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Villagers in Suchowola, Poland, see a triangular -UFO with lights at its tips. (Poland 75–76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6342

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Event 8980 -(9DEB49A0)

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Date: 9/30/1982
-Description: 10:15 p.m. Four women, all management personnel of New -England Bell Company, are returning to Exeter, New Hampshire, after a -trip to a county fair to the north. They are riding in a Mercedes owned -by the driver, Mary Ann Poland. She and the passengers (Rose Messina, -Mary LaMontagne, and Nicky LeClair) see a low-flying bright light -approaching. Poland pulls the car over and they all jump out, as if the -object has a compelling influence on them. The object is egg-shaped with -swirling red lights around its equator and a white beam of light coming -down from the side. After a few minutes it sinks down behind the tree -line. (“Exeter Revisited,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6344

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Event 8981 -(C5F00166)

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Date: 9/30/1982
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A man and his son finish picking fruit in their -orchard on Wolicka street near Czerniaków Hill in Warsaw, Poland. It is -well after curfew, so they make their way toward home stealthily. Near -the Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych building they smell smoke and see a -strange object 20 feet in diameter hovering 3 feet above the ground. A -faint orange glow is emanating from its base, causing the grass to -smolder. Two thin beings are near the object. One has a device that -projects an orange glow. The witnesses leave the scene carefully. -(Poland 51; “Bliskie -spotkanie w Warszavie w 1982 roku,” UFO-Relacje.pl, February 12, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6343

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Event 8982 -(FE0A7D34)

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Date: 10/1982
-Description: A generator explodes at Reactor Number One of the Metsamor -Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia. The turbine hall burns down, and an -emergency team is airlifted from the Kola Peninsula in northwest Russia -to help save the core. (Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl, Simon -& Schuster, 2019, p. 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6345

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Event 8983 -(DAD3C420)

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Date: 10/2/1982
-Description: 8:00 p.m. The North Arkansas Community College volleyball -team (and their coach Sue McDonald) is returning from a game in Kansas -and are near Springfield, Missouri, when they see an object with two -brilliant white lights and a blinking red light. It hovers 100–150 feet -nearly above the bus. The underside is in full view and about 40–50 -smaller lights are plainly visible. (“CE-I -for a Volleyball Team,” IUR 8, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1983): 12–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6346

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Event 8984 -(A272D178)

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Date: 10/4/1982
-Description: 4:00–8:00 p.m. Russian Army Lt. Col. Vladimir Plantonev -witnesses an hours-long UFO sighting near an IRBM missile base outside -the village of Belokorovichi, Ukraine. It looks “just like a flying -saucer,” but with no portholes and a smooth surface. It soundlessly -makes a turn on its edge. Suddenly, an unspecified number of nuclear -missiles spontaneously go into an automated launch sequence by -themselves, proceeding to a countdown of 15 seconds before aborting and -returning to standby status. (NICAP, “Russian -Base Loses Control of Nuclear Missiles”; -Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal -Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 81; Robert L. -Hastings, “Remarkable Reports from the Missile Field,” IUR 32, no. 1 -(August 2008): 25–26; Antonio Huneeus, “Soviet -Nukes and UFOs,” Open Minds, January 26, 2010; Nukes 445–452)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6347

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Event 8985 -(D591D82A)

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Date: 10/12/1982
-Description: Nova presents the documentary The Case of the UFO’s, which -is criticized as a biased perspective. The participants on the US -version of this BBC production include skeptics Philip -Klass, James -Oberg, and -Michael Persinger, with -only brief appearances by Bruce -Maccabee and Allan -Hendry. (Nova: -The Case of the UFO’s, Time-Life, 1982; J. Allen Hynek, “Nova and -UFOs,” IUR 7, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1982): 3–5; J. Allen Hynek, “An Editorial -Apology,” IUR 8, no. 3 (May/June 1983): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6348

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Event 8986 -(EE474E6D)

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Date: 10/14/1982
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Four residents of Alta, Troms og Finnmark, -Norway, see three points of light appear above the mountains to the -south-southeast. Each point of light is made up of several smaller -lights bunched close together. They move in a northerly direction at a -great speed, apparently about 43–50 miles in 5 seconds, or about 35,000 -mph. Suddenly light rays flash down toward the ground simultaneously -from all three objects. The rays are made up cones with an opening angle -of about 15°. Their color is a powerful white with a bluish hue, -especially at the sides. After 20–25 seconds, the rays begin to widen -just as the light begins to diminish in strength. In 2–3 seconds the -cones became “an ocean” of light with an opening angle of some 180°. -Then they move off one by one with a separation time of one second. At -the same moment as the lights go out there appears an ellipsoid object -that gives off a faint light, but nevertheless is distinctly visible. -Its color is pink with a deeper color tone that becomes gray just -underneath the object. It is motionless, hanging in the sky for 30 -minutes, then it suddenly disappears. All of the observers feel a -strange, dead silence during the entire observation. (Elbjørg Feldbjerg, -“Extraordinary Observation -from Alta,” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1983, no. 2, pp. 15–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6349

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Event 8987 -(62EF9118)

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Date: 10/15/1982
-Description: 1:35 p.m. A witness at the Diamond Shamrock plant at Lamar -[now Botham Jean Boulevard] and Lenway Street in Dallas, Texas, sees a -domed, metallic disc that apparently has risen up from the Trinity River -bottom and is heading east. He estimates it is 60 feet wide and flying -at 3,000–4,000 feet. It has bright red lights on top. (“Letter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6350

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Event 8988 -(81530261)

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Date: Late 1982
-End date: early 1983
-Description: “Night Siege” boomerangs, continuing for a long period of -time
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New York State and Connecticut
-ID: 396

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Event 8989 -(08E656EC)

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Date: 10/18/1982
-Description: 7:50 p.m. A couple is driving along Quinpool Road near -Armview Avenue in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when they see an object about 8 -times the size of the full moon traveling silently south to north at -about 50 mph and 300 feet altitude. It is cigar-shaped with a steady -green light in front and a flashing green light in back. They have it in -sight for 15 seconds. (“Correspondence,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 1 (Feb./March 1983): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6351

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Event 8990 -(AD9CAF32)

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Date: 10/19/1982
-Description: Night. A US Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft -monitoring Soviet military activity is buzzed by a huge object (larger -than the RC-135) over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. British personnel -at RAF Troödos on Cyprus listen to the radio calls of the American crew -for 90 minutes as the encounter unfolds at 35,000 feet. The UFO, -described as a multitude of lights flashing 20 at a time, is picked up -on the aircraft’s radar as it approaches from the south about 2 miles -away. It circles around the plane and closes in. Two US Navy F-14 -fighters are scrambled from an aircraft carrier, and an RAF Phantom is -diverted from a night flying exercise to intercept the object south of -Cyprus. As the three interceptors approach, the RC-135 crew sees the -object depart to the south. The fighter pilots can see nothing. -Following the incident, British authorities launch a secret -investigation, the results of which (including a transcript of the -RC-135 crew’s conversation with ground controllers) are sent to the US -Department of Defense in November. One senior RAF official strongly -suspects that the object is a mirage effect from lights on the coast of -Israel or Lebanon. (David Clarke, “A Cold War Close Encounter,” Fortean -Times 357 (September 2017): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6352

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Event 8991 -(24F14DA4)

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Date: 10/21/1982
-Description: 12:35 p.m. An oval object about 3 feet in diameter descends -into a garden in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, and hovers about 3 -feet off the ground. After 20 minutes the object takes off silently. The -witness, a cellular biologist, reports that when the UFO rises up, the -grass under it stands up straight. In the afternoon, the witness notes -that two amaranth plants located near the UFO have desiccated, withered -leaves. The witness calls the Gendarmerie, who inspect the garden and -take some samples of the amaranth plants. The analysis of the samples -made by GEPAN finds that the plants are dehydrated, but there is no -evidence of radiation. (Enquête 86/06: -L’Amarante, Note -Technique no. 17, Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux -Non-identifiés, Centre Nationale d’Étude Spatiales, March 21, 1983; -Swords 445–446)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6353

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Event 8992 -(A81F0E26)

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Date: 10/24/1982
-Description: 9:20 a.m. Pilot Michael Davis and his father (a student -pilot) are flying a 1968 Piper PA-28 Cherokee 140 about 10 miles -southeast of Lowell, Indiana. Just after reaching their cruising -altitude of 2,300 feet, they encounter an object they at first think is -a malfunctioning parachute. At one point, the UFO flicks across their -nose, veering to its left and missing the aircraft’s right wingtip by no -more than 10 feet. It has no exhaust trail. At the instant that it -passes, the vortex hits them so hard that the plane’s airframe groans in -protest, and the altimeter goes “wacky.” It continues to curve to the -left, still accelerating and eventually beginning to climb until it -finally disappears into the distant haze. (NICAP, “Pilots -Encounter Object over Indiana / EME”; Mark R. Remaley, “An -Incredible Close Encounter from Credible Pilots,” IUR 8, no. 3 (May/June -1983): 4–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6354

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Event 8993 -(9CCAACE1)

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Date: 10/27/1982
-Description: Early evening. Bonnie McCrory and her father, Maurice -Smith, are driving south on the Richardson Highway near Summit Lake, -Alaska, when their pickup stops with a frozen gas line. After about 20 -minutes, they notice a huge ball on the ridge to the east. It is -silver-colored and looks like a geodesic dome. Within the next hour it -changes color from silver to yellow to orange to fiery red-orange. It -slowly moves up the ridge until it moves out of sight. Possibly the full -moon. (Richard Sigismond, “Alaska Close Encounter,” IUR 9, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1984): 8–9; Hobart Gregory Baker, “Sail Along, Silvery Disc,” -IUR 10, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1985): 16, 20; Richard Sigismond, “Sail Along, -Silvery Disc: A Response,” IUR 11, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1986): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6355

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Event 8994 -(8E5BCD0A)

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Date: 11/1982
-Description: After 12:00 midnight. A man and his wife are camping in -Davies Valley, Imperial County, California, when they are awakened by a -surge of static electricity. A huge object shaped like a manta ray 200 -feet across is hovering above them. It makes a humming sound as it -slowly passes over them, heading east. (Doris and Joe Graziano, “Press -Reports,” APRO Bulletin 31, no. 8 (August 1983): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6356

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Event 8995 -(B27E89FC)

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Date: 11/2/1982
-Description: 10:50 a.m. Capt. Júlio Miguel Guerra is flying a DHC-1 -Chipmunk in the region of Serrea de Montejunto and Torres Vedras, -Portugal, near Ota Air Base [now Military and Technical Training Center -of the Air Force] in Ota, Alenquer, Portugal. He encounters a metallic -disc at 4,900 feet that engages in evasive maneuvers and circles his -plane. The object is 7 feet in diameter and its lower hemisphere is -reddish. A circular dark area is visible on the bottom and something -looking like a grid encircles its middle. The pilot of another Chipmunk -trainer sees the same object at 11:05 a.m. The object continues circling -between the two aircraft for 10 minutes, when it makes a pass at the -second plane and speeds off to the southwest. (José Sottomayor and -Antônio Rodrigues, “Close Sighting -by Portuguese Air Force Pilots (November 1982),” Flying Saucer -Review 32, no. 5 (August 1987): 12– 13; Júlio Miguel Guerra, “Circled by -a UFO,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 3, 21; Kean, pp. 47–51; -UFOEv II 108–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6358

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Event 8996 -(158CD0B5)

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Date: early 11/1982
-Description: 6:15 p.m. Rachel Morton is waiting for a bus in Whitby, -North Yorkshire, England, when a triangular-shaped object with a domed -covering passes noiselessly overhead. Two small white lights are at the -front and three lights at the top. (Whitby (UK) Gazette, November 12, -1982; Marler 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6357

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Event 8997 -(8B4367DB)

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Date: 11/2/1982
-Description: Shiny disc below two military aircraft darted up to their -altitude, rapidly circled one of them, sped out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Maxial, Estremadura Province, Portugal
-ID: 392

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Event 8998 -(FAFAC438)

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Date: 11/16/1982
-Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 393

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Event 8999 -(370BBAC3)

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Date: 11/19/1982
-Description: Circular object with body lights shone light beam down into -field, three humanoid silhouettes visible inside. Object rose, flew -directly over car, humming sound
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Temperanceville, VA
-ID: 394

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Event 9000 -(B30BF52A)

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Date: late 11/1982
-Description: Senior Coastguard Bernard O’Reilly watches a lighted -triangular object hovering silently for several minutes over Skegness, -Lincolnshire, England. It moves away to the southeast. (Lincolnshire -(UK) Daily Echo, December 1, 1982; Marler 114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6359

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Event 9001 -(BB164012)

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Date: 11/25/1982
-Description: Day. US Army Military Policeman Christopher Grooms is on -guard duty in Tower 5 at the Army Special Weapons Depot at Kriegsfeld, a -nuclear weapons storage and maintenance site in Rhineland-Palatinate, -Germany. He watches for over 10 minutes a dark triangular-shaped craft -fly slowly in a straight line from the southwest, over the valley, over -the town of Gerbach, and directly over his watchtower, flying toward the -northeast. After approaching for about 7 minutes, it flies directly -overhead and Grooms steps out onto the tower landing with M- 16 in hand -and looks straight up at the object. It is completely silent and has no -markings. As it passes over, the object rotates 360° nose down, pointing -directly at him, then rotates back into its original position. Grooms -has “the overwhelming feeling that it was acknowledging my presence with -this maneuver or was ‘checking me out’ as it did it.” (Robert L. -Hastings, “Triangular -UFO above a U.S. Army Nuclear Weapons Depot Performs a 360- Degree -Roll,” UFOs & Nukes, January 26, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6360

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Event 9002 -(62956067)

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Date: 11/27/1982
-Description: Police Commander Michael McDonald was on patrol at 5:00 -a.m. when the area around his car was lighted, as if by a phosphorous -flare. Looking up he saw a large white UFO with tinges of red at an -altitude of 900–1000 ft. Two other officers, alerted by radio, also -observed the UFO. The other two cars gave pursuit to the UFO at speeds -of between 60–65 mph but the UFO outdistanced them. A few minutes later -another UFO was noted by the commander and then the other two officers. -It was a diffuse “domed disc” which was seen to emit a beam of light -towards the ground. The UFO then disappeared behind the tree line of a -forest preserve. The police report includes a tape recording of the -radio communications during the sighting.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Palatine, IL

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Event 9003 -(DA59BEA0)

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Date: 11/27/1982
-Description: Luminous object brightly illuminated police car, changed -direction when pursued. Domed disc shape seen to east, light beam toward -ground, descended behind tree line
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Palatine, IL
-ID: 395

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Event 9004 -(BF95AB16)

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Date: 11/27/1982
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A luminous object with brilliant lights brightly -illuminates a police patrol car driven by Cmdr. Michael McDonald near -the intersection of West Northwest Highway and Smith Street in Palatine, -Illinois. Two other officers (Ron Roszak and Dennis Somsel) in two other -patrol cars on Lincoln Avenue see a domed, disc- shaped object 30 feet -in diameter, which emits a light beam toward the ground, then changes -direction when pursued. The white disc is later seen to the east, with a -light beam extended toward the ground, as it descends behind the tree -line, seemingly landing in Busse Woods (Ned Brown Forest Preserve). The -entire episode lasts about 12 minutes. (Mark Rodeghier, “A Police -Puzzler from Palatine,” IUR 8, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1983): 10– 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6361

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Event 9005 -(C7E49D98)

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Date: 12/1982
-Description: During naval exercises in the Black Sea near the port of -Sevastopol in the Crimea, Russia, an unidentified target is detected -over the Balaklava District at a low altutude. It has a sharp nose and -sparks coming from its tail section. The object does not respond to -attempts at communication, so jet interceptors are scrambled. The object -descends into the water when they approach. Soviet naval ships cannot -detect it underwater. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, -Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 133–134)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6362

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Event 9006 -(3FCB393E)

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Date: 12/8/1982
-End date: 12/12/1982
-Description: The Third International Congress of Extraterrestrial -Science is held in Rosario, Argentina, with representatives from Spain, -Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and the US, as well as Argentina. (“Third -International Congress of Extraterrestrial Science,” IUR 8, no. 3 -(May/June 1983): 3, 7, 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6363

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Event 9007 -(7429B4C4)

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Date: 12/10/1982
-Description: 7:55 a.m. Stephen Eric Alexander is waiting for a school -bus with his daughter in Rosedale, Queens, New York City, when he sees -an object among a flock of birds. The birds disperse and leave the -object alone, drifting silently at 25 mph. After 15 seconds, it tilts -and veers to the southwest and disappears. He estimates the object is 11 -feet wide and 5 feet tall, 150 feet away from him, and 210 feet above -the ground. Its ends pointed slightly downward. (“1977 -Photograph/Sighting and 1982 Sketch Similarity,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6364

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Event 9008 -(0BF69ACE)

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Date: 12/21/1982
-Description: A witness driving from Échallens to Orbe, Vaud, -Switzerland, notes a red globe 5–6 inches in diameter closely following -his car. The light spreads inside the car as the object apparently -settles down on the rear seat. He experiences about 8–10 minutes of -missing time. (“Newspaper -Item from Bern, Switzerland, January 12, 1983,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 4, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1983): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6365

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Event 9009 -(0A02BF85)

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Date: 12/31/1982
-Description: Around 11:50 p.m. An off-duty police officer and his family -see a boomerang-shaped object drift slowly over their home near Kent -Cliffs, New York. They can see a solid structure with roughly 15 red, -green, and white lights anchored to its underside. It maintains a -constant altitude of about 490 feet, moves at a gentle walking pace, and -makes only a faint hum. As it passes over, he feels a deep vibration in -his chest. At one point, the lights go out and three blinding white -lights in the shape of a triangle appear in their place. About 5 seconds -later, the colored ones return, and the object drifts out of sight. -Warehouse foreman Edwin Hansen, 55, sees what appears to be the same -object as he is driving down Interstate 84, just moments later. Hansen, -among others, stops on the side of the road after spotting a -boomerang-shaped formation of lights that project a bright beam of light -to the ground. It is so large that it fills the sky in front of him, and -it makes slow, tight circles in the air. Just as he thinks he’d like to -get a closer look, the object moves in his direction. He panics as it -approaches, but then hears a voice in his head that tells him not to be -afraid. At the same time, the object turns away and the beam goes out. -Hansen says that he “felt thoughts that weren’t [his] own,” and believes -that he has received a telepathic communication from the UFO. -(NightSiege 5–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6366

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- Event 9010 (A10BD28C)

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Date: 1983
-Description: Philip -J. Klass writes UFOs: The Public Deceived for Prometheus Press, -claiming that all significant government documentation has been released -and that UFO reports are nothing but hoaxes, misidentifications, and -distortions. He personally attacks Hynek, Maccabee, -Richard -Hall, and others. (Philip J. Klass, UFOs: The Public Deceived, -Prometheus, 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6368

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Event 9011 -(0828C104)

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Date: 1983
-Description: Since 1966, some 6,700 Ummo communications have been -received. The early ones are written in Spanish, but over time they are -composed in French, though certain grammar and punctuation oddities -indicate that Spanish, not French, is the writers’ first language. Other -analyses indicate a British origin. (Wikipedia, “Planetary -objects proposed -in religion, astrology, ufology, and pseudoscience”; Wikipedia, “Ummo”; -Jacques Vallée, Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception, -Ballantine, 1990, pp. 90–121; -Bob Rickard, “The Ummo Mystery,” Fortean Times, no. 149 (September -2001): 34–35; Reinaldo Manso, Ummo: Un Historia de un Obsesión, -Megustaesscribirlibros, 2015; Reinaldo Manso, “Were the Ummites -British?” Fortean Times 336 (February 2016): 58–59; Clark III -1185–1186)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6367

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Event 9012 -(78F1C118)

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Date: 1/1983
-Description: The first issue of Cuadernos de Ufologia, edited by José -Ruesga Montiel and featuring case investigations by many Spanish -ufologists, is published in Seville, Spain, by the Colectivo Cuadernos -(and beginning in 1997 by La Fundación Anomalía). It continues through -April 2012. (Cuadernos -de Ufologia, no. -1 (January 1983))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6369

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Event 9013 -(A9374664)

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Date: 1/10/1983
-End date: 1/11/1983
-Description: CAUS director and attorney Peter Gersten has -two meetings with Richard -Doty in New Mexico. During the first meeting, with Bill -Moore in attendance, Doty is guarded in his comments. At the second -meeting with Gersten alone, he speaks openly about the 1977 Ellsworth -AFB “incident” that he claims AFOSI and the FBI are investigating. He -tells Gersten that the US government knows why UFOs appear in certain -places and that “beyond a doubt they’re extraterrestrial” and come from -50 light years away. He mentions Project Aquarius, which he says is the -government’s top-secret involvement in communications with aliens. He -speaks of documents that tell of agreements between the US government -and extraterrestrials under which the aliens are free to conduct animal -mutilations and land at a certain base, in exchange for information -about advanced UFO technology. (Clark III 363)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6370

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Event 9014 -(6372D1F3)

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Date: 1/12/1983
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A man and his two sons encounter a short entity -in a gray “wetsuit” uniform holding a glowing L-shaped object in a -swampy area near their house in Pine Township, Porter County, Indiana. -Both are floating 2– 3 feet above the ground. A second being is peering -over a fence at them. The encounter lasts about 5 minutes, and no UFO is -seen. (R. A. Busse, “An Indiana CE-III,” IUR 8, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1983): -6–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6371

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Event 9015 -(64808938)

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Date: 1/14/1983
-Description: 7:53 p.m. A bright object appears in the sky above Adana, -Turkey, and many people stop their cars to look at it. Soon the object -is joined by two US Air Force jets from Incirlik Air Base. One of the -jets flies in tight circles around the UFO, which dwarfs it in size and -is described as a disc with a dome on the underside. The object -accelerates and disappears over the Mediterranean Sea with the jets in -pursuit. Only one jet returns to base, although the other could have -been lost during an unrelated search-and-rescue mission. (Good Need, pp. 312– 313)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6373

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Event 9016 -(6F8E3D59)

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Date: 1/14/1983
-Description: 5:54 p.m. Amateur astronomer Todd -Lohvinenko in Winnipeg, Manitoba, observes a “perfectly black orb” -traversing the Sun in 3 seconds. (Todd Lohvinenko, “A -Mysterious Object,” National Newsletter of the Royal Astronomical -Society of Canada 77, no. 2 (April 1983): L19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6372

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Event 9017 -(A73E043A)

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Date: 1/19/1983
-Description: 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. South Wales police begin to receive -reports of UFOs. Two detectives in Swansea observe a silent, triangular -object with three pulsating lights at 1,000 feet altitude. Carole -Griffiths and her husband are driving home in Cardiff when they see a -large triangular object in the sky and pull over to watch. It has 11 -lights around it. Similar objects are seen in Porthcawl and other Welsh -localities. (Marler 114–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6374

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Event 9018 -(8D3FCB40)

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Date: 1/27/1983
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Peggy Iery sees a large central white light with -two flanking lights over some power lines as she is returning home 2 -miles north of Marquette, Michigan. Suddenly it appears over her car and -seems so huge that it blocks out the sky. Its shape is a perfect -pentagon with a small white light at each of the corners; the bottom is -silvery and flat. She drives home quickly, and she and her husband see -four lights nearby, which gradually recede beyond the trees. (Kenneth C. -Schellhase, “The Marquette Pentagon,” IUR 8, no. 3 (May/June 1983): -11–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6375

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Event 9019 -(5A38D97E)

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Date: 2/7/1983
-Description: 8:19 p.m. A witness in Coffeen, Illinois, sees a triangular -object with bright lights. A similar object is seen by a police officer -10 miles southwest of Brighton, Illinois, around 8:27 p.m. (Marler -209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6376

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Event 9020 -(D843CDD5)

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Date: 2/11/1983
-Description: The Parisian newspaper Le Figaro cites unnamed specialists -who say that GEPAN exists only because it reflects the enthusiasm of -former President Valéry -Giscard d’Estaing and that it costs too much, even though it is only -a small percentage of the CNES budget. (Clark III 547)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6377

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Event 9021 -(B64544EB)

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Date: 2/26/1983
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Monique O’Driscoll and her 17-year-old daughter -are driving near the frozen White Pond in Putnam County, New York, when -they see a silent, multicolored, boomerang-shaped object about 200–300 -feet wide. It has many lights, which seem to respond to their thoughts. -It has a crisscross lattice structure and tubes on its underside. Their -CB radio just has static. Another independent witness, Rita Rivera, -probably sees the same object, a V-shaped array of 50 lights with amber, -red, and blue colors. (NightSiege 8–14; Philip Imbrogno, George Lesnick, -and Chris Clark, “Boomerang Update,” IUR 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1983): -8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6378

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Event 9022 -(82B79BA5)

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Date: 3/8/1983
-Description: President Ronald -Reagan delivers a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals -in which he refers to the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” and the -“focus of evil in the modern world.” He asserts that the Cold War is a -battle between good and evil. (Wikipedia, “Evil -Empire speech”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6380

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Event 9023 -(A4786278)

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Date: 3/11/1983
-Description: Reagan authorizes -National Security Decision Directive 84, which substantially increases -governmental control over federal employees, particularly their -relationships with the media. It mandates that all employees with access -to sensitive information are now subject to lifetime censorship of their -writings and speeches on these topics. (“Safeguarding -National Security Information,” National Security Decision Directive -84, March 11, 1983; Frederick W. Whatley, “Reagan, -National Security, and the First Amendment: Plugging Leaks by Shutting -Off the -Main,” CATO Institute Policy Analysis no. 37, May 8, 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6381

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Event 9024 -(160F4C78)

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Date: 3/11/1983
-Description: Richard Mull finds a large star-shaped hole in his bean -field west of Wauseon, Ohio, around which the dirt is mounded up. It has -six long points 19 feet long and four shorter points 9 feet long. In the -center is a depression 8 feet in diameter and 8 inches deep, and at the -center of this depression is a small hole 2 inches in diameter that goes -down to a depth of 6 feet. (“Two -Physical Trace Cases in Northwest Ohio Unexplained,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 6, no. 3 (June/July 1985): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6382

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Event 9025 -(03E93981)

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Date: 3/15/1983
-Description: 5:00 p.m. An unidentified target is tracked by USAF radar -at RAF Upper Heyford [now closed], Oxford, England, until 9:15 p.m. -Sgt. Byrd Cormier says they do not have radio contact with it. A slow, -brilliant white light is seen by some civilians in Berkshire. Cpl. -Candellin at RAF Brize Norton, Oxford, claims that RAF radar cannot pick -up the object. (“UFO -Alert As Mystery Light Passes over Berks,” Reading (UK) Evening -Post, March 16, 1983, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 165 (April -1983), p. 13; Good Above, pp. 104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6383

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Event 9026 -(1421A052)

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Date: 3/17/1983
-Description: 7:00–10:00 p.m. Hundreds of people see a boomerang-shaped -object moving slowly and hovering over I-84 near Brewster, New York. -(Philip Imbrogno, “Boomerang over Three Counties,” IUR 8, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1983): 11; Philip Imbrogno, George Lesnick, and Chris Clark, -“Boomerang Update,” IUR 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1983): 9– 10; NightSiege -18–25; Patrick Gross, “The -Hudson Valley UFO Flap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6384

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Event 9027 -(DA9A2433)

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Date: spring 1983
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A woman hospital employee is driving to work -near New London, Connecticut, when she sees a light flick by quickly in -the sky ahead. It stops above the treetops and shines a searchlight-like -beam down on the woods. She pulls over to watch. Abruptly the object -moves directly in front of her. There is no other traffic, although the -road is usually busy. The object is round and has blue, yellow, red, and -white lights flickering in a circle. She blacks out for a short time and -finds that the engine, lights, and radio have been shut off. The window -has been rolled down. The car stalls when she tries to start it, but the -engine finally catches and she drives to work, where she arrives -uncharacteristically late at 11:05. (Michael D. Swords, “Unusual -Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): -23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6379

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Event 9028 -(3E70B8E5)

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Date: 3/23/1983
-Description: In what later becomes known as his “Star Wars” speech, -President Ronald -Reagan announces his plans to develop an anti-missile capability to -counter the threat of Soviet ballistic missiles and to make these -nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete.” This paves the way for a -Strategic Defense Initiative as an alternative to a proliferation of -missiles under the concept of mutual assured destruction. SDI is -derisively nicknamed by Senator Ted -Kennedy (D-Mass.) as “Star Wars,” after the 1977 film by George -Lucas. By the early 1990s, with the Cold War ending and nuclear -arsenals rapidly reduced, political support for SDI collapses. SDI -officially ends in 1993, when the administration of President Bill -Clinton redirects the efforts towards theatre ballistic missiles and -renames the agency the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. BMDO is -renamed the Missile Defense Agency in 2002. (Wikipedia, “Strategic -Defense Initiative”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6385

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Event 9029 -(325903FC)

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Date: 3/23/1983
-Description: Night. Russian Major V. Gorsky is stationed in the Altai -Mountains of Mongolia when he sees, along with two of his commanding -officers, a silvery disc at an altitude of 1,300 feet and 1–2 miles -away. Its colors seem to be changing constantly, and it is surrounded by -a blue halo. A narrow beam of light descends from it, illuminating the -area. More than 30 other soldiers witness the display. It studies the -area another 4 minutes, then the beam disappears, the halo vanishes, and -the object is gone instantly. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO -Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 127–128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6386

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Event 9030 -(FA1E3659)

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Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: Wing or V-shaped UFO hovered, emitted light beam -downward
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bedford, NY, and vicinity
-ID: 397

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Event 9031 -(508B0817)

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Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Several dozen diners at a ski-resort restaurant -near Stormville, New York, see white lights in a boomerang shape -hovering over a utility pole 600 feet away. Three other people driving -near the pole stop by it. The driver, a corrections officer, gets out -and studies the object about 200 feet above him. It is silent, and the -structure that holds the lights is dark and nonreflective. After -watching it for 20 minutes, he heads back to his jeep, at which time the -UFO moves down the road. He follows it to Interstate 84 and all the -lights go out, allowing him to see the boomerang shape. The lights come -back on and he follows the object for more than an hour, clocking it -speed at 20 mph. (Chris Clark, “Boomerang!” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June -1984): 10; Clark III 1278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6390

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Event 9032 -(46E17FC3)

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Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: 10:00 p.m. The last sighting of many this night is by an -IBM executive who sees a lighted object “larger than a 747” hovering -over pine trees near his home in Danbury, Connecticut. (Clark III -1278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6391

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Event 9033 -(25F6A378)

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Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Police officers in Yorktown, New York, say that -their switchboard is flooded with calls reporting a large, -boomerang-shaped UFO with red, blue, and green lights. Police in the -nearby villages of Millwood and New Castle receive a flood of calls as -well, describing an object as large as a football field. William Hele, a -meteorologist for the National Weather Corporation, sees an asymmetrical -V-shaped object about 1,300 feet long, with 6–7 lights as he is driving -south on the Taconic Highway. The object descends from about 2,000 to -980 feet altitude and slows as it approaches. Hele realizes that the -lights are all changing colors at different times, as if lit by a -rotating prism within the structure. Suddenly, all the lights go out, -leaving nothing in their place, as if whatever object was supporting -them has simply disappeared. The lights reappear 30–40 seconds later, -and a few seconds after that, the object turns to the north and flies -away, as the lights change to a slime green. At the same time, people 15 -miles north in Putnam County see a smaller object exhibiting similar -behavior. Ruth Holtsman describes a silent object that hangs motionless -in the sky. While it is in view, a driver pulls up and stops almost -directly underneath it. The lights start to flash in a wild sequence up -and down its “wings.” The driver jumps into his car and speeds away. -Then the UFO approaches Holtsman’s car, which is bathed in a blinding -white light as it speeds under the boomerang. John Miller sees the -object hovering above a pond near his home in Brewster, New York. It is -aiming two very bright searchlight beams over the surface of the water. -He hears a faint whooshing sound. (Philip Imbrogno, “Boomerang over -Three Counties,” IUR 8, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1983): 10–11; Philip J. -Imbrogno and Chris Clark, “Boomerang Saga Continues,” IUR 9, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1984): 4–6 ; Philip J. Imbrogno, “Westchester Boomerang: -March 24, 1983,” IUR 9, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1984): 9–12; NightSiege 15–16, -25, 30–35, 39, 41–42; Marler 117–119; Clark III 1277–1278)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6389

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Event 9034 -(B53396AA)

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Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Four persons in Carmel, New York, see a -half-circle of red and white lights and the vague outline of a larger -object to which they are attached. The lights are hovering above trees -several hundred yards away. They drift to the east and are lost to view, -but almost immediately a family living a quarter mile away sees them -drift into view. Through binoculars they can see a “huge object” with a -dull-green metallic color connecting the lights. When the UFO turns -slightly, they see it has a V shape. At that moment a brilliant beam of -white light shoots down from the center of the object, and in it a small -reddish object descends then shoots off “very, very fast toward the -north.” The beam is shut off and the object turns and heads slowly east. -(Clark III 1277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6388

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Event 9035 -(6FAEBBED)

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Date: 3/24/1983
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A corporate executive in Bedford, New York, sees -a half-circle of lights hovering behind some trees near a commuter-bus -station. There is no sound. After watching for 5 minutes, he goes inside -his house to alert his family, but when they come outside, the lights -are gone. (Clark III 1277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6387

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Event 9036 -(EB1DB358)

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Date: 3/27/1983
-Description: A cigar-shaped UFO about the size of a Boeing 747 hovered -over Gorki Airport at low altitude for 40 minutes. No jets were -scrambled. The Soviet Government appointed a cosmonaut Pavel Popovich to -head the Commission on Abnormal Atmospheric Phenomena. Popovich declared -the incident definitely had taken place.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Extra-Terrestrials Amoung Us” by George C. Andrews
-Location: Gorki, Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus

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Event 9037 -(9283350B)

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Date: 3/28/1983
-Description: Radar at the airport at Gorky [now Nizhny Novgorod], -Russia, tracks an unidentified target flying at 110– 125 mph at an -altitude of 1,310–1,970 feet. Flight Controller A. Shushkin sees the -cigar-shaped object, which is similar to an aircraft in size but has no -wings and is metallic. It is in view for only 10 seconds. (Good Above, -p. 243); -Paul Stonehill, “Pilot -and Cosmonaut Pavel Popovich and UFOs,” Open Minds, June 12, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6392

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Event 9038 -(6075A0E6)

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Date: 4/9/1983
-Description: Linda -Moulton Howe flies to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to interview Sgt. Richard -Doty for an HBO series she is working on, UFOs: The ET Factor, but -Doty does not show. She calls Jerry Miller, chief of reality weapons -testing at Kirtland AFB, whom she knows from an earlier conversation -about Paul -Bennewitz’s claims. Miller drives her to his home and calls Doty, -who arrives promptly. Doty’s attitude is defiant and nervous, but Howe -asks him about the alleged 1971 Holloman AFB landing. Doty says Robert -Emenegger got the date wrong and that it was actually April 25, -1964, shortly after the Socorro landing. Transferring to his office at -Kirtland, Doty is reluctant to talk about the 1977 Ellsworth landing. He -shows her a bogus, undated document, A Briefing Paper for the President -of the United States on the Subject of Unidentified Flying Vehicles. The -document lists UFO crash/retrievals and states that UFOs are piloted by -extraterrestrials from a nearby solar system and have been on earth for -many thousands of years. Through genetic manipulation, they have -influenced the course of human evolution and helped shape our religious -beliefs. Roswell and the 1949 living alien are mentioned, as well as -Projects Snowbird (retroengineering a crashed UFO), Aquarius (umbrella -project involving all ET contacts), Sigma (an ongoing electronic -communications effort with aliens), and the defunct Garnet -(investigation of ETs on human evolution). Doty promises Howe thousands -of feet of film of crashed discs, bodies, EBE-1, and the Holloman -landing for her documentary. He says that a similar release of data -through Emenegger and Allan Sandler was -halted because “political conditions were not right.” When she tells her -HBO contacts about this, they ask her to secure a letter of intent from -the US government with a legally binding commitment to secure the -promised film footage. HBO wants the film, but Doty now stalls. In June, -Doty tells her he is officially off the project. Further contacts up to -March 1984 are fewer. In 2008, Doty claims that the intelligence -community targeted Howe to find out who her inside sources were. (Linda -Moulton Howe, An Alien Harvest: Further Evidence Linking Animal -Mutilations and Human Abductions to Alien Life Forms, Howe Productions, -1989, pp. 143–156; Dolan II 299–307; Good Above, p. 425; -Clark III 363–365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6393

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Event 9039 -(3EF69AED)

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Date: 4/10/1983
-Description: Luminous object landed, E-M effects, animal reaction. UFO -rose from field illuminating area, body lights visible, accelerated -rapidly out of sight, physical traces
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ross, OH
-ID: 398

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Event 9040 -(E8DD0615)

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Date: 4/10/1983
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Two drivers near Ross, Ohio, see a large, bright, -oval object that seems to land. The property owner at the location also -sees a white light on a hillside behind his home and watches the object -ascend slowly before moving away at speed. The drivers’ car lights -flicker, and the engines nearly stall. The landowner reports flickering -houselights and TV problems. Investigation of the landing site indicates -that a heavy circular object about 50 feet in diameter has landed, -producing a 3-foot burn mark in the center. (NICAP, “Ross, -Ohio: April 10, 1983”; -Charles J. Wilhelm, “Ross, Ohio, Landing Case,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. -186 (August 1983): 3–7; UFOEv II, p. 65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6394

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Event 9041 -(15F83800)

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Date: 4/26/1983
-End date: 4/27/1983
-Description: Day. For two days, a UFO is seen above Nuremberg, Germany. -Amateur astronomer Walter Schwarz takes a photo that apparently shows a -balloon. A local radio station hires a Lear jet to approach it, reaching -12,300 feet, but it is still too far away to identify it. Eckard Pohl, -the astronomer at the Nuremberg Observatory, tracks it and says that it -looks like a deformed pyramid with a pointed top and estimates it is -flying at an altitude of 14.3 miles. The object is later identified as a -balloon launched from eastern Europe. (Hans-Werner Peiniger, “‘UFO’ bei -Nürnberg aufgeklärt,” Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 27 (May/June -1983): 68–69; Hans-Werner Peiniger, “UFO -über Köln identifiert,” Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 28 -(July/Aug. 1983): 99–100; “Excitement Chasing -a Mysterious Flying Object,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 -(Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984): 3; “Nurnberg UFO -Becomes IFO,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March 1984): -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6395

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Event 9042 -(6C172E02)

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Date: 4/27/1983
-End date: 5/2/1983
-Description: Divers see an object like a submarine conning tower in -Husnesfjorden, Hordaland, Norway. By 1:00 p.m., a search team from -Norwegian Defense is at the site, consisting of the corvette KNM -Sleipner, two submarines, and one Orion aircraft equipped with -antisubmarine weapons. The next day the KNM -Oslo and two more frigates join the search. At 4:55 p.m., the Oslo -has a first sonar contact south of Leirvik on Stord island. At 5:21 -p.m., it fires a Terne rocket as a warning. On April 29, a possible -sonar contact is recorded in Selbjørnfjord. On the afternoon of April -30, the Oslo, after another sonar contact, fires a Terne rocket and -drops a mine. Five minutes later it launches four more rockets, but then -the sonar contact is lost. Around 4:00 p.m., five Terne rockets are -fired at nearby Halsenøy. Near midnight, a sonar contact south of -Leirvik results in another rocket firing. On May 1, at 4:20 p.m., -another sonar contact takes place and six Terne rockets are fired. They -hit the water and plunge deep before detonating. Immediately afterward, -an Orion aircraft drops a mine at the same spot in Skåneviksfjorden. At -5:20 p.m., the Oslo again attacks with six rockets. Five minutes later -it launches four more rockets, and the sonar contact is lost. At 8:30 -p.m., an Orion aircraft has the last sonar contact. The aircraft drops -mines at the entrance to the Høylandssundet. On May 2, mines are dropped -in the Selbjørnfjord. (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified -Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6396

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Event 9043 -(8C0EE5A1)

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Date: 5/4/1983
-Description: 3:50 a.m. Police officer James Philips sees a silent, -yellowish-orange ball of light over the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas, -hovering 350 feet over a power line pole. It flies away toward the -northeast slowly at 30–40 mph. The sighting lasts three minutes. (“A -‘Yorg’ in Kansas,” IUR 8, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1983): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6397

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Event 9044 -(9F9C1D36)

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Date: 5/12/1983
-Description: 1:50 a.m. Three police officers on the Warrenville Heights, -Ohio, police force see four dim lights moving silently in a wedge -formation from south to north. They smoothly transition to a diamond -formation as they near the constellation of Ursa Major. They shift into -another formation again before speeding off in two different directions. -(“Multiple -Witness: Multiple UFO Sighting,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 4 -(Aug./Sept. 1983): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6398

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Event 9045 -(39FB8424)

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Date: 5/20/1983
-Description: Sam Meadows and another ranch hand discover a perfect -circle of disturbed grass in a pasture on the Teas Ranch in Hemphill -County near Canadian, Texas. The circle is 29 feet in diameter, with an -outer circle of much shorter and greener buffalo grass that is 4 inches -wide. This is a characteristic of new grass that comes up after a fire -has burned the old grass. A prickly pear cactus pad is found at the edge -of the ring; the side closest to the ring is devoid of spines, while all -the spines facing away from the ring are undamaged. No UFO is seen. (W. -Clark Ellzey, “A Ring on a Panhandle Ranch, and Others,” IUR 8, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1983): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6399

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Event 9046 -(D7A70A9C)

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Date: 5/23/1983
-Description: Night. Farmer Alcineu Sousa is aboard his twin-engine -airplane returning from a visit to a farm near Corumbiara, Rondônia, -Brazil. As he is about to land on his farm near Porto Velho, Rondônia, -he sees an opaque light about 30 feet in diameter on his left that -begins to approach and shine more brightly. His airplane instruments -start to go haywire. He pulls the plane sharply to the right, but the -UFO does the same but more moderately. A few seconds later, the light -disappears over the horizon. (Clark III 200–201; Brazil 541)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6401

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Event 9047 -(82C3712E)

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Date: 5/23/1983
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A high school art teacher and his daughter watch -a disc-shaped object with a black top, blue sides, square windows, and a -reddish golden metallic bottom maneuvering over trees in McHenry, -Illinois. It then rocks violently, levels out, and flies off following -the contour of the land. (“’I -Know What I Saw…But I Don’t Know What -I Saw,’” IUR 10, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1985): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6400

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Event 9048 -(420422B0)

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Date: 5/24/1983
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A schoolboy is in his parents’ backyard in -Jüchen, Germany, when he sees a red ball shoot down and hover above a -nearby electric power line. It ejects a pyramid-shaped array of colored -lights toward the ground. A few minutes later, the array disappears from -the object downward to the ground. The object then speeds away into the -sky toward its point of origin. (Hans-Werner Peiniger, “CE -2–Fall in Jüchen,” Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 30 -(Nov./Dec. 1983): 161–168; “CEII -Case in Jüchen, West Germany,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 -(Feb./March 1984): 1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6402

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Event 9049 -(94932510)

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Date: 6/3/1983
-Description: Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish ufologists launch Project -Hessdalen under the directorship of Leif -Havik, Odd-Gunnar Røed, Erling -Strand, Håken Ekstrand, and Jan Fjellander. They secure technical -assistance from the universities of Oslo and Bergen, as well as cameras -with grating filters, a seismograph, Geiger counter, radar, infrared -viewer, laser, magnetograph, and spectrum analyzer. (“Project Hessdalen: -The Colored Lights of Norway,” IUR 8, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983): 6–8; Kim -Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 90; -Clark III 572)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6404

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Event 9050 -(4EDBC253)

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Date: 6/5/1983
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Retired restaurant manager Mario Claretto wakes -up because his dogs are barking outside his home at Varzi, Pavia, Italy. -He sees a shining object with an orange headlight on a hill across the -road from his house. It is hovering low above an alfalfa field. Its -upper portion is slowly rotating, showing a silver section, a dark -section, then the orange light. After finishing some work in the -kitchen, Claretto goes outside for a closer look. He sees another person -walking toward the object; after approaching very near, the person runs -away, escaping down the road. Claretto points the object out to a -neighbor, Bruno Stafforini, who has also woken up because of the dogs. -The UFO rises after skimming the grass for a few feet, its dome recedes, -and it emits a vapor. It seems to change its form to cigar-shaped. -Suddenly it speeds off to the south-southwest. (Antonio Chiumiento, “Un -U.F.O. a Varzi,” -Notiziario UFO, no. 101 (Sept./Oct. 1983): 4–10; Antonio Chiumiento, -“Close Encounter at Varzi,” IUR 9, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1984): 4–5, 13; -Antonio Chiumiento, “A -Landing at Varzi in Northern Italy,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 6 -(August 1985): 2–9; Antonio Chiumiento and Paolo Toselli, “L’atterrissage -de Varzi (Italie),” Lumières dans la Nuit, no. 257/258 (Nov./Dec -1985): 32–37; 2Pinotti 61–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6405

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Event 9051 -(12AD0A06)

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Date: 6/20/1983
-Description: Sen. Barry -Goldwater (R-Ariz.) replies to UFO researcher William -S. Steinman regarding government knowledge of UFOs: “I have no idea -of who controls the flow of ‘need-to-know’ because, frankly, I was told -in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never -tried to make it my business since.” (Kean, p. 243)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6406

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Event 9052 -(3197DE1E)

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Date: summer 1983
-Description: Richard -Haines founds the short-lived North American UFO Federation, an -effort to unite MUFON, CUFOS, and other groups (except APRO) to -standardize UFO investigations, educate the public, and resolve the UFO -mystery. Insufficient funding dooms the effort to failure. (MUFON UFO -Journal, September 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6403

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Event 9053 -(015E016D)

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Date: 6/22/1983
-End date: 6/27/1983
-Description: At the International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics at -Lake Tahoe, Nevada, the Los Alamos National Laboratory puts forward a -proposal for a 3,500-square-foot (with plans for extending it to 6,000 -square feet) National Underground Science Facility beneath the Nuclear -Test Site in Nevada. (Michael Martin Nieto, “Physics at the Proposed -National Underground Science Facility,” Los Alamos National Laboratory, -June 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6407

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Event 9054 -(A6C07168)

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Date: 6/24/1983
-Description: Larry W. Bryant, Director of CAUS, filed a Civil Action, -Case #83–1932 (Judge Oliver Gasch) petitioning for a Writ of Habeas -Corpus Extraterrestrial, in the United States District Court for the -Dist. of Columbia, seeking to obtain the release from custody of “one or -more occupants of apparent extraterrestrial origin.” Mr. Bryant contends -that the Government action in maintaining secret custody, detention, and -prosecution of such extraterrestrials is unlawful and a violation of -their basic rights and is seeking to restore their civil rights.
-Type: lawsuit
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 11/3/81

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Event 9055 -(9B70C5F9)

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Date: 7/1983
-Description: Statistician Jean-Jacques -Velasco replaces Alain -Esterle as director of GEPAN. Esterle is dismissed, apparently -because of potential scandal about GEPAN’s apparent collaboration with -the French Army on magnetohydrodynamic propulsion experiments, done -without the knowledge of GEPAN’s resident expert, Jean- Pierre -Petit, who -has suggested such a project. (Wikipedia, “Groupe -d’études des phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés”; -Clark III 547; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO -Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6408

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Event 9056 -(7E314A09)

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Date: early 7/1983
-Description: Debbie -Jordan-Kauble (using the pseudonym of “Kathie Davis”) and her mother -see a light about 2 feet in diameter moving around the family pool house -in Indianapolis, Indiana. Some days later they notice a section of their -backyard has turned brown, a circular area about 8 feet in diameter. She -contacts Budd -Hopkins, who speaks with Debbie and her family and uncovers a -pattern of events that have affected them for years. It appears that -Debbie, her mother, and two of her children have been abducted at -different points of their lives. Debbie and her mother have identical -scars on their lower legs from apparent childhood abductions, and -Hopkins believes that Debbie and her son have implants inserted near -their brains, one through the nasal cavity and another through the ear. -Hopkins conducts numerous hypnotic regression sessions, revealing -apparent pregnancies induced by aliens. (Budd Hopkins, Intruders: -The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods, Random -House, 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6409

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Event 9057 -(14793A21)

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Date: 7/7/1983
-Description: An unauthorized target appears on the radar screens at -Darłowo Airport, Poland, corresponding to a rotating, oblong object with -a steel-colored covering flying at 11,0000 feet. Polish Air Force -Captain Praszczałek and another pilot go up to intercept it and get -within 660 feet. He sees a solid hull, 50 feet long and 6 feet across. -Just after they are ordered to shoot it down, the object shoots up to -30,000 feet, too high to pursue. (Poland 64–65)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6410

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Event 9058 -(E82F75FA)

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Date: 7/12/1983
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A police officer answers a call at a location -southeast of Danbury, Connecticut, where several people are standing -outside looking at a circular pattern of lights that are flashing red, -blue, and green. The lights appear to be attached to a silent object 300 -feet in diameter and less than 500 feet in altitude. The officer shines -a spotlight on it, and the object projects a brilliant flash of white -light downward. It then moves quickly to the north and is lost behind -trees. At 10:55 p.m., Danbury Police Chief Nelson Macedo, his -brother-in-law Charles Yacuzzi, his son Michael, and retired policeman -Jim Lucksky are boating on Candlewood Lake north of Danbury. They notice -a circular gray object silently hovering high in the sky. 20–30 bright -blue, red, orange, and green lights moving in a circular pattern are -visible on the object. The men turn off the boat lights and the object -shuts off its own lights. After several minutes, Yacuzzi turns the -lights on again, and the UFO switches on bright lights and moves off -behind the mountains. (NightSiege 96; Richard Haines, CE-5: Close -Encounters of the Fifth Kind, Sourcebooks, 1998, pp. 132–133)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6411

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Event 9059 -(1FCACDE8)

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Date: 7/22/1983
-Description: 12:40 a.m. Police constables Raymond Ellens and Peter -Ferguson are on car patrol east of Melton, Melbourne, Victoria, when -they see a bright, stationary light over the center of the town. As they -approach, they discern that it is composed of two lights. The object -turns west and hovers about 200 feet above the Melton Regional Shopping -Centre. Soon the object flies off to the southeast, making a -high-pitched humming sound. After rising to about 500 feet, the UFO -moves off to the north and is lost to sight. The UFO is picked up on -radar at Tullamarine Air Traffic Control in Melbourne. The constables -see it again at 2:40 a.m. when it appears to be on the ground at the -rear of the Toolern Vale stables (they inspect the paddock but find no -traces), then it is lost to view until 4:30 a.m. when they are again at -the shopping mall. At some point police Sgt. Barry Harman and Chief -Inspector Hickman also see the UFO above the shopping center. The -constables follow the object, this time with more lights visible. -Between their position and the object is the Australian Army Rockbank -Receiving Station, and it seems to be headed directly toward the antenna -array. Before reaching it, the object turns and arcs again to the north. -Ellens and Ferguson lose sight of it at about 6:00 a.m. Their written -report states that over time the UFO flew in a triangular pattern -bounded by Melton, Rockbank, Sydenham, and Diggers Rest in a -counterclockwise path between 200 and 1,600 feet in altitude. The -Australian Signal Intelligence facility at Rockbank is alerted that its -security has been breached. (Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government -and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 21–22; Keith Basterfield, UFOs: A -Report on Australian Encounters, Reed Books, 1997, pp. 84–86)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6412

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Event 9060 -(DF50E913)

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Date: 7/25/1983
-Description: 5:15 a.m. Tom Jackson is getting ready for work in Latrobe, -Pennsylvania, when he sees a bright light outside his bathroom window. -He opens it and sees a huge object hovering above pine trees about 750 -feet away. It is metallic gray, possibly 300 feet long, and elongated -but with the front and back ends dropping down. It has two rows of -evenly spaced windows. After 5 minutes it moves toward the town’s sewage -plant. Other residents report a brilliant orange light over the sewage -plant. Still others hear a loud, high-pitched sound so intense that it -causes headaches and disturbs neighborhood dogs. (MUFON UFO Journal, -October 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6413

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Event 9061 -(9202882A)

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Date: 8/1/1983
-Description: 12:15 a.m. Terry Conner is at the intersection of West -County Line Road and South Ashland Avenue about 1.5 miles southwest of -Beecher, Illinois, when he sees a cluster of red flashing lights. They -are coming from an object in a farmer’s field about 450–600 feet away. -It appears to be 30 feet tall with 40–50 continuously flashing red -lights in the shape of a vertical U. After 2 minutes, two large steady -red lights appear to rise until they are even with the top of the U. -After 10 seconds, all the lights go out at once. (“Beecher, -Illinois, Nocturnal Lights Remain -Unexplained,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 (Oct./Nov. 1984): -1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6414

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Event 9062 -(4B5B446A)

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Date: 8/12/1983
-Description: 11:10 p.m. In the Maraponga neighborhood of Fortaleza, -Ceará, Brazil, João de Lira Pessoa Neto is riding his motorcycle with -his friend Plínio Couto de Alencar Júnior to a party. The cycle breaks -down, so they push it home and head back on foot to the party. They pass -the train tracks and the Cavan poles factory, where they notice that a -transformer that always buzzes is silent. Stray dogs do not bark, and -the lights on the poles are blinking intermittently. A strong light -blinks near them and they see a disc-shaped object about 325 feet above -the Lagoa da Maraponga, its shape reflected in the dark water. The -object moves, and the two witnesses run off. Party hosts Roberto de Lira -Pessoa Neto and his wife Rejane, Rejane’s sister, and a sailor named Cal -are intrigued and decide to return to the site together. They look -around and see the UFO landing on the lake shore. The disc has large -round windows and a brightly lit interior. Inside they see human-looking -beings moving about and looking out the windows. Roberto sees three -humanoid figures beside the UFO. They seem to be covered in a plastic -cloak and have a wobbling gait. Plínio thinks the object disappears and -reappears like a mirage. The witnesses begin running away when another -similar UFO appears above them and causes a gale. It disappears, and -everything returns to normal, with dogs barking and the transformer -buzzing. Later at home, João has a strong urge to return to the scene. -The object is still there, and he has a compulsion to meet the -occupants. He suddenly gets dizzy and nauseous and falls to the ground -unconscious. He revives 2 hours later and finds himself in a soccer -field and cannot remember how he got there. He goes home, but his -behavior changes, becoming ruder. On May 21, 1989, João drowns under -mysterious circumstances in a lagoon in Uruoca, Ceará, Brazil. -(Reginaldo de Athayde, “Seqüestro -por ETs no Nordesté e reavaliado,” Portal UFO, December 1, 1995; -Clark III 710–712; Brazil 297– 303)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6416

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Event 9063 -(8721F59D)

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Date: 8/12/1983
-Description: Around 1:00 a.m. Alfred Burtoo is fishing along the -Basingstoke Canal in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, when a disc-shaped -UFO lands nearby. Two humanoid beings approach him. They are 4 feet 6 -inches tall, dressed in green overalls, and wear helmets with visors. -They gesture at Bertoo to follow them, and he goes up a stairway into -the craft. He is made to stand under an amber light. The beings speak to -him in broken English, telling him that he is too old and infirm for -their purposes. They then let him go. (Good Above, pp. 106–112; -Marcus Lowth, “The -Bizarre Ordeal of Alfred Burtoo: The Abduction That Wasn’t,” UFO -Insight, August 7, 2017; Solomier, “08-12-1983: The Alfred Burtoo -Incident,” dtube: Hive Blog, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6415

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Event 9064 -(360BFCE5)

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Date: 8/26/1983
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A Mrs. Zurwaski is awakened by brilliant white -flashes of light reflecting off the trees to the east of her house in -Cedar Lake, Indiana. She gets up, thinking a thunderstorm is -approaching, and she sees the screen on the front door flooded with -intense light. Her husband is also awake by now, and he describes the -light as yellowish. Through a picture window, Mr. Zurwaski sees an -object hovering 4–5 feet off the ground in their yard. Mrs. Zurawski -hears a swoosh and a crackle and notices a ribbon of light moving -southeast. Five days later, they discover in their yard a ring of dead -grass in a perfect circle 13 feet in diameter. (Mark Remaley, “The Light -and the Ring,” IUR 9, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1984): 4–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6417

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Event 9065 -(6E31B606)

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Date: 8/27/1983
-End date: 8/29/1983
-Description: The British UFO Research Association holds its Third -International UFO Congress in High Wycombe, London, England. (“3d -International UFO Congress, August 1983,” BUFORA Bulletin, no. 11 -(November 1983): 8–21; “3d Bufora International UFO Congress,” IUR 8, -no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1983): 9, 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6418

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Event 9066 -(25F7474C)

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Date: 9/1983
-Description: British ufologist Jenny -Randles publishes UFO Reality, in which she defines the “Oz Factor,” -the “sensation of being isolated, or transported from the real world -into a different environmental framework.” She suggests that this -feeling, often reported by UFO witnesses, “is almost suggestive of the -witness being transported temporarily from our world into another, where -reality is but slightly different.” (Jenny Randles, UFO Reality: A -Critical Look at the Physical Evidence, R. Hale, 1983; Clark III -866)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6419

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Event 9067 -(7A9DDDB3)

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Date: 9/1/1983
-Description: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet -interceptor over the Sea of Japan near Moneron Island (just west of -Sakhalin island) while flying over prohibited Soviet airspace. All 269 -passengers and crew aboard are killed, including Rep. Larry -McDonald (D-Ga.) and president of the anticommunist John Birch -Society. (Wikipedia, “Korean -Air Lines Flight 007”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6421

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Event 9068 -(E051C512)

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Date: 9/1/1983
-Description: GEPAN is reorganized by transferring it to a smaller -department in CNES. The seven members of its scientific council are -given different assignments, leaving Jean-Jacques -Velasco in sole charge with no scientific advisers. GEPAN’s -resources and personnel are drastically reduced. During the following -years, the scientific council no longer meets, despite repeated demands -by one of its members, Christian -Perrin de Brichambaut, general inspector of the National Meteorology -Office. A last meeting of the council takes places in 1987. (Gildas -Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, -no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 12– 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6420

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Event 9069 -(0DD2EDC6)

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Date: 9/3/1983
-Description: Day. Wiesław Machowski, his daughter, and a friend are -fishing in a coastal lake near Wicie, Poland. They notice an orange -sphere with another object below it and keep their eyes on it for 30 -minutes or so. The larger light emits a smaller one that stops and -returns to the bigger one; the sequence keeps repeating. When they -return to their boarding house, they see it again but much closer to the -coast. Machowski grabs a camera and takes three photos that shows the -large object looking like a hat standing on its brim, and the object -disappears shortly afterward. (Poland 57–58)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6422

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Event 9070 -(1630A588)

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Date: 9/26/1983
-Description: Midnight. The Soviet orbital missile early warning system -(SPRN), code-named Oko, reports a single intercontinental ballistic -missile launch from the US. Lt. Col. Stanislav -Petrov, who -is on duty during the incident, correctly dismisses the warning as a -computer error when ground early warning radars do not detect any -launches. Part of his reasoning is that the system is new and known to -have malfunctioned previously; also, a full-scale nuclear attack from -the US would involve thousands of simultaneous launches, not a single -missile. Later, the system reports four more ICBM launches headed to the -Soviet Union, but Petrov again dismisses the reports as false. The -investigation that follows reveals that the system indeed has -malfunctioned, and false alarms are caused by a rare alignment of -sunlight on high-altitude clouds underneath the satellites’ orbits. -(Wikipedia, “1983 -Soviet nuclear -false alarm incident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6423

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Event 9071 -(E1A54086)

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Date: 10/1983
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Paula E. Green, 12, undergoes her first abduction -experience as she is walking through Judy Woods in Bradford, England, -with a 14-year-old friend. It is the first of some 52 further incidents. -(Daily Star Sunday, May 9, 2021; Nigel Watson, “Fifty-two Shades of -Grey: Paula’s Story,” Fortean Times 407 (July 2021): 30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6426

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Event 9072 -(672AE813)

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Date: 10/1983
-Description: Flying Saucer Review editor Gordon -Creighton writes an essay on his beliefs about UFOs, which he thinks -are piloted by Islamic jinns. (Gordon Creighton, “A -Brief Account of the True Nature of the ‘UFO Entities,’” Flying -Saucer Review 29, no. 1 (October 1983): 2–6; Clark III 499)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6425

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Event 9073 -(B4D77082)

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Date: 10/1983
-Description: Odd-Gunnar Røed begins publishing the Project Hessdalen -Bulletin in Duken, Norway, in English. It updates readers on the latest -sightings of nocturnal lights around Hessdalen, Norway. It continues -through April 1985. (Project -Hessdalen Bulletin 1, no. 1 (October 1983))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6424

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Event 9074 -(9A04B486)

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Date: 10/13/1983
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Catherine Burk is driving to her home in Altoona, -Pennsylvania, when she sees a large, silvery disc pass about 30 feet -above her car. The force of the UFO lifts the right side of her car -briefly off the road, causing her lights to blink out and the engine to -stall. She suffers hearing loss in her right ear, has severe headaches, -and develops problems with her shoulder, chest, and spine. Local police -investigate and find her “visibly shaking.” (UFOEv II 232; MUFON UFO -Journal, November 1983)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6427

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Event 9075 -(A5039980)

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Date: 10/15/1983
-Description: Silvery disc passed over car, right wheels lifted off road, -car lights blinked off and on. Car dropped hard back onto road, engine -stalled. Severe physiological effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Altoona, PA
-ID: 399

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Event 9076 -(289B73E6)

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Date: 10/20/1983
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 400

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Event 9077 -(9EDE83E6)

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Date: late 10/1983
-Description: Evening. Villagers in Hollesley, East Suffolk, England, -witness a triangular object with three powerful white lights on its base -that illuminate the ground below it. Ron Marco says the lights form a -triangle and remain perfectly still, until it moves above his head and -other witnesses. Debbie Foreman and Pauline Osborne report headlight and -engine trouble when the UFO appears. (Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO -Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 160–161; Stacia Briggs -and Siofra Connor, “Weird -Suffolk: Hollesley, the UFO Hotspot,” -East Anglian Daily Times (Ipswich), April 13, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6428

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Event 9078 -(8BE7ECF3)

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Date: 10/23/1983
-Description: 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings
-Type: terrorist attack
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Beirut, Lebanon

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Event 9079 -(2F3761E7)

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Date: 10/25/1983
-End date: 10/29/1983
-Description: The US and a coalition of six Caribbean nations attack the -island nation of Grenada. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, the -intervention results in an American victory in a matter of days. It is -triggered by the strife within the People’s Revolutionary Government -that results in the house arrest and execution of the previous leader -and second Prime Minister of Grenada Maurice -Bishop, and the establishment of the Revolutionary Military Council -with Hudson -Austin as chairman. The invasion results in the appointment of an -interim government, followed by democratic elections in 1984, and serves -as a tune-up for the US military, which has been out of action for 10 -years. (Wikipedia, “United -States invasion of Grenada”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6429

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Event 9080 -(2553F0B3)

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Date: 10/26/1983
-Description: 9:00 p.m. David Keener is driving on US Highway 321 -northeast of Hickory, North Carolina, when a diamond-shaped object, red -in front, bright green in the rear, hovers low over his car and then -rises up again. The observation lasts about 5 minutes and the object is -silent throughout. He reports the incident to the sheriff’s department. -(MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6430

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Event 9081 -(58422CC7)

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Date: 10/28/1983
-Description: 2:15 a.m. Biomedical engineer Jim Cooke is driving by the -Croton Falls Reservoir on his way back to Mahopac, New York, when he -sees “aircraft lights” approaching and dropping very fast. Oddly, they -seem to hover for a while, then blink out. Cooke gets out of his car, -walks toward the shoreline, and spots a triangular object hovering less -than 15 feet above the water and 200 feet away. After a few minutes, 9 -red lights come on from its sides and a red beam of light from the -underside probes the water. The UFO moves to four locations above the -reservoir, each time shining the red light on the water and remaining at -a steady altitude. Each time a car drives by, its lights go out. Cooke -estimates the object is 100 feet long at the base and 30 feet at the -apex. After 10–15 minutes, it lifts upward at a 30° angle and -disappears. (NightSiege 2–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6431

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Event 9082 -(F9CDA62A)

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Date: 10/28/1983
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two men are driving in the countryside near -Ithaca, New York, looking for signs of deer in order to plan their -hunting activities. They see a lighted area low in the sky ahead of -them. Through binoculars, they see that the light is cast by a round -object with three rows of lighted window panels and an illuminated -rotating dome that is bright enough to reflect off the low clouds. They -estimate it is 15–25 feet in diameter, It stays visible for about 5 -minutes as it moves slowly and noiselessly over the ridge of a hill. -(CUFOS case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6432

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Event 9083 -(64CCA054)

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Date: 11/1983
-Description: The Project Hessdalen team goes to Hessdalen, Norway, and -explains their project to the locals. (Clark III 572)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6433

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Event 9084 -(A7D000FA)

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Date: 11/1983
-Description: The captain and crew of the Russian diving support vessel -Sprut are in Kola Bay, northern Russia, when they observe an ellipsoid -object slowly moving over the surface at an altitude of 1,640–3,280 feet -for 90 minutes. The object separates into three parts, each of which -increases in speed and flies to the west. (Stonehill and Mantle, -Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6434

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Event 9085 -(DE3DDFF0)

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Date: 11/7/1983
-End date: 11/11/1983
-Description: NATO carries out a command post exercise code-named Able -Archer 83. Its purpose is to simulate a period of conflict escalation, -culminating in the US military attaining a simulated DEFCON 1 -coordinated nuclear attack. Coordinated from the Supreme Headquarters -Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) headquarters in Casteau, Belgium, it -involves NATO forces throughout Western Europe. The Soviet leadership is -concerned that this could be a ruse for an actual US nuclear strike and -moves to a high alert. Historians such as Thomas -Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, and Tom -Nichols, a professor at the Naval War College, argue that Able -Archer 83 brought the world close to a nuclear war. (Wikipedia, “Able -Archer 83”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6435

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Event 9086 -(F23B2B65)

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Date: 11/18/1983
-Description: The National Endowment for Democracy is founded in -Washington, D.C. It is managed by such individuals as Henry -Kissinger, Sally -Shelton-Colby, Barbara -Haig, and others. Although furnished with $80 million in funding -from Congress, its private status keeps it safe from FOIA requests. -Among its programs are: destabilizing Ferdinand -Marcos in the Philippines and Manuel -Noriega in Panama; supporting the Nazi PAN party in Mexico; -channeling money to the Contras; and supporting operatives in the -Medellin drug cartel. (Wikipedia, “National -Endowment for Democracy”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6436

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Event 9087 -(037452B7)

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Date: 11/28/1983
-Description: 8:40 p.m. A woman in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, notices -a ball of light approaching her. She goes inside to get her boyfriend -and two children. They watch the light approach to within 400 feet, -where it hovers at treetop level. It appears to be half the size of the -house. Three smaller objects come from behind it and travel southeast, -apparently landing in a swampy area near a manufacturing plant. The -woman and children run toward the object on foot, while the boyfriend -jumps in a car to pursue it. At one point he sees the object hovering -above a small lake less than 200 feet away. But within seconds it -vanishes. All four witnesses later experience eye irritation, and the -boyfriend’s face and hands turn red and feel sore. (MUFON UFO Journal, -April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6437

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Event 9088 -(DAC45E6D)

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Date: 11/29/1983
-Description: Dr. Robert I Sarbacher, consultant US Research and -Development Board and President and Chairman of the Board, Washington -Institute of Technology, in a letter to Dr. William I. Steinman states -that Frank Scully’s book (“Behind the Flying Saucers”) story is true and -persons definitely involved in operations of recovered saucers were John -von Neuman and Dr. Vannever Bush. Also, Dr. Sarbacher thought that -Robert Oppenheimer was also involved. Dr. Sarbacher had been invited by -President Eisenhower to attend several discussions associated with the -reported recoveries, but was unable to attend them. He did receive -Special Reports on the recoveries at the Pentagon but was instructed NOT -to remove them from his office.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research (A2, B1-E p525, B1-G p49)
-Location: US

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Event 9089 -(A3B8C151)

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Date: 11/29/1983
-Description: Robert -Sarbacher replies to a query by UFO researcher William -S. Steinman about crash-retrievals in the late 1940s. He confirms he -was “invited to participate in several discussions associated with the -reported recoveries” of UFOs, although he was unable to attend the -meetings. He described the retrieved saucer material as “extremely light -and very tough,” and he had heard that the aliens “were constructed like -certain insects we have on Earth.” (Dolan II 320; Good Above, pp. 525–526)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6438

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Event 9090 -(584CF2A0)

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Date: 12/1983
-Description: A witness walking his dogs at Sherlocks Farm in -Groombridge, East Sussex, England, sees a triangular UFO with an orange -light at each apex. It makes a low droning sound as it passes by. -(Marler 137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6439

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Event 9091 -(23191D8D)

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Date: 12/7/1983
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman and her son and daughter stop at the -Pioneer Road exit off I-43 near Cedarburg, Wisconsin, to watch a -brightly lit object silently descend and maneuver in front of them for -5–6 minutes. (Bob Gribble, “UFO -Hotline Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March -1984): 5; Richard Heiden, Jeffrey Paul, and Donald Schmitt, “CE-I with -an ‘Orgy’ of Lights,” IUR 9, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1984): 8–9, 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6440

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Event 9092 -(E77E8FF0)

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Date: 12/12/1983
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Mike and Jeff Goodwin and Robert Blanchard are -driving in Byron, Illinois, when they see a triangular “falling star” -that starts moving horizontally at treetop level. At one point it seems -to nearly collide with a similar object. They both have blinking red and -white lights. (Doris and Joe Graziano, “Press -Reports,” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 6 (September 1984): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6441

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Event 9093 -(25E7D792)

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Date: 12/14/1983
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Realtor Antônio Nelso Tasca is driving about 4 -miles north of Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil, when he feels compelled -to turn onto a dirt road. After about 5 minutes he encounters a white -and green object like a bus about 33 feet long and 10 feet high in the -road ahead. He stops 100 feet from it, turns off the headlights and -engine, and walks toward it. It has 10 squarish windows and is floating -just above the ground. A few feet away he begins to feel heat and -decides to return to his car. Suddenly a beam of white-red light strikes -him and somehow pulls him toward the object. He wakes up inside the UFO -and an abduction scenario takes place, compete with sex with a -light-haired alien female who says her name is Cabala. She gives him a -message warning that continued deployment of nuclear weapons will lead -to bad things for Earth. Tasca wakes up around 6:00 a.m. at a different -spot from where he had the encounter. A medical examination reveals a -strange burn on his ribs and other odd marks on his backbone. (Brazil -303–311; Patrick Gross, URECAT, March -15, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6442

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Event 9094 -(9E96951C)

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Date: 12/27/1983
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A small disc-shaped object with eight green -lights lands in an open field across the street from the home of a -witness in Indianapolis, Indiana. After 10 seconds, the lights go out. -The witness continues to watch from her home for an hour before -retiring. (Bob Gribble, “UFO -Hotline Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March -1984): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6443

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Event 9095 -(55530445)

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Date: 12/30/1983
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Four witnesses are driving along Illinois Highway -70 near Eddie Road about 8 miles northwest of Rockford, Illinois, when a -red domed-shaped object emerges from what looks like an explosion and -moves to the south. It vanishes when it reaches an unusual configuration -of parallel stars. (“Letter,” -CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1984): 2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6444

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- Event 9096 (42059308)

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Date: 1984
-Description: From the Air Traffic Controllers Manual: Controllers MUST -report UFOs immediately to AIS (Military), LATCC. A completed report -MUST be sent to MOD (AFOR). A list of phone numbers and locations is -shown in the directory at Appendix H.
-Type: manual
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p458)
-Location: US

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Event 9097 -(D411F144)

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Date: 1984
-Description: USAF seizes 89,000 acres of public land adjacent to Groom -Lake
-Type: land seizure
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Area-51

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Event 9098 -(40F7CF60)

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Date: 1984
-Description: Daniel Kagan and Ian -Summers publish a 500-page book titled Mute Evidence, arguing that -animal mutilations are a made-up mystery. Only veterinary pathologists, -not regular veterinarians, are truly qualified to determine the cause of -an animal’s death, they write. They do admit there are some real -mutilations of two kinds: copycat incidents where pranksters cut up the -bodies of already dead cattle, and ritualistic killings by cult members. -The latter incidents occur mostly in Idaho. (Daniel Kagan and Ian -Summers, Mute Evidence, Bantam, 1984; Clark III 140–141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6445

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Event 9099 -(A6AB32EC)

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Date: 1984
-Description: UK researcher Hilary -Evans publishes Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors, which equates -a wide range of entity experiences, including UFO events, and explains -them all as psychosocial manifestations because percipients -psychologically need them for some reason. He follows up with a sequel -in 1987. (Hilary Evans, Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors, Aquarian, -1984; Hilary Evans, Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians, Aquarian, 1987; -Clark III 943–945)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6446

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Event 9100 -(20AB11F0)

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Date: 1984
-Description: UFO Research Australia is formed as an informal -information-exchanging network. (Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and -Pony Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6447

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Event 9101 -(E1B2726F)

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Date: 1984
-Description: A Hispanic male living in the Reseda neighborhood of Los -Angeles, California, encounters odd lights in his house and missing -time. Although not his first abduction experience, his memories are -uncovered through hypnosis sessions conducted by parapsychologist D. -Scott Rogo, who gives him the pseudonym of “Sammy Desmond.” The case -is significant for the marks on the witness’s body and the many sexual -elements of the story. (D. Scott Rogo, “The Abduction of Sammy Desmond,” -IUR 12, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1987): 4–13, reprinted by Aileen Garoutte, “The -Abduction of Sammy Desmond” and “The -Abduction of Sammy Desmond, Final,” UFOexperiences, July 5 and 7, -2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6448

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Event 9102 -(8818B4D8)

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Date: 1984
-Description: The F-117 completes testing at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada -and begins formal operations under the 4450th Tactical Group. The 4450th -is absorbed by the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing in 1989. In 1992, the -entire fleet is transferred to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, -under the command of the 49th Fighter Wing. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -F-117 Nighthawk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6449

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Event 9103 -(8A359A42)

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Date: 1984
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Brazilian Air Force Col. Marcelo Hecksher of the -1st Squadron of the 10th Aviation Group (Poker Squadron) is flying back -to Santa Maria Air Force Base from Rio de Janeiro. When he begins -descent preparations over the city of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, -Brazil, he notices a strong, slightly bluish light on his right. Radar -in Curitiba and Santa Maria do not have it on their scopes. The light -then accelerates forward, rises, and disappears. (Clark III 207–208; -Brazil 557–559)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6450

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Event 9104 -(9064390D)

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Date: 1984
-Description: An antiaircraft defense system near Astrakhan, Russia, -tracks a spherical object flying along the Caspian Sea coast at 6,500 -feet. It does not respond to radio contact. Two fighters are scrambled -but they fail to catch up with it. When the pilots fire at the UFO, it -descends to 325 feet. When it approaches Krasnovodsk [now Türkmenbaşy], -Turkmenistan, a helicopter gunship is scrambled to make another attempt -to shoot the object, which then ascends to a height beyond the copter’s -capabilities. The UFO then heads for the Caspian Sea and disappears from -sight. (Vadim K. Ilyin, “KGB’s -‘Blue Folder’ Reveals Shootings, Landings in USSR,” MUFON UFO -Journal, no. 403 (November 2001): 8; “KGB -Blue Folder,” Above Top Secret forum, November 1, 2005; Good Need, -pp. 353– 354)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6451

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Event 9105 -(423F5F82)

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Date: 1/1984
-Description: Project Hessdalen sends out a report form to 3,300 -households in and around Hessdalen valley, Norway. January — Seven oil -field workers in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, see a silvery disc -flying at a high altitude. (Stars and Stripes, January 28, 1984; “U.S. -Armed Forces Publication Tells of Lebanon UFO,” CUFOS Associate -Newsletter 5, no. 2 (April/May 1984): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6452

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Event 9106 -(2E84699E)

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Date: 1/1984
-End date: 2/1984
-Description: Numerous sightings, radar trackings, photographs by -scientific field team with instruments
-Type: sighting
-Type: radar tracking
-Type: photograph
-Type: scientific field team
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hessdalen Valley, near Roros, Norway
-ID: 401

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Event 9107 -(F70782B4)

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Date: 1/1984
-Description: A luminous triangle preceded by a flashing light passes -over Guildford, Surrey, England, silently moving to the east. (Marler -137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6453

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Event 9108 -(99AC602A)

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Date: 1/3/1984
-Description: 4:14 a.m. A woman wakes up in her home near Port -Washington, Wisconsin, when a bright light shines through the bedroom -window. She sees a strange object with three circular lights in a fixed -position about 50 feet from the shore of Lake Michigan. The center -light, as bright as a searchlight, rotates north, casting an -illumination on the water, which is seen to be turbulent. All three -lights are rotating clockwise around a 30-foot body. She wakes up her -husband, who suggests that it is a Coast Guard helicopter. But the -object is completely silent. After a short time, a smaller object also -with three lights appears over the first one, hovers a few minutes, then -disappears. The searchlight periodically shines directly in the window. -The object moves about 20–30 feet then hovers there another 10–15 -minutes. At 5:15 a.m., it moves away and disappears to the southeast. -The woman goes back to bed, but soon feels a powerful electric shock -penetrate her body with a buzzing sound. (Donald R. Schmitt and Richard -W. Heiden, “People Who Live in Glass Houses…See UFOs,” IUR 9, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1984): 3, 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6454

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Event 9109 -(1FA7EEB3)

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Date: 1/8/1984
-Description: 3:15 a.m. Three people are traveling southeast in a van at -mile marker 236 on I-80 southeast of Cozad, Nebraska, when the highway -lights up and they see a huge disc as big as a baseball diamond 75–100 -feet above and slightly to the right of the road. Bright lights are -evenly spaced around the rim, most of them white, but others pink or -blue. As the car passes it at a slow speed, they can detect no motion -and can hear no sound. They attempt to communicate by Citizens Band -radio, but the radio picks up strange interference like an “intermittent -bleeping.” (J. Allen Hynek, “Nebraska Close Encounter,” IUR 9, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1984): 10–12; “Addendum to Nebraska Encounter,” IUR 9, no. 3 -(May/June 1984): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6455

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Event 9110 -(A61499A2)

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Date: 1/9/1984
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Two witnesses driving on State Highway 208 near -Hawthorne, New Jersey, see an object with lights descend then move away -from their car. After driving another 300 feet they spot another object -over the road. They drive directly under the object, which is moving -slowly at an altitude of 200 feet. The driver pulls over, and the object -moves toward the first UFO. (Bob Gribble, “UFO -Hotline Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March -1984): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6456

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Event 9111 -(C513919D)

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Date: 1/13/1984
-Description: New York Post: Soviet scientists are puzzled by the flight -of a mysterious bright sphere followed by seven small lights which flew -at great speed but low altitude across southern Russia and Ukraine. The -objects changed altitude and direction and were flying less than half a -mile above the ground.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Archive.org
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 9112 -(4F048662)

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Date: 1/20/1984
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A mother and two children are driving near -Jasper, New York, when they see a large, gold, oval object that seems to -be pacing their car. It lands on a nearby ridge and after a few seconds -ascends into the sky. It repeats this maneuver several times, speeding -up and slowing down when she does the same. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline -Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6457

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Event 9113 -(2C5DA663)

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Date: 1/21/1984
-End date: 2/26/1984
-Description: Project Hessdalen sets up three fieldwork stations, the -primary one on Aspaskjolen mountain, and two smaller ones at Hersjøen -and Litlefjellet, Norway. This group secures technical assistance from -the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, the University of Oslo, -and the University of Bergen. Over the course of one month, -investigators see numerous lights, take photos of many of them, and -track them instrumentally. On three occasions, lights are seen visually -and tracked on radar simultaneously, casting a reflection on the radar -screen so strong that a Norwegian defense expert later says that if that -is not a solid object, then it must be a “strongly ionized gas.” One of -the lights is tracked moving at 19,000 mph. On another occasion, a light -under constant visual observation shows up on radar only on every second -sweep. In most instances (33 in all), when radar shows something, the -eye or a camera sees nothing. On two occasions the researchers direct a -laser beam on passing lights. Out of a total of nine times, the lights -respond all but once in a curious way, changing from a regular flashing -light to a double-flashing light. The total number of sightings in this -period is 188, although some may be attributable to passing aircraft. -Only four of the photos taken through the special lens grating come out -well enough to show light spectra, and only two of these are useful for -analysis. Changes in the magnetic field are recorded in 40% of the -sightings, but the Geiger counter and infrared viewer prove unhelpful. -Researchers categorize the phenomenon into three different types: a -white or blue-white flashing light, high in the air; a yellow light with -a red light on the top, sometimes flashing; and a slow-moving, yellow or -white light that maneuvers, stops for an hour or more, and continues -maneuvering. (“Project -Hessdalen” website; “Description -of the -Phenomena,” Project Hessdalen; Erling Strand, “Project -Hessdalen 1984: Final Technical Report,” Project Hessdalen, January -5, 1985; “Hessdalen: -18 February 1984,” Project Hessdalen; “Project -Hessdalen: 1984,” Project Hessdalen; “Norway Lights Continue: Update -on Project Hessdalen,” IUR 9, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1984): 9, 12; Kim Hansen, -“UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 90; Clark III -572–573)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6458

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Event 9114 -(067FDEDF)

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Date: 1/22/1984
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Two witnesses in a car in Arnold, Missouri, see a -circular object with three brilliant white lights and a corona of white -light surrounding it. As it approaches the car, the driver makes an -evasive turn, only to have the object pace them within 150 feet for 3 -minutes. A vertical shaft of light comes from the top of the object. -(Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): -7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6462

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Event 9115 -(63DF018B)

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Date: 1/22/1984
-Description: 7:09 a.m. A witness in Huntington, West Virginia, observes -a brilliant orange ball of light about 900 feet hovering above a -neighbor’s house. Its glow illuminates the ground. After a minute, it -speeds away to the west. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. -2 (March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6459

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Event 9116 -(530D5450)

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Date: 1/22/1984
-Description: 7:25 a.m. The cabin crew of United Flight 729 is flying -westbound 30 miles east of Toledo, Ohio, at 43,000 feet. They see a -blurry, bright-red object the size of a DC-9 move from northeast to -southwest for a few seconds. It leaves a contrail that they pass -through. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April -1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6460

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Event 9117 -(933BDCC3)

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Date: 1/22/1984
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A young couple parking near Waycross, Georgia, -spot a large object approaching their car at treetop level. It crosses a -logging road near their car, goes across an open area to a stand of -trees, then turns around. The driver begins speeding away, but the -object moves directly over the car. It has an L-shaped light pattern on -its underside with two red lights and one green light. The glow from the -red light illuminates the car interior. The object follows them for -about 75 down a county road before it moves away at high speed. (Bob -Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): -7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6461

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Event 9118 -(E656EA2B)

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Date: 1/27/1984
-Description: 5:40 a.m. Four witnesses at Valley Center, California, see -five stationary white lights in the northern sky about 2 miles away. -Four are in a diamond formation while the fifth is in the center. After -watching the display for several minutes, they notice smaller white -lights maneuvering around the larger ones. They seem to increase to as -many as 100. Suddenly the formation, small lights as well, moves away to -the northwest and the witnesses can hear a soft humming sound. (Bob -Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): -7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6463

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Event 9119 -(16496BC5)

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Date: 1/27/1984
-Description: 6:15 a.m. Two boys delivering papers in King of Prussia, -Pennsylvania, see a circular object with lights around its edge hovering -above houses about two blocks away. After a few seconds it ascends at a -45° angle. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 -(March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6464

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Event 9120 -(72FEE01E)

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Date: 1/28/1984
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A young couple in Flemington, New Jersey, notice -an orange ball descending through the cloud layer and appear to land on -a ridge behind the tree line. At 6:50 a.m., the husband sees a bright -object ascend from the same ridge, pause in mid-air, then move away -horizontally in the distance. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR -9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6465

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Event 9121 -(0ECA6B23)

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Date: 1/30/1984
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Nine men working on an oil platform in the Big -Cypress National Preserve about 40 miles west of Miami, Florida, see a -bright orange object descending at a high rate of speed about five miles -away. At about 10,000 feet, it comes to an instant stop. The orange glow -fades and they can see an object with a chrome dome and dozens of -flashing lights on the underside. All witness estimate it to be at least -200 feet in diameter. It remains stationary for 10 seconds, turns orange -again, and speeds away to the east. Witnesses in Jensen Beach and the -Miami area also see the object. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR -9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6466

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Event 9122 -(18862DE1)

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Date: 2/1984
-Description: The Commission for the Investigation of Anomalous -Atmospheric Phenomena is established in Moscow, Russia, although its -announcement in the West is delayed until May. Affiliated with the -Committee for the Protection of Natural Environment of the All-Union -Council of Scientific Technical Societies, the commission is made up of -scientists and academicians and is headed by former cosmonaut Pavel -Popovich, who tells the trade union newspaper Trud that there have -been hundreds of reports in Russia each year, most of which can be -explained away. (Good Above, p. 243)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6467

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Event 9123 -(E0301A44)

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Date: 2/1984
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale begins a newsletter, Notizie -C.U.N., to replace Quaderni UFO. It is edited by Gian Paolo Grassino in -Turin, Italy, and continues until September 1985. (Notizie -C.U.N., no. 0 (February 1984))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6468

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Event 9124 -(7E3D87BB)

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Date: 2/1984
-Description: Night. The commander of a group of soldiers in the 103rd -Regiment guarding warehouses at Przasnysz Airfield, Poland, sees a light -silently coming in his direction. It is attached to a huge oval object -70–100 feet across that is moving soundlessly 150 feet above the ground. -He and his assistant feel unexplained terror and paralysis, remaining -rooted to the spot. Noticing a light at its rear end, he considers -taking an AK-47 and shooting it out, but receives a mental command not -to do so or he would be paralyzed. (Poland 67)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6469

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Event 9125 -(BB7058D8)

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Date: 2/7/1984
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A witness in Atco, New Jersey, awakes to a loud -humming sound and finds his room illuminated by a bright light. He goes -to the window and sees a bright circular object with a hump on top in a -stationary position about four feet above his neighbor’s yard and 200 -feet away. It is about the size of a small car. A human- like “image” is -standing next to it, but that vanishes and the object ascends in a -zigzag pattern, then moves away at a high rate of speed. (Bob Gribble, -“UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 2 (March/April 1984): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6470

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Event 9126 -(038AF41D)

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Date: 2/20/1984
-Description: 6:12 p.m. Leif -Havik is standing in the snow outside the Project Hessdalen -headquarters on Aspaskjolen, Norway, when a red light flies around his -feet and disappears. It is also witnessed by Age Moe. (Kim Hansen, “UFO -Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6471

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Event 9127 -(D17F2DB4)

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Date: late 2/1984
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A driver in Everett, Washington, sees a huge, -silvery green, egg-shaped object moving toward his car from a wooded -area. Within a few seconds it bounces from one side of the road to the -other, passing over his car. (MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6474

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Event 9128 -(26962690)

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Date: 2/22/1984
-End date: 2/23/1984
-Description: Night. Witnesses in Flushing, Michigan, see objects with -triangular lighting patterns that shine beams of light to the ground. -The lights approach the car of one witness who sees they are part of a -cigar-shaped object 100 feet above the ground. A jogger reports a light -so intense that it hurts his eyes. Another witness sees an object with -triangular-shaped lights hovering less than 200 feet above the ground, -illuminating the area behind her house and panicking her cats. Two more -objects pass above her house. Investigator Shirley -Coyne locates 12 people who have seen the lights, but only three -will fill out a report. (MUFON UFO Journal, April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6472

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Event 9129 -(85B3CC3F)

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Date: 2/23/1984
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Five witnesses, all with PhDs, report an -upside-down-ice-cream-cone-shaped object over the Ohio State University -campus in Columbus, Ohio. It seems to be surrounded with a fog, but it -changes its appearance about every 60 seconds, at one point looking -rectangular. It is seen for 20 minutes, heading in the direction of Port -Columbus Airport [now John Glenn Columbus International Airport]. (Irena -Scott, “Description of -an Aerial Anomaly Viewed over Columbus, Ohio,” Ohio Journal of -Science 88, no. 2 (1988): 23; Irena Scott, “UFO Studies in the -Scientific Literature,” IUR 15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6473

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Event 9130 -(748017DE)

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Date: 2/29/1984
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, sees a -dark, diamond-shaped object approach her at no more than 50 feet above -the ground. White lights are at the front and back, blinking red lights -at the sides, and smaller lights between each of the four points. It is -“longer than a tractor trailer and wide as two tractor trailers.” It -wobbles and passes over trees to the southwest. (MUFON UFO Journal, -April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6475

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Event 9131 -(0AF70BF0)

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Date: 3/4/1984
-Description: The UK Ministry of Defence, for the first time ever, -releases UFO reports to the public. Sixteen reports, most of which are -severely redacted and missing key data, are sent to the British UFO -Research Association. When he is asked about possible landing cases, -such as the 1980 Rendlesham incident, Defence Undersecretary for -Procurement John -Lee replies that these are not distinguished from other reports of -aerial phenomena. In any event, he says, “none of these reports was of -any defence significance.” (Good Above, pp. 112–113; -Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, Appendix -1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6476

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Event 9132 -(233A6FB5)

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Date: 3/6/1984
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two police officers, Tom Jensen and Gary Myers, -watch a large boomerang or U-shaped UFO west of Norris, South Dakota, -after having been alerted by a citizen 10 minutes earlier. At its -closest approach, Myers sees it as a pattern of lights in an inverted L -pattern. As it passes, it blocks out the sky and stars. (J. Allen Hynek, -“A CE-I, a Lonely Road, a Starry Night,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984): -6–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6477

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Event 9133 -(B7E3E60D)

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Date: 3/9/1984
-Description: MP Patrick -Wall asks in the UK House of Commons that the Secretary of State for -Defence provide statistics on UFO landings, unexplained cases, and radar -sightings for 1980–1983. John -Lee responds that there were 350 UFO reports in 1980 (dodging the -question of whether or not the MoD could identify them), 600 in 1981, -250 in 1982, and 390 in 1983. (Good Above, p. 113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6478

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Event 9134 -(497A0704)

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Date: 3/11/1984
-Description: After 12:00 midnight. A mother and her daughter see a large -cylindrical object just a few feet away through the window of their home -in Wolcott, Connecticut. For 7 minutes it hovers about 7 feet above the -ground, then moves away silently. (MUFON UFO Journal. April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6479

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Event 9135 -(1A8CAE6F)

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Date: spring 1984
-Description: A Soviet pilot in a MiG-23 is scrambled to intercept an -object flying at supersonic speed from north to south over the Mikha -Tskhakaya Airfield south of Senaki, Georgia. The MiG-23, flying at -16,400 feet in full afterburner at Mach 1.2, is unable to close in on -the object. By the time the interceptor is approaching the coastline of -the Black Sea, it is flying at Mach 1.6. The pilot activates his -infrared search and track system when he is 7.5 miles away from the -target and sees the largest “bloom” he has ever encountered. By the time -he reaches Mach 2, he has to break off due to lack of fuel, never having -acquired a visual target. (Good Need, pp. 352–353, -365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6486

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Event 9136 -(BB46A42C)

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Date: 3/21/1984
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A truck driver driving on Interstate 87 south of -Albany, New York, sees a boomerang-shaped UFO about 100 feet altitude -that looks larger than a Boeing 747. It has red, white, and green -lights. It paces his truck for five minutes then vanishes. (NightSiege -71–73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6480

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Event 9137 -(2F9CCFBF)

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Date: 3/21/1984
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A mother and daughter driving south on Perry Road -near Claxton, Georgia, notice an unusual light through the trees. As -they top a hill, they slow the car to a near stop when they see three -boomerang-shaped objects, with wings pointing downward, hovering above a -field. Each has two bright lights in the top center and a row of small, -multicolored lights that blink in rapid sequence. One object is larger -(at least 40 feet wide) than the others and moves over their car in -perfect silence. Its underside appears dark metallic. (“Local -Woman, Daughter Report -‘Close Encounter,’” Claxton (Ga.) Enterprise, March 29, 1984, via -UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 177 (April 1984): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6481

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Event 9138 -(BEAA3A5B)

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Date: 3/24/1984
-Description: 5:50 a.m. Five nuns at the Sainte-Marie Cistercian Abbey in -Boulaur, Gers, France, see a bright oval object about 16 feet long and -6.5 feet tall from the first-floor balcony. It is hovering at first, -then starts moving up and down and right and left “at the speed of -lightning.” It stops about 100 feet above the cemetery and 325 feet away -from the witnesses. There is no sound. Then it takes off in the -direction it came from. (Groupe d’Études et d’Informations sur les -Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, “Notes -d’Enquête, Boulaur (32) 24.03.1984,” June 30, 2014; Swords -447)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6482

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Event 9139 -(4856133B)

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Date: 3/25/1984
-Description: Night. Hundreds of people see low-flying lights over the -Taconic State Parkway near Peekskill, New York. The lights seem to be -attached to a slow-moving, boomerang-shaped object with six intense -white lights and a green light in the center. A photographer estimates -the object is about 300 feet long and flying at 30 mph. It moves over -some water and the lights go out. He videotapes the incident, but -nothing shows up on the tape. (NightSiege 78–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6484

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Event 9140 -(6DFD52B7)

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Date: 3/25/1984
-Description: 8:55 p.m. A driver in Santa Monica, California, sees a -bright red ball of light, about 10 inches in diameter, maneuvering -around her car with a bouncing motion. It approaches to within a foot of -her car, lighting up the hood and windows for one minute. (MUFON UFO -Journal, April 1984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6483

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Event 9141 -(459A3A36)

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Date: 3/28/1984
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A triangular object passes above a car in West -Nottingham, New Hampshire, at an altitude of 50 feet. It has two bright -lights and is silent. (Bob Gribble, “UFO -Hotline Reports,” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 3 (May 1984): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6485

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Event 9142 -(FB0415C3)

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Date: 4/1984
-Description: Reported in APRO Bulletin: D.M., who lives just south of -White Swan, WA went out to his rural mailbox just before dawn to get his -paper. He observed a large flying triangle passing overheard. It was -lighted completely around its perimeter with multicolored lights which -burned steadily. He estimated it was 8k-10k feet high, made no noise and -was in sight for several minutes as it wasn’t moving at high -speed.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: Archive.org
-Location: White Swan, WA

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Event 9143 -(32FB8B0E)

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Date: 4/10/1984
-Description: Night. While driving down a country road near Rhinelander, -Wisconsin, two witnesses see a stationary, cigar- shaped object about -225 feet from the roadway. It has a row of lighted windows, and several -spokes protrude from the surface. Each spoke has a white light on the -tip. While hovering at treetop level, the object pivots 360° and then -stops. After observing it for 4 minutes, the witnesses drive past it and -go home. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June -1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6487

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Event 9144 -(247C0184)

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Date: 4/12/1984
-Description: 2:10 a.m. Air traffic control radar at Grantley Adams -International Airport in Barbados tracks a large group of unknown -targets moving at about 100 mph in “loose but distinct formation” 30 -miles southeast of the island. Authorities notify Prime Minister Tom -Adams, the Barbados Defense Force, and the police commissioner. The -BDF is put on Red Alert. By 2:20 a.m., the formation is 14 miles off the -coast when two targets veer off to the island’s west side, two others -move to the east, while the remainder keep on moving north. Police are -deployed to the beaches. At 3:30 a.m., the BDF launches a patrol boat -and scrambles a Cessna but does not find anything. Radar is still -tracking objects at 4:00 a.m. over the northern part of the island. By -4:10 a.m., they disappear to the west. A temperature inversion is a -possible cause. (“1984: -UFOs Place Barbados Defence Force on Full Alert, This -Really Happened,” Notes from the Margin, March 13, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6488

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Event 9145 -(C6831183)

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Date: 4/13/1984
-Description: 10:00 p.m. While boating on a lake near Gainesville, -Florida, two witnesses see a stationary oval-shaped object at an -altitude of 100 feet about 300 feet from their boat. The object shines a -cone of bright white light onto the surface of the water. After about 3 -minutes, it hovers out of sight behind some trees. (Bob Gribble, “UFO -Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6489

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Event 9146 -(410F3E1A)

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Date: 4/15/1984
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Some 20 witnesses (farm workers, a police -officer, venture scouts) at Llangernyw, North Wales, see a pink-orange -ball that drifts to the ground and explodes in a shower of purple -sparks. Out of the shower emerges a white disc that appears to land out -of sight behind a ridge. A large army helicopter and two military trucks -apparently perform a search of the area beginning at daylight. (Jenny -Randles, “Anatomy of a UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1986): -4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6490

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Event 9147 -(B2C60DDB)

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Date: 4/18/1984
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A married couple is driving on a road near RAF -Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, when they come upon a huge rectangular -object straddling the road ahead. It has at least 60 lights arrayed in -rows on its frame. Red and green lights are at its edges, but the -majority are white. The object remains absolutely still and silent about -100 feet in the air. They are anxious to get home, so they do not see -the object leave. (Jenny Randles, “Anatomy of a UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1986): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6491

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Event 9148 -(FED0C70E)

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Date: 4/19/1984
-Description: 8:05 p.m. A family in Llano, Texas, watches a huge -dome-shaped object pass over their house at an altitude of only 200 -feet. It has red lights around it. A jet aircraft appears to be pursuing -it. The mother says she can hear a humming sound coming from it. (Bob -Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6492

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Event 9149 -(97052D36)

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Date: 4/20/1984
-Description: 10:04 p.m. Four people in a car in Beaverton, Oregon, see a -large, pulsating, yellow light high in the sky. The driver stops, and a -small, bright-blue object comes into view, moving toward the yellow -object at high speed. Suddenly, a “fast red thing” shoots out of the -blue object and knocks the yellow object in half, one part -disintegrating and the other part falling to the ground. Two other -objects, yellow and blue, appear with the blue object chasing and -apparently shooting down the yellow object. The blue object then climbs -at a high speed vertically and vanishes in the clouds. The observation -lasts 20 minutes. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 -(May/June 1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6493

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Event 9150 -(2A63A439)

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Date: 4/22/1984
-Description: 10:10 p.m. A woman and her mother are watching TV at a -trailer park in Saltfleet, Lincolnshire, England, when they see a -dome-shaped object with circle of white lights, a small group of red -lights above, and a brilliant white light on top. It is hovering nearby -and about 500 feet in the air. More lights turn on and the object begins -to revolve. As its speed increases, the colors blend into one another. -The object moves away to the south, but over the next hour it circles -the trailer park in wide loops that take it several miles out to sea -before returning over their heads. It switches a searchlight beam off -and on. The woman’s two dogs are looking fearfully at the UFO. At one -point the object drops to 100 feet and hovers in absolute silence above -the witnesses. The searchlight comes from two headlight beams projecting -forward. The UFO has a “smoky glass” dome on top. Dogs are howling for -miles around. The object switches off all but four of its lights and -climbs vertically before heading out to sea to circle for a few more -minutes. (“The -Saltfleet Encounter,” Northern UFO News, no. 113 (May/June 1985): -10–11; Jenny Randles, “Anatomy of a UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1986): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6494

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Event 9151 -(C07ADEE7)

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Date: 4/25/1984
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A woman is in her garden at Blairgowrie, -Scotland, working on a tapestry when her dog leaps up and runs indoors. -A ball of light appears in the air and seems to enter her body. She is -blinded for a few seconds but feels calm. A white cloud rises from her -head and hovers above some bushes. It blinks twice and climbs into the -sky toward a large silvery object shaped like a house key. The cloud -moves along the length of the key, flashing and lighting up bits in -turn. She calls her son, who arrives just as the UFO sways from side to -side and vanishes in a sudden pink flash. (Jenny Randles, “Anatomy of a -UFO Wave,” IUR 11, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1986): 7– 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6495

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Event 9152 -(C165F1C4)

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Date: 4/25/1984
-Description: 9:55 p.m. Three witnesses driving on American Canyon Road -south of Napa, California, see a huge triangular object the size of a -football field hovering 100 feet above the road. They drive beneath it, -and after 5 minutes the object moves out of sight. (Bob Gribble, “UFO -Hotline Reports,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 195 (May/June 1984): 11; -Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 (May/June 1984): -16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6496

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Event 9153 -(013BEE55)

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Date: 4/26/1984
-Description: On a visit to the 6513th Test Squadron, Red Hats at Groom -Lake, Nevada, USAF Lt. Gen. Robert -M. Bond requests to fly a MiG-23 BN fighter-bomber, a newly acquired -supersonic Soviet aircraft flown for testing. Instead of the usual 2 -weeks of training, Bond is given a cursory briefing while sitting inside -the cockpit with an instructor. Just as he is flying at 40,000 feet and -over Mach 2 speed, a hydromechanical inhibitor activates, preventing him -from disengaging the afterburner. Bond loses control, makes a distress -call, and is killed while ejecting. The MiG-23 crashes on Jackass Flats -in Area 25, still contaminated from NERVA rocket testing. Bond’s body is -discovered by a USAF sergeant on his way to work, who removes the rank -insignia from Bond’s flight suit with a pocketknife before going to get -help. The USAF does not confirm or deny that Bond was flying a MiG when -he died and states that he was flying “an Air Force specially modified -test craft,” but it leaks the information on the MiG testing program to -journalist Fred Hoffman. There are fears that the publicity will also -lead to the exposure of the F-117 program, still secret and also based -at Tonopah, but this does not happen. (Wikipedia, “Robert -M. Bond”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6497

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Event 9154 -(12EED05C)

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Date: 4/26/1984
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Terri West spots an odd light in the sky from her -home on Belmont Lane, Stanmore, Greater London, England. At 10:15 p.m., -she joins her neighbors Ruth and Bruno Novelli to watch the light, which -is moving back and forth and constantly changing colors from blue to -green to pink. Soon it emits a large ball of light that shoots toward -the ground. The witnesses call the police at 10:22 p.m. A team of police -arrives and watches the object for about 2 hours. Police Constable -Richard Milthorp says the light is originally at 45° but after 15 -minutes it moves up and to the right. He draws a sketch of the object, -which is circular in the middle with a dome above and below. It has -different colored lights on the top and bottom. One of the officers -takes photos, but they do not come out well. Some others chase the UFO -by car, but it is already fading from view. (Good Above, pp. 114–115; -UFOFiles2, p. 130)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6498

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Event 9155 -(0251359C)

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Date: 4/27/1984
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Linda Braga and her daughter Piper see a starlike -object that follows their car along West Ridge Road in Cornville, Maine. -About 35–45 feet in diameter, the red and yellow object comes almost -within touching distance. When they reach their driveway, it backs off -and hovers above a field, then moves around to the other side of the -house. It disappears in the distance. (“Recently -Received Sighting Reports,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 -(Oct./Nov. 1984): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6499

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Event 9156 -(6B048B33)

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Date: 5/1/1984
-Description: The book “Clear Intent”, later renamed to “The UFO -Cover-up: What the Government Won’t Say” in 1990, written by Lawrence -Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood is published.
-Type: book
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US

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Event 9157 -(BCB89367)

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Date: 5/2/1984
-Description: Australian Minister of Defence Gordon -Scholes announces that the RAAF will fully investigate only those -UFO sightings that “suggest a defence or national security implication.” -(Bill Chalker, “The North West Cape Incident: UFOs and Nuclear Alert in -Australia,” IUR 11, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1986): 11; Good Above, p. 182; -Swords 408–409)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6500

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Event 9158 -(91F294A3)

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Date: 5/4/1984
-End date: 5/6/1984
-Description: The Centro Ufologico Nazionale holds its Third -International Congress in Genoa, Italy. Speakers include J. Allen -Hynek, Roberto -Pinotti, and -Antonio -Ribera. (Roberto -Pinotti, “Italian Report,” IUR 9, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1984): 3, 16; -2Pinotti 70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6501

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Event 9159 -(2876D2F0)

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Date: 5/5/1984
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Five workers on a garbage truck are near the Rio -Seco, Tucumán, Argentina, when they see a strange light like a fireball. -The truck stops, and later it is found that the fuses have burnt out. -The upper part of the object is giving off a red light and the lower -part a blue light, and it hovers above the truck for 20 seconds. It then -moves away silently and disappears. Residents of Rio Seco also see the -light, which illuminates the village. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on -Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): -19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6504

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Event 9160 -(D97A8F54)

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Date: 5/5/1984
-Description: 7:30 p.m. An ultrasensitive orbiting US Defense Support -Program spy satellite detects the entry of an unknown object that passes -15 miles in front of it only 1.8 miles away, and then flies below it -over the Indian Ocean. The encounter lasts 9 minutes. An alert is -triggered at NORAD. The object is moving at 22,000 mph, changes course, -and flies back into outer space. (NICAP, “DSP -Satellite Tracks Fast Walker”; Ronald S. Regehr, How to Build a $125 -Million UFO Detector, 1998, pp. 27–28, 84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6503

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Event 9161 -(23DE8444)

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Date: 5/5/1984
-Description: 2:55 a.m. A witness in Piedmont, South Carolina, hears a -loud pulsating sound and looks out the window in time to see a large -metallic object passing above his house at about 750 feet. Described as -bigger than an Air Force C-5A transport, the object is shaped like a -flattened football. A car stops along the road, and the driver gets out -to watch it. All of the dogs in the neighborhood are howling as it is in -view for 2 minutes. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, no. 3 -(May/June 1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6502

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Event 9162 -(14378F37)

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Date: 5/6/1984
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A 13-year-old boy is washing out dog pens in -Williston, Florida, when he hears a humming sound behind him. The dogs -start whimpering and running around the pens. Suddenly, the area turns -red and looking up, the boy sees a bright red circular object that -hovers for about 5 seconds at only 20 feet altitude before it shoots -across a field and stops again. He goes inside to get his mother, who -sees the object moving across the field before vanishing. The dogs -remain agitated afterward. (Bob Gribble, “UFO Hotline Reports,” IUR 9, -no. 3 (May/June 1984): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6505

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Event 9163 -(85F4758A)

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Date: 5/16/1984
-Description: Dept. of the Army letter to W. S. Steinman stating that the -IPU was disestablished in the late 1950s and all records were -transferred to the Air Force. Therefore the Army isn’t aware of what -their function was even though it was a Secret unit of the Army. (FOIA -requests to USAF)
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-A p55)
-Location: US

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Event 9164 -(C1803065)

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Date: 5/29/1984
-Description: A huge disc with a flat base and two vast searchlights -passes silently over Fairy Cottage, near Laxey, Isle of Man. (Jenny -Randles, “Mysterious Island: The UFO Legacy of the Isle of Man,” IUR 29, -no. 1 (Spring 2004): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6507

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Event 9165 -(01E1CA52)

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Date: 5/29/1984
-Description: J. -Allen Hynek gives a presentation on “Properties of the UFO -Phenomenon” at a special session on “The Edges of Science” of the annual -meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in -New York City. He presents a summary of 400 UFO cases by responsible -witnesses, “some of whom were independent of each other but observed the -same event (and sometimes in daylight) which defied both common sense -and common physical sense.” (J. Allen Hynek, “The UFO Phenomenon,” IUR -9, no. 4 (July/August 1984): 3–5, 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6506

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Event 9166 -(95D544BC)

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Date: 5/31/1984
-Description: 8:15 p.m. A V-shaped formatio60659gme n of 15 lights, -estimated to be the size of a Boeing 747 airliner if all are connected -to one object, passes directly over the home of John Burdett, an IBM -engineer in Hawthorne, New York. It makes no sound as it passes overhead -except for a faint humming. All lights simultaneously turn blue and then -it makes a tight 180-degree turn and flies off to the north. At 8:30 -p.m., the object is seen from Route 117 in Pleasantville, New York, and -follows a car down the Taconic State Parkway. At 8:45 p.m., David Boyd -in Yorktown, New York, sees a V-shaped formation of lights turn and fly -away to the west. (Philip J. Imbrogno, “More Nocturnal Lights,” IUR 9, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1984): 6–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6508

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Event 9167 -(242C013D)

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Date: 6/14/1984
-Description: 10:15 p.m. New York State Power Authority security police -at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant near Buchanan, New York, watch 10 or -more bright lights arranged in a boomerang pattern hovering for about 15 -minutes a quarter mile away. Behind them is a dark mass about 300 feet -long that blocks out the lights of a plane that flies behind it. (Philip -J. Imbrogno, “Incident -at Indian Point,” UFO Evidence; Clark III 1278; NightSiege -162–164)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6510

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Event 9168 -(2A2B3283)

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Date: mid 6/1984
-Description: 4:10 p.m. Seaman Alexander Globa and mate of the watch -Sergey Bolotov are beginning their watch on board the Russian tanker -Gori in the Mediterranean Sea 20 nautical miles east of Gibraltar. They -see what seems to be an airplane with its landing lights on and flying -toward them at an altitude of 4,920 feet about 2 miles away. It is -shaped like a “frying pan turned upside down” with a shiny, metallic -surface. It emits bright, irregular flashes of light. In two minutes it -reaches the ship’s position, turns south, and keeps pace with the ship, -gyrating for 3 minutes. The object is perfectly round and about 75 feet -in diameter. There is a round, black spot on the bottom, and a -cylindrical “tailpipe” is seen at the junction of two segments that are -rotating in opposite directions. At 4:20 p.m., another ship approaches -to the left, and the object flies quickly toward it and hovers above it. -Capt. Sokolovsky contacts the vessel, an Egyptian dry cargo ship enroute -to Greece, and it confirms the presence of the UFO. After 90 seconds it -quickly moves back to the Gori, ascends at an angle of 40°–45°, veers to -the right, and eventually disappears. Total duration of the sighting is -12 minutes. (Sergey Romanav, “Disk with Rotating Cupola Observed near -Straits of Gibraltar by Russian Ship in 1984,” IUR 18, no. 3 (May/June -1993): 17–18; Paul Stonehill, “Questions about a Russian Case,” IUR 18, -no. 4 (July/Aug. 1993): 21; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, -Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 69–70)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6511

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Event 9169 -(D0909A52)

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Date: 6/21/1984
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Investigators Dick Ruhl and Richie Petracca are -on Interstate 84 in Dutchess County, New York, when they see a brilliant -white wedge-shaped object floating and turning in the sky. The lights -suddenly turn red, and as the object continues to turn, they see red, -green-blue, and white lights. They stop and get binoculars out, then -notice another object on the left. Both objects glide slowly and -maneuver, constantly changing from white as they approach, and to red as -they turn away. They finally form up into a boomerang shape. Ruhl and -Petracca suspect they are seeing the “Stormville pilots,” so they drive -to the Stormville airport. After waiting in the snack bar a short time, -people see lights in the direction of the Green Haven Correctional -Facility. It turns out they are six Cessna Skyhawks, apparently with -mufflers on the engines, and they land one by one on a nearby runway. -Ruhl photographs the serial number of one of the planes, N76106. (Dick -Ruhl, Richie Petracca, Sal Giamusso, and Gerry Arena, “The -Westchester Sightings,” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 6 (September 1984): -5–6; Philip J. Imbrogno. “The Hudson Valley Sightings: A Reply to Dick -Ruhl and APRO,” IUR 10, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1985): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6512

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Event 9170 -(4B5ED530)

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Date: 6/21/1984
-Description: 9:44 p.m. Witnesses see unidentified lights over the -Wanaque Reservoir in New Jersey for more than two hours. The manager of -a tavern on Ringwood Avenue in Haskell sees an egg-shaped object moving -faster than a blimp. (“E.T. -Circling Area?” Wayne (N.J.) Today, July 4, 1984, via UFO -Newsclipping Service, no. 181 (August 1984), p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6513

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Event 9171 -(EEF4BBF0)

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Date: summer 1984
-Description: Day. A Mrs. Danuta takes her 2-year-old son to a playground -in the Podwisłocze district of Rzeszów, Poland. A green-metallic object -with a bright cupola 8 feet tall approaches, brushing a tree, and the -woman picks up her son and hides behind a tree. It is making a loud -noise and hovering 30–50 feet above the ground. It then moves toward -some nearby apartments, shoots up, and disappears. (Poland 59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6509

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Event 9172 -(6A722071)

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Date: 6/25/1984
-Description: Night. A huge, slow-moving object with many lights is seen -near Bethel, Connecticut, for 20 minutes. It looks like a big Ferris -Wheel on its side. (NightSiege 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6514

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Event 9173 -(AB4AEE6C)

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Date: 7/1984
-Description: Prentice-Hall publishes Clear Intent by Lawrence Fawcett -and Barry -J. Greenwood, a -history of Air Force, FBI, and CIA involvement in UFO investigations and -secrecy, including many FOIA-released recent reports and documents. The -book immediately sells out and is unavailable for most of the summer. A -second printing in late August also sells out immediately. (Lawrence -Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood, Clear -Intent: The Government Coverup -of the UFO Experience, Prentice-Hall, -1984; George M. Eberhart, “‘Clear Intent’ Reviewed,” IUR 9, no. 4 -(July/August 1984): 6–7, 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6515

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Event 9174 -(4477CCD2)

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Date: 7/10/1984
-Description: Four members of the Italian Parliament—Giancarlo -Abete, Publio -Fiori, Alessandro -Scajola, and -Martino Scovacricchi—present -a question to the government on whether it would consider involving -private and civilian experts as future consultants on UFOs. Minister of -Defence Giovanni -Spadolini emphasizes the role of the Italian Air Force in UFO -investigations and denies the necessity to involve outsiders, although -it does not rule out cooperation with Italy’s National Research Council. -(2Pinotti 71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6516

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Event 9175 -(8B6E3BC4)

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Date: 7/13/1984
-Description: 4:30 p.m. A mysterious object comes into view above -Rzeszów, Poland, remaining stationary for a long time. A flight -controller from Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport estimates it is at 6,500 feet -and is slowly moving to the northwest. Mielec Airport air traffic -controller Kasimierz Lubertowicz scrambles an Iskra jet trainer on a -scouting mission. As pilot Henryk Bronowicki approaches the object at -24,600 feet, he realizes it is not a weather balloon and is moving away -from him. He gives up the chase, but the object descends and he -approaches it again, failing to reach it as it retreats. (Poland 74–75; -Arek Miazga, “Pilot -kontra UFO nad Mielcem 13.07.1984,” Spotkania z Nieznanym, June 1, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6517

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Event 9176 -(70C1A226)

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Date: 7/19/1984
-Description: 10:00–11:00 p.m. Police in Danbury, Bethel, Brookfield, and -New Fairfield, Connecticut, receive reports of a low-flying, slow-moving -object “as large as a football field.” It directs intense beams of light -toward the ground and gives off heat felt by those beneath it. It has -white lights in a circular pattern. (“Area -Police Get Reports of UFOs,” -Danbury (Conn.) News-Times, July 20, 1984, via UFO Newsclipping Service, -no. 181 (August 1984), p. 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6518

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Event 9177 -(AB1B128D)

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Date: 7/24/1984
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Security police at Indian Point Nuclear Plant at -Buchanan, New York, again see a UFO with a semicircle of lights. The -lights first flash yellow, then white, then blue. Far to the rear is a -blinking red light. The dark mass behind the lights blocks out the stars -as it approaches steadily. The plant’s movement-detecting sensors and -alarm systems fail, as does the computer responsible for security and -communications. By the time it gets to 500 feet away, the police can see -an ice-cream-cone-shape and a solid body the length of three football -fields. As it passes over the Unit 3 reactor, at one point getting as -close as 30 feet, it is moving so slowly that the police can keep up -with it by walking. An officer inside the plant watching security -monitors is instructed to film the object using a camera atop a 95-foot -pole; the camera has to pan almost 180° to cover the entire length of -the object. One officer notices two hollow spheres or portals in the -bottom. The UFO takes 5 minutes to pass over them. By the time the -security police call Camp Smith, a National Guard base 10 miles away, -and ask for an armed helicopter, the UFO is gone. Many other people in -the area also report seeing the UFO over the plant. Police in Peekskill -receive quite a few calls that evening. Police Sgt. Hoffman goes out to -investigate and sees a giant UFO with more than a dozen white lights in -a V formation slowly move toward the power plant. On July 25, the -security guard supervisor tells them to forget what happened. Video and -audio records of the event are removed, and in the next two days -representatives of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission oversee a -shakeup of the plant’s security operations. (Philip J. Imbrogno, “Incident -at Indian Point,” UFO Evidence; Clark III 1278; NightSiege -159–168)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6519

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Event 9178 -(595B8790)

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Date: 7/24/1984
-Description: 10:20 p.m. Electronics executive Bob -Pozzuoli shoots a videotape of a large object with a ring of 6 -lights in the sky over Brewster, New York. It moves behind a pine tree -then emerges as a string of rotating multicolored lights and a flashing -red light in the rear. The video also shows airplanes flying in -formation. The tape is analyzed by Lew -Allen at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who is apparently unable to -explain it adequately. (NightSiege 117– 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6520

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Event 9179 -(8D178F96)

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Date: 8/1984
-Description: J. -Allen Hynek moves to Scottsdale, Arizona, from Evanston, Illinois, -under the influence of entrepreneurs Tina -Choate and Brian Myers, who -introduce him to wealthy Englishman Jeffrey (or Geoffrey) Kaye with the -promise of funding a new UFO organization (the International Center for -UFO Research in Phoenix), publications, and a TV series about Hynek’s -life. The CUFOS office moves to Glenview, Illinois, where Sherman J. -Larsen operates it. (“UFO -Expert Moving to Arizona,” Chicago Tribune, August 21, 1984, Sec. 2, -p. 1; Keith Basterfield, “Why -Did J. Allen Hynek Move to Scottsdale?” Unidentified Aerial -Phenomena—Scientific Research, October 8, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6521

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Event 9180 -(BE872028)

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Date: 8/20/1984
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Irene Lunn and her daughter are driving near Deer -Trail Drive in Mahopac Falls, New York, when they notice triangle-shaped -UFO with an unusual L-shaped tailpiece. They stop to observe it more -carefully. The object has one red light, one green light, and eight -white lights, and is moving south when it makes a sudden 90° turn and -slowly moves toward them. They drive the short way home where they -retrieve some binoculars. She can clearly see a dark, metallic object, -which moves off to a neighbor’s yard and hovers. A rectangular object -with white lights in each corner comes into view and moves in front of -the first UFO for 5 seconds, then vanishes. The triangular object -continues to hover, then silently moves off out of sight. (“Multiple -Sightings in New York,” APRO Bulletin 32, no. 11 (May 1985): -1–2)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6522

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Event 9181 -(3CCF674A)

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Date: 8/23/1984
-Description: Afternoon. Military radar at Otopeni Airport [now Henri -Coandă International Airport] near Bucharest, Romania, picks up a target -flying above Alexeni Air Force Base [now closed] east of Urziceni at -13,000–14,700 feet. The target, the size of a small plane or helicopter, -appears out of nowhere and is tracked by 4–5 different radars in -separate locations on different frequencies. After 15 minutes, the -object is spotted visually. Through a telescope it appears oval, -metallic and shiny, and about 9 feet long. During its appearance, the -base notices a strong interference on VHF and short wave radios. The -target climbs and descends about 7–8 times to altitudes ranging from -6,500 feet to 34 miles as it moves west at speeds up to 7,450 mph, -making zigzagging movements and turning at sharp angles. It is under -observation for 40 minutes and is lost at a height of 62 miles as it -disappears into space at 620 mph. (Romania 104–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6523

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Event 9182 -(68C93E95)

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Date: 8/25/1984
-Description: Philip -Imbrogno and Peter Gersten convene -a public meeting on the Hudson Valley sightings in a middle school in -Brewster, New York, and 1,500 people show up. Hynek attends, -as well as news media, various people from the FBI, Air Force officers -from Pease AFB [now Pease Air National Guard Base], and a mysterious man -who has met with Imbrogno and claims to be from the National Security -Agency. The Pozzuoli videotape -is shown and 900 people fill out UFO sighting reports. (“Strange -Sights Brighten the Night Skies Upstate,” New York Times, August 25, -1984, p. 25; NightSiege 135–147; MUFON UFO Journal, October 1984) Late -summer — 8:00 p.m. Kazimierz Lubertowicz, chief of air traffic control -at Mielec airfield, Poland, reports that a pilot and 30–40 airfield -workers and military personnel are watching a motionless red-orange -light for 2 hours. It is actually floating very slowly to the southeast -at an altitude of 1,300–1,600 feet. (Poland 68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6524

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Event 9183 -(81FFF1A0)

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Date: 9/1984
-Description: Lawrence Fawcett and Barry -Greenwood launch a new series of Just Cause newsletters to continue -their documentation of government involvement in UFOs discussed in Clear -Intent. The newsletter continues until November 1997. (Just -Cause, new -series, no. 1 (September 1984))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6525

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Event 9184 -(6643AA29)

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Date: 9/1984
-Description: Marc Leduc begins publishing Bulletin d’Information -Ufologique in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, until June 1986. (Bulletin -d’Information Ufologique 1, no. 1 (September 1984))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6526

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Event 9185 -(D52CF899)

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Date: 9/2/1984
-Description: 7:28 p.m. Physicist Bruce -Maccabee is standing near the Light Street Pavilion in the Inner -Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a black spot in the air to -the southeast. It moves slowly north for 7 minutes at a steady rate -until it disappears. (Bruce Maccabee, “‘Black Hole’ over Baltimore,” IUR -10, no. 2 (March/April 1985): 6–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6527

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Event 9186 -(F52C6CE3)

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Date: 9/7/1984
-Description: 4:10 a.m. While approaching Minsk, Belarus, the pilots of a -Soviet Aeroflot Tu-134 airliner are startled to see a strange, brightly -glowing shape that appears to their right and follows their path closely -for several minutes. The glowing object changes shape repeatedly, -appearing first as rays, then concentric circles, then as a cloud, and -finally as an amorphous mass. While copilot Gennady Lazurin sketches the -object, Captain Igor Cherkashin contacts air traffic officials, who -report that radar shows a strange “double” object, believed to be the -airliner and the unidentified object. Years later, reports surface of a -second flight crew traveling in the opposite direction who also see the -glowing object. At the same time that the pilots in the first craft -notice the UFO, a Soviet missile is launched from the Plesetsk -Cosmodrome. Lazurin’s sketches of the object closely parallel sketches -made by other witnesses at rocket launches, including amateur observers -of the Soviet missile launch watching in Finland. (“Soviet -Airliner Given ‘Escort’ by UFO,” Houston (Tex.) Chronicle, January -31, 1985, pp. 1, 10; Richard H. Hall, “Soviet Sky Spectacular,” IUR 11, -no. 4 (July/Aug. 1986): 11–14; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The -Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, -Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 88–89; Good Above, pp -243–247; Dmitry Sudakov, “USSR’s Most Renowned UFO Sighting Linked -to Ballistic Missile Launch?” Pravda, August 9, 2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6528

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Event 9187 -(A9EEEB2C)

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Date: late 9/1984
-Alternate date: early 10/1984
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Militia Capt. Boris Ivanovich Vladimirov is -riding in the right seat of a patrol vehicle with another policeman in -Bayramgulovo, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, when they notice an unusual -triangular pattern of colored lights about 80 feet away on the right -side of the road in a freshly plowed field. There are 11 lights on the -left and right sides of the object and 13 lights up the center. The -lights on the edge flash sequentially like a theater marquee. After a -bit, all the lights turn off. The next day, Vladimirov returns to the -field and finds three round depressions in the soil about 10 inches deep -and 36 inches in diameter. They are at the corners of an equilateral -triangle 26 feet apart. (Richard F. Haines, “CE2 in the Eastern Urals,” -IUR 17, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1992): 11–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6529

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Event 9188 -(528C9D54)

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Date: fall 1984
-Description: The UK Ministry of Defence is reorganized, making the group -Sec. AS (2a) its main focal point for receiving public UFO reports. Its -mission is to “determine whether or not UFOs present a threat to the -security and defence of the United Kingdom.” It has no other budget than -minor staff costs and its records are unclassified. However, Timothy -Good uncovers evidence that the U.K Provost and Security Services at -RAF Rudloe Manor [now MOD Corsham] northeast of Bath, England, are -conducting more serious and secret UFO investigations. More recent -declassified files have revealed that RAF Rudloe Manor was a filter -center for UFO reports in the 1950s. The British Police Force’s elite -Special Branch in 1997 opens files on two UFO researchers in the UK who -are collecting data on the Rudloe Manor operations—Robin Cole and -Matthew Williams. (“Churchill -Ordered UFO Cover-up, -National Archives Show,” BBC News, August 5, 2010; Nick Redfern, A -Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 193, -203, 210; Good Above, pp. 70, -121–126); -Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, -pp. 35–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6534

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Event 9189 -(7241F22E)

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Date: 10/1984
-Description: 11:45 p.m. Five witnesses, including missile technician -Shamil Yuaihmetov, see a metallic cigar-shaped object slowly descending -at a 45° angle near the Kattakurgan tactical nuclear missile base in -Uzbekistan. It emits a hissing sound. The next day, three apparent -landing-gear marks in an equilateral triangle pattern are found in a -nearby vineyard in an area of damaged vines measuring 100 by 260 feet. -Each depression is 20 inches deep. The case is investigated by S. P. -Kuzionov of the Russian Geographical Society. (Ted R. Phillips, “Physical -Traces Associated -with Unidentified Flying Objects,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 445 (May -2005): 5; Nukes 452–453)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6530

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Event 9190 -(22C1AB49)

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Date: 10/5/1984
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Science teacher and UFO investigator Philip -J. Imbrogno and Fred Dennis are returning from an interview with -witnesses in Peekskill, New York, on US Highway 9 when they see, near -Ossining, New York, a large half-circle of 6 bluish-yellow lights -connected to a partially illuminated structure. Suddenly it flips on its -side and turns like a Ferris wheel. After 30 seconds, it is lost behind -some trees. (Philip J. Imbrogno, “Incident -at Indian -Point,” UFO Evidence; Clark III 1277)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6531

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Event 9191 -(0646BC04)

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Date: 10/8/1984
-Description: 7:40 a.m. Giuseppe Cocozza goes into his alfalfa field near -Prata di Principato Ultra, Avellino, Italy, to get some fodder for his -cow. On the beaten-earth path to the field he encounters an entity about -4 feet tall, wearing a blue helmet on its head and carrying a blue box -on its back that features tubes running into the helmet and the entity’s -back. Its body is covered with long, dark-brown hair, and it appears to -be using a T-shaped instrument to explore the ground. There is a wide, -aluminum-colored slit around its eyes. After noticing Cocozza, the -entity moves toward a clearing among some hazel bushes, emitting small -bluish flames from its sides. The witness backtracks and loses sight of -it, but sees a UFO ascend at an angle from the bushes, turn, and shoot -away toward a mountain range. Cocozza returns with a shotgun and finds -some hoof-like footprints and holes left by the strange instrument, as -well as landing marks apparently caused by the object. (Umberto -Telarico, “Close -Encounter at Prato -di Principato Ultra (Italy), October 1984,” Flying Saucer Review 32, -no. 1 (December 1986): 9–18; 2Pinotti 72–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6532

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Event 9192 -(AFACA420)

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Date: 10/9/1984
-Description: 3:30 a.m. A beam of light coming in through a window wakes -up Isidoro Ferri in his residence on the Via della Tessaia in Polcanto, -northeast of Florence, Italy. He sees that it is coming from the -forehead of a dark figure on a nearby hill across the road. Suddenly the -figure and light vanish, and Ferri sees a stationary ink light with -three jets projecting downward. After several minutes, this light -disappears and an extremely bright white light approaches and floods the -area. Ferri gets up and approaches the window but finds himself -paralyzed for a few seconds. The light then withdraws, and he finds he -can move again. The white light is replaced by a red lens- shaped light -that hurts his eyes then moves on to the northwest. Ferri’s dog has not -barked through the entire encounter, refuses food for the next several -days, and stays in its doghouse for 2 weeks. Three circular holes 4 -inches in diameter and 1 inch deep are found in an area of somewhat -flattened grass. (Edoardo Russo, “Italian Update -1984,” Flying Saucer Review 30, no. 4 (May 1985): 26; 2Pinotti -84–92; Patrick Gross, URECAT, -February 1, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6533

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Event 9193 -(5D4C7097)

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Date: 11/1984
-Description: British UFO researcher Timothy -Good interviews astrophysicist Pierre -Guérin on the future of GEPAN. Because it is under the aegis of -CNES, which is ill-disposed toward UFOs, Guérin says, it is doomed. -(Good Above, pp. 136–139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6536

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Event 9194 -(9C386212)

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Date: 11/1984
-Description: Discover magazine publishes a cover story on the -Westchester County sightings, which claims that the UFOs are actually a -group of pilots from Stormville, New York, who fly ultralight aircraft -in a tight formation and use their lights in such a way as to create -boomerang or circle patterns. The author, Glenn -Garelik, notes that single-engine planes, even when directly -overhead, are barely audible at ground level when they are flying above -3,000 feet. However, it fails to disclose that many witnesses are much -closer to the object than that, nor does it mention the hovering for -extended periods. In his 1987 book Night Siege, Philip -J. Imbrogno lists 12 reasons for rejecting the explanation of the -Stormville pilots. On those occasions when witnesses see both a plane -and a UFO, the plane is clearly audible and the UFO is not, even if it -is much closer. The UFO also appears on nights when the Stormville -pilots are not in the air. The UFO’s maneuvers simply are beyond the -capacity of most aircraft, and the power and intensity of the lights is -far beyond the power capacity of small planes. (Glenn Garelik, “The -Great Hudson Valley UFO Mystery,” Discover 5 (November 1984): 18–24; -NightSiege 1998; Clark III 1278–1279)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6535

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Event 9195 -(EFC4341D)

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Date: 11/14/1984
-Description: As the space shuttle Discovery approaches the dysfunctional -satellite Westar VI on the STS-51-A mission, -its video camera records for 2 seconds a gray blob that seems to -materialize near the top center of the frame and move in a curved path -across the right side of the frame. Bruce -Maccabee says the blob could be a “reflection of something in a -window or a small nearby particle.” (“UFO -Appears during NASA STS-51-A Mission -November 1984,” Real UFO Files Disclosed YouTube channel, July 10, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6537

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Event 9196 -(DE37822C)

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Date: 12/1984
-Description: Bob -Gribble, who -operates the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington, -discontinues sending UFO reports to MUFON and sends them to Michael -Hart’s Compufon for posting on the Usenet bulletin board. (MUFON UFO -Journal, October 1985)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6538

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Event 9197 -(D4328F81)

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Date: 12/1984
-Description: Night. A married couple are up late watching TV in -Trafford, Pennsylvania, when they hear a tapping on the window. They see -a red ball of light about as big as a basketball that moves away from -the window. They turn on the outside lights to watch the ball, which has -black marks among the red and gives off beams and sparks. It floats over -a neighbor’s house. They go back to watching TV, but the red light taps -on the window once more before going away. (Michael D. Swords, “A Trick -of the Light,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6539

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Event 9198 -(7E5F2849)

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Date: 12/11/1984
-Description: North Hollywood, California, film producer Jaime -Shandera receives an unmarked package in the mail containing an -undeveloped roll of 35mm film with the faked 1952 Eisenhower briefing -document and the 1947 Truman MJ-12 memo. He tells researcher William -Moore, and they have the roll developed. Postmarked Albuquerque, New -Mexico, the package is most likely sent by individuals in AFOSI at -Kirtland AFB, including special agent Master Sgt. Richard -Doty, to plant disinformation in William Moore’s UFO research. They -wait until 1987 to release the document. (Michael Hesemann and Philip -Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, p. 90; -Clark III 365–366)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6540

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- Event 9199 (DC2294B7)

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Date: 1985
-Description: Scientific UFO Conference in Darlian, China. China Daily -reported that 20,000 people involved in UFO research. Professor Renglin -of Guangzhou Jinan University said more than 600 reports in China in -prev. 5 years.
-Type: conference
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: China

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Event 9200 -(E12276DC)

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Date: 1985
-Description: Near the town of Krasnovodsk [now Türkmenbaşy], -Turkmenistan, a radar station under the command of Captain L. Valuev -tracks a disc-shaped object at an altitude of 60,000 feet and apparently -more than one-half mile in length. The object is stationary, and some -time later a small disc about 16 feet in diameter flies out of it and -then lands on a lengthy spit on the Caspian Sea. Patrol boats rush to -that area, but when they reach a distance of 325 feet from the object, -it takes off and flies more than one-half mile away. This happens five -times. Then the object ascends at a huge speed and reaches the larger -disc, which rises up and disappears. (Alexander Dremin, “Soviet Army -Fought UFOs,” Pravda, January 2004; Good Need, p. 354; -Vadim K. Ilyin, “KGB’s -‘Blue Folder’ Reveals Shootings, -Landings in USSR,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 403 (November 2001): -8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6541

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Event 9201 -(D984C669)

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Date: 1/1985
-Description: Jerome -Clark begins to take over as editor of the International UFO -Reporter as Hynek distances -himself from operations at the Center for UFO Studies. (Clark III -628)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6542

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Event 9202 -(BC76E6FD)

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Date: 1/1985
-Description: A Roper Organization poll finds that 25% of Americans think -that UFOs come from somewhere else in the universe. (Robert J. Durant, -“Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): -13, 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6543

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Event 9203 -(DDD7FCF8)

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Date: 1/10/1985
-Description: US physicist Bernard -Eastlund files a patent on a “Method and apparatus for altering a -region in the earth’s atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere,” -that proposes a 40-square-mile radio transmitter using Alaskan natural -gas to generate current to create electromagnetic radiation to excite a -section of the ionosphere. The patent speculates on “possible -ramifications and potential future developments” including -magnetotelluric surveys, local weather modification, and missile -defense. Eastlund later claims that HAARP is built using his patents, -prompting Nick -Begich Jr. to charge in 1995 that HAARP is capable of secretly -controlling the weather. According to HAARP program manager John -L. Heckscher, “HAARP certainly does not have anything to do with -Eastlund’s thing, that is just crazy. What we have here is a premier -scientific research facility with military applications.” (US Patent, -“Method -and Apparatus for Altering a Region of the Earth’s Atmosphere, -Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere,” -granted August 11, 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6544

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Event 9204 -(291E01EC)

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Date: 1/13/1985
-Description: Journalist James -Bamford reveals the existence of the still-secret National -Reconnaissance Office in a New York Times article. (James Bamford, “America’s -Supersecret Eyes in Space,” New York Times Magazine, January 13, -1985, Sec. 6, p. 39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6545

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Event 9205 -(81317EAA)

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Date: 1/13/1985
-End date: 1/27/1985
-Description: Project Hessdalen II is launched to study the recurring -lights of Hessdalen, Norway, with the participation of J. -Allen Hynek, who -arrives on January 26, but little light activity is noted. The -phenomenon ceases in 1986. Investigators disagree on what the Hessdalen -lights are. Odd-Gunnar Røed thinks they have some complex natural cause. -Erling -Strand finds it odd that the lights are so localized in time and -space and must be an unknown phenomenon. Paul -Devereux is convinced that they are earthquake lights resulting from -seismic activity (even though the seismograph recorded no tremors). -University of Oslo physicist Elvand Thrane says the lights remain a -mystery. (J. Allen Hynek, “Tracking the Hessdalen Lights,” IUR 10, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1985): 10–11; “Projekt -Hessdalen, Teil II,” Journal für UFO-Forschung 48 (Nov./Dec. 1986): -164–170; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, -1987, pp. 90–92; Gerson S. Paiva and C. A. Taft, “Hessdalen Lights -and Piezoelectricity from Rock Strain,” Journal of Scientific -Exploration 25, no. 2 (2011): 265–271; Clark III 573; G. Pascoli, “Are -Hessdalen Lights a Reality, an Illusion, or a Mix of the Two?” -Journal of Scientific Exploration 35, no. 3 (2021): 590–622)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6546

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Event 9206 -(F11FCAFF)

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Date: 2/1985
-Description: 2:35 a.m. Freight train #1702, consisting of 70 empty cars -and a locomotive, is paced by a strange object for 31 miles from Essoyla -station through Suoyarvi, Karelia, Russia, for 1 hour and 20 minutes. It -comes from the side and crosses the railway about 100–160 feet ahead of -the train. The men feel as if hypnotized and stare at an object about 13 -feet in diameter that moves silently above the ground as if drifting. -When the train is approaching the Novye Peski station, Engineer Sergei -Orlov switches on his portable radio and contacts a woman on duty who -goes out to meet the approaching train. She is surprised to see the -shining ball followed by the vibrating object looking like an “upturned -basin.” The train appears, moving at about 37 mph. She thinks the ball -might hit the station, but right before the switch, it suddenly -separates from the locomotive and passes around the building. When it -returns, the object moves again toward the train, which speeds up as if -the UFO is pulling it. The train manages to stop only near the Zastava -station and the ball disappears behind the forest. The crew has to wait -for a train coming from the opposite direction toward Petrozavodsk. -Conductor Mironov gets out of the cab to examine the wheels, and as soon -as he walks around the locomotive he feels a strange force press him -against the train. He cannot move, but eventually it lets up; he reaches -the cab and the train starts off as if it is waiting for him to take his -seat. The train keeps moving for some time until the ball disappears -behind trees. Automatic recorders on the locomotive and other official -documents corroborate the testimony. The shining ball is noticed earlier -at the Kutizhma station even before it is spotted by the train. (NICAP, -“Objects -Pull Train”; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: -Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, -p. 95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6547

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Event 9207 -(77061074)

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Date: 3/1985
-Description: Noon. At a military shooting range at Mălina, west of -Galaţi, Romania, Doru Voloşeniuc is sent to collect compasses from a -military vehicle when he sees a flat, silvery object hovering about 5 -feet above the ground. It becomes shrouded with a blue-green mist as it -increases its rotation. He hears an unusually strong and penetrating -ringing sound and he is lifted off the ground more than 12 inches and -slams into the road face down. Looking up, he sees the object is no -longer there. (Romania 93–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6548

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Event 9208 -(95989EFE)

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Date: 3/3/1985
-Description: Meeting between researchers Ray Boeche and Scott Colborn -and US Senator J. J. Exon D-Neb concerning the 12/1980 Bentwaters and -other incidents. Exon is described as concerned that as a member of the -Armed Services Committee he has not been fully appraised of the -Bentwaters and other UFO events.
-Type: meeting
-Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4 1985
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 12/1980

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Event 9209 -(8B2FBB9E)

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Date: 3/7/1985
-Description: 11:40 a.m. A witness is driving south on North Stevens -Street between 12th and 16th streets in Tacoma, Washington, when he sees -a long, glowing, oval object to his left less than 2 miles away. The -object, the width of four full moons, begins banking to the northeast. -At a traffic light, the witness is able to take three photographs of the -distant object, and he drives another mile toward the UFO, taking a -fourth photo before it shoots straight up and out of sight. The photos -only show a blur of distant light. A day later, the witness develops a -rash on his face. (“Sighting -Report from Tacoma,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 3 (June/July -1985): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6549

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Event 9210 -(56D62401)

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Date: 3/21/1985
-Description: Philip -J. Imbrogno and his team of investigators (Sheila Sabo and George -Lesnick) see a UFO immediately after leaving the University of -Bridgeport, Connecticut, where they took part in a call-in TV show about -the Hudson Valley sightings. They see a circular structure ringed in 7 -brilliant lights hovering over a 15-story building, watch it turn in the -sky, and chase it down Interstate 95. The object glides effortlessly -across the sky. The FAA later tells them that the sighting involves -pilots flying in an illegal formation. (NightSiege 189–194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6550

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Event 9211 -(F4F942D7)

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Date: 4/19/1985
-Description: In a letter from Ministry of Defense, Lord Trefgarne -states, “There is no organization in the MOD appointed solely for the -purpose of studying UFOs, and no staff are employed on the subject full -time… the staff in the Department… examine the reports as part of their -normal duties… and we cannot inform observers of the probable identity -of the objects seen.”
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: London, England

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Event 9212 -(004B444B)

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Date: 5/20/1985
-End date: 5/25/1985
-Description: Army Col. John -B. Alexander (Howard -Blum gives him the pseudonym “Harold Phillips”), director of -advanced concepts at the US Army Laboratory, forms a UFO working group -titled Advanced Theoretical Physics Group made up of scientists and -officers throughout the defense and intelligence community. His intent -is to credibly gain access to actual deep-black military programs on -UFOs or provide consultants for them. It meets for the first time this -week, with only three other meetings: August 6–7, 1985; April 24, 1986; -and November 18, 1987. They meet at BDM McLean Secure Facility in -Virginia, and the last time at the Pentagon. This first meeting’s -attendees include Robert -M. Wood (McDonnell Douglas), Lt. Col. Ronald -F. Blackburn (Air Force), Milt Jansen (or Janzen), Don Keuble -(Lockheed), Harold -E. Puthoff (SRI), Ed Speakman (Army Intelligence), Howell -McConnell (NSA), William -S. Wilkinson (CIA), and others. The group’s effort appears to be -connected to an engineering project under retired Adm. Bobby -Ray Inman. Wood says the meetings are top secret, but he hears -“nothing that was truly classified.” Wood gives a presentation on UFO -propulsion. Other people supposedly connected to the group are Maj. -Gen. Albert -Stubblebine, Jack -Houck (Boeing), and remote viewer Ed -Dames. Alexander states that one of ATP’s goals is: “Study of the -UFO data could provide a potential for a leap in technology. This would -not require access to a craft, but could be derived from scientific -examination of the reports determining the theoretical physics required -to achieve such results.” The group dissolves in 1988, since no -government agency wants to openly fund it. (Howard Blum, Out -There: The Government’s Secret Quest for Extraterrestrials, Simon -& Schuster, 1990; John B. Alexander, UFOs: -Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities, Thomas Dunne, 2011; Good Need, -pp. 340–341; -Dolan II 382–384; Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science 3, Anomalist, -2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6551

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Event 9213 -(D7847D6D)

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Date: 5/23/1985
-Description: 10:35 p.m. A Soviet bomber regiment carrying out a -scheduled mission spots an oval, orange object over the Khabarovsk Krai, -Russia. Radar does not track it, but observers estimate it is traveling -close to 350 mph. A light halo surrounds it. The sighting lasts 13 -minutes, during which time the object occasionally descends and remains -motionless. Two hours later, a similar object is seen at high altitude -for 10 minutes, emitting beams of light. (Paul Stonehill and Philip -Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron -Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 76)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6552

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Event 9214 -(7C025659)

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Date: 5/26/1985
-Description: 9:30–10:15 p.m. More than 100 people around Newtown and -Southbury, Connecticut, see a low-flying, silent, circular formation of -lights that passes over Interstate 84, causing many cars to pull over -for a look and some to lose power. Commercial airline pilot Randy Etting -sees the lights as he is driving along I-94. He pulls off the road and -snaps a photo of the formation. He is sure there is a solid object -behind the lights. (Philip J. Imbrogno, “1985: Close -Encounter on Interstate 84, Connecticut,” UFO Casebook; NightSiege -200–201)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6553

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Event 9215 -(5C8F6BAC)

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Date: 6/11/1985
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A Chinese Boeing 747 airliner encounters a UFO -on its flight from Beijing to Paris that almost forces the captain to -make an emergency landing. Flight CA 933 is over Lanzhou, Gansu -province, China, when Captain Wang Shuting and his crew first observe -the object. The UFO crosses the path of the airliner at an altitude of -33,000 feet at a very high speed. The object illuminates an area of -25–30 square miles and is huge, with an apparent diameter of 6 miles. It -is elliptical in shape and has an extremely bright spot in the center, -with three horizontal rows of bluish-white lights on the perimeter. The -sighting lasts for 2 minutes. Passengers do not see the object. -(“Translation from China of June 11th UFO over Dung Kou,” CUFOS -Associate Newsletter 6, no. 3 (June/July 1985): 6; Good Above, p. 218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6555

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Event 9216 -(95E847DB)

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Date: summer 1985
-Description: Midnight. Biochemist Kary -Mullis (who in 1993 won a Nobel Prize for his work on the polymerase -chain reaction) is outside his cabin in Mendocino County, California, -when he sees a glow next to a fir tree. Pointing his flashlight in that -direction, he sees that the glow is coming from a raccoon with black -eyes. The raccoon speaks to him, saying, “Good evening, doctor.” He -gives a friendly reply, and a moment later it is suddenly morning and he -is walking on a road uphill from the cabin with no idea how he has -gotten there. His clothes are clean and dry. Mullis goes back to the -cabin for some sleep. Later, he returns to the area near the fir tree -and experiences an irrational panic. In 1987, he sees the cover of Whitley -Strieber’s Communion and feels a vague sense of recognition. His -adult daughter Louise, who has also experienced missing time at the -cabin, has the same reaction. Mullis has no memory of seeing a UFO or -having an abduction experience, but he insists the experience is real. -(Kary B. Mullis, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Pantheon, 1998, pp. 130–136; -Bill Chalker, “An -Interesting Aside,” -1999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6554

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Event 9217 -(6D70831B)

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Date: 6/27/1985
-Description: During startup of the first reactor at the Balakovo Nuclear -Power Plant, Saratov Oblast, Russia, a relief valve bursts and -superheated steam at 572° F. escapes into the annular compartments -surrounding the reactor well. Fourteen men are possibly boiled alive. -The incident is covered up by Soviet authorities. (Adam Higginbotham, -Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 70–71)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6556

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Event 9218 -(ABB45C28)

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Date: 6/28/1985
-Description: USAF ACCESS RESTRICTED NOTICE: Report TR-DE-3A, Oct. 15, -1955, from Air Tech. Intel. Ctr., file no. TS5–2862, has been WITHDRAWN -from the National Archives and is classified a TOP SECRET UFO -Report.
-Type: report
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p529)
-Location: National Archives, Washington DC

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Event 9219 -(060AB1AB)

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Date: 7/1985
-Description: 3:00 p.m. As a pilot is flying a Grumman AA TR-2 toward the -Port Columbus International Airport [now the John Glenn Columbus -International Airport] in Ohio, the airport gives him authorization to -investigate a “second sun” about two-thirds the size of a football field -a few miles to the northwest. It is not tracked on ground radar. As he -approaches, he sees it is a huge bright light that switches off as he -gets closer, revealing a gray sphere. The object apparently consists of -“millions” of clearly visible, pentagon-shaped, partially translucent -crystals. The pilot estimates they are 6 inches in diameter, all spaced -identically about 12 inches apart. He decides to penetrate the mass with -his left wing, hoping he can knock some to the ground. As his wing -slices through, he hears what sounds like a hailstorm on a tin roof and -he sees hundreds of crystals breaking along the wing. The aircraft -turbulence does not disturb the small objects, but their impact on the -wing nearly destabilizes him. Later, he looks for fragments embedded in -the wing, but does not find any. (George Filer, “Filer’s Files,” -#12-2005, March 16, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6557

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Event 9220 -(A2061316)

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Date: 7/14/1985
-Description: 12:56 a.m. Brian McMullan Sr., Brian McMullan Jr., and a -third member of the rock band C.E.IV (because of their interest in UFOs) -are in the garden outside the home of their bass player in a northern -suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, when they see an amber ball skipping along -the sky. It crosses the sky in 25 seconds, slowly changing color to red. -They estimate it is about 60 feet across and vanishes toward Fenwick -Moor. The band remembers being “paralyzed with awe” for several minutes -after the sighting. (Jenny Randles, “Cosmic Rock,” Fortean Times 397 -(October 2020): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6558

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Event 9221 -(C30D3932)

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Date: 7/18/1985
-Description: Jaime -Shandera and William -Moore discover the unsigned, carbon-copy 1954 Cutler-Twining memo in -Box 189 of Record Group 341 in the National Archives in Washington, -D.C., between two file folders.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6559

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Event 9222 -(75777FC5)

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Date: 7/22/1985
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Two Hawk jets of the Zimbabwe Air Force piloted -by C. Cordy-Hedge and T. R. Van Rooyen are scrambled from Thornhill Air -Base in Gweru, Zimbabwe, following sightings in Bulawayo and five other -cities in Matabeleland South. The object is seen and tracked on radar at -Bulawayo Airport. It looks orange and round with a short cone on top. -When the jets arrive at Bulawayo, the object is hovering at 7,000 feet, -but it suddenly accelerates to a height of above 70,000 feet in less -than a minute. The Hawks level off at 31,000 feet and return to -Thornhill, where the object is seen for a few moments before -disappearing horizontally at high speed. Air Commodore David -Thorne states: “As far as my Air Staff is concerned, we believe -implicitly that the unexplained UFOs are from some civilization beyond -our planet.” UFO researcher Cynthia -Hind speaks to some Bulawayo witnesses who think the object is a -balloon coated with reflecting material, but radar operators say it is -clear it is no balloon. (Good Above, pp. 433–434; -MUFON UFO Journal, November 1985; Cynthia Hind, “Report -on the UFO -Sighting in Zimbabwe: July, 1985,” BUFORA Bulletin, no. 21 (May -1986): 5–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6560

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Event 9223 -(AA869246)

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Date: 8/1985
-Description: Several dozen Chinese scientists gather in Dalian, -Liaoning, China, to exchange views on UFO research for the first time. -Some 40 papers are presented and 17 of them are selected to be published -in the proceedings. An article in China Daily reports that there is an -enormous interest in UFOs in China and that the China UFO Research -Organization has a membership of 20,000. The organization’s chairman, -Liang Renglin of Jinan University in Guangzhou, says that more than 600 -reports were made in the past 5 years. (“UFO Conference Held in -Darlian,” China Daily, August 27, 1985; Good Above, pp. 219, -472)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6561

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Event 9224 -(2FD42145)

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Date: 8/5/1985
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Antiaircraft batteries open fire on a UFO that is -flying from west to east over northeastern Tehran, Iran. They apparently -miss. The batteries believe the object is an Iraqi warplane. (“Iran -Fires on Shining Object in Sky,” -Newport News (Va.) Daily Press, August 7, 1985, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6562

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Event 9225 -(4ABF5A9B)

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Date: 8/10/1985
-Description: The Russian nuclear submarine K-431 is refueling at the -Chazhma Bay naval facility near Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. A -reactor tank lid is improperly replaced, which quickly results in a -thermal explosion. There are 10 fatalities, and 49 other people suffer -radiation injuries. The explosion releases a massive amount of -radioactivity and contaminates large areas of land and water. The -disaster is kept secret for many years. (Wikipedia, “Soviet -submarine K-431”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6563

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Event 9226 -(4DA7B367)

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Date: 8/15/1985
-Description: 4:05 p.m. Greek Olympic Airways Flight OA 132, piloted by -Christos Stamulis, is flying from Zürich, Switzerland, to Athens and is -just passing the Swiss-Italian border at 25,000 feet when a wingless -projectile passes 200–500 feet below them from left to right. The object -is about 6 feet long, dark brown or black, and is coming from the -Italian side of the border. Italian and Swiss military deny any tests. -(Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown -Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6564

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Event 9227 -(5C40F0BF)

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Date: 8/17/1985
-Description: Afternoon. For several hours, witnesses throughout central -Chile see distinct, luminous spots in the sky, sometimes motionless, -sometimes moving slowly. Television crews film the objects, astronomers -in Santiago photograph them, and the Arturo Merino Benítez International -Airport tracks them on radar. Early explanations by the Chilean Air -Force center on weather or research balloons, but a Chilean Civil -Aeronautics report states that the sightings remain an enigma. (J. -Antonio Huneeus, “A -Chilean Overview,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 218 (June 1986): -5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6565

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Event 9228 -(02AD1012)

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Date: 8/18/1985
-Description: Four civilian pilots are flying a Cessna on a southerly -course at 3,200 feet altitude near Söderhamn, Gävleborg, Sweden, when -they spot a missilelike object, some 20 feet long, going in the opposite -direction. They see it is a metallic missile with steering fins in the -back. It occasionally changes its course according to the terrain. The -pilot dives down a bit to follow it, but they can’t keep up. The Swedish -military spends 6 months trying to identify it. (Clas Svahn and Anders -Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1994): 12; Swords 369–370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6566

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Event 9229 -(2FAC4EBB)

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Date: 8/27/1985
-Description: Darlian, China, the “China Daily” reports: 20,000 people -are involved in UFO research. The first recognized photo of a UFO in -China was taken in 1945.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p472)
-Location: Darlian, China

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Event 9230 -(061CA6E9)

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Date: 9/9/1985
-Description: 12:05 p.m. British pilot David J. Hastings is flying a -Cessna 337 Super Skymaster with his instructor, US pilot David -Patterson, south of Las Vegas, Nevada, with the Mojave Desert in -California just coming into view, when they nearly collide with an -oblong-shaped object that suddenly appears directly in front of them. -They duck beneath the instrument panel. When they get up, they sense -something moving on the port side of the plane, so Hastings takes two -photos in that direction. When the film is developed, one shot shows a -blurry image of a UFO. (David J. Hastings, “Across the USA in a Cessna -Skymaster,” Pilot, June 2000, pp. 56–59; UFOFiles2, pp. 132– 133; -Good Need, pp. 399–400)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6567

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Event 9231 -(5F5005F3)

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Date: 9/13/1985
-Description: The US P78-1 Solwind solar observation satellite is -destroyed in orbit at an altitude of 326 miles by an ASM-135 ASAT -missile launched from a USAF F-15 Eagle fighter aircraft. The test -results in 285 cataloged pieces of orbital debris. (Wikipedia, “Solwind”; -Wikipedia, “ASM-135 -ASAT”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6568

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Event 9232 -(6F5447E2)

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Date: 9/15/1985
-Description: Disc-shaped object hovered ahead of car. Second object -paced alongside car, bright illumination of area
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bagshot Heath, Surrey, UK
-ID: 402

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Event 9233 -(293146AD)

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Date: 9/27/1985
-Description: Two police officers in Long Clawson, England, are the -latest witnesses of a triangular-shaped object that has been seen -multiple times in the area around Leicester since August. (“Throwing -a Light on UFO,” Leicester (UK) Mercury, December 2, 1985, via UFO -Newsclipping Service, no. 199 (February 1986): 12) Autumn — 8:30 p.m. A -father and son are driving in Cannock Chase toward Rugeley, -Staffordshire, England. As they round a bend in the road, they see a -large, black, triangular object stationary 150 feet in the sky about 100 -feet away. A bright light appears at each point of the triangle. After a -short time, it shoots away at incredible speed. (“Tale -of a Chase Hi-Tech Triangle,” Wolverhampton (UK) Cannock Chase Post, -December 21, 2000, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 383 (June 2001): -13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6569

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Event 9234 -(E517D0CF)

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Date: 10/1985
-Description: The Russian motorship Baltiysky-35 is in the Baltic Sea -bound from Lübeck, Germany, to Riga, Latvia, when the crew observes a -bright dot in the sky emanating concentric circles of a light-green -color. Researcher Konstantin Khazanovich considers this to be the result -of a Soviet ballistic missile laiunch from the Murmansk area. (Stonehill -and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6570

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Event 9235 -(3499B4FE)

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Date: 11/1985
-Description: GEPAN has received 1,615 UFO reports from the Gendarmerie -in France dating as far back as 1974. (Clark III 546)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6571

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Event 9236 -(B35711EB)

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Date: 11/3/1985
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Two men in a small vessel in the waters off -Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia, notice a high- altitude object in -the north looking a bit larger than a star, rapidly moving toward them. -It sends a beam of light to earth at a sharp angle, although the beam -does not reach the ground. As the UFO approaches the boat its engine -stops. The captain restarts the engine, but it dies again when the -object is overhead. The UFO moves off toward the city and disappears. -The men use oars to return to shore. (Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, -The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, -Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 77–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6572

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Event 9237 -(AC24DABD)

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Date: 11/16/1985
-Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 403

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Event 9238 -(F0F5A577)

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Date: 11/16/1985
-Description: Mark -Rodeghier is named deputy scientific director of the Center for UFO -Studies. (“To Our Readers,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6573

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Event 9239 -(0C94A656)

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Date: 11/19/1985
-Description: Silent, triangular object with body lights
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Madison, WI
-ID: 404

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Event 9240 -(DFCCE41D)

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Date: 11/19/1985
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A woman is returning to her home near Madison, -Wisconsin. Suddenly she sees three lights above a row of trees -descending toward a house on the north side of the street. She pulls -over to the curb and sees the lights make a sharp, 90° turn toward her -car. Then it rises several feet in front of the car avoiding the power -lines. Triangular and black, the object is the size of a large car with -a light on each side. Sweeping to the north, the triangle stops and -hovers directly over a house. She leaves and calls the Madison police -department. (Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part Two,” IUR 13, -no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1988): 17–18; Marler 163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6575

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Event 9241 -(D8AB37FD)

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Date: 11/19/1985
-Description: At the 1985 Geneva Summit between President Ronald -Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, Reagan -remarks during a toast that if the people of the world were to find out -that there was some alien life form that was going to attack the Earth -approaching on Halley’s Comet, then that knowledge would unite all the -peoples of the world. (presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th -President, January 20, 1981– January 20, 1989”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6574

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Event 9242 -(B9F206DA)

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Date: 11/22/1985
-Description: Silent triangular object
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: DeForest, WI
-ID: 405

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Event 9243 -(E38D5FC0)

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Date: 11/22/1985
-Description: Hynek writes -a letter to International UFO Reporter Editor Jerome -Clark, effectively resigning as editor-in-chief, citing health -reasons. He also states that his connection with Tina -Choate, Brian Myers, and the ICUFOR operation in Phoenix, Arizona, -is “null and void.” Funding from the British investor Kaye has fallen -through, and Choate and Myers are more interested in the commercial -aspects than UFO research. (“Dr. Hynek Resigns,” IUR 10, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1985): 20; O’Connell, 2017, pp. 332–338)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6576

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Event 9244 -(C4C4F41E)

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Date: 11/22/1985
-Description: After 5:00 p.m. A Wisconsin state employee is driving north -on County Highway CV near DeForest, Wisconsin, when he notices three -white lights hovering 20–30 feet above a farmhouse. He exits the highway -for a closer look. The UFO is roughly triangular, dull gray, 40 feet -across, and its bottom is sloped into contours. It is hanging stationary -over a 60-foot-high tree as the witness pulls his car past it. He gets -out of his car about 200 feet away, and the object moves closer toward -him to about 100 feet over the road. Smoothly and quickly it moves away -to the west. (Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part Two,” IUR 13, -no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1988): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6577

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Event 9245 -(9523A990)

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Date: 12/1985
-Description: Some members of the Centro Ufologico Nazionale, including -Paolo -Toselli, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Edoardo Russo, are dissatisfied -with its administration and priorities. They break off and form the -Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici. The newsletter Notizie C.U.N. becomes -Notizie UFO with the same editor, Gian Paolo Grassino, in Turin, Italy. -It changes the name in February 1998 to UFO Notizie and is now published -as Notizie CISU. (Notizie -UFO, no. -11 (December 1985); UFO -Notizie, no. 57 (February 1998); Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, -“Notizie -CISU”; 2Pinotti 96–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6578

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Event 9246 -(D8A4EAF3)

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Date: 12/23/1985
-Description: 3:10 a.m. The merchant ferry Manuel -Soto, owned -by Transmediterránea Company, is sailing from Las Palmas to Arrecife in -the Canary Islands when the third officer on duty sees a light on the -horizon ahead. Initially he identifies it as the star Antares but soon -realizes the position is wrong. He takes measurements of its height and -azimuth. It remains in the same spot for 15 minutes, after which it -begins moving quickly. Other crew members see the light approaching the -ship and reaching the zenith 2 minutes later. The object’s outline does -not resemble an airplane or helicopter, and it has an intense white -light at its center, a weaker red light near it, and another soft light -set apart. The object is flying low and silently. (Swords 436)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6579

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Event 9247 -(97297A67)

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Date: 12/26/1985
-Description: Whitley Strieber alien encounter
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ulster County, NY
-ID: 406

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Event 9248 -(BB11FEA8)

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Date: 12/26/1985
-Description: Night. Novelist Whitley -Strieber undergoes a bizarre UFO abduction in his cabin in upstate -New York. After he is awakened by a peculiar noise, he opens his eyes to -see a small, inhuman creature rushing toward his bed. The next thing he -knows it is morning, and he is feeling disoriented and angry but can’t -tell why. Later, the full story of missing time, terrifying flashbacks, -and intrusive examinations by entities he calls the “visitors” unfolds -under the direction of Budd -Hopkins in hypnosis sessions by Donald -Klein of the New York Psychiatric Institute beginning in March 1986. -Strieber tells the story in his 1987 book Communion. (Whitley Strieber, -Communion: -A True Story, Avon, -1987; Clark III 1112–1113; Nick Redfern, “Whitley -Strieber’s Communion -at 30,” -Mysterious Universe, March 2, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6580

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- Event 9249 (D27DBF73)

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Date: 1986
-Description: NORAD technical intelligence works on 813 initial Unknown -targets this year (whittled down quickly from an even greater number of -Uncorrelated Targets). Nearly two-thirds are pursued by fighter -interceptors and more than one-third of the scrambled cases are -successfully intercepted and identified. Almost half of the total are -identified by further Air Traffic Control correlation, leaving 123 -Remaining Unknowns at the end of the year. This is reduced further in -early 1987 to 87 “Not Identified” REMs by additional intelligence -correlation analysis, leaving roughly 10% of the initial amount -unidentified. (Clark III 801)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6581

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Event 9250 -(87F192F4)

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Date: 1986
-Description: Night. Dissident Chinese writer Ma -Jian has escaped from custody and is making his way through -dangerous terrain in Lancang Lahu Autonomous County in southern Yunnan, -China. Suddenly, a ball of light the size of a cantaloupe appears in the -darkness. It rises from a stream and floats through the trees, then -stops by some branches 30 feet away. It drops to his eye level and he -follows it through the forest, guiding his way for 12 miles until dawn. -(Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path through China, Pantheon, 2001, p. 279; -Clark III 652–653)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6582

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Event 9251 -(917912A1)

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Date: 1986
-Description: Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO over Kapustin Test -Range
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: link
-Location: Kapustin Test Range
-See also: 11/79

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Event 9252 -(3089B83C)

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Date: 1/1986
-Description: Jimmy Goddard begins publishing Amskaya, a newsletter of -the contactee-oriented STAR Fellowship, in Weybridge, Surrey, England. -It continues through July 2018. (Amskaya, -no. 1 (January 1986))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6583

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Event 9253 -(3B539AD8)

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Date: 1/1/1986
-Description: The Usenet bulletin board service ParaNet is launched, -managed by James J. Speiser in Arizona. It quickly develops into a -thriving community where a full range of researchers, skeptics, and -cranks can post articles. Dale Goudie takes over the online information -service Computer UFO Network. Operating out of Mercer Island, -Washington, it functions as a UFO bulletin board using a voice and data -line connected to an IBM personal computer. CUFON receives most of its -reports from Bob -Gribble of the National UFO Reporting Center. In Seattle. By late -1986, Goudie has more than 1,700 members and is receiving many calls per -day, mostly IFOs. (MUFON UFO Journal, February 1986; MUFON UFO Journal, -July 1986; Walt Andrus, “Director’s -Message,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 223, November 1986, pp. 19, 18; -Dolan II 380–381)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6584

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Event 9254 -(8A5CB99B)

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Date: 1/3/1986
-Description: Quadrantid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 407

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Event 9255 -(5C56E816)

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Date: 1/7/1986
-Description: UFO emitted six light beams toward ground. About n minutes -later in Pittsburgh, silver-gray disc with body lights hovered, mist -formed around it. Object tilted, moved out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Butler, PA
-ID: 408

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Event 9256 -(5F5382E4)

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Date: 1/7/1986
-Description: A UFO emitting beams of light toward the ground is seen in -Butler, Pennsylvania. In Pittsburgh, 20 minutes later, a silver-gray -disc is seen hovering. Mist forms around it, the object tilts, and it -moves out of sight. (MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6585

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Event 9257 -(D0225509)

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Date: 1/9/1986
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Multiple cars stop along Interstate 84 in -Hartford, Connecticut, to watch a silent boomerang- shaped object, -estimated to be the size of a Boeing 747, with white, red, blue, and -green lights. It moves low through the sky then hovers for 15 seconds -before heading off to the west. The boomerang is also seen by dozens of -witnesses in Torrington, Connecticut. A family sees the UFO, with 10 -white lights, hover directly over their house, engulfing their home in a -brilliant white light. They are so frightened they flee to the basement. -The building inspector for Torrington sees a “cigar with square windows” -near Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks. The FAA claims the -object is a blimp, although there are no blimps flying in the area. -(NightSiege, 5–6, 194)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6586

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Event 9258 -(14BEAA27)

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Date: 1/29/1986
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Inhabitants of Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, -Russia, see a reddish ball about half the size of the full moon. The -ball is flying soundlessly parallel to the ground. It is later -determined that its speed is approximately 34 mph and that it is about -2,300–2,625 feet in altitude. When the object reaches Height 611 (also -known as Mount Izvestkovaya) it starts to descend and then crashes into -the hill. All witnesses but one agree there is no sound when the object -reaches the ground. Some say the object falls with a flash and is not -visible after that; others claim it oscillates at altitude above the -hill, radiating light of varying intensity as it goes up and down. The -light given off by the object is described by some as a forest fire, -which lasts for approximately one hour. A scientific team led by Valery -Dvuzhilny, head of the Far Eastern Commission for Anomalous -Phenomena, arrives on the site on February 3. Some rocks at the impact -site have drops of silvery metal, which are later determined to be lead. -The type of lead found on Height 611 is different from lead found in -local lead deposits. Also, black, glassy, drop-shaped beads and mesh -fragments are found at the site. In all, approximately 70 grams of lead, -5 grams of mesh fragments, and 40 grams of beads are discovered. The -radiation level of the landing ground is normal. Photos of the site -using two different cameras all develop as blank. Chemical analyses of -the beads show they are mostly composed of lead, silicon, and iron. Some -of the drops contain significant amounts of zinc, bismuth, and rare -earth elements. An analysis of the soil, rocks, and burned wood taken -from the landing ground shows that the chemical composition is similar -to the composition of samples taken from the site of the 1908 Tunguska -event. The mesh fragments are also analyzed; the material does not -dissolve in strong acids and organic solvents, even when exposed to high -temperatures for prolonged periods of time. One of the mesh fragments is -discovered to be composed of scandium, gold, lanthanum, sodium, and -samarium. An analysis of another mesh fragment shows gold, silver, and -nickel. After that fragment is heated in a vacuum, the analysis no -longer shows these elements; however, molybdenum and rhenium are -detected. The concentration of gold found in one of the mesh fragments -is equivalent to 1,100 grams per metric ton. This is much higher than -gold deposits in the region, which become economic to extract when the -concentration of gold reaches 4 grams per metric ton. There are no gold -deposits in Dalnegorsk that contain gold at concentrations high enough -to extract. (StealthSkater Archives, [Dalnegorsk -articles]; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, Russia’s Roswell -Incident, Flying Disk Press, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6587

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Event 9259 -(BD47C884)

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Date: 2/4/1986
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A woman in Reseda, California, wakes up with a -sinus headache. She hears animals in the neighborhood barking, growling, -and howling. Looking outside, she sees above a power line a black object -hovering with a peculiar vibrating motion. It is “like a black mirror -with a small, white fluorescent aura around it.” After 3–4 minutes, it -emits orange bands of light. She wakes her husband, who manages to see a -thin, white mist floating away. A strong wind comes up for 5 minutes -afterward. (Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR -11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6588

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Event 9260 -(D13FF119)

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Date: 2/6/1986
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Valery -Dvuzhilny reports that two yellow globes appear in the north and -approach the Dalnegorsk crash site, circle it four times, and disappear -in a flash. (StealthSkater Archives, [Dalnegorsk -articles])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6589

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Event 9261 -(67CF20F3)

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Date: 2/8/1986
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Matthew Woodard, 16, and Melinda Hays, 17, are -driving toward Lima, Ohio, from the west on State Route 117. As they are -crossing the bridge over the Ottawa River, they see a large, dark object -about 50–60 feet long hovering above some trees on the right side of the -road. It parallels them as they turn left on Seriff Road. It has a -rectangular upper section with a single steady white light on top and -sloping sides with a red and blue light on the lower left. The object -eventually disappears in the distance behind trees and houses. (John P. -Timmerman, “A Giant Triangle,” IUR 11, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1986): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6590

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Event 9262 -(92BDFFB6)

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Date: 2/12/1986
-Description: 12:33 a.m. A woman who lives on the northwest edge of Lima, -Ohio, is awakened by a loud sound. She looks out and sees a “strange -dark object” in the southeast sky. It is triangular in shape, has white -lights in the two lower corners and a red light in the top corner, and -is hovering about 250 feet away. She goes to wake her husband, but when -she returns the object is gone. (John P. Timmerman, “A Giant Triangle,” -IUR 11, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1986): 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6591

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Event 9263 -(586A1758)

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Date: 2/26/1986
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Charles, -the Prince of Wales, is returning to London, England, after a tour -of Dallas, Texas. While flying over the Irish Sea, the pilot of his -Vickers VC10 observes a bright red flash in the sky. Charles does not -see it, but several other aircraft in the vicinity also report a reddish -ball of fire with a tail (undoubtedly a meteor or space debris reentry). -(Jenny Randles, “Nonencounter with a non-UFO,” IUR 11, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1986): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6592

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Event 9264 -(A78CBA8C)

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Date: 2/28/1986
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Multiple witnesses in New Castle, Pennsylvania, -watch a 50-foot-long lighted object, with two apparent legs for landing, -hovering and moving up, down, and sideways. A dog becomes completely -agitated. (MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986, p. 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6593

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Event 9265 -(0C191B06)

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Date: 2/28/1986
-Description: Hovering oval object, body lights, brightly illuminated the -area, moved up, down, and sideways. Dog agitated during sighting
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New Castle, PA
-ID: 409

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Event 9266 -(193AA7B4)

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Date: 3/18/1986
-Description: Two triangular objects flying one behind the other with -their points forward are seen near Newport, South Wales. The first is -covered with multicolored lights, while the second has three lights at -each point. Both are a few hundred yards long. (Marler 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6594

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Event 9267 -(D7A1DE2A)

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Date: 3/19/1986
-End date: 6/15/1986
-Description: Concentration of sightings including many physiological -effects cases and traumatic effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Brazil
-ID: 410

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Event 9268 -(0AE9EE45)

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Date: 3/26/1986
-Description: Night. Some 500 witnesses in Kingston, New York, see an -object “like a giant Ferris wheel” the size of a football field. It -makes a humming sound and has intensely bright lights, mostly white but -also red, yellow, green, and blue. A dark mass behind the lights blots -out the sky. Suddenly the object flips on its side before moving away. A -police officer who sees the UFO says it cannot be “a bunch of guys -flying in planes.” (NightSiege 197– 198)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6595

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Event 9269 -(94AC686D)

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Date: 4/22/1986
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two people are driving on the Via Flaminia near -Pesaro, Italy, when their car engine stops. After hearing a strange -sound, they see 3 discs 65 feet in diameter with domes and tripods -standing on the left of the road. They have white and blue lights. After -hovering for 20 seconds, the discs emit a strong whistle, accelerate, -and disappear. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference -Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6597

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Event 9270 -(EF6625ED)

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Date: 4/22/1986
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. Medical technicians taking an injured man -in an ambulance to Debrecen, Hungary, see a huge, luminous, orange -sphere flying silently above the right side of the road at Hajdudorog -and moving along with them. It is about 325 feet away from them, -floating at 100–130 feet. The sphere is surrounded by a ring, and flames -appear on its surface from time to time. Two flames blaze on opposite -sides, while another moves to and fro along its middle. The sighting -lasts for 15 minutes for a distance of nearly 12 miles. When the -ambulance reaches Hajdúböszörmény, the object speeds up, stops above a -forest, and slowly descends while radiating a bright light that -illuminates the trees. It goes out shortly afterward. On the return from -Debrecen, the huge sphere returns over Józsa, this time with 6–7 flames -instead of 3. It speeds over the village and “waits” on the other side -for the ambulance, following it again to the north. The perplexed -technicians decide to stop the ambulance. The UFO slows down, but does -not stop, moving over a power line and illuminating the cables below. -The ambulance recommences its journey, with the object following for -another 10 minutes. A short time later, covering the same route, the -technicians notice that the forest where the sphere landed is on fire. -They find the grass all wet, with 5- foot flames (natural gas?) -emanating from the ground. (Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in -Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6596

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Event 9271 -(DE8C3F39)

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Date: 4/25/1986
-Description: 9:05 p.m. A private pilot sees a V-shaped configuration of -approximately 12 spherical nocturnal lights for about 15 seconds in -Memphis, Tennessee. He estimates they are moving at 300 knots at an -altitude of under 1,000 feet. (Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: -1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6598

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Event 9272 -(D25BC41E)

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Date: 4/26/1986
-Description: 1:23 a.m. The Number 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl -Nuclear Power Plant at Pripyat, Ukraine, has a power surge during a -backup generator test. Flawed reactor design and inadequately trained -personnel lead to the fuel rods overheating, causing an explosion and -meltdown, necessitating the evacuation of 300,000 people from the area. -Around 5% of the core is released into the atmosphere, dispersing -radioactive material across Europe. The reactor explosion kills two of -the reactor operating staff. In the emergency response that follows, 134 -firemen and station staff are hospitalized with acute radiation syndrome -due to absorbing high doses of ionizing radiation. Of these 134 people, -28 die in the days to months afterward, and approximately 14 suspected -radiation-induced cancer deaths follow within the next 10 years. Among -the wider population, an excess of 15 childhood thyroid cancer deaths -are documented as of 2011. The United Nations Scientific Committee on -the Effects of Atomic Radiation at multiple times reviews all the -published research on the incident and finds that at present, fewer than -100 documented deaths are likely attributable to increased exposure to -radiation. Determining the total eventual number of exposure-related -deaths is uncertain based on the linear no-threshold model, a contested -statistical model that is used in estimates of low-level radon and air -pollution exposure. (Wikipedia, “Chernobyl -disaster”; Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & -Schuster, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6599

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Event 9273 -(313217A4)

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Date: 4/26/1986
-Description: About 4:30 a.m. During the nuclear disaster at the -Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, Mikhail Varitsky and other -technicians observe a fiery sphere, similar in color to brass, within -1,000 feet of the damaged Unit 4 reactor at the height of the fire. Two -bright rays shoot out from the object, directed at the reactor. It -hovers in the areas about 3 minutes, then the rays vanish as the UFO -moves slowly away to the northwest. Radiation levels taken just before -the UFO appears read 3,000 milliroentgens/hour; after the rays, the -readings show 800 milliroentgens/hour. (Paul Stonehill and Philip -Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron -Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 68–69; “UFO -Prevents Blast at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant,” Pravda, September 16, -2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6600

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Event 9274 -(10D30FD8)

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Date: 4/27/1986
-Description: J. -Allen Hynek dies in Scottsdale, Arizona, from a malignant brain -tumor. (Mark Rodeghier, “Good-bye, Allen,” IUR 11, no 3 (May/June 1986): -3, 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6601

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Event 9275 -(F39CB8A3)

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Date: 5/6/1986
-Description: Several witnesses are driving from Worthing to Billinghurst -in West Sussex, England, when they see a trapezium-shaped object with -two square lights in front, and two green and one red light in the rear. -Making a dull humming sound, it hovers above the road then zigzags -behind their car. After they step out of their vehicle, the object comes -straight at them, turns, and proceeds to the north. (Marler 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6602

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Event 9276 -(03F80CF7)

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Date: 5/8/1986
-Description: UFO researcher Lee M. Graham, who has met several times -with Bill -Moore and received documents about Project Snowbird and Project -Aquarius, writes to the Defense Investigative Service about Moore’s -contacts. Moore had sported an ID badge that is identical to other DIS -badges Graham has seen. Moore says his superior was named “Richard,” -which probably indicates USAF intelligence agent Richard -C. Doty. (MUFON UFO Journal, June 1989; Dolan II 406–407)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6603

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Event 9277 -(B21153CC)

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Date: 5/11/1986
-Description: Minister Robert H. Henderson and his wife, Nann, of -Phoenix, AR, were flying at an altitude of 8500 ft. at 4 p.m. when a -very bright UFO was seen approaching head-on to them. As he prepared to -take evasive action the UFO passed quickly to the left and below of his -plane. The UFO was seen to be wingless and resembling a “modified -half-sphere, with the flat side down.” The closure rate was estimated at -about 1200 mph.
-Type: aerial ufo encounter
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: near Sedona, AR

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Event 9278 -(10EA8E5F)

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Date: 5/11/1986
-Description: Cessna pilot and wife saw dome-shaped object make head-on -pass at plane
-Type: sighting
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Sedona, AZ
-ID: 411

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Event 9279 -(E84C8BEB)

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Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: Near Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Between 9:00 to -12 midnight the Brazilian Air Defense and the Civil Air System were -swamped with Radar and pilot UFO sightings. As Ospires Silva, President -of Petrobras Oil Company were preparing to land, the control tower -informed him of UFO targets on their radar. He and his companion, Alcir -Pereira da Silva, saw bright red-orange UFOs, not at all like stars or -planes. They attempted to pursue the UFOs for 30 min. but gave up as the -UFOs seemed to be jumping from place to place. At this time three F-5E -fighter jets were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB. Capt. Marcio Jordao was -able to approach within 12 miles of an UFO, visible to him as a bright -light changing from white to green. Lt. Kleber Caldas Marinho chased -another UFO which was a very intense light, changing from white to green -then red again. Both pilots broke off chase as they were running low on -fuel. Ground Radar picked up 10–13 more UFOs that surrounded another -plane with Capt. Armindo Souza Viriato de Marinho, K.C. Freitas piloting -it. Capt. Freitas tracked the UFOs on his radar, but only de Freitas, -A.S.V. saw them visually once as they climbed vertically past him. Brig. -Gen. Octavio Moreira Lima made these events public at a press conference -and allowed the pilots and radar operators to be questioned by the -media.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
-Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-See also: 7/52

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Event 9280 -(0E920666)

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Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: 10:23 p.m. By this time, the Air Defense and Air Traffic -Control Center is on full alert, radar screens showing numerous -unidentified targets. Three F-5E fighter jets are scrambled from Santa -Cruz Air Force Base near São Paulo. One of the pilots, Capt. Marcio -Brisola Jordão, is able to approach within 12 miles of an unidentified -target, visible to him as a strong, constant light that is changing -colors continuously from white to green. He breaks off contact when the -object moves away out to sea. Another F-5E, piloted by Lt. Kleber Caldas -Marinho, chases a very intense red light that changes to white, then -green, then red again. Running low on fuel, he has to return to base. -Both ground and airborne radar are tracking the objects. After the F-5E -pilots make visual contact, more jets are scrambled from Anápolis Air -Force Base, Goiás, about 10:50 p.m. This second flight consists of three -Mirage III fighters equipped with Sidewinders and Martra missiles. One -of the pilots, Capt. Armindo Sousa Viriato de Freitas, is vectored -toward 10–13 unidentified targets at a distance of 20 miles. Radar -controllers see the objects surrounding his plane, 6 stationed on one -side and 7 on the other, and later following his plane at a distance of -two miles, but only see them visually once when they are climbing -vertically. During the night, a total of 21 luminous objects, apparently -spherical and ranging in size from 165 to 330 feet in diameter, are -seen, captured on radar, and pursued by jet fighters. Activity ceases -around 11:20 p.m. The Air Force Minister, Brig.Gen. Octávio -Júlio Moreira Lima, makes -the events public at a press conference and allows the pilots and radar -officers to submit to news media questioning in Brasilia. (NICAP, “Brazilian -Aircraft / UFO Encounter / Radar-Visual”; -Wikipedia, “Noite -dos discos voadores”; Willy Smith, “The Brazilian Incident,” IUR 11, -no. 4 (July/Aug. 1986): 4–6; MUFON UFO Journal, September 1986; J. -Antonio Huneeus, “UFO -Alert in Brazil,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 223 (November 1986): 6–7, -9, 15; Willy Smith, “UFO -Chase in Brazil (May 1986),” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 1 -(December 1986): 6–8; Willy Smith, “UFOs in Latin America,” UFOs 1947– -1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 111–113; Don Berliner, with Marie -Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available -Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 121–127; -Kean, pp. 199–202; -Good Above, pp. 427–428; -Clark III 830–835; Brazil 417–441; Patrick Gross, “Jets -Chase UFOs over Brazil in 1986”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6607

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Event 9281 -(E74BEBA8)

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Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A Xingu light airplane piloted by Col. Ozires -Silva, an aeronautical engineer and a manufacturing CEO for -Petrobras, is preparing for a landing at São José dos Campos. His -copilot Cmdr. Alcir Pereira da Silva receives a call from CINDACTA in -Brasilia asking them to confirm some unidentified targets. They look and -see bright red or red-orange lights “not at all like stars or planes.” -Aborting the landing, they attempt to pursue one of the objects, which -blinks on and off irregularly, appearing in a new location each time as -if changing position rapidly. After about 30 minutes, they give up the -chase and land. The Xingu makes three other attempts to land, but each -time is diverted toward looking at other unidentified lights and -targets.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6606

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Event 9282 -(DED7BE80)

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Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Visual UFO sightings continue over São José dos -Campos, with objects remaining motionless for long periods of time. By -8:00 p.m., CINDACTA radars in Brasilia track 8 unidentified targets on -their screens.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6605

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Event 9283 -(0AA20A75)

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Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: 6:30 p.m. 2ndSgt Sergio Mota da Silva, airport flight -controller for São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, sees two luminous -objects about 6,500 feet above the city and 9 miles away. Through -binoculars, the objects have distinct borders and intense multicolored -flashing lights in the lower part. At 7:00 p.m., flight controllers at -Brasilia and São Paulo confirm three primary radar targets above São -José dos Campos. Around 7:30 p.m., da Silva sees more lights, -predominantly red, but changing to yellow, green, and orange.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6604

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Event 9284 -(BD6054BF)

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Date: 5/19/1986
-Description: Radar-visual and pilot sightings, military jet interceptors -scrambled in pursuit
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-ID: 412

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Event 9285 -(61DDB2D0)

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Date: 6/1986
-Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici in Turin, Italy, begins -publishing its official journal UFO–Rivista di Informazione Ufologica -through autumn 2017. (UFO–Rivista -di Informazione Ufologica, no. -1 (June 1986))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6608

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Event 9286 -(938082F1)

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Date: 6/26/1986
-Description: 9:49 p.m. A husband and wife see two objects traveling from -southwest to northeast, about as bright as Venus, in Pittsburgh, -Pennsylvania. They move on parallel paths below a scattered cloud cover. -After a minute, they appear to begin rotating, then stop and move out of -sight. (Mark Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, -no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6609

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Event 9287 -(6734FC36)

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Date: 7/11/1986
-Description: A Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth attack aircraft crashes -in Sequoia National Forest, California, killing pilot Maj. Ross -E. Mulhare and starting a fire. The Air Force establishes restricted -airspace around the site. Armed guards prohibit entry, including -firefighters, and a helicopter gunship circles the area. All F-117 -debris is replaced with remains of a F-101A Voodoo crash stored at Area -51. (Jeffrey T. Richelson, “When -Secrets Crash,” Air Force Magazine, July 1, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6610

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Event 9288 -(C6E78208)

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Date: 7/15/1986
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A single witness walking home from the bus -station in Watertown, Massachusetts, is watching airliners land at Logan -Airport when he sees a string of three bright-orange lights. They are -moving along the same glide path as the incoming jets but seem to slow -down, come to a dead stop, then vanish instantly. (Mark Rodeghier, “From -the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): -13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6611

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Event 9289 -(369F4D01)

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Date: 8/1986
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Meteorologist Ion Lazeanu is making routine radar -observations at the National Meteorological Administration in Bucharest, -Romania, when he picks up a stationary target that appears to be above -the city of Sofia, Bulgaria, at an altitude of 18.6 miles. It suddenly -disappears and relocates 3 miles lower down. After a short while it -relocates to its original position. Over the next 3–4 weeks, he detects -the same target every night he is on duty for periods of 3–20 minutes. -He discovers another target above Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In February 1988 -it reappears above Sofia, and in March 1988 he tracks it moving -horizontally toward Varna, Bulgaria. At one point he locks the radar -directly on the target and the system is temporarily disabled. He -estimates that the target has a length of at least 4,920 feet. (Ion -Lazeanu, “Unusual -Phenomenon Observed with Radar Device in Romania,” -European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies 1 no. 1 (March 2000): -33–34) August 11 (approximately) — 6:00 p.m. A retired factory worker -and his wife are sitting in their driveway in Lima, Ohio, when they see -a rotating, diamond-shaped object about 20 feet in diameter pass nearby. -They watch it for less than 2 minutes. It is flying low, passing behind -several trees as it moves from west to northeast and out of view. (Mark -Rodeghier, “From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1986): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6612

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Event 9290 -(72C0D5A6)

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Date: 8/11/1986
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 413

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Event 9291 -(84072CDA)

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Date: 8/12/1986
-Description: 9:50-10:10 P.M. Lighted object seen over wide area moving -SW to NE was Japanese satellite.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Eastern United States
-ID: 414

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Event 9292 -(EE016BDF)

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Date: 8/12/1986
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A single witness in Cridersville, Ohio, -sees two UFOs, one while watching the Perseid meteor shower, and the -other 7 hours later while driving to work. The first object is a white -ball of light seen for about 60 seconds; the second is a circular bluish -object in the western sky seen for 1–2 minutes. (Mark Rodeghier, “From -the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): -13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6613

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Event 9293 -(A3432C2F)

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Date: 8/13/1986
-Description: 7:50 p.m. A family of three observes a metallic, -hamburger-shaped object through a sixth-floor hospital window in -Indianapolis, Indiana, for 4–5 minutes. It passes above an airliner -going in the opposite direction. The object tips on its edge at one -point, and it has a haze of pale green along one side. (Mark Rodeghier, -“From the CUFOS Files: 1986 Reports,” IUR 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1986): -13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6614

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Event 9294 -(6AA043EB)

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Date: 8/15/1986
-Description: UFO landed, witness had two-hour memory loss, strong -physical traces at site. Memory later returned of two humanoid beings, -views inside a craft
-Type: landing
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Type: medical
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Calalzo di Cadore (Bellino), Italy
-ID: 415

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Event 9295 -(8BC89E57)

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Date: 8/15/1986
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A married couple on vacation in Calalzo di -Cadore, Belluno, Italy, are sitting near a wood outside town when they -see a bright light descend. It soon becomes a disc-shaped, domed object, -blue in color and luminescent. They see it land, then their awareness -ceases until two hours later. By this time the object has disappeared, -and only a dark circular trace is left on the ground where grass is bent -and blackened for a diameter of 30 feet. Strange dreams and difficulty -sleeping, as well as the memory of two humanlike beings in coveralls, -persuade them to be hypnotized on August 23–24 by a physician in -Pordenone. They relate that a being had come out of the disc and took -them on board without touching them. Inside they are laid down and given -a medical examination of some kind. The entities have long, oval-shaped -heads with phosphorescent eyes, pointed ears, and narrow mouths. (Paolo -Fiorino, Gian Paolo Grassino, and Antonio Chiumiento, “Abductions in -Italy,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug.1989): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6615

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Event 9296 -(4624C66B)

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Date: 8/31/1986
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A man is driving home when his car engine stops -in Manzuno, Italy. He gets out to find out what happened, hears a sharp -whistle and dogs barking, and sees two bright lights. The objects -descend and remain visible for more than 15 minutes. He sees their shape -as rectangular with a luminous trail. The engine comes back on as the -objects disappear. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle -Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6616

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Event 9297 -(53DFB93E)

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Date: 9/1986
-Description: Vicki -Ecker and Sherie Stark launch a newsstand magazine, California UFO, -which becomes one of the most widely read periodicals in ufology. It -soon changes its name to just UFO, varying its frequency from quarterly -to bimonthly, to erratically with the final issue of 158 appearing in -2012. (Wikipedia, “UFO -Magazine”; Clark III 1155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6617

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Event 9298 -(C2D7466C)

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Date: 9/1986
-Description: George -M. Eberhart publishes UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact -Movement, a comprehensive, two- volume bibliography of all UFO -literature known up to this time. (George M. Eberhart, UFOs and the -Extraterrestrial Contact Movement: A Bibliography, Scarecrow, 1986, vol. 1 and -vol. 2; -Clark 358)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6618

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Event 9299 -(438D1DDB)

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Date: fall 1986
-Description: USAF Lt. Col. Ernie Kellerstrass (Hawk), who works at the -Foreign Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, -invites several individuals—Harold -E. Puthoff (Partridge), John -B. Alexander (Chickadee), C. -B. Scott Jones (Hummingbird, an aide to Sen. Claiborne -Pell, D-R.I.), -USAF Capt. Robert -M. Collins (Condor), William -Moore, and Jaime -Shandera—to his home in Beavercreek, Ohio, to discuss UFOs, -extraterrestrials, and Area 51. Kellerstrass claims to know USAF Lt. -Col. Robert -R. Hippler (allegedly an officer in a top secret Air Force UFO -study), physiological studies of actual aliens, and the presence of an -alien base on Area 51. The group meets several times. Moore and Shandera -become concerned that their telephones are being monitored, so they -decide to assign a bird name to anyone they discuss UFO military -activities with. Others in the “Aviary” are forensic medical doctor and -CIA officer Christopher -(Kit) Green (Blue Jay), Defense Intelligence Agency officer Dale -E. Graff (Owl), CIA agent Harry -Rositzke (Falcon, according to Greg Bishop), and USAF OSI agent Richard -C. Doty (a Falcon substitute). Another, only known as Raven (alleged -to be DIA scientist Jack Verona, Richard -Helms, or -possibly Henry -Kissinger), appears to be the most connected. (Robert Collins and -Richard Doty, Exempt from Disclosure: The Disturbing Case about the UFO -Coverup, Peregrine, 2005, pp. 8, 86; Bruce Maccabee, “Hawk -Tales,” June 2005; Dolan II 384–386, 466)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6619

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Event 9300 -(56C83681)

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Date: fall 1986
-Description: Night. A group of five lights maneuver at high speed above -the Malmstrom AFB Alpha-01 missile alert facility southeast of Belt, -Montana. Air Force Security Policeman Joseph C. Pscolka watches them -make sharp-angled turns and stop at the same time instantly. Other -launch control facilities in the same sector call in to report the -lights. Soon five more lights descend from the clouds to join the -others. They stop momentarily, then all 10 dart around “like crazy -fireflies” for a minute before moving close to the ground. They zip off -at high speed in all directions. (Nukes 396–397)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6620

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Event 9301 -(3094E6E6)

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Date: 10/10/1986
-Description: 1:30–2:00 a.m. Witnesses see strong lightning-like flashes -in the sky northeast of Fürjes, near Békéscsaba, Hungary. The flashes do -not go lower than some 700 feet from the ground. The flashes are -vertical, yet 5 times “thicker” than lightning. The flashes stop and a -shining, metallic-blue, misty phenomenon appears and floats about for -5–6 minutes until it gradually fades away after breaking into several -parts, each about 30–80 feet long. The display is followed by an unusual -odor that persists for 20–30 minutes. (Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO -Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6621

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Event 9302 -(85F61D76)

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Date: 10/14/1986
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A couple driving north on US Hwy 45 near -Bristol, Wisconsin, sees red and white lights flickering on the road -ahead. They drive cautiously forward and see a large, triangular object -hovering 30 feet above the pavement. The lights are running along its -outer edges. They pull up almost directly underneath it, park, and step -out of the car. They see a grid structure on its lower surface. Two -minutes later the UFO drifts slowly toward the southeast and vanishes. -(Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part Two,” IUR 13, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1988): 18–19; Clark III 247)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6622

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Event 9303 -(97B70276)

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Date: 10/20/1986
-Description: Blue-green oval ahead of car, forward motion impeded
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Edmonton, Queensland, Australia
-ID: 417

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Event 9304 -(927EF3FC)

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Date: 10/20/1986
-Description: Orionid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 416

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Event 9305 -(5063E63E)

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Date: 10/28/1986
-Description: UK researcher Jenny -Randles receives a call from a British military man who refuses to -give his name or phone number. He says his commanding officer has given -him her phone number and suggests she might want 600 pages of UFO -reports that have come into his possession. One document appears to be a -report from 1948 that uses the term “befabs” to describe “beings from -alien objects.” Another file, from Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio in 1977, -is titled “Elimination of Non-Military Sources.” Randles is suspicious -but intrigued. The two speak again on October 30 and agree to meet at a -local pub a couple hours later. She brings along a colleague, Peter A. -Hough. The informant (“John”) is in his late 20s and a former member of -the Royal Army Corps. In 1983, his commanding officer had befriended a -USAF computer technician at Wright-Patterson AFB who had accidentally -tapped into UFO files. The British officer copied many of the files but -is arrested for being in a secure area without permission. During -questioning, the technician withholds the fact that he still has copies -of the files and manages to tell the British officer where they are and -request he take them out of the US. For 2 years, his commanding officer -shows “John” some of these reports until he leaves active duty in 1985. -In August 1986, “John” returns for a reservist training camp, and his -former commander gives him a key to where the documents are stored and -tells him to take them, read them, and offer them to Randles. The pub -meeting ends with an agreement for “John” to deliver the files the next -time they meet on November 7. “John” never shows up but writes a letter -to Randles saying that he has been detained at a base and interrogated -about the documents, which he is informed was the “creation of an -educated prankster.” He apologizes for letting her down, and she never -hears from him again. (Jenny Randles, “The Cover-Up in England,” IUR 12, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 9–12, 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6623

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Event 9306 -(BC0B0D34)

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Date: 11/1986
-Description: Brilliant Pebbles, a non-nuclear system of satellite-based -interceptors designed to use high-velocity, watermelon-sized, -teardrop-shaped projectiles made of tungsten as kinetic warheads, is -conceived by physicist Lowell -Wood at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Livermore Director -John -Nuckolls describes the system as “the crowning achievement of the -Strategic Defense Initiative.” Though regarded as one of the most -capable SDI systems, the Brilliant Pebbles program is canceled in 1994 -by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. (Wikipedia, “Brilliant -Pebbles”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6624

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Event 9307 -(5DE69588)

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Date: 11/16/1986
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Between Nocera Umbra and Valtopina, Perugia, -Italy, two witnesses see a dark disc, 26 feet in diameter with a blue -dome, fly over their car. The car stops and restarts after the object -goes away. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference -Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6625

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Event 9308 -(DBBA084D)

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Date: 11/16/1986
-Description: Leonid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 418

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Event 9309 -(841929AF)

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Date: 11/17/1986
-Description: Japan Airlines flight #1628, a Boeing 747 freighter, was -cruising at 35000 ft. altitude and at 5:11 p.m. the pilots noticed -bright lights 30 degrees to the left and below them. The UFOs moved up -directly in front of the 747 and, said Capt. Kenju Terauchi, “most -unexpectedly, two spaceships stopped in front of our face, shooting off -lights (like numerous exhaust pipes). The inside cockpit shined brightly -and I felt warm in the face.” The UFOs appeared as two rectangular -clusters or arrays of light, one above the other. As the larger UFOs -moved away from the 747 Airlines Flight 1628 there remained two smaller -flat white UFOs. At about 5:30 p.m. Capt. Terauchi checked the pale -white light behind their craft visually. He saw a gigantic -“walnut-shaped” UFO (Saturn-shaped) following them. As an evasive action -the Capt. ordered the 747 to turn away from the giant UFO that was -following them, at which time the UFO “spaceship” disappeared.
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: Fort Yukon, Alaska

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Event 9310 -(BC396807)

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Date: 11/17/1986
-Description: 5:10 p.m. Japan Air Lines Flight 1628, a Boeing 747 cargo -plane with a crew of three, is in the vicinity of Fort Yukon, Alaska, on -its way to Anchorage. The jet is carrying a cargo of French wine and is -flying at 35,000 feet through darkening skies, a red glow from the -setting sun lighting one horizon and a full moon rising above the other. -Capt. Kenju Terauchi and First Officer Takanori Tamefuji, along with -Flight Engineer Yoshio Tsukuda, see two small objects and one huge -Saturn-shaped object visually and on radar for more than 30 minutes. The -objects follow the airplane for about 350 miles. The pilot changes -course and altitude several times, with FAA permission, in an effort to -identify the objects. Two rectangular-appearing objects sparkling with -arrays of lights suddenly loom directly in front of them, one above the -other. After a few minutes they abruptly change position and appear side -by side. They move quickly, stop suddenly, and swing from side to side -in unison, as if linked together. VHF radio communications are -occasionally garbled at this time and cease when the two objects move -away to the left of the aircraft. Two flat white lights continue to pace -the airplane, then drop back and are lost from view both visually and on -radar. About 5:30 p.m., while in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Terauchi -checks a white light behind the plane and sees “a silhouette of a -gigantic spaceship.” It is walnut-shaped, symmetrical above and below, -with a central flange. He says, “It was a very big one—two times bigger -than an aircraft carrier.” At its closest point, the large object casts -such a bright light that it illuminates the cockpit, and Terauchi can -feel heat on his face. Radio communications again became garbled during -the close approach. The crew becomes frightened by the large object and -requests permission to change course. After the course change, they look -back and see the object still following them. Increasingly fearful, they -request a descent to get away from the UFO (“We had to get away from -that object”). After they descend and turn again, the object disappears. -The FAA at first confirms that several of its radar traffic controllers -had tracked both the 747 and the large object, and that USAF radar has -also done so. Later official statements back away from this and try to -ascribe the radar targets to weather effects. On December 29, the FAA -issues a report stating, “We are accepting the descriptions of the crew, -but are unable to support what they saw.” (Wikipedia, “Japan -Air Lines Cargo Flight 1628 incident”; NICAP, “Fantastic -Flight of JAL 1628”; Bruce Maccabee, “The Fantastic Flight of JAL -1628,” IUR 12, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1987): 4–23; Don Berliner, with Marie -Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available -Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 128–132; -Kean, pp. 218–229; -Swords 342; Good Above, pp. 432, -532; -Good Need, pp. 400–401); -“JAL -Flight 1628 over Alaska,” UFO Evidence; Clark III 630–632)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6626

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Event 9311 -(1DC2B897)

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Date: 11/17/1986
-Description: Japan Airlines freighter aircraft encountered lighted -maneuvering objects. bright illumination, heat, radar-visual, E-M -effects, satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Fort Yukon, AK
-ID: 419

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Event 9312 -(F7786394)

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Date: 11/24/1986
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Dale Goretske is driving in Waukesha, Wisconsin, -when he notices some flashing red lights in the sky to the southeast -about 450 feet away. They are attached to a flattened triangle about 75 -feet wide with pairs of flashing red lights at each corner. On the sides -are pairs of steady white and red lights. The object is rotating -silently. He tries to approach it in his car, but it moves away and is -lost to sight. (Joe and Dorie Graziano, “Press -Reports,” APRO Bulletin 33, no. 7 (September 1987): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6627

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Event 9313 -(516A8E1C)

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Date: 11/25/1986
-Description: Afternoon. Civil and military personnel in Magadan Airport, -Russia, notice an unidentified radar target. Since there is another -aircraft in the vicinity, air traffic control asks the pilot to be aware -of an unknown object. The plane and UFO “pass clear of each other,” -although no details are given. Afterward, the object turns east and -speeds up to 1,800 mph over the water toward Kamchatka and disappears -from radar screens. (Vadim K. Ilyin, “KGB’s -‘Blue Folder’ Reveals Shootings, Landings in USSR,” MUFON UFO -Journal, no. 403 (November 2001): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6628

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Event 9314 -(48DF50DA)

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Date: mid 12/1986
-Description: Navy Commander “Sheila Mondran” is on duty at the US Space -Command’s Surveillance Center inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex near -Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sensors detect something tripping the US -Navy Space Surveillance System (the Space Fence), a multistatic radar -system built to detect orbital objects passing over the US. The -intrusion occurs above Lake Kickapoo, Texas. Mondran’s team tracks the -object’s maneuvers, including loops, backtracks, crash dives, and fast -climbs. She sends a flash alert to the Commander- in-Chief of NORAD, but -the object immediately disappears. Two searches are ordered: one by -NORAD’s Space Detection and Tracking System, the other by a network of -sophisticated telescopes. Nothing turns up. The flash alert is recalled -the following day. A summary of the incident is sent to the Joint Chiefs -of Staff and President Ronald -Reagan for his daily briefing. Reagan recommends a follow-up -investigation, but none is known to have occurred. The story has not -been verified. (Howard Blum, Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest -for Extraterrestrials, Simon & Schuster, 1990, pp. 25–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6629

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Event 9315 -(729106CE)

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Date: late 12/1986
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A road-maintenance engineer is driving on the -highway between Hajdúböszörmény and Debrecen, Hungary, when he sees a -“trailer with lit-up windows” landed in a field about 900 feet away. An -orange light is flooding through the windows. The object is in the same -spot where the sphere chasing the ambulance in April had passed above -power lines. (Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, -no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6630

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- Event 9316 (B996B163)

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Date: 1987
-Description: Abduction researcher and folklorist Thomas -E. Bullard publishes UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, a -two-volume comparative analysis of nearly 300 alleged abduction cases up -through 1985, 103 of which offer both extensive information and reliable -investigation. Bullard’s study summarizes key episodes and descriptive -elements of the abduction narrative and attaches percentages to each to -indicate how often a given feature occurs. He finds that the classic -abduction story consists of eight possible episodes—capture, -examination, conference, tour of the ship, journey or otherworldly -journey, theophany, return, and aftermath. Few reports contain every -episode; only capture and return are universal. He also examines -features of the entities’ behavior and appearance, the UFO involved in -the abduction, and the methods of mental and physical control. Bullard -examines the literalist and reductionist hypotheses for abduction -events, critiquing each. (Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure -of a Mystery, Fund for UFO Research, 1987; Thomas E. Bullard, -“Abductions in Life and Lore,” IUR 12, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1987): 14–19; -Thomas E. Bullard, “Hypnosis and UFO Abductions: A Troubled -Relationship,” JUFOS 1 (1989): 3–40; Thomas Bullard, The -Myth and Mystery of UFOs, University -Press of Kansas, 2010; Clark III 13–33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6631

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Event 9317 -(169504C4)

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Date: 1987
-Description: Fortean Tomes publishes UFOs 1947–1987, edited by Hilary -Evans and John -Spencer and sponsored by the British UFO Research Association, in an -attempt to place current knowledge about the UFO phenomenon in -perspective. (Hilary Evans and John Spencer, eds., UFOs 1947–1987: The -40-Year Search for an Explanation, Fortean Tomes, 1987; Mark Rodeghier, -[Review], JUFOS 1 (1989): 169–172)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6632

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Event 9318 -(4A62E51E)

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Date: 1987
-Description: Thomas F. McDonough discusses the possibility of -extraterrestrial life in The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, -addressing UFOs in a largely negative and uninformed chapter. (Thomas F. -McDonough, The -Search for -Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Listening for Life in the Cosmos, -John Wiley, 1987; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 -(1994): 151–155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6633

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Event 9319 -(23398FF0)

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Date: 1/1987
-End date: 3/1987
-Description: Flurry of sightings including cigar-shaped objects, a radar -tracking, and other features
-Type: sighting
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Belleville, WI
-ID: 420

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Event 9320 -(2FEB7F4A)

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Date: 1/9/1987
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A road-maintenance engineer is on a routine -checking tour between Hajdúböszörmény and Debrecen, Hungary, at the same -point where his colleague had seen a “trailer” in December. He sees a -“farmhouse” with the windows lit up, but knowing there is no farmhouse -in that location, he stops the truck. The object is sitting near the -overhead power lines between two stacks of straw. It is about 50 feet in -diameter, disc- shaped, and rounded off at the rim. Through the center -line runs a row of 8–10 portholes with warm, yellow light emanating from -them. Between each window is a grayish-white streak of light. He can see -an open door about 5– 6 feet high under the row of windows, through -which he can see light and a floor with transverse ribs. Then he notices -two entities wearing dark coveralls standing outside the object, while -another appears in the door opening. Yellowish flashes erupt every 2–4 -seconds from the top of the object. The witness flees the scene. (Karoli -Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 -(Mar./Apr. 1989): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6634

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Event 9321 -(7624C1E7)

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Date: 1/15/1987
-End date: 1/16/1987
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Police officer Glen Kazmar and Jeff Furseth watch -a triangular configuration of red, white, and blue blinking lights that -remain stationary in the southwestern sky over Belleville, Wisconsin. At -2:50 a.m., they are driving along Quarry Road west of town and see a -“close-knit cluster of red, blue, and white lights.” After 15 minutes, -they alert the Dane County Sheriff and are soon joined by a deputy from -Verona and two Green County sheriff’s deputies, all of whom leave after -debating what to do about reporting the lights. At 3:20 a.m., Kazmar and -Furseth see the object move to the southwest. They call the FAA Center -in Aurora, Illinois, which admits it has a slow-moving target in the -area that won’t respond. Other witnesses near Monroe, New Glarus, and -Verona also see lights. (Don Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part -One,” IUR 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1987): 4–6; UFO Wisconsin, [Belleville -articles]; “The -Other UFO Days: Belleville, WI,” UFO Days, August 13, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6635

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Event 9322 -(AD32A4F5)

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Date: 1/27/1987
-Description: The National Security Agency responds to a letter from -Sen. John -Glenn (D-Ohio) stating that the NSA’s Project Aquarius does not deal -with UFOs, but that “Apparently there is or was an Air Force project by -that name which dealt with UFO’s.” (Dale Goudie and Christian Lambright, -“The -Ice Documents Press Conference,” June 25, 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6636

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Event 9323 -(6AA9749B)

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Date: 2/1987
-Description: Horror-fiction writer Whitley -Strieber publishes Communion, the first-person account of his -abductions and encounters recovered through hypnosis, as well as his -lifelong involvement with mysterious events. The book remains on the -bestseller list for a long time, and Ted -Seth Jacobs’s -cover illustration of an alien with large black eyes jars many people to -recall their own apparent encounters with similar creatures. Strieber -follows up on his experiences in seven subsequent books, in which he -elaborates on his belief that the human species is in the process of -being ushered into a higher level of understanding and existence. -(Whitley Strieber, Communion: -A True -Story, Avon, 1987; Wikipedia, “Communion -(book)”; -Clark III 5, 1112–1113; Whitley Strieber, Transformation: The -Breakthrough, William Morrow, 1988; Whitley Strieber, Breakthrough: The -Next Step, HarperCollins, 1995; Whitley Strieber, The Secret School: -Preparation for Contact, HarperCollins, 1997; Whitley Strieber and Anne -Strieber, eds. The -Communion Letters, HarperPrism, -1997; Whitley Strieber, Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens among -Us?, St. Martin’s, 1998; Whitley Strieber, The -Key: A True Encounter, Jeremy -Tarcher, 2001; Whitley Strieber, Solving the Communion Enigma, Jeremy -Tarcher, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6637

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Event 9324 -(96CB49B1)

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Date: 2/6/1987
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Jeff Zweifel is walking home from work near -Belleville, Wisconsin. He sees an object nearby with a bright white -directional light aimed at a right angle to him. A red light is also -visible, then a blue light. As he continues to walk, the object -approaches him. When it is directly in front, a white light comes on. -From left to right, red, white, and blue lights flash. A short gray -trail of smoke is coming out the back. The object continues moving -slowly and silently east at the same altitude. (Don Schmitt, “The -Belleville Sightings, Part One,” IUR 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1987): -6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6638

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Event 9325 -(83506257)

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Date: 2/7/1987
-Description: Motorists encountered hovering large oval object, lights -around perimeter, terrain brightly illuminated
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Potters Mills, PA
-ID: 421

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Event 9326 -(01ACD84B)

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Date: 2/15/1987
-Description: The San Jose Mercury states that the Pentagon has a “Black -Budget” which has become a “Black Hole” for secret projects spending. It -is far bigger than the federal budget for education, transportation, -agriculture or the environment. These Projects are classified above TOP -SECRET, therefore very few federal investigators have the security -clearances necessary to audit black programs.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: Pea -Research (J4-B)
-Location: San Jose, CA

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Event 9327 -(0CDFDB32)

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Date: 2/16/1987
-Description: At a conference in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, -Russia, Soviet President Mikhail -Gorbachev discloses that President Reagan had -raised the possibility of an alien invasion during the Geneva Summit in -1986: “I shall not dispute the hypothesis, although I think it’s early -yet to worry about such an invasion. It is much more important to think -about the problems that have entered our common home.” (“Russians -Worried UFOs Could Trigger -Wars,” UFO Evidence)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6639

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Event 9328 -(008AFB8C)

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Date: 2/25/1987
-Description: 4:10 p.m. Filmmaker Paul -Davids is at work in his home office in East Los Angeles, -California, when his children call him to see a “flying saucer.” Looking -outside, he sees a metallic, domed disc making its way silently and -smoothly across the sky over the valley in front of his house. They open -the window and go out on the roof for an unobstructed view and spend the -next 4–5 minutes watching it. At its closest point, about 500 feet away, -it hovers in one position for about 2 minutes, wobbling with an even, -slow oscillation. Its bottom seems to transform from silver to pitch -black and back to silver again. Then it flies away at a faster but -uniform speed. (Paul Davids, “Starry Night,” IUR 14, no. 3 (May/June -1989): 13–15, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6640

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Event 9329 -(D0F1BBD8)

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Date: 3/1987
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A British Army communications officer is sleeping -alone on the moors near Bishop Monkton, North Yorkshire, England, during -a military exercise. He sees a strange red light in the sky circling -slowly and silently around him. He watches it for 20 minutes as it makes -three circuits that are precisely the same. Two F-4 Phantom II jets -appear and give chase to the light, which plays cat and mouse with them. -This continues for 5 minutes, then the light shoots away at great speed. -The jets remain a few more minutes before returning. (“Brief -Cases,” Northern UFO News, no. 157 (October 1992): 13; Nick Redfern, -A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, -pp. 163–164)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6643

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Event 9330 -(95E1ABFE)

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Date: 3/1987
-Description: The Society for Scientific Exploration publishes the first -issue of its Journal of Scientific Exploration, edited by astronomer Bernard -Haisch. (Journal -of Scientific Exploration 1, no. 1 (1987); Clark III -1082–1083)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6641

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Event 9331 -(24A85DF3)

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Date: 3/1987
-Description: San Antonio, Texas, freelance journalist Ed Conroy begins -to find himself a target of an unmarked Bell 47 helicopter that hovers -around his apartment building. The instances increase as he researches -Whitley -Strieber’s abduction story for a possible article. Black helicopters -and CH-47 Chinooks also appear in his vicinity, and someone repeatedly -changes the outgoing message on his home answering machine. Several -people close to him begin to tell him about their nighttime experiences -with entities and balls of light. These occurrences continue through -1988. (Ed Conroy, Report -on Communion, Avon, -1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6642

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Event 9332 -(59433FCD)

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Date: 3/6/1987
-Description: 5:30 p.m. County surveyor Harvey -Funseth and Fred Gochenauer are driving north of Belleville, -Wisconsin, and spot four peculiar objects one above the other in the -western sky. They take a side road to get a better look and stop -alongside an open field. The main cigar-shaped object is silhouetted -against the sunset, standing vertically above three smaller sections. -The objects are all about a quarter mile away at low altitude. As they -watch, the top object moves away from the smaller ones toward their -right. It looks like an airplane fuselage without any markings, wings, -or tail. It has a flashing light on top and two red glowing areas on the -back, followed by a short vapor trail. Funseth estimates it is about -2,000 feet altitude. It picks up speed and streaks away to the -northeast. The remaining smaller objects are now obscured by a mist. -Witnesses in other parts of town also see a similar display. (Don -Schmitt, “The Belleville Sightings, Part One,” IUR 12, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1987): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6644

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Event 9333 -(C9726D9C)

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Date: 3/7/1987
-Description: A family of three in Pingwu county, Sichuan, China, is -awakened by a loud, high-pitched hum. They go outside and are blinded by -a beam of light coming from a huge reddish object shaped like a straw -hat that is hovering above them. They pass out and wake up later to find -themselves strapped to steel tables in a circular room occupied by -humanoid entities with 3 eyes and standing 3 feet tall. The aliens take -blood samples from them and probe them with needles, also making an -incision on the child’s thigh. The next thing they know, they are -walking down a road 7 miles from their home. (Chris Saunders, “UFOs over -China,” Fortean Times 331 (October 2015): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6645

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Event 9334 -(D2FB41AB)

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Date: 3/12/1987
-Description: Gallup releases a report indicating that there are three -adult Americans who believe that “UFOs are real” for every two skeptics. -(“1 -Person in 2 Now Believes in UFOs,” Santa Rosa (Calif.) -Press-Democrat, March 12, 1987, p. 13; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of -Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6646

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Event 9335 -(EA3740C3)

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Date: 3/12/1987
-Description: US Army Intelligence letter: The IPU (Interplanetary -Phenomenon Unit) of the Scientific and Technical Branch, Counter -intelligence Directorate, Department of the Army was disestablished -during the 1950’s and never reactivated. All of its records were turned -over to the USAF (which can’t seem to locate them). This letter was sent -to Timothy Good.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research (B1-E p484)
-Location: US
-See also: 5/16/84

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Event 9336 -(AA91D920)

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Date: 3/12/1987
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Cmdr. Alvaro de Camargo is flying a Transbrasil -Boeing 737-300 from Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil, to Manaus, Amazonas, when -his radar detects an object directly in front of him. The Rio Branco -tower says it has nothing on its radar. Suddenly the blip disappears -from the screen, just as three orange lights appear on the left side of -the airplane’s wing. Some passengers now can see the lights, flying -parallel to each other and to the plane for about 20 minutes. (Clark III -201; Brazil 542)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6647

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Event 9337 -(1EC2E489)

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Date: 3/20/1987
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Police in Verona, Wisconsin, view a triangular -pattern of red, white, and blue flashing lights from the police station. -The on-duty officer takes a squad car to investigate as the object moves -behind a hill and hovers above a field. Within a minute, the lights move -to the southwest and soon are out of sight. (Don Schmitt, “The -Belleville Sightings, Part One,” IUR 12, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1987): -8).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6648

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Event 9338 -(E685EBF2)

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Date: 3/23/1987
-Description: Evening. A woman hears a crash outside her home in Concord, -North Carolina, and goes outside to investigate. She sees a domed disk -in her backyard about 75 feet away, partially obscured by a tree. The -dome is about 6 feet in diameter on top of an object about 25 feet high. -The dome is projecting an intensely bright orange light that creates -shooting pains in her eyes and lights up the entire yard. The lower part -of the object is blue-silver and an 18–20 foot wide ramp extends down -from it. Her eyes still hurt, so she does not see the UFO leave. No -ground markings are found the next day, although two days later she -discovers that a metal post on her dog lot has been magnetized. (Michael -D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 -(Summer 2002): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6649

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Event 9339 -(9D3DA3DB)

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Date: 4/1987
-Description: UFO abduction researcher Budd -Hopkins publishes Intruders, an account of his investigation into -the abduction experiences of Debbie -Jordan-Kauble (using the pseudonym of “Kathie Davis”) an -Indianapolis woman whose long series of abductions include an instance -when the beings impregnate her by artificial insemination aboard a UFO, -then return a few months later to remove the fetus. During a subsequent -abduction several years later, the beings introduce her to a frail -little girl, half-human, half-alien, and tell her this girl is her -daughter. (Budd Hopkins, Intruders: -The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods, Random House, 1987; -Jerome Clark, “A Conversation with Budd Hopkins,” IUR 13, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1988): 4–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6650

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Event 9340 -(1C11E1AE)

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Date: 5/1987
-Description: William -Moore announces that for the past six and a half years he and some -associates “succeeded in establishing a cooperative relationship with a -number of well-placed contacts within the American intelligence -community.” He provides a copy of one page of the MJ-12 briefing -document, with some text blacked out FOIA-style. (MUFON UFO Journal, -June 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6651

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Event 9341 -(0408519C)

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Date: 5/1/1987
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies moves from Glenview, Illinois, -to 2457 West Peterson Avenue in Chicago. (“CUFOS Is Moving,” IUR 12, no. -1 (Jan./Feb. 1987): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6652

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Event 9342 -(4FE1E6F0)

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Date: 5/16/1987
-Description: Huge unidentified target on weather radar for four -minutes
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Airliner en route from Toronto to Winnipeg, Canada
-ID: 422

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Event 9343 -(93A63899)

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Date: 5/31/1987
-Description: British ufologist Timothy -Good has also received a copy of the MJ-12 briefing document (the -same one received by Moore and -Shandera) -in March and shares it with the press, adamantly refusing to say who -sent it to him. The first mention appears in the London Observer, and -soon it is the subject of pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, -and ABC-TV’s Night Line. Many ufologists denounce the documents as a -forgery. Good admits to researcher Richard -Dolan in 2008 that the source was probably “connected to” Richard -Doty. (Good Above, p. 544; -Dolan II 398; Clark III 366)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6653

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Event 9344 -(6F890F56)

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Date: 6/1987
-Description: Moore provides -photocopies of all the pages of the Majestic-12 briefing document. -Certain areas that had been blacked out are now readable, although -redacted sections still exist. Moore has done his own redacting. He also -reveals the Cutler-Twining memo. (MUFON UFO Journal, July 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6654

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Event 9345 -(39A40A9E)

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Date: 6/9/1987
-Description: 7:00 p.m. At RAAF Base Learmonth, near Exmouth, Western -Australia, observers see a white light at 5,000 feet about 16 feet in -diameter moving silently in a zigzag fashion from east to west. It -hovers at the north end of the airstrip for 6–7 minutes, changes from -white to amber, moves up into a cloud, then speeds off to the northeast. -A Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport that takes off during the -observation has difficulty establishing VHF radio communication. (Swords -409–410)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6655

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Event 9346 -(4C707EA0)

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Date: 6/11/1987
-Description: Bill -Moore, Jaime -Shandera, and Stanton -Friedman hold a press conference on the MJ-12 briefing document and -the Cutler-Twining memo, asserting that they appear to be genuine. -Friedman has found that Eisenhower did -attend a briefing in Washington on November 18, 1952. He has also -uncovered evidence that astronomer Donald Menzel was -also a leading cryptographer and an elite member of the intelligence -community. (Stanton T. Friedman, “MJ 12: The Evidence So Far,” IUR 12, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1987): 13–17; Dennis Stacy, “18th International -Symposium,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 232 (August 1987): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6656

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Event 9347 -(07D03BD5)

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Date: 6/19/1987
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Brazilian Air Force Capt. Faria de Sousa is -landing his aircraft at Anápolis Air Base ALA 2, Goiás, Brazil, when the -control tower asks him to investigate “strange traffic” nearby. When he -arrives at the location, his onboard radar registers the presence of -another aircraft close by and his cockpit lights up. He sees a huge ball -of light about 10 feet in diameter above his plane, but the light does -not register on his radar. After 3 minutes he lands because he is -running out of fuel. (Clark III 206; Brazil 554–555)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6657

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Event 9348 -(C2269D4A)

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Date: summer 1987
-Description: UK researcher Timothy -Good publishes Above Top Secret, containing clean copies of the -MJ-12 documents. The book is an international exposé of UFO -investigations and secrecy by the governments of the UK, US, France, -Italy, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Canada, China, and Russia. (Timothy -Good, Above -Top Secret: The Worldwide -UFO Cover-Up, Sidgwick -& Jackson, 1987)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6659

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Event 9349 -(11C69B45)

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Date: 6/25/1987
-Description: Capt. William -Cantrell and the crew of Delta Airlines Flight 1083 are near -Charleston, West Virginia, when they see a small missile heading -straight for the aircraft before it swerves to the side about 500–600 -feet below. Cantrell describes the projectile as short, squatty, and -homemade looking, about 4–6 feet long with large fins. It appears to be -descending and unpowered. (Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close -Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): -12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6658

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Event 9350 -(80E2B76E)

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Date: late 7/1987
-Description: 9:00 p.m.–5:00 a.m. A married couple and their daughter are -riding in a horse cart, returning to their home near Będzienica, Poland. -They notice two huge red spheres, apparently attached to each other, -descending toward the northeast a few miles away and disappearing behind -the horizon. After arriving home a few minutes later, the area outside -their house becomes flooded in white light. The family rushes outside -and sees two groups of three white lights silently floating low above a -field less than one mile away to the northeast. The man alerts his -neighbor and they return to the road to watch the lights for several -minutes. Soon they notice a large red triangular light moving up and -down in the northeast less than 2 miles away. After 6 minutes they hear -a high-pitched sound like a car horn and the red light disappears. They -continue watching the white lights, but soon notice that another -neighbor’s barn about 1,000 feet away seems to be on fire. The man goes -home to get his motorcycle and two daughters, but when they get to the -barn there is no fire and the light is coming from another set of white -spheres to the south. By this time it is after 10:00 p.m., and they ride -the motorcycle to a nearby hill to watch the lights. Soon one of the -daughters sees a large object like a vertical white TV screen 10 feet -high approaching from the east about 60–100 feet above the ground. Two -humanoids with angular heads and in green coveralls are visible against -the screen, one large and one smaller. The man restarts the motorcycle -with difficulty and returns home. Some 300 feet from their farmhouse, -they see another object, a fireball with a tail descending in the area -where they had seen the red triangle. Tired, the daughters and his wife -go to sleep around 11:00 p.m., but the man stays up to watch the UFO -activity. Around 4:00 a.m. the original two sets of white objects -rearrange into a complex group of 7 lights and remain that way for -another hour. The next day, the man feels sick with heart problems and -is taken to a hospital for a short stay. (Arek Miazga, “Z -historii UFO na Podkarpaciu: Bliskie spotkanie w Będzienicy–Nockowej -(1987),” Spotkania z Nieznanym, July 3, 2011; Poland 77–80)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6662

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Event 9351 -(BFB02C97)

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Date: 7/22/1987
-Description: The Military Archives Division of NARA issues a list of 10 -problems with the Cutler-Twining memo: it was incorrectly filed; no -other researchers have found information on MJ-12; the classification -“Top Secret Restricted Information” was not in use until the Nixon administration; -the memo does not bear an official letterhead or watermark; it does not -match the paper Cutler used -at the time; no records are found of an NSC meeting on July 16, 1954; -another memo is found saying that NSC members were called to a civil -defense exercise on July 16; and there is no entry in Eisenhower’s -appointment books on a special meeting. (National Archives, “Majestic -12 or ‘MJ-12’ -Reference Report”; “The -MJ-12 Fiasco,” Just Cause, new series, no. 13 (September 1987): -1–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6660

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Event 9352 -(35523E8B)

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Date: 7/27/1987
-Description: 12:00 midnight. Witnesses in Accra and the Volta Region of -Ghana see a large and apparently silent object over the Gulf of Guinea. -Some people report the sound of explosions associated with it. A Ghana -Air Force pilot views the missile-shaped object from the ground near -Accra, traveling south over the ocean. It displays a yellow light at its -trailing end, similar to a rocket. It appears to be at least twice as -large as a Boeing 747. It stops descending and begins to climb, gaining -altitude. Eight smaller, bluish lights appear in circular formation, -seemingly the result of the object’s propulsive power. (Dolan II -413–414)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6661

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Event 9353 -(D093B14A)

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Date: early 8/1987
-Description: A Soviet soldier serving with the military contingent in -Leningrad [now St. Petersburg] is dispatched with four others to -northern Karelia, where they join up with another unit. Their job is to -guard a UFO that soldiers had recently discovered near Vyborg. A -military plane had taken it to Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, and -deposited it in a former fuel depot. The guards get a close look at the -object, which is more than 50 feet long, 16 feet wide, and 9 feet high, -grayish-tan in color, smooth, and seamless. It is tube-shaped, with fins -extending from the mid-section all the way to the rear. At the tip of -its nose are outward-pointing triangles in a triangular formation. One -week later, senior officers show up and attempt to enter the craft -unsuccessfully. The craft is moved to a hangar and all but one of the -soldiers are sent back to Leningrad. In September, a successful entry is -made, according to the remaining officer. Inside, they discover two -armchairs, two steering wheels, and a featureless control panel. The -cockpit is so small that two adults can hardly fit inside. Investigators -who collect “rod-like items” from inside experience mild burns on their -hands (though gloved). (Clark III 345; Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, -The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, -Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 96–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6663

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Event 9354 -(3BA9AEB2)

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Date: 8/4/1987
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Gordon Baker and two others watch two -cross-shaped objects pass slowly and silently over his home from -northeast to southwest in Exmouth, Devon, England. Describing it like a -“flying fairground” at 38,000 feet, he watches a jet aircraft fly -underneath it. They watch it for 15 minutes until it disappears on the -horizon. Observers in Lympstone and Budleigh Salterton also see the -object. Two huge, delta-shaped objects are seen making successive passes -over Plymouth, Devon, between 10:30 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. Observations were -also made in Bude, Cornwall, and Exeter, Devon, where they were -apparently tracked on radar. (“‘Flying -Fairground’ Is Seen -over Town,” Exmouth (UK) Herald, August 7, 1987; “Whitehall -Silent over Flying Fairground,” Exmouth (UK) Herald, August 14, -1987, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 222 (January 1988): 16; Marler -139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6664

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Event 9355 -(9F47C396)

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Date: 8/11/1987
-Description: A witness in Osbornville, New Jersey, sees a shiny, oval -object that hovers, becomes brighter, and takes off like a shot, leaving -a white trail. It then stops abruptly, maneuvers, flashes more lights, -and shoots straight up out of sight. (UFOEv II 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6665

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Event 9356 -(F35DF629)

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Date: 8/11/1987
-Description: Several people see a triangular object with three lights -over Sevastopol, Crimea, Russia. A yellow light surriounds the -perimeter, and a bright white light is seen inside. The object hovers -and maneuvers for 3 hours with a trajectory that changes unpredictably. -It disappears, reappears, and smaller objects separate rom it and take -off at great speed. It finally takes off quickly away from the shoe. -(Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, -p. 136)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6666

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Event 9357 -(E96599C9)

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Date: 8/11/1987
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 424

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Event 9358 -(3D5635AD)

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Date: 8/11/1987
-Description: Shiny oval, hovered; brightened, took off like a shot, left -white trail. Stopped abruptly, maneuvered, lights flashed, shot straight -up out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Osbornville, NJ
-ID: 423

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Event 9359 -(80F06B21)

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Date: 8/23/1987
-Description: 2:00–3:00 a.m. A witness sees a circular, white object west -of Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary, flying slowly to the north. A thin, -orange-colored light beam sweeps from it several times from west to -east. Suddenly it “jumps” with tremendous speed from one place to -another and remains stationary, still sweeping its light beam for at -least 30 minutes. Then it suddenly disappears. (Karoli Hargitai, “The -UFO Phenomenon in Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6667

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Event 9360 -(FAAED3FF)

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Date: 8/30/1987
-Description: William -S. Steinman makes another attempt to contact possible crashed-saucer -insider Eric -A. Walker, whom Robert -Sarbacher has indicated was a behind-the-scenes participant. -Steinman calls Walker, saying he is inquiring about “meetings that you -attended at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in/around 1949–1950, -concerning the military recovery of flying saucers, and bodies of -occupants.” Walker replies: “Yes, I attended meetings concerning that -subject matter.” Walker agrees they are talking about recovered aliens -and seems nonchalant about the subject. Walker adds: “Yes, I know of -MJ-12. I have known of them for 40 years… You are delving into an area -that you can do absolutely nothing about… Forget about it!” Walker tells -Steinman that he would consult his notes on the topic and hints he might -cooperate further. Steinman writes Walker on August 31, sending him the -MJ-12 briefing document and asking about Project Aquarius. Three weeks -later, Walker replies, saying, “Some things you have right and some -things you have very wrong.” He admits a machine was recovered and is -still stored near “Wright Field.” Four normal looking males were found -at the site, very much alive. “They learned the English language within -a few hours and it was our decision not to make public spectacles of -them, but to allow them to be absorbed into American culture.” Each of -the four, Walker alleges, became highly successful in technology, -sports, and finance. (Grant Cameron and T. Scott Crain Jr., UFOs, MJ-12, -and the Government: A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash -Retrievals, Mutual UFO Network, 1991, pp. 7–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6668

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Event 9361 -(B95F79DF)

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Date: 8/31/1987
-Description: 10:55 p.m. A dark, domed, disc-shaped UFO with a mast or -antenna on top comes down quickly over the high-security Naval Submarine -Base Bangor [now Naval Base Kitsap] on the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, -which houses the Trident nuclear ballistic submarine fleet. It hovers -over a playground. Randy Springsteen, 8, and Dennis Mauer, 10, sons of -military personnel, are sitting on the swings and see an entity with a -big head, big pointed “cat” ears, wrinkled skin, and a greenish -complexion in an open hatch. It has a thin, spindly body, long webbed -fingers and toes, and tabs or suction cups on the ends of its fingers -and toes. It also has a wrinkled mouth “like an old grandma’s.” The boys -estimate the being is about 6 feet tall. It points a device that directs -a beam of energy at the two boys on the swings, causing the levitation -of the metal swings. The boys flee quickly into the Springsteen home and -get Charlene Springsteen, who sees a row of lights in the sky as the UFO -takes off and flies away. Charlene then has the boys draw separate -sketches of both the UFO and the alien, which are remarkably similar. -(Donald A. Johnson, “The -Bangor CE3,” IUR 14, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1989): 4–6, 23) Early autumn — -Evening. Rich and -Kathy Dicenzo, their children, and a family friend are sitting outside -their weekend residence in the southern Ohio hills in front of a -campfire. Suddenly a dark shape appears passing from in back of them -from the north over the roof of the house and blotting out the stars in -a precise boomerang shape. The perimeter of the shape is covered with -12–20 individual lights. All sounds from insects, tree frogs, and -distant dogs stops. The campfire flame rises straight up, frozen. The -aspen tree in the front yard stops “quaking” and the children gasp. The -soundless object is low, and it extends beyond the 72-foot length of the -house. After one minute, the light configuration wobbles, the lights -change from amber to red, and the object splits into three sections, -spreads out, and dissipates. (Jennie Zeidman, “Strangeness in the -Night,” IUR 14, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1989): 5, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6669

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Event 9362 -(105DC887)

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Date: 9/1987
-End date: 12/1987
-Description: Sighting concentration, including 60 reports to sheriff’s -office in Little River County.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Foreman and Ashdown, AR
-ID: 426

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Event 9363 -(D727C08F)

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Date: 9/1987
-Description: Three witnesses in Taunton, Somerset, England, observe a -triangular object with bright white lights at each point and red lights -underneath, rotating to the left. Its size is estimated to be comparable -to three C-130 aircraft. (Marler 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6671

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Event 9364 -(E54A47FF)

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Date: 9/1987
-Description: The final issue of the APRO Bulletin is published by Jim -and Coral Lorenzen. (APRO -Bulletin 33, no. 7 (September 1987))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6670

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Event 9365 -(ECC7C7AE)

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Date: 9/1/1987
-Description: Ellipse with windows beamed light down on children in -playground, two humanoids visible in object
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bangor, WA
-ID: 425

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Event 9366 -(F17F6443)

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Date: 9/4/1987
-Description: JMP (Justice for Military Personnel) letter sent to -President Ronald Reagan. This letter, verified by: Astronaut Gordon Cooper, -Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe (USMC, Ret.) (now deceased), MUFON (Sequin, TX), -APRO (Tucson, AZ) and Just Cause (Coventry, CT) states that: “WE -(military personnel) have been ordered by the CIA to shoot at UFOs, -silence pilots who have seen UFOs, intimidate, harass, jail, confine to -institutions, and destroy military careers of witnesses to UFO -sightings. We VIOLATED the Freedom of Information Act by hiding -Government documents.” Maj. Keyhoe sent this letter to PEA Research in -1987.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research (JMP)
-Location: Washington DC
-See also: 7/52
-See also: 9/24/47

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Event 9367 -(DC4C5CA3)

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Date: 9/11/1987
-Description: 8:15 p.m. Lydia B. Lövendal-Papae and her husband are -walking between Herăstrău Park [now King Michael I Park] and Aviators -Square in Bucharest, Romania, when they see a large, reddish-orange star -hovering above the nearby Arcul de Triumf. After a minute, it moves to -right above them and stops for a couple minutes before it sways back and -forth. Suddenly it makes large zigzag movements toward the Romanian -National Television building and disappears to the northeast. After 5 -minutes, her husband sees a white beam shooting briefly from the -direction it has gone. (Romania 45–46)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6672

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Event 9368 -(515734E8)

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Date: 9/13/1987
-Description: A radioactive contamination accident takes place in -Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after a forgotten radiotherapy source is taken -from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It is subsequently handled -by many people, resulting in four deaths. About 112,000 people are -examined for radioactive contamination and 249 of them are found to be -contaminated. In the cleanup operation, topsoil has to be removed from -several sites, and several hundred houses are demolished. All the -objects from within those houses, including personal possessions, are -seized and incinerated. (Wikipedia, “Goiânia -accident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6673

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Event 9369 -(E665A1E9)

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Date: 9/14/1987
-Description: 6:05 p.m. A man and his daughter are walking in Debrecen, -Hungary, when she sees a “flying log.” The man looks up and sees a -cylindrical object flying very slowly to the north. After 3 minutes it -disappears without a trace. (Karoli Hargitai, “The UFO Phenomenon in -Hungary,” IUR 14, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1989): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6674

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Event 9370 -(1503786E)

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Date: 9/21/1987
-Description: President Reagan states to the UN General Assembly “Perhaps -we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common -bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would -vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
-Type: statement
-Reference: link
-Location: New York City

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Event 9371 -(995E01AA)

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Date: 9/22/1987
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A young couple is sitting outside in Bossier -City, Louisiana, when they see a large, conical or triangular object -pass silently in the sky. It has sparsely distributed lighting on its -base and seems metallic and solid. They estimate it is several football -fields in length. On October 6, the man sees the object again, moving in -the same direction toward Barksdale Air Force Base. (Michael D. Swords, -“Timmerman’s Triangles,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6675

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Event 9372 -(62644910)

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Date: 9/25/1987
-Description: Contactee spy comedy “Real Men” movie is released
-Type: movie
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: DC

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Event 9373 -(4F62AD6D)

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Date: mid 10/1987
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A man is driving up Candlewood Lake Road, near -Brookfield, Connecticut, when he sees a low-flying aerial object that -passes over the trees to the left. After making a turn, he notices four -cars stopped with no lights on off the side of the road. He flashes his -headlights and his car’s radio and electrical power dies. All the other -drivers—three men and a woman—are out of their cars. They tell him that -their vehicles stopped as a large, bright aircraft flew over and passed -silently over a hill in the west. It had all white and amber lights and -was triangular in shape. Two other cars drive by at that time and their -engines sputter but they do not stop. He notices a glow in the woods. He -wants to investigate it, but no one will accompany him. Grabbing a -flashlight, he walks into the woods for about a quarter of a mile, -watching the glow get brighter. As he climbs a hill, the glow turns deep -red and then off-white. As he reaches the top of the hill, he sees a -lighted object, but trees block his view. He climbs down the hill to a -clearing and sees an object like a dark triangle hovering silently in -(not above) the trees. He hears a noise and sees a figure wearing a -helmet and a dark suit with glowing metallic stripes around the arms and -waist approaching the object. It reaches the UFO and looks in the -witness’s direction. He hears thoughts in his head saying that he -shouldn’t come closer. As he watches, the figure raises its hand as if -to say goodbye and vanishes in a flash of red light. The object then -blinks out as if someone has just turned it off. (NightSiege 201– -203)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6676

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Event 9374 -(E40CDFCF)

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Date: 11/1987
-End date: 12/1987
-Description: Flurry of sightings including oval objects with flashing -body lights.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Central North Dakota
-ID: 427

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Event 9375 -(84BCC1D3)

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Date: 11/11/1987
-Description: First five photos reported taken by builder Ed -Walters
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Gulf Breeze, FL
-ID: 428

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Event 9376 -(9765C89B)

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Date: 11/11/1987
-Description: 5:00 p.m. Edward Walters, president of a construction -company in Gulf Breeze, Florida, has his first alleged encounter with a -UFO. He sees a glowing, top-shaped craft with a row of portholes across -the midsection and a luminous ring on the bottom. He rushes in and grabs -a Polaroid camera and snaps a photo just as the UFO is moving from -behind a tree. He takes three more photos as the object, 150 feet away, -drifts in a northeasterly direction. As he is taking more photos, the -object moves above him, and Walters is hit by a blue beam that paralyzes -him and lifts him several feet off the ground. After hearing a -computerlike voice and a female voice, he sees images of dogs. Then he -falls hard on the pavement and the UFO is gone. Over the next few -months, Walters (initially concealing his identity as “Mr. X”) and his -family claim a bewildering variety of close encounters, including -abduction incidents, and Walters continues to produce more photos of the -UFOs plaguing him. The veracity of his claims causes a rift in ufology, -with MUFON championing the case and CUFOS very skeptical. California -ufologist and songwriter Zan -Overall produces evidence that Walters knew how to double-expose -photos well before his UFO pictures. In June 1990, a model UFO, -seemingly a prototype for a fake UFO in his photos, is found in the wall -of the house formerly occupied by Walters. One week later, Tom Smith -Jr., 22, comes forward claiming he has seen Walters fake some of the -photos. Photoanalyst Bruce -Maccabee continues to support Walters’s claims, coauthoring a book -with him in 1997. (Wikipedia, “Gulf -Breeze UFO incident”; MUFON UFO Journal, March 1988; Donald M. Ware, -Charles D. Flannigan, and Walter H. Andrus Jr., “The Gulf -Breeze, Florida, Photographic Case: Supplement to Part I,” MUFON UFO -Journal, no. 240 (April 1988): 13–14, 21; Jerome Clark, “Editorial: Ill -Breeze,” IUR 13, no. 2 (March/April 1988): 3, 23; Dennis Stacy, “Gulf -Breeze: A Note to the Skeptical,” IUR 13, no. 2 (March/April 1988): -10–11; Mark Rodeghier, “Gulf Breeze: A Note to the Committed,” IUR 13, -no. 2 (March/April 1988): 12–13, 23; Mark Rodeghier and Robert D. Boyd, -“Gulf Breeze, Florida: The Other Side of the Coin,” CUFOS Bulletin, -April 1988, pp. 1–4; Jerome Clark, “Editorial: Breeze from the Gulf,” -IUR 13, no. 3 (May/June 1988): 3; MUFON UFO Journal, June 1988; MUFON -UFO Journal, July 1988; MUFON UFO Journal, August 1988; Bruce Maccabee, -“A History of the Gulf Breeze, Florida, Sighting Events,” in MUFON 1988 -International UFO Symposium, MUFON, 1988, pp. 113– 204; Richard H. Hall -and Willy Smith, “Balancing the Scale: Unanswered Questions about Gulf -Breeze,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 248 (December 1988): 3–7; Dan C. -Overlade, “Psychological Evaluation of Mr. Ed,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. -248 (December 1988): 7–8; Bruce Maccabee, “The -Scale Remains Unbalanced,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 252 (April 1989): -3–24; MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989; Bruce Maccabee, “Billy, No; Ed, Yes,” -IUR 14, no. 3 (May/June 1989): 16–19, 24; Wim van Utrecht, “How to Take -Your Own Gulf Breeze Photos,” IUR 14, no. 3 (May/June 1989): 20–21, 24; -MUFON UFO Journal, May 1990; Ed Walters and Frances Walters, The -Gulf Breeze Sightings, Morrow, 1990; Zan Overall, Gulf Breeze Double -Exposed: The ‘Ghost-Demon’ Photo Controversy, CUFOS, 1990; Craig Myers, -“Gulf -Breeze UFO -Model Found,” Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal, June 10, 1990, pp. 1, -8; Craig Myers, “I -Saw UFO Photos Faked, Witness -Says,” Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal, June 17, 1990, pp. 1, 4; Bruce -Maccabee, “The Gulf Breeze Lights,” IUR 17, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1992): -4–12; Art Hufford, “The Gulf Breeze Lights, Continued,” IUR 17, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1992): 11– 12; Zan Overall, “The Gulf Breeze RUFOs,” IUR 17, -no. 2 (March/April 1992): 14–18; Barbara Becker, “The Invention of a -Gulf Breeze UFO,” IUR 17, no. 2 (March/April 1992): 19–21, 23; Bruce -Maccabee and Ed Walters, UFOs Are Real: Here’s the Proof, Avon, 1997; -James W. Moseley and Karl T. Pflock, Shockingly Close to the Truth! -Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist, Prometheus, 2002, pp. 287–297; -Clark III 550–552)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6677

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Event 9377 -(B9477A52)

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Date: mid 11/1987
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Jim Dawes is one of the witnesses of an object in -the shape of the supersonic airplane Concorde at Wolverhampton, England. -When it reaches overhead, he sees it is composed of many different -lights in a triangle shape. (“Mystery of ‘Concorde shape UFO,’” -Wolverhampton (UK) Express-Star, December 2, 1987; Marler 120)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6679

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Event 9378 -(C51B4702)

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Date: 11/18/1987
-Description: The US Congress issues its investigative report on the -Iran–Contra Affair. It concludes that “the central remaining question is -the role of the President in the Iran–Contra affair. On this critical -point, the shredding of documents by Poindexter, North, -and others, and the death of Casey, -leave the record incomplete.” (Wikipedia, “Iran–Contra -affair”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6678

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Event 9379 -(52698B69)

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Date: 11/23/1987
-Description: 8:25 p.m. Rick Devine goes out the back door of his home in -Shreve, Ohio, to round up the family dogs and cats. He glances up and -sees four blobs of cool-white light maneuvering in a cloverleaf pattern -(elliptical orbits with a common center of flight, meeting at the -center) in an area of sky a few hundred feet in diameter. The objects -move slower at the outer edges of the orbit and faster as they near the -center. Devine shoos the animals inside (no reaction to the display) and -calls to his wife Janet. She joins him and they continue to watch the -objects. She describes the lights as rectangular. They cross the street -into a schoolyard to get closer to the lights, which move away as if in -response. At no time does the brightness or color or altitude of the -lights change. Seemingly, the display covers an area equivalent to a -baseball diamond. It moves back across the road, and the Devines follow. -As they watch, the four blobs of light come together in the center, move -outward and continue onward, disappearing 90° from each other. The -sighting lasts 35 minutes. (Jennie Zeidman, “Strangeness in the Night,” -IUR 14, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1989): 4–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6680

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Event 9380 -(AF0F59A7)

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Date: 11/28/1987
-Description: 9:10 p.m.–12:00 midnight. 33 unknown objects fly at low -altitude over the coast of Primorsky Krai, Far Eastern district, Russia, -on the Sea of Japan. Witnesses describe various shapes—cylinders, -cigars, globes—all moving silently. Thirteen UFOs are seen above -Dalnegorsk. The objects cause a 2-minute disruption of electrical -circuits, including TVs and computers. More than 100 witnesses are -questioned by the Far Eastern Commission. (Paul Stonehill and Philip -Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron -Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6681

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Event 9381 -(9CCA5FB7)

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Date: 12/1987
-Description: John Grace founds the Leading Edge International research -group after receiving the “Dulce Papers,” a set of documents allegedly -disclosing unethical experiments on humans—such as breeding techniques, -DNA manipulation, and genetic modification—at an underground base in -Dulce, New Mexico. The papers inspired and are included in The Matrix -series of six books published from 1988 to 2007 by Grace under the -pseudonym Valdamar Valerian. These huge compilations of supposed -documents and insider information discuss the alien visitors and -treaties with earthly governments, harvests of human body parts, -friendly and unfriendly alien species, the creation of humans and -culture by aliens, acquisition of alien technology, and the dangers of -an alien takeover. (Darryl Smith, “The -Dulce Papers,” Crowded Skyes; “Leading Edge International,” -UFO-Alien Database; Clark III 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6684

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Event 9382 -(FB5DC56E)

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Date: 12/1987
-Description: Barry -Greenwood calls the MJ-12 documents hoaxes, most likely contrived by -Richard -C. Doty, who has apparently been Moore’s source for much of his UFO -information. He cites the disparity between the briefing document’s -extensive discussion of the Roswell crash and the mere 7 lines of text -on the 1950 Texas crash. Greenwood also charges that the Cutler-Twining -memo had been planted, as it had been found in a virtually empty box in -the National Archives containing a small number of non-UFO documents. Bruce -Maccabee thinks the Cutler-Twining memo is genuine. (MUFON UFO -Journal, December 1987; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1988)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6683

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Event 9383 -(A618FBB5)

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Date: 12/1/1987
-Description: 7:15 a.m. A former London policeman (pseudonym Philip -Spencer) is walking across Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire, England, to -visit his father-in-law in East Morton. He was walking up a small hill -when he notices an odd-looking figure in the trail ahead of him. It is -dark green and about 4 feet tall with an oversized head and long, thin -arms. The creature makes a gesture at Spencer, which he takes to be a -warning telling him to stay away, but he takes out his camera and snaps -a picture. The creature then runs away and Spencer follows it. He loses -the creature in the fog but then sees an object rise from the moor and -disappear into the sky. It is a whitish color and consists of two -saucer-shaped parts on top of each other. He hears a loud hum. He fails -to take a photo of the object. Rather than continue with his planned -route, Spencer heads to another town that was about 30 minutes away. -When he arrives, he finds that it is about two hours later than he -expects it to be. Additionally, the compass he has taken with him is -pointed in the opposite direction than it should be. While the photo is -getting examined by experts, Spencer has strange dreams. Following -ufologist Peter Hough’s advice, he attends a session of regressive -hypnotherapy carried out by Jim Singleton on March 16, 1988. Under -hypnosis, Spencer’s original account of the incident changes. Singleton -calls it a genuine recall. Spencer now remembers that when he saw the -creature on the hill he was instantly paralyzed, lifted up a few feet, -and pulled into the craft. When he enters, a voice tells him to be calm. -A group of green aliens then performs medical experiments on him, -inserting items into his nose and mouth. He is given a tour of the craft -and shown a film with apocalyptic imagery, including nuclear explosions, -famines, and floods. He is then shown a second film, but he never -reveals the contents of this film, saying that the aliens who abducted -him do not want humanity to know. Following this, Spencer is returned to -Ilkley Moor, where he then takes his photograph. He claims that the -alien is actually waving goodbye to him, not telling him to stay away, -as in his original account. (Wikipedia, “Ilkley -Moor UFO incident”; Peter Hough, “The -Green Alien of Ilkley Moor,” Fate, March 1999, pp. 35–41; Matty -Sweeney, “Ilkley -Moor Alien Photograph,” -The Paranormal Guide, October 7, 2014; “Picture -Post: When Ilkley Moore Became an Alien Landing -Site,” Yorkshire Post, October 13, 2014; Nick Redfern, Top Secret -Alien Abduction Files, Red Wheel/Weiser, 2018; Patrick Gross, “The -Ilkley Moor Encounter of the 3rd Kind, 1987”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6685

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Event 9384 -(BD85A83C)

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Date: 12/9/1987
-Description: Night. Oddly moving lights in the sky appear over -Nottingham, England, traveling quickly and emitting a deep hum. A -triangular object about 250 feet long covered in 150 red and white -lights is observed over a farm near Hull around the same date. Similar -UFOs are seen in Staffordshire and Long Eaton, Derbyshire. (“Mystery of -City UFO Sightings,” Nottingham (UK) Evening Post, December 10, 1987; -Hull (UK) Daily Mail, December 11, 1987; Long Eaton (UK) Trader, -December 23, 1987; Marler 121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6686

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Event 9385 -(A2B25FF1)

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Date: 12/12/1987
-Description: About 8:50 P.M. (CST). Soviet rocket casing orbital decay -and atmospheric re-entry, multiple fiery objects from NW to SE.
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 429

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Event 9386 -(AE7ED9E0)

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Date: 12/13/1987
-Description: Geminid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 430

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Event 9387 -(7A9A8893)

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Date: 12/13/1987
-Description: Ufologist John Lear claims Dr. Edward Teller is MJ-12
-Type: statement
-Reference: Article by John Lear (TODO)
-Location: Nevada

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Event 9388 -(6BB1DD60)

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Date: 12/14/1987
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A gray, oval-shaped object lands on the road -ahead of a Mercedes car near Launceston, Tasmania. The engine and lights -fail instantly, and the driver brakes to a stop. Intense light comes -from the base of the object that is painful to the driver’s eyes. He -leaves the car and gets sick, hiding behind a tree from where he watches -his car being dragged about 33 feet, as if attracted by a magnet, and -leaving tire marks on the road. A Land Cruiser approaches the scene and -its lights fail, but the diesel engine continues to operate. The object -takes off with a whirring sound. The car is covered with melted specks -of asphalt, and serious electrical problems must be fixed after the -incident. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference -Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6687

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Event 9389 -(D884C0F8)

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Date: 12/14/1987
-Description: Elliptical object landed ahead of car, blocked road. -Headlights and engine failed, blinding light from underside. Car dragged -toward object
-Type: landing
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Launceston, Northern Tasmania
-ID: 431

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Event 9390 -(49E137D5)

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Date: 12/21/1987
-Description: CIA letter to former assistant director of NICAP -Mr. Richard H. Hall stating the CIA’s reasons for denying certain FOIA -requests about himself on the basis of national defense reasons and must -be kept secret. Mr. Hall is an UFO investigator and book author.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Langley, VA

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Event 9391 -(FF471EA6)

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Date: winter 1987
-Description: Night. Air Force Security Policeman Joseph C. Pscolka is -awakened by the night shift flight security controller at the Malmstrom -AFB N-01 missile alert facility northwest of Grassrange, Montana, who -tells him that an alarm response team responded to a security alert at -the N-06 launch site and had not been heard from for nearly an hour. -Pscolka assembles a security response team and joins them to drive to -the site. The security lights are out and the alarm team’s vehicle -parked 50 feet from the wide-open gate with its lights out and engine -off. Pscolka drives up to the vehicle when his own Peacekeeper APC loses -power. At that moment, the alert team bursts from its vehicle and runs -to the APC, begging to be let in. Their vehicle had shut down entirely, -even the flashlights. The entire launch facility, up to 20 feet outside -the gate, is devoid of snow, even though the snow outside is knee- deep. -Pscolka goes up to the facility alone after posting guards. When he gets -to the snow-free zone, he notes the temperature is warmer, even hot. -Everything within the facility is warm to the touch, including the soil. -But there are no intruders. A few more APCs approach down the access -road, and suddenly all the facility and vehicle lights come on again. -After the incident, the teams are debriefed and ordered not to tell -anyone about it. (Nukes 397– 401)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6682

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Event 9392 -(6E47E6BA)

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Date: 12/29/1987
-Description: Lear Jet heir John -Lear, based on stories by Albuquerque businessman Paul -Bennewitz, claims -in a statement on ParaNet that he has independent confirmation of a -secret underground base near Dulce, New Mexico, populated by gray aliens -and humans. Direct communication between one alien group and the US -government took place at Holloman AFB in April 1964. Lear alleges that -the MJ-12 group entered into a relationship with possible ET -intelligences between 1969 and 1971 and in exchange for super -technology, gave carte blanche to the ETs to conduct experiments and -abductions on unsuspecting human beings. Lear also claims that the ETs, -with our government’s knowledge, are mutilating domestic cattle and -sheep, and in some cases even humans are the victims. In 1972–1973, a -secret underground facility at Groom Lake, Nevada, was built “for and -with the help of” the ETs. Lear claims that William -Moore is being used as a conduit by MJ-12 (which includes Edward -Teller, Henry -Kissinger, Bobby -Ray Inman, and -possibly John -Poindexter) to release information about the alien presence on -earth. Many ParaNet members question his assertions. (Wikipedia, “Dulce -Base”; “Statement -Released by John Lear,” December 29, 1987; Don Ecker, “Driven to -Destruction,” Fortean Times 121 (April 1999): 40–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6688

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- Event 9393 (78E50ACD)

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Date: 1988
-Description: College instructor Karla -Turner and her husband are in counseling to learn why they are -feeling physical symptoms of stress. She reads Missing Time by Budd -Hopkins and Communion by Whitley -Strieber and soon recalls having seen an odd light in the sky as a -girl and begins to dream about UFOs. Having learned hypnotic regression -techniques from her therapist, she regresses her husband, whereupon he -remembers several childhood experiences with gray aliens. Several nights -later, Karla awakens to sounds of clicks and bumps in the house, -followed by disembodied voices in her bedroom. She later remembers a -nightmare from her childhood in which an insect-like being holds her -hand and tells her it is her mother. Soon she and her husband undergo -regression by an Oklahoma UFO researcher, which produces accounts of -repeated abductions since childhood and evidence that her whole family -was involved. After one session, Karla, her husband, and a third person -see a lighted, disc- shaped craft hovering above them. Two weeks later, -she again hears voices in the night and loud knocking sounds. She wakes -to find small punctures on her inner wrist and three white circles on -her abdomen. Into 1989, more body marks appear, including a solid red -triangle on her arm, puncture wounds, scratches, and bruises. -Poltergeist phenomena occur. The Turners begin to notice a white car -parked near their house, and unmarked helicopters seem to follow them. -They begin to suspect the US military is monitoring them. (Karla Turner, -Into the -Fringe: A True Story of Alien Abduction, Berkley, 1992)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6690

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Event 9394 -(415717DF)

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Date: 1988
-Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets ufologist John -Lear
-Type: meeting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: NV

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Event 9395 -(1D06F4AF)

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Date: 1988
-Description: Michael -Corbin becomes administrator of ParaNet, which runs through the -mid-1990s.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6689

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Event 9396 -(4C6F8066)

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Date: 1/1988
-Description: A family in the vicinity of Pasadena, California, notices a -large, perfectly circular brown spot, 13 feet in diameter, in their -backyard in the midst of their lush, well-cared for St. Augustine grass. -It seems to have appeared the morning after the wife awakens to see a -small, gray-skinned entity standing beside her and probing her torso -with medical instruments. She had seen a strange light beam one month -earlier. The brown area slowly fills in with Bermuda grass after 6 -months. The Los Angeles County agricultural pathologist who examines a -soil sample finds four southern chinch bugs (Blissus insularis) that he -says can cause similar damage, although the progression is much slower -and requires many more insects than four. (Ann Druffel, “CE3—and CE2?” -IUR 14, no. 3 (May/June 1989): 10–12, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6691

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Event 9397 -(3DF1A7AA)

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Date: 1/5/1988
-Alternate date: 1/15/1988
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Cristian Tuţă is doing mandatory military service -in a unit at Roşu, Romania, on the shore of Lacul Morii. While on guard -duty, he notices an oval light positioned vertically 30 feet above the -bridge to the only island on the lake. He estimates it is 45 feet high -and 15 feet wide. Inside are four much brighter lights in the shape of a -cross. At first it remains motionless, but begins quickly moving up and -down along the bridge like a sine wave for 30 minutes. It stops abruptly -and moves slowly to the southwest at an altitude of 60 feet. When it -comes to a clump of trees, it changes its shape to two discs put -together. In a split second it zooms away to the west. (Romania -46–48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6692

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Event 9398 -(76522FCA)

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Date: 1/12/1988
-Description: Ed Walters produces his most famous photo—a brightly lit -structured craft hovering above a road near his home in Gulf Breeze, -Florida. (Ed Walters and Frances Walters, The -Gulf Breeze Sightings, Morrow, -1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6693

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Event 9399 -(CDCB6104)

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Date: 1/19/1988
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A father and daughter are driving to pick the -mother up from work in Benton, Louisiana. When they pull into the mall -parking lot, the daughter notices a streak of light in the sky that -suddenly moves right in front of them about 150 feet away and 50 feet -above the ground. It is a dull silver disc with “turbines” or openings -around its perimeter that are spinning like a slowly moving fan. From -the top of the object emerges a sheath with rotary blades, although the -blades do not rotate. The disc is about the size of an automobile, -around 5 feet tall, and completely silent. For 90 seconds, all the noise -of the mall seems muted. Then the device begins to move and zips away -quickly. (Michael D. Swords, “Unusual Experiences from the Timmerman -Files,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6694

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Event 9400 -(B07FE9BA)

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Date: 1/19/1988
-Description: Glowing red object followed car, moved up and down as if -following contours of local terrain
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Foreman, AR
-ID: 432

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Event 9401 -(18A75080)

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Date: 1/20/1988
-Description: 4:10 a.m. Faye Knowles and her three sons Patrick, Sean, -and Wayne are en route along the Eyre Highway from Perth, Western -Australia, to Melbourne, Victoria, by car, when they observe a bright, -egg-shaped object ahead of them on the road near Mundrabilla, Western -Australia. Sean is driving and has to swerve to miss the object. The -egg-shaped object then begins to follow their station wagon. At some -point, Sean does a U-turn to approach the object, but soon goes back to -driving eastward. The family becomes disoriented, and the sequence of -events is difficult to reconstruct. They roll down the windows and a -“grayish-black mist” enters into the car. Faye reaches out the window to -touch the roof and feels something warm, soft, and rubbery that covers -her hand in black dust. They hear a thud on the roof and come to believe -that the object has lifted their car off the road. They are let down -suddenly and the right rear tire blows out. A truck driver named Graham -Henley is driving ahead of the Knowles’s car; he sees a bright light in -his rearview mirror for about 5 minutes. Shortly after Henley pulls into -Mundrabilla, the Knowles family arrives in a state of disorientation. He -inspects the damaged tire, sees dents in the roof, and smells something -burnt. Henley and another trucker drive back to the scene and find skid -marks and footprints. In the afternoon, the family report to police in -Ceduna, South Australia, who note their distress and the dents in the -roof. Samples of the black dust are collected for forensic analysis. The -police tests are never done, but at least half of the material is -obtained by ufologists Keith -Basterfield and Ray -Brooke, who take it to a laboratory. The analysis reveals ordinary -materials: sodium chloride, sodium, aluminum, magnesium, sulfur, -potassium, silicon, chlorine, clay particles, and calcium. The Seven -Network pays the Australian Mineral Development Laboratories to test the -vehicle for radioactivity, but there is none above background. AMDEL -states that the car tire has failed due to being underinflated, and the -dust, smell, and smoke is due to the blowout. Another set of samples is -taken from the car by the Victorian UFO Research Society and sent to two -different labs, again with commonplace results. However, one analysis by -Richard -Haines in the US concludes that the interior dust is different from -the exterior dust, which contains a possible trace of astatine, a -radioactive chemical element. Faye’s hand became red and swollen in the -days after the event. (Keith Basterfield and Ray Brooke, “The -Mundrabilla Incident,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 6, no. 1 -(April 1988): 3–20; Keith Basterfield and Ray Brooke, “The -Mundrabilla Incident: An Update,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter -7, no. 1 (May 1989): 3–9; Keith Basterfield, Vladimir Godic, and Pony -Godic, “Australian Ufology: A Review,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 36-37; Keith -Basterfield, “Samples from the Mundrabilla CE2,” IUR 15, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1990): 12–13; UFOEv II 232–237; Siani, “UFOs on the Nullarbor -Plain (Part 1),” Strange Days, September 27, 2007; Siani, “UFOs on the -Nullarbor Plain (Part 2),” Strange Days, September 27, 2007; Brian -Dunning, “The -Knowles Family -UFO Incident,” Skeptoid podcast, no. 715, February 18, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6695

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Event 9402 -(26C0BF1A)

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Date: 1/20/1988
-Description: Knowles family encounter with oval object that buzzed car, -car lifted off road, physical traces
-Type: encounter
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Mundrabilla, Western Australia
-ID: 433

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Event 9403 -(5A74E23F)

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Date: 1/21/1988
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Ex-Navy Lt. Dan McIndoe and his family are at -their home 5 miles north of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, -Washington, when they see a white light with red and blue flashes. They -watch it maneuvering for 2 hours. (Donald A. Johnson, “UFOs in -Washington Skies,” IUR 13, no. 2 (March/April 1988): 4–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6696

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Event 9404 -(3D49E044)

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Date: 1/28/1988
-Description: Ex-CIA Pilot Claimed To Receive 25 Secret CIA Memos About -Aliens On Earth
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Event 9405 -(05B93CF9)

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Date: 2/4/1988
-Description: 8:10 p.m. A woman is driving between Bacup, Lancashire, and -Todmorden, Yorkshire, England, when she sees an intense orange, -egg-shaped light to the south-southeast above Tooler Hill when she is -crossing the border between the two counties. Its interior is like a -“swirling liquid (or fire embers) with constantly changing patterns.” -She stops to watch it as it hovers for another 2–3 minutes. As she -drives away it starts to move, so she pulls over again and watches it -(now dimmer) move away to the southwest. It speeds up as it descends -below the level of the hillside. (Jenny Randles, “Another -Pennine Earthlight?” Northern UFO News, no. 137 (June 1989): -15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6697

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Event 9406 -(B85E6C35)

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Date: 2/9/1988
-Description: 8:00 a.m. A man looking for farm work near Oswestry, -Shropshire, England, sees a dog run from a parked car he is passing. The -dog crosses the road and runs barking straight int a swirling, -yellowish, glowing mist about 45 feet in diameter that straddles a -hedgerow. The mist is making a noise like rushing air. The dog owner -gets out of the car, and the witness follows her toward the glow and -tries to calm her down. As they approach, their hair stands on end, -their skin begins tingling, and they smell sulfur as an eerie stillness -envelops them. Moments later, the glow disappears as if it is melting -away. The dog is lying on the ground looking ill. Its eyes are red and -its coat is soaking wet, yet the moisture is evaporating rapidly with -steam visibly rising. The man carries the dog back to the car and the -woman drives off with it. He later finds out that the dog recovered -after an hour or so but died a few weeks later. (Jenny Randles, Time -Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, -Piatkus, 2001, p. 11; Jenny Randles, “UFOs Can Damage Your Health, Part -Two,” Fortean Times 365 (April 2018): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6698

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Event 9407 -(C9FAB05B)

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Date: 2/10/1988
-Description: 7:45–8:30 p.m. Numerous independent observers on the border -of Cambria and Somerset counties near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, see a -60-foot object with several rows of lights that make it look like a -“cruise ship in the sky.” The object passes over cars and trees at an -altitude of 50–100 feet. It emits a slight humming sound and projects -multiple beams of light toward the ground. (“Number -of UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ’88,” Latrobe (Pa.) -Bulletin, January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235 -(February 1989): 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6699

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Event 9408 -(AAD28130)

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Date: 2/11/1988
-Description: Pilot saw hovering object, intense lights like searchlights -in a triangle. Climbed vertically out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Beira, Mozambique
-ID: 434

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Event 9409 -(47A2B77B)

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Date: 3/3/1988
-Description: 8:30 p.m. The brothers Farisano are returning home from a -soccer championship near General Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, when -they notice some strange lights above a nearby bridge. As they approach -the lights, their vehicle engine suddenly stalls. They try to restart it -but cannot, so they remain in their truck watching the lights. They now -see that the lights are on a spherical object with a large red light on -the top and several white lights in a row on the bottom section. The -object hovers close to the ground. Inside the transparent midsection the -witnesses can see a shadow-like figure moving about. The object suddenly -moves slowly out of sight, after which the truck engine restarts and -they drive home. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference -Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6700

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Event 9410 -(EF4551CA)

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Date: 3/4/1988
-Description: Coast Guard witnesses, large illuminated ellipse hovering -over Lake Erie, landing on ice. Smaller triangular objects emerged, -zipped around independently
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Eastlake, OH
-ID: 435

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Event 9411 -(88A0342E)

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Date: 3/4/1988
-Description: 8:35 p.m. Sheila and Henry Baker and their three children -are driving home to Eastlake, Ohio, after going to dinner. As they near -the waterfront, Sheila notices something hovering above Lake Erie, so -they drive down to the beach to investigate. A huge, metallic-gray, -football-shaped object like a blimp is silently rocking back and forth, -blinding white light emanating from both ends. It begins circling, -moving overhead at about 1,300 feet. Somehow it causes the lake ice to -rumble and crack. The Bakers get nervous and drive home, where they can -still see the UFO with red and blue blinking lights along the bottom -edge. 5–6 bright triangular lights detach from the side, hovering at -first, then darting and zigzagging around at high speeds. Each is -smaller than a Cessna and cross 50- mile stretches low over the ice “in -the snap of a finger.” They make several passes toward the Perry Nuclear -Power Plant about 20 miles away. The Bakers alert the Coast Guard, and -Seaman James Powers and Petty Officer John Knaub drive to the beach, -where the triangular objects approach them. They give a blow-by-blow -radio report to the Coast Guard base in Detroit. Other witnesses in -different locations also see the triangles. Suddenly the smaller objects -return to the large one, which seems to be landing on the ice. They -reenter it, the ellipse flashes a series of red, blue, and yellow -lights, and the light at the end turns from white to red. Suddenly the -lights go out and the ice booming stops. The witnesses assume the object -has gone beneath the surface. The Coast Guard report the next day -suggests that the lights were Venus and Jupiter. (NICAP, “Eastlake -Close Encounter”; Richard P. Dell’Aquila, “Ohio -Flap,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 249 (January 1989): 15–17; Dolan II -428–431; John Lasker, Technoir: 13 Investigations from the Dark Side of -Technology, the US Military, and UFOs, The Author, 2010, pp. 23–28; -Marcus Lowth, “The -Baker Family UFO Encounter over Lake Erie,” UFO Insight, August 2, -2018; Michael Lee Hill, “Never -Before Heard! Famous 1988 Lake Erie Coast Guard UFO Event Update: -Audio Witness -Testimony!” Michael Lee Hill blog, August 18, 2018; Patrick Gross, -“Lake -Erie, USA 1988”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6701

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Event 9412 -(AB81F642)

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Date: 3/5/1988
-Description: Richard -Doty writes to ufologist Larry -W. Bryant that he had never promised film footage to Linda -Moulton Howe. (Clark -III 365)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6702

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Event 9413 -(498420C3)

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Date: 3/7/1988
-Description: During a campaign rally in Rogers, Arkansas, vice president -and presidential candidate George -H. W. Bush is approached by a UFO buff named Charles -Huffer, who -asks him if he will tell the truth about UFOs. He sort of promises to -declassify the information. Later, Huffer declines to send him any UFO -cases because “you’re a CIA man. You know all that stuff.” “I know -some,” Bush replies, “I know a fair amount.” (presidentialufo.com, -“George Bush, 41st President”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6703

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Event 9414 -(2675F32F)

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Date: 3/20/1988
-Description: John Salter, Jr., and John, III, abduction
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wisconsin
-ID: 436

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Event 9415 -(4F5806C2)

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Date: 3/23/1988
-Description: Motorists saw bright light ahead, engine lost power, radio -failed. Four square yellow lights and light beam visible. Car returned -to normal after lights disappeared (Basterfield, 1997a).
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: East Tamar Highway, Tasmania
-ID: 437

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Event 9416 -(B014AD67)

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Date: 4/1988
-Description: William -Steinman again contacts Eric -A. Walker at his Florida residence and asks about the current -members of MJ-12. Within a week, Walker mails Steinman’s handwritten -note back to him from Penn State, not Florida. At the top of the letter, -Walker has written, “Must reply, did code (–1),” and placed numbers from -1 to 26 above certain words in Steinman’s letter. Later in the month, T. -Scott Crain calls Walker, who says he cannot talk about the UFO subject. -(Grant Cameron and T. Scott Crain Jr., UFOs, MJ-12, and the Government: -A Report on Government Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals, Mutual UFO -Network, 1991, pp. 16–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6704

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Event 9417 -(B3879F12)

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Date: 4/12/1988
-Description: Coral -Lorenzen, founder -of APRO, dies in -Tucson, Arizona. CUFOS had been attempting to purchase the APRO -archives, but is thwarted by someone who convinces Coral’s son, Larry -Lorenzen, that this is a bad move and that the APRO board should -reconsider. He wants the archive to stay in Arizona. Tina -Choate and Brian Myers, with -their dubious International Center for UFO Research, convince the APRO -board that they are the most logical recipients. In 1989, the board -gives them the archives free of charge. Former APRO board member Robert -Dean later realizes Choate and Myers are scam artists. They -immediately bar anyone from using the files and move them to a garage at -an undisclosed location in Scottsdale or Sedona, Arizona. It is not -known if the paper archives still exist, although fortunately APRO case -files prior to 1957 have been preserved digitally. In 2010–2012, Choate -and Myers are involved in a fraudulent scheme to acquire and illegally -sell a valuable collection of fossils. (“Obituary: -Coral Lorenzen,” Flying Saucer Review 33, no. 3 (September 1988): -15; Clas Svahn, “Unique -UFO Archive Hidden in Warehouse (APRO Archives and Files),” UFO -Evidence; Jamie Ross, “Collector -Sues over $25M in Fossils,” Courthouse News Service, May 17, 2010; -Isaac Koi, “Rare Microfilms of UFO Documents Now Online: APRO, US Air -Force, etc. (PDF archives),” Above Top Secret forum, December 15, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6705

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Event 9418 -(BC0CD20D)

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Date: 5/4/1988
-Description: MUFON Director of Investigations Dan -Wright poses a set of open questions for John -Lear, nearly -all of which concern Lear’s sources. Lear claims that most of his -information comes from confidential sources within the intelligence -community, while a lesser portion comes from open sources and his own -“informed speculation.” (Richard P. Dell’Aquila, “Who -Is John Lear?” UFONet.it, 1988)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6706

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Event 9419 -(3E123F01)

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Date: 5/4/1988
-Description: During a question-and-answer session following a speech to -the National Strategy Forum in Chicago’s Palmer House Hotel, President -Reagan is -asked about the most important “need” in international relations. He -replies: “I’ve often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered -that we were threatened by an outer– a power from outer space, from -another planet. Wouldn’t we all of a sudden find that we didn’t have any -differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the -world, and wouldn’t we come together to fight that particular threat?” -(presidentialufo.com, “Ronald Reagan, 40th President, January 20, -1981–January 20, 1989”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6707

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Event 9420 -(22D666EB)

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Date: 5/5/1988
-Description: For the third time, publicly, President Ronald Reagan -states that the nations of the earth would unite if we were threatened -by an Alien race from a hostile planet.
-Type: statement
-Reference: Pea -Research (J4-A)
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 9421 -(0C0A5115)

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Date: 5/16/1988
-Description: 9:30–10:00 p.m. Eileen Ballard and four friends are outside -in Stafford, England, when they notice two spotlights in the sky. The -objects they are attached to position themselves side by side, one above -the other, and fly slowly and silently across the sky. Red and green -lights are visible on the undersides. BUFORA initially attributes the -sighting to two US Air Force F-117 stealth fighters, an aircraft that -had not yet been acknowledged, but this is considered unlikely as other -witnesses come forward. (“Did -Mystery Lights Reflect Secret Flights of F- 19?” -Stafford (UK) Newsletter, May 20, 1988, p. 3; “After -MP’s Plea, More Tell of UFO Mystery,” Stafford (UK) Newsletter, July -1, 1988; Marler 121–123, 139–140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6708

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Event 9422 -(9EEA3669)

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Date: 6/1/1988
-Description: 8:10 p.m. A Boeing 737 pilot, on a final approach to the -runway at El Tepual Airport in Puerto Montt, Chile, suddenly encounters -a large white light surrounded by green and red. The light is coming -straight toward the airplane, and the pilot makes a steep turn to the -left to avoid a collision. The object is also seen by air traffic -control personnel. (Kean, pp. 194–195; -“1988: -La historia del Ovni de El Tepual, Puerto Montt,” Prensa Vértice TV -YouTube channel, August 17, 2012; Rodrigo Bravo Garrido and Juan -Castillo Cornejo, “Incidente -del Boeing 737 -del Vuelo Lan Chile 045 con un F.A.N.I. el 01 de Junio de 1988,” -Parinacota UFO Arica, October 10, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6709

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Event 9423 -(6172CDA6)

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Date: 6/6/1988
-Description: Letter received from ufologist Paul F. Bennewitz describing -Project Beta: Alien base located in New Mexico consisting of type “Grey” -Aliens. NASA CIR film has aided in locating this base and revealing US -Military involvement with the “Greys”. Aliens helped US Military to -build a working saucer, Atomic Powered. Two women and a boy exposed to -radiation burns by this saucer. Government is not picking up the medical -bills. “Grey” base is currently abandoned. Another group called “Orange” -is based on the west slope of Mt. Archeleta near “the Diamond”. Goal of -Project Beta: to locate, inventory and propose ways of destroying Alien -bases.
-Type: letter
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Location: New Mexico
-See also: 12/29/80

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Event 9424 -(D7D96ACD)

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Date: 7/1988
-Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici launches another -newsletter, Rassegna Casistica, edited by Alessandro Cortellazi in -Turin, Italy. It continues through December 1991. (Rassegna -Casistica, no. 1 (July 1988))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6712

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Event 9425 -(C9CFC2B9)

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Date: 7/1988
-Description: Walter Corrêa do Prado of Boqueirâo, Paraiba, Brazil, -undergoes about one hour of missing time after seeing a strong light -illuminating three blocks in his neighborhood. After witnessing other -UFOs over the next month or so (one with his wife that leaves traces of -burned grass), he begins reading UFO literature. In April 2000, do Prado -is hypnotically regressed by Mario Rangel, and an abduction narrative -surfaces. (Clark III 308–309; Brazil 329– 333)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6711

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Event 9426 -(355F0D23)

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Date: 7/1988
-Description: Cynthia -Hind begins publishing UFO Afrinews in Harare, Zimbabwe. It -continues until July 2000. (UFO Afrinews, no. -1 (July 1988))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6710

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Event 9427 -(399A4B1E)

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Date: 7/17/1988
-Description: Night. Several witnesses see two objects with red and green -flashing lights make two crisscross passes near the generating station -in Homer City, Pennsylvania. Later one object drops from the sky and -makes two passes about 200 feet from the ground. It is circular in shape -and about the size of a large car. It has four leg-like structures with -lights on them that protrude from the bottom. A hissing noise can be -heard as the object passes close by. (“Number -of UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ’88,” Latrobe (Pa.) -Bulletin, January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235 -(February 1989): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6713

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Event 9428 -(E44F8301)

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Date: 8/1988
-Description: José Semitiel Martínez begins publishing the newsletter -Búsqueda in Gerona, Spain. It folds in March 1995. (Búsqueda, no. -1 (August 1988))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6715

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Event 9429 -(8FB32B77)

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Date: 8/1988
-Description: After eight years of stress, fear, and paranoia, Paul -Bennewitz has turned over his business to his sons and barricaded -himself in his house. His family, convinced his sanity and health are in -danger, commits him to the Anna Kaseman Hospital in Albuquerque, where -he stays for a month. After his release, his family keeps him away from -ufology and ufologists. (Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 217–218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6714

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Event 9430 -(D27DC708)

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Date: 8/3/1988
-Description: 11:15 a.m. Kaye Stricker is stopped at a traffic light at -the corner of Gadsden Avenue and West Avenue K in Lancaster, California, -when she sees a shiny object in the sky coming from the northwest. It -hovers briefly over the Sierra Highway before “evaporating.” (“Van -Driver Reports Sighting UFO in Sky over Lancaster,” Palmdale -(Calif.) Antelope Valley Press, August 4, 1988, via UFO Newsclipping -Service, no. 232 (November 1988): 1)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6716

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Event 9431 -(CCF0C76E)

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Date: 9/2/1988
-Description: Afternoon. A man sitting by a pond on his rural residence -near Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, is startled to see an object come out of -the sky from the north and hover 50 feet away from him about 30 feet -above the ground. It is spherical and about 15–20 feet in diameter. The -upper section is red and the underside orange-red. The center is divided -by a glass-like, amber-colored window, and lights can be seen flashing -inside. The object emits a mist toward the ground. It silently hovers -for about 2 minutes before moving off to the north. Later, the man finds -a depressed area in the tall grass about 12 feet in diameter where the -grass is swirled counterclockwise. (“Number of -UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ’88,” Latrobe (Pa.) Bulletin, -January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235 (February 1989): -12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6717

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Event 9432 -(FC10057F)

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Date: 9/15/1988
-Description: An agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations -contacts the Dallas, Texas, office of the FBI and supplies the Bureau -with a copy of the MJ-12 documents. The set is obtained from a source -whose identity AFOSI has decided must remain classified. (Kremlin -181–182)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6718

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Event 9433 -(DDDE3903)

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Date: 9/19/1988
-Description: The Fund for UFO Research Inc. provides $500 in funding to -Elaine Douglas and Mr. Richard Hall for Washington DC area Abduction -research.
-Type: funding
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 9434 -(DE05678D)

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Date: 9/25/1988
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A man is driving along State Highway 113 in -Lorain County, Ohio, when his car stalls. He sees two other stalled cars -on the side of the road, so he gets out and talks to the four people -from the other cars for a few minutes. They realize there are lights -nearby in the woods that come from a silvery triangular object with a -rim and rounded base. The treetops above it seem to be moving, although -it is a calm night. After 15–20 minutes the object rises at an angle and -moves away slowly and silently, passing overhead. It seems wider than -the road. From the center of the base there is a white light like a -fluorescent lamp. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference -Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6719

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Event 9435 -(4974A9A7)

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Date: 10/1988
-Alternate date: 11/1988
-Description: Pilot Robert -Hopkins is flying a USAF RC-135S Cobra Ball reconnaissance aircraft -east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia when he is notified that the -USSR has launched an RSD-10 Pioneer IRBM toward the Kura Missile Test -Range at Klyuchi, Kamchatka Krai. The 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear -Forces Treaty allows the Soviets to test-fire IRBMs into the sea, rather -than breaking them up. Moving into position to collect telemetry -information from the launch, Hopkins observes a “translucent, milky -white wall moving from the left, over the USSR, to the right, over the -Northern Pacific Ocean. It covered the entire sky from ground level to -as far up as we could see looking out the front windows of the -airplane.” The wall of light passes at an estimated 6,200 mph, -disappearing eastward and leaving darkness behind it. Some analysts at -the USAF Foreign Technology Division think it is caused by something in -the first-stage fuel of the RSD-10; others suggest it is produced -deliberately to dazzle US observation satellites. Some speculate that -Russia has a secret Dome of Light weapon that has been observed several -times since and that might involve a plasma that can temporarily disrupt -electronics and blind a satellite. (Tyler Rogoway, “U.S. -Spyplane Pilot’s Account Indicates Soviet Russia Tested a -‘Dome of Light’ Superweapon,” The Drive: The War Zone, February 6, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6727

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Event 9436 -(03919AA0)

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Date: 10/8/1988
-Description: After speaking to John -Lear by phone for the first time on October 4, conspiracy theorist -Milton -William Cooper receives -in the mail a number of Lear’s writings, as well as the dubious “O.H. -Krill” document, allegedly written by a USAF NCO named John Grace, -claiming that the US government has a long-standing relationship with an -alien civilization; a version of Abraham -Zapruder’s John -F. Kennedy assassination film enhanced to show Secret Service Agent -William -Greer shooting a pistol at Kennedy; Lear’s transcription of -statements by a former Green Beret captain named William English -regarding a nonexistent Project Grudge Report number 13 that refers to -alien bodies; and a paper on Project Excalibur regarding underground -facilities that was supposedly written by Bob -Lazar while working at Los Alamos. (O. H. Krill [John Grace], “A -Situation Report on Our Acquisition of Advanced -Technology and Interaction with Alien Cultures,” IllumiNet BBS, June -1988; Don Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times 122 (May -1999): 28–31; Dolan II 443–447)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6720

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Event 9437 -(5BC5E26D)

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Date: 10/13/1988
-Description: Former Sen. Barry -Goldwater appears on Larry -King’s syndicated radio show and responds to a caller who asks him -whether the story about a secret Blue Room at Wright-Patterson AFB is -true. He says his friend Gen. Curtis -LeMay got quite angry at him when he tried to gain access to the -room, which is said to hold evidence related to UFOs. (Nukes -488–489)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6721

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Event 9438 -(65B0C42A)

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Date: 10/14/1988
-Description: “UFO Cover-Up?: Live!” Broadcast from Washington DC on 130 -syndicated stations throughout the US. Soviet ufologists appeared live -by satellite. AFOSI officer Rick Doty played the part of ‘Falcon’ in the -Kodak-produced documentary, but it is generally accepted he wasn’t the -‘real’ Falcon of the Aviary.
-Type: TV broadcast
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 9439 -(629E532A)

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Date: 10/14/1988
-Description: Bill -Moore and his associates cooperate with “Falcon” and others in the -“Aviary” to present a nationally televised two-hour special titled UFO -Cover-Up? Live! Host Mike -Ferrell interviews Betty -Cash and Vickie Landrum, and -finally “Falcon” (or someone pretending to be him) and “Condor” -(identified by some as DIA employee Col. Robert -Collins), who appear in silhouette with voices altered. They -embarrassingly proclaim that the ETs have a preference for Tibetan music -and strawberry ice cream. Robert -Emenegger also appears, claiming he is convinced of the reality of -the alleged UFO contact at Holloman AFB. Paul Shartle describes the -Holloman film footage, saying it shows aliens emerging from a -disc-shaped craft. (presidentialufo.com, “Disclosure Pattern 1972–75”; -Internet Movie Database, “UFO -Cover-Up? Live!”; Don Ecker, “Driven to Destruction,” Fortean Times -121 (April 1999): 40–43; Greg Bishop, Project Beta, Paraview, 2005, pp. 200–202, 211–212)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6722

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Event 9440 -(5483F6D4)

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Date: 10/25/1988
-Description: 5:00 a.m. A Miami, Florida, couple is on their balcony -terrace when they see 3 yellow lights moving erratically from west to -east. They pass behind the only cloud in the sky then disappear. -(Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. -4 (July 2005): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6723

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Event 9441 -(AEEA330F)

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Date: 10/25/1988
-Description: The Dallas, Texas, office of the FBI transmits a 2-page -secret Airtel to headquarters that says the MJ-12 documents have been -getting local publicity and asks if the documents are still classified. -(Kremlin 182)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6724

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Event 9442 -(7FF7A722)

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Date: 10/26/1988
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Many residents of the San Joaquin Valley around -Fresno and Kingsburg, California, see a low- flying object with three -red lights in a V-formation. It seems to be circling and is visible for -45 minutes. (“Unidentified -Object Steals -across Valley Sky,” Fresno (Calif.) Bee, October 28, 1988, pp. 1, -16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6726

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Event 9443 -(374907E7)

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Date: 10/26/1988
-Description: Jim Speiser ejects both Milton -William Cooper and John -Lear from ParaNet for bad behavior and peddling probable -disinformation. (Don Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times -122 (May 1999): 28–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6725

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Event 9444 -(BB90B22A)

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Date: 11/1988
-Description: GEPAN is renamed Service d’Étude des Phénomènes de Rentrées -Atmosphériques (SEPRA), but the Scientific Council is still closed, and -no more technical reports are produced. Velasco is -still tasked with studying UFO reports, but not in making analyses. -(Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in France,” -IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 13; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and -Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 13; -Clark III 547; Swords 448)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6728

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Event 9445 -(275166E3)

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Date: 11/10/1988
-Description: Assistant Secretary of Defense J. -Daniel Howard holds a Pentagon press conference and reveals the -existence of the F-117A stealth fighter. After the announcement, pilots -can fly the F-117 during daytime and no longer need to be associated -with the LTV A-7 Corsair II for training, flying the T-38 supersonic -trainer for travel and training instead. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -F-117 Nighthawk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6729

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Event 9446 -(314A3B33)

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Date: 11/11/1988
-End date: 11/12/1988
-Description: 5:00 p.m. A truck driver returning from Utah to Baker, -California, goes through a series of bizarre and inexplicable -experiences, some of them ufological, that leave him convinced that his -truck is possessed and “they” have been in control of him all along. The -experiences end shortly after midnight before he returns to Baker and -leave him terrified. During the drive he has been drinking copious -amounts of coffee, which may have contributed to his hallucinatory -excitement. (Ann Druffel, “The Caffeine Zone,” IUR 13, no. 3 (May/June -1988): 18–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6730

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Event 9447 -(6731A70B)

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Date: 11/12/1988
-Description: Aviation designer Brad -Sorensen attends an air show at Norton AFB in San Bernardino, -California, and is taken to a huge hangar by a former high-ranking -Defense Department official to view the Lockheed Pulsar, nicknamed the -Aurora, that allegedly can be anywhere in the world 30 minutes after -launch. Behind a big black curtain are three flying saucers hovering -above the floor. The small saucer is about 24 feet in diameter. The next -biggest one is 60 feet in diameter at the base, and another one is 130 -feet. They are referred to as Alien Reproduction Vehicles. A videotape -shows the smallest of the three vehicles making three little, quick, -hopping motions; then it accelerates straight up and out of sight, -completely disappearing from view in just a couple of seconds. There is -a cut-away illustration that shows oxygen tanks and a robotic arm that -can extend out from the side of the vehicle for collecting samples in -space. (Mark McCandlish, “Alien -Reproduction Vehicles,” Filer’s Files, #19-2011, May 4, 2011; Dolan -II 457–461)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6731

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Event 9448 -(8ECBB87F)

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Date: 11/15/1988
-Description: First and only test of the Soviet Buran orbital spaceplane. -It was the first spaceplane to perform an uncrewed flight, including -landing in fully automatic mode.
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Soviet Union

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Event 9449 -(30081210)

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Date: 11/22/1988
-Description: The Northrup Grumman B-2 stealth bomber is first publicly -displayed at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, -where it is assembled. This viewing is heavily restricted, and guests -are not allowed to see the rear of the B-2. However, Aviation Week -editors find that there are no airspace restrictions above the -presentation area and take aerial photographs of the aircraft’s -then-secret rear section with its suppressed engine exhausts. -(Wikipedia, “Northrop -Grumman B-2 Spirit”; Steve Pace, B-2 Spirit: The Most Capable War -Machine on the Planet, McGraw-Hill, 1999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6732

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Event 9450 -(99DA87F7)

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Date: 11/28/1988
-Description: Physicist Edward -Teller allegedly calls the out-of-work physicist and electronics -technician Robert -Lazar and gives him the name of a contact in Las Vegas, Nevada. -Lazar makes contact, and later receives a call from EG&G, a -high-tech company with contracts at Groom Lake, Nevada. (Dolan II -475)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6733

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Event 9451 -(9F6290F3)

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Date: 11/29/1988
-Description: Dr. Edward Teller calls Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar
-Type: telephone call
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Event 9452 -(2ABCE9DB)

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Date: 11/30/1988
-Description: An arranged meeting takes place in Washington, D.C., -between AFOSI and FBI agents, who request information about the MJ-12 -documents. The Air Force tells the FBI the documents are completely -bogus and the FBI should cease its inquiry. (Kremlin 182–183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6734

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Event 9453 -(EE084544)

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Date: 12/1988
-Description: Crash Retrieval Program worker Bob Lazar starts working at -Area-51/S-4 (Unclear: Lazar’s book says 1/89 in Preface)
-Type: historical event
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Area 51

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Event 9454 -(B4DE6C77)

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Date: 12/1/1988
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A captain of the Brazilian Air Force flying a -Mirage fighter jet is returning from a mission and is over Jaboãtoa dos -Guararapes, Pernambuco, Brazil, when his radar indicates traffic about -one mile from his position. He requests permission to intercept and goes -after the brilliant disk-like object that has a dull glow like copper. -The CINDACTA III radar still finds nothing. The UFO begins to approach -the jet and suddenly his instruments begin to fail. A red light in the -center begins to grow stronger and the pilot arms his missiles; but the -missiles do not respond to his command and the UFO flies off in mere -seconds. But the chase continues another 10 minutes, during which time -the UFO plays with its pursuer. After landing, the pilot is told that -another aircraft has seen a strange object about 15 minutes earlier in -the state of São Paulo more than 1,242 miles away. (Clark III 207; -Brazil 556–557)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6736

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Event 9455 -(BF91DB3D)

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Date: 12/1/1988
-Description: Robert -Lazar allegedly interviews at EG&G, but is informed that he is -overqualified for the position in question (Dolan II 475)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6735

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Event 9456 -(207C0E57)

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Date: 12/4/1988
-Description: 5:25 a.m. A police officer en route to his station in -Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, notices a brilliant glow in the sky ahead -of him. It is so bright he can hardly see as he drives down a four-lane -road, and he swerves and blocks two lanes. About 150 feet in the air is -a 75-foot-long, highly polished silver object shaped like an ellipse. It -is emitting a humming sound and casting light into and all around his -car. It moves left and right, then shoots straight up into the sky, -stopping again briefly before departing. The officer’s eyes hurt badly -from the brightness and he feels ill. There is a sunburn-like rash on -his face, and he has severe eye irritation, headache, and neck pain -after the incident. He notes that the paint on his car has been dulled -and an unusual powder-like substance is found on the exterior. (“Number -of UFO Reports in State Unprecedented in ’88,” Latrobe (Pa.) -Bulletin, January 9, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 235 -(February 1989): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6737

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Event 9457 -(5E5C6554)

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Date: 12/4/1988
-Description: Silvery oval object hovered, brilliant illumination, -physiological effects. UFO maneuvered erratically, emitted silvery white -trail when flew away
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Harrisburg, PA
-ID: 438

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Event 9458 -(9F227D39)

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Date: 12/5/1988
-Description: Robert -Lazar interviews at EG&G again for what seems like a part-time -position. (Dolan II 475)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6738

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Event 9459 -(AB2272AB)

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Date: 12/6/1988
-Description: Lazar reports -to work at the EG&G building at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, -Nevada. There he meets with a security officer named Dennis Mariani, who -escorts him on a flight to Area 51 at Groom Lake, where Lazar signs a -secrecy agreement that requires intensive monitoring of his activities. -He and Mariani board a bus with blacked-out windows and ride for 30 -minutes down a dirt and gravel road. They arrive at a base near Papoose -Dry Lake known as S-4. Lazar’s ID is prepared, he is given a physical -and treated for allergic reactions to unknown substances, then he begins -work at S-4. Lazar claims he only visits S-4 on six or seven occasions -between December 1988 and April 1989 to learn about Project Galileo, -which deals with gravity and propulsion, and training on an “antimatter -reactor.” He also reads about a second project, Looking Glass, concerned -with seeing back in time. (Dolan II 475; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6739

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Event 9460 -(91D0EB9B)

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Date: 12/18/1988
-Description: Milton -William Cooper surfaces on CompuServe online network, claiming that -while working as a quartermaster with an intelligence team for Adm. Bernard -A. Clarey, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, he had seen two -documents, Project Grudge Special Report 13 and an MJ-12 briefing. He -elaborates on Moore’s -and Lear’s -tales of crashes and alien bodies, adding that the aliens are called -Alien Life Forms (ALFs) and that he has seen photos of aliens that -supposedly landed at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, in 1964 or 1977. (Dolan -II 452– 453; Clark III 367)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6740

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Event 9461 -(37053435)

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Date: 12/28/1988
-Description: 7:45 p.m. Many people in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, see a -huge, bright-yellow triangular object in the sky. Mañuel Marcado watches -as two F-14 Tomcats (probably from an aircraft carrier) approach the -object from either side then cross in front of it. The light stops in -mid-air and absorbs both planes, according to Marcado. The object moves -over Lago Samán, then divides itself into two triangles, one of which -shoots off to the east and the other to the north. Allegedly, the -triangular objects were tracked on US Navy radars. (Good Need, p. 379)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6741

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- Event 9462 (3A6F65BF)

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Date: 1989
-Description: The date provided in an interview by Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD -for the failure of the “Crash Retrieval Program”
-Type: historical event
-Reference: link

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Event 9463 -(4D35AECE)

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Date: 1989
-Description: Year of Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s W-2 -statement
-Type: tax statement
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Event 9464 -(28A06022)

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Date: 1/1989
-Description: Leonard -Stringfield issues his fifth Status Report. (Leonard H. Stringfield, -UFO Crash/Retrievals: Is the Coverup Lid Lifting? The Author, -1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6742

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Event 9465 -(315F6810)

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Date: 1/1989
-Description: The Long Island UFO Network begins publishing the Long -Island UFO Reporter, which soon changes its name to the Long Island UFO -Update, edited at first by George McLain in Center Moriches, New York. -It continues through December 1992. (Long -Island UFO Reporter 1 no. 1 (January 1989))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6743

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Event 9466 -(CAB9830D)

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Date: 1/20/1989
-End date: 1/20/1993
-Description: President George H. W. Bush in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 9467 -(48FBE307)

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Date: 1/28/1989
-Description: Evening. A triangular UFO is seen over Tiptree, Essex, -England. Its color changes from bright to dull white before it shoots to -the southwest. Other triangular UFOs are observed in southeast Essex in -January. (Marler 124)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6744

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Event 9468 -(4408D1AE)

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Date: 2/1989
-Description: Local concentration of sightings.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Fyffe, AL
-ID: 439

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Event 9469 -(9EFD1E1E)

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Date: 2/1989
-Description: Numerous witnesses in Gloucestershire, England, report a -noiseless triangular UFO “ablaze with lights.” One report describes a -series of light beams emanating toward the ground that give it a “tripod -effect.” (Wilts & Gloucester Standard of Cirencester, February 24, -1989; Marler 124–125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6745

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Event 9470 -(B174D055)

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Date: 2/8/1989
-Description: 3:40 a.m. A man in Gulf Breeze, Florida, wakes to the sound -of dogs barking outside. He sees a small object descending low over a -nearby lot. It appears to be two connected discs, one on top of the -other, not more than 3 feet in diameter. A white light is on top, and -many other lights are blinking in shades of red, orange, and green. He -approaches it, but it disappears in a flash of light. The duration is -about 12 minutes. (NICAP, “Gulf Breeze, -Florida: February 8, 1989”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6746

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Event 9471 -(5C894DC6)

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Date: 2/10/1989
-Description: 8:42 p.m. A woman in Grove Oak, Alabama, tells the Fyffe, -Alabama, police department that she has been watching a curved object -for more than an hour with a pair of binoculars. It has a red light on -each end and a white light in between, with the top of the curve -outlined in green light. Police Chief Junior -Garmany and Assistant Chief Fred Works drive to the site and see the -object at 1,000–1,500 feet, completely silent. It begins moving away as -they approach. The officers drive after the object, following it for 12 -miles when it suddenly reverses direction and flies over their patrol -car at 300–400 mph. It is soon seen by law enforcement officers to the -south in Crossville, Geraldine, and Collinsville, Alabama. The DeKalb -County Sheriff’s Office receives more than 50 calls from citizens in -surrounding communities, including Dawson and Dog Town, Alabama, and -Lick Skillet, Tennessee, regarding a “silent thing streaking through the -dark.” (“Friday -Night UFO Remains a Mystery,” -Fort Payne (Ala.) Times Journal, February 14, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping -Service, no. 236 (March 1989): 10; Meghan Mitchell, “Alabama’s -UFO Capital Still Has a Story to Tell,” The Crimson White -(University of Alabama), October 28, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6747

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Event 9472 -(2018C477)

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Date: 2/13/1989
-Description: 9:00–10:00 p.m. A large, low-flying, cylindrical UFO is -reported by many witnesses in the North Caucasus region of Russia. It -has spotlights in front and back, porthole-like openings along the -sides, fins on its tail, and travels at about 65 mph. As it flies over -Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, it drifts down to an altitude of 150 feet -then flies off. (Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A -Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, pp. 32–33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6748

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Event 9473 -(9EDE5AF5)

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Date: 2/15/1989
-Description: Fyffe, Alabama, police officer Dennison Scott and two other -officers investigate a citizen’s report of a strange object in the sky, -flashing multicolored lights for more than an hour before it moves away -toward the northwest. (Dolan II 472–473)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6749

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Event 9474 -(7DAD47DF)

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Date: 3/1989 (approximate)
-Description: Lazar takes group near Groom Lake to view UFO’s
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Papoose Dry Lake

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Event 9475 -(FCA4DBC5)

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Date: 3/1989
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies launches a new series of its -Journal of UFO Studies, edited by Michael -D. Swords, who examines the literature relating to extraterrestrial -intelligence in order to provide a basis for judging the ETH as an -acceptable concept for use in analyzing UFO phenomena. (Michael D. -Swords, “Science and the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis in Ufology,” JUFOS -1 (1989): 67–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6750

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Event 9476 -(F2715B33)

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Date: 3/1989
-Description: Robert -Lazar allegedly sees a disc on his third visit to S-4 at Groom Lake, -Nevada. It is a classic-looking flying saucer, resting on three legs in -a hangar. It is about 35–40 feet in diameter, 15 feet tall, and the -color of pewter. During his stay at S-4, he sees a total of 9 flying -saucers, each distinctive in design and size. His assignment, however, -involves just one craft he nicknames the “sport model,” which he is -allowed to examine on his fourth visit to S-4. The disc has three -levels, and he is cleared for the lower two. Lazar crawls underneath the -craft and sees three “gravity amplifiers” that focus a “Gravity A” wave -from the “total annihilation” reactor in the center level of the craft. -In this level, he sees a control panel and very small chairs—too small -for human pilots. He discovers that part of the skin of the craft can -become transparent, allowing one to look through it like a window. -According to Lazar, the fuel for the craft is Element 115 [later -synthesized in 2003 and named moscovium in 2016, but this is much -different than what Lazar describes], housed in the reactor where it -undergoes bombardment and spontaneous fission, producing antimatter -particles that are converted to electricity with 100% efficiency. This -power operates the amplifier, distorts the surrounding gravitational -field, causes the craft to be invisible, and shortens the distance to a -charted destination. Speed-of-light limitations are irrelevant. But -Element 115 cannot be manufactured on Earth. The aliens have left only -500 pounds of it, but just 223 grams (half a pound) can fuel a craft for -a long time. On another occasion, Lazar witnesses a demonstration of the -craft, which lifts off the ground, moves left and right, and sits back -down. He has access to and reads more than 100 documents dealing with -the craft, its propulsion, and alien technology, as well as photos of -gray alien bodies. The aliens are allegedly from the Zeta Reticuli 1 and -2 star system. The Reticulans claim to have genetically corrected human -evolution up to 65 times over the past 10,000 years using viruses. They -have given humans religion to prevent them from self-destructing and -claim to be able to exert mind control on people when they are relaxed -or sleeping. Lazar allegedly catches a glimpse of a small, gray alien -standing between two men in white coats in a small room inside the -secret S-4 facility. The documents also mention an exchange of -information and hardware between the US government and the Reticulans -until 1979, when some kind of conflict occurred. This is when the aliens -leave and the military begins reverse-engineering what alien tech they -have acquired. Then in May 1987, some scientists take an antimatter -reactor to an underground Nevada test facility, where they are killed -when attempting to cut the reactor open. Lazar claims he was hired as a -substitute for one of these men. (“Billy Goodman Happening, Nov. 21, -1989,” transcript of call-in radio show, KVEG-AM, Las Vegas, Nevada; -MUFON UFO Journal, June 1990; Grant R. Cameron, T. Scott Crain, and -Chris Rutkowski, “In the Land of Dreams,” IUR 15, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1990): 4–8; “S-4 -Papoose Lake,” Bob Lazar Debunked; “New -High-Def Photos of S-4,” Bob Lazar Debunked; “Element -115,” Bob Lazar Debunked; Dolan II 475–478; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6751

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Event 9477 -(8BAD842D)

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Date: 3/1/1989
-Description: Albuquerque, New Mexico, ufologist Robert -Hastings issues a 13-page statement with 37 pages of appended -documents and mails it to many prominent individuals in ufology. He -claims “Falcon” is Richard -Doty and “Condor” is Robert -Collins, and -that Doty and Moore are -spreading disinformation. (Clark III 370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6752

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Event 9478 -(62E832DE)

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Date: 3/9/1989
-Description: Night. Susan Stockman, a reporter for the Rainsville (Ala.) -Weekly Post, is with general manager Teri Baker when she snaps three -time-lapse photographs of a distant UFO just above the treetop level, -showing a movement unlike that of an airplane that appears shortly -afterward. (Susan Stockman, “Section -Native Says UFOs Are Real,” Rainsville (Ala.) Weekly Post, March 9, -1989; Susan Stockman, “A -First-Hand Glimpse of the UFO,” Rainsville (Ala.) Weekly Post, March -16, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 237 (April 1989): 3–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6753

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Event 9479 -(1ACEE8FB)

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Date: 3/12/1989
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Gary -Coker of Skirum, Alabama, sees a large UFO with red and green -flashing lights on the side and two white lights about 6 feet in -diameter on the bottom hovering about 5 miles away. Another man in -Geraldine, Alabama, sees an object the size of a football field hovering -above his chicken house at about the same time. In both cases, the -object disappears after the witnesses go inside to get a camera or -binoculars. (“Some -Say UFO -Is As Big As a Football Field,” Rainsville (Ala.) Weekly Post, March -16, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 237 (April 1989): 3)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6754

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Event 9480 -(AF58434A)

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Date: Spring 1989
-Description: Bob Lazar takes groups of friends on Wednesday nights into -the desert around Papoose Dry Lake, 15 miles south of Groom Lake. They -appeared to be large glowing, disc-shaped objects. At least one sighting -was recorded on video.
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Papoose Dry Lake

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Event 9481 -(05029A8D)

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Date: late 3/1989
-Description: 9:20 p.m. After a training exercise at Mihai Kogălniceanu -Air Force Base [now Mihai Kogălniceanu International Airport] in -southeast Romania, 18–20 aircraft pilots of Regiment 57 are inside a -building at the base planning future exercises; outside, Col. Aurelian -Dobre notices multiple lights appear above some nearby trees. He alerts -the oher pilots to come out, and they see a triangular formation of -objects at an equal distance from each other, all bathed in a silver -light, moving south to north at a height of 4 miles. Dobre hears a noise -like the rustle of a flight of birds; unlike his colleagues, he thinks -the lights are on a single object the size of a football stadium. Col. -Dan Aloanei is flying a MiG-29 and sees them as a V-formation of neon -lights that disappear to the northeast. The next day, all the witnesses -are required to submit written reports. (Romania 105–109)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6755

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Event 9482 -(B4C568BB)

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Date: 3/22/1989
-Description: 8:30 p.m. After telling writer Gene -Huff and pilot John -Lear about his UFO secrets, Lazar and -his wife Tracy drive Lear’s RV to Tikaboo Peak, Nevada, off Highway 375 -to view a test flight of a flying saucer at S-4. Lear sees an -elliptical-shaped light through Lear’s Celestron telescope for 7 -minutes. Lear videotapes the encounter, and the tape shows a bright -light apparently maneuvering. When the camera zooms in close to the -object, it seems to be spinning. They watch it descend behind a -mountain. (Tom Mahood, “The -Robert Lazar Timeline,” Other Hand, January 1997; Susan Wright, UFO -Headquarters: Investigations on Current Extraterrestrial Activity, -St. Martin’s, 1999 ed., pp. 186–209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6756

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Event 9483 -(F5C9F48A)

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Date: 3/25/1989
-Description: The Soviet Mars probe Phobos -2 takes an infrared photograph of what appears to be a large and -long cylindrical object very close to Mars moonlet Phobos. If this -Phobos Mystery Object is at the same distance as the moonlet itself, it -would be roughly 1.2 miles wide and 15 miles long. Its surface -brightness is the same as Phobos. Its sides are parallel and both of the -ends are rounded. The end toward Phobos narrows slightly; the other end -has a short protrusion. This is the last image taken by the probe. On -March 27 it fails to reestablish communications with Earth due to an -onboard computer malfunction and goes into a spin. (Paul Stonehill and -Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the -Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 70–73; Patrick Gross, “Soviet -Probe Meets UFO on Phobos Mission”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6757

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Event 9484 -(C4A5E644)

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Date: 3/29/1989
-Description: Lazar records the mean outdoor temp, heads with group to -viewing area for 2nd time
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Papoose Dry Lake

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Event 9485 -(610FA2F7)

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Date: 3/29/1989
-Description: Bob and -Tracy Lazar, Gene Huff, John -Lear, and Jim Tagliani drive to Tikaboo Peak, Nevada, to observe -another flight test. They videotape a moving light.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6758

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Event 9486 -(24094E22)

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Date: 4/2/1989
-Description: Lazar’s 3rd trip with group to view UFO’s near Groom -Lake
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Papoose Dry Lake

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Event 9487 -(C1133BA5)

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Date: 4/5/1989
-Description: Robert -Lazar, Tracy -Lazar, her sister, Gene Huff, and John -Lear make a third trip to view a flight test along Groom Lake Road, -Nevada. They are discovered by guards and questioned by the Lincoln -County sheriff.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6759

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Event 9488 -(07C9D2A3)

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Date: 4/6/1989
-Description: Lazar is -prevented from going to work at Groom Lake and is taken to Indian -Springs Air Force Base [now Creech AFB] for questioning. He is told he -is no longer employed by EG&G, and if he comes near Groom Lake again -he will be arrested for espionage. He is allegedly given a transcript of -Tracy’s telephone conversations which indicate she is having an affair. -(Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 12–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6760

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Event 9489 -(8E94CDD1)

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Date: 4/7/1989
-Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s last day at -work
-Type: employment
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Papoose Dry Lake

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Event 9490 -(04670EC0)

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Date: 4/13/1989
-Description: The Kerry Committee report, the result of an investigation -led by Sens. John -Kerry (D-Mass.) and Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) -by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, -Narcotics, and International Operations, shows that Lt. Col. Oliver -North and other members of the Reagan administration -had set up a private network involving the National Security Council and -CIA to deliver military equipment to the Contras, US-backed right-wing -rebel groups in Nicaragua. This has not been authorized by Congress, and -much of the funding comes from drug trafficking. DEA agent Celerino -Castillo testifies that from 1985 to 1987, he discovered that the -Contras were transporting cocaine through El Salvador’s Ilopango -Airport. Castillo tried to bust the operation, but discovers that the -traffickers were protected by the CIA. The subcommittee determines that -there is “substantial evidence of drug smuggling… on the part of -individual Contras, Contra suppliers, Contra pilots, mercenaries who -worked with the Contras, and Contra supporters.” It does “not find that -Contra leaders were personally involved in drug trafficking.” -(Wikipedia, “Kerry -Committee report”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6761

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Event 9491 -(77DD08AC)

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Date: 4/15/1989
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A father and his 16-year-old son watch from their -front lawn in Novato, California, a slowly descending object shaped like -“two spheres connected by together like a stem.” They are golden with a -white halo around them. Through binoculars, they can see four smaller -objects, golden discs, maneuvering near the original dumbbell-shaped -UFO. The father notes a “strange absence of kids and dogs at the time.” -(Richard F. Haines, “Daylight Dumbbell,” IUR 14, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1989): 12–13, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6762

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Event 9492 -(FB2F5A5D)

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Date: 4/21/1989
-Description: Witness aimed rifle at hovering disc, brilliant white light -on underside, humming sound. Light beam engulfed him, rifle misfired, -object sped away
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Crestview, FL
-ID: 440

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Event 9493 -(E9F769F3)

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Date: 4/21/1989
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 441

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Event 9494 -(C20B1BBF)

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Date: 4/24/1989
-Description: 10:55 p.m. An object described as three times the size of -an aircraft hovers above Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia, at a -height of 1,000 feet. (Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet -Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6763

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Event 9495 -(E1E5391C)

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Date: 5/1989
-End date: 11/1989
-Description: Journalist George Knapp is assigned to research all things -Bob Lazar.
-Type: historical event
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Event 9496 -(4224B497)

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Date: 5/2/1989
-Description: Pilot Manoel Luiz Christóvão, flying a small plane about 6 -miles west of Arapongas, Paraná, Brazil, sees a huge circular light in -the sky as he is preparing to land. Another plane flying nearby cannot -see the light. Christovào continues to land, but the light positions -itself in front of the plane, forcing him to make a sudden maneuver. The -object moves in front of him again, forcing him to maneuver again. The -pilot decides to head directly toward the light, after which the UFO -accelerates abruptly and disappears. The maneuvers last approximately 10 -minutes. (“Piloto -se arrisca em prova de fogo no Paraná,” Portal UFO, December 1, -1995; Clark III 201; Brazil 542–543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6764

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Event 9497 -(9D190E30)

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Date: 5/7/1989
-Description: Hoaxed South African Air Force documents purport to -describe a UFO crash in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana 50 miles north -of the South African border. Two Mirage fighter aircraft allegedly -pursue a fast-moving UFO and shoot it down with an experimental “thor 2 -laser cannon.” However, UFO researcher Cynthia -Hind notices ludicrous errors in the documents, not least among them -that they are in English, not Afrikaans. (Wikipedia, “UFO -sightings in South Africa”; Clark III 1096–1098)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6765

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Event 9498 -(ABC71D58)

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Date: 5/14/1989
-Description: Bob Lazar, at ex-CIA contractor and ufologist John Lear’s -secure house, is first interviewed by journalist George Knapp.
-Type: interview
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar page 213
-Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Event 9499 -(4E4C95B3)

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Date: 5/15/1989
-Description: Robert -Lazar is first interviewed by George -Knapp on KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, in silhouette, using the -pseudonym “Dennis.” Lazar discusses his purported employment at S-4, a -subsidiary facility he claims exists near in Area 51. He says the S-4 -facility is adjacent to Papoose Lake, which is located south of the main -Area 51 facility at Groom Lake. He claims the site consists of concealed -aircraft hangars built into a mountainside. Lazar says that his job was -to help with reverse engineering the antigravity propulsion system of -one of nine flying saucers, which he alleges are extraterrestrial in -origin. Lazar claims one of the flying saucers, the one he terms the -“sport model,” is manufactured out of a metallic substance similar in -appearance and touch to stainless steel. (Tom Mahood, “The -Robert Lazar Timeline,” Other Hand, January 1997; Grant R. Cameron, -T. Scott Crain, and Chris Rutkowski, “In the Land of Dreams,” IUR 15, -no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1990): 4–8; Don Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” -Fortean Times 122 (May 1999): 28–31; George Knapp and Matt Adams, “I-Team: -The Man Who -Sent Shock Waves through UFO Circles 30 Years Ago,” KLAS-TV, May 15, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6766

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Event 9500 -(66D07D4D)

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Date: 5/17/1989
-Description: Kalahari Desert, close to the borders between the Republics -of South Africa and Botswana: UFO shot down by 2 scrambled Mirage jets. -2 live EBE’s and craft debris transported to Wright Patterson AFB. A -South African Air Force Intelligence officer leaks photos of the -EBE’s.
-Type: crash retrieval
-Reference: AFU Archives, “Space Craft Shot Out of South African -Sky”
-Location: Kalahari Desert

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Event 9501 -(0BBD2810)

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Date: 5/23/1989
-Description: Milton -William Cooper produces a 25-page document titled The Secret -Government, in which he claims that an unscrupulous group of covert CIA -and other intelligence operatives actually runs the country. He says -they were responsible for murdering one-time Secretary of Defense James -Forrestal in 1949 because he threatened to expose the UFO cover-up. -He claims there have been at least 16 downed alien craft, 65 bodies, and -one live alien retrieved between 1947 and 1952, with at least 10 more -crash/retrievals during the Eisenhower years. Cooper says aliens from a -dying planet orbiting Betelgeuse landed at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, in -1954 and reached an agreement with the government. A second meeting took -place with President Eisenhower at -Edwards AFB, California, and signed a formal treaty with an alien -ambassador, His Omnipotent Highness Krill. But, he claims, the aliens -broke the treaty, abducting humans, conspiring with the Soviets, and -manipulating society through secret organizations. Cooper also claims -that Eisenhower had created a scientific advisory group in 1960 called -the Jason Group to “discover the truth of the alien question.” Much more -spurious and outlandish tales develop. (Milton William Cooper, The -Secret Government: The Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12, The -Author, May 23, 1989; Clark III 367–368)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6767

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Event 9502 -(72996753)

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Date: 5/24/1989
-Description: Bob Lazar interviews on KLAS-TV in silhouette using assumed -identity “Dennis”. Sometime after this, Popular host Billy Goodman -organizes bus trips to the outskirts of Groom Lake for UFO viewing -parties.
-Type: interview
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Event 9503 -(C40198EB)

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Date: 5/30/1989
-Description: 3:46 a.m. TAM Airlines Flight 573 in the vicinity of -Americana, São Paulo, Brazil, is contacted twice by the local control -tower to ask if they can see an aircraft in their vicinity. Both times -the pilot answers no, but at 3:52 a.m. the pilot says he can now see a -strong light near the airplane. It maneuvers near the aircraft and one -of the pilots estimates its size as about 164 feet. About 8 minutes -later, they lose visual contact. (Clark III 201; Brazil 543)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6768

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Event 9504 -(A07140E5)

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Date: 5/30/1989
-Description: 9:15 p.m. A man and his son in Winnipeg, Manitoba, observe -a “silvery, metallic hot dog,” oriented vertically and moving steadily -west. After several minutes, the object is lost in the distance. (Chris -Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1989): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6769

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Event 9505 -(F2D36755)

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Date: 6/1989
-Description: Jacques -Vallée presents “five arguments against the extraterrestrial origin” -of UFOs at the eighth annual conference of the Society for Scientific -Exploration in Boulder, Colorado. (1) There are too many close -encounters to explain them as a physical survey of the earth. (2) The -humanoid body structure is unlikely to have originated elsewhere and is -not biologically adapted to space travel. (3) The behavior of alien -abductors contradicts the idea that advanced aliens are conducting -genetic or scientific experiments. (4) UFOs have been recorded -throughout human history. (5) The apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate -space and time suggests different and richer alternatives to the ETH. -Vallée cites the earthlight theory, the control system hypothesis, and -travel via wormholes as viable explanations. (Jacques Vallée, “Five -Arguments Against the Extraterrestrial Origin of -Unidentified Flying Objects,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 4, -no. 1 (1990): 105–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6770

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Event 9506 -(90EF7955)

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Date: 6/1989
-Description: Robert -Hastings lines up an impressive case against Bill -Moore, saying that the Project Aquarius message was altered by -Moore, that Richard -Doty had forged the Ellsworth AFB document, that Doty’s typewriter -at Kirtland AFB was implicated in the July 1980 Craig R. Weitzel letter, -that Doty had given data to Linda -Moulton Howe that contradicted data in the Eisenhower briefing memo, -and that Moore admitted to faking a government ID card and passed -himself off as an intelligence operative for two years. (MUFON UFO -Journal, June 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6771

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Event 9507 -(444388F2)

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Date: 6/2/1989
-Description: Paul Paulsen Frøyen sees two “U-boats” in Sognefjord -between Lavik and Vadheim, Vestland, Norway. He watches them for -two-and-a-half minutes, noting their periscopes and towers. When they -submerge, he can see the spray. The Norwegian Air Force sends two jets -to look for them, and the Coast Guard is also alerted. (Ole Jonny -Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects in Norway,” IUR -20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6772

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Event 9508 -(13708BC3)

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Date: 6/4/1989
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A security guard and an air traffic controller at -Air Force Facility 42 in Palmdale, California, witness a silver flying -object and three orb-shaped UFOs during testing of the B1-B bomber. -There is also a rumor of an abduction occurring on this date at the same -facility. (MUFON UFO Journal, November 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6773

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Event 9509 -(EA40CA2D)

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Date: 6/6/1989
-Description: School children near the village of Konantsevo, Vologda -Oblast, Russia, see a luminous dot in the sky. It gets larger, turns -into a shining sphere, lands in a meadow, and moves to the Reka Kubena -river about a quarter mile away. It seems to split, and a “headless -person in dark garb” appears. The entity and sphere become invisible. -Three more spheres are said to land later in the same meadow. (Jacques -Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, -Ballantine, 1992, pp. 11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6774

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Event 9510 -(27DB07C9)

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Date: summer 1989
-Description: Night. Edward Chard sees some odd lights hovering in Essex, -England. He looks at them through binoculars and sees a large triangular -object. (Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & -Schuster, 1997, p. 183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6777

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Event 9511 -(07F13871)

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Date: 6/24/1989
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A. N. Olkhovay goes out on her balcony in -Kyiv, Ukraine, and sees a dim, twinkling, rectangular object shaped -“like a loaf of bread” hovering above the Obolon neighborhood. She calls -her neighbors, and one of them named Ivanitsky hastily takes two photos. -The film is developed in the offices of the Pravda Ukrainy newspaper but -it shows nothing. (V. D. Musinsky, “Letter: Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no. -1 (Jan./Feb. 1990): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6775

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Event 9512 -(2EB3A8B2)

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Date: 6/30/1989
-Description: 9:30 p.m. G. I. Lerman and his wife Ann watch a fiery -object with a tail over Lake Radunka in Kyiv, Ukraine, flying at an -altitude of 1,640–3,280 feet, first slowly, then speeding up. After a -minute or two the flames die out and they see a silver-white object. -During the sighting they feel their own movements slowing down. (V. D. -Musinsky, “Letter: Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1990): -21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6776

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Event 9513 -(F14B8B49)

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Date: 7/1989
-End date: 10/1989
-Description: Several abduction cases. (Vallee, 1992).
-Type: abduction
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Soviet Union
-ID: 442

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Event 9514 -(BA4E9C76)

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Date: 7/1/1989
-Description: Bill -Moore makes a stunning presentation at the MUFON UFO Symposium in -Las Vegas, speaking candidly for the first time about his part in -counterintelligence operations against Paul -Bennewitz. Moore -says he provided Doty with -information about Bennewitz’s thinking and activities. Moore suggests -that Doty was chosen by the real Falcon as a liaison person. He says -that by mid-1982 Bennewitz had put together the story that contained all -the elements later circulated by Lear and -Cooper. Moore -decided to go along with the disinformation game in order to keep in -good graces with people who knew something about UFOs and national -security. He withheld and blacked out certain portions of UFO-related -government documents. He says he stopped cooperating in 1984 because he -realized the documents he was receiving from AFOSI were faked, much of -the scenario similar to the alien-contact mythos later spun by Lear and -Cooper. All of it originated in the disinformation directed at Paul -Bennewitz. He gives the names of others who “were the subject of -intelligence community interest between 1980 and 1984”: Leonard -H. Stringfield, Pete Mazzola, -Peter Gersten, -Lawrence Fawcett, Jim -and Coral Lorenzen, and Larry -W. Bryant. Moore -leaves the stage through a back door, his reputation in ruins. (Don -Ecker, “Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times 122 (May 1999): 28–31; -Clark III 370–372; Curt Collins, “Bill -Moore and UFO Disinformation -Accusations,” Blue Blurry Lines, April 29, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6778

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Event 9515 -(7D3AAEFE)

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Date: 7/4/1989
-Description: Night. Members of the Iskuskovs family are on vacation in -the Podgortsy section of southern Kyiv, Ukraine. They watch -silver-suited beings emerge from a landed UFO. (V. D. Musinsky, “Letter: -Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1990): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6780

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Event 9516 -(6D7F0B7F)

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Date: 7/4/1989
-Description: Twilight. Two women are walking with a 6-year-old girl -along the Dnieper River in a park near Kyiv, Ukraine, when they see a -“boat” with three beings on board. The entities have absolutely -identical faces—extremely pale, long blond hair, large eyes, and -collarless silver shirts that look like nightgowns. They tell the women -they are from another planet and want to show them their spaceship. The -women walk with them but experience odd physical sensations and beg to -be let go. They see a ship behind some trees, and the little girl gets -frightened. The beings relent and board the craft by a ladder that then -retracts. The door closes silently, and the craft departs. (V. D. -Musinsky, “Letter: Soviet Ufology,” IUR 15, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1990): -20–21; Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic -Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, pp. 37–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6779

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Event 9517 -(BA351C81)

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Date: 7/6/1989
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Yasuhiko Hamazaki takes an 8mm videotape -recording of a brightly luminous object that passes nearly overhead in -Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. At one point he uses a zoom lens to -get a clearer image. The object has a central ring like the planet -Saturn, except that it is squarish and dome-shaped. About one minute of -the video captures the object descending rapidly at a shallow angle, -then suddenly changing direction and rising at a steep angle at very -high speed. Bruce -Maccabee’s photo analysis shows that the object is not an airplane, -balloon, kite, or model airplane. (UFOEv II 297–298; Bruce Maccabee, “A -Rare Photo Coincidence,” IUR 15, no. 3 (May/June 1990): 4–9, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6781

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Event 9518 -(0B29A808)

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Date: 7/6/1989
-Description: Videorecorder film taken of a white, Saturn-shaped object -with squarish ring that changed direction, rose at a steep angle at high -speed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Hakui City, Kanazawa Prefecture, Japan
-ID: 443

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Event 9519 -(18A289B2)

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Date: 7/22/1989
-Description: Private pilot saw shiny oval object making quick starts and -stops
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Blue Hill Bay, ME
-ID: 444

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Event 9520 -(58C06B4D)

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Date: 7/26/1989
-Description: 2:40 p.m. R. H. Stepanian, air traffic controller at Sochi -International Airport, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, receives information from -a Tupolev Tu-154 airliner crew flying from Simferopol, Crimea, that they -have seen UFOs from a distance of 20–30 miles. According to the pilots, -first one, then two “strange objects” pace them on their left. One is -almost exactly square, while the other is the shape of an elongated -rhombus. At the time of the radio transmission, the two objects are -swiftly moving away and beginning to separate. Apparently two other -flights report multiple UFOs to the airport. (Paul Stonehill and Philip -Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron -Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, pp. 74–76; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s -USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 134–135)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6782

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Event 9521 -(CFB42BE2)

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Date: 7/28/1989
-End date: 7/29/1989
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A domed disc-shaped object is seen over the -rocket weapons depot at Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. The -object is flashing an intensely bright light from its underside. It -hovers above the site at a height of 65 feet. Roughly 13–17 feet in -diameter, its hull is illuminated with a dim green, phosphorus-like -color. It circles two or three times and moves toward a railway station, -still flashing its light, then returns to the weapons depot at a height -of 200–230 feet. Soviet soldiers Levin and Klimenko say the object -performed acrobatic maneuvers, at one point dividing into three shining -points and taking the shape of a triangle. A fighter jet is scrambled, -but the object evades it. Two other objects appear at low altitudes of -980–1,300 feet. The last one to appear, a cigar-shaped object, gives off -flashes of red light at constant intervals, then lights of all colors. -At around 1:30 a.m., it flies to the southwest and disappears. (Don -Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing -Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 133–138; -Good Need, pp. 354– -355, 363; -Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal -Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 79; Nukes -453–456)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6783

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Event 9522 -(ADF924DE)

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Date: 8/1989
-Description: Day. A man is walking his dog in a nature preserve between -Wolverhampton and Dudley, England, when he sees a tennis-ball-sized -“soap bubble” that has a white, feathery mass inside floating slowly -about 12 feet above the ground. It floats into a field where there are -several horses, which do not seem concerned about it. Suddenly the -object changes direction and moves into a strong wind, coming straight -toward him. In moments it is just inches away from him, seemingly -surveying him. At close quarters he could see that the object has an -oily look. At the instant he thinks about popping the bubble, it speeds -off to the east, covering about 30 feet in one second, and disappears. -(Jenny Randles, “Don’t Forget the Y-Files,” Fortean Times 405 (May -2021): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6784

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Event 9523 -(1DB114E7)

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Date: 8/2/1989
-Description: The Russian tanker Volgoneft-161 is in the Sea of Japan off -the region of Primorsky Krai, Russia, when rew members notice an unusual -shere about 35° above the northern horizon. It is pale yellow and -surrounded by a hazy luminescence. The object movres t the northeast, -ascending, and is visible for 5 minutes. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s -USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6786

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Event 9524 -(99E44927)

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Date: 8/2/1989
-Description: Richard L. Huff in the FBI Office of Information and -Privacy affirms in a letter to researcher Larry -W. Bryant that -it keeps a classified personal file on Stanton -T. Friedman and denies access to it. (Nick Redfern, Body Snatchers -in the Desert, Paraview, 2005, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6785

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Event 9525 -(113F907A)

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Date: 8/10/1989
-Description: Videotape taken of hovering object that rotated, split in -two, then faded or “dissolved.”
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Estepona, Spain
-ID: 445

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Event 9526 -(9E4F5E56)

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Date: 8/10/1989
-Description: 9:00 p.m. William Heijster, a Dutch military psychologist -who works at the Ministry of Defence at The Hague, Netherlands, is -driving with his family near Estepona, Spain, when they see an object -hovering over a mountain. Heijster stops the car and videotapes the -object off and on for the next hour. The incident is plausibly explained -by Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos as the flight of a Transmediterranean research -balloon launched from Sicily in a joint operation by CNES (France), INTA -(Spain), and the Italian space agency. (UFOEv II 298–299; Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos, Expedientes Insólitos, Temas de Hoy, 1995, pp. 125–130; -“El -caso ovni acaecido en -Malaga en 1989,” El Blog de Malaga, October 1, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6787

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Event 9527 -(06583C29)

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Date: 8/11/1989
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 446

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Event 9528 -(63EF06C1)

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Date: late 8/1989
-Description: While working as an engineer on the jack-up barge GSF -Galveston Key in the North Sea, Chris Gibson and another witness see -an unfamiliar isosceles triangle–shaped delta aircraft, apparently -refueling from a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and accompanied by a pair of -F-111 fighter-bombers. Gibson and his girlfriend watch the aircraft for -several minutes until they move out of sight. He subsequently draws a -sketch of the formation. (Christopher Bellamy, “Oil -Rig Engineer Sketches Secret US Spy Aircraft,” The Independent (UK), -December 14, 1992; Bill Sweetman, “Secret Mach 6 Spy Plane,” Popular -Science 242 (March 1993): 56–63, -98–101; -Bill Sweetman, Aurora: The Pentagon’s Secret Hypersonic Spyplane, -Motorbooks, 1993, pp. 12–15, -88–89; -Susan Wright, UFO Headquarters: Investigations on Current -Extraterrestrial Activity, St. Martin’s, 1999 ed., pp. 154– 155; -Simon Gray, “Chris -Gibson’s Aurora Sighting,” Secret Projects forum, November 1, 2007; -UFOFiles2, p. -144; -Marler 178–180)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6791

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Event 9529 -(EDD178D4)

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Date: late 8/1989
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A woman is driving north of La Salle, -Manitoba, when she sees a “cloudlike boomerang” pass over her car. -(Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1989): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6790

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Event 9530 -(19ABE95C)

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Date: 8/22/1989
-Description: 2:40 p.m. A circular, flashing light is in view for about 5 -minutes near Sunderland, England. At first it is stationary, but then it -moves rapidly upward, leaving a hole in a cloud that then glows red. -(Mark Rodeghier, “Another Hole in the Cloud,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010): -24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6788

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Event 9531 -(BED2D849)

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Date: 8/28/1989
-Description: Larry -W. Bryant files suit in District Court for the District of Columbia -for the FBI to release its files on Stanton -T. Friedman. (Nick -Redfern, Body Snatchers in the Desert, Paraview, 2005, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6789

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Event 9532 -(502AB6E2)

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Date: 8/31/1989
-Description: Luminous mushroom-shaped object hovered over field, two -smaller objects with red lights emerged, operated independently, -departed at high speed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Butler Township, PA
-ID: 447

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Event 9533 -(4CBEAFBF)

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Date: 9/1989
-Description: CAUS devotes all of one issue of its Just Cause newsletter -to a harshly critical review of Moore’s -activities. (“A -Majestic Deception,” Just Cause, new ser., no. 21 (September 1989): -1–16; Clark III 371)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6792

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Event 9534 -(95E49C29)

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Date: 9/1989
-Description: Marc Leduc begins publishing a newsletter, Lettre -d’Information Ufologique, in Lac-Beauport, Quebec. It runs until June -1993. (Lettre -d’Information Ufologique 1, no. 1 (September 1989))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6793

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Event 9535 -(87D7215F)

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Date: 9/6/1989
-Description: 11:13 p.m. Tong Yuwei, a worker in Ürümqi, Xinjiang -Autonomous Province, China, sees a dark cloud light up with a yellow -flash. A rotating, saucer-shaped object with a black gap on its edge -appears. It makes a noise louder than a car engine. After hovering for a -minute, the red-and-yellow glowing object moves out of sight at high -speed to the southwest. (Central Intelligence Agency, “UFO -Sighted over Urumqi Evening of 6 Sep,” [memo on Xingua news report], -September 13, 1989)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6794

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Event 9536 -(AC4C03C6)

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Date: 9/13/1989
-Description: A woman is returning home from the grocery store in -Protvino, Moscow Oblast, Russia, when two tall women in tight, silvery -suits jump out from behind some boulders and paralyze her. The women -have light blonde hair, gray-green skin, and hats with antennae. They -take her to a small, disc-shaped craft by the side of the road and -invite their captive for a ride, which they insist will not last long. -She hesitantly accepts. Inside are three chairs, one of them occupied by -a man. The woman offers them some of the bread she has just purchased, -but the women decline, offering her some of their own bread. Without -thinking, she reflexively pops a piece into her mouth and swallows. She -later describes the taste as a lightly sweet rye bread. The craft -ascends and flies over Protvino before dropping the woman off at her -apartment. The space people tell her they will meet again. (Vladimir -Azhazha, Inaya Zhizn’, Golos, 1998; Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien -Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 (November 2015): 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6795

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Event 9537 -(A0C2BDC8)

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Date: 9/15/1989
-Description: 3:40 a.m. A woman in eastern Winnipeg, Manitoba, is looking -out her kitchen window when a deltoid- shaped object sails past. It has -lines of “Christmas lights” spreading out from its leading edge and -moves silently out of view in 4–5 seconds. (Chris Rutkowski, “The -Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6796

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Event 9538 -(A7D2775B)

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Date: 9/15/1989
-End date: 9/19/1989
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies conducts the first expedition to -the Roswell debris field site near Corona, New Mexico. The 10-member -team includes Mark -Rodeghier, Mimi -Hynek, Donald -R. Schmitt, and Kevin -Randle. They find no unusual debris but survey the site and take -soil samples. (Mark Rodeghier, “Roswell, 1989,” IUR 14, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1989): 4–8, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6797

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Event 9539 -(7A3942C8)

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Date: 9/16/1989
-Description: Night. A female employee at a meat packing plant in -Mykolaiv, Ukraine, steps outside for a quick break when a beam of light -strikes her from above. Looking up, she sees a hovering disc-shaped -craft about 130–260 feet in diameter. She feels no fear and has a -euphoric feeling as she begins rising up into the air toward the object. -She also hears a voice extolling her to “fly with them.” Other workers -come to the scene and begin yelling and running toward the woman. The -beam disappears, and the UFO flies away. (Jacques Vallée, UFO Chronicles -of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, p. 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6798

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Event 9540 -(10D872CF)

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Date: 9/21/1989
-End date: 10/7/1989
-Description: UFO sighting concentration in vicinity. Four landings and -three different kinds of entities reported. Geodesic engineer saw -maneuvering airship-like object September 24
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Voronezh, USSR
-ID: 448

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Event 9541 -(F7038D53)

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Date: 9/27/1989
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Several children playing at a park in Voronezh, -Russia, see a pinkish aerial glow approaching them. As it passes -overhead, they see that it is a deep red, ball-shaped object. The object -flies around in circles for a few minutes and then leaves. When it -returns, it hovers briefly, and then descends close to the ground. A -hatch opens and a heavy-set figure emerges. The being moves very slowly -and looks around. It has a small head resembling that of a doorknob, set -in between the shoulders. It has three luminous eyes, the middle one -moving around like “radar.” On its chest is a shield-like object. The -being then closes the hatch and the object lands gently on four legs. -The hatch opens again and three huge humanoids with small knob-like -heads step out. They wear silvery coveralls and bronze-colored boots. A -strange robot-like creature accompanies the giants. All four walk around -the object several times. A beam of light comes out of the chest of one -of the beings and strikes the ground, creating several luminous -triangles that later fade away. At one point the craft and beings become -briefly invisible but then reappear. One of the boys screams in fear. -Then one of the beings looks at the boy and points a tube at him. A -luminous beam comes from the tube and hits the boy, which makes him -disappear. The boy later reappears after the beings and the objects have -gone. Subsequent information reveals that on the craft’s hull and on the -landing prop of another craft is the letter or symbol “zhe,” reported as -similar to the “Ummo” insignia reported in Western Europe in the 1970s. -In a work published by Socialist Industry slightly after the incident, a -self-proclaimed UFO specialist asserts the marks left by the supposed -landing were simply scorch marks from a burnt hay-bale. (Wikipedia, “Voronezh -UFO incident”; “UFO -Lands in U.S.S.R.: Read All about It in Tass,” Philadelphia Daily -News, October 9, 1989, p. 5; “A -Tass Bulletin: Knobby Aliens Were Here,” New York Times, October 10, -1989, pp. 1, 10; “U.F.O. -Landing Is Fact, Not Fantasy, the Russians Insist,” New York Times, -October 11, 1989, p. 6; “Aliens -Visit Voronezh,” Moscow News, no. 43 (October 1989), via UFO -Newsclipping Service, November 1989, p. 12; Jacques Vallée, UFO -Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, Ballantine, 1992, pp. 40–61; -Clark III 1229–1231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6799

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Event 9542 -(14EF4912)

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Date: 9/28/1989
-Description: Night. Long Island UFO Network founder John -Ford claims that a UFO is shot down and retrieved at Moriches Bay, -Long Island, New York. Although UFOs are observed on the southern coast -of Long Island, the crash/retrieval seems to be an exaggerated fantasy. -Ford is convinced the nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory is part of a -UFO coverup and is developing ET-related weaponry. On June 12, 1996, -Ford and LIUFON member Joe Mazzachelli are arrested in a sting operation -on conspiracy charges to poison John -Powell, the head of the Suffolk County Republican Party, who Ford -believes is covering up UFO retrievals and engaging in illegal -activities, by putting radium in his toothpaste. Ford is convicted -without a trial and sent to a mental institution because of his paranoid -conspiracy obsession. (John Ford, “The -Moriches Bay Case of September 28, 1989,” Long Island UFO Reporter -1, no. 3 (November 1989): 2–6; John Ford, “The -Chairman’s Corner,” Long Island UFO Reporter 2, no. 1 (February -1990): 2–4; John Ford, “UFO -Captured at Moriches Bay?” The East Ender, February 9, 1990, via UFO -Newsclipping Service, April 1990, p. 7; Elaine Douglass, “The Ordeal of -John Ford,” John Ford Defense Committee; “The John Ford Affair,” UFO -UpDates, November 26, 1998; Dolan II 489–492)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6800

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Event 9543 -(306E4B54)

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Date: 9/28/1989
-Description: UFO landing and Government attempt at intercept: Six -helicopters circle around an UFO, between 574–1000 ft. in diam. while it -was close to a downed UFO on the beach. The UFOs apparently got away. -The eyewitness took 48 photos of the event. This even occurred in -Suffolk County.
-Type: ufo retrieval attempt
-Reference: Pea -Research
-Reference: Archive.org
-Location: Smith’s Point Beach, Shirley, NY

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Event 9544 -(6C083D76)

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Date: 10/1989
-End date: 5/1990
-Description: Concentration of triangular UFO sightings, jet interceptor -chases, radar-visual sightings (see November 29, 1989, March 30, -1990).
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: radar-visual sighting
-Type: jet interceptor chase
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Belgium
-ID: 449

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Event 9545 -(D8022304)

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Date: 10/1989
-Description: Night. Hundreds of residents of Omsk, southwestern Siberia, -Russia, report seeing a UFO. Major V. Loginov sees an object about 1.5 -the size of the full moon passing overhead at an altitude of several -kilometers. It projects four bright lights, some downward, others -parallel to the horizon. Loginov watches it for 5 minutes hovering above -the civil airport before descending. The lights turn off, and a whirling -plume trail appears around the sphere. Pilots taking off from the -airport can see the object, but it is not visible on radar screens. (“USSR: -Media Report -Multitude of UFO Sightings,” Foreign Press Note (Foreign Broadcast -Information Service), November 22, 1989, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6801

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Event 9546 -(F2A45D33)

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Date: 10/6/1989
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A woman driving near Tyndall, Manitoba, sees a -bright light flash upward out of sight in front of her car. (Chris -Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1989): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6802

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Event 9547 -(B448B9E6)

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Date: 10/9/1989
-Description: 2:50 p.m. A couple and their child are getting into their -car at a wildlife sanctuary in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They see a white -“boomerang-shaped” object hanging silently and motionless in the east -over the city. The mother puts the child in the back seat for safety. -The man continues to watch as the object tilts and moves, revealing a -bulge on its underside. It moves away, and the object goes home. (Chris -Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1989): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6803

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Event 9548 -(3565FE4E)

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Date: 10/9/1989
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Carl -Weselak is observing a meteor shower from his third floor apartment -in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, when he sees a large boomerang-shaped -object flying north to south over the city. Over the next few hours he -sees more UFOs ranging from balls of light to other boomerangs. He -telephones a newspaper to have a reporter verify the sightings. However, -UFOROM discovers that several aircraft takeoffs and landings at the -airport correspond to some of Weselak’s observations. (Chris Rutkowski, -“The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): -8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6804

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Event 9549 -(DA3E0904)

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Date: 10/11/1989
-Description: A 16-year-old girl in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, -sees a “net” fall from the sky, apparently surrounding her, in the -center of which is a bright point. She tries to push it away but gets a -shock. She screams, but her voice sounds distorted. Her family rushes -out of the house and sees a flying disc hovering less than 50 feet away. -It soon vanishes. The girl remains paralyzed a while, the tips of her -fingers burned and enlarged, and she is taken to a hospital. (Jacques -Vallée, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, -Ballantine, 1992, pp. 36–37)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6805

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Event 9550 -(40AE9644)

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Date: 10/11/1989
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Brad Schmidt, 13, Todd Weinheimer, 13, Paul -Goddard, 12, Kevin Still, and one other boy are skateboarding outside -the town pool in Centennial Park, Langenburg, Saskatchewan, when they -see an object with multicolored lights approaching them from the east. -They wave their skateboards at it, and the lights hover silently 400 -feet away at 100–200 feet in the air. They duck down in the tall grass. -The object moves away over nearby Parkside School, pauses for a moment, -then takes off to the west. The boys alert two teachers in the school, -Bob Markham and Mark MacMurchy, and they go out to all watch the object -for another 10–15 minutes. One of the teachers says the object has a -bright flashing light on top and a red light on the bottom. It is more -than half a mile away and only 650 feet in the air. The top light -flashes every 15–20 seconds. Soon it moves away to the west. (“Strange -Lights over -the Park,” Regina (Sask.) Leader-Post, November 4, 1989, pp. C1–C2; -Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1989): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6806

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Event 9551 -(D9938139)

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Date: 10/12/1989
-Description: 12:20 a.m. A shift worker in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is -returning home through a park when he sees a “shimmering boomerang” in -the sky. He goes closer and hears a high-pitched whine coming from it. -The object starts to move slowly then shoots away making a noise like a -sonic boom. (Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, -no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6807

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Event 9552 -(AA0D3AAA)

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Date: 10/13/1989
-Description: 10:20 a.m. Rose Neumeier is in her kitchen 7 miles -southwest of Langenburg, Saskatchewan, when she sees a flash of light -near a shed about 50 feet away. An object like “two pie plates rim to -rim” is motionless in the air about 50 feet above the shed. It is shiny -and metallic, 30 feet long and 10 feet thick, and has a flattened top -and “corrugated” bottom. Light is shining brightly from the joint -between the two halves. It is silent and the dog and cattle are not -disturbed. After a few minutes, it rises slowly, moves north, curves -through the hayfield, circles the barn, and moves away across the -pasture. (“Object -Hovers over Garage,” Regina (Sask.) Leader-Post, November 4, 1989, -p. C2; Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1989): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6808

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Event 9553 -(FF9FD0A0)

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Date: 10/16/1989
-Description: 7:45 a.m. A woman is driving near Langruth, Manitoba, when -she sees a “star with a tail of smoke going up” in the east. After a few -minutes, the object takes on a dome shape and its tail is no longer -visible. (Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. -6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6809

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Event 9554 -(68402E2E)

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Date: 10/16/1989
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A man in Langenburg, Saskatchewan, is driving -with his daughter when they observe an object “as wide as a small -airplane is long” with colored flashing lights. It coasts silently over -the highway “right over our heads.” (Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO -Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6810

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Event 9555 -(46DF2A84)

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Date: 10/21/1989
-Description: Witnesses in Burkhala, Magadan Oblast, Russia, watch a red, -shining sphere maneuvering near an electric power transmission line for -30 minutes. About 7–9 lights are seen along its edge. One witness -estimates its speed as 600 mph. (Vadim K. Ilyin, “KGB’s -‘Blue Folder’ Reveals Shootings, Landings in USSR,” MUFON UFO -Journal, no. 403 (November 2001): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6811

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Event 9556 -(D72E77D0)

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Date: 10/25/1989
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A resident of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, sees a -large object with red flashing lights. It is moving slowly and silently -at an altitude of 200 feet. (Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO Wave of -1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6812

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Event 9557 -(B4C3D158)

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Date: 11/1989
-Description: “UFO’s: The Best Evidence” multi-part series released by -George Knapp, revealing Bob Lazar’s identity to the public.
-Type: TV series
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)
-Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Event 9558 -(1256CCCB)

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Date: 11/1/1989
-Description: 6:50 p.m. A pilot flying a small airplane 20 miles north of -La Ronge, Saskatchewan, sees a pair of blinking lights moving across his -path at 8,500 feet. Air traffic control confirms there are no other -aircraft in the area at the time. (Chris Rutkowski, “The Canadian UFO -Wave of 1989,” IUR 14, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1989): 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6813

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Event 9559 -(CBF44E12)

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Date: 11/4/1989
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A couple and their two children are sitting in -front of a large living room window in Hall Beach, Nunavut, watching -television. The family dog begins barking, and soon the man’s attention -is drawn to a strange object in the sky. The family watches the UFO, -which looks like an upside-down cup and saucer. The bottom portion has a -red light in the center, and three windows emitting white light are -across the middle. After only a couple of seconds, the object departs, -seemingly straight up, and disappears. A local employee of the -Department of Public Works also sees the object. (Chris Rutkowski and -Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, -pp. 142–143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6814

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Event 9560 -(C958C28A)

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Date: 11/7/1989
-Description: Double abduction case investigated by John Carpenter
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Western KS
-ID: 450

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Event 9561 -(53173F8B)

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Date: 11/7/1989
-Description: 12:40 a.m. Two women in their 40s are driving on Interstate -70 west of Goodland, Kansas, when they encounter a UFO and lose 2 hours -of time. They experience anxiety, insomnia, irritability, and -bewilderment as a result. Neither women claim any interest in UFOs. They -initially believe that they never left their car or observed anything -further. Hypnotic regressions (obtained independently) reveal abduction -scenarios with at least 40 direct correlations between their accounts. -(John S. Carpenter, “Double Abduction Case: Correlation of Hypnosis -Data,” JUFOS 3 (1991): 91–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6815

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Event 9562 -(22C36D75)

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Date: 11/10/1989
-Description: KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada, identifies and interviews Robert -Lazar, unmasked and using his real name. Lazar claims that during -his onboarding to the Area 51 program, he read briefing documents -describing the historical involvement of Earth for the past 10,000 years -with extraterrestrial beings described as grey aliens from a planet -orbiting the twin binary star system Zeta Reticuli. The Zeta Reticuli -system was previously claimed by Barney -and Betty Hill as the origin of aliens they allegedly encountered in -their abduction. Lazar’s story quickly garners enormous media attention, -controversy, supporters, and detractors. Lazar admits he cannot support -with evidence his core claim of alien technology. (Tom Mahood, “The -Robert Lazar Timeline,” Other Hand, January 1997; Don Ecker, -“Freedom of Disinformation,” Fortean Times 122 (May 1999): 28–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6816

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Event 9563 -(CD74B4C4)

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Date: 11/10/1989
-Description: Communion, a feature film based on abductee Whitley -Strieber’s book of the same name, premieres in the US. Directed by -Philippe -Mora, Strieber -is played by actor Christopher -Walken. (Internet -Movie Database, “Communion”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6817

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Event 9564 -(2C57D7DC)

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Date: 11/13/1989
-Description: The FBI releases a handful of its files on Stanton -T. Friedman as a result of Larry -Bryant’s lawsuit. (Nick Redfern, Body Snatchers in the Desert, -Paraview, 2005, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6818

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Event 9565 -(408B51EA)

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Date: 11/18/1989
-Description: Early evening. A large, black, boomerang-shaped object -glides over downtown Lancaster, California. Low-intensity lights, -similar to stars, outline its frame. Witness Robert Puskas estimates its -size as 800–900 feet wide. Off its left tip he sees a silvery metallic -disc about 30–40 feet in diameter, reflecting the streetlights. (MUFON -UFO Journal, November 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6819

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Event 9566 -(2C03388C)

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Date: 11/20/1989
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A couple in the rural town of Marieville, Quebec, -wakes up to the sight of a strange blue light shining through the -curtains. They hear a noise like an electric generator and feel a -vibration. But looking outside they can see nothing. About 900 feet down -the road, a neighbor is also awakened by the bright light and observes -four blue objects over the other couple’s house. He also feels a -vibration and describes the lights as intermittent, blinking out and -reappearing in a different spot. At one point, the streetlights along -Route 112 weaken when one of the objects gets too close. He thinks the -lights are about 30 feet off the ground. Two other witnesses also see -the lights interact with power lines. One reports that her power goes -out for 10 minutes. On November 22, a strange pattern is discovered -about 150 feet from the first couple’s residence—a perfectly round -circle, 65 feet in diameter, of flattened (not burned) grass. The RCMP -visits the circle on November 23 and 28, noting a striking difference in -color of the flattened grass within the circle and the straight grass -outside it. (Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, -Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 149–150)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6820

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Event 9567 -(A9CA9A7F)

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Date: 11/22/1989
-Description: The USAF SR-71 Blackbird program is officially terminated. -The odd thing is that there is no dissension in the military about this. -The alleged additional savings of $300 million is insignificant. -Analysts point out that satellites, though useful, simply cannot perform -the type of missions for which the Blackbird is suited. Some observers -suspect there is a secret, better replacement. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -SR-71 Blackbird”; Bill Sweetman, Aurora: The Pentagon’s Secret -Hypersonic Spyplane, Motorbooks, 1993, p. 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6821

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Event 9568 -(436FC992)

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Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: Police patrol car illuminated by brilliant light beam, -hovering dark triangular object, humming noise, alternately moved and -hovered
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Eupen, Belgium
-ID: 451

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Event 9569 -(8D023606)

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Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: 5:15 p.m. While patrolling on the road between Eupen, -Belgium, and the German border, two federal policemen, Heinrich Nicoll -and Hubert von Montigny, see an intense light in a nearby field. Above -the field is a triangular object with three spotlights shining down and -a red flashing light in the center. Without making a sound, it moves -slowly toward the German border for 2 minutes and then suddenly turns -back toward Eupen. Nicoll and von Montigny follow it. (Patrick Vantuyne, -“Mystery -Craft: Eupen, Belgium,” Patt Nayeu & Son, June 12, 2010; Kean, -p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6822

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Event 9570 -(27A5FD11)

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Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Gendarmes Heinrich Nicoll and Hubert von Montigny -see another object near Eupen, Belgium, which appears from behind a wood -and makes a forward tilting maneuver. It has a dome on top with -rectangular windows. It then departs to the north. (Joël Mesnard, “The -UFO ‘Wave’ of November/December 1989 -over Eastern Belgium,” Flying Saucer Review 35, no. 2 (June 1990): -4; Kean, p. 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6824

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Event 9571 -(7FE3D3F7)

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Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: 6:45 p.m. A man is driving alone in his car on the Rue -Mathieu de Lexhy at the intersection with the Rue Hector Denis near -Grâce-Berleur, Belgium, when he sees to his left an immense stationary -object at about 325 feet altitude and 1,600 feet away. He slows down, -lowers his window, and hears a soft sound like an electric motor. The -object is larger than a Boeing 707. It has flashing red, green, and -white lights and a light beam directed toward the ground. He drives away -while the UFO is still visible. (Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, -“The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6825

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Event 9572 -(F7D7604F)

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Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: 7:20 p.m. Two federal policemen, Dieter Plummans and Peter -Nicoll, see a triangular UFO near a monastery [Kloster Garnstock?] north -of Eupen, Belgium. The object has three very strong spotlights and a -flashing red central light. It is at an altitude of about 250 feet and -about 300 feet away. It is immobile and silent, but it suddenly emits a -hissing sound and its lights fade a bit. Simultaneously, a red ball -comes out of the center and heads straight downward, but soon veers -horizontal and disappears behind some trees. The object then passes -above the police car, moving northeast. They follow it for 5 miles -before losing it. (Kean, pp. 25–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6826

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Event 9573 -(7AAB3954)

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Date: 11/29/1989
-Description: 5:24 p.m. About 250 witnesses, in 143 separate -observations, watch the same or similar triangular or delta-winged craft -maneuvering overhead at Eupen, Belgium. Two police officers in a patrol -car are illuminated by a brilliant light beam from a dark triangular -object hovering at 600–900 feet and making a faint humming noise. The -light is so dazzling that “we could read a newspaper under it.” The UFO -moves slowly away to the southwest, where it hovers near the Lac de la -Gileppe dam for 45 minutes. Policemen Heinrich Nicoll and Hubert von -Montigny watch it repeatedly emit two red beams with a red ball at the -spearhead of both beams; the beams soon disappear, leaving the red -balls, which return to the object. Then around 7:23 p.m., it moves -further to the southwest and is seen over Spa for 30 minutes before it -disappears. (UFOEv II 50–51; MUFON UFO Journal, July 1990, pp. 3–7; -Société Belge d’Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux, Vague d’OVNI sur la -belgique: Un dossier exceptionnelle, SOBEPS, 1991; Auguste Meessen, “The -Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June 1991): 4–5; Wim van Utrecht, -“Triangles -over Belgium: The SOBEPS Report,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 286 -(February 1992): 5–6; Steven M. Greer, “UFOs -over Belgium,” MUFON UFO Journal, no, 289 (May 1992): 8–12; Auguste -Meessen, “Étude -approfondie et discussion de certaines observations du 29 novembre -1989,” Inforespace, no. 95 (October 1997): 16–70; Auguste Meessen, -“The Belgian Wave and the Photos of Ramillies”; Don Berliner, with Marie -Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available -Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. -137–144; -Kean, pp. 24–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6823

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Event 9574 -(DA35B04F)

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Date: 11/30/1989
-Description: 3:15 a.m. New York City resident Linda Napolitano -(pseudonym “Linda Cortile”) is allegedly abducted by aliens from her -12th-story apartment on the lower east side of Manhattan. Five aliens -come into her bedroom while she is still awake. They paralyze her and -move her into the living room. Linda and three of the five aliens are -floated out through her living room window, directly through the window, -to a large hovering UFO. Three independent witnesses to the abduction -are two security intelligence agents (“Richard” and “Dan”), who see the -UFO and abductees from a car near the Brooklyn Bridge, and a VIP -political dignitary later identified as UN Secretary General Javier -Pérez de Cuéllar, who does not confirm any involvement. The UFO then -dives into the East River. Budd -Hopkins delves into the case, although he never meets the two -security guards or even confirms their existence. Music critic Greg -Sandow writes an insightful analysis of the case in 1997. Hopkins’s -former wife Carol Rainey has been critical of the quality of his -abduction research in this case and in that of singer Phoebe Snow, which -he never publicized. (Budd Hopkins, “The -Linda Cortile Abduction Case,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 293 (September -1992): 12–16; Budd Hopkins, “The -Linda Cortile Abuction Case, Part II: The Woman on the Bridge,” -MUFON UFO Journal, no. 296 (December 1992): 5–9; Joseph J. Stefula, -Richard D. Butler, and George P. Hansen, “A -Critique of Budd Hopkins’ Case of the UFO Abduction of Linda -Napolitano,” January 8, 1993; Jerome Clark, “Saucer Smearers,” IUR -18, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 3, 22–24; “The Claims in Question,” IUR -18, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 4–5; Donald A. Johnson, “Why the Linda -Case Is a Hoax,” IUR 18, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 5, 22; Willy Smith, -“The Impossible Testimony of Janet Kimball,” IUR 18, no. 2 (March/April -1993): 6–7, 21; Budd Hopkins, “House of Cards: The Butler/Hansen/Stefula -Critique of the Cortile Case,” IUR 18, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 8–14, -21; David M. Jacobs, “A Matter of Ethics,” IUR 18, no. 2 (March/April -1993): 15–16; John E. Mack, “Stirring Our Deepest Fears,” IUR 18, no. 2 -(March/April 1993): 17, 21; Willy Smith, et al., “The Linda Case,” IUR -18, no. 3 (May/June 1993): 22–23; Linda Cortile [Napolitano], “A -Light -at the End of the Tunnel,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 302 (June 1993): -12–17; Budd Hopkins, Witnessed: The -True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions, Pocket -Books, 1996; Greg Sandow, “The Linda Cortile Case Analyzed: Part 1,” IUR -22, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 18–23; Greg Sandow, “The Linda Cortile Case -Analyzed: Part 2,” IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 3–10, 35–36; Kevin D. -Randle, “A -Response to Budd Hopkins,” A Different Perspective, February 18, -2011; Carol Rainey, “The -Singer’s Hybrid Daughter, Part I,” The UFO Trail, February 5, 2016; -Carol Rainey, “The -Singer’s Hybrid Daughter, Part II,” The UFO Trail, February 22, -2016; Sean F. Meers, “The Linda Cortile UFO Abduction Case: Abstract,” -February 27, 2012).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6827

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Event 9575 -(D129FDBD)

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Date: 11/30/1989
-Description: Linda Cortile’s (pseudonym) abduction from 12th floor -apartment, allegedly witnessed by international figure and security -guards (Hopkins, 1996). 1990
-Type: abduction
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: New York City
-ID: 452

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Event 9576 -(66004827)

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Date: 12/1/1989
-Description: Weather forecaster Francesco Valenzano and his young -daughter are walking in the Square Nicolaï in Ans, Liège, Belgium, when -they see a large, slow-moving craft approaching at low altitude. The -object silently makes a tour of the square; when it passes over their -heads, they notice it has a delta shape with three lights in a -triangular position and a red rotating light in the middle and -positioned lower than the belly of the object. (Kean, pp. 27–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6828

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Event 9577 -(33D0ABC8)

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Date: 12/1/1989
-Description: 6:50 p.m. An amateur photographer is sitting in his living -room at Eupen, Belgium, when he sees a lozenge-shaped UFO with two white -lights at each corner. He draws a sketch but fails to take a photo. He -sees a similar object on January 10, 1990. (Auguste Meessen, “The -Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June 1991): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6829

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Event 9578 -(8C107263)

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Date: 12/2/1989
-End date: 12/3/1989
-Description: President George -H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail -Gorbachev meet in Malta, just weeks after the fall of the Berlin -Wall. During the summit, Bush and Gorbachev declare an end to the Cold -War, although whether it is truly such is a matter of debate. -(Wikipedia, “Malta -Summit”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6830

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Event 9579 -(10FD1ACB)

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Date: 12/5/1989
-Alternate date: 12/12/1989
-Description: 9:50 p.m. A couple is driving on the Trierer Strasse in -Aachen, Germany, when they see a flying object cut across the road in -front of them to the right. It has two headlights in front, emitting -beams that slant downwards. There is a flashing orange light on the -underside. The same object reappears at their home around 11:15 p.m. -(Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June -1991): 9–10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6831

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Event 9580 -(8CF42858)

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Date: 12/11/1989
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A 12-year-old boy and his family in Trooz, -Belgium, watch a domed, triangular object for 15 minutes. It is hovering -at first, then passes above their house. (Kean, p. 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6832

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Event 9581 -(36BBC23A)

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Date: 12/11/1989
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Lt. Col. André Amond of the Belgian Army and his -wife spot a strange aerial object while they are driving on the deserted -Rue de Sart Ernage between Ernage and Gembloux, Belgium. It looks like a -series of 3–4 panels of light traveling north to south at an altitude of -650–980 feet. Beneath the series of panels, and close to the center, is -a rotating red lamp. Amond stops where the road dead ends and watches -the UFO pass for 2–4 minutes. Then the object abruptly changes course -and silently heads in his direction. Only an enormous spot of white -light is visible now, “much bigger than the spotlight of a big air -carrier.” They both are frightened, so Amond starts the car again. The -big light disappears, and three smaller white spotlights become visible, -which form a more or less equilateral triangle. The rotating red light -is still there, now seen in profile. The object then performs a turn of -180° to the left. The distance between the white luminous points is -estimated at approximately 33 feet. They cannot distinguish any solid -object around this triangle of three lights. The maneuver is majestic -and slow. Next, the luminous points disappear. Only the red rotating -light is still visible, and it takes off in a south- southwesterly -direction. The duration of the sighting is about 5–8 minutes. (Kean, pp. 28–29; -Wim van Utrecht, “The -Lieutenant-Colonel and the UFO,” Caelestia, January 7, 2016;
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6833

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Event 9582 -(85EDF009)

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Date: 12/12/1989
-Description: 2:15 a.m. A man in Jupille-sur-Meuse, Belgium, wakes up to -a dull throbbing noise coming from outside. He sees an enormous oval -object seemingly jammed between two fir trees. On its circumference, -small lights are changing color from blue to red and back. The object is -metallic, with an oar or paddle at its rear. In the front is a window or -cockpit. On the front part is a logo consisting of several ellipses -crossing themselves. After a few minutes, the object rises slightly, the -sound it emits changing slightly. It moves toward a neighbor’s meadow, -shining down three beams of lights. Some moments later, it emits an -intense and well-defined shaft of light into the sky. The witness goes -back to bed. The next morning, he reports his sighting to the -Gendarmérie, which investigates and finds a gigantic circular trace in -the meadow. At the center, the grass has been cut off, but the cuttings -are nowhere to be seen, and the grass within the circle is yellow. -(Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1991): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6834

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Event 9583 -(2D46A61D)

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Date: 12/21/1989
-Description: Belgian Minister of Defense Jean-Pol -Poncelet states that there have been many UFOs reported and that the -ministry and the Army have no idea what they are. (Swords 456–457)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6835

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Event 9584 -(B19853F5)

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Date: 12/24/1989
-Alternate date: 12/25/1989
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Pilot Vladimir Kuzmin sees a dark gray, -cigar-shaped object hovering southwest of Chelyabinsk, Russia, while he -is flying a two-seat Aero L-29 Delfin. He estimates its altitude at 4.6 -miles. The sighting lasts more than 8 minutes with the object in direct -view for over 4 minutes. Within hours, Kuzmin experiences a strange, -crustlike skin rash on the exposed portion of his face that lasts for -more than 11 days. (Richard F. Haines, “UFO Activities in the Soviet -Union,” IUR 16, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 14; Richard F. Haines, -“Encounter over Siberia,” IUR 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1991): 12–13, -21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6836

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- Event 9585 (B8189EE6)

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Date: 1990
-Description: Journalist and lawyer Marek -Rymuszkoz establishes the magazine Nieznany Świat in Warsaw. (Poland -81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6842

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Event 9586 -(CB9A1A09)

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Date: 1990’s
-Description: USAF argues in court filings that it never used the name -Area 51
-Type: court filings
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
-Location: US

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Event 9587 -(233F56BF)

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Date: 1990
-Description: Donald -Johnson obtains a copy of UFOCAT on 10 3.5-inch diskettes from David -R. Saunders, courtesy of John S. Derr of the US Geological Survey. -Derr has created the diskette version from one of the tape backups for -use in his own research. Unfortunately, he is unable to read the first -portion of the tape, so it is lacking the first 10,000 records. -Fortunately, the Center for UFO Studies has another backup copy, and -Johnson is able to merge the two sources and recreate the database as it -existed in 1982. Since then, more than 10,000 additional records have -been added. (“UFOCAT Is Back!” IUR 16, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1991): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6838

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Event 9588 -(C954335F)

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Date: 1990
-Description: The NORAD Unknown Track Reporting database includes 7,000 -incidents since 1971, averaging about 350 a year, representing objects -still unidentified after jet interception, but before ATC analysis and -NORAD/FTC intelligence whittles down the numbers further to about 10%. -NORAD Unknowns are effectively equivalent to Project Blue Book -unknowns—high-strangeness UFOs that cannot be rated until full details -are released. (Clark III 801–802; Swords 348)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6837

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Event 9589 -(8B5F2E7B)

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Date: 1990
-Description: A Gallup survey this year indicates that the belief in -“real” UFOs has declined to 47% from a peak of 57% in 1978 and 54% in -1973. Only 27% report a belief that extraterrestrial UFOs have actually -visited earth, while 14% report they have seen a UFO. (Robert J. Durant, -“Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): -20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6839

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Event 9590 -(4BE499BF)

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Date: 1990
-Description: Jerome -Clark publishes volume one of the first edition of his UFO -encyclopedia. (Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia: UFOs in the 1980s, -vol. 1, Apogee, 1990; Michael D. Swords, [review], JUFOS 2 (1990): 189– -191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6840

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Event 9591 -(DD90A7BB)

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Date: 1990
-Description: Mathematician Arne -Gjärdman replaces Sture -Wickerts as head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National -Defence Research Institute. He holds the position until 1999. During -this time, the institute starts sharing information and ideas with -UFO-Sweden, creating an atmosphere of understanding and cooperation. -(Swords 370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6841

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Event 9592 -(E1142081)

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Date: 1/1990
-Description: David -Gotlib begins publishing the Bulletin of Anomalous Experience (at -first under the title of Ratchet Patrol) in Toronto, Ontario, focusing -on abduction experiencers. It folds in December 1994. (Ratchet -Patrol 1, no. 1 (January 1990); Bulletin -of Anomalous Experience 1, no. 3 (March/April 1990))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6844

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Event 9593 -(BEAFCD46)

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Date: early 1/1990
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Two women are driving southwest near -Thimister-Clermont, Belgium, when they see a bizarre object on their -right, moving at an altitude of 980–1,300 feet. Dark and massive, it -resembles an iron seen from underneath. After a few seconds, it -disappears behind a farmhouse. (Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, -“The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6843

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Event 9594 -(5784A7B0)

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Date: 1/8/1990
-Description: Dark round or oblong object with red body light -photographed by several people
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Gulf Breeze, FL
-ID: 453

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Event 9595 -(B39E1799)

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Date: 1/20/1990
-Description: 1:15–1:20 a.m. A silvery dome-shaped object with two rows -of lights flies just ahead of a car for two to three miles on Highway -446 at Boyle, Mississippi. The engine and lights fail until the object -departs. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, -Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6845

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Event 9596 -(FF2EB8B4)

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Date: 1/20/1990
-Description: Silvery object with two rows of lights paced just ahead of -car for two to three miles. Engine, lights failed until object -departed
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Boyle, MS
-ID: 454

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Event 9597 -(B42B12D6)

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Date: 1/22/1990
-Description: 10:00 a.m. UFOs approach the Santa Cruz Air Force Base, Rio -de Janeiro, Brazil. Air traffic controllers spot them on their radars -but cannot identify them because they do not make movements like an -airplane or helicopter. Interceptors approach, but the objects move away -and disappear. They return about 40 minutes after the interceptors land. -Two other fighters are assigned to chase the objects, which are at an -altitude of 4,800 feet. The case is investigated by an internal -commission of the Brazilian Air Force, which can find no explanation. -(Clark III 205–206; Brazil 553)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6846

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Event 9598 -(3224FD80)

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Date: 1/24/1990
-Description: Fireball meteor observed about 6:15 A.M. arcing from -northwest to southeast.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Central United States
-ID: 455

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Event 9599 -(F2AFD75F)

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Date: 1/26/1990
-Description: British-Armenian orchid hunter Habib -“Henry” Azadehdel (pseudonym “Armen Victorian”) calls Eric -A. Walker and -has an extended conversation about an alleged South African UFO crash -with insect-like aliens. Walker hints that there has been governmental -collaboration with aliens in the past. (Grant Cameron and T. Scott -Crain, UFOs, MJ-12, and the Government: A Report on Government -Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals, Mutual UFO Network, 1991, -pp. 27–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6847

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Event 9600 -(E33202EE)

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Date: 1/26/1990
-Description: Long-lasting fireball meteor, blue-green with short tail, -changing to white and orange as it broke up, observed about 7:10 P.M. -moving northeast.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Eastern United States
-ID: 456

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Event 9601 -(AB247AD8)

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Date: 2/1990
-Description: The Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Phénomènes -Aérospatiaux in Marseille, France, begins publishing -Aérospatial-Météorologie-Astronomie (A.M.A.), edited by Bernard Hugues. -It continues until September 1994. (Aérospatial-Météorologie-Astronomie, -no. 1 (February 1990))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6850

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Event 9602 -(F1125D3D)

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Date: 2/1990
-Description: Arranged by Norio -Hayakawa, Robert -Lazar is interviewed in Las Vegas, Nevada, by Nippon TV for 3–4 -hours. Hayakawa and the TV crew drive out to Tikaboo Peak, where they -film an orange light maneuvering above Groom Lake. (Jacobsen, Area 51, -p. 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6848

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Event 9603 -(AEBCA2EC)

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Date: 2/1990
-Description: The Sauvegarde et Conservation des Études et Archives -Ufologiques is established in Brunoy, France, by Jacques -Scornaux. Its -goal is the preservation and conservation of ufological documents and -information. It publishes a SCEAU Bulletin from 1991 to 2008. (SCEAU -Bulletin, no. -0 (1991))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6849

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Event 9604 -(BAE27C23)

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Date: 2/1/1990
-End date: 2/4/1990
-Description: An invitation-only research conference on abductions is -held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in -Blacksburg, Virginia, organized by Rima -E. Laibow and Daniel -Schneck. (Rima E. Laibow, Robert N. Sollod, and John P. Wilson, -eds., Anomalous Experiences and Trauma: Current Theoretical, Research, -and Clinical Perspectives, Center for Treatment and Research of -Experienced Anomalous Trauma, 1992; Michael D. Swords, [review], JUFOS 4 -(1992): 201–205)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6851

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Event 9605 -(B0C47835)

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Date: 2/21/1990
-Description: 9:07 p.m. A woman, her mother, and son are driving through -Koblenz-Karthause, Germany, when they notice two lights beaming down at -them at a 45° angle. The woman pulls to the side of the road at an angle -to watch. The object bearing the lights stops almost directly overhead. -She sees a large triangular object, stationary and noiseless, at rooftop -height. The sides of the triangle measure about 65 feet. Three milky, -yellowish-white lights are at each of the corners. In the center is a -larger, primarily gray-blue light, although its colors change as -something rotates on the UFO. The object itself has a metallic -appearance. It has some structures that look like riveted plates. The -object remains for 2–3 minutes then departs suddenly to the southwest -behind the roofs of nearby houses. The woman succeeds in locating two -other witnesses at nearly the same time. (Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian -Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June 1991): 10–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6853

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Event 9606 -(1CE9454A)

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Date: 2/21/1990
-Description: Sundown. Norio -Hayakawa, a Nippon TV journalist, takes a crew to the Area 51 -Mailbox Site (near the 29 ½ mile marker, Highway 375, Tikaboo Valley) to -watch the test flight of an object from Groom Lake, Nevada. The group -sees an orange-yellow light appear above the hills. They get a second -sighting later that evening when an object moves to the right, descends, -performs a back turn and a 5,000-foot sudden descent, more or less -instantly. (Michael Hesemann, UFOs -and Area 51: Secrets of the Black World, Lightworks -video, 1995; “Norio Hayakawa,” -Dreamland Resort)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6852

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Event 9607 -(52728C7B)

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Date: 2/23/1990
-Description: Prominent fireball meteor changing color from white to -green to orange observed about 7:50 P.M.
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northeastern United States
-ID: 457

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Event 9608 -(D6BB8FD8)

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Date: 2/28/1990
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Gary Schultz goes to the Area 51 Mailbox site in -Nevada with his wife Pearl. He leaps out of his lawn chair when he spots -the first object. Every 45 minutes, a new object arrives, 6 in all. Two -or three of the craft are bright, pulsing, ellipsoid objects. He takes -photos, one of which clearly captures an object shaped like a bell. (“Unknown -Craft over Area 51 in 1990, Photographed by Gary Schultz,” Norio -Hayakawa YouTube channel, January 25, 2010; Michael Hesemann, UFOs -and Area 51: Secrets of the Black World, Lightworks video, -1995)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6854

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Event 9609 -(CFB89683)

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Date: 3/1990
-Description: A classified US Department of Defense document, Joint Staff -Information Report #5049, “Belgium and the UFO Issue,” states that -“Numerous UFO sightings have been made in Belgium since Nov 89. The -credibility of some individuals making the reports is good… -Investigation by BAF [Belgian Air Force] continues.” It notes that -Belgian General Wilfried De Brouwer asked whether the objects were -American B-2 or F-117 military aircraft, stating that he made the -inquiry despite knowing that “the alleged observations did not -correspond in any way to the observable characteristics of either US -aircraft.” The US Air Force does confirm to the Belgian Air Force and -Ministry of Defense that no US stealth aircraft were operating in the -Ardennes area at the time.” (Nick Redfern, “Belgium -and the UFO Issue,” Mysterious Universe, February 11, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6856

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Event 9610 -(C05FE962)

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Date: 3/1990
-Description: Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine breaks the -news that the term “Aurora” has inadvertently been included in the 1985 -US budget, as an allocation of $455 million for “black aircraft -production” in FY 1987. According to Aviation Week, Project Aurora -refers to a group of exotic aircraft and not to one particular airframe. -Funding of the project allegedly reaches $2.3 billion in fiscal 1987, -according to a 1986 procurement document obtained by Aviation Week. In -1994, Ben -Rich, the -former head of Lockheed’s Skunk Works division, writes that the Aurora -is the budgetary code name for the stealth bomber fly-off that resulted -in the B-2 Spirit. (Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, Skunk Works: A Personal -Memoir of My Years at Lockheed, Little Brown, 1996, pp. 309–310; -UFOFiles2, pp. 143–144; -“Aurora Timeline”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6855

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Event 9611 -(EB7F4773)

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Date: 3/1/1990
-Description: The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches the first stealth -satellite in STS-36 for -the National Reconnaissance Office. Nicknamed “Misty,” little is known -about it other than it has visual and radar stealth characteristics, -making it difficult to detect. The satellite is seen and tracked later -in 1990 and in the mid-1990s by amateur observers. The second satellite -is launched on May 22, 1999, and by 2004 the launch of a third satellite -is planned for 2009. Circumstantial evidence suggests that the third -satellite might be the payload of the Delta -IV Heavy launch designated NROL-15, -which is launched in June 2012. That launch deposits a payload into -geosynchronous orbit but, given the stealth/deception hypothesis, there -remains the possibility of other, undetected payloads. (Wikipedia, “Misty -(satellite program)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6857

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Event 9612 -(9150FAB5)

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Date: 3/2/1990
-Description: Brilliant white pulsating oval paced truck, hovered over -road, instant relocation over truck, cast light beam down
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Beavercreek, IL
-ID: 458

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Event 9613 -(9AB463C2)

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Date: 3/4/1990
-Description: Sphere with windows seen from boat near lighthouse. Several -objects took off at high speed with loud booms, stopped, hovered, -flashed bright white lights
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Wood End, Provincetown, MA
-ID: 459

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Event 9614 -(E8CED1E1)

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Date: 3/7/1990
-Description: A woman feeding her infant in Gulf Breeze, Florida, notices -a beam of white light about 3 feet in diameter descend to the ground -beyond her window. She feels a slight vibration and 2 seconds later the -object is gone. The next morning her husband finds a circle of burned -grass 11 feet in diameter near the window. Several people detect a -strong “perfume” odor from the scorched area. (MUFON UFO Journal, May -1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6858

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Event 9615 -(A676EAFD)

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Date: 3/8/1990
-Description: Henry -Azadehdel calls Eric -A. Walker a second time. Walker provides some vague and bizarre -information involving MJ-12, ESP, and technology from crashed UFOs. A -third conversation on August 18 is much more guarded. (Grant Cameron and -T. Scott Crain, UFOs, MJ-12, and the Government: A Report on Government -Involvement in UFO Crash Retrievals, Mutual UFO Network, 1991, -pp. 27–35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6859

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Event 9616 -(571127FE)

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Date: 3/12/1990
-Description: Night. Large, shining discs appear in the sky along the -Yaroslavskoye Shosse outside Moscow, Russia. Their place is taken by -three groups of objects, some like pineapples (with platelets) but about -18 feet long. Others are like “triangular milk cartons,” and the third -group are like upside-down basins about 40 feet across. (“UFO’s Reported -near Moscow,” [telegram], April 15, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6860

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Event 9617 -(552CD87C)

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Date: 3/21/1990
-Description: Jet interceptor scrambled to identify radar target, saw two -flashing white lights, locked radar gunsight on object
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, Russia
-ID: 460

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Event 9618 -(E3961225)

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Date: 3/21/1990
-Description: 8:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight. UFOs are seen over a wide area of -Russia encompassing Novoselye, Sergiyev Posad, Yakovlevo, Dubki, -Kablukovo, Fryazino, Khabarovsk, and Kirzhach. Radar stations and -aircraft are put on alert. At 9:38 p.m., a UFO is seen at 6,500 feet -altitude over Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. Lt. Col. A. -A. Semenchenko is sent up in an interceptor to find it. At 10:05 p.m., -he sees the object ahead and to the right. He tracks it on the in-flight -radar as it flashes two white lights and changes speed and altitude. It -does not respond to a radio challenge to identify itself. The pilot -turns steeply and flies 1,600–1,900 feet above the UFO, but he can see -only a vague shape. Between 8:00 p.m. and midnight, UFOs are also seen -over a wide area. Witnesses in Khabarovsk watch bright red spheres -flying in complete silence and darting above the icebound Amur River, -and a black cigar-shaped object 160 feet long with a ruby-red exhaust is -seen traveling low above the ground. Radars do not register it. The -commanding officers of several antiaircraft defense units around Moscow -gather more than 100 visual reports from their subordinates, which are -forwarded to the chief of the antiaircraft defense headquarters, -Gen. Col. Igor -Maltsev, who says that the object is a disc between 325–650 feet in -diameter with two blinking lights. It turns on its axis and its course -is “snakelike.” (“UFOs -on Air Defense Radars,” Rabochaya Tribuna, April 19, 1990; MUFON UFO -Journal, June 1990; V. D. Musinsky, “Through the Secrecy Barrier,” IUR -15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 14–15; Central Intelligence Agency, “USSR: -UFO Sightings No. 2—General Maltsev Comments,” -Foreign Broadcast Information Service PROD Group, May 24, 1990; Patrick -Gross, “FOIA Declassified -Documents”; Antonio Huneeus, “Airplane -Pilot UFO Encounters in the USSR and CIS, Part 2,” OpenMinds, August -20, 2010; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, -p. 116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6861

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Event 9619 -(DDBBF661)

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Date: 3/27/1990
-Description: Blindingly bright oval object approached car, passed low -overhead. Driver fled, looked back, saw object hovering over a -field
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kokomo, IN
-ID: 461

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Event 9620 -(A67D44C6)

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Date: 3/28/1990
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A silent UFO is seen about 25 miles north of -Chongqing, China. It is about 65 feet long with orange and pale green -lights, and it flies toward the northeast at an altitude of 150 feet. -(Defense Intelligence Agency, [unclassified -report], The Black Vault, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6862

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Event 9621 -(92F43473)

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Date: 3/30/1990
-End date: 3/31/1990
-Description: 11:00 p.m. The Glons (Belgium) Control Reporting Center -receives reports that three unusual lights are moving toward -Thorembais-Gembloux, Belgium, constantly changing color, in the shape of -an equilateral triangle. It requests the Wavre gendarmerie to send a -patrol car to investigate. Ten minutes later, a second formation moves -toward the first. Traffic Center Control at Semmerzake tracks one object -only on its radar, and an order to scramble two F-16 fighters from -Beauvechain Air Base is given. Throughout this time, in reports after -the event, some people claim that the phenomenon is visible from the -ground, describing the whole formation as maintaining relative positions -while moving slowly across the sky. Over the next hour, the two -scrambled F-16s attempt 9 separate interceptions. On three occasions, -they manage to obtain a radar lock for a few seconds, but these are -later shown to be radar-locks on each other. The pilots never see any of -the claimed visual sightings or the claimed maneuvers, and they never -get a lock on any objects apart from the other F-16. Investigator Wim -van Utrecht suspects that the lights in the sky that triggered these -scrambles were misperceptions of bright stars and planets. The other -contacts are all the result of a well-known atmospheric interference -called Bragg scattering, in which an aircraft’s own radars interfere -with each other. After 12:30 a.m., radar contact becomes much more -sporadic and the final confirmed lock takes place at 12:40 a.m. -Following several further unconfirmed contacts, the F-16s eventually -return to base shortly after 1:00 a.m. Members of the Wavre gendarmerie -sent to confirm the original report describe four lights as arranged in -a square formation, all making short jerky movements, before gradually -losing their luminosity and disappearing in four separate directions at -around 1:30 a.m. They also hear a low engine noise and that it seems to -have a stick coming out one end with a turbine on it, which many claim -shows it was a helicopter. (Wikipedia, “Belgian -UFO wave”; NICAP, “Three -Lights in Triangle Are Also Picked Up -on Radar”; NICAP, “Three -Lights in Triangle Are Also Picked Up on Radar”; “Remarkable -Military Encounter in Belgium,” IUR 15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 23; Joël -Mesnard, “Belgium -Haunted by Huge Triangular -Craft, Part II,” Flying Saucer Review 35, no. 4 (December 1990): -2–6; Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 (May/June -1991): 4–8; Bob Pratt, “The Great Belgium UFO Flap,” MUFON UFO Journal, -no. 267 (July 1990); Marie-Thérèse de Brosses, “F-16 -Radar Tracks UFO,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 268 (August 1990): 6–7; -Marie-Thérèse de Brosses, “An -Interview with Professor Jean-Pierre Petit,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. -273 (January 1991): 3–9; Kean, pp. 37–38; -Swords 457; Jean-Michel Abrassart, “In Defense of the -Psycho-Sociological Hypothesis: Another Reply to Auguste Meessen,” -SUNlite 3, no. 4 (July/Aug. 2011): 9– 12; Patrick Gross, “The -Belgium Flap Official Reports,” the full version of the Belgian Air -Force report by Major Lambrechts, VS3/Ctl-Met 1, February 22, 2001; -Patrick Gross, “The -Belgium Flap Official Reports,” summary report on observations 30–31 -March 1990, February 22, 2001; Marler 20–23; David Clarke, “Echoes and -Angels: UFOs on Radar,” Fortean Times 403 (March 2021): 44–45)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6863

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Event 9622 -(E01D9B10)

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Date: 3/30/1990
-Description: Gendarmes reported luminous, high speed objects. Jet -interceptors scrambled, multiple radar tracks of fast-moving -objects
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: report or memo
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Brussels and Wavre, Belgium
-ID: 462

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Event 9623 -(10A5F744)

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Date: 3/31/1990
-Description: Night. Lucien -Clerebaut (secretary general of the Belgian UFO group SOBEPS), film -director Patrick Ferryn, and -José Fernandez take four photos, using high-sensitivity film, of one of -the triangular objects passing directly overhead about 19 miles -southeast of Brussels, Belgium. Ferryn estimates its altitude is only -1,000 feet with a diameter six times that of the full moon. As a -control, he photographs an ordinary airplane several minutes later in -the same spot, using all the same camera settings. The spotlights on the -UFO, which seemed very bright to the observers, are barely discernible -on the photos. The triangular shape, clearly visible to the naked eye, -is also lost on the film. At the same time, the airplane lights come out -brighter than those on the UFO, appearing just the way it looked from -the ground, even though the UFO was much closer to the observers than -the airplane. Lab experiments show that this is probably due to the -effect of infrared light around the UFO. (Marie-Thérèse de Brosses, “Un -OVNI sur le Radar du F16,” Paris-Match, July 5, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6864

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Event 9624 -(C33CFFD4)

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Date: early 4/1990
-Description: Many observers, including a journalist with Sovetskaya -Estoniya, see UFOs hovering above power lines along the Tallinn Highway, -Estonia, on several occasions. Maj. V. Stroynetskiy and several hundred -other witnesses repeatedly observe UFOs over the Yaroslavl Highway in -Russia, many of which look like large “triangular milk cartons.” The -objects are flying at altitudes of 1,600–2,600 feet. At times, the -entire body of an object “scintillates,” while at other times it becomes -iridescent with “lights of various colors.” The objects fly at great -speeds, make sudden stops in mid-air, and suddenly break off in lateral -directions from the line of flight, “at which time they emitted rays.” -(Central Intelligence Agency, “USSR: -UFO Sightings No. 2—General Maltsev Comments,” -Foreign Broadcast Information Service PROD Group, May 24, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6865

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Event 9625 -(1519A372)

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Date: 4/4/1990
-Description: Patrick Maréchal, a young worker at Petit-Rechain, Belgium, -takes a photo of a delta-shaped object on which three lights are visible -at each corner. Maréchal admits the photo is a hoax in an interview for -RTL on July 26, 2011. He and some friends take a sheet of Styrofoam, cut -it into a triangle, paint it black, embed a flashlight in each corner, -then hang it from a string. Maréchal shows reporters many trial photos -they had taken trying to get the perfect look. (Wikipedia, “Belgian -UFO wave”; NICAP, “Petit-Rechain, -Belgium Photo”; “Classic Belgian Photos a Fake?” IUR 34, no. 1 -(September 2011): 6; Wim van Utrecht, “Battle -over Belgian UFOs,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 292 (August 1992): 20; -Wim van Utrecht, “Famous -Belgian UFO Photo a Hoax,” Caelestia; Kean, pp. 29–31; -Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Wave and the Photos of Ramillies”; Patrick -Ferryn, “La -photo de -Petit-Rechain: Un état de la question,” Inforespace, no. 111 -(December 2005): 4–21; André Marion, “Nouvelle analyse -de la diapositive de Petit-Rechain,” Inforespace, no. 111 (December -2005): 22–27; Benôit Mussche, “Le rapport -SeerSight,” Inforespace, no. 111 (December 2005): 28–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6866

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Event 9626 -(819288A2)

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Date: 4/5/1990
-Description: 8:15 p.m. A motorist driving near the shore at Gulf Breeze, -Florida, sees what looks like a jet fighter about to crash. Two military -jets approach from the north, and the original object immediately shoots -laterally southward, halting 1–2 miles away. The man gets out of his car -to watch. The object appears to be a white disc with red and green -lights spaced evenly around the side and an unlit dome on top. Slowly, -it begins to rise. He calls a friend and the sheriff’s office. Two -deputies arrive on the scene, and for the next 2 hours all three -witnesses watch a bright light continue to ascend slowly. (MUFON UFO -Journal, May 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6867

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Event 9627 -(0117A408)

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Date: 4/10/1990
-Description: A triangular UFO is seen for 10 minutes over Abakan, -Republic of Khakassia, Russia. (Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The -Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, -Quadrillion, 1998, p. 110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6869

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Event 9628 -(9BF1C42B)

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Date: 4/10/1990
-Description: A couple driving north on the Pensacola Bay Bridge in -Florida see an object that looks like a long isosceles triangle with a -centered red light on the bottom and pairs of white lights at the three -apexes. As they near the end of the bridge in Pensacola, the object -moves toward the west. It hovers, then moves off over the bay and out of -sight. (Dan Wright, “Current -Case Log,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 268 (August 1990): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6868

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Event 9629 -(867B0728)

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Date: 4/11/1990
-Description: Evening. Several residents of Gulf Breeze, Florida, watch a -red light move toward the southwest and out into the Gulf of Mexico -before winking out. Some think they can see clusters of balloons -associated with the light, but others disagree. (MUFON UFO Journal, June -1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6870

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Event 9630 -(A496F4C6)

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Date: 4/12/1990
-End date: 4/13/1990
-Description: Night. Two witnesses see a bright red light hovering above -Little Sabine Island off Pensacola Beach, Florida. It stays there for -several minutes before blinking out. It reappears the next night to the -west of Gulf Breeze. (MUFON UFO Journal, June 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6871

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Event 9631 -(2C494988)

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Date: 4/14/1990
-Description: At least seven people report a red light to the north of -Gulf Breeze, Florida. It approaches from the east at high speed and -comes to a dead stop. It hovers, moves back and forth several times, -then ascends out of sight. Other red lights appear and are seen in -various locations around Pensacola by other groups of people. Some of -these sightings are undoubtedly hoax balloons. (MUFON UFO Journal, June -1990; Dan Wright, “Current -Case Log,” -MUFON UFO Journal, no. 268 (August 1990): 21–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6872

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Event 9632 -(A868337C)

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Date: 4/22/1990
-Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Two workers in a factory courtyard -in Basècles, Belgium, watch two enormous spotlights illuminate the area. -A huge trapezoid-shaped “platform” moves slowly and silently above a -smokestack, at one point covering the entire courtyard, 330 by 200 feet. -They observe six lights on the object, which is grayish. Structures on -the bottom of the platform look like “an aircraft carrier turned upside -down.” (Kean, p. 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6873

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Event 9633 -(37B4EC01)

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Date: 4/26/1990
-Description: Mikhail -Gorbachev is visiting the Uralmash plant in Sverdlovsk, Russia, when -he is asked for the first time whether the USSR studies UFOs. He answers -vaguely that “there are scientific organizations which study this -problem.” However, he later tells a group of workers that the “UFO -phenomenon is real and we should approach it seriously and study it.” -(Pravda, April 27, 1990; Sovetskaya Molodezh, May 4, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6874

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Event 9634 -(CEECEBB1)

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Date: 5/4/1990
-Description: 11:15 p.m. A retired archaeologist in Stockay, Liège, -Belgium, is about to return home after checking his greenhouse when he -hears neighborhood dogs barking. He sees, in a field about 325 feet away -from him, a pyramidal or conical illuminated object topped by a “bright -white mushroom cone” floating about 1 foot off the ground. He approaches -to about 165 feet and watches the object change color from white to -orange as its upper part rises. He calls his wife to watch the UFO too. -She sees two small antennas on top. They leave to get their son, but -when they return the object is gone. The next day, he finds four -circular holes about 3 feet in diameter with a thin layer of yellowish -powder sprayed on the grass. Some days later, the traces vanish after a -rainstorm. (Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR -16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6875

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Event 9635 -(5605FB75)

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Date: 5/21/1990
-Description: A joint Russian and Chinese endeavor to study UFOs is -initiated in Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia. An agreement is made to -share videos and photos of new sightings. (Central Intelligence Agency, -“USSR, -PRC Scientists -in Joint Study of UFO’s,” May 21, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6876

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Event 9636 -(73D9E489)

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Date: 5/24/1990
-Description: Dark, delta-shaped object with large white lights around -edge hovered. Departed at high speed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: North Huntingdon, PA
-ID: 463

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Event 9637 -(2339ED94)

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Date: 5/25/1990
-Description: Day. A giant reddish-orange disc some 980 feet in diameter -and with portholes around its rim is seen hovering at an altitude of -3,300 feet above Mary, Turkmenistan. Col. Anatoly Kurkchy, chief of the -Air Defense Division of the Russian 12th Army, orders three -ground-to-air missiles fired at it. The UFO makes a slight horizontal -maneuver, and three beams of light coming from its port side destroy the -missiles. Kurkchy then scrambles two jet interceptors, but at a point -about 3,200 feet from the disc, the jets are allegedly thrown to the -ground and destroyed, killing the four pilots. Kurkchy is removed from -his post and transferred to a remote location. (Good Need, pp. 356–357)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6877

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Event 9638 -(1547C0C2)

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Date: 6/1990
-Description: Raymond -E. Fowler continues his exploration of the Betty -Andreasson Luca abduction case in The Watchers, which reveals that -Luca is often having an out-of-body experience during her abductions. -She sometimes encounters human-like entities with blonde hair, blue -eyes, and white robes who are apparently “in charge” of the other -aliens. Luca feels that the human race is being “watched” by these -beings, who tell her they foresee serious problems in the future -regarding the survivability of the human species. (Raymond E. Fowler, The -Watchers: The Secret -Design behind UFO Abduction, Bantam, -1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6878

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Event 9639 -(A90C0A4A)

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Date: 6/5/1990
-Description: Robert -Lazar is arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, for aiding and abetting a -prostitution ring. The charge is reduced to felony pandering, to which -he pleads guilty on June 18. At sentencing on August 20, he is ordered -to do 150 hours of community service, stay away from brothels, and -undergo psychotherapy.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6879

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Event 9640 -(197A5E94)

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Date: 6/10/1990
-Description: Reporter Craig -Myers announces in the Pensacola (Fla.) News-Journal that a foam UFO -model, seemingly a prototype for a fake UFO, has been found by new -homeowners in the attic of the former residence of Gulf Breeze, Florida, -UFO photographer Ed Walters. Myers writes a series of articles showing -how Walters likely hoaxes some photos using a double-exposure technique. -In late June, Tom Smith Jr., 22, a former Gulf Breeze resident, comes -forward and claims that he has seen Walters fake some of the photos, the -entire Walters family is in on the hoax, and they had tried to enlist -his help unsuccessfully. Investigators apply a voice stress analysis -(VSA) test to Smith’s taped testimony, which he passes. A controlled VSA -test has also been successfully applied to testimony by Ed Walters, in -which he denies perpetrating a hoax. (Craig Myers, “Gulf -Breeze UFO -Model Found,” Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal, June 10, 1990, pp. 1, -8; Craig Myers, “I -Saw UFO Photos Faked, Witness -Says,” Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal, June 17, 1990, pp. 1, 4; UFO -Newsclipping Service, no. -252 (July 1990): 1–6; Geoff Price, “Lie Detection in UFO Controversies,” -IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 31; Kevin D. Randle, “The Truth about -Polygraphs,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter 1997–1998): 29–30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6880

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Event 9641 -(2F3D04C0)

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Date: summer 1990
-Description: The crew of a Russia ship harbored in the Anadyr’ River off -Ust-Belaya, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, sees a perfectly circular -opening in the cumulus clouds above the village. Groups of objects enter -the circle and fly away. Watch officer Aleksandr Polorotov begins taking -photos of them until his camera malfunctions. When the film is -developed, a luminous cigar-shaped object can be seen on some of the -photos, but the open circle of sky is not on any of them. Some crew -members experience severe headaches after the episode. (Stonehill and -Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 109–110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6881

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Event 9642 -(BB9A7DD6)

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Date: 7/6/1990
-Description: Day. Anna Dmitrievna Yerygina is herding goats on a -lonesome road near Zvarykino, Belgorod Oblast, Russia, when a woman -appears, seemingly out of thin air. Dressed in a light-gray, -loose-fitting outfit with a hood, she seems somewhat tall and lean. The -woman greets her and asks whether goats’ milk is tasty. Yerygina says it -is, but she prefers cows’ milk. The woman then abruptly invites her on a -brief excursion that will last no longer than three hours, touching her -on the shoulder and saying, “Do not be afraid.” She takes Yerygina to a -large oval craft in a nearby field, A man awaits them and helps them -aboard. Yerygina sits in the dimly lit interior, then suddenly finds -herself in another room with others dressed in the same gray coveralls. -She feels as if she has been transported to another world. The entities -radiate spiritual warmth and hospitality. One of them offers her some -tasty bread and a strange liquid. After she finishes the meal, her -memory goes blank and she finds herself back in the field with her -goats, the strange woman by her side. The woman says goodbye with a -smile, promising to meet her again. (Priyma Alexey, XX -vek. Hronika Neobyasnimogo: Fenomen za fenomenom, AST Olympus, 2000; -Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 (November -2015): 42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6882

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Event 9643 -(37C55E27)

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Date: 7/9/1990
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A witness is traveling toward Germany and makes a -stop east of Brzózka near the bridge over the Bóbr River southwest of -Krosno, Poland. He goes for a short walk in the woods when he hears an -odd sound and sees a landed object like an overturned bowl. He estimates -it is nearly 17 feet across and 80 feet tall, and has a nauseating odor -like burned chocolate. About 15 entities resembling mummies are in front -of the UFO, poking plants with a prod and hopping about like kangaroos. -They are about 4.5 feet tall and wear deep-green uniforms and headgear -like welding masks. Their fingers resemble claws. At some point the -witness coughs and loses consciousness, waking up an hour later. (Poland -82; “Bliskie -spotkanie w Brzózce w 1990 roku,” UFO-Relacje.pl, February 12, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6883

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Event 9644 -(A070A5BA)

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Date: 7/11/1990
-Description: Belgian Air Force Col. Wilfred De Brouwer gives a public -talk on UFOs at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. He states that -the March 30–31 sightings were highly unusual, witnessed by gendarmes -and others, and necessitated the scrambling of two F-16 fighters. He -says the target was detected on radar and conformed to ground visual -observations. The objects remain unidentified. (Swords 457)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6884

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Event 9645 -(46FE1A5B)

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Date: 7/19/1990
-Description: Shortly after 12:00 midnight. The base perimeter at Fort -Allen Training Center in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, is suddenly -illuminated by a powerful white light. An officer orders that all -personnel must remain in the barracks or other base facilities and not -come out under any circumstances. From a window, the officer can see a -brightly lit, circular, metallic object over the base. It has windows -around a central rim, with yellowish-white lights revolving in them. On -the underside there is a round, turbine-like protrusion with many -colored lights around it. A bright beam of pinkish-white light is coming -from the underside, as if searching for something—this is the light -illuminating the perimeter. Two F/A-18 Hornets (probably scrambled from -Roosevelt Roads Naval Station) fly at high speed over the base toward -the UFO, which departs at high speed to the west with the jets in -pursuit. The officer later tells UFO investigators that Fort Allen -personnel have been briefed on UFOs with training films that show -crashed UFOs, and it is just the most recent of several briefings since -the 1988 Cabo Rojo incident. (Good Need, pp. 380–381)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6885

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Event 9646 -(9E5FC34F)

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Date: 7/26/1990
-Description: 10:35 p.m. A married couple is driving south through -Grâce-Hollogne, Belgium, when they see a triangular object hovering in -the sky. It seems to measure about 39 feet on each side. A belt of white -light like a large neon tube runs along two sides. The witnesses see -three spotlights beaming down, apparently detached from the object but -connected to each other by a support “bracket.” Two flashing lights, one -red and one green, are on the underside. The man flashes his car lights -twice, and two white lights at the base of the triangle rotate, tilt -toward the car, and flash on and off three times. Keeping these lights -pointed at the moving car, the object moves with its base forward and -positions itself 330 feet away at a height of 200–300 feet, It makes a -banking turn and paces the car, moving with the terrain and maintaining -a constant height above the sloping ground at the same speed as the car -(around 40 mph). When they approach the bridge at Seraing, the object -crosses the Meuse River right next to them, ascending silently and -moving back toward Grâce-Hollogne. (Kean, pp. 32–34)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6886

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Event 9647 -(D7901B17)

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Date: 8/2/1990
-End date: 1/17/1991
-Description: Operation Desert Shield
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Iraq

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Event 9648 -(B966EE6F)

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Date: early 8/1990
-Description: Many witnesses in Rostock, Greifswald, and the islands of -Rügen and Usedom, Germany, see groups of luminous spheres that -accelerate rapidly and abruptly. One witness, Gerald Schwab, watches the -lights stand still for 3 minutes before they accelerate rapidly forward. -(Illobrand von Ludwiger, “The -‘Greifswald Lights,’” MUFON Central European Section, May -2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6887

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Event 9649 -(04A0456D)

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Date: 8/4/1990
-Description: Day. Two hikers near the A9 near Calvine, Perthshire, -Scotland, see a diamond-shaped object that appears to be shadowed by an -RAF Harrier jet. The object is visible for about 10 minutes. One of the -hikers takes color photographs of the incident. Desk officers from DI55 -suspect the image might show a US Air Force black project aircraft. The -prints are sent to the Glasgow Daily Record newspaper, which forwards -them to the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre at RAF Brampton -[now closed] for scrutiny. The prints subsequently disappear and the MoD -claims there is no surviving record of the conclusions reached about the -investigation. However, in October 2020 the Ministry of Defence blocks -release of the photos from their scheduled declassification on January -1, 2021, until 2072 without any explanation. Former MoD official Nick -Pope, one of the few people to see the photos and the analysis, says -the photos are authentic and show a material device of unknown origin -that has no wings, no fuselage, no tail, no visible engine, and bears no -inscription. Compared to elements in the landscape, the object appears -to be about 98 feet in diameter. The British government continues to -deny that its US ally has ever been allowed to operate experimental -aircraft in UK airspace, but David -Clarke discovers that a dossier of evidence was shared with US -intelligence after the British expressed “concern about a possible -stealthy platform flying in UK airspace.” A 1992 letter from the British -Defence Staff in Washington, D.C., reveals that one of the Calvine -photos was brought to the US by British Intelligence officials to be -examined by their US counterparts. (UFOFiles2, pp. 148–149; -Paul Sims, “Alien -Mystery: Government Bans Release of Secret -UFO Dossier about Calvine for 50 Years,” Scottish Sun, October 10, -2020; Nick Pope, “‘Dark -Forces’: I’ve -Seen Top Secret Photos of Calvine UFO Sighting—It Left Me -Shell-Shocked,” Scottish Sun, October 10, 2020; David Ramasseul, “Ovni -de Calvine: L’interminable secret,” Paris Match, October 13, 2020; -David Clarke, “The Jox Files: Was a US ‘Special Project’ Captured on -Film in Scotland?” Fortean Times 409 (September 2021): 52–53; Simon -Houston, “What -Was the Calvine UFO Sighting and Are the Photos Real?” Scottish Sun, -May 2, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6888

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Event 9650 -(7D7C55F8)

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Date: 8/24/1990
-Description: 8:35 p.m. Many witnesses in northern Germany see a -formation of seven luminous objects over the Baltic Sea. They hover for -nearly 30 minutes near Peenemünde (on Usedom) and the Soviet-built -nuclear power plant at Lubmin [shut down soon afterward]. Five people, -including nuclear physicist Ludmilla Ivanova, videotape the event from -Greifswald, enabling researchers to triangulate the lights and -reconstruct their positions. Ufologist Illobrand -von Ludwiger’s group MUFON-Central European Section obtains 6 videos -and 11 photos from different observers and interviews more than a dozen -witnesses. They conclude that two groups of luminous spheres hovered -nearly motionless for about 30 minutes over the sea. The brighter and -closer group forms a circle of 6 spheres. The second group is in the -shape of a “Y,” with some spheres performing individual movements. Some -of them move back and forth between the two groups. They are able to -move extremely fast, estimated by one witness as “supersonic velocity,” -then come to an abrupt stop when reaching the formation. (Jacques -Vallée, “Estimates -of Power Optical Output in Six Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with -Defined Luminosity Characteristics,” -Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 3 (1998): 356–357; Illobrand -von Ludwiger, “The ‘Greifswald -Lights,’” MUFON Central European Section, May 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6889

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Event 9651 -(85703066)

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Date: 9/1990
-Description: US journalist Tim -Weiner publishes Blank Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget, based on -his articles on black-budget spending at the Pentagon and CIA for the -Philadelphia Inquirer. Weiner shows that the funding is classified above -top secret and that few, if any, federal oversight investigators have -the security clearances to audit this budget. He estimates its size as -at least $35 billion (although by 2012 is has increased to $52.8 -billion, according to information revealed by Edward -Snowden), three times the estimated total of what it was in 1981. -(Tim Weiner, Blank -Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget, Warner, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6891

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Event 9652 -(8907A255)

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Date: 9/1990
-Description: New York Times journalist Howard -Blum publishes Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest for -Extraterrestrials, describing his investigation—after a tip given him by -a National Security Agency official—of a mysterious agency called the -UFO Working Group, a top secret, interagency body headed by “Col. Harold -E. Phillips” of the Defense Intelligence Agency (actually a pseudonym -for Col. John -B. Alexander). Founded in 1987, according to Blum, after a flurry of -suppressed UFO sightings, including the tracking on radar of a UFO by -the US Space Command Space Surveillance Center, the UFO Working Group, -calling on CIA, FBI, and other resources, has come up with nothing -solid. It has, however, dug into many of the major events of ufology. -Blum also claims that NORAD deep-space radars (the Defense Satellite -Program) have tracked about 500 UFOs (fastwalkers) entering Earth’s -atmosphere every year. (Howard Blum, Out -There: The Government’s Secret Quest for -Extraterrestrials, Simon -& Schuster, 1990; Mark Rodeghier, “In the Black,” IUR 15, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1990): 9–11, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6890

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Event 9653 -(E325A657)

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Date: 9/2/1990
-Description: Early morning. Residents of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, see a -large illuminated ball above the Arctic Ocean. It is at a high altitude, -gives off no electronic signals, and moves slowly toward the Kola -Peninsula. Soviet Air Defense thinks it resembles a large airship. -Finally, the order is given to destroy it, and it turns out to be an -enormous weather balloon. (Central Intelligence Agency, “Airship-Like -UFO Sighted over Murmansk,” September 4, 1990)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6892

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Event 9654 -(569C9A41)

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Date: 9/13/1990
-Description: Shortly after 12:00 midnight. A Soviet radar unit in -Samara, Russia, tracks an approaching object that apparently causes the -equipment to malfunction and go blank. Going outside, the operators see -a flying black triangle giving off three bright rays pass directly -overhead at no more then 30 feet. It lands nearby and gives off more -bursts of energy for 90 minutes. Cpl. S. Dudnik sees it knock out a -radar aerial with a light beam. Two sentries, A. Blazhis and A. -Varenitsa, allegedly disappear and reappear with no memory of the event -and without realizing they have been missing. The ground where they were -standing guard seems to be blasted by an explosion. Their wrist watches -are running nearly 2 hours slow. Capt. D. Rudzit tells a military -reporter from Za Rodinu who is investigating the incident that nothing -has happened. In November, Deputy Minister of Defense Gen. Ivan Tretiak -claims the incident was all a newspaper hoax. (Paul Stonehill and Philip -Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron -Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, p. 50; Good Need, pp. 358–360, 364)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6893

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Event 9655 -(E10C492E)

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Date: 9/19/1990
-Description: The KNM -Stavanger has a sonar contact with an unknown “U-boat” in the -Norwegian Sea off Ona lighthouse, Husøya, Norway. The ship sends -international warning signals but gets no response, so it drops hand -grenades into the water. At 5:30 p.m., it shoots off three Terne -rockets. The sonar contact ends, and the next day the search is called -off. (Ole Jonny Brænne, “Observations of Unidentified Submarine Objects -in Norway,” IUR 20, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1995): 13, 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6894

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Event 9656 -(23B1781A)

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Date: 9/27/1990
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Cosmonauts Gennady -Manakov and Gennadi -Strekalov are aboard the Mir space -station. When Strekalov is looking down at Newfoundland through a clear -atmosphere, he sees a glittering, iridescent, perfect sphere. He calls -Manakov and together they study the object. Strekalov says it “shone -like the balls that hang on trees at Christmas, greenish in color and -all shimmering.” It appears to be 12–18 miles above the Earth. They -watch it for 10 seconds when it disappears abruptly. (Central -Intelligence Agency, “Take -1 of 3—Foreign Press -Note—FB PN 91-014—USSR,” January 11, 1991; Good Need, p. 360; -2Pinotti 119–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6895

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Event 9657 -(B0C72650)

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Date: 10/1/1990
-Description: William Scott writes an article in Aviation Week on 45 -sightings of strange aircraft over the southwestern part of the United -States. Some of the objects move as slowly as 20 mph, then accelerate to -supersonic speed. He concludes that there are at least two types of -vehicles beyond the F-117A and B-2. One is a “triangular-shaped, quiet -aircraft seen with a flight of F-117A stealth fighters several times -since the summer of 1989.” Another is a “high-speed aircraft -characterized by a very deep rumbling roar.” A third is a high-altitude, -high-speed aircraft, typically observed as a bright, pulsating light, -moving much faster than other aircraft, giving no engine noise or sonic -boom. He also writes about some “exotic” propulsion systems used in new -aircraft and comes very close to stating that these might be antigravity -devices. (William Scott, “Multiple -Sightings of Secret Aircraft Hint at New Propulsion, -Airframe Designs,” Aviation Week and Space Technology, October 1, -1990, pp. 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6896

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Event 9658 -(EBE1E4E3)

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Date: 10/8/1990
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Near Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, an unidentified -target appears on ground radar screens. Commander S. Prokoshin orders an -interceptor jet scrambled and pilot Maj. P. Riabishev takes off in -pursuit. Something makes him turn his head and he sees to his right rear -two large, cigar-shaped objects. The length of the first is about 6,500 -feet and the second about 1,300 feet. They are too distant to make out -details. When he starts closing on them, both disappear from his field -of vision, although ground radar continues to track them. (Central -Intelligence Agency, “Take -1 of 3—Foreign Press Note—FB PN 91-014—USSR,” January 11, 1991; Good -Need, pp. 360–361)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6897

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Event 9659 -(7B184836)

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Date: 10/10/1990
-Description: Formations of white objects with red and green body lights -alternately hovered and darted around. Unidentified objects also tracked -on radar
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Skibo, MN
-ID: 464

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Event 9660 -(F66C8343)

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Date: 10/14/1990
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Frau Wengere and her husband are driving from -Lostorf to Zürich, Switzerland, when she sees two motionless, bright -white lights ahead of them to the left over a range of mountains. Her -husband can’t stop because there is no place to pull over. The lights of -an approaching aircraft are much smaller and paler. They lose sight of -the lights while driving through a village, but they see them again a -little higher in the sky to the right of the road. A third light is now -visible a bit to the left of the others and they watch it moving closer -to the other two lights, which move from a 45° angle to horizontal, -keeping the same space between them. The witnesses see two chains of red -and green lights joining the two. They drive on and lose sight of the -lights. (Auguste Meessen, “The Belgian Sightings,” IUR 16, no. 3 -(May/June 1991): 11, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6898

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Event 9661 -(91EDB051)

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Date: late 1990
-Description: A US Army captain is stationed in the Iraqi desert with his -unit during Operation Desert Shield. He is informed by a superior -officer that his unit is not to fire on any objects that might appear -within a specific, rather restricted, area of the sky. A few nights -later, he and his men see several bright objects maneuvering in an -extraordinary fashion. “We could not have shot them down if we had -tried,” he said. He does not know what they are, although UFOs are -primary suspects. (Dolan II 555)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6902

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Event 9662 -(40CB02CC)

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Date: 10/21/1990
-Description: 10:05 p.m. Mme. Henquinet and her 15-year-old son Stephane -are at the intersection of NB47 and N30 near Rachamps, Belgium, when two -lights suddenly drop toward them. But the lights disappear, and as they -turn south on the N30, another light appears behind a hedge bordering -the right-hand side of the road, about a dozen yards from the car. The -light paces the car at the same speed, slowing down when she does. When -they reach the end of the hedge, Mme. Henquinet brakes, and Stephane -runs out of the car to look. They see a dark mass, more than 50 feet -across, rise up rapidly and silently into the sky. On the lower part of -the object is a circle of 7–8 lights. (Patrick Vidal and Michel -Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6899

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Event 9663 -(31A0C86F)

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Date: 10/23/1990
-Description: 9:25 p.m. Four witnesses, ages 15–17, see an unusual object -with very bright lights in Pepinster, Belgium. The have the impression -that the object is taking off at a low altitude about 1,640 feet away. -The object moves silently to the northeast, displaying on its lower part -three bright white lights in the form of a triangle. At the center of -the triangle is a steady red light. The object is shaped like a pyramid -with the apex pointing forward. The sighting lasts for about 30 seconds. -(Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1991): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6901

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Event 9664 -(EDF24ACB)

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Date: 10/23/1990
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A young woman in Athus, Belgium, wakes up, looks -out the window, and sees a light 1,300 feet away on or just above a -nearby hill. It consists of two bright headlights directed at her. A -smaller blue light is between the two white ones. About 10 minutes -later, the lights rise together and move in toward her. The ground below -lights up as they pass. A few moments later, the object passes silently -over her house. She notices a small red light on its underside. The -object then veers left in the direction of Luxembourg and disappears in -the distance. (Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” -IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6900

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Event 9665 -(5E36E76D)

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Date: 11/3/1990
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies and the Santa Barbara Centre for -Humanistic Studies cosponsor a conference on “The UFO Phenomenon in the -1990s” at the Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, California. (“The UFO -Phenomenon in the 1990s,” IUR 15, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1990): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6903

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Event 9666 -(C82DA427)

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Date: 11/5/1990
-Description: Around 6:00 p.m. The pilot and copilot of a British Airways -flight from Rome to Gatwick Airport notice a large, silver-shaped object -over the North Sea. They bring two crew members into the cockpit to -observe it with them. Ground radar sees nothing unusual. (Nick Redfern, -A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, -p. 169; Good Need, pp. 382–383)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6904

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Event 9667 -(8B0BFC46)

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Date: 11/5/1990
-Description: 7:00 p.m. French pilot Jean-Gabriel Greslé is standing -outside a gym in Gretz-Armainvilliers, Seine-et- Marne, France, with six -of his martial arts students when a massive UFO comes into view. His -first impression is of a huge crane with many lights. It is about 2,600 -feet away at an altitude of 985 feet, moving downward. Another witness -sees it level off and turn. It is projecting two very long, divergent -beams of solid light that do not quite touch the ground. The object -itself is at least 1,000 feet long and 200–250 feet thick with -triangular substructures and many lights. Its rear section is -trapezoidal. When it flies above them at no more than 100 mph, t somehow -tunes out all surrounding noise as if carrying a “zone of silence.” As -Greslé moves around a tree to view it better, it dims and moves away, -disappearing into a cloud. (Good Need, p. 382)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6906

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Event 9668 -(A8D400A9)

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Date: 11/5/1990
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Two different explosions are heard in the area -around RAF Rhendahlen in Mönchengladbach West, North Rhein–Westphalia, -Germany. Two RAF Phantom jets are performing practice intercepts under -strict radar control. After the second explosion at 10:00 p.m., one of -the crews sees UFOs heading north in “finger” formation. (Paul -Whitehead, “Special -Report to FSR (May 1991),” Flying Saucer Review 36, no. 2 (Summer -1991): 10; Good Need, pp. 383–384)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6907

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Event 9669 -(F81ABB12)

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Date: 11/5/1990
-Description: Night. Witnesses report a large, cigar-shaped object, some -accompanied by spheres, over many localities in southern Poland. -Hundreds of people in Opole see a group of 15–20 spheres emitting bright -trails. (Poland 73– 74)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6908

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Event 9670 -(9C3E2037)

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Date: 11/5/1990
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Two RAF Tornados over the North Sea encounter two -large round objects, each with five blue lights and several white lights -around the rim. As the jets close to investigate, one of the UFOs heads -for one of the jets, which is forced to take evasive action. The two -objects then head north and disappear. Nothing shows up on the jets’ -radar. Commercial aircraft also report odd lights over the North Sea. -Other high-speed contacts take place along the border of Germany and -southern Belgium. (Paul Whitehead, “Special -Report to FSR (May 1991),” -Flying Saucer Review 36, no. 2 (Summer 1991): 10; Good Need, pp. 383–384; -Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, p. 177; -UFOFiles2, pp. 140–142)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6905

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Event 9671 -(80357485)

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Date: 11/7/1990
-Description: 7:15 p.m. An American woman tourist is swimming in the -rooftop pool of the International Hilton Bonaventure Hotel in downtown -Montreal, Quebec, when she sees a yellowish, oval object hovering -directly overhead. Other hotel guests come to view it, as well as the -pool lifeguard, who describes it as “a lighted object with six lights on -the perimeter of a large circle with a ray of light emitted from each -one.” Municipal police and the RCMP are called and they also view the -UFO. Around 9:00 p.m., Marcel Laroche, a journalist from La Presse, -takes some photos. The object disappears around 10:10 p.m. due to -increasing cloud cover. Other people around the city and at the airport -also report seeing unusual lights. (Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, -The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 172–174; Wim van -Utrecht, “Large -Stationary Object over Montreal,” -Caelestia, September 28, 2007; “OVNI -du Hilton-Bonaventure (17 Nov 1990),” Réseau OVNI Alerte / UFO-Alert -Network Facebook page, November 7, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6909

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Event 9672 -(97712314)

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Date: 11/9/1990
-Description: Soviet Deputy Minister of Defense Ivan -Tretyak speaks with a writer from Literaturnaya Gazeta and confirms -that fighter-interceptors have encountered UFOs in Russian air space. -However, most are explainable as natural phenomena, rocket launches, or -satellites. He admits that some pilots report UFOs apparently of -artificial origin, but their real nature remains unknown. (Central -Intelligence Agency, “Take -1 of 2—Foreign Press Note— FB -PN 91-003—USSR,” January 5, 1991)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6910

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Event 9673 -(582EFADB)

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Date: 11/22/1990
-Description: 5:28 a.m. Mme. Bouffioux is lying awake in bed at her home -in Fleurus, Belgium, when she senses an intense light. She looks out the -window, which is covered in vapor, and sees the light about 80 feet away -behind the wall bordering her neighbor’s garden and in an abandoned -field. After a while, the light turns off, and she sees bluish flashes -erupting from a spot to the right of where the object was last seen. -(Patrick Vidal and Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1991): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6911

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Event 9674 -(0CC9AFB2)

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Date: 12/9/1990
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Mme. Cortvriendt and her husband are at the -Waterloo exit of the Brussels Ring Road near Belle-Vue, Belgium, when -they see a luminous triangle off to the right at an altitude of 160 -feet. On its circumference are a multitude of white lights that are -“bright as diamonds.” Stretching from the center of the object are four -brass-colored arms in the shape of a cross. They lose sight of it as it -travels away from them to the northeast. (Patrick Vidal and Michel -Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6912

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- Event 9675 (F4639A56)

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Date: 1991
-Description: Milton -William Cooper publishes Behold a Pale Horse, an elaborate -collection of conspiracy theories and a manifesto of the militia -movement. According to sociologist Paul -Gilroy, Cooper claims to explain the “Kennedy assassination, the -doings of the secret world government, the coming ice age, and a variety -of other covert activities associated with the Illuminati’s declaration -of war upon the people of America.” Political scientist Michael -Barkun characterizes it as “among the most complex superconspiracy -theories” and one of the most influential due to its popularity in -militia circles as well as mainstream bookstores. Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke describes -the book as a “chaotic farrago of conspiracy myths interspersed with -reprints of executive laws, official papers, reports, and other -extraneous materials designed to show the looming prospect of a world -government imposed on the American people against their wishes and in -flagrant contempt of the Constitution.” (Milton William Cooper, Behold -a Pale Horse, Light Technology, 1991; Wikipedia, “Milton William -Cooper”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6913

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Event 9676 -(E3C83718)

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Date: 1991
-Description: Mark -Rodeghier, Jeff -Goodpaster, and Sandra Blatterbauer conduct a study on the psychosocial -characteristics of 27 abductees for the Center for UFO Studies in -Chicago, Illinois. They conclude from the data that the subjects cannot -be classified as fantasy-prone personalities or as especially -hypnotically responsive. However, a cluster analysis of MMPI scales -reveals two types of abductees, one with higher fantasy-prone scores, -more loneliness as adults, lower levels of happiness, more problems -sleeping, and a greater incidence of sexual abuse as children. (Mark -Rodeghier, Jeff Goodpaster, and Sandra Blatterbauer, “Psychosocial -Characteristics of Abductees: Results from the CUFOS Abduction Project,” -JUFOS 3 (1991): 59–90)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6914

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Event 9677 -(9D9944FC)

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Date: 1991
-Description: Psychic Sean -David Morton begins going to Area 51 in Nevada. He and a friend tape -a glowing, disc-shaped object that approaches within a few hundred -yards. Several times it shoots up then descends with a falling-leaf -motion. They return with burned faces and mild radiation poisoning. -Morton later shoots more video showing glowing objects with -extraordinary acceleration and maneuverability. Area 51 insiders -allegedly contact him, including someone who claims he transported large -disc-like and bell-shaped objects that he concludes are alien. He speaks -of numerous underground levels, alien bodies in liquid tanks, and even -several humanoid aliens from the Pleiades. Later Morton leads tours -around Area 51 and suggests that the aliens there are from “Krondac,” a -planet 800 light-years away. Morton is the subject of an article by the -website UFO Watchdog, “The Shameless Psychic and His Prophecy of Lies.” -which throws doubt on many of his claims. Morton sues the site for libel -but the case is dismissed. In 2010, Morton and his wife are charged with -securities fraud by the SEC. In February 2013, Morton is ordered by a -judge to pay $11.5 million to the SEC within 14 days. They are arrested -in 2016 and begin serving federal sentences in 2017. (Wikipedia, “Sean -David Morton”; Carole Masciola, “Mysterious Earthlings -Scour the Desert for Space Alien Tourists,” Seattle Times, May 2, -1993; Royce Myers III, “The Shameless -Psychic and His Prophecy of Lies,” February 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6915

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Event 9678 -(8E6BD4E3)

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Date: 1991
-Description: The Argentine Ministry of Defense creates a small office -devoted to the study of UFO sightings within the Instituto de -Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de las Fuerzas Armadas, a federal -agency in charge of scientific research and development. It lasts until -1997. (Milton W. Hourcade, “Argentina: -UFO Declassification,” -UAPSG–GEFAI, July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6916

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Event 9679 -(E75D27BF)

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Date: 1991
-Description: Visión Ovni, a national UFO research organization, is -launched in Victoria, Entre Rios, Argentina, by Silvia Pérez Simondini. -(Wikipedia, “Visión -Ovni”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6917

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Event 9680 -(CF7705EF)

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Date: 1991
-Description: The Soviet Union launches the Thread III Project, a -wide-ranging scientific and technical analysis of unusual space -phenomena conducted by more than 15 separate military units, scientific -institutes, and the Ministry of Defense. The organization driving it is -an ambiguously named group called Soveit Military Unit 73790. -(Skinwalkers 115–117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6918

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Event 9681 -(F599D385)

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Date: 1/1991
-Description: The SOS-OVNI group (formerly Association d’Étude sur les -Soucoupes Volantes) begins publishing Phénomèna, edited by Perry -Petrakis, in Aix-en-Provence, France. It continues through 2001. (Phénomèna 1, -no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1991))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6919

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Event 9682 -(2ED7B524)

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Date: 1/6/1991
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Four family members driving along the E411 -motorway near Spontin, Belgium, watch a gigantic, plate-shaped UFO with -many lights and a cupola pass overhead heading northwest. At 6:30 p.m., -a family driving south on the A4 in Beez, Belgium, see three lights -attached to an object hovering above a quarry. An army veteran named -Hardy estimates the UFO to be about 260 feet long and 30–50 feet high, -with the forward three lights in the form of a rectangle and a red light -on the lower rear end. The bottom part is bulged out and dark gray in -color. On the side, 15 portholes are lit up in white light. After -parking their car on the side of the road, the witnesses watch the -object for another minute or so. As soon as Hardy turns on his -headlights, the object moves away to the northeast. (Patrick Vidal and -Michel Rozencwajg, “The Belgian Wave,” IUR 16, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1991): -8, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6920

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Event 9683 -(E1110BBE)

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Date: 1/13/1991
-Description: U.S. Air flight crew saw a rectangular, light-reflective -object that flew into clouds
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pittsburgh, PA
-ID: 465

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Event 9684 -(7BAF19F5)

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Date: 2/1991
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A security camera at Birchwood Shopping Mall four -miles east of Warrington, Cheshire, England, picks up a white light, -seemingly tennis-ball sized, moving around an open walkway. It appears -to inspect a garbage bin, climbs a wall, and at one point approaches the -camera. The security guard zooms the camera in on it, revealing a white, -doughnut shape. It flies away, hovering above a tree to the south, and -vanishes. About 8 minutes has elapsed. (Jenny Randles, “UFOs in Focus,” -IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 15–16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6921

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Event 9685 -(78F72D93)

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Date: 2/6/1991 (approximate)
-Description: Evening. A woman is walking with two friends near the Etang -de l’Ursine in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France, when they see a large -and brilliant star in the west. At nightfall, they return to their -homes. One, named Sylvia, who lives on the Rue Alexis Maneyrol, goes -back to look for the star and notices now that it is moving in a -triangular motion. While walking back through the woods, she is struck -by a beam. Suddenly, she is enveloped by a beam of light that seems to -be trying to trap her, but she escapes back to her house. She goes to -sleep but is surprised by an intruder in her house, a small figure in a -watery-green cosmonaut suit who points to a screen showing the interior -of a spaceship. The screen and figure dissolve. The next day, near a bus -stop, she sees a strange figure wearing a cape who scowls at her -terrifyingly. (Joël Mesnard, “A Failed Abduction at Chaville?” IUR 32, -no. 3 (July 2009): 21–22, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6922

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Event 9686 -(480CA9A8)

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Date: 2/18/1991
-Description: Richard -Haines meets with members of the Expert Group on Anomalous Phenomena -of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow to discuss UFO events in the -US and USSR. (Richard F. Haines, “UFO Activities in the Soviet Union,” -IUR 16, no 2 (Mar./Apr. 1991): 13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6923

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Event 9687 -(49CB6EE4)

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Date: 2/22/1991
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Three youths driving home from a school reunion -at Maids Moreton, Buckingham, England, see a white, cigar-shaped object -glowing with numerous lights. It comes closer with an unsteady, jerky -motion. They park the car in a field to watch the object, which -approaches to within 100 feet. As they try to leave, their engine and -headlights fail to respond. A brilliant beam of light envelops the car -and they hear a faint humming sound. The light beam and sound disappear -suddenly, along with the UFO, and they restart the car and drive away. -(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” -IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6924

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Event 9688 -(CAA70438)

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Date: 2/28/1991
-Description: Operation Desert Storm
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Iraq

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Event 9689 -(093AACB6)

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Date: 3/6/1991
-Description: (Maine to West Virginia). 2:50 to 3:00 A.M. Fireball -meteor, green and red sparks, moving east or north.
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Northeastern United States
-ID: 466

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Event 9690 -(980A4B8B)

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Date: 3/6/1991
-Description: 7:58 a.m. A glowing turquoise, cigar-shaped object on an -easterly course crosses the path of Air Charter Flight 866 near -Kingston, Ontario, stops ahead of the airliner, then proceeds to the -north. (UFOEv II, 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6925

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Event 9691 -(233E2553)

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Date: 3/6/1991
-Description: 7:58 A.M. Glowing bluegreen cigar-shaped object crossed -path of airliner
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
-ID: 467

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Event 9692 -(36E07D9F)

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Date: 3/12/1991
-Description: On two occasions an object is seen over the Tihange Nuclear -Power Station, Belgium. One witness reports a UFO directly above the red -lights on one of the plant’s huge chimneys, where it hovers about 1 -minute, beaming one of its lights on the outside structure while another -light points directly down one of the chimneys. After its inspection, it -flies straight through the enormous white plume of steam before -disappearing in the dark. (Kean, p. 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6926

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Event 9693 -(F805E59D)

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Date: 3/15/1991
-Description: Night. An electronic engineer in Auderghem, Belgium, wakes -up and hears a barely audible, high-frequency, whistling tone. He looks -outside and sees a large rectangular object at a low altitude with -irregular structures on the bottom. He walks upstairs to an upper-level -terrace and watches the dark-gray object drift overhead slowly without -lights. The whistling noise has stopped. (Kean, pp. 31–32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6927

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Event 9694 -(6C8E78F2)

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Date: 3/18/1991
-Description: Captain Zho, the pilot of a regional airliner over Kunshan, -Jiangsu, China, sees a ring-shaped object, two rectangular objects -moving back and forth, and a red blaze of light coming from the ring. -(UFOEv II, 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6928

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Event 9695 -(352FB311)

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Date: 3/31/1991
-Description: For two nights in a row a couple in Palmarejo, Puerto Rico, -hears their two Dobermans howling as if frightened, apparently upset by -a peculiar sound like a phonograph record played at the wrong speed. It -seems to move around the house, but the sound source cannot be located. -Suddenly one of the dogs shrieks, and the husband runs outside to find -two strange beings on his patio. They are 3–4 feet tall, gray, with big -heads, big black eyes, and a slit for a mouth. The beings flee. The -female Doberman is unharmed, but the male is found killed, with empty -eye sockets and internal organs missing. (Clark III 139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6929

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Event 9696 -(D37D90EC)

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Date: 4/11/1991
-Description: 7:00–9:00 p.m. A bright, oval-shaped object that changes -color from blue to red flies over the Complexo Penitenciário da Papuda, -a federal prison in São Sebastião in the Federal District of Brasilia, -Brazil. The object is seen by dozens of residents of the Lago Sul area -and by more than 20 police officers on duty that night. The first to see -the UFO is Lt. Damasceno of the Independent Company of the Military -Police. He calls colleagues and is greeted with jokes. But he persuades -them to go outside and see the UFO. He says the object is blue when -vertical but turns red when it changes position. It appears to be no -more than 1,650 feet above the prison. It flies up and down and -horizontally without leaving a trace, and the intensity of its lights -and colors vary. Carloads of people descend upon Papuda and dozens of -people observe the UFO. After 100 minutes, a strange haze begins to -engage the UFO, which disappears about 20 minutes later. Damasceno -informs Sgt. Petronius, a CINDACTA flight controller, that he is seeing -a “strong blue light that changed to red in the direction of three hours -to the right.” Petronius is following the object on radar; it seems to -be rectangular and moving at about 435 mph. CINDACTA confirms that the -object has been tracked over much of the Lago Sul area and close to the -Brasilia airport. Later, it identifies the object as a meteorological -balloon, deemed an inadequate explanation by witnesses. (Clark III 874– -875; Brazil 336–338)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6930

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Event 9697 -(C356B7D0)

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Date: 4/19/1991 (approximate)
-Description: Afternoon. Two militiamen on patrol in Almaty, Kazakhstan, -notice a flare at the top of Kok Tobe Mountain. They watch flames go up -and down and then see an array of red light beams. They drive to within -650 feet of a hovering UFO. At that point, a few rays sweep across the -car and it stops dead. The object then dims its lights and disappears. -The men return to the police station but cannot recall how they did so. -(Central Intelligence Agency, “Alma-Ata -Patrolmen Report UFO Sighting,” from Tass, April 19, 1991)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6931

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Event 9698 -(D782BCB1)

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Date: 4/21/1991
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Captain Achille Zaghetti and his copilot are -flying a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 Alitalia airliner with 57 passengers. -They are over the English Channel just off the coast of Romney, Kent, -England, and preparing to land at Heathrow Airport, London, when they -see a round object or missile, about 10 feet long, approaching from -their left. It is less than 100 feet away. The control tower confirms a -radar target, which is now behind them. The British Army denies firing -any missiles. The British Civil Aviation Authority concludes that -“extensive enquiries have failed to provide any indication of what the -sighting may have been.” Nick -Redfern notes that the description of the UFO is consistent with a -pilotless drone of the type used for defense practice. (Clas Svahn and -Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. -4 (July/Aug. 1994): 13–14; Nick Redfern, A Covert Agenda: UFO Secrecy -Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, pp. 170–172; Nick Pope, Open Skies, -Closed Minds, Simon & Schuster, 1996, p. 196; -“Britain -Releases UFO Files, Dispels Some Mysteries,” -KPIC, Roseburg, Oregon, October 19, 2008; UFOFiles2, pp. 135–137; -2Pinotti 113–116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6932

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Event 9699 -(AA5476C2)

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Date: 4/21/1991
-Description: Alitalia Airlines plane on final approach saw round object -cross its path, confirmed by radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: landing
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Heathrow Airport, London, UK
-ID: 468

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Event 9700 -(05CCF76C)

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Date: 4/21/1991
-Description: Lyrid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 469

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Event 9701 -(5A8B67B7)

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Date: 4/26/1991
-Description: A different security camera at Birchwood Shopping Mall near -Warrington, Cheshire, England, records a similar object to the one -detected in February in a location several hundred yards away. The -camera records it for 20 minutes as it moves across the ground, passes -by a road sign, climbs onto the roof of the mall, and vanishes in the -sky above the M6 motorway. The camera operator lets the object enter the -camera’s infrared spot beam, then switches the beam off; the light -vanishes, then returns when the beam is turned back on. Investigators -suspect that the light was caused by an insect interacting with the -beam. (Jenny Randles, “UFOs in Focus,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): -16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6933

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Event 9702 -(3172DECC)

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Date: 5/1/1991
-End date: 5/7/1991
-Description: Wendelle -C. Stevens holds the First World UFO Congress in Tucson, Arizona, -which brings together UFO researchers, witnesses, and others from Spain, -Italy, Japan, Russia, Germany, the UK, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, -Brazil, Canada, and the US. (2Pinotti 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6934

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Event 9703 -(E8AFB211)

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Date: 5/12/1991
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Farmer Moisés Campelo is walking home from his -brother’s house in Campo Redondo, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, when a -bright light approaches and stops right above his head, spinning slowly. -His eyes begin to burn and he feels paralyzed, as if he is being sucked -into the light. He remains suspended under the light for about 5 -minutes, after which he is dropped to the ground. Campelo starts -crawling home, but the light returns and levitates him again. This time -he is suspended for 15 minutes before being dropped. He remains -traumatized and sustains an eye injury. (Bob Pratt, UFO Danger Zone: -Terror and Death in Brazil—Where Next?, Horus House, 1996, pp. 9–13; -Brazil 340–342)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6935

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Event 9704 -(2B1AE692)

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Date: 5/17/1991
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A nurse in Braine l’Alleud, Belgium, hears an -intense hum and looks out her window to see a large triangular object -moving slowly overhead. At the front of the triangle, there is a group -of lights located symmetrically along the edges. They are grouped toward -the front point of the triangle. At least four of these lights are white -and flickering quickly, with approximately two lights on the left and on -the right flickering each second, but never reproducing the same -sequence. She thinks there is also a steady red light. Slightly back -from the central axis, she sees a ray of light, inclined on 45°, coming -from an opening that is larger than the diameter of the flickering -lights. This beam projects to the ground onto the street, and traced a -brief series of figure 8s. Suddenly, after 5 seconds the UFO instantly -reappears far away, its blinking lights (but not the ray) still visible. -(Vague d’OVNI sur la Belgique, Tome 2: Une énigme non-resolué, SOBEPS, -1994, pp. 16–19; Patrick Gross, “The -Belgium Flap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6936

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Event 9705 -(BA0C8F04)

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Date: 5/22/1991
-Description: Col. Alvaro Fernández Rodas, head of the Flight Safety -Section of the Spanish Air Staff (where the UFO archives are kept), -issues an Informative Note to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force -Gen. Ramón Fernández Sequieros titled “The UFO Archive and Its Possible -Release.” The note is the result of meetings between Vicente- Juan -Ballester Olmos, who -is developing a catalog of UFO observations by military personnel and -police officers; Maj. Ramón Alvarez Mateus, head of the Air Force Public -Relations Office; and the Flight Safety Section. It mentions that no -investigations have been made since 1980 and that since 1988 cases are -not even archived. The note recommends that UFO cases be declassified. -(Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “The Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR -18, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1993): 13; Swords 424–425, 515)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6938

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Event 9706 -(CFED2604)

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Date: 5/22/1991
-Description: A husband and wife in Nottingham, England, see an array of -lights in an “elongated triangle” formation. The same object is seen 15 -minutes later by another man in the area. He estimates it is about 1,000 -feet high and gives off a low humming noise. (Nick Redfern, A Covert -Agenda: UFO Secrecy Exposed, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6937

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Event 9707 -(B233E92F)

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Date: 6/1/1991
-Description: 2:38 p.m. A Britannia Airways Boeing 737 is descending for -a landing at 8,000 feet near Heathrow Airport, London, England, when the -pilots see an unknown object for 1–2 seconds through the windshield. It -disappears rapidly on the left. The missile has a yellow-orange -cylindrical body with a “wrinkled” appearance and is about 10 feet long. -(Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown -Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6939

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Event 9708 -(1464351B)

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Date: 6/8/1991
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Pilot Cesar Escobar and Copilot Angel David -Farina are flying two passengers to Asunción, Paraguay, in his Cessna -210. While monitoring airport frequencies near Concepción, he overhears -a conversation between the control tower and a Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas -airliner, with the pilot reporting a brightly lit object approaching on -a convergent course. The object is also showing on airport radar. He -hears the pilot exclaim as the UFO speeds past. A few minutes later, -Escobar sees a bright, blue-white light approaching on his right side. -Just then radar control radios to ask if he has traffic on his right, -and he replies affirmatively. The object paces his plane for 25 minutes -within about 1,300 feet. Its intense light tends to conceal its exact -shape, but it appears to be oval. Several times it moves in closer, as -if playing a game, and Escobar becomes frightened. When it approaches, -his instruments go crazy, including his automatic direction finder, -which drifts around aimlessly. As he begins descending into Asunción -Airport at 7:22 p.m., the object stops following and hovers. Anibal -Gavigan, the air traffic control specialist on duty, is called by radar -control and informed that a strange object has followed the Cessna 210 -into the airport. He is asked if he can see it, and he can see the -luminous object. After the Cessna lands, the airport lights are turned -off to better identify the glowing object, which remains motionless over -the field. At one point a luminous, yellow ray briefly shoots from the -object to the western horizon. When it departs, the object accelerates -so rapidly that it disappears after one sweep of the radar scope. (Jorge -Alfonso Ramirez, “UFO -Intercepts Aircraft over Paraguay,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 310 -(February 1994): 8–10; UFOEv II, 144–145; Don Berliner, with Marie -Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available -Evidence, Dell, 2000, p. 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6940

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Event 9709 -(4B449CA0)

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Date: 6/8/1991
-Description: Pilots encountered and radar tracked reddish oval object -that paced a small aircraft and hovered above airport, E-M effects on -plane
-Type: sighting
-Type: encounter
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Concepcion, Paraguay
-ID: 470

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Event 9710 -(C8BFDFB0)

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Date: 6/16/1991
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A businessman stops by the side of the road to -relieve himself near The Bridestones, Cheshire, England, a Neolithic -site with standing stones. He sees a golden beam of light above the -stones from which emerges a shower of sparks. He returns to the car, but -the engine will not start. He begins to run away when a large, glowing -ball heads from the sparks straight toward him. It is so bright that it -causes pain in his eyes and he feels rooted to the spot. He blacks out -and regains his senses several hundred yards away from his car. He is -naked above the waist and his shoes are missing. As he tries to get up, -he brushes down his trousers and finds that they are charged with static -electricity, causing sparks to jump from his body. After staggering -around, he finds his car with the keys still in the ignition. Next to -the door are his shoes and shirt, folded on the ground and warm to the -touch. The car starts without trouble and he drives away, realizing that -it is now 3:05 a.m. (Jenny Randles, “Much More Than Marsh Gas,” Fortean -Times 311 (March 2014): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6941

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Event 9711 -(480369A6)

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Date: 6/17/1991
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Walter Leiss and three other passengers on board -Dan Air Flight DA 4700 from London (Gatwick Airport) to Hamburg, -Germany, see a wingless projectile below and to the left of the plane -flying at an altitude of 4,000–5,000 feet with no vapor trail. The -object is slender, gray, and cigar-shaped. The crew does not see it. -(Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown -Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 14– 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6942

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Event 9712 -(5AEA9066)

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Date: summer 1991
-Description: An effort is made by Raven to encourage the Bush -administration to reveal the US government’s interactions with aliens -and crashed saucers. Meetings are allegedly held in safe rooms at -Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C., with -administration officials and cabinet and agency heads. Much seems to -depend on the confirmation of Robert -Gates as CIA director. A meeting to brief President Bush on -the topic is scheduled for August but canceled due to the Soviet -military coup. (Robert Collins and Richard Doty, Exempt from Disclosure: -The Disturbing Case about the UFO Coverup, Peregrine, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6943

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Event 9713 -(C123DE87)

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Date: 7/1991
-Description: Kevin -D. Randle and Donald -R. Schmitt publish UFO Crash at Roswell, disclosing the results of -their interviews and reconstruction of the Roswell incident of 1947. -They publish an update in 1994. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, -UFO -Crash at Roswell, Avon, -1991; Richard Hall, “Roswell Matters,” IUR 18, no. 3 (May/June 1993): -23; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The -Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Avon, -1994; Clark III 951)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6944

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Event 9714 -(3C10CBCB)

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Date: 7/1991
-Description: Leonard -Stringfield issues his sixth status report, UFO Crash/Retrievals: -The Inner Sanctum. (Leonard H. Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: The -Inner Sanctum, The Author, 1991)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6945

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Event 9715 -(BFC01DED)

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Date: 7/5/1991
-Description: Customs and bank regulators in seven countries raid and -lock down records of branch offices of the Bank of Credit and Commerce -International, which has been investigated for being involved in massive -money laundering and other financial crimes and illegally gaining the -controlling interest in a major American bank. In addition to violations -of lending laws, BCCI is also accused of opening accounts or laundering -money for figures such as Saddam -Hussein, Manuel -Noriega, Hussain -Muhammad Ershad, and -Samuel -Doe, and for criminal organizations such as the Medellín Cartel and -Abu Nidal. William -von Raab, a -former US Commissioner of Customs, tells the Kerry Committee that the -CIA holds “several” accounts at BCCI. According to a 1991 article in -Time magazine, the National Security Council also has accounts at BCCI, -which are used for a variety of covert operations, including transfers -of money and weapons during the Iran–Contra affair. (Wikipedia, “Bank -of Credit and -Commerce International”; Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin, False -Profits: The Inside Story of BCCI, the World’s -Most Corrupt Financial Empire, Houghton -Mifflin, 1992; David Sirota and Jonathan Baskin, “Follow the Money: How -John Kerry Busted the Terrorists’ Favorite Bank,” Washington Monthly, -September 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6946

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Event 9716 -(095177F6)

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Date: 7/11/1991
-Description: 12:21 p.m. While many people in Mexico City, Mexico, are -looking to the sky to see the last total solar eclipse of the 20th -century, they also notice a bright object hovering in the sky. Videos -are recorded as far south as Puebla and Oaxaca. Skeptics claim the -object is the planet Venus, but the full eclipse lasts just under 7 -minutes, and the object is seen for more than 30 minutes—before, during, -and after the event. Guillermo Arragin, a reporter, videotapes the -object, and Jaime -Maussan, host of the Mexican version of the CBS TV show 60 Minutes, -shows the Arragin footage a week later. He asks his viewers to share any -sightings they had during the eclipse. Fifteen videotapes are submitted, -each taken by a witness in a different location. Maussan enlists the -help of the station’s video experts for digital enhancement and -enlargement. The videos show solid, metallic-looking objects that -reflect light. Maussan looks into balloons, helicopters, and other -conventional objects, but comes up empty. The enhancements reveal a -“hockey puck” shape, and many of the recorded objects pass in front of -clouds. (Unsolved Mysteries Wiki, “Mexico -City UFO”; Tim Printy, “The -July 11, 1991, Mexico City UFOs: Basic Astronomy Ignored,” -February 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6947

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Event 9717 -(14731AE9)

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Date: 7/15/1991
-Description: 5:45 p.m. The copilot of a Britannia Airways Boeing 737 on -a flight from Crete to Gatwick Airport near Crawley, West Sussex, -England, sees a small, black, lozenge-shaped object about 1.5 feet in -diameter, smooth, and some 1,600 feet ahead and above. It is on a -collision course, and within 2 seconds it passes the aircraft’s wing at -a distance of only 325 feet. The London Air Traffic Control Center picks -up a target moving away from the plane to the southwest at 100 mph. -(Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close Encounters with Unknown -Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): 15; UFOFiles2, p. 137)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6948

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Event 9718 -(C7612095)

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Date: 7/26/1991
-Description: Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Ramón Fernández -Sequieros passes instructions to the Spanish Air Regions to centralize -all UFO registers into Madrid Air Force headquarters. (Swords 425, -515)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6949

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Event 9719 -(2A700C03)

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Date: 8/4/1991
-Description: Night. Seven hikers near Lacul Bucura in the Retezat -Mountains in west central Romania see a bright red light approaching -them from behind. Thinking it might be a lost tourist, they wave their -flashlights at it, but it starts zigzagging and increasing its speed. -Soon they see other lights of varying colors, shapes, and -configurations, all moving in the Valea Rea. Through binoculars they -take on the shape of discs with luminous portholes. (Romania -55–57)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6950

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Event 9720 -(739337D1)

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Date: 8/10/1991
-Description: US freelance writer Danny -Casolaro is found dead in a bathtub in room 517 of the Sheraton -Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, his wrists slashed 10–12 times. The -medical examiner rules the death a suicide. His death becomes -controversial because his notes suggest he is in Martinsburg to meet a -source about a story he calls “the Octopus.” This centers on a sprawling -collaboration involving an international cabal, primarily featuring a -number of stories familiar to journalists who worked in and around -Washington, D.C., in the 1980s—the Inslaw case, about a software -manufacturer whose owner accused the Justice Department of stealing its -work product; the October Surprise theory that during the Iran hostage -crisis, Iran deliberately held back American hostages to help Ronald -Reagan win the 1980 presidential election, the collapse of the Bank -of Credit and Commerce International, and Iran–Contra. Casolaro’s family -argues that he has been murdered; that before he left for Martinsburg, -he told his brother that he frequently received harassing phone calls -late at night; that some of them were threatening; and that if something -were to happen to him in Martinsburg, it will not be an accident. They -also cite his well-known squeamishness and fear of blood tests, and -state they find it incomprehensible that if he were going to commit -suicide, he would do so by cutting his wrists a dozen times. A number of -law-enforcement officials also argue that his death deserves further -scrutiny, and his notes are passed by his family to ABC News and Time -magazine, both of which investigate the case, but find no evidence of -murder. (Wikipedia, “Danny Casolaro”; -Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death -of Danny Casolaro, Feral House, rev ed., 2003; Cheri Seymour, The Last -Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS -Software Scandal, TrineDay, 2010; “Danny -Casolaro’s Files and Notes”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6951

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Event 9721 -(6DF43F56)

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Date: 9/1991
-Description: 10:45 p.m. Security policeman T/Sgt Anthony W. Keel is -working as an alert response team leader at the Ellsworth AFB Oscar -Flight area 30 miles west of Opal, South Dakota, when he is dispatched -to a missile launch site with multiple alarms. They arrive, clear the -site, and reset the alarms. Then he gets another call for a different -site with the same alarm pattern, which they then reset. On the way back -to the Oscar Launch Control Facility, he gets another call, and the team -can see a blue, pulsating light above the site experiencing the alarm. -The light moves away as they pull in to secure the site. The light is -the size of a small helicopter, semicircular and oblong, and completely -silent. (Nukes 468–469)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6952

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Event 9722 -(5EB486DD)

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Date: 9/9/1991
-Description: Self-professed pranksters Doug -Bower and Dave Chorley make headlines claiming they started the UK -crop circle phenomenon in 1978 with the use of simple tools consisting -of a plank of wood, rope, and a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire -to help them walk in a straight line. To prove their case, they make a -circle in front of journalists; cerealogist (advocate of paranormal -explanations of crop circles) Pat -Delgado examines the circle and declares it authentic before it is -revealed as a hoax. Inspired by the Tully, Australia, crop circle -accounts from 1966, Bower and Chorley claim to be responsible for all -circles made prior to 1987, and for more than 200 crop circles in -1978–1991 (with 1,000 other circles not being made by them). After their -announcement, the two men demonstrate making a crop circle. According to -University of Oregon fractal expert Richard -Taylor, “the pictographs they created inspired a second wave of crop -artists. Far from fizzling out, crop circles have evolved into an -international phenomenon, with hundreds of sophisticated pictographs now -appearing annually around the globe.” (Wikipedia, “Crop -circle”; William Tuohy, “‘Crop -Circles’ Their Prank, 2 Britons Say,” Los Angeles Times, September -10, 1991, p. 14; Jenny Randles, “Round and Round in the Circle Game,” -IUR 16, no. 6 (Nov/Dec. 1991): 17–18, 22–23; Richard Taylor, “Coming -Soon to a Field near You,” Physics World, August 2011, pp. 2–7; -UFOFiles2, pp. 120–123; -“Necrolog: Doug Bower,” Fortean Times 371 (October 2018): 28–29; “The -Man Who Launched a Million Conspiracy Theories,” Daily Mail (UK), -October 20, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6953

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Event 9723 -(68D55A50)

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Date: 9/15/1991
-Description: One of the cameras on Space Shuttle Discovery Flight STS-48 captures -several anomalous, glowing objects that float along and then sharply -change direction, apparently in response to a flash in the lower left -portion of the picture. NASA explains the objects as ice particles -reacting to a Space Shuttle thruster firing. Astronomer Philip -C. Plait discusses the issue in his book Bad Astronomy, agreeing -with NASA. However, physicist Jack Kasher and Mark Carlotto dispute that -explanation, arguing that there are two groups of correlated object -motions involving at least a dozen distinct events. Kasher’s analysis -reveals that the objects behaved oddly for any type of particle, ice or -otherwise, and Carlotto indicates that no thruster was fired in that -timeframe. (NICAP, “STS -Video Footage of Possible UAP Phenomenon in Orbit”; Wikipedia, “STS-48”; -Mark J. Carlotto, “Digital -Video Analysis of Anomalous Space Objects,” Journal of Scientific -Exploration 9, no. 1 (1995): 45–63; Jack Kasher, “Anomalous Images on -Videotape from Space Shuttle Flight STS-48: Examination of the Ice- -Particle Explanation,” JUFOS 6 (1995/96): 80–148; Lan D. Fleming, -“Examination of the Trajectories of Anomalous Objects Imaged during the -STS-48 Space Shuttle Mission,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 71–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6954

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Event 9724 -(EC90BE84)

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Date: 9/19/1991
-Description: 6:35 p.m. Maria Kulis is visiting Medjugorje, Bosnia, and -takes a photo of St. James Church from a distance of about 500 feet. -When she has the film developed, she notices an odd dark object in the -sky almost above the church. The image is sharp and silhouetted against -a purplish-blue sky. The object would be about 6.6 feet long if it was -at an altitude of 1,000 feet. (Bruce Maccabee, “The Medjugorje UO,” IUR -17, no. 2 (Mar./Apr. 1992): 12–13, 23; UFOEv II 301–302;)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6955

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Event 9725 -(EC8C4E54)

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Date: 9/19/1991
-Description: American tourist took photo of church, unexplained image -showed up in picture when developed
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Medjugorje, Yugoslavia
-ID: 471

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Event 9726 -(79C3752F)

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Date: 10/1991
-Description: Following a request by Russian cosmonaut Pavel -Popovich, the KGB declassifies several documents from its so-called -“Blue Folder.” The material is obtained by Vadim K. Ilyin from the late -Vyacheslav Shtyepa of the Ufological Committee of the Russian -Geographical Society. (Good Need, p. 353)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6956

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Event 9727 -(4FA9C104)

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Date: 10/1/1991
-Description: The Air Force’s Electronic Security Command is redesignated -the Air Force Intelligence Command and reacquires the Foreign Technology -Division. (Wikipedia, “Air -Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance -Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6957

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Event 9728 -(10AAFFF4)

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Date: 11/6/1991
-Description: The small near-Earth Object 1991 VG is discovered by -American astronomer James -Scotti at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The uncertainty of the -object’s origin and its small size (16–39 feet), combined with rapid -variation in the object’s brightness in images obtained during its close -passage with Earth in early December 1991, leads to some speculation -that 1991 VG might be a spent rocket fuel tank from a space mission, or -even an alien artificial object. However, a detailed analysis of the -available evidence confirms that there is no compelling reason to -believe that 1991 VG is unnatural. (Wikipedia, “1991 -VG”; Duncan Steel, “SETA -and 1991 VG,” The Observatory 115 (1995): 78–83; Mark Rodeghier, -“Alien Probe Detected in Solar System?” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): -9–10; Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, “Dynamical -Evolution of Near-Earth -Asteroid VG 1991,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society -473 (2018): 2938–2948)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6958

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- Event 9729 (DCE1AA7C)

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Date: 1992
-Description: The Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena is -established in Kharkiv, Ukraine, to study UFOs and extraterrestrial -visitation. It has Russian and Ukrainian ufologists on its board, and it -publishes RIAP Bulletin (in English, edited by Vladimir -Rubtsov) from January 1994 to June 2006. (RIAP -Bulletin 1, no. 1 (Jan./March 1994); Vladimir Rubtsov, “Ukraine -Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena,” IUR 18, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1993): 15– 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6962

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Event 9730 -(03A1A6E0)

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Date: 1992
-Description: El Ojo Crítica, an independent and skeptical newsletter, -begins publication in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. (El Ojo Crítica, no. 1 -(1992); “(Pre) -Historia de El -Ojo Crítica”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6961

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Event 9731 -(C36C7478)

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Date: 1992
-Description: Jerome -Clark publishes the second volume of the first edition of his UFO -encyclopedia. (Jerome Clark, The Emergence of a Phenomenon: UFOs from -the Beginning through 1959, Omnigraphics, 1992; Michael D. Swords, -[review], JUFOS 4 (1992): 181–183)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6960

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Event 9732 -(73BE6429)

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Date: 1992
-Description: A man is driving near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England, -when he sees a bright glow approaching from the opposite direction. -Thinking it is from a speeding motorcycle, he stops the car and leaves -the engine idling. As it approaches, the light changes direction and -passes over the roof of the car. The engine stalls. The object seems to -be emitting light all around it, but a few seconds later it disappears. -(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” -IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6959

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Event 9733 -(E2F42864)

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Date: 1/15/1992
-Description: The Spanish Air Force transfers responsibility for handling -UFO reports to the Air Operative Command (whose head is Gen. Alfredo -Chamorro Chapinal) at Torrejón Air Base in Madrid, Spain, which updates -the procedures for reporting and investigating UFO sightings by military -personnel. The added responsibility is placed in the intelligence -section, commanded by Lt. Col. Ángel Bastida. (Vicente-Juan Ballester -Olmos, “The Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR 18, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1993): 13; Swords 425, 517)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6963

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Event 9734 -(1E5CDE35)

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Date: 2/1992
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Near Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, -Australia, five people are in a car driving around a bend when they -encounter a huge area lit up from above. The engine, headlights, and -dash lights cut out. They stop the car, restart it, and drive on, but 2 -minutes later the same thing happens, then again 2 minutes after that. -(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” -IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6964

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Event 9735 -(B3193150)

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Date: 2/15/1992
-End date: 2/16/1992
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies and the Fund for UFO Research -hold the Plains of San Agustin Conference in the Sofitel Chicago Hotel -in Rosemont, Illinois, in order to examine the nature and quality of the -evidence for a reported crash of a UFO and the recovery of aliens—both -dead and alive—on the Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico, in July 1947. A -focal point for the discussion is the testimony of Gerald -Anderson, who contacted investigators Kevin -Randle and Stanton -Friedman with his claim that he had been present on the Plains when -he was 5 years old. The separate stories of archaeologists and Grady -L. “Barney” Barnett at this retrieval are also considered. Moderator -Michael -D. Swords concludes that the evidence for the Plains of San Agustin -crash is “single-witness testimony with no physical or instrumental -evidence to support the story” as well as problematic and inconsistent -testimony. A summary report on the conference is published in June 1992. -(Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, UFO -Crash at Roswell, Avon, -1991, pp. 31–32, 87–90; Thomas J. Carey, “The Search for the -Archaeologists,” IUR 16, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1991): 4–9, 21; Stanton T. -Friedman, Thomas J. Carey, Kevin D. Randle, and Donald R. Schmitt, “The -Search for the Archaeologists: An Exchange,” IUR 17, no. 3 (May/June -1992): 6–12, 22–23; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Second -Thoughts on the Barney Barnett Story,” IUR 17, no. 3 (May/June 1992): -4–5, 22; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Missing Time,” IUR 17, -no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 21–23; The -Plains of San Agustin Controversy, July 1947: Gerald Anderson, Barney -Barnett, and -the Archaeologists, CUFOS/Fund -for UFO Research, 1992; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “Who’s the -Dummy Now? The Latest Air Force Report,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 8–9; -Kevin D. Randle and Karl T. Pflock, “Barney Barnett’s Crashed Saucer: -Where Did It Come From?” IUR 28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 15–18, 24– -25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6965

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Event 9736 -(EF3F54BC)

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Date: 2/24/1992
-Description: 12:15 A.M. Bright green fireball meteor, wavered, split up, -bright illumination, sonic boom.
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Pacific Northwest (Oregon)
-ID: 472

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Event 9737 -(F5602B28)

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Date: 3/1992
-Description: US historian David -M. Jacobs publishes Secret Life, in which he lays out a detailed -study of abduction phenomenology based on his research with numerous -abductees. He finds many accounts of hybrid making and clues that the -aliens exploit human genes to repopulate their planet or perhaps plot a -takeover of the Earth. (David M. Jacobs, Secret -Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions, Simon & Schuster, -1992; Mark Rodeghier, [review], JUFOS 4 (1992): 184–189; Clark III -8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6966

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Event 9738 -(18049553)

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Date: 3/1992
-Alternate date: 4/1992
-Description: 4:30 a.m. S/Sgt Joseph M. Brown is posted to a security -team at the Malmstrom AFB A-3 flight launch facility outside Sluice Box -Canyon near Monarch, Montana. Due to an alarm-system malfunction, two -men are staked out in a security camper. Just after arriving at the -site, Brown sees a bright white light moving erratically through the sky -with sudden direction changes and abrupt stops and starts. He watches it -for 15–20 minutes, then the light moves closer to the facility. He wakes -up his partner, who also watches the light. Another security team at -A-10 about 10 miles away can also see the light, which is less than a -mile away. They continue to watch the light until about 6:30 a.m. when -it shoots up into the sky and stops. With more daylight, they see a -black area around the light. (Nukes 457–461, 466–468)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6967

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Event 9739 -(DA3608DE)

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Date: 3/3/1992
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Roger Cross is driving on Highway 3A in Concord, -New Hampshire, when he hears an unusual drumming sound. He pulls to the -side of the road and sees an immense triangular object with pulsating -lights flying 400–500 feet above the road. (Marler 217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6968

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Event 9740 -(9A570715)

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Date: 3/4/1992
-End date: 3/5/1992
-Description: UFO sightings at the Benito Juárez International Airport in -Mexico City, Mexico, are confirmed by radar. (Don Berliner, with Marie -Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available -Evidence, Dell, 2000, p. 146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6969

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Event 9741 -(1E828187)

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Date: 3/5/1992
-Description: 6:30 p.m. Military Policeman Luis Ribeiro and a colleague -are hunting in the interior of Ceará state, Brazil, when a domed disc -lands nearby. Five 4.5-foot tall humanoids emerge and take Ribeiro -inside the craft. The beings communicate with him in Portuguese and tell -him they are from “Catandório.” After a 5-hour abduction experience, he -is returned to the encounter site. (Brazil 342–344)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6970

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Event 9742 -(B789833B)

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Date: 3/19/1992
-Description: Glowing green dome-shaped object maneuvered around patrol -car, E-M effects, officer badly frightened
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Haines City, FL
-ID: 473

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Event 9743 -(E65AD268)

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Date: 3/20/1992
-Description: 3:51 a.m. Patrolman Luis Delgado has just checked the doors -on a local business at Haines City, Florida, and turns onto 30th Street. -He sees a green light in his rear-view mirror. The light seems to come -from a small plane that is about to crash. Just seconds later, the -interior of his patrol car is illuminated with a green glow. The object -begins to pace his car which is traveling about 40 mph. The object moves -from the right side to the front of the vehicle several times. When it -has moved to the front for the third time, Delgado slows his car and -pulls off the roadway, fearing he might collide with the object. It is a -color of green he had never seen before that seems to flow over the -surface. It is 15 feet long with a 3-foot-thick center. The object -hovers approximately 10 feet off the ground. The engine, lights, and -radio on his patrol car cease to function. The object hovers in front of -his car and then shines a bright white light into the interior. He exits -and begins to walk backwards away from the object. He tries to radio -Haines City dispatch on his radio, but it does not function. The air -around him has chilled to the point that he can see his breath. The -object is hovering about 20 feet northeast of his car, then it speeds -away after approximately 2–3 seconds. It departs the area in a -northeasterly direction at 10 feet altitude. Delgado loses sight of the -object in only seconds. (UFOEv II 193–194; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update -on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): -15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6971

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Event 9744 -(5BBEEF84)

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Date: 3/23/1992
-Description: Near Amarillo, Texas, radio hobbyist Steven Douglass -photographs a “donuts on a rope” contrail and links this to distinctive -sounds. He describes the engine noise as “strange, loud pulsating roar… -unique… a deep pulsating rumble that vibrated the house and made the -windows shake… similar to rocket engine noise, but deeper, with evenly -timed pulses.” In addition to providing the first photographs of the -distinctive contrail reported by others, Douglass also reports -intercepts of radio transmissions: “Air-to-air communications… were -between an AWACS aircraft with the call sign Dragnet 51 from Tinker AFB, -Oklahoma, and two unknown aircraft using the call signs Darkstar -November and Darkstar Mike. Messages consisted of phonetically -transmitted alphanumerics. It is not known whether this radio traffic -had any association with the ‘pulser’ that had just flown over -Amarillo.” (Wikipedia, “Aurora -(aircraft)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6972

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Event 9745 -(62CD12BF)

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Date: 3/31/1992
-Description: The Spanish Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Ramón -Fernández Sequieros, issues Instrucción General 40-5, a 28-page set of -procedures for UFO investigations that is issued to all units in June. -Lt. Col. Ángel Bastida admits it is inspired by several questionnaires -that Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos has supplied, including those used by the US Air -Force. (Swords 426, 520)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6973

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Event 9746 -(7202306A)

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Date: 4/13/1992
-Description: Gen. Alfredo Chamorro Chapinal signs a proposal for full -UFO document disclosure to the Spanish Chief of Staff of the Air Force, -Gen. Ramón Fernández Sequieros. (Swords 426, 518)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6974

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Event 9747 -(18453AD1)

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Date: 4/22/1992
-Description: The Spanish Joint Chiefs of Staff downgrade UFO documents -from secret to “internal reserve” (confidential). (Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos, “The Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR 18, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1993): 13; Swords 426, 519)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6975

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Event 9748 -(4E696877)

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Date: 4/28/1992
-Description: A crop circle appears in a rapeseed field at Sutton -Scotney, close to Winchester, England. (Chris Talarski, “Going around in -Circles,” IUR 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 4–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6976

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Event 9749 -(FDFDC1A3)

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Date: 5/1992
-Description: The Roper Organization releases the results of its “Unusual -Personal Experiences” survey of nearly 6,000 US adults devised by Budd -Hopkins, David -Jacobs, and Ron -Westrum, and conducted in 1991. Its intent is to determine how -widespread the abduction phenomenon might be. Five indicator questions -in the survey assess the respondents’ sleep paralysis, dreams of flying, -missing time, observations of unusual lights inside a room, and puzzling -body scars. The poll, financed by the Bigelow Holding Corporation, -suggests that 2% of adult Americans (more than 3.7 million) think they -have been abducted by aliens. (Geraldo Fuentes, “Abductions: -A Report -on the Roper Analysis Data”; Robert L. Hall, Mark Rodeghier, Donald -A. Johnson, “The Prevalence of Abductions: A Critical Look,” JUFOS 4 -(1992): 131–135; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on -UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 20–22; Susan Blackmore, “Abduction -by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?” Skeptical Inquirer 22, no. 3 -(May/June 1998): 23–28; Mark Rodeghier, “Counting Abductees: What Can -Surveys Tell Us?” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6977

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Event 9750 -(7712355F)

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Date: 5/1/1992
-Description: University of Connecticut psychologist Kenneth -Ring publishes The Omega Project, in which he argues that ostensible -aliens, angels, and otherworldly entities exist in an imaginal realm, a -“third kingdom” between reality and fantasy that is accessible through -certain altered states of consciousness that undermine ordinary -perception and conceptual thinking. Through extensive psychological -testing, Ring finds that abductees and those who have near-death -experiences are emotionally indistinguishable, with childhoods that -typically involve episodes of abuse, trauma, and serious illness. One -consequence is the development of a dissociative state as a means of -coping with stress; it is the key to experiencing the imaginal realm, a -shamanic journey through which symbolic language and images are -expressed. (Kenneth Ring, The -Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, -and Mind at Large, Morrow, -1992; Kenneth Ring and Christopher J. Rosing, “The Omega Project: A -Psychological Survey of Persons Reporting Abductions and Other UFO -Encounters,” JUFOS 2 (1990): 59–98; David A. Gotlib, “Abductions: -Imagined or Imaginal?” IUR 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 18–20; Clark III -886)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6978

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Event 9751 -(B063AF4F)

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Date: 6/1/1992
-Description: The US Strategic Command is established as a successor to -the Strategic Air Command in response to the end of the Cold War. Its -principal mission is to deter military attack and, if deterrence fails, -to counter with nuclear weapons. (Wikipedia. “United -States Strategic Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6981

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Event 9752 -(28C08C2A)

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Date: 6/13/1992
-End date: 6/17/1992
-Description: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosts an -Abductions Study Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, chaired by David -E. Pritchard and John -E. Mack, with -presentations, panels, and discussions about the UFO abduction -phenomenon. UFO researchers like Budd -Hopkins, David -Jacobs, and Mack hold forth beside relative novices and abductees -themselves. Representative non-US research is also contributed (Brazil, -Canada, United Kingdom, Australia). Even skeptics are represented and -speak. The conference marks the cracking apart of the public unity of -American researchers into at least two major schools of opinion, which -deeply disagree to this day. Both continue to believe that the -phenomenon is extraterrestrial. Hopkins, Jacobs, and others are present -to elaborate what some have come to refer to as the “Dark Marauders” -view of abductions. But conference co- organizer and Harvard -psychologist John Mack presents an entirely different spin: These -experiences are extraterrestrially caused but are positively -transformational for the human spirit. Despite the severe disagreements -that follow, this gives researchers like Joseph Nyman a foundation stone -authority figure around whom to rally. The so-called pessimist and -optimist schools take shape right before the attendees’ eyes. A third -major position exists within the US research community, the “probably -extraterrestrial but I don’t know the details” viewpoint, represented at -the conference in the persons of Mark -Rodeghier, Stuart -Appelle, and David -Gotlib. Kenneth -Ring also presents his interesting view comparing abductions and -near-death experiences, and David -Hufford does likewise regarding the “Old Hag” imagery of sleep -paralysis. (Andrea Pritchard, et al., Alien Discussions: Proceedings of -the Abduction Study Conference Held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, North -Cambridge, 1994; Michael D. Swords, [review], -Journal of Scientific Exploration 11, no. 1 (1997): 101–104; John E. -Mack, “Helping Abductees,” IUR 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 10–15, 20; C. -D. B. Bryan, Close -Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien -Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T., Knopf, 1995; Stuart -Appelle, “The Abduction Phenomenon at MIT,” IUR 20, no. 4 -(July/Aug. 1995): 20–21, 24; Thomas E. Bullard, [Book reviews], JUFOS 6 -(1995/96): 231–248; Ralph Blumenthal, The Believer: Alien Encounters, -Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack, University of New Mexico, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6982

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Event 9753 -(8A56D8BE)

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Date: summer 1992
-Description: Héctor and Jaime Feliciano watch a gigantic silent triangle -pass over Salinas, Puerto Rico, heading toward the MATES Camp Santiago -military base. It is a metallic dark gray with a rough undersurface -containing multiple small colored lights and two large white lights. -White beams shine down from the object at three points. (Jorge Martín, -“Triangular -UFOs over Puerto Rico,” Flying Saucer Review 44, no. 3 (Autumn -1999): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6980

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Event 9754 -(DEFBB5A2)

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Date: summer 1992
-Description: An unnamed family from Albuquerque is hiking and -prospecting about 12 miles from Horse Springs, New Mexico, in the -general area of the Plains of San Agustin, when they discover an odd -piece of metal. They unsuccessfully try to cut it, burn it, and bend it. -The discovery remains unconfirmed. (Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. -Schmitt, “The Hatch Enigma,” IUR 18, no. 2 (March/April 1993): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6979

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Event 9755 -(96104A3E)

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Date: 7/9/1992
-Description: A 450-foot “Snail” pictogram appears in a wheatfield at -Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, England. (Chris Talarski, “Going around in -Circles,” IUR 17, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 4–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6983

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Event 9756 -(44898CAC)

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Date: 7/17/1992
-End date: 7/19/1992
-Description: The First International Conference of the Center for Crop -Circle Studies is held at King Alfred’s College in Winchester, -Hampshire, England. (Chris Talarski, “Going around in Circles,” IUR 17, -no. 4 (July/Aug. 1992): 4– 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6984

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Event 9757 -(A0665F96)

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Date: 7/23/1992
-Description: 7:30 a.m. An abduction event takes place in a suburb of -Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, involving a rare case of physical -evidence. Businessman Peter Khoury had at least one previous abduction -experience in 1988 that left him so disturbed that in 1993 he forms a -support group to help others like him. The details of his 1992 abduction -slowly emerge through extended conversations with Australian ufologist -Bill -Chalker. Khoury wakes up suddenly and finds two nude females seated -on his bed, one blonde and the other dark-haired with some Asian -features. They are human-like but have some odd physical -characteristics: narrow heads and large eyes. Khoury says that what -happens next feels weird and dreamlike, “like looking through -binoculars, but through the back of my own head.” The blonde reaches out -and forces him towards her. Before he knows what he is doing, he takes a -small bite out of her and swallows it. There is no blood or screaming. -The two beings look at each other in a puzzled way, then vanish. Khoury -has a coughing fit and goes to the bathroom where he discovers a blonde -hair wrapped around a body part. He turns the hair over to Bill Chalker -for mitochondrial DNA analysis in 1999 (by Horace -R. Drew of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research -Organisation) using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. The -results are startling: DNA from the shaft of the hair reveals very rare -and unusual Asian signatures common to the isolated Lahu people of China -and Thailand, but DNA from the root shows sequences indicating rare -Basque/Gaelic and Asian results—suggesting advanced cloning techniques -and possible hybrid characteristics. (Bill Chalker, “Strange Evidence,” -IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 3–13; Anomaly Physical Evidence Group, -“Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Analysis of a Shed Hair from an Alien -Abduction Case,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 13–16, 31; Bill Chalker, -“Aliens, Hair, and DNA,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 3–5, 10; Bill -Chalker, Hair -of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abduction, -Simon & Schuster, 2005; Bill Chalker, “Peter -Khoury and the ‘Hair of the Alien’: 20 Years On,” TheOzFiles, July -29, 2012; Clark III 651–654)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6985

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Event 9758 -(E74A0EDB)

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Date: 8/1992
-Description: Crop circles appear in wheatfields near Ipswich and -Strathclair, Manitoba. (Chris Rutkowski, “‘A Looney a Look’: Crop -Circles in Western Manitoba,” IUR 17, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1992): -9–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6986

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Event 9759 -(92C0B356)

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Date: 8/5/1992
-Description: 1:45 p.m. Pilots of United Airlines Flight 934 are flying -at 23,000 feet some 50 miles northeast of George AFB [now Southern -California Logistics Airport], Victorville, California, when an unusual -aircraft comes directly toward them and passes underneath at an -estimated distance of 500–1,000 feet. It resembles the forward fuselage -of a Lockheed S-71, without wings but with a sort of tail. The size is -about 50 feet long and its speed is supersonic. (Aviation Week and Space -Technology, August 24, 1992; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “Close -Encounters with Unknown Missiles,” IUR 19, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1994): -15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6987

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Event 9760 -(98F73DC7)

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Date: 8/11/1992
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 474

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Event 9761 -(BEEB6139)

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Date: 8/14/1992
-Description: Triangular silvery object passed over car, blue flashing -body lights. Made sharp turns, moved out of sight
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Homer City PA
-ID: 475

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Event 9762 -(AB7CB18F)

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Date: 8/19/1992
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A witness is driving near Tucson, Arizona, when -he notices a strange light in the distance. As it approaches from the -northeast, it descends rapidly, moves across a field, and hovers. A cone -of light emerges from the bottom that completely bathes the area, -illuminating the ground. At this point the witness is about 600– 900 -feet away and is able to see that it is a solid object that looks like a -manta ray with a dull-black matte finish. He pulls over and can hear no -sound coming from it. The object moves directly overhead, and the -witness gets back in the car and speeds away. He sees the object again -as it stops 15 feet above a nearby farmhouse. Again a bright light comes -from its base, engulfing the entire house for 20 seconds. It moves away -and illuminates a large area of trees behind the house. (“Current -Cases,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 296 (December 1992): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6988

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Event 9763 -(3B5EE2D2)

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Date: 8/19/1992
-Description: Manta ray—shaped object with body lights approached car, -falling leaf motions, hovered, light beam brightly illuminated -terrain
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Tucson, AZ
-ID: 476

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Event 9764 -(E644C8B0)

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Date: 9/1992
-Description: The first Spanish Air Force UFO document is declassified. -The process lasts until 1999, when 84 files (covering 122 cases between -1962 to 1995) are disclosed. (Swords 427, 521–522)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6989

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Event 9765 -(681C3BDE)

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Date: 9/18/1992
-Description: The existence of the US National Reconnaissance Office is -declassified by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, as recommended by the -Director of Central Intelligence. (Wikipedia, “National -Reconnaissance Office”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6990

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Event 9766 -(8E785080)

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Date: 9/23/1992
-Description: The last US underground nuclear test, Divider, takes place -at the Nevada Test Site. (Wikipedia, “Operation -Julin”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6991

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Event 9767 -(05E440F6)

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Date: 10/1992
-Description: The first official Spanish UFO reports are declassified, -leaving only witness names redacted. (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “The -Spanish Air Force UFO Files,” IUR 18, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1993): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6992

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Event 9768 -(82C31E43)

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Date: 10/9/1992
-Description: About 7:50 P.M. Greenorange fireball meteor southwest to -northeast on flat trajectory for about 17 seconds, broke up over -southeastern New York. Large meteorite fell in Peekskill, NY.
-Type: sighting
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Type: newspaper article
-Type: report or memo
-Type: official
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kentucky to New York State
-ID: 477

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Event 9769 -(6F850A22)

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Date: 10/9/1992
-Description: 7:50 p.m. A fragment of the Draconid meteor stream strikes -a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu owned by Michelle Knapp while she is home in -Peekskill, New York. She goes outside after hearing a crash and -discovers a hole in the trunk of the car and a 6-inch crater in her -driveway. The stony fragment (oval shaped and about 1 foot in length) is -in the crater, along with pieces of the car. The rock is still hot and -weighs about 30 pounds. (Wikipedia, “Peekskill -meteorite”; “A -Hot Rock from Outer Space? Meteorite May Have Hit Teen’s Car,” -Yonkers (N.Y.) Herald Statesman, October 11, 1992, p. 28; Mark -Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring -2002): 5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6993

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Event 9770 -(A730145C)

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Date: 10/15/1992
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Witnesses in Lubbock, Texas, see a gray -cigar-shaped object that becomes visible for about 20 minutes after a -cloud disappears. It moves close enough to them so that they can see -windows on the object. The cloud reappears and the object is no longer -visible. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” -IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6994

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Event 9771 -(8B69CDD9)

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Date: 10/27/1992
-Description: Just before 12:00 midnight. A1C Michael R. Reager and A1C -Jason H. Barrier are approaching the operations hanger of the 44th Field -Maintenance Missile Squadron at Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota. -A group of bright white lights suddenly appears in the air, moving -rapidly in rigid formation. Witnesses assume the lights are attached to -a large, dark aircraft. It hovers briefly above the hangar at 300–500 -feet then moves away. (Nukes 470–472)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6995

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Event 9772 -(52C04A31)

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Date: 11/1992
-Description: Night. A man in Brighton, England, calls the RAF to report -a brightly lit UFO shaped like a “squashed rugby ball” hovering above -his house. Through windows in its side, he can see two men wearing beige -uniforms standing in front of machinery. When one of the crew members -appears to notice him, the object’s lights go out and the UFO zooms away -over the English Channel. (UFOFiles2, p. 128)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6996

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Event 9773 -(A6C25EDE)

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Date: 11/1992
-Description: After 10:00 p.m. Three Romanian military helicopters are -flying at an altitude of 328 feet at a speed of 93 mph on a night -exercise near Buzău, Romania. Col. Marcel Smoleanu notices a silent, -bright-red sphere about 60 feet in diameter to his left that begius to -fly parallel to the helicopters. The other pilots confirm the sighting. -After a minute or so, the object accelerates sharply, makes a 90° turn, -and cuts across their flight path. The helicopters slow to a hover and -the object disappears suddenly. The flight exercise is scrapped and the -helicopters return to the military airfield at Buzău. One of the pilots, -Lt. Col. Doru Drăgoi, is called into the radar room where operators show -him more than 10 unidentified targets on the screen making odd movements -northeast of Buzău, including sharp 180° turns near Săpoca. Drăgoi also -sees bright objects crossing overhead from east to west at an amazing -speed. (Romania 110–113)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6997

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Event 9774 -(7BFC4E0C)

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Date: 11/1992
-End date: 12/1992
-Description: Numerous sightings in Saguache County
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: San Luis Valley, CO
-ID: 478

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Event 9775 -(1AFAA55F)

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Date: 11/16/1992
-Description: Lt. Col. Ángel Bastida, head of the Intelligence Section of -the Spanish Air Operative Command, establishes an informal agreement of -cooperation with Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos to act as a civilian consultant on the -declassification of UFO reports and establish a direct contact procedure -for future cases. This allows him to personally view, handle, and copy -all of the agency’s original UFO case files. It ensures that all reports -in official custody are released, increases the momentum of the process, -and secures copies of all related documentation. (Swords 428–429; -Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Monitoring -Air Force Intelligence (Spain’s 1992–1997 UFO Declassification -Process),” MUFON 1997 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, -pp. 139–178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6998

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Event 9776 -(DB679F1E)

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Date: 12/16/1992
-Description: Night. Werner Noeske observes a large, brightly illuminated -disc with a large triangular window in the base over Leipzig, Germany. -Additional witnesses come forward, but an investigation reveals that two -unrelated incidents contributed to the sightings: a “sky tracker” -searchlight common in European discos, and a cargo plane that makes -routine flights at the same hour. A photograph confirms the latter -interpretation. (Hans-Werner Peiniger, “UFO-Beobachtungen,” -Journal für UFO-Forschung, no. 86 (Mar./Apr. 1993): 3–4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 6999

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Event 9777 -(8AF63F73)

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Date: 12/24/1992
-Description: 6:09–8:15 p.m. Twenty civilian witnesses and police south -and west of Monroe, Louisiana, watch a silent, boomerang-shaped UFO with -bright beams of light pass over cars in a forested area and bounce up -and down for 6 minutes. The object is videotaped by one of the -witnesses, Cecil Cullipher, in West Monroe. (W. L. Garner Jr., “UFOs -Compete with Santa for Christmas Eve Limelight,” IUR 18, no. 5 -(Sept./Oct. 1993): 8–11, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7000

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- Event 9778 (CEC16B8F)

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Date: 1993
-Description: Jean-Jacques -Velasco coauthors OVNIs: La science avance, with journalist Jean-Claude -Bourret, in -which he admits the physical reality of UFOs and the probability of -their extraterrestrial origin. He stresses that it’s his personal -opinion, although he has been authorized by CNES to write the book. Its -foreword is written by astrophysicist Jean-Claude -Ribes, president of the French Astronomical Society. (Jean-Claude -Bourret and Jean- Jacques Velasco, OVNIs: La science avance, Laffont, -1993; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO Studies in -France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7001

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Event 9779 -(BB661E84)

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Date: 1993
-Description: The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) -facility begins construction north of Gakona, Alaska, just west of -Wrangell–Saint Elias National Park, funded by the Air Force, Navy, -University of Alaska Fairbanks, and DARPA. Its original purpose is to -analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing -ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and -surveillance. As a university- owned facility, HAARP is a high-power, -high-frequency transmitter used for study of the ionosphere. The most -prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument -(IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in -the high frequency band. The IRI is used to temporarily excite a limited -area of the ionosphere. Other instruments, such as a VHF and a UHF -radar, a fluxgate magnetometer, a digisonde (an ionospheric sounding -device), and an induction magnetometer, are used to study the physical -processes that occur in the excited region. (Wikipedia, “High-frequency -Active Auroral Research Program”; University of Alaska Fairbanks, -“About -HAARP”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7002

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Event 9780 -(96EC41C9)

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Date: 1/1993
-Alternate date: 2/1993
-Description: Night. T/Sgt John W. Mills III is driving back to Malmstrom -AFB near Great Falls, Montana, with another tech sergeant. Near Monarch, -Montana, they watch a bright light in the sky for about 5 minutes. -Suddenly it makes a sharp banking maneuver. Thinking it is a helicopter, -they drive on toward Belt, Montana, where they encounter a roadblock -with cars backed up for miles. The base dispatcher asks if they saw -anything on their drive. When they answer yes, he tells them to proceed -to the Alpha-01 missile launch facility not far away. They are -redirected to Malmstrom, where they find that many “anomalies” have been -reported zooming over missile sites that night. The “anomaly” they had -seen apparently came down and landed near the highway west of Belt. -Another light reportedly flew in and out of the open doors of the base -vehicle barn; at least 4 witnesses say it was the size of a softball and -flew at a height of about 10 feet. At least six balls of light maneuver -around the flight line of the base at high speed and different -altitudes. (Nukes 462–466)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7006

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Event 9781 -(3855E0B8)

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Date: 1/1/1993
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A taxi driver has just dropped off revelers at a -remote house in Hethersgill, Cumbria, England. She heads home down a -remote track toward the main road when suddenly her CB radio begins to -crackle then fades entirely. Moments later her car engine and lights -fail, and she coasts to a stop. She gets out, hoping to walk back to the -house, when she sees a ball of light low over the road heading towards -her. It swoops over her car and shoots into the sky, causing her skin to -tingle. The headlights come back on, the car lurches forward, and she -hears her sister talking on the CB asking where she has been for the -past 30 minutes. (Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean -Times 374 (Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7003

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Event 9782 -(6121AA6A)

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Date: 1/14/1993
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Residents of Jerzmanowice, Kraków County, Poland, -see a flash of light just before limestone debris falls around them, -breaking window panes and plunging through roofs. A local rock -formation, Babia Skała, has been shattered by an apparent lightning -strike, although some in the village have seen one or two bluish objects -colliding with the rock face. Although the blast is seen in Kraków, -registered on seismic equipment, and observed by the fight controller in -Balice, the Polish Army refuses to disclose any further details. (Poland -119– 120; “Babia -Skała,” Rowerowa Matopolska, May 26, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7004

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Event 9783 -(26E93BF6)

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Date: 1/19/1993
-Description: Night. Jackie Chown and her family see a huge triangular -object with flashing lights above their home in Ellastone, West -Midlands, England. They chase after it in their car but lose track of -it. (“UFO -Spotters Chase Mysterious -‘Flashing Triangle,’” Ashbourne (UK) News Telegraph, January 21, -1993, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 283 (February 1993): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7005

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Event 9784 -(518CCB2F)

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Date: 1/20/1993
-End date: 1/20/2001
-Description: President Bill Clinton in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 9785 -(AC320FC9)

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Date: 2/1/1993
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A witness is driving in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, -when he sees a large, black, triangular UFO hovering above a water tank. -The object has 9 lights, including a row of lights on one side. Two -police officers had seen bright beams of lights in the vicinity earlier. -(Marler 218)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7007

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Event 9786 -(51C7BE8B)

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Date: 2/4/1993
-Description: 6:35 p.m. Kevin Crump and his grandmother, Betty Barnick, -spot an object in the sky near Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, that spits out -a blue glowing ball from its tail end, which hangs in the sky over an -old school. Crump gets out and sees the UFO almost directly overhead. -The moonlight reflects off its black metallic surface. It has the shape -of an “oblong triangle” with a light at each point—a red light and a -blue light at the front and a white light in the back. The UFO -eventually moves away but returns with another bright blue light below -it. (Marler 218–219)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7008

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Event 9787 -(3D6BE02C)

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Date: 3/1993
-Description: US Rep. Steven -Schiff (R-N.Mex.) writes to Defense Secretary Les -Aspin, asking the US Air Force to declassify and provide him with -all material relating to the Roswell crash. There is no response. After -a second request, USAF Col. Larry G. Shockley refers him to the National -Archives, which has no information.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7009

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Event 9788 -(91039DCA)

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Date: 3/12/1993
-Description: Paramount premieres Fire in the Sky, a feature film -directed by Robert -Lieberman that is based on abductee Travis -Walton’s book of the same name. Walton is portrayed by actor D. -B. Sweeney. (Internet -Movie Database, “Fire -in the Sky”; Chris Talarski, “Film Review: Fire in the Sky,” IUR 18, -no. 3 (May/June 1993): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7010

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Event 9789 -(18EBDC6D)

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Date: 3/16/1993
-Description: A couple who are viewing aerial activity from a hill -adjacent to Area 51 in Nevada see strange lights that seem to transform -themselves into an automotive vehicle. After the encounter, the -witnesses sense that 30 minutes are unaccounted for. They undergo -hypnosis and recall an abduction by gray-skinned aliens. The man is -taken into a craft, while the woman is taken into a white van. Inside -the van are two men dressed in black with black baseball caps. They -administer intrusive procedures in her eyes, ears, and elsewhere. She -remembers seeing electronic instruments and automatic rifles inside the -van. (William F. Hamilton, “Area -51 Encounter,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 304 (August 1993): 14–17; -Clark III 734)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7011

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Event 9790 -(503A11EE)

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Date: 3/31/1993
-Description: 1:10–1:15 a.m. Dozens of people across Devon, Cornwall, -South Wales, Shropshire, and central Ireland see triangular UFOs -speeding across the sky. An MoD police patrol sees the lights from RAF -Cosford in Shropshire, England. The UFO passes over the base “at great -velocity … at an altitude of approximately 1,000 feet.” It looks like -two white lights with a faint red glow at the rear, with no engine -noise. The RAF police report also contains details on other civilian UFO -sightings that they had learned about in the course of making enquiries -with other military bases, civil airports, and local police. The police -call ahead to alert the meteorological officer at nearby RAF Shawbury -that the UFO is coming his way. The officer at Shawbury sees the object -moving slowly across the countryside toward the base at a speed of no -more than 30–40 mph. He sees the UFO fire a narrow beam of light (like a -laser) at the ground and watches the light sweeping backwards and -forwards across the field beyond the perimeter fence, as if it is -looking for something. He hears and feels the vibrations from an -unpleasant low- frequency humming sound coming from the craft. He -estimates its size as midway between a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft -and a Boeing 747. The light beam retracts in an unnatural way, then the -object accelerates to the horizon many times faster than a military -aircraft. Ministry of Defence UFO Officer Nick -Pope says there are multiple sightings at different times that -cannot be attributed to the reentry, concluding on April 16 that “It -seems that an unidentified object of unknown origin was operating in the -UK Air Defence Region without being detected on radar; this would appear -to be of considerable defence significance, and I recommend that we -investigate further, within MoD or with the US authorities.” However, Jenny -Randles suspects that the sightings are caused by the Soviet Tsyklon -rocket booster 22586U, which launched the Kosmos 2238 radio satellite -into orbit the previous day. Pope later comes around to that viewpoint -after hearing about sightings at the same time in Ireland and France. -(Jenny Randles, “A New Broom at the Ministry,” IUR 19, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1994): 18–20; Nick Pope, Open Skies, Closed Minds, Simon -& Schuster, 1996, pp. 134–141; -Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing -Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, p. 146; -David Clarke, “The Cosford -Case,” Fortean Times 199 (September 2005): 30–31; Kean, pp. 165–167, -251–252; -Good Need, pp. 384– -385, 431–432; -UFOFiles2, pp. 142–143; -Jenny Randles, “Irish Mid-Air Spectacular,” Fortean Times 375 (January -2019): 33; Nick Pope, “The Cosford Incident,” 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7012

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Event 9791 -(8A44D266)

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Date: 4/1993
-Description: Michael -D. Swords examines the position of establishment astronomers on the -existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life in the first six decades -of the 20th century, especially regarding Mars, Venus, and deep space. -He then speculates on the likely advice received by the USAF -intelligence community by astronomical experts in the early days of the -UFO phenomenon. (Michael D. Swords, “Astronomers, the Extraterrestrial -Hypothesis, and the United States Air Force at the Beginning of the -Modern UFO Phenomenon,” JUFOS 4 (1992): 79–129)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7013

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Event 9792 -(772D6B99)

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Date: 4/1993
-Description: Didier Gomez begins publishing UFOmania in Paris, France. -It continues through April 2015. (UFOmania, -no. 1 (April 1993))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7015

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Event 9793 -(AC95D137)

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Date: 4/1993
-Description: Spanish communications technician José -Luis Jordán Peña confesses for the first time to hoaxing the Ummo -letters as well as the UFO sightings at Aluche, Spain, in 1966 and San -José de Valderas in 1967. He says that he used the word “Ummo” because -it suggests the Spanish word humo (smoke) and randomly chose Wolf 424 as -the home star for the imaginary planet. “I wrote the reports on Saturday -and Sunday afternoons, and I took advantage of my trips to France, -England, Mozambique, etc., or those of friends, to send letters from -there.” However, other hoaxers begin copying his style, and after he -receives an invitation to an Ummo conference in Cuba, he decides to -admit the hoax he had started 25 years earlier. (Wikipedia, “Ummo”; -Jim Keith, Casebook on the Men in Black, IllumiNet, 1997)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7014

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Event 9794 -(A9971602)

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Date: 4/1993
-Description: The Centro de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Inusuales in -Buenos Aires, Argentina, publishes the first issue of Los Identificados, -a journal focusing on Argentine occupant cases. It is edited by Roberto -E. Banchs and runs for 15 issues until 1998. (Los -Identificados, no. -1 (April 1993))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7016

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Event 9795 -(713C3321)

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Date: 4/26/1993
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A witness in Muskegon, Michigan, is taking her -dog for a walk when she notices two red lights and one white light -arranged like a triangle above Muskegon Lake. The lights separate, and -the white light shoots across the sky. The two red lights move back and -forth like a pendulum before heading south. Another witness in -Whitehall, Michigan, sees a similar display at the same time. (“Two -See Unidentified ’Triangle of Lights,” Muskegon (Mich.) Chronicle, -April 28, 1993, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 287 (June 1993): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7017

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Event 9796 -(43987B3C)

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Date: 4/28/1993
-Description: 11:50 p.m. Jefferson County Air Unit police officers Kenny -Graham and Kenny Downs are on helicopter patrol over General Electric -Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, when Graham sees something like -a small fire off to his left. Downs shines his spotlight on the light, -which begins to drift back and forth as the spot washes over it. Then it -gradually floats up to the helicopter’s altitude at 500 feet, where it -hovers for a few seconds before moves away at high speed, making two -counterclockwise loops and doubling back to the rear of the helicopter. -Graham pushes his speed up to 100 mph. The object passes them and climbs -hundreds of feet into the air before descending again toward the -helicopter. Graham tries to close the gap, but it eludes him. As it -approaches again on a parallel course, the object releases three -fireballs. Fearing a collision, Graham banks away. When his move is -complete, the light has vanished. Two officers in their squad cars, Mike -Smith and Joe Smolenski, also see the light and the fireballs. Smolenski -tries to follow the light for a full minute before it disappears. (“Police -Officers Describe ‘Dogfight’ -with a UFO,” Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, March 4, 1993, pp. 1, -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7018

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Event 9797 -(14852BD5)

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Date: 4/29/1993
-Description: A Rockwell-MBB X-31 experimental jet fighter designed to -test thrust-vectoring technology successfully executes a rapid -minimum-radius, 180° turn using a post-stall maneuver, flying well -outside the range of angle of attack normal for conventional aircraft. -This maneuver has been called the “Herbst maneuver” after Wolfgang Herbst, a -Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm employee and proponent of using post-stall -flight in air-to-air combat. It looks nothing like a triangular UFO and -cannot match the performance of the Belgian triangles. (Wikipedia, “Rockwell-MBB -X-31”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7019

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Event 9798 -(8992238C)

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Date: 5/9/1993
-End date: 9/20/1993
-Description: Artist and ceramicist Filiberto Caponi has a series of -encounters with a humanoid alien near his home in Pretore, Ascoli -Piceno, Italy. He takes six Polaroid photos of the creature in seemingly -painful physical conditions. (Timothy Good, Unearthly Disclosure: -Conflicting Interests in the Control of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, -Random House, 2001, pp. 140–206; Patrick Gross, “The -Filiberto Caponi Close Encounters of the 3rd -Kind, 1993”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7020

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Event 9799 -(9A4C0515)

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Date: 5/20/1993
-Description: Airliner crew saw dark blue, metallicappearing triangular -object
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Ottawa, Canada
-ID: 479

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Event 9800 -(9FD9B174)

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Date: 6/1993
-End date: 11/1993
-Description: Numerous sightings, photographs reportedly taken
-Type: sighting
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Antelope Valley, CA
-ID: 480

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Event 9801 -(136C2F68)

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Date: 6/3/1993
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A passenger on a flight 15 minutes out of Los -Angeles International Airport in California sees a small cloud moving in -the opposite direction of the aircraft, which has leveled off at 30,000 -feet. He watches it fly in between two vertical columns of clouds, then -when it approaches to a point directly in line with his window, it dives -into the cloud mass below at a 30° angle and disappears. (Herbert S. -Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July -2005): 19, 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7022

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Event 9802 -(6CD1EA2E)

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Date: 6/3/1993
-Description: Ordinary Conversations about Extraordinary Matters, a -documentary film by Allen -Ross, premieres at the theatre of the School of the Art Institute of -Chicago. Illinois. It features interviews with attendees at R. -Leo Sprinkle’s -12th Rocky Mountain UFO Conference in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1991. (“New -Abduction Documentary Debuts,” IUR 18, no. 3 (May/June 1993): 21; George -M. Eberhart, “Postcards with a UFO Theme,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): -22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7021

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Event 9803 -(C7C567AC)

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Date: 6/5/1993
-Description: Reinhard Nühlen founds Deutschsprachige Gesellschaft für -UFO-Forschung in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, and begins publishing DEGUFOrum -in January 1994. It is currently (2020) edited by Nikolaus Bettinger in -Würselen, Germany. (DEGUforum, no. -1 (January 1994))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7023

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Event 9804 -(17BC15FA)

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Date: 6/8/1993
-Description: Round UFO with satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Antelope Valley, CA
-ID: 481

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Event 9805 -(17942F24)

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Date: 6/26/1993
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Witnesses in Hartcliffe, Bristol, England, see a -large cigar-shaped object (a possible blimp) drifting slowly and -silently over the rooftops. large white light (the planet Venus) in the -southeast climbing slowly upward. It fades into the lightening sky -shortly before dawn. One witness takes many minutes of video of this -object, compressing several hours of its appearance. The same light -appears at the same time for weeks. (Jenny Randles, “UFOs in Focus,” IUR -18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7024

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Event 9806 -(57770D05)

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Date: 7/13/1993
-Description: Cigar-shaped object with red body lights maneuvered at low -level
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Syracuse, IN
-ID: 482

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Event 9807 -(C1D9FD43)

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Date: 7/20/1993
-Description: Round UFO with satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Antelope Valley, CA
-ID: 483

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Event 9808 -(CDD08471)

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Date: 7/22/1993
-Description: Richard L. Huff in the FBI Office of Information and -Privacy informs researcher Nick -Redfern that it has a file on Majestic-12, although it is in “closed -status.” The file title is labeled “Espionage.” (Kremlin 191–192)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7025

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Event 9809 -(CC8DD50E)

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Date: 8/1993
-Description: Day. A witness takes a video of an odd figure on a beach at -Rhyl, Clwyd, Wales. As the camera pans through the crowd on the beach, a -strange semi-transparent figure in a silver suit becomes visible for a -couple of seconds standing and facing a wooden fence. Looking up, he -cannot see the figure, which appears to have vanished. Investigators -suspect it is merely someone in odd clothing. (Jenny Randles, “UFOs in -Focus,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7026

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Event 9810 -(871A14CC)

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Date: 8/1/1993
-Description: MARAUDER (Magnetically accelerated ring to achieve -ultrahigh directed energy and radiation) is, or was, a USAF Research -Laboratory project to develop a coaxial plasma railgun. It is one of -several US efforts to develop a plasma-based projectile. It began -development in 1990, and its first published experiment takes place on -this date. The project’s initial success leads to it becoming -classified, and only a few references to MARAUDER appear after 1993. No -information about the fate of the project is published after 1995. -(Wikipedia, “MARAUDER”; -C. R. Sovinec and R. E. Peterkin Jr., “Phase -1b MARAUDER Computer Simulations,” 1990 IEEE International -Conference on Plasma Science, Abstracts)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7027

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Event 9811 -(9261616E)

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Date: 8/8/1993
-Description: Early morning. Kelly -Cahill and her husband Andrew are returning from a party in Narre -Warren North, in the Dandenong Foothills of Victoria, Australia, and are -near Eumemmerring Creek south of Belgrave when they see a huge lighted -object with windows in front of them on the road. It seems to have -people in it, but it quickly shoots off to the left and disappears. They -continue driving, and about one kilometer ahead they encounter another -bright light. Her husband continues driving, and they do not recall -anything else until they get home. They agree they saw a UFO but can’t -agree on whether they had missing time or saw people. They both can -smell vomit and feel stomach pains. Kelly notices a triangular mark -below her navel, which is bleeding a bit. Kelly has a strange dream -immediately after the encounter, and two subsequent dreams in September, -October 23, and January 1994—all involving entities and a “strange -physical dimension.” A few weeks later, both of them start remembering -that the UFO has landed in an adjacent field and that they get out of -the car to look at it. An abduction scenario ensues involving tall black -beings. They also recall that there is another car stopped by the road -with at least two people in it. By November 17, Phenomena Research -Australia has located the couple in the other car and a woman who was -with them. They have also undergone an abduction experience and have -missing time. These witnesses, unknown to the Cahills, confirm the UFO -landing site, and their drawings of the UFOs and entities closely -coincide with Kelly’s. The second group also recalls seeing a third car -with one male who is gazing fixedly toward the encounter site. -Unfortunately, Kelly’s account of the incident is the only one that has -come to light. (Bill Chalker, “An Extraordinary Encounter in the -Dandenong Foothills,” IUR 19, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1994): 4–8, 18–20; Bill -Chalker, “Aliens, Hair, and DNA,” IUR 29, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 3; Kelly -Cahill, Encounter, HarperCollins, 1996; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files: The -Australian UFO Story, Duffy and Snellgrove, 1996; Bill Chalker, “The -Kelly Cahill Case Revisited: An Extraordinary Lost Opportunity,” -TheOzFiles, March 2, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7028

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Event 9812 -(733D5C65)

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Date: 8/8/1993
-Description: Five people in two separate cars encountered UFO on road, -experienced missing time. Memories returned gradually without hypnosis, -including tall beings who abducted them (Chalker, 1996).
-Type: abduction
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
-ID: 484

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Event 9813 -(035271A8)

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Date: 8/11/1993
-Description: Perseid meteor shower (mean date).
-Type: natural phenomenon
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location:
-ID: 485

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Event 9814 -(5B5700EA)

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Date: 8/12/1993
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Two friends are watching the Perseid meteor -shower in a dark school yard in North Lethbridge, Alberta, when they see -a dark, gray-black, triangular object pass quickly and silently overhead -for 4–5 seconds. Each point of the triangle has a red light on it. As it -disappears to the south, it flips upward at a 45° angle. Another witness -in a different location watches a similar object around the same time. -Local radar does not show any unusual traffic. (David Thacker, “Flight -of the Triangle,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): 4–8, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7029

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Event 9815 -(B6A519E8)

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Date: 8/13/1993
-Description: Night. Costin and Mariana Popa are driving with their -daughter Diana in a rural area a few miles south of Telega, Romania, -when their car engine stops unexpectedly and the headlights go out. -Examining the engine, they are suddenly hit by a “wall of air” and see a -fog-like rectangular screen on the right side of the road floating 18 -inches above the grass. It is pulsating every 2–3 seconds with a -yellowish-white light. They hear no noise and feel no heat. After about -20 minutes the screen begins to move across the road and stops in front -of them, having become a narrow band of light 90 feet long and 3 feet -wide. Soon it becomes brighter and shoots into the sky and disappears. -The car starts normally again. (Romania 58–59)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7030

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Event 9816 -(4B993E7F)

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Date: 8/14/1993
-Description: 1:56 a.m. Four UFOs with red and green flashing lights are -seen flying at low altitude above Henri Coandă International Airport at -Otopeni, Romania. They first turn up on radar, then are seen visually -and observed through binoculars. (Romania 75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7031

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Event 9817 -(A03CB40F)

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Date: 9/2/1993
-Description: 6:00 a.m. A black-and-white security camera at a private -company in West Manchester, England, captures a pulsing ball of white -light that appears in the northwest, moving toward the north, for -several minutes. The camera operator also sees it visually. Estimates -place its speed as low as 50 mph. Possible blimp. (Jenny Randles, “UFOs -in Focus,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7032

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Event 9818 -(42414093)

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Date: 9/16/1993
-Description: 4:00 p.m. Pilots of two airliners preparing to land at -Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City, Mexico, see an -object like a balloon, but it is going too fast. One pilot describes it -as looking like a praying mantis. (Jaime Maussán, “OVNIs sobre la -Terra,” La Epoca (Mexico), November 19, 1993; Antonio Huneeus, “UFO -Chronicle: UFOs and IFOs from Mexico, Part II,” Fate 47, no. 12 -(December 1994); Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, -UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, p. -146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7033

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Event 9819 -(C1C6265B)

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Date: 10/1993
-Description: The Foreign Technology Division becomes the National Air -Intelligence Center. (Wikipedia, “National -Air and -Space Intelligence Center”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7035

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Event 9820 -(C5A6642E)

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Date: 10/1993
-Description: Rep. Steven -Schiff asks Charles -Arthur Bowsher, head -of the US General Accounting Office, to prepare a report on the status -of records related to the 1947 Roswell incident in New Mexico. (Mark -Rodeghier, “Roswell and the GAO Investigation,” IUR 19, no. 2 -(March/April 1994): 3, 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7034

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Event 9821 -(319BA36C)

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Date: 10/12/1993
-Description: Air Force Col. Richard L. Weaver tells researcher Nick -Redfern that USAF considers both the MJ-12 group and its documents -to be “bogus.” However, he concedes that there are “no documents -responsive” to his request on how such a determination was made. -(Kremlin 183–184)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7036

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Event 9822 -(DDF637EF)

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Date: 10/18/1993
-Description: A memo on “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study” from a UK -wing commander to the Sec(AS)2, the Air Staff deputy director, proposes -a secret government study of UFOs, which will become Project Condign in -1997– 2000. Paragraph 2 reads: “I am aware, from intelligence sources, -that xxxxx believes that such phenomena exists and has a small team -studying them. I am also aware that an informal group exists in the -xxxxxxxxxxx community and it is possible that this reflects a more -formal organization.” Leslie -Kean suspects that the first redacted word is “Russia” and the -second is “US intelligence.” (“Unidentified -Aerial Phenomena Study,” October 18, 1993, UK UFO Documents, Part 1, -pp. 198–199; Kean, pp. 238–240)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7037

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Event 9823 -(5FF84F99)

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Date: 10/25/1993
-Description: 5:30–9:30 p.m. Multiple sightings of diamond- or -triangular-shaped objects with multicolored light occur around La -Louvière, Hainaut, Belgium. (Patrick Gross, “The -Belgium Flap”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7038

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Event 9824 -(AA0D18B7)

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Date: 12/1993
-Description: Héctor Escobar begins publishing Perspectivas Ufológicas in -Mexico City, Mexico. The periodical continues until February 1996. (Perspectivas -Ufológicas, no. -1 (December 1993))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7040

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Event 9825 -(E96641F6)

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Date: 12/1993
-Description: The RAAF formally concludes its UFO investigations in a -revised “RAAF Policy: Unusual Aerial Sightings.” (Bill Chalker, “The -Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7039

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Event 9826 -(0BD19991)

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Date: 12/1/1993
-Description: The European Parliament considers a resolution that enables -the French UFO agency, Service d’Expertise des Phénomènes de Rentrée -Atmosphérique (SEPRA), to carry out UFO investigations throughout the -member countries of the European Community. The resolution was first -proposed in 1991 by Belgian deputy Elio -Di Rupo in the wake of the Belgian UFO wave to set up an -all-European agency to study UFO reports. The EP’s committee on -industry, external trade, research, and energy, chaired by physicist Tullio -Regge, holds -several meetings on the proposal in consultation with SEPRA’s Jean-Jacques -Velasco, and -approves the motion for a resolution. However, the Parliament does not -have the necessary votes to implement and fund the resolution, the -agency is never created, and SEPRA has its own funding problems. (George -M. Eberhart, “The European Parliament,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April -1994): 19; 2Pinotti 137–140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7041

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Event 9827 -(C0B99561)

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Date: 12/17/1993
-Description: The first operational Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth -bomber is delivered to Whiteman AFB, south of Knob Noster, Missouri, -where the fleet is based. (Wikipedia, “Northrop -Grumman B-2 Spirit”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7042

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- Event 9828 (75D86568)

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Date: 1994
-Description: Wim van Utrecht founds Caelestia in Antwerp, Belgium, to -collect, investigate, and document UFO reports. (Wim van Utrecht, “About -Caelestia,” July 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7046

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Event 9829 -(5F616EC9)

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Date: 1994
-Description: Karla -Turner writes Taken, in which she describes accounts from eight -women, none of whom know each other, all of whom consciously recall a -large portion of their abduction experiences without the aid of -hypnosis. She is disturbed to find that at least 10 people close to her -seem to have a pattern of alien intrusions and disturbances. The women -describe a variety of alien types: grays, insectoids, humanoids, blue -humanoids, and dwarves. Several of the women describe not only hybrid -nursery rooms, but also cloning rooms in which living but inert humans -are suspended in liquid-filled cylinders. There are accounts of aliens -apparently taking human souls and placing them into a box. One alien -group appears to harvest “negative emotional energy.” Not all -experiences are harmful or exploitative; some women claim to have had -miraculous healings by aliens. Still, Turner suggests that this does not -make the aliens humanity’s benefactors. If they cared for humans, it -could be the way in which a farmer cares for cattle. Four of the women -describe being abducted by human military personnel and taken to -underground military facilities. Human and alien workers are sometimes -described as being there. The abductees remember being questioned by -military types who ask “What do you know about the alien agenda? What -have they told you? What implants have you received? What procedures -have they carried out on you?” A number of medical problems develop, -apparently related to the abductions: cancer, depression, post-traumatic -stress disorder, sexual dysfunction, and suicide. One thing that -perplexes Turner is why military groups would need to interrogate -abductees about alien intrusions. (Karla Turner, Taken: -Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda, The Author, 1994)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7047

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Event 9830 -(8BA42F91)

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Date: 1994
-Description: A video of a UFO is taken by a ground radar station at the -Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range, part of the Nellis Range northwest -of the Nevada Test Site. At times the UFO appears to be four globes tied -together; at other times it appears to be a fuzzy, gaseous cloud. The -film is genuine, according to Steven -Greer, who shows it at CSETI’s Congressional Briefing on April 9, -1997, in Washington, D.C. It is aired by the Fox TV show Sightings and a -few other TV networks. (Patrick Gross, “The -Nellis Test Range UFO Video”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7043

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Event 9831 -(AB9FE0C3)

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Date: 1994
-Description: More than 300 pages of Army CIC documents relating to -Operation Harass are declassified after researcher Timothy -S. Cooper files a FOIA request. There is a concentration on frantic -wartime efforts to find the Horten brothers, as -well as an “Intelligence Requirements on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: -Draft of Collection Memorandum,” undated but prepared prior to October -20, 1947. (“FOIA: -Army CIC UFO Files Various Subjects Including -‘Horten Brothers: Flying Wing,’” Above Top Secret forum, December -17, 2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7044

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Event 9832 -(4A275A68)

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Date: 1994
-Description: Mark -Rodeghier, Stuart -Appelle, David -Gotlib, and -Georgia Flamburis develop and publish an “Ethics Code for Abduction -Experience Investigation and Treatment.” It is approved by the CUFOS and -MUFON boards. (“News from the Field,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): 3; -David Gotlib, Stuart Appelle, Georgia Flamburis, and Mark Rodeghier, -“Ethics Code for Abduction Experience Investigation and Treatment,” -JUFOS 5 (1994): 55–81)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7045

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Event 9833 -(BE9A5CA0)

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Date: 1/4/1994
-Description: RAAF Wing Commander Brett -Biddington informs civilian UFO groups in Australia that the number -of UFO reports submitted to the RAAF has declined significantly in the -past 10 years, saying “there is no compelling reason for the RAAF to -continue to devote resources to recording, investigating, and attempting -to explain [Unusual Aerial Sightings].” He says that reports will be -forwarded to civilian groups. (Bill Chalker, “The Australian Government -and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 22, 36; Swords 411–412)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7048

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Event 9834 -(C5326FF1)

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Date: 1/12/1994
-Description: Rep. Steven -Schiff (D-N.Mex.) tells the press that he has been stonewalled by -the US Defense Department when he requested information about the 1947 -Roswell incident on behalf of his constituents and witnesses. Schiff -calls the lack of response “astounding” and indicative of a cover-up. -(“Roswell Declaration 1994,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7049

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Event 9835 -(439DA496)

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Date: 1/15/1994
-Description: President Bill -Clinton issues an executive order to create an Advisory Committee on -Human Radiation Experiments to investigate US government records on -radiation studies done at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Certain records -involving programs in and around Area 51, Nevada, are excluded on the -basis that the president does not have a need to know. (Wikipedia, “Advisory -Committee on Human Radiation Experiments”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7050

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Event 9836 -(0F374456)

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Date: late 1/1994
-Description: The Secretary of the Air Force’s office of Security and -Special Program Oversight directs its research and classification team -to locate any official records on the Roswell incident. (Swords -351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7052

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Event 9837 -(6C3C5C6D)

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Date: 1/27/1994
-Description: Luminous UFO maneuvered erratically near airliner
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Kazakhstan Republic
-ID: 486

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Event 9838 -(901F1535)

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Date: 1/28/1994
-Description: 1:14 p.m. Air France pilot Jean-Charles Duboc and two -members of his A320 airliner crew briefly observe over -Coulommiers–Voisins Aerodrome, Seine-et-Marne, France, an elliptical -UFO, reddish-brown in color and possibly of large size. Radar at CODA, -the Taverny air operations center, tracks the object for 50 seconds but -places the target closer to the airplane than the pilot’s estimate. -SEPRA investigates the case and determines that based on the radar -trajectory the UFO is about 750 feet long. (Joel de Woolfson, “UFO -‘Evidence’ Grows,” This Is Guernsey, February 5, 2007; Gildas -Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR -31, no. 2 (June 2007): 16; Kean, pp. 135–136; -Good Need, pp. 401–402; -“1994-01-28: -Sighting of Air France Pilot -Jean Charles Duboc,” Tom Owens YouTube channel, June 16, 2019; -Patrick Gross, “UFO -Sighting of Flight AF-3532”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7051

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Event 9839 -(539278F5)

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Date: 1/28/1994
-Description: Air France airliner—UFO encounter, tracked on military -radar
-Type: sighting
-Type: official
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Paris, France
-ID: 487

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Event 9840 -(8B0E7661)

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Date: 2/1994
-Description: Leonard -Stringfield releases his seventh and final status report on UFO -crash/retrievals. (Leonard H. Stringfield, UFO Crash/Retrievals: Search -for Proof in a Hall of Mirrors, Status Report VII, The Author, -1994).
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7053

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Event 9841 -(B26AFF0C)

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Date: 2/1/1994
-Description: Cigar-shaped object illuminated car with light beam, E-M -effects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Badalucco, Liguria, Italy
-ID: 488

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Event 9842 -(800A6103)

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Date: 2/9/1994
-Description: Richard Davis, director of the National Security Analysis -group at the General Accounting Office, writes to Secretary of Defense -William -Perry that the GAO is initiating a review of “DOD’s policies and -procedures for acquiring, classifying, retaining, and disposing of -official governmental documents dealing with weather balloon, aircraft, -and similar crash incidents” to find out whether “proper procedures to -ensure government accountability” were followed. (Mark Rodeghier, -“Roswell and the GAO Investigation,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): -3, 24; Swords 351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7054

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Event 9843 -(F22CB3FF)

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Date: 2/15/1994
-Description: Vehicle encounter with glowing oblong object, E-M -effects
-Type: sighting
-Type: alien or creature encounter
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Enkoping, Sweden
-ID: 489

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Event 9844 -(D12B80E3)

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Date: 2/15/1994
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Kerstin Hallman is on her way home from work -near Grillby, Sweden, when she sees an oblong light with spikes on top. -The car lights go out and the engine fails. (Clas Svahn and Jorgen -Granlie, “The Light That Stopped a Car,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter -1997–1998): 12; Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference -Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7055

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Event 9845 -(94D9666D)

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Date: 3/1994
-Description: Night. A married couple are driving in Bestwood Village, -Nottinghamshire, England, when they see a huge triangular object hanging -in the sky. It has three steady white, green, and red lights and is -apparently only 200 feet from the ground. Its base has a ribbed pattern. -It moves off slowly to the northwest, then accelerates, changing -direction to the south. (“UFO -Sighting Convinces Hucknall Man,” Hucknall (UK) Dispatch, March 11, -1994, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 298 (May 1994): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7057

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Event 9846 -(09FC5889)

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Date: 3/1994
-Description: In response to Steven -Schiff’s getting stonewalled by the US Defense Department over -information on the 1947 Roswell incident in New Mexico, airline pilot -Kent Jeffrey circulates the Roswell Declaration, a statement calling for -an “Executive Order declassifying any US government information on the -existence of UFOs or extraterrestrial intelligence” and a release from -the security oaths taken by military or civilian personnel involved in -UFO cases. Promoted by CUFOS, MUFON, and the Fund for UFO Research, the -declaration is signed by more than 20,000 people interested in finding -out the truth. (“Roswell -Declaration,” International Roswell Initiative; “The Roswell -Declaration,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7056

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Event 9847 -(CDEB1CEA)

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Date: 3/6/1994
-Description: 4:30 p.m. Two men flying an ultralight aircraft 250 feet -over Termoli, Campobasso, Italy, see a small, spherical object flying -northward. Approximately 4 miles from them, it is lost to sight in a few -seconds. Earlier in the afternoon an unknown dark object crashes on -Monte Mutria, Campobasso. The witness, Angelo Gianbattista, 18, tells -his father, police officer Franco Giambattista, that an airplane has -fallen. Franco goes outside and spots with binoculars two dark shadows -in a ravine. The military police are notified and converge on the site. -At 8:00 p.m., guided by a powerful light beam, eight volunteers climb -the mountain. Three helicopters hover overhead. Nothing is found, even -conventional objects that might be mistaken for something else. (Renzo -Cabassi, “UFO Crash -at Guardioaregia?” Italian UFO Reporter 2, no. 4 (October 10, 1996): -2–4; Clark III 345; 2Pinotti 140– 141)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7058

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Event 9848 -(A29F38A9)

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Date: 3/8/1994
-Description: 9:15 p.m. Residents of Holland, Michigan, begin observing -odd lights in the sky. To some, the lights appear to be attached to one -another, or at least coordinated in their movements. The commonest -description is of four lights strung together, high in altitude, moving -from southeast to southwest. The Graves family sees a disk with lights -turning clockwise on its underside. Police officer Jeff -Velthouse is dispatched to investigate, and he watches some lights -through binoculars around 9:40 p.m. The Allegan County sheriff’s office -contacts the Muskegon National Weather Service radar station about 30 -miles to the north to ask whether they have any targets. They do, and -the radar operator gives a live report, recorded by the police, of the -returns he is tracking. The majority of the returns are of three, -well-separated targets, sometimes in line, both usually in a triangular -array. An intermittent fourth signal blinks in and out. The visual -sightings last until 11:00 p.m., but the weather radar continues to see -targets for another 20–30 minutes. (Michael D. Swords, “The Holland, -Michigan, Radar- Visual Case, 1994,” IUR 24, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 3–7; Don -Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing -Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 146–147; -Swords 343)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7059

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Event 9849 -(1134CCD9)

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Date: 3/20/1994
-Description: “Groom Lake Toxic Burning Alleged” A former worker at the -secret Air Force base says poisonous substances were routinely ignited. -Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar. 20, 1994, Page 1B.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Location: Groom Lake

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Event 9850 -(5D854A52)

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Date: 4/1994
-Description: The UK government introduces a Code of Practice on Access -to Government Information, a limited right to access government records -from the previous 30 years, as a precursor to a full freedom of -information act. (Campaign for Freedom of Information, “Code -of Practice on Access to Government Information: Guidance on Interpretation,” -April 1994, second -ed., 1997)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7060

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Event 9851 -(6B797358)

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Date: 5/1994
-Description: Research psychologist Susan -Marie Powers publishes a study on 20 abductees to explore the -presence of PTSD symptoms. The results show that 45% of the abductees -manifest PTSD symptoms and 70% manifest dissociative symptomatology. A -content analysis of the narratives suggests that sexual abuse could be -at the root of some of the stories. (Susan Marie Powers, “Thematic -Content Analyses of the Reports of UFO Abductees and Close Encounter -Witnesses: Indications of Repressed Sexual Abuse,” JUFOS 5 (1994): -35–54; Susan Marie Powers, “Dissociation -in Alleged Extraterrestrial Abductees,” Dissociation 7, no. 1 (March -1994): 44–50)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7062

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Event 9852 -(B53DBE6B)

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Date: 5/1994
-Description: The Dean of Harvard Medical School, Daniel -C. Tosteson, appoints a committee of peers to confidentially review -Department of Psychiatry Head John -E. Mack’s clinical care and clinical investigation of the people who -had shared their alien encounters with him (some of their cases are -written up in Mack’s 1994 book Abduction). Angela Hind writes, “It was -the first time in Harvard’s history that a tenured professor was -subjected to such an investigation.” Upon the public revelation of the -existence of the committee (inadvertently revealed during the -solicitation of witnesses for Mack’s defense, 10 months into the -process), questions arise from the academic community (including Harvard -Professor of Law Alan -Dershowitz) regarding the validity of an investigation of a tenured -professor who is not suspected of ethics violations or professional -misconduct. Concluding the 14-month investigation, Harvard then issues a -statement stating that the dean has “reaffirmed Dr. Mack’s academic -freedom to study what he wishes and to state his opinions without -impediment,” concluding “Dr. Mack remains a member in good standing of -the Harvard Faculty of Medicine.” (Wikipedia, “John -E. Mack”; John E. Mack, Abduction: Human -Encounters with Aliens, Wheeler, -1994)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7061

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Event 9853 -(6224553D)

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Date: 5/21/1994
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A witness in Plauen, Germany, is watching TV -when she notices a light outside. She sees a disk with several rings of -lights illuminating a tree and causing it to whip around violently. It -is about 30 feet in diameter, and its top and bottom halves are rotating -in opposite directions. After it hovers silently for a minute, it stops -shaking the tree and moves behind a building and shoots away, leaving a -hole in the clouds above. Two other witnesses see the disc from a -different perspective and feel a strong wind. (Illobrand von Ludwiger, -Best UFO Cases: Europe, National Institute for Discovery Science, -1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7063

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Event 9854 -(A07494F9)

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Date: 6/1994
-Description: Day. An object like a balloon suddenly appears in the sky -above US Highway 22 and East Kemper Road in Symmes Township, Ohio, -outside Cincinnati. It remains perfectly stationary until after dark. -One witness takes at least three photos of it. At one point it ascends -to a higher altitude. The object is approached and circled three times -by local air traffic. (Patrick Gross, “The -Symmes Township Orb, USA, June 1994”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7065

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Event 9855 -(E1FB9504)

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Date: 6/1994
-Description: The TNS Emnid Institut in Bielefeld, Germany, conducts a -one-question survey on UFO beliefs among 1,069 Germans. Although the -question is ambiguous, 22% respond yes and 78% no, in both the former -West and East Germanies. The belief is much stronger in younger -populations. (Mark Rodeghier, “Do Germans Believe in UFOs and -Extraterrestrials?” IUR 21, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 25, 30)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7064

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Event 9856 -(F8F775D9)

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Date: early 6/1994
-Description: A tree farmer named Meng Zhaoguo is at Red Flag logging -camp near Wuchang, Heilongjiang, China, with two other workers when they -see a strange light in the sky. Thinking it is either a downed satellite -or helicopter, Meng goes to retrieve the wreckage. However, at some -point he is hit in the forehead by a shining light and knocked -unconscious. He wakes up at home some time later, with no recollection -of how he got there. A few nights later, he wakes up in his bed to find -that a 10-foot-tall female alien with six fingers and braided leg fur is -in his room. He and the alien have sex for 40 minutes before it -disappears, leaving a 2-inch scar on his thigh. He also claims that on -July 17, he levitates through a wall and meets with a group of -three-eyed aliens on their ship. He asks to see the female alien again -but is rebuffed. The aliens show him images of Mars (or Jupiter), which -they claim is their home world, and tell him that “on a distant planet -the son of a Chinese peasant will be born in 60 years.” His story is -examined by the UFO Enthusiasts Club at Wuhan University throughout -1997. They conclude that while the initial contact may have occurred, -the subsequent reported events are almost certainly untrue. However, -other UFO groups in China think that his ongoing story is true. In -September 2003, Zhang Jingping and the state-sponsored Chinese UFO -Association give Meng a medical exam, a lie detector test, and a -hypnotic regression session to prove his claims. The results supposedly -confirm his story. (John Kohut, “UFO -Group Probes -Claims of Sex with Jupiter Visitor,” South China Morning Post (Hong -Kong), October 30, 1994; Teresa Poole, “Close -Encounters of an Intimate Kind: Peking Days,” The Independent (UK), -March 17, 1995; “Calling Occupants -of Inter-planetary Craft,” China Daily, October 31, 2010; “One -of the Strangest Alien Abduction Cases -in China Ever Told,” Before It’s News, July 20, 2014; Chris -Saunders, “UFOs over China,” Fortean Times 331 (October 2015): 28–30; -Michael Meyer, “Meet -the Chinese Lumberjack Who Slept with an Alien,” HuffPost, October -16, 2015; Bill Chalker, “The -Untold Story of UFOs in China: Lost in Translation or the -Devouring Dragon?” New -Dawn Special Issue 14, no. 1 (January 2020))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7066

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Event 9857 -(699B2077)

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Date: 6/24/1994
-Description: 2:40 a.m. Three gendarmes at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, -Seine-et-Marne, France, notice a bright set of lights in the sky. They -drive closer and find that the source is a stationary object with three -yellow-white lights. Its underside is triangular with a central -pyramidal spire that points downward. They stop their patrol car, and -the object moves slowly toward them until it stops directly above the -vehicle. There is no noise, smoke, or odor. As soon as they start the -car again, the object moves west at high speed and becomes a speck on -the horizon within a second. The total duration is 10 minutes. The -police radios stop functioning, and the car becomes hot even though the -windows are open. (“Ussy-sur-Marne -(77) 24-06-1994,” GEIPAN, March 22, 2007; Swords 449)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7067

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Event 9858 -(B9798B56)

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Date: 7/2/1994
-Description: 1:30–1:45 p.m. A resident of Limelette, Belgium, is at home -in the Petit-Ry neighborhood when he looks out a window and sees a group -of 10 white vertical structures with rounded edges moving back and forth -about 180 feet above a vacant lot. They are all about 15–26 feet high -and somewhat translucent, moving in an erratic pattern. The dry grass -below has risen up into the air, forming a tornado shape and spinning -anticlockwise. He watches it for 2–3 minutes, and the phenomenon moves -slowly to the north and disappears. Possibly a wind devil. (Wim van -Utrecht, “Dancing -Ice-Lollies over a Waste Ground,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7068

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Event 9859 -(EBA8E3A5)

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Date: 7/3/1994
-Description: The first flight of a CIA-developed Predator drone takes -place at the El Mirage Field in the Mojave Desert, California. -(Wikipedia, “General -Atomics MQ-1 Predator”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7069

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Event 9860 -(8F604D9F)

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Date: 7/24/1994
-Description: Motorists encountered glowing orange oblong objects, one -followed car. Diamond-shaped object hovered overhead when they stopped -to look. Missing time period discovered upon arrival home (Basterfield, -1997b).
-Type: sighting
-Type: abduction
-Type: occupant or alien or creature encounter
-Type: historical event
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
-ID: 490

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Event 9861 -(EF1F214F)

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Date: 7/31/1994
-Description: Roswell, a made-for-TV movie directed by Jeremy -Kagan and produced by Paul -Davids, premieres on Showtime. It stars Kyle -MacLachlan, Martin -Sheen, and -Dwight -Yoakam, and is based on UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin -D. Randle and Donald -R. Schmitt. (Paul -Davids, “Roswell: The Movie,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): -15–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7070

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Event 9862 -(6274393F)

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Date: 8/23/1994
-Description: 5:40 a.m. A delivery man and other early risers observe a -V-shaped object low in the sky above the business district of a western -suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Strobe lights emerge from the object at -both its top and bottom, shining continuous beams of light on the object -both while it is hovering and in flight. It disappears behind some -buildings to the south. (Marler 175)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7071

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Event 9863 -(FB0BF74A)

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Date: 8/31/1994
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Six witnesses in Mongo, Indiana, see a light -glowing through the treetops to the southwest at a low altitude. It -looks somewhat like the Moon, but it starts moving from behind the trees -into an open area near a road and hovers. It looks like a domed disc -with a white strobe light on top of the dome. A bright red light on the -bottom flashes 3–4 times like a strobe, then the object it disappears to -the south east within 2 seconds. One of the witnesses takes at least -four good pictures with a Vivitar fully automatic 35 mm camera with a -standard lens and loaded with 400 ASA color film. Dogs do not react to -the object. (NICAP, “The -Mongo Photos”; Patrick Gross, “The -Mongo Multiple Visual and Photographic Case, August 31, 1993”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7072

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Event 9864 -(8C96B549)

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Date: 9/8/1994
-Description: In response to Rep. Steven -Schiff’s request for information, Col. Richard L. Weaver, director -of security and special program oversight of the USAF Office of Special -Investigations, publicly releases the Report of Air Force Research -Regarding the “Roswell Incident,” a 23-page executive summary (dated -July 27) that concludes that “the material recovered near Roswell was -consistent with a balloon device and most likely from one of the Mogul -balloons that had not been previously recovered.” (Report -of Air Force Research Regarding the “Roswell Incident,” in -Col. Richard L. Weaver and 1Lt. James McAndrew, The Roswell Report: Fact -versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert, US Air Force Headquarters, July -1995, pp. 5–32; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “The Air Force Report -on Roswell: An Absence of Evidence,” IUR 19, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1994): 3, -20–24; Karl T. Pflock, “Roswell, the Air Force, and Us,” IUR 19, no. 6 -(Nov./Dec. 1994): 3–5, 24; Swords 351)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7073

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Event 9865 -(68F55391)

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Date: 9/9/1994
-Description: Green- and red-lighted object with satellite objects
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Racoon Lake, IN
-ID: 491

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Event 9866 -(B9A0EBA9)

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Date: 9/13/1994
-Description: 5:30 p.m. As Larry Gardea is hunting for bear near Luna -Canyon in Mora County, New Mexico, he sees a cow lying dead some 30 feet -away. In the place where its rectum should be is a large, cylindrical -hole. Ten feet beyond that cow is another one, apparently alive, sitting -on its knees. At that moment a dozen cattle stampede in the opposite -direction, and Gardea hears a loud humming noise coming from the nearby -woods. A third cow is suddenly propelled through the air nearby at near -ground level, as if carried by an invisible beam. Gardea fires two shots -and the humming stops. (Clark III 138)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7074

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Event 9867 -(473837B7)

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Date: 9/14/1994
-Description: 8:50–9:05 p.m. A brilliant ball of fire with a long trail -of sparks is seen over a wide range of territory in Zimbabwe, Botswana, -and southern Zambia, followed by a sonic boom. Some people see three -large lights in front, with from 8–20 smaller lights behind. Many report -that the objects are traveling very fast from north to south; others see -it moving slowly, and one man says he walked along with it more than 320 -feet. Geologists Euen Nisbet and -Kathy Silva, working in Zvishavane, Zimbabwe, report that the display -takes a minute to cross the sky on a path angled about 10° away from -north to south. Witnesses at Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe, variously see three -orange-red lights with trails, a bright link with a dark center and 14 -lights flashing around it, a light flying at treetop level, a row of -green lights with a trail, and an object several times larger than a -Boeing 747. Possibly debris from the rocket that launched the Russian -satellite Kosmos 2290. (Cynthia Hind, “UFO -Flap in Zimbabwe,” -UFO Afrinews, no. 11 (February 1995): 4–18; Cynthia Hind, “UFO Flap in -Zimbabwe,” IUR 20, no. 3 (May/June 1995): 20–21; James Oberg, “Zimbabwe: -1994 Sep 14 near 18:51 UTC,” PowerPoint presentation)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7075

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Event 9868 -(80BBCF72)

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Date: 9/16/1994
-Description: Ariel school incident
-Type: ce3 event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Ruwa, Zimbabwe

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Event 9869 -(05E257CF)

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Date: 9/16/1994
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Some 60 children in a grassy playground outside -Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, see three or four objects landing in the -“rough bush area” about 330 feet away. An entity of some kind emerges -from the largest object and stands on top. It has long, straight, black -hair tied back with a headband around its larger than normal head, -stands about 3 feet tall, and is dressed in black. Some of the younger -African children are afraid it is a Tokoloshe, a folkloric entity. After -15 minutes, the craft and entity fade from view. The headmaster asks -each child to draw what they saw. Researcher Cynthia -Hind interviews them on September 17 and psychologist John -E. Mack several -months later. (Cynthia Hind, “The -Children of Ariel School,” UFO Afrinews, no. 11 (February 1995): -19–25; “Never-Before-Seen -Photos Reveal Extraordinary Wedge-Shaped Impressions,” Daily Mail -(UK), May 20, 2022; Internet Movie Database, “Ariel -Phenomenon”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7076

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Event 9870 -(E58D40DB)

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Date: fall 1994
-Description: Terry and Gwen Sherman purchase a 512-acre ranch in western -Uintah County, southeast of Ballard, Utah. The couple soon encounter -various types of UFOs and paranormal phenomena, including cattle -mutilations, bigfoot, flying orbs, discarnate voices, crop circles, -poltergeist activity, electromagnetic anomalies, orange portals, and a -giant wolflike creature. Colm -Kelleher and coauthor George -Knapp subsequently write a book, Hunt for the Skinwalker (2005), in -which they describe the ranch being acquired by Robert -Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science in 1996 for -$200,000 to study the sightings at the ranch, soon dubbed the Skinwalker -Ranch after the shape-shifting creature in Navajo folklore. Between June -and August 1997, NIDS personnel observe anomalies on every occasion they -are at the ranch, but they are unable to prove anything scientifically. -Among those involved are retired US Army Col. John -B. Alexander who characterizes the NIDS effort as an attempt to get -hard data using a “standard scientific approach.” However, the -investigators admit to “difficulty obtaining evidence consistent with -scientific publication.” (Wikipedia, “Skinwalker -Ranch”; Colm Kelleher and George Knapp, Hunt -for the Skinwalker, Paraview, -2005; Gildas Bourdais, “Hunt for the Skinwalker: New Challenge for the -ETH?” IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 25–31; Clark III 1073–1075; John B. -Alexander, “From Los Alamos to Skinwalker Ranch,” Fortean Times 363 -(February 2018): 39–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7078

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Event 9871 -(A505A24D)

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Date: 9/26/1994
-Description: An aircraft crash at RAF Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, -England, appears closely linked to US black missions, according to a -report in Air Forces Monthly. Further investigation is hampered by USAF -aircraft flooding into the base. Special Air Service personnel arrive in -plainclothes and in an Agusta 109 helicopter. The crash site is -protected from view by fire engines and tarpaulins, and the base is -closed to all flights soon afterwards. A USAF C5 Galaxy is redirected to -the station, which takes the disassembled aircraft back to the US. -(Dreamland Resort, “RAF -Boscombe Down’s Black Day,” April 12, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7077

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Event 9872 -(FB2275D7)

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Date: 10/1/1994
-Description: TV host Larry -King broadcasts “Larry King Live at Area 51,” which includes a -prerecorded interview with former Sen. Barry -Goldwater, who -says: “I think the government does know. I can’t back that up, but I -think that at Wright-Patterson field, if you could get into certain -places, you’d find out what the Air Force and the government knows about -UFOs… I called Curtis -LeMay and I said, “General, I know we have a room at Wright- -Patterson where you put all this secret stuff. Could I go in there?’ -I’ve never heard him get mad, but he got madder than hell at me, cussed -me out, and said, ‘Don’t ever ask me that question again!’” (“UFOs: -Oct 1, 1994, Filmed -Outside Area 51,” SmokingMan47 YouTube channel, November 28, -2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7079

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Event 9873 -(8362CB4D)

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Date: 10/7/1994
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Jerzy Bulczyński and his family in Biskupice, -Poland, see two identical large discs with rotating rings consisting of -smaller spheres, all grayish-green in color and around 6–8 times the -size of the full moon. (Poland 88)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7080

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Event 9874 -(70C34BCD)

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Date: 10/8/1994
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Military personnel at Poligon Nadarzyce airbase -near the village of Nadardyce, Poland, report a spherical UFO surrounded -by a ring of lights. It changes shape to a triangle and an ellipse. In -reaction to the initial report, Krzesiny AFB sends two MiG-21 -interceptors that allegedly experience technical malfunctions during -their pursuit. The Polish Army concludes that the phenomena were caused -by a laser searchlight operated by the local Olimpia Circus. (Poland -87–89)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7081

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Event 9875 -(BB8E6349)

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Date: 12/1994
-Description: SOM1–01 “MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual” -document “leaked” to UFO researcher
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US
-See also: 4/1954

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Event 9876 -(84C7F3F0)

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Date: 12/1/1994
-Description: A strong, flaming light with a train-like rumbling noise -causes destruction to 1,700 square feet of woodland in the Guiyang -Baiyun Duxi Forest Farm near Guiyang, Guizhou province, China. Trees are -broken off at the same height and some roofs are damaged. Although a -probable airburst from a meteor, some Chinese researchers argue it could -be a ufological event. (Bill Chalker, “The -Untold Story of UFOs in China: Lost in Translation -or the Devouring Dragon?” New Dawn Special Issue 14, no. 1 (January -2020))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7082

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Event 9877 -(2F0D933B)

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Date: 12/18/1994
-Description: Ufologist Leonard Stringfield dies
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Cincinnati, OK

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Event 9878 -(14611C53)

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Date: 12/29/1994
-Description: 9:45 p.m. A mother and her six children are driving -northwest on Zaring Cutoff Road west of Dusty, Washington. To the east -she sees three bright yellow lights that appear to be sitting in a -snow-covered field. She stops the car to look and realizes that the -lights are attached to triangular objects, each with stubby wings and a -bright light on the nose. They move slowly and pass in front of the car -to a field on the left. Suddenly they pivot 90° and move parallel with -the road toward the southeast, maintaining the same configuration. Each -has a window on the bottom that emits a bluish light and a buzzing -sound. (Marler 225–226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7083

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- Event 9879 (3B22EAEF)

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Date: 1995
-Description: Astronomer Carl -Sagan publishes The Demon-Haunted World, in which he aims to explain -the scientific method to laypeople and encourage them to learn critical -and skeptical thinking. He explains methods to help distinguish between -ideas that are considered valid science and those that can be considered -pseudoscience. Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for -consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking and -should stand up to rigorous questioning. He argues that the chances of -extraterrestrial spacecraft visiting Earth are vanishingly small. -However, he does think it plausible that Cold War concerns contributed -to governments misleading their citizens about UFOs, and writes that -“some UFO reports and analyses, and perhaps voluminous files, have been -made inaccessible to the public which pays the bills … It’s time for the -files to be declassified and made generally available.” He cautions -against jumping to conclusions about suppressed UFO data and stresses -that there is no strong evidence that aliens are visiting the Earth -either in the past or present. He worries that fake news and conspiracy -theories will become the reality of the future, predicting: “I have a -foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when -the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all -the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when -awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one -representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the -people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably -question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously -consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to -distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost -without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.” (Carl Sagan, The -Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark, Random -House, 1995; Wikipedia, “The -Demon-Haunted World”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7084

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Event 9880 -(1737C633)

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Date: 1995
-Description: The National Research Council of Canada announces that it -will no longer accept UFO reports for analysis. As a consequence, the -Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigations on its behalf ceases. -Ufologist Chris -Rutkowski casually suggests that the NRC could forward any -non-meteoric sightings it runs across. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7085

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Event 9881 -(A1DB65EF)

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Date: 1995
-Description: The China UFO Research Organization in Beijing has now -collected more than 5,000 reports of UFOs in Chinese airspace. (Good -Need, p. 403)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7086

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Event 9882 -(BED06D1A)

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Date: 1/6/1995
-Description: 6:48 p.m. Capt. Roger Wills and First Officer Mark Stuart -are piloting a British Airways Boeing 737 aircraft with 60 passengers -when they are buzzed by a bright wedge-shaped object as they are -preparing to land at Manchester Airport, England. The object appears -only yards in front of the airliner as it flies at 4,000 feet. It is so -close that Stuart instinctively reacts by ducking down inside the -cockpit. It has small lights, makes no attempt to change course, and -makes no discernable sound or turbulence. The object does not appear on -radar. Possibly a fireball meteor. (David Boras, “UFO Nearly Collides -with British Airliner,” IUR 21, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 26–27; “UFO -Near Miss over the Airport,” Manchester (UK) Evening News, February -18, 2010; Good Need, pp. 402– 403; -UFOFiles2, pp. 137–139; -Marler 140–143, 266–269; Patrick Gross, “Air -Misses”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7087

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Event 9883 -(F6797FC2)

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Date: 1/12/1995
-Description: Around 5:00 a.m. Farmer Beto Lima is hunting armadillos on -his property near Feira de Santana, Bahía, Brazil, when he finds an -object the size of a Volkswagen beetle floating on a pond. He manages to -pull it to the shore when suddenly liquid flows from it and two -creatures emerge. One of them is hairy and clawed like a sloth, the -other is apparently dead and looks like a child. The object is -lightweight, and Lima carries it into his house. Brazilian soldiers -allegedly retrieve the wreckage and the creatures. (“O -caso Roswell nordestina: Queda da UFO na -Bahia, em janeiro de 1995,” UFOs-Wilson, May 20, 2012; Brazil -521–529)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7088

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Event 9884 -(64A8F1AC)

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Date: 2/1995
-Description: A Boeing 737 is starting a landing approach at 7,900 feet -at Guiyang Airport [now Guiyang Longdongbao International Airport], -Guizhou province, China, when its anti-collision system detects an -object rushing toward the aircraft. Some 6,000 feet away, the pilot sees -a UFO changing from a rhomboid to a circular shape and from yellow to -red. The pilot lands safely, even though the object remains on his radar -screen for some time before disappearing to the south. (Good Need, p. 403; -Patrick Gross, “Air -Misses”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7089

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Event 9885 -(D5E0A830)

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Date: 2/20/1995
-Description: In briefing notes on the safety implications of UFO close -approaches for the Joint Airmiss Working Group in the UK, former British -Airways Capt. Graham Sheppard comments: “It would not be surprising to -discover that, in the past, unexplained aeroplane losses have been -caused by instinctive maneuvering to avoid a conflicting UFO… The -commercial sensibilities of the airlines should now be set aside along -with the media’s inability to give serious treatment to the subject. -Otherwise this discrete and notifiable hazard to aircraft safety will -continue to be concealed and thus gratuitously omitted from the briefing -syllabus.” (Good Need, p. 404)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7090

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Event 9886 -(34AFD506)

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Date: 2/22/1995
-Description: Researcher Timothy -S. Cooper receives a document purporting to be the first annual -report of the Majestic 12 Project, supposedly written in 1951 and -referring to possible virus contamination stemming from retrieval of the -Roswell aliens. Nick -Redfern has examined it and says it is definitely a hoax, though it -could possibly represent disinformation from Russia. (Timothy S. Cooper, -“Research -Synopsis on the Majestic Documents,” The Author, December 30, 1999; -Nick Redfern, “Why -the Majestic 12 ‘1st Annual Report’ Is a Hoax,” Mysterious Universe, -July 30, 2019; Kremlin 202–208)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7091

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Event 9887 -(FABDC0CF)

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Date: 3/8/1995
-Description: A military radar installation near Luzern, Switzerland, -detects a series of anomalous radar targets that, taken together, appear -to make up the straight-line trajectory of an unidentified object -traveling at a speed near Mach 3. The consistency in velocity and -direction of the three track segments strongly suggests that it is a -single object traveling about 150 miles in just over 4 minutes, which -corresponds to an average velocity of about 2,147 mph. Another track -going in the same direction was picked up 70 seconds after the first one -dropped off the radar, separated by a few miles. This time the system -recorded six consecutive returns, each registering a radial speed -component of about 2,088 mph. Again the system dropped the track. A -minute later the Luzern radar records hits on yet another object, loses -it again, and detects it three more times over 40 seconds before it is -dropped for the final time. (Bruce Maccabee, “Atmosphere -or UFO? A Response to the 1997 SSE Review Panel Report,” Journal of -Scientific Exploration 13, no. 3 (1999): 421–459)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7092

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Event 9888 -(ECCF5B8A)

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Date: 3/14/1995
-Description: 3:40–4:00 a.m. Ismailovich Borovkov wakes up to a bright -light shining in his home on Serebristy Boulevard in St. Petersburg, -Russia. He sees a bright orange light hovering outside the window for 10 -minutes, then it suddenly diminishes to a point and disappears. Borovkov -hears a loud ringing in his right ear. Around 4:00 a.m., another -resident sees a UFO over the Pulkov Highway. (“Close Encounters over St -Petersburg, March 14, 1995,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7093

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Event 9889 -(035F276E)

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Date: 3/14/1995
-Description: 7:00–8:00 p.m. A further cluster of UFO sightings, some of -them close encounters and one a radar case, take place around -St. Petersburg, Russia. (“Close Encounters over St Petersburg, March 14, -1995,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 12–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7094

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Event 9890 -(B1C31771)

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Date: 3/30/1995
-Description: 8:30 a.m. Farmer Jan Pienaar, 45, is driving in the North -West Province, South Africa, when his truck stops dead. About 240 feet -ahead is a huge object on three landing pads. It has the form of two -inverted soup plates with a pudding bowl on top, and the upper level has -portholes. The object buzzes like a “giant electric beater.” He gets out -of the car but feels paralyzed as if a magnet is holding him. After 3–5 -minutes the UFO takes off, and he regains his senses and the car starts -up. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part -1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7095

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Event 9891 -(13571B95)

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Date: 4/1995
-Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici begins publishing UFO -Forum, edited by Giuseppe Verdi in Vittoria, Italy. It continues through -at least October 2001. (UFO -Forum, no. -1 (April 1995))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7096

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Event 9892 -(F0AA6E51)

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Date: 4/10/1995
-Description: 7:30 a.m. An 11-year-old boy is on his way to school with -his mother and two younger sisters near Merweville, South Africa, when -they see a strange object on a side road. It looks like a cloud but is -stationary. Then it moves north, although the prevailing wind is to the -west, and disappears behind some clouds. The object is about the size of -a large truck. (Marie van Staden, “A -Peculiar Cloud-Like Object,” UFO Afrinews 13 (February 1996): -10–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7097

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Event 9893 -(38BE55E6)

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Date: 4/14/1995
-Description: President Bill -Clinton issues Executive Order 12,958, which establishes a system to -automatically declassify information more than 25 years old, unless the -government takes discrete steps to continue the classification of a -particular document or group of documents. The order takes effect on -October 14, 1995. (US Department of Justice, “FOIA -Update: Executive Order 12,958,” 1995)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7098

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Event 9894 -(1586A16C)

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Date: 4/18/1995
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A woman in Prospect, Chebucto Peninsula, Nova -Scotia, sees a large, brilliant, white light hovering in the sky to the -northwest. She can see its reflection on the surface of the still water. -She calls her husband, who gets binoculars and determines there are two -lights side by side. After several minutes or so, his mother on the -floor above says she can see the light too. As soon as they switch the -deck lights off for a better view, the two lights start moving directly -toward their house, and he watches it slowly fly about 100 feet above -the house. It seems to be a rectangular object about 200 feet long by -100 feet wide. It disappears behind the tree line. (Don Ledger, “The -Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7099

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Event 9895 -(9484D407)

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Date: 5/5/1995
-Description: 4:15 a.m. A senior master sergeant and an airman are -patrolling the perimeter of the Ghedi Air Force Base near Brescia, -Italy. Suddenly they notice an unusual yellow light zigzagging and -maneuvering in the sky, much bigger than a star and heading toward the -northern part of the airfield. After several minutes it increases in -size and becomes a round, orange object as big as the full moon, moving -at least 186 mph before hovering a while and zooming away. It returns -and leaves twice more, the last time descending to 65 feet above their -patrol vehicle. They think this time it will land, but it ascends and -zooms away again. They prefer not to report the incident. (2Pinotti -150–151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7100

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Event 9896 -(26BDD675)

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Date: 5/25/1995
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An America West B-757 airliner is cruising at -39,000 feet near Bovina, Texas. To their right and somewhat below their -altitude, Capt. Gene Tollefson and First Officer John J. Waller see a -row of bright white lights that sequence on and off from left to right. -Waller contacts the Albuquerque FAA Air Route Traffic Control Center -while the sighting is in progress and checks with military installations -in the area, but no explanation can be found. As the airliner proceeds -to the west and the object begins dropping behind, the crew sees it -against a background of thunderclouds. When the background clouds pulse -with lightning, the UFO appears as a dark, wingless, elongated -cigar-like object around the strobing lights. Though they do not know -the exact distance, Tollefson and Waller estimate the object to be -300–400 feet long. One of the air traffic controllers at Albuquerque -contacts NORAD, which confirms an unidentified radar target in the -vicinity. But this later proves to be a small aircraft whose transponder -is not initially operative. (NICAP, “America -West Airlines Flight 564 / NORAD/ F- 111 -Incident”; Walter N. Webb, Final Report on the America West Airline -Case, May 24–25, 1995, Fund for UFO Research, July 1996; “1995: -The America West UFO Sighting,” ufocasebook.com; Patrick Gross, “Texas, -May 1995”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7101

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Event 9897 -(1661E7E3)

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Date: 5/25/1995
-Description: America West airline crew observed cigar-shaped object with -pulsating lights
-Type: sighting
-Reference: The -UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
-Location: Bovina, TX
-ID: 492

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Event 9898 -(3E08D6E1)

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Date: 6/15/1995
-Description: 2:30 a.m. A triangular UFO with two other brightly lit -round objects is seen over RAF West Drayton [now closed], England. -(Marler 143)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7102

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Event 9899 -(7CA33110)

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Date: 6/22/1995
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Soldiers guarding a military ammunition dump in -the southern Carpathian Mountains near the Buzau River, Romania, notice -several bright lights in the valley below. They are attached to an -object that begins ascending and approaching them from the southwest. It -is a flat triangular object with rounded edges that passes straight -above their unit, illuminating the ground from a height of about 150 -feet. They can hear a loud buzzing noise. It glides to the northeast -over the mountains near Întorsura Buzăului and disappears. The next day -the unit is rounded up and told never to speak about the sighting. -(Romania 94–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7103

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Event 9900 -(45611BA8)

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Date: 7/1995
-Description: USAF Headquarters publishes, through the Government -Printing Office, The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New -Mexico Desert, by Col. Richard L. Weaver and Lt. James McAndrew, blaming -the Roswell debris on a top-secret Project Mogul balloon array sent -aloft to detect signs of Soviet nuclear explosions. The first part of -the 1,000+-page document is an introductory summary, supported by 31 -attachments, by Weaver that was released in September 1994. The second -part is a synopsis of Project Mogul balloon research findings by -McAndrew, with additional attachments and appendices. A photo section -includes photos of various Air Force personnel and Mogul scientists. The -report claims Mogul flight number 4, launched on June 4, 1947, was -responsible for the Roswell debris. The attachments and appendices are -mostly memos dealing with the Air Force requests of its departments for -Roswell records; statements and interviews with persons connected with -Project Mogul; and New York University progress reports on the Constant -Level Balloon project (a study to determine how balloons and their -payloads could be maintained at high altitudes for long periods of -time). About 95% of the report is padding. (Robert A. Galganski, “The -Roswell Debris: A Quantitative Evaluation of the Project Mogul -Hypothesis,” IUR 20, no. 2 (March/April 1995): 3–6, 23–24; Charles B. -Moore, Robert G. Todd, Mark Rodeghier, and Kevin D. Randle, “Project -Mogul and the Roswell Crash: An Exchange,” IUR 20, no. 2 (March/April -1995): 7–9, 19–22; Col. Richard L. Weaver and 1Lt. James McAndrew, The -Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert, US -Air Force Headquarters, July 1995; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “The -Final(?) Air Force Report on Roswell,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter 1995): 5–6; -Richard Hall, “Fact vs. Fiction in the Pentagon,” IUR 20, no. 5 (Winter -1995): 7–8; Swords 352–354; “Air -Force Reports on the Roswell UFO Incident,” Military Wiki; Clark III -32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7104

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Event 9901 -(6AF07616)

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Date: 7/1/1995
-Description: Dusk. As a Varig Airlines flight is descending about 37 -miles from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, the commander sees a very bright -disc-like object spinning in the sky in a curious way. The UFO is about -215 feet in diameter and emits a bright white light. As they approach -the landing, the light speeds up and crosses in front of them. (Clark -III 201; Brazil 543–544)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7105

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Event 9902 -(23CBF384)

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Date: 7/15/1995
-Description: 2:45 p.m. Two witnesses (an emergency room nurse and her -husband) are driving home (probably along State Highway 8, adjacent to -the Naugatuck River) after a fishing trip to Harwinton, Connecticut. A -shadow crosses the road as they are driving north, and they look up to -see a large metallic disc about 500 feet in diameter at an altitude of -about 200 feet, over trees about a half mile away. The object is -traveling 65–70 mph and its surface is metallic gray with a band of -apparent panes of dark glass and facets on its upper portion. It passes -behind trees to the right in about 10–15 seconds. A group of independent -witnesses at another location does not observe the object. (Mark -Cashman, “The Harwinton Daylight Disc,” IUR 25, no. 2 (Summer 2000): -14–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7106

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Event 9903 -(CC8A4CAE)

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Date: 7/28/1995
-Description: The US General Accounting Office releases Results of a -Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash near Roswell, New Mexico, -which says that all administrative records from Roswell Army Air Field -in New Mexico from March 1945 to December 1949 have been destroyed, as -well as outgoing messages from October 1946 to December 1949. This is -perhaps not unusual for the time, as record retention and disposition -procedures were unclear; however, Nick -Redfern suggests the possibility that the records were destroyed or -removed to hide evidence of unethical radiation and other experiments on -unwilling human subjects. The GAO agrees with the Air Force that the -wreckage was most likely from a Project Mogul balloon train. The report -is in response to a request by Rep. Steven -Schiff (D-N.Mex.). (Results -of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash near Roswell, New -Mexico, General Accounting Office, July 1995, reprinted in IUR 20, -no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 3–6; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “What the -GAO Found: Nothing about Much Ado,” IUR 20, no. 4 (July/Aug. 1995): 7–8, -24; Swords 354–355; Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa -Hagan, 2017, pp. 134–139)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7107

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Event 9904 -(615E9F4D)

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Date: 7/29/1995
-Description: 12:15 a.m. Five witnesses in Low Bradfield, South -Yorkshire, England, watch a triangular object, “bigger than a commercial -airliner, “ flying flat side forward. A low humming sound is heard. -(Marler 143–144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7108

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Event 9905 -(AB86CC9C)

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Date: 7/31/1995
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Aereolíneas Argentinas Flight 734, a Boeing 727 -with three crew and 102 passengers, is in the landing pattern for San -Carlos de Bariloche Airport, Rio Negro, Argentina. Capt. Jorge Polanco -suddenly sees a white light bearing down on the aircraft before halting -only 300 feet away. The object then makes a turn and flies parallel to -the 727. It looks like an inverted flying saucer as large as the -airliner, has two green lights at each end and a flashing orange light -in the center, and very powerfully illuminated, according to the -captain. As Polanco begins to land, the runway and airport lights go -out, so he is forced to climb back to 9,800 feet, accompanied by the -UFO. Airport chief Maj. Jorge Orviedo reports that the airport’s radio -support is cut off, and there is a blackout in many parts of the city. -When the ground lights come back on, the UFO shoots away at tremendous -speed. The object is also observed by a Gendarmeria Piper PA-31-310 that -is flying 1,900 feet above the 727. (Good Need, pp. 403–404; -Patrick Gross, “Air -Misses”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7109

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Event 9906 -(0F673D5C)

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Date: 8/8/1995
-Description: Two airliners, one from TAM and the other from Rio Sul -Serviços Aéreos Regionais, watch a UFO over Macapá, Amapá, Brazil. TAM -Cmdr. Marcos Aurélio de Castro reports that he and his copilot see a -metallic glow ahead of them to the right. The air traffic center cannot -see anything but notes that the Rio Sul flight has reported something -similar 5 minutes earlier. Suddenly the silvery object approaches the -TAM aircraft. The sighting lasts about 10 minutes. (Clark III 201–203; -Brazil 544–545)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7110

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Event 9907 -(4FF99166)

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Date: 8/14/1995
-Description: 11:55 p.m. An enormous, roughly triangular object is seen -by three family members near the Brighton Racecourse, Sussex, England. -(Marler 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7111

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Event 9908 -(B5654D11)

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Date: 8/27/1995
-Description: 9:30 a.m. Tim Edwards shoots a video of a disc-shaped -object hovering then darting about the sky over Salida, Colorado. A -series of ripples or moving lights are seen to rotate from left to right -on the object, which stays just above the sun while Edwards, his -daughter, and four construction workers also watch. UFO investigators -are not impressed with the video, which might be spider web or -cottonwood fluff. Bruce -Maccabee thinks it might be a genuine UFO. (“UFO -Video Salida Tim Edwards 1995,” UFOvideodotcom YouTube channel, -October 4, 2012; “Colorado -Man and His Films Bring UFO Meet Back to Earth,” Salt Lake City -Deseret News, November 30, 1995; Jennie Zeidman, “The Will to Believe: -Gnats, Moths, and Cottonwood Fluff from Outer Space,” IUR 21, no. 4 -(Winter 1996): 14–17; Bruce Maccabee, “Salida: An Analysis of the -Video,” IUR 21, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 17–19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7112

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Event 9909 -(1355615C)

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Date: 8/28/1995
-Description: Fox TV broadcasts for the first time the “alien autopsy -film,” a 17-minute black-and-white film supposedly depicting a secret -medical examination of autopsy of an alien by the US military. The -program, hosted in the US by Jonathan -Frakes, is -given the title Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction. The film is broadcast by -Channel 4 in the UK as a segment of “The Roswell Incident.” London-based -entrepreneur Ray -Santilli presents it as an authentic autopsy on the body of an alien -recovered from the 1947 crash of a flying disc near Roswell, New Mexico. -The film footage is allegedly supplied to him by a retired military -cameraman who wishes to remain anonymous. Experts, including pathologist -Cyril -Wecht, special effects specialist Stan -Winston, and -cinematographer Allen Daviau, are -shown commenting on the film’s authenticity. The program causes a -sensation, with Time magazine declaring that the film has sparked a -debate “with an intensity not lavished on any home movie since the Zapruder film.” -Fox rebroadcasts the program twice, each time to higher ratings. But -even segment director John -Jopson tells producer Robert -Kiviat that he suspects the entire film is a fake, but Fox makes it -clear that such suspicions will not be allowed. Mike -Maloney, a -former photographer for the London tabloid Daily Mirror, says it is the -same footage that he saw in the late 1970s at a private viewing in the -Los Angeles house of a Disney executive. In 2006, Santilli admits the -film is not authentic but rather a staged reconstruction of footage -(using sheep brains and jelly stuffed into puppets made by a UK sculptor -John Humphreys) he claims to have viewed in 1992, but which has -deteriorated and become unusable by the time he made his film. The -military cameraman is portrayed by a homeless man in Los Angeles. -Santilli claims that a few frames from the original are embedded in his -film, but he never specifies which ones. Producer Spyros -Melaris claims that he has made all the auxiliary footage, including -that of the homeless man. The existence of an original filmstrip of the -alleged autopsy has never been independently verified. Philip -Mantle of BUFORA has spent 25 years examining both the footage and -the story surrounding it. (Wikipedia, “Alien -autopsy”; Internet Movie Database, “Alien -Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?”; “Alien Autopsy,” -Orbitalmedia YouTube channel, February 14, 2013; Richard Corliss, “Autopsy -or Fraud-topsy?” Time, November 27, 1995; Joseph A. Bauer, “A -Surgeon’s View: Alien Autopsy’s Overwhelming Lack of Credibility,” -Skeptical Inquirer 20, no. 1 (January 1996): 23–24; Michael Hesemann and -Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell: The Alien Autopsy Film, Area 51, and the -US Government Coverup of UFOs, Marlowe, 1997, pp. 182–210; -“Eamonn Investigates: Alien Autopsy,” UFOHighway YouTube channel, -September 19, 2010, part -1, part -2, part -3, part -4; Philip Mantle, Alien Autopsy Inquest, The Author, 2007; Philip -Mantle, “Alien Autopsy Film, R.I.P.,” IUR 32, no. 1 (August 2008): -15–19; Nathalie Lagerfeld, “How -an Alien Autopsy Hoax Captured the World’s Imagination for a -Decade,” Time, June 24, 2016; Philip Mantle, Roswell Alien Autopsy: -The Truth behind the Film That Shocked the World, Flying Disk Press, -2017, revised ed., 2020; Stu Neville, “Effects, Lies, and Videotape: 25 -Years of the Alien Autopsy,” Fortean Times 395 (August 2020): 32–36; -Nigel Watson, “Alien Autopsy: The Interview,” Fortean Times 395 (August -2020): 37–40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7113

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Event 9910 -(1B6F870E)

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Date: 9/21/1995
-Description: The USAF Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory issues a Report on -Project Mogul by 1Lt. James McAndrew. (1Lt. James McAndrew, Report -on Project Mogul: Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings, Lawrence -Berkeley Laboratory, September 21, 1995)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7114

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Event 9911 -(60CD2025)

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Date: 9/29/1995
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Near Vejle, Jutland, Denmark, a 24-year-old man -is driving when the dashboard lights behave erratically, the wipers go -on, and his dog gets agitated. Then the engine goes completely dead. -Without warning, a powerful light explodes over the vehicle, coming from -a huge disc directly above the car. (“Bilstop -med Effekter,” UFO-Nyt 1996, no. 1, pp. 4–5; Herbert S. Taylor, “An -Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May -2011): 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7116

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Event 9912 -(973C5D8B)

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Date: 9/29/1995
-Description: 8:50 p.m. A witness in Stanley, Durham, England, watches a -strange triangular object through binoculars. It flies pointed-end -forward and has a pulsing red light on its front tip and steady white -lights on its other tips. (Marler 144)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7115

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Event 9913 -(A2C3F81F)

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Date: 10/1/1995
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Fernando Beserra and Wilson da Silva Oliveira -are fishing off the Ilha do Major, a mangrove area near the Rio -Piaçabuçu adjacent to São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil, when a bright -yellow object approaches swiftly and silently, landing on a nearby -islet. Their boat engine fails as the UFO passes over, but they restart -it and flee the area. They return the next morning and find an area of -dry vegetation twisted clockwise in a circle 18 feet in diameter. Four -marks of apparent landing gear are also found, each measuring 4 by 6 -inches and half an inch deep. Researchers from the Instituto Nacional de -Investigações de Fenômenos Aeroespaciais find that in the soil samples -obtained within the burned area seeds germinate easily, but those -planted in the samples harvested outside the circle do not germinate and -are attacked by fungi. (Thiago Luiz Ticchetti, “UFO -Landing in São Vicente: -UFO Lands and Leaves Marks on Ground,” Nexus Newsfeed, October 2, -2019; “Caso -de OVNI avistado em -São Vicente completa 25 anos,” Diário do Litoral (Santos, São -Paulo), March 9, 2020; Brazil 354–360)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7117

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Event 9914 -(9EF01913)

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Date: 11/27/1995
-Description: 6:20 p.m. Mohammad Ahsan and four colleagues see two -triangle-shaped objects emitting laser-like blue rays splashed with red -over Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They are silently moving from the -al-Hamriya Fish Market southeast toward Dubai International Airport. -(“UFO -Sighting in UAE Reported,” Saudi Gazette, November 28, 1995, via UFO -Newsclipping Service, no. 317 (December 1995): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7118

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Event 9915 -(861069BB)

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Date: 12/1995
-Description: Real-estate developer Robert -Bigelow founds the National Institute for Discovery Science in Las -Vegas, Nevada, to research and advance serious study of various fringe -science and paranormal topics, especially ufology. It holds its first -organizational meeting in December. Bigelow soon hires retired US Army -Col. John -B. Alexander part-time -and biochemist Colm -Kelleher as deputy administrator. Alexander puts together a -Scientific Advisory Board that includes ufologist Jacques -Vallée, parapsychologist Harold -E. Puthoff, astronaut Edgar Mitchell, -mathematician Gian-Carlo -Rota, physicist O’Dean -Judd, physicist -Johndale -Solem, astronaut and Senator Harrison -Schmitt, psychologist -Albert -Harrison, and -Christopher -(Kit) Green as chair. The first official board meeting takes place -in January 1996. NIDS disbands in October 2004. (Wikipedia, “National -Institute for Discovery -Science”; John B. Alexander, “From Los Alamos to Skinwalker Ranch,” -Fortean Times 363 (February 2018): 38–39; Skinwalkers 14–15, 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7119

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Event 9916 -(EC3C7550)

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Date: 12/12/1995
-Description: 2:30 p.m. Farmer Egon Kratz and his son-in-law, Adilson -Marcílio, are working on their Bela Vista Farm off Highway 227 about 5 -miles from Ituporanga, Santa Catarina, Brazil, when a bright, silent, -disc-shaped object appears low above some nearby trees, moves swiftly -about 30 feet from the ground, and disappears into a valley. On December -15, Marcílio and some friends return to look for traces and find much of -the vegetation scorched. Technicians from the Federal University of -Santa Catarina arrive on December 20 to collect soil samples and rocks. -Kratz notes in January that much of the foliage and vegetation where the -UFO has passed is dead or defoliated. (Brazil 350–353)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7120

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- Event 9917 (3580F6B5)

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Date: 1996
-Description: The Institut des Hautes Études de la Défense Nationale, a -French strategic planning agency, decides to create a 12-member COMité -d’ÉTudes Approfondies (COMETA) to review well-documented UFO cases and -cooperate with agencies in other countries to assess national security -factors. It is chaired by French Air Force General Denis -Letty and begins by interviewing French witnesses, consolidates the -best information, and presents its research to appropriate French -agencies. (Wikipedia, “Rapport -COMETA”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7121

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Event 9918 -(0D94931B)

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Date: 1996
-End date: 1997
-Description: Crimean ufologist Anton Anfalov made a map of the Soviet -secret sensitive site “Zhitkur” with instructions on the location of all -sites and drew diagrams of their devices.
-Type: document
-Reference: link
-Location: Crimea

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Event 9919 -(C38FB0BD)

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Date: 1996
-Description: Nick -Pope, a -former Ministry of Defence official who served on the Sec (AS) 2a UFO -desk in 1991–1994, publishes a memoir titled Open Skies, Closed Minds -that recounts his conversion from UFO skeptic to believer due to his -investigation of cases that seem to be evidential. He concludes that -“extraterrestrial spacecraft are visiting Earth and that something -should be done about it urgently.” (Nick Pope, Open -Skies, Closed Minds, Simon -& Schuster, 1996; Wikipedia, “Open -Skies, Closed Minds”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7122

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Event 9920 -(93D9FF60)

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Date: 1996
-Description: La Fundación Anomalía is created by a group of Spanish -ufologists headed by José Ruesga Montiel in Santander, Cantabria, Spain. -It takes over publishing Cuadernos de Ufologia from the Colectivo -Cuadernos in 1997 and publishes a new journal, Anomalía, from September -2000 to 2011. (Anomalía, -no. 1 (September 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7123

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Event 9921 -(80EB0B6A)

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Date: 1996
-Description: Skinwalker Ranch is purchased by Robert Bigelow
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Skinwalker Ranch

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Event 9922 -(78CDB0B4)

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Date: 1/13/1996
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Businessman and pilot Carlos de Souza is driving -from Très Coracões to Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil, along Highway 491. -About 3 miles from Varginha, he hears a sound like an engine rumbling, -so he stops by the side of the road and gets out of his vehicle. He sees -a cylindrical airship 33–40 feet long and 13–16 feet in diameter flying -about 395 feet above him toward Varginha. It is metallic, polished, and -reflects the morning sunlight. He notices a hole in the right side of -the ship and white smoke pouring out. After it crosses the highway, de -Souza gets into his car and starts chasing it. When it crashes into the -woods, he finds a dirt road that leads him to the scene, which is -covered with debris that looks like tinfoil. He picks up a larger piece -that is thin and light. When he kneads it, he is amazed to see that it -returns to its original state. Further away, he sees an Army helicopter, -two tarpaulins, an ambulance, and three cars. He smells a powerful -ammonia odor and is startled by a military police officer who approaches -him and shouts, “Go away, you saw nothing.” Two more soldiers appear and -force him to leave, so he returns to his car, drives away, and stops at -a restaurant. A man approaches him and asks if he is Carlos de Souza, He -replies yes, and the man calls him over and says, “What you saw, I saw -too. You should not talk to anyone about it.” The man then relates -details about de Souza’s private life. Meanwhile, two soldiers from the -Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Très Coracões contact ufologists Ubirajara -Franco Rodrigues and Claudeir -Covo about the incident to tell them that the area has been cordoned -off and that trucks are loading odd material. There are rumors that -NORAD has alerted the Brazilian authorities that it has tracked a large -number of UFOs over the western hemisphere and that one has penetrated -Brazilian airspace. (Wikipedia, “Incidente -de Varginha”; Clark III 1222; Good Need, pp. 369–376; -Roger K. Leir, UFO Crash in Brazil: A Genuine UFO Crash with Surviving -ETs, Book Tree, 2005; “ET -de Varginha: Caso completa 20 anos com mistérios -e incertezas,” G1, January 20, 2016; Patrick Gross, “The -Varginha Affair”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7125

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Event 9923 -(8E130B7F)

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Date: 1/13/1996
-Description: Oralina Augusta de Freitas is watching TV in her home near -Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil, when she sees a UFO hovering over the -cattle, which are agitated. She calls her husband, Eurico Rodrigues, and -they watch the object, which is the size of a microbus and the shape of -a submarine. For 40 minutes the object flies less than 20 feet above the -ground, heading toward town. The object has a hole in its structure -through which white smoke is billowing. Pieces of its fuselage sway in -the wind. (“ET -de Varginha: Caso completa 20 anos com mistérios e incertezas,” -G1, January 20, 2016; Clark III 1222)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7124

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Event 9924 -(98C98476)

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Date: 1/20/1996
-Description: 8:00 a.m. The Varginha, Brazil, fire department receives a -call from someone who asks them to investigate a strange creature seen -in a park north of the Jardim Andere neighborhood. At 10:00 a.m., -firefighters arrive expecting to find a wild animal, but they encounter -a 5-foot-tall bipedal entity with red eyes and brown skin. Fish peddler -João Bosco Manoel comes across firefighters Sgt. Palhares, Cpl. Rubens, -and soldiers Santos and Nivaldo, who are carrying a net with a strange -being inside it. One of its feet is brown, and the firefighters are -trying to conceal it from curious onlookers. A smell of ammonia -permeates the scene. (Clark III 1222–1223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7126

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Event 9925 -(13D96261)

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Date: 1/20/1996
-Description: Around 6:00 p.m. After a hailstorm halts the search for -several hours, the Varginha, Brazil, search units venture back into the -woods. Two plainclothes officers of the Military Police Intelligence -Service, one of them Marco Eli Chereze, locate and capture a fourth -creature, forcing it into the back of their car. They bring it to a -health clinic but are turned away, so they take it to the Hospital -Regional do Sul de Minas, where the first examinations are performed. -(Clark III 1224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7129

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Event 9926 -(F132CAA3)

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Date: 1/20/1996
-Description: 3:30 p.m. Sisters Liliane Fátima da Silva, 16, and -Valquíria Aparecida da Silva, 14, and their friend Kátia Andrade Xavier, -22, are crossing a vacant lot at Rua Dr. Benevenuto Bráz Viêrira in the -Santana neighborhood of Varginha, Brazil, when they encounter a thin, -hairless, dark-skinned creature with dark veins, two legs with enormous -two-toed feet, two arms with only three fingers, a huge head two three -bony protrusions (one on each side and one in the center), and huge red -eyes crouching beside a wall. At first they think it is a statue, but -then it turns its head and they think it is a devil. They run home and -call their mother, Luzia Helena da Silva, but when they return to the -vacant lot, all they find is two footprints and an awful stench. -(Wikipedia, “Incidente -de Varginha”; -Clark III 1223–1224; “ET -de Varginha: Caso completa 20 anos com mistérios e incertezas,” G1, -January 20, 2016; “Caso -Varginha Minuto a Minuto,” João Marcelo YouTube channel, July 13, -2016; Brazil 494– 509)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7128

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Event 9927 -(E212C648)

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Date: 1/20/1996
-Description: Afternoon. According to testimony by an ex-soldier, -uniformed military men open fire while they are sweeping the small -forest near Varginha, Brazil, where the creature had been found earlier. -A soldier becomes frightened when he sees a creature apparently helping -a wounded comrade. Two shots strike its belly and one its chest. A -fourth shot hits its shoulder. These two creatures differ from the -earlier one and have black hair. Immediately afterward, soldiers come -out of the woods carrying the creatures in two black sacks. Something is -moving in one of them. (Clark III 1223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7127

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Event 9928 -(7090124F)

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Date: 1/21/1996
-Description: The strange creatures are transferred to Hospital Humanitas -Unimed in Varginha, Brazil. There are many reports of unusual movements -of the Army, the police, and the fire department between the two -hospitals. Vehicles are also seen arriving at a hospital in Belo -Horizonte, where allegedly one of the creatures dies. (Clark III -1224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7131

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Event 9929 -(21D78173)

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Date: 1/21/1996
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Marco Eli Chareze returns home to his mother’s -house to change clothes because his are drenched with rain. He begins to -fall ill. (Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7130

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Event 9930 -(08232ADD)

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Date: 1/22/1996
-Description: The Brazilian military uses three trucks and several other -vehicles to move the covered bodies. The trucks are parked on the side -of Hospital Humanitas Unimed, and a series of cover-up operations are -performed involving doctors, nurses, soldiers, firemen, and military -police. The bodies inside the three trucks go to the Escola de Sargentos -das Armas in Très Coracões, Brazil. (Clark III 1224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7132

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Event 9931 -(E2573F54)

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Date: 1/23/1996
-Description: 9:00 a.m. The creatures are delivered in a metal box -punctured with holes to the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil, -where doctors Fortunato Badan Palhares and Conradín Metz begin -performing autopsies. Lab workers are prevented from entering the site. -According to three military sources, at least one creature is taken to -underground labs located at the university. Another creature is referred -to the Legal Medical Institute at the Cemitério dos Amarais in Campinas. -Army officials continue making decisive movements around Campinas -through April. There are rumors that metal fragments of an unknown -origin are taken to the Brazilian Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia -Aeroespacial in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, where they are examined -in secret underground facilities. The same day, a cargo aircraft takes -off from Canoas Air Force Base, Rio Grande do Sul, transporting three -containers, a box, several soldiers, and a sophisticated radar system to -be deployed near Varginha. (Clark III 1224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7134

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Event 9932 -(AD31F484)

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Date: 1/23/1996
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A military convoy leaves the Escola de Sargentos -das Armas for Campinas, Brazil. (Clark III 1224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7133

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Event 9933 -(E3497BB7)

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Date: 1/25/1996
-Description: The US military arrives in Campinas, Brazil, by helicopter, -where the entire university is on standby. (Clark III 1224–1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7135

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Event 9934 -(011410BC)

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Date: 1/26/1996
-Description: Several scientists and military personnel linked to NASA -arrive at the University of Campinas, Brazil. The cover story is that US -scientists are choosing Brazilian scientists to take part in future -space missions. (Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7136

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Event 9935 -(0F691BE3)

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Date: 2/6/1996
-Description: Marco Eli Chereze, 23, one of the military policemen -involved in the Varginha, Brazil, creature capture, begins exhibiting -strange symptoms and notices inflammation and a small abscess under his -left arm. At the barracks infirmary, physician Robson Ferreira Melo -performs surgery to remove the abscess, found to be due to -staphylococcus. Then Chereze develops a fever and pain all over his -body. (Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7137

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Event 9936 -(325F44D4)

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Date: 2/8/1996
-Description: Wall Street Journal on Area 51 worker toxic disposal fires -lawsuits: “A Secret Air Base Hazardous Waste Act, Workers’ Suit Alleges -U.S. Cites National Security In Fighting Claims Tied to Toxic Disposal -Fires Plaintiffs Fear Retaliation”
-Type: article
-Reference: link
-Location: Area 51

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Event 9937 -(6BAE742E)

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Date: 2/11/1996
-Description: Chereze is admitted to Hospital Bom Pastor in Varginha, -Brazil.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7138

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Event 9938 -(CAAA3DFC)

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Date: 2/12/1996
-Description: Chereze is transferred to the emergency room of the -Hospital Regional do Sul de Minas, Brazil, suffering from intense pain -in the lower back and fever.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7139

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Event 9939 -(CAE3EDDC)

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Date: 2/15/1996
-Description: Chereze wakes up very tired and in a state or torpor, with -signs of cyanosis. He is transferred to intensive care, where his -condition deteriorates rapidly. Chereze dies at 11:00 a.m. An autopsy -confirms septicemia caused by a urinary infection, but the cause of -death is unclear, according to Dr. Cesário Lincoln Furtado, who says it -is highly unusual for a young man to quickly acquire an immunodeficiency -followed by an attack of three kinds of virulent bacteria. Doctors order -his body to be cremated immediately, but his family will not allow it. -The death certificate gives the cause of death as acute respiratory -failure, sepsis, and pneumonia. The family begins a legal challenge to -have the records released. (A. J. Gevaerd and Ubirajata Franco -Rodrigues, “Varginha -Case: New Revelations,” -translation of “Novas -revalações agitaram Varginha,” UFO Brazil, no. 102, August 1, 2004; -Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7140

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Event 9940 -(ADE85173)

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Date: 3/1996
-Description: Area-51 workers and their widows lose suite against the -federal government in Las Vegas. “..the Air Force could invoke the -common law state secrets privilege to protect military secrets at Area -51, and that once invoked, the privilege is absolute, protecting even -innocuous-seeming information from disclosure.”
-Type: lawsuit
-Reference: link
-Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Event 9941 -(6BAC46EC)

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Date: 3/1/1996
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A man driving past a field in Southport, -Merseyside, England, sees a triangle-shaped object with a white light in -each corner and a green light in the center. It stays motionless for 5 -minutes before it starts circling the field. Then it stops and the -lights merge into one long green light. Without warning, it takes off -and disappears. (“Mystery -in the Evening Skies,” Southport (UK) Visitor, March 8, 1996, via -UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 325 (August 1996): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7141

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Event 9942 -(F67582B0)

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Date: 3/9/1996
-Description: 10:50 p.m. Two groups of motorists at Gallows Corner, -Romford, East London, England, watch a triangular UFO as large as a -soccer field with a white light in each corner and a pulsating orange -light in the center. (Marler 220–221)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7142

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Event 9943 -(2D4FEB6F)

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Date: 3/12/1996
-Description: Two hunters are snowmobiling near Trout Lake, Northwest -Territories, Canada, when they come upon two metallic “spaceships” -blocking their trail. Both objects are about 300 feet in diameter, with -a bright light on their tops and windows on their sides. One stands on -three legs while the other hovers. As the hunters drive around the -objects, the lights go out. Later, Trout Lake officials find large -rectangular impressions in the snow. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in -Canada—1996,” IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7143

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Event 9944 -(B42A0571)

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Date: 4/21/1996
-Description: Around 9:00 p.m. Terezinha Gallo Clepf is celebrating her -67th birthday at the restaurant at the Parque Zoobotânico Municipal -Dr. Mário Frota in Varginha, Brazil, when she steps onto a porch to -smoke a cigarette. She looks to her left and sees a strange creature -with bright red eyes and a yellow helmet on its head. It is behind a -fence that circles the porch. They stare at each other. Clepf goes back -into the restaurant but soon comes back out and the creature is still -there. She gets her husband to take her home. (Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7144

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Event 9945 -(B46CEAAB)

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Date: 4/29/1996
-Description: Luzia Helena da Silva is visited in Varginha, Brazil, by -four men in suits who do not identify themselves. After hearing her -daughters’ story of their January 20 encounter, they offer the family a -large sum of money to record a video denying what they had seen that day -and claiming the whole thing was a joke. (Clark III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7145

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Event 9946 -(FC5B841C)

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Date: 5/8/1996
-Description: Brig. Gen. Sergio Pedro Coelho Lima, commander of the -Escola de Sargentos das Armas in Très Coracões, Brazil, reads a -statement saying that no officer at the school has participated in the -alleged operation. He insists to journalists that nothing unusual has -happened in the city. When asked what the ESA military was doing on -January 20, he replies that the military was “working for the sake of -the Army and the nation.” In 1999, the story is amplified when a Major -Calza says a “dwarf, disfigured and mentally retarded,” was behind some -of the creature reports in Varginha. (Clark III 1225, 1226)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7146

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Event 9947 -(D5FD2173)

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Date: 5/17/1996
-Description: 8:00 p.m. Hildo Lúcio Gardino, 20, is traveling from Très -Coracões to Varginha, Brazil, when she sees a strange creature on the -side of the road. She dims her headlights and speeds past as the -creature places its hands over its eyes and flees into the woods. (Clark -III 1225)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7147

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Event 9948 -(A642F362)

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Date: 5/22/1996
-Description: 3:30 p.m. A motorist on the West Tamar Highway near Bradys -Lookout State Reserve in Tasmania, notices an upright, vapor-like trail -to the north. The trail changes into an upright, bronze-colored cigar -shape that disappears in front of their eyes. (“Northern -Flap,” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 79 (October 1996): 3; Herbert S. -Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): -13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7148

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Event 9949 -(F2B82102)

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Date: 5/29/1996
-Description: About 1:00 p.m. A vertical, misty cloud is seen against the -clear blue sky above Launceston, Tasmania. It forms into a vertical -upright cylinder that seems to have a long hole. The witness and a -friend look away for a second, and the object is gone. (“Northern -Flap,” TUFOIC Newsletter, no. 79 (October 1996): 3; Herbert S. -Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): -13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7149

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Event 9950 -(5A4E9844)

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Date: 6/17/1996
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness is driving east on East Kingsfield -Road in the northern part of Pensacola, Florida, when he sees a large, -black triangular object. He pulls to the side of the road to watch, as -does a truck in front of him. The object has a single white light at -each corner and hovers directly above the road. A red blinking light is -at the center. (“Triangular -Shaped Craft Hovers over Witness,” Pensacola Beach (Fla.) Islander, -July 10, 1996, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 325 (August 1996): -5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7150

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Event 9951 -(C5B1263F)

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Date: 6/24/1996
-Description: Day. Spasso Maximovitch notices an unusual object in the -western sky over Rosh HaAyin in central Israel. He grabs his video -camera to film it, just as a glowing white oval-shaped object appears -some 20° west of the object and streaks toward it at high speed. Within -3 seconds it strikes the stationary orb, causing a huge explosion in the -sky that seemingly destroys both objects. Stunned, Maximovitch stops -filming immediately after capturing the explosion. (Patrick Gross, “UFO -Mid-Air Crash—or Military Drill—Filmed in Israel”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7151

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Event 9952 -(7EDCA0DF)

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Date: 7/1996
-Description: Day. A private pilot is flying his Piper Cherokee PA-28-140 -from Waterville, Nova Scotia, to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, at -3,500 feet. While over Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia, the pilot’s -father-in-law (next to him in the right seat) spots a chrome-colored -sphere 60 feet in diameter about 2 miles away and traveling at the same -speed as the aircraft but about 500 feet lower. The pilot banks gently -in its direction, and the sphere speedily darts toward Springhill, Nova -Scotia, 20 miles away, and hovers there as a bright dot, then -disappears. The pilot is distressed about the encounter and is -distracted for the rest of the flight. (Don Ledger, “Two Spherical UAP -Cases Witnessed by Pilots in Canadian Airspace,” IUR 33, no. 2 (July -2010): 9, 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7152

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Event 9953 -(018213B2)

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Date: 7/4/1996
-Description: John -P. Timmerman investigates a mystery crop circle found in a wheat -field belonging to Dan Arend off County Road 126 near Paulding, Ohio. -(John P. Timmerman, “The Paulding, Ohio, Crop Circle,” IUR 21, no. 3 -(Fall 1996): 24–26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7153

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Event 9954 -(C4190DE3)

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Date: 7/9/1996
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Police Sgt. Marian Mancu and volunteer guard -Maricel Rusu are patrolling on the main road through Cerțești, Romania. -Rusu sees a lighted object descending silently, causing nearby neon -lights to vary in their intensity. Mancu hears a whistling sound and -sees an object with flashing blue and red lights hovering 2 feet above -the pavement. Three small people with elongated heads, white faces, big -eyes, and scaly bodies are moving around inside it. The object is -top-shaped, 15–20 feet across and 8 feet tall, and has a girdle of -lights around the edge like a rainbow. After 2 minutes it rises -vertically, its lights become brighter, and nearby streetlights go out. -It turns northwest and departs with tremendous speed. Other residents of -the town witness unusual light phenomena. (Romania 135–146)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7154

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Event 9955 -(858748F3)

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Date: 7/17/1996
-Description: Dusk. A woman near Langruth, Manitoba, is startled to see a -disc-shaped object moving quietly and slowly through her farmyard. The -object, 9–12 feet in diameter and 2.5 feet thick, has slitlike lights -along its edge. The next morning, she finds three circular patches of -deep green growth in the area where the object had been. She thinks her -well water has been affected by the incident. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in -Canada—1996,” IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7155

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Event 9956 -(B9641739)

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Date: 8/1996
-Description: Sen. Harry -Reid (D-Nev.) attends the fifth meeting of the National Institute -for Discovery Science scientific advisory board in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jacques -Vallée delivers the main presentation. Reid stays in frequent -contact with Robert -Bigelow afterward. (Skinwalkers 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7156

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Event 9957 -(71631FEF)

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Date: 8/12/1996
-Description: 9:40 p.m. A witness in Smithton, Illinois, sees a faint, -dull-red, glowing triangular object as he is looking for the Perseid -meteor shower. It appears from the south, flies north above his house, -and vanishes after 10 seconds. (Marler 171)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7157

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Event 9958 -(18C7CDF0)

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Date: 8/17/1996
-Description: A couple camping in Riding Mountain National Park, -Manitoba, see a strange blue light dancing behind a hill. When they -investigate, they find an object moving along the ground, occasionally -emitting fames from its base. After a short while, it zips into the sky, -then returns and hovers near them. It then shines a beam of light around -the ground, illuminating them at one point. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in -Canada—1996,” IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7158

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Event 9959 -(E37F6FD7)

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Date: 8/18/1996
-End date: 8/20/1996
-Description: Journalist Gary -Webb publishes his “Dark Alliance” series in the San Jose (Calif.) -Mercury News, with one long article and one or two shorter articles -appearing each day. It claims that “For the better part of a decade, a -San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and -Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits -to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence -Agency.” This drug ring “opened the first pipeline between Colombia’s -cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles” and, as a -result, “The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in -urban America.” The Mercury News continues to pursue the story, -publishing follow-ups to the original series for the next three months. -Other papers are slow to pick up the story, but African Americans -quickly take note, especially in South Central Los Angeles where the -dealers discussed in the series are active. They respond with outrage to -the series’ charges. By the end of September, three federal -investigations are announced: an investigation into the CIA allegations -conducted by CIA Inspector-General Frederick -Hitz, an -investigation into the law enforcement allegations by Justice Department -Inspector-General Michael -Bromwich, and -a second investigation into the CIA by the House Intelligence Committee. -After his resignation from The Mercury News, Webb expands the “Dark -Alliance” series into a book that responds to the criticism of the -series and describes his experiences writing the story and dealing with -the controversy. A revised version is published in 1999 that -incorporates Webb’s response to the CIA and Justice Department reports. -The February 2000 report by the House Intelligence Committee in turn -considers the book’s claims as well as the series’ claims. Webb’s -reporting in “Dark Alliance” remains controversial. Many writers -discussing the series point to errors in it. The claim that the drug -ring of Meneses- Blandón-Ross sparked the “crack explosion” has been -perhaps the most criticized part of the series. Webb commits suicide in -2004. (Wikipedia, “Gary -Webb”; Wikipedia, “Dark -Alliance (book)”; -Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine -Explosion, Seven Stories, 1998, revised -ed., 1999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7159

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Event 9960 -(C4AEA8B1)

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Date: 8/29/1996
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A mechanic notices a white mass of light at Port -Arthur, Tasmania. His car acts up a bit, but the light vanishes, and it -returns to normal. At 9:30 p.m., on the return trip, the white mass -returns and paces the car for several kilometers. The engine misses and -the headlights go out. He can now see a cigar-shaped object about 650 -feet away, so he gets out, checks the engine, and finds nothing wrong. -The UFO moves off and the car starts again. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An -Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May -2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7160

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Event 9961 -(8CE1C364)

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Date: 9/10/1996
-Description: The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty is adopted by the -United Nations General Assembly. It opens for signature in New York on -September 24 and is signed by 71 states, including five of the eight -then- nuclear states. The treaty will enter into force 180 days after -the 44 states listed in Annex 2 of the treaty have ratified it. These -“Annex 2 states” are states that participated in the CTBT’s negotiations -between 1994 and 1996 and possessed nuclear power reactors or research -reactors at that time. As of 2016, eight Annex 2 states have not -ratified the treaty: China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, and the United States -have signed but not ratified the treaty; India, North Korea, and -Pakistan have not signed it. (Wikipedia, “Comprehensive -Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7161

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Event 9962 -(B95493E1)

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Date: 9/16/1996
-Description: Day. A witness is repairing a fence on his property near -Valley, Ohio, when his dog starts barking loudly. Going over to his dog, -he looks up to see a low-flying space-capsule-shaped UFO hovering and -moving slowly over one of his cow pastures. He takes six photos of the -object. Black to dark green in the photos, the cone-shaped object, when -enlarged, shows a black Teflon-like covered bottom and a flange or rim -that goes around near the top. In each photo the UFO is shown at a -slightly different position and altitude, making it more difficult to -hoax. (Patrick Gross, “Mysterious -Photos”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7162

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Event 9963 -(6C146A6A)

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Date: 10/1996
-Description: Psychologist Stuart -Appelle evaluates factors of deception, suggestibility, personality, -sleep phenomena, psychopathology, psychodynamics, environment, and -event-level alien encounters as origins of the abduction experience. He -argues that no one theory enjoys enough empirical support to be accepted -as a general explanation. (Stuart Appelle, “The Abduction Experience: A -Critical Evaluation of Theory and Evidence,” JUFOS 6 (1995/1996): -29–78)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7163

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Event 9964 -(B70A984C)

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Date: 10/5/1996
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Businessman-pilot Haroldo Westendorff is flying -a single-engine EMB-712 Tupi (Piper PA-28 Cherokee) over Ilha da -Sarangonha, near São José do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, when he -sees a gigantic object about the size of a football stadium. It is -pyramidal in shape with 8 sides, on each of which are 3 protruding -domes. Westendorff follows it for 2 minutes. The UFO is revolving slowly -on its own axis and moving toward the ocean. A hatch opens on top of the -object and three disks emerge and fly away quickly. When Westendorff -tries to get closer, the UFO emits reddish rays, causing him to maneuver -about 650 feet away. Soon the object begins to rise at great speed. -Operators at the Infraero control room at Pelotas Airport visually -confirm the observation. (“Caso -Ufológico Haroldo Westendorff, 1996,” Canal Fenomeno OVNI YouTube -channel, January 18, 2015; “Completam-se -20 anos do Caso Haroldo Westendorff,” Portal UFO, October 5, 2016; -Clark III 203; Brazil 545– 548)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7165

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Event 9965 -(961A7564)

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Date: 10/5/1996
-Description: 2:00 a.m. Police Constable David Leyland in Skegness, -Lincolnshire, England, sees some rotating colored lights in the sky and -reports them to the coast guard. Police in nearby Boston see a single, -stationary bright light, while the crew of an offshore tanker report -another colored light. Air traffic control radar at Claxby by Normanby, -Lincolnshire, picks up a strong target over Boston, and RAF Waddington -near Lincoln also picks up an unidentified target in another position. -Talk of a UFO wave becomes embellished in the media, and MP Martin Redmond calls -for an investigation by RAF Air Defence. Wing Commander Norman -Hutchinson conducts an in- depth investigation of all the sightings -and radar targets, producing a 23-page report that he completes on -November 13. It’s pretty clear that the mysterious radar blips are a -permanent radar echo caused by the 273-foot steeple of St. Botolph’s -Church in Boston, the stationary white light is Venus, and astronomer Ian -Ridpath identifies the rotating colored lights as misobservations of -Sirius and Vega. (UFOFiles2, pp. 159–162; -David Clarke, “The 1996 East Anglian UFO Flap,” Fortean Times 223 (July -2007): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7164

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Event 9966 -(D0F937EE)

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Date: 10/15/1996
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A couple is driving near Trois Rivières, Quebec, -when they see three strange triangular objects flying in the northern -sky. One object, shaped like a “topper” and much larger than an -airplane, aims an intense white light at their car for 20 minutes. They -feel like “time was stopped.” Dozens of other people in the region see -UFOs that same night. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada—1996,” IUR 22, -no. 2 (Summer 1997): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7166

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Event 9967 -(795F6809)

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Date: 10/16/1996
-Description: 8:30–9:00 p.m. Many people over a wide area of -south-central Ohio and northern Kentucky phone police to report strange -lights in the sky. A husband and wife watch a fiery orange object near -Ripley, Ohio, for 20 minutes. Charles Fite and Bill Adams in Aberdeen, -Ohio, see several lights to the north in a “T” formation. A man in -Tollesboro, Kentucky, reports 8–10 objects in a group that blink out and -reappear in three-minute intervals. An airport operator in Jackson, -Ohio, receives two calls describing a group of red lights moving -erratically in the northwestern sky. Terry Howard, between Waverly and -Chillicothe, Ohio, videotapes a group of glowing objects at about the -same angle of altitude as the moon. Ohio UFO investigators suspect that -the sightings are a result of military maneuvers by the Ohio Air -National Guard. (Terry Endres and Ron Schaffner, “UFO Flare-Ups in -Ohio,” IUR 23, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 9–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7167

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Event 9968 -(30B66F58)

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Date: 10/25/1996
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A family sees a bowl-shaped disc with five -rectangular windows in Gypsumville, Manitoba. It is seen through -binoculars as it directs a beam of light down at a lake it is hovering -above. Two nights later it returns, moving high above the lake. They -drive to the home of a neighbor who joins them outside to watch four -objects flying in formation. Two of the objects suddenly change -direction and disappear from view, then the other two shine beams of -light on the lake again and disappear by moving into the clouds. (Chris -Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, -2006, pp. 195–196)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7168

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Event 9969 -(9FEFC5C3)

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Date: 11/16/1996
-Description: During an exhibition by the Brazilian Air Force’s Smoke -Squadron over the coastline of Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, one of the -EMB-312 Tucano aircraft’s wings breaks off and causes it to crash. A -piece of the wing falls on a swimmer and kills him. A video taken at the -time of the accident shows a small spherical object approaching the -aircraft from behind and passing just at the point where the wing breaks -off. Ufologist Reginaldo de Athayde analyzes the video images and finds -that the object is real, metallic, reflective, and boasts a speed five -times greater than the airplane. It measures about 3-by-3 feet in -diameter and has a speed of 746–932 mph. It passes about 6.5 feet from -the wing of the plane. (Clark III 205; Brazil 549–551)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7169

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Event 9970 -(DC7389E1)

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Date: 12/1996
-Description: 11:00 p.m. T/Sgt Anthony W. Keel is engaged in a field -training exercise about one mile from the Weapons Storage Area at -Ellsworth FB near Rapid City, South Dakota. He looks at the top of a -hill and sees a light bobbing around and moving west to east. About 10 -minutes later, he looks up again and sees it moving east to west and -then back several times. It now moves in a straight line east away from -Ellsworth but stops and hovers 2–3 miles from the base. Then it makes -several short darts in different directions. After about 5 minutes, the -radio operator announces that all flights from Ellsworth are grounded. -The light eventually blinks out. (Nukes 469–470)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7170

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Event 9971 -(87D1C549)

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Date: 12/11/1996
-Description: 7:00–8:30 p.m. At least 31 people in the Yukon Territory, -Canada, witness a giant UFO. Indications are that it may be the size of -several football stadiums. The sightings principally take place in four -locations in the central Yukon: Fox Lake, Carmacks, Pelly Crossing, and -Mayo, with 6, 9, 8, and 8 witnesses respectively. (NICAP, “Dec. 11, -1996: Yukon Territory”; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The -Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 188–194; Chris Rutkowski, -“The Cold, Hard Facts about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 (September -2011): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7171

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Event 9972 -(8B9ED9C0)

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Date: 12/19/1996
-Description: A Boeing 757-200 operated by China’s Southern Airlines -takes off from Beijing on a routine flight south to Wuhan. As the -jetliner reaches an altitude of 31,500 feet, the copilot spots a bright -flash in the sky just ahead of them. A silver-gray metallic UFO strikes -the top of the 757’s cockpit, cracking the outer windshield. The pilot -immediately declares an in-flight emergency and radios Beijing’s Capital -International Airport, requesting permission to land. The plane lands -safely 10 minutes later. (Patrick Gross, “Air -Misses”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7172

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- Event 9973 (00064D6D)

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Date: 1997
-Description: ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appears on Art Bell’s “Dreamland” -radio show
-Type: radio appearance
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Rachel, NV

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Event 9974 -(0A8AEFD1)

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Date: 1997
-Description: Contactee Billy -Meier’s ex-wife Kalliope in Switzerland tells interviewers that his -photos are of spaceship models he has crafted with items like trashcan -lids, carpet tacks, and other household objects (verifying the -allegations made by California skeptic Kal -R. Korff in 1981), and that the stories he told of his adventures -with the aliens were similarly fictitious. She also says that photos of -purported extraterrestrial women “Asket” and “Nera” are really photos of -Michelle DellaFave and Susan Lund, members of the singing and dancing -troupe The Golddiggers. It -is later confirmed that the women in the photographs are members of The -Golddiggers performing on The Dean Martin Show. (“Asket -and Nera Photo Deconstruction,” Billy Meier Case)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7174

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Event 9975 -(C38A964F)

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Date: 1997
-Description: Douglas -Torr and Timir -Datta are involved in the development of a “gravity generator” at -the University of South Carolina. According to a leaked document from -the Office of Technology Transfer at USC and confirmed to Wired reporter -Charles -Platt in 1998, the device would create a “force beam” in any desired -direction and that the university plans to patent and license this -device. No further information about this university research project or -the “Gravity Generator” device is ever made public. (Wikipedia, “Anti-gravity”; -Charles Platt, “Breaking -the Law -of Gravity,” Wired, March 1, 1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7175

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Event 9976 -(36C8A3E5)

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Date: 1997
-Description: In his 1997 article “Dead Cows I’ve Known,” cattle -mutilation researcher Charles T. Oliphant speculates that cattle -mutilations are the result of covert research into emerging cattle -diseases and whether they can be transmitted to humans. He suspects the -NIH, CDC, or other federally funded bodies are involved, and they are -supported by the US military. Pazrt of this is based on allegations that -human pharmaceuticals have been found in mutilated cattle, and that -necropsies show cattle mutilations commonly involve areas of the animal -that relate to “input, output, and reproduction.” To support his -hypothesis, Oliphant cites the 1990 Reston Ebola virus case in which -plainclothes military officers, traveling in unmarked vehicles, entered -a research facility in Reston, Virginia, to secretly retrieve and -destroy animals that were contaminated with a highly infectious disease. -(Wikipedia, “Cattle -mutilation”; Ted Oliphant III, “Mad -Cow Disease and Cattle Mutilations?” Our Strange Planet, 1997; Ted -Oliphant III, “Dead -Cows I’ve Known, Part 3,” 1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7173

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Event 9977 -(C246933F)

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Date: 1997
-Description: Chile sets up a new government agency tasked with studying -UFO reports. (Kean, p. 116)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7176

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Event 9978 -(04A22DF2)

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Date: 1/10/1997
-End date: 1/12/1997
-Description: Roswell witness Jesse -Marcel Jr. undergoes a second series of hypnosis sessions, this time -with Washington, D.C.–area clinical psychologist Neil -Hibler. They -are paid for by Roswell Declaration author Kent Jeffrey, who concludes -that Marcel is indeed describing weather balloon debris. However, this -interpretation is disputed.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7178

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Event 9979 -(99C4DA41)

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Date: 1/13/1997
-Description: Morning. A woman driving on Highway 1 from Abbotsford to -Chilliwack, British Columbia, notices a fluffy cloud in a clear sky that -“bursts downward” with a bright white light three times in succession. -It dissipates, leaving behind a black bar. After 5 minutes, a solid -stream of white light comes downward from it and another black bar -appears, about 45° below the first one. They both start moving east in a -wavy motion. She loses sight of them when she gets off the freeway at -the Sardis exit. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud -Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7179

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Event 9980 -(AE1B6668)

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Date: 1/27/1997
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A man is driving on a quiet back road just south -of Llangynidr, Powys, Wales, when he sees a “massive star” moving toward -him. His car radio fails, and he is unable to use his mobile phone to -call for help. He stops and gets out of the car. The glowing tube of -smoky gray and blue light descends and encircles the car, remaining for -5 minutes. The witness can move around in the cloud but can hear no -sound associated with the object. After the glow vanishes, he remains -frightened and a bit sick. The car is coated with dust of unknown -origin. He drives home to Newport, and the following morning he notices -a skin rash. (Jenny Randles, “A Sprinkling of Star Dust,” Fortean Times -392 (May 2020): 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7180

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Event 9981 -(090ABEB6)

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Date: 2/1997 (approximate)
-Description: “Victor”, who claimed to have worked at Area-51 S-4, speaks -in “Area 51: The Alien Interview” by Rocket Pictures. Claims two -psychics were present to interpret the responses from an alien in -custody. Aliens were highly psychic.
-Type: interview
-Reference: Youtube
-Reference: IMDB
-Location: US
-See also: 5/23/97
-See also: 2008

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Event 9982 -(EEF96648)

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Date: 2/22/1997
-Description: Near Aklavik, Northwest Territories, Canada, two -silver-gray objects follow five people along a road. They hover above -the highway then glide smoothly down to the snow behind them. The -objects have rows of windows with bright blue light shining through -them. After 15 minutes, the objects are lost to view as the witnesses -turn along an ice road. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” -IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7181

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Event 9983 -(68778EA2)

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Date: 2/27/1997
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A luminous blue sphere appears over Aviano Air -Base, Italy, and hovers. After it disappears, a larger, -orange-yellow-red sphere appears, and six fighters are scrambled to -intercept it. The jets circle around the sphere but it disappears. -(2Pinotti 155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7182

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Event 9984 -(0E1A8AD9)

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Date: 3/1997
-Description: Cheltenham, England, researcher Robin Cole and his UFO -group named Circular Forum have looked into the activities of the nearby -Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) facility known as the -Oakley Installation. He issues an unpublished report on their findings, -titled “GCHQ and the UFO Cover-Up,” which includes information on -radar/visual encounters reported by RAF personnel in the 1950s, evidence -that GCHQ studied gun-camera footage of UFOs taken by British military -pilots, the fact that the GCHQ library contains numerous UFO -publications, and evidence that GCHQ still monitors military UFO -encounters. Shortly afterward, he is visited by two Cheltenham policemen -who ask him about a UFO group called the Truth-Seekers. It turns out -they are actually from the Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police, a -counter-terrorism division. (Wikipedia, “GCHQ”; -Nick Redfern, “Paranoia or Surveillance?” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 7–9; -Nick Redfern, “UFO Encounters, -Saucers, and Secrets,” Mysterious Universe, August 23, 2018; Nick -Redfern, “UFO -Researchers: What -Can Happen When You Go Looking for Secrets,” Mysterious Universe, -September 18, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7183

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Event 9985 -(CB3DC1B1)

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Date: 3/3/1997
-Description: The Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy, chaired by -Sen. Daniel -Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), after conducting an “investigation into -all matters in any way related to any legislation, executive order, -regulation, practice, or procedure relating to classified information or -granting security clearances,” issues its final report. It concludes -that secrecy is a form of government regulation; that excessive secrecy -has significant consequences for the national interest when policy -makers are not fully informed, the government is not held accountable -for its actions, and the public cannot engage in informed debate; that -some secrecy is important to minimize inappropriate diffusion of details -of weapon systems design and ongoing security operations as well as to -allow public servants to secretly consider a variety of policy options -without fear of criticism; that the best way to ensure that secrecy is -respected, and that the most important secrets remain secret, is for -secrecy to be returned to its limited but necessary role; that secrets -in the federal government are whatever anyone with a stamp decides to -stamp secret; and that a new statute is needed to set forth the -principles for what may be declared secret. Moynihan reports that -approximately 400,000 new secrets are created annually at the highest -level, Top Secret. (Wikipedia, “Moynihan -Commission on Government Secrecy”; Donald R. Burleson, “UFO Secrecy -and the Law,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 16–17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7184

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Event 9986 -(2603006C)

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Date: 3/6/1997
-Description: 6:45–10:30 p.m. Dozens of UFOs descend from the sky and -briefly hover above Aviano Air Base, Italy. They zoom toward Venice -Marco Polo Airport before heading toward Istrana and Treviso air bases, -where they remain hovering in the sky for a while before returning to -Aviano. The display repeats several times, despite Italian and US -fighters attempting to intercept them. (2Pinotti 156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7185

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Event 9987 -(A3348A1A)

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Date: 3/8/1997
-Description: 3:00 a.m. Folkestone Herald journalist Sarah Hall is -driving through Burmarsh, Kent, England, when she sees a large -triangular object descend and hover above a field some 700 feet away -near Dymchurch. It has a disc attached to it on the back and a big light -on the front. When she pulls to a stop, it shoots away to a spot about -1,500 feet away and hovers. It does this four times, making a humming -sound, and moving westward in increments for only a few seconds at a -time. The UFO seems to be twice the size of an airliner. Other witnesses -to a strange object come forward after Hall writes an article about her -sighting. The residence of Conservative Home Secretary Michael -Howard in Lympne is one epicenter. (Good Need, pp. 385–387)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7186

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Event 9988 -(8D985A43)

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Date: 3/13/1997
-Description: 6:55–10:30 p.m. Aerial lights of varying descriptions are -seen by thousands of people (many of whom are looking for Comet -Hale-Bopp) in a space of about 300 miles from Henderson, Nevada, at 6:55 -p.m., through Phoenix to the edge of Tucson, Arizona. Tim Ley and his -family at first see a tiny arc of five white lights just after 8:00 p.m. -in the northwestern sky. They slowly draw nearer (around 30 mph), and -Ley discerns a V-formation flying no more than 100 feet above the -ground. The lights hold this pattern for more than 15 minutes, leading -him to believe they are on one structure. Ley’s report is the most -detailed, but there are many others. There are two distinct events -involved in the entire incident: a triangular formation of lights seen -to travel around 8:10–9:30 p.m. from Paulden to Tucson, passing over -Prescott and Phoenix. Some witnesses see a huge carpenter’s -square-shaped UFO, containing five spherical lights or possibly -light-emitting engines. Gov. Fife -Symington is one witness, although he does not reveal this until -2007; he calls the object “otherworldly.” One overriding characteristic -prevails: The UFO is a massive solid object, not merely lights, and it -appears low in the sky, blocking out the stars behind it. Many witnesses -say it is the size of multiple football fields and up to one mile long. -Reports vary in terms of the number and color of lights and their -movements. The second group of events is a series of stationary lights -seen in the Phoenix area around 10:00 p.m. The Air Force identifies this -group as magnesium LUU2 flares dropped by A-10 Warthog aircraft in a -training exercise at the Barry Goldwater Range in southwest Arizona as -part of Operation Snowbird; news coverage later shows a video taken -around 10:00 p.m. by an amateur photographer that clearly shows the -flares, not the earlier UFO. Phoenix city councilwoman Frances -Emma Barwood is -the only elected official to launch a public investigation, but she -receives no help from any level of government. She speaks to more than -700 witnesses who call her office, including police officers, pilots, -and former military personnel. Minimal coverage is provided at the time -by the media, even in Phoenix. (Wikipedia, “Phoenix -Lights”; NICAP, “The -Phoenix Lights Case: More Than Lights and Flares?”; Tony Ortega, “The -Great UFO -Cover-up,” Phoenix New Times, June 26, 1997; Bruce Maccabee, “Report -on Phoenix Lights Arrays,” 2000; Donald R. Burleson, “UFO Secrecy -and the Law,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 16; Lynne D. Kitei, The -Phoenix Lights: A Skeptic’s Discovery That We Are Not Alone, Hampton -Roads, 2004; “Former Arizona Governor Says He Saw ‘Phoenix lights’ UFO,” -American Chronicle, March 18, 2007; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” -IUR 34, no. 2 (March 2012): 12–13, 30; Kean, pp. 247–249, 253–261; -Good Need, pp. 387– 390; -Clark III 901–905; Patrick Gross, “The -Phoenix Lights, Arizona, USA, March 14, 1997”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7187

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Event 9989 -(04375340)

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Date: 3/15/1997
-Description: 5:00 p.m. An object explodes in the air and crashes to the -ground near Węgorzewo in northeastern Poland. The debris is allegedly -retrieved by soldiers. The Polish Army denies all knowledge of the -incident, but Col. Zdzislaw Czekierda of the General Staff admits there -is a special division that has gathered information about UFO sightings -since the early 1980s. (Good Need, p. 391; -Poland 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7188

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Event 9990 -(D2E0360D)

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Date: 3/21/1997
-End date: 3/23/1997
-Description: A Space and UFO Science Symposium is held at Cosmo Isle -Hakui, a museum of space history in Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. -Symposium speakers include Richard -F. Haines, Jesse -A. Marcel Jr., Bruce Maccabee, R. -Leo Sprinkle, hypnotherapist -Derrel -Sims, podiatrist -Roger -K. Leir, and -crop circle researcher Colin Andrews. (Richard -F. Haines, “The 1997 Space and UFO Science Symposium at the Cosmo -Isle–Hakui Center, Japan,” IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 15–18, 36)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7189

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Event 9991 -(06DE6F3A)

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Date: 3/24/1997
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Reports come in from the public that there is a -low-flying aircraft over Howden Moors, Yorkshire, England. These reports -soon turn into accounts of bright flashes, loud booming noises, and -“several plumes of black smoke” rising from somewhere in the woodlands -of the open countryside. Several search operations from several -different counties are launched, both on foot and in the air. These -continue through the night. The main concern is that a light aircraft or -a helicopter has come down. However, no survivors or any wreckage is -discovered during the search, which goes on well into the following day. -At one stage, no-fly zones are put in place, an action that some UFO -researchers later find suspicious—particularly when there are commercial -airliners “stacking” as a result. Despite all of this activity, the -official word from the military is that there is no crash at all. It is -simply a mistaken sighting—despite many reports from the general public. -Soon, rumors circulate from the many volunteer searchers. The most -prominent comes from a unit of Yorkshire Water workers who happen to be -in the area. They see a wrecked pile of metal in a clearing and a -“military presence” that is loading “body bags” onto a Sea King -helicopter. When the military is confronted with this, they claim they -are merely moving equipment. An explanation remains elusive, although a -military exercise did take place, at least 3 groups of observers -reported UFO-like sightings, the sonic events did take place, and at -least 1–2 civilian aircraft are reported in the area. (David Clarke and -Martin Jeffrey, “The Mystery of Howden Moors: Part One,” IUR 24, no. 2 -(Summer 1999): 13–20; David Clarke and Martin Jeffrey, “The Mystery of -Howden Moors: Part Two,” IUR 24, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 24–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7190

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Event 9992 -(295D072B)

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Date: 3/26/1997
-Description: 3:30 p.m. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office takes a 911 -call from a man later identified as Richard Ford, reporting a group -suicide in a house in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Two deputies find 39 -bodies of identically dressed, androgynous-looking men and women. -Autopsies establish that each had drunk a lethal combination of vodka -and barbiturates then smothered themselves with a plastic bag. -Videotaped statements left behind explain that the suicides, members of -a religious millenarian cult called Heaven’s Gate, were leaving their -“earthly vehicles” behind and expect to board a spacecraft trailing -Comet Hale-Bopp. It was founded in 1974 and led by Marshall -Applewhite and Bonnie -Nettles (formerly called Bo and Peep). (Wikipedia, “Heaven’s -Gate (religious -group)”; Clark III 566–567)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7191

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Event 9993 -(180BF2B3)

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Date: 3/30/1997
-Description: A mother and her three children are chased along a highway -near Whitehorse, Yukon, by an object “like a small satellite dish.” At -one point, the object is directly above the car at treetop level. (Chris -Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): -15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7192

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Event 9994 -(CBF06DAE)

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Date: 3/30/1997
-End date: 4/1/1997
-Description: Aerial lights are seen for several nights west of Arica, -Chile, and over the Pacific Ocean, causing some alarm. Witnesses include -civil servants and aeronautical experts at Chacalluta International -Airport. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation issues a public -statement confirming the observations. (Kean, pp. 190–191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7193

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Event 9995 -(61938672)

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Date: 4/10/1997
-Description: Rear Adm. Thomas -R. Wilson, vice -director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meets in a -Pentagon conference room with former astronaut Edgar -Mitchell and UFO Disclosure founder Steven -M. Greer to discuss the rogue nature of certain “special access -programs” (SAPs) connected to the study of alien technology that are -dominated by private contractors. Others allegedly there are retired -Cmdr. Will Miller, Adm. Mike Crawford, Gen. Patrick Hughes, Shari -Adamiak (Greer’s assistant), and Stephen Lovekin. Greer claims he has -extracted a pledge from Wilson during the meeting to investigate SAPs -involving UFO technology. But Wilson soon reports that he doesn’t have -the proper security clearance to inspect those files. As Greer informs a -Portland, Oregon, audience in 2001, Wilson says, “‘I am horrified that -this is true. I have been in plenty of black projects, but when we tried -to get into this one,’ he was told, and I quote, ‘Sir, you do not have a -need to know.’ The head of intelligence Joint Staffs. You don’t have a -need to know. Neither did the CIA director, and neither did the -president.” In a July 4, 2008, appearance on Larry King Live, Mitchell -tells the audience he had learned the admiral “had found the people -responsible for the cover-up and for the people who were in the know and -were told, I’m sorry, admiral, you do not have need to know here and so, -goodbye.” Shortly afterward, Wilson admits meeting with Mitchell but -denies he was ever refused access. (Steven M. Greer, “Dr. Steven -Greer Disclosure Project -Talk, Sept. 2001, Portland, Oregon,” UFO Evidence; Steven M. Greer, -Hidden Truth, Forbidden Knowledge, Crossing Point, 2006, pp. 158–160; -“Astronaut -Dr. Edgar Mitchell Recounts Admiral Wilson Story on -CNN’s Larry King Live, 7/4/08,” The Black Vault YouTube channel, -June 17, 2020; “Admiral: Never Looked for UFO Data,” Sarasota (Fla.) -Herald-Tribune, August 6, 2008; Dolan II 538–539; Kean, pp. 234–235; -Joe Murgia, “The -Wilson/Davis Documents: My Twenty-Three Year Journey, Part 1,” Part -2, UFO -Joe, June 21, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7194

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Event 9996 -(B44D9238)

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Date: 4/20/1997
-Description: 1:40 p.m. A woman is sitting on a park bench along the -St. Clair River in Sarnia, Ontario. A grayish-white object suddenly -appears in front of her, suspended vertically, with the bottom party -positioned 25° above the horizon. The object has tubelike shape, rounded -at both ends. She then notices a white spherical object that seems to -have been ejected from the first. It travels a short distance north to -Lake Huron and vanishes. The original object then disappears after -another few seconds. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further -Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7195

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Event 9997 -(628A31A0)

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Date: 5/18/1997
-Description: Day. A tradesman sees a “flying entity” near Ponte a -Mensola in the hills northeast of Florence, Italy. It descends -vertically and lands in a field not too far away. He approaches it and -sees that it is a man wearing black overalls with a red belt, helmet, -and dark glasses, and with no apparent flying apparatus. The intruder -notices him and disappears in the long grass, which is flattened where -the man has landed. (2Pinotti 156–157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7196

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Event 9998 -(098E0A46)

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Date: 5/23/1997
-Description: Art Bell anonymously interviews “Victor”, who claimed to -have worked at Area-51 S-4 (see 2/1997). Claims no successful -communication has taken place and that most psychics used in the program -were frauds.
-Type: interview
-Reference: Youtube
-Location: US

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Event 9999 -(13F0D90B)

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Date: 5/30/1997
-Description: About 11:20 a.m. Writer Georgina -Howell is crossing the tarmac at Kirkwall Airport in Orkney, -Scotland, to board British Airways Flight 8773 to Aberdeen when she -notices a silvery chevron about 45° in the sky to her left. She thinks -it is odd, but suspects it is some kind of aircraft. Suddenly she falls -down on her face, sustaining some minor scrapes and bruises. Asked why -she fell, she says she was looking at a sky object, but it is no longer -there. Later, she hears about chevron-shaped objects over Phoenix. (Good -Need, pp. 390–391)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7197

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Event 10000 -(2802D85E)

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Date: 6/1997
-Description: Roswell Declaration author and pilot Kent Jeffrey announces -that he is unable to find sufficient evidence of an extraterrestrial -crash in New Mexico in 1947 and that the Corona debris was probably from -a Project Mogul balloon. (Keau Davidson, “UFO -Fan: Roswell Saucer Story Is Bunk,” San Francisco Examiner, June 23, -1997; Kent Jeffrey, “Roswell: -Anatomy of a Myth,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 350 (June 1997): 3–17; -Kent Jeffrey, “Roswell: -Anatomy of a Myth,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 -(1998): 79–101; Michael D. Swords, “A -Different View of ‘Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,’” Journal of -Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 (1998): 103– 125; Robert M. Wood, “Critique -of ‘Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,’” Journal of Scientific Exploration -12, no. 1 (1998): 127–140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7199

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Event 10001 -(9649C197)

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Date: 6/1997
-Description: US Army Col. Philip -J. Corso writes, with William -J. Birnes, The Day after Roswell, a tell-all memoir about the -Roswell, New Mexico, crash and retrieval. Much of the book is an account -of Corso’s claims that he was assigned to a secret government program -that provided some material recovered from a crashed spacecraft to -private industry (without saying where the items came from) to reverse -engineer them for corporate use. Corso was a special assistant to Lt. -Gen. Arthur -Trudeau, who headed Army Research and Development, and was in charge -of the Foreign Technology Desk. In this position, he would take -technological artifacts obtained from Russian, German, and other foreign -sources and have American companies (including IBM, Hughes Aircraft, -Bell Labs) reverse engineer that technology. The book contends that -several aspects of modern technology such as fiber optics and integrated -circuits were developed by using information taken from the craft. Corso -also claims the world was “at war” with extraterrestrials and that the -Strategic Defense Initiative project in the 1980s was part of that -campaign successfully concluded in Earth’s favor. The book concludes -with information about Project Horizon, a 1959 US Army plan to construct -a base on the Moon. When first released, the book contains a foreword -written by Sen. Strom -Thurmond (R-S.C.), for whom Corso had served as an aide. Thurmond -writes, “He has many interesting stories to share with individuals -interested in military history, espionage, and the workings of our -Government.” The foreword does not mention anything about UFOs, since -Thurmond has assumed the book is a straightforward memoir. When he -learns about the book’s contents, Thurmond asks for his foreword to be -retracted, saying, “I know of no such ‘cover-up,’ and do not believe one -existed.” (Wikipedia, “The -Day after Roswell”; Philip J. Corso with William J. Birnes, The -Day after Roswell, Pocket Books, 1997; George M. Eberhart, [review], -IUR 22, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 22–24; Good Need, pp. 424–425; -Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, -pp. 145–151)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7198

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Event 10002 -(2A6FAABE)

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Date: 6/1997
-Alternate date: 7/1997
-Description: Twilight. A Polish passenger on a ferry to Stockholm, -Sweden, watches a large ball of light, 30 feet across, follow the ship’s -course low over the surface of the Baltic Sea. As many as 10 smaller -spheres emerge from the upper part of the object and remain 10 feet away -from it. Some darker colored spots can be seen rotating on the surface -of the original light. After several minutes, the lights go off. (Poland -121–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7209

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Event 10003 -(194F3671)

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Date: 6/1997
-Description: Night. Two police officers responding to an emergency call -in Daniec, Poland, see two bright spheres maneuvering 1,000 feet to the -left of their patrol car. The lights stop, then accelerate, and make -sharp turns in the air. One of the lights approaches them to about 40 -feet away, while the other is still circling above a field. Suddenly, -both lights depart at high speed. (Poland 110–111)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7200

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Event 10004 -(B9883E74)

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Date: 6/6/1997
-Description: The Gomzyakov family is traveling on the Krutikha River, -Altai Krai, Russia, when they see a luminous flying object moving at a -speed of 300 mph. The object turns around over the Ob River and flies -north. An hour later, they arrive at the vilage of Krutikha, where they -see another object engulfed in brownish gas and emitting powerful -floodlights toward the ground. Another crescent-shaped object appears -carrying a light that is 8 times as big as itself. The family watches -the display for 15 minutes, after which all the objects move off to the -north, leaving behind an odor reimiscent of blast furnaces ar a steel -factory. (Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, -p. 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7201

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Event 10005 -(4638EA03)

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Date: 6/8/1997
-Description: A former police officer sees a turquoise object that seems -to land in a field near a highway he is driving along at Treherne, -Manitoba. It remains on the ground for 10–15 minutes and appears to have -a light on its front and back. The witness is inexplicably frightened. -(Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer -1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7202

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Event 10006 -(DF515C3C)

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Date: 6/18/1997
-Description: USA Today breaks the media silence about the Phoenix, -Arizona, UFOs in a front-page story. NBC and ABC evening newsrooms pick -up the story and nickname the object(s) the “Phoenix Lights.” (Richard -Price, “Arizonans -Say the Truth about UFOs Is Out There,” USA Today, June 18, 1997, -p. 4; “1997 -NBC News Report on -the Phoenix Lights w/ Tom Brokaw and Robert Hager,” Roadside -Television YouTube channel, March 8, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7203

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Event 10007 -(A22704CE)

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Date: 6/18/1997
-End date: 6/19/1997
-Description: Evening. Grzegorz Nowak and four friends are visiting the -monument to the Battle of Annenberg in Góra Świętej Anny, Poland, when -they see glowing fireballs playing about on the hill and a large orange -sphere. They try to communicate with the fireballs by flashing their -headlights on and off; one of the lights responds with a similar signal. -They watch other aerial objects and two of the youths have some missing -time of more than an hour. The next night, they improve their headlight -signaling. An enormous cigar-shaped object appears, shooting out -multicolored lights that hover almost directly above them. Some of the -orange spheres seem to transform into cloaked beings, each carrying a -light ball. Some Polish researchers consider this a concocted episode -amplified by fantasy proneness. (Poland 85–87; “Seria -dziwnych zdarzeń w Opolu w 1997 roku,” UFO-Relacje.pl, February 13, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7204

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Event 10008 -(EE9917B2)

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Date: 6/19/1997
-Description: Arizona Gov. Fife -Symington calls a press conference, stating that “they found who was -responsible” for the Phoenix Lights. He proceeds to make light of the -situation by bringing on stage his 6-foot-4 chief of staff Jay Heiler dressed -in an alien costume and proclaiming him “the guilty party.” He jokes -that the media is taking the story “entirely too serious” as Heiler -removes the mask. Symington also notes that he requested information -from the commander of Luke AFB near Glendale, Arizona, the general in -charge of the Arizona National Guard, and the head of the Arizona -Department of Public Safety. But none of them have an answer for what. -In 2007, Symington responds to an Air Force explanation that the lights -were flares: -“As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that -this craft did not resemble any man made object I’d ever seen. And it -was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don’t fly in -formation.” In a December 10, 2008, episode of the television show UFO -Hunters called “Arizona Lights,” Symington says that he contacted the -military asking what the lights were. The response was “no comment.” -(“Symington -Claims He Saw UFO in Phoenix Sky,” Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen, March 24, -2007, p. 4; Kean, p. 249)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7205

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Event 10009 -(167D458C)

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Date: 6/24/1997
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A woman in Lachlan, Tasmania, is home alone in -her kitchen when she notices a bright light source on the window blinds. -Looking outside, she sees a large circle of light seemingly at ground -level, some 550 feet to the east of the house. The circle is in a -paddock at a higher elevation and in front of the trees and the other -end. She goes outside, but can’t see any further details or head any -sound. The light does not reflect on any of the nearby trees. Later, the -light disappears. (“UFOs in Tasmania,” IUR 22, no. 4 (Winter 1997–1998): -28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7206

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Event 10010 -(27185A23)

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Date: 6/24/1997
-Description: USAF releases The Roswell Report: Case Closed, by -Capt. James McAndrew, stating that any alien bodies found at Roswell, -New Mexico, were really anthropomorphic test dummies carried aloft in -high-altitude balloons, and the unusual military activities were balloon -launch-and-recovery operations. Although the dummy tests occurred -several years after 1947, witnesses had been confused about the exact -date. Claims of alien bodies at Roswell Army Air Field hospital are a -combination of two incidents: the June -26, 1956, crash of a Boeing KC- 97G Stratotanker at Roswell-Walker -AFB in which 11 crew members die; and a May 21, 1959, manned balloon -mishap, in preparation for Project Excelsior, at Holloman AFB, -Alamogordo, in which Capt. Joseph -Kittinger is injured. The Project Mogul balloon is still invoked to -explain the 1947 debris field at Corona, New Mexico. (Capt. James -McAndrew, The -Roswell Report: Case Closed, Headquarters -US Air Force, 1997; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “Who’s the Dummy -Now? The Latest Air Force Report,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 7–10; -Swords 355–357; “Air -Force Reports on the Roswell UFO Incident,” Military Wiki; Clark III -321)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7207

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Event 10011 -(015CE17D)

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Date: 6/28/1997
-Description: Four witnesses in Blind River, Ontario, watch the flight of -a triangular red object with jagged edges and a “square forward -section.” Within seconds of its disappearance, an egg-shaped object -appears in the same location and flies along a similar path, flaring -every two seconds into a bright white from a dull gray. (Chris -Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): -15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7208

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Event 10012 -(F6ED4FB2)

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Date: 7/1997
-Description: Witnesses, one of whom is an Air Force and Coast Guard -veteran, at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, see a “square of eight lights” in -the sky. Fifteen minutes later, a silent boomerang-shaped object glides -above them “like a huge bat” at low altitude. Its underside is covered -with hundreds of small, dim, rectangular lights. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 -Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7210

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Event 10013 -(F2B15F3F)

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Date: 7/3/1997
-Description: Two witnesses driving along Highway 16 near Nojack, -Alberta, see a “black ring” with faint lines hanging down into a -motionless “big puff of smoke.” It is in view for 5 minutes. (Chris -Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): -15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7211

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Event 10014 -(5E342B8C)

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Date: 7/14/1997
-Description: 10:49 p.m. Air traffic controllers at Henri Coandă -International Airport at Otopeni, Romania, are supervising the landing -of an airliner when they notice a light about 3 miles distant between -Buftea and Corbeanca and well below the scattered cloud layer. It does -not appear on radar. The duty officer turns the airport video cameras -toward the UFO and records its image for 2 hours. Through binoculars the -light is seen to have a horizontal band colored white, orange, and red. -When the airport lights are switched on for another landing, the light -blinks out and reappears in a different location, this time looking like -two light balls joined together. The lights appear brighter when the -airport lights are on and dim as soon as they are turned off. The lights -disappear abruptly at 1:10 a.m. (Romania 75–77)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7212

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Event 10015 -(87DE9C3B)

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Date: 7/23/1997
-Description: ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appeared on Coast to Coast AM and -again was interviewed by Art Bell. This time, he was accompanied by -Dr. John Alexander who represented that he had gone to Washington D.C. -and gone to the National Archives and other records to verify the facts -of Corso’s public service. He indeed had served honorably as a -Lieutenant Colonel under Lieutenant General Arthur Trudeau and worked in -the White House for four years.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: Rachel, NV

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Event 10016 -(B1D59F51)

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Date: 8/3/1997
-Description: The New York Times’s William -J. Broad reports on a study, “The C.I.A.’s Role in the Study of -U.F.O.’s, 1947–90,” by National Reconnaissance Office historian Gerald -K. Haines in a CIA journal, Studies in Intelligence, that Project Blue -Book had known that more than half of UFO reports in the 1950s and 1960s -by citizens and aviation experts were based on “fleeting glimpses of U-2 -and SR-71 spy planes.” Rather than acknowledging their existence, Blue -Book came up with “false cover stories” like ice crystals and -temperature inversions. Not a single linkage of a reconnaissance flight -to a UFO report is provided. These allegations are treated uncritically -in the news media. One-time Blue Book head Robert -J. Friend says the story is “laughable” and denies ever having to -conceal U-2 sightings. Bruce -Maccabee points out that the greater number of UFO sighting are at -night when U-2s cannot be seen, and even in the daytime a U-2 flying at -72,000 feet is “essentially invisible.” Haines also reveals that in the -1970s and 1980s CIA analysts devoted some time to “counterintelligence -concerns that the Soviets and the KGB were using US citizens and UFO -groups to obtain information on sensitive US weapons development -programs (such as the Stealth aircraft), the vulnerability of the US -air-defense network to penetration by foreign missiles mimicking UFOs, -and evidence of Soviet advanced technology associated with UFO -sightings.” (Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s -Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” Studies in Intelligence, 1997, -pp. 67–84; William J. Broad, “CIA -Admits Government Lied about UFO Sightings,” -New York Times, August 3, 1997, p. 12; Mark Rodeghier, “The CIA’s UFO -History,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 3–6, 36; Bruce Maccabee, “CIA’s -UFO Explanation Is Preposterous,” 2000; Swords 349–350; Clark III -926–927; Kremlin 187–188)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7213

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Event 10017 -(CA621A4D)

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Date: 8/4/1997
-Description: Two forest rangers in different towers near Hadashville, -Manitoba, simultaneously observe a silver ball that hovers above the -trees some distance away. A second object approaches the first and the -two travel away together. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” -IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7214

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Event 10018 -(01BCF9CC)

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Date: 8/9/1997
-Description: 5:07 p.m. Swissair Flight 127 to Zürich, Switzerland, is -flying northeast over Queens, New York, near John F. Kennedy -International Airport, when pilots Capt. Philippe Bobet and First -Officer Kurt Grunder see a cylindrical, glowing-white object, about the -size of a fuselage of a small light aircraft, heading toward the Boeing -747 at high speed. The airliner is in level flight at 20,000 feet and -cruising at 390 mph in a cloudless sky, and the UFO is 100–200 feet -above it. There is no noise from the object, and no trail or wake -disturbance is detected. The near collision lasts about only one second. -The object is not detected on radar, and it does not trigger the -aircraft’s collision warning system. The object is explained as a -weather balloon, which is spotted by a United Airlines pilot in nearly -the same location and height 72 minutes after the incident. (NICAP, “Swiss -Air Has Near Miss with UFO”; -Don Berliner and Robert J. Durant, Near Miss with a UFO: Swissair Flight -127, UFO Research Coalition, 1999; Robert J. Durant, “Swissair -jet Has ‘Near Miss’ with UFO,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 377 (September -1999): 3–9; Good Need, pp. 405–406)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7215

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Event 10019 -(7A522DE9)

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Date: 8/12/1997
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Two police officers are on patrol near Lacock -Road in Corsham, Wiltshire, England, when a triangular object flies past -them at only 30 feet altitude and 45–50 mph. It heads to the northeast -and is joined by a second object that seems to be following it. Their -speed increases as they are lost to sight within seconds. (Marler -144–145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7216

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Event 10020 -(7C230F2F)

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Date: 9/1997
-Description: Didier Charnay begins publishing UFO Log in Grenoble, -France. It continues through autumn 2000. (UFO Log, no. -1 (September 1997))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7217

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Event 10021 -(6F09D5A7)

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Date: 9/29/1997
-End date: 10/3/1997
-Description: Through the auspices of the Society for Scientific -Exploration and funded by Laurance Rockefeller, who -has a long-time UFO interest, English physicist Peter -A. Sturrock holds a workshop at the Pocantico Conference Center in -Tarrytown, New York, in which UFO researchers present their best data to -a panel of scientists agreeable to hearing them out. The panel is -charged with deciding whether the available physical evidence can -produce results that will lead to the resolution of the UFO question. -For the panel, Sturrock recruits astronomers (and SSE members) Thomas -E. Holzer and Charles -R. Tolbert, electrical engineer Von -R. Eshleman, geophysicist -J. -R. Jokipii, photoanalyst -François -Louange, geologist H. -Jay Melosh, atmospheric physicist James -J. Papike, radiation -physician Günther -Reitz, and -plant biologist Bernard -Veyret. To present the UFO evidence, Sturrock brings in aviation -psychologist Richard -F. Haines, German ufologist Illobrand -von Ludwiger, CUFOS -director Mark -Rodeghier, retired NASA engineer John -F. Schuessler, Norwegian ufologist Erling -Strand, science -professor Michael -D. Swords, computer -scientist Jacques -Vallée, and -SEPRA director Jean-Jacques -Velasco. The panel makes several observations: The UFO problem is -not a simple one, and it is unlikely that there is any simple, universal -answer; whenever there are unexplained observations, there is the -possibility that scientists will learn something new by studying them; -studies should concentrate on cases that include as much independent -physical evidence as possible; continuing contact between the UFO -community and physical scientists could be productive; and institutional -support for research in this area is desirable. After four days of -presentations and discussions, Sturrock announces that the panel will -issue a statement to be drafted later that encourages UFO study by -scientists. (Michael D. Swords and Mark Rodeghier, “The History-Making -Sturrock Workshop,” IUR 23, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 3–8; Peter A. Sturrock, -et al., “Physical -Evidence Related to UFO Reports: -The Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Pocantico Conference Center, -Tarrytown, New York, September -29–October 4, 1997,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 2 -(1998): 179–229; Peter A. Sturrock, The -UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence, Warner, -1999; Clark III 1115–1117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7218

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Event 10022 -(952B3AAB)

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Date: 10/3/1997
-Description: The Chilean Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos -begins operations in Santiago, Chile. Air Force Gen. Gonzalo Miranda has -created the agency within the Department of Civil Aeronautics after the -series of sightings in Arica earlier in the year. CEFAA is charged with -compiling, analyzing, and studying every incident involving anomalous -aerial phenomena observed by any aviation personnel, civil or military. -(Kean, p. 191)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7219

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Event 10023 -(BC6E3748)

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Date: 10/17/1997
-Description: In an effort to gauge the vulnerability of military -satellites to laser attacks, the US military tests a directed energy -weapon, Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser (MIRACL) developed by the -US Navy in 1980, against an aging USAF reconnaissance satellite. From -its location at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, MIRACL -sends two blasts of its deuterium fluoride laser against MSTI-3 at a -distance of 238 miles. The Pentagon claims mixed results because a -computer glitch prevents the satellite from reporting back that the -second shot has struck the target. (“Call -it a MIRACL,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 54, no. 1 -(Jan./Feb. 1998): 5–6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7220

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Event 10024 -(400E0755)

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Date: 11/4/1997
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Between Minehead and Porlock, Somerset, England, -a man driving home in foggy conditions sees three white beams of light -that suddenly permeate the fog from above and converge into a circle on -the hood of his car. The electrical system fails, and he cannot restart -it. After about 5 minutes the light beam disappears suddenly and the -headlights come back on, so he resumes driving. When he gets home, he -finds that his watch and car clock are 5 minutes slow and that a compass -placed near the car gives a reading 90° from true. (Herbert S. Taylor, -“An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May -2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7221

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Event 10025 -(B9BDAD8D)

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Date: 11/13/1997
-Description: Night. Two witnesses are driving home near Lac La Biche, -Alberta, when they see a diamond-shaped object, consisting of three -white lights in the front and one red light in the rear, suddenly “turn -on.” It hovers above trees about 900 feet away, and they can see the -bottom of the object. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR -23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7222

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Event 10026 -(9EE8448A)

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Date: 11/17/1997
-Description: Night. A woman sees an “inverted triangular object with no -wings” outside her home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It has many rows of -lights across its surface and is “lavender and steel gray” on one side, -which is illuminated. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR -23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7223

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Event 10027 -(82B0BE1F)

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Date: 11/28/1997
-End date: 11/30/1997
-Description: The panelists from the Sturrock workshop -reconvene in a San Francisco, California, hotel to draft a statement on -science and UFOs, but the language continues to be hashed out and -debated for months. The process goes on until April 27, 1998, when the -report is sent to the editorial office of the Journal of Scientific -Exploration. The report’s release engenders a mostly positive press -response, but with little effect on scientists’ continuing refusal to -examine UFO reports. (Clark III 1117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7224

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Event 10028 -(5B5314EE)

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Date: 12/1997
-Description: Retired Sergeant-Major Cherd Chuensamnaun is deep in -Buddhist meditation at his home in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand, when he -begins receiving communications from space aliens. The following day his -skeptical son and son-in-law Jaroen Raepeth are lifted up from the -living room sofa and thrown outdoors into the yard. His daughter Wassana -sees a 33–50-foot long UFO outside at treetop level. Cherd continues to -transmit messages from the extraterrestrials (who hail from Pluto and -another planet named Loku) until his death in 2000. His family now -continues the tradition, and nearby Khao Kala hill regularly attracts -crowds of meditating UFO enthusiasts. According to the opinions of a -theologian from Silpakorn University, this cult is based on a -combination of beliefs in ghosts, god, aliens, and -Buddhism combined. (Wikipedia, “UFO -Sightings in Thailand”; Richard S. Ehrlich, “The -UFO Seekers Flocking to a RemoteThai Hilltop in Search of Buddhist -Aliens,” CNN, October 6, 2019; “Buddhist Aliens,” Fortean Times 388 -(January 2020): 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7225

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Event 10029 -(83D33BB3)

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Date: 12/7/1997
-End date: 12/14/1997
-Description: The first World Forum of Ufology takes place in Brasília, -Brazil, coordinated by the Brazilian Ufologists Commission. The -coalition of researchers is comprised of Claudeir -Covo, from -the National Institute of Aerospace Phenomena Investigations (INFA); -Rafael Cury, from the Núcleo de Pesquisas Ufológicas (NPU); Reginaldo -de Athayde, from -Ufological Research Center (CPU); Marco -Antônio Petit, from Fluminense UFO Research Association (AFEU); and -Ubirajara -Franco Rodrigues and Ademar -José Gevaerd, both -from the Brazilian Center for Flying Saucer Research (CBPDV), the -largest UFO group in the country. The event culminates in the Brasilia -Letter, a document signed by nearly all ufologists present, representing -their nations and research entities. The letter conveys the position of -ufologists to the Brazilian government to take the necessary steps -required to clarify the UFO question. (A. J. Gevaerd, “Brazilian -Researchers Organize the Biggest UFO Conference Ever,” UFO Updates, -December 8, 1997; Clark III 209; 2Pinotti 161)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7226

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Event 10030 -(C3B86A31)

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Date: 12/8/1997
-Description: Night. After two brightly lit objects fly above Surrey, -British Columbia, a large, disc-shaped, pewter- colored craft spins and -bobs around in the sky. The witnesses give chase in their car, but lose -sight of it. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 -(Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7227

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Event 10031 -(5395C6DC)

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Date: 12/14/1997
-Description: Seven people in Vancouver, British Columbia, see an object -shaped like an “@” sign. It zooms into view and stops in mid-flight, -appearing as a “flattened silver pyramid.” It bobs up and down then -disappears suddenly. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR -23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7228

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Event 10032 -(2D418864)

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Date: winter 1997
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Sgt. John F. Duffy is serving as loadmaster and -radio operator aboard a KC-130R Hercules cargo plane flying at an -altitude of 24,000 feet north of the Horne Islands in the South Pacific. -He notices a white object on the left side of the aircraft. At first it -seems stationary, then appears to jump behind a nearby cloud, moving in -a horizontal direction and disappears after only 2 seconds. (Richard F. -Haines, “South Pacific Sighting, 1997,” IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer 1999): -11–12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7177

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Event 10033 -(025FC577)

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Date: 12/22/1997
-Description: An object like an “airplane wing cross-sectioned” is seen -by a witness near Halifax, Nova Scotia. It has a solid appearance and is -slow-moving, disappearing after 8 minutes. (Chris Rutkowski, “1997 -Canadian UFO Survey,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7229

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Event 10034 -(D9724F48)

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Date: 12/31/1997
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Many people in the area of Rzeszów, Poland, -watch a spherical orange object. Jan Skobran and Maciej Robert see it -briefly before it disappears. At 11:50 p.m., it reappears and they -videotape it on VHS. After about 40 seconds it disappears, but another -shows up at 12:20 a.m., pulsating with an intense orange glow. Seconds -later it disappears, but another light appears over the Słocina forest. -(Poland 153–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7230

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- Event 10035 (A7540C81)

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Date: 1998
-Description: The Roper Organization conducts a second survey on -abductions, using the same indicators as its 1991 survey. This one is -commissioned by Robert -Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science. Results indicate -that the number of potential abductees has dropped from more than 3.7 -million in 1991 to 2.2 million in 1998. (Mark Rodeghier, “Counting -Abductees: What Can Surveys Tell Us?” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): -21–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7231

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Event 10036 -(61BA19E0)

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Date: 1998
-Description: Podiatrist Roger -K. Leir publishes The Aliens and the Scalpel, in which he reviews -his investigation of alien implants since 1995. Leir has performed -surgery to remove small objects from the feet and hands of 17 abductees. -Robert -Bigelow’s National Institute for Discovery Science provides the -funding for the analysis of these objects. Some of the findings are -potentially noteworthy—the objects are found on the left side of the -body, most of them fluoresce under ultraviolet light, some are magnetic, -and most appear metallic and seem to emit radio signals. Calcium, -copper, and iron are the most common constituents. Critics dismiss the -objects as tiny slivers of metal or glass embedded in tissue and find no -evidence for radio emissions. None of the objects reveal any apparent -technological structure. (Roger K. Leir, The -Aliens and the Scalpel: Scientific Proof of Extraterrestrial -Implants in -Humans, Granite, -1998; Roger K. Leir, “Alien Implants and Physical Evidence,” MUFON 2005 -International UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 2005; Clark III -11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7232

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Event 10037 -(C8A85432)

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Date: 1/1998
-Description: David -Jacobs’s book The Threat expresses his belief that the aliens are -not doing research; rather, they are carrying out a deliberate and -massive breeding program using individuals from childhood onward and -families for generations. The aliens create pregnancies, steal fetuses, -and grow hybrids in vats and incubators. When those hybrids become -children, they require emotional nurture from humans to thrive, so the -aliens bring abductees back to touch and interact with the children. The -abductees report seeing hybrids that look less and less like the gray -aliens. Another series of hybridizations occurs as the aliens breed or -engineer early-stage hybrids into progressively more human late-stage -hybrids, who are all but indistinguishable from ordinary people (blond, -blue- eyed Nordics). Some adult hybrids assist the aliens in their work, -while others live on earth and mingle with humans for a time. Jacobs -raises the alarm that apparent benevolence from the aliens is a con to -lull us into complacency and hide their true intentions. (David M. -Jacobs, The -Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda, Simon & Schuster, -1998; Thomas E. Bullard, “Apocalypse in Gray,” IUR 23, no. 2 (Summer -1998): 20–27; Clark III 9, 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7233

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Event 10038 -(C242B1EE)

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Date: 1/2/1998
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Fernando Mariano de Oliveira and Luciene da Cunha -Lopes are in a townhouse on the Rua Luis Augusto Ferreira in the Capão -Redondo neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil, when they see a small -luminous sphere about 8 inches in diameter moving up and down in the sky -at variable speeds about 500 feet away from them. Other family members -join them to watch the silent white light, and the neighborhood dogs -bark constantly. Fernando’s brother, Alan Bruno de Oliveira, 10, picks -up a camcorder and films the light with the help of his cousin Katiuscia -da Cunha Lopes for 4.5 minutes. The light disappears around 10:00 p.m. -(Brazil 385–392)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7234

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Event 10039 -(B4AD1BA3)

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Date: 1/11/1998
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A pair of dark triangular objects appear to merge -together over Cuddington, Cheshire, England. (Marler 145)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7235

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Event 10040 -(014CCB4C)

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Date: 2/1998
-Description: Night. Two young men are driving from Opole to Niemodlin, -Poland, when the car radio goes off and the engine of their Polski Fiat -125p fails just as a large object flies over them. The lights, radio, -and engine come back on by themselves after the object is gone, but they -can still see it in the west as it apparently descends toward the road a -mile or two ahead. From the top of a hill, they see it emitting a -dazzling light and hovering above the trees. Suddenly it approaches -them, flying 65–100 feet off the ground, and they speed ahead into town. -(Poland 84–85)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7236

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Event 10041 -(9C930955)

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Date: 2/17/1998
-Description: An Army intelligence document summarizes the “Bioeffects of -Selected Nonlethal Weapons,” including microwave, acoustic, and -radio-frequency directed energy devices. As for RF energy, “There is no -sound propagated through the air like normal sound. This technology in -its crudest form could be used to distract individuals; if refined, it -could also be used to communicate with hostages or hostage takers -directly by Morse code or other message systems, possibly even by voice -communication.” And, “The phenomenon is tunable in that the -characteristic sounds and intensities of those sounds depend on the -characteristics of the RF energy as delivered. Because the frequency of -the sound heard is dependent on the pulse characteristics of the RF -energy, it seems possible that this technology could be developed to the -point where words could be transmitted to be heard like the spoken word, -except that it could only be heard within a person’s head. In one -experiment, communication of the words from one to ten using ‘speech -modulated’ microwave energy was successfully demonstrated. Microphones -next to the person experiencing the voice could not pick up the sound. -Additional development of this would open up a wide range of -possibilities.” (US Army, “Bioeffects -of Selected Nonlethal Weapons,” -February 17, 1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7237

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Event 10042 -(FC7DA987)

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Date: 2/28/1998
-End date: 6/11/1999
-Description: Kosovo War and NATO intervention
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Kosovo

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Event 10043 -(D3329C56)

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Date: early 3/1998
-Description: William Weitzel and the Fund for UFO Research discover and -later secure copies of the unsanitized, pre- redaction record copy 16mm -microfilm of the Blue Book Files, filmed at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, -Alabama, in February 1975 that the National Archives inadvertently makes -available at the Archives II facility in College Park, Maryland. (Sparks, p. 6)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7238

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Event 10044 -(822B2F66)

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Date: 4/22/1998
-Description: 9:20 p.m. A former Canadian F-104 pilot watches a UFO -embedded in a cloud of green light fly toward the south over his car as -he is driving near Whistler, British Columbia. It is visible only a few -seconds. Other witnesses further south see the UFO stop over Puget Sound -for 5–10 seconds, jump instantly to another location, and hover again -before speeding away to the south. (George Filer, “Washington Large Disc -with Hole in Its Center,” Filer’s Files, #34-2007, August 22, 2007; -Nukes 495)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7239

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Event 10045 -(EC293C55)

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Date: 4/22/1998
-Description: 9:23 p.m. Civilian Larry Swanson sees a disc-shaped UFO fly -silently north to south at about 300–400 feet altitude over the center -of Naval Submarine Base Bangor [now Naval Base Kitsap] on the Kitsap -Peninsula, Washington. At one point, the disc tilts slightly, allowing -Swanson to view its underside, which is glowing white except for a -central circular area about 30 feet in diameter. It slowly glides out of -sight. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, January 28, -1999; Nukes 494–498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7240

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Event 10046 -(3D3CFD4B)

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Date: 6/5/1998
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Paul Best and his girlfriend are driving near -Llanidloes, Powys, Wales, when they notice three triangular objects that -are rounded on the bottom. They remain stationary for 6–7 minutes, then -begin moving slowly before shooting away at high speed. (“UFOs -Spotted near Llani,” Welshpool (UK) County Times, June 12, 1998, via -UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 351 (October 1998): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7241

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Event 10047 -(40313043)

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Date: 6/25/1998
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A witness and her children in Cleveland, Ohio, -see 8 white, balloon-like objects moving across the sky into a large -cloud, pausing before entering it one by one. They watch the cloud and -follow it to the horizon, but the objects do not emerge. (Herbert S. -Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July -2005): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7242

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Event 10048 -(B795A484)

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Date: 6/26/1998
-Description: Early morning. Two witnesses spot a triangular UFO hovering -above Corbett Hospital in Stourbridge, England. The object has white -lights at each corner and projects a white beam of light onto the -buildings. (“Strange -Shape in Sky,” Wolverhampton (UK) Express and Star, July 10, 1998, -via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 351 (October 1998): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7243

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Event 10049 -(1E7765C3)

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Date: 7/2/1998
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A couple working outside in their yard at -Ticonderoga, New York, see a soundless, wingless object moving swiftly -through the sky. The man takes a video of it as it flies past the -eastern side of St. Mary’s Church. Probable aircraft. (Bruce Maccabee, -“‘Flying -Peanut’/Double UFO Video Seems to Be Authentic,” MUFON UFO Journal, -no. 369 (January 1999): 3–7; Wim van Utrecht, “Luminous -Peanut over Ticonderoga, New York,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7244

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Event 10050 -(A51BD647)

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Date: 7/21/1998
-Description: 11:19 p.m. An object the size of a small trailer appears -suddenly over Napoleon, Ohio. It is emitting a dense fog and stays -stationary for 7 minutes, then branches out and grows until 5 smaller -craft are seen circling it. The large object seems to dissolve and -disappear, the smaller objects still circling for another few minutes. -(Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May -2006): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7245

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Event 10051 -(D5527393)

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Date: 8/10/1998
-Description: 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m. At least four witnesses at Quirindi, -New South Wales, see “20 silver balls” performing complex maneuvers. -Angel hair streams from the objects during acceleration and right-angle -turns. The substance consolidates into long, white strands that slowly -fall to earth, draping on telephone lines and trees. It is white, -cotton-like, and strong, requiring a good tug to break, but quickly -sublimates to nothing on handling. A sample is sent to UFO researcher Bill -Chalker for analysis. Microscopic imaging by indicates it is spider -web. Another witness in Piallaway, New South Wales, reports similar -material at 2:00 p.m. (Brian Boldman, “An Analysis of Angel Hair, -1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 10; Keith Basterfield, “Angel -Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7; Brian -Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): -107–108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7246

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Event 10052 -(3B8FC027)

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Date: 8/21/1998
-Description: Israeli-American astrophysicist Mario -Livio speculates that extraterrestrials are not particularly rare, -it’s just that the most likely time for them to have developed was 3 -billion years ago. (Mario Livio, “How -Rare Are Extraterrestrial -Civilizations and When Did They Emerge?” arXiv, August 21, -1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7247

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Event 10053 -(7ED44D68)

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Date: 9/13/1998
-Description: A sensationalized TV documentary, The Secret KGB UFO Files, -is released in the US and hosted by actor Roger -Moore, who -recounts a dubious story about a Soviet crash/retrieval in Sverdlovsk -Oblast, Russia, in March 1969 that involved an alien autopsy. (Internet -Movie Database, “The -Secret KGB UFO Files”; “The -Secret KGB -UFO Files, 1998,” M TUFONC YouTube channel, September 24, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7248

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Event 10054 -(7C1E7A9B)

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Date: 9/14/1998
-Description: Lt. Col. Enrique Rocamora, in charge of declassification of -UFO reports for the Spanish Air Force from 1993 to 1999, enters the 57th -staff course at the Escuela Superior del Aire in Madrid, Spain. Along -with consultations and contributions from Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos, he -creates a massive monograph, “The Process of Declassification of UFO -Documentation in the Air Force,” with 10 chapters and 16 attachments -amounting to 296 pages. (Swords 428, 523)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7249

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Event 10055 -(F545FE98)

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Date: 9/28/1998
-Description: UFO researchers Ion -Hobana, Harald -Alexandrescu, and Dan -D. Farcaş establish the Asociația pentru Studiul Fenomenelor -Aerospațiale Neidentificate (ASFAN) with offices in the Admiral Vasile -Urseanu Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest, Romania. (Romania 69–70; -“Association -for the Study of Unidentified Space -Phenomena (ASFAN), Romania”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7250

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Event 10056 -(9F46EE4C)

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Date: 10/1998
-Description: Scott -Corrales begins publishing Inexplicata: The Journal of Hispanic -Ufology. It persists through December 2004 but continues as a blog in -December 2005. (Inexplicata: -The Journal of Hispanic Ufology, no. 1 (Fall 1998); Inexplicata -blog)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7251

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Event 10057 -(91D1BC5F)

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Date: 10/18/1998
-Description: 12:40 p.m. Dave Rose is at Sandwell Valley, West Midlands, -England, with his parents when they see a motionless sphere in the sky. -After 20 minutes another object, a metallic-looking triangular UFO, also -appears. The triangle moves from side to side in short bursts before -vanishing completely. The sphere dwindles to a dark spot in another 10 -minutes. (“Did -You See This UFO?” Wolverhampton (UK) Express and Star, October 29, -1998, via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 353 (December 1998): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7252

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Event 10058 -(D7E52843)

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Date: 10/19/1998
-Description: Four different radar stations in Hebei province, China, -pick up an unknown target moving above a military flight training base -near Cangzhou. At least 140 observers at the base see the object as a -small star that grows larger and larger as it descends. It has a -mushroom-shaped dome on top and a flat bottom covered with rotating -lights. The base commander scrambles a Shenyang J-6 fighter, which gets -to within 2.5 miles of the UFO over Qing County, whereupon it abruptly -shoots upward. The UFO plays cat and mouse with the jet, appearing and -reappearing. Permission to fire on the UFO is denied by ground control. -The fighter is forced to return after running low on fuel, and the UFO -disappears before other aircraft arrive. (Good Need, p. 393)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7253

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Event 10059 -(F01AD383)

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Date: 11/6/1998
-Description: 3:00 a.m. A man is driving with his wife near Childers, -Queensland, when he sees an object moving quickly across the road. Five -minutes later he sees a green beam of light shining down from the sky. -The light source seems to be about 3,000 feet above them. Both he and -his wife, who is asleep in the car, experience swelling in the hands and -lips, as well as headaches. They both feel compelled to take their -wedding rings off and sense that something else will happen to them. -(“Australian CE2,” IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7254

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Event 10060 -(81D96A6C)

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Date: 11/6/1998
-Description: 7:00 a.m. A witness in Bothell, Washington, sees a thin, -horizontal cloud that tilts and descends. A taller horizontal cloud -tilts to the left, but it soon appears to be a dark, cylindrical object. -Two small oval clouds emerge from a larger cloud. All of the objects -slowly descend past the Cascades Mountains. A few jets fly toward them -one at a time, until 9:30 p.m. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Mystery Clouds and -the UFO Connection,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7255

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Event 10061 -(9E6DB8E1)

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Date: 11/11/1998
-Description: 11:55 a.m. Two daylight discs are seen by Ms. R. M. Jones -as she is driving through Alexander, Arkansas: “The first was larger, -more white, more stationary and lasted longer. The second was a white -cigar sort of thing, sort of shimmery.” (“UFOs -Dominate Night Sky over Arkansas,” UFO Roundup 3, no. 49, December -7, 1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7256

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Event 10062 -(6561FBDE)

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Date: 11/16/1998
-Description: Newspaper Article: “High court won’t review “state secrets” -privilege in ‘Area 51’ case”. The U.S. Supreme Court refused in early -November to hear an appeal of a lawsuit by workers at a “secret” air -base near Groom Lake, Nev., dubbed “Area 51.”
-Type: lawsuit
-Reference: link
-Location: Area 51

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Event 10063 -(4FC5EEE1)

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Date: 11/27/1998
-Description: 7:00–7:30 p.m. A woman is driving east on 25 Mile Road -north of Mount Clemens, Michigan, when she sees a “highly intense,” -basketball-sized ball of white light coming directly at her from the -right at high speed. There is no sound and no time to avoid a collision. -The object hits the car with a low thud, but the car’s motion is not -affected. She does not see it again and continues driving home. Upon -inspecting her car, she finds a cream- colored residue where it hit the -car, forming a streak about 12–13 inches long that is broken in several -spots. The residue is saved and after several months it is sent to -analytical chemist Phyllis -Budinger for tests and analysis. The results show prominent -components of kaolin (aluminum silicate), a hydrated metal (perhaps -manganese) oxide, and a celluloidal material. Only the oxide is not -attributable to the car’s own finish. There is no evidence of heat -transferred to the car’s paint. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close -Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 3–5)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7257

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Event 10064 -(E856B3CE)

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Date: 11/30/1998
-Description: Night. Bright blue-white lights are seen throughout Sussex -County, Delaware. One man reports a “large blue light that was moving -all over erratically,” with smaller lights coming from the larger one. -Local researcher Jane Segal receives reports that “fighters from Dover -Air Force Base were flying all over the region.” (“UFOs Seen -by Many in Southern Delaware,” UFO Roundup 3, no. 49, December 7, -1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7258

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Event 10065 -(B85A3B99)

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Date: 12/1998
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Christopher Cabrera is at the end of his patrol -shift at Area 2 in Nellis AFB in Nevada and chatting with a few other -guards. All four of them notice three extremely bright amber lights in -front of them in the southeast blinking sequentially in a vertical, -triangular formation. The bottom two lights are about 100 feet off the -ground and a quarter-mile away. They seem to be attached to one solid -object that blocks out the stars behind it. It remains eerily silent. -The event lasts about 10 seconds and the lights are so bright that it -looks like daytime. The guards report the incident to the Flight Chief, -who tells them not to repeat the story to anyone or they will be -eligible for dishonorable discharge. (Robert L. Hastings, “Triangular-Shaped -UFO Sighted at the Nellis AFB Nuclear -Storage Area,” UFOs & Nukes, April 23, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7259

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Event 10066 -(CBDD512C)

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Date: 12/2/1998
-Description: Night. UFO activity in Brisbane, Queensland, consists of a -bright white light, an orange ball of light, and a missing time -experience, all by different witnesses. (“UFOs -Converge on Brisbane,” UFO Roundup 3, no. 49, December 7, -1998)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7260

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Event 10067 -(0C195405)

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Date: 12/3/1998
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A witness is driving in Kirkland, Washington, -when she notices a cluster of four white lights and one red light to the -south. They seem to be approaching, and when she arrives home she sees -they are attached to a large equilateral triangle that passes overhead. -(Marler 227–228)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7261

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Event 10068 -(0643FD65)

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Date: 12/11/1998
-Description: During mission STS-88, -the crew of Space Shuttle Endeavor takes photos of an unusual dark -object in low earth orbit. Conspiracy theorists claim it is an alien -satellite, dubbed the Black Knight, in polar orbit around the Earth. -However, the object is later identified as a thermal blanket that became -dislodged and lost during a December 9 EVA by astronauts Jerry -L. Ross and James -H. Newman during their installation of antennas on the International -Space Station. (Wikipedia, “Black -Knight satellite conspiracy theory”; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole -Story, Signet, 1969, p. 220; James Oberg, “Phantom -Satellite?” PowerPoint presentation; Martina Redpath, “The Truth -about the Black Knight Satellite Mystery,” Armagh Observatory and -Planetarium, July 18, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7262

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- Event 10069 (38DFADA6)

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Date: 1999
-Description: Harvard University psychologist John -E. Mack publishes a second book on abductions, Passport to the -Cosmos, in which he continues to focus on the experience as -transformative and ultimately benevolent. Much of the experience -consists of a life lesson in symbolic form, Mack asserts. The hybrids -combine the human and alien in a shared mission to save the Earth. The -nurturing of hybrid children emphasizes the importance of emotion, and -the otherness of the aliens awakens a sense that humans are not the apex -of existence. The shock and terror of kidnap by unearthly beings breaks -the illusion that the world is under our control. Although Mack hears -the usual accounts of examinations and reproductive procedures from -dozens of other experiencers, he still reads these events as symbolic -agents of the larger purpose to save Earth from humans and humans from -themselves. Whether or not the abductors are extraterrestrial hardly -matters. (John E. Mack, Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and -Alien Encounters, Crown, 1999; Clark III 9, 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7265

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Event 10070 -(EA0009E2)

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Date: 1999
-Alternate date: 2000
-Description: Retired NASA psychologist Richard -F. Haines founds the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous -Phenomena as a place for pilots, crews, and air-traffic controllers to -report their UFO sightings on a confidential basis. Ted Roe is executive -director and Haines is the chief research scientist. (“New Organization -Promotes Aviation Safety in UFO Sightings,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter -2000–2001): 22, 30; Richard F. Haines, “NARCAP’s Project Sphere: Are -Spherical UAP a Threat to Aviation Safety?” IUR 33, no. 2 (July 2010): -4–5; Clark III 553)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7263

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Event 10071 -(C778E0CD)

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Date: 1999
-Description: Austrian astrobiologist Helmut -Lammer and his wife Marion publish MILABS: Military Mind Control and -Alien Abduction, a review of people claiming to have been abducted by -military personnel who interrogate them about their UFO experiences, -remove or insert implants, and perform medical examinations and memory -eradication. (Helmut Lammer and Marion Lammer, MILABS: Military Mind -Control and Alien Abduction, IllumiNet, 1999; Helmut Lammer, “Preliminary -Findings of Project-MILAB: Evidence for Military Kidnappings of Alleged -UFO- Abductees,” -October 16, 1996; Helmut Lammer, “Further -Findings of Project-MILAB: Looking behind the Alien/Military -Abduction Agenda,” August 13, 1997; Malcolm Robinson, “MILABS: -Military Mind Control and Alien Abduction,” Strange Phenomena -Investigations England, 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7264

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Event 10072 -(C6D5198E)

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Date: 1/22/1999
-Description: 7:03 a.m. A witness driving south on State Highway 3 near -the off-ramp to Naval Submarine Base Bangor [now Naval Base Kitsap] on -the Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, sees an orange volleyball-sized light -20 feet above the overpass moving at 60–70 mph toward the base. -(“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, February 11, 2003; -Nukes 498)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7267

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Event 10073 -(54C1DE37)

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Date: 1/22/1999
-Description: Peter Gersten, executive -director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, files a FOIA lawsuit in -federal district court in Phoenix, Arizona, to release documents -relating to the Phoenix Lights and (later) the St. Clair Triangle in -Illinois in 2000. The Department of Defense files a motion to dismiss -the suit. Assistant US Attorney Richard Patrick says the department has -conducted a reasonable search for information requested by Gersten’s -group and cannot find any records. (“UFO -Lawsuit to Get Hearing,” Phoenix Arizona Republic, February 4, -2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7266

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Event 10074 -(E5A60780)

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Date: 2/3/1999
-Description: A British Debonair Bae146 charter jet encounters a “long -cylindrical object” the size of a battleship while flying at 28,000 feet -over the North Sea off Denmark. The captain observes rows of square -portholes on the UFO just before it bathes the airliner in incandescent -light. The object comes to an abrupt halt, then accelerates past the -airplane at an incredible speed. RAF radar stations track the object, -which is also seen from three other nearby aircraft. A Civil Aviation -Authority source says the object is tracked by a military radar station -in Yorkshire after it enters British air space. (“North Sea Encounter,” -IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7268

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Event 10075 -(90C8F856)

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Date: 3/1999
-Description: Kevin -D. Randle, Russ -Estes, and William -Cone publish The Abduction Enigma, offering a rigorous critique of -the alien explanation for the abduction phenomenon and arguing instead -that abductee personalities, cultural ideas, and investigator influences -have coalesced to create false memories. (Kevin D. Randle, Russ Estes, -and William Cone, The -Abduction Enigma: The Truth behind the Mass Alien Abductions of the Late -Twentieth Century, Forge, -1999; Thomas E. Bullard, [review], JUFOS 7 (2000): 94–106)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7269

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Event 10076 -(24F9A9AC)

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Date: 3/5/1999
-Description: Midnight. A diamond-shaped UFO is blamed for the -unexplained collapse of a theatre roof in Kimberley, British Columbia. -An object covered with flashing lights is seen by several witnesses -prior to the incident. (East Kootenay (B.C.) Weekly, March 23, 1999; -“Recent UFO Cases,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7270

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Event 10077 -(0EBF961F)

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Date: 3/24/1999
-Description: Night. Five people in the towns of Brinsley, -Nottinghamshire, and Crich and Belper, Derbyshire, England, watch a -flying object that looks like a black wedge with two bright headlights. -The blunt end of the wedge is facing forward as it flies at about 35 -mph. (“‘Black -Wedge’ Seen in Skies over Town,” Belper (UK) News, March 24, 1999, -via UFO Newsclipping Service, no. 360 (July 1999): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7271

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Event 10078 -(8CAB821B)

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Date: 4/2/1999
-Description: Two Chilean national police officers see a UFO hovering -above Mount Balmaceda in Puerto Natales, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. They -see red, green, and yellow lights on the object, which performs several -side-to-side displacements as it hovers near the summit. (La Tercera -(Santiago), April 4, 7, 1999; “Recent UFO Cases,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring -1999): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7272

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Event 10079 -(9FD284D3)

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Date: 4/7/1999
-Description: 10:58 p.m. A woman is looking through the second-story -window of her home in East Falmouth, Massachusetts. She sees strange, -double, white lights resembling car headlights attached to a triangular -object silently moving across the sky through the maple trees. It is in -view for only 4–5 seconds. (“Recent UFO Cases,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring -1999): 31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7273

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Event 10080 -(DEE118B2)

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Date: 6/9/1999
-Description: A huge fall of “white filamentous threads” covers hedges, -trees, and power lines over 10,000 square kilometers in Esperance, -Western Australia. Some strands are 30 feet in length. Witness Marilyn -Burnet has a sample analyzed and finds copper, aluminum, zinc, iron, -sodium, manganese, silicon, and other minerals. (Brian Boldman, “Angel -Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 108; Keith -Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 -(Spring 2002): 7–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7274

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Event 10081 -(D0F2842D)

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Date: 6/30/1999
-Description: 11:00 a.m. Two witnesses are walking their dog in the Park -Zachodni in Wrocław, Poland, when they see a blue-gray, disc-shaped -object with a row of blue lights pass over the trees to the northeast. -Another similar object follows a similar path shortly afterward. (Poland -83–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7275

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Event 10082 -(ED21EC3C)

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Date: 7/2/1999
-Description: Abduction researcher and folklorist Thomas -E. Bullard expands on his description of the abduction experience in -an examination of 437 reports from the literature. He looks at location -and duration, the sequence of the episodes and common events within -each, the appearance and behavior of the entities, interior and exterior -descriptions of the UFO, and the mental and physical controls the aliens -use on the abductees. (Thomas E. Bullard, “What’s New in Alien -Abduction? Has the Story Changed in 30 Years?” MUFON 1999 International -UFO Symposium Proceedings, MUFON, 1999, pp. 170–199; Clark III -13–22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7276

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Event 10083 -(DD735145)

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Date: 7/16/1999
-Description: A 90-page report, Les OVNI et la Defense: A Quoi doit-on se -Préparer? (UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare for?), is published -as the result of an in-depth study of UFOs carried out over several -years by an independent group of former advanced workshop participants -at the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale in Paris, France, -and by other experts. Before its public release, it is sent to President -Jacques -Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel -Jospin. The -report is prefaced by Gen. Bernard -Norlain of the Air Force and begins with a preamble by André -Lebeau, former president of the Centre National d’Études Spatiales. -The Comité d’Études Approfondies (COMETA) group, collective author of -the report, is presided over by Gen. Denis -Letty of the Air Force. The report analyzes various UFO cases and -concludes that UFOs are real, complex flying objects, and that the -extraterrestrial hypothesis has a high probability of being the correct -explanation for the UFO phenomenon. The study recommends that the French -government should adjust to the reality of the phenomenon and conduct -further research. (Comité d’Études Approfondies, “UFOs and Defense: What -Should We Prepare For?” part -1 and part 2, July 16, 1999; Gildas Bourdais, “The -French Report on UFOs and Defense: A Summary”; Swords 449–450; Mark -Rodeghier, ed., “The 1999 French Report on UFOs and Defense,” IUR 25, -no. 2 (Summer 2000): 20–22, 30; Gildas Bourdais, “From GEPAN to SEPRA: -Official UFO Studies in France,” IUR 25, no. 4 (Winter 2000–2001): -10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7277

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Event 10084 -(58087810)

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Date: 7/27/1999
-Description: Day. Several people living near the shore of Lake Backsjön, -near Gunnarskog, Värmlands, Sweden, see and hear a rocket-shaped object -plunge into the water. The object is 6–10 feet long and descends at high -speed, creating a splash in the water before sinking. One witness -contacts the rescue station at Arvika, who in turn contact the police -and military. Stellan Jansson, chief of staff for the I 2/Fo52 Värmland -Regiment, interviews the witnesses. In September, the army begins an -intensive search of the lake under the code name Operation Sea Find -using divers, sonar equipment, and a mini-sub. The operation conducts a -10-day search and examines 75% of the lake, but the search is -discontinued on September 16 after finding no evidence. On October 1, a -secret report is completed for military intelligence in Stockholm. (Clas -Svahn and Eileen Fletcher, “The Swedish Military and UFOs,” IUR 25, no. -3 (Fall 2000): 16–17; Swords 370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7278

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Event 10085 -(E1F4CB89)

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Date: 9/1999
-Description: The peer-reviewed European Journal of UFO and Abduction -Studies is launched in Southampton, England, by Totton College -psychology professor Craig A. Roberts. Its editorial board features UFO -researchers in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, -France, and Italy. It continues through the September 2002 issue. (European -Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies, launch volume (September -1999))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7279

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Event 10086 -(4C4F0299)

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Date: 9/30/1999
-Description: 10:35 a.m. A serious criticality incident takes place in -the Tokaimura uranium processing facility operated by JCO in the village -of Tokai, Iberaki Prefeccture, Japan. The accident occurs as three -workers are preparing a small batch of fuel for the Jōyō experimental -fast breeder reactor, using uranium enriched to 18.8% with the -radioisotope uranium-235 (with the remainder being the fertile -uranium-238). It is JCO’s first batch of fuel for that reactor in three -years, and no proper qualification and training requirements appear to -have been established to prepare those workers for the job. A -precipitation tank reaches critical mass when its fill level, containing -about 35 pounds of uranium, reaches about 11 gallons. The two -technicians who receive the higher doses die several months later. -(Wikipedia, “Tokaimura -nuclear accidents”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7280

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Event 10087 -(A6DB3AE1)

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Date: 10/9/1999
-Description: The last flight of a temporarily reactivated SR-71 -Blackbird takes place. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -SR-71 Blackbird”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7281

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Event 10088 -(58690387)

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Date: 10/9/1999
-Description: 7:57 p.m. While fishing off Fort Pickens near Pensacola, -Florida, an ex-Air Force security policeman and a city police officer -watch a triangular UFO with high-intensity blue arcing lights traveling -west over the Gulf of Mexico in a zigzag fashion. It is about 200 feet -in the air, a quarter of a mile distant, and moving at 115–350 mph. At -least four times it seems to hover for 30 seconds. After 15 minutes, it -moves away to the west. (George Filer, “Florida Triangle with Blue -Ionization near Gulf Breeze,” Filer’s Files, #43-1999, October 18, -1999)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7282

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Event 10089 -(FAA30A22)

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Date: 10/10/1999
-Description: 11:45 p.m. A couple in Lewiston, Michigan, see a hazy, -pulsing object outside their bedroom window. Other lights seem to be -flying around it, so that it resembles moths flying around a light bulb. -They watch it for 45 minutes, then go back to sleep. (Herbert S. Taylor, -“Cloud Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7283

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Event 10090 -(F6981778)

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Date: 10/29/1999
-Description: 5:45 p.m. A man and woman in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, see a -nickel-colored object emerge from a strange contrail-like cloud and fly -back into it. A few seconds later, it shoots out again and circles -around it for 15 minutes. About an hour later, they see jets flying -around, apparently searching for the object. (Herbert S. Taylor, “Cloud -Cigars: A Further Look,” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7284

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Event 10091 -(D2AB07A5)

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Date: 11/11/1999
-Description: A sample of “angel hair” is recovered from a fall in -Sacramento, California, and sent to analytical chemist Phyllis -Budinger for Fourier Transform infrared spectrometry analysis. She -finds that the fibrous material is not spider web but consists of a -silk-like substance containing secondary amide linkages similar to -protein. It also contains volatile hydrocarbons. (Brian Boldman, “An -Analysis of Angel Hair, 1947–2000,” IUR 26, no. 3 (Fall 2001): -14–15)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7285

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Event 10092 -(D21763AB)

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Date: 11/11/1999
-Description: 8:30 p.m. Two men are loading gravel onto a truck in -Tomelilla, Skåne, Sweden, when they see a boomerang-shaped object flying -overhead, blocking out the stars. The object is solid and observed for -5–10 seconds. UFO-Sweden researchers Clas -Svahn and Anders -Persson check with the Swedish military for their radar data at the -time and find that it has recorded many targets. They conclude that a -flock of migrating birds, probably eiders, flying in formation is -responsible. (Clas Svahn and Eileen Fletcher, “The Swedish Military and -UFOs,” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 17–18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7286

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Event 10093 -(36B3C18A)

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Date: 12/1999
-Description: Cao Gong, a middle-aged man from Beijing, China, claims he -is abducted by aliens and flown to Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, in a -UFO. The entities look like humans but have large hands and are very -pale. Zhang -Jingping of the World Chinese UFO Association begins to investigate -the Cao case in April 2000 and has him hypnotically regressed by a -psychologist from Suzhou. Cao also passes a lie detector test at the -Beijing Bureau of Public Security. Cao remembers meeting in the -spacecraft a Chinese girl who looks about 13 years old. She tells him -the aliens cured her of a disease. Zhang brings Cao to the Tangshan -Bureau of Public Security in July 2000, where the police construct a -computer reconstruction of the girl’s face according to his description. -In November 2002, Zhang leads a group of students from Beihang -University on a trip to Qinhuangdao to look for the girl. They arrive in -Qinglong County and begin a blind search among the area’s 400,000 -inhabitants. On the second day, an old man recognizes the girl in the -image. They locate her and she turns out to be 15 years old. Zhang -brings her back to Beijing to meet Cao Gong, who identifies her as the -girl he met. (Bill Chalker, “The -Untold -Story of UFOs in China: Lost in Translation or the Devouring -Dragon?” New Dawn Special Issue 14, no. 1 (January 2020))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7287

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- Event 10094 (E41AC1BE)

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Date: 2000
-Description: The National Nuclear Security Administration is created by -Congress in the wake of the Wen -Ho Lee spy scandal and other allegations that the Department of -Energy’s lax administration has resulted in the loss of nuclear secrets -to China. It is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy -responsible for safeguarding national security through the military -application of nuclear science. (Wikipedia, “National -Nuclear Security Administration”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7292

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Event 10095 -(320179C1)

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Date: 2000
-Description: Ufologist Chris -Rutkowski and Ufology Research of Manitoba begin receiving UFO -reports made to Canadian agencies, allowing them to create a yearly -statistical report on sightings in Canada. (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s -UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7290

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Event 10096 -(FBB58910)

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Date: 2000
-Description: Walter -Andrus retires as director of MUFON and is replaced by John -Schuessler.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7289

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Event 10097 -(01837EE7)

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Date: 2000
-Description: Ufologist Richard -H. Hall completes a sequel to NICAP’s 1964 report to Congress. The -UFO Evidence, Volume II covers UFO sightings since 1964. (Richard H. -Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, Scarecrow, -2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7288

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Event 10098 -(0CB63AD8)

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Date: 2000
-Description: The results of the Russian Setka program are disclosed by -Boris -Sokolov, coordinator -of Setka-MO, and Yulii Platov, deputy -coordinator of Setka-AN, in an article in the Bulletin of the Russian -Academy of Sciences. According to them, 90% of the anomalous atmospheric -phenomena observed in Russian territory can be explained by the effects -of human activities (especially rockets and weather balloon launches), -while the remaining 10% are unexplained. For the latter cases, they -could be rare or still unknown natural phenomena. However, no evidence -is found of UFO landings, crashes, close encounters, or alien -abductions. No evidence of an extraterrestrial UFO origin has emerged -either. Paul -Stonehill, a -Russian UFO scholar, believes that only the results of Setka-AN’s -studies are disclosed, while those of Setka-MO still remain secret. -Stonehill further claims there is nothing to indicate that anyone in the -Setka program attempted to seriously analyze the cases that remain -unexplained. (Paul Stonehill and Philip Mantle, The Soviet UFO Files: -Paranormal Encounters behind the Iron Curtain, Quadrillion, 1998, -pp. 43, 52; Pyotr N. Rybalko, “Bureaucratized -Pseudoscience,” RIAP Bulletin 6, no. 2–3 (Apr./Sept. 2000): 11–12; -Boris Sokolov and Yulii Platov, “A -History of State UFO Research in the USSR,” Skeptical Briefs 10, no. -4 (December 1, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7294

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Event 10099 -(711D7FA1)

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Date: 2000
-Description: Alleged abductee Stan -Romanek of Loveland, Colorado, claims his first UFO experience. He -has many experiences with aliens since then, allegedly discovering -mysterious wounds on his body that glow under a black light and claiming -electronic communications with aliens. He also claims aliens have -followed his car, visited his home, and communicated with him -telepathically. In 2003, he claims he woke up and found himself wearing -a ladies’ flannel nightgown, which makes him suspect he has been -abducted and returned in woman’s clothing. Romanek eventually comes to -suspect that the clothing belongs to another supposed abductee, Betty -Hill. When -asked if the gown has been tested for Hill’s DNA, Romanek claims that it -has not because the test is too expensive. Appearing on ABC -Primetime in 2009, Romanek makes the unsubstantiated claims that he -underwent hypnosis by R. -Leo Sprinkle, a -psychologist who specializes in alien abduction cases. Romanek claims -that under hypnosis he wrote out the Drake equation, a formula used to -estimate the number of communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in -our galaxy, and then added “x100” to it. Skeptic Joe -Nickell suggests the equation is written through simple -memorization. On August 8, 2017, Romanek is found guilty of felony -possession of child pornography. (Erik Dofge, “New -Alien Video Shines (Photoshopped) Light on UFO Hoaxers,” Popular -Mechanics, June 8, 2008; Alan Scherstuhl, “In -Kansas City, Celebrity UFO-Filmer Stan Romanek Finds an Audience -of Believers—and One Reporter,” The Pitch (Kansas City), August 13, -2009; “Man -Claims Aliens Send Him -Messages,” ABC News, August 18, 2009; Joe Nickell, “Abductions -or Hoaxes? The Man Who Attracts Aliens,” -Skeptical Inquirer 34, no. 3 (May/June 2010): 19–20; Jack Brewer, “Ufology -Indicted,” The UFO Trail, August 7, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7296

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Event 10100 -(08CC5A8E)

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Date: 2000
-Description: Mathematician Karsten -Jöred replaces Arne -Gjärdman as head of UFO investigations at the Swedish National -Defence Research Institute. He holds the position until 2006. (Swords -370)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7295

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Event 10101 -(E4F82CB2)

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Date: 2000
-Description: Polish journalist and author Igor -Witkowski publishes Prawda o Wunderwaffe, describing a purported -top-secret Nazi technological device or secret weapon called Die Glocke -(“The Bell”). It is later popularized by military journalist and author -Nick -Cook in The Hunt for Zero Point, who associates it with Nazi -occultism, antigravity, and free energy research. Mainstream reviewers -have criticized claims about Die Glocke as being pseudoscientific, -recycled rumors, and a hoax. Die Glocke and other alleged Nazi “miracle -weapons” have since been dramatized in video games, television shows, -and novels. (Wikipedia, “Die -Glocke (conspiracy theory)”; Igor Witkowski, The Truth about the -Wunderwaffe, European History Press, 2013; Nick Cook, The -Hunt for Zero Point: -Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology, Broadway, -2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7293

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Event 10102 -(4C3DF722)

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Date: 2000
-Description: Vicente-Juan -Ballester Olmos launches UFO FOTOCAT, a project to create a -worldwide catalog of UFO photos. He eventually accumulates close to -13,000 cases in the database. Based on its content, Ballester Olmos -releases eight research reports as of August 2020. (“The -Year 1954 in -Photos (Expanded)”; “Argentina: -The Year 1965 in Photos”; -“Avistamientos -OVNI en la Antártida en 1965”; “Norway -in UFO Photographs: The First Catalogue”; “Spheres -in Airborne UAP Imagery”; “An -Approach to UFO Pictures in France”; “Belgium -in UFO Photographs, vol. 1 -(1950–1988)”; and “The Marfa Lights: Examining the Photographic -Evidence (2003–2007)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7291

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Event 10103 -(8A1B6FCE)

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Date: 1/5/2000
-Description: Shortly after 4:00 a.m. The “St. Clair Triangle,” “UFO Over -Illinois,” “Southern Illinois UFO,” or “Highland, Illinois UFO” sighting -takes place over the towns of Highland, Dupo, Lebanon, Shiloh, -Summerfield, Millstadt, and O’Fallon, Illinois. Five on-duty police -officers around these locales, along with various other eyewitnesses, -report a massive, silent, triangular or rectangular craft operating at -an unusual treetop-level altitude and speeds. One of the police officers -manages to get a single yet ambiguous Polaroid photograph of the object. -The incident is examined in the ABC special Seeing Is Believing with Peter -Jennings, an -hour-long Discovery Channel special UFOs Over Illinois, an episode of -the 2004 Syfy series Proof Positive, and a 30-minute independent -documentary titled The Edge of Reality: Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000 by -Darryl Barker Productions. (Wikipedia, “Black -triangle (UFO)”; “Police -Officers in St. Clair County Report -Seeing Early- Morning -UFO,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 9, 2000, pp. D1–D2; “UFO -Sighting Brings Media Attention, Investigative -Team to Southern Illinois,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 12, -2000, pp. A1, A6; “UFO -Baffles Observers,” -Waterloo (Iowa) Republic-Times, January 12, 2000, p. 2; “Buffs -Baffled by UFO,” Chicago Sun- Times, January 20, 2000; David B. -Marler, “Illinois -Police Officers Track UFO near Scott AFB,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. -383 (March 2000): 3–8; Internet Movie Database, “UFOs -over Illinois”; “Illinois UFO, January 5, 2000,” IUR 26, no. 2 -(Summer 2001): 16; “Hypothesis: -The Illinois Flying Triangle Is a Department of Defense, Not -an ET Craft,” National Institute for Discovery Science, July 2002; -Darryl Barker, “The -Illinois Triangle? Do We -Have the Technology?” Darryl Barker Productions, August 2, 2002; -Internet Movie Database, “Proof Positive,” -Episode 108, November 24, 2004; Internet Movie Database, “Peter -Jennings Reporting: UFOs, Seeing Is -Believing”; “UFOs: -Seeing Is Believing (2005), ABC Documentary,” Movie Buff Guy YouTube -channel, June 18, 2019; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. -2 (March 2012): 33; Marler 26–60; Skinwalkers 106–108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7297

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Event 10104 -(4F008CFA)

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Date: 1/5/2000
-Description: Bill -Sweetman writes in Jane’s International Defence Review that there -are approximately 150 “special access programs” within the Pentagon at -the close of 1999, many of which are unacknowledged. They often have -completely independent systems of classification, with total control -exercised by the program manager. He concludes that most are dominated -not by Defense personnel but by private contractors. He has no idea how -they are funded. (Bill Sweetman, “In Search of the Pentagon’s Billion -Dollar Hidden Budgets: How the US Keeps Its R&D Spending under -Wraps,” Jane’s International Defense Review, January 5, 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7298

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Event 10105 -(0B01E40D)

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Date: 1/10/2000
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A young man near Sézanne, Marne, France, -encounters a bright white light near the town water tower. His engine -cuts out and the radio stops working. (Mark Rodeghier, “Vehicle -Interference near Sézanne,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7299

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Event 10106 -(7D3E99F8)

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Date: 3/1/2000
-Description: In a campaign press conference in Stockton, California, -Sen. John -McCain (R-Ariz.) acknowledges that the Phoenix Lights incident “has -never been fully explained, but I have to tell you that I do not have -any evidence whatsoever of aliens or UFOs.” (Kean, p. 250)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7300

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Event 10107 -(7E5F371F)

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Date: 3/30/2000
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Leah Isaac, a friend, and their small boy are -driving on the Klondike Highway at the west end of Little Fox Lakes, -Yukon Territory, when they spot a 40-foot wide disc hovering some 300 -feet away. The UFO shoots across the road at “incredible speed,” then -stopped abruptly for a split second before shooting off at a 90º angle. -The car’s headlights dim and the tape deck ceases working when the UFO -is nearby. Leah’s analog watch stops, and her friend’s digital watch -goes blank. (Martin Jasek and Mark Rodeghier, “Vehicle Interference at -Little Fox Lake, Yukon,” IUR 25, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 23–24, 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7301

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Event 10108 -(7663FF01)

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Date: 3/30/2000
-Description: US District Court Judge Stephen -M. McNamee dismisses the CAUS lawsuit seeking documents on the -Phoenix Lights in Arizona, concluding that “a reasonable search was -conducted” by the Department of Defense, even though no information was -found. (Kean, pp. 251–253)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7302

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Event 10109 -(FBC1F460)

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Date: 4/2000
-Description: Sergio Sánchez and Diego Zúñiga launch the UFO magazine La -Nave de los Locos in Santiago, Chile, which continues until October -2006. (La -Nave de los Locos, no. 1 (April 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7303

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Event 10110 -(69A3F5EA)

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Date: early 7/2000
-Description: Evening. Ceri Kenyon is walking home in Littleborough, -Greater Manchester, England, when he sees a flickering object in the -sky. As he approaches, he hears a buzzing sound and sees that it is a -triangular object surrounded by lights. (Marler 223–224)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7304

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Event 10111 -(107DB13F)

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Date: 7/17/2000
-Description: 10:50 p.m. A witness in Silverdale, Washington, sees four -orange lights descending to the west over the Olympic Mountains. When -the second to last light is gone, the witness sees a flash like an -explosion. About 15 minutes later, another orange light appears, moving -south to north at a speed too slow for a meteor. It descends behind the -same mountain. A Blackhawk helicopter is visible in the same area at the -same time. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, February -11, 2003; Nukes 498–499)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7305

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Event 10112 -(CF16BAA2)

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Date: 8/2000
-Description: Two police officers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, watch a large, -triangular-shaped object hovering just above the trees. It is about 660 -feet on each side. (Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR -27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7306

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Event 10113 -(C26921D3)

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Date: 8/5/2000
-Description: 11:30 a.m. A witness spots a silver disc in the sky over -Old Noarlunga, South Australia, and calls out his wife to watch. Over -the next 90 minutes they see 3 whitish additional balls and something -that looks like a helicopter, all traveling west to east. Long, silver, -cobweb-like substance falls in large wads or strands. Once touched with -a stick, it shrivels up and evaporates. Similar material falls on Moana -and Aldinga Beach, where one witness also sees a bright light. (Keith -Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 -(Spring 2002): 8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7307

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Event 10114 -(A5C4CEDB)

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Date: 8/20/2000
-Description: 3:09 p.m. Two blurry round objects appear in a photograph -hovering above the copse of trees next to the High Water Mark of the -Rebellion Monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield, Pennsylvania. They are -not noticed at the time the photo is taken. (Patrick Gross, “Gettysburg, -Pennsylvania, USA, 2000”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7308

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Event 10115 -(B76AF7BC)

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Date: 9/2000
-Description: UFO researchers Karl -Pflock and Peter -Brookesmith organize an invitation-only symposium to re-evaluate the -Betty -and Barney Hill abduction case in depth. It takes place at the -Indian Head Resort in Lincoln, New Hampshire, near the site of the -abduction event itself. The other researchers are Dennis -Stacy, Marcello -Truzzi, Thomas -E. Bullard, Hilary -Evans, Robert -Sheaffer, Joe -Firmage, and Greg -Sandow. Betty -Hill joins the group for an evening’s entertainment and a morning tour -of the site where the abduction took place. The essays written by -participants, along with reflections by Walter -N. Webb and an appendix by Martin -S. Kottmeyer, are compiled in Encounters at Indian Head. (Karl T. -Pflock and Peter Brookesmith, eds., Encounters at Indian Head, -Anomalist, 2007; Robert Sheaffer, “Betty -Hill’s Last Hurrah: A Secret UFO Symposium in New Hampshire,” -Skeptical Inquirer 31, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 2007); Greg Sandow, “The Hill -Case and the Limits of Ufology,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 3–7, -19–28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7309

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Event 10116 -(40EB14F3)

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Date: 9/3/2000
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A man is out walking in Stroud, Gloucestershire, -England, when he sees a large and unusual aircraft looming up over the -skyline. It is black with no discernible tail section and is shooting -three powerful beams of light from dome-like globes set in a triangular -pattern on its underside. Small red lights appear on the tips of its -swept-back wings. (UFOFiles2, pp. 139–140)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7310

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Event 10117 -(20BFC3A5)

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Date: 9/27/2000
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Four men are camped in a trailer at a rural -hunting camp near Challis, Idaho. One goes out to the truck for food and -sees a massive, dark, triangular object hovering motionless above him. -He yells for the others to come out, lights on the object turn on, and -it slowly moves toward the nearby mountains. When it reaches one, it -tips upward and ascends the side of the mountain vertically. When it -reaches the top, it tips forward and disappears from sight. (Marler -228–229)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7311

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Event 10118 -(C3EBCA37)

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Date: 10/15/2000
-Description: Richard -Haines’s National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena -releases a 90-page report that summarizes more than 100 UFO incidents -reported by pilots and their crews, including 56 near misses, all -affecting aircraft safety. Most cases involve multiple witnesses, and -many are backed by ground radio communications and radar corroboration. -Experienced pilots present accounts of objects, ranging from silver -discs to green fireballs, flying loops around passenger aircraft, pacing -planes despite pilots’ evasive attempts, or flooding cockpits with -blinding light. Haines documents cases with electromagnetic interference -on navigation and operating systems. He writes that a crew’s ability to -perform its duties safely is disrupted when the crew is faced with -“extremely bizarre, unexpected, and prolonged luminous and/or solid -phenomena cavorting near their aircraft.” The primary danger is in the -human response, since the objects do not appear to be hostile and seem -to be able to avoid collisions using extraordinary maneuvers. (Richard -F. Haines, “Aviation -Safety in America: A Previously -Neglected Factor,” National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous -Phenomena, October 15, 2000)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7312

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Event 10119 -(8646AAA8)

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Date: 10/31/2000
-Description: After sunset. A woman delivering pizzas in Cygnet, Ohio, is -stopped along Cygnet Road when she sees an elongated, football-shaped -object clearly visible just beyond a thin grove of trees ahead of her. -It is slowly moving westward toward and above Interstate 75, which is -busy with cars and large trucks. It hovers for a few seconds and turns -brighter, then shoots off westward in a streak of light. Two men driving -north on I-75 also see the object. (John P. Timmerman, “Possible Close -Encounter in NW Ohio,” IUR 25, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7313

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Event 10120 -(1267DCAB)

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Date: 11/2000
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A retired law enforcement officer and several -friends are cooking dinner over an open fire in a wooded area near -Elsberry, Missouri, when they see a huge flying wing with white lights -on each end. It seems to be flying completely silently at 3,000 feet. -They watch it for 30 seconds before it disappears into the -southeast.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7314

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Event 10121 -(CAC96245)

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Date: 11/4/2000
-Description: 8:45 p.m. A family in Scottsdale, Arizona, sees a -triangular formation of three bright lights in the southern sky blinking -irregularly. The object they are attached to is larger than a commercial -airliner that happens to pass by. (George Filer, “Arizona Formation of -Flying Triangles,” Filer’s Files, #49-2000 (December 11, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7316

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Event 10122 -(F2D01213)

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Date: 11/4/2000
-Description: Two witnesses near the Del Lago Golf Club north of Vail, -Arizona, see a teardrop-shaped object flying at 300 feet. It has -multiple lights around its perimeter. They drive toward it, flashing -their lights, and the object climbs another 300 feet and moves west -along some railroad tracks. Two A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter aircraft -appear and try to follow the object, but it accelerates and loses them. -(George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying Triangles,” Filer’s Files, -#49-2000 (December 11, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7315

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Event 10123 -(912F1B13)

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Date: 11/20/2000
-Description: 8:45 p.m. An 11-year-old boy on the north side of Phoenix, -Arizona, watches three dark triangle-shaped objects maneuvering and -hovering. (George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying Triangles,” -Filer’s Files, #49- 2000 (December 11, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7317

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Event 10124 -(B6F511CA)

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Date: 11/28/2000
-Description: 7:00 p.m. Jason Ingraham sees a flying triangle with a deep -red blinking light on each point in Phoenix, Arizona. It moves northwest -for about 10 seconds, then it leans to the left and begins to rotate in -a clockwise motion. It makes a full rotation before disappearing behind -some distant trees. There are 6 normal airplanes in the sky at the same -time. (George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying Triangles,” Filer’s -Files, #49-2000 (December 11, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7318

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Event 10125 -(5E2A7E2E)

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Date: 11/30/2000
-Description: The UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 is given royal -assent but will not come into full force until 2005. The legislation -creates a public “right of access” to information held by public -authorities. (Wikipedia, “Freedom -of Information Act 2000”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7319

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Event 10126 -(5D17543E)

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Date: 12/1/2000
-Description: 6:45 p.m. A witness in Avondale, Arizona, sees a bunch of -lights in the shape of a triangle to the southeast. Helicopters seem to -be flying around it. (George Filer, “Arizona Formation of Flying -Triangles,” Filer’s Files, #49-2000 (December 11, 2000))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7320

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Event 10127 -(14E61AA2)

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Date: 12/4/2000
-Description: The UK Ministry of Defence notes in a “loose minute” that -DI55, the space weapons section of the Defence Intelligence Staff, has -completed a study of UFO reports, concluding that there is nothing of -value in its assessment of “threat weapons systems” and will carry out -no further investigations. It will be released in 2006 as the Project -Condign report. (UK Defence Intelligence Staff, “Unidentified Aerial -Phenomena (UAP): DI55 Report,” December 4, 2000, in David Clarke, comp., -Project -Condign documents, pp. 46–47; David Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The -British MoD Study: Project Condign,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006): -7–11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7321

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Event 10128 -(D312B12D)

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Date: 12/13/2000
-Description: 10:00 pm. A group of five people is traveling in a -Volkswagen on a dirt road 9 miles from Iturama, Minas Gerais, -Brazil—João Caiana, his wife Valdeir Martins, daughter Magui Martins, a -3-year-old granddaughter, and an 18-year-old friend. Some odd colored -lights in the sky seem to follow them for 2 miles. Suddenly the interior -of the car begins to get hot, and a light gray entity with big eyes -approaches them. Everyone loses control and seems to be sucked into a -UFO for an abduction scenario. (Laura Maria Elias, “Caso -Caiana: Desdobramentos -de um clássico de Ufologia Miniera,” Portal UFO, February 1, 2015; -Brazil 393–396)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7322

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Event 10129 -(B795BB3C)

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Date: 12/19/2000
-Description: 6:10 a.m. Reporter Alfondo Reyes is observing the eruption -of Popocatépetl southeast of Mexico City, Mexico, and taking -time-exposure photographs. On one 20-second exposure he catches a bright -luminous object that contrasts with the smoke of the eruption and seems -to make a turn toward the crater. He does not actually see the object -and only discovers it after the photo is developed. (Patrick Gross, “UFOs -Photographed over Erupting Mexico -Volcano”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7323

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Event 10130 -(CEDD1D71)

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Date: 12/24/2000
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A woman living in the Baranówka neighborhood of -Rzeszów, Poland, sees a light outside her window on the 4th floor of an -apartment building. It makes unusual maneuvers like a figure-8 and -zigzags, and is joined by another light that flies at a constant speed. -Both are about 5 feet in diameter. She snaps two motion-blur photos with -her Minolta that shows an object hovering above the apartment block -opposite her. The second object approaches the first one and they fly -away together. (Poland 151–153)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7324

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- Event 10131 (CE1810EC)

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Date: 2001
-Description: Gérard -Brachet, the -new director of CNES, decides to audit SEPRA. It is conducted by an -outsider, François Louange, an -expert in photoanalysis who has participated in UFO studies at CNES. -(Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO -Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7325

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Event 10132 -(41B564F7)

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Date: 1/1/2001
-Description: 12:01 a.m. Five people driving along Highway 3 south of New -Plymouth, New Zealand, spot an orange object about 30–50 feet in -diameter pacing their car 100 feet above them. They pull over to watch -and see three similar objects hovering and swaying around. They look -like they are changing color from metallic glowing orange to metallic -deep purple and shades of blue. One more larger object appears on the -horizon and speeds toward the other four. Each seems to react in a way -similar to an army unit and forms a line and disappears almost instantly -to the south. As they leave several minutes later, they realize they -haven’t seen any traffic for 30 minutes and only see some as they enter -New Plymouth. (George Filer, “New Zealand Discs Start New Millennium,” -Filer’s Files, #2-2001 (January 9, 2001))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7326

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Event 10133 -(86E4B74B)

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Date: 1/5/2001
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A white, “self-lit” cigar-shaped object with a -small vapor trail is seen at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Its hops -forward in its progress through the sky before it moves out of view -behind a mountain. It returns and flies back again. (Mark Rodeghier, -“UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7327

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Event 10134 -(2B297967)

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Date: 1/14/2001
-Description: Late afternoon. Witnesses on both sides of the hill see a -small object appear to strike the telecommunications mast on top of -Snaefell, Isle of Man. Two women on horseback see a 20-foot-long object -that crashes in a shower of sparks and smoke. The emergency services -think a small plane has crashed, because they have lost power and are -using a backup generator. As light fades, however, helicopter crews can -see damage to the mast, but no sign of wreckage. The UK government -blames a model aircraft. (Jenny Randles, “Mysterious Island: The UFO -Legacy of the Isle of Man,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7328

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Event 10135 -(3363D174)

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Date: 1/20/2001
-End date: 1/20/2009
-Description: President George W. Bush in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 10136 -(8781FBF6)

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Date: 1/22/2001
-Description: 12:30 a.m. Barnaul Airport in Altai Krai, Russia, shuts -down after a slightly tilted, oscillating, disc-shaped object is -detected hovering above its runway. The crew of an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo -plane refuses to take off, claiming they can see a luminous object. An -incoming Yakovlev Yak-40 passenger plane also sees an object at Barnaul -and lands at another airport. Sergei Kurennoi, the chief airspace -controller at Barnaul, sees the object at an elevation of 15°–20º above -the horizon above the end of the track. With his binoculars, he -distinguishes a solid structure that radiates light of various colors -(red, green, purple). Nothing is tracked on radar. The UFO noiselessly -takes off to the northwest, changes direction to the southwest, and -vanishes after 90 minutes. (Patrick Gross, “UFO -Shuts Down Russian Airport”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7329

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Event 10137 -(D16E37A3)

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Date: 1/25/2001
-Description: In the UK House of Lords, Peter -Hill-Norton asks the Ministry of Defence what is the “highest -classification that has been applied in any MoD document concerning -UFOs.” Its reply is: “A limited search through available titles has -identified a number of documents graded Secret. The overall -classification of the documents was not dictated by details of specific -sightings of UFOs.” (David Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The British MoD -Study: Project Condign,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006): 32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7330

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Event 10138 -(6116960E)

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Date: 1/31/2001
-Description: 3:30 p.m. As many as 10 witnesses observe two cigar-shaped -“shining lights” in the sky, hanging motionless over the horizon at Gjoa -Haven, Nunavut. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 -(Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7331

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Event 10139 -(FFC9CD3A)

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Date: 1/31/2001
-Description: The entire USAF Solid State Phased Array Radar System goes -into operation at five units worldwide including Beale AFB near -Marysville, California; Cape Cod Air Force Station in Massachusetts; -Clear Air Force Station, Alaska; RAF Fylingdales in north Yorkshire, -England; and Thule Airbase in Greenland. These radars are designed -primarily to detect ICBM or sea-launched cruise missiles directed at the -US. (Wikipedia, “Solid -State Phased -Array Radar System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7332

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Event 10140 -(F440D33A)

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Date: 2/2001
-Description: French ufologist Dominique Weinstein creates a massive -catalogue of 1,305 UFO sightings by pilots from 1916 to 2000. She finds -that 606 cases (36.7%) are sightings by military pilots and crews; 444 -cases (26.9%) are by civilian pilots; and 196 cases (11.8%) are by -private pilots. In 200 cases (12.1%) the visual observation is confirmed -by on-board or ground radar. And in 57 cases (3.45%) the pilots note -electromagnetic effects on one or more of the plane’s transmission -systems. (Dominique F. Weinstein, “Unidentified -Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years -of Pilot Sightings, a Catalog of Military, Airliner, and Private Pilots -Sightings from 1916 to 2000,” National Aviation Reporting Center on -Anomalous Phenomena, February 2001)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7333

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Event 10141 -(F02128F4)

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Date: 3/11/2001
-Description: 6:30 p.m. An irregularly shaped object like a cluster of -red spheres flies against the wind above a witness in Calgary, Alberta, -who manages to take a photograph. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, -2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7334

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Event 10142 -(9D02C1E6)

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Date: 4/1/2001
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Farm manager George Hofer and several children -from the Rosedale Hutterite Brethren Colony near Etzikom, Alberta, see a -brilliant fireball falling and apparently striking the Earth only a few -miles away. On April 16, Ken Masson, who farms 13 miles south of -Etzikom, discovers a circular, crater-like formation on his land. On May -1, Pano Karkanis of the University of Lethbridge Department of Geography -visits the site, interviews the witnesses, measures the crater, and -takes soil samples. The crater is 6 inches deep, with an inside diameter -of 7.9 feet, surrounded by a mound of dirt 16 inches high. He notes four -indentations inside the circle that he suspects are caused by rainwater. -The dirt inside is cracked and sere, and he finds some odd reddish-brown -particles of dirt on the mound. He concludes the crater was formed by a -meteorite fragment that vaporized, leaving only the reddish-brown -particles. Meteorite impact expert Alan -Hildebrand the University of Calgary doubts the crater was made by a -meteorite. (Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, -Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 204–206)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7335

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Event 10143 -(B4920506)

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Date: 5/2001
-Description: Christian Morgenthaler founds the Sciences et Phénomènes -Insolites du Ciel et de l’Aéronautique in Odratzheim, Bas-Rhin, France. -It publishes the SPICA News from January 2002 to December 2010. (SPICA -News, no. 1 (January 2002))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7336

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Event 10144 -(94572DC2)

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Date: 5/3/2001
-Description: In the UK House of Lords, Peter -Hill-Norton asks the Ministry of Defence why the UFO documents it -referred to in January were classified secret. Its answer is, “One -document was classified ‘Secret’ with a ‘UK Eyes Only’ caveat because it -contained information about the UK air defence ground environment that -could be of significant value to hostile or potentially hostile states. -Associated correspondence was given the same classification. Generally, -however, notifications of and correspondence on the subject of UFO -sightings are unclassified.” (David Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The -British MoD Study: Project Condign,” IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006): -32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7337

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Event 10145 -(66CCBFE3)

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Date: 5/9/2001
-Description: Twenty government workers from military and civilian -organizations speak about their experiences regarding UFOs and UFO -confidentiality at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The press -conference is initiated by Steven -M. Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project, which has the goal of -disclosing alleged government UFO secrecy. The purpose of the press -conference is to build public pressure through the media to obtain a -hearing before the US Congress on the issue. Aerospace illustrator Mark -McCandlish testifies that gravity control propulsion research -started in the 1950s and successfully reverse engineered the vehicle -retrieved from the Roswell, New Mexico, crash site to build three Alien -Reproduction Vehicles (ARVs) by 1981. McCandlish describes their -propulsion systems in terms of Thomas -Townsend Brown’s gravitators and provides a line drawing of its -interior. The diagram closely resembles the drawing provided earlier in -Milton -William Cooper’s book Behold a Pale Horse. Another Disclosure -Project whistleblower, Philip -J. Corso, states in his book The Day after Roswell that the craft -retrieved from the second crash site at Roswell had a propulsion system -resembling Brown’s gravitators. Corso’s book also features several -gravity control propulsion statements made by Hermann -Oberth. -Although major American media outlets report on the conference, interest -quickly dies down, and no hearing takes place. (“Group -Calls for Disclosure of UFO Info,” ABC News, May 10, 2001; “UFO -Spotters Slam ’US Cover-Up,’” -BBC News, May 10, 2001; Jean-Pierre Petit, “I -Have a Doubt about ‘Disclosure,’” March 19, 2003; Wikipedia, “United -States gravity control propulsion research”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7338

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Event 10146 -(8EC4564F)

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Date: early 6/2001
-Description: A Hellfire missile is successfully launched from an MQ-1A -Predator drone on a replica of Osama -bin Laden’s -Afghanistan Tarnak residence in Area 51, Nevada. A missile launched from -a Predator explodes inside one of the replica’s rooms; it is concluded -that any people in the room would have been killed. However, the armed -Predator does not go into action before the September 11 attacks. -(Wikipedia, “General -Atomics MQ-1 Predator”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7339

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Event 10147 -(0A77E6D3)

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Date: 6/23/2001
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Three witnesses are sitting in their yard in -Fernandina Beach, Florida, when they see a bright white light with a -bluish tinge descend and hover about 2,000 feet due east of them above -the ocean. After one minute it emits a mist from three points on its -underside so that it appears to be sitting on a cloud. Then it emits -mist from its upper area and becomes enshrouded with the light shining -through. Then the light blinks off, leaving only a cloud that stands -there for about one minute. It disappears 5–10 seconds afterward. -(“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, February 11, 2003; -Nukes 506–507)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7340

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Event 10148 -(AC6B2959)

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Date: 6/30/2001
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Electrical power goes off in the small village -of Năneşti, Romania, even though the lights in neighboring villages are -still on. A number of witnesses notice a red, round ball moving slowly -in the air. When it stops it begins to spin, turning into a rotating -segmented ring of pale yellow light. The ring becomes larger in -diameter, coming closer to the ground where it gets as large as 600 feet -in diameter. After a short period of time it climbs again, still -rotating but shrinking and turning into a red dot that moves around in -the sky until it starts rotating again and repeating the cycle some 8–20 -times over the course of 45 minutes. Some witnesses see it as a dark red -cloud lit from inside by squares of light. The display ceases sometime -after midnight and the power returns mysteriously at around 2:00 a.m. -(Romania 70–73)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7341

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Event 10149 -(9C1AC499)

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Date: 7/4/2001
-Description: Art Bell interviews Linda Moulton Howe, Philip J. Corso, -and Bill Birnes were interviewed live in Roswell, NM, about the infamous -UFO crash in 1947.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: Roswell, NM

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Event 10150 -(E0D435BD)

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Date: 7/9/2001
-Description: 11:30 p.m. A man and his daughter watch six orange, oval -objects flying in a V-formation toward the west at Portage la Prairie, -Manitoba. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter -2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7342

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Event 10151 -(00929A93)

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Date: 7/14/2001
-End date: 7/15/2001
-Description: Evening–night. Dozens of Staten Islanders and residents of -Carteret, New Jersey, observe lights in the southwestern sky on a clear, -cloudless night. The lights appear in various formations at about 45° -above the horizon. Witnesses view the scene from Arthur Kill Road and -the West Shore Expressway on the New York side. The Waterloo Cafe, -located opposite the Blazing Star Burial Ground on Arthur Kill Road, -provides the most significant witnesses. The consensus of their -testimonies reveals a series of lights, numbering from 4–5 to as many as -16–20, bright orange or orange-red in hue, and appearing as solid round -objects. Witnesses number about 50, including the owner of the cafe, but -not all come forward. Those who do, agree that there was no sound -emanating from the lights, and no one can see any wings. The lights are -often no more than 1,000 feet in the air, often described as flying in -an inverted V-shaped configuration. Unknown targets without -transponders, some at heights of 99,000 feet, are picked up on radar at -Newark International Airport. (Dennis K. Anderson, “The Arthur Kill -Sightings, July 14–15, 2001,” IUR 28, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 3–6, -26–27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7343

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Event 10152 -(0A53854E)

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Date: 8/3/2001
-Description: Day. A Brazilian Air Force pilot and four others are taking -supplies from Belém to Salvador, Brazil, aboard a C-130 Hercules -transport. One of the military officers draws the colonel’s attention to -a disc-shaped object that is accompanying the plane about 6t0 feet away. -Ground control cannot detect anything on radar. The object has a brushed -gray color and is the size of a bus. It has a dome at the top and flat -at the bottom. The sighting lasts about 10 minutes. (Clark III 208; -Brazil 559–560)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7344

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Event 10153 -(D84027D8)

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Date: 8/6/2001
-Description: Afternoon. Two Turkish Air Force pilots from 122 Squadron -are practicing maneuvers in a Cessna T-37B Dragonfly jet trainer over -the Gulf of Çandarli, an inlet of the Aegean Sea in western Turkey. 1Lt. -Ilker Dinçer and his student Lt. Arda Gunyel are surprised by an -extremely bright object, shaped like something between a disc and a -cone, with a pod on its lower part. Ground control has nothing on its -radar. The UFO approaches the Cessna at high speed, then positions -itself alongside, behind, and above the jet. It plays cat and mouse with -the plane for some minutes before it disappears at high speed. The -Turkish Air Force announces that it is a weather balloon. (Good Need, pp. 393–394)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7345

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Event 10154 -(BCD9D900)

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Date: 8/12/2001
-Description: 12:25 a.m. Five people watch seven gray objects flying in a -straight line over Victoria, British Columbia, which change position in -flight into a hexagonal formation and ascend into the sky. They are lost -to view after 15 minutes. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR -26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7346

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Event 10155 -(EB2C4C96)

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Date: 8/17/2001
-Description: 9:30 p.m. An astronomer in Mitchell, Manitoba, hears loud -booming sounds and runs outside to see three steady lights in triangular -formation moving east to west. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” -IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7347

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Event 10156 -(81F6EE0E)

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Date: 8/20/2001
-Description: Dozens of passengers on the Rogalin ferry returning from -Sweden to Gdansk, Poland, with 50 passengers on board watch an object 10 -feet in diameter rise to the surface about 500 feet away. It approaches -the boat, submerges, and maneuvers underwater. After three minutes, the -ferry leaves it behind. (Poland 121–122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7348

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Event 10157 -(3FB56AAE)

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Date: 8/25/2001
-Description: 3:27 p.m. An astronomer and others at St.-Laurent, Quebec, -watch two solid-appearing objects moving slowly through the clear sky. -They take some photos. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, -no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7349

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Event 10158 -(2B6C63A9)

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Date: 9/6/2001
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Police on patrol in Sampacho, Cordoba, -Argentina, receive an alert on their car radio about several UFOs above -the Cerro Sampacho. They appear to be silently hovering at an altitude -of 5,000 feet. (“UFOs Seen in Argentina,” IUR 27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): -4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7350

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Event 10159 -(A5D00C7F)

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Date: 9/9/2001
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A family traveling in a pickup truck between -Achiras and Sampacho, Argentina, notice an intense red light in the sky -moving from the southwest. It looks like an intense red beam with bright -flashes behind it. In the front is something like an arc of light. The -object seems as if it about to fall on top of them, but it changes -course and heads toward the mountains. (“UFOs Seen in Argentina,” IUR -27, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 4)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7351

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Event 10160 -(52166F51)

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Date: 9/11/2001
-Description: September 11 Terrorist Attack
-Type: terrorist attack
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC
-Location: New York City

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Event 10161 -(B9499F09)

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Date: 10/7/2001
-End date: 8/30/2021
-Description: Afghanistan War begins
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Afghanistan

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Event 10162 -(A5C1CBC4)

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Date: 11/5/2001
-Description: Apache County sheriff’s deputies attempt to arrest Milton -Willian Cooper at his Eagar, Arizona, home on charges of aggravated -assault with a deadly weapon and endangerment stemming from disputes -with local residents. After an exchange of gunfire during which Cooper -shoots one of the deputies in the head, Cooper is fatally shot. Federal -authorities report that Cooper has spent years evading execution of a -1998 arrest warrant for tax evasion. According to a spokesman for the -Marshals Service, he vowed that “he would not be taken alive.” -(Wikipedia, “Milton -William Cooper”; “Arizona -Militia Figure Shot to Death,” Los Angeles Times, November 7, 2001, -p. 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7352

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Event 10163 -(00D49E7F)

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Date: 11/11/2001
-Description: An oval object with several lights flies on an irregular -path above Policeman’s Point, Yukon Territory. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in -Canada, 2001,” IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7353

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Event 10164 -(8C86714C)

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Date: 12/2001
-Description: Peru sets up a new Air Force agency, the Departamento de -Investigación de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (DIFFA), tasked with studying -UFO cases. It is founded and directed by Comandante Julio Chamorro -because “these anomalous events had occurred frequently enough over -national territory to create a danger, and we recognized that they -needed to be taken seriously.” It is first publicly acknowledged in -February 2003 by Col. José Raffo Moloche, but it closes in 2008 (“Perú -reabre oficina para recopilar datos sobre ovnis,” BBC News, October -20, 2013; Kean, p. 189)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7354

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Event 10165 -(47461926)

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Date: 12/11/2001
-Description: 8:06 p.m. Pilots of a commercial airliner flying above -Craik, Saskatchewan, see lights that they think belong to another -aircraft at a higher altitude, but air traffic controllers have no other -aircraft on their radar. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” IUR -26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7355

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- Event 10166 (E4566165)

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Date: 1/18/2002
-Description: The Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center opens in -Istanbul, Turkey, with an exhibition area that showcases UFO incidents -in both Turkish and English. (“International UFO Museum Opens in -Turkey,” IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7356

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Event 10167 -(795C19EF)

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Date: 2/2/2002
-Description: 2:53 a.m. A witness is driving down a road in Clermont, -Florida, when he sees a silent, bright light over Lake Minnehaha. The -object passes over his car at about 15–20 feet in the air, and his -engine dies. It shoots off like a slingshot and disappears. The car -starts again. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference -Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7357

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Event 10168 -(1AF095E1)

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Date: 2/20/2002
-Description: 8:15 a.m. A witness aboard a cruise ship off the southern -coast of Puerto Rico sees an irregularly shaped object like a cloud high -in the sky. He takes a photo, then leaves to attend a meeting. Analysis -indicates that the object is most likely a Tethered Aerostat Radar -System airship used to provide radar data in support of the US drug -interdiction program. (John P. Timmerman and Mark Rodeghier, “Snapshot -from a Cruise: An Aerostat Sighting,” IUR 28, no. 1 (Spring 2003): -13–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7358

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Event 10169 -(34F5C316)

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Date: 3/15/2002
-Description: 9:30 p.m. Lisa Stone is driving with her 16-year-old son -when she sees a triangular object with white lights that is maneuvering -around Magazine Hill, outside Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The object is -massive, perhaps the size of a university football field. She drives -directly underneath, and “hail” starts falling from it. The object does -a figure eight before heading in the direction of Fall River to the -northeast. (Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. 3 -(Fall 2002): 7, 23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7359

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Event 10170 -(21B397D9)

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Date: 4/2002
-Description: Skandinavisk UFO Information begins publishing UFO-Mail in -Ringsted, Denmark. (UFO-Mail, -no. 1 (April 2, 2002))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7360

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Event 10171 -(833176FF)

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Date: summer 2002
-Description: Two men see an object over Mosinee, Wisconsin, that shines -a straight, 5-foot-wide beam of light on the Wisconsin River like a -searchlight. The beam does not change shape as the object goes higher -above the water. (Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” -IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): 23.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7361

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Event 10172 -(60CEA68D)

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Date: 7/26/2002
-Description: 1:00–1:55 a.m. Near Andrews AFB, Maryland, just outside of -Washington, D.C., independent witnesses 8 miles apart become aware of -unusual and persistent aircraft activity. In both locations, witnesses -see odd lights or objects pursued by one military jet. Two pairs of -fighters take off from Andrews at 1:00 a.m., remain airborne for 50 -minutes, fly at low altitude using afterburners over residential areas, -and pursue an unidentifiable light on three occasions. Gary Dillman, -working late shift at a sand-and-gravel operation in Brandywine, -Maryland, sees the first two fighters at 1:00 a.m., then at 1:30 a.m. -and 1:40 a.m. he sees a glowing, round, hard-edged orange object that -one of the fighters is chasing. The pursuit takes place between broken -clouds at about 4,000 feet and a light overcast at about 6,000 feet; the -unknown object and fighter are about 1–2 miles away. In Waldorf, -Maryland, around 1:35 a.m. Renny Rogers feels the walls of his home -rattling from a low-flying aircraft and goes out to see a single jet -fighter. At 1:40 a.m., he sees a bright, pale-bluish light in the -north-northeast moving at a high rate of speed. He calls a neighbor to -come watch the display. Soon a fighter comes over his house in obvious -pursuit of the light and about 1,000–2,000 feet behind it. The four -fighters return to base around 1:50 a.m. (Kenny Young, “UFO -Violates D.C. Airspace,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 413 (September -2002): 11; Joan Woodward, “The Washington, D.C., Jet Chase of July 26, -2002,” IUR 27, no. 4 (Winter 2002–2003): 3–7, 22–25; Good Need, pp. -394–396)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7362

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Event 10173 -(0F08CC9A)

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Date: 8/2002
-Description: The Roper market research firm conducts a telephone poll, -sponsored by the Sci-Fi channel, to ask a national sample of adult -Americans a series of questions about UFOs and abductions. The results -indicate that two-thirds think there are other forms of intelligent life -in the universe, 56% think that UFOs are something real, 48% think that -UFOs have visited Earth in some form, 11.6% have seen a UFO at close -quarters, 72% think the US government is not telling everything it knows -about UFOs, and 21% think that humans have been abducted by other life -forms. (Mark Rodeghier, “Attitudes toward ETI, UFOs, and Abductions,” -IUR 27, no. 4 (Winter 2002– 2003): 10–14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7363

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Event 10174 -(166F95C2)

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Date: 8/2002
-Description: Day. Three witnesses in Szczuczyn, Poland, watch a V-shaped -object with brilliant white lights at each of its corners moving slowly -from west to east with its flat point forward. (Poland 99)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7364

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Event 10175 -(69847395)

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Date: 8/5/2002
-End date: 8/18/2002
-Description: A third team of Italian researchers, code named EMBLA and -led by Massimo -Teodorani and Gloria Nobili, visits Hessdalen, Norway, and collects -evidence pointing to an unknown atmospheric light phenomenon “able to -produce a luminous power of up to 100 kW.” However, a 2003 analysis by -Matteo Leone demonstrates that the lights reported by the EMBLA team are -consistent with automobile headlights. (Massimo Teodorani, “A Long-Term -Scientific Survey of the Hessdalen Phenomenon,” Journal of -Scientific Exploration 18, no. 2 (2004): 217–251; Matteo Leone, “A -Rebuttal of the EMBLA 2002 Report on the Optical Survey in -Hessdalen,” 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7365

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Event 10176 -(D4CC69EC)

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Date: 8/13/2002
-Description: 2:15 a.m. A woman watching the Perseid meteor show in Cow -Bay, Nova Scotia, sees a large meteor with a long tail appear out of -Ursa Major and arch over her head to the southeast. Suddenly it -disappears as if it has passed behind something. She also sees a -straight, black line advancing trough the sky, then a “perfect black -triangle of gargantuan proportions” crossing directly over the clearing -around her house. It is pitch black and enormous, moving only about 10 -mph and taking 5 minutes to disappear over the trees to the northwest. -Ufologist Don -Ledger investigates and finds that radar at Moncton Center in New -Brunswick had picked up an unidentified target at that time and place. -(Don Ledger, “The Flying Triangle Phenomenon,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall -2002): 3–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7366

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Event 10177 -(1C0B2CFD)

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Date: 9/6/2002
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Police in Sampacho, Cordoba, Argentina, receive -an alert about a mystery light. They see 7–8 objects over the Cerro -Sampacho hovering silently at about 5,000 feet altitude. They have them -in view for several minutes. (“Argentinsk -politi ser åtte UFOer,” UFO-nytt, 2002, no. 2, p. 21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7367

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Event 10178 -(E3152AB0)

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Date: 9/9/2002
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A family is traveling in a pickup truck -northward along Provincial Highway 24 between Achiras and Sampacho, -Cordoba, Argentina. In the vicinity of Cerro Aspero, they begin noticing -“a very intense red light in the sky” in the southwest. The object looks -like an intense red beam with an arc of light on its front section. The -observation lasts for several minutes as the light approaches then heads -towards hills in the south. (“Another -UFO Spotted near Sampacho, Argentina,” UFO Roundup 7, no. 39 -(September 24, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7368

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Event 10179 -(A0B614DF)

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Date: 9/16/2002
-End date: 9/24/2002
-Description: Scientists from the University of New Mexico initiate an -archaeological dig at the debris field site near Corona, New Mexico, -funded by the Sci-Fi channel. The team finds a small number of artifacts -of unknown provenance and some soil deformation anomalies, but no furrow -or unusual debris. (Sci Fi Channel, Sci Fi Declassified: The Roswell Dig -Diaries, Pocket Books, 2004; “The Roswell Dig Diaries,” IUR 28, no. 4 -(Winter 2003–2004): 11)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7369

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Event 10180 -(036E9253)

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Date: late 9/2002
-Description: 5:45 p.m. Security Policeman Christopher Cabrera is on -guard an entry control point at the Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary -Field [now Creech AFB] in Clark County, Nevada. He looks toward the base -and sees an amber/red object hovering above it. He stares at it for -about 2 minutes then suddenly a red beam shoots out from the orb and -hits the side of the nearest mountain. The beam lasts about one minute -and Cabrera notices what looked like molten rock dripping from the -mountain. The beam abruptly ceases and the orb just disappears. A few -seconds later, the molten effect on the mountain also dissipates. -(Robert L. Hastings, “Triangular-Shaped UFO -Sighted at the Nellis AFB Nuclear Storage Area,” UFOs & Nukes, -April 23, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7370

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Event 10181 -(CC71BA1B)

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Date: 10/2002
-Description: A “three-foot diameter orb” quickly moves along the -perimeter fences of Area 2, a weapons storage area of the Nevada Test -Site [now the Nevada National Security Site]. It eventually outpaces the -security teams that attempt to pursue it in Humvees. (Nukes 513)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7371

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Event 10182 -(FBA94C29)

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Date: 10/1/2002
-Description: The US Strategic Command is restricted by Secretary of -Defense Donald -Rumsfeld, merging with the US Space Command and assuming all duties -for full-spectrum global strike, operational space support, missile -defense, intelligence, and planning. (Wikipedia, “United -States Strategic Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7372

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Event 10183 -(009E6592)

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Date: 10/4/2002
-Description: 7:06 p.m. A rotating CCTV camera at Terminal 2 in Kota -Kinabalu International Airport, Sabah, Malaysia, records a video of an -oblong object passing by in seconds. No unusual object is tracked by the -airport radar. A security guard sees the object moving silently west to -east before disappearing in the hills. (Patrick Gross, “Radar/Visual/Camera -UFO Case at Airport in Malaysia?”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7373

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Event 10184 -(BCB8A124)

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Date: 10/10/2002
-Description: Day. A military pilot off the coast of Southern California -or Baja California, Mexico, is looking down at the ocean at a 78° angle -and sees, at a 7,238-foot visual slant range, a submerged, white, -egg-shaped object about 20–50 feet below the surface. It is about 130 by -200 feet in size and appears silent and stationary. (Keith Basterfield, -“A -BAASS Data Report of a 2002 Submerged Egg-Shaped Object in the SOCAL -OPEAREA,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 13, -2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7374

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Event 10185 -(9652185A)

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Date: 10/16/2002
-Description: Rear Adm. Thomas -R. Wilson, who has retired as director of the Defense Intelligence -Agency on July 29, has a meeting in Paradise, Nevada, with Eric -W. Davis of EarthTech International Inc., an astrophysicist who is a -member of the National Institute for Discovery Science and an associate -of Harold -E. Puthoff. He talks about his previous meetings with Cmdr. Will -Miller, in which he admits he was denied access to an Unacknowledged -Special Access Program dealing with reverse engineering an alien craft. -Davis takes 15 pages of notes, which are leaked to researcher Grant -Cameron and others in April 2019. (Eric W. Davis, “Eric -Davis Meeting with Adm. Wilson” -[notes], Imgur, April 19, 2019; Richard Dolan, “The -Wilson Leak: Latest Developments,” Richard Dolan Member Forum, June -19, 2019; “The -Admiral Wilson Leak: Evidence of USAPs (Unacknowledged Special Access -Programs) and Reverse Engineering of Extraterrestrial Technologies,” -Metallicman, December 23, 2019; Joe Murgia, “The -Wilson/Davis Documents: My Twenty-Three Year Journey, Part 1,” Part -2, UFO Joe, June 21, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7375

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Event 10186 -(A7B85A0D)

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Date: 10/18/2002
-Description: A fall of angel hair covers a large area of Alessandria, -Italy, including roofs, cars, and trees. A sample is recovered and -examined by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche in Parma and shows -“unequivocally” that the filaments are not organic, but similar to -synthetic polymer textile fibers. They have a clear alternation of -bright and dark segments. The Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione -Ambientale in Turin disputes the finding and proclaims the material -spider web. (Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” -JUFOS 9 (2006): 108)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7376

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Event 10187 -(1C47FCDA)

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Date: 10/23/2002
-Description: 7:40 p.m. Pilot Thomas J. Preziose takes off from Mobile, -Alabama, in a Cessna 208B single-engine cargo plane en route to -Montgomery. Six minutes later, he collides with an unknown object at -3,000 feet and descends uncontrolled into swampy water in the Big Bateau -Bay in Spanish Fort, Alabama. The pilot’s final words are: “Night Ship -282, I needed to deviate, I needed to deviate.” A strange red residue -(“transfer marks”) is found coating at least 14 different areas of the -downed airplane that are widely separated in location both inside and -outside the aircraft. The engine block has been split. The final NTSB -report indicates that the accident is caused by pilot disorientation. -However, an independent investigation finds numerous discrepancies with -regard to both the FAA documentation and the NTSB investigation. The -composition of the red residue is variously found to be tere- and -isophthalate polymer with possible presence of inorganic silicate -compounds; and epoxy material with some inorganic silicate filters. (“NTSB -Solves Riddle of ’02 Small-Plane Crash,” Washington Post, January -11, 2006; Kean, pp. 61–62; -Marcus Lowth, “Just -What Did Happen to Tom Preziose? Contact, or Cover-Up?” UFO Insight, -November 8, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7377

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Event 10188 -(17799A9E)

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Date: 10/31/2002
-Description: Astronomers Margaret -C. Turnbull and Jill -Tarter publish a catalog of nearby habitable stellar systems, each -at least 3 billion years old, stable, and supporting liquid water on the -surface of a habitable planet. (Margaret C. Turnbull and Jill C. Tarter, -“Target -Selection for SETI: 1. A Catalog of Nearby Habitable Stellar -Systems,” arXiv, October 31, 2002)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7378

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Event 10189 -(C415CA30)

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Date: 11/2002
-Description: After an audit, photoanalyst François -Louange recommends the reactivation and redevelopment of SEPRA. The -report is picked up by the French press. (Gildas Bourdais, “The Death -and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): -13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7379

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Event 10190 -(237980A6)

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Date: 11/8/2002
-Description: The Sci Fi channel sponsors a symposium on “Interstellar -Travel and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Science Fiction or Science -Fact?” at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Speakers -include astrophysicist Richard -Conn Henry, theoretical physicist Michio -Kaku, astrophysicist -Bernard -Haisch, computer scientist Jacques -Vallée, aviation expert John -Callahan, and -physicist Peter -Sturrock. (“GWU’s -SciFi UFO Symposium,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7380

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Event 10191 -(7CE68706)

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Date: 11/16/2002
-Description: A boomerang-shaped object surrounded by mist is seen in the -Old Town district of Rzeszów, Poland. (Poland 92)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7381

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Event 10192 -(7EEBD50C)

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Date: 11/21/2002
-Description: 7:00 p.m. James -Bunnell sees a pulsating light on the side of a mesa near Marfa, -Texas. It is yellow and hovers for 8–10 minutes, then begins descending, -blinks out, and reappears as a bright red light that lasts only 2–3 -seconds. (James Bunnell, Hunting Marfa Lights, Lacey, 2009, pp. 67–68)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7382

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Event 10193 -(52DF55F6)

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Date: 11/28/2002
-Description: Night. Two policemen in Buenos Aires, Argentina, see a -large light maneuvering in the sky and emitting colored sparks before it -approaches their patrol car. The light reverses its course, and the -engine and headlights fail. About 30 minutes later, the object moves -away, the car starts again, and the siren suddenly comes on. The UFO -paces them to one side before it finally disappears. Five police cars -are involved in the incident. (Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle -Interference Reports, Part 1,” IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7383

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Event 10194 -(03E29487)

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Date: 12/2/2002
-End date: 12/13/2002
-Description: The Sci Fi channel airs a fictional miniseries about UFOs -and abductions titled Taken, produced by Steven -Spielberg. The -show takes place from 1944 to 2002 and follows the lives of three -families: the Crawfords, who seek to cover up the Roswell crash and the -existence of aliens; the Keys, who are subject to frequent -experimentation by the aliens; and the Clarkes, who sheltered one of the -surviving aliens from the crash. (Wikipedia, “Taken -(miniseries)”; -Internet Movie Database, “Taken”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7384

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Event 10195 -(80000B2B)

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Date: 12/26/2002
-Description: Roswell, New Mexico, witness Walter -G. Haut signs an affidavit that asserts he had seen bodies recovered -from the 1947 crash in a temporary morgue at Roswell Army Air Field. -Haut dies December 15, 2005, and the affidavit is released by his -family. (Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, Witness to Roswell: -Unmasking the Government’s Biggest Cover-Up, New Page, 2007, -pp. 215–217)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7385

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- Event 10196 (43152923)

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Date: 1/31/2003
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Two witnesses in Villeneuve, Alberta, watch a -large white object described as “two saucers rim to rim” move slowly -through a farmyard and over some houses, then out of sight. (Mark -Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7386

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Event 10197 -(9D78A691)

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Date: 2/8/2003
-Description: 1:00 a.m. Carlos Eduardo Montilho wakes up in his home in -Guará I, Brasilia, Brazil, to tend to his dog in the backyard. An -intense white light comes down about 23 feet in front of him that is -attached to an oval object abut 10 feet in diameter. The grass stirs -beneath it as if blown by wind, and it is making a humming sound. His -wife starts screaming for him to get back inside. He retreats to the -kitchen, where they both watch the object for 3 minutes before it rises -slowly and disappears. The dog is asleep the entire time. (Brazil -400–402)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7387

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Event 10198 -(D856A58E)

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Date: 2/12/2003
-Description: 9:02 p.m. A dark triangular object with some sort of -structured undercarriage is seen flying over Vancouver, British -Columbia. It is in view for 3 minutes by two witnesses. (Mark Rodeghier, -“UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7388

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Event 10199 -(C750E8A1)

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Date: 2/15/2003
-Description: The National Air Intelligence Center becomes the National -Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), which coordinates a “wide -variety of complex space/counterspace analytical activities.” -(Wikipedia, “National -Air and -Space Intelligence Center”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7389

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Event 10200 -(8772BFB9)

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Date: 2/19/2003
-Description: 9:20 a.m. A fast-moving silvery object “like a cruise -missile” flies swiftly across snow-covered fields near Raymore, -Saskatchewan, heading north. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” -IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7390

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Event 10201 -(164A29AD)

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Date: 2/25/2003
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A witness in downtown Bremerton, Washington, -looks up and sees a triangular object with a light at each point flying -silently over Naval Submarine Base Bangor [now Naval Base Kitsap] on the -Kitsap Peninsula, Washington, at an altitude of 800–1,000 feet. -(“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, March 4, 2003; Nukes -499)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7391

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Event 10202 -(4149FDDA)

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Date: 3/2003
-End date: 4/2003
-Description: Second Persian Gulf War (Gulf War II)
-Type: war
-Reference: link
-Location: Iraq

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Event 10203 -(00D9AEC1)

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Date: 3/3/2003
-Description: 7:55 a.m. The drive and passenger of a truck traveling -along a highway in Houston, British Columbia, watch as a silver object -the size and shape of an Airstream trailer flies alongside them, then -zooms away. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall -2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7392

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Event 10204 -(488A1CE5)

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Date: 4/2003
-Description: 2:30 a.m. Some Air Force security policemen for Area 2, a -weapons storage area of the Nevada Test Site [now the Nevada National -Security Site], are having a meal outside when they notice a red glow at -their feet. The light is coming from a giant sphere perhaps 100 feet -across approaching them from the south. By the time they notice it, the -reddish-orange object has passed silently overhead at about 75 feet -altitude in a few seconds. Apparently, it projects a zone of silence and -exerts a zone of pressure directly below it, causing the guards’ ears to -pop. It disappears over some mountains to the north, where it apparently -explodes in a burst of white light with no sound or shockwave. Building -in intensity, the explosion keeps growing until it is painful to -perceive through closed eyes, then quickly dies down. The light effects -last for 5 seconds. The security controller orders all outside units to -search for the downed object. They look until 7:00 a.m. but find -nothing. (Nukes 512–515)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7393

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Event 10205 -(6A79F0D8)

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Date: 6/2003
-Description: The Turkish press announces that Turkey’s National -Intelligence Service has received a top-secret request from the US -Central Intelligence Agency for details on all its latest UFO reports. -The Service accordingly asks the Turkish Air Force, Turkish Airlines, -and other agencies to submit reports. It recommends that the Air Force -should establish an investigative agency headed by a colonel. (Good -Need, p. 394)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7394

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Event 10206 -(19342EE5)

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Date: 6/5/2003
-Description: 4:45 p.m. Shortly after TAM Flight 3287 takes off from -Palmas–Brigadeiro Lysias Rodrigues Airport in Palmas, Brazil, to -Brasilia, air traffic control asks the pilot if he can see any other -aircraft near his plane. He cannot, but ground control says there is -another object in his flight area. When they are over Palmas, the -copilot sees a gigantic object on the right side of the plane. It is -metallic and surrounded by bright multicolored lights. It flies as if it -is sliding with no friction. The UFO follows the aircraft for almost an -hour before moving away. (Clark III 203–205; Brazil 548)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7395

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Event 10207 -(1DBCD9C9)

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Date: 6/10/2003
-Description: Serbian astrophysicist Milan -M. Ćirković theorizes that because it is reasonable to assume that -there is an inhabited planet somewhere 3 billion years older than Earth, -we are likely to encounter an alien civilization significantly older -than 1.8 billion years. (Milan M. Cirkovic, “The -Temporal Aspect of the Drake Equation and SETI,” -arXiv, June 10, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7396

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Event 10208 -(E9ECEEA9)

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Date: 7/5/2003
-Description: The Sci-Fi Channel places a stone marker at the Roswell -debris field site to commemorate the 1947 crash. (Thomas J. Carey and -Donald R. Schmitt, Witness to Roswell, New Page, 2007, p. 223)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7397

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Event 10209 -(92F97123)

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Date: 7/7/2003
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness in Verdun, Quebec, watches a gray, -teardrop-shaped object moving slowly at low altitude over rooftops, -making an unusual whirring sound. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, -2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7398

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Event 10210 -(557C9603)

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Date: 7/28/2003
-Description: 12:45 a.m. Hundreds of witnesses see a large, white, -moon-shaped object flying over the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, -zigzagging from northwest to southeast and changing direction in some -cases to move over local mountains and drop into valleys. At 1:00 a.m., -a beam of white light arches across the sky from horizon to horizon and -persisting until at least 2:00 a.m. Dubbed the “Okanagan Arch,” the beam -is seen from Kamloops to Jaffray. (Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, -The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 207–209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7399

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Event 10211 -(ADA8571E)

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Date: 8/6/2003
-Description: 12:32 a.m. Three witnesses in North Bay, Ontario, watch as -a gray, cigar-shaped object, stationary in the sky, becomes “wavy” and -then suddenly disappears from view after 5 minutes. (Mark Rodeghier, -“UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7400

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Event 10212 -(0A5D3340)

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Date: 8/10/2003
-Description: 2:22 p.m. A large fuselage-shaped object flies low along a -road, under some guy wires, and among trees in Whitehorse, Yukon. (Mark -Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7401

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Event 10213 -(9D024D15)

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Date: 8/11/2003
-Description: 6:00 p.m. Diana Luca and her mother are chatting at the -kitchen table in her home in New Westminster, British Columbia. Out of -the corner of her eye, Luca spots a black object behind the trees in the -back alley. The two step out on the patio for a better look and see a -UFO flying behind the trees and over the top of the shorter ones. The -object, flat and shaped like a Frisbee, flips on its underside, which is -as red and shiny as a Coke can. She calls her husband, Mark Murphy, who -is inside. By the time he gets to the porch, the UFO looks cigar-shaped -and is an estimated 1.8 miles away. Murphy rushes inside to get a -camcorder and gets the rest of the sighting on tape. (“UFOs -over British Columbia,” Vancouver (B.C.) Courier, March 15, 2004; -“B.C. Sighting,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 27)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7402

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Event 10214 -(A6CA129A)

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Date: 8/20/2003
-Description: Day. Frank Delephine takes a video of a formation of five -yellowish lights leaving a smoke trail above the beach at Nowa Karczma -on the Vistula Spit, Poland. (Poland 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7403

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Event 10215 -(B0829A81)

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Date: 8/23/2003
-Description: Three witnesses observe a saucer-shaped object with -protrusions for 30 seconds as it flies above some cars on a highway in -Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. -3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7404

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Event 10216 -(46695CBF)

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Date: 8/26/2003
-Description: Members of the Defense Committee on the Chilean Chamber of -Deputies analyze information on UFOs for the first time. It hears -testimony, largely reports from pilots and air traffic controllers, -provided by the Comité de Estudios de Fénomenos Aéreos Anómalos and the -director of OVNIvision (both UFO research groups in Chile). Defense -Committee Chairman Arturo Cardemil tells the media that UFOs have -sometimes disrupted air-traffic operations. (George Filer, “Chile: -Congress Acknowledges Importance of UFO Research,” Filer’s Files, #36- -2003, September 3, 2003)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7405

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Event 10217 -(38FE75A3)

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Date: 9/2003
-Description: 10:30 a.m. Arthur A. Larson is sitting in a truck at a -gravel crossroads near Clara City, Minnesota, when he sees a round, -black object at an altitude higher than a passing passenger jet but -below the cirrus clouds. He watches it for 10–12 seconds and estimates -its speed as 3,000–5,000 mph. (Arthur A. Larson, “Recent Minnesota -Sighting,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7406

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Event 10218 -(A95C7B82)

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Date: 9/11/2003
-Description: A triangular object with red lights flies over two people -in Whitehorse, Yukon. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, -no. 3 (Fall 2003): 13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7407

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Event 10219 -(E2BFB0CA)

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Date: 12/8/2003
-Description: 8:45 p.m. An unusual white, oval object with a ring of blue -lights hovers above a house in Houston, British Columbia, dropping -sparks. It then flies steadily toward the mountains and is lost to -sight. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall -2003): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7408

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Event 10220 -(4C2C16B6)

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Date: 12/24/2003
-Description: 1:00 p.m. Three people in Airdrie, Alberta, watch a -chrome-colored “marble” hanging motionless in the sky. After about 15 -seconds, it vanishes without a trace. (Mark Rodeghier, “UFOs in Canada, -2003,” IUR 28, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7409

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- Event 10221 (7FDC6C8E)

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Date: 2004
-Description: TicTac craft witnessed by Fravor and other Navy personnel -off the coast of southern California
-Type: ufo sighting
-Reference: TODO
-Location: off the coast of southern California

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Event 10222 -(9045FC94)

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Date: 2004
-Description: Afternoon. A Brazilian pilot flying an ATR 42-300 twin -turboprop airliner has a near-miss with a luminous sphere near the São -Paulo–Congonhas Airport, Brazil. The encounter lasts 14 minutes. -(Richard F. Haines, “Near Miss with UAP near São Paulo Airport,” IUR 32, -no. 3 (July 2009): 9–18, 23–24; Robert J. Durant, “Commentary on the São -Paolo Near Miss,” IUR 32, no. 3 (July 2009): 19–20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7410

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Event 10223 -(2F9AD917)

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Date: 2004
-Description: Night. Three teams of security policemen at Nellis AFB in -Nevada are sent to investigate a mysterious light seen in a distant -corner of the weapons storage compound in Area 2. Upon arriving at the -location in vehicles, they cannot see any light. However, seconds later, -one policeman spots a towering, silhouette-like, 8- or 9-foot-tall -figure, visible against the moon-lit sky. It quickly turns and runs. -After disappearing over a rise in the terrain, with six Security -Policemen in hot pursuit, the unknown intruder seemingly vanishes into -thin air. (Robert L. Hastings, “Triangular-Shaped -UFO Sighted at the Nellis AFB Nuclear Storage Area,” UFOs & -Nukes, April 23, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7412

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Event 10224 -(FDFBC8AF)

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Date: 2004
-Description: Vadim -Chernobrov registers the All-Russian Scientific Organization, -Kosmopoisk, as an international association. (Wikipedia, “Kosmopoisk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7411

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Event 10225 -(14473FB3)

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Date: 1/2004
-Description: CNES decides to close SEPRA, perhaps because engineer Jean-Jacques -Velasco is publishing a book, OVNIs: L’évidence, in April. (Gildas -Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” IUR -31, no. 2 (June 2007): 13; Swords 450)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7413

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Event 10226 -(D47FD02D)

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Date: 1/4/2004
-Description: 10:30 p.m. Another Airbus 330-200 is approaching the east -coast of Ireland, bound for Dublin Airport, when the crew sees a -flashing strobe light over Slane, County Meath. As the aircraft -throttles back to 265 mph at 2,500 feet, the UFO takes on a triangular -shape, passes in front of the plane, and gives off a bright flashing -light. The UFO begins circling the Airbus in an aggressive manner. The -crew expects a collision with the object, which is about 360 feet wide. -The interior lights dim (power drain) and the encounter continues for -8–10 minutes as passengers watch. At one point, wake turbulence from the -UFO triggers the wind shear warning device. Other aircraft in the -vicinity are watching the encounter and listening in to radio -transmissions. Just 2 minutes before landing, the UFO shoots away to the -southeast. (Good Need, pp. 407–410; -Dermot Butler and Carl Nally, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, -Mercier, 2006, pp. 42–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7415

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Event 10227 -(D4CBBDFA)

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Date: 1/4/2004
-Description: 8:30 p.m. An Aer Lingus Boeing 737 with 135 people on board -is about 2 miles off the east coast of Ireland approaching Dublin -Airport. It is being followed in for landing on Runway 10 by a British -Midland Airbus A330- 200 at a distance of 6 miles. Both are at an -altitude of 3,000 feet and moving at 287 mph. As the 737 approaches -Slane, the A330 crew observes unidentified traffic take off vertically -from a field. The object has bright strobe lights and is triangular in -shape. It begins to circle the 737, which experiences a power drain. The -A330 sees a purplish glow surround the 737, whose captain requests a -course change to avoid the object, which is passing in front of the -airliner. The UFO angles to the port side and the 737 experiences a huge -wake turbulence and an increase in outside air temperature to 327° F. -for about 15 seconds. The A330 also feels the turbulence, and the UFO -heads southeast at great speed. When the 737 lands, the crew cannot -raise the speed brakes on the wings, which are found to be damaged, as -if dented by a hammer. There is also aircraft skin damage and hydraulic -damage to the brakes caused by the UFO wake. (Good Need, pp. 406–410; -Dermot Butler and Carl Nally, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, -Mercier, 2006, pp. 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7414

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Event 10228 -(D881262C)

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Date: 1/17/2004
-Description: 7:45 p.m. A witness at Bass River, New Brunswick, sees a -bright, fast-moving fireball. Around 11:00 p.m., a couple near -Saint-Louis-de-Kent, New Brunswick, watch two flashing lights low in the -west. They descend rapidly then fly in front of the witnesses at -tremendous speed. They then stop and settle above some trees on the -eastern horizon and disappear. A man in Caraquet is looking south and -sees two objects, one on top of the other, flying west to east. They -take 5 minutes to cross the sky but do not look like airplanes. In -Moncton, another witness sees a single light moving steadily and rapidly -across the ocean toward the east. In Saint Paul, another witness sees -two lights heading toward the northwest, They make no sound, rotate -around each other, hover, then leave at high speed. (Chris Rutkowski and -Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, -pp. 210–211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7416

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Event 10229 -(18F0F825)

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Date: 1/20/2004
-Description: European Parliament Member Nello -Musumeci submits a proposal to create a Europe-wide “body for the -study of unexplained atmospheric phenomena.” He suggests that the -European Commission should pay special attention to UFO studies by -various European space centers and recommends SEPRA in Toulouse, France, -as a model. (2Pinotti 213)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7417

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Event 10230 -(7108B8FE)

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Date: 1/21/2004
-Description: A man is driving on the Trans-Canada Highway 10 miles north -of Sussex, New Brunswick, when he sees a blinking light off to his left, -apparently hovering above the road. As he approaches, he sees the object -is composed of two bright white lights that seem to be attached to a -structured object. It descends and hovers above a field. The witness -can’t pull over, so the light is soon lost to view behind him. (Chris -Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, -2006, p. 211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7418

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Event 10231 -(595F0245)

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Date: 1/22/2004
-Description: 9:00 p.m. S/Sgt Shawn Burke of the 86th Operations Support -Squadron stationed at Ramstein Air Base outside Ramstein-Misenbach, -Kaiserslautern, Germany, sees a row of seven lights directly overhead -and glowing a bright white. When the clouds become thicker, the display -disappears briefly, then reappears and become more elongated, looking -more like lines than dots. Burke takes a few photos. They remain -stationary all night. His cellphone and the internet in his building -goes out when the lights get brighter. Possible light pillars. (Wim van -Utrecht, “Seven -Unidentified Lights over Ramstein Air Base,” Caelestia)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7419

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Event 10232 -(20C444C0)

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Date: 1/25/2004
-Description: 6:26 p.m. A woman and her son watch a strange triangular -object in the sky above Richibucto, New Brunswick. It has sparkling -lights on top and a V shape on its underside. In a telescope, they can -see it is a large gray object with something like a round door on the -bottom. It suddenly speeds up and disappears in the distance. (Chris -Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, -2006, p. 211)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7420

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Event 10233 -(2649178E)

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Date: 1/27/2004
-Description: Night. Alec Birch, who has confessed to faking a UFO photo -in 1962, takes a series of color slides showing the town hall in -Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, for a photography competition. He -sees nothing unusual at the time, but on examining one transparency he -finds an image that appears to be an elliptical UFO. Ruling out lens -flares and aircraft, he contacts the Ministry of Defence, which sends -the slide to the Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency for -analysis. The agency reports back to the MoD on August 2, saying that no -definite conclusions can be reached, but “it may be coincidental that -the illuminated plane of the object passes through the centre of the -frame, indicating a possible lens anomaly, [for example] a droplet of -moisture.” (UFOFiles2, pp. 147–148)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7421

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Event 10234 -(93C415B8)

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Date: 2/20/2004
-Description: 2:00 p.m. Lt. Ribeiro of the Brazilian Air Force is -retuning on a flight from São Paulo to Recife, Brazil. He is ordered to -intercept a radar return that he can visually confirm as a yellow light. -During the interception, the light remains stationary. Suddenly it -begins moving toward the aircraft and gets very close. The pilot can -only see a sphere of light coming closer, so he maneuvers sharply to the -right. At this point his plane is illuminated by a beam of light. -Seconds later everything is back to normal and the object is gone. -(Clark III 206; Brazil 553–554)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7422

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Event 10235 -(BA60ACF0)

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Date: 3/5/2004
-Description: Mexican Air Force pilots flying a C-26A Metroliner using -infrared equipment to search for drug-smuggling aircraft record 11 -unidentified objects on infrared video and radar near Ciudad del Carmen, -Campeche, Mexico. The objects are not visible to the crew. Secretary of -Defense Gen. Gerardo -Clemente Vega issues a press release on May 12 accompanied by -videotape that shows moving bright lights at 11,500 feet. Mexican -journalist Jaime Maussan interprets -the videotape as “proof of alien visitation,” but science writer and -skeptic Michael -Shermer is critical of witness accounts that vary wildly, saying, -“it was like a fisherman’s tale, growing with each retelling,” while -NARCAP suggests the lights are most likely burn-off flares on offshore -oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. (Mark Rodeghier, “Special Failures -Down Mexico Way,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 12–13, 28; “NARCAP -Statement on the Mexican FLIR Case,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): -17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7423

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Event 10236 -(6409673C)

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Date: 4/15/2004
-Description: Ademar -José Gevaerd’s Brazilian Ufologists Commission launches a campaign -called “Freedom of Information Now!” with the goal of convincing the -Brazilian government to publicly release official information on the -Varginha case, the Official Night of the UFOs, and the Trindade Island -photos. (Clark III 209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7424

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Event 10237 -(E48718B6)

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Date: summer 2004
-Description: Two security guards at a glass factory in Częstochowa, -Poland, watch a large, oblong-shaped object with two bright yellow -lights on both ends fly 90 feet above their guard post. (Poland -110)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7425

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Event 10238 -(1FF841DF)

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Date: 7/31/2004
-Description: CNES is now embarrassed by its decision to close SEPRA and -is planning a rebirth. (Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of -Official French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7426

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Event 10239 -(B921B47A)

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Date: 8/2004
-Description: The National Institute for Discovery Science releases a -report, “NIDS Investigations of the Flying Triangle Enigma,” with -analyses of triangle-shaped UFOs in the US, Belgium, and elsewhere. -(“NIDS Investigations of the Flying Triangle Enigma,” August 2004)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7427

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Event 10240 -(AE8809B0)

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Date: 8/21/2004
-Description: Three red lights hovering in a triangular formation are -seen by several witnesses in Tinley Park and Oak Forest, Illinois. -Further observations take place on October 31, 2004; October 1, 2005; -and once again on October 31, 2006. The lights are captured on video by -some witnesses. The video evidence suggests that the lights keep the -geometrical shape and move as if they are attached to each other through -a dark object. The incident is examined in a Dateline NBC episode on May -18, 2008, and in the episode “Invasion Illinois” of the television -series UFO Hunters that premiers on The History Channel on October 29, -2008. (Wikipedia, “Black -triangle (UFO)”; -Marler 211–216)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7428

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Event 10241 -(D540691B)

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Date: 8/28/2004
-Description: 10:11 p.m. A circular metallic UFO the size of an airliner -is seen above the Pemex oil refinery in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. It -is accompanied by six luminous spheres at an altitude of about 3,300 -feet. The larger craft performs erratic maneuvers at high speed. -(“Recent UFO Reports,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7429

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Event 10242 -(44D5A797)

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Date: 9/12/2004
-Description: Evening. Laura Simmons sees a “silent, abstract blob almost -like the underside view of a manta ray shape, moving quickly, quietly -across the sky” above Fulton Street in San Francisco, California. She -describes it as “very large, almost gossamer, sprinkled with lights but -almost like dusted with luminous powder.” (“Recent UFO Reports,” IUR 29, -no. 1 (Spring 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7430

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Event 10243 -(BFAA2677)

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Date: 9/16/2004
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Brian Junkin, Chuck Martin, and three children in -Poulsbo, Washington, watch a multicolored light move erratically for 10 -minutes about 500–1,000 feet above the canal adjacent to Naval Base -Kitsap on the Kitsap Peninsula. The light keeps changing colors from -green to red to orange. Flashes of light also come from what appear to -be corners of an underlying object. Another light comes speeding in from -the north on a straight course and stops close to the first light, which -continues to dance around. Suddenly, both lights blink out at the same -time. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, September 29, -2004; Nukes 499–502)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7431

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Event 10244 -(9A027B7B)

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Date: 9/17/2004
-Description: 3:39 a.m. A woman in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, wakes up to -a humming sound and lights shining through her window. She runs out and -sees a large object “shaped like a large submarine” with lights. It has -beams of lights shining down the middle of it in a straight line from -one end to another. She hears a loud thunderclap and the object rises -higher until it is lost to sight. (“Recent UFO Reports,” IUR 29, no. 1 -(Spring 2004): 25)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7432

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Event 10245 -(2E0A5931)

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Date: 9/27/2004
-Description: Early morning. A five-member team of geologists and -glaciologists (including Rajiv Kalia, Sunil -Dhar, Sushil Singh) led by Anil -V. Kulkarni of the Indian Space Research Organization’s Space -Applications Centre in Ahmedabad are on a research trip in the barren -Samudra Tapu valley, Himachal Pradesh, India, at an elevation of 17,000 -feet. They spot a strange white, oblong object about 3–4 feet on the top -of a mountain ridge that is floating just a few feet from the ground and -approaches the camp to a distance of 160 feet. Kulkarni and Dhar grab -cameras and take several photos. It has a cylindrical head with 2 -balloon-type attachments and looks like a robot walking. The object -hovers motionless for a few seconds, then starts a steep ascent, hovers -another 5 minutes, then rises high in the sky. Kalia says it does not -look like a man-made object. (“UFO -Sighting in Himachal Lahaul-Spiti -District Remains a Mystery,” India Today, February 13, 2006; Mark -Rodeghier, “Scientists Would Investigate Sightings by Other -Scientists—Wouldn’t They?” IUR 30, no. 3 (May 2006): 22–23)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7433

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Event 10246 -(ECC39599)

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Date: 10/1/2004
-Description: The US Air Force 20th Space Control Squadron at Eglin AFB, -Florida, takes over the operation of the US Navy’s Space Surveillance -System until 2009. (Wikipedia, “Air -Force Space Surveillance System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7434

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Event 10247 -(2635D6DA)

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Date: 10/4/2004
-Description: Pilot Brian -Binnie reaches a world record altitude of 367,490 feet in -SpaceShipOne, an air launched rocket plane. (Wikipedia, “Brian -Binnie”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7435

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Event 10248 -(3C3AA1B5)

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Date: 10/27/2004
-Description: Day. The crew of a military jet near Naval Air Weapons -Station China Lake, California, observes a dark gray, egg-shaped object, -approximately 62 feet long, engaging in high-speed maneuvers at 45,000 -feet. It is moving east at 575 mph, then makes an aggressive vertical -turn. (Keith Basterfield, “A -BAASS Data Report of a 2002 -Submerged Egg-Shaped Object in the SOCAL OPEAREA,” Unidentified -Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 13, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7436

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Event 10249 -(B43C75DD)

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Date: 10/28/2004
-Description: Night. An Iranian Air Force F-14 is on combat air patrol -near the heavy water reactor near Khondab, Iran, when it picks up an -unidentified target at a distance of 50 miles away that is making rapid -changes in altitude, heading, and speed. The pilot is ordered to bank -toward the target after regional command receives a visual confirmation -from an Arak Air Defense Group observer. Approaching at 22,000 feet, the -pilot spots the target at 5,000 feet. The object is spherical and has a -green halo surrounding it and a green light on its tail end. When the -pilot turns toward the light, it disappears then reappears a few miles -away, apparently moving at a speed of Mach 7 or greater. The F-14 is -ordered to turn all lights off and descend to pursue the target. At -7,800 feet the target disappears again, but after the F-14 makes a turn -at 7,000 feet, it picks up the target again and flies 2,000 feet below -it. The F-14 arms its weapons and the pilot requests clearance to engage -the object. Every time the radar officer attempts to lock on the object, -the radio, radar, and other instruments become jammed. Finally, the F-14 -ascends to 19,000 feet because it is low on fuel and spots the object -one last time at low altitude. The pilot returns to the 8th Predator -Tactical Fighter Base in Isfahan. (Air Forces Monthly, December 18, -2017; “Iran -UFO Reports Revealed,” -Key Aero, December 18, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7437

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Event 10250 -(141B867B)

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Date: 11/10/2004
-Description: Navy Chief Petty Officer Kevin Day, stationed on the guided -missile cruiser USS -Princeton, -notices the clear radar traces of 8–10 objects travelling southwards in -a loose though fixed formation at 28,000 feet in the immediate vicinity -of Catalina and San Clemente islands, California. He is startled by -their slow speed of 120 mph but receives confirmation of their presence -from radar operators on other vessels. Regular observations are made of -a similar number of objects over the following six days. The objects are -also faintly detected by an E- 2C Hawkeye plane after Princeton sends -them coordinates. (Wikipedia, “Pentagon -UFO videos”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7438

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Event 10251 -(7CE7EC7E)

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Date: 11/14/2004
-Description: 9:30 a.m. Navy Commander David Fravor and pilot Jim -Slaight, flying two McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets over the California -coast on a routine training mission, are diverted from their exercise to -investigate some unusual radar contacts detected by the cruiser USS -Princeton that -is part of the USS -Nimitz Carrier -Strike Group. They observe a 40-foot-long wingless craft flying at -incredible speeds in an erratic pattern. Controllers on one of the Navy -ships report objects that are dropping out of the sky from 80,000 feet -and going “straight back up.” As they are looking for the object that -appears on the radar, Fravor spots a white disturbance in the water and -a white object (nicknamed “Tic-Tac”) moving in random directions. The -planes fly lower to investigate the object, which seems to be about 40 -feet long and then starts to mirror their movements before accelerating -at high speed and disappearing. Fravor and another pilot, Alex Dietrich, -say in an interview that a total of four people (two pilots and two -weapons systems officers in the back seats of the two airplanes) witness -the object for about 5 minutes. The disturbance in the water vanishes. -Soon the same or a similar object reappears at their rendezvous point 60 -miles away, but by the time they arrive it has disappeared. Another -plane launched from the USS Nimitz has its radar jammed and is able to -pick up the object on an infrared channel. Two objects emerge from the -bottom of the blip, which takes off and goes off the right side of the -screen. The speed of the object, which has no exhaust trail, is -stunning. However, the Navy claims it “never obtained an accurate” radar -track of the objects reported by Fravor; they are quickly dropped by the -Princeton’s radar when the computer categorizes them as “false targets.” -After the return of the first team to USS Nimitz, a second F-18 team, -led by Chad Underwood, takes off at approximately 12:00 noon, this time -equipped with an advanced infrared camera (FLIR pod). This camera -records an evasive unidentified aerial system on video. Underwood says -“he never had visual, only seeing the object via FLIR.” David Fravor -says that the radar operator on the USS Princeton briefed him that they -had been tracking radar targets for two weeks. The footage is publicly -released by the Pentagon in 2017. This footage is known as the 2004 USS -Nimitz FLIR1 -video. It -officially sheds some light on a decade-old story that had been largely -unknown and unreported, aside from a 2015 secondhand story on -FighterSweep.com that, in spite of providing many details, remained -unconfirmed at that time. Jonathan Axelrod [possibly Naval officer John -F. Stratton], investigating the case in 2009 for BAASS, concludes tat -the object “was no known aircraft or air vehicle currently in the -inventory of the United States or any foreign nation,” and that it -remained “stationary with little or no variation in altitude -transitioning to horizontal and/or vertical velocities far greater than -any known aerial vehicle with little or no visible signature.” Analysis -of the FLIR footage by Mick West of Metabunk claims that the impressive -sudden departure is an illusion; the object does not actually move -except when the aircraft’s own infrared camera moves. West thinks the -object resembles an “out-of-focus low-resolution backlit plane” filmed -at a distance. [A second film of infrared footage, known as the GIMBAL -video, is released by the Pentagon alongside the 2004 FLIR1 footage. -Although the media often present the two videos together to illustrate -the 2004 USS Nimitz UFO incident, the GIMBAL video is unrelated and was -filmed on the East Coast of the United States in early 2015 by planes -from the USS -Theodore -Roosevelt.] (NICAP, “Object -Outmaneuvers 2 -Jets over Pacific”; Wikipedia, “Pentagon -UFO videos”; “Pentagon -Declassifies Navy ‘UFO’ Videos (Video 1/3),” -ABC News YouTube channel, April 27, 2020; “Navy -Pilot Recalls Encounter with UFO: ’I Think It Was Not -from This World,’” ABC News, December 18, 2017; Keith Basterfield, -“Did -the AAWSA Program / AATIP Really -Start in 2007?” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, -May 16, 2018; “2004 -USS Nimitz Navy -Strike Group Incident Report,” Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies, -March 3, 2019; “Scientific -Findings Regarding -a Major U.S. Navy Encounter with UFOs,” Scientific Coalition of UAP -Studies, April 25, 2019; Matthew Phelan, “Navy -Pilot Who Filmed the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO Speaks: ’It Wasn’t Behaving by the -Normal Laws of -Physics,’” New York, December 19, 2019; Mick West, “Explained: -New Navy UFO Videos,” Metabunk, April 27, 2020; David Clarke, -“Echoes and Angels: UFOs on Radar,” Fortean Times 403 (March 2021): -40–42; Skinwalkers 45–46, 111–114, 118–119; Bill Whitaker, “UFOs -Regularly Spotted in US Airspace,” CBS News, August 29, 2021; “Famous -Navy UFO Is Camera Glare Hiding Something ‘Really Interesting,’ -Researcher Says,” The Independent (UK), March 18, 2022; Internet -Movie Database, “A -Tear in the Sky”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7439

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Event 10252 -(AC32782A)

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Date: 11/16/2004
-Description: An unmanned NASA X-43A hypersonic scramjet, the fastest -free-flying air-breathing vehicle, achieves a speed of 7,546 mph. -(Wikipedia, “NASA -X-43”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7440

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- Event 10253 (69B15BCB)

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Date: 2005
-Description: More than 9,500 UFO reports and related documents (of an -estimated 15,000) are digitized by Library and Archives Canada and made -available online. It releases a virtual exhibition titled “Canada’s -UFOs: The Search for the Unknown.” (Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: -Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 11–13)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7441

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Event 10254 -(0252762A)

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Date: 1/1/2005
-Description: The UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 comes into full -force. Around 120,000 requests are made in the first year. Private -citizens make 60% of them, with businesses and journalists accounting -for 20% and 10% respectively. However, requests from journalists tend to -be more complex and consequently more expensive. UFOs are one of the -three most popular FOI requests made to the Ministry of Defence. -(Wikipedia, “Freedom -of Information -Act 2000”; UFOFiles2, p. x)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7442

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Event 10255 -(B4E1CAA9)

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Date: 1/15/2005
-Description: UFO researcher Keith -Basterfield interviews a man in Adelaide, South Australia, whose -British father had worked for MI5 after World War II. His father had -told him in 1959 when he was 12 that the American military had been -experimenting in 1947 with monkeys and pigs being dropped in devices -equipped with retrorockets from stratospheric balloons to test them for -eventual space rocket research. In one of these experiments, which were -conducted at night, they used live 2–3 humans with a hydrocephalic -condition (enlarged heads caused by excess cerebrospinal fluid) whom -they obtained from a facility. The retrorockets failed, the balloon -crashed, and a rancher found the material and one of the humans who was -still alive. A medical retrieval team came for it. The UFO cover story -for this crash near Roswell, New Mexico, was concocted to keep the -experiments secret. (Keith Basterfield, “Jacobsen, -Redfern, and an Adelaide Informant,” Unidentified Aerial -Phenomena—Scientific Research, July 8, 2011; Nick Redfern, The Roswell -UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 153–163)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7443

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Event 10256 -(6A19C85C)

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Date: 1/31/2005
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two men ice fishing at Columbia City, Indiana, -encounter a large triangle above the east end of the pond. It crosses -the frozen water at a low altitude, then hovers for some seconds before -rising silently upward, leaving a trail of steam from the surface of the -ice. The men try to call the local sheriff, but their cellphones are -dead, as is their electrical fish locater. After the object disappears, -they find a two-inch hole in the ice where the object had hovered. -(Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 196 (June 2005): -28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7444

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Event 10257 -(D324AFBA)

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Date: 1/31/2005
-Description: 12:00 midnight. A large oval mass is seen floating above a -cornfield at Wood River, Nebraska, by a man leaving his parents’ house. -It rocks slightly from side to side for some 10 minutes and then sends -out bursts of light toward the ground before climbing upward, seeming to -suck up an object, apparently a large cow, from the field below. (Jenny -Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 196 (June 2005): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7445

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Event 10258 -(EEFA9EE6)

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Date: 2/7/2005
-Description: 2:00 a.m. In the farming area of El Paraiso, Mar del Plata, -Argentina, a resident hears a noise like a strong wind or turbine and -sees two misty yellow lights drifting above a copse of trees and -climbing slowly. Other witnesses hear and see the phenomena, and others -are wakened by their farm animals going crazy and dogs howling as if in -pain. At dawn, two circular marks are found near the copse. Police -forensic experts take samples of an ash-like deposit that leaves a -greasy smear when touched. Meanwhile, the daughter of one of the locals -involved is having nightmares about a UFO trying to catch her. (Jenny -Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 196 (June 2005): 28)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7446

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Event 10259 -(87374303)

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Date: 2/24/2005
-Description: UFOs: Seeing Is Believing, a two-hour American TV -documentary narrated by Peter -Jennings, airs on ABC-TV. The show mentions the Kenneth -Arnold sighting, the Phoenix lights, southern Illinois -triangle-shaped UFOs, and the Roswell incident, which Jennings -sneeringly dismisses as a myth. Guests include James -McGaha, Seth -Shostak, Jill -Tarter, Stanton -Friedman, Budd -Hopkins, Susan -Clancy, and -Michio -Kaku. (Wikipedia, -“UFOs: Seeing Is Believing”; Internet Movie Database, “Peter -Jennings Reporting: UFOs, Seeing Is Believing”; “UFOs: Seeing -Is Believing (2005), ABC Documentary,” Movie Buff Guy YouTube -channel, June 18, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7447

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Event 10260 -(EBE8CBA0)

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Date: 2/27/2005
-Description: Richard -Doty appears on Art -Bell’s Coast to Coast radio program and describes his disinformation -campaign against Paul -Bennewitz. (“Greg -Bishop and Richard Doty, Coast to Coast AM with Host Art Bell, Interview -Transcript,” February 27, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7448

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Event 10261 -(63363512)

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Date: 4/27/2005
-Description: Late morning. Air traffic radar detects an unidentified -target in restricted air space near Ronald Reagan Washington -International Airport in Arlington, Virginia, causing President George -W. Bush to be taken to a bunker and Vice President Dick -Cheney to be evacuated to safety. The target gets within 7 miles of -the airport, then vanishes. Although it is not identified, officials -argue it is caused by a radar anomaly. (“Radar -Blip Causes White -House Security Scare,” Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times, April 28, 2005, -p. 10)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7449

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Event 10262 -(9B0946AB)

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Date: 5/1/2005
-Description: Night. A biotechnologist and his daughter are driving on -the Central Oregon Highway about 50 miles southeast of Bend, Oregon. -They notice three bright blue objects zigzagging around each other about -300 feet away above a field. Suddenly two of the lights move toward them -and through their vehicle. One passes through the windshield and passes -through a window. The second passes through the man’s left arm and upper -body, exiting his right arm. He feels a bit hazy, but notices the light -is spherical and about the size of a softball. Still driving, the man -feels nauseous and scared. The next 45 minutes into Bend seems like 3 -hours. Days later, he develops a red rash on the left side of his face -and loses some hair on that side. His ankles swell, and he loses some -sight and hearing on the left. In the next few weeks, he gains about 50 -pounds (although exercising and dieting) and sleeps a lot. In February -2007 he is diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in his left chest, a -pre-cancerous condition, and undergoes surgery in May, his health -gradualy improving by the end of 2008. (Skinwalkers 70–75)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7450

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Event 10263 -(187D4338)

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Date: 5/3/2005
-Description: 5:30 a.m. A witness sees strange red and white lights -crossing the flight path into Dulles International Airport in Virginia, -west of Washington, D.C. (Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times -199 (September 2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7451

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Event 10264 -(B36C2B9E)

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Date: 5/4/2005
-Description: 10:00 a.m. Angler John Walker sees an object the size of a -house, shaped like a large gray bullet, in the sky above Squeaking -Point, Tasmania. He estimates its height at 150 feet. It moves extremely -slowly, taking 15 minutes to cross his view. (Jenny Randles, “UFOcal -Points,” Fortean Times 199 (September 2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7452

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Event 10265 -(0BFC9F7F)

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Date: 5/8/2005
-Description: Night. A witness captures video footage of pulsating, -kaleidoscopic lights over the Denbigh Moors near Llannefydd, North -Wales. The lights had appeared for several nights and remained visible -for a lengthy amount of time. (Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean -Times 199 (September 2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7453

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Event 10266 -(B303F8FD)

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Date: 5/9/2005
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A man getting into his car in Bradford, West -Yorkshire, England, spots a huge, pulsating mass overhead, shaped like a -double cross, and brilliantly studded with red, green, and white lights. -It stays visible for a long time. The witness goes to bed at 1:20 a.m., -and the object, or a similar one, is still visible. (Jenny Randles, -“UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 199 (September 2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7454

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Event 10267 -(236827BA)

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Date: 5/9/2005
-Description: 11:25 p.m. A woman outside her house in Kuujjuaq, Quebec, -watches multi-colored lights heading northeast at a slow pace and low -altitude. (Jenny Randles, “UFOcal Points,” Fortean Times 199 (September -2005): 26)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7455

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Event 10268 -(38CCD69D)

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Date: 5/11/2005
-Description: 11:28 a.m. Radar trackers spot a plane entering the Air -Defense Identification Zone around Washington, D.C. As the aircraft -bears down on Washington from the north and officials cannot contact the -pilot, the White House’s internal threat level goes from yellow to -orange and then to red within four minutes. Fighters are scrambled, and -occupants and visitors to the Capitol, the Supreme Court, and the White -House are sent scurrying for safety. The aircraft flies over the vice -president’s residence and comes within moments of reaching the White -House and close to being shot down. Officials say 35,000 people are -evacuated from the Capitol and adjacent office complexes. An additional -200 are evacuated from the White House. First lady Laura -Bush and former first lady Nancy -Reagan, who -is visiting, are ushered to a bunker beneath the White House for safety, -and Vice President Dick -Cheney is taken to a secure location. The airplane is a Cessna 150 -piloted by two aviators flying with outdated maps from a rural -Pennsylvania airstrip and they are lost. Authorities say the pilots are -so clueless that when officials finally make radio contact and order the -plane to divert at 12:06 p.m., the fliers refuse, asserting their right -to proceed. The F-16s then fire four bright flares across the plane’s -nose, and the two men realize the gravity of their situation. The plane -then veers northwest, out of town, escorted by the interceptors, -security helicopters, and a US customs jet. The 15-minute aerial -encounter is watched by rapt workers in downtown Washington office -buildings. (“Confused -Fliers Trigger Capitol Scare,” Washington Post, May 12, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7456

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Event 10269 -(B733AEBC)

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Date: 5/20/2005
-Description: Ademar -José Gevaerd leads a delegation of ufologists who meet with -Brazilian Air Force officials in Brasília, Brazil, headed by Brigadier -Telles Ribeiro, chief of the Air Force’s Center for Public -Communications. In an interview after the meeting, Gevaerd says his -group has been shown information on three specific cases: the testimony -of the head of Varig, Nagib Ayub, on a UFO seen in the airspace in Rio -Grande do Sul in 1954; testimony from pilots who pursued 21 UFOs flying -over São Paulo, São José dos Campos, and Rio de Janeiro in May 1986; and -a Brazilian Air Force investigation of UFOs held in 1977 in Pará by Col. -Uyrange -Hollanda, who -died in 1997. According to Hollanda, “we detected at least nine forms of -objects. Probes, flying saucer-shaped spaceships… All reports were sent -by the 1st COMAR to Brasilia.” (Wikipedia, “Ademar -José Gevaerd”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7457

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Event 10270 -(15E73D74)

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Date: 6/2005
-Description: British author Nick -Redfern publishes Body Snatchers in the Desert, which purports to -show that the 1947 Roswell crash may have been military aircraft tests -using Japanese POWs, suffering from progeria (an early aging syndrome) -or radiation effects. He has interviewed elderly whistleblowers—a woman -he calls the Black Widow, Al Barker, Bill Salter, and a retired military -man he calls the Colonel. In 2001, the Black Widow claims to have worked -at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, in the late 1940s and -early 1950s, at which time elements of the Usgovernment conducted -high-altitude balloon tests with attached gondolas that contained live -test subjects and sometimes dead bodies. These subjects were handicapped -humans, possibly Japanese, including sufferers of progeria. She claims -to know of 3 classified balloon flights in May–July 1947. The bodies -were broiught to Oak Ridge under stringent security. In 2003, the -Colonel states that Roswell and other crashes were a cover for research -linked to high-altitude balloon experiments. He mentions crashes in May -and July 1947 of two experiments with handicapped persons on board. -(Nick Redfern, Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the -Heart of the Roswell Story, Paraview, 2005)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7458

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Event 10271 -(92961F17)

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Date: 6/19/2005
-Description: 3:10 p.m. Three witnesses in Silverdale, Washington, see a -black, rectangular object fly silently in a straight line and constant -speed from south to north almost directly above the town. (“Sighting -Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, June 20, 2005; Nukes -502–503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7459

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Event 10272 -(D23278A3)

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Date: 6/28/2005
-Description: Early morning. Following reports of unidentified lights -above Dublin Airport in Ireland, a UFO 30 feet wide and 10 feet high -approaches dangerously close to a commercial aircraft flying at 3,000 -feet. The plane experiences intense waves of heat and wake turbulence. A -strobe light on the object induces dizziness and nausea; the copilot -vomits a few times, but after a while both pilots feel strangely -relaxed. After heading in the direction of Malahide, County Dublin, the -UFO returns and continues further harassment, causing the aircraft to -become uncontrollable for a few minutes. The pilot reports to London Air -Traffic Control Centre: “Need assistance… We have a hostile craft and we -have made dangerous maneuvers to avoid it.” London confirms the presence -of unauthorized air traffic. Some RAF Tornados are scrambled and reach -the aircraft 25 minutes later, but there is little they can do except -escort the plane to a UK airport, accompanied by the UFO. (Good Need, pp. 409–410; -Dermot Butler and Carl Nally, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland, -Mercier, 2006, pp. 229–232)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7460

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Event 10273 -(1AD3C23B)

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Date: 7/2005
-Description: The new CNES director, Yannick -d’Escatha, again creates a department for UFO investigations. -Another engineer, Jacques Patenet, replaces Jean-Jacques -Velasco as head. It is under the authority of CNES but reports to a -steering committee (Comité de pilotage) called COPEIPAN, headed by Yves -Sillard. The committee has 15 permanent members: representatives of -civil and military authorities, and representatives of the scientific -world. (Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO -Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 14; Swords 451)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7461

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Event 10274 -(10F76FA6)

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Date: 7/5/2005
-Description: 8:50 p.m. A woman is driving home from a fishing trip at -Sargent, Texas, on FM2611 when her lights blink twice and the engine -goes dead. She gets out of the car to check the battery cables, and sees -a bright bluish glow lighting up a wooded area across the highway. The -light gets brighter and moves upward through the trees. The outer edges -of the light seem to vibrate or tremble slightly. The higher it goes the -faster it gets until it disappears. The car starts right up afterward. -(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” -IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7462

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Event 10275 -(87041485)

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Date: late 7/2005
-Description: 7:30 p.m. Just as an airliner is making its final approach -to the Santa Rosa Airport, La Pampa province, Argentina, the airport -control tower operator notices an unknown, luminous object moving slowly -and parallel to the aircraft. The flight plan operator is alerted, and -they both watch the UFO stop, emit a brilliant flash of blue- white -light, move again, emit another flash, and vanish. The airliner crew -does not see the UFO. (Good Need, p. 411)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7464

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Event 10276 -(31DE7A59)

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Date: 7/22/2005
-Description: Industrial chemist Phyllis -Budinger reports on her laboratory tests on stains from the dress -that abductee Betty Hill was -wearing on the night of her abduction in 1961. The samples indicate -protein and oily materials from an external source. She also reports on -materials brought back from a recent abduction by Stan -Romanek, which prove to be bismuth trioxide, used in the making of -ceramics and glass but uncommon in everyday situations. No direct link -between the materials and an extraterrestrial source can be established. -(MUFON 2005 International UFO Symposium Proceedings)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7463

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Event 10277 -(15773699)

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Date: 8/4/2005
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness in Fernandina Beach, Florida, sees two -rose-red objects approach from the ocean and move silently to the south, -disappearing in about 75 seconds. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO -Reporting Center, September 2, 2005; Nukes 507)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7465

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Event 10278 -(05B2D8B5)

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Date: 8/27/2005
-Description: 8:45 p.m. Dennis Speed is outdoors at his home in Lenah -Valley, Tasmania, when he sees a formation of six orange lights -approaching from the north. They are the size of bright stars and are -moving slowly below the cloud level. Suddenly, they scatter about 1,650 -feet apart, and a white aura appears in the sky around them. He watches -them for 15 minutes. Up to 9 oranges UFOs are seen elsewhere in Hobart. -(“Orange UFOs over Hobart,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7466

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Event 10279 -(82ECB7FA)

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Date: 9/1/2005
-Description: The 30th Reconnaissance Squadron, which operates Lockheed -Martin RQ-170 Sentinel drones, is activated at Tonopah Test Range -Airport in Nevada. RQ-170 Sentinels have been deployed to Afghanistan, -where one was sighted at Kandahar International Airport in late 2007. -This sighting, and the Sentinel’s secret status at the time, leads Bill -Sweetman to dub it the “Beast of Kandahar.” (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -Martin RQ-170 Sentinel”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7467

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Event 10280 -(236F93E3)

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Date: 9/17/2005
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A man is at his home on 31st Avenue in Peoria, -Arizona, when he sees a bright object approaching from the east. Seven -other objects appear around it, staying in the same spot for about 15 -minutes, then moving to the left quickly. They go higher, moving left to -right and right to left, almost hitting each other. They are completely -silent. (“Spherical UFOs in Arizona,” IUR 30, no. 1 (October 2005): -32)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7468

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Event 10281 -(EA320852)

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Date: 9/20/2005
-Description: Attorney and Army Reserves Brig. Gen. Stephen -Lovekin, who had worked for the Army Signal Corps in the 1950s and -early 1960s, speaks with writer Peter -Janney about the extraterrestrial presence on Earth and the official -coverup. He claims that in 1995 he attended a conference on the -Strategic Defense Initiative in Monterrey, Mexico, that included -high-level US and Russian participants. The purpose of SDI is to protect -both countries from incursions by UFOs, he alleges. (Dolan II 289)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7469

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Event 10282 -(EF942A29)

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Date: 9/22/2005
-Description: The French UFO agency is given the name Groupe d’Études et -d’Information sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (GEIPAN) in -order to emphasize the “information-gathering” aspect of the agency. At -its first meeting, it renews the agreements with a network of -specialists so that it can work effectively on new cases. (Wikipedia, -“Groupe -d’Études et d’Information sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux -Non-identifiés”; Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official -French UFO Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 14; Swords 451)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7470

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Event 10283 -(E347F7F1)

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Date: 9/29/2005
-Description: Space scientist Yves -Sillard is interviewed on Radio France International about GEIPAN. -He states that the UFO phenomenon is serious and involves many witnesses -who deserve an answer about what they have seen. The sightings, he says, -include impressive radar-visual cases and landing traces. (Swords -451–452)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7471

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Event 10284 -(0DC087C0)

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Date: 10/2005
-Description: Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, formerly the Indian -Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, activates the Joint Unmanned Aerial -Systems Center of Excellence and the 3d Special Operations Squadron (the -latter is the 1st MQ- 1 Predator squadron in the Air Force Special -Operations Command (AFSOC). (Wikipedia, “Creech -Air Force Base”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7472

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Event 10285 -(8126D481)

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Date: 10/2005
-Description: Cognitive psychologist Susan -Clancy publishes Abducted: How People Came to Believe They Were -Kidnapped by Aliens, in which she describes her psychological testing of -a sample of abductees. These tests reveal a propensity for false -memories and magical ideation, making abductees more likely than average -to imagine, be led by investigators, and integrate cultural scripts like -the abduction story into memory. Clancy demonstrates that alien -abduction stories give people meaning and a way to understand their own -lives and circumstances. It also gives them a feeling that they are not -alone in the universe. New York Times reviewer Benedict -Carey’s takeaway is that “in this sense, abduction memories are like -transcendent religious visions, scary and yet somehow comforting and, at -some personal psychological level, true.” However, Clancy fails to ask -her subjects about their religious beliefs. (Susan Clancy, Abducted: -How People Came to Believe They Were Abducted -by Aliens, Harvard University, 2005; Benedict Carey, “Explaining -Those Vivid Memories of Martian Kidnappers,” -New York Times, August 9, 2005; Clark III 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7473

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Event 10286 -(96092190)

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Date: early 10/2005
-Description: 12:30 p.m. The crew of a Magnicharters Boeing 737 -encounters a luminous disc in the air corridor over Oaxaca state, -Mexico, at 20,000 feet. The object emerges from one cloud and enters -another at a distance of 12 miles from the aircraft. (Good Need, p. 411)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7474

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Event 10287 -(9DB4573B)

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Date: 11/1/2005
-Description: An anonymous email is received by Victor Martinez, who runs -a discussion list for retired intelligence people who are interested in -UFOs. This person, in return for anonymity, passes on a huge volume of -information each month for the next three years, all of it extracts from -an alleged original document—a top secret, 3,000-page report compiled by -the Defence Intelligence Agency in the late 1970s. The major revelations -are: There were two crash sites in New Mexico, one southwest of Corona, -and the second at Pelona Peak, south of Datil. The Corona site was -discovered a day later by an archaeological team, who reports the crash -site to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department. One live entity (EBE 1) -was found hiding behind a rock; it and some dead bodies were later -transferred to Loa Alamos National Laboratory. Roswell Army Air Field -took the craft and sent it on to Wright- Patterson AFB. The second site -was not discovered until August 1949 by two ranchers. It took the -sheriff several days to reach this crash site. He took photos, drove -back to Datil, and notified Sandia Army Base, which recovered six bodies -that were first sent to Sandia then to Los Alamos. The live entity -established communication and supplied the name of his home planet, -Serpo, in our constellation of Zeta Reticuli. It died in 1952 after -being allowed to use a communication device in the crashed UFO to -contact his home planet. An alien/US military meeting was set for April -1964 in Alamogordo, where the aliens (nicknamed Ebens) landed and -retrieved their comrades’ bodies (which had been frozen). In 1965, the -US had an exchange program with the aliens, where one entity was left -behind and 12 trained Americans (10 men, 2 women) left for Serpo from -the Nevada Test Site. They were supposed to stay 10 years, but something -went wrong. In 1978, seven men and one woman returned; two had died on -Serpo, and four others decided to remain. Of the 8 that returned, all -have since died, the last in 2002. A few months after the documents -became known, a UK Ministry of Defence official nicknamed “Chapman” -claims the events were not as described but that the document is real, -as he had seen it in 1969 or 1970 in London. He claims is was a CIA -document authored by Alice -Bradley Sheldon (a science fiction author using the pseudonym James -Tiptree Jr. who worked for the CIA in 1952–1955) in response to Soviet -disinformation in the 1960s about nuclear bombs in the US. (Wikipedia, -“Planetary -objects proposed in religion, astrology, -ufology, and pseudoscience”; Rational Wiki, “Project -Serpo”; Mark Pilkington, Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, -Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs, Skyhorse, 2010; Kremlin -161–166)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7475

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Event 10288 -(BFB05301)

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Date: 12/15/2005
-Description: The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, a single-seat, -twin-engine, all-weather stealth tactical fighter aircraft developed for -the Air Force, officially enters service. USAF officials consider the -F-22 a critical component of the service’s tactical air power. Its -combination of stealth, aerodynamic performance, and avionics systems -enable unprecedented air combat capabilities. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -Martin F-22 Raptor”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7476

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- Event 10289 (873F4155)

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Date: 2006
-Description: The UFO Research Coalition (CUFOS, MUFON, Fund for UFO -Research) launches an Abduction Monitoring Project (later changed to -Ambient Monitoring Project), an effort to create a compact, -multi-instrumental device to be placed in the homes of recurrent -abductees to record magnetic, electrical, and atmospheric anomalies over -an extended period. The goal is to compare any reported abduction -experiences with the anomalies to see if they coincide. After -considerable difficulty with the design and construction of these boxes -through 2008, data are recorded from participating abductees. However, -funding is not available for the analysis needed to reach any -conclusions. (Tom Deuley, “The -Ambient Monitoring Project: Data Colleced in Abductee’s Homes -Being Analyzed,” -MUFON UFO Journal, no. 483 (July 2008): 3–7, 15; Jack Brewer, “What -Happened to the Ambient Monitoring -Project?” The UFO Trail, April 2, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7477

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Event 10290 -(9BDDBAFE)

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Date: 1/2006
-Description: GEIPAN’s Jacques Patenet announces that the organization -will make its UFO files available to the public worldwide and placed on -the CNES website. (Swords 452)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7478

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Event 10291 -(FA674DDF)

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Date: 5/15/2006
-Description: The UK Defense Intelligence Staff releases (after a -September 2005 Freedom of Information Act request by David -Clarke and Gary Anthony) a 400-page report on a secret UFO study, -codenamed “Condign,” undertaken by DIS between 1997 and February 2000. -Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, written by -former Marconi Electronic Systems scientist Ron Haddow, draws on -approximately 10,000 sightings and reports that have been gathered by -the DI55, a section of the Directorate of Scientific and Technical -Intelligence (DSTI) within the Defence Intelligence Staff. The report -concludes that UFOs have an observable presence that is “indisputable,” -but also that no evidence has been found to suggest they are “hostile or -under any type of control.” According to its authors, the majority of -analyzed UFO sightings can be explained by the misidentification of -common objects such as aircraft and balloons, while the remaining -unexplainable reports are most likely the result of a supernormal -meteorological phenomenon not fully understood by modern science. This -phenomenon is referred to in the report as “Buoyant Plasma Formation,” -akin to ball lightning, and it supposedly produces an unexplained energy -field that creates the appearance of a Black Triangle by refracting -light. The electromagnetic fields generated by plasma phenomena are also -said to explain reports of close encounters due to inducing perceptual -alterations or hallucinations in those affected. The Condign report -suggests that further research into “novel military applications” of -this plasma phenomenon is warranted, and that “the implications have -already been briefed to the relevant MoD technology manager.” The report -also notes that scientists in the former Soviet Union have identified -the close connection between the ‘UFO phenomena’ and Plasma -technologies,” and are “pursuing related techniques for potential -military purposes.” The report describes people who believe themselves -to have had close encounters as being convinced of what they said that -they had seen or experienced, but also as not representing proof that -such encounters are real. It attributes a number of cases to the “close -proximity of plasma related fields” which it said can “adversely affect -a vehicle or person.” (“Unidentified -Aerial Phenomena in -the UK Air Defence Region (The Condign Report): Summary of -Contents,” The Real UFO Project; UK Defense Intelligence Staff, Unidentified -Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, released 2006; David -Clarke and Gary Anthony, “The British MoD Study: Project Condign,” IUR -30, no. 4 (August 2006): 3–13, 29– 32; Kean, pp. 173–175; -UFOFiles2, pp. 149–155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7479

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Event 10292 -(0CE5299E)

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Date: 5/16/2006
-Description: At least three green fireballs brighter than the moon but -not as bright as the sun blaze over northeast Australia. A farmer sees -one with a blue tapering tail pass over the mountains of the Great -Divide about 75 miles west of Brisbane, Queensland, then watch a -phosphorescent green ball about 12 inches wide roll slowly down the side -of a mountain, bouncing over a rock along the way. A commercial airline -pilot landing in New Zealand sees a meteor breaking up into fragments -that turn green as the bits descend in the direction of Australia. The -timing of the fireballs suggests they might be debris from Comet -73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 3, according to physicist Stephen -Hughes at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. -(Charles Q. Choi, “Mystery -of Green Fireball -‘UFOs’ Solved,” Live Science, November 30, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7480

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Event 10293 -(A20B17F6)

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Date: 7/13/2006
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A woman camping on the beach at Wicie, Poland, -sees several red and blue lights maneuvering within a glow about 10 feet -above the water. Then she realizes that the glow surrounds a huge -metallic saucer- shaped object with lights that are turning on -alternately from left to right. Her cellphone is acting crazy and she -thinks the sea is roaring louder than usual. The object scares her so -much that she hides in the forest nearby. (Poland 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7481

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Event 10294 -(A098CE38)

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Date: 7/28/2006
-Description: The Cheyenne Mountain Realignment consolidates NORAD’s -day-to-day operations at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, -Colorado, with Cheyenne Mountain as an Alternate Command Center. -(Wikipedia, “North -American Aerospace Defense Command”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7482

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Event 10295 -(29DB9548)

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Date: 9/2006
-Description: The UK Secretary of State for Defence, Des Browne, approves -a proposal from the Directorate of Air Staff (the former Sec(AS)) to -transfer all remaining UFO files to the National Archives. Funds are -found to scan approximately 160 files and remove sensitive personal -information. This is described as “the largest release of documents -younger than 30 years in the MoD’s entire history.” (UFOFiles2, p. 170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7483

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Event 10296 -(59C54EB3)

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Date: 9/5/2006
-Description: Residents of Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia, see -several types of UFOs maneuvering near the city. One looks like a -radaint sphere with three parts. Other witnesses report four lights. A -police officer sees an object with 10 yellow lights moving around in a -circular motion and hovering above the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 1– -2 miles. Other smaller objects approach it, one of which explodes in a -bright flare-up. The official explanation is that these are candle bombs -used as aerial targets for Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter aircraft. -(Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, -pp. 117–118)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7484

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Event 10297 -(2354D7E1)

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Date: 9/22/2006
-Description: The Grumman F-14 Tomcat supersonic fighter is retired by US -Navy, having been supplanted by the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. -(Wikipedia, “Grumman -F-14 Tomcat”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7485

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Event 10298 -(48E1D5C4)

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Date: 10/6/2006
-Description: Night. Ufologist Bill -Chalker is along the Mekong River in Phon Phisai District, Thailand, -for the annual Naga Light (ghost light) festival. He witnesses and -videos many of the Naga light balls arising from the river: “This -phenomenon has a tremendous social and human dimension and while it is -tempting to try to explain the lights, however correctly or incorrectly, -as planted ‘rockets,’ ‘submarine’ firings, Naga Dragons speaking, they -all seem to fall short of entirely convincing explanations.” Orb -sightings are on the increase, with up to 408 counted at the Phayanak -festival on October 24, 2018 (260 in Rattanawapee District and 148 in -Phon Phisai). (Wikipedia, “Naga -fireball”; Bill Chalker, “The -Mystery and Allure of the Naga Light Festival: My 2006 Adventure on -the Mekong,” -TheOzFiles, January 28, 2015; “Buddhist Aliens,” Fortean Times 388 -(January 2020): 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7486

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Event 10299 -(CD6D6712)

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Date: 11/2006
-Description: Many people in a village in Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and Lahu -Autonomous County, southern Yunnan, China, see seven white hemispherical -objects hovering directly over the property of a local Chinese Communist -Party cadre for nearly two hours. They appear to keep changing shape. -Many people from neighboring villages hear about the phenomenon and -arrive to watch it. People try to pursue the lights, but they soon -disappear. (Clark III 653)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7487

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Event 10300 -(06F25D1A)

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Date: 11/1/2006
-Description: John -Schuessler retires as director of MUFON. He is succeeded by James -Carrion of Bellevue, Colorado. (“Schuessler Retires As MUFON Head,” -IUR 30, no. 4 (August 2006): 16)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7488

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Event 10301 -(E015C68B)

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Date: 11/7/2006
-Description: 4:15 p.m. Federal authorities at O’Hare International -Airport in Chicago, Illinois, receive a report that a group of 12 -airport employees are witnessing a metallic, saucer-shaped craft -hovering over Gate C-17. The object is first spotted by a ramp worker -who is pushing back United Airlines Flight 446, which is departing -Chicago for Charlotte, North Carolina. The employee apprises the crew of -the object above their aircraft. It is believed that both the pilot and -copilot also witness the object. Several independent witnesses outside -of the airport also see the object. One describes a “blatant” -disc-shaped craft hovering over the airport, which was “obviously not -clouds.” According to this witness, nearby observers gasp as the object -shoots through the clouds at high velocity, leaving a clear blue hole in -the cloud layer. The hole reportedly seems to close itself shortly -afterward. According to the Chicago Tribune’s Jon -Hilkevitch, “The -disc was visible for approximately five minutes and was seen by close to -a dozen United Airlines employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors, -who heard chatter on the radio and raced out to view it.” So far, no -photographic evidence of the UFO has surfaced, although Hilkevitch finds -out that one of the pilots is in possession of a digital camera at the -time of the sighting and may have photographed the event. NARCAP -publishes a 155-page report and has called for a government inquiry and -improved energy-sensing technologies: “Anytime an airborne object can -hover for several minutes over a busy airport but not be registered on -radar or seen visually from the control tower, [it] constitutes a -potential threat to flight safety.” The FAA stance concludes that the -sighting was caused by a weather phenomenon and that the agency would -not be investigating the incident. (Wikipedia, “2006 -O’Hare International Airport UFO Sighting”; Jon Hilkevitch, “What WAS -That Thing in -the Sky at O’Hare?” Chicago Tribune, January 1, 2007, pp. 1, 19; -Mark Rodeghier, “Media Take Notice When Media Take Notice: UFO Seen over -O’Hare Airport,” IUR 31, no. 1 (January 2007): 32; Richard F. Haines, -“Report -of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon and Its Safety Implications at -O’Hare International -Airport on November 7, 2006,” NARCAP, May 14, 2007; Leslie Kean, -“Incident at O’Hare Airport,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 3–7; Richard F. -Haines, et al., “A UAP and Its Safety Implications: O’Hare International -Airport, Nov. 7, 2006,” IUR 31, no. 3 (October 2007): 3–7; Kean, pp. 65–72; -Clark III 835–838; Mutual UFO Network, [case -report])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7489

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Event 10302 -(BCAA5CEA)

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Date: 11/8/2006
-Description: The 42d Attack Squadron is formed at Creech AFB, Nevada, as -the first MQ-9 Reaper drone squadron. (Wikipedia, “Creech -Air Force Base”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7490

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Event 10303 -(A84CB99D)

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Date: 12/13/2006
-Description: Fastwalkers, a documentary on NORAD’s Defense Satellite -Program and its detection of UFOs (fastwalkers and slowwalkers) entering -the Earth’s atmosphere, is released. (Internet Movie Database, “Fastwalkers”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7491

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- Event 10304 (08563D91)

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Date: 2007
-Description: NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, an astrophysicist, starts -working as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O. -program (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or -AATIP)
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: NY -Times
-Reference: NY -Times
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 10305 -(4E4C2663)

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Date: 2007
-Description: The US National Archives allows the entire collection of -sanitized Blue Book documents to be placed on the web through a private -company called Footnote.com (now called Fold3), totaling nearly 130,000 -pages, each one an individual JPG image. (Sparks, p. 7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7492

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Event 10306 -(B6CF643C)

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Date: 2007
-Description: John Carpenter launches the Journal of Abduction–Encounter -Research in Springfield, Missouri, which continues until July 2010. (Journal -of Abduction–Encounter Research, no. -1 (January 2007))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7493

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Event 10307 -(C4DEDD1C)

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Date: 1/11/2007
-Description: China conducts an anti-satellite missile test in which a -Chinese weather satellite, the FY-1C polar orbit satellite of the -Fengyun series orbiting at an altitude of 537 miles, is destroyed by a -kinetic kill vehicle traveling with a speed of 8 km/s in the opposite -direction. It is launched with a multistage solid-fuel missile from -Zichang Satellite Launch Center or nearby. It is the first known -successful satellite intercept test since 1985. The kill produces an -estimated 35,000 pieces of one-centimeter-wide debris and another 1,500 -pieces that are 10 centimeters or more. (Wikipedia, “2007 -Chinese anti-satellite missile test”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7494

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Event 10308 -(87CF7C1E)

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Date: 1/12/2007
-Description: Afternoon. Amateur radio enthusiasts record the -conversation of pilots in two USAF F-15C fighters on a training mission -just north of RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, England. One fighter gets a -radar lock on an unidentified target 17 miles in front of him. He breaks -the lock and reacquires it to validate the target, which is moving -slowly at 17,700 feet. Closing to 500 feet, the pilot sees a small, -irregular object like a “black rock.” His wingman joins him and they -make three additional passes as they track it on airborne radar. -(Skinwalkers 126– 127)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7495

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Event 10309 -(5BC5B1A1)

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Date: 3/5/2007
-Description: 7:15 p.m. Several witnesses around Bremerton, Washington, -see a steady red light above the smokestack at Naval Base Kitsap on the -Kitsap Peninsula. It moves slowly north for 10 minutes, stops for 3 -minutes, then suddenly dims, brightens, and disappears. (“Sighting -Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, March 8, 2007; Nukes 503)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7496

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Event 10310 -(B93EE8E6)

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Date: 3/18/2007
-Description: Former Arizona Gov. Fife -Symington admits that he witnessed one of the “craft of unknown -origin” during the 1997 Phoenix -Lights event, but notes that he didn’t go public with the -information. In an interview with Leslie Kean in -the Prescott Daily Courier, Fife says: “It was enormous and -inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and -I saw it too. It was dramatic. And it couldn’t have been flares because -it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape.” -(“Former Arizona Governor Says He Saw ‘Phoenix lights’ UFO,” American -Chronicle, March 18, 2007; “Former -Arizona Governor Says He Saw a UFO during the 1997 -Phoenix Lights,” Wikinews, March 19, 2007; Kean, pp. 253–257, -262–264)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7497

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Event 10311 -(4CC221D1)

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Date: 3/22/2007
-Description: GEIPAN, the French office in charge of UFO investigations, -begins to put all its UFO files on its website. These reports have been -gathered in more than 30 years of investigations since its creation in -1977. Some 400 files, covering the period 1988–2005, are put online -first. (Groupe d’Études et d’Informations sur les Phénomènes -Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés website; -Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO Studies,” -IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 12, 14–15; Swords 452–453; “French -Space Agency Puts UFO Files Online,” Fox News, January 13, -2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7498

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Event 10312 -(FEAEDB50)

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Date: 3/30/2007
-Description: GEIPAN’s Jacques Patenet appears, with Ciel et espace -editor Alain -Cirou, on -a well-known French TV program called C dans l’air. Questioned bluntly -by host and journalist Yves -Calvi about UFOs, Patenet says unequivocally that yes, there are -UFOs. (Gildas Bourdais, “The Death and Rebirth of Official French UFO -Studies,” IUR 31, no. 2 (June 2007): 14)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7499

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Event 10313 -(ACB52AAE)

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Date: 4/2007
-Description: French space scientist Yves -Sillard consolidates his ideas on UFOs in the landmark book -Phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifies: Un défi à la science, written in -collaboration with other scientists. (Yves Sillard, et al., Phénomènes -aérospatiaux non identifies: Un défi à la science, Le Cherche midi, -2007)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7500

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Event 10314 -(3FBC9AE4)

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Date: 4/6/2007
-Description: Night. Brian Vike is driving near North Park Lake, -McCandless, Pennsylvania, with friends when he sees a strange light -shining directly on the lake from high above it. They get out and walk -towards the lake. Vike is able to see fish swimming beneath the surface -of the lake under the beam. The object projecting the light moves away -to above the trees and is only the size of a streetlight. (Carl W. -Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December -2010): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7501

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Event 10315 -(5430E72C)

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Date: 4/23/2007
-Description: Afternoon. The passengers of Flight A-Line 544 depart -Southampton, England, in a BN2a Mk3 Trislander aircraft at about 2:00 -p.m. in fine weather with good visibility for miles around, though a -haze layer is present at 2,000 feet, and a continuous cloud layer at -10,000 feet. They rise to an altitude of 4,000 feet and are cruising on -autopilot about 10 miles south of the Isle of Wight. Capt. Ray Bowyer -notices, exactly in the direction of Guernsey in the Channel Islands -(southwest and 12 o’clock ahead) what appears to be a brilliant yellow -lamp or light. He thinks that it might be an airplane or reflections -from the ground, as Guernsey is immediately behind it. The reflection of -the sun off a greenhouse is a possibility but the UFO persists for a -couple of minutes. It is brilliant yellow, with a dark grey band -enveloping it one third from the right, like a band around a cigar. -Bowyer makes contact with Jersey ATC to check on traffic heading his -way. Paul Kelly at Jersey ATC cannot see any traffic in that position, -but he picks up a faint primary return radar signal. A passenger behind -the captain confirms what Bowyer is seeing and points out a second UFO -immediately behind the first: Bowyer estimates both lights to be “up to -possibly a mile across.” Radar traces also seem to register the presence -of two objects, which Bowyer believes to be correlated with the position -and time of the sighting. The first object is presumed to have been near -the Casquets, west of Alderney, and the second some miles north of -Guernsey. A study by David Clarke, however, -cannot establish a definite link, as the radar reflections of cargo or -passenger ferries may have affected at least some of the readings. -Bowyer disagrees with Clarke’s team on the supposed link between the -radar traces and ferries and proposes that two solid airborne UFOs are -working in unison that day. Captain Patterson, the second pilot witness, -posits some type of “atmospheric phenomenon” as an explanation. -(Wikipedia, “2007 -Alderney UFO Sighting”; Kean, pp. 73–81; -UFOFiles2, pp. 166–168; -Jean-François Baure, David Clarke, Paul Fuller, and Martin Shough, “Report -on Aerial Phenomena Observed near the Channel Islands, UK, -April 23, 2007,” February 2008; Jean-François Baure, David Clarke, -Paul Fuller, and Martin Shough, “Unusual -Atmospheric Phenomena Observed near Channel Islands, UK, 23 April -2007,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 22, no. 3 (2008): -291–308)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7502

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Event 10316 -(A6B65DEC)

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Date: 6/8/2007
-Description: The US Air Intelligence Agency is redesignated the Air -Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency. (Wikipedia, -“Air -Force intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Agency”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7503

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Event 10317 -(BF324B0A)

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Date: 6/11/2007
-Description: The Société Belge d’Étude des Phénomènes Spatiaux in -Brussels, Belgium, is officially dissolved. Its place is taken by a less -formal group, Comité Belge d’Étude des Phénomenes Spatiaux, headed by -Patrick Ferryn. (“Bienvenue -sur le site de COBEPS,” Comité Belge d’Étude des Phénomenes -Spatiaux)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7504

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Event 10318 -(B6A95595)

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Date: 6/19/2007
-Description: Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer and -scientist James T. Lacatski contacts Robert -Bigelow for permission to visit the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, a -project under study by the National Institute for Discovery Science. He -wants to see how the DIA might develop a strategy to characterize the -“potential threat aspects of the phenomena.” (Skinwalkers 17–18, -38–39)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7505

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Event 10319 -(C80D4200)

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Date: 7/16/2007
-Description: 12:52 a.m. A witness is walking a dog in Port Orchard, -Washington, when an orange fireball travels from southeast to northwest -for 30 seconds. It disappears in thick clouds over Green Mountain. -(“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting Center, August 7, 2007; Nukes -503–504)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7506

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Event 10320 -(51AB6D89)

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Date: 7/26/2007
-Description: Robert -Bigelow accompanies DIA official James T. Lacatski on a visit to -Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. During his 2-hour visit, Lacatski witnesses a -bizarre tubular object hovering in the kitchen of the Homestead 1 -building. After 30 seconds, it vanishes. He describes it is as similar -to the object depicted on Mike -Oldfield’s 1973 album Tubular Bells. (Skinwalkers 39–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7507

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Event 10321 -(44997AB5)

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Date: 9/2007
-Description: Project Oxcart, the A-12 reconnaissance aircraft program, -is declassified. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -A-12”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7508

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Event 10322 -(008A8E10)

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Date: fall 2007 (approximate)
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency, at the initiation of -Sen. Harry -Reid (D-Nev.) and the urging of government contractor and Las Vegas -billionaire Robert -Bigelow, quietly establishes the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System -Applications Program (AAWSAP)—purposly misidentified as the Advanced -Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a Pentagon program to -study UFOs—as a DIA project on the fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring -to evaluate the threat potential of UFOs. With the support of Sen. Ted -Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel -Inouye (D-Hawaii), Reid secures $22 million in black-project funding -in the 2008 Supplemental Funding Act directed to the DIA Directorate of -Analysis, specifically the Defense Warning Office. Its goal is “to -understand the physics and engineering of these [advanced aerospace -weapon system] applications as they apply to the foreign threat out to -the far-term, i.e., from now through the year 2050.” The Pentagon will -spend this money between September 2008 and December 2010. (Wikipedia, -“Advanced -Aerospace Threat Identification -Program”; Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, “Glowing -Auras and ’Black Money’: -The Pentagon’s Mysterious UFO Program,” New York Times, December 16, -2017; Clark III 48; Skinwalkers 41–42)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7509

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Event 10323 -(3E69DD4A)

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Date: 10/10/2007
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A man sees a silver-gray disc about 70 feet wide -hovering above Lake Easton, Washington, for 3–5 minutes. A beam of -bright greenish light is extended from it, illuminating the lake. He -sees small objects floating up to it, apparently fish. (Carl W. Feindt, -“Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 (December 2010): -24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7510

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Event 10324 -(F8B12ECE)

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Date: 10/17/2007
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A man is driving on Interstate 90 near Cle Elem, -Washington, when he sees a bluish-gray disc hovering about 600–700 feet -in the air. It bobbles slightly for about 5 minutes then disappears. -(Carl W. Feindt, “Beam of Light into a Body of Water,” IUR 33, no. 3 -(December 2010): 24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7511

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Event 10325 -(C437C224)

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Date: 10/30/2007
-Description: Afternoon. Pilot Marin Mitrică is flying a MiG-21 LanceR -fighter on a training flight from Romanian Air Force 71st Base at Câmpia -Turzii, Romania, when he is suddenly hit by an unknown object. The -collision breaks the plastic window covering the cockpit, punches a hole -in his helmet, and wounds his face. He reduces speed and descends from -his altitude of 4 miles to avoid hypoxia and hypothermia. After landing, -an examination of the flight recorder shows two small triangles -approaching from the right. No traces of organic matter are found on the -plane, ruling out birds, and there are no other civilian or military -aircraft or balloons in the area. (“A -Mid Air Collision -between a MiG 21 and a UFO over Romania in October 2007?” Flying -Saucer Review 53, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 1; Romania 114–115)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7512

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Event 10326 -(E70778E5)

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Date: 11/12/2007
-Description: A press conference, moderated by former Arizona Gov. Fife -Symington, is held at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. -Nineteen former pilots and military and civilian officials speak about -their experiences with UFOs and demand that the US government engage in -a new investigation. (Bonnie Malkin, “Pilots -Call for New -UFO Investigation,” The Telegraph (UK), November 14, 2007; “I -Touched a UFO: Ex-Air Force Pilot,” Sydney (N.S.W.) Morning Herald, -November 14, 2007; Marler 23–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7513

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Event 10327 -(27B7E5CD)

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Date: 12/14/2007
-Description: 6:45 p.m. Witnesses in Kingsland, Georgia, see a triangular -object with a light in each corner that changes from red to blue to -white, with a bright burst happening occasionally. The object moves -slowly at about 500 feet altitude. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO -Reporting Center, March 4, 2008; Nukes 507–508)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7514

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Event 10328 -(9B3A161F)

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Date: 12/29/2007
-Description: 9:00 p.m. Two witnesses driving near the Kitsap Mall in -Silverdale, Washington, see an object with three white lights apparently -hovering above Trigger Avenue near Naval Base Kitsap to the north. As -they approach its location, they see that it is large, triangular and -made out of reflective metal. It is silently hovering 500 feet in the -air over a farm a few yards from the highway. (“Sighting Report,” -National UFO Reporting Center, January 21, 2008; Nukes 504–505)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7515

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- Event 10329 (829565AE)

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Date: 2008
-Description: Luis -Elizondo, an employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of -Defense for Intelligence, claims that he is the director of the Advanced -Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a small group of -UFO-curious personnel at the Pentagon who are studying UFOs encountered -by military personnel. Confusingly, it has the same name as the nickname -of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s secret Aerospace Advanced Weapon -System Applications Program (AAWSAP) used in 2008–2010 as a way to mask -its real name. The group has the direct knowledge of their superiors. -The core people in this group will form the basis of what will become -the UAP Task Force, created by Congress in the summer of 2020, but it -now operates without a budget, office, or formal name until Elizondo -resigns from his job in 2017. The Department of Defense has claimed that -AATIP ended in 2012. (Clark III 49; Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and -Leslie Kean, “Glowing -Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s -Mysterious UFO Program,” New York Times, December 16, 2017; -Skinwalkers xxiii–xxiv, 157–158)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7516

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Event 10330 -(3C01CE7E)

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Date: 2008
-Description: Claimed Area-51 S-4 worker named “Victor” appears -anonymously in bonus footage for the re-release of “Alien Interview”. -“Victor” claims that Donald Rumsfeld has been aware of alien interviews -since 1974.
-Type: video interview
-Reference: link
-Location: US
-See also: 2/1997
-See also: 5/23/97

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Event 10331 -(6B17EE09)

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Date: 2008
-Description: The Swedish Defence Research Agency begins sharing a -database with UFO-Sverige to make all reports coming into the institute -available to the organization’s field investigators. (Swords 371)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7517

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Event 10332 -(DBFC5468)

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Date: 1/8/2008
-Description: 6:10 p.m. Truck driver Harlan Cowan is traveling east -toward Stephenville, Texas, when he sees two stationary lights directly -ahead. They are as bright as welding arcs. They split apart and move -rapidly away from each other to the north and south at a high rate of -speed. At 6:15 p.m., private pilot Steve Allen and three other witnesses -5 miles southeast of Stephenville see four lights similar in intensity -to burning magnesium. They come out of the northeast at a speed faster -than a military jet. Allen thinks the lights are spread out over a -one-mile area. They slow down and remain stationary northwest of his -position, then they shift from 4 lights in a horizontal position to 7 -lights in a vertical position, emit a white flame, and blink out. Over -30 more witnesses come forward to report odd lights until about 9:30 -p.m. Some also see fighter jets chasing the light. Angela -Joiner, a reporter with the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, calls Maj. -Karl -Lewis, spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at Naval Air Station -Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, who first tells her he thinks the lights -are reflections of the sun on high- altitude aircraft. When she asks -about military aircraft reported by witnesses, Lewis volunteers the -information that there were no F-16s from his unit operating that night, -and no other pilots had reported a UFO. On January 16, a FOIA request is -sent to the Federal Aviation Administration for any radar data from -sites around Stephenville. On January 23, the Air Force admits in a -press release that there indeed were 10 F-16s performing training -operations that night between 6:00 and 8:00. Joiner contacts Lewis -again, who now merely reads the press statement and is not helpful. In -February, responses to FOIAs by Robert -Powell and Glen Schulze begin to arrive. Military bases unanimously -respond with “we have found no records responsive to your request.” -However, the FAA releases its raw radar information in mid-February. It -is clear that the unknown lights are not related to F-16 activity, but -there is intense Air Force activity that night. Ten F-16s and one AWACS -jet make figure-8s over the area. Two F-16s from Oklahoma fly south to -the Stephenville area. FAA radar returns also show a target four miles -north of Allen’s sighting that moves at an apparent speed of 2,100 mph. -At 7:20 p.m., two radar sites pick up a target that corresponds to -Constable Lee -Roy Gaitan’s observation of an unknown light. Another radar track -begins at 6:51 p.m. An unknown object without a transponder signal is -tracked with FAA radar for more than one hour. Two different radars (one -at Fort Worth and another at Temple) make contact with the object 187 -times as it covers a distance of 50 miles on a constant trajectory to -the southeast. Its speed varies from stationary, to accelerating to 532 -mph in 30 seconds, to deaccelerating to 49 mph in 10 seconds. It is -traveling on a direct course to President George -W. Bush’s Western White House in Crawford, Texas. At 8:00 p.m. it is -10 miles from Prairie Chapel Ranch. Two witnesses riding bicycles 2 -miles away from the ranch see a light that slowly descends, makes a 90° -turn, then speeds out of sight in 1–2 seconds. But no F-16s pursue this -potential interloper. (NICAP, “Large -Object Seen / Tracked by Radar / Near Bush Ranch”; “Stephenville -2008,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library; Angela K. Brown, “Military -Reverses Itself, Says F-16s Were in Texas -Area Where Residents Reported UFO,” Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer, -January 23, 2008; “MUFON -Releases Report -on UFO Sighting in Stephenville, Texas,” Wikinews, July 18, 2008; -Glen Schulze and Robert Powell, “Stephenville -Lights: A Comprehensive Radar and Witness Report Study Regarding the -Events of January 8, 2008, -4pm to 8pm,” December 18, 2010; Swords 344–348)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7518

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Event 10333 -(BC67B259)

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Date: 2/21/2008
-Description: The US Navy destroys the malfunctioning US spy satellite -USA-193 orbiting at 153 miles altitude using a RIM-161 Standard Missile -3 launched from the USS -Lake Erie. The US claims it created no space debris because the -satellite was so close to earth that the particles burned up in reentry. -(Wikipedia, “Operation -Burnt Frost”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7519

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Event 10334 -(3C43171C)

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Date: 3/5/2008
-Description: The 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron becomes operational -at Creech AFB, Nevada, as “the Air Force’s [first] test squadron for -unmanned aerial systems.” The base is home to drone operators for both -the US Air Force and the CIA in missions across Afghanistan and the -Middle East. (Wikipedia, “Creech -Air Force Base”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7520

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Event 10335 -(E620AA96)

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Date: 4/2008
-Description: After publication of the 99th issue of Magonia, John Rimmer -decides to cease print publication. (“History -of Magonia,” -Magonia Archive; Clark III 706)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7521

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Event 10336 -(2D0DEF0C)

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Date: 4/22/2008
-Description: The last F-117 stealth fighter-bomber is retired and -returned to Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. Although officially retired, -the F-117 fleet remains intact and photos show the aircraft carefully -mothballed. Some of the aircraft are flown periodically and have been -spotted flying as recently as July 2019. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed -F- 117 -Nighthawk”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7522

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Event 10337 -(C4B9F6C8)

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Date: 5/2008
-Description: Scripps-Howard News Service and Ohio University conduct a -telephone poll on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. 55.8% of respondents -believe that the existence of intelligent life in space is either likely -or somewhat likely, while 33.1% believe it is likely or somewhat likely -that intelligent life has visited earth. Only 7.6% answer that they have -had a UFO sighting. (Mark Rodeghier, “Influences on Opinion about ETI -and UFOs,” IUR 32, no. 2 (December 2008): 19–24)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7523

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Event 10338 -(EAC4703E)

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Date: 5/5/2008
-Description: At the request of the Brazilian Commission of Ufologists, -the office of the Deputy Chief of Legal Affairs contacts the Ministry of -Defense and requests access to documents related to UFO material that is -no longer classified and can be turned over to the National Archives. -(Clark III 1072)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7524

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Event 10339 -(25A29D25)

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Date: 5/6/2008
-Description: Political scientists Alexander -Wendt and Raymond -Duvall publish an article, “Sovereignty and the UFO” in Political -Theory, in which they point to the fundamental weakness of anti-UFO -arguments, which claim falsely that no evidence exists. When skeptics -are not arguing along those lines, they use a priori logic, which -insists that if extraterrestrials exist, they would not behave or look -as UFO witnesses describe. Another assertion is that spacecraft could -never get to Earth, given the constraints of distance and speed. The -authors argue that the problem is that the idea of real UFOs challenges -anthropocentric norms, making it a taboo even to acknowledge a -phenomenon that has been declared non-existent. (Alexander Wendt and -Raymond Duvall, “Sovereignty -and the UFO,” -Political Theory 36, no. 4 (August 2008): 607–633; Clark III 537–538; -Kean, pp. 269–281)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7525

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Event 10340 -(B20DB208)

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Date: 5/12/2008
-Description: The first tranche of UFO files is released by the UK -National Archives, whose UFO webpage, set up to provide direct public -access, receives more than 1.7 million visitors in the first few days. -Internet searches on UFOs triple overnight across the globe. (“UK -Releases Classified UFO Files,” New Scientist, May 13, 2008; -UFOFiles2, p. x)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7526

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Event 10341 -(B89744CA)

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Date: 5/26/2008
-Description: New York Times staff reporter Sarah Lyall, based in the UK, -selectively focuses on some of the silliest UFO documents released by -the Ministry of Defence (letters written to the agency by citizens) and -provides readers with standard ridicule and the biased approach -traditionally associated with New York Times coverage. (Sarah Lyall, “British -UFO Shocker! Government Officials Were Telling the Truth,” New York -Times, May 26, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7527

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Event 10342 -(96018171)

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Date: 6/26/2008
-Description: 9:20 a.m. At the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for -Scientific Exploration in Boulder, Colorado, Jerome Clark gives -a lecture on the distinction between “event anomalies” (which cannot be -easily explained) and “experience anomalies” (which are effectively -inexplicable). Event anomalies require a scientific investigation to be -understood, documented, and incorporated into current or future -knowledge. Experience anomalies are indifferent to truth narratives, -supporting false ones just as readily; they embrace the notion of -liminality, in which it is possible to enter a “realm between the -daylight of science and reason and the dark night of dreams and -superstition.” Clark expands on the concept in later books and articles. -(Clark III 444-446; Jerome Clark, “Experience Anomalies,” Fortean Times -243 (December 2008): 42–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7528

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Event 10343 -(69487A08)

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Date: 7/29/2008
-Description: Former UK Ministry of Defence official Nick -Pope offers a rational response to the biased reportage in the May -26 issue of the New York Times, citing the O’Hare Airport and Alderney -UFO cases. He concludes: “The United States Air Force or the National -Aeronautics and Space Administration should reopen investigations of UFO -phenomena. It would not imply that the country has suddenly started -believing in little green men. It would simply recognize the possibility -that radar alone cannot always tell us what’s out there.” (Nick Pope, -“Unidentified -Flying Threats,” New York Times, July 29, 2008)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7529

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Event 10344 -(9504C7E3)

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Date: 8/18/2008
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency issues a small-business -set-aside solicitation (HHM402-08-R-0211) for a company to handle its -new Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), with -a due date of September 10. The solicitation states that the primary -focus is on “breakthrough technologies and applications that create -discontinuities in currently evolving technology trends.” (Skinwalkers -20–21, 42–43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7530

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Event 10345 -(4259B8AB)

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Date: 8/20/2008
-Description: 4:45 p.m. A military witness one mile outside Hrubieszów, -Poland, watches a silvery isosceles triangle hovering and rotating -around its axis in the west. He estimates it is 50 feet long on one side -and less than 2 miles away. It flies over the area at an altitude of 330 -feet. At one point it dims and literally vanishes in mid-air in a matter -of seconds. (Poland 94–95)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7531

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Event 10346 -(A4D8C978)

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Date: 9/16/2008
-Description: 10:30 p.m. A witness and his fiancée are driving north near -Radomsko, Poland, when they see a black triangle with lights (apparently -gas jets) at its corners slowly floating 500 feet above the road. Two of -the lights are blinking and one is steady. The 30-foot-wide object has -cubical protrusions on its side and a smooth bottom. It seems to be -rotating at first and takes another pass over the highway at a higher -altitude after doubling back. (Poland 93–94)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7532

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Event 10347 -(7A044C8D)

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Date: 9/22/2008
-Description: A $10 million initial contract for the Advanced Aerospace -Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) is awarded to Bigelow -Aerospace, the only bidder on the August solicitation, by the Defense -Intelligence Agency. The program contract directs that the “contractor -shall complete advanced aerospace weapon system technical studies” on 12 -topics, such as propulsion, power generation, materials, configuration, -structure, and directed-energy weapons. The intent is to research -technology that could shed light on the UFO/UAP phenomenon. Robert -Bigelow sets up the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) -project with 40–50 full-time support staff to carry out the contract -through September 30, 2010. DIA intelligence officer James T. Lacatski -becomes the program manager, and biochemist Colm -Kelleher is deputy administrator. (Clark III 48; Keith Basterfield, -“Dr. Colm -Kelleher and the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications -Program,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 14, -2018; Keith Basterfield, “Did -the AAWSA Program/AATIP Really Start in 2007?” Unidentified Aerial -Phenomena—Scientific Research, May 16, 2018; Skinwalkers 20, 22–25, -42–44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7533

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Event 10348 -(9132961C)

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Date: 10/31/2008
-Description: The National Archive in Brasília, Brazil, receives from the -Center for Aeronautical Documentation and History a set of publications -dated 1952–1969 on UFOs. Among them are documents identifying the -government’s System of Investigation of Unidentified Aircraft and UFO -cases investigated from October 1968 to August 1969. Another batch is -received on April 23, 2009, covering the years 1970–1972. (Clark III -1072–1073; Kean, p. 199)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7534

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Event 10349 -(CA953423)

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Date: 10/31/2008
-Description: 6:00 p.m. An architect in Sandomierz, Poland, sees a -boomerang- or half-moon-shaped object surrounded by a mist filled with -red points of light. It is silently moving 93) northeast at tremendous -speed. (Poland 92–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7535

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Event 10350 -(C02B828D)

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Date: 11/2008
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A Polish woman living in Aarhus, Denmark, looks -up and sees a gigantic luminous object silently heading west. It looks -like it s made of glass or jelly and is surrounded by a misty -illumination. (Poland 93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7537

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Event 10351 -(950F2726)

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Date: 11/2008
-Description: Robert -Bigelow hires biochemist Colm -Kelleher as deputy administrator of the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced -Space Studies project in Las Vegas, its first full-time employee. -(Skinwalkers 44)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7536

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Event 10352 -(900A6B1B)

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Date: 11/5/2008
-Description: Researcher Robert -Powell writes to NORAD’s Gen. Victor -E. Renuart Jr. and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael -Chertoff, with -copies to the FAA and chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on -Homeland Security, asking for an investigation of the Stephenville -Lights case of January 8 as a violation of restricted airspace by -“unknown aircraft” near the Bush ranch. -(Glen Schulze and Robert Powell, “Stephenville Lights: -A Comprehensive Radar and Witness Report Study Regarding the Events of -January 8, 2008, 4pm to 8pm,” -December 18, 2010; Swords 348, 510–511)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7538

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Event 10353 -(62C79713)

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Date: 11/17/2008
-Description: A teacher is taking his dog for a stroll in Sulejówek, -Poland, when he comes across a triangular object with lights along its -rounded edges and in the center. It flies directly over him. (Poland -93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7539

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Event 10354 -(322C5081)

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Date: 12/22/2008
-Description: Maj. Gen. John -H. Bordelon, NORAD -chief of staff, responds to Powell’s -request. He claims an “exhaustive search” in data files was conducted, -and the Air Force “could find no tactical or technical information that -would corroborate this event.” He refers Powell to the National UFO -Reporting Center hotline. (Swords 348, 512)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7540

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- Event 10355 (262DC916)

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Date: 2009
-Description: The operations and maintenance contract for the day-to-day -management and operation of the US Air Force Space Surveillance System -is awarded to Five Rivers Services, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. -(Wikipedia, “Air -Force Space Surveillance System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7544

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Event 10356 -(25A523FC)

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Date: 2009
-Description: Visión Ovni and many other UFO researchers -in Argentina form Cefora, an organization to study the UFO phenomenon in -detail. Silvia Simondini and others start collecting signatures on a -petition to declassify Argentine military documents on UFOs. However, -since most agencies are not required to keep documents more than 5 -years, their efforts are frustrated by bureaucratic deaccession rules, -especially for interesting Argentine reports. (Wikipedia, “Cefora”; -Milton Hourcade, “Argentina: -UFO Declassification,” U.A.P.S.G.–G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7543

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Event 10357 -(45376990)

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Date: 2009
-Description: Denmark and Sweden publicly release more than 15,000 UFO -files each. (Kean, p. 117)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7542

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Event 10358 -(E73302F2)

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Date: 2009
-Description: CUFOS creates an updated version of its UFOCAT database -containing more than 209,551 UFO reports and related information. -(Center for UFO Studies, “UFOCAT -2009”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7541

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Event 10359 -(8E9012E1)

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Date: 1/1/2009
-Description: Yvan White takes over as director of GEIPAN from Jacques -Patenet, who continues as an advisor. (Swords 453)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7545

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Event 10360 -(3E991D06)

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Date: 1/5/2009
-Description: 8:15–9:00 p.m. Mysterious floating red lights in the sky -are reported near Morristown, New Jersey. The red lights are also -observed on January 26, January 29, February 7, and February 17. The -events are later revealed as a hoax perpetrated by Joe Rudy and Chris -Russo, who are conducting a social experiment to expose ufology as a -pseudoscience and raise consciousness around the unreliability of -eyewitness claims. They release five flare lights attached to helium -balloons. Reports are concentrated in the towns of Hanover Township, -Morristown, Morris Plains, Madison, and Florham Park. On April 7, Russo -and Rudy plead guilty to charges of disorderly conduct and are sentenced -to fines of $250 and 50 hours of community service. (Wikipedia, “Morristown -UFO hoax”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7546

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Event 10361 -(5078ECE2)

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Date: 1/20/2009
-End date: 1/20/2017
-Description: President Barack Obama in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US

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Event 10362 -(F8E3FDA1)

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Date: 3/2009
-Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of UFO -files. (UK National Archives, “Briefing -Document: Unidentified -Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7547

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Event 10363 -(24C229F9)

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Date: 5/8/2009
-Description: 11:45 p.m. “Derek Jones” is alerted by his two dogs barking -in his backyard in northern Georgia, where his 10- year-old son is -camping out in a tent with a friend. He sees a large triangular object -about 300 feet long with yellowish lights at each apex moving silently -above him. There is a bluish-white light in the center. Behind the -triangle are four small objects, two egg-shaped and two round, with -bluish-white lights that change to greenish to white and back to bluish. -The smaller objects dart up and down soundlessly and erratically. He -attempts taking pictures of it with a camera and a videocamera, but the -batteries fail in both devices. When he points a bright spotlight beam -at the triangle, it responds immediately with a beam of intense -bluish-white light about 2–3 feet in diameter that strikes him for about -3 seconds, causing a burning sensation. He runs back into the house, -where he watches two of the smaller objects move away to the -south-southwest while the other two shoot straight up. He goes to bed, -but is awakened by low-flying helicopters at 2:00 a.m. Around 7:30 a.m., -he is visited by two men who want to talk about his “sighting report.” -They are driving a black sedan, produce no identification, one of them -is armed, and they behave oddly as they interview him for 30–40 minutes. -After he sees the same men in the black sedan a week later, he reports -the license plate to BAASS, which tracks it to a Department of Homeland -Security carpool. Jones experiences hair loss and general unwellness -within 18 days of the incident. In October he develop lumps on his legs, -groin, and back; they enlarge, multiply to 24, and become painful in -February 2010. One of the lumps is diagnosed as non-malignant lymphoma, -but a BAASS-contracted physician suspects Jones has undergone about 300 -grays of ionizing radiation. (Skinwalkers 99–105)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7548

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Event 10364 -(E5F5173E)

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Date: 5/26/2009
-Description: 9:52 p.m. A man in Rzesnów, Poland, notices from his -balcony five strange, whirling red-orange lights twinkling above the -suburban villages of Chmielnik and Tyczyn. He captures them on a video. -(Poland 153–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7549

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Event 10365 -(1951E50B)

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Date: 6/2009
-Description: The Uruguayan Air Force declassifies its UFO files and -makes them public, including records of 40 cases that remain -unexplained, some involving military pilots. Col. Ariel Sánchez, in -charge of the UFO office, says that the “Air Force does not dismiss an -extraterrestrial hypothesis based on our scientific analysis.” (“Uruguay -Joins the Party,” Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune, June 12, 2009; Kean, -p. 190)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7550

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Event 10366 -(DA5E483E)

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Date: 6/16/2009
-Description: 2:00 a.m. A woman in Kansas City, Kansas, is looking toward -a public forest area behind her home when she notices a large white -light moving toward her. It stops, and she uses her binoculars to get a -closer look. The object consists of three large spheres connected -together with a large arm or protrusion extending from beneath it. The -arm is moving around in a circle. It stays in that position until it -just disappears. Shortly afterward, military planes and helicopters move -into the area and seem to be searching for something for about one hour. -(Roger Marsh, “Reports from Louisville and Kansas City,” IUR 32, no. 3 -(July 2009): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7551

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Event 10367 -(41462E6E)

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Date: 6/24/2009
-Description: Sen. Harry -Reid (D-Nev.) decides that the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System -Application Program (misidentified intentionally as the Advanced -Aerospace Threat Identification Program) has made such extraordinary -discoveries that he asks for additional security (individuals -“specialized in the areas of advanced sciences, sensors, intelligence, -counterintelligence, and advanced aerospace engineering”) to protect it. -He writes Deputy Defense Secretary William -J. Lynn III that AATIP has made “much progress” with the -“identification of several highly sensitive, unconventional -aerospace-related findings” that will “likely lead to technology -advancements.” He requests that it be designated a “restricted Special -Access Program.” Some of the ongoing projects include power and -propulsion systems (nuclear propulsion, anuclear fusion, positron -propulsion, magnetohydrodynamics, traversable wormholes, warp drives, -antigravity, zero-point energy), materials science (metallic glass, -programmable matter), recalculating the Drake Equation, invisibility, -and weaponry (pulsed microwaves, high-powered lasers). (Harry Reid, -Letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III, June 24, 2009; -Skinwalkers 27, 90–93)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7552

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Event 10368 -(C1955DAA)

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Date: 6/24/2009
-Description: 1:55 p.m. A package handler at Louisville International -Airport in Kentucky sees a reflection in the sky from the south end of a -runway. As it approaches, he sees it is a rotating object, first a -cylinder, then a diamond shape. It moves over the runway in a straight -line and at a steady speed about 1,500 feet high. The object stops at -the end of the ramp and hovers for 30–40 seconds, then moves up into the -clouds and disappears. (Roger Marsh, “Reports from Louisville and Kansas -City,” IUR 32, no. 3 (July 2009): 20)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7553

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Event 10369 -(DE56B80E)

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Date: 7/2009
-Description: At the invitation of Robert -Bigelow, naval -aerospace engineer Jonathan Axelrod [possibly John F. Stratton], Jim -Costigan, and David Wilson arrive at the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah to -deploy a wide variety of sensory equipment to detect and record -anomalies. They experience an odd temperature drop, intense anxiety, and -a menacing dark oval shape. After Axelrod returns home to suburban -Virginia, paranormal phenomena plague his family, including a humanoid -shape, phantom footsteps, blue orbs, and a wolf-like creature standing -on two legs. (Skinwalkers 1–8)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7554

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Event 10370 -(1B503F99)

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Date: 7/5/2009
-Description: 9:20 p.m. Retired police officer Buck Scarsdale is sitting -with his son Bo and girlfriend Joanna Fife on the porch of his ranch -home in Lagol, Ventura County, California. They notice seven bright blue -lights silently hovering several feet off the ground in the orchard -about 500 feet away. They jump in a truck and drive slowly with the -lights off toward the display. When they get there, the lights are gone. -After returning to the house, they decide to drive back, this time with -flashlights. After 10 minutes of searching on foot, they hear two loud -clicks coming from some dense bushes, and three others clicks coming -from different directions. They return to the house. Buck’s brother -Roger arrives at 10:30 p.m., and both of them return to the orchard. -Just before 11:00 p.m., Roger sees a silver, gray, and blue flash as an -oblong object disappears into an opening in the sky that closes quickly. -On July 10, Buck, Bo, and Joanna see an intensely blue light at the -northern end of the pasture. Buck and Roger approach it and watch a -floating light 5 feet in diameter maneuvering for 5 minutes 900 feet -away before it vanishes. Two teams of investigators sent by Robert -Bigelow also see lights and orbs the rest of the month, and their -camera and video equipment behaves oddly. (Skinwalkers 59–69)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7555

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Event 10371 -(F76B7F51)

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Date: 8/2009
-Description: Robert -Bigelow brings Pentagon technical analyst Juliett Witt to the -Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. Along with Colm -Kelleher, she -experiences a cone of silence and a weird pig-like creature the one -night she is there. Like Jonathan Axelrod, the phenomena follow her back -home to Virginia, where she experiences poltergeist phenomena and sees a -huge owl that attacks her car. (Skinwalkers, 50–58, 81–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7556

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Event 10372 -(2D942EFB)

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Date: 8/6/2009
-Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of UFO -files. (UK National Archives, “Briefing Document: -Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7557

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Event 10373 -(A87D3979)

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Date: 8/21/2009
-Description: 9:40 p.m. Tomasz Skorupski sees a deep-black object in the -shape of the letter M flying west to east 200 feet above the ground at -50 mph at Kowale Oleckie, Poland. He estimates it is 10 feet in length -and 30 feet at the widest point. Seven dimly yellow lights are -positioned on the craft, while the rest seems dark and obscures the -stars on its flight path. (Poland 100)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7558

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Event 10374 -(BCC20DD5)

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Date: 9/2009
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Jim Costigan, who had visited Skinwalker Ranch -in Utah two months earlier, is walking his dog with his wife Laila in -suburban Maryland when they see a blue, softball-sized light moving in -their direction about 6 feet off the ground to the left. It accelerates -and shoots between them, grazing Laila’s shoulder as it passes. Within -seconds it is lost behind a house. The dog does not notice it. Laila -becomes lethargic the next day and shows severe flu-like symptoms for -the next few weeks. She is ultimately diagnosed with Hashimoto’s -thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease of the thyroid. (Skinwalkers -77–79)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7559

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Event 10375 -(4941400B)

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Date: 11/2009
-Description: Sen. Harry -Reid’s request for Special Access Program status for the US Defense -Intelligence Agency’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications -Program is denied by a group at the Pentagon consisting of Deputy -Defense Secretary William -J. Lynn III, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Gen. James -R. Clapper, special -programs officer at USDI Susan Jones, Deputy Assistant Secretary of -Defense for Legislative Affairs Marcel -Lettre, and -Defense Intelligence Agency defense warning officer Bob Carlsberg. -(Skinwalkers 92- 93; Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “How -the Pentagon Started Taking UFOs Seriously,” The New Yorker, April -30, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7561

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Event 10376 -(E0C58C2E)

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Date: 11/2009
-Description: The RAF Air Command prepares a briefing for UK Defence -Minister Bob -Ainsworth recommending that the Ministry of Defence “should seek to -reduce very significantly the UFO task which is consuming increasing -resources, but produces no valuable defence output.” (“Britain’s -Defense Ministry Releases Its Final UFO Files,” USA Today, June 21, -2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7560

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Event 10377 -(623687A7)

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Date: 11/6/2009
-Description: ex-Police Detective and ufologist James Clarkson gives a -presentation at a UFO Conference about ex-Wright Patterson AFB worker -June Crain, who had heard of 3 crash retrievals during her time working -there.
-Type: presentation
-Reference: Newspapers.com
-Location: US

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Event 10378 -(11050158)

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Date: 11/25/2009
-Description: 12:15 a.m. A mental health professional in Port Jervis, New -York, is driving home listening to Christmas CDs on the car’s player. -Coming around a bend, he sees an object about one mile away. As he comes -to the next turn, he slows down to 25 mph to get a better look, but by -then he is surprised to see that it is almost on top of him. He stops -the car on the side of the road, putting it in park with the engine -running. The object is cigar-shaped and turning clockwise slowly as it -approaches. It is moving slowly like a hot-air balloon. He hears a sound -like a cat purring at a low frequency. The UFO passes overhead and his -vehicle suffers a complete power failure. His cellphone is also dead. He -opens the driver’s door and looks up, seeing lights on the bottom of the -object, which immediately blink out. The car starts again spontaneously. -(Herbert S. Taylor, “An Update on Vehicle Interference Reports, Part 1,” -IUR 33, no. 4 (May 2011): 20–21)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7562

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Event 10379 -(FCF1E930)

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Date: 12/1/2009
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency’s AAWSAP program issues the -first of 38 Project Physics position papers (Defense Intelligence -Reference Documents) that define the current and projected state of the -art in aerospace technology, all pertaining to the 12 areas chosen by -the DIA. Bigelow’s group has subcontracted with Harold -E. Puthoff, CEO -of EarthTech International in Austin, Texas, to choose the precise -nature and scope of the papers. The first paper is on “Advanced Nuclear -Propusion for Manned Deep Space Missions” by physicist Friedwardt -Winterberg. (US -Defense Intelligence Agency, [list -of products produced under the AATIP contract], January 9, 2018; -Skinwalkers 47, 122)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7564

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Event 10380 -(6C464811)

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Date: 12/1/2009
-Description: The UK Ministry of Defence shuts down its UFO hotline and -closes its UFO desk, ostensibly because it has produced “no defence -benefit” and no evidence of extraterrestrial aliens in more than 50 -years. But the staff is overwhelmed by public inquiries, which are at a -10-year high. (“UFO -Investigations Unit Closed by Ministry of Defence,” -BBC News, December 4, 2009; “Britain’s -Defense Ministry Releases Its Final UFO Files,” USA Today, June 21, -2013; UFOFiles2, pp. 175–176, -178)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7563

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Event 10381 -(1B617862)

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Date: 12/9/2009
-Description: Night. A large beam of light is seen and photographed for -10 minutes over all of northern Norway from Trøndelag in the south -through all the counties further north, as well as parts of northern -Sweden. The phenomenon consists of a blue beam of light with a grayish -spiral emanating from one end of it. It moves from behind a mountain, -stops in mid-air, and starts to spiral outwards. A similar, though less -spectacular, event also occurred in Norway the month before. Both events -have visual features of failed flights of Russian RSM-56 Bulava SLBM. -The Russian Defense Ministry admits shortly afterward that such an event -had taken place at the time on December 9. (Wikipedia, “2009 -Norwegian spiral anomaly”; Tony Spell, “Estimation -of the Trajectory, Location, -Size, and Altitude of the ‘Norway Spiral’ Phenomenon,” December 29, -2009)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7565

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Event 10382 -(D4A347F6)

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Date: 12/11/2009
-Description: Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) directors -James T. Lacatski, Colm -Kelleher, and -Larry Grossman meet at Bolling AFB [now Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling] in -Washington, D.C., with Jack Angelo, director of operations for the -Office of Special Projects of the Air Force Office of Special -Investigations. They brief him on their operations and security, and ask -AFOSI for data on the Northern Tier UFO incursions of October–November -1975. Angelo promised to see what he could do, but BAASS needs to be -accepted into some Special Access Programs to progress much further. -(Skinwalkers 94–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7566

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- Event 10383 (8FD0543A)

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Date: 1/2010
-Description: The RAF asks the Home Office to cancel standing -instructions to police forces who have, in the past, routinely forwarded -UFO sightings by officers to the MoD. (UFOFiles2, p. 179)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7567

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Event 10384 -(D1CA71C6)

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Date: 1/2010
-Description: US Navy Petty Officer John Baughman sees a “Tic-Tac” shaped -object from the flight deck of the supercarrier USS -Carl -Vinson off the coast of Haiti. It is a solid, white object, some 20 -feet long, that darts into the water and appears to collapse on itself -and disappear. (Ryan Sprague, “New -Navy Witness Says He Saw a ‘Tic Tac’ Operating -Underwater,” Medium: Trail of the Saucers, July 11, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7568

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Event 10385 -(D34984A3)

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Date: late 1/2010
-Description: Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) Director -of Investigation Larry Grossman meets in Washington, D.C., with former -AFOSI Col. Barry Hennessey (Ret.). He acknowledges that AFOSI could not -identify many of the UFOs associated with the Northern Tier air force -bases in 1975. Hennessey suspects that many of the AFOSI investigative -records for those cases have been purged, and hinted to Grossman that -some odd unmanned aerial vehicles could be military projects. -(Skinwalkers 97–98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7569

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Event 10386 -(1398A179)

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Date: 2/17/2010
-Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of UFO -files, more than 6,000 pages of documentation and reports from 1994 to -2000. (“UFO -Sightings from the National Archives,” The Guardian (UK), February -17, 2010; UK National Archives, “Briefing -Document: Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7570

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Event 10387 -(FFEBAD88)

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Date: 3/2010
-Description: The Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) asks -remote viewer Joseph McMoneagle to observe a target designated as 22610 -using traditional blind targeting protocols. 22610 is actually -Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. McMoneagle’s sketch of the ranch, its -environment, animals, two ranch managers, and two security guards are -accurate, but he indicates a fifth individual is present. He describes a -male, 60–70 pounds, 4 feet 3 inches high, with no hair. McMoneagle says -this person is invisible to ranch personnel, although he attempts to -ciommunicate with them to see their response. (Skinwalkers -120–121)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7571

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Event 10388 -(4BEEF5CB)

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Date: 3/3/2010
-Description: Evening. S/Sgt. Omar Gonzalez and the crew of Dakota Air -Traffic Control at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City, South Dakota, pick up -unidentified traffic crossing a passing aircraft, which reports visual -contact with an object 2,000 feet above him. The target appears to be 18 -miles south of the Ellsworth AFB runway. Suddenly the object vanishes -from view and the radar track disappears. A few minutes later, the -target reappears on radar behind the aircraft. (Skinwalkers 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7572

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Event 10389 -(AA6A0290)

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Date: 3/8/2010
-End date: 3/12/2010
-Description: Dozens of independent witnesses in Kraków and Rzeszów, -Poland, report a strange disc-shaped object of considerable size with -white or red lights on its perimeter and red-green lights on its base. -(Poland 104–107)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7573

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Event 10390 -(E068D727)

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Date: 4/22/2010
-Description: An unmanned HTV-2 Falcon hypersonic glider, the fastest -unmanned aerial vehicle, reaches a record speed of 13,201 mph. -(Wikipedia, “Hypersonic -Technology Vehicle 2”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7574

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Event 10391 -(846DB160)

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Date: 4/22/2010
-Description: The first X-37B, an uncrewed, reusable, robotic spaceplane, -launches on its first mission, Orbital Test Vehicle 1 / USA-212, on an -Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The -spacecraft is placed into low Earth orbit for testing. While the Air -Force reveals few orbital details of the mission, a worldwide network of -amateur astronomers claims to have identified the spacecraft in orbit. -It lands on December 3 after more than 224 days in orbit. (Wikipedia, -“USA-212”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7575

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Event 10392 -(8B5FE748)

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Date: 6/4/2010
-Description: First Falcon 9 Technology Demonstration launch
-Type: aerospace
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Cape Canaveral SLC-40, FL

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Event 10393 -(A92470E5)

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Date: 6/14/2010
-Description: European Parliament Member Mario -Borghezio calls for the European Union to have its own centralized -information center where anyone can access information on UFOs, even -records held by the military. Borghezio argues that governments should -go public with the information they hold and stop what he believes is a -systematic cover-up. Not satisfied with a central archive, Borghezio -also wants a scientific center to study UFOs that could encourage -research and development. “I think that, under the principle of -transparency,” he says, “the EU member states have a duty to make public -and available to all scientific data on UFOs which today are partially -or wholly withheld.” (“MEP -Calls for Declassification of UFO Files,” Euractiv, July 7, -2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7576

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Event 10394 -(EAF4369E)

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Date: 7/7/2010
-Description: 8:40 p.m. A UFO is seen hovering above Hangzhou Xiaoshan -International Airport near Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. An airliner -preparing for descent first notices the object and notifies the tower. -Within minutes, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) closes -the airport down, grounding outbound flights and diverting inbound ones -to other airports. Normal operations resume an hour later. Nearby -residents take photos of the UFO. One daylight photo taken earlier in -the afternoon shows an object with a clear, comet-like tail; another, -taken after dusk shows a glowing object emitting golden light. Another -photo clearly shows an airplane with a contrail. CAAC conducts an -investigation but refuses to release it publicly because there is a -“military connection.” MIT weapons analyst Geoffrey -Forden says the most credible photo shows an arc streaking across -the sky around sunset and that the most likely cause is the launch of a -DF-21 missile somewhere near Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and aimed -at a point somewhere in the eastern Gobi Desert. (“Flights -Diverted, Delayed As UFO Detected Hovering,” -People’s Daily Online, July 9, 2010; “UFO Forces Hangzhou Airport to -Shut Down,” China Central Television, July 10, 2010; “Hangzhou -Light Show,” Arms Control Wonk, July 12, 2010; “UFO -in China’s Skies Prompts -Investigation,” ABC News, July 14, 2010; Alexis C. Madrigal, “A -UFO over China? Well, No,” The Atlantic, July 19, 2010 “UFOs -over China? Not Quite, Analyst Says,” CNN, July 20, 2010)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7577

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Event 10395 -(C9DFA4A0)

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Date: 8/2010
-Description: The Nevada Test Site is renamed the Nevada National -Security Site. (Wikipedia, “Nevada -Test Site”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7578

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Event 10396 -(D9ADA2C6)

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Date: 8/5/2010
-Description: The UK National Archives releases another 5,000 pages of -UFO files to the public. This release alone generates 196 separate news -items and reaches a readership of 25 million people. (“Churchill -Ordered UFO Cover-Up, -National Archives Show,” BBC News, August 5, 2010; UK National -Archives, “Briefing -Document: Unidentified -Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013; UFOFiles2, p. xi)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7579

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Event 10397 -(B2B9854F)

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Date: 8/13/2010
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A circle of six yellow lights appears in the sky -above the Jardim Bela Vista district of Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil. -Dentist Daniela Tamarossi and others spend more than 2 hours watching it -maneuver. (Brazil 403– 405)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7580

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Event 10398 -(B0D63F41)

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Date: 8/16/2010
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Two people camping on Cumberland Island National -Seashore in Georgia are walking on the beach when they notice above them -a low-flying triangular object with lights at each of its points. It is -moving silently to the south toward Jacksonville, Florida. About 45 -minutes later they see it through some trees from their campsite, again -silent and heading south. (“Sighting Report,” National UFO Reporting -Center, November 21, 2010; Nukes 508)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7581

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Event 10399 -(48852C12)

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Date: 9/27/2010
-Description: Researcher Robert -Hastings organizes a briefing at the National Press Club in -Washington, D.C., that brings together former US Air Force personnel who -testify to the existence of UFOs and their ability to neutralize -American and Russian nuclear missiles. Those appearing include former -Capt. Robert -Salas, retired nuclear missile targeting officer Robert C. Jamison, -and retired Col. Charles -I. Halt. Several of the ex-servicemembers say that when they brought -their concerns to superiors, they were told it is “top secret” or that -it “didn’t happen.” Hastings suggests the presence of such phenomena -means that aliens could be monitoring our weapons and perhaps warning us -about their use. (“Ex-Air -Force Personnel: UFOs Deactivated Nukes,” CBS News, September 28, -2010; Robert L. Hastings, “The -UFOs–Nukes Connection Press Conference,” October 11, 2010; “Military Witnesses -of UFOs at Nuclear Sites: National Press Club,” QUFOSR YouTube -channel, December 15, 2016; Nukes 511–512)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7582

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Event 10400 -(C9665FBC)

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Date: 9/30/2010
-Description: The contract for the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Advanced -Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program is extended until December -21, 2010, at no cost to the government. However, there is no -congressional funding available for 2011. One of its most significant -achievements is the development of a Data Warehouse that links 11 -separate UFO databases and supporting documentation. The databases are -the NIDS database airline and military pilot sightings, the USAF Blue -Book database, UFOCAT, the MUFON Case Management System database, -Project Colares, the Canadian government’s UFO releases, the UK -government’s UFO releases, BAASS cases investigated, Skinwalker Ranch -database, and a database of Skinwalker Ranch contagious health effects. -Each UFO case is assigned a credibility rating designed by Jacques -Vallée, and -the database configuration is based on a six-layer model developed by -Vallée and Eric -W. Davis in 2003, using layers designated as physical, -anti-physical, psychological, physiological, psychic, and cultural. The -Data Warehouse is not retired at the end of the AAWSAP, but is used by -the UAP Task Force and its successor organization. (Skinwalkers 26–27, -167–170)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7583

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Event 10401 -(896BBC51)

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Date: 10/11/2010
-Description: 8:40 p.m. A man named Qiao sees two luminous objects, one -small one and the other larger, over the Xincheng district of Taiyuan, -Shaanxi, China. They keep circling in a regular pattern. Other luminous -objects are reported above the Sanqianglu district. Soon the media -hotlines are flooded with phone calls. Two luminous objects circling in -the air are seen at 8:55 p.m. in the Xinhuajie district, at 9:01 p.m. -near the Apparel Town area, and at 9:05 p.m. near the racetrack. When -reporters arrive at the plaza of the Taiyuan Railway Station, they see a -large, milky-white, luminous spot circling above the clouds with a -diameter of at least 32 feet. The object first looks like a luminous -spot produced by a searchlight against the clouds, but it has no obvious -light beams. The object circles and moves up and down and from side to -side until it disappears around 9:10 p.m. (“Chinese -UFO Report -Affirms Reality of Manipulative Extraterrestrial Abduction,” -Canadian Business Daily, September 24, 2011)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7584

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Event 10402 -(DDFE2DD8)

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Date: 10/13/2010
-Description: 4:00 a.m. A village in the Qinling mountains of southern -Shaanxi province, China, supposedly disappears overnight after witnesses -contact news agencies to report UFOs in the area. Chinese troops -allegedly cordon off the area with no explanation. A video circulates -online, reportedly showing bright blue lights in the sky over the -village. Subsequent reports deny a military presence in the area and -attribute the story to rumor and misinformation. Other reports indicate -the “disappearance” took place in 1987 and was part of a rural -relocation program to alleviate poverty in the area. (“Inexplicable -Disappearance of a Village in the Qinling Mountains: UFO -Village Vanishing?” Before It’s News, October 14, 2010; “China -Qinling Mountains Village Vanishing after -UFO (13/10/2010),” Marco Maia YouTube channel, October 14, 2010; “UFO -Abduction of Whole Village Exposed -As Rumor,” People’s Daily Online, October 18, 2010; Chris Saunders, -“UFOs over China,” Fortean Times 331 (October 2015): 31; Robert Foyle -Hunwick, “China -Unsolved: The Village That Vanished,” SupChina, July 11, 2018; Brent -Swancer, “A -Mysterious Vanishing Village in China,” Mysterious Universe, June -26, 2019; “Across -China: Revisiting a Disappearing Village in Northwest China,” -Xinhua, June 17, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7585

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Event 10403 -(52755CBE)

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Date: 10/23/2010
-End date: 10/24/2010
-Description: Air Force personnel at Francis E. Warren AFB near Cheyenne, -Wyoming, report seeing an enormous cigar-shaped craft maneuvering high -above its missile field. The UFO appears similar to an advertising blimp -but has no passenger gondola or advertising on its hull. On the same -day, the missile site temporarily loses its ability to communicate with -50 of its Minuteman III nuclear missiles. The five Missile Alert -Facilities affected, Alpha through Echo, are responsible for launching -those ICBMs in time of war and comprise the 319th Strategic Missile -Squadron. The Air Force then quickly acknowledges the problem, saying -that a backup system could have launched the missiles if necessary and -that the breakdown lasted only 59 minutes. But according to two missile -technicians stationed at the base, the communications problem, while -intermittent, lasts several hours. These confidential sources further -report that the commander of the squadron sternly warns its members not -to talk to journalists or researchers about “the things they may or may -not have seen” in the sky near the missiles in recent months and -threatens severe penalties for violating security. (NICAP, “Base -‘Loses’ 50 Missiles”; Marc Ambinder, “Failure -Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles,” The Atlantic, October 26, -2010; Robert L. Hastings, “Huge -UFO Sighted near Nuclear Missiles during October 2010 Launch System -Disruption,” UFOs & Nukes, June 21, 2011; Nukes 515–517)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7586

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Event 10404 -(B6464F3E)

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Date: 11/5/2010
-Description: In a letter to Spanish UFO researcher Ignacio -Darnaude, admitted Ummo hoaxer José -Luis Jordán Peña elaborates on the reason why he began writing the -fake letters. He acknowledges that he used collaborators (Vicente -Ortuno, Norman West, John Child, Mercedes Carrasco, Alberto Borras, -Trinidad Pastrana, Sean O’Connelly, Iker J.) who sent letters from -distant places and that he created the fictional character of John Axee -to better disseminate his knowledge. He claims he was contacted at the -outset by two American doctors, Jonathan F. McGuire and Arnold J. -Lebotski (he previously said that they were CIA agents), working for a -foreign organization who offered him, for a fee, to carry out a -sociological experiment in the interest of western culture. (Wikipedia, -“Ummo”; -Alain Moreau, “Ummo: -Une imposture?” Les Cles de l’Inexplique; Scott Corrales, “The Ummo -Experience: Are You Experienced?” Strange Magazine; UmmoWiki, “Jóse -Luis Jordán Peña”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7587

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Event 10405 -(20D6A684)

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Date: 11/14/2010
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A swiftly moving light is seen maneuvering in the -sky above Logradouro, Ceará, Brazil, apparently following witnesses, for -more than 6 hours. (Brazil 407–408)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7588

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Event 10406 -(2EF32955)

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Date: 12/22/2010
-Description: The New Zealand Ministry of Defence releases 12 volumes of -documents related to UFOs dating from 1952 to 2009. (Suzy Hansen, “Relinquishing -Responsibility? Circumstances Surrounding the Release of the New Zealand -MOD UFO Files 2010/2011,” Ufocus.nz, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7589

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- Event 10407 (BF87DC4A)

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Date: 1/2011
-Description: Philippe -Ailleris, amateur -astronomer and founder of the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Reporting -Scheme, publishes “UFOs and Exogenous Intelligence Encounters” in the -European Space Policy Institute Perspectives newsletter. Although he -makes it clear that a large percentage of UFO sightings are explainable, -an open-minded approach toward the phenomenon is necessary. He argues -that UFOs have had a positive influence on public support for space -exploration and SETI, and that 60 years of UFO sightings have opened our -minds to the inevitability of direct contact with nonhuman -intelligences. (Philippe Ailleris, “UFOs -and Exogenous Intelligence -Encounters,” European Space Policy Institute Perspectives, no. 43 -(January 2011))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7590

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Event 10408 -(F9A3D631)

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Date: 2/7/2011
-Description: James T. Lacatski provides an in-depth briefing to Jim Bell -and Sacha Mover of the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and -Technology Directorate on the accomplishments of the AAWSAP in an -attempt to transfer the program out of the Department of Defense. He -recounts the BAASS investigations into UAPs and the paranormal events at -the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, as well as AAWSAP’s research into advanced -technologies. Lacatski works with Sen. Harry -Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Joe -Lieberman (I-Conn.) to attempt to get the BAASS-like project funded. -Negotiations and presentations continue through December, but DHS is -ultimately uninterested and concerned about negative publicity. -(Skinwalkers 28, 142–143, 148–154)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7591

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Event 10409 -(11289A24)

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Date: 3/11/2011
-Description: 2:46 p.m. A 9.0 Mw earthquake takes place with an epicenter -near Honshu, Japan. Immediately after the earthquake, the -electricity-producing Reactors 1, 2, and 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi -Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, automatically -shut down their sustained fission reactions by inserting control rods in -a safety procedure referred to as a SCRAM, which ends the reactors’ -normal running conditions, by closing down the fission reaction in a -controlled manner. Because the reactors are now unable to generate power -to run their own coolant pumps, emergency diesel generators come online, -as designed, to power electronics and coolant systems. These operate -normally until a 46-foot tsunami sweeps over the plant’s seawall and -destroys the generators for Reactors 1–5. Large amounts of water -contaminated with radioactive isotopes are released into the Pacific -Ocean during and after the disaster. (Wikipedia, “Fukushima -nuclear disaster”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7592

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Event 10410 -(7952600A)

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Date: 3/31/2011
-Description: The New Zealand Ministry of Defence releases a further 3 -volumes of documents related to UFOs. (Suzy Hansen, “Relinquishing -Responsibility? Circumstances Surrounding the Release of the New Zealand -MOD UFO Files -2010/2011,” Ufocus.nz, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7593

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Event 10411 -(C3489A23)

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Date: 5/6/2011
-Description: The Argentine Air Force creates the Comisión de Estudio de -Fenómenos Aeroespaciales for the study of aerospace phenomena. Capt. Moriano -Mohaupt, Air -Force press spokesman, says that the commission is composed of -meteorologists, air traffic controllers, pilots, and radar experts, who -will look into sightings. Since 2015 it has been managed with rigor and -transparency by Commodore Rubén Lianza. (“Argentina Creates UFO -Commission,” IUR 34, no. 1 (Sep. 2011): 21; Milton Hourcade, “Argentina: -UFO Declassification,” U.A.P.S.G.– G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7594

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Event 10412 -(C470CA44)

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Date: 6/6/2011
-Description: 8:00 p.m. A Mrs. Beata is walking her dog in the Baranówka -neighborhood of Rzeszów, Poland. She sees an elliptical, dull metallic -object crossing the sky just above the trees about 180 feet away. It is -about 30–50 feet long and 15–30 feet across and completely silent. It -disappears after emitting some flashes of light from its perimeter. -(Poland 155–156)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7595

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Event 10413 -(020DE9F1)

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Date: 7/2011
-Description: Igor Kalytyuk begins publishing Novosti Ufologii, an online -UFO newsletter, in Rivne, Ukraine. It continues through December 2016, -accompanied by occasional special bulletins of the Ufology News Project -from 2012 to 2018. (Novosti -Ufologii, no. -1 (July 2011); “About -the Ufology News Project”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7596

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Event 10414 -(46ADB9E2)

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Date: 8/2011
-Description: The UK National Archives makes available its first batch of -Ministry of Defence UFO files from 1985 to 1995, followed shortly -afterward by files for 1997 and 1998–2000. (UK National Archives, “Briefing -Document: Unidentified -Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7597

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Event 10415 -(7BAC2164)

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Date: 9/11/2011
-Description: 5:00 a.m. An 18-year-old girl in Baborów, Poland, is -awakened by a light from a blue triangular object hovering outside her -bedroom window. Its contours are outlined with white halogen-like lights -and there is what looks like a hatch in its center from which a mist is -emanating. She can feel the heat from the object on her face and -forehead. The object departs to the west but does not disappear until -6:30 a.m. (Poland 100–101)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7598

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Event 10416 -(8A1EF5BD)

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Date: 11/2011
-Description: Out of its 1,170 fully investigated UFO cases, the French -UFO agency GEIPAN shows that 22% are unidentified. (Swords 453)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7599

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- Event 10417 (37AAEFDD)

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Date: 2/18/2012
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A father and son, both pilots, are in their -propellor-driven Mooney Ovation II flying at 7,480 feet. Shortly after -they cross the border of Virginia from Charlotte, North Carolina, they -prepare to land in Richmond. Above Chase City, Virginia, the father -unexpectedly sees a bright, glowing sphere about 30 feet in diameter -flying alongside the aircraft. As the UFO begins to soar about 50 feet -away from the right wing, the plane loses power. All of the electrical -equipment (including the computer) suddenly turns off. A few seconds -later, the plane regains all systems as the UFO swiftly shoots away at -an incredible speed. (NICAP, “Aircraft Encounters -UFO and E-M Effects”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7600

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Event 10418 -(0C731B01)

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Date: 3/2012
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies publishes the final issue of the -International UFO Reporter.
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7601

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Event 10419 -(3E4CCBF5)

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Date: 4/13/2012
-Description: Afternoon. Mihnea Mustaţa and other observers north of -Ploieşti, Romania, watch a white, hat-shaped object passing over a field -to the east at about 53 mph toward the village of Pleaşa. It disappears -for a few minutes and reappears in a different location. Starting at -2:28 p.m., Mustaţa takes several photos of the object before it -disappears, accompanied by several balls of light. (Romania 80–82)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7602

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Event 10420 -(2465D838)

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Date: 5/10/2012
-Description: 9:30 p.m. A witness in Hermanowa, Poland, watches a light -approach him until it is only 100 feet away, only 6–10 feet above his -neighbor’s house. An identical object, also about 1 foot in diameter, on -the same flight path appears and stops in the same position above the -adjacent house. After 20 seconds, it veers off at an angle of 130° and -both objects fly away. (Poland 155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7604

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Event 10421 -(1B091C3F)

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Date: 5/10/2012
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Workers at a warehouse in Rzeszów, Poland, see a -group of spherical objects converging from various directions to a point -where a large object shaped like a “screw-thread” is hovering. Two -spheres fly away after maneuvering in the air. The other objects -disappear (Poland 155)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7603

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Event 10422 -(0BD8E4AE)

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Date: late 5/2012
-Description: Evening. Two wind-farm engineers are on top of a 4–5 story -building in Mamaia-Set, Romania, when they see a large V-formation -consisting of clusters of three lights approaching at high speed from -the south. The formation crosses the sky in 4–5 seconds. (Romania -82–83)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7605

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Event 10423 -(C7B191C6)

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Date: 7/2012
-Description: The UK National Archives opens more UFO policy files, -covering 1995–1997, 1997–1998, and 2002–2008. (UK National Archives, “Briefing -Document: Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7606

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Event 10424 -(550CAEA9)

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Date: 7/5/2012
-Description: 10:04 p.m. A security camera at a well site in the Eagle -Ford Shale Field near Cotulla, Texas, snaps an image of what appears to -be a 60-foot-diameter object with an array of four lights hovering above -the caliche pad of an oil well. Later, in October, workers at the site -report UFOs in the night sky. One of them named Xavier Garza takes a -blurry video of a reddish-orange orb in the northern sky. (“Observers -Think UFOs Hovered above the Eagle Ford Shale,” -San Antonio (Tex.) News-Express, January 12, 2013; “Cotulla -2012: Security Camera Shows UFO Hovering -over South Texas Oil Field,” Texas UFO Museum and Research -Library)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7607

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Event 10425 -(35EAE0EC)

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Date: 8/1/2012
-End date: 8/15/2012
-Description: Indian Army troops deployed along the Chinese border from -Ladakh to Arunachal Pradash report as many as 100 UFO sightings. The -14th Corps, which is deployed in the Kargil and Leh districts and -patrols the frontier with China, sends reports to Army headquarters -about sightings by an Indo-Tibetan Border Police unit in the Thakung -district near lake Pangong Tso in the Himalayas. The reports describe -yellowish spheres that appear to lift off from the horizon on the -Chinese side and slowly traverse the sky for 3–5 hours before -disappearing. The Army uses a mobile ground-based radar unit and a -spectrum analyzer to verify the identity of the UFOs, but they cannot -track the spheres on radar. Officials insist the objects are not Chinese -drones. (“Over -100 UFOs Seen along -China Border,” Times of India, November 6, 2012; Dirk Vander Ploeg, -“Chinese, -Russian, and Indian Troops -Jointly Spot UFOs,” UFO Digest, March 16, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7608

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Event 10426 -(9A1C43EA)

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Date: 8/3/2012
-Description: Kathleen Marden reports on a survey of abductees in which -38% report seeing hybrids, usually in a large facility along with humans -being examined. These respondents see short and tall gray humanoids -along with a few mantis-like, reptilian, Nordic, and occasional rarer -types. One surprise finding is that 40% suffer chronic fatigue syndrome -or mononucleosis. They also report examinations focused on glandular -tissue, especially the thymus, a gland that has been implicated in these -illnesses. (Kathleen Marden, “Abduction Experiencers’ Perception of the -Alien Agenda,” MUFON 2012 International UFO Symposium Proceedings, -MUFON, August 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7609

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Event 10427 -(7BE8273D)

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Date: 9/19/2012
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Jennifer Styer is driving north on Antelope Lane -near Roy, Montana, when she sees two V- shaped objects to the northwest -that speed silently toward her. They have orange lights on each arm and -are flying in a straight line quite close to each other. (Robert L. -Hastings, “UFOs -Reported near Malmstrom AFB’s Nuclear Missile -Sites in September 2012,” UFOs & Nukes, November 4, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7610

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Event 10428 -(256ACD59)

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Date: 9/21/2012
-Description: 8:30 pm. Dale Uhler and his wife are driving -north-northwest of Moccasin, Montana, two miles north of the -intersection of North Star and Fieldstone roads when they notice a -bar-shaped, yellow-orange light about 30°– 35° above the horizon. It -then splits into three lights, which persist for about 20 seconds before -disappearing. A second witness on the Old Musselshell Trail south of the -Missouri River, Montana, sees what may be the same display, which -appears to him as four orange lights that appear and disappear in -sequence. A third witness, about 20 miles east of Roy, Montana, also -sees the lights to the north. (Robert L. Hastings, “UFOs -Reported near Malmstrom -AFB’s Nuclear Missile Sites in September 2012,” UFOs & Nukes, -November 4, 2012)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7611

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- Event 10429 (C95591AC)

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Date: 2013
-Description: The Pentagon’s black budget is at $52.6 billion, according -to documents leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden. Although -the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence -spending since 2007, it does not divulge how it uses the money or how it -performs against the goals set by the president and Congress. (“‘Black -Budget’ Summary Details U.S. Spy Network’s Successes, Failures, and -Objectives,” Washington Post, August 29, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7612

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Event 10430 -(F92FA761)

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Date: 1/4/2013
-Description: Night. Dogs belonging to Carlos Torres of Pine Bush, New -York, become noisy and agitated. When he goes outside, he sees a huge -rectangular object blocking out the stars and moving silently overhead. -His young daughter is terrified. It takes 2 minutes to travel out of -sight. (Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7613

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Event 10431 -(41BE08E4)

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Date: 1/8/2013
-Description: 4:00 a.m. Two policemen in a village near Nysa, Poland, -notice distant lights that appear and reappear. At one point, they stop -their patrol car to observe the light, which is changing shape and -radiating a number of colored lights. The light approaches them and -stops a half-mile away. Small points of light break off from its base, -some returning into it and others disappearing in mid-air. The primary -light then gives off a stroboscopic flash of light that illuminates a -large area. The officers drive away, but the light follows them. They -stop again at a parking lot and see that the light is coming from a -domed disc emitting dazzling yellow lights. Three blue lights are on its -base. They drive off again, but the object paces them at a distance of -about one mile. Both officers experience strong anxiety during the -sighting, and there is a possible element of missing time. (Poland -110–114)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7614

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Event 10432 -(B1C6FB5A)

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Date: 1/12/2013
-Description: 8:20 p.m. A married couple pull out of their driveway in -West Melbourne, Florida, to go out to dinner. As the couple drive west -down their street, they see three bright lights in a row in the sky. -They assume that the lights are Chinese lanterns, since they are all at -or above the same elevation. As they draw closer, they realize that the -lights form a single object. As the object turns, the lights are in a -pyramidal shape (indicating rotation of the object that causes the three -horizontal lights to appear like a pyramid). At the same time, the -object bolts away at an incredible speed and disappears in a few -seconds. (NICAP, “Pyramid-Shaped -Object Observed by Couple”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7615

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Event 10433 -(AEED593F)

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Date: 3/5/2013
-Description: 5:30 p.m. A witness in the Słocina neighborhood of Rzeszów, -Poland, lets her cat outside, but it panics. She looks up and sees -strange lights about a quarter of a mile away. She looks through -binoculars and sees that the lights are attached to an object with a -cupola hovering about 650 feet above some houses in the area. It flies -away to the east. (Poland 157)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7616

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Event 10434 -(51355A7B)

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Date: 3/19/2013
-End date: 3/20/2013
-Description: In the early hours of March 19, a couple living in a rural -section of Warkworth, New Zealand, see a blue flash and hear a loud -explosion that causes the building to shake. The next morning they find -their telephone service is out and their fax machine’s circuitry is -melted. Around midnight on March 20, the woman is watching TV while her -husband has gone to bed. She hears a loud sound like jet engines -thrusting and goes outside to see a large, black isosceles triangle -about 800 feet away and 600 feet in the air, slowly rising among the -treetops. It drifts sideways and gradually turns or pivots. The -underside of the craft is flat and smooth, a pale pearly metallic color. -It has three reddish-orange rings with black centers, one at each point -of the triangle, which resemble hot glowing metal rather than actual -lights. In the center of the underside is a white strobe light, rotating -with a circular movement and casting an intermittent short beam of -light. She watches it for 20 seconds as it moves above the house, tilts -its nose upwards, and rises more quietly up the ridge-line behind the -house, briefly pausing near a transmitter mast positioned on the top of -the hill. From there it gains altitude rapidly and suddenly shoots away -at phenomenal speed and disappears within seconds. (Suzy Hansen, “Sightings -of a ‘Black Triangle’ (Air)craft, -2013,” Ufocus.nz, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7617

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Event 10435 -(DFAF16A1)

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Date: 3/31/2013
-Description: Twilight. A young couple watches a triangular formation of -lights hovering above a forest near Biała, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, -Poland. It looks to be about 400 feet wide. After a change in position -it moves off in the direction of Chojnów to the south. (Poland -95–96)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7618

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Event 10436 -(58B8A715)

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Date: 4/18/2013
-Description: Members of the Brazilian Ufologists Commission meet with -representatives of the Brazilian armed forces at the Ministry of Defense -to discuss gaining access to military documents involving UFOs. -Attendees determine that Navy, Army, and Air Force documents related to -UFOs are to be made public, as established by the law on access to -information. More than 10,000 pages of previously confidential documents -are released to the public and are available at the National Archives in -Brasilia and online. (Alejandro Rojas, “UFO -Researchers Meet with Brazilian -Ministry of Defense,” OpenMinds, April 26, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7619

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Event 10437 -(38509C0D)

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Date: 4/25/2013
-Description: 9:20 p.m. An unknown object flying at a low altitude passes -directly above the Rafael Hernández Airport runway in Aguadilla, Puerto -Rico, causing the delayed departure of a commercial aircraft. No -transponder signal or other communication from the object alerts the -airport tower, creating a dangerous situation with departures and -arrivals. The pilots of an airborne US Customs and Border Protection De -Havilland Canada Dash 8 turboprop aircraft see a pinkish or reddish -light over the ocean in their vicinity, so they film the object on -infrared thermal video. The object is 3–5 feet in length and its speed -varies from 40 to 120 mph. The 3-minute footage shows the flight of an -object that crosses into northwestern Puerto Rico from the Atlantic -Ocean, traverses the space over the airport twice, then returns to the -Atlantic where it apparently submerges. Its speed through the water -reaches a high of 95 mph. Chemist Robert -Powell and five other members of the Scientific Coalition for UAP -Studies later obtain the video and subject it to a thorough analysis. -Their conclusion in 2018 is that the video is the “best documentation of -an unknown aerial and submerged nautical object exhibiting advanced -technology” that the authors have seen. (Robert Powell, et al., “2013 -Aguadilla Puerto Rico UAP: The Detailed Analysis of an Unidentified -Anomalous Phenomenon Captured by the Department of Homeland -Security,” Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, August 15, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7620

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Event 10438 -(39168AF4)

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Date: 4/29/2013
-End date: 5/3/2013
-Description: Stephen -Bassett’s Paradigm Research Group holds a Citizens Hearing on -Disclosure at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Forty UFO -researchers, along with political and military representatives (Robert Salas, Paul -Hellyer, Nick -Pope), testify to six former members of the US Congress: Carolyn -Cheeks Kilpatrick, Merrill -Cook, Lynn -Woolsey, Darlene -Hooley, Roscoe -Bartlett, and -Mike -Gravel. The -witnesses speak for 30 hours over five days. The panel reaches the -conclusion that the US government and other governments need to share -what is known about UFO sightings and the United Nations should take the -subject of UFOs seriously. (Richard B. Muhammad, “What -Is the Truth about UFOs?” The Final Call, May 7, 2013; “Citizen -Hearing on Disclosure -(2013),” The Unidentified, May 27, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7621

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Event 10439 -(142CF4EC)

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Date: 6/2013
-Description: Researcher David -Marler publishes Triangular UFOs, an evaluation of hundreds of -reports of delta-shaped UFOs seen worldwide. Marler assesses whether -these represent an extraterrestrial UFO visitation or a secret project -developed by one or more governments. (David Marler, Triangular UFOs: An -Estimate of the Situation, Richard Dolan Press, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7622

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Event 10440 -(5ABE3B66)

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Date: 6/5/2013
-Description: Based on material supplied to them by former National -Security Agency contractor Edward -Snowden, The Guardian exposes a top-secret court order showing that -the NSA has collected phone records from over 120 million Verizon -subscribers. Under the order, the numbers of both parties on a call, as -well as the location data, unique identifiers, time of call, and -duration of call are handed over to the FBI, which turns over the -records to the NSA. (Wikipedia, “Global -surveillance disclosures (2013–present)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7623

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Event 10441 -(6EB36C67)

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Date: 6/6/2013
-Description: The Guardian and the Washington Post reveal the existence -of the PRISM surveillance program (which collects the emails, voice, -text, and video messages of foreigners and an unknown number of -Americans from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, and other tech -giants). (Wikipedia, “PRISM -(surveillance program)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7624

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Event 10442 -(AC1BD60A)

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Date: 6/14/2013
-Description: US prosecutors charge Edward -Snowden with espionage and theft of government property, but in late -July he is granted temporary asylum by the Russian government. The -extent to which the media reports have responsibly informed the public -is disputed. In January 2014, President Obama says -that “the sensational way in which these disclosures have come out has -often shed more heat than light” and critics such as Sean -Wilentz note that many of the Snowden documents do not concern -domestic surveillance. The US and UK Defense establishment weigh the -strategic harm in the period following the disclosures more heavily than -their civic public benefit. In its first assessment of these -disclosures, the Pentagon concludes that Snowden committed the biggest -“theft” of US secrets in the history of the United States. Sir David -Omand, a former director of GCHQ, described Snowden’s disclosure as -the “most catastrophic loss to British intelligence ever.” (Wikipedia, -“Global -surveillance disclosures -(2013–present)”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7625

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Event 10443 -(48C23A24)

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Date: 6/19/2013
-Description: A triangular object with lights in each tip is seen at -Szklarska Poręba, Poland. (Poland 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7626

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Event 10444 -(208F5158)

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Date: 6/21/2013
-Description: The UK National Archives releases another batch of 209 UFO -files, approximately 52,000 pages, covering 2009. The full set of files -show that the Ministry of Defence received an average of 150 sightings -annually from 2000 to 2007, increasing to 643 in 2009. This is supposed -to be the final batch, but more files are discovered later. (“Britain’s -Defense Ministry Releases Its Final UFO Files,” USA Today, June 21, -2013; UK National Archives, “Briefing -Document: Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7627

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Event 10445 -(2DFC95BC)

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Date: 6/25/2013
-Description: The CIA publicly acknowledges the existence of Area 51 for -the first time, following a FOIA request filed in 2005, and it -declassifies documents detailing its history and purpose. (Wikipedia, -“Area -51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7628

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Event 10446 -(0981D62E)

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Date: 6/27/2013
-Description: 12:20 p.m. An F/A-18F Super Hornet from Strike Fighter -Squadron 11 (VFA-11, the “Red Rippers”), flying out of Naval Air Station -Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has an encounter with an “aircraft -[that] was white in color and approximately the size and shape of a -drone or missile” in the W-72 warning area, a patch of airspace off the -coast of Virginia and North Carolina. The jet’s crew visually acquires -it as they see it “pass down the right side of their aircraft with -approximately 200 feet of lateral separation” while flying at an -altitude of 17,000 feet. It is climbing and has a visible exhaust trail. -Neither the Super Hornet nor NAS Oceana records a radar track of the -object. The Navy tells units to be aware of the potential hazards posed -by unauthorized or uncoordinated drone operations. (Tyler Rogoway and -Joseph Trevithick, “Here -Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious -Aircraft off the East Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7629

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Event 10447 -(07BD5AF9)

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Date: 7/15/2013
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A 60-year-old postal worker and his wife see a -rectangular-shaped object maneuver through the sky and come within 100 -feet of them in Bellingham, Washington. It executes precise turns that -avoid electrical poles, wires, and streetlights. The object’s color -changes from a glowing red to a dull gray as it performs a banking turn -and comes to a standstill. The color change is not uniform because it -begins at the top of the object and moves downward. The object appears -about the size of a large SUV, and at its closest approach it is about -palm-width in size at arm’s length. The wife sees it as tumbling along -its central axis. (NICAP, “Rectangular -Object Viewed at 100ʹ”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7630

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Event 10448 -(59FF8311)

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Date: 7/19/2013
-Description: 6:35 p.m. The pilot of a Thomas Cook Airbus A320 cruising -at 34,000 feet near Reading, Berkshire, England, sees a silvery metallic -object shaped like a rugby ball streak within a few feet of his cockpit -on his left-hand side. The UK Airprox Board rules out another aircraft -or weather balloon. (Phil Davies, “Thomas -Cook Aircraft in UFO -‘Near Miss,’” Travel Weekly, January 24, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7631

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Event 10449 -(04FAFEB6)

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Date: 8/1/2013
-Description: Night. A group of young people at Góra Ossona in -Częstochowa, Poland, see a triangular object. (Poland 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7632

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Event 10450 -(4C043472)

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Date: 8/3/2013
-Description: 10:30–11:00 p.m. Witnesses in multiple points in Poland -report three successive sightings of unidentified triangular objects. A -woman in Lubliniec walking her dog sees a giant boomerang floating -silently to the west only about 150 feet above her housing estate. It -has dim symmetrical lights that are the same intensity as stars and is -about 65 feet long. A young couple in Łosice watches a dark, triangular -UFO with gray-violet colored lights. An engineer in Dobrzykowice -observes a high-altitude, delta-shaped formation of lights. (Poland -96–97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7633

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Event 10451 -(F2D6A264)

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Date: 8/14/2013
-Description: Night. An amateur astronomer in Lublin, Poland, is tracking -an object in an orbital trajectory. Close-up, it resembles a rocket with -a triangular contour, crimson-red color, and yellowish center. A smaller -isosceles triangle seems to be embedded in it. (Poland 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7634

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Event 10452 -(55E379F7)

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Date: 8/18/2013
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A family that owns a dacha in Tyczyn, Poland, -watches a wingless object with spear-shaped panels maneuvering slowly -and silently above them. It has an apparently rotating blinking light -and is making constant turns and ascents. (Poland 101–102)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7635

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Event 10453 -(49E59D1C)

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Date: 8/20/2013
-Description: 9:45 p.m. Three vehicles pull over on Homer Watson -Boulevard just west of Doon South Drive in Kitchener, Ontario, to -observe a strange object that is crossing in front of them. The highway -lighting makes it easy to see a spherical object 30 feet in diameter -move very slowly across the freeway just above the utility poles. The -object, only a few hundred feet from the stopped cars, is apparently -solid with a glow that illuminates the trees as it passed by. The -primary witness exits his car and attempts to take a photo with his -cellphone, but its camera functions are dead. He continues to watch the -object for another 45 seconds. Once the object leaves, the cellphone -operates properly again. (NICAP, “E-M -Effects from Sphere near Highway”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7636

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Event 10454 -(15A8A57F)

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Date: 8/28/2013
-Description: 9:40 p.m. A three-man hunting party observes a -barbell-shaped object within 400 feet of their camp in rural Ontario. -The object interferes with the operation of their Motorola radio, a -cellphone, and a Sony Cybershot video camera. The object is in view for -about 5 minutes. The primary witness owns a company that receives -Department of Defense contracts and puts together a 17-page report and a -video on the sighting. (MUFON case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7637

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Event 10455 -(949CFF14)

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Date: 9/9/2013
-Description: Two witnesses in Sokółka, Poland, see a gigantic triangular -UFO flying by in a few seconds. (Poland 98) September 12 — Night. A -delta-shaped UFO is seen above Franciszka Hynka street, Warsaw, Poland. -(Poland 98)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7638

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Event 10456 -(9C3EA163)

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Date: 10/2013
-Description: Peru reopens its Departamento de Investigación de Fenómenos -Aéreos Anómalos (DIFFA), which had closed in 2008, as a result of -“increased sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena” in the country’s -skies. DIFAA will bring together sociologists, archaeologists, -astronomers, meteorologists, and Air Force personnel to analyze these -events. (“Peru -Reopens UFO Investigation Office,” Homeland Security News Wire, -October 28, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7639

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Event 10457 -(F21888E1)

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Date: 10/1/2013
-Description: The first-generation Air Force Satellite Surveillance -System ceases operation. The main advantage of the system was its -ability to provide uncued data on new objects as opposed to tracking -objects based on existing information. However, the system was also said -to be inherently inaccurate due to its dated design. (Wikipedia, “Air -Force Space Surveillance System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7640

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Event 10458 -(F56B1A5B)

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Date: 10/6/2013
-Description: 9:00 p.m. A father and daughter are traveling west on -Highway 40 through Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado, when the father notices -two white lights in the distance. The dimmer of the two begins to -descend erratically. It seems to wave back and forth, rather than just -move straight down, as it disappears behind a stand of tall pine trees. -Then the brighter light begins to grow as it approaches quickly. He -tells his daughter to look up, and she immediately sees the object as it -speeds toward them. The white light develops a red border that -transitions into a solid red light. A very short bright green line also -appears just below and to the immediate left of the solid red light. The -object then slows and swerves to the north. When the object is -positioned just to the left and in front of them, it drops in elevation -and begins to pass slowly overhead. The father sees that the short green -line is actually a long, flat, bright, rectangular strip. Both note how -crisp and clear the green box angles are and how there is no glow, given -the brightness of the green light. The father, who had previously worked -with low-powered lasers, identifies the green color as exactly 532nm. -They cannot see any reflections on the body or wings. The object slows -almost to a hover as it passes above them. Once the object passes out of -view to the rear, they are unable to see it again out the back window or -in the rearview mirrors. They do not want to stop and get a better look. -The father comments that he has never seen a solid object emit such a -bright green light. (NICAP, “Solid -Object Emits Bright -Green Light”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7641

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Event 10459 -(768D51D3)

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Date: 10/13/2013
-Description: 12:05 a.m. A Mr. Mateusz notices a large boomerang-shaped -object with yellow lights flying above Pabianice, Poland, from northeast -to west. It is surrounded by a hazy mist or glow, making it seem semi- -transparent. (Poland 97)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7642

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Event 10460 -(92F79728)

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Date: 11/1/2013
-Description: Media outlets report that Skunk Works has been working on -an unmanned reconnaissance airplane it has named SR-72, which can fly -twice as fast as the SR-71 at Mach 6. However, USAF is officially -pursuing the Northrop Grumman RQ-180 UAV to take up the SR-71’s -strategic surveillance role. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed SR-71 -Blackbird”; Guy Norris, “Exclusive: Skunk Works Reveals SR-71 -Successor Plan,” Aviation Week, November 1, 2013)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7643

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Event 10461 -(92F3FA62)

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Date: 11/8/2013
-Description: 4:36 p.m. Two witnesses are driving on the Ring Road around -Bucharest, Romania, near the exit for the Autostrada Soarelui. They see -a light-brown cylinder-shaped object rotating on its axis and hovering -silently above some high-voltage power lines. They watch it for 10 -minutes until it disappears suddenly without moving. (Romania -83–84)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7644

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Event 10462 -(E8D4C490)

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Date: 11/18/2013
-Description: 12:55 p.m. An F/A-18E Super Hornet from Strike Fighter -Squadron 143 (VFA-143, the “Pukin Dogs”), flying out of Naval Air -Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, spots an object in the W-72 -warning zone via radar off its nose at around 12,000 feet and a speed of -approximately 0.1 Mach. “The aircraft had an approximately 5-foot -wingspan and was colored white with no other distinguishable features,” -according to the pilot, who is able to visually acquire the object and -track it for one hour. The Navy concludes that this object is an -unmanned aerial system (UAS), but that Commander, Strike Fighter Wing -Atlantic and Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, Virginia -Capes (FASCFAC VACAPES), the latter of which is also identified here by -its callsign “Giant Killer,” is not able to ascertain the operator. A -Navy vessel is in the area traveling south, but the Navy is unable to -identify it. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here -Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters -with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,” The Drive: The War -Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7645

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Event 10463 -(80200429)

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Date: 11/19/2013
-Description: 6:20 p.m. Two witnesses, each with 30+ years experience as -Army and Air Force aircraft maintenance technicians, see a huge -triangular UFO that flies from north to south about 500 feet above them -near Adel, Georgia. The surface of the object is not clear and has a -rippling effect like “a heat mirage down the road on a hot summer’s -day.” There are no anti-collision lights required for all aircraft. The -object has a wingspan larger than a C-5A cargo plane and flies slowly at -12–17 mph with absolutely no noise. The rear of the object displays a -row of white pulsing lights that are set back or surrounded by a shroud. -As the object moves further away, a small drone- like object is seen -flying alongside on the left. Soon it banks to the southeast, allowing -them to see clearly its triangular shape. (NICAP, “Triangular -UFO Observed by Experienced Military Men”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7646

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Event 10464 -(0728B0D1)

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Date: 12/18/2013
-Description: 3:00 p.m. Another Super Hornet pilot from VFA-143 -encounters a white object visually and on radar in the W-72 warning -zone. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here -Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters -with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,” The Drive: The War -Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7647

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- Event 10465 (4CD7D0F1)

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Date: 2/2014
-Description: Day. An aircraft matching the black triangle description is -photographed multiple times over Kansas and Texas. Amateur photographer -Jeff Templin snaps pictures of a triangular aircraft while photographing -wildlife in Kansas. (“Texas -Mystery Aircraft Also Photographed over Kansas,” Deep Blue Horizon, -April 17, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7648

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Event 10466 -(B451293F)

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Date: 2/24/2014
-Description: US journalist Glenn -Greenwald publishes information in The Intercept about a slideshow -document, The Art of Deception, released by Edward -Snowden and issued by the UK’s formerly secret Joint Threat Research -Intelligence Group concerning “online covert operations.” The slideshow, -probably dating to spring 2012, was shared with the US National Security -Agency and other intelligence partners and reveals existing techniques -to manipulate public opinion and online discourse. The document even -includes three UFO photos as illustrations of these techniques. -Greenwald writes: “These GCHQ [Government Communications Headquarters] -documents are the first to prove that a major western government is -using some of the most controversial techniques to disseminate deception -online and harm the reputations of targets. Under the tactics they use, -the state is deliberately spreading lies on the internet about whichever -individuals it targets, including the use of what GCHQ itself calls -‘false flag operations’ and emails to people’s families and friends. Who -would possibly trust a government to exercise these powers at all, let -alone do so in secret, with virtually no oversight, and outside of any -cognizable legal framework?” (Wikipedia, “Joint -Threat Research Intelligence Group”; Glenn Greenwald, “How -Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and -Destroy Reputations,” The Intercept, February 24, 2014; “The -Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert -Operations,” The Intercept, February 24, 2014; Mark Pilkington, -“Tricksters, Saucers, and Cyber Magicians,” Fortean Times 313 (May -2014): 6–7)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7649

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Event 10467 -(A96BFEE3)

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Date: 3/10/2014
-Description: Day. Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett photograph a -triangular aircraft giving off a long contrail over Amarillo, Texas. -(Bill Sweetman, “Mystery Aircraft over Texas,” Aviation Week, March 28, -2014; “’Mystery Aircraft’ -over Texas Draws Speculation of Real Spy Plane,” Houston Chronicle, -March 28, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7650

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Event 10468 -(539D14D3)

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Date: 3/26/2014
-Description: 4:30 p.m. An F/A-18E Super Hornet from Strike Fighter -Squadron 106 (VFA-106, the “Gladiators”), flying out of Naval Air -Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, detects a possible radar -track at around 19,000 feet and with a speed of 0.1 Mach in the W-72 -warning area. The pilot’s wingman does not have the object on radar and -there is a debate about whether it might be a false track given high -winds that are gusting at over 100 knots at 18,000 feet. “The unknown -aircraft appeared to be small in size, approximately the size of a -suitcase, and silver in color,” according to the report. The pilot is -only able to pass within 1,000 feet of it and cannot identify it. After -that pass, they lose sight of it and never regain visual contact. “I -feel it may only be a matter of time before one of our F/A-18 aircraft -has a mid-air collision with an unidentified UAS [unmanned aerial -system],” the head of VFA-106 comments. The report also says that -“FACSFAC VACAPES has received multiple UAS sightings in the recent -months,” but does not say how many of those sightings resulted in -sending in hazard reports. The jets’ radar has been upgraded, allowing -them to zero in on unidentified targets with infrared targeting cameras. -(Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here -Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft -off the -East Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020; Bill Whitaker, -“UFOs -Regularly Spotted in US Airspace,” -CBS News, August 29, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7651

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Event 10469 -(2D5B7F6F)

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Date: 4/23/2014
-Description: 10:51 p.m. Another F/A-18F Super Hornet from Strike Fighter -Squadron 11 (VFA-11, the “Red Rippers”) has an encounter with multiple -“unidentified aerial devices” while flying out of Naval Air Station -Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and operating in the W-72 warning -area. The crew initially detects two UADs on radar, one at 12,000 feet -and another at 15,000 feet, both apparently stationary or -near-stationary. They then confirm both of these objects using the jet’s -Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) system. While -investigating the first pair of UADs, another two appeared to pass -through the ATFLIR field of vision at high speed. The two moving objects -do not appear on the aircraft’s radar. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph -Trevithick, “Here -Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off -the East Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7652

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Event 10470 -(2391B4A5)

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Date: 4/24/2014
-Description: 12:47 p.m. Two more F/A-18Fs make radar contact with -another UAD in the W-72 warning area while conducting Basic Fighter -Maneuvering out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia. -Both aircraft are able to maintain a radar track with the object, which -is stationary or near-stationary at 11,000 feet. The aircraft are also -able to lock onto the object with CATM-9Xs, a captive-carry training -version of the AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. However, in this instance, -neither one makes visual contact. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, -“Here -Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off -the East Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7653

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Event 10471 -(FD38C077)

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Date: 4/27/2014
-Description: The crew of a F/A-18F from Strike Fighter Squadron 11 -(VFA-11), flying out of NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and -operating in the W-72 warning area, encounters an unknown aerial device. -This report is the most spartan in its details of the three, but it -describes a “near mid-air collision with balloon-like object.” (Tyler -Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here -Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft -off the -East Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7654

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Event 10472 -(32827BB5)

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Date: 6/13/2014
-Description: 2:36 p.m. The pilot and first officer of an Airbus 320 -flying at just under 3,500 feet and headed into Manchester Airport -observe a man-like object that passes them to the northeast over -Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. They estimate it is about 200–300 feet -above their altitude and only a few hundred yards distant. They cannot -see any parachute or paraglider apparatus. Air traffic control confirms -there are no other radar targets in the area. The object is in sight for -only 3–4 seconds. (Jenny Randles, “Superman vs. Airbus,” Fortean Times -323 (February 2015): 30–31)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7655

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Event 10473 -(134D8AB2)

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Date: 7/31/2014
-Description: Gen. Ricardo Bermúdez, director of Chile’s official UFO -agency, Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos, convenes a -three-hour meeting at the offices of the Directorate General of Civil -Aviation (DGAC) in Providencia of 19 experts from a wide range of -disciplines to discuss whether UFOs pose a threat to aerial safety. -Among those present are astronomers, psychologists, meteorologists, -physicists, and representatives of the armed forces. All seem to accept -the premise that UFOs, whatever they are, exist and are worthy of -investigation. The DGAC chief of operations says that because many -witnesses believe UFOs demonstrate intelligent behavior, it is the -government’s duty to look for the intention behind that intelligence. -However, the group concludes that, despite some accidents attributed to -UFOs around the world, they “do not present a threat or a danger to air -operations.” (Leslie Kean, “Chile -Declares UFOs Pose No Threat to Aircraft,” HuffPost, August 12, -2014; “Capitulo -55 DGAC TV,” DGAC TV Institucional YouTube channel, August 7, -2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7656

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Event 10474 -(E5392B90)

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Date: 9/29/2014
-Description: The Air Force Intelligence agency is restructured as the -Twenty-Fifth Air Force and aligns the 9th Reconnaissance Wing and the -55th Wing under the new numbered air force. Its primary mission is to -provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) products, -applications, capabilities, and resources to include cyber and -geospatial forces and expertise. Additionally, it is the service -cryptologic component (SCC) responsible to the National Security Agency -and Central Security Service for Air Force cryptographic activities. It -is headquartered at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas. (Wikipedia, “Twenty-Fifth -Air Force”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7657

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Event 10475 -(E8D5D313)

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Date: 10/5/2014
-End date: 10/20/2014
-Description: Unidentified drones are observed over seven nuclear plants -in France. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve tells -France Info radio that a judicial investigation is underway. The tiny, -unmanned craft appear late in the evening, at night, or early in the -morning. The nuclear plants are the Superphénix in Creys-Malville -(closed in 1997); the Bugey Nuclear Power Plant, Ain; Blayais Nuclear -Power Plant near Blaye, Gironde; the Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant, -Moselle; the Chooz Nuclear Power Plant, Ardennes; the Gravelines Nuclear -Power Station, Nord; and the Nogent Nuclear Power Plant, Aube. (“Drones -Spotted over Seven French Nuclear Sites, Says EDF,” -The Guardian (UK), October 30, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7658

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Event 10476 -(58B26706)

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Date: 10/16/2014
-Description: The Swedish military reportedly intercepts a radio -transmission in Russian on an emergency frequency, sparking a massive -search for a Russian submarine thought to be stricken in Swedish waters, -the largest Swedish mobilization since the Cold War. Further encrypted -radio traffic from Kanholmsfjärden in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden, -and in Kaliningrad, Russia (home to the Russian Baltic fleet), is -intercepted the next day. The search involves stealth ships, -minesweepers, and helicopters, as well as hundreds of sailors, pilots, -and divers. On the island of Korsö, Finland, a mysterious man dressed in -black with a backpack is seen wading to shore and is later photographed -wading off the nearby island of Sandön, Finland. (It later turns out -that the man is a Stockholm pensioner named Ove who is doing some trout -fishing.) At a press conference later in the month, the Swedish navy -shows a photograph of an unidentified foreign vessel (although it later -turns out to be a Swedish ship). A Russian defense ministry spokesman -announces that there have been no emergency situations involving Russian -military vessels. (Wikipedia, “Swedish -submarine incidents”; “Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322 -(January 2015): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7659

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Event 10477 -(2C7F2AF3)

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Date: 10/20/2014
-Description: Strands of cobweb-like “angel hair” fibers fall from the -sky in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. (“Cobwebs Like Particles Floating in -Polonnaruwa Skies,” Gossip Lanka News, October 21, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7660

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Event 10478 -(FFE2B218)

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Date: 10/21/2014
-Description: Swedish military commander Gen. Sverker -Göranson announces that he aims to force the unidentified submarine -object to the surface with depth charges if necessary. He reveals there -have been visual observations twice on October 17 and once on October -19. (“Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322 (January 2015): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7661

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Event 10479 -(2A643B9A)

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Date: 10/24/2014
-Description: Sweden calls off its search for the mysterious Russian sub. -Russia asserts that the vessel was a Dutch submarine, a claim rejected -by the Netherlands. The public has reported 250 sightings, five of which -the navy takes seriously. Rear Admiral Anders -Grenstad says the object could not have been a conventional -submarine but a “craft of a lesser type.” (“Swedes -Call off Search for Mystery Submarine,” USNI News, October 24, 2014; -“Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322 (January 2015): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7662

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Event 10480 -(321BA8B6)

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Date: 10/25/2014
-Description: Afternoon. Miguel Monteiro is walking in the parish of -Alverca do Ribatejo e Sobralinho, Portugal, when he sees white, cottony -flakes or fibrous strands falling from the sky and sticking to -electrical wires. They feel somewhat like cobwebs but are whiter and -thicker. Monteiro takes some home and stores them in liquid nitrogen. He -claims that under ultraviolet light the fibers wiggle “as if alive.” -Another witness says the strands fell two weekends in a row. (“Mysterious -Rain of ‘Alien Angel Hair’ Falls from Sky in Portugal,” Metro (UK), -November 26, 2014; “Strands -of White ‘Angel Hair’ Rained from Sky—Which Wriggle under UV Light,” -Metro (UK), December 17, 2014)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7663

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Event 10481 -(DAAC9E98)

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Date: 10/31/2014
-Description: Retired Swedish naval officer Sven Olof Kviman snaps a -picture of what looks like a 65–98-foot long, black submarine in waters -just outside Lidingö in Stockholm, Sweden. The incident remains -unconfirmed but has been classed by the military as a “potential” -submarine. (“Up -to Four Subs Feared in Stockholm Waters,” The Local (Sweden), -January 24, 2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7664

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Event 10482 -(B481BA6B)

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Date: 11/11/2014
-Description: 1:52 p.m. A Chilean Navy Airbus Cougar AS-532 helicopter is -flying northward west of Santiago, Chile, at an altitude of 4,500 feet -and 152 mph. The technician aboard is taking video footage when he -notices an object about 40 miles away. He zooms in on it using infrared -film. The naval pilot sees it as a “flat, elongated structure with two -thermal spotlights like discharges that do not coincide with the axis of -motion.” The video shows a dark, disc-shaped object flying above the -sea, which “in two instances discharged some type of gas or liquid with -a high thermal track or signal.” The official Comité de Estudios de -Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos spends two years studying the film, then -releases the footage, admitting it cannot ascertain what the object is. -CEFAA Gen. Ricardo Bermúdez Sanhueza says: “We do not know what it was, -but we do know what it was not.” (“Conclusive -Proof? Airforce -Probe Finds Navy Filmed Real UFO over Ocean,” The Express (UK), -January 7, 2017; “Chilean -Navy Helicopter -Pilot Shoots Video of UFO,” Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, February 8, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7665

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Event 10483 -(5CD773C4)

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Date: 11/14/2014
-Description: Swedish Prime Minister Stefan -Löfven announces that there is “clear evidence” of a submarine -incursion in Swedish waters in October. (“Sweden -Confirms Submarine Violation,” The Guardian (UK), November 14, 2014; -“Baltic Sub Mystery,” Fortean Times 322 (January 2015): 12)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7666

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- Event 10484 (E9E78DFB)

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Date: 1/10/2015
-Description: John -Greenewald Jr. puts the Fold3 Blue Book files online into his Black -Vault website and makes many of the case files into easily downloadable -PDFs. The work is done by a contributor to the ATS website since 2012. -Unfortunately, the JPG conversion to PDFs is done incorrectly so that -documents with many pages are out of correct order. (Sparks, -pp. 8–9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7667

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Event 10485 -(B8D61F98)

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Date: 1/27/2015
-Description: 9:10 p.m. Ufologist Steven -M. Greer is leading a group of UFO watchers at Vero Beach, Florida, -when they spot two UFOs that appear one after another then fade from -sight. A video is taken of the event and posted on Greer’s website. -Greer claims it is the result of the group’s meditation and “coherent -thought” practices, and there are no ships or aircraft in the area at -the time. However, journalist Tom -Rogan determines that the UFO is a Beechcraft Model 76 Duchess -aircraft moving at 85 mph deploying parachute flares. (Tom Rogan, “Did -Steven Greer -Fake a UFO with Flares?” Washington (D.C.) Examiner, July 31, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7669

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Event 10486 -(D55D3501)

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Date: 1/27/2015
-Description: Ancestry.com, the owner of Fold3, illegally demands that Greenewald remove -his Blue Book collection from the Black Vault website, falsely claiming -copyright. They are still unavailable. (Sparks, -p. 9)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7668

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Event 10487 -(F1142064)

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Date: 2/2015 (approximate)
-Description: Two infrared video recordings, known as the Go -Fast and GIMBAL videos, -are taken by an F/A-18 Super Hornet from the USS -Theodore Roosevelt off the East coast of the US in the vicinity of -Jacksonville, Florida, sometime between January and February 2015. The -two videos are reported by the New York Times to have been taken a few -weeks apart, with the audio of the pair including voices of military -personnel who are questioning what they are observing. The Navy confirms -the authenticity of the videos, stating only that they depict what they -consider to be “unidentified aerial phenomena.” Susan -Gough, a -Pentagon spokeswoman, confirms that the videos were made by naval -aviators and that they are “part of a larger issue of an increased -number of training range incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena in -recent years.” In April 2020, the two videos are declassified and -officially released by the Department of Defense, alongside footage from -the 2004 USS -Nimitz incident. Five pilots from the VFA-11 “Red Rippers” fighter -squadron report sighting UFOs “almost daily” while training for a -deployment to the Persian Gulf. Three of those pilots have chosen to -remain anonymous, while two, Lieut. Ryan Graves and Lieut. Danny Accoin, -have given interviews and appeared on a History Channel program about -UFOs. Radar contacts, infrared detections, and visual sightings by the -pilots and weapon systems officers are reported for several months. -According to Accoin, the objects have “no distinct wing, no distinct -tail, no distinct exhaust plume.” One pilot describes something “like a -sphere encasing a cube.” Another source confirms to “The War Zone” that -the same description is given by several other pilots and that -encounters are commonplace among multiple squadrons including the nearby -E-2 Hawkeye squadrons from Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Accoin says -that “multiple sensors [are] reading the exact same thing.” Graves -states that the objects are showing up at 30,000 feet as well as sea -level and can accelerate, slow down, and hit hypersonic speeds with -maneuvers “beyond the physical limits of a human crew.” The pilots also -report that the objects persist in the air for long periods of time and -might “be out there all day.” When one of the sightings is made, -“usually we’d just say, ‘we’re seeing one of those damn things again,’” -Graves says. Once, an object almost collides with two jets, prompting -the VFA-11 fighter squadron to submit a Notice to Airmen aviation flight -safety report. According to the pilots, the squadron has speculated that -the sightings could be a classified drone development program, but the -near miss angers the pilots and convinces them that this is a safety -issue and not a black project. (Wikipedia, “Pentagon -UFO videos”; Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, -“‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects,” -New York Times, May 26, 2019; Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway, “Carrier -Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Defense Tech Like Nimitz -in -2004 Incident,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 30, 2019; Clark III 49; -“Unidentified: -UFO Testimony from Lt. Ryan Graves (Season 1) -/ History,” History YouTube channel, September 22, 2019; Jan Tegler -and Cat Hofacker, “Mystery -of the ‘Damn -Things,’” Aerospace America, November 2019; “Pentagon -Declassifies Leaked ‘UFO’ Videos (video 2/3),” -ABC News YouTube channel, April 27, 2020; “Pentagon -Declassifies Navy ‘UFO’ Videos (video 3/3),” ABC News YouTube -channel, April 27, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7670

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Event 10488 -(89B7CEA2)

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Date: 3/1/2015
-Description: Las Vegas Review-Journal Article: “Area 51 worker sees hope -in Supreme Court ruling”
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Event 10489 -(49676A6F)

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Date: 4/13/2015
-Description: Swedish Rear Admiral Anders -Grenstad tells the media that the Armed Forces reported to the -Swedish government on April 8 that the suspected underwater vessel in -October 2014 was in fact only a civilian “working boat.” (“‘Submarine’ -in Sweden Was Only Civilian Boat,” The Local (Sweden), April 13, -2015)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7671

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Event 10490 -(8C1D56DC)

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Date: 5/5/2015
-Description: In a four-hour long presentation in front of nearly 7,000 -people at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, Mexico, journalist and -ufologist Jaime -Maussan presents BeWitness, an unveiling of two Kodachrome slides -that purport to show a dead alien. The slides, discovered in 1998 in the -estate of Sedona, Arizona, lawyer Hilda Blair Ray, whose husband Bernerd had -been a petroleum geologist in West Texas. The slides had found their way -to Chicago videographer Adam -Dew, who wants to create a documentary (tentatively titled -Kodachrome) about the supposed alien. In the process he has gathered UFO -researchers Thomas -J. Carey, Donald -Schmitt, Anthony Bragalia, and -others to lend credence to the authenticity of the images as possibly -related to the Roswell incident, since they seem to have a provenance of -1947. The two nearly identical slides show what appears to be a short -mummy on a glass exhibit case with an undecipherable placard next to it. -Within days of the presentation in Mexico City, a skeptical group uses a -SmartDeBlur program to read the text of the placard, which reveals that -the supposed alien is actually the mummified body of a two-year-old -Native American child taken from the ruins of Montezuma Castle cliff -dwelling in Camp Verde, Arizona, in 1894 by an S. L. Palmer and loaned -to the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum in Mesa Verde, Colorado, where -it had been on display for many years before it was returned to the -Montezuma Museum in June 1947. (David Clarke and Peter Brookesmith, -“From ‘Smoking Gun’ to #Epicfail,” Fortean Times 329 (August 2015): -26–27; Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century: The Evidence As It -Exists Today, Speaking Volumes, 2016; Les Carpenter, “The -Curious Case of the Alien in the Photo -and the Mystery That Took Years to Solve,” The Guardian (UK), -September 20, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7672

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Event 10491 -(EBBF2AF1)

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Date: 9/2015
-Description: In Walking Among Us, David -M. Jacobs explains how 14 abductions have detailed for him how an -alien invasion is already underway. The alien hierarchy consists of -insect-like entities as the leaders, tall Grays the skilled workers, -short Grays the menial workers, and masses of hybrids—the end products -of the abduction program. These hybrids begin as half-human/half-Gray -entities and become progressively more human over four successive -stages. The ultimate product is the human hybrid (“hubrid”), fully human -in appearance, capable of integration into society. Hybrids have become -deeply embedded on Earth, living in their own apartments, mingling with -humans, working their way into positions of influence. Their growing -numbers on earth advance the Change, the day when they and their alien -masters supplant or absorb humankind. (Dana DiFilippo, “Space Aliens -Walk Among Us? Indeed, Claims Retired Temple Prof,” Philadelphia -Inquirer, July 15, 2014; David M. Jacobs, Walking -Among Us: The Alien Plan to Condition Humanity, Disinformation -Books, 2015; Clark III 10– 11, 629–630)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7673

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Event 10492 -(382490DB)

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Date: 12/22/2015
-Description: Janel Sturzl, 31, an employee of the Daily Mining Gazette -in Houghton, Michigan, dies while in a coma after being diagnosed with -thallium poisoning at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The -police investigate her death as a homicide. (“Poisoning -Still under Investigation,” Houghton (Mich.) Daily Mining Gazette, -October 24, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7674

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- Event 10493 (A6184A91)

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Date: 2/3/2016
-Description: 7:00 p.m. A married couple is driving on Interstate 10 near -Katy, Texas, when they look up through the sunroof and see three black -dots that they at first think might be breaks in the cloud cover. -Watching them while stopped at a traffic light, they see the dots are -part of a vast, noiseless triangular object that emerges from the -clouds. The witnesses think it is generating a kind of night fog low -above the ground. The witnesses try to take a video, but their -cellphones are not working properly; both devices die and do not -recharge the entire night. (Roger Marsh, “Texas -UFO Kills Allegedly Ground Electronics, Creates Fog to Hide in,” -OpenMinds, February 10, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7675

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Event 10494 -(F109A186)

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Date: 4/2016
-Description: Robert -Bigelow, founder -of Bigelow Aerospace, sells the Skinwalker Ranch in Uintah County, Utah, -to Utah real estate developer Brandon -Fugal. In 2020, he partners with the History Channel on a TV -documentary series, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, in its third season -in 2022. (Skinwalkers 86, 219–221; Internet Movie Database, “The Secret -of Skinwalker Ranch”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7676

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Event 10495 -(9A8467F6)

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Date: 4/15/2016
-Description: Night. The Canadian Air Defence Sector is notified of a -WestJet flight near Toronto, Ontario, that “reported a very bright light -pass overhead of them” when “there was no other traffic in the area.” In -the day’s log, the lines following what’s clearly referred to as a “UFO -report” are all redacted in white. (Daniel Otis, “Credible -UFO Reports -Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government Documents -Reveal,” Motherboard, November 29, 2021; CADORS -Report, no. -2016O0730, April 24, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7677

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Event 10496 -(C14F99E4)

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Date: 5/13/2016
-Description: James T. Lacatski retires from the Defense Intelligence -Agency, following failed attempts to get the AAWSAP program funded agin -through the Department of Defense. (Skinwalkers 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7678

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Event 10497 -(D284E5F7)

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Date: 6/2016
-Description: The Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici begins publishing Cielo -Insolito, a journal of UFO history edited by Giuseppe Stilo and Maurizio -Verga. (Cielo -Insolito, no. 1 (July 2016))
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7679

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Event 10498 -(7FFF76FF)

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Date: 7/1/2016
-Description: NORAD releases figures indicating that radar Tracks of -Interest have averaged 1,800 per year since 2011. It states that it -routinely withholds Unknown tracks and Tracks of Interest data because -the release of any details might affect national defense. (“‘Alien -Cover Up’: Nearly 2,000 UFOs Tracked by Radar System But Details Suppressed,” -The Express (UK), July 1, 2016; Clark III 801)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7680

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Event 10499 -(7DB5BF0F)

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Date: 8/11/2016
-Description: In Roswell in the 21st Century, Kevin -D. Randle upends his previous position and argues that while the -Roswell incident remains shrouded in mystery, it was almost certainly -not generated by the recovery of a downed spacecraft and dead occupants. -(Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century: The Evidence As It Exists -Today, Speaking Volumes, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7681

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Event 10500 -(5C4547FB)

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Date: 9/19/2016
-Description: 11:45 p.m. An Air Canada Express pilot flying to Vancouver, -British Columbia, reports “3 red lights 3,000 feet above him and going -slower” while at 25,000 feet over an uninhabited stretch of British -Columbia’s rugged northern coast. Vancouver air traffic controllers -report the incident 20 minutes later to the RCAF in Ontario as a “vital -intelligence sighting.” The RCAF reviews radar data, but finds nothing -near the plane. Within an hour, reports are faxed to the Canadian -government’s transportation department and the RCAF’s secretive -Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Division in Winnipeg. -There is no further follow-up. (Daniel Otis, “Credible -UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government -Documents Reveal,” Motherboard, November 29, 2021; CADORS -Report, no. 2016P1783)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7682

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Event 10501 -(8AB3C2F2)

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Date: 10/27/2016
-Description: Two Georgia men are arrested on drug charges. They are -reportedly plotting domestic terrorism based on conspiracy theories -about HAARP. The Coffee County Sheriff’s Office says the men possess a -“massive arsenal” that includes AR-15 rifles, Glock handguns, a -Remington rifle, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. According to -police, the men want to destroy HAARP because they believe the facility -manipulates the weather, controls minds, and even traps the souls of -people. Police say the men confess that “God told them to go and blow -this machine up that kept souls, so souls could be released.” (“Georgia -Men Plotted Attack on Alaska Aurora Research -Facility to ‘Release Souls,’ Detective Says,” Anchorage (Alaska) -Daily News, November 1, 2016; “Suspected Terrorists Believe Research -Facility Controls Minds, Traps Souls,” WALB, Albany, Georgia, November -1, 2016)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7683

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Event 10502 -(33B525EB)

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Date: 12/10/2016
-Description: 4:44 a.m. A married couple is driving near Windsor, Maine, -when they observe a “large triangle-shaped object” in two pieces (“like -a carpenter’s framing square”) in the northeast sky. The object has six -flashing red lights and one turquoise light that goes out as they are -watching. It shows a black surface that is about 300 feet long. When -they get out of the car for a better look, the man grabs his wife’s -phone to take photos and a video. He shoots 6–8 minutes of video, but -when he views it, it shows only black. The object seems to move -effortlessly like a boat coasting through the water—“slow enough to -where we could make out some detail but fast enough to where it was out -of sight within 10 minutes or so.” They both feel weird as they watch -the object. The woman becomes nauseous and the man feels strangely -“awestruck.” (MUFON case file)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7684

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- Event 10503 (80ADCB21)

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Date: 2017
-Description: The US nuclear stockpile has dwindled to 3,822 bombs. (“Stockpile -Numbers,” DoD Open Government) 2017 — The increasing number of drone -cases posing a risk to aircraft leads the UK Airprox Board to launch a -Small Unmanned Air System (SUAS) assessment that classifies incidents -into one of four categories: drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), -balloons (including toys and weather), model aircraft, and unknown -objects. (UK Airprox Board, “Small -Unmanned Air System (SUAS) Assessment”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7685

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Event 10504 -(DF23B6C2)

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Date: 1/1/2017
-Description: Richard -F. Haines retires from his role as chief scientist for NARCAP. He -reports: “The fact that no cause- effect relationship has been found in -major UFO airborne safety incidents doesn’t support the notion of -nearby, material objects or phenomena in the air. Finally, the -well-intentioned change of the term UFO into UAP—hoping to reach a -larger scientific audience—served little and no relevant achievement -followed.” (Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Haines -Retires from NARCAP,” UFO FOTOCAT Blog, April 17, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7686

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Event 10505 -(A1289887)

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Date: 1/20/2017
-End date: 1/20/2021
-Description: President Donald Trump in office
-Type: historical document
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC, US

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Event 10506 -(984F35CD)

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Date: 4/18/2017
-Description: The Washington State Senate passed Resolution 8648 about -the Maury Island Incident. It stated “The FBI’s conclusions and Dahl’s -(the main witness) secret were sealed for fifty years.” It also states -“Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an -investigation of the deaths of Davidson and Brown and ultimately -concluded that Dahl did not recant his story but that his claim of hoax -was itself a fabrication to avoid further public attention and -ridicule.”
-Type: state resolution
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: Olympia, WA
-See also: 6/21/1947

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Event 10507 -(9A644BA6)

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Date: 5/9/2017
-Description: Steven -M. Greer releases a documentary, Unacknowledged, on the history of -UFO secrecy. Interviews with George -Filer, Tom -Bearden, Glenn -Dennis, Richard -Doty, Stephen -Lovekin, and -John -Podesta are featured. Narrated by Giancarlo -Esposito. ( -Internet Movie Database, “Unacknowledged”; -“Unacknowledged: -An Exposé of -the World’s Greatest Secret,” Free Movies YouTube channel, October -28, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7687

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Event 10508 -(B48D1A14)

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Date: 5/28/2017
-Description: Evening. Rik Koops and Harm Duursma see UFOs over Park -Sonsbeek, in Arnhem, Netherlands. Koops shoots a 3-minute video of three -globular objects. A spokesperson for the Defence Helicopter Command at -nearby Deelen Air Base denies that the objects are drones. (“3 -bal vormige objecten bewegen in de lucht,” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, -May 29, 2017; “UFO -boven Arnhem? ’Ledeeren die het ziet, zit met open mond van verbazing,’” -de Gelderlander, May 30, 2017; “Het -ufo-seizoen is veer aangebroken,” de Gelderlander, May 31, -2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7688

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Event 10509 -(8DDBB93B)

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Date: 6/2017
-Description: Majestic document mentions Frank Scully, Aztec crash, -EBE-1
-Type: majestic document
-Reference: link]
-Reference: archive.org
-Location: US

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Event 10510 -(BF5C2DD5)

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Date: 6/2017
-Description: Nick -Redfern publishes The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, a sequel to his 2005 -Body Snatchers in the Desert. In 2001, Redfern interviewed an elderly -woman (the Black Widow) who had worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory -in Tennessee from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s, who told him that -just after World War II she had seen some 15 human “guinea pigs,” -including Japanese prisoners and handicapped persons, who were involved -in government experiments involving exposure to high altitudes in -balloons. Through her testimony and that of other witnesses, Redfern -concludes that the “aliens” found at the Roswell crash in New Mexico in -1947 were likely these humans deemed expendable by the US government, -and that flying saucers and aliens were a convenient cover story. The -experiments were inconclusive and the methods unethical, so all the -records were destroyed. (Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy: -Exposing a Shocking and Sinister Secret, Lisa Hagen, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7689

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Event 10511 -(E57923C2)

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Date: 6/2017
-Description: Some additional dubious MJ-12 documents (47 pages total) -are provided to Heather -Wade, host -of the Midnight in the Desert streaming radio show. (Nick Redfern, “The -Majestic 12 Documents Are Back,” Mysterious Universe, June 16, 2017; -Kremlin 214–220)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7690

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Event 10512 -(F88559F8)

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Date: 7/1/2017
-End date: 7/2/2017
-Description: The second Dulce Base UFO Conference is held at the Wild -Horse Casino and Hotel in Dulce, New Mexico. The event is organized by -members of the Jicarilla Apache, Southern Ute, and Navajo nations and -features speakers Chuck and Nancy Wade; the Paranormal Rangers (Stanley -Milford Jr. and Jonathan Dover), Navajo law officers; abductee Travis -Walton; and actor Alan -Tafoya. (Paul -Ross, “‘The Truth Is Around Here…Someplace,’” Fortean Times 361 -(Christmas 2017): 42–47)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7691

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Event 10513 -(0E000B79)

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Date: 7/14/2017
-Description: 7:20 p.m. The pilot of an Airbus A319 is holding at 7,000 -feet at Gatwick Airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, when the -First Officer, in the right-hand seat, notices an object close to the -aircraft. He mentions it to the captain, who also sees it. Both believe -the object is not close enough to hit the aircraft and that they will -miss it. It is black and shiny metallic in color and appears to be a -square or cube. It maintains its altitude and takes about 7 seconds to -pass, making them believe it is hovering. They are not certain it is a -drone because they cannot see any propellors. They alert Gatwick, but -the controllers there do not report seeing it. (“UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ -Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 43; UK Airprox Board, -“Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 11th October 2017”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7692

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Event 10514 -(2417D692)

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Date: 7/19/2017
-Description: 9:00 a.m. The FBI conducts a raid on Robert -Lazar’s United Nuclear Scientific business in Laingsburg, Michigan, -in connection with the thallium poisoning death of Janel Sturzl in 2015, -apparently to determine if the company sells or distributes thallium. -Apparently it does, but only a harmless radioactive isotope. (John -Greenewald, “Documents -on 2017 Bob Lazar / United Nuclear Raid—Laingsburg Police -Department,” The Black Vault, July 1, 2019; Tim McMillan, “Bob -Lazar Says the FBI Raided Him to Seize Area 51’s Alien Fuel: The Truth -Is Weirder,” Motherboard, November 13, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7693

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Event 10515 -(C2D14B3B)

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Date: 8/2017
-Description: Reports begin to surface that US and Canadian diplomatic -personnel in Havana, Cuba, have experienced unusual, unexplained health -problems dating back to late 2016. The health problems typically have a -sudden onset: The victim suddenly begins hearing strange grating noises -that seem to come from a specific direction. Some of them experience it -as a pressure or a vibration; or as a sensation comparable to driving a -car with the window partly rolled down. The duration ranges from 20 -seconds to 30 minutes, and always happens while the diplomats are either -at home or in hotel rooms. Other people nearby, family members and -guests in neighboring rooms, do not report hearing anything. Affected -individuals describe symptoms such as hearing loss, memory loss, and -nausea. Some US embassy individuals reportedly experience lasting health -effects, including one unidentified diplomat who now needs a hearing -aid. In October, the Associated Press releases what it says is a -recording of the sound some embassy workers are hearing. Accusations are -made that these are a result of attacks using unspecified technology, -perhaps a sonic or ultrasonic weapon. (Wikipedia, “Havana -syndrome”; David Hambling, “The Sound of Violence,” Fortean Times -360 (December 2017): 14; “Ottawa -Doctor Treating Canadian -Diplomats with Mysterious ‘Havana Syndrome,’” Ottawa (Ont.) Citizen, -November 30, 2018 )
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7694

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Event 10516 -(937A69F4)

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Date: 8/9/2017
-Description: 9:20 p.m. A couple are walking south along North Lake Shore -Drive just north of Schiller Street in Chicago when they notice -something large and dark flying toward them from the east and crossing -ahead of them at an altitude of 20 feet or so. It sweeps upward over the -trees in front of 1400 North Lake Shore Drive, then stops in mid-air -after it reaches a height just below the top of the building. It hovers -with a large pair of wings for about 5 seconds, then dives toward the -ground. As the witnesses quicken their pace toward the building, the -“winged being” descends in front of them, no more than 25 feet away, and -hovers 5 feet above the sidewalk with its wings spread open. They can -see its bright red eyes that vary in intensity. Several people on the -other side of the street also see the being, which hovers for 10 -seconds, pulls its wigs in close, and silently shoots up into the sky. -The witnesses describe it as “human-like” with a small head that narrows -at the top, two legs with long tapered feet, and no apparent arms. It is -5–6 feet in height and has wide wings that resemble the top wings of a -butterfly. The sightings is the most recent of 29 reported in the -Chicago area in the summer. (Lon Strickler, “Winged -Humanoid Confronts -Shocked Chicago Witnesses,” Phantoms and Monsters, August 10, 2017; -Joe Vince, “Winged -Freak Terrorizes -Chicago? Wait’ll You Get a Load of These 29 Sightings,” Chicago -Patch, August 11, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7695

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Event 10517 -(2520BE2A)

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Date: 9/2017
-Description: The US State Department removes non-essential staff from -the US embassy in Havana, Cuba. (Wikipedia, “Havana -syndrome”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7696

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Event 10518 -(AD427372)

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Date: 9/2017
-Description: The To the Stars Academy begins offering to the public $50 -million worth of stock through a Regulation A+ equity crowdfunding -campaign. The company is cofounded earlier in the year by rock guitarist -Tom DeLonge, engineer -and parapsychologist Harold -E. Puthoff, and Jim Semivan and is composed of aerospace, science, -and entertainment divisions. Its science and aerospace divisions are -devoted to the “outer edges of science,” such as investigating UFOs. It -employs Luis -Elizondo as a key investigator. Its Virtual Analytics UAP Learning -Tool (VAULT) is a public-facing database of UFO sightings. The VAULT -team collects, analyzes, and provides their authentication of UFO -sightings, most famously reported in the media as having been obtained -through declassified government materials. Some evidence suggests that -TTSA is sponsored or heavily influenced by the Department of Defense ,as -there are 11 former DoD counterintelligence and information specialists -associated with it. (Wikipedia, “To -the Stars (company)”; Althea Legaspi, “Tom -DeLonge Announces Stars Academy -for ‘Outer Edges of Science’ Research,” Rolling Stone, October 12, -2017; Tyler Rogoway, “Tom DeLonge’s -Origin Story for To the Stars Academy Describes a Government UFO Info -Operation,” The Drive: The War Zone, June 5, 2019; “The -UFO Information Operation,” Medium: INFO-OPS, November 23, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7697

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Event 10519 -(AD489B42)

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Date: 9/23/2017
-Description: 7:50 p.m. Witnesses in Son, Netherlands, watch a white, -U-shaped light for 5 minutes. One witness manages to take a photo of the -light, which by then is diminishing in size before disappearing. (“U-vormig -wit licht -hoog ver weg in die hemel, stilstaand,” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, -September 23, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7698

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Event 10520 -(CE489151)

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Date: 10/4/2017
-Description: Luis -Elizondo resigns from his Pentagon UFO office to protest what he -says is excessive secrecy and internal opposition. He declines to -identify his successor. He states there is a need for more serious -attention to the “many accounts from the Navy and other services of -unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and -displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities.” He tells Secretary of -Defense Jim -Mattis that “there remains a vital need to ascertain capability and -intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the -nation.” (Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean, “Glowing -Auras and ’Black Money’: -The Pentagon’s Mysterious UFO Program,” New York Times, December 16, -2017; Paul Dean and Keith Basterfield, “A -Formal Job Description of an AASWAP/AATIP UFO Case Investigations -Scientist,” UFOs: Documenting the Evidence, May 3, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7699

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Event 10521 -(FA88021D)

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Date: 10/12/2017
-Description: Tom DeLonge Announces To The Stars Academy for ‘Outer Edges -of Science’ Research (TTSA)
-Type: company formation
-Reference: link
-Location: US

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Event 10522 -(8C37480E)

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Date: 10/19/2017
-Description: ’Oumuamua (1I/2017 U1), the first known interstellar object -detected passing through the Solar System, is discovered by Robert -Weryk using the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakala Observatory, -Hawaii, 40 days after it passes its closest point to the Sun on -September 9. When it is first observed, it is about 21 million miles -from Earth and already heading away from the Sun. ʻOumuamua is a small -object estimated to be between 330 and 3,280 feet long, with its width -and thickness both estimated to range between 115 and 548 feet. It has a -dark red color similar to other objects in the outer Solar System. Its -light curve presents its motion as tumbling, -rather than smoothly rotating, and it is moving sufficiently fast -relative to the Sun that few possible models define a Solar System -origin, although an Oort cloud origin cannot be excluded. Extrapolated -and without further deceleration, its path will not allow it to be -captured into a solar orbit, so it will eventually leave the Solar -System and continue into interstellar space. (Wikipedia, “’Oumuamua”; -“Small -Asteroid or Comet ‘Visits’ from Beyond the Solar System,” -NASA, October 26, 2017; Patrick Gross, “’Oumuamua: -Extraterrestrial Device or Natural Object?”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7700

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Event 10523 -(0E7AB92E)

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Date: 10/24/2017
-Description: The Cuban government employs about 2,000 scientists and law -enforcement officers who interview 300 neighbors of diplomats, examine -two hotels, and medically examine non-diplomats who could have been -exposed. Cuban officials analyze air and soil samples and consider a -range of toxic chemicals. They also examine the possibility that -electromagnetic waves are to blame and even look into whether insects -might be the culprits but find nothing they can link to the medical -symptoms. The FBI and Cubans meet to discuss the situation, although the -Cubans say that the US declines to share the diplomats’ medical records -with Cuban authorities or to allow Cuban investigators access to US -diplomats’ homes to conduct tests. (“Cubans -Forcefully Reject Blame for U.S. Diplomats’ -Mystery Ailments,” NBC News, October 24, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7701

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Event 10524 -(A558137C)

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Date: 10/25/2017
-Description: The FAA detects an unidentified aircraft flying “fast” -(relative to commercial air traffic) at around 35,000 feet over Northern -California towards Oregon. In an effort to identify the aircraft, the -FAA contacts commercial airline pilots in the vicinity who visually -confirm a white object traveling northbound. After the commercial -passenger jets confirms the position, NORAD scrambles F-15Cs from the -142nd Air Wing in Portland, Oregon, to investigate. Bearing the most -advanced targeting system available (the Sniper pod), the F-15s are -unable to locate or identify the vehicle. FAA and NORAD both confirm the -event and NORAD publicly confirms the launch of the F-15s. (Tyler -Rogoway, “You -Need to Hear These FAA Tapes from That Oregon UFO Incident That Sent -F- 15s -Scrambling,” The Drive: The War Zone, February 15, 2018; US Air -Force, “Sniper -Pod”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7702

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Event 10525 -(66D5A27D)

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Date: 10/27/2017
-Description: A group of scientists, former military and law enforcement -officials, and other professionals form the Scientific Coalition for -Ufology [later changed to the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies] to -conduct and encourage the rigorous scientific examination of UFO -phenomena. Its executive board includes Robert -Powell, Richard -Hoffman, and other scientists and professionals. (Scientific Coalition -for Ufology, “Scientific -Study of UFOs -To Be Focus of New Organization,” October 27, 2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7703

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Event 10526 -(6ECA4BD8)

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Date: 12/5/2017
-Description: In Moscow, Russia, covert CIA operative Marc Polymeropoulos -suddenly gets symptoms similar to Havana Syndrome. In the spring of -2018, a private neurologist gives Polymeropoulos a diagnosis: occipital -neuralgia, a condition resulting from damage to the two nerves that run -from the base of the skull, curving toward the front of the head. (Julia -Joffe, “The -Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion,” GQ, October 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7704

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Event 10527 -(BFDA2CD1)

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Date: 12/16/2017
-Description: The US Department of Defense confirms the existence of a -Defense Intelligence Agency program used to collect data on military UFO -sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program -(misidentified as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program) -that was disbanded in 2010. (Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie -Kean, “Glowing -Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious -UFO Program,” New York Times, December 16, 2017; Clark III 48)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7705

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Event 10528 -(BBF1CD6E)

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Date: 12/16/2017
-Description: NY Times discloses the Pentagon’s AATIP program
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: NY -Times
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 10529 -(F57D5471)

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Date: 12/19/2017
-Description: Luis -Elizondo states on CNN that he believes there is “very compelling -evidence we may not be alone.” (“Former -Pentagon Official: ‘We May Not Be Alone,’” CNN, December 19, -2017)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7706

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- Event 10530 (2C3D9915)

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Date: 2018
-Description: The British UFO Research Association publishes Vehicle -Interference Report, compiled by Geoff Falla and Michael Hudson, -summarizing 1,188 EM cases from 1908 to 2013. (Geoff Falla and Michael -Hudson, Vehicle Interference -Report, BUFORA, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7707

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Event 10531 -(1E7D2FB4)

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Date: 2018
-Description: Jerome Clark completes the third edition of his two-volume -UFO encyclopedia. (Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, Omnigraphics, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7708

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Event 10532 -(F03F8EE7)

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Date: 1/2018
-Description: A total of 11 satellites carrying Space-Based Infrared -System or Space Tracking and Surveillance System payloads are operating -in medium-earth, highly elliptical, and geosynchronous orbits that -together provide continuous global coverage of infrared energy sources. -Originally designed to detect missile launches, and later aircraft, this -highly sophisticated capability continues to evolve and improve. This -work is being undertaken at the Air Force’s Overhead Persistent Infrared -Battlespace Awareness Center at Buckley AFB in Aurora, Colorado, as well -as its new Data Utilization Lab. (Wikipedia, “Spaced-Based -Infrared System”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7709

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Event 10533 -(E035CD82)

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Date: 1/5/2018
-Description: 1:30 a.m. A woman looking from her bedroom window in -Linden, Michigan, sees a large object emitting red-orange light -approaching her. It stops dead above her head, accelerates, then slows -down. Her husband goes outside and watches it before it blinks out. -(Jenny Randles, “The Twelve UFOs of Christmas,” Fortean Times 374 -(Christmas 2018): 29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7710

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Event 10534 -(9922B014)

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Date: 1/8/2018
-Description: The Associated Press reports that a non-public FBI report -has found no evidence of an intentional sonic attack in Havana, Cuba. -(“Tillerson -Tells AP Cuba Still Risky; FBI Doubts Sonic Attack,” Associated -Press, January 8, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7711

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Event 10535 -(2D182467)

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Date: 1/9/2018
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency responds to an inquiry by -Sen. John -McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Jack -Reed (D-R.I.) regarding 38 projects that the military’s Advanced -Aviation Threat Identification Program [in reality, the Advanced -Aerospace Weapon System Application Program] has been involved with. The -letter is released on January 16 in response to a FOIA request by Steven -Aftergood, director -of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy. -One such research topic, “Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative -Energy,” was led by Eric -W. Davis of EarthTech International, which was founded by Harold -E. Puthoff, who was formerly involved in the Stargate Project. -Another project called “Invisibility Cloaking” was headed by German -scientist Ulf -Leonhardt, a -professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Yet another -title, “Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra -Dimensions,” was attributed to theoretical physicist Richard -Obousy, director -of the nonprofit Icarus Interstellar. One of those papers was released -to the public by Popular Mechanics on February 14, 2020. Titled -“Clinical Medical Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Dermal and -Neurological Tissues,” it is written by Christopher -(Kit) Green, formerly -a CIA agent, forensic clinician, and neuroscientist, who describes it as -“focused on forensically assessing accounts of injuries that could have -resulted from claimed encounters with UAP.” -(Joseph Trevithick, “Here’s -the List of Studies the Military’s -Secretive UFO Program Funded, SomeWere Junk,” The Drive: The War -Zone, January 18, 2019; US Defense Intelligence Agency, [A -list of all products produced under the AAWSAP contract])
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7713

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Event 10536 -(C58E831F)

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Date: 1/9/2018
-Description: At the direction of US Secretary of State Rex -Tillerson, the State Department conveys an Accountability Review -Board to “review security incidents involving diplomatic personnel.” -Retired US Ambassador to Libya Peter -W. Bodde is chosen to lead the board. (“Retired -Ambassador to Libya to Lead Cuba Attacks Review,” CNN, January 10, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7712

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Event 10537 -(F668547F)

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Date: 2/2018
-Description: The Brazilian Ufologists Commission begins a new phase of -its “UFOs: Freedom of Information Now” campaign called “We Have the -Right to Know.” The campaign demands that the Brazilian Army, the Minas -Gerais military police, and the fire brigade of Varginha release the -secret files on the 1996 Varginha case. (Clark III 209)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7714

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Event 10538 -(119EA131)

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Date: 2/1/2018
-Description: 6:10 p.m. An Airbus A321 pilot is descending from 10,000 -feet into Manchester Airport, England, when he sees a grayish, -thin-profiled object that passes by very close at the same altitude at -great speed down the left side of the aircraft. His initial reaction is -that he has seen an internal reflection, but the First Officer and -another person have also seen it. None of them have a clear view because -it is in the landing-light beam for a split second. (UK Airprox Board, -“Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 25th April 2018”; “UKAB -‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): -43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7715

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Event 10539 -(773FF03B)

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Date: 2/16/2018
-Description: 9:16 p.m. A witness in Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands, -sees three irregularly flashing lights flying toward the northwest. One -of the lights suddenly leaves the formation and flies off in another -direction. The lights fly slowly and silently for 6 minutes. (“3 -rode oplichtende punten aan de hemel,” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, -February 16, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7716

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Event 10540 -(3E6CCB16)

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Date: 2/20/2018
-Description: 10:00 p.m. A woman in Ede, Netherlands, sees three points -of light (one brighter than the others) on a triangular object that is -moving toward the northwest. She watches it for 2 minutes. (“Driehoek -formatie 3 lichtpunten,” -UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 21, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7717

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Event 10541 -(C87EAF80)

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Date: 2/23/2018
-Description: 6:50 p.m. Two witnesses in Oudenaarde, Belgium, see a -“hanging dot” that ascends at an enormous speed. (Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt, -March 4, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7719

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Event 10542 -(E08ABD6A)

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Date: 2/23/2018
-Description: 7:30 a.m. Several people traveling to work in Wielsbeke -from the village of Waregem, Belgium, see a hovering triangle with two -bright lights like a star. There are red lights on its wings, and it is -shaped like a B2 stealth bomber. (Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt, March 4, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7718

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Event 10543 -(D52ECE8A)

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Date: 2/23/2018
-Description: 10:40 p.m. A witness going outside for a smoke in -Biervliet, Netherlands, sees three globes flying in a straight line. -They move closer together and disappear at the same time as they seem to -merge. (“Drie lichtbollen,” -UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 23, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7720

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Event 10544 -(6DD810B1)

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Date: 2/24/2018
-Description: 3:40 p.m. A Learjet 36 belonging to Phoenix Air flying at -37,000 feet reports an object passing above them going in the opposite -direction at about 40,000 feet. Minutes later, Blenus Green, pilot of an -American Airlines Airbus A321 flying on the same air route at 40,000 -feet, reports a bright object passing above them in the opposite -direction by about 2,000–3,000 feet. The planes are moving east between -the Sonoran Desert National Monument in southern Arizona and the New -Mexico border. The air traffic controller in Albuquerque is unable to -verify any other aircraft in the area. (Tyler Rogoway, “Learjet -and Airbus Had Strange Encounter with Mysterious Craft -over Arizona,” The Drive: The War Zone, March 8, 2018; “2 -Airline Pilots Report Seeing UFO While Flying -over Arizona,” CBS News, March 29, 2018; Jenny Randles, “The Sonora -Desert Incident,” Fortean Times 367 (June 2018): 31; Patrick Gross, “Pilots -Sightings”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7723

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Event 10545 -(B4C55BCB)

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Date: 2/24/2018
-Description: 1:00 a.m. A man steps outside his house in Mol, Belgium, -when it suddenly becomes light outside. Looking up, he sees an orange -fireball flying past with small fragments falling off it. It is silent -and does not explode. (Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt, March 4, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7721

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Event 10546 -(F1BF8252)

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Date: 2/24/2018
-Description: 1:15 a.m. A man in Breda, Netherlands, looks out his -bedroom window and sees an enormous globe of white and turquoise light -as large as the full moon. The light is so brilliant it hurts his eyes -to look at it for 6 seconds. (“Felle -turqouise-witte bewegende lichtbol, grootte van een volle maan,” UFO -Meldpunt Nederland, February 24, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7722

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Event 10547 -(D68A438F)

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Date: 2/25/2018
-Description: 6:45 a.m. A witness in Lendele, Belgium, looks out the -window and sees a large, bright globe without a tail shooting toward the -ground. After a few seconds it disappears. (Belgisch UFO-Meldpunt, March -4, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7724

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Event 10548 -(9A9D5F80)

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Date: 2/26/2018
-Description: 7:30 p.m. A man walking his dog in Sibculo, Netherlands, -takes a video of a bright, flashing object. (“Snel bewegend -verspringd licht,” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 26, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7725

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Event 10549 -(0BBAD429)

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Date: 2/27/2018
-Description: 10:10 p.m. A cluster of 3–5 orange-white lights is seen -moving and hovering above Heerlen, Netherlands. (“3–5 -oranje witte lichten in de lucht kijk hoek 44° Noord Oosten,” UFO -Meldpunt Nederland, February 27, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7728

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Event 10550 -(6C0703A7)

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Date: 2/27/2018
-Description: The Trump administration -requests $81.1 billion, the largest amount ever, in funding for the -black budget that bankrolls US intelligence operations. $59.9 billion is -earmarked for the National Intelligence Program for non-military -efforts. The other $21.2 billion would go to the Military Intelligence -Program for the Defense Department. (“DNI -Releases Budget Figure for FY 2019 Appropriations Requested for the -National Intelligence Program,” -Office of the Director of National Intelligence, February 27, 2018; “Trump -Administration Requests Record -$81.1 Billion for ‘Black Budget,’” Washington Times, February 28, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7726

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Event 10551 -(BFA2EBE9)

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Date: 2/27/2018
-Description: 6:30 p.m. A 13-year-old boy in Briele, Netherlands, watches -two black discs with red lights flying together. (“2 -zwarte (met rode streep) schijven die naast elkaar vliegen,” UFO -Meldpunt Nederland, February 27, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7727

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Event 10552 -(511FDC1F)

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Date: 2/28/2018
-Description: 6:20 p.m. A semi-transparent oval object flies 30–50 feet -above the A2 highway near Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands, before -moving over an adjacent meadow. (“Grijs -semi-transparante bal vloog boven snelweg,” -UFO Meldpunt Nederland, February 28, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7729

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Event 10553 -(1329F54F)

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Date: 3/2018
-Description: University of Pennsylvania researchers examine 21 affected -diplomats from the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, and the preliminary -results are published in the Journal of the American Medical -Association. The report “found no evidence of white matter tract -abnormalities” in affected diplomats, beyond what might be seen in a -control group of the same age and describe “a new syndrome in the -diplomats that resembles persistent concussion.” While some diplomats -recover swiftly, others have symptoms that last for months. The study -concludes that “the diplomats appear to have sustained injury to -widespread brain networks.” Some experts criticize the study, arguing -that there is “no proof that any kind of energy source affected the -diplomats, or even that an attack took place.” MRI scans and other tests -taken by a chief neurologist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on an -unspecified number of Canadian diplomats posted in Havana show evidence -of brain damage that mirrors the injuries of some of their US -counterparts. Global Affairs Canada withdraws all staff with families. -(“Fresh -Row over Mysterious Sickness -Affecting US Diplomats in Cuba,” The Guardian (UK), February 24, -2018; Randel L. Swanson II, et al., “Neurological -Manifestations among US Government Personnel Reporting Directional -Audible and Sensory Phenomena -in Havana, Cuba,” Journal of the American Medical Association 319 -(March 20, 2018): 1125–1133; “Blood -and Bureaucracy: Inside Canada’s Panicked Response to ‘Havana -Syndrome,’” Toronto (Ont.) Globe and Mail, December 12, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7730

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Event 10554 -(83B0761D)

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Date: 3/2/2018
-Description: The US State Department announces it will continue to staff -its embassy in Havana, Cuba, at the minimum level required to perform -“core diplomatic and consular functions” due to concerns about health -attacks on staff. The embassy has been operating under “ordered -departure status” since September, but the status is set to expire. This -announcement serves to extend the staff reductions indefinitely. (“US -Embassy in Cuba to Reduce Staff Indefinitely -after ‘Health Attacks,’” CNN, March 2, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7731

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Event 10555 -(642FD31E)

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Date: 3/9/2018
-Description: The US Air Force officially retires the MQ-1 Predator drone -from operational service. The aircraft was first operationally deployed -in 1995 and in 2011 the last of 268 Predators were delivered to the -service, of which just over 100 were still in service by the start of -2018. While the Predator was phased out by the Air Force in favor of the -heavier and more capable MQ-9 Reaper, the Predator continues to serve in -the MQ-1C Gray Eagle derivative for the US Army as well as with several -foreign nations. (Wikipedia, “General -Atomics MQ-1 Predator”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7732

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Event 10556 -(813305EC)

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Date: 3/13/2018
-Description: 4:15 p.m. An F/A-18E Super Hornet from Strike Fighter -Squadron 106 (VFA-106, the “Gladiators”) tracks four separate unknown -objects on its radar in the W-122 warning area, which sits off the coast -of North Carolina. The objects are all flying at approximately 0.1 Mach -at altitudes between 16,000 and 22,000 feet. The pilot visually -identifies one at 20,000 feet that “appeared to be a quadcopter-type -drone, 3–4 feet wide.” The objects do not appear to be doing anything in -particular and are stationary or near-stationary. They are also spread -out across an area approximately 40 to 50 miles wide, with the closest -one being 15 miles away from the one boat that the pilot noted seeing -below. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here -Are the Navy Pilot Reports from Encounters -with Mysterious Aircraft off the East Coast,” The Drive: The War -Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7733

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Event 10557 -(7D445330)

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Date: 4/5/2018
-Description: Night. Dogs belonging to a witness in DeRidder, Louisiana, -begin growling in the living room, and cows in the pasture are mooing -excitedly. Outside, he sees a huge white light growing and intensity and -pulsating for 15 minutes. When it disappears, the animals calm down. -(Randle, Levelland, 2021, p. 125)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7734

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Event 10558 -(5D9C5965)

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Date: 5/5/2018
-Description: 12:45 p.m. A B757 airliner pilot is approaching Gatwick -Airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, in busy airspace when the -First Officer and Captain see a fairly large, irregular-shaped, -dark-lack object pass down the left side at the same altitude within 200 -feet of the aircraft, heading in an easterly direction. No avoiding -action is needed, but the incident is reported to Gatwick control. (UK -Airprox Board, “The UKAB Meeting on 20th June 2018 Consisted Solely of -Consolidated Drone/Balloon/Model/Unknown Object Report Sheet”; “UKAB -‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): -43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7735

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Event 10559 -(5008B893)

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Date: 5/23/2018
-Description: After an employee of the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China, -reports medical symptoms (abnormal sensations of sound and pressure) in -April that are similar to the diplomats in Havana, Cuba, Secretary of -State Mike Pompeo confirms -to the House Foreign Affairs Committee that there are several reports -from diplomatic staff in Guangzhou of symptoms “entirely consistent” -with those reported from Cuba. A medical team arrives at the end of the -month to conduct baseline medical evaluations on consulate staff. Some -are evacuated to the US, including security engineering officer Mark -Lenzi, who has been hearing sounds like “marbles bouncing and hitting -the floor” since April 2017, followed by excruciating headaches and -insomnia. (“US -Embassy Pulls More China Staff over -Mystery Illness,” BBC News, June 7, 2018; Richard Stone, “Sonic -Attack or Mass Paranoia? New Evidence Stokes -Debate over Diplomats’ Mysterious Illness,” Science, June 20, 2018; -“US -Diplomat Mark Lenzi, Who Suffered -Mysterious Injury While Stationed in China, Pledges to Donate Brain to -Science,” South China Morning Post, May 11, 2019; Julia Joffe, “The -Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion,” GQ, October 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7736

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Event 10560 -(8E59AFB2)

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Date: 7/5/2018
-Description: 9:30 a.m. A King Air BE90 pilot is cruising at 16,000 feet -about 10 nautical miles north of Birmingham, England, when he sees a -rectangular or elliptical object pass 500–1,000 feet below the aircraft. -He estimates it is 20–40 inches long, although it is only in sight for 2 -seconds below it passes beneath the plane. It is either hovering or -traveling in the opposite direction. (UK Airprox Board, “Assessment -Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 12th September 2018”; “UKAB ‘Unknown -Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7737

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Event 10561 -(D7067254)

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Date: 7/26/2018
-Description: The To The Stars Academy’s ADAM Research Project is -announced to test extraterrestrial materials for commercial and military -applications. The testing will be done through Harold -E. Puthoff’s EarthTech International in Austin, Texas. (To The Stars -Academy, “An Introduction to the ADAM Rsearch Project,” July 26, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7738

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Event 10562 -(5730EE3D)

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Date: 8/6/2018
-Description: 11:20 p.m. A resident of Heemstede, Netherlands, is -skywatching when he suddenly sees a silent triangular object with three -white lights moving faster than an airplane. (“Drie -lichtjies in driehoeksvorm leek zwart vlak in het -midden te zitten,” UFO Meldpunt Nederland, August 6, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7739

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Event 10563 -(AE2E4DD9)

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Date: 8/12/2018
-Description: 11:30 p.m. Frédéric K. and a companion are watching the -night sky in Viry, Haute-Savoie, France, when they see a black triangle -with lights at each of its points. The object is nearly motionless, but -it is rotating slightly and is completely silent. K. is struck by its -immense size, which he estimates is several times the size of an -airliner. After a few seconds it moves slowly northeast toward Geneva, -Switzerland. (Daniel Robin, “Les triangles de la nuit (suite),” -Ovnis-Direct, August 23, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7740

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Event 10564 -(C07241D4)

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Date: 8/14/2018
-Description: TTSA’s “ADAM Project” (an acronym for Acquisition & -Data Analysis of Materials) hand delivers exotic materials claimed to be -from a crashed UFO to EarthTech in Austin, TX.
-Type: delivery
-Reference: YouTube)
-Location: Austin, TX

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Event 10565 -(CA9B44AF)

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Date: 9/1/2018
-Description: According to a New York Times report, Douglas -H. Smith, the lead author of the March study on Havana Syndrome and -director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of -Pennsylvania, says that microwaves are now considered a main suspect and -that the team is increasingly sure the diplomats have suffered brain -injury. Strikes with microwaves, some experts now argue, more plausibly -explain reports of painful sounds, ills, and traumas than do other -possible culprits—sonic attacks, viral infections, and contagious -anxiety. In particular, a growing number of analysts cite an eerie -phenomenon known as the Frey effect, named after Allan -H. Frey, an -American scientist, who in the 1960s found that microwaves can trick the -brain into perceiving what seem to be ordinary sounds. The false -sensations may account for a defining symptom of the diplomatic -incidents—the perception of loud noises, including ringing, buzzing, and -grinding. Initially, experts cited those symptoms as evidence of -stealthy attacks with sonic weapons. (William J. Broad, “Microwave -Weapons Are Prime -Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers,” New York Times, September -1, 2018; Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, “Diplomats’ -Mystery Illness and Pulsed Radiofrequency/Microwave Radiation,” -Neural Computation 30 (2018): 2882–2985)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7741

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Event 10566 -(E869C309)

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Date: 10/11/2018
-Description: Ufologist Robert O. Dean dies at age 89. Dean gave public -presentations about secret documents we read at NATO SHAPE concerning -UFO’s.
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Tucson, AZ

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Event 10567 -(F2C8B746)

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Date: 10/15/2018
-Description: The Five Continents UFO Forum is held in the Cosmos Hotel -in Moscow, Russia, to serve as a platform to launch a worldwide UFO -organization. The nine founders of the World Coalition on -Extraterrestrial Contact include Don -Schmitt (US), Roberto -Pinotti (Italy), Gary -Heseltine (UK), Ademar -José Gevaerd (Brazil), Andrea Simondini (Argentina), Haktan -Ardogan (Turkey), Gabor Tarçali (Hungary), Lachezar -Filipov (Bulgaria), and Anthony -Choy (Peru). The conference is promoted by the Russian Kosmopoisk -group and the International Chinese UFO Association. (2Pinotti -230–231)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7742

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Event 10568 -(DB337362)

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Date: 10/26/2018
-Description: Harvard astronomer Avi -Loeb and his postdoctoral assistant Shmuel Bialy submit a paper -exploring the possibility that the recently discovered interstellar -object ʻOumuamua is an artificial thin solar sail accelerated by solar -radiation pressure in an effort to help explain the object’s -nongravitational acceleration. Other scientists state that the available -evidence is insufficient to consider such a premise and that a tumbling -solar sail would not be able to accelerate. In response, Loeb writes an -article detailing six anomalous properties of ʻOumuamua that make it -unusual, unlike any comets or asteroids seen before. A subsequent report -on observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope sets a tight limit on -cometary outgassing of any carbon-based molecules and indicates that -ʻOumuamua is at least 10 times shinier than a typical comet. A detailed -podcast produced by Rob Reid provides the full details about the -differences between ʻOumuamua and known comets. (Wikipedia, “’Oumuamua”; -Abraham Loeb, “How to -Search for Dead Cosmic Civilizations,” Scientific American blog, -September 27, 2018; Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb, “Could -Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ’Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?” -arXiv, October 26, 2018; Matt Williams, “Could -’Oumuamua Be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail?” Universe Today, -October 31, 2018; “Cigar-Shaped -Interstellar Object May Have Been an Alien Probe, Harvard Paper -Claims,” WPSD-TV, Paducah, Kentucky, November 6, 2018; Kerry -Sheridan, “Scientists -Push Back against Harvard ’Alien Spacecraft’ -Theory,” Phys.org, November 7, 2018; Abraham Loeb, “6 -Strange Facts about the Interstellar Visitor ’Oumuamua,” -Scientific American blog, November 20, 2018; D.E. Trilling, et al., “Spitzer -Observations of Interstellar -Object 1I/’Oumuamua,” aeXiv, November 20, 2018; Rob Reid, “Nailing -Down the Nature of ’Oumuamua: -It’s Probably a Comet, But…” Ars Technica, November 29, 2018; Oded -Carmeli, “If -True, This Could -Be One of the Greatest Discoveries in Human History,” Haaretz, -January 16, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7743

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Event 10569 -(8DCB04DA)

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Date: 11/6/2018
-Description: Around midnight. The pilots of a US Army AH-64 Apache -attack helicopter are preparing to take off from an airstrip about 40 -miles northwest of Tucson, Arizona, when they spot three objects in a -loose triangular formation in the sky at a low altitude. The copilot -continues to follow the three objects with the aircraft’s multi- sensor -imaging system, the Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night -Vision Sensor. As the three objects approach the foothills of nearby -Picacho Peak, they suddenly appear to rotate around each other, as if -revolving around an unseen axis, all while maintaining a steady eastward -trajectory. Pilot Chris Lehto says they are moving at an unexpectedly -high rate of speed. After several rotations, the objects then resume an -obtuse triangular formation before speeding out of sight as the Apache -begins to take off. (Tim McMillan, Micah Hanks, and Christopher Plain, -“Incursions -at the Border: Homeland Security Agents Tell of Encounters with -Unidentified Aerial -Phenomena,” The DeBrief, May 27, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7744

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Event 10570 -(757A6886)

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Date: 11/9/2018
-Description: 6:47 a.m. A British Airways 787 is flying eastward just off -the coast of County Kerry, Ireland, near the Dingle peninsula at 330 mph -at an altitude of 39,000 feet. Two other aircraft, a Norwegian Airlines -737 in front of it and a Virgin VA 76 behind, are on the same flight -path. The pilot of the British Airways plane notices a bright light -moving fast on the left and rapidly veers north. She asks Shannon -Airport if there are military planes in the area. They tell the pilot no -and that nothing is showing on their radar. The Virgin pilot has seen it -and thinks it is a meteor or satellite re-entry. The Norwegian pilot has -seen two bright lights. Shannon verifies that other aircraft have -witnessed the event. (Jenny Randles, “Irish Mid-Air Spectacular,” -Fortean Times 375 (January 2019): 33)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7745

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Event 10571 -(5E04594A)

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Date: 11/9/2018
-Description: A report finds that the earlier FBI investigation into the -Cuban health attacks has been stymied by conflicts with the CIA and -State Department. The CIA is reluctant to reveal, even to other US -agencies, the identities of affected officers. Federal rules on the -confidentiality of medical records also hindered the investigation. -(Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson, “The -Mystery of the Havana Syndrome,” New Yorker, November 9, 2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7746

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Event 10572 -(A857C5B8)

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Date: 11/17/2018
-Description: Day. A Cargojet flight from the Cincinnati area to Calgary, -Alberta, observes bright lights high above Saskatchewan, while a -corresponding Canadian Air Defence Sector log entry describes “bright -shining lights” that are “maneuvering and moving fast.” (Daniel Otis, -“Credible -UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian -Government Documents Reveal,” Motherboard, November 29, 2021; CADORS -Report, no. 2018C4984)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7747

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Event 10573 -(0C706790)

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Date: 11/19/2018
-Description: The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive -Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization announces that all 21 monitoring -facilities located in Australia are completed “and sending reliable, -high-quality data” to Vienna, Austria, for analysis. The global -monitoring system consists of 337 facilities worldwide to monitor the -planet for signs of nuclear explosions. It includes 60 infrasound -stations that monitor for micropressure changes in Earth’s atmosphere, -which are caused by infrasonic waves. These waves have a low frequency -and cannot be heard by human ears, and can be caused by nuclear -explosions. (Wikipedia, “Preparatory -Commission for the Comprehensive -Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7748

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Event 10574 -(33B3BE60)

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Date: 11/21/2018
-Description: Morning. The Canadian Air Defence Sector detects an -unidentified radar target approaching North America from the direction -of Greenland. Canadian CF-18 fighter jets are soon launched from CFB -Bagotville in Quebec to locate the “unknown track,” but find nothing. A -declassified report from the following day blames the “spurious data” on -equipment issues at a NORAD radar installation on Canada’s north -Atlantic coast. Later that day, CADS receives a UFO report from Edmonton -air traffic controllers about “3 red lights in the sky, hovering at the -approximate height of a cell phone tower” near High Prairie, Alberta. -This time, CADS responds by notifying Canadian NORAD headquarters in -Winnipeg and Transport Canada, the federal transportation department. -(Daniel Otis, “Credible -UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government -Documents Reveal,” -Motherboard, November 29, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7749

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Event 10575 -(DD9C6B31)

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Date: 12/4/2018
-Description: The independent documentary Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying -Saucers is released. The film, available on Netflix beginning in June -2019, “chronicles the challenges and travails of a cosmic whistleblower. -Burdened with a revolutionary secret, he had to choose between his oath -to his country or his conscience. Jeremy -Corbell’s film explores Lazar’s -groundbreaking claims and the devastating impact it has had on his life -over the course of the last 30 years, including rare and never before -revealed footage guaranteed to alter the landscape of the debate.” -“Unfortunately, Corbell busies up the documentary with a barrage of -images of atomic age archival footage and such that after awhile make -the movie seem more like a collage than a film. There is also the -psychobabble narration that is mumbled by Mickey -Rourke; at times poetic, at times it comes off like comic relief. -It’s distracting and unnecessary.” (Internet Movie Database, “Bob -Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers”; “Watch -Bob Lazar: -Area 51 and Flying Saucers, 2021,” News of the World YouTube -channel, November 5, 2021; Amy Zimmerman, “Why -Did the FBI Raid the Home of the Biggest Alien Truther?” The Daily -Beast, December 4, 2018; Carlos, “Bob -Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers,” Cinema365, December 26, -2018)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7750

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Event 10576 -(D58D93A5)

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Date: 12/19/2018
-End date: 12/21/2018
-Description: Sightings of drones disrupt around 1,000 flights at Gatwick -Airport in West Sussex, England, causing flights to be diverted or -canceled. There are multiple reports but no physical or photographic -evidence. The military are called in with special anti-drone equipment. -Gatwick goes back to normal operations on December 21 after two people -are arrested then released without charge. (Wikipedia, “Gatwick -Airport drone incident”; “Who is -Drone Ranger?” The Sun (UK), December 21, 2018; “Gatwick -Drone Attack Possible Inside Job, Police Say,” BBC News, April 14, -2019; “The Gatwick Drone Enigma,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): -40–41)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7751

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Event 10577 -(AD382C36)

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Date: 12/30/2018
-Description: 6:45 p.m. The pilot of an Embraer 175 passenger plane -approaching the runway at Glasgow Airport, Scotland, sees an “object -pass between three and 10 feet from the aircraft at the same level.” The -pilot cannot tell what it is, but it is “lit up in various places and -was more horizontally long than it was vertically.” The Airprox board is -unable to identify the object, but decides there was a definite risk of -collision and luck played a part in missing it. (UK Airprox Board, -“Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 13th February 2019”; “UKAB -‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): -43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7752

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- Event 10578 (A31F53D2)

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Date: 1/2019
-Description: Ufologist Jenny -Randles retires the Northern UFO News after its 200th issue is -published. (Jenny Randles, “January -Issue Now Out,” Oz Factor Books)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7753

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Event 10579 -(4D7822B0)

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Date: 1/4/2019
-Description: Biologists Alexander -L. Stubbs of the University of California, Berkeley, and Fernando -Montealegre-Z of the University of Lincoln analyze the recording of -a sound made by US personnel in Cuba and release it to the Associated -Press. They conclude that the sound is caused by the calling song of the -Indies short-tailed cricket (Anurogryllus celerinictus) rather than a -technological device. They match the song’s “pulse repetition rate, -power spectrum, pulse rate stability, and oscillations per pulse” to the -recording. (Carl Zimmer, “The -Sounds That Haunted -U.S. Diplomats in Cuba? Lovelorn Crickets, Scientists Say,” New York -Times, January 4, 2019; Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, -Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story behind the -Embassy Mystery and Hysteria, Springer, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7754

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Event 10580 -(58DFA41A)

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Date: 1/6/2019
-Description: The crew of a Vanguard Air Care flight sees an unidentified -light moving parallel to them for about three minutes while they are -travelling at about 265 mph at an altitude of 7,500 feet around the 55th -parallel over northern Manitoba. The CIRVIS report says the brightness -of the light in the night sky is what attracted the observer’s attention -and that NAV Canada’s Winnipeg Air Control Centre assumes that it is -another aircraft. 21 Aerospace Control and Warning Squadron at Canadian -Forces Base North Bay in Ontario is notified of the sighting. An -unclassified intelligence report is then faxed to Transport Canada. (“2019 -Sighting of Unidentified Light -in Northern Manitoba Sky Was Reported to Air Force, Vice Says,” -Thompson (Man.) Citizen, April 14, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7755

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Event 10581 -(39B4D67F)

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Date: 1/8/2019
-Description: The television series Project Blue Book premieres on the -History channel. The main role of J. -Allen Hynek is played by Aidan -Gillen, with -Laura -Mennell as Mimi Hynek. The series runs for a second season in 2020 -before it is canceled. UFO skeptic Robert -Sheaffer, reviewing the first four episodes, points out numerous -historical inaccuracies and falsehoods, some of which he characterizes -as “absurd.” Concerned over misguiding viewers, he concludes that “this -program references real people by their real names, a real government -program, and real incidents. It then mixes in absurd and invented -details, while claiming that the show is based on real events.” -(Wikipedia, “Project -Blue Book (TV -series)”; Internet Movie Database, “Project -Blue Book”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7756

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Event 10582 -(D537EFD7)

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Date: 1/15/2019
-Description: 11:40 a.m. An RAF Typhoon pilot is leading a pair of -fighters from Coningsby, England, to an exercise in the North Sea. After -receiving clearance to climb to 30,000 feet from 15,000 feet, he notices -an object at 11 o’clock about one nautical mile away, slightly higher -and maintaining a constant altitude. The radar and data link show no -traffic conflictions. The object reflects sunlight and appears to have a -linear form. It passes down the left- hand side of the aircraft. The -wingman independently sees the same object as it passes over the -leader’s aircraft. He maintains the formation at 15,000 feet until they -are clear of the object. Nothing unusual is noticed by ground radar. (UK -Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on 13th March -2019”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June -2021): 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7757

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Event 10583 -(331C6044)

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Date: 1/30/2019
-Description: The government of Canada announces that it is reducing its -embassy staff in Havana, Cuba, after a 14th Canadian diplomat reports -symptoms of Havana syndrome in late December 2018. (“‘Havana -Syndrome’ Forces Canada -to Halve Its Diplomatic Presence in Cuba,” Radio Canada -International, January 30, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7758

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Event 10584 -(40B8DA2D)

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Date: 2/6/2019
-Description: The Canadian government is served with a $28 million dollar -lawsuit by five diplomats, on the alleged basis that Ottawa has not -promptly addressed the serious health concerns the Canadian diplomats -and their families have faced in Havana, Cuba, more than 2 years ago. -The origin of these health concerns is unknown, but these ailments -manifest as symptoms that are similar to that of a concussion. None of -these allegations have been proven in court. (“Ailing -Canadian Diplomats Who Served in Cuba Have ‘Visible and Real’ Health -Impacts, Trudeau -Says,” Toronto (Ont.) Star, February 7, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7759

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Event 10585 -(D40F6F93)

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Date: 2/10/2019
-Description: Afternoon. Several people in Cogollos de Guadix, Granada, -Spain, observe three mysterious lights flash across the sky at great -speed, each of which falls in a different part of the village. José -María Madiedo at the Universidad de Huelva rules out meteorites because -the objects are only seen locally. (“Seen in the Skies,” Fortean Times -382, August 2019, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7760

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Event 10586 -(1335D3D0)

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Date: 2/13/2019
-Description: 4:35 p.m. The crew of an EA-18G Growler electronic warfare -aircraft from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 (VX-23), flying out -Naval Air Station Patuxent River in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, and -conducting activities in the W-386 warning area, visually spot what they -specifically describe as “a red weather balloon” at 27,000 feet. Neither -Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, Virginia Capes (FASCFAC -VACAPES), nor the Echo Control team responsible for overseeing -operations in the Atlantic Test Ranges off the coast, are aware of any -scheduled balloon activity. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, “Here -Are the Navy Pilot -Reports from Encounters with Mysterious Aircraft off the East -Coast,” The Drive: The War Zone, May 12, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7761

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Event 10587 -(06BAB836)

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Date: 3/2019
-Description: NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, Aerospace Corporation (a -defense contractor), gives a classified briefing to a Defense Department -agency about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this -earth.”
-Type: senate briefing
-Reference: NY -Times
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 10588 -(7F8DB19B)

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Date: 3/2019
-Description: An airline passenger films a supposed UFO over the Aegean -Sea between Turkey and Greece. The film is taken through the airplane -window and shows a massive, gray-black, contrail-like object cutting -through a layer of clouds. Some investigators conclude it is an F-4 -fighter jet of the Greek Air Force. (“Seen in the Skies,” Fortean Times -382, August 2019, p. 17)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7762

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Event 10589 -(AB3FE0F6)

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Date: 3/4/2019
-Description: An FA-18 pilot flying out of NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, -Virginia, takes cellphone images of a UAP out of his cockpit in the W-72 -warning area off the coast. His weapons systems officer captures three -different objects using the same cellphone. (Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer -Corbell, “The -US Navy Filmed Pyramid Shaped UFOs,” Extraordinary Beliefs, April 8, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7763

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Event 10590 -(17FD0415)

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Date: 3/30/2019
-Description: 2:00 p.m. A B787 airliner pilot flying over London, -England, sees a red object pass down the right-hand side of the aircraft -at 6,000 feet. It is impossible to identify, although it is large enough -to cause concern. (UK Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB -Meeting on Wednesday 15th May 2019”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log -2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7764

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Event 10591 -(2B64E7A0)

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Date: 4/2019
-Description: The UK National Archives releases 18 more UFO files that -had been missed since the last release in 2013. (“Ministry -of Defence Insider Reveals Contents of Britain’s ‘Final’ UFO Files,” -Metro (UK), January 30, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7765

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Event 10592 -(EFFE9D25)

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Date: 4/2019
-Description: The Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, picks -up a 982.992 MHz radio signal, labeled BLC1, emitted from Proxima -Centauri. Researchers from the Breakthrough Listen Project cannot -attribute it to any Earth-based or near-Earth human-created source. -Shifts in the signal’s frequency are consistent with a planet’s movement -and may be suggestive of a third planet within the system. As of -December 2020, follow-up observations have failed to detect the signal -again, a step necessary to confirm that the signal is a technosignature. -(Wikipedia, “BLC1”; -“Signal from Space,” Fortean Times 404 (April 2021): 15; David Appell, -“Meet -the Technosignature -Researcher on the Lookout for Exocivilizations,” Physics World, -February 2, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7766

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Event 10593 -(9776A1D8)

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Date: 4/4/2019
-Description: The Argentine Air Force’s Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos -Aeroespaciales is renamed the Centro de Identificación Aéroespacial. -(Milton Hourcade, “Argentina: -UFO Declassification,” U.A.P.S.G.–G.E.F.A.I., July 29, 2020; -Government of Argentina, “Centro -de Identificación Aéroespacial”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7767

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Event 10594 -(16E06416)

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Date: 4/28/2019
-Description: 12:40 p.m. An Airbus A319 is climbing out from Gatwick -Airport, near Crawley, West Sussex, England, when the pilot sees an -object a few seconds after breaking through cloud at 17,000 feet. It -passes beneath them from the center of the aircraft and under the -right-hand wing and is clearly contrasted against the clouds. The small -object appears dark green in color with a white light on top. The UK -Airprox Board places this incident in the highest risk category. (UK -Airprox Board, “Assessment Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on -Wednesday 19th June 2019”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” -Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7768

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Event 10595 -(A44271A7)

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Date: 4/30/2019
-Description: In an interview, Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD (who has a security -clearance) talks about the “crash retrieval program” that was terminated -in 1989 for lack of progress.
-Type: interview
-Reference: link
-Location: US

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Event 10596 -(2425ACF6)

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Date: 5/5/2019
-Description: 2:00 p.m. An Airbus A320 pilot departing from Gatwick -Airport, England, sees a totally white object resembling a shoebox-sized -cube with a ball on top. It passes down the left-hand side of the -aircraft, slightly above and within 16 feet at 6,000 feet altitude. The -object appears to be in level flight. (UK Airprox Board, “Assessment -Summary Sheet for UKAB Meeting on Wednesday 19th June 2019”; “UKAB -‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): -43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7769

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Event 10597 -(AF2E23E6)

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Date: 5/13/2019
-Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman dies -age 84
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Toronto, Canada

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Event 10598 -(5C09343F)

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Date: 5/22/2019
-Description: Pentagon spokesman Christopher -Sherwood confirms to the New -York Post that the AATIP program “did pursue research and -investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena,” dispelling rumors -that the program only focused on theoretical physics. (Steven -Greenstreet, “The -Pentagon Finally Admits It Investigates UFOs,” New York Post, May -22, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7770

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Event 10599 -(7CBCAC52)

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Date: 5/24/2019
-Description: Researchers who examine Canadian diplomats affected by -Havana Syndrome come to the conclusion that neurotoxin exposure is -compatible with the symptoms. Their explanation of the root cause is the -increased use of fumigation as pest control by the embassies themselves, -which is supported by blood analysis. (“Havana Syndrome: -Exposure to Neurotoxin May Have Been Cause, Study Suggests,” CBC -News, September 19, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7771

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Event 10600 -(666FA787)

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Date: 5/26/2019
-Description: The New York Times reports that US Navy pilots fully -briefed AATIP about encounters they had with unexplained objects during -the summer of 2014 to March 2015 while flying at high altitudes off the -East coast of the United States. (Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and -Leslie Kean, “‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying -Objects,” New York Times, May 26, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7772

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Event 10601 -(93D66A0C)

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Date: 5/31/2019
-End date: 8/22/2020
-Description: First season of History Channel’s “Unidentified: Inside -America’s UFO Investigation”
-Type: documentary
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US

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Event 10602 -(532B5EB8)

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Date: 6/2019
-Description: The National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous -Phenomena issues an advisory for pilots that offers recommendations on -how to deal with UAPs by Ted Roe. It offers a general history of UAP, -some common profiles of unidentified objects, safety factors that can -arise during an incident, and cautions and recommendations for aircrews -and air traffic controllers. (Ted Roe, “Advisory -for Pilots, Aircrews, Air Controllers, and Aviation Professionals: -Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UAP, UFOs, and Aviation Safety,” -NARCAP, June 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7773

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Event 10603 -(6A071BAE)

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Date: 6/15/2019
-Description: Approximately 4:45 p.m. The Skinwalker Ranch project in -Uintah County, Utah, orchestrated by Utah real estate developer Brandon -Fugal (who purchased the land from Robert -Bigelow in April 2016) and led by University of Alabama -astrophysicist and science fiction author Travis -S. Taylor, sends -up three instrumented small rockets to locate the source of strong RF -and gamma radiation apparently coming from about one mile above the -property. Between the rocket tests, the team observes and films on two -occasions a round, white ball that moves erratically around the sky for -a few seconds before disappearing. Cows in a neighboring field are -agitated and group closely together in one spot. (The Secret of -Skinwalker Ranch, Season 1, Episode 4, 2020; Internet Movie Database, -“The -Secret of Skinwalker Ranch”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7775

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Event 10604 -(986B3AE6)

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Date: 6/15/2019
-Description: President Donald -Trump tells ABC News’ George -Stephanopoulos that he has been briefed on Navy pilots reporting -increased sightings of UFOs. Trump raises his eyebrows and grins -incredulously when asked what he makes of the reports. “I want them to -think whatever they think,” Trump says of the Navy pilots. “I did have -one very brief meeting on it. But people are saying they’re seeing UFOs. -Do I believe it? Not particularly.” (Matthew Choi, “Trump -Says He Was Briefed on Navy Sightings of UFOs,” Politico, June 15, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7774

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Event 10605 -(5E2C0FA9)

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Date: 6/20/2019
-Description: Bob Lazar and film maker Jeremy Corbell sit down for an -interview with Joe Rogan
-Type: interview
-Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)
-Location: US

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Event 10606 -(BD35E586)

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Date: 6/23/2019
-Description: The catalog of space objects built by the US Space -Surveillance Network lists 44,336 objects including 8,558 satellites -launched into orbit since 1957. 17,480 of them are actively tracked -while 1,335 are lost. The rest have re-entered Earth’s turbulent -atmosphere and disintegrated, or survived re-entry and impacted the -Earth. The SSN typically tracks space objects that are baseball size or -larger. The Space Surveillance Network has numerous sensors that provide -data. They are separated into three categories: dedicated sensors, -collateral sensors and auxiliary sensors. Additionally sensors are -classified as Near-Earth (NE) tracking (observing satellites, space -debris, and other objects in lower orbits), or Deep Space (DS) tracking -(generally for asteroids and comets). This global program consists of at -least 29 distinct worldwide space surveillance systems, featuring the -world’s most powerful radars (including the Solid State Phased Array -Radar System), the DARPA Space Surveillance Telescope, the ground-based -optical GEODSS space surveillance system (which detects “uncorrelated -targets”), the Geosynchronous Space-Based Situational Awareness Program, -and the Navy’s sea-based X-band radar system. The Combined Space -Operations Center (formerly the Joint Space Operations Center) at -Vandenberg Space Force Base and the Space Control Center at Cheyenne -Mountain are both repositories of data from the SSN. (Wikipedia, “United -States Space Surveillance Network”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7776

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Event 10607 -(D7AD1487)

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Date: 6/27/2019
-Description: The Storm Area 51 Facebook event is created by college -student Matty Roberts as a joke, unaware of the viral attention it will -receive. He comes up with the idea of suggesting a raid on the Nevada -facility to search for aliens after watching Area 51 conspiracy theorist -Bob -Lazar and filmmaker Jeremy -Corbell on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on June 20. The event -plans for the raid in Amargosa Valley on September 20. More than 2 -million people responded “going” and 1.5 million “interested” on the -event page, which subsequently attracts widespread media reaction and -makes the event become an internet meme. (Wikipedia, “Storm -Area 51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7777

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Event 10608 -(A3C426E6)

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Date: 7/2019
-Description: Subsequent findings by the University of Pennsylvania team -find that, compared to a healthy control group, the US diplomats who -report injury in the Havana, Cuba, embassy have experienced brain -trauma; advanced MRI scans (specifically res-fMRI, multimodal MRI, and -diffusion MRI) reveal “differences in whole brain white matter volume, -regional gray and white matter volume, cerebellar microstructural -integrity, and functional connectivity in the auditory and visuospatial -subnetworks” but find no differences in executive functions. The study -concludes that the US government personnel have been physically injured -in a way consistent with the symptoms that they describe but express no -conclusion on the cause or source of the injury. The New York Times -reports: “Outside experts were divided on the study’s conclusions. Some -saw important new evidence; others say it is merely a first step toward -an explanation, and difficult to interpret given the small number of -patients.” (Benedict Carey, “Were -U.S. Diplomats Attacked in Cuba? Brain Study Deepens Mystery,” New -York Times, July 23, 2019; Ragini Verma, et al., “Neuroimaging -Findings in US Government Personnel with Possible Exposure to Directional -Phenomena in Havana, Cuba,” Journal of the American Medical -Association 322 (July 23/30, 2019): 336–347)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7778

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Event 10609 -(246336A9)

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Date: 7/14/2019
-Description: 10:00 p.m. Two unmanned aerial systems (UAVs, or “drones”) -are sighted by the crew of the guided missile destroyer USS -Kidd off -the western tip of San Clemente Island, California. The ship immediately -activates its photo expert team (SNOOPIE) and enters into a condition of -restricted communications designed to enhance operational security and -enhance survivability. Less than 10 minutes later, the USS Kidd advises -the USS -Rafael Peralta of -the situation. The USS Rafael Peralta logs show that at around 10:00 -p.m. it had activated its own SNOOPIE team. Reports of possible UAV -sightings and a red flashing light come in from the USS -John -Finn. A white light hovers above the flight deck of the USS Rafael -Peralta. The drone manages to match the destroyer’s speed, moving at 16 -knots in order to maintain a hovering position over the helicopter -landing pad. By this point, the encounter has lasted over 90 -minutes—significantly longer than what commercially available drones can -typically sustain. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Multiple -Destroyers Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’ off -California over Numerous Nights,” The Drive: The War Zone, March 23, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7779

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Event 10610 -(0C3858AB)

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Date: 7/15/2019
-Description: 8:39 p.m. The USS -Rafael -Peralta again spots unidentified UAVs between San Clemente Island -and San Diego, California, and by 9:00 p.m. the USS -Kidd is -also reporting them. The drones seem to be pursuing the ships, even as -they continue to maneuver throughout the incident. By 9:20 p.m., the USS -Kidd logs simply remark “Multiple UAVs around ship.” 17 minutes later, -the Kidd issues orders for the crew to man what is possibly a Mark 87 -Electro-Optical Director to provide surveillance and tracking data. At -approximately the same time, the USS -Russell records -a frenzy of activity, with drones dropping in elevation, and apparently -moving forward and backward, left and right. Meanwhile, the USS -Rafael -Peralta receives a radio call from a passing cruise ship, the Carnival -Imagination, notifying -them that the drones are not theirs, and that they also see as many as -five or six drones maneuvering nearby. The incident continues into the -night, with the USS Rafael Peralta first recording two UAVs and then -four UAVs near their ship. Approaching midnight, the USS Russell reports -a final sighting involving multiple pyramid-shaped objects. Despite the -nearly three-hour duration of the event, none of the warships involved -appear to have been able to identify the drones. The Navy, Coast Guard, -and FBI investigate the natter and are unable to provide an adequate -investigation. Leaked photos and videos said to pertain to this incident -are released by filmmaker Jeremy -Corbell. The -materials consisted of footage of radar screens showing multiple unknown -contacts, video of an object apparently falling into the ocean, and a -brief video of a triangular- shaped light flying over the deck of a -ship. The apparent triangular shape of the object has been strongly -debated, as many have posited it was the result of a common optical -artifact. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Multiple Destroyers -Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’ off California over Numerous -Nights,” The Drive: The War Zone, March 23, 2021; Jeremy Kenyon -Lockyer Corbell, “The -US Navy Filmed Pyramid Shaped UFOs,” Extraordinary Beliefs, April 8, -2021; “2019 -the US Navy Filmed ‘Pyramid’ Shaped UFOs: Here Is That Footage,” -Jeremy Corbell YouTube channel, April 8, 2021; “Pyramid -UFO, New Footage: It’s Just Bokeh, Not a Pyramid,” Mick West YouTube -channel, April 15, 2021; “VFX -Artists Debunk Pentagon UFO Videos,” Corridor Crew YouTube channel, -August 15, 2021; Graeme Rendall, “‘Drone -Swarms’: UAPs or Other Actors?” UAP Media UK, April 20, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7780

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Event 10611 -(C0EB8D8E)

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Date: 7/16/2019
-Description: Rep. Mark -Walker (R-N.C.), the ranking member of the House Intelligence and -Counterterrorism subcommittee, asks Secretary of the Navy Richard V. -Spencer to outline what resources the Navy is dedicating to -investigating UFO sightings. He also asks if officials have found -physical evidence to substantiate the claims and whether they are aware -of any foreign nations or private companies that have introduced -breakthrough technologies that could explain them. (Mark Walker, Letter -to Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer, July 16, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7781

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Event 10612 -(8E452BEB)

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Date: 7/17/2019
-Description: 7:56–10:39 p.m. The Navy destroyer USS -Paul Hamilton is cruising 80 nautical miles southwest of San -Clemente Island, California, when it spots a UAS (unmanned aerial -systems) about one mile distant. Twenty minutes later, the timeline -indicates two UASs are seen with one of them falling in the water. By -8:26 p.m., multiple objects are spotted. The timeline also indicates -that the bridge was able to see flashing red lights. At 8:50 p.m., the -timeline notes a “UAS swarm.” By 9:11 p.m., the timeline notes that one -of the objects is directly overhead at 2,000 feet. Just a minute later, -all of the objects appear to change course and head away from the ship -at 69 mph. However, eight minutes later, UASs are again seen behind the -ship. The last event noted in the slide takes place when one of the UAS -crosses the ship at approximately 2,000 feet. A photo is taken with a -forward- looking infrared (FLIR) system that is of extremely low -resolution. Three blurry dots are discernible, but there are no other -visible details. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Navy -Releases Timeline for Mysterious 2019 ’UAS Swarm’ -Involving Warships Off California,” The Drive: The War Zone, -February 10, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7782

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Event 10613 -(03377E81)

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Date: 7/18/2019
-Description: An investigation into the UAS incidents is routed to the -Chief of Naval Operations. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Harassment -of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious Drone Swarms off California Went on for -Weeks,” The Drive: The War Zone, December 17, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7783

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Event 10614 -(04C05AA2)

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Date: 7/23/2019
-Description: 8:50 p.m. Another drone is spotted by a SNOOPIE team on the -USS -Russell at an elevation of about 400 feet. A little over an hour -later, flares are spotted, though the logs do not remark if these are -connected to the ongoing drone sighting. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, -“Harassment -of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious Drone Swarms off -California Went on for Weeks,” The Drive: The War Zone, December 17, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7784

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Event 10615 -(5ED6C21C)

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Date: 7/24/2019
-Description: 10:30 a.m. A new term is introduced to the USS Russell log: -“ghostbusters.” A log entry reflects an apparently brief counter UAS -exercise lasting about eight minutes. Though official references are -hard to come by, “ghostbuster” is a term sometimes used to refer to -lower-end counter UAS devices that look similar to rifles. These -anti-drone countermeasures are increasingly being used by security -forces around the world. They operate by using highly-directional -radiofrequency jammers designed to disrupt communications between drones -and their operators. One key limitation of these devices is that they -can only disable drones that are directly controlled by a human -operator. Autonomous systems are far more resilient against such -countermeasures. It is not perfectly clear if the Russell had this -equipment onboard previously, or if “ghostbuster” devices were brought -onboard in reaction to the earlier drone incidents. (Stew Magnuson, “OSD -to Recommend Big Budget Increase for Counter- Drone -Technologies,” National Defense, March 23, 2017; Brett Tingley, “Check -Out the Anti-Drone Weapons Carried -by Security at Biden’s Meeting in Brussels,” The Drive: The War -Zone, June 15, 2021; Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Harassment -of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious Drone Swarms off California Went on for -Weeks,” The Drive: The War Zone, December 17, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7785

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Event 10616 -(F4C325E2)

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Date: 7/25/2019
-Description: 1:20 a.m. Another unidentified drone incident, lasting 32 -minutes, is reported by the USS -Kidd. -(Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Multiple -Destroyers Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’ off California over -Numerous Nights,” -The Drive: The War Zone, March 23, 2021;)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7786

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Event 10617 -(6CFC443B)

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Date: 7/30/2019
-Description: 2:15 am. The USS -Kidd reports -another UAV incident. Its SNOOPIE team remains activated until 3:27 a.m. -Ships’ logs show a sustained, but an intermittent pattern of drone -sightings throughout the month of July by Navy ships operating off -Southern California. These events seem to have spurred additional -training and the rapid deployment of unique capabilities like the -“ghostbuster” counter-UAS equipment. It remains unknown what impact, if -any, this training and equipment has on deterring drone operations. At -least three ships report sighting drones in the very early hours of July -30, with unusual and extensive redactions in the logs of the USS -Russell, but -we do not know what happened the next day, or in the weeks that -followed. (Adam Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Multiple -Destroyers Were Swarmed by Mysterious ‘Drones’ off California over -Numerous Nights,” The Drive: The War Zone, March 23, 2021; Adam -Kehoe and Marc Cecotti, “Harassment -of Navy Destroyers by Mysterious Drone -Swarms off California Went on for Weeks,” The Drive: The War Zone, -December 17, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7787

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Event 10618 -(821D2846)

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Date: 7/31/2019
-Description: In response to the inquiry by Mark -Walker, Navy -Undersecretary Thomas -Modly writes in a brief letter that “the Department of the Navy -takes these reports very seriously and continues to log sightings and -fully investigate the accounts.” (Bryan Bender, “Navy -Withholding Data on UFO Sightings, Congressman Says,” Politico, -September 6, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7788

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Event 10619 -(5940E00C)

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Date: 8/2019
-Description: An anonymous White House staffer who is accompanying -National Security Adviser John -Bolton in London, England, is in her hotel room when she suddenly -feels a tingling in the side of her head that is facing the window. The -intense pressure in her head is accompanied by a tinning in her ears. -When she leaves the room, the symptoms stop. She reports the incident to -the Secret Service because it is uncannily similar to the symptoms -described by American diplomats who had served in Cuba and China. (Julia -Joffe, “The -Mystery of the Immaculate -Concussion,” GQ, October 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7789

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Event 10620 -(4B6CF807)

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Date: 8/8/2019
-Description: An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range near -Nyonoksa, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, triggers radiation levels to rise. -According to official Russian sources, the explosion is the result of a -failed test of an “isotope power source for a liquid-fueled rocket -engine,” possibly a 9M730 Burevestnik cruise missile test or recovery. -Five nuclear scientists die immediately and three suffer from burns. -Russian authorities order the evacuation of the village near the blast -site, suggesting grave dangers due to nuclear radiation. (Wikipedia, “Nyonska -radiation accident”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7790

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Event 10621 -(CC98D3D9)

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Date: 9/6/2019
-Description: Rep. Mark -Walker (R-N.C.) accuses the US Navy of withholding information about -reports of unidentified aircraft after officially requesting more data -on the mysterious encounters. “While I am encouraged the Under Secretary -of the Navy confirmed that UAP encounters are fully investigated, there -is frustration with the lack of answers to specific questions about the -threat that superior aircraft flying in United States airspace may -pose,” Walker tells Politico. (Bryan Bender, “Navy -Withholding Data on UFO Sightings, Congressman Says,” Politico, -September 6, 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7791

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Event 10622 -(B9E28559)

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Date: 9/20/2019
-Description: The Storm Area 51 Facebook event takes place with about 150 -people showing up at the entrance to Area 51. Although no one succeeds -in entering the site, an estimated 3,000 attend the related music -festivals in Rachel and Hiko, Nevada, according to state and local law -enforcement, and up to 10,000 people visit the area over the weekend. -Air Force spokeswoman Laura -McAndrews says government officials are briefed on the event and -discourage people from attempting to enter military property. Nevada law -enforcement also warns potential participants in the event against -trespassing. The event, although intended as a joke, has an effect on -businesses both locally in Nevada and around the US, which prepare -products for visitors for those attending. (Wikipedia, “Storm -Area 51”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7792

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Event 10623 -(428255B4)

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Date: 9/20/2019
-Description: “Storm Area-51” event planned
-Type: event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Area 51

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Event 10624 -(AF326D7D)

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Date: 9/29/2019
-End date: 9/30/2019
-Description: 11:00 p.m. Security officers at Palo Verde Nuclear -Generating Station near Tonopah, Arizona, observe 5–6 drones flying at -200–300 feet and showing flashing red and white lights. The objects also -have spotlights turned on during their approach but turned off as they -maneuver above the site. They remain over the plant for more than 80 -minutes and are estimated to be at least 2 feet across, ruling out -commercial drones. They return the following night, with 4 drones -operating above the station for an extended period. Polie unsuccessfuly -attempt to track down the operators. (Tyler Rogoway and Joseph -Trevithick, “The -Night a Mysterious Drone Swarm -Descended on Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant,” The Drive: The War -Zone, July 29, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7793

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Event 10625 -(879EBFEC)

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Date: 10/11/2019
-Description: The Twenty-Fifth Air Force for intelligence activities is -merged with the 24th Air Force to form a reactivated 16th Air Force -responsible for information warfare. Its headquarters is still at Joint -Base San Antonio– Lackland in Texas. (Wikipedia, “Sixteenth -Air Force”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7794

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Event 10626 -(1FB99A54)

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Date: 10/17/2019
-Description: The To the Stars Academy announces it has entered into a -cooperative research and development agreement with the US Army Combat -Capabilities Development Command. The five-year contract will focus on -“inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, -electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum -communications, and beamed energy propulsion.” According to the US Army, -no public funding will go the group, but at least $750,000 will be -provided in support and resources for developing and testing To the -Stars technologies. The contract states that To the Stars will provide -samples in its possession of “metamaterials,” any data or “obtained -vehicles” that use “beamed energy propulsion,” and any information or -technology related to “active camouflage” for testing and analysis of -potential application on Army ground vehicles. Doug Halleaux, a -spokesperson for the CCDC Ground Vehicle Systems Center, has stated that -the US government has approached To the Stars because “If materials -represented in the TTSA ADAM project are scientifically evaluated and -presented with supporting data as having military utility by the TTSA, -it makes sense to look deeper here.” According to Halleaux, the Army is -also interested in the results of a collaboration between To the Stars -and TruClear Global, a company that creates custom video screen -billboards, aimed at providing “advanced technology solutions to United -States Government clientele.” (Wikipedia, “To -the Stars (company)”; “Cooperative -Research and Development Agreement between To the Stars Academy of Arts -and Science, Inc., and -the U.S. Army Combat Capavilities Development Command, Ground Behicle -Systems Center,” October 10, 2019; Travis J. Tritten, “UFO -Group Sharing Exotic Materials with Army for Combat Vehicles,” -Bloomberg Government, October 21, 2019; M. J. Banias, “Tom -DeLonge’s UFO Research Group Signs Contract with U.S. Army -to Develop Far-Future Tech,” Motherboard, October 21, 2019; Mindy -Weisberger, “Rock -Star’s Company Seeks -UFOs, Finds Military Contract,” Live Science, October 27, 2019; M. -J. Banias, “The -Army Told Us Why It Partnered -with Tom DeLonge’s UFO Group,” Motherboard, November 4, 2019; To the -Stars Academy, “CRADA FAQ,” -November 15, 2019);
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7795

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Event 10627 -(9A5A7E83)

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Date: 10/21/2019
-Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on -retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed -Services Committee.
-Type: senate briefing
-Reference: NY -Times
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 10628 -(324C38A4)

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Date: 10/23/2019
-Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on -retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate -Intelligence Committee
-Type: senate briefing
-Reference: NY -Times
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 10629 -(7ED13D76)

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Date: 10/27/2019
-Description: The fifth X-37B mission, Orbital Test Vehicle-5, lands at -the Shuttle Landing Facility on Merritt Island, Florida, after spending -nearly 780 days in space. The Boeing X37B is an uncrewed, reusable, -robotic spaceplane that is launched by an Atlas V rocket and uses solar -panels for power in space. While the complete payload for OTV-5 is -classified, the Air Force announces that one of its experiments is the -Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader II (ASETS-II), which -measures the performance of an oscillating heat pipe. (Wikipedia, “Boeing -X-37”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7796

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Event 10630 -(00EAD280)

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Date: 11/9/2019
-Description: 5:16 p.m. A young couple are driving home on the A629 near -Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, when they see a white glow over the -moorland. They stop and get out to watch as they hear the roar of what -seem to be fighter jets headed for the glow. Other cars also stop and -watch. Some start to film the object and the jets, as d o the couple on -their cellphones, but the footage is blurry. The mother of the driver -starts an appeal on social media for any other witnesses who filmed the -event to come forward. Jenny -Randles determines that two aircraft at that location, but they are -not military and not jets; they are Partenavia P.68 Observers belonging -to Ravenair and flying at 2,200 and 2,300 feet side by side and landing -at John Lennon Airport in Liverpool 25 minutes later. No radar target -matches the UFO itself. (Jenny Randles, “2020 Vision,” Fortean Times 389 -(February 2020): 28–29)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7797

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Event 10631 -(742EC592)

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Date: 11/11/2019
-Description: 5:33 p.m. A commercial aircrew is flying a Boeing 737-800 -airliner at 37,000 feet altitude and 506 mph near Marseille, France. The -pilot observes an unusual light flying just above their altitude on a -collision heading from the right side into the 2 o’clock position -relative to the aircraft. It performs a 180° turn and then matches the -speed and heading of the airliner before beginning to cross above and in -front of its flight path. At this point the pilot uses a cellphone to -take a photograph and record 47 seconds of the UFO crossing their flight -path, accelerating, and moving away. (Ted Roe, “NARCAP -Technical Report 19: Analysis of a November 11, 2019, Aviation -Safety-Related Incident Involving a Commercial Airliner and a UAP Over -Europe,” July 2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7798

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Event 10632 -(83A3DBC1)

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Date: 11/26/2019
-Description: The same White House staffer who had an attack in August is -hit again by Havana Syndrome while walking her dog in Arlington, -Virginia. As she passes a parked van, a man gets out and walks past her. -Her dog starts seizing up. Then she feels it too: a high-pitched ringing -in her ears, an intense headache, and a tingling on the side of her -face. (Julia Joffe, “The -Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion,” GQ, October 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7799

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Event 10633 -(0443DDC1)

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Date: 12/2019
-Description: The Federal Aviation Administration launches an -investigation into multiple nighttime sightings of unidentified “drones” -with 6-foot wingspans flying in formation at about 150 feet over rural -areas of northeastern Colorado (Phillips, Yuma, Washington, Lincoln, and -Morgan counties) and southwestern Nebraska (Perkins County) for the last -2 weeks in December, and as early as November 23. The objects usually -fly in square grid patterns nearly every night between 5:00 and 10:00 -p.m. They have blinking lights and hover, then descend and take off very -fast. Sen. Cory -Gardner (R-Colo.) says he is glad the FAA is investigating. The -Colorado Department of Homeland Security also opens an investigation, as -Gov. Jared -Polis vows to get to the bottom of the case. Sheriffs say the drones -are not breaking Colorado law, but industry experts note that the drone -operators could be violating FAA regulations on flying after dark and -above a certain height. (“FAA -Probes Clusters of Mysterious -Drones Flying over Colorado,” Reuters, December 31, 2019; Sam -Tabachnik, “A -Night on the Plains: Chasing -the Mysterious Drones of Eastern Colorado,” Denver Post, January 3, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7800

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Event 10634 -(2B34A71A)

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Date: 12/3/2019
-Description: The CIA team investigating the Havana Syndrome attacks -brings its findings to CIA director Gina -Haspel. According to two sources, after listening to the -investigators lay out their evidence that suggests the Russian security -services are behind the hits on Agency personnel, Haspel challenges -them. She accuses the investigators of both hiding information from her -and lying to her about what their inquiry has uncovered. The director -questions the motives of those looking into the attacks. “This is why we -need to clean out Russia House,” she says, referring to the CIA’s -operations unit focused on Russia, according to two sources. “You’re -just trying to stir up trouble on Russia.” A third source confirms that -“the meeting did not go well.” (Julia Joffe, “The -Mystery of the -Immaculate Concussion,” GQ, October 19, 2020; Ana Swanson, Edward -Wong, and Julian E. Barmes, “U.S. Diplomats -and Spies Battle Trump Administration over Suspected Attacks,” New -York Times, October 19, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7801

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Event 10635 -(ACBD1C9C)

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Date: 12/20/2019
-Description: The United States Space Force Act, part of the National -Defense Authorization Act for 2020, is signed, creating an independent -space service by renaming and reorganizing Air Force Space Command into -the United States Space Force. (Wikipedia, “United -States Space Force”)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7802

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Event 10636 -(BDE11E30)

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Date: 12/31/2019
-Description: Dusk. Placido Montoya, a plumber from Fort Morgan, -Colorado, gives chase to a mystery drone in Morgan County after seeing -blinking lights in the sky. But they take off rapidly and he speeds up -to 120 mph before losing them. Vince Iovinella, deputy sheriff at the -Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, receives more than 30 calls from locals -reporting drones “zipping around all over the place.” Iovinella himself -sees one with red, white, and green lights that he also tries to chase, -but it outruns him. (“Attack -of the Drones,” The Guardian (UK), April 18, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7803

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- Event 10637 (85EC8B18)

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Date: 1/6/2020
-Description: A meeting of local, state, and federal agencies brings 75 -people to Brush, Colorado, to share information and strategy on the -mystery drones. Officials are looking for a command vehicle (such as a -“closed box trailer with antennas or a large van”) that might be -controlling the drones. (“Command -Vehicle Focus of Colorado Drone Investigation,” -Mystery Wire, January 6, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7804

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Event 10638 -(A182B269)

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Date: 1/8/2020
-Description: Drones are now being seen in Castle Rock and Parker in -Douglas County, Colorado, and Fort Collins in Larimer County. Kerry -Garrison, a vice president at drone vendor Multicopter Warehouse in -Centennial, claims the drone reports are actually sightings of Starlink -satellites launched by SpaceX; although they are at orbital altitude, in -a clear sky they can look lower than they really are. But Garrison also -visited the eastern planes with other aviation experts to view the -drones. He says he saw red lights go zipping by at 100 mph, faster than -any drone. A close call with a drone and a Flight for Life helicopter -near Fort Morgan, Colorado, prompts officials to add ground-based -spotting teams and aircraft equipped to hunt drones. However, an -investigation by Colorado Homeland Security later say the incident is -unrelated to the drone activity. (“Local -Drone Dealer Says Lights Spotted -over Castle Rock Were Satellites,” KDVR, Denver, January 7. 2020; -Paul Seaburn, “Mysterious -Drones Fly -near Denver As Colorado Residents Fear a Government Cover-Up.” -Mysterious Universe, January 8, 2020; Brett Tingley, “Surveillance -Plane Joins Intensifying Hunt for Mystery Drones over Colorado and -Nebraska (Updated),” -The Drive: The War Zone, January 8, 2020; Kevin D. Randle, “X-Zone -Broadcast Network: Drones, Drones, -Drones,” A Different Perspective, February 7, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7805

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Event 10639 -(32FEADB3)

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Date: 1/13/2020
-Description: State agencies and the Colorado Division of Homeland -Security announce that they are scaling back investigations into drone -sightings. Between November 23 and January 13, the Colorado Information -Analysis Center received 90 reports of drone activity. Of those, 14 are -confirmed by law enforcement to be hobbyist drones. Between January 6 -and January 13, when state officials investigate drone sightings in the -field, there are 23 drone activity reports. Of those, 13 are determined -to be planets, stars, or small hobbyist drones. Six reports are ruled -out as “atmospheric conditions or unidentified commercial aircraft.” -Finally, four reports are confirmed by law enforcement, but the aircraft -are unidentifiable. (“State -Plans to ‘Scale Back’ Investigation of Drones in Northeast -Colorado,” KDVR, Denver, January 13, 2020; “Drone Swarms,” Fortean -Times, no. 416 (March 2022): 19)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7806

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Event 10640 -(9DC7F9F2)

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Date: 1/20/2020
-Description: President Joe Biden in office
-Type: historical event
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Washington DC

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Event 10641 -(DE06313A)

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Date: 1/30/2020
-Description: The UK National Archives and Ministry of Defence announce -another “final” release of UFO files. (“Ministry -of Defence Insider Reveals Contents of Britain’s ‘Final’ UFO Files,” -Metro (UK), January 30, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7807

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Event 10642 -(CCAC6E0C)

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Date: 2/14/2020
-Description: A Popular Mechanics article by UFO investigative writer and -retired police lieutenant Tim -McMillan says that Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) -was contracted under the auspices of the AATIP program to study UFO -reports and purported paranormal phenomena. According to Steven -Aftergood, director -of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, -the AAWSAP contract “sounds like it was a good deal for the contractor. -But it would be hard to argue that either the military or the public got -their money’s worth.” (Tim McMillan, “Inside -the Pentagon’s Secret UFO Program,” Popular Mechanics, February 14, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7808

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Event 10643 -(645FB7D5)

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Date: 3/3/2020
-Description: Science writer Sarah Scoles publishes They Are Already -Here, focusing on the beliefs and attitudes of UFO researchers through -first-person interviews. (Sarah Scoles, They Are Already Here: UFO -Culture and Why We See Saucers, Pegasus, 2020; Curt Collins, “UFO -Culture Examined: They -Are Already Here by -Sarah Scoles,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, Mar h 26, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7809

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Event 10644 -(2FA99CB9)

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Date: 3/11/2020
-Description: COVID-19 Pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO) -declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern -on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
-Type: pandemic
-Reference: Wikipedia

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Event 10645 -(50BD1422)

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Date: 3/19/2020
-Description: Night. A commercial Boeing 767 airliner is flying from -Mexico City to Houston, Texas. At an approximate position somewhere west -of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, the plane is flying north at -37,000 feet at 575 mph when the first officer, looking across to the -left side of the cockpit, sees a yellowish-white light descend into view -from above. He first thinks that it is a meteor and begins to say so -when it suddenly stops at nearly the same altitude as the aircraft. The -UFO then projects an illuminating beam of bright white light on the -aircraft and appears to take a collision heading. The captain takes a -defensive attitude and prepares for evasive measures, but the beam of -light illuminating the aircraft ceases, and the UFO suddenly accelerates -to the same speed and heading of the aircraft, maintains separation, and -begins pacing. The captain estimates that the UFO maintains a distance -of 1,000–2,000 feet, near the minimum allowable separation of 1,000 -feet. The copilot describes the UFO as a “brilliant yellow white plasma -object, teardrop shaped.” There are no navigation lights or other -features associated with airplanes, and the light seems to have a tail. -During the following 30 minutes, the crew observes and takes 8 -photographs and four video segments of the UFO, one of which lasts 4:47. -The video documents that the Airborne Collision Avoidance System SSR -radar does not detect anything while the crew is actively observing the -object. As the aircraft and its attendant UFO approaches the Mexico/US -border, the light begins to flicker, changes colors from yellow-white to -pinkish-purple, and turns on a perpendicular heading away from the -aircraft and parallel to the border without crossing into the US. (Ted -Roe, “An -Independent Analysis of a March 19, 2020, Aviation-Safety -Related Incident Involving UAP, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, over -Mexico,” NARCAP, June 1, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7810

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Event 10646 -(F39695F2)

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Date: 3/23/2020
-Description: Bigelow Aerospace laws off entire workforce
-Type: layoff
-Reference: link
-Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Event 10647 -(B6BD1F30)

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Date: 3/28/2020
-Description: The US Space Force declares the Space Fence, its -second-generation space surveillance system, operational. The system is -designed to track more than 25,000 artificial satellites and chunks of -space debris in Earth orbit (and UAPs, presumably), some as small as a -marble. The initial Space Fence facility is located at Kwajalein Atoll -in the Marshall Islands, along with an option for another radar site in -Western Australia. The US Strategic Command has data-sharing agreements -with Australia, Japan, Italy, Canada, France, South Korea, the United -Kingdom, the European Space Agency, and Europe’s Eumetsat weather -satellite organization. With this and other surveillance capabilities, -former assistant secretary of defense Christopher -Mellon wonders why the US Air Force has not simultaneously detected -the same UAPs that the US Navy has been doing with less sophisticated -equipment. (Wikipedia, “Space -Fence”; Lockheed Martin, “Space -Fence”; Christopher Mellon, “Why -Is the Air Force -AWOL on the UAP Issue?” The Debrief, February 3, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7811

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Event 10648 -(009EC0BC)

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Date: 4/27/2020
-Description: The Pentagon officially releases the three videos (Tic-Tac, -GIMBAL, and GoFast) showing UFOs that were previously released between -December 2017 and March 2018 by the private company To the Stars Academy -of Arts and Sciences. The release states that “the aerial phenomena -observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’” (“Pentagon -Officially Releases UFO Videos,” CNN, April 29, 2020; David Clarke, -“Echoes and Angels: UFOs on Radar,” Fortean Times 403 (March 2021): -40)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7812

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Event 10649 -(6D206718)

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Date: 5/1/2020
-Description: The US Office of Naval Intelligence holds a classified -briefing to destigmatize the UAP problem and to promote more -intelligence collection regarding UAP incursions and encounters with -active military deployments. (Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, “The -US Navy Filmed Pyramid Shaped UFOs,” Extraordinary Beliefs, April 8, -2019)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7813

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Event 10650 -(4878CBC4)

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Date: 5/28/2020
-Description: Postdoctoral researcher Darryl Seligman and astrophysicist -Gregory Laughlin argue that the interstellar object ʻOumuamua could be a -hydrogen iceberg generated by a giant molecular cloud. The hypothesis -explains the object’s strange cigar shape, as cosmic radiation would -chip away at its edges (in some directions more than others) that would -produce an elongated shape. The fact that it sped up as it entered the -Solar System can be explained because it is outgassing hydrogen -increased by the solar flux. (Darryl Seligman and Gregory Laughlin, “Evidence -That 1I/2017 U1 (’Oumuamua) Was Composed of Molecular Hydrogen Ice,” -arXiv, May 28, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7814

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Event 10651 -(CE6C2934)

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Date: 6/2020
-Description: Robert -Bigelow launches a new effort, the Bigelow Institute for -Consciousness Studies, to study the survival of human consciousness -after death. (Skinwalkers 35)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7815

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Event 10652 -(68BE9B1B)

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Date: 6/6/2020
-Description: Ufologist and ex-NASA mission specialist Bob Oechsler -dies
-Type: death
-Reference: link
-Location: Edgewater, Maryland

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Event 10653 -(88BCC702)

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Date: 6/23/2020
-Description: The US Senate Intelligence Committee, apparently disturbed -by the lack of a coordinated investigatory process, asks the Pentagon -for a detailed, unclassified report on UFOs, or “unidentified aerial -phenomena.” In his report attached to the 2020–2021 Senate Intelligence -Authorization Act, Sen. Marco -Rubio (R-Fla.), acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence -Committee, instructs the director of national intelligence, the -secretary of defense, and other agency heads to compile data on UFOs. -“The Committee understands that the relevant intelligence may be -sensitive; nevertheless, the Committee finds that the information -sharing and coordination across the Intelligence Community has been -inconsistent, and this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders,” -the report states. It also confirms the existence of an ongoing -Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force managed by the Under Secretary -of Defense for Intelligence in collaboration with the Office of Naval -Intelligence, as was its informal predecessor program, the Advanced -Aerospace Threat Investigation Program. The task force is headed until -January 2021 by Naval officer John F. Stratton. (Wikipedia, “Unidentified -Aerial Phenomena -Task Force”; M. J. Banias, “Senate -Intelligence Committee Confirms the US Navy Has a UFO Task Force,” -Motherboard, June 23, 2020; “Classified -UFO Briefings May Have Left Senators ‘Disturbed,’ Expert Says,” -Fox News, June 24, 2020; George Knapp, “More -UFO Heraings? Congress Might Consider Hearing from These -2 Men,” Mystery Wire, May 23, 2022) June 24 – The Intelligence -Committee votes to require the US Intelligence Community and the -Department of Defense to publicly track and analyze data collected on -unexplained aerial vehicles. Reports from the task force are to be -issued to the Intelligence Committee every six months. (Bryan Bender, -“Senators Want the Public to See the Government’s UFO Reports,” -Politico, June 23, 2020; “Senate -Panel Votes to Let Public Access UFO Records,” Courthouse News -Service, June 24, 2020; “Pentagon -UFO Unit to Publicly Release Some Findings after Ex- Official -Says ‘Off-World Vehicle’ Found,” The Independent (UK), June 24, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7816

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Event 10654 -(2E668580)

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Date: 7/16/2020
-Description: 5:00 a.m. Paul Froggatt sees a glowing orange sphere that -follows him as he is cycling through the Oakwood and Blacklow Spinney -Woods in Warwickshire, England. The usual early morning birdsong has -gone silent. Turning a bend, he encounters a 7-foot-tall, green-colored -creature that stands on two legs and looks like a praying mantis. It has -a triangular head and two large black eyes that stare at him. He thinks -it is trying to transmit evil thoughts into his mind, so he speeds up -and escapes it. (Nigel Watson, “M Is for Mantis and Missile,” Fortean -Times 404 (April 2021): 22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7817

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Event 10655 -(AA9E81BE)

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Date: 7/23/2020
-Description: Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie -Kean report in the New York Times that Sen. Rubio is -primarily concerned about reports of unidentified aircraft over US -military bases and that China or Russia or some other adversary has made -“some technological leap” that “allows them to conduct this sort of -activity.” Rubio says some of the unidentified aerial vehicles over -military bases possibly exhibit technologies not in the US arsenal. But -he also notes: “Maybe there is a completely, sort of, boring explanation -for it. But we need to find out.” The paper reports that while former -Sen. Harry -Reid “believed that crashes of objects of unknown origin may have -occurred and that retrieved materials should be studied; he did not say -that crashes had occurred and that retrieved materials had been studied -secretly for decades.” News reports also repeat a claim made by Eric -W. Davis that an “off-world vehicle” might be in the possession of -the US government. (Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, “No -Longer in the Shadows, Pentagon’s -UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public,” New York Times, July 23, -2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7818

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Event 10656 -(94E4321F)

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Date: 7/28/2020
-Description: NY Times confirms Crash Retrievals with “retrieved -materials”, all information is classified
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Location: New York, New York

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Event 10657 -(C9A85534)

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Date: 8/2020
-Description: The National Academy of Sciences completes a report on -Havana Syndrome, concluding that embassy personnel in Cuba, China, -Russia, and other countries were most likely subjected to “directed, -pulsed radiofrequency energy” in malicious attacks. A committee of 19 -experts says that the immediate symptoms that patients -reported—including strange sensations of pain, pressure, and sound that -often appear to emanate from a particular direction or occurred in a -specific spot in a room—are more consistent with a directed “attack” of -radiofrequency energy. The report does not point to a perpetrator, -though it mentions “significant research in Russia/U.S.S.R.” on pulsed -radiofrequency technology, as well as the exposure of military personnel -in Eurasian communist countries to microwave radiation. The CDC -concludes, “The evaluations conducted thus far have not identified a -mechanism of injury, process of exposure, effective treatment, or -mitigating factor for the unexplained cluster of symptoms experienced by -those stationed in Havana.” The report is inexplicably withheld from -congressional and public scrutiny after it is submitted. Only after key -senators learn of its existence later in the fall and press -then-Secretary of State Mike -Pompeo to turn it over does the Trump administration finally provide -the report to a few Senate offices. The New York Times and NBC News -first report on details of the unclassified NAS study, titled “An -Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at -Overseas Embassies,” in early December. (Ana Swanson and Edward Wong, -“Report -Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ As Likely -Source of Mystery Illnesses That Hit Diplomats and Spies,” New York -Times, December 5, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7819

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Event 10658 -(7535F883)

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Date: 8/4/2020
-Description: Deputy Secretary of Defense David -L. Norquist approves the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial -Phenomena Task Force. The Department of the Navy, under the oversight of -the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and -Security, will lead the effort. The Department of Defense says it is -establishing the UAPTF to improve its understanding of the nature and -origins of UAPs. Its mission is to detect, analyze, and catalog UAPs -that could potentially pose a threat to US national security. Its -mandate includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported -as UAPs when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is -seeing. (Wikipedia, “Unidentified -Aerial Phenomena Task Force”; US Department of Defense, “Establishment -of Unidentified -Aerial Phenomena Task Force,” August 14, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7820

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Event 10659 -(E64208FC)

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Date: 8/29/2020
-Description: 6:45 p.m. An American Airlines pilot reports that a man -flying in a jet pack has passed by them about 90 feet away at their -altitude of 3,000 feet coming into Los Angeles International Airport in -California. About 10 minutes later, a Jet Blue Airways pilot spots the -flying man. (“A -Man Flying a Jetpack Was Reported by Pilots above -Los Angeles,” CNN, September 3, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7821

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Event 10660 -(54A13949)

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Date: 9/1/2020
-Description: 10:13 p.m. A B737 is approaching the runway at Leeds -Airport, England, at 1,800 feet. Both pilot and First Officer suddenly -see a bright light and an object that appears to be headed toward the -aircraft, almost head on, slightly up and to the left. It appears -without warning and gives them no time to act. After landing, the crew -informs Air Traffic Control, who tells them that the West Yorkshire -police helicopter had earlier seen “lanterns” in the area, but neither -crew member thought that matched what they saw. The UK Airprox Board -concludes that a “definite high risk of collision had existed.” (UK -Airprox Board, “Monthly -Meeting October 2020”; “UKAB ‘Unknown Object’ Log 2017–2020,” -Fortean Times 406 (June 2021): 43)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7822

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Event 10661 -(2257ECBC)

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Date: 9/15/2020
-Description: Japanese Defense Minister Taro -Kono announces at a press conference that members of the Self- -Defense Forces must make a visual recording of any unexplained aerial -phenomena they encounter and that the footage must be analyzed to the -fullest extent. The military is also being tasked with looking into -reports of UFO sightings from the public. The issue is brought up when -Kono meets with US Defense Secretary Mark -Esper in Guam in late August for a regularly scheduled talk on -regional security issues. (“Japan’s -Defense Ministry Launches -Protocol for UFO Sightings,” The Diplomat, September 18, 2020; “Japan -Orders Military Pilots to Report -UFO Sightings,” Deutsche Welle, September 28, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7823

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Event 10662 -(AA3A7DCB)

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Date: 10/14/2020
-Description: 1:45 p.m. A China Airlines crew member reports what appears -to be someone in a jet pack flying at about 6,500 feet roughly seven -miles northwest of Los Angeles International Airport, California. The -air traffic controller alerts another pilot who is preparing to land, -and the Federal Aviation Administration alerts local law enforcement and -the FBI. However, it’s more likely that the pilots were seeing a -battery-powered electric drone fitted with a mannequin. Jet packs would -take up too much fuel to get to those altitudes. (“A -Man Flying in a Jetpack -Has Been Spotted Again in the Skies over Los Angeles,” CNN, October -14, 2020; “This -Jetpack Maker Isn’t -So Sure That’s What’s Been Spotted over the L.A. Skies,” NBC News, -October 15, 2020)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7824

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Event 10663 -(1F9EF2B7)

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Date: 11/2020
-Description: An official from the National Security Council suddenly -falls ill with symptoms similar to those previously experienced by -diplomats in Havana, Cuba. It takes place on the Ellipse in Washington, -D.C., close to the White House. (“US -Investigating Possible Mysterious Directed Energy Attack near White -House,” CNN, April 29, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7825

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Event 10664 -(32233C9B)

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Date: 11/2020
-Description: The extensive case files of the Center for UFO Studies -(including files originating from the National Investigations Committee -on Aerial Phenomena, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York, and J. -Allen Hynek’s Project Blue Book copies) are transferred from -Chicago, Illinois, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where a digitization -project begins that will ultimately make them widely available, headed -by CUFOS board member David -Marler. (“David -Marler: CUFOS Digitization Project 2021,” Project 1947)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7826

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Event 10665 -(9B4FAFF3)

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Date: 12/2020
-Description: The CIA re-launches its task force on Havana Syndrome and -expands its efforts under new Director William -J. Burns, who -has vowed during his confirmation hearings to review the evidence on the -attacks on CIA personnel overseas, which have long been publicly -reported. (“CIA -Launches Task Force to Probe Invisible Attacks -on US Diplomats and Spies As One Victim Finds Some Relief,” CNN, -February 24, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7827

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Event 10666 -(2DFD2465)

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Date: 12/27/2020
-Description: President Donald -Trump signs a $2.3 trillion government funding bill—the Consolidated -Appropriations Act, 2021—containing a number of long-anticipated -provisions, including an Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021. The -latter contains a subheading labeled “Advanced Aerial Threats,” which -requires the Director of National Intelligence (Avril -Haynes under the Biden administration) to consult with the Secretary -of Defense (Lloyd -Austin under the Biden Administration) to submit a report on -“unidentified aerial phenomena (also known as ‘anomalous aerial -vehicles’), including observed airborne objects that have not been -identified” and the potential threats they pose. The premise behind the -provision is that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was -concerned that the US government has no coordinated or comprehensive -process for collecting and assessing intelligence data about -unidentified aerial phenomena. It demands a detailed analysis of UAP -data to be delivered to the Joint Armed Services Committee by the end of -June 2021. It also calls for a streamlined reporting structure under the -aegis of a named official The director of the US Navy’s UAP Task Force, -Brennan McKernan, leads this new Pentagon-wide project. (Helen Lin, “Sci-Fi -Stimulus Secrets: Why Did UFOs Appear in the December 2020 -COVID-19 Relief Package?” Reference, July 2, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7828

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- Event 10667 (5153B3D7)

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Date: 1/2021
-Description: Ash Ellis, who runs the online site UFO Identified, -compiles a breakdown of 484 sightings reported in the UK during 2020. -The majority (396) were made in England. There is a sharp increase in -March and April due to the launch of SpaceX satellite trains. The most -likely time to see a UFO is between 9 and 10 p.m. on a Sunday, and the -shapes vary from star-like, triangular, oval, disc-shaped, and -cylindrical to unknown. There were only three CE-3s and one abduction -report. (Ash Ellis, “The -UK UFO Report 2020,” UFO Identified)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7829

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Event 10668 -(E570C29C)

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Date: 1/1/2021
-Description: Using Freedom of Information requests, UK reporter Dean -Kirby analyzes 128 separate calls to 16 police forces since 2016 that -mention UFOs. Several are obvious UAVs, including one reported by a -caller to police in Bangor, Northern Ireland, who described a flying -object that appeared to have solar panels. But the true figure could be -much higher, with more than 30 police forces including Police Scotland -saying they have no easy way of counting the calls and three saying they -would each have to search through more than 700 records where the -letters UFO were used. (Dean Kirby, “In -One of the Strangest Years of Our Lives, Reports of UFO Sightings Have -Reached New Heights in Lockdown,” News UK, January 1, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7830

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Event 10669 -(2BDCBFA3)

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Date: 1/15/2021
-Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has -conducted a two-year “epidemiologic investigation” of the mysterious -medical incidents suffered by US personnel in Cuba but cannot determine -the nature of the injuries nor the cause, according to its 18-page -report. “The evaluations conducted thus far have not identified a -mechanism of injury, process of exposure, effective treatment, or -mitigating factor for the unexplained cluster of symptoms experienced by -those stationed in Havana, Cuba,” concluded the CDC study. Titled “Cuba -Unexplained Events Investigation—Final Report,” the CDC study was -completed more than a year ago. But its existence was revealed only -after a more recent evaluation by the National Academy of Sciences, -which references the CDC report leaked to the press in December. (Dan -Vergano, “Medical -Records Can’t Explain ‘Havana -Syndrome,’ a Buried CDC Report Says,” BuzzFeed News, January 15, -2021; “CDC -Report on the ‘Havana -Syndrome’: Medical Mystery Remains Unsolved,” National Security -Archive, February 2, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7831

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Event 10670 -(5E613D81)

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Date: 1/23/2021
-Description: Radio and TV host Larry King dies at age 87 in Los Angeles, -CA
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Los Angeles, CA

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Event 10671 -(A545E7D0)

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Date: 2/7/2021
-Description: The British UFO Research Association reports that it -received 583 reports in 2020, which is 40% less than in 2019. However, -the number of high-strangeness reports doubled (37). (“An -Overview of Sightings, Photographs, -and High Strangeness Reports in 2020 and Looking Ahead to 2021,” -BUFORA, February 7, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7832

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Event 10672 -(BF097E8C)

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Date: 2/9/2021
-Description: 10:30 p.m. An unidentified drone with a green light on its -underbody is spotted from the corner of East Ajo Way and South Palo -Verde Road in Tucson, Arizona, directly adjacent to a fuel terminal just -west of Davis- Monthan. It flies into controlled airspace surrounding -the base and Tucson International Airport after the Tucson Police -Department and US Customs and Border Protection helicopters began to -pursue it. The law enforcement helicopters follow the drone northwest -out of the city for nearl 45 minutes before losing it in the clouds -around 14,000 feet. The CBP is operating an Airbus AS350, while Tucson -police are flying a Bell 206B-3 Jet Ranger. The CPB pilot says that the -drone is highly modified and able to outperform any other he has seen -previously, flying circles around both helicopters at speeds well in -excess of 100 mph. (Brett Tingley, “Police helicopter Crew Says -Mysterious Craft They Chased Was ‘Not Like Any Other’ Drone,” The Drive: -The War Zone, June 22, 2021; Tim McMillan, Micah Hanks, and Christopher -Plain, “Incursions -at the Border: Homeland Security Agents -Tell of Encounters with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” The DeBrief, -May 27, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7833

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Event 10673 -(78535F8B)

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Date: 2/17/2021
-Description: Tom -DeLonge’s To the Stars Academy files a report to the US Securities -and Exchange Commission, saying that it is restructuring its operations -to “scale back its initiatives in science and commercialization.” This -is given as justification for dropping advisors Luis -Elizondo, Stephen -Justice, and Christopher -Mellon. (Nigel -Watson, “M Is for Mantis and Missile,” Fortean Times 404 (April 2021): -22)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7834

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Event 10674 -(039B2D23)

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Date: 2/21/2021
-Description: 12:19 p.m. An American Airlines Airbus A320 pilot reports a -long, cylindrical object like a cruise missile pass above his location -west of Clayton, New Mexico. The FAA has no reports of objects on air -traffic controller radar screens. (“Intercept: -American Airlines Flight 2292 Reports Close Encounter with Unknown -Flying Object,” -Deep Blue Horizon, February 21, 2021; Tyler Rogoway, “FAA -Releases Statement on Airliner’s Encounter -with Unknown Object over New Mexico,” The Drive: The War Zone, -February 24, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7835

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Event 10675 -(BFCCAAC0)

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Date: 3/12/2021
-Description: The US State Department names a senior official to lead the -agency’s response to the Havana Syndrome attacks. Pamela -L. Spratlen, a -career foreign service officer, will serve as the senior advisor to the -Health Incident Response Task Force, which was created in 2018 to -coordinate the response to the spate of incidents. (“State Department -Names Senior Official to Lead Response to Mysterious ‘Havana Syndrome’ -Attacks,” CNN, March 12, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7836

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Event 10676 -(343F595E)

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Date: 3/29/2021
-Description: Chris -Rutkowski’s annual review of UFO sightings in Canada shows there was -a 46% rise in reports in 2020; 30% of the 1,243 sights were in Ontario -and 24% from Quebec. 13% remain unexplained. (Chris Rutkowski, “The -2020 Canadian UFO Survey,” Ufology Research, March 29, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7837

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Event 10677 -(FF061D68)

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Date: 4/13/2021
-Description: According to the National UFO Reporting Center, there was -an increase of some 1,000 sightings in the United States during 2020, -reaching a peak of 7,200 reports. (“UFO -Sightings in US Rose Sharply during the Pandemic, Data -Reveals,” WION, April 13, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7838

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Event 10678 -(CBB52090)

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Date: 4/15/2021
-Description: Tyler Rogoway of The War Zone summarizes the defense -implications of drone and UAP interference with military aircraft, -ships, and weapons systems, concluding that “at least one of our -adversaries, and possibly two, have played our own cultural norms -against us and have executed what may be among the most successful and -ingenious intelligence-gathering plays of all time. Meanwhile, it seems -that the DoD is either incapable of identifying and evaluating what -should no longer be considered an emerging threat—swarming drones and -radar target balloons—or they are playing along by acting like they do -not know, which could be the case for a number of reasons.” (Tyler -Rogoway, “Adversary -Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and the Pentagon Acts Like They’re UFOs,” -The Drive: The War Zone, April 15, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7839

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Event 10679 -(74FA96B0)

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Date: 4/19/2021
-End date: 4/26/2021
-Description: The US Navy kicks off a secretive experiment to launch a -missile at a surface target using information from a combination of -manned and unmanned aircraft and surface vessels to test their direct -attack and electronic warfare capabilities. (Joseph Trevithick, “Huge -Navy Unmanned-Focused Experiment Underway Featuring Live Missile -Shoot and ‘Super Swarms,’” The Drive: The War Zone, April 20, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7840

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Event 10680 -(83233348)

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Date: 4/26/2021
-Description: Letter from Senate Majority leader Harry Reid confirming -the existence of AATIP and Lue Elizondo’s leadership role within the DoD -program
-Type: letter
-Reference: TODO

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Event 10681 -(B2777407)

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Date: 5/2021
-Description: During a briefing prior to a planned US Air Force exercise, -USAF personnel observe a slide presentation that explains what to do if -they encounter a UAP. They are clearly instructed to complete the Air -Force reporting form, which features shapes of several different types -of UAP they could encounter (plasma-like balls, tic-tacs, discs). It -also features specific questions, such as whether the UAP interferes -with their radar operation. This is all new, the officer points out to -researcher Robert Powell, something that would not have occurred 18 -months previous. He finds the stigma associated with this subject in the -Air Force has significantly changed. (Robert Powell, “Opinion: -When It Comes to the USAF and UAP, the Tide May Finally Be Turning,” -The Debrief, February 7, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7841

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Event 10682 -(B9AFF105)

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Date: 5/18/2021
-Description: Former President Barack -Obama admits on The Late Late Show with James Corden that “When I -came into office, I asked … is there a lab somewhere where we’re keeping -the alien specimens and spaceship? And you know, they did a little bit -of research and the answer was no. But what is true, and I’m actually -being serious here, is that there are, there’s footage and records of -objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t -explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily -explainable pattern.” (“Barack -Obama Talks -about UFOs Again on Late Night Television,” WIAT, Birmingham, -Alabama, May 19, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7842

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Event 10683 -(5C277A7D)

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Date: 6/4/2021
-Description: South China Morning Post: China military uses AI to track -rapidly increasing UFOs. To the People’s Liberation Army they are -‘unidentified air conditions’ and artificial intelligence is the best -way to keep up with them.
-Type: newspaper article
-Reference: link
-Location: China

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Event 10684 -(C82E4A46)

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Date: 6/25/2021
-Description: The US Office -of the Director of National Intelligence releases a summary 6-page -report on UAPs, largely centering on evidence gathered in the last 20 -years from US Navy reports. It claims that 143 of the 144 are -unidentified, though none of the data is provided. (The full report, -available only to those with proper security clearances, is released in -a redacted version in March 2022.) The report comes to no conclusion -about what the UAPs were, based on a lack of evidence, though in a -limited number of incidents, UAP reportedly appear to exhibit unusual -flight characteristics, including high velocity, breaking the sound -barrier without producing a sonic boom, high maneuverability not able to -be replicated otherwise, long duration flight, and an ability to -submerge into the water. Some of the UAPs appear to move with no -discernable means of propulsion, and it is noted that the alleged high -speeds and maneuvers would normally destroy any craft. These -observations could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer -misperception, and require additional rigorous analysis. The report -indicates that, in some cases, the UAP recordings are of physical -objects and not false readings, as individual instances had been -detected by different sensor mechanisms, including visual observation. -The report also states that “UAP probably lack a single explanation,” -and proposes five possible categories of explanation: airborne clutter, -natural atmospheric phenomena, US government or industry development -technology, foreign craft, and an “Other” category. The report raises -concerns that the UAPs could be a safety issue, with regard to a -possible collision with US aircraft, and that they could pose a security -threat if they are foreign craft gathering information about the US. The -report indicates that investigation of the topic will continue, -including development of reporting protocols. The report also indicates -that, of the sightings reported, all except one (confirmed as a weather -balloon) lack sufficient information to attribute a specific explanation -or explanations. (Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Preliminary -Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena [6-page summary report], -June 25, 2021; Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Preliminary -Assessment: Unidentified -Aerial Phenomena [redacted full report], June 25, 2021; Julian E. -Barnes and Helene Cooper, “US Finds -No Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, But Can’t Rule It -Out, Either,” New York Times, June 3, 2021; Andrew Desiderio, “‘We’ve -Got to Get an Answer’: UFOs Catch Congress’ Interest,” Politico, -June 23, 2021; “US -Report on Pentagon-Documented UFOs Leaves Sightings Unexplained,” -ABC News (Australia), June 25, 2021; “Pentagon -Won’t Rule Out Aliens in Long-Awaited Report,” BBC News, June 25, -2021; David Clarke, “Beyond Blue Book: The Pentagon UFO Report in -Context,” Fortean Times 409 (September 2021): 48–51; John Greenewald, -“June -2021 Classified UAP/UFO Report Given to Congress Partially -Released,” The Black Vault, March 23, 2022; Micah Hanks, “Analysis: -Newly Released Version of Once-Classified Report Presents New Clues -about the U.S. Government’s UAP Investigations,” The Debrief, March -24, 2022; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “On -the 2021 UAPTF Classified Report,” Academia.edu, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7843

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Event 10685 -(19247F9B)

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Date: 7/20/2021
-Description: Reports surface of American diplomatic officials coming -down with Havana Syndrome in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. (“American -Personnel in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan Reported As among ‘Havana Syndrome’ -Victims,” bne IntelliNews, July 21, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7844

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Event 10686 -(7E5CFC27)

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Date: 7/26/2021
-Description: The Galileo Project, headed by a multi-institutional team -of scientists led by Avi -Loeb of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University, announces -that it will investigate evidence that could represent defunct or still- -active “extraterrestrial technological civilizations,” or ETCs. The -project, which includes Luis -Elizondo, Christopher -Mellon, Nick -Pope, and Michael -Shermer, will analyze data from astronomical surveys and telescope -observations, and design new algorithms using artificial intelligence, -in order to identify potential interstellar travelers, alien-built -satellites, and UAPs. Ufologist Jacques -Vallée joins the project in January 2022. (Mindy Weisberger, “Harvard-Led -Team to Search Cosmos for Extraterrestrial Space Tech and UFOs,” -Live Science, July 26, 2021; Robert Sheaffer, “Galileos -Galore: Now Including Dr. Jacques Vallée!” Bad UFOs, January 25, -2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7845

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Event 10687 -(AC67FAC1)

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Date: 7/30/2021
-Description: 11:00 p.m. A bright green fireball illuminates the night -sky over Izmir, Turkey. The visual part of the event lasts several -seconds before the object disintegrates. Several residents report a -sonic boom. According to Hassan Ali Dar, deputy director of the -Astronomical Observatory of Aegean University, the object is part of the -Perseid meteor shower. (Teo Blašković, “Very -Bright Fireball over Izmir, Sonic Boom Reported, Turkey,” The -Watchers, August 2, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7846

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Event 10688 -(BB012342)

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Date: 8/2021
-Description: Reports of Havana Syndrome come to light among more than 20 -US diplomats in Vienna, Austria, since January. The numbers are greater -here than in any city outside Havana, Cuba. The CIA removes its station -chief in Vienna for not adequately responding to the outbreak. (“‘Havana -Syndrome’-Like Mystery Illness Affects Vienna -US Diplomats,” BBC News, July 17, 2021; “CIA -‘Removes Vienna Boss’ over Havana Syndrome Outbreak,” -BBC News, September 24, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7847

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Event 10689 -(DD796F03)

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Date: 8/29/2021
-Description: In a breakthrough interview on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes, US Navy -pilots line up to recount their experiences with UFOs on the eastern -coast. It happens so frequently that the encounters became commonplace, -Ryan Graves, a retired navy pilot, tells the show. “Every day,” Graves -says. “Every day for at least a couple years.” (Bill Whitaker, “UFOs -Regularly Spotted in US Airspace,” CBS News, August 29, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7848

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Event 10690 -(964EC566)

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Date: 8/30/2021
-Description: Afghanistan War ends
-Type: war
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: Afghanistan

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Event 10691 -(6116F404)

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Date: 9/5/2021
-Description: Australian journalist Ross Coulthart releases a -documentary, The UFO Phenomenon, which recounts the history of the -Australian government’s involvement with UFOs. (“The -UFO Phenomenon: Full Documentary 2021,” -7NEWS Spotlight YouTube channel, September 5, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7849

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Event 10692 -(7118030C)

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Date: 9/15/2021
-Description: 4:03 p.m. One adult and two children witness a hovering -metallic object in the Century City area of Los Angeles, California. -After watching it for a few seconds, the adult takes a video as the -object slowly moves toward the east. (“Video -Taken of Hovering Bright, Metallic, Flashing Object,” UFOs -Northwest, October 12, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7850

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Event 10693 -(E74281CB)

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Date: 10/2021
-Description: US diplomats in Bogota, Colombia, and Berlin, Germany, are -being affected by Havana Syndrome. (“Havana Syndrome: -Berlin Police Probe Cases at US Embassy,” BBC News, October 9, 2021; -“Havana -Syndrome Reported -at US Embassy in Colombia,” BBC News, October 13, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7851

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Event 10694 -(E60B39C7)

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Date: 10/8/2021
-Description: The Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological -Attacks (HAVANA) Act is signed by President Joe -Biden. It -authorizes the CIA Director and the Secretary of State to provide -financial support for personnel suffering brain injuries. However, while -funding for it has not yet passed, it has been included in drafts of a -Defense Department appropriations bill. (“Biden -Signs Legislation to Compensate Victims of Mysterious ‘Havana -Syndrome,’” New York Times, October 8, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7852

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Event 10695 -(7C9585B0)

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Date: 10/9/2021
-Description: Day. Witnesses watch a small, rounded, silver-metallic -object at high altitude (perhaps above 15,000 feet) for 5 minutes during -the Wings Over Houston Air Show at Ellington Air Force Base near -Houston, Texas. The object leaves no trail as it alternately maneuvers -and hovers. One of them takes a photograph. The MUFON investigator -suspects the object might be a US Army Long Endurance Multi Intelligence -Vehicle, a hybrid blimp, making an appearance at the air show. (Kevin D. -Randle, “Coast -to Coast: The National Defense Authorization Act -and Two Interesting Sightings,” A Different Perspective, December -11, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7853

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Event 10696 -(F8A30EEA)

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Date: 11/2021
-Description: Optical engineer Vincent Costes takes over from Roger -Baldacchino as manager of Groupe d’Études et d’Informations sur les -Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés, the official French UFO agency -in Toulouse, France. (“Un -nouveau responsable au GEIPAN à partir de novembre 2021,” GEIPAN, -November 3, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7854

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Event 10697 -(09CA675B)

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Date: 11/6/2021
-Description: 8.55 a.m. A witness in Marietta, Georgia, photographs a -white, cigar-shaped object moving in a westerly direction. (“Strange -Cigar-Shaped Object Seen and Photographed,” UFOs Northwest, November -23, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7855

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Event 10698 -(391DE766)

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Date: 11/8/2021
-Description: Night. A couple from Hubbard, Ohio, see a triangular-shaped -object with a bright yellow light on top and two sets of three white -lights along the side, just above the treetops. It appears to be -football-field sized and is hovering about 100 feet above the highway. -As they approach, it swiftly moves to the left and flies over some -trees. Their car begins to act funny and the check-engine light comes -on, indicating reduced engine power and traction control. (Kevin D. -Randle, “Coast -to Coast AM: EM Effects and Current UFO Sightings,” A Different -Perspective, December 17, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7856

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Event 10699 -(80597DC4)

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Date: 11/11/2021
-Description: 11:10 a.m. A witness sees nine white orbs flying in -formation and mimicking a flyby of F-16s during the Leavenworth, Kansas, -Annual Veterans Day Parade. Prior to the F-16 flyby, the witness sees -the orbs forming and reforming into various groups. At times they -disappear and reappear at an incredible speed. One of the orbs is in an -“overwatch” position, while at least six are in a “three-by-two -formation.” After passing the flyby, they form a four-point formation -then disappear to the west at great speed. A photo is taken showing the -orbs and the F-16s. (“9 -White Orbs Seen at F16 Airshow,” UFOs Northwest, November 19, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7857

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Event 10700 -(1A062DA7)

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Date: 11/19/2021
-Description: The governmental Centro de Identificatión Aerospaciale in -Argentina issues an annual report on its investigation into 45 UFO cases -analyzed during the previous year, plus occasional investigations on -older events. CIAE investigates only those UFO sightings supported by -evidence (photography, video, or material). All of them are technically -explained, the distribution of causes being birds & bugs (40%), -balloons and airborne objects (18%), optical artifacts (11%), -astronomical (11%), astronautical (11%), aircraft (7%), or ground -facilities (2%). (Rubén E. Lianza, “Informe -de Resolución de Casos Recibidos en 2021,” CIAE, November 19, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7858

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Event 10701 -(C30F804B)

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Date: 11/23/2021
-Description: US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen -Hicks establishes the Airborne Object Identification and Management -Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) to synchronize the detection and -identification of UAPs. It is to be overseen and directed by the -Airborne Object Identification and Management Executive Council -(AOIMEXEC), led by Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and -Security Ronald -Moultrie. (Kathleen -Hicks, “Establishment -of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization -Group,” November 23, 2021; “Ex-Officials -Express Deep Concerns over New Pentagon UFO Unit,” The Hill, -December 1, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7859

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Event 10702 -(4C3AB2B3)

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Date: 12/3/2021
-Description: 6:00 p.m. A woman driving in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin, -in foggy conditions, spots five lights moving in different directions. -The lights merge into one. Three other oval, blue-purple lights also fly -through the clouds. She then sees green lights moving very quickly. The -sighting lasts 45 minutes and she takes several photos. (“Groups -of Multicolored Lights Move Rapidly on Foggy Night,” UFOs Northwest, -December 4, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7860

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Event 10703 -(2BD4400D)

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Date: 12/15/2021
-Description: A new camera system goes into operation at the University -of Würzburg, Germany, designed to detect UAP using artificial -intelligence. Professor for Space Technology Hakan Kayal has set up -SkyCAM-5 on the roof of a university building on the Hubland campus. -“When the camera detects known objects, it recognizes them with a -Convolutional Neural Network, classifies them and stores the -corresponding video sequences in a database,” Kayal explains. (“UAP: -SkyCAM Searches the Sky,” Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, -December 20, 2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7861

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Event 10704 -(DF6F8231)

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Date: 12/27/2021
-Description: President Joe -Biden signs into law the National Defense Authorization Act for FY -2022. It includes an amendment, “Establishment of Office to Address -Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” introduced by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), -that requires the Defense Department to coordinate with other federal -agencies to collect, analyze, and report on UAP cases, including those -with “adverse physiological effects.” It funds a new office, the -Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, to -replace the UAP Task Force program coordinated by the US Office of Naval -Intelligence. The new office will serve as a “centralized repository” -for such information and will coordinate with US allies to “better -assess the nature and extent” of UAP incidents. It requires the office -to submit an annual report to Congress. (“Sen. Gillibrand -Introduces Amendment to Defense Bill -Establishing Office to Study UFOs,” WTI-TV, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, -November 9, 2021; Kevin D. Randle, “Coast -to Coast AM: Official Study of UFOs and a UFO Picture,” A Different -Perspective, November 27, 2021; “Biden -Signs $770 Billion Defense Bill,” New York Times, December 27, -2021)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7862

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Event 10705 -(055CD022)

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Date: 12/28/2021
-Description: Nevada Senator Harry Reid dies at age 82
-Type: death
-Reference: Wikipedia
-Location: US

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- Event 10706 (C3CECDA2)

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Date: 1/2022
-Description: Ash Ellis of UFO Identified issues a summary report on 413 -UFO sightings made in the UK 2021. The majority originate in England. -(Ash Ellis, “The -UK UFO Report 2021,” UFO Identified)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7863

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Event 10707 -(ACC3A29D)

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Date: 1/17/2022
-Description: A military-style drone circles the Forsmark Nuclear Power -Plant in Forsmark, Sweden, operating even though there is a high wind. -Similar drones with large wings are reported over the Ringhals and -Oskarshamn nuclear power plants. The previous week, drones are seen -circling the Parliament buildings and the Royal Palacec in Stockholm, as -well as the Kiruna and Luleå airports. A police helicopter is seen -pursuing a drone flying above it at a height of 3,280 feet to the west -of Stockholm, but authorities do not manage to down any of these. All -the drones seem to be larger and have greater endurance than commercial -models. (“Sweden -Drones: Sightings Reported -over Nuclear Plants and Palace,” BBC News, January 18, 2022; “Drone -Swarms,” Fortean Times, no. 416 (March 2022): 18)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7864

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Event 10708 -(F1D309FE)

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Date: 1/19/2022
-Description: The CIA announces it has ruled out a sustained global -campaign by a hostile power aimed at hundreds of US diplomats and spies -as the cause of Havana Syndrome symptoms. In about two dozen cases, the -agency cannot rule out foreign involvement, including many of the cases -that originated at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, beginning in 2016. -Another group of cases is considered unresolved. But in hundreds of -other cases of possible symptoms, the agency has found plausible -alternative explanations. (“CIA -Says ‘Havana Syndrome’ Not Result -of Sustained Campaign by Hostile Power,” NBC News, January 19, -2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7865

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Event 10709 -(4B0EB913)

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Date: 2/2/2022
-Description: An intelligence panel investigating the cause of Havana -Syndrome says that some of the episodes could plausibly have been caused -by “pulsed electromagnetic energy” emitted by an external source, -according to a partially declassified intelligence report. A panel of -intelligence community experts drew up the report after analyzing over -1,000 documents and interviewing affected individuals. They determine -the symptoms associated with the illness to be “genuine and compelling,” -and note that while some cases can be attributed to known psychological -or medical factors, others remain unexplained. The authors sought to -determine the feasibility of five potential causal mechanisms, including -“acoustic signals, chemical and biological agents, ionizing radiation, -natural and environmental factors, and radiofrequency and other -electromagnetic energy.” They assessed the potential of each of these -mechanisms to account for cases that cannot be easily explained by other -means. More specifically, they looked at cases involving a combination -of four particularly puzzling “core characteristics.” These include “the -acute onset of… sound or pressure in only one ear or on one side of the -head,” as well as vertigo, “a strong sense of locality or -directionality,” and an absence of any obvious environmental or medical -causes for such symptoms. Ruling out the possibility that Havana -syndrome could represent an underlying brain disorder, the authors state -that “the combination of the four core characteristics is distinctly -unusual and unreported elsewhere in the medical literature, and so far -have not been associated with a specific neurological abnormality.” On -the other hand, they conclude that “pulsed electromagnetic energy, -particularly in the radiofrequency range, plausibly explains the core -characteristics,” although they do concede that such a theory is riddled -with “information gaps.” Addressing the possibility that Havana syndrome -could therefore be caused by a nefarious device, they go on to explain -that devices do “exist that could generate the required stimulus, are -concealable, and have moderate power requirements” that could produce -the observed symptoms. (“Havana Syndrome -Could Be Caused by Pulsed Energy Devices, Intelligence Report Says,” -IFLScience, February 3, 2022; “US -Intelligence Community Report Says ‘Pulsed Electromagnetic Energy’ Could -Cause Havana Syndrome,” CNN, February 3, 2022; Office of the -Director of National Intelligence, [IC -Experts Panel on Havana Syndrome executive -summary], declassified February 1, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7866

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Event 10710 -(DCCEB020)

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Date: 2/6/2022
-Description: Garry Nolan appears on Lex Fridman Podcast’s podcast with -the show title “UFOs and Aliens”
-Type: interview
-Reference: YouTube
-Location: US

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Event 10711 -(8B7BC47F)

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Date: 3/25/2022
-Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency releases Defense -Intelligence Reference Documents on 37 of the 38 projects that its -Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) has -produced as part of its Project Physics under the direction of Hal -Puthoff. The -topics range from “Pulsed High-Power Microwave Source Technology” to -“Invisibility Cloaking” and “Antigravity for Aerospace Applications.” -(John Greenewald, “The -Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) -Documentation,” The Black Vault, March 31, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7867

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Event 10712 -(800D1184)

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Date: 3/29/2022
-Description: Ufologist and pilot John Lear, son of industrialist and -Learjet founder Bill Lear, dies at aged 79
-Type: death
-Reference: link
-Location: Las Vegas, NV

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Event 10713 -(0FD977B8)

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Date: 4/22/2022
-Description: 8:52 p.m. The pilot of an Embraer Phenom business jet -flying at 45,000 feet above Kessel, West Virginia, notices a light -10,000 feet above him. It changes to a string of lights. As he passes -underneath, he notices the object’s lights go out and the aircraft’s -avionics system fails. Other pilots can see the light as well. (John -Greenewald, “FAA -Confirmed UFO Sighting April 22, 2022, by LXJ359 over Kessel, West -Virginia,” The Black Vault, May 19, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7868

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Event 10714 -(084F348A)

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Date: 5/12/2022
-Description: Department of Defense officials choose Deputy Director of -Intelligence and physicist Sean -Kirkpatrick to head the Airborne Object Identification and -Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG). (Douglas Dean Johnson, “Scientist -and Intelligence Officer Sean Kirkpatrick Piced to Head the New -Pentagon-IC Office Empowered by Congress -to Study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” Mirador, May 12, -2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7869

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Event 10715 -(3FF23018)

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Date: 5/17/2022
-Description: 9:00 a.m. The House Intelligence Committee’s -Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation -Subcommittee holds hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, as -directed by the National Defense Authorization Act, which calls on the -military to provide an annual report and semiannual briefings on the -topic to Congress. The hearing features Ronald -Moultrie, under -secretary of defense for intelligence and security, who is involved with -the newly created Airborne Object Identification and Management -Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), and Scott -W. Bray, deputy -director of naval intelligence. Bray testifies that their database of -reports of UFOs now includes about 400 incidents, up from 143 assessed -in a report released in 2021. He cites improved sensors, an increase in -drones and other non-military unmanned aerial systems, and aerial -clutter such as Mylar balloons as causes for the uptick. Incidents in -the 2021 report date as far back as 2004 and are based on both sensor -data and observations by military aviators. Bray says that “Navy and air -force crews now have step- by-step procedures for reporting UAPs on -their kneeboard, in the cockpit.” In a back-and-forth with Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), -Bray agrees that standardizing the civilian reporting process will be -useful. While the military database does include some civilian reports, -the vast majority have come from within. Rep. Adam -Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, -pushes for the Pentagon and the public to understand that UAPs are -becoming a national security concern. At the hearing, officials play a -declassified video clip showing a mysterious UAP that zipped by a -pilot’s aircraft in a US Navy training yard. It appears to be a -spherical object traveling at extremely high speeds. Bray says that he -does not have an explanation for what this specific object is. Bray and -Moultrie both say they will commit to declassifying more information -when possible and when it does not pose a national security risk, adding -the task force will operate with more transparency than past Pentagon -programs. (Christopher Dean Hopkins, “The -Military’s UFO Database Now Has Info from About 400 -Reported Incidents,” National Public Radio, May 17, 2022; Brad -Dress, “UFOs -Pose ’Potential National Security -Threat,’ Lawmakers Warn,” The Hill, May 17, 2022)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7870

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Event 10716 -(2B66A1F3)

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Date: 5/27/2022
-Description: The Center for UFO Studies launches its first Facebook -page. (CUFOS, Facebook -page)
-Reference: Eberhart
-ID: 7871

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Event 10717 -(F55C2882)

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Date: 6/3/2022
-Description: Ex-US Navy Aviator Ryan Graves gives a keynote titled “UAP -& Government: The Innovation Imperative” at the SCU AAPC conference -near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL. Graves states at the -conference that aviators are reporting sightings, but are being ignored, -and if this continues they will stop reporting them.
-Type: public presentation
-Reference: link
-Location: Huntsville, AL

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Event 10718 -(4AD3B4C1)

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Date: 6/4/2022
-Description: ex-Col. John B. Alexander states on video at the SCU AAPC -conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL that MJ-12 was -real, but then claimed it had nothing to do with UFO’s. Stubblebine said -it was very secret.
-Type: public statement
-Reference: link
-Location: Huntsville, AL

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Event 10719 -(E6CA8032)

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Date: 6/4/2022
-Description: Panel held at the SCU APC conference near the Redstone -Arsenal in Huntsville AL: “The National Security Implications of -Scientifically Studying UAP”- Dr. Joseph DiNoto (moderator), Dr. Matthew -Szydagis, Dr. Garry Nolan, Dr. Joshua Pierson, and Mr. Richard -Hoffman.
-Type: public panel
-Reference: link
-Location: Huntsville, AL

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Event 10720 -(396DDCE3)

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Date: 6/4/2022
-Description: Dr. Alexander Wendt gives the virtual presentation -“Dangerous Knowledge — UFO Science and the Last Humans” at the SCU AAPC -conference, near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL, on potential -societal collapse and mass panic if Disclosure of the reality of UFO’s -is rushed. Mentions a 20 year process of acclimation focusing on young -people.
-Type: public presentation
-Reference: link
-Location: Huntsville, AL

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Event 10721 -(6ED3B0CC)

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Date: 12/23/2022
-Description: President Biden signs the 2023 NDAA (National Defense -Authorization Act) into law, containing UFO whistleblower protections -and references to back-engineering
-Type: law
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC

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- Event 10722 (60B7DD04)

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Date: 1/12/2023
-Description: CNBC: “More than 360 new UFO cases have been reported to -U.S. intelligence agencies since March 2021”
-Type: ufo sightings
-Reference: link
-Reference: link
-Location: US

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Event 10723 -(C6D41F48)

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Date: 1/12/2023
-Description: CBS News: “Hundreds more UFO sightings included in latest -report”. “On Thursday, the Office of the Director of National -Intelligence released an unclassified version of its annual report on -UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). -The office tracking reports of UFOs has added nearly 400 additional -sightings to its catalog over the last year, either because of new -sightings or older sightings discovered in existing files, bringing the -total number of UFO sightings to over 500. The assessment revealed that -the office tracking UAPs has had a total of 510 sightings since 2004. -This is significantly up from the 144 sightings included in the initial -report in 2021. Department of Defense has determined that about half of -the additional sightings displayed “unremarkable characteristics.” A -U.S. official told CBS News that none of the incidents have yet been -definitively linked to China, Russia or any other country.”
-Type: unclassified report
-Reference: link
-Location: Washington DC

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